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Tired of people blaming machines for working as designed when they have full control over the behaviors they are complaining about. It's a single checkbox in the system prefs to disable this system wide by default. These are supposedly professionals. They should be professional with all their tools or hire professionals that can proxy that liability for them.

In other words, this is 100% a fault in the hands of the users in the supposed problem case.

Now, all that said, I'd not be sad at all if this resulted in Apple disabling this feature by default. I always have to disable it on every mac as it drives me nuts. I type quickly so I never see the autocorrection popup.
> It's more like the risk assumed by taking a job and expecting a salary

Not really. The case doesn’t seem to involve the company trying to default on existing obligations. It involves them projecting future costs and deciding whether to carry them. This is akin to laying off an employee, something most states freely permit, more than defaulting on pay for work already done.
At this point you might as well go with base 10 and have human readability as a side bonus.

How often does a human need to "process" the data, vs. a computer? I realise the environment is a little different with today's HLL programmers, but when you do need to, it's not as if reading hexdumps is all that hard either (unless it's something like ASN.1 PER, in which case you'll likely be using a tool to assist anyway.)

I've worked with many systems using custom binary protocols, and everyone on those teams pretty much knew how to read and write them directly from the hexdump. From that perspective, I'd say text-based formats are an unnecessary overhead for all use cases except those where (non-developer) humans are expected to manipulate the format directly and often. Another memorable quote I remember from a coworker when we had a similar discussion (long ago): "text can be ASCII or EBCDIC or whatever other crazy character set someone decides to use. A bit is a bit. 1 and 0 are unambiguous."
This happened to me eight years ago, though the prescription was for my wife.

The pharmacist just ignored the prescription because it made no sense for the symptoms, and the dose was correct for the other medication. So it was obvious to him what she had to take.
That's indicative of the stark cultural contrast between USA and Russia, indeed: https://www.si.com/nfl/2017/01/23/vladimir-putin-robert-kraf...
Not even a little bit.
A few years ago I wondered whether this happens in the Americas too. I live in the US and have eaten Oreo cookies throughout my life. One time I was in Canada and bought some Oreos there, and to my surprise the flavor was quite different. It was a markedly different recipe and I wondered why.
And you are presumably in continental Europe, where Christmas is celebrated on the 24th! Of course in the USA, it’s celebrated on the 25th.

One of those things that severely confuses people that aren’t aware of it.
Because it being the first successful implementation...it has 9 years of history at this point. It has proven itself resilient to hacks, ddos, Chinese bans, threats of regulation, exchange scandals, and bad press, and yet the protocol just keeps humming along. It being the first, all other cryptos are traded in terms of BTC. The network effect, and the mind share of BTC are substantial at this point. BTC has one largely fixable problem: it doesn't scale. Lightning network tests prove that it can if a second layer is added. Once this rolls out, the game will change.
Not by much if you deduct retirement benefits, healthcare costs and education.
one of the main reasons is that people feel more comfortable accessing text only sites at work
I see you have never lived outside the city. Those will ruin any septic system in a hurry. Not great for city sewage. Where do yiu think wipes go when you flush them? Away? Someone has to deal with it eventually.
It's a bad idea. I'm not sure about Korea specifically, but a lot of developing nations have old/narrow pipes and they don't have the waste treatment facilities to deal with toilet paper. They might not have the money to install advanced filtering or even activated charcoal. Often times the waste water is just diluted and dumped into oceans or lakes.

I encounter the "toilet paper in the trash can" signs first in Moldova. The Nistru river has high levels of cholera, so it makes sense they simply do not have advanced treatment facilities.
He said "an isolation of one of the two mirror images present in the latter".
Yes, but those nominal amounts are just paper. They are a mechanism to marshall labor, nothing more. They don't correspond to real resources. This is an interesting fallacy -- I remember playing Freeciv, and you would get 1000 coins in the bank, and if you wanted to speed up building of some monument, you just spend the coins and poof, all these things get built, even if you don't have the labor or real resources to do it. The world doesn't work like that. In the real world, if you try to cash out your stock and sell it to build something without the real resources to do it, all that happens is inflation goes up. But a country really only has the labor and land and domestic equipment that it has, and it needs to use that to build all the dams. You can create paper claims valued at hundreds of trillions of dollars if you want, but it doesn't add a single hour of manpower to the country.
Your comment reminds me of this comic: http://sarahcandersen.com/image/168749352296
Yup. But some have extra stuff that poisons you and your environment too marketed to rubes as 'antibacterial'
Url changed from https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/neuroplasticity_us_564c..., which points to this.

Discussion from 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10587031
Same thing in Moldova. I was told it was the old plumbing that candle handle large amounts of toilet paper, but I have a feeling it might also be antiquated treatment facilities that can't deal with paper breakdown either.
Please do not flush 'flushable' wipes. It is a lie!
Best solution would be to always carry a plastic bag in the bath.
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The ultimate racist move is to deny the connection between hip hop and black culture. Total cultural appropriation right there.
I spent a few minutes reading over the website trying to figure out what this library does, and why that’s useful.

Seems to be:

- abstracted way of reading a formatted configuration file into memory

- knowledge of other application’s config files on the same system

- a notification system for listening to changes in configuration

- some sorts of sysadmin tools to manage the above? Seems like it could do some of the job of Nix or Chef in terms of applying desires configurations.

So, it’s like the Windows registry, except data truth is stored in regular config files (yaml, INI, /etc/hosts, etc...) in various places on your system.

Do I have that right?

I think the website could do a better job.
Well, yes, but I think the issue is slightly blown out of proportion.

On my 10.10.5 Macbook Air I tested quick and the issue is simply that duloxetine is not part of the dictionary and fluoxetine is. Even as I write this post I have the red line under duloxetine.

I'm not sure how the association was made on their particular computer, but it raises a good point about how the annoyances of AutoCorrect can cause some difficulty. My last name, for example, is mostly unique, but is one letter off from a type of fabric. It was mildly irksome until I had the dictionary learn my name. (At least one goof up at an airport after buying auto-corrected tickets)

In this case, there is of course a simple fix, which the author should apply, and if being deployed in a work environment where the change is important, there are steps that probably should be taken to resolve such issues, and better visible custom dictionary files. (looking on various *.exchange site when searching for "bulk add words to macOS dictionary provides many solutions)

So I agree, that it's a problem, but it's not intentional malice here on Apple, workarounds are available, and it's a really good feature request that ought be a pretty low hanging fruit.
Sea levels have risen a couple millimeters in recent decades, but Jakarta has sunk (according to this article) 14 feet in some areas. But keep on beating that climate change drum!

Sea level rise is global, but it seems wherever we can find sinking cities we get stories about climate change and its relation to rising sea levels.
Anyone who has played the old arcade games with fixed-width score counters will have seen this trick in action --- many of those ran on 8-bit processors without multiply or divide instructions, so it was much easier to keep the score as an array of digits and increment those than a binary variable and the equivalent of an itoa() every time it needed to be displayed.

More succinctly, in pseudocode:

while(++digits[i] > '9')
digits[i--] = '0';

By starting the increment at the non-rightmost digit, it also allows for easy addition of powers of 10: 10, 100, 1000, etc.
People are blaming developers for bugs that could cost lives. That autocorrect is really annoying.
Also: https://www.topic.com/life-inside-the-rvs-of-silicon-valley
The fundamental problem with pensions, however you arrange them, is that no one has a crystal ball.

If you were FDR, how could you possibly know that average person will live 10 years longer, or that we're going to end up with birth control and a consequent demographic cliff?
The most elegant solution is just to buy an alarm clock or watch. They're cheap to buy (you may even be able to get a second hand one for free depending on where you lived), and would cut your electricity usage compared to running your MBP as an alarm clock.

With your phone, have you tried anything to save it after it was damaged by water? If you want a technical challenge, I'd suggest focusing on that. There's advice on the web on how to repair a phone after dropping it in water.
Blender has a pretty advanced UV layout algorithm builtin for all your texturing needs. This plugin would probably have problems with n-gons which the UV layout tools handle without too much problem.
I am familiar with NYC mesh(https://nycmesh.net/faq/), one of the linked networks in the article, and it answers many of your questions.

To answer your most salient question(about whether it provides internet connectivity)

>We provide internet through peering at an internet exchange point. If you have line-of-sight to this “supernode” in downtown Manhattan you can have a fast, reliable connection with suitable hardware, and replace your ISP.
It's not just groceries. All big multinationals do the same. Electronics and appliance makers typically only sell mid- to low-end devices, and the low end is lower than what you find elsewhere. Samsung is particularly egregious, shipping some of their lowest-spec phones, mediocre washers and dryers, etc.

Cars are almost a world of their own. Already, (even Western-)European models of mass-market cars come with smaller engines and smaller frames compared to US and Gulf Coast models, but in the East they also come with lesser interiors, uncomfortable seats, and fewer features standard.

Even the weirdest products can be surprisingly inferior: food cling wrap, resealable plastic pouches, cotton-tipped sticks. It's frustrating and pervasive.
You are confusing real and financial resources. Financial resources make sense at the micro level. If I have $100 and you have $10, I can purchase ten times the real resources that you can. But

1) that relative advantage doesn't correspond to an absolute advantage that can be compared across nations. A nation with ten times the market cap of another nation doesn't have 10 times the real resources. It may just have a more developed stock market, or a more financialized economy, or a lower discount rate, or more optimism for future earnings.

2) Neither does market cap mean anything for the nation as a whole. If I have 10 times the wealth of you, I can buy 10 times as many real resources as you can, but together we can still buy only all the real resources available -- when market cap goes up, that doesn't mean more labor is available to purchase, or the nation has more skills or more equipment. It could just mean that there is more optimism about future profits, or a lower discount rate. Market cap doesn't measure the real resources of a nation anyway -- it's a measure of the discounted flow of earnings, but not of the gross value add of the economy. For example, if labor costs go up, profits fall and market cap shrinks. But the real resources do not change -- the labor supply does not shrink. Just the relative price of labor and capital changes. These relative prices can fix the market cap at any point between zero and infinity (exclusive). All by tweaking the risk free borrowing rate, risk premium, and relative prices of labor and capital. You get zero information about the total size of real resources by looking at market cap, all the information is about relative prices for a given set of real resources. The same is true for the total amount of paper claims in an economy -- they give no information on the size of real resources available. They are dominated by relative prices. The proof of this is exactly the fact that the Dutch had such huge market cap when their real resources were so small.
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Imagine the hardware required to encrypt that much data on the fly... not so shocking anymore is it?
To compute the total energy requirements, you don't really need to know the ocean volume, if you are willing to linearly approximate the thermal expansion. If you have less water, the same amount of energy will heat it up to a proportionally higher temperature and correspondingly expand it more, resulting in approximately the same sea level rise.

Obviously this breaks down if you want a more accurate figure, but in that case you also have to account for water shrinking with increasing temperature between 0 °C and 4 °C and so on.

In any case, melting a bunch of ice is a much more energy-efficient way of increasing the volume of liquid water than heating already molten water. The energy required for melting ice is roughly the same as that for heating the water to 80 °C, and 80 °C is not twice as voluminous as 0 °C water.
Yeah, there is a bunch of "xyz consultant" titles floating around in English. Executive, corporate, or financial consultant are some more. For the English titles, the distinction seems to be that the "management consultant" is the (more wages-level payed) work-for-hire guy.
I just see it as making promises (pensions) the company was not committed to keep. I'm sure the judge didn't use the word "mendacity " lightly or unadvisedly.
The problem with the sink in the top is that the soap encourages algal growth in the tank. It's the same reason you shouldn't use grey water to flush.
Thanks for the link to the webkit status.

When do you suppose this will end up in the Safari in iOS 10? I suspect never. Since my clients literally have thousands (maybe 10s of thousands) invested in devices that will never get any updates past iOS 10, they are forced into a hardware upgrade because Apple won't allow 3rd party browsers on their devices, and tie their browser version to their OS version.

If you see another way around this, I'd really like to know.
What a crock. This is why Medium, as a news source sucks. Literally anyone can say literally anything.

Im no bitcoin fanboy either. Bail out, leave the bankers with the bill as revenge for 2008.

It was the wrong application of a brilliant idea - a democratically-distributed, obifuscated DNS replacement for secured communications like TOR seems more applicable than the whims of an unregulated currency.

But this author doesnt see food-sourcing happening. This author doesn't see banks adapting the blockchain for their own internal uses to protect sensitive info. Or anything else you might find in google.
> "Having common sense would have prevented the event that caused the whole problem."

It has nothing to do with common sense. Accidents happen. Don't try to make out that preventable accidents never happen to you because you have "common sense".
Yeah the only time it makes sense to have a 401k is if your company matches your contributions.
Chiming in with others that it's not worth it to apologize. I appreciated the points in your post, and the comment you're replying to is just ridiculous. Differing opinions are one thing, condescending trash isn't worth anyone's time.
Thanks! I remember learning this in introductory circuit design 15 years ago, but forgot about it since. I actually needed it a few weeks ago, when I was trying to simplify a complex boolean expression in my C code :\
We could blow up a couple of nukes in space and watch for radio echos to find asteroids... Well, except that nukes in space are illegal.
That's not a solution, that's a future improvement.
Nothing like the "home base" toilet.
Yes, and rather ironic that the maker of scanners, all-in-one printers, and backup solutions is incapable of preserving its company history by not even scan or take photos of its museum inventory.
Sigh... the voting data is out there, and let's not all pretend the poor are any better off after ACA took effect.

Clinton won the poor, Trump won the rich. When will you all stop with this?
We bought one for a family member with Alzheimer's for fear they would burn the house down otherwise.

Works fine but the burgers come out a bit dry.
> It’s easy to consider putting 20 to 30% of your salary towards savings and investments when you are making Silicon Valley money.

Only if you are making Silicon Valley money somewhere outside of Silicon Valley. Otherwise, not so easy.
I do get the frustration on this, but the auto-correct is pretty simple to "correct" in cases where it got over-zealous. I noted this elsewhere in the thread, but my last name is one letter off from that of a fabric and it has on occasion when I wasn't looking or paying attention, it altered my name on airline websites.

This was an annoyance, and for a long time I was just super annoyed with it until I decided "there has to be a way to fix this", and there was. It was a simple double-tap on the trackpad "Learn Spelling", and it was done. I type pretty quickly too, but I'm also pretty persistent in watching what I'm doing and catch the lines as they appear.

I the case of the article, there's an association now on the Mac between the two words, which I'm pretty sure that "Learn spelling" will override. But by default if it hits a word it doesn't know and doesn't know what it could possibly be, it just leaves it as a red line.
> nobody knows how many pants LL Bean is shipping to my zip code on December 4.

While making predictions of that resolution are not realistic, in general I would imagine that the shipping carriers are in a better position to estimate delivery volume in a certain area than the retailers would be. I would bet that overall volume can be predicted with decent accuracy using historical data.
I've seen multiple bits of documentation supporting the idea that adding music makes the ambient noise noticeably higher, as people attempt to talk over it. I'm all for this. Restaurants that don't play ambient music are so much nicer, whether you're talking or just quietly enjoying.
Next step is to wire this up to a Cricut [1] or similar device to never have to worry about finicky cuts!

[1] https://home.cricut.com/
>I'd like to start a business in 3 or 4 years, and I'm seriously considering going out of my way to target people like him. It'll be my competitive advantage.

Count me if you can. No, not to give me a job but to be your partner. I would guess that there are some really smart older people who are under utilized because of all perceived drawback of age( often by not very smart people). But smart people are rare - there are immensely valuable whatever their age may be.
"Look ma, no code!"

Use a traditional alarm clock. For instance, I use one of those cheap Ikea alarms[1]. This means that, even when your phone is working, you don't have to have it near your bed, which lowers your incentive to quickly look at it if you can't sleep right away. That did wonders for my sleep quality.

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On topic: If I had to come up with a quick hack because it's 2am and I have no alarm clock: I still have a mechanical time switch (for electrical power) somewhere, and I use an old analog Technics stereo. Combine that with a turntable and you've got yourself a fine alarm clock (although with a somewhat coarse granularity) in less than 5 minutes. That's honestly much easier for me than looking up media APIs I have never used without an internet connection :-)

[1]: https://m.ikea.com/Us/en/catalog/products/art/50187566/
Learned those in undergrad .. was in Chapter 1 of our textbook .. Computer System Architecture, Morris Mano. Have used it twice with great results in my career.
Leo Tolstoy's "War & Peace" has several magnificent periodic sentence examples.
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> This is why Medium, as a news source sucks.

Medium isn't a news source, any more than, say, blogspot or LiveJournal is.
Haha sorry i was too emotional that I made a weird mistake. I meant liquidity. I'm working on a project to improve Bitcoin fungibility so that's all I've been thinking about lately, I guess it just leaked out while I was posting the comment.
By 'name-calling' I mean stuff like "so damn whiny and self righteous". That isn't calling anyone in particular names, but it counts as the same thing for HN purposes, since it adds indignation rather than information.

Generational flamewars are among the least substantive flamewars of all and they're particularly easy to avoid, so let's just all not go there.
Helpful but not really necessary. For most anyone who's suffered the level of sleep difficulties described here, them having knowledge of melatonin and its effects can reasonably be assumed.

For anyone like the "Pseudoscience!..." commenter saying that melaton knowledge is, in general, sufficient alone to end said sleep problems -- that's just plain dismissive nonsense!
Looks like some people are in denial :P
> miss the 90s web I used to browse with Netscape Navigator. I really liked static navigation menus where I didn't have to stop and infer the functionalities from an icon or hidden expendable/scrolling menus.

You romanticize. We made confusing menus as well with JavaScript (called DynamicHTML back then), Flash, and Java plugins. We were proud of fire and water effects and other gimmicks.
In my opinion, Java is not an enlightening language. In other words, learning Java will not make you a better programmer in other languages. It is only good for getting jobs.

If you do decide to learn it, make sure to use recent educational materials for Java 8+, so you learn how to use advanced features like lambda functions and unsigned integer types.
Quine–McCluskey algorithm might be of help to you.
Any idea how this compares to Lenscrafter's Blue IQ lenses? Also what is this nasal spray?
Was on same sitch. Learned kotlin in like three days (it's similar to other languages I've written) and got java for free.
That's the only reason people invest.
Is that why China has seen protests numbering in the hundreds of thousands of workers put out by more efficient management methods? They can afford to protest? Or are they in crisis, realizing the cost of living is skyrocketing and they all of a sudden have no money to honor either end of that bargain?
I liked "The Friendly Orange Glow: The Untold Story of the PLATO System and the Dawn of Cyberculture" which sounds related... I hadn't heard about PLATO before, and the book was strongly redolent of "online culture".
like the other guys said, 1) use a alarm clock, 2) there's a freaking calendar app builtin.

but if you really need to "code" for whatever reason. The core logic is trivially simple. you need to 1) wait til the moment you want to wake up 2) generate some noise.

so just open mac terminal and type:

sleep 28800; while true; do say "wake up"; done