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There appears to be an official Dell tool to disable CABC on the FHD now. I'm happy about that. Going to give it a run in the morning.

https://github.com/advancingu/XPS13Linux/issues/2#issuecomme...

http://www.dell.com/support/home/us/en/04/drivers/driversdet...
You are assuming prostitution is driven by demand-side concerns alone (or that eliminating trafficking gangs has no effect on the supply side.) Trafficking gangs using addiction to trap people into prostitution is not unknown, so eliminating criminal trafficking gangs should have supply-side impacts as well.
Measuring page speed accurately seems like a way smaller engineering problem than attempting to convert the whole internet to AMP.
Are there easier ways to read kernel memory?
> Finally, the only thing that gets a smaller city on the right track is businesses that attract outside money. A small city will never thrive regardless of building one huge retail store vs tons of small ones if the same small population are the only folks shopping there. The easiest way for city to get external money pouring in is to accept a deal for a big industrial operation.

Buffalo is hampered by being in the same state as NYC - it's too far from it to reap any of the benefits. High taxes, a ton of regulation, red tape and little to no political sway at the state level. If NYC were to secede and form its own state/district/etc, Buffalo and the rest of upstate NY might be better off.

It's near and dear to my heart, but nothing will save Buffalo. Will it get better? Sure, but not fast enough to stop the bleeding:

"Buffalo, on the other hand, has experienced the sharpest rate of decline, losing 61.75 people per month."

Source: https://www.bizjournals.com/buffalo/news/2017/10/31/upstate-...

Meanwhile, in the Raleigh, NC area where I moved is growing at ~62 per day or ~1860/month.
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Yes, at a time when Windows 98 was considered a perfectly acceptable desktop operating system, and smartphones didn't yet exist. The UX bar is much higher now.
You could still get the reboots without updates ... which is what I've been getting for a few weeks now on a cheap tablet: loads update, reboots in the night, update fails. Rinse, repeat.

(I don't care, an update took down the sound last year. For all I know the next one will make the gizmo totally malfunction ... MS don't care for that cheapo segment either, the wanton demands for disk space are astounding, and they refuse to use their own exFat format on additional storage. Truly ready to ascend to Oracle level, they are.)
> Maybe I don't get the joke then.

The juxtaposition of a cranky critic or unserious person becoming a near-absolute authority on the thing he's cranky/not serious about is a common comedic trope. E.g., insert joke about Satoshi creating bitcoin to make an ironic joke about the dotcom bubble and accidentally launching the first ICO.

The Mel Books skit is not intended to seriously suggest that there were originally 15 commandments. And Satoshi probably wasn't making performance art about late capitalism. And Ecclesiastes wasn't written by a cranky atheist.

It's a joke.

> To me, it just seems to be purposefully inflammatory and edgy

The commonness of this trope indicates that lots of people find it funny, perhaps especially when it's disconnected from anything that's important to them.

But more importantly, no one is laughing at you, and the intent of this joke isn't to inflame.

The author is using a relevant quote from a source, and leading into that quote with a light-hearted joke. The fact that this joke is about Ecclesiastes has more to do with the fact that the author is using a quote from that book (to make a serious point, and a point that's at least not incongruent with the original intent).

The author is instantiating a common joke template in the context of a quote he's using the lead off a talk.

That's all.

> As it turns out, it's really off-base, too.

No, it's not, because it wasn't a serious premise. You can tell that this is the case by the fact that the 20+ slides that follow this one are not on the subject of theology or christian/jewish history...
> I don't know what I was thinking (I didn't really have time to think), but instead of braking, I just slalomed around them as if they were a cone.

I don't think having a default response of standing on the brake regardless of the circumstance is the best response. I have no idea whether or not you were far enough away to brake successfully -- it sounds like maybe you didn't at the time either. But if you evaded a collision then you 100% made the right choice.

The only collision that was ever my fault was from sliding attempting to brake in wet conditions. If I had attempted to maneuver, I maybe would have avoided it.
Hopefully Harvard isn't too progressive:

https://cyber.harvard.edu/publications/2017/08/mediacloud
Tool from Dell to disable CABC on the FHD model was released today. Happy days!

http://www.dell.com/support/home/us/en/04/drivers/driversdet...
While I love this (and I am ECSTATIC about the PRU documentation ... thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou ... I have been using this right now), I would expect this would have been loads easier with even something really cheap like a MAX10 FPGA.

However, he does mention needing a network stack, so maybe not.
There are disagreeable ideas that nobody has anxiety over though, so it's not just that.

But I think you can see that too. If you assume his ideas are correct:

1. His letter becomes well received, my employer changes their hiring policies

2. The current gender ratio was propped by non-gender-neutral hiring practices, without them, that will change back in-line to the base rate

3. My job is in danger

Is anxiety over losing one's job justified?

Or, another line:

1. His letter is well received, but my employer doesn't change their hiring policies

2. My co-workers now think that I have my job not because I earned it but because of the non-gender-neutral hiring practices

3. My job is in danger

I can produce more, but at the end of the day they all threaten either status or jobs, so I don't fault why people would defend their interests with all their effort.
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Do the previously vague 1031 laws mean one should file 2017 and 2018 taxes differently? Is it legally valid to treat tokens as like-kind assets in 2017?
Asset issuance, voting, wills, identity/reputation systems, land registries.

All of which reach beyond the blockchain. No-one is going to care that a 'smart contract' says that Alice owns a plot of land when Bob holds the real-world deeds.

The real world and the blockchain can only be linked when, as you say, 'the powers that be' decide to recognise the data. But then you've lost all of the advantages that the blockchain was claimed to possess. For example, if we need an entity to recognise that the land registry smart contract is valid, there's no more decentralization, and we might as well let that entity store the land registry in their own simple database. The blockchain becomes pointless and wasteful.
What I like about Blockchain tech is that non technical people will never be as good or as quick at identifying opportunities as a technical people who can understand the whitepapers and look at the code themselves.

For example, some of the coins that have been going up in price recently are complete garbage and it's a matter of time before their technical limitations become apparent to non-technical people.

I think I have a pretty good idea about how easy/difficult it will be to scale different cryptocurrencies based on the algorithms they use. Many of the ones in the top 100 list right now are essentially impossible to scale beyond a certain point, eventually they're bound to hit a wall.

Most investors right now are just randomly moving their money between coins. They wait until issues start showing up and then move on to another random coin. This is very inefficient.
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Exceedingly small numbers of civilians hold M-16s legally in the US. If there are M-16s going over the border the source is military or law enforcement.
I know I won't get any updates for the system for my 2012 Dell XPS 8500 (256 GB SSD, 16 GB RAM, i7 CPU - I don't see a need for an upgrade, it's all there).

Does that mean I'll just be left out cold? That's how I understand it.

When I run the Microsoft Powershell plugin that they made available to check the protection status (`Get-SpeculationControlSettings`) I get a "True" for 3 of 8 items (only showing those 3):

Windows OS support for branch target injection mitigation is present: True
Windows OS support for kernel VA shadow is present: True
Windows OS support for kernel VA shadow is enabled: True
> Why is Javascript always trashed?

It's the combination of two adages:

-Build a tool that fool can use, and only fools will use it.

-Every time you make something fool proof, God invents a better fool.

These are mutually recursive.
>No ad revenue, no free content. Get ready for paywalls everywhere.

I'm fine with that. Let the media get its money by providing content that I like and want to pay for instead of by trying to game social media clicks.

Most of the "content" online is the reading equivalent of junk-food anyway.

Besides, there is a version of an ad supported economy that is actually respectful towards your users. You just do sponsored posts and unobtrusive banners. That's fine for small time outfits.

The big barrier with paying for content isn't that I can't part with the change to read an article that piques my interest. It's that I don't want to hand over payment information to any random website. Both for security reasons and because it's a giant hassle. Fix that problem and you're good.
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Amazon has been around for 23 years now (Amazon Prime for 12 years). People have been heavily using Amazon daily for online retail and wishlists for over a decade. For most people I know, they've been the go-to place for most Christmas and birthday shopping for years. They're terrible at recommendations--they're the best case scenario. Google and other advertisers are worse. No matter how much information they have, they're just awful.

There's also distrust between ad networks, advertisers, and users. So even if they collect all this deep information, you can't trust the other group to be telling you the truth to the other group.

I would love a scenario where I get personalized matches for my needs even if that means me handing over more info. Podcasts seem to be the only place where they're a) big enough to get direct sponsorship but b) small enough that the sponsors are still relevant...and they're using the same techniques as traditional media like TV/radio.
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I share the same feelings.

I used Slashdot for many years, starting when Rob Malda ran the site. The past year or so has been the worst, in my opinion, even when considering the Beta era of discontent.

The stories used to be primarily about tech (or related subjects), with a minor focus on politics. But lately I think it has been the opposite. There is much more emphasis on general politics, with tech being a minor focus, in my opinion.

While I'm not very interested in politics to begin with, what bothers me the most is how partisan I think things have gotten. The stories have what I consider a rather left-wing bias. The same goes for the modding, where I think it's common to see centrist and right-wing comments often downmodded, even when they express a very reasonable and relevant set of ideas.

I feel that Slashdot has moved from perhaps being an open, varied, quasi-libertarian environment to one that's much less open, much less diverse, and much less enjoyable.

So I stopped visiting it about a month ago, and I don't miss it at all.
How do I get a dumb phone (simple browser, Java) to access Google hangouts get/send messages? Prepared to make it a (java/rest?) side project. (Son has feature phone).
The telegraph was the first Internet. It permitted messages to travel across a country in seconds instead of of days. For example the Battle of New Orleans, 29 years before the first telegraph, was fought after the peace treaty for the War of 1812 was signed.

The first telegraphs had only a rate of 20 bits a second (measured in those days at 40 words per minute). Various inventions like multiplexing and speeds via punched tape could increase that an order of magnitude. Thomas Edison inevented several of these speedups.
During today's Slack downtime, we just communicated with each other use that old, reliable, uniquely human analog method.
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> For example, I do not see Bezos building anything I would compare to cathedrals.

I don't know. 105B$ can buy you a lot of concrete.
Looks more like a dune buggy with legs than your classic Gundam, but still... pretty cool.
NPR's Planet Money looked at this topic a few years ago: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/12/30/374011462/epis...

Their finding was that the board of directors is a difficult thing to change from the outside -- in typical corporate bylaws, the board typically approves who's on or not on the ballot. It seems likely, given the number of people on multiple boards, that there's a mutual back-scratching system in place.

And even if it's just one board a retired accountant serves on, the salary averages around $250k. It sounds like a cushy gig, and anyone who rocks the boat risks the CEO voting their shares (and the company's) to fire that director.
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That wouldn't matter -- there are ways to fingerprint a browser/PC across sessions and into private browsing modes.

https://medium.com/@ravielakshmanan/web-browser-uniqueness-a...
Incidentally I love comcast. 150mbps cable, cheap price, no outages, free hbo, X1 remote rocks. Pricing is a bit annoying (paying extra for HD) but is a great product. Just thought I'd mention it because it gets too much hate.
> There's a penalty payment that each node puts up into escrow for each assignment of data, and if the data is not accurate in relation to all the other providers of that same data, the node will lose the payment.

So, a prisoner's dilemma situation here? If one person objects, everyone loses their money? Who gets the payment? Are the coins permanently burned? If so, seems harsh in the face of accidents. If not, seems open to abuse if someone could be both the smart contract creator and a data provider. I create 100 data providers, and a smart contract, and when I detect someone new has joined my pool, cause them to lose their coins which are sent to me.

> There will also likely be a small amount of LINK required to start a node with enough reputation to gain assignments which would also increase the cost of a Sybil attack.

Ah, so an economic majority that successfully scams others and acquires a mass of tokens can use them to launch more data providers.
Yet by default Windows 10 opts you into a system-wide advertising ID, a ‘smartscreen filter’ that sends the urls of websites you visit to Microsoft (to check against a database of ‘malicious websites’), sending whatever you type to Microsoft (to improve autocompletion), inserts a cloud-based Cortana into many things you do etc., etc.

I agree that their main business model is probably ‘just’ software licenses, which is good I'd say, but they don't clearly align their incentives with their users. They dabble in other markets to see what they can get, and for me that muddies the waters a bit.
In the example of chat, XMPP is federated, it even has serverless messaging ( https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0174.html )

SIP for instance is perfectly happy to do ip<->ip calls (well ignoring NAT issues - one day we will all have ipv6 addresses....)

This really is a solved problem, people for various reasons have decided to rely on external services they have no control over. I don't think we need to throw yet another protocol at the problem, instead we should focus on making what we have better and easier to setup and use.
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If we accept your argument that Google can't measure the speed of a webpage then wouldn't it also follow that Google can't know if the AMP version of a page is actually faster than the non-AMP version?
> Just to be clear: you want that.

Well yeah, they said 'we ... want'. How much clearer do you think they could have stated that? They never said you or anyone else wanted it.
Neither is Trump FDR, I think you missed my point. Trump, like both FDR and Hitler, made novel use of a new communications medium to rally their supporters and reach new ones, while their opponents scratched their heads trying to understand the phenomenon.
This is measuring startup time, not actual request time. This seems nearly worthless unless you are looking to host something on AWS Lambda? Does the author honestly believe GET requests to rails sites take 2 and a half minutes on average?
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There are a number of people that will say automatic image unfurling and file sharing are unwanted features which also pose security risks, if you want to operate a truly internal-only text chat system...
Sure, that is the message they want to give over.

However, the message I take away from this is that somehow we have accepted into society this incredibly dangerous thing which while convenient it not necessary at all. While we make everything else in society safe, we seem to ignore the most dangerous thing around us, that kills around 1.3 million people every single year.
Not necessarily, and not in the long term.

You can buy stocks with no expectation they will increase in value (or even maintain value) if the dividend yield is high enough. And stocks have value because of this - the assumption in any stock, even one currently without a dividend, is that eventually it will pay out some form of a dividend to its holders.

You may buy a stock hoping it will will rise in value, but that rise is predicated on the eventual delivery of cash via dividends or some other mechanism of distribution. Contrast that with say, Gold, where in fact it costs money to hold and there's no expectation it will ever generate any kind of dividend.
And because at that point the shield wires were spaced further apart so as not to short out the connection.
We have repository mirroring available in GitLab Enterprise Edition Starter, and there exists an issue to move this to CE[0] but it was closed with some explanation as to why[1]. I assume with GitHub Sync you're asking for syncing of more than just the repository, but also issues and merge/pull requests?

The SourceForge sync tool appears to only include release syncing as far as I can tell (the wording is ambiguous and the docs only mention import, not active sync, so I'm not sure what they provide?).

For what it's worth, GitLab does have import tools in CE[2]. You can also use repository mirroring (along with any other Enterprise Edition features) if you're an open source project on GitLab.com.

[0]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/18732
[1]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/18732#note_47...
[2]: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/import/github.html
That video is uniquely horrible.
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It looks more like it can hobble 4mph, based on that video.
It is not more dangerous to other people on the road.
Some progress in eight years would be good, though!
It turns out he helped to invade Iraq. Why doesn't American and global society shun people who cause such devastating destruction? That needlessly led to the deaths of 100's of thousands of people, but nobody blames the perpetrators.
I'm sitting here thinking about what the world would look like with a much smaller, more expensive, higher quality, less intrusive www, and I'm not sure I'm opposed to that; esp assuming anyone who wants to could still put up any legal content they want to at any time.
Looks like someone with a lot of money watched the third Matrix film and thought "I want one of those suits."
> The idea of an "Old Testament God" and "New Testament God" is rejected by all the Jews and Christians I know.

Jews reject the New Testament entirely; Christians are the ones who came up with the distinction (which doesn't distinguish different actual gods but either different human understanding of God or different stages on God's relationship with humanity.)

Well, there's also (some subset of) Gnostics, who viewed them as literally different gods, and identified the OT God with the evil(-ish, at least) demiurge. But that's a whole other kettle of fish.
> These contracts say - essentially - that they will operate in good faith on the chain. (If they did not, they could be sued in the usual way).

So what does the blockchain add? Why can't this be a database set up by the consortium?
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cool .. I think I get it. It's like compiler/instruction based DRM ... CPU specific permission to run code. Maybe they can leverage existing TPM chips to do this...

I just don't want to see performance being decimated as a trade off for security, if at all possible.
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The problem with giving advance notice is the impact would just be felt at the time of the notice (bc smart traders will just determine the adjustment immediately.) I think the suggestion above to make the change immediate, but re-calc the historicals so the % change is still right, is probably not bad.
> GitHub and GitLab should have this. Interaction and discussion though "issues" is horrible.

Agreed. It would be a huge win for GitHub or GitLab to provide this service. There really are no great alternatives beyond hosting a mailman server yourself.
Depends on what you want in life. If all you care about is money, then yes, your post makes sense.
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That's an interesting paper.

> More often than not, the choice of words makes sense in connection with the implementation of various git operations, but has no relation to the task you're attempting to accomplish.

This seems like an extremely common problem in computing. I support several applications and a lot of the fields and functions in those applications seem to be placed arbitrarily until you know that those fields live in the same table or those functions are a part of the same module or class. Users find the organization very confusing because the model of what they need when doesn't match how it's organized in the system. The user shouldn't need to know about those sorts of implementation details because that knowledge isn't their problem. The program interface should follow a natural workflow, not force the user's workflow to match the implementation.

> IMO, the main thing missing is a way of seeing git's core data structures updated in real-time as you perform various operations on them.

I think that would be a great help for troubleshooting those really obscure or weird situations, but I don't think that's information that your average git user should feel like they need to know to get work done.
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A really interesting project to check out if you haven't heard of it is the Brave project. It's got a really interesting concept and they actually have a functioning product that can be downloaded and used right now, not to mention the founder of the company is Brenden Eich who not only created javascript but co-founded Mozilla. It's definitely worth checking out, they do a really great job of explaining what a crypto-currency can be: https://basicattentiontoken.org/