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Maybe a good idea, but the site does a bad job of selling it.

The front page starts with a big rant about how bad existing airlines are. That's not how you sell things. You should focus on what you do, which is SFO-LAX flights through private terminals on a monthly subscription.

The private terminal is a huge win -- it saves a good hour on travel. But that's buried in the FAQ. You should redesign so that all of the following are on above the fold on the home page:

- SFO-LAX

- Monthly subscription $79/6 flights

- Private terminal

- Book online last minute

Don't pretend to be a full-service airline except in the fine print it says only SFO-LAX. SFO-LAX is exactly what thousands of people need. For people who need something else, you shouldn't lead them on (but you should let them give you their email address and desired routes so you can let them know when you add them.)
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My experience being a father is that children aquire and consume vast amounts of books. They reread them until they understand them and then they either discard them and never touch them again or they like them and keep reading them. I haven't been able to see a simple thematic pattern for my daughter but what I did notice us that she really hates it when you try to read books she but in the discard pile. I am quite sure that she would loose her intrest in books if I kept taking books she didn't like.

Instead I let her dicide what she wants and hope that this will let her develop and refine her taste.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that i suspect top down government of children's books will backfire in diminished interest and cruder taste for culture.
Blameless postmortems are good to do at the systemic level, but not a legal one It's ultimately the responsibility of road users (drivers, cyclists, whatever) to keep themselves and others safe.
closer to legalized manslaughter. Anyway, it was just a way to relate the death toll.
What he said isn't wrong, this new ucode changes fencing and branching prediction semantics regardless of using the instructions added for spectre.

The problem is varied. While most people should run the new ucode and pending kernel and toolchain fixes, not all must. Most businesses buy computers on rated performance, and they are about to take an unexpected performance haircut. Intel ucode isn't really optional, as there is no public change log and it is unknowable what critical stability fixes are within. so even in a closed system you can't selectively ignore it without some amount of negligence. This presents a big problem for HPC and other closed systems.

IBM, a more professional and customer focused HPC vendor, is offering a firmware flag to preserve pre-spectre behaviors. Most closed monolithic HPC clusters can ignore these vulns and the associated nvidia one.
> At the end, non-conforming letters get made just so they can get exterminated

You’re overprojecting. They’re inanimate letters. The children are learning penmanship. In the end, out of compassion for the cat that was previously plaguing them, they bend the rules to be nice. It’s certainly cuter than the German fairy tales I was raised on.
Adding a dog leg into a rural road so that cars have to stop while waiting to turn (exposed to traffic flow) is a terrible solution. There is one like this that I pass through occasionally and it’s hair raising. If you end up being behind someone following the same route through the dog leg it’s even worse.
Okay, what did you mean?
Roundabouts and 4-way stops are used in different situations - a 4-way stop is typically used in residential neighborhoods or street grids where the roads are only single-lane and the lack of available space prohibits a roundabout.
Any processors which do not degrade in performance significantly after the fix? I read in some articles that the AMD processors are mostly immune is there any truth to it? I couldn't find any reliable sources.
What's the "old" term for speculated instructions that aren't retired?
Most vehicle collisions are not blameless though. They are caused by inattentive people; I've almost been hit multiple times by people either on their cell phone, or chatting with a passenger in their vehicle.

Other times drivers are purposely driving with a priority on agressivenss over safety.

If we ever get to a state of zero traffic fatalities then maybe blameless post-mortems would make sense. But there's too much blatantly bad behavior occuring.

It would be as if a pilot crashed buzzing the control tower. Clearly a human operator was being reckless and deserves punishment.
"it would be quite easy to note suicide is almost twice as common in china vs the united states"

What is your source? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_by_su... has US at 12.6 per 100000 and 8.5 for China, with the world average being 10.7. What stands out about China is the much higher ratio of female to male suicides.
> The longer I use the road in any function (cycling, driving, walking, etc), the more I am convinced that the vast majority of people are not competent drivers.

You are almost right. ALL people are incompetent drivers.

Driving is a task of 99% boring routine habit punctuated by 1% of moments requiring extreme engagement. Humans are not engineered for these kinds of swings.

But computers are. And that's why the takeover of self-driving cars will be not just inevitable but also swift.
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This is true! It's one of the big reasons I cannot wait for self driving cars. I love driving on empty country roads but feel it's impossible to 100% safely drive on busier roads, especially if you also need to read road signs because you don't know where you are going (what's up with US traffic sighs being covered in text btw.? That's obviously a terrible idea!).

I came to this conclusion a few weeks after I had gotten my drivers license. I was meeting onto a Autobahn exit. I had a big truck in front. I check the mirror. All fine. Look over my shoulder to check blind spot and my girlfriend who was the passenger starts screaming because the truck in front had jammed on its breaks. I immediate slowed down and all was well. However it was a reasonably close call. Even now, many years later I'm unsure what I should have done differently. I need to look over the shoulder, I couldn't have kept meaningful, more space between me and the truck because I needed to adjust speed to the lane I wanted to merge into. I'm convinced it's a situation that can't be reliably handled 100% of the time given human limitations. Yet most people I talk to think that you just need to get gud.
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Then put in a speed bump, followed by a speed camera. The speed bump ensures people aren't being "entrapped" by a hidden camera.
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It looks like you listed every sacred cow of public finance, but I'll just pick on the first... sure, for the most part, roads are publicly financed/owned (although built by privately owned companies). But, conversely, if you appreciate all the privately financed/owned driveways, toll roads, parking lots, fueling infrastructure and vehicles(!!), then you shouldn't be trying to raise taxes as a base principle either.

The truth is that there's plenty to appreciate and hate in both sectors, but there's only one that forces us to finance it, and we don't like being forced to finance something without having much say in the matter or if the results are suboptimal.
I'm pretty sure everyone realizes what proxying all non-Google content through their servers does. The thing is, people who rely on Google are more afraid of it going away than they are upset at the lengths by which Google asserts itself over their life.

It's really funny to me. They already had Android Chrome's "traffic optimizer" to tunnel all traffic through their servers. But I guess they wanted Safari and other mobile content as well, so they made this crappy web proxy, and now it affects everyone's use of the web. Like... they really didn't have to do this. But they knew they could, and knew it would only provide a minor annoyance to most people, so they did it. And predictably, people defend it, as if reinventing WAP were a good idea.

(To be fair: when I used a J2ME phone, I wrote WAP web services. But I'm not runnning a J2ME phone any more.)
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I got 7 ad-warnings on "uBlock Origin" and the page is lean.
At first, I found the direct comparison of Google with the Nazi ideology as happened in the picture (https://static.pinboard.in/ancient/thumbs/law.034.thumb.jpg) and the text

> You don't get a clear warning that you're working on something that's bad for the world. They put you to work designing a machine that answers to "OK Google", not "OK Goebbels".

not justified, as Google is a very different organization and has different values and motives. But then I understood the comparison as a mean of drastically warning about what unforeseen consequences lie in these data collections, derived models, undemocratically and centrally controlled systems, proprietary systems, and the induced shift of powers in our society. That change can be devastating for society. As a society, we need constantly be on watch over what these systems and do who controls them. Closed and proprietary systems manufacturers and developers have an immense political influence on our society. Do we agree with their statement? Can we even afford that as a society?
driver of a vehicle shall stop at a stop sign or at a clearly marked stop line before entering the intersection,
https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/?id=169.30

And stopping right before the stop sign is what I was taught in driver's ed, not by my grandma.

One of the joys of driving in the U.S. is every state has it's own driving laws and while they're substantially the same, they are by far not identical (see lane splitting in California vs everywhere else, and turning right on red).

Also you'll find some states will define the intersection as including sidewalks, which is why you'll usually find the stop sign placed right before the sidewalk, not after it.
http://www.ncsl.org/research/transportation/pedestrian-cross...
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> We don't even know which agency launched ZUMA, and there's no obligation for them to tell the press if it worked or not.

This is outrages, as in the USA we should not have reason to do thing in the shadow or complete dark. What do they have to hide?

They might not tell the press but since its my tax dollars getting burned, I will call my congressman tomorrow and demand they will explain how my dollars are spent, and what was the purpose of this satellite.
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I'm the author of d3-graphviz so you probably shouldn't believe a word I say ;-)

d3-graphviz is based on the Viz.js port of Graphviz and does animated transitions between graphs. See e.g. this demo: https://bl.ocks.org/magjac/4acffdb3afbc4f71b448a210b5060bca

Since d3-graphviz is based on Viz.js it can can do everything that Viz.js can do. Also, it adds the following features:

Animated transition of one graph into another
Edge path tweening
Node shape tweening
Fade-in and fade-out of entering and exiting nodes and edges
Animated growth of entering edges
Panning & zooming of the generated graph

Extensive docs at: https://github.com/magjac/d3-graphviz

Any feedback is welcome.
> They’re inanimate letters.

Cats don't actually starve when they don't get to eat those.

And why only say that now? What does the "compassion for the cat" have to do with it it either way?

What German fairy tales about non-conformist things being destroyed were you raised on? And did your learning of penmanship involve any of that?

And they don't even bend the (part of the) rules (under discussion here), non-conforming letters still get eaten.
> In light of that, I would be surprised if the NSA had not known about this.

Call me a tinfoil hat conspiracist but the only rational explanation I can find of IBM POWER and z CPUs still vulnerable to Spectre is the NSA forcing IBM not to fix it. I read somewhere that the z196 had three magnitudes more validation routines than the Intel Core at that time. It's extremely hard to believe they haven't caught this.
True, but as I pointed out, so would a roundabout. In the area where I grew up we also had a dangerous piece of road that got "fixed" by setting up a "dangerous curve" sign with a warning light on top. It went from multiple fatalities every year to zero.
The truck almost certainly had a good reason for stopping. The question then becomes why you couldn't you see what the truck driver had seen (debris in the road, a broken down car, etc). Obviously you can't always see around a large truck, but often times danger can be spotted by looking far ahead. For example coming around a blind cliff I was able to deduce there was a person who would be standing in the middle of the road because I saw a photographer on the opposite side. I started slowing and my instructor was like "what are you doing?" which then turned in to "how did you know a person would be in the road?"
My response was in the context of privong stating that Intel and AMD were equivalently affected, when it is specifically Intel that suffers performance degradation in patching due to their unsafe usage of speculative execution.
> every company would make it's own coin

The harder part, as with regular currencies is convincing people to use it. At least with regular currencies usage is enforced by the state, which guarantees a number of users. Even if confidence in that currency has collapsed, you still have to pay your taxes using it.
I personally think that the most realistic way to fix this is to just increase insurance minimums up to a reasonable level, enough to cover a car full of statistical lives.

This, if enforced, would internalize the externality of injury into the cost of driving, and probably would make driving dramatically more expensive, which would hopefully create demand for alternate systems.
Could it also have something to do with the wild horses hanging out at the intersection:

https://goo.gl/qTSZWJ

Perhaps they are not 'wild', I'm just not used to seeing horses near a roadway, without a fence between us. Is this a common thing in England?
Some of this may be that stop signs in California tend to be more superfluous.

In New England & NYC, a 4-way stop is usually used for urban neighborhoods where single-lane, low-traffic streets meet. Roundabouts and slip lanes are space-prohibitive in these situations (they'd have to go through privately-owned lots), traffic lights are overkill given the light traffic, and visibility is insufficient for a safe 2-way stop or yield.

In CA and other western states, these same neighborhoods are usually suburban houses with lawns, and even the apartment buildings have setbacks from the street. A yield would work fine, but either for habit or consistency, it's signed as a 4-way stop. Drivers feel like they have good visibility and it should be a yield, though, and so they roll through it.
The default recommended client does support multi challenge, and from what the logs show, the ACME protocol even handles this without extra load - it returns the challenge modes it will accept.

I wasnt aware of this and you arent either apprently. The difference is, I'm not shipping a commercial web server package whose key feature is LetsEncrypt (and thus ACME) support.
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Other companies are putting that cash directly into those businesses, not the state. The ones with the tax liability just get to keep more of their cash, again not the state's!
Nice, acmi4j v2 (java client) already disabled this - https://github.com/shred/acme4j/blob/master/README.md#known-...
I would have thought you could build an open truss pillar that was as strong as a solid one.
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Are you putting yourself at risk going with a currency exchange option such as Coinbase vs using an anonymous option (some Bitcoin ATM)? Does anyone have advice on how crypto relates to taxes in this regard?
Used in the implementation of a production raytracer at Dreamworks Animation:

http://tabellion.org/et/paper17/index.html
In Europe the residential area would either
1. Have no signs resulting in the car to the right getting the right of way
2. One road gets a right of way sign and the other road had to yield.

I strongly prefer those setups because they are much more fuel efficient.

However, I don't think any of that would work in the UD because it would require real driving classes and tests. I had to drive around for close to 20 hours with a professional driving teacher on to of dozens of hours of theoretical classes. All that end in a 30min+ examination with a examiner in the back of the car putting me through as many challenging situations as possible.
From the command 'cpuid'

I believe the [XX]-[XX]-[XX] is:

<extended family><family>-<extended model><model>->stepping id>

Those values are all in the first few lines of output from 'cpuid'.

The [XX]->[XX] is probably
[old microcode version]->[new microcode version]

If the cpuid for a processor is not listed in those release notes, I don't think there's a reason to believe the processor has received a microcode update. It might be worth comparing the microcode blob to Intel's last release in 2017-11 to confirm.

It looks to me like the microcode version can be read out from

hexdump <XX-XX-XX from .tgz> | head -n1 | cut -f4,5 -d' '

where the first field is the lower 16 bits and the second field is the upper 16 bits. I don't have any documentation to prove this assumption, it is just based on comparing the listed microcode versions to those fields in the binary blobs. But doing a straight 'diff' would probably be good enough to tell if the microcode file has changed.

Some Linux vendors like CentOS, Debian and Ubuntu may have microcode updates for processors that weren't part of this release, I'm not sure.
I’d argue that pages that are static with few images should be given preference. Simple CSS rules, no JavaScript (or very little of it), not a ton of images, etc. People from all walks of life are capable of publishing this content and it’s equally as accessible.

Pages that should be heavily penalized are those with lots of extraneous JS, bloated CSS files, lots of auto play videos, and huge image files that are supposedly created by “experts” that need a DevOps team to deploy and distribute all the bloat.
Yeah this is the problem. I think some of the criticisms of AMP are valid but the sad reality is that sites are never going to clean up their act on their own. AMP dramatically improves web UX for people that might otherwise be inclined to give up and spend all their time in feeds in native apps.

Hopefully Google can address some of these concerns without losing the very real end user benefits of AMP as it's implemented now.
Wow, that is crazy! Now imagine those were US style signs that are covered in text instead abstract symbols...
Does AWS have first class fully production Python yet? In Azure a single import (pydocumentdb) took a function up to 20-30s on Python, I guess they're serious about it being experimental still sadly. Rewriting in Node it takes 50ms for the entire run, crazy difference.
While I may California Roll occasionally, at a yield sign I may not slow at all, or only slow enough to safely make a turn. So there's definitely a difference between the two, even if you treat the stop sign as "just a guideline". Stop means go slow enough that you can make a complete stop if you see police in the intersection. "Oops, missed the limit line by a couple feet, but I was totally always gonna stop."
Yeah where I live (the outer sunset neighborhood of San Francisco) it feels like half the stops are 2-way and the other half are 4-way. As a cyclist this is dangerous for me, because if I go through an intersection where I am not stopped but cars are subject to the stop, they will stop, not see me, then start going. So consistency is key!
Another useful metaphor is that venture capital is rocket fuel. It's not useful if you're not building a rocket. And VCs only really want to give rocket fuel to rocket builders, anyway. VCs will be angry if you end up building a car or a plane instead of a rocket, no matter how awesome the car or plane that you built is, because they promised their investors (LPs) that they would only invest in rockets. But if you've clearly already built a rocket (perhaps after years of bootstrapping, and it's now obvious you can reach orbit -- if only you had enough fuel -- then venture capital, err rocket fuel, might make sense.)
It sounds like what happens in every other instance of engineering: trade-offs. Emphasise performance in one metric -- preventing roof collapse and preserving the integrity of the passenger compartment in this case -- and it can come at the cost of other metrics (here, visibility). I don't think vehicle engineers are deliberately making cars hard to see out of, but I do think it's possible that those setting the policy which drives A-pillar thickness don't realize such is making cars less safe from a visibility perspective.
No one should never really routinely be in a situation where driving requires extreme engagement.

If anyone is in this situation routinely (that means for every hour they drive, 36 seconds is an extreme situation), it means the driving regularly does not meet the conditions of the situation they are in.

For example if someone feels like they are almost always hitting "impulsive" pedestrians, it means they need to drive slower through areas with lots of pedestrians. Likewise if they're frequently taking evasive moves around people driving haphazardly, it means they weren't paying attention to which automobiles appear likely to do something dumb.
The Sidewinder missile is based on this phenomena. Early guided missiles attempted to home in directly on the target, bringing the bearing from centerline to zero, but they could never make the math work out right in the guidance system. The Sidewinder was the first to realize that the missile is closing in on the aircraft at some speed, and so really the angle it makes with the plane should be constant, not zero. This simplified the avionics enough to get a reasonably accurate missile.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIM-9_Sidewinder#Design
The best way of explaining tls-sni-01 is that its broken such that it allows the user to shoot themselves in the foot in a bad way.

When I wrote an implementation of LE with tls-sni-01 I was quite shocked that it worked that way when dns and HTTP were done "correctly".

I would be very surprised if this was related to their reason for pulling tls-sni-01.
I am deeply saddened by your suffering. I cannot imagine what you are going through, and have nothing but empathy and a glimmer of understanding to offer you.

My small insight as a lifelong depressive is that well-meaning people who give advice and encouragement often do so from a position of limited understanding, hopefully because they have never had to endure similar torment.

It can seem inconceivable to them that sometimes people are so destroyed that it is effectively impossible to take their advice, or derive comfort from their words.

I truly hope you find some relief that avoids the need for self-liberation.
You may be the only one who has the original raw file and publish a scaled down or compressed jpeg version. You should still have the negative.