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It's an unfortunate situation honestly, because it pollutes the term "engineer" (at least for Europeans), when it's being conflated with "I just know how to code".
> Google with Android

Case in point: Sony. The amount of CRAP that comes with the Xperia is insane. There was an uninstallable "What's New" app that would notify incessantly when it wanted to push some new app that Sony probably made money on shilling.

And never mind the Google crap.

The day I dumped it an installed LineageOS made my phone usable again.
I don't know about replace but most likely supplement.

I for one wouldn't want to be blinking at my computer all time. I imagine this would also be a boon for pop up ads as they could steal your focus right as you were about to blink or whatever, causing you to open an ad or take some other action you wouldn't want. But having UI elements appear when you want to see them and then disappear once you look away would be neat.
You can also just get two washing machines. Load all the dirties into one then run it and as you use them load them into the other. Bam. Clean dishes and no putting them away.
Or have a removable rack that you can pull out and slide into a cupboard. No need to have two machines connected to water, drain, and electricity. It works this way, more or less, in industrial settings. You have trays that go into dishwasher, and then go into storage racks.
That probably isn't true; it's just that the laundry thing is still a way down Musk's priority list :)
chuckle.
Do you work more than 39 hours a week? Your job could be killing you
I guess I've just never considered a college degree a prerequisite for professional respect.

Even if you do think that way, and you consider her as completely an entertainer with robotics as her medium, is she a robotics hobbyist?

Are all professional rock musicians just guitar enthusiasts?

My suspicion is that she is called so simply because of her gender, and that a male "entertainer", college drop out or not, would be called an engineer.
I need to get more in touch with unix news in generel for my job. Lurking on HN and Reddit doesn't seem like enough. Too bad that i heard about cron.weekly too late. Any other similar resources?
As far as I know there are 4 causes of eye fatigue from CRTs:
1) constantly looking at the same distance. This is the same with LCD and xLED displays, or even paper books;
2) refresh rate
3) intensity of the light emitted (on its own and compared to surrounding environment)
4) particles fired at your face by the magnetic field generated by the CRT

As far as I know, cause 4) has the most impact, dust particles were literally fired at your eyes, and for this reason 20 years ago it was relatively easy to see people with grounded filters mounted to their CRTs (you used to attach the ground wire to the ground contact of the RS232 or parallel port of the PC)
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I've basically lived in Sicily my entire life and I can't think of a single business (company or family-owned) earning more than 250.000€ per year that didn't have to face some members of the organized crime in some way, from having some supplier forced to them to paying "protection money" or having to hire someone as "internal observer". It's not even considered something unusual, it's basically part of doing business here.
Blockchains propose a flawed solution to a specific problem. The issue that cryptocurrencies and friends are having at the moment is that there's a lot of other unsolved problems standing in the way of what they're trying to do, and those are difficult problems.

Which is to say, the question "Can a blockchain be used to solve [X]?" is answered "No" for almost every question.
That's why I want to help. I want to be someone that people can speak to.

That goes for you, too. If you ever find yourself in a dark place again, contact me. I'll listen.
Hmm... so it used to be just 8453 rentals for a large city. It was a drop in the bucket.
The+Link+Between+Blockchain+Technology+and+Social+Media
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Do people actually put "objective" on a resume? It seems laughably hackneyed. My experience is that something near 40% of people have it, and it usually is the most trite sentence possible.
Well if you have a dumbwaiter, then you can just use some external service to do the washing.

Disregarding security and privacy, big apartment complexes with these dumbwaiter could actually work, with shared storage space and and laundry systems.
A wild knight in shining armor appears to save the damsel in distress.
Your parent makes the valid point that difficulty in producing such children does not necessarily demonstrate the value of this trait for survival. Peacock tail confers no survival merit except for sexual selection.
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I can think of a couple of times where a job title is important.

Self-motivated people can work too much. A job title can help remind them where to stop, and can provide support to that person in arguing why to not take on more work.

Job titles provide a baseline reference for the outside world. That was a lousy description, so I'll give examples.

If you apply for a loan, they'll want to know your job title. A job title which reflects one's position and authority in a company is a proxy for both current income and expected career path; information the loan company uses to help make an offer.

If you apply for a new job, then the job titles of your previous work act as a summary of what you did, and if you did more than that then you can highlight them in the description.

(And remember, some companies may call previous places of employment to verify job title and dates employed, so having an accurate title is important.)
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I used to do this. Then I moved into a place with a brand new (efficient) dishwasher and did some rough experiments comparing the water usage. Now I just run the dishwasher every few days. It also has the added bonus of not needing to stack up stuff to dry.
But then how would it sign advertising to the deaf people in your household?
freetype and harfbuzz don't draw text. Freetype reads font files and gives you individual glyphs, and harfbuzz does "shaping". Pango does layout but also doesn't draw text.
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One more thing is that, research takes time. Companies want ability to cut short this time which is required from inception to delivery of a product. They prefer a candidate who already has prepared linear algebra, if you are going to work on deep learning at the company.
Behind a login-wall, but an interesting critique of the mirror test nevertheless:

https://www.academia.edu/2525451/A_Critical_Analysis_of_the_...
There are many reasons, none of them was quality.

1 - Mismanagement from Atari, Commodore and others

2 - Microsoft deals with OEMs

3 - Pretty cheap Taiwan and Chinese parts, some of them with doubtful quality

4 - Windows piracy, alongside the cheap parts, allowed many small PC shops to thrive and offer nicer deals

5 - PCs were the majority of computers at work and school, so the only one parents saw as a good buy for their children future.
And what are you doing to make the world a better place? I'm guessing you are setting the bar pretty low, so she in fact is looking pretty good :)
On top of that there's some pretty stringent protection of renters which can cause major headaches down the road.

Personally I'm inclined to be in favor of these protections, but I can also understand a wealthy investor wanting to take the hit of leaving the place empty to avoid these kinds of troubles.
While that's intuitive, that's not an argument against building high end housing.

I do agree that it's complicated, though!

As someone who lives in New York, I can attest that affluent people will just rent the apartments that already exist in the neighborhood and drive the prices up for everyone. The difference is that the shitty tenement one bedroom gets bumped to 3k/month because the affluent will displace the current occupants.

If you build luxury buildings, the affluent will move into those. Sure, that will have a second order effect on the desirability of the neighborhood (which is what I believe you are arguing), but I am of the belief that that is a separate issue. Gentrification is its own bag of worms.

A while back someone said "Luxury Housing is future middle class housing" and that rings pretty true. The economic incentives are to build nice properties and over time those properties get old. A good percentage of them get divided up into smaller places or simply rented for less as new inventory comes on line.
I know there's a mental gap to cross here, but seriously - just get another human being to do that for you.
"Dr Brian May, professional astrophysicist, is also a guitar hobbyist who builds his own instruments"

(joke explanation for HN: this description is technically accurate but nobody would call the guitarist from Queen a "hobbyist")
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I actually saw that advice on a running forum as a solution to handle laundry between morning and afternoon runs.
Symmetry is explicitly mentioned in the original article and the study you're commenting on.
And slower or impractical even for some things. Maybe we should write a real-time media codec in python 'cause security. I don't understand why you, like the OP, make these sweeping generalizations as though all of engineering is black and white. Sometimes, I reach for a higher abstraction, sometimes not. It depends on the problem domain.

Oh and btw, "out of bounds memory accesses" are not the primary source of security vulnerabilities at all. In fact, such out of bounds access is more likely to just make your program crash (which is a good thing).
Objectively worse, as organized crime tends to eventually infiltrate all legitimate economic activity on its turf, radically undermining long term productivity. Unorganized crime may take some of the fruits of the economy, but organized crime can infect the roots.

"Self-employed" thiefs (to pick the most straight-forward form of crime for as an example) will likely change their ways after somehow landing a regular job, people who stole for an organization might continue to report to their old bosses, willing or not.
Alibaba used to own a quite huge office in DT LA, but people in Alibaba I knew said that they never had more than ~40 full-timers and contractors in USA. They came to US for the talent, haven't found it, and mostly bailed the idea.
The greed of the rich and well-connected, is beyond belief. Capitalism has failed for a segment of the population. Democracy has failed for them.

You need money to make money. You need education, skills, connections, and health to get and maintain a job.

Have you seen the pictures of Skid Row in Los Angeles?

http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01...

https://world.wng.org/sites/default/files/styles/three_col_f...

This is the reality on the ground in Los Angeles. There are several blocks in downtown Los Angeles, where when you step into it, it feels like you stepped into a land that time forgot. The people are destitute. They have failed at one thing or another in life, and that has brought them to this point.

And what is the result of this? It has created a micro-3rd-world-country, right in the heart of one of the richest cities in the world. Where people drive by in expensive Mercedes, BMW, and Tesla cars.

The rich don't care about this, because they will never drive through the poor parts of town. But for everyone else, it makes life miserable for all.

At some point, you just have to cut your losses with these people. They are not going to get any corporate job. They pan-handle, beg, and harass people on the streets. Society, the city, the state, and the federal government, must step in to provide a baseline for these people.

Give them a damn fake job, give them money, give them food, give them shelter. Just get them off the streets.

If society cannot do this for them, then take the next step, and go extreme. Incarcerate them. Make it illegal to be homeless. Throw them into a prison. At least that way, they will get fed, have a jumpsuit for clothing, and a warm shelter.

This is a human rights issue. And for the United States to claim that they are the greatest at human rights, then all you have to do is to look at the homeless, the underbelly of society, and see the people that has failed in society. And here, you will see the hypocrisy of a society that has no desire or inclination to help them.
Huh. I'm pining for 4:3 screen for a development laptop. My main use case is coding, not watching movies :)
Very cool.

I recently got a Waveshare 4.2" e-paper for my Pi, and I've been playing around with a variety of dithering algorithms to get it to display images.

The Floyd-Steinberg algorithm seems to bring out the most detail if you look at the image from a distance, but ordered dithering (with the 8x8 Bayer matrix from Wikipedia) gave me a better "retro computer" look that I was aiming for.
I got curious when i misread pacemaker as pEacemaker
> This is also really unfriendly to tenants, you now have a bunch of strangers traipsing through the hallways with no relationship or accountability to the neighbors.

The root of the problem is that tourists have diverging interests compared to locals, because they don't have to share the same building for many years. In situations where agents have to deal again and again, tit-for-tat works. But not where they meet just once.

It should be solved by good reputation tracking over rentals, so they don't escape responsibility - maybe reputation tracking should be outside the hands of a private company that has an interest in the game, like an independent organisation.
Your idea got me thinking. Maybe we could clone other open source software. Do you think we could get away with it?
Really odd. Using an original one for a couple of years now with basically zero problems. This is with an iOS/Mac set-up exclusively, though
Portugal, Spain and Greece as the examples I know.

Nursing is taught at many universities with medical degree, first and second year students tend to share some of the lectures.

Also, because of that, people with nursing degree are able to acquire a medical degree by taking the extra lectures and exams afterwards.
Quite a few of them do, in fact the likilihood of your router having a fixed default password increases with it being less of a consumer oriented product, most SOHO and above routers as well as other equipment does comes with a known default password.

This feature isn’t turned on by default, someone had to go into the BIOS and enabled it.
This feature is also not available on non enterprise consumer laptops.
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you can also tune subpixel aliasing to your liking in windows, using the 'adjust cleartype text' - has been there in a while and even used to support different screen striping https://www.gnostice.com/nl_article.asp?id=189&t=Is_ClearTyp...
I just read in Amsterdam they are introducing regulation that limits airbnb rentals to max 30 days/year.
> How long before desktop OSs manage memory like mobile ones, automatically shutting down background apps

Once desktop systems and applications support required APIs to handle saving state before being shut down.
As a side comment mentioned: hotels would be an ideal case because they have a lot of standard things that need to be folded (sheets, pillow cases, towels, etc.) and sticking to those basic cases could probably bring the cost way down and reliability way up.

(But I suspect you don’t need a fancy machine for simple shapes - a simple folding wooden rig would do and be almost as quick. Hell, I’ve got a cheap plastic thing that’ll do shirts in seconds.)
I can see unscrupulous sports people having a plutonium powered lactic acid scrubbing device, or an extra lung.
Yeah, the machines now are performing unnecessary intermediate steps, or rather I should say could perhaps perform extra steps that overall would make the design of the machines easier.

What we want long term is a machine that does all the work, e.g. that can spit out requested items and which when returned to the machine will clean and store them (the same idea works for any of clothing, cutlery, tools, shoes etc).

Why should I have to take the folded clothes or washed dishes and go pack them away? Won't it be easier if the machine just does that for me? If I want a glass I just browse the stored inventory and it spits out my requested item.
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To start with, I'm expecting a lot of downvotes here, so don't be ashamed. Frankly, I'm looking for a new browser that isn't from one of the mainstream developers. I just don't trust them anymore.

I'm running Win7 x86 (on an actual x86 single-processor PC); so suggestions for Linux aren't going to help me unless there's a 32-bit Windows binary available.

I honestly don't trust Mozilla anymore - the pattern of behavior that includes Australis, Pocket, Cliqz, WebExtensions, and Looking Glass has caused me to no longer consider Mozilla trustworthy. This further extends to SeaMonkey, K-Meleon, Pale Moon, and Basilisk; because the core of those three browsers is all reliant on Mozilla code. Pale Moon is my current primary browser due to their fiercely independent stance regarding Mozilla; but I'd like to move away from that browser family altogether in the near future.

I don't trust Google, either, and I don't want their software on my PC. That includes Chrome, Chromium, Opera 15+, Vivaldi, SRWare Iron, and probably a hundred other Chromium forks I simply don't know about. Realistically, if it uses either Blink or Chromium, I don't want it anywhere near me.

As I said, I'm on Win7 x86 and this machine is not upgrading or changing OS, so I've got IE 11 installed and that's the long and short of that possibility.

With that in mind, what options are there left to me?
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During my PhD on Institutional economics, the confusion was common -- even more so when we had a conference in Corsica. With this article, I’m assuming it’s going to become a joke and a shorthand.
Human-coin should represent proof of HUMAN WORK, not of crypto work. That's how it is different. It scales with population and is linked to people.
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In some ways, the channel tunnel was a recapitulation of this - the budget overrun meant that there was no way it could ever realistically provide a return to investors or even creditors, so most of the original financers lost out. But after restructuring it makes a viable operating profit.
You'll have to compete with Terry A. Davis, then:
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He will however permit them to...ehrm...have carnal relations with gentlemen who happen to be African-Americans, so if you qualify you might be in luck.
They already exist for large hotels for things like towels.

Fairly expensive machines though, and typically can only fold 1 type of article (eg: need a machine for each towel size or spend time setting it up)
Fair point, I enjoy them too. But the amount of thought it takes to say Happy Birthday via Facebook is so trivial. FB reminds you, puts it at the top of your feed and reminds you the day after.

For me to send a birthday card to my friends I have a reminder that goes off a week before their birthday so that I find the time to go out get a relevant card. Then writing something of purpose inside the card and sending it with enough time to get there. So it's a week's worth of remembering their birthday vs the 30s that occurs in FB before reading all the other news.

So not worthless, but certainly worth less, to almost zero.
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Parts of the UK are finding that negotiating _without_ any kind of playbook is hard - nothing to do with it being open or closed, it simply doesn't exist.
Respect comes with competence. I respect her as an entertainer, because that is where her competence seems to be. I think her content is great and I enjoy her work.

> Are all professional rock musicians just guitar enthusiasts? My suspicion is that she is called so simply because of her gender, and that a male "entertainer", college drop out or not, would be called an engineer.

Would you trust that college drop out "engineer" to work on the bridge used by hundreds of thousands of people or fly in an airplane designed and built by that "engineer"? There are some disciplines that I think should very strictly and rigorously test for competence, because the alternative is people dying. Engineering is one of those disciplines, and so is medicine. I don't want a college drop out "surgeon" with no formal training in the discipline operating on my body. Maybe I am just not as trusting as you are. But I doubt most people follow the same line of reasoning that you do.

Can you provide some examples of a male entertainer who does the same type of work that Simon does but is labeled as an engineer?
We do lots of markup/drawing/overlay apps using Xamarin and SkiaSharp (SKCanvas/SKCanvasView/SKBitmap).

Skia is a great library. Pretty fast across UWP, Android, iOS and nice to have a common cross platform one that works well across most platforms (UWP, Win, Mac, iOS, Android).

UWP combined with Windows Ink (InkCanvas) is fun stuff.
Spring 2018 is coming in couple of weeks:

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What a massively blanketing title. I've never had this issue, that apparently affects an entire continent.
I really wish we had decided on Intranet of Things. I don't know how anyone thought connecting to outside services to manage your house was a good idea. Your Own House as a Service, YOHAS. Rolls off the tongue.
Question from European side.

We hear there's a shortage of good people in SV / USA. What if you plainly ignored all companies that whiteboard? There should be plenty well paying jobs left.

disclaimer. a major tech company whiteboarded me twice (codility + live coding via google docs). They were really selective, none of my friends passed. In the end the job was lousy so ultimately the test selected more for willingness to jump through irrational hoops than productivity.
I imagine it was very convincing, imagine yourself and everyone you know receive the same message. I don't know what the TV and radio coverage was saying at the time, but plenty of people were sceptical.

If NK launched a strike at Hawaii your chances of survival would be high, so taking cover and stockpiling potable water would make a lot of sense. NK's warheads are relatively small, they have a limited number and the reliability and accuracy of their weapons are unproven.
FizzBuzz test is actually pretty great interview question, but most interviewers miss one crucial ingredient: time pressure. Original idea was that any competent programmer should be able to solve it in under 1 minute (only limiting factor being your own writing/typing speed). It is a good indicator of familiarity with the basic programming constructs (loops, conditionals, print statements). It's like writing down the alphabet - you should be able to do that without thinking. I have seen many developers who fail to do that.