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But this is solvable! You are the one claiming it's too complex then refusing to use the well tested solutions...

>You have insanely long paths, and that's still miles away from a reasonable limit (256 bytes) but still complaining.

Because that's just the path to a folder, that still doesn't contain any data! unpack an archive from a server in one, and suddenly poorly written software is blowing up because someone used a GUID as a folder name, or there is software running there that assumes "why would paths need to be less than 60 characters!?" and nests files into a bunch of folders using the filesystem as a tree of hashes.

I think the problem here is that these aren't imagined problems, they are problems I've run into in the past year or so. The difference between this and your strawman arguments is that there are solutions to all of those problems as well, but for some reason you don't see them as superfluous.

I don't know why I let myself get roped into a pointless internet argument. "You clearly lack experience with low-level issues"? Man I'd love to see how you determined that from a few comments about file paths...
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Because since Windows 9x they’ve had the same patterns and figured it was now or never. Windows 8 went a little too far, but 8.1 was generally well received, and is a very solid OS.
A similar argument is commonly used with red light cameras: they remove the discretion of the officer, and can remove important context. Especially if they only capture a single frame.
Information asymmetry is a key concern that you have hit upon.

Will a manager release truthful aggregate information, such as averages and standard deviations so that individuals can see for themselves how they stack up against the group? Will this information also be correlated for height, weight, and other physiological parameters?

Or will a manager selectively hoard and release specific pieces of information to create fear, uncertainty, and doubt in the minds of the workers in an attempt to squeeze out more productivity?
I don't find that to be an apt analogy. Tax avoidance is more like abusing coupons. Someone else is effectively paying your share, but the company can't shut it down because customer would complain or it could hurt the business overall. Eventually the business is forced to raise prices and everyone deal with coupons just to get a decent deal.
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For home use, is anything more sophisticated than Google Docs?
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Anything that we purchase often (tea, etc) is easily done. But we also manage all our shopping carts via Alexa (digital and physical).
The title is insanely reductive. You could just as well say (assuming that cancer research funding is the issue with finding a cure--which is a highly debatable assumption) "The government could cure cancer by adding just two significant digits to this number (annual spending on cancer research)!"

In other words: the size of the light switch is not proportional to the illumination provided.

Also, those 80% of my computer's resources sitting idle are saving me battery hours and money off of my electrical bill, thank you very much.
Probably a bit of both. H.264 hardware encoding is generally available, but it's more used for real-time communication (Skype, etc) or places where software encoding isn't viable (mobile devices with power limitations) than for reference-quality encodes.
>> However, it is admittedly enjoyable for me to read about Indian history and ancient science.

I am with you on this one.

I have read Mahabharata, Ramayana and Bhagwad Gita ( one of my favorite works ) along with many foreign as well Indian vernacular works. I merely seek to use the teachings/lessons taught in our ancient scriptures so that I can live a wholesome life and find ways for the betterment of my family and my society.
It hurts me that some of my well educated fellow countrymen quote these texts to spread pseudo science and sometimes even hatred for others.
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> allowing IKEA to escape vast sums of taxation globally.

At the cost of not being able to access it at all anymore!
Yes, the h.264 and hevc reference implementations are also terribly slow and alternative implementations with performance optimizations, tradeoffs and additional encoding features were developed over long time spans.

The bitstream formats provide enough flexibility for the encoders to go beyond what the reference implementation does.

Software encoders provide the best quality, hardware encoders are kind of meh but do their job in a low power envelope.
Actually, my friend simply reverse engineered FedEx and UPS tracking numbers, then backtracked sequentially by ordering an iPhone every few weeks.

I say “simply” because it doesn’t require any of the infrastructure you mentioned, which is what the public typically associates with “alternative data.” It was actually quite impressive and novel at the time, and inspired other projects of mine.

I can talk about this now because (to my knowledge) it no longer works, though it did for a while. He was in charge of approximately $100M when he was working on this.
But then you decide to save your Libreoffice Impress presentation with lines in pptx and discover that after reopening your lines are gone. Then again, maybe I shouldn't save in pptx.
What is the point? Is it that not eating meat will significantly reduce likelihood of catching an antibiotic resistant bug? Like I implied I doubt this is true. Or is it that the problem would be greatly reduced if everyone stopped eating meat. I expect this is true but it is not going to happen.
>> Everyone will be getting
>> prescriptions for ADHD meds to
>> compete with the top performers.

We are already there and have been for years, for getting into elite universities. Perhaps not yet for warehouse or fast food positions.
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hard to fathom there's an entire generation of developers out there for whom this is entirely new magic. there's an entire class of problem and suite of (bad) tooling that they're having to grapple with to deal with things that simply aren't issues in statically typed languages.
> To be clear, there’s no question that Giardia lamblia, Cryptosporidium parvum, and various strains of fecal coliform bacteria—the waterborne pathogens responsible for giardiasis, cryptosporidiosis, and other diseases—can infect humans, with potentially serious health consequences. Yet research to date has failed to demonstrate any significant link between wilderness water consumption and infection with these threats.

So what vectors are there for those threats, if not unfiltered 'wilderness water'?
One data point? Are you sure most of the people you know were eating healthier than you?
Nope, just an iTerm2 feature.

Surprisingly there's nothing similar for Linux distributions - iTerm is for Mac only.
Yes I think they are not in the optimized mode right now, they are still creating the standard
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Nothing.

But people have trapped themselves in a corner. They refused to do the free upgrade, now the opportunity has passed, and they are left stuck on an older inferior version which is near EoL for no great reason.

So they just keep parroting poorly reasoned arguments, repeating conspiracies, or acting smug & superior for simply being contrarian.
It's held by a charity that doesn't have owners and no shares, there is nothing to buy.
Why don’t your npm scripts specify /bin/sh as the interpreter?
Turning this into pure reasoning over educated guesses is a nice twist on Minesweeper gameplay. What I want now from it is a way to be able to easily work out the logic "on paper".

So one thing I do is work everything out "as if" I placed a flag or or cleared a spot. I want to be able to put a ghost flag down so that I don't have to remember what the current state of the particular path I'm trying to rule out is.

Otherwise I forget about it the second I look away or it gets complicated.

I can't play sudoku without the ability to put in shadow options, or better yet, have the game do it for me. One can argue that the keeping track in your head is a worthwhile aspect of the game, I think it's not.
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Chocolate is actually a surprisingly good food, being one if the few providing carbohydrates, protein, and fats all by itself.

It’s obviously not advisable for a regular diet. But in a strNded-on-an-island scenario, you could easily survive on chocolate alone for years.
The built-in increase of difficulty proportional to new blocks is well known
I couldn't help but think of "Pigeon House" [1] in Stoneybatter, Dublin, renowned among the city's residents for the roost of pigeons that sit on its roof [2] waiting to be fed, and by the locals trying to avoid them.

https://www.dublininquirer.com/2017/11/15/in-stoneybatter-am...

https://twitter.com/ciarancuffe/status/689492575460421632
By the time the next US election comes around it's very likely this technology, combined with Lyrebird etc. will allow anyone to make [politician] convincingly say or do anything they like.

I can't make my mind up if this will make the current fake news / filter bubble situation worse, or if it will make it so bad that people learn to distrust any kind of digital media entirely.

I'm still not sure, given that the use of these tools for political gain seems inevitable at this point how we will actually verify a video is real in the near future.
> For Tesla auto sales couldn't you just look at tesla vin numbers?

You’ve definitely intuited some of the method, yes :). The rest of it entails:

1) how to get all VINs both authoritatively and legally,

2) how to distinguish between valid VINs and assigned VINs,

3) how to reverse the actual revenue projection from the set of all assigned VINs.

The first requirement is the hardest. Tracking self-reported VIN delivery from users isn’t rigorous enough. You could use an endpoint and scrape from it, but how would you do it legally and reliably?

The second requirement is also difficult. Assuming you’ve found an authoritative source for valid VINs, how do you distinguish which VINs are assigned?

Once you have those two, the third requirement is mostly straightforward. You can implement your own VIN decoder using public NHTSA documentation, map each VIN field to options and prices across models, and track sequential VINs using the distinguishing method of requirement 2 on the data you’re getting from requirement 1.

Naturally, there are other ways to do this that don’t involve VINs at all.
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Violates copyright, but the PR hit to Google would be substantial (tech company sues over street view photos posted by challenged individual using it as therapy).

Google owns the Street View data, so they’re under no legal obligation to pursue as they would if it was third party data they license.

Would be cheaper to bring the person on as a Google Maps evangelist.
The most interesting part of this is the author's fifth point:

a critical insight that I almost missed, because it was
buried in Appendix 2, (and a real surprise to me) was that,
“laid-off workers who went back to school were less likely
to have a job after they retrained than those who did not
go to school.” Wow. Talk about burying the lead.

(strange that he too is burying the lead)

This seems like the most depressing part of the entire article - you have people who go back to school/training, possibly get in debt in the process, and come out worse for it.
I have heard people claim this, but it is evident from their code this is the only way which they are comfortable to program. Insecurity and fear from reliance upon closure and other natural qualities of the language is not a strong justification for verbose bloated constructs lesser developers find emotional comforting.
That's not a consumer benefit in itself, but rather a cause of (1)-(3) and other possible effects in the future. It might well be negative in the end.
I agree with that, but 4:4:4 also means there's twice as much data.

I think you should be able to get away with using chroma subsampling for moving portions while allocating bits in data stream for stationary areas, without subsampling (by using some heuristics, perhaps.)

Chroma from luma techniques might be interesting in this context. https://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/daala/demo4.shtml
Pesticides overuse is also very common and that is the same class of problems, though it doesn't threaten whole humanity like antibiotics do.
The food industry maybe?
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> I'd love to see how you determined that from a few comments about file paths...

It's easy to see from the discussion. If you had ever thought about designing a filesystem or binary network protocol or kernel filesystem API or a C software architecture, you would not be so invested and instead turn to real problems.
I've wandered the Scottish Highlands for many years camping and using bothies never filtered water - mind you I mostly consume coffee or tea so maybe the small amount of boiling killed off any beasties. Mind you - I am fairly careful about where I get the water (check for any dead animals upstream, don't take water from anywhere that is obviously frequented by animals or people).

Meanwhile, my wife got a nasty case of cryptosporidium - GP suspected it was from a swimming pool!
If you want a more in-depth look at the book a quick google found me this on the first page results.

https://github.com/QSCTech/zju-icicles/blob/master/%E8%AE%A1...
Good for a student but try proposing this to an enterprise of 10k staff.
> Scientists have described dancing mania as a "collective mental disorder", "collective hysterical disorder", and "mass madness".

You can call it a disorder but it's also human nature. I can see this instance being classified as a modern outbreak: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fW8amMCVAJQ
Someone who doesn't want Windows 10 also likely doesn't want Windows 8. They are likely sticking with a non-supported Windows 7, and so I'm with Microsoft on this one. Personally, I'm hoping things like this drives more people to Linux to make it a truly valid alternative for average users.
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In most jurisdictions, some loopholes are legal to exploit while others aren't. Loopholes in tax laws are legal to exploit because it is not criminal to try and minimize your taxes. However, gaining unauthorized access to a system is criminal so exploiting loopholes is not legal. I think using loop holes in tax law should count as tax avoidance, but it currently doesn't.

During the Nuremberg trials the Nazis that stood accused actually unsuccessfully tried to exploit what was essentially loop holes in international law.
That strongly depends on the routing design of the web application. I could easily design a bad url-path that dicloses information that should be kept private...
This isn't just a way to find the slowest employees, this is a way to optimise the performance of all workers.

Consider if we have three employees. Person X is the fastest, Person Z is the slowest, and Person Y is somewhere in the middle. Consider how management will treat Person Y. For example, both of these sentiments are likely to be used by management to motivate/control Person Y:

"Person X is performing at a quicker rate than you, what can we do to close the gap"

"Don't be like Person Z or you're at risk of losing your job"

If you think that a company like Amazon will do nothing about mediocre performance, you're almost certainly mistaken.

To be honest, if these wristbands are introduced at Amazon, I will attempt to completely boycott Amazon until they're removed. I don't work at Amazon (nor do I ever intend to), but in my opinion the wristbands would be a step too far in reducing working conditions, and set a damaging precedent.
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Ok why not start donating 30% of your money every paycheck?

We are very generous with other peoples money

Not so much with our own
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The article specifically states that it concerns areas not trafficked by humans and pack animals.

The people in your linked article would likely still need to take additional precautions.
given libreoffice 6 and gdocs, or even office365, is MS Office still relevant ?
Do they actually expect governments and companies to buy a new Office license every 5 years?

Nope. They expect them to pay monthly per user with an annual commitment.

https://products.office.com/en-US/compare-all-microsoft-offi...
I don't see many people upgrading Windows in order to upgrade Office. Those, who are enthusiasts, that have to have the latest version, are on Windows 10 already. Those who are conservative and have older Windows edition, and will have similar attitude to upgrading the Office.

Looking around me, people are fine to run 2007/2010/2013, it seems I'm the only one running 2016.

What I see to be a worse thing than supporting Windows 10 only, is that for the retail/non-o365 version there is no install media. It is click-to-run only.
I think some people in this thread are confusing support and getting new features.
Just because windows 8 doesn’t receive office 2019 doesn’t make it any less supported as an OS.
This decision seems pretty normal to me.

I can imagine if you’re on windows 7, having the latest version of Microsoft office is probably not one of your concerns anyway
I have a 7 Plus, but mine has a cutout as well for the mute toggle that makes it more difficult to use. I consider this a feature, when I went without a case, one of my main gripes was that I could never control the state of the mute toggle. Now it never switches on or off accidentally while the phone is in my toggle.
If I 'globe trot' in person then I do so by bicycle. This may be the best way to actually travel rather than see the same airports and identical AirBnB's as everyone else. This has kind of informed my belief that Street View is pretty good - it is the same perspective and speed.

I also 'send my parents' to places I would like to visit in depth, I also talk to people from the place of interest who have moved to my area. This satisfies my intellectual curiosity and saves a lot of time moving around in tin boxes.

This has advantages with places such as Syria - I may only know two people from there but I can learn lots about the story those newsreaders 'assume' just by being interested and having time to chat to the friends I have.

One thing is that maps were a large part of my early career, for science and weather forecasting. Therefore I do know a lot of places on the map, usually from space and usually with awareness of the weather forecasting challenges for that location. Knowing where someone's town is helps with the 'oh it's lovely there...' conversation that follows. Same with holidays, name the location and I am half way there on what the weather is like right now.
You can audit the FPGA code but good luck auditing the bitstream and those tools are all closed. Even for a small FPGA this would be quite a task.
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That is precisely the concern.
I've worked on Office. There's a ridiculous amount of effort put into file format backwards compatibility. Someone I know had to consider Office 2007 compatibility when working on a feature within the last year.
A huge portion of people who think they need Office, don't actually need it. There are people in my office who are convinced that Office is the only way they can do their super basic spreadsheets, or type their letters.

Open Office has served me just fine for years now, and it would serve most people as well. For Word and Excel, at least.
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They're talking about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broiler
If you just want a heuristic, having one value is really useful. Polymorphism is rather rarely used anyways.
notty [1], although I believe it's dead currently.

[1] https://github.com/withoutboats/notty
I still use Microsoft Office 2010 at work and it does everything I need it to do. It if it was up to me I'd go backwards. Every newer version seems worse than the last for my use cases. I'm a scientist and I just need to crunch numbers in Excel and write papers in Word.
FWIW, here's a single-file terminal snake in Go: https://github.com/hoffa/snake
Organizing to protect someone other than yourselves sounds more like a political party.

That would be a reason to join the Democrats, Greens, Socialists, lefty Libertarians, or Communists, and a reason to avoid the righty Libertarians, Republicans, and Constitutionalists.
I have heard it the other way. Supposedly UV will kill germs in the top layer of a lake so you should use that water :)
So I'm addicted to the flavor of iodine tablets for nothing?
This is garbage. Idle cycle computing won't cure cancer.
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I'm surprised nobody build this Trump watersports video yet. The tool is probably still to complicated to use. There is a business opportunity.
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Heh, good on you for digging deeper. I think ultimately, the two were developed pretty much independently (Atomic and ContainerLinux), one from ChromeOS, and the other from Fedora / RHEL. They both prove the idea of a small container only os with atomic updates is a solid design to build a container orchestration system (k8s/openshift) ontop of. I'll still stand by the gist of my original comment though in that CoreOS was a thing before Atomic and they had a working P.O.C. before ostree was used to build an entire distro (such as atomic). Either way, we both learned something new so net win.
(squeeze delivered btw, thanks again)
I was just using php as an example. See stripes documentation for more info:

https://stripe.com/docs/stripe-js

https://stripe.com/docs/charges
xterm supports some graphics through Sixel rendering. Never saw a real use of this. On X11, some text browsers, like w3m render images on xterm by painting directly in the xterm window.
That does make sense, I was just throwing out a hypothetical (and poorly thought-out!) "carrot" that might be used to convince people to accept genetic modifications.

I don't know if any of the scenarios I've suggested are viable, honestly. Genetics is an extremely complex domain, and it isn't likely that we can create targeted effects on behavior without a host of unwanted side effects. My main concern is that if any of these things do become viable, there will be strong pressure from social planners and authorities to make them a reality. I hope that we are able to resist the temptation to revive eugenics and recast it as an engineering discipline.