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PID is a fairly simple concept. It's a way to control a process to reach a certain target value. So for example it might be used in an oven to drive the heating elements to keep a specific temperature.

The way this works is by summing three different properties of error in varying quantities, where error is the difference between your actual value and the target value. So in the oven scenario the actual temperature might be 60c, with the target being 220c. Then the error is 220-60=160.

The different properties are:
- Proportional: This is simply the error multiplied by a preset constant.
- Integral: This is all the previous errors summed together and multiplied by a preset constant.
- Derivative: This is the speed of change in error multiplied by a preset constant.

By tuning the P, I, and D constant you can change how your controller reacts to error.

P simply tries to drive the system towards less error, more P equals a faster system, but might lead to overshooting the target and oscillating back and forth.

I tries to correct for constant error. In the over example that might be heat leaking away. Too much I can lead to "windup": Any amount of error causing a long-lasting over-correction, causing overshoot again.

D tries to dampen the system. Increasing it leads to a slower response and less oscillation.

The way you generally tune these is by starting with all the constants set to 0. You then increase P until it starts oscillating. Then you increase D until it stops oscillating.

For most systems leaving I set at 0 is good enough, but in case your system never reaches the target value you can start increasing it until it starts overshooting. Note that any amount of I will eventually force the system to the target value. It's only a question of how long it takes.

I hope that helps.
Have you tried spoofing the Referer to the target URL? That's an option in Firefox too, in case a Referer is needed.

I have referer completely disabled. It's nice.
As I recall, credit/debit card transfers require much less electricity than cryptocurrency, so if environmental impact were your real concern then you would be arguing against cryptocurrency.

Or you would be arguing that the social benefit of cryptocurrency is worth the environmental damage, rather than simply pointing out that other industries also cause environmental damage.

FWIW, I believe the lead mining industry contributes much more to environmental pollution than the (non-artisanal) gold mining done in South Africa at mines like this. Oil and coal as well.

As it stands, it feels like you are using the plight of 950+ miners, and the lack of sufficient backup systems by the mine operators, as a rather stretched blame avoidance technique. Repeating what I wrote earlier:

"It's kind of like saying that I shouldn't complain as much about my neighbor's dog pooping on my yard since after all pig wastes cause much more air pollution and environmental damage. "

Or do you think that cryptocoins can substitute for gold, with an overall reduction in environmental damage? If so, how?
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> so we see that you really get "frontend" in 2017

You might want to update this to 2018 ;-)
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Referrer

A stock Firefox can tune the referer behavior through about:config, including completely disabled or spoofed to the target URL.
This is largely the part of independent contractors and subcontractors. Contracts go to the companies good at winning contracts, not necessarily the best company to do the job. The contractor takes an obscene profit for providing no value and then subcontracts the project to various subcontractors who may or may not employ actually qualified and skilled engineers.

The government employees managing the contract typically do not have the expertise to evaluate the project or write proper specs. The HealthCare.gov contract was a mess of incompatible buzzwords.

The engineers have no vested interest in the project as they're only there to complete that contract and they're so many levels removed from the government agency that no one actually knows who they are so it won't reflect poorly on them when everything comes out poorly.

Because their career doesn't really depend on the success of the project, as the government gets blamed for contractor failures while contractors get the credit for success, they don't really need to do more than meet the specs. A better way to do this would be to expand the number of engineers within the government through groups like 18F and USDS, and give preference to them over private industry.

Private contractors rarely work, but even when they do it's only when you have expenses that the government doesn't need (such as contracting a machine shop or car manufacturer to build something with their preexisting infrastructure). In software though, your only expenses are really your engineers and the cloud (as no one needs to run their own data center). The only thing subcontractors can do that the government can't is pay their employees more than the GS scale. However because the contract is supposed to be cheaper than the government just hiring employees themselves (as industry has "profit motive") they're going to have to cheap out elsewhere, either by hiring fewer developers or neglecting parts of the development.

All of this is solvable by Congress, simply boost pay flexibility, but there's no political motive to fix it as all of the contractors are political donors. As a result, government software sucks.
I've symlinked everything and I got it to start (at least the welcome dialog).

After that, it just crashes with an assertion. It seems that has to do with missing or wrong configs, but there's not much else to be found on google. My configs are present and look fine.

Also, only rpm based distributions are officially supported, but a lot of people hack around that to get it working on Ubuntu (like me).
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I know they don't use SSD due to cost and it's probably excessive performance for their needs. But I wonder how their costs compare when you factor in the density and energy efficiencies. You could fit a lot of silicon in the space a storage post has for 45 3.5" drives. I found their 2014 blog post about a 500PB new datacenter, and their recent 2018 post is about crossing 500PB. So does storage per sqr/foot ever matter or is it just better to get another DC?
I think, again, you're agreeing with me.

There's no need to let people suffer because the market has judged their labour now to be worthless. That's what charitable support is for.

But arguing that we shouldn't let the market deem someone's labour worthless is like arguing that we shouldn't let physics determine g to be 9.8ms2.

It is 9.8ms2, just like the value of a skilled buggy whip maker is now $0/hr.

The question in both cases is, now what do we do about it? Presumably, we give to charity to support the buggy whip makers, and we build our buildings such that gravity doesn't cause them to come crashing down.
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If the TCO / TB is lower, then it doesn't matter if they fail more often, it's already factored in.
Likely, after the first calibration you could keep moving around and updating your location, so as long as the system doesn't go down you always know your (relative) position as you travel through the galaxy.
And what would you recommend instead, then?
>This is because the portfolio strategy (1 hypergrowth + 20 failures) is the best strategy from the VC perspective.

Duh? You say that as if it should be considered surprising. It would be surprising if it were an irrational preference, not a completely rational preference.

The real question is why the economy is geared towards such an uneven distribution of returns. I don't think it's a law of nature (e.g. economies of scale) because for pretty much all corporations there are massive diseconomies of scale that offset that. You just have to work at one of them to see how manifestly inefficient they are, and yet they still dominate and investors still exhibit an exceptionally strong preference for them.

I think may be an artefact of the American tax and legal system which allows the use of size and wealth as market leverage to an extreme degree. Investors prefer to see one big Uber/Microsoft/Google over a hundred smaller Uber/Microsoft/Googles because that one big company, can legally use its size to crush smaller, more efficient competitors and thus achieve monopoly or oligopoly power which it can safely use to wring profits out of customers without fear of being undercut.

If the legal and tax system cracked down on this phenomenon instead of covertly encouraging it (e.g. with stuff like tax holidays for Apple) I think VCs would probably adjust their preferences accordingly.
In all seriousness: why should we care what ad companies want? Mozilla makes a browser, not an ad platform. Advertisers may have to adapt, but that's their problem.
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> Americans are mostly goddamned idiots who hate nice things

> their single-family home

maybe they just like single family homes.
Great resource, thanks a lot! I think this is really the stuff you can't learn in high school education and have to learn by yourself. There our teachers are native Germans as well and while they are probably better than the average second language English learner they can't be perfect either.

In Chinese the "x" would be pronounced like that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiceless_alveolo-palatal_fric...

So not really a "sh-" either, but English doesn't have that sound at all I believe.
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A fun discussion on characterizing the motivations of gamers is "Engines of Play: How Player Motivation Changes over Time" [1]. I'm not hugely in love with the sorts of models, he builds, but any sort of structure is useful for kickstarting your thought.

The big win in that talk, though, was that he introduced me to Self-Determination Theory[2]. A very convincing theory on motivation. It's introduced in the talk at 38:05.

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Once self-driving cars are proved to be able to support the entire population at reasonable levels of safety, privacy, efficiency, reliability, etc., over a long enough period of time (I'd say a couple decades), I would accept the _beginning_ of a conversation about only allowing self-driving cars (even then the only sane thing is to have specific areas like certain highways devoted to self-driving cars). Unfortunately, I don't really see how that can be proven without them actually doing it. If self-driving cars require 100% penetration before they are viable they are and should be dead in the water. I will not support the dismantling of our main transportation network on a pipe dream.

The government has many ways to ensure that public roads are utilized more efficiently. A first step could simply be to increase taxes on gasoline (with increased equivalent taxes on electric cars). This would decrease the roads' utilization. They could also increase road-usage taxation that increases at higher levels of utilization. There are also many other actions that can be taken and none of them require a 100% conversion to an untested complete electric fleet of vehicles.
Why do you think seat belts are mandatory? Apply the same reasoning to your question.
The fact that all your other examples are heavily legally encumbered should be a hint that your explanation is missing something. Ads aren't just valueless middleman enterprises for those purchasing them: they provide concrete competitive advantage. Their existence is negative-sum, for sure, but they're still individually rational decisions, in a local sense.

It's simply a collective action problem, in which there's a global equilibrium that is effectively unreachable (outside of legislation, which has its own complications in the case of advertising because of 1A protections).
This is already possible via iframes, check out braintree payments for example.
> they finally get rid of that completely unnecessary advertising for AT&T

Which makes me think, is it easy to know what operator you are connected to? I live on a border, and it's important to know whether I'm on a French antenna or a Belgian one.

I know it's an edge case and most people don't need that, but I'm curious and I can't really find screenshots of it. Actually on the screenshots I find you can't even know if you're connected on 4G or not, which matters as some operators here only allow unlimited data on 4G.
Thanks! I also installed it on Ubuntu and got at least far enough to attempt to import footage so I guess I dodged whatever bullet you ran into. Doesn't sound encouraging, all the same.
> The only alternative is forcing people to do it.

Yes, this is a pretty common position: govt charity funded by taxes is precisely forced charity, which many people are in favor of (myself included).
Writing them likely would open up a can of worms, not resolve things. You are making a mistake to frame this as something that cannot be resolved without their cooperation. You need to deal with your end of things even if they never speak to you again, even if they die in a car wreck tomorrow or turn out to be a sadist acting with malice aforethought who has no desire to resolve anything. Let me suggest you instead do one or more of the following:

1. Journal as a way to sort your thoughts and deal with your feelings.

2. Figure out how and why things went wrong as a means to learn from it so you are less likely to go through this again. Fear of being hurt in the same way is a huge obstacle to moving on. The best antidote is to learn from the experience so that is unlikely.

3. Pursue a creative outlet, like music, art or poetry, as a means to fully express the depths of your feelings about the matter.

4. "Forgive" yourself. Most people are raised with either a shame or a guilt model and really beat themselves up when things go wrong. The reality is that life is a growth experience. You aren't going to have all the answers, all the time for everything. Accepting that and dealing gently and compassionately with yourself is one of best things you can do to help you move on from social drama.

Best.
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I try to avoid Yahoo when in 2017 they unplugged the Yahoo Finance API overnight.

Millions of users have relied on Yahoo Finance for years, and it broke a lot of projects, including mine. In my view, Yahoo alienated all of these users, and I will not trust them again.

Bit of a melodramatic tangent on my part, but I wouldn't put it past them to not put much (or any) thought into their older services.
If they hadn't sold it then should they sell it now?
I'm thinking a general increase in income tax (won't happen though sadly enough).
They're hooking the scroll events, running JS for 200ms+ in the handlers, and then trying to add some animated effects on top

Urgh!
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Thank you for that explanation!

To me it sounded very much like Limburgs dialect (specifically Kerkraads dialect) "adieë wa" (only first part, but sometimes the second part is omitted anyway) [1]

English Wikipedia also has an entry for the company Adyen, btw [2].

[1] https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groet_(etiquette)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adyen
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But it lowers resale value. People don't like patina on their cars, either.
Right. That's exactly what I wrote in my comment above.
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Seconded, that's a great book.

Also, Hennessy was also one of the minds behind the MIPS architecture.
> Why is the phone made of glass if nobody is ever going to see it?

For being a radio frequency transparent, premium material?
But has it been designed by Apple in California by Jony Ive?

That's what I thought.
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From the first moment I heard this story I believed it was mass hysteria and I haven't seen anything that changed my instinct on that. Now, that's just one man's completely baseless opinion.

What's been interesting is that everyone I have said it to (this is in real life) has reacted the same way: defensive, cross, irritated. As if they had a stake in the outcome. It was a stronger reaction than "meh"...it was an angry response.

I think people find something deeply distasteful about the concept of mass hysteria.
Whaaat? Invented? More like creativity following acts like the Velvet Underground or Plastic Ono Band.

Roxy Music music is actually pretty slick, but I point out that there have been others before them in the business of art pop / avant garde.

Actually, if you examine their influences, it is more like evolution of a theme in arts and music.
Excited to see this. Hope it gains some traction.
I'm the better part of 40 and I still don't know what I want to do. I've drifted through life from one thing to another with no direction, focus, or interest.

Like you I've tried many things (though mine are probably more extreme at a guess) but after a while I lose interest.

Depression has dogged me all my life like a bed-fellow, and that my friend sounds a lot like what you are experiencing. My depression stemmed from the seeming pointlessness of life.

Ive come to realise it is pointless there's no grand design, no reason, no meaning; it just is. So I just am. Nearly 40 years and I'm pretty happy with this; nice house, beautiful wife, two wonderful children, a job where I make a difference (to people's lives not some boss's bottom line) even if I don't really like a lot of the baggage that comes with it.

Rather than spending all day reading Reddit try some books. Buddhist philosophy (zen), daoist philosophy (Dao De jing, Zhuangzi), stoic philosophy (quite popular these days).

Maybe it helps and maybe it doesn't.
Just a guess: In priciple, yes, but it wouldn't be very practial. Because of noise sources on earth, one would need very big antennas pointing to the pulsars to get good s/n ratios.
Additionally, as x-rays are blocked by the atmosphere, one would be limited to longer-wavelength pulsars, again increasing the size of the antennas.
Given that, using GPS, we already have a positioning system much more accurate, I don't see why one would use pulsars for positioning on earth.
I see what you meant now. Though it seems you are mixing notions of anonymous function and function as an argument of higher order functions (it doesn't have to be anonymous).
> I still wish there was a smaller iPhone

I upgraded to an X from a 5. The screen real estate really allowed me to not to turn on my computer at some nights, which I consider as a plus. I just read what I want to read, and reply a bunch of e-mails, then put it off.