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Taco Bell is a lifestyle.

Think outside the bun for a change.
There's lots of software that is still being used on machines running Windows XP, some aren't connected to the internet and others are -gasp- risking the lack of windows support (which was generously offered for nearly two decades.) exposing their photoshop to vulnerabilities. You can be pedantic and alarmist about my specific example and ignore the general point of software compatibility if you want I guess. IRL there are 3yr old dated, useless iPads everywhere and that's not the same with even most 5yr+ year old PCs (which would have the specs to upgrade to a new OS and not break your existing software, if you choose to do so)
Having seen this before firsthand (even when told it wasn't going away), I'd recommend you take a few moments to make copies of anything you might want in the future.
> other than shits and giggles, is there any value in having it there?

Nope.
I don't see how that's much of a credit boost to the Soviet failures the parent is referencing. The Apollo program had the same constraints of lacking modern electronics and not knowing many of the things we know today.
You said Bitcoin is valuable because it has use cases. I said it doesn't have use cases. That's an argument. As well, you're drawing a distinction between walking up to a craps table and putting money on red and logging on to a brokerage account and putting money on penny stock XXX. I see those as the same things. You've also used a post hoc definition of investment, one where if the bet is good it's an investment. You've also deferred investment to mean any 'financial scheme' but never defined financial scheme. I take issue with all these things.
It happens everywhere in the us. Don’t think Baltimore is an exception. The drug war has been a catastrophe.
To be fair, it's a pure accounting loss, not an actual loss (of money in the bank) for the business. So in that respect it doesn't seem unreasonable to do.
Actually FLAC and Opus support was added to the Core Audio / AudioToolbox / AVFoundation APIs in iOS 11.
Though the Opus decoder only supports raw packet decoding, i.e. you still need something to decode the container (usually ogg).

Also, FLAC file decoding is horribly slow - compared to the FOSS reference decoder -, because for some reason the whole file is scanned through on the first read when using the AudioFile APIs (AudioFileReadPacketData). (I’m gonna make a demonstration project for this and send them a bugreport tomorrow.)
Alternatively, when I contemplate a world where I need to apply firmware upgrades to my light switches, worry about having to set firewall rules for my front door lock, and ponder what will happen if my letterbox vendor goes out of business and turns of their server - the sheer unadulterated, mechanical simplicity of taking a piece of shaped metal out of my pocket, flicking a light switch and then closing my front door by inserting said pice of metal into a small hole is just so very, very attractive. The lack of cognitive load is just magical
Why are JavaScript programmers even relevant? Do they, as a group, have some desirable skill other than "will code for food"? At least successful C++ programmers HAVE to be decent-ish. The language is unforgiving.
> Keep in mind these are the same people whose comments you're reading on HN and the same people upvoting/downvoting whether or not your contributions are seen.

Yeah I'm just starting to realise this. Big disappointment.
They could notice weird things like these and sounds like they have done things like lookup the camera footage before to identify an issue.
I teach empathy/self-empathy in the context of nonviolence and apology has a lot to do with both.

One of the issues of apology is that it is too often used for and associated with humiliation or submission. It is also associated with status/power loss.

Once you learn how to apologize without any of these and without triggering the self-preservation alarms, it becomes very easy to apologize honestly, with compassion and understanding.

Growth happens through attempting and failing and sometimes succeeding. Many of these failures involve the feelings of others.

A sincere apology is invaluable tool In remaining on the same side and building sustainable relationships over longe periods of time.
Is it the situation that the workers show up, do their work, are treated somewhat fairly, and then depart for their home country again?
You say "recently" and then compare computers from 18 and 25 years ago. That's just about a generation in human years. The comment I replied to said, "For what it's worth, PCs are subject to the exact same slow decline". ARE subject, not WILL BE or USED TO BE.

"Mobile devices will catch up and stagnate too, sadly."

Uh, if they catch up to my point, then they will still be useful at 5 - 7 years, thus the opposite of stagnant.
This is a pretty dim and insulting view of the capabilities of taxi drivers. Take London black cab drivers for example. They have to basically memorize every street in London and the best routes to get from anywhere to anywhere, depending on time of day, events, weather, etc. I'm certain anyone capable of doing that would be able to learn how to do a wide variety of well-paying jobs.
Just in case:

http://opencircuitdesign.com/magic/
This was a test flight so they could send anything they wanted, so they did.
Maybe someday Firefox will finish implementing HTML5...
I got my iPad in May 2010 and it still works fine, including (amazingly), the battery. Except of course, the software has become useless. YouTube doesn't work unless I do special URL mangling in the browser, which crashes every 2 seconds anyways. The latest OS release is so old it's from the days when Apple had a YouTube app, which Google later shut off the API for.

I really feel it deserves a second life running some kind of alternate OS and can think of several uses for it, but last I checked there wasn't much of that happening.
JPMorgan IT department must be larger than the majority of SW companies out there
they sure looked like the same landing pad to me ... and the videos of 'each booster' all the way down seemed to be from the same booster to me.
Neither are as good as 99% of the tools available for development with HTML/CSS. Plus, with HTML/CSS, you can work manually on your project, without any special tool besides your browser, and see the effects you have on the layout in real time.

Delphi/Qt Designer look way worse than any HTML/CSS/JS GUI builder, too - along with having interfaces equivalent to what GIMP's is to Photoshop.
How about dat snow tho? Hope you made it home safe! :)
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Well, at least they can't come later and claim the price increased twofold in the meantime.
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My parents kept using their 1989 Mac SE to do most of their typed work up through at least 2005 (a job for which it arguably worked a lot better than many later machines, with simple predictable software and a fantastic keyboard).

Plenty of people used 7-year-old computers in 2000.
Live stream of the roadster in space is up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBr2kKAHN6M
It may not make headlines, but the knowledge we have gained about long-duration human health in space from ISS is utterly beyond price. For all its problems, that alone makes ISS worth it.
interesting that neither chrome or firefox network dev tools can/will show a response for the 'GET' request
We should also welcome pointing about the stupidity in assuming things always boil down to race/gender/sexual orientation.

It should be obvious that aesthetic stereotypes go far beyond race and gender. Here's 2 very stereotypically different white guys: http://ricerfiles.gizmore.org/images/20160629/28030-human-ha...
and this: https://i1.adis.ws/i/Superdry_com/NS_MP_Hoodies_hb_right?qlt...

But to some people, they only think in race/gender/orientaion terms. We should fix that.
Thing about IOT is it does two main things, informs, and/or controls.

For different people the advantages are going to be different, but for some people there's a lot of anxiety involved in whether they did or didn't do something at home before they left. You could argue IOT can reduce their anxiety and therefore it gives them a higher quality of life. But possibly they just find other things to be anxious about :)

We do IOT for farmers, it allows them to manage their crops far more effectively, saves them money.
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You seem to be misreading my point.

People who are abusive very often apologize for it. For example, men who beat their wives routinely apologize afterwards and even swear they will stop. But they don't. They escalate. The beatings get worse.

Habitual empty apologies don't constitute abuse per se. There are people with, for example, low self esteem who just apologize for everything all the time. This is annoying, but not abusive.

But abusive people who actually do terrible things also apologize a lot. However, they don't change and they don't make amends.

These are not people I want in my life.
Yeah but that’s kinda cheating
I agree that not every person who can't or won't accept your apology is toxic. My advice is: when a person you don't know well claims to have been offended by you, look for signs that the person just wants a fight. If that's the case, try to remove yourself before any more damage happens.

It's natural to want to apologize if you think you've hurt someone's feelings. Just be aware that some people are addicted to creating drama, and that may have nothing to do with you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karpman_drama_triangle
Not one you'd want to take advice from.
First flight of this vehicle configuration so it's a test flight. Most other test flights would just use a concrete mass simulator. Elon thought of something more interesting.
Wow, that's amazing to me. Maybe you are very young. But I wonder what kind of people are in your life. Although it depends what you mean 'genuinely'; maybe you rule out most apologies with that, e.g. "Sorry" for bumping into someone, inadvertently not giving them what they wanted, and other similar everyday apologies. (I do live with someone who hasn't learnt to apologize, in the way you describe. It often seems incomprehensibly inconsiderate.)
Mozilla's MDN is the only reliable place (outside of the w3c documents themselves) to get web documentation
Native apps like VLC can play WebM on iOS with software decoding, but as you say it murders the battery.

If Apple supported that in browsers I'd bet that Google or other companies would switch their video hosting over, much to the detriment of anyone who watches videos on an iPhone. It's an open standard so clearly they're doing the pro-consumer good thing!
Any difference between that and say fcitx?
New APIs will be part of the every 6 months feature releases. Which means if you aren't on the LTS, you need to stay up with feature releases to get security updates after 6 months.
The short answer is: no. You're talking about an entirely different mission profile, at far greater difficulty and at a radically greater cost.

You need an advanced robot, reliable, highly tested, constructed by the best rover engineers on the planet. You need to spend years designing the overall program. You need to deliver the robot safely to the surface of Mars. You need to operate the program at non-trivial cost for an extended period of time to then look for water etc.

Add a few billion dollars to the cost, basically.
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Hmm, they said heliocentric several times. But it’s a cool orbit no matter how you slice the the pork chop. Pretty sure this is intended to be similar to a “mars cycler” orbit. A “mars cycler” is an interplanetary space station which follows a sort of transfer orbit between earth and mars. This provides a cushy radiation shielded environment for interplanetary travelers and economizes on propulsion by leveraging gravity assist. IIRC some guy named Aldrin came up the gist of the design.
I'm not sure I understand what you mean.

For your "release resources" point: fclose() can fail, yet in fstream::~fstream() that must be ignored. So that's not great.

For your "execute after prior operations in LIFO manner" point... what is the purpose except to clean up resources? If it isn't about scoped resources, then what is it about, given that defer(...) is explicitly about scope? I mean, if "defer" wasn't about that, we'd just write a few more statements doing the thing and not bother with the whole defer(...) thing?!?
It reminds me of when I interviewed at Google.

At the end of one of my onsite interviews, while showing me out the door, the interviewer turned to me with a big smile and said "you really look like you fit in around here". I almost burst out laughing.

I guarantee he had no malice but I just found it funny for one tall, white dude with glasses to say that to another tall, white dude with glasses. And he was right, I did blend in pretty well.

You might argue that perhaps he wasn't referring to my appearance but rather my uhhh.... hand gestures while talking, but at some point you have to call a spade a spade.

I left without saying anything just because I feel awkward sometimes, but in retrosepct, I should have said something. He was so good-natured, I'm sure he would have genuinely appreciated me pointing out that certain people might find his words harmful.
Ooh, what keyboard? Does it have gesture typing, and is it better than gboard (Google's own), which is the worst I've ever used?
From the article:

>> It's to be expected that these cameras might have little impact on the behavior of police officers in Washington, D.C., he says, because this particular force went through about a decade of federal oversight to help improve the department.

Seems as though the D.C. PD didn't have many issues that needed correcting?
Goroutines are not the same thing as Go channels.
> it only has to look good, it doesn't have to drive.

After all, where it's going it won't need roads.
You mean like narcissists?
Apologies for being unclear, to elaborate ... IMHO cyber-security analysts could do much better in defining how they do their job in order to give people that are interested a path forward in developing the needed skills. To be clear, I'm not talking about the larger cyber-security profession that is mostly focused on setting and enforcing rules.
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You are correct. I'll fix my comment.
The point that Stallman, and the article, makes is that both the philosophy and practices of Free Software and Open Source are, in fact, different -- which, arguably, is why Open Source practices have met wide adoption in the industry, to the extent that Free Software philosophy and practices did not.

If you disagree, please state how your disagreement sees Stallman's argument (linked elsewhere in the comments) about the difference.

Specifically regarding practices: large corporations absolutely did NOT have large-scale software projects in which outsiders could both participate and benefit from via inspection and modification of source code more than 20 years ago. This is what Open Source is really about.
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I'd invite you to try to replicate the image on the left of the article, with the moon behind the cliff. Good luck.
I understand that viewpoint but I think the WebVR will be isolating(the normal web doesn't work) and lack uptake until, for example, github.com can be used directly within VR.

I don't believe github themselves will make a native client any time soon, and we shouldn't expect any other websites either.

Thus HTMLTexture seems critical.
I have seen that with an alcoholic I rented an office with. He would mess up, apologize profusely and soon mess up again big time. He definitely was a master at convincing apologies and I think he know it and used it. I think that qualifies as abusive. I have heard the same about people who beat their spouse.
>Sometimes I think I wouldn’t even hire myself :)

Don't let other's words shape who you are.
Google leads me to https://webofthings.org/ , "web of things", seems related to Mozilla's Gateway mentioned here, i.e. use http/www/internet to connect all IoT devices.

The web of things started in 2007, somehow it does not gain any traction, is this gateway using the same conception: https://iot.mozilla.org/wot/

Both are referring web-of-things and nodejs/json etc
On the pictures of the droneship the quite distinctive Inmarsat BGAN (which is in essence 3G bounced of geostationary satellite) antenna pod is plainly visible.

Edit: inside the pod is fairly high-gain directional antenna mounted on motorized positioner, but it is designed to track the satellite from slow (ie. ship) or predictably moving (ie. truck) platforms and certainly cannot cope with vibrations from the landing reliably. Man-portable BGAN terminals usually have fixed antenna and officially require quite lengthly positioning process (on the other hand it will work for some value of "work" when you just throw it into car trunk and park with trunk vaguely pointing to south, but you will be lucky to get reliable phone connection, not to mention video stream, in that case).
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Star Wars is not sci-fi, it's a cross between space fantasy and space opera. The list of better sci-fi movies is long.
This was a demonstration launch, so no paying customer. The alternatives are (1) sending a rock or (2) spending months and millions of dollars designing a spacecraft capable of doing something useful. Option 2 is out of the question, option 1 is boring :)
I wish Chrome apps for the desktop were more popular. Use the browser you're using anyways but on a thing that sort of acts like an application.

I installed the Netflix chrome app on my Windows PC. It's basically the Netflix webpage on a separate application window that doesn't have tabs or a search bar.
It's clearly not that simple. Barring an absolutely horrendous product, one can almost always purchase $100 of revenue for $105.
Hi, about Instagram, I was mistaken about 'heavy' use. As far as I know there is one guy using Reason in Insta and from what he's said, he's found it pretty straightforward. I don't have a direct link, but if you search for 'instagram' in the ReasonML Discord chat you will find the discussion.
I heard center core boostback burn shutdown
>its likely that its completely unusable off the machine thats running it and that there the author can't run it a month later (like grad student work)

That's possible, yeah. But I bet there are a lot of real-world lessons they learned in the process of building Realtalk (and previously Hypercard in the World) that wouldn't necessarily be apparent from a demo.

For that matter, we don't even really know what the user experience is like - most of the pictures I've seen aren't high-res enough to see what the code looks like. Even if they're open to tours (which it sounds like they might be), I live on the other side of the country.

I'm sure talking to Bret personally would be illuminating in that regard, but reading through the code and commit history can be illuminating in similar ways (doubly so if the authors were diligent about documenting things). Heck, even documentation on how to use Realtalk would be nice!
Most of our space travel challenges are caused by the size restrictions and cost associated with putting spacecraft into space. Currently spaceflight is still very much an aerospace (literally translated as airspace) problem.

In a theoretical world where we could just beam anything into earth orbit, unmanned interplanetary spaceflight would likely be an expensive hobby instead of something only governments attempt.
I don't think so. I do think some social environments are particularly bad about things like that. But it is really rare for people to be genuinely respectful.

A lot of genuinely nice people just never have it come back to them. They just keep getting taken advantage of. Everyone expects them to be "nice" in the face of terrible behavior. If they get fed up with it, they get accused of being in the wrong.

This seems to be tied to that thing I hate so much: pecking order. Apologizing doesn't signal you are decent, honorable etc. It signals you are low man on the totem pole. And it opens a door on horrible social crap. Good luck closing it once it is open. Best to just not open it.
Ah fair enough, the colour confused me.
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It's not going to mars. It is in an orbit that could go to mars if that was the desire, this is just a test. A silly, awesome test.
I think your first reference is to the Wason selection task:

https://puzzlewocky.com/brain-teasers/the-wason-selection-ta...
I had been to some NY local meetup like this before. That didn't work out well. AFAIR, probably two or three devs would be there to help answering questions like "how do you do this in Django" sort of thing, since a lot of people found face-to-face help valuable.

So what didn't go well even when there was a low volume of seekers? Say there was only five people seeking help, and two volunteers to help. If someone had a "good" question, the helper could be stuck by the seeker's side for a while. 1-1 model would be nice. If you were a frequent seeker, you could build a bound/friendship with a helper, so that helper would more likely come to help you since he/she would be familiar with your questions already. See the problem there? Then for the newcomers, they came in finding themselves lonely in the corner, desperately trying to get someone to help. Eventually I found some helpers like to spend time have causal talk with certain seekers, while spending much less time on others, which was very unfair to those who came to seek help.

IRC has both noise issue and focus issue. Too many chitchats going on in the background, and too many people trying to answer the same question (which is a great to see people are happy to help), but all end up arguing. So sometimes, I just message privately to keep the conversation healthy and productive.

Either way, for quick questions like "how do you do this" or "what does this error means", IRC/Slack/Discord/Stackoverflow works fine. Face-to-face is a better option for as long as there is an adequate helpers available and when helpers are discouraged from causal talk to avoid the Dining philosophers problem.
You’d have to pay - a lot - to develop the robot (and control its mission). There was a car already lying around.
> Also, space is big once you leave low earth orbit. It's really hard to actually understand how big it is.

In fact, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.
I think the suggestion was a separate but tethered unmanned platform, which would presumably have less vibrations. I would imagine it's just not cost-efficient for SpaceX, as they'll be able to recover the footage later regardless.
It is not a waste of resources. The car was built, it was used for its purpose. Now it is being sent out of the planet so you could argue that the overall amount of trash was reduced.

Also "Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space"
That's the shiniest Tesla I ever saw.

Makes more sense.
I thought laws still applied to minors, though the sentences are different. At least that’s how it is in the US.
You do know it's a living standard and they offer as much support as anyone?