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I would treat anecdotes like this being equivalent to anecdotes about not wearing a seatbelt.
> The main problem with "other toolkits" vs Electron apps is that they are not as simple to use in order to create a very good looking UIs.

What Electron apps are good examples of ones that look very good? Slack and VS Code both look fairly bland, and Spotify is a bit of an over-energetic mess, at the moment.
in my experience, 4 out of those 5 minutes is a result of apple changing the requisite number and configuration of display adapter dongles every 2 days, with the other 1 minute resulting from from wifi network access policies being innane in most building common areas
Round Robin Scheduling Program in C
I agree with you that it's fun to tease IoT projects, and that implementations generally are shitty and unsecure.

But do you really, truly believe that the world 100 years from now will not consist of massively connected devices? Can you admit, honestly, to yourself that the preferred method to turning on lights in 2118 won't be a voice command?
... My resume is terrible, but I'd rather bring it than a PowerPoint presentation about my life even if it was a million times worse.
People struggle with things that actually matter, or put their character in the spotlight. I've found most people will do everything they can to avoid conflict, which is bad because it means problems don't get resolved. Worse yet, some people such as myself won't correct behavior unless they get explicit feedback. I really effing hate how most people's way of dealing with conflict is through covert aggression; it's insulting because it suggests I'm not capable of arguing like a grown adult, and I'm left to interpret an issue that might just be in my head. I assume people do this for similar reasons to why they won't explicitly apologise for wrongdoings.
Love how the top comment on the successful first launch of the largest rocket since the Saturn V (with 1337 points at the moment) on a site called "Hacker News" devolves into a discussion about identity politics. Maybe we need some kind of variant on Godwin's Rule so that this doesn't happen so predictably.
Also, as she starts saying "We are waiting to hear what happens", he says "Scratch that...".
There's a bit of a trope about how in history everyone died in their 30s from war or disease.

http://www.hormones.gr/211/article/article.html concerns Ancient Greece, so not primitive. But, I think you should be cautious about declaring primitive people as having their lives markedly shortened by waterborn pathogens; at least cautious enough to be able to cite some strong evidence?
In many parts of the world you should be wary of drinking from a stream if you don't know the area well, but unfortunately a filter won't help: the water may have been contaminated by a mine upstream, but filters can’t remove mining byproducts.
The recommendation of using incognito is to demonstrate he could access his own data without the appropriate session.
It depends on the culture. Also worth nothing: some cultures make this effectively impossible.
Blazor: a technical introduction
"That core booster approached the platform as planned, but it unfortunately hit the water going 300 MPH and was lost, because some of its return engines failed to light"

https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/06/spacex-landed-two-of-its-t...
The question of intent would be about the access only (i.e. "did you intend to access data without authorization"), and does not extend to further motives of why you would be doing such access.
for the amount of money spent on getting it there and maintaining it, and because we are keeping it understaffed for safety reasons, we are getting very little return on it.
AWS Introduces Ongoing Replication for SQL Server RDS
Elon Musk's Space Tesla Isn't Going to Mars. It's Going Somewhere More Important.

> The Falcon Heavy launch would place the Roadster into a heliocentric orbit, meaning that like the planets and comets and so on, it will be orbiting the sun. More specifically, the Muskmobile will go into a type of heliocentric orbit called Trans-Mars injection, which it is the easiest and least energy-intensive way to move objects back and forth between Earth and Mars.

https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/moon-mars/a16571489/e...

The Roadster will not interact with the planet Mars in any way.
possibly, the ice could form a high-pressure metastable phase

edit: don't forget to consider temperature as well as pressure when discussing stability
it's in orbit around the sun:

> Following launch, Falcon Heavy’s second stage will attempt to place the Roadster into a precessing Earth-Mars elliptical orbit around the sun.
Easy, inexpensive, lightweight and effective. With many things, you'd have to choose only between two or three of these attributes, but with water filtration, there are — practically speaking — no drawbacks.

Given this, it's a total no-brainer to err reasonably on the safe side when it comes to natural water sources, in my opinion.
Whatever happened to businesses making money?
@$#%^%# light pollution everywhere. turn down those %$%@%# lights so we can see the ^#@&^^% stars.

(...yes I do know it is the ol Sol)
maybe to those poor the current system was the best available way of making money? if it wasn't, surely they would find something better. have you asked them whether they were actually exploited or did you just assume?
Why exactly is “good looking and charismatic” a bad thing? To be a good host you need to (should) be charismatic, that’s literally the job.
Yes. So because few people are about it, it's irrelevant? I don't think so. Most people also don't care how their device works, or basically anything that's not their area of expertise. Are all those irrelevant too?
The way I remember it, Facebook removed customisation, giving users one good page design. In Myspace people had to think about what tiled wallpaper and brutally large sound file to include in their page. Seconding everything shafyy said.
There is a big need for open API for internet of things. Currently, each company has proprietary protocol for talking to their gateways or service. Which means need to have separate app. Can integrate with IFTTT, Google Home, or Alexa, but those need integrations for each service.

Open API would allow the open source home automation systems like Home Assistant to have integrate with the services. Or make easier for Google Home and Alexa to control the open source systems. Or apps that control devices and gateways from different companies.
Falcon Heavy core booster lost at sea
If this hedges and mild way of pointing out implicit bias is a "hammer", then what exactly do you think is polite enough?
> But with [...] x86 or x64 PCs, you can replace the stock OS and repurpose the device on the hardware's own remaining merits.

That's exactly the point. You know all the bazillion things that people usually do with their Raspberry PIs? An old PC can do all of that, and often much more. My old PCs are used for:

- HTPC (Home Theatre PC)
- NAS (Network Attached Storage)
- Retro gaming (this is the same box as the HTPC)
- Network-wide ad-blocker (same box as the NAS)
- Print server (same box as NAS)

Now back to the iPad. I am thinking to repurpose my old iPad Mini as an external screen using Duet Display (I would use it as a GPS display in a flight sim cockpit) but in general finding purpose for an old iPad is much, much harder than a desktop PC.
My constructivist explanation is as follows (I imagine talking to my grandmother):

1/ You are currently using a bank where they increase your balance when you deposit money, decrease it when you withdraw money or transfer it to another account. This money is printed by the Treasury Department.

2/ Many people with interest in cryptography and general society issues started to think about how people could make direct money transactions without a financial organization acting as a broker and without another centralized organization printing the money.

3/ Now imagine you have digital money stored in your mobile phone, USB storage, or hard drive. If you send this money (represented as files) to someone, it is obvious you can copy this money and also send it to someone else. This is the DOUBLE (or multiple) SPEND PROBLEM.

4/ A lot of smart people tried to find alternative solutions to this problem without success.

5/ In 2008 an anonymous person called "Satoshi Nakamoto" published the first known solution to this problem (under certain assumptions):

5.1/ People share a common file where they append the new transactions observed. In this way they know if money sent from person A to B was already spent.

5.2/ Now we have the following problems: (i) if there are thousand of people doing transactions, they need to communicate the transactions to all members of the network and it takes time until it propagates to everyone, so A can send a transaction to B and very quickly send a transaction to C with the same money, when B knows about the second transaction, and C knows about the first, both know that A spent the money twice but they already accepted the transactions and (ii) they don't know for sure which one comes first.

5.3/ So, we should decide who can propagate the transaction to remove this problem and give an incentive to them. We will call them miners. The protocol agreement will send new printed money to these miners plus fees that the people can add as an extra incentive.

5.4/ To decide who mines transactions (we don't need to talk about blocks) miners should find a solution to a mathematical function that requires trying a lot of numbers, one by one. The one who invest in more powerful devices solves the problem faster and earn more money.

5.5/ Now we have an extra problem, what happen when many miners find the the solution to the problem and one have a transaction using the same money from A to B than from A to C? Miners keep adding transactions as fast as they can and the longest chain of transactions wins. There are some statistics that show that when we see a transaction from A to B we need to wait until the chain has a certain length to be sure than a transaction from A to C never happens. Every person (node) in the network checks the same protocol.
Immediate mode graphical user interfaces have changed the way I look at GUI programming for the better.

Here are my bindings to python for the nuklear framework. https://github.com/billsix/pyNuklear
The investors in VC funds are called Limited Partners (LPs), as opposed to General Partners (GPs). LPs raise money from high-net worth individuals (HNWIs), funds of funds, etc.

Maybe what you read had some qualifier attached to it like across all VC funds "on average". With funds, the outliers are everything like with successful startups. Deal flow varies greatly by VC. A similar comment, and one that holds up, is that most startup accelerators have 0 "successful" exits.

Brad Feld's book Venture Deals [1] is a great reference if you want to learn a bit more from multiple perspectives.

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/Venture-Deals-Smarter-Lawyer-Capitali...
> Hang on, isn't fclose() tasked with flushing buffered I/O

You're not reading carefully. I never said fclose() flushes anything. Please go back and read what I wrote.

>> The FILE will be closed either way.

> That doesn't matter. It only matters in a resource-accounting way. The resource will be freed, but that program does the wrong thing (partial write, 50-50 whether write happens, whatever). fflush() can also fail. Logging can also fail, disastrously [...]

Yes, you are only confirming what I wrote. Again, please go back and read what I wrote; it seems you are not reading carefully and are very confused what I have been saying (and what you yourself were asking).

Here, I'll quote myself again. I said: "Destructors are meant to release resources, whereas finally/scope(exit) are meant to execute after prior operations in a LIFO manner."

You were surprised these are distinct categories and wanted examples of the operations that would need to occur in a LIFO order but which are not releasing any resources. I cited flushing and logging as easy examples of such operations. You then proceeded to object that fflush and logging can... fail? Yes, I agree; of course they can -- indeed that was half of my entire point as to why they are inappropriate for destructors/RAII, but appropriate for finally/scope(exit).

To repeat even more explicitly: both flushing and logging would need to occur in finally{} blocks, as they are not releasing any resources. In addition, neither of them is appropriate for a destructor, because these operations can fail, and destructors cannot propagate the corresponding exceptions. By contrast, closing a file needs to occur in a destructor, because is releasing a resource (which inherently cannot fail). And indeed, this implies fclose() would need to be called in a destructor and have its return value ignored, as it always succeeds in closing the file.
I don't get why it's distasteful that he launched his own car into space. It's his car and he can do whatever he wants with it. I get the stuff about wealth inequality but this is hardly the most egregious use of wealth
Yes I've read the paper. Advances in CPU microarchitecture alone have noticeably shrunk that gap. There have also been significant algorithmic advances in GC. For instance, a few simple prefetching hints speed up marking easily by 30%, and parallel marking scales almost linearly with core count, to mention but two simple performance improvements.

So like I said, maybe in 2005 a 3x memory overhead only incurred 17% slowdown, but 3x overhead is at least at par, and possibly even a little ahead, of manual memory management.
Thanks for the closure - I've been refreshing twitter all morning.

I've seen the much-touted $90M price-tag for the FH launch, but does that take into account loss of the core or boosters?
MDN is rapidly becoming Mozilla's core product to me.
A better analogy could be he was going to pick the lock and found the door wasn't even closed.

In either case, the intent of the individual was obviously to get into the system without their knowledge. Which sadly means they have the right to prosecute him in most legal systems.

Would he have been better off asking them first?
Funny, I started watching The Wire 2 days ago. Judging by this piece, it seems the claims to unflinching realism are warranted.
By your logic, every single bit of code that has passed through gcc is now GPL licensed.
Trying not to dismiss it, but IoT is, frankly, a total mess. Consider that:

- It's mostly done by companies that use hardware as a delivery platform for their cloud services, trying to vendor-lock you, in delusion that they'll be The Next Platform. This results in an extremely user-hostile ecosystems.

- Said companies develop IoT devices with little or no regard to security and protection of user data.

- The business strategy of tying everything into my butt means things are not interoperable by design. I don't see much incentive for IoT vendors to accept standard protocols that go against the core of their business.

- Now W3C wants to tie IoT into the web. The web is a total clusterfuck. JavaScript is not a language suited for this task, and its ecosystem is doubly not suited to working on this.

Maybe I'm just grumpy, old (by web standards; I'll be 30 this year) programmer who desperately tries to turn an unstoppable tide. One who believes IoT should stand for Intranet of Things. I can believe this is "work that can impact me in a big way". I'm not convinced this impact will be in any way positive.
Yeah he followed it up with "civil war on GPC", where he basically started to favor "DRM". This with the caveat that it was the owner of the computer that would have control of the keys, and frankly i do not see that happening.
To be fair, they would be calling shots either way, either by paying up to be a Founding member or if they couldn't do that, indirectly through their own market power which as the makers of their own browsers and chipsets for most of the hardware they move (and operating systems for all of their hardware), is substantial. Working as a "Founding" member is probably easier for everyone involved.
Air too..

Cheaply: Indoor water feature and ultrasonic fogging with electrochemically activated "acid" cleaning water.
As a guess; communication happens in a moment, but also over a time.

For example, I might have an apple and you might say to me 'give me your apple'. For me to distinguish between that being a 'request' or a 'demand', I need to observe what you do if I say no. If you try and take my apple by force, it was a demand. If you shrug and move on, or offer something in negotiation, it was a request. This is orthogonal to the fact it wasn't polite - it can be an impolite request. A lot of people can't distinguish a polite demand not backed by physical violence from a request, and that causes problems.

Similarly, for me the difference between an apology and say a status play is whether someone changes their behaviors meaningfully after they apologise. If behaviors do not change, it was just a status thing or some other form of insincere apology.

Another way is to make the apology conditional, which is really a form of polite demand (ie, demanding the conditional aspect of the apology with the threat of doing whatever the apology was for). This is subtle and can be quite manipulative. People sometimes recognise there is a problem but can't quite identify it.
The core difference between science-fiction and fantasy goes back to the philosophical debates about the nature of the universe in ancient greece, the difference between a mechanistic view of the Universe (which we have come to accept as the foundation of science) and a teleological view of the Universe. Star Wars has a teleologic view of the Universe, it's baked into the DNA of the material. "The Force", the light side, the dark side, being "strong in the force" based on your heritage, and so on. That's the foundation of Star Wars.

Star Wars is not science fiction, it is fantasy or mythology in a science-fictional setting. It is fusion cuisine.
You might, but there are plenty of examples of first Silicon working, the trick is to spend a lot of time on getting your simulations right.
It's going into a heliocentric orbit, and people will surely be tracking it.

If it gets to be a problem in the future, it will have so much historical value that someone will launch a mission to go fetch the Roadster and bring it home to Mars.
Check this out https://www.w3.org/TR/wot-security/
Raises some interesting secondary questions; Did the starman dummy contain telemetry? At lift off? Now? If I were SpaceX this is a good way to test your spacesuit, actually in space, if you instrument the dummy its on. Pressure sensors, temperature sensors, G sensors.

Do they turn off the camera if its about to fly by something that would rather not be seen?
This may be: http://www.businessinsider.sg/netflix-has-300-million-viewer...

With 80% on a "big" device.

I also watch videos, but "video" is not a movie or series. Video sounds more like 15 min. max and/or not "cinematic".
I think that VR does give you an edge when you want to grasp the size of the object.
there's also ocaml-vdom[0] which i've been enjoying using for a side project - it's built on top of lexifi's gen_js_api[1] and while a little bare-bones right now, is pretty easy to extend with the bindings you need.

[0] https://github.com/LexiFi/ocaml-vdom

[1] https://github.com/LexiFi/gen_js_api
> somehow manages to get bogged down

Your view that these issues are superfluous and can bog things down is a direct function of your privilege (granted by your being white and male, for example).

Your irritation is also an example of white fragility.

You don't have to believe any of this stuff. But could you consider a scenario in which your ability to freely enjoy these things is not freely enjoyed by someone of a different race or gender as you?

If you don't want to consider it, that's your choice.
"Normal" people also don't care about TCP\IP or HTTP or HTML or image formats or any of the detail that makes the web or the internet generally work. It's a pointless argument.

"Normal" people do care about their videos starting fast with high image quality. AV1 will deliver them that and deliver it better than H.264 has done. This is true whether they know it or not, whether they care about it or not.
Elon Musk just confirmed in a press conference that the third core was lost; two of the engines that should have slowed it down failed to re-ignite and it came in too fast. I predict either success or a more interesting failure on the next flight.
> It is, however, a terrible page for attracting new developers and selling decision makers on the idea of using it.

Would that be attracting people that are worth attracting though? Just like in business, not all customers are worth having.
Falcon Heavy is 1/10th the cost of other heavy lift launchers, and able to launch 10x (or more) often, with a higher payload. This is no baby step.
It is probably the fastest/highest burn they've ever tried to land, and thus needs the most fuel to land, expeirences the most structural stress, etc. etc.
$1.99BN was accrued over previous years from stock-based compensation. This is very standard for companies in the year they IPO.
Your problem is treating this as an emotional exercise in team loyalty rather than an engineering problem. Even Apple has finite resources so it’s unlikely that they’re going to spend time on something which duplicates but does not improve existing functionality. The number of people with a large collection of videos which are only available in VP8 just isn’t large enough to justify the investment.
This is a bit of a tangent, but does anyone here know if there exists a JS implementation of Ocaml's Graphics [1] module? I sometimes use Graphics for quick-and-dirty native visualizations, and it would be kind of nice if there were a straightforward way to re-purpose them as Web-based visualizations.

[1] http://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/manual-ocaml/libref/Graphics.h...
Thank you for the explanation.

A close relation is a firefighter, the one thing that sets him apart from everybody else that I know is that he religiously powers down (as in: unplugged) all consumer electronics before leaving the house. Now, obviously, that is a job related thing, he's seen more than anybody else that isn't in the firefighting business what causes home fires. But if I had had a computer light on fire in my house I probably would switch it off when I'm leaving, and you are making me wonder if that wouldn't be worth it for my home system (which is normally on for years on end).

I do spend a lot of time keeping the power supply and the airways dust free, that's one reason computers overheat.
Is there XMPP XEP for controlling devices? The "things" section of that site is empty. Need standardized messages for controlling devices. That is what HTTP Web Things API provides. The Web Things API could probably be adapted to XMPP. But HTTP has taken over the world.
So what you’re saying is since Google has manipulated the environment so that Google’s preferred codec is the most used on Google‘s website, which happens to be the largest video site on the Internet… that means Google’s codec is better.

If we ignore YouTube, which Google controls to their own benefit, what’s the percentage of WebM/VP9 versus H264/H265?
Well, yes and no - the Mac SE had a really tiny screen, native resolution was 512x342[1], which I would say is pretty small for composing text of any length on (though I wrote plenty of undergrad papers, including a 110 page thesis on mine).

1: https://everymac.com/systems/apple/mac_classic/specs/mac_se....
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> 2. On the performance side, we don't know the complexity of the codec yet. And on the cost side, HEVC is going to be more expensive by definition, due to being an rent extraction scheme.

The codec is still years away from being widely adopted. Its encoder is still highly unoptimized, to the point of it taking tens of seconds to encode a single frame.