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Technology is really beautiful for reasons precisely like this and I'm really happy that there are real life cases and stories such as yours to underline and define the most positive side. It'll never be talked about nor trotted out in defense of allowing things like this to happen but I'd be willing to bet there are many more stories like yours than the demonized stories you'll hear lawyers tell to explain the "seedy underbelly" and "plight on humanity" that pirating and torrenting cause.
I never denied that. However, second layer solutions are an afterthought in the Ethereum community. The Bitcoin community has been very vocal about solutions such as rootstock and Lightning Network being the preferred methods of scaling Bitcoin and adding new functionality.
Even in Norcal, Seasonal Affective Disorder is a thing.

I think your body just notices the (smaller) temperature and sunlight fluctuations.
Dissociation is a very good way to avoid trauma - that’s how I got through grade school.
To add on top of that sucralose is a sugar, just one where 5 oxygen atoms are replaced by chlorine.
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For major brands, yes. It sure makes it hard for little brands to get noticed, however, when the tradeshows go away. My dad has been in the bicycle business since the early 70s and I used to go to Interbike (the big tradeshow) with him. I remember when Timbuk2, the bag company, made its debut there. They were tiny but did something nobody had ever done before: the owner brought his seamstresses to the show and they sewed custom bags on-demand right there at the show. Everybody wanted one and they were minor status symbols at the show that year. That was a huge turning point for them and they got very popular after that.

This kind of exposure just wouldn't happen in the social media age, where everybody is trying bold, non-scalable antics to get attention, but it might work at a tradeshow--if they still exist.
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Definitely stuff like NSA-level telemetry and aggressive updates are bothersome. I was talking more from a programming perspective. They seem to put out comparatively bug-free and performant software. Specially on android, I was surprised to observe that Microsoft's apps are generally better designed and more useful than Google's own stuff.
328 feet is a unit conversion after already rounding to one significant figure
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Not that the literal toxic dump of mercury they left behind in my hometown that lead to generations of deformity for people who lived nearby had much impact on their image. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodaikanal_mercury_poisoning
Absolutely agree with Sinofsky here to a large extent - there is little precedent at the scale some of these companies are operating at in 2018. My original comment was to more spark a certain type of discussion more than anything else.

It's cool to see other Apple engineers and PMs chime in with their perspective.
I was running my own Netflix VPN service (admittedly on a low cost VPS), and was blocked within a day when Netflix introduced their new policy.
Last year, I was talking to friends in Africa with Internet faster than mine and cheaper to boot! WTF!
phones can be pretty addictive, so "effortless" is not the word I'd use.
The thing about flash is that it's cheap and easy to keep it all permanently online. You can get a stack of 2.5 inch SSDs for the same price as microsd cards, and plugging them into a bus takes less space than a tape robot.

When you're looking at the same price for two systems, and one is 100x-1000x faster at the cost of being 'merely' hundreds of TB per gallon instead of a few PB per gallon, nobody is going to bother engineering the latter just to save a few bucks on shipping.
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Is that true? Personally I have been very lucky with the Win10 updates. I am really enjoying how the OS is shaping up to be.
I used to work on trapped ion experiments, and the limitation of the atom size was always the diffraction limit, which is limited by the NA of the lens (f-stop in camera terms) and the wavelength of light. In this case, the optical system (I'm guessing a camera lens) is designed for multiple wavelengths, so it might not reach the diffraction limit at the emission wavelength, which is like 400nm. In that case, the limit would be the aberration of the camera lens, which can be wavelength-dependent. Most camera lenses aren't designed for 400nm light, which is marginally visible.
mainly learning and doing something on own. It has been a long time, I haven't personally built anything. My job is not allowing me to expand my skillsets.
I should clarify. I like all the individual pieces(hardware, cloud services, grpc interface) I just wish you could opt into them independently.
I love Amazon recruiters. They contact me a few times a year.

Recruiter: we think you would be a good match for this position

Me: you realize that I live in Los Angeles, right?
When do I change what toilette paper I buy? When they cheapen whatever I am buying enough to discomfort me, or raise the price per unit significantly with no apparent justification. (My supermarket chain was sold from one giant conglomorate to another, and the house brand immediately went up a dollar a package. Then was replaced by the new outfit's house brand, that seemed slightly inferior (and also more variable in quality), but also offered less quantity at that price.)

Maybe brand recognition plays some role, at that point, but the push to change almost always seems to be the degradation of what I'm currently buying.

Or, just outright dropping it. This happens frequently enough, when I find something I like, that I joke with the store staff that they're watching me on the cameras and if I seem to like something, dropping it to pull my chain.
The class of problems I’m talking about are integration issues. Unit tests look good but when you put the pieces together...

When the tests that matter cross version control boundaries you pay for it. Whether the costs outweigh the benefits is something you have to think about.
Still waiting for this ~2 year old bug to get fixed in Edge:

https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/platfor...
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This particular non-finding is mainly about a possible error in tensorflow contrib package, which the author self-admittedly wasn't arsed enough to research into. Probably because of time concerns?
A quantum leap is a discontinuity, a change that cannot happen gradually.

It typically implies a revolutionary change over evolutionary improvement.
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I avoid this problem entirely by keeping static content static--and hosted via CDN.

The same approach goes for dynamic (database-backed content)--cache the ever-loving shit out of it.
On my case it's the same, I torrent shows I can watch for free on Amazon Prime because for some reason their DRM never plays properly.
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Ah, I meant North American users, which are the highest ARPU users for Facebook. I don't know the breakdown of ARPU for different age demographics within NA.
So, doing nothing is not doing nothing; it's thinking and remembering.
Not sure if your comment is snide or just humourously dismissive. The homeless, drug addiction and mental health issues experienced in Vancouver, especially in the DTES are very real, and very serious. I don't think Vancouver's homeless population is significantly different than Paris'.

Glad to hear Canada apparently has a good reputation abroad.
In the 70's I had a co-worker, perhaps the best programmer in the department, that had gone to school with Knuth. He told me that one day while in college Knuth was using one of the available key-punch machines to punch his program on cards. My friend was ready to punch his program so he stood nearby to wait for Knuth to finish. Knuth, working on a big program, offered to Keypunch my friends program before finishing his own because my friend's program was shorter and Knuth could keypunch quite fast.

While watching over Knuth's shoulder, my friend noticed Knuth speeding up and slowing down at irregular intervals. Later he asked him about that and Knuth replied that he was fixing the bugs in my friend's Fortran as he punched it out.

(I wrote my first program in 1967)
You mean domains with NS records pointing to nameservers - but no existing records? Such that you can upload your own records, and essentially steal the domain?

I did something like that too, a while back. Particularly a problem for people who "retire" services without cleaning up, and who use DigitalOcean, CloudFlare, and similar services.
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Do people create stuff like this because they don't have access to good interactive debuggers? Visual Studio user here.
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I always find this a dubious and unsupportable metric for advertising's efficacy.

How that translates into dollars is what matters and I think the hand waving of "any publicity is good publicity" has long been a way for marketing folks to avoid talking about measurable results.
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Embed-ability, distribution. Using Jupyter from R, Julia, etc generally has an awkward dependency on python for the notebook server.
Thanks. I will use your advice!
I owned a Moto Razer (original). I've owned a Treo. I've owned multiple iPhones and multiple Samsung Notes.

Even comparing the original iPhone vs the current batches of iPhone - we are talking GENERATIONS of improvements. Massively better camera's, GPU, CPU, Batter, Screens - both pixel counts and size, network infrastructure, software infrastructure (MySpace vs Facebook).

Orders of magnitude improvements across ALL of those metrics.

Simply talking multi-tasking on the original Android and iPhones vs today? Comparing those vs the Palm and Blackberries they replaced?

I've lived through 20 years of Cell Phone... 10 years ago may not have been the "Dark Ages"... but it was the time immediately afterwords (Palm/BB/WinPhone were definitely the Dark Ages).

We are comparing Horses & Buggies, Model Ts and 2018 Honda Civics... the Model T was better than horses and buggies... but not that much better.
I agree with your agreement and I think it is absolutely paramount that the actual summary and facts of this ruling be shown completely in each and every instance it is posted, then re-posted, around the e-world.

This feels like the type of article that's going to wind up being click-bait-ified like mad around social media and such to demonize Facebook's privacy policy (as it should) and a non-US / European Country's (Germany) honest look and ruling on it but it feels like it will just be more water under the bridge if the average reader / Facebook user will be at all confused or slightly missing the point while reading it.
I would like to use emojis in my username. But as a programmer, I'd like to keep a system as simple as possible. If there were a trillion humans using my service Unicode with emojis would be a useful thing for unique usernames. But in the current scenario where the biggest services have users in the low billions, ascii is the most efficient and simple thing to do. You can always romanize Hindi or whatever language you want to use. The latin alphabet is unusually good at that. IMO it's not worth to introduce the complexity Unicode brings into something like usernames where the slightest problems can lead to stolen identities etc.
All my other "real" points have been covered by other users, but one other thing that SpaceX is doing is making space cool again. I've always found it interesting, and the launch vehicles technically incredible, but (as a university student) it's the first time in my life that current space-related events have been at the front of my mind. Various news outlets called the Falcon Heavy launch the most anticipated launch of the last decade, and I'd agree. In the lecture I was in during the launch, everyone was either watching it on their laptop, or looking over the shoulder of the person in front of them. People were shaking from excitement, and nearly tearing up as the FH lifted off.
I’m here in Brazil (Recife) for Carnival and I’ve noticed a lack of retail in general. Way less food options, general stores than I expected
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An apparently overlooked aspect of the SpaceX Falcon Heavy launch, is the inclusion of a small quartz disc whose format is expected to scale to something like 260 TB (360?, I forget). And that has a lifespan claimed to potentially extend into the billion plus year range.

I don't know about that exact disc/format, but if we and as we are finally able to stably write at such capacities... (whatever technologies end up being used to do so).

We're going to run into another "640KB should be enough for anyone", unless we are forward thinking with regard to potential storage format capacities.

(And if you think no one will ever be able to consume that much data and detail, just think of all the modeling that will be done and the data behind that. Think of the data being put out by CERN and not just how it will expand but also how people will want to explore lower significance hints, corner cases, and who knows what. Etc.)
Author has every right to stop, but should be mindful that solar is now cheaper than coal in many geographies. And some of the most well-funded companies on the planet are spending oodles of capital on battery technology. (Literally almost every big tech company.)

Edit: Irony being that some of the largest deployments of solar panels are in OPEC nations.
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A ton of high-quality engineering is done based on intuition, mental models, and patterns learned over years of experience. My hunch is that deep learning will be the same.

It seems deep learning is in pretty much at that state now (with possible exception of quality). The problem is that this puts inherent limits on what can be done with it. The power of digital computing is the power of modular expansion of objects. Analog circuits and computers don't have that. And current trained deep learning models don't have combinability and modularity either.

A lot of specific engineering subfields involve this "intuition, mental models, and patterns learned over years of experience" but keeping that model of deep learning indefinitely would have to involve a vast proliferation of such subfields each with their limits as the differences in applying deep learning techniques to different subfields become evident.
Speculating here, but I suspect that it's an app in the "background" that is causing the issue.

As much as I like Sonos, it exhibits bad behavior with its background task that requests priority audio. If I have the app even running (even in the background, but haven't force quit it), it will interrupt the stereo in my car if I'm trying to listen to terrestrial radio and keep forcing CarPlay to open until I force quit the app.
Thank you, Cloudflare, for fighting the good fight.

Someone should start a collective fund for smaller companies to help with legal support so that more troll claims can be fought instead of settled.

Anyhow, I'd be genuinely curious how much it cost to get to this point, and how much you think it would have cost if you'd had a protracted battle.
Over studying is a real thing. The most common study techniques are the most ineffective, specifically rereading and cramming.

Paridoxically, the close you are to forgetting something when you review it, the better the learning is. Specifically, the more effort it takes to recall it, the better you learn
Speed of light makes gaming hard to do remotely without building datacenters every 100 miles.

Other than that, the part of the computer you touch is heading towards a hybrid dumb terminal, where the terminal has plenty of local compute to keep the UI snappy, offloads the tricky compute and any long term storage.
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That's not at all a mistake. Any sort of overshoot is extremely unlikely to occur with these situations. The public plan was to put it into an orbit around the sun with the perihelion near Earth's orbit and its aphelion near Mars's. Using the additional remaining fuel, they decided to burn until the aphelion reached well past mars towards the asteroid belt.
I think it can be an extremely useful tool, but need be applied carefully. It can be therapeutic when dealing with unwanted emotions, but unfortunately sometimes those emotions need to run their course--they're designed as self-defense mechanisms to protect ourselves. Disassociation at the wrong time can enable more problems, sadly.
This might sound a bit callous (and I know it's more left field than callous but it's my only entry point to this topic) but your story kind of reminded me of a time I visited friends for a weekend at college. A friend of theirs had a new born litter of 1/2 Black Lab 1/2 Pit Bull puppies (the cutest, jet black pups) and my buddy and his girlfriend adopted one, Kujo.

Their goal was to get their new puppy used to being and sleeping alone by making sure it slept outside of their bedroom every night. This was the second weekend they had the dog and I, of course, was outside of their bedroom on the floor. The cold carpet. The living room was the only other room besides the bathroom, which we all wanted to keep dog free for everyone's convenience, in their small college apartment. I was told to try not sleep / cuddle with the dog overnight, but not sternly.

I'm a light sleeper as it is and after about 15 minutes of listening to the little guy cry and whimper I caved in figuring one night of sleeping cuddled up with me couldn't ruin a K-9's entire life of attachment. Plus I was on the floor and as you can tell I'm soft as it comes with animals and children.

I'll never know whether my softness that night ruined Kujo's sense of attachment but I will tell you right now, as someone who has always wanted kids I can't imagine I'll be able to keep my own flesh and blood at a distance while they are crying and calling out all night long :*(.

I have so much respect and am in awe of parents of all types. Keep kicking butt!
When I was a TA, I'd have students constantly try to add me on Facebook. The conversation would go nearly exactly like you'd describe:

> Are you on Facebook? Is this your profile?

> Yes, but I'm not gonna accept your friend request.

The reply was usually a bit snarky with a bit of a chuckle, and that did it for most college-aged people. The few times someone persisted, I explained that Facebook is an aspect of my social life, not my professional life, and I intended to keep it that way.
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If, as you surmise, we're discussing a concept which cannot be articulated and which has no moral consequence then what underlying questions remain and what use should we find in answering them? It strikes me as similar to logical paradoxes--a fuzzy ambiguity more likely reflective of limitations in our languages and our particular models of reasoning than of any underlying physical truth.
Individual-level ethics seems like a weak force when compared with the strong force of company-level financial incentives.
The fact that real-world storage systems are distributed on the network bolsters the case for supporting 128-bit and even larger types.

Creating unified namespaces is really useful and a _great_ simplifier. The reason we don't do that as often as we should is because of limitations in various layers of modern software stacks, especially in the OS layers.

Unfortunately, AFAIU ZFS only supports 64-bit inodes. A large inode space, like 128-bit or even 256-bit, would be ideal for distributed systems.

Larger spaces for unique values are useful for more than just enumerating objects. IPv6 uses 128 bits not because anybody ever expected 2^128-1 devices attached to the network, but because a larger namespace means you can segment it easier. Routing tables are smaller with IPv6 because its easier to create subnets with contiguous addressing without practical constraints on the size of the subnet. Similarly, it's easier to create subnets of subnets (think Kubernetes clusters) with a very simple segmenting scheme and minimal centralized planning and control.

Similarly, content-addressable storage requires types much larger than 128 bits (e.g. 160 bits for Plan 9 Fossil using SHA-1). Not because you ever expect more than 2^128-1 objects, but because generating unique identifiers in a non-centralized manner is much easier. This is why almost everybody, knowingly or unknowingly, only generates version 4 UUIDs (usually improperly because they randomly generate all 128 bits rather than preserving the structure of the internal 6 bits as required by the standard).

ZFS failed not by supporting a 128-bit type for describing sizes, but by only supporting a 64-bit type for inodes. And probably they did this because 1) changing the size of an inode would have been much more painful for the Solaris kernel and userland given Solaris' strong backward compatibility guarantees, and 2) because they were focusing on the future of attached storage through the lens of contemporary technologies like SCSI, not on distributed systems more generally.
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Or sketch routing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIi13gI9xEA
People keep saying that...yet FB succeeded with MySpace in the market.

Same with Instagram, WhatsApp and Snapchat.