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My comments are not bordering on fat-shaming, they are fat-shaming.

Not the "ha ha ha, look at this guy, gross" fat-shaming, but the "stop lying to yourself and publicly expressing the fact that I should treat you in a special way" fat-shaming.

I understand that not everyone has will power. I understand that this means that these people will be overweight.

What I do not understand is that we need to be extra careful with their feelings, not offend anyone and treat the whole thing as if it was normal. I find it unacceptable that a life posture which is driven, in the overwhelming number of cases, by laziness and treating one's body as a trashbin is supposed to be approached with special care.

2% of this population will have the mental disease which does not allow them to actually take care about themselves. I honestly pity them (see below). The others actively and consciously act towards their obesity.

This is the same as with cigarettes: you are free to smoke (away from me) but please do not beg for my tax euros later when you have a cancer derived from that. Or expect that I will live with the cigarette smell. Or that I will fly with half of your body on mine, because you are "weight impaired".

Before the gates of hell open, a few remarks:

- I am profoundly for a social state, like we have in France. I am happy to pay taxes so that people who are unfairly hit by life have the same chance as i have to live a normal life. I always had this state of mind, and now even more with a handicapped wife and a sick child.

- I believe that a mature person has to face the music: if you want to go for mountain climbing and freeze at 8000 m in winter on that difficult slope, this a choice of yours. If you eat like a hippo, well this is your choice as well so do not be offended if you need to go to a zoo to get an x-ray (a case of a few years ago).

- Some people are just unlucky in life and we should do whatever we can to help these people. Unfortunately, the vast majority of overeaters are very vocal about their suffering (between two burgers) and it silences the minority who actually has a problem. This minority takes the hit. This is horrible, I witness it all the time with my wife who uses a disabled parking because she cannot walk too much (and has other problems) and people are looking at her because she looks normal.

Finally about the gastric surgery: if you pay for it, no problem. This is not going to change your mind and your children will probably be overweight (or not, I hope not).

If I have to pay for this comfort, I do not agree. Too bad for you, you will die earlier because you want to. I will keep that money for the 2% who actually have a disease.
Slack's challenge is that it's just Slack. It's an extra monthly cost, extra thing to the manage.

Atlassian can sell you the integrated package. One price, one invoice, tight integration between products.

I don't have any data on this, but I think one reason for Slack's success was that people could just start using it without going thorough the IT. I'd assume there's still a huge number of companies who haven't made an official choice on this space. Those might be tempted to go with offerings from Atlassian or Microsoft.

Slack could be interesting acquisition for Dropbox (haven't thought out if it could work financially).
How this solves anything for the user? The better way is to provide the tech(AMP) so that content that is good for the user can be delivered properly instead of not delivered due to performance.

Remember, it's about providing a good experience to the users, it's not about choosing the losers and winners in the industry.

The taxi companies are making the same mistake against Uber, they assume that the users are an exploitable resource and want a solution that distributes this resource more "fairly to the businesses". From Uber's perspective, the users are the clientele and the resources are the cars and the drivers.

The web tech community is acting like the taxi drivers, angry that their user resource is being taken away.
Antidote is one time license and offline. Available for french and english. It has a lot of integration.

https://www.antidote.info/en/antidote
I find their explanation of the pipelining issue slightly confusing, probably because they tried to simplify it to the extreme:

>One could object to this and note that due to shorter clock ticks, the small steps will be executed faster, so the average speed will be greater. However, the following diagram shows that this is not the case.

Said diagram shows that the two-clock-tick step locks the pipeline, that is you can't execute the first clock tick for the next instruction if you're still running the 2nd part of the previous one. When would this be the case? Isn't entire point of pipelining to divide a function into smaller steps that can be run in parallel? If you can split "step 3" across two clock cycles, couldn't you effectively subdivide it into two steps that could run in parallel?

I suppose that eventually you run across the issue that adding additional pipelining stages increases the logic size which in turn causes it to run slower or something like that. I wish the document was a little more specific, after all it doesn't hesitate to throw the physical formulas for power dissipation in the 2nd part so clearly it's not afraid to dig into technical details.
What is distributed tracing. Zoom on opencensus and opentracing
Google Maps has been a lifesaver in Sydney CBD for me as a driver unfamiliar with the Byzantine lane timing required, lack of signalling, and frequent undocumented works and blockages (I do wish they'd incorporate the random M5 closures though). It does get laggy and imprecise once you get in the area with tall buildings though.
there's always a limit to "morally right" "education".
the other side is using their own 'shady' media channels ('youtube influencers') to advertise their shady product.

how would you counter that?
Honest question: Is that name a pun on C* (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C*)?
I wonder if the future will be massively parallel, when CUDA and opencl came out I thought that future processors would have more and more core, so if you follow Moore's law, CPUs would see their core count double each 6 months. The problem is that GPU don't have error correcting codes, so you cannot really run application code on a GPU.

The problem with parallelism is that C-like language don't fit well, only functional languages do. If you want to use multi-threading you have to forget about state and only work with input/output paradigms. For OSes it might mean a deep re-design, but I don't really know.

A possible design would be a small but very fast CPU that only takes care or scheduling and task control, and another chip with many cores that deal with payloads and user software.

AMD had some kind of hybrid chip that planned to do both graphics and task, but it was thrown away.

Going parallel would require to change both hardware and software, and by software I mean stateless.
And are probably easier to get your hands on in a less embarrassing way than going to an STD clinic.
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But Let's encrypt is not just the ACME protocol, it is ACME + free certificates.
I'm not sure it's related to these humming reports but there is a lot more ambient noise than most people appreciate.

I live about five miles from Heathrow airport. Occasionally I will have planes taking off over our house which is fairly loud and sometimes I can hear them powering up and taking off - that's quiet and distant and I can't always hear it.

When the Icelandic volcano closed the airspace a few years ago I was stuck by how quiet it was outside. Not just the lack of identifiable take-off noises but I became aware there had been an imperceptible continuous rumble. This came back when the airspace opened.

There are always aircraft in the skies, I presume this low level noise is the culmination of many distant jet engines.
One option is to make the input component uncontrolled by removing the value={this.state.password} prop, but keeping the onChange handler to maintain the password in the state for validation & strength checking. Typically, the only time you need to programmatically change a password field is when clearing it, which can be done by setting the DOM attribute directly.
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or otherwise you wouldn't want your life to become accidentally inconvenient and your opinion dented, would you?
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I worry that soon many cars will share ads and/or sell your location information with basically no way to opt out. If automakers are determined to make you run their adware, they can just program their cars not to start unless you have the latest software. They even have a couple legitimate excuses to do this: maybe the latest software fixes some remote exploitable security hole that makes the car unsafe to use, or maybe always-on tracking is an anti-theft feature.

If software updates are an all-or-nothing affair, then they can bundle whatever they want and force you to use it if you want a working car. If it's too obnoxious you could sell it, but the resale value might not be very good and we'd end up with a lot of people driving adware-infested automobiles because they can't afford anything better. I hope we have some sensible consumer protection laws to prevent this kind of thing coming to pass.

This issue reminds me of a Vernor Vinge science fiction novel that describes battles between space-faring civilizations. If one side happened to capture a ship that belonged to the other side, they really couldn't do anything with it except melt it down for scrap metal because they couldn't trust all the embedded computers not to do anything nefarious.
What do you need docker for if you put each container in a VM of its own?
Thanks, I will keep that in mind. :)
You don't have to interact with the ad. It goes away when you are driving again.
I'm as critical of the Bush administration as anyone. But I think Condoleezza Rice is just too complicated a person to place her on a one-dimensional "evil scale" and boycott everything she touches.
I guess it depends where, but in both London and Bordeaux (where I live and where I lived), on a dual carriage way you never know if right lane is right only, or right and straight ahead. Equally, the left lane could be left turn only, or left turn and straight ahead.

And unless you've been here before and made the mistake (and got beeped at in the process) you probably won't know nor see the arrows as you're following the car in front of you.

I find it very useful (when it works)
Depends on what you mean precisely by "extend to", but generally this is mostly a question of whether the underlying execution model supports them. "Code as values" is not exactly a particularly complicated thing (though arriving at an efficient implementation can be).
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Well, in general I agree in that form should follow function. In the case of prose though, which is art, things aren't that clear. Written language can disguise itself as spoken language but that's just another mask. If you ever cared to transcribe some group talk or interview, you will quickly realize that nobody would want to read dialogues like that.
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> Why? Should I then expect the government to bail me out after I lose all of my money in blackjack, provided that sufficient amount of people do the same.

Well, if the issue grows to such a great scale then bailing people out saves the society, and the economy, from collapsing.

We can argue about the methods, but, well, I guess it's noble that the gov/bank tries to warn people about the dangers of cryptocurrencies. If you look at any crisis around the world the central banks usually turned a blind eye. Then it ended with bailouts and defaults. So, better to act before, than after.
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So basically its killer feature is that it helps with going over the speed limit?
This is a highly niche subreddit that you're just kind of expected to get if you're one of the people it is targeted to.

Go look at like, www.reddit.com/r/gaming instead. The vast majority of reddit is not "wtf" moments.
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As a straight man, I did that with Tinder and made a number of friends, but they were always women. I never had any luck with guys I met on Tinder, not really sure why.
Agreed, I didn't read to the last paragraph because of how first half was written, so I went back and read it...

This article is inflammatory and lacks proper context.
Since iptables only works for IPv4 packets (EthType 0x0800), it doesn't really seem unusual that you could still pass back and forth frames with different EtherTypes.

There's a reason why filtering frames at layer 2 is a thing, but I suppose the average developer/Docker user wouldn't really be aware of it. I'm a senior network engineer at $work (ISP) and there are several locations in the network where I do this (the most common location is probably at IXP exchanges).

Layer 2 security is something that most people overlook.
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I witnessed something similar some years ago, in Lisbon.

Our living room had a window facing the street, and sometimes one could hear a low pitch humming noise that made that window shake. The first time it happened I remember wondering who would leave a delivery truck in neutral for so long.

It was really annoying, especially because when I opened the window, there wasn't a car parked outside - everything was silent. Until you listened carefully, only to confirm the hum was still there, seemingly at a distance.

So the window was reverberating to the hum. But where did it come from? Across the street there is a military academy, so I guessed the obvious guess: military experiments, of course!

The problem with that guess was that under closer inspection, the noise didn't really seem to come from that direction. Usually, one could only hear it in the afternoon, but the hum was present all week round - and around there only the military worked weekends. But it just looked it came from in between some trees far away. So I guessed differently: a big air conditioning system, some large boat, a generator in some construction yard, a concrete mixer...

The hum's amplitude would slightly vary, and the window would just hum along or even rattle annoyingly sometimes. So I guessed that if wind was a factor in modulating the hum's intensity, it would be relatively far away. Either that or it was coming from a moving source.

One day the hum simply stopped. I never found out was was behind it.
If we are in Germany, let's also add Steinhöring near Munich to the list. Countless articles in the last decade.

Example: http://www.sueddeutsche.de/muenchen/ebersberg/steinhoering-l...
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Why can AMP pages not use that?
This seems like an orthogonal issue.
Maybe they will have to rethink it. It seemed odd when they introduced it and at least in the early React version kept making problems e.g. when entering German Umlaute on US keyboards. Not working much on Frontend anymore but when I do inputs, I only use uncontrolled ones - it's much less hassle and more flexible anyways.
I just opened it on my phone and I was redireced to techcrunch.com without any overlays or whatnot.

Maybe they are afraid that EU will smack them down for anti-competitive behaviour.
To quote an article that was on HN yesterday:

A company’s stance on blockchain can also serve as a test of a company’s management. In my view, companies pushing blockchain technology (e.g. IBM, Microsoft, Intel, Oracle) are disconnected from customers’ actual needs and have mediocre management. Companies that don’t talk about blockchain (e.g. Facebook, Amazon, Google, Apple) are more likely to produce sensible technology that will work in the real world.

https://glennchan.wordpress.com/2018/02/20/blockchain-is-a-u...
How can Facebook benefit from the use of a blockchain?

The advantage of a blockchain is that it's distributed - many people verify changes, so changing it after the fact is pretty much impossible. Running a blockchain ledger with a single party in control would mean they can rerun all of the transactions and rewrite the blockchain from any given point, so there'd be no way for other people to trust it. Consequently, unless Facebook shared access to the blockchain with other people, there would be absolutely no advantage at all.
Do they need your phone? Or a Stingray, to capture/stop your traffic from reaching you? Or a clone of your SIM?
These items are rather common sense guidelines almost everybody would agree with. As I'm not in crime fiction and since English isn't my mother tongue, I have to confess that I don't know EL. I'd suggest to another rule though: don't write a book if you have nothing new to add. Recommend some classic instead.
> But remember, wrong overclocking can harm not only processor but you as well.

Don't date robots!
I don’t trust her at all. I have more trust in Microsoft than her so I moved to OneDrive the moment it was announced she was joining Dropbox.
Or strive to fix the issue.
I had the same issue when I was living in Geneva, especially when driving in dense traffic. You'd be on the right lane of a two lane road, and suddenly it turns to the right while the left lane continues on straight. And obviously there'd be no way to quickly go to the left lane anymore because the traffic is severely stuck anyway. So then you end up driving in the wrong direction, still stuck in traffic, and have to take a (sometimes significant) detour.

Happened to me more than a few times, and the only way you can avoid it is if you know all the local roads, or if your navigation software knows it...
I think part of the reason why many programmers haven't wanted to deal with parallel execution is because concurrency is not easy to handle. It has several pitfalls and can be painful to debug. Also, it needs proactive efforts implementing it, so as long as not required, devs just stick to serial execution.

Now, with helpful systems like no-side-effect functional languages and reactive stream frameworks, a lot of gory detail can be abstracted away. I think this has recently lead to more parallel-by-default software development.
Still couldn't account for 10s for 5kb of html, something must have been really wrong, maybe I configured it incorrectly.
I work for a publisher that zero ads. We have fast pages with minimal JS. We rolled out AMP purely for the SEO win and saw a huge uptick in traffic.

If Google really cared about performance they’d reward publishers doing the right thing on their regular pages (which would benefit the web as a whole), not just those using AMP.
that's what something like oculus go will be for, your (the) car is doing the driving so just watch a movie.
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TeraHertz CPUs would be nice.
> How this solves anything for the user?

Is it not obvious? It would motivate major websites to clean up their act and sort out the bloat problem, with no need for yet another web technology.
I think it's a common thing in TV/cinema. The villain in Skyfall looked similar to Julian Assange. The villain in Tomorrow Never Dies was pretty much Steve Jobs.
> And NOBODY is plopping down density in the middle of single family homes, or even proposing that.

There is a fair amount of rumbling about upzoning single-family lots to permit mid-rise apartment buildings, i.e. SB827.
That's something that concerns me. You're not supposed to use these things as a driving aid. You should be paying attention to the road ahead, not relying on your phone to tell you how fast you should be driving. It's bad enough with people driving cars that do more and more stuff for you. Pilots are required to do a certain number of manual operations to make sure they are still able to do it. It's worrying to think about what kind of people are driving around on the roads.
Many CPU manufacturers will not, but Intel will.
I'm not sure this is true - the value of their land would skyrocket if rezoned for a more productive use.
Maybe you are rich personally but for the average human this has never been true.

Do you know of any middle income person that owns or rents a dozen apartments? Do you even know a single person that has two?
So I guess they'll be sued any second now? Because people on the internet keep telling me companies can't just give away shareholders' money? /s
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I don't think there's a consensus. I've stopped using Dropbox due to that choice, but their success tells me that this is not too problematic for most of their users. I think it's one of those things were the product is just too good for people to quit, even if they disagree with the business practices.
The proposed bill I've seen people supporting - SB 827, by the SF state senator - defined "along existing transit corridors" so broadly that it covered the entirety of San Francisco and anywhere else with a vaguely functional bus service, and used state preemption of local laws to set a minimum height, remove parking minimums, and require local planners to allow dense mid-rise apartment buildings in the entire area. Its more keen proponents insist that it's absurd to call this radical in any way because it's obvious that dense buildings around transit hubs is the way to go.
I have a feeling there is some lesson on trying to solve human nature with technology.
This. I grew up in Los Gatos, but now live in London. Virtually anywhere in the city there are decent shops within a 5-10 minute walk; this fact alone makes London vastly more liveable than 95% of Silicon Valley. This is only viable with mixed-use zoning and a certain minimum density. This in turn makes public transport more viable, further increasing the quality of life. Done right -- and it really isn't that hard to do it right -- high-density mixed-use development produces a very virtuous feedback loop.
If it's really needed, why the aren't tax dollars enough?
I'm presently replacing my car (Europe) with a new Opel, I'm somewhat disgusted at how the manufacturer is pushing their OnStar service as a wonderful thing. It's GPS and full-time connected LTE with a suite of sensors in the car, and this is for a commodity €25k vehicle. It's a big-brother network, it defaults to "on" and whilst there is a "disable onstar" software button it cannot be defaulted to "off".

Customer benefits are touted as being "crash assistance if you need it", "easy access to a customer service agent (phone) who knows your position and can program your navigation" and "always-on unlimited LTE hotspot".

My wife is excited about it because always on-lte means wireless entertainment for the kids, a "safety" net incase we have a crash (but we drive nearly exclusively inner city miles, and within that group, nearly exclusively the same 5 mile stretch of main-roads). I'm flabbergasted by people's convenience over security mindset, or maybe it's the pseudo physical security offered by such overwatch programmes vs. the digital privacy security.
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This isn't education. An analogy would be a sex "education" campaign that teaches everyone they will get pregnant or AIDS the first time they have sex and that the only way to avoid such things is abstinence.

Making up lies with the hope that it will influence behavior in the "right" way is not education and is not the way a government institution should behave.
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