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Did everybody get a takeaway shop's fan duct stuck to their wall like at my last rented flat?

It took me ages to understand why I was so stressed out until one evening I noticed things going peaceful all of a sudden. After that I became aware that the fan was running continuously from early morning to late evening, so I set to move out as soon as my term was over. Now I'm noticing that the building AC at the office is making the exact same low frequency, low amplitude hum when it's on and I get the exact same sensation of relief when it goes off.

Now, when I look at property, I also look for fan ducts on the walls. I also just realised that I should be looking for fan ducts inside walls if there's AC too...
I believe you're thinking of concurrency, which go handles pretty well with goroutines.
Except not all viewpoints are valid or true. If (as a vast majority of philosophers think) morality is objective, then those people are simply wrong about what is ethical/unethical.
Wow dysprosium is literally unobtainium:

> On succeeding, he named the element dysprosium from the Greek dysprositos (δυσπρόσιτος), meaning "hard to get".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dysprosium

(sorry for OT)
I think this "Vint Cerf invented the internet" thing is probably coming from Google press releases.

I had a Google recruiter use the exact same phrase to me (and like you I flinched).
It's not "his" money. The money belongs to someone else with the same name, and the same SSN, which is rather suspicious, but in general a company can't go around giving personal information about one client to another client even when those clients have the same name (and the same SSN). In some countries they would be breaking the law if they did that.

If someone uses "my" name (which is not actually "owned" by me; there is no law to prevent other people from using that name) to commit fraud then that is a matter for the people being defrauded and for the police. I can't expect to magically acquire police powers in order to investigate it myself.

I have the same mental reaction every time I read about someone trying to investigate a so-called "identity theft" in which their name was used. The whole concept of "identity theft" is extremely dodgy. From a practical point of view, I don't know what to advise.
What would be cool is a circulating superfluid, say inside a hollow torus, that could be made frictional on command at a chosen spot on the interior surface of the torus. Imagine holding the torus like a steering wheel. Inside, the superfluid is rapidly circulating. Say when a laser zaps a region where fluid and container touch, the superfluid becomes slightly frictional in that spot. One would feel the steering wheel yank in the direction of flow. So long as energy could be added back to the superfluid to accelerate its circulation, it could be extracted again and again with laser zaps to do work. (How many ways can a superfluid circulate inside a hollow torus?)
> the cash still doesn't look like legitimate income

It would if you used your real identity for the "book" sales instead of fraudulent id. Then the proceeds are legitimate. Govt would have to prove you faked the sales, which is easy to hide.
or he had it as an LLC, but made a mistake along the way that pierced the corporate veil. Or as a small business, he was just straight-up forced to pierce the corporate veil. (banks do this to small biz all the time).
Good point, i’m also not THAT cynical but I don’t think that the web developers community as general has any integrity that resembles let’s say the medical community.

Maybe the developers themselves are more idealistic but the web based businesses themselves more often than not are quite exploitative towards the users and that’s we have this sorry state of the web in general.
Aren't all of the companies that we are usually associating with doing bad things for the web (Microsoft, Google, Apple) now also pushing PWAs on their platforms? Google seemed far ahead of the push, Microsoft and Apple are currently on the run to bring them to Edge and Safari, and Mozilla introduced them to mobile Firefox less than a month ago.

And isn't there more of an incentive towards structuring the web coming from these big players as well? Google and Microsoft (and Yandex) created Schema.org, and are all giving them a priority in this switch from search results to instant answers.

I guess my point is to say that the companies that are locking the web are somewhat playing on both fields and giving webmasters products that are truly improving the web as well. It's far from being a one-sided battle.
I'd really like it if instead of having "kernel developers add a third packet filter", said developers would sit down a bit and agree on how to manage firewalling at the userspace level.
iptables feels like a tool that was developped to test out netfilter rules (that is, the kernel part) but not really for actual use. That would explain why there are so many frontends that attempt to abstract away the ugliness.
I've seen too many "firewall setups" that are just a script calling iptables for each rule. While this works, it can be dangerous as well: if you edit the file and mess up a rule, there's a risk that only part of the ruleset is loaded. Hopefully, the operator won't have locked himself out in the process.
Of course, there's the iptables-persistent package for atomically loading a ruleset (in Debian at least). The problem is that there's also a netfilter-persistent package. What's the difference between the two ?

How is one supposed to pick ? Then, there's also nftables. I've only glanced at it, and it looks promising but it seems there are some things that are missing. A comment in the article says that TCP MSS clamping has been added only recently. By the looks of it, it appears to be "almost there" but not quite ... which is a shame.

I'm hoping whatever implementation ends up prevailing will solve the various technical problems (performance, features w.r.t filtering capabilities) but will also provide a sane way to manage it. I feel kind of sad with the current situation. With my developer hat on, I am continuously impressed with the networking features available on Linux (Netfilter, XDP, ...). With my operator hat on, I find the general lack of usable tools as well as the inconsistency maddening.
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I wonder if it has to do with the age churn in the business.

Meaning that unless you are self-employed, you are basically out of a job by the time you hit your 30s.

And then they bring in some bright eyed grad, or maybe even some self-taught kid from the street, to take over. And he invariably ends up tossing your work out because it is not in a fashionable language, he has only a superficial understanding of all the edge cases embedded over time, and it is an "old" project.
I am surprised Amazon can not detect fake books, this is essentially the same than spam detection, or at least flag them from a human review.

It is probably a problem of incentive because they are still making these sales.
Woah, I was all ready to come back here and discuss the article when I figured, what the hell lets give the comments section on the WSJ a chance.

Maybe I'm out of touch in my little tech/business cross section of the world, but where did that overwhelming hate for higher education come from? Nearly all of those comments are...not making very logical arguments worth discussing either.
Complete bollocks. Molecules don't age and everything in your body is molecules. If a molecule breaks down, in some cases the body has mechanisms to replace it with a shiny new one. Those mechanisms are themselves made of molecules. And if those mechanisms to stop working, in some cases those mechanisms can also be replaced. Nothing in fundamental physics makes aging inevitable.

From what I can tell, the reason why aging is so prevalent is that most species haven't had time to evolve the mechanisms that solve the problems that appear later in life. If there's some truth to this, you'd expect that the species that are better at this also tend to be the simpler ones, since for those simplicity also means smaller diversity of things going wrong.
That none of the longest-lived organisms are warm-blooded squares well with the article's premise that physical heat damage causes aging.
I think they've got the evolutionary argument backwards. Rather than the older generation aging and dying because there is some evolutionary reason why they should, I think there is simply not a strong enough reason why they shouldn't. Why fix the remaining aging bugs when you already live long enough to reproduce and pass on knowledge?
We're very close to being able to fit 1PB of flash in a 1U server. So yes, 1PB is a small-scale archival project. Current generation tape libraries start around 1PB and scale up from there.
> But I've seen so many miserable people in their 50s at my workplace, living paycheck to paycheck, buy all kinds of useless trinkets and always talking about their next 'adventure' - a holiday to some expensive resort on the other side of the globe or something.

I'm not sure why you were downvoted. I disagree with this viewpoint on life, but it's an interesting perspective.

There's some evidence that spending money on experiences over things leads to greater happiness in the long term (think building memories rather than wealth):

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17439760.2014.898...

It's possible that the people you think are miserable are not, or maybe are just miserable at work and actually have a happy life overall.

The other problem with sacrificing too much of the present for the future is that you can't predict the future very easily. For example, my father died about two weeks after retiring.
To those who are affected by the incessant hum, have you ever tried to actually measure it by some technical equipment? I am pretty sure there are devices that can detect and register sounds of almost all frequency levels.
What about the noise canceling headphones? Sony, Bose and Sennheiser have some top-notch headphones that cancel out static noise. Being very sensitive to noise, I use one of those and am totally satisfied.
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Oh! I used a similar mathematical model while finding a spouse.

I figured, that for me, 37% (1/e) worked out to 13 people.

This (finding people) is a space I've spent a lot of time doing, planning, understanding, and thinking about :)

Also, there are a lot of scientific papers on how to model these in scholar.google.com (sorry that I don't have links that I can give right now)
There are also some theories on proton decay, which could be considered a source of "physical" aging, but the timescales are extremely large.
This isn’t a problem. CSS could already control what’s displayed and what effect it has. It could already make clicking “next page” open an invisible chat to their account, your password box send your password as a message, and your message from a friend read anything they want. It’s always been a trusted asset.

What might be a problem is developers not treating it as such.
Quebec does.

Ontario has a high subsidy.

To their credit, GM sells in all the provinces regardless. Once QC enacted California-style minimums, Ford stopped selling EVs in other provinces and allocated their inventory only to QC. That's a pretty dick move.
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> A foundation with 20M$ and these ambitious goals is a gift for the society. However, it is also the typical American way of company-society interaction. The actually intended way is called "paxing taxes".

Not really. It depends on what you think taxes should be paying for. If you think they should cover essential services that can't be taken care of by the private sector (ex: roads, police, national defense) then lower taxes and private sector philanthropic spending is a better choice.

It removes the particularly heinous problem of government officials spending the public's money on things the public doesn't actually want them to spend it on. The private sector has no such issues as by definition they're spending their own money.
I see where I made the error assuming the person had control of the account, but just for reference, it is not possible to steal someone's identity using their bank account number. This is just an identifier of an account.

In my country bank account transfers are the most common way to transfer money. I do it for random transactions, repaying people who bought me lunch, and all sorts of things. Anyone will give you their bank account number if you ask for it, and most people have theirs memorized.

The only thing someone could do if they got a hold of your account number would be that they can now send you money.
Where does the name "progressive" come from?
Most cost-efficient for what purpose?
This article is very informative about the challenges that biology contends with, but it doesn't convince me that the headline is true.
It does get hairy when people start throwing eminent domain into the mix.
Agreed some companys- have a more longterm view. I may also point out that valve and blizzard games are well maintained and where never server-severed.

Even those impose centralized control on there software though:

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~owend/free/bnetd.html
Funny enough, I'm male and I could say the same things about my wife. I'm the one with friends and she's lost contact with everyone...
Don't forget the latest research on mole rats.

http://experimentalbiology.org/getattachment/2014/About-EB/P...
But to be fair, many pages break links and browser behaviour without AMP as well.
This is particularly noticable on iOS- AMP pages break iOS' standard page scrolling ballistics, for some reason. It makes them feel non-native in a particularly egregious way.
There isn't actually a friends feature, but there are enough like-minded men (or it seems like there are) that are straight but want to meet other guys, so you can just have "looking for men or women" enabled.

I do have a friend that swears by couchsurfing.com[1] for finding new friends, but I personally haven't tried it.

1: https://www.couchsurfing.com/
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More on point with the article, I hate when information is delivered like this without any context. Less than 20% of schools are failing? Wow thats...I don't know what that is. Whats the median for failing colleges per...decade? How long does a college usually take to fail?
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Maybe A/B test it or something - I guess I take a very simplistic approach where I see the numbers on the page, assume they are per user and the run away before reading the small print.

Good luck with the service!
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> There will be a time when modern connected car I own no longer receives software updates while it otherwise would remain a great daily driver. Each passing day it becomes more vulnerable to being hacked to perform variety of things. What is the level of risk that I am willing to accept before having to get rid of the otherwise good car since I no longer feel safe operating it?

I had a laugh last night watching an episode of The X-Files. This is a show that's all about conspiracies and not trusting the government and relying on hackers, yet the show (likely due to a product placement agreement) had Scully conspicuously turning on a car's wifi hotspot and connecting to it. I'd think that the main duo of that show would be tech savvy enough to know that such a thing (since it's connected to microphones, cameras, GPS, and the internet) would be anathema to remaining clandestine.
Its a little bit of hyperbole to say it still looks like the 70s when there used to still be a lot of orchards back then. They never could have anticipated this growth
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Unfortunately, once you stop playing, there's a big chance that all of this goes away.

Side note: I'm surprised how in both Ingress & Pokemon GO, friendships cross team boundaries; you can be adversaries and friends, like in any respectable sport.
Then how do you account for mole-rats.

http://experimentalbiology.org/getattachment/2014/About-EB/P...
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Your point about closed systems is spot on.

This is an argument of christian apologists against evolution as well: "evolution can't be true because it violates the 2nd law of thermodynamics". And this superficially apparent conflict has the same resolution: if energy can be put into a system, it absolutely can have less entropy (or more organization, or more specialization) over time.
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Well, only the DataFrames.jl package comes to my mind. However, there exist a few packages that extend this package (DataFramesMeta.jl or Query.jl; these overlap to some extend, but the newer Query package seems to go beyond DataFrames and offers some piping capabilities to interface with plotting packages).
In general:
During the three years of my PhD some language / package upgrades broke some of my scripts (during 0.4 -> 0.5 and -> 0.6), but the language (and its extensive documentation, online and from the source code of the packages) is very pleasant to use - the deprecation warnings usually help you to adjust your code in time. I have been relaying heavily on said DataFrame package, and am quite happy - the community is usually responsive and helpful in case of problems or questions.
If you use AMP, you can use amp-pixel for tracking. If you have content that automatically reloads (e.g. amp-live-list), this will also show up in your server logs.

I don't find user behaviour on amp harder to track than for non-amp pages. At least if you keep tracking to a reasonable level.
I understand now, I made the mistake of thinking he had control of the Amazon account.
It is a big mistake to think that merely paying taxes is a sufficient substitute for donations. Governments are like the biggest of big companies: they tend to be very conservative about what they'll fund. Individual donors and small foundations play a crucial role in funding the sort of risky outliers that new ideas come from.
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>foreverbanned: They didn't mentioned the filename at first. What they actually said was: "And a Basecamp user uploaded the 100,000,000th file (It was a picture of a cat!)"

AFAIK there is no equivalent Dropbox incident, though they were forced to clarify their marketing in 2011: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Dropbox#May_2011_...
Those are moonshot companies; if they work they'd have the potential to bring in trillions worth of minerals from space, but before they get there they'll probably require hundreds of billions of investment first. Plus they'd destabilize the market.
"Drops" is a bit misleading in this scenario.

The article states:

"10.13.4 Beta 2 came out today and it broke compatibility with Thunderbolt 1 & 2".

It's beta software - it's quite possible this is only a bug/broken feature.
I'm not sure you understand how cold-blood works.
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There is the Opera Mini way of pre-rendering though.

But that requires that you trust Opera to not do something naughty.
> Restricted grants are when you give money to a nonprofit to do what you want, rather than what they want.

Spot on.

The picture is often worse than the one you have painted -- Hey there, here's a few million dollars to help your country tackle AIDS. BTW, you can only spend it on drugs manufactured by US pharma.

At that stage its creative accounting to route tax money to your base of choice, with PR for free. Works the same for defense related grants.
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As an American who grew up in the US, I've only ever heard TBL cited as the inventor/father of the web (or sometimes internet), and have never heard of Vint Cerf before as best I can recall. Anecdata, for what it's worth.
Senescence is a biological, not oxidative or thermodynamic, phenomenon.

More oxidation, more metabolism, and more turnover gives you more chances to break down/accumulate mutations/shorten telomers, but that’s an artefact of cells running out of their means for rapid growth. These can be modified. Look, for example, at the countless immortalized cell cultures.

It is a biological problem with roots in statistical and biomolecular physics, like literally everything else in biology.
I have little love for an institution that profits off dreams and naivete and destroys lives with un-dischargeable debt. But hey, at least the football coach is rich and the gym is fancy! Also in retrospect I learned almost nothing useful in college. Loads on my own time, though.

Also, how the hell is college so damn expensive when the people teaching classes are paid 12 bucks an hour because they're "adjuncts"?? where tf is the money going?? (see above)

Exception: my local junior college was great, and reasonably priced. If you want to do uni, go to jc and then to europe.

Oh. Also there's a whole university cargo cult. It made some baby boomers wealthy so obviously the solution is for EVERYONE to go to college.
People dabbling in crypto are not target audience for such advert. This advert is for general public.

As for the grandparent, I think he might be in some english speaking bubble in Poland. My friends that are not IT related and are not living/working abroad are for instance not aware of the same information sources about crypto.

Internet speed ranking is some BS put there to show how Poland is behind. That could be taken out from article. But if author implies that people in Poland are so behind in technology, then they should not dabble in cryptocurrencies, and government is doing right thing.

Just this week I was explaining bitcoin to a friend. He is not frequenting english language internet, only for buying stuff from China. He knew there is bitcoin and that you can earn a lot on it. So I had to make sure that he knows buying bitcoin is buying magic beans from unknown people on internet. So this kind of campaign is good for general public. If someone is really into it, knows risks let him play. For other people, make sure they know the risks and that they can loose real money.
> For the past 10 years, we’ve seen the impact our products can have when they free up our time to focus on work that truly matters. Medical researchers share data sets to develop vaccines. Musicians compose scores. Aid workers access and coordinate information from the field.

Is it just me that think this is very cringy and reminds me of https://youtu.be/J-GVd_HLlps?t=31s

I like that they help fund stuff but I just think the statement is kind of hilarious.
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> Bethesda is a bit strange due to their military contracts

I am curious to know what you are talking about. I've never heard Bethesda getting money from the DoD. And I've found nothing, since all search results are mixed with info about the military base in the city called Bethesda.