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> Specifically, the evidence is overwhelming that whatever the ultimate cause is, it is computationally simple, that is, its Kolmogorov complexity is small. That is fundamentally at odds with most people's conception of God.

The probability that the first cause (FC) is computable is basically zero, so it most likely won't have a Kolmogorov complexity. For example, not even entropy is computable[1][2], let alone FC.

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/0808.1678.pdf

[2] https://www.math.iupui.edu/~mmisiure/open/JM1.pdf
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Is there anything you can do in software (just thinking Unix) if the hardware lies to you about fsync? Or at the very least detect such devices, or are you at the mercy of simply testing the disk?
They're literally going to do this with Fuchsia I predict. ChromeOS is there too already the tablet space is confusing.
One famous example:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_Pennsylvania_Lottery_sc...
My guess is that the 12 wing rotors are at a fixed angles similar to a quadcopter V-tail. Unlike a v-tail, and to hazard another guess, I figure the inner 8 rotors point outwards to help provide stability so that a roll ends up with the lower side pointing straight down providing more lift and the higher side points out the side providing less lift. This pushes the craft back upright. There are times when you actually do want to roll so the 4 outer rotors point in. They're further out so there is more roll leverage. The mechanisms to tilt the rotors would add extra weight to a craft that's probably already low on margins. I'd say it's better to be a little less efficient for a short part of a flight than carry the extra weight for the duration.
You’re having the Walmart app to log purchases. How is this unexpected?
> tech preview

As it is not yet generally available as something the public will install, and given how long it can take for a wide userbase to upgrade, this support wouldn't mean being able to set gif's EoL to any date soon.

Unless you refuse to let Safari hold you back as IE6 did for so long (and to an extent newer IE versions still do depending on you target audience - in my day job I have no choice but to support IE 8 and 11 to this day). Though if that is the case then you've stopped actively supporting Safari already.
> auto array = (PyArrayObject* )obj;

Why not reinterpret_cast<PyArrayObject * > here?

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How would you deal with false positives in the bloomfilter blacklist? Is there a three-part check?:

1) in whitelist

2) maybe in blacklist

3) check cert not in actual blacklist

And a certificate is valid if 1 (and not) 2, or if 1 and 2 and 3?

[ed: i see you mentioned a keyed hash "to avoid colliding for a whole month". But the risk of a few random days of service (certificate) unavailability seems like an unacceptable design tradeoff? (as there will be other, non-logical reasons for downtime too) ]
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Just to clarify, I truly believe it's in your interest to make pricing simpler. It just helps building trust, and conveys the same product simplicity. This is key (no pun intended) with this kind of service.

Specifically, I think per-developer pricing should correlate well with value. Sharing secrets increases in complexity when more people are involved.

One other thing I can think of perhaps is environments. Maybe bigger customers would have more environments that need to be kept separately? (production, staging, test, dev come to mind, but potentially a more granular split in larger orgs. Billing environment, Marketing etc). Maybe you could offer totally separate accounts that are independent of each other, but billed together. Keeping things separate also has security value.

Servers: it gets much more messy much quicker in my opinion. Docker-based setups, auto-scaling groups etc make this difficult. So this reduces pricing predictability for us, and I imagine others.

Config requests: I don't even have a clue what this means before I start. But seeing this deters me. You explain it on the FAQ section, but I still have to do some homework to figure out roughly my usage, before I even try your product... This is the worse pricing element in my humble opinion.

In any case, I'm just one data point. If you have enough traffic, then you should A/B test this. Otherwise, talk to your customers (although then there's selection bias at play), or copy from someone else with a similar service?

At your early stage, I think building momentum and traction is more important than worrying about outliers. You have many more years to refine pricing and figure out how not to lose money and attract the right customers. But now you should probably get as many customers as possible to see that it's a viable business and build a reputation. Just my 2 cents.
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I’d be very interested in any way that would let me (quickly) write small changes to large files atomically, on Windows. The naive solution is to copy the original to a temp file, then proceed as in this library (write then atomic rename).

I’m thinking there may exist some lower level magic api with e.g CoW pages that lets the caller appear to copy the original without actually doing it? “Shadow copy” or similar?
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Base64 is groups of six bits of arbitrary binary data, being interpreted as 6 bit integers (valued 0 to 63) which index into a table of 64 printable characters. That coding then gives the binary data a printed representation that we can store in strings and plain text files.

The ASCII datum "A" doesn't turn to "A" in Base64, and in fact it doesn't turn to any specific Base64 code. In a stream of 8 bit characters where "A" occurs, that "A" byte will be split into two 6-bit groups in one of three ways: 2-6, 4-4 or 6-2. In those groups that get only 2 or 4 bits of that "A", there will likely be other non-zero bits from adjacent characters/data which help determine the code. In base 1024, we have 10 bit units that can be packed with data.

The Base64 code letter "A" is the first entry in the Base64 table table; it corresponds to zero: a sequence of six zero bits.
Another related post that was once on HN front:

Mental Models I Find Repeatedly Useful

https://medium.com/@yegg/mental-models-i-find-repeatedly-use...
Exact same, I'm staring at an E520 which I've used every day for the past few years, which now has a busted left hinge (until I get around to putting some sugru on it). Other than the bum hinge, a really solid laptop which has survived quite a few beatings.
Correct, whether it's worth it or not depends on how much you care about security and decentralization. It works well for OTC trades, dark pools, escrow, no-limit withdrawals(because you're trading from your own wallet), and anyone who doesn't want to create an account and have their trades tracked.
> Each new release tends to only support files created within the last two versions

Ugh, I hate software that does this. If you're creating an obscure proprietary format for your files, the least you can do is support it.
I can second this. Uber did have a positive effect on local taxis, forcing them to upgrade. We now have taxi companies that are reinventing themselves - apps are good, you can pay with CC in the app and the drivers need to adhere to some standard of professional ethics.

Imagine that - they are able to do that without the "Uber" model of ignoring regulation and doing the fuck they want regardless.
The better term is "national interest". Qualcomm is a world leading wireless technology innovator and it's domicile and ownership in the US is in the national interest.

Manufacturing has already been lost to China, so has solar tech. China also edges US in areas where regulation is hairy, like genetic hybrids, cloning, etc. Henceforth, it's important to guard American leadership in technologies where it leads
Perhaps you could do this by creating a hardlink to /proc/$pid/fd/$n ?

EDIT: Doesn't look like it, gives EXDEV ("invalid cross-device link")
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Isn't the whole problem that current QM equations are not the whole picture, and work on QM scale only?
> Takeoff and landing are on electrical quadrotor props, while for forward flight, a gasoline engine provides power.

There's a reason for that: takeoff (and landing for VTOL) require much more power than level flight, especially with a VTOL design where all of the lift comes from the engines, and gasoline engines get a lot heavier with power than electric motors. On a conventional plane, you are carrying that huge/heavy engine around for the entire flight, just for the power during takeoff.

Electric motors are a lot lighter for a given power level, but on the other hand, the "fuel" for electric motors (i.e. batteries) is a lot heavier than gasoline, limiting endurance.

So some sort of hybrid mechanism that blends the advantages and disadvantages can make a lot sense, despite the extra cost/weight of a hybrid powertrain.
DJI made some advancements on their latest Mavic Pro which is 60% quieter and a much more pleasing pitch. You certainly would not hear it at 100 ft unless you were looking for it.

The technology for quiet drones exist (blade design) it’s just that companies don’t give a fuck. Maybe with regulation...
I bought ThinkPad in 2013. Highly disappointed. Won't buy again.
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I also encounter the same problem. thanks for your answer.
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This is a shockingly hard problem, which the technique still doesn't get right even if the hardware cooperates.

1) If the filename provided is just a filename, then dirname (and parent) may not work as expected. You ought run it through realpath first.

2) What if the parent's parent hasn't been flushed? You need to recurse all the way up to "/".

3) Extending support for other POSIX systems will be tricky. The Austin group (keepers of POSIX development) had trouble with this. Some systems consider using open() on a directory a complete sin (you must use opendir()), some allow it read only but not with write, fsync() may require write permissions instead of just read, and opendir() may not produce an FD which you can ever convince fsync() to operate on (e.g. because no write permission). Indeed, the initial proposal from the Austin group was that all operations on directory entries should be atomic if the inode is also synced (which matches e.g. HPUX, one of the systems which strictly disallows any attempt at calling fsync() on a directory). Many other systems (Linux especially) obviously don't fit that model, it has some unpleasant performance implications, and overall no agreement was ever reached as to how to standardize it.

As for testing, you might look at "Torturing Databases for Fun and Profit" (https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi14/technical-sessions/...) and "All File Systems Are Not Created Equal: On the Complexity of Crafting Crash-Consistent Applications" (https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi14/technical-sessions/...) for detailed approaches.

Good catch on Apple lying on fsync, btw. Not too many people know that one.
I also encounter the same problem. thanks for your answer.
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Even a slight movement caused the laptop to hang, and this has been happening ever since the day I bought. I dismissed it as something trivial and didn' took it up to customer service.

A few months later, I got multiple vertical lines across my monitor. The technician came and while disassembling, he messed the nuts & bolts. When he assembled later, he forgot to put a few nuts in place. A few days later got the same vertical lines problem. Took these 2 issues to their customer service, even escalated, was 4 hours on call. They did not give 2 hoots.

That's how Lenovo treats its ThinkPad customers
Before making comment that you claim is false I went to our team management panel and exported full history for our team since 2016. It's not super active team we have, but it's still 20MB of logs in JSON and 64939 messages according to simple grep:

grep '"text"' "./VCMI Slack export Mar 12 2018" -rn | wc -l

It's team with open registration so it's would obviously be impossible to ever pay for it. After all it's open source project.
This post is basically saying the problem is not worth looking at because it's too scary...
Better than allowing that money to go to some starving artist though. They might not spend it as responsibly.
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It's not about the distance. It's about the number and diversity of things that you have access to.

If you have access to 10 identical Chuck E. Cheese's restaurants with a 10 minutes drive, you have less access than if you have access to 10 very different restaurants with a 10 min walk as it's typically the case in a dense city center.

I agree that the relevant metric is time. In a dense environment, you typically have access to more and more diverse things than in a less dense, car dependent suburban environment, in the same amount of time.
Even worse than gambling--the output isn't random. You can actually affect the result, a lethal combination for gambling behaviors. With slot machines it's at it's worst when the gambler believes there's a system that works. In this case there actually is one making it capable of drawing in folks who would not be at risk of being pulled into a slot machine.
It has a range of 62 miles. It's not going to work for "hard to reach" places or long distances.
I'll whole heartedly agree that there is no smoking gun to any of my theories. I don't equate this speech with violence. My point is just that situations that result in mob violence can deteriorate at a rate far faster than rational voices can prevail. People are programmable. The level of fervor I see on some of these subreddits tells me that someone is programming these people. People are using the tools of psychology to achieve goals that would not be achievable otherwise. In the time elapsed since the programming of this particular group of people, two years ago, all of the protests I've seen from Trump's base have not been airing of grievances, but more of "lets go gloat in public and see if we can trigger the left.". Trumps base is triggered with shadenfreude, not anger. My point is that there is a singular event, Trump leaving office prematurely, that large groups of the right will inevitably interpret as a coup. If that very situation arises, then the calm, see-it-coming-a-mile-away, clear signs of trouble you envision, is suddenly hundreds of thousands of people in crisis mode.

I realize that there is a spectrum of using psychology to influence people, and I can't tell you where the line is of too far, but can we agree that the line exists?
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For university I got a T450 a while ago. Probably the best laptop I ever had. It runs linux flawlessly (and I mean it, booting straight from a Knoppix ISO Image from 2.3 kernel times is no problem as much as booting a modern 4.15 kernel)

It seems they have somewhat fubar'd some of the newer and cheaper releases. I do however recommend to atleast try the more business oriented variants, usually they contain less crap.

I also find it disappointing that nobody else builds laptops like the Thinkpad. All I want from a good laptop is A) sturdy B) nipple mouse and C) long battery life.
So, you think those vehicles would be restricted to the country side? I find that very hard to believe. Especially suburban areas will be doomed by broad adaption of this kind of technology.

And while you may now see the advantage in remote areas, do not forget that when you get faster out you get in faster and the amount of people (and hence general noise) will increase so much. If a commute of one hour is acceptable for most people, its just the range those people live in that increases. And even if traffic is not that dense, some 100 dB noise every 2 minutes can be as annoying as a busy street nearby.

I always have the feeling that people always just look what they could do if they had this kind of technology and not what other people might do with it.
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It's much better with a card inserted. Infact the ExpressCard-slot made me choose an X220 over the X230. It can be used to connect an external GPU!
So we've got desires to identify with groups, and we've got desires to share criticisms of groups, and we struggle to find a balance. If we never criticize, we stagnate, if we never identify, we "self-destruct". We can come up with a "quick solution" as the notion of keeping more of our criticisms to ourselves, but that's certainly not a goal you want to pursue overzealously. You need to be able to share criticisms.

We can tell people it's not attractive to be ranty, but I'm not very comfortable going further than that, at the risk of wandering into thought policing.

Look at some modern political opinion, I'm sure you've seen it as much as me. Ranting is cool. Calling everything under the sun "problematic". The tricky thing is it's not always wrong. There's surely a nearly infinite list of "problems" one could identify, and some of them are truly important. But we just need to turn down the heat on the criticism for just a second. But you can't just ask bipartisans to listen to each other more. We need to make it less cool to be blindly partisan. We need to increase the value of being able to identify with anyone. And we need to make it really uncool to judge hundreds of millions of people you've never met with deep assumptions.

I don't know, it's an interesting problem and I haven't thought of it this way very much. All I'm sure of is that this growing lack of interest in protecting free speech is about the only topic in modern politics that I give a shit about.
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>Then why is his name is in the title? He's not the first person to make these points. The only reason The Guardian has to publish this over the thousands of other sources of the same opinion is his name. That was my only point.

And? It's not a very solid point tbh. "Other people said it too" isn't an argument against anything.

> I didn't even read the article because I already disagree with the premise, give more control to the wrong people, just like with DRM. Regulations become legal "weapons" just as often as they actually help society. When they do, its usually the existing big companies that can A) afford to comply and B) know how to exploit the regulations to burden their competitors.

You see, that is an actual argument against the premise of the article. Or atleast the title since you skimmed over the contents. Though I disagree that regulation will make things worse considering how bad things already are.
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They acknowledged it on Twitter[1]. Status page[2] doesn't reflect that it's down, but this is serious degradation of service.

There is also a forum post[3] from couple days ago which means that it's hasn't been fixed for more than 2 days.

- [1] https://twitter.com/LastPassHelp/status/973306914925924352
- [2] https://status.lastpass.com/
- [3] https://forums.lastpass.com/viewtopic.php?t=294555&p=983515
He made it illegal when he chose GPL(v3). The text above just points it out. That it's inconvenient for app store users has no bearing on legality. Of course, as the author, he could with a stroke of the hand give an app store excemption or change/add a license, but clearly, he doesn't want to.
I rarely see a big textbox on the top of the main page of any mailing list archive that says "Fulltext search" (and isn't totally crap). "NNTP Gateway" doesn't sound encouraging in that it is explained and available for the layperson to easily employ as search tool.
Just like the old UNIX process IPC or micro-kernels communication is.
My experience with Packt has been wholly negative.

To give an example of what to expect, my experience with one particular book on Scientific Python:
* most code examples wouldn't run without significant modification, mainly due to missing lines and multiple typos
* some of the text was cryptic to the point of absurdity
* topic coverage was unstructured, patchy and made no coherent sense overall
* the website for the book was broken and I couldn't find any way to feed my corrections back to the author

Clearly Packt put no effort into quality assurance or editing. I would suggest you would be better off waiting for something from a more reliable publisher: such poorly edited books will just waste your time.
I guess this has been longer ago, but the Malhuer National Wildlife Refuge takeover by the Bundys was essentially a militia challenging the government to armed conflict. I'm well aware that the case against these people ended in a mistrial because of exculpatory evidence that was withheld. That doesn't change the fact that conservatives have threatened violence in recent political protest.
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Speaking of them as signifiers isn't useful here, but yes, these are signifiers. You said yourself they convey meaning. The implication of their use wouldn't happen without signification.

One could even write a book about the discourse of affordances. It would be boring and irrelevant, but it wouldn't be wrong.

Sorry, just defending the mechanics of meaning.
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Your OS or filesystem may maintain a blacklist of lying devices (IIRC XFS does so), although such probably isn't exported to the user. Regardless, those blacklists are built via testing, and probably aren't comprehensive. If you absolutely positively must be assured your write is persisted, I recommend fsync, sync, waiting five minutes, fsync and sync again, then top it off with a prayer.
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Connection to the parent though is explicit. Obviously I'm addressing the parent's objection -- that outsourcing to China couldn't be the US solution, since China outsource happened in mid-90s.

And I'm saying that, sure, it might not have been outsourced to China, but it was to Japan/Taiwan and co.

Or, as another commenter wrote about my comment: "it’s clear that the other commenter is addressing your question of how the US could “outsource production” if not to China."