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Pocket notebook.

Some pages have notes of stuff I think about during the day (for future goals). Mostly, though, I have per-day todo lists. I leave a blank line between items to add optional metadata later, like scheduled/due time, category, time estimate, when I started and when I finished.

I chose paper media because it makes it easier to experiment with different formats. The pocket form factor allows me to carry it everywhere.

When I want to track my goals and progress on a software project, though, I opt for org-mode in emacs. It's mostly because it's faster to type than to handwrite and staying on the computer keeps me in tune. Also, it gives tremendous freedom to organize notes and tasks. There's a lot of features and minimal clutter despite that.

It's too bad it's lacking a good android app.
> First of all, there have been huge advancements in food production technology in all the years since Malthus. Second of all, there are huge advancements in the pipeline (basically indoors vegetables growing with minimal food waste and extreme space-efficiency, and lab printing of meat).

These are not good counter-Malthusian points. There were huge advancements in food production technology all throughout history (ploughs / iron ploughs / crop rotation / plants from the new world... the list really is endless), but things were in a much more Malthusian state.

The non-Malthusian state of affairs we enjoy today is entirely a function of people choosing not to have children, not a function of better technology. People who were so inclined could easily wipe out (per capita) the gains from productivity, by increasing the number of capita.
Thanks for the response.

Yes, the last part could be considered rhetorical. Except, I think that is the very real direction some -- including especially some already in authority, in the U.S. as well as around the world -- want to take things.

On the other hand, maybe my question is rhetorical, in that the tracking is already in place.
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Rather, noise is not a problem for SO, but it is a problem of someone else.
I agree with your sentiment, but I'd like to point out that I've seen examples of closed questions that were worded well, and interesting enough for me to answer.
If you're just working with a golang binary, you shouldn't be using an Alpine container, you should be putting the binary in an empty, from-scratch container. Go binaries are typically static and don't need distro or the libs it provides in their container.
> it goes down by a lot; more than 50%. All the way down below replacement rate.

Some quick systems-level analysis shows that this state of affairs cannot possibly be stable. Societies reproducing at below replacement rate are quickly replaced by societies reproducing above replacement rate. What will happen then?

Counting on societies to hold their birth rate down that far is fundamentally at odds with the theory of evolution. It's not a good basis for predictions of the future.
Exponential growth must always come to an end, but if your biggest resource is people than more people can overcome other resource limitations by invention and culture.
Of course, so let’s assume a 5” display, and assume that the fill factor per LED color is 25% (rather than expected 33%) then 25% of the area of a 5” display would be required to populate one color. So assuming a small dicing kerf let’s assume for a 12 inch wafer you get 8 displays from that for one color. Which feels pretty generous, normally that same vendor would have yielded millions of LEDs from that same wafer and they made say 10000 per wafer, then if you asked them to sell for far less than that, what is their incentive? If they did that they would essentially be crashing the entire LED market in one fell swoop and their own profits. So the die area argument makes sense from apples perspective but doesn’t from the entrenched LED makers perspective. So seems like apple essentially would need to own the actual LED fab as well.
And the worst part is, I don't even understand WTF Pinterest is.
My filter is part of the adblocker and kicks in every single time. That's way better, no need to remember adding it.
VLAN is a popular one.
If you’re in AWS, wouldn’t SSM agents on instances be preferable to SSH access? That provides for both access control (IAM for user access, SSM documents for constraining command execution authority) and auditing/logging of executed commands (CloudTrail).

This does not work for interactive terminal use cases, but does work (in my experience) if you’re targeting immutable instances. It also has the lovely side effect that you can create scheduled tasks within the AWS control plane (if that’s your cup of tea).

Example SSM client: https://github.com/itsdalmo/ssm-sh

Disclaimer: I’m implementing this in a large enterprise environment.
The Stasi and KGB would have given everything to have something like Facebook. Here they were installing listening devices, torturing people, following them, getting family members to spy on each other. They just needed Facebook and none of that would have been necessary. People would voluntarily log in and type everything they do, where they travel, what food they are eating, what political parties they support, who their friends are, everything connected nicely in a pretty graph with nodes and edges.

> https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mark_Zuckerberg

Zuck: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS
[Redacted Friend's Name]: What? How'd you manage that one?

Zuck: People just submitted it.

Zuck: I don't know why.

Zuck: They "trust me"

Zuck: Dumb fucks
Really? I'm a junior software engineer. I used a lot of SO before college/freshman college etc but then I realized last few years I never use SO. I really cannot think of problem that I couldn't solve reading the manual, man-page, info-page, project wiki, archlinux wiki etc... I'm not shit talking SO, I definitely read it rarely, but it doesn't seem like an irreplacable thing for me.
> With the exception of bug bounties, which you might not bother ever doing at all

Why not?
This is why Snowden is a mixed figure. While I admire what he did and what he stands for, blatant statements like this reduce trust and makes one question whether he is indeed righteous.
You know, the best metaphor I've heard, and how I've started treating it ever since: Twitter is like a cocktail party that you can enter and leave any time of the day, for as long or as short as you'd like. You might participate in some interesting conversations, you might learn about something new, and then when you're done you can leave.

The thing you don't want to do is try to keep up with every tweet. Just follow a bunch of people you find interesting, and once in a while pop in and see what people are talking about.
I actually have a couple of bash scripts just for this when I want to look something up specifically at mdn, and thought about expanding it to stack overflow and reddit.

What's that? Why yes I have heard the phrase 'bikeshedding', why do you ask? ;)
No he lives in Florida.
Growing up in pretty typical Suburbia, USA, probably more than I can fit on my hands.
So Vibranium is not a metal after all!
I dunno - with the Stasi the stakes were higher: people could actually end up in jail for stating the wrong opinion. Nowadays facebook is all about pushing adds, so there is less drama in the plot.

However i guess the analogy is more fitting for Baidu. The Chinese state has some very restrictive laws that are applied in practice.

And in Russia you can get sentenced for a wrong repost, so yandex.ru or ok.ru/vk.ru is in the same league.
This reminds me a bit of how flubber works in the 1960s Disney movie "The Absent-Minded Professor".
Hey thanks for all the hard work!

> I can say that we're working to make sure there will never be another webpack release that suffers from the same kind of documentation shortcoming

We still have time to make sure this release has good docs. Please don’t give up on it just yet!

Can we make some task issues on github that ask people to document a portion of the code/process?
This is rife with half truths.

1. Amazon is cited as a middleman in multiple use cases. It's trivial for one to bypass Amazon by self hosting an e-commerce website. However, Amazon's value is actually it's channel reach - people go to Amazon to look for things and not being there is bad business.

2. The USP of the blockchain is in providing "trust" that was previously provided by middlemen. Like in smart contacts or escrow. Those are the only use cases that actually make sense. Ones listed in this article aren't the best fit for the blockchain
This makes a nice story. However, please consider the following. Right now we use Facebook and share personal details, but the USA does not generally act on the information that is shared. People are not being disappeared, shot, or sent to work themselves to death in the Gulag. If activists and political opponents kept disappearing, you and I would surely shut stop sharing on Facebook so freely.
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> If they did that they would essentially be crashing the entire LED market in one fell swoop

Would they? A one-subpixel microLED isn't going to be able to be used as a regular LED. It's not large or bright enough.
Equifax leaked 142M SSNs alongwith name, email, dob and address for all Americans with credit history. KGB most assuredly already have that data. Why is people's photographs (most of them of which are already public on Instagram) and friend list (which if KGB wanted to get for their targets, they can get in a day) so critical? Google has location data for each and every person globally at almost every minute - I feel that is much more useful than what FB has - if you think from KGB's perspective.
It does. But unless you have a CDN, caching is going to be per client. Since I've now visited the site, I have it cached, but that doesn't help the next unique visitor.

The site makes use of and respects cache headers, too. (And, I'll add, only makes 1¹ request aside from the main HTML, for some CSS; the site is refreshingly minimal, yet still looks nice.)

¹it also makes a request for MathJax, but that gets blocked b/c it's made over HTTP, and the site is HTTPS.
I work in SF. There is no requirement I be able to afford to live there.

Do no, I don't expect the employees to necessarily be able to live there.

Ferrari mechanics cannot afford Ferraris. Stanford regular employees cannot afford to send their kids there, etc. So what?
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"promise to make future gadgets slimmer", isn't current oled technology, like, really slim? As in, paper thin?
Typically you either use a tool like flywaydb so that each individual step is only run once or you make your scripts re-runnable. IME the flywaydb approach is much better, it works well for local development and naturally progresses through to production releases with as little friction as possible.
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"has pivoted"? Recently? When was it not a surveillance company?
Here [0] is a react-router alternative, if you don't need the fancy stuff.

https://medium.com/@daveford/react-router-alternative-switch...
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Societies reproducing at below replacement rate are quickly replaced by societies reproducing above replacement rate. What will happen then?

By then, the robots will be ready to take over.
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it is not only about making thinner devices just for the sake. It is also about making energy efficient devices. Current battery tech has not progressed leaps and bounds so I think Apple is trying other ways to make Apple products more energy efficient.
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It would be interesting to see the results from NSF and ROHS-approved home machines from manufacturers like Nuova Simonelli, La Marzocco, and Astra.

I also wonder how effective water scale deposits on the boiler are at mitigating lead - doing tests on new-ish machines without much scale buildup could be a factor in these results.

Stainless is becoming more of a popular alternative to brass and copper, but isn't as effective of a thermal conductor and is not as malleable. For steam boilers and heat exchanger systems, being able to expand and deform under high pressure is a desirable feature.
The earth isn't dying. It may become uninhabitable for humans, but that is quite different than the earth being dead.
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> Counting on societies to hold their birth rate down that far is fundamentally at odds with the theory of evolution.

Why?
CSUs and UCs are both four-year (plus, as both offer graduate as well as undergraduate education) schools.

You may be thinking of California's not public community college system.
Nice. I do the same, with Saltstack. I manage all my users' access, including account creation and removal, password setting, and key management. Easy peasy.
Community is most strong part of Software innovation and I am glad companies building on Microsoft stack are following the pack and becoming open source.
Nice. This is a decode-side thing; it can be used on existing images.

But the site should show more images. Some with hard edges, like text and line art, need to be included.
Because anything reproducing at below replacement rate goes extinct. If you e.g. look around at any given point, and take a sample -- by any method -- of living things that come to your attention, none of those things will have gone extinct.

It's the same reason there are no societies which abstain entirely from giving birth. There have been a few, over the course of history, but they disappear for the incredibly obvious reason. At a steady state, such societies don't exist because they can't exist.
I have an account on Pinterest because I like the service but having to sign-in for the simplest of things surely bugs me. Sometimes I just want to see one image and I end up having to navigate a bunch of sign-in pages just to see something. Recently I've found myself skipping Pinterest pages just because of the hoop jumping that signing-in creates.
Test image still has perceptible blocking. Description suggests it should be possible to reconstruct source values/smoothness staying in stored intervals, and yet there are still visible boundaries.

Lower right corner you can clearly trace 4 horizontal blocks, looks like algorithm tries hard to maintain encoded hard boundaries despite there being gradual color shift. Maybe it needs to look further than direct neighbor block for clues.
They can buy pretty much anything they want

You might want to look into the cost of purchasing and operating a nice yacht. Not even talking about superyachts...
"pushing ads" may be the used justification and one that some people buy, just like "keeping everybody safe" was the ostensible justification for the Stasi.
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What is wrong with his statement?
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As countries develop both their birth rates and death rates decrease, but below replacement rate is a pretty strong statement. Population growth like this is modeled in the Demographic Transition Model and consists of 5 stages. Most developed nations fall in the fourth stage, with stable birth and death rates. The 5th stage is often debated, but a pretty good example would be Japan - a country with an aging population and low birth rates (learned about this in school several years ago though, not too sure how up to date)
> Societies reproducing at below replacement rate are quickly replaced by societies reproducing above replacement rate.

“Societies” are about memes, not genes, and humans are powerful imitators of things that visibly are associated with success.
About the protagonist - http://m.legacy.com/obituaries/nytimes/obituary.aspx?n=ari-j...
I didn't know the iPhone X is the first Apple device with OLED tech. I thought it was using OLED for a while. Does that explain the fantastic battery usage on iPhone X or is that due to the double battery pack?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16613956

This, too, is missing the middle bit -- where adults with a spine and a conscience struggle for their dignity and a world that's better, not worse than the one we were born into.

> Why is people's photographs (most of them of which are already public on Instagram) and friend list (which if KGB wanted to get for their targets, they can get in a day) so critical?

Why is it so critical for you to be onboard? Why isn't "if you still have to ask you just don't get it" enough for other people to organize around and despite you?
Note that react router 4 does support passing props down explicitly using the "render" parameter instead of component parameter. This was my biggest gripe with previous versions where you had to resort to cloneElement, which is a pain.
I don’t think that’s more than a meme. The Stasi collected information you didn’t want to share, and what you put on Facebook willingly is typically the same sort of front you would have put up publicly in the DDR. As in the best version of you.

There is some truth to what you’re saying though, but that’s in the data Facebook collects about you, without your knowledge.

I think the facial recognition program is a good example. Even if you don’t have a Facebook account, or even if you do but didn’t share any pictures of your vacation, Facebook might still know you went. They know by recognizing you in pictures of other people. If you get caught in someone’s Instagram selfie in an airport or at a popular tourist spot, then Facebook knows you where there.

Stasi would have loved that, but that’s not information people share willingly.
The point of the Stasi wasn't the information. They didn't give two shits about truth or verifiable fact, it was the awareness of survailence and the mistrust it created that was useful to them.
Looks like a neat little language. Lua's syntax always appeared ugly to me - or if not ugly, then unnecessarily foreign. Something more Javascript-like lowers that barrier a good bit.
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They're a product discovery tool, which marketed itself aggressively.
The unattributed quotes in the story say a lot. Apple employees with that level of information don't have casual, off the cuff, and not-for-attribution conversations with Journalists by mistake or by accident.
I suspect this was a purposeful and controlled leak.
The article I cited has addressed this and dismissed it. Do you think the article was wrong?
>the ultimate, final victory

Famous last words.
What happens evolutionary is that genes that make it more likely to have children in the industrialized society setting - whatever they are - are getting an enormous boost.
People can dismiss this saying he was a teenager, and just randomly chatting to a friend privately.

But I've been developing programs since I was 15, and created my first startup (hardware) at 18 with an engineer 10-years older than me.

Never once did I ever refer to any of our customers or clients as "dumb fucks". Why? What did they do to Zuck?

Although, I did refer to AOL executives, FBI agents, Secret Service agents, federal prosecutors and lame wannabe hackers as dumb fucks. Both then and now. And I work with the federal government, with an agency that's often unfairly demonized by a variety of people.

Which makes me think of a new phrase: dumb zucks.

Quasi wannabe devs who build products and services not to advance the hacker ethos or crypto-anarchy but to get rich being essentially technical marketing partners for the FBI and corporate America.

EDIT- Facebook's address is 1 Hacker Way. Zuck is not a hacker. He is the opposite of one.
School enrollment is permitted for those with temporary resident registration (which most everyone should qualify) but requires three year continuous registration, so is still a high bar to cross. Hope to see continued relaxation. They will need the younger generation to fill the schools as fertility rate stays low.
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Didnt Sony demonstrate such display in a TV once? Yep in 2012, so did Samsung recently http://www.zdnet.com/article/ces-samsung-unveils-modular-146...
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You could model a "society" after early modern France, following these stylized facts:

- "Society" is divided into two cultural subgroups, Catholic and Protestant.

- Protestants reproduce below the replacement rate.

- Catholics reproduce well above the replacement rate.

- Protestants nevertheless persist in the population, because the children of Catholics are relabeled Protestant at very high rates.

However, for this to work, note that the reproduction rate of all France, including the Catholics and the Protestants, must be above replacement.

(I will note that I have no opinion on whether, in the real France, Protestants actually reproduced below replacement or just below the level of Catholics. The usual question you see accompanying these facts is "how could there be a significant number of Protestants in France?", not "how could there be people in France at all?")
> And he would probably have been pretty spot on with his predictions if the fertility rate had not drastically decreased.

If I went around saying, "well, I would have been right if that one part of my theory hadn't become invalidated by events on the ground" people would think me impossible to reason with.
> What happens evolutionary is that genes that make it more likely to have children in the industrialized society setting - whatever they are - are getting an enormous boost.

No, whatever makes it more likely to have children that survive to reproduce, not just tomhave children, would be getting the boost, but the environment is probably shifting faster than can give a consistent boost to anything.
interesting point but for a given luminance in nits the area doesn’t matter since it is cd / m^2 so assuming that there is a “cheap variety” of LED wafer material that outputs say 2000 nits for a low current, then a small area — say 20x20um for the subpixel size would save some cost for sure. I would estimate about the area of the subpixel would be about 30 times smaller than most indicator type low cost LEDs — which are in the sub 1mm^2 area range. So we can find the 30X factor but still need around 300X cost reduction still to get a 10000X reduction in price. Ultimately the Display should be around $100 or less, so if you can buy an entire wafer for $800 or so then you have something, but as far as I know most 12 in wafers with zero processing done to them are more like 1k. Then put them thru a fab and add value and run the fab and the cost goes up a ton. And we need 3 different wafers.. so anyway, I’m worried cost is just going to really hurt this approach for a long time.
So by the same logic, if you stop your car in the middle of the highway and someone slides into the parapet after going around it, you did not cause an accident?

I agree with the bike hostile design part. Navigating the bevel downwards is not a problem. Navigating it upwards at a steep angle of attack is.
I think you would have to be very gullible to believe companies like this at their word.
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I am waiting for the day they act. Does that say something or am I paranoid? I admin antipolice/antigovernment pages, my outreach is too strong to stop. Am I tagged and catalogued by multiple agencies or do they not care about us little theoretical troublemakers? If a liker of my page commits a crime am I listed for his personal actions?
IMHO Cloud functions serve well a very small niche. However most of the people advocating for cloud functions seem to misused them. Their use cases would be better served using a well designed PaaS(though I admit is hard to find a good one these days).