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My teams have never had any difficulty in schema changes. To be honest, we don't even think of it as an issue.

1) No deleting or alternating columns needed by any production code. Need something different? Create a new column. After weeks of this column not being needed, we use 2) to delete it - but it isn't a priority.

2) Adding/Modifying columns just use pt-schema-change. I have seen this tool transform billion row tables - it also supports slave master.
That optimization came later in the game.

Again, the point is that Objective-C started as macro processor generating C code, which gregopet states it is silly for Vala devs to choose the same path as Brad Cox and Tom Love decided for their language.
Is a "mental health" bot regulated by the FDA? IANAL but perhaps you should avoid the "health" part and say it's only a motivational bot.
Hey guys. FYI, Darch (my project) has support for VoidLinux.

https://godarch.com/concepts/recipes/distributions/
I map ALT to CTRL and CapsLock to ALT, so I don't have to use my pinky to hot CTRL
What do you mean 'medium' resolution? The Moai has 70 micron laser spot size. Form2 is 140 micron. The $500 SLAs have 47 micron pixels. They have major disadvantages vs the expensive laser SLA machines but resolution is not one of them.
> https://officelens.uservoice.com/forums/289714-office-lens-u...

It seems Office Lens depends on the online servers and doesn't do anything offline.

I still prefer offline solutions, especially open-source ones.
I have 75 relatives on Facebook who live around 3000 miles away from me. If I want to share a photo do I send a mass email to all 75 annoying those who aren’t interested, do I BCC everyone so I get repeated responses (and those responses aren’t shared with anyone else who is interested). Or do I post it on my Facebook feed where those who aren’t interested can ignore it (and it will be gone soon) and those who are can have a conversation around it without getting in everyone else’s way?

Edit: ok maybe around 40, not 75. But point still stands, it’s indirect communication rather than remembering about that cousin of an auntie’s grandparent’s nephew’s sister-in-law that I met ten years ago.
If you can spare the time read these two, the first one is free.

http://linuxcommand.org/tlcl.php/

https://www.amazon.com/UNIX-Linux-System-Administration-Hand...
Responsibility is a juridic notion.

Those decisions are not necessarily rational in the sense that economic theory defines economic actors that always act for their best interest.

Another great resource on the topic is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking,_Fast_and_Slow

Most of our decisions are not the result of conscious, deliberate thoughts. Our deliberate selves can be manipulated, but that's our instinct that's the most prone to manipulation.

Advertising is designed to make us act for the benefit of corporations, not necessarily our own benefit. It is nowadays built on the science that I've linked to, and they pour billions of dollars into it because it's so damn effective.

Speaking of phones, status symbols may have been important for survival 10,000 years ago, but they aren't anymore (or much less), and yet we still seek them, and corporations take advantage of that instinct to milk us by selling more and more useless, shiny junk. The ego boost is short-lived though because the next best thing is always around the corner, keeping us on the chronic dissatisfaction treadmill.
> In my own study of Japanese, I found that I really enjoyed learning

I've been learning Thai for a few months. Realistically, I'm not sure I'll ever be able to use it but it doesn't matter as the mere process of learning is enjoyable. I commit myself to 30 min of focused work each day. I've noticed that it helps me relax and clear my mind (especially writing).
How are you defining Target Salary? Annual or weekly or daily?
With Darch (I'm the author), you can use VoidLinux with a replicated setup.

Also, each boot is a clean boot (tempfs overlay). This ensures you capture your OS changes through your build script.

https://godarch.com/

This gives me what I love about Nix (scripted setup) with OSs I love (Arch and Void).
> [AI enhanced propaganda] will learn exactly what to say to push your buttons ... No one is impervious to this

If this is true, then I wonder if one could repurpose the machinery towards making people resistant to such manipulation. Push people's buttons to make them think there's something wrong with bleu cheese, then follow up (perhaps at the end of the article, perhaps later) with a description of how their buttons were pushed and a listing of everything that was faked. The analogy would be vaccination.

If you get hoaxed once and learn that it was a hoax, that may not have much effect (see Gell-Mann amnesia). If it happens six times in a row, I suspect that will make you significantly less liable to believe things you read without question.
I don't think 3khz is enough. Say you can scan your eyes 180deg in 0.1s, and at 3m distance you can discern 1mm features.

If it's 8bit PWM at lowest output (1/256 on-rate) you need about 3(m) x 3.14(pi) / 0.1(s) / 0.001(m) x 256 so you don't see gaps between dots, 24mhz PWM. That does seem high...
Feel but not understand. Instead, every time you buy a Toyota/Honda/whatever, take a picture of you at the dealer picking up the car and send it to Nissan explaining why you bought from their competitor. Point to a website explaining the larger story. If that’s your thing. I’ve never owned a Nissan, but to me things like Chevy’s refusal to fix faulty ignition switches for nearly a decade that resulted in many fatal accidents is a better hill to die on.
I am pretty sure you mean 3->4. KDE5 was so smooth, that you were wondering why they were talking about a major release.

The problem with the KDE4 was that people were adopting it too early. I started to use it with the first alpha and saw a lot of bugs during that time, but I always knew that I was using incomplete alpha software. KDE4 wasn't stable enough for every day use until 4.3 or so and many people started to use it with 4.1 which was just the first version which claimed to be usable at all (most basic programs had been rewritten, but many more advanced programs still weren't ready).
KDE5 really was terrible for a long time. I tried it multiple times after it was launched, but always quickly downgraded until my distro dropped support for KDE4. At first it did not even handle multiple displays properly. In fact, some areas, such as locale support are still much inferior to KDE4 [1].

[1] https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=340982
Do you have any more interesting stories of working on game development for the PSX?
These services are pawns or tools in the current flavor of the geopolitical great game.

Using a Russian service to distribute your bespoke porn is just going to open another can of worms.
In pushing for these sales, SoftBank appears to be valuing Uber and other cab hailing business as taxi businesses and aiming to improve profitability by reducing competition rather than as a precursor to gain marketshare for some kind of driverless taxi fleets. The insiders don't seem to subscribe to the breathless enthusiasm of online commentators who have long considered Uber's current model as merely a stepping store to driverless fleets.
Glad to hear you say this!!

I’m in the same boat, the flashing cyclist lights hurt my eyes and give me headaches. Sometimes I need to hold up my hand like the sun visor, to cover the flashing light. Other times I’m tempted to turn on my brights to ensure I’m not too close when passing.

The cyclists choose these flashing lights for safety but above some critical brightness it makes things less safe

I’m surprised there’s no regulation of brightness or “flashiness” for bicycle lights.
Uber must be feeling the pressure because they also started accepting cash in some cities.
> something that's been working fine since the 1980s has recently been declared broken

Void Linux uses runit, which was released in 2004, so I guess they agree.
Eh, it doesn't sound too bad. There's already a myriad of meta data (HTTP request headers) you need to process today if you want to be a good HTTP citizen, such as acknowledging Accept-Encoding, HTTP byte ranges, If-Modified-Since, X-Forwarded-For, X-Forwarded-Proto, etc; and sending correct response headers such as Cache-Control, Vary, and so on.
Even without SNI the ISP could just check the destination IP themselves to find out what domain resides there.
MySpace allowed viruses on their platform; Facebook IS the virus.
No mention of DNN based ASR like DeepSpeech? There’s even open source python implementations available from Mozilla and Paddle.

These models are way easier to train, have surprisingly good accuracy, and are robust to noise.
I'd love to see Uber's income statement - they've grown fast but are they profitable yet, and how much of their revenue comes from subsidised rides?
If you know it's uncalled for and frowned upon then please don't do it, you're just making HN worse for everyone.
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Sounds like meditation techniques. I often practice mindfulness meditation in a dark room for ~10 minutes in the mid-afternoon when I get tired. It usually gives me new energy and focus similar to if I'd napped.
Even giant corporations don't want to build their own sites. It isn't that people can't, it's that they would rather pay for it with money or data instead of time.
I also work with non-speech audio and I'm curious: Do you use pure DFT:s as inputs to your models or do you use mel-energies or MFCC:s? What kind of models do you use? Since there is not that much variation in the sound of a chainsaw I suppose either a regular fully connected or convolutional neural network?

Love what you are doing and I would love to see a technical blog post about how you work with audio!
> .. mathematicians who dreamt big, wrote poems, constructed the atomic bomb and helped organise the first flights to the moon.

Wow! I want to purchase the movie rights -- where do I sign?
This works for me. I’ve found that it’s all in my head.
The other day a former colleague pinged me with a screenshot from one of our secondary RADIUS servers, asking if he could remove my former user account from a bit of Perl code (we used Radiator).

That ‘if’ block exempted me, the CEO and the CMO from traffic limits (which at the time would forcibly disconnect you) and make sure we had 24/7 access (I had set it up during testing because they kept calling us to remove the blocks, and one night I couldn’t log in either).

We found out during that exchange that another former colleague had left a cron script downloading Dilbert and User Friendly comics that had filled up the hard disk since 2008 (the machine had nearly 12 years of uptime).
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You're right that it's probably still detectable. But IEEE considers ~3+ kHz as "no risk." My interpretation is that it could be annoying but unlikely to cause an accident, etc.

Some of the really good LED dimming solutions I've seen that employ PWM are in the 30+ kHz range.

Of course, constant current dimming is the best, but it tends to be expensive.
Isn't devops basically an infrastructure engineering, which if anything, is as anti-systemd as it gets. I guess people think of devops as something different then.
Personally I’ve found that the new police lights that use LEDs are the worst. They’re blindingly bright. So you get to the scene of an accident, or where there’s some construction work or other hazard and the police are trying to direct you... except you can’t see a damn thing because of their lights.
Just this year I learned an invaluable lesson about falling asleep. When my brain starts "daydreaming" random chains of thoughts, just let it do that. I used to try to clear my mind, but the opposite seems to work much better for me.
iPhone 8, don’t miss it at all.

Everyday headphones are AirPods and I also occasionally use my Bose QC35.
Thanks - good point. I need to change the phrasing.
What if a major French company lists the Falklands under Argentina?

You'd get a reddit "BritishProblems" grumpy post about it?

https://www.reddit.com/r/britishproblems/comments/2emlt0/i_w...

https://www.reddit.com/r/britishproblems/search?q=country+li...
I can actually confirm this -- my father served in WWII (but in the Army), and he came back with this skill to fall asleep quickly. I, sadly, don't really have it. But this article has given me the idea to work on it more.

The relaxation ideas here, of course, come from Indian yoga techniques, but maybe they didn't mention the history of it when teaching it. Now that would be a selling point, ha!
I tell my relatives repeatedly to not take pictures of me if they're going to share them on those platforms. This whole thing is a problem with people's complatiency with technology and especially the coorporations taking advantage of it.
This article is an interesting pair to Jimmy Maher's "The Game of Everything, Part 2: Playing Civilization" [1] published just two days ago.

He makes the same point that the original Civilization was designed around the assumption of a relentless march of growth and progress that will ultimately benefit all mankind. This is encoded in the game's winning conditions: "You win a game of Civilization in either of two ways: by eliminating all rival civilizations or by surviving until the colonization of space begins."

"Bruce Shelley, who authored the manual, is thus explicitly discouraging the player from approaching Civilization as a zero-sum game: you win simply 'by being in existence when colonists reach Alpha Centauri.' This doesn’t mean that all or most players played under that assumption — a topic I’ll return to momentarily — but it’s nevertheless kind of an amazing statement to find in a game like this one, implying as it does that civilization writ large truly is a global, cooperative project. There’s an idealism lurking within Civilization, this game that plays not just with economics and war but with the grandest achievements of humanity, that’s missing in the likes of Master of Orion. It’s notable that, while the history of gaming is littered with hundreds of galaxy-spanning 4X space operas, vanishingly few games beyond Civilization‘s own sequels have attempted to replicate its model of grand strategy."

[1] https://www.filfre.net/2018/03/the-game-of-everything-part-2...
If you work in something related to physics (energy, maths, chemistry), I can not recommend `units` enough.

As a small example:

You have: 10 kcal / g * 24 kg * .13USD/kWh
You want: USD
* 36.261333

It's so useful when converting between different units
I ran the musl libc version of Void Linux for a while on one of my laptops but ran into a lot of problems and buggy behavior.

If you are going to use Void Linux I would strongly recommend not picking the musl version unless you are specifically interested in improving musl support by filing and/or fixing bugs.
> The problem with the KDE4 was that people were adopting it too early.

True, it also meant that distributors were replacing KDE3 too early and the system wasn't receiving much updates anymore before KDE4 was usable. I ended up using mostly XFCE, Gnome and macOS the years after. ;) Might give KDE5 a shot though.
Some of the worst laws are made with good intentions. But people who fervently believe in a good cause often neglect to consider negative side effects in their quest to "do good" and can sometimes be actively hostile to anyone asking questions about said side effects.

Often righteous creates a sort of blindness.
The physical relaxation technique is more akin to self-hypnosis, while the mental relaxation technique is meditation to clear your mind.

Both techniques require months of practice to get right.
Actually used the same "hack" years ago. Made an app for a friend where one could import photos and drag logos on top of the photo.

Making a screenshot was way easier and since I didn't had to spend time to figure out how to use the bitmap API and its edge cases. Especially large pictures on low end devices caused crashes.
Corporations don't say their sorry by a person saying "sorry". Money and action.
I'm one of those that can fall asleep anytime, anywhere. The technique I use is to work on my "novel". I guess my mind knows I've been "working" on it for over twenty years, it's not important. At this point it's just a fantasy environment in my head I can drop into where the stresses of the real world don't exist.
Considering almost all websites except for largest one are behind one CDN / load balancer or another this is no longer relevant.
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One of the perks of social media is precisely the shift in cat herding burden from the user to the platform. I present the following as supporting evidence:

>NOTE: THIS SITE IS A PARTICIPANT IN THE AMAZON SERVICES LLC ASSOCIATES PROGRAM, AN AFFILIATE ADVERTISING PROGRAM DESIGNED TO PROVIDE A MEANS FOR SITES TO EARN ADVERTISING FEES BY ADVERTISING AND LINKING TO AMAZON.COM.

I do not revel in the glorious autonomy of, say, permanent academics whose self-help blogger reflexes have become so internalized that it's no longer clear whether they recognize that a post is opportunist piggybacking on trending slacktivist topics. If I can't tell from the general tenor of your blog whether you can tell that you're baldly shilling your books, your self-perception in the matter has ceased to hold relevance.

My first thought upon seeing affiliate marketing links on a self-serious blog is usually something more along the lines of: why does this creature believe they should be paid to have tastes in others' works?

For the most part, I'm not going to visit at all. But when I do, I am going — 100% of the time — to strip tracking parameters, affiliate codes, and all the other bullshit off any link prior to visiting.

Knowing that a platform's design serves to background any given individual user's capitalism of-the-soul in the service of a more homogeneous, impersonal assault from the proprietors is an extremely valuable thing. De-emphasizing personal schemes allows platform-centric economies of scale to double as behavioral peacekeeping. If I only have to circumnavigate a user's terrible ideology, vainglorious twitter feuds, etc. to accrue value from the subset of their posts I find worthwhile, I'm doing better, curatorially-speaking, than if I had to concern myself with that user's schemes to monetize their mere existence in my vicinity.

Constraints on affordances limit a small proportion of content-creating elites. You know you're one of those when your whining about the platform becomes action in leaving the platform, self-publishing in parallel, or otherwise upregulating personal agency.

For everyone else, though, those same constraints make the world go round.

The average internet user has no business whatsoever running their own services, per every single survey of digital skills ever conducted. And a CS prof writing otherwise is either (a) grossly incompetent in his stated area of expertise or (b) allowing himself to shoehorn flights of fancy into his writing in the service of pushing schlock.

A profile you lose because you didn't pay $4 last month, or didn't get security updates for, or […] is simply not a plausible centerpiece of alternative social media under any demographically-literate view of the world.

Homestead the noosphere all you want. Tenements will still need building too.
It's neat that you can confirm this first hand. So often you read stuff like this that you aren't sure how real it is.
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I have podcast subscriptions to like 10 different history podcasts and they put me to sleep within 5 minutes most of the time. The key is that it has to be interesting enough to engage me, but not so interesting that it keeps me awake.

The History of English podcast is my favorite for that. It’s the entire history of English from Indo-European onwards. It’s 100+ hours of readings from old English poetry or medieval monastic rule books interspersed with word etymologies (Did you know that ‘green’ and ‘grow’ and ‘grass’ are all from the same root word?). Don’t get me wrong, it’s absolutely fascinating but I challenge anyone to stay awake longer than three minutes listening to it in bed.
I really hate zero-sum thinking. It's true, if we were stuck on this ball of dirt forever, and technology is stagnant, then yes we should conserve a lot. But we're not stuck here (help Musk!), and technology will keep progressing. So I gotta say I completely disagree with this article.
Because that's all they are. Uber and its competitors provided a valuable service in demonstrating what a modern taxi service ought to look like (at least from a customer perspective). But now that they've raised that bar, they don't provide a lot of added value other than as a worldwide integrated brand (in the case of Uber specifically).

Whenever door-to-door self-driving eventually arrives, it won't be in a timeframe that's remotely interesting to current investors in these services.
"Rise and Fall, the first major expansion for Civ VI, makes bold moves to enliven the endgame, like introducing Dark Ages and “city loyalty” , which makes your cities more liable to defect but also gives you a chance of phoenix-like rebirth into a Heroic Age. The intent is to inject that early game dynamism into established empires, encouraging them to, well, rise and fall."

It's all biology. Empires grow and decline and die like animals. The leave offpsring.

There is perpetual growth but it happens in a cycle. No empire "wins", it breaks down and the pieces then grow and compete.
I used to support a warehouse management system (RedPrairie) that our company had customized per business rules. At some point, a bug was introduced which locked up a very important table and brought multiple warehouses to a stand-still. The decision makers weren't interested in fixing the bug, so after months of waking up at 2am to kill these locks, my coworker and I wrote a script which monitored for locks on this table from SQL with a certain pattern and killed any lock that persisted for longer than N seconds, then sent an email to anyone and everyone. This really messed with the integrity of the data in the system, but the decision makers loved the decrease in downtime and it stayed in place for a year before the bug was finally fixed.
Disagree strongly. That could well be true for some people, but it's a skill I picked up in just a few days of effort. Relaxing well enough to fall asleep quickly, that is. You don't need to meditate properly to do that. You just need enough of it to fall asleep.
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He said the 15 million in jest. He had no desire to sell.

Look up Trent Reznor being the same kind of asshole about http://reznor.com/

Me important heroin addict angsty mcteen, give me "my" domain. Fuck him too.