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I don’t see the settings ever fully converging. The various control panel dialogs, MMC snap-ins, and other “old” settings dialogs expose an incredibly rich amount of functionality that most users will never need.
Not sure why you have issues with W10 search - it always seems to do the right thing for most common use cases for me - C brings up Chrome, F Firefox, cm command prompt, A android studio to give a few examples.

Settings - it's a transition thing. With so many legacy CPLs out there - system and 3rd party ones - that's the only reasonable approach they could take - to duplicate everything over to modern settings and leave the old ones around long enough. As time has progressed more and more stuff has appeared in modern settings.

With the availability of great hardware options, it's hands down the best platform right now for users and developers.
Well, "digital transformation" is not a technology -- it's this strategic paradigm of how technology is diffused across an organization. The opposite of "digital transformation" is "IT infrastructure" -- the idea that technology works as an infrastructural layer supporting business operations, rather than dispersed across operations themselves.

"IT" has for long been this back-office area where specialists get to dictate business policies because they know computers. (A classic on this genre is the Bastard Operator from Hell [0]) -- but now lusers bring their own computers and phones to work, and hell if they don't have technological ideas of their own. IT has been commoditized, cloudified, outsourced.

If "digital transformation" sounds bogus is because management consultants are bogus. But in practice it can be a real thing that's not as much about new sexy tech (in the sense of blockchains, RISC chips and so on) as about putting what's already available into operation using business knowledge.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bastard_Operator_From_Hell
Windows Phone was good.

The subsequent attempts to turn desktop Windows into Windows Phone were infuriating and ill-conceived. Almost everything that I liked about Windows Phone did not translate to the desktop.
I gave this article an honest chance, and when I saw "Gamergate" I closed it out. Not that it's right (mostly) about the movement, but because this article is basically claiming that you're responsible for this perfectly average film sucking.
TV advertising has hit a wall thanks to streaming options like Netflix
The affluent support public transportation to reduce congestion, thereby easing their own commutes.
Did I miss something? It was the only example!
The video goes directly from

"Look at the high-res awesome awesomeness!" to

"Future Applications: Wide-area monitoring (a.k.a. video surveillance)"

EDIT:
I find that depressing. Seriously? With tech like that, you can't at least come up with a more benign example? You really have to throw yourself at mayors and other hawks first?
Data brokers like Experian can tie that number to the rest of your profile. Even something like "this is an AMEX" can give you some info.
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Wikipedia has some more information about the three hares: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_hares
People have been asking and answering these questions for almost ten years. Brief list off the top of my head:

- Seamless global payments

- Store of value

- File storage

- Decentralized exchanges

- DNS lookup

- Prediction markets

- International contracts

- Untraceable payments

- e-Voting

- Copyright or proof of ownership

- Distributed computing

It simply gets tiring for people to argue ad infinitum about this with every non-believer.
I've worked harder to make Windows 10 Enterprise actually useful than for any other version. Lot's of Group Policy and Registry edits are required to strip out the cruft, and even then it often leaves things broken. Windows 10 is the PC equivalent of a crappy Android phone with your carrier's impossible-to-remove bloatware baked into it. Absolutely horrible experience.
Most of the folklore seems to point to the ANSI/ISO work being done by IBM.
I remember last year Microsoft did some major reorgs as well. Is it typical for Microsoft size organizations to re-org so much ?

While re-orgs are probably good for re-organizing the workforce around a set of goals but I think for lower level managers and individual contributors these are very distracting. Constant change in leadership affects employee morale.
To be clear though, these "ads" are solely for Microsoft/Windows features, the most third party they get is being "suggested" apps on the Windows Store. Some people may not perceive them as "ads" (and Microsoft claims they aren't, as laughable as that is), because they are connected to Windows features, you'll never get sent to a third party webpage from these things.

And I don't think they're actually paid ads, for either the suggested apps or the rare occasion they've put an "ad" as the lock screen background. They've promoted the Surface on it before, and then for Tomb Raider, I think they were mostly pushing the idea of "hey, you can get games in the Windows Store now", rather than it necessarily being a paid campaign with the game studio.
> (mostly) everyone emits CO2 with cars, without caring about longer term impacts on global climate, sea rise, increase of hurricane frequency and intensity, etc.

I don't think that's accurate. Most? countries regulate CO2. European countries do, for example.
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I have been using camtasia, but need to download and install and licence is also limited per user. I have been looking for an alternative. Hippo video looks is an Exellent option.
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My best advice on where to find work is look for smaller companies or for remote work with foreign companies. Small startups and the like often don't have the ability or the time to run background checks. It's not worth it for them. And many countries outside the US have laws against discriminating against people with criminal history. For example if you look for remote job for a Canadian company you'd probably have a decent chance of finding something. The salaries going both of these routes are lower though.

Also look into getting your records sealed. If you situation is really as you've describe a judge may be willing to help you out here.

Also check out
https://www.70millionjobs.com/
Some of them seem like a stretch. The Fred Turner one for example, the movie supports either interpretation.
1) An alternative reading of the magazine is that it is celebrating young creators, who have achieved success through alternative routes (make up lines, t-shirts, YouTube channels) than the standard middle class millennial career path of "being born into the right family, liberal arts education, job at BuzzFeed/Vanity Fair/Teen Vogue/New Yorker while building out performative angst Twitter persona." Following that line, for most people without the right background/connections/ability to take an unpaid internship in New York for three months, results in them becoming on several levels completely unemployable.

2) The readers are self-consciously choosing this media themselves anyway - through the YouTube channels they subscribe to and watch, the Instagram influencers they follow, the products they buy. Instead of mindlessly scrolling through social media feeds, these readers are now being encouraged to think how they can follow in their footsteps.

This article imo, reveals much more about the prejudices of the author than the readers or the publishers.
Windows 2k Pro was an actual workstation OS. It’s a shame that they’ve diluted Pro for the mass market as you’ve stated.

The only silver lining is WSL, but it’s a toy at best, not a fully featured POSIX-compliant development environment.
It took centuries for the fundamental hermetic assumptions of alchemy to be questioned, and it had to come from 'insiders' (like Boyle and Newton) rather than total skeptics. Even then it was never refuted in any official sense, it just sort of faded out of fashion as its surrogate children, the sciences, took over more and more of its academic spotlight. Blockchain-ism, the alchemy of the internet age, will probably have to follow the same arc, though sped up by an order of magnitude thanks to the much improved knowledge-sharing network of the present day.
Neither CDC nor Wikipedia show very clear support for this assertion, especially given that the actual levels in the study weren't reported. Just relative percentages.

https://www.cdc.gov/biomonitoring/Phthalates_FactSheet.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phthalate#Health_effects
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This isn't a surprise. After 40 years, this qualifies as a 'murican cultural value.
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Amazon Spark what?! Anyway, I just want to see a video where some business guy announced the plan to launch a consumer product for paid users and the rest of the team roll their eyes! :D Should have happened definitely!
I like the suggestions to hire more than one at a time. But, realistically, it's not always possible -- budget, timing (you may need to stagger hiring), different projects... lots of reasons that may not work.

Regardless, there are other things that will work well for any team:

1) Dedicate time with experienced staff for meaningful code reviews. Everyone should have their code reviewed, and review other code -- senior reviews junior, junior reviews senior -- and 1:1 time to talk through every code commit. This shouldn't be just a "training" exercise, this should be ongoing.

2) Dedicate time for sprint retrospectives. Get feedback, give feedback, and make sure bad behavior isn't being pushed on to junior folks. If you see process flaws, or know you cut corners -- call it out as something to improve on next time. Make sure the juniors know what's good to do, vs. what we have to do to meet deadlines. They're going to follow the examples we set.

3) Dedicate time for "group therapy" sessions for devs. We have a once a week meeting where the only people in the room are devs; just a time for devs to talk about issues they see with the code, project, company -- so the juniors know it's not just a "junior" issue, and other people can weigh in on how they solved similar issues. Make sure to set the expectation that it's totally OK if people don't have solutions for everything.
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Zelle sounds great, and I really want it to work, but my experiences with it so far have been really frustrating.

3 separate experiences:

1. My friend was sending me $750, and had to structure it as 4 separate payments each 24 hours apart due to some sending limit that either Zelle or his bank imposes.

2. I sent my brother money, and for whatever reason he had trouble accepting the transfer, so I had to resend it a week later when it failed.

3. Someone sent money to me, and it was my first time using Zelle, so I had to login to my bank after clicking a link in a text. But after logging in, nothing happened... It didn't tell me where the funds went, and they weren't in my account. 3 days later they magically showed up. I think the transaction was pending??
What is the supposed persecution of developers you’re alluding to here?
Examples: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16708567
Oh, also I should mention, my crime was in 4 major local newspapers, and those online news articles are the first 4 results of googling my name. So it's not really something I can hide, at all.
> Linux GUIs have been getting all fancy with it

this is true mainly only for current Gnome and KDE-

stay with xfce, lxde or even a window manager and this is not the case.
There is relatively little risk of electrocution but 100 watts can still be more dangerous than 10 watts. Overheating and fire are a much bigger risk.
Is there any way to get this to save as a DOT[1] file? I find it less than simple to get my graphs to show up the way I want them placed. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOT_(graph_description_languag...
>> fluoride water

> So... tap water? Most countries add flouride to their tap water because it improves dental health. Unless you're a redneck screaming about alien mind control, that isn't some crazy scary chemical compound.

There are legitimate sources [1] today that are questioning the utility of adding fluoride to tap water. Questioning the utility and healthfulness of chemicals added to tap water should not be taboo or related to conspiracy theories.

[1] https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/magazine/magazine_article/fluor...
No, they're just merkel trees! The attempt to co-opt them to make "blockchains" seem more useful than they really are - and to justify all the money dumped in these projects - is disgraceful.
> In technological terms, it is old.

TCP was created in the mid 70's. The internet as we know it didn't offer the average user much value until the mid 90's and even then it was a very small amount of the population capable of using it / benefiting from it.

Electric cars were around in the late 1800's. In the early 1900's they were on a par with gasoline / steam powered car sales. It has taken us well over 100 years to get to a stage where they're considered a viable option again for most people again...

Bottom line - technology morphs over time so long as there are people passionate about it and continuously working to improve it. There are literally thousands of developers working full time in the blockchain space and it's one of the hottest growth areas around in technology in terms of developer mindshare.

It's not going to die any time soon, regardless of what price Bitcoin is.
Very true. I hope references catch up to them!
Well, now is the perfect opportunity to name your restaurant :)
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Regardless of the merits or demerits of this particular scheme, I admire the spirit. With a fraction of such confidence we could revive the Neanderthals, build an asteroid defence system, clean up the oceans, on and on. Instead we're not trying much. We feel ashamed... because... why?
Did you yet find a middle ground between subscription and ads because I see lot of ambiguity around that and even hear ads are dying do you think they will.
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Yeah i don't get how they went from a reversible USB plug (you can already find those in the A format, that use a small lip with contact pads on both sides) to a 20(?) wire monstrosity carrying anything from several amps of 20V electricity to thunderbolt wrapped PCI traffic.
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> It's really not hard to think of useful applications for blockchain.

Then please list some useful, concrete applications of blockchain that would not be solved better and cheaper by a normal database.
LOL, ouch.

In my case, windstream is the only wired option.. but they don't seem to realize it.

The service used to be completely unreliable too, but as I've complained over the last few years, they seem to have improved things a bit. It's now approaching the reliability of Comcast (i.e. still not great), but at ~1/3 the speed and slightly higher cost.
There is a YC company that is looking at this -- https://www.70millionjobs.com/ (YC S17). Might be worth trying out. Good luck.
The plug can have (has?) resistors that let the socket "feel" it, even if the cable is not attached to anything.
People who are not crypto-anarchists don't realize that the only reason for proof of work is so you don't have to trust anyone. If there is trust, a centralized database is better in every way vs. Blockchain.
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Problem: I have a stalker which is creating fake profiles in order to harass me/my business/family (I have reported them, but apparently they seem legit enough, so Facebook won't delete them). I have proof he is the one creating said profiles. I live in a country where I can't report this kind of thing, so was hoping Facebook could delete those profiles?. Please if you could help me in any way contact me. click on my profile to see my email.

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Increasing the price? Or reducing the discount?

I ask, because Uber is operating at a loss, hemorrhaging money.
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Ignoring conspiracy theory gibberish (in this case the fluoridated water rubbish) is MUCH worse than calling it out. You want HN to eventually be populated solely by ‘science proves immunization causes autism’ fruit-cakes? Then keep doing what you’re doing, which is ignoring their lunatic conspiracies and attacking anyone who calls them out with petty sanctimonious appeals to the rules.
I wrote a fairly sophisticated build system for Haxe in vim.
https://github.com/jdonaldson/vaxe

Some of the config basics are the same. You check for file type, and then set some overrides for make commands. Plugins provide asynchronous compilation, error listing/highlighting. The worst part of working with vim tooling is vimscript, hands down.

Neovim is making nice strides towards modernizing vim interfaces and support, and providing Lua as a vimscript replacement.

https://neovim.io
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> If you're doing still photos of food, surely you can just put more light on the subject or use a longer exposure.

Longer exposure, yes, though that means having to set up a tripod for every shot which significantly increases the time it takes to get a shoot done.

Turning up the lighting is very difficult for food photography. Lights are hot and food doesn't last long under studio lights. (That's also why a lot of food photography has such shallow depth of field — a wider aperture lets in more light.)
For what it's worth, the linked article I think is misleading as to how incompatible the device is. I charge my Switch regularly at work with a Lenovo 45W USB-C power adapter (model: adlx45uccu2a), it seems to perhaps take longer to charge than the Nintendo one but has worked reliably. Unfortunately I have tried several 3rd-party USB-C HDMI adapters with no success, though there are several options for HDMI+power on Amazon that reportedly work -- as I understand this is simply because the Switch does not enable video output unless it is also on AC power, so you need a combo adapter.
This is the opposite of false advertising - upfront pricing means you agreed to the price by definition. Uber is under no obligation to detail the pricing mechanism to the user.
None of that has anything to do with blockchain.
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This paper[0] has capex and opex costs for three types of desalination technology - multistage flashing (MSF), multi-effect distillation (MED) and reverse osmosis (RO). The lowest costs are for reverse osmosis and are $113 million capex, $19 million annual opex, for a 68000 cubic meters per day plant (which is apparently a defacto standard size) with an expected lifetime of 25 years.

[0] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/313461134_Long-term...
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Why would you need better low light performance for food photography?
So what do you think about the X27 as a night vision camera?
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I really hope you find something, and never having being in your situation, it's hard to know whether I'm being helpful or not. But have you considered working on open source bug bounties?

Here's some bounties available in C#

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In addition to the issue of relying entirely on correlation, this report only states relative percentage increase without stating absolute levels or comparison to any known risk thresholds. Maybe 35% higher exposure isn't a significantly greater risk.

If it is a significant risk, I don't think I can rest easier only getting two thirds the exposure staying at home. That's still a lot of plastic if I'm actually that close to a toxicity threshold.

Edit: Also, as I noted in another comment, both CDC and Wikipedia are much more conservative about the health impact, making the question about toxicity threshold even more relevant.

https://www.cdc.gov/biomonitoring/Phthalates_FactSheet.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phthalate#Health_effects
The trick is later in the article where he disguised it as a tie-dye patch with only marginally reduced toaster classification probability.

This could be useful to make networks hallucinate all sorts of things where humans would not suspect; imagine I made stickers that made surveillance cameras see the face of the FBI’s most wanted, and stuck them on a person I wanted to harass. Or imagine I could make a “sticker” large enough to make a drone surveillance system hallucinate a tank.

There are enough humans in the loop today where this is hopefully not a serious attack vector, but this is a good thing to keep in mind when designing new systems.
Agree. Perhaps someone can reach out to the editor and ask them to include some alternatives. I've found that a metal putty knife or wooden scraper work well. Also, if the grill is not hot, Scotch-Brite heavy duty scour pads work really well.
Digging into ride data I have access too, I see this is definitely the case for UberXL / UberBlack rides. Seems they are fairly consistently "overcharging" for those types of rides by 20-25% with upfront pricing. Unfortunately most of the data I have access to for other types of rides has RidePass's associated with it, so the difference isn't as pronounced, but that could potentially be the advantage of the Ride Pass.
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Why the throaway account, though?
Nokia made two cameras, the Lumia 1020 and Lumia 808, that featured a 41MP camera. For the most part, the use case was pretty much to immediately downsample or use the high resolution as a way to create a synthetic high-quality digital zoom. The low-light quality was excellent as well.

The sensor was 8.80×6.60 mm (as opposed to the APS-H sensor here, at 29.22×20.20mm), which means 3x the sensor density. I've been waiting for a while for this "Pureview" technology to show up anywhere else; it's surprising to me that it has not.
"Victim's family agrees to gag order in fatal self-driving vehicle accident" would have been a better title.

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You're going to find it very hard to have a gaming PC that is also stripped down to its bones.

Windows 10 Pro N is a good starting point for a non-annoying Windows "Experience", but I'm fairly certain you can't game with it.
Just imagine this: Device A <--> Device B

Device A receives the cable first, upon receiving the cable, Device A notices that the cable is not "hot" ("hot" in the sense that there is voltage/activity on the wire), so then Device A decides to "turn on" the cable, make it "hot".

Now Device B receives the cable, it notices that the cable is already "hot" and decides that it must be the second device.

I would imagine it could work that way,

Im also pretty sure that the usb cables are "dumb" cables and not active cables like QSFP (these have chips at each end).