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I plan to run LTS on my laptop from now on, so that I get a stable desktop environment. I used to be a sucker for running the latest and greatest, but I guess I'm too old for that now.

I wonder how my applications will fare. I would like to have the latest version of Firefox, emacs, git, and so on. It's the desktop environment and OS itself I want to be as stable as possible. I'd also like to get the most recent kernel, I think, since the kernel is pretty darn stable and rarely has regressions, at least in my experience.

I also learned that there's an official plan for 18.04.1, to be released July 26th. This is the release that will prompt 16.04 LTS for an upgrade. In other words, the official upgrade path for an LTS is to wait for the first patch release, and not upgrade immediately. So I'm considering waiting to update from 17.10 until 18.04.1 is out.
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That graph burned downed my house (Macbook Air). :)
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Another trick to get rid of union/tenured/troublesome employees is to create a new department, transfer desired staff and close the old one.
> Men shotgun and women pick and choose.

The problem is that that is a vicious cycle. The more men shotgun the more women have to be picky. So nobody answers and man have to write to even more women...

Usually this get's "fixed" by limiting the amount of messages men can send. But that doesn't really work.

There should be a system that "punishes" women for being picky and men for being desperate. Maybe publicly show the ratio of received/sent messages, or so?
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Alternatively, assuming good faith, he claims that this is a possible explanation, and that perhaps Hanlon fell victim to the very common base rate fallacy on his off-hand comment.
Perception of insult is highly subjective.

Autistic and borderline are barely perceived as positive words in our society so I can follow the argument of insult when you describe wikipedia authors as borderline and autistic. Although I see that you did not mean to do harm with your sociological background.
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What's the size of that vector, anyway?
Oral tests are very inaccurate and the false positive rate is huge (can be more that 50% for some manufacturers, you're better off flipping a coin). To my best knowledge, oral tests are usually confirmed with urine and/or blood samples (at least that's the procedure if you test positive while driving here).

So as far as I know, there isn't a reliable and accurate way of testing.
Ah yes, because relationships founded on white lies are the best ones.
It’s a fallacy of younger, inexperienced, consumption-brainwashed people that “new == better.” Also, it could be that certain groups want more people like them for mating, dating, etc.
> they will use the app endlessly if real women are there

Do they actually? I've spoken to many men and those apps don't seem to work at all. Usually gets deleted after a few days of usage. Like what's the point of being there if absolutely noone wants to write?
This is right. As long as the UK continues to contribute to ESA funds, we should get commensurate work in return ("geo-return").

However, our involvement in projects coming from the European Commission (EC), which is EU-related, such as the Copernicus programme ("Sentinel" satellites) could be negatively impacted.
Yeah, I spent a summer in Arras 20 odd years ago and don't remember seeing anything either.
In the paper, the authors claim that the additional pointer arithmetic consists only of register operations & so one wouldn't expect any overhead. Then, it is surprising that the paper mentions 35% overhead on integer benchmark. wondering where that comes from...
How did you come up with this conclusion?
They're developing it, yes. But I'm not expecting it to be much of a success, assuming it ever properly goes on the market at all.

Russia and China have a bit more leverage to get their airlines to buy home-grown aircraft.
Apple realizes that not creating its own monitor is a strategic error. They announced that they would be releasing a new monitor during the "Mac Pro roundtable" last year when they first admitted the mistakes they made in the 2013 Mac Pro and that they would be working on a new one.
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could you clarify your point. I'm interested, but this is all I could find:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitution_in_Europe
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IBM PC x86 BIOS code:

https://github.com/kaneton/appendix-bios

OT: This brings back memories of tinkering with the MS-DOS boot process. Back then, the BIOS would read the MBR and copy its contents to 0x7C00 and start execution from there. So you could assemble your own code (using no less than MS-DOS debug) and plonk it into the MBR. I remember doing things like fooling the boot loader into thinking there's less ram than there actually was (639kB instead of 640kB) and using the unaccounted 1kB for placing your own code that could be triggered by a captured interrupt... Fun times!
> What I’ve long wondered is how women react in the real world now that they have all the power on dating apps

Women always had that specific kind of power in real world. When/if you go to a party, observe the people who are alone, standing against a wall; they're invariably men, without absolutely no exception. This says everything about power.

Having said that, bear in mind that this kind of power is only a (arguably small) part of relationships between the sexes. It says a lot, but it's still a (small) part.

> Why would they try to find a date in any other way?

Because the dating medium strongly correlates with the interest of the people involved. Not everybody's looking for the Tinder type of relationship.

"Before Tinder", one would just go to a nightclub. It's exactly the same experience; and for the same reason, not everybody goes to nightclubs.
> This messaging “blast” technique may appear lucrative compared to the average neighborhood yenta, but it has occurred to me that good matchmaking may not be in the company’s financial interest. When a client pairs up, they leave the service.

This is only true if client is looking for a long-term monogamous relationship.
Weird, I am still getting "No new release found." when running `do-release-upgrade`...

EDIT:
Found the answer in another comment:

> I also learned that there's an official plan for 18.04.1, to be released July 26th. This is the release that will prompt 16.04 LTS for an upgrade. In other words, the official upgrade path for an LTS is to wait for the first patch release, and not upgrade immediately. So I'm considering waiting to update from 17.10 until 18.04.1 is out.
Don't try to match with the top 10% if you are not in there yourself? It's not the app creating an illusion, if you are delusional to begin with...
The accepted answer is decided by the person asking the question - I'm not sure SO moderators are allowed to change an accepted answer(at the very least, they're heavily disincentivized to do so). I think your example is a case for more moderation, not less.
Those are a lot of the same people from the Manhattan project though, no?

Has something on that scale happened since, with an unrelated set of people?
>Trash left on the street is considered abandoned property.

I wouldn't be so sure of that interpretation. In most places that I've lived, you could be arrested for taking things out of the trash, whether in front of your house, or even if dumped on the side of the road.
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Moxie is probably annoyed by the slow pace in which federated protocols move. Having it centralized he can move it a lot faster.

Fortunately there are solutions that incentivize modern features in federated protocols too, like SSLLabs HTTPS checker or https://conversations.im/compliance/ for XMPP.
No fractional scaling still. ‍️Why?
Yes, put property prices have shot up PRECISELY BECAUSE INTEREST RATES ARE SO LOW. When interest rates and inflation are low- asset prices such as property go up.

High(ish) inflation/interest is a really good thing for workers because although repayments on their loan may briefly be high they decline in real terms at a much faster rate. The best bit is the principle declines at a much faster rate too- meaning that a worker can in fact pay off a mortgage in a decade or two.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16937175
Polygraphs are not admissable IIRC.

IIRC The Wire had an accurate description of its use as an interogation tool (note I did not say investigative tool).
Agreed. Great if your question has already been answered, but it's less than useless if you have a question - it's actually counter productive and a waste of time. I'd given up on questions until seeing this post featured today, so I decided to ask my 3rd question in 7 years (SO). It was down voted within 5 minutes and no idea why. I'll just roll my own solution based on my own suggestion.
For awhile it seemed IBM was about to pick Swift as they did before with Java, but then they lost steam.
Ksec, there may be merit to your thought here, but just for point 4. Even though memory market was always the ultimate cash cow, and price collusion was always the second name to it, what we see today is something completely "beyond good and evil."

I regularly meet Unigroup people just below the C-suite level during industry events in China. The do not give off any sense of brilliance to me, nor I can say anything high of their ability from what they did before.

Sure, they are probably the top fund by concentration of Oxford and Ivy league grads in China, and have few returnee cadres with past stellar career in Western top tier investment funds. I can even go as far as to say that if judged individually, some can be said to be genuine talents.

With all that star crew, why don't they fly? Because they are dominated people with stellar credentials, but all of whom are just meh and so so...

Just look what their "genius stratagem" of joining RDA and Spreadtrum did: they took a leader in one market, a leader on another market, joined them and got one without lead in any.

When Qualcomm was still greatly greatly handicapped in Chinese market by the fact that they were limited to high-end as low-to-mid-end market was a shark tank with likes of Spreadtrum and RDA in their prime. But when Unigroup decided to forcefully uproot both of them from their power base - domestic mass market, and mandate them to "abandon it all, focus on high-end, and make a chip to nail Qualcomm in under a year" they both lost their grip on their market niches, which Qualcomm and Mediatek were happy to devour, and of course they never came even close to scoring anything in high end market that Unigroup wanted. Now they have neither low-end lead, nor high-end lead.

As the saying goes: you don't get iron by joining brass and bronze.
I would avoid running LTS unless you really need the stability. Otherwise, having the latest applications (and utilities like git) is going to be difficult.
It's essentially a meme at this point:

Step by step guide to to getting a date on an online dating site:

1) Be attractive

Casually Explained's videos on Dating and Is She Into you are strokes of beauty.

Dating: https://youtu.be/ZuzPcW4djrA

Is She Into You: https://youtu.be/xa-4IAR_9Yw
You can't see soil contamination though. The visible scars are the least of the problems.

> Until the mid 1970s, much of the “clean-up” was only done superficially, destroying hundreds of thousands of unexplored WWI chemical bombs without considering the leaks and contamination to the soil and water.

> Alarming amounts of lead debris scattered by shrapnel were also left in place, contaminating the soil with non biodegradable lead, mercury and zinc likely to remain for at least 10,000 years to come.

In addition, you don't get obviously sick from heavy metals such as mercury or lead unless it's a large enough amount to result in acute poisoning symptoms. It has an effect in the tiniest amounts though, and it bio-accumulates.
My interest, save for occasional tweak in ARM boot code, is mostly historical. Grew up on Z-80 assembly but really enjoy PDP-11 code for didactic purposes. You can easily see that the rise of optimising C compilers was helped by divergence from PDP instruction set. Not ever since C idioms map down so nicely.

strlen():

LEN: MOV #-1, R0
1⊙ INC R0
TSTB (R1)+
BNE 1⊙

or take strcpy():

COPY: MOVB (R1)+, (R0)+
BNE COPY

versus the C version:

void strcpy(char *s, char *t)
{
while (*s++ = *t++)
;
}

It translates to the optimal machine code verbatim. It does not require any smarts of the compiler, at the expense of understanding on the side of the programmer. This is made possible by orthogonality of the instruction set, which in less well thought out designs was hacked around with special instructions (like LDIR on Z80). The price for that is you have to make compiler optimize these situations.
Your first sentence is a loaded, presumptive opinion that assumes age equals out-of-date without evidence.

Younger ones can have all the latest Javascript library experience they want but they still don’t have enough obvious experience for engineering mastery that’s vital to being a highly-productive independent contributor or tech lead.
> Ian run a legit site, not phishing

He originally had a site that looked extremely similar to stripe's official website: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16939094
If you really want to upgrade, you can run `do-release-upgrade --devel-release` (or just -d), which will get you from 16.04 to 18.04. Apparently, 18.04 is considered an development level release from the perspective of 16.04?

(I don't really know what I'm talking about here.)
To be more precise you can run your own server but it would not connect to the rest of the network (so it's useless).

Source code here: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server
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> the model is represented by function f, whose inputs can be any combination of S and A [domain], and will produce an output value in S [codomain])

Exactly. f:S×A↦S is a function signature, just like in a programming language. Basically, the model tells you which state you end up in after taking a certain action in the given state.

> Why do we set the Q to 0 below?

Q is introduced as

A temporal difference model (TDM)†, which we will write as Q(s,a,s_g,τ), is a function that, given a state s∈S, action a∈A, and goal state s_g∈S, predicts how close an agent can get to the goal within τ time steps. Intuitively, a TDM answers the question, “If I try to bike to San Francisco in 30 minutes, how close will I get?”

That means that setting Q(s_t,a_t,s_{t+K},K)=0 is the same as enforcing that the state s_{t+K} can actually be reached (distance 0) from s_t in K time steps. Without the constraint, it would be possible to plan a trajectory that can't be executed because the intermediate goals are too far away.
Related to this, there is a video series called "The Great War" hosted by Indy Neidell, which covers the war on a week-by-week basis:

http://www.thegreatwar.tv
I'd argue that's less of an issue these days. Hopping between LTS releases seems to be the most productive and free from issue way of working, at least for me.

The main thing is latest browser versions and they still ship with the LTS release.
Why is it legal to euthanise animals but not humans?
I just came back to Win10. My past experiences with KDE have been less than optimal.
that is the plan, except the operational bits specific to their deployments
To get the latest version of an app you can use snap-packages. E.g. to always get automatically the newest version of LibreOffice: sudo snap install libreoffice

Don't forget to remove the preinstalled – and soon outdated – .deb-package version of LibreOffice :)
I plan to try, at least!

There's an ppa for the latest emacs and fish shell anyway. Maybe I can find a ppa for git. My other editor, IntelliJ, updates itself. Spotify also has its own repo.
Revoking lies sounds like an amazing power.
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It is worth noting Ubuntu comes with snap and flatpack support since latest two releases, and it works flawlessly for most of GUI applications. Sadly there isn't many CLI tools available to download like aforementioned git or zsh.
To be fair, the gopher does appear on their branding in place, just not where the blog post has shown.

The agency page for their work on Go features an updated gopher graphic, and I think the home page looks quite nice. The branding booklet looks like standard agency stuff, but if they were to use the gopher a bit more I could get behind it.

http://within.us/google-go/
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Oh, that's really cool! I had no idea this existed. Thanks a lot!
If only every moderator/admin was as reasonable as you!
OK rather than outright calling this out as "redpill bullshit" can you refute it with any substance?
I used to live in the area of the Battle of the Somme. Red zones are not common, nearly all the land of the former battlefield is now cultivated.

In fact, after the war, the red zones were quite extensive, but there was an intense lobbying to reopen these lands to agriculture.

In the 20ies, a farmer detonated an unexploded ammunition was not an uncommon occurrence.

Nowadays, this is a really rare event, I think there was a case in Belgium about 10 years ago, but it's quite uncommon.

However, when you dig, you always find something. My mother started a small garden (about 4 x 8 meters) a few years ago and when she worked the soil for the first time, she found various leftovers like shell heads, shell fragments, bullets, lead spheres used in shrapnel rounds, etc.

And it's not uncommon to find unexploded shells on the side of the roads, farmers when they find them, put them on the side of their fields.

When my mother was a child in the 50ies and 60ies, she used to help her parents collect these various metal fragments as it was a way to get a small additional revenue for the family. When we cleaned-up my late grand-father's house, there were buckets full of those in fact. There was also an unpinned unexploded grenade by the way. If I recall correctly, they called the local "garde champetre" to deal with it, and it's still in his attributions to deal with such finds.

However, there are some big ammunition depots in north of France with all these WWI shells collected over the years. And a lot of those shells are still not neutralized.

Also, another interesting side effect is all the cemeteries in the area, the land is literally peppered with them.
And these cemeteries are UK territories (In fact the Thiepval monument is one of the highest structure on UK soil and in continental Europe). This was actually a blocker for a nearby city (Albert) when they tried to extend their airport, they were blocked by these cemeteries.
I'm not saying less moderation is needed, but that the moderation itself being done is low quality.
Yes, because models are attractive because of their clothes and the poses they take.
Indeed for organisations that have one, the serial number field for the Subject (not to be confused with the serial number of the _certificate_) will be a unique number in some register of companies. In the UK you can mechanically turn those into a URL that gives you the (meagre) Companies House listing, there's no reason the same couldn't be true in the US.

For PayPal this number is 3014267 and it'll be their registration number with the state of Delaware.

The EV rules require a CA to figure out if there is such a number and if so fill it in on the certificate. If there is no number, they're supposed to write something else (a registration date maybe? I don't remember)

(Sometimes a country has some companies that are so crazy old they pre-date the idea of registering companies, or turn out not to exist in their company register because the country created them by passing a law instead of formally registering them, or whatever, and these don't have serial numbers, e.g. I wouldn't be surprised if the Bank of England has no registered company number)
What does the latest git provide, that is actually noteworthy or a game changer? Honest question.
Hope - the best commodity that you can sell.

It's no wonder Tinder is up there on the Play Store as the second highest grossing app alongside all the online gambling apps. That's because Tinder and all the online dating platforms are exactly designed to mimic gambling.

You can't win if you're not in the game.
I don't really know how to read this either, but the number 17 as such does not appear anywhere in that paper. This quote may be relevant: "Concentrations of As vary between 72,820 and 1,937 mg/kg" (page 13).

These commas appear to be thousands separators, so that's a maximum of 73 grams per kilogram or 7% per mass of a soil sample. I'm not a doctor, but I would advise against eating significant amounts of these soil samples.
So will this cool the market and cause housing prices to become less incredibly insane, or will it just make things more expensive.

I'm gonna guess the latter because god forbid something good happens to my generation.
Afaik they rolled back wayland, 18.04 uses Xorg. So maybe that's why.
I think you're giving too much weight to the questioner's feelings, and none to the answerer's. Sure, the questioner might feel unwelcome when answers are curt and elitist. But also, the answerers might feel unwelcome when the questioners don't put in at least some effort in their question. Why do you privilege the questioners over the answerers? As a worst case scenario, how do you plan to supply unpaid volunteers who are willing to spend x10 the effort for each questioner? Many of the policies under fire here came out from people criticizing SO for having too many "spam" questions and not retaining experts' interest.

Here's a discussion to the same effect: https://twitter.com/robconery/status/974678531832610816?lang...
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Go is a great choice for implementing a network protocol but most of the time, rewriting is not a great choice (source needed).

Do you have any public discussions or blog posts about this decision?
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Literal metadata (DNA) preempts this guy from striking again.
Wait... Do Linux apps (Firefox etc) not self update like Windows and MacOS?
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On Microsoft's case it is even more radical, UWP is basically the initial design for .NET, based on COM as ABI instead of a managed one, hence .NET Native and C++ as main languages.

I really like this change of course.
http://gopher.gg/
The browser vendors disagree about what the rule should be, to avoid homograph attacks, but it's reasonable to say that if you suffer a Unicode homograph attack in your browser, the first people to blame are at the browser vendor.

Some feel that the correct approach is to whitelist TLDs that have a responsible homograph rule (so, not .com) and show punycode in all other TLDs. Others want to detect whether a name seems "confusing" by some heuristic and show the punycode instead only in that case.