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As my mom always said, "This is why we can't have nice things."

I deeply miss the days when all it took was installing something akin to "Flask Block" and this problem was solved. I've been using Firefox with their built-in autoplay blocking feature (hidden in about:config) for a while now on my desktop and on mobile -- mainly because of idiotic news sites that seem to think I want to listen/watch the article I clicked in to (with the included pre-roll commercial, I assume[0]) and that my coworkers/wife want to listen to it, too.

The solution offered by the original bug report sounds practical, but the thing of it is, the solution that Chrome has implemented, in my opinion, doesn't go far enough[1]. I don't just want the audio muted, I want the whole video prevented from even starting to download (on my mobile device) -- it wastes limited data and costs me money.

It's sad that a "fix" to workaround a misuse of a feature is breaking legitimate uses. Having done a few years on the security side of the house at a telecom, I've tried to push developers in the direction of thinking about solutions from these sorts of angles. It's important when designing something to think about not just how your creation will be used, but how it can be misused and while the latter shouldn't necessarily prevent a feature from being implemented, it's important to weigh the two against each other and think about ways that problems might be mitigated. This might result in the adjustment of a feature, or it might be nothing more than a contingency plan should nefarious use eclipse legitimate use.

[0] I run uBlock Origin so I'm not entirely sure that there's a commercial -- I can only assume because the quality of the video, which is often nothing more than a man or woman reading the article, verbatim, in near-monotone voice is so poor that I can't imagine this being a feature added because of user demand.

[1] Though, muting audio is certainly a good start. I remember in the 2000s when people would pass around e-mails with links to important sounding things that, when clicked, would open a browser that screamed a message out of your speakers "Hey, everybody! I'm looking at porn!". Haven't seen that in a long time, but it'll come around again -- everything that's old is new again at some point.
Because the leader isn't the point; the political parties are. He's a unifying figure for an ethnic-minority and liberal-opposition coalition very different from the one that's ruled the country since independence.
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Oh, no, my workplace avoids microservices like the plague. I can only think of one: PDF generation is handled by a network call that hands a webpage to a heavily firewalled (in and out) special container that hands back a PDF. There's no state in the container other than what it's processing, so we can discard and regenerate them.

We keep development and operations staff tied closely together as a team, and have done since well before "devops" was coined.
I've been thinking about this within the context of data visualisation schemas like Vega (http://vega.github.io/). They sort of a represent a middle ground between a full programming API like matplotlib to specify a graph or the XML SVG language, and the language of matrices that bitmap images really are. Easy for a machine to parse and easy to change with a more consistent structure for a given graph, with some limitations on what you can express.
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There are, Mercedes has built one [0]. But this suffers from the same problem as Autopilot/Uber crash that it's not fully autonomous so the bus driver has to stay alert whilst doing nothing.

[0]: https://techcrunch.com/2016/07/18/self-driving-mercedes-benz...
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Just curious: why did you choose C++ instead of C for embedded? Most shops I know chose C just because of code bloat.
Reductions in methane could also mean a change in their gut biome. Will be important to look at this thing from end to end. No pun intended.
Less so, because in reality most "artists" actually end up doing normal jobs to make a living in a variety of fields and just keep art as a side interest. A city of hobbyist programmers wouldn't necessarily be a monoculture either.
> ~60% of Americans make less than that.

What does median income have to do with anything? If you're writing software for a living you're doing a job most Americans can't. A job that is objectively worth much more than ~$40k a year. That's like saying a doctor can be paid $80k because he's in a low COL area and most Americans make less so whatever.

> Comparing this to Eastern Europe is ridiculous.

You're right because a lot of Eastern European devs make more than that.

> It seems like people in the ultra-expensive big cities have a really skewed idea of what the rest of the country is like.

If the average US cost of living is a 100 the area I live is 84 (San Francisco is 273). Omaha is 88. I don't live in an "ultra-expensive big city" and I've spent more time in rural Georgia than I have in urban California so I don't think I have a skewed idea of what people live on. But I do know my worth and I do know that $40k is objectively underpaid for software development.
Since everyone is chiming in on your "most European city in America" statement I figured I'd give it a go. The reason I love visiting Europe is for the cities as the variety of cultures offer a staggering number of varieties. I don't think anyone would say London and SF are similar, but maybe London and NYC.

I'd also like to throw New Orleans into the mix, and agree with Montreal as well even though it is in Canada. I'd really like to see Vancouver but have never been.

So in one way I think NYC because you can find cross sections of the cultures of many European cities there, but maybe SF more relaxed way of life is more similar to some. I however do not find the people of Lisbon where I am now (rapidly becoming a very multicultural center as more people move for the cheap prices and beautiful weather) to be quite so relaxed as the people of California (as awesome and friendly as they are), however I've only been to California a few times and never for any extended period of time and have only been in Lisbon a week and a half and NYC for ~5 years.

So I guess what I'm saying is... what do I know? I guess maybe Boston's another good city from the comments, beautiful, nicely paced, definitely didn't notice any feces or needles last time I was there.

Maybe it's P = NP problem. Some google searching places New Orleans at the top of 21 followed by Venice Beach, CA. Then there's a list of seven dominated by smaller cities (towns?) with the big one I've heard of being Kansas City. Never been there, would never have thought of it. I have however read about Peoria (sp?) Iowa which does indeed sound quite European. And of course Quebec City comes up which is a great choice.

It probably really depends (for both continents) where you've been, what you've done, when you've done it, and on and on.

So we get nowhere, eh?
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"who can understand actual language speech" - "we do that now" We have mood classification, but understanding? [citation-needed]
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Something like this:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/mute-sites-by...
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Sorry but trying to boil everything down to "dependency management" shows a basic lack of understanding of software architecture and is objectively wrong.
Right, interface Nils compare on type too, right? This is bananas.
Well it creates a disincentive for websites to use unnecessary audio. I don't think any user will be surprised or annoyed by seeing youtube or pluralsight asking them permission to play audio/video. For some random website where audio is unsolicited, it creates an incentive to not even ask. Like you don't want to necessary access the location of your users if you don't want to piss them off. I am actually happy when I can press no on some random website trying to access my location.

I think it probably is the right UX.
> I'd like to figure out how to do this with VM disks as well but I've never had a pressing need.

Everything that you will (probably) need is here: http://libguestfs.org

If you happen to need something that isn't already included, the APIs make it pretty easy to build your own tools as well.

Conveniently, those tools are also already packaged up for your distro (unless you use some esoteric distribution, perhaps).
All that really means is that it became cheaper to ship food from other places. If the cost of shipping went up, Hawai'i agriculture would be "cost effective" again.
Firefox has an anti-autoplay option, and I thought Chrome had too by now?

There's also dedicated anti-autoplay extensions, and you could always use a blocker add-on and not use it with any pre-made adblock lists.
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I've been a hobbyist DJ for a long time and I would totally agree with this.

I began charging a small fee for my time a few years ago (I justified that I should make at least half my freelance dev rate) but even that small price totally ruined the experience for me. Once it became a job it wasn't fun. Now I'm back to doing pro-bono events mainly for non profits and it's fun again.
Does anyone know if there is any research on WHY this algae acts in this way? Would it be possible to either synthesise the chemical compound(s) involved, once identified without having to farm it?
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I am not living in Malaysia anymore, so I haven't followed the news lately. But wasn't part of this coalition, strong especially in east coast, very conservative party that wants to bring some very lethal punishments for petty crime (like chopping hands) as part of their agenda?
Whenever I'm working with substrings, I'm always nervous about bugs resulting from different encodings. I'm never comfortable with search for substrings or applying regular expressions or iterating over a string.

Encodings in general a bit of a headache. I work on Windows and it wants UTF-16 internally and everything external wants UTF-8.
Python code rarely looks like this

For things like optional arguments you usually use None with an "if l is None" parameter

Meanwhile you can't iterate over None, so [x for x in None] blows up

Closure (to my understanding) allows a null value in the place of any empty seq. This seems like a major bug swallower to me
I have used both. While I'm currently on Org-mode, I used to use Taskwarrior exclusively in my previous job.

The switch between the two happened because my job responsibilities changed, and Org-mode is better at supporting my current role as a team lead and developer. Taskwarrior was better when I was only developing software. Personally, I feel this says something about what usage patterns the two are best for.

As a developer, I spent almost all my time in a terminal. Taskwarrior (plus a few shell aliases) allowed me to create tasks the moment I thought of them. I could then get back to work and see the task list later. Switching to Emacs every time I needed to create a task would have been unproductive and I probably would not have done that.

As a team lead, I spend most of my day researching, helping out team mates, building product road maps, etc. I spend time in the terminal, but not as frequently as before. And I'm not developing as much either, which means I can now take the time to switch to Emacs, capture a task or thought in Org-mode along with any details, and then get back to it later.

My perspective on the two:
- Taskwarrior never gets in your way. It takes a few seconds to record a task and then get back to what you were doing. But you end up not recording many details about the task, mostly it's just the title. Great for small bugs fixes or development tasks that come up while your developing.
- Org-mode is great when you want to record details for the tasks you are recording, take notes, and just generally write anything with details.

Hope this helps.
Can't win em all I suppose :P

My point is that, for me, Common Lisp is particularly defficient in this regard, in a way that means I can't really consider using Common Lisp for development work today.
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Would love to see an 8-page version of this: https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-15-24A1.pd...

Certainly includes enough loopholes to mean this is a poor implementation of the ideal of "Net Neutrality". My favourite being "To be clear, the protections of the no-blocking and no-throttling rules apply to particular classes of applications,content and services as well as particular applications, content, and services."
In practice, it becomes an artist/yuppie duoculture within a decade :)
I'm on Ubuntu 18.04 (upgraded from 16.04) and I'm still using Unity. Technically Unity is not gone, but it's no longer a default, Gnome is.

I've tried Gnome and was very disappointed. No global menu integration which means losing useful screen space for no good reason. Tray icons somehow look squished and ragged. No fractional scaling is a massive issue for me since I'm working with dual 27 inch 4K displays. Tray bar only shows only on one of the monitors and you need a plugin to make it appear on both which is just ridiculous. No more convenient built in features/options like auto resizing a window to 1/4 of the screen by dragging it with a mouse to one of the corners, etc.
That's right.

- Right: San Francisco, SF or "The City".

- Wrong: "Frisco", "San Fran", "415".

If you want to act "friscan" people get pretty upset very fast.
Unity was one of the reasons I switched away from Ubuntu. It may be time to try Ubuntu again :D
Any site with forced popups or forced video auto-playing is black listed ... I don't visit it again ever!

Any site says to me to stop my ad-blocker ... also black listed ... I don't need their online garbage ... I am already paying money to access their online crap!

For Youtube channel's home forced video auto-play ... I skip it ... and usually I move directly to the channel's videos listing page bypassing the channel's home page!

I HATE forcing videos or stupid content or large images on users! and I consider it "Online Abuse" and disrespect to the visiting users!

Also not only I use Ad-block ... I use uBlock https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock with "Block media elements larger than" 100KB !!

If anyone knows how to block Youtube Channel's Home video autoplay please tell me how, maybe uMatrix will help https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix ... I didn't try uMatrix, will try it soon!
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This is about the USA. Perhaps the title could be updated to say "The US Senate..."?
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In current realities that's probably true. I've read about a city (town) of artists in post WWI France, which was dominated by Americans who moved there to pursue their artistic interests (painting). They were regular American folks, but thanks to the wealth disparity between USA and France at the time, they were basically wealthy by French standards, which allowed them to live a life of leisure and do nothing but paint. In that city, there were the dominant part of the population.
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The Chrome flag doesn't do what it sounds like it does (and what it should). Essentially everyone logically interprets it as blocking all auto playing videos, audio or not, but that isn’t one of its options.

Given the number of people who hate unauthorized autoplaying video (including silent video), it’s sort of amazing that Chrome’s product management team hasn’t added a way to prevent it - at least as a buried config flag and ideally as domain rules (like the “Clear cookies on exit” rules). That wouldn’t preclude using automated heuristics to add and remove sites from the filters, but at least there’d be a reliable way to turn it off and whitelist a few domains.

Background from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16367457#16370471:

“Alas, this flag only prevents video that has sound from auto-playing. It’s the inadequate option that my earlier comment was referring to.

Here’s more: https://www.chromium.org/audio-video/autoplay

https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/09/autoplay-p...

Quoting the blog post, Google’s decision that ”Muted autoplay is always allowed” is the problem. If any other Chrome users wondered why videos now auto-play without sound (even with this option set), at least based on the relatively minimal docs about this flag, this is why.
There are already people intentionally buying beef straight from producers, to ensure that it's "grass fed". If warming enthusiasts cared as much about this issue as these paleo dieters do about avoiding flavorful beef, they could do the same.

As you say, the effect would be small, but why would that stop anyone from doing it?
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They are constantly trying to sell subscriptions to O365 and One Drive.

They also sell third party ads in Skype - their included messaging app. Can you imagine Apple selling ads in iMessage?
Off topic, but I love the simple & clean design of this site/blog. I think I'll borrow it for my personal blog.

Did some homework, looks like it was built using Hugo: https://gohugo.io
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I'm with you. Maybe it's just that I'm familiar with Unity but GNOME feels like a step back in almost every aspect.

On the other hand you can just install KDE Plasma that went a long way and works fine if you just stick to the UI - all your pain points should work out of the box or can be configured using systemsettings. KDE applications are a mixed bag - I love dolphin but kmail and other stuff feels strange. Also printing is way better in GNOME apps, not sure why exactly.
Modern C++ compilers do pretty well on a Commodore 64, let alone many of the typical embedded deployments outside pico-controllers.

CppCon 2016: Jason Turner “Rich Code for Tiny Computers: A Simple Commodore 64 Game in C++17”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBkNBP00wJE

Most of the time is either religion against C++ or lack of modern tooling, given that most embedded toolchains are stuck with C90 and C++98.
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You're contradicting everything the pro net neutrality people have said for years, namely that without it the ISPs will control the Internet. Part of the premise is that the ISPs do in fact have control over the Internet by acting as the monopoly access point, and that they can do various terrible things accordingly. If you control the ISPs - ie how almost all Americans access the Internet - you inherently do control the Internet.
Do you have an example for that? I looked around a bit and only found China not buying from weapon manufacturers anymore who also supplied Taiwan. When it comes to pressure on topics like Tibet they seem to mostly pressure countries instead of companies.
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Those are both already horrible UXs that are abused in the same way the "subscribe to our newsletter" is. I won't ever do any of those three for 99.9% of websites I visit, and yet 70% are requesting it.

They've become user-hostile ways to give websites a way to force interaction from me that I don't ever want, and if I did I could chose the option in the account preferences (if I cared enough to make one).
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“The Europeans killed six million Jews out of 12 million. But today the Jews rule this world by proxy. They get others to fight and die for them.” - The Prime Minister Elect of Malaysia.

He’s the liberal opposition?
You can easily have n-valued logics.

Saying they don't work because Aristotle didn't use them is like throwing out Newtons laws because Aristotle didn't use them.

There have been whole schools of mathematics that reject the law of the excluded middle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructivism_(mathematics)

Newer logics also don't use that law but instead deal with undecidability, which is less than a century old but is the most import result in logic since it's invention.
I've been trying to find out whether Ubuntu 18.04 still supports the gnome-flashback package. I've tried to install it via apt-get in a virtual machine but then there was no option to select it as my session after a reboot.

Does anyone know more about this by any chance?
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In more than ten years of programming in C++ I never had once to implement a linked list. That's 100% irrelevant to programming practice. The only reason to implement one is whether it's for academic purposes, else just use `std::{s,}list`.
"It kind of works for Venice, it's so nice to be in a car free town with a slow but nice public transport (the vaporettos) so I started to dream about if it would be possible to a similar thing with buses, combined with the existing subway and trams, and just exile all cars."

At this point Venice is basically an open air museum for tourists. It can hardly serve as an example for regular cities that house people who live and work there.
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I was just about to correct your correction, because I can quite clearly recall using vnconfig on FreeBSD.

Apparently that's been a little while, however. According to vnconfig(8):

> The mdconfig utility first appeared in FreeBSD 5.0 as a cleaner replacement for the vn(4) and vnconfig(8) combo.

5.0 was released just over 15 years ago.
The downvoting for pointing out the documented anti-semitism is interesting.
Are you taking piano lessons?

I'm trying to learn guitar and although I mostly enjoy it, I can't say I look forward to my 30 minutes of practice each day (although once I'm going I usually go long).
It would be interesting to compare feedlot vs feedlot/algae vs grassfed. There is already a solution to this problem that has numerous other benefits. Revert all of the former grasslands that are monoculture fields of corn to raise grassfed beef.