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Agreed 100%. Always prompt before rebooting a logged in user or updating a freshly started machine. It boggles my mind that Microsoft can’t figure out how to use better UX to solve their update problem.

Start with notifications and offering to schedule an update. Don’t reboot automatically with an active user when the scheduled time rolls around. Display a prompt and allow the user options to schedule another reminder.

After a couple weeks (security updates only) add a “warning bar” along the top or side of the screen. Nothing drastic. Just visible enough to be a constant reminder to update. Eventually, replace the desktop background with a visible warning.
Sans incentives, it is NOT cheaper than other forms of energy in MOST areas. Yes, there are exceptions to everything, but by and large, it is NOT profitable without subsidies. You can argue whether or not it's worth the extra cost to taxpayers and consumers etc., but you cannot argue that it's profitable and/or cheaper in most markets without subsidies.
You're being optimistic. There is depreciation and maintenance cost. It also assumes a lot about the cost of electricity in the future, given how if this has any real effect it is meant to move exactly that market.
Seems easy to fix. The solar upgrade must be done to existing homes the next time they change hands.

Either its a good idea that existing homeowners are willing to pay for with a bit of their equity, or its a dick move dressed in the moralizing of environmentalism.
Will they make electric oil tankers?
What I want for Xmas is an OS usable for laptops. Windows? Dealt with by comments here. Mac? Only runs on a limited range of crippled hardware. Linux? Life's too short.

2018 is sad, with no light on the visible horizon.
The Oregon Trail
This is interesting to me, because I've been advocating for a similar law for a while now, with a few crucial differences:

I propose we make a law that says any home that sells for greater than the Freddie Mac super conforming loan limit (currently $679,650) must be retrofitted to have a net energy draw of zero or less from the grid (with rules about exceptions for shade and roof angles and whatnot).

This would solve a lot of problems with this bill: It would exempt all the folks who are selling cheap homes throughout the state, it would apply to both old and new homes, and it allows for new technologies that don't exist yet or are cost prohibitive, instead of require solar panels.

It wouldn't really affect prices much, because there is already a flattening at the Freddie Mac limits, and when you get to the super conforming level, a solar install only represents 5% or less today (but I imagine the prices would fall with economies of scale).
> How many products need constant feature updates? Aside from security/compatibility there are plenty of products that already meet everything required of them (to near everyone). How many new features does a file manager need? An PDF reader?

Do you have any example of file managers or PDF readers with a subscription-based model?
Ah, thanks. Yeah, not sure I'd agree totally with that particular comment.

> Why hasn't Bezos or Soros or whoever started buying lots of land in northern Saskatchewan, or shorting land on the coasts?

Because (a) it's complicated (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-05-02/the-u-s-c...) and (b) investors are famously short-term thinkers and as is evident in some of the discussion here, the effects of global warming are just slow and opaque enough to fool a lot of people into thinking they don't exist.

...and this is granting that investor interest is a good way to evaluate how sound the science is on some subject, and I don't think that's a position I'd agree with.
The best way to improve autoplay is to disable it.

chrome://flags/#autoplay-policy
Hope you're enjoying it anyway. I think the Japanese look on it more as a salad bar or smorgasbord "So many good deals!" but maybe I've been living here too long. Some of the variants have to do with JR being split up into different regional companies so each of them wants their own initiative on top of the common one.
A ton of people are installing them! Only on hacker news is rooftop solar some kind of horrible socialist boondoggle.

edit: to answer your question more directly: many people just won't be bothered to install them or don't think of it, or can't get the financing easily. For some people the numbers don't work out, because their roof is old or they don't get enough sun or their electric bill is already low.
“You will be running Sidekiq, Unicorn, Nginx, Ruby (plus all its gems) and then Gitlab itself.”

https://about.gitlab.com/better-than-github/ ;
https://github.com/WebEntity/Installation-guide-for-GitLab-o... ;
https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq/blob/8-0-stable/doc/ins... ;
https://about.gitlab.com/downloads/
Can you elaborate? Night-weaning often takes more than six months (read: someone is not getting a full night's sleep during that time frame).

Even SNOO's own marketing material suggests waking your baby to feed in the middle of the night.
There is some evidence that it's generic. Darwin, as I mentioned, pointed out the close commonality of domesticated animals: the floppy ears, neoteny, year-round breeding, piebalding or spotty colors etc. There's no reason to expect all the human domesticators to be selecting for stuff like floppy ears, so the repetition suggests that there's some universal domestication syndrome where those all come as a package. I think the existing GWASes tend to support this but aren't definitive? Not really an expert on the details there. (One interesting claim is that humans appear to have undergone a light form of domestication syndrome too.)
I have to second this. Microsoft even has a tool to build the latest release onto a USB stick, which for me was the first time I have installed Windows and not had to wait for any updates at all.

I had a couple of PC's which were upgraded from earlier versions of Windows when it was free. Installing from USB sure did free up a lot of disk space!

Licensing headaches seem to have gone away too. I did one fresh install onto a different hard-drive and it just worked.

There seems to be one Windows 10 update which forces a reboot, and then it never happens again. If you build your USB today I donlt think you will suffer that.

Putting that aside this article misses one important point. Windows 10 is extremely backwardly compatible with earlier versions. At the day job we have a number of legacy apps, things built in VB6 for instance, and they worked first time on Windows 10. To be clear, we are talking about applications written around 20 years ago, which are still working on Windows 10. I don't run any Apple devices anymore but it certainly wasn't my experience that Apple cared about backwards compatibility back then.

RE: same old regedit etc. The enterprise admins I know seem extremely pleased to see these old faithfuls in place. Where Windows 10 has added a new way of doing something (like the new control panel), it is very heartening to find the familiar old version running alongside.

I think it is fair to say that enterprise loved XP, hated Vista, liked 7, hated 8 and tolerated 8.1. Enterprise seems very happy with Windows 10 so far.
Maybe therefore the cryptocurrency Nano was formerly known as RaiBlocks (while the orginal currency on Yap was rai stones).
As a vim user, tramp is one of two things that make me keep considering switching, the second being org mode.
Obligatory plug for Le Ton Beau de Marot, by Douglas Hofstadter. He explains his accidental fascination with the translation of a simple short minor poem from Renaissance French into English. He experimented with a few different approaches to translating it (preserve the rhyme? the meter? the avuncular tone? write it in Shakespearean-style English because it's old?) and then began to challenge his friends and colleagues and students to make their own translation. The act of translation is a beautifully subtle one, built on decisions of what elements of construction, theme, presentation, meaning, context to preserve, adapt, or abandon. It's also a personal tale of a difficult time in Hofstadter's life. I found it moving and enlightening. Much recommended!

Hofstadter talks with a lot of different translators, including the much-beloved translator of Stanislaw Lem's works, Michael Kandel. Kandel's rendition of the poem of Trurl's Electronic Bard is rightly famous. The ever-astonishing Marcin Wichary (a native speaker of Polish) reproduces, and discusses it, here: https://medium.com/@mwichary/seduced-shaggy-samson-snored-72...
> surely there are more holistic top-down ways of evaluating this?

Which would take months. This is about sending a message as much as it is about cutting costs (fast).
I have used .ca for my personal email for a long time. It works ok with other Canadians, and isn't a huge hassle most other times. I'm sure that there is a nonzero amount of email going to the .com equivalent domain, though. If I were to choose again, I would go for .com if at all reasonable.
This response deserves to be listed higher. I participated in risk assessment analyses, specifically for nuclear powerplants, specifically for extremely rare wind events. The nuclear industry is like the space one and has had to learn about unknown unknowns the hard way.
Magazine publishers survived because they had subscriber info which allowed targeted advertising (name, age, address, etc).
Tom Pittman, the author of this article, is still extant at [1], or at least, he wrote a blog post [2] in May 2018. However it is not clear to me why this old article should be reposted. Is Tiny Basic [3] of any current interest?

[1] http://ittybittycomputers.com/Bio.html

[2] http://ittybittycomputers.com/WebLogs/WebLog18a.htm

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiny_BASIC
I never liked to play games except maybe GTA series, because it lets you do what you want.
Not seeing the contradiction there. They certainly are sold as pets, you can look up fox videos on Youtube etc. Damn expensive though, a Redditor I was talking to about it said that his fox was going to cost like $10k all told after all the fees and importation paperwork. I'd never pay that much for a cat or a dog (although it'd make a great gift for the billionaire or oligarch in your life).
Dumb. So fucking dumb. My blood is boiling a little bit contemplating how dumb this could be. So glad I don't live in California, the land of regulation.
Totally! You'll never know you might like something if you don't try it.
$50 into $200 worth of BTC in under 60-seconds?
> I started emailing bloggers in the SEO space, inviting them to try Siteguru and write about it. At the same time, I hired a linkbuilder to reach out to relevant sites that could feature my tool.

> The result? Zero. Nothing.

Ha! The number of spam emails I get, sometimes I wonder if there is actually a good product like this which might be useful but gets lost in the sea.

Edit : really nice and to the point product, found a bunch of issues with my website. Now all my broken links are fixed and the website has a favicon!
Well there are genuinely people out there who don't use the content. Our attitudes to media and who should be watching what haven't changed much from the broadcast era. "I'm not one Facebook" is the new "I don't watch TV.
The advantage is that if one storage nose is offline the rest of the site can still function.

Spokes is more elaborate can can deal with node failure. We plan to rely on cloud storage so we can quickly attach a new VM with Gitaly.
Check out SkipTheDrive - https://www.skipthedrive.com
This puzzled me also. Perhaps it's been kicked down the road as an engineering problem and we'd end up with a hydrogen extraction system which is responsible for that part. We'd probably need to feed protons back in though...
Damn, thanks for the overview - I didn't realize manufacturing in America was so ridiculously convoluted. Do you know if there are regulations protecting those "partners", or is this just the established norm for doing business?
Is it possible this just Tesla "encouraging" contractors to switch to employees?

Contractors generally get paid significantly more than employees in the short term, and Tesla is on the line for getting to profitability.
My mom took me to such place when I was a child and my experience was exactly like you describe. We didn't get a refund. Maybe this is just personality thing.
Kim Dotcom Announces New 'Content Monetisation System'
I've had a subscription to PluralSight off an on for years, but I recently started paying for one off videos from Udemy. I think I like that model better.
Forging Intimacy
They had a much more customer-friendly model before - you pay yearly updates and keep the last update. Now you keep the very first version only.
> Once you move to a flat fee, this massive redistribution ceases.

No one is saying that the fee should be flat. There are ways of selling roughly the same service for different prices - just look at air travel.
I don't know where that's true.
Other way around, as I understand it - they have a whitelist of sites that are allowed to play audio without interaction, everything else is blocked by default. (This is implemented in a way that completely breaks audio in a bunch of older web-based games and interactive audio experiences, too.)
Maybe https://github.com/dozzie/grailbag
Adobe Acrobat Pro, Foxit Phantom PDF. I'll concede I can't think of a file manager though.
Wont that insulation rot eventually since there is no water sealing?
However, the prevailing wisdom has always been that anything other than .com is pretty risky

I will take a stab and guess you are from the USA, given that you consider .com as safe. You could also consider .org and maybe .net. Unless you know what you are doing then you are generally better off with your home nation's standard list.

That said, if the last two chars of your family name or a nickname is a country code, you might consider that.
I've found that I avoided most of issues other people often encountering by reinstalling OS every few monthes. Usually after big updates. Might not work for everybody, I just like to configure OS from clean state. Works for anything from macOS to Linux.
People call this "nickel and diming" they hate it.
Don't contractors have managers that are supposed to, well, manage them?
Map of Wittgenstein's 'Tractatus'
They don't make enough off of subscriptions to make publishing worthwhile and if they give it away for free, the advertisers don't value the customers as highly. That's why free magazines like MacWeek and PCWeek forced you to take surveys to qualify for a free subscription back in the day.
It "works" in the way that having insecure software on your computer "works" which is to say that it doesn't work, we just put up with computers where the non-technical don't know the mess they are in. Every major operating system (iOS, Android, Windows, QNX) or widely used software application (MS Office, any browser, any widely used app) issues emergency security patches.

The reality is that having everyone on the same version drastically simplifies not just security, but also interoperability. It isn't 1998 anymore. The default is internet connectivity and we should stop pretending our apps are secure when they are not.
On a related note, I don't see how BFS atop BFR would have that escape capability. OTOH they seem to be aiming for reliability rather than figuring out how to fail safely.
> spontaneously ignite

Yes, gasoline will burn easily can auto-ignite in common household conditions. I've had the "fun" of running for the garden hose after a roommate made a similar mistake with paper towels soaked with some type of cleaning solution and wiped up engine oil. Fortunately we were able to put out the fire with only minor damage (mostly smoke) to the garage.

However, that's only a fire that will burn[1] at a rate roughly proportional to hows quickly it can mix with oxygen (that can be very fast* in some situations). Getting gasoline to act like a bomb and release it's energy at once[2] requires fairly specific conditions.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deflagration

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detonation
I would love to stop using Windows , and I do boot to Linux.

However our business clients use Windows which means I need to test my work against IE, Edge, Windows 10 Mobile, and Windows touch screens.

Also our business would need to do a 100% rewrite of the core product (which depends on Windows).

A friend came crying to me because of Windows the other day. They can't afford a new laptop. I am the only person they can turn to for free.

My Dad depends on Windows for his work and he is too old to want to start his project from scratch on a new system.

My work, my friends, my tit-for-tat acquaintances, my family all depend on me helping them with Windows. Sometimes I can avoid it (give Mum an Android laptop; give a friend an old laptop with Linux). Mostly I can't.

Welcome to reality.
Tesla seems like a company where people would place a premium on being a direct employee, vs. another organization. I'd certainly feel more 'pride' in saying "I work for Tesla" than "I work for X" for almost all non-SpaceX or tiny-startup values of X, and that's probably generally held by people who would contract for Tesla.
Bret Victor's response: https://twitter.com/worrydream/status/993167096992288771
Overdiagnosis of autism seems to be a very American thing - basically getting support (financial or educational) is highly dependent on specific diagnosis, so previously someone with delayed learning would have been recognized as delayed learning, but now people have realized the most effective way to get support is to find a dr who will diagnose autism.

Which is bad for everyone - support needs for people with autism is different than for other disorders, it fuels at least part of the increase in autism diagnoses since the 80s (and so the idiot antivaxxers)
Live boot linux and use dd
Until autoplay can accurately detect whether I am in a setting where battery drain and sound is acceptable, I will still keep it off.
these people don't pay themselves as FTE so of course their margins are good.
I suppose it is worth saying that this is not the same for enterprises as it is for single users. If you run a domain you can completely control your updates from WSUS (or a myriad of third party options). You can test the updates on a subset of users before letting them loose on your whole domain. MS are supporting a much wider range of hardware than Apple have to, and there will always be surprises. I can only think of two major update issues on my domain.

1) Conflict with a driver for an extremely specialized printer

2) A weird update about 4 years ago for W7 which seemed to forget to close the 'Windows is updating' screen. ctrl-al-del resumed normal service!

I believe some of the clunkier updates for Windows 10 (like the forced reboot) are actually part of a patch to improve the silent update feature! Install afresh from a USB as sddfd suggested and you wont have to suffer that patch.
>Escape capsules are not used when the rocket is ok. So, 1 in 10 chance of failure would likely include dammage from an exploding rocket.

I agree that a very effective escape system, as it appears the f9 has, makes the rocket far safer. However understanding failure probabilities is much complex than this thread is making it sound. For instance you could have a escape system failure that triggers the exploding rocket or a software system failure which causes both the rocket to explode and the escape system to fail. Take a look at 'Engineering a safer world' for an idea of how NASA and other parties actually calculate these probabilities: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/engineering-safer-world
Alternatively, when you go to an escape room, try to figure out how the puzzles were implemented. I am guessing lots of custom Arduino. For example, one puzzle required entering a specific price into a cash register to get the cash register drawer to open. How would that be done?
As a net user since 1995 I preferred it back then. Admittedly this is probably tinged with nostalgia, but I remember people just sharing information without needing to charge you for it. Maybe I just started with low standards, but when people tell me I need to pay for this content, I go "meh, I just won't read it then". I don't feel the loss, but possibly I don't know what I'm missing.
beautiful build!
The biggest snag I've hit is when you use a country domain, search engines tend to think your site isn't interesting outside of the country the TLD belongs to (.io, .in). The new tlds seem to be pretty solid... I worked for an organization that had job boards on 25,000 or so .jobs sites. No issues. I've tried out a lot of the new ones and have had similar results.
easy for you (or I) to say
> I'm certainly a big fan of solar power, but rooftop solar is a little silly. Rooftop solar would make sense if we had some shortage of land and couldn't just fill up empty fields with panels, but that's not the case. It's much cheaper for utility companies to buy up big plots of land than it is to try to figure out how to outfit odd shaped surfaces with panels.

I think a ton more people generating their own power and being shown the data of how much power they're generating and using in real time is a great thing. People I know with solar panels are excited to try and run net zero and know stuff like their energy peak usage during heat waves. I don't know anyone without solar panels that monitors their energy use like that.
On the flip side, if you bought a house from an old engineer who converted the entire house to electric appliances, and you bring your own electric dryer, and you have a family of 4, and a/c, in California, rooftop solar is dead obvious.
there was plenty of intel gathered in Russia during the cold war that got fed directly to private contractors in the US. I would be stunned if it were not still happening.
That is really easy for Apple to do, with a limited range of hardware they can literally test every device that is receiving the update. Much harder for Microsoft, who are trying to support a vast range of hardware.
Same reason most people in Canada weren't installing geothermal until the federal government started subsidizing them: Inertia.

Despite what they may teach you in Econ 101, the efficient market hypothesis isn't an actually useful way of looking at human behaviour. It might work for modelling some of the actions of Goldman Sachs, but actual people are squishy and irrational.
That's because of the number of death per day in the auto industry. They have a lot of free guinea pigs to experiment with.
great, I guess money talks. on the other hand, US is lagging in STEM advancements from k-12 all the way up these decades, only competition can correct the sloppiness.

many of the chip designers in USA are not native citizens, which again says, our education system needs a revamp.
Compare Heathrow taxi fares from over 300 licensed firms in UK
The only references I can find to hairless apes (that aren't humans) are chimp that are either shaved or have alopecia.
> It's really that simple. Until people stop buying Windows, this will never change

As simple as halting climate collapse by 'people' greatly reducing their car & electricity usage. Then lets stop war by 'people' refusing to fight or manufacture arms.

Much would be simple if there existed a decision-making unit we could label 'people'.
That is extremely good advice.
Rotor sails are relatively insensitive to foul weather and wind direction.

If you had any experience with sailing, especialy on the high seas in a variety of conditions, you'd have a much better understanding of the problems.

If you have the means to go out on the sea in a sailboat, I highly recommend it. Especially for someone with a STEM background, it's actually a quite interesting activity.