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That gotcha was added? Woah. I was thinking it must have been some legacy thing that hasn't gotten removed because there's code from, like, the dark ages buried in the drivers and such that depends on it.
I'm one of those people.
And how much horsepower do you need to shell into that cluster?
Seems to be too little UNIXy. Modern tools sometimes not only do one job. (the z flag might have been kept out of tar too for example) :P
The article mentions 1400 a day.
Those are not obvious "warning labels". Standards usually sound like a good thing.

Both comments bury the lede. The bit that alludes to but does not actually state "this does not do what you want" is at the end of the description, not the beginning where it might actually warn someone off.

"You didn't read and understand the whole documentation for this complex feature" is not making it easy to do the right thing. It's just fodder for people "in the know" to make fun of normies.
Haha, yeah, you're not the first one: https://github.com/asciinema/asciinema/issues/279
The proposal for the latter has already been hollowed out in such a way that the likelihood of any customer actually being able to sue a company is rather slim.
Only a narrow band of customer representatives are even allowed to sue. And it's going to be exclusive, meaning the first one to sue locks out everyone else for good. So if your company fucks up? Get some stooge to sue and fail, before anyone else gets a chance.
The problem is that this text makes no sense standing alone... why would anyone imagine that a week number might belong to a year other than the year it's in without a separate detailed explanation?
Suddenly, concern.
> * Everyone who clones the git repo either forgets or doesn't know that they have to do 'git submodule init' (and maybe update too? even I'm forgetting ...)...

‘git clone --recursive’ Add that to your README’s getting started section. Sounds a bit like you aren’t providing a good onramp for contributors.

> * You cannot add downstream patches to Linux this way...

> * The link is to a non-fast-forward branch of Linux, so the commit hash sometimes becomes invalid... You'd think that because both the module and submodule are hosted on github, that github wouldn't garbage collect the old commit hash, but that's apparently not how it works.

Commits will not get GCed if you have a ref pointing at them. Relying on commits that do not have a ref means they are not part of the official history of that project. You should fork linux and have a branch where you land your custom changes. You can track whatever upstream you want, third party or mainline linux, and rebase your changes on top of them.
While I feel similarly in general, I don't think this was a risk in this particular case. The show is backed by the books, which have enough high-quality source material to last another 4-6 seasons. As long as they kept mostly sticking to that, I wouldn't worry about the quality.
Altered Carbon is excellent. It’s also a very different kind of show; more of a crime-drama that takes place in the far future than an actual sci-fi show.
It’s completely a gimmic and infuriating. It demonstrates a lack of creativity in the writing staff when there’s essentially one plot and tons of filler. Glad I’m not the only one to not like this trend.
Microsoft has Edge, no need for IE besides backward compatibility for ActiveX and VBScript and such things that some enterprises might still depend on. It's actually amazing how long Microsoft supports things compared to others in the industry.
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This isn’t true. There are many companies that make long term decisions at the expense of short term value. The reason it doesn’t feel that way is because those are the kinds of moves and companies that tend to fly under the radar, while short term blockbuster moves get trotted out as examples more often because the consequences, good or bad, tend to be more of a spectacle.
I do not agree with any of this. It is a personal choice. I am old and spent much of my day behind a screen my entire life. Do not need anyone to tell me to take a step away.

Google really just needs to do their own thing and stop listening to all the chatter about this and that.
Considering the Canadian Fire Alarm Association doesn't keep a strong presence in the US, it's indeed relatively easy to go under the radar.
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It's more Standord that Ivy Leagers.
Why would you build a physical prototype if you can build a virtual one?
Because the guy was justifying taking and keeping the DNA material for perpetuity with his anecdote.

It's the quintessential example of authoritarianism defense. One instance of good justifies authoritarianism and violation of individual liberties and freedom.
Whelp I contributed by buying the season and emailing Jeff. Here’s hoping.
Even Pepper is an acquisition of a French company called Aldebaran.
Rereading GP I might have misinterpreted a bit (the above still stands though).

I see two kinds of emails. One is along the lines that "FYI: we updated our policies regarding X", those are perfectly fine.

Then we have "please click here to allow us to send you more emails", which is more or less admitting "hey, we abused the system and spammed you before, please let us continue to do so".

And I actually get a smile on my face when I receiver either of them. Yes, the second one should be really bad but I already knew that. The signal I get from the second email is "hey, we're not particularly happy about the situation but we will at least obey the new law". And that makes me happy for many reasons.
Sure, sending spam that I can opt out of isn't the worst thing they can do. But if you are selling security products I expect better morals than that. This is yubico squandering trust in exchange for sending a few more marketing emails.

Considering legislation: I live in Germany. Over here unsolicited marketing mail (snail mail) addressed to me is illegal. I fully support legislation that extends the same standard to email (and I'm pretty sure yubico's behaviour is illegal here). It's waisting my time and computing resources for somebody else's gain (and that on a massive scale: if you waste just one minute each from a million people, that's two full years wasted)
> And as I said, your argument isn't new. It's been long debunked. The same argument was made in the midst of pax britannica before ww1 and ww2. People argued that nations were too dependent on each other for wars to break out. Hell, people argued that germany would never attack the soviet union since most of germany's oil/resources came from the soviet union.

Bingo. Nation states drove society, and they'll continue to drive society.
> I’m extremely left leaning but even I know vice is absolute dogshit.

Is Vice supposedly left leaning? Isn’t one of their founders an alt-right Proudboy?
I like to entertain all ideas (I even gave the Finland conspiracy a chance) no matter how crazy they sound.

You never really know, especially if you have never even look.

When the day comes that there isn't a person around that will challenge their thoughts with something they find crazy, it will be a dark day.

Edit: after reading the article I see that my comment is not related.
To me, the title isn't clickbait because "social engineering" is what Mitnick is known for in technical circles. He's not just famous for being famous. Takedown is still probably worth a read. There's also a website to provide historical context, http://www.takedown.com/
Well all new coins are proof of concept before they gain adoption, so this isn't really an argument why a technology is bad.

Skycoin's consensus algorithm is among the few that are peer-reviewed next to Cardano, so i think that's as much credibility as you can get as a new coin.

Iota's coordinator is expected to be decentralised and then removed next year already.

In order to gain control of the network, you would need to gain 34% of the hash power, omnipresence in the network and omnipotence. I'm not sure what the cost of this is, but there is currently no more secure decentralized network design that I know of.

Keep in mind that 45% of Bitcoin's hash power is currently controlled by one company, Bitmain, and they are investors in the 3rd biggest mining pool, totalling 75% hashing power of the entire Bitcoin blockchain.
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Exceptions are still a no-no for code that needs to be real time due to it's non-deterministic nature. The feature can be disabled with the -fno-exceptions flag.

However, this might change in C++23. Herb Sutter just proposed C++ switch to deterministic exceptions. The paper is quite good: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2018/p070...

It looks popular, so there is a high chance it will become a thing allowing stl to work in the embedded world.
And what if the strings are separated by spaces instead of newlines?
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I always give props to people who give a solution like this because sometimes that is the right thing to do and it acknowledges that we are dealing with a toy problem with a ready solution. And I think that’s what the interviewer in this post failed to do. But in reality we may have a not-dissimilar problem that doeasnt deal with strings and is just a bit more complicated so you can’t just take a bash command or genetic function off the shelf and have it work. You’re going to have to write some code, it’s going to take a little thought, and your solution can’t be O(n^2) when we throw ten million elements at it.

I’ve worked with engineers who are competent programmers but just can’t handle these problems when they come up in practice. If the job actually requires it, I don’t know of a better way in the context of an interview to determine if a person is that type of programmer than with a few toy problems and a solution in code. You may miss some good people because the format is suboptimal, but you will weed out the people who just don’t have the theoretical and practical background to solve this particular type of problem.
Celebrate bookings, revenue and customer successes!

Celebrate teams who work well together.

Don’t celebrate fund raising.
I was meaning to check it out on Netflix - in light of this news is it worth getting into it only to be disappointed by a poor ending?
Maybe it’s Eudemonic vs Hedonic happiness.

In your example we might say they score low in hedonic measures of wellbeing, but highly on eudemonic measures.

http://thebrainflux.com/2-types-happiness-psychology/
I had this same thought when I read “hacking back” in the article. I just dismissed it as conspiratorial thinking, but now I see another article with the same phrase and premise... hmmmmm. It is something I would do if I were trying to get legislation passed.

But it could be easily explained by the fact the government uses the phrase constantly in the media. It’s not necessarily unexpected that two hackers would use them use the phrase when discussing the merits of, well, “hacking back.”
> gdb must instead fall back on single-stepping the entire program until it gets there

I don’t think it’s that bad. gdb can (and hopefully does) just replace the target instruction with INT3. IMO the worse implication is that gdb can’t use efficient data breakpoints.
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The USA only protects one type of citizen: the corporate citizen. Human citizens are like a 3rd world country here. Those human citizens who want better treatment own or control corporations, and gain their entitlement through them. This is the United States of America.
So if as an EU citizen, I sign up for a SaaS product priced in USD, say GitHub, they can do what they like with my data?
any way sites that host user generated content can mitigate this?
Have you read the books? I personally don't mind most of the scenes you mention, but that's probably because I know where they're going. Like - minor spoiler - Nagata's mention of her child in last episode. Sounds mostly irrelevant and ham-fisted if you're only watching, but if you've read the books, you know this is introducing a really huge major subplot. So maybe one of the problems of this show is that it's not tuned enough for people who don't know the source material?

> Would love to see a lower budget breakout series of Avasarala just doing her ninja politics stuff -- she is the main reason I kept watching at all. But perhaps that is just the corner of me that misses Babylon 5 :)

Me too. Avasarala carries this show by herself. And I miss Babylon 5 too. I wish someone would remaster and re-release it.
I would propose that when you create a library, you think of other programmers like web designers think of end users. In addition to simplicity of the API, efficiency of the code, and proper encapsulation, you think, "How can I prevent users of my library from making mistakes?"

It's not an accusation that the author of strftime didn't have this mindset. Rather, it's to say that we should be more mindful of studies on human behaviors against programming APIs.
TL;DR: Obsolete distribution methods hamper creators. SyFy can't distribute the series through the Internet directly to viewers for some weird reason, and it prevents them from making a profit.

I don't quite get why they had to sign such weird contracts to begin with.
Agree. It just wasn’t quality television. Which is par for the course for SciFi original shows - mediocre acting, sophomoric writing, okay visuals but not enough to keep me hooked after I slogged through the first few episodes.
Can you provide a reference in the text of GDPR itself or an official government source such as the UK ICO that supports that criterion for determining if a company needs to comply with GDPR?

Your description does not match with what I have seen about GDPR applying to European data subjects which is the language the regulation uses.
> Maybe that law should've included a clause about how you shouldn't lie about why you're using third-party cookies?

In theory the GDPR/EU Data Protection law covers that. If people consent to one thing, then they haven't consented to to the other thing. So you can't lie to get their personal data.
ReasonML has it just right imho
I swim laps everyday with a former saturation diver, the risk ain't worth the money.
Reach varies around 1 million give or take a few hundred thousand depending on the season. That’s similar to other ScyFy shows but from what I read there’s some dispute over cost and rights that they couldn’t get over. Hopefully Netflix picks it up.
The protomolecule is magic not paranormal.

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. - Arthur C. Clarke -"
Your analogy is imperfect; for MSHTML and EdgeHTML are first-party, while Electron is third-party; and it’s not just MSHTML that Microsoft are pushing people away from, but the entire Win32 API—Microsoft’s been saying, use WinRT instead, and you can have EdgeHTML there. Notably, Microsoft has been steadily stepping back from this vision in the last few years, and EdgeHTML is expected to be exposed to Win32 apps at some point (the impression I have is that it is expected sooner rather than later).

It’s a nuisance that it isn’t already there, but it is coming.

Note also that Chromium isn’t embeddable on its own; it’s only because it’s open source that anything has been able to embed it at all. It has no stable API, so CEF has to wrap it and shed some functionality to ensure it’ll keep working across more than just a few releases of Chromium, as changes are made therein. The Electron project basically builds itself inside Chromium instead, see https://electronjs.org/blog/electron-internals-building-chro....

But really, IE has enough things needing it that removing it outright isn’t an option yet, and won’t be for quite a few years. I can imagine in a few years’ time not installing IE by default, and making the MSHTML widget actually be EdgeHTML instead if IE’s not installed, but even that I expect would break quite a bit of software. And Microsoft cares a lot about not breaking compatibility. It’ll be interesting to see what they do about it.

(You may well know these points already, kodablah; I’m providing them as much for background for others reading as for you.)
I came to say the same thing. I appreciated the blog post but the example was overly contrived. The addToCart method should have been passed the objects the ids were representing and should not have been responsible (even via delegation) for resolving the ids.
The blog post references a secondary source in Dutch. I’d be careful before relying on that for legal advice.
This is undeniably true, but consider that 99% of classification problems encountered in the industry can be solved with a logistic (if not linear) regression.
"Less addictive" = more dependent on Google.
The authors promised to not end S3 with a huge cliffhanger, so even if the show dies with S3, I expect it to be fully worth watching 'till the end. So yeah, I recommend to watch the 2 seasons that are on Netflix, and then pick up S3 from wherever it's currently available at your location.

And even more so I recommend the books.
I do this often with my MagicShifter:

http://magicshifter.net/

It allows me to serve up a web page to anyone in WiFi distance - and is quite useful for the purposes of promoting interaction with location participants .. it can be configured to show different light patterns for different visitors, and so on.

As the IoT wave keeps crashing out there against the big-Internet shore, we're going to see more and more sub-sub-sub-Intranets out there, I feel. Its already pretty clear to me that we could set up a mesh of MagicShifters to support a local meatspace community .. imagine when its going to become a normalised phenomenon ..

Its also kind of surprising that more shops and retail businesses don't do this sort of thing - host their own sites locally for visitors on their WiFi to use. I guess we'll get to that point, though, where the site is an appliance ..
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I understand that the article is about how many developers are inclined to use wrong "hammers" for certain tasks.

However, it also makes me think about how we actually code. At my university, we learn to sort files, parse data-structures, model various data formats, etc.

But in most UNIX systems, we already have the basic building blocks in the form of simple programs that do one thing, very well. Will programming ever evolve from programming languages to more complex building blocks in the form of programs combined with pipes in the bash terminal?
no doubt, but the question is at what cost and for what reason. Nature editors are at best an arbiter of significance, a job that they often delegate to voluntary external referees anyway. Nature is not a speciaalized journal. Like Science, they offer prestige but bundling all the sciences in one journal does not make them useful for regular reading. It's a self-selecting process, and scientists who are open-science-minded should retarget this self-selection process to one of the good open access publishers. Why should it be Nature that gets the spotlight here and not eLife, an open publisher that is truly innovative.
I would argue quite the opposite, based on anecdata, so take it with a good measure of salt, but: I know quite a few non-tech types who used The Expanse as an example of "why I don't watch space crap".

The quality (from a narrative and acting viewpoint primarily) is so low that I think it drives people away from the topic. I desperately love space-y sci-fi but the space exploration really needs higher quality productions than this.

It is of course, super subjective, and I do understand that people like the show. I'm one of the (probable) minority of techies who dislike this specific show.
I think the hardware breakpoint support is for breaking on memory accesses to a particular address. Setting a breakpoint on the execution of a particular opcode at a particular address is easier and can be done by just swapping in an "INT 3" instruction at the particular point with no overhead.
Probably a little late but yes, this is exactly the problem my comment seeks to solve.

1. Get a beginners book or udemy course. Why? Because it will walk you through each of the little steps better than a random online article. Because by completing it you will systematicaly build competence step by step.

Find a programming discord. Why? Because sometimes things in that book are not obvious so you need to ask for step by step interactive guidance from someone who can do it.

However, if you need more than this, try an evening course or code camp. Once you get to 'can code ' in any one language, you'll find learning others much easier.
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"We know our smartphones are making us unhappy." [link to an article describing a study that put people in a contrived, artificially distracting situation and then pointed out that they enjoyed their time less]

Is that the best evidence you have? Because it's crap.
Enough people, especially in businesses, that removing it would be catastrophic for Microsoft.
Isn’t this an old browser? What about Edge?
Or maybe money and recognition aren't that valuable intrinsically and the industry is basically (ab)using men craving for those both. Maybe women are simply much smarter to not choose that line of job in the first place, or it would take a lot more of something else than money and recognition to convince them to take those risks.
Just because they used your email in a marketing campaign? Yubico is a small business,I am sure the dude that did this will be heavily reprimanded. Hopefully, not fired.

Oh, I see. Shameless self-primotion.
> “Why is [Theranos] worthless? It’s worthless because this writer was like a badger going after her, like a hyena going after her, and then it became a bigger and bigger thing,” he said. “She got bullied into submission,” Draper explained, adding that if it weren’t for Carreyrou and other opponents, Theranos “could have been one of these big, huge winners.”

And we would've gotten away with it too, if it weren't for that meddling journalist!!! shakes fist in the air
Who have since disowned Vice multiple times.
What about the society makes a compelling reason for either men or women to take high or low risks?
There’s no inherent reason that would happen. If you hold a gyroscope and try to change its axis, it feels like it’s fighting back and that you’re therefore doing work. It’s not, though. It’s fighting across, applying a torque orthogonal to the way you’re trying to turn it, and that doesn’t involve any energy transfer.

Another way to understand this is that the rotational speed of the innards of the tourbillon is unaffected by turning the whole contraption. The angular momentum changes, but not the energy.

You can find a gyroscope to play with in a toy store, your local science museum, or (carefully!) in the form of a 3.5” HDD that’s powered on.
Pretty sure there will be a lawsuit. What kind of Gattaca/1984 bullshit is this, the state where everything causes cancer? How did CA techies not rebel about this?
From what I understand about biology (which is little), there was no real way this was ever going to work. Am I missing something?
It's again like the social media issue. Lot of people don't care doesn't make it right thing to do. These type of things should be opt-in.
It's completely opposite to my perspective, but that's what actually makes me curious. I wonder what is it exactly that makes your friends consider it "space crap".

Could you go into more specifics? Also noting whether any particular applies to the show, the books, or both, and whether it's from a perspective of someone who only knows the show vs. someone who also read the books? I'm not asking in order to argue, I'm just curious about the difference in perspective.