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I've always felt that there are a lot of parallels between bicycle design and digital technology- how standards get picked, how that influences what gets made and what is successful and what fails.

Is the current parallelogram design of the derailleur really the best? There's no way to find out, because so much already depends on how a derailleur currently works and would be very slow to change.

Also consider that the original mountain bike wheel diameter of 26 inches was apparently picked because the import tariffs from asia (a large majority of all bicycle parts are produced in asia) on those goods was significantly lower than larger wheel sizes (small wheels were considered to make a bicycle a children's toys and taxed at a lower rate)

Compare that with how we ended up with javascript as the default standard language of the web browser....
The Germans used metamphetamine during World War 2. They gave it nicknames Panzerschokolade ("tank chocolate"), Stuka-Tabletten ("Stuka tablets"), Herman-Göring-Pillen, or Flieger-Marzipan ("pilot's marzipan"). It was freely available under the brand name "Pervitin" until 1941. From then on, you needed a prescription in order to purchase it.
This reminds me of when I first read about fractals: a collection of phenomena I've been staring at all my life, but never really saw until someone pointed out how to see them.

Currently popular music mostly sounds like noise to me, but that's not the point. What are the current generation of musicians supposed to do, be silent and spend their lives listening to the great bands of my youth? It's impossible to match Pink Floyd in the style of Pink Floyd. They need a new style.

Facebook is losing traffic to whatever is the latest trend in social media, not really because people are suddenly paranoid about privacy, but because each generation needs a network where the previous generation is not.

And for as long as humans write programs, there will be a need to invent new languages, not because the old languages were technically inadequate, but because each generation of programmers needs a way to escape the shadow of the previous generation, the way acorns need squirrels to carry them away from the shadow of oak trees.
I really hate it when my local farmers in Spain sell to Italy... We have such lovely oil (I have liters of it from my garden which I drink from a shotglass, it is that good) but seems the marketing machine in Italy is far more mature. It is such a shame.
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I work at SAP. I book absences via a web UI for a SAP system. I record my time using a very nice HTML5 UI that hooks into an SAP system via RPC. I record travel expenses in Concur (the company of the same name was acquired by SAP, so that counts as dogfooding too).

SAP still needs to get better at their dogfooding game in some areas (e.g. using our own ticket system products instead of internally-grown idiosyncrasies), but we're getting there.
Thank you for linking that. I'd not known that Krick was quite so alternative in his beliefs!
So you mean there can be no redemption, ever? Kind of a harsh perspective... By this logic Germany, Italy and Japan should have been nuked forever.
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Good article and these are very important for keeping your car running as efficient as possible. One thing it doesn't talk about is driver behaviour and what they can do to keep the engine running at its sweet spot.

I'm a developer for a company called Lightfoot[0] where we have created a device that monitors and gives feedback on your driving. We also reward you for being a safe and efficient driver.

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If you have a quick script to initialise the db into some known state, and are defining all the schema changes as migration scripts, and maybe have access to something like pg virtual to stand up temporary db test environments, you could probably get pretty close to this by just version controlling all the scripts required to stand up a db and apply all the migrations.

http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/trusty/en/man1/pg_virtua...
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The timing of d-day was important to the outcome because it allowed the allies to benefit from some really good luck. The German's were caught off guard, and were slow to respond. This reaction was hardly assured and may have been different if D-day had gone ahead later. It is interesting how some quite modest efforts contributed to this. For example, superior weather forcasting allowed the allies to exploit a weather window that the German's did not know about. It is interesting to ponder how things may have been different with less accurate data. And it demonstrates how vitally important detailed planning was.
Holmes can perhaps join IOTA, it's all the same:
- Billion dollar valuation
- Not working/Fake technology.
- Intimidation against researcher and journalists.
FWIW, Jekyll, Hugo, Next.js, and Gatsby.

There are so many SSGs because they are so easy to write. I did one for my own web site, many years back.

Now I want to migrate, because I forgot how my own code works. I keep a version of Python 2.6 around just to keep it going. As per paradox of choice, there are so many options around that I don't know where to start.

I want Python, just because that's what I'm used to. I tried Pelican, but seemed slow and too blog oriented. Next I'll try Nikola (because of the doit-based build system) and then perhaps also Lektor (to try out the CMS).

So very many choices.
I should probably added a few irony tags here, the "kill switch" picture was just meant to exaggerate what seems to be the primary concern going around.

So to add two things to clarify: personally I do not see any of this as good/evil. It's business.

But one catch: business is comprised of human beings, thus it often _is_ irrational :-)
I believe trello or one of the other successful business SaaS (zapier or typeform) have a great onboarding board on trello. A quick google should surface it. Looked at it 6 months ago and thought pretty comprehensive.
There might be numerous legitimate reasons to dislike Kissinger and Mattis going well beyond Theranos, but suggesting they're as culpable for being hired to promote something they didn't understand to the military as the person who conceived and masterminded the fraud is stretching it a little far. I imagine Kissinger and Mattis' reputation would have taken a bigger hit if it didn't already have much bigger black marks against it.
In addition to the linked page there's also a tutorial https://docs.datomic.com/cloud/ions/ions-tutorial.html

and a reference https://docs.datomic.com/cloud/ions/ions-reference.html
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I don't know how to calculate amounts of caffeine but regarding the differing psychoactive effects, Googling 'tea stimulants' will get you lots of info... seems the main other stimulants in tea besides caffeine are theobromine (as found in cacao/chocolate) and theophylline.
>You've heard of Open Core, I imagine?

It's not "Open Core" if the core is not open. In this case a debugger is core part of a language.
It's a very clear movement in order to keep C# devs within their ecosystem and guarantee revenue with Azure. They loose money here , they must get it somewhere else.

This guarantee a total monopoly over the .NET ecosystem , Rider is probably one of the only tools that tried to offer an alternative they are stuck with the exact issue of not being able to bring the debugger because of that hostile license policy.

>Even the GitLab everyone's talking about in this context is Open Core.

I never talked about Gitlab and I don't care about them.

Don't be mistaken about MS , almost every move they do as a double intention behind it.

Just to name a few :

One MS engineer is core member to Webpack & Angular , why ? Windows Server dashboard is written in Angular , it's a critical product, they need some controller there.

One MS engineer is core contributor to Electron, why ? VS Code is powered by electron , it's a critical product, they need some control here as well.

One MS engineer is core contributor to Vue.js , why ? Azure is investing hundred of millions in China and Asia due to insane growth over the past 5 years, they need a good image in asia.

If you think MS has changed , you are delusional about the situation.
The Model T is a product, but we are talking about tooling, in that context the same spanner that can fix the Model T can fix the latest Tesla.

The car industry probably wouldn't be as big, if you had to learn a new tool for every new car.
Lots of them around (especially in my state, Queensland, which has hot summers and mostly fairly warm days in winter), but you need to use a gas or electric booster to have hot water all the time. So in a lot of places it actually turns out to be fairly similar energy use to put in a high-efficiency heat-pump hot water heater.

I've just evaluated this because I want to replace the hot water system at my house, and I was initially thinking of solar because my parents have had one for years and it generally works well but the heat pump will be cheaper and I'll eventually get some PV anyway. So all in all it should be a bit cheaper and more efficient per square metre of roof space.
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TWC took (or more likely, just threatened) legal action and now owns that domain. It's not coming back up.
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As an infrastructure/Devops Engineer, you will be responsible for developing and managing the Razorpay’s cloud infrastructure. You also will help drive continuous improvements to our engineering standards, practices, and tools.

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To let all that radioactive heat go to waste? Although maybe that's just the primary coolant circuit - is the water they use from rivers/the ocean made radioactive, or just heated?
What amazes me about things like this is that there are so many ways for relevant information to leak out but until revelations reach critical mass the fraud can continue unabated.
Presumably, you’re telling me what you think the law ought to be. As far as the law is currently concerned, spending is protected as speech.
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If you’re going to replace something and keep uptime then you’re going to have situations where you have more than you need.
Half of being a manager is managing other's behaviors to produce a great product.

No! you are doing it wrong. Research shows that it's hard to change others behavior.

The other half is managing your own behaviors -- i.e. being consistent with your communications and consistent in your behaviors.

While this is in your hand but you are subject to the same limitation as your team members.

Furthermore, managing people is not about making them agree with you but to use a framework of short-term incentives to align long-term goals.
I didn’t realize it was for TSR but does that count less or more?
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I think primarily identity and git locations.

I want stuff like the issue tracker/merge request dialog to be consistent across the federation (and of course for projects elsewhere in the network to be able to be the source for those merge requests)

I don't want an account on everybody's git{lab,hub,ea,xxx} instance I want a single identity that people can trust is me.

I want a way to discover and index other projects on the network. The same way that I often just go to github without knowing the name of a project just roughly what I'm looking for.
The same thing is happening in Europe. Energy markets need large reorganization for the transition and energy grid and storage technology needs to catch up big time. This takes lots of money.

Wind and solar turn spot prices negative when it's sunny and windy. Existing nuclear, coal can't be easily turned off for just a part of day. In free spot energy markets, the price of electricity must jump sky-high during low supply to pay for the rest of the time.

What is needed is load following power plants and large scale energy storage (flywheels and lithium ion are only solutions for very short fluctuations). In the North Europe there is possibility of using Norvegian hydropower to compensate for wind power as long as the grid capacity keeps up.
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Lead acid batteries are pretty easy to recycle. We already do this for car batteries. Lithium batteries are currently not as easily recycled, but that seems to be because there is little demand for recycled Lithium and they're not very toxic in landfills.
It just feels so slow. It actually made me understand the need for the modern updates
A single English legislation, with non-authoritative local versions translated by local governments. The actual language used could be a simplified subset of English, easy to understand for the majority of Europeans. People in legal professions dealing with EU regulations would need to obtain language certifications, but it would massively simplify the EU bureaucracy.
This sort of thing happens all the time. Hackers routinely attack web sites and change wallet addresses [1]. They setup fake Twitter accounts, fake web sites, muck up exchanges with fake listings, and in some cases even hold fake investor meetings. By some estimates hackers have stolen $400m from ICOs [2]. All of this nonsense is possible precisely because crypto transactions are irreversible so the currency users have absolutely no recourse.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2017/07/17/coindash-website-hacked-7-mi...

[2] http://fortune.com/2018/01/22/ico-2018-coin-bitcoin-hack/
so true.

I have a business partner that I can talk to very effective in person. I had to relocate, and now we have to deal mostly via email. I have been working remotely for ten years now and saw no problem with the change. But it has become disastrous. I figured out that he is just not an "email type". Only picking up the phone works with him, but this does not fit into my workflow. I'm undoing our business partnership currently.
Caffeine is also linked to panic attacks, anxiety and sleep loss (and loss of quality of sleep), I would recommend staying off caffeine all together, having tried both, I by far more like working in the calmness of not having caffeine circulating in my body.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caffeine-induced_anxiety_disor...
I tried Modafinil for a few weeks with some friends. The alertness is quite incredible, although for me made me unable to fall asleep until dawn (even on half the lowest dose).

The others have no trouble sleeping even with large doses, but experienced some bad headaches, or personality changes ("I just want to work all day now" -- this may not be bad depending on context).

I quit the trial when I developed large purple circles on my skin. Turns out skin problems, including some medically serious ones, are a relatively common side effect.

Proceed with caution!
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The Gnome project started the process that resulted in the move to GitLab a bit over a year ago. [0] That's a long time for Free Software advocates to stay quiet about Microsoft secrets.

[0] https://lwn.net/Articles/722870/
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"Individuals seldom pay the stick price." - Sadly, many do. I have many times over the years.

On top of paying premium prices for things, I also avoid emergency care on occasion that I would rush to if I had affordable insurance.

I wonder where you find ER visits for $1,000 ? I'm pretty sure in our mid size city with 5 or so big hospitals, the cost is much higher than that. I was treated some years ago with antibiotics and pain meds, given a bill over $4,000 - and I had refused the mris and xrays the doc wanted to order.

8 weeks later I got a notice from the hospital that they knew the address of the property I owned and suggested I pay.

"$10k/month" - some meds are $10k for one day. Sometimes one of the drug companies will donate a two day supply in an emergency, however I routinely shudder at the thought of going to the ER and getting hit with a $15k bill for a day and needing meds beyond that.

College tuition has been interesting in our state, they say it's free now, but previously I found that a lottery sold to people as a method to pay for college was only available to those under 25 and whatever other stipulations. I've heard of programs for women, for minorities, etc. There was one college in town supposedly offering scholarships to white people, and they had a great program I was interested in, but it was way across town and the expenses for travel and books was enough to make it a nice thought only.

"they are getting more healthcare and better healthcare"
No, I am not getting better healthcare. Certainly there are others who find paying the retail cost of doctor visits and drug prices ridiculous. Certainly I am not the only one that has had a doc or nurse practitioner suggest tests that I cant afford and deny to provide comfort in the name of stopping a possible opiod crisis.

Funny, you say "would be very cheap if drugs were limited to Advil and Aspirin" - Advil and Tylenol are the main line of defense for health issues where I am, it's relatively cheap, certainly not as effective as some prescription drugs, but the cost of the doc visit alone puts them out of reach mos weeks.

Part of the rent / housing costs problems are indeed from the slow down of building some years ago, but there are many other factors putting pressure there, many of those factors have people profiting at the pain of others in a similar way.

I think the housing thing will level out, this is something where capitalism can work. Hospitals having impenetrable territory protected by regulations and drug companies being sneaky with patents however, I don't think that's as fair of a set of guidelines for capitalism to work it magic well.
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Can't help with the caffeine content, but I agree that there's a vast difference between good and bad tea. I particularly detest places that use a teabag and add milk before removing the bag.

As George Orwell put it, "the best manner of making it is the subject of violent disputes" http://www.booksatoz.com/witsend/tea/orwell.htm
For pedantic reasons, the circuit posted is still technically invalid, since the output is undefined when both inputs are 1. But yes, the simulator does have trouble with this time dependent response.
Much stabilization could be done by varying the price of electricity on a minute-by-minute basis according to the supply.

Then, electricity users can correspondingly adjust their usage for things like electric car battery charging and heating the hot water.
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That is interesting about the thermometer! I noticed my tea always tastes like ass if I use boiling water, so now I add a bit of cold water after it boils. What is the optimum temperature?
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This entire paragraph is incorrect. You do not imply your acceptance of the GPL by reading the source code. You do not have to accept the license at all. However, if you do not accept the license, then you have no right to distribute the code. It is on conveyance (distribution) that the restrictions show up. There are absolutely no restrictions on what you can do if you do not distribute the code.

That whole section in their documentation is just weird, to be honest. There is nothing in the BSD license that requires you to sign additional legal documentation either. The fossil project requires copyright assignment to include your code in the project (many FSF projects require the same thing with their projects for similar reasons).

They should just delete that section so that they don't look like they don't know what they are talking about.

Edit: They could rewrite the section to say that by distributing the code you have implicitly agreed to the license. This is more or less true. The license actually hinges on the fact that you never have to agree, but that if you don't agree then you only that the rights assigned to you by copyright (see section 9 of the GPL v3). The bit that's weird is that there is absolutely no difference with the BSD license -- you don't have to agree, but if you don't, then you don't have a license. The only real difference is that the BSD license doesn't explicitly say so.

At first I thought they were trying to make a political point, but the more I look at it, the more I think they just want to justify requiring copyright assignment. The obvious question is "Why don't all those GPL projects require it?" So they came up with something plausible, but completely incorrect.
After 10 minute read here's what I get out of it:

The study is a meta study that doesn't actually test individuals but uses data from other studies that do test individuals to assess average group performance under sleep deprivation (either total or chronic restriction) using an algorithm that tries to use the other studies as inputs and predict their results to draw out patterns by finding dosing strategies that optimize performance.

The advice seems to be: reduce total caffeine amount because otherwise recovery to normal is worse, take more caffeine on days with less sleep, and less on days with more sleep, delay the dose to closer to sleep period ( otherwise your performance tanks as your approach sleep period, i.e., you only stay high for so long ), and if you can don't dose on the first and last days of your sleep restriction period, just go "natural".
> People don't buy many watches, because they last a long time.

Smartwatches can fix that problem. Obsolete in 1 year, battery failure in 2 years, incompatible with app ecosystem in 5 years.
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Just pass those negative prices to customers and they will solve the problem.