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Most designers suck at design.

Consider the convergence of design of laptops and smartphones. If designers were competent, we would see a multitude of designs, since a good design must be designed for something, analoguous to how optimization must optimize for something. Given the extreme similarity between available designs, there are presumably a significant number of professional designers incapable of generating anything interesting. (I would wager most laptop/smartphone designs at the moment are designed as cheap apple copies, which makes for no differentiation since everything else is designed for the same.)
that's fine, take their guns away too
I wouldn't be surprised if there are inkjet printers printing spy dots as well. I have an Epson Artisan 725 and I've noticed that it uses far more yellow ink than it ought to, given that the vast majority of my printing is black-and-white.

I'll have to do some testing to see for sure, though.
I heard a commercial advertising lawyers specializing in getting people out of timeshares. Now I know why.
this is a email masking service by using anynoymous email adress unlike many others which only provides anonymous email address

nice idea!
That's not true. The climate models typically show larger rises in temperature than have actually happened.

I found this within 5 seconds of Googling: https://judithcurry.com/2015/12/17/climate-models-versus-cli...

I'm not sure how good the source is, but it is consistent with what I've seen elsewhere.
He's pretty fairly mocking this answer, though. Anecdotes are not an answer when it comes to something this prevalent. I can find an anecdote for almost anything to make it look bad.
You are certainly uniquely qualified as a jingoist! Since only time will prove me right, I’ll wait. And meanwhile, I’ll continue to put my money where my mouth is. Since we’re all ultimately on the same team, I hope you and your collaborators find a way to allow everyone to win.
I did one of these also, and I absolutely don't regret it. I think I learned more about (ruthless) sales tactics in two hours than I ever have from books or classes.

It was a timeshare tied to a big-name hotel chain, and as far as I could tell they were selling some hotel rooms as timeshare units to finance construction and maintenance. So the deal wasn't good, but it was substantially less of a scam than the stereotype because they had a non-scam business to protect. That, or the guy was so sharp that he really did persuade me quite effectively, and I was only saved by having a a prior of "this is the worst deal imaginable". (Well, that and the Odysseus bit - I decided in advance to refuse no matter how good the offer looked.)

The funniest part of the slightly-less-bad scam was that it enabled them to spend a while talking about how it's "not your parent's timeshare" and "not like those shady offers from the 80s". Which was true I guess, you got nice rooms in many places instead of one rundown house - they were just charging rates that were steep even before the multi-thousand-dollar "maintenance fees" kicked it.

Oh well, the free travel and event tickets were actually a great dollars-per-hour value - as long as you said no.
That's just one of the possibilities. You can either do the cheapo one-line-driven-by-inverter trick, or use a transformer or a differential line driver (like 8903A output stage); basically the opposite of an instrumentation amp. These behave pretty much the same as a transformer, i.e. they have high common mode output impedance. Available in chip form as well, e.g. DRV135.

Problem is the circuit needs very accurate resistors and needs to be carefully balanced, just like an instrumentation amp.
None of that has anything to do with brotli. Blame the distro or the package maintainer.
For reference: https://www.cultofmac.com/538447/ios-11-3-safari-security/
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This story reminds me of Abul-Abbas [1], an elephant given to Charlemagne by the caliph of the Abbasids. Frederick II wasn't the first Holy Roman Emperor to collect exotic animals, it seems.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abul-Abbas
"Have I been Pawned" should require email verification.

The way it's now, you can do searches for people's emails and get info of the sites people have been using.
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Doesn’t some kind of facial recognition work well enough for Vegas casinos?

Instead of police being able to scan one face at a time as they walk their beats looking for suspects, an automated system could scan everyone in view and then alert that an suspect has been identified with xx% accuracy.

Every week on next door someone posts a video still of a vagrant or thief etc. either from a broken car window, hit and run, lurker, etc. Automation would help if the perps. We, as a society, might want to adjust the dials on punishment, given the efficiency, but we shouldn’t give up the chance to minimize these crimes when reasonable.
> We learned quickly to approach education with a high level of scepticism and get your info from more than one source (textbook) and find out which ones were reputable and which ones were garbage.

Ironically, I think this is one of the best lessons anyone can learn . . .
That is true. If you ordered wine.

Still gotta pay way more for when you just order a meal.
If I recall, there was a basketball one where the insurance company didn’t want to pay because the shooter had paid college ball. The team wound up paying to avoid the PR disaster.
Why do you believe the data collection is not GDPR compliant?

I think that the site is very clear on how my data will be handled and what my email will be used for (sending me 3 emails).

To quote from your pasted link:
'The new regulation requires that brands collect affirmative consent that is “freely given, specific, informed and unambiguous” to be compliant.'

I submit the data freely to receive the information stated on the page.
If you're okay with C/C++ a really good resource to look at is Handmade Hero (https://handmadehero.org/)

He's creating a game pretty much from scratch and documenting the whole process on video.

If not I would check out MonoGame (http://www.monogame.net/) It's cross platform and technically you can build your game without an IDE.

You can also do browser based games with libraries such as Phaser (https://phaser.io/) and Play Canvas (https://playcanvas.com/)

Having the game live reload on build is possible but imo it's more trouble than it's worth in most cases. You pretty much need to split you game logic out into a shared library (DLL, SO, JAR) and then have the shell executable load it in a runtime.
Bringing small business insurance online
I'm not defending the GP's acquaintance but getting hit by a paintball is lower than the typical risks you accept when you dig around in a dumpster. Generally speaking dumpster diving isn't trespassing unless it's behind a gate or something. It really depends on the dumpster in question.

If it's a good construction or scrap metal dumpster with a lot of nice material in it then defending it with a paintball gun is very much a dick move though.

I don't see why he's getting down-voted. He just said he knew a guy who did a thing. He didn't even imply whether he approved of it or not.
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Ancient Earth shows where you would have lived on the supercontinent Pangea
> shouldn't there be double quotes around all href targets?

Only the ones that need it. Like for example when there is a single quote in the link like you mentioned.
You could start by making it illegal to offer prizes to attend real estate sales seminars — decapitating their primary hook. Next, you could require interest rates to be in gigantic letters, and a whole host of other info to be required. You could also make it illegal for real estate developers to also be loan providers.
I have also been using mailhero.io since it has first been mentioned on HN.

Lately I do however have issues with mails not being forwarded / blocked at the service. I contacted the developer but as of today no feedback. Obviously this is a free service, which also means that I sadly cant rely on it. I am willing to pay for such a service and will try Maskmail / Othermail, but actually I would prefer an open source solution on an own (micro-)server...
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`polyanna`, `an excessively cheerful or optimistic person`

thanks for vocabulary++, and sorry for OT
Yea I would want this too. I think it makes more sense than Maskmail just adding a bunch of other domains that can get blocked too.
Actually, I’m coming around to your point of view. I think it was the recipient who controlled the “transaction”.

The world was so very different. Waiting for that 0 to finally work its way around the dial, good grief. Especially since as a kid I was perpetually afraid any phone number that included a 0 might lead me to somehow get connected to a phone operator, so I wanted to dial the following number as quickly as possible.
Rooftops are also conveniently close to the demand.
Wellington is the most beautiful city I’ve ever lived in, maybe the most beautiful city I’ve been to, and it’s where we assumed we’d be living when my wife and I moved to NZ some years ago. We spent 9 months before giving up and moving to Auckland. The winter was miserable. I’d never considered wind to be something that could make me so miserable in a place.

Kiwis joke that New Zealand starts at the Bombay Hills (the Bombay Hills are just south of Auckland, and so serve as a demarcation between Auckland and the far north and the rest of NZ). I wanted to love Wellington, but I ended up feeling much happier in Auckland.
I really hope this is sarcasm... You think it's appropriate for every employee to be searched before entering a facility because there might be a "terror attack"? How many IT workers are there in the country, how many attacks have occurred in IT offices, and how many attacks have been prevented by searching employees bags? Giving up personal liberties and freedoms out of unsubstantiated fears based on a few fringe cases is a slippery slope. Also, I highly doubt that's what the policy is even about. The person you are replying to is probably correct that the policy is an attempt to prevent employees from leaving with company data
I already did in 2012, and I can't have a second Working Holiday visa there.

The other two options are more hopeful - Canada will allow me a second working holiday (my first was before the rules changed in 2012), and I didn't work in Australia before. But the Aussie visa only lets me work for one employer for 6 months max. NZ needs 3 years continuous relevant work experience, and I really don't want to break the "continuous" part I have now.
>Most of the other non-polynomial functions have an equivalent Taylor polynomial

_analytic_ functions have a Taylor _series_, but it would be incorrect to say that "most" functions have a taylor series, and a taylor series is not a polynomial.
I get the sense that the days of "take out a huge loan to be locked into vacationing at a crummy house in Boca" are over, probably because the reputation got too bad. Now it's reasonable prices, flexible travel dates, luxury properties around the world - all yours, for the low price of bank-breaking fees for life.
If anything is a hallmark of bad ideology, it's making a mock summary of other people's thoughts so you can valiantly take it down from a distance without ever engaging with it.
I agree but again then we are back to Pascals Wager. I consider meteor hit more dangerous and human flourishing more important than climate change for the reasons I oulined.
>Plastic waste is devastating for our oceans.

CO2 is having a far more severe impact on the oceans through acidification. All of the world's major coral reefs have experienced severe bleaching events; the IPCC has predicted the complete collapse of many reef ecosystems if CO2 emissions are not brought under control.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_acidification
> The point isn't to remember D_x is a linear operator--math isn't about memorization. It's about understanding the context where this is a useful fact and knowing how to figure it out.

Totally agree with this part.

> Post it to the internet and you get ridiculed and mocked for it so that you wish you could forget it.

Telling everybody you meet about a basic fact that you just learned is mildly cute when a 6-year-old does it.

It's great that this person learned something that was new to them, sure. But that doesn't mean that they need to shout about it to the tens of thousands of their closest friends who read the front page of HN.
So, you think that giving them access to fewer resources designed to help identification is the better way to go?
“If you already own a Google Home and want to change it to Spanish, you can do that by going into Assistant’s settings on your phone, selecting your smart speaker in the “devices” menu, and then tapping on “Assistant language.”

I simply want to say “Hola Google” and have it respond accordingly.
It's rendered in 3D, but the physics are 2D.
Scandinavia is known for high benefits supported by high taxes. The real problem is when you have low benefits and high taxes. In my country, an high income freelancer (paying ~50% taxes) will hardly ever get unemployment, sick leave or child care benefits.
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Quotes aren't actually necessary unless the attribute contains HTML special characters (" ' ` = < >)
They should probably explicitly mention the native habitat for the species in such articles; it would clarify a lot.

That said, trade between Asia and the Mediterranean basin via the Red Sea was highly developed at that point, with seafaring trade routes over 2000 years old. So it's not exactly shocking.
On a happy note "no-till" is starting to prove itself. There are mixtures of effectiveness and chemical usage but checkout the No Till vids the USDA is promoting https://www.youtube.com/user/TheUSDANRCS
Also https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/06/firefox-61-quantum-of-sols....
s/About half of pollutants/About half of PM10/
Exactly. Thus far, all we can say for sure is that we have not yet been carelessly crushed to make room for some intergalactic freeway we do not understand.

That doesn't mean there isn't one right in front of our eyes though.
Using the engine for braking means the physical brake will not be used, so there will be no dust in that case.
You need your braking pads less when you convert the kinetic energy in electricity.
Speaking of Cloudflare, they do brotli encoding for you at the free tier. Not sure about other CDN's but I'm sure it's a matter of time.
So you looked at their front page and concluded that they should be able to get rid of all javascript?

CertSimple is a full dashboard and application that does a lot of crypto in the browser which requires quite a lot of code.

Sure, there are probably gains to be had with code splitting and lazy loading, but those get significantly more complex and can cause issues for codebases that aren't setup to take advantage of it from the start.

And improvements are improvements. This was a blog post showing you how and why to implement brotli, not a request for how to improve page loading speed for their application specifically.
The convenience factor is definitely there. A browser plugin that automatically creates an email address that you can later turn on/off with a couple clicks instead of going through the domain setup in gmail (or in my case fastmail)? I'd be interested in it.
>THC is already an approved drug in the US under the name nabilone. It’s schedule 2.

Nabilone is a THC analog, with a slightly different molecular makeup than THC extracted from Cannabis. So no, THC is not schedule 2 under US law, as it is explicitly listed schedule I under the Controlled Substances Act.

Granted, the WHO recommends it be listed schedule III or IV, which I agree with...
Blog performance is also decent - on all platforms (including desktop), you're viewing an AMP page, so the only js is AMP itself.

I don't know specifically what amp.js is doing there with the animation but since the entire purpose of AMP is performance, I'm sure there's a solid motivation behind it.
His point is that brotli's advantages aren't big enough to justify it until it becomes ubiquitous. Compression improvements of less than 10% just don't justify much effort to get ahead of the curve (in most situations).
Why complex? Sure, this example is somewhat complex, but it does not need to be. Structure the menu in nested ul's, add simple hover css and don't use "display: none;" but rather "position: absolute; left: -999em;" and you get simple css and a good html structure that a screen reader for example can read easily and which also is clear to read if you turn css off entirely.

Of course, small hover menus offer their own accessibility challenges, but they don't depend on the way they are implemented but rather the choice of UX. And no reason why you could not improve this simple css menu with some js to make it more user friendly (like turning hover into clicks etc.)
Interesting - the presentation I saw was careful to pitch each family separately and not even walk them past one another. I assume it was partly for the feeling of exclusivity, and partly to avoid letting any awkward questions like "don't those fees turn this into a total ripoff?" pollute multiple buyers.

I wonder which approach works best? (Though I guess if there are enough plants, you could get both effects going at once.)
The original implementation at bloomberg.com is really well-executed, even solving the famous problem that when you accidentally hover another menu item while moving the cursor to the right, you might activate the adjacent menu item. [1]

It took VLC ages to get rid of this issue, but it is solved as of VLC 3.0.3 (relevant Qt bug: [2]).

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90NsjKvz9Ns&t=18m46s

[2] https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-20094
Braking dust comes from brake pads rubbing against brake disks. Electric vehicles slow down by running the motor in reverse and recharging the battery, therefore don't use the brake pads and brake disks as much, especially at higher speeds where the brake dust problem is the worst.
Absolutely was. That's hilarious.
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Does Cloudflare pass a dictionary when compressing for your clients? Would be interesting to hear about excursions in testing dictionary sizes/variations at that scale.
Wireless chargers would be a nice vandalism-proof option. But slower of course.
> how will they reduce braking dust?

"In urban environments, brake wear can contribute up to 55 % by mass to total non-exhaust traffic-related PM10 emissions" [1]. (The "abrasion processes which result in direct particulate matter (PM) emission are tyre, brake, clutch and road surface wear, with other potential sources being engine wear, abrasion of wheel bearings and corrosion of other vehicle components, street furniture and crash barriers.")

When a vehicle regeneratively brakes, the brakes aren't engaged. Instead, the transmission connects to a generator, which resists the vehicle's motion as it converts kinetic energy into electricity.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4315878/
Pizza delivery tends to pay well above minimum wage (before expenses, still definitely better than minimum after expenses) and you usually get paid hourly when you're doing work in the store. If you've got good shifts (weekend evenings, not delivering to a college) pizza delivery can be far more lucrative than waiting tables at an restaurant of similar class.
Over 3 years in Spain and no plans to return to Brexitlandia.

The UK has it's good points, but better quality of life can be found elsewhere.
Regenerative braking is using the electric motor as a generator for a time during braking. So you're not dealing with pads and rotors wearing down, at least not as much.
Go to a butcher and get it in paper. Make your own mayo...it's an egg, veg oil, and a little salt and pepper...store in glass. Salad dressing...store in glass. Metal tops. Pretty much the packaging up until the 70's.
Does it matter? The OP's evaluation methodology, for better or worse, is the one a big segment of the population uses to evaluate new technologies. It's critical to make sure that packaging is smooth, defaults are set reasonably, and tutorials are up to do --- otherwise, nobody's going to use your stuff no matter how good it is.
>What has this war on drugs given America?

Mass incarceration, militarized police forces, and a public health crisis
Yeah, this I think is the most important. You can't just pick up some OSS project and start working away, it's usually a lot easier if you've been a consumer of the project before. I've contributed a lot to several big JS projects (Webpack, Grunt, npm) because they were missing things which I needed and it turned out to be easy enough to just add them.
Cloudflare now supports Brotli compression through their Dashboard (it's in the Performance tab). We've been using it for at least a month and haven't had any issues with it.

We didn't do any before/after testing to see how much data it saved our users but the small tests we've done in the office showed around a 2-5% size reduction for our static assets which was great to see for all the effort of toggling a switch.
a new iteration of HCL is being worked on currently to improve on the rough edges, it combines HCL and HIL:
https://github.com/hashicorp/hcl2
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I recommend the awesome for beginners list.
https://github.com/MunGell/awesome-for-beginners

It's a bunch of beginner welcoming open source projects with a supportive team to help you initiate in the open source world.
People are better served by having a wider choice

No, the consensus in medial ethics is that patient outcomes are the only thing that's relevant. "Choice" is an important symbol in American Civil Religion, but it's not relevant, we are talking medical ethics here.
Right, so you provide that information to the winner to put on their form. No big deal.
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I think the wicked problem is the impacts of climate change, the unpredictable weather patterns. It's really hard to solve the problem of hurricane season expanding, or multiple strong hurricanes per season. It's hard to solve the problem of rising sea levels that cause sea walls to be breached any time there's a moderate storm. It's hard to solve increasing desertification causing water shortages which increases world migration and destabilizes economies leading to the rise in disaffected youth in poverty stricken countries that then leads to a rise in gang violence which then unifies under a banner and attempts to establish a new nation causing a civil war which only further increases world migration further destabilizing economies and politics around the world. It's hard to solve... you get the picture.

Rising CO2 levels are the cause of the wicked problems, not the wicked problem itself. We know people are dying from climate change, but determining what will directly cause those deaths and how to prevent them is the problem.
I'll suggest to someone internally that they write up all the details of how we support Brotli.
You wrote:
"This is why it's better to let the market play it out as it will optimize local needs" Do you know about the concept of externalities?
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