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You're competing with webm / mp4 not gif though.

Editing the HTML attribute to width=2000% is pretty sweet however because it's a vector.

I'm guessing if the example wasn't in an image tag I could select the text too?
I'm at 100/100 though, so wouldn't something simpler be enough? The wired side of the router is gigabit but that's just an integrated gigabit switch, it doesn't even touch any CPU. I'll be doing more testing to make sure but my ISP doesn't seem to have too bad a buffer bloat anyway.
"learn to swim and dive right down there or die."

It's quite common to see non-drivers saying this kind of non-sense.

I have more than 150 dives and even with wreck training and experience I would never, never, never do cave diving. It's ridiculous dangerous, even for experienced cave divers.
Without visibility and training, people die. Experienced cave divers get panic attacks and die. It's hard to control someone during a panic attack in open waters, in confined environment it might be even impossible. Divers in panic are also a hazard for other divers.

That said, consider taking an untrained kid in an environment they have no experience with for three hours.

My bet is that they will not make them dive. I wouldn't be surprised if they are talking about diving lessons only to buy time and keep them occupied and give them hope;

Unless plan A (pump the water out) and plan B (wait until September ends) becomes a non-option (due to emergencies), they won't swim/dive they way out.
Is there any particular reason why you prefer tech being developed in universities?

If the quality of the work being done is good and the results are worthwhile, does it really matter who paid for the room and the lights?
> we should decouple education (which is essential for being productive) from social selection. how?

It seems straightforward: Lower the cost of education significantly. The reasons you cite are the reasons for the public universities in the US, AFAIK. The number one predictor of college education, IIRC, is parental wealth or income; education wasn't always this expensive.
But that's exactly what the GP said.. they are being flooded.
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This is great for many of the same reasons that asciinema is great -- smooth animation and selectable text. The resulting svg is orders of magnitude smaller than a gif would be.

How hard would it be to add some sort of pause button to aid in selecting from the capture? Also, it appears you can only select when you are viewing the image directly, not when it is embedded via an <img> tag. Is that fixable? I guess maybe an <iframe> might work, but I haven't played with it yet.
And in India, we still use a more traditional counting system beyond thousands - we say "lakh" for 100,000 and "crore" for 10,000,000. The words million and billion are not in common use.
> Americans tend to freak out at EU style regulation, becuase they have a pathological relationship to their own regulators

I’m Swiss American. My fellow Swissmen are similarly sceptical.

The realistic risk isn’t someone fining everyone a billion dollars. It’s that you didn’t curry sufficient political favour with the right regulator and now get to see their capricious side. These are a legitimate concerns for anyone considering doing business in Europe.
The paragraphs below explained. People were taxed on windows, so people removed windows to reduce the tax.
I don't see any problems with Safari 11.1.1 on macOSX or on mobile Safari on my iPhone.
Paris taxed based in the number of floors up to the roofline. This was described in the article.

The British taxed based on a count of windows.
The mansard roofs in Paris -- taxes were based on number of floors up to the roof line. Mansard roofs disguise the top floor as part of the roof.

Narrow buildings -- these buildings were taxed based on the number of linear feet facing the canal. In the picture, the door in the middle is the door for a house that is only as wide as that door, "the skinniest house in the world".

Covered / Bricked over windows -- buildings were taxed based on the number of windows. Building owners could save money simply by bricking over some windows.
Looking at their diversity stats, the largest group in their student body is Asians despite Asians only being 5.6% of the US population.

Much like the elite high schools here in New York, CMU’s entrance requirements have changed now that the wrong kind of people are the majority.

I don’t know how to feel about that.
Almost all the ICO's are scams. And the ones that aren't are mostly destined to fail too.
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Voice control isn't friendly either. It often fails to understand what you say, requires significant focus from you to say the exact magic words, and works less well when it's loud outside.

On my Android Auto, the voice-activated voice control also tends to trigger inadvertently when playing podcasts.
What you're describing is obsession and it can be even more dangerous that just plain old greed. However I find myself saying the same thing sometimes...
Novels are written to satisfy the social milieu of the time in which it's written. Society's moved on since Jurassic Park, why would it still be relevant?
The midwest has some of the coldest winters of any region of the US because it doesn't have the ocean nearby to moderate temperatures. Most of the midwest would spend most or all of December, January and February well below 40 degrees.
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Promote your users to use an openvpn service. Hell give them a month free with a good service. If appropriate consider rolling it into your service. For an additional 5.99 a month enjoy secure unfettered access to sites all over the world.
That's just Michael Crichton in general. He went a lot further off the deep end after that judging by his output.
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I've been teaching myself Gregg simplified since late last year. I probably put in 30 minutes a day, and an hour or two on the weekends.

First of all, it's very fun (the main reason I got into it)

I currently can write about as fast as I type. Somewhere in the range of 40 - 80 WPM depending on how many complex words I need to use (those slow you down a lot more than common ones)

The biggest negative for me right now: reading. I can write it far faster than I can read it. For things like meeting notes,this pretty much rules shorthand out as I need to be able to flip through to find a particular meeting, or something important that someone said. This will get a lot easier with practice, but it's the biggest blocker for me at the moment.

I've made about 1000 flash cards in Anki for memorizing words, short forms, special rules, etc.

Very cool, but probably an obsolete technology in an era where recording is easy and typing is pretty good. I might feel differently as I improve, but that's how I feel now.
Sounds like a good recommendation. The C7 has been my go-to for cheap, good wifi, and solid LEDE support. But I haven't stress tested it to check how it will take a very congested network. My uses have had fairly light users.
Thanks for sharing this tool.
>Meritocracy should be the paramount consideration in all things, and possibly a small consideration of diversity of ideas and beliefs, but not diversity of skin color or genitalia.

>If all of the most brilliant astrophysicist minds in the world happen to be Japanese women, why shouldn't they be preferred over all others in getting into prestigious colleges to study astrophysics? Why do we care if we have a certain number of European males in that situation?

The fallacy with assumptions like these is that it presupposes a completely level starting point for all demographics/ethnicities.

If everyone had access to the exact same resources throughout the entirety of their developmental lifespan, then yes, no one would rightfully care whether or not $genderNationality was predisposed to be above-average at a given discipline.

That is just not how reality plays out though. More often than not, certain groups are predisposed to excel because they simply won the socioeconomic lottery. To draw on your hypothetical example, if Japanese women happen to dominate the field of astrophysics, is it because they're predisposed to it? Or is it because Ugandan men and Mongolian women simply don't have the same access to the educational systems and resources that give them a decided advantage in preparing for a rigorous, top-10 education in such a discipline?

I think a lot of times people look at efforts like this and try to oversimplify it to "oh look they just arbitrarily think they need more of a certain gender or ethnicity".

It's far more complex than that, and we need to make an honest effort to understand why some groups are underrepresented. I'm willing to be it has less to do with pre-disposition, and more to do with inherent inequality in an adversarial and unevenly distributed socioeconomic system.
very interested in this and if I may hazard a guess, I think techies who are mostly introverts will find it useful
You are right of course and that is why I said they will still be very lucky to get out alive. They don't even know how to swim and must be quite weak already.

Somehow I do not see keeping them there till September, with water levels possibly rising further, as much of an option either.
AFAIK, there's a special reason for the PIN pad: it encrypts the PIN, so the ATM doesn't have access to it. That's why even ATMs with touch screens still keep the PIN pad.
Any link to a paper?
I don't buy books if I have any left that I haven't already read. But I read them rather quickly, so the money I spend on books is instead limited by my willingness to shop for new (to me) books.

When I browse the virtual shelves online, I usually throw a bunch of books on a gift wish list and intentionally not buy them myself, so that other people don't have to struggle at birthdays and gifting holidays.

Also, since they were gifts, I get fewer unwanted interruptions as I'm burning through one of those books after the holiday.
For me it would've been 1 year into my (ultimately failed) Ph. D project. I would be a lot wealthier now if I'd launched into the tech world then and been working all that time.
This one is hard for me, as there is likely no way I’d have gotten into CMU if I didn’t schedule an interview, basically say it was my dream school, and apply early - all of which is clear and demonstratable interest. I wasn’t rich; I simply lived in Pittsburgh, and grew up indoctrinated that CMU was where the smart kids went.

Like any elite school, CMU is very far-ranging and international w/r/t student body; it’s fair to assume that a disproportionate amount of students traveling to Pittsburgh to interview, tour, and attend pre-college are from above-average means. I get the logic. I also (anecdotally) know at least a dozen students at my time there who were wholly unqualified to be there save for their family’s ability’s to pay their tuition in full, cash.

I have zero interest in litigating the value of diversity; if that had to be explained here then you’re too ideologically gone for either of our time spent to be useful. What I can say - and I suspect CMU agrees - is that education and opportunity is a great way to give underserved populations upward mobility, therefore minimizing outputs of family affluence and giving more opportunities to lower-income applicants will yield a higher overall impact. I’m sure they likely saw performance (and potentially even donor) differences between the two populations; it’s possible that the demonstrative interest population simply didn’t perform as well.
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Sublime Text in Distraction free mode is the best, but I wanted something online.
>Let's start with an open mind; I know many of the 'answers' already jumping to people's fingertips, but let's challenge those assumptions and the status quo. Nothing in the universe requires that there should be N spots available at CMU-level schools. Why not 2N or 10N or 100N? My impression is that the availability of quality college education boomed in the mid-20th century, especially in the U.S. Why not now, with such high demonstrated demand? At least public universities could be expanded.

like i wrote elsewhere in this thread the cognitive dissonance here comes from the idea that CMU is about educating. it's not. it's about generating profits. just like porshe/rolex/debeers could easily produce more product but doesn't in order to artificially deflate supply (in order to be able to give the impression of scarcity in order to be able to charge more) every elite institution does the same. for what it actually looks like when a school is honest about the material value of its degree just take a look at the online masters in CS from GT.
I have been away from this field from some time. The Cake seems to solve the problem with machines but not the problem with the same machine having streams with different latency/bw requirements. The priority way of solving this problem is round robin on packet priority and priority limit for machine/user (different queues per discritized priority level meaning no bufferbloat for high priority). The primary issue with this solution is that it would require the packets to be labeled.
With all due respect blacks are afraid even in their own native land of africa, and similarly muslim in many muslim countries. That along with economical betterment is one of the key reasons why ppl immigrate in first place.
Long time fastmail user. Has anyone here managed to automate the creation of aliases? I create a random alias address for every service I sign up to and those steps of creating that alias add a little bit of tediousness.
What're people using tools like this for? I see the usage surely when demonstrating something in the terminal - and many times used for showcasing projects and tools. Are you using the recordings for other purposes, like to document work and share progress with your team + manager for instance for work you're doing during a sprint (good for demo'ing things at the end of the sprint too).
Symmetric MultiThreading (SMT) - that would be Simultaneous MultiThreading
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"Diversity" related words are used thrice in the article, "inclusive" ones six times, but neither rich or poor related ones are even mentioned. Seems factual enough !
Could they use a long rope as a track/guide with the "packages" tethered to it?

How realistic would it be to drill a more convenient entrance from above?
I wonder if you could just use a javascript button to pause the animation and if that would make the text selectable.
great. now fund public institutions better than private so excellent researchers have the tools and the compensation they need in order to work for them rather than privates. california seems to get it.
Here is another one that I've been using for years https://draftin.com/
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The logic here is mind boggling. Essentially they are removing merit as a selection criteria, because privilege affords people more opportunities to show merit. If you are raised with privilege your parents are far more likely to have encouraged you to do extra cirriculars, support your interest in X,Y,Z, paid an essay coach to help or write your admission essays, etc.

I understand this, but it is not a good policy. In effect you will now be discriminating against good kids who worked their asses off to do extra cirriculars and prep for the SATs, etc.

Get rid of legacy preference for sure, find new ways to be more inclusive of underrepresented populations, but don't fix discrimination with more discrimination.
I actually dont think so. Faacebooks major competitive advantage is their data NOT being in other peoples hands. You can mess with the data, target people based on the data, etc, IF you do so from within facebooks environment. The last thing they want is data leaving their ecosystem.

They made Graph Search and Dev waay too powerful, and people stared using it, before facebook caught on to how much data was leaking. Their intent was never to lose control of the data, because that makes what they offer less valuable.
I completely agree that cost is the driving force, absolutely, be it floor, reconfig, density, etc.

BUT, why the elaborate dance around that fact? It’s always dressed up as something else? It comes across as a sham explanation when anything but cost is attributed.
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Which is perfect, right?
In Sweden we removed the property tax completely which has shaped our housing market a lot. People over consume living area and use their homes as retirements savings since it’s dift cheap to sit on it, contributing to the housing crisis we’ve had for the past decade.
A communal eating area tries to follow the same logic - let's get everyone eating at the same place and collaborating that way. Instead it's the same group of extroverts talking loudly and the majority of the office scampers back to their desks to eat while they work.

I feel like a once a month mixer would be social anxiety hell. It would be the one introvert per table making noise.
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Automatic permission addition is totally unacceptable, agreed. But I do think that Firefox should actually ask, at least once. A vague exclamation point on the edge of the screen isn't really a sufficient way of handling that for extensions a user has chosen to add.
I'm grateful that, when I applied to CMU, the process allowed admissions to recognize that I was a passionate achiever in many areas, including my chosen area of study.

Jumping through some of the arbitrary hoops and doing the busywork of high school turned out not to be among my passions, so if I'd been evaluated purely based on GPA I'd have probably been passed over in favor of someone better at following rules and perhaps less of a creative and independent thinker.

I ended up having quite a high QPA at CMU. I was the same person, but CMU and I turned out to be far better matched than high school and I.

I'm sad to hear that the admissions process no longer has an appreciation for these kinds of good matches.
We lived in the Edinburgh New Town and the buildings had quite a few bricked up windows - I had assumed as the buildings weren't that old (early 19th century) the Window Tax explanation was unlikely but it turns out it wasn't abolished until 1851:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Window_tax
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But their lines of business have inherently low barriers to entry and inherent economic disincentives to artificially keep supply as high as these services do in outlying regions.

The minute they either pay drivers less, charge riders more, or reduce supply, it’s an immediate opportunity for another entrant. Diversifying into e-bikes won’t change that. It’s just an inherent property of the entire concept of a regional taxi service.

Self-driving cars won’t change anything either, as they will just be yet another commodity device that all those would-be entrants can lease and use all the same. The extreme sensitivity to price competition would remain.

The real reason for these auxiliary transportation acquisitions by Lyft or Uber and all the fluff about being “the Amazon of transportation” is simple: they don’t have anything close to a profitable business model. It’s wholly reliant on keeping ride supply artificially high in outlying areas and prices artificially low, through VC subsidy.

In the meantime, they need splashy new stories to tell to keep the hype train going. First it was going to be Uber Eats and other gig economy extensions. Not profitable either? OK, let’s do something with bikes or city travel guides.
In what way is "enjoy[ing] the prospect of potentially denting the universe a bit" obsession? Are you saying that being motivated by things other than finances is obsessive?
Right. It works on my 2013 MacBookPro, but the drawing looks incomplete/broken on my 2015 Retina 5k iMac. Both run macOS 10.13.5.
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Does this mean, If I have Comcast Bradband at home.. And I flip my phone to Wifi... so I dont use Cell Phone Signal.. that they are going to throttle me?
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Meritocracy is great in theory, but in real-life it's just the same perpetuation of rich/white/male advantages. I'm 2.5 out of 3 of those - it only works when the playing field is level to begin with, not when I start out 10 points ahead of someone who didn't have my advantages.

You're not going to do an extracurricular project when you have to work weekends to support your family. You're not going to the university library to read research material when you don't have access to a car. Joining that after-school robotics team is impossible when you have to watch your little sister because both your parents are working and can't afford child care. Yes, you could work even harder to get around these obstacles, but there's no recognition of "level of effort" in meritocracy, the only thing that matters is results.

What CMU is proposing won't fix everything (per nsnick above, "wealthy parents will always be able to game an adversarial process"), but it's a step in the right direction.
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> you can move USD without friction

You can already move U.S. dollars frictionlessly: with instantaneous, irrevocable and pennies-to-a-dollar Fedwires. SWIFT is more useful for non-dollar settlement, or between banks without dollar clearing privileges.
Is there a good word for when a member of a group is biased against the group that they're a part of?

> I wouldn’t want to work in a place where management is close to my age without a gold-plated guarantee they share the “Let’s try it and see” outlook of younger companies.
"Commercial websites now have to pay a license fee when they publish substantial portions of press publications."

Almost every website is a commercial endeavor to the point where they use ad revenue to pay the costs of operating.

By substantial portion you mean the little paragraph that helps you figure out which link contains the information you want to click on? Because people who are driving traffic to your website should obviously promote you for free AND pay you.

Quit shilling for your incompetent politicians.
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I remember someone claiming that property taxes in Greece only come into effect when a building in completed, and as a result there are lots of homes with unfinished roofs and whatnot. Any truth to this?
It works fine now. I'm a bit stunned by how much there is.