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> Unfortunately, the fundamentalist FOSS mentality we encountered on Reddit is still alive and well.

This is incredibly rude. You may not like it, but GNU/Linux was built by people for user freedom, not for proprietary email clients.

Instead of using words like “fundamentalist” please instead consider that you are doing something that is not welcomed by the creators of the operating system and a large number of the long-term users.

A little understanding would go a long way.
You glossing over the ugly truth here. Structured data and mutable data don't respond well to the type of operations you're talking about, and that is most of the interesting data in most programs.

Most data requires random access to the middle, which is something compression is usually very bad at doing cheaply. You would have to leave boundary markers which eats into your size and speed advantage.

Updating a record will change its length, requiring you to reallocate and possibly rewrite subsequent values, or even the entire parent data structure. Imagine updating the Z coordinate of the 3rd element in an array of a million objects.
Minix 3 can be used on its own for non-educational purposes. In fact, Intel uses it for their Management Engine. It's so good, even the three letter agency hacking your shit loves it!
I'm a developer on Linux who wants to migrate into design. I want sketch on Linux so bad :-(

I realize though I probably need to Shell out for a Mac though. (Besides for a few brief moments in middle school, I have never used iOS believe it or not)
My wife takes it... not regularly, but perhaps 5-6 times per year, to deal with sleep issues. From what I can tell, there's no real side effects for her - she gets a decent sleep, and is refreshed. I took it 2x about 10 years ago - first time was... a bit spaced out after I woke up. Second time a few nights later I had probably the most horrific nightmare I'd ever had. Never touched it again.
> Meanwhile your peers are well established in their careers, have families, making 2-3x as much as you.

People pay money to do what they enjoy all the time. People take classes, eat at fancy restaurants, go on vacations, etc. This is just a more extreme instance of that.

I'd like to get a PhD one day even though I've worked in the industry. It has nothing to do with my "career". I just have topics I'd like to do research in because I find them fascinating. Also I feel like working in the industry makes me dumber.

In my experience the percentage of people who seem super excited about their work is much higher in academia than in industry. This shouldn't really be a surprise since the proportion of people who stay in academia for money is much smaller than for industry. That said, there definitely are people who just didn't know what else to do, but there are those people in industry as well.
Physical damage caused by user negligence and perceived defects in design or manufacture due to third-party repair service are two different things.
How does this work? Is it just vaporizing the water?
They probably shouldn't try to compete so generally. "Better business email than outlook" is a very very difficult challenge. "Better tools to help developers who prefer Linux on the desktop function in a company committed to Microsoft" seems like a real market, but one far too small for a big company. That's the type of market that might be a great starting point for a startup.
Eh… Not for the home enthusiast workstation market.

The CPUs are actually kinda reasonable (Raptor sells the 8-core for $595, which is only $95 more than the launch price of the Ryzen 1800X).

But the lite mainboard is $1,099.

That's 5-10 times more that a board for Ryzen. And a lot is missing on the "lite".
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This is probably already happening with good old fashioned Photoshop (or not even that sometimes). For instance, when a Telegraph journalist mistook a photoshopped photo of Trump with a white supremacist for the real deal and tweeted it with the comment that "this isn't complicated"[1], I doubt many people who saw the original tweet even saw the correction[2]. Over 28,000 retweets for the original claim, under a thousand for the correction. This is about typical.

[1] http://archive.is/paG5C
[2] https://twitter.com/rafsanchez/status/896654656348323841
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Hi!

I have an idea for a game which I think is worth sharing. Maybe we will find a way how to realize this or get in touch with someone who or company which will be interested and can help with that.

Because of the type of this game there is needed a physical "playfield" or gamefield. If someone wants to play he has to build or visit the playfield.

The idea is to use the live streaming wifi camera with very low latency and player vearing a VR Helmet. The camera can be placed from side to make a 2D arcade game or I would prefer to place it from the top in distance 5-10 metres and I would enjoy playing a real multiplayer bomberman or any other type of a chase game in multiple players in the maze. There could be vast possibilities but for some reason I like the bomberman idea with augumented bombs and even the CPU enemies.

It brings the physical movements into the games which I think is extra benefit.

What do you think? Can there be VR or Game companies interested in realization of such a games?

Thanks for reading,
Vojtech Mejzlik
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This is why, I suspect: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/05/06/screw_caused_iphone...

There's a fair bit of danger of reputational damage from unauthorised repairers.
Huh I didn’t know about the stock angle. Apparently it was a purchase agreement since they were pre-IPO, not a giveaway. So he got some pre-ipo financing and a look at great research tech. Very cool deal, thanks for the pointer.
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I find it amazing how much US cares about employment rate. Then people start talking about U3 vs U*. I know they mean something... they always come up.

What I'm curious about these statistics is: how do the statistics track the self-employed?

Seems to me the gig-economy is not about part-time jobs but about part-time self-employment.

So, if you are self-employed and you pay your taxes, from the government's point of view you are OK. But that doesn't mean you are profitable or making a living wage.

In IT, if you are 'benched' the employer pays you regardless. But a 'benched' self-employed person is basically an unemployed that is burning through cash paying taxes, health insurance, etc.
They have not saved nearly enough but it hasn't stopped them from retiring. The number to watch is the "old-age dependency ratio" which has risen to 25/200 from 21 per 100 in 2010. The trend is for this number to increase as more boomers surpass 65.

As people age their skills and acuity decrease, so while some may want to continue working its not at all a sure thing they'd be able to even if 2008 hadn't happened. I can't think of a good statistic to capture this and we're both looking at second derivative statistics.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/retiring-baby-boomers-leave-the...
Where did you go to school that you were able to pay a mortgage and have a family while doing your phd? I'm paying a wee bit more than half my monthly salary on rent alone. Am in Bay Area though.
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Agreed, and I think that's the blog post's ultimate conclusion: Don't find an adviser that makes decisions for you, but an adviser that helps you make your own decisions.

A good adviser won't even reveal their thoughts and feelings on the subject.
Sleep is a fickle thing. I think some sleep habits are programmed into us when we are young (theory based on anecdotal observation with my kids and talking with others over the years). That said, having a shut down process and consistent schedule is really important. Getting rid of blue light, not eating several hours before bed, relaxing with less stimulatong activity, taking some Melatonin. Melatonin is not habit forming really works well for most people based on sleep studies. You still need the shutdown process, and then Melatonin boosts you into a sleep state. Excercising is also important for setting up good sleep. I think this is all most people need to do if they just have minor trouble falling asleep. Moderate to severe sleep issues can be symptoms of something else.
It would be great if optimizers made code 1000x or 1000000x faster, but apart from some edge cases like the removal of ineffectual loops, disabling optimization in any compiler shows that ~10x is more realistic.

My day job is writing compilers (for traditional languages), and I have no doubt that it's significantly easier/simpler/faster to implement the jet based one.

However, the jets only apply to known algorithms, so it's really more like an optimized library than a compiler technique. Code that uses the "library" will be really fast with little effort, but anything that requires functionality not directly found in the library will get the 1000-1000000x overhead, while the traditional compiler will run it all with ~10x overhead.

I totally agree that it's the perfect fit for long-lived, highly heterogenous, correctness first applications like blockchain, but I don't see how it'll be useful for general purpose languages.
Who will the public believe if it is a high profile video? This might just end in court...

This will induce peaks of paranoia into the minds of conspiratorial people.

The bad side effect is that now, you can call any video a deep fake, and attack the authenticity of any video used against you.
> I've crashed my car into a tree because of sleep eating.

I'm not very familiar with Ambien, but this seems like a non-sequitur. Do you mean sleep driving?
Where did you land after leaving the phd program?
Any business that is part Linux and part windows, exchange infrastructure, will need an exchange client for all their Linux client machines?

Assuming web based won’t cut it for those users, then it would seem Hiri is a good fit for that business?

I can’t see in what way you are competing or displacing Outlook if you are makinhg a product for Linux. The reason it’s a viable product would be 1) because there is no Linux outlook, and 2) because a business has users that have to run Linux while others run Outlook on windows, against the same Exchange infrastructure?
I thought it's discontinued...? And I was actually a little happy about that, because why Mir instead of Wayland?
Can't help but nitpick that you're still using APD to refer to ASPD. :-)

While all mental disorders have biological roots, as in they are all malfunctions of the brain which is biological, I believe psychopathy is trauma-driven just like the other Cluster B disorders, though I think there's likely a heritable component like many other disorders.

Firstly, it can't even be diagnosed until early adulthood because the empathic center takes that long to develop. Children who seem psychopathic can 'snap out of it' even in their late teens.

The brain pathways either get exercised or they don't, it's the failure of them to do so that causes psychopathy, this failure can have very deep roots completely shutting large parts of the limbic system or small parts. The extent of the trauma largely determines the extent of the disorder. Trauma can be 'blocked out' and the formative traumatic experience can be totally out of memory's reach as the brain tends to block such things because they cause further distress. Just because you don't remember a particular experience doesn't mean it doesn't exist. I do think that meditation, or the judicious use of psychedelics, particularly once the empathic center is reactivated, can allow one to 'hone in' on the specific blocked memory and provoke a catharsis, and give a lot more meaning and clarity to who you are and why you are that way.

What I do believe is that the psychopath - empath spectrum is a true spectrum in that everyone is on it, unlike the autism spectrum, where most people who think they're on it are really looking for some kind of framework to order their life around and so just about every sort of social maladaption gets lumped under that label. Autism describes a specific sort of brain misdevelopment, psychopathy / narcissism / cognitive empathy / poorly-developed empathy / neurotypical / sensitive is something everyone can find meaning in.

I think in 10 years or so the categories will be far clearer and emotional development will be far more well-understood.
An interesting solution could be to first enter the username, then the OTP/Key, then the password. I haven't given it a lot of thought and can't find anything wrong with it.
The difference between the 25-54 and civilian participation rates are largely attributable to retiring boomers. Participation rates depend heavily on demographics. They matter for things like dependency ratios. But quoting them without the context of a large generation retiring and increasing time spent getting educated hides the full picture. That said, the 3 percentage point drop in 25-54 participation is largely attributable to the opioid crisis—that’s a disturbing start to a trend.
I know a few people who would have retired except they need the health insurance.
Yes but also the entire definition of "profitable" vs "unprofitable" work is messed up.

Simple example: The real, measurable costs of pollution - illness, polluted drinking water, etc - are externalized and so companies doing said polluting are "profitable." Would they still be profitable if those costs were not externalized? I suspect not.

Similarly I suspect there are externalities not being accounted for, for self-interested reasons on the parts of those collecting the profit, when assessing which types of work are profitable or not.
I'd love to use GitLab Issues over JIRA, but Issues is just so feature poor. I don't even need a complex bug tracker, but Issues doesn't solve any problem I can see, except very simple lists.
Abusing sleeping pills is a great way to make it very difficult for people who actually need sleeping pills to not be able to get sleeping pills. This applies equally to many other medications too, including the freshly politically demonized effective pain relievers at the heart of the latest media driven moral panic. It only takes a few fools to ruin something for the responsible majority.
I've heard this argument before but it seems quite frankly so ridiculous I cannot credit the idea that Apple is so thunderously stupid as to believe it.

Virtually nobody pays much attention to how other peoples phone functions and if they say a dim display they would probably assume their battery was dying not that apple sucks.

If we go back to the auto industry I seem to recall them wanting to force people to get oem service/parts to maintain their warranty not to "protect their brand", a phrase which almost always precedes nonsense, but out of simple greed.

Greed is always always the simple answer in life. People that think their position is strong are always more willing to grasp at a few more pennies.
I’d been on Ambien (Stilnox locally) uninterruptedly from 2002 until a few months ago, April 2018. My main aim was to just shut down after days of work at a family business job that I loathed and most of my side-effects were binge eating and little else (to the point that I always ensured my home was entirely devoid of food). I was capable of taking ten, 12 doses a night.

In April I quit cold turkey and sought psychiatric help. I also had major depression going. Fifteen days of rehab on Italy’s national health service served wonders. I still have trouble falling asleep, but fuck it.

It turns out I have a genetic mutation that makes me fairly immune to withdrawal effects from benzodiazepines and pseudonenzodiazepines such as zolpidem but seriously people don’t go down this route.
A tad too sensational and exaggerating, it's off-putting. I actually appreciate very much that the author went to China to get first-hand experience for the article. Too bad it's written as if the author was afraid that tech/business content would not have necessary sensation to sell the article.

JD has been doing great but I think it (and Taobao of Alibaba) has the great risk of losing the young generation (born after year 2000) who are less interested in these big box online sellers but more likely to buy from small invidual sellers, based on friends' recommendations or the sellers' promotions on social networks. For example, some of the new thriving places like Pinduoduo and Douyin (similar to Musical.ly, in fact Douyin bought Musical.ly recently) are very popular nowadays. The old giants might be gone within ten years because the ways to do ecommerce are changing so fast in China.
Hear, hear.

Yes, you can look back at our animal past and at Chimpanzees and say we're a brutal, greedy, what-ever. But that is only a tiny sliver of conscious existence. What makes us human is the constant progression towards humanity - compassion, love, and society-wide safety and abundance.

See Hans Rosling for some promising trends rooted in global facts over the past 100 years. Yes, there are still bad things "left over" from being animals, but these are declining over the decades ::across the board::
For the high end cars the customer pays up front for service, including oil changes so they never see the direct costs. I'm sure apple would love to have that kind of acceptance of apple care but they haven't come close to achieving it.
In England, particularly the south-east, the gulf between a post-doc salary and starting a City/Wall Street job can easily be a factor of 3 or 4.
Thanks for the links.

> "That is because it is not the case that measurements have one outcome. Measurements appear to have one outcome from the perspective of a given classical observer [but actually have none]"

is a big claim, but it lacks "overwhelming evidence". Quantum theory self-consistency is a problem worthy of investigation, but achieving self-consistency is only one of the many possible valid results. This result is not needed as much as many people seem to think; certainly not as much as to reify psi function above objective results of measurements and claim the quoted part. It is a methodological error; instead of shaping the theory around the measurement results, it is rejecting the fact that those measurement results exist.

> The Born rule (which, it must be stressed, is not fundamental, but only apparent from the point of view of any given observer) follows from that, not mathematically but logically

I skimmed the paper [2] but found no such thing there. Could you locate it in more precisely or elaborate on the idea? All these kinds of proofs from algebraic formalism seem to achieve is something like "if Born's rule would not be true, we would have problems with the theory" which is not very interesting; we have some big problems with the theory even without decoherence.
Am I only the one who is disappointed in the seemingly stalling of traction for U2F? Google, Github, and Facebook supported U2F 2 years ago - so all I can see is Twitter, Dropbox and niche security news like KrebsOnSecurity.com have added support since then? Sure it's something, but 2 years I would have expected more - Who am I missing? Without more websites, consumer mass market has little incentive to adopt - and without users, websites have little incentive to support U2F - thereby furthering the stalling.
It should be illegal. I had a prescription when I was 20. The first three times I took it, I had no issues. Swallowed, immediately laid down in bed, then knocked out ten minutes later. The fourth time, I had to deal with something after I had taken it. I didn't fall asleep.

I remember going back to my desk, looking into my PC case (it had plastic windows on the side so you could see inside), and beginning to hallucinate. The cabling inside stretched out into a landscape and it felt like I was looking at the horizon on some alien Giger-esque planet. Then I blacked out and woke up to see I had added a bunch of high school friends on LinkedIn. Nothing bad happened thankfully, but I never took it again.

At least when you black out on alcohol, your motor abilities are severely impaired, to the point that you're just as likely to simply pass out before you make it outside. With ambien, your body isn't limited by anything, but you still have no control over your actions.

The safest alternative is edibles.
Who's believing propaganda? I'm getting my info from several sources before I make up my mind, you apparently get yours from hearsay that says what you already want to belive. Am I missing something here?
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There's certainly a significant amount of context dependence on the amount of advice that's "right" for any given situation. I think the important thing is to make sure you know that there is an "enough" rather than endlessly chase more.
Taking apart an iPhone is absolutely trivial, relatively speaking. Good repairers can do component-level repairs, even on the weird sandwich PCB on the iPhone X. They can splice together two flat-flex PCBs to repair a TouchID home button. They can restore iCloud-locked devices by removing and reprogramming the flash memory. They can separate the individual layers of a sandwich LCD screen to replace just the cover glass or the digitizer. There are aftermarket suppliers of iPhone X screens, complete with the notch and 3D touch. Third-party iPhone repair represents the absolute cutting edge of electronics repair. The level of precision and ingenuity on display is simply staggering.
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Isn't medicare better than most private insurance plans?
Thanks for the explanation!

Do you know why GNUK (the open source project used by Nitrokey and some other smart cards) chooses not to support U2F? I don't understand the maintainer's criticisms[0] and I'd like to probe someone knowledgeable to find out more.

[0] https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-users/2017-March/057...
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Consumer startups are dead. Long live consumer startups
I did not expect it to get any attention, so it was on the free tier dyno when it hit the front page. (And even seem to have held up for some time judging by the logs, before dying from the extreme lack of available ram.) Bumping it to the standard dyno when I noticed the issue was enough to keep it running.
> Am in Bay Area though.

That's the problem. The housing market isn't literally insane in the whole country.
Well, remember the entire point of U2F is to not be phishable. Authentication codes—and your smart watch—are phishable.
This seems like a "non-story". Uber has a feature (charge customer a fee for vomiting in their car) that some drivers have abused, and Uber refunded the customers that were wrongfully charged. Seems like a pretty cut and dry situation that they are trying to make a bigger deal than it is.

EDIT: The original Miami Herald article people have now linked def paints a bit of a different picture.
keep in mind that 'the surface of a star', for various definitions of 'surface' is actually "cooler than you might think", because it's rather diffuse and more than made up for in total output by the sheer size of the star.
Ugh I hear you. I have been following this issue for nearly a year: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/39056

I cannot believe its not fixed it. They made the MR file view completely useless for us. It was a new "feature" that actually made things worse.
Journalists should stick to what they are trained, paid, and most qualified to do: reporting. Just like actors should stick to acting.