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Sounds like this won't be news for you, but for others in the thread, the Chinese sometimes play around a lot with puns and rhymes in transliterated names.

Here's a terrific twitter thread about Chinese nicknames for NBA players: https://twitter.com/i/moments/993587263283048449?lang=en

An example from the thread[1]:

Stephon Marbury - 马政委 "Marburyist Political Commissar"

This is a pun on "Marxist Political Commissar," since in Chinese both "Marbury" and "Marx" are spelled with the same first character "ma" ("horse").

[1] https://twitter.com/nick_kapur/status/993571262327910400
Thats true, I appreciate the discussion and the clarification.
> This resulted in a revolving door of clowns taking the reigns and rapidly resigning as Larry looked on.

I would say that this hasn't been the case for the past 10 years at least. Patrick Michaud has been Perl 6 pumpking since then, to make room for Jonathan Worthington about 2 years ago. Hardly a revolving door and hardly clowns.
Jens Johansson is the keyboard player from Stratovarius. In the 1980s he was in Yngwie Malmsteen's Rising Force together with his brother Anders on drums.

I found his home page some 18-19 years ago, including this sub-page on phase vocoders. I actually played with the software and used it to slow down the tempo of some music while retaining its pitch and timbre, plus read the referenced materials.

I thought it was cool that he was into computing, and tinkering with getting some C code to work, and understanding the underlying signal processing.

Worth looking at is Jens' 14 page scan of the 1986 article/tutorial by Mark Dolson on the phase vocoder technique.

The solo electric guitar sample that is demonstrated slowed down with various numbers of phase vocoder bins is the opening riff of Yngwie Malmsteen's "Trilogy Suite, Op. 5" from the Trilogy album.

I kind of just remembered all this suddenly.
> I was not personally aware of any way to "sync directly" other than using the Google Drive desktop client. It sounds like you're saying Keepass has some direct integration with Google Drive?

Indeed it has a plugin for this, yeah. That's exactly what I'm saying. https://sourceforge.net/projects/kp-googlesync/
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Minimal Version Selection.

That's really interesting. Obviously this would lead to fewer regressions, but it seems opposed to the "security problems fixed for free" scenario you hear about with other package dependency schemes. Were we all just imagining that scenario? Is there another way we should be handling vulnerabilities, i.e. by "repudiating" old versions rather than simply releasing new ones? Then you could have something like "Minimal Unrepudiated Version Selection".
To be fair, my read of this article suggests that what it calls "Sysadmin" was, at the time, called "Network admin" and tended to include a significant helpdesk component.

What I remember being called "sysadmin" that might have included thicknet ethernet or servers with reel-to-reel tape drives is now "devops" almost everywhere I look.
I'm still mind-boggled by the crusade against the lockfile. It's a completely unambiguous source for everything that costs essentially nothing, why is there so much time and energy devoted to getting rid of it? Especially with all the drawbacks minimal version selection comes with; exact version selection with the lockfile seems better in just about every case.
Skepticism is always warranted around speculations like this, but I've wondered for many years if there isn't a deliberate campaign to keep people in a state of fear.

There's a fairly decent BBC piece that explores this idea:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTg4qnyUGxg

It basically argues that people no longer buy into utopian political ideologies so politicians and political parties have pivoted toward using negative arguments (fear, hate) to motivate the people to follow them. It's not really an elaborate conspiracy theory per se... think of it as a marketing pivot.
There are literally no mainstream linguists that support linguistic determinism, the 'strong' form of linguistic relativity. [1] That much is 100% true; sure, you see articles about it pop up from time to time, but they're often not written by linguists, and are often quickly debunked.

As to the 'unpublished studies', that one was by Boroditsky, one of the, if not the, main proponents for the weak form of linguistic relativity.

But, your anecdotal experience doesn't really count for much when comparing it to the studies that have been done on it. Anecdotally, I know someone who didn't believe General Relativity to be true; that doesn't make it any less true.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_determinism
What I don't like about the English language is the pronunciation. I would like to pronounce English like Spanish or any system in which every letter has a unique sound.
If you like Isaac Arthur, don't forget John Michael Godier[1]! His videos tend to be short (3-5 minutes on average, sometimes longer) and cover a similar range of topics albeit with a focus on current events in addition to scifi and futurism. Isaac Arthur has done a couple of collaborations with JMG, too.

The thing I love about Isaac Arthur is that he does these collaborations in part to drive some of his traffic to smaller channels that are just as interesting. He's a fantastic guy.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEszlI8-W79IsU8LSAiRbDg/vid...
As is Expedias, though Trivago has been terrible since ipo; my assertion was not well founded.
If you choose to become completely dependent on a corporation for convenience, as it seems you did with Apple, you should be aware of the tradeoffs you are making for this convenience.
> For whatever website most of them would like to visit for information there is a Facebook page available.

So does Google have a Facebook page? ;)

Did media and corporations have a presence on AOL?
Do you put 0x38 on your CV?
AT&T fiber doesn't offer services in my area. Calls with them is another story.. After booking my connection with them twice and them not doing anything about it, they finally tell me that they can only provide a satellite connection which doesn't meet my speed requirements.
> vgo tries to install the oldest version of a packages that still satisfies any lower bounds

This alone would make npm 100x less painful to use.
I'm thinking of business use-cases, yes. For instance, I agree with you, if my personal twitter was lost, I wouldn't lost any sleep over it. But if my business twitter was lost, which has almost 1500 followers and took years to build up, I'd be pretty upset. And I don't have a deep connection with all of those followers, but if 10% of them see each post I make, that's a lot of marketing value to me.
> That's a funny example, as it can be read both literally ("I like it."), and passive-aggressively ("I don't dislike it.").

You seem to have those backward.

"I don't dislike it" is what it literally means. That's the opposite of being passive! "I like it" is reading an implication which isn't literally there and is more passive.

There'a a really important difference here. Someone can not think that something is not unwise, but that does not mean they think it's wise. A double negative does not cancel out - you loose important literal meaning when you do that - not even just an implicit idiomatic meaning.
That's not at all true. Obviously the pattern can be misused but your own link mentions that it may be appropriate when the attributes need to be flexible or dynamic.
> Split off Maps/Android/Drive/etc into separate companies so that Google can't use their search monopoly to dominate those fields?

That's what I want.
> You can't separate a technology from it's use. Technology is created to be used.

False. Every day, dozens of thousands of people in academia engage in basic research (actual term), something that does not lead to "usable technology" most of the time.

> some knowledge is good and some knowledge is bad

Are you saying that guns kill people? I thought that people kill people, using guns.
Portocaliu is orange in Romanian.
Fascinating.

Did you tell spectrum you had written to the AG and senator? What prompted Spectum's response?

Who left the birthday message, or was it automated?
Except on Twitter, just like in reality, their friends can come after you.
I think the implication that he tried to hang or strangle himself is pretty clear; it's consistent with his injury (symmetric brain damage consistent with oxygen starvation, no other external signs of injury).

It is certainly possible that, rather than hanging or strangling himself, he was strangled by someone in the DPRK. The DPRK hasn't done that to any other US prisoner, but it's the DPRK, so who knows?

The problem is that the narrative in the media doesn't have that uncertainty. Rather, it's reported (somewhat widely, though less so after the coroner's report) that there was evidence of physical abuse: scars on his legs, "rearranged" lower teeth, etc.

It is worth adding that the article doesn't say Warmbier tried to kill himself; it just adds that to the stack of plausible causes. It is indeed a very plausible cause.
You can not necessarily create a point for a single pinball machine (yet), but the Key:Leisure allows you to have a rather fine level of details.

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:leisure

It mentions "amusement_park" to tag areas with

"A venue with pay-to-play games, such as video games, driving simulators, pinball machines, merchandisers, etc."
This one:

https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/standards.png
Ok, we built our awesome EuroSearch. How do we get it on the start pages of Firefox, Chrome and Android?
There is a huge benefit to being the default, if that wasn't the case google wouldn't pay all the companies they do billions of dollars a year to be the default.
I think reproducible builds are more important than having security problems fixed behind your back. It's not like vgo makes it hard to upgrade all dependencies to their most recent version - it's done automatically with a single command, if you want it.
> Can you imagine Netflix or Amazon, Google or Facebook behaving this way? Could be that I'm from an older generation, but there was a time when people considered the idea of an institution having a long and complete list of everything you've read more than creepy, it was terrifying.

Wasn't that more or less part of the plot of either SE7EN or Along Came a Spider (or maybe some other late-90s procedural thriller)? tl;dr they tracked down the suspect because the NSA or FBI was secretly keeping records of library checkouts.
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> or forced to use inferior products?

Potentially, yes. Google abuses their search monopoly and ads duopoly to kill off competition in other areas.

They use their browser control to control internet standards.

They do things like effectively kill RSS via EEE style tactics.
I think it's been longer that 30 years; the only thing I remember on the check-out slip was the due date.

Which was fascinating: "Wow, no one has checked this out in a decade!"
Hahaha, reminds me of this Itchy Feet comic
http://www.itchyfeetcomic.com/2015/09/conspiracion.html#.W1u...
It also ignores rsc's clear algorithmic preferences. No, RE2 does not support back-references, because they require a back-tracking implementation with exponential worst-case behavior. RE2 uses an NFA with O(nm) worst-case behavior. It's a classical Unix approach where a simple implementation is preferable to having more features, especially if there are algorithmic considerations.
I've also been looking forward to the congestion tax. Haven't heard anything about it since it was first proposed[1].

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/19/nyregion/mayor-congestion...
Are they getting hurt? I guess not. No one has any right to Google services[0]. Google has every right to refuse service to anyone[0]. What if they decided to close shop altogether?

Note that locking them e.g. out of a phone they bought before the ban is something different - that would be a breach of contract from Google side.

[0] unless there is an existing contract
It sucks but your alternative is AT&T with their 250GB bandwidth cap.
"Although the Chinese were using woodblock printing many centuries earlier, with a complete printed book, made in 868, found in a cave in north-west China, movable type printing never became very popular in the East due to the importance of calligraphy, the complexity of hand-written Chinese and the large number of characters. Gutenberg’s press, however, was well suited to the European writing system, and its development was heavily influenced by the area from which it came."

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20180507-how-a-german-city-c...
Hologram display and arduino and virtual assistant
I don't think the lockfile is a big problem (and I don't have enough experience with lockfile-based systems), but if you already have some other file that can serve the same purpose, isn't that nicer than having two? It also means you don't have to be confused about whether lockfiles should be committed to version control (apparently the answer is "not always", which is counter-intuitive to me).
English is combination and splice of several languages. A few hundred years ago, writers found it much more extravegent to borrow French words, and Latin words, to say the same phrases. Usually, English is the most 'plain', then the French equivalent/derived, and then Latin is the most eloquent descriptor.

For example: Kingly (English), Royal (French), Regal (Latin)

We will borrow words from other languages with no problem - it just needs to become common enough. We have no "English Acedemy" that dictates the language - although you could argue that is a problem, given how it's been changed in America and abused by everyone, and has complex exceptions with no real decent rules (Although as an English native speaker, I'm not sure if that's just because I havent learnt those rules recently)
You deserved it because you served an ad that google didn't like the style of. Also their adblocker in chrome is fine too because that's not a conflict of interest.

- typical HN response.
RIP Twitter. I no longer have any interest.
Sparse on details of what the exploit was - given that so many people took advantage of it, it must either have been an obvious bug, or something that was communicated widely among inmates.
That's why this book is called the Site Reliability Workbook. It is written to be appropriate for your company.
Its trivial to backup your important emails offline as they come in. Any time you allow a 3rd party to control your data or your property (digital or physical) you are taking a chance. One of many reasons "the cloud" is overrated and overhyped. There may be reasons to use cloud computing, such as the convenience, but shared data-space always remains inherently insecure and anything stores there is, by definition, outside of your control.
There are also many cultures where using someone's first name is outright rude. In Japan, this is reserved for very close friends; in Finland, calling somebody by first name in conversation just sounds odd, period. You already know who I am and have my attention, why are you repeating it?
I'm here to answer your questions about cellular tech
Hi - I work for Qualcomm. I noticed some recent threads where 4G and 5G technologies were discussed. The comments indicated to me that there's a lot of misconceptions about how cellular technologies work, and the relationship between device capabilities and networks.

If you want, I'm available to answer any questions you may have. I promise to stick with the technology and not veer towards marketing. I'm much more interested in fostering a better understanding of the technology itself.
Yes, because all Google has to do is use their search money to destroy the competition; it's not like Google has any failed products or anything. /s

Also, being a multibillion dollar company and using your billions in one product line to either prop up or build another product isn't illegal. It's just business.
Sure I wasn't implying the state could do it buy NYC could pull Verizon's FIOS franchise agreement with the city in a similar fashion:

https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/doitt/downloads/pdf/verizon_nyc_...
Conspiracy? Honestly, I think it's just very entertaining content made by adults who grew up as kids addicted to slasher films, violent video games, and police procedurals.
If I visit a "small personal website" such as a blog, they're not going to know much more about me than my IP address, which pages I viewed, and possibly an inbound link ID.

One of the big things I find scary about Google is the sheer centralization of data. For a typical user of Google services, Google will have their complete browsing and search history, including "incognito", 24/7/365 location history, hundreds of voice recordings (perhaps some taken without user intent), advertisement tracking data, the complete email inbox and outbox, IM history, Android application history, documents and other files stored on Drive, contacts, possibly call and text history, and thousands of photographs (including ones intended to be private). There's a lot of harm one could do against a person with that kind of information.
Can't talk for the parent, but things like ..=, impl Trait (especially for arguments), new try/catch syntax, ... were pretty controversed (and that's among the accepted RFCs only).
Everything is fine now that we got all those little hooligans off the streets.
Is that just a promotional rate though? I live in Orange County and the list price for 100 Mbps is $65 (and my area has actual competition from FiOS).
The promo rates are good, but they'll expire after a year and unlike TWC, Spectrum won't just renew at promo rates forever. You either have to cancel and re-sign up, or just pay list price.
This is amazing, kudos to Google. It's astounding that most cloud services only show status info for their entire cloud (or big chunks of it). I don't care if 99.999% of your customers are fine, if the server running my servers is down for no reason.
When I authenticate with a tower, given that roaming exists, what/who is my phone authenticating against?
They pay to integrate with third party services via a bidding process.

> adds significant risk that the third-party changes their API, changes their feature-set in an incompatible way, goes out of business

All very unlikely to happen when dealing with a client the size of google.

> It's both cheaper and more convenient for the end-user if the search provider handles the mapping itself

added bonus, google gets to dominate mapping then jack up the cost 30x when they decide they want it to be a billion dollar business. LIke they did recently.
How can a person hang themselves without leaving bruises? Without ligature marks?

Is he some kind of ninja?
This is some pretty ugly character assassination. I haven't seen anything that justifies your characterizations of Sam or Peter.
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Those three things are not supplied / needed in my experience. You can put your work experience on your resume, and if an employer wants to verify then you can supply a reference contact who can vouch for these things.

When you do get laid off, usually there is a doc that outlines things like health care, effective date of termination, payment. If you don't have that, then I would ask for that and clarify it.
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Netzwerksubsystem des Linux-Systemkerns

achtfach assoziativer Zwischenspeicher

This is of course cheating since these two languages are fairly close to each other (although Technical German tends to be more descriptive and somewhat more accurate than Technical English on average, at least that's my overall impression across a bunch of fields). Both also happen to have a full complement of technical and engineering terms for almost anything (including computers due to some parallel developments), though these are often not so related (esp. mechanical eng.)
What you're saying makes perfect sense. This is what makes HN great. Incidentally, there's nothing about e.g. npm that would prevent this scheme: just set literal version numbers instead of using operators. The two systems definitely have different "best practices".
Except google dominates search and search is the only way.

This is like if one company owned the street signs, and just took them down arbitrarily.
Humungous what!? Are you harassing me!?
Spectrum will have to spin off their NYC operations.
Not the OP, but it strikes me that at some level it becomes a personal preference alongside the technical benefits. Though regarding error handling and NIFs, Erlang/OTP manages high reliability not just through local OTP mechanisms, but also through the clustering. It’s a fundamental part of the OTP ethos and something that would need to be “bolted on” in Go. That and the introspection tools are pretty great!
This seems to be common in the Philippines, home to many call centers. Many Filipinos are also prone to overusing Sir, to the point that one person I worked with used to refer to my colleagues as Sir John, Sir Bob etc (and no, this was not tongue in cheek).
See https://finder.cool/ . I am the creator (trying to do my part?). It is more a "site finder" than search engine, but it's a good start. Growing every day. Unique: no site prioritization over another. So there is no "SEO". I hope that shakes things up a bit some day. And top level domains are first level citizens. Today it is at around 400000 sites indexed (note these are unique sites, not pages within) and is built to scale and take in all N-billion sites in the world ... which will happen if it gets traction. At the current 400K sites or so, seems to have actually entered the realm of starting to become useful.
As a Houston resident who hears a lot of news about oil prices and demand for goods from the extraction support industries, there's evidence of this every day.

Not everyone grasps self-limiting cycles and feedback signals at first. I like to point them to this old proverb about the Mullah Nasrudin.

http://voetica.com/voetica.php?collection=4&poet=706&poem=34...
What leaving them unchained against a wall is not a good idea?