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Maybe relatable, Even we believe mono repos are the right choice for teams that want to ship code faster. There are concerns that this doesn't scale well, but these are largely unfounded. Companies like Twitter, Google, Facebook run massive monolithic repos with 1000s of developers.

With mono repos you will have,
> Better developer testing: Developers can easily run the entire platform on their machine and this helps them understand all services and how they work together. This has led our developers to find more bugs locally before even sending a pull request.

> Reduced code complexity: Senior engineers can easily enforce standardization across all services since it is easy to keep track of pull requests and changes happening across the repository.

> Effective code reviews: Most developers now understand the end to end platform leading to more bugs being identified and fixed at the code review stage.

> Sharing of common components: Developers have a view of what is happening across all services and can effectively carve out common components. Over a few weeks, we actually found that the code for each microservice became smaller, as a lot of common functionality was identified and shared across services.

> Easy refactoring: Any time we want to rename something, refactoring is as simple as running a grep command. Restructuring is also easier as everything is neatly in one place and easier to understand.

The results? Our productivity has increased at least 5x.
The overall experience we have written over here http://blog.shippable.com/our-journey-to-microservices-and-a...
What's your opinion on the common teleportation dilemma? If there were a machine, that would instantly destroy my body and assemble it somewhere else (even from completely different atoms) so that from my point of view, I instantly vanish and appear elsewhere, does this count as interruption to my line of consciousness? Doesn't really seem like it to me. After all, my memories and thoughts are stored in the patterns of matter and those are preserved.
This website is unchanged from 1993 (the web archive first crawled it in 1997), yet it looks great in my 4K screen. I wouldn't be able to tell if it was written yesterday or 20 years ago. Completely unlike the experience you are getting from something like this http://web.archive.org/web/19961112181513/http://www.nytimes...
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> The key is to let the repo be a single comprehensive source of data for building arbitrary artifacts.

By that do you mean it's one way of doing it, or that it's the only way?

Seems clear to me that it's not the only way. For instance .Net code tends to be Git for the project source + NuGet for external dependencies. It works pretty well.
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Instructions unclear. JS disabled for [*.]latimes.com but still no dice.
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Anyone else got stories like this?

JustHost, one of the hosts I have a few clients websites on for years, suddenly started to offer free Let's Encrypt SSL certs to protect users from this change (previously you had to pay for fixed IP, and the certificate itself) - what a great thing to happen.

All I had to do was change a few .htaccess files, a few DB entries and track down a few template files that had HTTP external JS references.

It was enough work that I had to invoice for the conversion (with the option of not bothering) - but annual fees are still the same, clients websites have SSL and every client wanted the upgrade, rather than be marked "insecure".

I really think this is a breakthrough change!
Not op but apparently he uses Duplicati to upload to jottacloud: https://duplicati.readthedocs.io/en/latest/05-storage-provid...
is compiling as taxing as video rendering though?
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> Truly holographic displays will emerge once we can control ligth interference in the display.

Could you explain this a bit more please to give an idea of the path to get there?
... only if it did it for non private IP ranges. Otherwise all your home stuff would constantly be throwing up notifications.
I've been both a wage earner and a business owner, having gone from a similar perspective as yours to wondering why I was funding incompetence, laziness and war by paying taxes. Most business owners I've met, both small and large, share that stance yet are genuinely good people who feel obligations to their employees in terms of providing a secure environment and paycheck. Our life experiences definitely shape our views.

Thanks for the recommendations!
I'm pretty impressed by what FOVI3D [1] has been doing w/ their light field displays. Here's a recent interview from SID Display Week this year [2] that's refreshing because the CTO (in the interview) goes into some of the details of the challenges they face and isn't unrealistic about how hard it'll be to overcome them.

[1] http://www.fovi3d.com/

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GK4544D4PUo
You can still browse it, it's just written non-secure because it's actually not secure.
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This cannot possibly be correct. A read access to a region without a mapped page in the page table will cause the CPU to trigger a page fault exception. The OS must then decide whether to map memory there a one time operation or abort the program. A second read from the same page must lead to the same mapping then. There is no sane way for an operating system to switch out program heap pages after they have been mapped.
Sure it makes sense to fund long-distance railroads!

Even today, most passengers on Amtrak are NOT riding end-to-end. They are riding between Utah and Nebraska; Or between South Carolina and Vermont; Or Boston to Connecticut.

On the California Zephyr - a coach seat is sold 2-3x times for different segments of the same journey.
I have to say, I just didn't "get" The Three Body Problem. I got the impression I was reading an allegory I didn't have the cultural background to understand - so much of the surface plot seemed like it must have some important meaning but I couldn't decipher it. It was an odd experience, but maybe the translation of words wasn't enough in this case for me to get the content.
Tests can't cover every scenario, no, but had they made a bit more of an effort to test realistically then it's absolutely possible that they could have covered every scenario that mattered here.

Over-reliance on unrealistic unit tests (which is likely what led to them not testing large packets) is a pattern I've seen cause issues like this many, many times before.

I upgrade pretty regularly without reading release notes - relying on realistic tests to catch everything. What they do catch is usually not in the slightest bit obvious from release notes (often a regression in the dependency). Call it hubris if you like, but it works for me.
Had a friend in university, he did military service for 1 year and the only thing he had for breakfast during that time was a strong black coffee without any sugar nor milk.

He screwed up his digestive tract for good - there is apparently something in coffee that is quite aggressive on stomach and gets neutralized when mixed with any sugar/milk/food. He will never be able to eat vast array of common foods - things like marmelades and other basic food. Sorry I don't have any further info, has been few years ago.

He might have some unique predisposition for this, don't know, but better be careful and put at least some milk in it. It makes it much more filling anyway
This is ridiculous - the point of choosing a predetermined window for feeding is so your body adapts to only expecting food within that window. Routine is incredibly important for being able to stick to something like IF. If you're fighting your body at every step by, for example, being unpredictable, you're just screwing yourself.
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They are normal NVME chips, but only connected to the T2 co-processor. If they were connected to the processor then kernel code (and peripherals) could read and write to them directly using PCI.
The parent was not suggesting subsidies, they were suggesting nationalising the entire energy industry and managing it to address the problem directly.

A carbon tax might work in theory, but the political reality is that as long as fossil fuels are a profitable business, any such tax will be fought tooth and nail at every step of the way.

It is now far too late to expect the market to turn itself around. If we want to fix the problem, we need to take away the power that maintains it.
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I use Mendeley instead of Zotero. I really wanted to like Zotero, since I hate Elseveir like the next guy, but Zotero didn't have any of the look-up features and ability to quickly import my papers (thousands).
In Mendeley, I can just throw a physical folder into a folder and it'll tag and categorize the PDFs mostly correctly.

I mean it is nice that Zotero has an import browser plugin (which, btw, Mendeley does as well), but once you have a substantial library of pdfs, it is just too time consuming to re-import it all again, type in names, years, journals etc. ugh..

Also, Mendeley can open pdfs within the app and has great features for mark-up and comments. Reviewing a paper is really nice this way.
In fact, Mendeley is the program with the best mark-up features on all of Linux, in my opinon. And all this is synced across devices.

I'd love to use Zotero but tbh Mendeley is just better.
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I don't get you. Are you saying that the only reason people would want threading capabilities is to exploit multicore/multiprocessor architectures?

That isn't true. Having multiple threads for GUI applications makes sense for responsiveness even on a single-core machine.
I wish more developers knew of the wonderful "repo" tool[0] developed by the Android devs which allows a monorepo _perspective_ of many git repositories. Breakdown of the repo tool and example manifest files http://blog.udinic.com/2014/05/24/aosp-part-1-get-the-code-u...

[0] https://source.android.com/setup/develop/repo
> Valter Longo is a tenured professor that's been nominated for a Nobel Prize based on his work in nutrition and fasting. I'd hardly call him an alchemist.

Sorry but nominations for Nobel prizes are kept secret for 50 years. I highly doubt he was nominated the same year he was born.

[0] https://www.nobelprize.org/nomination/medicine/
You should - very beautiful scenery. Including canyons with no roads through them.
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I've seen hardly any tools to manage dependencies across multiple repos. Modifying multiple repos at the same time isn't an issue I see many resources devoted to, and managing those cross repo versions is almost never done well. In comparison, both buck and bazel offer pretty mature monorepo management tooling. On the VCS front, you can take native git/HG a long way.
Actually I was surprised that someone made the effort to check the links and write a reply instead of a down vote. I still spend some of time in forums in the hope to learn something new and to make it easy for other persons to learn something new.

Do not lose your sleep over political, military or economic decisions like e.g. the trade war. I am not sarcastic here.
Is there something particular that makes you so concerned as US citizen ?

Regarding the USA in the past and meddling in the affairs of other states:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-X3nmzkyoKM

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Tonkin_Resolution

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article41086.htm

IMO the political distinction between Democrats and Republicans is rather small. But Trump and his staff is different. IMO the election of Trump might be a good sign: US citizens want a different government.

Only 26% of eligible voters voted for Trump. https://mises.org/wire/26-percent-eligible-voters-voted-trum...

Unfortunately leftists try to change the Democrats from within instead of concentrating efforts to create a strong leftist 3rd party.

https://www.youtube.com/user/TYTComedy/videos

At least the USA got rid of Scott Pruitt as EPA administrator. A corrupt (IMO insane) climate change denier should have no place in politics and certainly not in the EPA. I was happy that both Democrats and Republicans wanted Pruitt out of office. Local politicians have still power in the USA. The US president might matter more for other states (war victims) than for US citizens. SolarCity, Tesla and SpaceX are famous US companies benefitting from US subsidies. This is a good thing that has already changed the world for the better. Even DARPA does very useful work regarding AI, medicin, neurotechnology, prosthetics and other domains. https://www.youtube.com/user/DARPAtv/videos

I do not know much about the Russian media but RT offers a lot of good information. E.g. information about the UK Skripal case. Maybe even Hillary Clinton would agree in secret: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6sYB5d1Bu4&t=35
Try this (bad formatting, but readable): http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:www.lat...
I do not like being so negative, but i feel like reading this article was a waste of time.
OVH did the same thing silently in mid-2016 for shared hosting. GitHub Pages did that silently too earlier this year for custom domains, and made an announce in May.

That's awesome :)
Bitcoin ETF dissent to SEC [pdf]
Because Mozilla cloud will be open, so if they drop it, an another firm or individual can continue to support it or host it.
Rust is the ideal language (so far) for cloud software, so (if talks will materialize) Mozilla cloud software in Rust/Cargo will be much easier to write, support, and host by yourself, if necessary.
Non-profit organizations are slower, but better in long term. Only non-profit organization can liberate us.
In China, many mainstream websites are still HTTP-only. 99% of government websites are HTTP, including the ones you input very sensitive information into. No wonder black data market for any kind of records including medical, surveillance, tax etc. here is so well developed and cheap. Somehow, SSL certificates for CDNs cost around US$2000/year. Proprietary DNS extensions on Baidu, Alibaba, and Tencent clouds like 30x redirects do not work with HTTPS at all.
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The car analogy is just right, IMO. It's a functional description of how a car works at a high level, so that we can understand how it's put together; and if we're reasonably expert in mechanics, we can fill in a lot of missing details. Whereas "a box that you sit in that lets you get to where you want to go quickly" leaves out far too much detail.

Too many descriptions of tools for devs sell benefits instead of functions. This is normally good sales practice, but devs are experts in the mechanisms behind the tools they use, and they generally prefer more functional descriptions so that they can more quickly evaluate whether any given tool is a good fit for them, and what its strengths and weaknesses will be.
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Facebook Ads launching a startup
Can someone share their experience using facebook ads while launching a tech startup (perfect case if it was SaaS). What ad form have you chosen? How has it played out? Was is worth it at all? Thanks in advance!
If you're looking for something a little more downloadable,
z80pack has emulation for Altair 8800/Imsai 8080 including front panel emulation:

https://www.autometer.de/unix4fun/z80pack/screenshots/2014.h...

Comes with prepackaged CP/M images and can run
Alan Cox's amazing FUZIX system:

https://github.com/EtchedPixels/FUZIX

https://hackaday.com/2017/04/16/z80-fuzix-is-like-old-fashio...
You can just all all the pdfs by "Store copy of file" option. It allows multi sect. Then you can select all of them and do a fetch metadata together.
Oh they do. Talk to kindergarten staff or school teachers.. And teaching them to deal with their violence and solve their issues in a cooperative way is their job #1

Source: GF used to work in kindergarten and now works in school
Actually, it's real pretty with Firefox's built-in "reader mode"
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Literary warning: The first book shocked me to the core of my being, and I wept genuine tears of sorrow and grief;

The second had me cheering the hero on. It's a great action book with loads of geekery and nerdness from my childhood.

My recommendation: Read 1984 first, so you have good feelings to end on.
Thank you so much for this nice summary.
who claimed the invisible hand prevents monopolies?
Thanks for the links.

This is definitely great engineering.

I also recommend this short presentation of ZGC: https://dinfuehr.github.io/blog/a-first-look-into-zgc/
Your information might be outdated -- In the latest version of Zotero, when you add a PDF to Zotero, it automatically retrieves the metadata via DOI lookup.

(I don't think it would work with papers too old to have DOIs but haven't checked lately.)
I'm not the grandparent, but after doing "Learning How To Learn" course on coursera[1] (very good), I finally realised I suffer from Aphantasia, where I don't see images in my imagination.

Even though I'd tried loads of memory techniques over the years as I have a very poor memory, I'd never really understood people actually see images. I thought they meant that they were, like me, simply listing the properties the image would have in your head.

So all these techniques like "remembering the number as a picture" never worked well from me, and finally explained why all the common techniques people recommend are pretty useless. It turns out people have a huge variation on how good they are at visualising things in their minds eye, and I'm right near the bottom in terms of skill.

On the plus side it turns out that I can make images appear, having done some exercises to help it, although I didn't keep at it and it still doesn't come naturally. Most people can improve and there are very few cases of people not actually being able to do it. I also read of one man who'd had a stroke and lost his ability to picture things in his brain.

Oddly, I am very quick at generally orienteering myself in new places and picking up map layouts in games, even though I don't visualize anything in my head.

[1]https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn
It sounds very interesting. Unfortunately, the service seems to require to install Flash
Mendeley is an Elsevier product? Might make a few academics come to a differing conclusion given Elsevier's reputation is one they've well and truly earned...
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I have just recently switched away from Mendeley because of an insanely user-hostile thing they've just done to lock-in their users.

Mendeley has started encrypting users' bibliography files (from version 19), claiming variously that encryption is required by GDPR (?!?!) and/or that it improves security on a multiuser system. (Neither of these excuses holds water.) The keys are not available to the users whose data were encrypted. The encryption is completely proprietary and there are no tools available for letting users work with the now-encrypted databases.

Previously, users could access their data by running `sqlite3` on a plain sqlite database in their profile directory.

Not only did users take advantage of this, but a small ecosystem of third-party tools and scripts had sprung up to help people take control over automating repetitive tasks in managing their bibliographies.

Well, now Mendeley has encrypted everything, that's the end of that. No more tools and scripts. No more user control over one's own data and workflow.

There's now only the limited (for my purposes, useless) "export database" facility in the client. It only exports a limited subset of the fields in the database. Alternatively, I could register as a developer, get an API key, and develop a full web-style app to get hold of my own data. ("Did you just tell me to go fuck myself, Bob?")

The Zotero people suspect that Mendeley's move was retaliatory for Zotero's implementation of import-from-Mendeley [1]. The Mendeley twitter account has dismissed this - literally - as being "fake news" [2]. Super weird.

I reverse-engineered the encryption they'd put in, in order to export my own data and migrate to Zotero. I wrote up the instructions for others to follow [3], but it's really not easy, not portable, not reliable, and not something users should ever have to do just to get access to their own data!

Anyway, at this point, I don't trust Mendeley as far as I can throw them, and I thoroughly regret ever recommending to my friends that they use the tool. After nine years of using Mendeley, though, I've switched to Zotero, and it's at least as good, and in some ways better. Plus it's properly open.

[1] https://www.zotero.org/support/kb/mendeley_import

[2] https://twitter.com/mendeley_com/status/1006919608471818240 and several others. Really, the official twitter responses from Mendeley to people discussing this issue were bizarrely dismissive and mocking.

[3] https://eighty-twenty.org/2018/06/13/mendeley-encrypted-db
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Congratulations on a great decision. I'm at the most 10 kg overweight (86 Kg/ 20% body fat right now) and I regularly go a week without ingesting anything but water and electrolytes. Shooting for 20 days of prolonged fasting in August.

I've found it to be the easiest to stick to diet I've ever tried, and I've done everything. If you struggle with moderation, fasting for prolonged periods has been much more productive for me. Not only do you burn fat 3-5x faster than any other diet, but your cravings go away incredibly quickly. I used to compulsively eat 3 chocolate croissants a day and after a couple of long fasts, I don't really care for them.

The emotional benefits are almost bigger. After 3 days without food my mind stops racing and my anxiety melts away. It feels like zen no-mind, and much stronger than I've been able to achieve by meditating.

Needless to say I'm a fan of going without food now, to the point where I hope to do it regularly for the rest of my life (unless evidence comes out pointing to it being bad for your health). Happy to answer any questions that pop up about fasting.
How do you propose to measure the ROI of the completely unknown? This is not just related to your comment here, but it's a very general and important part of science. In the early part of the 20th century it was felt that physics was basically 'solved' and the only changes would come in refining values to another decimal point. Of course that was before the discovery of quantum mechanics or the explosion in particle physics. Have we started reach a valley at which point there's nothing but ever more diminishing returns ahead in the future? Or are we just about over the precipice onto a new explosion of revolutionary knowledge? I don't see how you can propose to meaningfully answer this one way or the other.

I'd also prioritize manned exploration above particle physics, but I think they should continue and grow in tandem as I see no way of knowing exactly what the future of these endeavors holds, other than that there is a reasonable argument to be made that either could produce discoveries of tremendous value.