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How the web was won
> This is why in finance, $5mm means five million dollars

That's not true. It's from Latin, mille.

That aside, I find it a terrible way of writing things. But then again, Americans hate SI, so I guess have fun. :-)
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Hmmm. I have been a pirate all my life.

The subs either work or don't (e.g. machine translated garbage).

A handful of times there's a discrepancy e.g. T2 Trainspotting.

This is "official" subs from BluRay or Itunes.
I think it just triggers something in us. Both whining and shouting. They suggest some form of distress and that waffling may not be a good idea. Just like we're kind of hard-wired to think babies are cute.
I thought the work on the structure of DNA used Fourier analysis more than group theory.

I know harmonic analysis in general combines the two, but I'm sure Crick and Watson could have done their work without knowing the definition of a group.
This is wrong, even their entire concept of casual/mid/hardcore gamer is terrible, you can't just define it like that.
I will also stay far away from these services. As a child post points out, if you do set a cap, you run the risk of cutting off a legitimate spike in high quality traffic. How do you tell the system to shut off due to an error and stay on during a spike in normal traffic? You can’t, unless you have someone watching it at all hours.

That’s why I prefer to just rent whole machines on AWS. If I accidentally have some code stuck in an infinite loop making some O(1) call, don’t charge me $10,000 for that when it costs you nothing. If it’s actually consuming electricity and significant resources, I’ll know quickly because my service will go down, as it should, not scale infinitely until my company is bankrupt.
Probably a unpopular view / idea. But if we just took the tabo out of being nude... It would resolve the issue 2 fold, people would not be afraid of being seen nude, and the drive for people wanting to take pictures of people nude would go down too.

There once was a time a ankle showing, then it was the knee was taboo too.

Remember we were all born nude, and the idea that being nude is taught.

I have a meeting, wanted to say more, but no time, sorry. TTL!
I recommend shorting to ground. Even if it's your own fuse. Shorting means that if you picked the wrong fuse you notice. And when your friend comes by and flips the fuse back on you don't get a spark shower (something like this has happened to me, don't underestimate people willing to flip fuses for no reason)
Persuasion seems like a pseudoscience , much like hypnotherapy, telekinesis, speed reading, ediic memory, etc. If were as effective as the people claim, you could just persuade a million people to give you $1 and be a millionaire. That example may seem contrived, but how hard should it be to persuade someone to give someone as little as $1, especially with special persuasion techniques? Surely that shouldn't be too hard. But that is what panhandlers try do, so I think much of persuasion is just begging, or begging is the most effective persuasion technique. If you keep pestering enough people to do something, some may capitulate. There's not much science or any sort of special 'social engineering' techniques involved in that. People think that there is a science or special skill to being persuasive, but 4-year-olds and beggars seem to excel at it.

People who are reasonably intelligent and competent are not going to fall for these persuasion techniques...it's better to learn how to be more competent than waste time trying to learn persuasion. Yeah, you can probably persuade a stranger to give you a few dollar, but it won't work in situations where the stakes are higher. Regarding Dukakis and the 1988 presidential debate, attributing his loss to his answer is an example of the Post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy. Because he lost, pundit needs to work backwards to try to find a reason why he lost, but that does not prove that his answer was why he lost. Scott Adams (and this is where I disagree with him) attributes Trump's win to special persuasion techniques, but Trump was going to get about 50% of the vote (just by virtue of being that GOP nominee) regardless of any special techniques. And also, if pursation were so effecvie, he why not just purade everoyne watchign his Periscopte to give him a few dolalr.s Surely that shoudl not be too hard.
This is the result of top-down learning. You learn the very latest tech and work your way down to the metal as required.

Bottom-up learning starts at the metal, at the very fundamentals of computation, and builds upward.
Any old IGBT or even just a highly spec’d MOSFET paired with an optoisolator (a couple of dollars of parts) could do that for a small system, based on input from the inverter’s existing controller.

The specialist devices for large installations you’re talking about are only expensive because you need more expensive parts for the far larger amounts of current you’re handling (and probably because they’re made in lower volumes than commodity inverters), not because they’re doing anything particularly difficult.
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A programmer's view of the Universe, part 1: The fish (2008)
The graphs start/end at the 20th/~85th percentiles rather than 0th/100th, which makes the differences seem larger than they are.
My background is as a self-thought programmer. Never had any formal education related to software, but have worked professionally as a developer for many years. This gives some solid pragmatic experience, but the "fundamentals" tend to lack. I considered a compiler a form of black magic which I had no hope of ever understanding.

SICP gave me a throughout tour of basically all layers of the stack. Understanding the fundamentals of compilers just makes it easier to understand the design decisions behind individual languages, which makes them easier to learn and easier to leverage. SICP is also a journey throughout various paradigms - imperative, functional, stream based, lazy, OO, constraints solving etc. Having a solid grasp of various computing paradigms just give you much more freedom in your approach to solve problems. It also helped dispell any religion I had about particular platforms and languages - I realized religion is just comfort + fear. Experimenting with things like continuations and backtracking was almost mind-altering for me, since I thought the stack was an immutable law of nature and just not a particular design.
QAnon Theorists Now Believe JFK Jr. Faked His Death to Become Their Leader
How to be a Role Model for new generations
https://github.com/embulk/embulk
I "suffer" the same character "flaw," which has routinely limited my ability to affect change within the companies for which I've worked. I can't count the number of times that my suggestion to use a better technical choice has been overruled by people with a personal agenda that had nothing to do with technology.

Additionally, I've had to work closely with a couple of genuine sociopaths, who have mislead powerful people to benefit personally, while putting the (very large) company in an objectively worse place, and at a competitive disadvantage.

Would you be willing to compromise your position with an individual, or limited set of people, to achieve a large, positive organizational change?
Magento 2 Restrict Fake Registration
Yeah, that statement seemed odd to me as well. I've often heard of the halo effect as a description of something that happens unconsciously, not something we should actively strive towards.
Nitpick: MDC failures can only be detected after decrypting all the data. So the decrypting program would need 2 passes (one to validate and one to present the plaintext) or buffer the decrypted output until it verified the MDC is sound. GPG, however, does neither. AEAD, as far as I understand, suffers from a similar, though less severe problem: decryption can fail at any point due to a validation error. You can be certain that anything up to the failure hasn’t been tampered with, but the question of what to do with the partial plaintext remains. A partial, truncated ISO or script may be problematic, even if it hasn’t been tampered with. (think: truncate rm -rf /tmp/foo to rm -rf /“)
This isn't unique to China, or to Israel and Palestine.

There's also Ukraine and Russia, Armenia and Azerbaijan, Cambodia and Thailand, India and Pakistan, and a whole swathe of territorial claims in other places. Borders, especially when not naturally delineated by something like a river, are messy things.
I think that may tie into the accusation that the only person who "can" make changes to DD-WRT is BrainSlayer himself
python-pyxel is now available in AUR, for Arch Linux users.
As a fellow German: I don't think puns are very popular in German (except for intentionally cheesy dad jokes).

The closest equivalent I can think of are sentences where the joke lies in using a different word at the end than the (likely, extremely crass) one the audience expects. These tend to work better in German than in English because of the sentence structure, I think.

EDIT: Example of a dad joke pun: "Was sagt ein Sachse auf dem Weihnachtsmarkt in New York? Ä Tännschen, please." -- "What does a man from Saxony say at the Christmas market in New York? A fir, please."

The joke is that "ein Tännchen", "a (small) fir", when pronounced with a Saxony accent, sounds a bit like the English word "attention". The joke works because most Germans know the phrase "attention, please" from movies, vacations and/or multilingual announcements. I believe this particular joke was invented some time in the 60s or 70s and ceased being funny about two seconds after, but that wouldn't stop "your dad" from using it.
Financial services in Brazil are primed for disruption. Here’s why.
Also, the y-axis is totally off. I zoomed in and drew black lines from the top of each of these bars (60%, 61%, 62%, 63%):

https://imgur.com/a/wzbI7mC
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I'm not saying he wasn't an awful father, but he actually did leave her a multi-million dollar inheritance according to Wikipedia
Kohler Farmhouse Sink: A Review of the Sink’s Functionality
Can you share the rest of your tech stack (if you don't mind me asking)?
My open feedback is to get these rules in place as soon as possible. This story/blog makes me realize that GCP/Firebase does not currently play nice to dumb mistakes and 24h away from the dashboard can be disastrous.

Multiple rules/filters need to exist to trigger SMS/Email alerts, or a pre-defined action, upon certain conditions.
Reading Nietzsche translations recently, German does seem to have a considerable capacity for allusion and double meanings that are very hard to translate. Perhaps not in modern or common usage, or nearly as much as English.
I honestly don't understand what they are plotting:

> So for example, the 74th-%tile in Competition among Hardcore gamers means that the average Hardcore gamer scores higher on Competition than 74% of the gamers in the full data set.

But together casual and core make up 78 % of the sample, so that the some hardcore gamers must have scores lower than the "hardcore average". Those hardcore gamers only make up 4% of the total sample, which means that 0.04/0.21 = 0.19 -> 19 % of hardcore gamers score lower than the hardcore average!

That's so skewed an arithmetic average is clearly of little use, but at the same time they talk about percentiles, so I don't know what's happening here, did they take the sample average and pretended it's the median?
Isn't it a false sense of security?
Yes, more people should know about the --status-fd option. I only wish there were a version that gave JSON output or something a little more foolproof to parse, the record syntax is easy to analyze with sed/awk/etc but you have to look up the docs for the meaning of each field and I wonder about the quoting sometimes.
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Aah, but that's the issue isn't it. They felt safer, but they're not. They are just as vulnerable as before, because the underlying issue wasn't address.

As someone else pointed out, it's "security theater". You haven't made the women safer. You're saying: See, we did something. It's just that the thing you attacked was never the problem.
It's proof that Ubuntu is a terrible platform for customization.

Most other distros don't have that split - whether it is ArchLinux, Fedora, CentOS, NixOS, and what have you.
What is the best laptops for graphic design?
I'm sure air conditioners in US banks or public offices consume more energy than Bitcoin mining worldwide. They never turn off computers at night, insurance companies require to leave lights on at night, each office has a few TVs with chomecast showing pictures of nature (irony ha!) all day and night long... but it's BTC mining they're fighting with.
Really? I’ve never ever seen a problem that bad with it.

Dog vs Cat is one of the best studied problems in deep learning, and there is lots of training data. This is very surprising!
iPad Putting Pressure on Windows and Android Tablet Competitors
This is exactly what I need. Thanks man
"stop thinking that filming once body is serious crime."

Firstly, the article is not talking about taking pictures of women on the street but rather in changing rooms and locker rooms, which is a crime.
Second, even if you would be comfortable if someone took a picture of you naked without your knowledge and posted it online doesn't mean that other women and men are.

"Is it ok for the same woman to appear in both these news?"

Yes. It was her decision to pose topless in public, and it doesn't give anyone the right to spy on her in privacy and take pictures of her.
CRISPR creates new species with single giant chromosome
Tesla: Elon Musk Apologizes, Boosts TSLA Stock $5B After Hours
> But there's no way I can justify the time investment.

It's fun. People build gigantic, sprawling model train sets in their attics over the course of years, not to sell them or to have many people play with them, but just for the fun of building something.
Don't worry - while the majority of users simply consume their music via streaming, local music ownership isn't going anywhere for music enthusiasts.

And as long as Apple allows alternative music players on iOS I'm not worried. I recommend Cesium to anyone using a local music collection: http://www.cesium-app.com/

It uses the same iTunes library as any other music app, including Apple's default music.app.
There is something interesting to be said about Bitcoin's ability to expose and correct market distortions so neatly.

I personally quite like the idea of a quota system for access to cheap, local power. It is interesting however to imagine what might happen if the power was sold into the market at market rate and the profits divided up amongst local businesses and residents instead of giving them cheap power.

That way, they in theory would be no worse off (they can buy power and the dividend cancels the loss of the subsidy), but they can also directly buy things that have higher utility than the direct energy would provide them.

That would also stamp out local bitcoin mining operations and divert the cheap energy to uses more productive than burning it for crypto creation.
> SuperPaint was by far the best graphics editor I ever used, on any platform. Nothing today even comes close in terms of usability,

That was my idea too, but since my experience with graphics editors is ridiculously small, I shut up about it. But yeah, it was very nice to use, and I haven't met its match since.
> Yet how Google arrives at its names in maps is often mysterious. The company declined to detail how some place names came about, though some appear to have resulted from mistakes by researchers, rebrandings by real estate agents — or just outright fiction.

So if they made a mistake they can't own up to it (like the Fiskhorn one)?
I found this to be the case when I was telling people I’d like to communicate via Signal. For the most part my explanation of why was not compelling for them, so I compromised and use Signal for a subset of friends and iMessage for everyone else.

My experience does not bring me to the same conclusion as the article or your comment. I don’t think it’s about whining or an emotional appeal. Rather, I think it’s a matter of not giving the other party anything to argue with. If I enumerate the many reasons which have convinced me to not use Whatsapp, the other person has a lot of...”rhetorical surface” with which to attack. They may or may not be successful, but they can probably launch a decently cogent rebuttal.

On the other hand if I simply say, “I don’t like it”, and follow up with, “I don’t know, I just don’t”, there isn’t enough substance with which to find a logical flaw. Your friends might judge you for it but, in my experience, it won’t stick out enough in their memory for them to really focus on it one way or the other. They are sort of forced to concede because your reasons are inscrutable. Disengaging can be its own form of victory, because it forces a draw (so to speak).

Obviously that isn‘t persuasive; it’s defensive. Likewise, I used to compete in Speech & Debate tournaments at the national level. In that context you have to engage, by design. My team (and rivaling teams) had a philosophy that we’d impart to all new recruits: when you’re formulating your point, deliver it forthrightly and concisely. Support your position with the minimum that will suffice and provide further support as needed, to parry the rhetorical attacks you encounter. This gives your opponent less material to refute, which means each individual point you deliver is harder to detract. When you’re trying to persuade someone (especially if you have an audience) a reasonable point delivered confidently, and with one or two strong reasons or citations, is far more privileged than many “passing” reasons which can made the focus of a rebuttal.
Thanks!

Currently I'm using the API of CoinMarketCap, which supports over 1300 coins!

To your second question about monetizing. You can publish and sell your extensions aswell. In my opinions, this does not make sense as all, as there is a lot of competition and most of extensions are for free.

However, I'm not trying to make any profits with this Project. It was just for fun and wanted to contributed something to the community.
Amid AV safety concerns, regulators focus on humans behind the wheel
And on a ZX Spectrum display, the horizontal lines were not contiguous in memory - you would get the 1st line, then the 9th, then the 17th.. then after you got one third down the screen it would jump to the 2nd, then the 10th.. a right pain to program! Explains the weird loading screen effect, when the data would be loaded so slowly you could see it drawing in that odd pattern.

Example:
http://whatnotandgobbleaduke.blogspot.com/2011/07/zx-spectru...

And the icing on the cake being the colour information was stored sequentially at the end on an 8x8 pixel block basis!
Creating a functional single-chromosome yeast
>When you have an unexplained performance problem, your response shouldn't be to "upgrade every single framework and plugin" that you use.

Yeah. That jumped out at me as well. They spent an inordinate amount of effort to solve a non-problem. It's great to stay on evergreen with versions, but probably not a good thing to do so while you're desperately trying to debug a problem.

I suspect this was a hopeful but lazy attempt - in the spirit of "Maybe if we just do this, it will somehow fix the underlying problem". It's a lazy approach to solving problems. Debugging performance bottlenecks is hard and devs generally hate doing it. Upgrading version dependencies is a known factor and developers are comfortable with that.
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Apple’s next iPad Pro will have tiny bezels, but no notch
Interesting. Around where I live (NH), it's very rare to see home solar setups that don't have the ability to operate independent from the grid. In fact, it's far more normal to see solar solutions that aren't even connected to the grid due to the cost of having power run to the property.
There is a difference between queries and connections. With pipelining, a redis machine can easily serve that. If they stored things in a better structure, like a list, they'd easily be able to get that.

On my machine 5 concurrent requests, at 100 items, it can do ~6 500 000 items per second, at 300, 11 000 000 per second, and it kind of caps out at that. Even with 1 concurrent connection, at 600 items, you get 6M per second.
Wow what the fuck is wrong with you?

Fucking incels - infesting society like vermin.
What can be a convincing argument _for_ copyright extension? Apart from "we want more money".
Definition of heart diseases
Her “trade school” is not for profit, and she’s a assistant professor. I’d say she has some qualifications to speak on the subject.
I've seen both and I don't think it comes down to negotiation, I think it comes down to contract type.

I've worked as a contractor for a firm. We billed out pretty high.

I also know some people who work for a certain company as "contractors" but just seems like a way for the company to avoid giving benefits. A shitty hourly wage and they "furlough" everybody for a few months out of the year so they don't really have to worry about actually firing anybody, just don't pick up their contract next year.
This is not a sustainable solution.

What will happen when cameras become as small as a grain of rice, and drones become as small as a fly?

This is the end of privacy. We should embrace it, rather than fight it.