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>IMHO, operating systems should ultimately be immutable and basically be similar to a snap. You update it as a whole and you don't modify parts of it.

Absolutely agree. Ubuntu Core is trying to achieve something like this: https://www.ubuntu.com/core
I've seen an app for this in FDroid.
A mix of Python and Java regarding the software stack.
My previous condo address # suddenly changed to adjacent number in google 2 years ago. I edited multiple times to the correct address and my corrections were rejected every time . Even submitting a government website showing the correct address didn't work. As I had moved I didnt care anymore but a few weeks ago I got a notification that 1 of my edits was approved.
What mechanism does deregulation introduce that leads to monopolization? The opposite is the truth. The most regulated markets are the least competitive. More than anything else, regulations are barriers to companies that want to enter markets.
A very nice book in French is "Le Chat au pays des Nombres" by Ivar Ekeland. The book tell a story that happens in the infinite hotel on the numbers planet. This hotel managed by the Hilbert is always full. It is a very good approach of infinity for children around 6.

[1] https://www.babelio.com/livres/Ekeland-Le-Chat-au-pays-des-N...
That doesn’t seem to answer the question.
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Just inhabiting a space does not mean you value it.
It has something to do with the spirit of the developer community that makes its applications, though. You could argue they're close enough to be synonymous.
> About C++ vs. Rust; Fear not. Modern C++ can basically 'anotate lifetime' in methods contracts by using smart pointers and move when you need. I prefer the C++ approach, have no problems with leaking, lifetime or whatsoever and deal with very large codebases programmed by large teams.

Is there a book (or other type of resource) that approaches C++ from the "modern" direction, i.e. with a focus on correctness?
You realize actors do not do well on average right?
For enterprises you could consider adding an enterprise pricing option with on-prem hosting. Standups discuss IP and a lot of companies never let IP out of premise/DMZ. Especially not in stored format.

You needn't even have it yet, you can use the pricing option to see if you can catch a big fish who wants to pay for your development of it. (of course you bring that different but it works the same).
No one has managed to dethrone Facebook because the CFAA allows private companies like Facebook to stop anyone who'd actually provide the facilities to allow for a smooth transition. BigCos like Facebook and Google lean on the aggressive monopoly-making powers of the CFAA every day. Look up the dockets and you'll see the companies making active use of these powers.

In particular, check out Facebook v. Power Ventures, where an entrepreneur was left owing $3M in damages to Facebook for allowing users to extract only their own information.

Underpinning all digital "monopolies" is copyright law, which is eminently changeable. It really pets my peeves when people suggest things like streaming services are natural monopolies as if there is nothing that can be done about it.

Copyright was invented because since the printing press, intellectual goods are so easy to copy that it'd be impossible to sell them at scale without state-enforced supply ceilings (aka copyright).

Doesn't sound like a "natural monopoly" to me. It's wholly artificial and we could change it if we wanted.
The WiFi isn't offered by the airports, it's offered by private lounges and restaurants, who offer it as a perk to their paying customers.
Ever been in one?

In Finland even "sick" people go to the sauna all the time. It depends on the sickness though: fever and sauna don't mix for obvious reasons. But otherwise people do it.

Looking at the list of ailments in the article, I don't see them being a showstopper for going to a sauna.

For example, regular sauna is often helpful for people with asthma. The Finnish sauna is humid (one throws water to the hot rocks). There are variants within Finland too: a smoke sauna + asthma might not work.

My point is: the argument of "sick people do not use sauna" is false.

Finnish saying: "if tar, booze or sauna does not cure you, it is fatal". (Tar was used for skin ailments and wounds etc.)
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Google grew up in a services era by replacing a hugely human intensive service with an algorithm.

Navigating local laws might be doable with their current expertise, but would definitely be human intensive, absent a real breakthrough in AI.

OTOH, there is that automated portal to fight traffic tickets. I wonder if Google tried to automate and A/B test more complicated court or municipal filings how it would do in the long run.
I thought KeyShot had a quick plugin for that. I would be surprised if V-Ray for GPU doesn’t becomes available for Fusion 360 before long. I can’t honestly claim to know much about Fusion 360 but I do know the CAD folks love it. Octane or Redshift is what you’re really after but they are more boutique companies so it’s probably unlikely.
> at best it leads to a big useless unanalyzed database

For me, rigorously tracking my caloric intake by weighting nearly everything I've eaten with a food scale and recording it in the Cronometer smart phone app has led to a 100 pound weight loss over the last year, and normalizing my blood pressure & triglycerides.

But, you know, at best ... just a useless database. Good grief.
Dang, you're right, I should have known that. I apologize for my bad math.

It would be the 10000th root of 10^31415, and at this point what I'm saying is probably entirely unrelated to how it's really implemented.
They don't value anything other than the space they currently occupy. That's not valuing land so much as valuing immediate space.

There are absolutely no animals in Africa that value any land in South America other than some humans.
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I am proud to have maybe the slowest css animation ever used so that, if you wait several hours, you'll see the clouds move across the screen :D
if anyone has worked at JPL or similar, what's the best resource for learning how to make an actual Mars/Moon rover?

I'm very curious about things like, what kind of wheels you need for regolith, how to manage extreme temperatures (electronics, motors, batteries, cameras), how communication works (could you have a remotely-operated lunar rover?), dealing with radiation (SpaceX works with consumer electronics AFAIK, but they mostly fly within Earth's magnetosphere, which ... changes things).

Any replies or emails would be extremely appreciated.
I think the #3 and #4 should be defined as:

#3 can afford to not work for a long period if the job goes down. This also might let you invest your work in a startup

#4 can afford to not work anymore
From what I observed, there are two factors at play that work to discourage this simple model:

1) The body is good at up and downregulating its calories use and cravings depending on what you eat.

2) The "calories in/out" approach doesn't depend on particular foods you eat, which means you can't sell your new magic fad diet without doing your best to discredit it.
Trash piles up in US as China closes door to recycling
I have done a lot of standups. From my perspective, no one really cares for them. Most of the time, your coworkers are working on something that either doesn't matter to your task or you have no clue what they are doing even when they explain it. So standups are ultimately for the manager to get a sense of where everything is. But good managers should already have a grasp of the situation so standups become redundant.
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Almost every item I see on here is using private WiFi connections intended for paying or premium customers, and precisely zero ones that are intended to be free.

This would seem to constitute "piggybacking", which is of questionable legality in many places:

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

Given the dubious legality, seems odd to see this on HN.
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I’ve been using it for five years as well. I find that when I regain some weight (usually 2-3kg on vacations and holidays) I tend to loose much quicker than the last time. Have you noticed that?
In general the power consumption is in the transistors, and related more directly to junction capacitance, voltage, and frequency than to resistance.
Information about how the metrics described in this blog post released today:

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>"PIN number" is just a shorthand for "number that is a PIN."

No it's not. "What is your debit PIN number" is not short for "what is your debit number that is a pin".

Nearly everyone that gets called out for it isn't really thinking about what PIN stands for and they certainly don't lamely defend it with this disambiguation excuse. The context in which people ask for someone's PIN essentially never has any accidental swap with "pen" or "pan".

"Type your pan on the keypad."

"Choose a 4-digit pen."

Please, English is bad enough, don't bury it with more bullshit.
> Is it regarded as useless in a dietetic context?

Yes. For example, it's why a dietitian will tell you to eat whole fruit, and tell you not to drink smoothies or juices (apart from very limited amounts).
> This is true, but it's not a feasible approach for software like Slack, Spotify, and VSCode that gets updated /weekly/. These aren't packages like 'libgit' that you could validate once and leave the same until you ship the next OS release

Package managers don't prevent this at all. If you host the repository then you can update as often as you'd like. Some whole distros (arch) do just this.
You are right, of course, in an abstract sense. But in the real world, this reminds me of the "we never had communism!" argument (because somehow, all those who implemented it, got it "wrong" and failed the principles). I mean, the principles behind communism might be noble and great, but if they ignore the human nature and the realities of the world, then, what good are they? If communism always seems to lead to murderous regimes, maybe it's better to avoid it than to attempt to "implement it right, this time"?

Of course, the parallels between "communism" and "agile" are imperfect. But the same way that various forms of "real communism" might work in small communities but fail spectacularly in large organizations, maybe "agile" is in fact actively harmful in corporations? Just a thought.... because I've never seen it implemented right. OTOH, I can't say I've seem good software practices in any large corporations (small pockets of excellence, yes, but they often work "against the system", not because of it).
> Home mortgages are usually nonrecourse loans.

In California this is true, plenty of other jurisdictions do allow collection of mortgage deficiencies.

But, yeah, you can do that and pay taxes on the forgiven amount. Which, if you're walking away for financial hardship reasons is an extra kick in the teeth, but better than being saddled with the loan.
My PS: https://pypanta.github.io/

I built it using CSS grid. It's not yet all finished, but now, I have more experience with CSS grid ;), so maybe I need to rewrite some parts again. And also, now CSS grid have a better support across browsers.
I doubt they'll find out and even if they do I doubt they'll go to the effort and expense given the how few people will likely use a site like this vs the numbers of people traveling through an airport.

Even if they all do add some other security then it's just like going back to a time before this site so no great loss. The alternative is to not share the passwords on this site which is effectively the same to anyone trying to get on the wifi for free.
That is highly subjective. A friend of mine has a model S, and I do not like driving it much. I find it to be a boring experience. He is considering selling it after just a year because he finds it to be a boring car. To me, it is a one trick pony. It accelerates insanely fast. And that is about it.

I MUCH rather drive my cheaper toyota 86 than a model S.

I want it to be an awesome car, but to me it just isn't.
Yes, the SR-71 was a remarkable achievement. Ben Rich's book about the Skunk Works describes the project. It's amazing that thing ever worked. It's not, however, engineering minimalism. It's money is no object R&D. There are many exotic technologies used in the SR-71 never seen before in aviation and seldom used again. Large parts made of Invar, a zero expansion alloy normally used only for watch springs, for example. The price of all this was a high-cost, high-maintenance aircraft.

A good plane to look at for production minimalism is the Boeing 747.
A huge aircraft even today, it was designed as a commercial product to be produced in quantity and used intensively over a long life. About 1500 were built and many are still flying after 40 years. It's reliable, maintainable, safe, and profitable.

It's not exotic. There are some new things in it, but not that many. It's mostly upgrades to technologies known at the time. Better flight controls, better navigation, better autopilot, better hydraulics, better tires, better engines, etc. But little that hadn't flown before at smaller scale. The emphasis was on eliminating the weak points during design. The B-747 has four hydraulic systems, for redundancy.

It's worthwhile for people in software to read the pilot's manual for a large commercial jetliner.[1] They're not that complicated. If operating your system is more complicated than a jetliner, you're probably doing something wrong.

[1] http://www.aviationforall.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/AOM...
They would operate right next to the headquarters of Metro, Rewe and Aldi, some of the biggest retailers in Germany. That would immediately trigger a response which would be great for customers.
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What a lazy dismissal.
> That’s a great idea if you want to live in one of the four states that have some cities with rent control.

Since we're talking about California, and it's one of them, that seems to be a given.
At our company adoption of open source tools happened bottom-up despite us having licenses for SAS, SPSS, Emblem etc etc. you name it we have it. But even having easy access to these tools people here still found downloading R/Python was easier still than logging a call with IT and having to manager approval to install software.

Oh and on the legacy code - no it never goes away. The handful of SAS programmers around 20 years from now will be able to charge fortunes to maintain those legacy systems.
Citation needed that conservatives killed USPS. I didn't find any unbiased sources to confirm this. To the contrary, the 2006 bill was a bipartisan measure passed by voice vote in the House and unanimous consent in the Senate.[1]

[1] https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/109/hr6407
Being fundamental to clojure means everyone uses those data structures. That matters quite a lot when you aren't writing everything from scratch.
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Do you know any Command line or HTML page based utility to post on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook at the same time ?
The new admin has a libertarian streak. They don't like unnecessary regulation in general and that's a good thing.

Of course, when that means giving the Comcasts of the world headaches, HW cheers, but when that means good riddance to net neutrality (or rather letting states decide), everyone here screams bloody murder.

If that isn't double standards ...
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One could argue that the reason that tariffs are necessary is because we do not have an economy purely dictated by the free market, which in this particular case is probably not a bad thing. A big reason China is able to flood the US with a trade surplus is because they have a different view on the value of humanity. For instance workers in China, in some cases, work in something that's not that far off from slave-like conditions. $1000 iPhones are manufactured by the millions by people earning a few bucks a day, living in on-site dormitories, in buildings surrounded by 'suicide nets' to try to stop impulsive suicide from workers.

In the US we would never tolerate such conditions and it would be legally impossible on a large number of levels, the least of which not also being our minimum wage. While I think this is probably the right way to go, it also means that our taking the higher moral ground there means that we're severely hurting domestic producers by making it literally impossible for them to compete with the prices that they can produce things for. By not relying entirely on market forces we've crippled our ability to compete.

In a world where politics, on both the right and left, was not dictated by business interests there would be bipartisan support to let's say "adjust" our relations with China on this front. It's reminiscent of the times past when countries would speak out against slavery and then buy the dirt cheap American cotton and tobacco by the ton. We believe workers have the right to certain reasonable working conditions and in the process of doing so end up massively cutting employment in our nation and then shipping trillions of dollars to nations with no such concerns. It's hardly logical regardless of your political leaning.
Right. The internet certainly has no shortage of folks willing to answer this question, but the answers almost always imply the difference is merely rhetorical or something like a matter of opinion. Same thing with ‘biased’ vs ‘unbiased’ rendering, but that one is much less surprising.
Statistically speaking if caloric deficit is the only thing you did then you're going to gain all that back. Sorry.

However, if you cleaned up your diet too then that might've been the causal factor and not the tracking which is to nerds what prayer is to the pious.
Yes, accessible, but not universally accessible. And yes, accessibility should be merit-based. If you're smart and get good grades in high school - university should be available. But then some people start complaining how it's unfair and smart-but-poor kids can't get on the same level during high school. Thus we should push that one step further.. Which IMO is bullshit. People can use up any leeway given to them.
> They design a generic infrastructure that can influence your desires

The engeneer in that example finds it worthwhile (or at least acceptable) to design a system that can manipulate peoples desires.

I'd argue, that alone is already political.
Whats your issue with the package system? Genuinely curious
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> who buys just meats and fruits?

An increasing number of healthy people inclusing world record holder atheletes. http://justmeat.co
Republicans held majorities in both the Senate and the House, the bill was signed by a George W Bush.
Right, but a name is one of those things that can actually be decided ahead-of-time; no sense in giving the little shits more ammo with which they could mock your kids.

That is, unless your goal is to "toughen them up" via the "boy named Sue" strategy.
While Wall Street quacked about killing iPhone X, Apple bought back $43.5B stock
Text-only GDPR link:

https://text.npr.org/s.php?sId=634866222&rid=1001
Bootstrapping a productized service to $40,000 MRR in 6 months
Yeah but check this out: https://gyrosco.pe/swizec/8825e3a2-96e9-11e8-a492-061afa5c8c...

From about 16% bodyfat to about 11% in the past year.
> The downside of that is that your investment is illiquid and that it becomes way more difficult to move.

It's not really much more difficult to move. It's potentially harder on either your cash position or credit rating (e.g., if you can't sell your house quickly), but you actually potentially have a very similarm with a residential lease if your timing for when you decide you need to leave doesn't likne up with the end of the lease.
Mine is very simplistic, but some of the pages load slow because I haven’t optimized the images.

http://pascoe.pw
The author claims to be a computer security engineer, yet is deliberately setting up a tool to defeat security -- not an abstract tool, useful in surveying and thus improving your own security and incidentally capable of being used for mischief, but nothing more than a list of identifiers and passwords. The only indicator you can gain from this is that someone betrayed your trust.

If this profession had a board of ethics, this is the sort of thing that it would take action against.

If people want you to use their networks, they will offer you access via any one of several convenient mechanisms, including

not using encryption

putting a sign on the wall with a password

handing you a card with credentials

telling you a password
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Seems reasonable when the evidence is clear. This is too common. People should be able to walk around their own neighborhood and feel comfortable and safe. Awaiting replies from the free speech brigade to explain again why taking a reasonable small step to protect people is the end of the world.
Hmm, IIRC Inventor does realtime raytracing, with first image after ~10 seconds and production quality images after a couple of minutes (this was on a XPS 15 laptop with the GTX 960M GPU).

My guess is that it's one of the features Autodesk doesn't want to put in Fusion360 so they retain a market for the more expensive Inventor.
It did spur competition where Google Fiber was announced. The ISPs were tripping over themselves to match Google in those cities.

But as soon as Google announced the demise of Fiber, they mostly put the brakes on those expansions. They may still expand their own fiber initiatives now, but it's nowhere near as fast, and you won't get as cheap 1Gbps fiber as you would've gotten with Google Fiber around.
What is the reason?
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.juliansparber.captivepor...

"It works by simply replacing the action URL from the login form on the web page to a local HTTP server which redirects the request to the original destination. The local HTTP server saves the request, so the app can reproduce the same call next time you connect to the same WiFi network."

Uhh... Time to move to iOS, I think.
I believe most UK banks allow you to change it, but I've always just used the bank-generated PIN they send. I wonder if I'm in a minority?
The article seems to suggest that this only bans street harassment of women.

>[now] the laws of the French republic forbid insulting, intimidating, threatening and following women in public spaces.

I don't read French; I'd be interested to know if the law is gender-specific or not, and to know how they define harassment. Laws that ban harassment generally require a pattern of behavior. Catcalling is often a first--and only--contact.

Is any contact that the target decides is unwelcome harassment? If you greet someone and smile, and they interpret your greeting or your smile as sinister, does this law make you a criminal?
Maybe it’s actully a really good place to live?
> BASIC in the 80s was a bit like Javascript in the 00s in that every browser did things did things subtly differently.

That leads to the obvious question whether there are there more modernized BASICs out there now. Is there a standardized ES6 equivalent, perhaps? ;)