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Typically their non-touch FHD displays are matte (I think that's what the parent was pointing out). I opted for that in my recent T480 build over the glossy HiDPI display with the face detection cam. It's definitely very nice not having sharp reflections on screen.
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I work in a conglomerate that is in the middle of digital transformation. The problems we see are exactly the same as stated in the article:

1) Incumbent IT/Dev teams eating millions of dollars creating roadblocks every where for the newer teams

2) Expected to bill the newer platforms to existing business divisions

3) Red-tape and bureaucracy all over the place - Loads of approvals needed to do something simple like setting up dev environments

4) Top down planning for 'transformation'. No inputs are ever sought from new teams on anything

To sum it up -> doomed before even starting
TrailBlazer determines what AWS API calls are logged by CloudTrail
How do STOLs compare to helicopters in pros & cons? Especially regarding costs? I'm curious if it could be feasible to operate a STOL as an air taxi service in a city, could it be cheaper than helicopters?
> you can’t be serious about this.

Of course I am. It's fundamental.

> when has the truth mattered in the u.s. in recent times?

To whom?

You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink. In the West you can drink as much as you want freely, under the CCP even attempting to drink the wrong water will get you locked up or worse.

That's a huge difference. It's a matter of fundamental values, and beliefs about the very nature of what it is to be human, and how to live our lives together in stability and happiness.

> in the u.s., companies control the government and people.

The rich write the laws in the U.S.A., this is evident if you study the behavior and history of Congress. From the POV of realpolitik the essential control feature differentiating the Old Totalist from the Modern Western regimes is the axis of denial and permission. In the old imperial system you did what you were supposed to and didn't do anything else, everything was restricted and you needed the Emperor's permission wipe your nose. In the New World you can do whatever the hell you want but if you go off the rails you get jerked back.

The Western system allows for faster evolution. Time will tell whether that leads to thousands of years of stability. We know that the Totalist system always collapses and then has to be rebuilt after a period of chaos and anarchy. Literally dozens of kingdoms and empires have arisen and then fallen across the whole of Asia for thousands of years.

The Western permissive system is a new thing under the Sun.
Nothing about the PDP-11 (direct ancestor of the VAX, which the article starts with). No details of how one ISA influenced another. I guess we can forgive the relative dead-end of the PDP-8 and PDP-10 architectures.

Good picture of Ken Olsen, though :-)

(I'd forgotten about PRISM, which was canceled through some nasty politics and caused Dave Cutler to move to Microsoft -- and Cutler's Windows NT was a heavy contributor to DEC's failure).
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It could use magsafe. That thing has a death grip on my laptop.
KSP 1.1 finally added multithreading btw
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ARX [1, 2] is an open source software that (among other features) supports most of the methods mentioned in this thread. Full disclosure: I'm one of the developers of ARX.

[1] Website: http://arx.deidentifier.org

[2] Source: https://github.com/arx-deidentifier/arx
Even more generally I would like to see some benchmarks being done of the VM extensions or other processor features. I don't know any benchmarks that helps you understand if the AES native instructions are any good or improved between models. There's a lot of chatter about the memory architecture but knowing that features like nested page table work well would be really useful for me personally.
So why are you allowed to enter the hotel with luggage?

Most big hotels provide a vault or will hold luggage locked in a secure area as well. They won't open it for insurance/liability purposes and do not require access to the contents. A person could trivially store contraband in the hotel's direct custody and not throw a red flag by keeping the cleaning lady out.

This is just security bozos throwing their weight around.
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I like that you can appreciate the science while being against the fur farming it was likely done to support. Dissecting those issues isn't really thing around here.
It's expensive to launch stuff, and it's difficult to get power down from orbit without frying birds or creating a weapon.
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Foxes without the desired trait are put to sleep, because they have no other use. So....we could either burn their carcasses, or at least use the fur. Why is that a bad thing? The fur is a byproduct here - no one is breeding those foxes for it.
> maintaing these versions is costly

I call bullshit. EPUB is basically a self-contained web site with a built-in index. If the text is maintained as an EPUB to begin with, producing a PDF is functionally identical to rendering it on an EPUB reader with a fixed page size and font.

They provide an online web view. The margin of difference between that and EPUB is building the metadata file and ZIPping it all into a single file. Or it's just an online PDF reader. Besides that, iBooks is based on EPUB, and older Kindle files are based on MobiPocket, which is based on OEBPS, the precursor of EPUB. Amazon has gratis software to convert from EPUB to Kindle file format. The print versions are probably functionally identical to PDF, with printing and cutting margins added to the page size.

If they maintained the book source in EPUB, all other formats that they do provide are essentially free, and can be maintained with a conversion program, a shell script, and cron job.

The real reason is that a lot of the available EPUB readers do not render web pages consistently, and they don't want to test Adobe Digital Editions, Calibre, etc.
Only if arithmetic operators have to return the same type they operate on.
I can if you are interested :-) What main points would you like to see covered?
I believe all the T and X series laptops now come with USB-C charging (definitely enjoying this on my X1 Yoga Gen 2). One problem with USB power delivery seems to be an upper limit of 100 Watts -- maybe that's a reason they don't use it for this machine.
I run 4 simultaneous factorio servers on my old 32gb laptop. How many servers is your 1950x capable of? How much ram do you have?

The 1950x is looking like a viable upgrade right now as it’s becoming cheaper.
Yes. They always couch their estimates with the 'using current methods'.

They do a lot of work to play down expectations, especially with respect to the kinds of things that may be seen in the media
but if we keep trying there should be a spacefaring equivalent of Moores law?

what if instead of formula 1 we had races in orbit? this would push the boat out.
It was their Single-Wide IPA. I bought kegs of that for probably around 3-4 years before they changed the recipe. It was always a very hoppy beer but it went from a nicely balanced blend of hops to a overly citrusy "grapefruit" taste that's become so trendy in the past 3-4 years now.

Same with Goose Island, it was their IPA that changed, and in exactly the same way.
We have a bunch of T-series from 440 to 480 and 540 to 570, a few W and P series...they're all problem free except one screen replacement on an almost-3-year-old W540 (which I think was physical damage)
Elon Musk, the new king of debt
I'm not sure which specific Kevin Mitnick book you're actually referring to or looking for but the book "Underground" is actually by Suelette Dreyfus and is about the nascent hacker/cracker subculture of the late '80s and early '90s. It was researched by/with Julian Assange (not written by him as another commenter has stated) who is known in the book as "Mendax". [1]

Interestingly, the book was released for free online in 2001, at the suggestion of Julian Assange, and the author credits this online release for expanding both the quantity and range of different people that would end up reading the book. [2]

The book can be read online (in HTML) at [2] or various ebook formats can be downloaded from Project Gutenberg at [3].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground_(Dreyfus_book)

[2] https://suelette.home.xs4all.nl/underground/justin/preface.h...

[3] https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4686
Seva Coffee (YC S15) – Roast Grind Brew Coffee Robot – Seeks Head of Engineering
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That's what it consumes when one core is active. Idle should be much lower, though you're right that to the extent you're doing anything on most desktops it's going to be just a few threads.
Waiting for the tech media bubble to pop
The signal to noise ratio of tech media is only getting lower. Though we get more of everything, or, perhaps, because we get more of everything – websites, blogs, videos, and all that – it gets harder and harder to make sense of this landscape. We’re in the middle of a tech media bubble and perhaps don’t realise how dense it is is.

The number of people employed in ‘Internet publishing and broadcasting’ has doubled from 2011 to early 2016, in less than 5 years. And that’s only in America. Of course, this data isn’t tech media-specific, but I assume our particular industry is no exception.

The internet is overflowing with new IT publications, some niche, some aimed at the general public, some – blatant ripoffs of well-known magazines. I recently stumbled upon an old Arstechnica clone that somehow still hasn’t gone out of business. Good for them, but I don’t see how this is good for the consumer or for the industry as a whole.

A lot of these tech websites are hard to tell apart. They have the same ‘geeky-futuristic-videogamey’ aesthetic, they review the same phones (and, let’s be honest, not much else), they release speculative articles with no actual content to get clicks. And don’t even get me started on youtube tech channels...

There’s just so much noise and repetition. Makes me wonder:

A) Have we reached peak tech journalism? It’s definitely a bubble, but when will it burst and why is this yet to happen?

B) This oversaturation is not healthy for the industry. What damage has it already done and what will its long-term impact be?
Behavioral economics and AI-driven decision making
Blockchain isn't an ethical stance as much as a mad scramble to cash in on something.

What I'm talking about is something like what happened with Retroshare. They created a friend-to-friend social graph that could facilitate file-sharing, chat, etc. Then the users quickly figured out that bootstrapping an F2F network is extremely difficult unless you are in the same physical proximity as your peers (e.g., a college dorm). Otherwise there is no easy way to do key exchange.

So the idea was introduced that you could have these bootstrap servers (not sure what they called them) so that all the new users who couldn't download anything could use them to do a key exchange with at least one other random peer, thus entering the network that way.

But such a user is no longer building an F2F network. Instead it is some kind of friend roulette network where you trust random nodes only because the software would be unusable otherwise. Worse-- at the time Retroshare data wasn't onion-routed so the user was shuttling data unencrypted data among untrustworthy nodes, and encouraged by other users to shuttle share data for friends-of-friends because that would presumably improve your connectivity.

At that point everyone except little LAN F2F islands would have only been slightly worse off with a Facebook-style app where Retroshare devs surveilled the network and spent all their time denying access to whatever they considered bad actors.

It goes without saying that FLOSS devs would never build a Facebook-style app. But there is at least one other piece decentralized app I know that did essentially the same bootstrap roulette as Retroshare.

The only way that can happen is if users and devs feel like they are doing something righteous by using such a piece of software, rather than just leveraging a tool to do a job.
That would be ideal. Though, I think what's going on with A-frame signs in Chicago, where you have to go through your alderman or city council representative to get the change championed, is a more likely model. They have a more direct interest in supporting business in their districts, and a bit more ability to get things done.

I don't think that bureaucrats in city hall are malicious, so much as that they are busy, have limited authority, and have very little incentive to put much effort into championing individual causes.
Having worked on Fanuc robots for more than 2 years, I can attest that it is an extremely closed system. Want more registers for variables on your robot program? Shell out $10k. EVERYTHING is closed and proprietary; once you go Fanuc, you as a customer is doomed for paying them whatever they ask because the ROI of switching is more than paying them for insane things like controller registers.

Don't even think about ANY open source components or anything of the sort found in the software industry.
Agreed. I think for anyone considering writing you have to know there are two skills:

- Building the writing habit of words on a page and how you make that happen.

- Being comfortable removing all of the words that are unnecessary through the editing process.

I knew I crossed the bridge when I found myself editing my own work and saying: "this is an incredible sentence, but it's not the right one here, axe it."
I'll have to look into that. I really loved Old Style. It had a very distinctive flavor that I'd recognize in a sip.
> Forcing programmers to consider division by zero when it occurs can be done simply by having the language compiler force handling of a divide by zero exception when division occurs.

That's materially different than a non-zero type, and IMO it's meaningfully worse. The type checker is most useful when it moves information.
I used thinkpads for a long while, and TrackPoint eventually came to hurt my index finger--call it RSI if you will, but whenever I use TrackPoint these days the distal joints of my index finger start aching, which is the usual reminder for me to disable it and use the trackpad instead.
There are downsides, but I don’t think any massive. I don’t know OP’s hosting situation, but there may be limitations there. Although even the most basic hosts use letsencrypt nowadays.

But I think the most obvious downside is that OP is the only one working on this and any time spent working out ssl is time away from feature development. SSL is not a key feature of OP’s product so there may be other features more important.

Simplicity is an important design principle. There are many things that have “no downside [other than cost to set up and maintain].” but have no clear value driver.

It’s quite possible that all the important stuff gets built out before users make the value of ssl really clear.
> What they want is for dangerous criminals to be found out before they kill people.

Typically a mass shooter is not a criminal until he starts shooting people. Correct me if I’m wrong but what you sound like you are saying people want “pre-crime.”

I don’t want to live in a place where I might be arrested for something someone guesses I might do.
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You're probably use a GOOGLE launcher. Of course they would not allow you to remove the search bar. Just use another launcher.
There is nothing preventing you from mixing a couple of VMs and have containers on top of some of them.
This is awesome. I'm definitely going to use it for a project in the near future.

My personal favourite environment to solve the 'one codebase for all platforms' problem, has been .. MOAI. The reason is, it gives you everything you need from the browser/server relationship, with none of the bullshit; i.e. you use Lua for everything, and do nothing in HTML/CSS/javascript, etc.

Well, its been a nice ride. For my projects, MOAI has been very useful.

But with Ultralig.ht, the question is .. which part gets embedded in what. Naturally, it'll be a sinch to stitch UL->MOAI .. and with a nice result: can finally do business apps. ;)
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A straight path from the Mojave to the Gobi desert is 9000 km directly through the Bering Strait.
Yes! Came here to recommend these. An insane level of technical detail (for suspense novel format) but still maintains a super entertaining storyline as well.
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I use ctrl-key all the time to send signals to a running process...
>but it's weirdly expensive so no-one buys it.

But isnt that the same problem with the Tesla?
In a gathering with many of the top social engineers nothing went wrong and there was zero possibility that a social engineer exploited this security and impersonated it's personnel to hack other attendees... /s

Maybe the best way to deal with this would be to make fun of and exploit security theatre.
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I'm almost certain he worked for the county, but I'd have to do some digging.
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Just my 2c: consider vigorously walking for 30-90 min per day every day you do not go to the gym. This is safe (walking is generally low impact on your tendons) and can extend the duration of the feel good effect.
Terminal Compromise
> most people see MS as bad and embrace Google for being "ethical".

IDK if it's just me, but I've seen an above-average number of news stories in the last year about how Google is not a consumer-friendly, trustworthy company now. The general public is, I guess, becoming more and more aware of this perspective.

We've certainly heard a lot about Facebook's privacy breaches and other problems. As a tech company, Google's reputation is probably hurt by that too.

It seems to me that Google has probably entered a new public relations era. And it's pretty hard to go back to the old days where consumers believed in "Don't Be Evil."
Learning the nub requires practice, but the payoff is huge. I'm half convinced that I won't get another laptop without one.

Main benefits:

+ hands stay on homerow while using mouse, so I can switch from keys to mouse to keys very fast and without losing my place.

+ Don't need extra space for a physical mouse

+ Easy to use at certain angles

- Not easy to use at other certain angles
Does video editing or After Effects work could as home use yet? Video editing, in terms of cutting and splicing clips, is not going to benefit much from this chip, but a lot of effects rendering will benefit, and basic video editing uses a lot of effects these days.

That’s all I’ve got.
Apple definitely has a patent on that. (I'm not exactly sure how patents work, but they filed one on Magsafe as late as 2017)
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Sure but this means that interested investors are willing to put $420 for Tesla. Which means its' price should be higher.
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> High voltage dc

I thought that was proven over a hundred years ago to not be an efficient way to carry electricity over long distances.. did something change recently?
I love Flutter, too.

There are other ways to get the same juice, though.

I love MOAI, for the same reasons as I love Flutter. Except MOAI has a better license .. even if the responsibilities for using it as a non-Game GUI are pretty high. You can do it, but you've gotta have Lua-foo.

In my case, I'm going to glom Ultralig.ht onto MOAI some day soon, and see if it makes the Flutter desktop problem irrelevant...
For swimming pools, which are admittedly a special case, heat pumps are already cheaper to operate than gas heaters in most of the country.

(They’re special for several reasons. A big one is that they have huge thermal mass, so your heat pump can operate at whatever time of day you want. This means you can optimize for electric rates vs outdoor temperature. Heat pumps, unlike gas boilers, are considerably more efficient when it’s warm out.)
On reflection, you are right that these issues come up. But I don't ever feel like the debate is sincere. It always just feels like the person always argues to move the law to the level where they think they can win (or not lose as badly), not where they legitimately feel is the right place for it.
I wasn't aware it was a problem with the convention center; I thought it was an issue with people's hotel rooms.
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Thanks, yes, I'd love to live there. I was just joking.
> snuck spyware onto its machines

This is a very real concern. How can we be sure that they aren't doing this again? A security audit is not part of the review.