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> The faster and further the 14s had to go, the more tanker aircraft had to be launched.

Speaking of crazy refueling, does anything beat the Vulcan raid during the Falklands war? 13(!) tankers supporting one bomber going from Ascension to Port Stanley and back. Not only tankers refueling the bomber, but tankers refueling tankers etc.

Here's a documentary about the raid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBJ99bIhAVk

All this massive effort, and in the end one single bomb out of 12(24?) managed to actually hit the runway.
I wouldn't personally want to help create tyranny powered by advanced technology, but I don't think that's to say I shouldn't be worried about it. I'm worried about what others will make of it, so I don't think we should be too idealistic about it.
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Seems to be refuted by [1] though there's no source.

>while the older generation of the Inuit in Canada had nearly no cases of near-sightedness, between 10 and 25 percent of the next generation was myopic

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near-sightedness#Causes
I find sleeping is good when tired
For those who haven't used it--

TMUX is awesome!

Give it a try. You'll be glad you did.
Articles like this often risk conflating many distinct concerns about tech in a way that makes the whole set feel alarmist rather than actionable. This author does a good job of cataloguing each risk separately. His closing prescription deserves a place in the article's tl;dr:

> ...if you dislike the idea of living in a digital dictatorship or some similarly degraded form of society—then the most important contribution you can make is to find ways to prevent too much data from being concentrated in too few hands, and also find ways to keep distributed data processing more efficient than centralized data processing. These will not be easy tasks. But achieving them may be the best safeguard of democracy.
I have a Remarkable paper tablet for full-size PDF reading, and it's perfect for scribbling on the pages.

And I get SSH access out of the box, so I can bypass their cloud service!

[0]: https://remarkable.com/
I think a big part of this process is getting away from the belief that your reactions to the text are somehow less important than the text itself. One way to elevate your own thoughts and ideas is to write them in the book, alongside the text that inspired the thought or caused the reaction.

In my opinion, it is often easier to revere a famous author than it is to revere yourself. The examples in the article are from famous authors writing in the margins of other famous authors: it's clear why people find this interesting. Perhaps you will touch someone in your own life and someday the notes you write in the margins of your own books will be something that they hold dear. I think that is so much more valuable than leaving behind a book with pristine pages and an unbroken spine.
Wow, that is one blaringly annoying web site. Too much stuff going on!
I personally think first about the loop/iterator organization (FROM in SQL) and only after that what I am going to do with its elements.

However,

SELECT a1,a2,... FROM Table AS t WHERE Condition

is syntactically equivalent to Python list comprehension:

[(t.a1,t.a2,...) for t in Table if Condition]

Here the use of attributes (SELECT) is also written before the iterator.

SELECT is also analogous to normal loops:

foreach t in Table
if not Condition: continue
# Use t.a1, t.a2 etc.

Here we first provide the loop specification while the usage of elements is written only in the body.
Besides being worded clearly against a certain kind of data-driven dystopia, it's also a start in the right direction. I, for one, do not expect EU to completely turn this policy upside down in the next years to come.
In an extreme example, including lines of code in Linux source code would be misleading.
This article erroneously conflates terminal and shell and then proceeds to talk about only one shell, the Bourne Again shell. (It is Windows NT where command history is a function of the console object rather than of the command interpreter.) Nor do "all software engineers use history". Some use the standard "fc" command. 93 Korn shell users can use "fc" or "hist" as well. The article's abuse of "legacy" to mean "undesirable" is almost a side-issue.

* http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/fc...

* http://jdebp.uk./FGA/legacy-is-not-a-pejorative.html

Of course, the idea that Unix, which was multi-user from 1st Edition onwards, "could only have one shell open at a time" is nonsense. And I can attest from personal experience that people cottoned on to having two terminals side-by-side before screen came to comp.sources.unix.

Interestingly, the manual page for the TENEX C shell points out that shell variables controlling history should be set in .tcshrc rather than in .login so that they affect the sourcing of $histfile which is done before the sourcing of .login. What it does not also point out is that this results in always setting them in all interactive shells without need to import them from the associated environment variables. If always set in this way, it is largely meaningless to export the shell variables into environment variables visible to other programs in child processes, as the headlined article has one do.

The same can be done with the Z shell, setting the history control shell variables in .zshrc or the $ENV file, the 93 Korn shell and PD Korn shell, setting the history control shell variables in the $ENV file, and the Watanabe shell, setting the history control shell variables in .yashrc or the $ENV file.
I certainly feel this way about the passages that the Amazon Kindle chooses to highlight (I think it's based on how many people underline a section). It is not my favorite feature.
I would assume they are talking about Google/Apple/Samsung/etc. Pay with NFC-enabled terminals
There are different plastics. And you came off like aluminium is the only thing that defines premium experience. For me premium experience also includes some baseline functionality. Level of keyboard noise I'm not embarrassed about. Peace of mind when I turn my laptop for repairs when I image ssd beforehand. Running my laptop at temperatures that are more reasonable for me. That's premium experience for me, not completely arbitrary 2 mm lesser thickness and pre-1888[1] precious[2] metals.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayer_process

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Monument#Aluminum_a...
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My dad bought a 22ft ketch rig for £28k and sold it about 6 years later for around £22k. It was in good condition, certainly nothing threadbare, but no luxury either. He had it around my late teen years, some of the best memories of my childhood were on that boat. So it cost about £1,000 / year split between 4 (2 adults 2 teenagers). Much better experiences than crappy beach holidays.
My favorite recommendation to people. Take a C or C++ program they have written and compile it with full MISRA. Definitely makes things more interesting.
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The space shuttle had a related problem, although not caused by overflow. Some parts of the STS's avionics used a clock that would reset to zero at 00:00:00 on 1st January, while other components had clocks that would continue to count up. If a shuttle mission spanned the new year boundary then systems would panic if they could no longer agree on the time.

The only reference I could find to this is https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=2699091&page=1
If more big titles were there.. e.g. Fallout, it would have exploded over 3%
l'esprit d'escalier ("staircase wit")
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/L'esprit_de_l'escalier
I had to used the amp page because the content is geo-locked :/
I (ironically) got a CoinHive warning from TrendMicro.
Right, thanks. My estimate was closer to 200 because I was thinking of Go's time.Time.UnixNano method[1], which returns undefined results when used before the year 1678 or after the year 2262. But yeah, if you count since the system restart, it's bigger.

[1] https://tip.golang.org/pkg/time/#Time.UnixNano
I have completely switched to digital. Novels on Kindle (I often read in my second or third language and a pop-up dictionary is very handy), non-fiction on Laptop as PDF which I intensively annotate. Annotating, scribbling and highlighting is part of active reading which I found very valuable.
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Ask HN: Review our startup: LUDO, online team building activities
We would love to have your feedback on our startup, LUDO.
We believe we have a unique way of dealing with the team building problem.
We always hated the team building activities forced by the managers so we decided to develop LUDO to have them online instead.

The idea is to have fun with your co-workers playing activities similar to board games and learn about them at the same time. We have for instance an implementation of the Werewolf game.

Many companies report us great success, with people communicating more, having lunches together, game nights etc. And nothing was forced on them.

You can access the project here: https://ludo.team

Tell me what you think!
Also humanity in the past was far more violent and gruesome. So if being tame means not slaughtering each other it seems like a good thing.

This book from Steven Pinker talks about this topic and its one of the best books I have read:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Better_Angels_of_Our_Natur...
Among dystopias, this one is remarkably well-argued...

It is rather frustrating to see how illiberality and strive have come back. In the nineties, the "End of History" made for a convincing hypothesis: Market economies in functioning democracies had proven that they were capable of providing decent quality of life for everyone. Competition had moved on from natural resources to human ingenuity, rendering the supposed motivation for all the wars of history irrelevant. Contrary to orthodox left-wing opinion, poorer countries were not exploited; instead, they had a standing invite to this future of plenty, and Asia took them up on it.

But China's economic rise didn't effect any democratic change. It seemed that democracy did not, after all, win the cold war. Communism merely lost it. Dictatorships can be as productive as open societies, as long as you don't saddle them with too much incompetence or self-defeating ideology.

So we are now in this new battle of the systems, and too often, we're loosing: China and Russia are obvious. But Turkey, Hungary, the Philippines, and Poland are more recent converts to the prosperity gospel of strongman leadership. With Trump, Brexit, and several recent election results in Europe, the hits keep coming closer.

Maybe humans never actually liked democracy. They just enjoyed its spoils. Now that there's an option to both eat and hate, they're overjoyed.
I'd love to use that! Keep us abreast in case you decide to work on this.
My wife makes cooking videos with my three-year-old. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_suiznE4hpPUaR0UJci6eA
more detail on the patriot missile failure:

https://web.archive.org/web/20100702180720/http://mate.uprh....
Noisli has "Fireplace" sound, it makes me fall asleep in under 2 minutes even if I am extremely anxious.
I can relate to this! Letting go of these thought trains is so very hard and keeps me up, my partner hates it when she sees my phone screen light up at night...i don’t blame her but ironically it’s a faster path to sleep for us both.
Absolutely, I use Skim to annotate PDF files. On Kindle, I often highlight or take notes. I wish there was one central service that would merge all my annotations from separate devices.
replace them with some other vendor
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In Sweden we have Swish which is pretty well used and supports paying with a QR Code for business.
Jira Ops seems really nice, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uIhtpSMaA4 and has a nice UI

Disclaimer: I work at OpsGenie, and this is the first time I saw Jira Ops in action
This advice should be part of driver's ed curriculum.
Also when you are on Amazon you are usually there to buy stuff so its a good time to show stuff to buy. On Facebook not so much.
I read the article from tip to tail and as a professional engine mechanic, It reminds me of Fords "myford touch" platform.

the system was rolled out across newer fleets without much testing, and in some models controls practically every single feature in the vehicle from climate control to the onstar SOS. There was a recall for platinum model F150 trucks because the system could glitch out after so many hours of continuous operation and trigger a fault in the 4 wheel brake force distribution system. This in turn either completely arrested the brakes, or caused them to quietly apply themselves at around 15%...you couldnt undo this unless you pulled the fuse. Even worse, collision detection would be disabled because the system thought you were aware of a potential crash and were braking.

If a certain bluetooth phone were paired, it could cause the trailer load and position sensor to erroneously predict grade downshifts. The result was that incoming calls on the highway would either wreck the rear differential or put the truck on the side of the road.
Positive, I would say. Postgres in combination with PostgREST, using database views as resources with a sprinkle of PL/pgSQL in instead-of triggers can build you a performant REST-API real quickly (and still keep your relational data model private).
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The hardest thing to change after the program is already finished is getting rid of allocations. But other than that MISRA compliance is not that difficult and avoiding allocations is not that difficult either if you plan for it from the beginning.
I will agree that the notes of an author like Oliver Sacks or Mark Twain will be more interesting to far more people than whatever I end up scribbling in the margin. On the other hand, I don't think a person needs fame in order to be important to other people: I would be willing to trade an awful lot to get a copy of my father's favorite book, annotated with his personal thoughts (it's Frank Herbert's "Dune").
It's important to differentiate between overt sexism (i.e. 'women can't or shouldn't be in business') to the kinds of negative externalities that result from a gendered world.

We have gender (despite what a fringe group of academics might believe) and 99.9% of the world is fine that that.

This creates gendered outcomes in various fields which in some cases might be, or perceived to be exclusionary. The difference is more than nuanced to the pointe wherein I think it's wrong to merely point at any gendered situation and say 'sexism!'.

I'll bet $100 that OSS projects are not actually very exclusionary at all, and more actually representative of the fact that women for whatever reason, don't want to do that kind of stuff to the extent men do. At least today. Of course, one could argue than the ranks of female engineers are thin due to lack of role models, sexism in early years and that would be true, but even without this ... there would still be a mismatch.

Screaming sexism at OSS teams or boards is counterproductive.

Imagine if the government mandated that 25% of all OSS contributions of 'major projects' had to be made by women? I don't think that would make sense, nor would it be well received.

But - I'll bet that the managers of major open source initiatives might be open to some facts and figures, right? Or open to networks that have more women? If the 'women's coding club of London' indicated they had a bunch of young ladies who wanted to learn the ropes of OSS would you help out? Probably, right?

And shareholders are not some pasty group of old white men either. They'll listen and change will happen, though fairly slowly admittedly.
Considering they have raised 66M it isn't really a high sum. More like a "happy somebody bought it" deal.

https://www.crunchbase.com/search/funding_rounds/field/organ...
Chiron from Lego
I guess your humble opinion would change if you had a child.
In Oxbridge, colleges compete for public exposure because ultimately that’s what leads to donation & to get top undergrads applying who, eventually, will donate £££ to the college once they land a good job. So there’s quite a lot of PR relating to sports & academic achievements.
What’s a bit ironic in this case is that no research is really done at colleges, and grads tend not to be central to college life, it’s really the authors & the research lab who deserve the creds!
This takes practice. Try it first for one minute, then two. It's just like physical exercise, but with your mind instead.
Wechat has that feature (but none of the other standard chat apps I’m aware of).
> Most of humanity has never been agile, curious and resourceful. Historically a handful of people were, and they tried to steer everyone around them.

I have a problem with this premise! My experience has been that when you look closely enough, most people are agile and curious within the sphere of their own action. What varies is the scale they believe they can act at, which can be a matter of internal motivation, social pressures and molding, or hard constraints.

The history you are referring to is one where people with the spare time and education to write histories have consistently assumed that masses have low ambition due to missing internal drive. That perspective is blind to forces that make high ambitions impractical for many people. This article is about how technology can sometimes contribute to those forces.

All that said, I agree with where you land here: the fix is for us to make tech that makes it easier for more people to be active.
An extra kick of learning motivation with every new browser tab
Czechia and Slovakia are still too corrupt and it used to be way worse.
If you have concerns, please add your concerns to the license and contracts around your product.

Also, for someone who says "I don't think that's to say I shouldn't be worried about it", you sure seem to take a liberal - maybe even a bit contradicting? - stance not wanting to be too idealistic about it.
as an engine mechanic, I find this article horrifying for technical manuals in a shop. If i need the clearances for ecotec engine valves, I dont want to see some crayon-eating technicians doodles in the margins. I also dont want to see some shade-tree greybeards corrections and musings about how "this is how it was done back in my day."

This is why we keep notes at our workstations, not in our reference bookshelf.
Could have been worse with an Australian, then it might have been c... :)
The article is much better than the headline suggests
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This was a fantastic book. It is definitely not for undergrads, or just undergrads. I think it even more important for people actually working on production systems. Even better, it provides some language for people to share when doing code review about how to design their APIs better.
I find it easier to write man pages directly. Admittedly, I write mdoc (not the ancient "man" macros), which has been around only since the 80s. It's easier for me to remember the semantics ("Is this a flag/command/function?") than the correct traditional markup ("Should this be bold/italic/nothing?").
This is the closest I've seen to people attacking the problem at its root. Academics need grants to survive, and they will go after them even if it means being forced to publish in a lower-tier journal. Over time the lower-tier journals gain more status since the high-dollar grant chasing academics start publishing high quality research in them. The paywalled journals ideally subsequently either diminish in quality, lowering the incentive to publish there or switch to an open-access model.
Well, my premise was summarized before: "most people are not active most of the time".

If we look at examples of people who historically have had access to all the base resources they required, they weren't all active. Examples: Roman aristocracy, medieval feudal classes, modern day tycoon fortune inheritors. Only a small percentage were truly active most of the time.

In my opinion it's not even healthy to be always active. It generally takes time away from down time with your friends and family.
Just yesterday updated my Mikrotik to latest current. And now read that news. Great!
5% daily swings are perfectly normal in Chinese consumer internet stocks ;)

It's a buying opportunity. Gaming is a big source of Tencent revenue, but expect "online-to-offline" transactions growth to skyrocket. Everything from food delivery to ride sharing to movie tickets to doctor's office visits. To autonomous experiences mediated by AI that can barely be conceived of yet.
There should be an option to change how far 'here' is.
Free VPNs leaking your personal data
Only in the sense that if it wasn't Newmark and Craigslist, it would have been someone else with a different site. The fact is that classifieds were a major supporter of journalism and that they were killed by Craigslist. That he has given money to journalism schools is nice, but not unlike how Gordon Moore's foundation gives grants for environmental research despite Intel not being the most environmentally friendly company.
Recently I saw a comment that the real "hostile AI" threat was not something like Skynet, but more like Youtube algorithmic video recommendations and their fondness for conspiracy and far-right material.

The perceived threats of "irrelevance" and "uselessness" get easily diverted against other humans, especially through "othering". As jobs are taken by automation or offshoring it's easy to blame "immigrants". Keep up the social division for long enough and this can escalate to actual violence.

Amartya Sen's Nobel-prize-winning work on famine was to demonstrate that it was rarely due to an absolute shortage of food, but a deficiency in "entitlement" to it: both purely economic (not having the cash) and political (not being able to secure famine relief). That's the potential worse case of being "irrelevant and useless": starving to death because you can't get food from the "system" somehow.
On the latest ADB Podcast, they mention that certain car infotaiment systems just go "blue screen" if you feed them a more recent Bluetooth version than what they have hardcoded.

http://androidbackstage.blogspot.com/2018/08/episode-97-blue...
My email to Scotia Bank

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To Whom It May Concern,

Today I called Scotia Bank Security Centre using the phone number that their website has published at https://www.scotiabank.com/ca/en/about/contact-us/security.h.... Here is the number that I called:

+1-800-472-6842

While this number does seem to connect me with the automated phone dispatch service for the Scotia Bank Security Centre the caller ID that I see on my phone is surprising. The caller ID is resolving to 7-Eleven. Please correct this. It is confusing. It honestly makes me loose trust in the Scotia Bank Security Centre. If I were to receive a phone call from this number and saw that the caller ID was 7-Eleven I would believe it to be fraudulent.

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Scotia Bank's reply to my email

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Good afternoon,

Thank you for bringing this to our attention. We appreciate your feedback and will certainly escalate to the relevant team to determine a solution.

Regards

Customer Care

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Let’s not share anecdata or come to conclusions based on those anecdotes. As a community, we should be smarter than that, this is how shit like vaccine-denial starts.

And the following anecdote-laden discussion of “nun uh, not me” and “me too” is just so uninteresting.
The amounts of money I've saved by selling my college books in "very good condition" is appallingly small compared to the lost learning opportunity.

You are not alone, but I wish I took more ownership of my books and added notes and corrections.
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