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> the installer progress bar was ... peculiar

Windows 95 was really annoying in that regard, the progress bar would race to 95%, and then stay there for a long time. We used to joke that the installation routine would only start doing any actual work upon reaching that 95% mark.
Rio cab drivers are the worst. I hate going to Rio because you simply can't escape people trying to con you all the time. Brasilia and São Paulo are a lot better in this aspect.
I'm a maths graduate who became a programmer too. In my experience there's very little direct application of the knowledge acquired during the degree, but the thinking process gained is totally relevant.
Doing a maths degree is one of the best things that happened in my life, and it altered the way I think forever.
Having said that, now that I do a little bit of AI (as everyone should), I start to see more and more math in the code I write.
Disable js. Works fine in Brave after you block scripts.
The subject matter of the article is amazing, but there seems to be some weirdly out-of-place sexual innuendo in the writing.

Like, what is the purpose of comparing evolutionary algorithms with forced breeding programs - or mentions of the researcher penetrating virgin fields of research?
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No language that drops C compatibility while having the same manual memory management is an actual contender.

Yes having a GC is a contender, because not all GCs are implemented the same way, and C did not eliminate Assembly as well.

So if a systems language, with GC, covers 95% of use cases. We can happily use something else for those remaining 5%, while enjoying better productivity and safety.

Companies like Astrobe manage to have enough customers to keep their Oberon compiler for bare metal deployments business alive, just as one possible example.
Cooking, and ironing are my go to relaxing activities in the evenings. Hit two birds with one stone.
Fair points, also I see this on Wikipedia

> South Africans were unaware of his Australian success due to the harsh censorship enacted by the apartheid regime coupled with international sanctions that made any communication with the outside world on the subject of banned artists virtually impossible.
They could require the vendors attach the stickers to uniquely determine the shipment. Upon receipt, just scan to ensure the barcodes match/aren't duplicates. They already require vendors using Fullfillment by Amazon to have their shipment contain a shipping summary. Adding per item barcodes wouldn't be a huge change (and Amazon itself wouldn't bear the cost).
s/Preservation/Protection/

https://kernsec.org/wiki/index.php/Kernel_Self_Protection_Pr...
Online sales are not designed to get you to buy something BECAUSE there is a sale, they exist so you can feel better about paying for products you were ALREADY looking to buy. Yes, there is a little bit of a final push due to a sale but it’s not the primary reason. Source: I’m a CRO person and manipulate shopping behavior for a living.
Generally system programming is that you're able to interact with the system without some sort of "bridge".

For that reason Java and C# cannot be counted as system programming languages, because neither of those can interact directly with the system they're running on.

Ex. C# needs PInvoke, where as C can just call system functions directly.

At least that's my understanding.
> What the hell is going on at Google?

Iterations are going on. There is a school of thought that believes any kind of movement is progress. May it movement into good or bad direction. Thats why companys regulary rehaul their apps, the design and corperate identity. It always end with some people becoming unhappy, but hopefully more people being happy.
Don't you get the cost as an upper and lower bound? Or is it one price upfront?
If that counts as existing, then cold fusion exists.
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It's quite disheartening to ponder solutions to this stuff and yet see that discussion 6 years ago from far more capable people.

Perhaps the vast majority of Internet consumers is actually ok with the status quo.
Some amazon affiliate must be making nice commissions on that plugin!
>It totally should be. If you use SPF and DKIM, that should override distrust of IP addresses.

There are several IPs that are completely banned on my firewall because they send shitloads of spam over dozens of domains. And some IPs are just inherently not trustworthy (Tor exit nodes, North Korean IPs, etc.)

Everyone can setup a SPF and DKIM record on their domain. It's not hard.

IPs have reputation and you better deal with it because most sysadmins on your receiving end won't deal with any special snowflake configuration.

This isn't exclusive to Gmail, this is basically any mail service and server out there.
Harsh, brutal critique from other people (ideally the target audience), prompted by deliberate questions from us about how easy it is to read and understand, and questions from us to test that understanding.

Writing happens entirely inside one's own mind; it can be so hard to see that what we're writing isn't clear, isn't well structured, doesn't guide the reader deftly through understanding and enlightenment. I wonder if it's even possible to properly critique our own explanatory pieces on technical issues, given that we cannot read it without having that knowledge already in our heads, as the target audience will have to.

It can be quite a shock to learn how badly written some of our own work is; as with code reviews, ego has to step aside.
The app shows and hides different options based on the country. I haven't run into any scams or asked for refunds while travelling, but I guess this was the case for the refund comment field.
Sign-up is wildly different in different areas
I might be able to help. I have a great deal of experience with custom hardware and software. See my profile for details and email address.
And you had to tweak the jumpers on your card, surely
Special economic zones like Shenzhen (Silicon Valleys) vs rural dirt farmers. It's a command and control capitalist system, a weird inversion of the free market economy.

A different lens to view this through is Deng Xiaoping used SEZ to subvert Mao's communist model and steer it back towards capitalism. "It doesn't matter whether a cat is black or white, as long as it catches mice." Deng endured severe personal suffering to deliver his vision. Unfortunately Xi is rewinding much of Deng's progress.
Does anyone remember ANSI bombs? One tricked 12 year old me and formatted my hard drive
I wouldn't advise to start with baking once the learning curve is way steeper and less fault tolerant than general cooking. If you are just starting and want to see cooking as a relaxation activity delay baking and start with Italian food.
The 70s weren't as bad as they are painted. There was much greater income equality. A lot of the problems in that decade had external causes, the oil crisis and the hangover, I suppose, from the commodity price inflation caused by the Vietnam War. I don't really understand these things but the rise of the financial sector to dominance in the UK economy and all the pain it's caused this last decade was apparently largely due to Thatcher's policies in the 80s. I've heard it said that today nearly every company wants to sell financial services, for example car makers. Apparently it's generally more profitable than their core product. Nothing real just financial 'instruments'.
I've started using Thunderbird with Gmail again. This is the first step to moving the bulk of my email activity to my self-hosted mail server.

And, of course, I'm also ditching Chrome for Firefox (and Tor Browser) as well.

Well done, Google. You finally forced my hand.
1) I think Github are a long way past prototyping... they just sold their rough sketch for $7.5b

2) A year and a half of how much effort?
Practical tip for those that want a web based solution right now: install rainloop on a server and point it to gmail’s imap/smtp servers.
Rainloop + an http server that handles tls in front of it can be installed fairly painlessly and quickly with docker.

https://www.rainloop.net/
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Yeah, it is not about the $10 that the 5-domain company might save, it is about trust, about Cloudflare positioning itself as a fair dealer that is not out to nickel and dime you.

Of course, once that relationship has been established, Cloudflare is in prime position to eventually make hundreds or thousands of dollars per year from that company.
This also shows how important it is to keep in mind whether or not you know about the causes of an effect or just about correlations:

> ... somehow the numbers were showing that it was taking LONGER for videos to load on Feather. ... I was just about to give up on the project, with my world view completely shattered, when my colleague discovered the answer: geography.

If the colleague hadn't had that hunch, he might really have given up and changed his world view - and we might have an "actually, studies at google show that lean pages are bad for latency" meme going around now, keeping people from fighting page bloat.
Dafny: verification-aware programming language
ClickHouse, a column-oriented DBMS to generate analytical reports in real time
It might be a dirty truism: utopian promises are for children and the slow, reality requires messy, pragmatic nuances that often break and contradict simplistic, academic "wouldn't it be nice if" or wishes for a perfect, simple solution that is designed and pushed into policy.

One of the most pragmatic, matter-of-fact Marxist economists, R. Wolff, acknowledges the foibles, workarounds and tendencies... how people behave in reality, rather than how some people should like to make them, or would like, them to behave, or that libertarian, unregulated, utopian capitalist economics is some meritocratic magic wand that solves all externalities and inequalities in "the market," usually with "trickle down" economics that never happens. Reality is most definitely none of those things, even though people still try to pretend otherwise, likely for their own benefit.
Those results are governed by page rank.

Google is essentially allowing people and orgs to bypass the ranking algorithm.
Yes - the Associate class training of Lehmans in 2005 had a few speakers that were warning of an oncoming crisis. And the folk on the mortgage desks had early view of the problems that were becoming unmanageable.
I was curious about the details, so I looked up The Economist's 2018 annual report. They get 17% of revenue from advertisements, while 60% of revenue comes from subscriptions. Their operating profit is 13% of revenue.
I don't understand it.

For example this project:

https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/h-spiers/where-are-my-bo...

It looks interesting. People making dots on the image of a human, where they expect certain body parts to be.

But where is the data that is generated? Can I download it? If I put in my time to add to the dataset, I would expect that I can also download the result?
Oh I see it. Mods? If you could update to the original article instead of Facebook click bait it would help drain the irony. :)
It's somehow funny how all these abuses are occurring in an industry that had rules put in place to prevent exactly that from happening. Same goes for hotels.

Sure maybe the rules need updating but using a loop hole to just completely ignore all of them and the having its users complain about 'unfair business practices' is just mind boggling.

Uber is becoming the mob 2.0
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The biggest difference is that Andrew's teaching style tends to be more bottom-up and math-first, whereas mine is top-down and code-first. They both should give you a thorough foundation if you complete the course. Why not watch the first lesson of each and see which presentation suits you best?

Sometimes I'll assume some understanding of basic linear algebra or probability distributions when explaining why something works. Particularly for the naive Bayes section.

The first half of the course assumes only high school math. If you get to a bit where I mention some math you're less confident of, just search for that term on Khan Academy for a lesson. Or just skip that explanation in the course - it won't stop you from being able to apply the concepts even if you don't always follow the math.
Amen to that. And it's not just cab drivers.

Their culture explains a lot about the state of things in the city/state.
Don’t worry, affiliate marketing folks won’t be offended. They typically have a skewed moral compass. Source: was an affiliate marketer.
Same happened to me with Lyft in the US once. It's not out of the question that this was a genuine oversight on the part of the driver in my case.
The longer you wait, the harder it is. & you don't want to block a release on dependencies. So unless you're not doing development on the application every week, it's simple enough to update every Monday while getting over the fact that the weekend wasn't long enough
Loving how they list Pentium II as a minimum requirement. I still have an old netbook with Intel Atom that I use when travelling to certain parts of the world and while it is clocked at 1.6 GHz and has 2 GB of RAM many of the modern Linux desktops are extremely sluggish.
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You can shop there without being aware it exists.
I'm currently using Inbox which is fast and clutterless. It will go away in a few months and I have to use a worst Gmail than I switched from.
Honest question: what do you mean by "communists who run US campuses these days"? Is this about bureaucracy, or particular leftist views being upheld, or something else entirely?
-O3 isn't always strictly faster than -O2. There are different tradeoffs made about memory usage and binary size which interact with CPU caches in interesting ways.

I can't speak for the author but at my work we found -O2 to give better results on our OpenGL ES rendering engine.
Haha, this is the first time I didn't immediately detect sarcasm.

A series C vp of sales definitely has 0 risk in their career.

A seed-round founder has maybe a little risk, but their network is so strong that they'll probably land just fine :)

For the median worker, Mcdonald's is looking pretty good.
I currently live in Manchester and your comment is insightful, thanks.

As far as I have read in other articles, spice is also way cheaper than weed, maybe this has been a contributing factor as well. The sight of comatose homeless people in Manchester's city center is part of the scenery and extremely sad.

Also, Piccadilly Gardens is still 'the place' where drugs are sold, at least as far as I know. I got asked more than once if I 'want anything' by shady-looking individuals. The smell is still there, both in Piccadilly and, generally, in Manchester. As a personal anecdote, excluding the areas right next to coffeeshops, you can smell weed more often in Manchester than in Amsterdam.
I'm sure it can get much worse once the whole world's monetary fate is under the auspices of centralized monetary unions.

Without the influence of competitive forces, the Fed will remain.

When competitive forces necessitated 'survival of the fittest,' congress took over control of the money supply. This was demanded of the US government during the Civil War when there was an actual threat of: 'we will die if we don't act in the best interests of The Union.'

Perhaps the only thing more exasperating than the Fed's transfer of wealth from money holders to the Wall St economy (and minimally, the US govt) is the weasly arguments used to justify it: "Creating 4 trillion dollars and helicoptering it to Wall St is fine because inflation didn't rise, so therefore the money was free thanks to our clever understanding of economics." In other words, due to magic, the Fed creates value out of thin air... Oh but they can only share it with Wall St because otherwise they will crash the US economy.
You should make a website like www.istoiletpapercounterfeit.com and update it regularly.

Then we know when the shit has hit the fan in Amazon.
People aren't like resources to be harvested: they are 'ends in themselves', i.e. with their own lives and perspectives. Also, unlike an extractable resource, their goodness is variegated.
No. You own your data stored at Facebook. Facebook just have license to use "as they wish" while respecting your privacy settings (i.e. uploading facebook.tax.xz is definitely not according to privacy settings of most people).

At least that written and TOS or so.
About 8 months. Unexciting speed compared to diets, but I'm not on any diet and I eat whatever I like. It's not going to come back on. I expect to lose the same amount again in the next 8 months or so.

No idea about body temperature, sorry.
No, you fail to understand a light cones end at finite points. If I travel 1 light year, then I observe a different light cone and it takes 1 year for somone that stayed behind to receive information from me. This effectively means you can see something before the light cone at your current location would observe it.

If you consider a light cone as all points out to infinity then that’s the entire universe. Instead at each point in time you have a different light cone that extends to the age of the universe.

In theory we can never see past a second limit based on the expansion of the universe, but that’s yet to be observed speculation without any consistent theory of what’s going on.
Moving to UK for a PhD
I wouldn't call it a cognitive enhancer. It enhances some processes while inhibiting others. Cannabis can help people make breakthroughs in certain things like yoga and music. It really puts you in touch with your feelings, both bodily and emotional. There's a reason it's insanely popular with hindu mystics and musicians...
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needs to have a much higher information density on the page. Bookmark sites, rather like HN are all about covering the greatest number of the highest quality of information updates in the smallest amount of time taken to read ("scan")
Those four hours would be spent driving for customers on other networks, or for cash.

I can't imagine that Uber did not have a solution for this all these years since we seem to only be seeing reports now. But I could easily imagine stuff like that getting lost over time when there is sufficient turnaround in the department of "moving fast and breaking things". If there even are people who have the explicit responsibility of making sure that the company's basic business formula is kept intact, they will be the ridiculed naysayers in an environment of yes-men.
From what I've read in the release notes, Haiku uses GCC version 2 for ABI compatibility reasons. Can anyone elaborate on whether this is the case, or whether modern GCC can be/has been modified for the OS to maintain binary compatibility. Also, what is lost in this case?
idk, you can fake the GPS to show you on another location very easily, but to scam a drive, as in following a road at some speed you would need a custom application that can do that.
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The problem with shorting is that everything they’re doing is driving towards higher revenue. Any negative effects of their actions could be measured in years, not months or quarters.

The other issue is that more than anyone, Facebook very shrewdly mitigated their competition by M&A; where would users go?
Hardening macOS
Blocking cookies works for reading the economist.
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Just out of curiosity but have you tried Chat Secure?

https://chatsecure.org/
It's amazing to me that people insist their personal experience with drugs will apply to the entire population - even to people with genetic disposition to addiction combined with poorly treated mental illness who are living on the streets.
You're keeping a Windows NT alive?!
That's what they call 'disruption'.
Ah yes... Mapping space bar to "^Mformat c: /q /y^M". Those were the days...
Brazil is becoming a parody of itself
I'm pretty sure .EXE was supported from the first release.
What do you mean by weird?
You may not have noticed. I bought an Apple headset that fell apart after 3 months. Now either their headsets are just bad or it was a counterfeit. I don't know but I suspect it was counterfeit.
Up until about 10 years ago the ordering system at all the Domino's pizza stores was running either on a DOS or a Win95 machine in a dos window. They manage to patch it to the point it could take internet orders over, what I think was, a virtual modem controlled by a helper windows program.
30bucks lifetime value for one user plus all their trusted friends is not a sustainable business.
> It’s kind of weird to charge money for a security service. Instead of me giving $20 (and much more later on) to the malware authors by letting them steal my credit card numbers & personal information, I’m paying you $20 to remove the malware and their authors get $0. At least when malware protection is free, nobody makes money. But charging for malware protection is stealing from the malware authors and I’m not sure how I feel about that...

Fixed that for you!
That's the real problem. You can't even know for sure whether you have a counterfeit. They may even be real Eneloops that failed quality testing.
> In London, I got asked 4 times a day!

lived in London for more than a year, I got asked maybe 10 times in that entire time. They are often polite and never aggressive.
The Economist has been editorially pro-legalization of cannabis for a long time so any propagandizing agenda you think you're "sensing" just isn't there; in fact their agenda is literally the complete opposite of what you "sensed".

They pretty obviously used "cannabis" here because these products were designed + marketed as legal cannabis replacements or alternatives. They're called "synthetic cannabinoids" for a reason. I hardly think that using "cannabis" as a comparison to "synthetic cannabinoids" is "twisting things", or using "foul language", either.
The tags don't seem to work.
I don't believe this will make much difference. I think the platform had already been in decline for at least the past year, because IG seems to be moving away from what made it compelling in the first place.

I don't know what algorithmic changes they've made, but my experience is far less "organic" content from real people, and far more exposure given to the local IG celebrities, low-quality meme stuff optimised for engagement, and impersonal marketing stuff.

It used to be about people. I don't think it is anymore.
It sounds bad but it's actually good -- competition is causing inprovement. Rome wasn't built in a day.
> real honest news just don’t get as many clicks.

Both the number clicks and their "velocity" are an important metrics, though velocity is even more important. You don't want a lot of clicks spread out within 2 weeks, you want a story that is a hit within a single day. That's why editors double down on sensationalism and click-bait. The mindset is one can always correct a story a week after. What matters is the immediate viral impact. A huge amount of click fast = more money/engagement.
"Censored Amazon Review of Sandisk Ultra 32GB Micro SDHC Card" 10 days old thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18017676
Google AMP is another way around this particular barrier (on mobile). You need to Google the article title to get the AMP url.
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Amazingly, there's a comment "Posted 28 June 2007 at 12:47 am" to the same effect.