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I have been trying (not entirely successfully) to move away from Google for a while now.

Gmail replaced by Fastmail. I used to think Fastmail's interface to be clunky - but no longer. It was never an issue, because you can very easily use any mail client, each with their own 'app password'.

Drawbacks: GMail's filtering it top notch, for both spam and their pre-defined categories (updates, social, etc). I never realized how many rules it saved me until I made the switch.

Browser changed to Firefox for the most part. Still not as battery efficient as I would like, and not as performant as Chrome in some sites (ironically, many of these belong to Google).

Google Cloud is nice, but I only use that at work.

Google maps is... difficult to replace. If I am in an Apple device, I can use that, but it's an inferior replacement.

The Google search engine is still second to none. I have made the switch to DuckDuckGo, but I find myself using !g VERY often.

Some things are just nice to have. The damn Google Cloud Print service works more reliably than trying to print from OSX over wifi. I have no idea why.

My 'breaking point' was not privacy or security. It's just that Google pulls the plug on projects surprisingly often. So I figured a gradual transition would be better. It's a very slow transition indeed...
What about submitting a PR?
Only about half my office got one. Anyone know what that's about?
I can't think of an important message that could go over this channel that would not cause more panic than if it were not sent.

Unless it's some good thing, like "we landed on the moon" or "victory in Europe"

If it's about a natural disaster or threat that affects the whole country, forget about it...
>Imperfect produce has managed to create a market for food that was previously not able to be sold. Good for them.

Like when Robin Hood was introduced to capitalism and started “robbing the hood.” Nothing like taking food from the poor and selling it to the rich, just need that good market...I know tell them they are saving the world by buying this food and otherwise it would be waste.

Think of all these “untapped” markets startups can disrupt like soup kitchens and food stamps. These morons out here giving food away when they are just one round of VC money away from creating new markets.
I think this is a very narrow perspective. The situation around access to food has changed radically over the past 50 years or so, in the US and globally. Over that period, the human population has doubled, while the cost of food has actually dropped significantly. Although access to food in the US is sometimes still a problem, it is nowhere near the problem it was for our grandparents' generation.

Perspective, please.
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> yet benefit from

this seems a bit reductive if not weaseling. google isn't a bystander, they're knowingly and voluntarily aiding a state oppress it's people.
No, it's not ideal, but for my personal lifestyle choices I have no desire to deal with yard maintenance and tasks related to owning a regular single family home, whether in the city limits of Vancouver/Burnaby or in a suburb. I like being very close to the center of downtown and being able to walk most places, or take the Skytrain.

Vancouver is a much more pedestrian and transit friendly city than Seattle or anywhere else in the US outside of Manhattan.

When I compare what $700,000 (USD) buys in the south bay vs what $700,000 converted into Canadian at an exchange rate of 1.29 can buy, Vancouver still comes out way ahead.

Vancouver technology industry salaries are, sadly, significantly lower than Seattle or Bay area, or other large cities in the US (Chicago, Dallas, NY). There's a reason why so many Canadians leave to work in the US.
>apparently "Presidential" alerts will override this setting, so I guess you can't disable it after all

That is my point. Not sure why I'm getting downvoted.
Its an open air prison under daily siege from Israel and the first out of your mouth is hurr durr democracy
It’s only you though... I find them very easy to follow.
> Only one person at my office even got the alert. I'm going to have to call this test of the system a failure.

At my office, I heard a propagation of what I thought were amber alerts rippling up the hallway, and sure enough, my phone got it too, except it wasn't an amber alert.
But it's not trash. It's food that was being used. I don't think most of Imperfect Produce's customers would subscribe if they knew this food was previously being eaten by people in need. Their entire marketing and product concept is based on a lie.
When I ran the numbers for the USA, it was something along the lines of adding a 1m wide strip of normal efficiency PV alongside the entire length of the interstate network. I’ve not looked at the size of any other highway system relative to population density but I do know that Denmark gets less sunlight than the USA average.

Like I said in my original comment: I’m optimistic, I just don’t think it’s trivial.

To put it another way, I think it’s something that requires a government rather than being achievable purely with the private sector. That might mean just incentives and template plans, or it might require government to commission things, but it’s that sort of scale.
"Presidential Alerts" don't actually originate from the President. They come from FEMA, which selects one of several pre-written messages that fits the current situation, customizes the text as necessary, and sends it out to the phone carriers. One FEMA official has to actually write the message, and then two others have to sign off on the wording before it can go out.

So, no, you're not going to be getting mandatory Trump tweets on your phone.
For context: I was extremely lucky to get to work with Caleb back in 2012-13. He introduced me to Go and my life has never been the same :D

Properly hosting custom apps on the web in a resilient way isn't easy. This being the case, it seems an error to interpret the thoroughness of the article as a signal that the proposed solution or situation is unreasonably complex.

I'll take detailed and exhaustive over sparse and hand-wavy any day!

Kubernetes certainly has a learning curve, just like most worthwhile things in life.
As others have stated below, in this context you have bare metal and you have the cloud. You could also add in virtul machines, which run either on premise or in the cloud.

Thousands of physical servers our company manages that aren't rented, but owned by us. Does that help?
Gross. Now I can't avoid the clickbait titles that find their way into the top thirty.

Emojis, meme images, political garbage, flat design icons, code fragments from frameworks and languages I don't care about. I'm not reading that Johnny Depp post, and you can't make me.

All of the horrible cruft that I constantly skip and wait out, until they finally die.
THIS.

I've got good LTE signal in my neighborhood, and managed to convince AT&T's retention team to grant me 50GB/mo (whether or not I choose to tether my laptop, none of this "unlimited with tiny cap for hotspot usage" nonsense) ... I digress. I tend to turn my phone's wifi OFF, even when nominally in range of a trusted AP, to ensure a reliable connection. I'll take a steady 4-5 MBps over fragile and on-again/off-again 60MB anytime.
You couldn't opt out of the Emergency Broadcast System alerts on TV either, did they scare you?
"Our code is self-documenting. If you need documentation then the code isn't written well enough"

-Assholes who don't know what it is like to work with mature code bases.
Is this because Softbank, a japanese group is invested in Cruise?
I used Imperfect Produce for several months and I wonder how much of it was actually 'imperfect.' Most of it was labeled 'surplus,' as the imperfection, and came in looking identical to the grocery store.

I ended up cancelling my subscription after I did the math and it was slightly more expensive than going to the grocery store, and their selection was narrow and seemed to rotate between the same items. Also almost none of it was local to my region--just like a normal grocery store supply chain.
I accidentally swiped it on the iPhone lock screen and now it's gone. I don't see it in my notifications. Is there a way to find it?
AC only supports 5gz, which has significantly worse range and is impacted much more by walls or other solid objects. But if there aren't a problem it's generally better
Sure let me add an extension to my browser so you can basically read all my pages’ content.
If it's a fully-owned subsidiary you could draft a contract of licensing in exchange for a token $1 or something like that. (Or is there regulatory oversight?)
Yes, they found a way to give profit to farmers while still operating as a for-profit.

By reducing stuff that is not valuable to the farmer at all they are evil?

Food assistance programs take food that is otherwise unsaleable. Making more stuff saleable is how technology works. Considering we have a bustling market in recyclables, is that bad?
…why would you name this after a domestic abuser?
That's a very fair point - often those words are interchanged but they are actually different. My analogy was accidentally describing a role model. The mayor analogy is better, but the US President is not actually a leader of any other country, so I'm not sure that one is totally analogous either. Maybe at best the president leads by example, or is a role model, but not actually a leader (from my very limited understanding of world politics :P).
Having spoken to one of them in person about all their posts being disappeared from Facebook.

The only action that they can think of for "violation of their terms of service" they know of is having posts critical of government claims regarding foreign policy, and it's pretty much the same time Facebook announced they were getting tough on bots and blocking bot accounts.

They're better connected than me and know others who have had this happen to them at the same time too.
You're not the only one wondering this, and there's a related lawsuit (on first amendment grounds).

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/10/01/trump-presidential...
> I guess some folks weren't watching the news and didn't get word before hand.

How would have knowing about it changed anything if you can't opt out?
The next question would be whether it requires DEP, or could be done with open-source MicroMDM or the $20 macOS Server app.
>Which would force part of the population to buy a truck and commute with it.

I think this is a symptom of a larger problem and despite the fact that people have this issue as of now should not strongly colour our perception of what's possible.

If you're commuting more than 2hrs to work by car then not only are you wasting a large percentage of your own life, but you're also harming the environment. It should not be a "given" that it's A) normal, B) done by a large portion of the population, C) hampering the endeavours to adopt vehicles that allow for a more sustainable energy acquisition.

Losing the ability to do a road trip? yeah, I buy that as a concern. But if you're one of the people affected by the range limitations of current EV's for commuting (one-way) then I have nothing but pity for you and I sincerely hope you either enjoy it or that your life improves (not being condescending, I really hope it gets better for you)
> The source package has to be packaged by someone

Same with buildpack-packager.

But I get the idea. Thanks for explaining!
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I fail to understand your reasoning. There is no free movement or freedom at all in Gaza thanks to Israeli siege and daily bombardments. There can be no sovereignty under these conditions. The antecedent of a previous election doesn't just suddenly cancel out the precedent or current situation.
Capitalism gets away with another crime. Pretty funny that importing cheap rocks from China could/will cost us tens of billions of dollars, yet there is still no questioning of whether we should continue to import cheap rocks from China. Can't live without those Chinese rocks!

Seems pretty logical to me to put a negative externality tax on these types of imports to cover our losses, but the idea isn't even floated. What am I missing?
Commoditization of self-driving tech, yes; I don’t think car manufacturers will become (more) redundant, but eventually everybody‘s autonomous driving systems will either be hard to distinguish (like gasoline motor tech), or even completely regulated by legislation. Can legislators really allow that cars drive around with a system that is inferior to a competitor‘s? This will put eg every pedestrian‘s live at risk.

I‘m pretty sure self-driving tech will not be a big differentiator, just like airbags - almost every car has them, they are a given.
A company is a company, not a family. It's about making money, not about relationships. For better or worse, it's never really personal.
OIDC tied to a LDAP directory is generally how you setup authentication for larger numbers of users. It really isn't that hard and has a dozen or so solutions with sensible config and operational footprints.

Here is an example of how to do this (OIDC). Notice the short and concise documentation on how to set this up. It isn't too bad at all if you're running your own apiserver already:

https://github.com/heptiolabs/gangway
That's a cool example. I totally agree with your underlying premise. It's about playing the long game, and working to build a life enriching enough that it's worthwhile in the face of suffering, rather than playing short games that attempt to weasel away from the places suffering might be.

One of the most interesting things to me in the past few years is that this core idea seems to exist in hundreds of different places and forms, and every culture and person has a slightly different set of abstractions for it. But there's an awesome universality to it.

A lot of times the people I know who live by the bible and the people I know who live by stoic principles are building roads to the same place, each thinking they're on a journey that only their path can provide.
I guess some folks weren't watching the news

Some folks tend to do that at work, yes.
Are you sure? There are cars that are that efficient, but as an average? In real life?
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> An engineer friend spends all his spare time tweaking an electric motorcycle. There's a lot to control in software

While an electric motorcycle might have a fairly simple ECU, something like my Mustang is a bit more complex. While software and hardware to modify the ECU coding yourself is available, as well as the training for it, most in the community highly advise against DIY and paying a pro (which most of us do) to do it for you. $200 to let someone who "knows" what their doing vs 1 wrong value and you blow a rod or crack the block...

> Maybe he could ask why you feel so safe with flammable liquids and toxic combustion products.

It would probably turn into the same discussion I have with friends as to why I'm more comfortable doing electrical work in a house, vs doing plumbing work. I've accepted the risk that if I get electrocuted, it's just me being screwed, vs if I screw up a plumbing solder, I can flood an entire house. With gasoline, I know what precautions to take and avoid an explosion. Vs the voltage / amperage on a tesla style battery pack, yeah, check it with a volt meter and make sure everything is grounded properly - but accidents will still occur.

There are precautions to take on both sides; there's new education on both sides; etc... More than anything, maybe it just falls to nostalgia; working on cars with dad made me work on cars when I got older. I'm not opposed to electric cars - I quite welcome them as a fact - I have a step son who wants to be a diesel engineer mechanic and I told him, may all well find classes for electric motors and get into that / get a head start (hes 15). As dad got me into cars, maybe my step son gets me into electric motors...
Really good whitepaper on WiFi 6 (802.11ax):
https://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/products/collateral/wirele...
Also:
http://www.ni.com/white-paper/53150/en/

Main differences with 802.11ac:

- denser subcarriers (or "tones") spacing; they are spaced by 78.125 kHz instead of 312.5 kHz, for example a 80 MHz channel now allows 980 data subcarriers, up from 234. That's a 4.19× improvement (4× higher density doesn't translate in exactly a 4× improvement because 11ac had a bit more "pilot" or "null" subcarriers not used for data.)

- new 1024QAM mode (encodes 10 bits per symbol, up from 8 bits with 256QAM). That's a 1.25× improvement.

- downside is that the symbol length had to be increased from 3.2 µs to 12.8 µs, and the symbol interval too from 0.4 µs to 0.8 µs. That's a 3.78× reduction in efficiency.

So the maximum data rate for a single stream on a 80 MHz channel increased by 4.19×1.25/3.78 = 1.39× between WiFi 5 and WiFi 6 (you can confirm it with published max data rate: 802.11ac = 433 Mbit/s, 802.11ax = 600 Mbit/s; and 600/433 = 1.39).

But the best feature of WiFi 6 is that different subcarriers can be concurrently used by different users, what they dubbed OFDMA (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthogonal_frequency-division_...). This means that during the same 12.8 µs timeslot, even on a small channel like 20 MHz, you can have 9 concurrent users each assigned 26 subcarriers and each transmitting 26 different symbols (total of 234 symbols transmitted concurrently.) Whereas with WiFi 5, all subcarriers of the 20 MHz channel have to be used by the same user.
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>What are you even talking about?

About people seeing the nag popup and following whatever "howto" to disable it they find.

Not less important, people running warez Windows (which, as a simple fact, are a majority outside US and Western Europe) are afraid that the next update will can their hack.

To somebody not computer literate "an update" is just something that makes their computer slow, and reboots it for update just in time before somebody's project deadline :)

People got so conditioned over the years by that, that they download one of countless "update disablers" as a knee jerk reaction to anything resembling update popup now.
What solutions though? Students, especially kids, still need some kick in the butt to actually do the work required to learn. I don't see MOOCs ever accomplishing that unless someone somehow finds a way to make an addictive and legitimately educational computer game that students are REQUIRED to play. Or some medication that helps students focus and absorb information without ruining their brains. I agree MOOCs can deliver superior quality education, but it will be a long time before they are motiviating in their own rights. And a lot of motivation in school comes from being near peers and having human connection with teachers and other supervisors. MOOCs fail that requirement almost by definition.
Seems like wheel-reinvention. There are already many companies providing machinery for large-scale optimized horticultural operations. I used to work with this one:

https://www.visser.eu/

Notice the task-specific machines and the high plant volumes, such as transplanting machines capable of handling 35,000 plants per hour.
I'm not in either field, but I imagine that the issues with remote control are the same issues with full automation. Mostly gripping and locomotion.

I assume it's not very hard (for experts) to build an AI that would push the right buttons at the right times.
> Was it used in any application that actually was covered by any regulation enforcing authentication and authorization to the point that kong could directly determine if an implementation does or does not comply with the regulation?

Yes. Kong Enterprise running on the execution path of in-flight information across distributed and open systems must be audited in the context of enforced regulations, especially banking and healthcare. We do work regularly with our customers to make sure Kong is compliant within their specific use-case and make those audits successful.
Well seeing as being a hobbyist mechanic and a hobbyist electrician aren't even in the same ballpark, it's not hard to see how interest in the internal combustion engine does not transfer.
I still don’t understand the actual point of this, beyond the optics of a vaguely-defined “emergency preparedness.”

Emergencies are inherently local. Even if smartphones had been widespread in 2001 and the presidential alert system had been active on 9/11, what purpose would a nationwide alert have served?
This is accurate. The tech industry is really anemic in Vancouver, to the extent that people consider HootSuite a "big deal" and it's mentioned in the local media as an example of a big, successful company. The total number of employers with >15 staff doing something IT/Networking/Software Development/Internet related is a lot lower in Vancouver.
Important bit: a woman won it. You can imagine how many cocks she had to take to get there. You can see how little merits she has, jeez.
It sounds like the Wi-Fi Alliance doesn't particularly care which one is 1, 2, and 3. They've only strongly defined 4 (n), 5 (ac), and 6 (ax). [1] It also sounds like they don't think enough devices are left in the wild of a, b, g, to worry about branding them.

The best description I've heard for 1-3 was to use roughly the consumer hardware adoption curve which was 1 (b), [briefly] 2 (a), 3 (g).

[1] https://www.wi-fi.org/discover-wi-fi
We're working on it, it's been the top feature request. We didn't want to over promise in the Kickstarter, but we support firmware upgrade, so it'll be easy to add as soon as it's ready.
What aspect of the process requires a non-remote component?

I'm unfamiliar with TripleByte, but it seems like they're matching online candidates with jobs, and that looks something that should be doable online. Other companies in this space are fully online and are recruiting for employers everywhere.
Google's a big business with many divisions and even more people. I don't see why moral consistency is supposed to be expected or of particular interest.
Dunno if it's the same on an iPhone, but on Android it shows up in my texting app
I see nothing wrong with: selling something if a paying market is found for that, instead of giving it away for free.

I do see something wrong with: creating that paying market by lying.

I suspect most of those conscientious people who think they are helping farmers and reducing food waste would not be paying for this produce if they knew that it was being taken away from poor people.
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I have to say the same. Especially when it comes to weight training and running. I've developed some issues with my hip and I suspect it's due to running (badly). Bad weight training pretty much wrecked my upper body. How long did it take you to recover from your torn calf muscle? That sounds intense.
Looks like this isn't great for all of their employees due to removal of existing perks: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/amazon-employees-say-will-mak...
What salaries does TripleByte offer for Sr. Devs in these high cost of living cities?

$200k and above?
Ridiculous, presidential Spam...
> Imperfect produce has managed to create a market for food that was previously not able to be sold.

> Does this mean that we may have to restructure social programs as that food becomes sold rather than donated? Sure might.

Except the former is already happening, while it's highly uncertain whether or not the latter will happen.
And it extends far beyond comments in source code. Don't be that person who people have to run to because he/she keeps everything in their head. It's not job security. Take some time and write things down for your future self and team members.