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They destroy lives with their pranks (even if you don't click - never, ever, ever blow an air horn near someone's head) https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/apr/17/a-yout...
> "You can use it with any kind of story" is a bad thing, not a good thing.

And yet that is what every successful RPG does.

Story != Themes.

Setting/cosmology/pantheon/bestiary/etcetera != Story.

D&D is the system, or “game”, with many settings from Planescape to Spelljammer.

The Forgotten Reams is a setting, with many stories from Drizzt Do’Urden to Neverwinter Nights.
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Could these companies to anything _but_ outright deny it?

Silence would be perceived as confirmation, and claiming to not know would be terrifying to their customers. Confirming it would risk their entire supply chain.

Sure, maybe it's not true... but the only move here is to deny it even if it were true. The corporations involved have a massive amount to lose here.
Wouldn't help. The BMC hardware has direct serial access to CPUs and other hardware in the machine. Communication is unencrypted. A hardware modification attack wouldn't touch the firmware at all and could still compromise IPMI functionality.
Didn't expect this comment to come back from being voted down so much! Guess it splits opinion.
It accepts contactless payments over the threshold where a PIN is required, and does in fact prompt for a PIN using an on-screen keypad.
It lines up with a description of an attack from a security conference a few years back.
Quite possibly through IPMI as PAM.
Conway's Life is a mathematical concept.
Actual programs:
1- can have bugs.
2- could have backdoors.

For example, if you have more than 1024 live cells, there could be a buffer overflow that would be seen in the Live universe as a magical doorway from which gliders could come or go.

You could implement a backdoor: a small area where spiners would send a message to an external process, perhaps yourself, and that would influence the rest of the game.

And as the God of your Conway Life, you can add live cells or kill them by the mere touch of your finger on the touch screen! What more do you want?
So you had hard evidence that your manufacturer was vandalising your property? Couldn't you drop them?
Funny how HN is full of people with >120 IQ claiming that IQ doesn't matter. If that's really true, than why is pretty much everyone here in the top 10-15% of the population? Where are all the <100 IQ people here claiming to have successful careers in the tech industry despite their IQ scores? Remember, the average IQ is 100 by definition, so roughly half the general population is <100. What are the odds of this happening by chance if IQ is truly irrelevant?
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I'm not a big Blazor fan, but mono-wasm is cool, and if the Blazor folks would isolate their DOM/JS interop, that would be a good, lightweight starting point for folks to play around with .NET in the browser.
The first one is a complete configuration you could kubectl apply into a cluster that sends traffic to a backend service that may be running across multiple instances on multiple machines.

The second is a configuration fragment that is useless by itself that would send all traffic to a single instance running on localhost.
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> was brought in as a contractor to the same bank to fix issues management had not anticipated

And continue to ignore. This is not a new issue, but the same story repeating over and over. Management purely via cost control is a terrible approach.
As someone that knew how to set up a server before hand I found Heroku a real pain in the arse to use.
Javascript too.
> America is finally admitting, that they too, actively spy on other countries.

The Snowden revelations made that very clear to all years ago, no?
Paranoid mistrust, cancer fears, and fart-driven explosive diarrhea had already winnowed my list of non-sucrose sweeteners down to just erythritol, pure stevia powder, and very small amounts of xylitol.

I'll have to look into lactulose and palatinose.... And it looks like lactulose is out for the diarrhea reason, and isomaltulose--Palatinose is a trademarked name for it--looks practically identical to slow-motion sucrose, including caloric content. It has a lower glycemic index, but is half as sweet as sucrose, so you may end up consuming more calories for the same amount of sweetness.

Erythritol is not good for gut bacteria. It is 90% absorbed before reaching the colon, and excreted mostly intact in urine and feces, and the early absorption is why it doesn't have the diarrheal effect common to most sugar alcohols. Sweeteners that are neither absorbed nor digested draw water out of the digestive tract as they pass. Those that can be fermented by colon bacteria also tend to produce gases, that help push the water out. Xylitol is not fermentable, so the diarrhea you might get won't be quite so bad.

I think I'll stick with a mix of erthyritol and stevia, with proportions titrated such that equal-volume measures of erythritol/stevia and sucrose crystals have roughly equivalent sweetness. The flavor profile isn't quite right, but it's good enough for me until something better comes along.

(edit) I'll also add that it seems to work best in foods where other flavors can dominate. While you can sort of taste it as not being real sugar in lemonade, in sugar-free fudge, all you can taste is the sweetness. But it also forms crystals during cooling, and I haven't quite worked that out yet. Gritty/crunchy fudge is not exactly ideal.
I don't think it's like in D&D, because I could imagine these people to be highly successful.

I think the environment they grew up in is the problem.

People they had around them just handled them badly because of their intelligence. Sometimes because of envy, sometimes because of high-intelligence leads to being bored with most stuff rather quickly. If people around you think you are bored with everything they wanna do, they think you're a hater and don't want to be around you or even haze you in one way or another.
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I think it's quite a leap to turn "Google is the customisable, but admittedly default, search provider when performing searches in safari when not in private browsing mode" into "Apple is selling data that Apples customers gave Apple". The latter to me would imply that Apple were giving Google access to my photos, icloud documents etc.
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I've been thinking recently about giving programming lessons in the same way that people give private piano lessons. I was thinking about working with older kids (12+ feels right, but I'm not really sure at what point kids can start really grasping programming) and adults who want to learn. But I don't know what I don't know. My guess is that I should probably have a passing background check handy if I'm working with kids - where do people go for that (there are lots of results on google)? What kind of subject matter do people want to learn (in your experience)? What do I not know that you think I should know?
The human brain isn’t a “computer”, it’s way more complicated and can’t be described in terms of inventions it has created.
Probably it just goes through as a card not present (CNP) transaction?
Yeah. When Reddit introduced /r/all filters, I started exclusively browsing it using /r/all but filtering all the trash subreddits. There's a lot of frontpage trash to get rid of, but once it's gone, it leads to pretty good discovery.

That filter is inexplicably gone in the new version, even though it's a feature that's less than 2 years old ...

The subreddits still get filtered, so I go on old.r to add new entries (I'm up to over a hundred). If this goes away, I'll just stop regular visits. Not worth the hassle.
Depression is a hell of a drug. Add in constant doom and gloom from every corner of society (why live to be 120 if it's all downhill from here?), a bit of apathy, and a dash of hedonism (with unlimited distractions-you can have endless entertainment without leaving the house) and you've got a potent cocktail.

I'm not sure most humans are built to overcome these hurdles, and they're just becoming larger as time goes on.
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I think the main issue is when they just completely revamped digg in a way that destroyed the community driven nature of the website - they tried to "personalize the front page to each user" or something like that. But people didn't want a personalized news feed, they just wanted the community, which the updates really screwed up.

I think I logged into the "new digg" 3 or 4 times before completely abandoning it for reddit, and never looking back - this was as a daily user of several years at the time.

I really dislike the "new reddit" as well - if they hadn't kept the option to use their old site, I would have stopped using reddit too.
I suppose something like an i7 or Ryzen would be mostly idle running a similar load, and would consume a comparable amount of power, plus a lot of power to keep its hi-perf features, like huge caches and other, idling cores, up and ready to take load any nanosecond it arrives.

Phone SoCs specifically address that by having 2+ CPUs of varied power, and having the high-power CPUs completely shut down and powered off when idle.

Same applies to GPU cores that eat significant power when idle, and a lot of power when fully loaded. A PC with a 600W PSU likely features a large GPU that can consume e.g. 300W under full load, doing 60fps photorealistic rendering, or training a neural network. Phones just don't have this kind of hardware (they have much smaller ans less complex GPUs), and, again, manage to keep them powered down when not in use.

Again, a PC drawing 50W or less while doing light office work is a pretty normal thing.
I guess in the subreddits I visit, the prospect of vote manipulation doesn’t really matter because the content is evidently good.

The shared subreddits are indeed trash. I wonder if banning commonly astroturfed topics would help and directing people to moderated subreddits for that content. As a long time redditor (since 2007 or so), the identity has been decohering (or transforming) since the beginning and at this point I don’t see much of value left to lose. The culture centers around memes (I don’t mean this in a pejorative sense), not shared values or interests.

A common joke used to be: reddit’s been going downhill since they added comments. Now I doubt most remember at one point it lacked them. At this point I just view comments bemoanings its fresh demise as reactionary: reddit’s not going anywhere, and you can’t change its direction at all. It’s just not easy accepting the direction it is going.
You might be right, I was inferring that the 16 packets was for human levels, but after reading it over again I am not sure that is the case.
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This page appears to have been written in summer of 2016. Back then RISC-V didn't even have a stable privileged instruction set yet, so there wasn't really a RISC-V to compare it to in a meaningful sense.
I'm guessing it was an Accenture project based on the outtakes.

That's what Accenture does: armies of cheap people for huge contracts. Flip a coin on the outcome. Not that IBM or any of the other top-level consultancies/services behemoths are any good, but Andersen Consulting/Accenture basically invented that approach.
We chose Rust with very open eyes. It's a very good fit for our scenario.

We needed to make a single implementation of this, as it had to behave precisely the same within an API, and within multiple products in different languages elsewhere... whilst being very fast and safe.

Rust is a really good choice for this, and thanks for writing the book that is on my desk.
By this rhetoric, a lack of obesity and obesity-related illness in a population indicates that the population has consciously decided to be healthier, eat healthier, exercise more, and work less. In short, they are morally superior entities with stronger wills.

Since obesity and obesity-related illnesses spiked in America in the 1970s, and the rhetoric here implies that such illnesses are primarily about conscious choice and will, the conclusion is that humans in america before 1970 were stronger people- in will, mind, body. They were a more disciplined, moral people, who had the will to resist all unhealthy and processed foods, sleep properly, and work reasonable hours doing active labor.

I find that quite confusing, because I don't recall that ever being the case.
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"Untapped" I see what you did there.
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Presumably it depends on the modulus used? I think the article is assuming a modulus of 2^n-1.

As the article says, Adler-32 is a specialization of Fletcher-32 that specifies a modulus of 65521 - that would seem to avoid this limitation.
Without any deliberate or conscious effort MacOS has become my primary operating system. I only use Windows for software development.
I agree re how indoor farming starts with losing efficiency. But imagine if this is Iceland or on a cruise ship. At a location where a natural disaster has struck. Or in the Middle East. Or in the middle of a drought. Innovating in ideal situations has its pros and cons. Pros...it can be done without pressure of impending threat to growing. Cons...the tech may not be transferable to places that really need them. Which other third world country has uninterrupted power supply or internet connectivity for uploading to cloud etc. but it’s a start before creating the eco system. This will be a long and painful journey, it seems to me...

But you are also right. The equipment needs to operate in freezing cold or dusty environments or humidity. Indoor growing inside hoophouses or greenhouses and glasshouses are a lot more effective.

I agree. Pest issue is the Achilles Heel and weapon of wholesale complete destruction of harvest. They are trying to combat it with more technology. I want to say that I am really impressed by how Indoor Ag has evolved over the years. It’s not perfect but way better than how it was ten years ago.
I'm not totally buying the Phabricator way, but yes, it would be so nice to be able to individually greenlight individual commits in a pull request, and when reviewing, be able to a: see all commits on top of each other on the same page without mixing their changes and b: be able to comment on commit messages.
Well, IPMI isn't supposed to be exposed to the internet. Best practices have you running your BMC's on a completely separate, highly locked down administrative network.
This sounds beyond complex to manufacture. Especially at Fortune 500 levels.

DIY? Well its going to be larger, hotter, more failures, and probably more expensive.

There is a reason companies specialize.
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According to research from 1985 Xylitol has to been shown to shift the gut microbiome population from gram negative to gram positive bacteria. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/4076932
I wasn't saying that the rudeness leads to and justifies officers acting illegally. I'm saying the rudeness leads to officers acting in ways that people tend to complain about (and you hear about).

I certainly wasn't trying to imply that being rude justifies an officer pulling a gun or anything like that.
It’s also incredibly easy to find a tenplate or copy common styles etc. At my last company a designer spent ~2 weeks coming up with what amounted to a standard side navbar.... I think designers need to be focusing on clever UI that gives users an intuitive/simple experience rather than what color our buttons should be.
Edit: I meant with free/opensource software and possibly on linux.
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It's just one of the douchey affectations that make The New Yorker such an unpleasant publication to read.
New technologies face the same risk when unproven. Capitalism has a simple solution to that - people just stop buying them if they turn out to be worse than what was on offer before.

In the future, genetic enhancements will be available in a regulated competitive marketplace, and the ones that have unforseen bad consequences will fall out of favour.
Is Toggl a good enough time tracking tool?
The real fallacy is thinking that it is ONLY one factor and hoping that by isolating that one fact that you can prove and predict all things.

That is foolish in my experience.
Joey on Android is decent.
MacOS might as well be iOS at this point. The two will merge very soon.
I think you've misread me.

My own comment leads off by acknowledging they got a paper accepted into Hypatia --- my gripe is that it's not the lurid farce they suggest they got accepted (a paper demanding that white male students sit on the floor in chains in class) but rather a much more boring paper about the legitimacy of hoaxes like theirs.

When I said "They submit approximately the same paper to multiple journals and are rejected by all but the very most marginal", I was referring to a specific paper (in fact, the Mein Kampf paper), not to all the papers. My point was: they tried that paper in several places, and the (academically) reputable venues rejected them.

Yes, I think --- I'm actually pretty confident --- that I could get a false paper accepted in a CS venue. Economists have already remarked on Twitter that you don't have to get "nonsense" papers accepted yourself, because the literature is already full of what turns out to be nonsense (do keep in mind that in large part what these hoaxers submitted was not nonsense, but rather fabricated research including field work).
I was stating my own opinion in the comment, although I respect yours
If you squash merge you just lost all the small commits that do one thing well that you spent time creating, unless you review them one by one. Bleh.
> Computers don't use very much energy compared to almost everything else in the world.

In other words: There are plenty of things in the world that use an awful lot more energy than computers.

That fact doesn't make computers any more efficient.
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I've found that stevia sweeteners with inulin (not insulin) seen to be beneficial for my gut bacteria. Actually seems to help with "loose days".

Sweetleaf is generally what I use.
It’s a quote from Pirates of the Caribbean, about the character Johnny Depp played:

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I think people just need to learn that the journey is the reward, not the mastery. We in the US are in many ways, over concerned with the perception of success and the outcome of an activity. Starts very early on -- "Winning isn't everything. Its the only thing"
"If there are long-lived technological civilizations in the universe, and if they run computer simulations ..."

This argument strikes me as similar in form to Fermi's Paradox -- and I don't buy that one, either. They both have the form: "If <unproven hypothesis 1> and <unproven hypothesis 2> and ... and <unproven hypothesis N>, then <surprising consequence>!"

In Fermi's case, the consequence is observably false, so people assume that (only?) one of the clauses must be false. In the Simulation case, the consequence is not easily observable, but the premises seem not-completely-outrageous, so people start picking away at it.

The hunch that "the universe is really really big, therefore occurrence X (which I just made up) ought to be happening an awful lot (but we have no way to even make a back-of-the-envelope calculation of how many times)" just doesn't hold water for me. There's plenty of cases where my planet seems really big, but things just don't happen as often as I might predict by looking at one corner of it. If something were happening all the time, it would have been happening all along, and you wouldn't need to come up with the idea just now -- obviously the only ideas left to invent today must not be happening much!

Apply the Fermi Paradox to the Simulation Hypothesis. The universe is only 14B years old, and AFAICT so far, completely void of intelligent life except for us (a very recent development). Isn't "life is exceptionally new and rare" a completely plausible (if boring) solution to both of these questions?
We have never claimed to source from small farms. We source from medium and large scale farms, where most of the 20 billion lbs of food waste happens. Rather than targeting CSA shoppers or farmers market patrons, we target shoppers who are going to supermarkets and buying “perfect” produce at a premium. We are encouraging them to think more about where they get their fruits and vegetables by offering another option so they can save money and reduce waste. We think CSAs are a great option for those that want locally-sourced produce that’s grown at a small-scale and we entirely support that choice if the option is financially available to you.
You can just drop it in a conf.d folder created by the package install and it would work just fine.

Also we're talking simple projects, and simple projects are typically not distributed; typically don't need to be distributed.

That said, supporting multiple backends with different load balancing algorithms is also pretty simple to write as well.
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Blaming the programmers seems misdirected; blame management, if anyone. Programmers rarely get to set the priorities or determine resource allocation.
Thank you! I misread the quote and thought it talked about having a lower IQ than one thinks in both cases. This cleared everything up.
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