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Well i love Sqlite and also don't consider myself Christian and i am quite baffled by this. I mean this is some strange place to promote Christianity. It is suprising considering how tech tries to always paint itself as apolitical.

Seriously i can't imagine the uproar and hate if he was a Muslim. Imagine how many tech leads would immediately start figuring out how to completely change their stack and replace sqlite with leveldb.
Oh how I miss the Trinitron. I too had one early on, a 19" model circa 1999/2000ish. It was stellar--mine had the 5 BNC and VGA input, of course I used the VGA too :D
You can deploy WebAssembly to 154 data centers as a part of Cloudflare Workers if you'd like to play with it: https://blog.cloudflare.com/webassembly-on-cloudflare-worker...
Well...I have seen the whole lid, firmly embedded in the ceiling. IDK what the brand was, but apparently the failsafe (a rubbery thing, off-center of the lid) failed to fail-safe in that case.

Looking into RAPEX, I see multiple recalls for this specific issue (pressure buildup leading to uncontrolled blowout); all for brand names that are unfamiliar to me.
The “Tips” feature (Swipe left from home)

I think this is sort of his point. How in the world am I supposed to know to do that?
I like the goal but find it weird that getting back to the great usability of a system over 30 years old now requires a cloud service and round trips to a server. Why can’t I buy a boot ROM for a PC that drops me to a python prompt after a sub-1-second boot up?
Matt Cutts gets the official nod for top spot at USDS
USD is also stable in reference to almost everything else.

Bitcoin isn't.
They always tighten the noose, year by year.

Maybe a little less than some other companies, depending on how the acquisition contracts are written.
Dependency management is the big one, I think.

It’s still pretty easy to run default Python prompt in MacOS (as long as you know what the terminal is). But it gets complex really fast the moment you want to use a cool library. Which is probably a few minutes into your coding tutorial.
Keras implementation of Deeplabv3+
> Maybe we should be drafting our own CoC.

As an octave fan, please don't; at least publicly. Do you really need to push this? Do you have actual harassment cases among your developers that such a "punitive" CoC would help to solve?
The YouTube channel clickspring is building this in their hobby machine shop. Really goes into detail as well as guessing how they would have built it back then. Fantastic channel in general.
Apple seeds contain cyanide - many plants do. Perfectly healthy levels of tannins are in loads of food. DMT is produced in every living animal, alkaloids are present in every potato and tomato.
We know not to eat tomato vines - you're concerned someone noticeably poisoned themselves from milligrams of wood dust inhalation with sweeping associations in mind. Its a flight of fancy.

I believe it is advisable though to avoid breathing much of any kind of dust, wood, graphite, talc, stone.. by avoiding breathing any where possible.
"Google isn't a tech company. They are an advertising company that happens to use tech to deliver their ads."
Every time the people have tried to choose a fate other than deference to the extractive industry, they are overruled.

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-oakland-port-coal-2018...
The covenant of civility was already broken by those who hold those religious beliefs. They have attempted, repeatedly, to remove a woman's right to control her own body, and to use the force of government to interfere with attempts to exercise that bodily autonomy. That, to me, is the infinitely more uncivil act. That is the incivility that society should be seeking to correct, not the microscopic incivility of calling someone a mean name.
Would you consider USD also subject to a Keynesian Beauty Contest?
I'm in total agreement. Its not an easy problem to solve, and abusers will try to take advantage of the framework no matter what. My expectation though, is that this won't have the intended effect and won't be any better (and likely worse in a number of ways) that "conventional" CoCs which, despite the hate they get, appear to be one of the best solutions we have to this problem.
When you sit in meetings and hear the social media and sales people spit their numbers, and it defies all forms reality...

Well, they look good to the company and the bosses eat up the voodoo science they are preaching.

I've yet to ever see true ROI or accurate numbers of any kind coming out of Facebook or Instagram for content or marketing campaigns. Instagram is mostly a bot problem. Facebook has loose impression and view numbers. YouTube hasn't ever been a red flag in my experience, but I've never been involved with any ad work there, just content.
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SO search is horrible. I sometimes use it by acident then wonder wtf am i doing when the desired result doesn't show.
This trend waving away self-direction (implying apathy and outright stupidity) seems wildly elitist and anti-democratic on its face. Yes, most people are stupid about most subjects. So what? That doesn't mean you toss everything to regulation. Either people will be careful about the important aspects of their life and their neighbor's life or they won't flourish. It's ok that people aren't living optimal lives according to someone else and it's ok to be jealous of people who take advantage of others to a degree that they can't comprehend. Advertising is not that profitable. Lots of people work in adtech and do not get rich and even the big boys fall over with the razor thin margins and delicate relationships (who is dumb enough to pay for ads these days? Basically politicians and pharm companies). Google is exceptionally large and good at what it's done, but in the long run everything ends...even Google. I think this is clickbait describing phantom threats in a slow news cycle.
Technology generally does not make them more money. Often technology gets forced on them whether they like it or not because some other farmers adopt it, lowering their costs and thus lowering the price of the already tiny margin crops being produced so they make the same as what they did before. They just get a small one time bump in income before the market adjusts to the new price. And now every farmer has to adopt it just to keep making the same amount of money they were making before, or in some cases to make less than they did before but if they didn't adopt it they would lose money.

Also, the idea of the hard working farmer is totally antiquated in developed countries. Almost all farms are huge monoculture cash croppers. The farmers sit in self-driving tractors looking at porn on their phones all day for a few weeks per year.
Many of the numbers I've seen are more in line with impressions. The app loading and being somewhere in a timeline dramatically inflates their numbers. In reality, I know a lot of people who see little to no gain from Facebook as a platform at this point. Especially for small business.
Well there are many ways to get there, tap the Tips app that is preinstalled on the home screen on a newly setup iOS device. As I said, it also sends a notification shortly after device setup directing you there.
it also broke a couple of safe paste sites for me, that's /r/assholedesign
> Why are people saying "it makes more sense to make it affordable first"?

Because there is a chicken and egg problem with content. If you don't get enough users then no one will make content, if you don't have enough content you won't get users.

I wouldn't be surprised if the content creators are being burned already.
If you can disclose, what kind of security audits do you perform on your server hardware?
Easy to complain about copy/paste functionality, but how else would you implement it?

I agree with most of the criticisms in the article, but copy/paste is just one of those things that is never going to be 100% reflexive or intuitive on a touchscreen.
lizard strike
Tried it out because this looks really useful however it hangs forever. >1hr I let it spin. Not sure exactly what happened.
No one is talking about not working, he was talking about working for a tiny amount compared to what they have already made.
As someone who worked heavily in sales in the telecommunications industry, and having spoken to many customers of all ages. This article is not constructive at all, it's terribly fraught with emotion. The intrusive reminders of WiFi networks? Really, that required an entire paragraph? I can't remember the last time I was interrupted by it, probably because I switched it off on the welcome screen when setting up my device?

Nobody knows that they can swipe up or down on the screen? Tell me where Android shows you this during setup and tell that it's not the same with most devices.

This article should just be "Smartphones are hard to use".

Heck, there are features mentioned in the article that I don't frequently use, that doesn't mean I should nor that Apple has done a bad job at showing me.
"Claudia, you are banned from here."?

Why is that popping up?
Why? Why are people so concerned with "enforcement", which is basically "punishment"?

A code of conduct should be nothing more than a set of guidelines which contributors should aspire to meet. It's not a legal text, and it's not a religious text. We are free participants in projects, not unwilling subjects to be disciplined.

We've gone from projects where one was expected to behave properly, and if not would be politely admonished, and maybe kicked out if this continued over a long period, to this, where the CoC is to be used as a blunt instrument to punish transgressors. It's not an improvement, and I dislike the assumptions of bad faith and requirement for punishment. It's unnecessary, and sets the wrong tone.
Might I ask what do you think would change the behavior of any corporate bad actor effectively yet also preserving the legal cornerstone of the accused being innocent until proven guilty?
A general problem with this genre of claims is that they're pure confirmation bias: you don't notice the people who don't tell you, because they don't tell you.
Response to Timothy May: Crypto is a tool, won't magically democratize our world
Say we were to crash potentially earth-destroying asteroids into the moon and then offer free mining rights to companies on a first-to-get-there basis.

I think we would still hear a a cacophony of moral objections. A spirit of pessimism seems to be hanging over us these days:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lX-K63pVPTM
Well said. That's definitely going on our wall.
Hm.. there must be a way to incorporate purchasing decisions into an art piece that make them very obviously part of copyright for that case..
I doubt Bloomberg is that eager to dig a hole for itself. I wouldn't be surprised if someone with a vendetta was feeding them cooked information and fabricating a lot of very convincing evidence. That's pure speculation, but I just don't belligerent Bloomberg would run such an explosive story unless they were convinced it was true.
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Lots of them do. It sounds like you may live in an urban area. Check out your local farmer's market for a local farm organization. (In Seattle, we have one called Tilth Alliance.) They may publish a guide to all the local farms in your area, and many farmers will respond positively to, "Hey, I'd like to learn about what you do!"

Alternatively, look around your state/province for what agricultural products they produce. In Washington, for example, there are distinct farming areas for wheat, apples, cattle, etc. Go visit those small towns, post up in a coffee shop or local bar and ask the people there. Most small town folk don't mind showing around a few polite strangers from time to time (in my experience.)
The point of WASM is the ability to safely run any untrusted code in a performant way, that includes seamless interfacing with other modules.

https://webassembly.org/docs/security/
Confirmation and truth are not the same here. Confirmation is evidence paralleling expectation.
I use this all the time because it's convenient, but there have always been two things that frustrate me about it:

1) There's no way to scroll the text while moving the cursor by moving it to the end of the last visible line, the way there is with the cursor interface you get by directly touching and holding the text.

2) Sometimes when I'm doing this it will randomly select the word my cursor is over, and I've never figured out exactly what triggers this.
except that: bloomberg is a press outlet, musk isn't, and bloomberg has no responsibility to the shareholders of the companies they covered, whereas musk is CEO.
I'm curious. What are people here using OpenBSD for? In which scenarios would you consider using OpenBSD over Linux?
"Trimester" is a word commonly used in English in relation to the stages of pregnancy.
Mozilla is going to sell VPN subscriptions within Firefox
Counterpoint:

Edibles often take a couple hours or more to take noticeable effect which leads to overconsumption among some consumers. I'd argue that it's actually the most dangerous type of cannabis consumption because it's so easy to overconsume.

(Can't comment on the smell of smoke due to anosmia since birth!)
As a beginner, I have no idea what docker is.

This is one of the most frustrating parts of learning ANY language. The assumed knowledge and supposed "here's a quick start guide" actually starts on step 8.

Don't assume the beginner knows what docker is.

Don't assume the beginner knows what a shell is.

I've tried to learn 3-4 languages or frameworks over the years, and I have only a vague idea of how to move between directories in the command prompt. Nevermind where I should download or extract files.

I've found people's attitude when I tell them this is dismissive. But I sold a business for 6 figures last year that was parimarily automation scripts in PHP. Figure that one out.
Fast forward to the year 2050: "Why is everyone wearing ski boots and ski masks... it's 100 degrees?"
Microplastics found in human stools for the first time
If you replace "in my own garage" to "in my own backyard", then that's the problem I'm working on with my side project: https://automicrofarm.com/

One of the sibling comments has it exactly right: even if you get robots that can do all your gardening tomorrow, they will only marginally reduce the labor. Design in gardening matters, a lot. I wrote more about that recently: https://blog.automicrofarm.com/vertical-farming-and-automati...
I am older, ~40, and my relationship with technology changed over time. I'm no longer eager to learn a new interface as I was when I was younger.

I don't mind learning a new interface or even coming up to speed with an entirely new UI paradigm, if there's something in it for me. But my objection is that as soon as I learn it, someone who is paid to look busy will change it for no reason other than to justify their role in the company hierarchy.

Obvious examples include almost anything from Microsoft ("Metro^H^H^H^H^HWindows 10 is awesome! You just don't like change!") or Google ("We have altered GMail. Pray all you want, we're going to alter it further"), but Apple is far from guiltless.

When that happens, it's hard to escape the feeling that your time is being wasted... and as you suggest, the older you get the bigger a deal that is.
> completely unprovable

Yes, it's challenging to answer with certainty.

Though "easy international travel, world trade, mass media, democracy, etc." were not invented at almost the precise moment that all-out large scale wars ("world wars") on Earth ended.
Colorful analogies aside, many people find it tremendously reassuring (and surprising) just to recognize that these thoughts can be a form of OCD.
my favorite book for patients is this one by Lee Baer, a bit outdated on the science but the clinical discussion is right on:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0452283078
Yahoo! is gone, but until recently it used to be a tech empire of its own, acquiring startups (Flickr, Tumblr, etc.) and inventing technologies (Hadoop, Pipes, YQL). I figured they would belong on a list of big buyer tech companies.
What Is NPC, the Mainstream Media’s New Favorite Far-Right Scapegoat?
Thanks for pointing this out. I don't need to read the opinions of transphobes or boost their content, so you saved me some disappointment later.
I've read on a lot of sites that 3D touch is going away with the next flagship.
"And with that, Linus, I'm handing the kernel tree back to you."

I don't take this yet as an argument that he is back.
That should exist too. Right now doing it in the cloud allows instant sharing and hosting but I hope we can get to a point where we can build something like what you suggest.
Even gay people can be transphobes, sadly.
Sounds right to me. I have two X61s's that I refurbished for my kids (really just swapping in SSDs and a bit more RAM), one has IBM branding and the other has Lenovo branding.
LOL, pass that blunt around, bro.

If you think 4G will be off in 10 years, may I recommend reading about 3G networks and 2G networks...

For reference, the latest 2G shutdown will happen in 2019 starting from 1991.

1G is still existing in Russia currently.
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SMS Verification – Is It Worth It?
Effective code review through principled pragmatism
Anyone know why OpenBSD VMs aren't provisionable by the big cloud companies like AWS or DigitalOcean? I've always found it to be a curious omission given OpenBSDs sterling reputation for security.
These were supposedly targeted attacks. Why would Bloomberg have access to AWS and Apple internally designed boards?
because it's in the title attribute for the page's body element. unless you mean "why would somebody do that to their website," which I don't have an answer for.
Yes, there's a 24/5 FX market where people decide what it's worth in relation to other currencies.
Can you give some specific examples? I’m so thoroughly baked into iOS that I don’t notice these potential issues.
What's perverse about it? Bloomberg decided that the market is a good way to measure impact of their stories. They're business reporters, so that makes sense. The incentive is not directional; it doesn't rely on reporters causing a stock to lose value or gain it.
Overpass Mono
Terrible advice.

You shouldn’t “fall in love” with anything

Everything is always changing. Consumer “problems”, their goals, their constraints.. its all changing, all the time.

Instead, commit yourself to delivering progress to consumers, and adapting to what that entails
The same goes for taking Department of Defense (or your own country's equivalent) money. There is so much research and innovation that just wouldn't have been funded if their principals didn't take money from the military.
So you're a Friedman fan I take it? ducks
I will die with my fucking Toyota Corolla 2005 when it is pried from my fucking hands.
I've read that during the Project Blue Book era, the CIA was worried the Soviets might fuel rumors of UFOs, so that civilian observations of Soviet aircraft would get chalked up to aliens by a gullible public, and reports of unusual activity would be discredited.

I don't have the citation on hand but the declassified PBB files are available on the Internet Archive.
Convert to Tobacco farms to Cannabis farms?
Indeed. Choose away. Of course in the end you choose the one with functioning plumbing.
When the Android phones came on the market, I was extatic. Linux, in my pocket!

However, Android did not live up to my expectations at all. I don’t know what I was hoping for, but Android was not it.

After a while I came to understand that for me personally Android was a bad fit, and everything I had envisioned about running Linux on my phone was ill-adviced. Linux and FreeBSD are my main two operating systems I run on my own computers and servers, and I would not trade them for anything in the world on my main laptop, main desktop and servers. But on phones neither have anything to offer that is of use to me actually.

I don’t really understand what kind of “advanced” things you are referring to not being possible on iOS. Could you expand on that?

I use my iPhone for web browsing, watching videos, making music, playing some games, taking photos, 2nd factor auth, sending and receiving money, SSH client in my pocket, GPS with updated maps, listening to music, writing down notes, setting alarms, keeping track of my schedule, keeping in touch with people, creating PDFs that are indistinguishable from the scan a full size flatbed scanner would give me. The list goes on.

Everything I thought I wanted when I imagined having Linux in my pocket turned out to be a distraction. When I need Linux or FreeBSD, I have my laptop, desktop and servers for that.

Anyway, the point is to say that I don’t identify with the two groups of people you said are their target audience, but I find myself a very happy iPhone user.

But I am not married to Apple, and I am a loyal customer only because of 1. their stance on privacy and security and 2. their product fits me so well.

If they mess up with my trust then they will lose me as a customer. If they make changes to iOS that make using it bothersome, they will lose me as a customer.
There is a serious and well documented basis in neutral american and european media-going back decades.

It reminds me of how so many smart people make decisions based on an anecdotal basis, including American media like NYT.
I implore people to not do that again.

side note: your background is wild. you have been around the block a time or two..I think you have some good stories to tell.
Cool find - storytime!

Back in 2005ish, I worked for the digital agency that built and managed all of Campbells Kitchen's online properties, including the Campbells Kitchen recipe database. It might seem trivial now, but at the time it was at least a few years of its time in terms of using the power of databased driven webapps.

I also personally built the first ever CSS-based layout site for Campbells - it was the marketing site for V8 Juice. Up until that point, everything was still built with tables holding sliced images.

At the same time, the internal computers at Campbells corporate offices ran IE5.5, which had terrible CSS support.

So I literally built two versions of the site - one that would pass muster on their outdated internal computers, and another would drag them into the era of modern layouts and accessibility.

I learned SO MUCH working on those sites.

It looks like the current CK website has been turned into a Wordpress site so I assumed my original work is long gone, but it's very cool to see the legacy of Campbells Kitchen database I worked on kicking as an API.
Linear Types in GHC
I completely agree. Especially with this:

> This rule is strict, and none are able to comply perfectly. Grace is readily granted for minor transgressions.

I'm an atheist. And yet, despite the explicit religious tone, I think this is one of the best codes of conduct I've ever seen. I'd love to see someone write the equivalent document using something less religious, like Aurelius's Meditations as the base.
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This article just has iPhone in the title to get more views

Don't you think it has iPhone in the title since the author is an iPhone user so the article is about iPhones? Every example he gives in the article is specific to an iPhone.

Maybe the article could be generalized to other smartphones, but the author's experience is with iPhones, that's what he wrote about in the article, so it seems appropriate for the title.
I don't think Apple need to hire someone so publicly transphobic. https://blog.fawny.org/category/tranny/
Probably just the amount of support tickets vs revenue. OpenBSD doesn't support Xen PV, for example.

I thought there was an AWS AMI for OpenBSD though.

Vultr does let you boot up and install any ISO, so that's an option. Not a big provider, but...