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> Maybe. I wonder how much of the membership aspect is marketing versus revenue?

In 2016, membership fees accounted for 72% of their operating income. It's definitely not just "marketing" -- it's central to their business model. If they started jacking up the margins on merchandise, people would notice and their memberships would start to drop off.
You can use fuel for station-keeping instead of orbit lifting.
> NSO said the former American intelligence contractor isn’t familiar with the group’s operations and has nothing authoritative to back up his claims.

Mmm love me some hearsay as journalism.
I'm trying to interpret what this means. I think it's saying that a previous result showed that `Marshal.load` on user-supplied input gave an RCE if you were running Rails (basically, see the 3 conditions under "Previous Payloads"), but the new result is that `Marshal.load` is always unsafe, with just the stdlib. Does that sound right to other folks?
“Exploratory talks”
“...due to be discussed”

Good luck! Hope to drive one soon. But talk to me when they’ve pushed the first one off the line.
The Roadster wasn't a "converted ICE vehicle". Only the outer shell was from Lotus. That's a relatively small % of the weight and value of the car.
And when you take it off the test stand, it runs on diesel and the tears of children.
I didn’t do anything special

All I’ve done is kept my skills current, lived in a place where there are a lot of corporations who need developers, learned how to interview well (not leetCode interviews just general interviewing) and kept a warm network.
Don't underestimate the value of stocking the necessary hardware for short, medium and long range communication. Only part of the post-apocalypse equation is continued survival of you and your family. At the next level is, how useful are you to the community of people around you? There is a deficit these days, or you could call it an advantage -- that there are far more people skilled in computer technology, and even simple farming -- than radio.

Practical skill with communication technology also gets you an 'in' with those in charge of things, even if you were a nobody before.

My survival plan involves

- 12v systems from car batteries

- VHF/UHF short range communication
- HF as money permits

- low power FM broadcast station
- simple low current broadcast studio

- legacy PCs and notebook PCs, Linux & Windows 7 (custom mods for better/convective cooling, slower clocks, long
life)

- massive libraries of ebooks, music, audiobooks and old radio shows

- selected paper reference works (now is a great time to buy!)

Note that solar panels do NOT make this list, not in any massive way. It's about available funds and priorities now.
Amazon own the largest public cloud provider (AWS). Assuming they use it on this, it makes sense they'd want a bunch more IP addresses.
ICE was specifically called out and have indeed been caging children - not a straw man. The people doing that neither serve nor protect me and should not have been given that “job to do” in the first place. Making something “a job” doesn’t suddenly make it ok. That’s just an argument from authority - you might want to look that term up.

Law enforcement in the broader sense is a different matter - there’s obviously legitimate use cases. But extreme caution needs to be exercised. Those folks do indeed have a valuable job to do - but within reason and never beyond reproach.

Also I don’t think you know what blackmail is. Now if I had a penny for every conservative boycott of some “liberal” company... I guess those folks are all “extremists”.
Easy. All of them!

Do yourself a favor, go Windows10 pc. Android phone and watch.
A few years ago, I attended my company's happy hours. I was an intern and too young to drink at the time. There was an open bar and more or less everyone was intoxicated. I join a coworker and we start chatting.

Fifteen minutes later, the office manager joins in, interrupting, and starts hitting on me in a pretty blunt way. I enjoy female attention but that was a bit much. I tactfully hint that I'm not interested but she doesn't picks it up so I leave early, a bit salty.

The next morning I arrive to work and see an elevator about to close so I rush to catch it. She was inside! The following three minutes were the most awkward elevator ride in my life. I felt bad for her to be honest, maybe I shouldn't, but it must be so embarrassing when you sober up.
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> This document was mostly written almost a decade ago, and by someone who I think went to a prestigious institution. So the "rules of style" back then aren't what they are today.

What does the second half of the first sentence have to do with the second sentence?
I'll believe it when I see it for sale, and not with a waiting list. Something I can actually write a check for and drive it home.
With a title like that, at least it wasn't an article about "How to Speak English Good"
I'd really appreciate knowing which keyboard you're using!
There's nothing inherently unethical (read: necessarily harmful) about building and selling facial recognition technology.

Nor is there anything inherently unethical (read: necessarily harmful) about manufacturing and selling opiates, narcotics, bombs, or guns.

The issue comes down to where along the product lifecycle you decide to end or limit the responsibility for how the product you build and design is used. And the mental calculations you do to weigh the positives/negatives of the technology you create and sell.

Obviously a manufacturer of bombs knows their product is going to be used to kill. If your code of ethics dictates that murder is bad, the calculation becomes - how "involved/complicit" am I in murder if I build the tools to murder, but don't use the tools myself. If we don't kill the bad guys, they might kill us. And hey, everyone in this society that pays taxes to fund these military and defense programs is complicit. I'm just doing what society needs to protect itself.

With facial recognition technology, if your code of ethics dictates that potential invasion of privacy/government tracking is bad, you would do a similar calculation. These people tracked are already in a database of "bad people" (aren't they? am I and my family in a database? do I have anything to hide?) - and society dictates we need this for our own protection, so what's the problem? If I make enough money selling these systems, I can buy my way to privacy, isn't that the way it should be?

Different people will come to different conclusions...there's no cut and dry answer, and infinite justifications for producing and selling any powerful technology/tool.
Doesn't sound skin deep to me. Why do you think it sounds like that?
The page writes that LMDB "is exceptionally fast for our kinds of load", and then links to an in-memory microbenchmark: http://www.lmdb.tech/bench/inmem/

Aren't they interested in persistence of the key-value data? In my experience, once data is persisted to disk or SSD, LMDB is way slower from alternatives because it needs to operate in synchronous mode to avoid corruption (effectively flushing to disk after after every transaction committed). If operated in the non-default MDB_NOSYNC mode (which is the mode chosen in the above benchmarks), then there is a high probability to be left with an unreadable database file after a crash, thus losing all your data.

It is not fair to compare with other databases in sync mode, since they might operate safe but faster in async mode. For example sqlite with PRAGMA journal_mode=WAL and PRAGMA synchronous=NORMAL can operate in semi-asynchronous mode (fsync()ing sporadically) without fear of corruption in case of crash, because it keeps a WAL journal and is able to properly roll-back after a crash. This should be much faster than LMDB's default-and-safe synchronous mode, that msync()s on every value written.
I hear you -- anxiety and vigilance are related, but not always identical
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So, an important lesson I've realized from the whole scooters thing is that if you have a bunch of inconsiderate idiots in your city, regulation isn't going to fix that problem.

So I'm not surprised you have a totally different view. Your view is going to reflect the values of the people around you. You may be surrounded by polite people.

Take riding on the sidewalks. Any sensible person would understand that operating a vehicle moving 15-20mph on a 3-foot wide sidewalk, in a dense urban area with people coming into/out of buildings, delivery personnel wheeling hand trucks, small children, parents with strollers, people walking cats and dogs, etc is just dumb. Yet, I see kids in Oakland doing this daily, and even though it's codified into the Oakland Municipal Code that this is illegal (motorized vehicles on the sidewalk), people do it anyway.

I got so fed up with this, I (intentionally) veered about 6 inches left walking on the sidewalk last week, causing someone going ~15mph to get knocked off of the scooter. Other times, I just stand in the middle of the sidewalk and play chicken. I weigh 240lbs so it's usually pretty effective.

It is indeed up to the law to legislate what is and isn't allowable behavior. But at the smallest scale, it's neither possible nor desirable to get a cop standing on every block, or surveillance cameras everywhere. You just have to trust people will exercise some level of decency and concern for others, which seems notably absent from day-to-day interaction where I live. You can't change that with laws.
That one has only faded into obscurity in the last 5 years or so. I remember specifically searching for programming related content on Google as late as 2012-2013 and getting Experts Exchange results. I search every single day now for programming related content though and haven't seen an Experts Exchange result in at least the last 3-4 years.
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What I learned this year by setting (and quitting) goals
The mid-range Model 3 is $46,000 before US federal and state tax incentives. "Categorically false" appears to be an exaggeration, but that fits with your overall posting quality.
Google absolutely wants to fix the remote work issue.

But not to the extent of encouraging fully remote work, or even of opening offices in many locations (as they formerly did).
I'm not talking about ICOs. In fact, EtherDelta was one of the few projects that launched without an ICO, and before the ICO craze.
Pardon the ignorance, but I'm curious: why is it important for them (or anybody) to receive inbound traffic, given they offer 1.1.1.1 for free? And also what does it mean "This balance is important in deciding whether their peering is settlement free."?
> even though it's likely a combination of neurologic and psychologic factors

That can't be emphasized enough in this debate. In short: if you arrived at some magical scan or test that indicated the presence, by degree of nerve stimulation of hand-over-a-hot-flame-type pain, and only prescribed painkillers to people over some threshold, you'd still be both excluding people who were personally suffering as much or more as those who made the cut, and including people who did not experience the same discomfort.

The human sensorium has a lot of experiences in common, but also a ton of differences.
Yes! I actually found some answers there back in the day.

The trick was to scroll down all the way to the bottom to see them.
That's not right. It's (((police) police) police), not (police (police (police))).
That doesn't really sound like a cost effective way of doing metrics... The amount of data you license from splunk is likely quite expensive compared to a dedicated metrics system, right?
I'm currently in the middle of applying for graduate programs in [[Computational/Systems/Synthetic/Quantitative Biology]/Bioengineering/Biomedical Engineering/Bioinformatics/Biotechnology] and, after working in related fields for years and having combed through dozens of relevant departments, I couldn't tell you what any of those terms mean relative to another (or rather, for any of those terms, I could show you two important universities that seem to use them very differently.) They all indicate overlapping areas of a very poorly-defined space in between "normal" biology, computer science, and physical engineering (as well as several other fields.)

Pragmatically, for a prospective student, it's a giant pain simply because it's hard to tell what a program bearing one of these names will actually teach you! Some "computational biology" programs will include wet-lab work, others will never let you near a pipette. Some bioengineering programs are almost purely physical-machines engineering; others use the word interchangeably with "bioinformatics." And so on.

But somewhere in that mess is the future of biology, medicine, and probably some other things as well.
This is pretty cool! I'm glad you shared it. I still drop into sed every once in awhile and will keep this around.
There is in fact a middle ground where we help doctors find out if a patient is actually an abuse risk. Providing doctors with better insights into their patients through things like Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs (PDMPs) and easier access to information from law enforcement can allow them to better make judgement calls. Also clearer access to doctors' prescribing data and the patients it relates to can allow states to better understand who to actually investigate as over prescribing as opposed to doctors who just have a disproportionate amount of patients in need of pain management.
I know a lot of deeply technical people that prefer web-based IRC clients.
Are You a Democratic Socialist?
NB: NB works for me.
You're not entirely wrong, but you may also have a similarly limited understanding, having never been completely in thrall to an addiction. I know many recovering addicts who have white-knuckled through recovery-from-surgery (including blunt trauma from a propeller, partial hip replacement, and major oral surgery) in order to preserve their freedom from (what they described as) the intense suffering that failing to continue their recovery-from-addiction would entail.
You don’t need a stack of radios, it’s usually 2 meter and everyone is licensed and operating on the same frequency. There is a net operator managing the traffic, probably with a base station, but it’s their equipment always, it’s purely volunteer.
Topf and Sons made ovens, it was the government that decided what to do with them.

Amazon deserves no cover on this: when the buyer uses your products for evil and you know this it is evil to continue to sell them. If they want to stand up at an all hands and make the argument that what ICE is doing isn't evil fine, that's their privilege, but they can't just wave their hands and say its not their problem. And if they did try to make that argument I'll bet a good portion of those 500,000 employees would be disgusted.
Where on Earth Can You Put a Giant Telescope?
Why is the argument that they must profit off it while legal while also lobbying against it? Why can't they lobby against it and not profit from the erosion of our civil rights?
Nice! Distcc based compilation might be something to try on this. :) One thing I noticed is that heatsink fins are oriented in a wrong direction. Air should be going through the fins, not to the side of them. But I guess any air movement is enough to cool this.
$23k hardly covers the battery, motor and controllers let alone the chassis or anything else, at all. I’d be surprised if this was any good at all. Would have to cut corners everywhere.

Source: I design electric trucks.
> a) If you don't trust the maintainer, the project is already dead.

I feel like this argument doesn't really address the problem that non-delete-able issues helps to address. You may trust a maintainer right up until they do something that causes you to distrust them. This takes away your ability to continuously audit the maintainer and takes away data points which may cause you to suddenly distrust them.
> Aside from the fact that it's a minefield of dark patterns, how did social media get into this discussion?

"Aside from [the thing that makes it relevant to this discussion], how is [x] relevant to this discussion?".
An HP Elite Lapdock and a Note 9 will get you 90% of the setup you want. I have that setup, it doesn't dock into a slot, it hangs on the side with a USB C cable, but the rest is just as you describe.
The first sentence on that page says "We propose the standardization of a simple key-value storage...usable from JS, Java, Rust, Swift, and C++"

I assumed this meant an API callable from webasm/js. Did I miss something?
If someone is constantly touching my shoulder and I'm not sure what it means, how should I react? Should I say something directly to the person? Should I tell my manager? If it is my manager, who could I talk to? If I complain about something that my boss is doing and it turns out to be an innocent misunderstanding, will it affect my performance review? What things are in place in the organisation to ensure that I won't be targeted for complaining about something? What happens if a really senior executive or something does something inappropriate? Does the organisation have enough power to deal with the situation? What should I do about things that only indirectly affect me? For example, my neighbour has a picture of their scantily clad boyfriend on their desk. It makes me uncomfortable. Should I ignore it? Should I say something? Is the fact that nobody has done anything about it before an indication that this is OK as far as the company policy is concerned? If I notice that a group of people are harassing someone else, how should I respond? What if it's always been this way and is part of the current culture? Should I ignore it? What if the seemingly harassed individual doesn't object?

I literally could go on for an hour or so. If your sexual harassment training doesn't answer questions like this, then I highly recommend that you be proactive and get the training fixed. If you think the answers to these questions are obvious, then I think you will be surprised that a lot of people will have different opinions. What's important is know what opinion your company has!

Edit: I should point out, having worked in several different countries before, that these kinds of questions are very culturally charged.
At this stage, no automaker will be able to seriously compete with Tesla without securing 50+ GWh / yr. in battery supply. Tesla’s lead in building such capacity is 3.5 years and counting.

Bidding for for LG’s scraps is not a viable strategy.

VW group has been leading the world in electric vehicle press releases while Tesla has secured control of half the world’s lithium ion battery supply and crushed every “Tesla killer” — Bolt, Volt, Leaf, i3, ELR - and is pulling away from the pack at an ACCELERATING pace.

Time to put up or shut up.
It's worth noting that the impact of epigenetics is almost certainly minor in comparison to plain old genetics.
I would encourage people to support ThriftBooks. Used to compete against them when running KudzuBooks.com. Kudzu went bankrupt shortly after owner sold AcademicBookServices.com (used K-12 books) to Follett's used k-12 division. ThriftBooks has been around since the Kudzu days and have continued to run a tight ship and improve their site with little to no resources. It's good to see them around. Margins in the remainder business are extremely tight and it is difficult to get good remaindered stock with the consolidation of publishing houses and the closing of so many bricks and mortar stores. Remaindered book = book returned to the publisher who puts a black mark somewhere on the loose page ends and resells to bargain market (usually wholesalers) at 5-15% of retail price. They in turn get resold to brick and mortars for bargain book tables or online (should be sold "Like New" but some are sold "New" if the publisher forgot to mark the book).
The title's intended, it's meant to poke fun and be light hearted.
We do. But man getting evidence in this area is hard. Human tendencies towards pleasure (from basic desire for good feelings/self-gratification to utterly destructive addiction) and towards greed (from dealers/cartels to HMOs) are both actively confounding the discovery and codification of good data regarding drug use, benefits, and abuse.
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That is an absurdly stupid argument. Makes sense that a god-awful world-worsening piece of shit like you would make it.

Good people should look at you and know, instantly, that they're on the wrong side of history if they agree with you for even a half a second.
I have no idea new cars were that expensive in Europe.

I mean, salaries there are not like in the US, 40k€/y (net) is already a good salary, even for a developer. So you have to take a 5 years loan to buy a new car? 10 years if you have a low salary?
To expand upon the previous answer. Connection pools are still a problem.

Even if your lambda drops a connection after it destroys itself, a sudden influx of visitors to your site may spawn enough lambda processes to overload your DB.

What happens then is dependent on the database, but generally means that new lambdas do not get to connect.

Anyhow, you don’t really want your database to magically more around regardless, so you’d be sort-of locked in to one service regardless of what you do.

But postgres on one service is pretty much the same as on another, so if you wanted to migrate it would be fairly easy.
And GE sells another valuable asset. (Previously: appliances to Haier, property portfolio to Wells Fargo)
Ah, found my error:

"Not-yet or never goals for this proposal are:

Standardization via a standards body as a web API."

So this is "internal" stuff I guess.
Are they better than nothing, which is what was there before?
LMDB is awesome, can't tell how many times I've wished to have access to it from the browser...
>2. The customer service issues at Telstra are incredibly deep and complex. It's a 40+ year old company where some of the processes still rely on dot matrix printers and faxes and there are thousands of IT systems.

The fact that top management has allowed this mess to go on for so long says to me they decided to keep customer service bad because they could make more money that way.
What about the civil rights of American citizens who don't want their votes and social services diluted by illegal immigrants unlawfully entering into the country?

No, illegal immigrants voting directly is not what I mean. But their children vote.

Just so happens the fastest demographic growth especially in the lower border states is the same as those which are immigrating illegally. They vote 70% for liberal policies and politicians. Is this fair to American citizens who may ideologically oppose these voters but can't illegally import their own votes to keep pace?
Lol honestly are you trolling?

Tesla has 50% of the EV market share and is by far the leader in tech. I would love to see anything even close to the specs of the new roadster. Or honestly if any company has any plans for anything as good as the Model S that would be great.

And wouldn't 3 years away give Tesla a multi-year advantage, as claimed?
There are lots but most of what abebooks has are international editions.

You can buy some otherwise insanely expensive computer books for < $10 because they're Bangladesh editions.
I don't think it makes sense to say that "police" is an adjective in the same sense that "happy" is an adjective. Otherwise all nouns are also adjectives. _Any_ noun in English can be placed in front of another noun to serve as an attribute, because that is a feature of English syntax, but that is different from the distinction between nouns and adjectives as classes of words. The decision to use the word "adjective" both for the part of speech and for the syntactical role is a mistake.
Welcome to world of political correctness. Also is minority of employees claim anyone eating meat hurt their feelings companies could reasonably ban meat in office meals claiming it is creating non-welcoming workplace.