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After you get past the clickbaity headline, it doesn't seem THAT controversial.

The tax "would be billed as a flat surcharge per customer — one of those irksome fees at the bottom of your wireless bill — not a fee per text".

It would "help support programs that make phone service accessible to the poor".
Or just catch an illegal instruction trap and move the thread to a big core if it's on a little core.
If you read the actual thing instead of this stupid clickbait article the idea is to tax revenue from text messages in a similar manner to taxing revenue from phone service, so if you think taxing phone service isn't horrific then neither is this. The article is just super confused as it is like "this will probably be a flat tax, not per message" as if that is up in the air: it is a tax on revenue, so how it would seem in the end to a user would be related to how the user was being billed (per message or a flat rate for unlimited messages). Honestly, cell carriers are probably making tons of profit off of text messaging in specific that they don't deserve to make and it isn't clear to me they can pass more cost like this to a consumer as I bet they have already optimized for "what is the most we can charge", so I would be surprised if this even gets passed on to consumers at all.
Read/heard and thoroughly enjoyed all of those except Binti which is new to me. Wishlisted, thanks!
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My thoughts exactly. This will push everyone to use WhatsApp or other 3rd-party tools. An unintended consequence of this would be less SMS spying by government agencies.
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I use emacs python-mode for this. It's more or less a wrapper around the REPL you'd get by typing "python" at a command line, but with some integration to support sending updated function definitions, tab completion, etc.
> In today’s decision, we determine in principle that the Commission should assess Public Purpose Program surcharges and user fees on all text messaging services revenue. Text messaging services consists of both Short Message Service(SMS) and Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS). SMS allows a cellular customer to send and receive messages of up to 160 characters to and from another cellular service customer[1].

> MMS is a newer service a customer can use to send text, photos and other information along with the message[1].

So this (dumb) proposed law would only cover true SMS/MMS texts, and not Signal/WhatsApp/Snapchat/Viber/WeChat/Messenger/Telegram/Hangouts/KiK/Skype/or any new apps coming out daily? The things most people are using now over regular text?

[1] http://docs.cpuc.ca.gov/PublishedDocs/Efile/G000/M238/K227/2...
A what? Fraudulent click? Lol. There’s no such thing.
Hilarious! Even better than what I thought the link was for.

I honestly thought the article was going to be about the absurdity in determining a modem configuration string. Back in the late '90s, all modems shipped in default configurations that only worked for very old configurations. They all needed to be configured to do things like hardware handshaking, and tell the computer that the other end hung up.

These drove dial up BBSer's nuts, because every vendor used a different AT code just to set the modem to a normal configuration.

I always wished there was something like ATmodern to standardize on.
Then once people stop texting they can tax:
- Telegram
- Whatapp
- Wechat
- etc. etc. etc.

Good luck!
Why would the telcos be against a rule that allows them to tack on a surcharge, blame the state, and keep the money?
This reminds me of the time in the mid-90s when the USPS wanted to charge the price of a stamp for "email". I believe this was because the word mail was used in electronic mail.
i think its because my cell phone bill used to be ~$120/month now its ~$80/month
East of Eden - John Steinbeck
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
Cannery Row - John Steinbeck
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Man's Search for Meaning - Viktor E. Frankl
Deep Work - Cal Newport
The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck - Mark Manson
Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes
Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person - Hugh Prather
Tuesdays with Morrie - Mitch Albom
I Heart Logs: Event Data, Stream Processing, and Data Integration - Jay Kreps
Kafka: The Definitive Guide - Neha Narkhede
Effective Java - Joshua Bloch
Algorithms - Robert Sedgewick, Kevin Wayne
> Miscarriages

They do, but they're not the event that the advertisers are looking for.

> Advertising

It's to get the word out about a business's products/serices to entice a financial reward for the business.

Unless she's paying the platform that is showing the ads, she doesn't get the right to dictate the platform's output. She is the product. I.e Youtube red (without ads) vs Youtube.
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Hunter has some cool features, but since this is free I think it gets the job done equally aswell for my use case.
The propensity to raise taxes on anything other than land is known in the state of California to be a cancer.
I agree. IPFS is the closest thing we have to a sharding file system right now.
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> I like the plain vanilla aspect of Notepad.

Not a Windows user (anymore) but didn't they also add support for "Search with Bing.." (a while back?) that was hard-coded to work only with Edge[0]?

I agree that the changes seem useful. The other highlights from the link below: (1) zoom into text (2) extended line ending support and (3) ability to display line and column numbers when word-wrap is enabled (this last one speaks to a point you made)

Notepad was also a usb-friendly portable application (years ago when I used it). I wonder if this has changed...

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/12/17563704/microsoft-window...
Which is another way of saying that, yes, it is just an unmarked taxi but with a different way of doing business.

Look, I'm totally cool with businesses essentially protesting stifling regulation by loudly ignoring them and providing better service. But once you get the regulators' attention you need to be willing to sit down with them and hash out the details of what needs to change.
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Yes.

But if it wasn't, there wouldn't be the tremendous amount of usage that we see today and the "top tech" would still be C64/386 levels of performance/accessibility.

I really dislike Microsoft for what they have done to the computer world, but I also recognize that we wouldn't be where we are if not for them and others like them.
Art made by AI is selling for thousands – is it any good?
Yeah, when I said:

> It doesn't have to be merge commits, necessarily.

I was thinking of a tagging strategy.
Yeah it was Case I was talking about. IIRC this was right as I was graduating (2013), and what I said was the line from the administration. The problem is there's no real way to verify what would happen until it's implemented.
Using, "google" as a verb pretty much started out as a meme-like phenomenon; a bit of an in-joke for the more tech savvy when Google was still rising to prominence.

As these things sometimes go, mass adoption happened. What used to be cute and funny is now free marketing for a search tech behemoth but with people unwilling to give up this initial connotation of "tech savvy."

I've long since reverted to "search online" or "search the web", but I do hope "to duck" gains some prominence; it could be the new "tech savvy" verb to use.
And fly a drone inside the hangar.
At $work, we have a command line application that initiates phone calls, but behind the scenes it uses a SOAP API to talk to the telephone server, which uses SIP to talk to the phone on the desktop.

Quite a bit more overhead involved there... :)
I think there's a misunderstanding. I was talking about fighting over "MS vs. Linux" on the subject of administration paradigm.

Of course we should point out sucky tools regardless of its platform.
Even if you take a very crass profit-extraction point of view, advertising your baby stuff to a mourning not-parent is a waste of money and an actual impediment to future sales to that not-parent-now-but-could-be-later.

Miscarriages do happen all the time, as kerbalspacepro says. It could be a win-win for companies to realize this and put a bit of time into rebalancing their models. It just takes a little thoughtfulness, and thinking about this sort of thing would be an innovation that could be useful in many contexts. Many people "change state" and advertisers recognizing that change of state rapidly would help optimize their dollars too. See above discussions of people transitioning or deaths.
Dynamic languages for sure - you just dynamically dispatch your method call based on the type of the object in the container.

But what C++ is doing (and static languages with metaprogramming in general) is specializing and statically inlining everything at compile time so the assembly just takes the fastest path every time; no runtime cost.

I'm unsure which static languages do and do not support partial specialization. My understanding is that the current iteration of Rust doesn't have partial specialization, but maybe it has other features that could do what this post is doing?

I'd be interested in hearing people's perspectives on the metaprogramming power of different statically typed languages - people have expressed interest in me building libraries like this in Rust and a few other languages.
I doubt that's the main point. There's simply nothing in the original post that suggests this.

The guy later commented that GoDaddy had registered the domain the same day he searched it, but judging by his original comment it doesn't seem that he ever saw it available.

>Okay, so I searched for one domain name on godaddy. It was available but it was on 'auction' being sold for more than $10k.

After reading OPs post over and over again, it seems pretty clear that the guy is upset about the auction lasting more than the 90 days that was originally promised.

>The auction was supposed to last 90days. After these 90 days there were 4 views in total (all by me) and it got renewed for another 90 days and it keeps saying that the auction has started the day I searched for the domain for the first time.

>If someone is able to justify this as not a scam, please post your opinion

I think it's very weird that all the commenters seem to be assuming that there's frontrunning happening here.

I guess it's just easy to hate on GoDaddy while totally ignoring the facts.

It's far more likely that this guy resolved the domain to check if it exists and got fucked by passivedns instead of GoDaddy.
Thank you for this information!

Agreed on the boxing-in of Safari :)
I'd say the only not loosing move is not to play.
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Honestly, even though it has its problems, Meteor is relatively simple framework that will even spit out mobile apps for you. It's probably the least effort (i.e. lines of code) to get a halfway decent app out, and it's scaled ok well as time has gone on. It has a bunch of weird quirks though especially in how it manages data.

https://www.meteor.com
Seconded. There are municipalities doing things right, but The Dictator's Handbook is an excellent set of case studies in how it can go very wrong. (Also discusses actual dictators, corporate governance, and other related scenarios.)
Offical site:
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My dopamine response system has apparently never bought into the idea that likes actually determine my value in any way. I seem just use them to see what specific friends or colleagues are interested in and invite them for a specific activity. Vegetarian? Invite them for pizza not a BBQ. Outdoorsy? See if they want to go skiing or hiking some time. Based on what I see and hear I feel pretty lucky.
That's not using an Adblocker, though. It's just letting Fb/whoever know that the ad isn't suitable for them.
there's no fight. all the major players are working out the details. the last major detail is what format the shader language will be. Google and Mozilla are currently pushing for a subset of SPIR/V, Microsoft and Apple are pushing for a subset of HLSL. Both seem to have their merits
They even offer a hosted product now, so you won't have to worry about the ops side of things either.
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There's an online IDE (which is similar in many ways to Arduino) with a whole ton of libraries, accessible from a, well, library, rather than having to hunt them down.
"It's not meant to be offensive" ≠ "It's not offensive".

No one (afaik) is saying Facebook should be boycotted or punished over this issue specifically, so intent is irrelevant. A woman was offended—unintentionally—and is expressing her feelings, in the hope the companies will make an intentional change.
The creators are obviously not interested in suing some chap for using the font unless he claims it's his own font. And even then, the poorly worded license would make suing harder, not easier.

People should be able to share their work under common-sense terms without being sucked into Kafka's swirling cesspool of legalese and bureaucracy. The demonic inhabitants of that dimension can just... choose not to use it.
First I'm not trashing the project, I'm just wondering why simple unix like solutions aren't used.

Store it where ever you want, this isn't a magical datastore that makes things faster, use clickhouse-client, whatever it doesn't matter.

There is a widening disconnect between the unix way and how new projects are created.
It definitely seems like a different name for the same arrangement at first blush!

Looking at it a bit, Google is using a different structure than Microsoft did. Microsoft had direct contracts with ICs. Google has contracts with vendors or contracting agencies, and TVCs are employees or contractors with those companies. I realize this seems like a distinction without difference, but in legal terms I suspect it's probably very different.

It's certainly a common arrangement for a company to have a series of teams that they contract out to other companies. I know some people in Sofia who make locally-spectacular wages doing this that they would struggle to access other ways.

As for a "conversation", I'd rather Teh Grauniad had no part of it. You can't have a conversation if you're wearing earplugs and using a megaphone, and that's really their MO.
Wait, you mean that in `git push -f`, the `-f` is not the Friday flag?
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Are you actually suggesting that a woman should hide her pregnancy from her friends and family?
Sure. My best so far is:

np.matrix('12 19 6 14 4 9; 8 17 1 24 22 16; 21 3 23 2 20 11; 15 10 5 13 18 7')

which has a score of 376.899. This was produced in 20K swaps with the line:

best, score = anneal(n=10000)

which was then further refined with:

best, score = anneal(start_temp=0.2, advent=best, n=10000)

where anneal() is defined here: https://pastebin.com/xBVGJfQd

The score() function is a bit slow at the moment. If I get some time later, I might see if I can speed it up a bit, which will allow for some faster experimentation.

EDIT: replaced code with pastebin link to save space in comments
This is a WONTFIX bug.

The ad networks don't care. They're just serving ads paid for by a bidder who very much has decided that you're the target audience. They win when the bidder keeps bidding for your attention.

The bidder, meanwhile, probably has some very good numbers delivered to them quarterly from their ad agency showing that there is a very strong correlation between how they are targeting their ads, and actual purchase intent, and low and behold, purchases! When the ad is delivered relative to your purchase is an afterthought, or perhaps, just not worth paying their adtech people to fix. (After all, adtech engineers are expensive, and whatever they're doing seems to be working, so why change?)

And, the agency who set up the campaign doesn't have any problem cashing the checks for their successful work.

I'm not saying it's not broken, I'm saying the incentive structure currently is not set up in a way that will ever change it.
I think the market gave too much weight to crypto with regard to Nvidia. The growth story for the company is still there.

The article is talking about other companies designing for their own custom needs, but I think the mindshare has largely already been captured by Nvidia. Why? Because their software stack, even with its quirks, is still better than a lot of what else is out there. In the current marketplace, deploying custom GPU solutions without Nvidia products is really painful and something only someone who enjoys pain would undertake.
Which says some depressing things about our legal system, in my opinion.
> accidents

I prefer to call them collisions because "accident" implies nobody is at fault.
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>>> I'm sure no one in the room of marketing execs has considered personal consequences like this one.

Your first sentence was more correct (I suspect) : they thought about it and purposely forgot about it 'cos there was no money to be made there.
Slap a business tax on the telecoms and they can get tax credits for providing discounted phones to poor people. Seems inefficient to have people pay taxes to a phone company who then gives it to the state who then gives back to the phone company.
It appears to be saying that a portion of those 16B in revenues go to fund the program, not that the companies are paying the state $16B/year.
Yes, it's technically possible. However, it's not always implemented like that. Also, in reality we don't have both, at least in my realm.

Being able to tune a system from top to bottom solely with text files is just amazing. Also, some people hate "everything is a file" philosophy, but it's the enabler of this configurability.

When I started programming Linux and saw that everything was accessible via normal file system, it was a big relief compared to W32's iceberg environment, where you cannot see everything and sometimes water is too cold to dive that deep.
> This is a good point; seems like an isolated demand for rigor. The bar we should be aiming to be above is "better than Comcast", which is a quite low standard.

Is it really? Compared to what? If the government-run train I use to get to work were as reliable as the Comcast service I've had in the past, I'd be so so happy. I'd cry with happiness.

Where do people live that they think Comcast is as bad as it gets in terms of infrastructure service. I assume these folks don't take BART or Metro to work.
Do you know what is Intel's yield on their 10nm process?
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And this is why 9 is a terrible default for PBX systems. Hell, it probably was the default before 911 came into wide use.
If they broke the law, prosecute them. If they didn’t but what they did should have been illegal, complain to the people who wrote the law. If you had legal access to some information that let you make a good bet that a particular stock would rise tomorrow, would you refrain from buying some today on the basis that it’s unethical?
Yes thanks for the vocab. Notebooks are like a single mutable global namespace fixture. Definitely a regression in terms of engineering practice, but Python slow startup and reloading semantics are also barriers, and I’d like to see a nailgun (JVM startup accelerator) for Python someday.
I'm interested to see what they're actually mining, or if they're just hooking up users to a multipool.
You might look closer at react-native-web. It's early days and React Native can be painful at times however it does offer the idea of using one codebase for both mobile and web. It does require some care, flexibility and thought in design and development.

For the API, look to PostGraphile for GraphQL on top of Postgres (and of course, if multi tenant, there is row level security which is the direction I'd go today).
Agreed. I'm sticking with my GTX 960 that I got for under $200 new three years ago. I haven't seen anything with a better performance per dollar ratio than I got at that time. Anything I buy would be a downgrade by that metric.
Judging from the Wii and the iPad, people will get used to any brand name, no matter how ridiculous it sounds initially.
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SMS is already ludicrously expensive compared to data rates, if consumers were price-conscious about this they would have already switched.
If you wanted to use the font in a commercial work, your legal team would absolutely not approve. There are free font licenses that say exactly what they want, but in more specific legal speak that guarantees protection.
2 mph is a very slow walk... People typically say that with a standard walk you can walk a mile in 20 minutes. 2 mph means a mile every 30 minutes, or 50% slower than standard.
Worth posting separately, awesome video, thank you.
That's easy to answer. The problem with nutrition is not that science does not work. So extrapolating from "it is difficult to study nutrition scientifically" to "it is difficult to study climate change scientifically" is unjustified.

The issue with nutritional science is that you essentially have to rely on humans accurately taking some prescribed action and self-reporting it truthfully. As far as data points go, that is as flimsy as it gets.

Isn't the vast majority of climate change skepticism just political ideology anyway? I really haven't met too many people that were interested in rebutting the science.
> Can you imagine a facebook doing a page reload/refresh every time you click to like a post?

You're stuck thinking about Facebook as if it still had long lists of posts with infinite scroll. The UX would be completely different when the design constraints are different.

For instance, instead of infinite scrolling, you might show one post at a time with clickable previews of the last and next posts. A like doing a full postback isn't a big deal with this approach, particularly with judicious use of anchors. Certainly not as slick, but perfectly usable.
I use long-running git rebase -i with a line like “x false” to pause the rebase, run tests or finish packaging the refactor, then git rebase --continue.