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Thanks. I still think this is more of the exception than the rule, but I do stand corrected.

https://www.autoblog.com/2010/11/11/hybrid-run-out-of-gas/
The State of the Implicit Flow in OAuth2
For some developers (iD /Bethesda for example) only need DRM to work for the first few of the games lifespan so if you come up with something agressive enough to keep its secrets for a while then it doesn't matter if it gets cracked.
Babel’s output is really really not meant for human consumption.
I think of it more as a workaround for a cognitive bias. Rational actors would be ok with wage cuts as their comparative advantage declines. But humans aren't rational actors, so we instead allow for a little inflation to make adjustment easier. Then people stay employed and productive.

I don't think the ruling class gives a shit about employment metrics. As we saw with the fashion for "austerity" in Europe, they were positively gleeful about other people's suffering. And no wonder; high unemployment reduces labor's bargaining advantage over capital, thereby increasing their relative power.
Dorsey campaigned for the gross receipts tax in 2012. In his capacity as Square CEO. Here’s a video of him doing it.[1] He had no problem with the gross receipts structure for a low margin business. He only flipped his position when it became about helping the homeless.

Again this is just another superficially plausible sounding argument (along with “no accountability”, etc.) that’s just cover for opposing anything suggesting the tech industry bears some responsibility for exacerbating the homelessness situation and should pay to help.

[1] https://www.sfgate.com/business/article/SF-Citi-video-plugs-...
I fall pretty close to the maximal end of the YIMBY spectrum but there are real tradeoffs between the 4-5 story walkups and giant towers.

Central Paris has a residential density higher than NYC despite composed almost entirely of 4-5 story mixed use walkups. There are lots of reasons that this is a pretty ideal, human scale existence.

Those 4-5 story walkups in the East Village have a population density of 113,000 per square mile. If a half of NYC had the same density, our population could be 16 million people which is 2x the total population in NYC.

If the greater NY metro area (13,000 sq mi) had the density of 4-5 story walkups in the East Village we could house 1.5 BILLION people or many times the entire population of the United States. Of course all of this assumes linear scaling which is entirely inaccurate but the point is that 4-5 story walkup density is entirely sufficient to meet housing needs.

The challenge is getting other neighborhoods to 4-5 story walkup equivalent density.
Use that to dial your own cell phone, then press any key on your cell phone to unlock the door.
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> Citation for exhausts having significantly less NOx than city air?

I absolutely, unequivocally, did not say that.
You can, though, in matters of legislature and referendum.

A vote passing is not a suicide pact that locks you into that course of action between now and the heat death of the universe. It's possible to pass something, and then do another vote, later, to revert the changes you've made.

Likewise, in a parliament, you can keep bringing an issue up to a vote over, and over, and over again (See: Everything that Congress did after passing Obamacare). There's occasionally some set of procedures that prevents this kind of denial-of-service from being used all the time... And occasionally not.

This happens in referendums, as well. The same issue appears on the ballot every few years, until the people pushing it get 50% + 1 support for it.

It's often the only way to actually get social progress. Keep hammering on your pet issue, until enough people agree with you, and it wins.

As long as you're not breaking any laws, or referendum procedures, it's completely fair game.
Why is spending 200 million inherently bad? Why is having 70 agencies and organizations inherently bad?

Your facts may be right, but I don't automatically draw the conclusion that they equal "disaster."
8 Ways to Turn Tin Cans into a Kitchen
I think phrasing these things in terms of yes/no questions to specific "hacks" is part of the problem. People ask questions like "should I drink caffeine" and expect the answer to be as clear cut as if the question was "should I breathe" or "should I drink poison".

Perhaps it'd more illuminating if people instead asked themselves if there's enough variety and moderation in their lifestyle: e.g. "what vegetables did I eat this week that I didn't last week", "what percentage of daily suggested intake did I consume for fats and sugar compared to other food groups this week", "what percentage of my time have I spent on aerobic (e.g. jogging) vs anaerobic (e.g. push ups) vs mental (e.g. chess) vs dexterity (e.g. knitting) vs sedentary (e.g. tv) activities this week", etc.
Consistently farting 24/7. Its actually a problem
That's what first came to my mind as well.

I would like to hear from someone with experience just to rest my mind and go ALL IN contributing :D
It's true, though: Lifting weights is fairly addictive so getting going is the hardest thing.
Yes, but the number one thing wrong with GIMP is that it is hard to use, "because Photoshop" is what everybody knows.

Perhaps GIMP would have more users and more contributors if it embraced a few things that have become de-facto standards in image manipulation.

I switched to Affinity a few years ago, and it was tough to "unlearn" photoshop, but it was worth it. (But it could have more painful if Affinity was as weird as GIMP)
Programmers in general are treated waaay better then game programmers. Specifically, programmer can have 40 hours week, bigger salary then game programmer and (subjectively) reasonably interesting work "at a same time".

It takes some fighting and searching to get all three, the last seeming most hard. But it is possible and not really hard.
Almost all of it eventually gets cracked. But these days Denuvo is enough to prevent the game from going up within a week or two, which is when a majority of sales are.

Console piracy is effectively dead.

I'm not saying that DRM is a large reason that movies/TV are behind, but I don't think this is a good counterargument.
That isn't correct. According to a paper from the Fraunhofer Institute:

>...Long phases of no or little wind power are a potential thread to future energy systems with a high share of renewable energies. A frequently cited example observed in Germany was a whole week with very little wind power due to temperature inversion in January 2009.

>...We find the average duration of low wind power feed-in phase to grow linearly with the threshold: Phases with a wind power feed-in of less than two percent of installed power are typically four hours long and phases with less than five percent feed-in are on average seven hours long. However, a period of wind power feed-in below eight percent of installed power that lasts one week occurs every two years and a period of more than ten days occurs every ten years.

https://tu-dresden.de/bu/wirtschaft/ee2/ressourcen/dateien/l...
"Wild Monkeys With Killer Herpes" is the name of my next movie. Or band.
If everyone were working together, it wouldn't be stealing. I don't steal someone's software when I fork a project on github, and they don't steal mine when they accept my pull request.
I know it's considered poor form to ask why downvotes, but I'm curious; this is in fact a legtimate concern, so I'm curious what the issue is.
Where's the handle?
Self-Organizing City [PDF p. 224]
There's definitely exploitation, but it's also market forces at play. When you have a never ending stream of devs who can't wait to work for you, well, you don't have to pay as much.
Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.
I have a fair amount of experience in a related field, which is messaging-based service and came to the article is spot-on. Some companies simply wanted to map their phone support flows to messaging (yuck!) and others wanted to do more pre-chat type of activities, such as getting basic information from the customer. For these latter use cases, some level of "AI" was useful to let a customer communicate with more natural language rather than having to enter a specific number or keyword, but you still essentially ended up with an analogue of a phone system.

In my case, a goal was better agent efficiency (i.e. fewer agents handle more customers) AND happier customers. A sweet spot for these chatbots was for them to handle specific interactions but not the whole conversation. For example, handling some basic pre-chat information gathering, or in the case of an interaction around rebooking a hotel stay, handling the date and room selection when using a medium that supports rich messaging, such as FB Messenger or iMessage.

Until we have fully conversational chatbots, it's going to be really hard to have a solution that a) eliminates agents from the equation AND b) results in higher customer satisfaction.
The L train is frequently shut down at night and weekends for maintenance.

That's not what people are screaming about. Shutting down the L train for 5 hours, like the London underground, happens often and is OK. Shutting down the L train for 15 months is a completely different situation.
The display volume is made up of layers of refractive material, and the software generates 45 perspectives of the displayed model, which are refracted to the appropriate viewing angles. [1]

Their website terms it a, "...lightfield display with volumetric characteristics". [2]

[1] https://youtu.be/sWevv3zotXY

[2] https://lookingglassfactory.com/how-it-works/
Interestingly, a misinterpretation of his measuring units misled columbus to think that earth was way smaller than what it actually was(which is why nobody gave him proper funds, the 3 ships were a pity compared on portuguese expeditions to india) and discover with a fluke a new continent for european powers
Standing hours might be the best way to do this. To make matters even more complicated our couple friends are either er surgeons/er nurses and 2 other entrepreneurs. Makes for great splits for conversations over dinner. But incredible scheduling headaches.

The 5 calendars over text is whats driving me insane.
Where can I get that rate? My 30-day pass is $121.
The Screen Actors Guild never did anything to protect their members from exploitation by Harvey Weinstein and others like him.
It's 5x9, but that's just how it's stored, right? The actual data comes from a linear array of 45 cameras, right? Or is it a curved array of 45 cameras along an arc?
> To me living in Europe makes more sense (more stable and secure), but life in the US is somehow more fun. That is until you run out of money (be it because of medical bills or because you got sued...)

yes, European countries tend to have much better safety nets, but they also come with significantly higher taxes. as a software engineer in the states, you can also expect to get paid about twice as much for the same work. there may be some good reasons to prefer Europe, but they probably aren't economic.
> You are drilled to look over the shoulder for literally every maneuver (lane switch, turn, etc.)

It's not the recommended practice in Romania, you're supposed to only rely on your side-mirrors and partly on your rear-view mirror without completely turning your head from the direction you're going (i.e. forward).

I'd say that this is the better solution for Bucharest's streets, where there's a much bigger chance of a pedestrian suddenly hopping in front of your car from between two parked cars on the side of the road, and as such it's better for the driver to almost always be attentive at what's in front of the car compared to what's on his/her sides.
Running controlled experiments that can actually draw causal relationships is extremely expensive.

Nobody has figured out how to structure economic incentives to motivate and fund this expensive research.

You basically need to pay large swaths of ppl to change their diet/exercise for years...for the worse.
The sort of HPC clusters with which I'm familiar run plenty of what I'd call untrusted code, and are multi-access with arbitrary student users and not-infrequently-compromised credentials. That said, there seems to be a fairly small attack surface the way I'd set up compute nodes, even if they're not single-job/node; especially if maximum job times are a day or two. I probably wouldn't turn on the mitigations on compute nodes.
It just emphasizes the raw masculine power of the service.

Actually I wonder how AT&T and Verizon seem to continually waste money buying almost worthless properties for billions like aol, yahoo, etc. Verizon's "Oath" was the most worthless name ever for a service in my opinion. So at least they didn't double down on that and try to call it "Oath TV".
Here we seem to disagree. I think it's clear that this "devaluation of the press" is being pushed far beyond reason by people who have their own reasons to cloud the notion of an objective truth.

My caveat was more circumscribed - just that one needs to be careful of thinly sourced NYT stories, even when they are said to be from reliable sources, especially when they mirror administration talking points. I say this as a longtime subscriber to the NYT.
I agree that we shouldn't make the tradeoff that London does. I'm a NY lifer and being out in London past 10pm makes me feel like I'm skulking around in a period drama.

But bus rapid transit is real and many of the people who make this city run (my dad for many years drove a cab he picked up from a garage in LIC) already depend on buses for their last mile commute. It is entirely possible to do five years or a decade of overnight subway shutdowns with BRT supported by real enforcement and protected lanes while preserving the city's culture.
I think something only has value to people if they purchase it repeatedly and end up satisfied with the outcome over the relevant time scale. People pay for speeding tickets, but nobody's very excited about them. You can ask many ex-smokers (and any emphysema patient) about the value of cigarettes. And as a kid I had to learn a lesson about ordering stuff advertised in comic books; I was willing to pay, but often didn't receive value.
a YT link to ep 1: https://youtu.be/cyvDG8qjt-M
Is This the End of the Age of Apple?
>Just how many ways are there to make a string constant? single and double quotes, 'single quoted' and """triple quoted""", r"aw" and u"nicode". Probably more.

Those all have different semantics. They aren't the same thing. In python 3, `''` is a unicode string. `b''` is a byte-string, `''''''` is a multiline unicode string, and `r''` is a string where backslashes are handled specially (which is useful for storing regexes and escape sequences in a human readable way).

Each of those is the obvious way to do the thing. Note that the rule isn't "one way to do things" but "one obvious way". Its possible to generate a multiline string by joining a bunch of lines with `\n`, but its more obvious to use the enter key.

>I can think of at least four: fmt % args, fmt.format(args), string.Template, and f"fmt".

Indeed, and most would argue that % formatting should be deprecated (and would have been, if the stdlib logging module didn't rely deeply on it). Format strings and f strings, are approximately equivalent, but strings.Template objects serve a different purpose.
> Let's say I want to define my own concept and put it on a web page. Is there even an "official" way to do it right now

What's wrong with Microdata? As in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microdata_(HTML) It can interoperate with RDF and JSON-LD.
The git/github combo and dvcs in general have been a true revolution for software engineering. But between this, poor handling of large binary files, and the merge vs rebase flamewar, I think we haven't seen the version control endgame yet.
That is my impression, yes. If a platform operates within the EU, consumers have the right to withdraw from a purchase within 14 days. Platforms like Origin and Steam have gone above and beyond to simplify the process even further. As for Xbox / Microsoft Store specifically, I believe, today, you can simply click 'Request a return' on the item in your order history.
> Even if you forgo high-tech treatment and avoid skin problems such as cystic acne or dermatitis, which Saxena notes usually require intervention from an expensive dermatologist

Iunno, I think most family doctors should be capable of taking a first or second attempt at treating these.

And what the heck is broader than dermatitis?
I'm curios how this compares to what Bjorn Lomborg [1] (with a longer explanation [2]) and other researchers found that going completely vegetarian accounted for a modest decrease (-2%) in energy consumption and (-4%) carbon footprint [3].

I keep seeing articles like this one and wondering if collectively we are low on ideas of how to effectively tackle climate change when the focus turns to exaggerating the effects at the margins.

[1] https://twitter.com/BjornLomborg/status/1058336665788448770
[2] https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/meat-production...
[3] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S092180091...
Linkedin and Netflix are still considered startups?
Art imitates life or is it life imitates art.
Texas has $1.8 trillion economy [1], which is the 10th largest economy in the world. To put that in perspective, the Texas economy is ~$500 billion larger than the entire Russian economy [2]. Texas is called the energy capital of the world for good reason, but the energy market is massive -- it includes much more than oil -- and the Texas economy overall is way more diverse than that [3]. It is tied with New York with 52 Fortune 500 corporations headquartered in Texas, only California has more with 54. What happened in Detroit is unfortunate, but Texas is not Detroit. That would be like comparing Dallas to Detroit in the NFL - they both wear silver and blue and they both play on Thanksgiving Day, but they are on polar opposite ends of the spectrum in every other conceivable way.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/places/tx/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_between_U.S._states...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Texas
if I roll through NYC with a tank column and blow a bunch of stuff up, is the ensuing chaos caused by wall street?

edit: or do I become the predominant economic paradigm?
You could change it to pointfree using Ramda and just write:

const length = prop('length')
They should quit monkeying around so much. ;)
Best Skin-Care Trick: Have Good Genes and a Few Good Habits.
Maybe a better analogy would be: If you know the complete state of the universe at one moment in time, you know the state at all moments in time, because you can run the laws of physics (forward or backward) and compute the state at some other time without adding information. (In physics, this arises from a property called "unitarity").

The holographic principle says you can do the same thing, but by knowing the state of the universe on a boundary that encompasses the whole system (when you parameterize spacetime in a convenient way), as opposed to by knowing the state everywhere at one moment.
> Physically turning your head in __not__ a risky operation if a driver has given proper following distance to the vehicle in fron

It is a very risky operation if you drive in a congested city where pedestrians can hop in front of your car at any one moment. I think that is not the case in the US but in other parts of the world if you take your eyes off from the forward-going direction then you risk hitting someone who has just appeared in front of your car out of nowhere.
And those extra natural ingredients, or worse, aromas or scents, often added to skin-care products can be irritants or sensitizers.

But I still have a hard time selling people on Petrolatum (Vaseline). Even when I show that it’s the first or second ingredient on whatever they’re using anyway.
This is legal.

The (far) bigger point is that it's royally fucked up.

And that of course corporations are not even (remotely) comparable to individuals. When you and I are able to radically reduce our tax liabilities by shifting our assets to Bermuda (or anywhere else), then perhaps we can have a discussion based on appeals to individual responsibility.

But of course we can't. And that's why the state of affairs is royally fucked up.
And then weirdly you have also this alternative to webpack from the Elm community:

https://github.com/NoRedInk/jetpack

Also called Jetpack...
I drive a van, and that absolutely has a blind spot on the far side from the driver, no matter what I do with my head. The problem is that there are no rear passenger side windows to look through, and you can't see into the blind spot through the front passenger window. A blind spot mirror helps partially, but it's disconcerting driving with a known blind spot.
General Electric owned what ultimately became NBCUniversal between 1986-2009, after which Comcast bought 51% of NBCUniversal and finally fully acquired it in 2013.
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* against the laws of engineering.

There's no reason we couldn't come up with something creative once the technology was there. For instance, a magnetic field could keep matrix of tiny particles in the air that could be targeted with lasers that cause the particles to emit light.

There's already something along those lines, heating the air enough to form plasma:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WkkZcFWgr4Q

Very primitive and limited but certainly a proof of concept.

Edit: ugh, this is what happens when you don't read a comment fully before replying.