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I really wish these release notes would explain what is going on for people who don't know the internals of homebrew. Especially since homebrew force-updates itself and there's no way for users to avoid these changes.[1]

There are several updates in here that make me worry that this is somehow going to break my environment or otherwise bite me in the ass when I do something innocent like install Ghostscript and find that Emacs no longer works and to figure out how to fix it's going to be hours of reading github issues. Which is an experience I've had before, repeatedly.

"brew update no longer migrates legacy keg symlinks, tap names, repository locations, cache locations or cache entries."

Is this going to break something I installed years ago? Maybe the homebrew maintainers know, but average tool users don't.

"Homebrew/homebrew-core requires all formulae to be open source by the OSI definition."

Does this mean that something I used homebrew to install in a previous version will no longer be getting updates? Will things that depend on it still be getting updates? Does whether or not updates happen depend on some random committer's legalistic interpretation of an open source definition? Why exactly is this kind of purist decision being imposed on users?

[in 2.0]
"brew cleanup will be run periodically and for trigger individual formula cleanup on reinstall, install or upgrade. You can enable this behaviour now on 1.9.0 by setting the HOMEBREW_INSTALL_CLEANUP variable."

So you're going to periodically make maintenance changes to my system without my permission. Goodie.

Someone really needs to write a guide to migrating away from homebrew for people in the unfortunate situation of having used this tool for a long time, and find it taking more and more liberties with one's computer, but also having numerous essential packages now managed by it and not sure how to move to alternatives without weeks of breakage.

[1] https://paultopia.github.io/posts-output/anti-homebrew/
I'm excited about it. `brew upgrade` now runs `brew update` and if you set the environment variable `brew upgrade` will run `brew cleanup` too.
We really have almost zero proof that most of the 'real' relics are legitimate. Many value the meaning more than the actual item, especially when considering the perspective of the church.
It's worth exploring exactly what's meant by "proprietary insulin". Insulin can't be proprietary - it's a natural, widely available molecule of publicly known composition. What's actually proprietary in scenarios like these is some encryption key that will persuade the device to work - the fact that the key is embedded in a memory chip glued to the container is a red herring. In the case of a life-essential substance that is consumed at a predictable rate, there is no logical distinction between this and a Mafia protection racket - pay them periodically forever, or die.

It shouldn't be surprising that companies will do this if they can. There was an episode of Doctor Who not too long ago where employees on a space station had to buy oxygen from the company store.
The LaTeX fetish (2016)
Not sure if 4+ years is "new".
Even though I am an extremely happy owner of a 5T, I won't buy another OnePlus device now that they have removed the headphone jack. That's the difficult part of voting with your wallet - your choices become more and more limited if the market isn't aligned with your personal preference.
Funny how they inject that heading about groping geniuses when there's no mention of him doing so. Excellent dirtbagging Ms. "Journalist".

If describing how the dance of seduction actually works, with sperg-like bluntness, is creepy, then maybe the author should take that up with the women who generally control the rules of the game.
It's desperately sad, yet funny how they both

1) admit that theirs is purely a power play. In their case, it's supposedly a good point. THEY must have the power to control, well everything, but in this case the "direction and story of physics". Merely the future, and the past, of physics. They should be able to use this power for their own ends (which are good, by definition, and in any case they never discuss that)

2) Why are we to go along with this ? Because people who did things for power plays are bad. The people who do "control" (... right ...) the direction and story of physics used that power for their own ends. (except those people never really controlled anything about physics, they just played some role in our discovery of a structure that already existed long before their ancestors started laying eggs)

Well, I must say I find it somewhat unlikely that the new boss will be better than the old boss. Wait ... what exactly is the argument here ? By their own measure, they are VERY bad. How are they different from Feynman ? Well, first of all, they never accomplished anything in the things they're looking to change. Secondly the social sciences are incredibly famous for having widespread abuses, far more than the exact sciences. They have been caught at wide-scale scientific fraud, they are famous for serious quality problems in their own field, fraudulently representing their own science to government and getting laws from that, personal abuses (including all kinds of sexual abuse you could come up with. Professors abusing students (male prof-female student, female prof-male student, gay male prof-gay male student, gay male prof, non-gay male student, gay female prof-straight male student (yes, really. Think humuliation), gay female prof-female student, ...)

In other words, they "are the cure" ... that's FAR worse than the disease.

Anyone remember https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenkoism ? That was essentially the same, except for being much more successful in actual change than the social sciences ever were. Let's keep it that way ...
>Why do sites do things like this?

My guess? Because the ads they are serving aren't mobile-responsive, this forces you to see them as is.
More young men dropping out of job market to spend time in an alternate reality
real feedback, based on not even reading the Readme fully but being sure it's "extremely low quality"?

And of course ignoring the fact that your "first concern" might not be so important for other people, who either seldom need export or can use HTML as an export format.
What's your experience with Android One? First time I hear about it but I'm intrigued, doesn't it come from Google anyway? So the "secure" claims are kind of empty?
Major hardware company is deploying their log monitoring solution in GCP. 30 billion events a second, perhaps up to an exabyte of logs per day?

Also GCP has DNSSEC, they are the only cloud provider to do that, and it’s really important.

One thing I will say about GCP...you better love the CLI...
My note 9 got preinstalled with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneDrive and LinkedIn. Is that what you call crapware?

I mean, I don't use LinkedIn nor OneDrive, and I only occasionally use the others, but these are high-quality pieces of software, you can completely disable these apps natively as well, they're not removed, but they don't impact the system in any way aside from taking up a small chunk of your memory.
It's normal to fall out of love with anything.

That said, sounds like you've simply grown. The actual act of writing the code is boring. That's not where the fun ever was. Typing on a keyboard? Yeah, thrill city.

The fun was in thinking and the problem solving; if you no longer get that fun at the point of typing, then of course the typing doesn't seem fun anymore. If the kind of problem you like to solve is now at a broader level, embrace it.
Always having one unread message and the stupid chat head interface.
That logic cuts both ways. If we’re harassing women out of the field then how many Marie Curie types have we lost to mysogyny? I believe that’s what she means by “control the story and direction of science”.

It’s about power but it’s not unfair to say there have been historical power imbalances in science due to unscientific things like misogyny and homophobia.

I do think the article could do a better job of articulating that and could be less accusatory overall. I actually think this article fucking sucks tbh even though I agree with its thesis.
> you can only pay sub minimum wage for so long before people say fuck it and walk away flipping you off.

That's exactly what the article is saying, though. Informal work arrangements (the gig economy) take off when unemployment is high due to a big recession; but when labor markets are tight (and unemployment is really, really low right now) traditional, formalized work is a lot more attractive.
Thanks; as someone who has never played "hardware" DnD, this looks very interesting!
I recommend "Cracking The Coding Interview" (https://amzn.to/2RjYkoG) for the beginning. It is a good starting point.

If your are familiar with PHP, you can checkout my library based on CTCI: https://github.com/doganoo/PHPAlgorithms
Because thats where the passengers were. (In both cases)
> Static languages are still complete blubs compared to lisps as far as practical metaprogramming goes.

Not convinced; many modern statically-typed languages offer macros or equivalents (and also offer alternative ways to achieve most or all of the headline use cases). Metaprogramming in those languages is substantially more code-level work than in lisp, certainly, but even lisp users tend to treat macros as something expensive (because even though custom macros are cheap in terms of code cost, they're expensive in terms of reader (and tool) comprehension): the standard advice is not to write a macro unless there is no alternative, and using lots of specific custom macros in each code area is regarded as poor style. So in practice developers in modern static languages use macros in much the same way as lisp users.

> And Common Lisp's type system is much less of a blub in that regard.

Disagree; if you don't have types that are reliably accurate and enforced at compile-time then you gain very few of the advantages, counterintuitive as it is.
Could it be foreign money divesting in California housing ?
I didn't know cleanup existed, so never ran it until now.

==> This operation has freed approximately 8.9GB of disk space.
Steve Jobs through the perspectives of the women in his life
Sorry updated the title
because otherwise he'd have to admit he's been an irrationally harsh critic /s
How to Manage Your Servers Just Like Google with This Simple Strategy
Also I will post tutorials on ML, thanks
He missed a couple of points on the Austin side of things.

1. Uber/Lyft went to the state to get the regulations overturned in a bit of venue shopping. They don't have to do fingerprinting. Happens a lot around here.

2. He failed to mention Austin Taxi Co-op. Some old hippies got together and helped form a normal Taxi company but made it owned by the drivers. It has an adequate but clunky app that is slowly getting better. They grabbed about 2/3s of the regular taxi drivers.

We won't really know how the ride-share market plays out until the subsidy goes away. It reminds me of when Standard Oil would go into town, undercut the local gas station until it fold, and then recoup the cost by raising prices. It is one of the things that the Antitrust laws were specifically designed to stop.
Know what's even more effective and cheap than Private Law Enforcement? Torturing suspects until they confess and shooting them on the spot if they are guilty.

My point is, this is not about effectiveness, but about legality. A constitutional democracy needs to stay constitutional and legal in its ways of delivering justice, otherwise it's not a constitutional democracy anymore but an anarchy.

Giving private individuals the right to legally kidnap people, as well as massive privacy violations like stated in the OP's article — without any oversight — at least to me looks like a massive violation of the Fourth Amendment.
I guess it depends on country. In Spain I'd say Xiaomi and Huawei have a very good brand image. Especially Xiaomi. They recently opened a store in my city and there were people queueing all night for the opening day.

On the other hand, Apple has its minority but staunch followers, but it's rather common to diss them or see them as brainwashed fools for spending 1K € on a phone.

This is a neutral opinion, I'm in the middle ground with my 500 € HTC.
I don't know how much anything Samsung does relates to Apple's reputation, but here is a good blog post on Apple's place in China right now:

https://stratechery.com/2019/apples-errors/
It's called war of attrition, I think.
In all friendliness let me offer a counterpoint to your post:

You guys are so funny! Afraid of negotiating a price? Really?

Perhaps it's time we became grown ups?

To me uber is just an extension of the habit of calling your parents to pick you up after soccer practise.

Also soon there won't be any cash at all, and so no anonymity in any financial transaction, thanks for promoting that!
>So you're going to periodically make maintenance changes to my system without my permission. Goodie.

I suspect this is partly because the cache can consume a huge amount of disk space over time and many users might never run `brew cleanup` or doesn't even know about it. And then wonder where all their disk space has gone.
Intel’s Quantum Efforts Tied to Next-Gen Materials Applications
Understandable, I was just referring to the enjoyable experience of the ride and nice conversation. It sure as hell beats a cab any day.
HTTP request with ES6 tagged templates
It’s not a request. It’s a dismissive demand.

> Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.

‘Citation needed’ teaches nothing but it is certainly very easy to type. It might be reasonable if there is a rule that citations are required like on Wikipedia, but here they are not.

The fact that some behaviors are popular doesn’t make them appropriate. Trolling is also quite popular and so are a lot of inappropriate behaviors.
> whoever did the ux with the chat heads should find a new line of work.

Fascinating. I always wish other apps had the chat head feature as it's pretty much the only reason I still use the messenger app instead of Trillian.
This is really nice, especially all the integrations. I've been using slides.com for a while, and I may switch to this. But, one feature that would be amazing would be the ability to upload to an S3 bucket. Bonus points for creating a public bucket configured correctly to view the slides. It's annoying to have to carry every possible type of dongle and fight with A/V issues at random places when you need to show a deck on hardware that you don't control. I always make sure that the content I need to show is available on any machine with an internet connection, but it takes a lot of effort sometimes.
Well, maybe they should add Blockchain to the company name.
Farnsworth: I'm sorry, Fry, but astronomers renamed Uranus in 2620 to end that stupid joke once and for all..

Fry: Oh. What's it called now?

Farnsworth: Urectum.
Show HN: Send notifications on new channel creation to a Slack channel
How did they test this claim?
In the book How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking Paperback, Jordan Ellenberg discusses this as an example of a poorly-designed lottery where people with enough mathematical sophistication and enough financial resources could game the system:

https://www.amazon.com/How-Not-Be-Wrong-Mathematical/dp/0143...
Your classic "bad trip" effects. Extreme paranoia. Manufactured negative thoughts about what others are thinking about you, etc. I once read someone say that a bad trip is as close to what it feels like to experience psychosis as one can get without actually be clinically diagnosed psychotic. My empathy towards psychotics has increased significantly since then.

Also, really bad nausea.
I never dove too deep into trying to uninstall undesirable apps from my android phones because I thought rooting a phone was necessary. But now seeing this, am curious to try it on a few old phones that i use as podcast/mp3 playing devices while mowing the lawn, etc. Thanks for sharing this!
You can't delete accounts. Only deactivate them. But if you ever log in again it all comes back up as it was before you deactivated it,

This was a huge problem for my wife because her deactivated account got hacked and then myself and all of her friends and family started getting spam.
That does seem like buying a car factory because you like the new car smell, in a way. Maybe it's the bias of my own experiences, but I can't imagine what rational person faced with the realities of the world would spend tens of thousands of dollars (and $1 million+ over thier lifetime potentially) and years of thier lives in pursuit of what is essientially a curiosity or hobby (unless they are already very well off).

If one does have such an intense interest in some topic, getting a "real degree" at college would offer them a lifetime of spare money and time to pursue it. You can't do much painting working 80 hours at McDonald's only to not be able to afford paint. It just doesn't make sense to me.
Thanks.

I’m especially interested in creating a 3D soundscape, maybe something similar to what is described here: https://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/131900/playing_by_ear... but not necessarily instead of text, but rather to augment it. Based on what you’re saying, it would probably work well enough: have separate volume controls for music, ambient sound and sound effects (as most games have already anyway — many games have a voice volume too, but I guess voice should be left wholly up to the screen reader and it should control the volume/speed).

Using a browser sounds like a good idea. Definitely wouldn’t want to implement screen reading capability yourself!
That might work if it was starting stationary, but it's not. It's starting from Earth, which has enormous orbital velocity perpendicular to the way to the sun. Everything on Earth already has that velocity too, and there's no way to get rid of it except cancel it out by burning a lot of fuel to basically go just as fast in the opposite direction.
From some googling it doesn't appear that you are actually physically removing the app, from xda-developers:

these uninstalled system applications can/will come back after a factory reset.
This is a good thing, however, as it means that these applications truly aren’t being uninstalled from the device, they are just being uninstalled for the current user (user 0 is the default/main user of the phone). That’s why, if you omit the “–user 0” and “-k” part of the command, the command won’t work. These two commands respectively specify that the system app will only be uninstalled for the current user (and not all users, which is something that requires root access) and that the cache/data of the system application will be preserved (which can’t be removed without root access). Therefore, even if you “uninstall” a system application using this method, you can still receive official OTA updates from your carrier or OEM. [0]

[0] https://www.xda-developers.com/uninstall-carrier-oem-bloatwa...
If I uninstall via adb, does it usually reinstall when updating apps?

Thanks for the tip.
Uber co-founder opening a no-fee crypto exchange, $25 Bitcoin for joining (US)
Referral party? I signed up -- https://bit.ly/2FfRmuh
dnd is the kleenex of table top RPGs?
I use two things: physical notebook with unlined pages - I draw ideas pretty often, and iPhone notes (I group them by topics).
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> No nation or company has ever built a single vehicle capable of flying dozens of people into space (especially deep space), landing on distant worlds, and then flying back to Earth.

At this risk of stating the obvious, this is still the case today. SpaceX building a mockup in the desert does not mean they are anywhere close to achieving this goal.
> no incentives that motivate individuals to dedicate their lives and souls in the creation, launching, running, and perpetual improvement of such platforms for the benefit of others.

Except this is not just a problem with the owners (and to some extent you are wrong, there are CEOs motivated by that, they still by and large fail).

Because ...

There are no workers motivated like that either. People do not want this.

In the vast majority of businesses, the CEO is the only one that cares about anything more than next month's pay check. Even if there are a few exceptions among the employees they remain big exceptions.

This sort of business can't work unless CEO and everybody else cares about the mission of the company. And there are no such people.
That would be a great reason to communicate with users in a prominent place in the docs. Sadly, the maintainers seem to always choose to force the user behavior that they see as desirable rather than communicate with users about it. For what is, at bottom, a developer tool this is madness.
I'm a sysad for a small company. We have an on-prem solution and a social media app.

We don't sell our data. We don't trade it. And we adhere to a fedramp medium (in spirit), even though the social media site wasn't checked for that.

Users have control over their profile, and we admins cant even read it (unless we read raw DB, and we dont). And deletion requests entail in zeroing out all user's data. The next day, zeroed data is then purged completely.

Seriously, companies can do this right. And I work for one that absolutely does this right.
Buy a Pixel or an Android One phone and you do NOT have this issue.
Google Fi Horror Story After Credit Card Mishap
I would use none of those. How about having the option to install them or not, like normal software?
And Al's beef... really?

Yeah. That right there shows that the list was made by someone who's never eaten in Chicago. Which would include any automated/AI-generated list.

(For those outside of Chicagoland, Al's Beef is the McDonald's of Italian beef/hot dogs).
Most people don't care. The money Samsung is getting from Facebook to pre-install the app is worth more to them than the goodwill they're losing from the minority of users who do care.
Samsung is NOT an "ad companies"?

Google phones do NOT have this issue. You do NOT get bloatware on Pixels or Android One for that matter.
Stem cells used to trace autism back to the formation of neurons
Trump Shutdown Must End
Instead of listening to people who know a little, we should listen to people who know nothing at all ?

Surely I'm misunderstanding something here.
I don't think that a company that is currently actively trying to raise funds from investors[1] wants "SpaceX test rocket explodes" as a headline just to make the point of how likely human casualties are when going on missions in their new product.

It really is only designed to go up to 5km (that's their current altitude limit for the testing license [2]) and test landings. It doesn't need to be anything more than a metal tank with legs but of course SpaceX/Elon are all about style so they want it to look cool.

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/elon-musks-spacex-is-raising-50...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/9z9ccn/spacex_files...
This kind of crap is why I always buy phones that have stock Android. I have been a long time Nexus customer but after Google dropped the line I went for the Essential Phone during the $250 sale. Easily one of the best phone with stock Android .