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I've been using makefiles for decades, and finally decided to try something more modern.

It turns out that CMake has come a LOOOONG way, and is almost nice to use, aside from the fact that it's horribly complicated. But with some basic templates to work from, it's actually pretty easy to get a project started.

https://github.com/kstenerud/modern-cmake-templates
The Marginal Revolution comments section is famously terrible compared to the above the fold content. You can follow links provided to the source material though.
Not free but according to the article it costs less than the cost of paying for parking.
If this actually retails for 199, I will be very surprised.
And this is the strong argument for purchasing online. When I lived in Boston it was fun to spend a few hours on the weekend perusing book stores. When I moved to a less urban place I had only large bookstores in suburban strip mall hell to choose from. My dislike for driving kept me from going to them.

Now, with a Nook, I love the ability to finish a book at night, realize I want to read longer, and purchase another one immediately. I don't have to plan ahead. There are a lot of upsides to purchasing them online. But, I do miss the culture and community of small bookstores.
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HD Live Maps for Automated Driving: An AI Approach
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India Can Hide Unemployment Data, but Not the Truth
I think the title is somewhat misleading. When they discussed this on NPR yesterday it was "more street injection drug users" than high schoolers.

I have no doubt there are more drug addicts than high schoolers. I think you'd be hard pressed to find any major city where that isn't true. If your definition of a drug addict is anyone who uses drugs (including marijuana) regularly.
I sometimes think, there is some deep supressed longing for dominance in the extreme left, if you look at what they choose to follow given a choice. Its always the most brutal dictator (Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot), the most Macho of Men (Che Guevarra etc.) - its like the moment someone speaks the right left words- all thoughts on ideology are forgotten and the most primal of instincts may reign as free as they do, cherished on the extreme right wing.
Especially with a blog site. That's a solved problem, more or less, with tons of free or dirt cheap options out there. Why outsource that?

It's already a Jekyll powered site and has a Jekyll theme on it, so I really don't get why he needed to spend $4000 to pay somebody else to put that together for him.
What's most interesting about the article is that it manages to completely skip over why it was extremely useful for medieval notions of usury to not apply to Jews. Specifically, anti-Semitism was so widespread that it was socially acceptable for someone powerful to borrow money and decide to kill or expel their counterparties afterwards.

Which is to say notions of usury served to legitimize theft from outsiders. The rest is a shocking amount of window-dressing and apologetics.
> Answering "no" should mean you store it locally, not that you don't store it at all. If you tell Google not to save your search history on their servers, they just disable it completely, when they could just save it locally.

I think you are ridiculously underestimating the complexity and issues that would arise with two separate mechanisms for saving the same kind of data, and an option to switch between the two. Do you download account-saved locations locally when changing to local storage? What if there are conflicting pieces of data?

I bet there would be a lot more outraged people about the bugs and limitations that would arise with this system than there are today with your complaints.
Has Apple Been 'Plain Creepy' by Warning iOS Devs Not to Talk to Press? (2015)
Most of the kids pre-school are waiting on their school lottery, though right?

Do you think they'll stick around if they don't get into a well regarded school?
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They aren't because they don't have the new tech prestige.

I'd say Amazon is on the borderline, IMO.
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Funny you should mention that - they also announced the "PineTab" in the same announcement, amongst a bunch of other nifty looking goodies. They say it'll cost only $79 ($99 with a clip-on keyboard). I can see these being super useful in a lot of situations.

https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=7093&pid=43850
> a place where exurbanites congregate from 9 to 5 to conduct commerce

That describes many cities so much better than it describes SF.

To answer your question. I like it alright. Not enough to live there. But filled with 9-5ers? When I think of SF I think of the incredibly packed dolores park on a sunny saturday, the small 2 story homes running towards the ocean in outer sunset, or the huge amount of music venues.
> The dark mode is actually coming from the GNOME system colors, not browser plugin.

It's the same when you are using classic Windows theming and change the colors. The default background and font colors adjust accordingly (in Firefox, Chrome and Chromium-based things like Steam), which means that (many) pages that only alter the font color to say #333, but don't change the background color, become completely unreadable. Black on black.
The designer made Tab the smallest key on the keyboard, but left two Windows keys, Caps Lock instead of control/super, a full Fn row instead of an numrow layer, Page Up/Down right next to the arrow keys, and designed the color-coding for someone who looks at the keyboard for each keypress instead of touch-typing. I'm not sure what they consider Real Work to be, but it's not text editing or writing.

I'd recommend that the author look at small mechanical keyboard layouts, like the HHKB [1].

[1] https://cdn2.bigcommerce.com/server1800/3cc7b/products/549/i...
> Most people (even frequentist statisticians) actually interpret statistics that way, but Bayesian statistics formalizes it mathematically.

So the difference is only philosophical and that frequentists, according to Bayesians, tend to make errors more often in setting up their models?
That depends on the chemistry of the electrolyte and the quality of the soldermask, but you'll rarely see more than superficial corrosion.

Batteries are a far bigger problem - most computers have a battery on the motherboard to power the real-time clock, which will do horrendous damage to the PCB if it leaks.
He got publicly humiliated, and now must explain to his kids why when they google his name a bunch of videos and articles show up calling him a rapist and a piece of shit.

Furthermore, no matter how much his wife trusts him, she will still have doubt if he really raped that woman, and he is going to have to live with his kids and wife for the rest of his life also.

I would value my reputation, my legacy, the views of my kids and wife to be far more important than being supreme court justice.
Hmmm, I take it has been a few years since you've visited PBS..
I LOVED UU. I had a little web page about it back in the day. UU2 was OK, but didn't get to play it as much as my computer couldn't really handle the larger screen space. This of course was a 386.

The best moment and most memorable to me was getting the taper, and having never ending light.
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This is a textbook example of the Dunning–Kruger effect in action. Do you work at Google on the maps team? Do you know how the maps backend works or what the codebase of the app looks like? Do you have special expertise in this area?

Let me guess: No.

Yet not only are you so certain that it's simple, you're willing assign all sorts of nefarious motives to the actual experts.
Or just use Rust. :3

Cargo handles makes with very simple TOML scripts, and it's the more modern language, to boot.
Relatedly, cars also clog the roads looking for parking spaces.

The SF Transit Agency says that accounts for 30% of traffic, although it's unclear how accurate that number is[1], it's probably safe to say it contributes a good deal.

1. https://archives.sfexaminer.com/sanfrancisco/san-francisco-t...
I'm curious: what is environment for these tests?

I want to reproduce to understand what's going on better.

(For what it's worth, in 10 sec of testing Safari and Chrome on MacOS dark mode don't seem to have this issue... the font and background colors seem to still default to dark on white.)
That's not really a trade deal (well it's not listed on the page with the free trade agreements the UK has [0], nor on the list of preferential trade deals the UK has [1])

While the spin is "we're doing business", all this does is

"continue to benefit from existing arrangements for mutual recognition"

Given that those benefits are so insignificant they don't appear as free trade agreements says it all really. It's to do with certification (not tarrifs) in a few areas (Automotive Products, Pressure Equipment, Medical Devices etc)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_free_trade_agre...

[1] https://fullfact.org/europe/how-many-free-trade-deals-has-eu...
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I'd use the Confluent managed Kafka service before I'd touch the AWS one.
Big companies will break laws because they can afford to and the data they collect provides more value to them than the price of the penalty.

Lawsuits like this have become the norm now and don't think it'll change any time soon.

The majority of people will always choose convenience over privacy and remain on these platforms even after reading headlines like this.
Well then the obvious solution is to make downtown driving expensive. Charge money to enter downtown
The sinus headaches are a physical reaction though. It's from constriction of the sinuses. When you take these it relaxes and the snot in your nose drains. I had sinus headaches for 23 years (not realizing they were sinus headaches), took all sorts of headache pills, they were ineffective. These are effective for me, I do not think it is placebo.
Microsoft’s Resurgence Under Satya Nadella
NordVPN is in a weird spot.

https://restoreprivacy.com/lawsuit-names-nordvpn-tesonet/

I use PIA but do your research.
Time, it is extremely time intensive to review and screen technical candidates. Every company with its own unique culture is different hence the heavy use of time in the process. If you could optimize the front of the funnel and reduce time spent, that would be beneficial to companies.
Yup. And even if he did clear cookies, it would still be pretty trivial for Facebook to associate the accounts through other cookie-like persistence mechanisms. No need for fingerprinting, though they're probably doing that, too.
when you click a modal button are you sure it does what is assumed? recall win10 upgrade scandal? (the X)
Atheism is a believe, just not a religious believe.

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Whereas, Christianity doesn't hold a believe, just a religious believe.
> if it would be cheaper to leave the middle east and save money on wars

Cheaper for the US as a whole perhaps (even probably), but the military-industrial complex would make less money.
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My first question about these types of articles is, "Who is the intended audience?" The transgender community is a very small portion of the populace. Vice seems to be a center-left organization (if not, then even more to the left). Presumably, they aren't writing for the transgender community because:

(1) The community is very small.
and
(2) That community would likely not want to read this.

Is the intended audience center-left folks? I don't really see why that audience would want to read this. Is the audience center-right? Full-throated right-wing? I don't see why any substantial number of conservatives would care to read this?

I have a pet theory about the rate of absurdity in a world being dependent on the rate of both population growth and communications connectivity, but I won't bore anyone here with it.
I had to work full time and go to school at night to get my education. I used to begrudge people who had it "easy", but anymore I feel like the grit and self-confidence I got from struggling and succeeding has paid dividends down the road.

I still think I would be better off coming from a rich family. Grit is nice but you can't call grit and have them cover your rent.

Another thing I got good at was managing a budget and learning to make do with less. I don't know his upbringing or where he comes from, but there is $$ coming from somewhere. I guess you could save up a lot of money working at Google? But he previously established he spends $6k/mo on personal expenses. Doesn't seem like a "retire early" person. This is exactly why I don't compare myself to the Zuckerbergs and Musks of the world: How am I supposed to compete with this?

I feel for this person. I'm sorry he had to learn some of these lessons the hard way, but this just screams "wantrepreneur"

> Outsourcing

I may be missing something but this just seems loony-tunes to me. What is the business he is trying to create? How is outsourcing all of your tasks "lean" at all?

> Strategy / Products

Other people have pointed out: Find a product people are demanding and build it. Launch it as soon as possible. Iterate on it and delight your users. Don't make it an easy idea that someone can just copy.

A keto diet search engine doesn't even pass the smell test to me. My fitness app ( edit: The fitness app I use, not own ) Lifesum can do that. I'm sure all of the others can as well. Why would you create a product in a crowded market with huge established competitors?

> Travis CI: -$1,419

To me, that is a lot of money.

You can run a Jenkins server for $10/mo on Digital Ocean and get 90% of the same features. It's not hard if you just need something pragmatic.

Heck, you can even automatically spin the instance down during off-hours and pay even less than that.

> Coveralls

You can just generate HTML documents for this, you don't need to pay them to do it.

> Ther personal expenses

I cannot imagine spending 6k/mo on personal expenses. WOW! I thought Portland, Oregon was expensive!

> Buying a house

Also, why BUY a house? Now you have an asset you have to get rid of at some point. You now have loan payments to pay that will never go away unless you manage to sell the house.

Buying a house is often NOT an investment, especially in a tiny little town. The most expensive house is the one you can't sell.

I mean, I guess maybe the house was VERY CHEAP.
> The system is failing to override the styles.

You're using the word "override"; what do you think the order of these things is? As far as I'm aware:

- The user sets their system's colours (e.g. for me that's white text and black background). These are used by all applications, including the browser.

- Web sites may override these defaults by providing CSS, e.g. Google dictionary forcing the text to be black

These bugs are caused by Facebook, Dropbox, Google, Twitter, etc. shipping broken overrides. It's a pretty minor problem (as this post's author acknowledges), but it's not the user's fault.

If these sites didn't try to override things, i.e. by providing plain, semantic HTML, then this problem wouldn't occur (some might prefer such sites!)