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After installing Ubiquiti products in my workplace and in my wife's parents' house, I put them in the new house we just built. Rock solid tech.
I'm just telling you what I see in China. Convenience store clerks do have iPhones, regardless of how you feel about it.
Build you own dial up ISP in 2019
It is very effective and I've used it successfully at least a dozen times. However, you virtually guarantee a scar if you use super glue. Most of us dudes don't care (as long as it's not on the face), but it's something to think about when treating others.
If you search the Harvard Busness School for the article, it is there.
ISO 8601 needs to be default everywhere.
I currently tested the system with 6 serial client plus the server. it seem to work quite well but the cable were rather short. Is rs232 more prone to ground loop than ethernet?

i looked into using serial modem, but it seemed quite complicated, and very fragile. I didn't find a lot of guide to connecting directly two modem. I tried doing some experiment with a couple of modem i had laying around but without success. Pots and modem aren't really something a know a lot of, (that's the reason of the plan B, a lot simpler and something i understand)

I also look into ATA to modem and i will probably use that for the device i cannot connect via serial, but it seem that a lot of them don't support the pcm codec (or at least i didn't found info about it), i never used one so my knowledge about them is limited, but the article should help me. also they will stay in a dedicated network so congestion shouldn't be a problem.

Thank you a lot!
the Fundation, the "giving pledge", the "benefactors" crew, donations, "Dementia Discovery Fund", "Reinvent the Toilet Challenge", and his books: you can try to fix it, but to me it all sounds a way to hide your original sin and the embarrassment you feel realizing that with some simple tricks you made tons of $$$: how can you stand it compared to the effort your maid is doing everyday to please you?
I do not like it, and it feels sick.
docker.io and runc are in universe so not officially supported by the Ubuntu Security team so won't get a Ubuntu Security Notice
There are some “easy” tasks to achieve 3.6 full compatibility, tell your friend to try it and see. We are around on #pypy on IRC, mostly european timezones
Funnily I can still watch VHS movies on a relatively new TV. Just had to plug in the VHS recorder and play, meanwhile the description of 2to3 makes it look like a plug and pray.

I mean really? A script that might mention some cases it can't fix as warnings. "optional" fixes that replace missing classes with incompatible replacements, giving you the "choice" of fixing the mess by hand. Also an apparently unstable API for your own fixes, doubling down on breaking your code while you try to fix your broken code has to be dedication.

> Note The lib2to3 API should be considered unstable and may change drastically in the future.
Didn't realize I forgot the actual book link, not sure which one it was now. The population was about 1000.
Okay. So the system worked as designed.
Wow, I was thinking the same thing. You’re really smart fellow.
It makes me a bit uneasy using anything amazon related as they have large contracts with the US military[0]. Granted the personal could be completely insular but why take the chance?

[0]:https://aws.amazon.com/government-education/defense/
Out of curiosity, what kind of work do you do?
With a model of the full system, quite possibly. That's one of the things that makes me so excited for RISC-V.
This guy just said yesterday that Hezbollah is in Venezuela, so reality doesn't seem to matter much anymore. Who knows?
I had one of the early models of the AmpliFi. It was generally pretty solid. We have a really old house with a lot of brick and plaster and it did well at filling the house with wifi when other routers came up short. We got gigabit internet and it just sort of collapsed. I think newer versions are better equipped for that speed but ours couldn't seem to get past 100 mbps.

I thought their support was really good though. The main issue I have with it is that, for some reason, they were unable to identify my model number as being an older version that didn't support gigabit. They were super helpful but could have saved us both some time if they just paid closer attention to the model number.

I opted for the Netgear Orbi; good reviews and satellites capable of up to ~800 mbps in ideal situations.
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No offense, but there are people all over the world reading HN. We’re not all living in a country that can pay SW engineers such large salaries. Good for you and all the best, but please try to think of us living with 15k€ per year. The reason you’re getting a lot of negativity and envy is because we’re living in different environments and we can’t relate to what you’re describing. Anyhow, I hope your decision plays out and you finally find what you’re looking for, even if I don’t agree with you.
I was just starting to be hopeful after their decision to hire Mike Acton and put him in charge of a more data-driven alternative to their existing architecture.

Now I'm worried that this will start driving them toward short-term gains more than anything.

I'm predicting that if they go public, they'll ape Epic's storefront model within 3-5 years.
This might be a poor PR move for Unity in relation to game developers. Many will read it as a cash grab with more monetization shenanigans lurking on the horizon and decide to switch to engines like Godot Engine. Unity might've actually hurt itself if it loses too many client developers.

It doesn't help that there have already been some recent stories of developers being given the cold corporate treatment,[0] and the recent issue with Improbable.[1]

[0] https://sipreadrepeat.com/2018/12/16/unity-email-controversy...
[1] https://gamedaily.biz/article/507/improbable-disputes-unitys...
I'm very interested in this. I hadn't seen magit-popup, but I'll check it out, and also Transient when it comes out. If you want anyone to help look over the manual, I'd love to help (email in profile).
No but you're justifying the non-work time again - I'm saying it's the _work_ time that needs to be justified (by what it allows me to do that costs actual money - okay, buy a bed, sure) _not_ vice versa.

I'd like to think that, were I not salaried, I'd work only as much as i needed in order to do whatever it was that I wanted to do with the rest of my time - not relax in a way that allowed me to work as much as possible.

Of course, in reality it's a slightly harder optimisation problem than presented, since time is a factor too, and maybe you can't afford to do what you want to do leisurely for 4 days a week, working 3, but it can be done at 3.5 each way.
All denominations of Judaism aside from a few Haredi sects and maybe extreme secularists recognize the modern state of Israel as a legitimate country. Many adherents may not like how certain aspects of it are run, but they hold not anything remotely like what the totality of a position would entail to be "anti-Israel". The general acceptance of the country is about as common knowledge in Judaic studies as anything, and is uncontentious. I challenge you to find otherwise.
And that's fine: ship an official snap or use the Rust solution. Not doing this very directly impacts adoption. Most people won't even try to set it up.
Out-of-proc would be too slow to be worthwhile in this case. This JIT isn't doing a high-level language like javascript, where large blobs of code can be generated and the performance is limited anyway by calls into other things. This JIT is for machine instructions. It's something like valgrind or qemu, in which we run modern software.
Thank you so much. Your recent timeline of events really helps clear things up. Because a few years ago I did think I got it when I thought of .NET as C# + a monolithic suite of libraries.
You actually can't unlock heroes with cash (unless you were to roll a LOT of lootboxes). If you're doing daily quests, you'll get enough gold to unlock heroes every week or so. This is one case where you'll be more successful unlocking by actually playing than spending money.
Schools that offer financial aid have professional financial aid counselors, academic advisors, and career advisors.

I am pretty sure where the blame should go.

edit: why is this comment down voted? Every time I took an aid package I has a meeting with a financial aid officer. Surely, their role and responsibility should be more than just pointing out where the student should sign on the promissory note for multi-thousand dollar loans.
Hydrocarbons are C_nH_m
it's actually a triangular periodic pattern like this that is observed: https://cr2blog.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/place-grid.png?w...
I don't get the number of people complaining about "Oh, what is going to happen to my data ?". What did you think was going to happen in the first place ? If you possess time/skill, hack on openwrt. If you don't have time/skill, but have money, buy enterprise gear. If you have neither time, nor skill, nor money, and want shiny toys, what do you think will happen ? How many times do these patterns have to repeat before people stop buying lowest common consumer garbage ?
It's also OSS and it is much easier to surface security bugs for Linux than for Windows.

In my own research, I have attempted to send Microsoft security bugs only to be told they would be backlogged and reviewed later (which never happened to my knowledge).
Have you signed up for a page speed monitoring service, like https://speedmonitor.io/ ?

I'd be very curious to know what your performance looks like over time, especially as it relates to various improvements that you try out.
Amazon tends to ungracefully sunset products that don't support their current marketing needs, so it's not going to be like an early gen TiVo that just keeps doing it's thing, I'd assume by the time the acquisition has been announced Amazon already has their fingers all through the firmware.
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People who support Voter ID are being called racist. This working paper goes against that story line. Therefore, we will never here about this working paper in the mainstream media (e.g. New York Times). If the working paper had found otherwise, I am certain the results would have been broadcast far and wide.
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Midori, as cool as it was, was Microsoft's "no output division" (see https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/text/DEC/dec.b... for context). It existed so that very senior engineers wouldn't go elsewhere and cause trouble for Microsoft. It had fullfilled its purpose in that regard. I strongly suspect that some of Google's more ambitious endeavors serve the same purpose.
This is exactly the type of answer I'm looking for.

> I graduated at 44 and found a job immediately. Maybe not a sexy job with a ping pong table in the break room and beer on Friday, but it pays.

Before I recently quit, I had a job. The same job a CS degree holder would have (all my coworkers had CS degrees). There was even a ping pong table and beer taps on Friday. Getting a job is not what I'm worried about. Getting the flexibility to work in many roles at any company in any country is.

> I worked full-time, except for in the final year, I worked 22.5 hours for the final push. That said, scheduling everything was … hard. I couldn't find a way in Canada take an entire CS degree online (except Athabasca, and I was not interested in a degree from that school). So attending classes, mostly during business hours is required. If you don't have a job with flexibility in scheduling you will use a lot of vacation time. Sleep was minimal throughout.

I'm considering a completely online CS degree. I don't think I would be able to physically attend school, the commute alone would kill me. I've always preferred to learn things on my own, outside of class, and never attended optional lectures.

> What are you going to do with the degree when you're done?

Right now, I think I would apply to FAANG or other US tech companies. I expect that working there for 5 years (if that's even possible with a TN visa) would more than make up for the opportunity cost of going back to school. But I don't know if the plan will hold by then.

> Does taking 3-4 classes a term and working 40 hours a week sound like something you can do? I would work, in one form or another, from 6am-10pm for months on end.

This sounds like hell. I imagined that 5 classes would take closer to 25 hours a week. How much knowledge of CS did you have prior to taking these classes? What takes the most time? Are lectures long? Are there a lot of homework? Big team projects/labs? Maybe my expectations are skewed.

Congrats on finishing your degree. Your perspective is very useful. Thank you.
I also wonder what it means for people who have very poor spatial reasoning. If you have poor navigation skills are you also likely to be bad at memorisation and recall?
I agree, though I also think it's a bad idea because you're injecting money into Amazon for potentially breaking a good piece of hardware. It might encourage them to acquire products just to reap the benefits of that sweet "Amazon is about to ruin our product - so get a copy now!" sales boost.
I find that wolfram mathematica is incredibly painful to use except for symbolic math. And even then.. the kernel often crashes, syntax (and the combination of how it is entered) is weird, and overall often things (like dynamic graphics) would just stop working altogether. Mind you, I was basically just doing some symbolic functions and manipulate functions.

I can not imagine actually using it with data and more complicated programs. That must be... really tedious.

It's great for solving equations and such, but I seriously wonder why anyone would do "data science" with it.
Clients don't always help themselves here though with blanket policies against deploying 1.x or x.0 releases.
Yeah, no. I'm not letting anyone I don't know access any part of my network/connection.
I don't think generating every possibility of a cube is reasonably doable - it's over 43 quintillion - 10^16

Edit: I think you simply didn't understand what I was talking about. The distribution of states is not even. If you randomly perform moves on a cube then you're more likely to end up in certain states.
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> Is there an end to this race?

If there is, it'll be a combination of two things.

One is you make things simple enough that finding the bugs is more realistic. WireGuard, not OpenSSL.

The other is that you make things modular, and once you have one of the modules right, you mostly leave it alone. Many people still use djbdns and qmail for a reason, and it's not the pace of new feature support.

These are trade offs. They do have costs. But it has proven to be more effective.
If I could up vote you twice for "My Way or the Huawei" I bloody well would :)
Amazon are currently more focussed on supplying services to developers through AWS, e.g. Rekognition that do one small, technical part of what we do. That and Amazon Go which is a cool concept that works really well for groceries/convenience stores. We're going after everything else and don't see Amazon making any moves to enter this space in the near future.

We've talked to lots of target stores and are live with a number of clients already. The story we hear most frequently is that they've previously tried a number of things to get this type of data but none have been good enough in terms of precision or depth of insight.
Brewfile: A Gemfile, but for Homebrew
I bet they did, but when I lived up there the EPA was threatening to crack down on the area because so many people burn wood to keep warm. Everybody wants cleaner air, but when it's -50 outside and all you have is wood, and a government office over 4,000 miles away in a completely different environment is looking at charts and handing down sanctions while you're freezing your ass off trying to keep warm to survive, it becomes a sore spot. I'm sure wood was not really an option given federal regulations.
You're not wrong but the point being made is that wouldn't you want a tool which writes data from the network to disk to have those mitigations enabled?
Goddamnit, I liked my Eeros. I guess I need to decide if I want to forever monitor the changes Amazon makes to their functionality or switch router makers.
Except that simply isn't true. When randomly performing rotations you're much more likely to end up in certain states (as I mentioned in my other comment). Whether you make 10k random rotations or 20 random rotations you're still more likely to end up in a certain state.
You have our contact information and are more than welcome to look into this.

We did send an email to support@stripe.com as you suggested and we asked for your attention but the response was:

"I'm reaching out to let you know that in case you have questions or concerns, I can personally assist you since Edwin Wee is somewhat not familiar to me."

The email continued like a copy paste with "do you have a question about" and listed 3 things and 3 links. When it was obvious why we contacted with a link to your comment here.
I can't imagine such of an effect ever being large enough to factor into any sort of decisionmaking. But there are plenty of hardware-focused companies which make mesh Wi-Fi hardware that are less likely to get swallowed up anyways.

ASUS' AiMesh in particularly neat because it got backported to a bunch of compatible hardware platforms, and rather than being limited to particular "beacons" which tend to be sparse on things like external antennas and Ethernet support, it works with full-fledged Wi-Fi routers.
I sometimes explain to my customers that a self-funded long-term stable business is more viable than a VC-funded startup. I run a SaaS app for electronic parts inventory and production (https://partsbox.io/). In discussions, I ask customers to imagine which of the possible outcomes of a VC-funded startup would be good for them as customers (hint: none of the possible outcomes are good for customers, with the possible exception of a rare unicorn IPO).
Mathematica user here. It is nice that the Wolfram language has an insane amounts of builtin features (graphics, charts, massive amount of math functionality, tables, database stuff, GPU, 3D printing, blockchain, audio analysis, web scraping, one load function that can interpret over 100 different file formats...etc) it is insanely powerful for a lot of things.

Some of the drawbacks are that it is closed source, costs money (although cheap as far as this kind of software generally goes), but most importantly the succinct benefits of the language can make it painful to deal with. Yes, I can probably write 3 lines to do something that would take a 1/2 page of Python, but I first need to know which of thousands of functions to use and the eccentricities of the language. I'm sure Wolfram employees are that skilled, but I'm not and will not be anytime soon.

With that being said, I spent a few hours writing a notebook demonstrating key fundamental and scientific formulas in my industry this weekend. It was easy and the resulting code, pictures, and graphs look fantastic. I exported it as a PDF for others to use. Even the console is pretty cool. I think it would be a very popular language and environment if it was free and open source. Another problem is running something in production. My solution is to not even bother and just write the final solution in Julia if I need it. I think Mathematica really makes sense though if you're at a lab where everyone else uses it and can pass around Notebooks. In short I really like having it around, but don't like dealing with licensing issues.
I don't understand who they were trying to catch with this "sting operation."
No doubt, if you live somewhere with it legalized, your insurance will go up. And there is no breathalyzer equivalent, so it is hard to prove someone is impaired.
With such a severe trade imbalance, any retaliation would be shooting themselves in the feet.
I think one of the frustrations is probably that the tone, and level of nuance and confidence expressed seems to be inversely correlated with level of expertise in the field.

So for example from the current thread:

(someone with training in the field): "It makes sense, it's important and it's a possibility worthy enough to be explored."

versus:

(admittedly uninformed person): "As a layman from a distance, [...] it's total garbage."
This late? With Microsoft's move to C# and the Static Driver Verifier? The latter pretty much fixed this for drivers, which used to be the biggest source of kernel crashes. I thought Microsoft was past this.
>This wasn't my experience either on memory.net or crucial.com

As far as I can tell crucial.com shows a total of 2 options. Both 16GB UDIMMs. One tall, one short. I think last time I checked it had none. I didn't see a single option on memory.net. Remember that you need Unbuffered/Unregistered ECC (UDIMMs with ECC) and there aren't many options of those. RDIMMs will not work.

It's also hard to verify the DIMMs will work because the motherboard's QVL doesn't list any of the ones I've found so far. Not all retailers will have these either, so that seems hard enough to find for me.
I don't know about resources, but I have an advice for your friends: be patient. If the end goal is to be proficient at front end programming, and they're learning in their spare time, it is going to take quite a while.
Poor people do pay significant amounts of tax, just not "federal income tax". They do pay two other federal taxes on income (one is a fixed rate, the other actually decreases in rate at higher incomes). They also pay state and local taxes, which are usually much flatter than federal taxes and frequently the poor actually end up paying a larger portion of their income on state and local taxes.
I'm just tired of nonsense. I don't understand what's the point in writing op-eds pontificating about things you have no idea, and now they're coming in every day because for some reason many in the HN community think that you can get an education in theoretical physics by reading popsci and blogs.

I know everybody has an opinion about everything under the Sun, me having an opinion about theirs is only natural. I'm just pointing out the fact that laypersons feel increasingly entitled to dismiss not only the professional work of experts, but whole bodies of knowledge available to them but that they can't be bothered to study. As I don't know whether the professional fields of these people allow for winging it, I'm assuming that maybe they think that you can do that in physics. Well you can't, so if you have a problem with some physical theory the proper way is to engage like everybody else, not trying to kill whatever you don't like because how it sounds from the proudest and laziest outside.

This new sense of entitlement from the opinionated laypersons is actually an antiscience stand, this is what gets you anti-vaxxers and shuts down funding of honest research.
String theory is the buzziest of science buzzwords.
I just pulled out a Google Wifi setup because I found it was would drop clients if we were streaming any video content. I thought that maybe the dropped clients were connected to the mesh APs (which weren't hard–connected to the LAN) but no, they were connected to the main AP. Replaced with a three node eero system in exactly the same locations/topology (one primary, two connected via eero's mesh) and …no dropped clients, no problems whatsoever.

Really wanted to like Google Wifi but it was just too flaky too quickly to put up with.
> I'm not sure how I feel about Eero now.

I know how I feel about it: it ensures that I won't be buying anything from Eero.
ah oops. Thanks for the correction!