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FYI:

> The world's most glorious monastery, at Monte Cassino in Italy, was destroyed during the second world war because of a mistake by a British junior officer, according to new evidence in a book due out this week.

> The officer - translating an intercepted radio message - mistook the German word for abbot for a similar word meaning battalion. His version convinced his superiors this meant a German military unit was using the monastery as its command post, in breach of a Vatican agreement which treated it as neutral.

> Allied generals ordered a huge bombing attack. Only when the planes were in the air did a British intelligence officer, Colonel David Hunt, recheck the full radio intercept. He found that what it actually said was: "The abbot is with the monks in the monastery".

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/apr/04/johnezard
The second sentence of this comment is the only one that matters, unfortunately.
Ah, you are correct, it's the non-threadedness of the interpreter itself I was thinking of.
There's a bunch of VR setups claiming much better resolution. Here's one

Varjo VR-1: https://varjo.com/

For me I need to ditch the headset. That thing covering my head is too heavy and makes my face sweat.

I wish I could get more into VR. I have a Rift, a PSVR, a Daydream. I've loved a few experiences but mostly I turn them on once every 3-4 months at this point. The quality experiences (for me) are few and far between.

rant mode on: The new Oculus home UI is horrible. It uses every button on the controller instead of just like say one button and putting all the UI in VR. It's become a huge frustrating pressing the wrong button or having to test every button to figure out which one does what. It's like it was designed by an xbox dev instead of a VR dev.
Chicken is about the worst meat to eat on its own, especially if you are baking boneless skinless chicken breasts. Dark chicken meat has actual flavor, so thighs and drumsticks are probably your best bet.

If you want good meat with no extra flavoring I recommend good steak (like the $60+ steak you can get at a nice steakhouse). Pulled pork is also good, though it's usually somewhat flavored, doesn't necessarily need to be. Lamb prepared gyro style is pretty good. Pretty much any meat will taste better grilled than baked in an oven too.
You said Amazon lets you return them without the delivery guarantee. What does the delivery guarantee add here?

I pay $100 for Prime so I can get items I want to keep long-term faster. What good does being able to return them do me? If the guarantee meant anything I'd get some of the $100 I paid for the 2-day shipping back for items that arrived late and weren't returned.
I’m curious to know about use cases. I recently started thinking about anonymizing my web activity because a few minutes after I searched for a particular make/model vehicle, my wife saw an ad for it on Facebook. It seems like this is IP-based tracking, since I was searching in Firefox Focus (and she doesn’t get car ads in general).

Would a VPN help with this? I’ve tried using Tor (through Brave), but I run into tons of captchas and many sites won’t load at all.
Pascal and newer Nvidia cards support Freesync as of driver version 417.71.
I get it, it’s cool to shit on DNSSEC. But let’s talk about defense in depth. The way you solve account hijacking is two fold. First: authenticate records. Second: don’t trust registrars to produce the contents of records. Reduce registrars to a simple ledger indicating which key to trust for a domain along with the length of the lease. Make people take care of their keys. If a registrar does offer to sign records on an owner’s behalf, maybe don’t use it for security critical services like email.

I don’t think the desire to authenticate data coming from the internet’s global public key-value store is ludicrous.
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Reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/SideProject/comments/aphftf/hey_guy...
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At least on Azure, Linux is leading as the top OS:

https://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-now-dominates-azure/

I assume this is true for most other cloud providers. But that doesn't take into account all the companies running racks of Windows servers in their basements.
Have you seen this twitter thread? https://twitter.com/mitsuhiko/status/1091802711908106240?s=2...

Lots of high profile python developers not so against a version of python that was less dynamic and more performant.
I view it largely like I view how we currently treat our disadvantaged. Put them into ghettos, neglect them as much as humanly possible, etc.
Might be it.. Ford Mondeo back then and an Opel Meriva today.
> by Grosz. You might like to have a read of it, it does not makes the claims you are suggesting.

I have read it. That article cites others, so you can wiggle out that it doesn't make claims alone, but what is inside is the same worthless "idea":

"sub-atomic particles have a primary consciousness, an immediate self-perception or
self-survey, an overflight without distance, immediately in touch with itself and its Umwelt, which in the case
of the particle, includes not only the other particles comprising the atom but perhaps the entirety of all particles,
the universe itself. Like the embryo, the brain or any living thing, sub-atomic particles act their being, perceive
themselves, form and maintain themselves"

Of course that idea is supported by... nothing but the trick that if we redefine consciousness as the interaction of anything with its environment (and call the environment Umwelt to sound more clever), then everything is conscious. Duh.

However, scientifically, most of the animals have to be self aware, at least enough to survive: they have to differently handle their own body and their own situation in the environment compared to the surroundings. And that is the real limit: consciousness as we know it is a product of the evolution.
How does CQRS solve the problem of referential integrity?
My take is Samsung went with a design which thinks of device's real life usage (thoughtful design). Whereas Huawei went for drama (stagecraft).

Why? From Anandtech..

Huawei calls the new hinge system a “Falcon hinge”. It’s to be noted that this seems to be the weak-point of Huawei’s design as it doesn’t look nearly as refined as Samsung’s attempt. At the pre-brief we weren’t able to actually get our hands on the phone, but one unit of the presenter had a notable “waviness” of the screen where the hinge was.

The number one concern of the Mate X however is the fact that it is a outwards folding phone. By nature of it being a flexible display means that we’re dealing with a polymer material which is softer than glass, and thus also more scratch prone. Samsung’s inwards folding design here will be much less prone to scratches, however the Mate X will be a quite more fragile phone in this regard. In fact it seems Huawei is aware of this as they also presented a protection case in which you can slip the whole device in, trying to address this compromise of this surely better looking, but likely less practical design.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/13990/huawei-launches-the-mat...
Of course the #hustle obsessed hacker news crowd would love this title. "Mental illness is fake! Mentally different people are just whiny and inferior, not a legitimate illness. Depressed people need to just stop it."

What a load of crap.

This article does a poor job of laying out Szasz's actual beliefs. Szasz sounds like a right-wing wonk and little else.

He has since been proven completely wrong in the 50 years since publication: There is a biological component to mental illness.

It focuses on his persecution complex as a right-wing libertarian in a laregly liberal field.

They bring up the completly irrelevant Semmelweis to attach an air of legitimately to his crackpot beliefs. They do it again with Arendt.
Red wigglers are also useful for both purposes, and because they don't burrow they have trouble overwintering.

It's not perfect, but they are held to be a lesser of evils.
Discipline training is also about self-discipline which I would define as the motivation to deviate from the state of least-effort in order to pursue intangible or delayed benefits.

Military service isn't the only way to instill that, but most ex-forces people I know have good self-discipline.
The thing about actually using Fastmail's 25 GB for $50 is that if you go even slightly over, you're going to need a $90 plan. Most users aren't going to use anything near that amount, especially since our compression is pretty good. (I'm not sure if Fastmail's 25 GB count is compressed or not.)

You're right that I need to add more value. My planned direction is more along the lines of utility than security/privacy, which I think Protonmail covers pretty well. There's a lot of interesting value-add to be done in email.

The pricing is more that we offer honest pay-as-you-go pricing, with caps to make sure you don't actually get a ruinous charge, in direct contrast to "billing something reasonable for a whole year". If you'd rather do the former, then yeah! You're really well covered in the email space already. But I think people are getting subscription fatigue, where every service imaginable wants its $5/month cut of the pie.
- Stay in an abusive (doesn't even have to look too bad) relationship and try to live the other's "happiness plan"
Ask and you shall receive:

"Followers of voudon also believe in a universal energy"
https://www.ancient-origins.net/history-ancient-traditions/o...

"Many Neopagans worship Gaia... Gaia was the great mother of all... However, the goal-directed behavior of the biosphere, as explained by the Gaia theory, is an emergent function of organised, living matter, not a quality of any matter. Thus Gaia theory is more properly associated with emergentism than panpsychism... Panpsychism also plays a part in Hindu, Buddhist, Dzogchen and Shinto mysticism, and for that matter in most if not all Animistic Native Religions, and Mother Goddess Cults, like Pachamama, in the Andes, Rhea, for the Greeks, Durga, or Kali for the Hindus, Nerthus, for the Germanics, Dea Matrona, for the Gauls, Ninhursag for the Sumerians, Tuuwaqatsi for the Hopi, Nut, or Isis for the ancient Egyptians, etc. It will be hard to find a place on Earth were the ancient goddess has not being worship."
https://konekrusoskronos.wordpress.com/2013/01/26/gaia-panps...
Previous versions (maybe the new ones too, I haven't seen it yet) of Windows was updating the size realtime when it was still calculating. You could still see the approx size and know it's not the real size.

EDIT: only when opening "properties" dialog
Does anyone have more info on this? From what I recall there are mirrored systems with duplicate CPUs, memory, flash, etc. In the event of issues with one computer, they failover to the second. Was this an issue with something on the "A/primary", "B/backup" computer, or something more global?
I haven't read either, but Emily Lakdawalla's book is published by Springer Praxis, and I find that their books tend to be satisfyingly technical and detailed.
Some optimizations can be enabled

"python -OO -m compileall mydir"

But it's merely skipping comments and names
"Except you were not replying to the nautilus article, you were replying to the one i posted by Grosz"

Good point - there are so many cranks around I lose track.

I had a look at the Grosz article. I have never seen such pure excrement in word form. Can I get a job at Duke if I publish used toilet paper?

I think the following waffle in the article is beyond the Standard Model and therefore contradicted by the physicist's argument:

"It will be my claim here that materiality, bare matter, matter not in its simplified form but before being animated by life, is nevertheless always involved in and invested by incorporeal forces, forces of potential sense, forces of virtual significance that living bodies, in elaborating their own ends or finality, affirm and develop"
> it doesn't require a VM (goodbye Java) -

Neither does Java, only devs clueless about Java world aren't aware of AOT compilers to native code.

Also sorry to spoil your fun, Kubernetes was originally written in Java, it was later rewritten in Go as other team took over.
NVIDIA driver is in the repositories and is installed just as easily as the rest of a modern repository-based distro. It literally just works.
That's just Nvidia. I had the same in Windows two years ago. Windows update automatically installed the latest Nvidia drivers, and after a reboot the screen was black after logging in. I assumed something got messed up (because Windows) so reinstalled Windows. It worked fine for a couple of hours, then I rebooted and had the same thing. Apparently that version of the driver was buggy with my hardware (GTX 1070), so I had to go into safe mode, downgrade and stop Windows automatically upgrading it.
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As much as I would like to support Mozilla, connecting to protonvpn.com with Firefox 65.0.1 throws me an insecure site error:

Your connection is not secure

The owner of protonvpn.com has configured their website improperly. To protect your information from being stolen, Firefox has not connected to this website.

Doesn't inspire confidence.
i hate when this sentiment pops up. it is practically meaningless but can even be even be viewed as harmful. most people don’t care about the environment already, so stating it will live on just silently emboldens people to keep on keeping on. many plants and animals are already dead directly due to human influence and others are to quickly follow.
This is a variant of very old behavior. Large folders take a long time to appear because of the need to walk all of the metadata. Heck, 15 years ago, Windows AFS shares on a server would take 90 minutes to become active due to the need to enumerate and update metadata on several million files on a SAN volume that should've been broken up into smaller shares. Folder inodes could cache the size and number of items within them, but this would get very expensive on copies, moves, deletes, renames and resizing files. The best thing would be to efficiently cache metadata in RAM such that apps like Finder can extract metadata more quickly and derive what they need without causing a bunch of random IO going all over the place on spinning rust.

Alternatively, buy fast RAM and SSDs with faster read IOPS. There might be some xnu sysctls that would help too.

Looking for someone to blame because technology can't defy the laws of physics comes off as behaving like a spoiled, demanding consumer rather than understanding the engineering of why it takes a long time to summarize large folder structures and why there's not a satisfactory way around it without impacting something else. Blame doesn't solve anything, especially if someone doesn't understand what's happening. Let's not do that; it seems infantile.
I will be super surprised if it's not the later. GM can't make toasters themselves these days.
Are there any specs on this? Seems expensive, unless the specs are amazing.
The nutrition science in 2019 is clear and has been clear for decades.

A high carb low fat low protein whole food plant based diet with (cheap) vitamin supplements and maybe linseed oil:

- is the healthiest diet.

- is the cheapest diet.

- is the most efficient and environment friendly diet.

- is the most ethical diet with regard to immoral animal suffering caused by humans.
Box in a basement. A friend in the states provided one for me and I'm happy. It does what it needs to do (AKA encrypts traffic on public networks and lets me get to the US only stuff). It's also undetectable compared to commercial VPNs, because the number of people using it is very small and services think it's just a household.
I'm likely in the minority but I don't see a problem with a nation enforcing its own rules inside its own borders, even if one might not agree with those rules, when it isn't hurting anyone. When we are flying spy planes and sailing hangar-ships and WMD subs at other nations borders, like Russia and China have to live with every day, I feel it is hypocrisy to complain over China deciding what they want to allow printed in China.

This whole anti China/Russia propaganda-thing the US et al. are running is disgusting.
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NeXTSTEP and macOS did it pretty well.
> I see this bug on Windows

What do you mean? The "Size" column is completely empty for directories.

If you right click and open properties on a directory, it will show a size that grows four times per second, very blatantly a calculation in progress.

How do you get this bug on Windows?
That sounds pretty much like spoofing to me and not as actually sending from that address. Or does Gmail also give you the option to add the necessary DKIM and SPF records to your domain?
I like meat subs and they are increasingly becoming satisfactory substitutes for people who enjoy the act of eating meat minus the ethical and environmental burden. It is possible to mostly get essential nutrients from pulses, vegetables and grains, so for me, the meat subs are effectively just for fun additions and I do not expect them to be substitute what one might expect to get from eating meat which is often something that people misunderstand about a plant based diet. If you are serious about reducing your meat consumption and able to keep an open mind about plant based meats, I suggest working your way through many alternatives available in the market, it can actually be quite a lot of fun to sample what different people and companies have come up with!
that still technically doesnt tell me if it was "happy" since we have no actual way of measuring a chickens level of happiness, this disappoints me greatly as im sure if i ever do eat chicken ill want to eat one that was killed in the middle of enjoying its life than one that was ready to die
Rented a dirt cheap small VPS (256MB RAM, less than $10/year) and setup my own OpenVPN.

To find a cheap VPS hang out on lowendtalk.com / lowendbox.com

Also, tor browser.
Can you please stop posting rants to HN? They're not what this site is for, and you've done it a lot, unfortunately. Your non-rant comments are fine.

HN is for intellectual curiosity—see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
There are two hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors. — @codinghorror https://twitter.com/codinghorror/status/506010907021828096?s...
The First Amendment didn’t prevent our genocide of native peoples. Democracy didn’t prevent 100 years of slavery. ‘The marketplace of ideas’ didn’t keep us from torturing people to death or killing a million people in a pointless war.

The problem with liberals is they mistake the means for the end. Because their lives are insulated from consequence, they prefer the “negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice”. They have a fairytale understanding of the world, where Nazism can be stopped with debate instead of carpet bombings.

What matters is that the hungry are fed, the sick are treated, and the vulnerable protected, and that everyone can live free of the threat of violence or deprivation. Decorum and the delicate feelings of bigots do not matter.
And yet it hardly matters.

https://www.engadget.com/2019/02/19/linux-gaming-steam-valve...
There are a series of books from around this timeframe like James Blish's "after such knowledge" "doctor mirabilis" "black easter" or John Boyd "the last starship from earth" which feel like they're grappling with the science/religion divide, free-will vs predestination, limits to knowledge, what it is to be human. I think they have mostly dated, but not terribly badly. And, the writers appeared to care about how they wrote: slim books, well edited. well crafted.
Agreed. Like windowing systems allowed sharing the 2D screen, AR/VR systems will need to be able to share 3D space. I need my mapping app showing the way at the same time as my social networking app is popping up info about the friends in my view at the same time my pokemon-go-ar is showing the latest pokemon hiding in the bushes, at the same time as restaurant app is showing which restaurants have seats right now. (or whatever)

Sure, some people will want to tune out / turn off all other apps from time to time but the ability to run them together is really key it seems.

I wish browser VR supported popping 3D things out of the screen. Currently browser VR is click a button, browser display's that page's VR presentation in your VR. But run one of the many VR virtual desktops that show your computer's desktop as a virtual monitor in VR and suddenly I want a standard so that a webpage can make a 3D object and it pops out of the virtual monitor. Ideally like a browser tab I could pop out lots of different VR-VR apps/pages/etc all running at the same time, all integrating in the same 3D space.
ThinkPads usually just work with Linux. I bought a second hand T470s last year, and nearly everything works without any issues under Linux. Even my TB3 dock (some Chinese unbranded device) just worked when I plugged it in.

The only think that doesn't 100% is the fingerprint reader, apparently you need to setup your fingerprint on Windows first.
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Personally, I just use OpenVPN on one of my DigitalOcean instances. I don't place a lot of reliance on a VPN for privacy (disabling JS, using Firefox's tracking protection, blocking third-party cookies, and avoiding most any social media sites are my main defenses), but I've heard fairly good stuff about Streisand if you're looking to set up at a new IP and datacenter more frequently.

One thing that's often missed is making sure you configure your local firewall to disallow all non-VPN traffic, such as startup/network initialization info.
The paper i posted makes no such claims. It build up an idea of human consciousness as an emergence from the inherent properties of the interactions of elements, chemical bonds and environment.

That human consciousness is a function of the boundary between the brain and the environment across which senses pass; the internal processes virtualising the external environment. The human consciousness then also has awareness of itself, sensed across the boundary, and re-virtualised within; akin to Hofstadter's loop.

At the same time, Grosz breaks down the concept of consciousness in the other direction, looking at this idea of virtualization within a sensing boundary in a single cell organism. The mechanism of such consciousness can be understood in this case as a mere transfer of information. From there its turtles all the way down.

Such a view is well within the standard model.
Yes, you are right that the parser grammars are much like PEGs and it's the code generator grammars that match other objects than characters.

The reason I chose to implement it that way in the article is that I modeled RLMeta after OMeta. If I remember correctly, their reason for doing so was that they thought compilers would be easier to write if all passes (parsing, code generation, ...) could be written using the same language.

I think using the same DSL for code generators works quite well and they become quite readable. Perhaps there is a better DSL suited for code generation, and it would be interesting to experiment with that as well.

You are right that the toy examples could generate code directly in the parser. There is no need for a separate code generator step. But the RLMeta compiler would be much less readable without a separate code generator step I think. The reason I introduced an AST in the toy example was to introduce the concept before I showed it in the RLMeta implementation.