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> I would love to see more CS history classes.

It would be nice to see something like that. I'm not sure it will happen.

Our human society in general - for some reason - has deemed that the history of "computation" - or however you want to put it...isn't important.

Think about how many automobile museums there are in the world - or google it, whatever. Both public and private. You probably have several where you live - especially if you live in the United States (less so in Europe, even less elsewhere).

Or museums about aircraft and aerospace - another technology that has fundamentally changed human society.

Then compare those to the number of "computer history" museums.

Despite the known fact that the computer has fundamentally changed our society in ways that are still not completely clear, and ongoing - we have done so little to preserve that history.

Software is a large part of that as well...we have systematically destroyed, or have left to "bitrot" because "proprietary software" in some back room (or worse, in an unknown location because a company went out of business, or was purchased and re-purchased, etc).

For instance - there are several Cray supercomputers out there - in private ownership and in museums - but have you ever tried to find the OS software or documentation in order to actually make one run? I'm not going to say it's impossible to find, but I wouldn't call it easy, either (a great resource for info on these old machines and software is the bitsavers archive).

We ignore this history at our peril; there are numerous cases on both the hardware and software side of things of "reinventing the wheel" because this history isn't widely known or understood. In some cases, it's not even avoidable because the information that would prevent it is either not easily or widely available - or is non-existant period! In other cases, it may be available, but it just isn't widely known about or taught.

I don't see this changing any time soon, unfortunately...
Precisely this. I use lists to structure my thoughts, and the fact that Evernote couldn't handle basic continuity for nested ordered lists turned me off of it completely.
Is there a way to make notes on a phone and save to dropbox? Sounds good but I"ve never tried.
Not OP but I think that may be a way of saying, in effect, if one person is being more polite than the other, then they might feel like they are being "more polite than necessary". So his P.S. is saying "please match my politeness level", or, possibly, "You are being impolite, compared to me. Fix that" in an oblique manner.
How is pen testing of iPhones stealing Apple's secrets? Does Apple know these holes are there and they're keeping them secret?

I'll grant you that if the CIA broke into Apple and stole keys, that would stealing along with breaking and entering or the cybercrime equivalent. But that's not what the article says.
> It takes a relatively large amount of energy to break down those bonds, and when you do, your end product is something far more stable than the original chemicals you started with.

Sure, you could theoretically break down most plastics to CO2 and the like. They're a lower energy state than most plastics. The question is why expend the energy to get something we have a huge surplus of. You're not going to be able to get volatiles such as methane or ethylene out of that process efficiently, because it's a higher energy state than the plastics. Tar sands and the like are a mixture of volatiles and heavier compounds; they're not a homogeneous compound the way most plastics are. The compounds going into a thermal cracking system, such as decane, are actually higher in total energy content than the products, such as heptane. They're just more difficult to work with, and as such less valuable economically.

Really, if you're not satisfied with the previous explanation you're going to have to look into an entry level organic chemistry textbook to understand it.
Is not that the same in other countries? In Russia you also need to negotiate the protest at least 10 days before the event (and the government has lot of excuses to deny it).
> Reader was perfect the way it was and could have been left unmaintained.

Google products like Reader tend to use internal APIs for storage, authentication, request routing, deployment, logging, builds/tests, etc. It can be a lot of work just to keep up with those internal changes.
And those are still the harmless examples. Look at it from the female perspective: Got a violent ex-husband? A stalker? Are you a teenager who’s walking home alone after school? You have done nothing wrong, but you have a lot to hide.
It cannot save or open local notebooks. That's beyond "not quite as feature complete." It's a thin client for a web app.
I've noticed that this story is sliding off the front page incredibly quickly, despite the large number of points accumulated in a short amount of time. Does anyone know why?
> I don't take Camden Line (It's for losers)

Why is this? Full of tourists?
I haven't had any problems with my X1. But maybe i got lucky and won the "lottery". A great machine IME

Other options might be T480/T490 series - for "close" to X1 thinness the T490s (T480s) are an option. I previouly had a T470 and also had no keyboard issues

Dell XPS dev editions are nice but I prefer the TP keyboard
agreed, i know a good number of non-tech people that use Google Photos.
>navigate to the app, wait for it to load up, press the + button, type in the idea using your thumbs, write in a title, save it, shit the app just crashed, load the app back up, great my idea wasnt saved, guess ill try writing it again, damn it i wish these notifications would stop popping up and pinging me, uhhh crap what was the clever angle to my idea again? Damn it.

This is like the black-and-white scene in an infomercial in which a person dramatically fails to perform a simple, everyday task.

If using an app is truly that hard, use a different app.

I have an "email to self" app on my phone. One tap and it opens my email app with my personal email address pre-loaded. Then I write whatever in there, or use voice dictation, and hit send. Syncing, backups, distribution to all my devices - all taken care of already because it's email. Fancy stuff.

What it sucks for is any idea that is better explained or formulated with a drawing. For that I use paper. When I'm done, I take a picture with my phone, and then it gets synced to the cloud.
If it is your intellectual property, you get to decide how it is used.

Another poster here made an interesting point, that this wasn't true until the 90s. Deciding "how it is used" is different from (and broader than) deciding "who gets to distribute it".
Not a book, but a great video via Steve Blank: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTC_RxWN_xo
A lot of regrammers try to hide the original poster by cutting off watermarks, and jamming the attribution far below the (more) cut off if they even bother with attribution at all.
The Dream Machine by M. Mitchell Waldrop
I mean, I agree with you philosophically, but he's not stealing their photos - he's re-sharing other people's photos and giving credit back to their pages. This is common Instagram practice - it's essentially a "re-tweet".

If he were copying and pasting the images, that's one thing, but what he's doing has no losers - it amplifies the original user and falls within acceptable instagram practices.

That doesn't mean that I don't feel slimy about the whole thing.
The grey area comes from the fact that taking honey packets does not reduce the number of honey packets availble in the bucket at chick-fil-a.
No, digital information is not the same as a tangible object, so everything, including the morals, is different.
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He literally built a scraper to directly take content from other Instagram pages, and a ML classifier to select what to post. The account is 100% automatically run, he states that he has not logged in since creating the account. I fail to see any way that that isn't a TOS violation.
Yeah, I also do have a problem with "You are what you value".

Though, perhaps from a different perspective. I do think I am a sum of my biology and experiences (much in the spirit of Daniel Dennett), rather than "a ghost in the machine". Values are a part of that, nothing more, nothing less.

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As a side note, I know you may cringe at "found meaning of my life... and thanks to that I am 23% more efficient" (and in general, people adopting Buddhism Zen into the American cult of Business).
This is what bothers me the second-most about the whole Influencer system.

What bothers me the most is how many people see no problem with that, which feels to me like a much bigger problem we have as a society (essentially: the growing disconnect between motive and perceived motive in information distribution and the fact that everyone is OK w that).
"Data hoarding" along these lines is, IMO, an admirable use of time and money, and I wish that I had more of both so I could participate. One day I hope to.
The Dream Machine is a good read about the vision of J.C.R. Licklider, a man who instigated the work that led to the internet. It's a very well written book and gives great insight into the pre-web era of networking

Amazon link (non affiliate): https://www.amazon.com/dp/1732265119
yea, now when i open it, half the screen is ads and off topic stuff that i have to close on mobile. frustrating.

ive found bing's maps to very good and user friendly, ive been switching over.
what kind of device do you use?
Just launched, still some improvement needed in the ML components, but works pretty well.

Want to gather some input so I know what kind of training data to add to the ML components, and if it's missing any features people are interested in.

Any feedback, advice, thoughts, would be great.
Hence my thesis :)
You can do this with any simulator that has a FFI interface - just use the SystemVerilog DPI.
If life is discovered on Mars, I'm going to be waiting to see if it is obviously Earth-based DNA. If so, then as excited as people will be, it won't actually be any particular sort of evidence for wide-spread life. It'd still probably be a reasonable candidate for discovery of the century, but not the millenium.

(We will be able to determine if it is has the same source as Earth-based life, because Earth-based life has a lot of things that seem like they ought to be free parameters, but are highly conserved across our entire ecosystem. This includes certain basic genes and processes and their exact "spelling" in genes, the mapping of DNA letters to proteins, and probably quite a few other things. Can't disprove a common third source that way, of course.)
> So what is this DRM supposed to achieve?

I think DRM in general was never really designed to completely thwart piracy.

The goal is actually to delay the pirated version as much as possible and to raise the barrier to entry when pirated versions are eventually released into the wild.
As the OP explained in the backwards complaint, DRM support is NOT required for web browsers. You can make a web browser that does not render DRM content.
> I'm amused by the tone.

It reads to me like standard RCA (Root Cause Analysis) language/tone.
OLGA was full of transcribed songs, great for learning guitar. Now it's gone.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On-line_Guitar_Archive
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Idaho Power is one of the three big power companies that covers a portion of Idaho -- they serve the southwest, Avista is in the northwest, and PacifiCorp is in spots in the southeast [1].

Idaho Power has been, for several years, planning to pull out as a partner from the 3 coal power plants it has an ownership share in: North Valmy in NV, Jim Bridger in WY, and Boardman in OR [2]. Jim Bridger will have soon been due for an expensive upgrade because of environmental regulations, Boardman has seen consistent pressure from Oregon activists and regulators to bring the shutdown date closer, and North Valmy has seen less and less use because the other owner has succeeded meeting most of the Northern Nevada demand with a robust mix of natgas and solar, but also has fresh interconnects with Southern Nevada and Idaho.

In 2018, Idaho Power also joined [3] the Western Energy Imbalance Market, which streamlines realtime energy trading in the WECC interconnect. As time goes on and coal plants are retired, coal's share will decline in the energy mix, and there will be an increasing amount of quasi-'baseload' solar available to buy in the energy market. And for the times in the day when the solar generation drops off and natgas plants would often be the next sellers, Idaho Power has plenty of its own hydro it can deploy to compensate. But note that despite their well-situated position with renewables, their target for 100% renewables is still 2045 -- relatively far off.

[1] (PDF) https://oemr.idaho.gov/wp-content/uploads/3.6.18-Energy-Land... [2] http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2017/sep/16/power-company-m... [3] https://www.idahopower.com/news/idaho-power-customers-will-b...
It was largely true in the US and EU. Unfortunately everyone is so happy to crap on Boeing (in some cases deservedly, in some cases not) that they forget the carriers bear a significant share of the blame here, particularly after the first accident. If Ethiopian Air had put the same emphasis on pilot and mechanic training/awareness following the first accident that the US carriers did, the second crash would have likely never happened.
Whatever process is causing the presence of methane can apparently produce hundreds of thousands of tonnes of the gas in a relatively short timeframe.

Considering that spacecraft have only landed on Mars in the last few decades, a contaminant microbe would have to truly thrive in an extremely inhospitable Martian environment, survive spaceflight and decontamination, yet also be undetectable in the places on Earth where the spacecraft was constructed.

Yes, it's possible, but it seems so beyond the realm of probability...
I think they would simply talk to the person first. Maybe the person is sincerely mistaking, stop their harmful behaviour and there will be no need in a reeducation camp.
I use GitLab for almost everything. They've got pretty nice LaTex support (via KaTex I believe).
It is for me. It saves me a step searching me email for flight or hotel info to get the dates.

If it is a note I made on vacation last week, then I would do what you are suggesting. If it was for a note I made on vacation in 2013 (or was it 2014), then the metadata makes things much easier.
I still use pen and paper for some note taking.

BTW, I should plug the Cross Jotzone journal:

https://www.cross.com/cr_en_us/ac281-2s

I wanted a way to keep a pen tucked into the journal. And I didn't want a spiral-bound cheap one. Most of the journals I've seen don't have a way to store a pen.

Semi-ironically, I use a BIC Atlantis pen with it, because I don't like most Cross pens...
That’s gonna be an interesting one to watch.

Hosting the worlds photos costs many billions of dollars each year!

That said it’s a key driver to sell android phones (“infinite storage”)...so for the time being you will be good.
Well, all middle eastern countries bar one.
> an un-fixed MAX-8 is orders of magnitude safer than your car ride to the airport.

Of the 346 people that died in the last two plane crashes, not a single one of them died in a car on the way to the airport.
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Same in Germany. I remember piles of trash at almost every Autobahn stop and people burning piles of trash was normal. I think the willingness to keep the country clean is connected to prosperity. Only when the basic needs are met people care about the environment.
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Also I'm pretty sure the hdcp private keys have been factored, so anyone can now make unauthorized but compatible devices.
I did RTFA did you? TFA has no mention of Firefox or Mozilla, nor why the download at runtime approach that Firefox uses is not viable for them. Firefox doesn't bundle widevine in their distribution. That changes things here. Maybe it's still not viable for some reason, but TFA certainly doesn't go into it at all.
All high performance aircraft are, by definition, unstable. An airframe optimized for one flight regime will not be as suitable in another. An airliner like the 737 is optimized for cruise flight (30k feet, almost supersonic) and so isn't ideal during takeoff/landing. Making it good at both isn't an option. So we have systems to modify and adapt the cruise airframe for low-level flying such as this antistall system.

The only really stable commercial aircraft are, perhaps, the bushplanes. They are not fast and not fuel efficient over any real distance.
If you use Netflix as advertised, you don't need to know about DRM; it does its job without being noticeable. Netflix is a streaming service, not a movie store. There's no need for making backups. If you try to use Netflix outside the bounds of your agreement (like copying downloads to a different device), then the DRM becomes visible.
I have a book of these on my desk right now. If you are not in Japan, I highly recommend ordering directly from the publisher. The books usually have English rules, but if not they are available on the website. It is really nice taking a break from screens and chipping away at a few puzzles.
Would be cool if besides the evolution of internet technologies, it also talked about significant events that happened in these various networks. An example could be Linus Torvalds' Usenet posting first announcing Linux.
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I would like to second this question.
I think I'd like a software union. Especially for fields like medical devices and those new autonomous cars. What are some of the anti-software-union arguments?
> Is it true that developers are rabidly anti-union?

To me it seems this way; there are pros and cons to unionizing - while there hasn't been a formal discussion, obviously, developers have seemed to have selected for "no unionizing".

I recall there being a call for a union and efforts toward this back in 1998 or thereabouts; 20 years ago roughly. It died out rather rapidly. Maybe related to the dot-com implosion, I don't know.

But...something is going to need to be done. We are rapidly either heading toward needing a union, or we'll be forced to be certified and/or licensed, much in the same way actual engineers are. Maybe a combo of those things.

We are seeing software being integrated more and more into devices and machines that can and do put people into life threatening situations. Self-driving vehicles, drive-by-wire controls, and other things - while none not actually "new" - have been failing in ways that are much more public than in the past, and has caused discussion on the idea of "who is at fault".

Companies are ultimately going to want to shift the burden from them, to their employees. I'm honestly surprised it's taken this long - and the fact that it still hasn't occurred ; I'm not sure why that is.
Did you read the article?

> The presence of methane is significant because the gas decays quickly.

If there were microbes on these spacecrafts and probes, there would have to be a massive rotting carcass producing a size-able amount of methane sitting right in front of the gas analyzers to throw off the instruments. It's more likely that the measurements of methane on Mars are (A) negligible, and (B) are naturally occurring. Especially given that methane on Earth (at any given altitude) is a about 1800ppb [1]. Contrasting with the probes *average measurements of 4ppb.

I'm no scientist, however I am an avid science reader. Here's a great summary quote from Wikipedia on the chemical relationship of methane and carbon dioxide:

> As methane rises into the air, it reacts with the hydroxyl radical to create water vapor and carbon dioxide. The lifespan of methane in the atmosphere was estimated at 9.6 years as of 2001; however, increasing emissions of methane over time reduce the concentration of the hydroxyl radical in the atmosphere.

That's just the nature of the methane here on Earth. [2] But you can probably imagine the relationship is about the same on Mars. In fact, you can read a summary about the chemical relationship here in this abstract. [3] But I would recommend some serious problem solving to piece together what this piece is trying to communicate...

Consider this hypothesis about Mars:

- Organic matter may have existed > now no longer exists.

- Methane was once at Earthen levels > now no longer is.

- Carbon dioxide was once at Earthen levels > now it exceeds it.

- Methane decays into carbon dioxide.

- Is it possible that organic matter continues to exist on Mars in a seasonal/irregular pattern?

What does the data suggest to you /u/sholladay? That these sensors were broken/contaminated? Or that we are trying our best to parse Mars' veiled past?

It's not irresponsible to consider contamination plainly because it's irrelevant — the tenants of this hypothesis are grounded in chemical observations, not biological observations.

[1] https://www.nova-gas.com/analyzers/methane

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric_methane

[3] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11539176
Aerobic exercise has always been like that for me. I get exactly none of the "euphoria" or whatever people talk about with it. The result of any serious amount, even back when I was pretty damn in shape and made myself do it somewhat frequently, is that I feel like I'm ill for a good long while after. I also happen to find it boring as hell, though put me in an aerobic sport and I'll run myself around to vomiting and love every second of it.

Lifting weights feels pretty good though. Doesn't constantly leave me with injured-feeling levels of joint or muscle pain like running and friends do. Just the good kind of aches.
Of course that's exactly what will happen. If you put your data in the cloud, it's one day going to be publicly available. If you don't like that, you should consider running private servers for your data.
Human vision is non-linear, but it is not logarithmic. What it does have is several different mechanisms of adaptation which allow it to respond to very dim or very bright contexts. Some of these adaptations take 30 minutes or more.

But what we are talking about here is the wavelength-responses of a particular type of cone cell. Individual cone cells are activated when some photon excites a little protein and causes a chemical reaction. You can read about the details here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opsin

The spectral sensitivity charts we are talking about here show more or less a summary of how likely that signaling process is to happen for a particular type of cone cell for light coming in at a particular wavelength. To figure out the eye’s overall cone response to some particular light source, you can more or less take the spectrum of the light source, multiply by the spectral sensitivity of the type of cone cell, and then integrate. Notice that that part of our process is linear in terms of the charts we are talking about.

The non-linear part has to do with various types of adaptation which attenuate or discount those cone sensitivities more or less uniformly across wavelengths (for each cone). This doesn’t suddenly make the left part of the long-wavelength cone response more relevant.
Many people are taking issue with him quote-unquote "stealing" other people's content when he's ostensibly just resharing single images that fit in a broader theme of being vaguely NYC-related. This seems much more defensible as fair use as opposed to rehosting/pirating somebody's entire textbook or TV show.
Well for one stressors are different - in addition to sensory issues that aren't common things like not finding awkward silences awkward. Stimming probably wouldn't prove helpful to neurotypicals for an example backwards.
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