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Two examples are the Airport line of products and the iPods. While the iPod Touch is still made, nothing else is. That said, they still have received recent software updates, and I personally find Apple products more palatable than anything Google or Amazon.
> Both of these studies estimated that around 6 to 7 percent of all dementia cases in their samples could be attributed to air pollution exposures

Is it just me or does this seem very flimsy? Sounds like this model catches very few cases, and there is no mention in TFA of how many false positives were found. The quasi-causal study sounds a bit better, but judging by how much the article seems to have overplayed the correlational studies, I have a feeling the quasi-causal study isn't that good either
I believe older 87s had the metal shell. I know mine does, and it also has a vial of mercury inside. Wouldn't be suprised if it's older than I am, but it works perfectly though and I have no desire to change it. My downstairs thermostat is a digital programmable one (also honeywell). I've only lived in this place for a year, but it seemed to work fine and simply enough for programming schedules and temperatures. I only use either for heating, we don't use AC in the summer.

I've seen digital ones fail over time, and this one will too. It's always a matter of "when", not "if"; but, if the cost is low enough, that may not be a big deal (assuming it doesn't cause a fire on the way out).
I think there are some objects where adding computers can only make them worse to use. Stereo amplifiers, car interiors, and coffee equipment come to mind, and smart home stuff seems like it's just not a good experience ever.

There are some really nice vintage thermostats out there [1] [2]. As far as I can tell they're not a niche collectable so they're still pretty inexpensive too.

[1] https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Minneapolis-Honeywell-Stoko...

[2] https://www.icollector.com/VINTAGE-HONEYWELL-THERMOSTAT_i228...
What I don't understand is... What's in this for Google? Why are they making such a radical, customer-hostile, partner-hostile change in direction? Strategically, this just seems all wrong to me, but there's clearly a Big Picture I'm not seeing.
git is a version control framework more so than a version control system. It starts from simple primitives, exposes them to the user, then builds complex and powerful tools on top of them. Because git rebase gives you primitives to accomplish high-level tasks (e.g. "reorder these commits"), the learning experience is different because you have to learn the low-level details to accomplish your high-level task. However, because those low-level details are accessible to you, you are afforded a greater flexibility in inventing new high-level tasks.
Also no mention of `--onto` to e.g. move a bunch of commits from one branch to an other.
Or just switch to Firefox on Android and use uBlock Origin or similar.
But if performance boosts from preloading are all you want, you could just add a 'preload' attribute to the usual <a> tag. The stated rationale of supporting spiffy transitions seems a bit more sensible, though, given how many hooks this has into browser UI, I'd be interested in seeing the limits on what, say, a malicious ad network could do with it.

(Besides, if a page has several dozen links, exactly how many of them can you afford to preload before that activity starts bogging things down? The ZDnet article talks about this behavior replacing all links, which doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me...)
It depends entirely on the type of locks involved.

The majority of residential homes in the US have semi-standardized lock bore and setback sizes so most anything you pick up for dirt cheap at your local home improvement retailer will bolt right on. I'm not sure if there's the same level of standardization in the UK, but in most of Europe locks are of a design that allows you to replace the cylinder with a couple of screws from the inside. The locks themselves typically cost more but the labor is pretty much nonexistent.

The only way you'd need to pay that much to have locks changed is if you're needing to do actual physical work on the door or jamb itself.

Or if your locksmith is overcharging you because you don't know any better.
It's "computational" now?

He used to make a big thing about it being a "symbolic" programming language, which made more sense to me - a programming language that treats symbols as a first-class concept is indeed a rare beast. Only computer algebra systems really attempt this, and of those few have really well designed programming languages. Yes, Lisp has symbols, but you can't really do much that's interesting with them directly. (sqrt x) when x is unbound is an error, not the abstract concept of taking the square root of an unspecified value. The idea of taking something that would normally be a "compiler optimization", like sqrt(x^2) => abs(x), and making it available at runtime as part of the evaluation model, can be seen as an evolution of the powerful idea of including (eval) in the language.
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After men in Spain got paternity leave, they wanted fewer kids
I get that kids are especially vulnerable, but shouldn't we also try to not sell stuff which is non-obviously toxic for use by adults also? Why should any consumer have to be afraid that a backpack or book cover has a high amount of lead?
This is undoubtedly the case with most of the clothing, but not for consumer electronics. Edit: No, it's the same with the clothing; buy one of those generically branded jackets some time and see how long it lasts.
If I wouldnt be using Android Phones with custom Roms and no Google at all, I would proably also be using iPhones. I just try to stay all open source. I pay for my email, I have my own servers with services I use etc.
That is exactly the same as Diablo and all true. The metagame is moderately interesting and the artwork / ambiance / style (in Diablo 1, for me) is nice.
So don’t say “yes” to things that are out of scope.

The recurring thing here seems to be that consultants keep putting limits on themselves and then justify it.

“I have to charge hourly because...”

“I have to agree to go out of scope because...”
As a java novice and a Clojure non-entity, I found the article interesting and helpful. I don't think the author is trying to convince enterprise java dev teams to abandon java in favor of Clojure, its just a helpful comparitive view of two languages meant for beginners.
That one slipped by in editing. Fixed, thank you.
Around the time that Donald Trump appeared to be a serious contender for the presidential race, I finished up my German dual citizenship application. When I was at the consulate, the person that I met with mentioned that they were absolutely swamped with applications for citizenship and proof of citizenship.

Anecdotally, I know two other people who are working on acquiring their Italian citizenship, one other who acquired their German (dual) citizenship (and moved to Europe), and several who are applying for citizenship in non-EU countries. I don't think the US and Britain (and those who would like to follow their lead) appreciate the energy and means of the people who they are pushing out. We all talk about immigration as the onslaught of poor people (degrading some cherished way of life or needing shelter from persecution etc.) without seeing the full picture. To be clear, I'm not saying that these immigrants are unimportant, just that there is a bigger picture. The person at the consulate said that they had _thousands_ of pending applications for citizenship documents. This is for one country (Germany).

Friends of friends in the Philippines are not interested in coming to the US any more. They want to go to Canada. Filipino immigrants run the US health care system. This relationship is genuinely helpful to the US. US needs more nurses, the Philippines trains them and sends them (not so good for the Philippines, but I'm not looking through that lens in this comment). Why cut off that labor force? Limiting supply (by telling immigrants that they are not welcome) causes real and direct harm to people who need to be taken care of in the US.

The damage of xenophobia and nationalism takes longer than one (US) political term to appear, but the cultural shift is hugely negative for the future. I believe that there are failure modes in globalization, and we are experiencing one now, but scrapping the whole idea is an overreaction. If you want to be part of the solution, find ways to tell people around the world that the US (or the UK) is better than what its politicians say and do.
I don't use --fixup in my own workflow, but I would be happy to accept a patch adding a note about it:

https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/git-rebase.io
Why are you shocked? Is it too high or too low in your estimation?

The US has a similar program (EB5). The investor invests $500k over some period of time and gets back the money. In practice they spend $50k-$100k on a green card plus the opportunity cost of the $500k.
I would say that the Local Area Network of Things has existed for decades, but the intricacies of its deployment means that so far, it’s required a network admin to set up.

The most classical example of such “things” are softphones. They need their own vxlan and switch QOS policies and so forth, to function the way people expect phones to work (rather than flaking out when someone is torrenting.) Softphone deployments exist in plenty of enterprises, but have you ever heard of a SOHO deployment of softphones (where the phones are PBX extensions and can call each-other over the LAN; not where the phones are distinct phone-company DIDs sending IP packets through the gateway, out over the internet, and to the the phone company’s PBX terminus, just to talk to one-another)?

Until we get SOHO router-gateways smart enough to make such a SOHO softphone deployment “installation-free”, we’ll probably never see LANoT.
You can tie a new generation of wire to your existing wire in the wall already and pull the new wire through end to end that way to upgrade your connections behind the walls.
Swarm of bees follow car for over 24 hours (2016)
With the risk of coming across as an everything-is-an-ad kind of person, some of the previous posts I read have the following pattern:

1. Someone asks how can they measure air in their home/workplace

2. Followed by casual name dropping of CO2 sensors or air particle/quality sensors.

No data to back this up just possibly too much aluminium wrapped around my head.
Much of this seems like a natural response to the common attacks made on socialism. The failures of the USSR and PRC are used to write off the entire idea socialism, when the same broad definitions and inability to generate concrete proof plague that side as well.
If this happened in a property you owned, the fire department would kick down the door anyway. This is no different. Why would a landlord even know your property is on fire before the fire department kicked the door down? Emergency services would be there long before the landlord even knew anything was amiss... and there's a high statistical probability that it was me that called emergency services in the first place and the door would be unlocked. I'm not calling my landlord first, shit needs to be dealt with now, not when the landlord finally checks their voicemail.

So this argument makes little sense to me.

And as another commenter notes - that's what renter's insurance is for.
at the rate this is progressing there won't be a permanent moon habitat until the 22nd century. probably a good thing since space humans will need to be genetically modified and quarantined for life.
Yeah but you won't like the answer. It's C.
I really want to love HA, but I find doing things in Node-Red so much quicker and easy to comprehend due to its visual nature. After a gap of about a year, I installed HA again a few weeks back and tried to setup geofencing using first bluetooth and then third party location services, but gave up due to the inconsistent determination of whether I was home or not. Using Node-red and a couple of tutorials I had things working very quickly. YMMV.
Naturally it depends on the data. I've used it when we want to show the most recent version of a record on the public website but we want to keep older copies of of the data to reference with past events. Eg customer's current address can always be identified with id x but the address records for specific past orders reference other records.
Your disclaimer isn't really needed. Good generics support leads to good standard libraries, and using standard libraries is the norm.

Rust is still too young to take advantage of this, but in due time it will.
This new element will likely not show up as a negative on any site analysis reports... a sneaky way to make your site "appear" faster but still be a resource hog.
That sort of thing scares me. I'd rather have it automatically send notifications to me that I need supplies, and let me do the ordering.
There are two sides to this. Most clients will want some form of cost control on their end. If the final proposal has ambiguity, you best bet the client's procurement team or relationship manager will want to discuss this. They have people they report to as well, and it's in their best interest to get the best price. The forecast has to have some form of predictability/reliability, otherwise prospective clients will simply stop returning your emails.
Hopefully the branded item will have better quality control. You see that with camera batteries for example. The name brands seem to take the best batteries of a lot and third party sellers then take the ones that are less according to spec.
Why is it a problem to not have the wasm heap with less than 64KB of memory? At that level you could deal with all your memory explicitly, by creating fixed size arrays.
>There's a lot of evidence that the costs of government go up as local journalism recedes, because there is no one to objectively report on waste, corruption, and inefficiency.

Never considered it, but it seems to make a lot of sense. Would you mind pointing me to the evidence about this you mentioned?
Amazon used to be my go to for the occasional hardware purchase, but now even searching for something simple such as "wireless keyboard" brings up a boatload of sponsored garbage with shady reviews (iClever, VicTsing, Qpao, Mpow, Topelek what the hell are these brands?)
Any GOOD smart lock that you'd want to put on your house will have key backup. You basically have to be a complete douche to install a keyless system in a residential application.
No that's not how it works at all. Autopilots are generally incapable of coping with unexpected system failures or spacecraft damage.

This is the real world, not Star Trek.
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Quality assurance is one thing: many companies that outsource to China have very strict QA setup to prevent being scammed by vendors. Also, while the manufacturing might happen in China, the IP is often not. That bikini’s nice design and the way the material is put together might be more valuable than the assembly. You might think you are getting the real deal, but it turns out it’s just a cheap copy.
Can you elaborate on what you’re talking about?
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Am I missing something? These don’t seem to have anything to do with “gender fluid”, which to my knowledge means someone whose gender is not static (and not even necessarily non-binary).

These just seem like emojis without assigned or assignable gender. If anything, this is the gender analogue to race’s Simpson yellow skin.
"Hostile environment" is literally what the policy is called by its supporters. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_Office_hostile_environmen...

The intention was to make the system as unreasonable as possible in order to reduce overall immigration numbers.

> have you considered the problems right now in Germany, Poland, Greece, Italy?

Which problems are you referring to?
Same goes for HEPA filter purifiers name dropping
Very few tutorials know how to teach well.
Irrelevant because you will always get screwed unless the company has a huge track record in backwards compatibility and very conservative slow changing management.

Get open source hardware and software that you can maintain yourself or suck it up and cough up the dough.
Shouldn't have the acts of Manning granted a little sympathy also among many people inside at this moment? I bet that not everybody is pro-war.

Rich people would have much more offshore properties, business, friends or economic relationships with other countries. They would have much more to lose by wars or unstability than common people [Unless directly feeded by war promoting systems].
Sorry, that's BS. Here in the US, we have chiropractors, homeopathy, TCM, and other "alternative medicine", all making tons of money, and the FDA doesn't do anything at all about it.
Then you almost certainly don’t care about this anyway.
> And in case of emergency (fire, flood, gas/water leak, etc.) where a landlord is unable to get in - guess who's going to pay for damages?

Renter's insurance?
Isn't just having a vpn endpoint at home more than enough?
I find aliexpress very inconvenient and prices are not really much better than amazon or eBay.
As a real world (-ish) example, I wrote some Python code to do some effects on DMX lights. OpenLighting did all the talking to the lights, so the Python code was really just focused on constructing a list of numbers that would eventually find their way into OpenLighting and onto a DMX cable.

Inside the Python code, each light has a Colour, and I built the Colour class with support for various math operators.

Want to make a Colour that's half as bright as another? Colour = OtherColour * 0.5. Want to blend two Colours? BlendedColour = OneColour + AnotherColour.

Doing this made all of the stuff that the code was doing incredibly obvious and straight forward. The alternative would have involved non-obvious helper functions and object methods or doing math directly on the rgb components encapsulated by each Colour object.

This was, for me, somewhat of a "light bulb" moment for operator overloading.
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I agree with this mostly, but I do vaguely pay attention to the space in case there is some smart home application that does end up proving truly useful. I haven't seen anything yet that is compelling to me but it could happen!
Walmart buys a surprising number of US sourced things for a bunch of reasons that are well outside the scope of this comment and basically have to do with the difference between a business that chooses what to sell and buys things by the box car and stocks them on shelves vs a business that basically proxies consumers to many small sellers and also operates a bunch of warehouses.
How long do you need a house to last? 10,000 years? Wood that is protected from the environment will last essentially indefinitely on human timelines. The roof trusses on Notre Dame were 800 years old and showing no sign of stopping (modulo the lack of modern fire protection anyway). Protect wood from being exposed to the elements with a roof and siding and it'll last as long as you need it to. The wood in American houses is on the inside; it's not exposed to the elements like on the shanties/shacks you're perhaps thinking about.

Also, building a whole house out of brick takes a lot of labor. It's simpler (and cheaper) to frame the house with wood and then clad it with siding.
If there's anything to be learned from Nest, I think it would be interesting to se a full open source stack for things like Nest as well as Google Home / Alexa. If the NLP is right, the actual functionality is not hard to replicated means that third party integrations can be easily added/customized. Then you also eliminate the always on problem with everything going through your own servers.

What I'm imagining (all open source):

- Hardware Speaker/Microphone device (can be multiple developed of course on one standard)

- Device OS based on Linux

- NLP engine

- Easy Plug and Play Server Box

- Library / Packages for third party integrations (say Gmail et al, Spotify, Amazon, Weather.com)

- An open app store type system where all of these "skills" can actually be used with any device instead of only existing in one ecosystem

Does something like this already exist?

It would obviously take more technical know how, but I think done right it could really be a big step towards keeping the usefulness of assistants and smart home devices while building in control and security both in lasting time and attacks.
Yeah, a Petawatt is huge, there is nothing on earth (well, see next sentence) that can provide that sort of average power continuously. For comparison, 4PJ is basically the output of a kiloton nuclear weapon, so one second of a PW laser needs a nuclear weapon powering the thing.
>I look at this from a different angle, and to me the U.S. seems very welcoming to highly-skilled immigrants.

That was before Trump was elected.
> AliExpress is a lazy man's Taobao.

Don't you need a mainland bank card and phone number to use Taobao, and also know Chinese?
It's fun watching these "smart" economists trying to tell you what's going to happen, with Lyft and with the upcoming Uber.

The reality is that many people will feel they're able to "beat the market", and they will try to get a chunk of the glory, mostly losing in the effort.
2D and 3D are both vector (as in, a mathematical description of the shape).

Typically when we say "raster graphics", we mean graphics already computed as a set of points, like a bitmap PNG file. But here 2D comes in as a set of curves, and 3D comes in as a set of triangle edges. Both are mathematical descriptions that have to be "rasterized", e.g. transformed from the edge representation to the raster one.
> can provide other people with a pseudo-legitimate access to it

I agree with the rest of your points, but I'm not sure that this is meaningfully different than them loaning out a copy of your key.
There is some postal agreement between countries which makes it possible to deliver packages at a very low cost from China.

But the US wants to end this: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/10/trump...
"...and prospects darken"

It doesn't actually sound like that from the body of the article.

I have no idea if this is true or not, but the story says most of the $1.14B loss was due to booking employee stock based compensation of $894M. I'm assuming that's come out of the IPO and is not a recurring cost.

With revenues of $776M, which perhaps are mostly recurring, doesn't that seem to bode well for the future?

Of course, I'm not sure what we can expect their actual on-going costs or revenues to be. I'm just not seeing any reason for concern in this article fter the headline.
> What would you need to do refactoring operations on such code?

Some tool that can point where in a 1M lines of code project those classes are being used, and if they would need to change.
Two recent discussions about related-though-not-identical Python debugging tools:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19717786

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19772902
Stability in the ecosystem means loss of revenue stream. Disorder must be preserved to generate revenue reliably.
Vim for vsc works pretty well. What don't you like about it! The word and line jump to are great.
Same here. I get really stressed when I see the same thing under 29 different names with different prices.
2FA is already mandatory on Amazon. How well did that work? What you need is U2F.