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Do you know how many Dells, Acers, and Asus laptops have known problems that affect the vast majority of units but will still take shipping your computer on your dime and being without for weeks at a time?

My mother can afford a Macbook, I've told her this, but she insists on buying cheap Dells on sale.

In 3 years she's gone through 3 200-300$ Dells. Every time they break Dell comes back with some untenable repair arrangement and off she goes.

She could have bought a used Macbook Pro 3 years ago, and today it'd be worth more than all of those Dells put together, and odds are it'd be in working condition unlike the 3rd one which she's telling me is picking up a flickering screen issue.

If something broke she could go to the Apple store and get it fixed within a couple of days. Even out of warranty she'd be better off than Dell out of warranty, which is like Apple's out of warranty support... except more expensive and slower.
Could this be used in ads instead of native players, circumventing browser limitations such as auto-play?
Obviously, the implementation would have to get better, but perhaps WebAssembly would make it just bearable enough that ad-ridden sites would allow them to eat up your CPU?
Lasers destroy things by pumping energy into them and melting them or melting through them.

Painting the missile black makes it so that it absorbs energy more efficiently. Making the laser more effective. This is why people are suggesting mirrors as mirrors reflect energy away without absorbing it, but other people have comments about why that won’t work perfectly.

Think of wearing a white vs black T-shirt on a sunny day. Which shirt is hotter? From my experience it’s the black one since it absorbs all the sunlight and heats up; whereas, the white shirt reflects a large amount of it and heats up less.
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Because they are a private citizens and not law enforcement.
They have no real affiliation with law enforcement. They also can't kick down your door or kill your dog like the police can.
How about "people openly flaunting assault weapons"? As someone who lived in Rio most of their life, I think that's a good line to draw.

Opinions filled with "human rights" concerns from people far removed are probably ethically and morally correct, which is... cute.

We're fighting an Urban War over here. This is a Concrete Jungle. This is a crazy post-apocalyptic situation to which most people in Rio grew accustomed to while most people outside Rio can barely picture.

As a police officer once told my wife as she was leaving her house in Rocinha and stopped to be patted down and inquired why was she being selected:

– Mam, do you know where you are? You are not in in Los Angeles. You are not in Paris.

My moral qualms went out the window around the same time my grandmother was murdered by being thrown off a bridge in Aterro do Flamengo.
I am guessing they want to pay $50 for 10 minutes of work instead of $2400 for 8 hours of work.
That was before the record number of killings, which leads the question, will increased brutality of the police force improve or worsen overall security?
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The Factorio guys are just down the road from us at Corona Renderer (a top ray tracing engine) in Prague, I guess we should hang out and talk ray tracing sometime :)
1) People in sunny climates evolved darker skin. When they migrated to places like Scandinavia, their ancestors evolved light skin. Now people live all over and migrate readily, and don't want to wait for their ancestors to evolve skin to match the climate.

2) Prehistoric people had low life expectancies, so if they died of melanoma at age 45, it wasn't a big deal, or they never got to die of melanoma because they were killed by a wild animal or an infection before then. Now people expect to live to an old age, don't have problems with wild animals or wars with neighboring tribes (at least in developed nations), they have antibiotics and neosporin and band-aids to avoid infection from minor wounds, and don't want to die of melanoma.
I'll recommend this link too. Saw it on HN a long time ago. It's quite long but very well explained.

http://archagon.net/blog/2018/03/24/data-laced-with-history/
lol. I do love the way so many foods come up with a "serving" that almost no human customer has ever duplicated.
I've had a similar experience to you with Zabbix in the past. We have it bundled with some HPC stuff I support curently, it's ok but I prefer Sentry/TICK/Prometheus shaped things that we also run.

If you're happy with Icinga2, stick with that. I've used that too at a previous gig and found it better that Zabbix, but my personal take on it. YMMV
The US seems to sometimes honor treaties, and sometimes not. Unless they get caught. Snowden and countless other whistleblowers have taught us that.
Nah, it wasn't you. Those cables are a very common failure. We keep them in stock at our (not apple) computer store.

Normally it's just the cable. Sometimes it's the cable and the OS needs a reload (because whatever goes wrong with the cable causes the drive itself to get corrupted, but not actually physically fail).
This is my personal experience, but for me, considering that the terminal is so frequently used, the small improvements add up over time.

I found the font rendering more pleasant on the eyes. I'm not entirely sure why this is, and I'd be interested to see what options could be tweaked in iTerm2 to make it visually similar, but Hyper just "feels" nicer to look at for me.

Second, I've found it useful to be able to customize my terminal with web technologies. Previously I used a custom prompt with lots of different bits of context (git status, node environment, python environment, Kubernetes context, etc). With Hyper it's been fairly easy for me to create a local plugin that renders a statusbar with those bits of context. It's built with React, CSS, etc, so personally the ability to easily adjust and create is super nice.

Two things I miss from iTerm2 are infinite scrollback and the ability to search output with Command-F. I would assume there's a plugin out there to handle searching, I just haven't looked that far into it yet.

Performance of Hyper 2 was adequate enough for me to switch. I'm interested to see how Hyper 3 compares.

I'm also interested in iTerm2 3.3, which overhauls the iTerm2 UI.

tl;dr - small customizations add up. It's basically the same migration as when I moved from Sublime Text to Atom (though I use VS Code now)
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"... Rio de Janeiro police killed 434 citizens."

All of them were innocents? Why do some journalists insist to call criminals as victims, citizens, and etc?
From the Cryptpad README, gotta love the humor:

The server does have a certain power, it can send you evil javascript which does the wrong thing (leaks the key or the data back to the server or to someone else). This is however an active attack which makes it detectable. The NSA really hates doing these because they might get caught and laughed at and humiliated in front of the whole world (again). If you're making the NSA mad enough for them to use an active attack against you, Great Success Highfive, now take the battery out of your computer before it spawns Agent Smith.
Just posting this here in reply to a comment whose thread was flagged. Context is "whose definition of criminal should we use".

How about "people openly flaunting assault weapons"? As someone who lived in Rio most of their life, I think that's a good line to draw.
Opinions filled with "human rights" concerns from people far removed are probably ethically and morally correct, which is... cute.

We're fighting an Urban War over here. This is a Concrete Jungle. This is a crazy post-apocalyptic situation to which most people in Rio grew accustomed to while most people outside Rio can barely picture.

As a police officer once told my wife as she was leaving her house in Rocinha and stopped to be patted down and inquired why was she being selected:

– Mam, do you know where you are? You are not in in Los Angeles. You are not in Paris.

My moral qualms went out the window around the same time my grandmother was murdered by being thrown off a bridge in Aterro do Flamengo.
We're living in a world where neither the entire political machine of the oval office nor the very spell check on the device he is currently using to type can keep the commander in chief from admitting even to himself that he made a simple spelling mistake. Wow.
It's not a strawman, it tends to be an issue if you work somewhere where the core business is not software and client managers are less used to dealing with software or saas products and make commitments based on what they are more used to.

If the bulk of the business that clients deal with are happy to make ad-hoc changes and updates to delivered delivery materials on a per-hour basis they can often turn those around in a few hours, and then they ask for the same from a computer system and get a shock when they are quoted 10 times the price for a change to a "cheaper" thing. They're paying more for the manual work generally and see the computerised system as a "cheap option".
Colorful dmesg output was already available on Cent7, just not the default.
As you say, it goes both ways. Many kernel vulnerabilities are found and fixed within weeks to months of introducing them, with LTS distros totally unaffected.

And then you have bugs being fixed on master (sometimes silently), and the backport maintainers fail to backport them.
Skimming over it it seems that she's talking about people who don't want to be project managers but end up doing some of the work associated with project managers/scrum masters. Obviously you can argue "why not refuse to do that work?" but I don't know where that goes.
Poor white communities tend to be rural, away from the infrastructure that would support these types of industry. In general, no one builds out there, except for agriculture (which has its own issues; see the on-going fight over smell and water pollution in NC over pigs farming.)

Poor black communities tend to be urban or suburban, right near the cities and commercial hubs where you'd want to build a chemical plant or industrial mill.
A comparison to exa[0] would be interesting as well

[0] https://github.com/ogham/exa
This might not be a coincidence. Police shooting people without due process isn't an ethical system of justice, but it could be an effective way to decrease the homicide rate. In many places, the most powerful gang can only be matched or beaten by the government. And if the most powerful gang is too difficult to deter from murdering people by using due process, having cops kill them would probably reduce the overall homicide rate (even if you tally the police killings as homicides).
No one that this proposal would affect would have any trouble escaping if the government became so poorly run that it started to cause serious problems.

You recognize that this is aimed at higher marginal taxes on those who are already making very large amounts of money, right?
Really wish the chief officers were all directly prosecuted for the actions of the company. They do, after all, receive a majority of the income; why not get the bad with the good? Actions like selling the live location of customers wouldn't be so appealing if it meant 10 years in jail.
Probably because of not knowing about the "edit" button. At least, replying to myself is what I did before I knew I could edit comments.
What is the actual source for those numbers? Rio is not one of the safest capitals in a very long time.

This article seems to be not only old, but very far from the actual numbers.

https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lista_de_unidades_federativas_...
Just because you don't consider yourself part of the audience doesn't mean this isn't intended for heavy terminal users. I'm using it right now and I'm impressed by the performance with dozens of production logs that aren't limited to a thousand lines of scrollback.

Gatekeeping isn't inclusive.
Why is the Brazilian police officer wrong when he kills someone and why is any other officer in any other country right when he does the same? Mistakes happen it's part of this duty of being the police.

It's a matter of solving the issues it's the most important thing.

I was thinking about the other day since the police is so involved why not start investigating the police and what they own so you can understand where there are the bribes.
I’ve run Zabbix with thousands of monitored hosts. It’s not perfect, and it requires some bending to just how Zabbix wants things done, but it’s nice.
We have it monitoring all manner of stuff, hardware, power, cooling, services, batteries, weather, network, disks, etc
"the sharpest decline in history" out of coming from the most violent year in history (2017), mainly due to gang wars.
Also, this particular story is about police killings only, that are up almost 18% from the same period from the previous year.
can governments force people to be fired? That might bring things closer to home.
There's only so much you can do with a 1967-era chassis. It's just like cars: putting nicer seats and stereo in a 1967 body isn't going to make it like a 2019 car.
The only thing that matters is what's in the contract. It doesn't matter if Costa said it worked using gnomes living inside the computer.
Note that the corresponding kernel bug was reported already in 2014.

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85911
fossil from the creator of SQLite
This is an interesting point. I haven't read the applicable wiretapping laws, but from my extremely limited understanding, they apply to the conversation and not the location. As one does not expect privacy when out in the public, how about when one is in the confines of one's own home? Can they legally track me in there since I'm not out in public? Do I have the right to privacy in my own home?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenshin_Nasukawa

MMA.

And Mayweather is a well-known Kung-Fu grandmaster. If you didn't know this, now you know.
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A day would be incredible. We have a show stopping issue with a vendor's software. Several reports we have to run daily takes 6-12 minutes to run, when it should take seconds at most.

I've been communicating with their lead reports developer. The fix is done, tests are written, QA has given it the rubber stamp, but he's simply not allowed to push it to our instance until their next code release on the 22nd. It makes no sense, and it's certainly not how I run our side of things.

In the meantime, my users will lose 6-12 hours of productivity this month (15 days, 4 reports, 6-12 minutes each.)
No. There's a bad reason though. Want to guess what?
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/master/src/basic/ran...

Yes, the old "draining entropy" fallacy.
https://kernelnewbies.org/LinuxChanges more detailed changelog
> Opinions filled with "human rights" concerns from people far removed are probably ethically and morally correct, which is... cute.
We're fighting an Urban War over here.

War is always a good excuse to ignore ethical concerns.
What gets me is that software has been a mainstay of modern business for _at least_ 30 years. And this whole time, every single professional software developer has been telling every single non-software developer the exact same thing, over and over: this takes longer to do than you think. If, say, 80% of developers were knocking things out, problem free, in an hour or two and the other 20% were hanging back like a 50’s union boss saying, “yeah, that’s going to be an all-day job easy”, then maybe I could understand why they STILL think we’re lying. Even if 20% of the devs could get things done in the time they seem to think it takes and the other 80% were hemming and hawing I could still understand this perspective. But that’s not the ratio. 0% of devs can reliably complete tasks in the time that MBA’s seem to think it should take and 100% of devs take longer than they “wish” it would take and THEY STILL AREN’T PAYING ATTENTION.
Hopefully everyone will stop buying Boeing planes and they'll go out of business. They deserve it for what they did with the 737MAX.
I wanted something that i) is simple to host and edit, ii) did not require me maintaining a server somewhere, and iii) it was easy to go from Jupyter notebooks to a post.

So I opted for Pelican (https://blog.getpelican.com/) which has a plugin for converting Jupyter/IPython notebooks into blog posts. It is hosted in S3. If you are curious, here it is: http://ramondario.com/
The article is clear on it being allowed.
Echoing the part that if you use Game Bar, you probably use it frequently. It's the easiest way to pull up a clock in a fullscreen game without losing focus from the game. There's also useful things there like screenshot capture, multi-window volume control, and game mode control (prioritize the game's threads over background work on the PC; sometimes you do want to enable/disable it based on if you need a compile to happen in the background sometime soon or if you want to focus on the best gaming experience you can get).

(Furthermore, the updates to the Game Bar currently in Xbox Insider Preview right now add a ton of new useful widgets including things like direct access to your Xbox Friends list without needing to jump to the Xbox App. It's becoming an even better PC-world equivalent to the Xbox Guide blades on an Xbox One. Bringing things closer to what you can do with the Discord or Steam overlays, but universal across all your games rather than developer or launcher specific. [Hopefully the widgets will be extensible in the future and maybe help us move to a world where it can eat those other two overlays; one overlay to rule them all.])
>any legal right to sue //

Nitpick, but you can sue for anything, just not necessarily be successful at it.

This, along with [AIUI] not default providing an award of costs to a successful plaintiff in USA, makes it possible to sue and get a substantial out of court settlement because the risk profile is such that this is cheaper than paying your defence lawyers considering the [mathematical] expectation that you might lose a case that seemingly has no merits.

This is why you get warnings like "chainsaws are dangerous and may cause bodily injury or death, only for use by certified personnel". Then you can't [it is hoped by all reasonable people!] successfully claim that your naivety should have been accounted for, as it was by the warning.
I do not think that is a good email for discussing a single, small feature. No client is going to want to read it. It's too long and detailed (1855 words!) and will probably only _increase_ their frustration.

It is a good idea to discuss with stakeholders, at a high level, why things _seem_ to take long, but I find that works best as a conversation. No one wants a tome like this in their inbox.
It's a one-sided contract. What recourse would any particular rider have when the bus is late or doesn't show at all? Governments can ignore their obligations with virtual impunity.
Servicing a client with a very tight budget is a colossal pain. It might be inevitable early in your career but try to get past it as soon as you can. If your client has more time than money they will waste a lot of your time quibbling over price.

The best clients have more money than time and will pay you well to make their problems disappear. They pay you to think about the software for them, so they can spend their valuable time thinking about the business instead.
>Ironically, Rio de Janeiro is considered one of the safest capitals in Brazil [1]. The absolute numbers are high, but that's a huge city with millions of habitants.

Rio police are also globally considered fascist butchers... with frequent news stories of indiscriminately killing favela residents, kids, etc.

https://www.hrw.org/news/2018/08/16/police-killings-are-out-...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/feb/14/brazil-13-dead...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/30/brazil-rio-pol...

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2018/07/brazil-police...

https://www.humanium.org/en/children-victims-violence-brazil...

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/22/world/americas/police-kil...
> I'm not a dev, but this feels like arguing with a strawman.

It's not. I make the same complaint about developers I manage and it's so prevalent across the industry, I'm surprised you think it could be fiction. Of course, in large companies with a glut of process, making a change on a production system without testing is basically unthinkable. The reality is that most businesses have nothing more than production to work with.

People STOP saying things like this, when they are berated and/or overwhelmed and/or discouraged by details, as outlined in this letter...enough times.

Interesting fact: I worked on DrLaura.com's forum website in the late 90's when the naked college photos of her came out. They constantly were deleting posts and threads regarding the photos. Then, they ROUTINELY deleted entire forums. I put 7! popup warnings in front of this action, and the owners kept complaining that the moderators were doing it "accidentally" too often.

Never underestimate the tenacity and willful blindness of customers.
What do you mean by "not fully collaborative"? Both presented solutions seems like quite collaborative.
> I can walk into a grocery store with either a million-dollar suite, or a tshirt/shorts, and I still expect the same customer service.

Oh. Is that borne from past experience? Because my experience living in a very accepting, liberal city, tells me the opposite. Unless your tshirt and shorts are from j crew.
I love neon.

The golden era of neon was the 1950's and Las Vegas was the epicenter. Vegas was built and controlled by the mob, as was Cuba in that era. Therefore it might be good to make people aware of that part of the restoration's history - you are looking at one of the reasons why there was a revolution and why the mob and their cronies were kicked out.
Since you want to draw both lands and petitioners, there's an advantage to having a smaller deck, so this probably wouldn't be the case.
Nothing! Except that they specifically wanted to become a senior engineer and not a manager.
Homicide rate more than halved in a trend that was already bearish. Reduction went from 13% in Jan 2018 to 25% in Jan 2019. I find this outstanding enough to be considered a new trend in itself.
So you round up a judge and jury to check in with some objective observers. And it so happens that all those people are friends or business associates of the murderer. Maybe the murderer is even giving them a portion of the money he takes out of the victims' wallets. Now what?
Maybe the person doesn't want to be a PM. She filled gaps she saw and helped raise the team up, instead of doing the work she wanted to do, which is quite possible in a modern self-organizing agile team. Instead of rewarding this effort, leadership saw the lack of technical productivity as an indicator she can't do the work.

One of the best PMs I've ever worked with was a technical individual contributor until he was told given the feedback that he is really really really good at organizing and leading, and that's what he should do.

There are two different approaches here: 1. You can't do technical work, so try this other role that you've been doing already because hey, it turns out we need that role and 2. Hey, we've noticed you've been independently filling a gap we know or didn't know we had. Nice work! Want to transition to that role full-time?