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The Rise of Consumption Equality
It could be, but then after investing a billion dollars what happens when someone develops another algorithm?

What happens when a programming language with different gc requirements become popular?
You can be both vigilant and incompetent. For example, when you're being extremely vigilant over civilians noticing a glaring weak point instead of fixing it.
It really feels to me as if a lot of teachers join the profession only because they are power-hungry and want some powerless kids to abuse, something like an authority complex. We had teachers at our school print low quality invitations to an event for the students and high quality ones for the teachers. We also had a kid that was expelled from school for insulting a teacher after the teacher insulted him much more heavily first. Every single person that I have talked to had at least four extremely crappy teachers while at school.
Not sure why you are getting downvotes. The question is literally asking for people who don’t like vscode to voice their criticisms.
So basically; don't get mugged, don't click on weird links. Got it.
Also the new mortgage stress test rules and the increase in rates from 2.5% to 3.5% or so
Singapore Gov Subsidises Costs of Law Firm Tech Adoption
At least in the UK, the calling number is nowadays almost always spoofed.

I don't know enough about the telephone system to know if number spoofing is something providers could prevent?
Yeah good point, totally forgot about that. Will add one right now
Most users don't want control - more things to think about takes energy and time. The users that do want control, however, are likely to be the users championing your product. Take a standard transmission in automobiles - the extra control it gives isn't necessary, and a large number of consumers prefer the automatic transmission. But the racecar drivers and car lovers are much more likely to want a standard. If you have intelligent, invested users, they'll want control options, and they'll usually tell you what they should be.
This might be about to change as Australia has an election due in the next few week.

The current government is very much pro-coal and have spent the last six years working hard to hinder the renewable sector.

The opposition is much more renewable friendly.

The polls suggest there is a growing mood in the community for action on climate change, which might see the current government removed. Time will tell.

However if the current government do manage to hang on then Australia's love of coal will definitely continue for at least the next three years.
LGR is a hero :)
Could you explain further or give links to more information? I'd love to read about old-timey techniques for programming in GCed languages.
How is it disingenuous? You said that heists were "vanishingly rare" outside of Bitcoin.

As it happens, your cash in the bank is being slowly devalued via inflation as the banks are constantly making new money in the form of loans.

Bitcoin being the way it is is a feature, not a bug. If you don't get it, that's fine, but don't make ridiculous claims like only bitcoin is susceptible to crime and incompetence.
The pdp-8 panel designers needed a way to secure the front plastic bezel to the front of the machine. They added a power key lock switch on the left and panel key lock switch on the right. They were there mostly to hold the front panel together, but the idea was copied by their competitors (Data General etc) and soon became a minicomputer standard.
Analysis of BTC, LTC and Bat
There's a resurgence of alt-right parties in Europe; this isn't just a US thing. I bet there are European Kekistanis just like this boy, but that just proves politics doesn't care about borders now that everything's online.
A bit like the Raspberry Pi when it's not made of berries... ;)
An interesting take on a place where they did their best to accommodate is Slate Star Codex's Culture War thread on Reddit [0]. I've wrestled with this for a while but as Youtube, Facebook and Twitter become ubiquitous, forcing views contrary to internal ones off the platforms is wildly irresponsible. On the other hand, I don't see why I, as a platform, should host content I find objectionable. I do agree it's money-driven but it doesn't work long-term; it's an interesting problem and I hope a phase of maturity comes soon because it's not as if alternative views can just set up their own platforms [1].

[0] - https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/02/22/rip-culture-war-thread...

[1] - https://www.cnet.com/news/gab-is-down-as-godaddy-paypal-pull...
Damn them all. God, let them all be devastated.
It explicitly does not. It means there are additional barriers to doing it - people would need to accept a bad cert (we already know the overwhelming majority will), or they would need to slip in their own CA that allows them to generate their own valid certs for MITM, but that is eminently doable for the Chinese government inside of China. They can then block all traffic for people that do not use the cert that allows them to decrypt said traffic. It functionally is the exact same thing, and would still allow "legitimate" traffic without problem.
Scarce? There are plenty of them available.
So there's no way to keep a journey history on Apple devices using Apple maps?
That's a major part of what I've done recently, trying to significantly reduce complexity, and contribute to clients to make them more discoverable and require less knowledge to fully utilize them.

The goal is to get rid of the historic interfaces which required a lot of RTFM, and instead to allow users to discover functionality through the UI easily.

If you have any suggestions on what to improve regarding UX of Quasseldroid (my main project), I'd love to hear suggestions, as I'm always interested in improving its UX and learning more about UX design. After all, I, as quasseldroid maintainer, am just one student, not a team of highly paid UX designers.

(And personally, I'm a huge fan of tools like Zulip, Mattermost and Matrix as well — we're all fighting on the same side, after all :)
Keeping your government honest/keeping it from slipping towards tyranny doesn't require power parity with the standing army. At the end of the day, all politics and all government is local. You remove a government's legitimacy by rendering your territory un-governable. So who are the implements of state power at the local level?

Police chiefs. Mayors. Governors. District attorneys. Tax collectors. Etc.... You don't need tanks and aircraft to render these people incapable of performing their functions. Small arms (and maybe some improvised explosives) are sufficient. That's the true leverage and power of an armed citizenry backed by a supportive population. Afghanistan has repeatedly (and continues) to prove this.
So, it depends a lot what you consider an 'official relationship'. You cannot pay and be supported on CentOS. If you talk to Red Hat and you say 'we have CentOS running', the first thing they'll talk to you about is how do you migrate to RHEL, because no officially-supported products from RH run on CentOS.

That said, it is in RH's best interest to have a free version of RHEL that customers can try out and migrate their workloads to, precisely because it's easy to migrate them to RHEL. So yes, in that sense, there's some relationship.

You're correct though that there's a lot more relationship than I previously thought. Thanks for the link! I'll update my knowledge :).
I want to like it but I have some problems with it.

I’m trying to use it to replace Jupyter notebooks, but some things don’t work like I expect, the UI feels cluttered, and for some reason I’ve been having weird issues with the autocomplete when running code in kernels.

Right now I still prefer my Jupyter lab + pycharm setup. I may continue to try and learn better workflows with VScode because I think it has the potential to replace both for me and alleviate many pain points.
Do you know who Rodney King is?

Which appropriate authorities investigated his beating?
but you haven't worked a minimum wage job.
and that hasn't been the only option available to you.
In the UK drug companies aren’t allowed to advertise prescription drugs.
We have to use Concur at the megacorp where I work - it truely is awful. It's slow, clunky, and often just gets in your way.

For example, if I attach a receipt, the "receipt is attached" toggle remains off - you still have to manually change it!

The "cost allocation" stuff is also an unnecessary waste of time, and things often seem to be off by a penny, which causes Concur to complain and prevents submission.

I could go on..

For such a large scale system, I just can't fathom the UX or performance.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UCgoxQCf5Jg

Jumped in front of a train. r.i.p he had around 7% on suicide pain scale.
Depends on where you get the Psilocybin from. Search "Magic Truffles"
Apparently, they use psexec to remotely execute programs: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/psex...

"Utilities like Telnet and remote control programs like Symantec's PC Anywhere let you execute programs on remote systems, but they can be a pain to set up and require that you install client software [%] on the remote systems that you wish to access. PsExec is a light-weight telnet-replacement that lets you execute processes on other systems, complete with full interactivity for console applications, without having to manually install client software [%]."

[%] They probably mean server software.

So, where is the server software itself documented? Is it started by default on each system? It seems to be some kind of poor man's version of SSH ...
Not exactly an answer to your question... but you may find a skim of this article delightfully (or horrifyingly) Kafkaesque: https://www.travel-industry-blog.com/travel-industry/ndc/
Isn’t that convection? The air coming in to contact with the hot surface rapidly heats and rises and cooler air rushed in to replace it.

I thought that’s what we saw as per your instructions? I thought air (mostly nitrogen and oxygen) is mostly transparent to infrared radiation?
Research use is one but you have to show that re-consenting is an unreasonable effort. Research use comes with a obligation to make sure data is anonymous and results have to be made public (for the common good).
Seems to be one of the main risks for any specialized circuits, if I understand you correctly. You always have to guess "will this really be relevant long enough to invest the money to bake it into hardware?" .. and if you guess wrong you just wasted a part of your silicon budget for something no one will use.
Ok, so saving 15 percent of 10 percent of power use by changing both how we build processors and how we write software. Doesn't seem worth it.
Facebook workers who do the hardest job are waging a quiet battle
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>Try to imagine a world where "appropriate authorities" do not exist, as a first step.

Places where these materials get captured are not first world countries with respectable, recognised law enforcement...

I've lived in these nations, and if you can send via internet to Twitter, you can send to the UN. In fact, you can send to both at the same time.
> I'm sorry, but you don't get to do that! `fascism` already has an established meaning. Please make up a new word for what you believe `fascism` means

I see your point, but honestly, that's not how language work. Changes in meaning over time are not so uncommon, and "fascist" has been used in a loose sense for years (at least in Italian), but looking at Wikipedia this holds for English too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definitions_of_fascism
I think everyone is about to make custom hardware.

A recent custom chip project I have been a part of for basically a decade is nearing production.

Made on a fairly large, old process. Despite this, many custom features have been added. For many tasks, the performance will be competetive with much more complex, resource intensive devices. It is built in a way that allows for efficient, multi core computing, concurrent or parallel, sans an OS.

People will write those, but many will just grab the pieces they want, put them on cores, then write their target app on top. The prior version, Propeller 1, made doing that a lot easier than one might think.

What struck me was the combination of very well planned silicon, coupled with software, can really perform. It reminds me of the custom chips we saw in early computing. Amiga, SGI, many others made adapter cards to get things done.

All of that stuff nailed the tasks cold, would always perform. As CPUs got quicker, more could be move to software of course.

But now that is hard again

Software plus purpose built silicon is going to deliver peak performance.

Always has.

In that project, it took years, but a great many use cases were considered, FPGA simulations ran, code written, and then augmented with hardware, special instructions and sub systems intended to maximize performance while retaining a lot of flexibility.

The way I see it, general purpose computers may just end up back where they were before.

In 8 bit times, an Apple 2 was an all software machine. People bought and made cards to do specific things very well. Other computers had custom chips that focused on games, etc...

In the later era, Amiga, SGI made great hardware that was focused on specific things, while the PC was more like the Apple 2.

We are currently leaving a long era where general purpose computing made sense for most cases, and software got refined, things got faster, and we saw many good cycles.

Soon, more efficient CPU designs, often with well tuned instructions for given tasks may be directing a lot of purpose built silicon. Phones and tablets vs laptops give us a tiny look at one part of how it might go.

GPU instances, specialized network maybe filesystem CPUs with highly optimized instruction sets already exist.

More will come.

Many use cases can benefit from real time or just faster performance per watt. Software plus custom silicon will nail that, and it is getting easier to do.

RISC V has plans for specialized instructions baked in. It may well be that "one to bind them all", nudging out the more expensive ARM, for example. And maybe not. ARM is lean and mean and mature. Who knows?

All I know is the drive to do more per watt as well as the drive to improve peak sequential compute, because there are still too many use cases where doing that makes sense, given either the nature of the problem space, or accumulates software warrant the effort.

We are already seeing the GPU idea expanded on.

Gonna be interesting and more difficult times ahead.
In the same vein: http://ditaa.sourceforge.net
These tech companies decide, often in unison, to deplatform people, types of legal content, or political views. There is clearly coordination among news outlets, social media companies, and tech companies (everything from payment processors to web hosting).

Who is doing this coordination? To what end?

Is there a common thread in the deplatforming, smearing, and silencing campaigns?
Sometimes they leave a message on the voicemail, and in this case you do have a number to be called back. I wonder if it would be legal for you to recall them using a robodialer.

Say you implement something like this: https://www.wombatdialer.com/blog/blog/2017/03/17/outbounds-... this is a reverse IVR, that keeps calling until it gets an explicit acknowledgement. It is cheap to run (you set up a FreePBX somewhere), it does not tire, and can go on until it gets a confirmation.
The goal of the United Nation is to prevent another world war. Minor atrocities are accepted as long as everyone stays at the table.
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I am not arguing about the existence of Hardvard arch. on MCU's but rather on the fact that most of the time, RAM and ROM memory accesses happen in the same address space. For sure, the underlying HW might connect you to different buses, but on a lot of MCU's, from the programmer's perspective, the address space is a big flat area containing everything.

For sure, my experience has probably tainted my outlook. I have the most experience with Renesas MCU's and for example on them, I can surely run programs straight from the RAM, and depending what you're doing, you might sometimes be forced to do so. I worked with Cortex M also, and they're flat address space too.

I did check out the specs for Atmega MCU's and it seems those, as you described have different address spaces for data and code areas. What I want to say, I guess is that you can have a huge variety of options and architectural approaches for MCU's.
"Singh appeared tired, but a leader who was confident in his position and who saw a bright future for his company."

A company (Docker) selling a product which you don't need because you can simply package your application and its configuration as an OS package has no future since it's selling snake oil.
I do not think that sitting alone during breaks and only talking during the other 6 hours when you raise your hand to answer a question that a teacher asks really counts as socialization.
stabilization, to avoid getting upside down all the time, he could have used ballasts as well
His point is it's not rocket science. Preallocate and pool what you might need, don't call new in your tight loop. Change the GC algorithm to something that never runs unexpectedly. If you're still allocating such that you need GC eventually, manually GC at an appropriate time like a load screen.
tanks, aircraft, nuclear weapons etc

While I sympathize with where you're coming from, modern insurgents with AK47s and IEDs seem to be holding their own against the most technologically advanced army the world has ever seen. The Uyghurs don't seem to be fairing so well. It does make me wonder if the Red Dawn masturbatory crowd has at least a little bit of a point.
That's a big claim, knowing the GPS coordinates along a whole road, for example, instead of a segment means that road can be mapped. Knowing hotspots of users allows both reporting of congestion likelihood and focus for manual corrections.

I mean a full journey record is useful in itself for some people; no data collection means no telling when someone set off, no feature to keep relatives informed of your location, all sorts of things are ruled out.

Perhaps you mean they only keep anonymised data, but even that rules out some of these neat features.
That would explain the arrest and silence from all parties. They don't want to wake up the hornet nest.
How Webhook.site handles 100 mbit/s traffic on a single VPS
Doesn't Expensify have a landing page?! https://www.expensify.com

Color me confused.
Social media use is not a strong predictor of life satisfaction
On political topics, Wikipedia is extremely untrustworthy. Paid political workers are writing things like that. Lots of definitions have been changing over the past decade or two. Fascism and also Nazi would not normally have included "right-wing" in the definition in the prior century.
its not that people can't see truth due to intelligence.
the ability to see truth has requires only average levels of g.
rather, the ability is bestowed as a gift.
the gift is in the form of trauma through which the actual state of things forcefully injects itself into one's consciousness uprooting the foundations of self and inserting itself.
and until death, it stays.
Of course there is an imbalance of power. There's no way an individual that feels threatened by the external collective can fight back with a gun or two. Even if you're the prepper type who's stocked up on ammo and well prepared, that fight is eventually going to end with you losing. Life isn't Rambo where an individual takes on an entire collective and comes out the winner.

Even then, it is better to go out with at least a little bit of a fight if you're attacked. In the end I suppose it doesn't matter whether you're carrying or not, because even if you are able to defend yourself from an attack by the collective, that is only a momentary win. They'll get you in the end anyway.
A theory on psilocybin's role in human evolution:

https://www.inverse.com/article/34186-stoned-ape-hypothesis

It's best to listen to audio of Terence himself laying out the theory, he's a fantastic orator.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhFC-sVa9AE
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”As for energy savings, many garbage collectors have amortized energy use lower than malloc/free”

For those wondering: that’s because malloc/free ‘visits’ every dead object, while garbage collection visits the live ones (another way to say that: free collects garbage, the moment it is created, GC collects non-garbage, periodically) and there typically is way more garbage than non-garbage.

I haven’t seen energy usage comparisons that include extra energy use due to GC’s higher memory usage, though. That possibly is because it is hard to quantify. On current technology, you pay for your RAM’s energy usage the moment you power it on, whether you need it or not)
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Right. Got it.

There may still be room for specialized GC assist circuits.
This might be of interest not only for a burner number but also as a cheap and secure mobile line to use as dedicated 2-FA where SMS is the required, and only, available method.

Ting (ting.com) offers mobile service for $6/mo/line. They sell SIM cards for $1 so buy a few, then you can always spin up a new line on-demand. They support TOTP/U2F 2-FA, toggling call/text/data service, block porting, multiple call forward options, device auth/deauth/activation/suspention, # port blocking, etc., competent friendly humans provide on-demand phone support, and unlimited hassle free referral bonuses (you get $50 for initial referral $25 for unlimited others, people you refer get $25).
Title should be, "This Is How Google Will Collapse (2017)"
Unfortunately Unpaywall (tip: install the browser extension!) doesn't find any: https://unpaywall.org/10.1016/j.apergo.2005.01.018

So unless you're willing to go the illegal route through Sci-Hub, I'm afraid you're out of luck.
Ask HN: Why are phone numbers considered a secure personal identifier?
I travel quite a bit and change phone numbers often. Most of the time when I am traveling I am in locations that have poor or nonexistent cellular service.

This often causes problems with services (Paypal, banking apps, messangers, etc.) due to my inability use two factor auth and text-message based confirmation messages.

It seems to me that phone numbers are a horrible identifier due to the way they can be transferred between users of a carrier. Services like Ting have made short term numbers easy to use, and I often get two-factor auth messages from previous users of a number.

Is this purely a business case for data mining, or is there a legitimate security reason for relying on something as ephemeral as a phone number for critical identification mechanisms?

I have debated using Twilio to create my own number pool of international numbers and a way to check my messages via a web portal instead of relying on messaging. Are there any current apps / services that already do this effectively?
I'm not a huge fan of SOLID. It's treated as a pillar of software development, but I feel like some of the advice sounds good or is right but isn't terribly useful(SL), one was so terrible it was rebranded(O), and some are a useful tool more than a design goal(ID).

Single responsibility principle - something we can all agree on but doesn't help you decide between two non hideous designs

Open/Closed Principle - the original advice was so terrible that we ignore it and pretend it means something else that has very little to do with open/closed

Liskov - technically true but very few applications are bad or incorrect because of this violation(especially with the recent move away from inheritance)

Interface Segregation - Sure it's useful to split up interfaces sometimes.

Dependency Injection - Sometimes useful for testing or IOC.
Uber’s losses are nothing like young Amazon’s