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Lowes bought the Craftsman line from Sears so you can still buy good hand tools.
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It's like a giant SAD lamp, only you share it with other people
Awesome work, it’s really cool to see the progress being made in ModellingToolkit.jl.

As someone who spends more time on symbolic mathematics than numerical mathematics, I’ve often wished that Julia’s symbolic libraries had the same sort of energy behind them that the numerical libraries had. But it’s great to see that a lot of the work put into the numerical libraries is relevant to the symbolic ones.
Nasa reveals funding needed for Moon program, says it will be named Artemis
There's also the curiously peculiar, and consistent, wording from companies that deny their involvement in programs such as PRISM [1]. As people seem to have forgotten about PRISM, NSA slides not meant for public consumption stated it enabled "extensive, in-depth surveillance on live communications and stored information" with examples including email, video and voice chat, videos, photos, voice-over-IP chats (such as Skype), file transfers, and social networking details.

But here's the fun part. Here are the corporate denials:

- Google: "We have not joined any program that would give the U.S. government direct access to our servers."

- Apple: "We do not provide any government agency with direct access to our servers."

- Facebook: "We do not provide any government organization with direct access to Facebook servers."

And so on. An exploit with plausible deniability enables these companies to make these comments completely truthfully, and at least mostly truthfully if they claim they are not providing a backdoor. But more to the point, there is absolutely no reason these companies would all say "direct access" as that's very specifically a subset of "access." If you do not facilitate direct or indirect access, why would you not simply say access? If this were a one-off thing, that'd be one thing since on occasion some PR is... odd. But literally all the companies were saying the exact same very peculiar thing. That's not a coincidence.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_%28surveillance_program%...
I haven't used it, but there's idyll[0], which was used, among other things, to make an excellent interactive article about the JPEG format[1].

[0] https://idyll-lang.org/

[1] https://parametric.press/issue-01/unraveling-the-jpeg/
re)use re)recorded re)solution.

It allows git to record and re-use how merge conflicts are resolved. It's an esoteric command that 9/10 users will probably never use. But if part of your day job is, say, merging your startup's[1] local development with that of an upstream project[2], you will come to love this command very very quickly.

1) Rockmelt; 2) Chromium.
There are a number of things that could be done to improve the experience with proprietary drivers, but all of them undermine the Linux driver philosophy. For the kernel community, any driver that is not mainlined is doing it wrong (and there are a number of compelling arguments behind this position), so the out of tree / proprietary driver experience is intentionally not improved.
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Not saying you're wrong about the eye adapting, but note that Collins was not a moonwalking astronaut. I've considered that this could be some difference between viewing the solar corona from the command module as opposed to the surface. It could also be memory issues. Perhaps they ran so many drills with a simulated solar corona photographing sequence that the guy who stayed in the sky mixed up this experience and the real thing, whereas Armstrong knew what it actually looked like. I've entertained wilder thoughts as well, but on the whole I think there's probably a mundane, down-to-moon explanation for the disagreement and elbow nudge.
> Before flatpack and snapcraft there was no sane way to install third-party software.

This is simply false, because AppDirs and AppImage existed long before those. And of course static binaries existed since the beginning. Sadly, Linux user space is such a horrific mess that none of those much simpler and saner solutions took off, so now we have to put up with non-portable garbage like Snap and Flatpak that are still tied to a repo model.
This is basically a clone of Gram Games' 1010! played on a smaller 8x8 grid.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gramgames....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inquisitorial_system

Some such systems, such as the one in Germany, don't have "jury of your peers," but a panel of professional jurists who act as both judge and jury.
So they can charge you 3 times as much
I keep meaning to try them out, although I have a bit of trouble parsing their product lines / names at times ;)
The USPS is all shenanigans. I had something shipped to my office and they told me they "couldn't access the building." There's a USPS location inside the building.
I doubt that's a long-term plan, I suspect it will all come together in some big Cable-Busting Netflix competitor announcement in the future.
> The argument is although they appear to offer you value up front, they cost you much more down the road.

I always enjoyed this[0][1] take on that sentiment.

“Although it may seem trite to say it, Object/Relational Mapping is the Vietnam of Computer Science. It represents a quagmire which starts well, gets more complicated as time passes, and before long entraps its users in a commitment that has no clear demarcation point, no clear win conditions, and no clear exit strategy.”

[0] https://blog.codinghorror.com/object-relational-mapping-is-t...

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20180118171352/http://blogs.tedn...
Interestingly the same seems to be true for D, another language in a somewhat similar space to Nim. https://forum.dlang.org has source code hosted at https://github.com/CyberShadow/DFeed
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Nothing against the post. It’s sharing tips. I’m talking about what the other commenters are talking about. The ‘difficulty’.

Reason I posted top-level is that it isn’t an indictment of any specific “this is hard” poster but of the general view. I don’t know when it started becoming this common belief but it’s not true.
Any idea which version of CentOS this was encountered on?
Could it be that it can bring Disney Plus everywhere (I assume they have distribution rights on their own media), while Hulu is a mishmash of content rights, and still hasn't made it to Canada?

It might also be branding - Disney wants everything Disney to scream DISNEY, as opposed to Hulu content.
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Definitely one of the most efficient ways. All the literature about expert performance stress on deliberate practice.
Lemon pepper on macaroni and cheese!
We reap what we sow.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSxihhBzCjk
Yeah, it's everywhere.
> "I can lose something for you in 2 seconds _in_ git."

You just demonstrated losing something that was not in git... All you've demonstrated is that neglecting to put something into git is a good way of losing it.
> What I wonder: why did it take them this long?

What I wonder: why didn't USPS start an e-commerce business?
What a great read. I had to setup a VPN to read it since the country I'm in (Vietnam) blocks the BBC, but it was well worth it. The scrolling feature of the article was also interesting... at first I reloaded my page because I thought it timed out loading.
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it's concocted because that's something you'd never do.
The author specifically said, "child's organ", not adults.
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Gasoline 12,888 Wh/kg

(I don't post this to be annoying contrarian in a discussion of battery tech. The externalities of burning carbon aside, it's just astonishing how effective gasoline is a relatively safe, stable means of transporting energy.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density
Maybe I'm being slow, but what is the obvious solution?

The article doesn't really go into how or why the Yangtze, for instance, has so much plastic. The Yangtze is is 6,300 km long. It seems difficult to prevent people from dumping in it along it's entire length.

Are thinking of setting up a filter at the mouth? Processing 4000 tons of plastic a day, including microscopic beads, doesn't seem trivial to me.

Is your assumption that there's only a few major dumpers?
Central London (of all places!) also has really quiet and walkable side streets.
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Welcomed and encouraged to submit their driver for consideration. I would guess that the vast majority of vendor-proprietary drivers would get rejected from upstream, so for most cases the viable options for vendors wishing have an driver in mainline are to improve an existing reverse-engineered driver or rewrite the driver to fit the kernel standards.
*reflect

Deflect means to shield an area from sun; this project is to bring sunlight into a perpetually shaded area.
If one or two dozen human genes specific to brain development (out of the approximately 20,000 total in the human genome) can be spliced into other primates, then in a country where these would not in any way be legally considered human it might be possible to perform experiments on the resulting (legally) animal brains to allow creation of such a simulation. Of course we all know no country is performing such gene splicing, cough, cough.
Linux is much more than general distros and closed source drivers are pain in the ass for everybody. Vendors should just mainline the support for their HW, especially if they benefit from Linux overall.
That's fair. It would be interesting to have data that compares all of the job classes out there and the number of workers out there, against the worker education.

Ie, how many millions of food service workers, manual laborers, and drivers (for trucks, taxis, etc) could move upward in career depth? Where would we expect them to be absorbed?

I definitely think this is hairy waters, in the sense that I want to see studies done. Planning for how it can be handled. Etc. Calling it fine in my view would suggest we don't even need to study it - which seems unfair. This degree of automation, assuming we can get over some AI hurdles of course, seems unparalleled - at least enough to warrant real data.
The most popular browser is made by an ad targeting company.

It would be foolish of them to enable this by default.
Many researchers are more interested in the non-military options. But you get better funding when you pitch it for the military.
Or use it for ad targeting and much else Google uses it for.

For example Apple's machine learning processing happens on-device, rather than on Google's servers.
So nice to see more and more companies focusing on sustainable working hours.

I'm curious how you go about finding these companies to write about. Have you already heard of them? Do they reach out? Do you have some special search terms to find them?
I didn't have experiences of this, but is recommended storage in disk or better in one CDN:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6472233/can-i-store-imag...
Notification requests from a UX perspective – this needs to stop now
At some point grocery chains may include that feature on their apps, which for the most part mostly focus on displaying coupons. The app would include the breakdowns and amounts spent, I can see that helping with customer loyalty.
Great job with Openland! I love the ability to chat with a group of people that are going through the same problems as us with the startup <3
Countries aren't really "punishing" themselves. First, it's mostly cities/local groups banning certain plastic. Second, it's not a punishment to get rid of single-use plastic; we haven't had it for thousands of years and we don't need it moving forward. Third, Western countries have little power compared to corporations here; do we need to go over all the abuses of corporations vis a vis Asia?
Let's see how the US handles its own trash now, since China has stopped importing it.

Well, there was a New York Times article a few weeks ago about how the cardboard that used to be shipped to China for recycling is now being recycled domestically into Amazon boxes, and paper mills in Wisconsin are reopening, being retrofitted to handle recycled cardboard, and bringing workers back to run them.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/22/business/cardboard.html
Yes but as somebody said earlier they can't make more cars to make use of that
+1 for OpenWRT

I've had a Linksys WRT1900AC since its release (specifically on the promise of OpenWRT support)

The device has gradually gotten better and better with each OpenWRT release. These days I get a blistering 60MB/s file transfers over Wi-Fi to my laptop. Even with newer, "faster"
specced devices on the market, I really can't see any compelling reason to upgrade
No that’s not true. Western militaries are all pushing hard to ‘fight light’ these days.
This is sort of off topic, but this valley is pretty famous actually for being a strategic place in World War II (but not widely known) because it was a crucial source of heavy water.

If you haven't seen it already, I'd highly recommend the Netflix series "The Heavy Water War" (trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_K3Ry2K4yNE)
Is there any area in particular that seems problematic?
> "You can export data from Github or Gitlab."

And then do what with it, import it into your own bugzilla instance? Have you ever tried that? It's a nightmare.
Per the article, that IS the long-term plan.

>>> Disney sees Hulu as a key pillar in its direct-to-consumer strategy, serving as a home to more adult-oriented entertainment fare alongside the upcoming Disney Plus (launching in November in the U.S.) and the ESPN Plus sports package. Disney says it’s likely the trio of streaming services will be bundled together at a discount at some point.
Yep, mercurial really is better, but it is also noticeably slower. I used git for about a decade, and now use hg at my job. Recently, I used used git again while playing around with something over a weekend. I instantly remembered why I loved it so much. There is really something to be said for commands resolving practically before you have noticed you pressed enter. I wonder if this is inherent or accidental; I don't know the mercurial data model well enough to understand why it would be necessarily laggier.
That’s a bizarre mix of units...
We ran a large e-commerce company main site solely on a single (with HA) SQL Server database. (We’ve since added other DBs, and always had other reporting and analysis systems, but we were doing over $1BB/yr on a single transactional server.)

There’s no “room” there for foreign key constraints nor pervasive use of transactions. We used limited transactions in payments area only (and eventually even retired the last of those) and no foreign keys.

Reasonably careful coding, doing a lot of work in stored procedures, and “fix it if it breaks” was the order of the day. I won’t claim it was academically pure, but it sure did work based on the scoreboard (cash register).
Sure seems to me Deere could implement an incremental state storage of some kind to get around the "flash it before fix it under warranty / annual maintenance" problem.

It also seems to me Deere could simply quote the repair too. Hell, bundle it in with financing so the user learns their lesson without breaking the bank.

So, farmer bob mods his machine, breaks it.

I know Deere does a ton of actual hard testing. They know what, "damn, where did that log or boulder come from" looks like. They also know what, "it is running hot / over spec" looks like too.

Deere sees a freshly flashed machine, and it goes as follows:

Why did you flash it?

Why did you not call us first so we understand what happened?

That conversation ends up either a warranty / maintenance conversation, or not.

Then, the work to put the machine back to spec gets quoted.

Farmer Bob pays up, perhaps with a loan, and everyone moves on.
To counter with an anecdote, I live in a metro area with over 4 million inhabitants, and the nearest Amazon fulfillment center is over 120 minutes away.

The bottom line is that Walmart's physical presence in the U.S. absolutely dwarfs that of Amazon... outside of NYC and a couple of mega-urban metropolises, who see Walmart as more "evil" than Amazon because they're in the mindset of still fighting the previous war.
"In other words, within 10 years of the disaster, the small mammal populations were apparently showing no ill effects from the radiation."

"There have been a lot of radiobiological studies over the decades to find out what it takes to really damage animal populations, to do some serious reproductive damage. And across most of the exclusion zone, the doses aren't really high enough to have that effect."
I'm not idolising the 30s but that era does seem to have been something of a peak for public housing. Even with a few awful ones. It was the last major round of building before we got the post-war legislation that gave us overspill estates - almost guaranteed to be isolated sink estates and split families. At least part of the attitude that saw tower blocks cut off from the world by adding a major urban motorway or junction as part of the project.

You're completely right about the brutalist campuses, btw.
Good may be a bit too generous to Craftsman. I've never found their hand tools reliable. Their powertools less so.

Worst was a ratchet where the first thing to break wasn't one of the teeth on the gear, but instead the pawl, meaning instead of simply slipping and still being mostly usable, it became immediately useless. Which is just annoyingly bad engineering.
Can you post evidence to support those claims?
I have yet to use it, but isn't Java EE's Batch API is used for things like this? It tracks the progress of long running tasks (e.g. the index of the current mail) and can continue from the last sent index in case of some error.
I refuse. I object to “git is hard”. I do not object to “the UX can be improved, perhaps significantly”. Other things that are easy but could have improved UX:

* Bart turnstiles: the green lit-up arrow doesn’t mean you can use the turnstile with your card. Only if that arrow is present and the Clipper reader has a green light on it can you use it. Not hard, really.

* Doors that you should push but have a handle: the presence of the handle implies a pull and yet you have to push. Hard? No.

* Applications which use a floppy disk icon for save. Not hard at all.

Honestly, I think the UI is like any tool. You learn it in a day and through use it gets so familiar you don’t even think about it. But many have complained about this and UIs are harder to evaluate, so I can easily admit I’m wrong here. The difficulty, though, that’s overstated. The absolute ease with which it came to me and to nearly everyone I know puts the lie to that.
If they accounted for mainlining from the start and not just as an afterthought, they would not have this issue.
Private ventures have different motives. Private ventures are generally focused on getting to market: keeping quiet is important because they don't want their competition to know what is coming.
The distinction is between aerospace grade and industrial grade. Aerospace grade is definitely not "below industrial grade". Aerospace grade parts will be subjected to far more rigorous testing.

The problem SpaceX had was using industrial grade parts when they should have used aerospace grade parts.
The web and iOS app are both really buttery. Hat's off to your product team I'm sure they will continue to produce quality. Seems the make or break it here will be the community and the sticky-ness.

What is your strategy to onboard and retain a community that will be comparable to YC's Bookface? (assuming that's the goal)
Possibly to allow more mature content without being directly marketed as 'Disney'?
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How do you think cars manage with gas tanks at the moment?
Needed to answer the question "have these 2 user IDs ever interacted?" in a 30 million user system. We did this to lower the read pressure on the primary data store. The bloom filter was basically a highly space efficient cache layer that answered one question. All of our other caches ran in large sharded clusters to distribute load and storage. A single bloom filter server was able to service all requests. Pretty cool.

If the bloom filter says yes then we check against the primary data store (there might be a false positive). If the bloom filter says no then we trust the bloom filter (there are no false negatives). It works because the vast majority of answers are "no" for this particular question.
This means cleaning up, or at least putting a stop to the problem, could be a lot easier than complex ocean trash collection endeavors. Capturing debris from a river stream should be simpler, cheaper and more effective?
It may be that the new batteries simply haven't had the time to be thoroughly tested. My great uncle worked on batteries in the 60's and we are still running experiments on them today to examine their life cycle.
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This is the right answer. It's in Disneys best interest to keep the market fragmented and force you to subscribe and pay for multiple services. The cord cutter dream of a la carte being cheaper and easier to control is dead.
I built a bare-bones one for myself a while back: https://github.com/johnjones4/FeedPage/ All you need to use it is a link to an OPML file with your feeds and Docker. Here's what my OPML file looks like: https://gist.github.com/johnjones4/0fd1b1b47d62d826164bea990...
Could you expand on this? I don't follow kernel development closely. Why can't it be upstreamed? Is there something the community can do to modify their code for inclusion?
> The researchers, led by Chunsheng Wang, R.F. and F.R. Wright Distinguished Chair Professor in UMD's Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering and Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry; Kang Xu, ARL Fellow, and Oleg Borodin, ARL scientist, developed the battery into a testable stage...

https://www.arl.army.mil/www/default.cfm?article=3445
In a sort of related/inverse vein, I thought the engineering at play here was pretty interesting. 96 million shade balls on a public water supply reservoir:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxPdPpi5W4o
Walmart Marketplace on the website runs on a similar business model to the Amazon marketplace, so there are third party sellers on their website. In some cases Walmart sells goods on consignment, so it does not own the goods in question, but it is still the seller of record.

So, there is a good chance that if you buy something in person at a Walmart that the products you are buying were consigned from the brand, but you would never know. Products stocked at Walmart itself go through a very rigorous vetting process, so in general you will never find anything on Walmart shelves that is truly 100% crap. As far as I know, there is no commingling with Walmart.

All online reviews are fake; there are just some products and places where the reviews are less fake than in other places. In general people don't do as much Walmart review fakery because their website gets so much less traffic and sales than Amazon does. The fakes go where the money is.

Unlike getting a product on store shelves which requires passing through a rigorous, sometimes corrupt, but difficult-to-fake process, getting a product on Amazon or Walmart Marketplace is as easy as uploading a spreadsheet or filling out a product description.