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> I thought some about this, and I am a bit afraid about "feudal lords" of some other kind

I'm currently working on a platform aimed at reducing internet feudalism and would love to hear more of your concerns and what can be done to improve on the status quo.

If you're interested in talking about it and learning more about what I'm building, shoot me an email at yaniv@mynexus.io
> Getting a "feel" for your latency is difficult. Quake3 attempted to mitigate this by playing a brief tone whenever you received confirmation of your hits. That way, you could figure out how far to lead by firing your weapons in rapid succession and adjusting your leading amount until you started to hear a steady stream of tones.

Ah, so that's what that sound was! I always wondered why Q3 had that weird sound when I hit someone, and never knew what it was supposed to sound like. It ends up being one of those things you get used to, and the game wouldn't be the same without it.
I bet Google isn't so giddy now about being FIRST!! [1] with Skylake in the data center a couple of years ago, or "going on all-in" with Intel on the Chromebooks (it didn't even give AMD a chance until very recently...), despite Chrome OS being one of the very few operating systems that are truly architecture agnostic.

Now it's paying dearly for that mistake, with up to 40% performance loss on Chromebooks due to the disabling of HT:

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/mds-vulnerabilities-lea...

Google broke one of the most basic business rules: never rely on a single supplier. You're always worse off in the end, even if the exclusivity deals seem very tempting in the short-term.

[1] https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp/compute-engine-up...
There is so much trash orbiting that those planets appear to be more massive than they are
Those things are easily done with tools like ffmpeg and mbox. This stuff isn't rocket science. These are all solved problems and the tools are free and open-source. And yes, there are video format that are supported by all browsers.

The number of naysayers that are implying that working with videos is so hard in these comments is shocking to me for such a supposedly technical group of people.
They really should have put a nice chart or something in that article. Talking about the gap without visualizing it is a missed trick
I think it depends on the layout of the terminal. If the lounge is not too far from the gate, it's more comfortable to just roll up last minute
Maybe they meant to post this one?

https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/16/18627766/tesla-autopilot-...
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Ok thanks, so we're talking about someone who could walk with crutches at birth, potentially being able to walk with crutches indefinitely then?
That's better than nothing, but it would still be no proof that the are no issues, as uncommon behaviour/access patterns could take some time to appear (or will only show up after other services are introduced).
I travel with a rectangular soft-walled carry-on backpack that's built to the maximum allowed dimensions.

More than once, I've been near the end of the boarding line, where they stop people from getting on the plane with their full-sized carry-ons because there's not enough room (which happens more and more frequently now). Every time, the backpack goes right through.
I am sad to bring sad tidings but... This is very beautiful, it just puts the burden of the proof on a more abstract setting, which may be more difficult to grasp.

(This is just a comment on the "graphical proofs", they are beautiful but they cannot be "proofs" unless you provide the background).
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And if you're travelling into a country with painful immigration processes (e.g. USA), the time spent waiting for your baggage can be the difference between a 15mn cue at immigration and a 2h cue at customs
EDIT: the big queue is at customs not immigration
We can, unless you're an app developer on iOS - Apple won't let you use the light sensor.
So? If I buy a car that is promised to have 200HP but it actually just has 150HP after a software update wouldn't I be able to sue the manufacturer at least for the lost resale value?
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> I suppose that makes me an outlier, but the ~$25 is worth taking all the stress out of queueing at the gate and trying to get on as quickly as possible. Your time/value equation might be different.

I think the math just starts changing when you're not traveling by yourself. If it's even a small family of 3, traveling with checked luggage is suddenly $150 roundtrip. Sure, largely insignificant compared to the cost of the tickets themselves, but still enough to make you think twice about it.
Pretty sure you're using 'mp3s' in a general sense, but I'm going to nitpick because I love audio format geekery.

If you're going to rip your CDs, you should consider ripping to FLAC and Opus. The only reason to rip to mp3 is that basically every legacy device out there understands the mp3 format and knows how to play it. If you're playing back on a phone or PC or a more modern device, you should use a modern format. Both FLAC and Opus are totally open source.

FLAC is lossless and will reproduce your source CD bit for bit, but in a compressed format. Listening to music in a FLAC format is the same as listening to the original CD. Opus is a lossy format, so you lose some fidelity by necessity, but if you make that trade it's the best quality you're going to get. A double blind test had it outperform AAC and Vorbis, and significantly outperform mp3.

I rip my CDs to FLAC and store those files on my NAS. Then I convert the FLAC files to medium quality Opus files and those go on the SD card in my phone. I don't use old mp3 players, so I can do without mp3s.
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No argument there. Even a critic like Roger Scruton who has read him writes "Whatever you think of Foucault (and Rorty), there is no doubt that they were intelligent writers and genuine scholars with a distinctive vision of reality. They opened the way to fakes but were not fakes themselves. Matters are quite otherwise with many of their contemporaries."

To name names, he means Lacan and Althusser among many others.
CDs are massively inconvenient. When I get a music cd, I just rip it to FLAC.

From that point on, I have a file. Much more convenient to work with, and easily backed up with all the other files. Having a good backup strategy, I'm more likely to be hit my lightning than lose a flac file.

As for buying DRM'd music online, I haven't so much as considered it. It just won't happen, ever.
I've got all my music ripped to FLAC, sitting on my file server, a little N40L microserver with 8tb mirrored storage (my music takes about 300gb total). On the server, I've got a script that uses ffmpeg to convert from flac to whatever format I want (currently aac and mp3, which my player devices support). The script also applies replaygain to keep the volume consistent. I run the script once and it processes the whole shebang.

This means that I control all of my music, stored in lossless format on a backed up server in my house, able to be deployed to any device I want whenever I want, in whatever audio format is popular at the time, in perpetuity.
... we all love Tesla but seriously?

We have a serious problem if "autopilot" cannot avoid an object in plain sight. Everyone interprets "autopilot" to be self-driving capabilities. Some people understand that the performance of this system is tied to the conditions of the road. If you cant handle the most perfect road conditions then you shouldnt call it autopilot. It is gross negligence. Tesla can add whatever warnings they want -- they will not win that case in the long run. Either they will lose in the court of law or in the court of public opinion.

I wonder how Tesla feels about lidar now.
If you have a phone nearby you will never be sure who else is hearing to your CD.
I’m assuming you don’t fly regularly for business. If you did you wouldn’t call it an “all day enterprise” as pretty often you’re flying and actually having the meetings on the same day.

When you do fly constantly for short business trips the suggestion of adding checked bags to the mix becomes ridiculous. It adds time and unpredictability both before and after the flight, as check in time is more strict with a bag.

Repeat the process a bunch of times and have the errant 40 minute wait for your bag on a delayed flight that landed at midnight, or have it lost (even once in 50 trips can be a “regular” occurance), or have your flight cancelled but see another flight you could jump on instead, and you’ll realize having checked bags is a massive liability for business traveling.
We took care of our neighbors large barking dogs. An ultrasonic device fitted on the side of our house emits a sharp piercing noise when it hears a dog bark.

The dogs don't bark up our tree.
Here's my humble contribution to provide a clearer explanation, and a simple live demo with source code, of client-side prediction, entity interpolation, and server reconciliation: https://gabrielgambetta.com/client-server-game-architecture....

Over time it has become a relatively popular alternative to Valve's (excellent) documents, mostly because the concepts are explained and demoed one by one, making accessible to a non-expert audience. The live demo has embedded JS code: https://gabrielgambetta.com/client-side-prediction-live-demo..., and it's usually useful to have a standalone implementation.
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He doesn't use the term "Valgrind-like". He only talks about Valgrind, which he calls a "great tool" (he's right!). But he is evangelizing sanitizers, in clang and gcc, which are relatively new. And, yes, they do work by adding instrumentation at compile-time, which allows them to be much faster than Valgrind (which does all its analysis at run-time). See: http://btorpey.github.io/blog/2014/03/27/using-clangs-addres...

Sanitizers are great tools, too. Maybe you can quibble about his item 3, but he's dead on with item 4. If you have tests, you add a couple compiler flags, and then you'll find memory problems automatically with your unit tests (without much slowdown).
Doesn't medium also fill the gap of a sort of easy to use, personalized aggregate site for blogs and such? I'm not aware of any other site that does this.

And isn't that kinda of the point of sites like Medium, Reddit, YouTube, Facebook, etc. - that provide enough of a valuable service to people by providing a single place for people to view a certain type of content that in spite of ads, centralized control, some pay walls, crappy technology, etc. that consumers and producers still find it worth while to use for viewing and publishing.

I would even go a step further and say such aggregate sites like Medium represent what the "new" internet represents, convenience and monetization. The average user doesn't care about privacy or ads as much as they want easy access to information. The average producer doesn't care about control compared to what runs their operation, revenue and readers. I think many "technologists" and other people who populate sites like Hacker News have values the align more closely to that of the "old" internet, so view many of the new trends negatively.

I'm not trying to say if it's right or wrong, just my two cents.
Brutal, but only really affects people who should have no expectation of privacy to begin with, such as Windows users.
If privacy is not an issue, a dump feature solves this. Available for Google services and unofficial ones are there for many more. Clouds that don't provide such a feature are probably not worth using.
Jokes on you. I submitted this communication via telegraph.
That sounds a lot like upwork though. Or are you building the Uber of freelance work, in which you maintain a pool of vetted freelancers?
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My good friend actually came to visit me recently and they "lost" her checked bag. I say "lost" here because they "knew" where it was, but the plane kept getting delayed. Apparently it ended up on a separate plane that happened to arrive at the same airport. They originally told us to wait at the airport until it arrived, assuring us it was only going to be another 30 minutes. We ended up leaving, without her bag, 2 hours later. They said they would call us when it arrived. No such luck. We went back to the airport in the morning and it had just shown up and nobody knew why they were holding it. I understand if they misplace the bag, but to string us along for almost a whole day waiting on a call from them that never came is really just a miserable experience.
So now we emotionally cripple an entire generation?
As I stated, so this is repeat, objectively, if someone achieves the same thing without the advantage they are better qualified.

Should we be admitting the most qualified students or the best grinder parents kids?

The potential of this policy is more than "social justice" (if it were to succeed which seems unlikely).
You can make a side project that is related to your favorite game, in fact I recommend it.
How do you do this? I’ve looked at Digital Ocean and their super cheap bandwidth, but storing a serious amount of data would get expensive.
> If you do a google search about anything somewhat nutritional or health related, you get a slew of low credibility websites with dubious information. Getting to any scientifically rigorous papers is a real research project

It's a much easier project (though still requires some review and judgement) if you use Google scholar instead of the general search engine.

But that's true or any domain; if you are specifically looking for scientific papers, the general search engine is like going to the grocery store for lab glassware.
My secret is a soft roller to IATA size, but with a zip system that lets you expand the interior by 1-2 inches. If I'm flying for leisure in economy and they're checking luggage in bins, I'll pull out some clothes and wear them to pass the gate, then stop just after and cram them back in. Silly, but that's the game :(
Obviously not. Can you be absolved if you didn't think you'd be taken seriously? That's the question, isn't it? Many laws use language like "knowingly" and "purposefully" to signify that intention plays a role.
They use Quill.js - rich editing (you can use this in your project easily)

Caching/saving work just simple AJAX calls to a localized database or filesystem which can store the JSON data that Quill.JS creates.

Google Analytics is free and offers more customer insight and analysis opportunities and it's as simple as a script tag inclusion in the html.

I plan to show how to replicate this website in a matter of minutes on my YouTube channel.
Good point... I wonder why? The proof of concept code works so well for some variants.
The game Grey Goo did this. Also the only game where the human faction is basically the Culture - there's a fantastic line in one of the cinematics of a human captive getting free and commenting "no signs of AI or nanotechnology. They still use bullets in their guns."
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Okay, but with this autopilot you can be dead if your attention slips for 8 seconds and when nobody else does anything wrong. Are we really convinced that the Teslas are safer than humans when it fails in such fashion?
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I think theres a middleground to autogenerated puzzles, they can be curated by humans. Puzzles could be autogenerated by the author of the game, played and the good ones saved and ranked a level of difficulty.
They don't all support ECC. ASRock seems to be the most-supported in this category.
While the driver is ultimately responsible, your analogy makes no sense. Auto(matic) means pretty much the same thing in most languages. Something that works without human intervention. An automatic gearbox shifts automatically, auto-shutdown shuts down automatically, and the auto pilot pilots automatically. Or that’s what many people expect: even if confined only to motorways (as opposed to everywhere) it will be able to work by itself.

The park-parkway analogy is about as good as cruise control vs. cruise ship. It’s a coincidence of words that nobody will ever confuse.
I have the "Sky Train" bag from Red Oxx and I love it. It's a bit expensive, but it's very well made. I've abused mine a lot over a ten-year period and nothing has broken. The shape and size makes it perfect for overhead bins.

https://www.redoxx.com/sky-train/91019/product
Well I believe false accusation require knowingly doing so. That said Hertz should certainly be sued for their negligence.
I wish there were better non-alcoholic drinks that aren't sweet or hot. There's only so many mocktails or teas I can drink.

One of the best part of pubs/bars is sitting down for a session and chatting for a couple of hours. A cold beer is still refreshing the second or third time around in a way that a sweet or hot drink isn't.

I can occasionally get lucky with a decent non-alcoholic beer in a bar, though it tends to be more miss than hit.
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How far are companies like 23andMe from entire genome sequencing? That's kind of what I'm waiting for. Can you still get valuable data from genotyping?
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I have a laptop bag, but I usually don't bring it and just put my laptop in my backpack.
Not to disagree with your assertion that corporations get away with a lot of things they shouldn’t but in this case, a corporation is many many people. Hertz isn’t the equivalent of just one person, it would be insane to treat them as such since they rent out hundreds or thousands of cars a day.

Plus I’m not even sure what you’re suggesting here...that we put the entire company on trial or in jail? Operate like that and you’ll quickly find the boundaries of innovation receding.
I trust you, but Dublin is not Ireland.

electricitymap.org aggregates real-time data from ENTSOE API.
Right, but presumably the people voting on this poll are kids too, so it's hard for them to bring the same attitude to the situation.
You got a source on that if you're going to be referring to the rest of us as a peanut gallery?

Everything I know and have found says IPs are classed as personal data only if combined with other data. I've yet to find anything that supports your claim, which is why I changed my mind on this.
On a tangent: Does anyone here have a good solution for self-operated music playback for kids? Suitable for age 2+?

Moving away from physical media has made selecting their own music much more abstract and difficult to manage for kids.

I am aware of the Toniebox (in germany) which operates with NFC-figurines (i guess) which are pretty expensive.
> It's famous for being Feynman, not for being a great textbook.

I beg to differ.

I know no general course in physics which is close enough to the Feynman lectures on physics. And I've learned about Feynman from lectures, not the other way. (Arguably, he is famous thanks to his explanations skills.) And anecdotally, virtually all people I know that participated in physics olympiad adore this textbook.

(At least - Volumes I and II; III is interesting as supplementary material, but I recommend other core materials for quantum mechanics, vide: https://p.migdal.pl/2016/08/15/quantum-mechanics-for-high-sc...).
I tried to make it clear that there is a difference between taxation to further a legitimate government role (e.g. National Defense) and viewing redistribution itself as a goal (it isn't fair that some people have more money than others, lets fix that!). That distinction is what I wanted to clarify because the OP I replied to was suggestive of redistribution as a goal, which is worrisome.
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It strongly depends on whether you're a "few times a year leisure traveller", or "multiple times a week business traveller".

First few minutes of "Up in the air" will give you a good idea of how strongly business travellers optimize. At my peak when I was doing 75+ flights/year, I would leave home at 7am to be on the 8am flight - this included taxi, security, boarding, and 20 minute margin for unexpected issues.

I pack light and tight into a backpack that goes underneath my seat, because the flights on Toronto-Ottawa-Montreal Canadian corridor are 80+% priority status, daily travellers, and they ferociously fight for overhead space.

Put it a different way - a 20 minute annoyance once a year is, bad but meh.
20 minute annoyance twice a week for a year - that's FULL WORK WEEK lost.
Except unreasonable EULA terms are void in most (all?) of Europe.
> I'm not sure that such content would count, though I'd have to review the wording of the GDPR to be sure. Its intent is to cover information about you that companies/people have collected or derived - which may not include things you have written about other things.

All the actual legal guidance I have seen says it does count, because the content can be cross-references with third parties to identify the author and the fact that they once posted this text on this service. This, if they close their account or delete the specific article the content must be purged.
The #1 reason to use CDs / LPs:

Music "devices" have insanely bad UX. Like absolutely fucking awful.

I've got a 10 kilobuck set of speakers that take (in the highest SQ config) a digital input. The "best" solution I've come up with is to use a portable player that has a coax digital out. This is a well reviewed portable player and one that supposedly is happy driving a home stereo.

It's fucking awful.

Keeping the thing charged, free of ground loops and finding albums on it is so painful I listen to my stereo way less than I should. Oh, and the update loop for getting new music on it? Fuck.

Of course, I sold my CD player years ago and got rid of most of my CDs. Every time I struggle to turn on my stereo I consider buying a CD player, burner and a few spindles of blank CDs.

Yes, I could drive the setup with a computer and a USB / SPDIF adapter.

WHAT THE FUCK HAS GONE WRONG THAT THE BEST SOLUTION IS TO BUY A SEPARATE COMPUTER TO FUCKING PLAY THE CONTENT OF CDS?
RAID is not backup. It doesn't protect against accidental deletion, malware, fire, etc...

It only protects you against disk failure, and it is mostly used to make sure the data is still available as you change disks. Not for long term data protection. Overall, a RAID NAS is probably not that safer than a standard external hard drive. RAID is mostly there to make sure that you can benefit from high performance, high capacity and networking without sacrificing reliability.

If you have two disks and availability is not a problem (you can afford not to listen to music as you restore from backup), you are better off with an external hard drive used only for backup/restore operation and kept somewhere safe when not in use.
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Normal people: How sad that Mother Theresa has died.

HN: She was a victim of the patriarchy!

Normal people: How sad that Grandi has died.

HN: Usenet says he had legendary bad breath!

Normal people: How sad that a cat which brought millions of people joy has died.

HN: Some random blog once wrote that she formerly had a non-politically-correct name! Get the torches!

Just another day on the internet.