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Glad I tuned in this morning - can anyone with proper knowledge comment on new highway etc license plate scanning clusters' ability to harm the eyes?
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It's unsustainable for handling small payments. Things like fraud detection, customer support, legal and financial services, and credit card chargebacks add up to more than 5%, if it's truly crowdfunding (lots of small contributions). There's a lot of failed startups in the crowdfunding space.
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Women's business clothing tends to be a lot thinner fabric and form fitted. This means it doesn't insulate as well and doesn't form an air pocket between the skin and the fabric. Worse, it's usually synthetic preventing moisture wicking and is wholly uncomfortable. Not quite like having a plastic bag wrapped around you, but it's getting close.

Women's fashion is like a race to make the worst possible clothing. Don't even get me started about the shoes.
At least of the people I know, Patagonia is more considered an upscale outdoors brand rather than patagucci or fratagonia. Depends on the use case and contact with those stereotypes. It is legitimately good gear (at least for my level of intensity of outdoor activities).
Even POSIX sh gives you effectively gives you a stack of lists in $@, one for each function call. If you absolutely must, you can maintain proper quoting very far with those. Shell is not as limited as you think, though it can be rather inefficient about it and it's probably not a good choice for programs whose designs it isn't especially good at handling.

For whatever reason, programmers tend to be rather dismissive of non-general-purpose programming languages, or more generally languages that do not work like conventional general-purpose languages, and refuse to learn them. I think the worst case we see of this is with CSS, where people come up with elaborate ways to place boxes procedurally in javascript (and JS once suffered from being considered a toy language, too), but I've seen similar attitudes get pointed at things like apache configuration, systemd unit files, jq, and Lua.

(On the other end, sometimes people believe that they're just writing configuration, and that this is somehow more maintainable than writing code, when really they're writing code embedded in a data description language; see Chef, Ansible &c.)

As for autotools, autoconf's "Portable Shell Programming" document covers seriously ancient shells. New programs following those guidelines aren't trying to stay compatible: their code isn't going to compile on the relics that run those shells without active effort that generally isn't happening. It's just a cargo cult.
Here is the proposal[0].

There are important real use cases for this. I authored an implementation of the FNV64 hash function[1] at my last job. I needed to use the BigInteger.js[2] library. It truly surprised me that Javascript in 2018 did not support something so simple as 64-bit integers.

[0]: https://tc39.github.io/proposal-bigint/

[1]: https://golang.org/src/hash/fnv/fnv.go

[2]: https://github.com/peterolson/BigInteger.js
Did you actually had to give up on your Japanese citizenship? I know that when taking the oath you reject all other citizenship you may have but AFAIK this is not enforced, meaning you don't have to go to your embassy and formally require to give up on your citizenship. Really curious to know more about this.
If you're not concerned with retro aesthetic, get a Game Boy Advance. It's compatible with the entire back catalog.
I patronize several people who literally make their living on Patreon (and YouTube), and it doesn't look like "whales" are necessary. Take LGR: currently making just over $6k/mo on pateron which is $72k/year, or $68k with an assumed 5% cut for Patreon. Depending on where you live that's already a reasonable income for a single person household, and he presumably makes some YouTube money on top of that. That money comes from 2808 patrons, making an average contribution of just over $2 each.

You're unlikely to make a fortune on Pateron without "whales" but a living can be had if you can build a decent audience. Though, that isn't out of line with the "It’s unlikely that you can just do what you’re doing and make a living off of Patreon" sentiment at all, as LGR puts a lot of work into his videos.
> So that's the story, the govt. has prepared some statements, vigils and inter faith events in the case of a terrorist attack.

They are doing what every major corporation does and even does dry runs for. To claim the masses and get people back on board.

I wonder if people would be shocked to hear that the government, broadcasters and companies have plans in place and ready to run in case the Queen dies suddenly?
> tyranny of the majority

Man, I hate this phrase so damn much. What does it even mean, and why do people bring it up? The original use was basically, "the majority using democracy to be real assholes to the minority". It's the reason we have certain rights enshrined in the Constitution, to protect against that.

But the way people bring it in response to anti-democratic efforts makes ZERO sense. Letting 55% of people vote to be jerks is bad, but letting 45% of people vote to be jerks is...somehow good, or something? Obviously not, it's basically the same problem except with less popular support, so it's a flatly worse situation.

It's super disingenuous too. If tyranny of the majority -- aka democracy -- is such a problem, what even is the alternative? Go back to kings, or an aristocracy? Should we remove the vote from Christians -- they're the majority in the US, after all -- and let, I dunno, Hindus make all the decisions?

Plus, the people who mention it curiously only ever want minority-equalizing powers that would benefit their side in particular. You don't see conservatives advocating for giving extra votes for Muslims and Hindus, or Asians and black people, despite those groups being obvious demographic minorities.
The conflation that is happening in this thread is between culture and ethnicity not nationality and ethnicity. When someone of mixed race says they are "all Japanese" they are obviously talking about their culture and not their passport.
It's not unthinkable their ability to withstand influence is based on monoculturalism. Immigration can dilute that ability. In any way change inherently conflicts with status quo.
I don't disagree about nuclear, but you have to consider that the public opinion has been told for decades that climate change was a myth. Even today so many people use the word "believe" to talk about climate change. You can't believe a fact.
Schiphol also has a platform, it's free and there is a Fokker F-100 you can climb into
Indeed, it's an example of "Shlemiel the Painter's Algorithm". https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/schlemiel_the_painter%27s_algor...
It is legal for a PI to tail you not because of the lack of expectation of privacy in public, but because it is impractical to have PIs tail everyone all the time in public. People are generally okay with targeted surveillance. Mass surveillance is the issue. Quantity has a quality all of its own, as they say. There has been a court case which addresses this issue[0].

Any technology which searches for fugitives will necessarily scan everyone. There is no such thing as targeted facial recognition, it can only work by mass surveillance.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/17/opinion/data-privacy.html
I grew up watching the Murdoch media mafia systematically dismantle trust in the EU. You ask a majority (I wouldn't be surprised if it was 90%+) of pro Brexit voters what about the EU caused them to vote out and they will have zero factual reasons to offer. It's textbook brainwashing. You don't have to look very deep to understand this.
This appears to be a mirror image version (literally) of it:

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6uvx3k
> 10 times the amplitudes ever recorded? Or are you just conveniently only looking at the past 150 years?

Look at the units. 15c in 1000 years is less than what we're expecting if we continue on our trend (+2 to +5c by 2100, probably more after that once the reinforcement loop kicks in properly).

> The industry of climate fearmongering has more to do with politics/geopolitics than climate or science.

Yet the vast majority of deniers are politicians or people with no scientific credentials, and the extremely vast majority of scientists recognise that humans play a role in the current climate change.

> We don't know ... we don't know ... we don't know ...

Yeah sure, there are many things we don't know. But the things we know all point toward the same conclusion: the current change is at least partially man made and it'll suck balls if we continue on the trend.

> Yet, you are absolutely sure of man-made climate change.

Alright, let's say, for the sake of argument, that I'm wrong; what then ? We can start mining coal again and stop investing in green energies I guess. Everything we do to curb down climate change, consuming less, polluting less, &c. is a net positive even if climate change isn't man made.

> We don't definitely know why we had a "little ice age" in the last millenia.

Yeah but what we definitely know is that it was not even -1c globally, over 200 years. For comparison we gained 1c between ~1910 and 2010, we expect 2 to 5 more by 2100.

> Though that idea may bruise our egos a bit.

The irony is lost on you I guess ...
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I think three eights or four sixes (24 worked hours a week, either way) is a good goal to aim for, since it's the tipping point at which something other than paid work might dominate one's waking hours, while still leaving time for other normal activities and necessities.
we're passed this. generic ads don't work in all situations, that's why we needed targeting in the first place.
> SV dress like slobs

Fair, but I'd say most (at least more than other industries) people in tech dress how they want. Businesses everywhere are trending toward more casual wear simply because, given the choice, most people would rather dress down. Tech just jumped right to the logical conclusion faster: dress how you want and how you're going to be most productive as long as you're not disrupting others.
Check out Funkia List [0], an persistent O(log n) random access list implementation. I use it pretty extensively when I'm writing typescript.

It actually can beat native arrays on concat and push, often by very wide margins, while also being immutable. These kinds of operations are actually much easier to optimize if you can assume immutability.

[0] https://funkia.github.io/list/benchmarks/
It is actually illegal in some countries.

Got marched to a police station and interrogated in Mozambique for it

Other countries designate key infrastructure as strategic
Well the US citizens also carry guns a lot more often than the UK citizens.

So there’s your answer. But then constitutional rights yada yada. Just the idea that the other party had a deadly weapon, escalates things really fast.
> A software environment like Max, PD, or Reaktor is much less limited. But the learning curve is much steeper, and the instant gratification factor much lower.

I think comparing any physical keyboard synth/sequencer to the full desktop software is going to make the device look like a toy in comparison. It's apples and oranges in terms of available power and interface and really purpose.
Yeah, I've learned to keep a digital scrapbook if stuff I like.

Then again some stuff disappears and comes back again - in example is vintage computer information, back in the 90s/2000s there were some great archives in like funet.fi and uwaterloo.ca. Those are long gone (usually the admins graduated/retired) but the data has since re-appeared in other private and public archives, including much more information than the previous ever had.

Also many links die because the technology improves, on my site I have revamped it probably three times over the last 20ish years, I still get page requests for some of the early links that no longer exist. The data is still there but at a new url.
Nothing ever justifies an immoral action. If it's justified, it's not immoral.

If your business actively harms society -- as advertising does -- complaining about extortion, which is merely a zero-sum game, is hypocritical.
Here's the first line:

>The danger from climate change no longer outweighs the risks of nuclear accidents.

If that's the assumption, then yes, let's get rid of nukes.

Do you think the risk of nuclear accidents is more important than cutting CO2 emissions?
The IMF warns consumers will be harmed by the trade war between the US and China
GitHub is vetting applicants. If they do get hoodwinked, they are at least getting hoodwinked into giving money to somebody they thought was doing worthwhile work to begin with.
I think the big issue is that every 2 bit cop and traffic officer has constant access to weapons despite 90% of interactions not requiring them. And do not use them as a last resort.

When I visit Europe or South America the only places that I saw officers with guns were in international traffic hubs, important government offices, or Army troops making patrols. Police officers usually only had access to batons, tasers, or pepper spray.

However we live in a society that has been flooded by ubiquitous access to guns that inevitably spillover to criminals and people are fine with police brutality because it only happens to marginalized groups with little influence over their lives.
"All I'm saying is that much dumber people have been known to get much closer to taking over the world."

Like who?
What, specifically, are you asserting that Bricklin invented?

It wasn't the visual paradigm of a tabular presentation. It wasn't the two-formed concept of cells having both values and formulas, or that the formulas could be stated in terms of other cell's values.

It wasn't that you could do what accountants had done for centuries using the same tools. It wasn't that the same type of calculations could be done using a computer.

So what we're left is that he took a visual concept and implemented it on a screen. I don't think that qualifies as "invention", myself. It is re-implementation, copying, or something that doesn't involve a conceptual leap.

He was in the right place at the right time to spot the technological opportunity, and we are all better for that.
Sure. The Citizens need to be very willing to take sacrifices despite other countries not being onboard (yet). But they can if they want to!

In principal this already works in many cases, eg California/US subsidies on electric vehicles or Germany’s subsidies for solar. Both are very expensive with little benefit for the countries citizens compared to all other earthlings. To everyone else. They are just not aggressive enough.

Again, we don’t need an international consensus yet. The interesting part is putting financial pressure on foreign companies to reduce their CO2 footprint.
Strange for the author to say about gopher. But it is an important step. Sadly I think the forward and backward are hard to use.
Sure, I don't mind. I've been living off of savings for a while, trying to figure out what to do with myself. Savings don't last forever though, so I'm actually starting a programming job next week.

I originally thought I would learn something new instead of programming, but then I started working on this and got caught up in all the fun. It wasn't a "business decision" of any kind :)
Oh? Even when your environment uses z/OS, z/VM, CICS, DB2, and a whole slew of other IBM and 3rd party products? Do you know that all mainframe software is fully supported when run on a mainframe substitute? I have no idea whether it is or isn't.
Here is another good overview of this: https://blog.cloudflare.com/kernel-bypass/
I have an OP-Z, it is equally as brilliant, also how they built the iOS/Mac app to work as a screen for the OP-Z is really cool, it's very fun to use and the UX (while not easy to master) is very intuitive.
MORE PEOPLE ARE WEARING VESTS. IT MIGHT HAVE TO DO WITH POWER STRUCTURES. END ARTICLE.

You're right, much better.
the industry hasn't managed to solve this situation for decades now. the best solution has been ads. otherwise there's the subscription model, which reduces access to information.
Maybe the quality would improve? There's a condition I call "open-source-itis" that a lot of projects suffer from, where tons of new features (usually of dubious merit) get added but nobody ever bothers to fix bugs or make sure the foundation is actually solid. It makes sense, because that's unsexy work that people generally don't want to do and they're all working for free, but it makes a lot of open source software really crap.

However, if people were getting paid for fixing bugs and cleaning up old code, maybe that'd improve.
Democratic Socialism is socialism, and socialism always finds a way to murder people and increase poverty in the name of equality.

Socialism is a deeply religious belief. It has its priests (professors, journalists, entertainers), its churches (campuses, museums, protests and benefit rallies as outdoor/big tent revival analog), its core beliefs predicated on faith that unite the fervent and ostracize the skeptical (diversity is always beneficial, climate change is the fault of the successful, racism is original sin, privilege creates winners and losers in spite of actual value, religions of the oppressed are blameless, etc.), and its intangible and perpetually just beyond The horizon utopia. In every important way, socialism is a religion. It has a general hate for "gods" which functions as a smoke screen for the incorporation of American Protestantism into its modern day Progressive skin suit.

You can see the energy of the faithful when technical questions are provided emotional responses, when differing opinions about generalities are met with personal assertions regarding psychological well being ('burn the hetetic' transmogrified into 'you need medical attention because you have (x)-pathy), and, always everpresent in Leftward arguments,appeals to authority that the one appealing doesn't recognize.
Exactly. And sure, some people might move away because of this issue. But unless people start starving a majority won’t leave their homes. They will just revoke the legislation.
Really? I'd argue that Android and iOS have proven that the simpler the GUI, the easier it is for the masses to use them.

Imagine if working a car was as complicated as your average desktop OS. There would be a lot less people driving that's for sure.
I would argue that GitHub has appeared substantially less stagnant _since_ the acquisition than the year or so beforehand.

(Edited to correct a typo)
“Wikipedia is a broken system”, says Wikipedia Co-founder
“Did anyone actually ever do that or is this just a huge red herring?”

Yes people did that and still do.
Maybe it has been decreasing but it is still one of the highest in the world. 3 times above the world average.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/20...
as long as that information is anonymised (and impossible to de-anonymise), i don't see the problem...
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Thanks for your interest.

Yes, this is mind-blowing that you can do this today with affordable off-the-shelf devices. I did this after reading https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/circuitbreaker/2017/7/...

Use-case... Original idea was to do whatever I like to do on my Linux laptops, carrying less weight on the go.

I try it out on different things, like working on my calendar in web UI, writing a diary, being on Slack and Jabber, navigating with maps app (Marble), watching conference talks... I expect it will be pretty good for terminal apps like vim and mutt, but unfortunately I haven't found time to try out working with mail this way yet, and I am still slowly getting better at speed typing on the Twiddler, so I haven't wrote much text. By the way, there are great opportunities for text to speech and speech to text applications, just use a bluetooth earpiece.

It is a nice ultra-portable general purpose computer, but I haven't found a strong "killer app" where such configuration beats both laptop and a smartphone. But I'm still exploring what I can do with it.

One solid usecase for carrying RPi0W on me or in my backpack is getting calendar events notifications to my MiBand3. But this doesn't involve keyboard and HMD.

There are constraints of all sorts - RPi performance, limited clearly visible area, level of brightness is not adaptable (unusable in darkness and in bright sunlight). It's hard to use this stuff, but it's fun to learn and master it. I hope this kind of computing grows its niche and we see new generations of hardware and software with this usecase in mind.
And you know what, anti-nuke position is still a way bigger problem than climate change denialism.

If you deny climate change, but you support nuclear power you're doing something to fight climate change.

If you believe in climate change, but you campaign against nuclear power you're actively adding to climate change.
Very excited about this. As someone who contributes to open source software, I'm excited for these changes.
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Having seen how Japanese work I know that the work ethic, reliability and efficiency can not be matched by anybody else on the globe. Foreigners would drag down the average which mathematically means nothing else than effectively extracting resources from the host society.

The exchange of ideas can always happen via tourism, Internet, business or whatever. Multiculturalism has nothing to do with the exchange of ideas. In the best case it means a culture of the lowest common denominator (McDonalds and Mickey Mouse) in the worst case it means eternal tribal war (Afghanistan, Middle East).
Perhaps that person's content just wasn't very good. Just because it took a lot of work doesn't make it quality worth paying for. The individual failed at creating a travel blog capable of financial support.

"My dog is very cute, so I figured I should capitalize on that." Then the person launches into a rather simplistic rant about how patronage used to work.

"I was a freelance photographer in Chicago" Yep and so is every third person in Chicago.
I've made a SQL structure with the infosec controls of NIST 800-53, feel free to use it if you want.

I'm translating it to Brazilian Portuguese.
If you can, please help me translate it, to pt-br or any other language, Thank you.

Feedback is much apreciated.
If you already have a million YouTube subscribers (LGR apparently has 1.3MM), you can certainly translate that fanbase into patronage, vis. “wealth by a thousand cuts.” There’s existing, pent-up demand (guilt?) to give you money for all the stuff you’ve already provided for free.

But if you’re that much of an “influencer” already, with that large an audience, then you’re likely already making money off of ads run on your content, and you’re likely already being offered plenty of sponsorship opportunities that you could take advantage of in place of—or alongside—pursuing patronage. (At a certain size, you even get offered to just have your name stuck on products as a brand. I know there are a good number of beauty and fashion “influencers” who end up—with no more effort than signing a contract—getting beauty/fashion products co-branded, and make royalties off of that.)

I’m more talking about what you have to do to make money off of Patreon if you aren’t starting with a built-in audience of potential subscribers. If you want to build that audience, directly through Patreon (i.e. via word-of-mouth of your subscribers, with no public presence), then you need whales, and you need a niche. It becomes something very similar to making money off of commissions, except that you can make more than a 100% return on any particular commission, relative to what you’d have made if you just did it as a work-to-order for the person who suggested it.