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Is it just me, or do Firefox's ad campaigns lean slightly on the fearmongering side?

When computers run slowly, there are a few likely reasons why -- none of which involve cryptomining. When I've fixed my friends' computers for "slowness", I have never found the culprit to be cryptomining -- it's almost always because they have a lot of apps and tabs open. (I've typically solved the problem by showing them how to quit apps and by installing the OneTab and Great Suspender extensions, which, in short, remember the URLs of the open tabs while discarding their page contents.) It's true that sometimes, particular tabs are causing the slowness, but it's almost always just multiple Facebook/YouTube/Google Docs tabs rather than a random site with cryptomining.

On the other hand, the linked blog post makes it seem like cryptomining is by far the main reason why users' computers are slow. Sure, it doesn't directly say that Firefox is the only way to solve slowness, but the strong implication is that slowness is necessarily caused by cryptomining. Since Firefox is the only major browser that blocks cryptomining natively, well, then Firefox becomes the obvious choice.

I'm displeased that Mozilla leaves out any way for the reader to know whether their slowness is caused by cryptomining (bc it probably isn't). It seems weird for an organization that fights for freedoms to use strategies like this.
I upvote every submission of the same article that I find interesting

... then you are intentionally rewarding submitters of dupes?
I suppose you can use a proxy to perform rate-limiting.
>> People with a history of CVD definitely experience a reduction in all cause mortality.

Actually it's people with a history of heart attacks and the reduction in all cause mortality is measured on average to be only a couple of months.

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>> So far statin's are associated with a reduced risk of dementia*

The common side effects of statins are headaches, sleep problems, muscle aches or weakness, drowsiness, dizziness, nausea, abdominal pain, bloating, diarrhea, constipation, rash.

There have also been reports of memory loss, forgetfulness and confusion. These are not emphasized, probably not so common, but the reports I've seen are freaking scary.

Also if there is no reduction in all cause mortality, but there is a reduction in heart attacks, this means there's an increased likelihood that some other chronic disease will kill you. It's simple math really, if you don't die of heart attacks, you're more likely to die of cancer or dementia, as these are the most common causes of death.

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>> "Also where are you getting that the DASH diet is effectively poison or ultra processed?"

By advising people to eat less saturated fat, you're effectively advising people to eat seed oils (the "heart healthy" oils), which actually increase the likelihood of cardiovascular disease, due to the very high omega-6 content, which is inflammatory, along with toxins from the extraction process. Here are some studies on this subject:

https://gist.github.com/alexandru/5e21b75363904004f837c23f03...

Also go into any supermarket and carefully read the label on any food labeled with "whole grains", especially those made of wheat. Most of them meet the definition of "ultra-processed" food and many of them are not even made of actual whole grains, because fiber has poor shelf life, so what they do is to use white flour and then add some bran back, which doesn't have the same effect. In my city I couldn't find any local bakeries that made bread out of whole grains. Corn is the same story, unless you're eating your home made polenta. And brown rice is toxic, so you're you're actually better off eating the white variety.

The problem with DASH in this regard is not the advice to consume whole grains, but the advice to make whole grains a staple food in the diet.
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True for practical uses, most of the performance increase comes from more bandwidth and parallelism. But it's a mere 2-4x increase for single-thread performance, over 15+ years: https://preshing.com/images/integer-perf.png
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Diet and health is incredibly complex. Not only is it about which nutrients we get for our body, but also which bacteria live in our gut and which nutrients they need and in what concentration, so that the balance stays the same. A healthy diet is basically about trying to feed an ecosystem.
> If you buy something from Manufactum, you know it'll last for the rest of your life.

That sounds like the opposite of how I want to shop. I don't want to have to think really hard about which trivial household item I want to spend the rest of my life with. I'd rather pick a random cheap one and then not feel too bad about replacing it, if necessary.
> Once you know those nothing beats pulling a warm can of black coffee from the machine.

I'd say pulling a bottle of warm lemon / lime tea was even better, especially with travel-sore-throat.

> low prices

Aside from providing warm drinks, that's the big ticket right there: IME, european vending machines are basically predatory, they're way overpriced for what they provide and rely on necessity or impulse rather than just doing good business.

Japanese vending machines are omnipresent, well-stocked, with good selection of useful stuff, but more importantly you don't feel like you're throwing money down the drain when you're buying from one. The prices are obviously higher than in a 'mart, but they're not "$5 for a bottle of coke" overpriced.
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With the native image tool you have much more control about when you want to upgrade. The risk of someone replacing a trusted tool with a malicious version is lower when the tool is managed by apt or brew or whatever you use on Windows.
Sounds like you might also want to keep eyes on another of Butterick's projects, a document processor called Quad, which creates documents directly, i.e., without going the (La)TeX route.

Repository: https://github.com/mbutterick/quad

Documentation: https://docs.racket-lang.org/quad/
1. Your job as a parent is to educate them with mature and thoughtful responses to everything that they could experience in the world, say, by the age of 16. At this point your job is over, and you don't keep them safe, they go off and explore. I hope we can agree on that.
2. If that is the goal by age of 16, consider working back on the amount of Independence that gets to that goal. And, what are the key measurable goals when you can check off mentally and say 'this kid is on their way to being an independent adult', at different ages?
3. I would work to foster the idea that the internet is not a toy. You go there with a specific task, you get done what you want to get done, and you walk away. You don't get out the table saw and just fool with it.
4. The way to teach a task oriented approach is to do tasks with your kid on the internet. Side by side. Just like you would teach driving or using a table saw... Or in the case of my neice today, grilling. Questions will come up, mistakes will be made, triumph will happen, and you will do it together.
5. I don't see how kids should have email addresses or open screen time before the age of about 12, when you have seen a level of information maturity and critical thinking. The internet is so wild and wooly, i might ask when you allow a kid to fly airlines by themselves, or take a day in the local city by themselves, is about when they should have open internet time.

I suppose I rankle at the problem statement, keep them safe, instead of 'how do we teach independent thought and action', but i tried to answer your question helpfully and positively.
Yes, sauerkraut.
Personal anecdote but I find that hard to believe: I've driven the model 3 performance and found it to be dreadful. That thing understeered like mad and I couldn't feel the back end.
The parks in Shenzhen have water fountains too, including low-level taps for pet bowls (so it doesn't splash on them and scare them)
There is a car like this in Europe, probably the first of its kind: https://www.renault.fr/vehicules/vehicules-electriques/twizy...

The problem is: it's relatively expensive. You can have a proper, "normal" ICE car in that price. Probably the best case for mini-vehicles like these is a sharing model. At least, that's the thinking behind the Volkswagen's entry into the market: https://www.seat.com/company/news/cars/seat-minimo-mwc.html
To be a brief Devil's advocate: I can sort of see the OPs point from a layman's point of view. If a security expert cannot (I use "cannot" here from the layman's point) secure the website (According to a tool that shows scary red X's) then what chance does a mere mortal have, or is it that important?

Now, we know that spending the time securing a personal blog the whole nine yards is probably not worth it; but to an uninformed person who cannot make that judgement? Black and White is so much easier than greyscale.

This is why I usually go all or nothing in this kind of situation. Of course doing nothing would probably have resulted in a "His site isn't even https!".

Damned if you do and damned if you don't. At least take solace in the fact that the comment has been judged appropriately and you have admirers correcting the superficial opinion.
My guess is that they blocked display of the scans of the intercepted item, but forgot to account for scans of the crate that the package is in?
This site is a spin-off from Bulk Resize Photos (https://bulkresizephotos.com) which previously had a very limited watermarking capability. I surveyed users about why they wanted to watermark their photos and what types of watermarks they would like to use, and Batch Watermark is the initial result of what I learned. It certainly still has some rough edges and is still in the "if you aren't embarrassed, you launched too late" phase.
Reminds me a little of this joke:

A Marine and a sailor are taking a piss. The Marine goes to leave without washing up.

Sailor says, "In the Navy... ...they teach us to wash our hands."

The Marine turns to him and says: "In the Marines, they teach us not to piss on our hands."

It's funny, because it's true. We went weeks in the same clothes without much more than the wet wipes packaged with MREs. But the moral of the story is to wash up when you can.
I had not heard of youtube-dl before, thanks for the pointer.
Currently $0.56 / dozen at Meijers in Columbus Ohio.
Would be nice to -STOP and -CONT as tabs are switched. It's per-process now isnt it?
Perhaps pweave, which is like knitr for Python.

http://mpastell.com/pweave/
in most cases it's nitpicking. While an apple might be 6.48% better than a pear for a certain person at a certain time, eating an apple is still way better than an order of french fries.

We're talking about basics, getting all the vitamins and nutrients needed for a healthy body. Exercise, eat about 5 servings of fruit and veggies a day etc ....
The issue wasn't restricted to the navy, and was especially present in the urban upper class (including the imperial clan), so much so that it was nicknamed "edo disease" as polished white rice was much more easily obtained in Edo (given enough means) than in more provincials cities.

Interestingly, early industrialisation made things worse: mechanical mills made the desirable polished white rice way more accessible to all.
Bonless chicken breast frequently goes on sale for $0.99 / lb.
Disclosure: I'm an engineer with the Advanced Protection Program.

Thanks for your work securing campaigns! I forwarded your post to my team because a major goal of ours is to be useful for this purpose.

Advanced Protection has improved a lot since early days. For example it works with Apple's native Mail, Contacts and Calendar apps on iOS.

Advanced Protection doesn't require any specific model of security key. The blue YubiKeys work just fine and even Touch ID is supported (as a U2F key).

Multiple backup keys are supported. And the same key can be used on multiple accounts.

Breaking or losing a key doesn't cause an immediate lockout. A key is required at first sign in on a new device or browser session but not thereafter. I don't even carry a key most of the time.

I'm sure there's more we could do to build great account security for campaigns. Please keep the feedback coming!
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The announcement only mentions OneDrive for Business. Is this also for the personal client?
George Carlin on "Stuff":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvgN5gCuLac
Seems like they are not complete assholes, since the project is meaningful.

Think of the situation where the client is not an asshole but just incompetent, and the project does not pass simple logic tests, let alone business health checks.

And the only reason your project exists is because the client has to make himself busy and spend his budget.

And it pays you well, e.g 150% of market average. And you have extra perks, like the luxury to cycle to work through the forest.

And imagine living this life for years.

With family to support ahd kids on your back.

Um...
With the Renault EVs, you’re buying the car, but the battery is on a rental contract.
Upgrading PostgreSQL from version 10 to 11 on Ubuntu 19.04 (Disco Dingo)
I agree, there's too much stuff. In particular, there's far too much software.

If you advocate against too much stuff, just don't forget that making someone's stuff is someone else's livelihood.
I don’t think that is true at all, and in any you case you will easily find employers that view this as a big plus.
Five ways to make edge data centres more cost efficient
While not to the degree of “immediate total halt” when backgrounders, https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Page_Visibi... may be of interest for understanding what kind of background throttling may be in place for all tabs.
Why natural cycles only play small role in rate of global warming
To be fair, I'd stick my head in a toilet for $100,000. $200? Not so much.
That's a very strange thing to be interested in.
I've seen Google endpoints available over gRPC over the last few years. Many, if not most, of the Cloud endpoints are directly documented as being available over gRPC[0]. For others, like Google Ads, a peak at the client libraries show it's using gRPC[1] as well.

[0]: https://cloud.google.com/pubsub/docs/reference/service_apis_...

[1]: https://github.com/googleads/google-ads-java/blob/master/goo...
Obvious improvements for traffic in terms of aerodynamics:
* Get rid of side mirrors (legislation is the biggest challenge here)
* Adaptive body elements
* Less powered cars (less powered >> less need for removing the heat >> better aerodynamics)
* disincentivize SUVs
When I was in Japan there were some cases of four 7/11s visible at once without turning my head, so I think you can set your sights a lot lower than a one mile radius.
Now - who can we trust? I tend to trust Bellingcat because of their workshops where they teach people to do the investigations. This looks like hard to manipulate - but who knows?

The Bellingcat report supports the official OPCW report: https://www.bellingcat.com/news/mena/2019/03/01/the-opcw-ffm... - but it seems to talk mostly about a cylinder on a balcony and the contention seems to be about another cylinder that was still on the roof. There are also some Bellingcat articles in French about the same April the 7th attack. I hope they'll write some update on the leaked documents.
Oh thanks for those, the problem with a lot of the online retailers I frequent is that there's just too much stuff on there, and it's really hard to discern quality from churn; filtering by price is useless because retailers will just play with prices, filtering by reviews is also useless because people are just as likely to give a cheap product 5 stars than their expensive counterpart. It's also hard to just discover quality products you never thought about getting in the first place (like a good pen + case as I've seen on there).
> However if that abuse is coming from your stakeholder, you need to realise it's because they are receiving pressure

Some abusive people just believe that this is what makes them tough and effective. Has nothing to do with someone else pressuring them.

I used to give benefit of the doubt in these situations and think it is external, until I seen with such managers up close and it turned out it was them and only them begin source of their own assholery. The external parties were just enabling.
The big difference, though, is that they are not able to refer to the jury deliberations, or influence them (they participate in the deliberations as equal partners). There are a lot of cases where a reasonable jury could have reached a given result, but where there may be reason to doubt if they're doing so for the right reasons.

What we've seen in Norway when the professional judges set aside decisions is exactly that their dissenting opinions often reveal that even when professional judges are participating in the discussions the lay judges still occasionally insist on decisions that are obviously logically invalid.

Also given how blatantly ridiculous some jury decisions can be - the last ever jury decision in a Norwegian court was a combination of two yes/no answers where the jury entered the only combination that was a logical impossibility based on their instructions as a guilty finding on the first charge was a pre-requisite to make the second charge applicable; people were quite relieved that the last jury decision basically helped validate the decision to get rid of them by failing to follow even those basic instructions.

It makes me wonder how many jury decisions have been based on invalid reasoning but where the outcome is just plausible enough to allow the judgement to stand.

Personally I think juries will be looked back on as a dark chapter.
I highly doubt that, since they lived in 3 different states.

The solution is to drive a 15-passenger van loaded with 3 car seats. (these days, maybe 6 car seats, depending on local law)

The kids got cars at age 16. Once one kid has a car, the situation becomes easier.

Kids can be encouraged to do the same activities. There might be several kids in Boy Scouts, so that is just one trip.

They sound like the sort of family that would encourage kids to walk or bicycle to places on their own. That could include going to a friend's house, then getting a ride with the friend.
As a non parent, can you go further on the idea of how it would be hard to prevent a kid from using screens and internet until they were much older, like 14 or so?

I grew up in the tv and telephone age, and i simply never had my own of either. I know other kids probably threw tantrums to get theirs, is that what you are talking about?
This is something the U.K. could use. Particularly on bank holidays, Sunday’s, or early mornings it can be quite difficult to find a pharmacy.
> Then your password is just the hash and salt.

Yes, and by that it appears random. Which is exactly what we want and what password managers provide.

> just inject some JS or redirect a CDN or...

This is the case anyway with regular passwords.

> It doesn't actually add any security is the short story.

Are you sure?
No, having responsibilities like school does not turn people into slackers, the social conditioning from school etc is what makes us able to slog through hours of boring work because we know there it will lead to something good. This is one of the main reasons we have schools, to teach people discipline.
Have you actually tried LaTex? Because I found it quite easy to learn and to adapt. I mean, yes, there are nasty edge cases, when you want to achieve sth which is not so standard (but often you should not really do that anyway). But you can very much also just avoid them, and then I think it's pretty simple and just works.

I don't really know any other solution, so I cannot really compare. But I would assume that for any other solution, you also would have to learn how to handle it, and not sure if that is really simpler and less effort than LaTeX.
No traces of sarin only eliminates one possibility - the reports mostly talk about chlorine.
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What does, “excellent knowledge of Ruby on Rails” means
I have been using ruby on rails for 3 years.
In job requirements, I find, "excellent knowledge of Ruby on Rails" . What does it mean?
Does it mean, can create and maintain ruby on rails project? Or can make GEM like spree , devise, etc.
VW UP (has eletric version) has 5/5 stars in Euro NCAP testing. As well there is VW ID.3 but it is larger than UP I believe.
Insert your password, it is appended with a salt and hashed, and then sent to the server which logs you in.
Burnout and clinical depression are extremely similar, and I think most people who self-diagnose as burned out actually are clinically depressed, though maybe mildly.

But I can see that diagnosis and treatment would be more difficult and less standard when there are no clear signs of depression or other disorders. And there would be a two-phase treatment: First phase is getting out of burnout mode. Second phase is preventing the relapse. Confusing the two phases will only result in frustration.
For desktop Talon (https:talon.com) is currently the state if the art I believe.
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Security Things in Linux v5.1
> So in his spare time, [Berners-Lee] wrote up some software to address this shortfall: a little program he named Enquire. It allowed users to create "nodes"—information-packed index card-style pages that linked to other pages. Unfortunately, the PASCAL application ran on CERN's proprietary operating system. "The few people who saw it thought it was a nice idea, but no one used it. Eventually, the disk was lost, and with it, the original Enquire."

Sounds like this was pre-NeXT, or at least on another in-house OS. It would be interesting to see what it was all about.
> Not everyone can contribute directly to the production of our most basic needs; those who don't must convince the productive members that they have a good worth spending money on.

I think it's actually much worth because it's the other way around. Productive members usually have to convince unproductive to spend money.

http://evonomics.com/why-garbage-men-should-earn-more-than-b...
Yes! The default isolation level in postgres is READ COMMITTED which is rather weak and allows for the types of concurrency bugs discussed in the article (unless you use SELECT FOR UPDATE or some other kind of locking).

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/11/transaction-iso.html
I'd think that kids crushed by responsibility and strict discipline from an early age would be more likely than normal kids to ultimately flame out or have a breakdown. Everyone has to find their own meaning in life and make peace with it. Kids that are railed along by uber-strict parents can have a really hard time when that constant driving pressure is removed.

And I agree that it's probably not very useful to have to do loads of chores as a kid and do menial labor (the only kind available as a teenager) to get through college. The kids who had the parental support to have time to read books and tinker with computers and electronics and such, and focus on school, will ultimately be better off I think. If this guy is so well-off that he's having 12 kids and buying cars for them and flying them all over the world, I'm sure he can afford to have a cleaning service come in once a week. His "tough love" approach just makes him seem like kind of an asshole. I'd be very curious to hear what his kids think about it. I've known a couple of people who had a similar upbringing and there's a lot of left-over resentment there.
Easier:
1. Don't buy meat.
Burnout is also used as a socially-acceptable reason for mental health problems.

"I work so hard that I get sick" is more acceptable than "I get sick because I'm crazy/mentally ill". Which is in itself a false choice.