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Many locals (and at any rate this local) see the Sagrada Família as it currently is as a rather unhappy travesty. There are no construction plans by Gaudí, just a few sketches, and what architects are doing is mostly theme-park architecture: making concrete look like stone, for example. It would have been much preferable to leave it as it was in 1926.

Coming from a city that is having a bit of an identity crisis and relies heavily on tourist money, the impression I got of Barcelona is that the city itself is very much a theme park for English tourists. It really seemed like Catalan culture was whitewashed pretty successfully (e.g. pintxos everywhere). In terms of combating that theme-park mentality, Sagrada Família is certainly not where I'd start (then again I don't live in Barcelona).

Parc Güell was especially over the top and cartoonish, less in the architecture, but more in the throngs of selfie sticks. It's gone from a thoughtfully designed park to a caricature.

Sagrada Família was, OTOH, a pretty stark contrast. I did the self-guided audio tour and went up into the Nativity facade (not the newer one) and was just floored. I fully expected the audio tour to be full of self-promotion, but even the 99PI episode on Sagrada Família left me with the impression that Gaudí wanted to see SF completed and that currently painstaking effort is being made to keep things as true to his desires as possible.

Obviously things won't be done exactly as Gaudí would've done them, but that's an artifact of technology changing over time. Much like any other aged building, Sagrada Família would've needed a restoration at some point. For better or worse, the primary function of Sagrada Família is as a museum / tourist destination and it's been that way for many years.
I couldn't find unixporn in there.
Ask HN: How much productive work do you average per week?
With "productive work" I mean work which somehow yields personal growth and future professional success.

Followup question: for how long have you kept this work up and where has it brought you?
I've got a bunch of fanless mini-pc's (fit-pc4's). They come with Intel WiFi modules. I intended to turn them info WiFi hot spots, so I tested them out at a company conference. It was a mess - PC's kept dropping off the WiFi network left right and centre. In the end I tracked it down to the Intel modules not supporting more than 13 clients. And they had a bunch of other limitations as well, all of which like the 13 clients weren't documented.

In the end I ordered a bunch (10 or so) different WiFi AC modules off EBay (including newer Intel modules), PXE booted 100 laptops with an image that created a suitable amount of traffic, and powered them on one by one until something failed.

The Intel modules were both the worst and most expensive. They best by far were the atheros wifi modules - and they were also the cheapest.

Now that I think about it, I don't recall seeing an Intel WiFi module in a router, so that outcome was not as surprising now as it was then. And of course now I've seen Intel fail to deliver the 5G modems Apple was waiting on.
Men who can’t get a job are treated horribly as well, the cause of many broken marriages and recently rising suicides in the news.
Examining the Super App Strategy in Southeast Asia
The problem is really not just global heating, but the pollution, CO2, loss of wild life, trees - the lungs of this planet. Also the variability of the climate is very detrimental for the vegetation https://youtu.be/Q_m_0UPOzuI?t=131

And I think, before governments set a global plan, people should already change their own behaviors: consume way less, drive less, travel way less (above all when it's 'just' for vacation), stopping to have pets (pet industry is quite large, so quite polluting, and they provide no benefits to the ecosystem, unlike wild animals, even if it's not significant compared to human consumption, it's worth) and so on
Richard Stallman: The Right to Read (1997)
Except that it is quite illegal and people should be made aware of that.

We already have problems like USB 3 ports causing harmonics in WiFi bands.
GPS not working for some flights
You don't need to get any certifications to be compliant, it's not like PCI where you need to be certified by a third party. This site has a simple checklist of what you need to do to be compliant:

https://gdprchecklist.io/

Most of the actions you need to take are just respecting the user's privacy and being explicit about how their data is shared. If you use your laptop in a coffee shop you wouldn't expect the barista to stand behind you and watch what you are doing, then share that data with their colleagues and suppliers.

I'd say for a small company it's actually easier than a large company, as you have fewer processes that need to be changed. In my case it was a lot simpler to become compliant for this than VAT MOSS.

I haven't had any requests for data, so I don't have an automated way to export it yet, but if anyone requests it I can build it quickly.
Being homeless is a good indication the money has run out.
Interesting, I've never thought about this but it matches my recent experience.

Friendship as an adult has been about shared interests, not being assigned to the same class or living nearby, so it makes sense.
This is mind boggling.
Failing someone for missing one or two classes is ludicrous, but giving someone a certificate who didn't engage with the course is equally so. University education isn't about the destination/exam it's about the journey.
Distributed systems and write arbitration on the same file are still terra incognita. This has never been solved because no one, and I really mean literally no one has been able to solve write arbitration to the same file or even the same block from multiple sources at the same time yet. Especially not in a generic way. Which node's update is the correct one in that instance? There is an entire world of computer science research waiting there. I'm sorry to have to write this, I really am, but you have no idea what the problems of the systems you are referring to are. It would be enough for me to cut off electricity to one or even all of your systems and then you would see all hell break loose on your "simple and nice distributed system ideas".

You are just blissfully unaware of all the issues because you assume the network and the hardware are infallible and apparently you gave no thought to write arbitration in a true clustering filesystem. You have no idea what lurks beneath the surface and how fragile your "simple and nice distributed ideas" are, especially when implemented in software.
It’s a throwaway account, meaning one can be honest.
The Panda and the 500x. Those are the two models FIAT make in Italy with the FIAT badge on them.

The wider group makes Maserati and you don't see many of them in your supermarket car park.

The 500x is not to be confused with the multitude of other 500 models. As in the ones you actually see.

As for the Panda:

"The decision to manufacture the car in Italy, instead of manufacturing it with the cheaper workforce in Tychy, Poland, was taken because of the agreement between Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti and Fiat directors not to close down any of Fiat's plants in Italy."

Almost forgot about the Ducato van.

This gets more interesting as it is a joint venture with PSA. There are Peugeot and Citroen versions so exactly how a merger would work out with Renault could be interesting. Renault partner with Mercedes in the category.

So a few thousand Maserati things, the vans and a few cars kept being made in Italy so as to keep the government happy. It's a lot but not a lot.

Anyway, it is just final assembly we are talking about. Where do the components come from? The final bit of putting the jigsaw puzzle is what we all think a car factory is but there is always 10x the jobs in the component suppliers. Get rid of the factory though and the local demand for the components is gone. I suspect all the components business for FIAT has moved over to Poland and elsewhere for the same reasons - people don't have rentseekers demanding vast sums out of them every month in these 'lower wage' economies.
Or outright diversions from the real issues. But more often just plain ignorance among the public. Among journalists too, but if a narrative is not rooted in public conceptions then it dies. On a deeper level, probably an effect of click-chasing web news. Or at least seriously exasperated by.
> If you want to convince Japanese people, you can't use the tactics you used in other cultures. You need to understand Japanese culture and you need to be very careful because if you get it wrong it will backfire spectacularly.

In my experience, these tactics don't really work in any culture.
Totally. I didn't think about that ever but it's true.

Aversion to the phone calls doesn't appear when talking to other in VoIP chats when playing online games.

Cool thought.
I tried signing up for Blendle, but they rejected my email address for failing validation. I contacted their customer service, but their response was incredibly poor.
Electra Team unleashed Chimera 2019 – The Solution For jailbreak iOS 13
Breweries in Montana are full of children. Play areas with toys are common and some places even go so far as to make a beer-free beverage like root beer or kombucha.
What's the big deal? It's a plant. Plants spread seed and grow?

I don't understand why GE food works people up?
Life is suffering.
Do you mind elaborating on what made it poor? I was waiting for them to open in Italy, so I never had any real chance of interacting with them, so I'm curious about what the experience would have been like.
I think it's important to note that Greenpeace's anti-whaling campaign started in 1975 in a world that was much less environmentally conscious than it is now. It can be argued that protests, lobbying and direct action on the part of Greenpeace eventually led to the acceptance of a moratorium by the IWC in 1986. So I think it's a bit unfair to blame Greenpeace. But I agree that it's debatable whether or not the same tactics are useful today. And you bring up a really good point- tuna is a HUGE issue but doesn't get nearly as much attention- perhaps in part because it's not a "sexy" issue. While I think it is important to be extremely sensitive regarding cultural differences and even "eco-imperialism", we also can't just ignore problems so as not to offend anyone..
Actually instructing employees how to interact with government officials is on its own a quite reasonable training. Unless they were instructed on destroying evidence, there is nothing wrong with that. I work at an American company, and we get annual trainings which also cover legal aspects. Most of them are of course just the standard trainings about proper legal and ethical behavior.
Their main URL doesn't redirect to HTTPS so I think it's not a priority for them.

I'd just drop them an email, good catch.
I don't understand why TransferWise requires me to enter my bank username and password to verify my account. I believe it also uses Plaid behind the scenes, but I used to be able to select "other" bank and enter my routing and account number manually. But as soon as I do that it recognizes my bank and switches to the login screen and I have to abort because I don't want to give it to them. I contacted support and they were not helpful at all.
There is a difference between sharing your IP address with a data broker to maybe get your location (which may not even be possible with GDPR?), and having your exact GPS coordinates sent directly to your database.
Since this CO2 production at a point source it should be easier to capture, and so removed from the equation.

It sounds like quite a concentrated source of CO2.
I'm 44 and worked at various bay area startups you never heard of from 1998 to 2005, at which time I moved out of that area.

I don't have precise numbers, but based on a cursory scan of my linked-in connections, some of my cohort has followed that path and moved out. Another big subgroup is the people who went to google or some other Big N. In particular a lot of the high performance people did this.

Another person who replied to you suggested that CS/programming is just a lot more popular now and I think that is big part of the reason why it skews young. When I graduated (in 1997), CS was not a popular study. As a consequence, startups back then had a wide age range (20-60+), but still were quite youthful overall.
I’m not familiar with Firebase, but is it unusual for end users to have direct access to a database at all? Why isn’t there a web front end there?
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Not sure why you'd think that not tracking attendance means that people do not attend. Pure attendance does not guarantee good performance and in filled lecture halls there's often not much to "engage" with anyhow.

We see this as academic freedom, if you miss out on in-person seminars you won't pass, if you do not go to some lecture because you have to work and teach yourself afterwards, who cares.
I googled the 2003 Cisco vs. Huawei case as your post wasn't clear about the outcome. The WSJ article claims that Huawei admitted copying some software. I found this blog post:

https://blogs.cisco.com/news/huawei-and-ciscos-source-code-c...

It's a Cisco reaction to the following statement by Huawei's chief US representative:

"Huawei provided our source code of our products to Cisco for review and the results were that there was not any infringement found and in the end Cisco withdrew the case ... the source code of the issues was actually from a 3rd party partner that was already available and open on the internet."

The blog post goes on to say that this is not a permissible statement and Huawei are misstating facts. Finally it provides some evidence for the copying, such as similar whitespace and comments in the source code. It also mentions the name of the "routine": STRCMP :-D. They should have run this post by an engineer before publishing...

Decide for yourself, but in my opinion there is quite limited value in a specific strcmp and likely they both copied it from the same free-software codebase.
I think with the advent of web apps, the need for native iOS apps will decrease, at least in some areas. Fortunately, this happens to coincide with the advancements in internet speed and coverage.

In a few years: You want to play a game? Fine, let's bing it in Safari and play right there.

"there's an app for that" soon will become "there's a web app for that".
Most these genes or modifications are genes from other organisms. It's not like they choose A-T and G-C one by one creating a set of genes whole cloth. They copy something else that already exist. I don't call that an invention. So I don't understand why you can patent genes you find in other organisms. It's not your invention. I don't think it really has anything to do with it being alive. Copying something that exists is not an invention.
RNA-guided DNA insertion with CRISPR-associated transposases
Its not here yet. Im surprised the problem wasn't already solved with ai/ml, big data, and blockchain. I think the problem personally is the sheer amount of ram that is needed and the ram aint ever gonna be fast enough to fill the buffers or to access. But it will be solved, soon im sure.

Gee, are all the down votes because of the issue that quantum computers will have with random access memory
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Doesn't matter (and I don't care) what they referred to, only the end result counts: SGI designed and implemented cloud computing in hardware. Color me impressed. Haven't seen anyone successfully do it since, hardware- or software-wise (and everyone is sure as hell trying!)
This is a common practice in Europe as I understand, not just Germany.

The thinking as I understand it goes along these lines: there are requirements to get a degree (thesis, pass exams, score high enough in exercises), but the university is primarily a center for learning and you are an adult, so how you achieve the abilities to fulfill the requirements is your own business. If you want to do things on your own, you are free to do so.
> for every kW of equivalent sunlight, about 200W of electrical power can be generated.

I wish journalists learned to use consistent units. 0.2kW would be better.
What sort of bad weather are we talking about here? Also, is this due to the commute becoming difficult/impossible in the weather, or because the facilities/lecture theatres are leaky/poorly constructed, or something else?
Chinese Military Wants to Develop Custom OS
> And it may start in the background without you running the app.

Are you sure about this? If an app is terminated, can it still run itself without you running it?
> On that note, are people switching over to Firefox already?

Not sure why power users ever left Firefox as their default browser when surveillance tech came along. I sure didn't. Firefox was always the more competent and customizable browser. Happy to see users returning. Among other things, the current "Welcome Chromium/Chrome users!" megathread in the Firefox subreddit[1] seems to indicate there's something going on. :)

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/bvh4pq/welcome_chr...
> electrifying trucks .. has proved intractable in the near-term,

Really?

See https://logisticsmgepsupv.wordpress.com/2019/06/01/supermark..., https://www.libertyplugins.com/blog/2019/06/07/byd-electric-..., http://mechcrunch.com/2019/05/10/rigterink-logistics-group-t...

I don't claim they are perfect but it does seem not to be intractable.
"We're sorry, but this URL is not supported by Outline" - have outline made a deal with WSJ to not bypass their paywall?
It would be cool if they could dive to a safe depth to wait out storms and then emerge against once the storm's over
They're at least working on making that as easy as possible on Android: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/android-components/

As I understand it, that should also make it relatively straightforward to switch between Servo and Gecko, as a developer. But I'm not an Android dev, so take that with a grain of salt.
So how do you get the "right track record" if you can't be employed?
The test cases for the Fibonacci sequence is terribly bad, you can cheat by returning fn = n=>[0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34][n]
You need random test cases and larger test cases.

Codewars is definitely better than this.
This is huge for Hong Kong.

It's not just a standard extradition agreement like existing ones made with other countries.

With Hong Kong under China's foot, there is a grave risk that any -unverifiable- trumped up charge made in the Mainland against dissidents and those voicing discontent against the Chinese government would result in potential extradition to China, a country that has no rule of law and where torture is routine (China is 82/126 in the latest Rule of Law Index[1]. HK is 16/126).

The HK government tried to assuage the critics by including some safeguards that would require the crime to be serious enough to require at least 7 years of imprisonment for the extradition to be processed, but voicing criticism of the Chinese government is considered a crime against national security in China...

There is little doubt that at some point these types of requests will be made and this new rule is opening Pandora's box wide.

Hong Kong is a great place, with great people who basically have little to hope for as the little freedom they had is getting eroded day by day.

China advises against the western views on separation of powers. This alone should ring alarms bells.

Loud ones.

[1]: http://data.worldjusticeproject.org/
> But doesn’t that mean you need at least one full time security auditor just to keep pace

Crazy idea - maybe you shouldn't be writing financial software if you're not going to audit the code that you're using
Amazon Erases 1984 and Animal Farm from Kindle (2009)
> It turns the idea on its head that the price of something should be related to the cost of making it.

Who told you this? It is blatantly untrue and the modern world would come crashing down fast if it were to be true. The financial sector is general would like a word with you.

The only relation these concepts have is that production costs form a lower boundary: you have to charge more than it costs to produce it in order to turn a profit.

There is no upper bound. Ask your friendly neighborhood notary or lawyer.
Some people are concerned about the health effects. Others are concerned about the behemoth megacorps who own the patents for these genes may be litigious about who/where they grow.
Note that it is possible that for political or national security reasons they decided not to provide a public statement for the matter. I've seen a news story reporting similarly about espionage victims unwilling to go public on the matter due to lack of benefit on it, though I don't think I can find it now.
You're generalizing a bit, though. IIRC, you're in Shizuoka prefecture, which has a history of dolphin fishing (I don't know about whales).

I live in the adjacent prefecture, Aichi, and I've never seen dolphin or whale meat in supermarkets.
Dave and Brendan are former SGI and Sun engineers. They are refugees. They gave up. So once again we're back to what I said: either one came from SGI, or hp, or Sun Microsystems, but one sure as hell didn't come from the GNU/Linux being an engineer, nor will such a thing ever happen. For 20 years they've been hacking furiously on Linux and still the basic things don't work correctly. That's what happens when one hacks instead of system engineering solutions.

"I really can't imagine being so stuck in a mindset that you feel the need to spend so much of your time being angry about such a large community of people."

Computers were my life, my passion, my calling. They destroyed all that passion in me with their GNU and their GNU/Linux. I will not forget. I will not forgive. They made my professional life a living hell. I hate working in IT because of those people and their mentality.

"Honestly, I just don't get it and I earnestly hope that this is just an online persona you have."

You must be the change in the world you wish to see.

And I believe that, deeply. I'm absolutely convicted about it. Even if I single handedly must teach apprentices, I will continue to fight until the last drop of blood against GNU and against GNU/Linux and teach people, person by person if I must, as I have been, showing them one on one how awful it is and how superior and easy a real UNIX like SmartOS is. Either until I die or manage to get out of IT. Because truly awful things like GNU and GNU/Linux deserve to be relegated to dark history of IT, and some good and beautiful, well thought out things like SmartOS are worth fighting for. I will continue to fight against ignorance and trend pandering and for enlightment. I will strain like buddha strained if I must. Some things are just worth fighting for and some things one must make a stand against, no matter the cost to oneself. I am forced to work on and with GNU/Linux because people think like you, but I will fight it and resist it every step of the way and I will continue to teach because working on Linux and with GNU/Linux is more work, not less work for me. That alone is more than enough to motivate me.
Smart file comparison tool for JSON, XML and Properties file
I haven't seen this talked about here but... last I checked Mozilla was in majority funded by Google royalties. What's their plan of aligning their income with essentially directly attacking their funding source?
I use such a host file on my android. There's even apps to manage them.

Needs a rooted device though.

That has the added benefit of removing ads in all apps, because when they can't be loaded, generally not even the empty widget shows.
What about quantum encryption? Shouldn’t that theoretically be unbreakable?
I'm not sure how the architecture of these browser projects work, but is it too difficult to stub out the non-existent APIs in their forks?
I'm hoping it's different this time because this is a topic people care for... but I can only hope.