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>Do non-technical users typically do a lot of actual work on their mobile devices?

What does it has to with anything ? the discussion is about desktop UI.

And non technical users are a large chunk of people doing work with computers .. devs are a minority. I am not sure why I need to mention this point, but looks like that's where we are.

> it's simply the statement that people who don't know how to do X will struggle to do

That's a tautology .. if the only test for an UI is whether it is usable with step by step instruction, there is no distinction between e.g. MSDOS and Windows 10.
A 100 score is far from instant, which is what users want and what they get with non-open-web proprietary solutions like Facebook Instant Articles and Apple News.

Publishers have to meet users where the users want, and AMP is easily the best of the options because by implementing it once, publishers provide instant loading through multiple link aggregators. If I want to write my own link aggregator, I don't need the clout of a FAANG to get publishers to do a data integration for instant loading pages — I can just implement an AMP cache and use the AMP pages they have already published. AMP levels the playing field.
I'm happy for you. I take it you don't work for a FAANG. They dump money on us, but they make sure they get their money's worth out of us :-/
But why? Such a waste of money, it’s too far away, and there’s nothing there. It’s like the ultimate snake oil investment.

The ROI must be awful. Just think about the cost to get there and the chance of anything of value coming back... a big time net loss no doubt.

I wish I could buy the hype but I’m just not seeing it.
PLA plastic is made from just organic materials. It degrades into lactic acid, and is safely used for medical implants. It doesn't degrade naturally at normal temperatures, but can be effectively recycled, composted, or incinerated.

Right now it mostly gets thrown away into the environment like most trash, but is a sustainable plastic if handled properly.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polylactic_acid

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioplastic
I used to subscribe to mobike in Singapore but between poor redistribution and no maintenance whatsoever it quickly became a negative experience. Bike shares only work if they are dockless, well maintained and most importantly abundant throughout the whole service area at all times.
Good question, I am not sure. Henry mentions they do not count against the 14-15 "call limit", but they may be handled the same as a branch in the BOB as you suggest.
What about intelligent life? How much more does that narrow the parameters, and how many planets are estimated to exist that could support intelligent life as we know it?
Congratulations for the release.

We were seriously evaluating Matrix as a replacement for Hipchat (about a few months back) through their hosted service modular.im . We didn't end up going for it because it didn't have privacy controls (there's no concept of an org like Slack) and integration with Auth mechanisms like SAML/Google,etc.

I'm glad that matrix.org is now a very different organisation than New Vector. Hopefully it should allow you to focus on polishing the user facing product, Riot.im

I have already used the re-designed Riot - it's nice from a UI perspective, but there's a lot of enterprise use cases that are missing.
> This study makes extensive assumptions about life on other planets being earthlike.

That's the point. When you can't find your keys at work, there are a wide range of possibilities - in reality, an infinite such number. But they're probably somewhere in the clutter on your desk.
Exclusivity agreements are anti-competitive tbqh

The real problem is supply. Popular tickets are scalped because there's only so many tickets. Then unpopular tickets are scalped because it was so easy to scalp the popular ones.

There's only so many sneakers that can be made: making more chews up the supply chain for something which isn't _truly_ being consumed.
You can have a story about love and love not triumph. I'd definitely say that that was a big element of the book. But I'd also include the class struggle and the so called dressing. Calling the setting a dressing seems a bit of an underplay. Settings are really important and generally also hold a message. But then again, I'm confused about why there's so much discussion about "I thought it was about" and not "this element is what struck me". Because 1984 is about ALL of those things.
This reeks of suburban provincialism. Bikes are more useful in an urban context. On an individual level they are faster because they don’t get stuck in traffic and you don’t have to pay for parking. On a macro level cars are fundamentally incompatible with density because there is literally not enough space in a city for everyone to store and drive their cars.
> What if future humans check all the planets in the universe

Nope! Imagine a shell around us, defined as "how far we could go, if we left right now, traveling at near the speed of light, given that the accelerated expansion of the universe keeps making things get further away." It's a large, but finite, sphere. It's actually smaller than the Cosmological Event Horizon [0], which is the cutoff point, beyond which light can never reach us (again, because the accelerated expansion of the universe is effectively putting space between us and the event faster than light can travel) - estimated to be ~ 16 billion light years in radius.

If by "universe" you meant "observable universe" - that's fair, but still no. How long could humans conceivably last before we go extinct, or change into something that can't be called human anymore? I feel like 100,000 years is an absurdly high estimate, but let's got 10x higher.

If we figure out how to travel at c/2 soonish, and we say going somewhere counts as "exploring" (no need to report back to any one), then we have a ~500,000 light year radius sphere to explore. That's ~ 225 billion stars. For the near ones, we can shuttle back and forth, but for the far ones, that's a one way trip. So let's say 100 billion space ships. And that's if we leave tomorrow.

c/2, 100 billion space ships... If we start paring these back to reasonable figures, you start to realize: our species will barely scratch the surface of the observable universe. In 1,000,000 years, I think, best case, we can cover a 50,000 light year radius sphere. That's 0.000000000000003% of the observable universe.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmological_horizon
All good compilers do this today. They use heuristics to guess what the likely outcome of branches, but you can provide them specific information with profile guided optimization, or with manual branch hits (the __builtin_expect I used in the example above is one such hint).

Similarly, you can annotate certain functions or paths "hot" or "cold", and compilers even understand that functions like abort() are cold (they can be called at most once, after all) and hence paths leading up to them are also cold.

Similarly, JIT compilers use the runtime observed branching behavior to organize branches so that fall-through is the common case.
I pay 39€ a year for unlimited 30 minute rides in about 8 German cities. electric is extra and has sadly a very limited availability.
I'm guessing the "young, educated, bourgeois" demographic is the early adopter of most new technologies. If you wrote off everything that was primarily used by that demographic in its early days, you'd have missed out on the personal computer, mobile phones, digital photography, and many other things that are widespread today.
The way I saw it, people simply had no backbone to decline work. I don't know why. Maybe they had an (irrational) fear of being fired or not promoted on a timely basis, but that never was an option for management really.

Not only I could work as much as I want in Amazon and Microsoft, but at any time you could get an extra vacation.
Nobody’s Asking for Trump to Be a Genius
I am also not a huge fan of tags. Gmail uses tags. It allows hierarchies of tags. In theory that is more powerful. It's like a folder system where something can be in multiple folders. In practice it just makes things messy.
Yup there are a few static code analysis tools that support using annotations afaik
SGI Indy started at $4995 back in 1994. Very minimal config though, just like Mac Pro at starting price.

http://www.futuretech.blinkenlights.nl/indybyte.html
I agree with the others, it still sounds like a cult because you're forcing agreement. You're creating a false consensus by removing the right to respectfully disagree and taken away the "I told you so" satisfaction and the ability to build reputation from such things. It creates a culture where no one bothers to disagree, it's too much work for no reward.

Search for "Dave Mitchell soapbox consensus" for a much funnier and well thought out look at it.
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“Bleed” has a functional purpose; it communicates that it is a side-channel leaking information.
Well, then go get a job with work/life balance that pays less.
Forgot the name of your recently used Git branch? Gotcha fam
(I'd edit my post, but its long since too late for that... mea culpa)

There's a couple of things being mixed up here. Stranded wire versus bar is a mechanical issue. But what you were talking about is the separators you sometimes see to run several separate cables alongside each other in the same phase. In this case, there are a couple of things being overcome. For starters, the skin depth of Al and Cu is only about 10mm at 50-60 Hz. However, the form of the limit is not the reactive power loss, its the resistive power loss of the conductor. Eventually, making it thicker just stops decreasing its resistance at that frequency.

The article hinted at this in the discussion on cable construction, when the author was describing wraps of aluminum conductor around a steel core. Now, imagine an A/B comparison, where the A side is a very large diameter cylinder of Al strands around a large steel core. The B side is three smaller such cylinders separated by air, with the same total circumference of Al. The B side is much lighter overall for the same current-carrying capacity. You might like to hollow out the A side, except that you need to endure the compressive stress of the outer sheath of Al conductors bearing down on the structural core somehow. Enter the periodically spaced triangular separators that actually are present on the B side.
Multipliers that can do a 64x64->128 bit multiplication every cycle at 5 GHz are large in area and power hungry. They are most expensive traditional hardcoded integer unit (divide is even more expensive, but it is usually implemented as many operations that repeatedly use a divider unit and other units to do a few digits at a time: on essentially all current x86 chips large divides take 40-80 cycles!).

The limitation isn't that bad in practice: it's hard to get more than 1 multiplication per cycle in non-trivial code since you have only 3 more ops to do all the other work - where are the multiplication inputs coming from, for example?

So more than one multiplier probably has a small payoff. Apple chips, for example, are wider, and IIRC they have two multipliers as they can take more advantage.

It's worth noting that 64-bit multipliers are expensive enough that even in AVX-512 Intel still offers zero 64-bit input multiplies in their SIMD unit (they offer a 53 bit one that reuses the FMA hardware though).
The pro posers can absolutely afford a $6k bauble. Actual creative pros (outside the SF/LA bubble)? Not so much. The $2k price difference between the base-spec Mac Pro and a fully-loaded PC workstation is a new (used) DSLR body to replace your beaten-up old 5dMkII, it's a couple of nice microphones, it's a set of LED softboxes, it's three months rent, it's a new engine for your van.

Some of those struggling creatives in the early stages of their career will go on to be the next Rankin, the next Steven Soderbergh, the next Rick Rubin. Apple are already losing those people due to the dismal price-performance ratio of their hardware. The opportunity cost of buying a new mac is just far too great when you're a creative on a budget. They're keeping the wannabe DJs, but they're losing the kid running a record label out of his mom's garage. They're keeping the Instagram influencers, but they're losing the kid who's scraping together the cash to make her first short film.

The lack of expandability on the iMac and Mac Mini is a really big deal for this demographic, who tend to buy used and tend to eke out the last few viable years from a product. In the short-term, closing off the used market makes perfect economic sense; in the long-term, you're also closing off a key route into your platform for users who would potentially be extremely loyal and go on to buy many generations of high-end machines.

In the long run, that could become an existential threat to Apple's computer brand. If they lose the next generation of creatives at a pivotal moment in their career, the whole house of cards could come tumbling down. If you've grown up seeing all the genuine creatives using PCs and all the clueless posers using Macs, is that $3000 MBP a status symbol you really want to be seen with?
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In countries where they actually banned disposable shopping bags, it was even worse.

People end up buying more trash bags (since they had small trash cans to fit the disposable bags), which are thicker, and something like 10x less efficient in garbage removal per pound of plastic than the banned bags. (I’m guessing your stats don’t count trash bags, unless people in the UK use fewer than one a week).

On its own, that was enough to increase plastic in the waste stream.

If you add in other problems (like buying “reusable” bags, then throwing them out), it gets even worse.

So, you need to ban all plastic bags for these measures to actually help.
On Google Chrome, with adblock on, without my Google account signed in, in a new incognito tab with no extensions, I have the experience of it being invisible. When I go back to the same site on Firefox, logged onto my Google account, no adblock on, no privacy options on, I have to identify dozens of photos.

As far as I can tell, it just checks to see if your browser is Google Chrome to give you your score.
"optional hardware support" "some manufacturers"

I think "hasn't generally been fixed" is a fair assessment. TRR is so cheap to implement and should have been made mandatory, with generous safety margins.
To be fair, spamming a user-submitted content site (for example, a blog with comments) is just as bad as a DDoS; either one makes the site unusable.
The poster doesn't seem to know much about any of the technical problems he's touching, and he's completely out of touch in some cases. I wouldn't pay any attention to his conclusions.

About "6. Peak Resource", which is the topic I feel most comfortable debunking :

- Peak oil is happening right now in many regions of the globe, the North sea passed its peak oil a decade ago, and he doesn't mention it. This peak oil/gas is currently putting Germany at a political risk, being more and more dependent on Russian gas.

- He puts up the price of oil as an indicator of resource scarcity. This might sound true to our small minds used to the "supply-demand" paradigm. But the price indicated is mostly controlled by politics rather than supply and demand. E.g. Gulf states trying to take other countries out of the oil market by artificially deflating prices thanks to their larger supplies.

- He mentions fracking/shale oil as a revolutionary new technique, although it was already researched at the times. He also fails to mention that fracking in the USA is awfully subsidized, not profitable and has not ever been. He also doesn't mention the new environmental impacts caused by this technique. The fracking companies are legally entitled to clean up their mess, but when they go bankrupt, not much they can do...
do...do we want GPRS?
> Finder doesn’t show anything

Finder shows a full "trash can" in the dock.
Thank you!

I read this wonderful article a few years ago and have been looking for it ever since.

I recommend it highly to every engineer who builds software, hardware, or whatever. A great story of what can go wrong (very wrong) and how even the best attempts to fix it may not work and may in some cases make things worse.

It's superbly written and very educational. The "Age of Electrical Outlets Having a Little Face and Different Sized Eyes," indeed. :-)
This can be done, depending on the window manager.

In my awesome window manager setup, super+tab always toggle the last 2 windows on the current tag (workspace). It's also possible to map super+1 to make an application be part of the current workspace (or open a new instance there). In this model, a window can be part of more than 1 workspace at the same time.
Were the GPG signing keys the hacker found for signing official Debian packages for Matrix-related software?
We're not looking for all life. We're looking for any life.
I'm voting this one up because I still hit view source out of habit knowing it will show me nothing. Gone are even the cute messages like "Hey, if you're looking here, we'd like to hire you!"
Thank you a ton for taking the time to patiently explain all this. So here's where I'm currently stuck. Or actually, I'm stuck in a few places right now:

(1) This is less relevant to this particular debate, but it's highly relevant to the actual opt-out page. On the webpage, I don't see the word "sign" at all. I imagine merely filling in your name into that box and clicking "Submit" doesn't turn your name into your signature. In fact the page explicitly says "the information for the Chase account holder"... which need not be you, so it definitely can't account as the account holder's signature... right? So regardless of the electronic vs. paper issue we still seem to have a pretty fundamental problem that even this page hasn't been signed by the account owner in any shape or form.

(2) This is more specific to our discussion. So if there were a signature box on that form and you put your name in as your electronic signature, what exactly would you have electronically signed? I never (I think) said that you wouldn't have electronically signed anything at all, but rather, that what you signed electronically would not have been the agreement of interest, i.e. the one to be sent to Chase. Rather, as I see it, you would have signed something separate from that -- more like a contract (if it even counts as a contract... not sure how considerations play into this, given it's free) with whoever's running that website, to write your intended letter, put a copy of your signature on it, and basically impersonate you in sending this to Chase. Leaving aside the question of whether this is fraud (which is also something I've been pondering, since Chase would seem to think it came from you), that would mean you never signed that agreement at all. At best, I feel you could only try to argue you gave this site a power of attorney to represent you... not sure how valid a court would find that with the form currently as-is. So I'm still struggling to see how you could claim to have signed the agreement sent to Chase.

(3) The "electronic agent" thing seems like a red herring (I'm not sure why you brought it up) since it seems to refer the software, not the human on the other side.

(4) Is this really a question of whether the agreement is valid "solely because it is in electronic form"? In my view it's a question of whether it's valid "because its terms for it taking effect are followed". One of the terms was signing it in electronic form, but that's just (if you will) an implementation detail the way I see it. This may be my CS-y brain but the law sounds like it's intended to address governmental "discrimination" against electronic signatures (if you will), not private decisions on how to form valid agreements. It seems kind of like how, even though the law requires that a $100 bill be valid as legal tender for all private debts, no store owner is obligated to accept a $100 bill as a payment of $100 for goods you haven't officially bought yet.
Yes, I've often found that events using "mountains" are intended to occur on land.
> but it not give your user ownership of this directory.

Admin users can sudo, sudo should be used to install software. Your thinking is the shenanigans that Brew does, making `/usr/local/whatever` writable by anyone, without a password.

This is not how smart people install software.

Edit: wow what a typo. One character completely reversed the intend meaning of the last sentence.
>"Because they don't actually care"

You don't have any idea how the music business actually works then. The sound recording copyright allows the owner of the master recording to generates revenue from "master use license fees." This is the permission to use the actual recorded version of the song in movies and television. When Martin Scorsese wants to use a Stones song in his movie, he must pay the "master use license fee" to the record company. These companies care a a lot about those fees and the masters that enabled them. I can assure you. The tragedy of this is more the result of two decades of mergers and consolidations of record companies whose headquarter are all in Los Angeles.

>"The best way to preserve this stuff is to make copyright expire after 10-20 years"

That's not actually how it works. The master recording copyright follows the physical media not the owner. What you are suggesting would actually hurt the artist. More especially so at a time when their recording was becoming a "classic."
And every damn licence since then has been a frustration and tragic disappointment.

I was pro-closed source in Turbo Pascal days.... once the licences turned to complete shit I went pure opensource.
1) Apple definitely should get on those Nvidia drivers. Nvidia hardware has a lot to offer and is very ahead in a lot of areas. Also, sooner or later supplier-constraining themselves is going to hurt Apple and their users.

2) Obviously there will be specific cases that call for Nvidia (or the advanced asics that Nvidia are putting out), but for most of the actual set of professional users that would do their work on a Mac, there's not really anything wrong with AMD's current GPU lineup. Their Vega cards generally do pretty decently on media production benchmarks.
Reference monitors (video monitors, and audio monitor reference speakers) are expensive due to tight QC specs and accuracy tolerances.

Examples: https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/search?setNs=p_PRICE_2%7c1&Ns...
> If you wrote off everything that was primarily used by that demographic in its early days, you'd have missed out on the personal computer, mobile phones, digital photography, and many other things that are widespread today.

Not writing off! I'm in that demographic. But let's call a spade a spade.

That being said, I think there's a substantial difference between PCs/cellphones/digital photography and bikesharing: the former were also adopted as business interests, while the latter is just a luxury or employment perk. PCs and cellphones reshaped the office, digital cameras reshaped newstelling and photojournalism; I find it hard to believe that bikesharing-qua-private-service will be doing much reshaping.