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> GIMP's current behaviour is simply better. Period.

This is subjective, i do not find it better. "Period."

> doesn't let the misconceptions bite you

There are no misconceptions. I create a blank image, paint an arrow in there, want to save it as a PNG file so others can see it. GIMP complains when i try to exit because i didn't save the image. But i did, i just didn't use GIMP's proprietary file format that GIMP developers want to push.

> What you're describing is just a minor annoyance

Yes it is, i still use GIMP after all despite it. I am merely describing why i see it as an annoyance. Something being a minor annoyance doesn't mean it doesn't exist at all, after all.
It's great that you have such a strong imagination! I would love to be able to do that...
This very much reminds me of Little Big Planet in a good way.
The key here is which of the formats can I trust the most? Which one of these are likely to betray me?
Presumably its like an error value being returned from a programming function?
I don't understand what the benefit of overloading truth values is compared to using functions and modal operators, except as a vector for introducing back-door obscurantism.
Thank you. Also thank for all the info you wrote on the CAS A-10 vs F-35 debate here, you changed my mind on that question (for what it's worth, since I have not stake in the matter as I'm not American, my country won't ever buy F-35 and I'm not in the military).
At least in 2.10.10 (i haven't yet installed 2.10.12 here) it asks you to save the PNG image you modified as a XCF.
Context is always important. Switzerland still has conscription in to the military and the culture that comes with it is very strong and male dominated - though it's importance has lessened somewhat.

Switzerland is a modern country and many have the same liberal values we all know but there appears to be a sizeable proportion which regard women for their, shall we say, utilitarian value and little else.

Given this backdrop, this strike shows that while there has been progress there is still a long way to go. Comparisons with the situation in other countries is a little unfair.
I played a little as a child (enough to beat my dad, who was a complete beginner). I've become quite addicted in the last couple of years (and yes, I'm 40 now). While I agree with the sentiments that "it's a total waste of time and I should learn something useful", it's still fun to have a challenging distraction.

One thing I've found it quite good for is _learning to lose_. I _hate_ losing at games, even now, but, the nice thing about being a beginner chess player is that there are bazillions of people better than you to play against, and lose to!.

On the topic of improving, as others have said, the training puzzles on lichess are great. I've also got quite a lot of value out of [0] chessable.com . Nice little site, teaches you some basic openings which are really fun when people fall into the traps!

[0] https://www.chessable.com/
During the maternity leave it is not the employer that is paying the salary of the mother (at least in Switzerland, and I assume it is the same in most if not all countries with a mandatory maternity leave), but the state. So the employer isn't paying someone to do nothing.

He also has enough time to plan the replacement since the leave can be announce 6 months or so in advance.
As it's said in another comment, it's not cryptocurrency when it's centralized and by a singe entity

i'm seeing it like all the in-game currency, controlled by the entity convert your local currency to this platform bucks to use it ONLY inside that platform
Follow on tweet:

> For additional context, since this photo doesn't show the whole scene: the line at every ticket machine stretched back 10+ meters.

Anecdotal, but I've never seen a queue at a ticket machine in Hong Kong. Octopus is so entrenched as a vital necessity in Hong Kong you'll even hear comics making jokes about one of the only essentials in HK is an Octopus card (while things like clothing are optional)

It's not at all like the minimal copycat that Oyster in London is. Your Octopus can be used in lieu of card or cash payments in many retail outlets, restaurants, vending machines, even some taxis, all over the SAR, not just on HK island.

The downside is every single thing you do is logged and tracked against your card, and associating a card with an individual is just one MTR ride with facial recognition away.
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I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Edge. As far as tab management is concerned, it is superior to both Chrome and Firefox.
Except next to no one is using Bitcoin, not to mention Ethereum or Lightning Network.

It's very much like the Linux Desktop - it exists, some people love it, it's never going to disappear, but it is very much a niche interest that will never be mainstream, for a multitude of reasons.
GIMP, like Photoshop, is a complex tool for people who know what they are doing, nobody in that category would be confused by such a situation especially if GIMP shows a warning dialog in case there would be data loss when saving (something that GIMP knows about).

Photoshop has that workflow to entrench its PSD file format. GIMP seems to want to do the same thing instead of treating all formats as equal (technical differences - which can be warned against - aside).
It does diffuse through everything, but there are several research projects in that direction. It is the smallest element and it helps if that bottle is solid, but I still see potential.
I would say the invisible strategy here is to move away and ultimately deprecate AppKit because it carries decades of legacy compatibility and is limited by being bound to Objective C, while clearly Apples vision is that the future is Swift.
Do flatpaks already support daemons? Some time ago they couldn't
Polish notation lives forever.
Free Image and Video Datasets for Facial Recognition (Over 5M Images and Frames)
Maybe I should clarify. From my understanding OT is correct when used with a client-server model. But if you have read the research a lot has happened since the first OT paper was published. The OT algortihm works well even for Google Docs and other open source solutions.
D in this case refers to a specific set of variables that goes into brewing coffee. P(D) then refers to the probability of a given set of values for that vector of variables given all the possible values.

Don't take it too literally - P(..) here is not some well defined function, it's effectively just part of the name, as a convention for naming probabilities. I find it confusing too.

As the article points out, that set is for all intents and purposes infinite in this case, but this doesn't matter, as you can sidestep it by comparing to complementary hypotheses (which makes P(D) cancel out). This is all covered in the article.

The only maths worth reading up on to understand this article is a basic introduction to Bayes theorem - the wikipedia page is quite decent.
You're seriously out of reality. I'm writing this from a subway car where at least 30 people out of the ~50 here would not be able to do anything you suggested since they have trouble with simple slow walking and even stepping into the bus is problem. Rain coat? Some elder people could downright die from a cold. And it's not just rain, it snows here and for several months it's around 0 degrees Celsius and the road is covered in ice.

And even if not, what would you gain with these weird single purpose vehicles that can't be used while remaining in comfort and need to be replaced every winter over a multi-purpose super-comfortable shared microcar? It's not even economical or ecological, ordinary bikes/scooters + microcars + public transport is the ecological/economical solution.
I'm not sure I'd say that the UK ever had the police as a "repression force" (leaving aside things like the '84-'85 Miners Strike) as, at least in theory, our policing is based on Peelian principles:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peelian_principles
Tricky, but if you input "megasync" into Aurora Store the MEGA app will show up for anonymous Play Store download.
There is a lot more to effective code style than whitespace, and most Go code I've seen doesn't consider that, including the stdlib.

I've put a lot of thought into my style guide, and anyone who hasn't done the same has no useful insight on whether go fmt is a help or a hindrance.
So email addresses are used for two purposes in Matrix: "administrative contact" for an account (for password reset), as per https://matrix.org/docs/spec/client_server/r0.5.0#adding-acc..., and for discovering users' mxids by email address (as per https://matrix.org/docs/spec/identity_service/r0.2.0#post-ma...).

At registration, if you specify an email address, Riot does sets it both for password reset and for mxid discovery. You (and the OP) are right that this should be clearer - it boils down to the fact that we need to add UI to remind the user that they're using an identity server (with given terms of use) and to confirm this is what they want.

We could also split it into separate actions (one to set it for password reset, and one to use it for discovery), and indeed before Riot this is how it used to be (there was a checkbox in Matrix Console at registration to let the user choose whether to bind their email). This got lost in Riot because of concerns that it made the registration UX too noisy and complicated (especially with custom HS & IS URLs flying around the place), so it currently binds their email by default. I've just filed https://github.com/vector-im/riot-web/issues/10054 to track addressing this.

You said "making this e-mail address public" in your question - it's worth noting that binding a 3PID does not publish it in a public list; instead, it means it can be used as a key to look up your MXID for users who already know your email address.

In terms of the other valid points the analysis raises, I've also filed a bug to track hashing contact details when doing lookups (https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/issues/2130, although i could have sworn we had one already). The other two issues (Riot/Web talking to Scalar too much, and the desire to remove notary servers entirely) already have bugs - https://github.com/vector-im/riot-web/issues/5846 and https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/issues/1228 respectively).
Your description doesn't seem relevant. Most universities don't have Nobel Prize winners, so the ratio of winners to support staff is 0.

Most universities also do have canteens and receptions .. and yes, many even have visitor centres. As https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/academics-minority... points out, "Academics in the minority at more than two-thirds of UK universities"

Support staff, btw, might include a glass blower for the chemistry department .. who does no teaching but may also print up a price list in Word.

So the educational discount cannot be meant for only "the core educational staff" as that's simply not the observed policy at universities.
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> childcare remains not only expensive, but in short supply.

Childcare is expsneive period and it will still be if you force other people to pay it. I have never understood why people demand that society pays for their children. Having children is a 100% voluntary activity in todays day and age.

I don't demand that my hobbies get payed by society.

The taxes already massivly subsidies children by getting child money, paying for the whole school system and many other things as well.

I see zero reasons why one should just be able to have children and have child care and school payed for the first 20 years of your childs live.
Writing tests after the code they will test

Ignoring Interface segregation

Assuming instead of asking
Tree Style tab does this and more. You can pin permanent tabs on top, and keep the others neatly organized in a hierarchical tree.
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It has to be turned around to make sense:

because FB already rapes user privacy to the max and knows everything about the foolish follower it is a perfect match to attach a payment system to that data pool!

We can not let China lead the BigBrother revolution!
> The masses panicked and now good news is hidden behind the paywall. That’s okay for me. I’m on the inside and I will use my differential knowledge. While those who can’t afford news will be outcompeted by virtue of their having shittier knowledge.

Except we live in a democracy and thus the masses can vote in a leader who can take away all those benefits you get "on the inside".
What comes after DRAM/SRAM? Maybe more of the same, but architected differently
More woman at my school in switzerland had the education to go into IT and yet we had 3-4 woman in 3 classes. That has zero to do with access to education and everything with personal choice.

One can argue its a society problem, but its not an education problem. Woman are overrepresented and get more education in general.
High Prices of Air Ambulance Rides Are Tough to Regulate
This article links to an article on Aristotle's "paradox of the sea battle" [1].

However, I'm having trouble following it:

Aristotle: if a sea-battle will not be fought tomorrow, then it was also true yesterday that it will not be fought.
But all past truths are necessary truths. Therefore, it is not possible that the battle will be fought.

Can anyone explain it more clearly?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem_of_future_contingents
Paperclip_maximizer
The military is a joke in Switzerland. Its literally called green holyday. More and more guys, including myself are opting out. All you have to not go is put your hand up when the military guy askes who doesn't want to go.

I am Switzerland so I don't have the context maybe but calling swiss culture male dominated seems pretty strange to me. Can you explain what that even means?
Couldn't my employer then see what I'm spending money on? If they know the address of the wallet they're putting money into, they know where that money then goes?

Also, with a distributed ledger and billions of transactions a day, how is anyone supposed to actually index and understand all the transaction data? I like how Bitcoin I can actually sync all the data and (potentially) see stuff, but that was GBs of data and no where near as widely used.

Cryptocurrencies have a place, but they are a solution to a small subset of problems while creating others. There's a reason why people still use cash over cards.
Well, that's why the GPL was created: to make it impossible to siphon off profits by building on open source. Of course that is wildly incompatible with how most businesses operate, so the corporate world pushed open source authors towards more business-friendly licenses like MIT and Apache.

Of course what most people overlook with GPL in businesses (as an individual) is that as using the GPL excludes you from large sections of the economy and thus carries a cost not everyone can afford. In turn companies frequently use the GPL for "open source washing" via public/private licensing.

In the 90s I used to hear a lot of people joking that the GPL view on open source is communism. After having shifted politically to the left I now think that joke is actually truer than most people realise. And the incompatibility of a communist "gift economy" (i.e. take what you need, give what you can) with the capitalist host system lies at the core of most of the problems we see with open source sustainability.

In other words: open source "economics" (voluntary mutual exchange with no strings attached) is entirely alien to capitalism because in capitalism this behavior is essentially economic suicide except for a few scenarios (e.g. general marketing like Google, onboarding and recruiting like Facebook or promoting commercial services like Microsoft). Much like how CJ characterised npm Inc in her JSConf EU talk, these companies aren't walking all over open source authors because they're evil, they're doing it because they have no useful way to interact with them except for marketing.

Your piece reads mostly like it's trying to get employees to force their employers to support open source via the usual means of labor struggle (i.e. threatening to withhold their labor, shame them so others withhold their labor) but that to me looks more like a band-aid.
Found hidden micro in Lidl's kitchen robot (french)
have you managed to get it working on proton?
There is no war without war crimes and civilians victims. And that's the truth that people always forget.

How the media's weapons fetish primes us for war:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cADiZii4X8s
Sentry is one of the nicest services I've head the pleasure of using. Having our errors centrally logged and managed is invaluable.

Source: a happy user.
I turned 30 Here are 21 lessons I wish my 20-year-old self had known
There is always Rpy for calling R functions from python, if you have to write your program in python but need a stats function from R. I guess python is always the choice if you’re writing software, although for interactive use YMMV.
So then emphasise that message and cut down on the "blessed are the poor" nonsense. Because in isolation that message is absolutely harmful and if the dominant interpretation of Christianity instead was "give as much as possible to those in need or you'll be punished in eternal fire" there wouldn't be much need to comfort the poor.
That's pretty much what I initially thought/hoped Firefox 'containers' were. But it's not, with those you can have X open tabs in Y different containers all in the same window.
IMHO, you should trust AppImage - as it fully portable (if you would not integrate it in your system manually), like mounted ISO-images.
Well, some people want to devote themselves to joy, rather than usefulness.
One of the important part that's was not mentioned is the ability to deploy and operationalize the model. I think Python has a slight advantage in this area. Especially when focusing on operationalisation and integration with other systems and flows.
There is a fee of some kind, it's not explained too well - "No weird charges, no complicated maths, no interest. Just a single simple monthly fee."
> no cooling system.

How can this be true?
> "Riot needs permission to access your address book contacts to find other Matrix users based on their email and phone numbers. Please allow access on the next pop-up to discover address book users reachable from Riot."

I know very well that concise wording in UIs is incredibly hard, but this wording is misleading. It makes it sound like Riot will not work unless I allow access to the address book. I'd suggest something like this:

> Riot can check your address book to find other Matrix users based on their email and phone numbers. If you agree to sharing your address book for this purpose, please allow access on the next pop-up.
I experienced pretty much the same thing during the time I went to school. I specialized in IT during school already. We had about 2/3 women and 1/3 man. AFAIK, none of the women actually started to work in IT. Two or three man did.
> daily might be a bit extreme

You can exercise daily without issue for extended periods of time, you just can't exercise daily to the limit (or even anywhere close to). How to do it really depends on the activity (or activities).

Nice explanation for calisthenics, but if you pay attention you can transpose it to any activity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CA9OklE7r3A

There was a similar blog post at Runtastic but I can't seem to find it RN.
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Theres one reason i was learning some R: the charting capabilities of ggplot2 are awesome. I have never produced so good looking graphics before.
That's written by an opinionated R person/book-writer and stays on a very basic level of anecdotes and hearsay. Some comparisons are super short-sighted. For example the author seems to consider searching pypi for keywords are reasonable way of finding functions for both quite specific and totally unspecific terms ("spatial data"...).

You don't miss anything by skipping this.
As a frequent visitor to HK and Octopus Card holder, I don't believe I ever had to present ID to obtain my card. I just purchased it with cash at the Airport Express counter. Is it different for HK citizens?
You probably can't have a stable global cryptocurrency without a central bank. Bitcoin fundamentally cannot work for credit because the risk to the lender is ridiculous.

Macroeconomics doesn't work in diverse economies if you can't partition off areas of the globe and create friction at the borders for trade (with monetary policy).

The same products and services need to have location based costs to ensure local economies can function.

Now complete isolation is worse that perfect free trade, but there must be a balance. Lack of balance brings wealth concentration, poverty, starvation, and war.
And you can always refine it into methane for an even higher density.
99% of users don’t have optical drives anymore so installing software from disks isn’t really that much of a thing anymore. You have to provide a usb optical drive with the disk if you want that and then you might as well provide a thumb drive.
Python is the second-best language for everything.
> Please don't submit comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills.

Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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Having done different projects both in the public and private blockchain space, I believe the majority of the confusion comes from almost no one actually understanding the point of something like Bitcoin. While it's clear for IT people to look at a Paypal like system and point to the obvious central point of failure (the company behind it, the website "paypal.com', etc), almost no one outside of IT understands decentralization and why someone would want it.

Especially after learning all the downsides you get with these kind of distributed systems (slow finality, low throughput, limited in capabilities, inefficient, open to new attack vectors).
Try https://plotnine.readthedocs.io/ or https://seaborn.pydata.org/
Except for the copy protection, anti cheat system and the low level access that is required for performance.
"RStudio is to be commended for developing the reticulate package, to serve as a bridge between Python and R. It's an outstanding effort, and works well for pure computation. But as far as I can tell, it does not solve the knotty problems that arise in Python, e.g. virtual environments and the like."

I'm not sure I follow this, you can just set the interpreter.

I've started using rMarkdown more heavily, with reticulate & python for most data munging and r for plotting. Partly because I already know how to solve the problems I have in python more quickly than in R. The only thing I have against it at the moment is the debugging story isn't very nice by default, though I've not looked into how to improve this.

edit - if you've not looked into rmarkdown, I heartily recommend it. It is to me what the final output of notebooks should be. I can easily interleave code and descriptions, hide what I want, run it from scratch entirely as a default, and produce a range of outputs including interactive static webpages. Once web packaging is finally sorted, it'll be near perfect.
I used to spend a lot of time flying and, thankfully, I've always found it easy to sleep on planes.

However, a few years back a colleague was building a server on a desk near me and it sounded very like the inside of a plane and I became very drowsy almost immediately!