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apt was never superior. The biggest thing in dnf for me is transaction support. Basically, every time you do a package operation, dnf records the changes to its logs, and you can then revert it, downgrading the upgraded packages, installed the removed, and so on.

You can also revert multiple transactions at once, e.g. restore the package versions to what they were three months ago.

There's nothing remotely like this in apt -- if you install a lot of packages on your system, and then want to remove them, the common solution is something like "parse the (text) apt logs, learn manually what's changed, and revert it yourself".

Some other niceties:

* package groups: `dnf install @'c development'` instead of `apt install binutils gcc make bison yacc whatever-else`. Somewhat mitigated by metapackages, but they rarely cover the whole groups of functionality, i.e. they are often more low-level.

* package streams: `dnf install node-8`, or `node-9`, or one of the other supported versions;

* dnf downloads many packages in parallel, and the level of parallelism is configurable. This greatly helps with upgrades from slow mirrors. I believe it can also utilize multiple mirrors at once, though I haven't tried it.

* dnf supports plugins and you can install them with a simple command. For example, there's a plugin to automatically create btrfs snapshots on every package upgrade.

* COPR saved my skin a couple of times, though it's basically the same thing as Ubuntu's PPAs. This is more of a problem for Debian.
I sorta understand the sentiment where there are tools like :

https://amiunique.org/
https://browserprint.info/

whose results would have you believe that one's footprint is very unique. I'd be interested in hearing more about why this is hard to implement into an efficient process.
I don't do anything too special, no userstyles for me or anything like that. I generally just do the following:

- Remove the spacers next to the address bar. (I prefer having a huge address bar.)

- Install uBlock Origin, Bitwarden, and a few other extensions (GitHub Notifier, for example.) I don't use Firefox Sync right now, so I do this manually per install.

- Disable "Ctrl+Tab cycles through tabs in recently used order." I prefer the old Ctrl+Tab behavior where Ctrl+Tab moves right and Ctrl+Shift+Tab moves left.

- Set search to Duck Duck Go.

- Disable all Home content except Search.

- Disable browser, download, form and password history. Tweak content blocking settings a bit. (I generally 'block third party trackers' but I aspire to block all third party cookies if that ever becomes supported by most websites.)

Sometimes I also tweak other random things, like disabling the clipboard APIs entirely to avoid sites that attempt to add garbage to the end of copies. But realistically, these are the things that I usually keep the same. On portable devices I sometimes also enable permanent private mode, to keep even less sensitive data in storage.
The keyboard is flawed, Apple even admits it. Guess being ignorant is more convenient though.
This is very interesting. We surrender, for example, to the posibility of preventing the suffering of people by the acts of others becouse that, would make us dystopian.
Isn't bookmarklet just a script that runs on the context of the current page when you click on that bookmark? If so, the script has all the access to your data. It can steal your auth cookie or some keys from the local storage and send them to some server.
How many companies besides Apple can afford to bring Ive on as a contractor and implement his level of perfection?

Being able to say "Designed by Ive" is worth a lot. Companies will find the money just as they find money for Porsche design collaborations, Pininfarina design, collaboration with popstars, sponsorship of sports teams, etc.
I don't know about other manufacturers, but the latest Google Pixel 3a & 3a XL which comes with the 3.5mm jack, aren't waterproof.

https://www.teamandroid.com/2019/05/16/google-pixel-3a-water...
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I don’t think Americans unanimously respect titles of nobility, and I think Gruber’s point is that he personally doesn’t respect them and wishes Apple didn’t respect them either.

Whether this is a consistent point of his, whether Gruber has always referred to the Queen as Elizabeth Windsor, I don’t know. But I wouldn’t conflate convenience with respect. “The Queen” is a very easy name to remember and use informally without necessarily supporting monarchy. Like, I wouldn’t call Captain Blackbeard “Captain Blackbeard” out of respect for piracy.
This just smells like a rat like some others said. It's probably true that the deal while might not be essential probably did help Chinese cpu development. But it's unlikely that US govt. at the time didn't understand the implication or couldn't have stopped it if they really wanted it. And it's not like reporters are finding out about this just now.

I don't know the financial situation for AMD was at 2014 and they might have ceased to exists for all I know. But the article writes as if the money itself turned the company around. It's the R&D and design of a new chip that heralded a new era for AMD. And if I'm reading correctly the deal actually ended up being done in 2016 by which time most of the work on Zen was already done I presume.

As someone else said in another comment it is kind of shameful how investment works. Forget about China/US thing, chip development is important work and no one invested in it properly. For big cloud companies simply the pressure over intel (with a competitive AMD) should have been worth it by itself.
It was fairly evident to me by the mid 1990s that Unix likely had staying power over other. options -- VMS, MVS, Mac (pre-OSX), and Windows. And yes, I'd worked on all of those, plus a few others.
It's certainly possible that Apple addressed him as 'Sir Jony Ive' in the memo to make him appear as a pompous ass to the rest of the company, so that they would be happier about his leaving.
From what I vaguely recall hearing, most places don't like to have employees that work more than half time but less than full time. Maybe fixing whatever misincentives are causing this discontinuity would also help make the contractor / employee difference less of an issue?
What do you estimate the implementation costs of GDPR are? I've seen some research that put the numbers in the 10's of billions IIRC

It feels like a regulatory moat for the big players who can afford it. Sorta like a complex VAT policy.
Totally!
People are always commenting on how old my systems are. Last half of 2012 15” and an iPhone 5s... I just shrug and say “last of the Jobs models” and then I play this clip for them.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=EK2ijfxqlnY
The basic problem is that sites that do have a commentary board control the content; they delete what they don't like.
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Could anyone point me in the direction of resources to learn more about probabilistic programming?

(e.g.: text books, practical applications, introductory articles)
Is there a reason you couldn't make the railgun bigger? For example, build it up the side of a high mountain. Then you can spread the acceleration across multiple kilometers and by the time you reach the top the air is thinner.
I have a crowd of reviewers (and always looking for more) which are pretty much from the general public and good reviewers get tasked more often. I manually review the feedback replies to ensure the quality.
> A lack of documentation is better than useless documentation.

Err.. I think it's the other way around.
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So you are saying if we pay teachers more money we get better teachers and our children (and fellow citizens) get better educations?

Why aren't we paying teachers more money already!
I wonder why he's being charged with "interfering with police"? From the article:

"The interactions between Alvarez and police were cordial. While waiting to issue the summons, the gallerist and the cops chatted amiably about civic matters and the opioid epidemic."
I grew up Catholic, and I don't recall any teaching that eating delicious food, exercising, or admiration of nature would take us farther from God.

One thing I do remember from when I was a kid: whenever our priest stopped by the house for a visit, my parents always offered him a shot of whiskey!
This comment is such a fucking joke, I can barely find enough motivation to criticize it, knowing that it's so obviously laughable.

The chin? The phone's fucking chin? You think the company hinges on phone chins?

You think that's a leadership decision?

The only reason they spent on the research was because they have money. The iPhone X isn't even their best phone. It has no headphone jack. It's too big. It's too expensive. The lack of a button sucks. The thin bezel means accidental touch events, that the operating system fails to discriminate against because there really is no way to know which ones are accidental... The iPhone X is shit design, and a step backwards.

The reason he's gone is because he's botching design decisions and he's lost touch. The heave ho is the best choice.

I could go on.
SSM session manager is basically a HTTP wrapper over a shell. You have to use browser for SSM which mostly works until it doesn't. I had trouble sometimes copy pasting to it.

This new service is basically a managed SSH so things like port forwarding etc will work. With SSM you can't do port forwarding etc because it is not SSH aware.
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a simulation of what exactly?
If you want to get off at every stop on the nostalgia train, Slashdot keeps a story archive going back to 1998:

https://slashdot.org/archive.pl?op=bytime&keyword=&year=1998

Stand-out titles include:

"Nintendo-64 or PlayStation? Which to buy for XMas?"

"NGLayout now called Gecko to be released this week"

"Microsoft blows it again with Windows 2000 name"

"George Lucas Talks about new Star Wars movie"

"Debian 2.0 Beta IRC Party Tonight"

"PDA Overview: Pilot Still King"
I was really looking forward to probabilistic programming but then I saw this project is based on Julia. Not to keen on leaning Julia as I already know Python/C++/Java/Scala/R. Wish it was based on c++/python to at least get started with. Please let me know if there are other interesting probabilistic programming frameworks available or tutorials to get started with.

Edit: https://medium.com/tensorflow/an-introduction-to-probabilist... There is support in tensorflow for probabilistic programming. How is this any different?
- The DRM of Netflix is irrelevant. The people who want to download the movies will do it anyway, but their number got way lower once Netflix (and probably Hulu and others like them) got a large enough catalog. People like convenience and are willing to pay for it.

- I couldn't immediately find the article where he announced that HE uploaded his books (as an experiment), but here is one of the many articles where he dismisses the issue:

https://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2010/05/piracy-again.html
Meanwhile, the Army is aiming for a 1000 mile range [1]

[1]https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.military.com/defensetech/20...
I thought he was already splitting his time between London and Cupertino around the time he took on his grander title several years ago. Apple Park was likely a rewarding (new!) endeavor, but their largely iterative product line probably doesn't inspire like it did in earlier years, and he's built a well-oiled machine of a design team to carry the torch (I agree with Gruber on needing a design decider, though). Being halfway around the world from your true home for work with hundreds of millions of dollars in the bank gets old. He's definitley made his dent in the universe.
I currently use the regular Gmail UI as my MUA. Getmail is just an offline backup.
This is based on Julia.
>other than a reason for Russia to do the same?

lmao

why would Russia need this reason?
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Realpolitik international relations. Different parties having different interests doesn't mean there is nothing the US government can do to achieve better conditions for US companies.
Sanctioned by the government does not imply it is not extra-legal; to my eye these type of actions are morally and ethically problematic in peacetime.
It seems very well written. I enjoyed the irony of this line:

> NOVEMBER 10, 1986

> Called Kyle Freeman in L.A. (he’s at Electronic Arts now) and asked him what he’d charge to license his Apple music subroutine.
What a ridiculous claim. Of course there is finished software. If you need a subscration calculator what do you do when it can do substraction? Add addition?

That's how we end up with this disgusting bloated software world we live in. Why do I need a calculator app with food delivery service?
You're right, but it's impossible to overstate how uncooperative publishers are. They refuse to work with each other and every major publisher-run ad exchange has failed. Maybe privacy and data regulations will finally push them to change.
> No, not at all. Thankfully we have many people in press, innumerable sources of information, and a lot of public discourse on these things.

That sure helped in Iraq's case. It's not like the press just repeated what the government told it.
> If your code looks like this: f(g(x, y), a(b(c))) then inference isn't really doing much to hurt you.

Err... do you mean to say type inference isn't doing much to help you?
> What's the tolerance threshold for airline fatalities?

Meaning what?
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In my current role, no lisp day-to-day; but I do use it for fast prototyping. Definitely, the derived principles are super valuable and the ROI on effort spent in learning Lisp is most likely permanent, a rare ROI.
Micro is macro. Small is big. Up is down. I'm a clown! Digital.

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> Right, the browsers will quickly ban this extension.

How is an open source browser going to ban an extension that throngs of people want?
Found this : https://medium.com/tensorflow/an-introduction-to-probabilist...
> For parallel processing I'd reach for the nearest standard library at hand on the language of choice.

That is a good example of what I mean: The nearest standard library is likely to either buffer output in memory or not buffer at all (in which case you can have the start of one line ending with another line). This means you cannot deal with output bigger than physical RAM. And your test set will often be so small that this problem will not show up.

GNU Parallel buffers on disk. It checks whether the disk runs full during a run and exits with a failure if that happens. It also removes the temporary files immediately, so if GNU Parallel is killed, you do not have to clean up any mess left behind.

You _could_ do all that yourself, but then we are not talking 50 lines of code. Parallelizing is hard to get right for all the corner cases - even with a standard library.

And while you would not have to look up how to use command line parameters on S/O you _would_ be doing exactly the same for the standard libraries.

Assuming you can get better performance is also not given: GNU Sort has built-in parallel sorting. So you clearly would not want to use a standard non-parallelized sort.

Basically I see you have 2 choices: Built it yourself from libraries, or build it as a shell script from commands.

You would have to spend time understanding how to use the libraries and the commands in both cases, and you are limited by whatever the library or the command can do in both cases.

I agree that if you need tighter control than a shell script will give you, then you need to switch to another language.
> Also why are we not competing on high speed rail technology?

The US competes at the top in dozens of other categories, from aerospace to biotech to software to agriculture to semiconductors to spacetech to medtech. Why should we need to compete in high-speed rail technology?

It's the last problem the US has. There's no need to dominate everything - as no nation practically can anyway - just buy Japan's excellent high-speed rail tech. If the US were going to build a national high-speed rail network, it would be best served to buy that tech elsewhere rather than reinventing the wheel, so as to save money and time. The high-speed rail that gets built in Texas for example should probably use Japanese tech:

June 2019: "Japan's 'supreme' bullet train aims to impress Texas with speed"

"The real audience for the demonstration, however, was the stakeholders of a privately constructed high-speed rail line in the U.S. state of Texas connecting the cities of Dallas and Houston."

https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Companies/Japan-s-supreme-b...
This is total bullshit. My score of 0.1 in firefox shoots up to 0.9 if I change my user agent to ChromeOS. No other changes - same set of ghostery/ad blocker/fingerprinting prevention, etc. What a scam.
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And why would foreign governments agree to that while still tolerating US companies? Especially when the power blocks like EU have an option to side with China - especially after attacks from Trump administration?

What gain does the US think to get here except having everything spiral into regressive and dangerous pre-WW1 mercantilism?
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> Yes many full-time employees don't have that level of flexibility, but being a full-time employee does not de-facto prevent you from having that flexibility. They tie the two issues together in order to get their "contractors" on their side.

They are actually tied on the other side, AFAIU. It's being an independent contractor that _requires_ having that flexibility. So if Uber/Lyft want to keep that arrangement, they have the obligation (and, symmetrically, the contractors have the right) to keep their hours flexible. If the drivers become employees, Uber/Lyft no longer have any obligation to maintain that flexibility.
Not really.

Suppose Bob fires a gun into a crowded area and happens not to hit anyone. I didn't hurt anyone! It's my right as a consequentialist!"

Bob still goes to prison.

Beyond that, engineering is about using a principled approach, by definition. Throwing something together ad-hoc and finding that it happens to work, is not what is meant by 'engineering'.
Despite being somewhat dated, "Design for Hackers" is certainly the best book on a given subject.

https://www.dailyui.co/ is a great resource.

Dissecting and replicating other designers' work gets you a long way when it comes to learning.

Design is a craft and a thought process. As such, picking it is not beyond any determined individual's reach.
Not right now. But I'm hoping to come up with an equivalent of captcha that doesn't need 3rd parties. That way any comment will need a few seconds of the commenter's time (not CPU time).
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Morally evil? They’re giving full refunds on the books.

This type of hyperbole makes it hard to take anti-DRM arguments seriously. “It’s a less desirable technology choice” feels more like the right level of angst IMO.
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Makes sense when you consider the people who get jobs at Google only know how to solve Leetcode problems.
"goes to show how out of wack shit has gotten with investment in the real economy has gotten, as opposed to chasing online ad money."

this!
> federal law prohibits the creation of currencies

I'm reminded of the 'Liberty Dollar', a 'private currency' that ended in a raid by the FBI and Secret Service. It didn't help their case that their coins looked suspiciously similar to real US currency, mind.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_dollar_(private_curren...
I'm... actually struggling to see what this dark side is. The data is collected under a non-reuse agreement. It's specifically there to make a good captcha. There are other captcha vendors, and they don't make that promise (and I can think of at least one who admits they collect and resell data via captcha).

So the downside here is that no one has a credible way to compete with Google? Maybe because their Google cookie actually is a pretty good indicator of humanity?

That's nonsense. Tons of people do. There's LOADS of great research on captcha that isn't implemented by any vendor. The roadblock is that NO ONE WANTS TO, because it's a thankless, unprofitable task that puts you dead in the crosshairs of a ton of very organized people who will devote huge resources to circumventing or breaking your offering.

"A land grab," sure. Of a nuclear wasteland covered in small arms battles.
Most milspec phones have been waterproof for a long time. Kyocera has a group of phone models (named Hydro) that are/were waterproof, although they aren't very impressive or popular, and rely on caps with gaskets.
It’s helpful in the sense that the problem is concentrated at the origin. So arguments like “it’s impossible to get everyone in every country to work towards a solution” fall flat. Law makers could sit down with 100 representatives and hash out a solution with a very confined effort, you don’t actually need to onboard the entire human population to get things moving.
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> Or the things it has caught don't make newspaper headlines. Because the plots were defused, and thus can't be used to cause chaos and fear in citizens, something newspapers seem to delight in.

That sounds like conspiracy thinking. The media isn't able to suppress the CIA's good deeds, and I don't believe they'd try. "Big alien invasion averted thanks to heroic CIA agent" is a great headline. So great in fact, that fiction books are written on that premise.

With all the minor and major leaks from the intelligence community, they're supposed to have a super tight and successful conspiracy going to hide the fact that they are actually effective? I have some doubts, both on the technical part (large conspiracies are hard) and the reasoning.
I guess it's not as super obvious as it sounds, but if you take a look at a 3.5mm audio jack, it's not that hard to imagine creating a hermetically sealed (and therefore waterproof) female plug for that specification.

Far easier than for a USB port, I'd say.
Yes, and other manufacturers make phones that are waterproof. Just one example: Motorola moto x4.
Easy fix is to make the sound of the horn as loud inside the cabin as it is outside. Those things are absolutely deafening.
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> It is only a negotiation if I know it is there.

You're not going to get through a site with a properly implemented captcha just by blocking it.
I've been over that route--32 minutes is absolutely laughable, in my case (stock height IH Scout 80) both ladders and winch were required, and is absolutely not a road to take unprepared. Plus, the detour required after an unsuspecting traveler realized this could easily cause them to run out of fuel.
They don't even link to Julia like they have for other languages...
I have the opposite perspective. I'd like my $3000 device to have all the ports I'm likely to need over the lifetime of said device. Dongles and specific adapter cables are a pain.