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Parent comment referred to the idea of installing cameras to track tip recording as stupid, not you or any other person.
Probably a piece of rubber that keeps some margin between the heatsink and the cover of the server.
Easy. They just export the bad thing, and keep the good thing for themselves.

It's even easiest when you realize domestic consumption is tiny relative to exports, so the local industry doesn't care.

In the US for years it was illegal to export oil. So industry had good motivation to encourage local use.
Sometimes it's good to give people what they ask for [insist on], even if it does not make a sense.

No anxiety needed.

Then calmly explain that the reason things didn't work out as [they] expected is because in real world things doesn't work the way they want or fantasy about.

Suggest better approach. If they refuse and keep doing [asking] the same thing all over again and expect a different result - then let it be their insanity [or anxiety], not yours.
I had lots of experience in Modula-2 and Pascal (including Turbo Pascal) before C. I liked C very much. The very syntax was a breath of fresh air; just } to close scopes and so on. The declarations that resembled uses of the identifier looked good to me.

Good old Don Knuth had a similar reaction (also coming from lots of experience in Pascal, Algol and their ilk). In a 1993 interview he said this: I think C has a lot of features that are very important. The way C handles pointers, for example, was a brilliant innovation; it solved a lot of problems that we had before in data structuring and made the programs look good afterwards. C isn't the perfect language, no language is, but I think it has a lot of virtues, and you can avoid the parts you don't like. I do like C as a language, especially because it blends in with the operating system (if you're using UNIX, for example).

I don't entirely agree with him but sympathize with the reaction. (No you can't avoid the bits you don't like, unless you're a lone hacker who doesn't have to integrate any third party-code, which pretty much describes Knuth.)
Certainly those regions are doing something in humans; and certainly those regions had those functions in species without a cortex. But the implication that these regions' presence in the human brain implies they're the ultimate arbiter of the same functionality there, isn't guaranteed to be true.

Brains really do use "subsumption" (in the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsumption_architecture sense) to accomplish various features; there are motor signals that some earlier-evolved part of the brain would be emitting if they were the only thing "online" in the brain, that are actively suppressed or "overridden" by another, later-evolved part of the brain, often a part that only "comes online" later in brain development. (Thus "early instincts" that disappear during development, like the infant diving reflex.) Often, these subsumed neural processes reappear when the region suppressing them is damaged, as in the normally-suppressed human lordosis reflex, or the normally-suppressed-after-infancy suckling reflex in most mammals.

There's no evidence that I know of that the limbic system and the cortex are in this sort of relationship; I'm just saying that this kind of relationship isn't unprecedented as a thing human brains do.

If such a relationship were to exist between the cortex and the limbic system, then both regions could be said to be "in charge" of cognition; sort of like a television tuner and a VCR can both be in charge of the image being displayed. One state machine (the TV; the cortex), passing input through to another state machine (the VCR; the limbic system) only in some subset of its states (the right "channel"; the right arousal state.)
why would they go and ruin their company like that
Now think of any critical software as the game, with security hackers as the speedrunners.
This is pretty cool, does anyone know if there are online archives of drawings for the various stations at mission control houston?
A new, more user friendly language for programming supercomputers
You can't tell if it worked until the resource runs out.

It's always a great place to live while the resources are being extracted.

Tell me, how large is the oil industry relative to other industries?

Or to put it in other words, if all oil extraction stops tomorrow what would happen to the economy?
Is this possible on an existing house? (And will it break the bank?)

EDIT: Okay well of course it should be as this is what you have done already. So, maybe what I am asking is how complicated is the process...
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why in the world would you ever use the end of a sprint as a hard deadline?

That's broken from the get-go.
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This sounds like a complete no-go. Would the rest of the world accept HK as an independent state? Look how they're accepting Taiwan. Now add that China has actual agreements on the status of HK and Macau.
Just FYI, if you follow the links, it tracks back to the same blog. As do many/most internet posts about "weird AI names for things", at least in my experience.

https://aiweirdness.com/post/174885047997/rock-climbing-rout...
> The issue is that in literally every non-toy product I've every been involved in the product owners will always turn CRUD app #237 or Ho-Hum SaaS #17 into something significantly more custom and much more complex.

YES! The cost of custom-everything design and bespoke gee-whiz is vastly under-appreciated, IMO. CRUDy Android and iOS apps using built-in widgets and simple color theming? Relatively easy to estimate, and pretty damn fast. Custom-everything, we want both to look pretty similar (so, probably Material-ish given current trends, which you'd think would come for free at least on Android but... doesn't), custom animations everywhere, oh I hate that default date picker on this particular Samsung phone (and sure, it's god-awful) can we customize it, and the designer came up with this layout for this form that requires all kinds of twisty-bendy manipulation to reproduce versus something more straightforward but that's what the "stakeholders" approved so let's do that.

Et c. et c. and pretty soon the app's 10x as expensive (no exaggeration!) because you couldn't live with the easiest-for-the-user-anyway default styles with some custom coloring.

And the Web's at least as bad. Often you're also making your page way less usable and breaking it on certain browser/device combos due to the extra effort you put in to make it "pretty", at great cost.

[EDIT] in fact I've in the past suggested providing design points for "pretty gee-whiz versus not-actually-bad straightforward implementation" to make product owners choose between getting e.g. three normal (and OK-looking but not "pretty") features or one pretty feature in a sprint, to make this cost more visible and give owners on a budget more flexibility in shipping features, but it never caught on—in particular designers hate, hate, hate the idea, I think because it might expose that their work is sometimes (often...) more expensive than it's worth (and vastly more expensive than they're being paid, since it also eats huge amounts of developer time) given you've got some developers with even a hint of aesthetic and UX sense on a project.
Am tired, just dead bones tired of all of it. It's all just this or that money making scheme with guys like me caught in the middle. I despised Waterfall, fell into scrum and in the past ten or so years kinda sorta saw one project where agile basically worked right. The rest has been mostly waste. I've worked on billion dollar systems on down to just little nothings. Doesn't matter, companies are struggling to make anything work. I think there's just too much complexity and they all believe IT solutions can manage that complexity. It's failing like never before while expectations have never been higher.

Message to the Fortune 500: Just get rid of anyone with the title "scrum master" they're dead weight. You were fooled, deal with it. I am trying to move my team over to Kanban right now, but we have all this reporting crap up the chain all designed around CA Rally, the worst productivity tool ever made.
> evidence to me that this Noindex thing is bullshit

For those who (like me) don't know a lot about this, which side of the argument is bullshit? Have you just been proved right or wrong?
All this means is that large net-worth individuals will increase the practice of keeping money within a corporate structure and using that for as many expenses as possible.
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Who moves to the edge? Factors that encourage unconventional methods
> Often I'm asked for my estimate in the same meeting I first see the story

That's definitely awful. Personally when I was leading agile teams, for anything non-trivial we'd start by creating an issue to scope the individual parts of the project, frequently allocating several days to do so.

And some stuff is still mostly unscoppable. That's where Fermi estimation and the whole "How many chips can you fit in the empire state building" time deal comes into play. You have no way to really know how long something will take, but we need to allocate resources SOMEHOW, even if its completely off. An imperfect guesstimate is better than none at all.

The catch is that everyone involved has to know that its an imperfect (and potentially completely wrong) guesstimate, and it has to be revisited regularly as new information comes in. Everyone also has to be ok with restructuring the project (or even cancelling it, in extreme cases!) if we learn its completely wrong.

We recently discovered at work that an assumption/decision that was made nearly 2 years ago turned out to be totally false. The project that relied on that false assumption was about 10% in (the assumption was made long ago, but actually work started recently). We had to sit together and ask ourselves if it was actually worth pushing through the 90% (and likely regret it in a year), or agree to scrap the 10% and start over now that we know what we're doing. We have to be careful not to pull off a Vista/WinFS resource blackhole though!
I think you are taking this too seriously. Star Trek inspired people to go work for NASA. I'm not hearing reports that NASA has gone to hell because everyone is commited to making Warp Drive a reality so we can make contact with the Klingons.

Early iterations of SimCity would bring an alien invasion down on your head. I eventually concluded it was triggered by inadequate fire coverage.

I have yet to hear a single city planner talk about needing more fire departments as a magical talisman to ward off alien invasions.

I began playing SimCity because I was wondering if I might want to become an urban planner. It caused me to decide to get a Certificate in GIS because, good God, city planning would be so much better if we could handily look up the kind of data that is available on SimCity for making informed decisions if you take the time to look at it.

I have serious health problems. Life got in the way. So far, I haven't worked professionally in this field.

I did spend a lot of time on an urban planning forum for some years and founded a small subforum and was a low level moderator with limited moderating powers. So I've talked to actual professional planners, been to an urban planning conference, etc.

Lots of city planners play(ed) SimCity. Every one of them I've spoken to seems well aware of its limitations and that the real world doesn't actually work that way.
Confirmation: https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/1/20676755/jony-ive-exit-tim...
I'm honestly surprised it took this long to see something like this. I remember the day Hong Kong was turned over to China. I watched it live on the news. The Hong Kong people were most definitely not happy.

I'll bet at least 1/3 of the protestors weren't even born when that happened. But they have access to both oral and written history about how things used to be.

Information is a powerful thing. I hope they succeed in pushing back on China's takeover.
Interesting quote that I found from Venture's homepage:

> The problem with not having the .com of your name is that it signals weakness. Unless you’re so big that your reputation precedes you, a marginal domain suggests you’re a marginal company.

- PAUL GRAHAM, Y Combinator
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Yeah, the URL removal tool is not meant for permanent removals, but for temporary, 90-day removals:

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/1663419?hl=en
This does give us the opportunity for international compromise.

Since GMT is the time in England, and the meter is (more or less) 3 Parisian feet, we should at least standardize "up" as the direction the Empire State Building goes.
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New York had 180 police officers (marshals and local policemen, and before that, night watchmen) way before the NYPD was established - they were just not organised in one big hierarchy because most crime was local before the mid-19th century immigration wave.
Probably because while nuclear medicine and most of radiology uses actual ionizing radiation for almost everything... NMR is ironically one mode that doesn’t involve it at all. Per informed consent, patients ought to know that XRay and CT and nuclear studies involve radiation, it would be unethical to hide that. But MR shouldn’t have an unnecessary image problem.
A Divergence of HashRates of the Leading Cryptoassets
Right, and Scotland wants to be independent from the UK, Catalonia from Spain, the Left Coast from the rest of the United States, and so on and so on.

Every country has secessionist movements, and no country wants to encourage that sort of thing abroad, lest it bite it in the ass domestically.
And don't forget to burn the books.
You're right. I think the two completely separate "settings" programs are the most user-facing of the problems with these interfaces. It probably doesn't help incentivize updating that the new one is so terrible. [1] It looks like a really bad version of KDE's Plasma theme (Breeze).

[1] https://www.windowscentral.com/sites/wpcentral.com/files/sty...
Certain use cases that Slack et al cater to, you might not get to choose impermanence. There might be compliance/regulatory issues that require you to have document retention policies.
The whole point is they don’t want you to easily opt out of it.
I didn't get that assumption from the article at all. (Unless you meant "on HN" instead?)

To me, the article's focus on permanently deleting old messages specifically avoids that error - it's not about avoiding disclosure but as defense-in-depth since disclosure is always a possibility. Beyond that, avoiding Slack (even with data deletion) is unlikely to increase security, but it does decrease priority for smaller users who might be swept up in an attack on Slack in general.
TLDR: Software developers, like every other occupation on the planet, are happiest when they can get their assigned work done without being driven insane in the process.
As a user here, your comment was clearly not up to the well-known standards of this site, and even this reply doesn't really help. I'm sorry if this sounds harsh, but I don't know how I could put it more politely than that. If you're going to comment here, you're expected to put at least a modicum of effort towards gratifying intellectual curiosity; whereas you literally aren't saying anything ITT that we couldn't easily expect the average 8chan denizen to say anyway! The fact that this all involves contentious, ideological etc. topics only makes it worse, because it's that much rarer that people will engage with these topics in a way that's appreciative and respectful of intellectual curiosity, especially if they're being flamed in the 8chan-like style.
Mhm take a look at https://github.com/Kopano-dev/konnect - it which might even be quicker to set up in a container.
Comparing the two I can only marvel at all the untapped opportunity in Wyoming.
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But the lack of reliability I described a few comments up is not just a problem for 24/7 archiving. You will see it in everyday use: your connection will drop, it will take a while for a timeout to notice, and you will miss messages for that period.

Now in a real life situation you can mishear or fail to hear. But technology can make this better.
Why our SRE team went with kubernetes
Sure, you can just go buy a certificate for an IP address. The Subject Alternative Name extension used to make X.509 certificates work on the Internet this century takes IP addresses (IPv4 or IPv6) just as happily as DNS names (including IDNs, written with A-labels) or email addresses. You will need to prove enduring control over the IP address, often by showing that one of the RIRs issued it to you as part of a block assignment.

Of course running an RIR isn't free, and so the RIRs charge fees to their members, Cloudflare will be paying APNIC (and probably all the other RIRs since they're a global company).

And we're straight back to the usual suspects insisting that surely they ought to be entitled to everything for free. How can it possibly cost money to blah blah blah. Basically all you need to watch out for with such people is to make sure you get paid up front, because given an opportunity to stiff you they won't even feel guilty.
I recommend finishing the whole comment
I was homeless at the time. I feel like there's a lot of downside to me trying to get into the specifics.

Suffice it to say it paid cash the same day, which gave me immediate feedback on which actions were profitable and which weren't. This helped me develop solid mental models that generalized concerning where to invest time and effort in developing an income.