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There seems to be a lot of focus on the pivot aspect...but really these companies just made good products.

The real question may be how they had / found people with the talent to do the new thing and let them do it.

But existing corporate momentum is strong.
> 2 of them were writing tests

I mean, I've seen the counter... and it's not pretty.
Also, be advised, that a one-line sed -i crack (open source software) is widely available for the bootcode of pre-4 Pis that universally enables the hardware codec blocks without a license.

It is “heavily protected” only in a legal sense, not a practical one.
Sadly, I can’t measure [power consumption] as my power meter is dead.

Would be nice to see those measurements, as RPi 4's idle consumption (initial reports of ~3 watts) is quite poor compared to RPi 2B and 3B's ~1 watt.
Thank you for proving my point, people are quick to just repeat what they've been told and ignore new information. It is certainly a strange phenomenon on the internet nowadays.
https://jstrieb.github.io/urlpages/#JTNDaHRtbCUzRSUzQ2hlYWQl...
I’ve always heard the manufactures push for this because it lets marketing have the car constantly emit a trademarked, branded tone. People wouldn’t put up with such in-your-face crass advertising unless it was legally mandated.
OOP for GUI is getting old fashioned I think. I am thinking about the class-based imperative frameworks in Java/C#.

Just look at the functional components and hooks in react.

They have just abandoned the class based syntax.
> It ought not to be a surprise that some of those mechanisms do not work so well outside the standard uniform gravitational field we experience

This is called a dependency. So you agree with my initial proposition.

> But that is not to say that there isn't another set of mechanisms that could work without the influence of gravity

As I addressed in another post, this is orthogonal to the discussion because we are talking about the universe the way it is, not the way it could be; If we remove gravity from the equation, we don't even get past the big bang and forming systems from uneven matter distribution.
Unfortunately expungement doesn’t really do much - most questions on employment forms or professional associations (state bar, FINRA, etc) ask about arrests not convictions. Secondly, despite being “expunged” the data still resides in numerous data bases etc. and I don’t believe you have any practical recourse against that. E.g. you go to buy a gun and the NICS system holds you up, or an employer fires you for a conviction found on a third party database what are you going to do?
I guess when you want to run software than only runs on Windows, such as IIS.

You won't find them here, but there are plenty of Windows-only IT service providers out there. It seems crazy that any system administrator, or programmer, in 2019 would only have any interest in Windows, but they exist and there are a lot of them out there.
Excellent! I haven't seen this before, surprisingly!
So I just so happen to have a PowerBook 540c here with a Swedish install of Office 4.2.1, and had to check my memory, since I remember it being localized.

VBA on this machine has English keywords (Sub/Dim/If/While), but Swedish application APIs (search in Word is Sök for instance). Screenshot of one of the sample macros: https://i.imgur.com/vDWQcWk.png
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If acceleration sufficiently mimics gravity such that living systems cannot tell the difference then it's 1) not really true that life requires gravity, and 2) it certainly doesn't require quantum gravity.

You still haven't demonstrated where "chemical reactions in our organelles" are meaningfully affected by gravity. All the references you've given are for much larger systems.
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Looks like a good start! If it helps, here's two things I would need to switch over:

1. Theming/Components so I can make it look good enough that alpha testers don't immediately write it off (A decent looking material design theme with customizable colors would be fine).

2. The pricing model is a non-starter with the current project, which requires us to create dozens of MVPs a year, and move forward with the ones that resonate with customers
I tend to think of "is not" as an binary operator and my assumptions based on this hold true. I prefer to think of it as entirely separate from "not". I don't know if the compiler rewrites it to not(x is y) behind the scenes.
I mentioned them already in the comment.
Not with gravitational waves alone.

People do want to correlate large numbers of binary black hole mergers with galaxy positions and come up with a statistical measurement of the Hubble constant, but no single BBH merger will be clearly identified with one galaxy under that scheme. You need lots of mergers, and the Hubble-constant determination is more model-dependent.

Binary neutron stars with EM counterparts are much more straightforward.
Singapore is the only place I've been where I welcomed the ice cold A/C.
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The “uint8* a, usize a_len“ pattern is one of the ugliest aspect of C. It’s probably the source of most bugs. To its defense, it was invented at a time where we were trying to save each byte of data and security was not really a thing. Unfortunately C is still quite popular.
How can you reference the equivalence principle and then deny it in the very next post?

Looking back, I would have chosen my words a little more carefully to reference organelles without referencing chemical reactions specifically.
check out their kernel for WSL: https://github.com/microsoft/WSL2-Linux-Kernel.
As did every single peaceful civil right leader throughout history.

Many of the same people who hold up MLK as the way you “should” protest were calling him a troublemaker riling up the good people that didn’t want any trouble.
In the US, most states ban the use of an arrest that did not lead to a conviction for the purpose of excluding you for employment.

Many states limit how far you can go back in considering convictions. I believe California allows background checks to look at seven years of history.
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> Though in recent years I've found Arch to be way more stable with very few updates causing major problems.

Can confirm. I've had the same Arch install for nearly 6 years now. I've borked it only once in that time, and that one was my fault for not reading the news first. Fixed it in < 5 minutes.

And I've made considerable changes in that time, including moving the entire installation from one hard disk to another.
A business needs paying customers. That's the thing you need to somehow figure out.

Everything else is details.
Interestingly the prices appear to be identical on these two websites (but it's still quite scary to see this happening).
There is an entire parallel community of business IT, basically unknown and unintelligible to the Silicon Valley community, where the Microsoft server-side stack is as obvious a choice as Linux is in our world. You may even have some of it in your company. It's really amusing (and dysfunctional) when our projects require "Eng" and "Corp IT" to cooperate. We're both ostensibly computer professionals who select, write, and operate production services, yet to each side the other may as well be from Mars.
> executing a suspected Canadian drug dealer

I don't think he's been executed yet?

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/08/asia-pacific/ca...
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>I wonder what the most amazing secret was that was held for the longest time?

I heard that the use of the golden ratio in projects such as the engineering of cathedrals, required that the first thing you do before you draw your plan is to draw a pentagram, in order to derive the ratio using simple drawing tools, and then carefully erase it, or in other words, make it occult. http://www.matematicasvisuales.com/english/html/geometry/gol...

Also, I'd really like to know who in the hell built the Ankythera device. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism
This all seems to assume the tank serial numbers would be captured at one moment in time ("captured 15 of these tanks uniformly at random.") But in fact the tank shells dribble in over time which biases the gap, the gaps at the highest numbers are going to be greater. Earlier tanks have had many more chances to be destroyed or captured. So using average gap is clearly not going to give the best estimate. If you restrict yourself to tanks from the latest large battle, that will cancel out the dribble effect though.
The goal is to make it easier for those people to use Matrix too. Otherwise you won't ever expand past a fraction of the tech community and won't overcome the network effect of larger messaging systems.

This is the same reason why (for instance) E2E isn't the default right now -- there were massive usability issues that most normal users would have trouble with (until very recently you could lose all your historical session keys unless you were very careful and backed them up religiously). Speaking anecdotally, several people I've switched to Matrix really wanted to switch away because they lost all of our old chat messages when they logged out of their account.

I hope you agree that people without very strong privacy concerns should be able to use Matrix as well.
Generally protests and such involve bringing a topic to a different venue and communicating the issue in new ways because only talking about it at the "right" time isn't working.
They could probably partner with Red Hat. I would've laughed at the idea 10 years ago, but these days, I wouldn't be that surprised. When they've had OS-ish integrations needed for things like machine-based authentication, RHEL has been treated like a first class citizen. I'm not sure how much Amazon Linux really changes other than branding and some baked-in tuning - unless you're really going to commit to maintaining the OS, just providing a minimal RHEL-based image makes a lot of sense.
>I read an interesting thought from Jordan Peterson that a great purpose is to reduce suffering in the world.

Hardly a novel thought, is it? :p But anyway, the issue remains, right? Why reduce suffering. What's the point. We will all be dead anyway. Etc, etc. If you struggle with finding a purpose/reason to do your life, then how does that help?

>God is dead in the Western civilisation now, and it is very hard to fill the void.

Still far from dead, but it would be for the best anyway. All things considered, religion probably wrought more misery and did more damage that it did good.

Myself I'm much more content without a god than with. It's liberating. Well, at first it's scary. You realise than nobody is there, nobody is listening. There is no cosmic justice. Nobody is going to come down from the heavens and save you. Then, all of a sudden, when you think of it... it's liberating! Nobody will save you. So what? You will save yourself! You will roll up your sleeves and do things. You don't have to pay tribute to a lord. You don't have to follow his laws. There are no limits to you, or what you can achieve.

There is nothing else. There are just humans. There's just us.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20309052

More discussion here.
This is neat but lacking the obvious data-uri format which similar services implement:

data:text/html;base64,...
We only have the largest because China executes so many.
Interesting article, but it really should have told us who made the battery units, and also the other two that have caught on fire. Maybe it is just one company that is having a problem with design or production.
That the author considers the command line an archaic mode of human-computer interaction makes it difficult for me to take his commentary on Google Duplex, let alone AI and HCI design, seriously.

Secondly, I have a hard time thinking design is anywhere close to obsolete. Google Duplex sounds like an adapter that will make reservations for you upon voice command. This will not obsolesce anything except a few forms on most websites. Design encompasses _much_ more than how a form looks or functions.
> finite set that is not closed under

The discussion was about programming languages and English. What on earth is this about?

You're actually compounding the issue here, by invoking jargon from a different field. That's true of the definition of integers you'll find in college level math textbooks, but the word "integer" as understood by normal people (even computer programmers) means "whole number", which is why the type is named that way.
Well, all I can ask is that you try to reread what I wrote, but this time do it in good faith; then imagine for a second that people are maybe not being as unreasonable as you assume.
Registration fee is not ICO at all. Participants of the network do not get any coins upon registrations, but they can emit any number of coins any time for selling them to users at fixing price and investing fiat money into bonds.
It's the default choice when you set up a VM.
Straight forward. I like it. That leads me to several other questions...which may be out of scope.
Defacing a Wikipedia page doesn’t sound like an appropriate response.

If my employer demanded I use TFA (they do), and I defaced one of their public web pages, I’d be fired.
Government does it because Microsoft was genius in sneaking cloud service terms back in 2011/2012 beyond the scope of O365 into the Microsoft EA product use rights before government lawyers and procurement people figured it out. O365 had ROI so it just rolled through.

They have a leg up because they have been available to every government entity for almost a decade. AWS and others are still hard to buy for many government entities.
Ask away. I spun my wheels a whole lot before I had any clue what I was doing.
NearlyFreeSpeech.NET is also a great host for legal, but potentially controversial content.
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Yes that must be what the statistic represents since it emphasises data heavy users.

It would be interesting to do some back if the envelope calculations based on energy usage of Google and Facebook datacenters, percentage of content consumed on phones and data consumed by average vs heavy users.
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I'm having a hard time describing this project. Only a few people on Reddit got it.
It's been a long time since I looked at this but IIRC factoring and discreet log are equivalent.
Yes, and 2018 is the first year of the redesign with extended range. The previous generation had significantly shorter ranges.
If people never competed with established products, there wouldn't be any established products. I wanted a clean, thin, customisable port scanner, so I built one. I didn't waste my time worrying about nmap or whatever else exists, I just made something I wanted and thought (perhaps naively) that someone else might want it too.

Honestly people like you really annoy me; programming is such a delightful and social art, but teaching people "don't reinvent the wheel" just results in a generation of people who don't give a shit about wheels.
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I've heard this kind of thing about all of the *BSDs, and I'd really like to try them out: I'm very appreciative of their system structure, package management, and greater focus on the UNIX philosophy. What concerns me most is that I had a very unfortunate experience with everything on MacOS being subtly incompatible with most Dev tools, which generally assume Linux. That's mostly what's scaring me away from trying to dual-boot.

Would you be able to speak to the differences between OpenBSD, NetBSD, And FreeBSD? So far as I can tell, FreeBSD is generally focused on getting the most software and the most drivers, etc, in order to compete with Linux, while OpenBSD focuses on implementing everything in the "correct" way, and NetBSD focuses on being a lightweight OS for routers and the like. Is this about right?
You can use a wallet of any other provider from the network if you don’t trust Facebook.
Sure, organelle formation probably has little to do with gravity. You seem very devoted to this semantic battle. Would you like to take this conversation elsewhere?
This seems like a reasonable summary. I can understand his (apparent, based on the internet :D) frustration with finance and ops people filling the executive ranks.

But never forget the wireless "magic" mouse with the lightning plug in the bottom.
> There are a few problems. First the UI for approving new client connections in encrypted chat rooms is complete crap. It needs to be clear and concise what is happening and currently it starts a super complicated verification process which is frankly confusing.

Device cross-signing has nearly landed and will solve this problem by creating a pseudo-WoT between users meaning that you need to do verifications very infrequently (ideally, only once when you first start talking to the user).

> It simply needs to say "$user has signed in on a new device $deviceName. Is it okay to send messages to this device? Yes/No"

Doing it this way would open the door to a malicious homesever (or a user's account being hacked into) being able to eavesdrop on you. Device names aren't cryptographically relevant. Device cross-signing (where a user's devices sign each other) solves the problem in a much safer way.

> Finally the bot API could use work. I spent some time professionally maintaining a Slack bot for a major American cable company and currently it's much harder to make a Matrix bot and documentation is lacking.

This boils down to the fact that bots are basically just normal Matrix clients (with a few extra features if you've set them up as an application service). You might be better served by using a library (like matrix-nio or the Matrix SDKs).
What is also quite fascinating to me is that many of the Cherokee of the time considered writing to be a form of witchcraft. Sequoyah allegedly [e.g., 1] decided that it was not based on his observations of white men, but his initial trials of teaching written Cherokee were sufficient to bring charges of witchcraft against his daughter, his first pupil. However, after some demonstrations, it was shown to be what it is, a very simple but extremely effective tool.

I'm sure many of the readers of this fine forum know the quote (and provenance, which I don't) that is something like 'any sufficiently advanced form of technology is indistinguishable from magic'.

[1]: https://cherokee.org/About-The-Nation/History/Facts/Sequoyah...
I've not used but a handful of Apple devices over the years. For those (probably few?) of us out of the loop, is this particularly newsworthy?
Nullability sounds like a frustrated Comcast exec. The tradeoffs sound reasonable to me on the free alternative.
So, if a research project takes $3M in funding, and a private company takes that primary research and spends $300M to produce a derivative product and takes it to market they should not profit? The National Renewable Energy Lab has an entire portfolio it is begging private companies to productize.

Taking a product to market is very difficult and raw research is not usable by the populace in most cases.
I don't think the lightning plug being on the bottom was really that big of a deal since a full charge lasts 2 months.
The "OP" I'm quoting is you, at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20321707 . How are you not in agreement with what you wrote?

As to your 'circular dependencies', I'll again quote krastanov in the direct ancestor to this thread:

> Unless you mean "gravity is important to make planets, and planets are where we have observed life", in which case you are stretching the meaning of this expression to a meaningless level.

This 'circular dependencies' argument is as meaningless as saying that biological organelles are essential to the production of nuclear weapons - true, but not important enough that it's needed to understand the overall process.

And there are many things like that. We can model weather numerically without modeling each and every molecule because that low-level interaction doesn't really affect fluid dynamics. Mean field theory can be apply to many complex systems.

Yes, there can be chaotic behavior, even in Newtownian systems. But that's beside the point, which is they you have made statements which you seem to assert as fact which don't have any evidentiary support.

You might as well muse about the effects of feline ESP on the weather.
That’s what people always say. Politics never changes. Yet people continually idealize it will be different next time.

It’s the nature of the job IMO
High temperatures and other Rpi4 issues are covered by Andreas Spiess in https://youtu.be/0diTHAmVbhc
You can apply all of the same reasoning to assembly. People did write that by hand at some point. Then they abstracted that away into higher level languages. I’m sure there’s a ton of hackery going on there as well.

It just seems like a human nature to paper over.

It’s an evolution.
Hosting SQL Server has been another common use case for Windows Server for a long time, though it can run on Linux too now.
No, it's just complicated - easier to implement it on a reasonably general purpose core with firmware than to bet on getting it right first time in dedicated hardware.
Same exact feelings bubbled into my head, but as I thought about it, is it really wrong to refer to a cli as archaic today? I posit that that it’s not when discussing application ux/i design.
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I'm well aware of my personal biases. But the only way that I was even able to get to that level of self-awareness was by engaging with people who think differently than me.

Today's polarization is very real. Its tangible. It's being exacerbated by the CNN vs Fox dynamic of left vs right leaning news. It's being aggravated by social media and mass media bubbles. And it's very destructive.

https://www.people-press.org/2016/06/22/partisanship-and-pol...
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I'm having a hard time understanding how the author even jumped to the conclusion they're at.
I thought that was intentional so people wouldn’t treat it like a wired mouse?
Gravity plays a role in Earth biology. It does not necessarily play a role in all biology.
How does dhcp work in this environment? I assume something like shorter term assignments. That way if you shift DHCP every day without extensive logging you have a good expectation of privacy. We need this in Seattle.
It still means the thing is unusable when charging, no matter how long a charge lasts.

In the grand scheme of things, no, it isn't that big of a deal. But it showcased a stereotype people associate with Apple: aesthetics over function. The plug could have gone in the top of the mouse, so you could use it just like you would a wired mouse while it charged. But no, the plug must be invisible, damn the inconvenience.
> ... ask about arrests and not convictions

Expungements are for clearing arrests[1]

> or an employer fires you for a conviction found on a third party database what are you going to do?

Ask for a copy of the report (they are required by law to provide it to you; you will know they have it because they had to get your legal consent beforehand; have to inform you decision is based on report), then dispute the report.

A company can do dishonest work and pretend their decision is not based on a report, but they can't legally use expunged records to make a decision in PA (or afaik anywhere; sealed records are another story), just because they got them from an outdated consumer reporting agency.

1: http://plsephilly.org/get-help/expungement/
82 degrees F and drenched in sweat? man that's a nice day here in southern california.
I’d say it’s mostly a form of complaining that traffic isn’t moving, even when the people in front are also stuck. It’s truly pointless noise-making.