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Thank you, I worked on the Videx gadget. We used to put the font ROM in VT52 terminals because it looked so much better than what they had. (These were also sold as Zenith and even Heathkit brands.)
You would be surprised on how many web devs shops don't test for mobile
I was actually surprised that MVUEs and the fellow point estimators are called frequentist (though it makes sense). In school we always referred to them as non-Bayesian, at the same time frequentist always seemed like a dirty word to us students so maybe that's why
The short version is "we heard something, but we don't know were from, somewhere over there probably waves at the sky"
Bearing in mind how many universal systems seem to interact with each other, and how integral gravity is in life as we know it (required for basically every system from galaxy superclusters down to chemical reactions in our organelles) how crazy would it be if we found out at some point that gravitational waves are partly responsible for ensuring the dispersal of some kind of quantum entropy needed for a stable and evolving universe?

Fractions of a proton don't mean much to us, but approaching the Planck scale it could mean a whole lot in terms of quantum probability.
If you had a working detector taking good data than not hearing it also tells you something. But if the detector was not taking good data for whatever reason (local seismic event, high surface winds, technical glitch), then it doesn't help you. Also afaik (and I am not an expert) the first automatic pipeline doesn't use non-detections.
I used to have it. No complaints from me.
Yes of course, the mean is the first moment and a Bessel correction would be inappropriate. Now I feel stupid. The mean calculated by sum(p_t x_i) or 1/n sum(x_i) is already the best linear unbiased estimate. Maybe we can't get better than twice the mean?
Nothing if it’s non constructive.
This appears to be pushed through by France at the behest of Thales [1], a large and diverse manufacturer of civilian and military tech that, among other things, builds UAVs and aeronautical communication equipment.

This portion of the band is allocated globally to amateur radio, and is not assigned to any commercial or (formal) public safety use. This likely makes it a valuable and easy target for reallocation for an entity wishing to operate on it globally.

[1] https://www.f4fxl.org/update-on-the-threats-on-2m-amateur-ba...
when i first started a grey-market research chemical company some years ago, i added like 31 or something to each invoice number to make it seem like i did more business.
I’ve always thought the (IMO un justified) hate against “opinion based” question was coming from the company as opposed to from the mods. In fact I’ve seen a few years back questions that were closed as opinion-based, reopened by a moderator but then closed or even deleted again.

I agree with you that opinion based questions are valuable as long as they have experts’ opinions (and while there isn’t a perfect way to rank expertise, I think reputation is a good enough proxy for it).
If not all of them see it and they have this shitty sky location, the one missing was either offline or its data was unusable for other reasons (ie someone left their phone on one of the mirrors and got a call).
Yep. Virtually no word has a concrete meaning without a context. For example the word “guys” which may mean a group of males or just a generic collection of people irrespective of gender depending on the context in which it is used.
Why do you say gravity is important for organelles? At those length scales other forces are MUCH more important than gravity.
I think it was Borland Delphi 3 or 4, and there where a browser object, perhaps based on IE, but demo.

It was in 1997 and it was not possible to order via Internet so the times the letter with the licence number arrive from US to France and we would have missed the important demo.

Plus, to be completely honest, we were totally broke !
It is far more then that. State actor has people working for it who will serve as honey pots, it has people working for it who Will drug you stuff you in a box and send you back to the country. It has a huge capacity for physical violence of all kinds. Corps are innocent toddlers compared to nation states.

It is a dual approach, we can shield you and also you parents house will not burn down “accidentally” plus lenience for that wayward cousin who will get couple years in comfy prison instead of 9mm to the back of the head.
I played team sports all through my childhood and teens (rugby, soccer and field hockey) and totally empathise with what you're saying. Especially at that age, the social pressure of making a mistake is intense, and kids especially are brutal about letting you know you've 'let the team down' or whatever. One of the most vivid memories I have to this day from childhood is scoring an own goal for my school soccer team. Think I literally cried. Hard to imagine it mattering that much now, but I think as a child/teen your peers' opinions and judgement is everything.

I did briefly get back into team sports playing soccer at University, and while better because I was older, I still just found the pressure of making mistakes with a team made of people I wasn't really close friends with kind of spoiled the enjoyment ultimately.

In adulthood I started focusing on squash, and enjoy it so much more in no small part because it's an individual sport and it totally flips the mistakes situation around. Yes, mistakes are mega frustrating, but they happen and they're lessons to be learned from to improve - all embarrassment and social pressure of letting others down is gone.
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Amen. The author of the article is incorrect to think that the effect her career can have on society is anywhere near as important as the effect she can have on her children, should she take the time.
Are the battery packs really more dangerous than playing with nitrous injection or race fuel? I don’t need any certifications or permission to do either of those in my shed.
It's the way OOP was used from what I saw 10-20 years ago. It was all inheritance, from uni course to patterns used etc.

I've only fell into composition when I got into video game development. We saw it a bit more with Silverlight but now it's such a clear movement (composition over inheritance) that it's in my resume's motto.
I used to contribute quite a lot on the [php] tag back in 2013 and I can vouch for the quality of the questions being horrible already. Lots of beginner-level crap who couldn’t even spell out their question properly, let alone do some research or provide enough information to understand or reproduce their problem. I eventually moved on and deleted my account. I came back on a more niche site (IT security) and reached a decent amount of reputation but frankly I feel like most of the relevant questions have been asked already and there’s little else to add.
Well, depends on if you mean it was important exactly around the big bang, or if you say gravitational waves are crucial now.

I don't think the statement that quantum gravity was important at the big bang is controversial in general, it would depend on the precise claim.
I mean, you’ve shown that you don’t even understand the concept of comparative advantage at the individual vs. aggregate level. How am I supposed to explain to you that protectionist policies benefit a small minority of workers at the expense of almost everybody else?

Instead, I’ll just suggest that you find a good Freshman-level Economics textbook and read carefully. You may find it illuminating to understand the concepts behind complex policy decisions.
You've pretty much covered the bases. The snappiness you describe is because iPhone is more strict with it's app quality. You've also nailed the main use cases for customisability.

The big question is, are you ready and willing to root and/or custom rom your phone? If not, the advantages you described on Android are not as substantial as you may hope. Yes, you can use Netguard, but the approach is janky (out of neccessity). It will not stop ads in all apps either. For example, on the youtube app, which does not use DNS based advertisement delivery. For youtube specifically, you can get NewPipe though, but it's not all that slick.
The whole point of a research collaboration on global disease to "Yes! Please! Learn from, use, and improve our ideas!" The FBI framing this as a quasi-spy role is damaging human welfare for political purposes, which is their traditional role going back to their founding under Hoover. The environment in this country is getting progressively scarier.
Jensen polynomials for the Riemann zeta function
While I agree the distinction you reference between abugidas and syllabaries is useful, it's not a distinction that's always observed (e.g. Indic scripts are sometimes referred to as syllabaries).
My big problem is the auto uploading of all contacts. Maybe providing a ui to select the ones you're most likely to want to contact would be beneficial? Some ppl would want to select All, and some None, but if given the choice between the two, I'd select None. However, with a list I could select the 10 or so important to me rather than actually None.
> How do you implement infinite scroll without JavaScript?

Technically it's possible.

Render the website server side as an image. Chrome 75+ supports native lazy loading of images, so a series of them stacked vertically is needed. Each image represents a new page, scroll through them to navigate.
Click detection can be done with a <map> tag.
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All else being equal, I’d take Stack Overflow over Confluence for 2 reasons: speed and Markdown support.
The author doesn’t spend much time on _why_ re-orgs “almost always make some people unhappy, cause employee departures, and stifle productivity,” but I’d claim it’s organizational politics. Every re-org has winners and losers, almost by definition: there can only be so many people in charge, and likewise not everyone can work on that cool new feature. This is particularly true in relatively stagnant organizations: your best chance to move up the hierarchy as a manager might be during the once-in-a-blue-moon re-org. _Of course_ zero-sum shifts in organizational status of a bunch of imperfect human beings are going to be political.

The central thesis seems to be that by “involving the team members that would be effected from the beginning and making it their decision,” the discomfort around re-orgs will be avoided.

I might be missing something obvious from the article, but I have a hard time believing that adding more imperfect humans (in fact, all of the imperfect humans the organization has!) into the mix and letting teams self-organize would reduce awkward politics rather than making them worse.
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The localization was particularly poor because LIGO Hanford apparently wasn't up(?), and didn't contribute data for this event.
To be fair, Steve's Microsoft wasn't the one that introduced and popularised invasive telemetry, "treat the user like an idiot" design (including things like forced updates), nor the feverish desire to lock down the PC platform in the name of "security", but it may have just been a matter of time.
I don't think that you need an in depth analysis to understand that Facebook and a consortium of powerful private interests are looking to wrest further control of the world financial system from local control. Corporations are the opposite of democracies, so allowing a group of unaccountable players looking after only their own interests to control the world money system would be a disaster. To the extent the economy is already set up this way, it is already a disaster.
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The Waking Up app from Sam Harris is quite good: https://wakingup.com/
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Percentages matter more than absolute amounts. I probably throw away 10-20% of what I buy. I suspect factories and you are better than that.
ICANN has removed price cap provisions on .ORG domains
I'm mildly offended by the casual use of the word "wizard" here - I don't believe that they actually exist.

I'm not American, but I tend to think that assuming the existence of wizards or geniuses is fundamentally Unamerican.

If anything, the concept of wizard etc. is pretty much in the eyes of the beholder. In this sense, we're digging ourselves deeper by needlessly magnifying and exaggerating one's "ability". Different people produce different outcomes, but the difference in their output is mostly accidental.

Humans are not comfortable with explaining everything as luck. But I think many things are actually explained by luck, and we should take it easy.
The mentioned tamper-evident-ness. E.g. the device can display at boot time a warning if any changes were made, or if keys were added to the trusted list. Adding extra keys can easily be locked behind a password that the owner can change.

Note that this is not hypothetical - lots of unlockable Android phones will display a warning that they were rooted on boot.
.compact is a major improvement. Not as good as text.npr.org or lite.cnn.com, but a major improvement. Thanks!
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Don't send email from your own server
Any slice implementation that references to the original data has to be some kind of "fat pointer". Is there any other way that can be done?

String.substring in Java does exactly that. I'm sure numpy arrays in Python are implemented like that, perhaps slightly more fatter.
The times i've ever actually needed 'runtime' polymorphism (usually implemented w/ subtype & virtual methods) are utterly dwarfed by the times I'd been able to make use of parametric polymorphism, which I find far easier to reason about and use.
Yes, that's extremely cheap.

In Chicago, there was a system being developed in partnership with University of Chicago to make city-owned database schemas open to the public through a PHP web app.

The system cost 300k to develop, was never finished, and was quietly put into forever-maintenance mode after a few years of use.

As a general rule, Government is pretty bad with tech projects and their associated costs.
I feel like Android's overall quality in the past couple of years has dramatically improved. Any modern half decent phone will be quite snappy nowadays, and the software has been polished up a lot.
I wrote about The Case for Regulatory Capture at ICANN last week (https://reviewsignal.com/blog/2019/06/24/the-case-for-regula...) and well it's not surprising to see them push through anyways and ignore the will of the people. Only a few lobbyists pushing their will through ICANN seemed to have been listened to while the public, especially non profits, get screwed over.
Have you created this site in itself to share as its own URL?
I can buy Android phones that do nothing to stop me from rooting them or unlocking the boot loader (OnePlus). I have to fight Apple for root access, and frequently I will lose.

You can do anything on an Android phone that requires root access. None of that is possible on iPhone unless it's been out for quite awhile.
I install lots of apps from F-Droid, which is an alternate app repository for exclusively free software. There's nothing like it (and can be nothing like it) on iOS, and while I know there are some free software apps in iOS, they're much harder to find there.
They might have had good equipment sometimes, but they had nowhere near enough of it. They were outproduced by Britain “alone” (counting the colonies) in most areas, most the time, and often by considerable margins.

The German army was not particularly mechanised or well equipped as a whole, relying on a lot of horse draw vehicles for the entire war.

When you look at the war from a manufacturing perspective, the question is more about how Germany survived for so long again it’s such huge manufacturing nations.
For a seemingly dry subject, David Edgerton’s book on this is very readable. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/mar/27/britains-war-m...
Replace most instances of "9mm to the back of the head" with a longer jail sentence at a more violent prison for the cousin, and you'd also have the US and other western powers.
Test your Firestore security rules on a CI environment
Yes. In particular (for me) One UI by Samsung. Their new S10 phones are a fantastic upgrade, and the new software is a major part of that. Last versions of Touchwiz weren't too bad, but One UI lifts the experience to a new level.
"Equation that powers today's computer algorithms"

Uh, what? I closed the tab at this point.
Same here. Sometimes I add "off-topic" to the end of my Google query because it finds the best answers on SO.
One thing to keep in mind that drives me insane is that the default animation speed on android, 1x, is very slow. It makes the UI feel heavy. Turning this to .5x, or even off, makes it feel more performant.
Why is that a bad thing and not a feature?
Disagreed.

Even if you are lucky to use a language where the official documentation is very good, there’s still a chance that you run into some issue that isn’t covered by it or is out of scope. My personal example is an issue installing a third-party Python library on a certain macOS version. I wouldn’t expect this to be in the official docs considering it’s a bug in the OS (more specifically where the unofficial package manager puts C libraries), but it’s still an issue that’s preventing me from getting stuff done.

StackOverflow had an unanswered question about it, and similar questions (with answers) for other libraries. With those answers I was able to solve my problem and post an answer to that original library. It’s still earning upvotes 2 years later suggesting it’s being useful to quite a few people.

There’s also the issue where you have to work with languages where documentation isn’t ideal or the behaviour is implementation-dependent (JavaScript and CSS come to mind). In a perfect world we would have one authoritative source for docs and all implementations would follow it. We’re not in a perfect world, so the next best thing is a site where new people can ask questions and people experienced with the issue at hand can share their knowledge.
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Very interesting- my tesla is pretty loud when I run the air conditioning but it’s very nice to drive when it’s not too cold or hot with the windows down and not have the engine noise. I hope this isn’t required in the us as well.
For a course at uni (am not a practitioner in this domain in any measurement) we used cvxpy (and there was cvxopt for the matlab inclined).

Are those within the ballpark of what you need to do?

--

Am adding this response as both:

-1 Hey maybe you didn't know about this

-2 A question: Is CVXpy even in the same domain as those other tools listed here in the replies
Real Firefox and Real Chrome. The iOS versions is just a wrapper around the painfully bad mobile Safari.
I'm not sure I agree with your thesis. For instance, Javascript has recently added an OOP class syntax, and Typescript extends the result with strict types. (JS was of course in some sense object oriented beforehand, but it wasn't recognisable to most working OO programmers as OO.) Moreover, I think you need a deliberately hamstrung language to get a genuinely OOP language - C++ and Javascript are both fully capable of writing OO code, but most people shy from calling them OO languages because they're not limited. A more interesting question is whether new programs are object oriented, and I guess the answer here remains, broadly, yes. This is why Javascript got class syntax.

But I will assume you're a better observer than me, and make the following claims:

I think there's two reasons: Object-oriented style inheritance is unsound (inheritance is not subtyping), so academics don't like it. Moreover, classical OO is not composable or extensible - unless you write your own primitives in every application and end up with Java-like verbosity. Therefore, research in new features tend not to be object oriented. Therefore, new languages tend to adopt non-OOP styles.

The other reason is probably that there's enough OOP languages. The effort it takes to create a new OOP language exceeds the effort it takes to shoehorn your OOP algorithm into an existing OOP language. Therefore, there's less motivation from the engineering side.

On the other hand, there's still lots of scope for better functional style languages; that marketplace isn't exhausted yet. Rust, for instance, merges a lot of academic techniques trialled on functional languages with a systems programming architecture.
> Different people produce different outcomes, but the difference in their output is mostly accidental.

I prefer to work with people that accidentally consistently produce better outcomes.
So we shouldn't take research into things that don't exist yet seriously?
Flutter and Google Cloud Platform Helped to Solve a 'Learning' Problem
Having a hardware keyboard. I just can't get away with it so I'm still using my 3 year old BlackBerry Priv.
Custom keyboards - on iPhone, long-pressing the mic button in Gboard has to run as a separate app instead of integrating directly into the keyboard. Also on iPhone "secure" screens (that use logins and passwords) never yield to 3rd party keyboards; instead they always revert back to the iPhone keyboard.

Browser plugins - as you pointed out, browsers on iPhone are not allowed to run plugins, so no ad blockers in the traditional sense - you can install a system-wide ad-block engine.
I guess not illegal, but super shady.

Pretty easy to see how incremental thinking leads to a shady result. We get paid $X per order from our restaurant clients, they like more orders so if we can get them more, they’ll be happier and pay us more -> improve SEO of Grubhub<dot>com -> works -> what else can we do -> use our seo skills -> register other websites do seo -> more orders.

Bad result, but know how they got there.
Literally racism
New USB controller firmware, apparently. The fact that it can have any effect on the CPU temperature is a little puzzling.

I work in a office where the air conditioner is set to 28°C

Wow. As someone who is used to a room temperature of 20C, 28C is above the point of idle sweating and becoming lethargic. While that's still within the range that most consumer electronics are rated for, I believe a room temperature of 20C is the normal design target.
Presumably it has a speaker some place? Could you cut the wire to it?
When we say firmware, are we talking about a binary blob? Can it be replaced if we're willing to take an efficiency hit?