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Statistics is part of science but that doesent make it science just as little as math or a feather and a bowlingball does.

Science is a process with some disciplines allowing us to be very precise and others not so much.

Climate science is a very imprecise type of science with so much uncertainty that all we can do is offer ranges of output based on ranges of initial conditions, we dont even know which conditions are correct and we dont know what we are missing. Even the data we put into the models are highly debatable, and then we havent even added the fact that 125 years is not some objective way to measure naural vs human made influence.

But sure as usual just downvote all you want, that doesent make computer models or statistics any more science.
Today, on July 9, 2019, yes you are not forced to be part of the developer program.

Apple has announced that is changing very soon[0] and you attacking everyone who already knows this as 'conspiracy theorists' is kind of insulting.

0: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/security/notarizin... - "Beginning in macOS 10.15, notarization is required by default for all software".

You can only have software notarized as a member of the developer program.
I cannot find it right now, but I do remember some research using some variant of carbon nanotubes being used as a replacement.
I don't think anyone denies the performance improvements and other advantages of the Quantum project. The claim is that the transition wasn't handled well, as replacement APIs for the deprecated addon system weren't in place until several releases after Quantum debuted, and several of the more deep-reaching abilities addons had were deprecated completely. This broke many people's workflows, destroying trust.

This also happened a short time after Mozilla previously broke addons with the e10s changes, requiring many (most?) of them to be rewritten.

Basically, people don't trust Mozilla to handle transitions well any more, even when they happen to be worthwhile transitions.
Might also affect Discord
Not everybody has parents with money. Plenty of people have parents who ask for money.
4573 days since the last Russian mail-order bride premeditated murder!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Reiser#Marriage_to_Nina_S...
Back in the 80s, I had no particular dog in the Cold War. But it did terrify me that the US and the USSR were both effectively threatening to destroy human civilization, if one of them attacked the other.

It still terrifies me, when I think of it. But far less so, for good reason or not.
The huge thing, and the reason it is worth paying for, is that it archives bookmarks automatically. Not archiving the bookmark itself, but a searchable archive of the page contents itself. This is great for bookmarking random dev blogs or documentation that I come across, if I even suspect I've searched for an issue before my first port of call is pinboard, since I can often find the exact page that solved the problem last time. Or, in the cases where the original site is offline or the page contents have changed.

I gladly pay the 25/year, the only software product I was ever happier paying for was sublime text.
From the FAQ

Q: What happens if the guy who runs Pinboard gets hit by a bus?

A: The bus is likely to be fine. They don't go very fast and are designed with passenger safety in mind.

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Love it. Also, I'm looking to quit my job and do small SaaS products for income, and this dude has really encouraged me to pursue it.
For TB-scale heavy read loads ObjectiveFS[0] is an alternative to EFS that don't have EFS's IO/bandwidth limits. It is often used for distributing data for machine learning and large scale simulations on EC2 and GCE.

[0]: https://objectivefs.com
It uses them all the time to explore not to conclude. If all the conditions were known then it would be one single equation. Modeling is sign of too many unknowns not of certainty.
I can speak a bit to this. I previously lead the database team at Heap where we had one of the largest deployments of Citus with ~1PB of data.

Citus and Aurora Serverless are pretty different. The only thing in common is that they are both related to scaling Postgres. Citus makes it easy to horizontally scale Postgres. It let's you take a cluster of Postgres instances and make them appear as a single Postgres instance. This let's you scale Postgres to petabyte scale datasets (and beyond) because under the hood you are storing the data across multiple servers.

On the other hand, AIUI, the benefit of Aurora Serverless is the auto-scaling. It will automatically add or remove compute on an as-needed basis. This means you no longer have to worry about provisioning a Postgres instance of the right size. You can also save money depending on your usage pattern. Even though it will scale Postgres, you are still limited to a maximum DB size of 32TB. Aurora Serverless is probably a good fit if you are under this size, but once you pass 32TB, you will need something like Citus to scale further.

As for extensions, you are limited to the extensions Amazon provides. As you point out, Aurora is mostly at the storage layer. For that reason I think they could add most extensions if they wanted to. Each extension brings on some risk to them so they audit every extension before approving them. I've heard issues with extensions are one of the biggest sources of support requests.
It depends upon the process which was doing the search. For example, does some automated process search for possible duplicates of a given field, nearly immediately, and need to know whether the returned set includes the new record (or not), so it can know whether "1" means "1 duplicate" or "no duplicates". That's just an example I made up on the spot, but there are more possibilities. If storing a record sets off a chain of events, and one of those might do a search, then the sync between index and database might be critical.

Or, of course, depending on the system, it might not.
Yes, it's that slavic pessimism combined with Gen-X fatalism that really gets me.
Shouldn’t the default be that an entity wishing to be a CA be untrusted and it has to present sufficient everdence to be regarded as trustworthy? Given the dangers of a rouge CA vs the smaller downside of it failing to be regarded as trusted it seems that if there is any rational doubt as to trustworthiness then you shouldn’t add it to the trusted list.
I love that you don't randomly fuck with the UI I've already learned for shits & giggles. I'm not saying it's perfect; just I've already learned to do my work and now I want to pay attention to other things.

I despise how the idiots at google and apple can't live without randomly permuting the android, gsuite, ios, and macos UIs all the time.

There is a pending android 9 update on my phone, and ios 12 on my ipad. Not today, Satan, not today!
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There's no "banding together" or any sort of collective negotiation on the part of the employers. It's the employee negotiating with the employer. Why would we bat an eye at the fact that companies "within themselves, make hiring and firing decisions every day"? The only way that wouldn't be the case is if companies don't employ anybody.
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Considering I have a device here that has an I2C camera and in firmware I can turn it on and off at right around 25ms, I’d consider betting quite a bit.

Instead of being snarky, how about you explain why this isn’t possible. Even if it was 100ms almost no one would catch that.
When I studied, our software engineering class was more about process than actual development. About gathering/writing requirements, acceptance requirements, etc. Our final project for the semester started day 1 and didn't end until the week before finals. All sorts of requirements, design, architecture and acceptance documents. Then, we had to implement the system according to the docs.

The project was to define a course scheduling system. Had to be able to define which rooms had which equipment, capacity, etc. Then professors would be able to enter their needs of time and equipment, then we'd have to allocate the classes accordingly.
Slow spool up embedded devices... we’re moving backwards :)
Which is fine when it doesent affect politics and just stay in the scientific as a debate, it doesent get applied to political discourse. Thats the opposite of science.
I have heard it said that the ur-problem, the source of most other problems, in computer programming is that every lesson needs to get relearned, the hard way, every 5 years, because the average age is so young, and the excuses for ignoring the lessons of the past are so easy.
The best part is that you have to also choose a card name, but it doesn't do anything.
If I understand the right thing, from one red "line" to another, there has been a 4.8 inch displacement between the two photos.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGjQFgGrBXs

Brian cox is one of the most pronounced. Listen to how he says "big bang-g" at 02:55. With him is is almost like "big bang-[cough]", the extra G being almost an extra syllable.

Or at 6:55 when he says "our universe is expanding-g".
I fundamentally agree, but I think the solution is to continue making HTTPS easier to use rather than giving up on security.

For anything on the public Internet, things are already incredibly better than they used to be: HTTPS is free, and there's a wide range of easy ways to set it up on your site, ranging from Caddy (a webserver with built-in Let's Encrypt support) to CloudFlare (who will proxy your site for free including SSL termination). There are still problems – e.g. for all that certbot (official Let's Encrypt client) tries to be easy to use, it's more fiddly than ideal. But the goal of "HTTPS just works" seems clearly within reach, and things can only continue to improve from here.

On the other hand, the situation with local network servers is a complete mess. This includes not just development environments, where "just don't bother with security" is a viable option, but also things like home routers and IoT devices which do want to be secure. Currently, routers tend to just use HTTP, which is insecure if you have anyone untrusted on your Wi-Fi network. IoT devices, of course, tend to route everything through centralized cloud services; there are a lot of reasons for that, and it's easy to blame invidious motives, but I suspect a significant part of the reason is just that it's really hard to make an easy-to-use-device without a centralized service. At a bare minimum, you need to be able to:

1. Securely pair with the device;

2. Connect the device to the network; and

3. Access the device's services over the network, using the existing pairing record to establish identity and prevent a MitM.

(Ideally you would also be able to expose the device's services to the wider Internet, but that's another story.)

You can do this already with a custom protocol, but not with a browser. The closest browsers have to a "pairing record" is asking you to trust a self-signed cert for some random domain, but that's nowhere near the semantics you actually want. After all, it doesn't really matter whether the device controls such-and-such domain; what matters is whether it's the same device you paired with. Meanwhile, trusting random self-signed certs is fundamentally insecure, and (intentionally) difficult to do.

What we need IMO is an entirely new protocol to address this use case, and I think such a protocol might also work for local dev servers.

In the meantime... well, there are always plenty of workarounds.
The gist as I understand it was that Western medicine bet the farm on antibotics while Russian medicine went primarily towards phages. Because of it's Not Invented Here status, Western medicine was biased against it for ideological and political reasons.
Non-partner employee here. Same poster as elsewhere on a different throwaway.

The benefits are very strong. I had not heard of this issue previously, and don’t especially care. I’m not clear on if you mean the performance is too high or too low because the article kind of implied both. I don’t think the amount was particularly material nor do I think it’s especially bad if the firm gives preferential treatment to partners because... it’s a privately owned firm... by the partners... and in general it treats its employees very well.

I’m not sure I’m communicating this well because the underlying facts feel vague. But I would give my employer an A+ based on my experience so far. The possibility that a percentage point of returns was lost on my 401k is bottom of the barrel priority. I can’t tell from the article what happened, but it would be really hard to outweigh the visible, conscious investment in its people that the firm does.

I recognize this sounds like I’m drinking the Kool Aid here, but frankly, very few companies invest much into their employees. The best case scenario is often lame office perks for tech workers. But tech workers get shitty non competes. McKinsey, for example, gives you weeks of fully compensated time off to find your next job elsewhere. I think it’s a remarkably healthy culture.
That's interesting.

I agree with your conclusion that Fermi's paradox simply means there is no other intelligent life, though I think the jury's still out as to where the filter is.
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This is the course he is talking about: https://github.com/OxfordRSE/rsd-engineeringcourse

So to become a "real software engineer" and not "just a programmer" one needs to know how to create requirements, use source control, do modular, and/or object-oriented and/or functional design, deploy your software, and take advantage of open source?

Those are things that all programmers need to know (assuming "programmer" means someone whose primary job is programming). Which is why the distinction between "programmer" or "developer" and "software engineer" is bogus. Its usually just an attempt to justify higher or lower compensation.
I’m sure Google Drive and iCloud Drive are pretty close. Database based metadata stores with object storage and a view that looks like a traditional hierarchical file system.

OneDrive probably is too, but I don’t understand the relationship to sharepoint.
> actual children

18-year-olds are not "Actual children".

> taking on huge burdens with little to no guidance

I don't know if this is still the case but when I took out student loans nearly two decades ago I had to go through "entrance counseling" and "exit counseling", explaining very clearly and meticulously what I was getting myself into.
Not only is it common, there was an article about "how to write performant electron apps" at the top of HN last week explaining exactly why you should do that.
https://lmgtfy.com/?q=insect+extinction+puerto+rico
What's your definition of average? Because a $30k Mazda should not be average. It's way too expensive for most people. Also, you probably don't need one for each member of the family.

A 3,500 sq ft house with granite countertops and hardwood flooring for 4 people should probably not be average either.

With the exception of a few markets with very expensive land, we have a consumption problem. We have a keeping up with the Jones problem.

You don't have nearly as much worry about losing your home if you spend below your means.
I'm interested to know how you are going to handle user error. If u expect 1 reply but the user send 2 reply will it repeat the same error message twice?
An open letter to Microsoft regarding the IUR benefit
At first glance, this looks very much like some Julia sets.
>> Nothing about if their replacement is going to drop extension support.

>That's because we are not yet ready to make public commitments. Honest.

Surely you can understand how this isn't good enough for most addon users, right? You've already announced Firefox for Android is going to be deprecated. And you're "not ready to make public commitments" about whether the replacement is going to support extensions?? That's obviously not acceptable to addon users.

If Mozilla's policy is that they simply don't care what users think, then whatever, it doesn't matter what's acceptable to addon users. I'm writing this under the presumption that at least someone in the Mozilla org does care about this.
Under "Prime Video : Movies : Prime Eligible" there are 60,000 results[1]. This article says Amazon Prime has 12,000 movies[2].

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Movies-Prime-Eligible-Video/s?rh=n%3A...

[2] https://www.businessinsider.com/tv-shows-and-movies-that-ove...
> where exactly in the product cycle each product is

See https://buyersguide.macrumors.com/
I've been happy with PinDroid. It adds Pinboard as a share target, so you can bookmark things from any app with a share menu (including your browser, obviously).

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pindroid
Valid point and definitely discussed in the mailing list by people much more intelligible on the subject than I. I was more pointing out that the article doesn't really capture the actual conversation on the mailing list.
Glad to see the company is changing course, but I’m not sure it would have happened without the public shaming. I want companies to fix things because something is insecure and it endangers the public, not because they have their feet to the fire.

I know companies don’t always respond right the first time, I know I haven’t, but Zoom had over 90 days to consider their responses and possible options / software changes. Instead, they were dismissive of the entire thing and only changed course after loud public pressure.
Software engineering is what programmers do. The idea that programming is a different or less-skilled occupation is false. The engineering part is any skill and knowledge you use that goes beyond the basic language syntax. Things that everyone who programs for a living has to have, such as the ability to determine requirements and organize code in a maintainable way.

The controversy is due to human biases and stupidities.
Myofascial Therapy Center on Hamilton in Campbell has a lot of great therapists. I also know a great therapist in Fremont if that is more convenient but I’d have to look up the contact info.
>> Turks have seized about 66 years of production.

Or we have lost some information in the reporting. Possibly this is 18 grams of something that has tested positive for californium. That is different than 18 grams of pure californium. I'm not sure what testing they did, but i doubt they verified every atom.

There is likely a large amount of, for lack of the correct word, filler. When dealing with very precious substances it is not unusual to combine them with other easily removed and inert material to facilitate handling. When dealing with nuclear material, this reduction in the density of the radioactive stuff is a significant safety advantage. This could be 1% or less californium and 99+% filler ... still a significant find but not evidence of a clandestine production line.
> But we also recognize and respect the view of others that say they don’t want to have an extra process installed on their local machine. So that’s why we made the decision to remove that component — despite the fact that it’s going to require an extra click from Safari.

Am I reading this correctly, their CIO believes it's the "extra process" that people are concerned about -- not the webcam vulnerability?
I thought it was more like 400 million years between water and the first life -- and that is the oldest life we have evidence of. It could conceivably take a couple hundred million years for life to go from the initial spark, to having evolved enough (and have a sufficient population) to leave detectable fossils.
Hoyle was great man, who said what he thought. His outspoken character probably cost him a Nobel Prize, though.
That isn't the whole picture, either. After a certain age you can collect Social Security whether or not you need it -- a healthy, able-bodied person of retirement age can collect. In your terminology, it's disability & old-age insurance. Only it's guaranteed that anyone still living will qualify to collect, unlike traditional insurance.

I think the most unique thing about SS (that almost nobody understands) is that current payouts are funded by current contributions -- there's no "pot" or "account" you pay into per se, not like a 401k for instance. Instead you earn points by paying in over time, and the points map to an amount you're guaranteed which is in turn paid for by future taxpayers.
Dude, I think the headhunter may be right. Just imagine when (and this is a when not an if) you are demanded to do an insanely stupid thing which you, your team, and your customers hate. It makes no sense but must be done asap. When you ask for justification, it’s because the VP, who never leaves his office except for extra long work lunches with the other executive staff, said it must be done. No logic, no reasoning, no arguing - just get it done. You have two choices:

1) Eat shit and do the stupid thing while a small part of you dies.

2) March into the VP’s office, tell him to fuck off, and walk out like a champ.

Which option do you choose?
praetorian.com has some cool CTF for hiring stuff on their website: https://www.praetorian.com/challenges
Open Textbooks from Oregon State University
My statement was very clear “developers are not forced to be part of the developer program.” Meaning that unlike ios, there are ways to distribute your app without signing it. “Notarization required by default” != “there is no method to distribute unsigned apps”.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/eclecticlight.co/2019/06/07/not...

Catalina still runs apps which haven’t been notarized or even signed, including those built after 1 June 2019. But you may find them more complex to run, and they don’t of course benefit from any of new security protection unless they’re signed and hardened.
If anyone is suggesting we spend taxpayer money to prepare for extreme wet seasons, then yes, we may need more data on that.

On the other hand, it is beyond doubt that global warming is happening and getting worse. Ergo, we have to seriously cut down our CO2 emission. In the year 2019, anybody who's asking for more data on that is just willfully stalling discussion.

Stop getting hung up on "radical remaking of society," because that's going to happen anyway. Whether we like it or not, society is going to be radically remade when we lose Miami and New Orleans to the sea.
Yeah, Intel is an odd bunch. If I had to program an 8-bit machine again, I think the 6809 is still my favorite.
I am a safari user and don’t keep _that_ many tabs. I experienced tab reloading, which I didn’t mind. But even after a week of use I found I benefitted from rebooting to clear out memory.
Try jave, it’s java based and has been around for a long time.
Shout out to my fellow Chromebook users.
I think the real interesting value in putting an RDBMS underneath the filesystem would come from relationally modeling the objects in the filesystem, ie files and types and their contents, and then being able to query those things with SQL. If their relational schema is just inodes and blocks I don’t really see the value - after all the filesystem is just a miniature RDBMS purpose-built and optimized for that fixed schema and so it’s not surprising that their system is so much slower.
Could be done as a license from the manufacturer.
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I think you are underestimating the number of decays. You have 5.5 moles of the substance, that is, 5.5 * 6e23 atoms. The half-life of Cf-252 is 2.6 years. You therefore need at least 5.5 * 6e23/2.6/365/24/3600/2 = 20e15 decays per second to decay half of that (it will be actually more because it is exponential). (as a naive crosscheck, WolframAlpha for the query "activity of 1.4 kg Cf-252" thinks the same)