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I agree and I think rules are pointless. Everything is a tool and you pick the right tool for the job and that requires context and thinking.

However, having built systems in OO and then in functional, I've come to realize that the OO tools always have a surface of familiarity (`cat.meow()` vs `meow(cat)`) but are highly coupled (inflexible) while the latter, functional composition is not.

And if there's any objective measure to complexity it's a measure of degrees of coupling. And OO distinctly loses to functional there.
Great news! I had to move between 2 rooms with a streaming PC. Now I can finish those Babylon 5s.....
They're a bit controversial, there's plenty of non-controversial groups doing the same work without the baggage.
Just clarifying, by 'follow' do you mean a manual poll by refreshing the home page? I don't even see an RSS feed... and he has no personal Twitter account, I don't know if @Pinboard is the a/c to follow (I don't want the site news, I just think his personal views are cool and his writing is extremely funny).
Just to point for the unfamiliar, the "hotkey" defaults for screen shotting are user configurable on macOS, in System Preferences/Keyboard/Shortcuts. In fact, shortcuts can be changed not only for all actions, but also menu items in any/all programs can be remapped to desired key combos, or indeed added for menu items with default hotkeys. This is actually staggeringly powerful, and frequently overlooked.
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Hopefully some knowledgeable can chime in. I was under the impression that in the long term antibiotics will need to be replaced by something else. I'm 42 and just this year I learned (in a mainstream newspaper) about bacteriophages [1] as a means of combating infections. Does anybody know if we are close to seeing widespread adoption of this approach? Is it too costly? Is there a risk that it may get out of control?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacteriophage
I get your point, but let's take a minute to remind ourselves that the average person does not have 60k lying around to invest.
I have no idea what you just wrote, but I'm still sure my life is happier that way.
The closest ones I can think of are not VST or AU, but the Audacity LADSPA plugins. They are not platform native either, but rather GTK+. They are fairly simple with just buttons/sliders. It's the best example I can think of.
If the fee is paid on flights leaving French airports, then it follows that France wants people to go to France but not leave.

I don't think the policy has anything to do with tourism.
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The Pinebook too.
Why does the business model of bundling invalidate the business model of reselling keys?

There is a thriving business of people buying up Dewalt cordless tool combos (at a deep discount, especially when they're on sale), and then parting them out on eBay. Should Dewalt be able to prevent this by enclosing some faux contract alongside their tool bundles?

We should be moving towards a world where a "key" has properties more akin to a physical item, rather than less.
Heck yeah I know who ;)
The problem with resellers like G2A is there's no large legitimate source of keys to resell. They may not be responsible for stealing the keys / breaking terms of service on key sources themselves, but they are acting exactly like a fence for stolen goods, and they know the keys they're selling are almost certainly not legitimately allowed to be sold in this way.
I tape my phone cameras too.
Getting a drug to market is horrifically risky all the way up through approval (and still somewhat risky post approval). ~1/1000 compounds get to market and ~1/100 drugs make it from Phase 1 (first in human/safety) to sale. By the time the odds are decent that a drug will get approved, the sponsoring company will have sunk much of the ~$1 billion it takes to get all the way across the line.

At that point the valuation of said startup is going to be approaching the expected life time value of the drug (less a discount for risk of a late failure and the time value of money). Any acquirer might as well finishing getting the drug and its new patent protection the rest of the way to market.
Are the infections happening because of the close proximity that animals are kept in?
I use Streisand to spin up both Wireguard and Shadowsocks whenever I visit China and sustain a ~300KB/sec connection usually on both of them. Occasionally it'll drop out for a night, but it's generally fine by the next morning, without needing to cycle the destination IP. I'm not sure whether it's to do with my hotel's wifi or the VPN itself. I run it off a DigitalOcean or Vultr VPS, depending on which is working better at the time.

Last time I used it (Feb this year), Streisand wrapped Shadowsocks in simple-obfs, but it appears that the latest release now uses v2ray since May or so. I'll be testing it in a few weeks when I'm next back there.

Wireguard 'just worked' back then, too. Assuming Algo does Wireguard the same as Streisand, I've no reason to believe it wouldn't work regardless of the method you use to set it up.
For me, MS Office is the only reason I use Mac OS. If it were available on Linux, I would move tomorrow.
Would love to hear more about this - have you written on your experiences?
Is it not possible to sideload?
I think if we ever phase out animal agriculture we will be relatively safe. You don't have to worry about superbugs if you don't create places for them to develop, which we effectively do by giving billions of dirty animals low doses of antibiotics indefinitely.

Serious bacterial illnesses in countries with good health systems are already pretty rare. The vast majority of them come from unsanitary food practices
Update: apparently Eben has acknowledge the issue and is to be fixed in a future update [1]:

Following reports of certain USB-C cables not working with the Pi 4, the Pi's co-creator Eben Upton has confirmed that not every USB-C cable will power the Pi.

[...]

"A smart charger with an e-marked cable will incorrectly identify the Raspberry Pi 4 as an audio adapter accessory, and refuse to provide power," says Upton.

"I expect this will be fixed in a future board revision, but for now users will need to apply one of the suggested workarounds. It's surprising this didn't show up in our (quite extensive) field testing program."

[1] https://www.techrepublic.com/article/your-new-raspberry-pi-4...
They just found a path further up and compromised you via that instead of bothering with the rest of the robots.txt :D
I'm not talking about like "buy Awesome FPS 2, get Awesome FPS 1 in a bundle for $1 more", I'm talking about bundles that collect a bunch of disparate games. People buy these bundles because they only want a few of the games. And then companies like Humble Bundle sell bundles where you don't even know what they contain until you buy them, so it's entirely possible to buy a bundle where you end up not playing any of the games in the bundle.
The "Coffee Belt" gets upgraded to the "Coffee Corset".
> business is an exercise in long-term anxiety management, so I would say if you are already an anxious person, go ahead and start a business. You're not going to feel any worse. You've already got the main skill set of staying up and worrying, so you might as well make some money.

Never thought about this that way!
Just to make sure we are on the same page, the parent poster said the “new Mac Pro”.

https://www.apple.com/mac-pro/

They haven’t announced the maximum amount of flash drive space you can get from them (and I wouldn’t pay Apple prices for it anyway), but you can get 4TB of overpriced SSD storage on the current iMac Pro.
I use my function keys constantly as text editor shortcuts
High conviction rate is not something unique to China - Canada and Japan are also at 97% and 99% respectively

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conviction_rate
Those displaced Joules are just moved somewhere nearby and are joined by the energy spent moving them.
Good luck with that, all the climate change predictions fail after a while because they got no clue what is going to happen even next week, let alone in the next couple of years or decades. Just ignore all this noise, it is too complicated system to predict.
>"Mentally stable" does not really capture the American electorate's impression of Perot's candidacy in 1992.

Don't mix up the American people with the Mainstream media
That's the military, not the airplane industry.
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> getting more ram today versus in the future is just a question of deferring costs

I see as giving you more flexibility, because you don't always know how much you'll need. Without this flexibility, you choose low, and are stuck with a slow computer, or you choose high, and you may end up paying a ton for a computer you may not need.
> I'm kind of amazed he was able to fly a plane like that at 50 hours. A turbo-charged engine requires an extra certification step right?

The wikipedia page for the Beechcraft Bonanza says: "The NTSB investigation revealed Wozniak did not have a "high performance" endorsement (making him legally unqualified to operate the airplane)" and links to https://web.archive.org/web/20121019022620/http://www.ntsb.g...
I'm not arguing whether pakistan or the US are "rogue nations". as I said, it's a political term. all countries do dirty things to advance their interests. I certainly wouldn't want to live in a small country caught between US and russian interests (eg, syria).

that said, there are some legitimate concerns about the pakistani nuclear arsenal. the pakistani government has been either unable or unwilling to suppress the extremist militias inside its borders. it's not unreasonable to fear that these people might be able to steal a nuke. if an american or french nuke is used, it is almost certainly by the order of a democratically elected president. doesn't make much difference to the people who would die, but it's a much less destabilizing situation.
I hope this means I can get YouTube and YouTube Music soon on my Echo Show. It's ridiculous I can't get stuff I pay for on devices I own because of these fights that are not in the interest of their paying users.

I'm never going to get a Google speaker because I can't easily buy things via Amazon on it and because I already own 3 Amazon speakers that I have all set up nicely. If I want to Google something I can use my phone, I don't need a smart speaker for that.
https://idlewords.com/index.xml is the RSS feed
And to be very clear: I don’t think the developer in this case is overhyping anything. I think the community is.

His writing is super entertaining and he has made a great product.
QNX is EOL? Really? The last release was only in 2017. I hadn't heard this was happening and I can't seem to find any reference to it.
Funny when you can get this narrow window into the team members writing vs. the ones editing!
Caps Lock is better remapped to CTRL in my opinion. However, with Vim I always use CTRL+] instead of ESC because I think it’s easier to reach.
I don't know about businesses but I also think that international passengers travel is an important part of world peace. Being able to visit other countries and learn about different cultures really brings intolerance and nationalism down.

I wish it was mandatory for every student to visit two or three very different countries during their studies.

I understand the emissions are problematic and we need to cut them down. I like the idea of forbidding or de-incentivizing air travel on short trips when a rail alternative exists. I just wish we put that at the bottom of the priority list. Remove coal plants and fuel cars first.
Frack I've just bought a FireTV stick because I couldn't watch Amazon on my Chromecast.
>The problem is, Apple’s palm rejection tech just isn’t good enough, and if you have to write fancy software to cover a deficiency in the size of a piece of hardware, then you’re better off going with the smaller size.

Subtle jab at the Boeing 737 MAX?

(Just noticed I have a similar username.)
Same thing happened bringing Daria to DVD. The soundtrack was a big part of the show and MTV had access to whatever music they wanted so regardless of how long it took to write/animate an episode when the show aired you might hear a song that had just been released. Trying to secure the rights to all those songs decades later was impossible so they replaced nearly all of it with generic music. It's just not the same. The creators know it, and the DVD actually shipped with an explanation and apology.
Or vague, or just plain incorrect.

I could see making a mistake like this. The earlier USB specs called for goofy things like grounding the shield to the enclosure entrance via parallel RC networks instead of bonding it properly, as well as adding various bypass capacitors to the data lines(!). These guidelines were poorly thought out, widely misinterpreted and even more widely ignored. They have conditioned engineers to make their own judgment calls in areas where they really should have been both more descriptive and more prescriptive, so maybe this is one of those cases.

I haven't looked at the post-USB 2 specs at all but wouldn't be surprised if they are nowhere near as clear, unambiguous, and well-thought-out as people here are saying.
No, it is due to existence of liquid explosives and undetectable liquid components to make it.

Email me for detailed recipe: not-a-trap@fbi.gov
This right here. Provided a body that can retain and emit heat from a star, it intuitively makes sense that given correct conditions the warm body would trend towards more complex head dissipation mechanisms.

Life is just a more complex — and sustainable — exothermic reaction than standard oxidative mechanisms (fire).

By the way: this isn't a new concept. Jeremy England at MIT has been espousing the concept for a while [0].

[0] https://www.quantamagazine.org/first-support-for-a-physics-t...
Over all my years it's become clear to me that this attitude of refusing to give up a specific tool (and it's always something married to plain 1d text) is the biggest thing holding out industry back.

I don't know if you can convince people to do it, but I'm glad somebody's trying.
...Evidently some people here think it's inconceivable that we could be replicating the Permian extinction. Here's a recent MIT study supporting that claim.

http://news.mit.edu/2019/carbon-threshold-mass-extinction-07...
That they would even consider such a new technology as a “threat” is a laughable matter, and that they invoke children (i.e. by referencing content blockers) is pure alarmism. That DoH obsfucates DNS logs from the ISP is probably another red flag to their desire to collect data.

The problem lies in the fact that Firefox is a browser, not an OS, and that a savvy kid could bypass local DNS filters by configuring Firefox. But even if locked out of OS settings they could enable a web proxy or use a free whois tool and hope for http. Or, even easier: they could use public wifi.

While it would be nice for Firefox to add a child lock for this to appease ISPA, the Internet is interconnected and impossible to divide into sections. Technology is not a solution for social problems, and thus is a terrible replacement for a parent.
If you have a free afternoon I would recommend booking a "discovery flight" at a flight school. You go up, with a certified instructor, and learn the fundamental controls in a relatively safe environment.

It can be an interesting experience, even if you have no desire to become a licensed pilot.
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Denmark is a different world, people just throw away something as soon as they get a better version or starts malfunctioning in the slightest way.
Japan stands firm on export curbs, South Korea denies passing chemical to North
>It's pretty much our only opportunity to see if life emerged twice in the same planetary system under similar conditions.

You mean carbon based life. Methane based life may be a possibility, and you wouldn't have found it on Mars. You might find it on Titan.
If you own a domain, you can add a subdomain that points to the local network IP, and get Let's Encrypt to give you a certificate using the dns-01 validation method (which doesn't require Let's Encrypt to actually access the IP address in the A record).

This is clearly more complicated than ideal, but it should work.

Edit: You can also use a custom CA root certificate, which can be installed on iOS etc. mkcert is a good starting point:

https://github.com/FiloSottile/mkcert
Steve Wozniak is one of the few people of note in the tech industry who, the more I learn about them, seems more and more worthy of my respect. When I hear others speak of their sense of humour, how they stuck by their friends even when those friends clearly took advantage of them, the work and exemplary engineering skill they so clearly poured into their projects, their financial success and, then after having enjoyed that success, their leaving that successful business behind to engage in improving things for the future - to invest in educating children - I feel a sense of loss. Steve Wozniak just seems like the kind of person one would be lucky to have the opportunity to have as a friend one could learn so much from. It's rare to feel that way about people one doesn't know first hand and, while it does feel like missing out, it's nice to have a prominent example of such a person, a financially successful person, within the tech industry - often a dark place indeed. A reminder that one doesn't have to be soulless in order to succeed in the valley - just skilled and, hopefully, lucky. "So shines a good deed in a weary world."
I don't think so.

Even a 20% fuel tax in the EU would probably make a few EU neighbour states lay down extra long runways so a plane can land, fuel up, and takeoff again, all without opening the doors or maneuvering/reversing. They could probably do 5 minutes with practice.

It would save $10k easily for a big plane.
Drugs only get about 10 years of market time on patent, because drug candidates are patented before they go through clinical development. So this hypothetical drug company might patent the acquisition and start putting it through clinical trials to have something on deck when the original one goes generic
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Why the fuck is Apple getting rid of the option to not have a touch bar on Macbook Pros? They already made it so high-performance macbooks require them but at least you had the option to pick a worse performing model with the actual keys.

Does the touchbar really do that well in focus groups? It is pretty universally reviled among all the techie people I know. It breaks one of the most basic principals of a keyboard interface which is that you don't need to look at it to know which button you're pressing. That would be fine if it was just settings like brightness/volume you don't change very often but putting the escape key there was just such an idiotic move

I used to consider myself a big macbook pro fan. I would probably continue buying reskins of the 2013 model forever as long as they kept updating the hardware. I would rather the product stagnate than have apple repeatedly make it worse
My concerns with switching to a Lenovo X1 Carbon:

1. I won't use Windows. Will my battery life and WiFi performance be as good on Ubuntu? How much worse will it be?

2. Lenovo injected malware into the BIOS before. It was a different laptop division but it's still the same company. I am just finding it impossible to trust ever again.
This sucks, my community[1] has a local offline-first video/audio call app that we run on a physical mesh network.

This will make it impossible for people to talk to each other, without first needing to be connected online to some certificate authority, or without some extraordinarily difficult pre-installation process, which is often not even possible on a phone.

HTTPS was important, but now its being used to shoe horn dependency on centralized online-only authority. Perfectly ripe to censor anyone.

1. https://gitter.im/amark/gun
Everything except for Spotify :-(
That much Californium in one place would probably go critical anyway. It might not explode, but it would glow and evaporate rather quickly.
There's not a single reason to use zoom over the n other existing meeting software. They just got big because of marketing. My office has recently switched from Skype business to zoom and I find it just as shitty. First of all there's absolutely no use for video, because who the fuck wants to see each other's faces in a work related call? Then there's the whole UI thing to consider. I haven't yet figured out how to initiate a call. I always copy the link and email it to the person I want to talk to. Then they see the email and click it. Compare that to Skype's simple call button. All in all, zoom is hyped up by their marketing and provides less than zero value over existing solutions.
I use my FireTV way more than my Chromecast. I think you'll be happy with it.
I find the WiFi and battery fine (though I'm on a slightly older model). You can always mess with cpupower & other settings to improve battery life--Linux gives you a lot more power than Windows.

I don't know about the BIOS though.

(PS. Don't use wayland. It seems to have issues with HiDPI apps, at least on my laptop.)
> IPv4 addresses are also syntactically valid host names.

Curious...from the philosophical intent supporting the normative language[1] (my emphasis added):

However, a valid host name can never have the dotted-decimal form #.#.#.#, since at least the highest-level component label will be alphabetic.

[1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1123#page-13
AppleTV does not have everything, and the UI is horrible compared to many other devices I've seen.
C14 is actually produced from cosmic rays hitting nitrogen, not carbon. The impact turns a proton into a neutron. Both CO2 and CH4, once the chemical bond is made, only decrease in C14 fraction as it spontaneously decays.

Astronomers are pretty good at deducing things from the few, imprecise measurements they can make from millions of miles away, so you should never rule out them being able to figure out something. But it'll depend on a lot of assumptions.
I still cannot install prime video on my android TV which supposedly has built in chrome cast.
That's the only way to protect freedoms. Well, the only other option is everybody agrees to disarm themselves: no more guns, nukes, warships, military complexes. But people aren't that nice and if you want to disarm yourself, do that, but beware that corrupt politicians won't join you and you'll be left alone, nice, peaceful and toothless next to an armed to teeth and corrupt government.
Most protesters never try to investigate the real thoughts of ordinary mainland people, who are just regarded as a stereotype of ignorance, impoliteness, nouveau riche, and pathetically waiting to be enlightened. Protesters know mainland people as little as, if not less than, ordinary mainland people know them. This is not a big deal in daily life, but could severely diminish the effect of the propaganda towards mainland visitors.
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