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> They took the limitations of their computers as a challenge, sat down, and made these tiny machines do impressive things.

Poets knew from long ago that using pentameter and constraints fosters creativity. Here we see the same principle applied in computing.
Just a stupid mistake, really. I know QNX, but I haven't used it and I didn't know the QNX Photon name. You guys are right. I should've done a 3 minute Google. My bad.
I hope they release a fanless version of the Air to make up for the lack of the Macbook. Are there any other fanless laptops on the market?
Last October in Austin, there was a bitter irony: after heavy rains, the systems for filtering the water were overloaded and they put out a warning that water wasn't safe to drink (though fine for other purposes).

"Water, water, everywhere, but not a drop to drink."

Story about it:

https://patch.com/texas/downtownaustin/austin-water-safe-dri...
What arsenal? I was thinking they blew up all the devices that were ever made, never demonstrated a portable device, and also destroyed all their facilities in the course of the doing this.
Unless Red Hat cannibalizes IBM from the inside out, and there's some talk that this is exactly what they want. They may be grooming Red Hat's CEO to replace IBM's CEO.
Thats one of the reasons why need to rely more on micro-kernel design OS first, so it's easiar to advance and experiment with different designs for the storage layer.

The "everything is a file" mindset was great to move us from the chaos they were in back in the day to where we are right now. But with the modern ecosystem is holding us all back, because is too rigid, and a abstraction that its a poor fit to a lot of modern scenarios.

With micro-kernels, we could have the kernel dealing only with persistent storage blocks and leave the storage abstraction to the userspace where it belongs.

If im not mistaken, The Zircon kernel go even further by abstracting through pages.. so you could just map a collection of blocks to those pages and deal only with the pages in memory, no matter they source (if disk, network or only on memory).

Leaving the abstractions to userspace and by doing so, enabling us to download, install, and mix those abstractions in a way that is a good fit for a giving scenario.

As we have seen, the monolithic kernel have trouble with the bazaar approach as those experiments have to be shipped in kernel-space, with all the trouble this entails.
Can't constant-time multiplication techniques somehow fall victim to that level of visbility?

(If we can track details like contention for integer units in the CPU, why don't we just peek at what bits are churning through the registers?)
Verified that the patch removes the web server.

What I'd really like to see now is them addressing the fact that their initial response to this was terrible, as if whoever was making the decision had no idea how bad this design was from a security standpoint.
This tends to also apply to OpenWRT vs almost all other third-party router firmware distributions. But at least for router distros, some of the maintainers of custom builds earn a fairly solid reputation and eventually build a project that approaches the degree of organization that's typical for desktop Linux distros. I think phone OS distros have to change targets too often the really get there.
This record was set at the end of June 2019. The last time this record was set was May 2019. The time before that? You guessed it. April 2019.

I'm willing to wager it's the same thing going on as "last time."
On a 60% and no idea where scroll lock lives (time to check the manual). But I've come to really prefer ctrl in place of capslock. I'm also somewhat of a madlad as I remap every game I play from wasd to esdf. This allows my pinky to use 'a' key for functions normally mapped to shift (like running in games), have two 'shoulder' keys (instead of q/e its qw/rt) and I can leverage the finder-key bumps for quicker hand placement. It costs a single 5 minutes per game but provides and overall more ergonomic (and consistent with touch typing) experience, in my opinion. There are also a few other benefits, but I won't go into them. Figured if I had the patience to learn/write emacs chords, I could do this much, and it paid off quickly.
It's weird that they call it "mini ice age" then follow up with - we had one in 17th century, London got temperature below 0 in winter. Not what I imagine from the name.
Using Magic Cap: The User's Guide for the DataRover 840 (2000) [pdf]
A disk that can be attached to multiple VM's and support simultaneous reads/writes is a huge addition to GCP.
What if rather than doom we get global tropical paradise
I’m almost ready to stop hating on the donglebook now that all my devices use wireless connectivity

Even my hardware wallet is bluetooth and I’ll tolerate that

Inconclusive on my DSLR-form factor cameras, but I plan to axe them for the iphone’s camera in a year or two as well, for how I use them
People use systemd because it solves real problems that are not adequately solved by init scripts. Your "want for nothing" says more about your limited needs (which is fine) than anything else about system management services.

Regardless of one's opinions or critiques about the implementation of systemd specifically, the idea that it came up in some kind of vacuum or started a "trend" is utterly ridiculous.

Prior art in UNIX would be SMF at a minimum, and systemd clearly looked at launchd for some inspiration in other areas (systemd ended up having the goal of covering both use cases of launchd and SMF.. ie generally server and desktop).

Also what is this about binary blobs? systemd is configured with text files. Last I checked, the init process itself on BSD is a binary.
And you would be disappointed. 3/4 of the micro-usb cables I purchased of my favorite purveyor of cheap chinesium does not power a pi3, and when it does brown-out

Have a hard look at the simple 'how can anyone possibly get a piece of wire wrong' cable, or even better test it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n70N_sBYepQ
I do a newsletter with general programming topic. Not much on keeping up on trend/howto but more on knowledge side. If that's cup of tea too consider https://betterdev.link
The price is not even that outrageous. When specified similar to the top-of-the-line ThinkPad X1 Carbon it's only $200 more, and you're getting a better display.
I'm certain people who are OK with the touch bar don't care about it as much as the people who hate it, but I for one prefer that they are iteratively innovating on the keyboard for macs. I'd rather they do that than make a thick brick of a laptop with a row of mostly useless function keys that a vocal minority has been harping for.
Surface Book 2 13" has no fan on the CPU. The GPU has one, and the larger 15" has a CPU fan as well, but the 13" is dead silent otherwise. Although the charger can exhibit some coil whine at times which is annoying.
> Forecasting is definitely pseudoscience, but EM-related precursors are a fairly hot (and controversial) research topic at the moment.

It's not pseudoscience because it can be disproven--which is generally what happens.

The issue that everybody forgets is that predictions have FOUR outcomes, not two.

You have the one everybody remembers: "I predicted X and X happened".

You have the one some people remember: "I didn't predict X and X didn't happen."

You have the one that people rarely remember: "I predicted X and X didn't happen."

You have the one nobody remembers: "I didn't predict X, but X happened."

The problem is that for rare events, the "predict X and not X" and "didn't predict X but X" have to be REALLY low probability for a measure to be useful.
>That's Courage. For real this time, one of the first things Steve Jobs did when he came back to Apple was that he slashed the product line and killed off a ton of things so that the company could focus on what truly mattered; building great computing devices.

It's absurd that people keep suggesting this when it was a tactical move by a company near bankruptcy, had problems with too much inventory, and lots of models of computers that weren't differentiated.
Not sure I associate the old HO/OO and O toy trains at all with the live steam scales. One is a mass produced toy, the other is model engineering that might take hundreds or thousands of hours to make ("who’d built his locomotive over 25 years"). The difference between an art print and an original and as strange to see as discussion of prints in a story an art theft.

FWIW the aesthetics of the railway modellers shop site is exactly as I expect from the model engineering, collectors, watch making and similar hobby supply sites. Few are going to make a fortune or scale much beyond enthusiast in a shed. So forget Bootstrap and Shopify, expect lots of non-optimised huge images. :)

Not at all surprise to find the police weren't any use. They're far too starved of budget lately to give theft anything much more than a crime number for the insurance claim.

Source: Occasional model engineer, though not trains.
Yup, pretty much exactly.

The interesting side effects are the formation of more clouds (in the stratosphere they make things warmer, in the troposphere they make things colder), and bigger temperature shifts in the air when the water finally condenses out in liquid form (more mass to phase change, more net temperature change).
Google Cloud Filestore has existed for some time: https://cloud.google.com/filestore/
I remember his run in 92. He got branded as out of touch and cooky by the press with the help of the political parties. It didn't help that he quit the race and gave some strange reason and then jumped back in. He even made light of it by picking Patsy Cline's "Crazy" as his theme song.

He seemed like a very good man that stuck by his beliefs. Peace be with him.
I present to you a person who thinks that because we can't tell for certain that it's going to rain next Wednesday, we're have no idea if next summer will be hotter than next winter.
Yeah, the touch bar is quite a turn off for me too. That and the crappy keyboard made me always use the laptop in clamshell mode, which ironically I ended up liking quite a bit.
US and S. Korean officials estimate that North Korea has about 60 nuclear weapons, and can manufacture about 6 per year at present.
*with the help of Pakistan
Which predicted catastrophes? The only one I remember is the ozone layer issue which we stopped with regulation and still pay the price (although it's getting better)
I was making the point that this would never get to Emacs mainline. But sure, no reason why it couldn't end up in a fork, but the fork is not going to give you the same "taste of freedom" ;)
The current Air might as well be fanless. The fan is nowhere near the heatsink on the CPU, once it finally kicks in it only pushes the air through the case, its impact on the CPU temperatures is minimal.
This is fascinating. I actually started writing a scifi novel about zombies that had something similar called ripple. The state wasn't talking about the outbreak but the videos spread through ripple and people were freaked out.
Check out the book I mentioned, Summerhill by AS Neill for how it could work at scale. We do it ourselves because there is no analogy to Summerhill where we live, so I agree with you in that regard
So we shouldn't do anything to curb co2 emissions and flying because 1 group of people will find it slightly more expensive/ more awkward to go home? (I say home, if they're economic migrants they're going home? But then they aren't French voters so on some level should they get a say? On the other hand if they're 'settled' migrants that call France home, they aren't going 'home' so on some level it's a summer holiday plus).

Don't build that road, the pedestrians will have to walk out of their way to cross it. Don't build that cycle path, it takes space away from cars. Don't build that pavement.... Every transport decision has tradeoffs, no transport solution can apply to everyone. There will be immigrants from Australia who will also be affected, I have no solutions for them either.
There's a running joke among web pentesters about robots.txt being the first place you look when hitting a new site.
Can you use something to evade detection? Like some sort of scattering device?
What's clamshell mode?
I Can’t Stop Winning
Actually.. I was wrong. I called it 'Cast' and it was just a small part of the book. I wrote it back in 2013 but never published it.

....

The government tried to prevent the mainstream media from showing the pictures but with the Internet this was impossible.

At least until the Internet fell...

It was still all over Cast though. It was encrypted, onion routed, wireless, and distributed. Cast eventually destroyed all the social networks like Facebook and Twitter and left then in the dust like so many Friendsters.

Pictures and videos of small outbreaks spread over Cast like ripples in a vast pond. Except these were more like information tsunamis. They just kept coming.

You would bump a video and send it to your friends only to find another video a few moments later.

Something was happening and we all knew.

You don't expect the speed at first. You can't outrun them. My theory is that the virus evolved to spread through accelerated replication. A long life is not a problem so burning out the body isn't an issue.

When a virus first mutates into an effective form, and the host population is extensive, it’s usually fatal.

The only goal of a virus is replication. If it kills the host but can replicate faster then that’s the strategy that will be selected. Especially when there are plenty of hosts.

And that was the problem with humanity. There are billions of people on the Earth. Most of which live in the cities. None of which have any immunity to H.

Evolution is a bitch.
125 years is still a very small amount of time to assess climate, and the quality of the data 125 years ago isn’t very good. Considering all “solutions” to the “problem” of climate change involve a radical remaking of society, it’s not unreasonable or unserious to ask for more data.
The craft/art still exists in the demoscene
Good point. The Linux ecosystem is much more amenable to that than chasing whatever Android does. Also, the popular home router hardware is more amenable than most handhelds (which often locked bootloaders, signed images, and lots of unsustainable closed drivers).
first of all, no one is talking about banning air travel or anything like that. the tax being discussed is only 1.5 euros for non-business class flights within the EU. this doesn't actually come close to offsetting the CO2 produced by you flying from Porto to Faro one way (according to this calculator [0]).

you have a special case with your son, but most people don't need to fly outside of work. if you can already afford to fly twice a week, my guess is you can also afford another twelve euros per month to offset a fraction of the damage. if your employer really needs you to travel, I'm sure they will find a way to come up with an extra eighteen euros.

> I don't see why X or Y is needed (because I don't needed it), so everyone else is selfish and ruining the environment, but what they think is essential (new shiny gadgets, brand clothes done by kids in Asia, etc) are always forgotten.

I do agree with you here. what we need is a fair taxation scheme to offset all environmental damage. just make a list: how much does it cost to undo the damage of one flight, one ipad, etc. then you let people buy what they want, but make them pay to fix the environmental damage. when the price reflects the true cost, people will figure out what they actually need and budget accordingly. there will be some things (cars in rural areas are an obvious example) where it will simply be too damaging to the poor to fully tax immediately, but most people will find that there's a lot of stuff they can reduce their consumption of.

[0] https://co2.myclimate.org/en/flight_calculators/new
That depends on the region. As a well-known example, rainfall in California will decrease.

Here is an explanation. Take a pot of water. Heat one side. The water will start to circulate, come up where it is hot, fall where it is not, then cycle back.

The Earth's atmosphere does that as well. It rises in the tropics, spreads out, falls in temperate zones, then comes in. These circulation patterns are called the Hadley cells. They explain a lot of things. For example air that came from the equator, then spread out, is moving faster than the ground below it. That's the jet stream. And where it falls it is still moving. That sets up the prevailing wind on land, and the trade winds at sea.

One thing that they help explain is where things are dry. You see when air rises, the water falls out. So where air comes down, it is dry. Therefore the latitudes where it falls have lots of deserts.

Now one of the effects of global warming is that the Hadley cells get less stable, and also expand. Which means that arid zones in Mexico move north, and the Southern USA gets drier. But this comes with more instability in weather patterns.

So you see, it is complicated. Overall wetter does not mean wetter where you are...
One year is a very short time. The fact is that we can't rely on having support to all our add-ons and browser experience in the near future (next 2-3 years) means we have to start thinking about what to switch to. Also, I wouldn't feel comfortable recommending firefox anymore for that same reason. When the time comes to decide whether to switch to fenix or chrome, fenix will need to really impress. It's a bold move from mozilla.

Anyway, I use firefox on Android because of the ad blocker and to avoid AMP. If the new firefox works similarly in that regard, then I might end up switching to that instead.
As a side note, why wouldn't 0.0.0.0 be a valid address if you have a route for it (just like you can set any public IP, and are not restricted to private ranges)?

I recall setting 192.168.0.0 as a valid address in windows XP a while ago.

I usually find people in the networking are (especially teachers) to quite stubbornly assume that things are always one way, while almost the entirety of networking is comprised of RFCs.

Sure, default configurations help in that you don't have to change a device's configuration, but I see no reason why I couldn't change my MAC, or set my broadcast address to 10.0.0.42, or the broadcast MAC to 01:02:03:04:05:06, and my gateway to 10.0.0.0 while I enjoy browsing the web on my 0.0.0.0-addressed computer...
I'm not sure what the use is of comparing human processing to "the type of operations required to simulate something like climate" since predicting the weather is not something our computers are particularly good at. Why is a 3D model even necessary?

Personal anecdote: my grandmother is capable of predicting rain 1-2 days ahead of time based on smell and just "a feeling." Granted, we probably don't remember all of the times that she was wrong.
Its funny how everyone feels empowered to be a digital sleuth these days but makes ridiculous conclusions with the same material everyone else has
But paying the people who steal the cards can only encourage them.
Manual requests intentionally bypass that, as their own documentation states when you enable that setting. Plus "check for updates when I press a button" is enormously different than "automatically download and install updates in the background". Wanting one without the other is entirely reasonable and technically simple.

Even if it wasn't, it's unreasonable to offer a "check for updates" button that just turns into an indefinite progress bar forever without mentioning "can't check on this network" or something.

Also, as I mentioned, it does work sometimes, which is why it's clear when it's breaking. Though I didn't mention it earlier, it remains broken even when I turn off the metered mode, so yea. I'm pretty sure the updater is just plain broken most of the time.
Yes but there are new primitive domains to master, like driving a motor with an arduino, or programming FPGAs.
Why does choosing an Apple product always require a degree in Apple marketing and design? I generally like their products but you need to do so much research about everything from the weird ass product names (does Air even mean anything anymore?), to where exactly in the product cycle each product is. Am I about to buy something that will be upgraded in a week?
The third definition of community from dictionary.com:

a social, religious, occupational, or other group sharing common characteristics or interests and perceived or perceiving itself as distinct in some respect from the larger society within which it exists

A prerequisite for finding community support is to be a member of one. There are many communities. The commonality and social bonds between members form the basis of trust and the expectation of reciprocity.

When people perceive that their resources are simply being expropriated to benefit people they have nothing in common with, may never meet, and certainly cannot expect reciprocal investment from, they tend to withdraw from voluntary participation. Without that participation, communities simply die.

It's true that some communities have a larger pool of resources to share than others. But consider this before you condemn a synagogue for helping out a local Jewish family with money that could have gone to taxes to help someone arguably more in need.

It's sad that not everyone has a home, but the solution is not to demolish the entire block and apportion to each person an equal share of lumber.
Are there any record-setting weather patterns that global climate change can't account for?
Suspend it in water, I would guess. How much water, is the important question.
I have a CS degree and never, once, compiled anything that took more than a few seconds in undergrad (mostly Java). I used a 2013 MacBook Air. What are you compiling that’s taking minutes? I’m curious.
Some, yes, I've read. Africa and Indonesia may get wetter, and the Sahara could even switch back to rainforest.

But my "more water, so wetter" comment was about global averages. Given that global air and ocean circulation will change, some areas will probably get drier. Such as the US Midwest and Southwest, and perhaps the Amazon.

https://news.uci.edu/2018/04/27/scientists-project-a-drier-a...

https://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/34232/201...
Cute game, is this your first time building a game on browser?
In fairness to him, North Korea's nukes are not that much better than dirty bombs and aren't super high-yield. N. Korea also has total control of the economy because it is communist, so can starve her citizens to fund bomb construction. That said, your point is good.

Does any one have a real idea to denuclearize rogue nations (N. Korea, Iran, Pakistan, etc.)? All I've seen is both the Trump and Obama administrations saying very nicely "please, please denuclearize" and imposing sanctions. Problem being, bad nations don't care about their citizens. Could some one please propose a method to force denuclearization by an unwilling nation? Or at least prevent them getting more?
Breeding?
As the sibling comment from anderkaseorg says, IRV is one of the worst single-winner voting systems that isn't plurality voting.

Third parties would greatly benefit from range-voting[1]. I used to favor Condorcet voting methods as an improvement over plurality, but now I favor range-voting. Mostly for how much more straightforward the vote outcomes are, and the simplicity of explaining it. The no-show paradox inherent in Condorcet systems also bothers me[2].

There is a good summary of the properties of different voting systems on wikipedia[3].

[1] https://www.rangevoting.org/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participation_criterion

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_electoral_system...
Oh, nice, you composed the song?