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> Can you distribute a native application on macOS without Apple's blessing? No, you can't

Yes, you can. You have always been able to.

> (not when Catalina will be out anyway).

Yes, you will be able to.

I just downloaded a music tracker/MOD player from the Mesozoic (well, not quite) and it runs fine on Catalina Developer Preview 4.

I can understand the confusion – I had the same concerns while watching this year's WWDC's Platforms State of the Union – but please do not spread FUD, or accept it as true without credible sources.

Apple does require developers to update their old apps now and then, and that may not be convenient for some devs, but I feel it's overall good for users, and they don't force anyone to distribute via the App Store only or give Apple a % of their sales.

In fact, a few companies have withdrawn their products from the Mac App Store, like Sketch and Coda and others.
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I was puzzled by "churning out CRUD apps is math intensive" - could you explain?

I do agree that the aforementioned fields are not necessarily math-intensive — except investment professional in certain cases.
The Corvette does the same thing.
https://www.cars.com/articles/your-corvette-has-a-removable-...
I call bullshit on this. 1000km range and 400km/h top speed?

Obviously you can't have both but each of this is unrealistic enough on its own.

You can't even go 400km/h on the Autobahn, which roads are they building this for?

And fully loaded SUVs like the Hyundai Kona get somewhat about 500km in normal crusing mode. 1000km is either a breakthrough in battery technology or measured/calculated when going 50km/h at best.

Unrealistic values imho, but I'm open to be proven otherwise.
The weirdest part (both good and bad) of digitally hacking the brain will be hacking desire itself.
That all three drives lasted this long then failed within a month is very suspect. This sounds less like random failure indicative of the quality of refurbished drives in general, and more like a defect common to all three drives.

Because of such plagues, data-centre operators often mix drives of different manufacturers, models, batches and ages. Running heterogeneous devices in a redundant array helps makes the failure distribution more random so that the safety margin is less likely to be suddenly overwhelmed by correlated failures.
I still use a 2012 MB Air as my home laptop. I've used Firefox on it forever and have never had a problem.
I see vastly more attention given to areas where girls are under-represented, with the belief that such disparities are inequities to be fixed, than I do to areas where males perform worse. It seems that male deficits are largely accepted. Could the male disadvantage in reading be reduced by different instructional methods (more phonics) or with reading material that appeals to boys?
Maybe they're just better at sniffing out bullsheet and not getting involved with it in the first place?
But seriously. Anyone?
The Lotus Evija looks better than this. But hey, that is a 1.5mil car.

The "250mph+" claim looks dubious given the shape/aero of this car - though I don't claim to be an expert and I suppose this might not be the finished shape of the car either.
I think you should check your irony meter.
In other words, Windows is about to become slower.
The third option is that noise levels are illegal but enforcement is currently too hard.
Yet according to MSR Midori had no issues powering a portion of Bing in production.

Multiple OSes have been written in GC enabled system languages.

Having a GC doesn't mean all memory is required to be GC allocated on the heap, usually the same mechanisms of a language like C++ are also available, e.g. Modula-3, System C#, D and so forth.

Joe Duffy clearly states in one of his Midori talks that WinDev did not believe in Midori, even with it running in front of them.
I don’t know about gender differences.

The classes are at least initially perceived as easy for most people, but while some find them fun other find it horribly boring. So, my guess it’s less about aptitude than liking the kind of work involved.
You will get automated emails alerting you to ppl trying to access your account even if they don't have the credentials. E.g. they got my PSN info from a breach and tried to use it to log into steam or battle.net. Sometimes they will even start the password reset flow but I have no idea why.

I rarely go through these flows myself so I don't know what they reveal or are capable of. I'd rather be anonymous
Range is easy: just add more battery. It’s expensive, but this is an expensive car.
> France barely emits 0.1% of world's CO2

Sure, because they have 0.09% of the world's population.

> how is it fair to tax fuel for cars (note that air traffic is left alone)?

Both should be taxed.
Are hotels somehow immune to hidden cameras?
TLA+ is just as good for non-concurrent stuff. It's just that it's one of the only things capable to naturally tackle arbitrary concurrency, so it gets more focus there.
I grew up in an area that had a lot of tourism (Stratford, ON). I always thought it was strange that people would travel so far to visit.

Now when I go home I see the city through new eyes and it really is a charming place. It feels like it would be a really nice place to live. When I did live there, I couldn't wait to leave.
Which when you think about it in absolute numbers, is still quite a bit. Kodak made a billion rolls of film a year and Fujifilm about the same. So that means today about 50 million rolls of film are made each year.

It's not as it was, but it's not at artisan levels either.

Edit: peak film was 2004. That feels strangely close to me. I would have guessed on gut instinct 1999.

But when I really think about it, it checks out - I held out on photography between 2004 and 2008 because I didn't have a camera then. But I didn't want to buy a film camera, that felt weird. On the other hand the digital cameras were total crap. In 2008 I bought a compact digital camera which was... passable. And not exactly cheap, $300 equivalent or so.

Today these images are potato quality. All mobile cameras are better. Most film cameras are better.
There is a package for emacs that does this. It collects all of the todos in your current repo and puts them in your status buffer in an actionable way.

https://github.com/alphapapa/magit-todos
Anecdote about said startups: in 2y of the one big bounty that did have a PGP key, we got one PGPd report, and it was “session takeover”: if I copy the cookie out of Burp and into a new Incognito session, I will be logged in. Bounty plz?

We also got super clever reports on that same bounty program. They just sent email.
I agree, but I'd describe those as "corporate IT" jobs, not as "CS" jobs. A degree in CS really isn't suited to later being embedded in a large corporation's IT division. To fit in there, a computer scientist would first need a lobotomy.
I have a username I’ve been wanting to get for years on Twitter, the last tweet the account holder sent out was in 2014 and they’ve only posted like 20 tweets, so highly unlikely to be an active user.

Yet twitter never seems to release the inactive account, despite claiming they may permanently remove inactive accounts. I’ve reached out to the owner several times; no response. I’ve considered resorting to blackhat solutions and taking matters into my own hands.
The reason there's a gap is because STEM is filled with men who are assholes to women.

It's not freaking hard to figure that out.
>You're saying that the higher bands of 5G cannot even penetrate the human skin. So this means that the human skin (and I assume at least a couple of layers of body under the skin) effectively absorbs all the energy of the signal that reaches it. This is one of the main concerns.

The top layer of skin (the epidermis) is dead skin cells. Cancer is when cells start reproducing uncontrollably, and dead cells don't reproduce anyway. Its the living cells that you need to protect
I see the OP submitted this article.

To be honest, PBN's are nowhere near as effective as they were a couple of years ago. The chance of getting a manual action against your site is a lot higher.

If you were going to drop a few thousand dollars on buying backlinks, you don't want to have your site de-indexed by Google in 6 months without getting an ROI.

Non-English versions of Google are more linens and are still easy to game for PBN's.

Also, all PBN's are not all created equally. Making sure the domain isn't dropped, different whois details/domain registrars/hosting providers. Also putting relevant links to sites other than what clients have paid for to make this look more legitimate.

Niches with big competition like Pharma/Gambling/Game Hacks/Lead Gen will continue to user PBN's, but bigger SEO's will be diversifying their link building portfolio by building more whitehat links like guest posts and then sending more questionable links like PBN's to them as a tier 2 backlink.
We don't all agree that it feels super bad. I think you are completely wrong on the ergonomics. Go's error handling looks ugly to people used to languages that try to _hide_ error states, but it's so much easier to work when you are unfamiliar with the codebase or when it's been a few months since you last touched the code. Clarity of unfamiliar code is part of language ergonomics as well.

I'm not sure I follow your argument about Go "approaching" checked-exceptions in Java. Nothing is being forced on you. Go has worked the same way for a decade now. There is a lot of hugely successful software written in Go. In all that time, errors have worked the same way. In terms of choosing principles over ergonomics, in fact the Go committee chose ergonomics over the mistaken principle that "explicit error checking is so ugly and onerous that it's worth adding magic behavior and removing clarity".

In any case, no one is arguing we shouldn't or couldn't improve Go's ergonomics. Rather, the conclusion from people who work with Go every day and are happy with the tradeoffs for their particular projects was that this specific change would make more things worse than it made better.
Probably in the glove compartment.
...and if this all really works, the ethics of uplifting animals. If monkeys and cows, etc, can become intelligent via digital augmentation, it will seem pretty grotesque to eat meat. I’m not a vegetarian, but that thought has me reconsidering. Even if we’re a century or two away from that, it will be nice to not be remembered as monstrously eating other potentially-intelligent beings.
A Technical Look at Creating an AI to Restore and Colorize Photos
Not Everyone Wanted a Man on the Moon
AirBnb should be responsible for providing a framework for complying with regional regulations of this sort. Why isn't AirBnb liable for facilitating users to break the law?
So you're suggesting that everybody should read the miles long terms for each website they subscribe to, otherwise they do not have a right to keep their username.

And I'm not sure that abusing an unethical system waives you from the morality of your actions.

The only lesson you're giving here is about you. But hey, any publicity is good publicity right? You're enforcing your 'brand' after all. \s
> You're just deflecting

I'm not deflecting anything. You quoted some PR that said "we have a large number of employees who request to work on GA4" and said "Off the top of my head I can't imagine a reason why the tent would be such a great place to work."

I pointed out that, by your own admission, for ~9 months of the year the climate is fine AND it's outside as possible reasons for choosing to work in the tent.

The original quote doesn't say employees requested permanent positions or even year round. Two employees requesting to work 1 shift in the tent during ideal conditions would still make the statement true.

Why is that so far beyond your comprehension? You're fixated on the fact that it gets cold at night in the middle of winter as proof that no one would ever request to work in the tent ever.

I think you're just being contrary and difficult which may or may not be because you have a hidden agenda.
In effect, protecting those who are at the top and need the protection the least.
In some contexts, exceptions are just cleaner and easier. If I’m writing a web backend, my error handling is going to almost always be, “stop trying to do things and generate a 4xx/5xx response”. Throwing an exception from anywhere and then handling it at the top of the request handling does that without having to tediously carry errors all the way up the call stack.
I worked at a startup where the goal was to build a tool to create stories similar to NYT without needing a coder. We got quite far, and the articles done with it are already quite impressive. The task is really difficult though - performance is hard and responsiveness is super tricky. I’m proud that we didn’t end up with scrolljacking and it fells quite web native. https://info.graphics is the current soft launch and has some cool stories of anyone is interested.
More interesting I think is lining up to beat the production figures too. Tesla are planning to make a lot more than 25.
I don't know much about this field (and I did not purchase the full article), but it seems like quite a leap to assume this is a source of the gender-gap. First of all, you're talking about 80% of one standard deviation difference in reading-to-math scores between males and females - that doesn't seem like enough to study it as the cause of anything.

And how does being better at reading steer people away from STEM? There is just as much reading going on in STEM as out, and arguably more intensive reading in.

It seems like the score difference is probably related to the gender-gap somehow, but I doubt it is a cause. I would be interested in reading the article if it was freely available.
Why would you buy a Rolls Royce Phantom? They're boring and don't hold their value.
You probably achieve the stated range at ~65MPH. Range decreases approximately with the square of the speed, so range at top speed would be around 16 times lower.
No one ever said it was. You're making up a fiction you can defeat.
They are not called “dropped domains”, the term used more often is “expired domains”. The author doesn’t even mention how registrars are a player and part of this, as they auction off the more valuable domains even before they are dropped.

Google has done a lot since 2011 to identify pbns and take them down. This article seems a bit outdated.
Java allows since ~a decade time to omit the generation of stacktraces, for exactly such cases
The problem is, as far as I know, no languages make any promises about values left in physical memory or enforcing code take constant time.

Security code cares about these things, so has to make use of a best effort, and checking assembly.
>You can't even go 400km/h on the Autobahn, which roads are they building this for?

They're competing against ferrari/lamborghini/mclaren. The top speed is for the track, not the street. That should be quite obvious....

> I call bullshit on this. 1000km range and 400km/h top speed?

The range is clearly not based on going the top speed for the duration. The distance Tesla gives is typically based on a combined city/highway driving profile. They also provide calculators to estimate your range bssed on the mixture as well as a map program that tells you where you'd need to charge getting from point A to point B if you're going on a long-distance trip.

https://www.tesla.com/trips/
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It's not weird that this article, which translates the technical firefighting and structural aspects of the fire for laypeople, does not mention a xenophobic conspiracy theory that has been rejected by the French authorities.
The Bugatti Veyron tires cost over $30k and last 2500 miles.
At least 11 persons have died in the context of the yellow vest protests, which puts them in league (in terms of casualties) with a major terror attack :

Sources:
https://www.liberation.fr/checknews/2019/01/30/qui-sont-les-...
https://www.lci.fr/social/11-morts-depuis-le-debut-de-la-cri...
https://fr.wikinews.org/wiki/Gilets_jaunes_en_France_:_stati...
[Just to give an example that I should have given yesterday for anyone who finds this in the future, in particular if you omit some of the safeguards of SRP then the “core” of it has h(V, s) = V^s (mod N) for some N and in some sense it is not doing full public key crypto but rather the seemingly-weaker subset that is Diffie-Hellman key exchange. But of course then ElGamal came and proved that at the core of Diffie-Hellman you can find a public key crypto algorithm so they are clearly very strongly related to each other even if this doesn't need to use the full force of it.]
Depends on which memory safe language they use and how (plus this blog post isn't by the Windows team or about Windows specifically). The biggest thing that slows Windows is lock contention, back-compat, and abstraction layers. Those problems all remain regardless of language choice.
My takeaway was "5g does not reliably cause cancer". Seems legit. It's not a magic cancer box, yo.
Didn't you just dismiss all concerns of uv radiation from the sun since it just hits the top layer of the skin?
That's interesting and a very strange idea to me, I never considered comparing "maths ability" vs "reading ability" because I never saw subjects on a scale from "reading <-> maths".

For me the scale was more like "problem solving <-> wrote learning" and I did everything I could to avoid stuff on the RHS.
How exactly does it work? What is the typical user experience supposed to be in a use session?
You will be hard pressed to find a compiler that has a high level safety certification that covers optimizations. Most safety manuals I am aware of explicitly forbid enabling optimizations.
It's not false. You can't send an action potential down a motor neuron connected to a muscle without a reaction from the muscle. Do not confuse the neurons in your brain (which generate new connections all the time) with motor neurons, which is what the CTRL-labs kit is sensing.

The brain does learn to control what is there, and what is there is attached to your muscles. I'll say it again: the CTRL-labs kit works on electromyography, which only works with muscle activity. You will not magically grow new neurons in your arm that are dedicated sole to the control of a computer.
Me and my sister were homeschooled and only one grade level apart.

So this ancedote is kind of like a twin study. We both did great at reading, in most years on standardized California Achievement Tests we'd be in the 98th or top percentile for reading. On the other hand for math we were always below the median, sometimes our score was so low we were in danger of the state forcing us to be in public school.

These results probably aren't surprising, we both had essentially the same educational experience.

Interestingly enough we both went on to different universities with full scholarships. She chose creative writing. I (he) chose information technology.

I don't know what can explain this aside from random variation, because this study certainly doesn't explain this well.
400 km/s is possible on the Autobahn ... but it is an exception.

1000km range at 100km/h maybe :D
I knew a person who worked in the food service industry and I worked in IT. I once asked her what she thought most people made on the upper half of one of the 40+ floor buildings in town. She said they likely made at least $50k/year. To her rich people made over $50k/year. It made no difference if some made $350k and others made $50k, they were effectively the same to her.
Scrolljacking - first time I heard that word. Is this about those one-page-websites where you scroll two lines down and then without any control it goes down one page? The person who invented this should be banned from the internet for at least a year.
Nothing makes a huge group of us cringe more, than people saying it's just around the corner. The worst part is it also comes from people who should know better.

>Waymo’s CEO, John Krafcik, has admitted that a self-driving car that can drive in any condition, on any road, without ever needing a human to take control—usually called a “level five” autonomous vehicle—will basically never exist. At the Wall Street Journal’s D.Live conference, Krafcik said that “autonomy will always have constraints.” It will take decades for self-driving cars to become common on roads. Even then, they will not be able to drive at certain times of the year or in all weather conditions. In short, sensors on autonomous vehicles don’t work well in snow or rain—and that may never change.

https://www.cnet.com/news/alphabet-google-waymo-ceo-john-kra...

https://www.spectator.co.uk/2018/07/the-dream-of-driverless-...
Taking any car up to 250mph requires special tires and can only be achieved at a handful of test tracks. Most airport runways don't have enough room to do it.
Open it in incognito mode.
America's addiction to absurdly fast shipping has a hidden cost
> that doesn't seem like enough to study it as the cause of anything

Unless I'm mistaken, their measure is basically Cohen's d, and 0.8 is indeed considered a large effect in the social sciences (look at the table in [1]).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effect_size#Cohen's_d
Surely when you use buy such a service the uptime guarantee applies to the service you have paid for? What happens to the rest of the customers is irrelevant. And the average availability the aggregate is even more so.
Years ago, I once googled my name to find someone with the same name in the UK who was a bit of a fluffy motivational speaker. I laughed, and forgot about him.

A few months later, I googled my name and all that came up were fluffy blog entries he wrote on various generic blogs. They were all slightly different. He pushed me off the front page.

Granted, I don't really care about being found online. (Just leads to too much spam, recruiters are the worst.) But, a few days later I happened to be on Google's campus and someone who tracked those things struck up a conversation with me. I politely pointed out the gimmick that the other person did.

Normally, I don't like pulling strings, but I certainly had the last laugh at that one!
Also the existing (extinct) populations could have become diluted within the larger immigrant population, until their mating opportunities went to zero?
Self-driving tech muggle here.

Could someone explain to me why any average Joe with minimal intellect can drive a car using only a pair of eyes but it's difficult to build a fully self-driving car even with 8+ cameras, GPS, LIDAR and other sensors us humans don't have?
> You literally fucked over 10 people just to virtue signal.

I think you should spend some time learning what "virtue signaling" means before you use it again.
Google's Project Dragonfly 'Terminated' in China
> than I do to areas where males perform worse.

This is only because you're not looking.
The Bugatti Veyron fuel tank lasts about 12 minutes at 250mph
"Never" is kind of equally absurd. It's just a brutally hard problem.
> ... "autonomous vehicles" will be a reality for "ordinary people" in less than five years, Google co-founder Sergey Brin said Tuesday.

That's from 2012 [1]

[1] https://www.computerworld.com/article/2491635/self-driving-c...
https://www.google.com/search?q=social+contract

Basically it's the understanding that we're all in this together and we shouldn't mess things in some way for other people purely for our own benefit. Think of it as avoiding negative-sum situations. More formally:

an implicit agreement among the members of a society to cooperate for social benefits, for example by sacrificing some individual freedom for state protection. Theories of a social contract became popular in the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries among theorists such as Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, as a means of explaining the origin of government and the obligations of subjects.