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Pennsylvania Highway Interchange Popular Among Web Users as Symbol of American Homogeneity

Due to a quirk of a now-defuct law causing an abundance of low speed traffic, an unusually dense set of typical off-interstate chain stores and restaurants sprung up around a Breezewood, PA interstate exit. This location has become popular among Web users for creating photos embodying the homogeneity and cultural sterility of such places.

There, headline and first couple sentences of a non-clickbait article for you.
I think what you are describing it's called cut and cover.

Presumably, the idea of inconveniencing motorists for that long "just" for transit is no longer acceptable.
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Re your edit: you said that you didn't read the article and then started talking about yourself, which is rude.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
AMD FX line don't have IME or something similar.
In the US, many states have an Open Records act on the books. Typically this extends to the emails that acedemics at public universities send using their .edu addresses (among many other things). Though it varies from state to state, generally communications in and among anyone that recieves state funds in any way are considered part of the public record.

For instance, in CA the Sacremento Bee mantains a DB of all the public worker salaries, including university professor salaries, donations, grant funds, patent royalty payments, etc. It is very comprehensive and I know female acedemics that have used it to argue (suessfully) for better pay: https://www.sacbee.com/news/databases/state-pay/article22946...

In CO, there is the open records act. From what I hear, it is farily simple to obtain all emails that a professor sends out, including ones from a personal email account that happens to send out emails via a router that the state owns: https://www.sos.state.co.us/pubs/info_center/cora.html
Tesla isn't a bank though. People have those titles in Finance because they have ownership over a particular product division, of which there are many. Consumer loans, corporate paper, fixed income, export-import financing, commodities trading, etc.
What you describe is intentional vocabulary acquisition. However I'd like to point out that such words learned via this method consist only of a small portion of the vocabularies of both native speakers and L2 learners. Majority of vocabulary comes through incidental vocabulary acquisition [0].

Such methods of learning the language would make you a practitioner of the Skill-Building Hypothesis in your SLA (Second Language Acquisition) journey. Often which methodology to follow is decided unknowingly by the L2 learners, since the sources they utilize often dictate the methodology.

I believe it'd be my duty to inform you there's also a competing theory in the SLA field that you may fancy, called the Comprehensible Input Theory.

[0]: https://sci-hub.tw/10.2307/747758
Interesting question. My understanding is that a 400 response indicates that there's something malformed about the request itself such that the server can't/won't process it. Given that in order to decline the card the service has to actually process the request, I'd agree that a 400 is inappropriate.
This, also, is incorrect.

US dragnet snooping has nothing particular to do with law enforcement. Nobody is allowed to know what is done with the stolen information. When we find out one use, that doesn't preclude any other use.

The use that nets the greatest return for any snooped information is extortion. Spooks are very familiar with this use, as it is their go-to method to "turn" people to recruit informants. Of course turning is only one of many uses for the same information. Coercion applied to public officials creates corruption, to judges miscarriages of justice, to police persucution of private enemies. It poisons the public well everywhere it touches.

Prosecutors are also very familiar with extortionate use of secrets. We see it in "plea bargains", where people are made to plead guilty to charges prosecutors could not prove in court, but that only scratches the surface. "Constitutional protection" is no shield against any use that doesn't introduce the facts in testimony.

Note that having "nothing to hide" doesn't help you if the secret is about somebody else, and used to coerce their actions against you.
They say that the licensing costs increased by "by more than a factor of ten".

Given that figure, do you really think that one-time project implementation and switching costs amortized over the next X years + ongoing support would really come to more than 10x? How do you make such a strong claim that easily, any prior examples?

Not saying you're obviously wrong or that CERN is obviously right, but this seems to be a much harder call (and intuitively feels right in fact), given the number.
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When they first did their kickstarter they were talking about doing a follow up with 64 cores and being able to connect them together with those fancy pants connectors they had going on. I was all set to buy four... and none of that ever materialised.

I got the impression that a lot of folks had unrealistic expectations about how Linux would support the chip right from the start, which honestly wasn't all that surprising recalling the way they worded some of their promotional material.
Unless you are doing things like modifying a Google-style speadsheet of 5000+ columns and rows, you won't see much of a performance loss from using jQuery.

It does add a microscopic bit of weight to your page and some milliseconds to your load time, but that's it. It's a ressource that is smaller and faster to load than the content of the page. In my opinion, this argument is meaningless. Modern SPA frameworks are slowing the web way more. Loading your jQuery scripts async will make this transparent for the user.

In the edge-cases where jQuery is slower than native JS (because of polyfills, mostly), there's nothing stopping you from using those directly.

Unless you are Netflix and micro-optimizing your homepage to the millisecond, there's no hard reason to avoid jQuery. I believe that those slight performance losses are worth the trade for the benefits of using a strong and well tested framework that has browser support and lowers development time. I'd trust non JavaScript experts to use jQuery on my projects, I can't say the same for raw JavaScript.

Trend-driven development is a pitfall. Boring technologies are where it's at.
Africa would likely disagree as well.

In fact I had this very discussion with a group of Africans recently. Yeah, they weren't shy about "educating" me. Some of what they believe is, in my view, not fact based. (At least, it can't be proven in court so to speak.) But, yeah, a lot of what they were saying was definitely true.
Knowing what to learn is really important. The field of competitive programming probably has some good answers to your question about being a better programmer.
Right, but this doesn't mean that the author can't use tabs to indent their code.
Of course there's money in original content. You need that to keep people coming back to the feed to make any money on the ads.

What you're seeing is the results of dozens of teams individually optimizing against growth goals, which are actually inputs to a complex system that is difficult to predict.
CERN had a major role in making kicad what it is today. they implemented tons of complex stuff that you normally only find in really expensive CAD tools.

Hope they can repeat that with a few more FOSS projects!
Not long ago Facebook was praised especially in "White" countries media on how Facebook was helping establish "democracy" in "third-world" or "non-white" countries. Tired of this 'not in my backyard' mentality' of US polity.
My point was basically that people tend to have this idea in their mind that for the most part, adults "behave like adults", in that they grow out of the negative social behaviors that are easily observed in a school setting, whereas the reality seems to be that what's actually happening is that this behavior simply becomes more sophisticated and better hidden, or ignored as if it didn't exist.
Not a single one.
You guys love talking about "clickbait". Jeez.
As an edit to the above, as pointed out in other comments, this actually only does unidirectional notifications - i.e. pushing notifications to Slack. This is the part that is already really trivial, with Slack webhooks.

I suppose this hooks into stuff like SNS and may not require writing code or running a server/lambda, but still, less useful than it first appeared. A service for easily setting up backends for conversational slackbots or slash commands would be much more exciting, in my opinion.
I have read the book and it's charming; as with much of what Eco writes, it's going to be of interest even to people who are not the target audience (students writing theses). Sometimes seemingly specialty books have the most interesting general lessons.
In context climate change, it's more apt to compare effects of substituting concrete for CLT. The PUR / polyurethane adhesive is "no bad" in the sense that there's no toxic formaldehyde for people, but production of the adhesives still has heavy health and emissions risks - according to some Finish Building Science thesis I read a few years ago. As for MDF, since its is upcycled industrial wood residuals, it's going to be more economical as a byproduct of CLT popularity. Would probably be more wasteful to not use it. I'm a big believer in engineered wood, intuitively it seems like the way to go, there's just not much literature on it in terms of emission life cycle assessment in building science literature. Then again I haven't read up in a few years and interest in them have exploded outside of niche architecture and building circles.
I always thought, if there’s a code that officially signals what we’re trying to signal, we should use it, and rely on it as “the signal”.

But at the end of the day, your app must target a subset of available APIs. If you use every available API the surface will be too big and you will have snowballing complexity. So if you are already using another API which can signal what you’re trying to signal then feel free to institute a “everything we can expect returns 200” policy. That kind of decision is critical for putting an upper bound on your system complexity.

I want to institute a “no default exports” policy in the JavaScript app I’m working on. It’s not that there aren’t places a default export makes sense—there are. It’s that prohibiting them will decrease the number of things our coders have to think about.
I concur with your statements. My guess is the poster accidentally omitted a zero, and likely meant $10k.
> Travel in these regions may impact your account status,...

?!?@!
But ACH transfers require you to give the information needed to print out checks against your bank account (routing number and account number).
https://qz.com/1599393/how-researchers-estimate-1-million-uy...
No, abvr, RMS never wanted anyone to name the Linux kernel GNU/Linux.

He wants people to call GNU/Linux a system composed of components from GNU and the Linux kernel. He considers the GNU part essential. He also wants that so people hear about GNU and free software, because, well, that's the whole point of his work. Whether it is a good strategy or whether you don't find it convenient is irrelevant. If you use any project, it is fair that their author expect due credit.

I do say Linux instead of GNU/Linux, but it does not make it right. I do speak about Free software though.
And I will certainly not argue against one of the author of GNU/Linux on how he wants people to name the project. You can give your opinion, but show some humility and respect.
What you write as truths are in fact just your opinion, to which I happen to not agree with.

Windows is not comparable to the Linux kernel, the Windows NT kernel is, and your system is full of GNU, whether you like it or not. Starting from the libc, the bootloader and many other important component. Nobody argues about how which or which part of your system is essential or not. Everything is useful and needed. That is just not the point.

And Linus is not above RMS, and RMS is not above Linus. No authority is involved.
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If an organism were 'alive', self-sustaining and fully conscious in space what would that look like?
For those more used to Fahrenheit, that's 122 F. Wow.
Looking back it was so juvenile that I am embarrassed. But I used to sell popularity services for new businesses on MySpace and Facebook. I would get them high friend counts, lots of likes for their page, and even like or upvote certain posts make them appear more popular.

It literally did nothing of real value and was a complete waste of time. And in the case of Facebook probably set them seriously behind in doing actual good marketing because their social graph was completely destroyed by the artificial campaigns.
A function can be described with data.
You're absolutely right. I was unnecessarily snarky.
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Well, no, that is a non-explanation.

If the format of syslogs doesn't change there should be no issues (or should it be read as "the system logs don't have the year"? )

If you don't have the year, it is not a "full date" in the forensic sense of the term, and you simply cannot present such a result in a Court.

A statement like "A Netac USB device was connected on May 26, presumably in the year 2019, exactly at 00:51:54 and soon after disconnected, exactly at 00:52:21" won't be good.

If it is technically not possible to retrieve the year, then the whole stuff has very little relevance on itself.

It would be needed to create a complete timeline of the system under investigation and correlate the month, day, time with activities that have an objective timestamp including the year.
In what kind of situation would a month of delay and complete redaction of any information given in confidence by other people?

The GDPR requires you to balance the rights of all involved parties.
Whenever I do a long highway trip I can't help but notice how often I pass "one of everything". By that I mean when I'm hungry I don't have to wonder where I will eat, I know that within 10 miles I will find some exit with a few fast food chains, a fast casual restaurant, 2 gas stations, an a motel. You don't have to ask "Where is the McDonalds" you ask "Where is the NEXT McDonalds" because you know you probably are between two.

I find this tiny bit of Americana comforting. I don't know if there is another country so large that is so consistently developed. There are so few places in America where you might end up out of range of these basic comforts, despite our fairly massive landmass.
Adorable that you think they would be satisfied at 50% ad content!
Since people don't read the article:

"The Microsoft Alternatives project (MAlt) started a year ago to mitigate anticipated software license fee increases. MAlt’s objective is to put us back in control using open software."

"A prime example is that CERN has enjoyed special conditions for the use of Microsoft products for the last 20 years, by virtue of its status as an “academic institution”. However, recently, the company has decided to revoke CERN’s academic status, a measure that took effect at the end of the previous contract in March 2019, replaced by a new contract based on user numbers, increasing the license costs by more than a factor of ten. Although CERN has negotiated a ramp-up profile over ten years to give the necessary time to adapt, such costs are not sustainable."
I'm not an American and get confused with the specifics. But thanks for sharing the link itself. I myself saw the same video and some of first timers in House and their to the point questions a lot.
If you are worried about human rights, freedoms, you should worry about USA as well. There are enough ways to circumvent or interpret the law to suite the need, like border search and seizure few meters outside the constitutional zone applied to American citizen.

I have seen enough instances when first amendment rights are also bulldozed (still there is hope as someone emerges to preserve it). Arresting assange in UK trying to extradite him to USA, Snowden are just the tip of the iceberg.

Constitution is not absolute but a moving target with time. It requires a good faith constant effort to keep it and it's spirit alive.

I believe having a democracy does not guarantee it will remain same. The best example is India, where the current govt is bulldozing the constitutional spirit with amendments to turn it into Hindu nation and make it more like China where govt has absolute control. Anyone Who criticise the govt will be termed terrorist.

Both USA and China have their own set of good and bad, can't paint either with a broad brush.
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> If now the treatment is universally approved and kills some people, think about who's going to take the responsibility for it?

Same as any other medical intervention. A substantial number of people die as the result of routine surgery for problems that themselves weren't life-threatening. Medicine, like engineering, involves tradeoffs and risk assessment, and there is not likely to be a perfect outcome. All we can do is work on the "best" outcome for the most people.
Yeah, because China has not been run by jackwads the whole time. They're just good guys trying to understand the world. Oh, they commited a couple of genocides here and there but they have good intentions.
> I suspect they will discover over time that the fully loaded costs of switching are higher than the costs of the licenses,

Can't speak for large organizations but some of the more well functioning places I have worked on has been running without much Microsoft services.

Also for many of us sysadmins in many cases we would say we would possibly save more from not having to deal with the hassle that is Windows than from just the licenses.

I mean: having to run and patch Apache httpd or other standard technologies on Windows is such a major hassle compared to Ubuntu or or any other mainstream commercial distro.

You can of course just use IIS, but then you have to deal with the hassle that is IIS.

This is a bit tongue in cheek, but the idea that Windows is somehow easier for everything is a bit unnuanced I think.
For sport, before Rome existed? Not mostly hunted because they are direct competitors as apex predators? And because they threatened and killed children and livestock?
These rules are so stupid and actually hurts no one but the poor individual developer, a few years ago I used to live in Syria before the events.
I had to find 3rd party mirrors or VPNs for the stupidest shit... like Nvidia graphics driver, adobe flash player, Java runtime and silly stuff like that, some ISPs had public download pages where you can find these general utilities most of it was outdated but does the job.

I guess the US is afraid that terrorists may develop weapons using Adobe flash player xD
Ours is a more ad-hoc process than that. I work for Statistics Iceland. We are not changing OS or productivity suite (yet at least). Those that want Linux on their laptops get Ubuntu. We deploy Libreoffice alongside Office. Users using other statistical suites are encouraged to use R. On the infrastructure side we are making more use of Samba (one new DC, next up is migrating fileservers from old WServers over to Samba on Linux), just replaced Exchange with Kopano. We are an org of about 120-150 people/workstations.
Compiling the Rust compiler also requires compiling LLVM, so by definition it will always take longer than that.
> If you can afford it and can controll yourself at all - stop having children.

If you are smart, empathetic, and can raise a human who is curious and respects others, you should do it. The future depends on people like you and your offspring.

If you can afford a child and are reading this forum, you are in a demographic among the most capable of raising children with the most access to knowledge, resources, and opportunity.

You're barking up the wrong tree.
> Ultimately execution is what matters, and snapchat had a terrible app (at least on android) forever.

Take this with a grain of salt, but:

https://variety.com/2017/biz/news/snapchat-evan-spiegel-only...
Yeah I can't agree with the author in saying that its "uniquely" Breezewood; this could be a picture of pretty much any "exit directly off the interstate" in especially the midwest, though likely around most of America. Towns like this pop up around interstates; it seems like interstates are planned to go near smaller towns, but not through them, so the town "creeps" over to the interstate and you end up with all the new developments happening over there, like big chain restaurants. And, of course, gas stations, because that just makes sense. I could point to three dozen towns between Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, and Tennessee that are like this.
Thank you! Dispelling the magic is my primary goal with the book.

Like you, I don't have a CS degree and find a number of topics like this to be intimidating. So my hope is that readers will come away from this both knowing more about languages and also less afraid of diving into other topics that seem scary.
Where does Bloomberg fall in this? They're a tech company, but they're also a financial company.
This story does suggest the logical response to the climate change Chicken Littles who say we will no longer be able to grow crops. Sure we can, just different crops.

Then again, apocalyptic belief systems generally have little to do with either reasoning or positivity.

edit: Before you flame me, I fully believe in climate change - I'm not denying anything here. I'm just saying humans can and will adapt.
What all the other posters said. If Facebook had real competition then it’s likely they wouldn’t be soaring in the stock market while in the midst of so much controversy and negative attention. It’s more likely that their competition would be pouncing on them by offering more distinct alternatives, forcing Facebook to either reform or fade away.
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One presenter claimed the board would pay for itself if you used it for mining...

I assume something like that would be much easier to implement than a real multicore system like linux but I never heard of anyone mining on their boards.
The nice thing is that software and work on a RISC-V toolchain can now be much more common for vendors that elect to use RISC-V, though it remains to be seen how well the actual manufactured chip variation gets supported like instruction set extensions, peripherals, and configurations for many cores. ARM had some motivation to help ease the customization pain for tooling for their IP licensees, so I'm curious if RISC-V support will be more like ARM or more like early UNIX vendors.
This book is an _epic_ contribution to the field. I've learned a ton from it myself. I had gone through several other tutorials on how to write a parser, but I just wasn't getting how recursive descent works, and yours was the one that finally made me understand it. Thank you so much for writing it!
Also see the comments last time this was posted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20166070

and what I said last time:

I'm honestly pretty happy about this. I'm hoping that by aiming to replace the commercial products they use with opensource alternatives, the alternatives leave with a better polish and user experience. I also see CERN as an institution that is willing to hire the devs needed to maintain / support a project.
Is there any reliable and good opensource alternative of LabView ?
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