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Evolus Pencil is a cool desktop app for creating wireframes (open source). It really offers great functionality.. it's now based on Electron (was based on Mozilla XULRunner)

... Performance is terrible on a quad-core i5 notebook with 16gb of ram and a gtx 1060 graphics card... I am talking about dragging the first element on an empty canvas and resizing it.

Hopefully Electron will improve - more choices are always nice.

But then again, Electron is based on Chromium and Node.js, both are "C++-based". Improvements in those C++ codebases and improvements in C++ compilers will probably also lead to better performance in Electron itself.
Hey Electron maintainer here

> but if the first thing your codesigned binary does is to read an unprotected JS file off disk and execute it, there's no codesigning benefit.

The ASAR files described in this post are part of the signature of the application though. You can't modify that file and then redistribute the app to another machine without gatekeeper getting incredibly angry at you.

E.g. Try modifying the ASAR file, zip the app up, upload to google drive, download again and try run the app. Gatekeeper will boot it into the shadow realm :)
It doesn't strike me as odd coincidence at all. I tend to see religion as an attempt to codify a combination of group wisdom and brilliant insights from charismatic individuals.

Fasting has been beneficial to my incurable medical condition. I'm quite encouraged by the association between fasting and religion. To me, it suggests there is something fundamentally wise about the practice and important to human health.
I'm not familiar with downtown LA but I haven't heard great things about public transportation in LA. Are they just trying to encourage less driving without providing any alternatives?
Sorry to reply so late.

I use this as a metric. I like to think I'm a reasonable person in things I ask or told to do. I've worked in places where frustration was low and people were authentic and honest.

If something is wrong I ask myself if I need to reset my expectations or is what is happening very atypical?

Feelings are intuitive, and should be used that way. If something feels not right or not good, I tend not to want to bury them, but rather explore them.
Mailing a bunch of "free" and "promotional" USB drives, prepared with zero-day malware, would probably work too. Especially if it was official looking.
Come on folks, don't downvote a question you don't understand
Sadly, this is not The Onion
So what would a realistic implementation be? This isn't realistic for most of the developing world, which is growing faster than anywhere else. Who is going to tell subsistence farmers that they can't have bigger families to help them work and stay alive?
Wouldn't be surprised if it's more widespread and attributed to pesticides
You don't, but the smart glass of science fiction probably doesn't have an actual stick of RAM in it either. I think the point was that the ram is still being created as a separate unit and they didn't have to solder it, but did anyway.
I think this is the location of the illustration on Google Maps: https://www.google.ch/maps/@31.0669716,-91.5765602,407a,35y,...
AI is the "mobile" of 2019.
For a look at the state of non-dependently typed formal methods, take a look at Frama-C and Ada Spark. Frama-C is pretty rough around the edges (and both have some significant limitations) but is amazingly useful while Spark is more constrained but has much better tooling.

A language (like Dafny?) with garbage collection plus the techniques behind those two would make for a very powerful toolset.
I'm not sure AMC would want to kill off this service. First, having subscribed customers is a much more reliable source of revenue than depending on the next big blockbuster so you can profit off the popcorn. Second, AMC doesn't lose nearly as much money per movie because they make money back on refreshments and there are almost always extra seats in the theaters. Furthermore, what's to stop AMC from saying a person who saw Avengers 3 times from really reporting that they only saw it once? I'm not sure how that whole process works but in theory, AMC could hide how many movies are actually seen in order to limit payment to studios for tickets purchased.
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Isn’t that basically just the libertarian mindset? Ie let individuals optimize for their own interests, even when the t as the detriment of the community? Markets are definitely efficient in sorting out short term individual goals, but not much beyond that.
I've heard it analogized something like this: You and I have a deck of two playing cards. We know which cards they are. We shuffle them, and each take one without looking. Then we can travel as far from each other as we want, and whenever I take a peek at my card I'll know instantaneously what card you have (and vice versa). We remain connected at a distance, but no information really traveled faster than c and you and I couldn't use our knowledge of the other's card to communicate.
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I have both done this and advised other people to time their departure like this. I take a few weeks off between jobs and I only had to get screwed the one time before I learned I had to take that into account.
Hackers Target Phones of Brazil's President and Economy Minister
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The article says:

> It suggests this leak of data has been happening since May 2018 — which is also the day when Europe’s updated privacy framework, GDPR, came into force. The regulation mandates disclosure of data breaches (which explains why you’re hearing about all these issues from Twitter)

So, at least according to the article, they did have an obligation to disclose this.
Not being able to read the president's public statements directly is ok now? I don't, because they're abhorrent, but what about the next one? This is the era we are in now.
Maybe with a separate cellular antenna the device could capture all of the wifi data, communicate it to a server with more processing power and possibly break it there and communicate it back to the device.
I think BSD has strlcpy and strlcat for exactly this reason
We won't see practical autonomous delivery for the foreseeable future, there are just way too many problems to solve before it's viable.
Not by being mean, but by exaggerating the scale of expected catastrophes, by talking about imminent doomsday, by demanding "moral" change in form of "eat less meat, do not fly, have less children" instead of investments in new technologies, climate change "witnesses" do much more harm than deniers. They discredit the ecological movement and make it look like a crazy religion preaching the end of the world.

The unreasonable perseverance on CO2 levels not only distracts attention from truly severe issues, like loss of amazon rainforests, but makes them worse by introducing policies like biofuel quotas.
There is nothing wrong with meritocracy, quite the contrary.

It stems from the enlightenment and the struggle against privileges some people had simply by birth or social class.

The idea is that people should be judged on their merit, not birth or social class.

As an example, the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen of 1789 states:

All the citizens, being equal in the eyes of the law, are equally admissible to all public dignities, places, and employments, according to their capacity and without distinction other than that of their virtues and of their talents.
> for self-defense against a specified threat

Threats requiring self-defense are rarely specified in advance.

To your larger point, though, I don't think I've ever met a municipality that, as an incorporated entity, had the spine to stand up to anything. You would be creating a locally-centralized stockpile that could easily fall into the hands of the feds or of the first angry mob that comes along and seizes it, whether by bending the town council or by storming the armory. Do you want me to simply hope that the mob will be on my side?
Downtown has the best transport access in the entire city. There are frequent trains in every direction and long-distance thru Union Station. While not Germany-level, it is quite good.

Combined with the rise of rideshare and rentals etc, large parking garages are becoming obsolete.
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thats probably expected though right? If tether is used by exchanges to facilitate transfers of value. Its not going to be widely held by individuals other than on exchanges.
Hi Electron maintainer here

ASAR files are signed as part of the application bundle. The issue is that folks don't understand how gatekeeper works so let me try explain it here.

When you download an application from the internet, macOS initially considers it "quarantined". When a quarantined application is first opened gatekeeper scans it _completely_ and if it's happy removes the quarantine tag and let's it launch.

Once that quarantine tag is removed, gatekeeper will never run a complete check of that application again. Meaning the ASAR files are validated once, when the application is first launched.

What people are seeing here is they're taking an application that gatekeeper has already signed off on, modifying it, and then asking why gatekeeper didn't stop them.

If you took that modified application, zipped it up, uploaded it somewhere, downloaded it again and tried to run it, it would NOT work. Gatekeeper would boot that invalid application to the shadow realm.
If the bar was called the "http headers bar" then simple would be showing the full http headers, but it is called address bar, so the simple thing to do is to show the address.
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My website, www.captionpop.com, does this with YouTube videos. It allows you to watch videos with multiple subtitles at once, look up individual words, and built interactive flash cards out of video snippets.

There are also Chrome extensions that do similar things for Netflix. For example, Subadub.

Next to interacting with native speakers, I think consuming a ton of media is the best way to learn a language.
It could actually lead to a musical renaissance, where composition would favour longer non-repeating segments, rather than a verse-chorus-middle8 kind of thing that is the staple of all pop music. It could lead to more music like the classical (in which some have no repeated segments, eg Bach's Tocatta and Fugue in Dm, or Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata). Imagine a song that actually unfurled like a novel does...
>Actually we are hurting for more humans depending on what you want. For example social programs are built with very generous population growth predictions. Social security is solvent to 2035 according to our own government estimates:

It doesn't seem as cut and dry as just number of people when the the tax has a cap. The flat cap placed on taxable income seems a bit insane when the wealthiest people have seen exponential growth for decades. While at the same time, we have a shrinking middle class with wages that have failed to match inflation.

Essentially so much of the money in the economy is earned above the taxable level that it's not surprising we cannot sustain social programs.
Do you care to explain how "this is wrong", especially in light of the well-researched and authoritative reasoning in the Heller decision?
Their claims are somewhat surprising, and I guess they reflect advances in solar cells. My 2014 Prius has a rooftop solar panel, smaller than depicted, and uses it solely to power a fan while the car is off.

Then again, the battery pack in the Prius (not Prime) is so small, perhaps it wasn't worth trying to connect the two.
https://lmgtfy.com/?q=phthalates
Your numbers may be apples to apples if that Sydney number is the greater metro, but just a note that the City of Los Angeles is "only" 4M or so.
It's crazy because it doesn't work. All of those factors rely upon the use of common, municipal resources, and those municipal resources, especially streets, often can't be expanded.
Hi Electron maintainer here, I explained how gatekeeper and asar validation plays in with macOS codesigning here --> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20637791
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Can the counterfeiter just copy your new SKU?
It wouldn't work because specifying requirements isn't the difficult part of law or really a problem now.

The problem is reconciling those requirements with reality. If contracts become functions, we don't make anything more neutral or unbiased. Same as today, the person who supplies the arguments to the function gets to control the output.

For example, earlier this year there was an interesting lawsuit [1]. An insurance contract excluded "acts of war." There was no dispute that that was a requirement.

The dispute was on whether or not a given action was an "act of war." Mondelez claimed that the NotPetya cyber attack was an act of war as the US government said it was the work of the Russian military. Zurich disagreed.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/notpetya-an-act-of-war-cyber-i...
Key & Peele made a very entertaining song about this at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14WE3A0PwVs

I always found it funny yet somewhat disturbing, and the paper makes it more real than I can comfortably handle.
Reminds me of fark.com, outrageous news stories that are sadly real.
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The tipping point by Malcolm Gladwell is pretty good, I thought
How did they discover you were shipping that stuff?
This response from elsewhere [1] seems relevant:

> Here's the thing with how gatekeeper works, that application had already passed gatekeeper and will never be _fully_ validated ever again.

> If you zipped your modified Slack.app up, uploaded it to google drive, and downloaded it again. Gatekeeper would 100% reject that application, the ASAR file is included as part of the application signature. You can prove this by checking the "CodeResources" file in the apps signature.

> You can't re-distribute the app without gatekeeper completely shutting you down.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20637738
Above poster never said anything about freezing the population. Instead, they talked about removing the _requirement_ for unsustainable growth. Heck, even if we're 10 generations away from some "exactly correct number of humans", that still doesn't mean infinite growth is economically sustainable. Kicking that can on that does no good for our descendants.

And even if infinite growth IS sustainable, that doesn't mean that it's a good idea to have a system that requires it. There will be bumps and variations - one generation shouldn't suffer because next generation (be it by choice, environment, or war) has fewer members.
But how do you effectively orhanize/enforce this for a code base of several million LOC where geographically distributed teams are working on different ends of the system all the time?

The amount of cross team coordination is staggering.
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I still wonder how better suited to vans the idea is.
So there is no violation anywhere. We agree :-)

Your parent thought that there could be one (“it seems like information would travel faster than light in this case”) and your response (“specifically, it violates ...”) was somewhat confusing.
> Richard David Wolff is an American Marxian economist, known for his work on economic methodology and class analysis

Every time! Why should we listen to an adherent of a failed economics system that gave birth to schools that oppressed students far more than the Western system did?

If grades reveal inequalities, it is because reality is full of inequalities, and preparing students for the reality they're going to inhabit is one of the many jobs of school. Some kids are C students - they're just not super bright, self-driven academics. No amount of pretending they're intellectually equal to A students is going to change that fact!
It's super odd this is a new thing to the US - UGC in the UK (which has eventually become Cineworld) was already offering an unlimited monthly pass in the late 90's

It's still offered, and at £17.99 (and a 20% discount on food) it's a good price if you watch more than 2 movies a month.
As a native speaker, it drives me mad when people try to learn English by reading. They end up training themselves with whacky mispronunciations because they sound out words to themselves, and they can't fix thier pronunciation later because it has becomed so ingrained - especially basic words like "the", "she" etc. I personally have the same issue saying "me" in Spanish, which I still say incorrectly, even though I've been told most of my Spanish sounds good (especially compared against most native English speakers).

Edit: although given how useful it is to read/write English, and how we often find it easier to motivate ourselves by reading, I understand it.
You neither need youtube-dl nor ffmpeg for that. JS userscript and wget is enough. Every YT page includes an array with links to all video/audio sources.
the money they pay AMC has to come from somewhere right? Cue in illegally obtained money that's now in the system. profit??
I remember speaking with someone who laughed at the idea that what eat has anything to do with our health. I was taken aback, but he's not alone in that.
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No need that imagine. Ternary computers have been built. They do work but are less practical than binary.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ternary_computer
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This is excellent advice. Also, take into account that you can essentially negotiate anything, and at this point it would be easiest for them to give you anything as well.

Make sure you are reasonably happy with deal.
A better representation would be "eh"
Yes, I guess its another CNN article trying to get clicks. But I think this is getting more serious now.
Thanks to my anonymous commenter, we have a route to 32-bit:

sudo apt install qemu-user-static

sudo update-binfmts --install i386 /usr/bin/qemu-i386-static --magic '\x7fELF\x01\x01\x01\x03\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x03\x00\x03\x00\x01\x00\x00\x00' --mask '\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xfc\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xf8\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff'

sudo service binfmt-support start

And now we can do:

> fun@DESKTOP-7F6DU8P:~$ wine --version

> wine-3.0 (Ubuntu 3.0-1ubuntu1)

Encarta 97 doesn't install, though:

> fun@DESKTOP-7F6DU8P:/mnt/e$ wine SETUP.EXE

> wine: Unhandled page fault on read access to 0xffffffff at address 0x11df:0x00002c11 (thread 0011), starting debugger...

> 0011:err:seh:start_debugger Couldn't start debugger ("winedbg --auto 15 108") (2)

> Read the Wine Developers Guide on how to set up winedbg or another debugger

I'll leave that bit to someone who knows what they're doing.
Copying not uploading.
What, if any, blow-back can Todd Decker expect from this? Didn’t he just put his reputation in jeopardy?
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No. Because the definition of every word in your meta-language is subject to interpretation by the involved parties. There will be disagreements and then an independent adjudicator will have to provide its own interpretation (hopefully taking the parties view into account) to resolve the issue. Just like we have now.
"With six hours of charge per day, the vehicle could increase travel distances by 1,300 kilometers per year." (or 800 miles per year)

One of the things I do to keep myself accountable for all the subscriptions in modern life is to annualize them, so it's not "just $10/month!" but "$120". But in this case, I think we want to flip it around; at 6 hours of charging you're going to get... approximately two miles per day. Three if you're inclined to round up through the pile of lossy conversions I'm pushing that number through. And that's only going to be in play when the battery is not already full, and it probably won't work while you're charging, either, because the charger will be saturating the battery's incoming charge rate.

I don't find anything particularly unbelievable about that, but it's a marketing stunt, not a good engineering idea, as evidenced by trying to present this in terms of "km per year". That's worthless, swamped in the noise of how your driving style will affect your mileage on an electric car (or any car).
consumes 5000kcal+ a day...

"Must be them damn pesticides."

Edit: I'm more interested in all the other ways jacking up your gut microbiome can negatively affect you, especially the potential links they're starting to find with autism[0].

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3564498/
Testosterone levels have been steadily declining for some time now. The testing companies such as LabCorp have been lowering their measuring range of acceptable testosterone levels in men because the measure of population has been declining. For example, in 2017 LabCorp lowered their range from 348 – 1197 ng/dL to 264 – 916 ng/dL[1].

[1] https://www.labcorp.com/assets/11476
It is fraud because I have no power to modify your bad behavior, when you code a game fraudulently. You can sit in the middle of the continent and get the lay public to buy software infected with privacy and consumer rights violating program code. That is how DRM and non ownership occured, not because PC gamers wanted it, but because you could force it using internet infrastructure because your customers are 100's of miles away. You no longer have to press CD's/DVD's and give them the complete software. You can just hold parts of the game files back on a computer in your office. AKA selling incomplete software or fraud.
Why is modern web development so complicated?
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I'm not against accelerated husbandry (although I do take to heart some warnings about selective breeding needing ethics too - see congenital defects in purebred dogs). Gene testing chestnut hybrids to cull the ones without the blight genes would be much safer than what they do now, which is test infect the plants. That's how you get a pathogen to adopt a new host.

And that's my main complaint with transgenics, which perhaps we should use that word instead of GMO. We are not exhibiting an 'abundance of caution' in this work.

We have major illnesses crossing over from birds and pigs all through our history. Some pretty bad ones in recent times. Moving genes between these species (which we are doing, to try to make more pig organs biocompatible with humans) could be very, very bad. Do we have a good model for what gene groups can increase the likelihood of viruses crossing between species? If this information exists they should be shouting it from the rooftops. But they aren't, which suggests that no such practices are being observed.

If the next H1N1 turns into the Spanish Flu, 'I told you so' just isn't going to cover it.
He's right that heavy vehicles are statistically much safer across the board. If you search for list of cars with lowest accident fatality rate it's almost all giant trucks and SUV's.

You're heavier than the cars around you which helps a lot, but the extra weight also smashes through a lot of obstacles.
I am sure it's abysmal. We finally received a settlement for the damage done to our parking deck when an Amazon delivery driver drove into our bright yellow solid steel clearance bar. The driver left before the police showed up. Luckily we got the plate number.
I stupidly thought they'd find the idea amusing, so I sent them a copy of the write-up I did afterwards. (School project.)

They were not amused.
Heavy metals and some toxins are practically not eliminated by livers and kidneys. That's why they bio-accumulate.
It's not so much the trains that are terrible as the 1800s-era track geometry that is terrible. There are mountains all the way down the east coast; any high-speed line is going to be (a) necessarily built inland and separate from any existing line and (b) phenomenally expensive.