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I don't think personal results and Backblaze results are really comparable. I know plenty of people who have have a bad experience with WD drives, and plenty who have had a fantastic experience with Seagate drives.

Honestly, all hard drives are pretty solid these days, and I honestly don't think one manufacturer really stands out enough that individuals can really expect a given drive to last longer than another. Statistics just don't work on a sample size that small. You may get lucky, or you may get unlucky, it really just depends on which drive you happen to get.

I make my personal HD buying decisions based on:

- warranty and customer service
- price
- noise
- performance

Both Seagate and WD have about the same warranty, and they both seem to be pretty good with customer service (check recent reviews though, this can change). If you consider them equal in that department, pick based on the other three metrics.

I was about to buy some Seagate drives for a NAS, but ended up with WD because they were on sale. I was a little worried about the noise from Seagate, but the price and performance won me over, but I switched at the last minute because the price changed.

Now, if you're going to build a data center with a large number of consumer drives, absolutely use Backblaze's results. If your just going to but a few, recognise that all drives the test are reasonably reliable, so whether your drive dies early is mostly luck (assuming you treat them nicely).
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This situation sounds overblown.

If you look at Amazon guidance, $X-million / year means you don't hit the threshold to get an Amazon rep. If you're over $10 million / year you do get a rep. Either increase sales to get a rep or stop being a vendor.
Compared to the effort of... you know... building an entire website, this seems like a tiny bit of effort. Is it really that hard to add three lines of server code to serve some content statically? Are we seriously saying that ANYTHING even trivially complex HAVE TO happen on the front-end, even if it means tracking all our users?

Come on. Surely there's like a plugin to Django or whatever that could do this. You're serving the dang article from some database with some server logic, after all.
I bet many wished they had done this, thing is when you see stuff like this, you kinda default to Akbar mode - it's a trap, due to the amount of spam and scams we get exposed to. Which in this case - reminds me of this fantastic comedy clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsYoeoEE3ww .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzrDT50_IK8 Sums up the end of that era, same chap.
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I find it bizarre how people aren't giving Monzo more of a hard time over this. This is a security blunder of the highest order. Saying sorry in a cutesy email after the fact doesn't in any way make up for it.
This is very interesting. I love the approach to the problem that you are trying to solve. However, there are few questions that I will try to answer with respective to the product.

Q. Will I pay to use your problem?

A. Probably not, with the current version

Q. What problems I see with the platform?

A. I seriously don't know how you'd proceed forward with the platform. If it would only be used for creating static webpages then you'd end up creating a platform similar to Wix or other such website generation platforms.

Please let me know what you think about the suggestion.
I really don't get the hacker news algorithms on these posts, I've submitted this interesting article 7 days ago [0] and there was no interest (which is fine, that's not the issue). I guess 7 days is the cut-off then?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20563123
Big datacenters have large and talented engineering staff and routinely customize their machines and firmware heavily. Consumers aren't going to do it, that's true (and relevant to the article: all the Ice Lake parts mentioned are consumer chips). But on a per-revenue basis, most of the market is amenable to this kind of thing.
Yeah, taking down 8chan will certainly get the word out about ZeroNet (and similar) at least.
Almost nobody tracks their time to better understand how they are spending it. I've talked to several people that have started, but even the most detailed oriented find it to not be worth the hassle.

If you really want this data, I think it's best to correlate data crumbs you leave after the fact and tally up your time at the end of the week. GPS data, computer activity logs, phone screen time, etc.

Another good enough answer is to track the time that is most important to you. Billable hours, exercise time, etc.
No unpredictible flying things like birds, no invisible wind gusts, no air currents, clear trajectories, etc
There's a lot of open space available, but transportation doesn't evenly distribute itself among the available space. There will be clustering points because people want to go the same places or use the same thoroughfares, and those areas will have higher risks of collisions.

Before the 60s, collisions were rare per mile traveled, but a roughly yearly occurrence across major commercial airlines. It took a lot of policy and engineering work to reduce their frequency:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-air_collision

Automated systems might be able to fix this? They wouldn't have to deal with the paper bag problem, just avoiding every obstacle, so that's a plus. But sudden braking isn't the near universal solution or mitigation that it is with driving, and predicting the movement of other airborne objects is really hard, so those are minuses.

Beyond collision prevention, there's an interesting general question in this thread about whether automated flying or automated driving is a more difficult engineering problem.

I can see arguments for both sides, would love to hear a really thorough analysis, preferably by someone who has worked on either or both problems.
GA is very safe too, there are just lots of very unsafe GA pilots.
There are a lot of places where you can get both. Upload is 50Mbit/s on DSL and 50Mbit/s on Cable
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>Biological differences in performance have scientific basis.

Yet I still can't actually use these to discriminate in most cases.

>Racism does not.

Not sure how this is comparable to the previous statement. The use of 'differences in performance' in one side and a -ism on the other indicate we aren't comparing apples to apples.

>Say I'm at a bar with a friend who is an observant Muslim. They are offered a complimentary drink by the bartender, who happens to be non-muslim. If my friend declines the drink because they think it is alcoholic, I will think no less of them. But if they decline the drink because of the bartender being non-muslim, I will certainly think less of my friend. In either case, it does not matter if the drink does or does not contain alcohol; only what my friend thinks.

So it seems the judgment is based off of the material and not the person. In that case, it seems similar to the case of the bakery as the customer was free to order any existing product. The waxing case isn't as simple, because the item relevant to the drink in that case was part of the person's body, and thus innately linked to the concept of who the individual is in a way the drink is not.
That only works if the child hasn't yet figured out that all they need to do is create a new gmail account and get another Roblox account set up. Then they can do whatever they want.

Kids are smart these days, so we've taken the tact of having the PC in the common room and only allowed access if we're in there.
I think it’s due to people eating over their keyboards and getting crumbs lodged in the keys.
The most annoying thing about OOM is when a process goes crazy and starts using a lot of memory, the OOM killer looks at the system and sees that process is really active, so it kills mysql/ssh/apache/postgres to make room for the run away.

I've set up monitoring that pages me when "dmesg" includes "OOM".
If you don't require voter ID in the US, how do you prevent duplicate votes?
The market forces element is the one that people tend to ignore in these types of conversations. Americans couldn't wait to move out to the suburbs.
I worked (briefly) at a place that requested updates in 15 min intervals... on a spreadsheet. No thanks!
So far, it's just words, really. If it results in a WTO finding against China, we could expect it to be followed up by something non-symbolic.
If anyone has experienced a break in, robbery, or vandalism, you learn very quickly how powerless the police are to help in any way. without any proof or leads of any kind, most crimes go unpunished and uninvestigated.

A network of security camera footage provides clues and evidence for crimes.

The ring/nest phenomenon will hopefully lower crime rates because potential thieves realize they’re being filmed and can be held accountable.

The hoops that police departments have to jump through to obtain footage for evidence keeps it from being an outright Orwellian eye in the sky.

The positives of hundreds of cameras networked together providing consequences for crimes that are otherwise almost never prosecutable, outweighs the paranoia of a police state.

Fears of freedoms being bifurcated and manipulated to serve some draconian cabal because you’re on video, are dramatically more of a statistical edge case than being a victim of a petty crime.

This is fear mongering at the expense of progress imho.

like a physicians treatment, these decisions should be made from the odds of an outcome instead of forgoing treatment because we’re worried about the minuscule probability of a catastrophic loss.
Have you ever talked to people in the social sciences ? There very much is political motivations, opinions and interpretations. And don't forget careers. Many people have built decade-long careers on being the go-to person (or even department, it can be a dozen careers) for specific treatments. Look up what EMDR is, for a particularly ludicrous example, and read the career of Francine Shapiro. Note that she had decades in which she had a great position to collect support and evidence for her therapy, as a professor, director of a treatment center and practicing clinician ... and somehow she never did (mind if I make the assumption that she did in fact collect plenty of data, it just said what all psychiatric studies say about all treatments)

Psychoanalysis or "someone lying on the couch, chattering about feelings while a tweed-jacketed man scribbles away" was done until deep in the 80s, where it was canceled because of the famous observation that it was exactly as effective as giving patients a free membership card to a sport club (not even checking if they used it at all: so some patients wouldn't have).

But truth is that it was not just done because psychoanalysis wasn't effective. It in fact psychoanalysis is definitely the most effective treatment in psychiatry. It was done so attention from expensive psychiatrists could be removed entirely from patients, as a cost-saving measure. Now all psychiatrists do is draw out treatment plans, to be executed by people with much less training than they have. Now a patient in mental health treatment is lucky to see a psychiatrist once a month.

All these treatments found are known to be far less effective than psychoanalysis. Psychiatry as a whole is simply a fraud. There isn't a single known treatment against depression, other than fixing the problem that causes the depression (which is external to the patient, and never has anything to do with psychiatry)

For the same story with added drama, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosenhan_experiment
This isn't strictly true - If you use the S3 dashboard the Delete Bucket button will abstract all the individual object deletes away for you.
Probably not, but that doesn’t make it wrong. There’s even a special term for it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finlandization
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Perhaps? The examples given seem much more limited to the qualities of the word itself, I'm not sure the lisp example would fit under that banner.

That page does link to 'Ostensive definition' though:

"An ostensive definition conveys the meaning of a term by pointing out examples"

So perhaps 'Auto-ostensive'?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostensive_definition
61% of Canadians want government action on climate even if economy suffers
Updated. Thanks for the heads up.
Apple may soon hand special iPhones to security researchers
I just realized that. Yes the one you linked is the one I meant to use in my example.

I meant to pick a town/neighborhood with rich inhabitants (per capita) and a town/neighborhood with not so well off inhabitants.
Haha nice. I do basically the same thing except with a script.

while true; do
sleep 900
zenity --entry --text="what u doin" >> done.txt
done

Although now it's just a reminder that isn't logged.

zenity --question --text "Are you working?"

It doesn't really mean "Are you goofing off" but rather "Are you doing what truly matters right now instead of refactoring code or responding to less-than-useful emails?"
People voted Brexit like it or not so I think it's time to stop blaming the government for trying to deliver the referendum result. Lies were told of course but that's politics. Maybe investment and wages will increase and people won't care that much about free NHS anymore, at least that's the way I see it sold.

Either way EU will make a free trade deal(more or less limited) with the UK, the only real issue with Brexit is the irish border.
> How can you identify a benefiter of a product, without knowing the problem that the product is going to solve (help them where they want to be)?

The two go hand in hand. You need to have an idea of where you want to be. However once you find the customer willing to spend money (if you are a business make sure they are willing to spend money!), you should chase the and ensure they are satisfied first. Don't make them regret giving you money by prioritizing features that they don't need over features they need. Make sure they are satisfied first, and use their satisfaction to drive more customers who are treated the same way.

Of course you need to be careful. If you want more than one customer you may eventually need to do a feature your customer doesn't need because future customers will, even at the expense of losing your one customer. This is a complex decision that you need to consider carefully - in part because how you treat your customer gets out and may drive away potential customers. There are a lot of products out there with exactly one customer, one more consideration. You need to figure out how this applies to your product yourself.
I use 4G tethering and works really well between Crewe and Manchester (well enough for uninterupted youtube streaming and ssh sessions). Virgin "pendilinos" have free wifi now too. Northern run on the Manchester-Stoke line and don't need bike reservations. YMMV.
Cmd-Space for me is the most powerful one! It makes life so much easier, and unlike the windows key, it's all front and center on your screen and easier to read.
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Ditto. Most of the IT and Dev folks I've dealt with are fairly well paid and rock several certs and degrees. They can afford houses, soap, showers, and other basic life accouterments.

Mind you, they're not always the best put together folks -- flabby 30 something dudes in ill-fitting shirts and cargo shorts, yes cargo shorts in 2019 -- but most of em clearly had a shower recently and brushed their teeth.
in summary, find people, talk to them

one on one

it's hard!
The easiest way to save money is by cutting expenses. Take a really good look at what you spend on what. Cheaper mobile abo, cheaper internet abo at home, do you need Netflix, Spotify premium. Cook more, less take out food. Things add up pretty quickly.

Cold email companies with old websites, send them 1-2 themes you think would match their brand. I did that years ago, and on average on ten emails, I would get a customer.
It would be awesome if the notification says, "Are you still doing X" when I have already told I am doing X. Saves me a few keystrokes.
I wonder what a typical sky would look like in any semi populated area if flying cars take over. Seems like open blue sky would become another luxury of rural living.
I feel like that depends entirely on how you define murder. If you define murder to exclude things like assisted suicide then, yes sure it's always bad. If you define it to include things like assisted suicide it stops being quite that black and white.

EDIT: I guess my point is that people have a right to live, not a duty to do so.
> A client was on track to be selling $X-million this year of some appliances. Our client was forced to to stop selling because of trump tariffs. Amazon won't accept a "higher price" from our little company that only sells $Xm/year.

A devil's advocate view: perhaps the supplier was buying low cost appliances from China, built in factories with who knows what labor standards or whether the work was compulsory, made almost certainly to a lower quality than appliances made in North America, taking advantage of China's currency and trade manipulation to mark up the price and make a larger profit than if they had distributed appliances made in a western nation with labor and wage standards.

Now the U.S. is putting the same tariffs on Chinese imports that they put on U.S. imports to their country and the supplier is having difficulty getting Amazon to bear the cost of the supplier's desire to keep the same margin.
Well, it cannot be taken at face value, but it can mean something. It means that there is an understanding by Russian and Chinese heads of state that they could have a common interest in keeping the U.S. from acting as a world despot.

Of course, Russia and China have attempted to unite vs. U.S. interests before, and it always turns out that they have more to disagree/argue about than they have to agree on. But it doesn't mean that it's not worth mentioning.
Finn here. Finlandization is absolutely a thing, it's even mentioned OP's Fine Article on Finnair Flight 915 ;)

National-level Finnish politicians still weigh their statements on matters such as the imperialist endeavors of our beloved eastern neighbor. Other institutions are gradually becoming less self-censored.

Someone better informed, or just older than my 30-or-so years can probably be more precise and offer more and better examples.

But I have the sense that internationally renowned journalist Jessikka Aro's reporting on Russian disinfo ops wouldn't have been encouraged, yet translated to English and Russian by Finnish state-owned broadcaster Yle before, say, 2005 https://kioski.yle.fi/omat/jessikka-aros-prize-winning-stori...
A lot of the plot, but my guess the main reason is upcoming Cloudflare IPO[1]. Сan't blame them for for doing that.

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/cloudflare-plans-to-ipo-in-s...
Because Seagate is cheaper. If a drive dies 5% sooner and costs 10% less, you buy the cheaper drive.

For personal drives in small quantities, you're basically operating on luck. You can get a bad HGST drive just like you can get a bad Seagate drive. I've had drives from HGST, WD, and Seagate and all of them have lasted far beyond the warranty expiration.

When I look into drives for small-scale personal use (NAS, desktop, etc), I check recent reviews about warranty and customer service, then buy based on price and features. I also buy drives based on the use case (NAS drives for NAS, desktop drives for desktop, etc).
Got it. So we managed to find out footing on that’s slippery slope somehow. Why can’t that happen with guns?

In fact, some states already have licensing and registration laws for guns and they’ve also managed to not tumble down that slippery slope.

I‘ll grant that some people do want to confiscate guns, but that’s not a popular view. See https://news.gallup.com/poll/1645/guns.aspx.
Education must deal with dependencies, of any kind. Prohibition is not a stable and durable solution. Transition to a better dependency is the key to mitigate the bad effects of a wrong activity.
I assume they mean from web back to sketch.
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>That's a cynic's worldview and it's one that I totally reject.

Your rejection doesn't change the reality of how the word operates today.

>Take your pessimism to a hole in the ground and wither yourself away there.

Why? So others can continue to double down on failed policies that end up costing others?

>Let those of us invested in the progress and future of humanity get on with our work.

You see yourself as some benevolent being moving humanity forward but reject any criticism of the costs of your actions. You even immediately judge those who disagree with you as standing against humans, a tactic to dehumanize opposition instead of engaging with it. It is a dangerous mindset that has led to the deaths of tens of millions.

Why not take a lesson from nature that shows that a single entity that tries to do it all is far less likely to survive the future that many separate entities that each find their niche?
Very true about "hacks". Oftentimes they have longer lifespan that standard solutions - because they "just work", might actually be inherently fragile, the original hacker is not around anymore, etc. => better not touch what ain't broken.
Seriously? Is that the solution being used?

I was thinking about how more and more people will be working remotely and what services would be beneficial to offer (such as ensuring productivity of employees) but this seems almost dystopian to me
I let a previous, business, domain go a few years ago. 3-4 months later I started getting mail offering to sell it back to me for several thousand dollars from some scumsucking company. Jokes on them, I let it expire because I was done with that property. They mailed me every week or two for several months and it was definitely a "we send thousands of these a day, this is blatantly a form letter that we've copy pasted your semi-nonsensical domain into"
You're probably being downvoted because your "humans are devolving" meme is 1) entirely unsubstantiated, and 2) quite dangerous, since it asserts an existential threat that would justify horrifying eugenics measures to avert.

Not to mention that it's typically an annoying ego-wank, since the people asserting it never seem to include themselves in the purported devolution...
And that 20C is in the shade, while foilage is typically exposed directly to the sun, at significantly higher temperatures.
> Wow, that's shockingly low. The paper doesn't describe why --

It's because many drones, even "commercial" ones, are built using hobby parts with poor QC. If you use high end components then the reliability will be up by a two orders of magnitude, as will the price.

(Also as mentioned by others, multirotors and especially quadrotors have many single points of failure and so even with reliable parts the whole contraption isn't very reliable.)
What an oddly balanced and rational post. You must be new to the Internet.
“The idea of “personal brand” sounds phony because it is. Brands are carefully contrived; they are not real. Brands are flat, soulless, and artificial “personalities” designed to convince others that the brand is something it is not.” Good point.

Sounds like the author is getting to what some philosophers would call Essence. For some this Essence would include a judgment of thecAuthenticity of their being.
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