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> specific auditory tuning

I use a site called MyNoise to play nature sounds to drown out background noise (neighbors, traffic). The thing that sets MyNoise apart from the other ones I've tried is that it has a EQ you can tune, and specific instructions for tuning it: for each frequency range you find the lowest volume where you can still hear it. The result is a curve matched to your hearing curve -- the tuning process accounts for hearing loss and tinnitus. Now, if that curve could be combined with the "live listen" / Bose Hear... then you got yourself a hearing aid, using hardware you already own!
Germany wasn't able to do much aerial reconnaissance by that point in the war so they wouldn't have seen the tanks. The fake signals traffic was probably more important.
From the article? Not at all. It doesn't matter if it's easy or difficult, because it only needs to be coded once. And it's not a request to change the language at all, just the tooling.
> The patient's feedback is in the form of either signalling "I heard that", or repeating the words that were just played.

Why is a human tester needed? I'm not seeing any reason that couldn't be automated.
So is this lopsidedness entirely a matter of the range at which a fighter can detect other aircraft?
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Apple Aluminum Wired Keyboard - it took me approximately 5 seconds to adapt to it.

Logitech MX Master 2S Mouse - a bloody masterpiece of industrial design and ergonomics.

I type code and do design and this combo is comfortable for both.
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>...where a fair number of the population, especially in the northeast and northern regions, are extremely poor...

People in Recife[0] are poor? O.k., maybe a single city isn't fair. How about Pernambuco[1]? Something like 31% of the entire population of Brasil is below the poverty line[2] and I somehow doubt that that specific one-third of the population only lives throughout the north and northeast.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recife

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pernambuco

[2] - https://archive.fo/sBTbE
OK, are you suggesting there is a search engine which produces better results for this specific case?
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A pretty thin article about an awesome topic!

The Ghost Army was [part of] the post-D-day operational aspect of a wider deception named Operation Bodyguard. Absolutely fascinating story - the underlying idea was to convince Axis of an entire non-existent invasion force (which dwarfed the actual Allied forces) and sell the idea that the Normandy invasion was a feint.

It worked tremendously - Panzer units stayed in Pas-de-calais for more than a week following D-Day (awaiting the next invasion) before being moved. And even then that was by necessity; Hitler continued to be obsessed about Calais.

Bodyguard included fake tanks, landing barges, radio traffic etc. But the impact pre D-Day was low because the German spotter planes weren't great. Much more impactful was the double-agent work which basically sold the story. After D-Day, captured German maps matched exactly the maps the deception experts had plotted...

Another fun fact; the Allies told the Germans about D-Day in advance. The top Double Agent (Garbo)[2] ran a fictional network for the Germans, and was authorised to tell them about the invasion at midnight (in a mix up on the German side, his message wasn't received till 8am).

Bodyguard was immense - but it was ultimately based on the ideas of Dudley Clarke[3] who was basically Rommel's nemesis (contrary to popular history about Monty) in North Africa. He basically invented the concept of modern deception techniques - including fake troops (fun note: he came up with the name for the SAS, helped form the Commandos and also named the US Rangers). His ideas were picked up by London and a whole deception department formed to arrange bodyguard (they did a crap job planning it, so Clarke ripped up the plan through a subordinate and made them redo it).

Fascinating and little known area of history. Sadly most of the literature on it is a bit dry... but there are a load of Wikipedia articles which are OK (although I wrote most of them, so subjective!) and Ben Macintyre has written a couple of decent books on the double agent aspect.

(ps in case you hadn't guessed; this is my specialist subject :D)

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Bodyguard
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Pujol_Garc%C3%ADa
3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dudley_Clarke
>> Build a standard (or extend the AMP standard) that works just like this, but is enforced by the browser.

>uMatrix and NoScript do a rather coarse-grained version of this

What about something like: window.MAX_ALLOWED_JS_STATEMENTS == 1.mio ? User could set this value in settings for each domain/subdomain. Developers could decide based on that value what should be executed and what not.
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20 years is absurdly long. I question whether 5 years of exclusivity is even reasonable, but at least it's a start.

But 20 years is at least better that what we have now, so on the basis of that: it would be great if we could get there. On the other hand, society really should be looking at non-exclusive ways to incentivize creation. Maybe a real copyright could be part of the mix too, but the current model rewards trying to own shared history that is largely valuable because it is shared and previously experienced, and not for the artistic contribution itself.

I think a system with a much shorter exlusivity periode - more like 1 year - and then a longer period of e.g. mandatory fixed-price licensing (pick a price per human end user, but you cannot say no to remixes or alter the price for anyone); or citation-based subsidy, or mandatory auctioning (e.g. the copyright owner sets a price, pays X% of that price as a tax, but must sell to the highest bidder over that price, potentially annually at increasing scale?)

Frankly, though the details aren't unimportant, perhaps more urgent is the realization that the current system is completely broken; it's not rewarding actually valuable efforts; and it is rewarding actively harmful rent-seeking.

Don't forget that the aim is to help society, not to reward artists. I get that 20 years would be nice for artists, but I doubt that "just" 5 would be too little to incentivize creation - let's be honest, humans have been creative since well before the dawn of copyright. Again, we should be looking at incentives with less harmful downsides. It's not just too long; it's incentivizing the wrong stuff; i.e. it's simply not working for news, and probably rewards low-quality spam too much too, and it makes stuff like archiving for histories sake tricky.

20 years plus extensions is waaayy too much; but perhaps it's OK as a stepping stone. Not that any of this is realistic as long as politics is entirely bought and paid for by a small set of vested interests.
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Brazil's fertility rate is somewhere between France and Germany.
I suspect this is a bit like people in the 50s asking why, if having a career is so great, have women still not decided to pitch in and club the corporate ladder.
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This is the recording of a live stream where the camera was turned on well in advance. The talk starts at 10:45 into the video.
> I'm fascinated by the idea networks would play series out of order, which on the face of it seems incredibly dumb.

Part of the issue was that show production was pipelined and unreliable. It sometimes happened that the “next” episode wasn’t ready in time for air but a later one was, and the network would rather show something new than a repeat. The show producers and writers knew this, too, so a style developed that didn’t include any long-term character development- each episode was a self-contained short story instead of a chapter in a novel.

This meant that, in the off season, local stations felt free to pick and choose individual episodes based on ratings without regard for anything else which further reinforced the style of having at least one self-contained story in each episode, which persisted long after the original constraints were lifted.

I only ever saw the US edits of the old Dr. Who shows, so the recaps may have been added to help it fit into the local TV mindshare.
The idea that those countries could get along is hilarious.

And by Asian do you mean Pakistan as per British terminology?
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Isn't this argument essentially saying that progress needs to happen in lockstep in all countries, otherwise it's unfair or hypocritical? A sure receipe to gridlock everything. Perfect is the enemy of good, given the urgency it's really necessary to act pragmatically.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirvana_fallacy
Blue collar workers are unionized in big companies. It’s good for everybody’s salary, but sometimes they demand too much. I am curious, what they will demand in coming years when economy is cooling down.
I know several unmarried, non-conventional and blended families who seem to disprove the theory that marriage is a necessary condition for a child's healthy upbringing.

And it is clearly false that marriage is a sufficient condition.
That was the argument made by Bolsonaro. I know he's using it as an hypocritical reason to carry his own absurd acts. It's a race to the bottom, but that's true.. other countries cannot accuse him unless they're clean.
Would buying without making it a foreign territory possible ? A UN protected reserve or similar.
I use the Corsair K70 Lux keyboard, with red mecanical switches.

When working on my work's mac, I use a dell KB216 (much more silent, while still comfortable)
I'm not a frontend dev, but isn't this kind of variability across environment exactly what frontend devs loath? It may be even harder to properly test than checking multiple browsers.
>People seem to want to pin these things on ideology, because that's the reason the perpetrators themselves give for what they do. But it seems more likely to me to be a reaction to a life they view as having no future, by which I mean no prospect of a successful romantic relationship with the opposite sex.

It's both. A combination of hopelessness for their future and an ideology that can be seized upon to fill that same void.

50 virgins in the afterlife is the simplest example of this. Whom might such a future appeal to? Not so much the successful family man, I think. But it's not the only ideology that fits the bill. If you can promise any kind of wider purpose to someone's life (e.g. save your race!) that'll inherently appeal to a portion of the people that feel their life lacks meaning. If that group gets bigger AND an ideology gets increasing mind-share, you get the phenomenon we're now experiencing.
> Uber complicates the analysis somewhat. Its third-quarter operating loss is estimated to be $4.96 billion. Yes, you read that right. The figure accounts for costs related to the initial public offering

Not familiar with all this, can someone ELI5 what are the "costs related to the initial public offering" ?
It looks like it is the exact substring that is slow. "asdfpowered byasdf" is slow, too. I bet it's happening at some layer that doesn't even know how to parse the query.
It would seem obvious to me that when I search for "<general term> <specific term>", I'm more strongly interested in the <specific term> (crudely measured in page count where it appears). Modern search engines seem to jump on an opportunity to show me top mass market results for the <general term> ("programming" in the parent's case) and often throw away the <specific term> altogether.

I genuinely wonder who would want that.
In the same time it takes to get across London one can easily be in Lincolnshire via the East Coast Main Line, though the £8k annual season ticket to King's Cross is a bit of a whack.
From your link: "Note that this is not the case for JRuby or Rubinius which do not have a GIL and offer true multi-threading."
This is not a sustainable company. Autonomy will not save it in time. The VC rounds and lying are over, it's valuation will continue to plummet. This is classic America for you. New startup comes in and undercuts regulated businesses (taxis) forcing them out of business. Then the VC money runs out and you find out their business was unsustainable. The only way Uber will stay afloat is to raise rates. Now we have the same rates we did before with cabs but none of the nice regulations on them, and none of the decent paying jobs. Good thing a bunch of investment people got rich though. America is still great!
>We have a separate foundational document devoted entirely to that right.

If you're referring to the Declaration of Independence, that is a legal document[0] that doesn't enshrine rights - even if we're to posit that it did, it speaks specifically about the colonies and the United Kingdom (Great Britain), so there's nothing to extend those principles to any other government entity.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Declaration_of_I...
Yes, that's the exact reason you got those CVs in the first place. To assess their suitability. To require every applicant to waste their time to do some test to save you reading them is phenomenally lazy. Do that after you've done an initial pass over the CVs, and had a conversation with them.

Your job opening should have had some sort of "job specification" with "essential" and "desirable" criteria. Take a quick pass over all the CVs. If they don't meet all essential criteria, then put them in a reject pile. For the remaining CVs, order them by how many of the desirable criteria they meet, then take a cut of the top n to contact. If you don't have the time to do this, then HR should. This won't take long; it's a quick yes/no. You look at the remaining CVs in detail after that initial pass and take into account their education, experience etc.

Any candidate worth their salt will already have tailored their CV for the job specification to make sure that the essential and desirable criteria are clearly shown on the CV to make your job easier. If it's not clear, then reject it. You'll have that number down to a shortlist of 5 in 60 minutes.
The current headline "Uber and Lyft Investors Are Looking for Signs of a Détente" isn't really touched on in the body of the article.

But it seems obvious that Uber and Lyft need to both raise their prices--with of course no collusion involved /s. That does get into the question, as the article, touches on of what happens to the market for these services if you double (or whatever) what they cost. Presumably fewer riders which means longer waits, fewer areas where the density makes them viable, etc.

So higher prices/worse service. I think these would still work in cities for when people would have historically taken taxis. Probably works less well for casual use and when people are using to replace public transportation or car ownership on a daily basis.
Your comment is absolutely deceptive. Fly by wire doesn’t mean that airbus planes are as unstable as jet fighters.
It is a bit odd. I suppose by this light, men's increased participation in home life and parenting represents a forgoing of their independence and an reduction in their happiness. This does not seem to be the case e.g. in Scandinavia.
In Airbus case, who have been doing full fly by wire for a while now, there are at least two completly seperate software implementations which run in parallel and cross compare the result. They also run on redundant flight computers with different hardware architectures.

Boeing probably has a similar thing for the fly by wire fighter jets they are involved in but there passenger planes are still mainly directly controlled by the pilot.

Some material:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/26587285_Challenges...
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/220845884_Approache...
You mean with militants being killed, arrested, and/or fined? I can think of better endings. You know things aren't ideal when the cherry picked examples still ended with death and prison without (obvious) lasting changes. Other cherry picked examples ended way worse [0].

These were extremely localized protests in terms of people involved and goals. How would it work out on a national scale involving multiple parties and different goals on different scales? The article we're commenting on is about mass surveillance, how would a protest of 1+ million armed people look like, and how would the authorities treat it? As a protest or as an attempt to overthrow the government? And what happens when some of those people are actually pro-government and they also have guns?

Any major civil unrest is all but guaranteed to not end well (in general) because simply organizing it might be treated as a crime. And the fight is unlikely to be just 2 sided, "the people" vs. the government.

If you have to hang on to your guns because that's the only sure way to effect change then something somewhere went terribly wrong. And reality is that it was much easier to very slowly erode the freedom and not one single change was severe enough to trigger unrest on more than localized issues that only affected one tiny group of people. By the time people look back and realize what they had and lost, even guns won't help.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waco_siege
You have to pay the investment banks for underwriting, pay the stock exchange for listing, pay for the "roadshow", probably have some additional labor costs on your side and probably some other costs that I'm not aware of.

Why do you think investment bankers paddle IPOs so much? Like sure, they take underwriting risks, but they also set the IPO price, so they control the demand. In other words, imagine if you have 100 pieces of gold. I come to you and tell you: I guarantee to sell this gold for you. You don't know the price until (a day before) I sell it. You still have to pay for my services.
I take it Bolsonaro is a Brazilian government official. This is not how "taking a deep look in-house" works: if we argue that we should look in the mirror before looking at them, they can't use that argument to wish away any changes required in Brazil to keep the Amazon in a reasonable state. They should take a deep look in-house as well. And if they wish us to help with that (development aid from wealthy countries), they are welcome to ask, since it benefits us all.
>Why would we want that?

Because Brazil wants Brazil to remain one country. That kind of a thing takes precedence over essentially any environmental issues for them. You can disregard it, but you will then not understand why Brazil won't play ball.
What about the price?
Because the power grid and city infrastructure do not allow for enough (fast) charging-points. In some European cities, for government BEV goals to be achieved, over 700 charging points have to be placed, every single day, for 5 years.

Now imagine a charging point using more electricity than your avarage household.

The grid is not ready for this and upgrading it might not be the best option.

Also know that there is up to 50% loss of electricity when transporting over long distances (like from wind-farm to the city).

Last, but not least: charging large vehicles like busses or trucks take a long time (and a lot of energy) time that is paid for by the company.

Now look at hydrogen: Produced and stored at decentralized locations, distributed through existing infrastructure, available at existing gas stations: Less stress on the grid, shorter charging times. Produce it where and when is most beneficial, store and transport it to when and where it is required.

I could go on. And probably somebody could go on with a lot of counter points.

However, this just states that 'BEV are just better', as you stated, is just not as simple as just that.

We are in a mobility and energy transition: Nothing about this is going to be easy.

Full disclosure: I operate both a corridor of electric car chargers and a hydrogen fueling station in Europe.
Referring to 1999 NATO campaign on then-Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro).

A decent write-up of the tactics used by the Yugoslav army: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/liberation-of-kosovo-bomb...
Jim Watkins owns a lot of things, including 2channel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2channel), a pig farm, and a VPS/VPN/webhosting provider. It's unlikely that those audiobooks are the biggest source of income.
Something that bothers me: Most of these tests are looking for the same things, so why do I have to take the test for each company I apply for? It strikes me that this is a similar problem to getting into university and for that there are standardized tests.

Why can't we introduce a standardized coding skills exam where everyone is given the same problems and the same amount of time to solve them? The whole industry can collaborate and learn from each other to make a single test that gives the best hiring signal.

I'm under no illusion that such a thing would be trivial to do but it seems feasible. You get rid of the resume check, replace the recruiter call with a first-stage multiple choice exam that gates the rest of the process and replace the coding interview with a long-form exam with open questions. The long-form exams can be graded by the engineers that would otherwise be doing interviews but distributed amongst all the companies involved.

Once you've got all the technical stuff out of the way, you can do a single onsite interview for culture fit.

Seems like this is a win for everyone. Candidates can do the coding portion once instead of say 5 times, those 5 companies only have to evaluate a fifth of the candidates' exams (since the grading is shared amongst them) and you no longer have the problem of each candidate getting a completely different process to every other candidate.
The other odd thing is that if you search for the exact phrase "transform honesty from what it is to a bawd", which is what that particular all-stopword string is taken from, you get a lot more results. Clearly Google isn't actually finding most of the pages in its index that match that string.
My backend is all on AWS, while my frontend is on Netlify.

The backend is a simple event based system. I am using Lambda (.NET Core), DynamoDB and SQS on the backend. Frontend API calls trigger Lambdas, which either schedule or create SQS messages, that fan out to a number of Lambdas. For domain management I use serverless-domain-manager which is able to create subdomains in AWS Route 53 and create mappings between CloudFront and Route 53 DNS.

I have two deploy stages, dev and prod, which automatically deploy to their separate instances and subdomains. This is all setup in a single serverless.yml file and deployed through AWS CloudFormation (which Serverless allows me to know practically nothing about and still deploy my changes).

GitLab CI/CD builds, tests and deploys my dev stage on commit to develop branch, while the prod deploy is a manual job in GitLab from the master branch. Netlify also automatically deploys the frontend on commit.

So I guess that is my tech stack :)

Edit: Also, these services are practically free until you hit a substantial amount of resource consumption.
Hm. Not sure I agree here. I think the rates will increase but the fundamental technology of dispatch is probably more efficient than “cruising” as cabs normally do.

I’m making no claims on how profitable either company will be but I think they have added value to the transportation industry that isn’t artificial.

Disclaimer: I work at Lyft.
> For everyone who is suggesting Google search quality has taken a hit, I would suggest a quick test to see for yourself that Google is still WAY better than the competitors when it comes to long tail queries.

Maybe but it's pretty clear to me that Google now no longer indexes entire websites. This as far as I can tell has not been a concern in the past.