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Bandwidth to the internet is inconsequential. Bandwidth to your home (or phone) is the entire service the ISP is providing. Throttling saves on both.
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> Worth adding that exFAT has aspects that Microsoft hold patents for. Yes they do license for a flat fee...

When exFAT was released I added this to the Wikipedia entry only to have it reverted within hours. Hmm.
I think it's less of "wealth work" and really just "work" and it's good and necessary. Times are never constant, things change all the time. More traditional work (traditional in the context of the last 50-100 years) has been on the decline due to huge advancements in technology, globalisation and other reasons, so it's only normal that we see many jobs go, but equally and luckily also many new jobs come.

It's true that there is more "Uber for X" businesses out there today, but 30 years ago we also didn't have "Digital Agencies", "YouTubers", "Influencers", "SEO Experts", "Security Engineers", "Software Architects" and obviously "Uber Drivers". But today people have different jobs than 30 years ago and that is alright.

Personally I see this market grow even more in the next two decades. One day someone's job will be to stand in the queue for me to buy me tickets to Wimbledon tennis tournaments or a new iPhone during a launch event. Some might say this is degrading work, but others will love it. We might call it "wealth work" today with a bit of a negative meaning, but I bet a few hundred years ago people felt the same about someone who was cutting your nails, scrubbing your feet and giving you a head massage.

A great glimpse into the future of jobs is by looking at Japan. In Japan you can hire someone to "cuddle with you". It's not a sex worker, but as people feel more and more lonely, it's only natural to see a new market rise in this space - where there is a new need (and money) there is a new potential market.
This is what I was trying to say:

> it literally does not require significant (academic) training

It does! It’s just that almost every human is given this training, usually by their parents. Just because a particular skill is common does not mean that it didn’t require a lot of intense effort to learn.

Look at it this way: in the medieval era, only the most highly-educated people were literate. Today, literacy surpassing the average medieval level is something pretty much every human being achieves by age 4.

Does this mean that literacy is an easy skill? Or just a common one that humanity has built an amazing education process for?

If you look at social/soft skills not as “human instincts” but rather as technologies—tools increasing our leverage by enabling access to different (usu. better) Nash equilibria in social-competitive environments—tools that humans at one point invented, and then gradually developed ways of inculcating from birth—then I’m far less concerned with the fact that jobs that require these skills might be some of the only skills left.

Such jobs that require soft skills are not low-skilled jobs, any more than jobs that require literacy are low-skilled jobs. Literacy was once the province of clerics and military officers; soft skills were once the province of courtiers, diplomats and therapists. Now both skill sets are evenly distributed, because we’ve learned to teach them better. But the jobs that require them aren’t lessened as a result of our increasing educational capacity! Your average hospitality worker from the modern era could likely get a medieval courtier laughed out of the room. They have a high level of skill. It just happens to be common.

(And, in fact, many people seek to cultivate their soft skills beyond even the level the education system brings them to, through continued exposure to harsh social environments. What do you think Twitter is, if not a practice court for aspiring courtiers? But, again, we don’t see it that way, because it’s such a common skill that we don’t see the people practicing it as practicing anything at all. We see people polishing their courtly manner as just “playing around”, the same way we see tiger cubs practicing hunting as just “playing around.”)
"It's a trap!" -Admiral Ackbar
I mean "quality time" as in the cop out from lots of parents whereby they ignore their children apart from "freeing up Saturday afternoon to spend quality time with the kids". As if they can schedule their bonding time like they would their fortnightly KPI meeting.
But the reference is to a slot and not a card.
SD, SDHC, and SDXC are all electrically the same (though newer cards can also optionally support higher-speed interface variants with different signalling voltages), it's just that the original SD protocol didn't have enough bits in the protocol to support higher capacities. SDHC and SDXC are basically the same except that one uses FAT32 and the other uses exFAT as its standard format. You can often use cards above the official 32GB limit in SDHC devices if you can format them as FAT32. A lot of older SD card slots can also be made to support SDHC with a suitable firmware or driver upgrade because the protocols are really similar, but with some fields just being interpreted slightly differently.
Oh I see. Yeah Microsoft's authenticator app can do that, but they use it as a second factor. I don't know the details but I'd guess that it's not time-based but some kind of challenge.

Another option is Tumblr's "magic link", where they email you a link that logs you in. That's one of the few places I've seen something like that used as a single factor.
My gut says that such a thing is a bad idea and TLS for internal communications is best practice. Hard to implement though.
>Military/security personnel accepting their own deaths as part of winning is hardly some alien concept.

Sure - on paper. The guy in the field sure as hell doesn't accept his own death. _I Don't Want To Die_ is one of the strongest urges in the human psyche, we, collectively, lionize people who put the needs of others before their own. The armed forces, who as you say spends a lot of time getting people to accept their mortality, and denigrates the individual in favour of the collective's goals, gives out medals to people who do this _because it's really rare_.

>If you're sitting in a missile silo ready to launch then you will have gone through a lot of training (and/or indoctrination), mental prep, and practice for the event that is hoped to never come and knowing that if it does your life will be one of many gone.

At least in the US, the men and women manning the the silos have some of the worst morale in the entire armed forces. Rolling Stone did a bit on this[1]. How happy would you be, stuck in the middle of North Dakota, working shifts in a subterranean hell hole from the 1950s, knowing that your job is to _literally end the world_ and that you are sitting on a bullseye? As you said, these are the people who volunteered, who were screened, who are getting the propaganda shoved down their throats and they're literally killing themselves because of the stress.

[1] https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/are-we-o...
Do you think that's true, sounds exactly like a publicity stunt to ensure a big launch in the face of having no answer to "is it interoperable".

If you say "yeah sure it is, we're even releasing it as open source" then you prevent the product falling at the first hurdle because people want an interoperable solution. Once you have adoption network effect carries you through.

Sounds like most probably a standard corporate lie by Jobs; do you have evidence to the contrary?
> I am sure within 10 years every professional mathematician will use formal proofs.

They said the exact same thing 10 years ago - see e.g. https://www.vdash.org and the AMS Notices special issue on formal proof from around the same timeframe. Formal proofs are hard, sometimes tedious and not always very intuitive. They're slowly spreading out from the most "synthetic" subfields of math (the ones where you're basically working with unfamiliar "rules", but not with a huge library of proven results), but progress is really slow - definitely slower than many people would expect!
Just recently there was news about Google removing 85 apps like this from the Play Store. I have no idea why that was news, that should be just another day, because 85 adware/malware apps is basically nothing compared to the size of the Play Store and the sheer amount of actual junk you can find on there.
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can update to new bills from sd-card, the manual states "Micro-SD memory card with a capacity of 1GB up to 8GB".

We tried a 32GB card first, the update seamed to run fine. To finalize the update file is deleted from the sd-card. This all happened, then the device was stuck in firmware-update mode (undocumented state).
Tried it again with a 4GB sd-card, update worked fine.

We assume the update file was spread beyond the 8GB boundary
anything on android?
Is the Virus of the Future an Evolving Neural Network?
Could you be more specific about the kind of profiling you mean? My assumption is software performance profiling, but I'm not sure if that makes sense. The other kind that occurs to me is law enforcement profiling, but that makes even less sense to me. I think there's a use of the word that I'm missing to understand your comment.
You forgot about

4. Support from ambhibious tanks

negated by almost all the tanks at Omaha sinking before reaching shore due to bad wave conditions.
Sure but there's all the US tariffs which artificially increased the prices in the first place. Furthermore there's the inflationary effect of the currency devaluation. China imports lots of raw materials for manufacturing as well as food and energy. So your costs to making that plate are increasing and the wages you pay your workers isn't worth as much as it used to be. Yuan devaluation effectively takes wealth from all Chinese and puts it into the hands of Chinese exporters.
Because there is a risk associated with it that you didn't agree to.
This is a non realistic reply, as if optimisation is something that can be tacked on after. The truth is you have to walk the fine line between performance and maintenance. It's good to plan ahead and be able to optimise on the bigger picture early, so the design can go through several iterations and code reviews and therefore be trustworthy at the end.

Your example of caching is almost basic programming, maintainable code also caches values after calculation for use elsewhere. You don't not cache the results of a database query and pass it around, that's just spaghetti.

In reality you have to break out your design into components that can later be rewritten one at a time in order to eek out performance. Easier said then done, but at a high level this first means keeping your big areas (UI, database queries, File IO, networking) separate, and work out the infrastructure from there.
China has strict capital controls to prevent money from leaving the country.

If people believe that China is going to substantially devalue their currency, the will try to pull money out of the country and invest it elsewhere.

The risk is that the currency would then devalue more than China wants - to the point that they have very high inflation

https://chinaeconomicreview.com/for-china-the-risk-of-a-seco...
> Modern MacOS[...] discourage you from disabiling Wi-Fi/Bluetooth anyway.

How do you figure? I've never seen any discouragement from it.
There is a fire index published by the administration for each day of the year. It goes from 1 (low) to 5 (extreme risk) and uses probably air humidity, temperature, and expectacion of future rains and winds.

It is allowed to make a small bonfire or a barbeque in your backyard at day when the index is low or moderate.
I saw this as I was browsing the flowcharts page at Whimsical [0] and was surprised by how complex the process is!

More info on how it was built on the Slack Engineering blog: https://slack.engineering/reducing-slacks-memory-footprint-4...

[0] https://whimsical.com/flowcharts/
I recall it was mostly because of the installation of the code systems. Originally their morale was among the highest in the military. But when they were turned into drones typing codes, instead of trusted citizen/soldiers with a mission, morale tanked?
> Not that the West is entirely innocent in its quest for power either

You don't say - most of Africa got a taste of Western "values" and "culture". The last generation that suffered from colonial rule is still living.
How can you be a whistleblower if you use entirely public information?
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jClarity's CEO here - happy to answer questions here if they happen to pop up, we're obviously pretty chuffed :-).
Not to mention, they can now go and ask that provider to pay them for the right to 'upgrade' their connection, to enable their customers to get what they are paying the ISP for.
From my experience, it's actually kind of easy to find English speakers here. That's why a lot of US-based tech companies are opening up teams here or recruiting people from here. The government's uncertainty has not affected business for this particular case.
If you like Pettis, you may also want to subscribe to his blog:

https://carnegieendowment.org/chinafinancialmarkets/

I have enjoyed his perspective for years.
There could be two saving factors:

- pollution would tend to stay closer to ground level, rooftop being less affected

- not using pesticides and other chemical can offset the pollution they’re exposed to
Respectfully, if Asian governments are blaming Sweden for their air quality, they are pulling a fast one...
Yes, I'm using the motion sensors which gives really nice sense of depth. I'll post the Google Play link to this thread once I have first version up.
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Any active mitigation technique like lasers could also be used against live satellites, raising huge national security implications. Seems like a huge area of potential conflict and likely a new race for parity.

IE, "Could a Chinese Space Junk Laser Double as a Weapon?"

https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a15338238/...

I also seem to recall Musk saying the lasers on Starlink satellites used for communication could also be used for cleaning space junk. I'm sure that caught the attention of many militaries around the world.
You do realize that the "highly skilled" part has been systematically ignored for a couple decades now?
I'm not sure about every person but most in UK seem to have it too (all my extended family, Church fellowship, parents of my kids school class).

It has some massive annoyances but it's very well embedded.
My question was specifically about pass, so your point about crappy password managers that don't clean up the clipboard is not relevant.

We can also ignore the attacks that apply to manually entering a password, as my question was about ways in which password managers are less secure compared to manually entered passwords.

What's left?

Brute force: not quite possible with the default GPG key type.

Dictionary: you'd need to guess my complex passphrase to decrypt my secret key (assuming you have access to it), and I can assure you my password if I use pass would be as long and as complex as I can make it, so I'm not sure which dictionary would contain it.

Autofill hijack: I don't use autofill for passwords.
Actually Assembly is how most 8 and 16 bit titles were written on, higher level languages were the Unity from 80-90's gamedev scene, Roller Coster Tycoon isn't alone.

I get your point, though.
In your example youd hope some stakeholder to complain and raise an issue.
I think this project demonstrates quite handily that the problem scope of a seemingly simple task can be quite large. ~1,500 commits in that repo.
> And when we compare the job titles to earnings, it appears companies really are simply using the visa program to save a bit of money on contracted tech professionals.

This seems like the lump of labour fallacy being applied here. It's not like there are many devs really struggling to find work in the US. Rather, the opposite program exists: there are almost no software shops that aren't hiring.
Note that there's only 625 minutes of working during this "15 " hours work day. So working 5 days a week this is less than 60 hours of work per week.
Most AntiVirus vendors have something that resembles this in at some portion of their solution. It is often found in the web-protection side, which can easily be disabled if necessary.
Midlife crisis? Life?

Last week I sat down with a notebook and wrote down my thoughts about what all my problems in life boil down to, how I should deal with each of them, what my next actions are... And then I noticed I was using an old notebook and on the first pages I had written almost the exact same things, in 2011.

Except I was much more stressed about them then than I am now. Becoming wiser apparently means thinking the exact same thoughts as ever but being more relaxed about them.
It has been proven in the USA, Canada, Australia that the damage caused by fires is not reduced by trying to stop ignitions, reducing the impact of the ignitions is a better strategy. Remember that ignitions by error or malice will always happen.

> Without a hand that starts the fire, several times, in several places, in the middle of the night, in the most windy and dry day of the year, with devices specially designed for it... without this hand, there is not fire.

There are also other explanations that do not require "mafias". Smokers, which many smoke inside the cars, and car/motorcycles backfires can explain many cases.

Pay attention if the fires don't start at Friday and Saturday nights near rural roads.
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>> The worst thing for frustration was UI elements being slow; buttons that responded slowly, scrolls that lag, pull-downs that didn't pull down. Exactly as this author notes. There was very little tolerance for those kinds of delays.

IMHO there is NO excuse for those kinds of delays. None. If you have those issues you're doing something terribly wrong.
Is the default to connect to open networks?
Do they? All complaints I heard so far is CCP keeps yuan artificially cheap to prop the exports.
Could someone point me to a website that has a simple list of land/sea global temperatures aggregated by month? You would think with all the "blah-blah month of blah-blah on record" articles someone would point to one.

I'm asking because the claim "July: Passed August 2016 at the hottest-ever month on record by 0.14ºF, according to the NOAA and Europe's Copernicus Climate Service", which is sourced from the NOAA press release, conflicts with the global satellite data record: https://www.nsstc.uah.edu/climate/2019/july2019/tlt_201907_b..., which shows that July is not the hottest-ever month on record (although it may be the hottest July on record).

The claim that July is the hottest month on record is looking at land-only global temperature data, so it would be nice if there was a site with land/sea/both broken out by month.

My DDG-fu must be weak, because I haven't been able to find one.

Edit: it could also be differences between satellite and ground-based temperature readings. I'd be surprised if they are that far off, though.
Thanks for mentioning it; I hadn't encountered it yet and it seems like a very sane config file format. There's several mentions in this discussion actually, nearly all positive.
In part, because most video sites will adapt the stream to the achievable bandwidth.

In part, because if the throttle all bulk data transfers over some minimum size, all the time, most people are only going to notice on video streaming, since videos are the most frequent bulk transfers.
This is an awesome article! Is it possible to write an article about the next recession and it's implications? Our current financial health and environment is really different from the last one and every person I know keeps on telling how bad the next recession is going to be.
Capital flight exists in China because of investor fears that the Yuan is worth significantly less than it's current rate of ~7 Yuan per dollar. Consider that the Chinese Yuan m2 currency supply figures are double that of the US Dollar. So the Chinese have printed twice as many Yuan in value as there are USD. One of those currencies is the global reserve currency used in nearly all FOREX trading. The other is only used in China. I'd say they probably have a point.
I would think it's better to have more imports than exports. The importer gets goods and services, the exporter gets numbers in a computer. Though I suppose it's a problem when the importer doesn't know how to take care of itself anymore.
You'll normally get downvoted if you go against the guidelines. Quoting the related guideline:

"Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading."
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Here's a quick immigration quiz:

- An international student graduates at the top of their class in Stanford in CS, and goes to work for a tech company. What visa do they use?

The correct answer is F1 (OPT) for one year, with OPT STEM extension for 2 extra years, while they apply for H-1B. If they weren't a STEM major, regardless of their actual role, they have a single year to apply for H-1B, with a ~30% chance of success, before being asked to leave the country. Regardless of their qualifications.

We all know the H-1B is susceptible to abuse. But it is also the main feasible channel for any international to work in the United States. (Excluding country-specific visas, transfers.)

But shouldn't qualified H-1B applicants be supportive of immigration reform?

I would, if I had any confidence that it would be done well. As things are, changes almost always end up hurting the applicants. See: the recent flood of RFEs. See: the suspension of H-1B premium processing.

The entire lives and livelihoods of immigrant workers, even exceptionally high-skilled ones, hinge upon delicate archaic bureaucracy and paperwork, not to mention politics (see: the fear of the government unilaterally suspending the OPT STEM extension). Introducing further uncertainty to the process almost always makes things worse, and that's why many of us are nervous about any proposed changes.
The founders of OkCupid researched this sort of thing quite a bit before their site was sold off. One of their studies showed that, for men, having any sort of animal in your profile pic is the best thing you can do to get women's attention-- better than having a sixpack, better than showing off an awesome hobby, etc.

https://web.archive.org/web/20110126111953/http://blog.okcup...
Mine is pretty similar.

An hour's commute on the train is not at all similar to an hour's car commute.
For most people as soon as your passion becomes your money earning occupation it ceases to be a passion.

"Follow your passion" requires a lot of willpower and very often more work than a salaried position, unless you lower your standards drastically.
Sorry you're completely right, I must've missed that whole paragraph.
More and more research is showing procrastination to be an emotion management problem. [1]

That's why it's been really helpful for me to start keeping a journal. It helps increase self-awareness and helps when I get off-track on my side projects. I can can realign my goals and ease back into being productive again.

[1] https://www.fastcompany.com/90357248/procrastination-is-an-e...
Border town developer here. Indeed, there's a ton of talent in Mexico's border towns (specially in Mexicali and Tijuana), highly qualified and with decent bilingual skills.
I hope not - can we let them explore what film-making means to them, instead of sending the worst offending film-colonizers after them?
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> This is the male version of "being basic."

As far as I can tell, "basic" as an insult usually means "having a sincere and unashamed interest in something I'm not into."