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> Flutter

I am still sad that they acquired a really cool company called Flutter back in 2013 that shipped an awesome product allowing you to control media players using your webcam with hand gestures [0]. They only kept the name it seems. So yeah, not so innovative.

0.https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/10/hands-on-with-google...
That’s not minimalism.
The Tet Offensive was largely comprised of NVA units.

Regardless, the supply of military aircraft too complex for local maintenance and the refusal to allow any air support after ‘73 by Congress meant the outcome was already decided.
Miniscript
Just wondering, have you had a chance to test drive the Model 3?
Miniscript language for Bitcoin is unveiled. "It's a language for writing (a subset of) Bitcoin Scripts in a structured way,
enabling analysis, composition, generic signing and more."

Also here: "Pieter Wuille Unveils ‘Miniscript,’ A New Smart Contract Language for Bitcoin" https://www.coindesk.com/pieter-wuille-unveils-miniscript-a-...
The battle of the bastards had good tactics on Ramsey side. It was pretty terrifying how they surrounded them with shields and spears and kept closing the circle. Probably the most intense scene after the red wedding.
The issue is that Malcolm Gladwell wanted a catchy number/title, and 10,000 hours happened to be one which caught his (and admittedly even my own) fancy. The book "Outliers" does not try to delve into the places where the 10,000 rule doesn't work.

And more importantly, if you read the literature, you'll find that there's a great deal of dependence on the kind of practice you do. Merely performing mindless repetition isn't going to help at all. You require a certain kind of focussed practice to get the benefits of the 10,000 hours rule Gladwell extols. The book "Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise" goes in depth about the fallacies in Galdwell's book. One of the authors of that book is the guy whose research formed the basis of Gladwell's own book. I would recommend you read that in order to understand where Gladwell misleads.

In summary, if what you want from a book is pseudo-scientific reasoning for increasing practice time, Malcolm Gladwell is your man. If his words motivate you to practice harder, go ahead and read him. However, if you want scientific reasoning behind why practicing works and how to extract the most out of it, you'd best look elsewhere. The statement "Excellence requires 10,000 hours of deliberate practice" is itself untrue. This varies wildly with the kind of practice you do, the kind of feedback you get, and the field in which you wish to gain excellence. Oversimplification, as Gladwell does, is an easy way to make yourself a target of accusations of quackery. The statement that "Excellence requires many hours of deliberate practice, and you'd better practice things the correct way for your practice routine to work for you" might be a better characterisation of the science as is currently understood.
Interestingly, that's one of the things I hate about powershell (and dos)
One can get RF blocking pouches for the keyfob. It’s a cheap countermeasure; a bit inconvenient, though.
I was an avid reader of his blog, but never read that. Genius.

On the footnote: reading his advice over and over again made me a better photographer. I still shoot RAW, as I like editing, but his advice on just sticking with AUTO is what made me far more productive rather that fiddling with trying to get the best shutter speed/aperture.
Radare2 is supposed to work on the target platform as a debugger and RE tool, and platforms can be custom and quite limited. This is why it even provides a basic UNIX commands in the shell.
I forget who this is attributed to, but someone proposed a method of beating chess - correspondence chess that is. Simply set up a chessboard, mail a grandmaster for white, and a grandmaster for black, then have them play against each other.
Seattle's 'microtransit' experiment drives people to light rail
Yea, I also took issue with this point initially, but I think the author was pointing out that Friedman's complaint of CEOs "short-sightedness" at its core was asking CEOs to exhibit a sort of social responsibility--the very same responsibility that he criticizes.
That's what the static keyword means in those array declarators.

void func(int x[static 10]);

must be called with an argument that is a pointer to the start of a big enough array of int. I can't get recent GCC or Clang to warn on violations of this, though.
Fair enough. You can also just base64-encode (or whatever) a big block of binary data. But having built-in support for hex floats would be nicer.
I am a huge fan of knobs I can feel without looking to see if I got the right part of the smooth glass surface.

“The elevated center console stretches down from the horizontal central screen to two air vents that are not the mechanically operated louvres found in most vehicles today. Instead, the direction of the airflow is controlled digitally via an 8.4-inch touch panel located just below the central screen. This touch panel houses the climate control system and includes a track pad with haptic feedback.”

Way to make something perfectly simple and reliable for the last 50 years in to a pile of hot garbage.
Not a Porsche driver, but I read about the Panamera's interior that the buttons look like touch screens but somehow do have a tactile feel about it. Maybe someone familiar with recent Porsche interiors can tell us more.

I would worry more about cleaning all that shiny aurface area all the time.
Yes, and that's the main reason I use Plex nowadays. I mostly stopped using it as virtually everything I want to watch is on legal streaming services in the UK. However even when content is available, on some services the UX is so awful I'm driven to download it elsewhere. For example, even though Handmaid's Tale is available on All4 in the UK, their app and player are so awful it was easier to go through the rigmarole of illegal downloads so I can use Plex instead.
Well, AngularJS shouldn't belong on that list because it was brought in from an acquisition, I believe.
That's already what congress is for, the US system just gives too much power to the president, while having it a directly elected position, so it has to have this complicated system which is entirely broken.

Parliamentary Democracies have fared much better in recent times.
Before you waste your time, this regards the personal development of consciousness over one's lifetime, not the biological evolution of sapience.
No I haven't, I have heard that it's touchscreen provides a pretty good experience. Looking at the Porsche interior, I am doubting it could compare to the Tesla. Not enough real estate in easily visible screens. The biggest is down by your arm.

There is no touch screen that could emulate the satisfaction of flipping a good toggle switch though.
Lose it or fix it (e.g. by writing some type definitions). If either is infeasible, put a fence around it and surround it with some layer. Most common libraries have type definitions at this point. The better ones actually maintain those themselves.
The idea is almost identical, yet saving as .webarchive is only supported by Safari, and it's also not a plaintext format, hence can't be edited as easily.
can't polish a turd
We'll bring it back, don't you worry!
It is, sadly, a lot. And it's trending upwards. As mentioned above it's a human rights violation but unfortunately we are relying on NGO's to try and stop it (they are raising money for trials against the government). The political will to stop this is sadly sorely missed
My post was partially a poke at subjective meaning, but if pressed to defend my point, I would say politics is logistics, because logistics is about managing resources, and everything is about managing resources. Napalm to me seems a natural consequence of jungle warfare, and is a fine solution to a hard logistical problem: How do you fight a battalion of local riflemen in the jungle with a company of guys that only ever saw a jungle on television? Incinerate the jungle or spray toxic chemicals on it, killing the jungle and whatever it contains. This is for example why gas was a natural consequence of trench warfare (cf. the ancient gas attack in the Persian siege of Roman-held Dura [0]).

However I concede that this and many of the other posts here are essentially a bit of wordplay. That being said, I am very interested in this topic of discussion which you've brought up, because war is a spectre of human nature which is not palatable to anyone. So even if your fight is a good one, it's going to look bad on TV, which is exactly the thing that gets weaponized by your political opponents in furtherance of their own goals.

[0] https://archive.archaeology.org/1001/topten/syria.html
The BS-mometer on this one is off the scale... Allow me to explain

1 - a bunch of professional investors (the "affected") and money managers buy material stakes in Oracle
2 - the affected elect the CEO
3 - the affected elect board members
4 - the CEO explores, consults and executes on M&A transaction
5 - the board members vote on M&A deal
6 - the largest affected hear specifics of M&A deal and weigh in
7 - deal loses money. The affected want to sue.

I count no less than 4 times in which the affected as stakeholders should have made better decision. And a few other steps when other parties would have prevented problems if the affected parties had not been asleep at the wheel

These sort of lawsuits never happen because the improbability of investors clawing money back off their own (not others) mistakes.

And make no mistake. There is an element of sour grapes here.
This could also be an interesting alternative to PDF, especially with web fonts embedded as data URLs.
cdecl> explain const void * const_pointer
declare const_pointer as pointer to const void
cdecl> explain void * const const_value
declare const_value as const pointer to void
cdecl>

The first must be the one that segfaults on write, IFF the compiler chooses to place it in the .text (as it should).
In theory yes, we need to implement support for more remotes. Please open a GitHub issue so we can take care.
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/environment/polluti...

"The compressed natural gas run buses are harmful for humans as they emit "nanocarbon" particles which can cause cancer, according to a study conducted by Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR).

Though the study was conducted on a very limited sample size in Delhi, CSIR took the findings seriously owing to the health hazard it poses to humans and alerted the central government for further follow up, CSIR's director general Dr MO Garg said on Thursday."

Could it breach Blood Brain Barrier?
https://www.nanowerk.com/spotlight/spotid=19339.php

"Another route by which nanoparticles can enter the brain is via the olfactory nerve, circumventing the blood-brain barrier. The olfactory nerve (nervus olfactorius) has a direct connection to the brain by way of its long processes (axons). It is therefore conceivable that inhaled nanoparticles enter the olfactory nerve and are transported to the brain along the axons"

It says nanoparticles. Not sure nano carbon is included in it.
It adds maybe a few seconds overall maybe. Mostly it's a non issue. Webpack is slow in any case.
Underrated comment. Especially with a technique like fMRI.
> Earlier this week, Porsche announced it will integrate Apple Music into the Taycan

I didn’t know that. I disagree with my choice of car being linked to any specific music subscription service.
Had the opposite experience: grew up in Canada about 1hr from USA.

The local McDonalds’ exchange rate was (published!) about 10% off to my advantage.

I went to the bank for a couple weeks getting US$50 bills and getting free meals with the $CAD change until they caught on :)
Nice work! I am wondering if Puppeteer can also be used to accomplish the same thing.
Ah, I remember using something like that. I thought that tool was saving it into one .html file, but data URLs didn't exist back then, so creating directories alongside with HTML files was the only option to "replicate" a web resource, now I understand exactly what you were talking about. I'll do some more digging around and implement that in the nearest future. I may need to make all the requests async first to make sure that saving one resource with decent depth won't take too long.
Stock Simulator App in 2019
The Model 3’s “heads right display” is the worst of all cars in terms of safety and usability.
An AM/PM gas station in Bellevue, WA recently spent months tearing out tanks and putting new pumps in. “Sweet, I go by there every day, maybe the pumps will have NFC/Apple Pay.” NFC? The new pumps don’t even have chip readers. It is still mag stripe only. Words are inadequate.
Actually this is still very good. Thanks for the links. I'll be timing some of these tricks tomorrow for my Imagenet experiments. By the way, I believe this is the current SOTA for Imagenet: https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.11946 (84/97%). CIFAR10 appears to be essentially solved (99%).
Be aware that I believe they have some sort of currency pinning to the country that you opened the account in. I opened mine when I was in Ireland, and when using it in the UK occasionally I see € amounts in the app (usually notifications), even though I haven't used it in a € country for a few years. I've also seen my balance varying in £, even though I've only topped up in £. I'm not a heavy user so I haven't dug into it too much (and the rewards make up for the odd penny here and there).
No, you get what you pay for with Porsche.
Drones by themselves just reduce cost and exposure of a human pilot. The weather profile and flight envelope are similar to a conventional plane or helicopter. A heavy-lift 'logistics drone' is just a pilotless plane or helicopter.

However, the last km to the infantryman has more impact for innovation, whether by drone or robot mule.

The business model for drones has been innovative. The bases are often not in the combat zone, so companies can offer Surveillance-as-a-Service to the military.

Similarly, Amazon-ian supply-chain management and automated logistics warehouses have also pushed towards the front, and often remain under commercial control. New equipment deliveries are now often contracted to be in-theatre, not to the 'Purple Gate' military distribution system starting in the home country.
Euphemism
Fortune of Snapdeal Picking Up from Small Towns in India
Hence the saying One Rich Asshole Called Larry Ellison
It's a good illustration of the difference between consumer products and simulators.

What reads as authentic to consumers is the moment-to-moment aesthetics like how guns handle or whether there's a percievable "stat" being modeled. The actual scenarios can be implausible or eliminate an inconvenient-but-important element, but if the overall experience repeatedly hits on the belief structure, it gets the "realism" moniker.

As a training tool, what matters is the big picture of how it supports key skills, conveys specific technical information, and enables new kinds of exercises to take place. A lot of consumer boardgames are great at developing strategic thinking even though their material is unrelated to any specific warfighting skill and the technical detail has been streamlined out; the reduction pushes the players to grapple with the consequences of every single move and play as far ahead as possible, often resorting to diplomatic options(deception or coalition-building) to get an advantage. Likewise most simulation tools do not require total simulation at fidelity, they need only the elements relevant to the training, so they can be incomplete as a portrayed experience of the scenario.
It needs to be said that car makers still manage to fuck up dials when leaving them in (as digital) e.g. I was watching a car review yesterday, the "driving mode" selector was a clicky 5-position dial (so far so good). It wouldn't "cycle around", from the center point (normal driving) you could go two ticks to the left or two ticks to the right, but not "through" to the bottom. However the dial would keep turning, that turning just wouldn't do anything until you started turning the other way.

An other such experience was the same driving mode selection idea on an other car I rented a few months back, one of the modes would (I guess) only be available when stopped. However it would not tell you that. The dial would still stop every 1/5th of a turn, but instead of selecting the next mode it would select the one after that, moving the selector 1/5th ahead of the dial every turn with no idea why the 2 stops you felt had moved the selector ahead 3 places (and to the wrong mode).
We use this sort of identification for any joint services in public sector digitalisation, which is a lot, because a lot of our foundation is shared.

Reading this I’m fairly happy we do it mainly with C# at my place. All that configuration required in JAVA is simply crazy to me, why the hell would you want unsafe settings that aren’t disabled by default? You can turn them off in C#, opening yourself to the same vulnerabilities, but it’s an active and very obvious choice to do so. Though it’s likely been fixed in the 7 years that’s passed since this article.

I do wish we had a better system to identify IT-systems. When you operate more than a 1000 connections maintaining certificates that expire every 4 years becomes really fucking tedious. We’ve automated most of it, but some of it still requires hands-on, and we’re not perfect, I’ve seen project managers e-mail the private keys when someone bought a system around IT...
Cars have long product cycles. They might be kicking themselves for going all in on something so obviously(•) dumb, but they have to pretend to be proud of it and sell it now... It's kind of funny really. More likely, they haven't noticed the problem yet but they will, later.

(•) Obvious to people who can think while the fashion is current, obvious to everyone later
I don't pirate anything, but maybe one reason people do is that getting things spoiled before you watch it can be a serious problem.
Right of way works a little differently in India, different from what you may be used to.
1. Most people who are buying real estate on the coasts don't care about the exchange rate. They don't even care about the value of the assets they are buying. They are doing it because they are buying security, a backup plan, a diversified investment that can't be clawed back by their government, or exposed to the fortunes and misfortunes of China's economy.

2. Most of these buyers are doing it while illegally avoiding capital controls - not with the blessing of the government. It's why Canada is such a popular destination for this money - it has no reporting requirements. The whole point behind China's exchange rate policy, is that it allows US dollars to enter the economy, but due to capital controls, not leave it (Without being subject to the 'tax' of unfavourable exchange rates.) Chinese nationals buying property in North America are not working with the policy. They were working against it

And yes, there's plenty of folks who do have a direct line to the politburo (Or, more likely, black market channels for exchanging money), and can turn their yuan into USD, without trouble, and then get that USD out of China. I don't think they are responsible for the majority of capital flight out of China.
From the link I sent: “Starbucks Spain S.L. currently operates 90 stores in Spain and 11 stores in Portugal and plans to open 12 new stores and undertake integral renewal of 10 existing stores in Spain in 2016.”

The point is that “Starbucks Spain S.L.” is completely unrelated to “Starbucks Coffee Company” apart from licensing the brand from them since 2001 (I think it was a 50/50 joint venture until 2009 and later Starbucks had a non-controlling stake in 2013-2016).
If you want the will of the People you certainly wouldn't give Hillary the election. You do realize she only captured a small minority of the entire voting age population right? and even less people really wanted her there for her own sake.

What would happen if you rally all the assorted fringe groups that are currently dispersing their votes and unite them with all the mainstream voters who are holding their nose as well as all the couch potato nonvoters and came up with a candidate a truly comprehensive electorate would really end up picking?

You'd probably throw both Drumpf and Hillary out and put in (another) Hollywood megastar or some charismatic Bible thumper.
I've only dabbled a bit in Azure and AWS, so I can't do much of a direct comparison, but GCP really seems to have its shit together in a major way. It has a high degree of polish and usability.
I Wrote Shape Up
> By understanding that corporations are ultimately essentially accountable to their shareholders

No. Corporations are ultimately accountable to and exist at the pleasure of the state, full stop.
Ask HN: Is there a payment provider that allows you to take deposit without fee?
I am working on a startup that requires us to take damage deposit from clients. We don't want to pay hefty fee for damage deposits that we would eventually have to refund to our clients.
Is there an online payment provider that supports this scenario?
I really find it amusing that you think you're making some kind of clever incisive point, but you apparently can't tell the difference between:

(1) a candidate who said a loss for him meant the system was rigged vs a candidate who, in the end, actually conceded the election

(2) refusing to accept the outcome of the election vs acknowledging the outcome while believing a different system would produce better results

(3) a post that's about the limits of state ability to control EC votes vs a discussion that's about certain forms of structural countermajoritarianism
Surely it will have an effect on longevity/resale value as well, which I think is more important for luxury vehicles (they stay in use for decades). My buildings "smart" (annoying, aggravating, retarded) lifts all have touchscreens to select the floor and 2 years in they're failing miserably, earlier today it took my 4 attempts to correctly input a 2 digit number. It's bad enough there's no tactile feedback, imagine in a few years when these touchscreens start failing and there are people trying to debug faulty screens while they're driving.
I agree with you, I think Porsche’s approach is terrible. I just like to ask about the Model 3 because usually when I hear touch screens won’t beat buttons, it’s from someone who hasn’t test driven a Model 3.

And I say this because I thought exactly the same thing before I experienced it. Similar to how I thought I’d never enjoy a full touchscreen phone and that it’d never beat physical keys until alas I actually tried the iPhone. Tesla’s UX is really really good. And almost everyone has a change of heart when it’s actually in front of them.

I recommend you at least give it a go if you’re interested.
Kotlin 1.3.50 Released
At one point Tripod also lost a lot of sites in an incident. I know because my first homepage was among them...
AWS Tokyo Region – Major Connectivity Issues
The answer to the question is yes, most chess players have accepted computers play the game better and don't care. High level chess will eventually just change the rules if forced drawing lines make it too dull.
I've read somewhere that mturk was never profitable for Amazon. I wonder if this is still the case since there are now a plethora of labeling service companies out there
Intuition tells me variable extrusion generally should yield stronger parts. Adhesion between stair-stepped and non-planar layers in this method is probably subpar (with the emergence of new gaps). With variable extrusion, as long as the variability isn't too large layer adhesion should be kept fairly unchanged, maybe even stronger if there's a certain waviness (the waves increasing surface area).

Actually I wonder if internal waviness could be a useful method to add strength in general (area should be increased as ~1/cos(angle), or ~(1+angle/29) for very small angles, i.e. about 3% per degree).