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I suppose this is more of an aesthetic thing than a tech thing considering that a cable like this probably doesn't match the USB spec very well ;-)
That Gizmodo article is 3 years old, is it still true?
Is France’s groundbreaking food-waste law working? (yes)
I think they'd get a better typing experience spending $25. The Amazon Basics keyboard is the worst keyboard I've ever used. This article is just forcefully contrarian.
> phylloxera-resistant but unpalatable American vines

Hey now. You send me a palatable French wine and I'll send you a palatable American one =)
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It seemed to come to my German Pixel 1 as an over-the-air update straight away as well, currently downloading it. Nice job, Google!
Stylus (Stylish without the tracking) sure is a nice interface, but you don't really need an add-on for that functionality. Create "chrome/userContent.css" within your Firefox profile directory and populate it with something like:

@-moz-document domain(example.com) {
img { opacity: 0.05 !important; }
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Note that there's some about:config flag that needs to be switched since the version that got released today.
I wouldn't exactly say that rail is fantastically expensive. Acquiring dedicated right-of-way for any form of transportation (rail, bus, car) through a developed area is fantastically expensive. But metal rails and overhead wires cost about the same as 12 feet of asphalt. And in terms of capacity, one track of rail moves +10k people per hour, while a lane of highway with personal cars moves about 2k to 3k [1]. Bus Rapid Transit is a nice middle ground because it has a little less capacity than trains but can be installed in existing right-of-way - like a road with 2 lanes in each direction or a lane of parking. So to me, better bus networks are about optimizing existing infrastructure. However cities still need to engage in new infrastructure projects as they grow, and it's often hard to beat the cost per capacity of rail in a new project: A line in each direction get's you the capacity of a multi-lane highway in a fraction of the real estate.

And in terms routing railways - it's really not that big of a deal. If you create a fast and economical route between two places, market forces tend to move people along that route eventually. Now you might have decades of an unprofitable line before you build up enough density to really take advantage of all that capacity, but it will happen... assuming it maintains support from politicians.

Rail is not a short-term solution, but it's a great investment in the long-term health of many cities.

[1] http://ccag.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/cmp_2005_Appen...
Walmart has the right to ban open carry from its stores. If you want to open carry anyway, don't be surprised when you get arrested.
Tesla Autopilot engaged in 2018 California crash; driver's hands off wheel: NTSB
Very 1995, no offense.
The right answer is to do what many other cities across the world do, have stores close to where people live so they don't have to drive those 500 cars.
After watching the wonderful documentary Jodorowski’s Dune [1], I think we already have that film.

As others mentioned here, and as the doc drives home, it’s pretty much Star Wars.

It wasn’t necessarily a wholesale ripoff, but are there a large number of similarities? And could they have been truly just coincidences? There had to be massive pollination from that Dune version to Star Wars Episode IV.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jodorowsky%27s_Dune
We haven't really seen the "end game" deployed by the EU yet (4% of global annual turnover fines).

I suspect when that happens the companies will launch a massive PR campaign and fight it in court but eventually lose. If they pull out of the EU or pay I have no idea.

Edit: seems like 4% of alphabets 2018 global revenue [1] is "only" 5.44 billion dollars. Wonder if it can be applied multiple times.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/266206/googles-annual-gl...
It brought one of my favorite parts about writing numbers in languages such as Ruby over to Go. From 10000000 to 10_000_000 is such a readability improvement and should be no-cost.
When I tried this I was hoping there was some reduction in packaging associated. At least for me, it was just all the same boxes on the same day, instead of one big box, or something reusable/returnable like Fresh.
Can you elaborate on what you mean by "a new version of the problem with generated coefficients"?
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It connects logic, topology and type systems. How is this not a big deal? It's also computation friendly.
Even in the late 90s/early 2000s they had a program set up in my district which gamified reading books.

For the books in the program you could choose to take a quiz that would effectively test whether you read and comprehended the content. If you passed the quiz, you'd get points based on how well you did on the quiz and how long the book was. Those points would add up and you could use them for prizes at the end of the semester.
It's more like, instead of you and each of your neighbors driving to the store separately, you're driving to the store alone and getting groceries for yourself and all your neighbors at the same time.
Try smart launcher, and set up your own gestures. I haven't been a fan of gestures either historically, but smart launcher has converted me. Single finger up / down / left / right; double finger up / down / left / right; double tap on screen, and a couple of others.
If I order an item from Amazon, Target, Mouser, and Walmart, they're probably going to arrive in four boxes by four different carriers under the Amazon system. If they all used USPS, they might all be delivered on the same day by one carrier.
Have you watched the show? The effort that was made to clear that are up was above and beyond what most people would consider reasonable.
My school's textbooks were recycled and they were in great shape.
PhotoRealism
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> I like the way Go proceeds as a language, with features added very very slowly and the compiler and tools regularly improving

> I value the tool chain improvements far more than the language features

Java 6 may be right up your alley (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_version_history)
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Lol,

amount of untrusted dll injections to mod, by default, unmoddable games; 3rd party VR tools and drivers; video and audio multiplexer drivers; compatibility drivers for normally unsupported console cameras/controllers etc; ultra demanding last gen console emulators; macro tools that are essentialy keyloggers; anti-cheat daemons running as admin to read memory of other processes;

Windows gaming is wild! I literally sell my soul to gain a few more fps or immersion. Browser js looks almost too innocent in this whole mess.
In other news, 1+1=2; and two wrongs don't make a right (but three lefts do.)
True black looks nicer in the same way that oversaturated TVs look "nicer" in the showroom: it's great for grabbing your attention, but a pretty crap experience in the long run.

White on True black UI has way too much contrast and is much more fatiguing than white on dark gray.
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Charging a lot for the data is self defeating. In order for the sport to grow, more people need to be interested in the sport. One measure of interest is betting turnover. And a proportion of betting turnover is usually used to fund the industry. In order to increase betting turnover, one strategy could be to make the data free and easily accessible in an automated, machine readable form.

I really do not care about the likes of DRF or Equibase and how long they will or won't exist. I think it is upon the industry itself to ensure this data is available free and easily accessible. Look at Hong Kong as the alpha example. Loads of free data, huge betting turnover, well funded industry.
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Yeah, he's also the guy who created git-annex, one of the most useful Haskell programs ever, in my opinion.
You apparently didn't read the article. Traffic got worse after Waze, not better. Now the highways are jammed and the side streets which has made traffic worse overall and drive times slower. Waze created a worse problem. The solution is to create better public transportation and can more cars. There's a solution, I'm just sure you won't like it.
I got into custom DIY keyboards. Specifically split ortholinear. A bonus to using these boards is they are flashable with the wonderful QMK firmware, they can have multiple layers, dual function keys, mouse emulation, almost anything you can think of on a keyboard.

I could never go back to having a 'normal' keyboard after I've enjoyed writing my own layouts. I use normal qwerty for the alpha keys, but almost everything else is changed.

Should also note, mechanical doesn't necessarily mean clicky or loud. I have 7 or 8 mech keyboards and some of them have silent switches and are basically noiseless, others make a little bit of sound but not much. I don't like 'clicky' switches.
And yet, google has induced millions of families to spend their limited computing budget on a "non-programmable" OS. Was it really beyond google's capabilities to make this a more open, perhaps linux based environment?
That's the magic of irrigation. Farms can be located in dry areas, which is common in much of California, where it doesn't rain from May to October.

I remember the first time I went to a place with green grass in summer and being amazed that such a thing was possible.
The existence of Google's patents on things like these are proof otherwise.

Yes, it is sometimes possible to prevent a patent from being filed with prior art, but you need to know about the application to provide the prior art, or you need to hope the patent examiner does due diligence, which they often don't.

So you have two options:

1. monitor all patent applications and reactively file prior art against any that might be problematic.

2. Just file patents on the things

Patent examiners are more likely to find patents than other forms of prior art, so you're more likely to just accomplish (1) anyway, and in a lawsuit, you don't need to spend time proving that your thing was prior art if it was patented. So in a lawsuit it was cheaper.

In other words, patents prevent patenting, prior art avoids losing lawsuits, but not-losing a lawsuit is still expensive.
Niceee...As someone recently put in the same.position as OP is great to know there are options around. I almost dropped Mozilla for this autoplaying mute videos crap.
‘Super Pumped’ Author Mike Isaac on Uber’s Toxic Culture
Imagine being so butthurt that people don't care about your overpriced high culture.
Facebook Facial Recognition Opt Out Settings
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You can find French books in some places, but you can find cheap Portuguese books virtually anywhere, but particularly so in Porto, close to where I live.

We call local/old/second hand bookshops “alfarrabistas” and they are very common around the country. Some have closed with the savage turistification that’s hit the country, but most are still around for now.
I grew up in Canada in the 80s. Moving to Germany a few years ago I discovered Conrad. It's like stepping into another dimension where the RadioShack from my youth is alive and well...
> is it's much more verbose/harder to handle edge cases - it feels like I'm less productive writing the program, but end up building something much more stable than the Python equivalent

This is exactly how I felt moving from a Python codebase to Go. But you realize on the 100th or so Python stacktrace that it's worth the investment up front, if not for type safety alone.

> I really need the performance for my workload

Careful with that assumption. A pure Go application will in many cases be more performant than a pure Python one, but Python has a better C interop story. In the particular cases of parsing XML and JSON, I'd wager Python is much faster, actually.
This is a Startup School 2019 project.
Psychedelic Holograms and Cryptocurrency Holograms
More details on South Africa's bulk interception of undersea fibre cables
These aren't bold claims, if you've been reading about it for a decade. Even the New York times covered these points (more or less).

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/04/technology/technology-in-...

All these issues were at the forefront of the "discussions". The strategy to upsell technological improvements to struggling schools, was a simple way to by pass skepticism. Might as well try something new?

I don't remember specific "Powerful Educators" looking to boost student scores, via a massive monetary investment, but someone had to sign off. There were a few newsworthy failures and no demonstrable good...although it's a little early to tell. I found that my early exposure to computers when I was six, led in to my current career. So there may not be any conclusions for decades.

Other proponents included vendors like Apple (iPads for everyone in a Los Angeles school, lol) and politicians, who were either bribed or philosophically sold (if there's a difference). Again, this wasn't a scientific decision and one-off school trials are VERY difficult to get past entrenched interests like regulators and unions via equivalence challenges (ie if it's good enough for 1 school it's good enough for all, right? Oh so you're experimenting on these kids but not these?).
Regular consumers appear to have other opinion about bare bones AOSP UI.

I find it quite ugly from design point of view, loaded with an amount of blinding white colour.
Look in to Cherry MX Silent Red switches. I got a custom board made with those switches for ~$300. You can find cheaper ones but this is a specialty one. The keys are quieter than my mouse buttons and are comfortable to type on.
The ability to fake photos has been around for a while and it hasn't been a big deal. People overall have proven savvy enough to mostly discern real from faked. My prediction is that the same will be true for ML faked videos.
I thought this was common knowledge? Pointer aliasing for example
More details on South Africa's bulk interception of undersea fibre cables - https://www.iafrikan.com/2019/09/03/murray-hunter-digital-ri...
Yes the site crashed my (old) Android phone running Firefox.

First time this has ever happened since I've owned the device... Which is many years!
Ackee only tracks page views, site visits and referrers by default. It stores no IPs and it's not possible to view the browsing history of a user. The data can't be used to identify a user and should therefore be GDPR compliant.

But: I'm not a lawyer. I can't give you a legally certain statement. It's hard to say what's "identifiable data" according to the GDPR.
Actually I'm not sure, I don't know much about the spec, but I know that USB 3 has certain pairings similar to ethernet, but USB 2 doesn't have those.

If the cable he's using is shielded by ground then I think it might be up to USB 2 spec?

Edit: Interesting mini-comparison of USB 1 and USB 2 http://ww3.microtek.com.tw/tw/uploads/faq/pdf/comparison-usb...
> We have no immediate plans to remove blocking webRequest

> immediate

We know exactly what this kind of talk means. Don't blow smoke up our ass, Mozilla, just give it to use straight: We'll have `blocking webRequest` for as long as Google allows it.
>I don't think this is a consistent argument. In your first paragraph you say there's an upfront cost to developing software that must be recouped, whereas in the second you say that MongoDB's use of Linux is okay because it's not adversarial to Google. But how does that help Google recoup the upfront cost?

Nothing helps them recoup this. Open source is a public good, IMO. It doesn't benefit the creator nearly as much as those who can consume it. I'm not trying to say I think it's okay one way or another that Google isn't making money on its Linux contributions. I'm saying Google is okay with their position because no one is using their contribution to the public good against them, and they would have made those contributions to the Linux codebase anyway (because it benefits them to do so) so why not help everyone? Again, rising tide lifts all boats kind of thing. That's the difference here. Google wants Linux to be better because it makes their platform better. But Linux being better is not the product they offer. And the world having a better Linux doesn't undermine their product. At least, not in the same way that offering MongoDB managed infra for cheaper than Mongo can undermines Mongo's product.

I think you're trying to say fair is fair, and the license must be applied evenly and consistently or your reneging on the deal. Which I think we can all agree on. Where we differ is that I think it's okay to change your license if it's killing you.
I mean, you can install packages without deps with Arch as well. Also, why is that important to you?
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This is cool, and for an art project, sensible, but USB is far to much of a pain in the rear for regular cable-making if you, "need" a USB cable. I prefer to cut my own CAT 5/6 over buying premade in a lot of situations, but that doesn't require I heat up the soldering iron.
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> The size of the array needs to be known at compile time. In C++, a const variable can be a constant expression, meaning it can be evaluated at compile time. In C, this is not the case, and we must instead use a pre-processor macro:

Enums are also good here in C land for specifying compile time constants.
Except they didn't advertise that way. They advertised the hyperthreaded performance, without disclosing its security implications.
I was bummed about it too at first but thinking about it more, having version numbers will make it more obvious if a device has outdated software to the normal consumer and might put pressure on manufacturers to update devices much faster
That's not even a nitpick. The parent got it completely wrong.

If Chrome mobile never supported extensions, then it's false to claim they "ditched" them.
> I can flag, I can appeal, but it doesn’t change the attitude of the community.

Actually, that's _exactly_ how you change the attitude of the community, by making your voice heard. Sure you as an individual aren't going to override everyone else, but if you don't voice your opinion then your complaint about other folks loses some of its ground.