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The only thing I want in Android next is native call blocking similar to Hiya but integrated. They did a good job with my last request of being able to turn off all notifications. Happy Android user (except when voice assist fucks up then I'm all rage)

(Edit Ok and iPhone like messaging)
So anything not work related I suppose.
I was very specific about my keyboard needs: I wanted basically a keyboard layout from a notebook (mac) so i don't have to adjust to layout, it had to be wired because bootcamp and bluetooth are not working good together, ISO layout (which is TERRIBLY hard to find), full size keys but compact design (think magic keyboard). In the end i settled with penclic, which had the added brilliant advantage of having those media keys right next to fn key, so you can adjust volume with one hand. Stil prefer logitech k780 feedback and feel, but couldnt handle the extra length. Once you go TKL it's hard to go back
> The way they show and demonstrate gestures, along with the UI at the bottom, strongly suggests that they intend to eliminate the semi-"hard" buttons in favor of gestures.

Yes, that's the case. When you're using gesture navigation the only visible UI left is the horizontal bar at them bottom. Apps adjusted for gesture navigation will also draw behind that line.

Gesture navigation is still an option which might not be enabled by default on all devices, but I strongly suggest trying it out. I used it quite some time with the latest release candidates of Android 10 and once you're used to it, you don't want to go back. Especially the back swipe is really nice.

How the final implementation came to be is covered by an excellent blog post from Google: https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2019/08/gesture-na...
Thank you for mentioning this. That's a great data point and I will look into this further.
Is Technology a Tool or a Tyrant?
Are they just aerial spraying, like crop-dusting, or are they identifying individual army worms and zapping them?
I've had Family Link on my Pixel2 since 2018 (and my daughter's Moto X4). It has been very useful and is a great app. Strange to list it as a feature for Android 10, but maybe not a lot of people know about it?

Live caption sounds great to me since my wife's family is Russian and I don't speak it very well. We video chat with grandma often and I'm not really involved...
I suppose "relatively few people" is true if you define people the way it would have been understood a century ago. Corporate and institutional systems will almost invariably do WPA2 Enterprise.

Without Enterprise, there's just one magic shared key "password" known to every user of the network.

The Enterprise mode outsources authentication of participants to a separate service using EAP and nearly always ends up leveraging TLS to actually make this secure one way or another.

This enables, for example, EduROAM in which academics and students use their "home" institution credentials to get network access in any participating educational network.
Plant-based patties would be the equivalent of taking 12M cars off the road
Given that the installation guide[1] says you need "A computer running OS X 10.10 Yosemite or higher (and a place for it to stay)" I'm pretty sure they are just relaying your messages through an actual desktop iMessage instance, so probably. I imagine a lot of Android users don't have a computer running MacOS to do this though, so while a cool solution, it probably doesn't help the majority of people.

1: https://airmessage.org/guide/
One might make the argument that people unable to control violent impulses should be separated from society (jailed) just as much as someone with malicious intent.

It depends on your view of the justice system. Is it punishment against the guilty? Is it protection for society? Is it rehabilitation for those who have lost their way?

In reality, it's a mix of all of that. But regardless, I don't think we should allow a person to continue to commit violent acts against the innocent just because "it's not their fault". Maybe jail isn't the right answer, but something should still be done in that case. Maybe they should get shipped to a mental hospital with the rest of the so called "criminally insane"?
PostScript, which was once widely used

in academia. Not outside.

In fact, I don’t think I’ve ever seen a .ps file that wasn’t hosted on a .edu domain (or other countries’ equivalents.)
It is such a big problem, we have to get the proprietary tech OUT -- and let the teachers TEACH
That's for people who will be away from home and don't have a secure drop off for their packages.
Technically yes, they are located in Culver City.
Foreigner in Yoga city, I prefer to eat alone in my room or sometimes with my wife when she's around. I prefer it to a restaurant where I've no say in the temperature or noise in the room.

Food is delivered hot and I love the overall experience, the delivery guys are mostly from South and very kind and talk nicely.

I've only got positive things to say about delivery app experience.
LA has been adding them all over. I really hate speed bumps. It feels like a band-aid on a design problem that just causes premature wear on your car--but it might be their best option.
Absolutely wrong. Over eating is an issue of conditioning. Yes different foods digest at a different rate, but Americans eat like they’re strength training their stomachs, and always seem to have room for dessert.

The body doesn’t negate over eating when it’s a lifestyle.
One of my problems with the way technology is used in the classroom (at least in my kid's school) is that they're being trained how to operate applications -- not how to use a computer.
Google emerges as target of a new state attorneys general antitrust probe
Matt Mullenweg: Why working from home is good for business
Well, I am glad that my kid is told to get a book a week from the library. I guess the main objection I have to my own statement is that for a child young enough that they are still learning how to read, reading any sort of book that is word-based (i.e. not Where's Waldo) will probably make them a better reader, in the same way that when you are first learning how to code, writing any sort of working 10-line program will probably make you a better programmer.
Oh yes, you're right. It obviously just didn't make into the release announcement
Pixel 3 integrates call screening very tightly, which is not quite the same thing, but is in many ways better.
I use arch exactly for that reason, but I could not imagine getting started with arch as my first linux experience. You should at least learn the basics on ubuntu first. I think there's a good natural progression with linux, and that you can and should switch to arch once you outgrow ubuntu.
ANY news on the fact that FF makes my Mac sound like it's gonna take off?? I honestly can't understand how an issue so prevalent gets ignored for so long by them.

For those doubting, do a simple Google with "firefox cpu".
As it was in Gmail and Messages, 'Smart Reply' is done with on-device models, messages aren't sent to Google. Source: https://9to5google.com/2019/04/05/ml-kit-smart-reply/
There are studies showing that e-texts are significantly less “assimilable” than paper texts. I think the consensus speculation is that the physicality of the paper gives the brain a better understanding of the text, where you are in the text, and so on. Text on a screen, on the other hand, has an effectively infinite “depth”, among other things.
It's not just a lack of trees. It's a lack of soil as well. And the temperatures are really unforgiving. Heard about al rub al khali, ie most of saudi arabia? Who cut down those trees you think?

I'm not saying overgrazing never happened, bit it was not nearly enough to explain the current desolation.
>7th and 8th grade have no recess in her district

Wait what? Is there some difference in notation since recess (in Finland it's 15 minutes between each class and usually 30min after lunch) is like absolute must for kids of any age. There's even recess in upper secondary school but the lessons are 75 minutes usually instead of 45 minutes as in comprehensive school.

Are you really saying that it's directly from class to another class? That's crazy!
A 3-D printed telescope: The analog sky drifter
This is interesting for screwing up badges at Defcon, but I wouldn't lose too much sleep over it. They're neat devices but not really used for anything critical. I'm also not sure they're being used for a lot of consumer devices. If you war drived a major hackerspace you might reset an led light art project.
YA fiction isn't any less literature than other fiction.
If you skip verification but the people you communicate with do not, then all of you are at risk of being publicly identified.
How many roads have been expanded in the Bay Area? Not many. How has the economic growth been? Substantial.

The future is remote. Unmitigated sprawl is unnecessary and harmful.
Swell: Where GraphQL, Streaming, and RESTful API Development Unite
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>Also, "Get security updates faster." is huge; this is effectively saying "no matter who makes your phone, you still get updates".

I have been hearing this for years.
Owning a car in a metro area is ~$8,000/year. There's 1.3 cars/household, so we're looking at ~$10,000/year/household.

My metro area's per-household budget is ~$17,000/year. ~$4,000/year on that is spent on transportation, including public transit, roadway, and highway maintenance and construction.

Tripling the transportation budget, at the expense of personal automobiles would absolutely deliver many of those things.

NYC has a crap bus system, because they have to share roadways with automobiles, which are the cause of NYC gridlock. If buses had the right of way, they would work much better. And it doesn't take being Nostradamus to figure out at least a couple of good, new train routes - in any metro area.

I'm sure you could find me some examples of train routes that were built, and then turned out to be under-utilized... But I feel that they would be the exceptions that prove the rule. Every major metro area is seeing population growth, so it's not like people will suddenly move away from the train lines. Not to mention that every line of rail tracks has the throughput of a super-highway[1], at much smaller footprint and cost (If you take into account the full cost of vehicle ownership.)

[1] In Vancouver, any one of the three SkyTrain lines has a throughput of ~14 lanes of highway, during peak hour...
I think at some point it's good to read any book, as you're learning the process of reading.

But later on it definitely matters. I had this same struggle with my daughter when she was in middle school -- she got so many kudos for "reading so much" but the books were all filler. I tried many times to point out that books are just a medium and the content is key.
there's only slightly more learning curve between Linux Distro X vs BSD Y as there is between Linux Distro X and Linux Distro Y.

In some ways & depending on the situation, moreso, since linux distros are often trying to do things drastically different from each other in order to differentiate themselves, whereas BSD's are often sharing code because of the small developer base, sharing-compatible license, and lack of bottom-line oriented corporate sponsorship.
You may be right. the interesting question is where these incentives and mandates came from, if parents never wanted it.
Part of the problem is also "Christmas" and the deadline that imposes on people who observe and celebrate it.
Study points to non-Newtonian force affecting particles' flight
Firefox is faster and more secure now that they don't have to maintain compatibility with a bunch of old extensions that touch a bunch of internal stuff. Firefox's WebExtension API goes well beyond Chrome's at this point and is still adding features.
This seems like it would be related to a broader shift (among tech parents, at least [0]) from digital to analog.

From my perspective, it seems like a pendulum. On the whole, baby boomers didn't adapt to the advent of computers very well. However, they generally recognized their value, and provided access to the devices in a mostly unstructured way. Thus, their Gen X/millennial children are overall more technically savvy than they.

Now, those children are becoming parents themselves, and reflecting on the potential negative aspects of unlimited screen access, social media, widespread gamification, etc. on their own children. Providing the same unrestricted access to their own children may seem unlikely to produce the same results that they themselves experienced. Thus, alternatives like reducing or restricting access at home/school become more common/popular.

Perhaps the next generation will resent their parents' restrictions, or feel left behind technically, and swing back the other way?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18309305
The privacy aspect of Firefox is great. The containers also a great thing and help us to a great extend. Beyond the privacy aspects, I really wish if Firefox pays attention to little things that can make the life of a user a bit better.

- The Firefox sign in process is considerably improved, with a link based sign in with email. The fact is that you will not be singed in to email on the first time usage. So you are behind a wall to start browsing and the cognitive load not to leave the tab before completing setup. This experience with Google Chrome is far far better, as it’s one time setup using your Google Account . Even if you discount the google’s ownership and single account sign in, there are considerable improvements to be made in the onboarding process

- The Pocket integration is substandard to the Pocket extension.

- The Top sites and highlights are too big for my aesthetics. It could be little cuter in the way it appears.

- Moving a video to full screen makes your blank for a second and not a smooth transition as in Chrome or Safari

- Lack of certain platform specific integrations such as Look Up on macOS to get the dictionary triggered by selected word. It works across all the other browsers well. On Firefox, I need to make a google search.

- The tab bar is ugly and has lot of blank spaces

- No default support for dark mode which works beautifully well on Chrome and Safari in a very early stage. More than a feature, the slowness in picking up platform specific features.

- The containers concept is really great but not for most of the general users to make use of it. It’s still a bit geeky in nature.

- I’ve to go with standard privacy settings to make my sites work including google. Making the privacy settings strong doesn’t help much and get signed out of the sessions very frequently.
- I use an app called Magnet on Mac to snap my windows easily by dragging to corners. The snapping works great on all browsers by dragging a tab to one of the corners. But Firefox just releases the tab once it’s pulled out from the current window. We need to drag again this to the corners. More than a third-party workflow, it’s about how these windows are defined and behaves in a standard way
Most coding mistakes are not very expensive.
no jail support on linux..
What we don’t get about hardware: social justice
Worlwide the large majority of electricity is produced with coal.

Price of energy is not a thing. We pay for the conversion and its transport but not itself. So it does not provide the adequate signal for the management of the supply or its side effects
I always wondered how they scaled their firmware teams myself. Really impressive stuff though:

https://www.openfirmware.org/Open_Firmware

https://www.openfirmware.org/Forth/FCode
Plus they are a Shanghai-based company and can be compelled by the Chinese government to place hardware back doors.

(They are great for makers though, very affordable, lots of features.)
That's impossible.
Parent comment said you can't scale.
Lots of assumptions and unknowns.

Implement a carbon tax and watch the market reconfigure itself.

Also: let's re-legalize corner stores!
Nope, you get it. It is crazy. The educational system is REALLY MESSED UP in the U.S. Recess doesn't help you do better on standardized tests, so it goes.

I don't know what's wrong with Americans either, and I am one.
Some German scientists have performed these studies, empirically finding quite precise LD50 for a range of parameters, about 80 years ago.
Speech Recognition Running Locally in the Browser
Amazon Is Looking More and More Like a Nation-State
Full Body Teleportation System
IIRC some PFCs have a higher heat capacity than water (one reason why they are used in fire extinguishers). I don't know if its sufficiently higher to merit the extra cost though.
I was just thinking of adding a comment about that book and the next comment I saw was yours! What are the odds? :-)

(Actually I didn't remember the name of the book, but I remembered the author and the jai-alai player in the cover.)
Some of us just don't get that. I've been typing at around 120wpm since my Typing II course on an actual typewriter back in '98. With every other part of my body degrading far faster than I ever would have expected it to, my wrists and hands still feel right as rain while using a standard keyboard layout.

At least so far, I've won that lottery. I'll take it.
What's New in Go 1.13
That’s got to win the click bait title of the day award! Despite the alarming title, it’s refreshing to read a neutral article about China. Neither good nor bad, just interesting.
Ackee and Fathom are very similar. Both in the way they display data and how they process it. The biggest advantages of Ackee (compared to Fathom) are probably:

- A documented REST API that lets you build upon Ackee. Could be used for custom import scripts or apps that display your current visitor stats in the menu bar.
- Ackee allows you to track more than just page/site views (browser, system, etc.). This is optional and off by default, but great for people/companies that need more insights.

Fathom definitely has a head start, while Ackee is very young. Can't wait to see how Fathom v2 will look like and how both will compare in the future.
Go 1.13 Release Notes
I agree using the common definitions sweeteners could be called flavors. However the FDA has only approved sucralose as a non-nutritive sweetener which for regulatory purposes is a different category of ingredient than artificial flavors.

Approved artificial flavors: https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfcfr/CFR...

Approved artificial sweeteners: https://www.fda.gov/food/food-additives-petitions/additional...
>I'd say Espressif has a near monopoly due to first comer advantage.

No. Espressif is used because it is _cheap_ and has relatively good support libraries. Just the chips/modules from other vendors are usually 15 to 20€ in single quantities while you can get an ESP8266 minimum development board (almost all normal arduino boards are minimum development boards) for like 3€.

Unless other vendors reach that same level, they will always stay back.
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Monadic parsing in Haskell (1998) [pdf]
Also, on the otger hand, check out the al bayda project in saudi arabia, the site of which was a forest just 100 years ago (according to the villagers)
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This is the lofty dream castle that Amazon successfully dangles in front of the public in order to distract from what's going on with the people who actually do the deliveries. "Yeah, these poor guys, but...hey look, soon we will be delivering everything by drones. DRONES! Isn't that cool?!"

Everyone with basic knowledge in physics knows that this won't work except for a very small slice of the last-mile delivery use case (light packages below a certain, very limited size), and even in that small slice it won't be cost-competitive given any currently known technology. Oh, and don't even start to think about the safety problems in densely populated areas.

But hey, DRONES!!!
> I'd love to see a standardized IM/Text protocol instead of 1000 fragmented platforms.

I'm hoping that's what RCS[1] will be (ids? And that's why I referenced it above). It's supposed to by the successor to SMS, but it's been around for quite a while and not adopted, so I'm not sure what's going on with it.

Edit: It looks like as of a couple months ago it's live in the UK and France, and just those two countries.[2]

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Communication_Services

2: https://9to5google.com/2019/07/01/rcs-hands-on-not-quite-ime...
That's true, but as a person who learned Chinese the phono semantic part of the word didn't really help or is even taught in Chinese school.

I'm talking about Chinese school for ABCs where everybody is assumed to know how to speak Chinese. We are literally just taught the radical and we memorize the word and sound without being taught the phonetic part of it.
There are a ton of papers on sports analytics. The public stuff isn't cutting-edge, most of the results about profitability are totally bogus but you will quickly understand what people at the cutting edge are likely doing. The great thing is though: you can start with a few thousand and bet in small markets, you don't need to do anything sophisticated there.

The big syndicates also aren't that secretive anymore. The founders and employees have got too rich (some are billionaires), and they have had to build a profile to hire (if you attended an elite uni in the UK, they recruit there...the largest syndicate in the UK has hundreds of programmers now).

And Bill has been talking about this for years. I don't understand why but he was publishing papers and giving talks in the 1990s. The impression I get is that he wants other people to know he is smart, and already has more money than he needs (this was true even in the 1990s).

Something that most people here won't get though: the models don't matter. The largest syndicates hire clever people but the real money is made in finding liquidity and people to take the other side. The big UK syndicates got large because they worked with bookies in Asia (the largest syndicate is run by someone who ran an Asian book) who needed people to take risk.
Something like 50 + 100 * upvotes, (ignoring the first point).