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Thank you for this recommendation. Just tried Aegis on Android:

1. Its UX is more polished than andOTP; the AMOLED theme in particular is well done.

2. It also supports fingerprint unlocking, the lack of which was the biggest pain point when regularly using andOTP.

3. Supports imports from popular 2FA apps, though this requires root access.

A few issues I noticed:

1. While importing from andOTP, the issuer is blank when the 2FA token was manually added to andOTP. So now I have a list of 2FA codes with no indication as to which website they belong to. [Screenshot](https://gopi.dev/images/aegis.jpg)

2. The 'Vault is unlocked' notification persists even on closing the app.

3. OpenPGP integration for backups isn't available.
And serious languages are those that don't have null pointers?
Thank you, that makes perfect sense. I would still love to see what it looks like with the naked eye.
Ireland's per capita level of funding for research has been lagging badly behind the European average, though. It's really a cultural problem: R&D doesn't happen here, except in rare cases. It's not really down to the size of the population: in the 19th C we had Hamilton and Boole, the world's largest telescope in Birr, Grubb telescope manufacturing in Dublin, and the Titanic was built in Belfast in the early 20th C. But independence, for better or worse, saw the Republic kind of divesting itself of technological stuff—it didn't match the national image, and separating from the UK meant that the communication and exchange of technical knowledge became an exception rather than the norm.

So it even has to do with the protestant/catholic divide (science and manufacturing was something "they" did). It's a very painful story, and a lot of Irish tech people have a chip on their shoulder (narcissistic injury) because of our backwardness.
Just for comparison, the "favicon" for Hacker News is 7.66 KB.

Does the size of jQuery really matter for a typical web site? If you have just a typical size logo, it will dwarf the size of jQuery, never mind if you have some illustrations or photos.
> playing brutal games makes people more brutal in real life?

After a fashion. I mean you would have to imagine that game as though it was IRL and it was actually you who were in it. Now add in what you saw, thought, smelled and tasted, mix in with that actual hatred of the enemy and the euphoria of victory... than yeah, that shit would work.
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I read recently a survey about European wide research grants and we came bottom. Well outpaced by similar sized, smaller and/or less wealthy countries like Denmark, Finland, Estonia etc.
Will we ever get our heads round consciousness? (2013)
None of those companies can really escape China, so is it fair to call them world class? Even tencent’s most international operations are acquired rather than grown in China.
Even java has to deal with platform quirks. Serving files from NFS (ESTALE), hardlinks, unlinking files that are still mmaped and stuff like that.

With a large enough codebase you'll accumulate some unix-specific logic where it'll be less painful to just develop under linux rather than trying to keep it running on windows.

Of course those pain points are minor and you could write some fallback code for windows, but that code would only ever be exercised on developer machines.
I recently had an opportunity to go work in China for 6 months and declined for this reason (and others.)
Yup, in Europe is not uncommon.
Yes I was thinking its basically a big battery/capacitor.

I wasn't sure for the intended usecase (compensating for 1000s of MW of powerloss) whether a battery would necessarily be the best thing.
Also, taking but not completing MOOC shouldn't count as a failure. I've enrolled in ~8 courses on Coursera and never completed any of them, but I still gained a lot of value from what I learned in those courses.
I would also argue that the successful way that Ireland has brought big companies to the country hasn't yet resulted in the spin off of benefits that the presence of such companies has had in other areas.
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Edit: I misinterpreted parent comment, please disregard
It is rich of the Atlantic to advance a basically sinophobic point of view sponsored by the Koch foundation.

However we should not feel schadenfreude or spite about the bankrupting of American cultural industries, certainly when newsmagazines like the Atlantic are suffering so much more than Hollywood, a growing enterprise. I don’t necessarily believe that selling out your hard-earned editorial brand to a conservative think tank is a much greater betrayal to Americans than removing a flag on someone’s fucking jacket that you only heard about through Reddit for a market you don’t even live in, because both are bad in their own way. One is a complete disregard for the sanctity of your own work, and another is shitting on a movie you’re not even going to watch.
"it's also enough mercury to poison millions of people. That tomb should be a Superfund site."

It's a bit terrifying to imagine if the tomb is intact, that someone could drill, pump, and dump it all in a river. On a relatively low budget.
The migration itself may be valuable, if treated properly. Many airlines have had very public issues when their mainframe had problems running (often power issues, but sometimes other things); a migration to x86 includes accepting and handling more failures, which may include having a warm second site available.

You can certainly have a warm second mainframe too, and I think most large banks are run that way, but it wouldn't be very fashionable to add that to your airline now, if it wasn't already there.
London school, Chicago school, outside in, inside out. Sociable unit tests, solitary unit tests, state verification, behaviour verification and so on

There are so many attributes.
Could such a material be put behind (and be protected by) glass and still have the desired properties?
But it would certainly.
No, read very carefully the way they worded the sentence. What is "inherent to the sovereignty of nations" is not "monetary power" but "no private entities having control of monetary power".

They are not saying governments should have control of this power. They are just saying no private entities should have control.
the system tries to breed heroes, but that's not how they're made.
I think you may be confusing some of the aspects of hot-add with hot-remove. Memory which you want to later remove should be onlined as "movable" and it has some content limitations. But, not all hot-added memory must be onlined that way. You can very easily just online it as "normal", which is (believe it or not) normal and can have any allocation type placed there.
There's also good societal reason to encourage teenagers like this to undertake another 4-8 years of difficult education to become those random adult engineers.

Showing them "hey what you can do with your mind is valued by society" might help do that.
Hey, I'm remote based out of Ho Chi Minh as well. Would be great to meet up and chat some time... derick { @ } dericksozo.com.

Hope you're enjoying over here in Vietnam as well.

Cheers,
Derick
EDIT: Nevermind.

>This study addresses the long-standing mystery of cubic scat formation and provides insight into new manufacturing techniques for non-axisymmetric structures using soft tissues.

I hope they didn't kill a wombat just so they could inflate it's lower intestine like a balloon & write about the shape it made. Seems like an unethical waste, no?
Yes.

We've got an entire generation of front-end guys tooled up with awesome-looking IDEs and six hundred npm packages creating sites that need none of that. Each of these packages has dependencies, bugs, security issues, their own roadmaps, and so on.

I believe in brutally low overhead websites, but I'd still use JQuery if I had to. It's one of a very few things that just make sense no matter what you're doing, and combined with CDNs and cache reloads, you're highly unlikely to be pulling even that 30k over the wire when you use it.

We're going to make a ton of super-cool websites using the new stuff we have. Meanwhile we're also going to make a ton of messes. The cool kids will move on to more tools and gadgets. The second-string bunch will be left struggling to maintain. At some point there'll have to be a huge clean up. Consultants will make lots of money. Many of these consultants will be the people selling us all this crap we don't need right now.

I wish this were some outlier story or a case of crotchety cynicism, but tech has been really consistent about repeating this pattern over and over again, sadly. We keep buying and using things based on the way we feel. Then they don't work out, people get frustrated, make an entirely new layer of stuff designed to make us feel good. Meanwhile, about 1-in-100 of these things turn out to be useful over longer periods of time. I'd give that award to JQuery.
Yesterday I was biking with a friend from Italy, and he was telling me how in certain parts of Italy they "hunt" birds by taking a bird, making it blind so it sings continuously, and therefore attracting other birds to enter a large set of "nets".

This practice is mostly illegal in Italy (and I guess elsewhere too).
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In my opinion, the lack of geography-specific pricing makes the evaluation (tests and assignments) and certification inaccessible to a significant population. Of course, one can audit the course anytime but it’s hard to have the same level of sincerity and commitment when there’s no incentive (certification that can probably be showcased on LinkedIN or CV) or deadline based timeline for the course.

I appreciate that these courses have been made available to anyone who wants to learn, but my point is concerning the meagre completion rate.
A lot of public services and utilities have shifted their customer facing operations to the web and the very people who struggle to interact with these services are often the ones who need them the most.

Factor in that a lot of these web-based services are poorly designed and badly constructed and it is no wonder that some people get frustrated or are easily swindled.

Local council sites tend to be the worst, in my experience, with unfathomable navigation and broken forms being the most common problems.

My dad often asks 'why can't I do x?' and my usual answer is that the website is sh1t, there is nothing you can do about it.
You may be familiar with a certain Linus Torvalds.

Finland has a population of 5M.

Granted, he moved later, but that's a counterexample for the first ~30 years at least.
Bad Client Series 3: The Dreamer
Man takes emotional support clown to work as he fears being fired
I think the most common myth is that you should get an athletic bike if you want to get into bicycling.
Unfortunately still in the drawer but planning on Pi-hole.
Java has had a fixed point type - BigDecimal - for a couple of decades now. Yes, there are people who don’t know what they are doing using floats for currency.
TPF is inherently hot/hot, distributed across many mainframes. It's very different from z/OS.
Absolutely. If I had a time machine, I would use it for these things, other than to predict sports, bet on winners, and become a billionaire.
I appreciate the clearer naming of the built in methods.

- `document.querySelector` vs `$`.
- `element.addEventListener` vs `$element.on`

JQuery really has some confusing behaviour too. JQuery sets the target of the event as `this` inside of the method. Native makes it an event property.
By the time the meeting was over, Jack didn't have a job. But he did have two balloon animals: a unicorn and a poodle.
The Americans cannot step into an US embassy and be carried out in a diplomatic bag?
How to Set Up a Chessboard‎
At $DAYJOB, I find it easier to write the backend code, then write automated tests, then hook it up to the front end. Only at that point could I even try to manually QA the functionality, so adding tests while adding the API is just more natural.

The lesson I take away is that clearly delineated layers in the architecture gives more opportunities for natural test oriented coding, so it's worth thinking about layers in your prototypes and their early evolution.

Luckily common frameworks and patterns are usually layered already. SPA -> API is a pretty common layering, but within the SPA, you could have views -> vuex stores -> an api client layer etc. Your API could have views -> models, etc.
Feathers 4: A framework for Real-Time apps and REST APIs
Yep. I learned to ollie at like, 26? It's just scary because as a 15 year old you don't care about falling as much.
"running Gentoo" - Sure, waste your life compiling code for next to nothing performance benefits that will never add up to the extra time it took to compile the code..
The reason they didn't adopt jQuerys API's is because TC39 has a rule to always be backwards compatible. See the flat map/smoosh controversy to get an idea of what I mean. Every decision that gets made by that group is designed to that end. If they adopted jQuery's api's it would break 70%+ of the web. It would be a total shit show to put it lightly. Think about how tangled up and hard to change the average jQuery site is. No, they can't do that.
The implementation is largely independent of the API. A native jquery implementation could be just as performant as the standard query methods on document.
It would be nice to know how they did this survey, I'm presuming it wasn't an online survey. But us Brits do love to lie to people doing surveys, just to get away from them. Indeed, had they done this as an online survey - they would still get people saying they do not use the internet.
It's answered in the linked abstract:

"...derived from veterinary euthanized individuals following motor vehicle collisions in Tasmania, Australia"
Actually, that showed that some microplastics also helped earthworms. So a mixed result.

So, a graduate student and half a dozen flower pots are the sum total of evidence driving this hysteria?
Why are they buying rat poison in bulk?
mem= doesn't control the amount of RAM. It actually just specifies the largest physical address the kernel should try to use. The first 4GB of physical memory typically has some non-RAM things in it like the part of the physical address space that's reserved for talking to PCI devices.

If you have 2GB of RAM, 2GB of "other stuff" in the first 4GB, and specify mem=4096m, you'll end up with a kernel that sees 2GB of RAM.
The government must help it's citizens, especially as ban is unlawful and has nothing to do with any kind of criminal prosecution. One thing if they were arrested, but this... Why not just extract them?
Please assume good faith and discuss the topics directly. What is it that you find debatable about my comment? I've always made good faith efforts at productive conversation whether someone agrees or disagrees with me on something
Please fix the title, the real number is 18% (of 2000 people surveyed)

Direct link to report:

https://oxis.oii.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/43/2019/0...

very interesting numbers nonetheless.
The whole “so many Js frameworks!” thing is ridiculous. The same dominant frameworks have been popular for _years_ now, and while new frameworks do pop up people mostly use these same dominant frameworks, and these dominant frameworks are incredibly _samey_, relying on reactive data concepts, components, and a Fluxlike data store pattern for more complex apps. Going from React to Vue or even to modern Angular is really not a huge context switch anymore.

The Js framework ecosystem is incredibly easy to work with in 2019, sorry if I came off a little strong with my rant but that sentiment makes me cringe. It is absurd hyperbole that’s not productive and doesn’t reflect the real state of web development in 2019 in any way. Overall I agree a framework isn’t a requirement for a good web app
I agree there are often more important performance issues on sites, especially with images, but that doesn't mean we should completely ignore javascript bundle sizes.

In modern sites if javascript doesn't load sites then become non functional, e.g. navs don't work, some SPAs won't work at all. Whereas an image or favicon taking a long time to load shouldn't stop the user from being able to functionally view most of the site.
> there should be a big consensus for universal conditionless free education, social security and health insurance backed by the government.

You allude to the best argument for these things, something like: "people are born into the world with a set of advantages and disadvantages they neither earned nor deserve, so we should do our best to even the playing field".

But you missed the mark in terms of identifying the best argument from the other side. "Because the market will solve it and those that work hard enough will make it, so it's fair" is not the argument. That's a just world hypothesis. The good argument is: high taxes and large social programs distort economic incentives; if you "tax the rich at 70%," people will behave differently, and your society will be less wealthy as a result. Which would you rather have? A wealthy society with inequality or a poor society without inequality? Anyway, the fundamental point here is that all human progress is agonistic, and "evening the playing field" will result in less progress, not more.

We're trying to walk the line between these two perspectives. We have "free" social programs but wealth still buys all kinds of advantages. I think we're doing a fairly good job, but it's imperative that we take both sides of this argument seriously. There's no reason to think we can have our cake and eat it.
See
https://v8.dev/blog/cost-of-javascript-2019

JavaScript has, in a addition to download time, parse and execution time. These are non-negligible on lower end devices.

30k of JS has a far greater impact on the speed of your page than 30k of images.
One study, then. And that earthworm citation again! One tiny, tiny study of half a dozen flower pots doesn't seem to warrant global furor. And the study returned mixed results, with some earthworms apparently helped by microplastics.

There's sand of every size, everywhere. To show another kind of sand is of importance requires some evidence.
Oh good call, thank you. Signed up.
> had a minor planet named after him by the MIT Lincoln Laboratory.

I could somewhat deal with the rest with a shoulder shrug, but this one is what makes it too hard to swallow :)
because "historians" are more preservers of the myth leading to the present, than chroniclers of any actual past.

their job is to not upset the delicate notions of present dwellers, not to record how things actually were for people in the past.

revealing a true past beyond the common capacity of present dwellers to understand it would be extremely dangerous. it might upset their notions about many things.

the control of history is incredibly important to the preservation of the status quo culture.
Handwritten notes are much more effective when having conversations and taking notes. Programmers often pull out their laptops or phones when talking with eachother, but when talking to scientists, they always seem to use paper, and so I've taken up that habit as well. (using bullet journalling mostly)

I then transcribe into a collected note markdown document in github, which forces me to complete the first spaced repetition of the information, which is a huge help in remembering it.

Then, I keep all notes in one document, so that when I review todos for the day, I have to scroll past / search through the other ones, completing more spaced repetition cues.
But I have nothing to hide
I wonder if there are any startups out there that resell mainframe services presented and organized akin to the aws type of view.
Right:

"The WHO says the evidence suggests that all larger plastic particles, and most of the smaller ones, simply pass through the body without being absorbed at all"
Secret Slave Contracts
> the OII survey visited people in their homes and gathered a more detailed view of Britons' online lives.
In the CAP theorem, mainframe is the king of CA. You use them mostly for DB2 databases and Batch processing on that data to remain highly consistent and available.
Many wombats died to bring us this information.

(These wombats died in car accidents, and their bodies used to learn more about wombats: https://phys.org/news/2018-11-scientists-wombats-cubed-poop....)
Person's A child won't be held back tangibly if instead of a living on a 100+ million family fortune, that instead it's a fraction of that due to equalization of education efforts. Man cannot be born as equals when one child could buy their entire university, while another cannot even afford basic living.
Inspired by a comment on HN [0]. Fascinating, and horrifying, story.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20977148
What I keep running across, in different companies, different domains, different engineering styles is code that was written first with the intent to add code later... that ends up being untestable. It seems to be a common “design pattern” (in Java, at least) to add a Singleton that connects to a data store and reference that Singleton everywhere in the codebase - which means that using any of the code triggers a static method that tries to connect to remote Mongo/Cassandra/Postgres/Redis/something.
The only bad part of typing is it seems to allow a quicker conveyance of thought to word, which starts to make it sound like speech rather than concise text.

When I'm writing a note by hand, I tend to use BLUF or TLDR mode with bullets for supporting points. When typing, I can just about hit stream-of-consciousness rates of symbol transfer, which means I need to edit 2-3 times to get a concise email or document.
I think the big issue is latency.. it just takes too long.
This solution didn't introduce it. The concepts being used have existed in Linux for quite some time.

Here's a patch of mine that added (some of) it from 2005: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...
On the contrary, thanks for the rapid-fire on these articles :)
That's probably possible, but would likely make it very hard for those evacuated in that manner to return to China in the future. It's not tourists here, it's people who went to visit their family and are now stuck.
He said that he was skeptical of the claim that "voluntary pedophilia" (sloppy terminology on his part, ironically) harms children. There is nothing wrong with skepticism. That skepticism was later revoked. I was once skeptical of the idea that capitalism is inherently exploitative, and after having it explained to me, I am not any more.
The greater context according to FCO40/327 (1960s source), "self-government" was actually suggested by the US, probably in context of cold-war containment, the Chinese viewed it as US imperialism. More importantly in the Thatcher memo, I think Deng pretty much states the legitimacy of the CPC rests on it's ability to reunite HK and if that didn't happen the CPC should just disband. There's also no geopolitical benefit to ceding territory, especially developed metropolis to ideological opponents.
I think the question is easier to answer if it's flipped. Why can't other engineering disciples work fast-and-loose?

The answer is that for software engineering, the cost balance between "working fast" and "avoiding errors" largely works out in favour of "working fast", even with the potential error rates factored in. In other engineering disciplines, the cost of failure is higher (often much higher), and therefore "slow and steady, avoiding errors" methodologies win out in this balance.