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> Also, you need an ID to have a bank account, buy a cellphone, buy alcohol or cigarettes.

Incorrect on all three accounts in the U.S.

Some states might have a law requiring ID for alcohol or cigarettes, but at least one definitely does not. Some stores actually violate their state's law with their store's ID policies.

I've done all three without ID (alcohol, not cigarettes though). Yes, it is possible to have a bank account without ID.
You can, and if you want to use Lambdas, you can also route to them from ALBs, which has a bit confusing of a pricing model for comparison, but has no per-request cost.
They ARE unlocked UNTIL you activate it with Verizon, in which case, Verizon's policy takes over. Apple is being truthful.

If the person purchased an Unlocked phone, in the first place, this wouldn't be an issue. If they purchased ANY version of the phone besides Verizon it is unlocked. Verizon is locked per carrier, not per Apple.

This is an important distinction.
Yep. (You know this, but) just as another data point, an incremental pass takes more like 75 microseconds, and a 'lightly' allocating program probably won't trigger a full sweep (no guarantees though).
Hey we did that last night at my cousin’s wedding! Was really fun. I never realized how bright it was or how fast it moves. Really cool to see!
I don't have a particular site to recommend, but my general feeling is to avoid bright colors. You'll never go wrong with simple black and white, like what you have now after you scroll down past the header and buttons.

OTOH, judging by the multiple downvotes, I may be a small minority here. Maybe other people like the page full of bright orange? Or maybe they didn't like my commenting on it.

Since no one saw fit to say what they didn't like about my comment, we may not find out which it was.
Yes. This is the case for us too. Cost reports is showing accurate information.
Please keep Veritas/O’Keefe/political BS off of here. They’re well-known to be serial fraudsters (with his latest attempt consisting of trying to plant false rape allegations during the Kavanaugh confirmation affair).
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> what I find so deeply frustrating is that the argument that GC can't work in a game engine is never qualified

The program having a say in how the GC behaves would be one requirement IMO.

> you could run a GC on every single frame and use less than 3% of your frame budget on the GC pause

Could I? In what languages?
How do you even distinguish voter fraud from a regular vote after the fact? This seems impossible because the vote is anonymous and there is no ID requirement, so no wonder putting a number on it after the fact is hard.

The source doesn't change the content of what they discovered, people caught red handed, or the statements made by officials such as NYC Democratic Commisioner Alan Schulkin.
Not at gun shows or other common purchasing avenues.
In fairness you have this backwards. "This is a Verizon policy brought on by the FCC" -- this is an FCC policy brought on by Verizon's lobbying. Until earlier this year it was not permissible for them to do this as a result of the terms of their purchase of licenses for the 700MHz LTE block in 2008.
Here in Florida they run a background check if you want to get any kind of gun. Depending on the gun you have a 3 day wait period. Handguns have a 3 day wait period. Rifles and shotguns do not but they will do a background check regardless.
Name one program the government has been In charge of where there isn’t some form of widespread corruption or bogged down by red tape. You want the government to give us a number like China? No thank you. I like my free will. It may be limited digitally, financially, and geographically, but I’m still happy with the government not assigning me a number.
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Why are credit scores “racist” (as claimed by Sanders and Vox)? The outcomes being distributed differently among races does not make the methodology “racist”. The input factors into credit scores do not include race. Correlation to race, even if strong, is not causation.
I dont know why people show up I usually vote by mail. Never had any issues doing so.
I think the argument being made here is that all VZ iPhones have the same 60 day lock on them regardless of the sales channel, even if you pay full price at the Apple store.
Hmm, old version maybe? I can't reproduce this on Firefox 68 or 69 on macOS.
No one said that you have the right to buy one.
You have the right to OWN a gun.
You have the right to vote.
What's a SSN in your view, then?
Just to clarify, the phone was on and submerged in near boiling water for 3 hours? If so, that's amazing. Most "waterproof" phones say in small print that they shouldn't even be used in the shower.
> you're not the voices in your head. I mean, you can't be; since you're obviously capable of observing them from the outside while they go on with their business.

I don't follow this logic. The brain is a parallel system, parts of it remain active while not thinking. And observing thoughts has evolutionary usefulness for meta-learning (learning to learn, learning to reason). It's just one more layer in the hierarchy.

By your logic, I am not the brain because I am observing its activity. But without it I am nothing, how does that work out?

I think it is wrong to think I am just the brain - I am the brain plus the body, because the brain is formed inside the body, fed sensations and learned everything from the body. And the body itself is part of the environment, again, the brain learns everything from it and depends on it to develop. Even the perception of shape, sound, movement, hunger, language and society - they all come from the environment and the body and shape the mind.

So I am at the junction of brain, body and environment, not a detached observer, and my purpose is to learn how to act optimally in all situations in order to keep my body alive and continue my genes. If I didn't, then my genes would have a worse chance of survival and filter our from the pool, thus they must fight for survival. We've been shaped by survival and environment. The 'I' is the result of this optimisation process in action. If 'I' didn't get up in the morning and take something to eat, work in order to have what I need, then 'I' would die. So 'I' is the caretaker of the body.
It is one the best sci-fi books out there. You will love the way it ends. It brings us to realise what we know and what we presently dont understand in the field of physics.
Fair enough I guess, maybe I misunderstood. I'm not familiar with the program. But the are multiple people in the thread disputing his claim.

It just drives me crazy. The tone. The victim mentality. Just feels like BS, I don't really belive him to be honest. Sounds like he just made a dumb choice.

Why would he choose the Verizon version? He wanted an unlocked phone. It's very clearly an option in the list. I've looked at the checkout page on the Apple store. Just choose the option that clearly says it's a generic unlocked phone.

But he didnt. He chose the specific version tied to Verizon. Even though he's in the Apple program? Hmm...

I guess I jiat got really fired up because this is the last thing I want to see trending on the front page. It is soo far from being interesting, or able to satisfy ANYONE'S intelectual curiosity, it caused me to go on multiple angry rants in the comments! :)
I guess I consider myself "Oregon Trail Generation" , and I'm also a bit of a rail enthusiast, so I try to work it into my travel.

I don't think the privacy narrative makes sense. You're already traveling with some stranger in the next seat. You don't get significantly less privacy in a dining car. It probably fits within other cultural norms like smaller counter-service-only restaurants. If they're feeling tension in a dining car, they're going to have a full on panic attack in the coach!

What it does mean is that the value proposition for eating on board went down significantly. All you had to do to get the sale was offer reasonable food at fair prices. I don't need Michelin-star dining, but if you can match a basic chain diner (Applebee's or the like) with the convenience of "eat when you're hungry instead of waiting for your arrival and to find a place, and enjoy the scenery while doing so", you're a compelling value proposition.

I was livid about this when I rode the UK Great Western services recently; for 20 GBP extra between Swindon and Plymouth, first class was supposed to include a meal. Instead, you got a snack-box that looked suspiciously like the one you'd spend 7.99 USD for on Frontier Airlines. Needless to say, I packed my own meals for the rest of the trip.
I actually have written software for video routers and character generators. We didn't consider them hard real time, though I wouldn't claim that such was standard industry usage.

For example, if you're doing a take, you have to complete it during the blanking interval, but usually the hardware guarantees that. In the software, you want you take to happen in one particular vertical blanking interval (and yes, it really is a frame-accurate industry). But if you miss, you're only going to miss by one. We didn't (so far as I know) specify guarantees to the customer ("If you get your command to the router X ms before the vertical interval, your take will happen in that vertical"), so we could always claim that the customer didn't get the command to the router in time. Again, so far as I know - there may have been guarantees given to the customer, but I didn't know about them.

But that was 20 years ago, back in the NTSC 525 days.

Nice name, by the way. Do you know of any video cards that will do a true Porter & Duff composite these days? I recall looking (again, 20 years ago) at off-the-shelf video cards, and while they could do an alpha composite, it wasn't right (and therefore wasn't useful to us).
It’s not mutually exclusive. We are craftsmen and craftswomen. Definitely obsess over the problem but also obsess over the tools used to carve out the most usable elegant and efficient solution.

It’s really asking the same questions over and over again. Can we do better ? Does this tool allow me to be efficient, write safer and faster code, how good is the adjacent libraries and ecosystem ? What other kinds of things does it make it possible to solve?
Sure: for instance in LLVM global values (variables, functions) have use-lists, so do constants. That means you can find easily every uses of a function: they are chained in a doubly linked list.
In MLIR, it isn't the case. We use symbol name to refer to other global object, we lose the ability to easily find the uses of these global objects. On the other hand functions are well isolated and you can run Function passes in a multi-threaded fashion safely.
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I have met people on the train when I used to take one from Orlando to Hollywood to visit my spouse when we were dating for different holidays. I had no idea there was even a food cart till somebody mentioned it and even then I didnt want to leave my belongings unattended. I was carrying everything I needed for the weekend.
No re-encoding I hope :)
Thanks! og:image is there, is it not working for you? It's nothing fancy, just a screenshot of the site.
They did. I had to look it up too. Thing is I knew what it was, at least I did when I was young. I’m old now and I have forgotten many things.
Fair. I won't edit my comment since it will just confuse things but you are 100% correct, my wording was incorrect.
I don’t know about the whole University but only ~25% of the operating budget of the Harvard school that includes Harvard College comes from students (tuition, room, & board) and that has been on a decline as more and more of admitted students receive financial aid.

Donations used directly for operations is way, way less than 1/3rd. A little over half the operating budget comes from interest on the endowment, I don’t know how to figure how much of that can be attributed to donations rather than investments, patents, etc.
Sorry I got too fired up... seeing this trending put me in a mood :)
Are you coding as a hobby or a profession?

If you are a professional, you will use the most effective tool for the job - to get results. What tool will produce the best results - schedule, budget, quality, maintainability, scalabi, portability, etc.?

Other than outliers that will crush your productivity, or multiply it, your feelings are pretty irrelevant.

Similarly, when you get into a racecar, your feelings about your preferred driving style are irrelevant - if you can change the setup to accommodate your style without slowing jt down, great = but if not, your job is to adapt to the situation and reliably get the best possible result.

Either way, you have fun and produce a crap result, you will not be congratulated (or re-hired), and if you have little fun and produce a great result, you'll get both.

If it's a hobby, do whatever you want.

Obviously, in terms of professional development, you want to use more forward looking tools, but what is the best measure of that - your feelings or results?
I am an Apple fanboy and a macrumors member since 2002 and that thread is infuriating. People bend over backwards to defend Apple by any means necessary. I just read the entire thread and it seems like Apple messed up here. I would be surprised if it was intentional, but they still clearly messed up. It's ok to admit that.
It doesn't matter how many risks you take. What counts is taking the right risks.

Fiat currency works fine. Bitcoin only has value for money laundering and drug deals; its value doesn't tell us anything positive or negative about fiat currency.
What you are missing is that in the us hospital rates are different for everyone. If you are uninsured you might get billed 5-10x what someone with insurance might get billed. So in the event of something minor like a hospital visit you will get hit with a bill for 10k just for showing up at the hospital and 20-40k for an overnight stay. Catastrophic is the way to go if you need a somewhat deferrable surgery you can go to a different country or game the requirement for a life event that would allow enrollment in a health plan.

Keep in mind that insurance reimbursement/negotiated rates matter. You want an insurance that negotiated a super low payout (though that will limit where you can go for procedures) as that will often greatly reduce your out of pocket payment in situations where you don’t hit the catastrophic cap which will be 99% of cases.
With all due respect to Apple, this is 100% Apple’s fault. Verizon has no magical innate ability to lock phones. Apple, which controls the phone and, for the most part, the baseband, grants Verizon the ability to lock the phone. They should not — per their own page, the phone is unlocked.

I fully expect Verizon to be as obnoxious as they can be. Apple makes itself out as standing up for their users, and the obviously failed to do so.
By using a cache with an eviction policy, you sort of already accept that the data you write at "t" might not exist at "t+1". So that solves the semantics and expectations part.

For the part where an overloaded cache drops Set requests, the most frequent Set requests are the one most likely to be admitted in between the dropped ones, so I guess this is also sort of taken care of.

I have no affiliation with the project, but reading and asking myself the same question as you, I reasoned what I wrote above.
If you're interested in this topic, you should look at "Weapons of Math Destruction."

It's a question of if the outcomes are distributed differently among races because the races represent truly different probabilities, or because the inputs to the model were already tainted against some race. For example, let's say you judge creditworthiness based on membership in a particular honors society, but that honors society doesn't exist at historically black colleges.
I think Uber is a big cause of the problem here.

Companies like Google and Facebook got investors thinking that a tech thing that a lot of people used must be worth a lot of money.

Uber came along and legitimately made something that a lot of people loved, and if you didn't look too hard, it looked like a tech thing. Plus it spent years getting bigger and bigger rounds of investment, so it looked like a rock star. Everybody wanted to be "Uber for X", never mind that Uber was losing money hand over fist, still does, and may never stop.

WeWork went with the same formula, hoping to cash in similarly: Uber for office space! Shiny thing that people like in a market that is a pain in the ass! Amazing growth! Sure, the technology gloss was a little thinner, a little hazier. But the CEO was even more arrogant, more of a performative visionary than Kalanick, so that compensated for a while.

Unfortunately for WeWork, Lyft and Uber IPOd and didn't do so well. Tesla's not looking so healthy either, and let's not forget Theranos. So investors are starting to get wise to the fact that even if a "tech visionary" has gotten investment, grown quickly, and gotten a lot of good press, it doesn't mean it's a good stock to buy.

So yes, from an analytical perspective, it makes no sense. An oversupply of investment money and tech hype meant a lack of discipline, meaning a dreamer or a scammer (if in the end there's a difference) could try to build an empire, and investors would either fall for it or believe that they had a good chance of cashing out in an IPO before the house of cards collapsed. (For a parallel example, consider Groupon, which is now trading at 10% of its IPO price.)
Compared to an x86 OS that is specialized and fits in a few MB worth of storate media. I think a custom OS for the Pi could be very lightweight and efficient. Especially given how spread out the SBC is. I am sure there could be a stripped down Distro for the Pi as well. Its a shame that Slitaz is kind of dead.
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This is really cool! Love the street view visualization! I have a request though. To save time searching for the satellite is there anyway you could provide info to what it is as well?
Why would he choose the Verizon version?

People "in the know" buy unlocked Verizon phones directly from Apple regardless of their actual carrier because only the Verizon version supports both CDMA and GSM. It is the only iPhone that can be used on every US network.
But then what's left of RAII? What resource is there to allocate other than the memory itself? RAII means more than just "get memory to put this in".
> From Apple's point of view, the phone IS unlocked. However, since its tied to Verizon, the phone is carrier locked because of the FCC ruling, linked by another user.

I am reasonably confident that the lock is implemented by Apple. If Apple genuinely thinks the phone is unlocked, then it would be unlocked.
> As in, within the USA a restaurant must accept US dollars as payment for a meal, but they are not obligated to accept a barrel of oil (or a bond), not matter how valuable the barrel may be.

This is not true. The restaurant can only be compelled to accept the dollars if they sue you and get a judgment against you. That judgment will be denominated in dollars, and if you present that amount of dollars you'll be free of your obligation to the restaurant. (Even if they refuse to take them.)

For the common case of a parking garage that charges dollars to park and won't take $20 bills, that garage is entirely on the right side of the law, and you cannot legally compel them to take the twenty, regardless of the text "this note is legal tender for all debts, public and private" printed on it.
> We value your privacy

I hate popups that can't be dismissed. But reader mode works regardless, at least.
Wow, I didn't know about it. Big thanks for this suggestions. I will add this filter soon. What do you think should be a name for this filter? Maybe something like "old posts"? :)
At one point that was true but the past several generations (from 6 on I think) have only a single US SKU.
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Was trying to find some online pictures of the homestead, this was the only one I could find, this would be the view from the front porch, although it is different today, the gate no longer exists and the peninsula out in the distance is shorter due to dredging:

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/421860690078118339/

Have not found any of the house yet, I will keep looking. I know there are some on Facebook posted by the family (they just had a family work weekend) but I don't do Facebook.
For a non American you seem very invested in this.

I see no proof of people being caught redhanded and that’d be pretty easy to verify since voter fraud is a felony and they’d have a court cases.

It would take thousands of cases to sway most elections, so you’d need hundreds and hundreds of people to commit multiple felonies.

And yet somehow none of this giant conspiracy to manipulate voter fraud is leaking out? Seems implausible.

And they’d all need to assume identities of people already on the voter registration rolls.

So those hundreds of felons would have to somehow not take the vote of someone who would vote later that day, or someone who’d already voted.

This is a lot of work and a really grand conspiracy to keep under wraps.

It’s almost certainly easier, cheaper, and more effective to spread false narratives such as “voter fraud is a big issue and only Republicans care about the sacredness of _your_ vote” than it is to actually somehow find and organize enough people to make it worthwhile.
I've been surprised and delighted by C recently myself; Being able to make a small change to a datatype, variable name, and so on, and then instantly seeing an IDE highlight errors relating to it is amazing for productivity. The language is incredibly simple. I mostly use structures to define my own 'types' and design functions to work on pointers to those types. That way you can control whether you want your data to live on the stack or heap and its fairly robust. I've rarely if ever had to use function pointers or macros, but they're there if you need more advanced features. I find just being able to manipulate memory and buffers as raw bytes with no bullshit wrappers helps you so much with actual programming (TM.)

As far as data types go, I haven't used much more than linked lists and basic hash maps so far. For everything else I use fixed-sized arrays. It helps you precisely control how much memory the program is using without worrying that some higher-level magic garbage collector will overflow. Despite having that level of control, I haven't been frustrated by it yet. Yes, the standard library is very basic, but you can add the types you need very easily. There's some beautiful C code out there that will give you exactly what you want without having to include hundreds of obscure futures you'll never need. Overall, I've been very happy with it, and I look forwards to trying to run my code on all kinds of weird and wonderful platforms. I see huge competitive benefits for C code bases, to be honest.
I'm quite surprised that your comment was downvoted so much. Maybe people like this orange HN color? :D
How can you guys take an article seriously that can’t even be bothered to get basic factual information correctly.
I've often read of the benefits of meditation, and I don't doubt many find it helpful.

But do the benefits apply to people who are naturally calm and not tense? An often a cited benefit is feeling calm and being able to let go of tension and anxiety, and having a clarity of thought. But I rarely feel tense/anxious so the investment of time has never been attractive to me.
I agree that they went a little over the top in sentiment, but it after the Reading the entire thread, they appeared more correct than the other people. They also explained why they selected the Verizon phone. Historically that was the model to get due to CMDA and/or bands. However, I am not sure if that was necessary this year.
The scientific version of this is mechanical watches.