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Data races are impossible in JavaScript because it's single-threaded. Race conditions are possible in any language that can do anything asynchronous, which is basically all of them. But the general benefit you get from JS being single-threaded is the fact that any given callback is transactional. No other code will ever come in and mutate state between two regular lines of JavaScript code. Achieving this is pretty much the whole point of locking mechanisms, so under normal circumstances they aren't necessary for JS.

That said, when you use async/await instead of promises or callbacks, things do change because two sequential lines of code are no longer two truly sequential instructions. You're muddying the most fundamental metaphor of code syntax. That's why I personally don't like async/await syntax, although I get why people want it.
Well, does the watch not work as advertised?
I had no idea some services could be so expensive. Life Alert starts at $50/month. Depending on what you get from it, the Apple Watch would be cheaper in less than a year. Interesting!
They say that it is not mining, but rather doing transactions on something called Incognito network? Or maybe I am misunderstanding it.

It does seem really sketchy though, they are all over the place. They say they use Proof of Stake, but BTC is not PoS. And not sure how that ties into this little gem: "Node earns Incognito’s native coin, Privacy (PRV)" =)
My guess is that it enables them to spin up their own experimental judicial systems that they believe should exist. To them, relegating to proper courts would be giving up their stake in determining how things 'ought to be'.

Consider, for example, the premise of 'rape culture' which was popularized a few years ago. If such a claim concerning culture is to be made, then it implies the judicial systems external to the institution are reinforcing that culture, and the only way to prevent that from being a part of the institution is to override it with your own judicial system.

Similar logic could be used regarding other sociological claims made in private institutions that they must reinforce in this way.
This applies to praise of any FAANG company now. Tech giants all harvesting data gather plenty of muck.
I'm utterly bewildered that there's no official documentation of this stuff though. This seems to be common with a lot of modern software too.

I remember when google maps changed from having a from location box and a to location box to just letting you type "from address A to address B", which is pretty nifty. However this was never actually documented so I spent months pressing randomly to get the old UI up (it still seemed to exist, but only in some states of the application) before I finally realized that was the new way.
s/over 60/under 65/?
Sometimes you want to have people behave in a way which reflects higher ideals than mere legality.
> a recruiter working very hard to convince me I'd be rich when they IPO

Is that even legal?
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I just got the iPad Pro and have been using the iPadOS beta for the past few months. I don’t know how I was doing without it before.

I now have a place where I can sketch my architecture diagrams, wireframes, live sketching for my team when I work. Everything is in one place and does not get lost. I can plug it into a projector and write notes on things to explain things to my team. Doing presentations is easy. I now pretty much only use my MacBook Pro for coding. Almost every other task is done on my iPad Pro.

My 2 most used apps at this point are Concepts and Flow by moleskine.

It’s become a boon to my workflow.
I think I go through a yearly bout of playing Minecraft heavily for about a month. The game has a lot of depth and the amount of mods that add so much great content to the game is almost unparalleled.
> People in Australia don't take driving seriously.

I guess that means they don't take it seriously enough for your tastes, but if you've driven elsewhere in the word you would find Australian's take adhering to the road rules _very_ seriously compared to just about anywhere else.

Other's here have called in nanny state'ism. Maybe that's true, but it's also true the expansive nature of the country means we drive long distances at high speeds on wide roads. Someone deliberately driving down the wrong side of the road, which I have seen numerous times in countries like France and Italy would get someone killed in Australia. A drunk drivers mistake at 50km/hr it likely to end up at the panel beaters, at 100km/hr at the morgue. Even in major Australian city like Brisbane I'd say I do most of my driving at 100km/hr. So there is a point to nanny state'ism.

On the other hand if you had driven in highly congested environments like France and Italy tend to have, you would notice a little extra chaos on the roads actually helps. Other drivers are seem to be far more accommodating of you breaking the rules because you've been sitting there for 5 minutes and it is your turn.
As I mention above, the way I did this was to buy a low-cost/locked/unactivated iPhone 6s and paired the watch to it. It thus provides in-home monitoring of such events; I can confirm that it works well since it got inadvertently activated a couple of times (the first watchOS version with this feature seemed to be prone to false positives) and I had to talk to the emergency agent on her behalf to state that everything was ok for now.
I actually agree. The lack of seriousness in their dress betrays their lack of respect towards their work, and towards themselves.
It's been a while since I've found myself disagreeing with something so strongly.

I think that the absolute last thing we need is government-funded social media. If YouTube "spreads propaganda," what do you expect from a platform that a massive government has its hands directly on? I don't understand. It's as dystopian-sounding as any idea I have ever heard.

> In other words, it should be built to prioritize sharing things you love over getting attention by simply being loud online.

This is an over-trivialization of Twitter. At risk of sounding snarky: if you think Twitter is all about getting attention, you're using the app wrong, and maybe you only follow celebrities.

Also, I think the question "Will people use it, and how many?" is the wrong question ask. Why will people use it? Can I get news updates? Can I find funny/entertaining content? Can I reasonably expect organic engagement, and potential virality? Can I get private life updates from my friends, without the government's eyes peering in? People don't typically go to PBS for most of these things (news is one thing they do), so I can't imagine how a "PBS" for social media would be very different.

Yet another question: "Why would I be on a social media app with my parents?"

I can understand the reasoning behind this, but I don't see it realistically gaining any traction or significant usage, ever.

All this being said, Mr. Mark Coatney is a former director of Tumblr, so obviously there's a big gulf in social media experience between us, and I could be egregiously wrong on some of what I have said above. Who knows?
Good counter examples. Etymonline will break roots down for you.

https://www.etymonline.com/word/unbalanced#etymonline_v_2490...

Like most things in linguistics, the 'rules' are more a rule of thumb than the mathimatical sort.

Germanic pre/post fixes seem like they stick to pre-inkhorn roots better.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inkhorn_term
Differentiating between cardiac arrest and taking the watch off your wrist may be interesting. And I kinda wonder how good any single-lead EKG would be at detecting a heart attack when your heart is still beating. Even the expensive multi-lead machines usually auto-diagnose me with an old infarction, which is false.
This is exactly the reason why our industry suffers from gross diversity problems -- everyone who 'fits in' telling everyone else it's their fault for not fitting in -- oh sweet irony of ironies bring on the downvotes
So, another way to extract money from people who actually need medical services?
I have no ideological agenda other than not engaging in casual racism to construct a boogeyman to point at to absolve myself of the substantial impact I've made to the climate.
yikes! thanks, fixed.
it really depends on the industry.
Yeah, the Google autoupdater’s insistence on reinstalling itself to maintain RCE on my machine even after being explicitly removed is really irksome.
Why is that? IANAPhysician, but this seems like a fairly rare malady in this age group. Do we really want all of these people rushing to the hospital? If no one trusts the Apple Watch's diagnosis, how useful could it be?
> It has to be one line of CSS.

Yes, but that one line is very long and nobody knows how it ends.
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The first watchOS version that had this monitoring built-in seemed to be prone to false positives. However, the watch first asks you if you are ok and if you do not acknowledge so in a few seconds, then it dials out.
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> It doesn't matter that it's all single threaded if all your function calls may or may not block and run a bunch of other code in the meantime, mutating all kinds of state.

Can you elaborate a bit more on this? I'm unsure about how locking in a single-threaded environment would work. And how would it really differ from async/await or promises which can handle race conditions already?

One area where the lack-of locking primitives does worry me is the use of shared mutable memory. I've never used these techniques in JS, but if I remember right one can now do something like this:

1. Create a shared memory array

2. Spawn several workers which do work on shared arrays

3. Pass a reference to the array to each worker and let them run.

This seems like an area where we could start to see these problems start appearing. There's a module related to atomic operations [1] but there is no language-level enforcement of using it. There could be good reasons why this isn't worrying but I just don't happen to know that off hand.

[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
> the US staged the attack on Saudi oil production.

that is definitely no for so many reasons that there is no point in going over them. This is why nobody floats it. After all a good conspiracy theory must have a good theory element in it - ie. a plausible explanation of some facts without contradicting the rest of the facts :)

What may have happened is US finally decided that it may be the time to stop the blood bath in Yemen, yet how one would go about it without displeasing the Saudis? So may be the US just did let the drones pass through (as in the ships carrying the drones as well as the drones flying to the target). Thus US preserves Saudis as dear friends, while the Saudis become very interested in ending the war because their lower back becomes on fire, and how are they going to do the oil IPO if the oil infrastructure/assets overnight became de-facto located in the war zone?
I'm Australian and I think a large portion of us use swear words almost like punctuation.

Of course it depends on the social context. I'm not going to be swearing much at all at work and still feel a little startled (not offended, just surprised and maybe vaguely uncomfortable) when my manager drops an F-bomb or two. Yet around friends and family, F-bombs (and C-bombs [1] around close friends!) are almost used like exclamation points, purely to draw emphasis and attention to a statement.

I can only conclude it's one of those cultural things. So while I respect that some people find swearing deeply offensive and particularly only useful to offend, that's a really alien concept to me.

[1] F-bomb and C-bomb are slang terms referring to f..k and c..t respectively.
Security wise sounds a bit light.
I like the idea but I'd be more comfortable with a more security-first approach instead of "we are infra people" as we know how that usually ends.

I'll be following the project closely as I think the idea is good.
The iCloud photo backup work very well, in my experience. My phone and older iPad are lower capacity and have to keep optimized (smaller) photos local. The full size images are downloaded automatically when viewed in Photos.

As noted by another post, iCloud will delete a photo from the whole system if deleted on one device, so you may want periodic backups elsewhere. I just drag the entire photo library file (MacOS keeps the library, photos included, in a single “file”) from my Mac to an external drive. Can’t speak to the best way to do this from an iPad, but with the new external drive support, that might be easy?
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Tip: the fall detection feature seems to be turned off by default. I just turned mine on. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208944
> power over ethics

No one sees themselves as evil. I'm sure that "they" just differ in terms of what they consider ethical. If I may play the devil's advocate: Why is it more ethical to favor those born with ability than to favor those born with connections?

I don't have a quarrel with either form of discrimination, but I do have a problem with the dishonesty about how things actually work.
This isn’t “keyboard has access to everything” it’s “keyboard can make network requests” - now we can argue over whether that’s good or not (a lot of predictive keyboards use network requests to update for current events etc), but this seems by design whereas the seeing your contacts thing is clearly a bug.

I’m still unclear why the contacts DB isn’t class A data (eg wrapped by a key that is only available when the device is actually unlocked), I assume it’s perf related.

Anyway, feel free to say “accessing contacts from lock screen is a bug”, but for the keyboard stuff you need to compare to the android equivalents, which IIRC are even worse :-/
> Same with both Linux and windows.

That doesn't seem right, unless you mean some specific version of sandboxing? Changing selinux/apparmor hats, setting up seccomp, creating namespaces, and others can be done just fine by regular users. They're all sandboxes.
I don't understand how any other specific admission criteria would be better and what exactly it suppose to achieve?

Ivy league is just a brand, some people get branded by it and some are not, some people because they were born to the right family, some because they got very high marks and some because they got the right skin colour. There is no "justice" as it is just a lottery winning thing, if you got branded your life would be better after. For any one who get accepted there are 100 who could replace him.

You could study the exact same program and acquire exactly the same knowledge in a different university but you won't get branded, so how is it fair? There is no fair, it is just pure luck that your combination of various parameters didn't get you into an ivy, if they changed it it would be someone else bad luck.

At the end of the day, who is going to be branded to be part of the elite is up to the elite, if you force them to change the rules they will just remove the branding, this branding only worth if the people who are already branded accept the newly branded.
Agreed on 'what took them so long' but I am still using SwiftKey for now, because I find the Apple swype implementation isn't as reliable for me. And for some reason the Apple keyboard doesn't always have a backspace key. Which is weird and when it happens pretty frustrating.
People have tried such things [1] I would say it doesn't make for particularly good viewing. Every engagement sends one or both drones involved to the ground, which rewards not engaging. Although perhaps more sophisticated rules could improve on that?

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFiYqVKFJ0U
Mainframe days
There is an Atomics API for that...
Yea pimpin'! and those damned fleece vests put my high school religion teachers to shame

It all started with some engineers at commodore trying to show how fun loving they were and quickly became a fool's fashion show of kitschy tired old rags
We built this, without having to join a new network.

It works with Gmail/Facebook/Discord/Reddit, etc.

By encrypting your message end-to-end on public platforms:

https://github.com/eraeco/party.lol
Apple has a long history of very enthusiastic fans that can at times crossover into being obnoxious. Apple is hardly unique in that but it does seem to be somewhat more prevalent for them. Some commenters likely don't want to be quickly dismissed as fawning fans lacking perspective of Apple's place in the world.
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Nothing really, but you'll still want be sure the lock is released correctly.
What if you own the cellular version but didn't pay for a plan? Many phones will still allow 911 calls even without as paid plan.
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Yeah, I removed Chrome precisely because it kept re-adding its crap to the login sequence. It really drove home the notion that Google will not respect any boundary or privacy - your machine is their machine, your data is their data, and screw you if you don't agree.

Now I live in Firefox and it's just as good as Chrome, at least for my needs. I've dropped pretty much all Google stuff except for GMail, mostly out of laziness (I would have to update hundreds of accounts).
Tell that to Arundhati Roy.
Respectfully, this is largely FUD bullshit.

Schooling is an avenue into education, and while 19th century prussia has been an influence, so has been montessori, humboldt and the 20st and 21st century reserach into pedagogy.

As for your comments on antivaxxer, they are called antivaxxers because they are anti-vaccination, don't care about the actual problems and and don't respond to the actual arguments. Doctors and researchers will always debate how to make vaccines better, because of course they will, we want better vaccines. There is also debate about when we can get away without vaccination, e.g. in the case of rabies where the vaccine is time sensitive, or malaria, where it doesn't make sense for norwegians to get them unless they visit the tropics and so they can spare themselves the side effects (which are acknowledged and worked on, see before) and society the cost. What you will not find, at all, is any honest scientific debate about whether the default should be to vaccinate or not. I don't know if you meant to imply this, but Poe's law acts here: even if you didn't you gave the antivaxxers a smidgen of credibility, by saying "you will find debate" in a way which could imply "and that means antivaxxers have some reasonable positions". They don't.

See also here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaccine_hesitancy#Effectivenes...

and this table: https://www.nature.com/articles/nmicrobiol2017106/tables/1
> And the evidence that people will avoid doing things they might otherwise do, even at significant cost to themselves, for the sake of their family and close friends, is abundant.

Rational people, maybe. People on the verge of suicide are not acting rationally.

Where's the citable evidence for the claim that "shaming/guilting/burdening suicidal people makes them less likely to commit suicide"?
It's best to use the phrase 'async control flow' instead of 'race conditions' when you're talking about single threaded execution.
OS for K8s? I'm getting CoreOS vibes.

Sounds neat, but is it really needed? K8s doesn't really care about what it is running on. Not sure what problems it would solve. And might create others (compliance?)
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Food prices rise and fall with oil.

That’s probably it.
You claim there is no legal obligation. But when it starts to look like an end-run around the First Amendment, the courts will intervene.
Document databases kind of killed them I would specualte. Since JSON serializes with objects so much better than (ugh) XML, the Relational impedence is gone (well, a lot of it).
When you listen to official announcements by government leaders these days, you have to conclude that Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf was ahead of his time.
Hmm, yes and no. It's certainly possible to nest a package (dataset) inside a package. But, there's no (current) API that returns the list of datasets as a table/DataFrame. How would you imagine using that feature?
Now try to create a routine that generates mazes with no dead ends on a system with 128 bytes of total RAM.

That 128 bytes includes stack. No graphics memory at all.
I think the rate is low enough that most people are not getting multiple spurious notifications to rush to the hospital, so trust is probably not the issue. The only problem I see is hospitals being overwhelmed, but again, I'm not sure if we're really overloading them.
If the price rises enough global markets will break down as state actors attempt to seize or hoard oil resourxes for internal consumption

So, it’s true, right up until it’s not
One could also carry around a calculator that's cheaper than their cellphone.

Not many folks under 60 walk around wearing heart monitors, fall detectors, and other health monitors. This is about those things becoming commonplace for everyone.
There was a recent episode of the New Economics Foundation podcast “The Myth of Meritocracy” [1] that had a lengthy discussion in the U.K. context. I read a little of Jo Littler’s “Against Meritocracy” [2] book.

[1] https://neweconomics.org/2019/08/weekly-economics-podcast-th...

[2] https://www.routledge.com/Against-Meritocracy-Open-Access-Cu...
> My personal pet peeve about Android updates is that they start the clock the day that they release the product, instead of say, starting the doomsday clock on the day they discontinue the product. So if you happen to wait 12 months for the price to drop from $800 to $500, you lose 12 months of software support.

It works the same with Apple devices too, though the supported period has typically been longer than in the Android world. For example, the iPhone 8 (introduced in 2017) that Apple continues to sell today as the lowest priced iPhone wouldn’t get five years of software updates from today. It’d likely get its last update sometime in 2023, before iOS 17 is released (assuming that iPhones usually get software updates for about five plus years).
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Ooh, it nice to see that it's been officially added!
Well the watch isn't measuring troponin levels so it's hard to imagine how useful it could ever be at MI detection, especially given the limitations of a poor contact single lead ECG.