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>This law is really terrible, but maybe decisions like this will help abolish it. After all, if one can find the information with a VPN, it becomes less useful to enforce this law

Should we really only enact laws when they can be enforced worldwide?
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I have an infinite boot loop when trying talos.iso in virtualbox. can you share the recommanded settings to test this OS in a virtualized environment?
Agile has his concept of "horizon of predictability". Basically, you are semi-accurate within the two-week range. After that, the accuracy nosedives. At 6 months, you could be off by, well, 6 months.
Good point! My understanding is that the horrific situation depicted in The Handmaid’s Tale started by well-educated women pushing on women’s rights! Also suggest reading Houellebecq’s Submission for a related view about pushing legitimate viewpoints to extreme.
Anecdotally, I've heard Scandinavia has a similarly high rate, for the same reason.
Great work, thank you.
You know, I've seen a number of Uncle Bob talks where he emphasizes professionalism and every time he does I envision interactions like you've described. But every time I hear this I think to myself, well he's in a unique position because of his brand and companies seek him out for is skill set; he has the luxury of being professional.

You've added the qualifier he never seems to add, that someday you might not be in the position to act professional. This is a sad but accurate commentary on the current state of things in our "profession".
And avoiding a potential libel suit.
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Not necessarily, lightning is an extreme electrical phenomenon. I'm no way an expert, but from what I've read...

1. Lightning doesn't have to hit the tallest object. Electricity doesn't flow into the lowest-impedance path either. It's just probability at work - lightning is more likely to hit the tallest object, and when an object gets a hit, more current flows into the lowest-impedance path, but other path will receive their shares. "Electricity finds the path of least resistance" is only a rule-of-thumb when the resistance of one path is two order-of-magnitude smaller than other path, then approximately 99% of the energy is applied to the short circuit. But when you have a lot of different path with impedance of similar order-of-magnitude, every path will receive some energy.

If the object is a lightning protection system, it has incrediblly low impedance than other objects, so it will do its best to redirect all energy to ground and ensure that the probability of hitting other objections is very low, but still, if there's an unintended high impedance path within the protected system (e.g. two large metal structures are grounded separately, but not connected with a think metal bar, a voltage difference can develop between the two), then some energy won't be redirected to ground as intended and will attempt to flow through other objects with lower impedance, and it'll destroy other objects along the way. It's why we still see damages from time to time.

Worse, in nature there's no such conductor designed for lightning protection, all objects are vulnerable, it's just some are a bit more vulnerable to others, like the tallest tree.

2. Lightning doesn't have to hit you directly to cause injury. Recall Electrical Safety 101, if you connect a 110V/220V "hot" wire to a grounded object, the low impedance ground will keep the voltage of such object low to ensure safety. But if it's a HV line, it's another story, the Earth itself is not a perfect conductor, the point closer to the voltage source will have less resistance, thus a voltage gradient forms, there can be a significant voltage difference on Earth between your legs.
>(inb4 mpv, mpc-hc, potplayer is better...)

Well mpv can play full-range videos with correct colors... ;) But for everything that isn't a full-range video, I usually prefer VLC. So thanks!
Probably. That's the sort of thing that WARP Plus can help with.
Thanks - that probably explained why it felt a bit fake!
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I'm not the parent commenter, but I'll take a crack it at. Some of the mpd and similar command line utilities (as well as those that get a little more flashy like ncmpd or another front end) are usually pretty simple and low resource. VLC can do everything, which makes it a gigantic swiss army knife chainsaw thing, but most of the time I can get away with something lighter.

That said, VLC is still pretty good. It handles the various webm, mkv, mp3, mp4, plus whatever else I've got floating around in /home without losing a beat.
The article mentions that WARP is exposing the end user's IP to websites they visit. I'd be interested in how they do that, especially with HTTPS websites where they can't MITM and inject headers.

> WARP is not designed to allow you to access geo-restricted content when you’re traveling. It will not hide your IP address from the websites you visit.
You can use BetterTouchTool to do tiling like stuff?
I haven't come across the wireless standard yet.

But I would ask - what sort of projector? Because some of the meeting rooms here still have VGA connectors, we have others that use HDMI, screens in our collab area that have mini-displayport, I'm pretty sure there's a DVI-only projector hanging around somewhere too... Do you want all these ports on your laptop?

I'm loving the (seeming) convergence of display-port-over-thunderbolt using USB-C connectors. Though unfortunately it also seems that not every device and every display are happy talking over that so maybe it's no panacea either.
It's crucially important to take managing and lifetime of such storages into account. I doubt it can fight with SSD or HDD.
As someone who sees a lot of different assemblers I really enjoyed this read. But the most important lesson learned for the next CTF: Just probe the PRNG and see if it is predictable :P
Hitton's point is that "you can't reject [Peterson] just because you happen to not like them." If it was instead "because his claims are unsupported by evidence," then I could see how your counterpoint is apt. However, that is not the case.
Of course that is not to say that any number of people employed by or contracted to the NSA are not committing treason or any of myriad other felonies under cover of NSA-provided secrecy.

The only check on that is their higher-ups' jealousy of their income, provided they know of it.
Without the cone we can't have the Santa hat cone, either. Another reason to keep the cone.

My little girl has grown-up seeing the cone on our PCs and knows it's what plays the videos from my DSLR. She has asked to watch "cone videos", which means "videos of me you shot with your camera".
The thing I always think of when seeing coverage of disappearing glaciers is all of the places that rely on them for clean water. [1]

1: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/04/17/climate/melti...
It didn't help that at some point on of the main distribution points for FOSS shipped archives stuffed with malware that the authors had no idea about.
My sense of it all is that time is simply the procession of cause and effect, the rate of it is affected by space but it's meaningless to consider it happening backwards, and the main reason anyone might be tempted to is just a side effect of treating it as a fourth dimension for the purposes of plugging it into equations.
How is that problematic?
Ah I see. Genius. So is there ever a use-case for NOT using the Async/Await -version of readFile()? Is fsReadSync() now just legacy which we don't need any more?
I dont think that is the case either. Alcohol has an influence but like with handguns, there are plenty who manage without both.
> other people think my email address is their email address,

This is the worst kind of spam. There is someone who enters my email for all his electronic receipts. I am not sure if he's purposefully enter a "fake" email or mistyping his own. But either way, it doesn't get classified as spam. There is also no way to "unsubscribe".

I now know the guy drives a Mitsubishi which he regularly services and also shops at Target and Kmart - mainly purchasing BBQ equipment.
Thanks for the feedback! The website is getting slow because it's built with lambdas and as there are not many users right now, there are "guaranteed" cold starts. I'm not sure if the solution would be adding some ping script to keep functions warm for a while or just drop serverless.

You'll be able to add tasks "on the fly" from the timer dropdown soon!
The question is more: how does this page still show up on apple.com in 2019?
If you're dealing with adversarial middle-men, it could be OK. I lived in a country where everything inside the country right up to the border could be considered adversarial.

If it brings competition to the shady VPN-peddlers, and is easy to download and get going, I'll consider it a net positive, all-in-all, regardless whether I'll use it personally or not.
LTO6 here, I bought it at Newegg. It’s pricy but having a 2.5TB and fairly durable cartridge is nice for my needs. I just dropped one earlier this week, no big deal though. I use LTFS on it, it has latency but it’s faster than you expect and once you’re streaming on or off of it, it’s downright quick. Historically, I burned optical media for this but the size of tape makes it much easier. It’s on a SAS card in a linux server, I literally plugged it in and it worked with open SUSE. I forget if the tape tools were already there or not but the old school Unix stuff just worked. I installed the ltfs tools and it all worked without any tricks. It’s a quantum drive. I did experiment with tar initially but ltfs makes it radically more usable, radically.

Pre-tape, I used disks, rotated them and kept them in a safe. Burned optical discs of my most important stuff. I had two experiences that caused me to change: I had a failure and went to do a recovery and in either haste or anxiety (I put this on me, I should have paused and took more time but I was rushing) I knocked the most recent drive off my desk and effectively killed it. The other was a bit more subtle (oddly, I have only had 3 backup recovery situations and I messed up 2 of them) but my “backup” was rsync to disk on cron and a backup started during restore and began to “remove” my good backup because the master didn’t have that restored yet. There are a lot of lessons in there, most significantly, “backup” is a different thing than live access to data, you want it versioned and somewhat fixed. Rsync isnt it. You don’t want to accidentally delete your backup. Tape switches your mindset on that stuff. I’m not going to pretend it’s cost effective for my needs (although I have a lot of hd+ video of my kids) but it’s durable, it’s purpose built and cold storage can’t really be hacked. There’s no monthly fees, no risk of a cloud provider sunsetting my tier of service, and 25T of tape is like $250. Drive MTBF numbers are big enough to be abstract and yet you will likely encounter it at some point, tape has these practical numbers that are ultra conservative and come from decades of experience; you sort of keep it in mind when you’ve used a tape a dozen times or so. That being said, when the drive flakes, I’m in for an expensive upgrade/replacement and when I do upgrade, I should copy my tapes to new ones with the new format which will take time and money. With SMR, it’s almost like discs are taking on tape like qualities and it’s not hard to find stories about people getting crap performance on their new disks. It’s not sexy but I feel very confident that I’ll be able to get my data if I need it. It’s really easy to store a tape in your safe deposit box or at your parents house too, they won’t accidentally kill it by knocking it off a shelf.
I've gotten email for a Spanish or Portuguese Netflix account registered to my email address. First time it happened, I complained a couple of times with no result, and finally set the account to English and then cancelled it.

Second time it happened, I somehow managed to get someone at Netflix to look into it. I haven't had the problem since.
There's also a technical version of this post: https://blog.cloudflare.com/warp-technical-challenges/

I'm hyped to see Rust code running on so many phones.
Really? The arbiters of the internet? You don't think that's maybe a little melodramatic?

Cloudflare has, time and time again demonstrated openness, transparency, and insight into their technical and ethical frameworks. I trust them a whole lot more than my isp or any random vpn provider.
How would this work together with nextdns.io?
Funding good UX would be a huge step, I think, I personally pay my CC subscription, because I use PS every day constantly for my work, easily make far over and above the subscription cost using the software, and it’s useable - I unfortunately literally mean that Gimp makes me actively frustrated to use.

‘Selecting selects the opposite’, is, to me, a use bug, among with many other designers and developers (a quick Google search confirms this).

I wish I had the time myself to go in and look at it, I really do. I’m sure it’s the same for a few folks. I love and support FOSS and I wish I could get behind GIMP like I can VLC.

But VLC managed to make itself a daily driver, even from this interview’s description, by being usable.

Gimp isn’t usable unless I’m going to dedicate myself to it. Functionally, there’s no reason I can’t use it and Photoshop interchangeably for the same task.

But when that same task takes me two or three times longer because I’m fighting with the UX, and design time is money, Adobe can unfortunately take my money for now.
Same! I don't actually USE it much, but I keep it around for the weird cases. It can even transcode.
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Helps to be on one death march project in your life to know what it looks like. Don't do more than one. It can damage you, give you long-term health problems, lead to substance abuse, etc. When I see a thing like that 10 miles out, I go "Nope, nah-ah - I am out of here".
For the US, the new ATSC 3.0 standard talks about a "return path" where it sounds like your non-cable, non-Internet broadcast TV will be somehow sending data back to TV stations.
If we compare them to tapes, it doesn't seem fair that the hard disks should be kept spinning, booting them up on demand still gives you vastly lower latency than tapes.

Me feeling is that the competition in the tape market is also a bit rusty, $3000 for a fancier VCR, what a steal! ;-)
VLC, it really whips Winamps a$$.
I never understand how people think it's "intellectually dishonest" to "break" rules that were meant to be broken.

I feel like people don't understand how mitzvos work, and therefore can't understand why we can sometimes "break" them.

Oftentimes one is allowed to use the loophole and still is rewarded for adhering to the mitzvah, even if they didn't do it (e.g. other comments here use examples of shabbos goy, shabbos elevator, selling chametz etc.). These cases are built into the mitzvah itself inherently, allll the way from way back when.

Jewish law is extremely complex, and we're allowed to use loopholes that the rabbis find, AND STILL we get rewarded for it if done properly and within the confines of Jewish Law.

That all said, I have no position in the kosher cell phone debate, let them have it if it makes them feel more comfortable. Besides the anti-porn arguments for it, it's less of a religious thing.
Do you know the common failure mode for ideapads? Two aspects of the design concerned me. The heat vents on the back are open when the lid is closed (presumably for ventilation while docked), and the power plug is barrel style, which i know handles stress poorly and can break the socket over time. It is cheap, probably for a reason. Performance in the short term is up to par.
I know of Walgreens locations that have been profitable for 50 years or more.

MacDonalds is similar. If they have a franchise that is doing badly, they will pay to move the franchise to a new location. A suburban McD closing is rare, usually only the oldest ones on lots that are too small for contemporary usage patterns.
Lightning depends on the electric field exceeding the dielectric insulation of the air. Some random charge floating around eventually forms a current, and that is the "random" path the lightning bolt takes to discharge. Lightning rods are designed with very sharp tips, the high curvature of which leads to a higher local electric field. Thus, a lightning rod works to discharge to ground an area of air around the point and prevent a larger buildup of voltage.

[0] https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/184374/why-do-li...
I didn't downvote you ... but your post mentions a misterious state that publishes personal information, you don't say what state, you don't show an example and you don't describe what kind of information is being shared ... I think you just got downvoted for not showing any proof / real example of what you describe and the person that downvoted you has doubts what you say is really a thing
The "value" of a "bundle" service like Sky has been under scrutiny for some time - from the mandatory bundling of 300 crapware channels just so you pay for the one channel that shows anything worth seeing that people grew tired of, to the Netflix model, and now to the further Balkanisation of content that's ongoing with Prime, Disney, NowTV, etc.

It seems Sky has decided to invest in monetising those who remained above incentivising a return for those who cut the cable.
And you'd better do it with ludicrous speed. ;)
You sure that was the consensus? Did other nations adopt this same policy, or were they more skeptical? If so, why were they sceptical?
Public universities certainly don’t get to claim treatment as a business. Additionally, like you were driving at, it is dramatically more damaging to be expelled from a university than to be kicked out of a dollar general. And most importantly, if the business’s policy is clearly a thin veil of pretense that allows them to discriminate on the basis of gender (or any other protected category), they are not within their rights. We don’t tolerate businesses asking black patrons (or employees) to leave because a white patron claimed they felt uncomfortable, and we certainly wouldn’t tolerate it from a public institution. And we definitely shouldn’t tolerate it given that universities make students fundamentally more vulnerable than business patrons or standard employees by saddling them with debts that would take them their whole lifetime to pay off if not for a degree. Due process and equitable treatment is not too much to ask.
There’s the problem of feeling cheap however. If you make a laptop that’s thicker but lighter, you run the risk of having a laptop that feels weirdly light and cheap.

Also thickness does matter! If you’re gripping a laptop in one hand, a thinner body is easier to hold. And it’s just plain beautiful. It feels futuristic. Which, yes, is nonsense. But it’s also how you make a product that people want.
VLC is an amazing tool. I almost wish it was the embedded video player for Chrome or Firefox. It would be nice to play more formats of video on the web and VLC does an amazing job supporting other formats. Also, there is no way to play RTSP on the web, which VLC does well.
Try doing any of this with variant and visit

enum A { Foo{ x: i32, y: f32 }, Bar(B), Baz([u32; 4]), Moo(i32), Mooz(i32) }
struct B { z: f32, w: (f64, f32) }

let b = B { z: 42.0, ..}; // create a b with z == 42 and default w
let B{ w: (first, _), .. } = b; // get B.w.0 field
let a = A::Foo{ x: 42.0, ..};
if let A::Bar(Bar { z, ..}) = a {
// if a is an A::Bar, get b.z field of A::Bar(b)
}
if let A::Baz([0, 1, 2, 3]) = a {
// if a is an A::Baz containing an array
// with value [0, 1, 2, 3]
}
match a {
A::Moo(1..3 @ v) => {
// if a is an A::Moo where x in A::Moo(x) is in range [0, 3) and put the value in the local v variable
}
A::Moo(x) | A::Mooz(x) => {
// Either A::Moo or A::mooz, gives you the value of x
}
// ERROR: I forgot to match some patterns
}

foo(b);

fn foo(B{ z, ..}: B) -> f64 {
// get the z field of the first function argument
z
}

What in Rust are one liners, and can be used anywhere (let bindings, constructors, match, if-let, while-let, function arguments, ...) is a pain to write in C++ using `std::visit` and `std::variant`. The error messages of `std::visit` + `std::variant` are quite bad as well. And well, then there are also other fundamental problems with variant like `variant<int>` having two variants, `variant<int, int>` having 3 variants, but you can't reach the second `int`, etc.

You can translate all the code above to C++ to use std::visit + std::variant instead. I personally find that C++ is unusable for programming like this, and almost never use std::variant in C++ as a consequence, while I use ADTs in Rust all the time.
All the fancy 2FA and questionable security questions aren't going to help if admins are going to bypass them based on a phone call. That is a massive, massive security hole.

And with so many services potentially tied to your email address, this can amount to identity theft. Maybe the caller and the admin circumventing security for them should be getting some legal trouble for this.
Didn’t WSL 2 come out recently? Has that not made things better for Windows?

Regardless your last point is why I stick with macOS. I don’t really care that much about the laptop aesthetic.
You might try to contact William Stein. He is a former academic (tenured professor at the University of Washington) that was the lead developer for SageMath, an open source product which he's tried to commercialize along vaguely similar lines. He's now working on a project called CoCalc, which I know less about.

Unfortunately, my impression is that he's had some bad luck, despite a fantastic product, and also despite being 100% an insider whom many research mathematicians personally know and deeply admire. Last I heard, he found us a difficult market to sell to.

Maybe his luck has turned around, I certainly hope so. I see him participate on HN every once in awhile. His email address is wstein@gmail.com (not private -- I merely saved you two seconds of googling), and perhaps he would be willing to share his advice.
"They" is an expansive word.

We could better say there is no indication that nobody who had access to illegally-obtained information misused it.

We have plenty of evidence of cops misusing databases they have access to, and that stuff is way less juicy.
I was openly critical of Cloudflare when they announced Warp the first time. My accusations were over-reaching, and I ultimately retracted them. But I'm still skeptical, and I still won't use Warp.

Here's what still bothers me: Cloudflare is a single company with points of presence all over the world, handling traffic for websites all over the world (including some big ones), and now trying to attract consumers worldwide to proxy their traffic through its network. That's a lot of power, and we all know the saying about power and corruption. It doesn't matter how conscientious the leadership are. I'd prefer that the temptation to abuse that power was just not there at all.

My idea of a better Internet is a return to the way the Internet was -- a large number of small providers, communicating with each other over open standard protocols. So, yes, I should switch to something other than Comcast here in my apartment. So far, I've been afraid that doing that would leave me with a truly abysmal quality of service. (I'm in Bellevue, Washington.) But at least I can avoid adding Cloudflare, with its terrifying power, to the mix.

Granted, I mostly use the Internet on a stationary computer with a cable connection at home. About the only thing I do on my phone away from a WiFi connection is request an Uber ride. And I do need that to work reliably. But it is working just fine without Warp. So, maybe Warp is just not for me. Still, for the people that would benefit, I'm afraid of how much more power they're going to be giving Cloudflare when they tap that "on" button.