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I've liked the idea of Open Location Code for some time, so when I read the following, I thought "Surely that's not right?"

> Implicit, however, is that the only way to resolve that shortened code is to make a call to the Google Maps API.

I'd always thought OLC could encode/decode coordinates with a simple algorithm, with more or less precision based on the length of the code.

Referring to their documentation, I found this [0]:

> Supporting local codes.. If you have no map and cannot determine the device location, a local code is not sufficient and you should display a message back to the user asking them to provide a town or city name or the full global code.

> ..extract the local code and send the remaining text to your geocoding service (Nominatim, Google, etc).

What! I didn't know this about shortened codes - that need for an external service to decode plus codes diminishes my enthusiasm for the standard considerably.

Thank you for the write up, will be keeping my ears open for GeohashPhrase.

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[0] https://github.com/google/open-location-code/wiki/Supporting...
WRT to "is iCloud backdoored" in China, I made a recent submission that didn't make it to the first page, but it's still relevant:

https://www.chinalawblog.com/2019/10/chinas-new-cybersecurit...

> The inspection team has complete access to the network system. Inspection can cover both the technical aspects of the network system and the data/information maintained on the servers. See Article 10. The inspectors can fully access the system and they are permitted to copy any data they find. See Article 15. The only restriction on the inspectors copying the data in your company’s system is that the inspectors must provide you with a receipt. Though Article 10 “restricts” access to matters involving national security, the definition of national security in China is so broad that there is no real limitation on what can be accessed, copied and removed.
In my opinion, it's way less troublesome than the SELinux introduction back then.

If you start an app, you get a one time popup when it tries to access something important. Like the Documents, Downloads or Pictures folder, or the folder where Contacts are kept. That's all.

The author happens to be running a number of utilities in the background. For instance "Alfred", which is a replacement for the built-in Spotlight search tool. Of course, being a search tool, Alfred wants to know everything and generates a number of popups. He runs a terminal and perhaps does a "find ~ -name blah" which also generates a number of popups.

It's not fair for the author to stick the "broken" label on there. It's just that the author encountered a number of other things, and they add up in annoyance for him.

Not for me, by the way. Catalina runs fine.
There are plenty of states where that's basically the system that are a mess, if not as bad as in California. The devil is in the details of how the post-privitization market is regulated.
I agree that this is a negotiation tactic.

Enron used the same tactic in 2000-2001. They took advantage of power laws to cause rolling blackouts in California in an attempt to raise prices.

Look how they turned out.
> Edit: I wasn't able to reproduce in either, didn't dig into why

Not just drag 'n drop, but a drag 'n drop inside an iframe that points to a different domain.
Thanks for pointing out the proper term for this disease!
You can search for Classic Shell, it will add you a panel of features to make Win/Start button menu more 7-like.
They can and it truly is a huge risk at the moment, the problem is the AGW camp is trying to subvert the research for their gain which is a detriment to what we need to accomplish the fact is agricultural run off, and sunscreen micro metals are a creating toxins which the reefs are unprepared for, Which has caused massive deforestation of reefs in areas close to population centers. as well as more remote areas where said population or agricultural centers, waters off-spring over their reefs. These toxins are a new threat to coral and one that they have not seen before, time will tell if they can adapt but it is known that all of the mainland Florida reefs are now dead due to these toxins and have not regenerated since the 1980's when the last of them died off.
That's really interesting. Do you perchance have something that might help me find those studies?
BTW, that fiasco caused PG&E to go bankrupt. Maybe they're trying to learn from their enemies.
The way I hear it they were required to make the critical upgrades and forbidden from charging high enough rates to pay for it. If this is true, then the people imposing those two constraints have only themselves to blame for the blackouts.

Bullshit. PG&E redirected around $100 million from their safety budget and spent it on corporate bonuses instead. While hopefully not part of their safety budget, PG&E spends about $400 million annually on stock buybacks. PG&E has plenty of money to prevent this bullshit but is more concerned with executive compensation.

I mean, for fucks sake, Caltrans had to threaten to shut down the Hwy 1 and Hwy 24 tunnels before PG&E thought about bringing in generators (not even leaving enough time to install them before the power was cut).

Regulatory capture is a thing that happens and is a problem, but this seems to be a case of bad regulation, not regulatory capture.

Who lobbied for the regulations? Hint: PG&E.
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> I know this particular bug seems to be an edge case that may happen with every browser, but when you are using Chrome, you should know that if an issue doesn't affect Google, it will likely be deprioritized a lot.

For what it's worth, I've found them responsive to my bug reports, and even my feature requests.
> They keep referring to genetic influences but as far as I can tell, do not use any genome data. It’s true that twins share genes. That doesn’t mean that is the only thing they share. There’s incredible potential for confounding effects.

The difference and similarities between fraternal and identical twins and non twin siblings are a huge part of why twin studies are so powerful for discerning heritability. Fraternal and identical twins differ by genes but not environment so you can get a decent estimate of heritability from that alone.

If you want polygenic risk scores for academic achievement it’s an active area of research.

> Predicting educational achievement from DNA

https://www.nature.com/articles/mp2016107?fbclid=IwAR2Hv8Epg...

> A genome-wide polygenic score (GPS), derived from a 2013 genome-wide association study (N=127,000), explained 2% of the variance in total years of education (EduYears). In a follow-up study (N=329,000), a new EduYears GPS explains up to 4%. Here, we tested the association between this latest EduYears GPS and educational achievement scores at ages 7, 12 and 16 in an independent sample of 5825 UK individuals. We found that EduYears GPS explained greater amounts of variance in educational achievement over time, up to 9% at age 16, accounting for 15% of the heritable variance. This is the strongest GPS prediction to date for quantitative behavioral traits. Individuals in the highest and lowest GPS septiles differed by a whole school grade at age 16. Furthermore, EduYears GPS was associated with general cognitive ability (~3.5%) and family socioeconomic status (~7%). There was no evidence of an interaction between EduYears GPS and family socioeconomic status on educational achievement or on general cognitive ability. These results are a harbinger of future widespread use of GPS to predict genetic risk and resilience in the social and behavioral sciences.
One question that recently came to me regarding technology is: "What happened to all the hope and optimism?".

Growing up as a kid in the 80s, I remember the development of personal computing as exciting, and especially with the explosion of the Internet in the 90s, the possibilities being envisaged by everyone were utterly intoxicating. Finally we would have world that connected disparate cultures, a bridge of communication that would help us understand each other and appreciate different points of view. A true global community. For those of us coming of age during this period, "surfing the web" was exciting because every week you'd learn about or discover something new, and there was a highly experimental, creative, and fun tone to the whole thing.

Instead now we have social media that is largely just a venue for people to yell without listening, political entities to peddle misinformation that serves only their own interests, an entire industry sector dedicated to exploiting personal information to target ads, a culture of consumption rather than creation, and the centralisation of online life into the hands of a small corporate oligarchy. This isn't what most people were hoping for in the 90s, though a few were warning of potential risks.

Like the author, I recently read Edward Snowden's book, and in one of the early chapters he talks about the experience of growing up with the Internet in the 90s in a way that resonated closely with me. Fast forward to the end of the book, which is absolutely chilling, and it feels like you're reading a dystopian science fiction novel, except it's real.

The Internet of today is almost unrecognisable from the early days. Stepping back I just throw my hands up and wonder what the fuck happened? Is there any hope that it can become better, or is it just going to be a further descent into cynicism? And what, if anything, can we do about it?
These computers runs blobs in the firmware and are not fully open source.
I understand that modern users want modern performance, and that there is only a niche market for a librebooted computer (mostly due to performance), and as a company, it's systems76's responsibility to meet the market. But solutions exist, and if you are trying to market an open source computer, then give me an open source computer.
What I hate most is how the top comment is from Jeremy Soller, but they are literally using this forum as a marketing platform, only responding to the queries that potray their initiative as good, and ignoring the literal highest comment directly under their post.
This is so disingenuous, give me true libre laptop. (C-f tpearson-raptor on this post, they even offers a real solution from raptor to try and make this real).
I'm grossed out.
Have you already seen the MNT Reform?
https://mntre.com/reform/
The only added value I see is the schema, but is the schema relevant at all? I mean, JSON documents are parsed by clients, and the robustness principle implies that the client is free to follow any schema that they see fit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robustness_principle

Other than this, other document formats such as TOML haven't seen much action in spite of being arguably simpler and requiring less data than JSON.
For anything like text editing, the extra vertical space really does make a difference, even more so in portrait mode.

This becomes less noticeable at higher resolutions and larger sizes (e.g 32”+ @4k native).
For those curious - it's a native app, not the negatively charged subatomic particle that shall not be named.

> The new Twitter for Mac app will use our existing iOS codebase
Ah who cares, it works with a mouse. One should not force inferior input methods to devices that have better ones.
To the downvoters: I'm guessing you wanted to run Windows 10 "safely" somehow, or sandbox your games. There's almost no other reason to be this stuck on x86; at the end of the day it's just a consumer architecture that some well known privacy disrespecting software requires to run. It's not even that great of an architecture from a technical perspective, it just happens to have the financial weight of the prosumer market behind it right now.

Here's reality:

This laptop won't stop Windows exfiltrating your data. These x86 systems are leaky, they require sizeable amounts of low level binary firmware to even boot, and proper isolation is near impossible. Try sticking a PCIe diagnostic system on an open PCIe slot and sending commands to the WiFi or Ethernet card -- most likely it'll respond [1]. Then consider the firmware in the various controllers attached to the PCIe bus, including your GPU.

It's probably a violation of your game's anticheat system to try to sandbox it. It's definitely a violation of the NVIDIA driver EULA to run it in a virtual machine, unless you pay the enterprise driver license fees and use a server grade adapter. The kind of adapter you won't usually find in a laptop, by the way.

This is a topic that I find very frustrating. We all know you want to do the above. It can't be done without license violations all over the place, or head-in-sand make-believe "security", on modern x86 hardware. No wishing, hoping, etc. will make this change.

[1] Yes, this is known to happen on specific x86 systems that I have personally tried (in that case, it was a malfunctioning GPU writing to the disk controller!). Invalid cross-device access was also tried on a POWER box, where the invalid accesses were blocked and logged as intended.
Lol what are you on? This was one days notice on a week's notice. Due largely in part because they neglected to maintain their infrastructure over the years so they can shave off operating costs - for better quarterly reports.

This is not normal.
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I’m looking for a little perspective on what to do next?
This is just an after effect of decoupling money from anything tangible.

https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/
Just went ahead and bought a series 5 Apple Watch because of this comment. I have a long tumultuous history with sleep apnea and have been desperately trying everything to figure out how to improve it. I typically sleep 10 hours per day (the sleep apnea is that bad), so I'm going to start recording with the app you've mentioned and see what happens. Thanks so much! Feel free to each out to my email in bio and we can start comparing once i have some data.
Presence of ports doesn’t mean compatibility though.

I have cheap USB-C - ethernet dongle I bought on amazon that works on my mac and windows.

Is the chipset supported on linux ? who knows, but probably ?

Now my USB-C to HDMI dongle ? hmmm

https://www.reddit.com/r/GPDPocket/comments/8smhzy/so_hdmi_o...
Interestingly this is also related to employee churn. New devs coming to our company usually don’t want to “maintain and fix” the code of others. They’re keen on building new stuff with the newest technology/stack. That adds to the problem.
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Not everyone agrees with that one.
Eh. I think Linux is sufficiently fragmented (in this case it's a good thing) that there will always be somewhere to hide if dealing with the ups and downs of the masses isn't your thing.

I like helping people, so if the future holds more software today breaks transparently, then that's more people I'll be able to help.
Thank you. I struggle to understand people that claim linux does not do hidpi.
Early adopters are the reason bugs are reported :)
> I'd still humbly suggest everyone to give Firefox a try.

I usually suggest die-hard Chrome users use a plugin to spoof their user agent so product managers and developers are more likely to tread non-Chrome as a first-class browser.
er. confession: I somehow only read the last two sentences in your post!
> As someone who loves to find stories on "what went wrong" for startups and especially kickstarters, this is a gold mine.

Then you will love the Peachy Printer fiasco:

https://3dprint.com/133842/peachy-printer-embezzlement/
U.C. Berkeley does have one too.
Lucky you. In my case, I end up thinking about the problem in my sleep, come up with solutions that are a mix between reality and fantasy within the dream and usually end in a horrible loop of the above while I desperately try to break out of it. In short, spoils my whole night sleep ( at least how I feel about it next day ). Rarely have it actually produced a successful solution!
It’s incorrect to say that the only attacks have been in captivity. There have been a couple of documented “attacks” on humans in the wild. One which required extensive stitches. It is true that there there have been no documented deaths from Orca attacks in the wild.

Scientists believe the attacks are just a case of mistaken identity and that is why the damage has been minimal. As soon as the Orca realized that it was not a seal or something else they like to eat, they backed off.
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You ever though that maybe they have seen this bullshit before and realize it is not the end of the world, That we need to do something just like we did for Acid rain and the Ozone layer but that all of the bullshit predictions that where made where nothing but bullshit. They where real and valid issues, we dealt with them and we did so in measured and moderate courses. But the radicals had us all dead multiple times over while we dealt with them with moderate action.
I mean AGESA that's used for new AMD CPUs.
why does this feel like propaganda
A private company would eradicate it since its effecting the bottom line

Say what? PG&E diverted money earmarked for safety to executive bonuses. Is that not graft?
Maybe the role of product owner might be something to consider. You get in touch with developers and use your programming background for guidance them and then you can focus on adding feature clients will love.
OK, that makes sense. And yes, it causes problems for coreboot -- AIUI there are no modern AMD systems supported, because AMD has not allowed use of the AGESA blob in that way.
I can't help but wonder if these charging protocols are "bungled" at the executive level to preserve margins.
A bit show-off but when you fix an existing issue that no one were able to, that's also delivering.
So if your application has performance issues you don't understand, just add a sleep.
I mostly like the message sent, but it's pretty clear to me that we're not the ones that were supposed to receive it.
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Time to change the connector again, I guess.
California is part of the United States. The nation is United States. Sorry, I know Texans and Californians both think they're big enough to be exceptions, but they're still just states.

The stable community is the USA. We share highways, military resources, language, government, traditions, laws, etc. This is a ridiculous argument.
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I hadn't, thanks for the link! It's an interesting possibility for a terminal device, though I'd prefer something open ISA -- if that was either POWER or RISC-V vs. ARM, I'd probably pick one up...
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What is a "well-established startup"?
Exactly, the question we should all be asking is how it got to this point. I reckon you'll find a lot to blame with both the utilities and state government, and the existing incentives for both.

No this is solely PG&E's doing. When you write the regulations, you own the blame. PG&E claims it's too expensive to underground its transmission lines (which would prevent fires like these) at a bit over a million per mile. Meanwhile they took blew their safety budget on executive bonuses. You want to tell me that undergrounding around 100 miles of lines isn't going to reduce the risk of fires? How about undergrounding 500 miles? Because in addition to the safety budget, PG&E also spends around $400 million annually on stock buybacks.

I don't particularly care if PG&E remains a private company, but there need to be consequences like jail time for actions that go far beyond mere negligence.
aren't there high and low power cables?
Designed by Apple in California; Made in China.

Chinese Communist Party (CCP) rules China.

Apple is moving to more Services.

Changing the pie chart takes time.

They have numbers to make this assessment for their shareholder stakeholders.

How many iDevices does the company sell?

The calculation is simple. CCP rules ... Apple

If HK blood is shed, Cook's pet Product(RED) may take on a different connotation.
> If I'm listening to an emergency responder at ship.wreck.shipwreck, or was that at shipwreck.ship.wreck

Wow. They both work. One's in Sweden, and the other's in Alaska.

It seems the corpus has not been well thought out at all.
I just visited there a couple months ago - there's a small camera mounted on a pole about 10 meters from the structure. If it's not a national or state-maintained monument, then who's monitoring this feed?
> You mean like that crufty thing called homebrew?

What kind of problems have you faced with Homebrew? Can you please elaborate?

I use Homebrew all the time and it just works for me out of the box without any issues. I never had to edit configuration files or customize anything to make it do the right thing. It just works.
I recently rented a Peugeot SUV in France and the reverse top-down view was awesome - I had to back out of a 50ft (er, 15m) narrow winding driveway and the top-down helped me to do it in a minute instead of 15 min.
I can't seem to delete or replace assets, I _think_ I've located the correct file which has an alpha mask for window edges but I cannot replace the file in it with my own patched version. I copied `Assets.car` to the desktop so I don't bork it and I cannot do anything but copy assets out of it, not place them in. Do you know how to do this? Annoyingly the GitHub repo for this has no way to create Issues and the Delete option on the Edit menu is always greyed out. Ahhhhhhhh.
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Honestly this is the real reason I’m excited about System76...I don’t really know them or their products, but they have a coherent “passion of computing story,” and PopOS looks pretty. I have no idea if it’s just marketing. I’m just hoping that it’s good, that they’re legit, and that they will do well.
The difference being that those meetings were a one-off or at the very least a rare occurrence. University,on the other hand, is a daily commitment for several years (meaning that it can also lead to chronic sleep deprivation)
China isn't like the US, where Apple can use their trillions and lawyer up. China will just shut you down and take your shit. Guess where hkmap.live and the Chinese App Store employees responsible for approving it end up when that happens. Similarly if the "moral" thing for these companies to do is to divest from China, then HK will only be served by Chinese companies, and good luck trying to provide a police tracking app there too.

This is totally different from the Rockets situation, where it really is just a matter of principle over money. If Morey and the NBA stick to their guns, the NBA can just leave China, and other than some hazy concepts of goodwill and cultural exchange, nothing is lost except money.

I'd rather have Apple and others in China than without. A Chinese company capitulates immediately to the government, a multinational at least can put up some semblance of resistance, with international relations as a bargaining chip.