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This is insane. It's the engineering equivalent of smashing one of your hands with a hammer and then being surprised it hurts. Well no shit.

At that level, at the very least, it would make sense to run some amount of physical infrastructure.
Octopus is a fantastic deployment product for .NET (happy user here).
Simply not reporting on it as solution for police brutality, delegitimizing the protestors, right after complaining about lack of empathy.

We'll be probably seeing more of that rather than less: http://arnogruen.net/the_need_to_punish_--_article_by_arno_g...
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This is where not actually having to deal with people's opinions on an equitable basis fails authoritarian regimes. They have no sense of humour. If people started saying I looked like Winnie the Pooh, I'd wear a Winnie the pooh T-Shirt or badge every single day. People love Pooh bear.
Not even "the tyrant", it always favors the status quo. I do agree that there is no apolitical position here, I would even argue that everything we do, or not do, is political to some level.
Apple's reality distortion field still at work. Praise Apple engineers for this... nagfest[?] but if it were Microsoft everyone was and would be up in arms about it.
> [...] It doesn't change anything fundamental about the encryption.

Lol! No, no, no, no, no! It does entirely!
If you're interested in lidar data for the United States, the USGS has a great tool online:

https://apps.nationalmap.gov/3depdem/

I've used it to map old quarries and other sites in my area.

New Hampshire has an ongoing project to map stone walls using lidar: http://www.granit.unh.edu/resourcelibrary/specialtopics/ston...
yes it seems similar... i'm considering a concept which takes everything a step further by creating a zero margin banking shifting profit centers away from money...
Slightly OT: I hope that effort helps with their search results big time. Because it's a pain. I was just looking for an apartment for some vacation and cool that it showed 300+ results but a totally random ordering in my opinion.

I can't sort by price. The first couple of results weren't even close to the stuff I booked in the past. Plus even though I never booked anything but accommodation with them I still have to select manually that I want accommendation. Every single time, it's not even funny anymore. There are many many UX flaws when I book with them that this actually drove me to more traditional hotel comparison sites.

EDIT: removed some stronger language, but booking with Airbnb was great at one point and it degraded greatly IMHO. If anyone from Airbnb reads this, I am willing to get in contact directly. The feedback form is wasted time, I tried. ;-)
Neither the Institution of Civil Engineers :)
That's why, following the very-broken "vote with your wallet" mentality, I'm asking for a buyer's remorse refund for everything I've ever bought. SC1, brood war, Diablo 2, SC2, Diablo 3.

I don't expect to succeed but it'll be one voice in a chrous, and some $ in some internal "potential lost money" metric an MBA is frantically trying to compute.
Looks interesting, surprised to see it runs on Eclipse. I had to try Eclipse again for Garmin after years of not using it. Man Eclipse is buggier and less useful than I remembered it being. I love IntelliJ and can't replace it, my only exception would be Neovim (which I'm still waiting on JetBrains to allow embedding) or VS Code.
>> if a giant production like The Witcher 3 can profit this way, any card game can.

In theory yes, but in practice a CCG needs to be updated a lot and for years to be viable, while a game like Witcher doesn't. Would you pay $60 for the CCG game where you can't add new cards? Charging as you go seems to fit the model of player activity and developer activity.
I don’t think anything done to prove something to a hypothetical outsider is done out of passion.

I do all kinds of random side things (fewer now that we have kids). None have a purpose to prove anything to a future employer (or anyone else beyond sometimes my family [demonstrating to my kids the value, or even mere possibility, of doing more than passively compnsuming, for example])
> So how could the readability of scientific papers be improved? First, by recognizing that good writing doesn’t happen by magic. It can be taught — but rarely is. Douglas suspects that many first drafts of papers are written by junior members of a research team who, lacking any model for what good writing looks like, take their lead from what is already in the journals. And there “they see the jargon and complexity as markers of what passes as scientific writing”, she adds. Such self-reinforcing mimicry could certainly account for the trends highlighted by Thompson and his colleagues.

This is pretty much my experience with scientific writing. No one told me how to do it, so I started copying the style from the papers and books I had at hand.
If you look closely, much of the "debt" is actually between subsidiaries of the same controlling PE owner - it's possible for the left hand to loan money to the right hand, claim back huge interest payments (Maplin were paying 15%! https://leftfootforward.org/2018/03/revealed-how-private-equ... ), thereby taking profit out of the subsidiary without it appearing as profit to the taxman. The internal creditor at the high rate will have got their principal back very quickly. It's the external creditors (suppliers etc) who get stiffed.

Remember that every supplier and every employee of a business is also a creditor.
Not about Stripe in specific as I haven't looked at their process yet, but some general information.

Advances are done on receivables generally and are not a way to bridge between rounds. The are a form of a short term loan and will be paid back as the receivables come in. The most common way this is done is you are given say 50-80% of the value of your receivables (varies depending on market and business), and any interest that might accrue during the collection period. Essentially this is selling your receivables for a discount to get cash now. I personally view this method as the equivalent of consumer payday loans, with much of the same high risk attributes.

Alternatively, there are some banks who will loan against receivables, using them as collateral, and that is almost always a better way to go as it is much less expensive overall, you still pay a higher interest rate generally but it is less crazy. But again, this is usually done as a cash flow management method, not to bridge between rounds. But this will be treated as debt against the company and likely the founders if you are small and haven't established solid credit for the company yet.

This is something I think most VC backed founders don't know, understand or learn. They don't establish credit with a couple of banks early enough when they have the funds. I always start building credit with banks early. Take $10k or some modest amount, use it as collateral for the bank to give you a loan in the companies name only. Then use the hell out of it paying it timely and never messing up. Then ask for a credit line increase to $20k or something along those lines after 6 months of solid use and good payments. Keep doing this over a couple of years and it is very easy to get $100-250k in line(s) of credit from banks and you only paid some modest interest on the way to get it. Then when you have the need that line is already there and it can be a huge difference maker, plus the key is you get rid of personal guarantees this way much faster than you would otherwise. It is crazy to me why startups don't do this regularly, it is very common in normal the SMB world and with serial entrepreneurs.
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It makes sense when the distances to travel are not long and even more sense for the fleet operators. The maintenance costs are so much lower.
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Somehow driving through South Dakota looking out over a vast field of seaweed eating, zebra striped cows was not the future I anticipated as a youth.

I'd like some more research given that cows come in black / white patterns, pure white, and pure black. Is stripes really a thing and how about the other patterns? Do we start breading for color now?
I think if they gave you a number to bypass the general queue that you’re still vulnerable to an attack, right?

The only way to ensure you’re calling amex is to call the number you know, otherwise the scammer will have you call another one.
How is it off topic? The person I replied to said this:

>I hope the next president is even more hardline against China than Trump.

And I asked if any other presidential candidates expressed a hardline stance against China. I don't see how that is off topic
I agree trade deficits aren't necessarily bad for the economy. Lower cost of products means more efficient use of resources, lower cost for businesses and consumers. There are negative too, like how U.S. employment loses out since Chinese companies out compete their U.S. counter parts to death (although competition can be healthy) but my main argument isnt that.

The biggest issue about trade deficits with China is purely economic, it political/strategic.
The trade deficit with China helps China grow in power. Their economy grows, and with the huge influx of taxes, they are investing in their military and foreign influence operations more and more.

Is it worth the economic benefit to cement the U.S's biggest strategic threat, who is also a brutal dictatorship?
The long terms negatives, may outweigh the short term benefits.

You also bring up some good points. Any action against China back then could have hurt the U.S. as well, and our course of action may have been the lowest risk path, and arguably the lowest risk path may be the best one.
The only reason to keep it secret is irrational fears that it will somehow kill us all with intelligence alone and that exponential increases may be done solo and not with generations of bootstrapping infastructure and considerable resources.

Otherwise replicating and leasing would rake in far more than even a magic "I get everything right on the stock market" button in the same way ruling stone age tribe gives less absolute wealth than a Manhattan Lawyer.
onboard customers slowly and charge them - as you scale, make sure your charging as well and get paid.

you don't need to go from 0 - 100k a month in a single month, octopus could because they have backing.
blizzard hasn't made a good game for about 15 years now. When I was kid Blizzard produced games like warcraft 2 and Diablo. That all ended when they discovered the cash cow of mmorpg. The last unequivocally old blizzard quality game was frozen throne.
Not so rare perhaps. London has a Goodenough College, presumably named after someone by that name.
1000 years ago European waterways didn't have pound locks, so no, certainly not as easy to use.
My impression is the exact opposite. As an intern, you want to learn from a company that actually has something to teach, not from one that cuts corners and is way too small, inexperienced and busy to spend time on guidance. But as a junior developer, you can grow with a fast growing company. Not everybody succeeds at that, but if there ever was a good opportunity for it, it's at a fast growing company.
> In theory, the key could stay at the company and the communications is handed over upon lawful request.

What is a "lawful request"? Does that include legitimate court orders originating from China, Russia, Syria, Sudan, etc?

That's why this will never fly. It's a horribly stupid idea.
It's more of a "You're not good enough to do anything but copy others" sort of thing. Tracing a Picasso will give you a pretty piece of art, but it doesn't make you a legendary artist.

Most people don't care that much, but you can also see issues if the community is mostly all copying the same 3-5 people's strategy, since that makes the game feel samey and boring.
Didn't English only become the lingua franca of science since WWII? Before then, French and German was more the norm. So the increasing number of non-native English speakers contributing to this pool of literature analyzed could have something to do with it.

Technical English is much more restricted in its vocabulary (within each field) and conforms to predictable patterns that are markedly different from colloquial English, which was used as a reference for readability. It is this technical English that foreign language scientists pick up and publish in, so perhaps the conclusions are not surprising.
Except in Europe.
I suggest that its possible dont make money on money but rather on increasing and creating healthier consumer spending...The risk of loans is imminent. However, there are several ways to deal with this with more proactive scoring and also by creating an internal reserve to balance the system.
I agree, but it also lets you automate and probably lets you get rid of or not hire as many infrastructure people between automation and outsourcing the simple stuff to a managed service provider.
I'm not sure if it was as prevalent in other games (WoW et al), but the cutthroat, zero-sum nature of Eve Online produced a ridiculous volume of user-made, pro-group propaganda videos.

Goonswarm was especially famous for it.

All versions of "People sitting on the sidelines outnumber people with an opinion, so it's more productive to sway them to your cause than your enemy."
The world is full of games that properly reward skill and some people really enjoy them. But the mass market (including me) prefer entertainment to challenge. This is why gambling is much more popular than chess. The alchemy is to create a game with enough luck that a casual / unskilled player is occasionally rewarded, but skill ultimately dominates. Like poker for example. Pure skill games tend to have small audiences.
At least with an email you can hopefully verify the headers. A phone number is too easily spoofed these days and the end user has no real means of verification.
> The West gambled that economic prosperity would usher in an age of Chinese liberty, if not actual democracy, and that attempts to resist that would lead to economic collapse.

I'm sure the corporations that make those trade agreements saw it as nothing more than cheap labor and large market. How this would help liberty is just something they tacked on to sell it to the public.
I don't know if Blizz would consider me a whale but I did spend a pretty penny on their games and just deactivated my WoW subscription and uninstalled all their games from both my PC and phone.

I'm not only doing that. I speak up in forums where Hearthstone is discussed, talk to friends and family members and advocate against money or time towards Blizzards bottom line. F2P even gains with an audience so it's not a solution to just not spend money, you must divest from their platform entirely. I didn't even keep SC2 around, if I were to contribute any views on Twitch or Youtube it's engagement that benefits Blizzard.

I hate them with the fury of a thousand suns for having destroyed the 3 games I loved most of all the games I have played.
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I can see the purpose of GNU in the 80s and most of the 90s, but really now that anyone can post any project online and setting up a project page is as easy as downloading Fossil and throwing it somewhere[1], what function does GNU serve?

[1] I mention Fossil because it is trivial to setup, Gogs, GitLab, etc would be others, in order of overall increasing complexity.
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except they used sql server and sql server performance with this is awful, oracle would have been able to handle it much better
> Octopus Cloud customers could start a free 30-day trial, which meant that those hundreds of trial signups per month, each of which cost us $100 to host, quickly added up.

> We also didn’t have our pricing quite right. We initially launched Octopus Cloud at $10/month, with a different pricing model from the one we currently use. Unfortunately, this was one of the most painful lessons we learned because the deficit between what we were charging and spending was magnified by the sheer number of people using Octopus Cloud; continued growth would further amplify the problem.

"Every person who fills in a web form gets to burn a $100 bill of ours" is the real disaster here.

I know it's trendy to think that software isn't like regular business, and you can lose money but make it up on volume, but going to a cloud vendor gives you a real cost of goods sold, and that needs to be accounted for.

(also, the irony of a company whose product appears to be about cloud deployment having a disaster by deploying to the cloud should not be lost on us)
octopus is a bootstrapped company
Gasoline is much easier on your health.

Its not the ignition (if I ran a diesel engine with CH4 I'd get no particulate emissions), or even the type of fuel (if I burn diesel in an appropriate furnace I can eliminate most soot).

It's burning diesel in a diesel engine that's the problem.

Diesel is thick and has a low vapor pressure. When it is injected, therefore, it is more akin to tiny droplets of fuel whose surface burns. Eventually there is -locally- no air around the droplet and the droplet pyrolizes and becomes a particle of soot.

Ironically, diesel engines run very lean (excess O2). But in the neighborhood around the droplet, without good mixing, you get low concentrations of O2.

Gasoline has a low vapor pressure, so it is essentially a gas, not a droplet in the combustion chamber. Therefore there is a flame front across a fairly homogeneous mixtures of gases and there isn't a local lack of O2 (assuming the air ratio is right).

For a gasoline engine this breaks down in two scenarios: Cold engines and direct fuel injection:

- In a cold engine the T might not be high enough to vaporize the fuel and the engine won't start. Therefore more fuel is used and it is in the form of droplets. This is what the choke is for in carburated engines, and now the computer does the same.

- In a direct injection engine there might not be enough time to vaporize the fuel. High P are used (and to shove the fuel into a high P chamber) to encourage vaporization. But its not as effective as port injection.

Direct fuel injection, however, allows for leaner fuel mixtures and more control of the burn (higher compression ratio) so it's basically necessary to achieve efficiency standards.

Another feature/problem of diesel is their high compression ratio. This is how the diesel cycle is more efficient than the Otto cycle (otherwise, the Otto cycle - all else being equal - is more efficient). However, high compression ratios imply high NOx emissions (NOx is an endothermic reaction that lowers P -> high T and high P favor its formation).

So you can see that environmental goals in ICE work against each other. Lowering CO2, or rising fuel efficiency, means rising NOx or soot emissions (or finding a way to shift the curve). You need a transformative technology to improve NOx, soot and CO2 (like fuel injection in the 80s).

In F1, there are no emission rules engines don't have to last 300 000 km but there is a very strict efficiency rule. Here Mercedes claims to have achieved 50% thermal efficiency, which is insane for a small ICE running at 10k rpm and producing 500hp/L. A typical gasoline car gets at best 25~30% in its most efficient state.
This seems to be missing an awful lot of canals in the UK. Leeds Liverpool canal, all the canals around Birmingham. Norfolk Broads. Manchester shipping canal seems to have been cut short.

And I'm fairly certain you can sail from Bordeaux to Marseille, inland.
"Choice is of the free. When no choice presents before me, I'll make one myself."

Just throwing some inspirational BS
Kern is consistently against art daring to have a political message. Or he doesn't think games are art. It's never been clear. But his stance effectively reduces to that games should never present a moral (what he calls "political") challenge, no matter how anodyne, to a player, and he's consistently legitimated the idea that these moral challenges include "a game, somewhere, is not explicitly made for a majority-straight, majority-white, majority-male audience."

That Kern is on the side of decency on this particular issue is to his credit; he spends most of his time on Twitter contributing to the open-sewer effect. In the calculus he has exhibited since contributing to the original flare-up of "ethics in game journalism" he's made it pretty clear that Call of Duty "oo-rah" and carting out the drone strikes is apolitical but a game focusing on a homosexual relationship is political (because such a game "shoves it in the face" of that majority audience by dint of its existence), so make of it what you will.
The real key to software correctness is to use homotopy type theory, not java.
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Maybe it's for the best that they can't see them?
Fair points. And it gives me a little more context into the intensity of the reactions. Thank you.
Related: 1927's 'Napoleon' Set for Grand Premiere > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMlnRP3qOYE
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In winter time, almost every evening, from 6:00 PM through the night. Except for windy days (from ~7 m/s upwards), which are pretty rare.

It's all because of the old Soviet heavy industry which hasn't been properly maintained since 1991 (say what you want about USSR, but there was more responsibility then), crappy gasoline, lots of old cars which made their first 100k miles in Germany or US, high sulfur coal being used in stoves... the whole shebang.

Did I mention that some people use cow dung/rubber/plastic rubbish in their stoves?

Yep, we're living on the same planet as you are.
And if you fully max out the 35 mbps upload, your connection will be useless for a month - even for downloads. Learned that from when I did have Comcast and I was uhh “downloading Linux distros with bit torrent”.
What is the purpose of being long, so you can comfortably hold it with one hand? You can't really do that since it's touchscreen, you'll be touching the screen by accident more often from having to hold the phone with a claw-shaped hand.

Because it's so long you'll be needing both hands if you ever need to touch something at the top of the screen.

No video would ever work nicely for that aspect ratio.
| Bootstrapping in this context refers to how the distribution gets built from nothing.

The GNU build system was huge since about forever.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2014/08/postal-banking-a...
I don't why but this kind of reporting really bothers me.

I understand that putting a face on a news story makes it more meaningful. But it just screams anecdotal evidence to me.

Who cares what "one American" did?? Is the air in London bad? Then report it. And don't try to prove it by saying one person has moved.

Also, pollution is most definitely a first world problem, not third world like the writer somehow believed.
Shouldn't they be accountable for toxicity in environment.
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I don't particularly care for dark mode in web pages, however iOS apps which allow theming should allow the themes to be set independently of iOS.

For instance, the first version of Tweetbot for iOS 13 wouldn't allow you to choose a dark theme if iOS was set to use a light theme.

This was quite frustrating because I like Safari in light mode, but I like Tweetbot, iBooks, Kindle, etc in dark mode. This always has always worked and I'd see a different behaviour as a regression. That said Tweetbot fixed the issue very quickly (in a day).
Yes, you can upgrade after several years. But you can't skip a version. If you started at 8, you need to upgrade to 9 and then to 10. Can't skip 9.