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> This is incorrect. en_GB doesn't mean you're in or from Great Britain.

You misinterpreted. "Region" is a setting in iOS. But iOS "Region" has nothing to do with the "region" part of a locale. Setting your iOS "Region" to "Great Britain" and setting your "Locale" to "English (Great Britain)" are separate things. "Region" is just what iOS happens to call a completely distinct thing. If you like, to lessen your confusion, pretend it is called something different.

> Sending a user's data to Tencent based on a setting instead of based on their location is absolutely wrong.

You wouldn't want your phone to start sending data to Tencent as soon as you cross the border into China, right? And, vice-versa, you would expect a person from China, who thinks Tencent is a great brand, to not want to stop sending their data to Tencent just because they cross the border out of China, right?
You might soon be able to play Call of Duty Mobile with a controller
We do have evidence, and we have a distinct pattern of behaviour from the many public inquiries and investigations into the standard of management at Seascale / Windscale / Sellafield / THORP.

To be glib, that's why there were so many renamings. To bury the inept history.
So I just did that search and the first hit is this; can you explain what I should be looking for?

https://www.amazon.com/Ashley-Book-Knots-Clifford-W/dp/03850...
When I open in a Preview window it behaves well and fits to the width.

Switching Preview to full screen trips it up still. For some reason that view wants to fit the whole document, and it zooms very far out to do it.

And on the iPad side there appears to be a limit on how long a document the "Full Page" screenshot will make. An HN thread with 110 comments came through entirely, but another one with 160 comments was truncated. Didn't dig any deeper than that, but I wonder what's going on there.
My Letter to the Editor of New York Times Magazine
It may not even be the cheapest if you dig deeply (sorry) into the special concessions and other breaks that the industry gets which enable it to operate more cheaply than it should.

Take a look at some of the criminally low lease fees that have been charged to some drillers for public lands.
fyi: your chatbot makes a "popping" noise when scrolling down and puts "(2) New Messages" in the tab title. Both distract from your content.
I'm sorry to hear that mate, but I totally get where you're coming from - pride is nothing compared to your daughter's life.
Seems to work for me on Linux using older Firefox, must be a legacy WebKit issue (as Apple forces all browsers to use Safari's WebKit engine).

Apple really is dragging their heels on supporting HTML5, when even (deprecated) Edge has better standards compliance, something is plainly wrong in Cupertino.
Perhaps the answer is just to intercept disk reads and stream on demand; 52x CD (fastest common speed) was only 6.3mb/sec and computers only had a few MB of RAM. Spread out over many hours of gameplay that’s not much at all.
Later games that expected to be copied on entirety to the HDDn are a different matter, although I remember few of those.
Honestly most games were a few tens of MB of game data and the rest were CDDA tracks. This was before mp3 and lossy audio compression became commonplace.
it's called the Church of Costco :)

seriously now, the gas is at least 30 cents cheaper than anything around, I love the prime beef, organic chicken, cheese, eggs, mushrooms, macadamia nuts, vitamins and paper towels - it's top quality. on top of that stack the food court and the rotisserie chicken, travel + tires and the insane credit card benefits and you've got yourself a customer for life.
Care to point out a couple of those superfund sites? The only ones I'm even familiar with are the Hanford site and Savannah River which were military sites producing nuclear material for nuclear bombs and ICBMs. Hardly comparable to the limited processing that goes into fuel preparation for nuclear power plants, especially considering that fresh fuel is only weakly radioactive and requires no shielding at all between the fuel and the technicians wearing dosimeters all the time.
At my current company, just part of the review process people will not approve your PR if there are no tests. My last company enforced it in CI and you could not merge if there was less than 90% coverage.
> I am doomed to creatively outsmart my tools in releases.

That’s a very honest admission, and one I think lots of “why don’t you automate everything”-crowd seems to fail to recognise as a real-world factor.
My point was that there don't need to be files anywhere to represent data at all. Computers can work entirely without files. For example, your whole hard drive could consist of an RDBMS, where you'd not "download" files, but rather "download" streams of tables, which would import directly as tables into the RDBMS.

"Files" are a very specific abstraction; thinking they're the only way to transfer chunks of data around is a symptom of lack of imagination. There are very similar abstractions to files, such as object-store objects. The only practical difference between files and objects is that updates to objects are transactional+atomic, such that nobody ever sees an "in progress" object. But an object store (backed by a block device) is a simpler system than a filesystem (backed by a block device.)

You can control the objects that represent your data. You could also control, via an RBAC-like system, the K-V or tuple-store records that represent your data. Or the Merkle-tree commits. Or the blockchain transactions. Or the graph edges. Or the live actor processes holding in-memory state. You can transfer all of these things around between computers, both by replication (copying) and by migration (moving.) What do files have to do with any of this? An accident of history is what.
I only got into CS because of flash. It was simple to get started. Draw some shapes, add color and start tweening. Point and click got you very interesting animations. Deploying was a swf that worked in a ubiquitous manner. Then I learnt a bit of Actionscript on my own before even learning any sort of formal programming. It was a ton of fun to add event listeners and do basic interaction. I learnt what object oriented programming was. The sprites were the objects and I could program them and create dynamic instances.

I would spend entire holidays messing around in flash obsessively. Also then got into mxml and Flex.

Yeah I then learnt C, Java, JavaScript, Python etc but it wasn’t really as fun as Flash. Flash had progressive unwrapping of complexity. You could create impressive games in Flash quite easily. I learnt a ton by decompiling existing games from miniclip.com (love that site) and changing things to see what effect they had. Kirupa.com was a fantastic resource too.

Oh man. I could talk for hours about Flash and the self learning experiences.
It must be becoming more and more common. I ordered some bluetooth headphones a few weeks ago and received a counterfeit product. I was able to return the item, but by the time I had the product page no longer existed and the seller had vanished. It was a "fulfilled by amazon" situation including Prime shipping.

Months back I ordered some Miele vacuum bags and they too were counterfeit.

I had never experienced this until 2019.
One thing not mentioned in many of the comments is that Costco also rotates inventory based on season. A huge percentage of the inventory will change depending on what time of year it is and that can lead to both a kind of scarcity buying ("who knows when they'll have these pants again?") and novelty ("I wonder what they have this week?").

That, plus the bulk savings, plus the membership benefits (an almost absurd return policy), plus a well curated inventory of mid-to-high quality items (plus savings of own-brand "Kirkland signature") means Costco shoppers buy a lot, they buy often, and they keep doing so for years and years and years.

It's highly fragile in the sense that it's so simple, but other competitors haven't made a huge dent in the same segment (Sam's Club, BJ's, etc.). Costco is doing some magic combination right and they'll be the study stuff of b-school grads for decades.

edit one other thing. Model #s for Costco are often unique to Costco. It also makes comparison shopping difficult. Try comparing a printer or TV model # at Costco to others on-line. Chances are it only exists at Costco, which means both exclusivity as well as an assumption of quality + price due to other in-store contextual buying. People think they're buying something that's both special and a good buy, which further validates their yearly membership dues.
the only reason I don't shop at Costco anymore is because we could almost never buy goods in quantities small enough to be feasible for our living space and rate of consumption.

Great store, otherwise.
I can't get the initial overlay to close (Chrome on iPhone). Neither the close button nor the X do anything.
>spread heavy metals

Like the trace amounts of Uranium in coal. And don't forget the Radon that comes up with natural gas either. For added fun, Radon is a noble gas so good luck economically removing it as opposed to just venting it all into the atmosphere.
It should be noted that Apple could very well proxy those requests to Google and Tencent to protect their customers' ip address, or even implement safe browsing on their own all together.
The fact that they don't means that either they trust Google and Tencent, or that they don't care about privacy.
Giant, broad sets of notes like these are very satisfying for the writer -- not so much for the reader. I should know, since I have a similar 1500 page work on the foundations of physics, and nobody's ever found it comprehensible. [1] I think a lot of academics have these personal tomes lying around, though most haven't bothered to type them up.

I see a lot of comments asking how one should read these things, but the answer is that one shouldn't. These documents are more like diaries than textbooks. They'll show you the scaffolding of somebody else's technical mind, not how to build your own. The best textbooks are always focused, and honed by teaching experience.

1: https://knzhou.github.io/#lectures
I don't get it. How many types do I need, before the kind of data I am talking about becomes better represented by an object comprised of smaller pieces?

Why would I want to spend my time "type level programming"?

Maybe I don't understand what's meant by a type. Is it on the level of string/double/int, or is it expected to cover more (string with a well formatted ISO 8601 datetime, etc)? What is accomplished that couldn't be done in vanilla Ruby with an object representing a more complex datatype with its own getters/setters to cover validation?
So this is timely. I was just testing out something I'm working out that creates, uh.. A LOT of DOM elements. Original dev work was in Chrome and I went over to Win 10 to test other browers. I was COMPLETELY blown away by how much faster FireFox was at recomputing layout.
I mean unless a computer can check that all dependencies have compatible licenses, that is unrealistic. It's a necessary step for publicly released software to avoid legal issues
Congestion is roughly constant in all cities because people's willingness to tolerate it is roughly constant. Build more roads and people drive more, but more public transport and more people can get to where they want to be with less resource use.
IMO if you set up a profile on LinkedIn there's a pretty clear expectation that your bosses will be able to see it.
Flash was my favorite game design tool of all time, and it changed my life.

In 2002 I created the original AdventureQuest. Because the game was created in Flash (Actionscript 1) it was instantly cross platform. It could dynamically load any number of animated monsters, weapons, cut-scenes, towns, and backgrounds. Most importantly, those loaded items could have their own code which let them do anything-- giving them new AI, features, or letting there be a game within the game. Also, it was easy to communicate with the database through posts to webpages. Because of this, your character was persistent and the game was able to update with new things every week. (In fact, the game has been updating for 17 years and is STILL updated with new things every single week.)

As Flash evolved, we built more games: DragonFable, MechQuest, and a slew of minigames. Actionscript 2 has a special place in my heart. It was my favorite language. Not being a "real programmer", it was really easy to use. Making things was ultra fast. Actionscript 3 was a challenge for me. our "real programmers" loved it. But, it was so hard for me to actually make anything happen with it. When it became the new standard and we started developing with it, I stopped programming and focused on the content assembly side.

We have built several Flash Massively Multiplayer Video games: AdventureQuest Worlds, EpicDuel, Oversoul, and HeroSmash. They all benefited from the same features that the very first game did, allowing for weekly (or more often) releases of new content. The games literally grew under your feet as you played them.

Creating art, animation, and interactivity in Flash was the best. Flash 3.0 was probably my favorite version. Flash CS6 being a close second.

We are currently in the process of converting our most popular game, AdventureQuest Worlds to Unity. Switching from vector to raster is a nightmare-- ask anyone who has gone through converting 10,000 items with no universal conformity.

Flash was just so fast and easy. We still use Adobe Animate (which is what they call the Flash tool now) for creating 2D vector art. But I really do miss Flash as a "one stop shop" tool to create... anything.

Battle on!
Artix
How have you come to that conclusion?
> The Linux kernel doesn't provide a stable ABI for modules so they have to be atleast recompiled each time. There are some workarounds such as DKMS to rebuild the interface when the kernel updates but I don't know if Android provides it.

I'd expect it to be technically possible, and for Google not too difficult, to pick a version of the Linux kernel module ABI to define as the Android module ABI, and then for newer kernels with newer kernel module ABIs add an adapter layer that can translate from the old ABI to the new ABI.
I'd be interested in whatever you could offer that's lowest specs in every respect except GPU ram. So 1 GPU, moderate to low everything else, but 24GB of RAM. Right now there's no great way to run those cheaply, even if I want to do something that might only take a few hours.
It's easy to identify the bad seller right now. It's Amazon.
Out of interest, how much real estate would it actually free up? I assume you still need roads for emergency services, delivery trucks, construction vehicles, etc...
Maybe the number of lanes can be reduced, but that wouldn't exactly free up any sizeable amount of real estate that could be used for more housing, or would it?
Put chips in the freezer. It pumps the water vapor out.
I just bought a 1TB nvme driver and they sent me a 500GB drive the first go. In isolation that's barely an anecdote you'd mention to people over drinks but this stuff happens ALL. THE. TIME. to me with Amazon.
Linux distributions (though I can only speak to openSUSE's process) have automated scripts (which I believe are written by our lawyers) which check whether the license of a package matches the license of the files inside the package. It's how most package legal review gets done (and if the script can't figure it out, it gets escalated to our actual lawyers too review. You cannot submit a package to any one of the distributions we ship without the legal review being approved.

So it is clearly possible to do -- and there are all sorts of tools which figure out what SPDX license entries apply for every dependency (or vendored dependency) of a given project.
Of course. It's only natural for things to change, and it's only natural for people to talk about the changes.

I believe our language is almost like a living thing that we are stewards of. One of the ways we can help steward modern English is to discuss the good and the bad parts, and try to move the language toward the good, even just in our personal speech.

So don't take my comment as a criticism of the younger generation. It's a criticism of myself and my generation. I'm just talking about the language that's floating around all of us, right now, that we are all building together. And I want to make that language as "good" as it can be.
Non-compete usually don't hold up in court in our field. You have to remember that somebody has to prove damages somewhere. Who do you think every court sides with when you're the only one who can demonstrate damages and they were the ones who let you go?

So unless you worked for a car wash and then go open a car wash across the street. Its not even worth thinking about.
"Amazon's Choice" seems almost entirely algorithmic; base d on purchasing and review patterns. Easy to see how something like that could get gamed and become self-sustaining.
If you have seen how hard Oklahoma has bit the dust in recent decades from local and macroeconomic changes, the place doesn't need anything more working against it --- least of all more "make a buck today at the expense of tomorrow." Allowing itself to incur damage to low-value buildings whose owners can barely afford to maintain them sounds like a self-inflicted wound. Even in spite of this recent extraction boom, schools are operating four days a week instead of five. What's going on is resource extraction exploitation with the costs externalized --- plain and simple.

It's incomprehensible. That place needs to modernize and adapt but without petroleum and its trappings. It's had 35-50 years to adapt from these changes; why should I believe that petroleum will be this place's saviour again?

I grew up with pumpjacks operating down the street (their ambient background sound as natural as the crickets and katydids and cicadas). The smell of petroleum, too. It wasn't until I moved away and returned to see how unnatural this was.
There's lots of warnings about that, and virtually no one actually experiencing it.

Generic complaints typically come from customer complaints. Customers complain even when the product is authentic. There's nothing in your story to suggest commingling is the issue.

Phantom inventory is an issue, usually arising when someone else's units were checked into your inventory. There's always a record of that, and you should report the discrepancy to Amazon.
> If the venue is not correct, the facts of the case are not evaluated.

More precisely, the facts of the case are not evaluated by that court. Usually the case will be transferred to a different venue (i.e., federal court in a different district) or dismissed and refiled in a different forum (e.g., state court instead of federal court).

In Mr. Auernheimer's case, had he been successful in his improper venue motion, he probably would have faced prosecution in either his home district or the district where the AT&T servers were located. The result of that trial might have been the same, but there wouldn't have been a vacatur.
But it almost is, already! Half of the lines are literally shell commands. And except maybe for the legal check, the rest of the steps can also be written as shell one-liners. For example, to update the version on a README file you can "sed -i" with an appropriate replacement, and so on.
Carefully worded, I suspect we both “acquired” it through similar means :-)
Do you have any pointers to, or keywords I can google, for some of those point and click game studios?

I've not tried to do anything like a game for decades, I'm kinda curious about that readily available tools kids could get their hands on these days... Closest I think I've come is launching Scratch from a RasPi's stock linux install...
The difference isn't as clear as you are making it out to be.

If you have a public LinkedIn profile, should an employer be able to look at it without your explicit consent and reach out to you for job opportunities (or disqualify you from one)?

Should the employer be able to pay someone else (say a recruiting agency) to look at LinkedIn profiles on their behalf?

Should the recruiting agency be able to use automated tools (which scrape public profiles) that make things easier for them?
Pretty sure cars are the vocal minority imposing their externalities on everyone who doesn’t drive. In New York that’s most people.
If you click on a number and start to spin, that number should be the furthest you can take it, because your virtual finger is in that hole.
Funny thing is, I actually believed this was a Googler as they do often AstroTurf around here in credulity-defying inane ways that you’d believe they’d have the gall to write something like that!

AMP is a shame.
Don't forget fat arrow vs. thin arrow. If you're not writing Coffeescript 24/7 you start to forget which is which.
That's an essentially totally misinformed view of the law -- especially civil law -- in the US.

It's all about how much money you can spend on lawyers and experts, not whether you're right or not.

Hell, the government doesn't even know what the laws they write say, and they rarely agree on what they mean.
You're right, and it feels very similar to what we have in Vue/React these days. How are you liking Web Components?
And also when converting from metric, for example.
Am sure and posted the link elsewhere on this thread
Receipt checks are an instakill on any affinity I might have for a business. Once the items are paid for and past the register, I find it despicable that anyone feels the right to inspect my belongings. (I realize it's in the membership contract, and it is the reason I quit using Costco.)
AMP will never truly be "Open".

Google, infamously, shot down a request for transparency into the decision making process for the project

> "Our project our rules"
https://github.com/ampproject/amphtml/issues/13597

To be fair, they did retract their messaging in a later comment

> I first want to acknowledge that we are learning how to run such a big open source project and so many things are being figured out. E.g. we are currently rewriting our Governance guidelines to answer many of your questions more directly.
> Costco is seldom cheapest, but you can be confident that it will at least be competitive and they only sell quality products.

I've run into plenty of counterexamples to the last claim.
Like another person pointed out, a vacuum sealer and a freezer are your best friend with Costco meat. For a family of 5 it makes buying quality meat a bargain. 1 or 2 days in the fridge to thaw and you can’t even tell it was frozen, especially with steaks.
I routinely bore people with the Abelson quote that programs are written for humans to read and only incidentally for computers to execute.
It happened to me. My employer was in Ad network business and gradually it went out of business (mainly due to Ads business is consolidating with big 4) and filed chapter 10 bankruptcy. We all were let go. Miss my team sometime. We had a great time working together
I was laid off last week :-). Got a nice little payoff, spending a few months finishing a side project I was working on. I'll probably go back to free lancing, I have been for years, I went staff as a bit of an experiment - there is no difference between it and contracting, everything people say to lure you into a staff position is nonsense, just a way to save pennies.

Edit: I started there as a contractor, then went staff after a break in between, little annoyed by it, but oh well. A couple of people I've known for years - hard times they say, losing customers etc, no more development, yada, yada. They're moving everything into support, hoping that will stem the tide, hope it works for them, time will tell.
Dooring and people having to check their blind spots is a sign of bad bike lanes.