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I ran into this headache while writing a web app.

I made an image upload widget that provided a preview, and when users selected the "take a picture" option on their phones, I showed the preview with a blob link and CSS background-image property. The images were showing sideways on some phones.

I looked at the EXIF data of those photos and of course Orientation: 90 showed up.

It was easy to fix on the backend when processing the images but I struggled to do it in a performant way on the front-end. One solution involved reading the EXIF data with JS and rotating with canvas and .toBlob(), but proved too slow for large 10MB photos as it blocks the main UI thread.

One thing I thought of is just reading the orientation and the using CSS transforms to rotate the preview, but I never got around to trying it.
When you say, "... it's bigger than what you may be suggesting."

What is ... "it"? My despair?

I understand your point about lies vs myths. If I substitute the two words in my mind according to your explanation of myths and their purpose, then everything actually does seem to make more sense and is more acceptable in my mind.

If someone tells a lie the connotation is that it's meant to harm others to their own benefit. If it's a myth, then they need that ... not accurate portrayal of the world in order to keep going... to survive, perhaps as an individual or group.
What exactly is the taxable event?

The taxable event is when the coin appears in your Coinbase account.

Oh, you have your own wallet? Well, the IRS wasn't really thinking about that case.
They can spend their fire prevention budget smarter, but at some point the gains there are maxed out.

For those following along at home, after blowing up a San Bruno neighborhood PG&E diverted $100 million of money earmarked for safety. Where'd that money go? Executive bonuses and dividends. They have plenty of money for improvements and there is zero need for rate increases.

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/PG-E-diverted-safety-...
The FAA has been keeping the US in the dark ages of drone ops for years now. The economic losses caused by our delayed entry into the market are incalculable.
Here's another bar that's in Washington, but was purchased in Portland OR, that has a spittoon flowing beneath the bar for washing away chewing tobacco spit.
https://www.bricksaloon.com/history

Seems more likely that's what the troughs are for and some people occasionally used them to relieve themselves.
You have described a spin off or a change in asset of some kind, not a stock split.

A stock split is when the same underlying asset is revalued due to issuance of new shares. It has the same ticker generally.

For a stock split you would owe no additional taxes due to the split itself.

For a spin off, my understanding is that you owe additional taxes on the extra value obtained from the split. Take the pre spin off market value as the combined asset value then compare it to the added value of the two assets after the spin off. If the post spin off value is more then you are taxed on the realized gain.

Switching assets is taxed normally by sale price and new purchase price.
This is commonly said.

Can you help me understand how Communism is distinct from Fascism?

It is my understanding Fascism was invented by disaffected Socialists and Marxists who felt the revolution was taking too long.

What is an example of a Communist country, or does every country that calls itself Communist fail the test?

And if every country fails the test, what precisely would be different about a true Communist country versus these pretend-Communist countries?
I'm actually a little sympathetic at this point. How can you be expected to spend money fixing problems when the fines and lawsuits in the aftermath of the last crisis have bankrupted you?

How? Pretty easily I suppose, especially if you're blowing your safety budget on executive bonuses.

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/PG-E-diverted-safety-...
None, zip, zilch, nada, zero.

If it were real, it'd be a national security secret of the sort people go to jail forever for revealing, not a patent.
Sounds like a great time to 'deliberately' get fired
It is amazing to see a plea for basic standards of justice being downvoted.
In Western Europe, I can highly recommend Geert Rolf's "House for Retired and Aged Computers"[1] a few kilometres west of Nijmegen, in the Netherlands.

It's a private museum focusing mostly on DEC and Sun hardware. Many of the machines run. Geert is a wonderful, enthusiastic and knowledge guide with a trove of DEC lore. Someone needs to sit down with him and record an oral history!

[1] http://www.bejaardecomputers.nl/index-en.html
I'm not American but I don't know how it's possible. Maybe I'm still young, maybe I'm living through special circumstances that will never occur again, but I make friend circles regularly. It rather snowballs easily: you get into a circle, befriend some people of the circle who introduce you to their own circles etc. I'm not especially charismatic or extravert, but I do have a range of weird/niche/obscure hobbies that are easy for people to bond over. I'm also very party-going, that may help.

I find that if you take an interest in people (actually listening to what they say), things (discover new hobbies) and cultures you can never run out of things to share. You also need not to be easily shocked by what you encounter.

I also noticed that American workplaces tend to be very sanitized environments where 'mingling' beyond a very casual level or having any deep discussion (about things like, say, religion or politics) is frowned upon and seen as 'unprofessional'. People getting fired or transfered for romantic relationships and stuff. That plus the rise of online dating (which means you can just pick people as in a supermarket, as it were, use them to fulfill whatever emotional needs you have, and discard - ghost - them without having to go through this messy social circle thingy) means there are less avenues for this 'circle snowball' effect. What a shame.
Yeah. It's pretty easy for dedicated people to do. I recently watched a bunch of people track down that was spamming a board's home address from a picture of their hand that showed a small patch of front yard in less than a half hour. This was with no exif info. You should always be careful where you post pictures to and what's visible in them.
They weren't discouraged to do string theory in particular, they were discouraged from getting into the whole "trying to find something better than the standard model." If they anyway went into th hep, they would have slim chances of having any career if they didn't do string theory.

They were encouraged to do things like condensed matter physics, not trying to find some alternative to string theory.
> You as a private citizen have a right to make decisions on less than a drawn-out court case and a sequestered jury.

That's true, but it doesn't make my opinions morally justified.

But my point wasn’t about the verdict--the court’s, mine, or the public’s. It was that it is wrong to presume guilt anywhere—in court or in personal opinion—on the basis of a charge alone. (In OJ's case, we're all far past that, so I think bringing it up is a bit moot.)
The demographics issue makes this whole situation such a massive paradox.

On one hand, we want all those extra humans to generate "economic growth" to keep our perpetual growth train going.

On the other hand, the environmental consequences of that seem already unbearable for our biome right now.

It's like we want to have our cake and eat it too, it just won't work. If we want to "save the planet" then we need to let go of this insane idea of perpetual economic growth we supposedly only can solve by throwing more human bodies at it.
I appreciate your level-headed response.

To address your first point: are most people genuinely outraged? That I do not know tbh. I can only represent my own opinion. However, I have Chinese friends that have voices their discontent with the NBA and Hong Kong situation. That's all I can tell. For me personally, I'm against Hong Kong protest, but again, it's my own opinion.

About the news reports in China, ofc they are biased. Most if not all media are biased imo. But that doesn't mean you can't get information out of it. By getting your news from multiple sources and cross checking, you can be more confident in your judgement. By multiple sources I don't mean from CNN, Fox, etc., I mean sources from China, US, Europe and all other places. This again brings me to the language barrier point. It's hard for you to access the Chinese media without it being translated and presented to you, that I don't know how you can solve.

For the media being controlled by the government point, I'd like to agree on the Chinese part. The US media tho, while they seem to be saying what they want to say, sometimes it's not true. Case in point: https://youtu.be/yUGPIeE9kMc

About censoring, I'm not denying Chinese social media is heavily censored. However, I find the situation in western forums and social media are rather interesting. Whenever people post anything neutral/good about China, they get bashed and down voted to oblivion. People call them wumao/50 cents to ignore their opinions. Just my observations. Maybe there's a name for it, but I think it's a different form of censorship, but I could be wrong.

Again, I appreciate your response. I don't know why I'm getting down voted. Just because I hold a different view or something else?
But that would put bitcoin above every other currency. As far as the United States is concerned, one dollar is one dollar and dollar is the unit of currency. Whether you own bitcoin, Mexican Pesos, Canadian dollars, etc, holding another currency as an American citizen means you are subject to appreciation of that currency when compared against the dollar, which is the unit of currency in which the IRS collects tax.

You are right you are not taxed (in nominal terms) if your dollar appreciates. That is because payment to the IRS is rendered in dollars, and dollars only. If your dollar increases, well so does the amount you lose when you give that dollar to the IRS.
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And that waste of screen real estate necessitates other design tradeoffs that are more sub optimal than the ribbon.
If I could downvote this garbage I would.
Also, a great way to trick people into buying less.

> The alternative is to reduce quality, which usually results in a death spiral.

Or increase cost.
Sounds to me like your colleague did not use a laptop supporting Linux (did he try to ask Dell directly?), in which case it would not be "work" but amateur "tinkering".

Even if it does install and seem to work well at first, a non-supported device can break the OS install any time due to some driver / firmware change etc., and you'd have no one to blame but yourself — no promise was ever made by Dell or Linux that this particular device+OS would work.

It's just not what you should do in a business / work setting. We use supported devices — for Ubuntu, for RHEL, for ZFS, for pfSense, for VMware or Xen or HyperV, etc. — because we need someone to call when things don't work, and we need to be sure they just won't fail or break 99.99% of the time. Short of that, you're on your own, and it's no revelation that Windows works on all laptops but Linux simply doesn't — it works "most of the time", "with some caveats quite often". Blame manufacturers who don't write drivers for Linux (looking at you, Qualcomm, Nvidia...), blame OEMs who select those parts for their machines, but don't blame Linux itself — you get it for free with more than 4,000 drivers included last I checked.
I don't know about IT policies, but I think any reasonably good IT org would just consider everyone's machine compromised -- owned by employer or employee both and take security measures commiserate to the needs of the business.

Regarding it being an investment - if you think anything can make you more productive and you can get the business to pay for it - sure, why not? Could be a chair or a desk or a coffee maker or a computer.
It only repels 50% of the bites though. Thus, those that bite, will survive and make babies. Some of them will be able to bite, others not.

Eventually, only those that can bite will survive.

I don't see how it can go the other way. Where eventually since only half of them bite, that ratio declines to zero. Can that happen with evolution?

I suppose there is a tipping point where if enough of the population can't find each other then they all die alone. Like rats in Alberta.
It's not the actual measurement, it's the physical act of dividing an angle graphically into thirds using nothing but a compass and a ruler.
You are assuming farms are the only or current main source of nitrates just because there is a correlation. Overtreated lawns and golf courses could have taken up the slack of farming usage for one. The other sectors need to be factored in for nitrate content.
I have no idea what the AI-powered adds? It looks like any other job board for devs. Perhaps write a description or something for clarity.
The lack of serious reaction over Jamal Khashoggi is sad and telling.
One thing to note -- it's not really troubling for a country to have a lot of influence. It's troubling for China to have as much influence as it does when it's directly trying to undermine freedoms that we have fought tooth and nail and died a million lives to get in The West.

This is not a question of a foreign country being different. This is a question of a foreign company forcing us to slowly give up the very things we consider to make us human -- our freedoms -- in exchange for a couple extra bucks. The fact that companies are willing to do it is pathetic. And I'm glad that people are finally waking up to this.

Hong Kong is literally protesting to have the right to a trail by jury! How anyone in The West could not take their side is baffling to me. I wish I was a gamer so I could boycott Blizzard. But I am a basketball player, and I'll make sure to tell everyone I can to boycott the NBA until they make this right.

The protesters are not wrong. The CCP is antithetical to our way of life in The West. Apologist companies to The CCP -- in my view -- are a direct threat to my freedom as a human being.
It's likely a combination of bad UX, complex set-up, flaky delivery and having no great interface to manage the groups, memberships, unsubscribes. At least that's the parts we're trying to fix.
Once upon a time, you had to have a working example of an invention in order to be granted a patent . . .
Try web workers! I've been doing all kinds of crazy expensive spatial data validation in many parallel threads. It's amazing. I think off screen canvas in workers is gaining browser support recently.
I can't, perhaps lean's definition of quotient isn't constructive (I hadn't looked or noticed that),
But there is at least this construction of quotients in NuPRL.

http://www.nuprl.org/documents/Nogin/QuotientTypes_02.pdf

I think quotients are not typical of constructive objects in that if you construct some object, and then project it into the quotient, then you have the quotient, but you cannot project that object back out. You get subtly less, that the resulting quotient satisfies some equivalence relation.

Under a specific set of assumptions, you may very well be able to construct the quotient... but under a different set of assumptions (including the assumption of the quotient), Perhaps in these differing sets of assumptions, you have the quotient, but lack the assumptions necessary to construct it yourself.

Anyhow, the argument that they are non-constructive in a humpty dumpty sense you cannot
put it together -> take it apart -> put it back together again.

Where it seems reasonable to consider the "put it together" phase as not entirely incompatible with constructivity?
> noodle theorists

Lovely name
> Pair locking is a useful feature to protect yourself against invasive device searches.

Probably also a good way to get onto no-fly lists, and spend hours in detention, etc.
Wow, that's a surprisingly fair and neutral write up, really good work!
I was totally with the presentation until about 40% of the way in. My objections with these kinds of "more agency for the team" approaches are as follows:

1) We are assuming dev teams want to do the extra work of defining what to make, or put another way, are happy with being responsible for it. Also for the people that do think that way, it assumes their teammates are likewise motivated.

2) In my experience, developers are not people-oriented and therefore will naturally resist collaboration at some level, especially with with customers.

3) Does any developer really think their time is well-spent participating in investigatory market research, advocated in this presentation?

Thoughts?

Disclaimer: I am a developer. I can get enthused about these approaches, but often gravitate back to the hermit-like mentality that drove me to programming in the first place. I can't help but think that a lot of this non-programming activity would be better served if organisations today just embraced the Business Analyst role more.
Again, to have economic growth you actually have to have growth. Once you get everyone doing the things that yield maximum economic value, you no longer have growth. You'd have to make more people (exponentially, under current economic regime), which costs physical resources.

As an aside, when talking about economic growth we're looking at economic, not social value, and it so happens that saving lives is one of the less valuable things. You can determine it by looking at the paychecks of doctors or ER personnel.
I love the idea of someone having to use a globe in their job.
Yeah I'd love to work in Go, but there are so few jobs it either isn't worth it or makes it risky to specialize in it.
Insert list of western atrocities etc etc.

At the end of the day, HK fate is decided by appeasing to China not the west. If you're going to wave the Chinese equivalent of alt right symbolism and violently target mainlanders, they will be treated accordingly. Which btw by all objective metrics have been exceedingly restraint for protests its size. The point is, don't pretend this was a well intented or peaceful protest, anyone who understands the subtext knows it's anything but.
Eventually found your About page in the footer. So it sounds like better tagging of jobs?

Not to be mean, but the 437,650 monthly visitors claim is too much of an exaggeration-- I know you want to establish credibility early, but this seems to be a 3-day old website. If you're using that number to sell job listings, it can be seen as false advertising unless you can back that number up.
Like what? I find that especially when comparing Nano Server and Linux, that Linux is much easier to manage and has nearly unlimited features that can be used or installed via a lightweight package manager when building your images.
Please let there be massive protests about this at BlizzCon.
This. Adding to that, drugs do help accelerate the whole 'friendship' process a lot.
So what happens if you point it to the sun during daytime?
Why is this always the stock type of response when someone mentions a thing they like?
I think consumers would be more willing to see the number on the label go up if they saw the number on their paychecks go up. Wages in the US peaked about 1968, a number of forces have been working to reengineer that deal ever since.

Similar to your point, executives don't like seeing the number on their costs go up. Isn't it possible that quality could take a hit in how the executive chooses to reduce costs?
While dividing by three is easy, dividing an angle by three with just a compass and a straight edge is impossible. Numberphile[1] did a video on this a few years ago

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Lm9EHhbJAY (Euclid's Big Problem - Numberphile)
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Likely the first of thousands more.
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The Apache svn repository is approaching 1.9 million commits http://svn.apache.org/viewvc which includes all the various Apache projects
Except interest rates. Things would be nicer if our economy didn't depend on paying back interest with economic growth.
I think the tax treatment of cryptocurrency is nonsensical if one views and attempts to use it as a currency rather than an investment. There is no exclusion of small transactions from capital gains reporting requirements like there is for foreign fiat currencies. That means that actual currency users must track and report cost basis and gains on every single transaction, no matter how small, in order to remain in compliance. This tax treatment is overly burdensome and stifles legal cryptocurrency usage and adoption in the US.
> Human beings like yourself require material inputs to live – food, shelter, energy, to name only a few. Just by being alive on a biosphere, you are impacting the environment in some way. T

They would be doing that if they were not giving massages.
If they were keeping their only copy at an unrelated University thousands of miles away, they had more problems than I thought ;)

I'm actually not sure anymore what the details of their return email was, as it was over 25 years ago. But it was basically, "We will report you to law enforcement if you contact us again."
Right, so I’m really curious as to why you’ve done exactly that, and then were exceedingly rude about it.
He was lucky with his first summer. 2019 had fewer wildfires than 2018, and 2017 was even worse:

"On September 5 [2017], ash from the Central Washington fires fell "like snow" on Seattle and as far west as Grays Harbor County which borders the Pacific Ocean. University of Washington meteorology professor Cliff Mass said the situation in Seattle with "a smoke cloud so dense one would think it is low stratus deck" was unprecedented in his 30 years of experience."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Washington_wildfires
https://www.iii.org/fact-statistic/facts-statistics-wildfire...

I was in Oregon for the eclipse in 2017 and the air quality was really terrible.
This can happen in academia. I went through Stanford CS, finishing in 1985. That was about when it was clear that "expert systems" were not going to lead to Strong AI Real Soon Now, or, indeed, much of anywhere. But many faculty were in deep denial about that. The "AI Winter" followed. There was little progress until machine learning finally took off about two decades later.
Ok I'm a little distressed by this tweet the article linked: https://twitter.com/Rachael_Bale/status/925352538110595072
"Measuring" is not permitted. You are granted access only to an idealized compass and straight edge. There's a mobile game called Euclidea based on this which I'd recommend.
Yup. Most of the fan-type conventions I go to have a strong overlap with that community as well. It makes it super easy to meet new people I'll get along with. But if I weren't into this sort of thing, I don't know that theres many places at all to get a similar sense of community.
...all over the place

A small, but possible chance of Pu-238 spreading over Florida. I just read that 238 (half-life 87 years) emits mostly alpha, which is said to be easily blocked, even by paper. In FL, many go about half naked, so I'm not sure if this matters. I wonder how thoroughly Kaku considered everything.

Seems his concern was based partially on NASA's (small but not null) history of failures. I don't know, but doubt he was being deliberately unreasonable. Maybe his Japanese (distant) ancestry was a factor? Publicity would be a surprising motive. So would general ignorance.
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