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Trevor Paglen [0] has produced some amazing works and many of my all time favourite photographs. I agree with you but also highly recommend those unaware of him look into his other publications and exhibitions.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trevor_Paglen
Install Stylus https://github.com/openstyles/stylus/ (and fall in love with it), then install a style (e.g. https://userstyles.org/styles/97106/ ) or write your own.
There will always be plenty of grey area when it comes to what we can practically do in response to climate change, even if we all did reach a common sense type consensus on how bad it currently is.

Especially when it comes down to local level policy for such a global issue.

This will always be a hard fight.
Any comments on using Gumroad as your payment processor? I went with Paddle for a Chrome extension - it seems more flexible (e.g. you could do team subscription plans with custom pricing) but I think Gumroad is a lot easier to integrate (e.g. they have a simple license check API).
Presumably those people were British and referencing an iconic 90s kids TV character?
I might have cared back in 2012. Now I just want to see Google get the antitrust hammer good and hard. Same with Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, Disney, Comcast, Viacom, ConAgra, Cargill, and every other US megacorp.
Sorry, it's not false. I dried my hands using an Airblade V2 on Saturday in a services washroom. I timed it. It took 32 seconds. I did the same when using another make (when I was at PyconUK, in Cardiff city hall, feel free to check them out), and it took 30 seconds.
Predicting some eventual outcome isn't quite as difficult as predicting its precise timing. This is common knowledge regarding market bubbles, but really applies to more than just economic questions.

We can't just shrug off past predictions because they failed to get the timing right when the trends they foresaw are clearly observed, just not quite as strong as predicted. The UK is still more united than underwater, but the poles are melting nonetheless.
Eh. Firefox mobile has a "reader mode" that does what AMP is supposed to do... but better. Took me a bit to switch, but I finally did, and it's _so_ worth it.
Don't keep us in suspense :) What did they find in your case?
Wow. It's not just your country, it's like you're talking about mine! In my country the same conversations take place, only it's "public school" vs "private schools". And public schools used to be top notch here, but thanks to decades of lowering budgets and teacher salaries they are now in critical condition :( This of course reinforces this notion that they are ok for underprivileged people, but if you have the money you should send your kids to a private school :(
I had a similar experience. Ended up changing my major from English to Econ after discovering that math is actually pretty fun.
No.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_cleaner#Cyclonic

They marketed a portable vacuum that doesn't use a bag or filter as the first dirt separation stage.
Yeah, because you can just install Android on the iPhone you already possess.
> They usually grow in the process and get ahead of the too careful and doubtful ones.

I don't know whether they "grow", as in "actually understand things", "acquire skills" etc if they're basically just using Markov chains to communicate (but maybe they are, maybe it's "fail forward", iterate over your mvp and turn it into a success product, but for communication). They often do get ahead with regard to social points, but at least in my experience, only very few of them are so good at bullshitting their way through life that they don't hit a wall. At some level, just having heard a word isn't enough to look competent, you also need to know what it means.
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How can one tell the difference between good and "garbage" lactose, then?
How does this compare to d3.js? I'm surprised to not see it included in the benchmark comparison table.
As a Mormon I still think this might be a reasonable case to use for the basis of comparison. (Alas I don't speak for any other Mormons, who will probably disagree with me.)

User 'sho' wants to present Hong Kong's efforts to preserve their rights in a way that the USA would understand.

When Utah wanted to become a state, they obviously would have liked to preserve their polygamy practice. It took a long time before things settled down and Utah became a state.

In a sense, that's where Hong Kong is right now. "One country, two systems." They aren't a fully-integrated part of the country, though I don't want to delegitimize them by calling them a "territory," maybe the comparison isn't so bad.

There's pressure from the mainland to conform. Just like there was lots of pressure put on Utah to conform.

It seems like a decent comparison.
Not until individualism and anti-government sentiments kick in

I'm not saying that those things I described are good, I'm just saying they make sense in our current time.

> why make it even harder by tolerating aggressive and violent behavior from others?

> Isn't "protecting the weak" the whole point of civilized society over barbarism?

You're right, civilization matters more, but it doesn't change the fact that human nature will always easily re-surface. Free markets, competition, individualism, money, those values sound very dangerous because to me, because they contradicts and almost negate the entire concept of civilized society.

The fall of the soviet union and acute capitalistic dogmas have exacerbated the sentiment that it's "everyone for himself".
My school hacking story: 7th grade, springtime, ~1998. The district used software that ran on login and populated your desktop/start menu and permissions. This was a mixed network of windows 98 and XP for all the newer computers. I found a bug where if you corrupted your own user profile folder, windows would load a temporary one after reboot and not apply all the restrictions, giving access to explorer. You could also get access to explorer by going through the f1 help menu in a couple of different programs.

Promptly used explorer to navigate to my english teachers computer via the hidden c$ share, and delete the executable from the program files folder. Next time she logged in, BOOM nothing. no start menu, no desktop, no permissions. The admins had an incredibly consistent and predictable naming scheme, and my idiot "friends" I shared the vulnerability with promptly used this to nuke like 3 labs and a bunch of teachers computers.

Fast forward 1 month, we all got pulled out of PE by a cop and sentenced to 1-3 weeks of community service.

* I abused that profile bug to work exclusively out of portable firefox on a usb drive instead of being tied to internet explorer 6 and 7, which allowed me to bypass proxy settings and get access to gmail and read slashdot/ign/halo.bungie.org during school hours! Those were the days.
Bought a V8 cordless and my wife is raving happy about it every time she vacuums, the other alternative was Bosch, although I trust the brand very much when it comes to vacuums I'd rather not risk it.
The Chinese government sure has given the Hong Kong protesters a lot of free press (no pun intended)
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I'd like to get a good grasp of the differences between Bazel and Buck. I've used the Bazel but not Buck - most descriptions of Buck describe it as being pretty similar to Bazel. (Also, that's a very interesting paper, will read in depth.)
EU and Singapore have a (in the process of being ratified) free trade agreement though. Oddly enough, the UK and the EU might not have it.

I am not sure this mattered in the decision much.
They mostly deal with investigating the crime of "Accessing a Computer with Dishonest Intent" which is a catch all law which can apply to completely non-computer related crimes.
About a year ago I read an OPEC publication from 2006 “Oil in the 21st Century”. It was filled with optimism about our oil powered future. In one chapter they made surprisingly accurate production/consumption estimates through about 2021 and were only off by a few points because in 08-09 consumption dropped a little. Not once were electric cars mentioned.

What I ultimately absorbed from the book is that oil production and consumption is inextricably tied into the global economy and only aggressive, binding, legislation can separate it. Technology -baring some moonshot energy breakthrough that’s absurdly cheap and easy to adopt overnight— will not save us; the oil will keep flowing and more will flow each year.
> Or is any school outside the official educational program a "charter school"?

Charter schools are schools within the official public education system (whether operated by the public authority or some other entity) which possess a charter exempting them from some of the otherwise-applicable provisions of that system.

There are also private (both for- and non-profit) schools outside the official public education system (in some jurisdictions, these may get partial public subsidies for students via vouchers.)
Oh sure, we've seen that pattern play out enough that I totally buy it. But "operating in China for some period of time" is still more profitable than "not operating there at all/leaving early for ethical reasons". The claim that kowtowing to their illiberal demands is short term gains and long term losses doesn't make any sense.
Technically, you wouldn't need a full 18MB for the output buffer so long as you perform the JPEG in-line with the rotation and are willing to deal with slicing the image into swaths. So in theory you could get away with like a 1MB output buffer but then your rotation time would depend on your JPEG timing and you couldn't take another picture with the main raw buffer until rotation and JPEG were both complete. It's a tradeoff, time versus memory.
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Smoking increases the risk of cancer too, and we let people choose to do that, even though it also increases the risk of cancer for everyone around them as well.
We had one of those. Terrible bit of equipment. Flimsy plastics, never stayed upright, no tools. Waste of money.
I wouldn't find it too surprising that all of those 20 people left at the mere mention of words "might conceivably enjoy sleeping with some of you", since the joke was in poor taste.

That doesn't necessarily support your interpretation.
Maybe because they were bold enough to make the trade-off. In a competition hand dryer that doesn't really work vs one that damages your hearing... I'll keep wet hands thanks.
Ask HN: Subpixel font rendering disabled on macOS Catalina?
Is anyone else experiencing this? Fonts look markedly worse on my external monitor after upgrading to Catalina. For example, here is a screenshot from Finder showing a clear lack of subpixel (RGB) anti-aliasing:

https://imgur.com/Hq5Txm0.png

Subpixel rendering is still 'enabled' in the defaults system:

~ % defaults read -g CGFontRenderingFontSmoothingDisabled
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She had a Bosch cordless one previously, that was better. It's supposed to be capable of replacing your corded one, but it's simply not up to the task - any corded vacuum I've had was better - a £30 LG was -way- better than the Dyson it replaced (when the motor failed, it was BER), and lasted a lot longer. If I need to clean the car, I'd do it with my old Henry that I found by the side of the road.
This is lacking clarity in the payment schedule... Is it One-time? Monthly? Yearly?
Do you have a better battery-powered vacuum to recommend? That's an important feature and comparing them to corded vacuums is comparing different things.
Electric vehicles don't get fueled the same way as petrol vehicles. Comparing "vehicles per hour" of someone's garage or driveway to a petrol station is also a useless comparison, yet that's where most electric vehicles get charged most of the time. I think I provided a sufficient counter to "there's no charging infrastructure", however. Whether it's sufficient, or cheap enough, or reliable enough, is up for debate, but whether any infrastructure exists isn't. You also don't need a whole lot of infrastructure when only 1% of new cars are electric, and the country is so small.
> address the lack of finding engineering talent

Why can't our "betters" resolve such a problem instead of side-stepping it. That's what a good person would do.
And Amazon is still trying to desperately get people to adopt MXNet.
October 19, 2018 - Singapore and EU sign free-trade agreement. [0]

January 22, 2019 - Dyson announces move to Singapore. [1]

After such strong support for Brexit, it is not a good look.

[0] https://ec.europa.eu/trade/policy/countries-and-regions/coun...

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jan/22/dyson-to-...
There is a huge practical difference between being temporarily infected and permanently having malware embedded in your phone.

The former is fixable with a software uodate from a company that actively looks to secure your phone, while in the latter case the device is hopelessly compromised.

I love sideloading, but if I were a target of interest then iOS is the only reasonable choice.
Don't be naive. These cities would be turning into ghettos rotten with corruption and ruled by organized gangs in no time.
Xlerators are an auditory health hazard. You can hear them running outside the gym before you can hear the music blaring.
Ours, or the cows?
Most petrol stations refuel between 4 and 8 cars every 5 minutes at peak usage. The same is not true of charging points yet.
Well, you could read the article :^)

As a summary, though:

PyTorch has become dominant in research because of its API (both its stability + having eager mode).

TF has become dominant in industry because A. it came out several years before PyTorch and industry is slow to move, B. It supported a lot of production use cases (mobile, serving, removing Python overhead) that PyTorch didn't for a long time.
I see it like this: In large engineering companies doing embedded systems, software developers are seen as fabricators who produce an item according to a specification, like welders or painters. A web developer in a tech company has a much higher status in the company.
I tried a few Dyson vacs and was never much impressed by them. I got a Miele canister vac recently and that thing has blown me away with how effective it is. Quiet, powerful, and very well and thoughtfully designed.
> all the predictions .. According to some ..

I'm sure that all types of predictions have been made, including very bad ones. I'm not aware of something of the scale of the GIEC studying climate change 50 years ago. You are comparing hypothetical past predictions (when? from whom?) with a scientific effort of unprecedented scale.

> predicting the future is not our best skill

It depends. We can predict many future events very accurately.

> they are more driven by ideology than by science

I think that not listening the scientific consensus is ideological. I have no reason to believe that the GIEC predictions are less valid than those of some random dude on the internet.
> I really can't understand why people are so enthusiastic about Dyson products

If you've used one and don't get it, you may not be the target audience. On multiple occasions, I've asked a friend of mine to try various products I use which I believe are excellent in many ways, only to be told that they were average or junk compared to what he uses. I believe what he uses mostly to be complete and utter junk! So I don't know ...

As far as Dyson vacuums go, V10 tipped over for me. The suction improved noticeably as did the run time. The bin is quite larger as well and my pet peeve, emptying the bin cleanly, is done perfectly in V10. I used to have to deal with hair in previous models. After V10, I never once touched the inside of the bin to do extra cleaning.

The motor head in V10 does not get hair in it. It's like magic!

As far as industrial design and feel of it goes, it's a pleasure to hold and use, so much that I sometimes over vacuum.

The warranty and support is the best as usual, even past warranty period.
Unfortunately, I'm not qualified to answer that.
> Have you ever met somebody who was always against exploring suggested changes to their code in a pull request? Perhaps they got upset if somebody else went in and refactored some code they worked on in the past?

There are at least three dynamics going in here that overlap and get conflated frequently.

1. Ego, inability to accept criticism. Obviously this is just something the engineer needs to grow past.

2. Sometimes another engineer not familiar with the codebase will do a drive by commit. They need to make a specific change and find the code around that change to be confusing, so they refactor it to be easier to understand in isolation. However they don't understand the idioms and patterns of the codebase as a whole, and the net effect is that the system as a whole becomes less coherent and maintainable. This creates both-sides-are-right arguments, like, "Yes you did give that variable a clearer name, except we use the other name consistently everywhere else, so if you rename it here you should rename it everywhere, and it's not really worth doing a such a big refactor and invalidating everyone's familiarity, is it?"

3. Familiarity. When you work in the same system for a long time, you develop a mental map of how everything works. That map can be a source of great productivity. Sometimes it's actually not worth making an improvement because it will necessitate the long term maintainers having to relearn how things work, and they have other things to do more important than this improvement.
Layman Science Wizard recently explained to me that pumping water up into a storage tower (using solar-based energy) and then using the gravity-drop to generate electricity again (when the sun is gone) was also very effective. A natural battery of sorts. No batteries to wear out, neither. Feasible?
I am an embedded developer using primarily C++, but I've done a ton with Javascript. I don't know why an embedded developer would refuse to touch frontend, other than a suspicion it would fit the stereotypes of database applications (CRUD, tables). The embedded UI's I've worked with the most were not in HTML but we have done demos using WebKit and Angular or GWT. Given the asynchronous constructs it takes to keep our product running properly, the asynch in Angular was not an issue. We also had an in-house test tool that we ran for over a decade that used Javascript for the tests themselves. This was not asynchronous but we ended up with several engineers who knew Javascript's scope peculiarities and unit test requirements because of it.
And the Australians who did the study? Are they just like Americans but even monolingualier?

I think you actually have the kernel of a good heuristic there, but I'd, uh, refine it a bit.
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But if that was the problem, then how/why are other manufacturers making them viable?

I wouldn't say there is 'no infrastructure in place' - yes, it's less than the ICE infrastructure, but it's perfectly possible for many people to use an EV for their transport requirements. Not everyone, but plenty of people can do - and do.
Yes, but the other commenter said explicitly what I was implying the consequence would be if sex work were socially normalized. People who sell their bodies as entertainment fall on a spectrum. You may not like it, but I've already answered your question.
She is literally GMO.

So can we stop it with the anti-GMO-at-all-costs worldview?
I have the German made Miele for couple years. It’s pretty good.
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> the US military actually was largely achieved the goal it set out for

Yes--the US literally bombed villages of innocent people because maybe someone had written a Viet Cong slogan on the wall. It then counted these huts as "enemy structures" and "munitions factories." All civilian casualties were indiscriminately counted as enemy combatants.

That's literally what the US government did, while supporting an oppressive feudal government trying to crush a populist uprising (which was considered as obviously illegitimate because they were not Christian and capitalist).

KPIs, everyone.

It's also part of why black communities in the ghetto are harassed by police officers. If you have to hit growth numbers, you start going after people who aren't doing anything wrong and arresting people on bogus charges.
Are you able to cite these predictions?
Thanks for the explanation (this and your other comment explaining public/private/charter). It clarifies a lot of things.

It seems charter schools are something I would oppose in my country (and they exist in some form, now that I think about it). I come from a country where while public/state education is under attack from the usual suspects, it's historically one of our core values, one we feel strongly about.
Funny that they don't mention birds that may have their habitat expanded by warming, like the heat tolerant New Mexico state bird, the roadrunner.
> most are probably developing websites and webapp

And you can't port your NPM, React, etc. environment over to a new OS without breaking things?

> the only thing about the end user that matters is which browser

As a web dev, you want to use the latest ES/HTML/CSS specs while still targeting as many users as possible. How can you target modern users when the browsers on your 6-year old system isn't up-to-date enough to render what most users will see?

> Then there are Mac app developers that include older versions of the OS in their target market, and have to use older tools to ensure the target range is covered. This gets harder over time because Apple makes it deliberately hard.

This is a valid point. There are still people compiling on and for Windows XP and MS-DOS machines, after all. Hell, you can find hobbyists who only like writing Commodore 64 programs. Writing to target older platforms is hyper-niche and the computer you use to do that shouldn't be your main workstation.

> Shocking, I know, but there are a lot of users of older iOS devices these days, and sometimes you're tasked with making an app for them.

In which context? Given that 97% of devices are on iOS 11 or later (https://twitter.com/reneritchie/status/1159288325003460609), I can't imagine why you care about those users.

> Then there are developers whose work talks to dev hardware attached to the computer, which needs drivers, which stop being supported at some OS version. The end users get a lump of hardware, and all the developer needs is an OS that can talk to the dev kit.

This is a valid point.

> Then there are developers doing maintenance on older MacOS, iOS, or device firmware, and produce updates that are drop-in compatible to exactly the same set of target users as are already running the software. Not every consumer app will bother with this, but some business-critical things demand it.

A valid point as well - this is exactly the context in which COBOL is still used.

> I think the use case of "end users who will want to compile your code" is almost negligably small in comparison, and Linux is probably a better OS for doing that sort of thing anyway :-)

That's...not true. macOS developers exist, you know, and there's a reason that Macs ship with a strong tooling kit.

Besides, if you distribute dynamically-linked binaries, you want an up-to-date OS so that the dylibs you're linking to actually exist...

Just some thoughts from a junior dev :)