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Well, I think there are more basic notational issues too, which you can't ignore; they affect everyone. For example, the way that sharps and flats work makes no rational sense, except in the context of history of instruments and scales.

A lot of the notation of timing is cumbersome. Why the large number of wonky-looking symbols? Compare to how a lot of composition software shows timing with how long a position notes take up horizontally (music notation predates the concept of Cartesian coordinates!). It's a lot easier to work with, in all respects.

All this stuff builds up to about an unnecessary 3-month learning curve for kids learning music notation.

Is it worth changing a whole industry -- where everyone already knows the notation and there are countless works in notation -- to save all kids three months? Maybe, but probably not. That's the legacy system problem.

The nice thing -- compared to software systems -- is that none of this stuff is really all that complex.
Boy this comes up on here a lot.

It’s ok to call yourself a programmer. I promise.
i used it for long time, got exposed to go-mono from this list, serif for code, giving it a try
Straightforward Techniques for Making Sense of Legacy Code
The North Wind and the Sun had a quarrel about which of them was the stronger...
I found it terrible, not only because of the surplus personality, but due to aesthetic and readability issues.

Readability - the r looks to me closer to an i, not the i of this font but a generic i, I find it confusing and it slows me down.

Aesthetically - the f character have space before it that in many combinations cuts a word to two, for example in the word delightful. Generally the font is mono-spaced, but the space between and after characters varies a lot.
Blog post announcing this: https://blog.arduino.cc/2019/10/18/arduino-pro-ide-alpha-pre...

From that github repo: "Before releasing the source code we want to move out of the alpha and we want your feedback to do this! Please test the Arduino Pro IDE and report bugs or feature requests at: https://github.com/arduino/arduino-pro-ide/issues "

I was about to complain about that but then I realized it's an electron app and the source is in their release anyway which just makes this a slightly weird statement.
The whole thing is asinine.

They've never made money and they never will. If they haven't gotten after 10 years they wont get it.
Yes but today one need to build and sell a device to take control of DNS. With DoH any app can do that
> Source?

Notaries are difficult to find at open sea, but is a believable suspicion

https://www.traffic.org/site/assets/files/3358/trading-tails...
Speaking of ugly; that consent form which forces my language to be region locked to my geoip'd location (instead of taking my language from my Accept-Language headers) and offering no way to opt out than I can find is quite ugly.
The lack of news are going to destroy democracy everywhere because voters are increasingly getting less and less alternative sources and eventually none. Some new age media possibilities I had been thinking of:

1) Double politicians (or leftover politicians). Most of English speaking world has left over votes with no representative, have politicians elected with leftover votes. These are paid positions with no power. They will keep the elected politicians in check and can do local journalism. Otherwise those politicians who may get up to 50% of the vote, will stop working for those potential voters by going back to their lives.

2) Citizen news. Government allows citizens to post anything on their personal blogs/columns/newspapers. It has the side effect of being historical because, the government will forever host it vs losing information when the company/individual no longer hosts it for whatever reason. Registration is simply getting username/password from local government with ID.

Both of these require that the government recognise that some information is better than nothing and an essential need if there is have democracy. To do otherwise, is to let evil continue under the veil (Corruption, abuse, etc). Those who would be against 'information needs to be free and widely available', you guessed it, evil.
I read an article that claiming the push for 5G comes from SoC and device vendors, not telcos etc. The followup article was interesting.

https://www.rhizomatica.org/talkin-bout-my-5th-generation/
https://www.rhizomatica.org/5g-wont-reduce-the-digital-divid...
I think you are saying 2 different things, in your definition of constructive feedback

1.) The feedback should be nice/not brash/not toxic.

2.) The work needs to be done by the person to give more detailed feedback.

While 2.) is a not a reasonable expectation it is pretty simple to achieve 1.), by keeping emotions out of your feedback. For example I would just go with "The webservice is slow, could you take a look? It is affecting xyz".
Is there a reason DHCP can't be extended to provide DOH, too? As long as the OSes of connecting devices support it, I don't see why not.
Why would you consent to this? Can you opt out?
5G won’t reduce the digital divide and might even make it worse
As someone have pointed out in the thread itself: this is not in any way React's fault. If you want, you can add (p)react for a few kb to your page, serve a max 20-25k js code with it and still do not match the served image's size.

However, when websites decide to instead track the everliving hell out of their users, this is what happens. Absolutely pathetic. Another similar experience I have with mobile sites is Reddit, its intentionally throttling the site and tries to turn you towards their app.
Online daters, be warned 1 in 10 profiles are scams, report reveals
Exactly. These are far far away from cheap FPGAs, Spartan 6 chips are just old, but not cheap. When thinking about cheap FPGAs I imagine these cheap things from Lattice for interface bridging.

Cheap ARM SoCs were on ARM’s roadmap back then. Cortex A9 was huge innovation these days.
Never heard about the LG Gram - looks pretty nice! How is the chassis?
I do not appear to be prone to either SAD or depression.

But my general understanding is that a. Fasting impacts the microbiome and b. The microbiome is increasingly being shown to impact the microbiome.
F1 very purposely constrains technological
innovation — again since the 80s — specifically to
avoid technology being a bigger victory factor than
driver skills.

I'm not sure that that's a reasonable analysis. The restrictions aren't there to keep humans important. They're there to keep humans alive.

I read an article once in which an F1 team's lead engineer claimed that a car with no limitations would average 300 hundred miles per hour around a track that's identical to a current track but turned so all the curves were banked 90 degrees to the outside. I believe it. Gas turbine, vacuum system, active cooling on the brakes, everything fully shrouded and active aerodynamic surfaces everywhere, electronic stability and traction controls...

The thing is, humans aren't getting that much faster or stronger, and we know that these unlimited cars would be unmanageable. Restrictions seem to be tightened in direct response to severe accidents that increase in frequency as engineering advances. It turns out that letting cars get any faster than they are right now doesn't make human skill irrelevant, it just gets people killed. Modern cars, as they constrained as they are, are already at the limits of human performance.

And this isn't surprising! The most maneuverable jet fighters in the world are built to turn at about 10g. The most maneuverable fighters built in WWII were also built to turn at about 10g [1, 2]. Humans stop functioning around... 10g. If you had an aircraft racing league, letting teams build higher-performance planes wouldn't result in victory going to the highest-performance plane. Higher-performance planes would result in victory going to the pilot most willing to die. Which is precisely what we see in air racing: The Red Bull Air Race rules instantly disqualify racers that pull 10g for more than half a second or 12g ever [4].

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_F-22_Raptor#Sp...
2: https://ww2aircraft.net/forum/threads/insight-into-the-magni...
3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G-LOC#Thresholds
4: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Bull_Air_Race_World_Champi...
5: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_stability_control
Even if I am an registered engineer (civil), when asked, I say I am programmer because that's what I do. Absolutely nothing wrong with it.
Untangling the web: Memory management in Chrome’s web platform implementation
Start reading data sheets of memory chips. They have state diagrams. DDR2 is great technology to start with. Some random memory chip: https://www.micron.com/-/media/client/global/documents/produ... on page 9 you have state diagram. There is simulation model available.
I assume the Facebook message is through a Facebook bot running embedded on the website. It won't automatically collect your data until you interact with it and that falls under the Facebook privacy policy since the individual site doesn't have access to anything more than your Facebook name and public profile picture.
Sometimes form just has to follow function and there's nothing any industrial designer can do about it. Look at the Red cameras that revolutionised digital cinema. Many would claim they are ugly.
I'm using uMatrix and don't see it, so that's one way.
> They'll send a technician to your location (typically within the week) and replace whatever parts needed for free.

My Dell Latitude had included "next business day" 3 years warranty. I used it twice (to get motherboard and display replaced) and they sent technician next working day. There were a bit more failures then I would expect, but warranty was great and I happily bought 2 more years (5 years total) for equivalent of about 200 USD plus tax.
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But that's a truism. Good coders write good code. Heureka!

The real gain is to be had in pushing the mudball stage as far into the product's life cycle in absolute terms as possible.

In that sense, nothing is required, but some things help. I argue that TypeScript helps.
Last reply (#3):

> Most of it was opinion, some of it was relating history as we know it. Just about everything you posted is incorrect, outright misleading and much of it sourced or the lies initially came from slavery apologists and those that refuse to actually look at history and accept that with the good a lot of bad also happened.

Just about everything you post is incorrect and everything you stand for is vile. You represent a wall to scientists and those that want to speak freely. You seek destruction of everything that is nuanced. You want history to be a fairy tale fit for a night's reading to a child. You drown out the intellectual stimulating world with vile, processed shit. There's children standing on tables, chin deep in your vile shit, screaming at the top of their lungs for help while you raise the shit levels ever more till there's no more children, just shit-filled barely functioning organisms. You refuse to accept that just because bad things happen doesn't mean they always happen in the worst hollywood action filled manner that your subpar mind demands so that it is capable of keeping up. You can drown yourself in shit, I'm not going with you. Bye bye.
This is an incredibly silly article.

> And amazingly, due to being made of actual metal, the more drops an SE survives, the cooler it looks

Is steel not real metal anymore?
Yeah, learning the grammar of what has become consensus-jazz (if you will) allows you to better play that game with other people. In that sense, I do just very much dislike that such grammar is presented under the guise of "theory" (that's both in the word and in having a pretense of explaining music rather than just being the general rules that lead to standard jazz).

Compare to cooking: if you don't know how to use a measuring cup or the difference between baking and broiling, you will have a harder time following recipes or adapting them to your own tastes. And knowing deeper ideas like the effect of baking soda or eggs or the smoke points of different oils… it can get advanced and deep, but I still insist that learning about how cooking and digestion and taste actually work would be deeply insightful to cooking even if you can get by without that understanding. Same applies to music. Jazz musicians who just memorize all the scales and voice-leading ideas and forms etc. would gain a ton by learning about what music cognition offers.
Any specific parts would you like to know more about?

In general, "how/if 5G is actually going to enable things like this in a way not possible with 4G" can be done. But, from a software engineering perspective, this has more to do with how the playing field is changing for mobile network operators than to the consumer.
Yeah. Software's marginal cost can theoretically be zero, and in practice is is pretty close to that. Thinking of marginal cost for real estate I don't think there are economies of scale to be had beyond traditional merging of horizontals. Is tenant experience really the real estate largest cost? I don't think so -- land and construction is where you want to focus your efforts. That being said I have no idea what I'm talking out, this is just layman intuition.
I'm with Asus ZenBook UX461 bought more than a year ago. While it's not a super-cool brand like Macs or Surfaces (my previous laptop), the ZenBook is 1/3 of the price and monsterly-packed with hardware superior to them (i7-8550 1.88GHz, 16GB of RAM, 512GB SSD and very light and good touch screen). Did my homework, you can't beat that, and I've tried all the famous brands before.
Meh.

Are you really confident this first new batch will be ok?
Ubuntu 19.10's Kernel Ships with a DoS/Arbitrary Code Execution in the IPv6 Code
It's very easy to make a DDR interface in an FPGA, it's difficult to make it run at the mark speed...

(but this observation is generic for all FPGA-stuff really, it seems easy first, it's just another language etc.. but you need to learn timing analysis and constraints and optimization to use it for real)
But what about laptops? That’s a better analogy
> Do Java programmers make more money than .NET programmers? Anyone describing themselves as either a Java programmer or .NET programmer has already lost, because a) they’re a programmer (you’re not, see above) and b) they’re making themselves non-hireable for most programming jobs. In the real world, picking up a new language takes a few weeks of effort and after 6 to 12 months nobody will ever notice you haven’t been doing that one for your entire career.

In the real world this is (unfortunately) not how technical people are hired. The stack they are using seems to be the first thing hiring managers look at.

You would think it would be only clueless recruiters who would think this way, but my experience is that well-respected and successful entrepreneurs also operate along these lines. It is not clear to me whether their success is related to or in spite of this way of thinking. To give them the benefit of the doubt, startups often need to move quickly and those few weeks-months needed for people to become familiar with a new stack they're unfamiliar with may simply not be available.
there isn't one for me. I am primarily a back-end dev but I also develop for iOS.
Three Strategies for Working Solo as a Junior Developer
Yep. It doesn't seem to matter much in the US, but in other parts of the world you can't call yourself an Engineer unless you are a P.E.

I typically call myself a software developer because everything I do that isn't actually writing software (documentation, design, system stuff) is in support of that.
No its not.. and people are starting to get tired of statements like this all over the forums.
How do you use programming to express your creativity?
Do you use programming as a hobby after your job for creative appetite?

If yes, what are the things you do? I guess doing some hardware integrated project, making games or something related to your another hobby would be satisfying to do.
Which is supposed to be replaced by https://github.com/withoutboats/fehler
Overall I agree with your post. There are some things I'd like to point out.

- ThinkPads have amazing linux support. Dells aren't bad either. I have used a few dell laptops with linux as my daily drivers and no issues. Currently typing this on a Latitude E7450 and have had everything working out of the box.

- I am using a USB wired connection without issues, works out of the box.

- Currently using Manjaro linux and enjoying the heck out of it. Haven't done a reinstall in over a year and it's very stable across updates.
Optical Method for Determining Surface Free Energy of Micro- and Nanoparticles
And here's a brief history of the phrase "yell fire in a crowded theatre," and its use in politics and law, and in modern free-speech issues: https://www.popehat.com/2012/09/19/three-generations-of-a-ha...
Another design to target at one of these boxes could be Milkymist [1], uses the lm32 CPU and various peripheral cores.

[1] https://github.com/m-labs/milkymist
> hormone levels (estradiol in particular) do affect mood.

... almost as if we shouldn't build cultures of messing with them for our own physical gratification
you mean the new Philips shaver?

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2019/09/20/12/18714154-7485701-...
The author bemoans the notch on the iPhone saying we'd all like to be rid of it and that edge to edge screens are frustrating. He then goes on to complain that the Samsung has bezels.
Tiny Polyphonic FM Synthesiser
I'm suggesting that even to musicians, when they say, "I want to understand how music works", they pick up a book on "music theory". They think it does mean that. And they study it and hope it will get them what they want. It does a little. They aren't presented with the idea that any other approach even exists. And when they get advanced enough, some of them teach "music theory" classes and write more "music theory" books — all still thinking this is as good as we have at explaining the nature of music because they themselves sought that out and this is what they got.

At grad-school level "music theory" all the insights from music cognition are recognized as totally within "music theory" except that everyone is so invested in the general notation-jargon path to get there that they rarely think much about what theory could/should be for beginners. They eventually found the other stuff after so many years, and most people don't question whether there might be a better path.
And transmit it!
Biometrics are useless for remote 2fa. They only even make a little sense when used for immediate local hardware interaction. From a remote perspective you can't authenticate biometrics versus a replay attack. Hardware does it by literally being hardware and thus has high confidence it is talking to the real sensor and you will note all the phones require harder authentication on boot before enabling biometric authentication.
So you just prohibited all video recording from drones, remote controlled planes, helicopters, air balloons. You know they are all used for creative and industrial purposes. No more bridge inspections by cheap drones, only by expensive manned helicopters. No more cool aerial scenes in the indie movies, only the rich can afford to hire a helicopter. No more observation balloons. Etc, etc, etc.
Another option is to use a static WordPress hosting, like Shifter, Hardy Press or Strattic.
> Bad Google, but that would still be an issue even without DoH.

Well, with regular DNS, you can force-route 8.8.8.8 to pi-hole and regain control relatively easily.

That's not possible with DoH due to TLS.
Aside: I've never understood how DNS is decentralized.

The internet: I get a number (from a central authority), I plug into other numbers, a path to my number appears. Sounds pretty decentralized once I have a number it's up to peering.

DNS: I get a name (from some authority) under a hierarchy. To look names up in this hierarchy you start with sanctioned root servers (from a central authority) which point you to TLD lookup servers (sanctioned by the same authority) which are the authority for that level and so on until you get to your name. Doesn't sound very decentralized, the only portion that's decentralized is the cache.

Anyways to your original point: I disagree losing a layer or two of distributed cache servers (depending on the deployment" is "the biggest killer feature DNS has" and I think encrypted randomization and stepping towards end to end integrity are better "killer features" that haven't been able to take off with traditional DNS.

> Furthermore, several governments use DNS right now to block websites...

So it has to be air tight in standing up to the worlds governments to provide value over being unauthenticated plain text? Even in the cases of governments you'd be surprised how far making it more difficult goes in the volume of collection or how it makes governments have to explicitly admit they are monitoring particular traffic due to the way the technologies work.
Reversible binding and separation of SO2 in a robust metal–organic framework
Sales people are usually profit centers, as I understand it. Without sales, no profits.
While it is a very unusual metaphor, I don't see how it is misogyny or derogatory against women. This is wildly off-topic but I'd be interested to hear your thoughts.
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Server side rendering
I think most smartphones look the same and have for a while.

Meanwhile the tech related media's obsession with dramatically overstating the importance of small aesthetic differences like millimeters of bezel strikes me as lazy and annoying.

As far as smartphones go all I want to know is if it works, how new features work, and the impossible to find... good app recommendations (I've stopped looking for those).
A hot tub is supposed to be max 104 F, and I shower at most at 110 F (get overheated fairly quickly), usually do 108 F.

Not sure how I would even keep water at 116F that long...

Sous vide?
Strep antigen biosynthesis initiated by α-D-GlcNAc-β-1,4-L-rhamnosyltransferase
Thanks for that video, hadn't seen it before. Damn, I miss having Steve at the helm.
What functionality benefits does the camera layout on the new iPhone have over the layout on the Pixel 4? The author of the article seems to have found none, which was one of their main points as far as I could tell.
No no, I'm not doing anything weird during the install, I'm having issues getting to the install. Self-built desktop with (in this case) AMD CPU and GPU, but nothing special.
He ain't wrong. These things are specialized beasts now, of both tech and fashion.
I have went through a lot of differnt laptops, mainly had a lot of Dell laptops but last year I decided to buy a Thinkpad T430 on ebay for close to notting and it's the best laptop I have ever had.
yes, state sponsored 'economic efficiency' purges. what could possibly go wrong?
I also have very minimal dotfiles. Less than 200 LOC in total, including whitespace.

They have barely changed in the last decade. Two key things to be able to work like this were:

* Moving most of my computing to 3 platforms (Emacs, Unix and Firefox). I don't use any GUI application aside from a manual tiling window manager.

* Migrating to a barebones distribution, Arch / NixOS. A small half a page imperative / declarative script is enough to configure all my system.
Probably this would seem less silly as a more objective contrast between the SE and 11 Pro.

Weird thing is, I actually kind of want to carry both my SE and 11 Pro around. The SE really is just as much phone real estate as needed for 80% of the time. The pro camera, glass case, OLED display, and other new features are pretty cool, though. I mean, my SE would have never gotten that photo of my cat this morning in the twilight.
>Is steel not real metal anymore?

Cyclists like to debate whether or not steel is real.