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I just ran a google search for "Power Inverter Van". All of the results are either direct sales or affiliate advertising brochure sites disguised as a lifestyle blog.

I guess you could argue that if I google that search term I'm probably planning to buy one or something, but if I append reddit I can get a really crappy discussion tab-esque function.

If I try "Solar Powered Van" the results look a bit better but are basically the same kind of lifestyle sales content.

I think we accidentally hacked the internet into some sort of Möbius supermarket magazine aisle.
They've been going after bots and sockpuppets too when they find them. Either way at least removing the ability to forcibly promote ads in front of certain groups now they have to do that targeting themselves and it's more out in the open where it can be called out unlike the ads which you wouldn't see unless you were targeted.
> you will see a large spike in the autocorrelation for the loop point

Why? All I can hope for is to pick the max autocorrelation value, but why would I see a spike?
The potential harm that can be caused by a <2lb quadcopter is utterly microscopic compared to the damage that can be caused by motor vehicles. Yet the regulatory burden on a small quadcopter is an order of magnitude more complex than that of a two ton pickup. You have to juggle the requirements of multiple federal agencies, and state and municipal regulations are a dime a dozen.

In most jurisdictions, the regulatory burden of a small quadcopter is significantly greater than that of an AR-15. The potential harm vs utility argument doesn't even register here.
I'm not even going to look at something on a .cc domain name. Get a .com or anything but ,cc. The .cc is notorious for spam.
That would be against the interests of the shareholders. But if they all got together and decided to do so, the result would be that racists would go under, and I do not want to help racists succeed in business!
It's quite common for people to die within months of retiring, even if they retire healthy. It's down to a lack of purpose.
4chan is outright fantastic in some aspects.

/g/ is actually quite useful and friendly, especially the DPT (Daily Programming Thread), more-so if you're a beginner.

/trv/ (travel) is just good and perfectly slow where you won't feel pressure to keep up with a thread because it will still be there tomorrow.

/fit/ has good information and really encapsulates what happens when the internet meets bro-gym culture.

Compared to parts of Reddit, I would honestly take 4chan over it. I mean even some of the formerly "default" sub-Reddits are cesspools of hatred with the occasional call for targeted violence and Moderators who will ban you by association. Some of the big sub-Reddits openly discriminate based on race.

I know journalists have zero motivation to investigate sub-Reddits or the incestous circle of Reddit moderators that control the groupthink in most of the major sub-Reddits, but one day that will come out and it will be an internet scandal. If they time it right it could sink any hope of an IPO or serious monetization.
what's the point of this? open source is not a business model, or it's not relevant, or you shouldn't expect it to be a career... or something? does it matter perhaps that AWS and most every other cloud company is running most of what they have on Linux which is...um, open source? I was not able to follow what point this article was trying to make. something about if you're not a nice person you can't do ops....OK ? being a nice person is generally helpful in a lot of ways, right?
There is also a continuous stream of brilliant and successful American mathematicians!
> Here's the logos of some blogs that haven't responded to our pitch yet

haha
>SSH key storage needs more info I think. I am using SSH enough that this '...can also do SSH...' would want to be the main topic.

Different audiences, I think - this article doesn't go into technical details that often besides mentioning various protocols and what they do. Using a Yubikey for SSH (either via GPG or X.509 certs) is significantly more involved than using one for U2F/FIDO2.

There's a pretty in-depth guide here on using one as a GPG smartcard with SSH (that's what I do): https://zeos.ca/post/2018/gpg-yubikey5/
Part of the issue is definitely that California is the biggest, most influential, and one of the wealthiest states. The federal government is less incentivized to help us out in some ways, because theoretically, we can afford it.

But in aggregate, this is really what the people of California wanted. Suburbanization is popular at the voting booth, as are low property taxes. Californians wanted to freeze time in the 80s and that's what they got.
My dad was the same - he literally wrote software for a computer that hadn’t been built yet. That’s just such a foreign concept to me. But in his last years he was barely able to use a web browser despite the fact he spent nearly his entire adult life as a developer. I don’t know if the slowdown comes first or if it comes after retirement but it frightens the hell out of me either way. And it is probably the thing that I most think about when policies like UBI are brought up.
Just a heads up:

Do NOT use AWS Educate (regardless if you get it from some hackathon or Github).

The amount of pain and suffering you have to go through just to get permission to spin up a EC2 instance is unbearable. Compounded with a ton of restrictions and 60-minute sessions, it'll make you unlike AWS real-quick.

I would instead suggest to use the $300 GCP credit (since there's no restrictions for that) if you need cloud credits.
One might say this is good as it will increase organic participation in elections and politics.

If that organic component is bad like The Rock running terminator style, that may be very obvious given there isn't an astroturf campaign to keep that bad organic support alive.
Sure, Detroit! Michigan is relatively insulated from climate change, is on the up economically speaking, reasonable property values, and a decent tech scene. Access to concerts and a thriving art scene. Plus you'd be close to home. The worst thing we have is the winters.
If we are talking about electronic libraries, the governments burn plenty of these all the time.
What a huge disappointment. looks like the same crappy keyboard and same useless touch bar. I'm due for an upgrade at work, and I was really hoping this would be a no brainier so I wouldn't have to go evaluate all the possible Linux options. uuggghhh.
Whose systems do you think they’re accessing? They’re not hacking the web server to add that warning: instead, they’re waiting for it to send a reply to you and modifying it as it passes through their systems as permitted by the legal agreement you signed. This is like trying to say DoorDash should be tried for trespassing if they put a flier in your delivery.

Again, this should be illegal but I think we need strong network neutrality laws to make that so. Wishful thinking won’t save us the trouble of passing them.
Features like Intel ME were actually requested by major IHVs, like Dell/HP etc. VISA is a debug system you need ring 0 access to use.

In contrast, Qualcomm/Intel clients like Apple are very concerned to not have magic backdoors (Apple bought Intel's bandband IP and team recently, supposedly to make their own 5G chip). In any case, there are plenty of garden variety vulnerabilities in bandband chips, no need for NSA voodoo.
Even if it’s always a Democrat they must still be competing with each other just as fiercely to get selected to be the Democratic candidate?
Do you honestly believe that famine is going to affect the middle of the United States in, say, the next 100 years?
> How do others do publish-subscribe architecture on Linux?

One great (read: terrible) hack is to do signal delivery on process groups.

I know a multicast AF_UNIX patch for Linux has been floating around for years, but I have no idea if it's ever landed in a mainstream kernel.

My go-to for pseudo-multicast on POSIX/Linux is shared memory + semaphores.
I live in Missouri we don't get paid as much as people in California but we don't have their problems here. I live near Ferguson where the riots took place. Peacefull now. Most good IT jobs are in Ballwin.
> Unpopular opinion

Yes, quite unpopular since keyloggers and clipboard watching malware are probably a threat model to many more people than someone stealing a security key off your keychain.
Slated to get a pretty major earth quake at some point.
The fastest ads are the ones that never load at all. Not sorry Google, that ship has sailed long ago when ads became a delivery mechanism for malware and tracking.

> Since fast ads result in improved user experience metrics, a focus on improving ad speed may decrease the incentive for users to install ad blockers.

I think making this conclusion from the data in the linked adblock report is a bizarre interpretation of that data.
Sometimes I imagine a future where you van replace parts of your body.
A knee, hip or ankle replacement, and a yearly revision after 70 (like a cara), and we could live until 200.

Probably this thinking comes from "ghost in the shell" mixed with Asimov's books.
It's funny how "working the system" has connotations of foul play but if you're talking about software or a machine and you say "I don't know how to work it" you're saying that you don't know how to make it do it's expected function (at least in my dialect of English).

It's great that you overcame your initial difficulty. Personally, as a state-schooled white male I never did get comfortable using office hours while I was at university like other people in the comments have mentioned.

Some of the students mentioned in the article have it far worse than I did because they don't even know the meaning of the term "office hours". They can't use the system as it's expected to be used because they don't even know there's a system. Perhaps they don't even think to look for a system because they're accustomed to systems being stacked against them and they have no conception of a system that's there to help them.
I set up my own FreshRSS instance. Maybe not like Google Reader but I find it better than nothing.
If your concept of self requires the subjugation of others, you neither deserve happiness, nor will you ever find it.
I am six months into reddit detox. The amount of time I have back is amazing. Only semi social site I read is this one. I have internet down to BBCNews, NHK, Reuters, HN, a few comics, Ars, next platform, the morning paper, Matt Levine and el reg. I am much happier :)
Yeah, it’s really going to suck as we come to the collective realization that the impact modern life has on the environment is going to encroach on - modern life. PG&E’s actions are the leading edge of what will be a growing trend of inconveniences. Demonizing them is living in denial. We are all culpable.
> Intra-EU immigration is mostly high-skilled labor,

Actually it’s the opposite. In fact it’s an area of concern for the EU as they have not been ale to make highly skilled occupations (lawyers, engineers, etc) as portable as hod carrying.

> Many European healthcare systems are more strained than ever.

Citation? Complaints from my friends in France and Germany are risible to someone who has had to interact with US system.
Are we going to give up GPUs, virtualization extensions, SGX enclaves, memory barriers, upcoming AI-acceleration, etc? To my knowledge, there is no software concept that will performantly render these functional units obsolete.

If we keep the chip features, the OS will have to wrap them in one way or another.

edit: my personal preference would be to go full-Terry, but I know that's a pipe dream.
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How about phishing?
Not my area of expertise - I did two semesters of solid mechanics as part of my engineering degree 10 years ago. All I really remember is hoop stress and Kic

The wikipedia article on Fracture mechanics (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fracture_mechanics) seems to be pretty good - explains some of the mathematics involved - which is a start towards modelling it. See section on predicting crack paths.

You'd also need to know how the structural member was loaded and it's geometry - software like ANSYS is used for modelling this.
So you’re judging quality by support forum posts? Isn’t that the very definition of a self selected sample? Who goes into a support forum to post about how well something is working?
I learned SQL from the Access 95 manual. That was the start of my programming career. My life would have been completely different without it.
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Just the fact that you are coming back is very nice and uncommon.

Unless you are trying to influence/bribe someone or you are from a culture of expensive gifts, gifts between professional friends are tokens of goodwill. A card or letter are both good, maybe some other small trinket but honestly a card is worth far more to me than some $20 pen in a gift box.
I had the same reaction but then wondered whether the thing that makes work 'work' might help stave off cognitive decline. I.e. At least a few times a week I don't feel like working but, because my livelihood depends on it, I have no choice but to force myself to. On the contrary, if I don't happen to feel like engaging in any one of my numerous hobbies it's easy for me to veg out instead and thus risk cognitive decline.

Perhaps there's some threshold of 'vegging' that isn't obtained if one has enough hobbies.
Yeah, I'm concerned that what we're seeing around the country is institutional decay.

We've been increasingly replacing competence with people who tell us what we want to hear. Entertainment over substance. Short-term, feel good solutions over thoughtful long-term solutions.

Now the results of that are starting to manifest.
Slow ad popups are better. Often you can close them before they render fully.
This is like saying why would anyone use a Toyota RAV4 when they can get a 400+ hp LS3 crate engine from Chevy. Is it because of the quality of the dashboard plastics?
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> Public schools in the US and most religious upbringings

I would say the school system in general does that. The whole point of the school system is to turn you into a predictable automaton of economic utility. You want to be creative? Do that in your own time or pray you can control your creativity enough to only release it during the designated classes.
Sounds like they've overshoot the ecological limits. Yet not a word on shutting off the immigration firehose.
> If they experience how terrible the Netflix UI is and refuse to fix it, they're guilty of either gross neglect or sabotage.

Would ignorance of the quality of their product be any better?

Although I find the web ui works pretty well for me
I would say yes because it's not actually a political ad, a political ad would be 'support abortion rights', 'keep abortion legal', etc, what you're talking about is directly an advertisement of a service. It could blur the line depending on the exact content but just because a service has been politicized doesn't mean ads about that service inherently become political.
What those people really need is to have their opinions challenged by outsiders. That used to happen more on the early internet.

Keep in mind that they didn't leave Reddit because they wanted to leave. They left and made Voat because they were banned. Now they don't have to interact with people that have dissenting opinions, and they can ban you if you dissent.

Reddit is relieved because their users are no longer exposed to this toxicity. Unfortunately, now those users are no longer exposed to anything but toxicity.
To break habits it should have the same form factor as a phone case. Even better if it was a reloadable flipbook phonecase with super-thin paper.

If you can swipe through the flipbook you'd get a similar feeling as using a phone but because it wouldn't be infinite you'd stop after getting to the end. Allow yourself to reload X amount of times per day and it'd be the perfect way to break addictive phone use habits.
> brown people who speak Spanish, for example, have been in North America just as long as white people who speak English...

Actually a century longer! The original European capital of North America was Santa Fe in 1610...
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Fun getting everyone to close their MSAccess processes so you can do some changes to the MDB.
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I would use Yahoo, now Google I use, to look up stuff I didn't know how to do. That was in the late 1990s and it is like reading a tech book. You can catch up if you do that.

Don't let imposter syndrome get you, you get paid for your labor not your skills. Just don't fall behind on your projects, if you do ask for help.
I like Fish because I find it has sane defaults, i.e. {coloring, autosuggestions, completions} all work well out of the box with zero or little configuration.

You can replicate a fish-like feeling in zsh (coloring, completions, etc), but for that you need a plugin manager, a million bajillion finicky plugins, and then configuration/performance hell [1] happens. I tried that, got bored of it, then learned to fish and never looked back at zsh.

That being said, out of the interactive shell I don't like the exoticism of fish as a scripting language; I keep preferring shebanged, shellchecked [2], defensive [3] (ba)sh scripts, they're a stable and portable evil I know.

Also, I'm curious what makes you feel "lack of customization in Fish": what can you customize in Zsh that you cannot in Fish?

[1] https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions/issues/29 , https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions/issues/22 , https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/issues/5569 , https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions/issues/102 , https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/issues/6338 . And yeah okay, most of these issues are about one specific plugin, and oh-my-zsh, which is known to be a terrible kitchen sink. Fair. But even then, I prefer fish's "batteries included" (and tested) approach to having to the alternative of doing all the mixing myself and dealing with weird plugins interactions :).

[2] https://github.com/koalaman/shellcheck

[3] https://jvns.ca/blog/2017/03/26/bash-quirks/
Delta-V at the time of optimal travel. Otherwise it's probably as all over the place as this video.
Awesome :)

I do the same on my android with app Textpander (no affili, just a happy user). I also listed my shortcut phrases at https://dav.today/my-text-shortcut-phrases/

You are welcome is yawc
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Subjecting people to the degrading and hateful ideas that target them for the sake of the well-being of the people spewing it is not an equitable proposition.

You can go to voat and debate white supremacists tho.
Yeah 4chan is great but it differs from reddit in a fundamental way.

You can have a normal thread where someone will casually drop the N word or other slur and it will just sit there, maybe not even acknowledged but also not downvoted or deleted.

That alone is enough to turn people off immediately. They need that sense of retributive justice for a wrong they see in the universe. You're right that reddit can be just as bigoted than 4chan if not more so but I think you realize it's way more subtle and dogwhistley. The only reason a 4chan post will ever dance around being blunt bigotry is usually for the sake of humor not to ban evade.

Also I can't imagine browsing 4chan without something like 4chanX and your average person probably isn't going to bother installing that.
I’m kind of confused about the premise. According to the author, from 2000-2018 atheism went from being 15% of Americans to 25% of Americans. Isn’t that a huge, growing phenomenon?

It doesn’t seem so much that “new atheism” failed. It seems more like it convinced so many people, the ideological battleground has shifted.
I'm a man, and for the life of me I don't get how people are feeling personally attacked by feminism. Same with racism: I just don't connect these issues with me as an individual. And I've never experienced an interaction where others have done so, either. I've been to any number of feminist events with my partner, and nobody ever made a negative comment rooted in the fact that I'm a man.
Is this a symptom of one party governance? It's certainly not because of a lack of money or progressiveness. If anything, I would expect that the California state government would be leading in all of these issues.
Should have picked my words better; great grandparents. I still use f77 code for my day job on occasion.
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I’m not sure how much of the population would agree with me here, but I would prefer to be shown content organically. I’m talking posts sorted chronologically, not cherry picked for me, just the raw feed essentially.

Having an algorithm or AI determine what I will or won’t see on a social media page is marginally better than a person deciding that no one should see that content. With that said, my bottom line here is that I would prefer that my internet experience go completely untampered with. I come online to discover new things that I wouldn’t see otherwise. Whether that’s a new hobby or a political falsehood, I want to discover and form an opinion on it myself.
Always an appropriate time to remember that Rome didn't fall in a day. We seem to be experiencing the proverbial frog-boil IMHO.
Is there a way to step back a release for those who have upgraded to Catalina and subsequently want to go back to Mojave?
Not that I've seen. You figure with file base databases it wouldn't be hard to put something together (sqlite?)

Libre office has "base" but its just a front end. My boss uses access, she like the query builder. I've got my mysql instance and some front end tools that do the same, but I'm a developer.

Filemaker is another of these applications, but not open source. The thing these stand alone apps have is direct printer access for printing forms and labels. It makes it hard to get off.

(Our get off filemaker solution is to download the data from our website and use a stand alone print app to print the labels. One extra step, but its not completely ideal.)
I was never more productive than using Access. Once wrote a full budgeting, cost estimating tool. Supposedly impossible. (Access' VBA had an 'eval' function.)

We lost something in the switch from "workgroup" (dBase thru Paradox) to client/server.

Spoiler: ODBC broke the tight coupling of code and persistence. Spawning monstrous hacks like ORMs and ActiveRecord. What Ted Neward famously called The Vietnam of Computer Science.

It took me a very long time to figure out what went wrong. Even longer to fix it.

Cliff hanger, I know. Someday I'll post polish and publish that fix. Using my real name.
It's funny because having lived outside of the US, it has always blown my mind how extraordinarily well California/the US handles natural disasters like wildfires. The worst wildfire season ever in a state of 40M people, 18,000 buildings destroyed and fewer than 100 people died?!?

Similarly the infrastructure/public services are quite incredible in the US. I grew up with daily 6 hour blackouts and water brought in by truck because there the city didn't have a working water supply network.

We shouldn't be content with how things are and the article makes some valid points that I'm not trying to diminish, but it doesn't hurt to have a little appreciation for what incredibly high standards we have here before calling California a 'dystopian apocalypse'.