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I moved to Germany from the US, and I’d say that traveling is still very different from being at home in 2019.

With regard to connection reducing the adventure when traveling, how connected you are at any time can be a choice. Sure, back in the day you had no life line. But to me it’s a bit like free solo climbing (no ropes) vs lead climbing. Free solo is max adventure but the consequences are higher. It’s your choice in what you want the challenge to be. But if you really only care about challenging yourself on the climb itself and you don’t fall in either, was there really much of a difference? Having the safety net let’s you push harder and avoid being too conservative
Use irc.perl.org #perl-help instead. See <http://www.irc.perl.org/rules.html#Community%20Policies>.
There are 7 types of namespaces, I don't see it mentioned which types they use.

Mount namespaces are not a big deal to use, as long as you freely bind-mount from /dev and /sys whatever your software might need. The effect is mostly protecting your home directory against both reading and modification and isolating your system installations against version and configuration conflicts.

Uid namespaces are really challenging if you try to make some complex software system work. They give a lot of isolation from the host system, some would say also new risks that the isolation has unexpected privilege escalations.

Disclaimer: Not a gamer on any platform, so I don't know Steam other than from hearsay that it's the only serious one running on Linux.
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Popover=need to scale. Can websites rlly ‘be cultural hubs’ when their ultimate goal is 2 scale at all costs?Do we rlly ‘trust’ websites that primarily exist 2 scale?
Do we like businesses that only rlly want to scale and don’t actually care abt their customers?

Why do we ‘celebrate’ scalable ideas?
Do ideas that are ‘scalable’ represent the optimal solutions 4 human existence? Or are they the businesses that have the most successful scalable ideas eventually oppress us by marginalizing necessary human actions into metrics & monetizable opportunities?
shrug

Thanks for explaining the downvotes. This place does seem remarkably willing to hand those things out, especially considering your average user theoretically isn't allowed to. But thanks for letting me know which unwritten cultural rule I broke this time
Utopian visions are fine. This vision is fine.

My problem is that tech companies uttering those visions usually lie. Even in this case, there's set of business and technological decisions being made that go against the vision. As long as voice processing is done in the cloud vs. the device, as long as the device itself is tied to an account and a service (vs. just subscribing to services that provide actions which require those services), as long as it's done by amoral corporation with plenty of history of putting profit before humane behavior - Alexa will always come with privacy issues, will not be useful to everyone, and there will be business incentives to not make it a true productivity enhancer.
Using math.log10 seems at least as cheating to me. (though to be clear, I'd accept both if it were me)
I use uMatrix but honestly it is not the solution if you want to “just read.” Things are broken and often I need to spend a few minutes setting a site up before it works.

Also the fact that I can’t block individual scripts (can I?) is a little irritating because often I just need one of the 50 scripts loading from a 3rd party domain to render the page but all of them load and execute.
> The UK is a country full of hatred, racism and xenophobia.

As a Johnny foreigner, who has lived across the UK and currently is in the north east, I wholeheartedly disagree.
The public libraries in Ireland decided to eliminate fines early this year and it seems to have had the opposite effect. In some cases, people don’t seem to return books at all. I’d placed a hold on a book, a couple of months ago and it looks like the people who’d borrowed the only two copies of the book in the system haven’t returned it in over 8 months now.

I‘d initially thought that eliminating fines was a great idea, but since then I’ve changed my opinions on it.

Perhaps a better way to go about it would be to have a month (or 3 months) long jubilee when people could return the books they haven’t returned in years without any penalties and then switch over to a more reasonable and less punitive fine structure. Having zero fines implies that there will always be people who exploit the system. Lower but non-zero fines will be closer to the optima, IMO.
Assuming most use windows 10 by now not win 8 so everything relevant for the start menu is back. Tiles can all be removed (I don't like them)
The top 10 most used programs should be pinned to the taskbar. WIN+1,2,3,...0 will start them/lay the focus on them
Everything else I start with WIN+"type some letters of the name"
Right click on the windows "start"-logo brings up shortcuts to jump basically everywhere in the windows settings for example "event viewer" or "device manager".

Note that WIN+search orders results by hits so if you use it for a while it gets better. Also if you don't use file search you should turn it off as this makes search faster for starting programs.
Right. The GDS systems doing anything other than pointing the finger at a third party (like, say, fixing the bug) might be seen as admitting responsibility. In fact, this is a good way to ensure that the bug never gets fixed.

If Sabre has enough money to send Bill Clinton and Mark Ronson to Hawaii for a glorified frat party [0], it has enough money to tear through all but the best-funded legal challenges. (You'd think I'm joking. Nope.)

[0] https://hawaii.fcglobalgathering.com/a-huge-global-wrap-up/
Make a couple of cardboard disks that cover the front lens with smaller circular cutouts, effectively reducing the diameter of the front elements. If you make the holes say half the radius, you'll reduce the light by a factor of 4 (telescopes often comes with a front lens cover that have this sort of arrangement built in, either for solar projection or for observing the mount).

Shouldn't need to say it here, but never, ever, look at the sun through binoculars or a telescope (even with filters or reducers). You won't get a second chance.

[edit] Here's a pic from the 2003 transit, taken by projecting an image of the sun onto an A4 sheet of paper, using a 90mm refractor stopped down to about 25mm (Mercury at mid-upper left, the lower blob is a sunspot).

http://hazeii.net/images/mercury_transit_2003.jpg
In the uk we don’t have an armed population neither tyranny so are there alternatives?
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Mathematician here, I don't think the singularity as popularised through people like Ray Kurzweil would happen.

In particular, their metaphor of an "infinity" point seems to me like the incorrect application of mathematical ideas to social contexts.

I think the question of artificial general intelligence is a different question than a singularity, much like how the Chinese room addresses a different question than the Turing test.
In my childhood my city had a "bookbus" driving around to the outskirts of the city so people didn't have to travel to the main library. You could pick up reservations, browse through a selection, and return books. It was a brilliant concept, and I was waiting for it faithfully every week. If I wasn't there the librarian/driver would ask the next week what I had been doing since I didn't turn up. He was a kind man and often had recommendations for me. I owe that man a lot for the escape he provided for a child from a troubled home.

Many years ago, as a teenager, I went down to the main library to return some books I had borrowed. I knew I was late and I knew I had to pay a fee because of it, but I'd rather pay the fees with my savings than lose access to the library.

The librarian at the desk is the same man that has been driving the bus for as long as I can remember. He takes the books, taps at the keyboard a bit, hand me my receipt, smiles and wish me a good day. I ponder for a few seconds about the late fees, but decide against just walking away - I really don't want it to somehow result in suspending my card. So I tell him that I believe there is some late fees that I need to pay. His takes off his glasses and his face turns serious and say "Someone that has been visiting my bookbus since he was about this high (signaling around waist), don't have to pay just because his miss the return date by a week. You returned them, that's what matters".

I still think about this, and if he is still alive I wish I could somehow tell him this story. He was passionate about his job and he made a difference.
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So, I'm curious. Did they require that the books be returned in order to open up borrowing again?

Like, just, "please bring the books back, we'll disappear the fees and just take 'em back and all is forgiven"? Or did they just... reactivate the accounts and hope that history won't repeat?

(Genuinely curious -- the articles I've read on the subject, like this one, are all excited about more library everything, but quite light on real info)
In complete information games like chess and go the AI does reign supreme. In SC2, the AI plays highly abusable strategies that would not win with proper prep vs top players. Same thing with Dota bots by OpenAI.
It might be more interesting if the source IP is being spoofed, and the DHS is not responsible.

But agreed, I hope our election computers aren't vulnerable to script kiddies.
Don't call a statement you disagree with "fake news". It a) doesn't even make sense in this case, and b) distracts from the discussion.
Excerpt from Hacker Writing Style (http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/writing-style.html):

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There is also an accepted convention for ‘writing under erasure’; the text>

Be nice to this fool^H^H^H^Hgentleman, he's visiting from corporate HQ.

reads roughly as “Be nice to this fool, er, gentleman...”, with irony emphasized. The digraph ^H is often used as a print representation for a backspace, and was actually very visible on old-style printing terminals. As the text was being composed the characters would be echoed and printed immediately, and when a correction was made the backspace keystrokes would be echoed with the string ‘^H’. Of course, the final composed text would have no trace of the backspace characters (or the original erroneous text).

Accidental writing under erasure occurs when using the Unix talk program to chat interactively to another user. On a PC-style keyboard most users instinctively press the backspace key to delete mistakes, but this may not achieve the desired effect, and merely displays a ^H symbol. The user typically presses backspace a few times before their brain realises the problem — especially likely if the user is a touch-typist — and since each character is transmitted as soon as it is typed, Freudian slips and other inadvertent admissions are (barring network delays) clearly visible for the other user to see.

Deliberate use of ^H for writing under erasure parallels (and may have been influenced by) the ironic use of ‘slashouts’ in science-fiction fanzines.
Can anyone hep me understand what looks like a glaring moral inconsistency? Why would these scientists want to help these ants when very likely they went home for dinner to eat animals who were also imprisoned (and then killed for food)? I am vegan now, so it seems very logically erratic to eat one species and then care so much for another. I know that before I was vegan I had many of the same inconsistencies. But I still don't understand it.
My library (which does still have late fees) does this.

You can get 5 books at a time, initially, and you can keep them for 21 days, and you can renew by phone once per book (so long as they're not on reserve for someone else).

If you have had your card for >90 days, and have borrowed and returned >10 books, you instead are allowed 20 books at a time (no more than 5 per topic/category), and can renew twice before returning. But if you run up too many fees, you go back to the 5-book-limit.
I doubt that not enough views would be the issue they would close an account over. Sure there's some cost to store the video but the majority of the cost that YouTube bears is in views.

I suspect this is will be used against accounts that have high view/subscribers but their content is such it can't/won't be monetized by YouTube.
And yet there are more indie games for macOS than for Linux. Life is weird.
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No this is more like an anatomy professor who doesn't know how to remove an appendix without asking a surgeon.
> TCP/IP as implemented in 1983 was very different from how it is implemented today

The gap between 1983 TCP/IPv4 and 2019 TCP/IPv4 is arguably smaller than the gap between 1982 NCP and 1983 TCP/IPv4.

For example, data flow in an NCP connection is one-directional, meaning that applications wanting bidirectional communication have to use a pair of connections, whereas TCP allows communication in either direction over the same connection.

A 1983 TCP/IPv4 stack probably could successfully communicate with a 2019 TCP/IPv4 stack, although changes in TCP congestion algorithms, MTU discovery, etc would likely cause significant performance issues over long-distance links. TCP/IP and NCP are completely incompatible protocols so TCP/IP-only host could not communicate with an NCP-only host at all.
The most interesting tool that I've found along these lines is sysdig.

The amount of different ways and the ease with which it can be used to dig in to and evaluate performance and other characteristics is truly awesome.

It can't do everything. But it can do a lot.
My state instead just automatically suspends your license and sends you a traffic ticket (of about $350) if you have any outstanding toll charge after 90 days.
Side note to this but it brings back great childhood memories of the c64 flight sim...

https://www.mobygames.com/game/c64/chuck-yeagers-advanced-fl...
People are not only good and only bad. They are a mix of both.
"There isn't a single app on my phone that's junk. "
All these issues could easily be resolved on the internet if someone bothered a bit. Keep a whitelist of connections, private-public key communication (you can exchange keys off internet if needed), receive and read confirmation etc. It's not internet's fault that some idiot is storing passwords in plaintext and/or sending them over unencrypted connections
A yurt seems cheaper to fabricate, and almost as cool: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yurt
Why would power will become cheaper? Also manufacturing refinement? Sure it happens but not to any meaningful degree these days it’s more about bribing a new process to the same cost/efficiency as your older manufacturing processes.

As far as economy of scales goes it’s also not a given.

Large cloud providers are much more adapt at reusing old hardware for their PAAS and weaker instances.

I’ve had a chance to talk to a few reps from Dell once and while cloud buy a lot of servers they also upgrade them much less often than large enterprises that run their own DC this is because Amazon can always continue to make money on 3-5 year old hardware by shifting it off to cheaper tiers or by running things like SQS or Lambdas on it in the background.

On the other hand if you have a 3-5 year old server and you need more horse power if you manage your own DC or rack space the hosting costs make it economical to keep underperforming hardware.

Not to mention other costs such as support are quite different, if an Amazon server dies they don’t care. Traditional self hosted environments will require extended support because they can’t have the same redundancy as Amazon.

If you delegate a 5 year old server to some back office applications while you use your new ones for client facing apps the old server is still a mission critical box even if it doesn’t directly run revenue generating services.

Basically Amazon buys to grow, on-prem orgs buy to both grow and upgrade.

If you have an organization the size of Amazon that is completely self hosted they will end up buying much more hardware over a decade than Amazon.
yet if there was no penalty for theft, there would be lots of theft.

(Indeed, California recently reduced the penalty for theft -- making it a misdemeanor that is very rarely prosecuted for thefts under $950, and suddenly there's a massive increase in theft, because it turns out that you can make decent money stealing stuff $949 at a time)
It's a huge area of interest to me, the cognitive dissonance that shields a person from guilt of causing harm when they cannot see that harm being caused, yet wouldn't hesitate for a moment to save an individual instances of the same animal they would other have destroyed in other circumstances. See the care taken to save this deer [1] - the same workers probably went home to eat a steak or pork chops, where an animal was caused suffering to provide that for them. (I'm not immune:I don't eat meat but I wear leather. It's a challenge, deciding what part of suffering one is Ok with).

[1] https://twitter.com/NorgeIan/status/902427950565523456

I imagine in the same circumstance, I would either try to save the ants or see them relieved from their Sisyphean task through destruction of the colony.
I asked my Japanese colleagues for what the correct way to say 'koin ikko ireru' would be, but none of them thought it sounded funny.
Cool design (back the days I suppose) but the wasted space (well, volume) introduced by that design is off limits.
Well, of course this is because everyone who had weeks/months of fines built up on overdue books is taking the opportunity to turn them in while they can with no penalty.

Whether a library that starts with a no-fine policy can sustain that is highly doubtful. What are we going to resort to, the librarian calling each borrower and asking nicely?

Maybe we should eliminate penalties for everything in life, because they're discriminatory or inequitable towards people who can't afford them. Remove speeding tickets, late fees for unpaid taxes, etc.

In fact, we should just remove prices for everything -- prices tend to reduce access to everything and make things inequitable!
I've been developing software professionally for 20+ years, the past ~7 as a freelancer. My own experience is that the level of professionalism, respect, communication, and collaboration continues to drop such that I'm very tired of working tech and looking to change careers in 2020. All I want to do is use this huge collection of skills I've developing in a positive way to create business outcomes, yet every project I encounter seems to be getting weirder and weirder with the amount of dysfunction. Again, just my personal experiences but have been reflecting a lot about this topic lately. One wonders if the social and political turmoil is leaking into behaviors in the professional world.
Funny fact: the python round implementation actually uses strings. https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/master/Objects/floato...
You have a point, thanks for the tip!

Also, I feel that you're right with:

> P.S. Based on my experience, "applied to any job that didn't feel like work" is something better left out from an introduction for a job interview.

But I wouldn't be fully to explain why. IMO if something doesn't feel like work but play, it means your energy capacity of it is really high.

I feel that the message is being misinterpreted for having a lack of responsibility or something, but that's not the case.
self-checkout does somewhat increase shrinkage. Many stores (Target, for one) combat this by having a screen right on the self-checkout machine that shows the camera footage of you checking out, to remind you that you're being watched even if there isn't a human right there doing the watching.

But yeah, the increase in theft is probably a lot less than the savings from having to pay more checkers (since they typically can have one observer per 4-6 self-checkout kiosks)
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This might work better for a library than a for-profit institution like a grocery store.

I imagine that self checkout doesn't get all that many cheaters because people think there are cameras, and being busted for stealing is a pretty humiliating big deal most people wouldn't want to risk, even if the risk is small.
iOS 13 often reloads background apps, loosing unsaved data
I just wanted to reply "Thank you George".
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But if your service was down for more than what it takes to downscale to minimum scaling back up is not that big of an issue. It was down anyways. Also 24/7 instances exist for a reason, autoscaling is there to handle spikes, not a normal traffic.
Not quite the same concept, but I can't help being reminded of the Nakagin Tower in Tokyo.

I, for one, hope it can be saved.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakagin_Capsule_Tower
The next transit is in 2032 though. The next transit that will be visible from the US will be in 2049.

13 years is long, but it's not as long as 30 years you specified.
Voice is potentially superior only for a set of unambiguous questions - e.g. the temperature outside and that is assuming that the recognition part works.
So your argument is that they should be above examination of their interview process because their investments are doing well? Come on, you're just arguing for the sake of it now.

Multiple independent assessments are great at reducing random noise. Bias is noise, sure, but it's by definition not random so you need other forms of intervention to counter it.
I'd be very happy if it turned out to be true but, for now, there are no real details (at least in the article) and there's quite a ways to go before it reaches approval. Best to see how this unfolds before jumping the gun with celebrations.
Did anyone think to make languages that compile to those? I imagine that it would make an incredible amount of sense for Epic, at its scale, to write the equivalent of Typescript to reduce errors and improve productivity. Or do they just not have any sort of dev tools/research department?
Not all attempts by men to advocate for equality or call out bullshit are “white knight”-ing. White knighting implies that it is unwanted. I am charging in to “rescue” someone when they do not want to be rescued. It is legitimate for a man to call out a bias when he sees it. To ignore it and leave it for women to point out is... frankly helping maintain the status quo.

I’m sorry you found my comment dismissive and a personal attack. I found your use of the term “sjw” dismissive of the issue, since it’s such a loaded term. So my tone was a bit... glib... in reaction to that.

I also definitely didn’t read your username, so don’t take anything i said to be a reaction your female handle. I definitely assumed a male writer (which is it’s own problem).
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> VB6/MUMPS stack

That sounds like a medical condition.

And after looking into the MUMPS language, I can see why they named it after a disease!
That's actually surprising. I would have guessed around 0.25-0.50g or so. I'm usually pretty good at guesstimations, and yet I'm off by a factor of 100 here.
Can anyone hep me understand what looks like a glaring moral inconsistency?

Do you model humans as perfectly rational actors following a handful of base axioms from which they derive behaviour? They simply don't work like that. If you wish to improve your understanding, you need to improve your model.
"A third study of older and more experienced officers found a rate of 24 percent, indicating that domestic violence is two to four times more common among police families than American families in general."

https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/09/police-...