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Civcraft 1.0 was amazing. I remember hearing about people having bots to show player's locations on an online map using jukealert messages.

Anarchy minecraft has gotten super popular on youtube. I wonder if there's room for it to reboot.
That's one of the most interesting architectural / conceptual blog posts I've seen in a while, thanks for sharing!

(it makes me think there must be a ton of interesting scenarios around applications where images/containers migrate between the core/cloud and the edge on-demand (or simply have edge replicas), and situations in which mapreduce style computation could be farmed out to edge clusters before sending aggregated results home)
Yes, but once you've got this "call screening" set up on your formerly primary phone number, you can safely set your phone to discard all calls from people not on your contacts list.

This introduces two ways of working with the service - either you set the service to show "your" phone number as the calling party, and then listen to the name when picking up, or you ignore this and use the softphone app for all calls.
I was garbling a scenario from Ellsberg's book. I believe the time period in question was the 50s-early 60s (the same period where these tactical nukes were popular) when MAD was being enforced by bombers, not ICBMs.

According to Ellsberg, there was a period where there was no actual plan to defend Europe by other means than massive nuclear retaliation.

https://www.amazon.com/Doomsday-Machine-Confessions-Nuclear-...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median_income

Basically the only countries (excluding city states) that beat the US by a significant margin are the Scandinavian countries. Sweden is the largest of those countries at about 10.5 million people. For a point of reference, that's about the size of Georgia, the 8th largest state. If you compare US median household income to the larger European countries (Germany, France, UK, etc.), the comparison is devastating. The US has a household median income of around $43,500. Germany comes in at $33,000, with France and the UK trailing closely behind that. That's a 30% lead to the US. And, yes, those are purchasing power parity numbers.

So, let me re-iterate: when you assert that the US is anything other than a first world country you look like an idiot who is too lazy to spend the the 5 minutes on Wikipedia necessary to disabuse themselves of their prejudices and foolish notions.
I use Firefox on both my work and personal computers with macOS. Very happy with it. Only major gripe is no picture-in-picture like Safari which is a great feature.
Why shouldn't people be able to print nice looking versions of certain web pages, for example books or reports? I don't understand the objection.
> nobody knows x about fusion

That's why research is needed otherwise researching will take the research duration plus the delay imposed by people saying it won't be here anytime soon anyway.

> perfectly viable power sources like solar, wind, solar-thermal etc.

Until humanity has figured viable massively scalable long term power storage solutions we will always be at the mercy of natural phenomena (time of day, wind speed and direction etc).
Additionally AFAIK "renewable power sources" don't have the necessary power density to make them viable as humanity's exclusive power source.
By pure random luck and if you know, has Amdahl's UTS survived anywhere? Mainframe software seems to simply disappear into the void after its useful life is over.
Two weeks after the accident, I was back in an SR-71

Casually mentioned. A different breed.
Saying "no" because of compliance requirements is imho pretty similar to saying "no" because a software bug was revealed. Both don't help much in building secure systems.

At least with certain compliance requirements you can focus on avoiding certain bad practices or bug classes while with finding some bugs, in most times, you can't be sure you have found all relevant bugs. Ideally bug hunting acts as a validation of compliance requirements, to check that these are fulfilling their overall goal, and to improve them, if not.
Apple Card Investigated After Gender Discrimination Complaints
The student in the article was warned years ago her thesis wouldn't waive her requirement to pass a standardized test.

All they have to do is add either a test or transcripts for 3 years of high school in French. Over time I've known many folks who obtained permanent residency through the exact same program (some of them after completing PhD almost exclusively in English). All they had to do was a test.
I totally agree with your sentiment in general. However, when you wake up in the middle of the night and realise your house is on fire, you don't have time to ponder the future fire prevention technologies. You need to get out of bed and start putting the fire out. "House on fire" is where we are now in regards to climate change.
That's impressive how POP servers communicated across the Internet backbone considering some websites were long distance. I get to read about Erlang now. Carrier-grade NAT in regards to ip addresses reminds me of my grandparents had a shared phone-line for their neighborhood. It's funny you mentioned BBS, I think that's what I was initially unclear about. That answers many of my questions, ty for the time.
It depends what you know. There is a productive option in pretty much every language. If you know JavaScript, you’re ahead of the curve simply because you can share so much code between frontend and backend. With tools like next.js it’s almost automatic.

The real problem, I think, is that 95% of real business problems are not simple CRUD apps. There is always some complication unique to your domain that burdens you with constraints. Also, it seems like authentication is a problem that is still not solved smoothly without paying for SaaS. It doesn’t take long before you feel like you’re anything but a standard “CRUD app.”

My lesson from the past few years has been this: stay within the guardrails as much as possible. Use frameworks when you can, and try not to deviate too far from their conventions, no matter how tempting. If you stay within these rails, it’s fairly easy to ride the flow of changes and keep your code up to date without losing velocity on new features.

Whatever you choose, you're still going to be using it in three years. The safest option is probably to pick something really popular.
For databases, there was a 2016 VLDB paper that suggested using 'write-behind logging' as an alternative to traditional 'write-ahead logging' that is "designed for a hybrid storage hierarchy with NVM and DRAM": http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol10/p337-arulraj.pdf
A lot of people talking about human overpopulation as it will grow infinitely.

Many dont realise that it's projected to max out at 10bn and then we will have a perpetual declining population / demographic crises.
Your link about treatment "while he is in Bellmarsh" actually relates to the psychological trauma from locking himself inside the Ecuadorian embassy.

The rest is unsubstantiated conspiracy theory.
Give "Making a Murderer" on Netflix a watch.

It's a real eye opener if you thought that courts do things by the book imho.
> If you're going to "restrict" access to something, it should be done by rewarding individual merit and competence.

It should be the case no doubt, but often isn’t because there’s less to leverage. Sometimes you need a favor, you know? But if you give a job to Joe Schmuckus that he could get anywhere, whats the motivation to do you a solid?
digital totalitarianism, digital surveillance state and now digital nationalism.

I think I found the joker word of 2019.
I too like the idea of Fusion reactors, (I am enamored with the dreamy prospect of fusion for space travel), but I think Elon Musk's observation is obligatory here:

Why spend huge sums in a fusion reactor, when we have a perfectly reliable funsion reactor right above us, the Sun, giving power at a convenient form (~500nm light -- far better than heat), at convenient power densities (not too high to overheat panels and not too low to be uneconomical), is available virtually everywhere, etc. It really is like we had already built a reactor and only need to add the last, least expensive, bit of energy harvesting.

The only thing Solar cannot compete well with are fossil fuels, which are essentially like discovering charged batteries buried in the ground (which is great, but they'll run out, and are ruining our environment), or wind/hydro in some places (where energy is begging to be harvested in the form of kinetic energy or potential).

Our salvation (for this crisis :) ) is indeed already within our reach, we only need to act...
The resulting socio-economic upheaval might.

Millions of people starving or mass migrating due to changes in food supplies are bound to cause a bit (lot) of conflict.

A few degrees change in temperature can dramatically alter weather patterns, the places that used to be good for growing crops may no longer be so. Sure we can adapt and move farms, but the years until that infrastructure gets rebuilt may not be pretty. It only takes 1 person with a red button to end it all.
What's embarrassing is the political spin CBC (and the NYT) gave to that story and the multiple omissions.

All this girl had to do is pass a standardized test and add it to her application. She was warned when she started her PhD program years ago.
5 days later and I've never been able to even launch the game... Every time I pre-order a game and something happens I swear it is the last time. But this game is from ROCKSTAR! What could go wrong...
It's apparently made for printing online content, not reading in the browser / on your phone.
Canada also declared war on Japan in December of 1941, which makes the 1942 date a bit more salient.
I thought this was going to be an article about people who feel more attached to their digital communities than their geographical communities. That would be an interesting avenue to explore.
When you look at human history, I don't think that there's anything particularly bad about the present. You could even argue that times have rarely been better, as far as the historical record goes.
Hmm that sounds like "Geomocracy" which is a video my brother made. https://youtu.be/ZVroI2_o5QA

I found the idea to be to be silly an naive but perhaps he was on to something I didnt understand.

As for voluntarist society. I dont think such a think is really a coherent idea because the concept of voluntary is ill conceived. To give you and example I could totally argue that you already live in a completely voluntary country. You had a choice of N places to live and you choose that one. It may not have been a real choice but the lack of choice does not enter into the narrow conception of what voluntary is! So long as there was no direct physical coercion you are contractually obligated to be a citizen of your state.
It’s more a matter of doing what they promised, which is also a highly requested thing. There’s a middle manager somewhere who is being told they need to never officially support modding so they can continue to sell valueless items to children.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/64vrom/psa_c_edi...
I love the Melon Usk part...
Apple Co-Founder Says Goldman’s Apple Card Algo Discriminates
Coincidentally, I finished reading "IBM's 360 and Early 370 Systems" earlier today. I highly recommend it and its predecessor, "IBM's Early Computers" from the MIT press. The business aspect is there, of course, but it's really about the development of the machines themselves, down to how they developed the transistors they used along with who did it.
But what's the point though? Three Mile Island was fully paid by the insurance.

With regards to Fukushima the powerplant didn't kill anyone, the tsunami, on the other hand, did and of course, the public needs to pay for as it was force majure not the actual nuclear power plant that created the disaster.

And Tjernobyl was in a country which didn't have any private ownership so of course the public paid for it.

What other cases can you come up with where insurance didn't cover it?

It's pretty important to get things into proper perspectives here.
OP sounded very hypothetical to me - not asking as a startup idea...
Why I advocate CS programs have a MIS style core course on business analysis. Most programming businesses application development, and even those writing compilers need the skills.
Paywall bypass: http://archive.is/b13zB
Lighten up. Humor has its place. Are you not sure that these actions might serve the public to be more critical of what they read online, thereby doing them a great service?
I'm not really sure what you mean by that. Firstly, we are part of the natural world as much as anything else is. Secondly, having access to clean and abundant energy would allow us to do a lot of things to preserve the other parts of the natural world that we are currently not doing because it's too expensive.
Broken on iOS 13 as well.
I'd wish hard to have a peek in these projects.
> As the internet turns 50, the global vision that animated it is under attack.

The vision in 2019-50=1969 was in fact very far from globalist.

At that time it was the early stages of U.S. Dept of Defense project ARPANET.

It's largely the reason why IP/TCP largely lacks any security or DoS prevention features: you needed a U.S. security clearance to even access it.

First non-U.S. access of any kind to the "internet" was in 1973, though physical access continued to remain heavily restricted for years. (I say "the internet" because it was still ARPANET and the Internet Protocol did not yet even exist.)

Much later the WWW -- as the name itself suggests -- was a globally-minded endeavor. The World Wide Web is 29 years old.
The article starts with:
"A network that once seemed to effortlessly defy regulation is being relentlessly, and often ruthlessly, domesticated."

And yet concludes with:
"Fifty years after the birth of the internet, it may well be that national governments, wielding enlightened regulation, are the last best hope for maintaining a network that is—at least relatively—open and free."

Am I missing something? How could "regulation" be a possible answer to "digital nationalism"? Are there examples of what the author is referring to as "enlightened regulation" in which regulation has had the desired impacts? Seems to me that far more often we see a mix of intended and unintended consequences.

I would add that web != Internet. Internet is closer to printing press. A world in which there are billions of TCP/IP stacks on personal compute with Internet access is not one which is easily controlled (for good or for bad) by regulation.
Neo-Malthusians generally only get as far as intro biology and avoid demography classes.
We have media queries, there’s no need to break one to make the other look good
When cultures collide
757-200 has about 800 nautical miles more range than the longest-range 737NG.

737-900er, the longest-range 737NG only has 3000 nautical miles of range, which is just enough for TATL flights. The 757-200's slightly longer range opens up many additional city pairs without having to upgauge to a 767.

Of course, now that Boeing has lost a couple of years due to massive failures (like the 737-MAX), Airbus has had time to catch up -- and the A320neo-based A321-XLR finally surpasses the 757-200 in this space.

However, the XLR seats about 70 fewer passengers than the 757, so the 757 will probably still live on for a little while longer.

If Boeing hadn't killed the 757, and then immediately start sucking, there might've been a refresh to a 757 MAX-like aircraft that sat 225-290, had a 4500nmi range and was efficient. But, you know, we got the real timeline instead.
perhaps you can file a bug about it? should not be that slow.

here are a few of the places where it's being deleted by the looks of things:

https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/search?q=history+delet...

it's in javascript so it could be debugged with an artifact build perhaps?
Would you consider issues to be easily measurable in terms of work required? Given more time would you clean up those unit tests and cover some additional cases?
I understand a common thought:

A lot of times it isn't because people disagree with the observation or have strongly held beliefs that it didn't happen while they go parrot crime stats as if it all happens in a vacuum.

It's more so that they don't want to contribute to that train of thought, the idea that enough recognition has already been done. The idea that continuing to spend energy on this removes opportunities from them or matters they care more about.

That approach still ignores the utility of having these discussions.

The discussion can be about how to leverage the productive capital of society, instead of having apathy for people that aren't succeeding in supposed merit-based systems and hoping everyone just stops talking about it.
Steam for Linux client adds support for Linux namespaces
I happened to speak to a friend this evening who is a biochemist

She reckoned refined glucose was the real bad guy, as it's what your muscles actually burn, while other sugars need converting first. Therefore its distribution within the body is unregulated - you eat it, it gets burned, no question. Contrasting the others, for which the conversion process serves as some form of regulation and is likely to run slower when you don't actually need it.

She also acknowledged fructose as a problem, primarily when its in corn syrup (or vast quantities of fruit juice) as you don't have to digest cell walls etc to get it. Whereas in fruit the absorption is slower (though for something juicy like an orange I can't imagine that much slower)

I'm sure this is an oversimplification and any errors are mine!
There is still bad feeling in wales about some of the valleys that where flooded in the 60's.

With devolved government now in Wales and Scotland and new Pumped storage will face more push back
People who write exceptional code consider the possibility of error all the time: there's just no need to mark this constant background possibility with syntax in every possible spot. When exceptional code calls a function, the programmer is saying that the default error behavior --- unwind and propagate to the caller --- is the right thing. It's the right thing in the overwhelming majority of cases, and it's so common that we don't need special syntax to say so.

It's as if you're saying there's no difference between using an exception and not "consider[ing] the possibility of [an] error occurring". The lack of special syntax for this default behavior is not the same thing as error sloppiness.

Rust's "?" operator does the same damn thing, except that you need to type a character on your keyboard to say so. With respect to the standard error contract, "?" in Rust functions as an "I agree" button. And we all know that people's eyes glaze over when prompted with endless "I agree" buttons and they just click "yes". "?" in Rust is the "I consent" button on a cookie warning popup.
Chile: Violence Erupts
I'm trying to get my Multiprise 3000 up and running. Is there something like this for S/390?
Uber needs to buy Lyft to survive
Usually they have some combination of law practice and/or past governing experience. Most presidential candidates were previously either in Congress or were a governor. Donald Trump being the obvious exception (and we've seen how his erratic and irrational policies have been going, with even members of his own party publicly balking at them). Here's hoping he isn't the start of a trend.
These demonstrations follow unrest that erupted in Ecuador earlier this month in response to a cut in fuel subsidies. The government of Ecuador similarly had little choice but to roll back its reform. Reports have suggested that leftist groups sparked this uprising, and Ecuador officials at the IMF meetings in Washington DC this past weekend said they had gathered intelligence of Venezuelan and Cuban involvement in protests in the country. A number of media outlets have also reported that the Foro de Sao Paulo alliance of leftists groups had gathered in Caracas in July, and the recent uprisings could have been planned by the more radical wings then.
But there is still a discrepancy between genders in CA.
> and often discover huge classes of wrong behaviors, and never repeat any of them

Once burned, twice shy. And often that results in irrational aversion to huge classes of behaviors just because they appeared in the larger context of the failure of an endeavor as a whole, which I'd say is not a good way to learn from failures.
Indiana joins Idaho in claiming DHS tried to hack their election systems
I use Firefox at home, but I use Chrome at work. I'm mostly just trialling Firefox at home for now.

I've swapped to Firefox before, but there's always things that annoy me every time I do.

Having things like the Bookmark Manager and the History panels as separate windows seems to get in the way, particularly when the interface is usually worse. I much prefer Chrome's history tab, often for no other reason than it's sorted by date instead of alphabetical. In Firefox, I seem to have to use the separate history window to sort it that way. Even if it is fixable, you would have to spend a few minutes working it out, which is a problem.

Then there's just small stuff that gets in the way. One thing that happened to me recently was that I wanted to look at a background image for a div. You can't right click and open in a new tab for these, so I inspected it in the dev tools, and in the style panel, there's a link there, but you can't click on it. In Chrome, you can right click on it and go "Open in New Tab", in Firefox, the closest option is just "Copy URL" - which means I have to open a new tab and paste it in.

Chrome just in general seems to have a better UI/UX.
> Once storage is as-fast as memory

Bandwidth is only one aspect, SSD latency (even Optane) is still quite slow compared to RAM.
The Free-Speech Problem on Australian Campuses Is More CCP Than SJW
Epic uses MUMPS, but a nurse would not typically be interacting with that side of it...
> A decision not to release a feature (AirDrop) on older machines, is taken as an example of Planned Obsolescence.

And of course, if Apple DOES release a feature for an older machine for which it's borderline performant, it gets accused of… planned obsolescence.

Can't win with some people.
> without him THERE WOULD BE NO COMPANY TO SUE

And with no company to sue, the plaintiff would have had their cash instead of worthless shares they were induced to purchased by a party with better information than she.
In my world they sure are. Want health records on your iPhone? Well that comes via FHIR. You can even see the FHIR resource JSON in the Health app.

But there are many systems in a hospital. And as EuphoricEmu pointed out within the hospital, admits, discharges and movements throughout the hospital are still done via HL7v2 (a delimited and structured format).

Additionally, I would absolutely NOT build a new system on HL7v2 at this point in time. I would only use it to integrate with existing systems.

Also, I do know of EHR systems that use FHIR for their internal data storage format.
Interesting point, could be worth adding a note to students about the finite precision of floating point numbers in Python. Thanks for pointing this out!
There are still direct descendants of CivCraft around; CivEx, CivClassics, and CivRealms are currently online.

The lead developer of CivCraft went on to do a lot of founding work on Althea mesh networking (https://althea.net/)
Nationalism isn't normal, countries are a completely artificial construct. But it serves well as a way to get people to assign all kinds of emotions, positive ones to their flag and negative to everybody else's.