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How Did Armistice Day Become Veterans Day in the United States?
The fundamental reason is that there is no big company pushing Linux on the Desktop. The Linux Desktop community has thus far proven, if I'm being frank, completely retarded at making anything people actually want to use.
> Any gaming activity seems to use no more than 8 cores max.

The main reason for this is most likely that all current-gen game consoles are using 8 CPU cores, so this is basically the "baseline" for games right now. If the next generation of game consoles increases CPU core count, the core usage for games running on PC will most likely also go up accordingly.
"Am I being detained" is level 1 nutjob stuff, fairly normal. Incorrectly invoking a "right to travel" is advanced nutjob. It will immediately make a lawyer think you're a sovereign citizen since that's a cornerstone of their legal philosophy.
Agreed - if you support a user base on chrome folks DO install bogus extensions DESPITE all the guard rails
"It had been originally formed by a government initiative between France, West Germany and the UK that originated in 1967."

While not an EU project, it's roots come from European integration. It's not a company that sprung up on random private initiative a la Amazon
One way in which this could (I am being very speculative) be useful is that when we pass a tipping point and most cars are autonomous enough for summoning, this could change the architecture of public buildings like malls, condos, and offices:

Parking could be deliberately placed far away: Cars could drop you at the front doors, then drive off and park themselves, returning to pick you up when you are done.

This could revitalize downtown shopping districts, for example.

It may not be a hardship for able people to walk to their car in today’s malls, but perhaps in the future your car could be parked a few kilometers away.

That could be a big win for liveability: Imagine malls that didn’t need to be surrounded by acres and acres of asphalt. Shuttles could carry people driving “legacy” vehicles between the parking and the mall, but those with autonomous vehicles wouldn’t need to wait for and share a shuttle.
I have been fucking with this all morning thinking it was something we did (we actually were changing some permissions last night / today), how about an email? There was no push of this info, I shouldn't have to opt in to that.
Both are "no data beyond our reach" laws. Lets face it such a restriction isn't innocent no matter how much they chant the Jedi mind trick of "National Security" to dodge criticism.
So that's why clarinet "squeaks" sound so grating: the higher overtones don't fit cleanly into the twelve-note scale.
Scripting for Bedrock is in beta!
As reflected on the status dashboard, we believe a primary cause is related to datastore. Our SREs continue to investigate and attempt mitigation.

Also, we do use GKE internally :)
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Thanks for all the explanations! Super helpful!
Bedrock sever is available for Linux. No client yet, although there is a hacky launcher which runs the android binary on Linux and works alright.
To avoid the grind: If you give your people multiple of the self-start skill they will do more work with less clicking on your part. Also observation skill is similar, means they can do multiple in a row without any intervention.
Yes it is difficult which is probably why no one has built it. The only solution I can think of requires a social graph which is another challenge to build in itself.
Analogy: "In the past, a well-meaning body of public servants decided there was a need to slow down microprocessors to protect jobs threatened by automation, reduce resource consumption and benefit the climate. CPU frequency was capped at 25MHz and instruction length was limited to 8 bits. The move was hailed as a great victory for humans, nature and the climate"

As a nation, where would we be today (compared to where we are) if a policy like that had actually been adopted?
Unfortunately yes. Most products are currently affected and may experience partially degraded service. See https://status.cloud.google.com/ for the full impact matrix.
This sounds too blatant to be true, but even so I imagine it's the decision-maker that would be responsible.
Relevant video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ce_nNAfVq0

Synopsis: there's a distinction between hypernationalism and nationalism; nationalism has become normalised for a long time, so any "nationalism" that sticks out tends to actually be "hypernationalism", which is destructive and dangerous.
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The comment to which I replied specifically named Stalinism, of which communism is a core tenet. I have difficulty thinking of a Stalinist company.
Unfortunately the Touchpad experience is non native and horrible on a Windows Laptop.
> I want to get back to the content-driven web rather than this ad-driven web we have now.

Are you prepared to pay for it?
Cognitive-Motor Decline in Video Game Reaction Time Begins at 24 (2014)
(Developer here) They do have an effect. Click the question mark next to an item to read a description. What have you experienced?
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Ardour is my favorite. It took some time to adapt but as a non professional, I don't miss any feature from Ableton anymore. I use Ardour every time I play guitar with some marshall amp sim (https://www.kuassa.com/products/amplifikation-caliburn/) and a few plugins to pock around riffs and experiment by creating drum and bass lines using a midi piano
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Just charge them for the warming impact and let the market decide to slow down, if that's the most efficient way.
While it may be true that "95% of real business problems are not simple CRUD apps" it doesn't mean that 95% of webapps can't be implemented _well_ as CRUD apps. I've been doing this for a long time. The Vast VAST majority of webapps are "Take some data from a form and shove it in the database. Take some stuff from the database and shove it on a page. Make a form so that people can edit the stuff in the database. Repeat" We've been adding a lot of fancy interactive JavaScript on top of it, but most of it isn't necessary, and most of it doesn't change the core behavior described above.

Yes, there's frequently a corner of the app that deals with whatever special sauce the company does, but the rest of the app, the majority of the web app.... is very easily handled with CRUD. Even something like Uber: Request a ride (submitting a form "CREATE"). Check the status of an inbound driver ("READ" data from a db). Pick up a user ("UPDATE" the status of the order in the db). Cancel my account ("DELETE" a record from the DB).
You can import an own root cert which will be honored. I work in a company where all internal servers have a certificate a non-public root has signed. Works both on Chrome and FF.
Yes. When I started using DuckDuckGo it was despite Google's search results often being better and every few weeks I used Google for some queries because I simply couldn't find what I was looking for.

Now my last visit to Google is more than a year ago because DDG got better while Google got worse.
Mainstream media adamantly avoids the word “coup” in Bolivia reporting
Android and iOS dominate mobile.

The kernel used by Android is completly irrelevant to userspace and can be changed tomorrow at Google's will, and only OEMs and rooted devices will actually notice it.

On embedded there are plenty of OSes to choose from, with FOSS embedded industry support moving to MIT/BSD licensed kernels, as OEMs don't want to deal with shipping GPL code on embedded devices, specially after v3 happened.
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All power to you but I know if the choice was between a Bosch and a Samsung washing machine, it would be the Bosch one every time. Too many gimmicks, poorly designed software and cheap plastic pieces.
> Milticore performance gets more and more important with time.

no? above 2-4 core it's just marketing hype like it was ten years ago already and today if you need parallel processing you have vastly powerful resources to tap.

sure this amd cpu might be faster in 3d rendering or video encoding or other task that use 4+ cores and that might be useful if you truly can't move them onto a gpu but truth is at the top end many-cores architectures are getting squeezed out by streaming processors and the workloads that have a hard dependency on many core single node general processor are rarer by the day.
>we use very, very few off the shelf solutions.

Even off the shelf is no solution really. Everything is proprietary, you get locked in and years later the vendor isn't maintaining shit and moving away becomes an blackhole of a cost sink.

>It's INCREDIBLY common for nurses and doctors to need to have administrator access on their Windows desktops for various apps.

Honestly, needing admin on a "user network" device isn't the worst. You can still run malware that attacks the network via non-admin context :/
The best move is to use AppLocker if it's critical.
Pride I suspect is a large difference. While it might be accepted to alliance of neighbors foreign "others" don't cut it unless conquered as it doesn't vicariously massage their ego the same way to have partners with agency.

People seem to prefer something which flatters their ego over something that works.
Youtube being a monopoly on videos, is a de facto public service.
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I am so glad that it's a while I have started migrating off Google, Gmail and Android and I am Chrome-free for almost two years now (Syncthing and DecSync helped a lot).

However, I think Google will exploit their browser-market-dominance to bend web tech to make escaping from ads impossible, same as what they did with DRM.
So? ;-)

> I find it makes things unnatural to read.

>> I like top posting.
Internally, businesses run whatever system they want, but it is almost always an authoritarian hierarchy. (Do what you're told or leave. Various amounts of arguing or grumbling before you do may or may not be tolerated.)

The language used in bad times is telling. You'll hear managers talking about how it sucks, but is needed to save the company ("individuals must suffer for the greater good").

Externally, businesses reflect the political preferences of those who control them, but they tend to prefer weak states they can influence or control. Democracies are harder to control this way because the stakeholders are diffuse. Centralization, strongmen and corruption make things easier.
Not being pedantic, but * something pedantic *.
So you compare automation with pollution? Really?
> "You mention serverless and the cloud a lot"

Yes. The fairly rigorous requirements from "serverless cloud" are what originally drove us to design a new runtime model, and that new runtime model then drove us to design a new language. The language itself, though, is general purpose, and -- as an interesting result of the original use case -- extremely embeddable, i.e. relying entirely on resource injection for its connection to the "real" world.

That embeddability has an interesting devolved use case: When an Ecstasy app is executed as a normal OS process, with the full set of unrestricted OS services available to the app via injection. This use case is equivalent to how a language like Java or C# works today.

In other words, there are new use cases supported that weren't possible before, but additionally, the traditional use cases will continue to be well supported.

> "... a need to write hybrid applications that run close to physical things down here on the ground. Will XTC be extensible to this use-case, with some backend deployed on top of conventional on-prem architecture?"

Like other general purpose languages, there is no requirement for a "back end" whatsoever.

On the other hand, to manage complex environments, a managed back end service is extremely useful, and we are (as the article alluded to) building one of those -- using Ecstasy, and specifically to manage Ecstasy deployments -- as part of our business (xqiz.it), and it will be available in different forms (e.g. as a hosted PaaS, and with both OSS and commercial options for non-hosted/self-hosting options). As with other languages, there are likely to be plenty of options in this area.

That's all still a couple of _years_ out, though.

Peace,

Cameron.
If they are charged by the warming impact, it would create an incentive for warming mitigation technologies. For instance, lofting saltwater with a jet spray can support marine cloud formation, which increases albedo and lowers warming impact. Adding additives to fuel might also optimize marine cloud formation. Note there is currently no economic incentive to develop these technologies, but there would be a huge incentive if companies were charged based on the externality (warming).
A lot of English-language rap songs have complicated rhyme schemes (much more than single-syllable) as well!

Rakim (of Eric B. & Rakim) was one of the first to take this to new heights.

An example from "Lyrics of Fury", with the rhyming words emphasized in caps:

The SCENE of the CRIME every NIGHT at the SHOW

The FIEND of the RHYME on the MIC that you KNOW

https://genius.com/Eric-b-and-rakim-lyrics-of-fury-lyrics
> The big banks like this have their hands in everything and connections all over the place. They have their own VC funds, they have investment bankers who specialize in different areas of tech, and they often have their own tech bus dev people in Silicon Valley who are deeply networked with both company founders and VC firms. For a lot of startups, being able to put the JP Morgan/Chase logo on your website as a customer is huge. The founders and VCs know this.

And it was those very people that were selling their round A. Very competent people they were... :)
Control-freak managers are getting in the way of evolution
We had some issues with Google Chat and Meetings, we had some 503 errors. Is it related?
Article completely ignores the fact that most shipping companies are already "slow steaming" because it's cheaper.
Why did he mount a different brand? Was it because he thinks it's better? Maybe it's cheaper, but otherwise equivalent? I have no way of knowing, and I trust his judgement entirely. On the other hand, if I went to my mechanic and said "Look Bob, I want an ACME Turboencabulator v2 mounted" I believe he would be happy to do so. The point is, most users don't even know what a browser is and just want to get back to facebook ASAP, and don't care if you tell them you installed an ACME Turboencabulator or a Stark Industries Turboelectroencabulator.

Of course, we all know the original Turboencabulator is GE and all the others are knockoffs, but I've tried other brands and they work just as well, if not even better.
I had mentioned on a previous thread on this topic that I've found that once you're over the "good credit" threshold, I've found that a big indicator of what credit limit you'll get on a new card is what your credit limit is on OTHER cards on your credit report. Basically, the bank is "crowdsourcing" the decision of how much credit they can trust you with to all the other banks that have trusted you in the past (whether that's the right approach or not is up to debate). I think the other idea is you have to give someone at least the same, if not higher, credit limit as the other cards they already have or they won't bother using your card.

Therefore, its possible that DHH has some ultra-premium cards with 100K limits or whatever, while his wife does not, and despite having similar credit limits "the algorithm" says "hey this guy has huge credit limits and an Amex Black card, we better give him a huge limit too."
> I honestly don't know what impact this will have on ad blockers

But adblockers authors do know. Instead of accusing people of not reading the article, feel free to read what uBlock origin author has to say about this change.
Useful starting point? https://developer.nexmo.com/contribute/guides/writing-style-...
Afaik they can do this still. This can't be the motivation.
Google is the worst actor to push for this. I have 0 trust in them that they are doing this for the right reasons, and that I will benefit as a user.
In America maybe - where wealth and privilege can buy you anything, including the courts.
I had the pleasure of meeting Vinay Gupta at a conference last year. Very interesting man!
Would it be normal to not translate these into languages that share the Latin alphabet at least?
> has anyone else noticed a marked decline in the quality of Google search results over the last 12 months?

I noticed this since around 3-4 years ago.

It seems to be based on region.

Quotes get ignored. Even very specific queries about X prioritize clickbait junk like "TOP 10 X!!"

I THINK they might be anti-competitive too; searching for particular Apple APIs is sometimes more miss than hit, though that might be because of Apple's own poor documentation.

However, most Apple-related searches used to show me Samsung crap, and that's definitely not benign. Like searching for "iPhone" literally presented an ad for the Samsung Galaxy at the top, for a while.
"Caitlin Johnstone
Rogue journalist. Bogan socialist. Anarcho-psychonaut. Guerrilla poet. Utopia prepper."
Well, I can see why such a journalist is now a bit sad, after their beloved socialist icon has fallen from grace. Why didn't she mention that he wasn't allowed to run for a 3rd term by the constitution?
Yea that's just lawyer cya speak.
I would imagine that's a fairly small "market" and doesn't really reflect the broader market. It's "a" market rate.

And it sounds like this isn't a case of what people are willing to pay for it, but rather what I'm willing to sell it for: that is, the bank just wants to get rid of the house for something, even if it's highly innefficient and people were willing to pay more.
That's really cool! I think my one complaint is that its unclear how some of the 'self starter' items are operating - sometimes they just sit there with stuff they can be doing on the board
Especially because most don't really use that data. It's stored because bandwidth and storage are cheap. But from all I've seen and heard, most don't really get any information from it they couldn't have gotten by just asking users.
So, some handwaving and all concerns go away because they are 'tired narratives'. Why not just block all extensions? That's clearly the most secure solution.

> I honestly don't like the fact that I have to give a third party developer so much privileged access to run an ad blocker

Then don't, install another one that works the way you want. Or don't, because the limited blocking abilities you appear to find sufficient can be gained just as well using an external proxy.

> Extensions can be compromised.

So can browsers, devices and operating systems.
Building flexible components with generics and protocols in Swift
Yeah, many ML applications are bottlenecked on availability of labels, not by compute. Especially once outside very well-defined and established task. I think self-supervised has large potential, at least in expanding ML applications towards "more general".
Threadripper is proven to do extremely well in parallel compilation benchmarks -- the Linux kernel build process being the chief example. I've seen the numbers on at least 4 sites (Phoronix included).

It's not only about 3D. We're talking everyday programmer productivity, partially achieved by less waiting around when compiling your projects.
I'm strongly in the camp of, cutting up a journalist into pieces with a bone saw isn't a "mistake".
How is that relevant with telemetry? If anything, that would make it harder to block their analytic domains and stop it.
Very true, but I think I trust Brave more than I trust Microsoft to try to keep the internet neutral as such.
Unfortunately I feel like google has one of these every 6 months, I really hope they resolve it. I’ve been an app engine user since 2008 and there are many mission-critical apps that are heavily impacted by any downtime. It usually ends up being networking configuration on their end in the US East region? A strange repeating pattern.
Not entirely true. Take the recent controversy around YouTuber Markiplier having users' accounts shut down (including both YouTube and Gmail) for spamming his YouTube livestream chatroom.[1]

I also did a quick search and it's been a while since both Gmail/Google accounts and YouTube accounts are tied to one another.[2][3]

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/markiplier-youtube-fans-heis...

[2] https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/1692/how-do-i-un...

[3] https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/69961?hl=en
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What about by files of code they produce? Or webpages or assets? I imagine some contractors work this way.

Why can't what developers produce be commodified?
Janayugom, a Indian daily newspaper, has migrated completely to Free Software
That system isn't getting rid of any asphalt. It's just wasting more time and energy unnecessarily.
Ah ok. Here’s how it works.

You can give someone multiple self-starters. Say you give someone 3 of them. That means that after they’ve been assigned a task manually (once) they will then go back to their desk and after a little pause, spontaneously go back and look for work to do. They’ll do this 3 times (since they have a self start level of 3). Then they’ll rest until they’re manually assigned to a task again, at which point they’ll again do up to 3 extra tasks. And so on.

There’s no “infinite self starter” item you can buy for them.
Pride I suspect is a large difference. While it might be accepted to alliance of neighbors foreign "others" don't cut it unless conquered as it doesn't vicariously massage their ego the same way to have partners with agency.

It seems to go back to before nationalism per se as a term. See Genhis Khan and the Mongols who ironically had little cultural influence over those they once conquered. Just uniting into a lack of war wasn't enough - they needed outside targets. Feudalism in general had that issue where a post unified country is left with an excess of fighters to burn off on foreign adventures for stability to prevent infighting fiefdom expansions. Both Japan post Sengoku Jidai and the Crusades fit that model as well. It also made them long term enemies even jf it didn't result in same generation "show up to pillage your holdings" retaliation.
There is a way to get rid of Edge by renaming its install folder or something like that. I did it, and I love it.
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saw this comment on Reddit:
>They weren't trapped for years. There was a ventilation pipe they were falling down from. That's how they got down there. New ones kept falling in all the time, keeping their numbers high. They didn't survive for years "because cannibalism" and there is no evidence that any individual ant survived for more than a short time.
Okay, this is a great story. But look at the prof's actions: he covered for a colleague, admitted he didn't know the answer, and had the humility to ask when he realized he wasn't going to be able to learn C overnight. It might have been easier on him to use a pseudonym, but the guy sounds like he was doing life right.
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Aws is nuch more reliable
Well, Google makes sure that YouTube's autoplay resets to on for a reason. Maybe this video has no ads, but as long as you stay on their site you'll play an ad before long.
It's coming - http://www.imo.org/en/MediaCentre/HotTopics/Pages/Sulphur-20...
Absolutely. Some of this is solvable through the use of the VM abstraction layer (hence!). Others do rely on macaddress (hence the constance rejig).

Ideally one would have multiple machines for this - but we have to be realists about the quick and dirty.