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I was struck, though, by this quote: "my Electrical System Engineer Al Gross threw me a curve. He said, 'Bob, we need to connect two new circuits with a couple of diodes. I don't know where you are going to put them, but I don’t want to add them to the Recovery Programmer as this will trigger a requal program,' That would require a lot of work and paperwork to requalify the programmer."

I don't know enough about aerospace to really follow this (or even to know what a "programmer" is in this context), but it certainly sounds strikingly similar to Boeing's use of ad-hoc engineering solutions to avoid expensive retraining of pilots.

Perhaps technical corporate culture has always been a complicated relationship between finance and engineering. Triumphantly successful projects tend to make everyone forget about the tension, while miserable failures lead to more introspection.
In Sweden around the same time, a big-box retailer asked my parents if they wanted their DVD player region-unlocked for a $10 fee.

Pre-smartphone, but I could probably have looked up if it was possible without some special IR remote (which was required for some players in that age) in Opera Mini on my Sony Ericsson on some shady site if I spent half an hour but it was worth it to just say "yeah sure".
That does sound frustrating. I didn’t mean to discount your experience, it certainly is possible that the additional AI has made it worse for some people, especially if there’s an accent involved. Not to mention that the meme of autocorrect mistakes when texting somewhat backs up your experience on a larger scale. I wonder if the scale and complexity of what they’re doing now compared to last decade is the cause of the regressions, like is the problem being solved much harder by trying to factor in and autocorrect based on context, and causing worse results than pure phoneme detection?
The fading out of multi-'architecture' Unix environments
>since UTF-8 doesn’t have a “magic number” to identify itself, the convention is to use the BOM codepoint

Neither does any other of the hundreds of existing text encodings.

It's debatable how much of a magic number it's supposed to be anyway, considering that few people have insisted on having magic numbers in text files, and that you get the BOM at the beginning by simply naively converting a UCS-2/UTF-16 file codepoint by codepoint (and vice versa, enforce it to be there if you ever happen to do the conversion the other way around because of course you're conversion couldn't include that extra logic in it).
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> Clearly prison is seen as a minor deterrent

That’s a bold statement since I don’t remember a question on the census asking me how many crimes I didn’t commit due to fear of retribution.
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Cool! Thanks for the link!!
you aren,t in control either in web or in paper. the only differnce in my opinion is that they track your view to other viewes..
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Because the digital ads are something else entirely. They're often an order of magnitude larger (in MB), they contain tracking, they sell my information whether I want them to or not, they often contain malware. Maybe of them play audio or video.
This paper is snake oil.
Twilio's bread and butter is telephony developer relations. Why would WhatsApp get into this market when they can outsource it for free to Twilio who has the product and documentation nailed. The support however is a different story. Once the demand is high enough, WhatsApp are free to revisit. It also keeps WhatsApp low (relatively speaking) cost to run.
Archaeology is among the hardest of the "soft" sciences. They routinely rely on radioactivity, density of pollen varieties, tree-ring correlation, and genetic analysis to determine ground facts.
Eh, Germany isn't exactly "piracy friendly" at all. If you torrent a popular song there's a decent chance you get sued for hundreds (previously thousands) of dollars.

But region hacking isn't really piracy, and the guy you talked to might've just been cool with it. People in electronics stores are super different, some of them are just nerds who pirate at home and will gladly help you with any problem you have in that regard, others will just follow "protocol".
Yes, pretty much, except that Canonical is nice enough to open source their patches. And they layer a ton of patches on top of the official kernel trees, mostly backports but also some new features. Their linux_5.0.0-36.39.diff is close to 35MB.

And remember the time when Debian layered some changes on top of openssl? http://faq.caslavka.cz/attachments/196/randomness.png

Now, what changes does Google layer on top of chromium to make Chrome? Do you know exactly?
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Why not fix your technical debt? (video of talk)
This is why 65% keyboards are becoming popular. You get the compactness of a 60% with the functionality of a TKL. HHKB format is also nice if you can get used to it.
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Mr. Money Moustache is a terrible example. He (and his wife) had a $200k+ job within a year or two out of college. He is still working. He is making money off his website and as a motivational speaker. He has to spend a significant amount of time managing his investments to ensure that they keep an average of over 4% return.

MMM's lifestyle works well for MMM, because of his circumstances. Those circumstances don't easily carry over to the general populace.
I wonder about other changes as various things change.

Could self driving cars mean more driving? / car related demand?

I drive my family around all the time. I'm not a fan of it, but if my car drove itself I'd probabbly be quite happy to plan additional / longer driving trips. I'd certainly like to setup my minivan as a series of mini desks everyone could sit at .. I could do lots of things during trips...
A guide for astronauts (now, people doing machine learning) about what to do when things go wrong.

GitHub: https://github.com/bkkaggle/machine-learning-flight-rules

Product Hunt: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/machine-learning-flight-ru...

There's a lot of "hidden knowledge" online on places like Stackoverflow, Kaggle, and the Pytorch discussion forums that is really useful but not easily accessible to people who are just getting started with machine learning. This is why I made Machine learning flight rules, this Github repo compiles all of the things I have learned over the last two years about best practices, common mistakes, and little-known tricks when training neural networks. I've tried to make sure that all the information in this repository is accurate, but if you find something that you think is wrong, please let me know by opening an issue. This repository is still a work in progress, so if you find a bug, think there is something missing, or have any suggestions for new features, feel free to open an issue or a pull request. Feel free to use the library or code from it in your own projects, and if you feel that some code used in this project hasn't been properly accredited, please open an issue. I named this project after the awesome Git Flight Rules project (https://github.com/k88hudson/git-flight-rules). I took a lot of tips from both Andrej Kaparthy's blog post on a recipe for training neural networks (https://karpathy.github.io/2019/04/25/recipe/) and the Amid Fish blog post on lessons learned when reporoducing a deep reinforcement learning paper (http://amid.fish/reproducing-deep-rl)
And then you need to find a place to take your oil.
I think it's slightly more complicated. Having an older manager/supervisor is not a bad thing. Working in a department where you need to have put in 12 years to become a supervisor is a problem.

The old automotive company I work for released a "strongly recommended" schedule of different responsibilities that an engineer should have held for what time to be considered a strong candidate for promotion. There was a similar document I heard about for going from supervisor to manager. Combined these schedules said that no one would ever work their way up from entry level to department head. Ever. Therefore the only way to get there is outside of the official system via office politics, and not being honest about that is pretty dysfunctional on its own. That said, a symptom of that is the number of supervisors and managers who have 30+ years in...
I am sure this is an unpopular opinion, but I am rather fond of ransomware. If ransomware can get on the systems, then so can a silent RAT (Remote Access Trojan) that would allow any number of thugs to access and sell the data without anyone knowing or caring for a very long time.

With ransomware, the data is isolated away from the people that are not managing or securing their systems. In some twisted irony, the data is safer in some sense of the meaning and the host of the data is forced to take some action. In some cases, the customers may even learn about the lack of management and protection of their sensitive data. I suppose this could be some derivation of "The enemy of my enemy is my friend".

Servers (bare metal, virtual machines, docker containers, K8's, K3's) are all ephemeral. If you do not have offline backups of data that automation can not touch, then you do not have valid backups.
The underlying concept that applies to much of life is feedback loops. Compound interest is just one example of a feedback loop.
Do we have a potential VPN criminal conglomerate?
As many of you have already read, Private Internet Access has recently been acquired by a company named Kape Technologies. Kape Technologies is a huge company that also owns the likes of CyberGhost and Zenmate. I decided to read more and found facts that thoroughly shocked me:

1. CyberGhost was acquired by Kape Technologies(previously named Crossrider) back in 2017. Crosrider was known to hide malware/adware in their software and then sell data collected by it.

2. The co-founder of Kape Technologies, Teddy Sagi was sentenced to prison in regards to fraud and bribery back in 1996.

3. CyberGhost was also found to have WebRTC, IPv6 as well as DNS leaks multiple times, risking its users’ privacy.

4. Private Internet Access hired Mark Karpeles (ex-CEO of MT.Gox BitCoin platform) as their CTO. Karpeles was arrested and found guilty when tampering with financial records, trying to hide the platform’s loss by combining his personal finances with the exchange’s.

5. Private Internet Access’s founder Andrew Lee, also known as Rasengan on HackerNews, made serious allegations against ProtonVPN.

6. Allegations against NordVPN followed, where PIA’s employee was caught sharing a misleading PDF as a ‘concerned citizen’.

7. An ex-employee of PIA was threatened due to disclosing management issues, therefore spilling a lot of information about the company.

8. The same employee disclosed that PIA faked Reddit comments and ordered to downvote negative feedback about the product.

9.Another thing to consider is that before acquisition, Private Internet Access was in debt of over $32 million.

The facts about these companies were easy to find, to be honest, I didn’t need to dig deep to find them. I am just truthfully shocked about this and how much I didn’t know about the companies beforehand. Personally, given this knowledge, I am not going to support these companies, especially when they potentially have criminal past and present activities.
Of course, places like Manhattan require a huge amount of supporting area. People just live there and work office jobs but everything they need is imported, and what they need to get rid of is exported.

But you could look at something like Bangladesh that's more of a real country rather than a city and see how they do the density. Extreme fertility for farming and high poverty helps.
Like Dawson's Creek on Netflix.... totally different theme song.
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There are a very few sites where I haven't minded the ads.

Chief among them was Ravelry, a social site for knitters and crocheters. At least as of the last time I used the site (which was admittedly years and years ago) they just one banner ad at the top of every page, hosted first-party rather than through an ad network.

The ads were far better targeted than anything I've ever seen come out of an ad network, because they were typically relevant to my interests, and also generally caught me at a time when I was already thinking about buying something like what the ad was trying to sell. Admittedly, it was an easy job that could be done with only a light application of tensor algebra, but still. I clicked on those ads. Often. And I always at least glanced at them. It was a lot like what you were describing with magazine ads.

The thing that gets me about modern Internet ads is that I really don't think they're the spiritual successors to magazine and newspaper ads, not even when they're hosted on magazine and newspaper websites. They're more comparable, in all but the most cosmetic of ways, to junk mail and telemarketing.
Agreed, although those were consumer leaks. When corporate/board emails, IP, comp lists, trade secrets get leaked, maybe there'll be change.
Uhm... no. That's not how national papers work. Yes, they run "wire" stories from AP and Reuters when they don't have a reporter at the scene.
Then don't implement dark patterns for account cancellation.
You can't read 3rd party cookies, neither the browser sends it to the 1st party server.

The max they can do is track you in their website, but that's terrible, they need to know more.

edit: this means the 3rd party server can't know who you are, even if they get your tracking events, they can't know what you did in the other sites.

thats why fingerprinting could fix this, the 3rd party server could find your profile with a good enough fingerprint.
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Same happens when one learns touch typing using a tool where words are random or not valid words at all(like keybr).

When using such tool, at some point where there is no need to focus on keys or words, mind will drift into thinking something else.
> In an investing group that I'm part of, my story is the norm - not the exception

That is a hilarious example of selection bias.
"Default" readily morphs into "only supported". Into "if you use something else and complain to IT when it breaks, IT addresses the issue by replying 'try using an editor from this century'."
I pictured Steve Buscemi viscerally when I read the story upthread about Kruschev. I sure hope Death of Stalin is a reasonably accurate pastiche of those figures because it's my main impression of them.
Of course, the bug is horrible. But given that those type of bugs exist, having a fixed ordering of include statements seem like the least painful way to go.
They frequently do the rest of the hardware and software separately for consumer and enterprise, so it seems like a reasonable extrapolation.
I'm not sure what your experience is, but this seems to differ from mine (lots of recent Haskell experience, some dated OCaml).

I agree that matching on multiple levels in one statement isn't common, if that's what you were talking about. But performing bindings in a match is very common, and not something that's part of a switch statement (except in those languages where a switch statement is doing pattern matching more generally anyway).
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Turn off Javascript - Amazon still works OK.
Can confirm, definitely see many more drunk assholes loitering outside the bars on my street.
Sources:

1. https://blog.malwarebytes.com/detections/pup-optional-crossr...

2. https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-sagis-criminal-past-may-h...

4. https://cointelegraph.com/news/former-mt-gox-ceo-mark-karpel...

5. https://www.reddit.com/r/sevengali/comments/9dgexs/why_to_av...

6. https://vpnpro.com/blog/confusion-in-the-vpn-industry-is-nor...

7, 8. https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/1088904-private-interne..., https://snew.notabug.io/r/PrivateInternetAccess/comments/ckb...

9. https://www.techradar.com/news/cyberghost-owner-buys-pia-for...
Java is also like this. In Java shops it's pretty much Eclipse or GTFO.
good points, thank you.
There was a Chinese knockoff of Lit Motors.
Been following https://thrustcycle.com/index.html
An Indian startup http://www.ligermobility.com/ is also developing self balancing EV for crowded Indian cities.
Any shorthand Roman alphabet. Saves time and offers not insignificant amount of encryption.
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You need two different compilers, and the ground is more fertile the more compilers you have. It would be more applicable to standards-based languages with a robust ecosystem of implementations like Common Lisp or SQL. Less so languages where there's mostly just the one compiler, like Scala or Rust.

You can still use it to test different settings on a single compiler, though. Like optimization settings or target architecture.
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Yes, lock pickers love to work on LOTO locks because of this; you can see a lot of these videos by searching YouTube for #LotoLockTuesday
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> This makes no sense because the colored keys imply you enjoy looking at your keys and their unlabeled nature implies that you don’t need to look at your keys while you type. i.e. a fashion trend.

That's not how aesthetics work. I mean, you are more then welcome to dislike blank caps, but it makes perfect sense.

Do clocks without numbers also disturb you?
A statue of Venus took creativity and skill to create that a cube of concrete didn’t. There’s no meaningfully similar statement you could make about Latin vs. English.
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My introduction to this were the excellent books 1421, 1434, and of course, the author's third book, The Lost Empire of Atlantis, which I found every bit as convincing as the first two and really drove home how credulous I'd been when reading them.
> Advertisements in magazines are often somewhat interesting, well-made to be entertaining, or even useful.

Really? I find them interrupting, manipulative, and vapid, as a general rule. If my magazine was "boring without them", I'd need to find a different magazine. Ads are at best blockers to the content I wanted to get, and at worst manipulative and deceptive, be that in print or on screen. (Note: There are always exceptions - ads that are entertaining, be that in print, on screen, or on TV, but those are the exceptions that prove the rule for me, and something I'd happily sacrifice to have ad-free content)

Different strokes, I suppose.
I'm willing to bet that cattle ranchers and dairy farmers deal with more bullshit per capita than any other profession.
I've been working on PhotoStructure (not so much to be an imgur replacement, but as a way to automatically organize and share my large (many tb) and disorganized (due to failed photo apps and cos) pile of photos and videos. I'm releasing to a new wave of beta users soon if you want to sign up and try it out. It's a self-hosted solution with a web UI. https://blog.photostructure.com/introducing-photostructure/

As one entrepreneur/engineer to another: Don't underestimate the legal and logistical effort you'll incur from a caching CDN. People post pirated, abusive, and generally bad things, and if it's on your server, it's (becoming moreso) your responsibility. DMCA and takedowns will consume noon-trivial time, and makes simple corporate insurance decidedly not simple (or cheap). It's typical for media hosting companies to hire teams to handle these issues. I was shocked while working at CNET (way back when) when I found out most of a floor (in a large building) was for webshots' trust and safety team.
You can't be forced to actually work with the government. So if the governmeny makes it too much of a PITA, no one will bid or they will make the contract costs incredibly high.
I am not sure on that really. I built a cross-platform control software for high-end audio equipment that ran on macOS and Windows and did all of its own drawing (charts, graphs, ALL controls [knobs, buttons, grids, faders etc etc etc], 2D overview with links of all devices, 3D scene of venue layout with OpenGL, diagrams, alerts and floating popup windows). No bitmaps used anywhere, all generated in code. Another guy handled the network stack that it used which was an entirely-bespoke protocol and he wrote the control firmware on the equipment.
This was in C++ with wxWidgets. It redrew every 50ms and logged data received so you could keep historic data of all devices on the network.

I am pretty sure that all of these giant companies releasing garbage Electron apps have a bigger budget than the budget on the 2 people (us!) that wrote what we wrote in 2.5 years.

When I see how abysmal apps like Skype and Slack are, I despair. Colossal amounts of RAM and simply displaying text and pictures.

It might be more convenient for the developer to write in the first language they learned but it is producing giant bloated applications. More CPU cycles, more allocations, more power consumed, shorter battery life on mobile devices (laptops), more charging of devices, more fossil fuels burned.
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But like; it was a Shopify plugin, so saying it can be replaced by another plugin (for a different platform completely) doesn't make sense here, right?
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I am not talking about technical matters here (and FWIW Stadia is based on Linux), i am talking about control. Games that i stream from my own PC to my own handheld (or whatever) are still under my control, so that is perfectly fine. Games that i - wont, but just for the sake of argument - stream from Stadia are under Google's control which is not fine.

Proprietary platform dependence isn't much of an issue when you can hack around that platform. A win32 game using directx on my own PC is way more preferable than a Linux game using Vulkan on someone else's cloud server.
I use Rocketbook daily, a simple idea but it works pretty well.
FB paid something like 20bn for Whatsapp almost 6 years ago. Something like 4bn was paid in cash. How do you make that money back if: a) users do not pay a subscription and b) ads are not printed in the app? You leverage the app's immense user base asking businesses to pay for API services so they can implement chat-bots, notifications, in-app tools, etc.

Why using res-sellers, like carriers use re-sellers to sell SMS integration? Distribution and fair-use control. First, companies like Twilio are the natural partners to sell one more channel to customers that already integrate to SMS. Second, partners will help enforce and control anti-spam efforts. If opening Whatsapp API turns it into a spam jungle like email or sms, it will certainly lose its appeal and users will start switching to the next new spam-free chat app.
It's not really that bad, I only notice it when there is no other sound, then I can notice the high pitched ringing very clearly..
And it recently became free software! And it lets you play graphs as sound!
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That's definitely true for some folks, but it's not universal. I split my time between contracting and my bootstrapped business. The business is profitable and operational costs are very low. The only financial risk is the opportunity cost of not being employed full time.

Through contracting I make about 30% less than I did as a salaried employee, but I am immensely happier than when I was employed full time. Even if I wasn't bootstrapping a business, that tradeoff feels worthwhile to me.
My experience as well
Doesn't work very well for the hip hop track I tried (which has very repetitive accompaniment). It might be a bit too good to be true unfortunately.