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YES! TurboLinux from Utah! I loved that one. And I still have my Storm Linux CD in the garage. Nice packaging. (Florescent green I think)

Yup, went and dug it out of the garage: https://ibb.co/PM4GTkt
>You cannot trivialise an empire that lasted more than 400 years

Why not? It wouldn't be the first time that a great empire was brought to its knees due to the introduction of something novel.
I'm a big fan of design two systems. If timelines permit, ship the second, else ship the first.
The first code will almost always be crap code because it takes designing the system to better see how the system should have been designed.

Problems arise when the first system gets left in place for too long. It starts to grow developers sometimes whole teams arise, and many people ask why, but are too afraid to touch it
i don't have a google account, and i watch youtube mostly in private mode. that resets the recommendations every time. very useful when i want to watch a specific topic and not get distracted by recommendations for stuff i watched before.

firefox multi-account-tab-containers is another way to create separate "identities" that get a different set of recommendations each.
A Makefile tracks a dependency tree and rebuilds what has changed. Docker has a dependency list and has to rebuild everything following any change. Seems to me like we've gone backwards.
Full days, as in 2x 24 hours? because it'd be a lot more than 2 days if we're talking a measly 8-9hrs per day.
Too bad there is no way to make a blocklist to block all freeloaders from visiting websites.

The person who actually owns anything at all (the website owner) is somehow expected to give everything for free to someone who doesn't own anything at all (the website visitor). Plus I have found that the same people who complain loudly on internet forums about chat widgets (and many similar marketing tools) don't stop using the website itself for the sake of their principles. Hilarious.
There are many ways to get somewhere, but here's a general list of things you have to do:

1) Think for a little bit about what you have got and what you want to do

2) Do research. Has this been done before? Have similar things been done before? (Usually the answer is yes to either question)

2) Think whether it's theoretically possible to do what you want to do with the information and parts you have (in this case: there is a working driver for Linux and Windows, but they're closed-source)

3) Fixing computer things usually involves a lot of debugging (tracing). Will tracing help us out here? What tracing tools/skills do you have, what tracing tools/skills would you like to have? Often you'll need to extend the tracing skills/tools you already have, but normally you don't want to spend too much time on this. (In this case, we can trace without any specialized equipment -- we just need a virtual machine.)

4) Once you have the appropriate traces, take a good look at them (you'll probably want some scripting abilities here) and see if you notice any patterns (e.g. "lots of data after this", "just a little data after this", "this bit of data is always the same", etc.)

5) If you don't know what to do at this point, maybe go back to the tracing step
I do love the theory, and the elevator pitch makes a lot of sense. Unfortuantely I don't have the bandwidth to really dive into it like I'd like to, but I did find what seems to be a paper disputing his claims[0]. Below is the abstract (emphasis my own):

> Since 1974 Joseph Davidovits, a French concrete chemist, has been proposing that the pyramids and temples of Old Kingdom Egypt were built of geopolymer “concrete” poured into molds, rather than quarried blocks of limestone. We use geological evidence and engineering principles to demonstrate the flaws in this daring hypothesis. Pyramid and temple blocks show sedimentary bedding, burrows, and optical and SEM-scale properties characteristic of normal microporous limestones, and they are cut by tectonic fractures. Block dimensions and shapes are not likely to be the product of pouring into wooden molds, and some blocks show quarrying marks. It is not easy to give a geological education to a brilliant and determined chemist.

[0]: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.5408/0022-1368-40.1.2...
Can confirm "isn't that the capital?" was sarcasm. The fact people didn't realise shows how believable (and common?) that belief is!
When I take psychedelic drugs, I can see colours that are not part of my normal tritanomolous vision, and are impossible to adequately describe. I understand this is quite a common experience.

Maybe those colours are what I would see if I had properly functioning cones, or even a fourth cone variant. Or maybe they're just a symptom of wider brain dysfunction due to the psychedelic drugs. Hard to know...
May have this. Odds don't necessarily imply even distribution amongst a given sub-population. A person could know 1,000 people and still not know a single tetrachromat, and another person could know 10 people and know multiple tetrachromats.
I found that investing in BP when people were at their most pessimistic about the well being capped did work well.

Unfortunately, following up that success by buying into TEPCO once it had dropped by half after their accident turned out not to be a good move.

However, one may console oneself that it was a public service in providing some cash to the Japanese pension funds, proverbial widows and orphans and whatnot that were selling at that time.
Yeah agreed, KB integration was another big one, as well as shortcuts when you have agents who do 3-4 chats at the same time. In fact the ability to define agent capacity individually and by role to begin with is important.

The ability to define different capacities for the same agent across different queues and how to aggregate that is also an advanced feature which is useful. E.g. I can take 3 in English or one in French and one in English. Or I can take 4 tier one tickets or 2 tier two tickets. Or I can do x tickets for customers on basic support but if I'm on with a customer who has priority... Etc

Queueing and assignment logic gets tricky because requirements can be vastly different across organisations. Hence why there are companies at the high end charging enterprise money.
Healthcare changing anything drastically in 3-5 years would be an achievement.
Chaos is not necessarily so bad, and order is not necessarily so good. Many people thing it is and they are wrong. I think even Principia Discordia mention such thing, isn't it?

And yet, many people today don't like C and assembly language, and hate "goto" and some other stuff like that, but I think that it is good.

(Also I do not always clean the stuff, because where it is, I know where it is and do not have to move it again when using it again.)
>Gluelam and CLT (cross laminated timber)

I just looked up some picture. Is it just plywood and OSB with 2x4s? It seems so simple.
Not sure why you think rail cannot service suburbs. I grew up 20 miles outside of Chicago in the suburbs and and we had a train station in the middle of town. Furthest you could be from the train station and still be in the town was about a mile.
As an Australian, I must say our nation does horrible cities. Sydney has a spectacular natural setting. Brisbane has nice parks. Melbourne's the best at night. But they're all splattered with hideous corporate-starchitect towers, and everything in them is built around car parks. It's virtually illegal not to breathe petrol fumes with an outdoor coffee. The Aussie approach is to carefully survey two centuries of European & N. American urban design, and studiously ignore every lesson learned. Both the major parties are co-owned by real estate & fossil fuel companies, so no great surprise I guess.

If you haven't been to Australia, come to see our magnificent bush & coastline. Forget the cities (and wear blinkers if forced to traverse the 'burbs).
You do something similar in Udacity's SDC nanodegree but you use their simulator rather than a new car. Interestingly through trial and error on my project, ELU activation functions was the only thing that prevent vanishing gradient problems. You use the same activation function and I'm curious why you selected that one. I always wonder why it was the only function that worked for me.
> English language literature has had [...] Orson Welles

?????

Orson Welles was a movie director. Did you misspell Oscar Wilde?
Maybe try keeping something fragrant nearby your desk or wherever you would reinforce the memories.

Then you can bring it with you when you need to remember.
> The author doesn’t want ads but then doesn’t want to pay anything? How would anyone expect a video site to stream 4K video for free then?

This, I think, speaks to the true tragedy of our freemium internet culture: users expect all services to be free of cost, free of nuisance, and heavily moderated and curated.

Google and Facebook have come to dominate because they offer the best, or least worse, offerings in this regard; and their monopolistic role and ability to run services at a heavy loss has prevented meaningful competition.
Well, it is possible that there will be real restrictions on producing or selling fossil fuel that will progressively eliminate demand for their product. In which case, their assets are not worth what they might previously be assessed at.

P/E is either backwards looking or based on estimates of future earnings, and the future often changes.

I can't say who's got a more accurate view of the future, but the Aramco IPO suggests that the Saudis are anticipating people getting serious about global warming before too long and they want to at least test the waters.
I think this is a cheap optimization the brain uses. Every time our location changes, it clears short term memory to have a fresh slate and be aware in the new situation. Think of it as setting up a new stack frame.

I think it evolved so that a caveman could exit the cave and immediately forget what he was thinking about before and be fully aware, watching for predators and looking for food. He can start climbing a tree and suddenly the whole word is that tree and that task.

Nowadays that's why we walk into another room and can't remember why we went there, or we open the fridge door and can't remember what we wanted. I turn on my phone to do something, but somehow the phone itself is a new context and I end up doing something else.
I have bad news for you: Fallout 4 is an incredible game the first time, but the second time through you notice that the game has very little depth. I had a blast the first time, but couldn't force myself to finish a second. I say this as someone who beat New Vegas at least a dozen times.

Fallout 4 has tons of options that are flavorful and make you feel like you live in a dynamic world, right up until you realize there's not much actual dynamic content.
It's about 40 hours non-stop in a car.
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"Overt catastrophic failure occurs when small, apparently innocuous failures join to create opportunity for a systemic accident. Each of these small failures is necessary to cause catastrophe but only the combination is sufficient to permit failure. ... complex systems run as broken systems. The system continues to function because it contains so many redundancies and because people can make it function, despite the presence of many flaws." https://how.complexsystems.fail/

This is as true for empires as it is for your distributed monolith on Kubernetes. A forgotten cup of coffee might be what actually causes a replication alert to be missed that brings everything to its knees, but if it was, the system was on the verge of failing, anyway. Robust systems can suffer many missed alerts without falling over.

Put another way: for want of a nail, and for a systematic lack of maintenance of the other nails, the shoe was lost. For want of a horse, which could have been provided by the local stables which were somehow also not in operation, the rider was lost. For want of a message which should have been sent by multiple riders if it was that important, the battle was lost. No lessons on how to hold a kingdom together can be learned from a postmortem process that says, "Root cause: want of a nail."
The least interesting part of intercom at this point is the chatbox itself.

Intercom at this point is / is moving towards a tool to reach your customers / specific audiences sitting atop your eventing system to Target specific users at the right time (where a single one of those avenues may be through the chat widget).

The realized the least interesting part of this all is the chatbox itself, what's more interesting is leveraging internal information towards a better customer experience (through chat or other messaging channels)
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Hey, this is super cool and interesting! Are you using puppeteer to do this? Might be cool to partner on some of it if you’re looking into that (I run browserless.io).

Best!
I just finished reading the paper and that’s what it looks like to me. It’s a CRUD interface w/ multiple implementations (proxy, cache, route, serialize, filesystem store, memory store), which they create pipelines out of using some syntactic sugar in the Objective-Smalltalk language. This syntactic sugar, discussed in their paper on ‘polymorphic identifiers’, allows you to use the same syntax for writing content to a file as you would writing to a key in a map or a field in an object. If you look at the pictures / tables in this paper, you get a general idea of what they are doing (e.g. replacing the filesystem store with a memory store while running tests). These dynamically dispatched processing pipelines are powerful, but can be hard to follow (which is true of dynamically dispatched processing pipelines in general). The power/obfuscation is multiplied by the convenient syntax of the language.

My opinion is that the actual innovation is the ‘polymorphic identifiers’ they introduced in their previous paper, which is definitely worth a read as my one line description of it can’t really do it justice. It’s kind of like being able to overload the assignment operator. Once you have that kind of feature, it’s sort of a no-brainer to say ‘Hey, all I/O (variables in memory, filesystems, etc) should use the same interface’.
Why not the church or mosque (especially mosques with their open courtyards)? Or the every-present bathhouses which spread right through the Middle East, Anatloia and the Balkans?

I agree with the comment above that the article fails to really establish whether the kahvehanes really were unique.
Well, if one of your criteria is to build in docker you should use a docker. I mean if one of my requirement was that program should be written in Python I would write it in Python.

If you need to create Docker or OCI image you can use nixpkgs functions[1][2]

As for Windows, yeah, it's not natively supported, I see there's an issue opened, but no idea when a support would be added.

There's also this[3] not sure if suitable for what you need. My understanding is that it allows building for Windows targets on Linux.

[1] https://nixos.org/nixpkgs/manual/#sec-pkgs-dockerTools

[2] https://nixos.org/nixpkgs/manual/#sec-pkgs-ociTools

[3] https://github.com/pololu/nixcrpkgs
something that helps is to block out as much external stimuli as possible. for example, when memorizing a pin, i focus on the grid of numbers. for a password, i focus on my computer, or something abstract related to the service i am signing on to.

i have the benefit of traveling a lot, so my computer becomes an always available item of focus, whereas the surroundings turn into a blur because they always change
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I'd really like to understand impedence some day. I understand the text book definition is resistance to A/C, but I fail to understand impedence matching, coax cable ratings, high impedance inputs, and pretty much anywhere else the term is used.
How novel was coffee though really? Tea is the real drink of the Middle East and if coffee was really that of a distabling influence, why did it take several hundred years for the effect to take hold?

And why did this coffee-inspired nationalism in the Ottoman Empire just happen to coincide with its emergence in Europe?
OP Here, I agree, there can be a lot of reasons for #7, however I think if you beat yourself up too much from straying from your designated "In Progress" ideas then it becomes work not a passion project. Some discipline is required but a day to try something for another idea in the scheme of things isn't that big of a deal.
people are going to start looking at me funny when i start burning incense candles every time i get money from an ATM. :-)
I know this false based on all the ads I see in webpages in Safari that I don't see when in Firefox with UBlock Origin. Every ad I see was served by the ad company. Safari might be blocking cookies but it's not letting me block the ads which is all that's really needed to track.
Is it substantially better than modern concrete with seawater-proof reinforcement? Stainless steel rebar, fiberglass rebar, and basalt rebar all exist. The latter sounds quite promising if you believe its manufacturers’ claims.

(A major cause of failure of concrete near or in the sea is that the rebar corrodes and expands, cause the concrete to break.)
For what it's worth, on the Acela, there are a few areas where it exceeds 150mph.
> The international police organization Interpol plans to condemn the spread of strong encryption in a statement Monday saying it protects child sex predators, three people briefed on the matter told Reuters.

Let me fix that for you

> it protects nearly every single person on the planet.
We have high speed airplanes. Why not make airports and the TSA theater better instead? Airplanes don’t require maintaining thousands of miles of track — or buying up land to put it on. Capitol-centric countries like France do well with trains because Paris is the center of the country in terms of commerce and population, but the US has much lower population density. Who really wants to take a train from Chicago to Los Angeles other than tourists? If we cite China as a counter example, one ought not forget that most trains in China are slow and the population doesn’t have much money. Long distance trains are a 19th century affliction. We should be looking up and not down.
Are you including the combined local, state, and federal subsidies for roadways? Are you considering the implicit subsidies to automobile infrastructure such as "free" curbside parking, and the ones that are offloaded onto the private sector, such as mandatory minimum parking requirements. Or zoning and urban planning that explicitly seek to structure society around cars.

Glad you mentioned the externalities of pollution that people are allowed to create without penalty, but are you also considering that CO2 is hardly the only thing to worry about. Air pollution is a major cause of neurological illnesses, since auto exhaust is neurotoxic, as is non-exhaust pollution from brake pads and tires.
On the topic of "the only one people can name isn't very good": The Sydney Opera House is one of the most famous in the world, thanks to its stunning architecture -- but among musicians it's famous for having unbelievably bad acoustics. Some singers have even had written into their contracts that they will never be required to perform there.
Isn't it funny how so many of us would rather scan through a bunch of comments than read the actual article?

I'm not sure what that says about us...
That's true, Bethesda are focusing on the wrong things since they bought the IP, of the "new" fallouts, only New Vegas is more than so-so, and it was because it was outsourced. I am hyping myself up for Wasteland 3 as thetrue spiritual successor of the original masterpieces.
This whole subthread about asynchronous objects, and the actor model, made me think of "background" processing where objects have a running life of their own, and it reminded me of a recent HN comment about almost the opposite approach, where nothing is allowed to be spawned off in the "background".

The author contends that Go's "go" (and indeed async blocks in a number of languages) which launch new concurrent objects which the parent block doesn't have to wait for, are a form of badly structured programming.

https://vorpus.org/blog/notes-on-structured-concurrency-or-go-statement-considered-harmful/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21537706

The structured concurrency described there reminds me of "par" blocks in some languages (Occam, Handel-C, XMOS XC), where each statement inside the block runs in parallel and the whole block waits until all statements inside have completed.

They do have asynchronous request/response patterns, but things can't be started and left to carry on running how they want, like you might think of bacteria.
That android should not be by default tracking every user and sending a of that data to google since most users aren't aware it is even happening and most users have no use for this data. They know where they have been.
Or bathhouses? Or mosques? Or gardens?

It's a fairly absurd claim that the author makes.
I shared it because they all sounded like extremely reasonable points. They didn't sound crazy or irrational. The question was "are there any positive things to say about brexit" and the answer is "yes". Does that mean Brexit = good? I have no idea but the answer seems clearly not as simple as anti-brexit people seem to claim
Hey!

Thanks for the message. I like browserless!

I don't use puppeteer. I use Chrome DevTools Protocol heavily tho. I started using chrome-remote-interface but hit limits in what it can do with Targets (specifically, flat session mode) and the latest versions of the API. Now I just use the WebSocket directly.

I'd like to partner. Email me cris@dosycorp.com
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I have the opposite thing. Where I can only perceive 1/10th the colours most people can. Mostly that results in people recoiling in shock when I candidly describe something as blue when it is in fact purple. Or orange when it's yellow. Or something else that's very, very bordeline in-between two colours.

Strange to think there are people who can perceive two orders of magnitude more colour than me. Damn.
Look at the government repression on the Hong Kong protesters, who are fighting for freedom and accountability. That's a good reason to support encryption technology.
This is why some people swear by more screens. I think it helps them keep mental context.
Depends on what you think is beautiful. I've seen code that was beautifully simple, and 'beautiful' code that was unnecessary, impenetrable wank.
Retailers are using chatbots to boost customer engagement
I don't really get your argument. gcc has lots of non-standard extensions. Should gcc not be able to call itself a c++ compiler?
There’s also only so much you can realistically do to keep you and/or a child safe in a car accident. Cars are just dangerous, and although safety has improved, slamming into anything at 60+ mi/h can only be made so safe. Combine a need for control with the anxiety of being a parent, and it’s no wonder car seat marketing works so well. After a certain point, though, some things are out of your control, and people should take solace in realizing that they can only realistically do so much to keep their kids safe. (This applies to everything outside of your country, by the way.)