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The style is known as rotoscoping:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotoscoping

A Scanner Darkly was made by Richard Linklater. He used the same technique in Waking Life. Recently, it's also used in the Undone Amazon Prime series (recommended).
Alright, it seems you're "not the droids I'm looking for." Sorry for getting on your case.
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If you haven't read it, Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat is a great read. I have cooked for years and it was a short, easy read with lots of applicable tidbits. I recently tried out the Salt methods on a check steak and it is significantly better and similar to a strip cut in tenderness and flavor.

Clarifying butter and slower cooking my omelettes has been fantastic, along with salt early in the mixing bowl and letting it sit for a minute.
Are you implying that being able to have an intimate relationship with another human being disqualifies someone from being a "good software engineer"?
I think you mean .01%. The 1% maybe have 1-10million of savings.
Tech people: Rant about egregious things that China and Russia does (political, freedom, basic human rights, etc.)

Also tech people: Vehemently oppose helping the US DoD with their highly-sought after skills, sign online petitions, protest and/or quit their high-paying jobs at <insert tech company that provides value to US DoD>.

Serious question for these tech people: What are you exactly doing to help solve the issues you've ranted about?

I'd like to hear thoughtful responses that are not the typical fallacies (e.g. ad hominem, ad populum, straw man, etc.)
I've been thinking about this too: it's odd that YouTube doesn't try harder to stop ad blocking. Maybe the low amount of users with adblockers just make it not worth it?
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I think Gen X (from my perspective, since I'm a part of that gen) did get their "cyberpunk dystopia"...

...it's just less Neuromancer/BR/etc and more David Brin's "Earth".
Very true: My marriage is legal. We didn't actually care if we were married or not, but boy oh boy immigration would rather us be married. So we are. We'd be together nonetheless, marriage was just the means of doing so.

But I think the poster's point was that this advice is basically advice for long-term relationships and really shouldn't be viewed under the light of marriage only. Since many folks don't have to be married to be a family, a good number of folks are skipping that step.
> With that said, I don't understand how he could not have expected that when visiting China.

He was employed by the British consulate in Hong Kong. Generally it's not a good idea for countries to torture people working for foreign consulates given that it's sure to spark huge diplomatic crises. The level of physical abuse forced on him is despicable, hopefully the EU will have the guts to impose strict economic sanctions on China to deter the Chinese government from taking insane actions like this again.
Tenkeyless is the sweet spot for me. Still has arrow keys, but the numpad is gone.
It's more complicated than that. Compilers love restrictions, because that means they can optimize more aggressively. And there are features that Rust doesn't have that C++ does have that can make Rust faster; for example, because Rust doesn't have move constructors, moving is an incredibly cheap operation, whereas it can execute arbitrary code (including throwing an exception!) in C++.

There are also... I don't know how to frame this, social issues? Rust's guarantees often let you do some very aggressive things that you could write in C++, but wouldn't, because it's not maintainable. For example, if you must use reference counting, but don't need threads, Rust has a split between Rc<T> and Arc<T>. You can afford to not use the atomic version in Rust code because if you ever refactor later, you know the compiler will catch this for you, whereas you're just asking for latent, hard to track down bugs if you tried this in C++.

This goes both ways; there is some stuff that C++ is better at than Rust too. It's more complex than "unsafe Rust lets you do anything C++ can do directly and so if it's 100% unsafe in Rust it will be the same speed and if it's safe Rust it will be slower."
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Exactly. For the same reason that the oyster farmer gets to eat more oysters than anyone else!
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"He said at least one patient had had the procedure but did not elaborate on whether that patient or any others had survived." I think this is a pretty important detail to leave out.
Basic cost of living (housing, education, healthcare) has already sky rocketed.
Do you really think that after the recent fires (camp, santa rosa, etc.) that a PR campaign attacking the government is a good idea?

Not sure PG&E is in a place to be throwing stones...
Go to https://old.reddit.com/r/gaming/ or https://www.nytimes.com/ and tell me which content are ads and which aren't.

We're reaching the end of the golden era of ad-blockers where we thought we were ad-free by just blocking a banner ad.
> I doubt generic ads would fund the site as it stands today.

Maybe that’s ok.
It has always seemed weird to me to pay someone yearly to write software for their OS.

Having to pay for the tools that ban you reminds me of a digital (urban legend?) "bullet fee" like that Mao supposedly levied to the families of executed prisoners.
Is it losing money per unit broken or is Apple actually not making a profit with the latest iphones?

Because if it's the former, then that headline/statement is highly misleading. Of course you'll lose money if you make the phone nearly impossible to repair in the first place.
Ask yourself, what does the law incentivize in a situation like this?

I'm not saying that PG&E is not to blame...it may well be that they've done a bad job but it's not black & white. I feel like the opinions you outlined above reflect the public narrative… that PG&E are the devil and 100% to blame for everything when the fires were caused by multiple factors…i.e. PG&E equipment, weather conditions, fire service etc. Public narrative is a gross oversimplification and those in a position of power control that narrative (i.e. the politicians).
Yes, this sounds reasonable, unlike the outcry over Communist oppression.
Really struck me how closely all of this matches my workplace, the system we use (and also built in-house) is so similar. We don't yet have a thousand engineers, but not too far off.
Read your own articles. None of the decisions were overturned as a result of a report to the media. All of them were resolved independently between Apple and the developer.
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In the United States time and again legal precedent has been set and reinforced that TOS is not a binding legal agreement but it’s somewhat of a grey area just what it actually is and what can and can’t be considered “fair warning” for being there. The American courts don’t really place a premium on privacy so that’s generally been summarily dispatched with and its ramifications ignored, but other jurisdictions clearly don’t feel the same.
There's a skill to being honest in a productive way. Being honest in a way that communicates your thoughts and gets people engaged rather than defensive is really difficult but really valuable. But if you don't yet have that skill being completely honest will hinder you.
And yet, that's the job of fire fighters.

Lifeguards don't contain storms...
Absolutely, Autopilot (https://www.twilio.com/autopilot) handles a lot of the low level natural language processing bits you'd otherwise have to build with nltk or TextBlob (if you're working in Python). The Autopilot Python quickstart in our Docs is probably the easiest way to see how it works: https://www.twilio.com/docs/autopilot/quickstart/python and then you can connect WhatsApp to Autopilot using these instructions https://www.twilio.com/blog/build-whatsapp-bots-twilio-autop...
Under article 7 GDPR [1], consent has to be given freely. Unless Facebook offered an option to opt-out of this contract, use of the Facebook service was tied to the agreement, which means it probably won't hold up.

It's great that this is happening in front of an Austrian court, because the Austrian Data Protection Agency already has ruled on consent issues, and in those rulings was (IMO) extremely strict on when consent was given freely. In one ToS challenge, the mere potential for confusion was enough to render it invalid.

Edit: Here's one such ruling [2]. Co-mingling checkboxes for processing of data for marketing purposes with actual contractual clauses was ruled as a violation of the GDPR, even though by default, the checkboxes were unchecked. The Agency ruled that the confusing nature of the form could lead subjects to believe that they had to check a checkbox to receive the service.

Also, another relevant local case would be with a popular national newspaper, DerStandard.at. That newspaper offers access in two ways: either (a) you pay for a subscription and receive the service ad-free, or (b) you access the service for free, but consent to receiving ads. This was deemed in compliance with the GDPR, but it was stated that only offering (b) -- ie, exactly what Facebook does -- would not hold up.

[1] https://gdpr-info.eu/art-7-gdpr/

[2] https://www.ris.bka.gv.at/Dokumente/Dsk/DSBT_20180731_DSB_D2...
"Barbara Liskov invented the architecture that underlies modern programs."

Basic explanation of this claim: she invented CLU, the first language without goto statements.
Can you refer to specific laws on restrictions to building a website?

The only one I could find was related to the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and of course GDPR, but that's related to handling of personal data.
Strangely, I don't know! Everyone I know might be regular Twitter users but I don't think I have ever discussed it with anyone. I have never told anyone I know that I use Twitter, and vice versa. I hadn't thought about it before but it seems strange now.
Same effect in Austin. Very interesting to see how the metrics changed when ride-sharing apps were banned as well.
> (It was this that taught me the heuristic that if you want a piece of consumer electronics with maximum format support and convenience features, it should be the cheapest and most Chinese version you can find; expensive e.g. Sony kit is heavily loaded with "protection" antifeatures.)

Earlier it was Japanese gear from the Akihabara that had that desirable property. Sony didn't participate because they had a conflict of interest: they had bought large film and music studios. Showing again that vertical integration is anti-consumer.
Because he's criticizing liberals and most people on HN are liberals. Most censorship ("hate speech" included) is code for shutting your political opponents up. HN makes this really easy by making comments hard to read by removing contrast with the background as they get voted down; post something too much against the grain and it'll get flagged and hidden by default. When you hand users the power to shut those with whom they disagree up, it will inevitably be abused.
There were no bugs that their program could find; not that there are no bugs at all :-)
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Alcohol consumption is horrible for public health though :(
It's not an absolute one to one relationship. I'm talking about general trends.
There are a lot of details, and it's definitely the case that countries like India, China, Mexico, Bangladesh, etc. have benefited tremendously from economic development.

But it's also the case that the US (and most of the West) is experiencing levels of income and wealth inequality not seen since the beginning of the 20th century. The profits from these economic miracles is indeed going largely to a very small number of people, even in the aforementioned countries (China's poverty statistics are frightening, for example, even by their laughably low standards).
There is an explanation about how we handle this case when I talk about the failure-tolerance threshold. I go deeper into this in my GitHub Universe talk where I also talk about an alternative (but costlier) solution through running parallel branches, but unfortunately that talk is not posted up yet.
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I don’t mind ads. I mind tracking. Basically my demand is that Facebook show me dumb enough ads and use only data I consent to. Im ok with my age and gender and other things being used to target an ad - that’s information I already willingly gave them. But if they show me an ad based on a page I visited with a Facebook script snippet on it, a message about sneakers I sent to a friend, or a post I liked on Instagram they crossed a line regardless of what terms and conditions I accepted.

If ads that work without spying on users don’t pay enough to pay their data center bills then they should shut them down. I’m more than happy to vote for politicians that ensure this. I’m not comfortable saying “I’ll just not use services from companies X and Y because they use shady ads”.
I thought it was pretty widely accepted (if not outright known) that military applications, particularly hardware surrounding stealth or the ability to kill people, was about a decade ahead of anything comparable in the private sector. It's not surprising to imagine that gap widening over time as well.
That is nonsense. This isn't about limiting speech. It's about maintaining a business relationship. No one, individual or otherwise, has the right to force a business relationship, or any other relationship, between two people, entities, or companies unless both sides are willing to maintain it.
Making aesthetically pleasing fishtanks, typically with live plants.
Thank you, I needed to hear this.
Moderating an app marketplace is not the same as moderating an online community. When you start applying the same strategies that you would for an online community to a business owned marketplace, you end up with consumer unfriendly practices.

When you rule by fist and swathing generalizations in an app marketplace, developers (and their incomes) become casualties.

The stakes are a little bit higher than being banned from an internet website. Business owners should be held to a higher standard than online community moderators.
> I do have to use two hands

If I’d have to use such programs I’d try the programmable numpads also mentioned here. Even in the middle of nineteen eighties I was able (to my luck) to use a programmable keyboard (independent of the computer and the OS).
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Unless you hackintosh...
> I have no doubt you have been tricked by a multibillion dollar company to moderate their site in your free time for 0 compensation.

Wrong. Haven't in years. Gave it up because it's thankless work.

> And it doesn't surprise anyone here than you don't work with the community, you just enforce the rules as strictly as you possibly can.

You don't know a thing about where I worked or the rules I enforced. You're swinging blindly in an attempt to bruise my ego. It will not work.

> I'm sorry your life has divulged into trying to flex the insignificant "power" you unknowingly sacrificed your free time for on any mere user who dare break an online community rule around THE FussyZeus.

I don't regret a thing. It wasn't about being above other people, it was about making sure the community at large had the best experience possible because every dingle who came along and thought the rules didn't apply to them harmed that experience.

I enjoyed the communities I moderated. I still do, though I don't moderate anymore. This attitude is precisely why I quit after decades of doing it. Everyone wants moderation but nobody wants moderators. Everybody wants content policed, controlled, and curated but everybody hates the people who do it. Everyone wants the community rules enforced but not against them, their friends, or the people they like in the community.

I did it for a long time, and if my feedback is to believed, I did a damn good job. But I never once got a thank you until I announced I was leaving. Every day I worked through an inbox full of abuse, insults, mud slinging, questioning of my masculinity, my sexual orientation, my race, my gender, much like what you've done right here: dismissing me as some loser who has nothing better to do, who is powerless and so sought out a role that gave me power.

Wrong, wrong, wrong.
I haven't experienced it personally because I limit my exposure to Google as much as I can. But it's been discussed on HN a number of times.
Yes but they would need to have the capital and time to plan to carry out the work. They are under financial duress and will probably go bankrupt so no one will lend them cash. It may take years to fix everything...imagine if they did not shut down the grid and there was another fire....what would you say to that?
Votes alone don't determine frontpage position and it's still on the front page, so clearly it's not being penalized. Some people probably flagged it too, as I did.
> I know a few female archaeologists. They've uniformly experienced sexism, ridicule, scorn, and harassment for being women.

I can't help but imagine this as precisely the absurd scenario you're describing...

Them: "Oh hai, we're just some girls archaeologing"

Man 1: "What's that?! Oy mates, let's ridicule/scorn/harass/sexism Them!"

Man 2: "But why?"

Man 1: "They're women!!!"

Man 2: "Oh right! Let's make sure it's evenly distributed and entirely consistent then! Wouldn't want to be heterogeneous"

<< mobs and pitchfork sounds >>
Something a better PR campaign might be able to address.

I'm no genius marketer, but perhaps on top of "please don't shoot our line workers" they could hype-train all the work that is actually happening. "See what progress we are making on our mistakes of the past!" type of message. Not sure how to say that without the needless reminder of how they got us all here in the first place, or if that's even possible, but there's got to be some type of spin out there... spin that I sure haven't seen.
At that point, you can still authenticate with a Hackintosh anyway. But hey, would you look at that, the person is still _technically_ violating the rules!
That would be a VPN, no?
Maybe not cyber warfare. But perhaps there are ways to give more and better uncensored information to Chinese citizens.
The queue is simply an automated "develop" branch.
i was referring to the "golden age" of captive eyeballs ie eveyone watched lots of TV and mostly could not avoid seeing most of the ads.

at least we've had ad blockser on browsers that work well up to now

the tracking of web ads obviously vastly overshadows what happened with TV.

they obviously want the best of both worlds "avoidable ads" and "extreme tracking"
The lack of interest in underwater development has been a disappointing part of the present future.
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Apple doesn't even have 50% of market share in any country, how are they in "complete control" of anything?
> is there anybody really using twitter, except people selling ideas (politicians) or advertising?

In the UK there is a community of healthcare providers (nurses, doctors, allied health professionals, psychologists) and patients who talk about aspects of healthcare from national policies, to law, to implementation of small change. Sometimes these are tied in to people and organisations that know about QI methodology.

I find it pretty useful in my work in suicide prevention and patient safety in English NHS settings. I get to ask questions to people across England about what they're doing, or what problems they're having.
Yes we have seen this before! The main difference is that throughput is extremely important for us, which we would not get worth Bors. Also, compatibility of multiple simultaneously merging PRs is the case that we are optimizing for, vs. compatibility with current master.
I don't think that's enforceable. You'd need some kind of soul extracting machine, or a soul-over-IP transfer mechanism. Maybe a soul mail-in option. You'd also need to implement some kind of soul storage warehouse. What would you do with all those souls anyway?
The article you linked to specifcally noted not only microwaves but also cellular towers and wifi were banned in Green Bank. I have no doubt that banning microwaves, cell towers, and wifi globally would make radio astronomy easier.

... but we also wouldn't be having this conversation, as I lack a land-line connection to the Internet right now.
Not yet, but I'll check them out now! Thanks for sharing.
Anybody interested in astronomy will be familiar with Arabic science and mathematics during what in Europe was the Dark Ages, for example many star names are Arabic, but for most people in the west it is completely unknown.
The alternative to ads is subscription services, which already exist. If people prefered subscription social media to ad based they would flock to those, but they don't.
The branches that are being merged are tested, also in the first version. However, different branches can conflict with each other, and break the master builds. This was happening often enough for us to want to prevent this.

The simple way would be to rebase your branch (or merge in master). However, with the amount of changes that are being merged, by the time the CI result comes in for your rebased branch, the tip of master is already changed making the CI result obsolete. So we went for the queue approach instead.
It's ironic, but these days such a totalitarian leader wouldn't need to ask. There'd be a recording showing who the culprit was. So there's even more incentive these days to stay silent about one's non-conformist opinions.
This is impossible at scale and a waste of a companies' time. Apple doesn't care if your account is reinstated. Odds are (just like the author here) you know exactly why your account is suspended. If you honestly don't, then you didn't do your due diligence in signing up.

The problem is that some of these are getting to be impactful enough that it's starting to look socially useful to give accused persons some of the same protections as we've learned the real legal system needs.
Those best practices are deemed too expensive by the CPUC, who has authority over the PG&E budget and retail rates.

PG&E is legally allowed only a small profit as a percentage of revenue. Without it they couldn’t raise private capital, and would require public funds directly. They have every incentive to spend as much money on maintenance as is required, assuming the politicians allow the rates to rise.
They didn't really need his phone though. They were never actually trying to get information from him, just forcing him to say certain things.
I just happened across http://xahlee.info/kbd/benzene666_keyboard.html will reading through some of the links in this thread. Unfortunately his review is spartan, and not positive.
> The article is not against ads generally, but instead Facebook's attempt to circumvent GDPR to continue showing personalised ads.

And yet Facebook is not alone doing this. While almost all the medium and small sized sites ask for consent nowadays the big players just seem to be immune. My go to example is spiegel.de which is one of Germany's largest newspapers. Full of trackers, full of personalized ads and I have never seen them asking for my consent.
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You set the "forAdProvider" cookie on the client, using the data specified by the ad provider.
At the same time, I look at the ultra-cheap "deals" lists on Amazon and cringe at the amount of crap we compulsively order, all these "deals" for things we don't need that bring us little happiness beyond the brief ejaculatory pleasure of clicking "Checkout".