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> My go-to heuristic is "the wordier the question, the more likely it is to be perceived as well intentioned."

Are you familiar with "How To Make Friends And Influence People"? It trades on exactly this idea.

Specifically, it trades on this idea to both seem well-intentioned and manipulate people. It uses this presumption of good intentions to cover the true intentions. It buries everything meaningful under an endless sea of noisome, excessive verbiage to lull the reader to distraction and smuggle its actual point past the listener.

Wordiness is what you do when you're worried about slipping something past someone's defenses, for fear of being unable to have the required conversation otherwise.
well, users can also use buymeabeer.com if they like :)
Consumers are in fact this dumb.

That's why it was the Xbox 360 and not the Xbox 2, because XBox 2 < Playstation 3.
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I've heard they grow the same strains but harvest very early. Additionally, there are strains that have been bred to only have CBD. So both are correct.
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Honestly, discovering east coast beers actually made me like hops.

My experience with west coast beers convinced me that hops were awful and that my ideal bear would have _just_ enough hops to prevent spoilage and that's it. Which is why I drank nothing but Scotch ales, Belgian beers, and milk stouts for a long time. Eventually, I even started moving away from beer as I finally decided to give wine a chance.

And then I tried a New England-style hazy IPA, and I fell in love. It's hoppy, but it's not bitter. Most have 40 IBUs at the absolute most, and 30 is pretty common (and when it's 40, it's balanced out by enough malt that the bitterness isn't detectable). They taste like alcoholic orange juice (less harsh than a screwdriver, though). So nowadays I will drink every hazy, juicy, and milkshake IPA I can get my hands on. (Edit:) So it turns out I actually do like hops after all; I just hated what west coast beers did with them.

And milkshake IPAs really make a mockery of the original concept of an IPA: not only are they not bitter, but they're actively sweet because they have added lactose (which is an unfermentable sugar and thus directly contributes to sweetness). They're great if you really want an IPA for people who hate IPAs.
Anyone who has done even a little bit of labor organizing knows that getting contact information for your co-workers is the first step in forming any kind of worker organization. It's not illegal, but companies go to great lengths to prevent workers from accessing that data on a large scale if they can. This might seem like Google isn't doing anything explicitly anti-worker here, but in reality this is union-busting 101 cloaked in corporate speak.
Their "awesome Unicode" guide is worth looking into as well, for those who find this article interesting.
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I can't find the LKML thread, but there is some fundamental problem with unloading modules safely. BPF programs might not have such limitations.
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> the PC shouldn't look like a Unicorn puking rainbows

i have 0 RGB on or in my case.

your comment just made me change my view on RGBs. I.Want.Them.

My next built is going to puke rainbows! its gonna have a builtin display for a unicorn which moves according to the load - walking on <10, running on >60. its gonna be amazing!
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I imagine part of it would be that the displays are assumed to be run almost nonstop.
Interesting but not new. Back in 2005 I implemented a random syntax forest walker that generates random Verilog/VHDL test cases. My colleague extended the tool so it compares simulation results with other simulators. This became part of Altera (acquired by intel in 2015) Quartus II code base.
On the first day we generated 10k test cases, found ~1k failures and they boiled down to ~20 bugs.
I think you might be underestimating the breadth of i18n & l10n for a brand new beta, especially for an organization that is built on not making privacy or legal missteps. They only have 1 / 6 clients ready and zero customers yet, their attention has to be split all over the place, so limiting some variables in the meantime seems like a reasonable idea.
No way a SEO-focused blog is paying $1M for a weekend project. That's enterprise acquisition multiplier territory
Sign up for MyChoice or the Fedex equivalent, they're free for basic stuff like this. If you really want to you can prerelease a package but it essentially indemnifies the company from any delivery problem unless you have proof it never made it to your door step. You can also redirect them to a store or partner location before they attempt delivery at all through UPS's service and I think Fedex has a similar option.
I read the Wikipedia article about it and the sad thing is that the majority of the Yongle Encyclopedia seem to have been destroyed only in quite recent times.
I'm curious about the parent's question, but consider that Mullvad is about $5 on its own anyways. It also already supports international customers and multiple platforms. So I'm not sure why you would buy it through FF and not directly from Mullvad? It just seems like a middleman with no benefits.
An idea I've seen is including messages at several levels. At the outermost level you describe in very basic format how to build a magnifying glass. From there you have diagrams that are legible that describes how to build a microscope. From there you have more than enough space to describe the basics of what else is in there and to start describing your language. I'm thinking optical storage in a clear rock of some sort, as has already been prototyped.

If you assume motivated readers and human-level intelligence, you could end up with good results. It might take a decade or three, and a lot of mental firepower, but they could get there.

(The outer layer is the hardest, since our information density is lowest. Our "description of how to build a magnifying glass" might cover just the basic optics of curved glass and a very basic description of how to get to glass and how to curve it correctly, leaving a lot of the details up to the finder. After all, we did it without help. We're not so much trying to solve this problem for the finder as help them on their way.)

So, before jumping in to argue, remember I'm stipulating decades of dedicated effort by presumably an interested consortium of... whatever they are. I think we can safely stipulate an amount of effort at least as large as our society has dedicated to, say, Linear A and B, or the Voynich manuscript. I'm not trying to spec "Ugh wanders out of the jungle, sees our pretty rock, and personally has a 20th century civilization up and running in 10 years" or anything crazy.
I found vFlat to be magical in cleaning up book scan images you took with your phone.

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For redis, I think given the code coverage on test cases, that shouldn't be a concern. TBH, I think any C code that doesn't have a coverage is not a functioning code. Too much bugs can only be caught at runtime (thankful to the sanitizers-family / valgrind).
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No one at Gitmo was a US resident. Its use to hold PoWs and others picked in foreign war zones was arguably a violation of the Geneva Conventions, but that is a somewhat different problem, at least from a legal perspective.
> newsfeed

I must have missed this, what RSS solution have they put out?
The more I see the car the more I like its styling. Definitely a phenomenal car.
Disclosure: I work for AWS, but this is my personal opinion.

We have lots of developers that write code that's similar to how ScyllaDB is built. Lots of DPDK. There are many other practical reasons why a fork should never be the first choice when building a service that you have to sustain for customers basically forever. Especially if there's active, high velocity development going on.
Respect is such a culturally dependent thing though. I think it is more productive and nice to just assume the other person only has good intentions.
it's literally the same idea
If you're a manufacturer are you going to go after the 95-99% of the market that wants a set that's cheaper due to the bundled spyware or the 1-5% that are willing to pay a premium not to include it? Granted, I'm guessing as to the percentages... but I doubt I'm that far off.
This explanation does make a lot of sense. But why not just add a Cassandra interface to DynamoDB the way they added a Postgres interface to Aurora RDS?
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Oh, man. I want this so bad. But the Bugzilla thread makes it sound like it's a really hard thing to do (grrr).
Talk is cheap. If they care about interoperability, why are they not using federated instant messaging services? Theirs are completely walled.
Hence the entire field of behavioral finance.
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It's not really an accessibility issue so much as a performance one. If it was a reasonable alternative to something like the rsync daemon I'd use it all the time.

Unfortunately the performance issues and overhead is just too much.
I'm aware that this was Microsoft's original thinking behind the Xbox 360's name, but then they called their next console "Xbox One".

That felt to me like Microsoft deciding that their original concerns had never been legitimate.
I wonder if justserve.org (a web site for coordinating local efforts between groups who sign up and individuals who have some time to volunteer, etc) could help coordinate volunteer time, or 211.org (united way), and maybe/possibly there are fundraising ideas in those or here, if one searches these thoroughly and/or asks questions?: https://www.latterdaysaintcharities.org/how-can-i-help/serve

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The new Amazon Managed Apache Cassandra Service does use the open source Apache Cassandra code. The team is excited about working with the development community on Cassandra. See more at https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/contributing-cassand...
If it's WireGuard based, the client allows you to specify your DNS servers.
The Midwest is far ahead of at least the West Coast on this. I saw much more variety of brewing methods, beer styles, and flavor profiles when I lived in St. Louis than I do here in the Bay Area. A lot of the great breweries from the other side of the Rockies (Left Hand, Odell, Bell's, etc.) are either difficult or impossible to find products from here, too.
Something I saw road biking in Italy vs in the US is that there is a vastly bigger 'casual' set of people doing it in Italy. It seems like that's less prevalent in the US; you're either really into it or not much at all.

It seems like this happens, sometimes in the US... for years beer in the US wasn't that great, and then there was this craft beer explosion, whereas in, say, Austria where I lived for a while, they are still drinking their local beers which are pretty good but don't have so much variety and experimentation.
Probably some rule based expert system to analyze results . Looking for overfitting could be done by creating validity set. So you would have test, train, and validity .
I'd imagine a big part of this is because people like watching Netflix or Prime Video via the nifty apps built right into their TVs. To many owners, disabling those would be like disabling the cellular and WiFi radios on a smartphone.

A big selling point (for better or worse) is not requiring you to buy more boxes or hook up wires. Just as you see with cheap IP cameras which neglect to steer users toward secure setup and only tout the "easy wireless setup! Just point to the picture on your iPhone screen!" It's the flip side of the ubiquitous marketing bullet points: Easy! No wires! Apps!
That doesn't hold up because they went Xbox One vs Playstation 4.
Customers are powerless even if the FBI warns them. Real change will come when manufacturers will be forced to deliver security updates for their devices in a timely manner for at least 5 years.

Not even new devices are kept secure, high-end Sony TVs manufactured in 2019 are still on the Android security patch level of June 1, 2019. No new updates are available from Sony, despite multiple high-severity security issues being publicly documented and ready to exploit.

And more importantly, nobody is liable when security updates are not delivered and customers are exploited using public CVEs.
In general I agree, many of their offerings are not clear how they're useful.

This one in particular is dead simple, though: ARM instances will be a better value for lots of AWS customers. While it will probably start out as niche, I expect it to catch on fast when people realize that their workloads are already portable and they can decrease their bill.
I've been using [mdBook](https://github.com/rust-lang/mdBook) for my wiki/documentation needs lately.

It's great, the directory structure is straightforward and even supports search (through lunr.js) out of the box.
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What’s more likely to happen your company going out of business or AWS? Is your company better capitalized than Amazon?

Would you also refuse to use Windows just in case Microsoft went out of business?
If there are things we can't conceptually comprehend, then definitionally we don't understand what they are, so of course we can't answer this question. We won't know one way or another unless we consult with something a step or more "above us on the scale" and they tell us.

(And even then- how do we judge if something is "above" us? Chimps would have about as much trouble understanding IQ or the even the abstract notion of "intelligence" as they do skyscrapers, I'd imagine.)
How about you don’t connect your TV to the internet? Here’s a consumer reports article that tells you how to turn off most tracking if you must connect it to the internet.[1]

Get a decent set of network hardware so you can monitor everything that’s going on. I can recommended UniFi by Ubiquiti, despite the recent blow back about crash reports being sent to them.

[1] https://www.consumerreports.org/privacy/how-to-turn-off-smar...
> It will create an age of limitless wealth.

Uh-huh. We Boomers are still waiting for that electricity that's "too cheap to meter".
True, but these services are just a stop gap (for me). I am slowly building replacements for the services I use. The end goal is to be a publisher of my stuff, using my own services.
> The breach was done by “exploiting a vulnerability of one of our server providers, which hadn’t been disclosed to us,” according to the company [NordVPN]’s statement.

Laying the blame on an undisclosed vulnerability is pretty ironic of them
This is an interesting idea because there's a lot of radical political and philosophical publications on there. Brill's Historical Materialsim book series is on there almost in its entirety.
I don't think that would be likely to work very well - besides being somewhat impractical, most RF electronics are already covered by metal 'cans' to prevent excessive EMI from escaping. You might be able to find the antenna and wrap foil around it, but that just sounds like a recipe for shorting something out once the foil gets unwedged/unstuck.

Plus, tin foil hats can actually improve signal reception around the 2.5GHz range used by WiFi :P

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Wouldn't you be spending the money you save on salaries on training your new "reverse bootcamp" employees? Hiring entry level people and giving them work isn't the same as teaching. The costs involved in actually training them has to be paid from your own pockets after all.

Might be possible to have them sign an employment contract beforehand and simply have them join an existing, reputable bootcamp.
It's not illustrative, it's how I would feel. Maybe it's a cultural thing. Something to take into account if I would ever work in the US. It would be nice to have some kind of rule book then, I mean if people don't just assume I mean well but get mad when I use the wrong wording means I would have to be educated very well to function in such a group. I imagine such a culture is pretty unwelcoming to other cultures.
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Off-the-shelf Cassandra has a fair amount of flexibility in its architecture. Open Source Cassandra is the thing that is in the front end. And the team is excited about the idea of collaborating with the development community around some of the generally useful abstractions needed to build this managed database experience. More at https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/contributing-cassand...
You have not been to Maine or Vermont since how long?
Besides the nefarious reasons they might not want to make dumb TVs, there are some decent reasons.

Most TVs include speakers. Even the non-smart ones. By adding networking and apps, that TV can be used stand-alone.

For people starting out with their first home theater setup, they can get started with just the TV. With a dumb TV, they'd need the TV, and a receiver/speakers setup or a soundbar, and something to provide content like a Blu-ray player or cable box or Roku.

By making the TV smart, the TV maker has a better chance of having people start out with a higher end stand-alone TV and then adding other components later. I presume that the TV maker would rather have the consumer spend all of their initial budget on the TV, instead of splitting it between TV, receiver, and Blu-ray player.

For people with existing home theater setups, a similar thing goes on with upgrades. For example, I have a Denon AVR-1913 receiver, a Comcast X1 DVR, and a Sony Blu-ray player, and a Samsung TV.

It was a smart TV but I never used it as anything other than a dumb monitor. I used apps, not but on the TV. The Blu-ray player had a full set of streaming apps, and so does the X1. The Denon receiver has an internet radio app, and also supports Spotify Connect, and supports Airplay. So there was never any need to use an app on the TV. (Also, when I tried it once out of curiosity I could not get ARC to work to send sound back to the Denon receiver).

But then the TV died. I ended up getting another Samsung, but this new one is 4K UHD.

None of my other components are 4K. I didn't want to upgrade the rest to 4K at that time, so for things I wanted to watch in 4K I used apps on the TV [1].

With dumb TVs, I probably would not have bought a 4K TV. I would have waited until my other components were 4K, and that could have taken quite a while. I tend to keep receivers until they die.

In summary, with smart TVs, the TV can meet the needs of a wider class of consumer. As long as they don't make it so you have to give the TV network access or use its smart features, it can meet the needs of almost every class of consumer. That's attractive to the manufacturers.

[1] ...which meant that I did need to figure out ARC. As with the old Samsung, it just did not seem to want to work. Then I noticed something in the Denon manual:

> When the ARC function is used, connect a device with a "Standard HDMI cable with Ethernet" or "High Speed HDMI cable with Ethernet" for HDMI.

I made sure to use such a cable...and it worked, which makes no sense. It would make sense if we were talking eARC, but with plain ARC--which is all my 6 or 7 years old Denon supports--it should work with any regular old HDMI cable.
> First of all, the kernel BPF implementation is GPLv2, which means you cannot rip out the runtime and embed it in your userspace code unless you are able to distribute your userspace software as GPLv2

mmm right, should've thought of that.

> What you are looking for is a really interesting possibility but would require a significant software engineering effort.

thanks for the info, i appreciate it, and it gives me a bit to chew on.
Are there TV models which really connect to open Wifi? People keep mentioning this but it's a situation where it'd be more useful to have some facts.

Another option connect it to a dedicated subnet which cannot route to the internet or another device.
Dynamodb the product != the Dynamo paper which Cassy is based off. I was using Cassy in 2011 before Amazon asked me to use big bird which was the code name for DynamoDB.
Aurora RDS is a meta product name though, you can't use it without specifying the engine, MySQL or PostgreSQL.

What you are saying would be more like adding a postgres frontend to mysql.
Even simpler for corps as large as Google is simply having a supply of contractor devices they completely wipe upon the termination of the contract. That's what my last company did.

They didn't require contractors to bring their own computers and phones to the office if they were needed for their work.

I'm sure Google could afford that as well as to manage it...
Dumb TVs are only offered as budget models, so they're not really that expensive. I wish there were high end dumb TVs offered.

I'd also argue that the built-in apps on "smart" TVs increase the manufacturer's profit margins rather than reduce costs for consumers. Sure there are some brands/models that compete on affordability, but others don't need to. After all, did the price of the iPhone go down as Apple scaled up and reduced the cost of manufacturing? No. They just started making more money off of it.
There was a similar trend with sour beers that had fruity syrups added a few years back. I live in the Houston area and it seemed there was a micro brew bubble that started around 2012-2014. In the southwest suburb of Houston where I live (30 miles away from downtown) there were 3(!) breweries within a couple miles of each other. One of them jumped on the sour beer trend full fledged. While everyone is entitled to their own sense of flavorful beverages. I think this particular brewery overestimated the demand for beer that smells like feet and tastes like sock sweat. They have since abandoned their brewery, and were brewing on a batch for hire basis. I think they finally have ceased all together. It also seems with the success of Titos vodka a similar trend is happening with spirits here in Texas.