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With all due respect to Buzz, I think there was a bit of “and the fish we caught was this big” in his storytelling. The moon landing is amazing enough on its own without him shooting off about parts that failed half the time. It just fuels conspiracy theories when one of the astronauts can’t help but (probably) exaggerate. Again, massive respect to the guy, but if he’s wondering why conspiracy theories exist, stories like this help fuel them.

Also let me be clear, the moon landing conspiracy theories have been debunked pretty thoroughly, and the landing has been documented in painstaking detail, but we should be mindful that such an incredible accomplishment will inspire incredulity. Like how some people think the great pyramids were made by aliens because how could such an ancient civilization build them. Our reaction to conspiracy theorists should be to debunk them and educate them, not to call them crazy. In this case, they aren’t crazy, because if someone tells you they went to the moon and returned, you are right to ask questions. (I’m not talking about bad-faith people who will deny all the evidence)
Hode[1] (the Higher Order Data Editor), which is free, solves some of these problems. (I wrote it. It's still evolving but it works already.)

> metadata is hard

Hode lets you encode and search any kind of information -- entities, relationships bewteen entities, relationships between relationships, relationships of any arity (number of members).

Hash, the language in which one adds and searches for data in Hode, is very close to natural language. I'll give examples below, based on the article's author's wishes.

> Let me compare my reading list with another to see overlap

This is the "and" operator. (There are also "or" and "difference" operators.) The query in Hash would look like

/find (/eval /it #is-in (reading list #of mary))
& (/eval /it #is-in (reading list #of peter))

> Allow me to tag books instead of placing them into static lists

Hode lets you do even better than tags -- you can classify the meaning of the tag. For instance, here are two commands that would add two tags to a book:

/add The Wisdom of Crowds #was a best-seller
/add The Wisdom of Crowds #(helps understand) finance

> Be tied to my highlights, annotations, and bookmarks in a non-proprietary, searchable, and shareable format

Hode is free software, and the data format it uses is dirt-simple.

Hode permits encoding and searching just about anything I can think of. Hode cannot yet create the data for you to search, though -- so far you've got to enter the data yourself.

> Let me query this tool like a relational database. For example: show me all books about scaling startups recommended by people I follow on Twitter or by people they follow.

/find (/eval /it #(is about) scaling startups)
& (/eval (/eval I #follow /it #on Twitter) #recommends /it)

> Help me deal with prioritization

Hode lets you order your search results according to any transitive binary relationship -- "read before" or "is more important than" or "was written before", whatever you want.

[1] https://github.com/JeffreyBenjaminBrown/hode
What a rude and unconstructive thing to say.
"One size fits all" is not a realistic goal.

Ever heard of "No Child Left Behind"? The government provided a set of minimum requirements everyone should meet, yet provided no metric gathering beyond the minimum, no funding for advanced studies. Result was a huge decrease in funding for gifted students and there's been several studies on the negative effects.

In my opinion and personal experience, it was awful for any gifted children and all the gifted programs were drastically cut.

One size fits all classes are not the answer. Kids are too varied in aptitude.
"This makes me wonder whether a good way to make needed change as a leader when there is no obvious crisis is to artificially create one so that people get on board…"

Yes.

You cannot fix people who don't admit that they are broken.

As someone who has been called into broken projects often, I've had this conversation often. If you "help" a project that is floundering, it will just continue floundering, wasting money and time. You have to wait until it's completely broken and an admitted crisis, and you can ask, "Would you like me to take it over?" and not have interference.

I've never had to artificially create a problem, though. That sounds like agent provocateur stuff.
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Actually, legally speaking, by using a German VPN you are effectively allowing the NSA to spy on you, since the traffic is now “overseas” — which is always fair game for any US agency. Conversely, you might be protected from German surveillance (depending on German law).

(This said, obviously no agency is going to come after you for the occasional lootin’ of moving pictures, and if you are doing anything more serious, then you should have your own VPN infrastructure.)
Interesting, although the books indeed don't mention it I don't think it's entirely out of the question.

from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orc_(Middle-earth)

> Tolkien indicates that Orcs are "always hungry".[24] Orcs eat all manner of flesh, including men and horses, and there are frequent hints of cannibalism among Orcs. Grishnákh, leader of the Mordor Orcs, accuses Saruman's Uruks of eating Orc-flesh, which they angrily deny.[22] In Cirith Ungol, Gorbag suggests that Frodo (recently poisoned by Shelob) should "go in the pot"; Shagrat indicates that Gorbag could be "for the pot" for making such a suggestion.[25] Shagrat threatens to eat a disobedient orc, and after killing Gorbag he licks his blood from the blade.[26]

The interesting part is Uruks "angrily denying" eating ork flesh which might mean it was an insult to suggest they do. Furthermore, https://middle-earth.xenite.org/what-do-orcs-eat says the books give some descriptions of orcish cooking.

However, based on the overall attitude of orcs, I believe they would kill and eat each other to survive. But I think I was wrong to suggest that would be an acceptable solution to problem of long-term military supply logistics.
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That's alsow what I would like to know
What happened with PIA? I haven't heard anything.
when my relatives complain about how everything is made in china (feeling threatened ?) I like to remind them that most of the actual people living their are having a very hard time compared to their cushy western lifestyle.
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Third party crates can include malicious safe code that doesn't exploit any soundness bugs, so I'm not sure how exploiting soundness bugs could make the situation worse.

It's only a problem if you try to restrict I/O APIs and use the Rust type system as a security boundary, which is something that I don't think anyone does and that should not be done since the surface area is too vast to secure without formal proofs of the whole Rust stack, which are too time-consuming to produce with current technologies.
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i don't know how it works on macos, but for it to be useful, windows don't have to be at the same location.

on my computer i select the windows i want to share. each of those windows could be sent in a separate stream to the remote machines. and likewise my computer could receive independent streams of multiple windows. this way i could arrange all windows as i see fit.

the alternative is that the app takes over a full screen and the shared windows are rendered within it. then the app is responsible for window placement and can implement its own way to arrange windows as it sees fit, and share that location with its peers. a window manager within a window manager, of sorts. something that many windows applications like photoshop already do. linux/unix could do that with Xnest already more than 30 years ago. nowadays there is also xpra, which can mirror windows across multiple screens. i don't know about wayland, but i believe it should be possible there too.
I used to think this way when I launched version 1.0 of my first software product. Just toss it out there and let people asynchronously find it, as long as it's great to use, right?

5 years and about 10 major releases later, I can confidently tell you that convincing a large group of people to do anything, even it if pays off great for them, is a long and time-consuming process, that is often more labor-intense and risky than the engineering part.
A customer of one of our customers complaining to my boss, who in turn complained to me, about "our product" not working as expected.

"Our product" being a demo of a completely different product I put together over a weekend, several months before, as a demo to our customer.

They rebranded and repurposed that demo, and sold it to their customer as one of our products.
Hadn't heard of akamai pragma headers before. Used the ones from https://support.globaldots.com/hc/en-us/articles/11500399670... and it dumped a bunch of other debug info https://pastebin.com/hteaGG6N

wtf?
That's possible. The author jumped from residential IPs to malware without further checks.
I think GP is saying they're physically located on the ECU board / inside the ECU box, not that they're conceptually part of the ECU even if separate. Whether they are or not (physically inside the ECU box) differs by make and model.
Japanese culture is largely a product of developing on an island archipelago where there's not much livable space (much of the land is mountains) and there's almost no natural resources. Add to that the various contacts with Western culture they had, and you get what they have now. The bit about respecting the environment (which isn't perfect, but it's a lot better than many other countries) is an example of this: when you don't have much space, you have to work harder at keeping your environment good because you don't have the option of just moving west when it gets too crowded, like they did in the US. Of course, they tried emulating the Europeans and doing the colonization thing a while back, and that didn't work out too well.

Culture is a product of your environment.
Ralf is the one writing the soundness proofs (and bless him for doing so), but I don't believe that he's actually on the language team, so I wouldn't interpret that as an official stance.
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I would imagine that in the time of Rome, fat people were likely wealthy people. Today fat people are more commonly poor.
Interesting, I'm assuming that this wouldn't be possible on iOS devices? E.g. would installing a calculator app on iOS allow someone to route traffic through my phone? (obviously without me granting vpn access to said app).
Editreply: For context, the original pre-editorialized title was the article's: "New law makes Germany “crypto heaven”"

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You can do that with OpenCL or CUDA on any platform, it's just ridiculously slow because of the much lower bandwidth so nobody does it. GPUs can access their memory (GDDR or HBM) at 300-800 GB/s, but system memory at only 16 GB/s.
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I looked around and found this guide by MAA:
https://www.maa.org/programs-and-communities/curriculum%20re... It's not specifically active learning, but has lots of good classroom tips.

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Using a single page application like React has become the defacto standard for most web applications.
I realize this makes sense for JavaScript-heavy, interactive components but it feels like a majority would work perfectly fine with server-side templates, maybe even better since it’s way less overhead (talk about translations, validation, sync of backend routes and frontend client, etc.).
> Is that a feature of the JVM? Do you have more info about it?

No, it is a feature of how I programmed these libraries. There is ton of info and tutorials at

https://dragan.rocks

https://github.com/uncomplicate

https://aiprobook.com

Regarding specifically CUDA and OpenCL, I'm going to start the books about this as soon as I complete v1.0 of the two books that are in works now (Deep Learning for Programmers and Numerical Linear Algebra for programmers), which are already accessible for reading as drafts.
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From the Privacy Policy:

> The Almond app also makes use of the Microsoft Cognitive Services Speech API to perform speech recognition. This is only activate when you click on the "Listen" button. ... These services are governed by their own privacy policies.

Too bad. I hoped this would have an offline speech recognition engine.

Also with all the talk about preserving privacy I find it disappointing that you have to dig through the privacy policy to see that your audio is sent to MS.
My personal pronoun is 'giant cock'. If I was in this situation and you assumed it was 'she', I would be offended.

Assuming it's a 'she' is also a form of automatically mis-gendering someone.
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I think almost everyone has forgotten that the reflective Apple logo on the back of the original iphone was described by Apple as the selfie mirror. I doubt they used the word “selfie” which may not have been coined back then, but I can’t remember the exact phrase.

I used to think that those cases with a hole to show the logo were for people who wanted that mirror but now I just wonder why.
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Yes -- but it's the scattering that's the problem, not the thousands. I believe the author wants what I want -- a system in which you can easily add any kind of data or meta-data, and easily search and sort those data in whatever manner you'd like.

In another comment[1] I describe software I've made that solves some of these challenges.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21665255
That's not a global thing. In the US, they use high fructose corn syrup a lot due to artificially high sugar prices (caused by US agricultural subsidies). Here in Australia, most processed foods contain real sugar (not high fructose corn syrup) since sugar in Australia is cheap (massive export-oriented sugar cane industry and a much more laissez-faire agricultural policy).

Obesity rates in Australia are a bit better than the US, but still pretty bad – US is around 40% of adults, Australia is around 25% – sugar vs corn syrup may be a factor, but I'm sure it is a lot more complicated than just that.
You spent your childhood in a time before helicopter parenting became legally mandated. If you let your kid run free and unsupervised today in America, you will probably end up with a visit from CPS and/or the police, and you might get arrested. It has nothing at all to do with crime rates.
Fatness was also more expensive then so it was a status symbol in itself when farming was the defacto "default" job to support the specialization pyramid.
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I think what you’re describing is a small organization. The reality I've experienced is that once your team grows beyond 20-30 people maintaining that setup is very difficult. I think the main responsibility of a founder is to set a vision for others to rally behind, ensure the company has the funds it needs to carry out its mission, be a master of delegation, and to fill every other gap that might appear. A good founder will try know everyone as well as they can, but I’ve experienced times when raising money became all consuming and in those instances it becomes very hard to maintain all the other demands to the level that would normally satisfy my expectations of myself.
Have you looked into VLC or OBS for doing this? The big issue that isn't really solved is that most desktop protocols take advantage that the image has a majority of the screen static and only small areas of the screens need updates. Video is the exact opposite problem: nearly every pixel changes across frames and so to have it be reasonably well sync'd especially with sound you need a different kind of protocol.

https://www.videolan.org/vlc/streaming.html
I am new to Rust, but this:

for<'a, T: ?Sized> &'a T !: DerefMut

Seems like a hunk of unreadable code. Is this valid Rust?

https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/unsoundness-in-pin/11311/3...
What's worse, is that they can't snap a finger and distribute worldwide. They lobbied themselves into legal corners with all these licensing shenanigans.
Small towns have no high-paying jobs; that's why they're mostly dying and people are moving to the metro areas.
From this description, it seems to me you want to be a backend developer.

Ditch Angular, and go full backend. Stay with Scala if you like it, but read the market and make strategic decisions about the technology you interview for.
Sharing that kind of data would be really fun -- if it were open.
Yeah this is true, on a related note after I've quit I've had managers ask why and when I said it was problems with X and need a raise they just said all you had to do was ask and we could have fixed both problems. I was just too embarrassed to ask and looking for a new jobs felt easier.
This was something that kept me up at night in the run-up to Rust 1.0 and beyond (dreadful memories of the leakpocalypse), but so far we seem to have been quite lucky in that nobody has yet discovered a dramatic and fundamentally damning soundness flaw (and the progress of formal verification since 1.0 has increased confidence somewhat in the absence of such a flaw, but `Pin` represents a rather hairier increase in surface area than is usual... fingers crossed :P ).
yeah why not? you just listen and rebroadcast data
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What you're describing would completely cripple the economy and raise rents rather than lower them, the opposite of what you hope for.

A severe tax on property would simply force property owners to raise rents. This in turn would price people out of the market. The housing stock would suffer as property owners would have no excess funds to make improvements and repairs to property. Building of new property would slow as the market for property deteriorates.

Beyond that...

VAT has had disastrous effects on European economies (go look at the price of goods in Europe. Significantly higher in real terms than in the US). Part of this lies in the way VAT obscures the tax portion of cost, allowing governments to surreptitiously raise taxes. This has happened in most developed countries where VAT is implemented.

You also mention government doing many wonderful things with its newfound revenue, but the reality is that government spending is usually wasted on bureaucratic bloat and other inefficient allocations.
From what I can read in the privacy policy, speech recognition is performed via an API from Microsoft. So it's both online, cannot be considered fully free software (as a major part is performed by a closed API) and I'd hesitate to call it privacy preserving. At least when using the voice command feature. Written commands should be offline, private and done by open source I think.

Someone please tell me I'm wrong.
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That's a very developer-centric view of what a "desktop-like" OS needs to have. Most users of desktop-like OSes don't care about these things. They're clearly not going after software developers for iOS, but that doesn't mean its not their plan to make it more desktop-like or compete with desktops for the non-pro markets.
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Does the fact that we were the ones who created them in the first place count? Why should we feel depressed at one of our own creations? Why be depressed by looking at a car just because it can move faster than us, while in actuality it was created for that purpose?
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> yet the DMV wouldn't recognize the impossibility of going from incredibly drunk to stone cold sober in the span of three minutes.

or maybe they recognised he could go and get someone else to blow in it?
Working in a bank and seeing what we are doing, I doubt very much they are putting all of their eggs into one basket. It will be replicated on a ledger/chain/vault or whatever you want to call it and they will be still be using their core legacy system.
Regardless of who owns shares in a corporation, there will be a drive to efficiency, reduced cost and profit maximisation.
Since it's a web framework, how about "Web Assembly" instead? Oh wait...
I noticed lately google is starting to understand symbols in certain contexts. Searching "php =>" actually does provide relevant results.
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That answers GP's "how do you drive a container ship over land" but we seem agree that container transport is a solved problem that airships can't meaningfully contribute to.

But there are objects that don't fit the rail profile that still need transportation.

And a lot more objects that don't fit that profile, or the more generous limitations of an oversize road load, that could exists if matching overland transportation existed. A lot of technology is severely size-constrained only because roads between factory and deployment site are size constrained. A cargo airship that can take those loads could completely change whole industries.
Oh yeah, toward the end of the article it does mention that... but those results by Adam Riess are unpublished, so it's just a spurious claim by a guy with a lot of vested interest for now.
Wouldn't this be pretty easy to confirm by monitoring bandwidth consumption on a dormant computer running NordVPN? If bandwidth consumption is exponentially higher when their VPN client is enabled, then clearly they are passing traffic through your machine...
The Model S and X have 8 GB of flash, according to the article. Does the Model 3 have more?

> The MCUv1 units supplied for the Tesla Model S and X, up until 2018, feature an Nvidia Tegra Arm-based SoC with 8Gb of eMMC integrated into the same board, which is hosted on a mainboard.
i'd like to use this in a classroom setting where either every participant, or the moderator/teacher can see all shared windows but decide to feature only one or two of them.

one way to do that would be the ability to minimize shared windows.

the teacher (or anyone with moderator privileges) would be allowed to minimize windows, but also have a way to look at windows while minimized (as a teacher i want to see what everyone is doing on their own windows, while at the same time get the students to focus on a particular window.)
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