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> Someone, somewhere said x problem needs a better solution, and someone else replied that it can be done on one specific Linux distro with a specific kernel version or configuration.

Hang on, what is 'it' in this sentence?

Because the dropbox comment was skeptical of the need for a "better solution". In this interpretation, 'it' is an explanation of how to solve the problem the old-fashioned way.

But the comment we're replying to agrees that we need the "better solution" of DNSSEC, and is suggesting a way to deploy the "better solution". In this interpretation, 'it' is the "better solution".

Those two ways of interpreting 'it' are opposites. The two comments are doing very different things.
I’m confused about the iOS restriction, there are a number of libraries/packages (all commercial, except for google maps) that work on iOS for internal gps - is there maybe a different approach that the other platforms are using?
Disclaimer: take everything I say with a pinch of salt and form your own ideas. Philosophy is about the journey, not the destination.

With regards to danger this 5 minute video [1] by Stephen Fry conveys a powerful idea.

I think all of Western Philosophy in the last 120 or so years has concerned itself with the "linguistic turn" [2]. If you follow the breadcrumbs from Wittgenstein, Frege, Russell, Dumett, Chomsky, Quine etc. at a high-level you may begin to observe a common thread, patterns and concepts between Logic and Language which have been crystalized in Programming Language Theory [3].

At the risk of being a little too radical (with some intent of shock value) my view is that Truth is constructed not discovered [4]. This is also an argument Richard Rorty makes in "Contingency, Irony and Solidarity" [5]. Ultimately, language is a tool [6]. The responsible use of any tool (be it language or a gun) is a moral concern and an individual responsibility.

For unpacking the question "What is communication?" there's no better starting point than Shannon's "The Mathematical theory of Communication" [7]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohrtFuxUzZE

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_turn

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programming_language_theory

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructivist_epistemology

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contingency,_Irony,_and_Solida...

[6] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDiENpmpY78&t=1s

[7] https://www.amazon.com/Mathematical-Theory-Communication-Cla...
> it also does make the web faster

No, it is not.
Optimized plain old webpages are faster.

If Google wants to promote faster pages then amp should not be promoted in the search results.

It is about capturing traffic, injecting tracking and ads.
Mercury is quite heavy and
isn't soluble in water, so
the idea that the fog
somehow wafts it in strikes
me as bullshit.

Check out this guy. You can tell he really knows how to science.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_(element)

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

Mercury poisoning can result
from exposure to water-soluble
forms of mercury, by inhalation
of mercury vapor, or by ingesting
any form of mercury.

And, wow, I bet he knows how to history too!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minamata_disease

All in, 30 seconds of Google, 5 minutes of reading.
1. Find strategies to limit your field of vision like wearing a hat with a brim. Also limiting your feels of audio, noise isolating phones linked to white noise is a strong strategy. For White noise I use the YouTube live stream from the aloha cabled observatory

2. Allow yourself to work in different locations, don't get married to a single desk

3. Spend the last hour of every day wrapping up your work and documenting a personal list for tomorrow

4. Do not allow yourself to stay late just because a problem isn't solved. It's better to learn to wrap a project up, than solve it. ADHD can a habit of taking every evening from you when on a focus high

4. Pick up a course online that is relevant to work and follow it

5. I found my ability to focus significantly better with single technology tickets. I would encourage changing technologies and projects often, but the fewer technologies supporting any individual ticket the easier this has been on my brain.

6. Take a walk after every meal

7. You can find difficulty in different tasks. Becoming very good at ticket triage and documenting process is valuable and a lot of developers are bad at it.

8. Using a time tracker can be helpful, assuming it is low enough profile. I use hamster with its accompanying gnome plugin. Unfortunately I have never seen an offline solution as simple as this
Just last week I wrote a blog post about installing eOS on my SO's parents PC. They are not technical at all yet they have had (close to) no problem with switching from Windows to Linux thanks to eOS.
Yes. In the opening paragraph there's a reference to a companion paper from April 1, 1998. I'd say that's a strong hint.
Wouldn't a multi-armed bandit help alleviate this issue? (Basically, randomly display a few other links, and use bayesian stats to figure out if the new links are more optimal).

That, or any kind of exploration/optimization algorithm, to be honest.
>If I'm doing something that I do not want recorded, I'd be using linux with a tor connection and strong opsec. The house can still be bugged as long as I don't have a camera pointed at my monitor.

If the NSA runs a few TOR hops between you and the target it would be unfortunately possible for them to perform a correlation attack on the traffic going through it's network and your confirmed position sitting on your home computer doing stuff, likely with a compromised router confirming TOR packets are leaving your house.

If you were running the Silk Road on TOR and the gov had reason to suspect it was you associated with a very specific illegal event, proving you were there at the right place and time can be enough without the content of the packets itself to sink you. Adrian Crenshaw's talks about Tor are fun for a laugh.

If you have a reputable friend visit your house that has been doing illegal things behind the scenes that you knew nothing about, be prepared for more scrutiny of your videos and potential recording devices. Just like swatting sent an average joe to jail for a few years because some kids called the swat in and they found a few ounces of weed. You may record technical negligence of your own child, forming a verbal contract you did not intend, agreeing or disagreeing to things that may publicly change your reputation and more.

Your images of your loved ones could be deepfaked to make a video phone call with a wavenet faked audio voice claiming to be kidnapped upon travelling through Asia and demand money to get home safe, because your home video system was hacked a week before...

The data of your existence is now an attack-surface intentionally or otherwise that authorities & criminals alike can explore.
The government pension funds are used as leverage by billionaires. The military spending is used to subsidize flailing billionairs companies . Government belongs by now to the 1%. If the rich are wasteful with your money.. Nothing you can do but mental escapism.
- Static HTML5 on a CDN (speed)

- Responsive design (important; you will get penalized otherwise)

- Minimal JavaScript (React still gets penalized)

- Metadata like image alt text, JSON-LD structured data, <meta>, and so on

This is the best you can do for SEO without external resources.
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Wow, this article came up at the time and in 2017. And I even see a little comment I wrote back then in the helpful link dang provided.

It looks very different to me now than then. Mostly because for various reasons I actually know what all those networks are. And a fair percentage aren't normally considered neural networks at all (Belief networks, Markov Chains...). Other models are quite old (Kohonen networks, so old I studied them at school in the 90s), other things very broad categories that other classes may or may not fit into (feed forward network, autoencoder).

So the categories are essentially an incoherent mess or a useful cheat sheet for going through the literature, take your pick.

I see this now, where back then I just saw an impressive/incoherent mess and that makes me feel like maybe I'm learning something in my personal research project.
Are you able to tell the difference from a counterfeit book on bad paper and an official book?

You may, from the bad paper quality. But are you able to tell that the Canada Goose coat you just paid 1000$ for is fake? [1]

In Italy, for example, when you - the buyer - is caught with a fake brand product the fine is up to 7'000 Euro. France, with a range of strong brands, also takes a very dim view on fakes.

I wonder if they're more careful in fulfillment in Europe or if they hope that the same argument (we're only a platform, guvnor) will be acceptable to European courts.

I don't think it will wash and it would be nice to see criminal charges laid at them for being a distributer of fake goods.

What is clear to me is that they don't give a flying fuck, unless it gets expesnive for them or turns into a pr nighmare.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/01/count...
Sweden started after WW2 and it is way ahead of Germany. So I’d say it is possible to accelerate. I think English really started to take hold in the 60s and 70s. Relatively low educated people born in the 1950s can make themselves understood in a pinch
In the Netherlands your postal code is enough to narrow you down to a specific street. Not everything works like it does in the US.
I like to watch anime in Japanese because of the sound, but I don't know any Japanese so I look at subtitles, usually in English. I don't expect to learn any language in this way.

Knowing grammar helps. I'm Italian and Spanish and French have such similar grammars that learning to read them was mostly a matter of building a vocabulary. Listening to French is more complicate as its hard to find spaces between words. Talking is both simple (similar sounds except a few ones) and complex (subtle differences in how to build sentences.) Writing is the most difficult skill. Everything has to be almost perfect.

English wasn't only a matter of vocabulary. The differences in grammar are large enough that building and understanding a sentence requires to think in a really different way. I got a shot at German a couple of times. The differences are an order of magnitude larger and I never had the time to go beyond the basics.
I thought that some others were contributing these days? I was aware that he was the initial author.
Do you know how Real sense compares to the Kinect 3(aka4)?
Why are there so many hex numbers used? Are they pointers, variables, for calculation...?
It's not great compression (The gif itself is about 600k) but these frames at least compress fairly well and produce pixel-perfect output which fits the pixely-game theme.
Web design isn't the solution.

Web design is the problem.

(In fairness: 99% of Web designers give the other 1% a bad reputation.)
Intelligence has very little to do with the majority. Geographical location, overall family health, education, peer pressure, inherited ignorance... These are all things that can put people at a great disadvantage. It's easy to cast judgment with little to no intimate knowledge of these people and situations. It's even easier to think oneself better than others when you can't recognize your own privileges.

It's easy to mistake ignorance for lack of intelligence, which in itself is just ignorance on your part. We can't fault one another for ignorance, and casting judgment serves nothing but your own ego.
Which parts are nicer? What makes them nicer?
Smt on/off has a large effect.
On Android you can get near raw GPS data (phase of signals, Doppler shift, pseudoranges, etc.)

That can give a lot of extra information - for example, standing one side of a room might mean a metal beam is reflecting signals from one GPS satellite giving a longer apparent pseudorange. That info can be used to identify that you must be in that location.

I don't believe that's possible on iOS.
Indeed; since we are working in VR, high-precision indoor positioning for us is sub-mm, which is very different to a navigation use-case.
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I work from lunch to late hours (when these’s nobody in the office). Often work from the meeting room when it’s available, and sometimes work from home.
While I am all for the decentralisation trend where it matters, I think you miss some interesting use cases for this, like running compute intensive software on the server instead of on the client. Latency often matters in use cases like this, as evidenced by the recent Stadia threads.

One of the early users they mention is the Finnish VR hardware company Varjo - imagine being able to have a monster GPU on the server doing all the hard work, and having a lightweight non-tethered headset
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After a while reading the subtitles becomes something done in an instant. Then you can listen
find3 uses nothing of the sort.
Its hardly extreme alarmism to suggest Amazon's negligence is going to result in deaths (It likely already is and has).
Wrong link. The link sends readers to the bottom of the page

> www.businessinsider.com/the-11-nations-of-the-united-states-2015-7#first-nation-most-of-whose-people-live-in-the-northern-part-of-the-country-is-made-up-of-native-americans-11

should be

> www.businessinsider.com/the-11-nations-of-the-united-states-2015-7
That may have been true, but it is rather dramatically false with the new JCC erratum workaround.

It’s also false if you’re using a hypervisor that mitigates the iTLB multihit issue.
That last post was really sad. I don't have much words
Damnit, that was about as disappointing as my sexual dreams. Why do I always wake up before there is some action?
Not sure why you’re being downvoted as this is pretty accurate. American success has been predicated on the availability of these social goods which can change peoples lives.
It’s already becoming an unregulated hellscape, where vendors are locked in a race to the bottom, only the least scrupulous survive and it becomes impossible to distinguish come classes of products on quality.

Yes maximal regulation would lead to much higher prices, fewer options and make it more difficult to find goods. I wouldn’t call that a hellscape but it’s not what we want. I do think the only way to dissincentivise Amazons behaviour is increased accountability. I am completely open to alternative suggestions on that though.
The majority of Linux distros are just forks of other major distros with swapped apps/DEs, so no need to expect magic.

Elementary definitely has a nicer software center UI and I personally love their terminal application more than others (even though I currently use Kubuntu). Many people like it because it reminds them of macOS, even though you don't.

And you're kind of right about GTK, but elementaryOS uses the Pantheon desktop environment built on top of GTK.

Elementary has the most gorgeous look for my taste.
Gee I have to use my time more carefully, otherwise I’ll live like I’m immortal until I’m not.
I’m a doctor‘s visit away from going from a relaxed life to fighting for life, clinging on remote hopes of survival.
Being able to date someone in that state is astonishing.
Everything I’d do would be tainted by the thought „this is the last time I do this before I die“.
Zombie army!
Yeah, it's gotten me in a strange mental state, too.
"She'd coyly mention shedding a twelve-year-long relationship with an abusive narcissist to find a love who didn't leave hospice for two weeks and was at her side when the cancer finally ended her life on December 3rd at 1:30AM in Brooklyn, at Calvary Hospice."

https://www.facebook.com/josie.rubio.33/posts/10156307361797...

I'm glad she found someone worthy to spend her last days with. I can definitely relate to overreacting toward the existential dread of social situations/interactions.
This article is extremely cringe inducing. I absolutely hate apps like TikTok and Instagram, Snapchat - take your pick. It feels like all of the most sugar-coated and decadent aspects of pure consumerism have been wrapped up and distilled into a toxic stew, delivered by IV drip right into the patient because we're all ADHD due to... the screens.

So, let me see if I get this right - the future is I have to watch hours of influencers before I inform my purchases? Weird, I mean I kind of like some light forms of entertainment, but the thought that all my purchasing and spending habits will be mediated by fake, passive forms of ad-based information delivery all by the most noxious personalities on the Web gives me the chills.

Thanks but I'll pass. Appreciate the heads up that this is what the SV thought leadership is up to though!
but now you also have to change every log_event(x) to log_event(configuration, x), and pass the log configuration as an argument in literally every function of your code (you would not want to use a global prone to thread initialization issues if you have multiple threads doing logging on startup, right ? :-) )

Also you've made your logging library project-specific by making a log_core_event function. Thanks but I'll keep using spdlog in my projects, which do not need newcomers to learn about your log_core_event, what is a core module and what is not, just to be able to write the three functions they are called for in that project !
The last paragraph first line made me realize why Julia isn't on top of the list.

Any thoughts on how to make a career out of Julia development ( for someone who isn't a scientist but only a developer)?
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I think this is a great post to remember her by. It is funny, it is sad and also contains pain. It is very human and it shows how one thing in life can be multi-dimensional at the same time. I think this showcases the complexity of the human condition and how life ends up being the way we decide to look at it. My condolences to her friends and family and may she rest in peace
Why do you think it’s no longer a brokerage?
https://caniuse.com/#feat=video
I am curious why they chose to rent them instead of buying them, and how many times over they paid their price by doing so?
This might be a useful guide. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1P0ZDaBQx4ghkdX5IUwZb1n8T...
Good question. The sound is a hardware component (synth circuit) that I haven't looked into much, because it's essentially outside the game code.

si78c is faithfully sending all the right bits to the right port, but the hardware component would have to be emulated to get it going.

The relevant code could most likely be borrowed from MAME.
>I’ll live like I’m immortal until I’m not

Honestly, that sounds much more fun than living with a constant obsession over your own mortality.
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It’s Ubuntu LTS beneath and I have had several kernel updates over the past year.
I know it's not kosher to complain about downvotes but I said nothing about AMP, just argued against the statement that users don't care about speed. Anything that could possibly be interpreted in Google's favor gets downvoted immediately. It's carpet bombing with collateral damage.
Why learning a new language is like an illicit love affair Ideas
If you are going to contribute to a Linux Desktop Environment, you are not the target audience for Elementary.

Elementary wants to be “the Apple of Linux”, to attract less-technical users and switchers from other OSes. Their development philosophy is similarly top-down: someone sets a “vision” and a small group of people gets to implement it. If you are a coder and you value bottom-up development, you should really look elsewhere.
> Firefox already has the video player control interface for gifs; you just have to right-click.

And do what? I'm using (latest stable) FF but nothing in the right click menu seems to allow me to control playback.

> HTTPS is unnecessary for this site.

A: HTTPS prevents your website from being defaced

B: I care about protecting the privacy of which websites and web pages I visit - even if you don't

C: The website hosts the author's PGP key
I think elementary follows Ubuntu LTS, so you might get 20.04 later next year.
Every single bit of the desktop is nicer than stock GNOME. Preferences, the terminal, the dock, window decorations, you name it. It’s just visually polished and _consistent_ to a degree I haven’t found in any other distro yet.
Appreciate their work but that greeter UI looks awful. Onboarding screens look well designed though.
that time when you thought "I wish there was a single app instead of Slack, Trello, etc" and it's out in a month
But on these processors, I believe the frequency is rarely sustained right? Due to thermal throttling and other factors.
Italian here. I don't think pride is the reason. We may be proud of our food but we use any language we need, even without knowing it. I guess many people had experiences with Italians delusional about their English skills.

The point probably is that those people don't need English in their life so they never invest in learning it.
I would love to here some MSFT people who work on the Net Core teams thoughts about these libraries, because it seems the community has really amazing things to contribute, such as this string builder library.

Net Core has seen amazing improvements compared to Framework, yet often still falls behind existing community offerings.

e.g. UTF8JSon library: https://michaelscodingspot.com/the-battle-of-c-to-json-seria...

Outperforms the new Net Core json library.

HyperLinq:
https://medium.com/@antao.almada/netfabric-hyperlinq-zero-al...

Is basically Linq with 0 allocations.

What is blocking MS from integrating these approaches into Net Core?
Anolysis stands for Ano[nymized] [Ana]lysis. It's a new approach to do telemetry without sending unique identifiers (like most analytics / telemetry) systems do - but focus on goal attainment at a group level. This makes work harder of course, but it's a price we've been willing to pay. It is a pity you would take a domain name as evidence of malice. We should have a paper coming up at some point on the approach.
The woman in question seems neither comfortable or complacent. She needs the money to pay for her day-to-day expenses and has a long commute. With her type of work experience, it would be difficult to find a more lucrative job. I don't think there's anything fundamentally wrong with her decision making process. She's simply been doing what is necessary to get by under difficult circumstances. I've met some capable and hardworking people who are like her. The sad truth is that some people simply just start off in a tough situation, work hard, and never get a lucky break.

On the other side of the coin, I've seen people who have worked at a small company because nobody else will hire them, the company gets aquired and the old boss retires, and they end up in a cushy situation a the big company. In fact, I've seen this happen multiple times and it was definitely not the master plan of these individuals. It was just a lucky break.
Scaleway has 2 kinds of ARM

ARMv7 as a physical server. No virtualization. Very low performance, very cheap. Good for running your personal web server or similar, but not for anything seeing load. Looks they have not maintained the kernel for more than a year. They let it die, would be my guess.

ARMv8. A virtualized platform. I have not evaluated it myself yet.