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> ping...Why would anyone need to update it?

How about being able to ping TCP ports? I need this for debugging all the time. Yeah, I use tcping instead... but why is this a separate tool? Dumb.

I'm pretty sure that for every tool you think is "done", there's someone out there screaming at its inadequacy.
I make yogurt by the gallon in an Instant Pot.

Couldn't be simpler, and at the rate I consume the stuff it paid for the pot fairly quickly.

I consider low-fat dairy products a hustle by dairy producers to sell the low-value leftovers of extracting butter. Don't fall for it.
My primary desktop is an iMac. I built the Windows workstation to very good specs though and only use it for the occasional cross-platform development on Windows or gaming, so all the compute power is idle most of the time. Hosting services on it is a good use of the resources.
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I feel like philip greenspun deserves a mention as one of the OG's in this practice. https://philip.greenspun.com/sql/trees.html
If DRM infringes consumer rights, well that's just technology for you. But if technology erodes corporate profits - surely the law didn't mean to allow this! Quick, reinterpret it!
ah that's interesting. we've seen that sales people don't like being tracked, they like to perform. service teams on the other hand like stuff being automated and get more efficient. thanks for the insight though.

most unexpected i have seen is volunteers on election day visiting polling booths through the day.
Sometimes companies just don't understand a role that well. Maybe the last UI/UX person they had was initially a UX person that turned UI and so they think you need more of one than the other. I can't count the number of times I seen job descriptions that look like a copy and pasted resume of the previous employee they had.
The table of contents is the last three pages. (Is that normal within some community?)
FYI. The content looks real nice in "reader" mode (at least in Firefox).

I kind of think this is the best approach. Write your content with as minimal markup as possible. Let the user-agent render the page in my own styling.

I wish the web was a bit more like the gopher protocol, where the page markup was very minimal. Just give me the plain text (or close to it) and let my client render it the way I want to read it.

Markdown (or similar) would be an ideal representational format. This would push all the rendering decisions to the client.
German court bans Uber's ride-hailing services in Germany
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What should I know about hiring internationally before I make an offer to someone? I'm specifically looking for answers regarding compliance, international payroll, legal, etc.
Figure 1. illustrates the results of an LSTM that's sexually attracted to tall muscular guys, accusing everyone else of being deceptive.

> Deceivers put their hands in their pockets and look around more than the participants in the natural condition.

Doesn't it depend on _context_? If I recall correctly, one of the main giveaways that lead to the identification of the Boston bombers was precisely their composure during the whole situation, which investigators deemed "off" in that context and made them persons of interest.

> Each participant was randomly assigned to walk either naturally or in a deceptive manner, as described below.

So it's like training a "terrorist detection" system by asking your buddies to act "terroristy"? The experiments trains on people displaying behaviors they think convey deception, while deception really tries to convey deceitful behavior.

A better experiment would have been not telling the subjects about the nature of the experiment. Then create a situation where there's a real incentive for the subject to be deceitful. An example would be an experimenter explaining there's a payout for the experiment. The payout must be either monetary or something related. Like saying the study will be at some exotic location, all accomodations taken care of, for a month, and you can bring your significant other.

Then stopping on one answer in particular that disqualifies the subject from the pool of people eligible to that payout.

And then explaining that the experimenter will let this slide but their colleague will probably not; they then instruct the subject and coach them on what they need to avoid saying on several points and before they're done explaining, the "colleague" enters the room and starts going through the checklist.

Now you have incentive to be deceitful and a slightly less crappy experiment than asking people to be deceitful.
Wait, this is actually how internet cables are laid?
I guess you can last 10 years, which is apparently what "This Page is Designed to Last" aspires to, but what if we have greater ambitions? Like 100 years?
Sorry to hear about your experience. I've had a couple of times where a comment attracted a wave of downvotes seemingly undeserved, and it's not a good feeling. I've also seen comments that express unpopular opinions tend to get hit hard, as a way of showing disagreement (which is OK by site policy).

In the end, much of it's up to the whims of the crowd, and shouldn't be taken personally. I'd say, see it as interacting with a vast distributed network of (more or less) intelligent agents.

With your comments as inputs, the system often behaves unpredictably - but by studying the somewhat chaotic results, you can find patterns/trends to achieve (sometimes) the result we all want, which is intellectually stimulating discussion.
The best place to report issues or request features is https://github.community/. The Product and Support teams both visit that regularly.
Ugh dealing with this from the employee side right now. Just had my perf review and was told I was not meeting expectations and then promptly let go. I had never previously been told that I wasn't meeting expectations, and the things I was apparently missing over the last ~8 months would have been easy to fix or explain at the time if I'd had any feedback. This from a company where execs have multiple times in the three years I've been here stood up in front of the company and said "if no one has told you you're not performing well then you're doing fine, you'll know if you're underperforming." Also a company that had layoffs just a month ago, no idea why they kept me just to let me go now. Is what it is and just time to move on but still frustrating.
In this case, google cloud vision, it seems like the docs are fine. It’s the platform that’s confusing because it requires too much ceremony to get started.
Check out the original patent here
https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/26/65/c7/c647a84...
Good and convincing example. thanks for this robotic perspective.
They could have if they'd been willing to accept a new type rating, but airlines aren't keen on retraining their 737 pilots unless they have to. Boeing's retention of the same rating was a selling point to airlines otherwise if they're having to train people anyways maybe Airbus would be worth a look?
Product Manager for GitHub Actions here. You can self-host the GitHub Actions runners. This means that you can run CI/CD workflows on your own hardware, while your source code is hosted on github.com itself. https://help.github.com/en/actions/automating-your-workflow-...
While you can still edit the post title, you might want to explain what it does. Cute website!
It’s traveling through glass and the glass has imperfections. Can you imagine trying to see through glass 30 miles thick?
Yeah, TFA says it's intended as an immutable structure that has to be rebuilt to add new data to it - which limits its applications.
Whatever spam blocking I get from Google Fi + latest Android on a Pixel phone has completely eliminated spam calls. I went from getting 3+ per day to zero.
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About a concrete technology that probably existed worldwide.

Because a lot of these structures are very old and some are even under water, I think that they likely existed during the ice-age. Later cultures like the Incas build on top of these huge structures.
Me too! Seriously just yesterday I was thinking it would be valuable to study the NEC electrical code with my kids. I may be wrong but seems like electricians fall into the same category. As a side note: I have a house going through final trade inspections now and an issue came up where I literally turned to stack exchange to educate myself on the issue prior to going back to my electrician to insist he back off from his stance that he’s right and the inspectors wrong (not that this is a sustainable position in the first place).. but it was interesting how the stack exchange culture has gone beyond developers.
Adobe with Magento

Eh?? Maybe if they rewrite it from scratch and just recycle the brand...
There are many, many things that law requires be delivered by mail. You'd have to change hundreds (thousands?) of state and federal laws before you could get rid of a semi-public mailing service.
No, why are the things they're writing probably what the company needs?
Planned obsolescence is not at all unintentional, it is highly deliberate. Every product needs to plan for it's intended lifespan, from phones to nuclear reactors.

Planned obsolescence and what this contractor did are not on any sort of continuum. This contractor was not making a trade-off, he deliberately sabotaged his work. This is not on any sort of continuum with optimizing phone's battery life for a certain number of years, or making similar tradeoffs.
Unpopular opinion(?): Fermat's Library makes the experience of reading papers worse. This and many other linked papers I see there seem interesting, but I'm not interested reading in the marginalia, or logging in, or signing up for their mailing list to receive a paper every week.

What I would like to do is download the PDF and read it on my iPad, or even print it out. But if that's possible, I haven't been able to find the link or button to do it.
That's because it's the safest thing to say, even if it isn't true.
This is purely Indian National Congress (GOP of India and currently out of power) driven rioting. It does not have mass public support but being made to look like one. Congress party is inciting violence, particularly among Muslims, by spreading misinformation that the act is somehow against them. However, even majority of Muslims know what is true - https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/delhis-jama-masjid-shahi-ima...

The "citizenship" act is about providing ease of citizenship to persecuted minorities (Christians, Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains) in neighboring countries of India (Pakistan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan). It has nothing to do with Indian citizens and non-minority asylum seeker still go through same due process. If you change the context by replacing "India" with "USA", act will transform into giving shelter to persecuted people in Latin America.

In case you are not aware how minorities in Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan have been treated, following is just the tip of iceberg -

https://www.opendoorsusa.org/christian-persecution/world-wat...

https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/10/pakistani-christians-...

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

https://www.persecution.org/2019/11/08/christian-villagers-p...

https://indianexpress.com/article/india/hindus-in-pakistan-s...

https://www.indiatimes.com/culture/travel/the-condition-of-h...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Ramu_violence

https://minorityrights.org/2016/11/17/religious-minorities-t...

https://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/law-rights/2017/12/2...

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

https://foreignpolicyblogs.com/2017/08/15/persecution-christ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Hindus#Banglade...

https://tribune.com.pk/story/683130/religious-persecution-si...

http://www.ipsnews.net/2014/11/pakistani-sikhs-back-in-the-d...

And I don't think I need to say anything about Afghanistan but Bamiyan should refresh memory - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhas_of_Bamiyan
Clearly the only reasonable way is to store it in a Mainframe...in EBCDIC

It'll live forever...

/s
A fascinating read!
The Mandelbrot example, as well as the Fibonacci one, I find quite beautiful.

https://github.com/LingDong-/wenyan-lang/blob/master/example...

I think ancient Chinese people would be proud and awed by seeing how language becomes a living thing, performing logical operations.

Maybe because my only attempts at studying Chinese was the Tao Te Ching, the programs written in 文言 feel like they're expressing universal truths.
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Well it was weird cause it came directly to the recruiter via the UX Manager. But oh well I fortunately have a job and sometimes just go and see what's out there.
> It's still not clear to me why that's a bad thing.

Human advancement comes from the process of building knowledge on knowledge, using what our predecessors learned to move our starting point forward. (You're the predecessor in that sentence.)
When someone says “it’s just semantics”, they mean that the argument is only over the definition of words, not over that actual meaning.
Yeah, that’s the kind of thing that should have been in the article.
Jesus Christ on a cracker people, are you all really this stupid? The difference between 1983 and 2017 is the magnitude of information and functionality. In 1983, a whole MB of ram was what super computers ran on. Your average desktop typically had around 2 KB of ram. My desktop today runs 16 GB, that's 8 million times more data.

First of all, when data sets start to get that big it becomes a monumental task to organize just the execution order of the compiled code. Second, the main thing the bitch from the article is complaining about not being able to do is something you just can't do from the phone UI. Google has a trip planner app that specifically helps locate interesting landmarks between the start and destination points, and even plan where to stop for gas or find a hotel for the night all from a single tab. For having spent so long writing his rant, I'm surprised he never tried googling a trip planner app. It would have been faster and prevented him from proving what an idiot he is.
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> And, the first carrier to effectively enforce no robocalls will receive a massive influx of subscribers, so much so it will force everyone else to get on board.

Why didn't they do that already?
The proposition in St. Louis does have a runoff. Seems like a lot of expense.

One system I've been looking at recently is "For and Against", which is also easy to understand. You get to vote for one candidate and against one. Against votes count as a -1, although in theory you could "phase the system in" by having the against votes count as -.5 or the like, the first election with the new system. That gives parties and other structures a bit more time to adapt.

For and against is interesting in that it simply cancels out the vote splitting effect of plurality. You no longer have an incentive to hold nominations to eliminate candidates, since similar candidates will split against votes.
Yes, being forced by low wages and high taxes to work until I hit 65 and the government graciously allows me to retire is a shitty life that I am not jealous of.

I don't care how much vacation and benefits Europeans get.
"Why wouldn't people game the system by entering temperatures as low or as high as allowed?"

Because it is median, not average. That does nothing. Demonstrated here: https://pianop.ly/voting/median.html

I think you are wrong about parties forming, there would be no benefit whatsoever. There is no reason anyone would have any incentive to do anything other than vote for their preferred value.
Save to books or pdf on your iOS device through Share Page With..., then read at your leisure. You can also print it the same way. There is no need to create an account. I hope this helps.
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Actually he's just wrong about the analogy, since it is median, not average. You can't game median. That was the whole point of my analogy.
Classical Chinese Computing
I agree with the sentiment that there is not much point in delivering any sort of documents by postal mail. However, we don't have any large scale way of providing email to the masses with the same (or better) practical and legal guarantees. Practical: Not tied to a company, accessible, etc. Legal: Preferably end to end encrypted, read receipts and how to handle them, nominees and death of the mailbox owner etc. In general, I feel that it's hard and probably for the best that email doesn't become "official".

For a middle ground, I would like USPS to offer a service where they scan and send you the docs and you agree to some terms. They already scan the addresses and show you the informed mail digest. I don't care if they open it and scan it. It's all junk anyway.
I don’t think the feedback is necessarily worth all that much. Think about how many discussions we have here about interviewing methods that aren’t designed to measure what matters, employers that focus way too much on the wrong things, etc.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journa...
I hope the internal resistance gets more organized and tactical. Cause this story is not ending any time soon given the number of issues involved.

In any large org, its well known which execs up the food chain exist to play empire defense and which ones can cause real change. Both sides will have their own entrenched networks of support. Understanding those networks is critical to getting change through. Applying pressure without mapping and understanding internal org politics is how people end up getting fired in large orgs.

Googlers basically have to use their Profiling and Targeting expertise on their own org chart to weaken the status quoists and identify/strengthen those who can make change happen. Just getting your stories in the press is not going to do shit.
Jai does it to a degree that is certainly not common.

C++ in particular only has true guaranteed compile time execution for constexpr functions in static_asserts and a few other small cases.

Jai on the other hand can do pretty much anything at compile time.
Good Read. StarCraft and the expansion set (Brood War) had huge influenced on my student days (they way of thinking, overview of strategies vs tactics, economy, resources). To some extent it helped me to find passion and inspired me to be the me today (still benefit from the stuff I learned over the years playing SC when designing UI, Operational Workflows, software engineering, Architecture of IT infrastructure), and will definitely go further.

I was very excited to see Blizzard make StarCraft Remastered and purchased when it was made available, played with some passionate friends from time to time, unfortunately, it's so hard to find people with similar level of skills (intermediate) nowadays to have a good game (also, it takes time for a single game, which we don't have nowadays).

BTW: Grrr..., Slayers_Boxer, remember the names? StarCraft helped to shape up eSports industry and created 1 of the greatest pro gamers in history. Look at the eSports industry today, phenomenal and incredible. Cannot imagine taking a pro gaming career back then, parents would have beaten the shit of that dreaming boy.
Trump just spent $28 billion bailing out farmers for losses that he initiated: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-12-04/trump-s-2... That's more than the $25 billion bailout of GM and Chrysler by President Bush that so many Republicans railed against. Plus, the farming bailout won't be repaid, while the automaker bailout was repaid in full.

Times have changed.
They don't really explain any specific problems with what they've slurred as a "zip drive" approach.

Offering a self-backup option would be more competitive than Signal's current nothing at all – which means total data loss on any device loss or upgrade, for iOS users.

Absolutely, promise users a Signal-quality cloud experience, someday, when this novel development is finished, and when there's an economic model for reliably storing users' opaque data in the cloud – and if users trust Intel SGX.

But in the indefinitely-long meantime, why deny users the proven & well-worn path of self-data management? (And shouldn't users have the right to an exportable format of their own contact/messaging data?)
But you are not your business. There are more things to life than making profits, like helping fellow humans. If the risk is very low and the cost basically null, doing nice things is a positive externality.
I didn't perceive the author to be doing any technical gatekeeping, quite the opposite. I feel like their article was targeted at people like me or others who use stuff like Hugo/Jekyll, or those who use free website builders or use large frameworks for simple websites.

I agree a couple of the points seem out of place (the monitoring service one made me laugh. visiting my website is the first thing I do after uploading a new page), but the intent of this article I wholeheartedly agree with:

Reduce dependencies, use 'dumb' solutions, and do a little ritualistic upkeep of your website to keep it around for a decade or more. The things you propose are the norm and the reason nothing sticks around, IMO.
1) We've gotten this request a few times before, but we use a standard calorie estimation equation that depends on this. Not quite sure what the alternative should be.

2) Good point, will add it to our to-do list.

3) Also good idea - in the meantime, you can add text filters at the bottom of the suggestions list for anything we missed. If it matches anything in the recipe name or ingredients, it'll exclude the recipe.

4 & 5) Definitely a little weird, and surprised no one has mentioned this before. Maybe recently changed? Added to the to-do list too.
To last a long time, you need a lot of people hosting copies. Think about PDFs -- it's easy to host a local copy of a PDF, so popular PDFs tend to be widely available. But a site hosting a local copy of every webpage it links to would feel weird.
Facebook gave (gives?) feedback. It's good PR in the candidate community, not just bet candidates like it, but because it promotes Facebook's reputation as a fearless company that does what they believe in regardless of conventional wisdom.
They’re already heading towards Shopify’s lunch with commerce cloud. That’s quite obviously the outcome Adobe is after. It’s a subscription business after all.
Fascinating stuff "Archaeologists cannot give any rational explanations on how this was possible."

... "Several people tried to discover the secret of this stone making. They were successful in softening the limestone that they reduced to a soft mass. But they failed to harden it again. This has been the reason, why, 40 years ago, Davidovits and Aliaga stopped their studies. They could disaggregate (limestone) but they were not capable to re-agglomerate it, to harden it again.

The appropriate knowledge was acquired very recently (2 years ago)"
How is this different from Google Maps ridesharing API? https://cloud.google.com/maps-platform/ridesharing/