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The "bad" pattern he calls out is not exactly the Trioplan soap-bubble style, it's the thing you get from a mirror telephoto lens.

In Trioplan images[1], the light intensity smoothly increases towards the edge of the disk of confusion, and creates a sharp edge. I agree that this looks kind of nice, although it's a quite specialized effect.

In mirror lens images[2], the "disk" of confusion is actually a ring, with two sharp edges rather than just one. This is not at all pretty, and as far as I know basically nobody buys these lenses for this effect.

This actually matters a lot, because other than this, mirrors are superior to refractive glass lenses in almost every way (note that astronomical telescopes are always mirror-based), so if it was not for the bad bokeh we'd all use them.

[1] https://fujilove.com/the-legend-and-the-bubble-bokeh-review-...
[2] https://hoaiphai.wordpress.com/2011/10/18/recumbent-review-t...
I doubt it.

While you guys thinking Facebook, Twitter, Medium is bad enough, we in China is on another level.

Most top websites in China will "ask" (If pop a download window counts) user to download their apps if the user is on a phone, some websites are intentionally left dysfunctional to force user to use their app. And guess what's the first thing those apps ask you to do? "Please login(, and... maybe send ALL your information to us plus a secretly taken screenshot of your portrait)".

Since almost all of them are doing this, I assume it is a crucial strategy for them to keep their user active. Facebook Twitter etc maybe up to the same thing just not bold enough.
Telepathy has some architectural advantages over Pidgin. IIRC it can use Pidgin network plugins as Telepathy backends though.
It's gotten to the point where when I read an article, I will move my mouse around to try and trigger the "Subscribe to our Newsletter" popup, so I can close it instead of accidentally triggering it as I read the article.
> Journalists were lied to and have very little means of independent investigation

Plenty of foreign journalists didn't buy what the US government was saying and refuted its claims with facts, the whole idea that Saddam Hussein had nukes or WMD was completely preposterous, it's just that US journalists were afraid of being labelled traitors if they didn't go along with the Irak war. Journalists are people after all. So they "chose" to listen to Rumsfeld instead of Hans Blix.

Journalists aren't trusted anymore and their work isn't valued by the public because things like the Covington school incident happens, where Journalists just keep using tweets as a meaningful source of information, with no serious investigative work.

Journalists don't like Facebook, Google and co because they are direct competitors to them in terms of attention and ad revenue. Ironically they somehow like Twitter and are all on Twitter even when Twitter is actually competition to them, way more than Facebook or Google. Why bother visiting the nyt when all the drama is already on Twitter?
Any competent government intelligence agency. Every government puts their own spin on information.
I was able to find this userguide [1], which is from 1994. It's very interesting. Since the project seems to have gone on until 1997 I imagine this doesn't represent the later versions, but perhaps they weren't documented like this.

[1] https://macintoshgarden.org/sites/macintoshgarden.org/files/...
Based on that last entry about the SF bus line, I would really love to see https://patrickcollison.com/slow
I think that's more a property of assembly line work in particular, and not the deeper idea of division of labor.
Not sure about PWAs but I love the new apis it brings. Especially fetch caches api and service workers. Makes building an offline app very possible.
In the century that the printing press was invented, one of the most popular books to be printed was the Malleus Maleficarum, which systematized the practice of witch burning in the following centuries. Better dissemination of ideas does not necessarily mean better ideas.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malleus_Maleficarum
> Apollo 8... went to the Moon...

Early on in the Apollo program there was the plan to build a series of spacecrafts which would progressively solve intermediate problems on the path to the Moon landing. For that, a series of Apollo spacecrafts were planned, and production was running for years - Apollos flew also to Skylab and to 1975 docking with Soyuz.

Specific Apollo 8 was chosen to fly to the Moon because LEM wasn't ready - it was later tested on Earth orbit with Apollo 9 and flew to the Moon with Apollo 10 first time. So, Apollo 8 flying to the Moon isn't a separate decision, but change of existing plans - with a couple of missions swapped in time; fast, but not nearly as fast as creation from scratch of a spaceship or a program would assume.
We made a profit with TARP, actually.

I suspect the same would be true with a Boeing bailout, especially if you count the continued employment of the staff at their 8,000+ suppliers.
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The mess of non-linearities is where the action is, at least in nature. Designing systems to stay out of that mess is, as you say, art.
I'm just a noob front end guy and even I know if the control is disabled...to indicate it.

The idea that this thing behaved that way and made it through a bunch of people is mind boggling to me.
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> Now the blog posting is inaccurate here as well, it is not the application which needs to make an interpretative dance of some kind. We actually are doing it in the kernel,

Yeah, I was thinking the article looked inaccurate there. Thanks for confirming.
obviously someone must use FB for their news because that's all I read about in the news now.

Wait, that sounds circular. Bottom line is profit overrides truth most times now.
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No settlement would be better since filling out the forms costs more than $6 in time.
If the lawyers think the credit monitoring is so great they should take their fees in transferable credit monitoring coupons.
Yeah, it's definitely a taste thing, but as the first style isn't used in Lisp, comparing its readability doesn't really make sense. Indentation is important to reading Lisp. Indenting it in an odd way makes it harder to parse. It's a bit like giving

def
foo(x)
bar(x)
end

as an example of Ruby syntax being overly homogeneous.
War has a tendency to incentivize rapid construction.
You can increase the retention period to centuries via about:config.
> They are out of the picture entirely.

They’re a central topic of this article and where the problem we're discussing is usually felt.
That is one of the projects I've been meaning to check out!
So more big brother stuff is what you are suggesting. How about people not rely on FB for news.
Really, the WHO and other governmental health authorities should be throwing _billions_ of dollars at making vaping effective and safe. The RoI is absolutely insane - even if 10k people switch to a well researched alternative to tobacco and avoid serious health implications (probably costing $1million per person at a minimum in the US healthcare system), that's $10bn saved. You multiply that by around a billion worldwide smokers and the public health benefits are absolutely crazy. Probably on the order of tens of trillions of dollars, maybe even a quadrillion dollars over the next century.
We made a winter themed mixpanel with subtle changes and many customers have let us know how much they love it. So I guess it’s not for everyone.

In the same theme of google changing their logo doodles. I really love and respect that.
Related: The Duke Nukem Forever list.

Written in the aftermath of Duke Nukem Forever finally being canned, twelve years after being announced.
(It did finally ship, to a poor reception)

http://duke.a-13.net/
I don't think the modem is involved in driving the speaker or microphone.
> fwiw, a minor (so, ~4 uni classes) is not what I would flex as credentialization in a subject.

It's not a "flex," it's an honest contextualization of an anecdote. They certainly studied more linguistics than I did. I, uh... had a minor... crush on a linguistics major I met through the teaching union, and we had a few casual conversations about their thesis? Now that's a weird flex.

The point of their comment was not to introduce the well-known concept; it was to relay their impression of the culture that they experienced. Please be more charitable with folks' contributions here.
Well, exits with status 42.
Ember does a ton of magic under the hood that when something goes wrong it's the hardest thing to debug. Ember is also strongly opinionated which some people like I guess. Ever since I've switched to React + Redux I've never looked back.
Before Boxer, everyone seems to be a bit reluctant to get Terran at random in a 1v1 game as it's relatively weak and requires lots of micro ops (high APM) to win against Zerg or Protoss ;-)
They seem to be focused on stopping it 100% instead of practicing harm reduction. I don't think it makes any sense at all except from a bureaucratic, elementary school, Zero Tolerance kind of perspective.

Is there are another reason why it seems institutions are so resistant to this? They seem more concerned with raising the age to buy these products to 21 worldwide.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/19/health/cigarette-sales-ag...
I know that. But if they had made that distinction the web would be a lot safer, privacy friendly and more user friendly.
> In a world where anyone can make a video or photo of anyone doing anything, we'll need to rely on reputable journalists to vet that material for us.

signed media is going to become FAR more important in the future.

We're going to have cameras shipping with crypto so that news agencies can sign their video.
Ah, you’re assuming those 10k people are worth 1 million in cancer treatments. Their realized cost is probably going to be a lot less...
> What's the rationale to teach databases as message queues when it requires special querying and updates when there are so many message queues services already available, easy to use, and standard compliant?

If you already need a database for something else, using the DB as a Queue means you don't need to list {mqFlavorOfChoice} as a requirement for new hires. You also don't have to manage that extra infrastructure. Of course, you are putting additional load on the DB.

Mind you, I'm speaking of a pub-sub type queue and not a FIFO here. You can do FIFO queues in DB as well of course, it's just not as compelling of a story nowadays.

Also way easier to look at and 'poke' a Database queue if you need to. The queries are also not really difficult to write for a general purpose use case.
Fascinating that the Stripe CEO has become the foremost critic of San Francisco municipal governance.
I don't understand why you're being downvoted. This was a fact during the Iraq invasion. Anyone who got the story right got fired. Everyone who parroted the administration line, even when it was blindingly obvious it was a lie, got promotions.
Don't worry too much, it happens all the time. The original version is posted in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21846343 .
Here's something fast: the Holocene extinction.

Since the dawn of modern civilization, countless species have become extinct, and around 1 million species face extinction caused by human events.

Should we really be worshipping economic progress?
Things were built quickly in that era. Most skyscrapers wenr up in a year or so, like the Empire State Building. The whole Hoover Dam project took less than five years.
Ah that seriously sucks, the man who got me started on all this with my - or rather, his - KIM-1. What a pity.
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The settlement is meant to be punitive, not necessarily amount to a windfall for you. It's not terribly easy in a case like this to even prove damages.

And no, it wouldn't be better to let them off the hook completely. I'm not saying this settlement is _at all_ satisfying, but c'mon.
> It's amazing how much of the web (particularly news) works
> fine without Javascript,

It's amazing that any content would require Javascript. Web applications I understand, but content (particularly news) should have no need for scripting.
>Turns out there is no such thing as 'western civilization' since most ideas are remixes, including cross cultural ones.

There's no such thing as "pure" Western civilization, nor is there such a thing as a "pure" culture, in the sense of being uninfluenced by lateral cultural transfer. Even Japan, which is often held up as an example of a "unique and homogeneous" culture is deeply influenced by its neighbors (particularly Imperial China) and centuries of interaction with the West.

But in terms of broad influences - Christianity, Greek and Roman influence, Shakespeare, common linguistic and political roots, etc, I think it's clear that "Western civilization" does at least exist in a broad sense.
The only thing a first term president cares about is a second term. Trump, Obama, Bush, Clinton etc all did this.
Vaporizers that use ground up bud instead of concentrates seem ideal to me; it's much harder for producers to adulterate the product in that form.

I get the impression this style of vape has started to go out of style though. Which is a shame because it's much more efficient than smoking, particularly if you save the toasted weed to make edibles with (extraction using food-grade coconut oil, butter, etc in your kitchen is very easy, or since it's already toasted you can even consume it without any processing.)
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>In one article I have read about the navy pilots, it stated that reports increased greatly after the the equipment was 'upgraded'.

>I also believe that these increased numbers of reports are an attempt to denigrate/disinform reports of newer secret aircraft as happened when previous secret aircraft happened to hit the news.

I can buy one or the other, but both implies that these artifacts were introduced deliberately in order to increase the number of UFO reports from Navy pilots in order to obfuscate public awareness of possible sightings of unrelated secret aircraft.
A big part of Octane is reducing the amount of "magic" under the hood for a lot of features. For instance, autotracking and tracked properties now allow you to use plain JS for most computed values, which means that every stack trace that you have while debugging a getter will be a standard stack trace, without confusing computed property code in between!

I definitely encourage you to check it out sometime, a lot has changed!
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This is part of why I support subways in San Francisco so long as they're not American built.
This one? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3nfcCQ0Vyl8
When people talk about this sort of thing, it's always with the tone that people ought to be paid more for doing good.

But if people had to be paid more for doing good, on average, that would mean most people preferred doing bad things! Which would be bad and mean most people would be evil.

Doing the right thing being costly isn't a thing that just happens to be true of our imperfect society, it's an unavoidable logical consequence of distinguishing between "right" and "profitable".

Convince me I'm wrong.
Might as well try corporate governance, then, or fiscal responsibility, or moral probity, or turbulent mixing. Why choose consciousness to try to shoehorn into the physics? Are two things not fathomed better than one?
I have some other questions:

1. Can Usenet (and perhaps also Unusenet) be used with amateur radio?

2. Can received AM/FM broadcasts be used as a input for SoX?

3. Is time synchronization possible with software defined radio?

4. Can it be used with a RF cable (such as to connect to a VCR)?
> The Alaska Highway. Starting in 1942, 1,700 miles of highway were built over the course of 234 days, connecting eastern British Columbia with Fairbanks, Alaska.

I grew up in Dawson Creek. Our claim to fame: "Mile Zero of the Alaska Highway starts here!"

The Alaska Highway as built in 1942 is nothing like a highway that most people would envision. It wasn't paved, for example. It was good enough for military vehicles with crews of soldiers who could make ad hoc repairs to the road as needed while they transited through, who had extensive survival skills, and could literally radio for assistance if needed.

It wasn't opened to the public until 1948 -- so perhaps 6 years, not 6 months, is a better estimate of its time.

It's also shrunk by almost 20% as it has been continually rebuilt to make it passable by passenger vehicles.

It's an accomplishment, no doubt, but I feel like omitting these significant caveats is meaningful.
>In this hypothetical, would it be wrong for some correctional officers to believe the notional inmate didn't deserve the chance?

Frankly, yes, IMO. It isn't their job, and it generally really doesn't accomplish anything to induce avoidable suffering in another entity. You're painting a picture of a person unwilling to change. That's fine, there are plenty such people. But what does it accomplish to deny them some trivial pleasure when they have already been denied the great majority of their freedoms? To do so seems pretty childish to me.
It's crashing Samsung Internet on my Pixel 3.
This video is freaking amazing, and I already know a ton about excel.
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It seems contradictory for you to say in your previous comment that Christmas as practiced in 2019 by Americans doesn't matter when discussing Santa because of the religious roots, and then follow that up by saying the history of the religious roots don't matter because they're practiced differently in 2019.
Linear algebra lands in my professional lap surprisingly often, to the point where I ask myself if it's a linear algebra problem fairly early on in the problem solving process. (I'm in GIS)

Calculus is unusual, but it does happen. We do have data with time dependent variables, but usually we don't need anything more complicated than ax + b.

When I took linear algebra and discrete math in college, my linear algebra professor was amazing and my discrete math professor was terrible. I got an A in both classes, but for the life of me I don't grok how discrete math is applicable to programming, but if someone starts describing a problem they have I'll be like, "have you tried linear algebra?" in the "have you tried turning it off and back on again?" voice.

I need to watch one of those lecture series on discrete math.
This isn't about economic progress, it's about humans getting things done in a short amount of time and with fewer resources that what we currently hear about. If you want to expand his list to include other things why don't you send your examples to him?
I have said for a while now that the future is their AI vs our AI and nobody can turn the AI off because then we'd lose.
Which is utterly insane considering it’s a near 100% margin business for them. The breach was basically a funnel into their free trial of credit monitoring.
Ah yes, the old "please learn this entirely different thing even though it completely doent fit your use case, just because I'm good at it and makes me feel better about myself to make blanket suggestions that validate my skill"
Sounds like the spam wars from the 2000s again.
I recently heard a pretty solid argument against results based work, from a person obsessed with efficiency and squeezing every last minute out of an employee about a task that typically ends up being paid by results.

From their experience, the drop in quality was unacceptable, while the increase in productivity was negligible. The slight drop in speed was worth the far higher quality of the results in paying by the hour.
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Numbers is a weird Quantrix/Improv inspired spreadsheet. Are people using it like Excel?
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I think this is a overreaction. Even Google has had Christmas Doodles. I see Christmas more of the commercialized thing, Santa, Trees, Snowman, Presents, Candy canes, Getting the family together... I'm not the most religious person, but Jesus isn't the first thing that comes to mind for me when thinking of Christmas but I'm sure if I grew up in a more religious household I'd probably have another view. However I do think cutting down a fresh tree is wasteful even though many people do it.

There's someone I know who tells me Halloween offends him though, but I don't really understand why. Even some churches celebrate Halloween, passing out candy and stuff... Then Easter I'm sure offends people too, brainwashing children that a bunny comes around laying eggs.
> The opposite of alienation and social atomization is basically conformity and homogeneity, and that's bad for business; and especially bad for the oligarch types who engender this kind of alienation.

What a racist and poisonous stance. This seems to indicate a preference that the US should just be a homogenous White Anglo Saxon Protestant society, along with "good family values" such as sexism and keeping women "in the kitchen".

No thanks.
Tesla’s speed on the China factory is pretty amazing.

Germany will not have any excuses.
Just use rdrand. If your cpu is compromised at the level of individual hardware instructions, you are likely toast anyway, and all your extra steps are just false reassurances.
Cool, I just won a $200 bet with a friend of mine that these capricious bastards and the corrupt courts weren't going to do right AS ALWAYS.
In a sad irony, the article web page itself is a horrible disaster of a user interface.
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> SSEs are sent over traditional HTTP. That means they do not require a special protocol or server implementation to get working.

Can you not combine your HTTP and WebSocket requests behind the same HTTP server/port in golang? Other languages I've used support that.
It's called fronting and it's is perfectly fine English.
Definitely! That would be very cool to see. I bet there are a lot of great things that have moved slowly with great success. Berkshire Hathaway is probably a good example, although I don't know how it compares to other companies during a similar window of time.
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Ironic, since Facebook itself uses a sort of AI to create fake shadow profiles.
But the distinction wouldn't have even made sense at the time, and for most of the web, it still doesn't make sense. It may only make sense in the future, when WASM matures more, though.

All of the privacy violations and dark patterns that javascript gets employed for are the result of choices made by developers and corporations... they're not fundamental and innate features of javascript or of having scripting in the web to begin with, so they're not problems that would be solved by quarantining the language to some kind of "app" space.
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Smith was attempting the understand the nature of value and where prices came from and concluded that labor, which in enlightenment thinking was commonly seen at the source of all value (al la John Locke,) must be the common denominator. His evidence for this was that price correlated more strongly with the amount of labor that went into a good than with any other good. (He has an interesting analysis of the relative merits of rents paid in grain vs silver to this effect.) Riccardo built on this idea and attempted to show that labor and price were strongly correlated across the board. Marx later came along and demonstrated that that correlation didn't exist and that price didn't match labor quantity at all. However, instead of throwing out theory after showing how it didn't match evidence, he instead decided that the theory was totally fine, and instead it was in fact reality that must be wrong. Marx's approach to this is a bit backwards, IMHO.
It's not anything like saying that you stupid fuck.