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I know how you feel.

It takes time to design interesting work. People often say follow your passions but sometimes the passion requires a brief period of tedious exploration while you set things up.

Through trial and error, you can slowly sketch out a landscape of interesting problems, like glossy monuments rising above the horizon. That’s how it feels anyways when you finally start making some progress; when you finally have fun problems to work on.

But in the beginning you almost have to guess what you think will be interesting. And there’s no guarantee it’ll be useful, but I’ve found a lot of times, the experiences and lessons you’ve learned in one project sets you up for the next.

Usually the things that annoy you the most tend to be the best starting places for interesting problems. And it’s important they’re interesting because it’s easy to lose motivation on things you don’t think are important. Then you’ll feel so guilty for not working, you’ll start working on uninteresting problems just so you can be productive (and that’s when the real trouble really starts). Because tedious, boring labor that slowly invades your life isn’t much different from slavery, the major difference being it tends to be more abstract and invisible.
That's not a strike at all. That pure and simple sabotage of public infrastructure. The article links to a newspiece stating that the French union attacked a power distribution center. The union might try to pull the moral grandstanding card but pulling organized crime stunts just makes them an organized crime gang.
Do Entrepreneur First and Antler count?
Better 1000 failures than one deadly accident. These systems are built in basic and redundant ways for a reason.

See also

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12071240
The documentary says he is in France.
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From the article:

He urged people not to try to shoot the drones down, both because their batteries can cause intense fires and also because shooting a drone is a federal crime.

“It becomes a self-generating fire that burns until it burns itself out,” he said. “If you shoot a drone down over your house and it lands on your house, you might not have a house in 45 minutes.”

So these are really vehicles of arson?
Please don't stalk people. Your metric should be whether you are making more $$$ with the ads than without.
The feature is more "See which of my contacts already have this app installed" which makes it much more useful to consumers.
Not sure about daily signal failures, even when I commuted daily it wasn't near that bad. The idea of powering such a safety oriented system with JavaScript quite literally terrifies me, I'd expect it to be about 30 minutes before two trains collided.
Aside: I think you might mean "Javascript-du-jour"? "De jure" (pronounced roughly "day jooray") means basically "legally speaking, but probably not practically speaking", the dual of "de facto". "Du jour" (pronounced roughly "doo zhoor") means "of the day", "the new thing", "the current fad".
If this was satire it would be on point.
Well, your error tracking solution is not simple as a javascript snippet then.
A “separate but equal” institution (and not even fully equal at that) falls short of full equality. So the situation in Italy is still a lack of full marriage equality.
Is DC actually common these days? I haven't been to a physical datacenter in a decade or do, but I remember almost everything running on AC.
> He urged people not to try to shoot the drones down, both because their batteries can cause intense fires and also because shooting a drone is a federal crime.

Shooting an inanimate object hovering over your property is illegal? ... on the federal level? I suppose it would have to be, but...

Edit:
Now I know: "Under Title 18 of the United State Code 32, the sabotage of an unmanned aircraft could carry a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison." [0]

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/32
Cute:

https://i.imgur.com/4TbI3s7.png
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This is rarely done well. In Inside Out UK edition, the dad daydreams by thinking about a football (soccer) match, presumably because this is a stereotypical Dad Thing "translated" to British. However, it is a major plot point that the dad (and whole family) are obsessed with ice hockey so this makes no sense. He never mentions or thinks about soccer again. Similarly Captain America's personal list of pop culture stuff is replaced with a local version, which makes no sense for the embodiment of USA.

There is an interesting bit in Le Ton Beau de Marot about the French translation of Gödel Escher Bach where Hofstadter says he instructed the French translation team to feel free to "culturally translate" analogies and examples etc, but is horrified when they translate a personal anecdote about attending an American football game in Ann Arbor into a rugby match.
If you ban outdoor advertising i' a city there won't be an outdoor advertising company to tax.
Ironically this may actually reduce its long term appeal. The original cut has the making of a cult favourite.
> Dig in to problems with more angles of investigation

Can you elaborate?
It's business IT consulting. You need to know end to end processes within the department / part of the company you're working for, then you must know the odoo system/platform very well and pair and match the two.
Clothing tends to be cut from patterns of 2D shapes that are then sewn together. In theory if you measure certain key parameters of the customer you can adjust a standard pattern to fit them without further refinement. Imagine if you took a thin man, fat man and normal man then measured them all, and designed a pattern based on the normal man. Then found weighting’s to scale the pattern to the thin man and fat man. You could then (in a naive fashion) interpolate between these weighting’s to create patterns for every man inbetween. That would be your algorithm.
I think the difference is that evil American companies are more acceptable than evil Chinese companies.
> The quality of the speakers is mostly terrible. They choose a grand sounding topic then the talk turns out to be incredibly shallow and pointless.

Indeed, but after the 20 minutes of inane drivel the speaker enjoys a lifetime with a CV attesting to the fact that he spoke at a conference about a grand sounding topic, thus he is a bona fide expert and reference on a grand sounding topic.
It's completely normal for feature films to have cuts for different regions to handle censorship preferences. Consider Leon (released as "The Professional" in the US). Mainland Europe isn't as up tight about the idea that teenage girls crush on older men and so the edit released there includes scenes the US wasn't comfortable with and as a result fleshes out the middle of the film. Unlike that lesbian kiss we're taking about several whole scenes with dialogue which were shot but aren't in the US movie at all. And that's normal.

What's special about Cats is that they changed the movie after it "shipped". This is a watershed like when video games started getting day one patches. Super Mario Brothers had no day one patch, it was a physical hunk of metal and plastic, when we played Outer Worlds we set apart an hour the day before for the patches to apply, knowing there would be patches because all games do that now.
That's a shifted goalpost argument. GGP talks about "blame", you downgrade this to "addressing".

Certainly, the word "you" is used to address, but you would be mistaken in thinking that the word "you" alone implies blame. The rest of the quoted sentences clearly express the author deflecting the blame away from the person who made the reports on the book.
I'm an IT and networking guy... This is one thing that got on my nerves completely - most equipment comes as AC or DC, and I'm never sure what to order, so, I usually go for the AC one as it's the safe choice
So I’ve heard that most stuff marked for recycling never actually gets recycled.

But vegetarians? What’s wrong with that?
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I just read it, and the "positive" stuff is in the last half of the article. Basically, the first several paragraphs are about some relatively niche recent events, mostly focusing on gay/lgbt policies (didn't mention the impact of that until near the end), women, and changes to missionary age. It felt like it was intended to drive a specific narrative until the tone changes a bit near the end of the article.

Newspaper articles tend to start with the most relevant points first, and then expand as the article continues, and which details get put where are very important. I often read only the first few paragraphs unless I'm very interested in the details, so it makes sense that someone would be frustrated by the choice of what to put in the first few paragraphs.

If I were to write this piece, I would mention the focus on working with other religions for mutual charitable goals (last couple of paragraphs) and emphasis on caring for widows (his personal focus) along with recent events (lgbt policy change, for example) since that more completely communicates his legacy. Him "not bending" to a relatively small protest isn't particularly relevant to his legacy and perhaps belongs further down the article. The obituary doesn't need to be positive, but it should be a relatively diverse view of his legacy, and the beginning is especially important to that, and that is where I think this article failed.

I don't expect a newspaper to sugarcoat someone's life, but nor do I think it's acceptable to put mostly negative things at the beginning and leave the positive for later where most readers won't read. The beginning should be a relatively comprehensive view of the subject matter that covers good and bad in roughly the same ratio as the rest of the article, which should have a relatively unbiased selection of facts from the subject matter.
I'm sure this is sarcasm but I'll play along: can't wait for the day the country's rail infrastructure stops working because someone pulled a package from NPM.
Well, I'll keep it simple.

This was before iPhone times. Apple, among other things, was focusing on the applications of its product in the media-related industries. I launched a self-funded startup to develop hardware (FPGA, embedded, real-time image processing, software) for this industry segment. After a year of very hard work I was able to emerge out of the garage with a fairly sophisticated product that was very well received.

Only one problem: The product could work much better if Apple would only modify their newly-introduced Apple HD Cinema Display. I had already hacked the display and developed the modifications, I just needed Apple on board. I tried in vain to make contact with a number of people at Apple. I was getting nowhere.

My work schedule was nuts, pretty much 18 hour days, 7 days a week. That's what you do when you are launching a business, particularly if you put it all on the line and have no outside funding or support. Which means it was normal for me to be in the garage up to 3 or 4 in the morning coding, designing hardware, or just generally working on the product or business.

One morning, out of frustration, I decided to hunt down Steve's email address and send him a note. I found a plausible candidate and sent an email at 2:30 in the morning. I still remember the subject line: "Trouble doing business with Apple". That was followed by just a sentence or two which, frankly, I can't remember. Not much in the way of details. Clicked "Send" and went back to coding.

Around 3:00AM I get a short email back:

"What's the problem? -Steve"

I sat there staring at that email for some time. I finally decided that this was either someone having fun at my expense or the real guy. No harm in trying. I typed-up a couple-page response with as much detail as made sense and sent it.

I got a reply within thirty minutes or so. A couple of questions, which I answered.

The conversation ended with another short email:

"Thanks for reaching out. -Steve".

It's was 4:30 AM or so. No point sleeping. I couldn't.

Later that afternoon I got a call from a VP just below Steve. He said "Steve asked me to take care of this for him". We spoke for about 45 minutes. The following day he invited me to come out to Cupertino, meet with their engineering team, explain how to fix the problem and discuss a few other non-engineering items.

Fast forward to a few months later, I designed an iteration of our product per Apple's request and we launched it at the Apple booth during one of the industry events. Pretty crazy ride. Like I said in my prior post, I don't think I slept in a year.
KiCad isn’t that hard. There is one tool for schematic entry and another for layout. The most confusing thing for me was part and their footprint management. I ended creating myParts libraries for my own parts in each project. KiCad 5 is really great software with lots of examples.
Isn’t that just classic advertising by product placement?
> I was referring to the parent poster that talked of people putting them in their pockets.

Right, but how are you going to put it in your pocket without touching it with your hands?!

>You would nead to actually lick hundreds or thousands of such cards to ingest any meaningful amount of lead.

Lead poisoning is cumulative, so you want to avoid ingesting even very small amounts. I doubt that good data is available regarding the amount of lead that would be ingested in this scenario or its potential effects. Best to be cautious. Lead free solder is not expensive.
6ft hovering drones? Hovered over a town all night? These are unusual drones. You have to put engineering effort in to keep a drone up for more than 30 minutes and 6ft is really big for a hovering drone.
It’s not above scrutiny, but it’s his choice to use it and it isn’t a definitively incorrect choice.

A typo is not that. A typo is when one mistakenly spells something incorrectly, or incorrectly adds or removes a word to make sentence ungrammatical.

If it was intentional, then it’s author fiat. You don’t have to like it, but that’s no excuse for removing a book from a store.

To note, if Amazon themselves say they have an issue with his language, that’s their prerogative, but right now it just looks like abuse of their reporting system.
Well, he doesn't owe anybody anything. On the contrary, I think it's generous that he still cares about the project.
Few? You can only run 1! We have to yet invent the technology to run two, let alone a few!
Here's a 20 minute art discussion about the intricacies of the Banana taped on the wall.

So yeah count me in on the second group.

https://news.artnet.com/the-art-angle/art-angle-podcast-bana...
>>> - The opposite of what akersten said: introduce new little easter eggs or features regularly over the course of the film's theater run to encourage repeat ticket buying from the hardcore fans.

soo... what happened with evangelion?
Good advice but I actually found FPGA very hard to start or very expensive. May be you can give more hints.
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One can wonder without initiative.

Perhaps the time or money necessary to satisfy the question is worth more than the answer.
All of this definitely required everyone to have a sense of humor. It developed over years of working together. The participants could take it as well as they dished it out. It sure makes for a lot of great stories to remember.

Here's a quick one: One of my coworkers watched my frustration level rise throughout the day as I was debugging one of my hardware designs. The thing was failing intermittently and I just couldn't figure out what was going on. Being a hardware + embedded software project made it that much more difficult.

At the end of the day he calls me over to his workbench. He doesn't say a thing. He opens a drawer, grabs hold of a large knob on a variac, turns it down and all the alarms on my workbench --at the other end of the room-- go off. He turns it back up to 120 V, looks at me and smiles. The SOB got me good. Brilliant!
I remember sharing it with my partner who is in a less common cohort and had done plenty of research prior to my sharing this with them... they were not at all impressed and felt like there was something lacking in their methodology and priors.

Specifically, my partner has found that the most consistent and predictable sizings are from the UK -- everything else is more all over the place and must be tested on a per brand and pattern basis.

The post by A Bra Theory states it can take as many as 9 attempts with their system to achieve a fit.

With US sizes and her proper measurements, it can take 3-4 attempts for my partner to find something that fits or determine that they do not carry anything that will. With UK sizes and her proper measurements, there is typically success within 1-2 iterations.

One can find more information about this on the subreddit wiki for A Bra that Fits: https://www.reddit.com/r/abrathatfits/wiki/beginners_guide

I find it strange that in the past nor in the present the Bra Theory hasn't seemed to lean on A Bra That Fits or the UK sizings and patterns.
> "Target and Walmart are catching up"

Exactly. Amazon is still well in the lead. They have likely analyzed this entire problem with news and features scheduled over the next 2 years to resolve it as soon as their competitors gain any real ground.
> Why do you assume it's illegal though?

Because growing, selling, and possessing cannabis is illegal under US federal law, and if you are a organizer, manager, or supervisor deriving substantial income from such an operation conducted with 5 or more other individuals, you can be charged wih a felony with a 20-year mandatory minimum sentence for a first offense, and if the operation handles enough product or makes enough money, the minimum sentence moves up to life without possibility of parole.

There's a current federal law that prohibits initiating prosecutions for cannabis operations that are permitted under state-level medical marijuana laws, but that doesn't negate the offense, it just means any charges that would be covered by the prohibition (which violations not strictly with medical marijuana laws.are technically not) are delayed as long as the policy is in effect.

> They have legal cannabis in Colorado.

No, they have a situation in which some cannabis trade is prohibited by only one of the two applicable sovereigns.
At least on iOS Apple has an easy solution: just allow users to configure user groups per app! Then the user can create a WhatsApp group in contacts which may be empty or just a few entries.

But oddly enough Apple does not consider full-blown access to the contacts list as needing any kind of privacy settings.

Just as it doesn't consider per-app internet access as needing any privacy settings. I know for sure the flashlight-level app would need an 'always offline' toggle.
The article doesn't mention a date. Presumably the "Wednesday" referred to is 18 Dec 2019.

On a previous occasion when rail equipment failed because of a fluctuation in supply voltage the electricity company was not at fault: the voltage had remained within specified limits. I find it a bit suspicious that the article doesn't mention what the change in voltage was this time, and what variation the specification allows. The penultimate paragraph is perhaps an implicit admission that the electricity supply was within its specification.

I wonder if any of this is indirectly related to the official change in supply voltage, from 240 V to 230 V, in 1995. Nah, probably not; they can't have equipment that old, can they?
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To me this is a big failure where you advertise a larger competitor for free while not helping the clueless visitor trying to understand what your software does.

I came to darktable website to learn what darktable does not that there is another piece software that I do not know which does a somewhat similar thing but in a different manner.

not only this is not helping the clueless visitor, but it is advertising a major competitor and shows your software as being inferior to this commercial competitor.

IMHO not mentioning lightroom is a smart move, I discovered darktable without having any knowledge of lightroom for the simple reason that adode products do not exist on Linux.
Also I should mention that I use darktable as an alternative to gimp which I chose as an alternative to photoshop 5 when I made the switch to linux.

This to point out that you should not presume of how people use software either, expecially with software that can cover some many different uses as photoshop.
Do you have any sources where I can read more about this? I find it surprising
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What??? Even in a private repo?
Author's ego probably. Or just an attempt to get people who've already read it to buy a second copy (the version in question was released 10 years later.)

> A special tenth anniversary edition, which includes the "author's preferred text" and 12,000 additional words, was published in June 2011 by William Morrow. The tenth anniversary text is identical to the signed and numbered limited edition released in 2003 by Hill House Publishers, and to the edition from Headline, Gaiman's publisher in the UK since 2005.[2] The tenth anniversary edition marks the first time the author's preferred text has been available in wide release outside the UK.[14]
You made me laugh, but it is unfair.

vue, (p)react and angular all have a better frontend development experience than you'd have with Django/rails.

It just increases your tech stack from one component by at least 3 (webpack, nodejs, frontend-lib like vue/(p)react/angular )

And that is sometimes more than it's worth.
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Interesting that these drones can apparently hover “all night.”
It could have turned out perfectly fine if they just used cats for the characters. Like, CGI cats that look like actual members of felis catus, instead of humans who accidentally drank a polyjuice potion with cat hair in it.

Alas, Tom Hooper has a habit of retaining stage musical-like elements when he makes movies based on stage musicals. He shot many scenes in Les Miserables in a way that felt more like a stage production than a cinematic one; the difference is stark if you compare it with, say, The Greatest Showman -- which is a movie about a stage production! But Les Miz wasn't too bad, it was just a bit awkward. This time it seems Hooper has gone one step too far, though.
My college roommate memorized a Siegfried and Roy monologue joke that was taken out of Ace Ventura Pet Detective pretty quickly. As far as I’m aware I only ever saw that version one time, so I knew he wasn’t crazy. Interesting thing is that you can still google that joke, but it’s not in the movie.

The shared cultural experience of the movie is lost if everyone has different scenes, if the jokes are different, if the details vary too much.

It would be quite easy to fall into uncanny valley territory.
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Rail !== tube. You’d be comparing Tokyo’s Yamanote to London’s Circle. I used both to commute at one point or another and found them equally robust. OTOH rail in the UK and Japan are very different stories indeed.
I would simply do:

original_dict = {1:2 ,3:4, 5:6, 7:8}
array = sum(map(list, original_dict.items()), [])

And it would have been simpler if items returned lists instead of tuples. In my benchmarks it runs 10x faster.
This worked fine in Brave (no ads, rendered fine)
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Whatever they’re doing out there, it sounds like a lot of fun. Considering that they seem to be following the letter of the law, I’m fairly certain this is some sort of commercial operation. I can see a defense contractor using a large multirotor craft to test some new payloads, like night vision optical or IR sensors. If the 30 minute hover is to be believed, they must be a multirotor of some sort.