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Well, this is where the industry is going. The latest buzzword we hear in the industry is called "product as a service" — you buy a product, but still don't own it. You have to keep paying them for using your own property or else they remotely brick the device.

First gen Ipods were a prime example, but now everybody seem to want to do the same.

We recently had a prospective client who had an idea of very cheap internet connected Ipod clone, who of course had a "genius business model" of jacking the price n-fold after sale under a threat of remote bricking.

I'm very glad we refused.
Is this operating under the assumption that there is no code review?

With code review, lines of code and commit count become much harder to game. If you try to submit changes with unnecessary whitespace, unnecessary code constructs, or incomplete code, your reviewer will see it and tell you to fix it. Ultimately, trying to increase your lines of code or commit count will come back to haunt you as you spend much more time addressing comments from code review.
Off the top of my head:

* more than 10 participants
* can set a topic for the group
* can add and remove participants
* end to end encryption
* typing indicators (i think? Can’t remember if these work in groups)
more hints?
I can't fathom having enough disposable income to spend $5000 on such a thing. Good for you I guess.
So they need to "see" it. They need to see business metrics of cleanup work. Show them e.g. AWS usage cost savings report/powerpoint in their language and you will gain a respect.
Seems ripe for a hacking attempt. Being able to kill hardware with software always seems dangerous.
It will, it’s just substantially harder. The ranks of partners at top law firms are much less prestigious than those of top law faculty. Academia cares more about prestige than basically any other sector of the economy. Even in medicine you have many, many tries at associating yourself with a high prestige institution throughout your career. If you studied at a toilet tier Caribbean medical school but ten years later you’re working at the Mayo Clinic no one will care about where you got your degree.
They mentioned probing snow.

How about if you could detect snow or ice on the road ahead of you by looking at gps reflections?

Seems like you could have a good idea what the reflections from a normal road surface look like and compare.
Re: Drucker

There are some people who need to be shown their way off the bus.
FPGA tools, with few exceptions (IceStorm, SymbiFlow)
The shift from Blair/Brown to Corbyn was a shift towards intentional moderation?
100% my point in fact.
Standard Oil was founded in 1870, five years after the 13th amendment completely abolished slavery in the US.

Rockefeller's success is attributed to his relentless pursuit of horizontal and vertical integration, not cheap labor via slavery.
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I suppose I can, if you really want me to, but:

1.) no software I've ever written is installed and enabled, by default, on pretty much every Ubuntu instance created in the last ~2.5 years (whether the "owners" of those instances want it or not),

2.) I certainly never claimed to write 100% bug-free code (in fact, I will freely admit that I absolutely DO NOT write bug-free code!), and

3.) this discussion really isn't about me or any code that I have written.

(If you're the one that wrote whatever caused the bug and my comment caused your feelings to get hurt, sorry, but software bugs are a fact of life.)
Superpowers [1] tried to fill this niche though I don't know how successful it was.

[1] http://superpowers-html5.com/index.en.html
I have several laptops, all of which run vanilla Debian.

"non-free" is an official Debian repo. It's not enabled by default, but that's a single line edit in sources.list. And it has all those non-free video drivers etc.

There's also an unofficial Debian CD image that includes non-free packages, for those cases where you need that stuff during installation time.
Yes I think we would need a design goal to provide the AI with "some understanding" of how we think. It should be able to do its work in any model that works for it, which would then be translated back to our language.

Thankfully, language is flexible so it can express many models we do not understand in ways that can help us understand them. It would be interesting to see some sort of study on where the boundaries are on what human language is capable of modelling or not
I think it is interesting because it's presenting a dichotomy which to me is at least a new nugget of thought. As others have pointed out, it's relatively shallow but that by itself isn't inherently bad. I do have bias towards PG, but I also like to think that if this was written in WaPo or The Atlantic that I'd also still give it a fair shot (but, humans are also pretty bad at bias).
Why would it be illegal? And what’s the difference between illegal and incredibly illegal anyway?
I enjoy pg's essays but must say this one strikes me as unusually trite. For context I would be one of his 'accidental moderates' who has since moved far to the left - though not universally, and despite my tongue-in-cheek bio I'm not a Marxist.

[2] For some reason the far right tend to ignore moderates rather than despise them as backsliders. I'm not sure why. Perhaps it means that the far right is less ideological than the far left. Or perhaps that they are more confident, or more resigned, or simply more disorganized. I just don't know.

As a long-time student of the far right I can answer this easily: they do despise moderates, but being fascist, they plan to rule over them and figure (with some basis in fact) that the moderate middle will just go along with their program because it's expedient to do so.

As this treats of loaded topics I might as well clarify my own understanding by saying that I think the far left is characterized by its antipathy to property rights (and arguably individual rights in general depending on the particular dogma they adhere to) while the far right is characterized by its antipathy to human rights (and arguably the existence of distinct populations in general depending on the particular dogma they adhere to).
What’s intensely frustrating about this is that audio equipment is one of the few areas where old high end kit is still absolutely fantastic for current users. I have an NAD 3020 from the 1980s which works perfectly with the same pair of speakers that it was bought with. I can’t say the same about other tech, but audio just doesn’t age at the same speed.
There is a LGPL library that I am familiar with that handles it https://jackcess.sourceforge.io

I have a very bare bones Android app which uses the library
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.unwrappeda...

Incidentally my Android app is based off my free software Android project https://github.com/dennis-sheil/android-spreadsheet
I don't see why you believe this. From my perspective, all the recent gains in AI abilities is purely due to faster hardware. But, due to the combinatorics of search spaces, exponential speed increase only gets you linear AI improvements. So, we'll rapidly hit peak AI in the near future, falling way short of even emulating human abilities.

As it is, compare the amount of processing, space and energy humans have to expend to perform equivalent tasks to computers, and there is no comparison. Computers are extraordinary orders of magnitude inferior to human performance. The only reason there is the appearance of parity is because we are not looking at the back end of what it takes computers to accomplish these tasks.

It is like we flipped a coin to create the works of Shakespeare, and waited the many eons necessary for just the right sequence to occur. We then say a coin is just as capable as Shakespeare, but that's only because we've ignored how much effort it took to flip the coin vs how much effort it took Shakespeare.

So, I'm not arguing our motors will not become bigger. I'm arguing that as our motors become bigger, the returns are diminishing exponentially, much more rapidly than can get us to true human parity.
Agreed - I was using a digitizer for many years through the 90s to early 2000's doing AutoCAD and 3D work...

So, I would say that my mousing was more than any average pointing and clicking one would typically do with consuming content.

I found that my muscles in my back would fall asleep / go numb and I would need to really focus on posture and take breaks to lay on a racket ball ort tennis ball between my shoulders to massage those muscles.

Now I get comments about my posture being so rock solid straight up when I sit at my machine due to how conscious I was of my back.

Now I just do it without thinking - but really having good posture and strong back to hold up at a machine for long hours is a must.
https://www.project-syndicate.org/ because its more from the source of international figures, a bit like an Twitter for intelligent international scholars and public figures.
Someone suggested to me that some STDs increase sex drive in humans, but I have not seen any research findings on that. It wouldn't surprise me.
UX(ers), Content Teams, this is for you
I think you just proved OPs point. For tons of simple use cases for S3 (nowhere near the complexity/flexibility of running a server), what you described is complex. You just hand waved over what has become obvious to you after experience (correct json schema, crs, and knowing to use cloud formation and how to use it).
I'm not sure how similar it is, but TortoiseHg is the best version control GUI I've used
>It's easy to prove x86 is lousy by seeing its success in embedded and mobile devices: it hasn't had any, despite trying (Atom). ARM reigns supreme here.

By that logic everything is lousy. x86 is lousy because it couldn't replace ARM. ARM is lousy because it couldn't replace x86.
So, Sonos optionally lets you brick your own device, as part of their Trade Up program that gives a discount on your next device. It's named Recycle mode as, presumably, all the bricked devices are good for is recycling.

There doesn't seem to be anything stopping users from selling their speakers on - they just forgo the Trade Up discount.

The poster's point that this cuts down on re-use of perfectly good products is true, but it doesn't seem that much different to other trade in programs, e.g. Apple's. The difference seems to be that Sonos leave the burden of actually recycling the product (or not) to the user, while Apple does it for you.
What popular "high level" languages might we consider? Scanning various lists, you have bytecode based languages (Java, .NET-languages, etc), you have the various scripting languages (Python, Ruby, Perl, etc), you have languages compiled the JVM (Scala, Elixar, etc), you extension to c (c++, objective-c). It seems all those are either built on the c memory model with extensions or use an

provide the same control over memory allocation as C does.

But the argument in thread is about something or other eventually being lower-level than C, right? C++, objective-C, D and friends "high-low", provide higher-level structure on the basic C model. Which in most conceptions puts higher than C but we can put them at the same level if we want, hence the "high low" usage, which is common, I didn't invent it.

Basically, the flat memory model that C assumes is what optimization facilities in these other languages might grant you. Modern CPUs emulate this and deviate from it in combination of some memory access taking longer than others and through bugs in the hardware. But neither of these things is a reason for programmer not to normally use this model, it's a reason to be aware, add "hints", choose modes, etc (though it's better if the OS does that).

And maybe different hardware could use a different sort of overt memory. BUT, the C programming language is actually not a bad way to manipulate mix-memory so multiple memory types wouldn't particularly imply "ha, no more c now". But a lot of this is cache and programmers manipulating cache directly seems like a mistake most of the time. But GPUs? Nothing about GPUs implies no more C (see Cuda, OpenGL - C++? fine).
My insurance paid about 60k for an angioplasty + 4 days of ICU in Mexico for a pulmonary embolism from a DVT. Granted this was in a private top of the line hospital with a US trained doctor, but still, good medicine is expensive everywhere.
I don't see how Apple could've made it any easier.

1) Select any file.

2) Change the app in the "Open with" dropdown.

3) If you want it to apply to all files click the "Change all" button.
Every day of your life, you come into contact with potentially dangerous situations.

Starbucks doesn't vet their customers before they walk in to do heroin in the bathroom.

Rental car companies don't meticulously check every piece of equipment on that car before you drive it 70mph down mountain roads.

I wish it were different. But right now the responsibility is with the user.
And that's why I'm not concerned with convincing anyone. The proof is in the pudding. If I'm right, I should be able to get results. If not, then my argument doesn't matter.
I work in IT Security. I do 2-4 pentests a week. I shouldn’t, but I work for a small firm and don’t have much control. I easily do 80 hours a week. If I don’t we don’t get enough done, we bleed clients, and I worry about clients getting hacked. I should not work 80 hour weeks, I do not think it should be possible, but I definitely work 80 hour weeks and I am not wasting time. I do web app pentests, network and infrastructure pentests, and emergency response when they need help, and that is easily an 80 hour week. Maybe 5-10 hours of that is meetings. The rest is legitimate work.
Older diesel trucks are largely exempt from these regulations. There are a few loopholes that allow people to purchase older truck parts, refurbish them, and continue to operate them without needing to adhere to modern emissions requirements.
Fecal matter transplant.
I will never buy a Sonos product, and no one else should either.
Al Jazeera should definitely be on your list for non-Western coverage: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/

Their coverage of the middle-East is likely to be biased by their Qatari ownership, but they cover major world stories neglected by the Western press. More details about their potential bias here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Jazeera_controversies_and_c....
> It... needs work.

Hah, very true. I have been working directly with OpenFOAM upstream to improve the packaging situation on Debian/Ubuntu but unfortunately I didn't get started in time for the 18.04 release. It's a bit tricky too in that many FreeCAD developers use Linux but I would bet most of our potential engineering end-users would be on Windows. Thanks for your feedback.
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I think you're completely clueless as to how long it is possible to work per week. Granted, it will destroy you to work 80 hours per week for prolonged periods of time. But it's entirely possible.
Work isn't always creative though is it? It's often more menial: meetings, learning new APIs, stepping through existing code, trial and error, mentoring, etc.

For these your ROI per hour goes down, but your total ROI still goes up even after 5 or even 8 hours. Maybe not for everyone everyday, but for some people some days for sure.
I really wish we had something comparable to group critiques in my computer science/engineering program. I wholeheartedly agree that it’s an underrated form of education: it allows everyone to benefit from everyone else’s talents and experiences, whereas the traditional lecture format is limited to the talent and the experience of the instructor.

I was really jealous of that aspect of my girlfriend’s education. Some companies and incubators (recurse center?) are really good at creating this kind of learning, but I don’t know of many traditional universities experimenting with this approach at either the BS or MS level; which IMO a shame.

Also, the skill of receiving and responding constructively to criticism is incredibly underrated, and is something that the good art schools seem to be unusually good at.

The way my girlfriend tells it, it was a tortuous time (for many of the reasons you describe), but it was also very formative and it accelerated her growth dramatically.
Somehow I feel that YC model has failed us as humankind. People makes shitload of money working on shitty problem and cancer research still has to ask for donation at local grocery store.
I wrote the Twitter thread and I use a Marantz 2230, for what it's worth. All my own audio equipment was recycled at some point.
I'm less confident that an airbnb "business" might not go off-site to slam customers. We already have regular businesses suing yelp users etc for bad reviews even if factual.

I'm not a huge fan of the hunt people down across the net and in real life to destory them modern approach to problems - even if you as a user claim you need the "outlet".

Someone shows up to your airbnb in Berkeley wearing a trump hat. You're telling me no Berkeley hosts would go slamming these guests as racists online if they could?

Someone shows up down south on vacation with their partner but hasn't yet come out yet as gay - has a bad host interaction with someone bigoted - if airbnb allowed off-site reviews you are sure no one would out this couple?

I get the urge to publicly destroy people, just realize there may be folks with opinions different than yours who may then want to spend time trying to destroy you.
What you should know before you eat airplane food
Not sure why Churchill shoulders all the blame and not say imperial Japan who seem to have been the actual culprits...
"the reasons that works" is debatable. Now kids in the us frequently start in pre-pre-Kindergarten. And yet we can't teach cursive writing/reading because its too hard. Baltimore City spends more per capita than any other region in the state of MD, yet nobody reads at grade level. There are many factors in play. Throwing money at free college because the 1st 12 nee 14 were free doesn't mean it works. Wanna go to college? Take a test, show you've not frittered away your 1st 12yrs. My employer paid for my MS degree courses and books. If I didn't present a =>3.0 GPA, they didn't reimburse. That provided motivation. But... there was a study in recent years showing some for-profit private colleges that relied heavily on gov't paid students had "watered down" their requirements to achieve the grades necessary to continue on a tax-payer funded basis. So there's that to deal with. Evidently Higher Ed is willing to compromise it scruples when money is involved.
What useful purpose is served by the Makefile? All the targets are .PHONY
In the end we bit the bullet and rebranded on a more secure platform - it was flaws in a diy solution that allowed the hackers in.
Modern Fortran. Fortran 90 and later standards (we're up to Fortran 2018) are much different from FORTRAN 77 and earlier. Someone who likes the array programming of Julia, Matlab, R, or Python/Numpy should also consider Fortran. "Modern Fortran Explained" is the canonical book, but it is a bit terse, and I would start with some tutorials online and use the gfortran, the Fortran compiler in gcc.
Can a row of five equilateral triangles tile a big equilateral triangle?
Apple pays Chinese "recyclers" for not to refurbishing their I-stuff, and sending it to a crusher. That's not a big secret in the industry.

A lot of luxury goods brands destroy their unsold merchandise, and some even go Apple style after their second hand market too.
This is probably only true if you're thinking of the complexity in terms of board-game style complexity, with characters and items and abilities that you can enumerate in a list. That's the type of thing that digital computers are pretty good at doing and analog systems aren't, so in our digitally-soaked culture we tend to appreciate it more and associate it with being "more complex". But it also hit a saturation point in the 90's, right around the time SMW came out in fact - there are plenty of early 90's PC wargames and RPGs that are just baffling to play because they model the playspace in a way that makes for spreadsheet UI.

Detailed physics and AI, on the other hand, is a thing that is largely beyond the ability of the SNES platform, and that's something that started to pick up along with 3D gaming. We don't greatly appreciate these things in video games because we can pretty easily play with blocks and balls or find live opponents in the real world, but it's a realm that still has a lot of untapped potential.
My friends dad in college was a radiologist and made $750k/yr. He would visit and buy a $20k watch like it was nothing.

I don’t like the existence of that kind of wealth while people are dying from lack of insulin.
I assume Apple and other companies sell the used products to liquidators who refurbish and resell them. Is that not true?
Because that's not going to be argued like that in court.

It may not be that hard to say that's its for:

- Preventing "counterfeiting" as in people salvaging their PCBs to put on "rogue" devices.

- Protecting their brand name as a "rogue" device may misrepresent what a proper sonos product actually is.

- Preventing misuse of the account that was registered on the device, hence protecting their customers personal data.

- Customers only use this mode when a product is not repairable.

That's the power of having a strong legal departement, pretty much anything can be argued even when everyone knows the real intent.
When such things are done properly, it's really hard to prove the intent hence, the risk is pretty low of being fined anything.
Prebiotic and probiotic food.
The vast majority of users are not going to be aware of how to fix the behavior.

At the extreme, ‘connect to this wifi network’ and ‘reset to factory settings’ are obviously at different scales of importance and should have significantly different UI. Similarly open this app, and changing a setting are on different scales. Basically, it’s fine if the pop up takes you to some other UI element to make the change, but pop ups should have consistent importance.
It's a integration / packaging / polishing problem (caused by a licensing problem), technically it's 100% viable and desirable.
IMO - having been around these parts for some time - PG is fairly centrist on social justice re non-class-based identities, and extremely individualist, to the point of injustice blindness, on economics. You'd almost have to be, to be a VC and sleep at night.
Have you tried GridFTP for fast transfer of large data sets?
> If Facebook, Google and Amazon are technology companies banks definitely are.

Only if the banks actually write the software. A credit union that pays someone else for an online banking solution is as much of a tech company as the motel that pays for an online reservation system. At that point the term is useless.
By that logic WhatsApp isn't free. I have to spend hundreds of dollars upfront to buy a phone, and worse, hundreds of dollars each year to maintain a phone line to use WhatsApp.

WhatsApp doesn't provide an API so I could use it on my existing laptop over WiFi for free (the WhatsApp web requires it to be setup on a phone first).
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Some things are, by design, not meant to be easily discoverable.
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I agree but I differ. The substance is light, sure. But I think if people vote it here then it merits being here.

There are many posts that get on the front page which have even less merit from your POV. Posts about health or about management, many of the above with arguably unsubstantiated titles. If those make it here and get discussed I don’t see why this one deserves an exceptional consideration.