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> Without lights, pedestrians would always have first priority on a crosswalk. Cars would have to stop for any pedestrian crossing the street.

Traffic lights in combination with a pedestrian crossing proper (a zebra crossing) seem to be rather rare, at least in Europe. Thus most crossing points of pedestrian would, in absence of traffic lights, not give them the right of way, because crossing traffic generally does not have the right of way. Traffic crossing from something other than a street never has the right of way.

So I don't see at all how "lights are in gross contrast to the rights of pedestrians".
I've been traveling in northern Scandinavia for the past few months.

One thing that sticks out is that Norway has very low speed limits. They also have strict enforcement compared to the UK and super high fines.

In the northern part of the country you really need it because the weather varies a lot and the highways are basically mountain passes. At the moment around where I am close to Lofoten the roads are pretty much ice rinks as it's been constant rain and wind for a few days whilst the lower surface of the road was compacted snow/ice.

Plus there are animals.

But even in town 30, 40, 50 limits are common in places that would be way higher in the UK.
>I hope the truth about Ghosn comes out.

It's been reported he oversaw accounting irregularities regarding his compensation i.e. fancy embezzelment with Nissan which is why there is a warrant for his arrest.
I haven't followed the case closely, are they really just holding her because she won't testify? Is she legally compelled to? What's the other side here? It's hard to believe that the US government is this blatantly tyrannical.
> In less than 60 seconds and with the help of a rubber ducky, the thief could literally cause millions of dollars in damages to your organization.

Kudos for the imagination, but in real life for most developers not vendorizing and auditing their dependencies (+ downloading them all from production) is most likely to cause such havoc (regardless if dozen thousands or millions of damage)...

I imagine this might likely happen in places like security and programming language conferences, especially when you leave your belongings around unattended for a minute or two.

The ideal scenario IMHO would be to have to authorize/reject devices from connecting to your machine (and limiting the scope). I don't know much about USB-C and know it is hard, but I see Apple coming up with something like this in the future (maybe along with Apple Watch detection for quick logout - you can already use it for logging in).
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Almost like it would make sense to have at least legally separate pathways for motorized, less motorized (scooters, e-bikes), bicycles and pedestrians, because they are very different forms of transport.
Consumption and automation are beneficial activities. Not smart to tax them.

Excluding others from a valuable natural resource is deeply immoral unless compensation to those excluded is paid.

The difficulty(or not) of measuring the "true value" of that compensation isn't a justifiable reason that we should as close to it as is reasonably possible.
Someone pointed out that Musk predicts very accurately if you measure in Mars years. Mars year is 1.88 Earth years, the correction function is 1.775.
Red notice is different from an arrest warrant.
Pedestrians had the right of way before the cars existed
>> America (and a few other places) actually did have a War On Booze, they just gave up because it's too socially normalised

> They might've given up because alcohol prohibition increased the crime and alcohol poisoning rates; because it was killing more people than it was saving.

> They might've given up because the state prohibition laws had exceptions for religious and medical purposes and so were explicitly unequal ("de jure discriminatory")

They might've repealed the Amendment authorizing alcohol prohibition when they realized they were unintentionally ensuring tax-free funding for organized crime. The whole Gangsters vs G-men thing was a direct product of prohibition.

Where US Marshalls (Justice branch) and Secret Service (Executive branch) had been more or less sufficient, we then needed another new 'bureau' to handle interstate organized crime headed up by a German guy; amidst Irish Rabbis (during prohibition)

Where we had had men drinking in saloons and not going home to their families, we then had men and women drinking in illegal literally underground speakeasies (on like every other corner of New York) breathing leaded gasoline (which, apparently, noone ever went to jail for)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prohibition_(miniseries) episodes: "A Nation of Drunkards", "A Nation of Scofflaws", "A Nation of Hypocrites"
>a heavily contaminated area which cannot be resettled for a long time

That's only with modern risk-avoiding-at-all-costs safety standards. The initial plans for handling Chernobyl, the worst fallout nuclear incident, was to cleanup - which they did - and resettle soon afterward the cleaned up area - which they did not. And now we have that useless extended exclusion zone - a monument to giving in to our fears.

Those plans were made before the incident by medical physicists. They were then modified by the party to suit political realities on the ground. Even the authoritarian URSS knew how far it could push people.
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I happen to have premium access to this platform. I'm aware that not a lot of people reference/recommend courses on this specifically for Computers/Programming, any advice on noteworthy courses here would be helpful. Thanks!
Sure, but sched_yield is strictly worse than using a futex (except that you'll need to check for waiters on an unlock which makes it slightly more expensive).
EDIT: Are you aware that you're likely using exit nodes that are acquired through a botnet by using NordVPN? They're related with Oxygenlabs.

editted for correctness. My first statement was false. My apologies. https://medium.com/@derek./how-is-nordvpn-unblocking-disney-...

Oldpost: ~~Are you aware of the possibility that you're an exit node for the related NordVPN services?~~
Tihs is typical in a lot of media sites anyway, I guess they have some rules per IP/hits, which using a VPN which you share your IP with a lot of other people, puts you on the blacklist.

I guess it's not good for ads/tracking, hence the blocking too
>but it's ok to cross the road yourself at points where there's no marked crossing

I'm not sure that it's viewed as OK, but yes, absolutely, people will do this. People will actively walk past a marked crossing, and 10 - 20 meters down the road walk straight out into traffic.

It's amazingly absurd. Rather than wait a few minutes for a green light, some people will prefer to run between moving cars in an attempt to save a little time.
Thanks! And no, I just use `jq`. I do often have to consult its man page for its DSL syntax, but probably because I don't use it frequently enough.
I used to joke with my colleagues that eventually everything will converge and become systemd running jupyterhub (now jupyterlab) running "apps" that are actually notebooks on some kind of Node.js kernel.
Ok. That's fair. That's basically the way I remember them too. I just see that more like a distributed "web directory" used for cross promotion than a social network, but I guess it kinda sits in between.

It was self-promotional but not in cynical or necessarily commercial way, kinda like social media before "influencer" became a job title.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_season
...and check out the references.
If we look at our planet, we should realize that fossils and nuclear power are limited. Aside of the quantitative limitation, we get to feel the negative green-house effects now, making alternative energy sources even more urgent.
The only real long-term source is the sun. We HAVE to (completely) switch to sun energy within the next 100 years. This will require huge photon harvesting facilities. For now, covering our deserts would be enough. But what if our energy requirement increases 10 fold? The more energy we have, the more people can have steaks and luxury.
In the SECOND we reach the point of energy limitation on Earth, we will expand our photon harvesting facilities into space, close to Earth. This will grow with generations, so will technology. The gigantic amount of energy daily shining onto Earth is still ridicously few compared to what the Sun radiates every second. The photon harvesting layer will shrink, become more efficient, harvest more wavelengths (maybe even just a single atomic layer) and routed to central cores where it is collected and sent to Earth or the future intelligence habitat. Even if it is just a mirror, redirecting the photons to a central core, which routes it close to Earth, where it will evaporate water - or whatever much smarter ideas our future generations will find.

And this is what we could do now with our technology.

The infra-red issue, imho, is based on current technology level. No light enters the depth of the ocean because life evolved to build photon-recepters of all wave-lengths, even the less fruitful.

Taking this into consideration, every maturing civilization WILL inevitably produce Dyson spheres at least transiently. We already started it! Just look at the solar moduls of the ISS, which are actually the beginning of a Dyson sphere.
I'll admit to embellishing the title a little to make it somewhat easier to parse. I'd expect a 'Red Notice' from Interpol would have the weight of a warrant in a good number of countries though. At least as much authority to ensure an active search and detention. If he's ever found, of course.
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The problem with this is that it is not practical. One example I can think of on the spot is an old tool written to support Windows 7, a bridge version supporting win 7-10 and a new version supporting only 10. Most industries do not move at the same pace (We have some projects that can only run on Windows 95). So some security updates to the bridge version adn the new version are made simultaneosly and corresponding update to their version numbers.

Another example is python 2 and python 3, where python 2 was getting updates form 5+ years after python 3 released.
That’s not how I’ve seen it work anywhere. If you do 2 weeks of work and the feature is a few days away, the portion of work that continues into the following sprint is just a few days, and then you see it.

Fire fighting is just as likely to prevent completion in one sprint as the other, so there is no net change in how the effects of context switching for firefighting slow progress.

Of course, restructuring teams and work so that firefighting effects are reduced is always the goal, I’m just saying it doesn’t matter at all in terms of when the arbitrary cadence for syncing and planning are chosen.
Remind me of a UK national I know who used to work for one of the biggest US corporation in the 90s. He was based in the US and had to come to a trade show in Europe at the time of his work permit renewal. For some reason that's still unclear, it was denied. As he had a rather high level position, the company set their best lawyers on the case. The CEO was even involved and phoned his connections. Still no dice.

He ended up working for one of their European offices. The weird part is that he could still travel freely to the US without visa, so it was not even some security agency interference (and it was before 9/11 anyway.)
> it’s also not really a solution to anything

It's a solution to situations like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Ulbricht#Silk_Road,_arres... , where the laptop is taken by people who (a) can legally seize it, (b) can legally search it, but (c) probably can't legally compel you to produce passwords.

(Not endorsing this usage!)
It was rebranded "public relations", as noted in the referenced documentary. A central figure in the film is Edward Bernays, who was referred to as "the father of public relations".
The safety increase of highway speedcameras is very limited. They help the environment and generate a lot of cash, but in terms of accidents the impact is very low because not a lot of accidents happen on highways with split lanes and only cars. And those that do happen are statistically much more related to alcohol, drugs, tired driving and adverse weather.

In cities it's different, there even a 10 km/h reduction makes a big difference for safety on intersections and with bikes/pedestrians.
+1 for ad blockers - installing one (I use uBo as well) on the computers I "manage" must've saved my relatives 100s of € in falling for scams. I'm sure of this, because a month ago Facebook pushed a bypass for ad blockers and within days, one of my relatives almost lost 300€. What saved her was her poor understanding of English - she called me to translate something for her and I immediately smelled a scam.
The guidelines specifically ask you not to do this.
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the playstation eye has a pretty decent far field mic array and can be had for next to nothing. I used one with a raspberry pi to make a google assistant a few years ago
As a pedestrian, you have right of way over turning traffic. Of course, it's prudent to exercise reasonable care and not just assume a driver has seen you especially if visibility isn't good for whatever reason.

OTOH, especially at a busy intersection, if you're just standing on the sidewalk looking confused, a driver looking to make a turn is probably going to just shrug and turn right through the crosswalk. Some drivers will doubtless be overly aggressive or inattentive. But a random driver is also not going to sit there forever waiting for you to make up your mind about whether to cross or not.
I suppose if the drive is encrypted and requires a passphrase at boot, it's effective for FBI raids, etc.
I think it's a rehash (conscious or not) of Thomas Figg's famous "Webapps, or as I like to call them: Skins around databases."-joke that he used in his "Programming is terrible—Lessons learned from a life wasted" talk from many years ago.

It's no longer completely true, but honestly it's still kind of true. And I've been making my living writing them for years now ;)

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csyL9EC0S0c
I would say one idea is the same lottery, just different round. Of course, the things change a bit after every client interview or after each technical failure (parts not available anymore). But if I continue this year, in autumn luck might be very close. Something like buying 1/10 of all tickets. I bought first ticket in 2018, then wasted a year in between with hopeless e-commerce project.
I know currently of several companies being managed into the dirt by people who dont learn no matter the scheduling mechanism or level of machiavellian maneuvering by their employees.

So no, you cant manage your boss, you can inform them, maneuver them, help them, cajole them; but at the end of the day you cant get them to change their behavior if they truly don't want to(and they can just fire you for being too annoying.)
Hehe, nope. It's actually the opposite.

Don't get me wrong - they're building new bike lanes at a rapid pace. However, traffic, bicycles and pedestrians freely intermingle most places, which works because it helps reduce car speeds massively.

Drivers perceive intermingled streets as more dangerous, so they drive safer.

This video illustrates it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyWYvovLvMQ
None of those conveniences is more valuable than the human lives that are lost in traffic accidents. Such deadly traffic accidents could be prevented if the speed limit inside city centers was reduced to the level the OP is suggesting. Or if city centers were pedestrianised, etc.

Also, you really shouldn't be "receiving and placing calls when commuting" in your car. Hands-free included.

Finally, I struggle to see how you can "enjoy a meal" when you have to drive. Unless you're driving at the suggested walking pace, that is.
I don't know anyone personally that are good at using passwords, myself included.

Often I get shocked to find highly tech savvy people taking crazy risks.

But even the most careful people I know occasionally reuses passwords or picks easy to guess ones out of convenience. Most of the time it is a calculated risk, but the problem is it is hard to tell when you accidentally create a chain of weaknesses that can be leveraged into something more substantial.
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Pollen has my favorite version numbering system, a blend of semantic and chronologic:

> “Consistent with Racket’s version-numbering system, the first digit reflects major updates to Pollen that break backward compatibility. The second digit reflects feature updates that don’t affect existing features.
>
> “Inconsistent with this system, Pollen’s version also appends a build number, which is the age of the software in days and minutes.”

— https://docs.racket-lang.org/pollen/version-notes.html
/u/cstross's Halting State features people in an ARG being used for cover for attacks. Well worth a read. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halting_State
That's already too complicated. You want a normally closed switch (i.e. on when not pressed). When the door is closed, it's pressed, and the light is off. When the door is open, the light is on.
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Pedestrians (ANY traffic, NO MATTER the direction OR lane) that follow the road you are turning from have priority over you making a turn, always.
I'm surprised there isn't a "ready to go" solution with a duress passphrase that boots a plausible, but "clean" system.
Especially as he's accused of corruption, which is non-violent crime.
It makes perfect sense in theory. In the real world though space is limited. We cannot have separate spaces: there isn't enough room - unless you space things out so far that only only car transport makes sense, at which point why bother building paths for the other modes? Which is why suburbs don't have sidewalks: there is no place you can practically go by any mode other than car so why bother creating space for those modes.
Is false incompetence where true genius lies?
From what I gather the kernel is just a fork of the linux kernel.
https://gitee.com/openeuler/kernel

"Linus Torvalds Linus Torvalds authored 6 days ago Merge tag 'scsi-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/..."

Wouldn't this be more of a distribution instead of a totally new operating system?
Mmmm... I had to write this down.

0: CAS_bit_n(void* adr, int n)
1: while(true):
2: old <- read unit(adr)
3: new <- compute-new-value-with-changed-bit-n(old, n)
4: if CAS(adr, old, new):
5: break
6: else
7: continue

Indeed it seems it is correct if you retry.
Perhaps it wasn't intentional but this comment reads very much like an anti-Semitic dog whistle.
To clear up what hetspookjee said: no one is suggesting that nordvpn is routing traffic through its own users, and this would be trivial to detect. They may be using botnets along the lines of Hola though.
I suspect that your rules are also the ones that the GP is subject to in Germany, since you actually can buy video doorbells here and use them at least without an Überwachung sign -- not sure about registration since I don't have one myself.
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TL;DR: It's very impressive:

> The results are quite clear in the graph below. The correlation between the predicted calorie deficit (according to the Apple Watch) and my actual weight is very good. After 79 days, the calorie deficit using the EE numbers from the Apple Watch was 87,157. Assuming 3,500 kcal/lb., my weight should have been 193.7 lbs. My actual weight? 193.3 lbs.
That's been the ongoing issue/debate re: systemd. If it were just a simple service manager, there probably wouldn't be nearly so much debate around it. Instead, it's both a service manager and a collection of bundled services. It often isn't trivial (both due to dependencies and packaging) to substitute a single service systemd provides with an alternative implementation.
That's main problem of RISC-V ISA: doing multi-precision arithmetic needs to do branching.
It is not only a programming complexity issue, it is then very difficult to do large number arithmetic in constant-time due to the branch predictors of modern CPUs.
This can create timing-attacks problems (side-channel attacks) in algorithms like RSA.

But that's the only big issue, saying that the whole ISA is insane due to this specific point of design is totally overstated
You have to remember that the vast majority of the US is nothing like NYC in terms of walkability or population density, and in the city I live in (suburb of a major Texas city) there is literally nothing within walking distance of my house except a school, and some of the big streets don't even have sidewalks.
> It's hard to believe that the US government is this blatantly tyrannical.

You are not paying attention. This is normal for the US gov.
Having just read his wikipedia, it seems this goes very much deeper than treating someone in an "un-Japanese" way.

>Nissan was paying all or some of the costs at some amount of US$18 million for residences used by Ghosn in Rio de Janeiro, Beirut, Paris and Amsterdam, and that Ghosn charged family vacation expenses to the company.

And the list goes on and on...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Ghosn#Arrest_in_Tokyo_a...

>Nissan compliance auditors began trying to track Zi-A activity in 2014 but were stymied at first by the chain of shell companies used in Zi-A investments.

>Nissan funds were used to purchase Ghosn's Paris apartment in 2005, and Zi-A funds were used to purchase his $5 million beachfront Rio apartment in 2012 and his Beirut mansion, which, with renovations, cost over $15 million.

>In addition, to avoid reporting the full amount of his compensation in Nissan financials, as required by Japanese law beginning in 2010, Ghosn had Kelly structure complicated deferred payment plans which went unreported under an aggressive interpretation of the disclosure rules which Nissan's outside auditors had not signed off on, and which totaled around $80 million at the time of his arrest eight years later.

He's just your typical CEO criminal and should be in a cell next to murderers and drug kingpins.

Nissan stock in 2018 - $21. Today - $11.67.
In theory an adversary could deep-freeze the computer the moment the kill cord activates. Sufficiently cold RAM doesn't loose data immediately when it loses power, allowing the adversary to make a copy and read the decryption keys from RAM.

Though if this is part of your threat model you should be much more concerned about a thousand more mundane problems, like adversaries reconstructing keystrokes from keyboard vibrations that are easily measured with a laser, or reconstructing screen content from reflections on a spoon.
I wonder if there are unexpected crimes that a foreigner would commit in Japan that would land her/him in jail. Things like disposing of plastic bottles in the wrong bin (a hopefully absurd example) ...
ah man... i always thought that interpol was the more classy version of mi6.
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Real talk it is. "Bicarbonate of soda" is not a thing, either say baking soda or sodium bicarbonate. Sulfuric acid is water soluble, there is nothing wrong with washing it off under running water. There is a bit of a problem if you are washing off a lot of acid (i.e. you stuck your whole arm into a vat of acid) or if you are using a container with water rather than a source of running water. When sulfuric acid gets diluted a lot of energy gets released, so if you have a lot of acid or not enough water, you might get burned before the acid is washed away.
YMMV, we tried to use Duktape to share some code between native and web and abandoned it im favor of V8 because performance just didn’t work out. It really depends on what you are doing inside.