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Lets see. Say you work 5 days a week. That's about 260 days a year (without vacations etc). Say you unlock your device 4 times a day when you work. That is 1040 times a year. Does your device even last 9-10 years? Well, if it is a MacBook, Apple ditched support for all <= 2012 MBPs. Not sure when they did, but this was true at start of last year for sure.
The Nespresso Money Mule – Story of a Fascinating Elaborate eBay Triangle Fraud
Yep. As soon as you find the sector number of the start of your data, you can use "losetup --offset xxxxx" to use it like a regular disk again. I think there are even SCSI commands you could send to permanently shift the start of the disk. Or you could just dd all your data back to where it ought to be.
Doolittle Raid (1942)
> One thing that it is safe to assume is genetically encoded somehow is that sounds made by your parents/humans around you is worth repeating while other sounds are not.

Well, these sounds come with a face attached and we know babies are hardwired to pay attention to faces.
Well I as an innocent bystander have no idea what you mean either, unfortunately.
I wrote a post with my predictions here
https://medium.com/swlh/9-predictions-for-2020-2029-555312fc...

TLDR
1. Federated Learning will unlock value from previously inaccessible sensitive data.

2. Deepfakes will impact democracy and bring about a need for publisher certified content.

3. Nationalism will rise around the world, the internet will splinter.

4. eSports will take a huge chunk of attention and advertising dollars from sports.

5. Blockchain will get adoption in enterprise. Mainstream adoption will struggle until there is a key custody solutions that everyone can use.

6. Self driving cars will open up new business models. Regulations will be the main barrier to adoption.

7. Welfare systems will get strained.

8. Digital currencies and negative interest rates will open pandoras box.

9. Search will get reimagined.

I also enjoyed these posts

https://avc.com/2020/01/what-will-happen-in-the-2020s/

https://continuations.com/post/189997132065/an-agenda-for-th...

https://alexdanco.com/2019/12/17/ten-predictions-for-the-202...
1. Donald Trump wins next elections.

2. Climate change turns out to be less severe than
anticipated(by most) at the beginning of the decade.

3. Netflix faces more competition and struggles to maintain its position, potentially losing its significance and dropping out of FAANG

4. Significant advancements in fusion technology, but still no commercial solutions.

5. Bitcoin is worth more than 100k$

6. There is a global recession, but it's nowhere as severe as the last one.

7. VR and AR technology matures and becomes widespread.

8. UK struggles for the first few years after Brexit, but in the second half of the decade it prospers with GDP growth significantly outpacing that of Germany and France.

9. The EU struggles to keep up with the American and Chinese competition due to extreme regulations and bureaucracy.

10. Humans still didn't make it to Mars.
- individual GPUs will hit a plateau at around 25TFlops in FP32 due to Moore's law and thermal dissipation however it will be easier than ever to interconnect multiple GPUs into large virtual ones due to interconnect tech improvements and modularization of GPU processing units

- only large companies will be able to train and use SOTA models with training costs in $10M-$100M per training run and those models will hit law of diminishing returns quickly

- 50% of all white collar jobs will be automated away, including a significant chunk of CRUD software work. Increased productivity won't be shared back with society, instead two distinct wealth strata of society will be formed worldwide due to scale effects, like in Latin America (<1% owners, >99% fighting for their lives).

- AI will make marketing, ads and behavioral programming much more intrusive and practically unavoidable
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no such thing as theft in this area. not even a copyright infringement looks like. maybe a license violation and the judge will decide about circumvention of digital locks, which is, at best, a well-intentioned legislation.
On the other hand, until the recent consolidation, US airlines were a terrible investment, so perhaps it’s not a viable business without huge economies of scale.

There’s even a joke of “how to go from billionaire to millionaire? Buy an airline”.
No, but there is a quantum computer algorithm for classic asymmetric cryptography, which would affect some major proof-of-stake coins if quantum computers ever become practical.
> Pork is an important staple in China

Indeed. For reference, pork in China is usually just referred to as "meat".
"No Way To Prevent This", Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%27No_Way_To_Prevent_This,%27_...
A master can make good work with shit tools, but they'll still prefer to work with good tools.

Syntax matters because it's part of the interface, and so it has the ability to clarify or confound. Destructuring assignment; async/await instead of CPS (technically not exactly equivalent due to variable scope, but close enough in actual usage); pipe operators/macros instead of (third-function (second-function (first-function the-data))). None of these make the language more powerful but they do aid clarity and concision, as well as just making the language nicer to use.
I believe cartoons are our equivalent of adversarial images. They typically look nothing like (photos of) their namesake and yet we recognise them usually without prompting.
Adding that license information doesn't help the end user to run modified code. You need an apple developer license to run changes that you have made. Thus, the code is not free.

On the other hand, apple offering to compile and run any modification that users made will never happen. Then, people could start with one program and run whatever they want. The app store would collapse.
> Micro-mobility via scooters / bikes might also be a valid reason here.

I think this is the winner for dense cities with mild winters.

During rush hour in many cities you're about as fast walking as you are driving. People barely walk though and cycling requires physical effort which makes it inconvenient enough for many people to prefer cars. Scooters fix these problems and get you there really fast, except they suck in winter, except again in a few years winters may not be that bad anymore. The only (practical, non-luxury) reason you might want a car then is transporting a lot of stuff. For those few situations, carsharing might be an acceptable solution.
What he's saying is that 100% of those pigs that died due to the epidemic would also have died within a year anyway. The title is crafted in such a way that you picture a whole, static population of pigs and a quarter is removed from this whole. Like we start 2020 with 75% of the individuals of 2019. As if the mortality rate shot from something normal up to 25%. When it actually was 100% all along.

Without the epidemic title could have been "All of the worlds pigs died in a year due to humans killing them to eat their body parts".

Not saying the epidemic is a good thing, but at the end of the day it doesn't make a whole lot of difference from an individual pig's perspective.
You can use instruments to create a tone instead of your own voice, which should at least get around the hyperventilation problem. For example, if you have an electric toothbrush, you can modulate the sound it makes as it buzzes against your teeth by changing the shape of your oral cavity. (It seems to work better when the brush is held to your teeth, I guess the resonations carry better).

For an actual musical instrument (OK, many will debate that point!), The Jew's harp uses the same principle as well. I recall hearing a legend of a Japanese player who'd lost all their teeth holding an ax to their chin and using that to get a resonation going. I'm not entirely sure how that was meant to work.
> [ ] You have reinvented Javascript but worse

> [ ] You have reinvented PHP but worse

I'm trying to think of languages that would fit that bill. That almost sounds like a challenge.
Rust,c, javascript
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I think sprint and T-Mobile merging would help create a real competitor to ATT and Verizon too. It’s just the nature of mobile networks that bigger is better.
I usually start with no/little type information in Julia and then add type imformation when it can't be inferred easily.
C will never die
They did, but they didn't understand the results.
So? EULAs are not exactly legally binding in most countries, and even in the US it's complicated whether they are or not:

https://superuser.com/questions/30940/is-an-eula-enforceable

The enforceability of an EULA depends on several factors, one of them being the court in which the case is heard. Some courts that have addressed the validity of the shrinkwrap license agreements have found some EULAs to be invalid, characterizing them as contracts of adhesion, unconscionable, and/or unacceptable pursuant to the U.C.C.—see, for instance, Step-Saver Data Systems, Inc. v. Wyse Technology,[6] Vault Corp. v. Quaid Software Ltd..[7] Other courts have determined that the shrinkwrap license agreement is valid and enforceable: see ProCD, Inc. v. Zeidenberg,[8] Microsoft v. Harmony Computers,[9] Novell v. Network Trade Center,[10] and Ariz. Cartridge Remanufacturers Ass'n v. Lexmark Int'l, Inc.[11] may have some bearing as well. No court has ruled on the validity of EULAs generally; decisions are limited to particular provisions and terms. (Wikipedia)
Oh, perhaps the govt shouldn't have imported this person to begin with? Perhaps the govt also shouldn't have forced normal people to fund obviously crazy people.

...but go on.
U-Haul’s Anti-Nicotine Hiring Policy
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Monitoring can't possibly prevent outages. All it can do is alert someone when an outage happens.

Based on OP's description, it sounds like that alert will be up to a week late, because the connectivity data is aggregated manually.
Python is just a very nice interface to a large amount of optimized C code.
I call BS on the benchmarks AND the theoretical analysis. Every time I read those HTTP/X benchmarks, people don't mention TCP's congestion control and seem to just ignore it in their analysis. Well, you can't. At least if you call "realistic conditions". Congestion control will introduce additional round trips, depending on your link parameters (bandwidth, latency, OS configuration like initcwnd etc.) and limit your bandwidth on the transport layer. And based on your link parameter, 6 parallel TCP connections might achieve a higher bandwidth on cold start because the window scaling in tcp slow start is superior than in a single tcp connection used by HTTP/2.

Additionally, the most common error people do while benchmarking (and i assume the author did too) is to ignore the congestion control's caching of the cwnd in the tcp stack of your OS. That is, once the cwnd is raised from usually 10 mss (~14,6kb for most OSes and setups), your OS will cache the value and re-use the larger cwnd as initcwnd when you open a new tcp socket to the same host. So if you do 100 benchmark runs, you will have one "real" run, and 99 will re-use the cwnd cache and produce non-realistic results. Given the author didn't mention tcp congestion control at all and didn't mention any tweaks to the tcp metrics cache (you can disable or reset it through changing /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_no_metrics_save on linux) I assume all the measured numbers are BS.
> You could make it more complicated by adding nuance like whether this will drive an increase in demand for imported pork as well which could, over time, stimulate USA/Worldwide feed demand as non-Chinese Piglette refineries expand

What I find most interesting about this is that by importing pork, hypothetical China effectively imports the same quantity of American soybeans, but without paying the soybean tariff.
- Wave of antitrust legislation takes hold and some large tech companies are broken up or forced to sell, making their owners even richer.

- traditional higher ed becomes increasingly irrelevant. A degree is still prized, especially as a way out of blue collar work, but it will be even more disconnected from one’s actual job.

- The higher ed space sees interesting new experiments with new models of tenure, teaching and delivery.

- Amazon figures out how to make online shopping suck significantly less

- samples collected from the mars 2020 mission will be definitively negative for ancient life forms

- whole brain emulation is achieved with an insect brain

- politicians on both sides use disruptions from tech and climate change to push ever more extreme positions, and run on platforms that promise easy solutions. Whether or not such disruptions are actually disruptive, the increasingly hyperbolic media will help make it sound that way as it scrambles for relevance in a hyper competitive space.

- China starts a eugenics breeding program with modified germ lines to create smarter citizens.

- GI problems continue to plague developed nations

- daily life will seem to be more complicated than ever

- the long peace continues for another decade

- we look back fondly on this post in 10 years and at what a simpler time 2020 was
There aren’t sufficient amount of people willing to do the highly undesirable work of caring for sick, contagious, handicapped, possibly dangerous people without money as the end goal.
I'm using a similar setup on macOS, except mine does not use modifier keys; it just logs me out.

YubiCo even provides the documentation to set it up via OpenSC. I guess you can also set macOS up to hibernate and destroy the FileVault key.

(My adversary is not government etc (who can execute a cold boot attack anyway), it is thieves while I'm in transit, and clients around the office.)
... but if developed countries are asking developing countries to reduce their emissions it means they are implicitly asking for a price raise too, no? So, why not do that?
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3042991/chin...

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3042122/chi...

These should cover it. Most dystopian story I've read in years!
I don't think that people using sci-hub would need a translation to German / or whatever, since most stuff they'd like to access there is in English anyways.

Also, promoting this here instead of just linking the mirror on the scihub wiki page makes it look shady.
The first 'western' autocrat steps forward triggering a chain reaction.

Global warming reaches levels that causes countries most affected to consider war, could lead to them forming an alliance (i.e. threatening war to incentivice others to take this more seriously)

Type theory will grow and will be applied to more domains.

Consumer computer hardware will mostly stay stagnant but alternative or open architectures as well as pinephone-esque devices will trudge on, slowly closing the gap.

Wikipedia will collapse under the weight of special interest groups' propaganda (governments, religions,...). Of course this will happen relatively silently but it will become increasingly apparent.

Some nations will step forward protecting library genesis and scihub. This will be a relatively small part of the US increasingly losing it's 'soft' influence. It will feel pressured to declare war on some 'ally' to reclaim it.

There's going to be a Snowden from some other country.

Free social network finally emerges, has a cryptocurrency primitive that starts to displace nationally minted currencies. It'll be banned in some places and increasingly used as a system of government elsewhere.

A new religion may also start forming from the convergence of people trying to understand how to avoid black mirror. This could be expressed as 'offliners' but I think there is a chance an actual religious narrative/organisation will be used.

Making phones and laptops p2p mesh networks becomes plug'n'play as 'normal' people get increasingly interested in paying money for devices capable of it.

No 6g.

It starts to become more common for friendgroups / families to rent their own server together. This will be from businesses grown out of fediverse.
5. what applications do you envisage that 100% of enterprises couldn't already solve far more easily with a database?
How are you "asyncing" to the "backgroundworker" thread? Await? Task.run? Are you using a .Return?

I can't see your code, but this sounds more like a misunderstanding of the requirements around a UI thread and the task scheduler than any issue with async.

https://medium.com/rubrikkgroup/understanding-async-avoiding...

And the below seems to be a correct implementation of your desired functionality.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9868929/how-to-edit-a-wr...
>Focus on the critical functions that will be used most often.

That short sentence sums up the mindset behind prototyping.
Focus only on the most critical function, and just do it.
I just did now! And came back to comment how I had not read to the end! :)
Well, the other issue is that the Macbook was bad for document reading. I ended up carrying round it and an iPad a fair amount of the time.

I still think hinged convertables can work even if a lot of the industrial design on existing models sucks.
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Hack, right? I'm curious as well.
Nor do business mergers in general. The benefit of mergers is that bigger companies have bigger benefits for top executives. For example, higher status, bigger paycheck and better car for the CEO.
> fire departments aren't run like a business

In parts of the US, fire departments are run like a business http://www.nbcnews.com/id/39516346/ns/us_news-life/t/no-pay-...
The FAA proposed rule on drone identification will kill drone flying
More like "An Incomplete Guide to installing PostgreSQL". The ego of millenials these days...
1. Current wave of AI research is dead within 5 years, AI winter commences as semiconductor density growth slows. AI will be able to solve problems, but not formulate problems (and thus invent solutions). There is only so much to be explored with "we used method x on dataset y and got results"
2. There will not be a huge technological breakthrough, akin to wireless connectivity and cameras in this decade. We will still be using phones and laptops in 10 years.
2. Anti-trust goes mainstream again. Some of big tech gets broken up or regulated.
3. Self driving cars will reach Level 4 slowly.
3. Robots slowly start to grasp "complex" tasks. Folding T-Shirts is a recent development as of 2019. People who are unable to learn fast, keep up and get jobs will begin to more strongly resent the wealthy. Taxes on the wealthy go up, but not enough to curtail the rise of socialism.
4. The USA will stay politically paralyzed. (dems x reps, cities x towns) It will stay attached to its constitution and traditions, just like it was designed to. USA is not the dream country anymore, Europe is looked up on as the dream place for regular people.
5. Low-cost airline tickets will get more expensive, at least there, climate activists will succeeed.
6. Climate change will not be helped by politicians, but by technology. Solar is already cheaper than nuclear/coal/gas and will replace it. Batteries will get cheaper.
The Archimedes had custom graphics hardware. The VIDC was an Acorn design.
Glad to be of service :-)
Javascript, just like the previous decade.
Rise of MeTooBots: scientists develop AI to detect harassment in emails
In my experience (very large contact center multinational), what killed IE6 in the enterprise was PCI and other security compliance standards. Large companies do whatever it takes to stay compliant to a lot of these standards because having that "stamp of approval" is the only way to keep other equally large companies as clients.
smart != wise
GraalVM is several things.

In this context people are talking about the native-image tool which uses a small JVM written in Java (SubstrateVM) to compile to native code ahead of time, no HotSpot or other JVM dependencies.

There's also Truffle which is a way to put other languages onto the JVM (both HotSpot and SubstrateVM).
I’m always curious about those who use the iPad as a terminal for coding on AWS/etc. Do you use a keyboard with FN keys (e.g. F1, F2)? This has been the main drawback for me on using an iPad to code: the attached keyboard/case combos for iOS never have FN keys. I realize I could carry a separate physical keyboard, but that takes away a good bit of the portability.
Summit Helps to Prepare for Data from the World's Largest Radio Telescope
* C++ 2030 == D 2015

* Javascript is still a thing.

* Proper lightweight AR/VR glasses.

* If it can go into a phone it will. If it can go from a phone into a watch, it will.

* Facebook still around despite feeds being almost 100% adverts.

* Oracle finally beginning to fail. MS/Google/Twitter/FB all still around.

* Some countries go periodically dark on the Internet (see Russia's recent "test" for example).

* China is the #1 economy despite its own credit bubble problems.

* Petrol still dominates over electric (electric cars need a 400 mile range and faster charging to be viable).

* Road charging becomes ubiquitous since taxes can't be collected at the pump any more.

* Climate change is still a thing and another lost decade of politicians procrastinating (especially if Trump is in power for another 5 years).

* First war directly attributed to water scarcity.

* Third world countries still contributing 90% of plastic in the ocean.

* Fusion still 40 years away. Thorium reactors finally commercially in use.

* Planet 9 finally discovered.

* Manned moon landing. Finally.

* Still no room temperature superconductivity.

* Drones become much smaller - firework displays replaced by drones.
I'm just relaying what my gf that teaches young people told me.

Some even told her that they'd prefer "typing" essays on a mobile phone, because their ability to use real keyboard is low. To me it's baffling, but I didn't grow up with a smartphone.