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> Force devices to use 5 GHz

You can force devices to use 5 GHz by having different ESSIDs for the 2.4 GHz network and the 5 GHz network. A device configured to use the home-5g network won't try to connect to the home-2g4 network, and vice versa.
Facebook already has their claws in so much of my data, why not hand over my donation history as well?
I had voice dictation software for my Windows 3.1 PC in the early 90s. Most of this tech has been proven for a long time, but it's taken decades to figure out how to make them usable and useful.
SMB/CFS/Samba are not meant to be used directly over the internet. eg. without a tunnel. The best alternative right now is Dropbox unless you are a developer.
Create multi-cluster Istio service meshes the easy way
I believe this is the Fed Philadelphia source

https://www.philadelphiafed.org/-/media/research-and-data/re...
Oh well. There is a cookie notice that takes more than 50% of screen real estate when I load the page.
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Valuable News on BSD 2020/01/06
The article reads to me as "I didn't get my way and our code isn't perfect, therefore it's everyone's fault but mine and if only we'd embraced X, this would have all been avoided."
Your job as developer is not to improve your CV, you need to solve a problem and you should use the best tool for that job not what looks cool on your CV, you should use cool shit on your own time not attempt to force on your work project latest cool stuff and 1 year later leave and let the rest deal with the fallout.
That's situational in the UK IT is short hand for working in tech
It's actually useful in high density environments to have wireless signals absorbed. Say you're in an office: there may be 3-10 wireless devices per desk. Have those signals reach an access point and then die is a good thing. Another scenario is a stadium. It's best that communication doesn't propogate or reflect or nobody will be getting a communication line.
This is fascinating to me since I've never worked (since graduating, anyway) outside of the Upper Midwest. I worked for a startup here once, but that was bar none the worst job I've ever had.

Job offers have never been anything but a straight salary and a 401k, sometimes with matching, sometimes not. No bonuses or stock ever. Raises have usually been just below inflation rates. Vacation peaked for me at 3 weeks.

For context, I'm a senior software engineer with twelve years of experience. I make $130k right now.
One interpretation implies the weather is getting worse(equally costly stuff). The other implies people just have more costly stuff(same weather pattern).
The December 2019 Issue
Ask HN: How to Prevent Website(s) from Fingerprinting?
I use Mozilla (71.0), with add ons - ghostery, privacy badger, ABP, No script. In privacy setting, for Mozilla, i chose custom,i.e to block fingerprinting.
I ran EFF's Panopticlick [1] and it should that i am still being fingerprinted.

how to stop this?

[1]https://panopticlick.eff.org/
I admit I did the computation 80kE ~= $150k from the top of my head, it’s not super accurate and will depend on countries and the status of the employee (different status imply different employer deductions).

In France for instance, people will insist on having the “cadre” status, which require more employer contribution and also has implications on how their liabilities toward the company are judged. This should raise the bar to $150k.

Edit:

I did the computation for France and end up with 130k EUR super gross for a 80k EUR gross.
So that would be an equivalent of $145k. Not far from my guess.

I used the french government calculator to compute the exact values:
https://www.economie.gouv.fr/entreprises/simulateur-cout-emb...
I'm in central Canada and work remotely for an org in the bay area, and this is (generally speaking) true.

As the remote worker you're always going to be a step behind. Still totally worth it, financially speaking, but know that your triumphs are smaller and your fuck-ups larger while remote.
SoftBank has walked away from startups, months after submitting term sheets
An example of a cap: the 50% match is capped at 6% of your salary so if your salary if $150,000 then they will only match that 50% on the first $9,000 of eligible contributions, so $4,500.

I actually think this is a terrible system as it punishes most the people who need it (ie lower level employees) but here we are.

For completeness, there is also vesting, which I mentioned. This means you get the match but if you leave within a certain period (eg 2 years) they will claim back your match.
I'm not suggesting Amazon would or even should defend their API from Oracle. Just making the counter argument that while not defending your copyrights doesn't lead to a point where you can lose your copyright on something (Which can happen with trademarks) but purposely not defending them can lead to a point where you have inadvertently created an implied license causing headaches later down the road if you did decide to defend them at a later date.

For an example, lets just say for the sake of argument Amazon did decide to defend their API from Oracle's implementation and take action. Oracle could use as a defence (But prob not their only line of defense) that "That Internet Archive, LeoFS, Riak CS, Minio, cloudian and others all have S3-Like API's. Amazon must be aware that these products exist and by allowing such products to exist without defending their rights (what ever they are) to the API they allowed an implied license for the API to be created thus Oracle's implementation is just another implementation of that implied license.

A "Workaround" to such could be taking lets say Internet Archive to one side and saying "Hey, we like what you do, but we have a copyright on that API you are using. Pay us $1 and we will grant you a license to use that API.".

Personally I dislike the idea of enforcing copyrights on an API (Sure, enforce them code behind that API, unless you wish to give that away) and feel that the products using them should stand on their own.
Hi, that's a great idea, it would be a good exercise for me especially. I always enjoy watching Andy's live zig coding on youtube.
That’s not true

It is absolutely true. And it is both.

On the machine I'm using right now, opening About This Mac shows "iMac (21.5-inch, Late 2013)."

The identifier you're talking about can only then be reached by clicking System Report... and looking under Model Identifier, where it is listed as "iMac14,1."
Outlets also don't need ulterior motives to produce biased output. If most of your staff hold a conservative outlook, they'll naturally be more skeptical of non-conservative viewpoints in their reporting etc.
This guy is a downright idiot if he thinks that he has any more control over his keys on desktop Linux without actually auditing all the source code himself.

The idea that ElementaryOS is less likely to steal your coins than Windows or OS X is simply laughable.
He's just saying is that he sees a problem, but no solution.
Software engineering would have been a higher quality profession if we were still punching machine code into cards! Now we need to patch over the mess, deal with all this operating system nonsense, and not to mention this entire internet hype.
It's clearly an issue that the news service is grappling with, though you can argue how successfully. Bloomberg has a long-stamding policy of not covering Bloomberg. But how do you make that work when he is a candidate? Their solution: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/nov/25/michael-bloomb...
Disable Javascript, and the content is displayed instantly without a popup.
GB power system disruption on 9 August 2019 [pdf]
> Your 80k€ gross in e.g. France should be the equivalent of $150k for a US worker

I hear this a lot, but if you're earning $150K in the US, you almost certainly have 100% medical coverage. At least, I do, and everyone I know does. The US medical system is broken, but it's OK for high-income earners. It's the low-to-middle income folks who are really hurt by it.

> retirement savings

Again, if you're earning $150K in the US, you probably have a nice 401K and stock options. If you're smart with your money, you can probably retire in 10 years. Again, anecdotal, but I know many who've done just that.
I'm gonna die before be I can retire (cuz shit happened). I decided to deal with this by getting a remote job and traveling. My cost of living is lower than when I lived in SF, and every weekend can be a mini vacation with a little planning. It's a new development, just since December. I'm planning to do it thru end of year to see how I like it.
Worked on the Wang 2200 seriers (MVP, other?) in the early 80's. Stationed in Panama and they were used at the local Army Communications Command for telephone operations and perhaps other uses. It supported 8 users, had 64K (?) and started with 10 MB hard drive - 5 MB fixed and 5 MB removeable. Eventually added a 72 MB drive.

I used it to reconfigure some Army communications software. Cut my teeth on BASIC with me, and it prepared me for full-time, non-military programming.

Good memories. Thanks.
Well. BH owns Geico or prolly the largest shareholder. Also one of their most lucrative investments.

I personally dislike Geico’s spammy marketing but I guess it’s minting billions for BH.

If it were to me, they’d be a law that all insurance companies need to be a co-op or non profit. Profit in insurance (esp for health insurance) makes no sense for a country.
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American who has spent 16 years in Europe (Ireland, Netherlands, Switzerland).

> $80K goes a lot further in Europe than it does in the US.

I would like to see evidence supporting this assertion. Luxury meats are about the only thing I can think of that are more expensive stateside.
I actually use R mostly because of its data.table package. It is much faster and more concise than pandas, which is a nightmare to work with. Sure, you can get the job done in pandas, but you often have to wait ~10x longer for your commands to run and sometimes, I simply cannot use pandas at all because I run out of memory.

https://h2oai.github.io/db-benchmark/

People are usually pretty surprised when I take the stance that R is faster than Python for the things most people actually care about, which is data manipulation and model building.
Apperantly not. According to this thread and hacker news in general you shouldn't diversify your media consumption. Unless what is meant by that is different sources with broadly the same agenda.

Personally, I find this boring. Perhaps you agree.
Originally that's how it happened: I was working on a product and frustrated with build perf, so built parcel in my spare time to scratch that itch. Eventually convinced the team to adopt it.

Atlassian has 2 full time engineers working on Parcel now though, so they've made a pretty big investment.
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Off-topic: I really enjoy seeing online articles before 2010 or so that have modern stylesheets. It shows that writing is timeless, and the power of separating presentation and content.
Which would be ok if they subsequently did not complained constantly about loneliness and being single. Partner for regular sex is relationship still, as much as partner for any regular activity.

And complained about women they date being primary interested in them paying for them. Like, he trying to attract her primary on money, who is going to take that offer?

If males look for sex date and women look for relationship, you have mismatch. And no group should feel angry or entitled about the other not being interested in them - they want fundamentally different things. In that case, he is not getting date because he is player and women around happen to be not interested in that.

And then he sees another dude in long term relationship with a woman that seeks that and is all offended about unfair world.

And also I kind of thing that if this is the need, prostitution should be an option. It is kind of same thing, except transaction is clear from get go.
> Statisticians, economists, biologists, social scientists all learn and work with R

They used to work with R. And the old generation of engineers used to work with Matlab. The old generation still does.

The new generation has been using actual programming languages, typically Python, since high school. They were the first wave of graduates in 2019 that specialised in a discipline and were also competent in software engineering.

The old generation is going to be driven out of the job market by the new in the span of 5 years as they saturate the senior tier of their respective fields. How do you compete for a job when all you know is R and your discipline, against someone who's a full fledged software engineer who knows your discipline and can put models directly into production use?
> because even with a $200 per day flight, I would still retire a decade earlier than taking a local job

You'd get so many air miles too!
Note that a decent fraction of the subway riders at Penn Station are going to be transfers to/from NJT/LIRR/Amtrak, so naïvely adding all the numbers is going to double-count a lot of people. But even if you use that double-counted number, you're only hitting ~160-170 million people. Remove the double-counting, and you're going to be down below Zurich's 150 million easily.
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Sure, but mostly I assume that the alterior motives are things like "Make the reader excited to read more here (and make us more money)" or "Don't make the reader feel confused (and possibly go away and stop making us money)." It's unusual that you have situations where a news purveyor has forces acting stronger than the idealism of its employees or the necessities of the markets.
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I actually use R mostly because of its data.table package. It is much faster and more concise than pandas, which is a nightmare to work with. Sure, you can get the job done in pandas, but you often have to wait ~10x longer for your commands to run and sometimes, I simply cannot use pandas at all because I run out of memory.

https://h2oai.github.io/db-benchmark/

People are usually pretty surprised when I take the stance that R is faster than Python for the things most people actually care about, which is data manipulation and model building. Python has its datatable library which is approaching data.tables speed however it is very much a work in progress, and does not have very useful features yet.
So much slow animation.
if the learning/enjoyment/motivation curve flattens you have choices.

either accept it and settle at an employer, or change jobs.
often this happens around 5-6 years in if not sooner.

its ok to settle at an employer and just be happy wiht your life. if it sucks the life out of you i'd suggest finding a new challenge. with a resume of longer term employment at a big corporate like google , finding a new challenge should be doable.

perhaps you enjoy a startup, its a lot more dynamic and versatile, though often pays less atleast initially. personally i hate that, and try to challenge myself in my current work rather than looking for different jobs. but then again i don't have issues with my job being a bit boring / stale as i try to find things outside of work to fufill me which can also help a lot to fight depression / stress etc.

in the end you sound like you need some thing you are passionate about to work on to feel good about yourself, this is normal, but it doesn't have to be your job which gives you this.
> How'd you manage that?

Well... Nova was getting beta-testers when I was searching for editors. I thought Nova would be great, so I decided to beta-test right away.

> I must've missed something, I've owned every single product Panic has put out and never got any marketing emails about it :(.

I'm pretty sure Panic didn't send marketing emails for a closed beta test; it was a little buggy back then when it first started.

> How's it been?

Well, it's Panic; so you can trust the app quality.
I stopped using it because the autocomplete for JS wasn't really great as it lacked a proper LSP client at the moment; there were tools (extension APIs) to trivially connect Nova to a LSP server, but I didn't have enough time to play around with writing extensions.

I think it now gained out-of-the-box LSP support; would be sufficient for now.

Edit: I tried it again, and out-of-the-box LSP support for JS still doesn't look like it exists; jump-to-definition is not working :-(
People who second-guess themselves make worse decisions, study finds
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Actually, again as someone who has some real life experience with a number of different systems, including

- pip for Python,

- NPM,

- Nuget

- and Maven (and Ant)

Maven is by far my favorite, despite XML.

In fact, give how small pom files are and how little you have to deal with them (if you know what you are doing) I find it amazing how many comments I have had to read about "XML-hell" etc.
Thank you! I will have a look :)
Depending on where you live, you could start with introducing clover into your yard. It grows well in most of the US, tends to be more drought tolerant than many grasses, is easier on the soil (requires less soil treatment), and flowers nicely part of the season, which is great for bees and other pollinators. It will co-exist with grasses, so you don't need to do anything beyond tossing seed in the early spring and letting it germinate, just as you would do with grass seed.

Weekly maintenance is similar - just mow it (though let it grow long when it's flowering - cut off the flowers and you lose the pollinators).
Python 2 Series to be retired by April 2020
I’d suspect a lot of those change and go scenarios are backup/redundancy failure. Probably could have made it on a single, but thank god we have regulations saying hell no.
Actually, it is mostly for idealistic reasons. Scientists compartmentalize and often don't view it as corner cutting with respect to the science. I'll try to explain.

Scientists generally like doing science. Nowadays, the higher you get in science the more you get buried under things that are not science - endless project proposals, reports, reviews, applications and yes, publications. Most scientists cut corners as much as they can get away with on most of these because if you don't, you will never get to actually doing science (others just work 100 hour weeks, but you can't really sustain that).

Now unlike all of the bureaucratic garbage publications are supposed to be about communicating your work to your peers, and integral part of science, but in the existing system it's really hard to actually retain that view. Why? Because publications are now intrinsically linked to all the metrics - you need X publications for project Y, containing the right set of buzzwords, submitted to journals that satisfy the right quantitative metrics and are listed in the right databases, with the right set of coauthors, references and acknowledgments and you need to submit them before the right deadline, or else. Spend a decade or two in that environment and it's easy to lump writing publications along with the endless proposals and reports - as mindless drudgery you have to dispense with in order to squeeze out some time for actual science.

Of course, you also need to devote enough attention to all the things I listed and much more in order to actually retain your ability to do science and not starve for it, so it's an eternal balancing act that breeds a lot of resentment.
My parents cut the lawn but otherwise do nothing to it. It abounds with many different insect species: ants, bees, grasshoppers, dragonflies, butterflies, moths

Many different flowers and grasses grow, along with strawberries, clover, etc.

This may depend on climate; they’re in eastern canada. And I’m sure there would be arrange things to create an even better bug environment. But the default lawn can be quite good for insects if you just let it grow. I always hated those sterile green lawns people made; the varied lawn we had was much prettier.
Even weirder than that, it intentionally fails on \r\n newline, so windows text files straight up don't work by default.
Along those lines, "Philadelphia" cream cheese was invented in Goshen, New York. The city name was used because at the time, "Philadelphia" was synonymous with "quality."

You run into a lot of this kind of thing if you're in to word origins.
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For the record, the last time I called python from R its memory usage ballooned to 10 times its normal size.
Telecoms is a bit more rigorous when it comes to standards :-)

Back when I worked in that area our standards collection for x.400 /x.500 took up about 1/3 of a full hight cupboard
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It is possible for something to intentionally have a double meaning.

Given the overall naming convention I'd actually hazzard a guess that Sid the ToyStory character was the initial reason for the name and Still In Development is a backronym.
"Turn to Christ in prayer" like what? If you do that and 'Christ' is your mental anchor point, you will never be mentally free.

You will get stuck.

You can easily find social interactions without blocking your thinking like that.

Also 'Quit porn'? How much porn did you consume on a daily basis that you really think this is in any way relevant?

My short list would be more like: work on yourself; put yourself out there -> rinse and repeat.
That's more of a "how do we manage people in a knowledge industry" problem, not a function of employee-desk visibility.

We already have webcams and software on corporate laptops that logs every single keystroke. I'd argue it's already been solved, just not implemented.
Well, if you want to know the total economic loss due to weather, you might also want to e.g. include $900 million events.

If you want to know whether there is more disastrous weather in general, you probably don't want to completely ignore the vast majority of land. (Where destruction amounting to $1 billion is fairly unlikely)

For almost all interesting questions around changing trends in catastrophic weather's effect on the economy, I'd want a different measurement. What would you think, you could use this for?
Use tor browser, its designed so that every one has the same fingerprint iirc.
As an ancestor in this thread pointed out: it's hard/impossible to go without unsafe in a kernel.

Proof (and they have a policy to only use unsafe when not otherwise possible):

https://github.com/redox-os/kernel/search?q=unsafe&unscoped_...