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Not sure how this is relavent, but IE had document.execCommand('ClearAuthenticationCache'); for http or TLS auth. Dont think other browsers have anything
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Are you saying the investigators think it was arson? Wikipedia says the "Paris prosecutor" has said they don't believe it was a deliberate act, but I'm curious what you're referring to.
They may happen to have a prodigious ego.
Here's the problem, your language isn't the optimization issue... until it is. You optimize all the hot-spots on your profile, and then... all the sudden you're looking at a very big samey chart of everything taking slightly-too-long even though you've optimized every possible thing and there's nothing that particularly sticks and and there's nothing you can do about it. And then you're totally fucked, because you're looking at a rewrite at that point; probably in a language your team doesn't know and doesn't like.

Sometimes language matters! Not always, but frequently!
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I am in love with books and the notion that you can talk with another person long dead without any distortion or distraction. Some rules I abide by:

1. Any book that you expect to read once and once only (popular science, pulp fiction, toilet-reading) rent from the library. Keep it by your bed at night and give-er by the lamplight.

2. Any book that you can read, word-over-word, end-on-end, without confusion or introspection can be consumed in condensed form. Condensed forms come in many guises:(audio-books, blog-feeds, wiki-pages etc.)

3. You are missing out on all the glories that are not defined by 1 and 2. A good book should be a conversation, held at length, over time.

You asked for philosphy in another comment:

Victor Frankyl: Man in search of meaning

Marcus Aurelius: Meditations

Jung: Development of Personality, Archetypes/Aion

Nietsche: all and any

For philosophical fiction:

Goethe: Faust

Hemingway: Death in the afternoon (this was my first glimpse into why books can provide lightness of body, displacement of time: wait for the 4th-wall-breaking-rapport with the old woman)

David Foster Wallace:Rise Simba, Infinite Jest, etc.

https://harpers.org/wp-content/uploads/HarpersMagazine-2001-...

There have been studies that your brain scans feeds and webpages differently than text on a page. You set yourself up to not pay attention / are just "scraping the good bits"

Someone mentioned a while back that Infinite Jest (1000 page tome + 300 pages endnotes!) had ~50 pages that made the whole thing worth it. The immediate following comment was "why not just read the 50 pages?". It is the context around which we find our content that gives it worth. The internet allows you to bypass the context.
Depends on what it was doped (not dyed) with. Dopants like magnesium will slowly move through the glass over time and with exposure to might or heat. These new formations may or may not be optically active in our visible range. Some may be more or less intense or change color over time. Many metals may have many colors based on their state in glass, such as gold.
> For one, because he doesn't try to sell you anything.

Publishers of philosophy, literature, history and science books are also trying to make a buck, eh?

> Second, you don't get to "know" because you are hand-fed some hard proofs or figures.

I don't understand this sentence.

> You either know it already (and agree) or can see the point the parent is making, correlate it with your experiences and observations, and recognise it's true -- or, of course, you don't (and e.g. you have a different experience).

Right, and it seems to me that the way forward is to share our experiences in good faith to try to find the mutually true union of our worldviews, eh?

If I understood GP's experiences better I might be better able to understand where a statement that looks to me to be so bizarre ("most problems in your life can't be solved by reading a book, period. Self-help or otherwise.") might make sense. I mean, think about it: books are where we store our knowledge, eh? Is GP including textbooks?

FFS, If you can't solve your problems by reading books we should just burn the libraries?
> got over my "audiobooks aren't real reading" stigma, and have since torn through over 100 books on 2x

So in your post when you refer to "reading", do you actually mean listening to audiobooks? While audiobooks have their place, I don't believe them to be the equivalent of reading. To think so is to believe the value of the book is the content itself, but literature as a medium is more than its written word. Literature can be an art, and not just in terms of prose and the writer behind it, but also in cases before mass printing was invented and entire books were written and illustrated painstakingly by hand.

And between reading and listening, I wouldn't be surprised if reading required more "brain power" to process, in the same way that (supposedly) reading does compared to watching TV. The auditory system is just more innate than the process of reading is, which is a learned skill you aren't born with. Of course this makes audiobooks more accessible and easier to digest, which would be one of their merits for a lot of people. This is my largely unsubstantiated opinion and I'm not trying to insinuate anything in particular. I just believe reading to be its own distinct pastime and skill.

Personally, I can't stand listening to audiobooks, especially while doing menial tasks like chores, because it feels like anytime I get distracted, the words go in and come out the other ear. The retention just isn't there, it might as well be background noise.
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The only time you will ever come to a limitation with Windows is if you want to create an iOS application.
> portable

> #define _GNU_SOURCE

If it's portable, what's the point of defining _GNU_SOURCE? Honest question.
https://archive.is/JNoLA
If you would like to read some actual peer reviewed science, you can view the IPCC 2018 special report which covers the possible outcomes of a near zero CO2 production scenario.

If you're going to dispute the qualifications of the IPCC, it would help to show something peer reviewed by people in the field.
There are payment systems based on human facial recognition. If the model failed, it means losing money. Apparently you can not deny liability because of using a black-box model.
You're not wrong, the universe with SameSite available is safer than the ones without it. The migration is just frustratingly painful for those of us stuck between slow framework updates, unsupported browsers, and customers who are slow to upgrade our software. And for those of us who have csrf protections, it's effort spent just to maintain the status quo ante.
What about Warcraft 3?

Or perhaps you don't consider it an RTS? If not, then what genre would you classify it as?
> Did the CPU work go towards something useful? No? Then it is waste. Some waste is inevitable; that doesn't change what it is. It's still waste. We should minimize waste. It's kind of simple.

Sure, then let us minimize the waste - for example, minimizing the number of man-hours spent on fixing buffer overflows, null pointer dereferences and memory corruptions all over the software ecosystem across a variety of operating systems and architectures. Some languages have already eliminated that waste, by means of automatic memory management and memory safety. This is the part that doesn't agree with your preconceived notions in turn, and therefore you omit it from your posts altogether.

Sure, if you're aiming for a trivial "hello world" program, then you can write it in the language that will give you the best result of the optimization function of time spent writing and debugging it, binary size, syscall size and whatever other measures you might want. So assembly and C are absolutely fine. And then, when you want to quickly and effectively write an actual system that utilizes the features of the respective languages' runtimes, use the same method: write it in the language that'll give you the best results under that same optimization function. And I can bet a few bucks that total development and bugfixing time will skyrocket for the low level languages, giving you all the waste that you mentioned above.

> You're ignoring the actual evidence of people getting important things done in low level languages

Again - I said that these achievements are undisputable and evident. The number of memory safety bugs in these low level languages is also one of them, which is a fact that you keep on ignoring.
Over? With all the new vod services like Netflix, Disney+, Amazon Prime ect ... It all brings back cable souvenirs, meaning than Torrent is stronger than ever.
I'm unsure what you mean by "viable property access," but blacks owned some 14% of farms in the US and around 15M acres of land (not all agricultural) around the turn of the 20th century. Sadly that has shrunk to around 8M acres today.

There is no doubt that the accumulating disadvantages of single parent households (or worse) have had a terrible and disproportionate impact on blacks in the US. Unfortunately that is a much more recent phenomenon give that prior to 1960 the percentage of black children born to unwed mothers was sub-20% but now exceeds 70%. Current rates for white children are around 30% and only Asian children still enjoy a sub-20% unwed mother birthrate.

I'm not clear what "municipal violations" are in this context but certainly would appreciate further clarification especially as they pertain to the black community.
Arch is actually surprisingly stable and even with infrequent updates on the order of months still upgrades cleanly most of the time. The caveats to this were the great period of instability when switching to systemd, changing the /usr/lib layout, etc but those changes are now pretty far in the past.
Because "banning donations" sounds like a great idea to reduce corruption, it's irrelevant.

If you want to "entice" an official, you don't offer them cash. You offer someone in their family a great job. You buy the plot of land next to their house and keep it open and undeveloped. You back away from that deal that you're competing for against the major company in their district. You reach out to friends, colleagues, and vendors in their district and encourage them to support the other guy. You let them know you have a job open for someone exactly like them that opens up whenever they need. You get them a home loan at a fantastic rate not available on the open market. You make a call to your alma mater and recommend their kid or niece get into that amazing university with a great scholarship.

* Those are all real situations in the last ~10-15 years. None of them involved donating to a politician.
Nonetheless your comment made me realize the current propaganda problem has many people acting and in a state of disbelief not dissimilar to being solipsists. I remember reading about that POV quite often in philosophy. So maybe a relevant piece of work exists for just our current problem.
I am worried about the recent trend of "ethical AI", "interpretable models" etc. IMO it attracts people that can't come with SOTA advances in real problems and its their "easier, vague target" to hit and finish their PhDs while getting published in top journals. Those same people will likely at some point call for a strict regulation of AI using their underwhelming models to keep their advantage, faking results of their interpretable models, then acting as arbiters and judges of the work of others, preventing future advancements of the field.
> So it will have the same issues as react native and xamarin will have. What is interesting about flutter is how it doesn't wrap native ui elements, so you don't have to become an expert in all target platforms plus your wrapper platform to fix tricky bugs.

This is definitely one of the best parts of Flutter -- the fact that they've done the tremendous work of making a framework that draws every pixel to the screen is amazing, but that's also a liability. Android/iOS has an ecosystem of things that you can

One thing I ran into during flutter development was that the SQLite library[0] did not support off-device use -- I couldn't even run tests locally without putting them on the device. Maybe that's changed in recent memory, but that really turned me off to it.

There's also the difficulty of acclimating to the BloC paradigm[1][2]. If you hear it explained it seems simple, and then you try to write some code with it and confusion ensues -- it's like flux mixed with FRP-style stream programming and that's the official answer from the Flutter team. Everyone is confused by it and it isn't the easiest thing you could do but the other answers aren't that great either.

> Also I think it's not responsive compared to native because it's javascript and a wrapper, not the specific javascript libraries you are using in between.

So that's the thing -- if you really need native performance (you don't, most of the time, especially most apps are almost web pages). You can write and integrate completely native views with Nativescript, and in fact you can build them with JS because Nativescript has shimmed the entirety of the native APIs -- you can write code like `const intent = new Intent(...);` in JS and get an android-native Intent object. Of course, you can also call native APIs easily when you need the power.

[0]: https://pub.dev/packages/sqflite

[1]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/54114144/bloc-flutter-an...

[2]: https://medium.com/flutterpub/architecting-your-flutter-proj...
Mhm, like being recognized as constant by the compiler and turned into a call to puts?
Solipsism, man, it’s all solipsism. You’re right too.

(On an unrelated note, that’s also what made Star Trek much more interesting to me than Wars. Until pretty recently there weren’t any or only one tv show to really watch in the Wars universe. But lots of Trek.)
For me books are a better entertainment. I find that the long form is good because it helps build my attention span. It's all to easy to slip to barely being able to focus for more then a minute these days. That said here are some tips I've found online for reading books more effectively:

-don't worry about reading speed, you will get better with practice like anything else.

-do close the book at points and try to remember what you've just read. This can help you retain the information better. Sometimes I also like to remember that my subconscious will process the info into the neural net either way so it's like 50% remembered even if I don't consciously know it my decisions are shaped by it a little bit.

-do flip through a book and read random pages before you start. This way you can avoid books that are mostly 'fluff' or that just aren't relevant to what you want to read about. (I only heard this recently and it has been fantastic!)

Personally I like to switch back and forth between a nonfiction book, like about science or computers, and a fiction one that entertains me. That way I get the reward book after a harder book and the cycle keeps me coming back for more. To many textbooks sorts in a row and I get bored.

Another way to remember what you read better is to take notes while you read. These can be annotations in the margins or on a separate piece of paper/computer. I read that just the act of writing those things down helps you remember even if you don't look at it again. `Mind Maps` might also be useful to you in understanding what you learn.

One last thing you probably already know but telling someone else about what your reading can help you practice recall and find out what parts of it your missing like a mini oral test.
Thanks. I didn't think about it. I was only thinking of the general case of sorting.

Integer sorting seems like a case where there's meaningful metadata (maximum integer) and the algorithm is written only for that case (and assumes suitable hardware). These aren't radical assumptions and the optimization may have a lot of practical applications. But once I get to specify the inputs, then O(1) sorting is trivial. Specify the input as sorted lists. To me, it only seems a matter of degree. But admittedly, what can be represented as an integer is a much more reasonable degree of specification.
This seems off topic according to the Hacker News Guidelines.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> but the assumption that everyone may have stable, reliable families to depend on does not hold in the modern world

How convenient then that this assumption just so happens to hold quite well even in the longer run for those you would think of as "privileged", while others will just have to do without. Sorry, I don't buy it. Uptake of sensible, middle-class values should not be construed as some privilege that will always be inherently out of reach for others. I am indeed sorry if you felt that I was name-calling in my previous comment; but it seems clear to me that attitudes like yours are doing these folks a pretty big disservice.

Should we commit resources to help "present and coming" generations? Of course - various sorts of criminal justice reform can be a big help here, for example. But that's a wholly separate argument than whether forming families is only for the 'privileged'.
I take that back, it looks like it was pulled from the App Store a year ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/iosgaming/comments/8z6fyi/heroes_of...

That’s disappointing; sorry to get your hopes up
I'm starting to like async as in libuv and JS. I don't know what people think of JS but I've done condition variables (Java) and semaphores through shared memory and I actually think async is going to rule long term. Yeah, JS is not procedural. But if you don't fight it it's actually quite elegant. And I'm an old. If I can learn a new way of thinking you can too. And by "don't fight it" I mean no Promises or async / await. Those are just window dressing (and worthless IMO). Just use callbacks. Attach them to an object if you want a single object to pass around like you might with a Promise (that's all a Promise is anyway). You will need to use an arrow function to set "this" though.
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I would shop this!
(and send it to others ) - especially if sending a playcard gift.

reminds me of about a year ago I was searching for ad free apps for the play store and found zero resources - I don't mind paying for something, but I want it ad free / total privacy and zero interruptions.. never did find a way to search the play store for things in this way.. it's even obscured within the play store on more details - you can get ranges of prices for in app purchases, but nothing tells me, pay X to get ad free..

So I found f-droid eventually, but I want a way to give from the play store to others - just no list of no BS games and apps..

luckily I found 'missed reminder' and 'rssDemon' long ago when it was easier to find a single-price-point, premium version available app.. now a days it's too much work trying to use the play store or the G search engine.. this noBS site sounds like heaven.
Something Kernighan's compiler didn't do.
Anyway I can automate applying for a job now. That would be the ultimate tool to complement this.
Sure, and I've done partial upgrades and it was mostly fine:) It just surprised me to see the devs going out of their way to support it on volunteer time. On the other hand, maybe that's exactly the reason; maybe someone said "hey look, I can make static packages that are immune to library changes! I guess I'll publish these in case they're useful". Open source is fun like that:)
Well I fear even if the information is encrypted alone once quantum computing breaks modern AES encryption standards that’s going to be a yikes. So I’d be more comfortable with encryption as well as access controls.
And so we now go down the rabbit hole of political correctness, ending free speech and hope of enlightenment from this discussion.
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Easy mistake. I edited my original comment to clarify which article I meant.
I suggest reading for fun. Find some good fiction, and just read it for pleasure. Long-form fiction will never be obsolete, either in print or on a device.

(If you like sci-fi, I suggest starting with Issac Asimov's foundation series.)

Oh, don't waste your time with self-help books. They're mostly garbage written by people trying to justify their over-inflated ego.
> There have been studies that your brain scans feeds and webpages differently than text on a page.

This +1. Practicing reading longform books helps your brain work on regulating and keeping a longer and longer attention span, which can be hugely helpful.

As experiments go, it might be worth swapping for a while, and seeing if you notice a change in attention and concentration. I notice when I stop reading books, I get a lot more impatient and I can't focus as well. (N=1, YMMV)
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No, that's not true. The new default behavior doesn't change the way cookies on ordinary websites work at all; that's why the change was viable. It affects third-party cookies.
WebFS stores data in things it calls "Stores". Stores can be anything that takes data and gives back a key to retrieve the data. Right now we have an IPFS and HTTP store built. An FTP server could also work as a store.

If you or a friend run the HTTP or FTP server then it will persist the data for you. IPFS doesn't incentivize data persistence so if WebFS is working on top of IPFS it inherits that problem. You could run WebFS on top of one of the storage networks and persisting your blobs would be incentivized.

WebFS is storage layer agnostic. Give it a Store, and it will give you a file system.
Try it (and submit some games)!:

https://nobsgames.stavros.io/

Obviously, the UI is going to be entirely replaced (and the iOS info fetching isn't ready yet).
Why Is New York City’s Skyline Always Lit Up?