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This will get buried, but whatever, here are my $0.02 as an Airpods user. I have the gen 1 airpods, have had them about 1.5 years and overall, I have been pleased. Many people complain about battery life in the gen 1, I've never experienced this, but I typically only use 1 pod at a time and cycle them out when the battery gets low on one.

Pros: I think that the overall design/form-factor is the true winner. The conveniently pocketable charging case, and the ability to wear them during physical activities without falling out, without the need for annoying straps etc is a huge win. Seriously. My hobby is skateboarding, and I have taken countless falls, tons of high-impact activity, and have never once had them fall out. Being free of wires also helps this. The pairing capabilities are fine (Mac and Iphone user), but I agree with what others are saying in that other options also handle this (almost) as well. I switching from IOS to Mac to be mostly seamless, but sometimes have issues switching from Mac to IOS. The sound quality is, meh, but this is Bluetooth, if you want audiophile quality, you must look for wired.

Cons: One major gripe I have with the Airpods is that, while using 'Find-My' works great if you lost an Airpod outside the case (while paired), it does not work at all when the pods are in the case. I understand the charging case has no speaker, therefore no good way to alert, but if Apple had this feature on a new version, it might be enough to make me buy them before my current Airpods reach EOL. My second complaint, is that I feel like Apple is under-utilizing them as an input device for IOS/Mac. You have the capability of summoning siri, and skipping tracks, but you can't do both on a single pod. This design is bad UX for people like me, who typically only use 1 pod at a given time. I also think it would be nice to adjust volume with a gesture. I also get that Apple probably doesn't want to have feature overlap between Airpods and Apple watch, but I digress.

Overall, despite some gripes, I don't really see any better options at this time for what I need them to do. When my Gen 1s die, I will shell out for new ones. I hope that Apple doesn't just rest on their laurels and actually adds some new features/capabilities on subsequent releases, but I'm not holding my breath.
Because we are human, science in practice will always fall short of perfect adherence of the scientific method. However, the fact remains that the two are fundamentally different, because one is existentially founded on dogma, and the other isn't.
So now your solution is for them to leave and go elsewhere. That's fine, it's workable.

I just objected to this idea that they should work on their interestingness and that doing so would somehow solve the problem of them finding someone. I think you acknowledge that even if they all become incredibly interesting, they wouldn't all be able to find partners.
Yeah, we're saying two different parts of the related thing. Changing Mario's x coordinate is called manipulating his subpixels, which is necessary to manipulate where the warp pipe sends you.
UK's at the verge of Brexit and my hunch is things like immigration are going to be super messy for years to come. Just a heads up.
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Can we also have some sort of a scrumish gathering, ASAP, to declare the correct use of the word "definition", because sometimes it seems we use this word arbitrarily.
There's a high possibility that many people haven't discovered that feature because covers often interfere with the swiping from outside gesture. Or anything related to touch at the edge of the screen, like dragging apps onto the next screen.
The government doesn’t get to choose what gets displayed on the news.

I am sure the news would love to run information about the prosecution of foiled terrorists.

Could it perhaps be that terrorism is a vastly overhyped threat, and that effectively zero people are undertaking it?
> For many, maybe even most, the situation is reversed.

Big claim, with no evidence what so ever. Consider this a "Citation needed".
> including synchronizing audio across groups of speakers, adjusting the group volume, and setting up devices on a local wireless network.

I'm sorry but patents like this shouldn't really be enforceable, its completely anti-competitive.
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The last time I went to the bathroom as a prank HR had to have another talk with me.
These fires are significantly worse than they should be, not to mention our average summer heat rising & the fire season lengthening every year.

We are Australia, we have fires every year. We understand that forests burn naturally, and we understand what that looks like. It's taught to every second grader during fire season.

This isn't that.
Do you mean "Reduce Motion" under Display?
> I don't trust my ISP

Then switch to one you do trust.
Quality varies wildly but if you're not adverse to reddit, check out /r/AppIdeas
so if the data could represent any image (not sure if the term "any" is truly infinite or just very large) then at least Bouman's algorithm and work sets a stake in the ground and challenges other scientists to explain why it does or doesn't belong there.

Reading this article makes it seem like the work is a scientific version of my kids artwork. Interesting to the right audience, tells you a lot about who created it but bearing only a slight semblance to reality.
You got fooled by a slick marketing campaign.

Around fork time, there was a coordinated push, including websites, subreddits, youtube videos (title of video by jimmy Song interviewing Roger Ver was first known use), and the censored 'bitcoin' forums all calling the fork 'bcash'. One week later, Samson Mow even did a guest column for Forbes magazine[a] mentioning the term. Adam Back later Chastised Cobra for not calling it bcash.

The goal appeared to be two-fold:

1. Strip Bitcoin Cash of the name
2. Frame it as a scam, especially if we take back the name.

a. https://fortune.com/2017/08/07/bitcoin-cash-bch-hard-fork-bl...

"The newly created Bitcoin Cash (BCH) is a rushed spinoff of Bitcoin (BTC), a clonecoin of which there have been many in Bitcoin’s past. Because the name is confusing, many have taken to calling it “Bcash” to avoid buyer confusion."
git will open pico if you haven't configured an editor. It's annoying.

If you have configured an editor, hopefully you already know how to quit.
Yeah, I find MTW's Gravitation easier going, and Knuth's treatise more fun.
I think this article is running off on a wild goose chase.

I remember looking into this when it all came out and I don't think Prof Bouman's algorithm was actually used for that picture. Her TED talk was great, and I think that's why everyone latched onto it, but IIRC they ended up using a different reconstruction algorithm.

Some people were unreasonably concerned with who actually did what with that image, and I wouldn't normally care about it. It's just that this article is trying to cast doubt on the existence of black holes by attacking an algorithm that wasn't even used to generate the picture they're showing on the page.
> Absolute truth must exist. If there was no such thing as absolutely truth then it is absolutely true that there is no absolute truth. In other words, a logical contradiction.

We can play the metalogical game the other way too.

If all statements about X being true are language for "I the speaker believe X to be true but I understand the statement's truth is relative to my perspective", then all statements about truth are non-absolute, including this one without contradiction.
Emergency vehicles are exempt from many laws and granted priority exactly for this reason - so that they reach you in 5 min, quite an impossible task given the congestion. I'm not sure about Norway, but definitely in Poland.

Suburbs too dense sounds like a virtual problem. Concentrate like Singapore or Seoul, more density yet less traffic. Even more ecological if public transportation works properly.

US population density is kept artificially low because everyone wants to own land. That is a "dream" sold by realtors, with obvious lack of focus on the costs of it.
Maybe it's different in the USA. In France, more than a hundred killed in a night is very alarming news. Do you think Gendarmerie should forget about terrorists so they can focus on more "boring" causes?

Sad I need to say: I don't agree with the tone of the article. I was just responding to a comment that said exactly that.
I really wish people (you) would read.

> The other thing that rings true in the NYT story is the detail that Google told Sonos it would pull Google Assistant support if Sonos enabled simultaneous wake words. That’s the feature which lets speakers listen for both “Alexa” and “Okay Google” at the same time. Google really comes off looking like a bully.
Without phase information the cat probably looks like a black hole if transformed back into image space.
The title of the html page has a couple extra words. Maybe Verge tried to change the title to remove `Google lawsuit` and forgot the apostrophe.

>Sonos’ Google lawsuit says what every smaller tech company was thinking: working with big tech sucks - The Verge
The non-free binary is the DRM implementation.

The bug also mentions openh264 but it's BSD licensed so I'm confused as to why anyone considers it non-free.
Why? The patent would be for specific implementations to achieve these features. They aren't trivial.
We just need the "how to install vim" as 3rd on the podium and we're done :)

side note: of course it's installed by default in pretty much every Linux distro, but alas...
In one case data directly about the object in question were thrown out, in the other case, data were ignored (analogously: throwing out images of stars when cataloging galaxies based on priors of galaxy spectral properties vs star spectral properties)
Yeah this article is clickbait

I would paraphrase that "saying" about teaching as thus: "those who can't do, nitpick"

The TED talk was for a different algorithmic technique.

Couple that with assertions like "An image with a hole or without a hole looks the same in the amplitude domain." and I see that this article has as much credibility as climate deniers.

Same thing with the Ligo "naysayers" who tried to disprove the experiments without knowing the basics of signal processing using FFT, etc
I really hope they find a way to include a compatible Thunderbolt 3 experience. Using a Thunderbolt 3 Dock has become a must for me at this point, i'd hate to go back to multiple cables/less than 2*4k/60
Thank you. I swear every time I see a tutorial where someone is using vim they say to save and close with :wq and it drives me nuts.
I suspect the articles point is more the scope, frequency, and magnitude of these changes. The fires are just one symptom. The city of Sydney being down to 40% of its water supply, and plausibly down to 20% this year. The Murray-darling basin is, bluntly, fucked.

And regards to your “pithy” comment I do believe you’re off base. FWICT ecologists, biologists, and foresters are at a bit of a loss. We’re losing territory that simply doesnt burn in the normal cycle. To quote myself, The fires have been much larger and hotter than typical. The vegetation that does regrow probably wont be the same as we lost, ie pyrophillic scrubland replacing forrest. The fires are also destructive enough to destroy pyrophytic plants that would resist previous bushfires. Both of these are going to disrupt the regrowth of the ecosystem in unexpected/abnormal ways. Concern is that it leads to a long term cycle of more, hotter, larger fires and permanent habitat loss.
What do you mean by "stay away from production code"?
Every time I open vim by accident, I have to restart my computer.
The Americans dying because they can't afford medical care
Would you be interested in being on page one of Google?
I'm not aware of any official investigations into this by the team, but here's my two cents:

* PS4 development requires purchase of an expensive development kit (2500$, although they sometimes lend them to developers for a year as well), which is probably just not financially viable for most contributors as there is no way to make back this money for them

* The PS4 SDK and everything related to it is under NDA and open sourcing code linking against it seems to be forbidden (e.g. the Unreal Engine excludes these parts from their public source code releases as well)
Wasn't that dark energy in yesterday's article?
Agreed, sorry -- I was commenting on the logic of the argument rather than the apparent facts of the situation.
Don't have an iphone handy but I think so. There are lots of options there to explore, there's also one to increase contrast and another to make buttons more evident. There's some cool stuff there in accessibility options
Somewhat related, I formed Delaware LLC that was to be AI-managed. Delaware would not process filings e-signed by AI and required the filings be signed by a natural person. This was easily solved by AI contracting with an attorney to act as the authorized signor for Delaware filings.
I use the bullet journal system to take meeting notes. It's more personal as the things I track are important to me. I try to process information and jot down things I need to remind, my tasks, and add questions to follow up on.

https://bulletjournal.com/pages/learn

As a meeting secretary, you can use a similar process but you have to be mindful and listen actively since you're tracking info for more than you.
I think there's another type of 'loudness war' going on with how we communicate. One of my peeves in particular the catastrophication of minor insults as 'hate', as I feel it's diluting our concern over the actual atrocities that happen on the other end of the spectrum.
Every time? I'm confused. How frequently are you setting up new blogs? If it IS frequent, why have you not automated the process?
Doubt is was meant as FUD. Normal confusion suffices.

Ground currents are interesting however they occur, and are novel to many. The remarks were correct about lightning.
The forest may regrow, although on a scale of decades rather than next year. Not all the animal species will come back.

What will definitely not grow back is the 2,000 homes destroyed.
The genome gets Gene expression cues from the environment, so that means it externalized some of its information implicitly outside of its structure.

One form of this is culture and species taught behaviors.
Boycott Firefox
I disagree completely. When I took CS036 in first year engineering, it was a C++ course that used Visual Studio and while I received a good grade on that course, at the end of it I did not know how to invoke the compiler from the command line. I only knew how to build software from the drop down menu in VS2004 or whatever version it was.

IDEs are a crutch.
Thanks. I really appreciate the reply. It matches with what I thought might be the case. I've taken on a more senior role lately as my career progresses and I'm finding I'm spending only half my time doing direct delivery and the other half doing project management type work and coordinating changes across teams etc. I love the autonomy that comes along with it but I'm so used to the idea of getting paid to cut code that when I don't cut as much as I used to I feel like I'm not keeping up. Reality is I'm busy with other stuff and I'm learning to just accept that more and start to lean into it.
No you're correct. I personally feel silly asking Siri to do anything, but yeah. I've never successfully written a speech-to-text text-message, my brain just struggles to make it happen. Here is to hoping that brain-link stuff actually happens (not holding my breath though).
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Google also did a clean room reverse engineering. Or at least clean enough that the jury voted to acquit Google of copying the Java source code, and Oracle has not appealed that claim--meaning Oracle concedes that at this point.

The only thing that Oracle claims Google has done at this point is copied the API, which anyone who wishes to do a clean room reverse engineering would also have to do. Oracle is trying to get a judgement that makes such clean room reverse engineering impossible, which is why everyone else is freaking out about this case and asking SCOTUS to reverse CAFC and Oracle here.
> I’d wait until the dust has settled from Brexit

Even in the best case scenario it will be years before you can consider Brexit settled in any way.
I seem to remember a pretty large pop up like “do not abuse and don’t run bitcoin mining in collab” from the initial setup process?

In any case, Collab is a great tool, and I’m rather thankful to them. They may have decided to monitor usage instead of trying to restrict it to make abuse impossible.

I guess people these days belief that what is possible is also legal, and what is legal is identical to being moral. To those people I point out: Google noticing you is possible, shutting you down is legal, and banning you for life is ethical if only by protecting users that don’t abuse free resources.

Doubly so, If you also blogbrag about it.
Try to find a survey paper or review article [1] on the field you're interested in. They summarize the current state of the art in a field and link to the relevant papers. If the linked papers are behind a pay wall then you can use arXiv as recommended in another comment by searching the title/authors. The field usually wouldn't be as broad as "databases" but you could probably find one on "distributed wide column stores". I think they're usually published by grad students before they pick their thesis topic.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Review_article
It's hard for me to put this in a way that doesn't make me sound like a climate change denier, but the climate related events in Australia, not just the fires, are a combination of poor policy and climate change. The drought conditions and unprecedented heat notwithstanding, we have also pretty poorly managed the forests and water stocks, at times for the benefit of corporations. This year could have gone a lot better than it did is all I'm getting at.

To address the article: The will for any community to remain in place will be stronger than we anticipate I think, as this is a long term issue it's hard to imagine people thinking far enough ahead to start dismantling communities now. The impetus needed to overcome the inertia of moving a community is enormous, and as harsh as this year has been it is still the same flavour of challenges we currently deal with so it's easy to feel complacent. Once these fires go out, watch as Australia marches through the year like nothing happened and headlong into next summer. We might be lucky and some smart cookies will pass some more funding to the fire services so we can protect our communities. Repeat until unrepeatable.

In the short term I think we'll see changing management of forests and communities surrounded by them. We need to think hard about communities and homes living at the interface between bush and mankind. We need to get better at separating community from bushland, so we can let these fires burn and keep the fuel in the forests at non-catastrophic levels and the vegetation and fauna healthy.
slightly off topic

I enjoy ads-free YouTube experience as I’m located in Sudan. It always surprise me the amount of ads I get when I access the internet from a different location!
They announced these chips 2 days ago, there's still plenty of time for nicer laptops to get announced. Hopefully the Matebook D gets updated with these at least.
I went down this route before going in full time with contracting. With a full time job, I was capable of billing between 10-15 hours a week and it was only sustainable for a few months for me due to the balance of downtime and family time. Besides the extra cash, the economic diversification and the new skills acquired during this time made the venture worth it, but YMMV. Good luck!
A "when to" should be added to this "how to". This might be cohesive in a smaller code-base, but it is not pleasant as "query objects" multiply. There are other ways of handling complex queries closer to the model without this type of abstraction. If you reach for this pattern, be sure it's worth the added cost in complexity.
Number of red dwarfs is really astonishing: https://youtu.be/LOJ1XmbSKhM?t=1125

Tolman surface brightness test now looks much brighter. ;-)
It's a surprisingly performant CPU. I've been using an x230 (the slower i5 variant, even) until a year ago and I felt pretty productive with it. In between Intel microcode nerfs and all kinds of software being rewritten into performance-hungry web-based SPAs I wouldn't recommend it in 2020, though.
I don't have a qa key though
Oh, it is going to be fun to see them get re-certified.

Did someone forget to run the fuzzer, maybe?
Man, The Verge's headlines are really exhausting.
My DoH in 71.0 and 72.0 is off by default, I haven't changed those settings.
Temperatures rise across Europe's far north
It is really good tutorial. Just not aligned when the expectations about programming depth. Really good.
I remember the time when writing a compiler for Pascal - complete with a code generator (for 8086) - was a routine assignment for CS students at the end of the first semester of the second year.
Hey, that's what I drive as well. It's surely not "audiophile quality" but it's got just enough range that most music I listen to sounds surprisingly good for a stock sound system (as long as the source file is high quality).
One of the weird things about apples is that every seed contains very different DNA than whatever it came from.

It sounds like that was just a random variation that someone planted. Did the apples taste any good? If they had, you might have been able to sell them. It's very possible that particular variety of apple will never exist again.
Source 1 deals only with accidents vs pedestrian. There are many more crashes with fatal result than just with pedestrians. The numbers are comparable to flu - mind you the influenza statistic counts complications.

Most importantly, you have to look at the age structure. Influenza currently takes people in old age. Vehicular accidents are the top cause of death of young people, meaning they're much more impactful in disability adjusted years, which is the real useful measure here, not death count.

It's easy to fall prey to Lake Wobegon effect - everyone thinks they are above average and deserve more. Paying 20 minutes daily despite reducing crashes by two orders of magnitude saving average 3 hours of life will be obviously rejected for that reason.

Accidents here are generally caused by people ignoring the limits and law anyway, so this measure is unlikely to fix anything unless it causes congestion.