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Appvm: Thin easy-to-use hypervisor-based sandboxing software
GTD turned me on to notecards. I can't imagine going back. No matter how you want to organize the important stuff, the ephemeral nature of 3x5 notecards helps me get more ideas out of my head than ever before.

"Your brain is for having ideas, not remembering them."
> The reasons outlined above don't seem compelling when a commodity nic like mellanox do so much more already.

This is could be useful for people doing testing and benchmarking on network appliances.
No, Apple wasn't "competing with Rolex" on price. Ten grand was to defuse the "OMG, $400 for a watch?" response to "well, you COULD get a stupid $10,000 version, but at $400 it's great." It also made the Rolex look lame ("it only tells time"), legitimizing getting an Apple Watch (far cheaper at that) instead.

Offering a handful of $10,000 Watch Edition probably segued into $1B in profits from associating the product line with high fashion. Nobody is ashamed to wear an Apple Watch with a 5-digit suit.
Reminds me of a story about the Black Buck raids by Vulcan bombers during the Falklands Conflict.

Because they didn't have any maps of the southern hemisphere, they just turned a map of the Atlantic upside down.

Source: https://youtu.be/rpRtEABdxNc?t=359 (worth listening to the whole thing!)
Will that help at all? The VPN itself will keep track of all your activity, just a warrant away, that’s how they make real money.
I think my favorite part of Stand-Alone Complex by far (aside from how incredibly prescient much of it is) are the Tachikomas. I really love the idea that the first AGI we develop will necessarily have to pass through a pretty childlike level of understanding about the world while having some unsettling levels of intelligence and competence in some aspects. I love the episode where they're trying to hide the fact that they're developing individuality/sapience but are fairly inept at doing so.

Also, just the psychological warfare aspect of having a military tank with an adorable personality is great.
Why Some Rope Knots Hold Better Than Others
the author doesn't seem to realize the irony
You identified a sales problem. There is a giant gulf between problems that companies say they have, even say they want to pay for, and actually cutting a purchase order when the rubber meets the road.

What we are lacking is a blockchain-verifiable reputation audit trail into an escrow-like system tied to an ideas factory on one side, implementers on another side, and funders on a third side, down to the individual natural person level. The problem with an escrow is no one wants to park unused capital, but implementers are screwed if they put up the effort and when it comes time to collect all the "funders" evaporate.

Milestone-based backing also encounters problems with funders getting screwed when implementers reel off an endless stream of milestones with no real end in sight, like with Star Citizen.

If you can trace escrow and delivery promises (perhaps with time bounds) not just to an organization but to a natural person sponsor within that organization, then over time the actual probability of funders and implementers actually delivering can be tracked and algorithmically computed for present and future promises to fund or deliver. This tends to flush out sociopathic individuals who hide their track record behind their hops from organization to organization (especially those who implement dark patterns that only show up in the long-run).

This is just recognizing a general scaling problem with monetary systems in general: they preserve pricing information but lossy encode all other aspects of the transaction, and that doesn't work efficiently in a global economy.
"Ask anyone from Arkansas"

I lived in Northeast AR for 20 years and never heard of that place.

I would suggest sugar loaf mountain near Heber Springs. Actually all around Heber and Greer's ferry lake is great.
Yeah it's not a long read by any means, and interesting stuff if you're at all interested in ecom
I wouldn't hold my breath on that. More likely they'll switch to their A-series ARM processors at some point since the last thing they probably want to do is extend their dependence on x86.
> I was also asked for my password and if I had any encrypted data on my PC (which I didn't have at the time).

Today you probably encrypted everything, right? Would they force you to tell your password, or what was the intention of just asking for it?
> Need to first pan at least a bit vertically

Thinking of it, it would even be a nice feature since we need to pan to the left of the page or zoom out completely to go back in history with touch pad in Chromium based browsers.

> Still nice to see there's progress, and it's already mostly usable with the mentioned caveats.

At least.

Next release should definitely have this double-tap and smart-zoom feature.
> Especially if you do not count satellite, which I do not.

Hopefully starlink will change this :)
I've got some mixed feelings about this, although I don't disagree when it comes to the heart of that suggestion. For one, ORMs certainly reach their limits far too soon, and after that dealing with it is beyond the average use case, maybe even beyond the average developer working on the project.

The problem is that the same is true for SQL when it gets complicated. Do you inner/left/lateral join, do you use 'exists' or 'in', CTEs, window functions etc.

You're talking about an "SQL specialists", and there's a definite need for that here. Now, that takes either someone who had the experience in addition to their regular programming practice (i.e. someone senior), or a dedicated specialists -- which is a hard sell for small teams ('though probably a better idea than a 'build engineer' or 'UX expert', but I digress).

If at all, structure the data and the application features so that you don't need to have anything too complex. If that doesn't seem possible right at the beginning, maybe work out the complex queries/views etc. when you're starting out and everyone is still cooperating, it's really, really troublesome if some lone engineer working on some feature suddenly has to whip out the stack of Celko books.

But beyond that: If you can't fully factor out the complexity out of your application (i.e. in some external reporting tool, ETL job etc.), you'll have to put the query/statement somewhere. Whether that's something with ActiveRecord or a long literal statement. A lot of MVC frameworks have no proper place for that (definitely not in "C", and if it's just in the "M" part, you just postponed the issue).
I've seen projects with MVC + Service and/or Query and/or Grid and/or Report and/or SQL directories. And then possibly splitting the content into client code and stored procedures/views/materialized views.

This ain't really a solved problem, nor do we have clearly established best practices here.
If what you're trying to tell me is that I can use switch-in-place workflow in Fossil as easily as in Git then that's cool. Thumbs up!

Edit: It could be worth it to emphasize this in the Fossil vs. Git comparison that you linked, as it wasn't very clear to me after reading it.
The point is that there’s something for you wherever you are (or are traveling to or through) in the US.

I’m sure anyone capable of putting together a list like this fully understands how subjective it is and would probably love to include more.

It’s just a list of possibilities to get people thinking and spark inspiration.
I have long suspected that the USA deliberately held back its own oil production to maintain a strategic reserve. This policy seems to be ending though as evidenced by today's high domestic production.
Thanks for the links!

Some of these I'd seen before and I actually used OSMTracker to generate GPS traces of my walks for a while.

OpenTracks looks like it might be closest to what I'd like.

What I really want, though, is something that aggregates the data from a collection of GPS tracks to give me the big picture - basically a static site generator that takes a directory of GPS tracks as input.

I've got a few tiny steps towards that implemented in a private repo, actually. It's private because my GPS traces are right there in the repo - maybe I should split them apart and get it out in the open.

A bonus feature / stretch goal would be to use ANT+ (or something else) to log heart rate and any other markers from a fitness device and provide deeper analysis based on those (also helpful for things like strength training where GPS is inapplicable).

BangleJS might just get me off my butt to work on this if it ships and gets good reviews: https://banglejs.com/
Google search by image reveals its a doberman.

https://www.pictshare.net/500/f8df258bbb.jpg
Hmm, I wonder if that's going to be the next battle field for URLs: Facebook will try to register its logo as an emoji, and you'd just need to go to http://[f] to open their site.

There already is an emoji for apple (the fruit, not the company). Oh the horrors. I should start an emoji NIC!
When all you have is a hammer
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wow. so this person thought it OK to have all of his life and privacy violated and taken by police because some kiddie defaced some partys stupid webpage. how can one be that complacent? soft people make servile societies

i wonder if i should donate him some ETH or is the police going to take that too?
are you in US? it looks like he is in Germany as the search warrant is in German
Or leaving the .docx file was intentional and by opening it, the guy triggered a hidden payload which installs malware which the police use to monitor him.
Is it safe to open the article, though? 8)
Tik or Tok? Is TikTok Secure Enough? Check Point Research
> Some kind of platform that matches a developer and an initial customer in a way that rewards both. Finding these people is a challenge, but I think it's possible, and the person who figures out how to do it is going to have a MASSIVE business on their hands. I could go on about this a lot further, but I wholly recommend exploring it.

I'd pursue it, but I wouldn't know how to go about finding a first customer for the platform :)
Yeah, I'm definitely not trying to begrudge what other people like. Some people might not like a movie that is mostly cerebral. The art and action of GITS is almost secondary to the concept it's exploring. I've seen quite a lot of anime that looked fun and interesting, it just wasn't something I could get into.

It may also be that a lot of anime are series, and require a time investment.
Tesla becomes the most valuable US car maker of all time
> progress made by academically untrained researchers will, in the end, be what melts the snow, because of how "out-of-the-current-AI-box" they are in their theories

This is an unnecessarily uncharitable view of academia.

"Outside the box thinking" is frequently just ignorance and Dunning-Kruger.
Would it be possible to hide an exploit or test in a Word doc or image? I suppose they could have planted the image there with some steganographic encryption, and if the author was clever enough to find another link and click it, he would alert authorities to that fact?

This sounds farfetched when I write it out.
In NL we already have almost none for a long time (esp compared to, say, 20-25 years ago) but eradicating is hard mostly because of mental illness (often made worse by substance abuse). People with state appointed houses and psychiatric help just ‘escape’ (they are free to walk off anyway) because they cannot cope. I know people who were homeless when I was a student and who are happily living in those houses with help now (some now have families) and others who are still roaming the streets because they cannot be (mentally) in a controlled situation.
I'm in a fairly average US state and previously lived in Africa. As a Libertarian, I tend not to be the biggest fan of those who idealize Europe's policies, but they sure seem to have avoided dysfunctional government employees better than the rest of us. (And honestly if a typical government employee in the US was of that calibre, I'd be less opposed to bigger government).
Very interesting that most have a pretty bad load time. I guess sales (ads/marketing) triumphs most (everything?)
Looks like you've just identified a real problem that entrepreneurs will pay money to have solved for them.
CLR is called Common Language Runtime and not C# Language Runtime.

In fact, C++/CLI is the only Microsoft language that has full access to all CLR features, not C#.

A language that has a much more expressive OO model than either Java or C#, and requires reiffed generics.

IDEs don't work in code review workflows.
Author here. I'm the engineering co-founder of PopCap Games. I left PopCap after the EA acquisition, and I've been working on this project mostly full-time for the last five years.

Before Beef, I was developing game code in C# and engine code in C++ and I felt C# was just much more pleasant to work with - faster compile times, better IDE tooling, better errors, etc. Then it struck me that none of the things I liked about C# really had anything to do with the JIT or the GC, and it may be possible to create a "best of" merging between C# and C++.

I know there are other "C replacement" contenders out there - the differences are probably best explained through Beef's specific design goals listed at https://www.beeflang.org/docs/foreward/
Well, that’s OP’s premise (which I do agree with). He says the U.S. spends 700 billion/year on defense, but needs less and that the rest is spent protecting other countries. There are 195 countries, so if that’s distributed evenly, we’re contributing about 3.5 billion/country/year, that they would each have to come up with if we stopped. Now, maybe it’s not evenly distributed like that - maybe Finland doesn’t rely on U.S. presence at all (but I think you, and they, would be surprised), but the point is that we’re indirectly subsidizing a lot of these social programs by providing military defense for a lot of these countries.
XPS 15 works great with Ubuntu 18.04 thus far. I've been running it for a year now without any problems I can recall.
There's also an initial implementation security-focused OS based on the tool. https://github.com/jollheef/appvm/tree/master/os

Live ISO is available in the GitHub Actions artifacts: https://github.com/jollheef/appvm/runs/379254878.
It might be a useful concept in a limited, technical sense. In a political context, it is an anti-concept because it replaces a correct conceptual understanding with one that doesn't map to reality.

After all, the primary purpose of conceptualization is to give us humans a way to deal with vast complexity of the world. We can only hang onto 3-5 things (maybe seven if you're a genius) in a single mental frame, and we are utterly lost without that. People let their conceptual faculties get hacked all the time by ideologies and manipulative intellectuals! Don't let that happen to you! (I'm maxharris9 on twitter, and my DMs are open. If you want to know more about this just send me a message!)
Note that those are top Shopify sites based on Alexa Rank. Not all top Shopify sites will be tracked because those sites’ visitors are not Alexa toolbar users.
> most government tourism boards rarely achieve success

How do you figure that? Most government tourism advertising is branding, and not specific to a business (it's usually "Visit X" with some motivational photos, where X is a country or region). Countries certainly have brands, are perceived in a certain way. Are you suggesting that brand advertising has no effect on this? Is it that brand advertising works for brands other than countries?
It isn't entirely clear to me that Script Kiddie was actually setting Security Researcher up rather than bragging, but let's assume.

The interesting aspect is the weaponization of legit LE - this is similar to swatting. This can easily be extended to harassment by all sorts of random government agencies depending on context. It isn't even really new - you can think of false OSHA reports and the like as similar.

I think the new aspect is about the expanded reach of social connections, combined with people's willingness to be much more vicious when the interaction is virtual.
For US readers it must be quite incredible to read all this took place amicably and - you weren't SWATed with guns drawn and would even talk to the law enforcement people by yourself (as opposed to only through a lawyer) - which was probably unwise even in Austria - they could have not have people experienced enough or just wouldn't want to admit a mistake
Yeah, I suppose that's a valid use case. Things like ixia need to be fpga-based to measure absolute latency without any uncertainty. You cannot currently get that with enough flexibility in commodity cards.
It's being downvoted because it's such an incredibly ignorant statement that is doing nothing but perpetrating conspiracy theories.

If the OP had done even a little bit of research, they would have quickly realized that AIDS has unique properties that makes making a vaccine incredibly complicated despite a ton of effort that has gone into it so far.
It took me a while to find the setting -- search Chrome preferences found nothing for "prefetch," and a how-to article I found claimed the setting was called "Use a prediction service to load pages more quickly," which also returned nothing, but I finally found it under Advanced -> Privacy -> Preload pages.

I was quite pleased, however, to find that this had already been turned off for me, and enforced, by uBlock Origin: https://imgur.com/a/9seIFEU
What other option does he have, exactly?
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> I told them about the script kiddie, the link and that I wasn't using a VPN because I did nothing wrong but of course they were sceptical even thought one of the agents said my story sounded plausible to him.

A) This is a weird thing to tell the cops. "I wasn't using a VPN cause I wasn't doing anything illegal, I only use VPNs when I do illegal things!" Uh... you don't want to tell the cops you do illegal things and have opsec procedures for when you do illegal things! No wonder they were skeptical!

B) This story is literally the explanation of why "If I'm not breaking any laws, why would I worry about my privacy from the police?" is the wrong attitude. You don't have to have known you did something wrong/illegal, you don't even actually have to had done something wrong/illegal -- for the police to really inconvenience you. It could have been a lot worse than this. Even people who never knowingly/intentionally break laws have an interest in keeping their activities from police notice. As this story demonstrates. "If you have done nothing worng you have nothing to hide, why do you mind police surveillance" -- nope nope nope.
I would reuse an already existing files on the hard drive to do that instead of adding a new one.
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No, this was in Austria, not Germany!
You're only targeting old 1990s GUI users there, though.

If you wanted to also help silghtly more modern users who are used to discoverable-UI conventions from mobile apps, you would have it so shaking your device brings up some form of chat bot, which would suggest asking it how to quit Vim.
The Tennessee one is actually not correct either by most local hiking enthusiasts standards. Fiery Gizzard is a trail that most including myself love.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiery_Gizzard_Trail
Anyone else get creeped out and realize just deep and tangled our mindsets are when reading these articles lauding consumer products? The biggest and best companies are all laser focused on producing as much throw away consumer crap as they can while we are hurtling towards catastrophic climate destruction. These write ups lauding the innovative business strategies of convenient, throw-away luxury items feels like anesthetic. The world's on fire and the best and brightest have fatalistic attitudes towards doing anything meaningful and we're just heaping on more tinder.
DoD doesn't use the resources it receives wisely. Therefore, it should receive fewer resources.

Unfortunately, what will happen instead is that DoD will only buy from giant firms on an "approved" list, which is exactly what those giant firms have paid their lobbyists to bring about.
Completely ignored my use cases.
This can't be the case -- the bug only affects specific runways at these airports, not all the runways.
if it happens to all or just almost all or even just some of the patients it would still be sharing a somewhat private story from all of them, no? Being accused of sharing this (not so) unique story tells me it was even told to somebody that knew both people. I think you should refrain from that in this profession...
PIA might not be a good option anymore: https://restoreprivacy.com/private-internet-access-kape-cros...
Russian journals retract more than 800 papers after ‘bombshell’ investigation
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=boogaloo

TOP DEFINITION
boogaloo
Civil war. Does not only pertain to war with the government but also to political sides.
Me: I just got doxxed and fired. I'm sick of these pinko commies with their authoritarian social justice bullshit.

Friend: I just doxxed the guy who doxxed you. Let's get this boogaloo started.
Me: Cowabunga it is.
#boogaloo#civil war#antifa#patriots#blm#3%
The Colorado hike (La Plata Peak) is most definitely not in the top 10 of best hikes in Colorado.
Here, let me help you: try to imagine a society in which you want to live, not a random bunch of ideas like "taxation is theft at gunpoint" without regard to where that would lead.
Exactly, and those scrum-masters are usually good at talking and getting the business on their sides. There's literally no way to change those processes without making yourself look bad.
You can't expect comparable core for core performance as the architectures have different objectives. Thermals, power consumption and performance would all be significantly lower on existing mainstream ARM chips.
Thanks. I wasn't sure if that was the right one.
I'd say gen 2 is good enough with the noise cancellation/passthrough.

Wish it had better bass personally
You're welcome. Glad you enjoyed it.

The whole site is just a static thing whose code and content lives on GitHub: https://github.com/NateEag/nateeag.com

Good luck putting yours together!
My fiancé is Thai, so I eat a lot of Thai food. Pad Thai is still my favorite though she says it’s considered street food in Thailand lol.
FYI, this was in Austria, the BVT is an Austrian agency, this website is on an .AT domain and he writes in his about page that he is a Texan living in Austria =)