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This schism cuts from both sides: have one dependency that hasn't been updated to support Core and you can't upgrade and then you can't use anything new.

Many of Microsoft's own libraries such as Sharepoint and Dynamics don't support Core and many don't even have clear signalled intention to do so.

Classic "big bang flag day, break compatibility" problems.
This economy is overdue for a correction. Manufacturing is already contracting, albeit somewhat distorted by the U.S.-China trade war. Many were predicting a recession three years ago, but the economy keeps defying gravity. How much longer this can last is anyone's guess.
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Huh, I just want my heads up life display because...why not?

Assuming that your heads-up live display contains a public facing camera here's: Why not!

I don't like sitting in a bar (or a strip club, or in any other semi-public, or even public dodgy or non-dodgy place) and you hang there with your heads-up live display recording my image.

I don't like the fact that it's uploaded to some tech behemoth' server for further analysis (or even if not - by you later to your personal social media page, controlled by such a company).

I don't like an army of people like you recording every little nuance of my life, which then gets abused to feed even more AI algorithms by companies whom's major raison d'être is to violate all our privacy and infringing on my personal rights without permission or consent.

And no! Locking myself permanently into a room is really not a solution conductive to me or for us as a society.

Remember Google glass and why it failed? Not because the tech couldn't be useful. But it failed thanks to a company, which didn't give a shit about the impact of such tech and an army of glassholes (here's a nice example[1]) who cared even less.

I think the answer to your "why not" and to your personal gratification is that the price for us as a society is far too expensive.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=robert+scoble+glass+hole
> I care more about the dying bird populations in my forest than “humanity” on the other side of the planet.

Yeah, that's gross.
Why would tech layoffs cause a US-wide recession?
How is downloading a executable over https safer? It mitigates man-in-the-middle attacks that could modify the compressed artefact on the fly, but that's possibly the least likely attack on a download imaginable. It's far more likely that an attacker would try to replace the file on the server (that way they can also change and documentation around the file, like the reported MD5/SHA hash you might use to check the file is correct). Why would you happily download that over https?

If you're security conscious enough to not download random executables over http then you really should be aware that it's 99% as dangerous to download them over any link.
It's also annoying because SR-IOV would be a wonderful thing for consumer GPUs, but it would make it too easy to use consumer GPUs for cloud providers.

Right now, you can run a VM with qemu and pass through the GPU to the guest OS, getting pretty close to native performance. With SR-IOV, every VM could have the same GPU attached, and you could manage performance with the hypervisor. This would let you toggle between VMs instantly, getting full performance on each one (assuming the others are idle).

AMD and nVidia do make SR-IOV cards, but they're extremely expensive, intended for data centers, and don't have display output. If it ever hits consumer cards, Linux will be the hypervisor of choice for pretty much everyone, because there will be minimal performance penalty for using VMs.
Other quote from the reuters article (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-boeing-737max/designed-by...) :

“I want to stress the importance of holding firm that there will not be any type of simulator training required to transition from NG to MAX,” Boeing’s 737 chief technical pilot said in a March 2017 email.

“Boeing will not allow that to happen. We’ll go face to face with any regulator who tries to make that a requirement.”
> On average, resident owners received $380,000 for their individual flats – the equivalent to around £430,000 today.

https://www.elsewhere-journal.com/fallenglory
I ran FreeNAS for a while. After spending a fair bit time learning about it and asking questions, it was explained to me that ZFS required a lot of regular maintenance, care and feeding.

It was about this time that I decided to move over to a more consumer solution and bought a Synology. I liked the ideal of open source, self managed systems, but I got tired of being my own network admin, and IT.
Yeah 8GB seems excessive. My Synology has 2GB of RAM and does just fine. I run multiple docker containers on it aswell.
With drive capacities topping 10TB and dedup being what it is, it's not too far of a stretch?
Next up: room hogger books meeting rooms with fake reasons so I can spend all day doing quiet meditation.
For every truly insightful potential whistle-blower, you have plenty of disgruntled Peter-principle know-it-alls.

Still, it's management's job to create an environment that distills signal from noise.
I'm not sure I've ever encountered someone so invested in the "great man" theory of history.

Jobs was obviously talented, but assuming no matter where he went he would have had the same level of success is discounting a lot of luck in how everything lined up,and who was available to help bring all the things to market jobs is famous for. There's no guarantee the hundreds or thousands of people that were also essential to the major successes of Apple would have been around jobs had he stayed at Next. Those people deserve respect and recognition too.
Oh, I see. Then people blindly copied it, without taking into account that Chacha20 has bigger blocks than AES, and could benefit from vector implementations (while AES has bit slicing or AES-NI).
Because medicine has been more and more careful about inflammatory responses, I propose that the reduction in inflammation (internal and minor) has been a co-factor.
Why is this a news story?
sed -i '/read x/s,$,test \$path != \$x||path=/\;,' cname-sni
PayPal blocks donations to The Grayzone that mention Iran
That’s likely because Synology doesn’t offer ZFS or anything near the same capabilities.
I was talking about small-ish inputs, for which vectorisation wouldn't help.
We are talking about something resembling adding an extra disk to raid5. Can be easily done in mdadm raid, and then you just need to resize lvm, or whatever you run over it. Can not be done in zfs, not in raid5/6 mode
I'm very happy with Synology aswell. If you still want to use your own hardware there is stuff like this https://xpenology.org/

I have rarely seen such a feature rich software. And all of it works pretty solid aswell.
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No. Layoffs don't equate to recession. Quite the contrary they represent increase in efficiency.
Heh, BTRFS deja vu. Been hearing about the ZFS alternative "not quite there, but catching up" for about as long as high-speed rail. I wonder which will arrive first :)
Anyone who unironically thinks that the obviously positive effects of free and open science are even comparable to piracy is a lunatic.
What Is an Object?
TL;DR "If you repeat information, you'll remember it better."

I think it's worth noting that Ebbinghaus' original experiment had people learn nonsensical isolated syllables and measuring the rate of forgetting.

See on page 30: https://archive.org/details/berdasgedchtnis00ebbigoog/page/n... (It's German, though)

But real world information always comes within a context and it has inherent value. For example language learning:

If you learn the English word 'table' (as a foreigner), you don't just try to remember the writing and pronunciation. You already have a full semantic concept of what a table is, which helps you tremendously to remember the word 'table' in turn.
Mark's definitely on his own augmented reality. Unfortunately the rest of us get to enjoy the Coriolis effects of it via his monetization of dishonesty.
Julia has this pattern as well.
Danese Cooper, one of the people at Sun who helped create the CDDL, responded in the comment section of that very video:

Lovely except it really was decided to explicitly make OpenSolaris incompatible with GPL. That was one of the design points of the CDDL. I was in that room, Bryan and you were not, but I know its fun to re-write history to suit your current politics. I pleaded with Sun to use a BSD family license or the GPL itself and they would consider neither because that would have allowed D-Trace to end up in Linux. You can claim otherwise all you want...this was the truth in 2005.
Yeah, the cost gets super important.

Once upon a time, our company considered using Auth0.

Then we noticed that you have to pay nearly 25 cents per active user per month. I can possibly see the value for B2B, but if you're B2C good luck dealing with an extra 25 cents cut from your margins for every single user you have, paying or not.
In the case of Zuckerberg specifically he's actually more likely to be right on this by virtue of being in a position to influence it. If Zuck persuades the board of Facebook that AR is the future then thousands of FB engineers could be tasked with building AR apps and libraries, and Facebook could invest billions in AR acquisitions. Those sorts of actions steer the future.

When a billionaire claims to predict the future they're not just making a prediction, they're really telling you what they plan to invest in.
My youngest would love that future. Left to her own devices she'd have the TV going, phone going, laptop going, listening to music with one ear while creating critter number six in sculpey.
"last year" means it's in very few distributions at this time. Encryption is another feature that is technically supported, but just been added. When I built my NAS last year, I had to use dm-crypt because zfs didn't have it. Some features indeed lag pretty badly in zfs
Would they? Lots of law firms advertise when not to use them, and will often refer you to other, better options.
Unfortunately some popular software (like Docker) doesn't work (afaik?) on FreeBSD which might hold a lot of people back.
For those looking for a linux based NAS distribution, you should also take a look at openmediavault here https://www.openmediavault.org/

It has been running on my home server for 5+ years now and it's a delight. It also supports ZFS through a plugin.
That was the first thing I noticed, very creepy. What would Facebook minions be called?
if most experiments can’t be replicated how important are these papers on sci hub?
I believe he's referring to the raid 5/6 issues
Why did bad mortgages in Nevada lead to a global financial crisis and the bankrupting of Icelandic banks? Things are pretty interconnected these days.
Go for it. They're inexpensive, handy, and easy to set up and use. I currently use it for everything from logging in to my laptop and using sudo (via PAM) to SSH (gpg-agent) to logging in to GitHub and other sites (via U2F).
certainly because of recent Linus comments on ZFS
I have never heard of this, is it appropriate to ask if anyone could describe it in one sentence?
The United States seized funds my supervisor sent to his friend who mentioned the word "ISIS" in a Venmo transaction.

Be careful of your transaction messages.
Not if the compiler can't fit in memory. And rustc has problems fitting non trivial projects in 2GB of RAM.
I appreciate the thought you have put into this. I'm open and honest, which means it took me a long time to get into a very senior position, where it's looked on as a strength while rank-and-file are punished to this day.
To add to it, I would be even more worried if they intend to ask such stupid questions but did not have the time to ask, then the candidate misses out on hidden red flags.

What are the strategies to expose hidden red flags?
I feel like C and bash scripting are the last big chunks of fundamental knowledge I want to master. I think I'm more proficient with C only because it's basically Java + pointers - OOP and Java is my main professional language.
I did the exact same thing. A year on FreeNAS which did “work” but required so much fiddling that I bought a Synology and have never looked back.
Wait, ZFS requires maintenance?

I’ve been running freenas for years and have deployed/ran ZFS solutions as part of my job for a decade- this is the first I’m learning about that, it’s usually set and forget.

Am I just a bad admin?
Crap! I skipped it last time I went to Japan and was going to go this May. :(
I looked at running FreeNAS, but it didn't make any sense to me. I can put as many hard drives as I want in a cheap PC with a ryzen cpu and run samba. It takes maybe 5 minutes to set up, and then you also have a distro of your choosing to use as a server.

FreeNAS probably makes sense if you're an industry IT person and you want to make sure anyone in the future can figure out how to admin the thing. That's probably got a lot more value than I'm willing to admit, and I'm sure that's why it's popular, but I see a lot of posts about people trying to set up FreeNAS at home and it seems silly.
I disagree. The more you put into a single bill, the more natural enemies of that legislation you create. Pass what you can piece by piece. Hold the line, sure, by not letting up on the pressure after the first . . . and second . . . and third . . . bill is passed, etc.. Politicians only give up and rest on their laurels when the public loses interest.
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>“To comply with government regulations, PayPal is required to review certain transactions.”

For mentioning the word Iran. Terrifying.

I guess the best to hope for is that the Institute for Justice or the ACLU pick this up and sue for their free speech rights. But even then, the only consequence would be taxpayers burdened to pay up.
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A very poor one given how many voters who actually vote (older, landowners, wealthier, etc.) are perfectly happy with the status quo.
With that pustule breaking up, releasing more and more of that really evil, stinking and ugly slime I start to wonder if that plane goes into service ever again.

Maybe the FAA will yield to poltical pressure. But I can't imagine any other certification agency accepting responsibility for any accident occurring on their watch now that more and more about the ugly, incompetent, fraudulent and outright evil engineering process for that death trap comes to light.

A plane only certified by the FAA is essentially dead.
Elon Musk’s 42,000 StarLink Satellites Could Just Save the World
If you need to send a temporary array through a number of operations (normalise, then vusalise, in this case), you could also set up the stream of operations and send the elements of the array through it one at a time, or in short batches.
Brilliant idea to fold files.
> ZFS required a lot of regular maintenance, care and feeding.

According to FreeBSD's handbook[0], you only need to scrub the drives once a month, and check `zpool status` regularly.

[0] https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/zfs-zpool.html

My crontab:

# scrub
0 1 1,15 * * zpool scrub zroot
0 8 5,20 * * send_admin_email "zpool status" "$(zpool status)"
As a renter who has been casually looking for a bigger place in San Francisco for about a year (I am really picky and have a really nice place), it is my experience that decent units stay listed for at most 2 weeks and unoccupied for about 1 month.
The knowledge or ability to test which ones are or are not seems pretty good...? Instead of them being locked away?
GMAFIA not FAANG. Why is Netflix in that list?
Agreed. I spent 10 years writing C in the 90s but very little since. Even still, I find my understanding of eg Go is based on what is being allocated where, compared to colleagues from eg Java or JS, who have never dealt with that, and who focus on syntax and features.

One was raving about slices, which are a struct of ptr + length built into the syntax. Obvious with a C background.
Use Bitcoin, problem solved
In my building, the landlord takes about a week to repair and repaint before showing the unit.
Google and ClimaCell team up to launch a new high-resolution weather forecast
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I don't think any product has consistently paralyzed my brain as the Synology. Every time i think about buying one i get stuck in a loop on which device to pick and eventually just give up.
So here is my case. I'm running multiple Prometheus HA pairs to cover different teams. At the moment, I'm using Thanos and VictoriaMetrics in parallel to test them out.

Thanos was the first I set up as VM wasn't open-sourced yet. It wasn't hard to setup and had it running in about a day together with Minio as an S3 backend. To this day it's running without a problem, apart from an alarm every now and then that the Store or Compactor couldn't get something done. But I didn't look too much into it since everything graphing-wise seems to work. Upgrades are also easy and I love the global querier option. I sometimes see people having OOMs on a rather "large" servers on Slack, but Thanos team is suppose to be working on optimizing memory usage and it's getting better and better.

After the last PromCon, I also configured VictoriaMetrics. Installation was as simple as it can be, way simpler than Thanos, but I'm using a single node version. It works really good for the last 3 months. Resource usage is a lot lower than on Thanos.

Both solutions have their own Slack channels with developers and users there, so it is easy to get help and resolve issues.

In the end, I think I'll go with VM in my case, since it has less moving parts, doesn't need S3 backend (we are on-prem and don't have a production S3 storage) and lower resource usage. It can also ingest InfluxDB metrics, which is a massive bonus for me, since NOC team is using a solution that can only send metrics to InfluxDB (snmpcollector).
> As someone who has social anxiety and depression I don't think I can be honest with a lot of these questions.

You’re not supposed to be honest. No one expects you to be honest. Everyone knows everyone knows it’s a game. It’s like the algorithm and data structure interview; it shows preparation and intelligence to be able to answer the questions well, whether your answers are based on a real event or pure fiction. If you can pretend to be a fantastic hire with lots of preparation there’s a reasonable chance you can actually show decent judgment if hired.
So Paypal is the Cloudflare for money?
Agree, yet C is definitely a bad language to start.

I knew a bunch of people who started with C and used to use inappropriate data structures and algorithms all the way because writing your own Tree-like or recursive data structure in C is damn hard. So they ended up using arrays or something like this all the way instead.

It's better to start with a language which let to create and use any data structures without tensions. SML, OCaml, scheme, even Java is better than C in this regard.
Zuckerberg said he supported UBI because he recognized that he was only able to start a business because he grew up well-off enough to know that he wouldn't starve if the business failed.

But... I always like to think of the Taleb quote: "Don't tell me what you think, tell me what you have in your portfolio"

So, still waiting (unlike Elon Musk and Sam Altman who have both come out in support of Yang right now)
It also includes Webpack which does tree shaking before the final build aka minification. It will only include the dependenices that your code needs. Should significantly reduce the JS artefact size.
I think C is useful and cool, but I strongly disagree with the final sentence of the post. I think it's a terrible language for beginners. I think it's a good language for proficient coders who want to get to the next level.

If you have a niece or nephew who likes computers and comes to you about it and you try to foist The C Programming Language on them, you will have done them a terrible disservice. 90% of people will find using Python and it's friendly packages for everything to be so much more delightful than C.
4-5 years ago, didn't they block Wikileaks on a whim?

As for the specific issues you're raising about identity and fees, I'm having none of those issues, but then I also avoid PP whenever possible so I use it maybe once every other month.
Because working for IBM is just as cool and respected as working for Accenture.
I am part of a well-funded university, so I have access to all the papers without using Sci-Hub.

Nevertheless, I prefer this platform because I disagree with the publishing model of most publishers. Let's not get into the details here, but there is all kinds of shoddy editorship happening all over the place---I have seen at least one blatant case of plagiarism in an Elsevier journal: no one cares. I have experienced very strange 'reformatting' queries; my highlight being a journal that forces you to convert your lovingly-crafted vector graphs into JPG just 'because'.

On top of all that, add the fact that the interface of many publishers is egregiously bad to use. It takes a lot of clicks to download a single PDF, often opening multiple windows for that purpose or redirecting you a few times. Sci-Hub streamlined this process: you put in a DOI, and you get a PDF. Not an ePDF that is super laggy (looking at you, Wiley!), but a normal PDF that I can download, annotate, print, decorate my wall with.

Thus, I disagree with the article: the single minimalist interface is definitely something that contributes to Sci-Hub's popularity.
Verify who you are is mandated by the USA PATRIOT ACT.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know_your_customer
> I think it's a terrible language for beginners.

Yeah, I concur:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22008971
I'm not a manager, or even a senior engineer. But I've also noticed personally that I'm comfortable judging an interviewee's answer to my open-ended questions. I really like concise answers that make it easy for me to dig into specific details. I can have objective standards for answers about specific details. Giving a handwavy answer to an open-ended question may be better than giving a detailed answer that leads to an objectively bad answer. But it leaves me feeling less excited about the candidate.

Giving "honest answers" is dangerous. Even if it's diplomatic, the interviewer could decide it's the wrong answer. But you are also interviewing company, so if your answer is something you really care about a wrong answer probably indicates a bad company fit. For instance I remember I was interviewing at a startup, and I was concerned that their core business depended on a project where the deadlines and deliverables were not adjustable, so I asked them about WLB and long-term crunchtime. I was told that they disagreed with the premise of my question, they viewed the work as a marathon, not a sprint. Culturally it was very important to them that the workload and hours in the office were sustainable. I was really impressed with that answer. I also had a phone screen with an early stage startup where long hours were mentioned. And when I commented about it, the interviewer said he had no problem with it because he was really excited about the work and really liked his coworkers as friends. Both things are great to have at your job, but I thought that was a bad answer to a question about long work hours. Those were two completely different cultures, and I'd be fine knowing that the same "honest answer" cost me a job offer from one of those companies.
Not OP but I also use jupyter for almost everything.

Jupyter notebooks are great for capturing thought process and showing intermediate state of whatever it is you're doing, which means coming back to them even years later it's a lot easier to recall your own thoughts and not have to reverse engineer a monolithic block of code.
For as much flaws as bitcoin has, this kind of bullshit is the biggest reason why I hope it will ultimately become a more viable form of payment.