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Most countries allow you to own a modem, and that’s why all the major retailers sell them. They are not property of the ISP. Only the ISP can upgrade them however.
Inferno could do this. Port the Dis VM and whamo, you had all of Inferno. On Windows, Linux, bare metal, x86, RISC... pick your poison.
Cards Against Humanity got people to donate more than $100,000 to dig a big hole for no reason at all. Maybe scientists should try funding a deep bore hole for science by live streaming it.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/cards-agai...
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I think the unfortunate truth is that US academia job market is already highly saturated.

Look, a professor may need 5 to 10 PhD students, but there won't be so many positions open when those students graduate. In the past physics and biology graduates will try to stay as postdoc or research assistant as long as possible. Or find a position in industry. Nevertheless, this is just not a sustainable model in the long run. Eventually it will come to a point where more and more of them will go back to their home country.
I have Spectrum and got really lucky with the one technician I've had. He spent over two hours fixing the faulty cable line from the utility pole to our house, and then another 15-20 minutes on the phone getting them to activate my customer-owned modem (why that's a 20min call is beyond me).

But tbh that's been my experience with most technicians accross ISPs, they're generally nice and willing to fix a problem once they're there. It's getting the office to actually send one out (like you said) that's the issue...
Have you looked into Everlane? They're quite more expensive but there's a range of sizing that they provide with exact measurements and from what I read their clothes are designed for more European/Asian bodytypes instead of Americans. I also like the philosophy behind their company/brand which you can read on their website.
The Importance of Planning
Yes, it takes a lot of experience and mindfulness to develop the taste for what is genuinely healthy and what ultimately is bad, even if it tastes good.
PNT, interesting! If I'm reading it correctly you can estimate the number of N digit primes as 10^N/N. That's basically 10^N, and for N=9 (a billion), that means there's (very very roughly) a billion primes with a billion digits.

I mean, it's not that many if your expecting a message from God (I say half-jokingly).
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There is no believing in them. Gravitational waves have been observed and you can't "believe" or "not believe" in them anymore than you can "believe" or "not believe" in electricity.
We are clearly trying to wake up Godzilla and other Kaiju...
I think that's what the parent is saying. Everybody wants to score virtue points for loving their feet or bike but at the end of the day you need to compliment that with some sort of public transit network to give them the distance covering power they need to be truly practical.
There's some research in the "Accelerate" book that talks about this. For example, having an automated CI/CD pipeline decreases stress measures (iirc).
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If someone takes unpublished work for a paper, then uses all that unpublished as of yet work and publishes it, how is that "wealth copying". Its plagiarism as well as unethical, and it is indeed taking away the productive capacity of the person doing the original work.

Support for SciHub is orthogonal to this, these academic papers don't exist yet. So not even the Arxiv would make sense, its not even a preprint, its work in progress thats being co-opted and used for gain within China.

If you could explain how this state of affairs, aka upending the academic publishing model entirely by undermining the entire idea and using unpublished research for your own gain in another country, that would be a constructive way of addressing the issue at hand. As the issue at hand isn't directly economic, but it will affect economics at some point as money is involved.
Aaaand someone has to do the work for computing the index and annotating the hashes.
“They do not think about which hypotheses are promising because their education has not taught them to do so.”

Pretty rich coming from someone who’s written a bunch of papers on doubly-special relativity and similarly unpromising hypotheses.
I think it is not that rich when dealing with binary data.
A standard charging port is a clear and achievable milestone.

defeating planned obsolescence is a vague and unacheivable goal, and any regulations that directly address it are more likely to stifle innovation and be circumvented by big companies than they are to actually help.
Don't click that... it's a lot of useful PII on an elasticsearch cluster.
The potato puller is not fulfilling the role of agricultural designer. He or she is literally visually identifying a potato and using physics to pull it out of the ground.

It's like the difference between programming (fulfilling tasks), and system architecture, which is something I can't do because I don't have experienxe with huge enterprise stacks.
I think you're misunderstanding their argument. They don't want to be an exit node because they don't want to share their public IP (liability), nor do they want to be a relay because they don't want to help route to hidden services (ethics).
> Development gets done in whatever way makes best use of the available resources at the time.

Can you explain what you mean? I’m having trouble squaring that with my model of developers, which is that they try to make money, not make efficient use of resources.

Are you talking about Europe specifically? I live in America.
> A common charger should fit all mobile phones, tablets, e-book readers and other portable devices, MEPs will insist.

The more important part is that those devices shouldn't ship with their own charger. You should have one already, or you should be able to buy a good quality efficient one.
Why does the EU actually have a say here? Is this really that important that government should be involved? Don’t like Apple chargers, don’t buy them.
You’d be wrong. People have been raided and charged for that in the US.
Firebird Project is happy to announce general availability of Firebird 3.0.5
I've seen a few too many women where they honestly are better off when they don't have a male romantic partner: the men they choose end up being a burden to them. For younger women, it's because they keep choosing men who just cause them problems and can't support themselves. For older women, there's a common pattern where the man dies very quickly when his wife dies, but if the man dies first, the wife can live many years or even decades because now she's free, and doesn't have to take care of him.

Honestly, the whole 2-married-partner relationship thing seems to only work out well in a small minority of cases.
> The entire bloody concept of copyright is one of the most intellectually destructive forces on the planet.

What if somebody accidentally leaves their personal diary on a park bench. A finder quickly locates the author and returns the diary, but not before they make a copy, which they're about to publish to the world. Is that okay? Should the author not even have a right to control public disclosure--that is, a right of first publication?
We're discussing the violent capabilities of governments versus tech giants.
Being scared of the gravy train stopping is exactly why I bought my house. By shoveling as much money I to it as I can, I can remove an expense long term. Paying only taxes and utilities seems better than paying rent and utilities.
I'm sure physicists already put a lot of effort in trying to derive Schrödinger's equation, the basis of QM, out of a simpler theory. It's not easy and would for sure deserve a nobel price. There is no consortium hindering anyone from persuing this.
Given a comparison function, an adversary can construct streams of digits that will make it run forever. This would be true either way. The problem seems to be with allowing algorithmically generated streams as input?

Maybe our domain should be limited to numbers generated by algorithms that are known to terminate? But despite eliminating irrational numbers, this guarantee doesn't seem like enough for practical computing. Even arbitrary precision algorithms require their inputs not only to be computable, but actually computed in advance, showing at least that they fit in memory.
while we're at it, let's stop shipping a pair of garbage-quality earbuds with every new phone.
Thanks again folks for the interest. You catch me yet again when I’m at work but I’ll try answer question in an hour or so once I get home. Regards to all. Chris
Nothing is this black and white. I tried to emphasise just a simple philosophy that life gets a lot easier if you make things easily replaceable. That was the message I tried to convey, but of course if there is a deep problem with something it needs proper investigation + fixing, but that is an actual code/application problem.
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This is absolutely something that Discord does, though. I've had friends just drop the bitrate slider as low as possible in Discord just to make the whole channel sound awful
Fire and Motion
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/01/06/fire-and-motion/

Written 18 years ago, so obviously not about Kubernagus, but it does explain the same phenomenon. Replace Microsoft with cloud providers and that's more or less the same argument.
The philosophy of science is different from philosophy.

The philosophy of science is really a meta field for science while philosophy itself encompasses things the philosophy of religion and other things core to the human experience.

When studying something of scientific nature the human experience like religion, art or that kind of thing is the domain of the humanities and entertainment and not of the universe in general.
This going to be a security nightmare. AADHAR data has already been leaked/sold by unscrupulous vendors.
Why now is the right time to study quantum computing (2015)
I think the key part you missed is that the statistics of this sort are usually quoted net of fees (which makes sense from the perspective of the investor).

So it's evidence that fund managers take an unequal share of their outperformance, not that they don't outperform the market/benchmark (of course, not all do that either).
You seem to be misunderstanding.

A person who cannot read and write in any language cannot, by definition, write source code.

However, that same person can still receive a verbal command telling them to pull a potato out of the ground. Or move a box from one place to another.

This statement has nothing to do with the detrimental aspects of manual labor. Sitting at a desk as a programmer also has detrimental aspects.
The problem is that those low-end phones are competing on price rather than reputation, and a lot of consumers shop by price. The bloatware isn't for giggles; they're paid to put it on. Taking it off might result in a better experience but would also raise the price -- and a lot of people would switch to a cheaper phone.

A few brands (mostly, it seems to me, ones with explicitly Chinese names like Xiaomi) are trying out a "cheap price no bloatware" strategy, especially now that carriers like Google Fi are attracting people from the carrier-branded stuff. But don't be surprised if a lot of the cheapest phones continue to make the bloat unremovable -- it's a low-margin, high volume proposition that works.
Brokers are pretty well connected and ours made sure to spread their name around. They'll have a hard time buying a company through typical routes for a while.

I'm also perfectly happy to let anyone know in private who it is. :) DM me on Twitter (@Shpigford) or email: josh@baremetrics.com
The horror stories about 3 month wait for parts and the videos of water intruding into new vehicles, are keeping me away.
> Just.... just... no. First of all, nobody's got good backups. Nobody uses tape robots, and whatever alternative they have is poor in comparison, but even if they did have tape, they aren't testing their restores. Second, nobody has good alerts. Most people alert on either nothing or everything, so they end up ignoring all alerts, so they never realize things are failing until everything's dead, and then there goes your data, and also your backups don't work.

But you should test your backups and set up useful alerts with the cloud, too.

> Third, nobody needs push-button re-deploy-from-scratch unless they're doing that all the time. It's fine to have a runbook which documents individual pieces of automation with a few manual steps in between, and this is way easier, cheaper and faster to set up than complete automation.

Huh. I consider getting at least as close as possible to that, and ideally all the way there, vital to developer onboarding and productivity anyway. So to me it is something you're doing all the time.

[EDIT] more to the point, if you don't have rock-solid redeployment capability, I'm not sure how you have any kind of useful disaster recovery plan at all. Backups aren't very useful if there's nothing to restore to.

[EDIT EDIT] that goes just as much for the cloud—if you aren't confident you can re-deploy from nothing then you're just doing a much more complicated version of pets rather than cattle.
No, and no.

The mantle is solid. You would have to drill way deep into the mantle before you encountered liquid rock.

Volcanoes don't work like that. Even if you drilled directly into a magma chamber, not much would happen. This has been done inadvertently a handful of times. https://phys.org/news/2009-06-scientists-drill-magma.html Basically volcanoes only happen when there's an extreme amount of pressure from below.
The "water" is actually drilling mud used to keep the bore from collapsing during construction. It is replaced with solid impermeable materials after the waste containers are loaded into the bottom of the hole.
don't they get around that by compiling the tailrec to bytecode as a while loop?

other languages supporting tail recursion on the jvm do that. I don't know enough about clojure to say that is how they do it, though.
The problem gets worse when thing aren't just routers, but modems from your ISP. Unlike routers, which you are free to replace it (or install OpenWrt), using a modem is mandatory, and it's very likely that there is no alternative. Even if the modem uses a standard protocol like DOCSIS internally, it either has some vendor-lockins or proprietary/customized software by ISPs.

A few years ago, I got my optical cable modem from my ISP, and I immediately found that the real admin account was locked from me, only accessible by the ISP. So I couldn't just PPPoE and gets my connection, but I had to use the NAT on the modem. After a quick websearch, I realized there are plenty of ISP/OEM management interfaces and backdoors in the modem. Although the documented backdoor has been disabled, I eventually found my way to a root shell, so I could change the mode to bridged w/ PPPoE.

Meanwhile, I always use my own router behind the modem, with an additional firewall blocking all the incoming connections from the modem's IP address. I absolutely don't have the slightest trust on these modems. If I cannot change the modem, at least I can isolate the problem away from my routers (and use encrypted protocols as much as possible). Attackers are free to execute arbitrary code on my modem, I'll simply treat the modem as part of the untrusted Internet, which can be as dangerous as a hacked modem.
It also has some pretty serious disadvantages. Just off the top of my head:

- End-of-life storage requires re-storage regardless of whether better technologies exist

- Spillage is more likely to occur due to more frequent handling/repackaging/relocation

- Workers are exposed to greater danger due to more frequent handling/repacking/relocation

- Overhead is greater since there will likely be a greater number of short term than long term storage facilities

- Accidents are more likely and more spread out over a larger area (assumption: short term storage requires more space than long term storage)
Kawa supports TCO with an optional flag. It uses trampolines to work around the JVM's limitations. This makes Kawa more akin to a real Scheme. (Still doesn't have full conts, only upward conts which are homeomorphic to Java exceptions.)

Clojure could have done the same, but Rich Hickey deliberately chose not to, instead providing a special 'rec' construct for tail self calls. But this doesn't make Clojure not a Lisp, it only makes it not a Scheme.
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The Zorro Project
I think it's interesting to compare this to a dual 64 core AMD system (so 128 cores) or similar in terms of the programming model or performance.
More interesting: Why did Instagram instantly get a million users upon public release in the AppStore? How did people discover it?
Great idea, it can be a real hassle to set up SSR. Is there a chance that it would be considered cloaking by Google, because you're serving a page from a different IP to the crawler?
It might be a stereotype but it's also my experience, which granted is limited and Windows based, which as I pointed out in the previous comment hasn't been really onboard with the scripting experience until relatively recently

As to the declarative markup, for instance Azure Devops still doesn't have feature parity between YAML pipelines and classic pipelines, so while you could well be right about the same resistance to yaml, it's not, necessarily an issue yet.
Yeah I've always read this to be a failure of engineering to produce stuff in time. I wonder if it's a failing of open source that it hasn't gotten to web infrastructure yet.
thanks for the tl;dr.

I'd argue back to the author that "putting forward 'baseless' mathematical models" is "working on theoretical inconsistencies." When you're testing a black box for the content of the box without the ability to open the box, one may have little basis for an idea that might, maybe, could possibly provide useful results. That testing will definitely provide information, even if it's the basis of ruling out an entire class of tests.
Yep, you "need" a lot less money when you don't have someone insisting that you buy her a diamond ring, a BMW, designer clothes, a big house, maid service, give 10% of your income to some church, etc.
It's a totally valid point. Our current finances are the result of past financial decisions.

Despitr the magic money machine narratives that are so popular today we cannot just make unlimited more money when we need it without sever condequences. So spending vast sums in the past affects our ability to help us citizens in need today.
For better or worse, exclusivity in an LOI is the norm. Obviously, you don't have to accept the LOI, but any LOI that is missing exclusivity is usually a sign of inexperience and honestly is cause for concern.
more than a tad unfair to accuse her of not offering suggestions by claiming her suggestion isn't a suggestion.
I just use Jekyll to build a static site (Markdown + MathJax). I wrote the HTML/CSS myself, but maybe I can put the "theme" on GitHub later today.
A great analogy would be rain vs shower. Rain is shot noise, shower is AWGN.
K8 is only cheap if someone else is running it for you and you never have problems.
Can't read the article but I'm thinking maybe they don't need to worry about convertible bonds anymore?
I feel like I've seen this on some devices, but other devices you just hit the home button and it works fine.
> On a different note: does anyone happen to know if that's a standard Wordpress theme?

Not sure if it was this comment that prompted it, but I was looking for the same and noticed he pushed an empty repo about an hour ago on Github — https://github.com/gwgundersen/blog-theme
The ID generation code doesn’t use hashing and has nothing to do with Facebook. The blog post was published afterwards but the sharding code predated the acquisition.
Believe people are betting on its future. (Shanghai Mega-Factory seems doing pretty smoothly is probably one of the factor as well)
For a while TSLA had an absurd amount of short positions against it, IIRC something like an order of magnitude more than other companies. Perhaps we are seeing a short squeeze? I'd love to see data (and interpretation) on how this has changed.
There is metadata. It is stored in bibtex along with every torrent. This format allows it to be a freeform database where the user can add fields as they want. We (Academic Torrents) can then build new ways to display this metadata. Also the "abstract" part of the metadata is rendered as markdown on the details page of a torrent. Here is a good example: https://academictorrents.com/details/d52ccc21455c7a82fd6e589...
That's from 2017, it is entirely possible that was true in 2017 but not now.
Its shockingly irresponsible behaviour from national governments of the first world, and these containers are probably not stable in the long term.

Not necessarily scary as "ow my god we are going to all die" sence.
> There is a theory that oil is actually generated as a by product of the mantle itself, not by buried prehistoric plants.

Sounds like more like alchemy than actual science. What magical process transmutes rock into long chain hydrocarbons?
Maybe literally speaking, but the deepest hole we have ever dug metaphorically would be this whole social media thing, amirite?
> Kubernetes is really really cheap. I can run 20 low volume apps in a kubes cluster with a single VM. This is cheaper than any other hosting solution in the cloud if you want the same level of stability and isolation. It's even cheaper when you need something like a Redis cache. If my cache goes down and the container needs to be spun up again then it's not a big issue, so for cheap projects I can even save more cost by running some infra like a Redis instance as a container too. Nothing beats that. It gets even better, I can run my services in different namespaces, and have different environments (dev/staging/etc.) isolated from each other and still running on the same amount of VMs. When you caculate the total cost saving here to traditional deployments it's just ridiculously cheap.

If you're running 20 apps on a kubes cluster with a single VM you are running twenty apps on a single VM. There's no backup, scalability or anything else. There's no orchestration.

your deployment is a hipster version of rsync -avH myapp mybox:/my/location/myapp followed by a restart done via http to tell monit/systemd to restart your apps. It is a perfectly fine way of handling apps.

k8s shines when you have a fleet of VMs and a fleet of applications that depend on each other and have dynamic constrains but that's not what most of k8s installations work

> I mean yes, theoretically nothing needs Kubernetes, because the internet was the same before we had Kubernetes, so it's certainly not needed, but it makes life a lot easier. Especially as a cheap lazy developer who doesn't want to spend time on any ops Kubernetes is really the best option out there next to serverless.

Only in a throw production code over the fence sense.
I love Tesla for its effect of pushing the EV industry forward. And I love Tesla early adopters for largely funding and justifying investment in this.

But yeah, every time I daydream about owning a Tesla, I realise that it's my daydream about owning an Apple Newton.
Thanks so much for the kind words!

Totally agree the diligence work, in the long run, wasn't a waste. At the very least, we organized a lot of documents I'd forgotten about.
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