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> is that I can't remember an IPv6 address off by heart. IPv4 addresses just _feel_ so much more human-consumable than IPv6 addresses.

Stop remembering numbers meant for a machine, and use DNS. It will make your life so much easier. I spend ~$15/yr for my personal DNS name & hosting, and I never want to memorize an IPv4 or v6 address ever again.

> I have no idea what is using IPv6 and what's using IPv4 right now.

Any "end" machine (laptop, tablet, phone, server) is going to be dual stack, supporting both IPv4 and IPv6. If it is able to auto-configure an address, then it will use those. Otherwise, it won't. If a domain is IPv4-only, it'll use the IPv4 address. All of this is automatic.

The big issue, for home consumers, is that a lot of ISPs are dragging their feet. They don't need anything from the customers — they just need to get it deployed & turned on. Generally, typing "what is my IP address?" into Google will tell you if you have working IPv6; it will display an IPv6 address if you do.

In the cloud… some cloud vendors have been dragging their feet about rolling support out. You need to do some things, like associate an AAAA record to your domain (s.t. it resolves to an IPv6 address), and make sure things like logging can handle the new addresses, or if you implement IP blocking, that you can block those addresses/networks. If you're writing network code, you need to check that you're not assumptions about the socket type. You can also do things like HTTP proxy from an IPv6 connection to an IPv4 VLAN, e.g., I think w/ an ELB. That is,

client <-- HTTP/IPv6 --> ELB <-- HTTP/IPv4 --> backend server

which allows a partial upgrade. None of it is terribly hard, but typical project management puts upgrading to future tech in the perpetual backlog.
I think Parent means that the contents of this book WILL keep you awake at night.
Turbo Pascal (or possibly Borland Pascal) was good too. From the index pages of one of the manuals:

Infinite loop: see Loop, infinite.

Loop, infinite: see Infinite loop.
Do you know how many years and millions of dollars the US government spent prosecuting Microsoft for their belief that " web browser is something that needs to be on every computer"?
You have no way to check if the people you torture told you the truth until it's too late. And they know it.

So they will just lie, you will torture them some more until you persuade yourself they told you the truth, and the attack will happen somewhere else than where they told you anyway.

But hey - you get to torture them some more after the fact to feel better.
He was driven out of multiple positions by an allegation which is so unsubstantiated the alleged victim herself disclaims it. Complaining about the new McCarthyism doesn’t make one a reactionary any more than participating in it makes one a hero.

He may be motivated by sour grapes, as you suggest. You’ve got to make that case, though; not just state it’s obvious.

But even if you’re right, it’s absolutely irrelevant to his argument. What you’ve done here is simply attacked his character without evidence and without addressing the actual issue.
I was diagnosed with ADD later in life. I started medication and it helped the first year. After that it went down hill quite fast. The thing is you can laser focus with medication. This means that if you are a procrastinator for the lack of attention, it helps you quite well. But if you are a procrastinator because of emotional walls (difficult, confronting, boring, etc.), it helps you laser focus on your procrastination tasks and you forget about the main task. YouTube, Gaming & P*rnhub and no other worries in the world.

So medication can help with ADD, but those emotions need to be addressed. I stopped mine after 4 years.
> If as a user, you change back to DuckDuckGo, your next Office patch cycle will “re-Bing” you in a month.

Is this verified?
I never had a TRS-80, so I didn't know that absolute craziness with the lower case characters. I get that someone wanted to save money by not adding the chip for bit 6, but to add that note that you were intended to magic that bit out of thin air seems absolutely insane.
My first computer of any sort was a Tandy Color Computer that I got in the early 90's on clearance at Radio Shack using birthday & Christmas gift money.

I think it cost $75, and I paid an extra few dollars for some old Basic programming books & a few cartridges with games. It was my first experience with programming, and I remember this fun sense of excitement when learning very simple "hacks" like the infinite loop:

10 print "Name"
20 goto 10

I had no storage, no disk drive, everything was lost when I powered off, and the games were awful (compared to NES & SNES) but it was a foundational experience for me. Good times.
I know, you guys do not understand, it is "Turbo Encabulator"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLDgQg6bq7o

LOL
In my experience the situation in the US is about on par, only with very few shining exceptions. I never bother to see a physician unless I'm fairly confident there's something going on I can't fix and I have a good idea of what it is and isn't.

The alternative is spending 20 minutes talking to someone filling out forms on a PC and pretending to listen before working as quickly as possible to get you out of their office. Oh, you have some kind of acid-related chest pain? We'll just prescribe a proton pump inhibitor for the rest of your life rather than worry about fixing anything, thank you come again.

Hell, when I was a child and my thyroid failed physicians spent 2 years telling my mother that I was just lazy. My symptoms were so textbook that a coworker of hers diagnosed hypothyroidism, sight unseen, from the mere description. Even so, she had to demand they perform the incredibly simple blood test to confirm.

Needless to say, I have very little respect for physicians in general.
Sure, I just had not heard of it for a long time so was simply interested how common it is among people above, let’s say, 20 y/o.
The default storage is an EMMC chip, so they are trying to avoid hitting that for swap completely. With 4GB of RAM, that’s a reasonable goal.

If think of you added in an SSD to the machine, then zswap might be more appropriate.
If I install a new browser I don’t care what default search it has, I can change it.

Once I have changed it I don’t want something changing it without me requesting it.

This is my position, I’m unlikely to change.
Informative headline, for those not wanting to figure out the wsj paywall:

>Faced with an influx of visitors, India's picturesque village of Jibhi has shut down the local liquor store and tried to restrict loud music, smoking and barbecues
Mint is still useful even though the core features have been basically unchanged for the last decade, but that said I've been de-linking accounts from my Mint because they don't synchronize right or fail a bunch. I've mostly degraded it to just being for spending tracking and it seems reliable at connecting to Chase.
In my experience it is usually for legal reasons. In those places the employer knows the lay of the land as far as employment law and an a independant and predictable legal system that is also understood / preditible.

I worked for a company that had some major banks and financal institutions. Anyone working on their systems had to be a US citizen, living in the US (even the european banks required that at times).

I was actually involved with one customer who I happened across some strange monitoring setups and it turned out it was the remnants of a company they used that was based outside the US / Europe when the company was expanding quickly. This outsourced company could not explain why they did what they did and after an internal investigation / consultation from legal they realized how little leverage they had with this outsourcing company (pretty much none). It could have been incompetence, but from what I saw the setup was far from something you'd do 'accidentally' or something you would do to accomplish another goal. After that they reviewed a lot of their outside companies and laid down a lot of new US (and sometimes some local exceptions) only rules. Fortunately for my employer they had already established those rules for similar reasons / other customers had demanded it.
Yes, I found that out the hard way when I got a Tandy on clearance with a few Basic books, and would type out example programs for an hour or so only to have some of them not work due to some incompatibility. It was probably still a good learning experience though.
Genuinely curious how this works for an angel investor if the failure rate is 95%. How many companies do you have to invest in in order to spread the risk of that 95%?
And the subsequent secularization where the institutions creating the MBS cleverly hid the underlying risk of the assets from investors.
Yes.

It’s part of the as built configuration of the browser. Just like how Bing is the default for Edge, or Google for Safari.

It’s a design choice that has become a de facto standard, as nobody wants to wade through an onboarding questionnaire for your browser.

This is different, it’s modifying an as-configured configuration and linking it to the update process. It’s bad, as we should be able to trust update processes to be as minimally disruptive as possible.
I've been doing a lot of Python 2 -> 3 lately, and found this to be one of the best actionable guides: https://portingguide.readthedocs.io/en/latest

Also, using tox on the project to run tests against both python 2.7 and multiple versions of 3 and the work goes pretty quickly.
Adblockers shouldn't mess with ads in a different application?

Apple designed a content blocking system years ago that doesn't allow the ad blocker to intercept all of your browser traffic.....
I can respect the sentiment, and I agree your points are reasonable. And I think the problem actually stems from software development culture more than anything. Developers don't want the level of oversight you're suggesting. Many would make career decisions in order to avoid that kind of babysitting.

At the same time, the tech world is bigger than it used to be, the stakes are higher, and more is on the line than ever before. Mistakes are more costly (though in this particular case I don't think you could prove any real damages).

And worst of all, the political world remains incredibly tech-illiterate. So, those in charge of guiding us in this realm are ill-equipped to do so.

I don't have a good answer for this. In an ideal world I'd like businesses to take this sort of thing more seriously, but in reality I don't see any reason that they should.
I seem to remember doing some prank-ish thing like this in the early days of Facebook.

Create an activity or whatever that you "liked" (ex: camping) and friends would see that "soylentcola liked camping". They would also like camping and then eventually you would change the name of that tag/activity/whatever to something like getting kicked in the nuts so that now it tells people that "John Smith likes getting kicked in the nuts".

I honestly don't remember the specifics as it's been years since we got our laughs out of this for a few minutes (hell, for all I know this was on MySpace and not Facebook. Really don't remember).
If you agree that starting from the assumption that a utility function exists leads to being always able to define one, then you can’t simultaneously take the position that there can’t be two incommensurate things.

You could argue that utility functions are “too powerful” on the grounds that being able to explain anything is equivalent to being able to explain nothing.

> Why don't we just create utility functions to solve politics?

What do you mean by “solve”? I reckon the utility function of politics is approximately “democracy” in many cases.

> it could very well be that human intelligence is [unsolvable in terms of well-defined mathematization] too

That’s equivalent to saying “whatever human intelligence depends on isn’t limited to the laws of physics” as the laws of physics are written in maths, and as we invent new maths for new understanding of physics, that new understanding is also available for modelling our own minds, as they are physical objects. A similar argument also applies if we have an immortal soul. ;)
Maybe my education doesn't mirror most STEM people's, but I took philosophy, literature, history, etc. courses as part of my Bioengineering degree. I could also take capstone courses from various arts programs as electives, despite them being "deep in liberal arts". I enjoyed those courses for the most part, and I think we should have STEM students reading Kant. I don't agree with the STEM or nothing argument, but baseline statistics and classical science should be a requirement for everyone.
Anybody can write good bash (with a little effort)
The Conservative Python 3 Porting Guide
How _is it_ criminal though? Please do tell which law his team broke here.

Put down the pitchfork and calm down. The guy is a raging a* and a cheater, but a criminal he is not. He lost his job, was publicly shamed and his reputation is tarnished basically forever. I think he got enough coming his way.
I think you're seeing the issue as a bit too black and white. It's entirely reasonable to think many VCs and VC-backed companies are ostensibly terrible and still buy from the VC-backed companies you don't think are like that.
The linked page didn't explain how it worked well, but this Wired video does: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OGvj7GZSIo
I switched to http://plaintextaccounting.org/ and couldn't be happier.
Design tips without pictures is like coding tips without code.
This was the default rule in Russia until very recently. Most (but not all) of roundabouts had yield signs on each entrance essentially enforcing “normal” rule, still it’s an utter source of confusion as many larger roundabouts have complex priority signs and lights systems, so it couldn’t go into muscle memory.
I try to give the US the benefit of the doubt occasionally to keep myself from forming a bias against them as my list of reasons to despise the country (NOT the people) seems to just keep growing.

And I do understand why the government won't just release him, but if everyone in the world knew about this, releasing him wouldn't do that much harm (everyone would have already seen the failure) and would actually be brilliant PR for whoever does it. But then again, that would require people and especially media that actually care and have a longer attention span than 30 seconds, which seems rather far from achievable right now.
These are actually pretty easy to drive around: just think of it as a tiny ring road with round-abouts along it.

The only difference between this and a "normal" ring road with round-abouts is that the distance between roundabouts is 50m not 5km :)
I think you can just do

brew install vim -- --with-override-system-vi --with-python3

To get a vim with python 3 on mac os. You are correct that it defaults to python 2, though.
It sounds like the answer is pretty straightforward — Mint was acquired and then semi-abandoned for want of providing sufficient revenue/having a sufficiently profitable business model.

The question in my mind is: What is the matter with global banking institutions such that this has to be a third party service instead of a service that a well-organized banking consortium could provide to its clients? I would totally switch my checking account if it came with a good Mint clone.

Is it asking so much for an interface from my bank that can classify transactions, include basic budgeting features, and pull in some data from other accounts?

(I know, I know, it's one of those things that sounds like a pretty simple CRUD app until you look into any of the industry-specific technical details.)
No - I meant its literally the only book that I have read that caused me to have difficulties sleeping for a few nights.

Edit: Don't downvote jmkni - my fault for wording things strangely.
NB for anyone considering this: Maté's hobby horse is that mental illness comes primarily from emotional trauma. If that's what you need to hear, great, but nowhere near being an explanation of the scientific consensus.
No, its limited by FAA.
Yet Another Blockchain Glossary
Ok. But who in their right mind still uses google search directly?
I notice the same thing: connections from random combinations of IPs/usernames.

Sadly, that comes with having a public accessible server: people wanting to hack their way in.
Just like mechanics of vehicles.
I don't - I am under no obligation to not bite the hand that feeds someone else if that hand is abusing me.
> I mean isn't that essentially the deal you get when you're renting any property?

This isn't a model of internet that's good for anyone except the rent-seekers, and at this case the people who pay the cost are our most altruistic organizations.

In a larger sense, homelessness, housing inequality, and the rent being too damn high show that this isn't even a good way to do housing. If we're going to use real estate as a descriptive model for the internet, we should look at both the positives and the negatives and realize that real estate has fundamental problems we would like to avoid in the internet. Just because a model exists doesn't mean it's a good model to emulate.

If anything, I'd rather see DNS be free, with rules against domain squatting. The only reason I can see to associate a cost with registering a domain name is to prevent domain name squatting, and it's clear that cost is a larger barrier to good actors (actual domain users) than to bad actors (domain squatters).
I recently adopted a timed activity method. I make a list like: Eat, Watch TV, Code, Playing Games, Play Guitar etc. I then allocate a timeframe for each one. Every week night after work I do it like: 30m eating and watching netflix at the same time, 20m hard exercise, 60m guitar, 60m coding, 60m gaming, 60m reading. All timed with my smartphone. This is key. It must be timed with an alarm at the end. There's always more or less 290 minutes available each night to allocate. If I remove one activity I just double the time of another one and so on. This way the procrastination was completely obliterated. Also I can more easily maintain really useful habits like exercise everyday, practice something everyday etc. I can exchange reading time for meditation time for example. At weekends it's the same idea, just with more activities and/or bigger time frames. The more time you have the easier it is to waste it all if you don't organize yourself;
Inaccurate. Microsoft was not prosecuted for merely including IE, they were prosecuted for forcing OEMs to not include anything else (Netscape).
I think this might play into the claim of innocence, as sort of a misdirect / false equivalence.

They might have mistaken him initially for someone else, but it doesn't seem like his real identity is really an innocent bystander.
Mint became a loss leader to sell tax preparation software.
What do you mean? There is no reason an office suite should be changing configuration for your browser without explicitly asking.
How to collaborate across time zones
Bring in the Bots, and Let Them Maintain Our Code
Seattle-area voters to vote by smartphone in district election
That’s exactly what the article describes as going on:

> No, the purpose of education in a democracy ought to be to prepare children for their role as citizens and that means that they learn to think for themselves, that they ask a lot of questions, that they question authority, that they stand up for what they believe in, and that they understand that their contribution to the world cannot be measured in money.

This is indoctrination into a specific value system.[1] None of this is necessary to teach kids math or writing, logical analysis, data analysis, or even the functioning of our government.

[1] As an Asian immigrant, it’s also largely not the value system I want to teach my kids. I’d rather have kids learn to respect authority, to respect the wishes and preferences of the majority of people around them, to be very considerate of how their actions affect others, to keep their heads down and work hard, to fully understand why things are the way they are before advocating for change, and that their function as people is to contribute to economy and thus the society and get a well paying job so they can support their own families.

I strongly suspect that for most Americans, or at least a large swath of Americans, the values they want to teach their kids hew closer to the above than “question authority.”
A valuable thing to remember about roundabouts is that they are generally meant to slow down traffic in areas of high pedestrian activity and are, above all else, a safety mechanism.
GA is free and takes seconds to set up. Not everyone knows how to code, not everyone is a professional web dev or CS ninja, not everyone has piles of VC money to throw at such things. GA works, is well organized, and is often integrated with a lot of cart/web builder services where you simply have to plug in a short string and pop over to the GA website.

I needed a vegetable knife recently. I could have (and I do have the skills, and have made many knives over the past 25 years) purchased some appropriate steel and made one myself in 3-5 hours and had it incredibly sharp but I opted to buy a Mercer stainless steel one on Amazon for 20$~ because it required much less effort.

I also couldn't care less about Google or the NSA or Lectroids from another dimension tracking me so I don't rush to go "I'd better cater to the small percentage of my potential customers that want to leave zero trace on the internet, there are countless tools out there they can use to minimize that trail of breadcrumbs. This data is usable to me and Google makes it easy" and I imagine, even the company in question was like "some people want privacy but those that are concerned can easily block this with a browser extension, in their hosts file, and/or at a hardware level so we'll go ahead and use it and save a bunch of time".
Congress disagrees. They tried to get that into the ACA but it was a few votes short. They had to settle for more transparency in payments to doctors: https://openpaymentsdata.cms.gov/
That's basically the direction, yes. It's like healthcare in the US: Since people can't opt out of it, the system continuously optimizes for taking as much of their income as possible for the same good.

I started shopping for a home a few years back, and I noticed something interesting: prices had adjusted so that the total cost of owning (including mortgage interest, taxes, maintenance costs, etc.) was almost exactly the same as the total cost of renting! It didn't matter what I did; the choice had been reduced to "Do I want to make a leveraged bet on the housing market, or not?"

I did. That bet was basically a wash when I sold last year. After final calculations... I paid within $100 a month of market rent for the place.

The only way you can get out of the trap is to acquire enough cash to simply buy outright (and then hope you never get the itch to move). And, of course, then that money is locked out of the investment market.
The main problem I had with the article is lack of actual solution for this perception.

It only provides a general rule which does not work because you cannot change a reward for a task, and self deception taxes the other systems responsible for procrastination.