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It depends on your renters- I’ll bet there are plenty out tenants out there who are so mechanically averse they won’t plunger out their TP; I know I met a few kids like that in college.

I’ve also seen my kids managed to do amazing things to the innards of the flush mechanism- break the chain, tangle the chain, move the plug out of position, and in one notable instance get the toilet to start “auto-flushing." All fairly easy fixes, but you have to be willing to get in the (clean water!) reservoir and jiggle parts around.

Older houses, especially those on septic, have additional issues with the plumbing becoming overloaded (my dad TWICE backed up our entire house by trying to send an half a fridges worth of food down the garbage disposal) but that will often take out multiple bathrooms.
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My dad had me remove Avast (that he paid for) from his laptop over Christmas because he started to get mailers based on his browsing activity. It literally locked up his computer for an hour uninstalling and giving prompts that would try to get you to accidentally cancel the uninstall.
Awesome, thanks for the info!

Does the hardware watchdog work when halted because of over-temp?
Uh, sort of. That quote can be abused of course, but it is still correct.

Actually, this article abuses it -- it's confusing performance and optimizations.

If you want performance, you design for it. When you optimize you profile and modify an existing system to improve something (usually speed, but could be other things like memory or requests, or whatever else might be constrained).

I think the article makes a decent point about performance, but just shouldn't confuse it with optimizations.

The right time to address the performance potential of your app or system is at design time. That's when you're going to be able to reduce the overall amount of work your system needs to do its job, and design for contingencies in case this or that box or line turns into a bottleneck.

Now, it is best to do high-level design of your essential components early -- you'll not only be able ensure your system has the performance potential it needs, but other things as well, e.g., to minimize the the overall amount of code you need to write, to make your system more maintainable, etc. So I agree with the general point of the article -- "performance first" but it shouldn't really get mired in confusion over optimizations.

Rather than "performance first" I'd say "do high-level design early, and don't forget to design for your performance goals".
Yes, but the numeric values were attached to the letters much later (providing a means for writing numbers), many hundreds of years after the alphabetic letter order was established.
it is not in your best interest to aggravate these people as someone who is more than willing to walk up to strangers home and take stuff can just as equally damage the property or worse.

your options are
1) schedule package deliveries to days someone is home
2) schedule deliveries to drop box locations that some services support (amazon locker for example, ups store)
3) ship to someone trusted in the neighborhood
4) ship to work if allowed
5) fake camera, signage, combination thereof
6) buy locally
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A lot of developers work in big companies.

My last company had 2400 OpenShift cpu cores assigned just to unused OpenShift projects. I'm sure the number of used OpenShift cores was in the tens of thousands.

For instance just a Kafka consumer that needs to sync a few billion records to cassandra and ElasticSearch by itself may use 50 cores.
Well... do you want to stand up in court some day and explain why you didn't install A/V software? It reduces risk, just maybe not the risk we expect it to.
Every coin which uses the same proof of work method has this problem. It is independent of the actual hashing algorithm used.

This is also not the first time this coin has been targeted.
> Note that this code, as well as original shell version, breaks if the filenames contains spaces or quotes; this is trivial to fix in python, but hard to fix in bash.

Your code sort of cheats, since it is calling xargs to do the parallelism. Also, it is missing the imports. The equivalent pure python version will be probably still more complicated (regardless of it working for general filenames or not).
Are you sure? I am pretty sure a lot of printers support text directly, they use control codes for additional capabilities.
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Is it true, or some strange legend, that 'ampersand' used to be at the end of the Alphabet Song? And it was written
'and per se And' meaning the 'and' sign, which was considered a letter at the time. And got sung and mangled/mondegreened into 'ampersand'?
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(My guess) IMHO, letters are originated from pictographs, as way to script pronunciation of an unknown word (e.g. name of a foreigner) by first sound of word represented by a pictograph. Later, they are adopted to represent foreign speech as is (e.g. to learn it), then letters are adopted by foreigners for their own use.

To remember all these symbols and their pronunciation, a mnemonic is necessary: a well known short speech, and list of letters for first sound of each word of this speech. From there, alphabet is derived naturally.
We have those too. In particular, I have one of those. You can buy them at Wal-Mart. I rent and I take it with me when I move (re-installing the original hardware).
maybe dont call it jira_clone. People dont like installing something called a "clone".

Brand it differently and build something really cool here
Pretty cool bro. Not usually a fan of side scrolling when on mobile because it makes dragging and dropping difficult. But on mobile dragging over multiple columns is very smooth.

Just don’t allow companies to add an infinite amount of plugins and fields which would likely bring the system to a crawl.
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You cannot maximize near term profits and long term customer trust. And the financing systems of the modern economy are set up for near term profits. Thus you cannot do right by your customers unless you are financed outside of the finance industry (bootstrapping, family business, rich dude).
"Fine, take away my bathrooms, but don't you dare touching my guns. I shit you not - I will be pissed."

every Midwestern American
Great article. Highlights the need for better tooling to create the connective fabric between personal sites.

Mine: https://www.pcmaffey.com
Even if you prefer the Erlang syntax, you might choose Elixir for the libraries. E.g., as far as I know, Phoenix isn't available from "plain" Erlang.
Docker is dead and k8s is hyped up by a bunch of clueless vcs and an army of marketing monkeys called "developer evangelists" that get paid by the tweet. Said evangelists are people that failed at even the most jr software roles so why would anyone listen to them.
Yep. The majority of the M0 money supply is created through fractional reserve banking as debt.
I don't use Avast myself (for obvious reasons), but how do they get around HTTPS encryption? Do they install a self-signed root certificate into the OS/browser? Wouldn't that be easily detectable?
I feel like every attack on these networks that goes from theoretical to real (or that gets demonstrated on increasingly larger scales), will actually tend to cause the market to get more bullish on the ecosystem as a whole.

It’s a kind of de-risking—not in the sense that the particular blockchain, or blockchains in general, are now any less vulnerable to the attack (Sybil attacks generally are like the Halting Problem of open consensus systems—no real way around them) but rather that these attacks, for some investors, go from scary “unknown unknowns” to “known unknowns” that can be quantified in their impact, and thus ROI models can be clarified, making cryptocurrency’s value as an asset class more legible. Legible assets always have a place in a hybrid-strategy portfolio; while illegible assets (like illiquid real estate from the housing crash) almost never do.

> basically the reserve currency of the crypto world (roughly all exchanges will have it)

I would say that that’s more like either Monero or USDC right now: these are the cryptocurrencies people ask for when they just want cash but want to let you pay them in crypto, because you can cash out of crypto entirely in a non-value-losing way pretty well from either (with Monero, because it has low TX fees and fast processing times, so you can get rid of it in seconds; with USDC, because it’s stable-ish for now, so you don’t need to worry on a scale of minutes whether it’ll keep its value.)

Which is similar to what “reserve currency” means in practice for most people (other than banks): it’s the currency they’d prefer to be paid in, and the currency you’ll see them trading in their own currency for in the event that their own currency experiences high volatility.
I used to own a three bedroom suburban townhouse that had 3½ baths. Each bedroom had a walk-in closet and en-suite bathroom. It definitely made the properties (this was a 10 unit condominium) attractive for people who wanted roommates
One of my favorite pieces of debug folklore was the story of a minicomputer or some other serious machine rebooting in the middle of the night. I can't remember exactly but it was in some university during the 70s/80s. An important server would spontaneously reboot in the middle of the night on some days but not all.

Finally, someone sat up all night to watch what happens and observed a cleaning lady unplugging the machine from power in order to plug in a vacuum. When she was finished, she plugged the computer back in and left.

Another on of my favorites, not bug but more malicious, was someone wrote a program to swing the heads on one of those old giant hard drives back and forth. At the right frequency, the back and forth momentum would cause the drive to walk away from the wall and eventually unplug itself.
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the paradox of knowledge- the more you have of it, the more ignorant you become. -Yuval Noah Harari

Augmented humans- 56:45

Neurotechnology- 1:09:45

Robotics- 1:28:28
Just trying to replace some services for my personal use:
https://www.swoo.club
But residential space is full of potential targets, so it's useful to make your space look like a less attractive target. Oversized hinges and kick panels, security film on the windows, etc.

Of course, the best bang for your buck is still the simple stuff - a few motion detecting lights, some security company stickers and a clean, well-kept yard.
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> In the mid-19th century, American sanitarians came to believe that disease stemmed from “sewer gas” emitted by toilets, which encouraged home builders to cram tub, sink, and toilet into one well-ventilated room with exposed pipes, in order to limit the spread of disease.

To be fair, sewer gas is indeed gross and can be toxic. So modern plumbing carefully vents the sewer gas out the roof and has traps that prevent sewer gas from entering the room.

(The P trap under your sink isn’t to catch valuables that go down the drain. It’s there to hold water so that gasses and critters can’t come through.)
Gotta say "thank you" for finding the guts to pursue a new language, I think it's been my favorite of them all so far, and the code I've written in Elixir has always been very resilient, very easy to read, very easy to debug and very maintainable (not to mention, just fun to write!)... something which I credit more to Elixir's (and BEAM's) design more than my own.

Being on average 10x faster at the same kinds of tasks than Ruby is, also helps, of course >..<
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I don’t think people like using JIRA in general, especially after companies bloat it with a number of useless plugins that only certain teams will use.
> For corporate IT, it’s a compliance requirement. It is the equivalent of putting a sign in the bathroom that says to wash your hands, only less effective. AV does almost nothing and costs almost nothing.

Corporate IT at my previous employer even allowed and aided us in uninstalling the resource-hogging McAfee installation that comes default with a company machine. That stuff was crippling our machines.
"Interestingly, new US apartment buildings are now predominantly wood frame as well. This is a recent change due to intricacies of fire codes and the politics behind them."

Wooden "stick-built" structures are also highly resilient in earthquakes and are, generally speaking, the best and most cost-effective way to build seismically safe buildings in earthquake zones.

I, personally, was always aesthetically offended by "American" 2x4 stick-built construction, as we generally understand it, but it is indeed the case that wooden studs properly sheathed with plywood "shear panels" (and tied to the foundation, etc.) are tremendously strong at a relatively very low cost.

I believe this scales up to at least 4 story mutli-unit structures ...
> From February onward, everyone, including open-source Qt users, will require valid Qt accounts to download Qt binary packages. We changed this because we think that a Qt account lets you make the best use of our services and contribute to Qt as an open-source user.

It is quite annoying to get these thinly-veiled pseudo-reasons for forcing people to login to get the download. Surely they just want to know names and affiliations of who downloads their open source versions.

That's understandable from a business perspective, but then please don't put some bullshit there about needing to register at download time to do code reviews and contribution.
Does anyone know if this typical or atypical for anti-competitive investigations?
That's a lie. Was Borg replaced by kubernetes?
OH NO! PEOPLE WILL HAVE TO START USING SKEPTICISM AND CRITICAL THINKING WHEN WATCHING VIDEOS FROM SHADY PARTS OF THE INTERNET!
I think that has been the conclusion for a while. I went poking around for old stories, and the best I could find was a thread from 2016: “AV is my single biggest impediment to shipping a secure browser,” https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13079569

And a follow-up, "Avoid Non-Microsoft Antivirus Software", https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13489100

I believe there have been academic studies on the non-effectiveness of antivirus software, but I can't find them. (If others can, I'd like to read them.) I find the argument that antivirus software increases attack surface compelling because it's third-party software that tries to get into everything. This is not the '90s anymore; all of the big players care about security. I think that the engineers at Microsoft, Google, Apple and Firefox are more qualified to secure their own software than outside vendors are.
I've also been running btrfs (on CentOS7) for about five years on my home NAS.

One advantage is it detects bit rot -- and you can scrub the disks once a week looking for the bad blocks.

I also like the inline compression.

I run at RAID1 and the only issue I had was several years ago there was a bug about freeing allocations so occasionally the filesystem would be full but not full.
This is part of the reason why it's most likely everything will converge on a single money. Currencies will be issued on top, rather than dividing the global effort.
> Income per family is a treacherous measure, since family sizes have shrunk considerably.

> If I marry you, our family income has doubled, but none of us is any richer.

I don't disagree with your core point, but I have to nitpick a bit the last part.

Expenses don't grow linearly with the number of people in a family, especially with the number of wage-earning adults. You will be richer in a couple, and I don't only mean emotionally :-) Rent won't double, all sorts of other living expenses can be shared, etc. Disposable income should definitely be higher than for 2 single people.

I feel that a decent chunk of the issues in modern societies is that many people are single for long periods of time. That makes things really hard financially, plus there's less support in case of issues...
Projects like Lutris, PlayOnLinux, Steam (Proton) solve that problem.
It doesn't say specifically
-dev binaries, it says 'installation of qt binaries' which I need to install any qt based software unless i want to build the libraries from source. If they mean bundling qt binaries in your app they should say that. This makes it seem like everyone needs to register to install anything that relies on having a qt binary installed on your system.

If I install qt through a package manager, do I need to be registered or would the package maintainer need to be registered?
The word potential is doing a ton of work in that sentence.
Second time this has happened to BTG. Boggles the mind that people continued to use this coin. https://fortune.com/2018/05/29/bitcoin-gold-hack/
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I can't be the only one who has been locked out of Medium because I click on interesting titles on HN and quickly reach my limit. I don't want to upgrade Medium, I don't want to pay to get past paywalls.
and nothing of value was lost.

next up: remove the malware from MOTD.
They called snapshots backups in their web interface when viewing snapshots. From their docs:

> "Snapshots allow you to create a backup copy of a volume"

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EN2UZ6TX4AAMe-H?format=png&name=...

They are doing a lot of preaching about backups when failing to do internal backups (not customer facing backups) of their own products.
I did an industrial automation class in college. We had a PLC setup with optical sensors and were sorting cylinders by height.

We wired it up tested it, then called the TA over to review. It failed despite no changes and working minutes earlier.

We changed some logic, tested again, and again called the TA over. It failed. We had another team look at our code and see if we were missing something obvious. Nope, it looked the same.

Finally I realized I was standing when we did the testing. I shaded the sensors and kept them from being overloaded with sunlight. We were the only table in direct sunlight, so only we were experiencing the issue.
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Is using btrfs on a personal machine something to do? It seems that all the comments as well as articles about it, just assume you're running it on a server.

The ability to add and remove disks on a desktop machine is very tempting.
There's an implied "other things being equal" in there.

Given the commits follow some normal distribution of quality and risk, it's less risky on average to apply one of those average commits than it is to apply a bunch of them.

But if you try to deliver one giant risky commit, you're doing CD in name only.
Why would you do all that? I've seen many 1950s-vintage houses where the sink and toilet have been replaced once, with no further changes, and they're fine. No on should hate brown tile so much that they spend so much money to tear the whole thing down.
No, it's not. Marketing as a concept is totally divorced from whether or not its message is truthful because marketing doesn't measure anything. It's propaganda, whether or not the audience understands that or whether the creator is being honest. The audience has to effectively use a side-channel to figure out if a piece of marketing accurately reflects the product. Often times it doesn't, or at least not completely, because if you don't lie or exaggerate to some extent, your product will lose out to the competitor who makes bolder claims, uses brighter colors, and is purposefully less specific in their message.

The best that marketing can do to convey trust is to use social proof. After all, if everyone is using Brand X, it must be good, right? Of course, social proof can be faked, exaggerated, or bought with a lot of money, as is commonly done.
> He then provided a screenshot showing that Binance had since increased their BTG withdrawal requirement to 20 confirmations.

The journalist has missed an important part of the github gist that their story bases on:

> Based on Nicehash market price data for Zhash we estimate the cost of generating each reorg at around 0.2 BTC (~$1,700) and the attacker would have recouped around the same value in block rewards. Therefore, it is possible that the attacks were profitable if the double-spends succeeded at defrauding the attacker's counterparty, or break-even if the double-spends were unsuccessful. This suggests that a confirmation requirement on the order of tens of blocks for BTG is still far too few to make the budget constraint to launch an attack significant.
I would expect that two could live a fair bit more cheaply (apples to apples) than double what they individually spent as singles. Rent, utilities, and (to a lesser extent) groceries all seemed to get quite a bit more efficient when we moved in together.
I'll admit this is a very niche usecase, but not even CrossOver runs 16 bit apps anymore (like Minesweeper for Windows 98). Luckily the Windows XP version is basically the same and is 32-bit.
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My guess is you’ll never be in a position to have a lot of cash, keeping it from being a real problem for you, meaning you’ll forget all about this righteous little display of thought experimenting how the world ought to work and have accomplished nothing of value from it.

How about we stop doing that?

Put a real plan together in the legal sense and we’ll have something. Banal forum exercises like this are a fractional Bitcoin for a dozen.
>Surprisingly, all cryptos (including BTG) seem to be going up

This might be because the "halvening" is this year.

Also all stocks are down due to the corona virus. which is allegedly a reason bitcoin is high.
From further in the article:

> Microsoft declined to comment on the specifics of why it purchased products from Jumpshot, but said that it doesn't have a current relationship with the company.

Which seems to indicate that Microsoft is in the list of past, not potential clients.
A car-free future? How UK cities are moving towards a pedestrian age
Most old games however are 32-bit. Don't have time at the moment to test but I bet I lost UT2004 when I upgraded my Mac to 10.15...
I'm just a kernel dev, not a product manager, but I think a sub $100 product is very unlikely I'm afraid. There are volume discounts though for customers ordering large quantities. Otherwise Accujack's answer is spot on.
IME that culture, where it exists, varies from organisation to organisation and is driven from the top.

I think a lot of companies don't care about bugs as much as their developers do though, and that isn't necessarily irrational behaviour.

Some kinds of customer facing bugs really are ok to just let happen.
The people who engage in porch piracy are overwhelmingly well off from what we've seen. It's not the poor kid down the block you have to be suspicious of, but your middle class neighbor who probably needs to have an intervention.

Despite the physical nature of it, it's an almost white collar crime.
Note there are plenty of other cryptocurrencies that are susceptible.

https://www.crypto51.app/
that is a good point, i always forget about the ionospheric plasma. however, there is going to be some amount of outbound re-radiation from the plasma. the sound quality by the time you get to alpha centauri is going to lousy but any alien civ capable of coming over here and sucking up our precious atmosphere is probably going to have good enough spectroscopy and computing to reconstruct our morning zoo broadcasts and judge that we are not worthy to have nitrogen.
"Bathrooms sell houses, period". Which came first, the supply or the demand?
If you must post Medium links, at least post them from a twitter account to save the step of bypassing the paywall

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