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I do this, any traffic to port 53 gets re-directed using IP masquerading to my local DNS server which uses the blocklists from https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts.

By coincidence since I did that I need to do a hard reboot of my Mi Box android tv device everyday as when you turn it on from standby and open Youtube / Netflix it goes in to a frozen state.
Given NOKIA hosted Qt that was the only reasonable alternative to Java in Mobile, and the only threatening tech, it indeed was the only relevant European tech company. I met Haavard Nord at Googleplex just before he sold Qt to NOKIA and Google was in the play as well. Had Google acquired Qt, Android could have been Qt-based instead.
Everyone should feel ad about being subject to metrics, because anyone can be manipulated given the right knowledge about them.
There was a HN discussion a couple of weeks ago about whether the intel cpu detection “feature” is an evil money grab, or a legitimate way to prevent unexpected runtime behavior on AMD CPUs.
It sounds like you're just not accustomed to paying attention to a project with such broad scope. Most of these changes have fairly narrow impact on just a single driver or subsystem. It would be silly to say "we're going to postpone release of this new GPU driver because we have too many new network drivers in this release", because there's no reason to expect such a policy to actually improve the quality of kernel releases, and it would obviously be detrimental to the pace of feature additions.

Actual far-reaching systemic changes are a pretty small portion of this and most other stable kernel releases.
Even in the mid-late 90s IBM was still backing Smalltalk as the next big thing, with its (expensive) VisualAge products. By the end of the 90s they had ditched it entirely and pivoted to Java Java Java.
It ships today? Where? The only units available are the out of stock dev units. They haven't reached MP either...?

At least Purism has had the kernel booting for some time -- the i.MX8QM has had mainline kernel support from NXP for years now.
Podcasting is perfect for big companies to wall off into their content gardens.

AmaCasts

YouGooCasts

SpotCasts

DisneyCasts

AppleCasts

Etc etc

All it will take is a tiny tiny tiny bit of money by the standards of these companies to buy anything with an audience.

Exactly the same at TV, you’ll need to find your podcast of choice on the channel that owns it.
That's awesome. How do you find such good remote gigs?
But what would the cost to put a scientist on Mars for a week vs all the robotic missions we've sent so far? Which of those missions does the human mission require as a sunk cost?
I’ve been working remote for over 5 years. Here are my lessons.

1) work from home is really hard. Home is home, work is work. You need either a fully isolated work room where you only work or go to some co-working space which is work. Dress like you’re going to work. No pajama work days. Best is when you have couple of folks in same city that make a remote satellite office. I’ve seen great success with many satellite offices.

2) ensure you have good internet connection, a good headset with noise cancellation mic and speakers, a good camera that works in low light. A good powerful machine. MacBook pros are prolly the most popular.

3) Out of sight, out of mind is a real thing. Reply to messages within a certain timeframe, say an hour. I used to have morning hours which was reviews and discussion. I replied immediately and was open to any interruptions. Evening hours I liked to get 3-4 hours of in the zone focus.

4) write things down. Google docs, slack, wikis are great tools. For every project I used to have a team doc with overall eagle eye plan + weekly notes. What happened last week? what metrics/impact we moved? What we’re gonna do this week, why we’re gonna do it and what metrics/impact we think will be made. Anyone could look at the doc and had a good idea where things were headed. Documenting progress is just as important as actually making the progress.

5) There’s usually some work timezone where everyone is expected to have at-least 4 hours in common. Make use of that. Set 1:1s, talk about feelings, ideas, overall health of business, kitchen sink conversations etc.

6) remote folks sometimes end up being over worked. Know when to shut off and switch to “non-work” mode. It’s important.
The rate at which new people get infected is going down.
That source you cite literally says that "45% of Google employees are programmers."
As was the case with SARS, it's believed that the virus made the jump from bats to humans through another animal intermediary.

It was determined to be civets for SARS and I heard it was believed it might be pangolins for the new virus (but don't quote me on this).

AFAIK, it shouldn't be possible for the bats viruses we know to make the jump directly to humans.

So eating bats wasn't the cause of the outbreak in SARS and isn't the cause either for the new virus.
Quite, effectively your device VPNs to the internet on port 443 to a non descript IP. You can either block it completely or allow everything through.

The only hope is that device manufacturers are terrible, don’t implement certificate checks, and you can MITM everything by redirecting port 443 through a proxy.
"Allow"? I am not sure there is much of a choice with Windows 10. Microsoft seems to have done an end-run around the WSUS-managed networks I set up, as well... :(

Disclaimer - I have not had the time to go back in and see if it is something simple that has undone/overridden my group policies...
Here is a good illustration why looking at a glass of water will not work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9pvG_ZSnCc
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Similar to 'gf' there's 'gx' that opens a URL in your browser. I use this every day.

https://github.com/tyru/open-browser.vim

Here's my config from the vimrc:

" Disable netrw's gx mapping

let g:netrw_nogx = 1

" If the current word is a URL, open it in the browser. Else, pass it to a search engine

nmap gx <Plug>(openbrowser-smart-search)

vmap gx <Plug>(openbrowser-smart-search)

let g:openbrowser_default_search="duckduckgo"
A big part of why LA has so many pedestrian and bicyclist fatalities is because the mass transit system is awful and the sprawl. A ton of people in LA still just drive drunk because ridesharing and cabs are too expensive. Lots of people can’t afford to pay $30 to get home and would rather risk it.

Note that the economically less fortunate districts of LA dominate the drunk driving fatalities by capita: https://starpointinjurylaw.com/research/deadliest-cities-dru...
They already demonstrated the technology when they spontaneously upgraded cars in Florida during the hurricane.

Back then, it was a move benefiting drivers (and rightfully applauded), so no one seemed to stop and think how they were even able to do this. Now we're seeing the same technology in action to the detriment of the driver.
100 body bags per crematorium, 49 crematoriums in Wuhan, supposedly 11 working around the clock.
The site summarises accounts of individual researchers, most of which are based on interviews with individuals that are by now dead (as is the researcher). You can doubt as much as you want but I don't see the benefit in this - especially as the article doesn't present 'truthc but rather the different viewpoints/interpretations.
The second derivative is the acceleration.
If it's negative it can still be getting worse (positive first derivative), but it's slowing down.

The second derivative is the rate at which the rate of change is changing.
There are a number of business apps coughQuickBookscough where there is not a whole lot of choice about the OS, if one is using the Desktop version of said app...
Its better than the burnt platform memo. He could have had a different view outside the cameras.
If there was foul play involved, you'd have to pull back a few more curtains to find it. Information that transpired after it was all over was that the Nokia board hired Elop with the assignment to sell to Microsoft.

The N9 is a really sad story. I had one, it was great. It did get some "better than iPhone" reviews. It was in development for too long, and when it was released and it was great, Nokia was too cowardly to bet on it.
> or maybe not, people learn differently nowadays

If by “nowadays” you mean ~2000 when I first learned socket programming (using select!)? ;-)
This is difficult to approach. It's not so much that I don't like handwriting so much that it's something I have a great difficulty performing.

My background in handwriting starts in kindergarten when my teacher had me pick my right hand after I couldn't decide which hand I preferred to grip with (they had these little triangular rubber grip guides for the hands). A year or two later I would switch to my left when my right would cramp, as this hand learned whatever the right did just as easily.

There are many submissions on HN about neurodiversity, the way people think differently. I suspect that for the majority of the population, once they learn to write it's similar to walking: A largely automatic activity that doesn't require a huge amount of concentration to do. That's not been the case for me, maybe it's less brain lateralization, I don't know. I've begun to think more about it in recent years after a friend was diagnosed with ADHD a few years back. He is also someone with mixed-handedness and poor legibility. For him, being put on stimulant medication caused a dramatic improvement in his writing legibility. More recently, After I was no longer able to retain a secretary for note-taking in meetings I inquired about and received the same diagnosis. Stimulant medication has the same effect on me, for the first time in my life I can write legibly (if still slowly). I have no idea if this sort of medical approach would have helped my writing speeds if received while younger.

What I'm trying to convey is that I don't dislike writing, I just wasn't gifted with the physical ability to do it effectively. In the same sense, I might have also liked art courses if I could actually draw basic shapes without a ruler and compass.

In a discussion of pens, I feel that fountain pens can greatly help a person that might otherwise have difficulty penning in steady lines. It did for me at least. Keyboards have been even better. I can type so far above what I can write that writing is only left for my private notes, letters, and necessary legal documents like checks and tax stuff. I feel technology intervention in school would have been more helpful than providing better/alternative writing utensils and/or medicine but I was going through school before the schools were ready to provide it.
The only choice is to block it.
That's assuming no interest at all, though. In fact, $365 million a year are only 3,5 % of 104 billion, so he could probably spend a million per day for eternity.
wasn't the GNU C++ compiler an option at the time?

GCC wasn’t usable for serious C++ applications at the time because hardware costs would kill you. The SPARCworks binaries were so much better that the compiler licences paid for themselves 10x over (maybe more!) in the extra CPUs we didn’t need to buy. This was true up at least until the mid 00s.

Even today many people find it worthwhile to pay for the Intel compiler for the same reason.
> When do you collect cash from customers? When do you pay bills? How fast can you cycle cash? (Meaning if you pay back marketing over 2 years vs 2 months) a LTV/CAC ratio of 1.5 is not great,

i recall seeing a talk from some saas company that was really driving home the importance of how quickly the business can generate cash to pay for customer acquisition costs. i think they talked about offering plans to sign up for 12 months in advance (with a fair discount) versus monthly, with the idea that if enough customers sign up to the 12 month plan at a 20% - 30% discount then if you still get enough cash in the short run to pay for the customer acquisition costs, and enough cash in the long run to operate at a profit, you can start to pour excess cash into customer acquisition

(apologies, dont remember the exact talk)
I think about this when I play hearts.

Bucket by suit, sort each suit.
> GPDR tried to make it obvious but missed the mark, making everybody accept cookies is just a blind annoyance.

It's almost two years now, and while I don't think cookie warnings are GDPR's fault (it was earlier regulation, that was trying to give adtech industry a chance to self-regulate), I do have this feeling that it indeed missed the mark.

I currently feel the problem is enforcement. There's loads of sites that managed to implement a GDPR consent form in a way that defeats the spirit of the law, and often enough the letter as well. I was hoping that a hammer would be swiftly brought down on those cases, but that doesn't seem to be happening.
" yours back then trivialising the issue as just having to ‘come up with something’."

Sorry, I was not trying to trivialize the complexity of the issue. Rather, I was trying to slyly refer to the other competetive handsets already on the market back then.

The question was if Android had not happened, would Apple rule the mobile ecosystem completely. I don't think so. Rather, capital chose Android as the most viable alternative.

There were viable alternatives back then such as Meego which had the combined expertise of Nokia and Intel behind it.

It was the market and business that sealed Apple/Android duopoly, not the lack of viable alternative tech stacks.
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The Russians do it for the US. The US hasn't launched any astronaut in almost a decade.

SpaceX and ULA have been certified recently to launch astronauts too.

But launching to the orbit of the ISS (about 500 km) is very different from launching to lunar orbit (about 400000 km iirc).

My money is on SpaceX to land on the moon before 2025, not any government. Not even China.
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The RSS feed would need links to the audio files - I suspect that Spotify only allows access to those through its app much as YouTube does through its app/website (this is what stops YouTube video podcast feeds from becoming a thing)
Solving the SSH over SSM is sadly useless right now.
The whole point of why we began using SSM was logging.

1) We soon discovered that using bash (and not sh that SSM signs you into) doesn’t format the logs correctly and makes them unreadable
2) Using SSH over SSM doesn’t log at all

Both of these problems are on AWS github but as always, they don’t respond.
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It's weird to see people continuing to argue about this, when the article itself makes pretty clear that this is about the subsonic record. Concorde and Blackbird are completely irrelevant. Of course they're faster, but that's not the point.

The entire reason a subsonic flight could go at speeds normally only possible to supersonic aircraft, is because of the speed of the jet stream driven by Ciara. The plane is flying at subsonic speeds within a moving pocket of air that adds quite a lot to that speed. That's the interesting part about this story.
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Furthermore the first Google Android phone was NOT designed at all to compete with an iPhone. It was more of a Blackberry competitor. Large keyboard. No touchscreen.
For Android 2.0 they had to rejigger a lot of the OS and tooling to focus on all-screen touch devices.
This reminds me of some self-checkout experiences where the scanner wouldn't pick the barcode on the pack (4-pack) but it would pick the barcode of the product inside the pack (which are not usually sold separately but oh well...).

Cue having to call the assistance to back on that purchase and scan the right one. Happened a couple of times. I think I just actively started covering the wrong barcodes or got a different product.
This info is from 2007, the title should reflect that. This is not a useful post.
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They weren't at 801mph airspeed. The article didn't make it clear exactly, but:

"The Boeing 747-436 reached speeds of 825 mph (1,327 km/h) as it rode a jet stream accelerated by Storm Ciara."

Ie max ground speed 1327km/h. And:

"The jet stream reached speeds of 260 mph (418 km/h) on Sunday morning, according to BBC Weather."

So if their max ground speed coincides with max wind speed and the wind was perfectly tail, their air speed would have been closer to 909km/hour.
> Despite its efforts, San Francisco is facing headwinds. By October of this year, the city had counted 25 crash-induced fatalities, already higher than last year’s total.

The most notable change in SF has been the delayed light cycle after pedestrian crosswalk comes on. There was a spike in deaths after that change and I understood why immediately - drivers were timing the light by watching the crosswalk countdown and/or the cross traffic's light cycle. Your light used to turn green just as the other direction's light turned red. When they suddenly changed all the light I noticed a fair number of cars jolt forward then stop, confused, until their light actually changes 4 seconds later.

I'm not sure how this change results in deaths directly, but it definitely added to road rage out there. When the light does change and a car is turning, the expectations are different now. Pedestrians are in the middle of the street already and are less wary of cars jumping out because before there was a moment when everyone would figure out the situation before moving (ideally). Now people are mid-crosswalk and have no idea when the cars' light is going to change which leaves pedestrians more vulnerable.

Another issue I imagine is cars that are making a legal right turn on a red light. The driver looks to see if they can go and have their head turned the exact opposite direction of the crosswalk and wouldn't be aware of when the crosswalk symbol changes. Meanwhile, pedestrians aren't expecting a car to suddenly turn into them 2 seconds after they step into the crosswalk and it is a recipe for disaster. I don't see how they can fix that now without banning all turns on red.

There is also a particularly ugly intersection at Laguna and Geary where they instituted a delayed green when crossing over Geary. People were getting run over in the crosswalks because there is an extra long crosswalk on both sides and cars were turning from both directions with other cars getting backed up and unable to go around them. Because there isn't room for dedicated turn lanes, they have one side go then the other side go, but people lose their shit when they see the southbound cars coming at them for 15 seconds while their light is still red because all prior experience at other lights indicates they should also have a green light when other cars are going... I have seen multiple cars simply drive through that red light and one time 3 cars in a row just decided to go despite the red. They finally put up a sign that says "delayed green" which seems to be helping, but it is an imperfect solution and another counter-intuitive solution.
Then please explain this.

https://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2012/08/07/15822...

This is a business in Florida that serves smoked fruit bats.

You know.. it’s the exact same type of bat that’s being linked to the coronavirus in China.
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You have to weigh up the value of such data against the privacy wishes of all podcast listeners. It is not clear to me at all how knowing the gender of your audience could improve the product you’re producing.
Going from the N9 to the first IPhone (I jailbroke mine for use in Sweden) was a revelation.

The N9 was a very complex beast to use and it was very laggy compared to the smooth graphics the iPhone offered.

Even in the markets where it was available, it was a very rare sight. But grey import iPhones were everywhere in Stockholm.
Same in Russia, to a lesser defgree. For pens\penls\forks\knives.

My grip was always 'right' but I clearly remember my father commenting every time he saw a person holding his tool the wrong way. To him me doing it the right way was like a little victory or something.
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There used to be a team at Amazon whose mission was to prevent this situation. The technical term was "grotesque packaging". I assume they eventually gave up trying to solve the problem.
Eh, I don't think we need full automation. There are plenty of superfluous jobs today and the number of people to "keep the lights" on is probably 5% of the population or less.
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1) I have a problem, 2) the cause is rare and unusual, 3) the solution is something ill-advised and out-there that just happens to work for me.

I've noticed that this way of thinking is very common among those with dependency/addiction issues, and whether this way of thinking is a cause or result of said addiction, it often spills out into other areas of life.

My personal experience is that I've had a number of friends where this was true, and while things never got as bad for me as for them or Peterson, I've also noticed how my own thinking got warped in periods where I struggled with dependency issues.

Pothead friends who advocated weed as a cure for cancer and argued it is actually good for the lungs. Also their depression cannot be cured through therapy because therapists wouldn't be able to deal with the specific nature of their problems.

Alcoholic friends who argued they "weren't so bad" comparatively, and in fact their lifestyle was better than the poor sober suckers who work 9-5, their life structurally falling apart obviously being a result of very unusual circumstances that they had no control over.

And so on.
Changing is not the problem, unless that change removes functionality that was marketed as a feature.

> Because if what you propose goes into legislature there's a non-zero chance that will happen.

It's already covered. Apple was hit with a class-action[1] about this very thing, and France is fining them, as this submission notes. That's it working as expected, and it hasn't stopped updates from rolling out (but it might have stopped some specific portions of updates that people wouldn't have liked, who knows).

Either companies are to be held accountable for what they say when they are selling you something, or they aren't. I prefer a world where they are.

1: https://appleinsider.com/articles/19/10/16/apple-hit-with-ne...