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AFAIK example.com is defined as an exception and no one really owns it.
I can't speak for the LDS church, but my brother left Christianity 5 or 6 years ago. I similarly left a few years later. Initially telling my parents was extremely uncomfortable, which stands to reason. They come from a tradition where parents are made responsible for their children's continued participation and adherence to the church, with eternal consequences for anyone who leaves.

Every time we see my parents they say goodbye as if it's the last time they'll see us. They continue to speak as if we're still participating in the church, and they cry every time my brother, who lives 3 hours away, leaves to go home.

A month ago my parents' church sent my brother a letter threatening him with damnation if he didn't return to Christianity and guilting him for not following in his parents religion. It then suggested he would be excommunicated (which has specific meaning in the denomination, it's not exactly shunning) if he didn't tell them where he was attending, or he could resign. It was sent as registered mail, and written in a way that was meant to be humiliating. My brother wrote back that he happily resigned.

I expect at some point I might receive the same communication. In the Reformed church this is both old and new. The idea of excommunication had existed since before the church came over from Europe. But in recent times churches have found it a useful, quasi-legal way to enforce conformity and allegiance. If that environment is as totalizing a force in your life as the church intends to be, you will find it very difficult to leave. That threat will worry you. But once you've left it often just feels hurtful and vindictive. It doesn't have the reformative effect it is intended to effect.
I guess I stand corrected. I was under the impression that C compilers don't tend to use it anymore when compiling for amd64. (Because you can assume SSE support on amd64, unlike a binary that might run on an old Pentium.) Then I misread that situation as it not working.

It does take effort for an OS kernel to save and restore x87 state, so I could imagine somebody dropping support.
Luckily example.com is reserved by IANA, so no one can register it.
> In a couple hours you should be able to setup automatic backups and practice going through the recover process a couple times.

Unfortunately there's a lot more too it than that. You need to handle when the backup job fails or dies, have a process for deleting old backups, etc. Not just that, but if you have multiple Postgres instances, you need to do this work for each machine. I've seen first hand this kind of stuff become a huge distraction. It's often worth it to pay AWS a bit more in exchange to not worry about this stuff.
Can you give some specific examples of this problem? Frontend developer curious what kind of trends/solutions you mean.
Browser Extensions – W3C Draft Report
Here's the usage on my Cyclone 10:

Info (21057): Implemented 1509 device resources after synthesis - the final resource count might be different
Info (21058): Implemented 15 input pins
Info (21059): Implemented 33 output pins
Info (21060): Implemented 87 bidirectional pins
Info (21061): Implemented 1240 logic cells
Info (21064): Implemented 128 RAM segments
Info (21065): Implemented 2 PLLs

I haven't been focusing on resource usage yet, but I think there's big savings potential in packet_assembler.sv since it's using around 300 cells just for parity computation.
It's hard for me to have sympathy for him "protecting his livelihood" when we are talking about a lucky gamble that appreciated by 140000x, he's already successfully sold several of them, and almost the entire value is driven by scamming opportunities
xargs is also more efficient than -exec, as it stuffs multiple files to the target command. Esp. for rm, instead of executing a copy for each file.
It looks like the course of disease progression could be unpredictable, with patients who intially seemed to not have too harsh a case of the disease taking sudden turns for the worse after days or even a week of mild symptoms. 10% of patients having abnormal initial symptoms would also make control of the disease a lot harder if 10% of people escape your screens.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/07/health/coronavirus-patien...
It feels like it took me longer to find this than it should have: https://github.com/nortd/driveboard
Focused on simplicity, speed, and generality. They do really well on frontend and client-side execution. Our speciality, on the other hand, is language support and containers/general dev environments.
Are you aware of Apache Cordova? I've used it a couple times to deploy simple web apps as Android apps and I have no complaints about the result. Supports iOS also.

https://cordova.apache.org/
What kind of alternatives exist to the DOM? Even conceptual ones?
It's using the term as in definitions #2-3 (particularly 3b) here: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/colony, not #1. They mean colony as in "a colony of ants", not the political structure.
I really enjoy the fact that the seemingly simple equation 2^n = 3^p has so much implication for how me make music.
It's not like they're intentionally broken, just have whatever bugs come with being the first revision. These are the units they send out to journalists and big companies to do benchmarks, test software for, plan large scale rollouts, etc. Having them work the same as the retail units is pretty essential for that purpose.

That said, one of my units has a clock speed that doesn't match any of the retail models (I guess they didn't end up selling that model?), and another doesn't seem to work with threading (or whatever AMD calls it) enabled. But that's a small price to pay for the money saved.
Ask HN: Could any talented and creative engineer become Elon Musk if given $10B?
"Would you like to join our customer loyalty reward program?"

"No, I'm just naturally loyal. Runs in the family."
The Dropbox web app not having that same functionality is my biggest pet peeve with the product.
The obvious next question for me is how does this particular meditation compare to other modes of meditation that are not all about poking at places in your brain that hurt.
I'll toss in my setup too, which I started semi-recently and has been working well:

In my .bash_profile I essentially just `open --background -e "...$(date +%F).txt" &`.

Since I'm in the CLI daily for work, I get day-stamped files passively opened without having to think about it. It's a nice quiet reminder to keep notes throughout the day, and it all just goes into a folder in dropbox that I can trivially `grep` or add with other tools or add side-files (typically "date - stuff.ext" so they appear next to the day's notes).
We all (should) know what happens when overfishing occurs. [0]

There's a balance between doing what's optimal for individual health and what can be sustained. Unfortunately, I don't know of any better or equal omega-3 source because plant-based and fish oil capsules are demonstrably inferior. Canned, sustainable-quotaed, wild-caught, extremely fresh sardines and anchovies caught around South America are precisely what were recommended by the documentary The Fish on My Plate. The amount of bioavailable omega-3 content in them is significantly higher than fish oil pills, and was confirmed with blood tests. The thing is, in order to have a clinical impact requires consuming several servings per week or everyday would be a minimum amount.

I think it's pointless diet-shaming and nibbling around the edges to demand everyone become strictly vegan when better alternatives and mixes exist that can improve health.

0. Monterery Sardine Story Richard H. Parrish (2000)

https://swfsc.noaa.gov/publications/CR/2000/2000ParrR2.pdf
would be nice if lousy systems were not foisted on us by enterprises. very glad and liberating to be an IC now. sometimes i don't answer emails on our shitty enterprise email system for months but i warned them i don't like that ever-crashing, one-9 of uptime hunk of garbage.
I believe DNA guarantees a "no".
Some hints: https://github.com/slowernews/hamster-system
The attempted or purported scholarship in this letter is extremely poor. It’s very clear that the author has an agenda and is not really seeking clarification or truth.
Curious what people think about this - is this the right metric? What about being top 1% of wealth instead of income?

Also, is country the right granularity? Take the US for example. It is so vast that being 1% overall is rarely going to be relevant. Your daily life is affected by the wealth in the area where you live, so it makes more sense to see what it takes to be in the 1% in your neighborhood (say 50 km/30mi radius)
The issue is not as acute in this case. These are just Jupyter notebooks, you'll be able to run them on your own hardware with minimal, if any, modifications, unless you choose to use TPUs.
https://www.tpug.ca/
I just checked that domain for you out of curiosity. Don't surf there. Looks very malware.
> For those from wildcard expansion, it would tell the program what the wildcard was.

Different shells have different globbing mechanisms. Why should all programs tie themselves to the mechanisms of any one particular shell?

The simpler the calling mechanism for executables, the simpler it is to write them in any existing or future language. This also gives more flexibility to future shells.

UNIX is pretty much designed thinking of users as programmers. Making it easy to write programs building on other programs is as important as being able to call them. With that in mind, I don't think it's a good compromise to complicate the writing of executables in order to protect users from their own mistakes.
Making Sense of Asynchrony in Interactive Data Visualizations (2018)
Wouldn't that imply that a modest over-design could significantly improve blade life?
Your ad hominem attack is neither helpful nor civil. Furthermore, the idea it uses as a basis is false.

"... In reality, actual DEM proposed legislation places controls on certain features that increase likelihood of successful mass-killing (fully auto, bump stocks, very high capacity mags) ..."

You stated that full auto was a feature that Democrats were proposing to control to decrease likelihood of mass killing. In reality, that problem has not existed for 85 years; proposing to make it less likely is meaningless.
I’d go back to windows. With WSL2 I could probably get over most impediments to my preferred workflow and application choices. Linux is great but honestly I’d get tired of fighting to get a reasonably stable configuration of hardware, display, etc. I just want computer to work.
You might want to look at Tiddlywiki
https://tiddlywiki.com/ It's got text file storage and different ways to get into and edit pages. I like that there is formatting things you can do to make the "pages" look better. The ability to link to items makes structuring / finding things a little easier.
Sardines seem consistently not to fall into your objections. Because they are low on the food chain, they don't have the same mercury and plastic issues as larger fish. I also have not seen strong evidence that they're in any danger from current fishing practices or that it is significantly impacting its predators. Sardines are pretty great
I do similarly, but use markdown instead (Typora for editing, and viewing). I have all my documentation, plus daily tasks, etc., in it.
Yes I think the “lambda” form is close to the most efficient structure that bacterial virus can take. The really interesting question is if this common form is a case of convergent evolution, or if the lack of similarity between all the viral genomes is due to the ancient origins of this virus.

One thing is certain and that is that we have barely scratched the surface of genetic diversity on this planet.
Since the subscription is monthly with no commitment, I think the viewpoint is probably something like "if it's not meeting your needs then unsubscribe." A refund of $10 is not going to be economically meaningful to folks who want to subscribe to this service. "Chosen GPU more than 80% of the time" sounds nice but it opens you up to adverse selection. They aren't looking for customers who want to pay ten bucks a month to rent 80% of a high performance GPU. That's not nearly enough money for that kind of commitment.
buy one from themeforest.com or some other landing page url places for $20, then you save your time.

Then spend your time on the content to answer the questions your users are gonna have. Provide screenshots of your app.

If you are a self starter, I wouldn't recommend building an entire landing page yourself.
In markdown, I use [ ] (a square in my physical notebook) for an un-done todo and [x] for completed. So to keep track of current todos, search on [ ]. For physical notebook, I take some time every day to flip back the last several pages and make sure I haven't missed putting something in a more formal list.

I'm using GitLab issues for tasks at the moment, but I really like this concept...
I sort of feel like playing or singing by ear is one of those things that you can either just do, or you can’t. I remember being 8 years old and standing next to my parents in church, and noticing the choir singing in harmony, I would invent my own harmony line to go with it. It never seemed difficult at all but I don’t think I could explain what I was doing. Most skills can be taught but in my experience when it comes to music, you’ve either got it, or you don’t. If you’ve got it, you know you’ve got it. It’s just easy the same way that walking or talking is easy, but easier, because I could hum on key before I could talk.
Scenarios 1 & 2 have very different rationales for being applied to a gTLD though. Scenario 1's problem (domain squatting) has been the fact for basically forever for all TLD's. Scenario 2's problem would be pretty novel to fix at least for gTLD's, so it doesn't really matter as long as Scenario 2 is in the game.

I'd also be interested if he said he would willingly give up the domain for free if it would not pose a security risk? From my read he still wants to sell it to the highest bidder.
Yeah, I think you're right that you're being overly cynical. Blockchain projects now understand that, to be taken seriously, they need to have a compelling product vision. They still get internal press in the blockchain community, but the standards have (rightly) risen.
I expected to see PHP there. Its interest has been declining for years.

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=%2Fm%2F0...

https://insights.stackoverflow.com/trends?tags=php
I'm still on pen and paper..
Not everyone finds BigCorp problems to be the interesting problems. Not everyone wants to live in the Bay Area. There's a lot of jobs in the world that aren't at FAANG, and it's okay if the right job for someone is at a place whose entire dev shop is smaller than the team at Google that maintains Blaze. If you find yourself in a job like that, it is absolutely the right call to invest in the best commodity tools you can (where best is a local, not a global, maxima) and focus on the things you can do that add value to your org.
I’ve read some po-mo stuff (like Baudrillard). Terms are constantly used without clear definitions, and rather than a logical progression of thoughts it’s a snaggle of metaphors. That kind of reading is very thought-provoking, but it’s the antithesis of math.
I learned from a sysadmin to use `mv` instead of `rm` when you're removing potentially critical files.

Other tips include colouring your prompt highlighted red on production boxes so you never accidentally think you're somewhere safe.

Nowadays I try to avoid SSHing into mission critical machines though.
From the World Economic Forum at Davos...

"Over a lifespan of around 60 years, whales ... accumulate an average of 33 tonnes of CO2 ... By comparison, a tree absorbs up to 48 pounds of CO2 a year."

The modern version of "apples and oranges" ? "whales and trees"
You are one of those 'let me bandage over the zombie bite, ill be fine' people?
MathCAD had a WYSIWYG notebook in the same time frame, late 80s, but I have no idea which of them was first with it. It's possible that it was neither.
I remember going through the original Doom source code after it was released as open source. Although it seemed way over my head, I learned a lot about how well C code can be made to work, even for a complex game (at least at that time). I also got to appreciate John Carmack's coding style/skill even more.
Read my first actual post. My point was not that they should be able to just do that. My point is that it needs to be contractually clear what is gone happen. What are parts of the car and what are services you are buying with your account.

Neither way to do it is wrong and suggesting so is just dumb, the same trade-off exists all over the place in other industries as well.
I think I'm one of the few people who actually developed a Lotus Notes application. It was well received at the time doing standard (template) letters!
I was forced to abandon macOS because Apple abandoned Nvidia and I need CUDA. Now running Ubuntu 18.04.

It’s fine. The UX is varying degrees of shitty as always but I can do what I need without too much hassle (mostly vscode/vim and the terminal).

The only thing I really miss from macOS is how nice editing PDFs was in Preview (filling out and signing forms). That and Photoshop.
Analysis and projections of transmission dynamics of nCoV in Wuhan: 07 Feb, 2020
Notepad++ user here. I use multiple pads and create new notes. The autosave feature is great that you don’t have to sAve a note to persist after a restart.

Once a week I either save and file these tabs or just discard them. It’s like a great scratchpad.

I also try not to hoard on too much data, I discard a lot with this in mind

Ps in notepad++ ctl+alt+up/down arrows move a line up and down. I use this a lot to rank lists and mark priority by moving it to the top
Why is find | grep an anti-pattern? Is eschewing memorizing the flags of one particular command in favor of using a pipeline which is much more broadly applicable really an anti-pattern?

Heck, I’m at the point now where I pipe tar into gzip.
In a world where broadband internet hasn't even been available for 2 decades, 5 years is a bloody long time.
Yeah but you can't grantee that any other Tesla a user has can activate heated seats. Whatever model you go with it needs to be clear when you buy it how its gone work.
But has it been double-blinded clinically verified to be as bioavailable as the omega-3 compounds from consuming very fresh canned sardine/anchovies? And, supplements aren't regulated in the US, you really have no idea what's in them and no idea about proper dosage. Supplements in the US are generally a popular, expensive scam with little or zero evidence to back them up.

You also might want to watch The Fish on My Plate, a Michael Pollan-like documentary, because the evidence points to taking fish oil pills in sufficient quantities to have a clinically-significant effect would risk cardiovascular dysfunction and metabolic issues long beforehand, and how, anecdotally, eating small, wild-caught, heavy-metals-free fish on a near-daily basis seems like the best approach without more data. They also go into detail about the horrors of fish farming, pros/cons of wild-caught.
Quantum Conversations, Entanglement, and the American Cold War “Physics Bubble”
New cases seem to be going down https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-cases/
Why do you prefer wind to solar?
Am I the only one still waiting for the first open-source kW fiber laser solution? Open-source laser tinkering has always hovered at subpar wattage levels...barely enough to cut any metals above 0.060” (1.5mm) thickness...all while the Chinese have already surpassed closed-source companies like IPG and developed affordable ($11-15k...compared to $90-150k) closed-source solutions for fiber laser.
Here's my take on it from a few months ago:

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Claim: Most sites are mostly static content. For example, AirBNB or Grubhub. Those sites could be way faster than they are now if they were architected differently. Only when you check out do you need anything resembling an “app”. The browsing and searching is better done with a “document” model IMO.

Ditto for YouTube... I think it used to be more a document model, but now it’s more like an app. And it’s gotten a lot slower, which I don’t think is a coincidence. Netflix is a more obvious example – it’s crazy slow.

To address the OP: for Sourcehut/Github, I would say everything except the PR review system could use the document model. Navigating code and adding comments is arguably an app.

On the other hand, there are things that are and should be apps: Google Maps, Docs, Sheets.

edit: Yeah now that I check, YouTube does the infinite scroll thing, which is slow and annoying IMO (e.g. breaks bookmarking). Ditto for AirBNB.

https://lobste.rs/s/jmmr3w/interview_with_drew_devault#c_wuc...

context: https://lobste.rs/s/jmmr3w/interview_with_drew_devault

I haven't used sourcehut much but the UI is going in the right direction IMO. It looks nice and is functional, at 5% of the weight and 20x the speed of similar sites.
That kind of thing happens in Australia and the sale must go ahead by law. The advertised price is the price, end of story.
Could also be faster because of the common compression dictionary.
That seems like a relatively old study now. I think blade design and manufacture has developed rapidly. Here is a short piece on the testing of much larger modern blades designed to last at least 25 years offshore [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5m-jwwM3qRs
From what I have seen, the daily death toll is doubling every 5 days or so.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-death-...

I don’t know how long that can continue but at that rate it won’t be more than a couple of months before thousands are dying per day...

Edit: since it takes 2 to 3 weeks to die from it, we really should be comparing the deaths now to the cases two weeks ago, which gives a much much higher mortality rate than is currently reported — maybe as high as 20%

Based on how fast it spread, I definitely expect there to be ~300 people dying per day by next week, so you’re taking a SARS equivalent every 2 or 3 days.
doesn't

-exec <command> {} \+

do that too? (and we're back at the "remembering specific syntax" point: knowing xargs helps you everywhere)
I’ve been at places where they should of bought vs build, because they don’t put enough staff on it
There is some speculation that that is because they are at their limit for how many tests they can do per day.