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> This "oh, just force them!" mindset is incredibly naive and hasn't worked for desktop Linux in years.

Are you kidding? There are open source drivers for nearly everything on the desktop. The biggest holdout is nVidia, and that's for the same reason as Qualcomm -- they have inadequate competition. There are people who need CUDA which allows nVidia to shove proprietary drivers down their throats. And even that's slowly eroding as AMD comes out of the decade they spent asleep.

The problem with Qualcomm is that they keep buying every prospective competitor and the antitrust authorities haven't done anything to stop them, so there is no market pressure for them to do what the customers want because the customers have no alternative.
I've done that, too, when I was going to have to do real work on the laptop. For me, laptop keyboards have two problems. The key spacing is wrong. I don't have laptop-keyboard-sized hands. The other problem is key travel. I like keys that push a bit farther than laptop keys do.
Once you catch up on autophagy debt it's all just a bunch of less efficient energy.
You were commenting on the persona, but also stated "Im not sure he understands why he's finding it so difficult."

If you believe the statements he was making were rhetorical in nature, but are dismissive of them, while also crediting that as an individual he was insanely intelligent, with both a level of experience and a level of curiosity that outshines most of us...perhaps you missed the points he was making?
H&M has a sustainability campaign "Rewear, Reuse, Recycle".

How's that for evil?
One thing that's come up with remote work is missing out on promotion, since you aren't as naturally visible to your manager or boss. So, if you are working remotely, you might not want to be full time to make sure to get some of that visibility. (I know this isn't directly related to the question, but it's something to consider)
I guess the mathematical introduction is what I was always looking for. Do you have any good beginners reference to learn Electronics Design?
Software Automation Testing Tools Series: Cypress vs. TestCafé
It’s referred to as a Proxy (type of Object) and they’re relatively straightforward and a newer addition to JavaScript. :)
I didn't watch the whole thing, but it looks that it can boot homebrew from CD.
US investigates Harvard and Yale over foreign funding
Note: By crypto they mean cryptography here.
We don't mind our software running in a VM. What we mind is multiple copies of the same license on different VMs. When a client purchases a license, the terms include the option of VM deployments, which trigger additional auditing rights. So if a client has an air-gapped no-VM license, we want to block that license from running on a VM.
What I got from this article was sheer nostalgia, mixed with early-internet optimism. The fact is, on the internet these days, you can't allow everyone to have an equal voice without threat of moderation, because more often than not people will use that voice to spew hatred and vitriol just for fun. In the early days it was somewhat easy for good people to shout down or ignore the bad actors, but these days there are more bad actors than there are good people--if this isn't the case, it's surely the case that the bad actors simply have more time, and the good people ultimately flee and do something else with their time.
Critical XSS Vulnerability Patched in WordPress Plugin GDPR Cookie Consent
Need to slightly amend this, to avoid showing my rank ignorance of all things S.Fe. There is, of course, a Whole Foods Market right on the edge of the Rail Yards, which very much would count as "downtown" and "in the core", and it is indeed busy and well used. OTOH, the parking lot is nearly always packed, and I'm not convinced there's a lot of foot traffic there.

Some people might even consider the Trader Joes on Cordova
to be within the boundaries of "the core" (along with the Natural Grocer catty-corner opposite), but I think that's pushing it a bit.
There's not a single point of failure when looking at RIM. Rather it's a series of strategic mistakes and a lack of vision that ultimately caused the company to fail.

I still remember the BlackBerry Storm, the first all touchscreen device from RIM. It was years behind the iPhone. The UI felt rushed and clunky, the keyboard was unusable and there wasn't any app support. It didn't even support WiFi, something the original iPhone did, and it tanked performances. It was an exercise in cargo cult at best and really showed that they didn't understand the technical aspect at all since they allowed their competitor to have 2 years of advance on them.

They were wrong on Moore's law (So was Microsoft who moved Phones to WindowsNT too late) and very wrong on ergonomics (Physical keyboards are NOT essential).

I think RIM focused way too much on its existing userbase and on pleasing carriers rather than looking at were the market was going to be in 3-5 years. Even back in 2008-2009 I remember execs showing off their iPhones and as soon as the BlackBerry users saw one most of them wanted in. And these were the buyers of the flagship models RIM shipped at the time, not the cheaper phones aimed at teenagers.

Finally, they failed to attract talent. The type of folks who interned at RIM generally didn't end up working there.

Apple (and Google with Android) both shipped platforms. RIM kept shipping a tool.
> and the benefit would go to some third party

This is the key. Incentives matter.

People like to think that the market is some state of nature; it isn't. It is shaped by the legal and cultural environment like any other human practice.

If you want reusable hard drive bumpers, modify the environment to make doing so in the best interests of the companies using them.
“... sustain its hosting service in the long term, which will cost about US$230,000 in 2020”

For hosting 26 preprint servers. Is that high, low or about right
The Gift of the Body versus the Violent Impulse
> From my point of view, landfills are like making oil

No, landfill is like making natural gas and letting it escape into the atmosphere (lots of your oil-based products will degrade and produce methane in the process). Which is really bad, because methane is 20x the greenhouse gas effect of CO2.
Burning is the best you can do for waste you can't otherwise use.
Pressure mounts for Swiss parliamentary probe into spying operation
Yes, because you can be a chartered engineer off the back of software development experience and a CS Masters. There isn't a more definitive way to say yes or no than that imo.
Have we really gotten to the stage where this needs to be said?
I've never seen a shipping container on a store shelf. Not even Costco has that.
Please note, this shouldn't be taken as generic advice - draw a heart on February 13th, totally fine, hitting on the widow at a funeral, not fine.
Hi @Dowwie, I'm one of those "others" you mentioned that's trying to fill Nikolay's very large shoes!

Yuki (John Titor on GitHub), Rob and I are well on our way removing concerning `unsafe`s wherever we can. Sadly, there are some breaking changes but that's not stopping us and we're now headed to a 3.x release. No timeline on that just yet.

The community has bounced back quite a bit ever since the transition and I'm hopeful that actix-web will continue to be the leader-ish of Rust web development!

Just the other day we even had the first example mix some async_std into the mix (obviously, yes, some runtime weirdness with this)! https://github.com/actix/examples/tree/master/multipart-asyn...

Happy to answer any questions y'all might have!
This post reminded me of this legendary question on plotting a human butt: https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/66538/how-do...
Try doing the string manipulation section for Zsh instead ;) It will kill you.

http://zsh.sourceforge.net/Doc/Release/Expansion.html
There are moldable bumpers/foam for this application. The foams can also be made from bio materials such as mycelium (which can actually be grown/entrained to shape) or that puffy corn starch that can replace “packing peanuts.”

Combine with cardboard and paper tape and you’ve got a pretty well compostable shipping container. Landfill neutral.
Usmle moves to pass/fail system
I mean, for one, the High Line is actually in Manhattan, whereas this thing I hadn't even heard of is out in Greenwich.

And not even the lovely Greenwich Village, but the newbuild soulless peninsula.
Everything is Fintech, so now what?
r = 1 - sin(θ)
> or introduce a separate parallel chip alongside the binned ones that actually targets their specs (which you would still have to bin downward).

you know, I hadn't actually thought of that. If you did this, presumably it would involve the cost of setting up another manufacturing line, (colossal), and you'd _still_ have binning issues. Presumably the tolerances would be looser however; if you can build within 5% power usage of X, you should be able to _easily_ build within 5% power usage of (x/2).

Interesting thoughts.
Is there any indication this was intentional?
Having grown up in small town India where in the 90s $100 per month was the norm for most and $500 per month would quality you as the top 5% in that town, I still find it hard to throw away things like empty bottles or cardboard boxes or paper towels (and that's with a silicon valley engineering wage).

I'm just getting used to being ok with wastage as I constantly have to force myself out of my old mindset in order to think bigger.
this is really not a good look for haskell.
Not sure if this is what the poster above was referencing, but here's an offering: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/pricing-details/
So many generalizations in this paragraph.

Not all programmers try to be heroes and cowboys throughout their whole careers. I am myself a programmer (25+ years doing it), and have known programmers my entire life. The distribution of certain personality traits is not better or worse in any given population.

Besides our 'lazy' and 'childish' ways, we also have to contend with business constraints and everything needs to be shipped for yesterday.

So although I do agree programmers should be more aware of the domain knowledge and be more 'client' oriented, it's also true that business stakeholders need to take the time and understand the impacts of their 'ship fast always' mentality. Too many times there is no counterweight to business decisions that lead to overwhelming technical debt, which is a great deservice to customers in long term business sense.

It's never black or white.
That is basically what f-droid allows you to do, add different repos. Though google play doesn't provide a repo that fdroid, obviously.
Has the wooden skyscraper revolution finally arrived?
I'm surprised no one has mentioned Kevlin Henneys talk on this topic, like this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzJ94TMPcD8

This topic comes up in his other talks too, like "Clean coders hate..." or "7 ineffective coding habits..."

He has really good examples, a witty style; a pleasure to listen to.
This article on how ridiculous it is trying to sort favicons out from the end user perspective reminded me of how difficult it was to get right as a creator.

I use this tool:
https://realfavicongenerator.net/

Rather than make everything simple it makes everything easy.

Thanks to the Sam for immersing in that subject so others can reap the benefit.
I've long been an advocate over monitoring total energy usage in a end-to-end process to determine if we're moving the needle (for instance, can a wind turbine produce more energy needed than used to cast the steel tower it's sitting on?). I am often lambasted for suggesting that "green" habits are not really that green. With recycling, it comes down the material be recycled and the end-to-end process.

In nearly all cases, plastic is likely a waste of time and just should just be reduced or eliminated.

Aluminium, glass, and steel are easy to sort from trash and recycling is as easy as smelting, but the energy source used for smelting needs to be renewable.

Paper _may not_ be a good thing to recycle, if you think of tree products are carbon sinks. Nearly all of a tree's mass comes from CO2 pulled from the air. So, sustainably harvesting forests (with rotation and growth periods), means that we're "fixating" carbon from the air into solid materials. Once again it comes down to the entirety of the process.
Chrome 79 no longer shows preflight CORS requests
I have a hard time believing that straws are as big of a problem as they're made out to be. Or that reusable ones are the answer. I'd guess that reusable straws get used like twice and then get lost, and probably have a 50x carbon footprint to produce.

If straws really are such a problem, isn't "don't use straws" the answer? Reusable straws just sounds like someone taking advantage of our altruism in order to sell us more junk.
In a commodity market, "expensive" means "costs energy". You have to look at all the costs.

Are you going to burn fuel to mail reusable bumpers back to the manufacturer?

One USB disk has more environmental impact then a hundred packagings. It packaging where the marginal win is? Buy less stuff.
You're talking about chain-extensions?

Can you address anything I actually said?

That all the browser developers as a bloc will pressure standards groups not to make more DNSSEC happen is not something I'm interested in litigating. Since they're the model consumers of DANE, it's weird to refer to them as a lobby; it's like talking about "the user lobby". It's a semantic point and not an important one, so I'm fine to stipulate that "almost everyone who will ever have to deal with DANE" constitutes "the anti-DANE lobby".
This article talks about how you cannot roll back things in Git in one paragraph, then about how your reputation is at stake and then immediately into what to do after you've fixed the problem of having committed a secret. I think it should also talk about how to fix the problem, if it targets an audience which might not know how Git works. Otherwise a novice is walking away from it having learnt that Git is irreversible but you can also still somehow fix an issue of having committed secrets to it. I know I'd be confused if I didn't already know what to do.
People find the idea of human breast milk disgusting while finding it perfectly natural to drink cows milk.
Big Data and AI World London 2020
Aww. For those of us who have boyfriends and girlfriends who are not technical, this is a nice way to engage them with what we actually do during the day!
hygiene. I wonder if you could quantify the reduction in disease (and so perhaps a dollar value associated with lower healthcare costs, less sickbays, less death) that can attributed to packaging which essentially preserves factory sterilization into the market.
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I did interpret this as being related to cryptocurrency, so quite possibly.
I made a template table which I then added table-rows to by copy-paste and then filling them out.

It was a bit tedious work I must admit.
"IMHO" there are a lot of well known problems with carbone datation. You can read about it in scientific journals and make your own opinion.

Any measurement can have errors of methodology, and a wrong measurement does not have any value. Don't worship numbers just because they seem fancy or fit with a narrative. They are just that, a number.

Without a genetical analysis we can not know if a plant variety is lost, or just forgotten, or a clone of a extant variety buried ten years ago. Show me the analysis before to start talking abour old ruins, caravans and lost cities.
Man, the people who push certification systems on the software engineering community really burn my biscuits.

I haven't seen a certification system that wasn't either a money-grab (product-specific certifications, like Windows or Novell), a power-grab (by someone like the IEEE, where the tests were half electrical engineering and the software bits were garbage practices from the 70s and 80s), or a way to artificially restrict the number of available practitioners (arguably another money-grab).

No certification system is going to magically make large systems easier to write or whisk away bugs. Writing software is hard. It's that simple. People who have spent their entire careers writing software, from industry luminaries that you read about every day to the really, really good engineers you've never heard of, who are absolute wizards, these people are still writing howlingly bad bugs because writing software is hard.

You can have your certifications and legal requirements for training and so on, just don't pretend they will improve the state of the art. The best you can do is hold people's feet to the fire after they make mistakes, and if the best people in the industry can't be perfect, why would we expect threats of punishment to fix anything?

Engineering is about designing and building systems, usually with cost, time and reliability constraints. It's totally separate from whatever liability framework is being enforced this week.
> it's deliberate discounting of economy products

That's a very nice way and non-scummy way of putting it, yes. If that deep discount compared to the "full-featured" price was made clearer, I assume that many people would not even find it scummy that these discounts are conditioned to being sold a "crippled" version of the product. So, depending on the "framing" you pur on this, you can nicely account for either of these perspectives.
Do they have any further details of the cut content? Like images of cut content, what plot was removed, etc.? I've seen numerous applications mention the cut content but the descriptions are always very high level, like in this article.
> Usenet was full of people like me

I recognize you from afu! I only lurked, but I inevitably think of that group when I remember how good usenet used to be.
"Any community that gets its laughs by pretending to be idiots will eventually be flooded by actual idiots who mistakenly believe that they're in good company."
So you don't want open source to be more inclusive? Seems like a silly reason for your decision.. I don't understand your motivation here.
Artificial Intelligence Depends on Water Vapor in Atmosphere – Sharon Kleyne
Nah.

These people were just looking to downvote someone who were against their tax evasion cash cow. That's where their outrage comes from.

Any other outrage is a misdirection.
You may be right, but for what it's worth I caution you against equating being early and being smart.
This article, like many on the topic, is largely FUD. There is only one $ in the entire article, and it simply says that plastics no longer fetch $300/ton. There is no mention of what the offering price is for garbage.

Here is more grounded review of the system:

https://www.thoughtco.com/benefits-of-recycling-outweigh-the...

The real answer is that it's a complex dynamic system. If landfill disposal prices are high, recycling makes economic sense. If they are low, it doesn't. If you start recycling, then the demand for landfill disposal goes down, so the prices also go down.

In general, most municipalities run recycling programs that either save money today, or save money by reducing the aggregate cost of what it would cost if all waste was sent to a landfill.

Municipalities which do not have a large enough scale to make a separate recycling program cost effective rarely implement them.
A sudden jump in Coronavirus cases
From the article:

Barter requires a coincidence of interests. Alice grows some pecans and wants some apples; Bob grows apples and want some pecans. They just happen to have their orchards near each other, and Alice just happens to trust Bob enough to wait between pecan harvest time and apple harvest time. Assuming all these conditions are met, barter works pretty well. But if Alice was growing oranges, even if Bob wanted oranges as well as pecans, they'd be out of luck -- oranges and apples don 't both grow well in the same climate. If Alice and Bob didn't trust each other, and couldn't find a third party to be a middleman [L94] or enforce a contract, they'd also be out of luck.

This is the canonical Myth of Barter, where some society is assumed to have existed that was so inconvenienced by the double coincidence of interests/wants/needs that it invented money. This never happened as there exists no evidence that a society existed that used barter as its main method of exchange; barter was used on the edges of society, spot transfers made between people who did not have the trust necessary to support debts.

Here's the passage where he refers to 'time-lagged barter':

Local but extremely valuable trade was, this essay argues, made possible among many cultures by the advent of collectibles, by the time of the Upper Paleolithic. Collectibles substituted for otherwise necessary but non-existent trusting long term relationships. If there had existed a high degree of sustained interaction and trust between tribes, or individuals of different tribes, so that they gave each other unsecured credit, this would have stimulated time-lagged barter trade.

I did read the article. In fact, I read this article years ago shortly after it was published as back then I was an anarcho-capitalist, very interested in non-state solutions to money.
At the very least they got a sign up. I just tested on my AT&T phone on Montana and had no issue creating an account and accessing the mailbox.

What's special about Chicago?
Sadly probably yes.
And that this “junk” abandoned space had become overgrown with vegetation, supporting wildlife already, which inspired the whole idea IIRC.
> Why is this scummy? It's a free market and it's not a life saving drug, they can ask for whatever they want, nobody is forcing you to buy it.

That's pretty much the only argument _for_ doing it; it's the equivalent of defending your argument as free speech - just because you _can_ say it, doesn't mean you should.
This sucks because I loved his channel so many people have had to put up with this BS, CodysLab, NerdRage- I dont understand how they can pay millions to unboxing crap videos but screw over good content creators. Also, he linked this in the twitter thread if you want to support him https://www.patreon.com/technologyconnections
Andreas is a later example (p.77) who started from a strong software background. You'll see that he went in a different direction for a while, developed skills doing things outside software, and applied those skills when he returned to software, now contributing to strategy where he works. Jonathan (p. 10), whose project landed him in Y Combinator, began with a narrow legal issue of a specific chapter of bankruptcy.

The first time you do the exercises, you mostly develop skills. Sometimes a project of a lifetime emerges the first time, but more often, those skills lead you to see opportunity where you didn't before because your expectation of success increases. The next time you do it, or if you switch projects, I predict you'll say the technical aspect set the direction of your project but that you could do what you're doing in any field you wanted to.

Few people had identified problems before starting the exercises. A few did, but most of the problems they found came from the exercises. Even then, the first problems they identified, and likely yours, were only seeds for the next exercises, which refine them.

What you wrote above looks like the foundation of what would go in your first exercise. That exercise gives direction. The later exercises will have you move in that direction. They will lead you to find and solve problems and create working relationships with people in your areas of interest.

Does that help?
It would be pretty impressive if they had backdoored a Bitcoin company decades ago
> And if the plastic is then disposed of in landfill then it doubles as carbon sequestration.

Where does plastic come from, if not desequestered carbon? Does it consume CO2 from the air?
The company was called Crypto AG, so some disambiguation is understandable.