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> Target practice is just practicing getting better at killing.

Seems pretty farfetched given that nearly all of the people who shoot targets neither intend to nor actually do ever kill anyone.

Would you argue that the purpose of a baseball is killing people because it's practicing getting better at throwing a rock? To say nothing of javelin.

> Crime deterrent is threatening to kill.

Would you say that the purpose of the criminal justice system is to put people in jail and it fails if it manages to deter crime and then doesn't actually have to put people in jail?

> It's valuable because it's good at killing.

Why can't it be valuable because it's good for target shooting or for deterring crime?

> It's a well crafted killing machine.

That's just assuming the conclusion. If it's a killing machine then it's a well crafted killing machine, but if its purpose is to look pretty (or look scary) or satisfy local cultural norms or make a political statement, then it's a well crafted political statement.

> It makes one feel less vulnerable because you hold the ability to instantly kill someone.

Which is a similar situation to serving as a deterrent -- it succeeds even when you don't use it to kill anyone. Especially then.

> Why deny the gun's purpose is to kill? It seems to imply you think it's bad to kill people, as if we could demonstrate that yes guns are only good at killing people, it might risk your guns being taken away? Seems the strongest rhetorical position is one that argues in favor of the gun's ability to kill and why people should be allowed to have that ability.

Killing might be a purpose of a gun, but it's being alleged that it's the only purpose. Which still doesn't make sense given that it's mostly not what they're actually used for in practice.

Killing people isn't even a purpose in general, or if it is then it's a bad one. A purpose is a motive, not a means. Nobody sane has a motive of killing for no reason. Plenty of sane people have a motive of winning a sporting event or not getting robbed.

This is why "guns are for killing" is political rhetoric. Killing is bad and everybody knows it, so if guns are only for killing then guns are bad. But if guns are for deterring crime or similar, deterring crime is good and not deterring crime is bad. It's a much harder motive to argue against because it's a legitimate motive, whereas killing for no reason is just a strawman.
Don't be obtuse. There are plenty of things an app can do that can't be accomplished by an website, including being listed in the Apple app store, for one.

Apple hides the ability to add a website to the home screen somewhere inside of Safari, instead of making it a first class feature and including a UI for it in the "App" "store". If they did that, a lot of apps could viably just be a website instead.
You ever see a cryptic line of code with a comment next to it saying something to the effect of: "No idea what this does, but everything breaks if we delete it"?

It could be that old viral code has been repurposed long ago by evolution and serves a purpose.
On the one hand, I prefer the feel of a physical book but I find myself reading them less because I can't read them quite as easily for fun (i.e. trying reading Misner, Thorne, and Wheeler while lying down without breaking your nose or arms)
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I'm not sure discounts. I mostly do firmware in that environment you can use either preemptive or cooperative multitasking. That latter is much less likely to result in corrupted state and results in smaller code size. Which is why I like it. But you pay with latency and task starvation problems as Rachel complains of.
There's no evidence of it at all. In fact, logically, it doesn't make any sense that there would be: the deed has already been committed, all you are preventing is the possibility for what is called "re-victimization" and the only evidence that that ever happens is when authorities do it themselves by forcing victims to confirm they are the ones in the photos/videos.

In other words, even the claim itself is garbage.
Perhaps, but as a counter example I'd compare it to RPM.

RPM is a solid, mature, heavily used package format. And the .spec file I've always found to be so much easier to work with than Debian packaging. I've made many debs, and my current work uses debs for deploying all our software, but I still find it so much harder to make them. I have a workflow for my current packages, but if I want to take a new piece of software and turn it into a .deb, it is always pretty painful. I usually have to ask a debian packager for help. They are always super nice and helpful, but I just wish I could package things myself.

Seems like if you package .debs all the time, it becomes easier. But as an infrequent packager, I find RPMs .spec to be much easier to manage than Debian's system.
I find it very strange that Israel flew the first (known) F35 combat mission. Why do we give them such priority technology access compared to, say, the UK or other close, Five Eyes allies?
Those in power, along with most Americans, abandoned those ideals a long time ago.

Not that that's any justification for what is happening... but you can't fight an enemy you don't understand (or underestimate).
> difficult or impossible using just a regex search

I am sorry but this isn't true. I can prove it.

Regex is used to parse the program itself that runs APT, this is called Lexical analysis[1]. GNU Bison and Flex [2] are lexical analyzers for example that compile a lot of code we write today. So whatever pattern matching code was written in C as part of the APT 2.0 package, that code itself is read and compiled by regex. So, it provably cannot be impossible to do a match using this new feature you're referring to that cannot be matched using plain old regex. Difficulty is subjective depending on who the target demographic is.

All these things are actually moot - it doesn't cost you anything to keep Regex option to search for some package names, perhaps a bit of additional code to maintain. Also, other means of pattern matching can be added in addition to regex search feature. Why not both?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexical_analysis
[2] https://aquamentus.com/flex_bison.html
> Also, they say they 'believe' it isn't new, and that word is used for a reason - it isn't legally binding. It is a lot different than saying "It isn't new."

Yes, PR is covering their butts with believe. This is a response PR; it needs to go out within a couple of days tops, but within 24 hours of the report is best. That's not enough time to confirm the new claims or that the speculative claims are existing. This PR say, yes, we know about this; we triaged it, and we'll get back to you later; please stop calling about it.

Expect a more thorough response, with more certainty in probably a few weeks; although, I dunno AMDs usual timelines on this sort of thing.
> I can't use any browser but Safari on what is supposedly my phone.

You can use one of a number of browsers on you phone. The browser developers are the ones who are constrained, having to use the WebKit rendering engine—but then, it’s not their phone.
> On top of that, GP is talking about hardware that builds its own copies, possibly imperfect copies. That implies a lot of information relevant to the organism may not be directly visible in the DNA - it may sit within the replication machinery, and evolve there.

GGP here. This ^, and yes, not epigenetics.
have a feeling grifters are going to take advantage of this
I’m okay with our current partnership, where we provide the money and another country provides the “testing”.
> When organizations claim to have "anonymized" a data set, what exactly to that mean?

For "organizations" in general? It means approximately nothing, or if you're feeling particularly generous, it means "we probably remembered to drop the column containing your social security number before publishing this data... this time". You're asking exact specifics of a vague and broad category.

There are some legal standards, information theory, and non-legal organization standards that might being met in some cases - involving adding noise or removing data / making it sparse. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_re-identification goes into all the ways that it can go wrong despite the best of intentions. My basic take on this all is: data "always" gets more identifying, not less. Two datasets that were successfully anonymized individually can still be correlated to de-anonymize some or all of the data when combined. Even organizations applying information theory with the best of intentions and proper diligence will eventually make a mistake.
Using a login (on multiple apps/sites) that is linked to Apple very much locks me into having Apple in my life for the foreseeable future. It's, like, the definition of vendor lock-in. Apple is currently being magnanimous enough to let me use that same login outside of my phone on their competitors product, but Apple's history of interoperability is not great, so that's not a feature I care to trust them with.
Is there an equivalent to zero-filled memory?
"Passengers are not being isolated in their rooms and have been allowed to gather in the ship’s bars and casino, she said."

Thus maximizing the number of coronavirus cases...
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> It would be completely unreasonable to require adding a third-party login option if you don't already have one. But if you already have third-party login options, having uniformity seems reasonable.

What if they required the same thing on websites by having their browser engine look for Facebook/Google sign ins and require an Apple one be present before displaying the page?
There are multiple ways to sideload apps on iOS, with and without a paid developer account, and without having to jailbreak.
Underrated comment. Even a cheap knife sharpened with a cheap sharpener every once in a while will do better than an expensive one not sharpened for months at a time. I wouldn't necessarily waste time on advanced sharpening though - it's not something you're going to do regularly, unless you're really into knives. I have a set of sharpening stones I used exactly once. The result was great, but it took like half an hour to sharpen a single blade - no one has that kind of time. A cheap Accusharp sharpener does a good enough job that I can slice homegrown tomatoes without any issues. And it takes less than a minute to sharpen a knife with it.
There is indeed a certificate API! We’re putting up a guide for it this week, I can send you the draft if you’d like. The CLI commands for managing certs are here: https://fly.io/docs/flyctl/certs/

There’s no limit to domains.
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Please see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcJDpV-igjs for Dr Richard Hatchett on the (long-term) dangerous effects of SARS-CoV-2. "Spanish Flu" and "WWII" he says.

3 weeks ago the first Italian got infected. 25% of Italy is now quarantined, no way to go out and buy tinned foods, without risking a 3 months detention and 200$ fine. U.S. hospitals seemingly prepare for 96 million Americans infected, 4.3 million needing hospitalization, and 480.000 deaths, or, to explain to their bosses: "10 times a flu season from hell" on top of their regular work. [1]

Italian hospitals are proposing an age limit for admission to the ICU for viral pneumonia / breathing problems, so they can focus on the young people who will have more years to live.

In China we read that those people go home and take their last breath with their family, watching or hearing their old ones take their last breath, maybe some anti-virals if still available, maybe an open-source pandemic ventilator made by citizen scientists?

Or can we all work together, to reduce the community spread of this virus by just 1% by taking a pro-active scientific approach? 100s of thousands of Americans (or even world citizens) could be saved or improved, if we stop talking about a "carona flu" now.

[1] CDC estimates that influenza was associated with 490,600 hospitalizations, and 34,200 deaths during the 2018–2019 influenza season.
I understand and accept that the FBI and other third parties may be able to non-consensually acquire any traffic I send over a network and/or to a third party, using a great many methods including legal summons emplaced against the network and/or third party for the data that I share.

I'm comfortable with that, because I understand the working agreement that exists with my network and third-party services providers (such as Apple), and I understand that they are bound by legal summons in many respects for the data they receive.

Note I don't consider this ideal, and I don't think it's the best possible outcome for society, but I've spent 20 years consciously managing my choices on such matters, ever since DejaNews was founded, and I understand where I stand versus my choices today.
so.. if I don't need $100 i.e. I can do all my work with $80. Then my budget for next year becomes 80. You have given a scenario where budget of one team is decreased.

So, where did that $20 go ? To some other team, right ?

What about the reverse scenario? If I cannot do all my work with $80, I ask for more, say $100. Then my budget for next year becomes 100.

I don't see a problem with this. Budgets are fluid and change from year to year. Because I saved the company $20 in year 6, I will be rewarded with $20 in year 7 if I ask for it.
Assuming you're in the software industry or some other technical profession, provide a nap room at the office, at least one per 50 people. If you don't like the term, call it a wellness room. Design it properly (ability to dim or turn off lights, away from heavily trafficked areas and other noise sources, etc.) Discourage your staff and management from penalizing or gossiping about people who use it.

Employees who had a bad night of sleep, employees with newborns that kept them up at night, employees with migraines or are just feeling ill, employees with sleep disorders (increasingly common), etc. will thank you and the company will be compensated by productivity recovered from these people not being tired. It's not exactly a radical or untested idea either; a quick googling for "nap room at office" finds plenty of companies that implement this benefit, e.g.: https://blog.kickresume.com/2018/09/10/these-7-companies-enc...
So don’t use it. It’s offered alongside other third-party login options. If you trust Facebook more than Apple then by all means log in with Facebook, Apple isn’t stopping you or the people who develop the apps you choose to use.
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>If you laugh at what other's don't have, you forget what you do.

In general, AMD processors have fewer issues. Is that bad? Why bring others down instead of bring yourself up.
Different thread, about the paper: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22514099
In what sense could it be considered anti-competitive to require an additional login method alongside existing ones?
Can you please provide the citation that Trump has made less money in Arms deals compared to Obama in one term ? Usually, the media just complains that he is a prolific and excessive arms dealer. He just came back from India with yet another arms deal.
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> Yes, there are target only guns (Olympics comes to mind), but I bet you still would follow all tenants of gun safety while handling one of those guns...

Explosives are used by the military to kill the enemy, but you follow all the tenants of explosives safety when you're blasting on a construction site too.
The recent CacheOut attack was funded by a "generous gift" from AMD. :shrug:
Consider a startup accountability email list
Seems a lot less likely. She's a well-known actress; I doubt she ever killed anyone, even in self-defense. There just aren't enough murders around here to make it a reasonable guess.
Oddly enough, while the .com bust in 2000-2001 was really bad (was a period of about a year where hardly anyone was hiring in tech in my region), 2008 wasn't bad at all. While it was obviously much worse for the broader economy, it was really not bad at all in tech, and as the area where I lived never experienced a giant housing bubble it wasn't as hurt by the housing downtown as other places in the US.
Does the distinction actually matter though? By constraining what developers can provide, you're automatically constraining what users can use, so I don't see how it makes a difference.
Your tech stack is really fantastic and cutting-edge.

Core product in Rust, Firecracker Micro-VMs, Nomad instead of k8s (never used it myself but see the strong value in it and think it makes sense + deserves more attention), and experimentation with Deno (huge fan).

I wish I could clone myself and do some work for you guys just to soak up that knowledge.
> Why is it wrong?

Mine was not an absolute legal opinion but rather a moral/ethical observation.

> The only people buying it are ones who consent to that price—same as any other transaction.

Of course, and I agree 100%. That said, the act of taking advantage of an emergency situation is, I would hope you agree, morally wrong.

When might high pricing be OK?

Well, one example is if someone, through great trouble, was able to purchase a supply of a much-needed item at a high price and wishes to make a profit. If they paid 25x normal price and that, plush shipping, their time, packaging, taxes, whatever, is their cost basis, it might very well be OK for them to sell that item at 50x normal price.

Context is always important.

> How can someone be a victim if they want to engage in the trade, and explicitly chose to do so?

I never said anyone was a victim.
don't feel bad - i don't get it either - doesn't add material value over email or texts, or skype, or any of the other tools we have - i think it may just be a millenial thang...
On your way out, so burn it down as you go?

I think even you know the problems with the argument you're making. The problem with power is, it's only good for two things:

1. Using it
2. Using it to get more of it

And its mere existence will make humans do both of those things.

The only solution is not to have it. A weak government is by design, not an accident or an unfortunate side effect. Nothing in the US constitution (or any decently democratic constitution) makes or should make LE's job easy. Why? Because they'll use that power to get more power. That's what humans do.
I agree; I do .deb packaging just infrequently enough that every time I go to do it, I have to re-learn it nearly from scratch. And it's not simple at all.
The statements are true under common and reasonable definitions of those terms.

And you can do the same thing for anything. I could easily contend that "less dangerous hobby" is factually incorrect because there are plenty of more dangerous hobbies not being prohibited, like drag racing or skydiving. And we had the whole discussion in the other thread about "tools made to kill."
I don't understand your point. Caches (other the trivial ones) are organized into "ways". A given access will map into one of the ways of a set. The title is punning on "take a way" and "takeaway".
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Not really. Setting up a scalable Java service is complicated even with tooling like spring boot, and Java has better libraries for our use case, but the feedback cycle and general code velocity was much slower since we'd be on java 8 among other things. Plus learning spring or a Java ee framework is tantamount to learning a whole new language it wasn't worth the time then.
If your estimate is in the millions... I'm happy to bet you a thousand dollars that in the US deaths don't go more than 50k, ten thousand dollars it doesn't go more than 500k, to be settled at the close of 2020.
Sorta https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-coding_DNA

See we know about computers pretty good. But about DNA we get ignorant.
I can think of at least one vector. Suppose a particular library announces one generic repository as their approved distribution channel. Suppose the repo does not do any vetting on what gets uploaded. In this circumstance, you'd only want to pull that particular package from the repo, not any arbitrary package.

So I think the trust model bears scoping. It's not all or nothing.
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It's British for takeout, carry-out, or whatever you want to call restaurant food you pick up yourself.
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Is "thousands" of gallons even remotely accurate?

The numbers I can find are that a 747 uses 1 gal/second, so a single excess 5-hour flight is like 18,000 gallons. Even a ~45% efficiency reduction on that for more modern planes gives 10,000 gallons per excess flight. Multiply that by however many excess flights per airline per day and then by many airlines are doing this (I dunno, let's say 5 flights for 5 airlines? though this feels generous) and suddenly you have like 250,000 gallons/day being wasted per day. Multiplied by however many days they're doing this (idk, 10? though that also sounds generous) that's already like 2.5 million gallons every couple of weeks.

Did they mean "millions"?
Why would they need a quick PR response when this was disclosed months ago already? Wouldn't they have put in time to verify in that period, add me as this was disclosed responsibly?
As I remember it, it was stated in "The Selfish Gene" that the vast bulk of genetic code served only a single purpose: ensuring it itself was replicated. It had no known function for the organism, it simply was copied from generation to generation. The primary "goal" of any self-replicator. Since it didn't actively interfere with the genes that do have an affect on the construction of the structures the genes build around themselves to protect and propagate those genes, namely us and any other organisms, the genes would simply continue being copied along indefinitely.
I’ve been thinking what if we did six week cycles like back in grade school. Five weeks for dev work, 1 light week for sprint retro and sprint planning. I could sneak it in cus it’s a multiple of 2.
This is a fantastic link, thanks for sharing.
Any love for Riot?
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It doesn't work. As in, can't render some perfectly renderable sites correctly. It seems Microsoft is chronically bad at making browsers, even when using a good ready-made engine.
Lynn Margulis believed viruses often become symbionts, and speculated that diseases like syphilis and AIDS are so hard to cure because the viruses incorporate themselves into our genome.

She also believed that the Eastern Bloc concept of symbiogenesis explains much of human evolution, and some of that is now accepted by the mainstream community. For instance, it is now believed that mitochondria were originally viruses that became symbionts.

However, Margulis and many adherents of this view argue that essentially all of the organelles formed this way, and that symbionts play a vastly larger role in general.

https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/discover-inter...
Extracting pure hydrogen never seemed like a problem to me. It’s always been safely leveraging it as a power source.

Hydrocarbons are extremely stable comparatively.

Fuel cell catalyst material has been cost prohibitive.

Interesting research but I don’t understand the commercial value.
Because the other services have to be good enough to earn a place on that login screen. Apple is using their control over the app store to insist they get that place for free.

If their service is as good as they claim and it's something that users really want then why do they have to make it mandatory?