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whatsapp appears to be worse than wechat. on wechat i can hide my phonenumber from other users. that's a major concern for me, i don't want anyone to be able to call me just because they got my messaging contact.

wechat does not have any kind of read receipt. so i can never tell if someone is seeing my messages unless they actually respond.

ironically, telegram doesn't seem to have any option to turn read receipts off. at least it too can hide the phonenumber.

both telegram and wechat can mute groups, though wechat has no archiving feature, like whatsapp delete is the only option. (or asking the admin to remove me, that way i can keep the history but not get new messages)
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Not if you use decimal type that is not available in JavaScript.
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Honest questions, which rebranding you know worked? I mean, really.... I get the idea and even agree with it. It is just very hard to do it well.
Go has several generic functions like append() or make() baked into the compiler (https://golang.org/pkg/builtin/). When people are asking for generics, they're asking for a language-level mechanism for defining additional generic functions beyond these provided by the compiler.
I don't think the set of people whose opinions patio11 cares about would forget about him tweeting that hash (especially given the emphasis he placed on it).

The hash concept depends on social norms, and it's a fairly strongly enforced in his corner of the internet.
Yes, but there are infinitely more lies than there are truths. If 80% of lies result in a cache miss then you are in the same position. Especially when it is easy to create a lie that is very hard to disprove.
Very insightful read. Thanks for posting.
> like in the 30s which is usually fatal but these patients were conscious and responsive.

These meters are calibrated around the normal range of values. Once they get out of that they become very inaccurate. So a reading in the 30s is probably not actually an 02 sat in the 30s.
Absolutely correct, the goal is to disarm the population and increase state reliance. On the plus side, extreme viewpoints are not likely to win back the states Hillary lost in 2016
The tiny number of people who can intimidate jurors, can simply intimidate multiple ones if you’re changing the rules. Much simpler to simply isolate them so they are unaware of such attempts thus keeping juries and their families safe.
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This is an excellent point! I personally subscribe to Rich Hickey's "hammock driven development" approach to problem solving, and I think how we approach problems, like our tools, is something that can be optimized with practice :)
What I am talking about hers is definitely focussed only on "fingerprint known content", as that is the goal of the "figure out which Netflix movie I am watching" use case (as well as the "what model am I watching on myFreeCams/Chaturbate" use case, which might feel worse ;P... it is also the "what video am I watching on PornHub" use case, but that's inherently harder as there are so many many videos and they are often super short: much harder than the moderate catalog of long movies and tv shows on Netflix or the comparatively scant number of available live feed on camsites).

That said, as noted by someone else on this thread, there has been some work done figuring out what people are saying by analyzing encrypted speech packets; but I imagine that kind of technique would be almost impossible to pull off with these segments on the order of multiple seconds long, and including the video in the stream would seem to make that a total non-starter.
I am comparing with all other displays at about 150dpi (1080 on 14 in). Non-bitmap fonts are either jagged or blurry if you use hacks like hinting and subpixel antialiasing.
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Also Transparent Textures (https://www.transparenttextures.com/) – disclaimer, I made it — which is basically Subtle Patterns with a colorwheel that allows the backgrounds to be any color.
I really like this, but it would be great if the example site didn't use that scrolling. I wanted to click between examples and I browsed away because it took too long. Bookmarked for my next project though.
> But enabling tcp timestamps in general case brings little benefit and wastes 12 bytes of each packet for basically no gain.

I think timestamps are used as a possible source to compute one-way delay in latency based congestion controllers.
Eating and sleeping are great. You guys are nuts.
The sentence doesn't have any clear meaning. That's probably why it's brilliant: each and everyone of us can and will interpret it how they like due to confirmation bias [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias
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If you diagnose the pneumonia early, what’s the treatment? The article doesn’t say what they do for people that can prevent needing to go on a ventilator.
Honestly, who has 1-1.5h to read this without skimming through most of the verbiage to tease out the point? I read the "pre-registered" part. It was wrong on a bunch of points, both numbers and impact. I strongly doubt a major world economy of 126 million people with many world-class epidemiologists and doctors and generally non-disastrous political leadership was 'forced' into anything by this.

The hubris of this guy is quite off-putting.
Yeah, considering that you can be asymptomatic for quite a few days that was an extraordinarily selfish act. Fear made them a vector. Feels like the guy in a zombie movie who tries to break the door down to get into the safe room.
Perhaps that's on purpose. Perhaps he wants to avoid being sued, or similar things. Patrick has a ton of credibility and I would give him the benefit of the doubt here.
We do standups on video because we have a team split between the west coast of the US and Hyderabad. We get to see teammates from the other office once every couple years maybe, so we use video to maintain a personal connection. We've found it really helps us work better as a team.

So I'd say it's really situational. I'd prefer not to try and coordinate development sprints between two sub-teams offset by 12.5 hours from each other, but if I can't avoid that, then it sure helps to see faces to keep people feeling connected.

Obviously everyone will have their own personal experience. This is what worked for us.
According to this webpage, Cloudflare can never be safe by definition?

It has a strange definition of "safety".
I think they mean the competition strategy in a zero-sum game, which focuses on speed as to acquire territory ahead of the competition rather than growth at risk-minimization pace without regard to competition.
In liberal democracies, we have the line of (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackstone%27s_ratio):

"It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer."

In the language of statistics, it is a trade-off between precision vs recall.
In general, we cannot create a system that makes sure no innocent is behind the bars (other than not convicting anyone).
This is really great. The world needs more diverse compiler tech. The llvm monoculture is constraining what kind of compiler research folks do to just the things that are practical to do in llvm.

I particularly suspect that if something like Cranelift gets evolved more then it will eventually reach throughput parity with llvm, likely without actually implementing all of the optimizations that llvm has. It shouldn’t be assumed that just because llvm has an optimization that this optimization is profitable anywhere but llvm or at all.

Final thought, someone should try this with B3. https://webkit.org/docs/b3/
Start at $180k? Are these nurses who specialize in some esoteric medical procedure, or just "run of the mill" nurses who don't specialize in anything?
My partner and I had been working with a personal trainer up until the lockdown hit and had sold most of our exercise equipment before we moved to London, so without the gym we were a bit stuck. Thankfully we did have a rowing machine and some dumbbells so have been using those with an app called FitBod. You enter the equipment you have and it builds a workout based on that. It also has body weight exercises too. Once we’re out of lockdown I suspect we’ll skip the personal trainer and keep using FitBod, just at the gym instead.
Congratulations on the funding Guillermo!
> While this site is a parody, it may contain factual information. :)
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You put blueprints into your blueprint book so you can switch between them without having tons of blueprint objects around.Also mass import/export. (If I remember right drag-drop into the opened book to add, shift-scroll to quick-switch between the blueprints in the book?)
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> think of the children,

How is this any different than "think of our freedoms!" which has been used endlessly to oppress other nations and peoples, and, ironically, our own.
"While this site is a parody, it may contain factual information. :) "

Ummmm, no thanks.
Perhaps he wants to avoid being read.
> One thing notable about Factorio's game mechanics is that crafting is idempotent

What do you mean by this? You craft a thing once, you have one thing. You craft it again, you now have two things. That doesn't sound idempotent to me.
A little backstory would help here --

@jwworth: Well, here's my social-distancing project. It's called The Bell; a way to stay connected when you're apart. Ring away, send me your feedback, and take care of each other.

My first reaction was 'meh', until someone rang back. What an odd feeling with all the isolation recently. For some reason i can't hear when someone else rings the bell, not sure if that is intended, but it'd be a cool feature
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Yeah, I tend not to write or use these data structures. If I want a concurrent map, I usually write my own anyway. It’s easier to add the locks I want than to keep track of how sync.Map thinks about locking a map. I understand that this attitude angers a lot of people who believe that everything should be as DRY as possible, but this way works better for me.
These data show that retail, travel, and restaurants were all taking huge hits before lockdowns went in to wide effect: https://www.ft.com/content/d184fa0a-6904-11ea-800d-da70cff6e...

Bay area issued the first national stay at home order on March 13. By then demand had already dropped precipitously. If your restaurant is seeing 60% fewer bookings, are you going to keep as many wait staff? Are you going to order as much food? How is that going to impact your supplier? And their supplier?

On the flip side we have places like Smithfield food that stayed open and their workforce became infected. Smithfield alone has as many infected as the entire country of Sweden reported newly infected yesterday. These are problems of different orders of magnitutde. How does a factory stay open with 500 people infected at once?
Wouldn't WordPress with a couple of plugins solve the content with a paywall problem in about 15 minutes?

I'm not asking that flippantly. And I know there are plenty of reasons not to use WP, so I apologize if this is a dumb question.

It just seems like WP might solve that particular problem for you without much work. And it solves other problems too, like managing users and tracking revision history for every piece of content.

I think Digital Ocean has a one click setup for WordPress. WP isn't my favorite software to work with as a developer, but I use it when it's the right took for the job because for the most part, I've been able to deploy it and forget about it because it has just kept chugging along and getting the job done without any intervention from me.
> This would predict that a query that has no advertising income will return no results, which is clearly not the case.

No, it would predict that a query that has no advertising income will poor results. You can determine on your own whether that is the case.
Issue is that we don't have these numbers. People are consistently proven to have been innocent after serving decades in prison for crimes they did not commit but were convicted of. In addition, as only 2 states in the US allowed for a majority conviction, the data set would necessarily be small. Compounding that is that we essentially have no real way to determine who was guilty but found innocent as once you are found innocent that's generally the end of the road. The primary concern in this situation should be increasing the difficulty of convicting an innocent person. The guilty going free should be a secondary matter.

So while I understand your point, as you stated, we have no other information and as such the numbers we would need to validate it simply don't and won't exist.
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> Brandenburg [...] made the right to freedom of (political) speech's protections in the United States almost absolute.

Ah, yeah that is a good point, since these protests are political speech. Does it matter that the protests are assembling? I could imagine the protected ability to say anything you want about politics, while reserving some rights about the ability to do anything.

Personally, I don’t think it should be illegal to protest this. It doesn’t seem like a particularly bright idea though.

This situation doesn’t have a lot of legal precedent, and it might cause some to occur right now. But since communicable disease is a threat to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, and the law and constitution weren’t exactly written with global pandemic in mind, do you think the ability to assemble should be absolute?

> Half of this doesn’t apply to the US.

Here’s the US specific list... it’s still long

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_free_speech_exce...

* Actually, would you mind listing the specific exceptions above that you believe do not apply to the US? I could be wrong, but I scrubbed through all of them and can’t find a single one that doesn’t seem to apply at least partially.

In the US, fighting words, obscenity and pornography are there explicitly; false statements of fact covers things like libel, slander, dignity and perjury; the imminent lawless action exception covers sedition and incitement; commercial speech and speech owned by others covers classified information, copyright violation, trade secrets, food labeling, and non-disclosure agreements; right to privacy is implicitly granted by several amendments in the constitution, and the right to be forgotten has legal precedent. I think that’s all of them. What did I miss?
Like the physical epidemic, there will be false positives and false negatives. The idea that masks would help was never ludicrous, but it was disreccomended for bad reasons. The "virus escaped from a bio-lab" theory is still rather lacking in evidence, which may be very hard to find, but that doesn't actually affect how to treat it. The "virus is spread by 5G" is both wrong and getting masts burnt down. The "virus is a hoax" is extremely likely to get a lot of people killed.

(Does anyone have a definitive "masks will not help" statement from the WHO? Rather than a "masks should not be worn" one)
> Over a roughly 2 week period, we would expect approximately 64,000 passengers to fly from Japan to Singapore. 3 infections in that population is a rate of approximately 47 basis points, which is 5X the 9 basis points rate of infection in Japan. If one believes the government, the rate with surveilled clusters backed out be a tiny fraction of 9 basis points.

This argument is a bit flawed. People that travel from Japan to Singapore are not a perfect sample of Japan's population - they might be more likely to be infected, as they might travel more than the average Japanese person.
Nothing in this post says that the data wasn't authenticated; in fact, the symptom they saw (the client is kicked off because the server doesn't understand the message) is exactly what would happen if the data was authenticated.
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This is the exact history of Tetsuya Iida, Sony programmer responsible for PS2 software compatibility layer.

"I had no real electrical engineering skills to speak of whatsoever and I didn’t even know how to boot up Windows 3.1, let alone how to write any programs. Even now, I can’t help but wonder what people at Sony saw in me when they decided to hire me.
Luckily, I got the chance to learn how to program computers thanks to a training program that the company ran. "

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22501566 https://medium.com/@freelansations/the-story-of-the-ps2s-bac...

TLDR: this seems to be standard Asian hiring practice.
I've also heard good things about TeamSpeak.
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Long time lurker, first time commenter.

The original post and the comments here are interesting and intriguing, but many points raised here (a) assume that the initial proposition is in fact true, and (b) don't ask as to what evidence is available in support of the proposition (or indeed whether there is evidence that might appear to contradict it) beyond our own individual experience:

'Why is video-conferencing so exhausting?'

This is not to say that Zoom (etc.) isn't tiring to use, simply that it's sensible first to ask questions such as:

- is it particularly tiring to use? How do we know?
- if Zoom etc. is particularly tiring, for what proportion of users is this the case?
- are some types of users more affected than others? Why?
- is fatigue related specifically to video (as opposed to audio) use?
- is fatigue related to the number of concurrent users in a given call?
- is all video-conferencing similarly tiring, or are some platforms more so than others, and if so, why? UI? Latency? Some other reason?
- are Zoom meetings any more tiring than traditional face-to-face meetings?
- etc.
the title of this post is super misleading, the article title is "Telecom's Latest Dumb Claim: The Internet Only Works During A Pandemic Because We Killed Net Neutrality"

Leaving out the first part implies the opposite.
Picked up a HP Z230 SFF with a Xeon E3 a month ago. Fits two hard drives, a sata ssd, two nvme, as well as a USB-C Pcie adapter. It runs Ubuntu 19.10 with ZFS, and VMs using libvirt and hand defined XML.
Does it support JIT compilation, i.e. specialization at runtime?
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To the extent that we have accomplished this goal

Country dependent obviously, but it is very preliminary to think we have anywhere near accomplished it.

it is a moral imperative to move on to less drastic interventions, even if continuing might save additional lives.

I'd agree that the next steps will be phased but am not as optimistic as you on time-frame; also I'm still not clear how you adopt such an assured understanding of the situation to consider the loss of additional lives to be worth relaxing the constraints and to be dismissing the opinions of others, the point of my original response?
Dumb? QoS is dumb?
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This thread was posted five years ago and had interesting responses.

I think many devs would like to take over a (somewhat) working business and optimize and grow it. What's the best place to find businesses selling for 10-50K that aren't vaporware?
This write-up is from over two years ago (Feb 2018). I was curious if the issue has since been fixed. Turns out the functions for generating and checking the SYN cookie values have not changed since, so I guess it's safe to assume the bug has not been fixed.
I've quite literally seen people waving around placards pleading with people to listen to "Q".
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We don't allow our mail to be seized and read without warrant, why should our other data be susceptible?

Netflix already had a secure system with their original business model of mailing you the content.

Finally, allowing advertisers to profile us based on our browsing data is one step before allowing the police to do so as well. Maybe it's the same step.
Who cares. He was a philosopher and a interesting one. That’s like not reading Ezra Pound’s poetry even though it’s some of the best of all time.
American post-war propaganda did a number on you if you’re that whipped. Nietzsche (another German, oh no!) calls that the slave morality.
It's really hard to play a hardcore CRPG[0] like PoE if you haven't been playing some similar games lately. PoE gives you everything the moment you launch the game, then leaves you alone. This is intentional and really fun if you already have the muscle memory for theorycrafting[1].

I find RPGs which let you rebuild your characters in the middle of the game very approachable. They are good gateway drugs to get some familiarity with the genre. Divinity: Original Sin 1/2 are good examples, I highly recommend them. Any ARPG[2] will also do since they ask for less number crunching and more reflex building. Many of them never allow you to set your character before you progress in the game. Some JRPGs[3] are like that too (i.e Pokemon games).

Find me on Steam if you need some good RPG recommendations: https://steamcommunity.com/id/diegoperini

[0] https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=CRPG

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theorycraft

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_role-playing_game

[3] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/JRPG
I have no affiliation, just a happy customer, but the Holloway Guide to Twitter is a great, lengthy resource for Twitter at least, probably applicable across platforms for the most part: https://www.holloway.com/g/using-twitter
The Swift Playgrounds app has meant that a swift compiler has existed on the iPad for years. Will the XCode app mean just Swift, or will it allow for Objective-C and C/C++?

It will be interesting to see how this progresses.
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Hey, I'm a legally blind engineering manager (stargardt's macular degeneration). The accessibility community was hugely welcoming when I started to lose my vision at about the same age you are. I'm happy to talk through my experience and be helpful in anyway I can. chrmaury at gmail.
In a similar vein, I try to hack my lifestyle for possible upgrades. Anything I can change that will improve the experience for my family and myself is game.

For example, I installed a personal weather system on the house so we could dress appropriately without needing to check outside first. Or, bought a Keurig coffee maker to reduce the time and effort required to make the morning joe.

I call these hacks, "lifestyle upgrades."
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What does a rebrand signal? That investors are unhappy and that the founders need to align the brand with the vision...

Or is there a more positive reason to rebrand? I would think you don't rebrand if things are going super well, right?
I wouldn’t frame it that way, it’s not a question of whether gatherings are constitutional. They are, and legal, peaceful protesting is protected in this country. But there already are some kinds of gatherings that are illegal and unprotected, so it’s not some kind of slippery slope. Whether it’s legal, protected and/or constitutional always depends on what kind of gathering you’re talking about.
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We are headed for 30% unemployment. I'd hate to see what "draconian" lockdowns would do.
Even if true, it was competing with vendor X11 implementations, which were just as closed.

Also, completely orthogonal to a discussion of technology.
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