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> Don't understand how people are happy to listen to the same old stuff - it must get so dull.

It does. But it's hard to find new stuff that i like as much as the old stuff.

I used to hear new stuff on Radio 1, a generalist music channel, but don't listen to pop music radio any more - perhaps i should try that again.

Back in the day, i used to go through the racks and bins of second-hand CDs in Cash Converters and buy anything that had an interesting cover. It was only 50p or something, so i could afford to buy a lot of crap. I learned about Étienne de Crécy and the KLF that way, so it was money well spent.

I tried the New Releases page on LetsLoop, but the music was diabolical - all interchangeable moan-pop or mumble-rap. I routinely fire up Spotify automatically generated playlists, and there's a mix of stuff i already listen to, other stuff that is very similar (which is something!) but isn't very exciting, and weirdly incorrect selections.

I've had a couple of really good leads from the random channel in a programming Slack i frequent. Tracks i liked which have led me to whole new (to me) genres.

I've had some luck exploring through record labels - if i find a new band or genre i like, see if they're on an indie label, and then see who else is on that label. I won't like every band, but there's a chance i'll like some. Napalm Records has been pretty productive for me, although, infamously, they really will sign any old junk these days. I'm still digging through TimeSlaves's bins.

I've also tried going via other users on Bandcamp. Pick an album i like, look at the grid of supporters under the album art, click on a few people who look interesting, and see what else they like.

Oh, and i follow a Twitter account that posts bizarre or amusing reviews from a music reviews website. Sometimes i listen to the music they're reviewing.
Pythons numbers aren't as immutable as you think ;)

https://kate.io/blog/2017/08/22/weird-python-integers/
Quite a lot more users .. but not every day or even every month.
>The sentiment is that writing code to work I.E. would be exceptional, whereas now writing code for non-Chrome browsers would be the exceptional case. In fact, developers sometimes only test Chrome. Some popular E2E JavaScript testing frameworks only work with Chrome.

This was once the case with IE, as well. Testing code in non-IE browsers used to be the exceptional case, and a lot of developers only ever tested in IE. There are countless enterprise applications that only work in IE even now, which is most likely the main reason that Microsoft is still keeping IE alive.
It would! As you say, roads (or cycleways) beside motorways are usually short, have little traffic, gentle gradients and often a prized position in a valley rather than lumbering up a hillside. Ideal cycle routes... apart from the motorway a few metres (/feet) away.

I've got a page of notes on possible ways of fixing this - it is a hard problem. One possibility I'm toying with is a massive grid of "scenic value" for (say) each 0.01° x 0.01° square, so I could downrate the surroundings of motorways and uprate routes through (say) national parks.
Gradient titlebars were the killer feature for Windows 98.
I have a power-meter on one of my road bikes, but not on the one I keep at her place and have ridden against the e-MTB. I know my legs well enough to know I'm putting out well over 250w (probably closer to 400 for a few seconds) if I want to keep up with her initial acceleration.

I've been a clipless pedal user for about 25 years now :)
US has American Football, jocks, and cheerleaders. This is something notably absent elsewhere. When you watch a hollywood high school move, this strange obsession jumps at you. In Poland the word "nerd" is difficult to translate. It has no direct equivalent.
If you work on open source software, you should probably not accept a contract with such a clause.
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> What really surprised me was the core principle at British unversities - "don't assume prior knowledge of anything"...

I think it is a good thing. There is a big difference between doing well on a test and understanding the subject. You may think you know basic algebra because you can find the correct value for x, but chances are that you don't really know what you are doing. So having a refresher course telling you what you are actually doing when solving an equation, and how it fits in the big picture is valuable.

The thing is: when you relearn these basic subjects, you do it with a wider field of view. For example, when I first learned derivatives, I knew it had was about rate of change, and I knew the formulas, but I didn't quite get the relationship between slopes and derivatives. It came back later, as I was more familiar with things like linear interpolation and how to manipulate curves in general.
What influence does Justin Bieber have across multiple genres?
Ah, you've heard of swatting and the Church commission.

(The secret is that police have a huge "bayesian" filter for who they consider likely to be a criminal, so little or nothing can trigger intense scrutiny for some people whereas blatant criminality by "respectable" people is ignored)
Then the average e-bike rider could put out 300w + 250w for 10 seconds.

In reality the wattage is nominal, I'm pretty sure the Bosch motor on my bike is peaking at closer to 500w. The manufacturers don't seem to take these figures that seriously unlike the maximum speed cutoff.
It's too late to be transparent, IMO.
It's a rebranding of Hangouts Chat: https://gsuite.google.co.uk/intl/en_uk/products/chat/
I tried playing around with the connector but my chip was getting superhot. So I gave up. What hardware component did you use? I might want to try again now. Thanks
Fair, tbh it may not have been needed, but I also struggle with letting go the original question asked even though the child may have moved on! Still, this example is hardly robbing anyone of their childhood.
You can borrow a (badly scanned) copy on archive.org: https://archive.org/details/microsoftwindows00micr_0/page/63...
Out of curiosity, why do you prefer a native app over an electron app?
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I'm not one to normally criticise some minor layout choices on a blog, but this font is really difficult to read for me.

On Firefox: https://i.imgur.com/zIHis3x.png

It's so wavy
He lost a lot of net worth in 2020. Regardless, he wasn’t 3rd richest before either. He’s 2nd richest Asian. Also just below Mackenzie Bezos.
This isn't Stripe's fault here, but if to make a payment online you need to track everyone just to make sure the transaction isn't fraud, then the system is broken.

Why can't online payments use a use two-factor authentication by default?
In most parts of Europe teachers and educated folks are respected.
In 2045: “What do you mean you are going to DMV? You work there? WAIT. Are you still hand-steering that 2025 Prius!? And you still haven’t fixed that yanked off telematics!?”
NPR is not a state broadcaster, that would be more like the BBC. NPR is an independent, nonprofit organization that takes public funding, but receives most of its funding from other donors, such as charity foundations and private individuals.
Shame this piece was downvoted so hard. Downvoters may agree with pm_me_ur_fullzz that people who dispute the seriousness of covid-19 are wrong, but downvoting the person who says "there are people out there who are wrong" will not cause those people who are wrong to disappear.

If you want to make a problem go away, the first step is to talk about the problem.
> Listening to new music is one of my favourite activities

Same here. I always get so damn happy when I find a new track that I really like.

I've added a weekly reminder to listen to my Spotify account's Discovery Weekly and Release Radar (based on the people you follow) lists, and I always find new tracks; the Your Daily Mix lists are quite awesome, too, in this regard.

Additionally, I have quite a few Spotify playlists for specific occasions, e.g. gym time; the nice thing about this is that as soon as you start adding tracks to those playlists, you can scroll down and it starts to recommend tracks that you might like based on the ones you just added.

Since I'm quite heavily into Eletronic Music (Deep House, Afro House, etc.), I also use BeatportCharts.com's Advanced Search [0] to find new music that is ranked quite high based on a specific parameter which you can specify, e.g. rank on the charts or number of user likes.

All in all I get so much excitement out of finding new music that it's basically a thing that I do on a daily basis. I'll add Bandcamp to my list of sources for finding new music :)

[0] https://beatportcharts.com/search/advanced/
I went from a front drive to mid-drive. The mid-drive is much nicer to ride although I should mention it was a much more expensive bike. Also it's easier to deal with punctures on a mid-drive, especially if you are out and about.
> British universities bizarrely seem to often reward/celebrate athletics more than academic achievements.

I'm not sure how you get that impression.

American universities do this, but (with a couple of famous exceptions, like the traditional boat race between Oxford and Cambridge) British universities don't care about sport.

The social hierarchy was just separate, and had no bearing on anything academic. I didn't care for a second what the rugby team were doing (generally drinking themselves into a stupor), and they didn't care about me. That's just a reflection on British culture in general.
Care to expand on that? Were you one of the students?

Sounds like it didn't work, and they're fixing it. Seems way better than just let the grumblings of failed jobless students leak out over the years.
I remember having these kinds of games all the time in middle school in France. They also were called "machines" at the time.
Now that we have touch gestures we don’t really need visible scroll bars anymore do we? Just the little position indicator that pops up while scrolling.
"Permanent" and "free tier" sounds like a particularly terrible combination.

The market failure here is the classic "market for lemons" problem. Too many people have been burned by "forever" pricing that turned out to mean "a few years", or the bankruptcy or acquishutdown of a company. So any new entrant will face intense skepticism, no matter how sincerely they are trying.

So far the only permanent pricing that's worked for me is my grandfathered permanent Pinboard account, and that has a bus factor of one and a bit.
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Awesome version of 20 questions. My parents are biologists and we played 20 questions with plants/animals on road trips growing up. The games were intense! Learned a ton.
Customizable Contraction Hierarchies go a long way towards solving that, they're quite similar to CRP with regards to both customization and query time. Also, route quality isn't part of the trade-off: all of these methods are exact.

I would argue that updating the routing algorithm's data structure isn't the expensive part of reacting to live traffic. Getting and processing the raw data sounds a lot harder than re-running the customization phase of routing preprocessing.
I think this is far less about violence vs non-violent nations etc. It is more a political and economical decision. The US spends huge amounts on military equipments that's made by their own national manufacturers, so all that money also creates jobs in the US and pays taxes. Others spend way less, because they're not getting jobs or taxes back for it, so they only consider the needs in terms of defending their country. With virtually no conflicts around most countries that amount just isn't very high.

Trump spouts a lot of hot air about Europe not doing their part, but that's more for internal politics to make him look tough and "America first" to the average American. On the European side of the water he is more and more just ignored, doesn't even make the media most of the time. Considering Trump is 73 years old, I'm sure he will be dead long before anything really changes in military spending by others. And deep down he also knows that, it's all political theater.
Surprising because I have seen few 6 years olds can do multiplications and divisions. If I'm not mistaken, standard US 1st grade curriculum expects kids to be familier with only addition below 100 and subtraction in low teens.
Some people get it earlier. Some people never really get it.
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Does anyone know a similar project but with Windows 10 styling?
I think OP means during your work day. You don't want to be working with someone that is working remotely so that, during their work day, they can also look after a young child, or is focused on organizing and going for a long social lunch, or thinking where in this new city they are going to visit.

You want someone who, for the hours that they are working, main priority (unless there is an unlikely emergency) is getting their work done. (and responding on Hacker news)
But it has been examined and the virus traces back to animals and earlier strains which were not as contagious.

This is one of the many papers on the subject:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0820-9

So why are we still discussing this? Because we are being manipulated.
State-run doesn't mean anything... BBC is also state-run.

It goes to the reputation of the single journalist. In this case the journalist is just citing Frank Hartig, "Oberarzt der Universitätsklinik Innsbruck"

I don't have the knowledge to judge his papers and have an opinion about his credibility, but someone else might: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Frank_Hartig
> About 10 years ago I started listening jazz and anything that's got mixed with jazz, like jazz-funk, or jazz fusion

James Taylor Quarter just dropped a new album which is getting a lot of repeat plays here. Also the most recent (2019) album by Incognito is great too.

The Raven That Refused To Sing by Steven Wilson somehow merges jazz with prog rock quite effectively. An unusual pairing and not to everyone’s taste though.

As for vocal jazz, I’m a big fan of the relatively obscure Beady Belle. Latest album is good, personal favourites are Belvedere and debut album Home.
The author acknowledged that was a bit much and pivoted it to a game that his son loves, who put you in charge of taking that away from him?

> This seemed a bit beyond him [...] But the whole conversation had given me a different idea. "Hey, I have a good idea for a game," I said. [...] He immediately liked this game and it has been a huge hit; he wants to play it all the time.

It's probably made even better by being 'the game that daddy reads about/does at work'.
The person to whom you were replying did not assent to the views quoted. You can dispute the views to the person who reported them, but it will not change the opinions of those who hold the view. It is probably better to engage with the actual question of "I wonder what it will take to change people's minds".
This was not my experience with university education in the uk. I studied mathematics and we had perhaps two lectures of recap of the “further maths” A-level. One reason is that not all schools could provide all of this course so it wasn’t a hard requirement; another reason was to introduce consistent notation that would be used in the rest of the degree.

Similarly in the uk mathematics curriculum there are a bunch of “applied” modules and schools choose which to teach. Some students would have only done mechanics and some only statistics, for example, so the corresponding university courses would have to start at what might be already known for some students.

Probably this depends on the university, what they look for in students, and more generally the strength of the students they do get. There are a lot of university students in the uk but obviously some will be stronger than others and the distribution varies by university.
I did the same to be honest.
Identity and Access Management with AWS IAM
The Amish health care system
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I'm curious as to what pavlovian means here
AWS Step Functions: Parallelism and Concurrency
What's the optimal strategy for choosing inputs in order to guess the nature of the machine?
There are over 2.5 million confirmed cases of the virus worldwide, most of which are pre-recovery. Using a sixty person sample in Hamburg to make a definitive statement of severity is beyond the realm of idiocy. It's criminally negligent.
The specific examples are with factors 2 and 10, most kids can handle those earlier.
> aur does distribute executables once in awhile.

The AUR doesn't distribute those executables; it distributes the instructions for the user (or some software working on behalf of the user) to go fetch the executables themselves. This is an important distinction, because the official Arch repositories _do_ distribute executables, directly to the user.
They are booming across most of Europe. Every bike shop I see has at least a couple of models in the lineup, this is a big change from a couple of years ago.
This post is 1 month old.

But ignoring that, why is it too late? Have a lot of UX students come forward complaining about the program? I haven't been following the news around it, I'm genuinely curious.

This article strikes me as honest & transparent in the beginning, and very hand-wavy, we-hired-a-consultant-to-write-this-so-we're-provably-covering-our-bases-look-at-all-we're-doing-to-address-this-please-don't-sue towards the end.
> on my paperwork "got injured and cost the company money"

You got that in writing? Doesn't sound legal..
It may be because the transition wouldn't be as smooth as it is now?
People are also being removed because they are not woke enough for Patreon.
Hangouts has come a long way... it started out as a 'drop-in group video' feature for Google+. The idea being you could "hangout" with your friends by just starting a room and then anyone who saw it could join you. Basically Houseparty.
If you need more storage, buy some more when you need it. The endowment price should be correspondingly lower.

An interesting side effect is that people are calculating the endowment interest in this thread (a hard thing to do when rates are near-zero and there is a real risk of negative rates in the next 50 years), while the big factor is that storage prices drop dramatically over time.

Imagine if this service had launched 20 years ago. $10 would have bought you .. maybe 20MB? Pretty cheap to store that "forever" now.
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> While I do believe there was genuine opposition to this move within the community, I think the real decision makers had already made up their minds and just made a show of "discussing" it. I feel they did it under pressure, and perhaps were even induced with promises of more revenue, from Google.

The problem with beliefs is that there is no option to disprove them. Mozilla said they fought against it, the people who were there say they did fight against it, you don't believe it and think it's some kind of "show" put up.

> All they had to do was ask Google (or any other company) to develop a browser plugin for Firefox and let the user decide if they wanted it (when a user encountered it on a site, produce a pop-up alerting the user to the plug-in required).

And what incentive would companies have had to do that? Firefox simply doesn't have the market share to force anyone to develop for them. Even worse, Google has every incentive to not do it and instead pop up a banner "hey, looks like your browser doesn't support YT, use Chrome". People who argue that Mozilla was wrong to accept the DRM blob never have a good answer for this and usually then end in "people would have seen that Mozilla is right and boycotted YT" or "who cares if Mozilla has only 1% market share, it's far more important to never make any compromise".
But if you lay people off, then the people left will be worried about further layoffs, and will be applying elsewhere. The top performers will find new jobs most quickly, and since these are new jobs, those jobs will pay better.
BioNTech and Pfizer announce first clinical trial of Covid-19 vaccine candidates [pdf]
It's funny how lots of people, including myself, get kinda stuck into a set of music. I do go out and try to find new music, but not nearly as much as other forms of media. I don't reread books that much, mostly watch films I haven't seen, play games I haven't played and largely watch new TV series.
Joel put that phrase inside quotes and follows it up with

“This is where we are by default. This is the standard employment contract for developers, inventors, and researchers.”
I have no idea what a "consumer email address" is and the page does not explain it.

Consumer of what? If they meant to say "any email address" they really should rethink their language to be less dehumanizing.
Not OP, but I bought the $3 app. When annotating is active, you're drawing on the screen and other content is not interactive. When you deactivate annotation, the annotations vanish and other content is now interactive.
In my experience Duo has better voice and video quality than the rest.
> I don't really understand why Patreon needs so many employees.

Good question, I am curious about how it compares with how Gumroad operates.
I do not think that this criticism is fair. Banks asked but were not allowed to relax their legal KYC criterias.

Existing customers already fullfill these so they can be served while the others are processed. And ofcourse the whole system is completely swamped.

That being said i don't doubt that banks would have acted like this anyway.
Playing games with them they seem to enjoy isn't kids stuff?
Same in Poland for more than a decade. It's an open secret here that universities admit many more students than they can handle in order to capture extra funding, and then get rid of the excess after the first year.

On my first year, the amount of students was 2x the actual capacity. The first semester was very math-heavy, and everyone knew we had the toughest and CS-unrelated subjects delivered up front in order to weed out half of the year.
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> Like I said, we don't have that thing in small-ish cities.

It's definitely a thing even in smaller cities with good highschools. Reunions for 10,20,30,40 years are very common and attended by all, including teachers still alive, etc.
My god, it's glorious! Interesting how many memories can be connected to UIs...
Linux + XFCE has a Win 3.1 theme on b00merang's site. Borrow the icons from the Chicago95 theme and you are done.
But aren't there many cases around the world of apparently healthy doctors and nurses and others who died of coronavirus? You could say "Oh, yes, they all had an undiscovered severe illness that would have killed them within the year".

But generalising from one city with only 60 odd deaths to a necessary outcome in the face of apparent evidence to the contrary from places with much higher bodycounts seems like it's a long bow to draw. It is much more likely that the people who die easiest have preexisting conditions, so when you have a low bodycount it is mostly occupied by people with preexisting conditions.