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Well, my own software tends not to use Unicode. Sometimes, it only uses ASCII. Sometimes, it doesn't care about character coding, as long as it is compatible with principle of extended ASCII. Sometimes, it is a combination of the two (such as ASCII only for commands, but comments can include any characters that are compatible with principle of extended ASCII). In one case (VGMCK), it does parse UTF-8 in some contexts (such as #TITLE commands), but the only thing it does with the decoded data is to convert it to UTF-16, since the output format (VGM) contains UTF-16 text. A UTF-8 byte order mark at the beginning of the file is not acceptable, though.

But I have thought of some mechanisms to declare character sets and character mapping, to determine which font is appropriate, etc. Unicode is a valid choice, but even if you select Unicode as your character set of use, you must specify the language code and the Unicode version. You can also specify more than one mapping, and custom mappings, for example if you are using CSUR to write in Klingon and English, then you can declare both Unicode and CSUR, together with the relevant version numbers.

I thought of a similar mechanism for declaring character sets and character mapping for TAVERN32 (which doesn't exist yet, but it is meant to be an improved text adventure game VM having the advantages of both TAVERN and Glulx). One lump declares the character sets and character mapping, and can include fallbacks if wanted, so that if ASCII mappings are declared, then it can work with any implementation even if they do not know about that character set. The story file might also (optionally) include other lumps with bitmap fonts, so that also allows it to work even if the character set is unknown (as long as it can display graphics, which some implementations may be incapable of). However, in this case, the character mapping is also relevant for compression too, and not only for determining character sets. There is then the possibility that multiple codes will be mapped to the same ASCII character (or sequence of characters in ASCII or any other character set), avoiding the problem of compatibility.
PSD2 is EU-wide. (I hope the UK doesn't roll it back!)
I don't think this is a correct reading of the article. Craig Larson is the owner of Prairie Hills Oil & Gas. Nothing in the article suggests that he nominated the land in order to prevent oil and gas exploration.

I think you are confusing Larson with Terry Tempest Williams, who is mentioned later in the article as trying to lease land in order to prevent it from being leased by oil and gas companies. The article doesn't suggest that Williams and her husband plan to bid on rights in the upcoming auction, so it seems likely that Larson (or another oil and gas company) will win that auction.
This happens even up to the national level, where controversial scientific results are buried rather than refuted. It's generally enough that it threatens the status quo in some way:

- Tobacco is harmful to you. Immediate backlash from a huge industry.

- Intelligence is evenly distributed across various arbitrary groups of people. Rejected by bigots, racists, etc.

- Our "scientific" measures of intelligence are strongly biased towards our own culture.
Agree on the libsodium recommendation. Stanford probably just suffering a little "not invented here" syndrome.

Libsodium is a solid crypto library with long history. It is also embedded in PHP,HHVM,Citrine and Factor "out of the box" and has bindings for many other languages, not just Javascript.

In my view, any competing crypto library would have to be something super special to outweigh all the pros of libsodium.
What a great OS.
The scratch and python support are very welcome additions. my father still has the EV2 laying around here in the house even tho no one has played with it in the past 2 years.
Much like not every murderer is caught, this law will not successfully be enforced 100% of the time.

That does not mean that the law is pointless or that it doesn't offer any protection.
What does python3 have to do with anything, let alone conflating cost and benefit under as "big deal" as if they were the same thing?
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In many complex domains like ML, I find most people don't contribute anything and actively make the problem worse. You often don't need the amount of people that large companies often hire, it's just empire building. Software engineers aren't replaceable cogs.
> 3. Social Welfare programs should be limited to Citizens Only. Persons can apply for Citizenship after they have lived here for 3 yrs under the temporary immigration program.

How to you handle underclass, i.e. people who become disabled or injured, move into a recession, can't meet the initial requirements, or some reason to not comply. With your requirement #1, #3 seems cruel. In most countries a work permit gets you basic access to the same welfare and worker protections (usually statutory retirement, unemployment insurance, health care) for this exact reason.

> If you break the law you will be separated from your family

Really depends what law you have broken, doesn't it? Under US immigration law crossing the border at the wrong place is punishable by $250 fine (8 U.S.C. Section 1325, I.N.A. Section 275). Many traffic violations have stricter penalties.

In early 2017 the Trump administration stopped accepting asylum applications at ports of entry and required asylum seekers to apply in the country (contrary to law). In April 2018 ICE started separating families of asylum seekers who had committed the grievous act of a) crossing the border b) requesting asylum from the first US official they encountered (a condition explicitly allowed in US asylum law)

> keeping children in cages ... 3 different presidents now

I think that's a false equivalency. The fucked up stuff ICE got away with under Obama is not the same as the fucked up shit Trump has given the green light to. The Trump admin is actively violating US immigration law to for no other apparent reason than a simple desire to be cruel to asylum seekers. https://www.thisamericanlife.org/688/the-out-crowd
I've had to deal with such issues a little.

Whether it's the kind of discrimination the store is obliged to deal with is going to come down to principles of reasonable accomodation.

So, say you had an extremely boutique store up some rickety stairs, where the way it's used is you go up the stairs and meet the chef who will take your order for a wedding cake and you can collect the cake next week.

I would expect, in that case, if the chef is willing to meet you at your home or another place with a menu of options and discuss your order, and then have it delivered next week, that would meet the bar of reasonable accomodation for someone who couldn't use the rickety stairs.

On the other hand, a large grocery store, where browsing the goods is part of the experience and is also significant to product discovery, and maybe pricing and access to better fresh ingredients and different bargains, and where the only obstacle is that the store does not replace one door type with another that a wheelchair user can enter, and the store can reasonably afford the cost, that is clearly inadequate of the store; they have no good excuse and could reasonably accomodate by changing that door.

On another hand, the same large grocery store may find it difficult to accomodate people who cannot tolerate bright illumination (that other people need, to see clearly), and large numbers of people moving around them. In that case, it is not at all obvious that the store can do much to accomodate. I would expect that if the store also provides online ordering with delivery, that it has performed reasonable accomodation for that situation.
As others said, yes, academic papers are still written in LaTex. However, arXiv does not actually accept a pdf for submissions, but require the actual LaTex sources and they generate their own pdf. As LaTex-to-HTML improves, they could always generate it for all of the submissions for which they have the source.
If you want that, then just pick linux friendly hardware, it's the only path that doesn't lead to misery.
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The title makes it sound like an individual will get control of a couple percent of the land in Utah.

Reading the article, it seems more like an oil & gas company is purchasing (EDIT: leasing) some land in Utah, and the article doesn't even make it clear how much (unless I missed it).

How is this really different from what we already know? There's a lot of cheap land out there, the country is big, and the federal government makes various kinds of deals with people who want to develop it. The article says that it's $2 an acre, which sounds like little, but it doesn't provide a point of comparison.
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I vouched for this comment for a very specific reason:
Civil rights of for the LGBT should not predicated on "being born that way", they should be predicated on the fact that it is an acceptable and dignified way to be human.
My experience is places with DBAs tend to keep very tight control over database design than those who do without. I've worked at several places where developers did not touch the database schema. They couldn't even propose changes, instead, you'd give the DBA team the requirements and they would give you a solution.
What about the escape hatch for things not listed there? For example, I didn't see clusters, or [one of probably 20 other things I could list one of which almost certainly requires an escape hatch]
I had to fix three different things. When using the official package. Cgroups were broken (as you note); networking was broken so containers couldn't find each other (firewall on default settings broke it and the package didn't bother to un-break it on install—fix non-obvious if you're not deep into modern Linux firewalling); and I had to add flags to various container launches to get around selinux so they could once again see mounted host directories (again, not obvious selinux was at fault, and given the uid weirdness of Docker generally it could have been a bunch of things). Of course googling each of these led to a mix of solutions that did nothing, ones that just turned off all security, and, if one dug enough, the actual solutions, not well-marked as such.

In short, it was the quintessential "Linux UX".
That's what Oracle FAST REFRESH does as well, in the limited cases where it works. Which is why a comparison to Materialize would be intersting...
Some questions to be answered in the 1 second he points it at you:

+ How do you know your partner is behind you?

+ How do you know he won't take your gun after he uses the taser on you?

+ How do you know it was a taser?

+ Are you confident enough in those answers to miss your daughter's next birthday?
Why would you believe the FCC over Elon Musk?

Then.... they have not even commented specifically on Starlink.

Then.... it was just one page in 141, hardly a report or anything of note.

https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/FCC-20-77A1.pdf (Page 42)

Elon Musk has put billions into this, and it's not going to really work if it's above 100.

Clearly the 8ms is a optimistic hope, no one expects it to be that for all people all the time. But it'll be below 100ms.
Is it? I remember that even a similar pocket device such as PSP was able to play flash at the time, despite it being a huge memory hog. Until iPhone, any similar device that couldn't run flash was perceived as, simply, buggy.
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Religion is a protected class, so the question is moot under US law.

In any case, I confess I'm always a little suspicious of this method of argument. Bob says, "I will ban neo-Nazis from my forum," and people chime in with, "Well, what about banning Catholics? Vegetarians? People who admit to liking Nickelback?". Is the principle really that if we find one single case where Bob would admit "I don't think banning that group makes any sense," then Bob needs to just give up and let neo-Nazis on his forum? Personally, I don't think that's a very good principle. An argument about where we (and Bob) should draw the line is reasonable, but I'm not convinced an argument about whether lines are intrinsically evil is.
> It's a wrapper over matplotlib, and eliminates reams of boilerplate.

What happened is that in 2006 I hired Alex Clemesha to implement a "Mathematica-like API on top of matplotlib for Sage", and he spent a year doing so. Then Robert Bradshaw (lead dev of Cython) and Carl Witty wrote some really sophisticated just in time compiler code to make it more efficient to evaluate symbolic expression at many floating point values, which helps in plotting (especially for 3d plots). Over many years after that other people filled in little missing pieces of functionality and exposed more of Matplotlib's functionality, and also just added a bunch of new functionality (e.g., for drawing gridlines, 3d implicit plots, etc.) that wasn't available in the Python ecosystem.

And that's Sage's plotting functionality...
> Can you point to people telling their stories of how the common name for default Git branches affected them?

Not without doxxing friends in a kind of "Dance for the nice man, Timothy, so I can win an internet argument" way that doesn't taste very good to me. If there's blog posts out there, perhaps? I haven't seen any.

> "We must do something; this is something; therefore, we must do it."

I am with you that we should always be on guard against milquetoast corporate bullshit. I got an email from my Texas senator John Cornyn about how he supports Black Lives Matters, but of course there's nothing in his email and no statements from him condemning racist dogwhistles from his party leader. Hollow words and hollow actions allow people and companies to "cash in" on a movement at cost to the real activists.

That being said, this isn't just github doing this. Most companies in my personal sphere are taking similar steps. My gf's, mine, my old coworkers across the industry, here and in New York... it's a sort of solidarity movement at this point.
> What's the difference between a mobile app vs any other interface other than convenience?

When dealing with potentially addictive behaviors with their associated dopamine hit, interface and immediacy matters. This is why there are a lot more heavy cigarette users than cigar users and tobacco pipe users. For cigarettes, being able to have 20 cigarettes with you all the time in your shirt pocket makes it easy to indulge whenever the urge hits you. On the other hand, having to prep a pipe for tobacco gives the person time to think.

I think this is similar to stock trading. If you are addicted to stock trading, being able to whip out your phone and go to the app with FaceID in a few seconds is going to lead to a lot more impulsive behavior than if you had to go to your desktop/laptop and go to the site.
FWIW, that isn't showing live data -- it says June 14 at the top.
I'm pretty sure the antenna is not motorized but is a phased array instead.
In particular, Larsen is the one who nominated the land for being able to be leased. If he wanted to protect the land from being leased, the obvious way to do so was to simply not nominate it, so it wouldn't be up for auction, so nobody could bid on it. The fact that he nominated it at all means that he wants to bid on it.

(I should say it means he means to bid on at least some of it. I could see wanting to bid on something specific, and nominating much more than that, so that anybody who wants to swipe the piece you're interested in doesn't know which piece to bid on.)
I tried to get some facts. In 2006 I remember Gnash, it supports most SWF v7 features [1]. One could install firefox and flash in wine [2] (didn't know, didn't bother). And in 2008 there was native Linux Flash Player 9 [3] (too late). In 2010 still no hardware acceleration and no 64 bit support on Linux - in comments [4].

So technical availability was issue just in 2006-2007. Yes, I remembered flash was ads so without plugin it was ads free experience before AdBlock. I liked it a lot. The only issue was "copy to clipboard" buttons, but could work around.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnash_(software)

[2] http://web.archive.org/web/20061030024511/https://www.howtof...

[3] http://web.archive.org/web/20080430162104/https://www.howtof...

[4] https://web.archive.org/web/20110511095927/http://blogs.adob...
This is completely false. You're forgetting the original iPhone did not have a native SDK - the original plan was for 'apps' to just be web apps. It was only a year later that the SDK was released after the huge demand for one, so claiming that they didn't initially support flash to drive people to an App Store that didn't exist is incorrect.
I'd just like to briefly comment on hyphens in compound adjectives.

It's usually not correct to add a hyphen between an adjective and an adverb that modifies it. The case of "recently minted database technologies" matches this rule. Since "linkbait-free" and "title-change" are single adjectives made up of several words each, it's correct to use the hyphen.

However, in the case of "less-misleading", the hyphen is generally incorrect as "less" is an adverb. The exception would be if it precedes an uncountable noun, where "less" could conceivably modify the noun. Example: "less misleading critique" would be ambiguous, so using a hyphen would be appropriate.

Thank you for your attention to detail, dang!
Via LWN, looks like the GCC 4.8+ patches got merged into the kernel's 5.8 merge window recently, with a footnote suggesting this be bumped to GCC 4.9+.

https://lwn.net/Articles/822527/

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...
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Professor Skiena has also made his lectures from SBU's CS373 (Analysis of Algorithms) available on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOtl7M3yp-DX32N0fVIyv...
Well, I think I may have you beat. My comment stating that you can't criticize capitalism even a little bit on HN hit 0 after 7 minutes and is now flagged.
My own opinion is that in case-sensitive mode, writing "a" should not found the accented "a" unless it is in decomposed representation (and even then, only if you are searching for "a" itself, since if you follow it by another letter, then it will no longer match since the combining accent mark intervenes), but never matches a precomposed accented "a". In case-insensitive mode, the behaviour should be locale-dependent and configurable by the user.
75% of the time I rent with Hertz, I get a car that reeks of cigarette smoke mixed with whatever cloying odor they put in to try to overpower the smell. I don't know what National does differently, but their cars just don't smell as much. And if one does I just skip it and get the next one on the aisle.
You could use another search engine. Though, if you really want to use google you can open the article in another tab. That should give you the correct url.
This is great, a lot of the performance in BLAS comes from memory management. This does not solve my problem though. Sometimes you want to manually control memory, and Julia does not make it easy to do so. In particular when interfacing with BLAS/LAPACK though Julia, memory management is quite ugly, mainly due to the need for allocating work arrays, and a pure Julia implementation of BLAS is unlikely to fix this. I don't think writing eg ARPACK performantly in Julia is imposible, just painful to the point that writing it in FORTRAN starts to make sense (to me).
If you run it back, it looks like that's been the case for at least a couple weeks now. I guess that's unrelated to what's going on today?
Like all things you want to buy, sometimes you need to borrow or save beforehand.
Facebook is experiencing issues regarding chat (including on Instagram) in Europe too. Might be related?
They are probably seeing the writing on the wall.... people who use computers to compose music (which is probably 90% of musicians under 40) don't tend to use sheet music except as an output format, and even that is declining along with the need for real musicians playing instruments.

Pianoroll notation and all the things that tend to come with that just lend themselves to computers.

In many ways this is like CAD transitioning away from fractional notation to decimal. Fractions suck when using anything measured or derived, as they give you a tradeoff between accuracy and readability, that isn't the case with decimals. (i.e. is 19/64 bigger or smaller than 9/32? Meanwhile it's quite obvious that .296 is bigger than .281) With fractions, and traditional music notation, quantization is an important and annoying part of the process.
I read through a few recent posts (trying to understand how this absolutely bizarre story could've come about) and it seems like the current point of contention is "Managed Payments", which appears to be a euphemism for ebay raising fees later this year. However, the longevity of the newsletter and the viciousness of the harassment make me assume this must be a personal issue.
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Given that the "Guy Named Craig" owns a company specifically around oil and gas extraction, one of those two seems probable unless someone outbids him.
And much harder to make very precise adjustments.
Not to hand, but it's not amazingly hard to reproduce. You just have to build quite a complex query (many joins in our case) and play around with the clauses, watching the EXPLAIN output.
> I'm not going to be happy in a place like this even if government will force those people to tolerate me.

This is an important point that those in disagreement with these kind of arguments often under-emphasize or ignore entirely. When a government makes it illegal to behave in a racist way, the racists don't go away, and they might even be amplified within those communities in a similar way to the Streisand effect.

If everyone in a community is racist, you can't simply make it illegal to be racist to fix the problem. They have to make that decision on their own - anything else is fundamentally authoritarianism, which doesn't have a great history of long-term success.
There are a lot of issues though with S3, latency, poor performance for small reads / writes, timeouts, api rate limits, api costs, and consistency issues poorly understood by third party developers.

A "thick-client" also doesn't perform well unless that client is located on a node in the same region. I think as with everything it works well in some cases and not well in others.
My stack at the moment is 6x [10 TB WD Red Pros -> dm-integrity] -> mdadm raid6 -> dm-crypt -> LVM. One of my LVM volumes is btrfs. I only use LVM because I've had terrible performance for VM images stored in btrfs volumes. You can always use fallocate and disable CoW for the image but that prevents taking snapshots.

I'd if there was a zvol equivalent in btrfs.
Just to make you aware, the actual author of this in git does not say the same thing. While he wishes he had chosen better names (https://twitter.com/xpasky/status/1271477451756056577), he did not mean master in terms of master/slave (https://twitter.com/xpasky/status/1272280760280637441).
Haha, I'm pretty sure I did. Wayland just seems to have invented new and wonderful ways for applications to crash the entire windowing system. As if Xorg weren't good enough at that already. Most of the rest of my problems are with the quality of software packaging. Sigh.
GP did not suggest letting private citizens bring criminal charges, he suggested having a separate and independent arm of government that provides oversight of the police have that power. That's a very different thing, and at seems at least plausible way forward. At the very least it helps to address the conflicts of interest that he identified (correctly, IMO).
Workable read-only mediums are darn hard to come by these days :-(
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