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Mail chutes were a common feature of buildings for many years, and not only in New York City.

The sixth (1970) and seventh (1981) editions of Architectural Graphic Standards discuss them on the “Planning for Postal Service in Office Buildings” pages. From the latter:

CHUTES: Used in buildings of at least four stories.
The chute must be approximately 2 x 8 in. in cross
section and extend in a continuously vertical line
from the beginning point to the receiving box or
mailroom. The interior of the chute must be access-
ible throughout its entire length. Chutes installed
in pairs are constructed with a divider and dual
receiving boxes. Chutes are for first class mail only.
I don't love retro design either but that seems irrelevant.

To anyone who's familiar with the topic it's immediately clear from the copy that the author understands it.

Considering that the target audience is other designers, why does the presentation matter?
A fun read and brings back memories, but ollydbg? That hasn’t been updated in something like 20 years now. I don’t see a date on here but I’m going to guess 2006 at the latest.
I have a System76 that lasted 9 years. It's just too slow now, and I didn't bother replacing the battery so it doesn't hold a charge.

I have a System76 that is still going in year 6. No issues, but I don't use the battery in that one much -- it sits on top of a stereo serving as a music source, mostly.
Makes sense. Comparing the pricing with AWS lambda fly.io is way cheaper. Will give it a try :)
Yay Acorn Archimedes. Programming it was such fun after a BBC Model B, like stepping from a cupboard into a cathedral.
A Devastating New Stage of the Pandemic
Ageing in particular is hugely expensive (most medicine is spent on the old and the old cannot work effectively) and causes incalculably huge ammounts of suffering (COVID-19? War? Racist killings? Rape pandemics? Drug addiction? None cause as much suffering as ageing).

Is it wrong to repair someone's heart, brain, joints, skin, bones, kidneys, liver or muscles? If not, why is it wrong to prevent them degenerating in the first place?
This is pretty typical of most software these days: user-hostile and painfully dumbed down. Browsers especially seem to be able to get away with this because there are practically no non-annoying alternatives that are sufficiently secure and compatible.
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Or 3:2. I got a Pixelbook on a whim a couple years back and the 3:2 display is one of many things I absolutely love about the hardware.

If only I could do something about the software...
Modals are good for when you need to show a new blocking state without losing the current state. There are many valid reasons for that scenario. Even for modal inception.

Use them for that purpose, no need to swear them off completely.
I searched for water and am so glad someone else brought this up. When I read the article I was hoping to see something about it, but didn't.

I'm on my third TG and absolutely love it. We vacation on the beach and some of my better family photos were taken in the water with the camera. It is a tank that performs.

Six years ago took my son to the beach for the first time and had a blast with him and the other kids. Lots of great photos. Stupidly, I didn't wrap the camera around my wrist, but put it in my pocket. The Atlantic is unforgiving and it knocked me down and with it my camera escaped. Looking for it was hopeless and I went back to the hotel dejected.

Next day we're on the beach and someone walks up to me and hands me the camera. I jumped up and hugged them so hard. Turns out it washed up four hotels down and they reviewed the photos and found our room number and hotel. They were on the way to drop it off when they saw us on the beach. lol

Now I keep a wrist wrap and a floatie on it. Lesson learned.
I see similar things across the board. Chrome has terrible autocomplete also. The suggestions have to be physically back-spaced to avoid them being autocompleted when you press enter.
Also, even the humblest Raspberry Pi board is orders of magnitude faster than the fastest Acorn box.
I think the most important point that I'm not sure the article emphasises prominently enough is the purpose of both is completely different, which is why of course one doesn't replace the need for the other.

Testers' work is focused around the user. User input in, user outcome out. Tests pass to the extent the user has a satisfactory outcome. How that outcome was achieved with code is of no concern whatsoever.

TDD is a tool for engineers to have confidence in code. Function calls in, function return values out. Tests pass when code behaves as expected. How that code is then used as part of a wider system, and the outcomes of that, is of no concern whatsoever.
Thanks, I didn't know about c6g, m6g, r6g. I've updated the post to remove this mention - I only counted a1 instances.

That still leaves storage optimized and GPU optimized instances missing. I'm guessing storage should be easy enough to add, but what about GPU?

From my novice experience with GPUs, they need finicky drivers that must be ported by the GPU manufacturers, so I figure it might take a while to get competitive ARM GPU instances.
I think the vast majority of public schools don't have any problems with drugs, violence, or sexual assaults. I went to a pretty low-tier HS, and we never had any of that. The same type of HS where only 5%-10% of students to to college.

But with that said - my initial thought is that at schools, at least you're forced to interact with people you may not want to interact with. Good or bad, at least it preps you for the professional work, where you can't choose the people you work with.

I can only imagine that going your whole (juvenile and young adult) life with the option of being 100% selective on who you interact with, must have some bearing on what kind of person you become as an adult.

I'm not saying that friends or family don't fight from time to time, but it's not really the same as dealing with strangers.
Doesn't need to be security related at all, where will you get the drivers for your hackintosh ARM GPU, Network, Bluetooth, etc. With Intel Apple was using standard off the shelf components, with ARM it's all proprietary and baked in to their SoC - why would they write support for any other SoC ? Not to mention they will probably include proprietary chip specific stuff and assume it's there which will not be present on other devices.
My prediction is that full frame cameras will eventually be squeezed out by APS-C and medium format.

On one side, medium format cameras are shrinking in both size and price. The Canon 5D Mark IV is thicker, taller and heavier than Fuji's GFX 50R[1]. Medium format cameras aren't quite as small as full frame mirrorless cameras, but they are no longer impractically large either. If image quality is paramount, size and cost will no longer rule out medium format.

On the other side, APS-C cameras are now firmly in the 'good enough' area of the image quality curve - even for many professional applications - and they are continuing to improve. If you have other practical considerations and can do with lesser (but still excellent) image quality, APS-C will be your choice.

1. https://camerasize.com/compare/#682,805
Testers are very useful for political purposes, So I would not scrap them even if they are kind off pointless after dev testing, unit testing, automated functional testing, reviews, automated coverage checks etc. Most testers aren't really automation specialists. Nor are they hackers (sorry, penetration testers). Most of them have pretty light technical backgrounds. They just check and sign off on a particular piece of functionality. Acting as a lightning rod for the boss' anger when stuff goes south down the line.
I just think it's a little bizarre to feel dystopia creep from checks on police rather than from police checks on civil liberties.

edit: or rather, to feel dystopia creep more from the idea of monitoring how police are taught to use surveillance technologies, than from the actual police use of surveillance technologies itself.
And OS modals are crap too. Many many times I have watched someone completely ignore to modal message and get frustrated trying to click on something in the background.
I have my Safari on Mojave set to use duckduckgo and typing Cmd + L, then typing sketch, then pressing return - takes me to a DDG search for sketch.

I wonder if there's some other setting I've changed that causes this difference in behaviour though.
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They are accepting comments at brandproject@wikimedia.org

Here is what I sent them, if anyone wants to follow:

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Hello,

I am writing to you regarding the rebranding proposal to use Wikipedia for projects that are not Wikipedia.

In short: please don't. This is a plain example of brand dilution.

The brand has a clear meaning: Wikipedia stands for an encyclopedia. The trust and widespread acceptance of the brand comes from this clear association. Wikipedia doesn't stand for the news. Or for the books. Or for pictures. Or for media.

Wikipedia stands for an encyclopedia, which is valued as a source of knowledge, and is held to standards and format that other Wikimedia projects don't have to follow. A "Wikipedia article" is an encyclopedia article. It's not a news piece, not a book, not a picture, not a data set, not a dictionary definition, nor any of the other things that Wikimedia projects attain.

By making Wikipedia an umbrella brand for all of those, you kill the brand, plain and simple.

Please value the efforts of all people who made these projects possible, and keep Wikipedia Wikipedia.

Sincerely,

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Another option is using the talk page [1].

If you also think that Wikipedia should only stand for the encyclopedia, make your voice heard by either of the means.

[1]https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Communications/Wikimedi...
All there E2E tests have effectively cemented their UI in place. Which makes it much slower to iterate on user feedback...
Doesn't look like an open source does it?
As long as there's mutable software binaries, DRM can be subverted. If core OS11 software lived on a special R/W chip instead of a disk, that'd be quite a move. Apple hasn't even done that with iPhone though.
the only requirement driving my unit tests are things that id like to be independently testable and there could be 100s of those when implementing a feature.. or if i know the code will be throw away, maybe 0
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Yep, I should have clarified that's what I meant. Agreed that obscurity should not be the only strategy employed.
You can also buy an ARM-based six-core laptop for $200.

https://store.pine64.org/?product=14%e2%80%b3-pinebook-pro-l...
Absolutely. It's only relevant since the original article is more or less a single anecdote. So I figure the discussion is about sharing anecdotes.
Wait, I added my name and it said "Thank you, we will contact you, check your inbox.", but I didn't add any contact information.

LE: I just realized this is for instagram, the word "instagram" was only faintly visible in the placeholder of the input.
Not so fast. The altered link requires a login to Facebook. The original actually shows partial content.
No problem. The subtleties of human speech don't carry over to text very well ;-)
What data do you base that claim on?
They also said they'd have turned off the entire pots network (including ADSL) by 2020 and here we are.
You can hook ansible roles into your Packer process pretty easily. That's what I do at least.
My team went through a major shift a number of years ago, moving most complex discussions to written documents (with commentary!) wherever possible. The outcomes were great and fwiw we had a minimal remote culture pre-pandemic, people would write things down even if they were sitting next to each other. In particular:

- It's much easier to track the provenance of complex decisions.

- Deciding in docs reduces meeting bloat.

- It's harder to get pissed at someone based upon a document.

- Anecdotally, points of view seem to be better thought-out.

This article made me think of how we should remember to try as hard as possible to adjust for variation in writing skill. I also wonder whether we're inherently biasing against people who are _slower_ writers.
> Why doesn't ATC demand they come in to line

Time and workload permitting, ATC should inform aircraft of deviations. But most ATC, even in the US, are not pilots.

And ATC instructions are required to be followed except in an emergency, but "demand" is not the right word, as the captain is the final authority in civil flights.

> Is the co-pilot allowed to smash the pilot in the face

Well, that would be unusual, and doing it on final pretty hazardous. But in the Germanwings and probably MH370 accidents, that was the only option to avoid those accidents.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanwings_Flight_9525

In small airplanes, instructors are prepared to override the rudder by evaluating how strong students are ("So, do you go to the gym?"), and purposefully focusing maximum force on the rudder controls.
>If you visit the realty.com site directly

How? He literally types "realty.com" (ie: the full domain) in the bar and it goes to "realtor.com."
I’m not complaining about it. I paid the $99. I’m pushing back that it’s a modern UI and modern UX. It works, but from my perspective it’s pretty ugly and dated.

It’s opinionated nitpicking, not scientific analysis.
We're thinking about a few different models, but haven't settled on one yet. What kind of model would you be interested in? Metered or other usage-based, per-seat or per-user, or something totally different?
You make a good point. I worked on the code before encrypted DNS was a thing (or anything I knew about) so I'm going off of theory, not first hand experience.

When a request is sent for a http web page it is ran through the layer 4 proxy. In there is a user profile where http injection can occur. It works by injecting JavaScript into the end of the web page.

If the dns request is encrypted all of the handshaking goes through tls bypassing the proxy's view of this data for everything except disconnected http body data. However, it could be that as years have gone by it's been updated to take in http data without any sort of head and then it would work again. It's probably as simple as running some regex looking for </html>.

So, me in my half awake state this morning didn't really think it through. In previous versions of the software this wouldn't be supported, but in hindsight it's not a terribly difficult problem to fix, so Comcast probably does support HTTP injection even when using encrypted DNS by now. My apologies.
No one has managed to get iOS running on non-Apple hardware, how will Apple-Silicon-only macos be any different?

I don't see it happening myself.
My question is can they bid on it behind the scenes like a keyword. Siri suggestions must have some type of revenue.
I think it kills the credibility of the designer trying to tell others, authoritatively mind you, that modals are bad while A) I have no idea who this person is or know their credentials B) Why should I listen to them if they're presenting it without a good understanding of design which is what they're trying to preach others?

IMO it totally kills it. Others may not have as strong of an opinion. This is the age old question about separating art from the artist. With authoritative didactics, especially as a stranger on the internet, it is even more important to associate art with the artist so to speak. It comes with responsibility.
> having separate threads accumulate a value, to only merge them at the end, thus decreasing contention for the merged value.

That sounds like just having scoped state in each thread that isn't global.
Mirimir earns his Bitcoin, so there's no cash involved.

But no matter how you get the Bitcoin, you can get whatever degree of anonymity you want, by mixing it many times. You mix via Tor and nested VPN chains, with a different Whonix VM and mixing service for each mix.
Sort of. Except qualified immunity does not protect/prevent college students from being held accountable for violent acts.

This means that, unlike police, college students who hurt someone are going to be arrested, tried and very possibly convicted.
Ok, changed from https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1015716148739699....
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No doubt. My comment that says “You have to accept the bad with the good” is at -2. People don’t actually want free speech, they want people to speak the way they want.
Why are "Russia" and "terrorists" mentioned in the same breath?
Alright, while we’re talking about iOS autocomplete - I have a question. I noticed that sometimes when I’m typing an out-of-dictionary word, sometimes the keyboard will actually type the key next to the key I tapped that would type a real word. I imagine they’ve put a lot of effort into making the touch keyboard accurate, so is this a feature to that end or, more likely, is it a Baader-Meinhof thing, that I only notice when it happens?
> We proxy traffic from edge servers to containers through a global WireGuard mesh.

I am more interested in the mesh. Do you have more details on that? Specifically why this architecture was chosen, what kind of latency does WireGuard add, etc.
Yup was able to replicate that with

setInterval(() => document.title = `${Math.random()}`, 1000)
And I thought my mind was a sewer :)
"in Asian culture"

why are you using Korean anecdotes to explain a Pakistani problem?
From their Privacy Policy...

>We automatically collect certain information from you when you use the Platform, including internet or other network activity information such as your IP address, geolocation-related data (as described below), unique device identifiers, browsing and search history (including content you have viewed in the Platform), and Cookies (as defined below).

>We collect information about your location, including location information based on your SIM card and/or IP address. With your permission, we may also collect Global Positioning System (GPS) data.

>You can switch off GPS location information functionality on your mobile device if you do not wish to share GPS information.

The above makes it sound like you have to turn off GPS for everything. They could likely be skirting different methods for collecting this. and the only way to prevent it is turning off gps at the device level not app permission level

>We use the 'Region' you select in Settings to customise your TikTok experience. When you use the Platform on a mobile device, we will collect information about your location. In certain jurisdictions, with your permission, we will collect Global Positioning System (GPS) data and mobile device location information. If you do not wish to share your precise location with us, you can switch off location services via the settings on your mobile device

>5. Where we store your personal data. The personal data we collect from you may be stored on a server located in Singapore or the United States, outside of the country where you live. We maintain major servers around the world to bring you our services globally and continuously.
Investigating the HCF (Halt and Catch Fire) Instruction on Motorola 6800
law is not absolute, nothing wrong with challenging the law if you think its unjust.
I don't think its full DAW's that are kaput, its plugins and VST's that are no longer working.
We're talking about encryption, though. Isn't the core of the PACTOR debate related to it being proprietary, not that it's encrypted? Transmitting in a format that is not readily decoded is also problematic legally, but to me there's a major difference between using a proprietary format and using actual cryptography to encipher a message. The latter is uncommon in amateur use in my experience, but I'm only an occasional ham so maybe I'm just not aware.
> Unarmed martial arts such as BJJ, with mandatory minimum qualifications, recertifying every few months. The ability to subdue and control an assailant, without using a weapon and without injury to the attacker, should be made a cultural point of pride among police.

I see this suggested a lot, and I want to reiterate that having studied these sports -- being able to subdue an opponent without hurting them is a point of pride already. All reputable instructors will instill this. We can't allow the excellent reputation of these sports to influence our understanding of how police operate.

Police are not good-faith participants in the goal to injure fewer people via policing. If you teach them more BJJ, they'll use those skills to establish a dominant physical position. A practitioner of BJJ will take this opportunity to de-escalate the situation and escape without injuring anyone else or themselves. A police officer will take this opportunity to use weapons like mace and tasers, or stomp on necks and gouge eyes. They only escalate and when given the opportunity, they brutalize with impunity.

I believe we can influence the the amount of harm done by police by removing the tools they have available to do that harm. Take away all their weapons, and I believe they will more wisely evaluate how they decide to engage with citizens. Hold them legally responsible for any injuries sustained in the process of an arrest and they'll need to purchase insurance -- officers who do more harm will be uninsurable (or the expense of the insurance will make them unhireable).
Welp, here you go then.

https://www.reddit.com/r/hackintosh/comments/hfa7ys/big_sur_...

There are a few other examples on that subreddit.
VSTs are already really easy to compile for ARM and iPads have been ubiquitously supported for a long time now.

https://iplug2.github.io/
No need to bring the discussion down to the quality of the article.
Counterpoint: a "Wikipedia article" has a worldwide recognition and trust precisely because it does not stand for a news article.

If you rebrand Wikinews to being a part of Wikipedia, the value of a "Wikipedia article" goes down, since there is less distinction between the two.

You might raise awareness. You might also kill the brand, and the project.

There are other ways of raising awareness than by rebranding.
> rather than

I think both are dystopian.
I was just able to replicate it in Safari 13.1.1 on Catalina
I didn't have either... if i typed "realty.com", safari tried to autocomplete with a second 'm' in com (realty.comm), and then took me to realtor.com when i hit "go" (even though the 'first suggestion' said 'realty.com'

If I hit space after 'realty.com', it would try a google search... but if i hit space and then delete the space, it would send me to realty.com

Super confusing... this is on iOS 13.3.1
Oh, I got a Symbian phone when I was 16 (I think?) and of course I did try writing native apps for it. Yes, the SDK was horrendous. The C++ dialect was so weird I was never able to make sense of it. (I probably could with my current experience.) I just remember that there were many, many methods that ended with L, this meant "Leave", and this was some bizarre replacement for exceptions, apparently. There were more types of strings than I could count. The naming conventions for things were very weird. The hello world consisted of something like 5 classes and took a minute to build. When you wanted to actually run the thing you made, you had two options: running it in an emulator that took several seconds to process inputs, or running it on your phone via some connector app that only worked 1/3 of the time.

I didn't get very far with native Symbian development. J2ME was just so much easier, and ran on everything under the Sun (pun intended).
Hackintosh will be a thing as long as the last non-T2 Intel Mac is supported. That could be anywhere from 3-6 more years.
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It would require people to have actually read the novel. By the way, if someone hasn't read it yet, do so.