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> But most domains eg. websites dont have Anycast.

Are you talking about the (mathematical) "domain" in the DNS specs, or the popular domain i.e. the web server?

The latter is arguably true, in which case the geoip proposition is moot: there is only one web server. Maybe you mean the web server has multiple addresses instead of being anycast. Ok, yes that happens; and some DNS servers do use geoip to tailor replies to try and hand the closest address. Here is from tbe BIND ARM:

"By default, if a DNS query includes an EDNS Client Subnet (ECS) option which encodes a non-zero address prefix, then GeoIP ACLs will be matched against that address prefix. Otherwise,they are matched against the source address of the query"

Regarding the former, does anyone have info on how many DNS providers use anycast? I think a lot; or maybe I should say that a lot of domains are hosted on anycast, the DNS isn't as distributed as it used to be. If you're using DNS as a distributed key/value store, I hope you're doing a better job thinking about externalities (leakage) than e.g. the antivirus companies in terms of locating authoritatives and how you update them opaquely.

Personally I think stub resolvers are stuck in the 1980s. They could do a lot more by monitoring traffic health and editing DNS replies. Due to peering arrangements you could be in the same IX as someone else but that might not be the best route. Traceroute, SYN exchanges, (IP) TTLs might be better signals for determining the health of a particular path. I'd never thought about it until this thread started, maybe the stub resolver could use netflow analysis to inform editing the responses it returns to the applications.
I suggest the word femtobenchmark for this kind of work.
Haha, very true. At one point there was this perfection in the Ubuntu desktop where I could do wonderful things like pick up a window with the pointer and do keyboard shortcuts to move workspaces and the window would travel with me and stuff like that. It felt so natural that I didn't realize I was doing it till one day I upgraded and it went away. I suspect it was some emergent property of the subsystems that wasn't specifically written for because I don't think it exists anymore.

OS X is like that. So many of the gestures are so natural that you just do them without thinking and I only notice when they're gone.
We’ve also seen the last month that police will lie to cover their backsides. Resisting arrest without video evidence to prove it just means they needed a retroactive excuse.
Looks absolutely horrible. I use a laptop as my main dev machine, and all these 16px and 30px paddings that they added everywhere create real tunnel vision experience. I guess people with huge displays don't mind... But I absolutely do.

Looks like another case when a frontend team does something to justify their existence.

But let's look at the positives: the last redesign of that sort helped me to completely migrate away from gmail.
It's not just murder, it's being beaten by the cops, arrested and being hauled through the system and a variety of other things.
Isn't it 3 finger?

As someone who installed Linux on a computer for the first time 22 years ago (Slackware via floppies!), but have never used it full time for more than a few days before I'd jump back to Windows/Mac, I'm amazed more every year how "we're almost there" is a recurring theme.
I've had 100% on-site. I've had one where they let me do remote 2 days a week. My current company (I went FTE) allows full time remote for Consultants. You just have to look harder to find these.

As a consultant, you aren't a stakeholder technically. You are a coder-for-hire. You aren't typically going to maintain the application so you're more of an advisor. This is awesome because as an advisor, you can make some great suggestions, but in the end you do it how they tell you to or you find another gig. What I've found is, if they don't listen to me or accept input for change I'm not interested. Those are typically painful but short consultancies. If they do take advice, then I frequently convert to see the project all the way through.

I've had situations where I can't wait for the contract to be over, and as you've guessed ones that are awesome and I convert over, or extend to stay on longer.

You can also get into consulting to the point that you're part of a team which is hired to build something for the company. These can be awesome because then you're a stakeholder and yet free of some of the internal politics of a company.

Anyway, I love consulting, but I also love the stability of FTE. I've found that consulting has been a great way for me to find FTE opportunities that I prefer over just interviewing.

EDIT: The most pain happens when the consultancy you're working with doesn't communicate well with the client, so you get put in the middle and have to server two bosses who are in opposition. The best cases you have one clear boss, but another clear tasking manager at the client. In these cases positive feedback flows to your manager and negative feedback should be minimal but direct.
You bring up a great point. Right-wing groups are highly proactive about using every lever at their disposal to advance their agenda, including infiltration of government agencies. I don't think it has to be strictly right-wing groups, though. Scientology, whose political leanings I'm unfamiliar with, infiltrated a variety of government agencies, and as far as I know only paid a one-time price (short prison terms for leadership) for long-term gains in unchecked reach and influence.

All of which brings to question what moderates and left-wing groups are doing in order to secure their own future in this country.

As an alternative to committing crimes, I found South Korea's protest model fascinating: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Park_Geun-hye#Choi_Soon-sil_sc...

1 million people sat in the government square for two whole months in winter in order to force the president of South Korea to not just resign, but forcibly impeached. When was the last time we in the U.S. did that? MLK's million man march comes to mind, but I think that was only one day. Going back further rings no bells for me.

I don't think you have to rely on the police to be sympathetic to your cause to get what you want. You do need to exert material losses on certain levers of power. Cause enough pain to certain keys, and they will unlock the safe for you, doesn't matter what they believe in. Right-wing groups bomb and shoot people, because their numbers are low and they need disproportionate acts to get the respect they want. South Korea shuts down the country, because consistently doing one act is easy when many people are on the same page and want the same thing.

The great thing about powerful people is there's so many different ways to hurt them. It sounds sociopathic because it is. Waving a sign for one day used to work because for most of our history we had leaders who genuinely wanted to work for us, they just didn't know where it fell in terms of priorities. For those who crave power and nothing else, us waving a sign does absolutely nothing.
Yeah, this was kind of my mindset, too. Hatching is certainly an old trick, and I see the "Dyson hatch" is somewhat distinctive - but for me, knowing "old school" maps, it didn't stand out from the other offered styles - and certainly lived up to the promise of "old school" look and feel :)
In the context of design, “accessible” usually has a specific meaning of “able to be used by people with disabilities”. For example, a design might put alt text on images to be accessible to blind users, or make buttons big and easy to click to be accessible to users with motor control problems.

You seem to be using “accessible” just to mean “has good design”, which will confuse people.
I do wonder if the body does not always absorb 100% of the food it receives. It might be that the body regulates food absorption such that despite "the same amount kcal" being consumed they're not all absorbed when taken in a single big meal.

I really wouldn't know. I'm just giving my opinion that it doesn't sound that implausible.
The IE6 problem is the same reason I'm currently stuck supporting IE11. The vague fear that we don't want to cut off like 3% of our users.
Tell HN: Google any three numbers followed by “new cases”
Interesting that there is a coronavirus new cases news for any 3 digit number and most of them are from the past 10 days.
Slightly offtopic - who has the best video upscaling algorithm out there?
> They feel like they know better and do not want all of the fixes that the LTS kernels provide for some crazy reason.

It's even crazier; they sometimes backport changes to their kernel that the LTS kernels don't get. We use a custom kernel module that contains a bunch of #if #endif blocks that check the kernel version for stuff that changed. Doesn't work on RedHat since you actually need the branch that's for more recent kernels in some places.
First of all, if a UI is badly structured and needs a lot of flipping back and forth that isn't touch-friendly either. Good UX design should be about putting everything the user needs at the user's fingertip (literally so in touch-friendly, but figuratively so for mouse and keyboard).

Particularly on that subject, density is mostly orthogonal to touch-friendly outside of touch target size, and that's something that Microsoft has been very honest about as a series of lessons learned between Windows 8 and Windows 10.

Keep in mind a lot of the density changes in Windows 8 weren't about touch-friendliness, they were about good typography and reading friendly white space. They tried to optimize the basic app templates for comfortable reading patterns as if every app needed to be a well typeset newspaper with good strong margins between columns/articles. On the surface it was a lot of good ideas individually, but the criticisms were valid that it led to some very sparse designs by default and that they made overriding the defaults a little too hard, the defaults a little too hand-holding.

For reading-only "information" the density of an app can be the same, touch-friendly or not. It's the control targets that should be adjusted just that little bit bigger. The difference in size between a past mouse-only target and touch-friendly is a lot smaller than people think, people are fairly comfortable at touching some very small targets (have you seen how dense most smartphone apps are today?). Even there too, Microsoft found out and admitted that user comfort for touch-friendly allows for far more density of touch targets than they at first recommended in Windows 8. (There's some interesting debate if those changes in UX Research Study results over the lifetime of Windows 8 and early Windows 10 testing were due to increased user familiarity with touch surfaces over those intervening years or some interesting unanticipated bias in the earlier studies.)

The density of the UI should be a factor of the user's ability to focus on said UI more than a "touch-friendly" concern. Even after Microsoft greatly adjusted their design guidelines on density in Windows 10 they keep a lot of their own apps UI at low density not because they "have to" for touch-friendly, but for various concerns like user friendliness, good typography, and analysis paralysis when the user is confronted with too many choices at once.
Newgrange is super cool to visit. I remember when we went to Ireland on a castle stay vacation (also recommended) and on a lark decided to hit it up having never heard of it. Completely blown away. We ended up in a group with just me, my wife, and the guide and got a really wonderful in depth and personal experience. In my book much more interesting than Stonehenge.

I was also struck with how similar it appeared to large tombs in South Korea. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Tombs_of_the_Joseon_Dyna...
There's also something that seems mentally different about a pandemic rather than a war. Diseases are horrific and it's one of the great tragedies that we weren't able to contain this one. But something about deaths from a natural cause like a virus just feels different from a death caused by the human hatred or greed of a war.
The fluidity is about keeping activity on the screen tightly in sync with motion on the trackpad and having zero or no unexpected behavior or jank when e.g. reversing a motion partway through to undo it (say, starting to slide three fingers up to expose all your windows, stopping to peak at something, then sliding them back down to put everything back where it was—you can even stop in the middle of it to make the windows do a little dance and nothing goes badly wrong or far out of sync). It nails that stuff even on my aging low-specs-even-at-the-time 2013 MBP. It's not so much about raw UI speed which, yes, light Linux/BSD window managers still hold the crown for (outside dead or niche operating systems like BeOS and QNX or maybe even old versions of Windows, which actually hold the crown)
I've actually been thinking about GitLab since Sid interviewed Joe Jacks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jk_DNX8LGuM

I'm thinking of moving just to support another COSS (Commercial OSS) company. https://coss.media
I would even settle for embedded prolog the same way you can embed SQL. Well I'd prefer the Python connectors to be less compiled.
I don't have high hopes either. It takes a combination of hardware and software to produce a really good trackpad implementation. Apple has the advantage of total control over the hardware and years of research on the software. They bought FingerWorks (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FingerWorks) in order to improve their touchscreen and trackpad products. Wayne Westerman spent years on the problem before getting acquired. I'd imagine many more person years of research has been invested at Apple.

That's not to say we can't do better and it's not worth making an effort. However, thinking Linux can match Apple in terms of trackpads is wishful thinking, IMHO.
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We recently had a case in the UK where a prominent (as in winning the British Empire Medal for her services to nursing prominent) nurse was stopped by police, and was too scared to get out of the car.

When she told the police this, their response was "I don’t believe you because you’re talking to police officers."

She ended up being arrested for obstruction because they kept failing to understand that her reluctance to comply was because they terrified her, and they can be heard in the bodycam footage [1] going "This is nonsense, there's something in this vehicle" after listening to her telling her dad she's afraid the police officer is going to harm her.

When the police officer starts dragging her out, she is screaming over the phone for her dad to call the police.

The officer is thankfully relatively calm, and it ended without physical harm to her, but this is a quite stark demonstration of the kind of fear the police has created, and how they then perpetuate that by not teaching their officers to understand the existence of that fear and interpret non-compliance resulting from that fear as indication of criminal activity.

She's was cleared, and is pursuing a claim against the police, but of course a claim will not address the fundamental ignorance among a lot of police officers about the fear they are inducing.

I can only imagine how much worse that fear must be in the US - at least in the UK police is rarely carrying firearms - and how awful that fear must be for parents.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/18/nurse-claims-m...
Looks very cool and its catered towards a very specific niche.
How do you do your market research
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Hey mate, you seem to have it a lot rougher than I do.

I would love to chat. Maybe sometime this weekend. I really appreciate your willingness to offer support, when you yourself are in such supply of it.
Expect you'd need to do that with every single store since the x86 instruction stream doesn't have those semantics embedded in it.

That'd kill your memory perf by at least an order of magnitude, and kill perf for other cores as well. It'd be cheaper to just say "you only get one core in x86 mode". Essentially you'd be marking every store as an L1 and store buffer flush and only operating out of L2.
If Red Hat (and any of the other major distros) didn't do it, someone else would as a service you could pay for. That lack of updating is exactly why they are used.
I'm lucky in that I work at an essential business, so I have been coming into work this whole time, which gives me social interaction. I have a 1/2 hour bike commute, so the commute part isn't an issue.

Downside: my girlfriend still lives with her parents (who have pre-existing risk factors), so we have only been able to go on walks for the past several months.

I have been avoiding my feelings by spending quite a bit of time after work in Hyrule (Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild).

EDIT: I should say that I am overall very fortunate. Still employed doing something that I like, safe and healthy, and my family is the same. My family doesn't live near me, so I miss them and am not sure when I will next be able to see them.
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Scott is less worried about his real name being known among readers of the blog, he mostly just wants it to be non-googleable to protect his professional identity. He has been consistent with this position since 2013, it was actually one of the main reasons he started Slatestarcodex. From his old LiveJournal:

“Several people have suggested I move off LiveJournal because it has a negative prestige aura surrounding it and a lot of people are unwilling to read or link to LiveJournals.

Further, one of the interviewers at one of the hospitals I visited found my blog and told me that if I got hired it would be unacceptable to have a blog that was easily traceable back to my real name. Even if I never talked about medicine on it, it's still probably not a good idea to have patients know too much about my personal life. Also, if I expressed any controversial political opinions (me? controversial political opinions? really?) it might bring someone into disrepute or something, or even offend patients and destroy the therapeutic relationship.”

and “This blog is now closed and locked.

Since part of the reason I closed it is to make myself less stalk-able, I'm not linking from here to the new blog. If you really want to know where it is, message or email me and I'll probably tell you.”
To be fair, it will be just as hard to make a compelling, valuable OSS project if you don't possess the same skills and talents that FAANG hires for.
There are a lot of graphics libraries out there, but I’ve been using PixiJS.

https://www.pixijs.com/
GNOME Shell (and KDE Plasma I think) already have this gesture on Wayland. Wayfire has it too, thanks to me :)
Nice.

Let's see Paul Allen's card.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cISYzA36-ZY
Perhaps this is a UI preference difference. I like the animated views on OS X and the speed seems acceptable but there are definitely browser apps (like the Chase website) where things animate in slowly and I get frustrated. So perhaps we're just differently placed on the curve.
I don’t know about the ratio being 100:1, but You are right these are Classified police killings not murders...that said, also consider George Floyd’s death was on track to be swept under the rug as a Justified police Killing until the protests.
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On the web you can do it with SVG.

https://github.com/leni536/trans_jpg
Isn’t that the same case with hiring America workers. I’d also argue that high pay attracts better talent. This why FAANG companies dominate the market since they offer compensation packages higher than anyone else and attract better talent. You could argue it was anti-competitive from a consumer standpoint but it’s beneficial from an employee standpoint. Immigration regulations are designed to protect American employees.
Apparently you have never done support to non-technical users.

They understand mouse, keyboard, screen,... and Internet, which is their browser.

This is not to make fun of them. I drive a car and only know where to pour gas. I have zero interest in anything else in the car, I just want it to work. Carburator? Spare tire? Not interested.
Don't Barclays have their own already, called "Expert Sans"? Looks like it was designed in 2004 by Monotype.[1]

1: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20040803005135/en/Agf...
Another concurrent thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23617229
> In your mind what is this a proxy for?

Criminality, like I said.

I don't see anywhere in your post where you actually addressed the point I made. Again, that is if Black people commit X times as many crimes we should expect X times as many negative police interactions. Whether that be excessive violence or innocents being swept up in police action or anything else.
What’s idiotic about it?

It’s to protect against copy left obligations.
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Slingcode is a personal computing platform in a single html file.
> parent poster responded with "yeah well maybe this record isn't real"

That's your interpretation, kbutler wrote nothing like that.
Another concurrent thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23616422
That would make sense, but paradoxically, diuretics make gout worse. It may be because the fluids aren't always replaced, and if you have less fluids in you, then the concentration of uric acid goes up. (And the accumulation of uric acid in the joints happens because blood levels reach saturation and then some of it precipitates.)

The crazy thing about coffee and gout is, since it's a diuretic, it should make gout worse, but instead it seems to make it better.

Incidentally, I'm not a doctor either. Just an interested layman. So take everything I said with a grain of salt too. Anyway, gout is super complicated since it involves metabolism AND the renal system AND the immune system AND the joints, so really nobody understands it completely.
> Are you implying Floyd was resisting while he was being suffocated for 10 minutes?

Especially the 2 minutes after another officer checked for and could not find a pulse.
An "altercation" just means an argument.
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You are right. I would amend my comment to limit it to a non-peaceable assembly.
Longer than we can wait for, that's for sure. At the time scales relevant to evolution to work its magic here, we would be long gone.
Honestly, I don't care about any of these things. UIs change and I just have to deal with it.
Fair benchmarking is really hard! But I appreciate this style, because it shows two basic "real world" examples that you can extrapolate/estimate the results of. If Crystal is compiling to smaller binaries that run faster in a basic test without a lot of optimization and configuration tweaking, you can imagine that that relationship will hold true in larger codebases as well. Also very important is that the style, verbosity, and clarity of both examples showcase the differences in the languages on the programmer's side.
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I grew up and currently live in Michigan, in around the same areas (within an hour or so of each other) - anecdotally, our winters of late have been odd. The last couple years before 2019-20 saw a great deal of icefall around March, as well as the arctic vortices where we got down to -20 degress F, which were a bit odd but not crazy, but this last winter was very strange in how unbelievably warm it was, and I've never seen it like that.

I realize that Global Warming != Warming Winters because climate is more complex than that, and odd weather has always been a staple of Michigan on account of the Great Lakes, but this just felt unprecedented, and a bit concerning if it continues in this direction.
haha, I just realized that Gavin Belson is Luis!