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This is what I've been saying about modular phones for years - "oh if only phones were modular people wouldn't have to buy a brand new one ever 2 years" - yes, maybe, but the phone would be 3x as heavy, to facilitate a functionality that realistically would be used once or twice. And people increasingly upgrade phones not because the old ones are too slow or lacking memory but because...they just want something new.
People loved Nikola but not its warrants
> "hitting" is $100-200M acquihire. 0.1% of that is only 200K.

Note that there are liquidation preferences so it's usually not as simple as that. If 100M had been invested at 1x liquidation preference, investors hold 33% and the startup is sold for 150M, then they'd only get 50M from their shares so they'll likely execute their right to get their investment back (at the expense of their shares, let's assume the deal includes this). So the 100M gets distributed among the investors and the 50M gets distributed among the remaining shareholders who hold the other 66%. For a 0.1% shareholder from that group this would mean a 75k payout instead of 150k that your calculation would give.
Install Wordfence. The free version is enough. Regularly checks the site for dodgy files, blocks spammers and offers 2FA for login. Big fan since it prevented multiple hack attempts to several of my sites.
I remember enjoying watching Halley's Comet as a young astronomy geek kid, seeing it with just my eyes (didn't own a camera or telescope).

I can't see neowise with my eyes at all. I've taken really nice photos of it, but that's with a 500mm lens on an equatorial mount and long exposures.

So IIRC Halley was a much better show.
More airbases and airfields:

Crissy Field
Half Moon Bay Airport
Watsonville Airport

If we venture a bit farther south:

Hollister 12th Naval District Target No. 5 [1] [2]
Salinas Army Air Base

[1] http://www.militarymuseum.org/NAS-Hollister-History.pdf

[2] https://goo.gl/maps/HEpQV6QZp7B6jHi98 (The runway is Lightning Tree Ranch, a private airstrip now used for drone testing. The bombing range is the deserted area to its south.)
Do you really think

> speed = distance / time

is less clear than

> speed is the ratio of distance over time

? To me the first equation is genuinely easier to read for the purposes of understanding, not just for formal manipulation. For larger equations the difference is only more stark, not less. I have a maths PhD so your comment about symbols being for novices doesn't apply.

I suppose the beauty of the first equation is that the objects (speed, distance, time) are visually very distinct from the operations and relationships. In the second form, there's a bit of a word soup so you need to "manually" parse the sentence rather than letting your eyes (really the visual cortex) do that bit of the processing for you.
Maybe you should just wipe that paragraph completely. I get that investors like to see that you are using proprietary code, but I wouldn't expect you to be faster with that. Especially when running against Elastic, which has over 1.400 contributors currently.
But you don't necessarily need to. You can get me with being focused on the right thing and not bloating your software. Lot of big projects start to loose focus and start doing everything, hence become worse doing their main job.

Especially when it comes to security, I'd like to see the lowest complexity possible. Harden your software instead of feature-fu around. That would be a good USP (I've got the feeling that no vendor has realized this so far - but customers neither did).
Incredible how C and C++ have managed to keep the security industry busy.

Not that other languages don't have logical errors that might lead to security exploits, but in what concerns memory corruption exploits, the mitigation list just keeps pilling up.

Looking forward to how long ARM hardware memory tagging will hold on, after Intel's MPX failure.

At least so far Solaris SPARC ADI seems to hold on.
So check again. You can start by IBM back in the 40s ... and today have a look at NSA and CCP as well."

Would be a nice "research" actaully.
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It most definitely isn't. It's written in a bit of an absurdist tone, but beneath all that it's a lot of solid advice about not over engineering things from the beginning and working iteratively.
I don’t think we’ve exactly automated agricultural production. Not yet, at least. We have mechanized and industrialized the farming process, of course. Tractors are guided by GPS. Machinery will harvest crops on a massive scale, but, some human labor is still required.

For a lot of the farming process, humans are still intricately involved in the process. I won’t consider it to be truly automated, until such point as when robots take over most of the work.
If the administration deserves the blame when it does something bad, it deserves the credit when it does something good.
Thanks! Yeah. Blog planets are awesome. They defintely played a big role in me coming up with diff.blog. https://rubyland.news/ in particular, which I came across while I was trying to learn Rails. Though diff.blog is built using Django and not Ruby on Rails :)
It's not open source but for your purposes of figuring out if audio editing is for you Reaper could be a nice introduction. It runs on Linux and works pretty similar to most commercial DAWs. You can run its evaluation mode for free indefinitely with a nag screen at startup. I started with that and then graduated to Cubase when I decided I wanted to pursue further.
> We know enough about quantum computers to be able to build some of them in limited ways which are commercially useful in very specific domains

In which way are quantum computers commercially useful?
How do you know? Does Amazon have a blog? Where do you read their documents? Aren't they internal?
My separation of document/non-document was not about javascript, it was about the type of functionality the site offers.

I would call a site like https://danluu.com/ document focused, while hacker news is focused on being a platform for conversation and a ranked news feed.

If you were to download danluu.com and brouwse it locally you wouldn't miss much, while if you where to do the same for hacker news you would only get one part of the offered experience.

Javascript enables this difference to grow to much greater extents but it is not necessary to me.
Do you have an example of how a web app has produced a product competitive in quality and functionality with a native offering? Office 360 is the only example I can think of. Everything else is niche SaaS (or ad-paid) without clearly established desktop patterns to compete with in the first place.

Meanwhile, it’s an absolute joy to use as a document browser, especially without JavaScript to mess up basic expected native behavior. I don’t get why there isn’t an “immediate mode” for application-style websites, tbh, that bypasses the DOM to provide more scalable widget layout, rendering, and interaction. I’ve written about a half-dozen “scrollable infinite list” implementations and I’ve never lost more sleep than doing this with the DOM. Probably a major reason why software is slower than ever. Hell, I just filed a bug with Patreon today complaining about how their messaging feature is so slow that, in combination with a double post bug, I ended up harassing a creator with four copies of the same message.

I’d buy this thesis that the browser-as-an-app-platform is a win if people could develop their software with a comparable degree of quality, responsiveness, and resource usage. Java managed this better like 20 years ago even if it did look and behave like ass by default. Instead you now need JavaScript to read basic newspaper articles, completely obscuring the internet‘s content to everyone but google crawlers and WebKit/gecko users.
A quick trip down the rabbit hole (and my package manager) after reading this article revealed that the author of links has also produced links2 and xlinks2, which support very limited formatting (like showing text in a few different sizes). It also has image support which can be toggled via a hotkey. I found the browsing experience with xlinks2 to be more pleasant than with regular links, and like with links, every page loads almost instantly.
Great. But I wish somebody would get this python based web browser back to work. I miss it.

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Being selective about plugins is so important. When I first started working independently, I was blown away by how much work could be had just saving people from the misery of Wordpress plugins. Not glorious work, but wow, you could work until the sun is gone just churning out plugin updates for Wordpress site owners.

Almost all of the problem plugins weren’t even that important to the site. Someone just added it at some point and left it, maybe for years. Then there you are running old code with known exploits. Of course you’re going to get hacked.

Although I didn’t enjoy that work, I did love how excited and happy my clients were that their sites were fixed. You can’t measure the misery and anxiety some people feel when stuff goes wrong with their websites. Fixing that, with php and Wordpress no less, was a great feeling.

All that is to say that I agree; only adopt plugins you really need with a reputation you’re comfortable with.
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Hi. Agree with the flashing message, I haven't found a way to turn it off yet.

I am actually working on a sort feature at this moment and I expect to release at the end of the week.
Add to that, judicial system which is statistically proven to be Brahminical[0].

But in jail two-third of prisoners are Dalits, tribals and from Other Backward Classes (OBCs), 19% are Muslims[1].

[0]https://www.huffingtonpost.in/suraj-yengde/theres-a-caste-bi...

[1]https://www.deccanherald.com/national/north-and-central/majo...
Seems to still be down for me.
You could go for a managed WordPress host like WPEngine or Kinsta, but they are comparatively expensive.
It seems to me that the author completely missed Medium's import tool in his/her "mirror your blog" section. The tool is specifically made to prevent SEO issues when syndicating content from your own blog.

https://help.medium.com/hc/en-us/articles/214550207-Import-a...

There's no SEO risk as the author alludes to. This is Medium's tool for dealing with that.
Some people just don’t like that ecosystem, and that’s OK I guess.
That's a fallacious argument, you're just appealing to authority.
I upvoted this because it's also my experience. It's so frequent that I've stopped telling people when I discover their Wordpress is hacked, because half the time they don't care (!), and the rest of the time they beg me to help them fix it for free - instead of paying one of the many WordPress consultants who specialize in fixing hacked WordPress sites.

The most common hack I've seen is one where the admin doesn't even know, because it redirects some visits to their site that have Google in the referrer. Because they rarely Google themselves while logged out of WordPress, they never know every page on their site is redirecting to MyCoolMalwareDroppr.
Was there ever actually any evidence that the NYT was about to reveal Carlson's address? The paper has denied any intention to do so, and Carlson's wording was ambiguous.
QNX used to be shipped on a single high density floppy.
There are some cases where this is true (the most infamous being Roman numerals, where the notation makes even simple arithmetic difficult - XI * VI = LXVI???), but in general notation is just something you learn once and mostly remember, as long as you understand the concepts.

However, I fully agree that reading a text that uses notation you are not familiar with without introducing it is almost futile. Even the simple fact of not knowing the names of the operators, which makes it impossible to read the formulas cursively in you mind (for example, when you encounter 'a + b' you can read it in your mind as 'a plus b', but for something like 'a <<=> b', even if given `a <<=> b = 2*a+b`, reading the text becomes a mental chore).
To me it seems language can also be interpreted as more ambiguous, where as well defined symbols and notation are far more rigorous in definition and use.
Thanks for your suggestions. Sorting will be implemented very soon, perhaps this week.

I haven't really thought of filtering yet, but it's very likely that one day we'll introduce a filter-option. However, at this moment I cannot say when.
Something that wasn't mentioned is that there is a reading cap for Medium articles if the user doesn't pay. Something that is frustrating is finding some technical documentation for a project on Medium and being hit with "you hit your reading cap of 5 stories..." and having to open up an incognito window.

That is dumb. I shouldn't have to pay money to get around a pay wall for a project's technical documentation.
What everyone else said, but also avoid super cheap hosting. Been burnt that way.
> I think it is by definition the most accurate system

By gum, an opportunity to quibble semantics on the internet. That is true if benchmark using means 'only admit to knowing' and accuracy means 'must be numerically quantifiable given existing data'. It is false otherwise, especially if accuracy means 'conforming to truth' and we have a model for how the numbers are being generated.

Obviously if I generate a set of numbers by sampling a normal distribution then the most accurate model is a normal distribution, no matter what empirical data I use for benchmarking.

That is to say, if we know how the data was generated (sans noise) we can reject empirical distributions as the most accurate, because we can directly know the distribution of the data.
I don't have a "stack." I've been writing software for 40 years, too many languages, tools, etc. to list.

My freelance practice mainly involves taking over web applications that the original developer didn't finish or abandoned, leaving the customer holding the bag. There's plenty of this kind of work, lots of development relationships go sour, but the software is salvageable. Fixing a few problems without complaining that I have to rewrite it from scratch in Rust gives me long-term clients who trust me, and my 40 years of expertise in multiple business domains gives me consulting work.

That's my niche now that I'm too old to get hired at a cool company, and too cranky to submit myself to a bullshit interview.

Most of the time I work with PHP, MySQL, some WordPress, Zendesk, Shopify, Hubspot. I get some Go, Ruby, Python, other stuff once in a while. I can learn pretty much any "stack" because I have done web dev since web development started (ASP, ColdFusion, Perl back then). I also do a lot of system admin on AWS, Google Cloud, etc.
$75M is rounding error compared to anything being discussed in the vicinity of the pandemic; I wouldn't really expect it to enter into the conversation.
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> Ideally I wanted not so much a generator but rather something that is completely self-contained. Essentially add a markdown or html file, commit and move on.

Could you explain what you mean here?
I still can’t quite figure out how we can properly distinguish (from a subjective viewpoint) whether people dislike us because of our personality, or because of some external, sometimes immutable characteristic (woman, black, Republican, Emo, geek, ...).

This article swings a bit more towards asshole though. Like, she accuses “Henry” of sexist comments, whereas his comments were at best just passionate if possibly too honest (“you’re an asshole, nobody wants to work with you”) and at worst benevolently sexist (“you were given a pass because you’re a woman”).

Looking forward to see how the suit will go.
and then there's <number><letter><number>

About this mac -> click on the version number text and it will appear.
Atleast there was no situation where BSNL was not granted 5G rights, while Jio is granted with this. IT feels like Reliance is govt funded while BSNL is private.
They are mostly assets or frameworks like React Native, Flutter, Xamarin what have you.

Native Android doesn't need such big sizes.
I'm planning to work with insurance companies. They can advertise their discounts in the video ad spots in the app.
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For an article (a book really) about nothingness it is inordinately long. Much ado about nothingness.
> I don't think there's any conscious conspiracy anywhere

Nor is it required, see evolution. Completely non-directed, but the beneficiary still benefits which reinforces the change.

It feels like some kind of selection pressure where big companies pollute the world with complexity to remove competition. This can be intentional of course, but even if it's an accidental random mutation then the result is the same.
Until Cloudflare themselves decides they don’t like you?
This has been discussed a lot under the term "shadowbanning" in various places.

HN does this too, if enough people downvote a comment it will disappear from the conversation, but not from the posters viewpoint (and if you have showdead on, as a reader it shows up as lighter and lighter shades of grey).

The rational behind it is that if a spammer notices that their post/account has been banned, they can quickly spin up another one.

Apparently this is quite effective against spammers, (or used to be) but of course seems extremely unfair in the case of false negatives.

So when you say dishonest - how would you feel if the fine article was written by someone who said he had wasted 2 months on Medium writing posts that try to trick people into downloading malware before he realised that Medium had shadowbanned his account?
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The problem is when it is not quite clear what the symbolic notation stands for. With division, that tends to be less of a problem.
The usual reason given is because it wastes the time of abusive people because they don’t realize they’re not reaching anyone else. However, I’ve yet to see actually malicious people be tripped up by this :(
> most of what you'd want to know about any school [...] How much are graduates making 10 years later?

Among my friends in graduate school:

* One was told by their adviser they had enough for a thesis in their second year, and found time to organise a university-wide Dance Dance Revolution championship.

* One was shouted at by their adviser for not coming in to tend to their experiments on Christmas day - the first day they'd taken off that year.

I think a prospective student would like to know which of those experiences they're in store for, regardless of future earnings.

Indeed, if you want to maximise your salary, I'm not sure you should go to graduate school at all...
Definitely not China.
No, you should stop with your compulsive behavior of selecting text for no reason at all. Fix the cause, not the symptom.
Is it really so hard to spin up an aws machine with a plain old lamp stack to serve this kind of content? Its incredibly cheap and simple to do.
Writing good content take time and the content is valuable.

I don't see it wrong to use it as marketing strategy.
most ranking put player in an oscillating loop around their equilibrium, often that 50% win rate is not because a 100% fun matches but because a sum of 50% unwinnable frustrating matches and 50% easy boring matches

measuring win rate does shit like that

and then most system double punish you for quitting the unwinnable matches

that metric is possibly the second most frustrating aspect of online play
You can also try one of the many providers that will host your static site for you for free, like GitHub Pages.
Medium and Substack signal crashed from 'might contain something useful' to 'I avoid even opening the links' fairly fast. Precisely because they're not home for ideas, but just a sad self-marketing attempt.
I have set non-technical people up using Markdown+pelican. I have no idea what made us use Pelican instead of something else, nor if those advantages still hold weight, but it’s been great.
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I went to a Costco the other week, after all the pandemic policies were put in place, and I love it!

They finally enforced social distancing. They do crowd control, to limit the number of people allowed inside. Even the checkout lanes, are staggered to enable more social distancing between people.

Now, I can actually breathe while inside Costco, since not every single damn person inside with a buck, is up in my business and bumping me with their shopping carts.

I used to dread going to Costco, because of all the over crowding.

There are some silver linings to this pandemic, and this is one of them. I hope they continue to enforce these policies long after this pandemic is over. Give people some space!

If anyone reads this, and works for Costco, then I hope you can relay this message up to corporate and customer services.
Wait, the U.K. isn’t a democracy, the queen is no longer the head of state, and the House of Lords no longer has a role in legislature or government? That’s news to me.
Hi,

The component actually did have fixed/frozen columns/rows in an earlier version, but I decided to leave out the feature for a v1. I plan to reintroduce it after more popular features have been implemented.

DGXL is able to handle hundreds of columns. The reason why it says 60+ specifically is that, according to browser-vendors like Mozilla, a DOM node should ideally not have more than 60 child nodes - for performance/memory reasons.
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Relevant: https://xkcd.com/1271/

Another related pet peeve is when websites use JavaScript to silently stick a citation at the end of the thing you copied.
I don’t know of many industry veterans who look lovingly over that fence. My impression is that they use an “overwork the eager graduate” style of hiring, like many in the top ten tech companies do.

Meanwhile the careerists at Microsoft seem pretty happy, fwiw. My closest friend there seems content to work there for the rest of his life and he seems to be producing good quality work, even if they are pushing him into management.
How about you make your website work like it should and I can fix that on my own time?
> Is also good at "photo journals" or galleries.

I have also been looking for something like this for a while and I can't find it.

All the static HTML gallery generators seem to be focused on dumping all images into them at single time. They don't have RSS feeds, or a convenient option to add entries one at a time as you go along like you would in a blog.

On the other hand, blog generators generally aren't optimized for mostly displaying images (e.g. automatic resizing, thumbnail view, etc.)
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The Greens in Australia are a sad case in point. They turn over people like crazy and I suspect that is largely due to the stress and pressure of basically herding cats. I've been silently wondering whether they were even infiltrated by a fifth column who exasperated these internal divisions to break their hold in the Australian Senate as the deciding vote for most issues.

Bernie was unfortunately an outsider who never stood a chance without the power brokers in the Democrat party stepping forward to back him, but the Greens seem to just eat their own.