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SpaceX can't scale regionally, they have to scale globally. The nature of their satellites is that if they want to accommodate 2x as many users in a city they have to double their capacity.

The push I'm discussing is the cost to get a baseline internet out there for 10k people per 100 miles.

I'm assuming the cost per last mile is higher in rural areas than in urban areas. If that's true right now the majority of our population is in cities so SpaceX will have trouble reaching them.

That's the core of my point. For Starlink to hit everyone in a city they'd have a huge amount of wasted capacity in rural areas.

Satellites also degrade naturally over time. They have a set lifetime and don't all last that long. Cables under the ground tend to last longer even if they require spot fixes. I'm assuming that bandwidth wise, the cables are more efficient at least until getting manufactured equipment to space becomes even more cheaper.
I could see it being an additional feature to AR masks, add a ir sensor and some machine learning to classify as welding spark vs material or liquid fire and you don't need to change parts.
Good question, we are not the competitor of hospitals, but collaborators. I am not sure which industry you are in, it is kind of like buy vs build problem for an enterprise.
Reminded me of Anna Karenina principle. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Karenina_principle
they're generally a fair bit more regulated though (and ironically I actually have more options for electric than I do for internet).
None of the other replies acknowledge this but it seems you are conflating concurrency and asynchronous. An asynchronous program can be sequentially executed. It is a distinct concept.
I am speaking specifically about Betelgeuse. I do not believe it's possible for Betelgeuse to cause 3-4C global temperature increase.

Assume Betelgeuse explodes in a typical Type II-P supernova. This will give it an absolute magnitude in the ballpark of -16.5, call it an even -17. Betelgeuse is approximately 220 parsecs away, which would give an apparent magnitude of 5*(log10(220) - 1) - 17 = -10.3. The full moon is -12.9, so is approximately 10 times as bright.

Specifically regarding energetic particles, the amount of material blown out at relativistic speeds from a II-P supernova is negligible. The high energy interactions happen way inside the star's envelope. The high energy stuff all gets absorbed and re-emitted as lower energy light. The plateau in the light curve of a Type II-P supernova is caused because the outer layers are completely opaque and are trapping energy in the interior.

That's actually the reason I keep contrasting Type II-P with gamma ray bursts. In those events, the outer layers have been stripped away, and we have a direct view on the high energy interactions happening in and around the collapsing core. There is no material to block it, so everything about it is more intense; there are vastly more high energy particles spilling out as cosmic rays, the peak brightness is much brighter, and the light that is emitted is much hotter.

Basically, supernova are fundamentally different from each other. They're a family of phenomena, not just one thing. A gamma ray burst directed at Earth will be catastrophic at 1000ly; (which is why the article talks about supernova up to 1000ly) a Type II-P supernova at 10ly will be comparably catastrophic, but simply won't register at 700ly.
For internet?

Where are you located? Even my grandparents in Northern Ontario have some 5 or so options, and not just skins of the Big 3.

I checked 8 providers when I lived in Kingston.

For cell phone, you are right.
doesn't matter if there's no LTE (or even 4G) out there.
Lard burgers and fries are really good. I highly recommend checking them out. It may not be the exact taste of a brand from the past, but it will be closer to the taste of a mom and pop burger stand pre 1970s.
I would also note that you followed it up with an assumption of your own ;)

What assumption is that? I stated a fact that you can verify with a Google search.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1107913/number-of-corona...
This is a really weak response. The post announcing the feature makes an extremely strong case for why this is a good thing.
Both of those cases were about whether reverse engineering violates copyright law, they're not really relevant to the antitrust claims Epic is alleging in their lawsuits.
That's a cool anecdote :-) I wouldn't say it uses concentration of measure exactly, but I see how it is related. The anecdote is about asymptotic properties of random sequences, and concentration of measure is about the same too. In this case, I think you can show that homogenous blocks of length log(n) - log log (n) occur at least with constant probability as n gets large. In other words, the length of homogenous blocks is basically guaranteed to grow with n. I suppose a human trying to generate a random sequence will prevent homogenous blocks above a certain constant length from appearing regardless of the length of the sequence, which would make distinguishing the sequences for large n quite easy!

I think there is also a quite strong connection in this anecdote to the information-theoretic notion of entropy, which takes us all the way back to the idea of entropy as in the article :-) Information-theoretically, the entropy of a long random sequence concentrates as well (it concentrates around the entropy of the underlying random variable). The implication is that with high probability, a sampled long random sequence will have an entropy close to a specific value.

Human intuition actually is somewhat correct in the anecdote, though! The longer the homogenous substring, the less entropy the sequence has, and the less likely it is to appear (as a limiting example, the sequence of all 0s or all 1s is extremely ordered, but extremely unlikely to appear). I think where it breaks down is that there are sequences with relatively long homogenous substrings with entropy close to the specific values (in the sense that the length is e.g. log (n) - log log (n) as in the calculation before), where the human intuition of the entropy of the sequence is based on local factors (have I generated 'too many' 0s in a row?) and leads us astray.
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Just create a `vendor/` folder and an exclude rule to your linters. Or for Unity include your `Assets/Scripts` folder, whichever fits better.

>Besides Git is ill-suited for vendoring.

VCS is ill suited for vendoring, but is there a better option? Vendoring is usually a "hack" in some ways as you're keeping dependancies local when you don't "have to", but if your goal is to keep 'em local then git does a fine job.

I'm surprised to see push-back for this idea because I've never come across this stumbling block. Please feel free to disagree, as I feel like there might be a perspective I'm not considering or something I can learn.
I would add What We Did On Our Holiday, it is a comedy and you will laugh but more it is a film about family and how painful you can hurt the ones you love while showing the love you have and at the same time of the pain you can cause when trying as well
To me that frustration comes from a lack of understanding that living in a sparsely populated area comes with the good (less people around) and the bad (worse infrastructure)
I'd like to hear some of your install stories.
Interesting that we discuss sometimes benefits of having engineering licensed, but here we apparently see disadvantages of licensing going wrong.
Dorion Sagan (Yes, Carl Sagan's son) also covers this in his book Into The Cool. That life is only a force multiplier in increasing it universally, basically.
There is nothing you can do with text file with unknown encoding but treat it as an array of bytes.

If you start guessing the encoding, at best it won't work in some cases, at worst you are introducing security vulnerabilities. You can try, but there is just no way to do it right.

http://michaelthelin.se/security/2014/06/08/web-security-cro...
Has anyone come out with a reason for the size? I mean they seem to reuse a lot of the same textures throughout the game so I have a hard time understanding how it managed to swell to that.
There are lots of numbers on the flu and other infection diseases that cause the same problems. Here's a paper I just looked up for another comment talking about heart inflammation from influenza, http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.685...

> During the Sheffield, England influenza epi-demic from 1972 to 1973, the cases of 50 consecutive patients who were initially diagnosed as mild cases and were treated on an outpatient basis were followed. Transient electrocardiogram (ECG) changes were seen in 18 patients, and long-lasting changes were seen in 5 patients.

Granted I learned more than I wanted to know about the complications around influenza, and that the numbers are more significant thanI though, but my opinion is reinforced that covid is nothing out of the ordinary for these types of viruses.

>If you or your close ones invite even a small chance of a dire outcome, then you play it safe. And you hope your good neighbors will be likewise considerate.

You asked me about numbers, and now I would like to ask you the same question. What do you mean by even a small chance? Does that small chance include the risk every year from the flu, with all the related complications and possible long term effects? We don't shut the world down every year for that.

I'm not meaning to "poo-poo" risk. I want to quantify it. I'd like an intellectually rigorous response to the situation. I feel like the danger from covid relative to other similar diseases has been exaggerated, so many alarming headlines, for the clicks, not put into context, etc.
> This is government

It actually isn’t. This sort of thing isn’t particularly common and people are usually prevented from setting these situations up by following (however grudgingly) the rules.

This happened where the government was dysfunctional, corrupt, bankrupt and the country was under huge strain.
> What you should really be asking yourself is why such code even exists

I think TFA makes that abundantly clear. Repeating here for your benefit:

"Symbols exported as GPL-only by the kernel are made unavailable to proprietary modules, but there has always been a bit of a loophole in how this is enforced.

"Hellwig's patch does not entirely close this loophole, but it makes exploiting it a bit harder.

"This episode, where a proprietary module helped send a significant development project in the wrong direction and makes it nearly impossible to implement this functionality in a way that works with all GPUs, demonstrates one of the reasons why the development community sees those modules as being harmful.

> since it is very much against the spirit of free software.

I fail to see how this is even remotely the case. Or do you consider copyleft licenses to be "against the spirit of free software"?

> ... and perhaps even encouraged by the GPL

The point of the patch is, literally, to help enforce the GPL.

From TFA: "With this patch applied, any module that imports symbols from a proprietary module is itself marked as being proprietary, denying it access to GPL-only symbols. If the shim module has already accessed GPL-only symbols by the time it gets around to importing symbols from the proprietary module, that import will not be allowed."

Linking to a proprietary module should make your code proprietary too. If you're proprietary, you shouldn't be able to link against GPL code anyway. Isn't _that_ the point of copyleft?
Pretty hard to eat up a 1TB Monthly Data Cap using a cell phone (the OP's situation).
Unfortunately it's something that all their customers who use it today need, and are quite satisfied with using. As long as their customers have no problems using the prop driver, nvidia has no reason to stop pushing it.
If really no companies were interested, maybe you would just have added new POIs on OpenStreetMaps and everybody could build on it
What happened to the Iridium satellites?
There's a difference between a natural evolution of meaning and an artificial one. A similar thing (though in reverse) happened with "retarded" & similar words that started as neutral descriptions, had connotations added to them by the general population and then got intentionally pushed out by (I believe well-meaning but ultimately misguided) decision makers. They bring on the next word, the cycle repeats.

I do believe that it's important to point it out when you see it, because it's actively harmful to communication. Not only does it get harder to communicate (as words now become variables that can carry whatever meaning you currently want them to carry), it also destroys the trust between people, much like lying. The individual lie may not be a huge deal, but a society that loses any and all trust in each other does not have a bright future.

"Okay, yes, it's wrong, but let's not talk about that, let's focus on the topic now that we're here" isn't the right approach either, imho. I prefer the idea of "fruit of the poisonous tree" in that regard: if you start with a lie, you can't expect everyone to forgive and forget because you've now decided that it's not important and want them to focus on what you want to achieve. Agreeing to that is normalizing deviance.
STEM includes hard science and mathematics - is there that much more demand for math or biology majors than for any of the social sciences? A math undergrad seems just as likely to end up in a call centre or as an office manager
My understanding is that wire transfers are guaranteed by the nation state at the receiving side, which is one reason most Nigerian scams are Nigerian because Nigeria will almost never refund/reverse a wire transfer and other countries have different laws/perspectives.

I believe Cashier's Checks are still the safest option, because of most Cashiers require upfront escrow of the funds involved. So long as you trust the Cashier bank in the middle of the transaction, you should be safe?

> Are PayPal funds guaranteed?

Nope. Lots of eBay scams in the history books.

> Is receiving something like Bitcoin/Ether the only way to guarantee funds are real?

Depends on your opinion of forks, the likelihood of 51% attacks, and even the underlying assumption that cryptocurrencies are "real". Not to mention you probably aren't using a cryptocurrency as your day-to-day currency so you'll encounter plenty of scams in the edges and exchange markets.

Also, there have been Ethereum smart contract scams already.
As someone noted, not only that. But you won't see on which subreddit you are at for example. That's quite annoying.
Not currently running a user visible service. Fortunately. The one I did run was started in 1998 and had turned into a very large pile of super insecure PHP and was shut down. If I were to start a user visible service today I would think really long and hard about whether or not the kind of superstructure required would be offset by the potential gains. The web is no longer a place for amateur projects with a focus on the happy path, you need to do it all 'just so' or you can expect to be compromised. And doing it right isn't simple nor is it cheap.
Living in NYC, I have one high-speed internet option (Spectrum, formerly Time Warner) and one not high-speed internet option (Verizon DSL with "up to" 3.1 - 7 Mbps). That's it.
I am not concerned about the definition of race - that was a direct quote from the Wikipedia article that you pointed me to.

Somehow the goalposts got reversed and I am now responsible for disproving your theory.

Let's go back to the original post. You made an assertion and I asked for a source because I was genuinely curious where you were drawing conclusions from. You then linked me to Wikipedia and I stated that all of the studies on that page are refuted (not abstractly... directly refuted in the Wikipedia article).

Can you provide a source?
I think once you get to people in leadership roles they start having to set a good example for subordinates and a positive image for the company. Donor lists are also often public, especially at higher amounts.

Not sure at what level within a company that becomes a relevant question. It's not for store clerks and store managers. It is for the CEO.
I use Binary Eye from fdroid and it does its one job well without being privacy invasive.
Right at the moment when Firefox have regained reasonable performance, added and polished more things (including the new ecosystem of extensions matured) and became the best browser again, on all the platforms.

I've just switched back to it (after using Chrome for years because of Firefox's slowness) and feel like I'm going to use it for quite a long anyway. I just hope somebody is going to keep making vulnerability patches.
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The student debt problem has little to do with the people who go to elite universities. Let me give a slightly biased plug to my nephew's documentary on the problem, Fail State (https://failstatemovie.com/), produced by Dan Rather. He started out making a movie about student debt in general, and found that the problem was so much worse for poorer people attending for-profit colleges that he had to change his focus. See also his latest project, https://www.defendstudents.org/stories
Yah I was talking about the US. You cannot find 2% in the US either. Our fees are much much much higher than UK or AU.
We don't have FiOS or even have RCN on our block in NYC. Spectrum or "up to 3 to 7Mbps" Verizon DSL. That's it.
> USPS has a free API that gives you the location of every collection box.

Do you have a link for this? It would be useful for filling out post box information on openstreetmap, I'd think. I found the USPS "Web Tools API"[0] but it seems to focus on pricing, tracking, and address verification. I didn't see anything about querying USPS locations (except for package pickup).

[0] https://www.usps.com/business/web-tools-apis/
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I live in the UK and also recommend Monzo. They have a good app but the thing that stood out most to me was the correct use of emoji in their terms and conditions. It is definitely a modern bank.
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Well the the stats don’t lie. Gun ownership is significantly lower in cities than in rural areas/small towns.
Yeah, DKB is pretty cool. No monthly fees or fees for transactions, get money from ATMs without fee in the whole world (and from all ATMs in Germany) with the DKB credit card.

"Hip" is really the last thing I want in a bank, the N26 advertising totally misses the mark for me. Their technology seems to be kind of crap, too. Security holes due to gross incompetence. https://media.ccc.de/v/33c3-7969-shut_up_and_take_my_money
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"when an entity seeks to gain added wealth without any reciprocal contribution”

You say the things I mentioned are things that other people had already started working on.

That may be true, but even so. Unless you are saying that Apple stole their code, you have actually agreed that Apple did contribute these things.

Therefore by your definition this is not rent seeking.

Epic is not the reason the iPhone is a gaming platform.

Claiming this to be the case completely dismisses the work of thousands of other developers who popularized touch based gaming - many of them indies, all using the platform and tools Apple developed.

And as I point out elsewhere - Epic had technical help and enormous marketing help with infinity blade from Apple, and they weren’t even the developer.

They are just a middleman, not dissimilar to a record label. If anyone is rent-seeking it is Epic, who just want a bigger cut of the action.
One blocker to picking up Firefox as a community project is that Mozilla still holds all relevant trademarks. So we may need a singular, well-branded, well-communicated fork to rally around. If everyone makes their own fork, all of them will fade off into obscurity.
> Why would the people who own the factories just give the output to people? What could people possibly offer, when all the things they're capable of making can be produced at zero cost?

The answer is simple, protection from them taking it by force. This is literally the reason for liberal democracies.

Dictatorship, feudalism, and other forms of authoritarian structure always come with the downside that the ones at the bottom are trying to get the ones at the top. Thus if you are at the top, you live in worry and fear of a rebelion, revolution, a coup, from your family or friends to betray you, etc.

In that scenario, your day job becomes maintaining your power and authority at all times. Which like any other job, is taxing, tiresome, and hard work. So even though on paper it seems you've got all the goods and services at zero cost, there's a tremendous cost to yourself to maintain that position when others are trying to steal it from you.

That's why, the "right to property" is fundamental. You want a society which can guarantee that right, and give you piece of mind that what you own is yours and no one is going to take it by force. So you can relax and enjoy the fruit of your labor (or inherited factories output).

One solution for this is to create a system that is governed by the rule of law, where no players is in such a bad state that they could be willing to risk it all to steal your piece of the pie. Thus a balance must be struck, where everyone can find satisfaction, even if some get to have a lot more than others.
Reblog of original Reuters article from three days ago: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-security-blast-do...
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It's insanity... Average sales price for new cars is like $37,000 right now. I'm a huge car nerd, and can't justify spending that kind of money on car. I can get a lot of car for $10k used.
I did. I'm not sure how that affects what I said. They are still fighting over who gets how much of the money.
right - and comparing its service to the AT&T offering, a residential Internet service provider in the California Bay Area said, "and, we don't send in those reports that most ISPs do" .. on a support call..
QR codes haven’t had a killer app yet

Since the virus hit, where I live restaurants are prohibited by law from having reusable menus. Instead, nearly all of them have a QR code at the able that you scan to see the menu on your phone.

That could do it.
If you scroll through the Steam reviews it's not infrequent to see people with over 1,000 hours in this game. I've seen one person with over 11,000 hours in game.
Did we read the same article? Actually I think the guy is a marketing genius. Know a shop that caters to women, the entire sales floor is women. Always suspected they might be killing it. Guys always say nobody ever goes there, but what they mean is no men ever do. Girls buy bikes too.
it's not the invisible hand's fault when that hand is tied behind it's back. there's so many politicians that have been creating legislation that prevents new entrants from coming into the market with regulatory capture. that's not a free market.
Love this - definitely intend to use it for my next project
Are you aware of Paint.NET? To name one of many.
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> It was from an abandoned ship that sunk.

If only. It was unloaded first.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-security-blast-do...
The people who are constantly pushing for everything to be on a cell phone presumably have never lost or broken one.
Yeah no one's going to forget that a big chuck of the US voted for the current administration and will vote for them again. And they especially aren't going forget that the majority of business leaders are supporting the current administration. That includes all FAANG companies.