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Twitch does this blatantly. I think they’re able to skirt the rules because of being an Amazon company.

A subscription on the web is 4.99 and the same subscription via the official twitch iOS app is 5.99.
Yep, and then enjoy all the other amazing exclusives: the last of us one/two, drakes uncharted, god of war, horizon zero (pc did just release but is buggy), ratchet and clank,
Smoke me a kipper, Skipper, I'll be back in time for breakfast.
They're also using Wago 222[0] style lever nuts, which are not common in the US. In my experience, US electricians use twist-style wire caps instead to create junctions.

[0] https://www.wago.com/us/wire-splicing-connectors/splicing-co...
Yes, although I'm planning to work on making them simpler to use in the coming weeks.
For an initial message (no hello) this is great. But when we are already chatting and my attention is on the window, I prefer shorter messages.
I think we need to think about long time efficiency instead of short period ones.
Great read, but who knows how much of this story is true
Record heat, unprecedented lightning fire siege in Northern California
The latest figure is now 23 million developers.

I often wonder how they count those developers numbers if it was not paid Apple Developer programme.
Google gets rid of this problem (either extremes) by formalizing style guides for the different coding languages people use in its organization. Checkout https://google.github.io/styleguide/
>That's like saying that, because you were brought up by your parents, you will always behave exactly as they wanted you to, removing all agency. SCOTUS justices' decisions, against what their proponents desired, prove they work independently. They can be flawed, but that's why there's more than one.

If your parents could swap your identity out for any of their choosing every decade or so, I would make the case, yes.

>SCOTUS justices' decisions, against what their proponents desired, prove they work independently. They can be flawed, but that's why there's more than one.

They rarely do, and party affiliation is by far the strongest predictor of voting. And even when they do vote against their proponents, they do so in points of ideological heterogeneity. In any case, there are also times when Chinese judges vote against the dominant will of the CCP, it is just quite rare, and is among points of ideological heterogeneity.

>The CCP is the only party in china.

Only in practice. There are multiple registered parties in China you can vote for, though the vast majority are under CCP control. About 20% of the congressional seats are held by independents, not members of the CCP nor any other party.

>No, they're not. And I'm not nit picking with the US is a Republic. It's that is a joke to even attempt to place China at the same level.

This is completely besides the point. China, in theory, is a democracy. In that, there are elections every so often, and you can run as a representative, and then vote for the president. So far, there have not been any reports of violation of electoral process. This is because the Chinese electoral system is flawed to confer massive amounts of power to the incumbent. In the same way, the US electoral system is flawed in that it completely destroys any power outside the two parties. Analysis of US political decisions show that popular will has a very slim influence on policy : https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/mgilens/fi....

>I don't even know where to start with this one. The CCP controls China. Maybe not down to the most local level, but almost. Nor in their wettest dreams the DNC/RNC would ever achieve the level of control and oppression the CCP has. And I'm pretty sure many on both sides wouldn't even allow it.

Good thesis, now let's try to prove it, shall we? If this was true, it should be possible for you to give me recent (last 100 years) examples of major decisions that were outside the control of both the DNC and RNC in both process and outcome.

>And back to square one. No. By a million miles. Not even close. With all its flaws, the US judiciary, and its Rule of Law, are orders of magnitude above the Chinese, if we can even start comparing apples to oranges.

Please evaluate claims on their merits. Are the judiciary, executive and legislative branches not dependent on the aggregate of the DNC and RNC, directly or indirectly?
The fact that there’s no proofs, alone, says something. Telegram has been around for 7 years. There’s no external funding and yet the project lives and grows. It’s either being funded from the Durov’s pocket, or from elsewhere. Take your pick.

To better understand who Durov is, look up the story about him throwing money to a crowd out of a window of his VK office.

He also believed that foreigners should be able to buy land in Russia to create small states within the country.

I would not (and I do not) believe in good intentions of this guy, at all. And in fact it is you (or Durov himself) who should provide a proof that Telegram is not getting funded by governments, being one of the most popular communication tools around. Especially after the failed ICO. The source of funds should be transparent.
If I say no, will you un-ask the question?
Automating the search for new ideas
IMHO, comments should never describe what the code does. We're engineers, we can all read code and see what it does (or refer to the Javadoc). Comments should be used to describe WHY the author is doing something non-obvious in the code.
Good points. Some rebuttals:

First, in the context of this argument, I'm talking about work in high level languages like Python, JS, fairly expressive C++, etc. If we were coding in assembler -- LEA, LDR, JNZ.. -- I'd definitely want a ton of low level comments!

When I say wasting space, it's not about disk space, or shrinking your screen size, or even formatting. It's more about what you can see all at once.

Think back to a recent time when you had a tough to fix bug. Like something really not trivial that you beat yourself up about for a while.

I bet it involved you working through various levels of libraries, opening them side by side or paging back and forth, trying to figure out what went wrong in the logic.

It probably wasn't cuz you misunderstood what a variable did. We have great ways to document that, like the function header.

Now imagine that process if it's all on the same screen. If everything feels "tangible" to you, because each level of logic (to some reasonable point) is visible, accessible.

When I encounter a code base with hundreds of source files in various folders and some flimsy abstraction tying it all together, such that I can't see a clear delineation between parts, I go nuts!

Here's a very practical example. Imagine you have some library that wraps a remote API. Something important, like Payments. The hard part there is understanding failures (does it retry?), edge cases (whats diff when i run a test CC#?), stored state (can I resume this from a different part of the code?).. those things are mighty hard to glean even from good statement-level comments, even if I could take the time to read all 3,000 lines of code.

We need higher level great docs.

I'd love to code in English or something like it, but looking at the code on my screen right now, those would be some really complex sentence structures. :)
The rules for forming corporations with investment are not about efficiency at all, but to provide a structured way to shield passive investors from financial liability. The same is true for employees- if a company goes under due to excessive debts, the delivery driver won't be on the line for those debts.
Awesome! Subscribed.

Would you be able to put the playlist in numerical order?

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaBr_WzeIAixidGwqfcrQ...
The 1%
There was specific mention made of PEDOT's use being a major and necessary step in making augmentations possible, specifically because it is a conductive and biocompatible polymer. For example: https://deusex.fandom.com/wiki/Neural_Interface_Protocols:_T...
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Did this many years ago, it's fun.

Just checked it quick again, the basic steps remain the same.

It still requires a separate partition, I would add a chapter about: how to use loop device to mount a file as a device, then how to get LFS built on that loop-file and run it inside a virtualbox or kvm, to make it non-intrusive and safe to play with for beginners.

Many beginners will install their linux under one partition, and they probably do not have a second partition to try LFS, so a file-based approach, with virtual machine in mind, could be easier to attract users?
JEDEC should do something about that. Maybe something like BBCB (Bling Bling Control Bus)
Recent benchmark showed Dendrite (go) is slower than Synapse (Python) but I'd guess it's from all the context switching with the multi process design of Dendrite
This is blogspam from https://www.inverse.com/innovation/integrating-electronics-w...

The source article has more useful info and actually defines "PEDOT":

> The polymer coating is technically called poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene), or PEDOT. It is both electrically and ionically active, which the authors explain helps lower its impedance (aka its opposition to flowing electric charge) by three to four orders of magnitude compared to electronics without this coating.

> Researchers can effectively add any peptides, antibodies, or even DNA they want to these modified PEDOTs, Martin explains.
To this reader, 'its actually much more important than a Ferrari' weakens your argument for legalizing bribing college officials for admission
Huh! I stand happily corrected. I must not have brushed past that piece of in-game lore.
Given the circumstance, it's more likely that the War on Drugs is a cover for this kind of behavior, thus the bogus cocaine dealing charges. If MPD comes out and hides behind the drugs defense, take it with a painstakingly large grain of salt.
An approach I’m using to deal with “hello”-only messages:

– Jog your memory for any input you might’ve been awaiting or could use from the “hello” person, and hit them back with a greeting + request or question.

– If they really cannot help you on anything and you are not inclined to chit-chat, just ignore the “hello” message until substance follows.

– If “hello” was too much of a bother at the moment, perhaps you should’ve been using DnD mode?

– An effective way to use DnD and remain accessible is to set up a periodic alarm to check instant messengers. If you find a lone “hello” when checking messages and you can’t think of any input you might want from that person, “hello” back and leave it until next alarm. Your counterparty will learn to get to the point quicker.
> Not needing 2-5 years of expensive training.

It doesn't stop there. You train one AI, you've trained them all. A minor performance increase instantly upgrades the capability of your entire fleet. An AI that can learn from real world situations will likewise convey that learning to your entire fleet instantly.

They say smart people learn from the mistakes of others, but we often have some trouble applying this. An AI should do better.

Of course, the corollary is that bugs will affect your entire fleet. I wonder if a future cyber-security role will be to look for AI blindspots to exploit en masse without prior warning (like flying with the sun behind you, but more arcane).
There is no case where it’s economic to mine a landfill where it’s not more economic for the landfill operator to sort recyclable materials from the incoming trash.

Given that private landfill operators don’t generally do that, we can conclude that the raw materials in a landfill actually aren’t so concentrated or easily extractable to be of any use.
What you’re suggesting is possible technically but nobody does it because the idea of having to turn your entire plane towards a missile threat to neutralize it virtually guarantees your destruction if two missiles are fired at you in rapid succession. This is not a rare occurrence. At all. Yes, from multiple directions. That’s exactly how surface-to-air systems are set up.

It becomes slightly more reasonable if you turret the gun, until you factor in the weight of the necessary ammunition to neutralize multiple threats, the turret itself, and the independent radar used for target acquisition and tracking. A B-52 could pull it off, a fighter couldn’t yet. Not without massively compromising their payload and aerodynamics.

Chaff, flares, stealth and jamming are used because they actually work in practice. Jamming is a big one that people don’t hear about much. Wonder how the B-52 is still in service? Jamming. Wonder how wild weasels do their job? Jamming.

When you see a turret like that on a bomber then you can get excited for self-guided bullets shooting down dozens of multiple incoming missiles. But tbh at the rate we’re going it’ll just be a laser instead.
Some of them are censorship resistant
yeah I’m not suggesting that SPACs are appropriate for pre-product startups. I see them replacing VCs in what would otherwise be a growth stage round eg post Series A/B.

So we will still have angel and seed/early stage investors, but I see SPACs easily competing with what would otherwise be large late stage or growth rounds that the big VC firms are most active in.
yet he probably is more educated on the subject than you.
Paying ransoms of any kind has never been considered illegal simply because they are "funding a criminal enterprise". Outlawing random payments is certainly one viable attach on the enterprise, but it requires new legislation (and you better be prepared to levy some serious punishment on victims, which is hard to stomach).
Primarily effects men, just like pornography addiction, so these don't get the same attention as social media addiction for example.
The problem of aging is an immediate problem for every human being on the planet.

There is no problem more immediate.

There's no reason, at all, to sacrifice work on this problem to work on any other problem. There are plenty of industries and practices which actively make things worse. Let's divert resources from those instead.
The sponsor program page there is up but the program itself doesn't seem to be anymore when you try to go through it. I believe someone else mentioned it was an experimental run in the past that got axed because nobody paid.
Or perhaps "Malak" by Peter Watts.
It's not just the op downvoting. It's about a quarter of the users. They have zero interest in correct information, and your counter-evidence will soon get and and removed. This site, for years now, has been ruled by people with no knowledge, who are not interested in obtaining it. Then dong, sorry, dang, has a questionaire once in a while asking what people want, a few idiots reply 'you are doing great,' and he pats himself on the back, while doing the job if a 14yo reddit mod incel all day -making himself feel in control of his crappy life by feeling powerful here, leaving junk while deleting useful information.
All the same issues on iOS and macOS. Only my Windows desktop plays them on the first click.
SIGMA fp works as a UVC camera, out of the box and without special drivers[0]

[0]: https://blog.sigmaphoto.com/2020/the-sigma-fp-as-a-live-stre...
That's really interesting, I hadn't heard that
This didn't exist at the beginning of the pandemic.

The entire setup for mounting my fairly expensive A6000 Sony camera was a little under 75 bucks except for the hdmi to usb dongle that shot up hundreds of dollars from its fairly expensive base. I was totally on the fence for months about buying, thinking maybe I could get into twitch or something to justify it since the price wasn't just totally out of reach. It seemed like newer models had work arounds and I was just going to have to bite the bullet for being an early mirrorless adapter.

Then those dongles came out. Work perfectly for every use case a regular consumer would need one for.
Newly declassified footage of the most powerful nuclear test ever
Do you need to play Witcher 1 & 2?
Yes. In the few times I have interacted with criminals doing something that essentially everyone agrees is wrong -- not just people violating laws that many disagree with, but really unambiguously bad stuff -- they have all consistently had some strained story (that I think they truly believed, at some level) for why what they were doing is OK. It's really sobering to see in person, and deeply undermines the faith one has in one's justification for one's own behavior.

There was a story a while back, perhaps on HN, discussing the results of an academic survey of prisoners (in the UK, I think). They consistently evaluated themselves as more honorable than the average person on almost every dimension.
Other police officers
That whole website is a goldmine of interesting climate related information.
I do not, but I want to try streaming a hobby of mine and some projects around it. There is a great post[1] from about a month ago which goes over the gear and setup for a coding stream. I think with a lot of undertakings like this it's best to not get intimidated by gear and setups and just jump into it, no one's watching, yet(!)

[1]: https://jordanlewis.org/posts/twitch-live-coding/
> That is essentially a lobby-dependent business model with long-term success contingent on the currently elected administration.

Unfortunately these type of setups tend not to care who is in power. As the types in power are never against this type of company. Look at Democrat support for NSLs (Obama notably expanded use of them despite being against them while campaigning).
Agree that zstd has performance but memory requirements are potentially orders larger, there is no browser support, and you can’t count on people having decompressor installed. It’s good if your compressing data for your use but it doesn’t have the reach of deflate. Maybe that will change in the future.
C# .NET Core versus Java fastest programs
Study: Remdesivir doesn't boost outcomes in moderate pneumonia from Covid-19
Every time I hear Matrix.org being mentioned, I giggle: https://matrix.org/blog/2019/05/08/post-mortem-and-remediati...

Describing their practices as sophomoric may be giving them too much credit.
Most mobile websites are intentionally gimped because native apps can target ads better.

But Reddit is one of the worst. I wouldn't ever visit the site if it didn't rank so high on search results. I've noticed the frontend has gotten worse and worse every time I look at it. Ever since they changed to a React type frontend, at least 5% of the time the comments won't even load. It just doesn't work. Reddit really is a cautionary tale of attacking your users. I expect it to follow in Mozilla's footsteps as another company that makes no money but pretends it's a unicorn.
As long as they stay quiet about any internal issues.
Classic Minesweeper mechanics transposed onto a realistic minefield environment would be amazing.
Why not default? Also good lesson is to always do LLC for real estate investments.
Get the PS4 Pro and a 4K TV/Monitor with HDR if you have the money, you wont regret it.
> I’d experienced this too and it seemed to be a bug in the profile manager.

I'd experienced this as well, and the most common fix was indeed to create a new profile and import your bookmarks/etc - but at least for me, it was totally unnecessary: All I had to do was delete history older than 6 months, and it was back to being snappy as new.
Good points.

Oh and FYI the idiom is "worse comes to worst" (analogous to "push comes to shove" -- an intensification past an activation threshold or tipping-point)
GoW is really good.

And surprisingly affordable (10 bucks!) considering the quality of such entertainment.
No. Most people just play Witcher 3 and never touch 1 and 2.

You can pick up the story just fine, and 1+2 aren't remotely close wrt quality.
do you have a source?

https://attheu.utah.edu/facultystaff/university-of-utah-upda... says they paid the ransom to prevent leaks.
An issue is the definition of a “gold mine”. Many mines that produce gold are composite ores, other valuable metals are extracted at the same, usually silver or copper but occasionally other metals. Mining of pure gold ores can be pretty clean as heavy metal mining goes, it is the other elements that tend to drag along messier chemistry.

That aside, gold mining has been moving outside of the developed world for decades, most operating mines in the US (and the US produces prodigious amounts of gold) were already grandfathered in under prior laws. You’d have to ban gold mining in countries that aren’t going to play along. Also, even in the developed world, there is a lot of opportunity for black market gold production. A large fraction in the US is small producers and reserve studies are incentivized to be heavily sandbagged. For example, while the US produces a lot of gold, the origin of at least 30% of it is not entirely clear. Laundering off-book gold ore would be a piece of cake. It is a fascinating business.
The first police force was created in the early 1800s, the concept of democracy pre-dates that by thousands of years.
Do you know if they make their own in-house now? For example: https://www.corsair.com/us/en/Categories/Products/Power-Supp...
I mean the tracks leading to Grand Central, that were buried and built over:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Central_Terminal#Termi...

(And it's all Internet knowledge, I've never been there.)
As someone who grew up in SI and could smell the stench of the dump while my parents drove down amboy road as a kid, I can confirm that, even if a smell lingers, it is far more palatableand less intense and all encompassing than it once was. While it was an active dump you could smell it for miles. It was disgusting. I’m not claiming the original dump should be forgiven, but it seems quite cynical and ineffective to tarnish what has been pretty objectively a positive environmental development for Staten Island residents. We’re not talking about a small feat either. This was one of the largest dumping grounds in the world.

I don’t think the times piece is by any means suggesting that such disasters are completely reversible and that we should therefore commit more of them—it just highlights a positive turnaround project which we’ll certainly need more of in the coming years if we’re going to save the planet.