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> they were totally respecting DNT header, _except_ on the browsers that had it on by default

This is a disingenuous argument for that company to make; it's totally reasonable for some browsers (particularly privacy-focused browsers) to have privacy respecting defaults. Microsoft didn't make the change because they wanted to hurt advertisers, they made the change because they had good reason to believe that's the default that the majority of their users wanted.

My take is that if consumers are informed enough that not opting out can be seen as as conscious consent to be tracked, then they're also informed enough that not opting in can be seen as conscious dissent to be tracked. We don't get to selectively decide that users are only stupid in one direction.

On a more cynical level, I've commented to the same effect elsewhere, but I do not believe advertisers when they say that browser defaults were the reason DNT failed. It failed because it was going to see adoption.

If it had remained off by default, but effective promotion campaigns and public education meant 90% of users went and turned it on anyway, advertisers would have come up with another excuse to stop respecting the header. Advertisers weren't ever interested in responsible user consent, they were interested in having some kind of meaningless gesture they could point to when other privacy-respecting solutions got proposed. As soon as that gesture had teeth and was being used by a significant number of people, then it was no longer serving its original purpose. The unspoken terms of the deal were, "most people won't have this header set."

Case in point, the iOS changes that Facebook is going crazy over aren't opt-in or opt-out. They force the user to make a choice, so it's exactly as easy to opt into tracking as it is to opt out of tracking. This seems like an extremely reasonable compromise -- there is no default behavior, the user gets to choose what they want. How can anyone complain about that?

And yet, Facebook is still mad, not because the new dialog is a dark pattern or because it's not capturing users' real preferences, but because Facebook knows that a substantial portion of their users are going to opt out.
Also unlike Concorde today it is quite possible to make the plane fly itself if the pilots and crew all pass out.

If all the meat sacks pass out, drop out of mach and drop down in altitude, send SOS, find somewhere to land. At this point ground control could start commanding the plane remotely too.

We are not quite ready for pilotless passenger planes, but pilotless as a fallback is viable.
The trouble with that is that "Irish" name lists are often written by Irish-Americans, rather than Irish people.

For instance, you would often see names like Cailin, or Erin in American-Irish (they mean girl, and Ireland respectively) names, but these would be incredibly uncommon in Ireland itself.

This page seems reasonably legit: https://www.irishcentral.com/roots/100-irish-language-first-...
I know. I came up with some very cool names that my wife immediately vetoed for that reason!
I'm sympathetic to the idea that mainstream media is a giant propaganda machine, and that the parties they focus blame on aren't necessarily the ones pulling the strings.

But how does your theory explain the sorting machines being scrapped, and more specifically DeJoy's order to not reconnect machines without his direct approval? Surely if he were an above board postmaster merely trying to reign in the union, caring about low level equipment decomissioning would be less of a priority?
I thought after Intel MPX we can all agree "memory safety" in modern languages is more about temporal stuff (i.e. use-after-free, etc) than bounds check, but maybe I'm wrong.

How does those runtime checks kill UAF?
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Historically this has only been true because of the immense cost of building super lightweight payloads using super expensive super light materials to fit in very limited payload mass requirements.

Falcon 9 is a heavy launch system that can lift up to 50,000 lbs of payload to orbit, similar to the Shuttle.

Falcon Heavy is a super heavy launch system that can put 140,000 lbs of payload in orbit.

Starship is designed to be significantly cheaper than both of the Falcons, and to put over 200,000 lbs of payload in orbit with a far larger fairing size (though Falcon Heavy is getting a larger fairing shortly).

These are all game changers the scientific and commercial space customers haven’t yet taken advantage of.
As the announcement mentions, Qi Lu continues to be active in the VC space with a new company, MiraclePlus, which calls itself "formerly YC China" on their website: https://www.miracleplus.com/
The example of the weight of a Robin may have been backwards. It could be that the reference was the weight in grams which was then converted to ounces, with rounding.
I'm really inspired by a book that Geoffrey Moore wrote called "Dealing with Darwin". He talks about market cycles and the oscillation of complex & volume-based solutions. Enterprise software tends to line up as a complex solution. By Moore's definition, complex solutions often have to have deep integrations into large organizations such as legacy systems, 3rd party softwares, and can even contain consulting work to get the solution going. Because of how much work goes into integrating an enterprise solution into an organization, I feel it must be really difficult to invest any time into creating a good UX because of the complexity of the customer needs. I think UX becomes a low priority for these solutions. I read some of the comments here & I completely agree, they probably don't test their own product either. As the industry learns what's important and what's not, the market cycle start producing a volume-based solution, similar products are introduced that are much simpler and inherently tend to have a good UX. It's an interesting topic and I think lots of entrepreneurs can actually take advantage of this natural cycle. I think segmondy is presenting a first person view of what happens in complex solutions & I bet "I see users familiar with the way it is" is spot on.
Hmmm, a complex V-12 turbocharged piston single - sign me up, as long as I don't have to fly over water or mountains.
"I" don't put them anywhere, these categories are pre-existent. The WTO puts Burundi in a different list, of least developed countries.
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So far as I know, Windows always expects the hardware clock to be in local time. I found some registry hack that fixes this, and I think that the update broke the hack which later triggered a network time sync.

Admittedly the situation was a bit janky in the first place, so I might share some blame in that case.
Deutsche Post bought DHL from 1998 through 2002.
Good point about Apple making money off the Google search deal.

Maybe a search engine is in the works already (or a deal to buy Duck Duck Go).
> Is there a good definitive guide somewhere on the best workflows for hg?

I don't know about workflows specifically, but there is a very good reference [0] about Mercurial's branching models. Maybe this will help you.

[0] https://stevelosh.com/blog/2009/08/a-guide-to-branching-in-m...
For folks considering the switch, I highly recommend considering linux as well. I've used both macOS and ubuntu as a development environment, and bug wise they are on par, but linux really excels at having a true "native" development environment. Docker without a weird VM, true bash, etc.
Nothing wrong with making the value proposition/tradeoff an upfront and obvious decision. Might even encourage competition from tools that have a different proposition.
>How is git designed to use email?

git was designed for use with the Linux kernel, which has collaborated over email since its inception. It includes many features for email-based collaboration out-of-the-box with no need for a centralized hosting service of any kind.

https://www.git-scm.com/docs/git-send-email

https://www.git-scm.com/docs/git-request-pull

https://git-scm.com/docs/git-am

https://git-scm.com/docs/git-imap-send

Both Linux and git itself are developed via email, along with dozens of other projects, *BSD, gcc & clang, coreutils, busybox, ffmpeg, qemu, PostgreSQL, vim, emacs, most Linux distros...
Isn't the whole point that there aren't any differences? All users get the same features. You choose how much you pay.
If you read the big, ~read~ red and nearly glowing banner above it you'd see that:

> Notice: sr.ht is currently in alpha, and the quality of the service may reflect that. As such, payment is currently optional, and only encouraged for users who want to support the ongoing development of the site.

There are no features to distinguish the variations by - they're all donations, effectively.

Though i admit they could improve that UX further still. But, imo - the entire product is not super polished for "mainstream users" (of which i mean nothing against), so polish in this specific area might be cart-before-horse.
I wouldn't be surprised if 80% of US desktops were Windows. Their users are probably also less tech literate than the Mac users.
I'm definitely in the mouse club. Using a touchpad all day long makes my fingers cramp up. It's fine for couch laptopping, but when I'm sitting at a desk I use a display, mouse, and mechanical keyboard for an overall better (and more ergonomic) experience.
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I have a happy story about an automatic software update that completely broke the software. Happy, because it was easy to switch back to a previous version.

It's about a game, Europe Universalis 4, which, 7 years after its release, still regularly gets major feature updates, sometimes dramatically changing how the game works. Years ago, one such update that added a lot of tactical depth to the game, ended up hogging so many resources on my aging PC that the game ground to a halt and became unplayable.

Fortunately, Steam allows you to easily revert back to a previous version of the game. Also useful when an update breaks save-game compatibility when you're in the middle of a game.

Sadly, a lot of software does not have that option. It should be standard, or our OS should enable us to easily revert back to a previous state of an installation.
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I hear you. Testing is but one of many tools needed to fix ugly codebases. It's no panacea for sure.
I can’t run anything on my Mac that was downloaded from the internet and not signed and notarized.
The video at the bottom isn't working for me in Firefox. It does work in Chromium, and it is quite pretty.
I feel like the fact that The Register has been the Internet home of the Bastard Operator From Hell stories (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bastard_Operator_From_Hell) since 2000 really sums up its attitude. It is tech news by and for BOFHs.
http://archive.is/sQCqZ
Isaac Asimov's "I, Robot"
inb4: except for one chapter, NOTHING like the movie.
One of the best books that I've read in my entire life.
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But you can still do distributed repos with github... nothing it preventing you from changing your remote origin...
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Is there anyone making music with programming that sounds like it could be a pop song? i.e "good" - not glitchy, or experimental.
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Just curious, what about Dokku didn't meet your needs? I'm the current maintainer of the project, hence the question :)
Letting people know your product exists is fine. State of the art advertising, that is, propaganda aimed at maximizing sales, seems to have forgotten about ethics. I'd argue that advertising as a practice today is more evil than neutral or good.
Being able to find one_hot from input/output example is already useful, because you might skip over that name thinking it's some weird machine learning thing and you just want to set element values.

You could easily lose an hour building and testing a solution based on stacking your desired indices with ranges and feeding it to scatter_nd.
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I doubt Apple would ban an app as valuable as Facebook.
Capitalism is terrible, it’s just far better than anything else we’ve ever tried.

It’s only real Achilles heel is tragedy of the commons (like this), which is a problem for the isms as well.
There’s two options in that dialog box: 1. Allow Tracking 2. Ask App Not to Track.

People that see it that way can choose option 1 when presented with the choice.
Once the battery is changed they are not slow any more. So not a valid point really.
Thanks, I was very afraid for a moment. In fact, I recently worked for a company which started using Rust in a mission critical setting back in… 2013 (yes, long before the language was stable and its future secured). Fortunately it worked, but still, it was far from a safe move.
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I'm not sure you're thinking about it the right way. Or maybe I'm not.
It seems you're assuming that every exposure you take will have a streak in the same spot from a satellite. It's more realistic that a large portion of exposures will have no streak at all, or that if you re-exposed a detector on the same piece of sky, any streak it would see the second time would be in a different place than the first. So if you expose twice and do some basic interpolation to remove the streaks, you would end up with an equivalent zero-satellite image from two exposures.

What am I missing?
During the months in 2018 where Child Separation was official US policy, there were absolutely attempts made by the government to prevent reporting on the known facilities, discovery of which facilities held separated children, or even reporting on accounting data of how many children were being held.

It's true that this sort of thing works poorly in the US (e.g. eventually someone on the cleaning staff gets upset and calls a journalist). But the impetus was absolutely identical.

The US government tries to hide its crimes too, basically. We're just bad at it. (And Child Separation proved a PR disaster, and officially ended even though lots of those kids will probably never see their parents again).
Wow, a version of Windows without all the stuff I hate about Windows. Will investigate, thanks.
> On top of the points made by q3k, about this being a US centric issue, being projected as a global issue, why do you believe this implementation will be able to deliver global pervasive internet?

Rural internet access is absolutely not an US-centric issue, many parts of the world have much worse infrastructure. Being opposed to new technologies because "I already have fast internet" is unbelievably narrow minded.
Important point: "Hard work" doesn't mean it has to be feel hard for you to do it.

If you have fun setting up a K8s cluster, that's still hard work.
scrollbar gives visual information and allows me to scroll to whereever I want at the speed I want, scrollwheel only goes at fixed speed

I'm talking about desktop computers here by the way, althrough grabbing a scrollbar and going to wherever I want at any speed would be awesome on a phone too.

I mean such programs as Konsole, Firefox, and others, in Linux desktop. Scrollbars got thinner and with super low contrast there too
Whenever I see single number statistics thrown around in news articles, press releases, ads, etc., I'm generally pretty skeptical. I want to see the distribution. Is it Gaussian? Bimodal? Flat? Apparently random?

The shape of the data tells you a lot that isn't captured in a single number like a mean or median.

Also, what's the sample size? What was the methodology used to acquire the data?

Lots of statistics fall apart when you look at how the data was collected.
It's not just about 1% of screenspace, it's about visual pollution that is distracting, it increase cognitive noise and cognitive noise is cancer
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You are not alone. I don't even consider buying any laptop other than a ThinkPad due to the lack of TrackPoint and being forced to use a touchpad if I don't have a mouse for some reason. I always make a mess with touchpads, including Mac and non-Mac ones.
I don't really get the melodrama of most of the top comments in that the old thread nor the current headline. Everyone is bemoaning how this is what drives people to piracy... but does Chrome not work anymore? Is the bar for resorting to piracy that low? It's hard to feel sympathetic when the starting position is presented as "It's broken, we've been forsaken!" but then on inspection it turns out to really be a case of "It doesn't work in a way that fits our politics, we've been forsaken!" I get that there's a lot of idealism in play but the histrionics just make the author and the community look dishonest.
My TV has a PC on one HDMI input, and a Chromecast on another.
I didn’t see the pre-edit version so did wonder where the gate keeping bit came from. That sort of uncharitable take is why I’d never put my notes online. I’d find it extremely stressful.
Though the title says "cancelled", the article in a nutshell: "The author’s estate ... said the “timing wasn’t quite right”".
> it is my understanding that the displacement of the native population occured before the federation of the US states,

It started before that, sure. It very much continued after (into the 20th Century), and was a major feature of the post-independence westward expansion of the US.
Somewhat related, from Andy Matuschak whose notes were on here earlier today, on the feeling of progress when doing open-ended work:

https://blog.andymatuschak.org/post/159979927467/satisfactio...
My parents live in the mountains of Panama. They have ADSL internet, but it's so bad at times they have to resort to tethering over a weak 3G connection and paying per GB for very slow data. They are waiting anxiously for Starlink to be available outside of the US.

Starlink is not just about the US, it's a global service that will connect people anywhere the local infrastructure is not yet up to speed. Also comparing rural France to rural US is oranges and apples. The US is almost 20x larger than France.
So, this is Erlang.
So because you don't like the internet other people shouldn't get it?
The opposite for me, working in Firefox and not Chrome. It's a WEBGL2 shader I believe.
Herein lies the problem. Your proposed solutions are ever more complicated as you begin to grasp the magnitude of the issue. Implementing this idea, and I'm not saying that it's good enough, would require modifications to pretty much every major telescope in the world. And there's no economy of scale because most of them are custom builds. Who's gonna pay for that?
Exactly, that is the point.
I have a Samsung smart TV, and it's really convenient to watch Netflix, Disney+ or Youtube straight on the TV. (We don't really watch regular TV anymore.)

Problem is: we are dependent on Samsung. If they don't support a particular streaming service, we're out of luck. And I have no doubt they have the ability to cripple our experience.
My point is that this is how it should be, and people who try to protest, are not right, for very practical reason which i have explained below, and it is a very good example displaying democracy being an outdated thing bringing disaster
Does it work too poorly on its own, or too poorly compared to tracking ads? Perhaps their value will go up with less presence of the latter.
I wonder when this was published.

Maybe it’s the device I’m on, or maybe I missed it, but I can’t seem to find a date anywhere.
> What I mean by "junk" links is the "Top 10 Best Sumerian Gods", etc. These frequently contain content lifted from other sources - including each other, spam-like advertising, and simply prey on the search engine's algorithms to get on to the front page beating the interesting content down into pages 3,4,5 and beyond.

Better known as chum: https://www.theawl.com/2015/06/a-complete-taxonomy-of-intern...
The oldest novel I can think of where alternate history has a major role is Orlando Furioso, published at the beginning of the XVIth century. If I remember correctly, the first scene is a battle were Charlemagne's army is beaten by a Saracen army. Later on, the Saracens lay siege to Paris. The world is mostly realistic, with an alternate history and elements of fantasy (griffons, magic spells). Orlando is much more than an uchronia, it is poetic, epic, fantastic, funny and sometimes morally challenging. This wonderful book is not mentioned on the page "Oldest" of this site where the oldest novel was published in 1732.
That sounds pretty good for version 0.1. More sats would make it better, as would better sats. A promising start.
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Starlink is only ever visible at dusk or dawn. It’s orbits are so low they are in the earths shadow for the rest of the night.

And new Starlink have visits limiting their reflectivity even during dusk and dawn.
I've been super annoyed by trying to grab the scroll thing on the bar in a super long pdf. It keeps disappearing and on long PDFs where I want to scroll to, say, the middle, it disappears before I can precisely grab it. It's maddening sometimes.
There is a huge difference between being able to operate in a managed cylinder deactivation mode vs being able to operate when one whole bank is experiencing some kind of catastrophic failure.
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> How do you find out what payment processor(s) a given site uses?

I'm a developer so looking at what kind of request the application is doing when interacting with anything involving payments. In the case of OnlyFans it was easy as they make direct requests to Stripe. In other cases, I've looked at the data structures stored in the current page by using the JS console and compare it to the API docs of various payment processors.
Source? The only time the author mentions his wife in the article is that she's working full-time and would dislike some server placements.
I use this every single day on my locked-down work laptop. It fixes so many sites! I recommend it as often as I can, and I'm surprised that its use is not more widespread.
Exactly, Why did all those European immigrants leave what many now call a more civilized and progressive place.

It makes no sense. I mean it’s not as if Ireland has changed at all since the potato famine when my ancestors came over right?

As you can tell, I do not think highly of the argument you have made. It seems to ignore something important.
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> Internet access in rural areas is pretty much a solved problem.

No it isn't. Just because it works for you it doesn't mean the same solutions can apply everywhere.
How many rural locations share the sky which a major metropolitan area which will clog up the satellites?
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I'm not inherently opposed to bouncing out to someone else's service when you need something you didn't expect. If you suddenly need to translate Russian, use a service maybe, and then start up running a Russian->English service on your own hardware if you expect to need it frequently going forwards.
http://archive.is/ndmhY
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People yes, who will enjoy seeing satellites.

Prime astronomy hours are when Starlink is in the earths shadow.
This article contains a consise explanation of the black hole information paradox, and, for the first time, I feel as though I understand what the issue is (assuming that it is not glossing over some important issues.)
Note that Stripe is quite expensive if you want to accept payments globally rather than just from the US.