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> Oh, and I can't find print and the downloads button anymore...

I just bought a printer a few weeks ago and was happily printing from Firefox, but now it seems the entire feature is gone. As a workaround, you can share the page from Firefox to the Mopria app, but I think that rerenders the whole thing in Mopria's embedded Webkit view, which might not always work.

But people with printers are probably a minority, so according to the prevailing line of thinking it doesn't matter. Why would anyone ever want to do anything that's not commonly done by at least half the population?
Death is really the only thing I fear. I can't imagine not fearing it. I also don't understand people who say things like "I wouldn't want to live to <500, 1000, some big number>
You're probably right. Public health is a difficult issue.
Covid: Where Science Goes to Die [video]
That's a serious amount of kit, and there's no way 20+ machines isn't going to emit a constant roar. At some point, if you're going to have that kind of setup, it needs to be in a dedicated workshop that's either free-standing, or somehow otherwise sound-isolated from the main house. I know I'd never get away with running that much equipment all at once!
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I'm turning 30 this year and I still feel anxious about death every once in a while when I think about it. But I think usually my anxiety stems not from death itself, but what it means for the life I am experiencing right now. It means that I'll have regrets because desire is limitless, but I only have so much time to fulfill my desire. It's impossible to fulfill every desire. I also fear the pain of dying.

But I guess that's where various religion and philosophy come in, the ones that eschew desire. Maybe you will still have pain, but if you try to limit desire, you also limit your regret, or other suffering that desire can cause.

Life is difficult, but can also be filled with happiness. When you die you will no longer suffer, but you will also cease to be able to experience happiness. That is why death is such a conundrum. Depending on how you experience life, it can be a source of dread, or something in which to seek solace. Many times it is both.
Let's Encrypt's argument for why all the fancy features that CA's offered boiled down to "These are more complicated ways of proving that you own a domain". So by automating the verification of ownership of a domain you could essentially run a CA for pennies per certificate, and give them out for free.

Looking at application development I think a similar thing could be done, but what would we pin identity to? I don't know if there is one thing that every app has like a website.
Your framing is wrong. Neither of those two textual descriptions represent something that could possibly happen. It's as nonsensical as asking "should you be indifferent between xhskgkrid happening or kwntocusbw happening?"

If you take strong verificationism seriously, that is. I can't give the entire theory here, but there are strong arguments for it, and also critiques that I personally don't find compelling.
What makes Julia code shorter and more elegant generally? I strongly disagree with static typing not being useful in scientific computing. Most of that I see isn't dealing with data frames, though I've seen confusion with types in those with R users.
Well, the UK government said that they want to do that, and yet proposed no actual plan on how to do it. Previously at least you could still buy a hybrid - under this new plan it's only going to be electric vehicles, no hybrids allowed. Which is great, except that the government hasn't answered how all of these electric cars are going to be charged? I have a house with my own driveway so it's not a problem, but what if you live in a terraced house? Apartment? Rent a place? The subsidies and grants for both cars and chargers are being cut left and right, so who is going to build the infrastructure? Private sector? Like ionity is, where they charge £0.69/kWh, making it cheaper to drive a diesel than charging with them(and also charging 6x more than average UK kWh price for the privilege). I've heard an argument that places of work will provide charging points - but why would they? At my own work they said the parking lot is owned by an external company that is not interested in doing any improvements whatsoever so that's not happening, after a massive deal of effort they finally managed to install....2 charging points for a building of 1500 people, you can book the charging session in half-day slots and they are never free. You'd think the "free market" would just solve this problem, but it seems incredibly slow to do so.
If I follow you, you're suggesting I look up some of the obscure button sequences to press to force some hidden behavior? We did that early on and didn't get great results.
"User choice" is still a thing?
I would like to do this, but am worried about the noise. I've heard servers that sound like jet engines. Is anything I can look for to avoid that?
In the UK where you live the government ripped up half the rails, then privatized the rest. Oh, Doctor Beeching! Please, Mr. Branson!

The UK once subsidized a working system, then destroyed most of that system without any resulting cost savings, then sold it to billionaires who it now subsidizes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beeching_cuts

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privatisation_of_British_Rail
If you can refactor (make a commit changing only implementation code, not touching any test code) and the tests still pass then you’re probably fine.

If you’re changing tests as you change the code you’re not refactoring. You have zero confidence that your changed behaviour and changed test didn’t introduce an unintended behaviour or regression.

So many developers miss this in my experience.
"The use of pigments and their combination to form a palette, the way he held the brush and moved his body, the amount of force he applied, the viscosity of paint. As someone who works extensively in an art medium (ceramics), I relate to these as technical challenges."

I make art in various media myself, but don't look at the elements you list as technical challenges as much as they are expressive choices which provide a sort of a "fingerprint" or signature on an artist's work.

In contrast, technical challenges that require a high amount of skill would be the creation, purely by hand and without mechanical assistance, of something like Albrecht Durer's Meloncolia[1], Michelangelo's Moses[2] or Sistine Chapel, to name but a few.

These works require not just the artist's personal distinctive "fingerprint" but the skill to create great verisimilitude in approximating the appearance of living beings and other things in the "external", "real" world. Any number of mistakes, from proportion to lighting to texture to anatomy, could have been made that would have made their work look "wrong".

The same couldn't be said of Pollock's work. Whether he chose to fling his paint right or left, up or down, would have resulted in more or less the same splatter effect, as long as he kept to pretty much the same paint density and color scheme. That's really not much of a skill compared to the master draftsmen like Michelangelo and Durer.

I also don't believe being systematic is evidence of skill. It's just evidence of organization.

Don't get me wrong, though. I like Pollock myself and consider that at its best his work achieves a high level of energy and harmony that is appealing to me. However, I believe that if just about anyone makes enough random splatter paintings, then those kinds of happy accidents are bound to come along eventually. It really doesn't take much, if any, skill in my eyes. He just happened to do it first.

[1] - http://www.albrechtdurerblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/...

[2] - https://i2.wp.com/befrontmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/...
The theory that Japanese and Finnish could be related is very much controversial and not widely accepted by linguists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ural-Altaic

Nobody knows for sure how Japonic languages relate to other families. Some theorize that it might share a genetic relationship with Korean, but even that has not been convincingly established.

At any rate even if we chose to believe that both languages share a very distant common ancestor, it won't really help in this case. Russian, Italian, Dutch, English, Hindi and Gaelic languages do all belong to the Indo-European family, yet they diverged so much that finding matching names is a challenge.

And keep in mind that genetic relationship between languages don't tell the whole story. Genetically, English is more closely related to German than French, yet in general English speakers have less trouble picking up French than German because of the huge French and Latin influence in the modern English language.
does it matter much after it's cached locally though? I mean say for single page web apps. I could see that not being a big issue, but if you have to reload the page a lot it might, but loading 1 Mb into memory is nothing to most modern CPUs if it's pulled off the hard drive.
Facebook’s top ad business on iOS is for app installs. Their cross-app tracking is how they demonstrate that the ad resulted in app sales. Apple is cutting that off here. As you mention, Apple’s competing ad service is also for app installs.
PLEASE BACKUP YOUR STUFF NO MATTER WHAT YOU DO!

I lost 50GB of options data going back 4 months yesterday + 2.5TB of currency data going back 20 years because I never checked that my backups were running.

Please don't let this happen to you.

EDIT: Literally just write a script that backs up flat files or binaries to S3 every N intervals.
Interesting turn of events I remember when 98% of the population was laughing at Google when they bought them for a 1.6 billion. Holy shit was that a great investment.
With sleep, I feel like you’re sort of still there since when you wake up you have the perception that time has passed. What’s truly unnerving is going under anesthesia, where it’s like that period of time just never existed at all.
one time i downloaded metasploit onto my computer and my anti-virus software freaked out
We already have defensively practiced, shit quality medicine. I was diagnosed late with ADHD, had to leave that doctor's practice, and finding another doctor who agrees with that diagnosis has been impossible.

The tendency I observed when competency was questioned was to not punish in any way that had strong ramifications. They might badmouth them, but the desire to strip of their license or award large punitive damages isn't there because they are worried about it happening to them, real or imagined.
The Joy of Things Being Things – The Space Under the Window
Yeah, I would agree that the whole thing is a bit of a side issue wrt the grandson.
George Sudarshan

Fred Hoyle
I guess it's a matter of perspective.

When I look at these things I'm amazed that I'm part of these scales, or as Carl Sagan put it: "We are made of star stuff".

Once I'm dead, the elements my body consists of will go back into that eternal cycle, making me once again a part of the whole or maybe even part of evolving into something completely new.

While my non-corporeal parts, my consciousness, my character, will hopefully be fondly remembered by family and friends.

At least that's how I found a bit of peace of mind after having suffered from anxiety and existential dread for most of my youth.
Thermodynamics of computation:quest to find the cost of running a Turing machine
For people who are really into system administration.
*exoplanets
I massively disagree - we have ordered(and subsequently cancelled due to covid, but that's not important) an MG ZS EV for my wife, with a range of about 160 miles from its 40kWh battery. That's absolutely good enough for pretty much everything she does with a car, and I see no reason to pay more just for the sake of having a larger battery. At £25k it would have been an absolute steal too.
For example, on a recommendation I decided to read Gateway by Frederick Pohl. I like ebooks because it lets me read without keeping the light on and disturbing my wife. First stop was Overdrive, no dice but that's not uncommon. Their selection is pretty slim. Next was Hoopla, but also struck out. So I tried the Kindle Store. I found reviews about people reading it, but no copies for sale. B&Ns store had the same problem. Not available on Google Play. So I went to the wider internet but came up completely dry on legitimate purchase options. WTF. This novel won a Hugo why is it so damn hard to find? Why did the ebook version disappear from all legitimate vendors? Is there some dark secret that they're trying to hide?

Of course if I were willing to torrent it I'd have a perfect copy that I could read anywhere in less than 5 minutes.
Or anyone who just doesn't have a parking space and has to use street parking. (Huge amount of people)

Even where I live - a suburb with homes averaging $2m - there are a metric shit load of cars parked on the street.
Is a blockchain really necessary? Why not simply use an RSA key pair?
LLCs don't have to pay the California franchise tax? Are you sure about that?

https://www.ftb.ca.gov/forms/2020/2020-3522.pdf
> I don't know about Vancouver's specific problems. Why are the construction costs so high there?

There's no real reason why construction costs are high. As the amount of construction increases, the available labour pool decreases, and labour costs accordingly increase. There is always lots of construction going on. More highly trained trades would help, but easier said than done.

If anything it's more that construction costs are artificially low in the USA since there is a class of illegal immigrant labour which can be exploited and paid low. That does not exist in Canada.
Ironically, the House Committee on UnAmerican Activities investigated Advancing American Art exhibit looking for a leftist conspiracy. Or to put it another way there is no rationale for proposing a government conspiracy. It was ordinary government operations described in newspapers and magazines of the day and documented in the Congressional Record and the National Archives.
This is true for something like the FAA's FARs where they're trying to save lives.

It is absolutely not true of every nonsensical paternialistic nonsense Congress has passed.
"They" are many people. I suspect that many of them don't understand that it's a motte and bailey argument. But I suspect that some of them do understand, and are doing it deliberately.
I presume GP is talking about the Perception of English /r/ and /l/ by Japanese speakers — https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perception_of_English_/r/_an...
>Doctors only start prescribing a drug after it has been approved by the relevant governmental bodies for their usage. So if OxyContin got through the FDA, and was marked as safe for the usage it was advertised for, then I do not understand why you suggest that it's the fault of doctors that they prescribed it in those cases.

Given that the same opioids are approved in the US and Netherlands, with the same warnings and information, why do you think the outcomes are so different between countries?
Unless its a multiple houses in the same state situation, then they usually just make a decision that is the worse one for you / most money for them and you have to prove otherwise.
Unrelated, but I created the very first Baby Names app for iOS with my pal David.

I didn’t have a baby, but my friend Marie was having one and suggested the idea.

Imagine having such a simple idea and it not already existing on iOS. Those were the days.

It held the namespace “Baby Names” in the App Store, which someone tried to buy later but before that no longer mattered.

It was the gold rush of the App Store. I think we charged 99 cents for it, but I remember we made something like $12k in a few months.

Dave wrote the objective c but I wrangled assets and ran the dev builds on a hackintosh, not yet sold on the Apple ecosystem.

We got into a beef with this other Baby Names app seller that thought they had the original baby names app. There were some stern reviews.

The app was just a native UI over a baby names database I bought off some service for cheap. You could save favorites and share it and there was limited filtering.

Eventually people willing to compete moved in, with various free and paid offerings and we didn’t bother to keep it up.

Edit: I found the press release I issued. What nostalgia. https://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/09/prweb1332494.htm
Baidu opens up self-driving vehicles to the public in Beijing
Collecting gun-related injury and fatality data allows us to make evidence-based informed decisions about what types of legislation are likely to be effective to reduce harm. For example:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-05/the-3-gun...
> Is Xpenology Stable?

> As a person interested using Xpenology you should keep in mind, that this is not an official Synology release. Although it’s based on the official Synology DSM which is the same as whats found on the actual Synology devices, it’s not officially supported by Synology. You could get support from the community for this software, but not from the company itself. Typically once you’re up and running things are very stable without any issues but just know that calling support is not an option when you’re not running on an official Synology device.
There are more Dothraki names than African names combined :(
Sweeney has principles, but one of them isn't supporting a platform with no chance of it paying off the investment needed to support it.
Fearing death oft-times seems similar to the fear that accompanies any act which you’ve never done before. About to be married, going to finish school, going on a trip... fear is part of all of these experiences, at least until you’ve done it. But I think the fear is made worse because of the stories we’ve told, and heard, about it. Modern movies are a prime example where we can watch what might happen if we die and what we might miss, etc. The more tragic a story the greater the fear that that might overwhelm us. The poems, tales, and stories highlight the effects of death.

But in a similar vein, I find comfort in the more positive stories too, such as the ones about Jesus in the Bible. How death came as a result of sin, and how, for some reason, a sacrifice was required to pay the penalty of sin - something else had to die in your stead, like a pigeon or sheep. But of course, how could that really pay that price? No wonder sacrifices were needed regularly. That is until Jesus’ death - an eternal life could pay for an eternal death, for good and forever. All I need to do is believe in Jesus and share that payment. This is a good story, preferable to the ending of say, 300, or Gladiator, for me at least.

I’m not sure the eternal life to come will eventually be boring either. The story suggests we remain basically the same, and what has been true is that we grow. True, what interested me as a kid doesn’t hold the same power over me now, nor could I as a child really get into fonts or NLP or traveling! So I reckon that eternal life means eternally growing and developing. I can’t picture it, I’ve not lived it yet, there is some fear there, but overall it sounds pretty good.
Compose is very necessary to remain competitive in the mobile apps landscape. Google is also behind here by about a year, so I expect to see continued strong investment in this area.
I've used Ingress for some personal projects, and have also felt the pull towards service mesh. I've tried to set up Istio and Linkerd a couple times each, and bailed every time. These products need to be deeply integrated into the cluster (e.g. Istio installs its own ingress controller), so I've had to tear down and re-build my cluster in order to properly set up the mesh. I wish they were more approachable. Or I wish I were smarter!
I'm from EU, wife from China, so obviously she kept her surname after wedding

for children since they use my European surname (both surnames are not allowed, otherwise that would be my preferred option for children) it had to be paired with Western name, so this may be helpful for someone:

1. the length is matching length of my surname for balance, for son exactly, daughter 1 character shorter

2. names containing R are out, because of wife pronunciation, so bye bye Klara

3. names from TOP10 in recent years in country where we are settling are out, because I remember when I was kid and there were 3 other boys with same given name in my class, never again for my children despite my favorite names not surprisingly being in top 5, bye bye Ana and Adam

4. name should be written same way in as many languages as possible - German, English, country we are settling others without local variant, so no need to use in future more variants internationally

5. obviously no bad association from past, I've never in my life met woman with my daughter's name (well Taiwanese excolleague who used it as English name and had it also as official nickname in passport) and personally knew only two men with my son's name, also I liked name Alina until I've found it has mostly Russian origin and didn't want anyone to think my children are some Russian immigrants

6. you can also consider how easy is for name to rhyme and make fun of it, but I can make fun of pretty much any name, so unless it's pretty obvious this was not really a factor

and i think that's it, after this filter you end up with very limited options and you settle on something selflessly unlike all those parents choosing the most popular local names without much thinking

btw the search is giving me 404 for my language combination, but anyway even English Chinese combo is pretty stupid, I would rather look into Hong Kong or Taiwan names to see how it sound in real life
Not really. Unless it's called quite often. Premature optimization is not a good thing in general. Find your bottlenecks, code for correctness and ease of understanding first and use optimization if it's basically "free" and don't worry much about it otherwise.
As usual, budget constraints ruin all artistic visions.
Do some reasearch. The G8 DL380p I bought sounded fine until I didn't use the built in RAID and opted for software RAID due to the software I wanted to use. Not using that RAID caused the fans to run 100% all the time. I opted to hijack the fan voltage (which was harder than it should be for proprietary fan connectors/sensors) and manually crank down the speed to an acceptable temperature/noise ratio. More than I needed to do if I had just done some research first.
The blockchain provides a searchable index of content.
The core trade-off is ownership vs distribution.

Platforms like Substack & Medium offer you "reach" because they can distribute content at scale. That means less intentionality from your readers, but a higher likelihood some random person finds your work. Reach is great when you're trying to scale your work and get it in front of lots of people. There is no doubt that by virtue of SEO, higher traffic, more organization etc. that platforms like Medium will get your stuff in front of more people.

Personal blogs offer a level of complete ownership and customization. I cannot tell you how often Medium, Mailchimp, Substack etc have disappointed me in how I can monitor the traffic to my publication, or even have a custom URL for SEO purposes.

Personally, I optimize for reach > customization starting out. The benefits of more eyeballs on my work far outweighs my need to customize when building from the ground up. But that's primarily due to the fact that my content is designed for more folks to see it.

(Source: I write about video games every week @ www.pausebutton.news)
Personal blog, then put a teaser summary on medium and link back to full article.
My son was required to use Racket in his course work for Computer Engineering at CalPoly. I had never heard of it before. I recall one of the profs was involved. We joked that it all sounded like a racket.

He's now a rising-star (proud/biased papa here) as an SDE at Amazon. So maybe it's a good teaching language after all.