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Used to live down the road from Avalon. I'd say it's better than a mall, but still too profit-first to be when I'd hope we're pivoting towards.

As context for others, Avalon is a mixed-use development, with restaurants and shops on the first floor (of ~3). Definitely still anchor-tenant focused (movie theater, larger clothing retailers) & restaurant weighted.

IMHO, the type of place you visit to do things, then leave. Not the type of place you live.

But then, my opinion is that Atlantic Station should be nuked from orbit for the sin of isolating itself from the transit grid, so I'm probably on the get-off-my-lawn side of the planner/developer split.
I always wondered about this. First thing that crossed my mind at the time was that it was (1) idiots who thought it would be fun to cause high-profile trouble, or (2) terrorists, but it sounded a bit sophisticated for #1 and as far as I know, no one ever claimed credit for it.

After reading one of the references (https://money.cnn.com/2015/10/16/technology/sniper-power-gri...), and learning that they think it might have been an insider, a third possibility occurs to me: what if it was someone—maybe a PG&E employee—who knew first-hand how unprotected this infrastructure was, and wasn't being taken seriously? Especially given the Homeland Security report a year earlier about how easy this kind of attack would be.

Conspiracy-theory stuff, maybe, but:

> The assault...became a harsh wake-up call for energy providers, who have since become obsessed with the physical security of their remote power stations.

> PG&E alone has pledged to spend $100 million to improve security at its facilities...Transformers are often custom designed, sometimes costing $3 million each—and replacements are slow. Plus, physical attacks on energy distribution machines are much more effective at taking out the power grid than a computer hack. And it's incredibly easy to pull off, several energy utility firms told CNNMoney.

> Experts attending GridSecCon, held by the North American Electric Reliability Corporation this week, are now discussing the need to enclose electronics in 1/2-inch thick armor plating that can stop high-powered rifle rounds. Power utilities have started loading remote substations with infrared cameras, gunshot audio sensors and even seismic recorders that catch vibrations.
What I wrote should be pretty close to valid Scala, which handles exceptions. I can imagine wanting to skip an isReady failure, which looks like

col.filter(c => Try(c.isReady).getOrElse(false))
.map(convertToX).any(_.color == BLUE)
this is an interesting view: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LopI4YeC4I

how luck plays a role to your success but also how you perceive your success which will change your behavior
In most European countries the marriage of minors (with a lower age limit of 16, 15 or undefined) is legal (regulated and unusual, but not necessarily against the law).
Yeah this is like saying objects lets us perform IO in Java, and then going deep into explanations of what objects are and what rules they obey (Liskov substitution principle etc) - instead of just explaining that you call println() to write "hello world".
New England is probably one of the extreme cases in the US where you're trying to balance:

- Being in the same time zone as locations, like NYC, that you communicate with and travel back and forth to a lot.

- Not "wasting" (from the perspective of most) summer sunlight at insanely early hours.

- Doing the best balancing act possible with less than ten hours of sunlight in the winter for necessary morning and late afternoon activities.

Go further north and you're pretty much screwed in the winter anyway--it doesn't really make sense for Newfoundland to try to eek out some winter morning sunlight--but in the Boston area you sort of can.
It doesn't get easier, it just gets a different kind of difficult.
North Korea is quite fascinating too
I have a really bad cheap ikea desk chair and even a stool is better than that .. thing. Sitting is killing me and this chair is a catalyst.
Not sure where that spine fragility myth came from.

I used to have back and wrist pain. Now I do mild exercise like a brisk daily walk and 100 burpees. Basically the bare minimum to check off my exercise box. I read Sarnos book and took to heart the idea that a lot of aches and pains are not injuries but are in your head.

Now I have no aches and pains ever.
I think that's it, honestly. I think this relatively high-trust culture that Americans have actually makes the society pretty efficient and it's much more pleasant to live in.

But it has none of the anti-bodies to the kind of cynical corruption that many other countries find endemic. And so when it came here, America had no defence. Because the host is still so healthy, it still doesn't realize it is carrying this parasite.

It'll be interesting to see what happens when the host becomes unhealthy.
It kind of is like rent seeking though. Apple has developed a product with some software but not the software we call Fortnite. They are now acting similar to a company like ExpressScripts, who created an organization in the form of a platform so they could extract rents from both the drug makers and the (insurance company) buyers. If Epic keeps the game off iPhone, there’s some overall loss to consumers. If they keep prices the same but pay the Apple fees, they pay rent to Apple. If they raise prices across the board to compensate, consumers pay rent to Apple and there is some deadweight loss because of a likely reduction in demand.
> from the wrong part of the world

Can that be argued? It's not that the "contact" and influence didn't exist, it's just that these specific people wouldn't use that language at that moment of time. The Romans were already on English ground long before Beowulf was written so using Latin words there is still much more acceptable to me -- it doesn't imply some access or historical impossibility that didn't exist.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Caesar%27s_invasions_of...

The same can't be said about sashimi. Again, like in the example of the movies (in other messages), I'm simply not expecting absolute purity, I just find Seiko watches too distracting there.
This is a specious argument. Facebook already takes an active role in shaping India's political landscape, via algorithmic promotion of posts.
I also recommend the work of Micheal Persinger on this and related subjects. He worked in a similar vein. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Persinger
I actually found the LangExt package a few months ago, when I started a new job and had to use C# as the default language (I've primarily been using Python, Typescript, and Rust in my previous jobs)

I spent some time explaining the advantages of an FP approach to my colleagues and LangExt has started to pop up in their PRs, which I'm very happy about

It's definitely a great library and I'm really impressed with the effort that's being put into it!

I'll give the book you're suggesting a read. I think it might help cover some of the gaps in my knowledge, which is exactly what I'm looking for, so thank you for the suggestion
I assume it’s done the same way as any other withheld tax. The only difference is negotiating salary net of tax rather than ex-tax.
TL;DR: For some reason, the top result for "pirate bay proxies" on Google is a search for the same using DuckDuckGo.
I work at one such "medium sized" Google DCs. Supercomputers are typically much more interconnected, whilst we have a much more traditional topology.
A 9 to 5 job might only be taking 50% of their waking time, but it could be consuming close to 100% of their mental capacity for the day.

There seems to be a an expectation that everyone should have a side hustle or has a creative outlet outside of work so they can get ahead or explore their true passions. But employment is structured in a way that your employer gets first dibs on your time and energy.
Establishment of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force
TIL that most of my electronics work is well represented in the "bad" sections of the NASA manual. Then again, I'm not launching it to Mars, so it's OK.
When you increase the signal to noise ratio, it makes it even harder to stop reading. For all practical purposes, the internet is infinite; no matter how high you set your standards, gradually you will find enough sources to fill all your free time.

During the last few years, I switched from reading low quality content to reading high quality content. I am better informed about various things. But the problem of spending too much time reading remains unchanged.
I was on duty as security for a.. semi secret substation designated as critical infrastructure that night. In the Bay Area, we just had to divert power a little bit. It basically didn’t affect the grid at all.

Everyone was all a little more worried as to if this was isolated, if we were next, etc etc.

Transformers that are small are often on hand and easy to swap out. But some of the bigger ones have months long lead times. The facility we were at had transformers that had a 6 month lead time from Germany to replace them and they had to be sent via boat as they wouldn’t fit in planes.

The average person isn’t going to know that about transformers. Which leads more credence to the fact it’s an inside job.
Unless a still unknown counter-technology comes along to make privacy and individual empowerment much more concrete. Or, more conservatively, existing or near-extrapolation derivative technologies democratize enough to make surveillance far too costly for state actors without blowback.
Definitely agree there.
If anyone is looking for a better chair, we found this was a great time to pick up Herman Miller Aerons off of craigslist.

There's a steady stream of small-to-medium offices in our area closing, and they're all liquidating office furniture. We picked up 2 for $500.

They're a massive improvement over my $80 chair that was fine for a few hours a week pre-WFH, and my back is feeling much better.
The opportunity of company towns is the opportunity of dictatorships: with fewer decision makers, longer-sighted decision can be rammed through.

For example, California could presumably make better housing decisions if existing property owners didn't get a say.

That said, the weaknesses of dictatorships obviously apply equally. A benevolent dictator leads to great happiness; a terrible one leads to hell that can only be overthrown by revolution.
I prefer a wooden chair to an office chair, because it's so rigid. I had a one of those fancy $2000 office chairs and I would always lock it so you couldn't lean back. But even locked it would have a little bit of give to it.

Here's where it gets weirder though. I used to have padding on my chair. And it was the the kind of shitty strap on padding that would slide around, and after it did, my leg would reliably fall asleep. One day I got tired of it sliding around and just removed it. My leg never falls asleep anymore.

Only complaint is that leg reinforcement has an II shape instead of H, so there is a little bit of sideways instability.
Sure. I don’t. The world is getting faster all the time.
What were you going to do with a million dollars?
Does this mean that your manager was throwing NiCd batteries (many old power tools, in particular) into the trash?
I don't know if internet is really the culprit to how easy it is to waste time. We have long created enough distraction to fill a entire lifespan.

Before I've encountered any digital computing device, I used to just play Sudoku during class. Or read novels; I had a textbook that carved, inside which hid a small novel. Or, just day-dream and think about stuff.

On the other hand, I enjoyed Sudoku and novels. I don't consider them to be a complete waste of time. In retrospect, they made my childhood better.
China is now blocking all language editions of Wikipedia (2019)
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Oof. So,I tried sending mails from our own domain and our mail server - but Google tagged us as spam. We migrated into Google hosting and it was fixed, now back to Spam. So we move to a provider like sendgrid, but then they have a hack. Damnit!

When we hosted our own, we had DKIM, SPF, DMARC and such, clean IP and clean messages, we only sent account create and transaction notices - low volume, relevant messages to folks who opt-in. We had our little box setup right and we're polite actors but got tagged which killed our user experience (password resets went to Spam and folk called support)

But it feels the "big-web" forced us into vulnerable providers for the spam game.

We need more self hosted email and less centralized control.
Ok, yes. Monads as a concept are almost trivial in comparison to thinking in terms of the IO type. But that doesn't mean they are easy and don't add more hurdles to get over. I think I undersold how daunting it can be to face all the new things at once, and you're right about it.
Out of curiosity, how does one “divert power”?
Failing because of a too short timeout feels silly, but a stupidly large timeout leads to frustration and hazardous user actions like killing the app with the task manager.

You don't need a timeout, you need a "cancel" button.
I’m not sure how to reason with someone who does 0 research. Look into what areas of the economy are sanctioned first, and then come here to disagree with me.
Yeah, in fact I'm feeling that the simpler it is the better. All these expensive complex designs seem comfortable at first, but after a month it turns out that "ergonomic" features a chair has don't exactly fit your body anyway and it ends up with pain in the neck or something. With simple rigid chairs it's never really a problem, either you sit up straight or it just gets uncomfortable and you are forced to get up and stretch a little.

I don't use a wooden chair, though, because I like the wheels and ability to rotate. But I much prefer very-very basic office chairs to all these gaming super-ergonomic overpriced whatever. I mean, they felt cool when I sat on them for the first time, but then it turns out to be fucked up in ways I admit I'll never be able to predict when buying one.
You are conflating markets with meta-markets. The market for healthcare has been corrupted by activities outside of the market.

The market has been intentionally manipulated to set up little choice for individuals and even worse, little transparency on cost and benefits.

Markets DO work, but you have to set them up to succeed. Customers need to be able to choose between providers, customers need to know what the full cost of healthcare is prior to committing, and customers need to be able to walk away or find an alternative if a price is unattractive.
What is PingCAP's story when it comes to data protection and privacy, particularly with its managed product?
SystemD has issues. I don't particularly like it, and I only have a couple machines that use it. I much prefer OpenRC, which is what I use while provisioning new systems.

That being said, Poettering created software that

A) Is much better than I could make.

B) Is used by many, many, many, people in production, without showstopper issues.

I will not deny that he deserves at least some amount of respect for what he has accomplished, including from an engineering perspective.
This doesn’t work as much on most of the west coast but any city which was big a century ago probably has nice railway suburbs which are walkable because they were built before the one person, one car assumption became the foundation of American urban design.

I think areas like that will see an uptick in interest from people who weren’t keen on an hour+ daily commute into a major city but are far more willing to consider it if you’re talking a few times a month.

Before we bought we looked around in a few cities and were really struck by the quality of life difference it makes when you drive occasionally but not by necessity. Even the younger residents in newer, pricier suburbs tend to pack on weight and health problems unless they’re absolutely rigorous about going to the gym and have the schedule to support it. The white-flight suburbs built in the decades after Brown v. Board are often actively hostile to a healthy lifestyle (no sidewalks, winding roads, transit happens in other zip codes).
At the frequencies relevant to the present invention, mostly RF front-ends. Wireless cards, cellphones, radars, etc.
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Flying cars are interesting because they have the potential to partially make obsolete the natural monopoly of roads. Governments are heavily involved in natural monopolies (possibly for good reason) but I worry that that involvement may crowd out innovative private organizations that would otherwise have the incentive to bypass the natural monopoly. I wonder what other innovations are being stifled in the same way.

As far as flying cars go, they sure are loud. But cars are fairly noisy as well -- in cities the roads are often very close to apartment buildings.
Lots. Many more than you’d expect. To believe otherwise is privilege.

It took many years to understand this.
No, it was during he Second World War. There was a labor shortage as many men were drafted or even signed up, but the federal government had instituted wage and price controls. As wages could not be raised, benefits like health care were offered to try to lure workers.

Some big companies, like the car companies, ran (and I believe may still run) their own medical systems. Most of course outsourced.

Nowadays a company would be insane to drop this because it’s a very sticky incentive. We’d probably have more innovative startups if we had ACA which is a reason the big companies lobbied against it and why having a company to simply pay your ACA premium was made more expensive than the company running a health plan the old way.
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"Shots" are indeed a longstanding noun/synonym for vaccines.

"Jab" is a verb for the delivery of many different drugs.
If it was closer to 5%, or even a fixed fee (eg: $1 per app sold), I would accept the narrative that it's a fee.

30% of your business is not a fee, it's more like a partnership. Apple is, in practice, a business partner to each and every iOS developer. Except that they have total and absolute control of the business. If they shut you down on the App Store, you're done. Your iOS app is worthless on any other platform.

I shit you not, I've personally had apps rejected by the review board because they didn't like the screenshots. Those were screenshots of the app itself.
Greenland Ice Sheet Passes Point of No Return
Biggest question for me would be why the employee still had access so long after terminating employment with Cisco.

A common piece of auditor evidence across many compliance frameworks is whether employees have access proportionate to their role (which is naturally highly subjective), but also proving that access is revoked when employees leave the company. This seems like an outright failure on Cisco’s part.

Hopefully they’ve learned from this and put effort into enhancing their identity governance situation.
So, what is the attraction, exactly? It doesn't look as fast as a car or any more convenient, at least until cities are redesigned to accommodate these vehicles. I also assume that it is more energy-hungry than a car and I imagine that accidents are bound to be worse than cars for the foreseeable future.

Is it safer to pilot than an helicopter?
I wonder how realistic/fair the code of some benchmarks is.

I just took some small peak at atix (because I happen to know it) and while first all looked fine it wasn't quite that realistic.

Mainly:

- It uses a fork of tokio-postgres specific for the test (which differs in that Client is no longer send and it has a Unsafely soundness hole by wrongly using Unsafe Cell, and no Issue tracking enabled on, through replacing that cell with RefCell probably yield very similar performance)

- Instead of using the default web::Json responder it uses simd-json (EDIT: explicitly encoding the data into a buffer instead of returning it wrapped in web::Json)

- Uses snmalloc instead of the default allocator (https://github.com/microsoft/snmalloc)

Just to be clear besides the first point all of this is not unrealistic for a context where you want to highly optimize your server. But not how actix is used most of the time.

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Edit: Also just to be clear I didn't nit pick intentional on actix, it just happen to be the framework I'm more familiar with and especially using snmalloc for actix seems to be quite a reasonable idea.

EDIT2: The Unsefety unsoundness isn't triggered given the way this library is used, it's still there and would prevent this change from ever been merged upstream.
> If the Spotify web store is more profitable than the Spotify iOS store, because Apple wants ITS CUSTOMERS to get the same deal and Spotify wants those customers, then this is good and fair for customers at the point of purchase.

Are you saying you think Spotify should just charge everyone extra and take extra profit from Android customers? As an Android user, why should I pay extra so you can use an iPhone?

Assume me and you are the only 2 users on Spotify and they need $10 per user in revenue. As far as I'm concerned, I should pay $10 and you should pay $14.29. Apple gets $4.29 (14.29 * .3) and Spotify gets $20.

If Spotify can't differentiate and has to charge every user the same, they won't charge everyone $14.29 because they're in a competitive industry and keeping the cost to the customer as low as possible is important. It's more likely they'll charge us both $12.15 and call it $10 average revenue per customer.

If Epic's lawsuit accomplishes only one thing, I hope Apple is forced to allow developers to advertise and charge different prices for iOS users. If you think iOS is worth +43% on everything you buy on your phone you're welcome to pay that IMO. I don't want to and I'm happy with Android.
How's sharing a news article on rape committed by Muslims count as hate speech? Killings by Hindu vigilante groups are reported and shared without considering hate speech against Hindus. Then why the double standard?
2014: https://twitter.com/akpurtell/status/463747917782589441
Pretty much the same, though it was never that difficult. There is also PyOxidizer, and zipapp is an option for some.
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I am not a Sendgrid customer, however examining their documentation what I think the "attacks" look like is this:

14 year old Jimmy guesses that Foo Corp has the Sendgrid username "FooCorp" and the password "FooCorp0" obeying a company requirement to use "At least 8 characters" and "At least one digit". Very secure. Much password.

Jimmy connects to Sendgrid's old API and literally just provides username "FooCorp" password "FooCorp0" to send as much email as Foo Corp have paid to be able to send. No other steps needed.

Insisting customers get 2FA would in practice mean:

1. Get all customers to sign up to Authy's phone-based 2FA and use it for Sendgrid. Accept that this will have a revenue impact, you're essentially firing customers who either were too lazy to sign up for this or regard this type of security as a joke.

2. Deprecate older APIs that allow username + password auth

3. Thus force users into APIs that rely on a bearer token they can only get using 2FA.

And yet after all this work if Jimmy instead gets a copy of your bearer token (e.g. because some idiot commits it to github) then he can once again send emails as Foo Corp until somebody disables the stolen bearer token (and then generates a new one and updates all their running code).

It's a poor show that in 2020 this is their goal, it's not even the thing they have and need to improve upon, it's just a future goal.
You realize that Q never aimed what you said the fact that you think the claims look like that proves you haven't read any of the posts.
Good point. They could definitely fill the roll of Bowser et al.