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Using Group Policy you can set Windows to download but not install updates. [0]

Setting this, I have never had an unexpected restart. Please keep in mind that future Windows updates may adjust this setting. I have had to re-apply the policy at least once.

I’ve also had issues with wake timers which have needed a combination of settings to fix.

Personally, I have moved away from Windows for every device I have excluding a dedicated gaming PC. I agree that this is hostile behavior and is completely unacceptable.

[0] The group policy is located at

Computer Configuration\ Policies\ Administrative Templates\ Windows Components\ Windows Update

and is called “Configure Automatic Updates”. Enable it and select “3 - Auto download and notify for install”
Yeah if they practiced what they preached you could go to the apple store, pay cash for your laptop. Then once home if you wanted some paid apps you could open up appstore over your super high tech vpn (or even tor browser) path with digital currency and download your app without apple ever knowing who you are. That is the ideal, even better would be to let me order the old fashioned way with a money order with a fake name and address on it and buy the app that way with a randomly generated UUID than I put in with the money order.
But the voter does not need to understand encryption... just the designer of the system.
Rc<RefCell<...>> / Arc<Mutex<...>> and borrowing or locking for micro-scopes, only exactly when you need the inner values, will get you pretty far when you're looking to turn off your brain. Sometimes they're even the correct choice! It's not entirely frictionless, but it can get pretty smooth. Cell / Atomic* can be nice too.
I think with stuff like this it's easy to assume "evil company stealing your data". And while I'm sure that accidents happen, I also feel like Amazon knows this and will go to extreme lengths to protect their users data.

Why? Imagine how much it would cost amazon in lost sales and market cap if some scandal broke about how thier Alexa device were leaking user data. Even a small story would be enough to wipe out millions if not billions of dollars of market cap and sales.
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> Rolling your own tools is an irreplaceable way to learn things thoroughly.

I completely agree. It's also a great way to avoid complexity you don't need. There are limits, but especially while learning I like to err on the side of fewer dependencies.

BTW, I just now saw that getoban.pro was a thing. It looks great!
Don't believe anything giant corporations say. They don't care.
Seven figures does not seem typical for a board seat. Where are you getting your salary info, and how do you know his role is to close deals? That would also not be common for that role. It is usually advising and maybe introductions.
Are you suggesting they just trust the designer? Most ordinary people aren't going to do that. They'll just say 'no thanks'.

A once-in-a-lifetime referendum in the UK in 2011 about a change to voting systems was solidly defeated because most people said 'I don't understand this it's too complicated' - and that was just AV.

Most ordinary people don't want or trust any kind of fancy voting idea at all. I don't see that changing either.
... sounds familiar...
Aside from the resentments of the author, I have to agree that antitrust has been weakened in recent decades. This is just simply a fact. Some of you may think that is a good thing, but you have to admit that it is the case.
It can be flipped around a third time. Eco-campaigners that create hate campaigns against corporations doing useful work, without even the faintest idea of a proposal for what they want those corps to do differently, will inevitably produce nonsensical virtue signalling PR responses. What else are they going to do? As the article discusses, plastic recycling is hard.
Chrome does the same thing on Android. These days I prefer Safari because Google thinks it's ok to show me ads and news items based on my searches for medical issues.
They are still in use, see this [0] French FOB in Mali

[0] https://i.redd.it/f325vekqsxh51.jpg
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You think most californian commenters on hn make more than $659k a year? Hmm.
A meth detecting product that you cannot stop paying for once after your first use. Interesting
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Regus’ parent company just filed for creditor protection.
Not from what I've seen, and idiomatic Rust (to my frustration) advises against traits in favor of enums, probably because they dont do well in Rust.

Also, I didnt claim abstraction == OO, but Rust struggles with both.

Luckily, Rust shines in cases where no abstraction is needed.
For the curious, Mason’s story is really interesting and he did a great interview on the Without Fail podcast a few years ago.

https://gimletmedia.com/shows/without-fail/j4hrl8
Some of the issue is that you're almost always still voting for people. People have to implement the ideas and make them happen. There's any number of policies that I'm in favor for if they worked perfectly, but I don't think they're feasible to implement or enforce using humans.

You see this a lot in local elections where often there are specific ideas on the ballot for local people to vote on. I want to vote for "more public transit options" but it's not as if I'm voting for specific train lines or bus routes.

That's before you get into the issue of who is coming up with the ideas to go on the ballot, how they word them, and how carefully they consider them. It's easy to make a lot of things sound good on the snippet you'll read on a ballot, but not prevent bad side effects that you wouldn't think about.
In our case, what we do is use Grafana Loki for logging, which emphasizes on a small amount of indexes, but great support for “sequential scans” of log files.

We send the logs in semi-structured format (logfmt), and we have no real performance problems with this. The trick is that you want to optimize for “easy to use regexes”, which we did not have with json. Logfmt gives this to us, while still being easy to read with the eyes.

One of the key decisions we made, however, was to not use any cloud provider for this and run it ourselves. It gave us much more freedom with various ways to interact with our metrics / data, without the risk of getting huge bills (I’m looking at you Datadog, your billing practices are terrible).
And it has a difficult learning curve to learn how to use it without unsafe =)
@dang/mods - I accidentally wrote "for" instead of "or" on the github repo linked here, but have now fixed it. So now the title of this thread is wrong. It should be "Fastmac – A macOS instance or Linux shell".

Sorry about that!
Anyone who says their minimal incremental unit is 100k of ad spend is ripping you off. I run an agency with major silicon valley clients and we generally can prove roi or not on 10k ad spend on a channel.
This is actively encouraging people to abuse a free service that many people depend on. It's incredibly irresponsible to see it posted here.

Stealing a worker for up to 6 hours likely running on real Apple hardware because that's how OS X is licensed, man, there are no words. Free CI is difficult enough to supply as it is without freeloaders tying up a limited pool of workers because they're too lazy to run something locally
Even the ones who have pledged to give away 99% of their wealth upon their deaths? Buffett has said, roughly, that his best skill is using his money to make more money, so the optimal thing to do in terms of helping the world is to continue to do that until he dies, then give it all away. If every time he made a hundred million dollars he gave it away, he would be giving away orders of magnitude less money than by continuing to grow it until his death.

It's a nontrivial thing to give away a billion dollars (or at least to do so in a way that doesn't end up losing a tremendous amount of it to fraud).

Also, many billionaires became billionaires by starting companies, and they can't give away all or even most of their money without losing control of the companies they've created. Why should someone wanting to keep control of the company they've built while they're alive make them evil?

You seem to hold the rather common misconception that billionaires are just people with checking accounts that contain huge numbers, and they could give away their money at any time very easily but instead cackle about how rich they are. This is not accurate. Most of them are billionaires because they focused on business, and what you seem to be saying is that everyone who starts a successful business must, upon their paper wealth being more than a billion dollars, give up the thing that they've spent their life focusing on, sell everything they own, and become philanthropists. Otherwise they're evil. But what if they didn't sign up to be billionaires - they just started companies and really like running companies so they keep running companies?
I believe a core part of the idea is that you can delegate someone to control your vote unless you override them. Most people would choose someone whom they trust to make appropriate judgements and delegate their vote to them. So I think there would be a number of who specialize in evaluating these laws and it wouldn't be just a few crazy people.
This interview with Fravor is much longer and more detailed than any I have seen. Most of the interview is about piloting in general but his description of the Tic Tac encounter in particular is especially fascinating.
I think you are setting a very low bar for “filthy rich”.
Healthy lifestyle and good nutrition can easily bring one to -200kg.
> "an expert in the field can determine the system registers the votes/totals cast by individual voters."

When it comes to computers, there is no expert able to verify a system is really running what it's supposed to. Open source doesn't help, when even a single subtle bug could lead to exploits. Formally verified bug-free code doesn't help, when the compiler itself could be compromised. Verified compiler doesn't help, when the CPU could have backdoors. A compromised machine and a secure one look the same to all except an electron microscope.
What does this even mean? Who cares that if they had been AIs they would have been banned? They aren't AIs. AIs have literally nothing to do with any of this. What are you even talking about?
That's a pretty poorly reasoned counter-argument. There doesn't need to be an exact dollar value cutoff point to argue that having a billion dollars is immoral.
Sorry that doesn't make any sense to me. If a method can't or shouldn't hand a condition it then it needs to declare itself as throwing that exception (or a wrapper around it).
Do you need to have dead bodies to have an evil empire? Careers denied, businesses destroyed, ideals stifled are widespread in modern dictatorships.

Erdogan haven’t executed a single person and yet Turkey has become a terrible place for people with ambition, sky high brain drain is the norm, almost all public contracts are won by the same few businessmen however the government has widespread social programs so no one is actually starving or lacks access to modern medicine.

Should people be grateful? Probably not as much as the businessmen that get all the contracts and becoming the biggest in the world.
Yes, the primary specification was a linear probability model for the likelihood of a binary dependent variable conditioned on two binary input variables. As far as I could tell, the fit was max likelihood without regularization and the paper's bombshell conclusion was based on the regression coefficients' p-values.

The Stata thing was just one of many, many red flags.
What do you think that is at risk here? my vanity?
It's not sad at all, it's the nature of the beast. Nobody should ever be making all their real life identity and actions public online. Doing so is incredibly vapid and irresponsible. The internet still is for consuming information, and regardless of if 5 billion people do the incorrect thing or not, should not be used as a popularity contest gambling with one's real life identity.
Yes, on any PR you can click the source branch and see it. This is useful if a project is straightforward to build. You can just git clone the PR branch and build with that fix.
Please don't say 'Europe' when you mean 'Italy'.
These 'outliers' have an outsized effect on government which is more representative of our ideal choices.

You can't stop systemic problems like these by blaming the little guys living in food deserts making minimum wage. They have few choices to significantly change things when greener options are out of reach. Yet lobbies bought and paid for at the direction of these barons do.
Wealth is about value. Personally I never cared much about the latest smartphone, I wouldn't mind going back to my phone from 5 years ago.
As for skyscrapers, as COVID19 has shown, we don't need most of them (since people can just work remotely). The money would have been better spent on giving millenials higher salaries (or better, investing more in independent startups) so that they could afford to buy their first house in the suburbs instead of keeping them enslaved to their landlords and their corporate paymasters in the city centers.
In terms of the things that actually matter, wealth hasn't grown at all.

I can stack millions of rocks on top of each other into a giant pile but that doesn't mean I've been productive or that I created any wealth if nobody benefits from my pile of rocks or if people are coerced into accepting its legitimacy as a measure of wealth.
Smartphones are not a status symbol anymore so it’s now much easier to have a lower-end device that meets basic needs (phone, email, messaging) while limiting how distracting it can get (games, AR/VR)
I saw a bird nest once that the bird had lined with shredded bits of plastic bag to reinforce it.
The only reason PlayStation and Xbox aren’t general computing platforms is by choice. They are still computers with CPUS, hard drives and RAM. Users can watch Netflix, browse the web and consume content just like you would on an iPhone. I think this idea that because iPhones are “general computing devices” they should be held to a different standard is absurd. You can’t pick and choose how one platform operates while ignoring how other platforms have the same arbitrary restrictions.
I think you're misunderstanding the feature (or maybe I am?).

The way I understand it losing hearts prevents you from progressing too quickly. You can refill hearts by practicing content you've covered already and hence strengthen your basics.
Omit the "u" to see the result in local time, not UTC.
"My biggest regrets are the moments that I let a lack of data override my intuition on what's best for our customers."

I think we can learn something from that quote.
Are there really startups that don’t think about marketing any more? Not many.
That Elizabeth Warren tweet mentioned in the article stands out to me. She has spoken about breaking up big tech in her campaign as well.

While I completely agree with regulation ensuring fairer competition; as we are seeing how much abuse total control over a computing platform can lead to in Apple vs Epic case, is breaking them up the right way?

R&D is costly, and these companies spend a lot on it which is the reason US is still the leader in a lot of tech areas. The ability to spend that much just comes from their size. Breaking up companies might lead to inability of companies to go for moonshots and invest in cutting edge stuff. With China catching up and it being unlikely of them to restrict their companies this way, will it reduce competitiveness?
My nan used to be able to recite the whole poem from memory. She's 93 now, so can't remember so well any more.
Bring back the Pony Express! Watch the Russians interfere with that!
It has to start somewhere :) . I think cameras should be banned wholesale for any use other than watching -your- property. No police cams, no public street cams, etc. There is just too much potential for government abuse. It is the job of police, FBI, NSA etc to do everything they can to capture/stop crooks (of their various areas of interest). The Constitution (and general common sense human rights) gets in the way of that and they will use every tactic they can to get around it and stay legal or in a gray zone. This just gives more incentive to them abuse their mandates. This is why there needs to be a hard well defined wall against public surveillance by any government entity without a very very specific warrant. This includes them using anything obtained from a business. I mean down to the crime/individual/specific area of the street. As it stands they want a web of cameras with auto identification and tracking of everyone "just in case". That goes against any sense of liberty to live your life as you see fit as long as you aren't breaking the law. You really should not have to worry -at all- that big brother is watching, listening, recording, or any of that until you start breaking the law.
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And yes, this is how all online interaction should work. Similar to other PGP pseudonymous internet identity. The world needs the 1990's identity segregation via handles once again. Social media is a fad that simply brings out negative.
I don’t get this logic. What does his reputation have to do with what the parent is saying? Nothing that Snowden is saying here draws on any particular expertise or inside information. The point is that this is no different than you or I criticizing the hiring decision.
The datetime package is one of the best things about Python, and dare I say one of the best general purpose calendar modules ever written. It’s just so practical.
By many measures, the EU is more democratic than the UK. The problem is more the perception of it.
And it would be behind a setting just like Android I'd imagine. Alluded to that in the last bit of what I was saying.

At first I hated the whole idea of the various PC game stores and would continue to buy, say, Assassin's Creed games on Steam even though Uplay came out (and iirc, they started requiring Uplay be installed for DRM or whatever anyway). Then eventually I realized that directly in Uplay, you could get pretty absurd discounts plus discounts from some type of point system compounded on top of that. So by cutting out Steam in that interaction, it made it cheaper for me and they effectively got the same amount of money so win/win. Granted, Playnite and GOG Galaxy 2 really streamlined the whole thing such that managing various libraries wasn't an absolute nightmare.

As far as iOS goes, we should look at Android and Fortnite. Originally, Fortnite was side loaded. Then they moved it to the Android Play Store because they weren't getting the traction that they expected. So they went in with the Play Store.

Could Epic do a side loaded Epic Mobile Store or something where you could get Fortnite, an Infinity Sword remaster, or Shadow Complex ported to mobile (great game, shame they haven't done anything with that property since Xbox 360 era really)? Sure, but if that did happen it would be the exception and not the rule. I don't think you'd see the proliferation of alternate storefronts you see on PCs because the storefronts came later in the PC's life so various means of pulling in new applications has been what we've experienced from day one whereas the App Store has always been there for the vast majority of iOS adopters (no App Store era was during the AT&T period and even then, early on people were under contracts and what not/weren't ready to shell out the kind of money an iPhone called for). Non-billion dollar development shops aren't going to leave the App Store because they want the discoverability nor the overhead required of setting up their own payment gateways and what not.
Not sure how that computer related. In Germany all voting places are wheelchair accessible. Additionally for the blind, there’s a Stimmzettelschablonen that allows you to vote in secret. These issues can be solved without computers.
By that logic, everyone must also understand how CDMA/GSM works or we can't trust that that 911 call will go through correctly.

The reality is that americans have collectively decided that e-voting cannot possibly work, perhaps due to some irrational fear that their bipartisan side will be cheated out of a rightful win in some sinister movie plot. Never mind that e-voting has been around and working just fine in other parts of the world.
My water bill is a week late. I know it's late, I've gotten two emails about it. I've got plenty of money in my account to pay it right now. It would take less than five minutes. I still haven't done it.

And the above for most of my other "mundane" responsibilities which aren't automated yet too.
The coastal inferno, the Gulf hurricanes, widespread protests and riots: are these actions of the invisible hand? This year's election is a choice between the status quo which brought us here, and a corrupt tyrant who will consolidate the profits to an even smaller class of elites. So, let's focus on Gates: the kindest, gentlest, robber baron. This century's Carnegie.

He's plainspoken on the issue, really. If he were a politician, he'd be restricted by laws and diplomacy and dealmaking. As a rich bastard, he can traipse around and wield unilateral power wherever he decides to shower with pennies. Of course, Bezos, Zuck et al have the same power. But they don't even bother to pretend that they give a shit about non-billionaires.
Strictly speaking, it doesn't "stop you from running the resulting JavaScript". The result isn't the same as if you'd run the JS directly, but it doesn't fail to output.
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"Please don't fulminate."

Maybe you don't owe billionaire bullies better, but you owe this community better if you're posting to it.
I agree -- physical immersion can work (the power of a physical-social environment is quite palpable) but I merely wonder if it's sufficient or necessary.

Being immersed with no alternatives does force one to learn simple phrases to get by but it seems quite possible that you'll never have non-trivial conversations with locals until you have enough vocabulary -- and locals won't have non-trivial conversations with you unless you have enough vocabulary. Also native speakers are often loathe to correct you when you make mistakes, so the feedback loops is often broken. To get out of this chicken and egg situation, it seems to me that some amount of focused study is required, and whether that is done in the country or outside doesn't seem to matter (especially with sites like iTalki or others).

As an example: I have friends who taught English in Korea for years (where English isn't widely spoken). They were able to function for years with a few choice phrases and never needed to go beyond that.

Sometimes even at significant levels of immersion, it's possible to not be able to speak the language beyond the basics. I have friends who attended German universities, in German, but have trouble speaking German. Likewise in the US there are many international students attending college in English, do fairly well in school, but struggle greatly to converse in the language.

I think immersion is merely a tool: the underlying driving force really is "intention". With intention, it's possible to go much farther even if immersion was not a tool at one's disposal.
In the same way, a Panda is a ton. Generally speaking, the lightest you're every going to find in cars is 800kg. I drove a Clio 1 Phase 1, that was 820kg. And let's be honest, it wasn't much more than an engine, seats, and a body. Even a Twizy, which is absolutely nothing is in the 475kg range. Engines are heavy.

But yes, you are closer to a car. if it's truly 500kg.
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