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Agree on the second point.

First one is generally also true. But future returns with the current stock levels? Or maybe everyone is going short term, trying to ride the wave as long as possible and hoping to be out before the next drop?
Comcast already shares your internet connection with others if you rent your wifi router from them.
And if consoles are forced to allow alternative stores, we won't be able to buy these consoles at the current prices as they won't be subsidised anymore. Loss for consumers
1. How does that imply warmongering

2. What have they been wrong about?

Bellingcat are probably being fed clues by the western intelligence services but that just makes them one source amongst many - even if they knew they answer prior to using OSINT that doesn't make them wrong. Murray is contrarian as long as he breathes, of course he would say that.

Craig Murray was (this on his word keep in mind) apparently approached with DNC emails in a clandestine manner just as he was publicly pooh-poohing the Russia connection - if hes not making it up someone tried the same thing but from the other side.
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> The main developer of Calibre has had a long history of arrogant statements like that. Most famously illustrated in this bug report thread https://bugs.launchpad.net/calibre/+bug/885027

That's more ignorance that arrogance. He fixed what he understood, and discussed what he did not understood till he found a satisfying solution.

Personally I wouldn't trust a dev who fixes stuff blindly which they don't understand. Though, in case of security this of course can have also bad outcomes, as illustrated in this case in the process. But that makes it even more important for everyone to follow through and communicate clearly. Which did happen here at the end.
Before committing to GNU/Linux in 1998 or 99, I've had a similar experience with moving away from DOS/Windows for workgroups 3.11 to '95: Windows 95 tried to achieve too much in terms of backwards compatibility between 16- and 32-bit software, and was very flimsy as a result.

However, I've briefly used NT4 as my "development box" (Delphi addict for a while, though in my defense, I was like 15 at the time) for 6-12 months, that was as stable as anything you could get. But it had the same problems as Linux: it was very specific as to what hardware it supports. The same "soft modems" (called "winmodems" at the time) were equally unsupported in NT4 just like in Linux, so you had to get yourself external hardware modems which were like 5-10x the cost (whatever came out of US Robotics?).

So since I was more into the hacker mindset, I moved into GNU/Linux world and never looked back.

But I did grow an appreciation for MS engineering: they can develop quality software, and did it even in 96, but their consumer OSes strive for unparalleled compatibility and allow anybody (literally anybody) to write system level code that runs on the kernel ring level due to that.

A couple years down the line, I've even seen an article how many workarounds they had to introduce into '95 to allow old software employing their own extended/expanded memory management tricks to continue to function (think stuff like DOS games, WordPerfect...).

For all the fun we make of it, Windows 95 was a marvel of engineering when you consider the constraints and requirements. Just oppose that to the new web app approach to software engineering: breaking backwards compatibility is such a common theme that nobody bats an eyelid.
It's a question of knowing your data.

UTC time probably won't always give you the correct result, since timezones and DST aren't fixed.

Say, you want to store the time of your doctor's appointment months in advance.

Here it makes sense to store the time with a timezone - but not the timezone offset. This makes sense because no matter what the government decides about changing DST or moving timezone offsets alltogether - your doctor's appointment is going to be at 0900am at a specific geographic location and since you will physically be there with your watch synchronized to your doctor's.

But say you have an online appointment with your psychotherapist who lives in a completely different timezone (possibly you do not know which one) from you at some specific time in the future.

Here making the appointment via UTC makes sense - to meet up you need a globally synchronized clock.

The hard part: how do you know determine whether you can schedule these two one-hour appointments right after each other and not have a conflict ? I am not sure it's perfectly possible.
Definitions of these things vary greatly in each country, but a 'non-profit' may sell things, where I am.

What's important is that the 'selling of things' is targeted to 'recoup costs', not 'make profit'.

An example, hosting an event and charging $5 per seat, to recoup the costs of renting the theatre. And to pay talent.

Maybe this is different in the UK?

And, you keep saying "operate for profit", which makes me think it is part of their charter, instead of saying "non-profit" which makes me think of my above logic.
The major variables in modern compilers are just automatic timestamps, exploit mitigation random seeds, and toolchain versions, it is possible to make them immutable. The problem can be fixed, and there are already major projects to address it. Do you know that 90% of the Debian packages are already reproducible [0]?

[0] https://isdebianreproducibleyet.com
I have a Windows XP VM to run the software for my MD player. You're right, the OS from that era is lightning quick in today's hardware, even in a VM. Also, the USB passthhru is problem-free interestingly.
Sorry but do you have a citation on that? Never seen anything like that in Europe.
Thank you, I was hoping for an indication that at least somebody got it.
Not so hard.

You can try to add detect if the user switch to another window.

There is a typo in the bottom, there is a missing "s" in "All right_S_ reserved"

Chrome mutes the autoplayed sound until you click somewhere. Perhaps you can add a fake "Click here to unmute button".

The rainbow progress bar change scale, but I expected that the yellow part disappears. This is an artistic choice anyway.
I admire what the community has achieve with Linux. I think is really great and I have used Linux in the past (Redhat, Fedora, Suse, Ubuntu, Mint).

However, I always wonder what makes your experience so different than mine.

For me I can simple replace what you said and it will still be valid:

To me Linux were really frustrating to use since random parts of the system (CD-ROM, Word, Games...) would stop working at random times.

(well the part about the CD tray never happened to me with any OS).

I really like the customizability of Linux and such, but in the end, Windows 2000, XP, and 10 just works 99% of the time. At least for me who I consider an advanced user.

Of course there are things I don't like, like telemetry, but the pros vs the cons, at least for me, make me always return to Windows.

I have also worked with macs and for 4 years my wife had a MacBook. Not only do I find the prices crazy expensive, compared with ThinkPads, but I never found anything that was better in OSX than in Windows.

Again, I can use macOS if needed be, and I find it just fine. But I prefer Win/ThinkPad.

Of course this is my own opinion.
I didn't really understand what TFA was saying except when it said that catching an Uber is a pretty similar experience to catching a taxi. I get that.

So, if the main point of TFA is that "disruption" isn't very disruptive, then what are you saying? Could you illustrate with an example?
Watch out, every time someone speaks a startup idea, one pops into being.

In a few years, we'll all be hearing about hot new "Shazam for Adtech" startups.
That's such a weird perspective to take. No information, including the exact dosage that will kill you, should be hidden "just in case". It's like security by obscurity of medical world. In fact I'd advocate that every paracetamol packet should say, in big letters in the back "TAKING X OF TABLETS WILL KILL YOU WITH NO KNOWN TREATMENT, AND IT WILL HURT ALL THE TIME AS YOU'RE DYING". There's so many people who don't realize how easily taking too much paracetamol can kill it's crazy.
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Ha! I had the same with windows 2000 as compared to NT4. I stayed on NT4 as long as I could, and never really liked windows 2000 because it took twice the resources to do the same job at half the speed. Windows XP was 2000 with more (ugly) eye candy and a lot of bloat, so I didn’t like that either, but hardware improved enough that by the end of its reign it was quite fast.
I don't find the Windows SDK too bad, but I tried React Native for Windows and building each simple app took up 1GB+ of space.
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Not just true of crows. I volunteer at a raptor conservation organisation in the UK. Many of the birds (eagles, vultures, owls, etc) recognise several people, especially those that fed them when they were being trained. They demonstrate this in the free-flying displays (where they could in principle just fly off if they wanted to) by routinely returning to the keeper, sometimes after flights where they travel some distance from the display area. They are also good at recognising and responding to signals, especially those that indicate a food treat may be forthcoming. In some cases the birds dislike specific individuals and will not work with them in a display.
No, the latter is attempting to wash out the problem, removing the mention of the people most affected by it. It's transparent and reactionary.
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>We stopped doing research when a prison company approached us with an interest in putting the collars on prisoners

Jesus, that is terrifying.
Hunting them you get just about the same type of stories. Sometimes they realize a hunter has set a trap in the deep forest and they will lead their enemies to the trap. I seen them use tools, and talk to warn others or say "hey get over here!"
Profits from commercial subsidiaries goes to fund the BBC budget and reduce the reliance on License fee.

For example last year BBC Studios paid £200m as dividend to the BBC.

http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/reports/annualreport/...
That's awesome to hear, thanks!

Also I like the new version on Android, hopefully it will reach feature with the older version.
> This is such a waste of resources. Just make all drugs legal and regulate them...

Everybody knows that, what you don't realize is that drugs are the perfect excuse for many things.
Easy to spot: Declining sales (quarter-by-quarter).

Firing sales people: too much quotas not achieved

Buy-out and mergers: Duplicate roles (HR, common services, facilities mgmt), and restructuration.

All-hands meetings (unexpected).

Change of major providers (health, insurance, etc.)

Subcontractor consolidation - usually 1-2 fiscal years ahead of firing employees.
When the basis for the charge is political rather than factual like this one. Then usually yes.
Like exclusives on Epicgames store? Like that competition?
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Just tried Geforce now as I spotted they had a free offering that links to my Steam library.

Booted up "Just Cause 3" (first one I spotted that was supported and I had). The first bit of the game has you on top of a plane shooting at ground targets.

I'm on a 40Mb/s connection with 22ms of ping to 8.8.8.8. All wired ethernet, no wifi.

The latency was awful, felt like ~1s from mouse move to action. I could not aim at the targets at all.

0/10 unplayable ;)
I think that’s the sort of perverse reasoning that gets you into a purity spiral in the first place. I disagree with plenty of things, morally or otherwise, why would that mean I don’t think other people shouldn’t be able to make up their own minds, and decide for themselves how to live their own lives? The premise of this seems to be that anybody who has a stance on anything can not be expected to tolerate anybody else having a difference stance. I can see how the people of Silicon Valley might come to expect that, but it’s not normal.
Ah, I am not so sure, crows consider humans gods. They kind of lack respect for that ..
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It was believed to be a monster of sorts. It was called "The Beast of Craggy Island".
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That's exfiltration, not infiltration.
My favorite subject to teach is electrical. No one is ambivalent; they're either completely on board or want no part of it. And students pay rapt attention. Well, at least if they don't, it's only once.
For me that actually was Windows 2000. Never really saw a need to switch to XP, and instead switched to Vista and later 7, eventually.
Do you believe VCs when they say they're founder-friendly? How do you define founder-friendly?
What is the best resume parsing API or tool with less cost?
So, how will the COVID vaccine/s be manufactured and distributed in 2021? Can anyone describe a process for any of the vaccine types, and estimate throughput in any way?
Don’t discount that a big part of the “utility” of a vehicle purchase for many people is the emotional and/or status part of it. One interesting business example is a cohort who travels a lot on business and bought a $65k truck as a commuter vehicle for sales work. A $15k hatchback would have worked but their clientele attached a lot of status to a big ol’ fancy ranch truck.

Not saying it’s rational but like you said, there’s a lot of different dimensions to utility
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> alcoholic mouthwashes also kill the good bacteria in your mouth

Many (all?) in Canada have reformulated as alcohol-free. Unsure if it’s because water is cheaper than alcohol or to avoid a tobacco-style lawsuit because alcohol is linked to oral cancers.

Maybe because people drink the stuff, but I don’t think the manufacturers really had a problem with that.
See https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/win32

It's a work in progress, but will probably yield something that can be processed into various useful formats.
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For anyone that hasn't needed openssl on windows: The package manager is an exceptionally nice feature.
You missed the second sentance. The length of the translated string is less critical for a tooltip compared to a toolbar filled with buttons.

Imagine when an app is to be translated to 20 languages. Only the original language had the luxery of having a voice in how many buttons fit on the toolbar.
I hope EU stays a trade-bloc and everyone else considers de-escalating. I also don't trust the EU with too much power. the solution (imho) has to be peaceful - not forcing parties to spend more on defense and grandstanding.
8 was the first version that hibernates the kernel on shutdown so it can reload it from snapshot on boot. That’s why all windows versions since 8 boot so fast.
Free VPNs are bad for your privacy
Auto shutdown after 15-30 min of inactivity, keepalive stuff is against tos and permbannable

Must keep clicking/typing into it
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My vague understanding is that you are allowed to enter evidence to impeach someone (show that they are lying) at any time, most notably right after they lied.

I cound be wrong, but this trial has not inspired confidence in the judge actually following the law so I'm not taking the court ruling otherwise as the strong evidence that I normally would.
Apple's counter argument is that it's possible to sideload apps.

You just have to use a mac to do it and need to reinstall them every 7 days.
Assuming a casual user. Follow a quick tutorial on how to use and navigate the command line. As for everything else, just learn it if and when you need it.
8 was great on the intended devices. I used it on an asus transformer tablet/laptop and it worked really well. W10 was a step down for that machine because they dialed back the tablet UI.
Compared to OCC these libraries seem like toys. They support basic functionality but lack the other 90% that OCC already supports.

The problem I see is that complexity goes up a lot if you go beyond the most basic shapes and operations. The upside of that is that if you manage to keep your problems very simple, it's quite easy to make a new geometry kernel that supports your subset quite cleanly and efficiently.
I use a wireless charger/mount in the car, but it mounts in front of the aircon vent, so it charges perfectly.
I don't know much about cattle or dairy farming, but in Switzerland cows are running around in the mountains with big bells around their neck and horns on their heads. Would such a collar really be that dangerous for them?
I've heard a similar story about an experiment with monkeys, apparently called the 'five monkeys experiment' [1].

A group of monkeys were put in a room with a ladder leading to a banana. When a monkey touches the banana, sprinklers turn on and soak the room. The monkeys quickly learnt to ignore the banana to avoid getting wet, and even physically stopped newly introduced monkeys (who were unaware of the sprinklers) from climbing the ladder.

The entire group was eventually replaced one by one. The replacement group had never seen the consequence of climbing the ladder, but policed eachother as well as any new members from eating the banana.

[1] https://workingoutloud.com/blog/the-five-monkeys-experiment-...
Oddly in Canada, insulin doesn’t require a prescription. No idea how we decided on that one. Really dangerous to mess up, used in homicides, etc. Life-preserving, but so is pretty much everything else in a pharmacy, mostly over a longer-time period, but not always.
Hah. I just saw that we created our accounts ON THE EXACT SAME DAY :-)
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There was a lot of snarky comments in Danish news a couple of years ago when the Forestry Department sent the government a message stating that some oak-trees commissioned 200 years ago for the royal navy were now ready for harvest.

To me, the most surprising thing I have learned about Viking ships and resources is that the _sail_ not the boat was the real constraint: A sail would take an entire village several years to make, while a ship crew could complete a ship in less than a month.

I have heard stories of ship crews deliberately wrecking the ship in a place where they could recover the sail, rather than risk loosing the sail in an uncontrolled wreck. Don't know if there is any truth to this.
This sounds like an Office Space-esque rounding error. I recently wrote some code that requests all entries in a single day. The time query range is 00:00:00 to 23:59:59.999999999. I haven’t checked if nanosecond precision is sufficient for the timestamp source (labview requesting datetime from Windows 7), but I’m under the impression it is. If I was handling something higher stakes like finances, I would tack on a few more 9s.
Many people use datetime data types for dates, some unknowingly, some don’t care and some because they don’t see an alternative. Its quite strange there is rarely language/library support for true, not timezone dependent dates.
> dates are not times, don't store dates as times

They kind of are, or rather they are time intervals. When people say 25th September they most often mean the interval from 00:00:00 on the 25th until 24:00:00 on the 25th (or 23:59:(59|60) if you don't like one moment in time belonging to two days). This is obviously timezone dependend, at all times some timezones are on a different date than other timezones.
I think this is why we need an actively developed open source implementation that is backed up by multiple universities in multiple countries. It needs to be so useful and functional that it gains traction in commercial applications a like Blender does.
I thought I had insomnia but I fixed it by watching math lectures at night. Some people probably still need drugs and it doesn't work when you sleep with someone who doesn't like doing that, but it's one alternative to try.
> ...we could just RC animals directly.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/mar/04/cockroach-ro...
I'm surprised it hasn't leaked before. Microsoft used to give access to their OS source code as part of collaborations with academics (I don't know if they still do). I was surprised at how lax they were. It seems they didn't care that much.
This release isn't compatible with DeDRM for now according to:

> This release DOES NOT work with the latest calibre beta that requires Python 3 for plugins. (Updated June 2020).

https://apprenticealf.wordpress.com/

So I'll have to wait until it is. DeDRM is pretty vital as I often buy books on Amazon and read them elsewhere.

And even if not, I would not "buy" books that are in effect protected and can be taken back from me at any time, without being able to do anything about it.
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That's kind of a misleading comparison. It takes that many characters to exactly reproduce the "hg id -i" behavior because hg chose a certain set of defaults that git didn't happen to choose. What if as an hg user I want the first 16 chars of the commit ID and don't want the "dirty +"? The hg command quickly starts to look uglier.

If you just want the current commit ID in git it's just "git rev-parse HEAD". Which is still longer and uglier than "hg id -i", yeah, but it's a fairer comparison.
I feel like this would also troll everyone in their society.

>What time is it?

2am.

>It’s been 2am for 2 hours!
>“Besides crows, this kind of neurobiological evidence for sensory consciousness only exists in humans and macaque monkeys.”

Well, the fact that animals can remember things for more than a second or two is pretty good evidence that they have this kind of sensory consciousness. The ability to say you saw something and the ability to act on having seen something seem to be intimately tied together in every case we can probe. We only seem to be influenced by subliminal stimuli for a second or two, for instance. And there are people whose vision systems are cut off from their consciousness, they can pick up objects in front of them but not say that there's an object in front of them. A normal person can close their eyes then remember where an object was and pick it up. They can't.

So you would tend to expect this in any animal capable of remembering things.
Wow, I didn't realise it's the same guy. Kitty truly is a terrific piece of software, and it seems Kovid is also a terrific product engineer.
Rigorous proofs can be introduced in many courses. Personally, my first course making a large emphasis of proof was real and complex analysis (which was the calculus course), then linear algebra. I also took “discrete mathematics for computation”, a course specifically aimed towards computer science students, but that course was so chock-a-block full of content that there was no time for proofs.

I find discrete mathematics proofs very doable and useful, but pretty boring compared to analysis and algebra, and I very much enjoyed practicing mathematics skills in the latter rather than the former. (This is coming from someone who has published papers in combinatorics).
That seems quite a contrast to the early 80s, when they sponsored/commissioned their own branded home computer, promoted it on half the TV channels in the country and got it into every school in the country.