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Do you really think you know so much about me, my talents, or achievements? Based on what? A smart person does not see the world in monochrome. The fact that you’re so presumptuous should give you pause before you start flinging insults.
> Rather, it's making the innards of a computer understandable.

Yes! Connected to this, he uses approaches that are biased toward simple implementation that 'mere mortals' can actually get working.
I wrote a thorough description a how a seller was manipulating their reviews and put that into my own review.

I got an official warning from Amazon and my review was removed. They said that my account could be closed if I repeated my violations.

Amazon reviews used to be great (~10 years ago). You could sort by review score and feel pretty confident that the top items fairly safe. These days Amazon has so many counterfeit items that it's a chore to even browse. The most recent counterfeit items I've received are clothing which were labeled as Adidas and Hanes.
"the vast majority of whom span the ideological spectrum from the moderately far right to outright Nazis."

Honest question, is blockchain now another category in which political affiliation now decides how you are supposed to feel about it? I don't really understand why that would be.
For your third suggestion, I'll take a shot: For animals to lactate, they must become pregnant. Dairy cows are repeatedly impregnated, they give birth, and they are separated from their calves. Female calves become dairy cows themselves, male calves are either made into veal or killed promptly. A small fraction may become studs for more dairy calves.

The entire ordeal is very much not natural and not pleasant. And we do it at a scale that is awe-inducing. If you are a compassionate type that sees cows in a similar light to dogs, I'd bet you can understand why someone would feel very strongly that it's not an option.

If you would like to learn more there are a few documentaries that explore the big 3 benefits of veganism--Health, ecology, and animal welfare. I won't link them here as they are easy to find for any that are interested.
> Corn $2.1B, Soybeans $1.6B

Almost all of this is turned into animal feed or fuel.
Leave a 5 star review, but in the comments, make it clear extremely clear it's a 1-star product.
While I understand that people find any reason to believe they hold status higher than others but they shouldn't believe that when they are faced with a company with billions of customers worldwide. If you continued to buy from Amazon (racked up $50K in spending for 15 years), it's clear that removing your review didn't matter to their bottom line so no reason to care.
The question seems to be: what can we do to limit Amazon?
If Signal's servers are hacked the attacker can see exactly zero of my messages (even an active attacker that controls the server). E2E encryption protects against hacked servers.
Amazon has become a dumping ground for re-labeled products and the reviews are nearly completely untrustworthy because of the gaming and scams.
I’ve had tons of these offers. Idk why Amazon doesn’t search their incoming product for this type of stuff.

They would find similar cards in most electronic accessories.
Thanks for the feedback. We already fixed it.
Buy from alternatives and give them feedback. Shopify has made it pretty easy for anyone to start a e-commerce site and then there are other places like etsy.
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Thanks for the feedback + bug report! I agree that we should do better on making the camera settings more clear.
ungated: https://archive.is/pOkNN
Same with me - I'm over $80K in purchases based on my data request to them (excluding business where I admin a business account with multiple purchasers).

Critical reviews do get taken down (I've no idea why). My reviews are legit - I don't have time or interest in anything other than providing feedback. Most stuff is fine, but some is obviously fake or junk. I'm always specific, they could literally buy the product and test it themselves.
News flash: this is what they said about COBOL, C, C++, JavaScript, closure, etc. as well as architectural patterns such as OOD or functional programming. Every language, and every platform has it’s nuances. You can do silly, non performing things in any language or platform. To assume a particular language will solve all your woes is outright naive and exhibits no memory of past software engineering concepts.
I believe prison laborers deserve to be paid minimum wage, despite their convictions and despite their inability to negotiate. Additionally minimum wage should be raised to a living wage.

You’re taking an overly reductionist view, incompatible with things like “equal pay for equal work.” He definitely deserves to get paid for his work, and it’s obviously a matter of by whom, and he’s fed up with giant corporations using his stuff despite being able to pay him, and he’s totally in the right even if he’s insert-some-undesirable-here.
> Where it gets tricky is when you find yourself backed into a corner. Say you know (for whatever reason) you're 90% going to fail - do you accept that? Or do break out the Hail Mary cheat - what have you got to lose?

I wonder if the extreme cost of university in the USA worsens this? If education was cheaper they might lament the lost time as opposed to lost time and a lot more money.
Thanks, I got from this a nice reading, a new video for my watch list, and a new Twitch channel to follow... not bad!
Doesn't that support the thinking that brand names are actually worth something? I agree, if I'm shopping for something like a USB cable most of the brands are companies I absolutely don't give a damn about. However, if I'm shopping for a cable I don't want to have to figure out which one actually has enough copper to support the amperage demands, so I'm likely to just get one from a trusted brand like Anker or Monoprice and be done with it.
I think DisplayPort done away with this legacy and uses packetized transmission.
Well obviously not, but that's the point - it seems a few products in this list actually do provide something valuable but are either not being sold to the right customers, or if they are are being sold for peanuts given their worth.
Windows Sandbox doesn't fool exam monitoring software.
Nice thing about TIC-80: it has built-in support for Fennel[0], so you can develop games for it in a lisp-like language.

[0] https://fennel-lang.org/
In software support, training, and adding/fixing bugs for a fee. Redhat was a large company that did this.

If the world stabilized on a few software products that did what people wanted to do, like and office suite, that would be great. No more work needs to be done on it. Just a little maintenance going forward. Like roads. They cost a lot to build, but little to allow someone to drive on them.
But vegans want burgers, they just don’t want to kill an animal for that burger. This is no different than someone making a turkey burger because they don’t like beef.

For some reason, only vegans get called out for making substitutions.
Well, if you take the time to learn about dairy farming (even in free range dairy farms), you would quickly find out that cows have a natural lifespan of ~20 years, but cows used in dairy farms have an average lifespan of ~6 years. From the perspective of giving entities that we believe are probably conscious and probably feel suffering and pain a fair chance at life, minimizing the amount of dairy and cheese we consume would seem like a good idea. I'm looking forward to a world where lab-grown cheese substitutes are as good as (or better) than the real thing.
Just adding information, I have had this happen
The solution is to not comment on such issues and downvote and potentially flag (when appropriate) people that spend all their time writing about that instead of things that actually matter.
HAHA this looks very relevant! I gotta give it a watch sometime soon.
> Does the reduced viewing angle bother you?

Never bothered me. I got used to the reduced field of view and such pretty quickly.

> - In games like BigScreen, I suppose you can't play your own .mp4/.mkv files? Or can you?

Yep, you absolutely can. I've pointed it at an SMB share I have for such things, but you can also load it up with videos on the deviec. It's a little annoying to deal with DTS, but once you put the random .so it needs to decode it on the device, the hard work is done.

> tranquility on top of a mountain or on a beach. Would it be worth it?

Personally, I think so. It's mostly what I used mine for. It might not literally be a beach or whatever, but I really like the more tranquil apps like the VR painting ones or whatever that let me zone out and ignore the world for a bit. Also, I forgot to mention Derail Valley. I have many hours in that game, which for me is mostly about enjoying the train rides as I move cargo around.

As for more open: I'm looking into the HP Reverb, but I'm not yet that familiar with the desktop side of things. Given some of the quality of apps available, I'm guessing the programming side is pretty easy. Getting 3rd party stuff on the Quest is a bit like an iOS device. You need a developer account, then you can sideload packages (or use "SideQuest" to act as a third party store). No clue what FB plans for that side of things, of course.
Another interesting open question is what's the "failure mode" as our immunity wears off. Do we become vulnerable to the full danger again? Or can we expect to contract the virus again, but this time the body will be better able to jump to defense quickly, making the most severe cases less likely?
Very nice. Curious how colors are chosen?

Can’t try it on my dated iPhone - you need to vendor prefix the AudioContext with webkitAudioContext if AudioContext is undefined.
Over half of under-5 child mortality in India is the result of malnutrition, and half the children under 3 are below a healthy weight. The WHO has citied not only insufficient food, but also a substandard diet.
To be fair, I don't expect vegan burgers to mimic meat any more than I expect chicken to taste of beef. I just need it to taste good and have good texture, staying together when in the pan or on the grill and do well in the bun. I also can't quite remember what most meat tastes like, honestly.
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Can I interpret that as you being against the killing of those who speak the truth?

And in reference to your last point, what are you getting at there? Is there something you’re observing in the world that justifies forceful extraction of truth being the focal point of your comment?
Forget security champions, what about security advocates?
Posting that reviews are fake in a review makes Amazon look bad and goes to somebody who can't penalize the merchant. That's why they removed it. Telling Amazon directly that a merchant is paying for fake reviews doesn't make Amazon look bad, could get routed to somebody who can penalize the merchant, and is more likely to get results.

I'm not justifying Amazon's actions here — just explaining the reality of the situation.
The Illusory Theory of Multiple Intelligences
Nexus 6P, no bootloops, but the phone would start shutting down once the battery reached about 32% reliably (i.e., with 100% certainty, not just sometimes).

Barely 1.5 years after being purchased new. Combined with the fact that the battery on it was already shoddy and only degraded significantly with time, I legitimately would have to keep my charger always on me, or I might get stuck with a dead phone.

2 of my friends who bought Nexus 6P around the same time also had issues, with one hitting the infamous bootloop issue, and another one experiencing battery issues and automatic shutdown similar to mine.
A few thoughts.

1) Canada's "most expensive telecom in the world" comes up a lot.

While this is somewhat true, internet/cell phones are expensive here, what people seem to forget is the number of customers and the land mass. You cant take Phone costs in Ontario (Population 14.57 million, area 1.076 million km²) and compare that to California (Population 39.51 million, area 423,970 km²) and think you will pay the same rates.

Yes, most of Ontario is close to the border, and in cities, but your cell phone works over a massive area and you pay for this.

2) Canadian government pledges to connect 98% of Canadians via High-Speed Internet

This is the liberals, and probably gettiing ready for elections so they promise the world but history shows they also wont deliver on it.

- Ontario Wynne pledges to lower insurance rates (this becomes a "stretch goal")
- Trudeua pledges electoral reform (nope, never took place).

- Ontario Liberals move to ban two-tier health care (2003)
How long do you think Trudeau's wife waited for her COVID treatment? Do you think she was she treated in a hallway like other Canadians?
How is it remotely useful for the next person if you leave a 1 star review on a product on Amazon because it got lost in the mail? That has nothing to do with the product.
No need to be rude. I'm just trying to understand the limitations of the protocol.

A group of us are actually building this ourselves. See https://book.peergos.org or https://github.com/peergos/peergos The key phrase relevant to this discussion is "trust-free servers".
Your missing the point. It has nothing to do with their identity, it's the fact that telling apart fake reviews from ones written by real people is a hard problem, but generally you won't find a bot account with 15 years of history. The implication here is that if Amazon truly cared about surfacing legitimate reviews only, they would've kept the one from that account since there's very low probability of it being fake.
Idk how anyone with a straight face can say that $700 is mid-range. That's the price of a well performing desktop computer.

What happened to the actual mid-range? The specs for the current $300 phones seem to be worse than the specs for $300 phones 3-4 years ago. How come?
I do trade VIX if that counts... It goes well,except when it does not.
Muscles are different between genders, on average.

A woman's 1RM is a lower percentage of her body weight than a man's (on any exercise, on average), but she will usually be able to do more reps at e.g. 70% of 1RM.

So it makes sense to exercise that higher endurance, and kettlebells are very nice for their mix of strength/endurance work.

(I'm male and love both the barbell and the kettlebell).
Most smart UPS can notify equipment (via LAN, USB and some even offer IPMI) to turn off in the event of an outage, or as soon as the battery reaches a certain threshold. You just need to install the UPS's server software on the equipment you want gracefully shut down.
Needs a "(PDF)", dang.
I picture the scene as:

"...and that's the answer."

"Sorry...you're wrong. That's not how we solve it."

"I wrote the book on it. I just solved it for you starting from first principles. It can be used as a proof."

"Sorry...if you can't think the way we do you just won't fit in."
I've actually seen this- I didn't know why they did it.
Here's another funny example where a UK MP was not able to vote the way they intended:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/snp-mp-locked...

Here, it's suggested that MPs sometimes vote both ways to cancel their own mistake out, although they normally claim that they are taking some nuanced view: https://www.publicwhip.org.uk/boths.php

Not to mention that UK MPs can't vote if they have to be absent for any reason - for example if they have child-care duties.

Your original point was that the UK Commons' system of slow voting is foolproof: it isn't.
Good point. I guess that would be relatively easy to check for programmatically.

What else is there that could possibly indicate virtualization? Available instruction sets? Strange limitations of the given CPU? (e.g., the cpu presents itself as some Intel chip that's known to have 4 cores, but there's only 2 available)
>Is this a serious comment? The Saudi Arabian government has already admitted to murdering Khashoggi (but denied that MBS had anything to do with it)[0]. There was plenty of reviewed evidence, including CCTV footage, audio recordings, etc, not just "everybody knows".

Have you seen the footage and listened to the audio recordings? I've followed the events, and read the articles as they came out. One after the other talked about details, bone saws, audio recordings of phone calls, of the deed itself, video footage. The ones I may have watched were not of that event.

The link points to the Wikipedia page of the "Assassination of Jamal Khashoggi". Do you have a link to the Saudi Arabian government admitting to murdering Khashoggi?
Insofar as universities produce pedigrees, it doesn’t really matter if Caltech students cheat. I suppose there’s greater justice in a student cheating on an exam and getting good grades while nobody knows - the student already won the lottery, they are getting the degree and a floor of a good lifestyle.

Yet they will be less likely to commit suicide, you know? Or some other act of desperation.

It’s a success because it lets students quietly cheat - if they need to - without reducing the graduation rate.
I think that's a very naive way of looking at it. You can't say "if everybody would just educate themselves on this topic", because the vast, vast majority of people do not.

Singular papers can do real harm, as we can see from a whole movement of "vaccines cause autism" stemming from one fallacious paper.

And even without going to those extremes, it's clear that confirmation bias will cause people to find even a single paper confirming their scientifically bankrupt ideas as a way to bolster and legitimize their campaigns to spread harmful misinformation.
Every time I see "Amazon's Choice", in my head I hear the tagline from The Outer Worlds:

" It's not the best choice, it's Spacer's Choice "
I used to be all-in on Amazon shopping, that's where I started all my shopping searches.

Now Amazon is my site of last resort for everything but books. The rest of the net has gotten competitive. I do my research on wirecutter/reddit, and buy it from manufacturer/walmart/bestbuy, other niche trustworthy stores.

The cash back I get back from my Amazon card usually covers cost of most of what I still buy from Amazon, so Amazon has become my "free goodies" shop.

I think this is great. Having "an everything store" that everyone uses always felt like a monopoly ripe for customer abuse.
> Your missing the point.

I am not. You should re-read my point. Whether their review was rejected or not didn't stop them from spending $50k on amazon. They are as replaceable as warehouse workers.
Nope. Java complexity came straight from Sun and friends. J2EE / EJBs (came in 2000) did not come from some randos, it was official Sun specification and supposedly standard way to develop any enterprise application.
`z = acf(x, y) / (3 sigma); color_rgb = z < 0 ? z * vec3(4, 2, 1) : z * vec3(1, 2, 4);`

That's really it. The (4, 2, 1) is the oversaturated orange color, i.e. it would progress as (1, 0.5, 0.25) -> (1, 1, 0.5) -> (1, 1, 1). None of the tricky HSL/HSV schemes worked better than this.
This is a highly regulated process. In practice people have a few months before they have to move out.
Images doesn't load on mobile brave if javascript is blocked.
Just because this particular item isn't something for folks on a particular diet doesn't disprove the claim. It still is more accepting for people who have various dietary restrictions.
So my conclusion after decades is this: you do the projects you like to do for your own benefit, and no one else’s.

100x this. If people only understood this right from day one, a lot of frustration would be saved. And with it all the expressed entitlement on which this frustration is built.

You write some code because you need and want it, be it for your learning experience or to make a tool that you need or because to get paid for it. You open source something because you want to get the community engaged in it, to help you find or fix bugs or add features.

Conflating these two is a recipe for frustration and the type of post that has prompted this article and the 500+ thread contributions, 90% of which demonstrate that they don't understand the difference either. Which is the real sad aspect here.
"Universal consistency" is longstanding terminology for "error goes to zero under every possible distribution". So it seems reasonable to use the word universal in this way, referring to a "for every distribution" type of bound.
> an AWS access key can be generated for the duration of a script, then revoked. The keypair will not exist before or after the script runs, and the creation of the keys are completely logged

I'm not totally sure what your goals are, or the overall context, but a few issues with this approach:

You can only create these access keys for IAM users, and each user can only have two keys at a time. So if you're using this as a "service account", you pretty much have to have an IAM user for each task. If you need to scale to 100 concurrent tasks, that's either going to take up 50-100 IAM users (from your limited quota) or you're going to have to figure out some other scheme for managing lifecycle of access keys.

Instead, just use IAM roles and sts:AssumeRole into the role. You can sts:AssumeRole as many times as you want, there is no limit to how many 'tasks' you can have assuming the same role at a time. Credentials from sts:AssumeRole are inherently time-limited (and you can set a tighter expiration than the default) and you can additionally constrain what the resulting credentials can do with the `policies` or `policyarns` parameter. The role assumption is logged and you can impute the expiration of the assumption from the sts:AssumeRole event (because it either includes the DurationSeconds parameter value or you can assume the default).
Oh interesting, I'd love to hear your thoughts on this. Right now I'd say we're still in this "skewmorphic transition," where we gain a lot from just replicating more aspects of real life, and since it analogizes very easily people know what to do with it. As things become more mature and people become situated with it, we'll definitely be asking how we can break physical constraints and if there's a fundamentally better arrangement.
So what happens if a removed function is called? Or can you guarantee that won't happen?
The thread is about whether an iPhone is your phone or Apple's. If Apple has made the device they way they wanted and the way the user should want (secure), it is Apple's device. If they failed and made an insecure device, it is yours.

Whether people can buy other phones is irrelevant to the question of whose phone an iPhone is. I fully agree that people should buy other phones.
I wonder if part of the blame here comes to the apps pushing people to write reviews. I have a hard time thinking that person would go out of their way to leave a negative review like that, but if Yelp pings and encourages them to describe what they thought of their meal, I could see someone just typing whatever came to their mind.
I had the exact same experience (even down to releasing my first game during lockdown)! The whole process of developing in Pico 8 is like digital therapy for me. It reminds me what excited me about coding all those years ago before it became a career.
Thanks for the clarity! I did not write that very well. Didn't mean to imply that is was something other than vegetable oil plus some animal-based seasonings.
To be fair, your first link doesn't say that vegerable oils are bad for you. It just says that the Omega-6 fatty acids in them, if not balanced out by additional Omega-3s from other sources, cause health problems. So vegetable oils aren't inherently unhealthy and can be consumed without problems as long as the need for Omega-3 is respected.
Why would I bother publishing it or creating it?

I'm well fed and I don't need to sell myself.