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This is a score on macOS 11.0.0, which shipped with the hardware, 11.0.1 bumps clocks a bit to 3.2GHz, which makes Apple Silicon take the ST crown by a hair.
The name seems to imply this project is 3x smaller than K3S[0], does it use less memory, CPU? If this is all about removing external dependencies, I don't think is worth creating an entire new project to avoid installing something like `socat`.

[0]https://k3s.io/
I agree with this assessment: MMOs are very good at getting a person into a skill-acquisition mindset. I've been off-and-on with Planetside 2 for a few years now(it's been getting good updates lately, and I've been seeing new players popping up - good time to get in) and while not every part of it is as deep as it could be, it's got an absolutely huge surface area to study - MMO, FPS, vehicle gameplay, construction, leadership, strategy, and all the edges where these things meet - which means you can feel you've hit your limit in one area and simply shift over to another instead of quitting the game entirely.

Unlike many MMOs the grind is not heavily stat-focused either: while you can get unlocks and upgrades, most of them constitute "sidegrades" into a specialty role. On the field, your effectiveness still comes down to knowing the ins and outs of the gameplay. And there are leaderboards to motivate competitive players, but it's widely acknowledged that playstyles are not represented equally on these boards: it is straightforward to get a very high K/D by learning one of the various kill-farming techniques, and to get a lot of experience points with a support role around a meatgrinder battle. But those things don't necessarily contribute the most to your faction.

It's things like that that suggest where the model breaks down on application to real world skills. Generally, once a person is aware of the things they need to focus on, through good feedback, they can stay on the task. But if you look at a thing like programming, it's like, "where's the feedback?" It's not the butt-in-chair hours that are doing the lifting here. And it isn't reducable to lines compiled or issues cleared or other single-number metrics either. "Speedcoding" is only good in rare circumstances. It's more like a finished project is a series of quests that build on each other, with each quest having some checklist pass/fail requirements. But each one is bespoke, and hard to compare to others even if it's applying the same skills.

Indeed I actually do write down pass/fails conditions as a checklist in the comments to start with a complex implementation, and to create a kernel of documentation. Having tools helps, but it's that early conceptual/goal-setting where I put down boundaries that seems to make the biggest difference.
A few random observations I found interesting:

- Looks like they are significantly leaner now as a result of COVID. Cost of revenue is at an all-time low in Q3 (17% of revenue on p164). There's a lot of focus the drastic cuts to Sales and Marketing, but it looks like there's a fair amount of increased discipline across the board.

- It's interesting that Operations and support looks to be very similar in both the first 9 months of 2019 and 2020 despite having drastically different revenue numbers. They had to spend roughly the same amount (600 million) to support 30% less revenue

- Looks like China is a huge part of their future strategy, so much so that it is explicitly called out in their Executive Compensation bonus calculation (p271). I can think of exactly one other American consumer tech company that has had success in China.
Delete all profiles with five or more digits in the username. Joking aside it will be interesting to see what they can come up with for solutions to platform integrity. I find myself using Twitter more and more and the only SoMe I really "follow".
Widespread supposition is that AirBnB does better than hotels lately because:
1) when people do travel, they'd rather be at a single apartment or cabin than a many-person hotel (not saying that's well-founded, just that it's a widespread opinion)
2) some people who are now remote working decided that if they couldn't do anything in this city, they would live elsewhere for a little while.

I have, however, no hard data to back up if these are actually the reasons.
it seems politically safer to do "something", than to do "nothing". if the lockdowns stop the virus you're a hero, if they dont, you're still a hero for thinking of the children... if instead you do nothing, and things get better, you're just seen as lucky, if things get worse, you get to take the blame.
I'm not making any assumptions about developers. I'm making a comment about Mozilla as an organization, and Firefox as a product.

Rudeness is in the eye if the beholder, but seems like you're taking this personally, and with a thin skin.
They would absolutely not love to have me, and I keep away from their mailing lists as much as a favor to them as to my own sanity. I'm not alone in the wilderness on this opinion that IETF process produces abysmal cryptography, by the way; Bernstein beat me here by 2 decades.
Indeed, I started using EMACS under ITS, a timesharing OS from the early 60s, whose command “shell” was the debugger. This of course influenced the Lispm, and the GNU philosophy.
Population densities are irrelevant at national scales. Most of Sweden is uninhabited wilderness, whereas most Swedes live in urban areas just like every other comparable country. Population densities only start to matter when comparing smaller regions.
> Looking through a dozen restaurant's websites to hunt down all that info (and hoping it's current) is a pretty miserable experience. Yelp makes it trivial to filter on a map.

On desktop, maybe.

Here's my experience trying this out on mobile (safari/iOS) just now:

I searched for "Pizza" with "San Francisco, CA" pre-filled. I am presented with a screen that ostensibly gives me a choice between "Open in the Yelp App" and "Continue to mobile site." I say ostensibly, because I don't get the chance to choose before a second tab opens up with a strange URL that causes iOS to open up the app store to their app.

I close the app store and go back to Safari and click "continue to mobile site". There are some results listed. I click "map".

Yelp asks me for my location. I allow it. It shows me results for San Francisco. I'm about 30 miles away on the peninsula. Now, I know I searched for San Francisco, and maybe that's what I want. But then what is Yelp even doing with my location?

At the bottom is an add for their iOS App. I click "x" to close it. Nothing happens. After four clicks, it finally leaves.

I click "Filters", select "Open Now" and submit.

Yelp asks for my location again. I allow it. It now shows me the results that are open, still ranging from SF to Colma. (So again, I have no idea what they're doing with my location.)

I click on a result. In this case, Golden Boy Pizza. I click on a photo. I scroll a few photos. On the sixth photo, I am presented the option of viewing all 3427 photos ...in the app.

I scroll down to look at reviews. Oh, those stars aren't reviews for this restaurant. They're sponsored suggestions. I scroll down further. I click a review that looks interesting because I want to read the whole thing.

...it takes me back to the app store without even a prompt.

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So, yeah, it's technically 'trivial' in the sense that you can get a list. But to actually use that list, you have to worry if any random click is going to take you away from the website. Some of the information you want is completely inaccessible without installing their software. (And even if you go through it all, there's no guarantee Yelp's information is current either.) Even if I trusted Yelp, I'd rather use any other method to find a pizza place.
Veloviewer's good for that.
Flight from Wisconsin to any airport in the world in 24 hours. Plenty of time to distribute from then - especially as it’s cities (near airports) that are the main targets

It’s not like aircraft are busy at the moment.
mullvad app overwrites firewall rules and allows all outgoing connections..

https://github.com/mullvad/mullvadvpn-app/issues/2171
Who knew it's cheap to create hotels when you don't have to pay any of the fees/taxes hotels do?
SpaceX’s ‘Resilience’ Lifts 4 Astronauts into New Era of Spaceflight
Perfectionism: The Thing Driving All of Us
I agree. If the US doesn't like tax havens, then the US can tax the local operations of companies that are incorporated there. No need for any hand wringing. Or maybe the US does like tax havens because they kind of keep the actual operations and money in the US which helps the economy despite a lack of tax.
Has anyone used K3s or this? Are they a good alternative to Dokku? I'm looking for something to either deploy on a server to host all my sideprojects (though Dokku has been basically perfect so far), or on my home server for various things like Gitea, Nextcloud and random scripts. Is K3s/K0s a good idea for either of those?
The causation in your summary was not established in the video, only claimed with some correlations to other phenomena.

Some non-snarky comments provided some really good counter examples, eg they eat ice cream all afternoon.

Also from my own experience in the south: every morning kids eat a bowl of milk with a shot of espresso over cereal.
Rust vs. Go – load testing webserv
It's already there, you can authenticate using a cookie file if you want.
For the Tesla bears out there, is there a way to invest in the S&P500 - TSLA ?
There's a long list of cities with what they started to do. Search for "Paris" or "London" and should find them in the document.

It's not really a problem from a financial perspective because law is lagging decades behind the real world and there's way too much money on the table for renters to care about the restrictions/bans (and there's almost zero enforcement of restrictions anyway).
AR Workshop: Build a Space Invaders Game for HoloLens
It’s similar to what you see in the broader stock market - I mean we closed at all time highs today.

But Q3 was likely an anomaly since they saw a lot of tailwinds from greater demand for homes in driving distance for easier summer vacations plus Covid was only concentrated in a few hot spots over the summer.

Now Covid is more widespread plus there’s naturally less leisure travel in the winter and still very little rebound in business travel.

Still, I think long term the biggest issue is not rebounding demand, which I think will happen, but regulatory issues. Lots of questions and scrutiny around their impact on local housing and rental prices and safety issues related to home rentals for parties.
States in the union are bound by the U.S. Constitution; If a state's government exhibits a pattern of denying its citizens their constitutionally-guaranteed rights (often in the form of quite literally _ending those citizens' lives_), it is absolutely the Federal government's job to compel that problem into nonexistence.
I really like this sort of "what is X" because I've often wondered what role TikTok fills. The funny thing is that, insofar as the description is accurate, it sounds like the kind of thing I would intentionally avoid using. A TikTok binge sounds like everything crummy about social media platforms that I've been trying to expunge from my viewing habits - empty, shallow, addictive an utterly unsatisfying.
This interpretation can't be correct, because Rice's Theorem says that no semantic property of any computer program is computable.
Lots of public health disasters only become clear in retrospect, sometimes decades or even centuries later: lead-in-gasoline, air-pollution's effects on all-cause mortality & mental acuity, nuclear testing fallout, the collapse of pre-Columbian populations in the Americas.
Is WSL not supported?
Like I said, I just don't really care and it's not going to affect my life. I'm all for improving technology and efficiency and believe that it will never truly be a life threatening issue and it's foolish to sit around and be afraid of it. You say it's going to be my problem but how? What would that look like exactly? Maybe in 1000 years it would literally be a problem but by then through the natural course of technological evolution it will just not be a problem. If freeman dyson, a man who solved some of the hardest problems of the 20th century, can say that there is little scientific rogor in our models, estimation and understanding of our affect on climate change, why should I pretend like you know what you're talking about?
> personally paid malpractice insurance

Money is fungible. Even if the union doesn’t negotiate this insurance on a group level, passing along the premium could be quite easily baked into contract negotiations.
Buy puts.
Yes, Psychedelics Is the Next Cannabis
I kind of despise Airbnbs for this reason. It's usually some clean on the surface mess that was mostly cleaned up by the previous guests. I got sick of having to wash all the dishes, take off sheets, etc when I check out (usually having to check out at 11 am or earlier, so it can be as easy as possible on the host to rent it out again!). When I vacation I want a hotel room that someone else professionally cleaned, not more chores and what feels like staying in someone's dirty house.

And we stay in some of the nicest Airbnbs, my brother is a doctor.
>Twitter needs to be dismantled.

I agree with you, but on other grounds.
There is no relation to the paper. Recommend that you first take a look at it.
Your point that Covid (and our responses to it) have both plus and minuses is valid. But then you undermine it with this:

> If people stay home there are no accidents, no murders, no party drugs etc.

There are still accidents, murders, etc. In some places they have even increased. And other causes of death like suicide and heart disease are up because people are staying home.

Then you end by contradicting your own good point (i.e. impacts are complex) with "it's bad for everyone" which is obviously untrue.
Do you cry whenever you encounter someone smarter than you?
How do you handle global sales tax / VAT remittance, especially stuff like B2C VAT in the EU, etc.? Stripe doesn't do this unfortunately, but solutions like Paddle and FastSpring do, by acting as a reseller and Merchant of Record.
Meanwhile, AWS Aurora is still on Postgres 11. Postgres 12 is more than a year old.

I've been using Aurora because it's managed, I don't have to worry about backups, it's faster and cheaper and easier to scale, etc.

But Postgres 12 has some really important features and performance improvements, and we really need them for my app. I've got to wonder why I'm paying for a managed service when they can't even manage to do a major version upgrade in a year.
See last part of this article:

https://venturebeat.com/2020/11/10/apple-debuts-m1-the-first...

ARM was like a template/grandfather for Apple many generations ago and they basically develop really their own instruction set and chips (architecture license). ARM is not ARM and highlighting this as Apple Silicon is more the truth here.
I saw this news (https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/cybersecurity-expert...) a few days before the election. There is also a github repo.

I am not sure why the DKIM for all emails were not released, or why this did not catch more media coverage by other news organizations I consider more reliable (like NYT).
Why are Facebook videos so loud?
Did...did they just invent statically-linked app tarballs?

How about we sandbox every app inside its own Docker container, just to be sure?
In 2019 Caltech graduated 207 PhDs.

https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/caltech-celebrates-the-cl...
Dorsey and Zuckerberg will face Congress again, this time about the election
Considering their revenues they would be in top 100 ad spend even with conservative ad budgets.

However, I think H8crila meant that they did not spend that much on advertisement around the time they ipoed.
Tiktok? Highly edited meme like videos no longer than one minute in length and designed for virality, forever.
The pictures are generally better on yelp because they usually come from eaters rather than the restaurant themselves.
> Only a few countries have successfully contained the virus

Every country that has chosen suppression as their strategy, has been able to do it.

Australia, China, Laos, Mongolia, New Zealand, Nigeria, Ruanda, South Korea, Taiwan, Vietnam.

https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-data-explorer?zoomToS...
I was reading a bit between the lines, original was about migrating in, another was saying about a proper synchronization service or dump. In the case of migrating from something outside of Cloud SQL into Cloud SQL you could basically do this today. A dump wouldn't be recommended in my opinion (having done a lot of migrations across cloud providers including several multi-TB databases).

In that case as long as the source has some form of decoding (test decoding plugin or pgoutput) it should work.

That a dump is always the best process anything isn't really true these days (I know someone will show up with a case of why dump is 100% for what they need in moving data around). But, the combination of logical decoding, and pg_upgrade cover most cases.

Admit I was jumping a bit with upgrades, but that is where dump/restore does most often come up, not with migrations.
“ Zatko said he appreciated Twitter’s openness to unconventional security approaches, such as his proposal for confusing bad actors by manipulating the data they receive from Twitter about how people interact with their posts.”

Would this be like offensive cyber security? Or active security?
In light of current circumstances this story has actually been on my mind! Has there ever been any more detail revealed about Godel's scheme?
Tesla production numbers have grown about 50% per year (with high variance). This rate looks to continue with two new large Tesla factories slated to begin production in late 2021. So they could pass GM in sales quickly as GM sales are basically flat. Tesla also has higher gross margins than most other vehicle manufacturers. Plus Tesla does batteries and solar that look like high growth sectors.
You’re comparing a low-power CPU used in Apple’s low-end MacOS devices to a state of the art (released Q3 2020) high-end 28W TDP CPU from Intel.
A lot of questions came to mind when I read this bit of the article,

"If you want to find a particular item in a list with N items classically, you need to check all N items—N evaluations—because the item you are searching for could be the last in the list. (If you are sure that the item is in the list, the correct number of evaluations is N-1, but this does not matter much here.) This means searching through an unsorted database with N entries takes—classically—N steps. However, with Grover’s quantum algorithm—which can be viewed as a quantum random walk—it takes √(N) steps. It allows for the same quadric speedup as the quantum random walk. For large databases—lists with big N— this can mean a lot fewer evaluations."

As odd as quantum computers are, I couldn't figure out how you could evaluate static values in a database that were never evaluated... the answer was, it can't.

From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grover%27s_algorithm)
"The database is not represented explicitly. Instead, an oracle is invoked to evaluate an item by its index. Reading a full data-base item by item and converting it into such a representation may take a lot longer than Grover's search."

In essence, you need a completely new database with quantum capable representations. Even with this trade-off, I could imagine 'big data' adapting this type of workflow once quantum computers become viable.
They are a threat model for your wallet, which some people consider a threat model.

The older user-agent / supercookie tags don't work for intermediaries on https, indeed. Which is all the reason why your other metadata (such as contacting apple servers) helps tag you.

> The underlying issue here is that the kinds of things you're worried about happen in the browser.

The things I'm worried about are those I'm yet unaware of. Those things I am aware of (in the browser, for example), I mitigate with browser addons and other tools. But I"m not aware of everything.

I'm not paranoid, everyone IS trying to tag me (and you, and everyone else) for their profit. I am not familiar with ALL the ways they do it, therefore I worry about all information leaks.
Instead of having a machine reading ballots in a consistent way, you’ll have humans applying subjective judgement and fighting it.
I'm not particularly bullish on Tesla, but if you think of GM as the next Kodak, you won't be swayed by the sales numbers. You'll be instead looking at how they're moving so slowly on digital cameras / electric cars.

Digital vs film cameras are, I think, a pretty good analogy here in a lot of ways, both in terms of business and technology. Digital cameras were more expensive than film and, initially, less performant but had low operating costs and more convenience. It was a transition where the eventual result was clear to most people except for, perhaps, film camera buffs, but the pace of change was uncertain.

Some companies like Nikon and Canon anticipated and adapted to the transition and did really well. Some, like Fujifilm, found their niche using the expertise they had. Some, like Kodak, were so firmly planted in their ways that they gave up their massive lead waiting for the tide to turn rather than risk disrupting themselves.
This is actually not uncommon at all for DUI cases, usually because jurors can empathize with the defendant more than in other cases (often of similar socioeconomic background, race, etc. which is sometimes less common for other criminal trials).

There's a reason that DUI defendants almost universally request jury trials.
>I'm looking very forward to a Biden presidency, just to see how far people will flip-flop and bend their beliefs to justify whatever he does as president

Of course this happens every time, but you see this being more exaggerated under Biden? In my opinion, this hit a new extremity with Trump.

Of course, you also have to be careful not to fall into the trap of interpreting the entire social internet as two people (us and them). Usually when you see conflicting opinions, it's because they are coming from different people, not because "the enemy" is just so hypocritical.