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> This is what the MP4 format calls the "moov atom".

One of the few surviving legacies of Apple technology created during the Jobs interregnum.

Like everything else not from NeXT, the modern Apple has killed QuickTime, but they can’t eliminate its concepts and wacky constants from the MPEG-4 standard.
> Comparing pointers derived from entirely different objects (or arrays) isn't legit.

The quote from the standard in your article contradicts the part you quoted:

> Two pointers compare equal if and only if both are null pointers, both are pointers to the same object (including a pointer to an object and a subobject at its beginning) or function, both are pointers to one past the last element of the same array object, or one is a pointer to one past the end of one array object and the other is a pointer to the start of a different array object that happens to immediately follow the first array object in the address space.

But in any case the program in the article doesn't compare pointers; it casts the pointers to integers and then compares those integers, which is always legitimate.
Not correct: your taxes will go up annually by 2% or CPI, whichever is lower. Granted, this means they will grow substantially slower than historical property appreciation, but it’s not 0.

Also your property taxes start out at 1% of assessed value, which is very low compared with many other high-wealth states.
Well Prop 13 contributes to zoning. Cities get almost no money from residents, so they zone for denser commercial but sparser residential. The ratio of jobs to housing goes wack and you have a shortage of housing for the people who move here for jobs.
"then the price you're talking about ($98) is absolutely not the price it would trade for because of the inherent risk associated with the asset"

But the risk is not correlated with other assets in the universe. So, according to CAPM, the discount rate should be the risk-free rate. The logic being is that any risk within this one assets is diversified away at scale.

"Just imagine that you were given the option of buying this asset for $98 or something like a US bond for $98, both of which will yield $100 at maturity in expectation. Which one would you choose?"

I'd pay $97.99 at these odds. I wouldn't put all my money in it. But I'd look for as many risky-but-uncorrelated assets as I could with these. As long as I have enough of them, I have a very very high chance of being better off than if I had bought the 'safer' securities with known payoffs.
Sounds like a win-win for both of us.
so are many others, there could be some very new opportunities to understand for pathology, therapy, and disease processes in general, even the whole mind over matter thing, psychosomatic illness, etc.
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Neither std::unique_ptr nor std::shared_ptr existed prior to c++11. Perhaps you're thinking of boost::shared_ptr or boost::scoped_ptr, both of which have existed in one form or another for somewhere around 20 years.
Those who've downvoted this comment, can you please explain? Outdoor risk is extremely low, especially when you're walking and wearing a mask.
Funny enough, I actually agree with this, at least from an economics perspective. I'd much rather get rid of the income tax and have higher property taxes. That seems much more efficient to me.
My employer has a knowledgebase on the public internet that is littered with lists of softwares and practices. There are thousands of employees. Name dropping software should be a risky thing to do, but that isn’t the world we live in.
The court is a bit of a crutch compared to legislation, anyway. The only reason they play such a major role now is that our political parties have been in a dysfunctional deadlock for 40+ years.
> Yeah having a house 3x the size is not great for you or the environment, given that people don’t use most of their houses ;-)

Who are you to cast stones?
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If reparations for slavery ever happen in the US, it will be a political decision, not one resulting from a lawsuit. That isn't to say they courts won't be involved at one or more points, as you can certainly imagine challenges, but for it to happen it will have to come from Congress first.
Huh it's almost as if it's been forever known to anybody paying attention that other states literally give their homeless bus tickets to California.

Wonder how that affects statistics like yours people like to tout
If I'm reading correctly, they're saying that Netflix is not doing realtime audio, so they need not have this level of precision. They should buffer more than 40ms of audio data.
I think the “please throw out the votes in other multiple states that aren’t Texas so Mr Trump makes all my outstanding indictments go away” part by the Texas AG was the undemocratic part.
Thanks for clearing that up. Was job performance still positively correlated with higher gpa on that larger dataset?
> Interesting they have a “Time To Beat” field but it’s not really populated.

Time to beat is a very difficult metric. Does a Visual Novel take 10 hours to beat, or 2 minutes? I'd argue the latter, but I know plenty of people would disagree with me.

"Alright," says the webadmin, "I'll just implement a voting system and take the average". But now they'll be claiming that it takes 5 hours and 1 minute to beat, which everyone disagrees with.

The best system I've seen is SteamHunters' "Shortest/Median/Average", which gives you a pretty reliable indicator of what's possible, what's typical, and how much of a difference there is between optimal and casual play, respectively. It's by far the most comprehensive dataset out there, but unfortunately only mono-platform so probably not too useful for sites like igdb.
Tell me how you performed your valuation on the ETF
I have very little frame of reference for other people's technical skills when they enter the profession since I'm entirely self-taught and still move dirt for a living. Thank you for sharing that story, it drove me to try my hand, it took less than 15 minutes.
>I would argue the fact it was deemed legal in 17th century Britain and incorporated into the US early on doesn’t have any bearing on whether it’s a modern issue in a way that it wasn’t, or that it’s not a constitutional issue.

I never said it wasn't (or couldn't be) a constitutional issue. And I disagree that the origins of CAF have no bearing on its current incarnation.

I bring up the history of CAF, not as some sort of endorsement of it, or to excuse its excesses or the harm it causes in our world today.

Rather, I look to history because it's generally an excellent guide to understanding who we are today and how we came to be that way. The old saw, "the past is prologue" is an old saw because it's both intuitively obvious and recommends one (of several) pathway to understanding current circumstances.

As Eugen Weber observed[0]:

"...This is what history is about. Where we come from, what lies behind the way we live and act and think. How our institutions, our religions, our laws were made."

Understanding the thought processes and mindsets that caused those who came before us to meet certain circumstances with CAF, as well as (as you correctly point out WRT the 14th Amendment) how changes in those thought processes and mindsets have (or should have) affected how we perceive and address the issues surrounding CAF today -- and most other things for that matter.

[0] https://youtu.be/XCyO8meahME?t=430

Edit: Clarified language.
From my experience working in the PR and media industry, this NDA appears to serve a key purpose: It discourages engagements/discussions on social media platforms, thus hastening this incident into irrelevancy to mainstream media, thus protecting the brand reputation and key shareholders of FB.

Security findings are never good for the share price. Therefore it is crucial for the company to take control of the narrative when possible.
We almost rode Sunrize Izumo last year in Japan! We even booked accommodation accordingly, leaving out the one night we ecpected to spend on bord of Sunrise Izumo going from Izumo to Tokyo.

Unfortunately even though we tried to book the train as the first thing after arrival, right on the Narita train station ticket office, it was already fully booked. :P

At least we managed to book the marvelous SL Hitoyoshi steam train from Hitoyoshi to Kumamoto over Hisatsu line. We were actually double lucky on that one, as SL Hitoyoshi is actually out of service right now as floods in July 2020 washed away key bridges on the Kuma river, cutting the rail connection between Hitoyoshi and Kumamoto, until the bridges are repaired...

Still we did go to the very inaka Izuma anyway and spend a very nice old school and almost mythical four days there.

And what we did about that missing accommodation? We booked a night in a ryokan in the splendid Kinosaki onsen town instead and it was indescribably good decision! :)

It took as like 6 hours by multiple small local diesel trains to get from Izumo to Kinosaki, possibly the only tourists to arrive from that direction in quite a while! :)

And on the very elegant Kinosaki station we even discovered a special gate reserved only for guests arriving by one of those luxury cruse trains - namely Twilight Express Mizukaze: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twilight_Express_Mizukaze

Likely inspired by the special gate only ueed by the Emperor on Tokyo station. :)
There are no real geographic barriers stopping Austin's growth. I am not in Austin but if I have to guess, the public transport sucks balls. You have to have Car unless you live in the urban core. The bigger problem in Austin is, their nimbyism manifested in such a way that City and County constrain the growth by not expanding the infrastructure.
But the land is there - the city can grow into a bigger metro.
Hey! If you have a moment: I’m a Christian and a gun owner who is not a fan of the Democratic Party. I live in SF and was born in the East Bay. Would you mind sharing some concrete examples of what you mean by CA being more intolerant than other places? I keep hearing about this but have never really experienced it myself.
British housing often seems neglected. Especially the windows. I once had an apartment in Glasgow that had such terrible windows that wasps were getting in during summer while windows were closed. When I complained to the landlord he stuck some cotton balls in the bigger holes. That was the "repair" undertaken.
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> The United States government is still paying pensions owed to children of civil war veterans

Did you read the article? There are two people being paid (as of 2013), and they are the daughters of Civil War vets. So what’s the problem?
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Well, you could go to shantytowns in e.g. West Africa, South Asia, or South America if you want an idea of what crowded fast-growing cities are like.

They aren’t precisely “less developed” than 18th century Europe, but they are more crowded and often have comparable hygiene, medical care, etc. Again they often lack basic amenities like running water, sewers, and grid electricity. The biggest difference is probably that many of these have much worse air pollution than anywhere in the 18th century.

Yes, there are many places which smell potent if you are used to living in a wealthy suburb, but the smells are not really like the description above, especially after a week or two of acclimation, except maybe for extraordinarily dainty hypersensitive people. Patrick Süskind is exaggerating for effect.
Surely there is no way that the 10th largest social media platform would abuse their market position!
/s
We took the Caledonian Sleeper from London to Glasgow in June of 2019. Saved the hotel night and were hiking the West Highland Way by 9:00. Scotch in the dining car + a private bathroom and double bed. Fantastic experience.
> trans people are treated like lepers

Says you; here in Canada at least transpeople are a protected class and have as many or more rights than the next person.

This is not the same thing at all as conversion therapy, and it is unreasonable to suggest that there should not be research and development into techniques, therapeutics, and methods to help people who would rather not actually be trans. This is not mutually exclusive with allowing people to be trans, or granting them protected class status! It's merely another option, and in no way is it implied that it should be forced on anyone.

In fact, "conversion therapy", as long as it is 100% consensual on the part of the person taking it, should be fine. Why shouldn't it? Because it won't work? Homeopathy and plenty of other things that "won't work" are legal. It's the lack of consent that is the moral issue, not the fact that someone might want assistance at living a simpler life, which being cisgendered no doubt is, at least at this time.

> For instance, is it better to take HRT and be closer to the person you feel by default?

This really depends on the outcome that you're after, but the higher-after-HRT-and-operations suicide rate of transpeople makes me wonder whether it's actually the better outcome or not. Since this is 100% contextual and differs widely by individual, the only correct standpoint in a free society is to allow both options.

> Is it being pushed by a therapist?

Some therapists are going to be gatekeepers, some are going to push you towards HRT, it's luck of the draw at this point based on the personal biases and ethics of the therapist. The fact is, we're supposed to be recognizing and validating people's feelings; and it's entirely believable that there is a class of people who feel gender dysphoria and simply want it to go away. These people are underserved by the current system.
Good article. I love reading Jason's thoughts on work culture. They must really have one of the best working environments in the world.
No, you’re misinterpreting it. I don’t expect Tesla’s growth to be flat for 2 years and then 4x in 1 quarter; that would be insane.
Back when the air was comfortable and people had a lot of fun, we used to play a lot of DND every Friday evening in a conference room. We also played a lot of table tennis every day. Now that 25% of workfoce had been laid off and then Covid hit, we are now holding games in virtual town halls.
Yes, to keep you out of a racy game before central ID registries like login-with-FB. They're old-people questions.
Is SwiftUI just an abstraction over AppKit and UIKit ? Does it bring any widgets of its own - ie something native to SwiftUI as opposed to being wrapped ? (apart from the declarative stuff)
Did people not just search it on whateever engine was available at the time? (Yahoo?)
99% of the time when you got "random questions" like this in a game it was an anti-piracy trait. The idea was that people might be able to copy your disc, but they would be unable to play the game unless they could answer your questions - which would require the manual to be used.

(Bearing in mind that photocopiers were uncommon at the time.)

In the case of Leisure Suit Larry the opening questions were actually designed as an age-test. The intention was that "children" wouldn't know the answers and would be unable to play the "risqué" game.
Are you openly any of these things? Do you espouse your Christianity or commitment to proactive self-defense publicly or professionally? What sort of company do you work for and do you self-select for a certain kind of person in your friendships?
“it makes sense that some people want to see other people get vaccinated first”
China is really a resurgence of this already. I absolutely loved the train rides from Beijing to Shanghai, or to Hong Kong. Cheap and amazing scenery + actually quite comfortable.
This is all useful information. Roku has always been a bit puzzling to me. Might be because I don't use it and therefore don't understand the functionality.
Not that rare. There is lots of variability in the presence of muscles and tendons among the population.
I agree with you insofar as I don't think the pandemic is all that bad in terms of pandemics...humanity has suffered much worse with much less.

What's for sure - we've lost civil rights and set dangerous precedents and politicians do not relinquish the dark tools they craft and use in a haste under the pretense of emergency.
Ask HN: Changes to end-of-year holiday plans?
Are you fundamentally altering end of year travel or plans due to COVID-19?

That may seem like an obvious question but I've seen a range of responses: groups calling plans off, families getting together in reduced capacity, or going with tradition because it's been a tough year.

I understand that some of us have naturally single-household or single-member events, that's valid for discussion too.

Will reply with my post below to not promote it for being in the OP.

I hope this isn't too off-topic; was curious what this specific audience thought.
The original game was released in 1987, so that wasn't really an option:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leisure_Suit_Larry_in_the_Land...
Id generalize this to:

If your application is timing critical, and you aren't using things specifically desiged for time critical applications (like RTOS), then you should be doing as much low level implementation yourself as possible.
I don't think it's that simple.

Prop 13 shields NIMBYs from negative externalities of their desire for their neighborhoods not to change. Housing is in short supply which inflates property values, but they don't have to worry about that because they don't want to sell and property taxes continue to remain low due to Prop 13. They can either pass down their property to their children (taxes remain unchanged) or they sell and cash out on their uber expensive property and move out of state sometime later in life. As I alluded in other comments, I suspect it is more often the former rather than the latter since it doesn't make sense to sell.

The incentive to build is low because most existing property owners want to continue living somewhere in the Bay Area and if they move, their taxes reset. Building more units on the same property is a non-starter for that reason. Yes, zoning is also a factor, and goes hand-in-hand with the same agenda that Prop 13 came out of. It's multiple cuts from the same cloth.
Got it. And I guess job difficulty is a scalar quantity in this model.
Man, Android is just not a well-designed OS. This is silly.
My own normally-cautious family is tentatively having people meet up from four cities in one house for a week, which I feel is taking too much of a risk even if everyone's tested.

I'm likely to cancel and cause some disappointment, stopping short of "ruining the holidays," but IMO that's ok to keep everyone safe.
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That and the distinctive, also pleasant yet carcinogenic smell of chlorinated solvents.
That's not what the name refers to.
It's pretty meaningless to say that slavery was outlawed in most European countries for hundreds of years, even though some had colonies around the world until well into the 1900s. European countries just outsourced the slavery and called it empire building.
Give it a try, but stick to vanilla gdb tui mode. It's worth learning.
What they actually said was "for you or the environment" without knowing anything about the op, it is hard to say that a lawyer house was bad for him. Maybe he had a family of four living in a small two bedroom.
As far as the environment, almost everything we do is bad for the environment. We should try to minimize or impact, but just because something is "bad for the environment"didn't mean we should stop.
And you’re holding up the US public sector as your shining city on a hill?

Canada is leading the world in procuring the vaccine, and has had a very well-considered response to the pandemic. How long did it take for CERB cheques to arrive? Days? Look at the cluster that was the US response, even at the basic “get money in people’s hands” level.

Getting back to the original point - I’m sure there are a dozen or more countries with the capability to pull off something this sophisticated, which would include Canada. Highly unlikely that it was us, obviously.
I've got skin in the game, but it sounds like you don't. So let's put the shoe on the other foot. Would you choose to take a drug intended to induce gender dysphoria, or change your sexual orientation? Would you want to enter a relationship with somebody for whom it would be necessary to pop a pill daily just to remain attracted° to them? Or conversely, would you want to be in a relationship with somebody who was only attracted to you because of that pill they were taking?

And yeah, forced anything is bad. I've been forced to not transition, and it was utter hell. Just because you think that this could have good uses, doesn't erase the fact that being transgender is a capital offense de jure or de facto, in much of the world today. Development of such a treatment would be immediately followed by it being forced on people.
I think both assertions are wrong: Regulators still have no real conception of how any of this technology works, and you can watch the congressional hearings with Facebook for evidence that mostly they didn't really have a clue what to do once they had him in the room, or how exactly Facebook even makes money.

The court system only confirmed your rights to use webcrawlers within the last year, and webcrawlers have been around since the start of Google.

And as for the series of tubes guy, I'll give him the benefit of the doubt. He clearly still didn't have a good grasp on the subject, but I don't think he was being literal.
> After requesting the SU password, they were told flat out

> it doesn’t exist and referred to the manual by the vendor.

This kind of flat out lying happens a lot. I suspect some of it is that the customer service teams have zero to no interaction with the developers, so if it's not written down it doesn't exist.

I think this is a good argument for developers spending at least some time working on customer service per week (even just a few hours). You could escalate queries such as this one to a developer, where clearly somebody is asking a more technical question.

Before anybody says "that's unrealistic, they don't have time" - first consider the amount of ridiculous meetings a developer will normally find themselves in, or how long they spend answering emails every day.

Of course, it doesn't mean that such a password would be given away, but at the very least it could start an internal discussion about it's existence. Having a single shared super-password is a problem waiting to happen.

Regarding the point with small firmware-based devices and security (i.e. IoT), I believe the practice is changing where each device will have entirely unique credentials (something that's relatively easy to do these days).
Also a gun owner in CA. Came from a state with open carry/no license needed.

I found CA’s laws to be quite reasonable; I was told all variety of stories about guns being taken from my home when I told people I was moving out. Weird stuff.

I think CA is highly demonized and I don’t really get it, even as someone originally from a very conservative (and also evangelical Christian) background/area.

I actually live in a very ethnically diverse area that’s about 50/50 red and blue, and right near the ocean in SoCal. Love the diversity in this state!