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It’s completely fair to share one’s reasons behind why a project isn’t for them. Docker doesn’t change any of the fundamental concerns with a PHP based project. It might reduce the amount of direct exposure required, but for a piece of software that is meant to become the virtual center of your life, it’s still completely fair to be unconvinced.

I’d argue that Docker just shifts the problem slightly, while introducing a new set of challenges. It’s unclear if the net benefit is even a positive number.

Even if one doesn’t intend to contribute to the core project, it’s going to be necessary to get a bit intimate with the stack over time: upgrades, the inevitable bug that requires some troubleshooting, etc.

I found the parent comment both reasonable and constructive.

You may not have the same concerns, and that’s perfectly ok.
> Given the original arrival time was delayed by more than three hours we were covered by EU Regulation 261/2004

I had similar situation a couple years ago and ended up using Airhelp.com to obtain my compensation. They took a cut of course but I had to do pretty much nothing beyond sending them my itinerary and I got a bank transfer in a couple of weeks. I am of course unaffiliated.
A CPU arm’s race is a great thing.

Hopefully, RISC-V joins the race.
Sympathies! Now I'm curious, how did it happen? What equipment was it, that your employer preferred Apple over IBM, let alone had such a vehement preference as to actually fire you over it?
I wish I knew the difference when I started at university. In retrospect, It wouldn't have changed anything, because I love my time as an undergrad at my school. But, the perception of what a software engineer career looks like would have changed. At best, I would have advocated to my school of engineering to offer a software engineering degree.

Though, I imagine it is difficult for universities. They're trying to be more theoretical and less practical than trade schools, despite the majority of undergrads do not continue to pursue more degrees. I imagine if universities shifted its focus to more applied sciences, it might be even harder to keep the number of applications for masters and phd programs up.
Well how do you know that newest version is not having even worse security issues??

You argue that people should just install latest versions without thinking? This did not went well with SolarWinds case.
>> airlines are profit-seeking businesses

Which business except Silicon Valley 'valuation unicorns' isn't?
Does class action have a bad reputation? I know businesses hate it and in the US are doing everything they can to eliminate it. But as a consumer, I see it as the only way to level the playing field. If it has a bad reputation, I speculate that is the result of businesses lobbying against it in the press and with politicians.
You could also consider it a M&M test for both FIPS and the auditor. If they get something this simple wrong, what other issues lay hidden?
The law gave the author a statutory right to ask easyJet to purchase an equivalent a flight for him at their cost at the time or claim compensation if their journey was delayed beyond a certain point. Neither would have required a lawyer, and easyJet gate agents would probably have sorted the alternative flight on the day as the best option for all parties

Instead they chose to pursue a third option the law didn't cover and purchased their own choice of alternative flight. Its not the law's fault that if people choose alternatives they don't have a statutory right to be compensated for when dealing with the sort of company that isn't inclined to be generous, they don't get resolution until the company decides it doesn't want the risk and cost of fighting any further.
Tons of scientific papers on things like analyzing harmonics and material grain structure are rapidly adopted by mechanical engineers.

Comparing it to fundamental physics is like comparing it to abstract math — in which case the relationship is still the same:

Physicists building the LHC pushed engineering forward.

Math researchers have substantially pushed numerical computing forward.
How should we obtain enough electric generation to offset the lost of hydrocarbons?
I'm not defending bugging the phone. That's a bridge too far for me. You would somehow need to threaten to get their business partners/people they have tea/hookah with in the neighborhood to think they're a bad person to have any leverage (or even more evil but effective when done in public, a bad Muslim/Hindu/X). You need to understand that these families see you as a cash cow or an object to barter to increase access to resources, preserve resources within the family, or increase social status and plan a response accordingly.

Case in point but with an (white) American family. I had a friend whose dad was welshing out on child support for his sisters. My (adult) friend called up a bunch of his dad's clients (he was a contractor) and calmly left messages explaining the situation. His dad paid up but also slapped him with a restraining order and they didn't talk for a decade. I mean being able to threaten going nuclear like that, not necessarily tapping phones, should be par for the course.
FIPS is never going to include bcrypt. Not including things like bcrypt is literally part of the point of FIPS.
Elephants are afraid of mice myth
Nor can you make a hydrogen plane with current (compressed hidrogen) technology, its tanks would be much too bulky and heavy. Unless you are proposing to transform planes into some sort of foam-covered Space Shuttle external tanks storing liquid hidrogen, our best bet for carbon neutral flight is some sort of fuel synth or biofuel.
Take your ctrl sequences and go back to Emacs ;-)
I agree this is a common sentiment among mathematicians, but this is a very modern perspective. If you look back 100 years ago to Hilbert, there was less distinction between physicists and mathematicians, much less the pure/applied rift that now exists. Arnol'd (who is referenced above) was one of the mathematicians who tried to keep this unity alive.
Sounds like the bees...
Zoom really gained traction during 2019 which is when my massive org adopted it to replace Skype which was being EOL'd by M$. The pandemic took it into the stratosphere.
What’s the best non-smart TV sold today?
American Airlines (which flies to Europe and is covered under the EU regulations for flights to/from the EU) doesn't even mention the EU regulations or how to make a claim at all on their website. None. Not a word. You have to make a customer service request as if you were asking a question, and then know all the right things to say.

Businesses just aren't optimizing for the things they hate. They'd rather do all they can to hide it and forget to mention it to you, if it weren't illegal (and sometimes, still then). They will only do the letter of the law, and only to go through the motions, and only if the penalties for not are high and the risk of getting caught is equally high.
Is anyone familiar enough with the chemistry of creating synthetic hydrocarbons to comment on whatever bottleneck is preventing it from being mainstream?

It seems like synthetic gasoline and synthetic propane would be ideal energy sources (and that cheap hydrolysis would be the starting point), so I figure there must be a reason that people don't often talk about it.
This post from reddit has a bit more information...although it's mostly the same information in slightly different format.

https://www.reddit.com/r/nashville/comments/kkcwkh/status_of...

"The Nashville building (NSVLTNMT) has sustained significant structural damage to the front one-third of the building; the rear two-thirds of the building appears to be intact. Parts of the interior are still inaccessible for safety reasons due to the structural damage sustained. Structural and electrical engineers are en route. There is standing water in the basement and on every floor. The fire department will assist with pumping water out of basement.

There is no commercial power connectivity to the equipment due to breaker and switch equipment damage. Teams are currently working to de-energize all systems.

Two 850W generators are en route with an ETA of 21:00 CT. A chiller is also en route with no ETA available at this time. The parking lot adjacent to the building (opposite the damaged side) has been secured to stage the generators. Once the generators arrive, teams will determine if it is safe to wire the generators tonight due to the sustained building damage and water in the building.

In addition, TEMA (Tennessee Emergency Management Agency) is volunteering two 1 megawatt generators to support recovery.

A SATCOLT has been positioned approximately a block and a half from the NSVLTNMT building and is up and taking traffic to aid in communication with those performing restoration. The next update will be issued at approximately 20:00 CT, unless there is a significant change in status."
Give your Mac imaginary unlimited storage thanks to Disk Utility’s bug
A lot of printers, by default, function like an ancient teletype. They interpret incoming data as something like ASCII and print out the text. You need to send the correct escape sequence (i.e. a sequence of bytes starting with 0x1B) to switch into a more modern mode.
The part didn't break. Someone who thinks they know better decided to make it not work, and complicated some normal person's life with some security theater.

If a manufacture intentionally made a product they sold you not work, much like how Tesla disables fast charging capriciously, it would be a violation of the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act.
I'd say it's less to do with kindness and more along the lines of a VC who invests in a hand full of startups. If you train a certain amount of beginners, you'll likely turn out a few high value engineers. A few really strong engineers could produce sufficient business value that they offset the 'loss' for the ones that don't really make the cut.
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Do you mean that you will pay someone in the US to collect data in their area?

The cost would be affected by the type of data collection. Do you need to have only one single person? Having a person commit up to 200hrs to something for minimum wage ($7.25) is much harder than having 50 people commit 4 hours (job fliers and postings can do wonders).
Right - give them a pretty small cut and they will go after them with techniques they know work and relentlessly because it’s now their money. Why do anything else?
> there hasn't been a profitable entrant into the airline business that's focused on customer service

> Customers are notoriously price sensitive

Is the current system actually cheaper, or is the current system just-as if not more expensive than doing business honestly, except that money is currently being spent on various inefficiencies caused by the current system (PR, customer service having to talk to angry customers, litigation, etc) but "fixing" it is not possible/politically viable as it would put a lot of people (maybe some of the decision-makers themselves) out of a job?

If the law says you have to pay, it seems to me like it would be cheaper to just pay rather than spend money on all kinds of different people trying to work their way out of paying, but since they have those people already it's easier and less politically damaging to keep the current system as-is instead of letting those people go even though they don't actually provide any value (overall they provide negative value, as these people are paid to annoy/lie/waste the customer's time).
What a click baity title :/
You missed the most cringe part of that comment:

> homeopathic traditional meds

That said, if you think that lower meat consumption isn't correlated with increased life expectancy, then you should read this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetarianism#Longevity

You can control for a bunch of lifestyle factors like smoking and exercise level, and the correlation still exists. It uncontroversial at this point - which is why every major national dietetics association (don't confuse them with "nutritionists") has a position statement on plant-based diets saying that they're as healthy or healthier than regular diets.

And with UFC fighters[0], NBA planers, national weightlifting champtions[1], world-record-holding powerlifters[2], and so on eating plant-based diets, it's getting harder to make the "okay, sure you live longer, but you probably sacrifice strength/vigor/etc throughout your life" claim.

[0] https://www.mensjournal.com/sports/nate-diaz-and-other-vegan...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kendrick_Farris

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrik_Baboumian
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FWIW, the US is now requiring negative covid tests from UK travelers - announced <24 hours after this comment was posted.
Off topic personal story time:

My high school offered a programming class for the first time (1998). I took it my freshman year, not having the required math. I remember realizing my sub-par math book was out on my desk in front of the teacher, then quickly hiding it. I think he pretended he didn't notice.

Of the 35 students (total) that took the class, 8 completed it. There was no second year class but the teacher (one of the few whose name I remember) asked me to come back next year and be his assistant and receive training one on one.

The next year, the school canceled the class. I checked out of schooling from there on.
In my own system, Octo[0], I encode programs and their metadata in a similar steganographic fashion in GIF files[1]. As others have noted here, both GIF and PNG offer extension mechanisms and ways to embed "comments", but popular image-sharing sites universally re-encode images and discard this data. The advantage of GIF over PNG (for my purposes) is that I store an arbitrary payload in a fixed-looking image by creating additional frames of animation.

In the past, I've also used a different technique- if you simply concatenate a PNG onto a JAR (which is really just a ZIP archive) you end up with a file that acts like a PNG unless you change the extension to JAR, in which case it acts like a Java executable. This works because the PNG header is at the beginning of the file, while the ZIP header is at the end. Nowadays, though, desktop Java is pretty much dead, so it's a less exciting party trick.

[0] https://github.com/JohnEarnest/Octo

[1] https://github.com/JohnEarnest/Octo/blob/gh-pages/js/sharing...
> Humans thrive with technology and the earth ceases to be our parent, providing for us.

What leads you to believe this? I often see similar sentiments on this website. I don't understand it. Maybe I'm missing something.

High technology is fragile. As far as I can tell, it's nowhere close to self-sufficient. It's the pinnacle of a massive edifice whose foundation is biology: in particular non-human life. Kick that out and the whole thing collapses.

> And if we don't make it... multicellular life will continue to flourish and evolve.

This does seem reasonably likely. Life is resilient. Human life and human engineering, not so much.
They raised their quality and got more business. Literally the oldest path in the book. Domino's already has name recognition. They just needed to make their pizza actually good.
Thank you for the thoughtful reply. You read my mind.

I would be happy to devote 10 years (or a lifetime for that matter) to bring the fields to bear on one another, sounds super interesting.

As others have already noted, most work at the "intersection" of the domains is currently superficial, say designing support software as opposed to actually hacking on the genetic code.

Could you go into more detail about the structural reasons that prevent a clean mapping? Can you think of ways to lower the barrier so as to engage more people? Do you see problems that are relatively easy to export?

An example of exporting problems, in this case from digital pathology, is the Camelyon challenge, which brought machine learning to bear on cancer detection. Hype aside, the important aspect is that researchers working to segment images and train neural networks did not have to have a biochemistry background, nor understand cellular functions and provenance, nor understand staining protocols. A clean export.

I am basically looking for a "biocrackme" that is relatively self contained.
I tried to make a claim through the courts when EasyJet didn't pay out the amount they were required to under EU law. I didn't get a refund. I didn't get a replacement booking (well, I was offered one leaving after my return flight). I got exactly nothing.

The court simply threw out my case because it was "overloaded".

I think Easyjet might be exploiting this loophole to avoid paying customers whom they've fucked over.

I had another case against a different business which I launched and got thrown out because the courts were overloaded too.

The UK courts system appears to be horrendously underautomated. It was a mess of scanned written forms and calling up people to read credit card numbers over the phone. They really should deduct a ton of points on those "ease of doing business" metrics for this mess.
No you automate things that cost you money in either losing customers or spending resources on managaging it. The fact they won't automate it is because automating it would lose them money. More people would make claims. Most people give up on claims after time. Literally, we stop caring after a while, so the longer the process takes and the more effort it takes the more people drop off. Airlines make it as hard as possible to make a claim because otherwise they would lose more money. I thought it was very well known this is why Airlines have such painful claims processes.
> Does class action have a bad reputation?

In the US at least they’re associated with companies preying on people and they never seem to actually achieve much in practice except for lawyers.

I would say they are a consumer rights problem, not a solution to consumer rights problems.
You can't really deeply integrate any of Google's communication offerings aside from Gmail because they keep introducing and killing off new things so often. People weren't using that stuff in the first place. Zoom is one thing that offers one thing. I work in IT and I cannot tell you what Google's current messenger is called. Your grandma wouldn't find it. Zoom was there, had a catchy name and was easy to use. It had/has everything needed to completely dominate.
The parent simply doesn't need the thing itself if the "written in X" matters.
Why is vertical integration necessary for making faster chips?

No reason Microsoft wouldn't port to a new ARM variant from e.g. nVidia, or some other RISC.
I think we can debate magnitude, but not direction.

I feel recently it's been a long time since I came across examples of where nature is increased or restored. Every time it's about nature disappearing.
Such die-offs are often a result of a "predator-prey" cycle wherein both the predator and prey populations vary inversely over the long term. It is nothing new, nor is it catastrophic unless you're part of the cycle.

Perhaps in this case there were a lot of birds and not enough insects (food). So the birds die off. In a few years, with fewer birds(predators), the insects (prey) will return with a vengeance. In the midst of this new plenty, bird populations will rise dramatically, peak, and then die again. Rinse, repeat...

"Predator-prey cycles":

https://www.khanacademy.org/science/high-school-biology/hs-e...

This article reminds me of the recent years' of German beekeepers writing fretful papers on excessive insect die-offs. Worrywarts have long forecast ecological disaster. But such things have been going on for eons and started long before man was present.
Amusing probably isn't the right word, probably captivating is better. Preaching is a very well developed art; listen to preachers and they're always telling a story of some sort, the story goes to lows and then up to highs, they draw that story back to the lives of their audience and then finish with a call to action to make their lives better. Even details like the preacher's cadence and the songs and rituals are well thought out and tested to keep people engaged. It also helps that the bible is essentially a collection of stories that touch on fundamental themes of the human condition and that Jesus is a universally relatable figure.
Hydrogen has an energy density of 120 MJ/kg. Gasoline has an energy density of 46.4 MJ/kg. Lithium ion batteries at 2.5. They’re not even in the same ballpark.
I may have missed a link to a complete list of species tallied in this event, but the photographed birds are mostly Violet-Green Swallows. This species eats flying insects exclusively (source: Birds of the World research database) and would not be able to take advantage of feeders.
Have a look at Typesense as well which is an OSS alternative to Algolia: https://github.com/typesense/typesense
Living in the US, I don't feel like class action suits do me much good. Businesses are happy to send me $7 vouchers for shit I don't want.
Dominos is just yet another example that screams: you cannot cut your way to growth.
Problem 1) Many people don't live in houses. Problem 2) Free charging at work or elsewhere ends once a significant share of people utilize it Problem 3) electric grid can't handle the amount of capacity needed, not by a long shot.

If petroleum didn't already exist we'd be trying to create it.
TL:DR: vaporware without any concrete details of how they will catch up with the M1, let alone the faster Apple Silicon chips expected in 2021 and 2022.
> In the past, I've also used a different technique- if you simply concatenate a PNG onto a JAR (which is really just a ZIP archive) you end up with a file that acts like a PNG unless you change the extension to JAR, in which case it acts like a Java executable. This works because the PNG header is at the beginning of the file, while the ZIP header is at the end. Nowadays, though, desktop Java is pretty much dead, so it's a less exciting party trick.

It was a common party trick for the reasons you outlined on image boards: you could smuggle small-ish zip files as long as the board made the original file available as-is somehow by concatenating the image (usually jpeg) and zip.
"By contacting former Soviet scientists, he obtained raw data from the [Soviet Venera] missions, processing it himself to produce fantastic pictures, which are now available on his website:"

http://mentallandscape.com/C_CatalogVenus.htm
With all the efforts to isolate China, they are being forced to develop their own fabs and their own architectures. Their obvious choice is to use RISC-V as a base.

With the world's largest economy behind it, RISC-V will probably become quite relevant soon.
The point is, Southwest doesn’t have the lowest prices, does focus on customer service, and is profitable, so it’s the counterexample to the “race to the bottom” argument. (Or it was—who knows what post-2020 airlines will look like...)
Wow. Just wow. That has to be the dumbest comment about climate change and biodiversity collapse I've read so far. If you are not concerned about anything which is not still impacting earth after time-scales that are approaching aeons have passed then you will surely have no qualms about wiring me all your money -- and hell, take some loans before you do that -- because what is it in the grand scheme of things, am I right?
This sort of "it's not been vetted and approved" business can get really silly though. Like one company I worked at a couple of decades ago that mandated Windows 95 for employees. IT staff would actually take new machines shipped with Windows 2000, wipe them, and install the corporate Win95 image.
I better check it out then. Thanks.
Reverse-engineering an early calculator chip with four-phase logic