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> I don't think Turing machines have any lesser status (it's literally equivalent to lambda calculus, after all!)

"Equivalence" has a specific meaning here, though. The term "Turing tarpit" was invented to point out the limits of that equivalence, and any attempts to define computations for Turing machines quickly run into that.

The sense in which I consider Turing machines to be "rather unmathematical" is closely related to this. You can write useful mathematical proofs in lambda calculus - as I've pointed out elsewhere, there are automated proof assistants based on this fact. There's no such equivalent for Turing machines. Theoretically, there could be, due to Turing equivalence, but in practice, no-one wants to exploit that.

Given one formalism that has actively been used for such mathematical purposes, and another that has been actively avoided, I call the latter rather unmathematical by comparison to the former.

People can quibble with my word choice, but it's describing a real, measurable phenomenon, the effects of which have played out predictably over the last 70 years.
Yes! Good for you, bad for Ooma and other companies who use this dark pattern.
https://archive.is/t75j4
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Can you give an example of a quaternion computation that would be useful in a calculator? I would imagine that quaternions and GA are best suited to have a graphical output, ala https://enkimute.github.io/ganja.js/examples/coffeeshop.html ?
Why not just pay for google photos?
I don’t actually have any thoughts on aeropress! I’ve never tried it. Despite the differences I notice, my preference of brew process is mostly about convenience (other than not cooking it on a burner), I’m happy with a French press at home and either drip or espresso at a cafe, whichever gets me out the door quickest. So it’s rare I try a new one unless there’s a social reason.

I know lots of people love aeropress and if you’re curious I’d say give it a try and see if you like it :)
https://www.dynamodbbook.com/

This book is quite good. Used it to get a deeper understanding of Dynamodb.
Complaining will do nothing. They will continue this behavior until they're forced to change through regulation.
The most egrigious offender was the Google+ and YouTube integration. https://johnrockefeller.net/google/
Supply chain is the wrong word here… Retail prices? What is the generic word for the same practice which is used by other global brands too.
Yeah, definitely an important disclaimer.

Generally speaking I try not to sign up for any service where the terms are deeply onerous or the industry has a bad reputation (like with gyms). For most SaaS and other online subscription models, I've found that cancelling a card is a pretty easy way to let the subscription lapse.
The claim that Facebook is suppressing Palestinian and Black activism is hard to reconcile with the fact that America has never been more supportive of Palestinian and Black activism than it has in the past, and the theatre of these activists' operation is largely social media.
Under what conditions are military boots ever actually better than the best non-military alternatives?
It still is not fun as a game though.

- For people uncomfortable with cut throat competition, this game is winner take all.

- For competitive people, victory is 90% luck and therefore unsatisfying.

- The game is decided halfway through the game time, the rest is the inevitable victory of the leading player.
Reach 100s of Employers automatically That takes years if you did manually
Given the context it's most likely a reference to https://pandas.pydata.org/
> Did they change the rules just to punish her?

I’m sure we would/will hear an outcry if that happened.

It’s pretty normal that penalties escalate after repeat infractions.
Just like there is no evidence that Global Warmning is the Apocalypse there is also no evidence that Covid Vaccines are a Global Genocide or that Covid is much worse than the flu for a typical young, healthy person not obese or diabetic.

As an apolitical person it is fascinating to me how easily people let themselves be told what to think and conform to fit in with their group without critically examining the actual issues on an individual basis.

For example (USA) you can be pro-abortion but opposed to global warming hysteria. It may blow some peoples minds but there is really nothing linking tax cuts to women's lib or environmental policy to immigration policy.

If you are smart and don't want to get covid get a vaccine. It really is not a big deal. If you are young and healthy the risk of covid to you is pretty small. So in that case it is not really a big deal either if you don't.

It boggles my mind how people connect things like ice caps melting and BLM or support for Israel and tax cuts. I guess some people just want to be part of a tribe rather than think for themselves.
This is the first one that came to mind but I’m sure there are many other examples especially if you include columnists. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/30/opinion/cartoon-nytimes.h...

I do think the paper made a huge mistake in eliminating the public editor position, which was essentially dedicated to criticism of the paper.

I think you would be surprised with how little the editorial team at newspapers concerns themselves with revenue. It's to the point where it's often actually harmful to the organization.
As with anything cryptocurrency related, it's safe to assume that the justification is contrived and the actual use case is niche, at best.

My experience as a Brazilian is that I've never seen anyone using cryptocurrencies in real life. On the other hand, the government's new instant payments system (Pix), allows anyone with a mobile phone to easily make small payments. In less than one year since launch it's already ubiquitous.
My counter is that I've been ordering from Newegg for almost 20 years. I've had a few defective items, and never had trouble returning them (no restocking fees either). They've often shipped me replacements even prior to my returning the item.

(I buy only from Newegg, not 3rd party folks selling on the Newegg platform).
edit made, I hope that is more palatable.
> And the PinePhone does absolutely nothing whatsoever to deal with that threat, while iOS has a huge amount of security built to prevent this.

Huh?

Most mobile-optimized distros offer apps through Flatpak, which gives much stronger sandboxing protections than iOS through Bubblewrap. You can block access to the network, Bluetooth, filesystem (outside the app's sandbox), GPU, accelerometer, webcam, etc. Most distros also offer SELinux and AppArmor for protections outside the sandbox. Accessing stuff from outside the sandbox (like files) is done through portals, similar to the iOS "share" dialog or file-choosing modals.

For non-technical users, all of this is enabled by default. Programs like FlatSeal let them toggle permissions on and off. Technical users can override permissions, spoof fake information, and dive into SELinux rules.

With iOS, users can't block network access from specific apps, spoof sensor data, block GPU access, etc. You're only as private as Apple thinks you need to be.
Yep, good correction!
I do not play videogames, I think all videogames are a waste of time. Not only do they waste enormous amounts of electricity, but they also waste untold hours in fantasy worlds of meaningless nonsense.

That said, I think everyone should be able to buy electricity and spend it on what they want, even dumbfuck videogames that waste their life away. If we play the "your electricity is bad, my electricity is good" game then it leads to the majority restricting the minority.

Instead, we should price electricity based on externalities and let purchasers use it as they want. If electricity is 100% clean and the buyer chooses to mine bitcoin, that's their value decision, just as you playing videogames is your (very stupid) decision, but I support your right to waste electricity on it.
Venezuela was using Bitcoin a lot when they were experiencing hyper inflation. I just Googled this again for an update and I saw that they may have dropped their former currency altogether?

I think access is a major problem here, although I haven't dug into the issue enough to know for sure.
Adobe Lightroom (Classic).

Yes, you pay real money for the stupid cloud model, but — I can add gradient and circular filters, correct for the lens distortion with profiles for most major cameras and lenses (including your iPhone), get one-click perspective correction so a building facade is square against the image plane ... and it's all lossless editing.

You want a map of your photos over time? Of course we have the map. You want facial recognition but locally hosted so it's not creepy? Got ya covered.

There's a cloud-oriented Lightroom these days. I don't use it and don't look forward to when they stop supporting Classic so I'll have to ... switch away yes that's definitely what I'll do 100%
Over the counter? People still trade and meet in person, you know? The reality is the US petrodollar is the preferred currency of choice for criminals.
So how did it play out? Please, do not let me hanging here.
I maintain that the most useful feature of crypto is still crime. The Silk Road was the killer app.
> the nature of the visualisation required is very much an application dependent thing

I agree. Here gtoolkit is a recent example that's exploring the building of custom visualizations very easily. It's a compelling environment.

> Secondly, moving to a new programming language (or even a new development environment) is not something that most of us have the freedom to do in our daily work, and overcoming that inertia is a real challenge.

Couldn't agree more. But over time, things could change. Python was a small language a couple of decades ago.

> rather than looking for a panacea or a magic bullet, we can just try to use the tools that we have today to get as close as we can to the vision that so many of us share

Yes this is one way to move forward. The main issue I've seen is supporting 100% of Python becomes too hard since this idea is being retorfitted and the language/environment hasn't been designed with this from the start (consider getattr/setattr and IO). So certainly a large subset of Python (or another dynamic language) withing a custom environment could work as a starting point.
I know this is a tangent to your main point, but in case you haven't already done so, check out some of the other Zachtronics games. SpaceChem is my favourite; it's not literally a programming game like TIS-100, but conceptually it pretty much is.

They also have another game (the name of which escapes me right now) that is sort of like a bigger version of TIS-100, where you have to write code for microprocessors. I didn't get into that one -- it was a bit less pure and straight to the point compared to TIS-100 or SpaceChem, and one of my favourite things about those games is their fundamental simplicity and transparency -- but I've heard it is good too.
> And how can we be sure that businesses don't just try and cheat

As someone who knows an HVAC inspector, they WILL cheat.

He has appalling stories.

The most appalling was him having to hold up opening a memory care facility because the HVAC was all shared when it was all supposed to be isolated. This was completely on the HVAC contractor as the plans were quite explicit about what needed to be done--which means that contractor did this before and got away with it.

People who come into these kinds of facilities are not well, and get sick with things all the time. Many of them are immune compromised. But, nope, everybody wanted the facility open and banking money--this included the local politicians, the local community, the "oversight" committee, etc.--nobody gave a damn about the fact that the HVAC would KILL PEOPLE.

So, don't hold your breath.
They've clearly indicated a desire to try another platform. Why does it matter what the motivation is?
I think you meant TASM? Those were withdrawn from service several years ago but are being replaced with upgraded models.
Well, for one, if Google's ML decides to nuke your account, you lose your photos unless you have a blog, a lot of upvotes, and luck.
Was wondering the exact same thing! Talk about a raw deal.
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Write code drunk, write tests sober?
Same with me. In my case, the Economist, who does the same like the New York Times. Subscribing is a click, canceling is a call to a representative who will talk to me about how they "love to discuss a more affordable or flexible subscription option so that you can keep enjoying everything The Economist has to offer" https://myaccount.economist.com/s/article/How-do-I-cancel-my...
Because they are known for bait and switch; and even worse bait and shutdown? One bad click, or their AI screwing up might lock you out of all your photos and entire Google a/c? Among numerous other reasons.

So while at it move away from one more Google service.
> I truly see an horrible path if government starts to put its big fingers everywhere and start causing all kinds of secondary market effects. When you look in hitory, it ALWAYS ends up being worse.

Source? It worked out well for the browser wars. It worked when it blocked (several) telco merger(s). And many more.

And that's just anticompetitive protections. What about the FDA and OSHA putting its fingers into the food industry so there aren't literal fingers in my food?
Many of us are reading this comment and not understanding why we’re being condescended to. We read TFA and not seeing the problem and the fact that you restate the fees for Marketplace aren’t selling it any more than the article. Explain why the mere act of charging 30-45% rent is a monopoly?
Pretty much all of them require to do transactions outside of Bitcoin network and making parts of the system more centralized and more vulnerable.
FWIW, I've been a happy voip.ms customer for a decade or so.
OP mentioned that google is ending the free version, it makes sense to ask them why they don’t pay.

If the reason is because they want a free tier forever, that impacts the recommendation. If the reason is because they think google could shut you out, that may need a completely different recommendation.
Say instead of using a bank to store your money you store it on the blockchain. Suddenly you don't have to worry about Wells Fargo opening accounts in your name and charging you fees for those accounts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wells_Fargo_account_fraud_scan...

Say something like a traditional bank emerged on the blockchain in the form of a smart contract and you stored money with them to have them invest it or something. There would be a public record of all charges the smart contract billed you for and tracking the history of it would be way easier than piecing together your Wells Fargo statements to figure out they've been charging you a couple dollars more every month. This also would be much easier for auditors and financial crime investigators to notice.
Cloudflare give different Anycast IPs for each plan and they don't always hit the local ingestion point. Some people shot themselves in the foot with free/pro plan in certain markets (India, aus etc..) I don't believe in May 2021 local ingestion (TLS termination) is happening on anything less than Business plan in MEL or SYD
Visualizing 3D imagery by mouth using candy-like models
I use a Synology[0] NAS and use their Photos software with an additional backup to both rsync.net and BackBlaze, in addition to using Google Photos — which I'll happily pay for. (humor my redundancy: I'm extra paranoid about losing memories of my mother.)

[0] https://www.synology.com
This looks cool, but if the author is here, I wish they would actually explain the security rather than just citing AES-GCM, which doesn't really explain the security design.

How is the key material established, exactly? How is it rotated? How is it protected when stored? The answers to these questions are a lot more relevant to understanding the security of this application than citing which encryption mode is being used.
I think it’s entirely fair. If they are so independent, why don’t they critique the NYT itself in the article?
You've never run cat on an untrusted file?
WhatsApp won't limit accounts that don't accept new privacy policy
The article spells out how the company responded...
Even if you ignore Uber’s history of screwing people and lying about it, if this is a bug the decision not to test core software and have ineffective support is an intentional product decision. Senior management sets the structures which make things like this a predictable outcome.
More important: landmines are not offensive weapons, but drones are. It's the difference between a trench and a tank.
I don’t want to hear about this was just a one time thing, Uber doesn’t normally rip drivers off, etc. I don’t think this should be possible, there should be safeguards that make something else bad happen before allowing this.
Manned fighters aren't really effective against small, low altitude drones and other loitering munitions. They're too small and slow for fast movers to engage. The US military is putting a renewed emphasis on short-range air defense (SHORAD) ground systems including jammers, missiles, guns, and lasers.
It’s the other way around. Infinity can only be defined by using algorithms. Think about Peano numbers for example.
amazon prime gives you unlimited photos storage on top of all the other stuff that's included in prime
Oh yeah, I got turned on to McMaster while doing some fabrication projects with industrial designers. We needed bags of machine screws, cable carriers, aluminum extrusions, lubricant, random brackets, rubber tubing and such it was truly miraculous.
Right. You can't ban the technology, but you can out the nations who employ merciless weapons as uncivilized pariahs who deserve coordinated disrespect, isolation, and punitive measures until the practice ends.
Of course they will.

I bought a product from a seller on their website once, but mistakenly ordered the wrong colour. Upon reaching out to them, I was told I had to ship it back myself (at a multiple of the item's cost), or buy a new one.

Meanwhile the product was listed on Amazon for the same price. Did I also mention that when I ordered the product initially, it came from an Amazon facility? Why does the seller get to benefit from Amazon's logistics but I get stiffed on the return?
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I was including the cost of a hand-grinder. I guess you could say with a manual machine you could get down to somewhere around £300.
"Shitty automated support with no human in the loop" is an intentional product decision, and so are the consequences of it.
If you're willing to self-host, Photoprism[0] is pretty nice and easy to get up and running.

It has the flavor of Google Photos, but it's definitely a step down in UX. One of the features I really love about Google Photos is the ability to jump quickly through time. Like if I'm looking for a photo I took around June 2018, I can get to it in <5 seconds.

I didn't realize what a magical feature it is until I tried looking for it with alternatives and found that they all have a lot of scrolling, pausing to load new photos, more scrolling.

But I'm impressed with what Photoprism has achieved as a small, donation-funded OSS project, so I'm hoping to see them grow.

[0] https://photoprism.app
Normally I'm not a huge fan of throwing in new laws but I do think it would be reasonable to legislate that unsubscribing from a service must be as easy as subscribing. If we are going to give companies the legal ability to auto-charge you each month, we should give people the legal ability to stop that at any time easily.
LTSC is the answer (despite what MS "advocates" will tell you)

no autoreboot, no MS store, no onedrive, no ads

I've had a legitimate copy on my gaming pc for 18 months now without issue

aliexpress has an excellent range of grey market keys...
Put it into the Dark Patterns Hall of Shame

I think programmers could take some inspiration from the Engineer's Ring creed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineer%27s_Ring
By preventing sellers from offering lower prices elsewhere, they’re using their monopoly power to directly stifle competition, and also to directly raise consumer prices.

The size of the fee they charge on top of this doesn’t matter.
We don't know if there ever was a wild RaTG13. If WIV is under suspicion, anything WIV said about RaTG13 is equally suspect. If it is faked, one might be surprised they did not fake it in a way less likely to encourage suspicion.

Nobody seriously suspects WIV engineered the SARS-CoV2 to deliberately cause a pandemic, but negligently letting it escape is itself obviously worth covering up. Whether that happened or not, it is their misfortune that it doesn't look more like a natural chimera.

I have assumed early insistence that it was natural was considered necessary to get any possibility of cooperation from the Chinese gov't. Now that they have become uncooperative, there is no more reason to maintain the fiction.
I wasn’t trying to suggest otherwise at all. I literally just don’t understand how consumer protection laws are supposed to work, and was wondering if the parent knew of some way to enforce what’s right without having to take them to court.
Why is it terrifying? It's accurate.

A bug plus shitty automated support with no human in the loop is an intentional product decision. They could have humans in the loop. They could have human support. They could make bugs like this more easily remediable. But they don't. On purpose. To the extent that their "fare review process" and the app failed. Now it's going to be fixed by some PR person. Because it's still cheaper, apparently, than the alternative design decisions.

This outcome is a result of their intentional product decisions.
So, I'm 53 now, but way back when I was in my late teens and early 20's, I was an Ayn Rand fan. I'm not so much, anymore.

I do think that if, like Ayn Rand, I had grown up in Russia during the early days of the Soviet Union, I would likely be as fanatically pro-individual and anti-anything that sounds like communal thinking. But, having spent the last few decades in a society (the USA) that is slowly unraveling, I have become convinced that there is a benefit to thinking about how those individuals fit together, and relying on rational self-interest is not enough.

One positive thing I can still say, is that Rand's emphasis on rational thought, was an excellent pathway out of her philosophy and into something less exciting, but more adapted to the way people actually function. There's probably a reason most religions don't place a primacy on rational thought; it makes it too likely that you will eventually leave.
I'm not the author, but you have the encryption implementation here in the code: https://github.com/cs01/termpair/blob/master/termpair/encryp...
How does this compare to the feature for sharing terminals within VS Code? Is it a similar technique or totally different implementation?
>Like if I'm looking for a photo I took around June 2018, I can get to it in <5 seconds.

Not only that, you can search for a photo of a light bulb you know you took, but don't know when, but simply typing "light bulb".
I wonder how many countries and ideological groups have the ability to do GoF research. The US and China obviously do. I'm assuming all of the G7 plus Russia do. Maybe India too? The problem is that the pandemic has shown just how impactful this type of research can be and what it can create. Most countries don't want to create bioweapons that are going to have blowback on them but ideological groups within those countries may very well be willing to accept losing some members in exchange for bringing the current world order to a halt. Security, both physical and social, will indeed need a healthy increase.