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Which red tape and regulations? You're not seriously asking people not to keep a good eye on nuclear powerplants, are you? Because accidents are not a good thing.

And yeah, I get they don't kill that many people, but evacuating a large amount of people and cleaning up is an enormous expense. Which is part of the problem really. You can build a really solid powerplant, which will cost $$. Or you can let people do it on the cheap, and deal with the consequences when it leaks, which will cost $$$.
I don't think it necessarily has to be all the time; just having anonymity available when you want it could be enough in theory.

I guess the issue there is that if the general population spends most of its time on platforms which discourage anonymity then it becomes that much more difficult to achieve anonymity when you do need it.

Cyberspace can only be independent so long as it is a place that "is not where bodies live". "Our identities have no bodies" isn't true if your online identity is associated with your real name and photograph. You can't have a world that "all may enter without privilege or prejudice accorded by race, economic power, military force, or station of birth" if "all" doesn't include people whose race, economic power, and station of birth hasn't been disclosed to you in advance.
Would you mind sharing few of them? I use fingerprint reader on my phone and laptop, is there a reason I shouldn't? Face recognition is something I have a problem with. I don't like cameras, especially those you cannot unplug.
Whist google has stopped indexing them, I found them still available with my own algorithms. The chat links and names are there as a sample.
KeepassXC lets you specify a custom key/field sequence for each site, which makes it a little less painful.
The article touches on water and emissions; I wonder how these products compare on electricity usage (and whether that's counted in the emissions estimate).
Aren't every single one of these problems due to the fact that the USA chose an adversarial system every time there was a choice? There's a problem, the corporation had a huge disclaimer, but the problem was so egregious that victims had to sue. The legal system is adversarial, so all the court machinations end up requiring specialists to understand simple words made into jargon. Bad court decisions become precedent, so NIMBYism becomes a necessity.
The inflation adjusted annual return with reinvested dividends of the Nikkei is 1.3% annual over the past 30 years. Not great, but hardly a catastrophe.

Anyway, the general strategy is to move from stocks to bonds and then government bonds the closer you get to retirement. Definitely not something you need a money manager for
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> I disagree with both of those laws.

Most intelligent people agree with your disagreement.
plugins works for things that are plugins. Most people seem to equate separation of concerns with everything should be a plugin. Otherwise you get massive issues actually working across each plugin (or package).

So unless your component is actually used in multiple core products it's not a component, it's just a part of your monolith. Making it a separate component usually, just spreads your monolith across several git repo's
> Our emissions rate has been growing, not shrinking.

I get what you mean, and you likely mean global, but US emissions have actually been decreasing for about 15 years:
https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA/united-states/carb...
It's awesome? It's how I do all my audio.
Typescript doesn’t save you from all the weird things happening at runtime. A missing check at a context boundary and you can have a wild time (been there).
Oh I see, makes sense! Thanks for the answer - very much appreciated!
The topic is around stickiness of software.

What does your monitor have that make it sticky?
What's so weird about that is that Android HAS that control. I was making an app for myself recently, and I needed a datepicker too, and I found a widget that is an exact replica of the iOS "spinners".
Some of them - sure. But anyone who would've been able to repay the loan at a reasonable interest rate is still going to have an extremely difficult time with these APRs.
Absolutely. Your example, the App Store, and lots of other aspects of the iOS ecosystem are how Apple prevents most (not all) of the "tragedy of the commons" problems on that platform.
> no way to efficiently replay concurrent programs in a deterministic fashion on multiple cores

OpenMP with static scheduler and hardcoded count of threads?

OpenMP ain’t a silver bullet, but for many practically useful scenarios it’s indeed as simple as calling a function.
Recaptcha sends the same image to multiple browsers at the same time and it gets solved by consensus I think.
> to the copyright owner

The copyright claimant, which may or may not actually own any such right.
to be honest I suspect everybody (including Microsoft) got wrong-footed by the mobile explosion. this redefined what personal computing means by placing simpler devices in the hands of billions.

maybe its just a matter of time before the pendulum swings back and we get really cool hardware repatriated to homes / desktops offering features that would be suboptimal in a thin client setup (due to latency, privacy etc)
The FCA has no enforceable jurisdiction over Binance, because Binance's physical and financial assets are not in the U.K. - except they do have an office that could be seized, 3 Beeston Pl, London. It might be no more than a token office though.

They seem to have a number of offices in places, one per country. The US one is in Fresno, CA.

Their headquarters is in Malta.

They sell derivatives, and they are headquartered in Malta. Who actually uses good or services from these people?
I’ve taught programming to people who struggled because they were misusing JS and the answer they were getting back coincidentally worked for some inputs but not others.

Imagine trying to explain to them that this was their fault? Even trying to find the words to explain what happened made me feel bad that their first experience programming was tarnished by a language that will gladly allow you to do nonsense.
I just used the parent comment numbers converted to same unit with the first DDGed population result. Comparing pct land forested seemed an odd ratio to me. Population seemed to be a better proxy for housing demand. Pop density and other factors would probably confound but tree per capita seems to matter than tree per surface area.
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>The FCA also issued a consumer warning which, among other other things, reiterated that no entities in Binance Group are registered with the FCA and therefore cannot carry out regulated activity in the UK.

The "impact" of this is that the regulators are beginning to take actions against the wild-west of the crypto world, regardless of how toothless each individual action is.

Put aside your opinions of cryptocurrencies as a technology...there's no way sovereign governments were going to let this fly. There fireworks are just starting.
Well, dredging up useless facts from the old cobweb attic, back in the 80's if you wanted to have a domain name you had to give Jon Postel a ring[0] and ask politely for him to manually edit the zone.

I suppose you gotta start somewhere, "worse is better" MVP and so on.

[0] - http://www.cybertelecom.org/dns/history.htm
Optimizing software costs developer time, so it’s only done when needed.
Are any of these freely sold to individuals, or do you only get them as part of larger deals?
China has been sending probes to the Moon since 2007:

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

Once you've got that down pat, it's not that different to land one on Mars, especially since the Chinese rover was small enough not to require the elaborate skyhook approach.

Also, NASA is legally prohibited from cooperating with China on anything space-related.
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> It tastes exactly like it smells.

Don't know if it will help you but I think the same thing of durian. It smells like rotten food and tastes like rotten food.

I think people have varying degree of sensitivity to the various compounds in the food and that another significant part of it is also linked to what you were exposed to while growing up and the association you made.
Anybody who says US chocolate is terrible hasn't looked for anything beyond what a 7-11 would carry. Even Hershey's sells some great stuff under different brand names (like Dagoba).
> there will be even more demand for the products we sell

What products do you sell?
Most of these edge cases should result in clear errors. Chances are, if you're adding two arrays somewhere in your application, something else has gone terribly wrong, and just telling the programmer "this makes no sense" would be a much more sensible solution than returning garbage and letting it cause problems somewhere else, further from the real cause of the problem.
I feel like it's important whether you're tallying things, or presenting a quantity by hand gestures, for example to a bartender. Then 1 is a single index finger raised, with the thumb and other fingers pinched together. 2 the same, but also long finger. For 3, I would use the ring finger, and similarly for 4, using the pinky.

However, if I was tallying, I'd do thumb, index, long, ring, pinky. I have a Chinese colleague, and he always goes pinky, ring, long, thumb.
Clinton was talking about half of Trump supporters. Even taking that statement literally, that doesn't equate to anywhere near half the country.

It would only be a quarter of the country if every person in the country voted and if half went to Clinton and half to Trump.

But we know that more people voted for Clinton, so just because of that the Trump-supporting half would be even less than that... and yet less than that because a lot of people don't vote.

Also, let's remember that Clinton said this during the campaign, when everyone (including Clinton) thought that Clinton had way more support than Trump, so she was expecting that Trump supporters were much fewer in number than they actually were. So that makes the total numbers she was (figuratively, not literally) talking about fewer still.

I grant your larger point about polarization, however. It's hard to see who in the US political arena is not contributing to ever greater polarization. Somehow we need to deescalate before more serious violence occurs.
That probably means that BTC will be priced more accurately than USD
My pseudo-workaround to deal with this is to use a Microsoft account for the sole purposes of backing up my digital entitlements. After I've logged in once, I create a local admin account using the control panel and never use the online account again.
Maybe not in your neck of the woods. Over the course of my education I attended three separate universities. All of which had Industrial Councils to make sure that their programs were teaching skills relevant to industry. All of them had industry partnerships to get their students exposed to what was current in industry. That was across the entire engineering spectrum not just Computing.

I am surprised that more Computing departments haven't embraced Open Source. It seems like it would be a great way to introduce students to larger projects, and act as a great advertisement for their core areas of expertise. After all who hasn't heard of BSD, or X11.

It ought to be out there along the ASME's racing events where students design and build race cars. Why shouldn't Computing students design video or audio codecs, raspberry pies, or other things for real world experience?
The Clash triathlon series uses NASCAR tracks for their races. The scenery is a bit monotonous for athletes, but the bike courses are very safe and it gives spectators a better view of the action.

https://www.triathlete.com/events/challenge-u-s-splits-with-...
Thanks for your impressions; I will definitely have a look at "How Google runs..." first.
As usual when this tired counter-argument is made, you aren't considering alternative solutions (cryptocurrencies) that are already working with Consensus algorithms like (variants of) Proof of Stake...

Forget Bitcoin, Lightning Network was announced years ago and it's still far from being used in production. Also this doesn't solve the Proof of Work problem Bitcoin has, the higher its value the more energy is used, a second layer solution isn't going to fix this issue, it's only increasing throughput.

Since developers of Bitcoin are extremely conservative and censoring, I doubt Bitcoin is going anywhere in the mid to far future. Other projects are just faster and can potentially deliver their promises.
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> Good on Mexico. Preserving the wealth of the middle class and giving access to the poor and unbanked is tye way forward for a more egalitarian society.

Genuine question - how is this going to help the "poor and unbanked" to get access to an economy that's somehow insulated from what you say is the inflation surrounding them? And in what concrete way is it leading to a more "egalitarian society"?

As far as I can see, this only gives an opportunity to the already wealthy (and especially the super-wealthy) to increase their wealth at the cost of newcomers to the system. But I'm genuinely curious about the part that I'm missing, where the poorest in society are reaping the benefits of their Bitcoin holdings?
Right. And you can never prove it but it's always posts that fire people up, never posts to deescalate. I'd often try to deescalate and those posts would end up downvoted as well. Arguing with them is no use either- nobody wins arguments on the Internet, the simple act of arguing with bad actor/shill/troll means you've lost. It all feels so hopeless but this is our reality.

It was one of the reasons that I quit using Reddit and other social media (besides this site)- although I do see some of the same things happening here.
Example: copyright trolls claiming videos that use public domain NASA footage.
Sure, every PR will not get accepted, thats fine. It would be best if the instructor helped students curate which projects is good candidates, and motivate students not to choose only one. The advice in the article for how to choose projects is really good imo:

- Choose a project with several active contributors.

- Choose a relatively popular project (some GitHub stars).

- Avoid very popular projects.

- Verify that you can build and run the project on your computer setup.

- Ensure the project regularly accepts pull requests from outsiders.

- Try to contribute a trivial fix as a warm-up exercise.

- Look for project issues marked as "Good first issue".
So, firstly, this:

> For the sake of the experiment, let's assume the sci-fi writers are right, and eating animals will eventually be considered immoral.

Also, is it vegetarianism if you only eat lab-grown meat? It's still meat, right, so you're still not vegetarian. Or is it the "not eating animals" that makes you a vegetarian now?

I tend to think that (e.g.) Iain M Banks is right, and that eventually eating animals will be considered immoral (and not the same as vegetarianism). You may disagree, and that's fine - everyone has an opinion.

The interesting question is not whether the future will consider this immoral, but whether if it becomes immoral in the future that applies retroactively and makes it immoral now? Does morality change over time, or regardless of time?

I grew up in the '70's so I've seen the change in morality first-hand, but that all kinda caught us by surprise. It's going to be interesting being more aware of the change in morality around this.
Yes exactly - MS does not respect the user's ownership of their own hardware.

My favorite thing about Linux is that it does what I tell it to, and that's all it does.
Took about 5 for me.
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As an Icelander living in the UK, I will attest to this being true. It really surprised me that all my wooden outdoor structures and projects decay much, much faster in the UK than they did in Iceland, despite the general lack of frost. I hadn't considered it being due to added UV exposure. But I'm having to varnish my nice oak garage door every 18 months to keep it from going grey, despite using extra tough oil-based polyurethane. Similarly processed wooden structures would last many years in Iceland without any extra maintenance.

There's also the fact that when the ground is frozen, the microbes in the soil that cause rot and decay are less active. The constant dampness of UK soil means any wood that touches the ground is rotted through in a couple of years unless you take significant precautions, while in Iceland, the ground being frozen or dry a large part of the year makes this less of a problem.
Though to be fair USB was designed to be cheap to implement. firewire's designers didn't take that compromise and it has performance benefits, but it isn't necessarily a wrong decision.
You’re right. This leads to resentment and racism. We already have institutional racism where grants are awarded based on gender, skin colour, and DNA. It’s ridiculous.

We also have publicly funded Catholic schools and a fucking monarchy. Shameful.
The problem is undefined is used in places null makes much more sense (like a result of the find function). I follow the rule to never use null and convert to/from undefined if needed by some library.
Another big one is being able to reset your laptop password without having to take your PC into the shop for someone to break into it. And if you turned on Bitlocker let's hope that they saved their recovery key or escrowed it to their MS account.

This is the biggest feature for my relatives who no longer feel dependent on a "tech person" to help them out.
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Took USB a fair while to get there though.
Request response event loop?

It is a dynamic image generator written in PHP that increments the counter it renders. It runs on a PHP web server. Its not serverless.
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These have in common that much of their initial growth occurred by regulatory capture or ignoring existing regulations. Its ok if you are a host...Terrible if
your building has been taken over by Airbnb guests.

But of course they are just a platform....Not an enabler.
> Another important reason for software complexity lies in monolithic design, wherein all conceivable features are part of the system's design.

This is really a call for modularity. I'm a believer in modularity, but it is not a cure-all.

Modularity brings a lot of baggage with it, like duplication of code and lifecycle management, along with increased resource usage (ironic, as the article is mainly about reducing resource usage).

But I am still a believer in it. In my experience, it makes for a massive increase in system stability, quality, agility, and speed of development.
My usual procedure is make a restore USB drive using whatever tool supplied, or just clone it with TrueImage, in case something goes arwy.

Then: "Disable secure boot, wipe SSD, reinstall Windows without connecting to the Internet".

You'll end up with a relatively bloat-free non-S Windows 10 install with a local account, no BitLocker (although it can be enabled later), and Windows will generally install all the hardware drivers for you.

Anything missing that you want can be grabbed from the manufacturer's website. Once everything's done, re-enable secure boot.
For a few years now, I've been obsessed with the idea of creating a way to store data, perform transformations on data, and allow others to subscribe to real-time updates to that data in a completely peer-to-peer way. I fundamentally believe that such a system is needed for building fully-functional, trust-minimized applications on stateful data without needing to rely on databases and data centers.

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I like the thinking here. Good to draw from.
Sue 4chan and members? And garner the focused attention of one of the most vile communities of trolls the world has ever seen? Let me get my popcorn, because that will be an epic shitshow to watch.
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Headline is ambiguous but TFA is not.

That 4C temperature is the long-term equilibrium. The word "trapped" in the headline means the amount of additional energy that goes to alter that equilibrium.

It's not measuring the total greenhouse effect. It's measuring the additional greenhouse effect. Or rather, all of the total factors contributing to warming, which includes things like more blue ocean rather than bright ice.

As you note, the existing greenhouse effect is really quite large, and the additional ~200 ppm of carbon dioxide is relatively small. It leads to a change of about 1C so far, and perhaps a total of 3-4C over the next century. But those changes are significant when it comes to human society, both directly because of the temperature and indirectly due to an increase in extreme events.
A lot of things to fact check your arguments. But CO2 measurements done in multiple places agree to a rising trend.

Where did you get your information from?
I had the issue with Screen Tearing, its baffling to me that out of the box Windows with no GPU drivers for AMD/Nvidia does not suffer from this issue, yet this issue has existed on Linux since the dawn of time.

However, moving from Ubuntu to Manjaro (KDE Plasma) based on recommendation from someone on HN, oh it almost /just works/ without issues. There's just little gotchas along the way but atleast it doesn't make me want to tear my hair out like Ubuntu flavours do.
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