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> There are some features that just can't be developed with local storage as the only option

This is disingenuous. Firstly, no-one is asking for this "as the only option"; they're asking for it as an (exclusive) option. Secondly, there are no features being asked for here that can't be developed with local storage as an option - in fact, the default is for local storage to be the only option. In most apps, the approach is to add sync as an extra, not as the required default.

Scratchpad seems a perfect representation of the developers' motivations actually: it's both a demonstration that the feature is possible but deliberately implemented as a non-default side-feature without integration with the app's main workflows, to discourage use. So the devs can give it as a "solution" while continuing to pervasively track the bulk of their userbase.
I wish I’ve found these website when I started using internet :/
On the other hand, whoever would have labelled them on the PCB could come to the same conclusion, right?
> Unlikely

What is your basis for this opinion? Network operators are already talking about it.

> Too late. IPv4 are set to hit 1024K (2^20) in January 2024 at current trends

Allow me to expand that number for you: 1,048,576

One million. A reasonable upper bound for max announced v4 prefixes is somewhere around two million. You can handle that in a few GB of RAM. IPv6 could see 100x or 1000x that number based on how we are handling allocations, at which point prefix trimming will happen.
Interesting, thanks. Looks like burning shelled corn is the way to go. Or coal.
I'm not sure about the state of things in 2017, but in 2022 Coinbase will convert your USDT into USD and let you withdraw it. I have a lot of trouble believing the likes of Coinbase have either not done serious diligence on Tether or are willing to perpetuate what would probably be the largest ponzi scheme in world history by a long shot. Coinbase is a public company with executives that are not eager to go to prison, not a bunch of anons with frog avatars.
A good way to check this is with fast.com - which uses Netflix's infrastructure to perform a speed test.

My provider limits me to ~1.5Mbps, but the second I connect to a VPN (WireGuard - hosted on my homes 1Gbps/1Gbps connection), it goes up to ~50Mbps.
> The connectx() functionality is valuable, and should be added to Linux one way or another. It's not trivial to get all its use cases right. Hopefully, this blog post shows how to achieve this in the best way given the operating system API constraints.

I think this write-up is valuable since it shows a deficiency that impacts real-world industry usage. This kind of public explanation of the problem and workaround is perfect ammunition to get support behind such an initiative. Also given that darwin already supports this is another point in their favour.

A few times during this read I thought "that was a bad decision on their part" but upon completing the article I changed my mind. Their needs are definitely complex but they aren't unreasonable. It seems like having kernel support for their use cases is appropriate.
> The Dutch East India Company was worth around 6B adjusted dollars.

Here, you dropped 3 zeroes: 6T.
The people complaining here are just envious that others can have the system and they can't.
So, we need vaccines to not die, and she wants a pony to comb its hair?.

Seems like a really easy decision to make...

"I will save you five million dollars, if you give me three hundred dollars?". Just take my money and the damned horse is a gift.
Because in the pursuit of efficiency, we are less resilient.

I maintain a old inefficient boiler for my home. It has a pilot light and stays lit as long as there is service.

It costs me about $250-400 more annually vs an efficient boiler.
Rankings like ARWU or US News are quite biased towards big research universities.

Nature and others have released rankings that are a bit normalized by size, and many niche institutions such as Cold Spring Harbor or the Austrian IST are near the top. This was discussed in an old HN post, which is quite interesting to read through: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20231432.

ARWU subject ranking is pretty good, though. Rankings that are not subject based are hard to interpret. For example, many smaller Ivies have excellent departments in topic X but are not so good in topic Y. They can't cover everything. But if you trust the ranking and go there anyway to study topic Y, you might be disappointed.

However, funding is really biased towards big or famous institutions. In my experience, it's really easy to get tons of grants from a place like Oxford or Cambridge. If you move to an excellent place that is less known, say a university in the top 30-50 of the world, it gets a lot harder even if your proposal is identical.
What I fail to understand how the same industry which is against "Waterfall"[1]/BDUF[2] is pushing formal methods?

There are so many low-hanging fruits to try before using heavyweight formal methods, which will give you a much better ROI:

Informal methods:
- thinking before coding
- writing stuff down
- using pen and paper
- HDD - Hammock-Driven Development
- taking a walk, taking a shower
- talking to yourself, talking to people, talking to computer, talking to rubber duck[3]
- design reviews

Lightweight formal methods:
- Decision Tables
- Business Rules
- FSM and StateCharts
- PBT (Property-based Testing)
- DbC (Design-by-Contract)
- Functional Programming with Algebraic Type Systems
- purpose-built problem-specific DSLs
- ABM (Agent-based modeling) and simulations

--

EDIT: Specifically for "Crypto" projects, modeling, simulations, and even Reinforcement Learning probably a better fit than formal specification tools like TLA+/Alloy.

It's a huge work to formally specify even a small "smart contract"[4].

I don't think that formal specification can model implicit state like the one present in EVM, DApps/JS, and off-chain / out-of-band entities like crypto "Exchanges"[5].

Instead of trying to formally specify a "smart contract" written in Turing-complete Solidity and compiled to Forth-like EVM opcodes, it's probably better to write contracts in purpose-built non-Turing-complete financial DSLs with the 1st-class citizen concepts of money, user accounts and transactions.

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[1] So called "Waterfall", most people are calling any SDLC with an upfront design phases - "Waterfall", like for example Rational Unified Process (RUP) - which is iterative with overlapping phases.

[2] Big Design Up Front

[3] RDD - Rubber-duck Debugging

[4] which is actually an Agent with a wallet, not a contract in legal or even SW development sense

[5] better called unlicensed Broker-Dealers
Free + No IAP sounds great for users, but it's completely unsustainable for developers. So don't expect any major updates over time.
Why would anybody get a discount to pollute more?
And the 'dinette' is literally a fold down table in front of the bunk.

Cabovers had all of those things too.
What y about containers that can be freely moved between clouds and on premise?
Here's what Fauci said after the fact about the CDC's early stance on masks [0]:

> So, why weren't we told to wear masks in the beginning?

> "Well, the reason for that is that we were concerned the public health community, and many people were saying this, were concerned that it was at a time when personal protective equipment, including the N95 masks and the surgical masks, were in very short supply. And we wanted to make sure that the people namely, the health care workers, who were brave enough to put themselves in a harm way, to take care of people who you know were infected with the coronavirus and the danger of them getting infected."

I think it's pretty clear that they intentionally downplayed mask wearing for the public with the goal of saving masks for hospitals, even though kn95 masks were on the market[1], and wearing masks would have saved lives.

[0] https://www.thestreet.com/video/dr-fauci-masks-changing-dire...

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20200407162126/https://wiphone.i...
I don't see how it is so hard. Every positive PCR gets reported to the local health department which reports it to the state DPH. If the state can use this data to send me a letter asking me to donate convalescent plasma surely they could add this information to their digital covid passport.
A law enforcement request to apple should tell you everything you need to know and more about the owner of an airtag.
You're missing the point of Sonos entirely.
It's generally used to create zones in a house or workspace.
It's not meant to be just a bluetooth receiver, there are a zillion other products that do that just fine.
> Omicron doesn’t confer great immunity against delta and other, “older” virus variants which are still out there, potentially ready to come back next winter.

Care to share a paper to back this up ? This statement seems hard to prove right now.
It's the exact same as when some pimply-faced first year uni student tells you "nobody's really tried proper communism"
I have tried a various many different types of mobile games on Android and have only ever held onto two mobile game apps: Lichess and Wordiest. Every other gaming app I have briefly tried (before uninstalling) has had one of these dark patterns: pay to win, invasive fullscreen video ads, daily play incentives, and/or incessant grind to complete never-ending objectives. It's unfortunate that there aren't more quality gaming apps on mobile.
It's the opposite; mortgages are extremely cheap versus rent.
Hungary is an interesting example because it's been pointed to in recent years as adopting the "funding the person" model and trying out different funding approaches.

The broader issue you're mentioning is spot on, though: what are we incentivizing, really?

Things are so broken in academics, at least in the US. I'm not sure what is better but the current system just isn't working.
R3 looks interesting but not out yet, main concern is the newer MediaTech Wi-Fi adapters have been having a litany of issues and that's not even in AP mode. I've been chasing one with a client card having horrendous intermittent delays all the way up to kernel 5.16.

If the R3 releases and solid support actually arrives on these adapters it could be VERY interesting.
i like that you drew a connection with monkeys on typewriters.
I suspect that prior to this pandemic most venues hosting a birthday party for a kindergartener would frown upon any guest attending who is currently infected with a contagious disease or who is not vaccinated against any highly infectious diseases experiencing a local outbreak at that time. This is not "private medical history" in any sense other than that any guest is free to not attend if they don't wish to share this information.
I think I heartily agree.

Openness is a great default, and while I will say a lot of things are more complicated than I know, this will at least drive the discussion into the open.

IIRR Fannie Mae originally had explicit anti-Black lending policies. I do wonder how that would have been dealt with in a more open environment.
I was more worried about having to migrate all my Drive documents, shared folders, etc. etc. than migrating my email tbh. It may be hubris, but migrating email seems like a solved problem whereas untangling years of "Who created this folder? Who has the rights to add me again on a different account? Do I need to transfer ownerhsip of this folder so it keeps existing?" felt like a lot of manual labor.
Unless my math is wrong, by your own numbers, unvaccinated French adults are 6x more likely to be hospitalised than unvaccinated adults.
If the group you're in pulls out Nazi flags and you don't leave the group, then you're endorsing Nazism the same as if your group starts to break into a house and you don't leave the group then you're an accessory to breaking into a house.

It's very basic stuff here.
We want to stop the metastatic portion of the disease, as that is what causes death in so many cancers today. There is no cure, yet if we can stop cancers from tumor metastasis, move to a state of being under chronic care for 10+ years, I would consider this a huge step.
The "Amateur Scientist" column in Scientific American wasn't about shoddy, low-quality work (though it often was about making do with substandard apparatus), and neither is Bill Beaty's wonderful http://amasci.com/, nor are "radio amateurs" known for shoddy, low-quality work, so I think that term might be salvageable. Beaty's site suggests "science hobbyist" as well.

Probably none of "amateur scientist", "science hobbyist", or "citizen scientist" is good enough to serve as a reasonable reputational BATNA for professors considering leaving a university. "Independent researcher", maybe?

In the research literature I very rarely see references to "scientists"; that's mostly confined to the vulgar press. Instead it talks about "researchers", "workers", "investigators", or "authors", or until recently "philosophers". So from a shibboleth perspective "citizen scientist" is pretty bad; if you say "I'm a citizen scientist" you're implicitly contradicting your claim of membership by using the exonym.
I speak for me, myself and I. That's three votes buddy.
OK, USA is cheaper still.

Manhattan, density of 70K per square mile.

Levallois-Perret, density of 67K per square mile.

Manhattan, $1.5K/sqft median price

L-P, $1,177/sqft median price

Manhattan median household income - $118,161

L-P median household income - $59,758.46

It's not even close...
aliasing. that's the solution i always knew to use. think it was added in linux 2.x.

edit: guess it's been deprecated in recent kernels and it was added to linux 1.2 in 1995. apparently now the ip networking stack just understands multiple addresses per interface.

defeating time_wait is a bad idea, the source ephemeral port is how routers, firewalls, nats and other hosts identify a stream. reusing too soon can confuse all of them.
Even the Olympic peninsula (rain forest) burns periodically. I’ve seen the burn scars from apocalyptic sized fires in central Ontario too. The Amazon burns when someone ‘helps it’ a little.

Everywhere dries out enough it will catch fire at least some of the year. If there is forest, there will be fire.
How do you handle the risk of not being able to resell instances that you've bought back? What if I buy 10,000 instances and sell them back to you after 30 days? Seems like a competitor could do something like that to intentionally sabotage your business. Though maybe there's so much liquidity in the market that this isn't much of a risk, and in the worst case you could probably find someone you could sell to at a loss.
I know this is a meme (I guess about frontend web dev sometimes?), but I don't think I've ever seen it play out in real life.

Almost every program source code that I've read or worked on mostly consists of "data processing" and "control flow", with various kinds of abstractions that depend on the problem, programming language, etc.

Even for applications that seem straightforward, writing software well requires quite a bit of mental energy and focus/attention. Especially once you consider future maintainability and interfaces that other devs will use, testing and testability, documentation, readability, et al.

Denigrating programmers for using frameworks and libraries (the horror!) is just pointless and arrogant. Sure, most programmers aren't implementing novel algorithms from scratch with manual memory management. But that doesn't mean other problems can't be hard, it just means that the level of abstraction is higher and the programmer is free to use their mental resources to work and reason differently.
Reload4j 1.2.18.5: A drop-in replacement for Log4j 1.2.17 and CVE fixes
"Get it tomorrow" is entirely broken for me.

Just earlier today, I was looking to buy some isopropyl alcohol spray. There was one that was listed as "Get by Sun Feb 6". Out of curiosity, I applied that filter.

Now that item had disappeared. And a much smaller list of items where none of them were actually available tomorrow, and in fact, most were a week slower than the first I found.
> An RPG using a leveling system to make sure you can't survive certain challenges until you've progressed enough is not malicious at all.

I agree with the distinction you're making here -- it can be used to malicious ends, but isn't always -- but saying that it's categorically a "dark pattern" is still making a judgment, and that's what the website is doing.

Read the webpage yourself if you don't believe me: https://www.darkpattern.games/pattern/24/invested-endowed-va...

Note that not only does the body text make no distinction between reasonable vs malicious use of leveling systems, the examples make it clear that they consider all forms of this to be tainted:

> Galaga Wars

> "The more time you play, the more ships you get."

> DISGAEA RPG

> "Owned character progress and levelling up."

Even if you try to say, "well, it's a dark pattern that can be completely non-malicious," well, that's just shitty UX if you're gonna label things misleadingly like that.
Some school buses have a large nose, but many school buses are rear-engined and have flat fronts.
Not what I've noticed.

I'd say we're at mid-level anger. It slowly builds in an election year, culminating after everyone's self-selected media biases have convinced them they are under attack from their political twins across the aisle.
"Without a reason", you say? Why not read the actual paper [0]?

Page 8 has a list of eligibility criteria.

Page 47 has a full list of excluded studies with the reasons given for exclusion for every single one of them.

[0]: https://sites.krieger.jhu.edu/iae/files/2022/01/A-Literature...
> Somehow there's this idea that the Sars-CoV-2 vaccines need to prevent infection or symptomatic disease but that is an incredibly high bar that no respiratory viral vaccine has ever met.

This is only an incredibly high bar if all you ask for is a tool to mitigate personal risk. If you want to make the use of that tool mandatory, then it is a reasonable bar, and there are additional other bars that are also very high.
AirGuard (open source), but there's a battery hit.

The official Apple app only alerts when users run a manual scan (not very useful).
If we had started training more nurses at the beginning of this pandemic they would have graduated already.
> So every protest that has ever happened ?

Ottawa, being the capital, gets two types of protests. The legal ones who get a permit have their route planned out in advance, and the police shut down the streets while the protest occurs. It's sort of like a parade. It's inconvenient and annoying, but no single street gets shut down for more than a couple of hours.

And it's not just the agreeable protests that get permits. They pretty much have to give a permit to anybody who asks for one.

For the illegal protests like the G20 occupation and when the indigenous people blocked a freeway exit, the police come in fast and hard.

> If anything, the associated violence and demands of the protest are pretty tame in comparison to what the BLM or Indian Farmers protests demanded.

Not in Canada.

edit: there's a third type of protest, the small ones. You're welcome to stand on the sidewalk with a sign and yell as long as you don't interfere with anybody.
The opposite is also true. Europeans often do not understand how just how big America is.
> People who are not vaccinate are definitely behaving in a deeply antisocial way

Are chain smokers antisocial ? What about over eating obese ?

I hate risk-adverse fearful societies.
I have VLC, but the UI is a bit clunky compared to other players. I really hope they sort that out because VLC plays everything well.
lichess is so well made
I’ve definitely wondered how easier immigration would affect my salary. I could see a lot of talented devs quitting their jobs to start companies that would hopefully recruit me with better benefits than I currently have.
It instantly reminded me of "Wolven + Loaves". You know, the one with the hipster ampersand.

Now I needs me a McWolven.
That's SOL, not bridged/"wrapped"-ETH that happens to exist on Solana as an IOU for actual-ETH on Ethereum.
Thanks!

It's a very valid question, the answer is that I don't think the market wants another FB (especially after today). In that, and from continually trying to scratch my own itch, we need to build something that works in an entirely different way.

If you try the app, we've turned a lot of 'standard' social features on their head, like how interactions work and are viewed in the app. But to answer your question:

- We will not ask for any personal information (such as job, school, interests etc).
- We will not add noise on the feed, such as what other people are liking/commenting on.
- We will not have any third party content on the feed. Eg anything that isn't from your contacts you have circled.
- We currently (and will continue) to only show you posts from contacts you have actively circled.
- We currently (and will continue to) keep the feed in chronological order.
But they aren't universal in the sense that all people and governments agree on the list and definitions.

In particular to the Freedom of Speech discussion, the most important part is the list of exemptions. Even China would argue they give their people Freedom of Speech, but they have more restrictions/exemptions than other countries. Hence, they are not universal in a practical sense and the details must be discussed.
Nice. Are you calculating alibaba $/month correctly? Multi million $ per month? Maybe a currency thing?
What's so striking is how fast the omicron variant spread. Worldwide in weeks, not months. That's very unusual. Omicron may be the most contagious virus known, although some argue measles is higher.

Even though omicron vaccines are already in clinical testing, this spread too fast for vaccine deployment to keep up. Pfizer already has an omicron vaccine in volume production, and it's being held back until clinical tests indicate it is safe.

More general vaccines are in development. They may or may not work, but there are multiple projects underway. We're probably going to need them.
> This typically manifests itself to retail customers the form of free Nest thermostats, time of use programs, and subsidized appliance efficiency upgrades (or rebates).

> If they could redirect this money to small generators like yourself and have the same impact, they would drop their demand management programs in a heartbeat

The catch is that the power from small solar generators isn't as valuable as demand management loads, because solar generators aren't controllable - the grid has to just absorb the power they put out regardless of whether it needs it.

Now, if every solar installation had its own battery system that could provide power back to the grid on demand, that would be an equivalent service. And in fact in many places (Vermont [1], parts of California[2]) there are programs starting or in development to do exactly that: buy energy back from residential batteries.

1. https://greenmountainpower.com/rebates-programs/home-energy-...

2. https://ebce.org/resilient-home/
Thanks for sharing! Haven't heard of Movim before so I will check it out.
Photons incoming: Webb team begins aligning the telescope
Rail doesn’t get things to the last mile and can be slow. Efficient in volume not in time.

America’s freight infrastructure is the envy of many country. It isn’t modern,fast, or even that well maintained, but it is extensive. Passenger rail is a completely different story in the US.
Me too! Thanks for the comment.
"But there still remains a very loud contingent of Roadmap watchers who see projections as promises. And their continued noise every time we shift deliverables has become a distraction both internally at CIG and within our community"

The arrogance. Said as if they've delivered what was advertised to anyone except said contingent.

The developers have shown their word counts for nothing, and so the same goes for these statements. They've accepted people's money, which obliges them to provide a reasonable quality return in a reasonable time scale.