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DigitalJack··on Facebook’s Political Unit Enables Propaganda
>Honestly I think it makes him more "relateable" by making him not "the enemy" for viewers

Does this mean you think all viewers are democrats (or even most) and that republicans are the enemy?

DigitalJack··on Amtrak derailment: safety gear was not active after rush to launch service
I'm not inventing anything.

And why would it be outdated if it works, and we (US) aren't using it.

DigitalJack··on Apple Says It Slows Older iPhones to Save Their Battery Life
Keep in mind this is relatively new. The press seems to be spinning it as an "ah ha, old phones really are getting slower!" Well, yes, now. I mean as of 10.2.1, so a year ago, but people have been thinking their phones were getting slower since smartphones became a thing.

Likewise with old computers.

And as someone else commented, "apple will never add a MAKE MY PHONE UNSTABLE switch."

DigitalJack··on Amtrak derailment: safety gear was not active after rush to launch service
That’s what sensor fusion is for.

That said, inertial nav can take a plane across the country without correction and get within sight of the target.

I think integrating actual speed while on rails would be vastly more accurate.

And really, it just need to augment gps.

DigitalJack··on Amtrak derailment: safety gear was not active after rush to launch service
That this is a problem is just ridiculous. It's on freaking rails! There is absolutely no excuse for this. GPS, Inertial Nav, simply integrating speed over time, it should be absolutely dead simple to calculate exactly where the train is at all times.

The article mentioned crap like differential GPS. Completely unnecessary. You don't need to be that accurate, I mean good grief, +/- 100 feet would be just fine for dealing with such gross overspeed detection.

I can't believe this is actually a problem. Pure politics/bureaucracy. It's certainly not a technical problem.

DigitalJack··on US Federal Ban on Making Lethal Viruses Is Lifted
The downvotes seem weird to me. Maybe it felt off topic?

Dr. Francis S. Collins is in several of the videos, and the third video is all about this particular controversy of dangerous experiments at the dawn of genetic engineering(for example one guy wanted to splice a cancer causing gene in e. coli bacterium).

It seemed relevant to me. It is what the article is talking about afterall.

DigitalJack··on We Only Have Hours Left to Stop the NSA Expansion Bill
"Patient protection and affordable care act"

"Patriot act"

All "right to work" laws

DigitalJack··on US Federal Ban on Making Lethal Viruses Is Lifted
An informative series from pbs narrated by Jeff goldblum on YouTube: search for "dna episode 1 of 5 the secret of life"

It's a great high level overview of dna sequencing from the discovery of its shape through the completion of the human genome project in 2000.

I'm having trouble pasting a link, maybe someone could help me out.

DigitalJack··on Ten years of professional blogging – what I’ve learned
I must have missed that. Thanks for pointing it out, I was bothered by the seemingly contradictory advice :)

all I noticed was:

  >"Titles are 80% of the work, but you
  write it as the very last thing. 
  It has to be an compelling opinion 
  or important learning"
followed by

  >"Most of my writing comes from
  talking/reading deciding I strongly
  agree or disagree. These opinions
  become titles. Titles become essays."
and then the example

  >"The best example of this in
  my work is 'Growth Hacker is the
  new VP Marketing' which started
  out as a tweet with 20+ shares, and
  then was developed into an essay
  afterwards."
DigitalJack··on Ten years of professional blogging – what I’ve learned
I'm happy he wrote this, and I'll read it again at home tonight.

But what's the deal with "write the title last" and his examples all start with the title?

DigitalJack··on Kubernetes 1.9: Apps Workloads GA and Expanded Ecosystem
I agree with the "because it's fun to learn" answers.

But I'd also add the reliability factor of keeping a quorum of containers running. It's a tool for dealing with the unreliability of cloud infrastructure, and unexpected process death.

DigitalJack··on XMR mining app, built with Vue.js, D3 and CoinHive
There aren't enough altruistic people to make the blockchain trustworthy. Profit motive is the entire driving force behind the trust model of bitcoin, et al.
DigitalJack··on Oh shit, git: Getting myself out of bad situations
Yeah, fugitive seems pointless to me. Might as well just use the git cli...which I do, but when I want something quicker to navigate/visualize, magit is my go to.
DigitalJack··on Oh shit, git: Getting myself out of bad situations

  > Fugitive
That's interesting. I switched back from emacs to vim (neovim), and fugitive was recommended. it just looked like :commands for the normal git cli... maybe I missed something.

So even though I edit in vim, I jump back to emacs for magit for bigger commits or multiple smaller commits (where I need to see diffs to be sure I capture my changes).

I have desired something as useful in vim, but I didn't think there was anything. I'll take another look at fugitive.

DigitalJack··on F.C.C. Repeals Net Neutrality Rules
I wonder if this would be feasible at the neighborhood level via Home owners association. The neighborhood gets a tower and microwave link to a backhaul station, and provides internet via wifi or wires to the neighborhood.

I think our neighboorhood is about 130 houses. probably not enough to make it cost effective.

On the flip side, maybe starting a local company to provide LOS microwave hookups to the various neighborhoods in the area could make it work.

DigitalJack··on High-Level Problems with Git and How to Fix Them
You should look up the stash command.
DigitalJack··on How to Know If an Idea Is Worth Pursuing
Email them and hope they build it. Solves your problem and saves you the effort.
DigitalJack··on My coffeehouse nightmare (2005)
You get exactly what you expect and want from the cup of coffee. Apps, not so much.
DigitalJack··on A decentralised Universal Basic Income platform based on personal currencies

  > Is there a base number of participants that are required?
Well, the money has to come from somewhere. If you have a homogenous group, all with the same income/wealth, then UBI would do nothing. You'd give everyone the same money you took at tax time. No net change.

You need a group of people with diversified income/wealth. The wealthier contribute more than they get from UBI, the poorer contribute less (if any) than they get from UBI.

I like it mainly for the idea of replacing welfare with a much simpler system. But it will never happen in America, land of absurd tax code complexity. And certainly not with a name like Universal Basic Income. It would have to be called something else to avoid triggering people.

DigitalJack··on Apple ‘On Schedule’ to Terminate Music Downloads by 2019
You have a headphone jack on your phone? My computer still has one, but not for long I assume.
DigitalJack··on Apple ‘On Schedule’ to Terminate Music Downloads by 2019

  >and AirPlay is unencrypted ALAC.
That won't last. And with the removal of the headphone jack, we lose our last analog (and unencrypted) path for capturing audio.
DigitalJack··on Recycling Chaos in U.S. As China Bans 'Foreign Waste'
The problem here in Oregon is not presorting the recycling.

The centers can’t sort to the level of “purity” required and people don’t realize how truly problematic it is to be lazy in presorting.

I honestly didn’t think it was that big of a deal to let some plastic bags make it in to recycling. I know better now, mainly due to local npr reporting.

There is not much to solve laziness, but sorting tech has room to advance.

DigitalJack··on Clojure 1.9 is now available
"If you need to force yourself, or if you need extra special motivation to use Clojure .. most likely you will never use it"

Amen. Learning is best a journey of desire, not compulsion.

DigitalJack··on Clojure 1.9 is now available
Well that was condescending.
DigitalJack··on macOS lock screen: “I just sent my session pass to my whole team”
dear God I hope not.

I wouldn't mind if they made the touch pad into a screen. Probably not that useful, but it wouldn't bother me.

DigitalJack··on Patreon’s new service fee spurs concern that creators will lose patrons
It's cash flow vs cash on hand. If they are doing this as a part of getting positive cash flow, then good for them.
DigitalJack··on The Big Vitamin D Mistake
I happen to have a gene mutation that makes methylation of B12 inefficient. I never did well in chemistry or biology for that matter, but my limited understanding is that methylation is necessary for it to be useful.

It turns out that you can buy methylated B12 called methylcobalamin. The more common form is cyanocobalamin, and is not very useful for people like myself.

That is my understanding, if anyone here knows better or more, please correct me.

DigitalJack··on Cinemark announces $8.99/mo. subscription to fill more seats, take on MoviePass
Considering this as fact (that concessions make the money), I would think a theatre would do everything in it's power to make purchasing and consuming concessions the most pleasant aspect of movie going that they possibly could.

Having to juggle sodas, popcorn, napkins, etc., is always an adventure in the negative sense when I go to the movies.

DigitalJack··on AMA: NY AG Schneiderman on net neutrality and protecting our voice in government
Could you please reference what it was the courts struck down related to Title I enforcement? This is news to me and I'm very interested in a more complete view of things.
DigitalJack··on High-Speed Trading: Lines, Radios, and Cables
The value is money going into the pockets of the people who own the exchanges. Or effectively own them.
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