Producers want to sell more, therefore they select varieties that look pretty, that are uniform in color and shape, they will also select varieties that keep for a long time for transport, or that grow bigger and ripen faster for better yields, being measured only by weight. Lots of factors but none related to taste or nutritional value. The consumer has very little say in all this.
I way prefer XML over something like YAML. I can't believe people criticize XML for being too complex and then rave about YAML. YAML is a monstrosity, the spec is something like 700 pages, and is a frequent source of bugs. To me at least indentation-based hierarchy is also hard to read, XML is verbose but at least you know where you are. JSON would be fine, but some values are not representable, and as the article says, you can't embed any comments, and also the order of input is not preserved. I don't think that is really appropriate for manually-edited files. The quest for the perfect data and configuration language is still on.
I don't know where the notion that RPN is more intuitive comes from. My dad had an HP-45 when I was a kid and I didn't quite grasp the concept of a stack. You've also got it wrong in your example (you've got stack 1 and 2 reversed in step 2), so I guess it's not that obvious for grown ups either! When you write a formula on the blackboard it is something like (5+6)*3, not 3⏎5⏎6⏎+* or whatever. Takes a bit of mental gymnastics to convert between the two, and you need to keep the state of the stack in your head as you go. Not really viable for anything too complicated. I guess that regular calculators suck for that too, in my opinion the best are symbolic calcs where you enter the formula as you would write it, parenthesis and all, which as a bonus allows you to go back and fix mistakes and reuse formulas easily.
> Not only has the site added native photo and video upload support
And it fucking sucks. It consistently fails to load, or stalls even at low quality. Even replaying a video often fails despite it already being in memory. And it degrades picture and video quality much more than other sharing sites. And all that without the convenient playback controls you can usually find. I don't understand how people put up with it
> I am not confident in the ability of the government to implement a reasonable single payer system. I am concerned that regulatory capture, small government politics, and special interest groups will result in system that is worse than what we currently have.
It takes a special kind of delusion to believe that when every single country in the world that has a public health system is in fact not worse than the US system.
I think a large part of the problem is that Americans are brainwashed from birth to believe that the "Free Market" will solve all problems, and that it is superior to public systems 100% of the time.
China is a totalitarian dictatorship, with an otherwise pretty capitalist organization. No European country is socialist in the sense of social ownership of the means of production. How they describe themselves is irrelevant.
Also from Wikipedia, the efficiency if 25% if you let the heat of liquefaction and the "cold" of vaporization go to waste, but it can be improved to 70% if you store that heat and re-inject it in the cycle.
Don't patents examiners receive bonuses based on the number of patent applications they process? And isn't accepting a patent basically checking a box, while rejecting one requires an argumented memoir and a lengthy back and forth discussion with the applicant and an appeal process? The patent system is skewed by design towards accepting patents too easily. I don't believe that patents are entirely harmful, but I think they actually hinder progress in 95% of the cases. The system works like this by design, and a lot of interests rely on it. It will be very hard to fix.
That's highly dependent on humidity. If it's dry your body has means to cool itself through perspiration, but if the air is saturated in water vapor, temperatures as low as 35 or 36C can be deadly.
Global warming brings more energy into the system so it's likely there will be more wild swings into extreme temperatures in the future and more energetic events like hurricanes etc. (not a climatologist).
My current backup strategy is to backup the whole filesystem. I run services in actual VMs, not docker containers, with disks mounted from LVM volumes which allows me to take snapshots and back them up live without needing to shut them down. I'm using bup to do the actual backups to a server I'm keeping in my home. I wrote a few custom scripts to backup and restore servers, and keep a history of the last x days, y weeks and z months. That way it gives me more time to figure out if something's wrong, as it's hobby stuff that I'm not checking every day.
My advice for OP would be to 1/ ditch tarsnap. A backups tool that runs for hours without any feedback ? A restore tool that fails if the files are too big ? Everything extremely slow ? Just forget it. 2/ keep more than 3 days of backups. It's too short if you make a mistake, it took 3 days to recover from this one already. 3/ backup everything. Don't try to pick and choose files, you're likely to forget something, and if not now then some time later when you create a new file but forget to add it to the list of things to back up.
My intuitive answer to that problem was to say that if we assume the captured serial numbers are randomly distributed, and the numbering starts at 1, then they will have the same average as all the numbers, so the estimate should be the average of captured serial numbers times 2. Which gives a result close to the formula used in this article, but not the same. I'm not sure where is the flaw.
How convenient it must be to always have a paper or two ready that show warming trends are wrong and that it will stop in the next few years. It does not matter that the previous papers in the same vein were proven wrong by facts, like the ones that attempted to draw horizontal lines over the temperature graphs. Just come up with a new theory, pick some data that fits (in paper #2, why solar cycles 21-23 and not the others? No proposed mechanism behind the theory? No problem.), and here's your new justification to do nothing.
You're getting downvoted but the producer of the show "24" has stated that it was a "patriotic" show and it's at least in part responsible for the acceptance in the American public opinion of the torture inflicted upon terrorism suspects post-9/11. TV/movies are not mere entertainment, they often carry a message.
They're also requiring all new apps to be published in the Android App Bundle format instead of APK. Likely it will soon after also be required for updates to existing apps.
I very much doubt Valve has the required licensing to release the game they have on their store to any other platform (except for their own games). If Valve ever goes bankrupt and closes shop, it is likely that the users would lose access to their games.
Repeating the same thing over and over does not make it a fact.
Maybe the stated aim of the research was to study the process. But what they actually did was study how the people involved implemented it.
Being publicly manipulated into merging buggy patches, and wasting hours of people's time are two pretty obvious effects this study had that could cause some amount of distress and thus it cannot be dismissed as simply "studying the process".
With the death of third-party cookies Google is trying to force browsers to add enough bits of entropy so that the same level of user tracking can be achieved through fingerprinting instead. Simple as that. The fact that Google is rolling this out right now but their plans to reduce fingerprinting move much more slowly, if at all, is telling. This absolutely needs to be treated as the massive privacy leak that it is.
His blog is hosted on the modem but it does not actually use the cellular network, he routes traffic back to the host using adb port forwarding and then to some other host via USB and then to the Internet.
It's a stretch to call it unneeded, being able to communicate over the cellular network is pretty much the definition of what a mobile phone is, if you remove that it stops being a phone. In that sense running the phone with any system is optional too since you can always use it to weigh down some papers on your desk ...
He's not actually serving data over the cellular network, but even if he did, how much traffic does being on the front page of HN generate ? His blog is very light, this page is only 22.2kB. Assuming 100k pageviews from HN, that would be 2.2GB. Well within most mobile plans.
> In the US eggs sold retail are required to be pressure washed.
That's interesting. In France it is actually illegal to sell washed eggs. As a result they can be kept easily a month without refrigeration. I wonder why there is such a different practice.
Guys like you are not able to be convinced. You accept scientific articles such as this one as evidence of "alarmism". But you'll dismiss other scientific articles about climate change because they are "alarmist". You'll cherry-pick whatever's convenient to you. Debating with someone who can't be convinced by rational arguments is futile.
When I read articles like this I'm always reminded of this little story about the law of averages : a few years after WW2 the US air force had a problem : their planes kept crashing. After some investigation they realized the issue was that the cockpit, based on old measurements, was too uncomfortable to control the plane properly for the bigger and taller pilots of the time. So they decided to take measurements from 4000 pilots, averaged them, and got ready to update the dimensions of the new universal pilot seat. Surely it would be adequate for most pilots that were just measured to create the new design. However one young recruit decided to check exactly how many of the 4000 pilots would be within 30% of average for the 10 most critical dimensions. The answer : none. Every pilot was different, and had a combination of different noone else had. The new pilot seat would have to be a fully customizable one, full of knobs that would allow it to be fit to each specific pilot.
You can apply this analogy here (and in fact to most software) : all users use a differt combination of features. Maybe just a few use compact mode. And just a few use RSS inside the browser. And just a few use some other little used feature that was removed without making the headlines. But those are not the same users. When you make the intersection of all those sets of people, turns out it's almost all of them. I don't know if that explains the decline of Firefox's market share, but it certainly is part of the reason.