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It seems very metaphorical, so I might have not gotten the correct meaning either, however I believe it's talking about people making sentences more complex for no reason.

English teachers consider writing to be something that needs to flow and be emotive, but for the vast majority of tasks it should simply be an efficient way of conveying some piece of information.

Basically, students are optimising their writing for teachers approval, which isn't useful for the vast majority of real life, like the example of asking for directions; "Will you show me the most effective way to the bus stop?" vs. "How do I get to the bus stop?"

I believe it's a requirement of font forge that they're using.

It requires file paths, and it will be doing a large amount of reading. Easiest way of solving this is probably just to fake that your memory is a hard drive.

Don't just kill an idea because it only helps x% and wait for something that helps 100%. You'll be waiting a long time.

Renewables can be used in almost any location over the entire world. It is incredibly hard to monopolise renewables in the same way you can monopolise oil.

We shouldn't need complete backwards compatibility on a command that is completely new, surely? That would limit the amount of improvement that could be made dramatically.

Also, as a side note, why do you enjoy using machine readable file sizes over human readable? The latter, as chosen by their name, are meant to be easier to use for humans.

What can be done to help sort problems like this?

Nice project, a group I worked on did something very similar with retrieving questions from a syllabus. Is this open source? I'd be fascinated to see similarities/differences in our approaches.

I saw an article from about 15 years ago that said Comcast blocked VPNs for a few weeks as a "test". Apparently the test was stopped because a large amount of businesses complained that they required VPNs to access their internal data.

I imagine it might be trickier for the US to implement such a plan vs. a country like Russia.

When Windows users want to hang out in the CLI they virtualise Linux or use cmder[0].

[0] http://cmder.net/

Same issue here with black screen, depends on your block list.

Currently living in the UK, perhaps 90% of the recipe books and equipment I currently have in my house are Imperial.

Definitely do value that as an option.

Don't all banks do this? Here in the UK it basically seems mandatory. Try to change your password/phone/email, they'll send you an actual letter which has a passcode you need to enter in to the website. Although mine took only a day to arrive.

As a point, what are your thoughts of a Meritocracy as a paradigm to follow? Nationalise everything, pay everyone an equal amount, to begin with, but based on their "merits" boost their pay. Seems to have all the advantages of capitalism, without the perceived negatives of communism equally a dictatorship or "fat cats", which could be managed by the government.

Is anyone else getting consistently slower speeds on their GPU compared with their CPU? I seem to be getting:

CPU: 0.426s ±7.6%

GPU: 2.399s ±4.7%

Running Chrome, Latest Stable. Windows 7. It seems odd to me that it would take 6x longer when my graphics card (GTX 690) would theoretically be much faster than my CPU (Intel i7-3930k)

How does this compare to, for instance, your average car running for an hour?

My favourite is

$ cat <list_file_name> | parallel -j20 --gnu "wget {}"

Downloaded them in a few seconds!

Overtaken by HTML templating languages, gems and a dozen other things with the same name. Eventually these items reach such a density to form a black hole, sucking through the older items, perhaps to another place in spacetime.

I think it's just trying to emulate a colloquial tone, actually being written by a number of individuals (or at least being updated by multiple people).

Tempted to say it's a service, and the majority of these will want to run as root instead of any particular user. So in this sense the default makes sense.

For people who don't know about fractal dimensions, might I suggest this[0] video

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gB9n2gHsHN4

Just a quick point on this, the "new scenario" page came up with an error (I think?) for me:

https://puu.sh/wylE1/21197650ef.png

Absolutely not true for me, this tool saves me so much hassle!

We don't use CSS Grid, 40% of our users don't support it in their browser. Judging by the five hours this post has been up, I feel like a lot of Hacker News doesn't use it either.

However, when support for it does go up, we're definitely migrating to it. It seems to have a really nice syntax.

You don't trust that third-party server with any information, it simply makes the initial link between the two parties, like a DNS, that it needs to send the encrypted information to.

An evil relay server could not send the information, or send information to the wrong server, but neither would cause data to be lost because of the encryption.

Wouldn't it always require an infinite amount of time?

You're summing a series of:

    0.5^n * x

From n = 1 to n = infinity

Wow, I wonder if it's location based. Mine was heavily situated in one location, whereas yours was perhaps global? So it was always prime time for someone? Here is a graph of my usage for the past week (note lows of 30-40 and highs of 650 odd):

https://puu.sh/wrAn1/5816d3f7d7.png

You can use use WebDriver/GeckoDriver[0], which is how Selenium actually runs, but most people like the abstraction layer.

[0] https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver

We're all assuming content comes in constantly, but that's not the case. I imagine they spike heavily at peak times, perhaps 5-6 fold (judging by my own site statistics). Serverless might be good for them because they can handle small loads with small costs and large loads with no effort.

All of your negatives are about the perception of server/serverless, not about the actual benefits. Who knows if this company has investors or if it is actually self funding (judging by the costs, maybe not hard?).

Bandwidth shouldn't be an issue here, although this is a side project (so I realise money is limited), from experience you can send and receive roughly 200-400 images per second for every $5/month you spend. I don't know your precise usage count, but I would be surprised if you were to get that many images downloaded every second.