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quickben··on Have scientists discovered a fifth force of nature?
Where can I read more about these hints?
quickben··on Update on free software and telemetry
"Until the new Terms are accepted access to the web interface and API will be blocked. So, for users who have integrations with our API this will cause a brief pause..."

It's not even take it or leave it, one has to agree first in order to leave.

It seems whoever approved this, forgot why people arrived to GitLab from GitHub.

quickben··on NetBSD on the last G4 Mac mini and making the kernel power failure proof
Mill architecture?
quickben··on Toshiba and WD NAND Production Hit by Power Outage: 6 Exabytes Lost
Interesting. So what do they do with the materials afterwards? Landfill or melting or?
quickben··on 150k Small Business Website Teardown 2019
It would be interesting if you can evaluate the UI spam lately somehow:

  - Sign up for newsletter
  - This website wants to send you notifications
and more, like this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9bx5a3PMks
quickben··on How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later (1978)
He writes this paragraph that may explain your observation:

"So I ask, in my writing, What is real? Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo-realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms. I do not distrust their motives; I distrust their power. They have a lot of it. And it is an astonishing power: that of creating whole universes, universes of the mind. I ought to know. I do the same thing. It is my job to create universes, as the basis of one novel after another. And I have to build them in such a way that they do not fall apart two days later. Or at least that is what my editors hope. However, I will reveal a secret to you: I like to build universes which do fall apart."

quickben··on U.S. and U.K. F-35 Jets Include 'Core' Circuit Boards from Chinese-Owned Company
Of course, I was just illustrating with an elementary electromagnetism example that the risk isn't zero.
quickben··on U.S. and U.K. F-35 Jets Include 'Core' Circuit Boards from Chinese-Owned Company
>The risk to the supply chain is zero

Hypothetically, what would happen to a pcb board , 33x33cm in size, with the ground lines running around the edge of that board, when hit with a high power 900 MHz broadcast?

quickben··on TV meteorologist objected to management’s ‘code red’ orders
So, why are we not closing stations for scheduled code red days on normal weather? They are lying to the public, but it doesn't seem there are any consequences for them, only for the employees that object to the lying.
quickben··on Google’s Dominance Is No Longer a Sure Thing
Fairly enough. Although I want to live in the illusion that Google at least likes money more than anything else, and they weight their options. The alternative is scary.
quickben··on Google’s Dominance Is No Longer a Sure Thing
It's not dismal, it's calculated. Monopolies can afford that.
quickben··on A NY School District Defies State, Plans To Proceed With Facial Recognition Test
A bit incomplete title then. They are also testing legal boundaries, population reaction, and few other things that are morally objectionable.
quickben··on US cosmetics are full of chemicals banned by Europe
Maybe because hundreds of millions are spent to lobby for it:

https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/indusclient.php?id=H04&yea...

quickben··on When Nobody Shows Up to My Conference Talk
"Error establishing a database connection"

Well, maybe most people can't even access what his events are about?

quickben··on GDPR adtech complaints keep stacking up in Europe
Well, say that I want to know if you are interested in golf. Do you prefer me asking if you can fill in a questionnaire, or should I just pop where you live and take pictures from inside your house?

You really don't have to play devil's advocate, one of them is illegal.

If a company has no viable way forward, and has to resort to what the rest of us deemed illegal, it should stop existing. Not all companies should survive at any cost, that's not utilitiatian or desirable.

quickben··on Boeing Resisted Pilots’ Calls for Aggressive Steps on 737 Max
"You’ve got to understand that our commitment to safety is as great as yours," Mr. Sinnett said in the meeting.

Which is a blatant lie considering they opted to DLC bunch of saftety features.

quickben··on Bitcoin's First $1k Weekend Since 2017 Marks Nine-Month High
Having lived through a hyperinflation, I would not have touched Bitcoin with a ten foot pole. You want a rock stable foreign currency when the times are hard, not something that can push you even lower due to loss of even the minimal resources that you have.
quickben··on Tenants win right to physical keys over smart locks from landlords
Doesn't have to be. That landlord move was so popular here in Toronto, that they outlawed it.

For example, $75k in fines:

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2019/02/24/landlord-fined-7...

quickben··on Show HN: A dead-simple Trello-like TODO manager
It is not obvious what the competitive advantages are from the webpage. Why should I uninstall Trello and install TodoX?
quickben··on Intel Stockpiling 10nm Chips
That comparison can not be directly made as the 'O' in "FLOPS" is different.
quickben··on Can Uber ever make money?
AWS lock-in is different from a taxi app. Only a few players so far managed to respond to AWS in scale and offerings.

Lots of taxi companies have their own apps at this point.

quickben··on The wave of unicorn IPOs
I read this analysis that before the Dotcom bubble burst, unicorns cashed out in a similar fashion. The authors were proposing to watch for the next wave as an indicator, as VCs would be trying to cash at the best time (or at all) before a recession.
quickben··on Facebook Expects to Be Fined Up to $5B by FTC Over Privacy Issues
That gets me every time I read in the media about a 'bug' that enabled some complex data transfer. People, somebody has to decide, plan, code, test and deploy the behaviour, and make sure it works. And yet, people accept the explanation it seems without much thought.
quickben··on ‘When the Glaciers Disappear, Those Species Will Go Extinct’
Do people prefer this reading experience on mobile?

Personally I found it very hard to want to continue reading with all the interruptions.

quickben··on FB plans to pass your photos to advertisers, make users the stars of online ads
Is this connected to that creepy home device of theirs with the camera being constantly on?
quickben··on Show HN: Ethical Resources – 300 ethical alternatives to mainstream stuff
Hey, what other self hosted analytics made your shortlist? I am looking for a self hosted solution for my sites and wondering what to pick.
quickben··on Open Distro for Elasticsearch
From that twitter feed

"adrian cockcroft:

What should we have done instead, that Elastic would have agreed to? We have customers to support"

And this is where the spot he is in gets tighter. Because now the aws business model threats anybody using X as Amazon's user that should be monetized.

So I don't see Amazon backing off profits, and I don't see the OSS community getting any less pissed off from not seeing a piece of the cake.

This story (Mongo, elastic co, etc) seems far from being over.

quickben··on Introduction to Algotrading (2011) [pdf]
I used to work for one of the HFT companies listed there out of university.

What are the salaries now-days for a BackOffice Technology (C++ and everything else related)?

quickben··on My Chromecast Ultra would not start until I began answering 8.8.8.8
At a maximum rate of $58 per tenis ball:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/195680/share-of-keywords...

quickben··on Android Phones Can Be Hacked Remotely by Viewing Malicious PNG Image
Currently, that phone doesn't exist.
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