rbancroft

Thanks, I see it now. I thought I looked everywhere but I missed it.

I don't see any square button. 2/3rds of the horizontal real estate of my screen is empty... it's wasted space.

This might look ok on a smaller monitor, but on 4K it is very sparse.

@JxckSweeney, @RUOligarchJets and @spacexjet also just got suspended.

Metafilter was extremely toxic. If it's sanguine now, it's only because everybody with other views was driven from the site.

The bar is being set high for these vaccines because they are being pushed and mandated with very exaggerated justification, that they will end the pandemic. Rational people will agree that there are significant benefits to the vaccine, but I don't believe there is any evidence to suggest that these vaccines will get us to an end state where the virus is no longer circulating.

If you want people to go along with a medical intervention, state clearly the expected outcome and don't move the goalposts when the data changes. If the data is strong, you most likely wouldn't need mandates to convince people.

ok I'm wrong on the grammatical analysis, it's not a noun but rather an idiom meaning to lack or need something.

noun: want; plural noun: wants

    1. a lack or deficiency of something.
    "Victorian houses which are in want of repair"

In this case it's a double negative, OP means you'll always be able to find work as a skilled java developer.

I also read somewhere that the majority of the bitcoin "engine" was located close to renewable power sources that did not otherwise have good markets to sell their power.

Whether that's actually true or not, the possibility that bitcoin could find the low cost renewable sweet spots throughout the worlds power grid and make use of them is interesting and helps to address the efficiency criticism.

I think I'm still overall anti-bitcoin but I am questioning my assumptions.

I am sorry to have to be the one to say this but you are making a pointless semantic argument. Nobody is saying the USA is not a republic, it's a democratic republic.

This must be some kind of political talking point because I have heard it over and over for years, but it does nothing to convince anyone of your arguments and you would be better served to argue based on policy or ideology rather than this semantic distinction which is not even correct to begin with.

For what it's worth I don't disagree with your substantive points.

All the best,

I noticed this too. Elon Musk and Jack Dorsey have both tweeted weird endorsements of Signal lately.

you can also do tasklist /svc in a command prompt to get a list of svchosts.exes, pids and the services they are running.

Thank you Dan! I hope all is well.

Congratulations Dan and Scott! Well deserved recognition and I learned a thing or two about you that I didn't know. All the best from Ryan in Calgary.

I first thought the article was a bit of a fluff piece, but after seeing this thread and the misunderstanding and over-simplification, it does seem apropos and worth discussing. The toolkit that makes a scientist does not necessarily make a philosopher of science and vice-versa. Thankfully I am neither so I can see both sides :)

(and the comments section on the nytimes site is a mixed bag as well)

I agree that it's not a great article, perhaps typical of philosophical writings, which I have always struggled with. It's hard to digest, I read it about 4 times. But the author is a philosopher of science, I am pretty sure he has heard of Popper. I think he is trying to write it in a simple style for mass consumption, but as a result the examples seem shoe-horned in to fit his thesis.

The tl;dr as far as I can tell is: scientific reasoning is a subset of reasoning, and not necessarily superior to other forms of reasoning.

I can agree with that. There is a need for philosophy and purely theoretical pursuits, we can't predict what will come out of them. But at the same time, the world of science is where I want to make my bed. As the probability of a scientific "endgame" for a particular philosophical idea decreases, so does the probability of it's usefulness, or something like that. Philosophy can be one engine of creativity, but science will best determine what ideas should survive.

We want abstractions to make things easier to do, but we don't want to pay for them with CPU cycles... that's what a zero-cost abstraction means. It's not about adding in useless abstractions. The ideal is software that is faster to write and easier to understand and maintain, while offering uncompromised execution performance.

The app came pre-installed on my sony xperia phone. Wasn't even given any reasonable warning about it.

oh thank you, I wasn't aware of that. I don't live in the US but I am glad they are being held accountable for it.

I believe LinkedIn effectively stole my contact list without my permission when their app came pre-installed on my Sony Xperia and I logged into my Google account on the phone.

I never consented to it and don't recall being informed that my information would be sent to LinkedIn.

I don't like or trust this company, even though it has its uses.

I agree they most likely were Islamist, although incidentally saying Allahu Akbar is not a very precise way of identifying an Islamist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takbir

To quote from the page: 'In videos released during the course of the Syrian Civil War, Free Syrian Army, Al-Nusra Front, other rebel and Islamist groups and ISIL are heard shouting "Takbir" and "Allahu Akbar"'

Some of those are Islamist groups, some are not.

Also, we don't know if the perpetrators were French or not, so what 42% of young French Muslims believe is not relevant at this point. Even if it was relevant, it would be hard to draw any conclusions from it. In the same link you provide, it seems that over 75% of French Muslims are concerned about the rise of Islamic Extremism.

I only have TortoiseHG installed, but I use a standalone pageant (not the tortoise one) and TortoiseHG doesn't seem to have any problems using the keys stored in there.

Even if you just use the command line client, I think it's worth installing tortoise for the ssh support.

With TortoiseHG, ssh does work well out of the box on Windows. I only know the webserver routes, but I don't see the problem with that. We use nginx on a Windows server and host our repositories there, it's not too hard to set up. With no knowledge of the process, it might take an hour or two to set up.

I'm not familiar with setting up a git server, but i doubt it is any easier than mercurial.

That spike seems to exist in a lot of countries, including the US, France, etc.. My guess is that it has more to do with the swine flu panic than actual cases of flu.

Great description and I have to say I really liked the broader context of the outage. The severity of the storm was something I had been curious about but hadn't looked up myself yet, and so I appreciated the extra education!

I wouldn't take it personally. People get hired for all kinds of reasons, and not getting a specific position just means that they didn't think you were the best candidate for that position. It certainly doesn't mean you are a bad developer or anything is wrong with you. It could be they were looking for someone more experienced, less experienced, different experience, salary expectations, the job description they gave didn't accurately describe the position they are hiring for, etc...

If an employer says they will get back to you and 2 weeks go by, it's worth contacting them and asking if they have made a decision yet. If they say yes and you don't have any clue why they wouldn't have hired you, I don't think it hurts to ask them why not. You might get a BS answer or you might get some good insight.

Just keep improving your skills, and keep looking.

that icy box thing looks cool. I have been looking for something like that for a while, trying without luck to use some other non-backplane devices that haven't fit properly in the case, or have pieces broken off after very light use.

As for the other comments about environmental friendliness, well it's not that bad. Running old enterprise gear will more than likely use a lot of power. The processor and power supply in that build are a bit overkill, but I think it is overall ok. You could get a 45W version of the processor and I bet that power supply won't be using more than 10% of its capacity, so yes it might have efficiency issues. 80Plus certification only measures efficiency at certain loads, 20% being the lowest, so who knows how efficient that will be at 10%. But of course you could add a GPU in there, or run a few virtual machines. I still don't think Atom's are worth it for general computing, as the platform is pretty limited in terms of expansion (no PCI, seriously limited RAM).

about.com actually has some interesting information from time to time.

Secondly, the first link that appears for me when you search for experts-exchange is wikipedia.

Yes, that was a cool one.

murder: pretty cyclical and consistent rape: massive spike in the 80s and 90's, and declining a bit

fraud: blip after WW2, then pretty stable up to around 1995

nazi: interesting trends there

oil: some more interesting trends, a large spike in the early 80's

Interesting that the trends for freedom and liberty differ quite significantly, although they have some of the same 'humps'. Liberty has an uptick after 2000, whereas freedom does not.

Perhaps, but as I mentioned in my last comment, formal reasoning often breaks down when dealing with anything more than the simplest of systems. What kind of axioms can you reason from in software? The network is always slow: not always, memory is always abundant, not always, the disk is always slow, with virtual memory, not always, exponential time complexity is always bad... not always. And especially, factor in cost, which is one of the most important aspects, and that severely impacts even the ability to formally reason since the most correct version can also be the most expensive and time consuming to implement..

Anyways, I didn't mean to downplay formal reasoning, but just to indicate that it is not often practical to use those methods exclusively when building software.