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The post-mortem of this administration is going to be horrific. It may sound conspiracy-theoryish now, but if things play out how we've seen from so many other examples of bad behavior from this administration, I can't help but think we're going to end up having our most valued defense research secrets sold out to the highest bidder.

Elections have consequences, and the consequences of 2016 will be felt for a long time.

LEDs get a lot of attention from people without any kind of training with electronics, but they aren't as simple as people think - LEDs consume a lot of power. If someone isn't careful and doesn't know what they are doing, it's very easy for them to create a fire hazard.

https://hackaday.com/2018/01/29/the-engineering-case-for-fus...

Pretty simple to do this honestly, it's been done many times before. There are phone apps that do this that have been around for a while. After all it's just assigning an x/y value to a position that a color was detected at.

It really depends on the job - I'm interviewing jr. devs, and a lot of these questions are good for testing their basic knowledge. Not every front-end job is about cutting-edge javascript.

The 75th anniversary of the first nuclear bomb test was just a few days ago, on July 16th. It's been in the news a bit lately, and this topic is related.

Practically all traffic over a VPN is encrypted because most traffic going over them is encrypted, so I'm not sure how much traffic a VPN provider is really going to be able to sell. They aren't really going to be see very much of what you do if you take even some basic precautions like using HTTPS websites, or using SSL newsgroups, etc. Maybe bittorrent isn't encrypted? I can't imagine that it wouldn't be encrypted but I am not as familiar with how that works.

I don't know of any company that would be using a public VPN service for anything related to work. Typically "work VPNs" are running on systems that the employer controls, set up by someone employed by the company, and meant solely for employees to connect to - there is no reason any company would want or need to use a public VPN provider for their corporate network VPN. It just doesn't make any sense to me why you would suggest it.

Elections have consequences - play stupid games, win stupid prizes. This is the worst administration the US has ever had.

Didn't Twitter buy "Moxie Marlinspike"'s company specifically to get him to fix their security? I guess they didn't really get much out of that. Now I'm starting to get nervous about the security of Signal.

The fact that doctors generally don't ask about a patients diet says more about doctors than it does about the importance of what you eat. Diet has a huge influence on so many aspects of health and well being.

>* SpaceX will put a colony on mars, and they will only drive Teslas on mars

You keep saying some interesting things and then you say something ridiculous that makes the rest of what you say seems pretty questionable.

Hobbyists don't make up even a tiny sliver of their revenue. And if you're a hobbyist and paying any money at all for Analog Devices (or other semiconductor manufacturer's parts) then you're kinda doing it wrong - most of them have free samples:

https://www.analog.com/en/support/customer-service-resources...

That applies to other animals, but not humans. It's almost bizarre that you would assert that because the exact opposite is true. Humans are in every way more "advanced" than other animals on the planet precisely because the information they pass down is useful, comprehensive, and widespread. The last few thousand years has seen the information that gets "passed down" become systemic, and prolific. "Overlap" has nothing to do with anything, as anyone at any age can access a large percentage of important human knowledge going back hundreds to thousands of years, and it's really pretty easy to do so.

I'm hosting a photo sharing SPA on S3/Cloudfront/Lambda with a robust user system including email verification, and a few GB of image files, and I pay $0.25/month at most. Yeah, it's a personal/friends-only site so it doesn't see much traffic, but that was kind of the point - I wanted to pay next to nothing for this site if nobody visits it, and it is working well for that. $3.00/year is pretty cheap.

I think you misread this because he certainly did not say or imply "I was working on problems close to the gods", in fact the phrase he used was "when I seemed to you to be concerned with problems close to the gods", meaning that others considered the things he worked on as being "close to the gods" only because they did not understand them at the same level he did - his list of experiments/problems was about how mundane the problems he was solving actually were. It did not read as him having much of an ego. Most of the problems he worked on have little to no impact on society or people's daily lives, most people still have never even heard of Feynman, and he knew most people wouldn't. That's not ego. If Feynman did have any ego it came from the pleasure he got from living an interesting life, not by how smart he was compared to the rest of humanity.

That's not how trademarking works. They are in quite different industries, there should be little to no confusion that a package manager is going to ship a deck to you.

The year of "Linux on the Desktop" may actually be coming if enough developers want to keep Intel and apple finally drops support for x86 with their software updates (and they absolutely will at some point). Dual-booting between Linux for dev and Windows for video gaming could be a compelling use case for a lot of developers. I doubt Apple ARM systems will see much in the way of video gaming. I absolutely would go for Intel/Linux before I follow Apple down the ARM road just because they want to make more money and have more lock-in.

Cambridge Analytica was evil from the start. Blackwater was pretty evil from the start. Yeah, companies can be evil.

I don't think an artificial intelligence has to resemble anything we would recognize as human intelligence, while still being "intelligent". The motivations of humans and the motivations of computers are very different. If we can give a computer motivation, as well as a way to act and react within an environment, and a framework for learning (neural networks?) then what it "thinks" will be determined by the experience of its own existence. I'm not sure we're there yet.

I don't think their product is really that viable. The amount of setup, process, work, materials and money it takes to produce a 10 minute clip is just about the same amount it takes to produce a 30 minute episode.

I've enjoyed some short-form episodic content on Amazon before, but it always left me feeling short-changed, and wishing the episodes were 30 minutes. It was too quick to go through the entire series and then it's done, I have to search for more content that is high quality, which is few and far between. Maybe it's for people with ADD who can't follow a plot longer than 10 minutes long?

Quibi is relying on a gimmick, and one that isn't even difficult to copy and has been done before. I've so far not heard of any reason that would compel me to spend my time on their site when there's so much other content out there.

I'm also not sure why anyone would want Meg Whitman on board at a company like this, unless she's somehow responsible for bringing some of that 1.8 Billion in funding, and even then she should only be on the board, not in the C suite.

The cellphone killed the wristwatch.

I mainly write nodejs code, and now that it supports threads I've been hammering my CPU with all kinds of parallel tasks. One common thing I do is crunch a few thousand 16MB+ JSON files in parallel. Multiple cores saves quite a bit of time parsing huge JSON payloads. Sure, people may crap on me for using Javascript, whatever... It's what I prefer to use, and 64 cores would only help do all sorts of things in parallel, saving me time.

There's all kinds of other things I do that utilize multiple cores.

I also run a lot of VMs.

I've been using this exact trick to track hits on my github repos for years already. If/when Github gets around to fixing it, I've already had it working for many years so even if it wasn't "meant to last", it's already lasted quite a while and I have no regrets. If they stop allowing it, then so be it.

Sorry, but don't project your needs onto others.

It is still useful enough to know if someone looked at your github repos when you're looking for a job. Typically this is useful when a visitor also hits other sites related to you like your Linkedin, or gets a link to your github from a printed resume, etc. It lets you know someone is interested and during a job search that can be useful information. It doesn't have to be only about "vanity", but maybe you're applying some kind of narrow view on the rest of the world.

I deleted my reddit account last week after 13 years. It's really gone down hill, the level of discussion there is simply awful. Not visiting the site after a week has really been a good change. Reddit probably jumped the shark a while ago, in the last 2 or 3 years it's been toxic garbage.

There are alternatives, I tried notabug.io for a few weeks, but realized the racist brigade is already infesting that corner of the web.

I'm having a lot less fun on the internet lately than I had 20 years ago.

I've run into far too many aggressively toxic, self proclaimed "libertarians" on the internet. So when the article mentioned "libertarian" in the context of the "boogaloo" idiots, it didn't surprise me at all. Libertarianism has changed a bit with the times, as have Democrats and Republicans. All kinds of bad ideas have crept in, after fermenting on the internet.

I just deleted my reddit account of 13 years.

Reddit has become overly toxic, and the premise of this article is definitely in effect on reddit. The trolls are winning over there.

HN was a sometimes-read for me, but now it's becoming a daily-read replacing reddit, because it's just less toxic here (I hope).

Maybe you don't remember BBS systems. I know a bunch of people who hosted BBS systems "in their basement", hooking up multiple phone lines (4 or more) and multiple modems connected to a C64, or an Amiga, or a PC. And yes, we were calling all over the country (and the world) to exchange software, programming tools, games, etc. The good old days.

Far too many people think of Apple as infallible. I often think even Apple thinks of themselves as infallible. The more people that are aware of the inherent risk involved with using computers - any computer - the better.

Wow, the fade in between pages is just sooooooooo looooooong and annoooooooooying. It's like 2 or 3 seconds transition time. Ridiculous.