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Exactly - all the anti-Boeing sentiment in the comments here (while deserved) should also be directing some ire at the funding and contract structures being used for these projects (I.e. “cost-plus” contracts).

They’re just bad policy if you want the _nominal objectives_ of the project delivered on time and on budget; they have structural incentives for contractors to go over.

(It’s pretty clear that delivering the nominal objectives is not what the relevant policy-makers are actually aiming for, though. The cost overruns are the real goal for them, as it’s a kind of pork to steer regional funding)

This is fascinating, thankyou!

That may be true, but having customers who want to only use products from one company doesn’t make that company a monopoly, which is the topic sitting behind this article.

Parent post said putting people into orbit. Those companies do short suborbital flights.

They didn’t say more old people were _entering_ the work force. People already in the work force are aging.

That sounds more like coil whine, which is “normal” sound (i.e. moving air) from components vibrating rapidly. That’s not what this paper covers (= more like people’s brains “imagining” sound due to RF triggers)

The reason you remember adults not hearing it is because there is a well-documented loss of high-frequency hearing as people age.

(Which has even been “weaponised” before; there were stories some years ago about stores blasting high-frequency noise outside to deter loitering teenagers without affecting desirable adult shoppers)

There’s also a history of using ‘X’ as the designation for eXperimental planes, e.g the X-15.

I always assumed that was the inspiration for the use in tech branding like Google X - conjuring up images of skunkworks, etc.

I always felt that the DS9 relationships between Cardassians & Bajorans was a product of the time when the show was written, and had stronger overtones of the 1990s Balkans conflicts and Israel/Palestine than anything else. (Though it’s far from a direct allegory for either)

Yup — as someone who grew up with Wipeout and lots of d&b/electronica album art, these are giving me strong nostalgia pangs.

I assume in this case it’s “Out (of) The Box”

This reminds me of [Up-Goer Five](https://xkcd.com/1133/) - similar vibe but a different constraint (most common thousand words only)

“Recognise speech” / “wreck a nice beach” can sound similar (if you allow for some imprecisions, slurring, accents, etc, like noisy real-world data has).

The relevant term here is _phonemes_, the individual chunks of sounds that make the phrases up; these two phrases have shared or similar phonemes in typical English diction. e.g the first two sounds are both “reh”, “cuh”

People who fit into <some racial/ethnic/age/gender bucket> spend more time looking at <x products>, fed to advertisers who can tie it to swathes of your other online activity

Even if it’s _theoretically_ coarse data/bucketing, that adds up to a lot of data to help deanonymization and targeting. Even if that’s done in the spirit of “just for ads”, it’s not a big leap to political targeting etc, and with the right data leaks, potentially even actual harassment.

> our efforts in applied ethical machine learning, as we invest to make Mozilla products more personal

I can’t be alone in thinking this is pretty much the _last_ thing I want from Mozilla.

I refuse to believe this one wasn’t snuck in to the outputs by a human:

> Tesla Co-CEO says the autonomous vehicle ‘is for chancers’

Exactly. A paper notebook might not have those security features, but it’s also a lot harder to end up with reams of confidential info in a paper notebook in the blink of an eye, on a whim; or to transmit that data to arbitrary third parties. There’s a “proportionality” argument between features and security.

That’s not the point they’re making, I think - they’re giving praise and kudos to the post above, saying they’re better than “very average” if they’ve pulled off that ascent 6 times

Not OP, but I happened to see a good video on this recently: https://youtu.be/2SuvO4Gi7uY

In short, it’s an algorithm for procedural generation of tiled content, like 2d/3d game maps.

Userbars in forum signatures.

The article doesn’t even mention UK broadcast television content – it’s more about big-shared-screens vs small-personal-screens.

And the author is an American, resident in New York afaict. Even though the Guardian is a UK-based paper, not all it’s content is not exclusively UK-focused.

Wow, that’s a hell of a website.

I love that amongst various gadgets and toys, there is not just one but _two_ Spanish holiday home rentals.

(But given the amount of CCTV equipment they carry, I might think twice before renting a villa from them…)

> If you look at how SARS-CoV-2 initially spread in the US, the WHO was not wrong. The US banned travel from China, but continued to allow travel from Europe. The first major outbreak in the US, in NY, was brought in from Europe.

It’s worth noting that there’s evidence it was already spreading in Seattle in Jan/Feb, following a Chinese import, before the late Feb/March outbreak in New York (which, yes, appears to have begun with European imports).

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6922e1.htm

His video on Sibelius is highly recommended if you want more UX laughs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKx1wnXClcI

No; that Portainer is for, in short, running `docker build` tasks remotely on a Mesos cluster. Unrelated work, same ecosystem.

Both projects just named themselves based on an extension of the shipping-container analogy - "things that help manage lots of containers".

Fair enough (although, we're far from the only ones using it as a shorthand, and fuller job specs are available in the link). It's more the latter.

Some examples of the tech we're playing with in that area: Chef, Jenkins, Mesos, Docker.

While this article certainly has a reasonable core point -- that the 'oddness' of using Siri in public is unsettling, and could dent the pickup of voice control through embarrassment -- it's hard not to argue the opposite too: that had Siri launched on the Mac first, it would have languished in obscurity. If it had launched on Mac first, I'm sure the author would have been arguing it should have launched on iPhone instead.

Every time I stumble into a religion "vs" science debate, I tell the participants to look up this page (or at least this term). Falsifiability underlies the scientific method, and it's the element of 'Science' that's normally not appreciated or understood (at least by the kind of folk who have that argument.

For those that didn't see, Issues were enabled on Linus' Linux kernel GitHub project for a short while. In barely any time at all, an issue appeared -- some trolling along the lines of "Can't run M$ Office", followed by a bunch of amused +1s and BLATANTLYAVIRUS.EXE gags.

So I can see why he has some trepidation about the GitHub Issues system -- it is a little too easy to troll, and the signal/noise ratio isn't, uh, quite what he's used to.

Hah. Wish I'd thought of some of these for last year's http://10k.aneventapart.com .

I tried to write most of my JS for 10k 'pre-minified', using tricks akin to (but not as awesome as) these. Echoing other commenters, it was largely as an intellectual exercise (to see if I could meet the 10k limit by hand) but it did make me think of a few things in a different light, and some of the 'optimizations' are things that minifiers wouldn't have done for me.

It's also a good way to get under the skin of a language, get a feel for the nuances of how the runtime behaves, and give you hints for other (more generally useful) optimisations.

Tower ( http://www.git-tower.com/ ) is a commercial Git GUI for Mac OSX that, by all accounts, is pretty excellent; don't know much about the team, but I believe it's their first product and doing OK.

I think you'll find more desktop-app-focused startups in Apple-land, largely thanks to the impetus to Obj-C & Cocoa programming that the iPhone has given.