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phy6··on The Inuit agree on a common writing system
Yes, but tabs or spaces?
phy6··on The Gravitational-Wave “Revolution” Is Underway
"Boeing events are fascinating, for maximum values of 737"
phy6··on Smart TVs sending sensitive user data to Netflix and Facebook
I blocked these URLs on my router, and my Samsung TV went into a setup mode, eventually switching languages into German.

config.samsungads.com samsungacr.com samsungads.com samsungcloudsolution.com samsungcloudsolution.net samsungotn.net samsungtvads.com

phy6··on The boring technology behind a one-person Internet company (2018)
Basically his tutorial was to put the react project inside the django project, and depending on which parts you're modifying and how your testing, he has a special static collection script that builds the react portion and copies the static files up into the Django parent project folders.
phy6··on The boring technology behind a one-person Internet company (2018)
I just watched 8 hours of Django videos yesterday, and 4 hours of that was a Django + React tutorial. It covers in great detail the CRU from a CRUD, but you'll need additional videos to cover deployment on elastic beanstalk or ec2+elb, etc. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHhQRHE8IR8
phy6··on U.S. to leave global postal union next month barring last-minute action
It's expensive because we can't get away with the labor rates that China does-- for building infrastructure, acquiring raw materials, and employing a workforce with benefits and pensions and unions. China has less bureaucratic overhead (in terms of factories/mines not caring about pollution) and a more driven, obedient workforce (i.e. they will work harder expecting less pay). I'm not saying those are good things, just facts as I see them. I don't know if this is a true dichotomy, but on the surface it seems that we either pay more at all levels to employ our own citizenry in manufacturing these goods, or we let our manufacturing capabilities and professions atrophy. This may actually be a good (roundabout) way to ensure that greener manufacturing is used, by making us design manufacturing these capabilities by our standards.
phy6··on U.S. to leave global postal union next month barring last-minute action
I wonder if this would spur the creation of shipping consolidation centers in China, where orders from multiple vendors (on a site like AliExpress/Alibaba/DHGate) are combined into a single box before sending (like Fullfilled by Amazon tries to do)
phy6··on U.S. to leave global postal union next month barring last-minute action
Most of my more expensive Chinese made products are sent in with DHL, rarely FedEx. I expect they [DHL/FedEx] will see more volume in smaller packages as the artificially low USPS rates go away. Currently with USPS it costs more for me to send my next door neighbor the same package I can get from China, and I'm on the US East coast.
phy6··on U.S. to leave global postal union next month barring last-minute action
Correct. Vietnam is already accusing China of exporting things claimed to have been made in Vietnam. https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/9281123/china-mislabelling-pro...
phy6··on Google begins penalising domain leasing
It's pretty common for wiring diagrams, service manuals and fix it guides to be in PDF format. Sometimes you're holding broken parts in your hand and the exploded image in a PDF is linked to a part number (The part may not even have a distinct name, just a manufacturer part number) so you can order replacements.
phy6··on FBI Says QAnon, Internet Conspiracy Theorists Are National Security Threats
My favorite conspiracy theory was that the phrase conspiracy theory was created by the CIA to discredit people thinking that way. It's conspiracies all the way down! hahaha
phy6··on FBI Says QAnon, Internet Conspiracy Theorists Are National Security Threats
When the FBI has penned such things as the Martin Luther King suicide letter, people should be allowed to be suspicious and watchful for anything like that again. https://www.vox.com/xpress/2014/11/12/7204453/martin-luther-...
phy6··on Slack was down
Downdetector reporting a lot of AWS complaints simultaneously.
phy6··on US diplomats' brains were shrunk by sonic attacks at Cuban embassy, study finds
I wonder if there could be a mashup between IMD and BadBIOS/ultrasonic communication https://arxiv.org/pdf/1803.03422.pdf
phy6··on France to tax flights from its airports, airline shares fall
Username checks out. A return to the etymology of the word might be a refreshing point of view: sin -- as in missing the mark, being in societal, cultural or moral error, or being less than you could be in terms of virtue. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sin
phy6··on M 7.1 SoCal Earthquake: What's Next?
I agree, too much VHS-iness.
phy6··on M 7.1 SoCal Earthquake: What's Next?
If you can don your anti-quackery bio hazard suit, the youtube channel Dutchsinse is entertaining for his forecast of earthquake locations. His guesses involve following trends along tectonic boundaries on a globe scale. One of the things I've heard him say that I've not heard elsewhere is the implied correlation between geothermal pumping operations near the latest epicenter and crust weakness. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oj6Vj4TOtx4
phy6··on Chinese authorities install app on phones of people entering Xinjiang
""What you’ve found goes beyond that: it suggests that even foreigners are subjected to such mass, and unlawful surveillance."" Pretty bold for them to call it unlawful in two places when it was not shown to be against that country's laws. Distasteful, yes. Unlawful? Hard to tell from just this article. Personally, I'm more worried about exported android devices.
phy6··on Fast.ai Part 2: Deep Learning from the Foundations
Both, as most of my projects are aligned with my personal startup, and other projects are for a salaried startup.
phy6··on Fast.ai Part 2: Deep Learning from the Foundations
I started using the techniques immediately, for applicable deep learning and NLP projects. There's no need to finish the entire course to get some actionable rapid prototyping done. Each lecture is nearly self contained once you're comfortable with the basics.
phy6··on The Shield of Achilles (1952)
I was really hoping for this to be computer generated.
phy6··on A German court forced the removal of a Wikipedia article’s history
If I were running Wikipedia, I would make some effort to programmatically archive online citations, like archive.org does. Imagine some government persona mis-tweets something that leads to article-worthy historical consequences; if twitter deletes the tweet, can that person sue to have it removed from wikipedia because it made her/him look bad, on the basis that the original citation link doesn't work?
phy6··on TLDR Stock Options
I agree, without knowing, we can only assume they will be worthless. I am in the US, Do you think discussion of this among employees is protected under the National Labor Relations Act, say in our company's private Discord channel?
phy6··on TLDR Stock Options
Thanks, this was a good amount to chew on. I feel like a first grader peeking into the 2nd grader's math class.
phy6··on TLDR Stock Options
What if my company doesn't tell its employees how many shares have been issued, so that it's impossible for us to know what percentage of the company we own?
phy6··on Walmart Is Eliminating Greeters. Workers With Disabilities Feel Targeted
Good call. I will add the entire article to my training data. Just running it as is, wow, the headline came out to be 94.40655708312988 positive for clickbait! (I am using a modified keras/tensorflow model trained on clickbait headlines.)
phy6··on BuzzFeed to Cut 15% of Its Workforce
Well your classifiers aren't looking at the distribution then. 6 out of a few dozen isn't bad, that's where I'd like to be.
phy6··on Ask HN: YouTube down?
Down in MD
phy6··on YouTube down worldwide
isitdownrightnow.com can't keep up. Getting 520 errors on http://www.isitdownrightnow.com/youtube.com.html
phy6··on YouTube down worldwide
Down in MD as well as from int'l VPN. Activate Crab 17
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