semiotagonal

I don't know how anyone could maintain their appetite for what they were ordering while looking at that toothpaste-green and tomato-crème color scheme.

My point still stands. If there's one thing people want to avoid empowering more than banks and governments, it's bitcoin wingnuts.

I don't see how there is ever going to be wide adoption of a currency that is currently held in its entirety by something like 0.2% of the population, and claims to be impossible to expropriate.

When people see that kind of concentration of wealth, expropriation is a plus. Expropriation is how it gets redistributed. Nobody is going to want to make a bunch of early-adopting HODLers rich without knowing how to take most of their money as part of the bargain.

The default Apple headphones that come with the iPhones never fit in my ears properly, so I've assumed traditional Airpods don't either. They should make dummy versions of the new ones so they can be tried out.

> Nearby patrons, using their phones or laptops, can easily see everything you’re sending or receiving — email and website contents, for example — using free “sniffer” programs.

Is the author assuming the absence of https encryption here, or is there some widely available exploit I don't know about?

Wouldn't it be cheaper just to whip a cable over to Australia?

According to the article, much of the negative impact is being felt in poorer neighborhoods where the trucks concentrate around the storage facilities.

Brand was prescient about the tension not going away. Thirty-five years on, we've got paywalls, news aggregation, streaming music, vinyl records, all fighting it out.

Here's Goose driving a traditional ute:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_pc0BJ33cQ

It might have been better to simply reference the discussion without singling out the person involved. At the end of the day it was an organizational decision. It's to GitLab's credit that there's enough transparency to even see this; I don't think it's too cool to turn that into a finger-pointing tool. As a developer, we don't do this with bugs. Perhaps bad business decisions are not any different.

(For the record: I don't know this person, I am not this person, I'm pretty sure I don't know anyone at GitLab at all.)

Yes you are correct.

Corrected simulation gives 50/50 when Monty picks at random among 3 doors.

switchWins=33044 switchLoses=33581

#include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <time.h> #include <string.h>

#define NUM_RUNS 100000 #define NUM_DOORS 3 int main(int argc, const char* argv[]) { srand(time(NULL)); char doors[NUM_DOORS]; int switchLoses = 0; int switchWins = 0; for(int i = 0; i < NUM_RUNS; i++) { memset(&doors, 0, sizeof(doors)); doors[rand() % NUM_DOORS] = 1; int myPick = rand() % NUM_DOORS; int montysPick = rand() % (NUM_DOORS - 1); if(montysPick >= myPick) montysPick++; if(doors[montysPick]) continue; if(doors[myPick]) switchLoses++; else switchWins++; } printf("switchWins=%d switchLoses=%d\n", switchWins, switchLoses); return 0; }

EDITED TO ADD:

Just for further info:

3 doors: switchWins=33111 switchLoses=33470

4 doors: switchWins=50182 switchLoses=24698

8 doors: switchWins=74876 switchLoses=12687

100000 doors: switchWins=99998 switchLoses=2

RESCINDED: Error in my simulation! Apologies.

If it's unspecified, the odds that Monty Hall opened all 999,998 bad doors out of 999,999 randomly is pretty damn low. You still switch if it's unspecified.

It's not just the company though. It's Wolfram Notebooks, Wolfram Cloud, Wolfram Language, Wolfram Foundation, Wolfram Knowledgebase, Wolfram Player, Wolfram Demonstrations Project, Wolfram Data Drop, and Wolfram Data Repository, just in this article.

I guess he saves time and effort naming things (and naming things nowadays is nearly impossible), but at some point it starts getting weird.

One thing worth considering is the possibility that the type of user that migrates from GitHub to GitLab on the basis of GitHub's lack of "purity" is going to perceive any "impurity" in GitLab not merely as a change, but as a betrayal.

Pouncing on weakness is the essence of competition. As long as nothing is being misrepresented, taking full advantage of missteps is practically an obligation.

Some employees would be afraid to live in a non-California state where non-compete agreements can be enforced. Even if Stripe eschewed them, their next employer might not.

Everybody would wonder who they are as well. :)

How many additional major problems did they find when they re-vetted the plane? If it is again zero, then I'm still concerned about the quality of their vetting.

It's like re-inventing the wheel after everyone stopped using the wheel.

It might meet with some success. To people who don't know about RSS, it's a new thing.

I've already figured out which airlines to avoid to prevent ever getting on one of those planes.

Maybe, but prior to the "Golden Master" release are you really testing your stuff, or Apple's?

Leaving such a small window between Apple getting its act together with the GM, and a hard deadline for third parties to get their act together, is rough.

I had the same experience trying to write a plugin for Logic Pro early this year. None of the old documentation or examples were relevant, and I never did find anything from Apple that did work. I finally used someone else's framework as a starting point.

It's funny to see someone sell all the way down from $14 to $12 regardless of the volume. Whoever had that bid in at $12 must be laughing their ass off.

I've never understood why anyone would trust a serial entrepreneur. If a business is great, why would they exit? If it's not, why are they esteemed?

What's "the edge"?

I have the same and it's worth every penny.

Also, how are people hitting 15GB on just email? A little digital "KonMari" might be in order.

> I am sure we can both imagine people who were disappointed in 2007

Was it to the same extent that people are complaining about MacOS Catalina though? This is the first update that I don't like, and it's because of the lack of 32-bit support. Being forewarned about 32-bit going away doesn't make my 32-bit applications run on Catalina.

Also you don't really need a full-ass panopticon to notice three million shaped charges being assembled together with three million drones.

Sure, but why didn't the Vision Fund deny him that level of control as a condition for providing the money, when the initial funding was taking place?