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I came here to say nearly the same. I used xsv SO MUCH at my last job, because the intermediate format of everything in the particular project was CSV, and I just could plow through everything using it. And of course BurntSushi/toml is in various go projects I have worked on.
I'm glad that get to carry on doing whatever makes you happy, and for your whole family.
I like this! I noticed that the weather for some Bay Area counties seem to be getting zeroed out for temperature.
https://safe-now.live/c/us/ca/county/san-mateo/ https://safe-now.live/c/us/ca/county/santa-cruz/
(both say: Weather Now 32°F / 0°C - Sunny )
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I have been using Dirty Labs dishwasher powder for about a year, since we got a new dishwasher, and inspired by some of his older videos on this topic. The performance has been good, no complaints. I don't torture-test my dishwasher like Alec does :). With the powder, I can do the whole some-on-the-door, some-in-the-dispenser thing mentioned here, or just use less for light loads. It is without a doubt not a budget option.
One aspect I like about it is that they have a fragrance-free variant, and even the "fragrance" one is not too bad. A second aspect I like is that it's biodegradable, et cetera. So a bit lighter on the environment, I hope, and the SDS is prominently available on the website.
I think another thing which is under-appreciated is that you need to know how to do the basic cleaning chores for your dishwasher-- for example if it has a filter, learn to clean it! Otherwise its ability to clean will probably be compromised.
Yes, technology wise, I think it could have been done; once I left Sun/Oracle I stopped paying attention, so I can't speak to what else was done later.
Rereading the zones paper now makes me cringe, but I was in my 20s, what can I say. I think the argument we made that holds up is that this was designed to be a technology for server consolidation, and the opening section sets some context about how primitive things were in Sun's enterprise customer base at the time.
I have a lot of admiration for what Docker dared to do-- to really think differently about the problem in a way which changed application deployment for everyone.
Also I can tell you at the time that we were not especially concerned about HP or IBM's solutions in this space; nor did we face those container solutions competitively in any sales situation that I can recall. This tech was fielded in the wake of the dot-com blowout-- and customers had huge estates of servers often at comically low utilization. So this was a good opportunity for Sun to say "We are aligned with your desire to get maximum value out of the hardware you already have."
It's a blast to see this come up from time to time on HN, thanks.
I did the same after having a shop investigate the drain. They didn't put all of the pieces together as the OP did, but they pointed to the fuse and told me I could pull it.
Jason Lango, the original author (who I know personally), came from Brown University. Back in 1998, Brown was an 95%-Solaris shop, and so Solaris-specific APIs like Doors, its flavor of /proc, and its unique two level thread model (later removed by the late great Roger Faulkner) were topics of great interest amongst the systems students.
For at least one semester, the student operating system project was known as DoorsNT.
I was curious about these competing claims, so I googled for the answer.
https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/317337...
Dated Sept. 28, 2022
"In total, the United States has now committed approximately $16.9 billion in security assistance to Ukraine since January 2021. Since 2014, the United States has committed approximately $19 billion in security assistance to Ukraine more than $16.2 billion since the beginning of Russia’s unprovoked and brutal invasion on February 24."
I'm not sure that all of the money/material has yet reached Ukraine. But that is what is said to be committed.
@Craig, I wonder if you've thought of making this available (would it work??) for test case construction. Today (working in Go) I start a postgres in a docker container for testing database code. Could I instead use a go wasm runtime, and start postgres inside of it? That would potentially free me from the docker dependency in these tests.
According to https://www.newscientist.com/article/2328132-james-webb-spac..., "This first image is a region of space called SMACS 0723, which contains what astronomers call a gravitational lens. In areas like this, a massive object relatively close to Earth behaves like a magnifying glass, distorting space and stretching the light of anything behind it." and "The gravitational lens in SMACS 0723 is particularly strong because the nearby object distorting space-time is not one galaxy, but a large cluster of galaxies."
I used to work on a product for secure small-biz Wifi, and so dogfooded my own product in my house. When that was over and I took that out of my house, I had my eyes on Ubiquiti, and it is an impressive ecosystem. But as others have said, it's out of stock all the time, and Ubiqiti are teasing people right now with their next-gen product which is available but also unobtainable.
Eventually I picked the Asus ZenWifi system, and honestly it works great (I have no affiliation with Asus). There's no cloud account to create when you install it. The app is acceptable. There are various security things you can turn on which seem to require cloud assistance, but the core product seems to work very nicely. Any time you try to turn on something which might cause the system to share extra data, a popup appears to explain that to you.
It's so powerful, Wifi-wise, that I bought three nodes and only deployed two. I use it with Ethernet backhaul but it has a dedicated radio for wireless backhaul. It has ethernet LAN ports on each node, and each node is identical to every other node (i.e. there is no "base" and "satellite"). I went from spotty Wifi throughout my 2,000 sq ft house to very strong Wifi throughout. I wrung my hands for a long time because I gave up VLANs and some other things I wanted, and then said the heck with it.
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US isn't even in the top 10 when it comes to carbon emissions per capita
I think you are correct when we use this very narrow measure. However, please see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_gas_emissions_by_th...
The US is (a) among largest polluters and (b) from that club it is up at or near the top of per-capita pollution. Quoting the article:
The United States produced 6.6 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in 2019,[3] the second largest in the world after greenhouse gas emissions by China and among the countries with the highest greenhouse gas emissions per person. In 2019 China is estimated to have emitted 27% of world GhG, followed by the United States with 11%, then India with 6.6%.[4] In total the United States has emitted 400 billion metric tons, more than any other country.[5] This is over 15 tonnes per person and, amongst the top ten emitters, is the second highest country by greenhouse gas emissions per person after Canada.[6] Because coal-fired power stations are gradually shutting down, in the 2010s emissions from electricity generation fell to second place behind transportation which is now the largest single source.[7] In 2019, 29% of the GHG emissions of the United States were from transportation, 25% from electricity, 23% from industry, 13% from commercial and residential buildings and 10% from agriculture.[8]
Me too-- a lot of receipts from Home Depot, little league, real estate documents (many times), scans from signing up for gym membership (which had a lot of PII in it, I called the guy), emails from a church elders group.
Once I got an advanced copy of remarks the UK Prime Minister was going to make the next day at the 2008 Jeddah global energy summit.
See also this (opinion) piece in the NY Times, which disputes this calculation: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/19/upshot/calculating-the-rea...
This thing seems like a good start but I have a bug report for you. For me at least, it's a deal-breaker. When browsing a source file, (firefox 32.0 on macos) pageup/pagedown/spacebar and up/down arrows do not scroll the code, even when the code pane has focus. Pressing any of these give focus to the search box. I need to be able to use keyboard navigation at least for scrolling.
My guess is the previous commenter is in US. There's an excellent episode of the podcast "planet money" which addresses exactly this question, and which also explains why the system in the UK is much faster.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/10/04/229224964/episode-...
It has 512 pages. He clearly couldn't resist...
I agree and was really surprised to see the rider in the video not wearing a helmet, even though it is legal to do so in California if you are over 18 (it is not, however, smart). The answer is to just carry one with you-- they aren't heavy, and you can usually strap it onto a backpack when not in use.
As an aside, riding on the sidewalk in the business district of Mountain View (the video is clearly Castro @ Villa) is not actually legal (http://library.municode.com/HTML/16508/level3/PTIITHCO_CH19M...)
This formats very strangely on my portrait-oriented display (1200x1920, firefox 11). The top of the page is a big black rectangle, and the subsequent content is bottom-aligned.
It sure is pretty though.
To me the huge irritation with time picking in a lot of Android apps is that they usually force me to specify a fully populated "minutes" field. IIRC, in iOS most apps instead round to ~5 minute intervals. 99% of the time, that is what I want. If you round to 5 minute intervals, there are only 12 possible minute values, not 60. This makes it a lot less work to find what you want and get that calendar appointment scheduled or that alarm clock set up.
Awesome rant.
In my mind, someone (browser vendors? security community?) should create a standard for handling interactions to do with passwords. Covering password length, characters allowed, characters required, case sensitivity, et cetera. Or perhaps a grading mechanism. Give it a catchy name and get some noted security researchers and clueful businesses to endorse it. You could even have a browser extension which points out to users which sites are handling passwords poorly or in an inconvenient way.
With respect to the issues with banking institutions: why not take it up with your congressperson, or write to the FTC and/or SEC? The FTC is charged with consumer protection, and this seems directly in line with that. Again, if there was a grading tool, the regulators could apply that.
Thanks for a well-reasoned first-hand account.
So I guess we agree on most of these points: e-books are great; DRM, not so much. And I think most of what you've said would apply to all of the readers reviewed (not sure about #5).
My lament about the review (and many MANY others I have read) is that it seems to heavily review physical form factor, page turn speed, button design, et cetera. All of which are important to some degree. But I think that degree has been overemphasized and is a distraction.
Whereas really, when you adopt one of these (let's take sideloading, DRM cracking etc. out of the picture for the moment), you adopt at least:
- A physical device (covered extensively)
- A store infrastructure
- Its payment system & trustworthiness, flexibility, etc thereof
- Parental controls and/or spending limits
- The DRM scheme(s) for the content it provides (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Rights_Management#E-books)
- The license(s) under which the content is available
- The format of the content (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_e-book_formats)
- For periodicals: Access and deletion policies around back issues
- The ability of the provider to give you good prices and a wide range of titles, periodicals, etc.
- Provider policies about content sharing, family usage, et cetera
- The device's ability to integrate with public libraries
- The device's ability to integrate with 3rd party service providers (the review touches on this with respect to Instapaper)
- The set of formats the device will read
- Your ability to get content you paid for on and off of the device
So to me, what is under-reviewed is the way in which consumers get to buy, trade, sell, borrow, lend, and use the content. That seems to me to matter much more.
I spent this year buying a lot of $7 Agatha Christie e-books on various e-book stores and reading them on the respective apps on my phone (which is psychotic because each app has its own horrible quirks). I came away wondering if I would have been better off buying the $10 paperbacks, just so that I can physically distribute these books. (Aside: US copyright law is not helping here: "Murder on The Orient Express" will not leave copyright protection until 2046, 112 years after initial publication.)
As others in this thread have mentioned, you don't have to buy books through Amazon. That lets you potentially sidestep the DRM issue depending on the availability of what you like to read.
Two thoughts: First, from a user experience perspective, it basically sucks. I can buy an e-book on the Kindle Store/Nook Store/Kobo Store while sitting on a train, while trying to fall asleep, on the beach, etc. So convenience and immediacy has clear and tangible value.
Second, from a business perspective, lots of people side-loading helps to create incentives for e-book retailers to create exclusive deals either with publishers or authors (clearly, there are other reasons for these deals as well). This happened last year (http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2010/08/agent-ama...) although to a lesser degree than Mr. Wylie would have liked. AFAICT, if I want to read the ebook for "The Naked and the Dead" (Mailer) my sole choice is to get it through the Kindle store.
Sorry for the explosion in length.
I guess I should have clarified that I'd like to be able to use the device more-or-less as designed. Sideloading and conversion is nice but not something I want to do on any kind of regular basis.
That is to say: Yes, I can try to overcome cumbersome DRM by applying my own labor, but there is a cost to that. In my mind, that cost would count against the value proposition of the device.
I wish the review (or the accompanying ecosystem review) had considered the freedom/openness of each device. To me that seems like the #1 concern I would have with a reader for content I value over the long run.
It has seemed to me that the Kindle is the device with the most lock-in whereas the Kobo has the least (it uses Adobe's DRM scheme, which at least has a tool which lets you move your content from device to device). I'm less sure about the Nook.
Second, it has never really been completely clear to me what would happen to my content were one of these companies to go out of business. Any thoughts?
Finally, since the review mentions periodicals, I think it would be great to review the periodical retention policies of the devices. I have a friend who has a Kindle and complains bitterly about its periodical retention scheme-- about how it always wants to age out (and remove) old issues of a magazine (which you have to tediously disable issue by issue), and how, once gone, you can never regain access to periodicals you once had. Want to re-read that New Yorker from last year on the upgraded Kindle you just got for Xmas? You can't...
[Posting as a non-ereader owner who keeps trying to figure out which one to get; I have used my phone as a client with Kindle and Kobo stores]
I use twitter lists, in part because Tweetdeck makes them easy to view. I like to follow the various food trucks around town, but usually I am only interested in them when hungry. Having them collected in a list keeps them out of my main feed.
They are a pain to maintain, however.
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This is something that people would want. But I have a question about business model choice here, because I'm curious why they chose to become a front-end to various banks in this way.
Why choose to be a middle-man here (with all of the pain/cost of providing customer service, etc.) when they could be an enterprise software vendor or a SaaS provider? Banks don't actually make that much off of depositors, right? I'm not saying they made a bad choice; I wanted to see if anyone could rationalize it for me.
Surely banks (especially smaller regional banks and credit unions) would pay good prices to have this software power their banking websites so that they could care for their customers in a more sophisticated way. Right now my credit union, in the Bay Area, has a functional but very ugly e-banking and bill-pay platform which has clearly been purchased from a third party vendor and customized (checkfree, I think (http://www.checkfreecorp.com/cda/corp/L5.jsp?layoutId=51501&...).
I guess I don't understand where significant revenues will come from in a model like this.
FWIW, The Cyberiad, a collection of related stories, is a great read for hackers. I come back to it every few years.
Trurl, attempting to build a machine to write poetry: