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Im sure you get ideas that are below your threshold for engagement... most people do until someone makes them aware and they have an “aha” moment..

Pick a topic, product, food, restaurant, etc. at random and think of (then write down) at least one way to improve it (even if subjective).

Now for each propose at least one method of doing it. If you don’t know how, then take a minute to google the processes that lead up to the improvement... slowly you internalize that knowledge and it becomes second nature.

It’s an exercise, but after a week or two you will come to do it naturally. Just make sure you tell people your ideas if your not going to use them.

I’ve found that when you “release” an idea, better ones follow.

Why am I not surprised that super-liberal Slate says my right to privacy should be overlooked because some idiot with an iphone wants to record every conversation?

Pervasiveness-of-technology should not ever be a reason to obviate the rights of the individual.

Most likely, one of your competitors negotiated a deal where you were deplatformed as a condition. $57M over 13/14 years, or $100M right now... easy choice for Facebook.

Can’t view pages with iPad :( doesn’t recognize touch events, only mouse. But looks awesome!

he’s not alive.

Why didn’t he use a binary protocol to convey his disdain for text protocols? Simply because nobody would understand it, which is the entire idea behind text protocols... and language.

seriously people, quit posting paywalled content.

Tor does this, fwiw. https://www.torproject.org/

To clarify, you could run Tor on your existing vpn.

That depends on your personal health. 50% deadlier to someone with existing issues that make the more likely to have a bad outcome (death) is worse than 50% more transmissible. The former cannot be managed, but the latter can by isolation or other means.

Not to say 50% more transmissible isn’t also bad, but not the worst, for them at least.

Paywalled post

while i agree this is overly complex given the simplicity of virtualenvs, there is something “pythonic” about encapsulating the environment in a container.

I would suggest using alpine containers with python for a ~40mB container, versus the ~900MB container created here to run a server.

For me, python containers are only used when I want to bundle things into services on swarm, and I use venvs for local development.

imho, front end first, then back-end, to be a well-rounded developer. Backend is so deep and so consuming, that knowing how what you do in UX will affect users on the front end is a valuable skill.

Tesla’s not worried... The apple car will cost $300k, only take you to “approved” or licensed destinations, and be replaced in 6 months with newer, “better” model with cooler features.

I heard a rumor that tires are extra.

lol j/k

sheer genius. Expect a cease-and-desist from Apple since (A) you don’t really own your MacBookPro, and (B) you didn’t use slave labor. Or did you? ;-)

Why anyone would buy new Apple products, arguably the most expensive products in any category, when they support these types of manufacturing slave-labor situations, is beyond me.

Funny how you never hear about this type of situation with any other tech brand.

The article wasn’t clear that doppler shift was accounted for, so a statement of fact that the signal was what it was can’t be made until doppler shift is accurately accounted for over time. Higher over time means it’s moving toward, lower over time means moving away.

After review: looks like it’s not been doppler adjusted... “And second, the signal “drifts,” meaning that it appears to be changing very slightly in frequency—an effect that could be due to the motion of our planet, or of a moving extraterrestrial source such as a transmitter on the surface of one of Proxima Centauri’s worlds. “

You mean, invasive as in humans? Invasive species are by nature Alpha, to the indigenous Beta. They don’t earn the right to stay, they take it, and it’s the indigenous Betas that must earn the right to stay once invaded if they aren’t killed in the fight, and they tend to end up subservient to the invaders.

Non-territorial species are by definition nomadic and Beta as they get pushed out by Alpha invaders.

This is different from the macaques as they are an occupying species and usually non-aggressive. Mammalian occupation due to population growth is not the same as being invasive.

Agreed.. as an mvp, yes, but the platform you develop on probably does not offer you a non-disclosure, so anything you deem secret about it, isn’t.

I personally find coding to be a mental exercise that, at least for me, allows me to time travel. If I am engaged in the design of an algorithm, or set thereof, time passes very very quickly and my perception of it is non existent.

I have gone for 12 hours without even noticing any time passage, much to the chagrin of my wife and ride-home-needing-daughter.

Side effects? Since it’s meditation for me, it’s a relaxing retreat without any visible (at least to me) issues.. I guess I don’t see how long bouts of concentration can be damaging to the psyche.

I’ve also noticed that if I narrate my development (as if recording a tutorial) that a I am unable to achieve time travel. Been doing it for 40 years... yikes..

I’ve had code stolen by an employee who used it to start a competing service. I sued him in Federal court and won.

You didn’t have your code stolen.

Your code was free and open, and the header he removed stated that fact.

What you had was a violation of your terms of use, and I while I agree the guy’s probably a scumbag, the only issue here is that he was seen doing it.

Rest assured, others have done it without being seen, it’s a fact of life for a public code repo.

I suggest you:

(a) change “copywrite” to “copyright” in your code, since a copywrite is someone who writes stories, and a copyright is a legal term claiming ownership;

(b) file a dmca takedown notice with github; I run a hosting service and when we receive those, we take action;

(c) move on. Life’s too short, and all he has to do is republish it to another repo and keep you angry and not working on your code.

(d) actually file a copyright with your code so that he doesn’t do it then sue you for using his code;

I feel for you, but scumbags are what they are and there’s not much you can do about it unless you spend a ton of money to find and file a suit against him that you will probably not win.

My condolences.

The real question should be: is there a clustering of purchases of those numbers for this draw that is different than the same numbers on other draws? If this was a planned scam, the distribution of purchases would be more tightly coupled than normal.

The problem with this statement is that no computer can test 100B passwords against today’s authentication mechanisms in any meaningful way without being blocked or IP banned. A worm or other distributed mechanism is the only way to test any large number of passwords against a viable authentication mechanism so as to require the mechanism to block ALL IP access or disable the account.

So, yeah, your password is probably safe unless it’s something ridiculously simple.

Enable 2FA and your accounts are virtually impregnable, unless of course you have already been compromised before doing so.

Yes.. being post-40 doesn’t inherently lessen one’s ability to learn.

Rather, it’s the weight of management of things accumulated over the years that interrupt out natural curiosity and keep us from “learning”.

I believe you have to drop some things and not worry about forgetting them, in order to make time and space for new things.

I have, in the past year, become quite proficient at Docker Swarm, Flutter, Dart, and Go.

In the next year, I have my sights on Rust and a reintroduction to calculus.

Learning isn’t the issue. Finding the time to learn uninterrupted is the issue, IMHO.

I did give up Facebook completely, which has opened up a lot of time.

Cheers

LOL.. what if those planets ARE inhabited and us sending seed-of-life “goo” is lethal for them, or seen by them as an act of genocide or invasion?

What if “an act of science” is the thing that ends us?

While equally idiotic a question, it’s not being asked because someone says “we must follow the science”.

What’s the latency with 100,000 and 1,000,000 files?

There didn’t used to be a “top” where you are now. Someone became the tech/thought leader and set the standards for what is the top now.

When you get there, you are expected to redefine “top”, which has the appearance of making it harder to reach the ceiling, but in actuality has the 4-minute-mile effect of causing those striving to reach the plateau to redouble their efforts and redefine their goals to get there.

Additionally, one would be expected to mentor those most likely to achieve the “top”, or those having trouble overcoming political or socioeconomic barriers to reach the next step on their path to it.

Once you achieve the “top” of your game, it’s over. If you don’t redefine the game or expand the scope of the top position, and help others achieve it, you’re dying professionally.

Nope. won’t be buying a new Mac. Installed ubuntu on my current MBP and am very happy.

They do look nice, but i’m not gonna pay 3x the price of a similar non-Apple just so they can tell me what I can and can’t run.

DEAR God! They have a monopoly!

This is unfair to those who want to compete in the Personal Washboard (PM) marketplace, and this company has a virtual lock on the supply, probably anti-competitive patents too!

lol :)

Frankly, I’m shocked there are ANY companies in North America making washboards.

Welcome to the resistance. I’ve been running Ubuntu on my MBP for a year now and have had zero issues, even with the retina display. No special drivers needed, at least for my model. I keep it dual boot so I can work on mobile apps in OS x, but I suspect apple will screw me out of that option to try and force me to upgrade at some point, and at that point, iPhone apps will become something I don’t work on, or I’ll use a remote build service for them.

Not an attorney, not legal advice... this is what I would do myself. GET REAL LEGAL ADVICE. There are only a few reasons they would want exclusivity. First, they like it so much, they want it to be brand specific. This should be very expensive for them, especially if your work is well known. Second, they are in violation of your copyright already and they want to cure it without possibility of recourse. Finally, they just want to be able to license it to anyone else and they perceive a market for it. Most likely are first and second. If you choose the first, make sure it’s worth it to you. Also make sure that any prior use of the artwork doesn’t violate their contract, even if it hasn’t surfaced yet. If you suspect the second, make sure they disclose, as an addendum to the agreement, to you any prior use THEY have of your artwork, or derivative works, and base your decision on that. Make sure any after-the-fact discovery of their violations by you or anyone else triggers a very large penalty payment, or ends the agreement. If it’s the third reason, and they see an untapped market, they can’t realize it without your artwork. Build in some ceilings after which you get a cut, or caveats where they don’t control it. Good luck.

p.s. Remember that if you open source it, anyone can use it for anything they want, subject to your license terms, even if the things aren’t things you support. Think about it carefully.