I have to say, looking at the Community Code of Conduct he's objecting to, I'm finding it hard to figure out what exactly he doesn't like. This is the code of conduct: be friendly and patient, be welcoming, be considerate, be respectful, be careful in the words that you choose and be kind to others, and when we disagree, try to understand why..
all of which seem reasonable. If he wants to violate what seems to be pretty bare-minimum standards of what should be considered acceptable behavior, I'd say that he should leave the community. And not join a different one.
I agree wholeheartedly. I read his "goodbye" email carefully, word by word, to get to the truth of what he said. http://lists.llvm.org/pipermai... - He says he us unable to attend LLVM conferences because he does not agree about the code of conduct. More precisely, the conference pages https://llvm.org/devmtg/2018-0... say "By registering for this event, we expect you to have read and agree to the LLVM Code of Conduct". I assume that "agree to the code of conduct" means "agree to abide by the code of conduct". If he can't agree to those minimum standards of acceptable behavior, then sure he shouldn't be admitted to the conference.
As for "being associated with" -- well, okay, though it seems pretty wishy-washy. I disregard the media practice of saying "X is associated with Y which is associated with Z". It's a sloppy shorthand way of attacking X for something that X didn't actually say or do.
What percentage of tardy passengers does your rationalization represent? Lots of excuses being thrown around, with little data to substantiate them.:)
I don't have data, only anecdotes...
On my last flight through Heathrow, my wife and I had separate tickets for the same flight. She had checked lugged and I didn't. Our incoming flight was late. The BA desk at security saw that we were late. They booted me off the flight and kept her.
I've been on several planes where everyone seems to be sitting down with their seatbelt on, but we're just waiting there. Then the pilot announces "We're missing one passenger. We're going to have a delay while we go through the hold and unload their baggage."
So I thought it was just common knowledge that no flight ever departs with checked luggage unless the passenger is also on board the plane...
I feel more immersed when a movie fills my peripheral vision. At most cinemas, including my preferred IMAX, my preferred seat is in the first or second row, for the immersion.
I'm not 'watching the equipment' - I'm immersing myself
It's the same with their new.NET stuff. Entity Framework ".NET Core" doesn't have all the features of Entity Framework 6 for.NET.
The day most of my games support Linux, a lot of people will be out of reasons to keep using Windows. UWP isn't keeping anybody on the platform.
It's funny you put both of those sentences there. The reason.NET Core doesn't have all the features of EF6 for.NET is *precisely* because.NETCore runs on linux.
Critically, let us think -- anyone that was targeted with ads had it done because analysis of their data suggested that they were receptive, probably due to already agreeing.
Are you the guy in charge of ads at Amazon, who keeps sends me ads about camping tents because I bought one a year ago? I honestly don't need two tents. One is enough. An ad for something I've already bought or already plan to do is useless. The only useful end-result of an ad is if it makes a difference by nudging me over a tipping point, e.g. from "vaguely sort of think that I should buy a tent" to "yes I should buy that tent", or "vaguely sort of agree with X" to "yes I should vote for X".
It's weird to have an entire discussion thread about ease of promise/callback programming without once mentioning async-await, the only thing that makes it humane. (or is that the syntax you were referring to?)
Microsoft has reached out to us, clarifying that OneDrive on iOS will automatically convert HEIC files to JPEG when you back them up on your iPhone, so you will still be able to view them as regular image files in your Windows 10 device and iPhone.
No matter how good a percentage you have (below 100%, of course), the birthday paradox will give you a ton of false positives. It's because you're actually doing N*(N-1) comparisons, where N::= (the number of passenger a day at the airport + the number of crooks you're looking for).
No it doesn't - they're not looking whether you match one of a list of crooks. From the article, "We collect a photo, send it to CBP, who checks to make sure that person is booked on the manifest and matches the photo that they already have on file.". From that description they're solely measuring your photo now against your photo on file.
Oh! I did find the OP quite confusing. So you think he wants a way to project from his laptop to his TV with no additional wires in the laptop?
Option 1: use Chromecast software on your laptop/android, and a Chromecast receiver or android box connected to your TV. You can broadcast either the content of a webpage, or the content from a media-player such as VLC. (can't broadcast your entire desktop as far as I can see).
Option 2: use apple software on your laptop/iphone, and an Apple TV receiver or android-box-with-airstream-app on on your TV. You can broadcast either the content of iTunes, or your entire desktop/mobile.
Option 3: use Miracast software built into Windows, and a Firestick or other dongle on your TV. You can broadcast either your entire desktop or, I believe, the output of a media player.
All three options work fine with dumb TVs (dongle required on the TV), and they don't require any hardware to be plugged into your laptop. The OP might have been asking for a dongle to achieve this on his laptop, but why look for a dongle-on-laptop solution when you can solve the problem easily without a dongle?
but cables are what you're trying to get away from with wireless video
The reason Chromecast and Firestick use wireless is because people generally don't have ethernet outlets adjacent to their TV. But everyone in the world has a power outlet adjacent to their TV, so few people have objections to using that.
If I understand right, your objection is that although you'll tolerate seeing the power cable go from our outlet to your TV set, you're reluctant to see a second wall-wart and cable alongside it. Your proposal (power over USB-C) is one solution to the problem, but there are several other more straightforward solutions...
3. Use a "wall-mounted cable concealer" e.g. https://www.amazon.com/gp/prod... so you don't even see the cables at all; you just see the thing on the wall. (Note: when I moved house and took down the cable concealers, they were so firmly attached that they took some paint with them, and I had to re-spackle and paint).
But none of it was important, until Trump won the elections
Why do you say that? Obama "was deeply concerned... he wanted the entire intelligence community all over this." https://www.washingtonpost.com...
Obama’s approach often seemed reducible to a single imperative: Don’t make things worse. As brazen as the Russian attacks on the election seemed, Obama and his top advisers feared that things could get far worse. They were concerned that any pre-election response could provoke an escalation from Putin.
...the principals and their deputies had by late September all but ruled out any pre-election retaliation against Moscow. They feared that any action would be seen as political and that Putin, motivated by a seething resentment of Clinton, was prepared to go beyond fake news and email dumps... "Our primary interest in August, September and October was to prevent them from doing the max they could do," said a senior administration official. “We made the judgment that we had ample time after the election, regardless of outcome, for punitive measures."
So there it is: this was considered crucially important before the election, but Obama's administration made the careful deliberate decision to delay action until after the election so as not to make it partisan and to avoid worse harm.
Where I live there are constant problems with people stealing packages from porches and front doors. Seems to me drone delivery would make things even worse because they wouldn't have any way to fight this. In my building, the drivers have our garage code so they can put packages securely in the garage. Seems like this wouldn't be possible with drones. How is Amazon addressing this?
My guess: with an option that you select, at checkout, labelled "I want drone delivery".
Let me try again with a car analogy. Someone designs and builds a Tesla. You come along and say "Face it. At the very best, this is just an extension of the '87 Ford F150. There's nothing new. They've just re-invented the '87 Ford F150. Oh the hubris of the young, to think that they could do anything different."
What's weird is that your "prior art" is (1) oddly specific almost in ignorance of the rest of the field that came before and after, (2) misses the point that Tesla has taken one existing technology "battery" and put it into another existing technology "electric vehicle" in a well-designed package that works well and is interesting for these reasons.
LINT is something that looks at your code for problems and reports them.
A compiler is something that looks at your code for problems and reports them (and also generates output).
This ubisoft tool is something that looks at your code for problems and reports them.
Your colleague standing over your shoulder is something that looks at your code for problems and reports them.
Your colleague who does code-review is something that looks at your code for problems and reports them.
Your copy-editor is someone who looks at what you've written for problems and reports them.
Your spell-checker is something that looks at what you've written for problems and reports them.
Your grammar-checker is something that looks at what you've written for problems and reports them.
It's kind of silly to say "this is LINT!" or "there is nothing new" as regards this story. The task of having feedback on what you've produced is at least as hold as humankind itself and has existed in every area of human endeavor, in a huge variety of ways, with feedback performed at a huge variety of times. Of course that aspect isn't new. Beyond that, this Ubisoft is as (un-)related to LINT as every single other tool I listed.
I thought the film was fantastic. Good detective stories. Fascinating characters. Moving. I recognize many of the wonderful things in this film are quite different from the wonderful things in the original Blade Runner. Some lovers of the original will mistake that for thinking this one is bad.
Why do we want primary and secondary pupils to learn how to write software? Software engineers make up just 2.54% of the USA labour force.
I think that learning to code is basic civic skill. You want a mortgage? - go whip up a spreadsheet to evaluate it. You want to make an informed vote? - get the data online about how your representative has voted, maybe scraping the data if needed, or gather any kind of data about any topic. You want to heat your house cheaply? - program the danged thermostat. You want to cook something? - heck, just knowing that recipes and algorithms are similar will make you a better communicator.
These aren't questions of being a software engineer. They're just basic information-manipulation abilities, needed to get by competently in society.
Two simple ways of subverting it. Set up postal redirection. Offer someone a small payment: ''when you receive a postcard addressed to Mr Smith, use your mobile to send a photograph of it to me"
"This ad payed for by Republican Nominee Caucaus, 523 Official Avenue, Place". "This ad payed for by Democrat Nominee Committee, 123 Expected Drive, Place". "This ad payed for by John Smith, 1273 The Blandings #327, Pimlington".
That will look out-of-place if they publish the addresses. It'd get journalists or politically-minding users calling attention to it pretty promptly.
Which means this employee/contractor/w.e was smart enough to disable the phone location tracking, but not smart enough to not use a company device? What?
The article talks about one employee who (from the sound of things) used a corporate laptop. It talks about another different employee who asked the reporter to switch off the reporter's phone. I think you're conflating the two?
Do you know that you can still use your old per-ribbon shortcuts even with the ribbon? Format paragraph remains Alt+O,P. You can be just as productive. The ribbon increased discoverability for people less able than you, reduced it for people like you, but didn't compromise your speed.
What's there to investigate, really? They admitted that they did it. The information is public.
From TFS: agencies are looking into whether Apple violated securities laws regarding disclosures.
Is this something we really want the government doing?
Do we want the government checking whether publicly companies illegally fail to disclose important information to their investors? And punishing any companies found to have done so? -- YES, emphatically YES.
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I have to say, looking at the Community Code of Conduct he's objecting to, I'm finding it hard to figure out what exactly he doesn't like. This is the code of conduct: be friendly and patient, be welcoming, be considerate, be respectful, be careful in the words that you choose and be kind to others, and when we disagree, try to understand why..
all of which seem reasonable. If he wants to violate what seems to be pretty bare-minimum standards of what should be considered acceptable behavior, I'd say that he should leave the community. And not join a different one.
I agree wholeheartedly. I read his "goodbye" email carefully, word by word, to get to the truth of what he said. http://lists.llvm.org/pipermai... - He says he us unable to attend LLVM conferences because he does not agree about the code of conduct. More precisely, the conference pages https://llvm.org/devmtg/2018-0... say "By registering for this event, we expect you to have read and agree to the LLVM Code of Conduct". I assume that "agree to the code of conduct" means "agree to abide by the code of conduct". If he can't agree to those minimum standards of acceptable behavior, then sure he shouldn't be admitted to the conference.
As for "being associated with" -- well, okay, though it seems pretty wishy-washy. I disregard the media practice of saying "X is associated with Y which is associated with Z". It's a sloppy shorthand way of attacking X for something that X didn't actually say or do.
What percentage of tardy passengers does your rationalization represent? Lots of excuses being thrown around, with little data to substantiate them. :)
I don't have data, only anecdotes...
On my last flight through Heathrow, my wife and I had separate tickets for the same flight. She had checked lugged and I didn't. Our incoming flight was late. The BA desk at security saw that we were late. They booted me off the flight and kept her.
I've been on several planes where everyone seems to be sitting down with their seatbelt on, but we're just waiting there. Then the pilot announces "We're missing one passenger. We're going to have a delay while we go through the hold and unload their baggage."
So I thought it was just common knowledge that no flight ever departs with checked luggage unless the passenger is also on board the plane...
I feel more immersed when a movie fills my peripheral vision. At most cinemas, including my preferred IMAX, my preferred seat is in the first or second row, for the immersion.
I'm not 'watching the equipment' - I'm immersing myself
It's the same with their new .NET stuff. Entity Framework ".NET Core" doesn't have all the features of Entity Framework 6 for .NET.
The day most of my games support Linux, a lot of people will be out of reasons to keep using Windows. UWP isn't keeping anybody on the platform.
It's funny you put both of those sentences there. The reason .NET Core doesn't have all the features of EF6 for .NET is *precisely* because .NETCore runs on linux.
Not a Quaker myself, but I just wanted to say thank you for your thoughtful, patient and clear answer. I found it moving.
Critically, let us think -- anyone that was targeted with ads had it done because analysis of their data suggested that they were receptive, probably due to already agreeing.
Are you the guy in charge of ads at Amazon, who keeps sends me ads about camping tents because I bought one a year ago? I honestly don't need two tents. One is enough. An ad for something I've already bought or already plan to do is useless. The only useful end-result of an ad is if it makes a difference by nudging me over a tipping point, e.g. from "vaguely sort of think that I should buy a tent" to "yes I should buy that tent", or "vaguely sort of agree with X" to "yes I should vote for X".
It's weird to have an entire discussion thread about ease of promise/callback programming without once mentioning async-await, the only thing that makes it humane. (or is that the syntax you were referring to?)
The way the TCP rate control algorithm works, bandwidth is determined by latency.
OneDrive doesn't properly support HEIF, or at least didn't as of September last year. https://mspoweruser.com/micros...
Microsoft has reached out to us, clarifying that OneDrive on iOS will automatically convert HEIC files to JPEG when you back them up on your iPhone, so you will still be able to view them as regular image files in your Windows 10 device and iPhone.
No matter how good a percentage you have (below 100%, of course), the birthday paradox will give you a ton of false positives. It's because you're actually doing N*(N-1) comparisons, where N ::= (the number of passenger a day at the airport + the number of crooks you're looking for).
No it doesn't - they're not looking whether you match one of a list of crooks. From the article, "We collect a photo, send it to CBP, who checks to make sure that person is booked on the manifest and matches the photo that they already have on file.". From that description they're solely measuring your photo now against your photo on file.
Oh! I did find the OP quite confusing. So you think he wants a way to project from his laptop to his TV with no additional wires in the laptop?
Option 1: use Chromecast software on your laptop/android, and a Chromecast receiver or android box connected to your TV. You can broadcast either the content of a webpage, or the content from a media-player such as VLC. (can't broadcast your entire desktop as far as I can see).
Option 2: use apple software on your laptop/iphone, and an Apple TV receiver or android-box-with-airstream-app on on your TV. You can broadcast either the content of iTunes, or your entire desktop/mobile.
Option 3: use Miracast software built into Windows, and a Firestick or other dongle on your TV. You can broadcast either your entire desktop or, I believe, the output of a media player.
All three options work fine with dumb TVs (dongle required on the TV), and they don't require any hardware to be plugged into your laptop. The OP might have been asking for a dongle to achieve this on his laptop, but why look for a dongle-on-laptop solution when you can solve the problem easily without a dongle?
but cables are what you're trying to get away from with wireless video
The reason Chromecast and Firestick use wireless is because people generally don't have ethernet outlets adjacent to their TV. But everyone in the world has a power outlet adjacent to their TV, so few people have objections to using that.
If I understand right, your objection is that although you'll tolerate seeing the power cable go from our outlet to your TV set, you're reluctant to see a second wall-wart and cable alongside it. Your proposal (power over USB-C) is one solution to the problem, but there are several other more straightforward solutions...
1. Replace an outlet with one that has a USB socket and a power socket e.g. https://www.amazon.com/Leviton... to eliminate the wall-wart. Or you could go for a recessed outlet to hide it further e.g. https://www.amazon.com/PowerBr...
2. Use a "cable tidy wrap" e.g. https://www.amazon.com/uxcell-... so the two cables look visually like a single cable.
3. Use a "wall-mounted cable concealer" e.g. https://www.amazon.com/gp/prod... so you don't even see the cables at all; you just see the thing on the wall. (Note: when I moved house and took down the cable concealers, they were so firmly attached that they took some paint with them, and I had to re-spackle and paint).
But none of it was important, until Trump won the elections
Why do you say that? Obama "was deeply concerned... he wanted the entire intelligence community all over this." https://www.washingtonpost.com...
Obama’s approach often seemed reducible to a single imperative: Don’t make things worse. As brazen as the Russian attacks on the election seemed, Obama and his top advisers feared that things could get far worse. They were concerned that any pre-election response could provoke an escalation from Putin.
...the principals and their deputies had by late September all but ruled out any pre-election retaliation against Moscow. They feared that any action would be seen as political and that Putin, motivated by a seething resentment of Clinton, was prepared to go beyond fake news and email dumps... "Our primary interest in August, September and October was to prevent them from doing the max they could do," said a senior administration official. “We made the judgment that we had ample time after the election, regardless of outcome, for punitive measures."
So there it is: this was considered crucially important before the election, but Obama's administration made the careful deliberate decision to delay action until after the election so as not to make it partisan and to avoid worse harm.
Where I live there are constant problems with people stealing packages from porches and front doors. Seems to me drone delivery would make things even worse because they wouldn't have any way to fight this. In my building, the drivers have our garage code so they can put packages securely in the garage. Seems like this wouldn't be possible with drones. How is Amazon addressing this?
My guess: with an option that you select, at checkout, labelled "I want drone delivery".
Let me try again with a car analogy. Someone designs and builds a Tesla. You come along and say "Face it. At the very best, this is just an extension of the '87 Ford F150. There's nothing new. They've just re-invented the '87 Ford F150. Oh the hubris of the young, to think that they could do anything different."
What's weird is that your "prior art" is (1) oddly specific almost in ignorance of the rest of the field that came before and after, (2) misses the point that Tesla has taken one existing technology "battery" and put it into another existing technology "electric vehicle" in a well-designed package that works well and is interesting for these reasons.
LINT is something that looks at your code for problems and reports them.
A compiler is something that looks at your code for problems and reports them (and also generates output).
This ubisoft tool is something that looks at your code for problems and reports them.
Your colleague standing over your shoulder is something that looks at your code for problems and reports them.
Your colleague who does code-review is something that looks at your code for problems and reports them.
Your copy-editor is someone who looks at what you've written for problems and reports them.
Your spell-checker is something that looks at what you've written for problems and reports them.
Your grammar-checker is something that looks at what you've written for problems and reports them.
It's kind of silly to say "this is LINT!" or "there is nothing new" as regards this story. The task of having feedback on what you've produced is at least as hold as humankind itself and has existed in every area of human endeavor, in a huge variety of ways, with feedback performed at a huge variety of times. Of course that aspect isn't new. Beyond that, this Ubisoft is as (un-)related to LINT as every single other tool I listed.
I thought the film was fantastic. Good detective stories. Fascinating characters. Moving. I recognize many of the wonderful things in this film are quite different from the wonderful things in the original Blade Runner. Some lovers of the original will mistake that for thinking this one is bad.
Why do we want primary and secondary pupils to learn how to write software? Software engineers make up just 2.54% of the USA labour force.
I think that learning to code is basic civic skill. You want a mortgage? - go whip up a spreadsheet to evaluate it. You want to make an informed vote? - get the data online about how your representative has voted, maybe scraping the data if needed, or gather any kind of data about any topic. You want to heat your house cheaply? - program the danged thermostat. You want to cook something? - heck, just knowing that recipes and algorithms are similar will make you a better communicator.
These aren't questions of being a software engineer. They're just basic information-manipulation abilities, needed to get by competently in society.
Two simple ways of subverting it. Set up postal redirection. Offer someone a small payment: ''when you receive a postcard addressed to Mr Smith, use your mobile to send a photograph of it to me"
"This ad payed for by Republican Nominee Caucaus, 523 Official Avenue, Place".
"This ad payed for by Democrat Nominee Committee, 123 Expected Drive, Place".
"This ad payed for by John Smith, 1273 The Blandings #327, Pimlington".
That will look out-of-place if they publish the addresses. It'd get journalists or politically-minding users calling attention to it pretty promptly.
Which means this employee/contractor/w.e was smart enough to disable the phone location tracking, but not smart enough to not use a company device? What?
The article talks about one employee who (from the sound of things) used a corporate laptop. It talks about another different employee who asked the reporter to switch off the reporter's phone. I think you're conflating the two?
You think the repeal of NN is unimportant to most because it will add $100 - $250 to their annual bills.
You think most people have less than $1k in the bank, I.e. the repeal of NN will be a significant chunk of money to them.
I don't know how to reconcile those two things?
The Ribbon made me switch to Open Office.
Do you know that you can still use your old per-ribbon shortcuts even with the ribbon? Format paragraph remains Alt+O,P. You can be just as productive. The ribbon increased discoverability for people less able than you, reduced it for people like you, but didn't compromise your speed.
Perhaps MS should get a new CEO who isn't cloud-crazy.
"Revenue in Intelligent Cloud was $7.8 billion and increased 15%"
"Server products and cloud services revenue increased 18% driven by Azure revenue growth of 98%"
I think you picked the wrong article for your advice to Microsoft...
How the venture will provide less pricy healthcare isn't yet clear
Unclear whether this is a typo for less pricey or less privacy. Knowing Amazon it might be both...
What's there to investigate, really? They admitted that they did it. The information is public.
From TFS: agencies are looking into whether Apple violated securities laws regarding disclosures.
Is this something we really want the government doing?
Do we want the government checking whether publicly companies illegally fail to disclose important information to their investors? And punishing any companies found to have done so? -- YES, emphatically YES.