To me, it seemed like they used ALL the responses from ad networks (realizing the ones they got via their IDE would be way too biased), but they didn't actually say that outright.
If you create a polymer where the reaction is restricted to the boundary between an oil and water (where one side is flowy and the other is viscous), it will form a regular sheet with "line" regions where the polymer is irregular. It turns out the lines formed are "baggy", like the stretch marks on a balloon after it deflates. This increases the total surface area, which should be great for making water filter membranes.
Yeah, I assume he has some deeper discomfort with the social justice movement. I do as well, in its current incarnation. I didn't ten years ago. So it's probably not about wanting to discriminate.
The team would get along better, and more good people would enter. People who don't like the stuff outlined probably don't keep it to themselves. This creates tension in the group.
As someone with a non-white username, I've never experienced notable hostility on stackoverflow that I recall. Maybe because I try to admit it if my question may be a bit stupid. No entitlement here.
I take it Index Generator isn't the right tool to correct a PDF whose PDF numbering does not match the text's numbering (where the index is already created and part of the book)? If not, can you recommend a tool that will fix a PDF's page numbers based on user instructions? (I mean by changing the metadata, not by overwriting the glyphs on each page.)
Edit: I did a search just before posting this question, and found some solutions which may be useful to others with incorrect page labels on their PDFs: https://superuser.com/question...
Thanks for the thought, but the open file handles are a separate problem.
I should clarify, the error messages may say "permission denied", but the longer more expressive errors say the directory doesn't exist. Yet it is still returned as a member of the parent directory, so various operations will try to operate on the "ghost directory", and fail. It's not only obscure code which fails, but Windows Explorer is unable to delete or rename a directory which contains any such ghost directory.
If the problem were open file handles, I would expect that killing processes would solve it, and also that the only error would be "permission denied", and further, that the error would only occur when trying to rename or delete a file. Hence, there is a filesystem bug.
NTFS doesn't seem that stable on Windows 10. On Linux, when a filesystem error occurs, the filesystem is set as read-only until reboot, which prevents further errors, and really encourages people to fix the problem. On Windows 10, when a filesystem error occurs, a directory may give a "Permission Denied" status message when you try to read a file, rename it, etc., but otherwise the system runs as usual. This means errors go unreported, and the system just feels vaguely untrustworthy. Often the directory in question doesn't even exist after a reboot, but the system just says "Permission Denied" after every operation. (This is with Administrator permissions.)
I've had to reboot at least three times in the past week because various operations required file deletion and Windows wasn't cooperating. That's not to mention the common obvious problems, like Windows and other Microsoft software filling up the C: drive instead of the location it was installed.
So I wouldn't say the Windows distro is smooth sailing.
in addition to making vibrant colors, lead in paint also acted as a preservative.
Lead also acts as a drying agent, helping paints to oxidize and form polymers. It has the distinction of being the only metallic curing agent that can be made without specialty chemicals or equipment and used at room temperature. No wonder manufacturers liked it.
They're not OK. Really, it's worth the effort to try to cover them up as much as possible. Cultivate the best sleep you can and darkness is really good for sleep.
I think I'll hold off on adding a few more zeros to my already sub-0.01 lux bedroom until I see some science indicating that it makes a difference. The light is already below the perceptible threshold when my eyes are closed.
I hope it hurts. If you've ever had a low-balance debit card from Bank of America which was only used for use by a child or for grocery shopping with a SO, you would have found that they let the card's balance go negative, charge large fees, and continue to allow transactions, all without promptly notifying you that there is any problem. They found a legal way to pick the pockets of their customers. Bank of America is like tour guide that provides a useful service, but robs the customers whenever the opportunity is right.
Fixing the replication problem described in TFA is drop dead easy, since it has exactly two causes: closed data, and closed source. The fix? Reject any paper for publication if full source and data is not available. Science is based on openness, not secrets.
That assumes the set of problems is the same in the replication. It probably isn't. Testing with different problem data reveals overfitting, not to mention the fact that real world needs differ slightly from situation to situation.
My Windows 10 computer didn't spontaneously sprout Candy Crush Saga or Minecraft, but it definitely grew an extremely buggy copy of Skype which took an hour to uninstall. It can't be uninstalled via the control panel or Windows Store. I don't remember how I did it. Frustratingly, the normal Skype won't install--only the Windows 10 Store edition can be installed on the computer, and it's so unreliable that my company just ditched it for a competitor.
UPDATE: OnePlus reached out to BGR to say that the claim that the Clipboard app is sending user data to a server is false, and that the code is “entirely inactive” in the open beta for Oxygen OS. The company says that no user data is sent to any server without consent.
In the open beta for HydrogenOS, which is the OS for China, the folder exists “to filter out what data to not upload,” OnePlus added. Local data in the folder is skipped and not sent to any server.
It does make sense that it would be a blacklist. And I certainly hope it's true that the international version of the firmware doesn't send any of this sensitive data anywhere. And if this is the case, it's because this is the sort of thing the Chinese usually don't care about, rather than because it's being forced on them by the government. They can probably get a lot more diagnostic info from China than the US/Europe without serious user complaints.
That workflow would work for someone that wants to put a lot of time and thought into image management. It wouldn't work so well for someone that wanted a compromise between versatility (including speed of backing up or transferring from phone to computer) and effort. I fall into the latter group. I have my own strategies to mitigate the inherent problems of lossy compression, but at no point do they involve dealing with 50 MB lossless images, except as saves during photo editing. The value just isn't there.
Maybe true artists don't need a better lossy format. The rest of us could use one.
That premise is incorrect. Even good 4G data connections cannot instantaneously upload/download modern sized 5-16 MB photos. Wifi won't help if you live in an area with congested signal. And wired broadband won't even help if you're connecting to slow web sites. And when your photo library is several GB, it takes significant time to transfer this data, regardless of the method. Even writing it to a local disk is slow enough to be annoying. Writing to USB flash drives can be frustrating. If you store those images without compression, you're looking at increasing the library size by ten (depending on the compression your cameras and image editors originally chose). It would be a huge problem.
It is semantics, but the difference is huge. Spyware doesn't consider privacy--it will collect everything it can, then use it in whatever way is profitable. Debugging diagnostics collect only what's most relevant for fixing errors, and the information isn't distributed. Spyware will also try to "break the rules", like gaining access to data it should not have access to (screenshots and keyloggers, for instance).
I expect some of the computer software I'm running to have analytics. But if I ever discover actual spyware, I'll have to trash the computer or relegate it to a media box. I won't fuck around with compromised software/hardware.
Not that I recall. I think what it was was overzealous logging, or something like data that wasn't sanitized well enough. If you're remembering real malware, you're probably thinking of Lenovo computers.
But their intentions seem better than most companies. Can you imagine Samsung, LG, or Apple admitting possible fault and noting that they're investigating it? Not a chance, unless the issue was all over the news. The whole generation of LG G4 phones had a motherboard flaw which caused most of them to fry after six months, and LG didn't even affordable repair. You were totally out of luck, unless you bought it with a warranty. (Depending on the country, phones are sometimes sold without a warranty.) Manufacturer defects do not normally require a warranty--this is like when you buy a TV, take it home, and find it doesn't work the next day. But did LG do the right thing? No.
Another good example of fixing its mistake: when their Android O release was ready, the OTA installer accidentally made data hard to access/recover for users with an unlocked bootloader. In the next OTA update, they put a warning message in that explained what users with unlocked bootloaders should do to prevent problems. Another manufacturer would simply have decided those users don't matter because we're in the minority.
Without NSAIDs my knee and wrist joints simply do not work, even if you took away the pain the inflammation would keep me from doing much.
Have you looked into sub-psychoactive doses of certain old drugs, like DOM or DOI? These are being researched for their anti-inflammatory properties by Dr. Charles Nichols (interviewed about it here). I'd like to try it myself for some inflammatory injuries, and some drugs in that family aren't even scheduled! The problem is that they're not really used for anything except research, so they would be very hard to acquire.
I'd feel somewhat safe taking them therapeutically, since they used to be used as party drugs, but are being tested against inflammation at much lower doses. Also, desperate times call for desperate measures.
When I take a taxi or buy a burger, I am not served by someone who was beaten, shipped over in a cargo hold, beaten some more, and told they will never be free unless they keep quiet and turn their paychecks over to their pimp. I do care if the people are there by their free will or as a result of human trafficing.
I should have quoted you. I was referring to:
The former should think long and hard about just how "willing" the prostitutes are. If their willingness is simply the willingness of someone who would rather not starve, perhaps they should ask if they are actually in that second category.
I had a few points, none of which were stated explicitly. We don't live in a post-scarcity society, so most labor is not given for the enjoyment of it. Lots of jobs are dirty or degrading or both. Customer service is can be more degrading, and it's really not hard to find a job that's dirtier. When we boycott a job that has bad conditions for the workers, who gets hurt? If such a boycott were to decrease total human suffering (including all workers), how long would it take? Things wouldn't start to get better until fewer people work in that industry. That takes time, and it may never fully occur--prostitution is an ugly sort of social safety net for women and gay men. You could look at it from the other direction than what you originally specified, and say it's more ethical to patronize prostitutes that don't want to be doing the job, because they would otherwise be starving. (And it's less ethical to patronize fully willing prostitutes because they are a willing part of an industry you don't support.)
I'm not even touching the issue of actual slavery / unwilling trafficking. That's deplorable, and I see no ethically redeeming trait.
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To me, it seemed like they used ALL the responses from ad networks (realizing the ones they got via their IDE would be way too biased), but they didn't actually say that outright.
If you create a polymer where the reaction is restricted to the boundary between an oil and water (where one side is flowy and the other is viscous), it will form a regular sheet with "line" regions where the polymer is irregular. It turns out the lines formed are "baggy", like the stretch marks on a balloon after it deflates. This increases the total surface area, which should be great for making water filter membranes.
the researchers dissolved a large molecule in water
Just one? Was this a study of homeopathy?
An atom is to an element as a molecule is to... ?
Yeah, I assume he has some deeper discomfort with the social justice movement. I do as well, in its current incarnation. I didn't ten years ago. So it's probably not about wanting to discriminate.
The team would get along better, and more good people would enter. People who don't like the stuff outlined probably don't keep it to themselves. This creates tension in the group.
Have you met him? Because that seems speculative.
As someone with a non-white username, I've never experienced notable hostility on stackoverflow that I recall. Maybe because I try to admit it if my question may be a bit stupid. No entitlement here.
I don't read the usernames until I need to get someone's attention, so I also think this is much ado about nothing.
I take it Index Generator isn't the right tool to correct a PDF whose PDF numbering does not match the text's numbering (where the index is already created and part of the book)? If not, can you recommend a tool that will fix a PDF's page numbers based on user instructions? (I mean by changing the metadata, not by overwriting the glyphs on each page.)
Edit: I did a search just before posting this question, and found some solutions which may be useful to others with incorrect page labels on their PDFs: https://superuser.com/question...
Thanks for the thought, but the open file handles are a separate problem.
I should clarify, the error messages may say "permission denied", but the longer more expressive errors say the directory doesn't exist. Yet it is still returned as a member of the parent directory, so various operations will try to operate on the "ghost directory", and fail. It's not only obscure code which fails, but Windows Explorer is unable to delete or rename a directory which contains any such ghost directory.
If the problem were open file handles, I would expect that killing processes would solve it, and also that the only error would be "permission denied", and further, that the error would only occur when trying to rename or delete a file. Hence, there is a filesystem bug.
NTFS doesn't seem that stable on Windows 10. On Linux, when a filesystem error occurs, the filesystem is set as read-only until reboot, which prevents further errors, and really encourages people to fix the problem. On Windows 10, when a filesystem error occurs, a directory may give a "Permission Denied" status message when you try to read a file, rename it, etc., but otherwise the system runs as usual. This means errors go unreported, and the system just feels vaguely untrustworthy. Often the directory in question doesn't even exist after a reboot, but the system just says "Permission Denied" after every operation. (This is with Administrator permissions.)
I've had to reboot at least three times in the past week because various operations required file deletion and Windows wasn't cooperating. That's not to mention the common obvious problems, like Windows and other Microsoft software filling up the C: drive instead of the location it was installed.
So I wouldn't say the Windows distro is smooth sailing.
in addition to making vibrant colors, lead in paint also acted as a preservative.
Lead also acts as a drying agent, helping paints to oxidize and form polymers. It has the distinction of being the only metallic curing agent that can be made without specialty chemicals or equipment and used at room temperature. No wonder manufacturers liked it.
They're not OK. Really, it's worth the effort to try to cover them up as much as possible. Cultivate the best sleep you can and darkness is really good for sleep.
I think I'll hold off on adding a few more zeros to my already sub-0.01 lux bedroom until I see some science indicating that it makes a difference. The light is already below the perceptible threshold when my eyes are closed.
Thanks, that's a helpful reference. That means dim status LEDs are probably okay, being much dimmer than moonlight.
I hope it hurts. If you've ever had a low-balance debit card from Bank of America which was only used for use by a child or for grocery shopping with a SO, you would have found that they let the card's balance go negative, charge large fees, and continue to allow transactions, all without promptly notifying you that there is any problem. They found a legal way to pick the pockets of their customers. Bank of America is like tour guide that provides a useful service, but robs the customers whenever the opportunity is right.
Fixing the replication problem described in TFA is drop dead easy, since it has exactly two causes: closed data, and closed source. The fix? Reject any paper for publication if full source and data is not available. Science is based on openness, not secrets.
That assumes the set of problems is the same in the replication. It probably isn't. Testing with different problem data reveals overfitting, not to mention the fact that real world needs differ slightly from situation to situation.
My Windows 10 computer didn't spontaneously sprout Candy Crush Saga or Minecraft, but it definitely grew an extremely buggy copy of Skype which took an hour to uninstall. It can't be uninstalled via the control panel or Windows Store. I don't remember how I did it. Frustratingly, the normal Skype won't install--only the Windows 10 Store edition can be installed on the computer, and it's so unreliable that my company just ditched it for a competitor.
I take it this would only pertain to purchases from the US subsidiary?
From the article:
UPDATE: OnePlus reached out to BGR to say that the claim that the Clipboard app is sending user data to a server is false, and that the code is “entirely inactive” in the open beta for Oxygen OS. The company says that no user data is sent to any server without consent.
In the open beta for HydrogenOS, which is the OS for China, the folder exists “to filter out what data to not upload,” OnePlus added. Local data in the folder is skipped and not sent to any server.
It does make sense that it would be a blacklist. And I certainly hope it's true that the international version of the firmware doesn't send any of this sensitive data anywhere. And if this is the case, it's because this is the sort of thing the Chinese usually don't care about, rather than because it's being forced on them by the government. They can probably get a lot more diagnostic info from China than the US/Europe without serious user complaints.
That workflow would work for someone that wants to put a lot of time and thought into image management. It wouldn't work so well for someone that wanted a compromise between versatility (including speed of backing up or transferring from phone to computer) and effort. I fall into the latter group. I have my own strategies to mitigate the inherent problems of lossy compression, but at no point do they involve dealing with 50 MB lossless images, except as saves during photo editing. The value just isn't there.
Maybe true artists don't need a better lossy format. The rest of us could use one.
That premise is incorrect. Even good 4G data connections cannot instantaneously upload/download modern sized 5-16 MB photos. Wifi won't help if you live in an area with congested signal. And wired broadband won't even help if you're connecting to slow web sites. And when your photo library is several GB, it takes significant time to transfer this data, regardless of the method. Even writing it to a local disk is slow enough to be annoying. Writing to USB flash drives can be frustrating. If you store those images without compression, you're looking at increasing the library size by ten (depending on the compression your cameras and image editors originally chose). It would be a huge problem.
It is semantics, but the difference is huge. Spyware doesn't consider privacy--it will collect everything it can, then use it in whatever way is profitable. Debugging diagnostics collect only what's most relevant for fixing errors, and the information isn't distributed. Spyware will also try to "break the rules", like gaining access to data it should not have access to (screenshots and keyloggers, for instance).
I expect some of the computer software I'm running to have analytics. But if I ever discover actual spyware, I'll have to trash the computer or relegate it to a media box. I won't fuck around with compromised software/hardware.
Not that I recall. I think what it was was overzealous logging, or something like data that wasn't sanitized well enough. If you're remembering real malware, you're probably thinking of Lenovo computers.
But their intentions seem better than most companies. Can you imagine Samsung, LG, or Apple admitting possible fault and noting that they're investigating it? Not a chance, unless the issue was all over the news. The whole generation of LG G4 phones had a motherboard flaw which caused most of them to fry after six months, and LG didn't even affordable repair. You were totally out of luck, unless you bought it with a warranty. (Depending on the country, phones are sometimes sold without a warranty.) Manufacturer defects do not normally require a warranty--this is like when you buy a TV, take it home, and find it doesn't work the next day. But did LG do the right thing? No.
Another good example of fixing its mistake: when their Android O release was ready, the OTA installer accidentally made data hard to access/recover for users with an unlocked bootloader. In the next OTA update, they put a warning message in that explained what users with unlocked bootloaders should do to prevent problems. Another manufacturer would simply have decided those users don't matter because we're in the minority.
Without NSAIDs my knee and wrist joints simply do not work, even if you took away the pain the inflammation would keep me from doing much.
Have you looked into sub-psychoactive doses of certain old drugs, like DOM or DOI? These are being researched for their anti-inflammatory properties by Dr. Charles Nichols (interviewed about it here). I'd like to try it myself for some inflammatory injuries, and some drugs in that family aren't even scheduled! The problem is that they're not really used for anything except research, so they would be very hard to acquire.
I'd feel somewhat safe taking them therapeutically, since they used to be used as party drugs, but are being tested against inflammation at much lower doses. Also, desperate times call for desperate measures.
When I take a taxi or buy a burger, I am not served by someone who was beaten, shipped over in a cargo hold, beaten some more, and told they will never be free unless they keep quiet and turn their paychecks over to their pimp. I do care if the people are there by their free will or as a result of human trafficing.
I should have quoted you. I was referring to:
The former should think long and hard about just how "willing" the prostitutes are. If their willingness is simply the willingness of someone who would rather not starve, perhaps they should ask if they are actually in that second category.
I had a few points, none of which were stated explicitly. We don't live in a post-scarcity society, so most labor is not given for the enjoyment of it. Lots of jobs are dirty or degrading or both. Customer service is can be more degrading, and it's really not hard to find a job that's dirtier. When we boycott a job that has bad conditions for the workers, who gets hurt? If such a boycott were to decrease total human suffering (including all workers), how long would it take? Things wouldn't start to get better until fewer people work in that industry. That takes time, and it may never fully occur--prostitution is an ugly sort of social safety net for women and gay men. You could look at it from the other direction than what you originally specified, and say it's more ethical to patronize prostitutes that don't want to be doing the job, because they would otherwise be starving. (And it's less ethical to patronize fully willing prostitutes because they are a willing part of an industry you don't support.)
I'm not even touching the issue of actual slavery / unwilling trafficking. That's deplorable, and I see no ethically redeeming trait.