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I've largely abandoned macOS for Linux when it comes to work stuff, but I still have a Windows desktop for games. That said, I've been very impressed by my Steam Deck. Windows 10 will probably be the last version of Windows for me.

Amusing - The statistics from your Department for Transport seem to suggest that you are either an extreme outlier or just entirely wrong[1]! Or maybe this can be attributed to you having some lingering difficulties with kph vs mph?

Hopefully we've both satisfied the urge to be obnoxiously condescending for no reason. Moving right along...

Assuming SPE0111 is what I should be looking at, UK motorway speeds seem very similar to what I've experienced on US interstates.

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1. SPE0111 and the "Average free flow speed (mph)" for motorways, from the following:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/vehicle-...

This is just an anecdote, and I wanted this to be a reply to the OP, but I've always felt there's a weird sort of connection between the stonemasons who built these masterpieces and the hackers of today.

Pushshift.io is pretty close to what you were talking about for Reddit comments; they make their archive available periodically at http://files.pushshift.io/reddit/

IIRC Pushshift is what powers sites like https://removeddit.com/

(to anyone reading this, please consider donating--this project is so cool)

As a software developer, the thing I love about the cubesat concept is the presumably reduced iteration time. The idea of waiting for years only to find out something went wrong once the satellite is in orbit seems absurd (sorry, GOES-17).

That said, isn't the whole concept of cubesats tied to the idea that they're not in a geostationary orbit? There's something to be said for the simplicity of "point at this spot in your section of sky and receive data".

I suppose now is a good time for me to look into how to get data from a cubesat fleet.

Presumably attendees from Calais or Paris experienced slightly less culture shock.

Emphatically agreed. I've wanted to hear about this for years.

As much as I dislike Northern Virginia, I'll have to disagree with you about Maryland. Chattanooga has municipal broadband, and they even provide service to places within Georgia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPB

It's a combination of the links that get posted, the people who post here, and the moderation.

It's apparently enough of a draw to have me lurking on this place nearly daily for almost 10(!!) years.

The specified limit was 2 submissions per week, according to the people organizing the competition:

http://www.image-net.org/challenges/LSVRC/announcement-June-...

I've been exclusively using Linux (Antergos) on the XPS 15 since mid-February. Installing was remarkably easy, though I haven't had time to mess with the fingerprint reader or GPU switching due to work.

My only complaint is that the glossy screen somehow seems more reflective than my Macbook Pro and iMac--and FWIW I'm typing this with all three machines on my desk right now. However, I'm not too bothered by it. IIRC the 1080p configuration of the 9560 is matte.

You might enjoy Stephen Baxter's "Xeelee" books. I started with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_Diagrams and enjoyed it, but could see its various stories coming across as too jumbled up and disconnected for some.

Maybe I could be hitting a cache or something, but here's what I see:

  $ host Altaba.com
  Altaba.com mail is handled by 10 alt4.aspmx.l.google.com.
  Altaba.com mail is handled by 1 aspmx.l.google.com.
  Altaba.com mail is handled by 5 alt1.aspmx.l.google.com.
  Altaba.com mail is handled by 5 alt2.aspmx.l.google.com.
  Altaba.com mail is handled by 10 alt3.aspmx.l.google.com.

Here's yahoo.com for reference:

  $ host yahoo.com
  yahoo.com has address 206.190.36.45
  yahoo.com has address 98.138.253.109
  yahoo.com has address 98.139.183.24
  yahoo.com has IPv6 address 2001:4998:58:c02::a9
  yahoo.com has IPv6 address 2001:4998:c:a06::2:4008
  yahoo.com has IPv6 address 2001:4998:44:204::a7
  yahoo.com mail is handled by 1 mta7.am0.yahoodns.net.
  yahoo.com mail is handled by 1 mta5.am0.yahoodns.net.
  yahoo.com mail is handled by 1 mta6.am0.yahoodns.net.

Well, at least they registered Altaba.com. No IP address as of now, though it looks like their mail is handled by Google Apps!

I'll punt as to the accuracy of your "moralizing America" sneer, but remember that Disney chose their mascot--not the American public.

Additionally, my understanding is that Donald Duck had at least a few American fans. Though their numbers are probably limited to the few Americans who enjoy Looney Tunes, Homer Simpson, and the stereotypical sitcom dad (among other characters).

Agreed. For the last two years or so I've found myself weighting text-heavy websites like HN, or Reddit much more positively.

What I find disconcerting is that this shorthand seems entirely about ornamentation--the worry is that maybe some future TimeCube-like site will be subtle enough that it won't trigger my "is the author a kook" filter.

This sounds like a great idea, and I can't help but think of this as a very "Valley" take on Renaissance-style patronage.

Here's hoping this effort has similarly transformative results!

You might find http://realearth.ssec.wisc.edu/ useful. Just be sure to click on either the "Presets" or "All" tabs within the "Layers" section.

Oh, and if you decide to use the animation feature just try to be patient with the way it loads in the individual times--once you've pulled down everything the animation should look a good bit nicer.

That's a pretty interesting way to think of it. The only other platforms (AFAIK) that come close would be the JVM and Mono/CLR.

But the browser is more like a user-facing, interactive JVM/etc.

For whatever reason, the following snippet prompted me to see who the author was:

  Amid the hundreds of congratulatory messages I received,   
  one stuck out: “Were you a bully at school?”

As it turns out, the author is Jon Ronson. He's well worth checking out. I've particularly enjoyed The Men Who Stare at Goats (the book), The Secret Rulers of the World, and The Psychopath Test.

There's Nikki and the Robots:

http://joyridelabs.de/game/

There's also Super Monao Bros (which used to be called Super Nario):

https://github.com/mokehehe/monao/tree/master

AFAIK this refers to ZipPy:

https://bitbucket.org/ssllab/zippy

Skybox is already launching satellites explicitly for this purpose (and others):

http://skybox.com/products#applications

Scroll through to the "Financial Trading Intelligence". If only they had offices in places besides California...

Mikko Hypponen, from F-Secure.

http://mikko.hypponen.com/ http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/

Along these lines is the (wonderful) Werner Herzog documentary, Encounters at the End of the World.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encounters_at_the_End_of_the_Wo...

I agree with you, but it's worth remembering that the early days of HN predate things like the financial crisis. Maybe HN's stance on big business has changed because society's stance also changed?

The prevalence of posts about politics can likely be attributed to the increasing(ly disturbing) intersection of politics and the internet.

Regardless, I'd say HN has done a pretty good job remaining relevant.

There's an interesting blurb in the following (bottom of the fifth page in the PDF):

https://www.nsa.gov/public_info/_files/cryptologs/cryptolog_...

"In today's Age, the public has centered in on government as "the problem." Specifically, the focus is on the potential abuse of the Government's applications of this new information technology that will result in an invasion of personal privacy. For us, this is difficult to understand. We are "the government," and we have no interest in invading the personal privacy of U.S. citizens."

This attitude is similar to Bill Binney's (in that U.S. citizens are off-limits due to FISA)[1]. I presume he wasn't the only person within the NSA who felt like that…and I can't help but wonder what the internal dialog is like these days.

1: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/05/23/110523fa_fact_...

I hope you are right. That said, I think the points I raised are worth considering.

FWIW I'd expect many of the featured people to be thinking much further ahead than 12 years.

I am generally enthusiastic about teaching people to code. That said, I am ambivalent about the backing organization, "Code.org":

Every single person on their advisory board (http://www.code.org/about) has a vested interest in there being more programmers competing for jobs.

I feel like they are misrepresenting the nature of most programming jobs to the general public.

They prey upon people's fear of unemployment and cite numbers about there being fewer programmers than jobs. Nearly every single person in that video has explicitly said they only hire the very best. My guess is that we'd still end up with legions of unemployed people that happen to be mediocre-to-awful at programming.