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Until something goes wrong.

Like if they can't read the tiny font in the file menu. Then they google it, and discover they need to "sudo apt-get install unity-tweak-tool." Then they manage to actually find a terminal window and run the command, and install the tool, and turn up every available font rendering option, and it still doesn't solve their problem.

That is just one real world example. Linux is an operating system used and built primarily by people who are willing to put up with a little bit of crap to get 99% of what they want, and live with the rest. Imagine if Windows or OSX required you to open a terminal and install a third party lib to increase your font size. People would call them insane.

Just to be clear: I use a linux desktop every day. I love it and it would require a substantial increase in compensation for me to switch back to a Windows machine. But saying that computer illiterate/naive workforce can switch operating systems with no retraining costs is demonstrably false.
The point is that we should all be deciding what we all need.

To your point, who are the very wealthy to decide who needs what all on their lonesome?
It has improved battery consumption a lot. They reworked some repainting bugs and now it uses less CPU while editing.
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The correct viewing order for Enterprise is: watch the last episode of Season 2 and continue from there. Pretend the first two seasons never happened. Also skip the last episode.
I think the Guardian article meant that they had subtracted debt from assets, but they stated it in a confusing way. The original report states:

Once debts have been subtracted, a person needs only USD 3,210 to be among the wealthiest
half of world citizens in mid-2015. However, USD 68,800 is required to be a member of the
top 10% of global wealth holders, and USD 759,900 to belong to the top 1%.

Which is more clearly stated and uses the same numbers as the Guardian article.

See page 11 from:
https://publications.credit-suisse.com/tasks/render/file/?fi...
I find one of the most fascinating questions about constructing an escape room is how exactly you calibrate the difficulty for different groups of people. Some people will finish the room in 30 minutes like you, but others will be totally stumped after 50 minutes despite it being the exact same room.

Both of the rooms I've done had a hints system so a staff member overseeing the game through cameras could send a hint any time we dropped significantly behind schedule.

One of them had a two-room system where you had to solve the first room to get to the second room, and in the second room I believe one or two of the locks had been unlocked ahead of time manually by a staff member, based on how quickly we solved the first room.

Of course every time anybody takes the challenge you acquire more data, and keeping an eye on the emerging patterns must be absolutely critical to engineer an enjoyable challenge for the maximum number of different people. Metrics!
No but thats not the only outcome and it's disingenuous to try and cherry pick one just so that you can make a overly simplistic point.

The Scandinavian countries re-distribute their wealth quite heavily and yet are still some of the richest countries in the world. I.e. everyone is better off.
I have to disagree. The production values might have been low for the original series but most of the episodes had good stories acting and narrative.
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Wow. The value of human time is incredibly low, if that can be made to work.

I have this thought every time I see a sign waiver.
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Then we clearly read two different articles.

This is essentially the thesis statement:

> Unix has pipes, which make it easy to build complex applications from chains of simpler commands. On the Web, nobody may know you’re a dog, but we don’t have pipes, either. [emphasis mine]

It is explicitly lamenting the complexity of web-based applications as opposed to other kinds of applications. If you disagree that that's the premise, then you and I are living in rather distinct universes.
They had the PADDs on star trek more than decades before tablets where released, yet another example of star trek being ahead of its time

as for your "Utopian" comment, in the last few decades we have entered the era of plenty, the main problem encountered by startups we see here in HN is not that they are not innovative its that their products/services get drowned out in a sea of plenty

Given a few hundred years and plentiful+cheap energy it is not beyond the realm of imagination to imagine replicators, hell on a recent cruise i nicknamed then soda vending machines "the replicator" because the thing could spit out hundreds of different drinks with a few taps.

So a world of the future would be fairly "socialist" as machines and cheap energy allow people to devote their times towards science, exploration, art etc, we are already seeing this happening today and further mechanization and robotics will only speed up the trend
I was a big Trekkie when I was younger...but I'm surprised at how poorly the show has held up when rewatching on Netflix. I think what spoiled me was the revamped Battlestar Galactica. It's not the dated special effects that bother me, it's the way the utopia of Star Trek's future and technology began to provide way too many plot crutches. By the end of TNG, it seemed like every crisis resolution involved reversing the polarity of some piece of equipment or weapon at the last minute. DS9 was my favorite series up until the latter seasons, where again, fancy technobabble would save the day over well-written plots. I never watched much of Voyager or Enterprise...but it seemed the technobabble only increased, with time travel being thrown in for variety. With Voyager, the absurdity of tech continued from the beginning...IIRC, even though Voyager was banished in the middle of nowhere with purportedly limited resources, some technicality about how the holodeck worked allowed them to basically use the holodeck all the time, as if it ran on magic and dreams (which is basically what the holodeck stood for in all the new series). Even the utopian future of no-currency was rendered a bit absurd with DS9 and the introduction of Ferengi as main characters, and constant mentions of "gold-press latinum"

BSG spoiled me because it showed, credibly that a space-faring future is unlikely to be clean and sanitized. I think one of my favorite aspects of BSG were the mundane ones, such as how having everyone spread out on different ships hampered logistics and communications. In Star Trek, of course, this was solved with instant communication devices, though the impact of instant communication in TNG-and-on seems rather limited compared to what we experience in the Internet-age.

Since the OP states that the new series shares the same writers as the rebooted movies, I'm assuming that the altered timeline will be adopted by the new TV series? The reboot Star Trek films were flashy and entertaining in the way that modern action films are entertaining...but they took up the technology-as-deus-ex-machina to the next level...Scotty created a teleportation device that rendered starship travel moot and, of course, life-giving Tribbles.
I like what Steven Moffat did with the Doctor Who series, so perhaps a good team could revive the series.
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"Abstraction & composition ... Affects of a unit specified by its contract"

"Affects" there is clearly a noun, thus meaning "the conscious subjective aspect of feeling or emotion" (thank you, WordNet!). So, Ada is artificially intelligent?!?!

(I consider the authors to be a legitimate mocking target because they're supposed to be talking about a formal method; details matter.)

Anyway, I'd like to point out that most, if not all, of what was left out of Ada can, in fact, be handled formally with more or less difficulty. Some are trivial, such as goto's, while others are pretty damn hairy, like pointers and dynamic memory. One that is particularly galling is concurrency, where "Cannot reason about the effects of a [concurrent] module by examining its code in isolation" is simply false although nondeterminacy does remain problematic.

Overall, I think I like the SPARK approach, although I've never dug into it in detail.
> Debt (when used prudently) is a useful financial instrument and an enabler. In low-rate environment are we really that surprised it's being used extensively?

Not surprising, of course. I think the difference is, central banks expected the ZIRP to be a chainsaw used to clear enough space for a village, not tear down the entire forest.
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Number 5 strikes home in today's world of big monolithic programs which each aim to solve all the world's problems...

"(5) It is always possible to aglutenate multiple separate problems into a single complex interdependent solution. In most cases this is a bad idea."
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> "We need to regulate this, ..."

Do you know that adage that goes: "... then they say, I know, I'll use a regexp. And then they have two problems."

It's regulation that got SF into this problem.
More or less the main crux is high intelligence is just a 'normal' manifestation of regular genes.

Take height as an example, most people tall or short have 'regular' genetics for their height. A bunch of different factors play together along with the environment to lead to the height they actually have. its basically like a 1000 different genes interacting that each may give you or take a way a fraction of an inch and all together they sum up to your actual height.

However sometimes you have people who are dwarfs, these arent just a combination of many genes, there is a overwhelming specific set of a few genes that totally overwhelm all the other height genes and give you greatly reduced height. Similarly on the other end of the spectrum you have some forms of giantism where a few genes overwhelm all the other height genes and give you greatly increased height.

This study is more or less saying high intelligence follows a model like regular tall height, many different genes interacting to sum up to above average height. Not a model like giantism or dwarfism where a very limited number of genes overwhelm the 'normal' genetics of intelligence.
The majority of citizens in a democracy decide what the economic rules are.
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What is going on in Italy? This article gives the impression that the downfall of HT is seen there as a bad thing. I wouldn't call the US culture "zealously anti surveillance", but this little snapshot of Italian culture paints them as way off the deep end in support of it.

I'm asking seriously, knowing there are lots of Italians reading HN. Am I getting the wrong impression from this article, or is the culture in Italy different?
Not very related but if you're using Chrome install this plug-in to get a clean "AMP" version of Guardian and many more websites:

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A better way to analyze log files on the command line
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Some random Internet stat says there are about 3 billion users on the Internet. It's reasonable to assume that Wikipedia gets used by at 1-2 billion at minimum.
They have taken steps to separate (most) of the frontend and the backend and will be resuming work on the JS side after 1.0. While I haven't dug into the internals very much, it seems with the concept of "platform types" (i.e. implicitly nullable) and not having anything too JVM-specific, CLR support might be an approachable project for the community. I recommend the community take it and keep it up to date with pre-releases of Kotlin. With ScalaCLR IIRC, when Typesafe decided to stop supporting it it basically withered as new Scala features were rapidly developed.

It also has a better chance than ScalaCLR due to how small the runtime is. But, like Swift with ObjC, since the runtime is so small so many of the libraries are going to targer the JVM and reference JVM libs which may make the cross-VM ecosystem non-existent (doesn't mean it still won't have good CLR uses of course).
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It wont happen. Both parties are just waiting for the right price to buy those votes.

Democracy exists for stability on national and international levels. Everything else is just a side effect.
don't know about any calculations like that, people usually steer away to give a value to human life, and it would be very low anyway since, as you noted, there are few such incidents happening nowadays.

this is something that would only apply on the biggest buildings anyway, also, since crowd of such kind usually form at predictable times/places, it might be possible to make-do with temporary solutions, at least on entryways, if the outdoor space in front of the entry is big enough.
Daily?
Why? You're fishing. Just come out and say whatever you're going to say.
Yes, CBS has this weird notion that you will pay $5.99 a month AND watch commercials that you can't skip.

I get that they "think" its like this now, they get paid by the cable company for their channel (the $5.99) and they send them content with commercials (which they have sold), but the new world is NetFlix which charges monthly, but has now commercials.
Sci Fi shows are expensive to make period - which is why there aren't usually a lot of them on TV. Just think about it: for a normal sitcom or drama, costumes can be bought off the rack and shots can be done on location or on a sound stage with easily-sourced furniture / decoration / etc.

Everything on a Sci Fi (or fantasy) show has to be custom-made; from the costumes to the wall decorations to the light fixtures to the furniture. Custom making these things isn't easy, because they first have to be designed so they look like they "fit" stylistically, then built. A show like Star Trek will also have extensive makeup / prosthetics to depict the many different races.

Besides, Star Trek is an active franchise with two recent, very successful movies. No studio exec would ruin a franchise like that with a half-assed, underproduced web series. Because you can't do Sci Fi cheaply without becoming B-movie quality, this show will have to have at a minimum Stargate Atlantis levels of production value. They may just be putting it on the web because the Star Trek demographic doesn't watch network TV and the web is a better way to reach the core audience for the show.
> Given they have the head writer from the last two movies, I can't see them sticking with the old, tired canon

What is "tired" about existing canon? What stops people from writing new stories with new characters in the "old" canon? How, for example, was Voyager burdened by the old, tired canon in TNG or DS9?

As best I can tell, the only reason they don't do it is because they would prefer to cash in on the popularity of the pre-existing characters and the pre-existing stories without actually having to write as though they exist.

Star Trek is a series based on exploration. There are plenty of new worlds and new peoples to see, without throwing away the old canon, while at the same time not relying on it very much.

I honestly can't understand why people like the idea of resets and reboots. To me, it just feels lazy and unsatisfying.
We've experimented with Protocol Buffers, Thrift and CapnProto.

We settled on protobuf but capn proto was super fast. I just didn't have the time to play around with it or fortitude to put it into production with it being so new.

I should point out, that's my own hang up and not mean to disparage Capn Proto at all, call it the web 2.0 of "Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM".
I'd second this suggestion. The first season definitely has some ups and downs - excellent writing but the cast hadn't found the chemistry that really brings the show to life in the later seasons.
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Nope, you're probably on your own in that case.
are non-exhaustive pattern matches in kotlin warnings, errors, or neither?

looks like from the docs:

"If `when` is used as an expression, the `else` branch is mandatory, unless the compiler can prove that all possible cases are covered with branch conditions."

So it is an error, I assume?
Nice. If you're billing over $2k/day, I don't get to be patronizing to you.

A pretty common strategy is to dial your rate to a point where you're consistently between 70-80% utilized, and to raise your rates some % for all new clients annually.

At a consultancy with a team of people, a utilization rate over 85% might be considered overheated, risking burning people out.

(Though if you're running a body shop you don't care about overheating).

If it was just me and a partner consulting, I'd use rates to dial utilization back to 50%.
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How does that show anything. Can't you assume that siblings would be raised in similar environments?