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>Following the tsunami two to three hundred homeless residents of the town who lost their homes to the tsunami took refuge in the Onagawa nuclear plant's gymnasium, as the reactor complex was the only safe area in the vicinity to evacuate to, with the reactor operators supplying food and blankets to the needy.
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You can. Just get a USB webcam. The GP just said you can't use the CSI webcam.
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So you have the impression that young Austrians nowadays are better with English? In Germany they have started to teach English at a much younger age, too, but I haven't noticed a big improvement. Sure, at age 10 they already know more than the kids 10-20 years ago, because they've learned it for 3-4 years already. But I get the impression that a couple of years after leaving school, the language skills deteriorate again because they stop practicing it. And that seems to be the point where movies in English would help a lot: you stay used to the language (at least hearing it).

On the other hand, that might be selective perception on my part and things might have gotten better. Or maybe Austria has improved more than Germany, which is entirely conceivable.
While most jobs don't require much CS, most interviews to get them do!
An organism is already an example of collective intelligence. Gene Regulatory Networks (GRNs) have the same mathematical description as a Artificial Neural Network (ANN). Each cell carries the same network topology and each network is linked to neighboring cells by cell-cell communication mechanism. The result is a large meta-network that controls growth and development and physiology. Some of these cells are neurons which are connected together in a new way and form a higher order network. In turn, so-called supra organisms are just neural networks which are connected to other neural networks through sensory signaling mechanisms. It's neural networks all the way down.
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Er, so they rolled their own custom caching system?

Isn't caching one of the first recommended ways to improve the performance of, well, any mostly-static content site?
This article takes the concept of "paying the source directly, so they don't sell you to advertisers", and reframes it in point 4. It's like we're "paying for privacy" now. As though some economist saw "preference for privacy" as a way to differentiate on price, and charge a higher price to a subset of users. Privacy is now like DLC.
You missed out the whole hype.

For us who use stuff on a regular basis the changes seem small but peu a peu these add up.

Once an electrician still developing in spare time who know Turbo Pascal 5 from school while servicing the air conditioner saw me programming. When he heard that I would use Pascal he looked at my screen jumped from the ladder and left the office together with me after midnight.

Freepascal is indeed a very solid approach I use on Linux especially. Works great on Windows too.
the worst use would probably be to just put a database up with all history open to everyone. searchable by owner name.
> English spelling is another thing though. Im still struggling with that.

You're in good company since many native speakers can't spell either. English's greatest virtue is a high degree of fault tolerance.
I think elixir significantly extends Erlang, so I would not include it.
> while being told that nuclear is 100% safe

When were you ever told that?

I've been hearing all my life how risky and scary nuclear power is.
This is so true. It's even worse than spelling bees though. Dyslexia is less of a problem for non-english speakers because our writing system is so messed up. We we have letters that not only represent multiple sounds, but redundantly duplicate the sound of other letter combos (c->k,s; x->z,ks; q->kw). We have multiple letter combos for single phonemes (ch, sh, th). "th" actually represents two phonemes--compare "there" to "through" and you'll see they are two different sounds (try to say through like you would say there). English is a mess.
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Amusingly enough - old school tiling wm manager setups like dwm work best on retina screens. I really enjoy using dwm on a retina display with crisp tiled emacs windows.
> Germany is well known for dubbing their TV shows, many other countries do this too.

All of the large western european countries, basically all of western europe except for the nordics (Norway, Sweden, Denmark, possibly the Netherlands).
Finnish is not a Germanic language.
AoE2 stopped working properly some time around windows 7 and required a bunch of workarounds until they fixed things with windows 10. They did a remake of AoE2 called HD edition that works much better under windows 7-10.
Thank you very much for your help. This would certainly go a long way in helping a self-taught 'amateur' like me.
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I'm From Portugal and can confirm this, and I'd say almost everyone especially people between 12-45 know how to speak english fluently.

Most of this is because we grow up watching movies and tv shows with subtitles. Heck, I even remember watching Cartoon Network without any subtitles at all.

Another thing I noticed is how good the english accent is from people from Portugal and Sweden.
This... raises as many questions for me as it answers.
I think you're wrong. Dubbing or subtitles make a big difference.
In Flanders (Dutch-speaking part of Belgium) we have 8 years of French in school and only 5 years of English. Even though France is our neighbor and 40 % of Belgium's speaks French, most young people their English is still much better than their French. It's because we grew up surrounded by English; English songs, English tv shows and movies with subtitles. Older generations speak better French because the media used to be more focussed on France.

Young Flemish or Walloon people even speak English to each other..
A bit of anecdotal evidence that hopefully can be confirmed with more certainty

The number of subtitled movies in France (or at least in Paris), what they call VO/VOST, in the last 10 years in cinemas has increased considerably
I think by "Rosetta", you meant to write "Classic mode" right? I use an app called SheepShaver (think it's Basilisk uunder the hood) to run OS 9, and it works pretty well. I doubt it has support for USB or SCSI, but maybe it's worth investigating.
You make it sound too easy. You don't "automatically" learn a language by hearing its sounds on TV (although it most likely helps). You need to engage with a language, preferably by real life interaction. Not dubbing movies is not a silver bullet to second language learning.

I think it's much more plausible to say that the smaller countries of Europe have more of a economic necessity to be proficient in a second language (which often happens to be English).
You mean like the Toshiba 4S? Most countries have designs for awesome stuff (at least on paper), which is never implemented for various reasons.
you should still write tests that assert you do so correctly

People should do lots of things. I'm talking about a cognitive bias here -- see the 2-4-6 problem.
The planet will survive well. We'll be screwed.
The author notices the divergence, but he doesn't seem to notice that a new pattern has emerged. Forty years of smooth increase has morphed into to something like a roller coaster. He looks past these chronic spasms to see a secular shift -- "continued exponential growth of household net worth." It turns our that wealth _can_ durably outstrip savings! He doesn't wonder whether another steep (perhaps steeper) plunge of asset values might be in store.[1]

There's nothing mysterious here. For a century it has been well understood how artificial credit expansion inflates asset bubbles causing the boom/bust cycle.[2] Only the intellectual progeny of Keynes continue to find it mysterious and feel compelled to invent exotic new explanations for such "paradoxes."

Why ever would we be surprised at inflating asset prices when it's been Fed policy for a long time. In the words of Bernanke, "...higher stock prices will boost consumer wealth and help increase confidence, which can also spur spending."[3] In other words, new paper wealth makes consumers feel richer so they'll stop that harmful saving.[4]

[1] He notes, "The valuation jumps up and down as asset markets re-evaluate what all those real assets are worth." but without wondering why they only started "jumping up and down" in 1999.

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrian_business_cycle_theory

[3] http://www.marketwatch.com/story/bernanke-defends-qe-talks-w...

[4] https://mises.org/library/hayek-paradox-saving
You wouldn't be able to come back more than depreciated value. Minors aren't permitted to destroy stuff for free.
Yeah, TV shows are a specific area I guess

Not so sure about Cinemas (in Berlin there is an English only movie theatre though)
Nope, I think the reason that user "petke" has mentioned is correct. I know this is only anecdotal evidence, but here it is: I live in a small town near the serbian-hungarian border and we can watch both Hungarian and Serbian TV stations. In Serbia movies are subtitled (so you can hear English language all the time) while in Hungary movies are dubbed (so you can't hear anything other than hungarian language on TV). Serbian families who live here watch mostly serbian TV and hungarian families watch mostly hungarian TV stations. Ask any English teacher here and they will all tell you that there is very clear distinction between level of knowledge in serbian vs hungarian kids. They all live in the same town, go to the same school, the only difference is that those kids who watched serbian TV stations had much bigger exposure to english language as opposed to those who watched hungarian TV stations.

Your reasoning that the size of the country matters doesn't hold water because both countries are small.
This http://www.google.co.uk/patents/US20040168716. Upd: Oleg died. His son has the know how. Armenian reactor was destroyed during the civil war.
See also this http://www.padrak.com/vesperman/HMD_Presentation.ppt
The most interesting parts of this for me were the lessons about discrimination. First, that how we think about the Manhattan Project is shaped by how it was reported at the time, because it was naturally written about through the lens of that time's biases. Second, that while WWII allowed more women to get into science out of necessity, this was sadly reversed afterwards as the need was gone: WWII didn't end society's prejudices, it just forced it to temporarily overlook them in some limited areas.

Food for thought.
Crowdfibding sites to not handle income taxes, only sdles taxes where relevant. They only withhold CC fees and their fees.
I'm guessing 99% of people wouldn't know what "beatify" meant either, and a significant number would think it was a typo for "beautify". Those two words also rather nicely express the vagaries of English pronunciation (the latter is pronounced to rhyme with "pew", the former "bee-A...", which almost feels like it deserves a diaeresis, except we don't do those in English).

I leave the gentle reader with the English place name Beaulieu, which probably isn't pronounced anything like you'd expect, or how it should be.
The working combination safe is very cool too: http://jkbrickworks.com/working-combination-safe/
I'm not convinced that YC is the vehicle through which the next major breakthrough in the field of energy generation will be conceived.

YC companies that do relatively tiny hardware projects tend to fail at a rate much higher than their software siblings and the kind of investment required to get a next generation nuclear reactor from the drawingboard to a reality is not usually associated with start-up accelerators.

I know they're funding two start-ups in this domain but I don't believe this is a path that will work out. On the other hand, I've been wrong in the past on other predictions so feel free to ignore me :)
> So you have the impression that young Austrians nowadays are better with English?

As someone who is married to a native Russian speaker and we both moved to Austria (me from the UK though born in Austria, my wife from Russia), we regularly have conversations with others in English rather than German because everybody seems to actively prefer that.

So at least from general experience you can get the majority of services in English here. The exception seems to be immigrant taxi drivers and local hairdressers.
I've found http://youpronounce.it/search.jsp?q=either useful for clearing up some mispronunciation issues / doubts. Link also shows some English awkwardness...
> Really good points on learning to speak before writing. Trying to learn japanese now, and I'm glad that someone told me to learn to speak it fluently before learning to write it.

Japanese is a very different issue. It is structurally very simple and the phonetics are highly regular (there's a reason why japan has had successful voice-synthetized singers since the early 00s), but reading and writing fluently it requires learning 3 different scripts, including a logographic one.
All things considered, ITER is much more likely to lead to commercial fusion.
Ohh you just reminded me I recently got this 98 era desktop, and I can finally plug back that old backup tape reader from my first computer. 500MB time capsule that I hope is still in order.
Bill Gates Expected to Create Billion-Dollar Fund for Clean Energy
The interesting aspects of this are (a) when you say "California", people think "earthquakes", which were not a factor here; and (b) it's unusual for a landslide to push material up.
You don't supply an argument why that's because of dubbing/subtitling. I think the real reason for the change is that English has become more important as a cultural language, at the expense of French, in this case.
A Paris startup is becoming an Uber for people with disabilities
I know little about this field, having only recently started reading about it with the salmon mentioned a few weeks ago, but I really hope we're on the cusp of something new and this isn't just a pipe dream that gets drowned for any number of reasons.
The general theme of this seems to be: Reduce boilerplate with compiler macros.

This is pretty similar in functionality to Slick. From reading the docs, it seems like it reduces some of the boilerplate (eg. in Slick you need to define both case classes and tables) but at the cost of potentially less customization.

Additionally, while Slick has a layer that you can use to actually create your database tables, this appears to be query layer only. That isn't a problem, I think. I found Slicks ddl stuff was mostly an antipattern in production (you should use an actual migration framework).

Another big advantage Quill has over slick is how easy it is to see the resulting query.
In the past only some kids shows were dubbed but even the cartoons for the most part had subtitles. Today it's a bit different.
> Nuclear Fission is not a plug and play solution either.

That's actually the intent of SMRs. Small-ish reactor (30~300MWe) assembly plants, then ship them wherever they're needed/desired, and either bury them or keep them mobile depending on the purpose. When the fuel load is expended (10~30 years, similar to nuclear subs and ships) you just replace the whole reactor assembly, pop a new one in, and send the old one for recycling and disposal.
Have a look on early woRking prototypes of self-driving version for circumpolar regions http://cont.ws/post/128573
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These would get so messy so fast in NYC.
I have a feeling Mr Thiel didn't cosider important facts.

Nuclear energy is highly deficient, building nuclear plants uses much more energy and concrete (bad for the environment) and you have to store nuclear waste.

I know Thiel is a long term thinker, but maybe Kaynes view is also important.
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We live in an era of constant updates, where your browser changes every six weeks, and your operating system changes every 12 months. […] Sometimes you just want everything to stand still for, like, a second.

Amen. I for one wish there was a way to hop off the CADT [1] roller coaster and stick with an OS stack that would just sit still and focus on fixing all its damn bugs for once.

X.org/GNU/Linux was finally in bugfix mode for a few years in the mid/late 2000s, and it was a stable place to live for the somewhat-technically-minded. Then the cloud, smart phones, and the HTML5 "living standard" all took off, and you're forced to ride that spastic technological train if you want to keep up with anyone.

[1] https://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html
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I'd rather use a statically typed language, like C++11 to avoid surprises at runtime. I guess you could use TypeScript to circumvent this problem.
This is great, thanks! The fact that it's possible to get started in Clojure, I no longer have any excuses to not try this.

Having an interactive REPL seems like it would be helpful for iterating on micro routines (this is what I want to focus on). I see you already have some situational micro examples too.

I feel like a kid again. Can't wait to try this! Now I'm wishing I still had my StarCraft discs with me.
Thanks for the correction - it's years since I've seen "Trainspotting" and somehow I relocated it to Glasgow in my mind; that said, Wikipedia helpfully informs that it was actually mostly shot in Glasgow!

"The Wire" is an interesting example since two of the protagonists (McNulty and Bell) are played by English actors (the former an Old Etonian, just like our prime minister!) putting on Baltimore accents; there's even a delightful scene where McNulty attempts a deliberately dreadful English accent.

You are also correct about Geordies - I lived in Newcastle for a number of years and never really understood the locals except by way of sign language.
Windows x86_64 did drop support for 16-bit Windows applications. And a sad number old installers are 16-bit (even for 32-bit applications, as it meant they could give a user-friendly message on 16-bit Windows)—so much so that for some InstallShield and Acme installers they have a hack that reads the data files using a 32-bit copy of the installer application! See http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2013/10/31/10461... for some fun discussion about that BC hack.

Makes me sad that I can't install Civilization 2, even though it's a 32-bit app.
I write a blog and have the same policy. I do take books and occasionally other stuff for review, though (see e.g. here: http://jakeseliger.com/2009/11/01/product-review-das-keyboar...). Usually I don't bother noting books because I don't remember which ones came from publishers and which ones I bought. Plus, I just don't think a $5 – $20 book (retail prices) is a big deal.

Oddly, after writing "Why you should become a nurse or physicians assistant instead of a doctor: the underrated perils of medical school" (http://jakeseliger.com/2012/10/20/why-you-should-become-a-nu...), I got a bunch of people selling medical stuff asking to pay to write posts or do various other things. I just deleted all the emails.
Probably, but you'd have to move to a country which doesn't have extradition treaties with the US.
Wow, that's an awesome natural experiment. Can you share the name of the town? Or would any town near the border do?
As an Englishman living and working in Paris for a few years, my eyes have been opened to the difficulty of working in another language. I used to be a little bit dismissive of foreigners who hadn't completely mastered English but now I realise that they were almost fluent. On the other hand, I haven't really managed to master French at all.

His observation about becoming introverted in a foreign language is something that I experience too. Something that he didn't mention though is that often people will assume that you are stupid if you can't speak their language fluently, this is made even worse since you are indeed dedicating 80% of your brain just to following the conversation, so that in a sense they are correct in their judgement at that moment in time. It's painful to be on the receiving end of this and again this is something that I was unconsciously guilty of when I lived in London.

We just need to occasionally remind ourselves when the other person is not speaking in their native language that they are having to do a lot of extra work just to communicate with us.
English has been "weird" for the reasons you're describing since before it spread anywhere.

It has more to do with the number of different cultures that have conquered England, combined with the fact that written English has existed for a very long time compared to most European languages. The fact that there isn't an authority that can dictate major spelling reforms doesn't help either.
It's not an exception - this is already handled by the DMCA. It's a well known and understood situation.

I'm not saying they are immune to everything, just that the accepted and realistic option for any service that accepts user provided content is to handle takedown requests. It does place the burden on the copyright owner but it's the process we have so if Udemy or anyone else does follow this accurately then what is the problem?
Germany dubs everything. Unless you invest in Sky, the German television broadcasters don't even bother broadcasting the original language as an alternative tone, which I assume over cable isn't a massive extra expense. Only Arté bothers to do so in both German and French.

German home made programmes are also particularly dire. Their long running police drama series Tartort is their single saving grace.
My main hesitation is wasting my precious years of my youth on something that won't advance my skills.

E.g. as somebody who picked up programming at 25, I already fear that my brain is now struggling to pick up concepts that my younger brain would have.
The introvert vs. extrovert part just sounds like what I experience. I consider myself decent in writing and reading skills, but when it comes to speaking and communicating ideas, it doesn't come natural to a non-native speaker like myself. Worse is when people expect you to think and speak out loud during programming interviews. Then, my brain is tasked to do two things at once under a lot of pressure.
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Are you suggesting that UK is going transport electricity from Kazakhstan back to the UK? presumably via Russia? If so, that seems like a really bad plan.
Awesome, that would be great. Thanks!

I see you even hosted a micro tournament recently. I didn't know that was a thing. How did it go? So there's at least some interest for that it seems? If so, I think I'd like to give it a shot too in the future (it'll probably be a while before I can get to this though).
You are right, Classic not Rosetta. Thanks for SheepShaver but at this point I am a bit wary of touching my working but possibly fragile system.
> devs pushed fixes mid-flight

Scary, even if the entertainment system is not connected to the flight equipment.
Sigh! Shouldn't people do a bit of googling before naming their project / business? This is third project with the same name. We have QuillJs[1], a rich text editor and Quill[2], an interactive grammar tool.

[1]: https://github.com/quilljs/quill

[2]: https://www.quill.org/
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Right now Russia builds in St. Petersburg the first small fully automatic floating nuclear power plant. Up to 70 MW output. Saves 200Kt of coal from burning for every year of its use.
They should have made it a real ellipse.
The problem is that your only options, as an on-the-ground engineer/dataperson/designer/etc are to play ball or quit. There is no panel in front of which to make your case, mistakes are not corrected. Authority is absolute and reviews are a charade.