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There are a lot of jokes here and I appreciate them. It isn't breaking news that js has some bad parts, but why are people who aren't joking concerned?

* What makes nodejs running on an entertainment system dangerous?

* Outside of bias, how strong of a case is there to use another language?

* why shouldn't we use high level languages, even for avionics? Obviously not JS because numbers aren't transitive and it just isn't the usecase, but we don't need to optimize for 1kb of memory anymore. C family languages are the backbone of many things and that makes sense but do we need to keep using java and C-like languages or could we use python or something of similar nature where memory isn't manually allocated.
Germany is well known for dubbing their TV shows, many other countries do this too.

The funny thing is that too can help you learn a language if you already know the program in your own language, but it doesn't really help expose 'the natives' to more languages.
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+500. WWF, SSNC, Green Peace they are all selling FUD for a price 'one p#ss for one green piece'.
Could we really be ruining our own chance of success?
Is it realistic for the mass of Linux admins to switch over to SmartOS? Is fixing Linux containers realistic?

This is a serious question. It's a great talk, but how can we apply it apart from becoming a Joyent customer?
I am one of those who "learned" English from watching cartoons as a kid. Mainly, Scooby-doo(the one from the 60s) without any subtitles or dub.

But like you said, it's not 100% perfect, nor is it even 80%, neither orally nor in writing.
> But anyone learning a second language past the age of early adolescence will usually simply not hear many of the phonemic distinctions in sounds in the language to be learned unless the learner is very carefully trained in phonetics.

I had one very clear example of that at one time: The difference between the Polish words for switching something on and switching something off.

włączyć -> to switch on

and

wyłącz -> to switch off

When you see them written here they look very different but when you hear them in spoken Polish conversation they're all but impossible to tell apart (at least, to me!).
Are thicker bezels associated with durability?
I think this fact (and he's obviously not wrong, though I don't know if I'd label it a secret - everyone knows this about English, I thought?) is inevitable from any language which gains the reach English did, or at least, gained the reach English did at the time English did... whether it would be different now we have global communication all the time remains to be seen I suppose.

How do you have a language spoken by so many wildly different people, who bring in their own vocabulary with each generation, and not end up with irregularity in spelling and pronunciation?

English is a mongrel, certainly, but that is a product of it being so widely 'deployed', not an inherent feature of the language. Sure, Italian is regular. Italian also doesn't have germanic roots all over the place mixed in with the latin and chinese and whatever else.
I'm not sure there's such a thing as non-steamed dry-rolled oats. Do you have a reference that those exist? The Wikipedia article I linked says that even steel-cut oats are steamed.

> it's largely a matter of choosing the porridge/baking shelves

This must be a US thing. I've never seen the brand that GFK_of_xmaspast mentioned in the UK or Canada, and have never seen any oats with that kind of quality in any supermarket in either country either.
Why is it that Fukushima isn't an argument _for_ nuclear power, considering the plant even closer to the epicenter came through with flying colors?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onagawa_Nuclear_Power_Plant
What words are commonly mispronounced by literate people?
> French spelling is far more rational than English spelling, despite the silent letters.

I would argue that French is far more consistent, which is really the helpful part. Patterns of letters in French pretty much always work the same, whereas in English you don't have that luck. The "ough" part of words in English is a good example. There's a joke that highlights that. "Yes, English can be weird. It can be understood through tough thorough thought, though." [1]

[1] https://twitter.com/iowahawkblog/status/594168269759623168?l...
I think Spanish, English and Portuguese are broken languages (French less, because France dominates it) because they were spread during era of colonial empires and now there a big countries which use it as main language, they have evolved since.
RMX16 hardly defined 80s music sound. There are 100 other boxes equally important for the era. To name but a few: Lexicon reverbs, SSL consoles, Eventide Harmonizer, Aphex Aural Exciter, 808 and 909, the Emulator samplers, the DX7 and D50, and so on...

And even the effect he talks about (gated reverb snares) has been achieved with lots of different units in different records.
Stipulated, counselor. However, this is analgous to the traffic light camera situation. In the traffic light camera situation, we have 100% enforcement of some law or traffic rule that previously, we had less than 1% enforcement. Yet the fine for running a red light remains the same.

The fine was previously rather punative, because we, as a society, had to compensate for the small number of enforcers we could afford. That is, any given red-light-runner would stand a very small chance of paying the fine, so we, as a society, judged that an extremely punative fine was the best way of enforcing - you won't get caught very often, but if you do get caught, yipes! that's a big ticket. It's quite within the realm of the law to set and enforce punative fines for running a red light, but as we've seen, the whole of morality in not contained within the law. Red light cameras are almost universally loathed and given a chance, electorates will vote them out.

Similarly, license plates were nominally public, but only because they couldn't be monitored nearly 100% of the time automically. In the aggregate, monitoring license plates becomes quite a bit more theatening to liberty than the very occasional check by the small number of enforcers.

As Stalin once said, "Quantity has a quality all its own". You'd be wise to remember that.
English does not have a simple set of rules for pronunciation or dictation. Spelling bees don't exist for most languages, but it's a thing for English.

So yes, I'd say English is “phonetically broken”, if that means it's difficult to figure out how to convert from spoken words to text and vice versa. I am not a linguist, but I speak English, Swedish, Finnish, Japanese, and German. English does seem to be an unusually difficult language in this respect.

Understanding different accents of spoken English is sort of beside the point, I think.
Although when you compare the English that Austrians and Germans speak (I'm from Germany) to the English of Scandinavians and Dutch people, the latter are noticeably better than the German-speaking countries. So the argument probably has some merit.

Edit: At the same time, Scandinavians, the Dutch and Germans/Austrians all have a language that is more closely related to English than the Romanic or Slavic languages.
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Thiel skips the fact that Chernobyl is uninhabitable for thousands of years (save bloggers on motorcycles), all of the dispossessed persons and extra 40k+ cancer deaths. Plus Fukashima. Big PWR/BWR reactors will always be too inherently dangerous because of high pressures and too expensive to build, regulate and insure (in the US, without insurance and NRC approval, there is no project). And the risks of dual-purpose reactors and long-term storage for large amounts of waste.

Taylor Wilson's TED talk on low pressure, molten salt, modular reactors built as standardized modules with a scram / recycle pool underneath and made in a factory is one of the best ways to go. Smaller, isolated, modular setups limit failure risk compared to a single reactor having a big, explosive meltdown. The other one is thermal generation using chip-like technology with tiny amounts of radiological material isolated in individual "wells" making it safer, more efficient and scalable for many types of battery and generation use-cases.

I think we can do fission safer, cheaper and smarter, responsibly, but repeating the same failures by taking the same risks without learning from the past is inherently dumb.

Disclaimer: nuclear energy consultancy alum
Watching? Reading it is even worse! :D (UK here not American, though.)
> One of the things that shocked me the most with my experience with the English language is how not mastering a language can switch you into an introvert.

Too real. I've spent some time in Italy where, due to my broken Italian, I was very much so an introvert. People noticed it too when Americans would come by and I'd talk to them - they said I "became a different person."
That should be fun in Chicago or in South Bend under 12 inches of snow. Don't get me wrong I love biting it into a snow bank at 12, but at 33, probably not.
It's no wonder it still works... those Powermacs were built like tanks. In high school my physics teacher accidentally smacked one with a baseball bat and it fell down off a counter, but after we picked it up it worked fine, with little more than a scuff on the side.
Good luck, to anyone who goes through with this suggestion. You'll need it to come home alive, in one piece, in good mental health, and with your presumably anti-authoritarian character intact.
Right. As gp says, "local" is dynamic scoping.

It's available as long as the declaration stays on the call stack. It more-or-less allows globals to be temporarily redefined.
Yes. Pascal is used. That's definitely the case.

In the end there are 3 tribes. freepascal, Delphi and the Elements Compiler (C#, Swift, Oxygene Language is Pascal).

There are many more traditional Pascal environments too. Smartmobile (HTML 5 apps), XEROCODER (based on FPC) for Grid developments and an integration into Visual Studio Code ...

FPC Version 3 is a huge step and a great one. While I personally admire all of the people's work I must confess the evolution of freepascal as well as the Lazarus IDE is exceptional.
Title should probably be be "My coworkers made me use Mac OS 9 (2014)", since it's an article from last year, but republished for Thanksgiving.
This is what you gotta give to MS. You can still install AoE2 on Windows 10 no problem (right?), but trying to get it to work on a Mac requires custom third party wrappers. (I also didn't even know/forgot AoE was released for the Mac)
On front-end work:

Learn basic front-end skills. You can go a long way with just bootstrap, jquery and some nicely resized stock photographs. There's plenty of nice themes around for free or only an insignificant amount of money. Consider that you'll probably be competing on this front for the most part. This and your rate.

On hosting:

A $5/month VPS running Debian is cheap and can handle a decent amount of traffic.

On security:

You don't need a security expert unless you're dealing with highly sensitive information. Follow the best practices on:
https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Main_Page
Remember to sanitize all user input. Remember to be extra careful when you are serving user input to other users.
It make function as such, but it's neither marked as an "advertorial" nor makes much sense as one (the target audience of Vice/Motherboard to the one buying UAD plugins has little overlap). UAD doesn't do such deals anyway, that I've seen in any other place; they do regular ads all over the music tech press.

So, I doubt it's a paid ad -- looks mostly like an article made up from very little substance, praising a unit they don't really understand, about a subject (music production) they don't know much about.

If it IS paid, I don't know what where they thinking. People unrelated with the industry will go out and buy $1000+ hardware units for a specialized effect that's not that enticing even to music gear heads with GAS like me?
Old OSes are perfectly usable on their own, the problem is always that they can't interoperate with the newer outside world very well.

Sit someone down with a Windows 95 machine and they could happily play games, write and print documents, and so on, but they might not have much luck receiving or sending them, and sorry about browsing the web.
Hmm, from Stockholm, eh? Been programming for 25 years?

<insert Stockholm syndrome joke here>

But seriously, just because you're happy with your own career doesn't mean that it's a good choice for most people.
It's true of databases or storage servers that rely heavily on caching in RAM (like with ZFS). Also many HPC workloads, which might be storing e.g. huge matrices distributed in memory over many nodes.
Spanish here. One of biggest differences is that spanish vowels always sound the same, that's why spelling contests aren't a thing here. It's pretty confusing at first, until you embrace the fact that there aren't shortcuts: you hear the word or you don't actually know how to pronounce it.

See http://spanishlinguist.us/2013/04/spanish-vowels-vs-english-... for a comparison.
I can relate to this despite being a native English speaker from the UK. I misspent my childhood in IRC and messing around with dozens of UNIX machines.

I can communicate well with people over the internet, but only recently have I met people in the flesh with similar interests to me. This means that I mispronounce jargon. Cache, deprecated, whenever I use words like these in conversation, people have no idea what I am talking about, I have only ever been exposed to them via text. I realised that I have never heard people say them before. This was probably not helped by the fact that I prefer an essay to a videoed talk any day.
That would be Andrew Carnegie. Dale Carnegie I suppose is more like a confidence man than a robber baron.
> Although when you compare the English that Austrians and Germans speak (I'm from Germany) to the English of Scandinavians and Dutch people, they are noticeably better than the German-speaking countries.

Historically sure, but if you look at people from my generation I doubt that's the case still. Focused English education in Austria only really started 15 years ago.

When I went to school our first english lesson was with 10, now it's 5 or 6.
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What happened to it during the earthquake?
I wish that Apple had MS's backwards-compatibility on iOS. Poor BC combined with a walled garden means old games and apps simply disappear out of existence when the developer cannot afford to support them any more.
Maybe you should pitch that to the Lego Group. Stranger things have happened.

(I agree.)
Assume the system is guaranteed to win with a 100% probability, and the capital is unlimited since it keeps compounding. So the question is "is there enough money in the market to even inequalities in wealth distribution?"
That's useful, thanks.
Fossil fuel companies have already priced in eventual recovery of their reserves, added it to their value and communicated this to the market (with what incomplete information they reveal). Fighting to keep it in the ground is already wealth distribution. It reminds one of the story where you ask a person if they'll sleep with you for a million bucks, why not 10,000, since you've already established what they are, now you're just haggling over the price.
That's very common. No-one knew what the heck I was talking about the day I first spoke out loud about Ess Queue Ell.
Most of Albanians speak/understand Italian by watching italian shows/movies when they were young (without subtitles).
I think you need to have a frame of reference to truly realize it as a native English speaker
It is a shame that we went all in on uranium reactor technology (so we could make bombs) instead of further pursuing liquid fluoride thorium reactors, which are much safer.

Kirk Sorensen at http://flibe-energy.com/ has some great talks about this. I highly recommend watching some of his content on youtube.

This is a good place to start: https://www.ted.com/talks/kirk_sorensen_thorium_an_alternati...
This is a crappy article about realizing the need of cache in front of dynamic websites.

Wow.

PHP haters: yes, PHP is crap, and we should all code in C, because nothing beats C in speed. ( Except for Perl in regex land. )

WordPress hater: the WP core itself is not that bad. The themes and the plugins, those are the real monsters.

Article owner & WordPress users: there are pretty good cache plugins already for WP, you needn't have to write another.
Compared to the alternative, where people promote actual war to satisfy their violent instincts, football injuries are pretty tame.
I like the idea of Globish, though I have to admit both that I have not studied it, and, as a native English speaker, my enthusiasm is somewhat self-serving.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globish_(Nerriere)

John McWhorter's 'magnificent bastard tongue' has many quirks to trip up anyone learning it as an adult, and which could be simplified without making the language unintelligible to those who already speak it.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3143472-our-magnificent-...
You're right, many of his arguments do indeed apply to lending to new small enterprises in general, and he actually references a UK working paper making a similar argument about small business funding here. This isn't an argument against lending and entrepreneurship in general; there's strong arguments for lending to existing businesses to ensure they don't run into cashflow issues (if profitable businesses go insolvent it's costly and disruptive), and to allow them to operate more efficiently since this means they can offer the same products for less.

Also, it should be obvious why the immense profitability of microlending institutions is an issue if you think about what that means. It's effectively a transfer of cash from the poorest sectors of society to wealthy investors, and with no countervailing transfer in the opposite direction - because those microbusinesses are selling to other people like them, not wealthy investors - that just makes the poor poorer.
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How is this significantly different or better than other longstanding Scala ORMs (e.g. Squeryl et. al.)?
You can usually dismiss a pseudoscientific/pseudointellectual article by spotting the headline claim "How <controversial claim that is not well established as true> happened", instead of claiming "A case to prove of <controversial fact>"
"heinous" is featured in every episode of Law & Order: SVU.
by "phonetically broken" I think he means that there is not enough consistency regarding what you write and what you pronounce. I give you some examples: door and tool. The same two letters 'oo' are pronounced differently. 'en' in 'broken' and 'en' in 'enough'. I suspect Italian, Romanian and Spanish inherited some consistency from Latin where AFAIK 'a' is pronounced the same everywhere and even in combination with other letters it's still very predictable and the same is valid for nearly all the vowels and consonants. I don't know Portuguese but French is definitely "broken" too ('o' = 'au' = 'eau' = 'aux' = holly cow !)
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It's different because only one entity is at work here, so it's not possible to increase taxes. I think I see where you're going. The market would never stop working as long as people keep buying and selling currencies! That's interesting.
> I've been told that's how the Dutch learn English. The country isn't big enough to make it worth dubbing the shows, so they are shown in English with Dutch subtitles.

IIRC that's the case in all scandinavian countries, I'd also expect it in most of eastern europe (but having started much more recently).
It's not just emphasis, it's necessity. Smaller countries have to deal with other countries more, and so too do their citizens.
The book is actually based on a scientific viewpoint with quite a large section of medical publication references at the end (ex [1]).

If you are a dedicated rationalist I challenge you to at least read the first few chapters and then consider that , with a small chance, we as humans might not know everything about the human body and how it functions through the lense of western medicine.

Edit:
added link to Growth Control Theory paper

[1]http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0024320500...
Of course none of the accents in that clip are supposed to be Glaswegian...they're all meant to be from Edinburgh (though Robert Carlyle was born in Maryhill in Glasgow). For the full Glaswegian effect, try this bit of Rab C Nesbitt, parodying the fact that previous series of this show had been shown subtitled in England

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ud9LT7R60kU#t=6m30s

on the other hand we from Glasgow don't seem to have problems understanding accented US stuff (eg The Wire)...I guess because we're brought up on imported TV. The Glasgow accent is nothing though compared to full-on Geordie and Aberdonian dialects, with lots of non-English vocabulary.
Calling a 5% change in the Shanghai Composite index a "hard hit" is an overstatement, given what has been happening there over the last months (particularly April-September).
Does french suffer from the same issues? It has been spread pretty widely too and with long history.
It was apparently fixed in Python 3.3: http://bugs.python.org/issue1856

Or are you saying daemon threads are still broken even with the fix, because of the underlying pthreads stuff?
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Both french and spanish have a huge number of speakers, yet haven't broken to the extent that english has. And the issue of english phonetics long predates its rise to primacy as the international language.
If you look at the countries in Europe that are good at speaking English it's actually two big factors you see:

- The consumption of English media you mentioned

- Other Germanic languages. Even though English has moved away quite far from the other Germanic languages, there's still quite some Germanic heritage in for instance in how to generally express yourself. The problems arise when things are actually different. Swedes for instance often have a problem pronouncing the /tʃ/ sound and pronounce chip like ship. But for speakers of Germanic languages the problems are fewer.
Where are we at with nuclear fusion? At this time, the only promising progress I know of is happening at Lockheed Martin's Skunkworks[1] where they are developing a truck-sized 100 MW [corrected from Mhz] power plant in an incremental, iterative fashion and claiming to have something operational by 2020.

As regards solar and other "clean" alternatives, there exists vast potential for reducing daytime electric grid load by throwing a few panels on residential and office rooftops. Why don't more people do it? As the cost of panels plummets, the payoff time is decreasing and ROI over time is increasing.

A whole industry of solar panel leasing has sprung up, whereby residential home owners let an installer put in the panels for free, then pay a discounted electric rate. Not exactly like going off-grid, but it does have the same effect of reducing demand for coal/oil/gas generated power.

I'm envisioning future new home developments where every house comes with solar pre-installed. No decisions to make; the cost is baked in (so to speak) and you get a home that will incur minimal electric bills.

I don't see a government role in all of these initiatives, which are market driven. People want green energy these days; it's become a fad. Almost gone are the days when homeowners associations sue a member for putting "ugly" solar panels on his roof.

1. http://www.eweek.com/news/lockheed-martin-claims-sustainable...
This post is more than 2 years old and still very relevant.