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As per the difficulty and cost of space travel - it took in the order of hundreds of years of development for several impactful technologies to be tinkered and optimized to a point where they started to make a difference. Steam engines, mechanical watches, etc.

E.g. the first watches that could keep time to assist in measurement of the longitude were incredibly expensive https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Harrison.

I know historical arguments are usually kinda weak but objectively - space flight is still a young discipline.

I hope you respect that in historical perspective "we've never done it and so won't ever do it" is really weak. It will require empirical testing to figure out if spacefaring human civilization is a tenable concept. Large system cannot be reasoned with beforehand (well, if there are deep physical principles that are obvious then, yeah, sure, but at this point the problem space appears like more like a complex expensive mess of many uknowns rather than a physical impossibility).
"Due to guns?" Do guns make people suicidal?
Alternate title: (ex) middle class americans are killing themselves in record numbers, but we want to talk about guns.
I use Toad, and the one feature that I can't live without is the tabbed results with column filtering. I do a lot of data explorations and being able to go back to previous queries quickly and compare is a big time saver.
Pattern recognition is just one component of intelligence. It's a big, important one though. People need to stop thinking that we'll one day discover some one algorithm for strong AI. It will be a composition of different parts, just like the human brain.
I'd reckon that most incidents of police shooting civilians is due to civilians armed with guns.
The Italian mafia is evolving to operate more like the Japanese Yakuza do. The Yaks are so "infiltrated" into Japanese business and civil service that the Japanese just consider them a part of ordinary life. Only recently have law enforcement and some businesses been cracking down on the Yakuza presence.
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This is a great comment, and I love seeing these kinds of testimonials counteract the dog pile of MBA bashing you usually see in this forum when the degree gets mentioned. Also, the advice about only bothering to consider tier 1 schools (basically top-10 or top-15 depending on who you talk to) is accurate. I think the degree gets a bad rap and is severely under-appreciated here in the Valley, but it's hard to change people's minds and correct biases.
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Simplified to this in Py 3.6:

f'{one} {two}'
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I've noticed "liberals" (regressive left) label the recent Muslim terrorist attack on US soil as a "mass shooting" to hitch on it.

Seems like a pattern to paint anything they can get their hands on as a token for guns.
It depends really. How much industrialization has your part of the country experienced? I'm pretty sure you'll see some underlying pattern with that since many cancer causing chemicals are linked to several common manufactured products such as plastics.
How so? According to this article, gun violence hasn't increased much at all. Cars are safer though.
IMO the biggest reason to use Python3 is its concurrency support via async + await.

Fixing the unicode mess is nice too of course, but you can get most of the benefits in Python2 as well, by simply putting this at the top of all of your source files:

from __future__ import unicode_literals

Also make sure to decode all data from the outside as early as possible and only encode it again when it goes back to disk or the network etc.
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I'm not saying the sandbox is a bad thing, and I definitely like it for just downloading and trying out software of questionable quality from companies that I've never heard of. But it has tradeoffs:

https://panic.com/blog/coda-2-5-and-the-mac-app-store/

https://panic.com/blog/coda-and-sandboxing/

If you wanted to (for example) distribute Sublime Text through the App Store, you'd run into the same sorts of problems. If it's a piece of software that I reasonably trust, do I want to make that trade? Eh. Maybe. Gain some protection against potential security bugs, lose some flexibility/productivity.
Yes. I understand that. I also use adblocker and Ghostery.

But I don't comment to whine that my uBlock broke that website...
It lowers the bar before people succeed. Take some pills and many back out, pull a trigger and your generally out of options.
The fact that the App Store is crummy on the Mac should not be a hindrance to developing Mac software (unlike iOS, where the App Store is the only way to distribute software). Go forth and develop your mac app, and just sell it directly to your customers!
The halting problem proves that mathematics is hard. There is no algorithm that can prove/disprove any decidable statement. Not even a a superslow algorithm.

Maybe ballooning is related to that...
Right, well, Ptacek and Kaminsky have hashed and rehashed this argument over and over ad nauseum in a different context. I don't think the community will ever agree on this.
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What evidence do you have that he acquired his wealth this way? You are just assuming so because since he has done some bad things with his current wealth.
Although true, the aim of the transition was to enforce encoding-correctness. Operations on strs should never break the encoding itself[1], but preserving the semantic meaning of the text itself is basically impossible for arbitrary data.

[1] Sadly surrogate escapes break this. Rust's division into String:OsString:Vec<u8> makes that aspect a lot cleaner.
Well, yes. Only problem I see is that the ones who invested less (ordered only one pair of glasses) will get better return from their investment. This sound a little unfair.
Because the runtime with the GIL is more performant and python users know that it's practically impossible to write correct software using threads.
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There are also people who decide to commit suicide via automobile.

Here are some stats about alcohol related driver deaths in Pennsylvania

> 19% of driver deaths for 16-20 year olds were alcohol-related

> 44% of driver deaths for 21-25 year olds were alcohol-related

> 34% of driver deaths for 26-30 year olds were alcohol-related
I've heard this complaint multiple times actually, though it was just because it's not what people are used to.

I'm fine with leaving it out, but I would like it back in. The reason is that in my mind Python has been the language of simplicity and elegance, where you are constantly pleasantly surprised by the ease of use. Python, to me, is the language of childish glee. The parentheses on the print function is Python putting on a suit and going to work.
Big thanks to John Carmack (and team) for Quake1 modding and replying to my emails. It was a gateway drug.
Also: Cars are now killing as many people as guns
Like I said, it's all or nothing. Once you turn the ship, the whole economy moves that way. It's not something we should do lightly.

The union movement was a response to a particular time frame where the world was rapidly industrializing and the nature of work was very different than it is today. Factories used to lock the doors during the workday so workers couldn't sneak out. That period of time is over.

> Unions are for those that don't have your bargaining position.

This is not true at all. There are player's unions for each of the major sports. In Hollywood, entrance into your profession's union is a key marker of status and increases your earning potential, so long as you do it right. The medical field has professional organizations that act as unions.

There are unions for each of the construction fields as well as a substantial non-unionized sector. Both sectors cater to different parts of the market.

In all fields and sectors in which collective bargaining is a thing, innovation is stifled. Professions remain static, decade after decade, the union doing its damndest best to keep the status quo.

> And there's a difference between "I wasn't born rich" and making it and "I'm born into a deprived circumstances."

I was 1 step away from what they call "poor white trash." My mom's parents struggled a lot, and though my father's father had a stable union job with the railroad, my father was an alcoholic. My mom threw him out when I was around 3 or 4 and we were the very definition of poor. My mom has told me numerous stories of the ugliness of the people and the near-desperation in which we lived most of the time.

I don't remember much of it because my mom managed to escape the hell of southern Louisiana by marrying a Marine. Soon after, he got posted to various other parts of the country, and south Louisiana was ancient history.

I was born into the so-called 'working poor'. We didn't stay that way. Hell, south Louisiana didn't stay that way, it's a lot different now. It wasn't cushy union jobs that did it, it was the willingness to be mobile and to take advantage of the economic opportunities that being in the most powerful nation of the world afforded us.
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Yet CEO's do that sort of thing all the time.

Citation, please? I mean, specifically, that they don't have qualms about doing it for trivial valuation reasons. There's also an argument to be made for corporations being too reticent to fire deadwood employees. IMHO, that's just as much a problem.

Personal anecdote: I talk to our CEO pretty regularly - she's probably the only billionaire I'll ever meet. I know that she personally feels the responsibility for keeping the business viable, because it's the source of income for nearly 3,000 families.

Of course, my experience is just a single data point. But I don't see that it's any less valid than a viewpoint that, as far as I can see, is based on TV and movie drama.
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The point is the political goal is so important to the true believers that dissent must be silenced, mot accomodated, not that global warming is an ideological hallucination.
> It should really read "Automobiles now immensely safer in the US".

That isn't the main topic of the article though. From the opening sentence: "For the first time in more than 60 years, firearms and automobiles are killing Americans at an identical rate". The headline simply points out the article's main data point of automobile and gun deaths converging.
That reminds me, I have a screenshot of the App Store where it downloaded all of the store page data, but didn't get the stylesheet. And since it's just a shitty webview in a box and not a full browser, there's no obvious way to make it reload.

These sorts of things happen when you download your whole program's page layout off the internet. How idiotic would it look if you pulled up a playlist view in iTunes and everything turned into an unstyled HTML bulleted list?

Don't have the computer with that screenshot handy, but I can post it later.
Even if you take that to be true (I gather there's plenty of ways to quickly off yourself at any given hardware store), does that make the guns "responsible" for those deaths? Are those deaths "due" to guns? Or are we using our political biases to slant something to meet our agenda, like this article, which shows gun violence isn't really increasing at all.
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Redefining the conversation away from the liberal thinking, the real debate is not about guns at all. It's about what causes violence, where does it occur, and how can we stop it. The most dramatic form of this crime, occurs most often from guns - so, we need to reframe it from gun violence to violence where guns are involved. This is a 65 year old problem - the root of it, is based on the highway system in conjunction with relining that left poverty in the inner city. I note here, I am leaving out race, but it disproportionately affects (use right?) the African American population because of the redlining (why I mentioned it), thanks to racism and white privilege - debate all you want, but mobility of the white middle class demographic was huge at this time. Think baby-boomers in particular. The SOLUTION to solving a WHOLE slew of problems, which liberals ALWAYS talk about is giving social programs a go on a major scale to help disadvantaged population. Bipartisan politics always shift away from this, because of the polarizing problem of being perceived as to liberal or to conservative, etc. etc. Poverty to expand on violence is exponential and often (like 80% of the problem) involves desperation which leads to crime, disassociation with society and drives youth / people to gang membership. It's been a long deep understood problem, that gangs of any time typically lean towards drugs, alcohol, and illegal activities to maintain the syndication of crime. This includes prostitution, which affects women and can more often lead to domestic violence. So, with all _that_ said, think of guns in the mix - illegal and not, and ALLLL the gun programs in the past, where do most of the illegal guns come from - that's right, poverty stricken areas. So, I lean back to what is gun control's main problem? It's ineffective. Solve poverty ... put a CONSERVATIVE BUSINESS BASED DEMOGRAPHIC (namely young moderate Republicans) on every other street with strict oversight who are NOT prejudice to start engines of economic growth to stamp out poverty in areas where it exists. Let Liberals cry all they want, but spearhead poverty in the urban centers and you will reduce violence where guns are involved. THAT is the solution.
Post better stuff?
"Shkreli started his career interning for “Mad Money” host Jim Cramer while still a teenager. After recommending successful trades, Shkreli eventually set up his own hedge fund, quickly developing a reputation for trashing biotechnology stocks in online chatrooms and shorting them, to enormous profit."
This would _almost_ be a reasonable post if Python weren't mainstream and ubiquitous in the commercial space.
I've reduced my alchohol consumption. I did not drink as much as the NHS(UK) article warned.

http://www.nhs.uk/Livewell/preventing-cancer/Pages/diet-and-...

My family does not drink much or smoke. Most of us are in a good weight category, except for me. My challenge is to reduce the weight.
The article's headline and banner strongly promote this concept that guns are an increasing problem. While the title and opening sentence aren't false, they ARE misleading.
History it isn't. There is a vast amount of Python 2 code in existence. I still write a lot of Python 2, doing maintenance on existing projects.
> If a drive is failing, it will usually collapse into read only mode and let you know that it is failing, giving you ample time to recover data.

Do you have any real world references of this kind of fail behavior occurring? I only have experience with mechanical HDD failure (RAID drives gone bad -> degraded until rebuild; non-RAID drives getting massive bad sectors; non-RAID drives click -> dead). I've read about drives supposedly being able to enter a "nice" readonly mode, but that was a couple years or more ago, about SSDs. More recently, I've only read about drives either entering readonly mode until power cycle, then completely inaccessible; or simply lockup and completely inaccessible.
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That motivating factor can be achieved in Python using Numpy and Cython effectively. Check any of Ian Oszvald's High Performance Python talks.
This looks like a really useful guide through autotool hell, which is a fantastic thing to have, but it's not clear what myths are being busted so the name seems like a bit of a misnomer. Perhaps "Autotools Life Preserver" or something would be more accurate.
> I'm not sure what you mean by databases of systems and features...

I didn't really mean a literal database. I meant stuff like this:

https://github.com/Kitware/CMake/blob/master/Modules/FindQt4...

This is pretty typical CMake. It's encoding that for a particular version of Qt, add a few more compilation flags. It's a "knowledge base" of Qt versions encoded as a CMake module.

The autoconf way would be to try to link a minimal program to Qt, and if it fails, try to see if adding more libraries makes the linking succeed.

Or this, for example:

https://github.com/Kitware/CMake/blob/master/Modules/FindOpe...

It is trying to account for two popular compilers on Windows but not with Cygwin. It's the whole chain of "if Windows, if cygwin, if mingw, if msvc" what I called a "database" above.

Doesn't clang work on Windows these days? What will this knowledge base do now? Shouldn't clang work almost like mingw? But because it misses the "if mingw" branch, code that probably would have worked for clang will be skipped over.
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In contrast to automobile deaths, it has increased: "In 2005, gun deaths outnumbered vehicle deaths in just two states, Alaska and Maryland, plus the District of Columbia. By 2014, gun deaths were greater in 21 states plus D.C."
Because they're not interested in only getting you to read the plaintext.

I get your point and I'm on your side, generally speaking. But if you place this much value on any given piece of news, then maybe it shouldn't be free.
Yes, those people don't experiment with dangerous chemicals, instead they happily give their dollars to big placebo!
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Perl 5 introduced Unicode support in 5.6.0 (2000) but it was kind of a mess. It was essentially redesigned in 5.8.0 (2002). At that point it was fairly buggy, but by 5.8.8 (2006) it was in pretty good shape. The most recent versions of Perl 5 (5.22.1 was released a few days ago) have excellent Unicode support.

That said, Perl 5 does not have different types for strings and bytes, which is definitely a source of bugs. Since Unicode support is essentially opt-in for a library (you have to explicitly decode/encode data somehow) it's easily possible for a library you use to break your data. Most of the major libraries (database, HTTP, etc.) have long since been patched to respect Unicode in appropriate ways, so the state of Unicode in Perl 5 is good overall.
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Yeah, I see your angle. However, I'm writing this north of the 60 parallel and my country survives quite well in these conditions although they are quite different than the african savannahs native to our species. Although on a dark and wet december evening, I do wonder what my ancestors were thinking coming this much north.

For a human baby, the womb is the physiologically most natural growth environment. At birth we are separated from our mothers and the comforting heartbeat fades away to other noises. If I may respond to your methaphysical idea: perhaps earth is the womb of a space faring species, and our offspring will longingly observe it through telescopes like a person always misses her parents. But a longing does not incapacitate us, it merely tints the daily experience with a hint of bittersweet.

But in practice - human space flight at a large scale is a messy subject and like most topics of systemantics it will require endless amount of tinkering to even figure out if the idea is valid.
"There is no single thing you can do as an individual that gets you off the hook for cancer."

It's not going to get you off the hook, but I think it's safe to say that regular, vigorous exercise drops cancer risk, all else being equal.

There aren't many magic bullets, but regular, vigorous exercise appears to be pretty close - for just about everything from lower back pain to dementia.
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What a crap title...

Cars don't kill people, anymore than guns do. It's the idiot behind the wheel/trigger that's doing the killing.

These pieces of metal are built to be controlled by responsible humans. They do not make decisions for you, anymore than a spoon is making the decision for me to eat another bowl of cereal!
That's purely subjective.
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You'd reckon, eh? I'd beg to differ.
This is one of the realities of scientific publishing. Certain countries (like China and Korea) churn or large quantities of falsified research.
Wow, talk about cherry-picking. And those both resulted in jail time. How about the "unfortunate history" of falsified research in other countries?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_misconduct#Notable_...

Do you feel the same way about US scientific research?
This is really a thinly veiled attack on the "then we should outlaw cars!" argument.

This lays out the case for "reasonable" safeguards and limitations that should be put in place for guns because "reasonable" rules have made cars so much safer.

While that may be the claim, the NYT blew their cover with the front page editorial last week where they openly admitted to wanting all guns out of everyone's hands, regardless of the legality. What we understand now is that the "reasonable" laws are the wedge to start going for more and eventual outlawing.

The problem is that "gun control advocates" claim that people shouldn't own guns really mean that civilians shouldn't own them. They're still okay with government having guns.

Because "tyranny will never come to America..."
Lets drop things down and say there is only ~500* deaths due to accidental drowning per year in the US. That seems reason enough to discourage pool ownership.

*=http://www.cdc.gov/HomeandRecreationalSafety/Water-Safety/wa...
There are closer to 3,500 accidental drownings per year.
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Fixing the issues that lead a person to consider suicide is really hard. Decreasing the number of available guns is much easier and is effective.

When Australia decreased the number of guns, the suicide rate (not just gun related suicides, but all suicides) decreased by 65%.
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Again, you're not looking at the data. Gun violence hasn't increased, automobile deaths have decreased.
I don't really understand why they chose to simulate spiking neurons. The deep learning community uses simpler models based on ReLUs and such, so it seems that BrainChip will be missing on that market, which is currently huge. Do we have training algorithms for spiking neurons? Is this aimed mostly at biological simulations?
Perhaps that's the growth mindset in action.
What a baller.
Posts like this will make it go farther.