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>we would be better off if no one died

(Clarification: I think we'd obviously be better off if no one involuntarily died.)

I don't think I've been hasty in my thinking. What is the most central concern that you have about life as a good thing?

There are deep unsolved problems around long life. E.g., how do you grow as a mind that has existed for 4,000 years? A normal human mind would probably not be able to handle this, so we'd need some way to expand without losing the parts of ourselves that we value. Similarly, I don't know how to grow as a community of huge, ancient minds.

But, as the saying goes, those are very difficult problems, and I intend to work on solving them for as many centuries as it takes! Of course I can't literally claim to possess an absolute truth, but I think there is a very strong argument---or rather, I think most people would simply agree if they thought longer and more sanely about the question---that life can be awesome given some work, and it is precious, and we don't want to just give up on our vast adventure because, like, medicine is hard to figure out, or cryonics seems like something weird people do, or whatever.
> And I'm sure all these donors' interests are aligned, right?

Eh? I think they're broadly aligned. They're aligned when it comes to how corporations and executives should be treated by the courts and regulatory agencies. They're aligned on the extent and structure of free trade pacts. They're aligned on corporate taxation. They're aligned with Bill Clinton's claim that the only thing wrong with the American economy is a "skills gap."

Sure there's going to be disagreement (often severe) on particular points here and there but the broad thrust the economic "Washington Consensus" that Bill Clinton championed is a point of alignment among Clinton's donor class.
The twitter account in bsander's profile says Amsterdam.
We tried a lot of tools and one approach that didn't work for us was a large shared hierarchy of files and folders. We tried Google Docs for this, but it got messy quickly and had to be maintained manually. Additionally, it took a lot of time to find what you were looking for via search or exploring the tree. People had different ideas on how to structure everything.

We abandoned files and folders and are currently using our own real-time wiki (https://www.nuclino.com) to access a flat hierarchy of pages mainly via a title-based and full-text search. Internal links between pages provide a good way for us to navigate among related pages. For a more explorative approach we are experimenting with automatic tagging and visualizations.
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Trying to understand why OP talks about VDI clients (basically dumb terminals), but then complains that they don't have enough RAM to run apps locally.
Thanks for the advice, that all sounds right to me. I particularly like the point about the $TOPIC of the moment.

The roll-your-own-company lab approach sounds a little better, overall. One tricky thing is that I'd have a lot more credibility starting a biotech company with a Ph.D. Right now I'm considering a Ph.D. to get the training and credibility (union card, as someone else said). Still not a slam dunk, though - Transcriptic's founder just has a bachelor's.
Some people call it just "Reagan".

Which airport, "Reagan", "Dulles" or "BWI" ?

They don't say "Marshall" for BWI, though.
VizDoom provides access to the depth buffer.

https://github.com/Marqt/ViZDoom
Google is already starting to base rankings on page speed, thats enough to get companies to spend money on page speed.
Not for sites using TLS. The only option for secure sites would be a CDN. That is, an HTTP cache in a relationship with the content publisher rather than the subscriber.
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"The people" aren't given the opportunity to vote on many things, yet the people they elect do vote. The people they elect often side with their supporters (especially financial ones) on issues that are important to said supporters. A candidate can use their NRA/pro gun status as part of their platform and it will have a meaningful impact on the turnout.

Logically if the US electorate cared even half as much about [topic x] as they do about guns - candidates would care too and "democracy" would follow... no?

(I'm not bashing the US, just taking gun control as an example where a passionate popular view is reflected democratically)
Common Lisp has certainly had multiple dispatch for a long time. One important distinction, however, is that in CL generic functions are opt-in rather than the default. This means that most operations are not generic, limiting the extent to which you can extend things – basically only when some library author decided that you should be allowed to. Dylan and Julia both have functions which are generic by default, meaning that almost all functions can be extended.

Another distinction is that while Common Lisp and Julia both have parametric types, in CL you cannot use multiple dispatch on parametric types. Since parametric types are a very useful for writing generic, reusable libraries, not being able to dispatch on them is a significant limitation.

There's also the issue of performance. In Julia even something as basic as mixed-type addition – e.g. `1 + 2.5` – is defined in terms of layers of generic functions, but the compiler is clever enough to boil it down to a couple of machine instructions. This allows multiple dispatch to be used everywhere, which is really transformative. I'm not aware of any CL implementation which can eliminate the abstraction overhead of multimethods so completely.

It seems a bit remiss to have a series on multiple dispatch and never mention the two languages – Dylan and Julia – that take the paradigm the furthest and most seriously.
I see this tool most useful for people who need to interact with multiple types of databases on the regular. If you only using SQL Server, SSMS is probably the best tool for that. But if you have to use SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle, etc. throughout your day then a single tool is probably going to be the best option for you.
I tested out DataGrip back during the open beta (when it was called 0xDBE) and I enjoyed it. Shame the JetBrains pricing scheme changed as $200 for the first year for something like this is pretty steep.
By all means, please do :) Would be very interesting in having this as a feature.
Thanks. I've been struggling a lot with life in general lately (depression, etc), and it's nice to have some glimpse that someone else shares the view, maybe.

I think we have a real issue at the moment with people funneling their efforts into ways of dealing with issues at the micro level, rather than the macro level. Local optima. Something like that.

It makes me happy to see the sort of political revolutions that the Internet can bring about, but sad to see that we're still thinking so small. e.g. "Get x into tech" rather than "Make it so that you don't need to be in tech to live a decent life". That sort of thing.
Test accuracy aside, isn't finger prick blood draw painful? I've had blood drawn both ways, and finger prick is very unpleasant. I'll pick arm blood draw any day.
A co-worker pointed out to me the other day that PyCharm has SQL querying and refactoring built in as well. Starting to use it as a data grip like IDE as well.
Not really. If we are inside a simulation running on some CPU in the "real world" and they move the simulation to a CPU that's half as slow, from our point of view nothing changes. From the point of view of whoever is running the simulation, it now takes twice as long to simulate a day, but the people inside it cannnot tell.
> "It’s only a three-point difference, but going from 97 to 100 percent [accuracy] makes possible..."

For some reason, this made me extremely annoyed. In terms of uncertainty, this is the largest chasm in the world.
This is why I recommended using the CDN recommended by the project, most do recommend a CDN, for example jQuery has it's own CDN.

As for adoption, that is very much a chicken and egg problem.
Thanks, those posts are interesting.
If your team uses agile, but you report using waterfall. Your reports are not mapping reality. It's just lies to keep people happy.

Quite simply the order you do things is radically different.
Surprised the Bernie bots are still kicking, this seems like more about nothing than something.

Where's the evidence of any such said corruption?

Just because they received money for speeches doesn't make them corrupt, and if you believe it does well then prove it with evidence you can back up but don't put out false claims. Yes she has gotten a good deal of money from speeches but it isn't the only politician out there (present or past) doing them for large amounts of money.

It's one thing to say you're influenced by lobbyist groups donating to your campaign and whole other to say the speeches are used to influence your policies, they're two separate things.

And even while HRC has gotten a decent amount of donations given to her campaign it's a very small piece of the pie that is shelled out by Corporations and Lobbyist groups, look at the other side for example, do you think they aren't COMPLETELY influenced by lobbyist groups? They practically own the Republican party.

Anyways as I said, more about nothing than something.
Did you not see how many XP they have? Look at that XP.
Apple could probably buy the same tool and analyze it.
These states let police take your stuff even if you haven't committed a crime
Uh, there's a whole lot of mass in the universe; this isn't really a limiting factor, and won't be for quite a long time.
MD in Perl 6 is beyond "occasionally handy". A glance at the Perl 6 setting modules[1] revealed something like a 50/50 break down of SD vs MD.

Operators in Perl 6 are all MD, so that's likely a significant factor.

Additionally it is well designed. While the functionality starting point was CLOS, the UX has the benefit of hindsight and a decade of non-stop language evolution.

[1] https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/tree/nom/src/core
it's basically the same thing. Data Grip is basically IntelliJ running the same database plugin that PyCharm (or PhpStorm or whatever other IDE from them) is running.

It might be that the version of the plugin in Data Grip is a bit newer and the UI might be a bit more optimized for pure database management, but the functionality should be more or less the same.
The earth's population has skyrocketed recently. Global poverty is down over the same time. There might be such a limit somewhere, but we're not close enough to it that we have to maintain an equilibrium in births and deaths!
I think his key phrase is "expected to load," which means the color coding would provide an indicator before the user clicks on the links. Therefore, the user skips the unnecessary pain of perceiving the slowness for himself.
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That link inspires me to print and bind the code of a webpage into a book, and put it on a shelf next to other literature masterpieces.

One Hundred Years of Solitude

The Count of Monte Cristo

Anna Karenina

Don Quixote

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hey Raphemdia, actual developer and OP here, (user yonah91 was created a few minutes ago) the line of code you're referring to is in a file called popup.js which is never actually loaded . It's from the sample code which I used to learn how to make a chrome extension (https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/getstarted#resources) I'll remove it now, so that people don't the wrong idea.
Why? Microsoft consistently develops some of the most popular products.
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Well sure, but there is a much more direct refutation of the claim that no physical system can achieve human level intelligence: humans exist.
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I have a small website that uses jQuery, but I by default point to the Google-hosted version (with a fallback to my own site if that fails), but I also use an older version that's a little over half the size of the current version.

What I'd like to see, however, is a way of trimming down jQuery to only include the functions I actually use. I only use two functions out of the whole library IIRC, so I really don't need to load the whole thing. Maybe one day when I have some spare time and other projects out of the way I'll try stripping those functions out of jQuery and just hosting them locally.
You're not the developer, I am. And I absolutely am not tracking anyone. That code is from the sample app: https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/getstarted#resources

and it's since been removed
I just watched this a couple of days ago. Great video :)
It does actually. Article and references both state quantum theory and relativity are the foundation in deriving the limit.
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That's what one-way hash functions are for. You never store the raw fingerprint data, just its unique salted hash so the data cannot be reused elsewhere.
It isn't clear from the description, but does this allow you to have tasks become 'triggered' for lack of a better term once a task has been completed? eg I want my task list in the morning to say make eggs and bacon, then once I've done that a new task pops up for me to do the dishes.
Looks like most of the discussion here is on network traffic.

Minifying JS and CSS, compression, CDNs and caching won't keep your browser from having to render all the stuff.

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The stewardess on a new jet airliner:

- Ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard of our new airplane. On the second deck you'll find a couple of bars and a restaurant. The golf course is on the third deck. You're also welcome to visit the swimming pool on the fourth deck.
Now - ladies and gentlemen - please fasten your seatbelts. With all this sh*t we'll try to take off.
The bottleneck isn't the optical system, it's the mechanical swing arms that's the gating factor.
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Agile has a lot less structure compared to traditional project management.

Decisions are made by developers, peers review each other instead of managers etc

Agile is about letting go of the traditional command and control thinking(Managers controlling employees, managers approving work, managers setting deadlines), and into trusting your developers to make good decisions, trust that they are not slacking and peer review.
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Just so I understand, I pull the file and make a checksum, then hardcode it into the link to the resource in my own code? Then, when the client pulls my code, follows the link, checks the checksum against the one I included in the link.
> Also, we should not be surprised if the rest of the documents will be declassified when, for various reasons, there will be an acute need of war with Saudi Arabia.

There will never be a war with KSA. This place is way too sensitive even the US wouldn't dare touch it. It would be an instant war with the Muslim world. The US has other ways to pressure KSA if needed. I don't think anybody in the US would be that foolish and attack the Mecca .
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No. It was already possible for any X11 application to do this. Some people interpreted snap as providing additional protection against this, but it does not. Fixing it requires switching from X11 to another display server with a better security model, such as Wayland or Mir.
That is kind of misleading statement. What quantum computers change is not how many operations per second you could do, but how many operations you need to factor large numbers.

I believe that Bremermann's limit should also apply to quantum computers, but you are right in that example given for breaking cryptography is way off if you allow quantum computers.
> which would have prevented the 2008 disaster.

Probably not. The biggest players in the collapse, Bear Sterns, Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and AIG, were not commercial banks that would have been restrained under Glass-Steagal. In fact, much of the financial structure that eventually collapsed in 2008 began to accumulate well before GLBA in 1999.

And, again, I think you're overlooking the fact that there are non-corrupt reasons to be against bringing back Glass-Steagal. More importantly, you're ignoring the fact that Clinton does support Dodd-Frank, as well as improvements to Dodd-Frank that would be better suited to address the causes of the 2008 collapse than just reinstating Glass-Steagal.

So, she supports fairly robust new bank regulations--she just doesn't support your favorite, so you say she's corrupt (and tell me I'm 'lying' by suggesting otherwise--civil!).

http://theweek.com/articles/583243/what-hillary-gets-right-a...
https://www.hillaryclinton.com/briefing/factsheets/2015/10/0...
I will be reporting this thought crime to the Ministry of Truth.
Time, skill required and volume are all in favor of the finger prick method. And some people absolutely freak out about needles but would be ok with a finger prick.
For the referrer problem you can apply a referrer policy to prevent this but unfortunately the referrer policy isn't very granular.

Also for my sites I have a fallback to a local copy of the script. This allows me to do completely local development and remain up if the public CDN goes down (or gets compromised). With small (usually) performance impact.
I feel like the problem with Adam Curtis' work is... well, Adam Curtis. It's very easy to dismiss his entire body of work as "conspiracy theory", because he only writes about these sorts of topics. And it does him and his work a disservice, because of course there is a lot of truth in what he writes and produces. As with anything, there is also a lot of unsubstantiated narrative, but for anyone who's on the fence I would highly recommend watching Bitter Lake. Even if you think Curtis is a crank, the film is beautiful and the score is fantastic (Burial, Four Tet, etc.) and you might find some of the facts interesting.
Yes. Of course this is true. Governments operate differently than the people of the country. Every single Saudi person I have known has been generous and kind.

Good luck!
It costs few million dollars a year just to be a public company, SOX compliance included.
we invaded afghanistan because bin laden was residing there and those in charge, the taliban, were protecting him (or the other way around given real political strength). it's fun to imagine the entire us intelligence apparatus as corrupt and criminal, but reality's plenty interesting.
I tried this out as a replacement for SQL Developer (awful) and PL/SQL Developer (good, but like something from the 90s) when the Early Access Programme started.

It wasn't up to snuff then, but I have faith in Jetbrains and am a big PyCharm user. I'll definitely be giving this a try.
Yep. This is a bit trivialized, but is accurate and to the point: http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user3303...
Is bulk data collection government regulated? Meaning, is it legal for a person to start building and sharing databases about other people e.g. about the same people working for the organizations mentioned in the article, MI5, MI6, GCHQ?

I'm not interested in doing that, just wondering whether there is a double standard for this kind of activity.
It's not much higher than 100ms

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/response-times-3-important-...
Doubt it, they've been a dictatorship supported by the US since day one.
Appreciate the clarification. That makes your company even more interesting.
Note that unless you rebuild the .box yourself, you probably still can't actually trust it any more than one of these. Building a .box with a fake Vagrantfile inside is not really difficult.
Would have prevented something is a big assumption, especially when at the time prior to 2008 you had a party in power that wants to away with regulation and maximize military spending on our credit card which compounded issues already going on.
Hey. Good point about the profanity. I'll add an option toggle it on and off. It was meant to be sort of a fun tool for myself.

About tracking, it is absolutely not tracking anything or anyone. That line of code referring to gtmetrix.com is from the sample google extension which i just forgot to remove. https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/getstarted#resources
I'll remove it now. Sorry for the confusion. I hate tracking and would never do it to anyone without their permission (or even with their permission)
I don't know how Jetbrains DataGrip compares to SSMS, but on its own, SSMS isn't good enough in my opinion. With Redgate's [expensive] plugin (SQL Prompt, I think?), sure it's a fantastic experience. However, if you're paying through the nose for SQL Server licenses which come with SSMS Professional, it shouldn't be too much to expect the kind of functionality SQL Prompt comes with built in as standard in SSMS.
...also military, law enforcement, and other government secrets.
Great writeup! I might try this out later and see how it fairs. I haven't used the Jekyll + GitHub combo yet but I have heard great things.
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We have an opportunity to elect the first women as President of the United States I hope we aren't going to pick on small things and ignore that opportunity. Unless she is proven to be any different than any previous President your choices are elect the first women as President or Trump. You decide.
One would think Walgreens would have done some due diligence when partnering with anyone. Wouldn't they put someone providing healthcare diagnostics services through rigorous testing to see if they could deliver on promises? I'm hoping they don't take providers' word when they partner with providers.

Or is Walgreens just trying to get from under the weight of theranos's bad publicity at this point?
I agree with you that putting JQuery in the browser is a bad idea, but the second part of the argument, that the browser will have the libraries in cache is not really that reliable. Here's some notes I collected on the subject: http://justinblank.com/notebooks/BrowserCacheEffectiveness.h....
Since 2.1 megs is only the compressed size of the shareware distribution[1], we are not going any further than Phobos. Since this is only for v1.0, it is going to be a buggy Phobos.

[1] http://www.doomarchive.com/ListFiles.asp?FolderId=216&Conten...
I need this on my phone more than I need a chrome extension, since I mainly go to Facebook on my phone. But good idea!
I thought Bitter Lake was an amazing documentary.

Can anyone recommend related or similar work of the same quality?
It would be interesting if browsers start implementing a content-addressable cache. So as well as caching resource by URI also cache by hash. Then SRI requests could be served even if the URL was different.

Of course this would need a proposal or something but it would be interesting to consider.
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