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Would Watson discover this, though? Even if you marked all the lyrics with a year, would it be able to make that sort of inference? I don't think so, I doubt it is able to form anything like a concept of time, or person, or a person changing over time, especially not from an input of song lyrics.
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It is completely possible without a file (on linux, winNT, osx). Syscall names might mislead you, but this is how it is...
Overnight demand is substantially less than daytime - last night's demand in the UK was about 20% lower:http://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/index.php

The grid would prefer a another demand curve, so overnight charging is helpful.
So given your rant, does any ORM cater for this condition better?

Does any web framework manage these? Given two almost identical requests that cause a race condition most frameworks fall down in my experience.
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As a side note, I fixed the Start menu searching issue by disabling the slide animation for the menu: http://lifehacker.com/disable-this-animation-to-make-windows...
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Oh. Yeah, that's not a good use case for lambda. Resizing images, sure, but not handling requests like that

Lambda is great for running code in response to events (like SNS messages or S3 file uploads), but I really don't think it should be used for something like handling web requests. Just because you _can_ do something with a million steps and configuring 50 AWS services together, doesn't mean you _should_.
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Preserving a seed like that wouldn't lead to a similar game without a lot more work. If there's one more or less combat, or you meet the other factions in a different order, you'd "desync" the stream of random numbers and have an entirely different sequence of random events later on.
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What's even worse is that it's not even a good Ruby like Crystal. It seems to be missing any sort of callable object (can't find any mention of a proc, a block, or a lambda in the website documentation). So consequently there's no select, reject, each, or really any sort of mapping in the standard library (unless it's buried or I missed it).
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For a general-purpose container that is unacceptable. It must perform well from tiny to huge sizes. Also, syscalls in every constructor/destructor call? No thanks.

What you describe might make sense for some special cases, but adopting it as a default strategy is a bad idea IMO. (Edit: re-read your other post in this thread and realized that you are not really advocating this. Well then my reply goes mostly to nkurz :))

> even within one application, you may want to mix the storage strategies between different objects.

That's precisely what modern malloc implementations do.
That's great. You know how expensive it is to get rid of radiactive material. It this comes true the big power plants can just dump the waste into the river and say "It wasn't me".

I would not want to live next to such a thing.
I haven't played Stellaris, but I looked up the research system after reading your comment. It does actually seem really cool and like a good use of randomness.

It reminds me of Master of Orion 2, which also had non-deterministic research. There, each point in the tech tree was a category containing multiple items and, when research into that category was done, you got a random item from that category. If you wanted one of the others, you'd have to get it by trading with or spying on other races.
I used to love to go out at night with my 10" reflector and see a point of light magnified to... a point of light. For variety, I would look at binary stars to see... two points of light. Sometimes, I would search for nebulae and galaxies to see... a fuzzy patch of light. Optical astronomy is such fun.

Now, alas, the light pollution is so severe that all my points of light and fuzzy patches are severely washed out.

So I sold my telescope and took up scuba diving. It was all fish and coral, fish and coral, until a few years ago. Now it's no fish and fuzzy white patches that used to be coral.

The former coral looks like nebulae and galaxies through light pollution in my 10" reflector.
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and also programs that do the reverse:
http://arxiv.org/abs/1605.05396
>No, you'd want a location with lots of ATMs that have large amounts of money in them. In my experience India and Africa would both be particularly bad places for this. LE isn't a factor here, mules may get arrested but the perpetrators certainly don't care.

Contrary to popular belief (and "your experience", Africa & India , has a lot of ATMs that have a lot of money, I am from South Africa, and I've been to India so I know this for a fact.
I think it is entirely fair. You can fill gas or diesel up at a station quite quickly. To charge batteries so that you can use the car, you really need a charging station available every night or day.
HDI is actually a really poor estimator of Standard of Living. It is measurement of development, but it really cannot be used to compare Standard of Living, especially in developed countries. HDI before 2010 was useless for comparing developed countries as it was literally just a composed index of life expectancy, literacy rate and GDP per capita: for most developed countries literacy rate and life expectancy are basically at the top of the index, so the only differentiating factor is GDP per capita (PPP) which is a pretty misleading indicator anyway.

They then tried to make it more relevant in 2010 and also created an income inequality-adjusted version. This new index uses GNI instead of GDP and uses years of schooling rather than literacy rate (which is basically 99-100% for all developed countries) which makes it bit better, but it still doesn't figure in life satisfaction or other relevant measures into standard of living which is why it's still mainly a way to rank developing countries. The income inequality-adjusted version is slightly better, but still doesn't measure any psychological well-being.
Now china should start diverting Brahmaputra river, or build more dams

http://www.hindustantimes.com/world/china-s-largest-dam-in-t...
> Arrays are covariant, and object is the base class of everything. I'm surprised that nobody's noticed that already (it's unsafe: arrays should instead be invariant).

The real problem is that most languages don't actually give you arrays, they just give you mutable cells containing arrays of mutable cells. Remove mutable cells from the picture, and you'll see how wonderfully covariant array types are.

Arrays are really second-class values in the vast majority of languages. The litmus test for first-class-value-ness is “Do I need to worry about the identity of the object that holds this value?” The answer should be “no” if the value is first-class.

> `var v = 1 / 0` causes FPE and core dump and dumps an ugly compiler stack trace.

Exceptions don't make much sense for handling programming errors like division by 0. What is your program supposed to do? Fix itself?

> I suspect that their virtual types are probably unsound, but haven't tried working with them.

They are indeed unsound, for pretty much the same reason covariant method arguments are unsound in Eiffel. I have an example here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11752071
Good point - I'm not sure when Barnton stopped being the RSG - I had assumed it was well after '63.

There was a new RSG type bunker at Cultybraggan near Comrie but, with impeccable timing, that wasn't completed until 1990!
That part didn't make sense to me. Why does it stay more radioactive for a period of time after the accident? The pieces are separated - shouldn't it return to it's previous state? .I can understand it heating up (though can't you just cool it down mechanically?) but that's not really the same
I'm beginning to believe that answering factoid questions is still too expensive, from a computational point of view, to put in an API.
> If it really becomes a problem the price of EVs will go up and then people won't buy them.

Taxpayers, for instance, have reason to worry about this, because things are driven ahead by subsidies. We don't necessarily have a market that would work the way you assume because of external pressures.

Re: wind power.
That's not true, although there's a lot I took from FP. Like avoiding mutable state, and functional composition for data transformations.

This doesn't change the fact my code is OO - I use objects, composition, decoration, delegation and many other OO techniques, and in general try to avoid heavy inheritance-based patterns.

I can understand how people may think I'm trying to use ruby in an awkward way, but this is really not the case.
Most of the issues described in the article are solved by projects like [0], [1] and [2]. [2] was particularly easy to work with (tried it with a standard installation of Django CMS and it was working very well, only in US regions) and the advantage is that you can still work locally as you would usually do, even keep a testing environment for CI on a managed server, and just replace the production server with it.

[0] https://github.com/serverless/serverless

[1] https://github.com/Miserlou/Zappa

[2] https://github.com/Miserlou/django-zappa
Personally, my bubble tells me untruths about communities and belief systems I'm not part of - I suspect that yours likely does, too, because it seems to be human nature to distill one's "opponents'" beliefs into something easy to attack. Even when the beliefs are abhorrent, and I'm likely to continue seeing them as abhorrent, it's useful to know what people are actually saying, instead of what my bubble says they're saying.

And the only way I can find to do that consistently is to actively seek sources of information on specific subjects from the "opposing" point of view. The articles my filter bubble send me are generally going to be emotionally-fueled rubbish, because it takes time and effort and a very good understanding of the subject matter to take apart an argument otherwise, and for most people, their time on the Internet is time they don't want to be spending mental energy.
What about making the battery packs "hot swappable". You pull into the station, the current pack is unloaded and a new one is loaded. I It can also have interesting effects on the battery upgrade you need to do every X amount of years. The packs could be owned by the gas station chain, so you can stop at any of their establishments and get a new one refiled.

These battery pack charging stations could then also be used as power offloading for local power generation.
But considered their chapter colors, the name just got another dimension to it.
Would you consider freelancing, or creating your own company, as a way out?

What's your solution to this dilemma?
> aims at elegance, simplicity and intuitiveness.

As opposed to all the other languages that aim at ugliness, complexity and the principle of most surprise?
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> Perhaps another axiomatic system could compute its value?

Of course another axiomatic system could. If you could tell us such an axiomatic system for which you can prove that it can determine the value of BB(7910) and have strong arguments why it is probably consistent (by Gödel one will not be able to prove this property if it is able to express basic arithmetic) mathematicians would love to get to know it, since they really have no idea how such a system might look like.
Full text on SciHub: http://sci-hub.cc/10.1093/sf/sow035 (PDF)
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Where I live (in a dense German city) there wouldn't even be space at the roadside to install charging points; even the street lights are attachted to the houses because there was no space left. I have the same situation at work, so personally have a difficult time imagining to own an electric car anytime soon.
> Because every population should have the right to make secession.

I hardly see evidence in the history when such rights were granted without prior terror or occupation of a foreign army. In Europe, multinational countries could live together while the people could maintain their ethnicity.

Nowadays, with the nation states, people has much less freedom in this regard they had prior the national movements of the 19th century.
It wasn't always like this. The Windows API was fairly stable from the mid-late 90s for at least a decade. They decided to start breaking that compatibility in the name of 'progress' at around the time they started trying to squidge together their touchscreen and desktop interfaces, but this API stability used to be one of the huge drawcards of the Windows platform.
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> Given the same electrical interface, dimensions and a compatible BMS, swapping out for a lighter, cheaper battery IS trivial.

I don't know about the US, but over here in some European countries, there's this thing about vehicle type approval. Changing things like the drive train, brakes, engine or a different type of fuel tank might not be possible because then the vehicle's not conforming to regulation.

I could imagine this could be a problem with a changed battery type as well, even if dimensions etc are the same.
Of course, but that chickenshit minimalist is specifically aimed at "minimal" things that actually has a lot of bloat beneath them.
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I'd prefer to use a functional API with a few warts and limitations over having to learn yet another goddamn 'fast-moving modern' interface which will disappear within five years.

Churn might be great for job security but it's a huge waste of everyone's time and efforts.
This is a somewhat ironical tragedy - the two dead climbers went on to Everest because, quoting them, "she and her husband wanted to dispel the belief that vegans were 'weak' or 'malnourished' by taking on the climb." and then proceeded to die out of exhaustion on their way down.
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Nit: You do not "send your keys" to the SSH server. You only sign a statement using them. The statement contains some session data that is generated by the server and client together while setting up the session; this makes the signature useless for trying to impersonate the client in any future or concurrent connections.
Think of Malthus. He described how human populations could overshoot the food supply because the growth rate in humans was exponential but the growth rate for food production was linear. Famines then follow a predictable cycle.

My hypothesis is that in the economy the growth rate in humans does not relate directly to economic growth. There could exist a religion that promotes large families for example; that's why I said mother nature would ultimately take care of business if things got out of hand.

Sometimes we need more humans but there is a lag time before they appear. Sometimes we need less humans but they stick around absorbing dwindling resources and leaving their children with higher prices later. Both of these outcomes sabotage future growth prospects.

How this relates to economics is that central bankers use interest rates changes in an attempt to produce stable growing economies. As I understand it the mechanism is a kind of lever, by modifying the trajectory of money supply you can slightly influence the larger flow. Central banks then spend their time compiling statistics to anticipate the future.

If one can do that with money then you can do it with humans too by finely tuning the probability of them being able to give birth. Then as long as you can anticipate the amount of workers required you can provide that many at the correct time. Demographic hiccups become a thing of the past.

I leave a lot unsaid here. Evidently controlling one part of the economy causes you to require as you say 'very exacting control' over other parts. As you can see there is nothing controversial here.

I want to point out that the actions of governments tend to support a belief (that they believe) in something of this sort and that changing human production rates is some kind of corollary to changing interest rates. After all the humans use the money. They're the ones incorporating information into prices with their decisions.

This whole topic has the feeling of an 'Ugh field' about it. I understand if I'm downvoted into oblivion but it's an important idea. If I'm totally wrong then great, tell me how.
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I do think "they" will prevail, certainly more easily than than xe or thon or other invented options. So I actually use it, though there's still a part of my brain that flashes a red light each time, and I have to consciously ignore that.

I do think using "she" as the hypothetical example for roles people think of as male is still useful; it hopefully makes people question their knee-jerk response a bit.
"You can just write the tests for a class or a piece of functionality at the bottom of it's source file - or even header file!"

Woah.. this makes it so easy I might even use it. I'm really not a fan of TDD b/c it explodes the number of things you have to maintain - but the way this is rolled in with the documentation makes it quite appealing. Thank you so much for you work. If I start to use this regularly, I'll make sure to donate
Yeah, it does lend the game a bit of a Moo2 feel. In other strategy games like Civ 5, or even in RPGs, it tends to be very straightforward to work out the "optimum" strategy. eg. You have to get this tech as quickly as possible, you have to unlock that ability.

After a while of playing those games, I tend to get a little bored as I'm pretty much following the same strategy over and over. You get the feeling that you're just ticking off the boxes on your perfect playthrough and when I have that realisation, I get immensely bored with the game.

By adding some randomness and preventing the player from ever being able to follow a perfect plan, they've actually made a very interesting highly replayable game. And like all Paradox games, it'll only go from strength to strength as they patch it and release new content for years to come.
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IBM's revenue has been declining for years, but analytics and cloud is their growth segment. The question is when the legacy stuff has become small enough to stop impacting overall results too much.
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>* It's quite a stretch to know that one group has a higher average IQ (by ~10 points) and yet still insist that there is some other explanation for why they are economically successful in every society.*

Actually, you probably just confuse cause and effect. Why do the jews have higher IQs? Answer: because they are wealthy, so their offspring have had the benefit of better nutrition, better early care, etc, and better selection of healthy and intelligent prospective partners. Tons of hereditary and environmental factors come into play just by being wealthy.

Not to mention that not all -- or even the majority-- of jews are wealthy, nor are all successful. These claims are mostly the province of stereotype, not to say racism.
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Oops, I meant to write "to us" not "to use".

My main thing was that asian websites have more image-based content and their sentences and blocks of text look more blocky (due to uniformer characters and lack of spacing). I am not saying this is "shitty" - I am just saying that they have a different culture that makes these website the norm for them.

The rakuten looks quite busy, but at least it looks discoverable. I opened amazon and eBay and frankly they look hard to use since they hide some information.

But yeah the PS one looks more like a western page with a different language.
All languages obviously aim to have as many 'good' qualities as possible.

However trade-offs are inevitable and it surely tells you something if a language puts these particular priorities first over say - performance, compactness or any other adjectives they could have picked.
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I hate to say it, but my only thought is that if every economic indicator is saying negligible inflation and property prices are soaring... that's almost certainly an indicator of an unsustainable bubble.

The problem is that you never know when they are going to burst and what the fallout will be. But my guess is this scenario (if I'm right, you have to quote me later...): At some point there will be a collapse of the pound (possibly due to shenanigans around short term consumer debt). To bolster the currency, interests rates will go up slightly. However, for people who are already incredibly stretched on their mortgages, they will be foreclosed when their term needs to be renegotiated. This will put houses on the market at fire sale prices and put the market into free fall.

Essentially the same thing happened in 91 or 92 (can't remember) when Britain linked their currency to the Deutsche mark which pushed interest rates up. It was only rescued by the Japanese who purchased up all the real estate. The problem is that this time I'm not sure there will be anyone around to mop up.

But on another note, I live in rural Japan and was considering buying a house. My neighbour said, "Look at the age of all the people in this neighbourhood. Everyone is over 60. Soon every house will be for sale." So... it probably pays to wait. Deflation indeed...
Nitpick, the operation seems to be allowed to invalidate iterators, though not references.
"An insertion in the middle of the deque invalidates all the iterators and references to elements
of the deque. An insertion at either end of the deque invalidates all the iterators to the deque, but has
no effect on the validity of references to elements of the deque" [1]
There might be some cases where it would be practical to simply not free the previously used memory, such that after N increases in size there are N copies of each element. This would only roughly double the space required.

[1] C++ working draft, 11 megabytes; http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2014/n429...
Good job your argument didn't win the day a few decades back. ;-)
XCOM2 has a slightly controversial "randomness compensator": repeatedly missing increases your chance to hit, and being hit repeatedly by the aliens lowers their hit chance.

Various games (L4D is the first prominent example, there may be others before it) include "AI directors" that try to keep the player involved through balancing exiting events and periods of tension. This makes it a lot harder to have a "boring" game, or one where you get "unfairly" hammered by the randomness.

In fiction I'd trace this to Asimov's Foundation series, which is premised on "psychohistory" being a sort of fully deterministic fusion of economics and psychology enabling the development of future society to be predicted. Until a few books into the series where the "mule" is introduced, who is an individual powerful and unpredictable enough to throw off the determinism of historical inevitability.
Tesla designed that, built one, then dropped it last year as nobody was using it. It could be more useful in vehicles which don't charge as fast, perhaps?
Never could understand who doesn't put code examples on the main webpage of their language site. Especially seeing that their 'hello world' example is not really telling us anything.

It's like they are ashamed of the language they created and would rather hide it than display it.
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