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Well, don't buy a 50 pack of envelopes if you can avoid it. I think most people would reflexively buy a bunch and throw it in a drawer (batteries....) but in the absolute is it worth it?

And how many times have you used your sink plunger? It depends on your situation, but one of the tenants of this lifestyle is that you don't actually have to be prepared for that time where you'll need 2 50-foot ethernet cables.

I don't think the sink plunger or toileteries are the target so much as that box you have in your office filled with USB cables. Or your cup full of 19 different pens (12 of which only half-work).

I think the cloud imagery is such a good example too. You have your plunger next to the toilet, but I bet you stuck 4 or 5 other things down there too (some spare parts from installing the toilet seats?)

The way I follow it is that if there's a decent obvious place for something it's a lot less costly for me to hold onto it (like the suit) than for random crap that I "kinda think" I need to keep. And constant re-evaluation of this. If you're diligent and re-evaluating it constantly you should almost never have a "cloud" of things stacked up in a corner.
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Rather than re-state it I'll just link you to this comment, which is spot-on accurate:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11935777
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> (strings are a fundamental datatype in any language)

(Probably a bit "unfair" to "pounce" on an off-hand paranthetical like this, but I'm in a bit of a pedantic mood...)

This is not true for e.g. Haskell. In Haskell it's defined as [Char], i.e. a list of characters. (Of course the Haskell community is suffering from that decision, but that's another story.)

I'm not sure why strings would need to be a fundamendal type, though. Sure, they would probably be part of the standard library for almost all languages, but they don't need to be "magical" in the way most fundamental types (int, etc.) are.
>>but for some reason people like to count it as code bloat

Again, used code being generated is counted as bloat. This, I can't understand.
As I understand it, the "herbivore" man is rejecting the "carnivore" existence of the Japanese male executive.
So he is not working every hour of the day, he is just getting by. But you are right, they are not focusing on "self improvement", rather just withdrawing from society.
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Big fan of sqlite.
But have to say I'm surprised to see how much testing it gets. While it's great when it works sqlite databases are definitely temperamental.

In fact those test suites being so large is possibly part of the problem. Sounds like they are being overly prescriptive in their testing, which is why it's so damn fussy about the order commands are executed without causing it to leak memory left right and center.
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I've already configured my editors and tools to work with Make, and I'm not so much complaining about Make here as I am pointing out one of its most annoying warts. I am a pretty heavy Make user and I think it's great (not least of which because it's so darn ubiquitous).

And, not to sound harsh, but if you always "accept that there is a reason some things work in certain ways" without questioning if there may be a better way, well, you will always be stuck with the status quo!
SQLite is already a mature codebase. You would hope (expect?) that most issues that a Static Analyser would pick up would be purely stylistic ones in this case.

This speaks more to the maturity and robustness of the SQLite codebase than it does of static analysis as a type of tool.

Static Analysis is very useful in the development phase of a project where you can treat them effectively as compiler warnings if your build system is setup that way.

...and that isn't to say that its not worth still using SA on mature codebases, just because a codebase is mature does not indicate its quality.
Make 4.2 was released this year. Many people prefer spaces over tabs and many editors insert spaces by default. Most compilers can deal with both spaces and tabs in their parsers, so I assume that it's not an insurmountable problem to make both work for Makefiles, or at least improve the error message. So calling it a "usability hole" is completely accurate.
I agree about the pitfalls of a work-obsessed culture, but your tangential speculation about meat, women, and causes of suicide in Japan seem comically simplistic and honestly prejudiced.
Upnp in its intial form, getting media devices to talk to each other and exchange data, was fine. But how the heck did it end up being about punching holes in firewalls?!
Reminds me of the days I made my own envelopes -- with a piece of paper, a few folds, and glue.
Not so much, a timer ticking up is only novel the first time round, and is unrelated to actions taken by the agent. Over multiple plays the agent will learn to ignore it.

EDIT: It could be that the agent will just stand there the first few plays around, enjoying the novelty reward gained from simply watching the timer tick up. Haha
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I didn't make it all the way through the post. Too many exclamation marks - after every sentence, it seems - and quoting Miley Cyrus was the breaking point for me.

But seriously, do people really buy new watches to match their new cars? New wardrobes to match a new pair of jeans? I never even knew this was a phenomenon. Definitely first-world problems.
regarding being temperamental....

You're going to have to justify that a bit more, that would not be the overwhelming experience around these parts.

Not to say its perfect but its the weight of evidence is in SQLites favour here.
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Take a look at makefiles from various suckless projects. For example: http://git.suckless.org/dwm/tree/Makefile

Their makefiles work with GNU Make and BSD Make, don't know about nmake (AFAIR Windows).
I'd wager there are a fair few Windows devs who don't know make. Granted there are few who truly understand MSBuild to make the comparison fair.
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What country is this in? Your budged is more than or maybe comparable to most people's budget in my home country - Bulgaria. And they certainly don't get to sacrifice hot water and phone.

Please note that I'm not saying this in order to mock you.
I'm genuinely interested (and practice to some extent, though nowhere close to you) in minimalist living and saving money.
> dependencies on coreutils

Or just install that Ubuntu on Windows thingy and be done with it.
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Cursory Google search shows Pascal GPUs at 10pJ/op for double precision (these guys did int, which should be 10x faster)[1,2]

[1]
http://wccftech.com/nvidia-pascal-volta-gpus-sc15/

[2]
http://prism.sejong.ac.kr/download/PRISM3_paper/PRISM_Ajayku...
A lot of the CoW patents, WAFL, snapshot patents that Network Appliance filed in the late 1990s have expired, or are expiring this year.

For example, https://www.google.com/patents/US6289356 was filed in 1998, so I presume it's expiring fairly soon. Given that some of the original lawsuits were Network Appliance suing Sun/Oracle, I'm wondering how much of a role this played in the timing of the release of these features? After all, Apple could pretty much pick a window to release a new file system - nothing special about 2016, that they couldn't have done this in 2015 or 2017...

Which makes me wonder if there are data integrity patents that will expire, and at such time, Apple can now drop the functionality into APFS. After all, they did say during their presentation, that the flexibility of the data format is one of the key design features of APFS.
That's an RPC library. I don't understand how that's relevant to reflection.
I've seen the same sort of thing in pre-industrial-era Japanese house design. My guess, is that although the roof is fixed down, it helps to have it also weighted down with big rocks when the wind picks up. Japan gets typhoons, and I think Tibet is kinda windy on account of being high up.
Safety was a concern also in the curious case of javelin thrower Miguel de la Quadra-Salcedo:

"In the mid 50s Miguel and the pitcher of the Basque Bar, Félix Erausquin invented how to adapt that instrument to throw the javelin. In the manner of the disk or hammer, pitcher turns on itself before throwing. After much training, Miguel de la Quadra-Salcedo presented the "Spanish style" of throwing the javelin. The effectiveness was that high that in 1956 added 20 meters to the world record, which at the time was around 80. However, the record was never approved by the IAAF (International Association of Athletics Federations). It thought that launch was too dangerous for the public because during the rotation the javelin tip was focused to them." [1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel_de_la_Quadra-Salcedo#Ea...

edit: a couple more links, including a video [2], [3]

[2] http://rethinkingathletics.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-javelin-...

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ul6dCL2vOkk
I feel like the author just structured their build dependencies wrong. I used to work on a project that had a 16,000 line Makefile, where almost the entire file was actively in use. So you can abuse any build system.
If you create a database of license plates (profiles) of all cars on the road along with their whereabouts and behavior at any given time, and then sell this information to the highest bidder.... you would be a bit wrong.
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Most sane editors automatically switch to tabs when editing makefiles.

Anyway, my point was, not everything needs to be customizable to your liking. Sometimes things have a set of simple rules you just have to follow. I for one like that we are limited to tabs, otherwise we would have problems with different number of spaces in the same file and by the way exactly how many spaces are a tab? I like 4 but maybe you like 8 or, god forbidden, 2?
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why should freestyle swimming prohibit this style of swimming?

The official reason? Safety concerns (from oxygen deprivation) and the fact that people swimming underwater makes for a less spectator friendly sport. There might be some other unofficial reasons, but not sure what they might be. My guess is that the spectator angle is the main reason.
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No, Minimalism is a fad cooked up by people who were all-out consumers until they realized they didn't need all that crap who now have found permission from their guru (cited in the article) to get rid of their crap.

Aka: common sense.

Real minimalism is the life of a monk, and is not generally something compatible with functioning in society, and even monks live in places that take care of their needs by offloading some of their burdens on others.

A friend of mine - who is a declared minimalist - always wants to borrow my stuff (especially tools), go figure.
I came up with "self-distributing bug bounty piñata" in the last DAO-failure discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11921677
CS:GO is way better at higher pings (possible to play "competitive" at 100+ ping) than old CS (based on QW engine) was. 300ping was acceptable when I had dialup, but only because I didn't know any better lol
It's not strange, I was thinking that too. Trousers basically don't get dirty from being on your body, all the dirt comes from outside. I can wear the same pair of trousers for weeks before I need to wash them. Shirts, though, may last as little as two or three days if it's hot and wet outside. And summer in Japan is that way.

I call shenanigans.
(Dynamic) Power consumption goes up with square of voltage, so a comparison with a gpu's max power efficiency point (almost certainly underclocked and undervolted) could change the comparison significantly.
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As a tech nomad, minimalism wasn't quite optional in my case, and it's really not that hard to get rid of stuff if you put your mind into it.

What I have problem minimizing is the amount of gadgetry. I use a phablet for phone and tablet tasks, and a notebook as a workstation which is connected to extra monitors, storage and such when in an office. While it may not sound as much, I think I could get away with less. If someone was to release a tablet comparable to Surface 4 Pro but smaller and with Thunderbolt (i.e. supporting external graphics) I'd ditch my whole setup in a heartbeat.
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Not true, most of the plain text protocols like SMTP, FTP, HTTP/1.1 etc. also mandate \r\n.
> like when you get a phone call from someone you were just thinking of...

Given the options of:

1. Coincidences happen
2. Your brain getting confused about the ordering of events
3. Time traveling signals from the future.

I'd need pretty strong evidence before leaping to 3.
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I tend to feel the same way but there are often safety reasons. You can't have a popular sport where the winners are the ones who push themselves closest to death.

g-forces causing harm to drivers: https://what-if.xkcd.com/116/

Smaller events also have to allow the competitors to focus on a smaller range of capabilities so they can actually find competent players. Robot and drone competitions come to mind where the equipment is often standardized so they're only testing skills or programming, not being-the-best-at-everything which would end up as "throwing the most money at it".
That's an error message from GNU Make. I'm not sure what version of GNU Make you're using, because GNU Make has emitted the following since 1998:

Makefile:2: *** missing separator (did you mean TAB instead of 8 spaces?). Stop.

See 2c64fb221a265f9e7fc93374906b1e7540377561:

1998-09-04 Paul D. Smith <psmith@gnu.org>

* read.c (read_makefile): If we hit the "missing separator" error,
check for the common case of 8 spaces instead of a TAB and give an
extra comment to help people out.

I guess you may have indented it in the modern way with 4 spaces of "tab". Either way, there's also help to be had from your other tools, e.g., vim highlights space-indented make recipes in glaring red error bars.
Meh, all the purposes are real. It's a win-win. Get warned of idiots, collect data that will be useful to insurers (and probably to self driving cars too, I can imagine Google cars giving detected hotheads a wide berth).

I can see one group of people having a legit beef with this though: car rental companies. One idiot behind the wheel, and their fleet car might as well go straight to scrap.
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Supervised learning algorithms are ones for which we have some known labels on our inputs (known outputs), whereas in unsupervised learning we don't have any known outputs. Regardless, in both cases we need to learn the parameters that relate the input to the output.

Genetic algorithms can therefore be both supervised or unsupervised.
That's sort of amazing. Thanks for posting this!
What led you to expect any of that when you clicked on the link?
Not knowing something any CS graduate should already know and then feel so great about discovering it you just have to write a blog post about it?

that gets a 8/10 on my hipsterometer
There is no such thing as a RESTful authentication. REST's design hinges on URIs being public.
where do you put the 50 pack of envelopes you had to buy to send one letter?

The garbage? Sure it's wasteful, but if true minimalism brings you happiness then it might be worth it.
Hello! I've been using this for a little while today and I'd love some insight in the process for developing using the Messenger api! Any tips and where to start? How limited is this right now?
Supplying even a trivial Makefile is advantageous if your target audience knows it. They'll see a Makefile and just do `make && make check && make install` without needing to browse your README.

For example, Debian's packaging process is heavily optimized towards Makefiles that supply the standard targets, and you can reduce a lot of friction for packagers if you supply a wellbehaving Makefile with your program. (Even if developers would usually `go build` or whatever instead of `make`.)
For context, the exerpt is from the book The Screwtape Letters. A demon named Screwtape mentors an inexperienced demon in how to torment humans (and drag them down to Hell): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Screwtape_Letters

The book is in the public domain.
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> The TH3 test harness is a set of proprietary tests, [...] TH3 is free to SQLite Consortium members and is available by license to others.

I think it's ridiculous that people make proprietary test suites. In my opinion, test suites shouldn't even be copyrightable let alone made proprietary. A test suite is used to define what the precise interface of an API is, it's just a piece of code rather than a standards document.

EDIT: To be clear, the actual test framework might be copyrightable. But the actual test cases should not be IMO. It's also a shame that a free software project requires using proprietary software in order to practically test it.
Nice, that seems to work. Is there a downside to using this?

I had to still explicitly add `bind-key C-a previous-window` to emulate screen's `C-a a` to switch between last windows.
In a couple of years it would just be driverless cars rating other driverless cars.

Google sees the car in front is a Tesla: 1 star :)
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Of course, you can run "<interpreter> <file>" anyway and it works, +x or no +x.
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...care to give an example for sqlite being "temperamental"?
Most people are probably writing web based apps in higher level languages that don't require make files. ("Hipsters" sounds like a dig at Ruby / Node devs to me).
I can't verify that, but it's kinda unfortunate that to have clear text rendering we have to process a much larger number of pixels, though it may be the logical solution. I hope you're right.
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The problem with a redesign is that the only way you're going to get a reliable design involves a lot of formal verification, which is a rare skill and time-consuming to perform.

Whereas the cryptocurrency space is a startup environment: there's huge pressure to launch first so that you can get the money that people are begging to throw into untested speculative finance systems. And the refusal to countenance human control or any of the normal forms of accountability - these things are designed out of the system deliberately - means that there's going to be a long, slow, expensive period of designing them back in.
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As much of a large fan of certain aspects of Japanese culture, I've never really wanted to visit; however, quite a few people I know have visited, and have all said the same thing: awesome to visit, but they wouldn't want to live there.
In Germany at least you could get into serious trouble. Dashcams are a grey area in German law. The consensus seems to be currently that they're okay for personal use, but making the video public certainly puts you at risk of a lawsuit.
>It's not every day you can say you found and helped troubleshoot a bug that literally could be affected 100s of millions of users!

With today's mindset of letting users do most of the testing, it is actually quite common to find bugs like that.

However, really nice job of the SQLite devs to follow through so fast.
Except, the irony, is Japanese men work harder than they ever have, yet most consider themselves/are considered by others herbivore.

Japan still thinks it is honorable to literally die at your desk and be discovered by your coworkers. That aspect of culture is very foreign to me, and I do not understand it.
I haven't seen any sources showing that flipped classrooms were proven to increase scores- what studies are you referring to?

Edit: grammar
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Is this always correct? The %.d files don't depend explicitly on the %.c files so they aren't rebuilt every time at the beginning of the make run, so old dependencies are included after a change in header dependencies. I'm still trying to construct an example where such a makefile breaks though.
Seriously?
The most used build tool in existence... and you don't think you can find someone who knows it?

...That may be the source of your problems if your devs are that inexperienced!
In Cambodia, and yes, while my lifestyle seems minimalistic to me and to most expats here, I still live on about 3-4x what an average Cambodian does.

It's also been easier because I live in a bustling local neighborhood with a big market nearby, and Cambodia naturally has some of the best fruits and vegetables in the world. I haven't had to sacrifice at all on food, which is important to me. I do miss the clean air and open space that more affluent cities tend to have though.
This is a backend service for hipsters who want their app to rely on 22 different saas vendors, so they can collect their "reinvented a LIKE clause with an external service" badge.
> Regarding your first paragraph, almost every hazard you mention is a consequence of prohibition, not an innate hazard of opiates themselves.
> Illegal drugs get adulterated due to black market actors looking to pad their margins.

There was a group that offered free purity checks for MDMA (ecstasy) around 1999-2000 and they performed the service at raves. They announced that they would appear at a party I went to in the Midwest, but didn't operate because the police announced that the group would be arrested on site if they ran any tests. A warehouse of people took unknown substances without a basic safety net because the cops weren't willing to concede that this would have been a public service that might actually do some good.

I stopped taking ecstasy about a year later because the increasing impurities made us feel awful the following day, but not before taking many doses that had who knows what in them. As such, while I am somewhat moderate in my stance on decrimianization, I also believe that the authorities are largely responsible for the mess that drug use can create.
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Quite possibly, though I think most of the hipsters have left Ruby by this point.

For my part, as a Ruby developer, I detest rake and tend to write makefiles for my Ruby projects instead.
> negative expected value

This would only be true if the value of money was linear.

The value of money is not linear.

A 10% chance of a 1000$ loss can be far more harmful than a 100% chance of a 100$ loss, especially at low income.
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