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Seems incredibly self entitled to me. Why should your employer shell out money for whatever their employees decide? I don't understand it at all.
What if you want to donate a controversial charity?

If you feel that strongly about a charity double your own donation.
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When the hardware is fully documented, I'd love to see on Kickstarter a small board with some USB ports, HDMI output and an SD card slot emulating an Alto (or a Star). Extra points if it came with a keyboard with the same layout as the original (so you don't need to use a PC keyboard).
Nice idea, beautiful execution.

I would make it more clear that you are just using Lets Encrypt tho. My first thought was just "lol, why should i trust this". Anyway, i started the same (based on the same code as you) but never finished :) Kudos
No, I did not mean I wanted evidence of their effect on kids. I want evidence that "putting your kid in a room full of $bad_stuff" always leads to addiction, since that strikes me as nothing more than scare stories.

Good parents can raise their children correctly even with $bad_stuff present around them, that was the point I was trying to make.
Was there any specific reason that license was chosen for btrfs that you know of?
There are tens of millions of recipients of welfare income.

The idea that any statistical significant number of them is selling drugs is so out of touch with reality (and borderline racist, because it draws from minority stereotypes first and foremost) that it's not even funny.
Eh you know right that TC was more thaneager to comply if FBI had issued the request privately?

All the thing was a PR show from both sides.
Chomsky is not saying that "data is irrelevant". Aspects contains a detailed discussion of lots of linguistic data points, as you'd know if you weren't just cherry-picking quotations.
I think it's more that the intent of games has been diverging for a long time, to the point where they are really several different art forms all getting lumped together under the category "games." The most obvious that come to mind:

- interactive fiction, both movies (Heavy Rain, Beyond: Two Souls) and novels (To The Moon, MUDs)

- simulators of various kinds (most FPSes are basically war simulators, or at least laser tag simulators, but also stuff like racing and flight sims)

- pure gameplay (platformers, 4X games)

- puzzles (Tetris, Bejeweled, The Witness)

- others...

Then those get combined in every imaginable way by the developers, yielding a huge spectrum of games so that it's very difficult to put most of them into a single category. At the edges they're still fundamentally different things. They're never going to evolve into a single Platonic ideal that can be called "games" (that was closest to being true back in the Atari days, where everything was fairly similar to Pitfall or Donkey Kong) - just keep diverging into different experiences (especially with VR coming around now), while still maintaining a continuous spectrum of different types that borrow from the best (and worst) parts of the purest genre forms.

The extreme focus on high-end graphics and realism is mostly due to the influence of a few of those genres - simulators and interactive fiction. That's a huge portion of the market, so it seems like all games are just about graphics now, when that really isn't true.
I think redox might be larger as well

http://www.redox-os.org/
> If your playing let's say GTA and the buildings where you cannot enter were simply gone it would be very weird.

I think that's one point of the article: Instead of creating a game not set in the real world where for some arbitrary, unexplained reason there are huge blocks everywhere, developers create games ostensibly set in reality where those same blocks look like buildings. Except that you expect to be able to enter these buildings (like in reality), so when you can't that breaks your immersion.

So keep the blocks, but don't make them look like something that exists in reality, because then players will expect them to behave like the real thing.
I personnally use nightly without being a core dev, because Rust is not available in Debian Stable so I just compile it from Git.
> We support a superset of Excel functionality

I doubt that.
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Sorry for not explainig futher:
-It seems to fit their criteria of Open Source Projects
-They ultilize it a lot in their projects, here is just one big example: https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/
-They've received donations from Mozilla before:
https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2015/dec/11/django-awar...
-The fundraising needs all the help it gets, its only at 20% and over half of the year has gone :/
https://www.djangoproject.com/fundraising/
Sorry, I saw it on IRC and didn't know it wasn't supposed to be public
iOS 10 running on my iPhone 6S Plus is currently booting in about 5 seconds. Not sure how though...

Also that's when I hold down the home and lock buttons, in order to force-reboot. Perhaps now that doesn't fully reboot the phone.
To author: would it be possible to improve the bar graphs, so that they were sorted by value, not by label? I believe it would make reading them much easier, and make them more informative [or, "deobfuscate" them]. (I mean those like "editors", etc., not "how long I know Rust" where the labels introduce sensible order.)
Well done!

Btw, it actually does say that it's Let's Encrypt certs quite a few times if you check "Learn More". And there's nice "about" page too :)
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Also a factor is that there are very useful libraries that either can only be used in nightly, or are more ergonomic to use in nightly. Usually because they rely on compiler internals or unstable language features. This is mentioned as one of the points under "Challenges for Rust".
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Until you realize that we are so good at it that we then engineer problems for you/us to solve....
I don't know the exact answer, but Swift takes a higher-level task/queue approach to concurrency, letting the OS handle more of the underlying thread management. So if you wanted to write a concurrency stress test you'd probably write it on top of those constructs.[1]

I'm not sure what you mean by "irrelevant complexity". Maybe you could cite some examples. Limited reflection/dynamism was an intentional design choice for greater safety, and there are complaints, but it's not without benefit. And it's a bit hasty to criticize lack of IDE support when it was just open sourced 7 months ago. That's like criticizing Scala for lack of IDE support.. in 2005.

[1] see https://developer.ibm.com/swift/2016/02/22/talking-about-swi...
This is an old idea. It was in the original version of Postgres from Berkeley in the 1980s. They ended up taking it out in 1998 because systems kept running out of disk space:

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/6.3/static/c0503.htm

It's actually very easy to implement if you use the "append" version of MVCC (which Postgres does). All you need to do is just disable garbage collection (e.g., the vacuum).
(disclaimer: I'm a vim user)

Also maybe because rust and vim appeal to the same argument of "performance/only come with the stuff you need"
We do most of our work in public, so it is public, just not intended for distribution :)

(In the case of the survey the analysis itself was conducted privately, because the data contains personally identifying information. But usually things are done in the public.)
> That's what happens with sup (or other named operators).

And that's what happens when scrubbing subscripts or binomial coefficients. When you want to represent math as text, you need to change your representation (add multiplication signs, forgo subscripts, use confusing parentheses etc.). This is still true with Unicode. The contribution of the non-BMP special math characters is quite minimal.

> The crux of this is that making changes to a standard to support something new and propagating the changes is super hard; getting new standards to get accepted and implemented is a Herculean effort.

Sure, but the emoji craziness continues, and there's little sign it would ever stop. Instead of saying "this isn't text; if you want, call it 'special text', escape it, and let a different body standardize it", the body entrusted with standardizing text representation worries about how to represent a picture of two people kissing as text. What next? Kids would want to add tunes to their text messages. Would the Unicode Consortium add code points for MIDI? And maybe managers would want to standardize code points for organizational diagrams. Would that be the consortium’s responsibility, too? The BMP contains all the characters for reasonable text-art.
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There are two different kind of temporal queries. One is about getting the state of the db at a given time. The other is to get the state about a given time.

Example: I got paid yesterday and the operation will be recorded only tomorrow.

The first kind of query AS OF today will never show the payment. The second one will do (assuming that behavior is appropriate for the application, better examples are possible.)

CockroachDB, SQLServer and Oracle implemented the first one. That's why they are writing about backups.

Edit: see this PostgreSQL extension for the second kind of queries http://pgxn.org/dist/temporal_tables/
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That's a real problem, I admit, but it still doesn't justify the Unicode consortium standardizing pictures as text.
While I agree that waste disposal is a solvable problem in the technical domain, I'm not so sure anymore that it is solvable in the political domain. Too much things have gone wrong there because of political shenanigans.
It may work in a dictatorship, where the will of the people (those who are close to the waste storage) can be ignored. But if I have the choice between nuclear power and democracy, my choice is clear.
In the US, it's a different discussion, mainly because you have large stretches with only few voters.
"Natural Language Processing" intended here. Alas, the pigeonhole principle meets TLAs again ;)
>It seems like every time there's a new game I need a new goddamned computer

That's what consoles are for :-)

Edit: This isn't supposed to be a snarky "console masterrace" comment, but merely the observation that consoles have fixed specs and a life-cycle of five or more years where you can play current games without having to buy new hardware. (I don't even own any consoles, unless you count emulators.)
Thank you! I'd love to hear more about your experience, though perhaps once you have worked a bit more on the project :)

Eh, early adoption is overrated -- you have to fight through lack of docs, lack of libraries, and general ecosystem issues, all while the language keeps changing underneath you :P

(Note that not everyone who works on Rust; or even who worked on this survey, is a guy)
Of the languages I've used, Visual Basic (pre-.NET). I never used Hypercard, but I hear it was pretty good too. Newer languages tend to be too complicated to have great development environments.
100k may seem like a lot, but if I do the sum of all lines of codes (exluding blank lines and comments) of the Rust projects where I'm the only contributor (or where other contributors are minor) I'm at around 61k lines of code.

Lines of code go up quicker than you think.
I discovered GitLab on Azure Marketplace (of all places...) and have fallen in love with it for managing PowerShell and other Windows automation projects done in Visual Studio Code (of all things...). To really use it though, I have to get it installed on-prem, and our Unix server guys do not like the default user and group names they saw on the VM: they insist that they have to be max eight characters, no dashes. I'm not going to argue that it's sensible, just that it is :)

It looks like I can use the manual install process - any of you guys done that lately, using user/group names different from the defaults?

Also, they want the stuff installed on an NFS share, not the OS partition. Reasonable, or unreasonable for GitLab?
And NetBeans.
The problem with both approaches is how binary they are. GC latency is an issue if the active part of the heap gets too big and/or any strategies you have for dealing with short lived garbage (e.g. generations) get overwhelmed. The simple solution is to give flexibility in how allocations are done. C# does this a bit but makes you pick per type, instead of per instance. Go goes a bit further, but it still only leaves you with the options of stack allocated/containment and GC. What would be ideal is having stack allocated, ARC, and GC all be options in the same program.

Another advantage of the task-focused approach is that you can optionally collect the arena if it has gotten too big without halting the whole program (just the running task). In this case, you may have latency on one request but it need not effect latency on other requests.

> As for local object pools, they are nice as long as their size is smaller than CPU cache. Without the control on the pull size it is very to easy to accumulate a lot of local garbage that it starts to hurt the performance.

How is this different from the ARC case? If your working set fits in the cache, great, if it doesn't, then you'll have problems. If your allocation/release patterns are such that the allocator keeps handing you the same exact pieces of memory, then you're basically doing stack allocation. Not to mention that RC doesn't help the cache-unfriendliness that comes from heap fragmentation.
Seriously, what a useless, stupid response. Check the place between your ears - your brain seems to have escaped.

Not to mention hypocrisy: I bet you are more than willing to point out in other contexts that actually measuring and doing experiments trump "personal experience". Just because I called the guy and you stupid - which both of you are - doesn't make me wrong. Just because people are "nice" doesn't make them right.
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How big a massacre would it take before a gun control law would be carried by a majority in the US?

Or is it not a matter of sheer numbers, but who gets killed? (For instance: what if some moron decided to go after a convention of one of the two large parties?)
>You can't blame anybody for only paying the legally required amount of taxes.

Of course I can (and I do). Apple and various other companies go to great lengths to pay the least amount of taxes they can get away with.
But it should not be part of a plain text format.

What is "plain text format" though? If 'text' isn't limited to Western ASCII characters (which it very obviously shouldn't be considering many people use other character sets), then the idea of a text standard should be to encode all the glyphs people use, so "plain text format" becomes a canonical list of all the communicative symbols in all languages. That's what Unicode aims to be.

In my opinion, if they're used for communication, it doesn't seem unreasonable that such a canon of characters should include universal iconographic symbols like the standby icon.
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I thought 8 years is a lot and felt ML is just becoming mainstream.

Interestingly trends shows me a steady incline for 'machine learning', while searches for 'neural networks' are dropping since 2004

https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q="machine%20learning"...
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I completely agree that the danger now is much more than it was 40 years ago. Having said that, there's plenty of blame to go around for everybody, and I'm not sure there is much to be done about it.

The underlying problem is that technology is making smaller and smaller actors capable of more and more destructive actions. It's not just nukes. It's not inconceivable that one hacker somewhere could take down the U.S. electric grid. That's insane.

We're living in an extremely asymmetric world. Reducing nuclear stockpiles needs to be done. It eliminates the ability to create worldwide nuclear catastrophic damage with a push of a button. But if things got serious between major powers? They'd just build more nukes. You've taken what might have happened in 60 minutes and turned it into a 2-week affair. It's a move in the right direction, but I don't think it fixes anything. It's just better.

I am probably wrong, but my gut tells me the nuke threat may be overblown, at least in terms of a complete, species-ending event for mankind. We're like cockroaches, and I tend to believe some of us would struggle through somehow. I hope we never find out. But as to the larger issue of small groups holding enormous destructive power, I not so optimistic. I could easily see a situation where multiple catastrophic attacks in various sectors occur simultaneously. I am not so sanguine about our chances then. And I don't see any sort of policy change or treaty changing any of that.

Scary times to be living in.
So A Canticle for Leibowitz is still relevant. Chilling. :(
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Well, "trust on first use without revocation" is an entirely special kind of broken key distribution. But then again, they are all broken.
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A streaming service, actually, and one which doesn't sell to teams. The T&C prohibit giving anyone the password, with an exception for household members, so concurrent use from 20 countries stretches credulity.
> In the name of god, that has to be the most complex glyph

And actually it is in the Arabic "name of God," thanks!

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%B3%D9%85_%D8%A7%D9%...

I didn't know there's a whole ligature as a single code point U+FDFD available, thanks	sscotth. The code point is also easy to remember.

(It, accidentally, also most probably represents the words first said by the Orlando shooter when calling 911, when the translation in the transcription is compared.)

Is this the biggest glyph in Unicode?
I would love to hear about those scandals. Especially in the Tails case. Could you explain your reasoning?
The article was concerned that NATO expanded its membership too much, that is, added too many countries too close to Russia. Presumably the concern here is that Russia will, then, feel more threatened by an attack from NATO.

Uh, gee, guys, that concern seems not to understand maybe the more important role of NATO! Sure, first cut, it appears that the purpose of NATO is to have the European countries ban together better to defend themselves against an attack from Russia. Hmm ....

But maybe a more important reason for NATO is to take all of the military forces in Europe, especially those closest to Russia, and put them under central command and control, with a big role for the US. Why? To stop another case like started WWI -- some terrorist in the long boiling Balkans shot a prince of Austria or some such. That is, the purpose of NATO is to keep a lid on the instabilities of 22 or so countries west of Russia and, thus, avoid war, protect Russia, etc. Sure, this is a joke but only partly.

Or, in history, how often has Russia gone charging to the west trying to take over Sweden, Germany, or France? Or was the real threat Napoleon charging east, Germany charging east, etc.?

Or, we can expect instabilities in Europe. So, we need to keep a lid on that pot. Thus, NATO!

Russia? A good lid on that unstable European pot, e.g., the long boiling Balkans, is very much in Russia's interests.
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Heartening. But $10 per month seems like a minimum - would a company account for 2-3x more make sense?
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To many people in the US, gun ownership is an as equally essential right as freedom of speech.

Assuming you can just introduce "gun control laws" and solve "the gun problem" is a very European centric way of thinking. It will not translate well into actual US policy.
Chomsky's not interested in solving engineering problems, so that's not really a problem from his point of view.
The transaction is in shares only. Musk can't gain much financially since he owns ~22% of each company.
I don't know the details in rust's case, but I wouldn't consider it a violation of semver if the code which broke in a minor update was doing bad things (maybe accidentally exploiting a bug or limitation in the language or implementation, probably by violating some requirement that wasn't checked properly, etc) and simply couldn't be correct code if left alone.
> My two person iOS dev studio has pulled in 6 figures a year for the past 4 years.

This statement does not say much, because in the worst case, that's $100.000 divided by two equals $50.000, which is less than average wage for programmers.

In the best case, you make a pretty good salary :)

Anyway, I just wish Apple would disclose some numbers about app sales. There's one thing worse than government regulating a market, and that is a company regulating it.
I do agree that the only worthwhile effort is to change the laws. It's fundamentally wrong to have a system which favor those who can afford and have the resources to do such cynical tax planning. Just really fd up regardless of any political position. But hey, as long as all that corporate money is put into the political system, nothing will change.
Additionally, it seems to me like the gun control crowd advocate in the US is not going directly for the 2nd amendment, but instead trying to go for a route that will cause valid concern (5th and 6th amendment violation for the recent bill of "no gun if you're on no fly list", for example).

When I saw on Twitter today someone saying that (paraphrase mine) "it's acceptable for some people to lose their constitutional rights if we can prevent gun-related deaths", it's not hard to see how it might be a tough pill to swallow for the more right-leaning demographic, regardless of their stance on gun control.
This is a neat trick, but why would we need to approximate something that is so easy to calculate in the first place?
Some of the stuff he writes is hard to explain with facts, and I started to wonder if there's some sort of financial incentive.

Or are you saying the popularity of his blog is enough financial incentive?
One that kills every person that support such laws.

The thing is, guns are tied to American identity, you need to disentangle them, which is a HARD thing to do.
Didn't we already know that homonyms can be disambiguated based on context?