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Clever, but compiling and executing an AppleScript every single time any command finishes seems a bit overkill.

Does zsh have a way to see how long the last command took? You could at least have this only do the check if the command took more than one or two seconds. That would cut out a lot of the unnecessary checks.
I don't find it too surprising that fewer hours worked results in a higher productivity per hour.

EDIT: But I am surprised by the higher productivity per worker, compared to UK.
To continue this line of thinking, the case can be made that warrant canaries could be used to flush out a subset of users from a service, among whom are those that would be considered "interesting" by intelligence agencies.
Note that this was not a code patch: This was a sequence of changes to the program state that tricked it into ignoring the abort switch. The code itself was stored in read only core rope memory, so it was physically impossible to change it (the memory was written by appropriately winding wires around ferrite cores).

EDIT: More details (in the form of a puzzle): http://www.ibiblio.org/apollo/#Final_exam_for_the_advanced_s...
I can't tell which side you think I'm on :D
Or if they really need so many minor version numbers before the first stable release, they could do the odd-even thing, where odd major versions are devel and even major versions are stable. So skip to 5.x for the next development cycle, then bump to 6.0 when the API becomes stable. Then 7.x for devel, 8.0 for stable, etc.
Perhaps it flew below the radar?
Nothing, this was my point. The OP just implied that the small devil image of FreeBSD represents evil in the entire history of humanity which is false.
In case people are wondering about "yield" : in a nutshell yields and prices are inversely related, so treasuries are priced at all-time highs. [+]

Yield is effectively the return one would get by buying a bond at market price and holding it to maturity, with a guaranteed payment of interest coupons as well as principal at maturity. It tells you something about both the interest rate (very low now) and credit quality of the issuer (very low risk of non-payment for the US Treasury).

Since bonds can have different maturities and interest coupons, yield is one way to compare returns. Government bonds and very-high-quality corporates are typically the lowest risk. Conversely "High Yield" bonds (aka junk bonds) are high risk, offering higher returns to the investor as an incentive for taking on a riskier investment (eg, company may not be able to pay back the principal).

What this news means : people are willing to buy treasuries at very high prices, expecting very little in return for holding them. Typically this characterises a "flight to quality", meaning investors are more worried about assets losing value than earning returns. Ie, they're willing to give up potential returns of "risky" assets like stocks and corporate bonds that may lose value in a stressed market, and instead hold treasuries that earn very little.

[+] I'm hesitant to say prices are at all-time highs because actual prices would have been higher back when treasuries paid a higher interest coupon. But using yield to compare, we can say some sort of "pseudo treasury price" is at an all-time high.
How would the city even keep track of such one-off requests? There is no database for such minute details. It would need to be generic enough to fulfill any request, but also queryable to find specific information.

Geologists have been keep track of the curb for 45 years now. City administrations and officials come and go. Surely previous officials must have known about the significance, but that "knowledge" was not passed onto the next set of administrators.
How can you tell which side is north?
I had also never heard an explanation before. I'd like to think I would inquire if it came up (haven't needed antibiotics since I was a kid), but many people aren't inquisitive.

I had a similar lightbulb moment when I heard why you shouldn't slouch, even though it can be comfortable: the intervertebral discs in your spine are poorly innervated[1], so you don't feel the damage you are causing until it is severe.

1 - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2913007/
Has anyone tried to make a timelapse video out of these photos over the decades? Much more interesting than a pic of it fixed. (I didn't find anything out of a quick search.)
No actually not. It requires less and less. If you want to see proof of this look into how many people are doing software development vs. other industries yet thats where most of the growth is these days.

Technology is not just a tool it's very soon a competitor.
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I'll give you points for the well concealed snark.
I would LOVE to read more about this. Details on the boat, electrical systems, internet connection, size of the crew, your family, etc... Thanks!
I guess that makes you R.G.?
Not only in Canada, it's like that in every country I've seen a doctor.

As for the 'why'... You'd be surprised on how difficult is to get an answer like that from any doctor. My suspicion[0] is that they simply don't know anymore: It's something they learnt in college, but after a few years of dealing with symptoms and prescribing treatments, they forget about the why.

Don't get me wrong, I kind of understand it. On one hand I've found that most people don't care about the 'what's or 'why's of medicine. They go to the doctor and either take the treatment they prescribe or not. I think the people that want to know the 'why' are a minority and doctor's time is valuable, so they end up processing people as fast as they can.

On the other, medicine is a vast field and they need to keep up to date with the latest developments, so I can see how they can start to forget seemingly superfluous pieces of information when faced with all the new info they have to absorb.

[0] From personal observation, so I can (I hope) to be mistaken.
I started disabling javascript since every site these days includes a gazillion badly crafted scripts that take up too much cpu. It actually brings my laptop to a grind

(when having lots of tabs open)
Clara has a 1-hr SLA for the processing of an incoming message. While I cannot give numbers on the speed of annotators (or volume), I can say that our platform is designed to enable quick and accurate work via incentive mechanisms. We avoid fatigue in part by making it easy for CRAs to navigate and work with data. Wrt to overlapping annotator schemes, these are known to be effective. We'll be writing more about how our human backend works in future posts.
Interestingly, the authors do acknowledge on p. 46 that their sample size is too small to obtain a statistically significant result:

A rough estimate how large the CauseEffectPairs benchmark should have been in
order to obtain significant results can easily be made. Using a standard (conservative) Bon-
ferroni correction, taking into account that we compared 37 methods, we would need about
120 (weighted) pairs for an accuracy of 65% to be considered significant (with two-sided
testing and 5% significance threshold). This is about four times as much as the current
number of 37 (weighted) pairs in the CauseEffectPairs benchmark. Therefore, we sug-
gest that at this point, the highest priority regarding future work should be to obtain more
validation data, rather than developing additional methods or optimizing computation time
of existing methods. We hope that our publication of the CauseEffectPairs benchmark
data inspires researchers to collaborate on this important task and we invite everybody to
contribute pairs to the CauseEffectPairs benchmark data.
> I've heard in practice it's near impossible to fire badly performing employees in Germany as a result, even if you're a small company. Or firing a bad employee becomes very expensive which is even worse for small companies.

By tradition, first 6 months of employment are on probation ("Probezeit"), with 2 weeks' notice possible on both sides. Companies can opt out of probation time, though, if they want.
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I'm sorry, I don't follow your objection. What's ridiculous here? My trust for Watson Ladd's crypto code is epsilon less than my trust for Bernstein's code. The expertise I'm appealing to here is pretty straightforward.
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And of relevance to the original article, in Reviewable you can customize your review completion condition with a snippet of code it will run on your behalf and post the result as a GitHub commit status, so you can have basically any approval system you want. One of the examples is a simple LGTM-based system like in OP.

(Disclaimer: I run reviewable.io.)
Luckily most of these dirty jobs can and should be done by robots. Though in some cases we may not yet be able to program one advanced enough, we soon will be able to.
Which I think accurately preserves some of the sentiments of the original, just in more direct terms.
It would be nice if instead of having to comment LGTM a thumbs up reaction on the FP of the PR would suffice
It is, however, this isn't the plate boundary. The Pacific Plate is sliding northward, however, the fault boundary for the plates is the much better known San Andreas Fault. The Hayward fault is parallel to it and a few dozen miles east of it.
This isn't fair to the men and women charged for the same or similar actions.
Kenji's (cook)book, The Food Lab, is also great, though it doesn't include everything he has on the blog.

It's also inexpensive enough to make a great random gift for foodie friends, despite being a hefty hardcover:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0393081087

If you like his stuff, you might also enjoy the Cooking Issues podcast, particularly the earlier episodes.

It's a bantercast mixed with food science, cooking call-ins, and random interviews with culinary cognoscenti. The host is the energetic and interesting Dave Arnold, who recently won a James Beard award for his book on cocktails, and who used to teach food technology at the French Culinary Institute in NYC (now the ICC). It's my favorite podcast of the year.

http://heritageradionetwork.org/series/cooking-issues/
Try this: http://www.geologyfieldtrips.com/haywardresidential.htm
Hahahahahahahahaha. Sorry but your naivete is amusing.

Sure, I may have been 5 years old when I went through a [very short] civil war, but I still remember the news. Many soldiers didn't even know why they were being asked to shoot this or that. While in the barracks they were kept under strict radio silence from outside and most had no idea a civil war had started. They were just told to go there and shoot over there. They didn't know if they were shooting at their neighbors from back home, at somebody they hate, or what.[1]

Eventually news spread and the war got very very bloody as people who used to be comrades became personally involved in drinking the kool-aid. Luckily the bloody parts were removed from where I lived, but a lot of my classmates in elementary school were refugees.

Civil war ain't nothing to sneeze at. It is the worst type of war.

[1] There's a video from a private telling all of this to a news crew. Seeing it on TV is one of my earliest memories. It's in serbocroatian and I don't know if there's a version with English subtitles. -> https://www.facebook.com/zetraprojekt/videos/865414093588116...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakup_of_Yugoslavia
How do you define 'close to your age'? Does not being in a relationship suddenly make it child porn in your eyes?

Also 'actual offenders' seems to imply that those who don't have large collections aren't actual offenders? I don't care if you dabble in child porn, the fact is that by viewing and spreading this videos you do create a demand for more to be created. You are complicit in the exploitation and abuse of children. Also, repeat exposure has been shown to dispose you to be more likely to abuse children yourself.

And sure, the legal system should have some ability to use discretion.

But the age of consent is there for a reason. We as a society have agreed that non-adults are incapable of consenting to a sexual relationship.

As an aside, you don't have to look very hard to find examples of people sharing sexts with their friends. It even came up in the Brock Turner case not too long ago. When these pictures are of children/people under 18, that is by definition dissemination of child pornography. The ages of the other parties being shown a picture does not matter.
Yes, that and infrastructure to create jobs, demand, and fix a bunch of things that need fixing. But, unfortunately, most national politicians are against it because politics.
One thing you could consider doing is to get a part-time job. That way you can see how you feel about the transition without completely shutting down your current gigs.
As a geologist, there's no scientific importance to that specific curb at all. It is a really frequent field trip stop, though.

A lot of people go there when they lead field trips (I have too), and it winds up in a lot of photos. Mostly, it's a convenient photo-op in an easily accessible area. It's certainly not the only offset curb, but it arguably makes the nicest photo.

There are a lot of vineyards in the area that give much more impressive examples of active tectonics, i.m.o. - It's more clear that there's a gradient of deformation.

All this having been said, though, there is very frequently a lot of tension between the local department of transportation and geologists. There are a _ton_ of very significant geologic localities that have been destroyed to widen roads despite geologists begging the DOT find another way. Of course, many of these localities are roadcuts in the first place, so it's a bit hard to convince people of their significance.

Also, in case anyone's wondering why the "fault" looks like the boundary between to slabs of concrete: The actual surface trace of the fault isn't exactly at the boundary of the two slabs. It's just that one slab is mostly on one side, and the other slab is mostly on the other side. The slabs are rigid, so instead of breaking, they slide past each other.
I skimmed your post, but nothing in there convinced me that basic income would worsen stability. I agree that basic income will not eliminate the gap between the rich and the poor, but that's not the point. Nothing can permanently eliminate the gap between the rich and the poor; the gap is a consequence of the time-value of money. However, by reducing the lower class's reliance on debt, basic income could raise the quality of life of the lower class.

The point of basic income is similar to the point of minimum wage. Individual businesses cannot choose to raise their workers wages or they will be priced out of the market by their competitors. In contrast, if every company agrees to raise their minimum wage (or is forced to by the state), then the worker's share of wages improves. Of course this is not a permanent solution, since inflation reduces the utility of the minimum wage over time. Thus, basic income, like minimum wage, would need to be adjusted over time.

I also agree that money is not wealth, and I agree that the distinction is extremely important, particularly for understanding macroeconomics and ecological economics. Indeed, unsustainable divergence of money from wealth (through credit expansion of the money supply) is the prime cause of economic crises. However, under a properly controlled basic income system, such divergence could be minimized and even eliminated, thereby eliminating depressions.

So, while I agree that basic income cannot solve all our economic woes, I do believe it is a step in the right direction.
Or the second amendment, which a growing number of Americans feel no needed for, unfortunately. As of disarming the populace works well long term for citizens.
Also the bit where he talks about "wops" and "kikes" not being able to come over when they want to.

(Which, as an aside, is using epithets that Trump would likely never say out loud to express a sentiment he's actively opposed to.)
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That's true, since it's all client-side (except hosting the site itself), the costs to run it would be almost nothing, maybe it's better off staying as a free service :)
For all the complaints, this sounds like a great deal for the Gtk developers. They don't have to plan ahead of time which version is going to be the stable one. If one ends up working well and they want to start on new ideas, they can just leave it unchanged, declare it to be the stable one and move on. Developers are people too and they would want a system that makes it easy for them.

Is it really a problem for application developers either? When you start your project, just pick the latest stable version and stay with that throughout. You can ignore all the subsequent updates and be sure that your stable version's API won't change.

The unstable versions are surely just for people who want to play with the new features early, not people who are worried about compatibility.
The options for face altering in snow are generally cuter/prettier (according to my wife).
Buying lots of stuff from one person is cheaper than buying some stuff from lots of people. This difference is caused by transaction costs—the effort required to go from desire to purchased solution—and it's core to the theory of why firms form in the first place[1]. Every employer wants as few employees as possible to get a given amount of value because it costs less. They're not against fewer hours just because they're mean or stuck in their ways.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_the_firm
> but I think there are two really good reasons: 1) circumstances change, and 2) we have learned something

Gtk has been around long enough that the boiling should have at least been reduced to a simmer by now.
If birds can maneuver continuously for over two months without landing, so can a machine. For me the question is can we both design the vehicle to have the correct physical properties, and an intelligent-enough automated flight computer? I think the former will simply require a very very large wingspan made of the lightest strongest material we have [currently Carbyne, formerly Graphite, with the metal alternative being "New Magnesium"].

Once this is accomplished, we could potentially make air transportation [in certain routes] much cheaper. This would have benefits like eliminating the risk of ocean pollution when a large ship crashes/capsizes, faster transportation of goods, and at the same time not be limited in transportation cost by oil market prices. And such designs, if made practical, could possibly be transferred to new aerospace engineering where weight-to-strength are at a premium.

Designing an intelligent flight computer that can account for air currents could also make flight less turbulent, and potentially improve our understanding and prediction of weather patterns.
It actually have plus income have also changed with few jobs paying insane salaries and the rest fighting for the scrapes. Plus cost of living is going up adding to the issues.
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This seems like maybe the best strategy, if one ends up being needed.
The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.

-- Socrates
To all who are unsatisfied about eye-fi

please google eyefi (or whatever search engine you use), find the first negative link you find that is not on the eye-fi site and click it, this should (slowly) move the negative information to the top results!

and help to distribute the news to more people
What if you told everyone that you would probably retain a specific lawyer if you were served a warrant such as this. If your company retains that specific council and makes a post on your website I don't see how that can be misconstrued as a warrant canary.
Why would it work? You think if you told the judge "nothing I can do, it says right here in my employee handbook that I'm not allowed to seek legal counsel without a public bidding period" they would say "wow, you really outsmarted us this time, nice job"? If part of your job involves breaking the law, then the law compels you to not do your job.

It seems like you're trying to hack in a domain that can't really be hacked, because it's not even very well defined. The spirit of the law is clear, I can't see any reason a judge would come down on your side of this. Prohibiting a bidding process does not restrict any of your rights.
Qt was really stable for last years, indeed Qt 3.x -> Qt 4.x was a painful migration, but they learned their lesson and Qt 4.x -> 5.x was pretty much as smooth as it gets. For simple apps you can mostly migrate from 5.0 all the way up to 5.6 without changing any lines of code.
Bingo. Nobody is going to say you have a well balanced diet if you eat nothing but Kale. It's one thing to embrace work as a healthy part of your life, it's another to let it destroy friendships and end marriages by letting it completely monopolize your time.
"That's given the techniques used so far." By definition, looking at history does precisely that.

I am familiar with Lewis group and and wish more people were also. Thanks for the links, as its nice to see the background for those not familiar. Definitely worth an upvote IMHO.

My concern with this the belief that this is is a steady march where "New resistant strains and new antibiotics to fight those strains is a constant inevitable march of evolution" implies there is no need to be concerned. New technology may save lives, just as unproven carbon neutralizing tech may stop green house issues, but today, at this moment, there is no proven tech that obviates this dangers. While, we hope and believe, that new tech will solve many problem, the widely held scientific view point on AMR is that it is an unsolved problem that is going to kill a lot of people. Which IMHO is pretty dire.
The appeal to expertise is exactly what I'm objecting to. Let's judge things on their technical merits: tests, clarity of code, correctness, etc.

I've talked to way too many people that want to make contributions to improve security software, including crypto software, but get scared away because of the implied and explicit discouragement due to such appeals. It's holding our industry back and slowing us down.
At least it's just something sentimental, not some super important measuring-point :)
That's pretty much what they've been doing so far, except with minor versions (e.g. 3.19 was the development version of 3.20).
Except you downvoted it ;)
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