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>Of course it will take a few days to create a 1000 line C program that does anything useful.

You'd be surprised. Especially if you have done C for 1 or 2 decades, you can write 1000 lines in 5-6 hours easily, even without thinking, especially since those lines are for a very specific, and not surprising domain and functionality. It's not like you need novel thinking or to solve some unique challenges to build a text editor of this level. It reads and saves text files, moves the cursor around, and does some crude syntax highlighting. Big fucking deal.

Most of those lines, of course, are also quite easy to fill given C's verbose nature, e.g implementing a few standard data structures you'll need can easily fill 200 or more lines.

>And of course I know that "a few hours" is just something one say to look cool. I just don't think it is cool.

You keep insisting that he lied, without proof. That's untactful. You also keep acting as if this is some huge feat that nobody can pull off and people can only claim to do for "coolness factor".

Are moderns developers so out of touch with C?
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Much of the taste of food comes from inputs.

Even the water can make a significant difference. The animals producing the meat will influence taste depending on their life and what they're eating. It's reasonable that a regional product will turn out markedly different to the same recipe in a completely different environment.

It's reasonable to want the product as intended, not what it becomes after a series of shortcuts and cost savings to produce ostensibly the "same" product.

It's only heavily industrialised foods where this starts not to matter, mainly as it becomes so disntaced from those inputs.
I'm not so sure. People are still sure that MSG will slowly kill them, when it's actually been proven to be 100% harmless as far as we know. You still see "No MSG" labels on tons of food.

Mandatory labeling gives the impression that it's relevant information. Whether your food is GMO is totally without consequence. I don't see why the government should burden and mislead the rest of us so you can more easily wage your political campaign from the comfort of your local Whole Foods.

I'd actually be fine with mandatory labeling if it said something like "GMO. Totally harmless but the food hipsters wouldn't shut up until we forced everyone to read this stupid label."
> The following things are broken, obsolete, badly designed, underspecified, dangerous and/or insane. Rustls does not support:

> Client authentication.

> Kerberos.

From a complexity perspective I understand why these things would not be the first choice to implement in a new library. What I don't understand is why they're on the "will never implement" list. Public-key client authentication is to this day one of the strongest methods of authentication that can be used, and not having that available in a library greatly limits its usages in high-security applications, exactly the places where someone might want to stop using OpenSSL and its broken peers.

Kerberos... well... Kerberos is a cluster-fuck. I think everyone knows that. But there are specific applications where Kerberos (or something similar) is exceptionally useful and maybe even necessary. I will acknowledge though that if Kerberos is missing its not a world-ender, because you can implement your own token-based authentication on top of normal TLS without using Kerberos, which in some cases might even be easier because Kerberos is a cluster-fuck. Despite this, though, if configured properly Kerberos is still one of the best methods for doing secure authentication between multiple servers/services via a central authentication mechanism.

If the justification here is simply implementation complexity that might cloud the codebase or otherwise make it harder to audit for security, I do understand that reasoning. I'm just curious specifically in these two cases because they stood out from the list as things that I don't consider "insane", unlike most of the rest of the list.

As an aside, thanks for not implementing RC4. RC4 needs to die die die die. I don't know why anyone is still using it, but nonetheless I see it in the wild still sometimes :(
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> A country cannot simply refuse to implement directives it does not agree with

As long as it can afford the resulting fines, it absolutely can. I believe this is what happened with milk quotas, which were widely criticised: a lot of countries kept paying fines until related directives were changed with more amenable rules.

Talking of Italy, they've been floundering EU rules on TV markets for some 20 years, paying fines and eventually side-stepping the problem by changing technology. I wouldn't be surprised if they were still technically afoul of those rules. They've taken judgements and fines on the chin and just kept going, because local political classes had no will to basically hit Berlusconi's interests in that market.

Good ol' Joseph Jughashvili would have said "how many armoured divisions does the EU Commission or Parliament control?", and he would have been right. Enforcement mechanisms in the EU are really weak; which is why the dominant culture in Bruxelles is about reaching consensus, all the time and with all sorts of horse-trading if necessary. Because what are you gonna do when a country gives you the finger, send in the police? There is no police. The military? There is no military. So, what are you actually "sovereign" on, if you have no way of imposing your sovereignty?

Lawyers get a bad rep but sometimes they're actually pretty right.
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People are freaking expensive. I think that is something that you miss easily.

200k sounds expensive for a printer, yet that is the cost of 1 guy for three years (assuming western country).

The 200k machine just has to be a small bit better than the 2500 machine for it to pay off so fast it is ridiculous. A commodity approach to printing sounds like it would involve a lot of quality checks and other really pricy manual things that would eat up that 200k in under a year.

If you can remove all human costs, then yes, commodity gear is likely better, because you are paying for gear that knows that humans are expensive, so even small savings in humans translate to a ton of cost, and so the professional gear is priced accordingly.
> the initial moon phase will be over by then

FYI: The statement should be the honeymoon phase, derived from the nothing-but-bliss albeit short-lived marital phase, rather than the lunar one.
The fact is that nobody knows if GMO are healthy or not.

This is like saying that "machines are safe". It makes not sense, there all all kind of machines you can design. You should study a specific machine case by case.

Gene modification is enormous, and open to all kinds of unintended consequences. Just because we don't understand it yet it does not mean it is safe(we modify genes without really understanding what they really do with detail, we are unconscious ignorant).

I believe people should be able to buy GMO food if they what , but with traceability, if something wrong happens, and something wrong always happens with everything, to know it soon and do something about it.

But traceability is exactly what companies like Monsanto want to destroy. Look at Volkswagen, when something wrong happens, with traceability the lawsuits alone could bankrupt the company if people have children with leukemia or autistic and a scientific connection is proven.
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The rich do better than everyone else in times of inflation. Their assets are heavily liquid and easily moved. They have very little to fear from higher rates of inflation, it enables them to outperform everyone else that is more income dependent and less asset rich. The poor have the most to fear, by far. That's also why the rich have done so well since the year 2000, the Fed's policies have been heavy on dollar debasement since then, which has eroded the median while the rich have been able to benefit from the Fed's monetary support of asset prices. The Fed's asset inflation policies are a prime driver of the growth in wealth inequality in the US.
That may well work the other way around.

The board will be very happy to find a scape-goat and get out with their own hides in one piece, and they're all past masters at playing that game.
I'm glad you bring up MSG because it's a great example of something that's been repeatedly proven harmless but people still irrationally fear. It also occurs naturally in large amounts in many foods.

People are stupid when it comes to food. It's probably an evolutionary thing, from back when heeding food lore from other people could mean the difference between life and death.
Nothing at all has changed. The new chancellor is just trying a new spin to attract younger voters again and part of it is positioning Austria somehow as an attractive country for startups (while at the same time discussing a "machine tax" to please marxist voters). I don't know if paid articles in various magazines are part of the campaign.
Wonder what she plans to pay him with. Theranos stock?
But they're both in the software domain.

Not to argue with you, but I don't see the problem any different from trying to synchronize two commits in a database. The same technique is not limited to Spanner or algorithmic trading, but other fields as well. It's not so much different from DHT or other algorithms, which have applications in multiple domains.
> "The rich people will be less rich in that situation."

> "growth of money has to be tied to economic growth or otherwise the rich will feel screwed."

> "I'm not saying it's good, but you cannot screw the rich."

Two points:

1. Aside from the financial services industry, the rich would be just as capable of getting rich regardless of how new money was put into the system. The pot of available money to grow their businesses would still exist.

2. What is stopping a group from "screwing the rich"? Furthermore, why are you framing addressing economic inequality as "screwing the rich"? Economic inequality will get addressed one way or another, the divide between the rich and the poor shouldn't be allowed to grow unchecked.

> "the noise from tin-foil hatters."

If you're referring to me, I was merely pointing out how the money system works and pointing out that alternatives are available. If you want to refute the accuracy of what I've stated, then please feel free to do so.
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I have never seen a 3D printer, although I have seen a model (of a house plan) made with a 3D printer. You folks who live near civilization and 'make' communities are so lucky! :)

Are there any 3D printers that integrate a milling machine?

I imagine a machine that prints the model slightly oversize, milling and then perhaps finally warming the surface to polish it, all as it goes...

I would love to have access to a hobby 3D printer as I have this idea that won't die about making a cylindrical version of the Enigma http://wiki.franklinheath.co.uk/index.php/Enigma/Paper_Enigm... with glowire or alternatively tracks for ball bearings, as a cheap present people can buy at, say, Bletchley Park gift shop. Silly thing to get fixated on.
We're trying to end this.

Open Food Facts is an open, collaborative effort to try to make more sense of food and food packagings.
A bit like Wikipedia, but for food.
Using smartphones, you can scan any food item and get detailed and structured data about what you're about to buy/eat.

If the item is not yet in the database, you can help by taking a picture, so that next time there will be detailed facts.

You can peruse it at http://world.openfoodfacts.org

We have Apps for
Android (http://android.openfoodfacts.org)
iPhone (http://ios.openfoodfacts.org)
Windows Phone (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/apps/openfoodfacts/9nb...)

It's Open Data, so feel free to use the API in your apps and let your users contribute to end this (OdBL licence)

Also, we're looking for volunteer contributors and developers from all over the world to:
- translate it to more languages
- add food from your fridge
- enhance the apps and web version
This seems like an interesting hobby. How much time is needed to achieve a reasonably high understanding of this work? Not industrial grade expert, but a knowledgeable layman. And where/how can I educate myself?
I assume the traders can't place orders with time of execution (to be executed at the specified time, kept secret until then).

If the market accepted the time of execution from traders and kept the trades secret until they were executed, then there would be no need for these patents.
The illegality of littering reflects a political consensus that littering is undesirable.

Since non-PVP uploads are allowed despite the technical ease of banning them, this reflects the fact that the PVP purists do not have a consensus backing their view.
HFT / Fund guy here.

This is marketing spiel.

If you just want to trade on a bunch of exchanges so no information flows between them, you can easily (TM) write a program that either a) lines up the orders at each exchange to execute at a specific time or b) delays the orders from a central server by the line delay.

So say NYC is 13ms from Chicago. You want to hit both at once. As long as you're not 13 ms late, nobody can see your order in one place and react at the other. You don't need an atomic clock for that, NTP will do just fine.

They're doing this because they have a reputation as a technologically advanced firm, and they know it will impress institutional investors, most of whom are still living in a time warp where spreadsheets are an advanced means of getting an edge over the market. They meet these guys, who are basically from another dimension of investing, and they suddenly need an explanation to their bosses of why RT can generate the most impressive returns of any strategy ever. The answer is "we have loads of PhD math geniuses building the strategies and amazing execution technology".
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This. Unfortunately there is nothing actionable from this visualisation and, at the risk of sounding like an asshole, it's virtually meaningless. The only piece of information this visualisation does provide is what the largest Python packages are.

What's missing is the ability for a user to "separate" clusters into spaces that they care about. Ideally though, the graphic should be able to display the relationships in a way that surfaces visually at a glance.
From a legal perspective, anyone who has at least one jewish grandparent can obtain immediate citizenship and be eligible to free healthcare, subsidized university education, etc. Historically, this was created in response to the Nazi Nuremberg laws in order to serve Israel's purpose of protecting jews from persecution. Also, on the emotional level, many jews living in the US and other places feel they have some kind of religious or cultural connection to Israel.

For people of non-jewish descent it is very hard to obtain citizenship, work visas are usually given for up to 5 years, after which you need to leave. In my opinion, this is a major weakness of the local startup ecosystem.
>As far I can, the author advocates the exact same strategy, they just use a week as their unit instead of a day. I don't see how it's that different otherwise.

By being far easier to pull off, and thus less prone to slipping and demotivation?

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> EU laws aren't being enforced. All the fake olive oil is coming out of Italy.

Not seeing how the two sentences follow. Why should the EU be enforcing its laws on food packaged there, if the latter is destined for shipment to the US where pretty much anything goes?
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I really wanted to use 23andme, but they actually prohibit anonymous usage. I know of no place that offers the service I want, which is at minimum like 23andme with anonymity. Add the old-style medical stuff and/or full sequencing for bonus points.

The ideal would be that I can have a friend pay cash in a physical store to get the kit. There is no account. The package includes an ID code that I may look up on the web site to get results, obviously browsing over Tor from borrowed wireless.

Currently, it looks like I'd have to actually buy the equipment myself and sequence my own DNA at home.
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The difference between food at a good restaurant and a great restaurant isn't huge.

The price however usually is.
Isn't the relevant delay rather that of a signal traveling from one exchange to another?
Front running is trading in front of an unexecuted order, which you have because of your fiduciary responsibility to a client.

You're discussing trading in response to an executed order, which you have as a member of the general public.

If that's front running, then what isn't? Is my purchasing wheat futures in response to news of an predicted drought "front running" the orders that bakeries will be making?
>However, if you visit this fine emerald isle, you will find the US has no monopoly on bland, mildly sweet food.

Well, apart from whisky, nobody ever considered Ireland a place for good food. For UK of course it's even worse, they're actively known for the bad taste and cuisine.
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It occurs naturally in many foods (at varying concentrations), but that doesn't mean we have to smother everything else in it. It makes snacks harder to resist, which is why industry likes it. That doesn't mean I have to like it. Its current usage basically encourages unhealthy eating habits.
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> WARNING: Long pretty useless blog post

Antirez's posts are hardly ever really "useless" :) Awesome stuff, as always.
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> The reason people dislike it is because it's not just 'reacting'. [...] Darawk defined this version for us. "front-running. Which is me seeing your order on exchange A and buying ahead of you on exchange B before your order arrives."

Seeing a completed order on exchange A, and speculatively purchasing stock on B in the hopes that the buyer might later buy stock on B sure sound reactive to me.
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If your view is a priori that psi effects are impossible all you will see in the studies that 'it must be invalid and flawed or faked'. Yes, this makes people doubt scientific practices in general. You will always feel you are winning that argument, no matter what criteria those scientists meet.

But psi researchers these days jump through far more hoops, run far more replications, spend far more time looking for weaknesses and alternative explanations, garner far more scrutiny and second guessing. To call that a 'fake field of research' when it is more rigorous is disingenuous.

Negative results do get published regularly. And more replications take place. It is quite hilarious really, because it makes people panic about what is wrong with the methods we apply across the board in science. Skeptics just raise the bar abritrarily and shift the goalposts as a means of sweeping things under the rug while calling it scientific rigour.

We have also now gotten to the point that the fact that we commonly have failed replications (across all social science), it means the whole premise of a line of research must be completely flawed. But we should expect failed replications - for one, it's impossible to repeat a set of circumstances exactly. Many replications aren't true replications.
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That's fine, and now that I think about it, in C++ just setting the flag to make all compiler warnings also errors, it too would prevent compilation (I think?).
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Because deflation is seen as more risky than inflation. In principal prices could drop to stretch the spending power of money, so that the money supply didn't need to increase along with population. In practice this is seen as risky as during the period of transition to lower prices you risk going through a period of economic slowdown and reduced spending power of the population. These problems are especially problematic in a system of globalised trade, as foreign investors can take advantage of the deflationary period to gain further control of local assets.

In other words, inflation is required because the world's economy is based on growth, and inflation and deflation are not equal in this scenario. If the world's economy was based on a steady state economic system, then we wouldn't need to create more money.
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It is, indeed, just the name. But it's also only the name that means I know what Pepsi is.

You can find products sold in European supermarkets labelled, for example, as "Stilton-style blue cheese". Or "Cola drink".
There's a very simple reason for leaving: the cost of living is high and the typical salaries are low. But this isn't true for the Tech industry. An experienced software engineer makes around $100k/year, 5 times the median salary.

(source: have been living in Israel my whole life, have friends who emigrated)
> They are publicly advertising to their investors that they have a weapon to defeat HFT.

I thought RenTech didn't have investors anymore.
> By toxic the author means causes diarrhea due to unabsorbed oils/waxes.

Oh, I see. No problem then, move along.

> Zero calorie seafood, I never knew?

Reading favourably before going into a rant is an important skill to have. If you try it, you'll see that the article has a good point with fake seafood, past the somewhat ridiculous comparison.

> In reality, we have never had such abundant, safe food in the history of humanity.

The US has also slipped to 27th place in life expectancy. So is everything good enough now? Should we never innovate again, because "look how bad people had it in the past"?
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They could influence elections, shift social policy to help certain people, and generally engineer the social world in their own image. It will be very hard to tell if this is happening.

They could become the whole internet. In many places they already are. This is a very sad future for someone who sees the internet as a tool of human liberation and direct connection.

I don't care so much about them selling our information. It's worthless even to me. These other things are much more subtle and valuable.
What's also important when comparing 3D printers is maintenance cost and effort. For example: The Ultimaker 2 we have in our Hackerspace needs regular replacement (about every 600 printing hours) of the PTFE Coupler (hot end part). Also sometimes you need to perform a cold pull (https://ultimaker.com/en/resources/19510-how-to-apply-atomic...) if the nozzle is clogged.
All it requires is for people to choose democratic representatives that stick up for the interests of the masses. Even if a few rich people disagree with the policy, it doesn't matter if the masses have decided what they want to happen.
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