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>If you don't care about the stupid arbitrary bundling system for other assets (like CSS and images) that WebPack has (and you shouldn't: it's an awful code practice)

The “stupid arbitrary” system has a number of benefits. It revs your assets for production automatically with content hashes. It saves you from filename typos because all assets (CSS, images) are part of the same build pipeline. It throws on parse errors in CSS as part of your normal dev flow, not at some later stage. It allows for fast hot reloading of styles in development.

The only downside I’m aware of is that it doesn’t work with some other tools without special plugins or configuration. Well, you have to pick your tradeoffs, right? I’d love to talk about technical tradeoffs of both systems but your comment reads more like a knee-jerk reaction than a technical assessment.
I'm aware of that (and pointed to a few examples myself).

What I'm pointing out is that energy is a means to some service goal, and in the case of construction, alternate means to ends may well obviate much the need for new energy supplies.

Or taking an alternate formulation: rather than tap energy and convert and store and transform it multiple times to accomplish some goal, employ biological means to achieve the same end with far fewer (loss-entailing) energy transforms.

Trees, plants, algae, and/or microbes, operating over a large area, accomplish a very large net throughput. The questions are whether we can manage that, what outputs are possible, at what rates, and what subsequent changes in capabilities result. I suspect no biologic will have, say, the capabilities of steel. If we're limited to masonry or ceramic-based structures, the age of the 100-storey supertower is gone, but there are a many 10-20 storey towers which might be possible, resulting in high urban densities, if that's what we want.
Writing C++17 for 16-bit x86
I don't think the problem is that it's unreproducible or fraud so much as it's mostly testing the obvious. People will probably find good storytellers more attractive than terrible ones in the same way that they will find people who dress better, sing better, cook better etc. more attractive than the opposite. Not sure testing it does much harm apart from maybe as you say wasting public money. But then lots of things do that.
And corrosion-resistant contacts of all kinds, and soft and biocompatible and corrosion-resistant tooth fillings, and low-resistance conductors (e.g. for bond wires), and coating glass to get ultra-low-loss mirrors well into the infrared, and measuring electrical charge in electroscopes, and coloring glass deep red, and conductive sheets so thin they are transparent, and in anti-inflammatories for arthritis, and in immunogold labeling, and in making random things conductive and emit lots of secondary electrons so you can easily look at them in an electron microscope...

This is why you're being downvoted. Check Wikipedia before commenting next time.
Regenerative medicine is the goal, and hopefully the future, but it's not easy to get right without accidentally setting off cancers or immune responses you didn't expect or want.
I've automated dating chats too and able to confirm that guys are less picky, though they're also more likely to move on too. Girls are more picky, but if the bot tricks them into believing they're real, they'll stick around longer.
Robot Redux (2015)
The 'Make America Great Again' vote is coming from people who are less well off (at least relatively) than in prior generations. You can't just dismiss that. These people have real grievances, even if the proposed solution is not the right one. Showing that the mean average has improved (with most value captured by the wealthy and well educated) does not matter to the lowest denominator.

The problem is that the elites always tend to go too far. Eventually the downtrodden will use whatever weapon they have at their disposal to punish the counterparty; even if it comes with a great cost to themselves. What's their alternative? Rolling over again and watching elites benefit? That's is never going to improve your situation. If we don't want Trump then we can't ignore his voters just because they don't share our values and beliefs. There is no free lunch here. If we ignore these people then we are doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past. The compromise may not be the ideal outcome, but this is a prisoners dilemma scenario and the pursuit of the ideal scenario usually leads to the worst scenario for all parties.
So are anti-OO. People's anti-OO pitch often have the display of a feverish religious zeal.
Johnny Cash Has Been Everywhere (2012)
Artificial[1] Programmer

[1] in the sense 'workmanship'
Yes. That's something you can forgive, but never forget.
Yep, it’s called a “package”.
;-)
> You're making the assumption that the additional features slowing down the service aren't adding value.

No, I'm questioning whether the value added is greater than the value lost, and in this hypothetical example clearly not. So it's your job to point that out to whoever and not silently obey.
The single machine shouldn't be the deciding factor.

If your application is like most apps(far more reads than writes) then you can easily distribute the load across multiple machines. If you have more writes than reads(quite rare but still) then scaling an RDBMS will be challenging.

In this case, if eventual consistency is something you can live with, a NoSQL store might be best for you.
"Psychotic Stoned Sheep" sounds pretty good to me.
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I found Blogger to be less irritating than Medium. Medium really, really does not encourage comments - there is the kind of terrible responses feature, but, meh.

Also, the parallax image scrolling stuff gets old quickly.
> you would never use U"hello!" in pre C11/C++11.

I have seen real world code which does almost exactly that and which broke (fortunately with a compiler error rather than silently changed code) when compiled with a C++11 compiler due to the new user-defined literal syntax. I agree that it's rare, but it can happen.
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Thinking about this perhaps the Titanium gold would be a surface layer or coating over Titanium.

No doubt there would be metallurgical issues with this.

Funnily I had a pre-student job in a coatings company using detonation guns to fire tungsten carbide into metals in order to make them tougher. Could a similar treatment be used for Titanium hip replacements?
The reason Hollywood moved to Hollywood: to steal someone else's IP.
"former philanthropist" would give it a kind of edgy feel
Search for Windows 7 Updates takes forever? – A possible solution
Fast reading through the article I was already prepared that OP would shift to FP. OP should assess his own fallacies and not blame imperfect concepts.
One can probably improve certain things switching paradigms, but we as humans fail at conception, communication and complexity (althought we can brute force the latter). There is no language that can solve this problems sanely and it is questionable that any can.
Why we're Post-Fact
According to the ASM manual in front of me, toughness is the ability of metal to absorb energy and deform plastic ally before fracturing. The Charpy test is a test of absorbed energy, not force.

I misspoke earlier when I said force. I was inadvertently sloppy in my writing.
As a former math professor, I'm not confident that this would be as scalable as you might be assuming. Given a nominal fee of $1k/year and a reasonable target of 100 such subscriptions, that is 100 people requesting "unlimited" amounts of your time in 1on1's. And decent 1on1's require non-trivial prep. And, given 100 customers, at least one is bound to push the limits of the "unlimited" premise.
Well to defend them they needed a solution to fight the incoming intel cpu with integrated gpu. They needed ATI portfolio and knowledges.
> Spotify pays artists very little and most money gets sent to record labels. Even labels see almost nothing. [5]

How is that shady? They have deals with the appropriate companies.
>CPU accounting controller: Split cpuacct.usage into user usage and sys usage commit

Has anyone used this to calculate how many containers can be packed onto a machine based on historical usage data?
If you liked this, you might also want to checkout Grim Fandango if you haven't already.
I guess it depends on the country.

On my own, if you don't come from CS or EE background you hardly will get through HR.
No, I agree regarding CO2. I think it's also only one of multiple global binding constraints we're encountering, though possibly the greatest.

My point is that in achieving the goal of zero or negative net carbon emissions, changing the economic price structure which allows carbon emissions may prove to be an effective tool. It's not that the market solves all problems (something with which I strongly disagree), or that an unregulated market is the only option (a view I reject absolutely as absolutely false, blatantly ahistorical, and a complete misrepresentation of market theory). But markets are powerful.

At a sufficiently high level, and in the case of a carbon tax, that's likely to be exceedingly painful, the option to emit simply doesn't exist.

Bake that price structure, through both depletion amortisation (a much stronger update to Hotelling's Rule, which was based on multiple false premises), and an at-the-source sequestered carbon introduction tax, at all levels of international banking, finance, and trade, and you make it a money-losing proposition to mine coal, pump petroleum, or drill natural gas, anywhere.

When I say that the taxes would be painful, I mean increasing costs not by a few percent, but by orders of magnitude. That's going to be heavily traumatic -- it's a large part of what's exploded social unrest across the Middle East in the past five years, and is in the process of tearing Venezuela to shreds. Saudi Arabia and Russia are likely next on the block even if only present trends continue.

So yes: the carbon tax would be an outright ban, though it might take some time (~10-20 years) to fully reach that stage. I'd prefer faster. Hell, I'd prefer we'd taken this approach in 1960 when the consequences were first becoming apparent.

Infrastructure and capital take time to replace. We're looking at rebuilding an airplane in flight. I'm not at all sanguine that we'll succeed.

And: if we do address the CO2 problem, there remain numerous others, most reducing to total population and absolute average wealth (which is to say, resource consumption). Which are likely to destroy what we call modern civilisation even if we do manage the carbon crisis.
yep... I was just dunking a hobnob while writing some good old imperative C. Did anybody notice that Vulkan, "the future" of graphics APIs, doesn't f*ck around with OO or Functional?
The Crisis of Political Islam
In my country, skateboarders and such are considered as pedestrians by law. Thus it is not legal to ride a skateboard on the road. Is it legal in yourstate/country?
> You have to get the amount of salt right

Correction: you have to simultaneously have TOO MUCH salt and TOO LITTLE salt. I read David Chang one time...

(just practicing how to spin this article for maximum snobbery)
I've become a huge fan of Jiddu Krishnamurthi over the last year. A bunch of his talks on youtube.
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The TED talk that never was. ASI are going to kill us all
Friends and coworkers have also recommended Datacamp highly, though I've never used it.
'Part-time Cat Dad' doesn't sound plausible to me --- everyone knows that owning a cat is a full time job.

And as for 'Protector of the Repo'... basically what you're saying is that you're a repo man?
I'm sorry, I did not intend a personal slight. I understand that world leaders really do think like this, and I even think I somewhat understand why; I just think it's not an acceptable state of affairs because it's a horrible way to relate to the rest of the world, and what's worse it doesn't even match up to how the actual citizens of those countries feel. I would love to think that if we asked regular people their opinion more instead of isolating our leaders in ivory towers away from normal daily life and feeding them scary realpolitik stories, we'd have a higher-trust global society, but (as you say) possibly this only works if everyone does it...
The real disadvantage of pure functional programming is that it is notoriously difficult to use and thus only very few programs outside specialized domains are written in them.

For example I would guess that in a typical enterprise (say, a manufacturing company), 0.0001% of the software is written in a pure functional language.

Things OO languages 'force' us seem to be relatively easy to use: sending a message to a certain object, thinking in categories (elephants, houses, chairs, moveable objects, ...), state (position, speed, size, shape),...
Thus it is not surprising that the overwhelming majority of software written in the last 10 years has been written in OO languages.
I don't know who maintain those changelogs, but WOW, thanks for this great detailed and methodical piece of work.
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Don't forget "Father of 5 Children and 8 Bastards, Environmental Activist, Feminist, Intellectual, Playing 10 Instruments and Speaking 20 Languages, More Wifes than King Solomon"
> Also, its very strange to see these concepts illustrated with Javascript. I imagine thats something like trying to learn Chinese using the roman alphabet. Not that it can't be done, but a lot of important details are necessarily missing.

I think you're being sincere in expressing a common attitude within the Lisp/FP community, but it's an unfortunately limiting attitude. It would appear strange to an ancient Sumerian to see the Epic of Gilgamesh translated into English, but the translation is far more accessible and thus far more influential than the original.

I'm a front-end dev and I got into Clojure and Elm because of some books/libraries for functional programming in Javascript. It's doubtful I would've ever had enough interest to learn if no one in those communities made an effort to translate some of their concepts into a language that I already use.
OO is just a way of organizing code. You can simulate quite a bit of it in non-OO languages. But a lot of the problems are universal.

OO lets you abstract away a lot of detail, but locks you into some rigidity that doesn't map perfectly onto the real world. It's a leaky abstraction. But so is _everything_ real that we attempt to represent in a computer or in any formal system. Gödel proved this 85 years ago.

Code reuse is entirely possible with OO. The practical difficulties of code dependency management are not unique to OO. Anyone who's ever developed anything non-trivial in Node has seen how insane the dependency tree can get. Every language and platform has its own version of this problem and its own solution. From Windows DLL hell to Ubuntu Snap, from Bundler to Virtualenv, this problem transcends any particular style of programming.

It's good the author is skeptical of the promises of functional programming, but the total rejection of OO concepts as useless reveals that ultimately the author didn't really learn anything useful. The author fails to address how abandoning OO solves any of the problems he claims to have. "Ew, that's gross!" is not a useful analysis.
Venture Capital as a Hyperlocal Game
Whoops. Too used to Markdown, I guess.
I love that site :)
It's really a relatively old disaster theory. I remember Winn Schwartau, of "Information Warfare" "fame", lecturing about it on stage at Summercon in 1997.

Later, in ~2009, I attended a NIST workshop for "smart grid" standardization right after Chu was nominated to lead DOE. It was mostly incredibly boring, with IT people from power companies talking to product managers from smart grid companies. Except that it seemed like every working group had at least one rando who was in no way associated with any actual smart grid concern who kept asking us to discuss EMP issues.

I think the generalized concern is, we're living in "an increasingly technology-dependent society", and if technology is suddenly taken away from us, we'll collapse into anarchy. It's the same narrative as Y2K.

This is a flavor of the Y2K narrative that seems, for some reason, to be heavily politicized.
Yes, strong dictators have been great for African development. /s
30% of the entire company must be locally owned?

That seems unlikely to work out.

Does any country have local ownership rules of this kind?
The history of plastics discovery is pretty interesting too.

The first were based on coal tar, starting around 1870-1880 IIRC. Then came bakelite, still used in cookware handles -- it has exceptionally good thermal resistance properties.

Discovery accelerated through the 1900s, 1910s, and 1920s, and exploded in the 1930s, with the number of materials about doubling IIRC.

Names started changing too -- from chemical (polypropelene, polyester, polystyrene) to brand (nylon, teflon, orlon).

I've also noted that with both coal and oil, there seems to have been an adoption and technological development cycle in which the first use was to burn the materials, and only later, by some decades, did the chemistry develop for materials based on the substrates. There's probably a lesson here.
I'm not following any of your statements. They don't seem to relate to each other either.

I am not sure what you mean by "Africa is a complex problem", there is no singularity there. Africa is also not "a problem." I am not even sure I know what that means.

The Chinese aren't bribing anyone, they are actually building much-needed infrastructure. These are real tangible things they are delivering The problem is they are doing it in exchange for access to the natural resources in those countries, the extent of which is often not well understood.

You saying "we moved our manufacturing" leads me to believe that you are American. This is not the same as whats going on in sub-Saharan Africa with infrastructure projects at all. American companies reap significantly higher profit margins by manufacturing in China. In a sense America has "completed its industrialization" and is now largely a service economy. much of Africa is considered a "developing economy", those natural resources and the wealth that they could generate should benefit the African not the Chinese.

Kagame is not a "strongman"(I dislike that US media term.) He's been in power way too long for sure but he is not a military thug which is the general connotation of that term. A lot of good has actually happened for Rwanda under his leadership and compared to neighboring Burundi things run pretty well there. Kagame is not a puppet of any former colonial power nor is Kabilia for that matter.
Of course limiting oneself to one thing gives less options than two things, but this "tool" analogy (that keeps coming up) is not fair. Better would be to compare to the woodworking shop itself, where there are many tools that together solve a wide class of problems. You can run multiple shops if you like, with varying combinations of tools, and large overlap in the problems they can solve, but the overhead involved is not the same as choosing a screwdriver to screw and a hammer to smash.
Why I’m never buying HTC again
I was in school in until the mid-90's. They used them as placement tests when I took them. Do well, and it meant you were smart enough for the 'advanced' stuff. Do poorly, and you have to take summer school and/or redo the grade. Do poorly on the test, regardless of how well you do the rest of the year, and it affects your opportunities. I remember hours of boredom, only compounded by the fact that I tend to work quickly and was stuck sitting there quietly waiting. My sister, however, always did poorly taking tests and they never reflected what she knew. Some teachers gave some accommodations which improved her regular scores, but the state test did not. Even then the curriculum was changed to reflect tests, and the testing has only increased in importance since we've been in school, to the point that the amount of help you get from your teacher in some areas depends on how your test scores were last year.
the deeper and deeper ive gotten into breaking crypto. the more and more ive come to the conclusion that saying is positively poisen.

"dont try and do it all on your own but trust no one else to do it for you" probably better.

An open, modular project with a wide choice of options would be a godsend and wipe out most digital crime almost overnight.

Of course, then, they couldnt use the likes of yahoo and google to read drug dealers emails.
Funny you mention this as an example. I find ggplot2 good for exploratory analysis on a data frame with many categorical variables that can be used for faceting/conditioning or grouping. When trying to make any modifications to its appearance, I usually return to base graphics.
For some of us it feels like DoT came out yesterday and we had insane fun with it. But if you cite something and your peers just stare at you, you realize those peers are 10 years younger or more. This is a shame, I will certainly setup a friday afternoon session and see if I can get my younger peers into it.

DoT must never be forgotten.
Oh boy. I was like "how did I miss this big new" until your clarified this is some kind of privilege to the few powerful people. Nevertheless there will be system that will help people get this passport by paying the right price and eventually everyone will have it.

Free movement of people is good thing if backed by free trade and lack of welfare else it will be bad people trying to live off other people's hard work.
I think humans will eventually visit a few planets and maybe live on the Moon or Mars. To go further will require either radical bioengineering or AI / brain upload. (The distinction gets blurry there.)

We are just too fragile and we don't live long enough for interstellar trips. Even the outer solar system may be prohibitively hard for us.
My version of a "Hacker's Guide to Internships"

Internships are scams. Don't let the man make you work for free or less than what you're worth. If you can't find an employer to pay you what you're worth, then go freelance. You are highly skilled and your skills are rare and valuable no matter what they try to tell you about cheap indian labor. Cheap indian labor usually amounts to lousy products.

In the last few decades employers have shifted their employment strategies away from 'hiring' and into creating free or low-paid 'internships'.

Do not support the slave-trade renamed as internships. It's anti-American and it needs to stop.

EDIT: I apologize if this sounds political, it wasn't meant to be. It's meant to make this younger generation aware that things have changed, it hasn't always been this way, and employers are trying to rip them off.
Such a polite reply to such a grumbly comment. Thanks for the work you do, even if I can't take advantage of it yet.

The main issue with desktop Linux on ARM Chromebooks (that I encountered) is HW acceleration. GLES support is sketchy to nonexistent among the current crop of window managers. I am hopeful that some of the work the Pyra team is doing to bring a standard accelerated desktop to a mobile device can be reused on the Chromebook - I've already had some success with GLshim, which was developed for the Pandora.
storyteller

that seems to be really hot right now
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According to the info pages for last few releases, the most work was done by Diego Calleja <diegocg@gmail.com>
The Bay Area for the most part has a sublime climate for biking. It hardly rains, and when it does, it never lasts more than a day. The temps seldom top 90 in the peninsula (SF stays even cooler) and humidity is never a problem.

If biking can take off, it should start here. Alas I feel that car culture might be too ingrained in the very fabric of our culture and cities. It's a shame.
Russia Escapes Blanket Ban from Rio Olympics