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+1 for Sense of Style. I found Elements of Style to be very strict. The grammatical rules were portrayed as black/white so you are either correct in its use or you are wrong. I also felt that the guidelines somewhat do not apply to contemporary modes of communication for example email, IM, a casual note.
Sense of style was very forgiving in grammar. The focus was on getting the message communicated. This, has helped me immensely as somebody who learned English as secondary language in school.
Haven't had chance to gift it but highly recommended.
This is cool, thanks to OP for submitting this.

In the past I have ordered topographic maps from Raven Maps and they really are excellent. Not cheap, but you can get plain paper suitable for framing or laminated if you want to write on them with whiteboard markers. I have a giant one of the USA, plus a few of states I've lived in.

No affiliation with the company except as a customer. http://www.ravenmaps.com/
I'm not a big reader (Last book I read was back in 2010~?), but I think my favourite was Arkady and Boris Strugatsky's Roadside Picnic. Big fan of the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series as well as the film, so it only made sense that I read the book that it was all based on.
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Franz Werfel: Pale Blue Ink in a Lady's Hand.
The story of an Austrian aristocrat and politician, who is - through his marriage - well established in society and on a safe carrier path, who discovers that he might have a child with a jewish woman (in pre-WWII Austria).

Great story and so well written by Werfel.
That's not okay, actually. Especially since the people who are "like us" aren't the ones running the world.

It's not okay by any stretch of the imagination that there is a gigantic intelligence gap in the human race. It's very very bad.
What exactly is he proposing? Without some additional change, if I make a link to http://bank.com, any MITM can trivially force an unencrypted connection and somehow the user needs to notice (or be lucky enough to have HSTS know about bank.com).

I can see an argument for having DANE-like records include an HSTS instruction, but nothing like that is mentioned in the article.
> Smaller battery consumption also means less heating issues

This is the main thing for me - I'm still using a 2012 rMBP as my main machine, and I have no complaints about performance except often when you try to make the most of the performance it's capable of, it overheats and throttles down. Especially a problem in the summer.
Dumas originally wrote The Count as a weekly story for the newspaper. Hence, each chapter ended as a cliffhanger enticing the reader to wait and then buy next week's issue. I works like a charm. One of the best I ever read.
Yup, and all of them have demonstrable edge cases where the GC will throw a rod. The random slagging of the most advanced virtual machine technology out there that doesn't cost four-plus digits is pretty funny, though.
So this document surely belongs here:

What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory

https://www.akkadia.org/drepper/cpumemory.pdf

You also get an answer for the question asked by the headline of this thread - in great detail (most people will probably skip a lot of details).
I was about to say the same. Recommended it to a few friends. It is a life changing book, even more enjoyable than original Chinese version.
I understand where your coming from, that is a world I've mostly withdrawn from myself. The only "appliances" I like to own are in the kitchen and utility rooms. I want every computer I own to be capable of launching nuclear missiles like I saw in that movie WarGames. ;)

I don't even like having a phone. They never work as advertised and they're not even that good at being phones, but I'll never give it up because smartphones allow us to record every phone call which is a huge leap forward in protecting the little guy from the hordes of evil people who are every day trying to take advantage of us.
Colleen McCullough's The First Man in Rome. It's historical fiction, set in Rome a few years before Julius Caesar was born. I began reading it to see what I could learn about how war was waged by the romans and was absolutely dazed by the political and social intricacies exposed.

One of the most welcome gifts I've ever bought. One friend told me he had rediscovered the pleasure of reading; another read the full Masters of Rome series shortly after. Really good feedback.

Terry Pratchett's Night Watch is also one of my favorites to give. Although when asked if it is the first of a series people tend to be somewhat surprised by the answer: I send them a graph spanning all the Discworld books[1]. Night Watch is in no way the first but I've found it to be a good starter and the order is not that important in Pratchett's books.

Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha. Already mentioned by someone. Some translations have an incredibly lyrical prose, but you've got to be careful with the one you buy.

[1] http://images6.fanpop.com/image/photos/38700000/The-Discworl...
Everyone should read Ted Chiang.

https://subterraneanpress.com/magazine/fall_2010/fiction_the...
I don't really like when I'm not able to read the news because HTTPS didn't want to collaborate with an unreliable connection.
Obviously the few sentence answer here is much simpler than the (reposted) over my head article discussing cache strategies. If the article contains the answer, it's not up front. It starts with a quote that goes along the lines of "I know why cache is necessary ...", so then I didn't read much further to find out if the explanation will be repeated, because I remember reading the article before. I jumped to the conclusion that the necessity for a cache also explains the necessity for caches of caches.

Edit: I was trying to say, the in depth explanation there and the ad-hoc hint given here both have their place.

On the other hand, maybe not, if one should read the article first, but who does that, right? /s
>That is, your statement presupposes most people of the field are either idiots, fanatics or crooks.

Kind of like there have been hundreds of thousands of Freudian psychoanalysts (considered scientists) in the 20th century until now?

Or how people consider (and increasingly clinics embrace) homeopathists as doctors and scientists? With their own educational programs, journals and everything too.

In any case there's nothing special about many people working in a field that makes them automatically proper scientists.

To begin with, the term "science" is ambiguous.

It can refer to empirically or axiomatically verifiable, experimental, scientific-method following fields, which is what is actually "science" (e.g. physics, chemistry, mathematics, biology, etc.) and whatever ad-hoc field of study one can come up with.

The first is sometimes called "hard sciences" to differentiate them from the more "lax" and "anything goes" ones.

Now, the second type could still be a productive (if informal) field of inquiry and argumentation and insight. I'm all for continental philosophy for example.

But it's not scientific in the way engineering or physics is. Not even close.

The "Academy of Science" in most countries includes philosophers for example. And they do get Ph.D degrees and everything. They never verify anything, and they can hold totally conflicting views and still be "valid" and well established. Would you consider them "scientists"?

If not, are you a conspiracy theorist?

It's naive to believe that the way a society names some practices is also revealing about the essence of those practices.
Bangkok more diverse than Singapore? That doesn't really ring true.

It does, when you consider that there are real communities of diverse groups, each of whom have restaurants. Just last visit (one week, about a week ago) I personally ate at authentic Tamil muslim, Sikh (temple), Karnataka, Burmese, Korean, Lebanese, Yemeni, Italian, French, Sichuan, Thai Muslim, Thai and Thai vegetarian restaurants.

That doesn't touch on Nepali, Yunnanese, Khmer, Vietnamese, Malay, Japanese, Indonesian, Philippino, African, or other Chinese or western cuisine. For sure there are many more Middle Eastern places too, Russian and eastern European, plenty of Australian, US and Canadian places, as well as South American, etc. I've eaten Iranian before there too.

Nor does it touch on the significant local cuisine of the city (some of which is Chinese-derived), or specific regional cuisine from other parts of Thailand, virtually all of which can be found in Bangkok and virtually none of which can be found intact in Singapore.
care to point me to a robust in production distributed system written in one of those other languages?
https://github.com/MagicStack/httptools magicstack already did their own http parser
This year I gave "The Martian" to four different people. They couldn't thank me enough. Best SF book I've ever read.
Lots of good books have been mentioned.

I think Watership Down is worth considering.

I only read it because I had to as a 15 yo, and it was absolutely brilliant. I went and read every other book Richard Adams wrote.
Good point, I was thinking about that too. What kind of system would be mostly immune to bribery and corruption?
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"simple" and Git don't go together.
Great SO question. Tanks for the link. Honestly, I'm shocked it hasn't been closed as "not constructive" or "subjective".
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More hands - Imagine the brain power required to coordinate more than 2 hands. It's already really hard to do two separate tasks. (You may also ask why not slice and dice a couple of tomatoes simultaneously)
Add the energy allocated just for the brain and vascular system and you'd understand why having a tomato onto the table is way simpler.
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The idea is close to duplicating the whole core, thus we have multi-core solutions.
No, this is an important example of the protections afforded by the system, along with things like having access to the evidence being used against you. Secret tribunals and wiretaps might have worked for the Gestapo, but this is America, dammit!
Because USA has antiquated British legal system that's very concerned with prosecution, defense, pleas, testimonies, punishments and not so much with what actually happened.
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> The real equality that matters is equality in dignity as human beings, equality before the law, equality in our respect to each other.

But in practice these things are to some extent dependent on equality (or at least less disparity) in material outcomes.

"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread." -- Anatole France.
Seeing Mazewar again brought a tear to my eye.
It's certainly foolish to ignore every perspective save one's own.
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Yes, what you say is true, which is the point: these people are multi-generational isolates. Therefore, from a mainland Chinese perspective, they are considered less Chinese, and their tastes (culinary or otherwise) unrepresentative.

It's like, if you had an Italian grandfather you never met, never having visited Italy and literally unable to speak any Italian, you visit Sicily once on holiday, pick up a few words, return to the US, and open a Sicilian food truck declaring it 'traditional' and yourself 'true ethnic Sicilian', serving only one type of pasta.
These guys have made low-cost prosthetics using cane. And they work
Is that the correct place for that check though?
Other countries do this check outside of the court and do just fine without compromising the goals of the court that in other countries are establishing the truth, the legality and deciding on punishment.
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Yes we did. And we still have a non-canonical mirror there https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq#canonical-source

I totally understand why people host open source projects on GitHub.com, most open source developers have accounts there so it lowers the barrier to contributing.

BTW If you host it on GitLab.com people can login with their GitHub account.
Agreed with you and k-mcgrady. I think maybe we will need to use more and more 'hacks' that make us aware that it's already reasonably good.

FWIW, Benjamin Friedman ('The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth') has great research that shows that when people stop feeling like they're advancing and participating in economic growth, moral and ethical ideals like open-mindedness, acceptance, tolerance, and democracy deteriorate, which is concerning.
The thinning here is based on a misconception. If the purpose is plotting a histogram it doesn't matter if the
samples are correlated. The bin heights are consistently estimated if you keep everything. Throwing away intermediate steps usually just introduces noise.

Thinning is a good idea if the samples are strongly correlated, and the computation to process them all would be better spent on running the chain for longer. Or if you don't know what computation you want in advance, and you can't afford to store everything.

(Also, as someone points out in the comments, the implementation of the Metropolis algorithm in this post is wrong.)
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Note that they can be quite old (USGS rev. 2001). They also don't have a lot of detail - I was looking at the section of Appalachian trail I hiked and it would it quite difficult to use these maps even though they are nominally larger scale than the map I've used.
Amazing to see "No Man's Land" on there! That really made my day, such a classic! Two-player action/shooter, with player-vs-player on a single screen. Great detailed graphics and funky music.

Too bad it doesn't seem to run, it's stuck in what seems like an infinite loop of crashing and rebooting.

That's kind of embarassing, as I did in fact write the code for this game, back in 1990. Bad bad 15-year old me who couldn't stay compatible with an emulator written in a scripting language running in a web browser (none of which existed, basically, and certainly not to me, back then) and using a new non-Commodore ROM implementation. Heh. My mind is blown.
It's not user hostile, it's just only expert-friendly.
His reply does not mean anything without a quantitative analysis.
You're just guessing. Hint: look up the fourth amendment.
I apologize if you already know this, but it sounds like you might not be from the United States.

Indeed, prosecutors do not think about legal precedent. There is nothing stopping them from trying to win a case illegally. However, a guilty ruling can be appealed by the defendant to another court, which will look at the original case and undo the guilty decision if it was achieved incorrectly. The judge hearing the appeal will interpret the law strictly. Only in situations where the law is vague can precedent be set. Precedent means that in the future, judges considering the same vague law will try to interpret it consistently with past interpretations. If a judge ruled that a blatantly illegal court procedure could stand, then this ruling would also be appealed. Appeals can go up a chain of appeals courts all the way to the Supreme Court.

If a prosecutor blatantly broke the law to win a case, and the judge allowed it or colluded with it, and an appeals review made this known, then this would adversely affect their careers. This, combined with that most prosecutors and judges want to follow the rules, is an effective deterrent against illegally obtained evidence.

Even if a prosecutor thought, similarly to you, that it's worth breaking the law to win a case, they are discouraged from doing so by the appeals system.
Not true - December, January, and February are colder, on average, in Detroit.

In January, for example, Stockholm's average daily temp is -2.8C(27F) while Detroit's is -5.1C(23F).

Outside of the winter months, the rest of the year is warmer in Detroit.
"Economics in one Lesson" by H. Hazlitt (conveys the same as "Atlas shrugged" in much much less pages)

"The Selfish Gene" (R. Dawkins)

"Dune" (F. Herbert)

"Walden II" (B. F. Skinner)
Citing the perl 6 fork leading to the decline of the whole language(s) is very interesting.
What the author doesn't know is that not only perl6 forked off, also 4 other perl5 forks appeared during the last year, which is a strong sign of an already dying community and language. I'm one of the forkers (cperl).

For me forking was a necessity since the perl5 community was not able to come up with any improvement at all since the author left 15 years ago. It rather managed to erode the codebase and the management (the perl5 "asshole" problem). "Faith" into the developers capabilities is a now a mandatory code of conduct point, even if the said devs did nothing to prove their capabilities in the last 15 years. Using religious arguments to hold people together might have worked in the middle ages and in a post-modern community. (perl is one, go figure).

On the contrary the perl 6 and perl 5 leaders are making cynical jokes about their future, to the end that a new backend or a new fork will make the language and the community stronger. (https://youtu.be/gmmVGPdcItM 2016 - "The Ongoing Disaster That Is Perl 5‎" - Ricardo Signes) Which is of course wrong. We don't need Volapük and the Kerckhoff fork to show this.

There are many bad examples in the BSD land, the latest DragonflyBSD, and many more on debian forks.

Now to the arguments why to fork:

* perl5 argues that forking (experiments) are good, and if successful will lead to "stealing" the good parts.

This never happened so far with perl5. They rather blocked competing forks to submit bugfixes and discuss critical failures upstream. While the forks manage to enhance security, performance and add many wanted features (which were not added in the last 15 years since they were designed by perl6), upstream did nothing. It didn't even merge the security fixes.

If a community is that broken, it needs to fork to be able to survive.

However with parrot, the perl6 backend, it worked fine. The unfriendly fork (MoarVM) eventually replaced parrot, using a much simpler architecture. This was an easy fork, because they could simply replace it upstream. No need to persuade the community to switch over.

* If a product is broken beyond repair, make a new one. People will switch eventually.

Do people use better ssl libraries over openssl? Some do, but most don't. E.g for perl there's not a single TLS library binding other than to OpenSSL/NetSSLeay. No boringssl, no libressl, no PolarSSL (mbed TLS), no NSS. For crypto no libsodium.

Did HHVM survive? Well, the php devs eventually got off its ass and made an ever better version with PHP7. They didn't steal much, they rather re-architectured the whole mess. This is the best example of a successful fork which strengthened everybody. Pressure.
The GCC fork under schmorp to use the new intel Pentium intrinsics was also eventually successful.

I cannot say much about Python 3, only that the inherent VM problems where not solved at all and only the forks (pypy, Graal, mypy) are able to overcome that technical debt partially.
ruby has it's number of forks but is still paying for it's ruby on rails meta-architecture disaster.
My beef with the whole reasoning shown above is: It doesn't even try to argue that the whole nonsense is in any way good, it just goes "WE CANT STOP NOW"
Look at the real dollar value of US debt. Then look at exponential graph. Then tell me with a straight face that there is any other way than eventual, utter meltdown of ALL the currencies.
Sure, one can fake the GDP with financial shenanigans (so debt-to-GDP doesn't look as bad), packaging and repackaging same shit over and over again, circlejerking it around back and forth until the financial sector baloons the GDP, but the reality will eventually kick in... (You know, Feynmann quote)
Meanwhile actual industries are priced at pocket money, companies that make everything that surrounds me right now. How much is gorenje worth? How much are companies that make plumbing worth?
I also recommend: https://www.amazon.com/Computer-Architecture-Fifth-Quantitat...
I don't think that would have worked. He needed exactly what he got: Help from established organizations. Bootstrapping that yourself is orders of magnitude harder. Notice that the people employing him get their money elsewhere, so it's doubtful that product itself could have bootstrapped itself into a full business. Also, as soon as there is money to pay adoption of your little tool drops dramatically, because now people using it want to be damn sure it's worth it well in advance, usually even before even trying it.
Why is that? The purpose of evidence is to help determine the truth. How the legality of how evidence was obtained affects its validity?

Those two things should be independent. If policeman obtained evidence illegally but it's still good evidence (not planted for example) then it shouldn't be ignored.

Policeman should be prosecuted for breaching the law that specifies how evidences can be obtained and punished, but that's separate case.
There's this guide on a "one cent blog"[0] that I've used to create my own website / weblog with a custom domain. It uses Jekyll, CloudFlare and Travis-CI. Probably a bit more work to set up then the tool created by the OP, but also more flexible, I would think. The end result is much the same though. A simple 'git push' is used to publish the blog.

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[0]: https://hugotunius.se/2016/01/10/the-one-cent-blog.html
Piketty isn't really talking about "inequality in material incomes" so much as a theory that a small proportion of dynasties tends to accuulate such a large proportion of national resources that the economy ceases to operate like a competitive market and becomes a means for those holding the majority of the wealth to extract rent from those holding the diminishing remainder.
That can be a problem even if you find some inequality unproblematic or even regard some level of inequality as morally necessary to reward endeavour and ingenuity and encourage economic growth, and is a problem for progress in the future even if the baseline standard of living in developed countries is very acceptable by historical standards.

There are of course limitations to how accurate his theory is, not least because much of public policy has been designed to avoid it happening.
At what point is code so bad that it no longer has zero days and security failures are within the realm of intended/expected behavior?

Pretty much every networked camera software that's been tested turns out to be crap with little if any thought put into security and at this point nobody is surprised, in fact it's pretty much expected.
The right analogy would be bigger hands. Another reason than already mentioned IIRC is the connection on the cpu, it's a problem of geometry: Access speed decreases with physical distance on the core.

The other problems might be neatly visualized with geometric examples as well, but I'm not sure I understand them right. I'm comfortable to assume it's black magic, when fgiesen aka ryg is talking about it.
> Strangely (to me) people sing the praises of democracy and disparage their existing democratically elected government with the same breath.

There's nothing strange about that. The point of democracy is not to make governments great, it's to be able to throw them out when they suck. There's not contradiction in thinking that your government sucks and in being happy about your ability to throw them out.

> And most citizens of countries led by monarchs have far less to complain about governance (and not, as many keyboard pundits may guess, because of something crass like they'd get executed for voicing dissent).

There are plenty of terrible monarchs. And some good ones as well. Monarchy's problem isn't that it makes the ruler bad. It is that if the ruler is bad, there's not much you can do about it.