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>mathematical abstractions are meant to be unchanging by default

Let's say today I am doing RK2, and tomorrow I want RK4, how do I easily make my change? In my codes, it's a change of a single line and I get higher order convergence, etc. It is not a week or month project, as for many codes, it would be because of some of those abstractions you derride.

Also, computational math is an active area of research, the method you mentioned is not hundreds of years old, although yes, it was developed in the early 1900's. To this day, people are developing new methods that give higher order accuracy (orders above O(err^10) to abuse notation)...but as you can guess, no one uses them because changing the current codes are so difficult they just don't.[0] Of course, I agree O(err^4) is often enough, so the motivation to change codes now isn't that over-powering, but it again is something we lose by learning things a little but outside our field which could be helpful.

[0]Instead we, choose smaller and smaller mesh-sizes and timesteps to deal with small order error, and request millions of cpu hours, use electricity, kill trees and contribute to global warming.
The GP didn't say there isn't room, they said that the question is "which one is best", not "which one is good".
The US should concede nothing. Indeed if I were negotiating for the US, I would exploit the current weaknesses in the EU to impose a deal that makes clear Europe's decline.
I'm glad someone picked up on it! I've definitely picked "FP is the truth for astrophysics programming" as my hill to die on, but the issue with Haskell is it's combination of vernacular and tools that make it hard to approach for the novice scientific programmer. Almost all dedicated astrophysics programmers wind up using Fortran90, which is sorta the de facto due to it's imperative nature.
Most of the complaints I've seen recently about using Docker are about the immaturity of Docker Swarm. Can this be mitigated by using Docker with Kubernetes / Mesos / Yarn?

If it's truly a problem with the containerization format / stability with the core product, I'm not sure what a good alternative would be. I see a lot of praise for rkt but the ecosystem and tooling around it are so much smaller than that for Docker.
My feeling is that the common fears of binding arbitration in international investment disputes are mostly overblown. The existing arbitration institutions were created by international governments and have spent decades building up trust. They don't seem to be in corporations' pockets.

For example, the case of Philip Morris vs. Uruguay [1] recently ended in a complete vindication of Uruguay's right to restrict tobacco trademarks, and Philip Morris was ordered to pay Uruguay's legal fees.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Morris_v._Uruguay
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I think it's more that the best practices were adopted for specific reasons, but they are not understood or transmitted in a way that makes those reasons very clear. That is, a 'best practice' tends to solve a specific kind of problem under a certain set of constraints.

Nobody remembers what the original constraints are or if they even apply in their current situation, even if they are actually trying to solve the same problem, which they might not be.
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To be fair, I feel like most people either would rather not use Java (I know, I know, it's unreasonable considering the language has become much more idiomatic and the tooling is great) or they just associate Java with huge backend, WebSphere kind of projects.

In a way, Java is a victim of its own success.
As Chomsky says, propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state. The NYT is very much an American pro-establishment paper staffed by upper middle class ivy league graduates. If the NYT isn't intentionally slanting the news in its favor, then it is merely reflecting the slant that is rather uniform among its journalists and editors.
> Each version of the CLI is incompatible with the last version of the CLI.

Run the previous version of the cli in a container on your local machine. https://hub.docker.com/_/docker/

$ docker run -it --rm docker:1.9 version
Yes. "Connected car" is completely independent of the power train.

So is automatic driving. As Chris Urmson of Google points out, their self-driving cars have no car-to-car communications. They don't need it, and don't want it.

Self-driving cars as transport-as-a-service have many of the problems of Personal Rapid Transit. We have yet to see the first system deployed, despite lots of hype. At least four vendors (Mercedes, Local Motors, Yandex, and a university in France) have shown prototypes of small self-driving buses, but none of them are routinely carrying passengers without a driver. The vehicle technology isn't the problem. It's the riders. Dealing with disabled riders, vandalism, jerks, and people not paying remains a problem.
The comment I replied to reads as if people without solar are going to install a Powerwall instead of a generator. Maybe I misread it.
The irony of using "alt-right" in this discussion is also delicious, considering it's turned into a pit for people to be thrown into by the media rather than a label for those who adopted it.
Do they speak English or the caller is expected to know French ?
Yeah, quarter note bends are common in blues guitar, and by extension blues-rock and rock. This video gives a simple introduction to what these sound like:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihZTuRmmBxA

As another example, honky-tonk piano can be out of tune compared to standard piano tuning:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tack_piano

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUP6k5xkdBU

There's also been some Eastern influence on the vocals of Western singers. For example, Jeff Buckley talked of being inspired by the Sufi singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. Here's Jeff Buckley covering a Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58E-9ZEw-yQ
Yes, but now the business analysts and architects call themselves scrum masters and product owners.
Reminds me of the humorous article where Australia gets demoted to a dwarf continent, leaving only 6.
Do you have any sources to back up any of these assertions, e.g. that this is what Sumerians called 'Nibiru', or that they had astronomical records of this/an object?

If I remember correctly, the "Planet X" / "Nibiru" stuff is largely tinfoil-hat territory (see the link dalke posted, as well as other articles [1-4]) - a hodgepodge of speculation, conspiracy theories, pseudoscience and -history, and literal interpretation of myths - as made evident by a cursory search on Wikipedia.

Planet Nine, though, seems to be something other [5] than this mess entirely.

As for the doomsday myths, I find them equally ridiculous whether the planet in question would be number 9 or 10 on our somewhat arbitrary planet-system.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planets_beyond_Neptune

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesoamerican_Long_Count_calend...

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_phenomenon

[4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zecharia_Sitchin

[5]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_Nine
I think this paradigm shift is extremely important. All that brain space that was allocated to trivia or knowledge is now going to be allocated to meta trivia/knowledge. Tidbits about how to discover more information/knowledge. This is fantastically powerful.
The article talks about the frequency and strength of the signal but I didn't spot anything about its structure.

What is it about this signal that is supposed to make it seem (possibly) unnatural?
You also have to factor in the cost to maintain your extension which you currently have no use for, which most people forget.

It also might be easy to include now, but your extension might complicate a new feature request. Or the new feature might complicate your previously simple extension. If it's still unused, don't be afraid to throw it away then either.
I spent close to 12 hours yesterday trying to get a fairly simple node app to run on my mac yesterday. Turned out I had to wipe out docker completely and reinstall. Keep in mind this is their stable version thats no longer in beta. I've just run into too many documented bugs for me to consider it stable. I wouldn't even say it should be out of beta.

The issues here are the real telling story: I spent close to 12 hours yesterday trying to get a fairly simple node app to run on my mac yesterday. Turned out I had to wipe out docker completely and reinstall. Keep in mind this is their stable version thats no longer in beta. I've just run into too many documented bugs for me to consider it stable. I wouldn't even say it should be out of beta.

The issues here are the real telling story. https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues

I love docker, it's amazing when it works. It's just really not there yet. I get that their focus is on making money right now, but they need to nail their core product first. I honestly don't care about whatever cloud platform they're building if their core app doesn't even work reliably.
>- it's not obvious how they interact to solve a particular problem, and the amount of plumbing you need to ship state between these different functions is frequently brutal

this is a problem with the architecture, not a problem with small functions.
I always enjoy a discussion about semantics, but only when both parties are very clear about the fact that it's semantics they're talking about, and not fundamental nature of existence. I'm very wary of people trying to use physics to further an ontology, as physics almost by definition allows for multiple, completely equivalent descriptions of reality. That's not to say I think physics teaches us nothing about how the universe really works, but I don't think you can conclude from his interpretation of the mathematics of QFT that particles (whatever they are) don't exist, just as much as the Fermat principle[0] doesn't imply that light has a sentient mind which seeks out the shortest path. There exists a consistent, fully equivalent interpretation of (non-relativistic or relativistic) quantum mechanics that includes particles at the core of its ontology, Bohmian mechanics[1]. I'm personally not an adherent of it, but it shows that by nature, it's very hard to use physics to show what something fundamentally is.

Besides, the article doesn't define clearly what it means by particle, which is a priori just an English word, nor does it justify it well. I don't share the authors' problem with the excitations of a field being spread out all over the universe (by virtue of them being momentum-eigenstates). It's discrete, has a mass, has a momentum, and energy and interacts as a whole. The article calls these properties necessary but not sufficient, but doesn't explain why this doesn't suffice.

Particles are at least a useful abstraction. They emerge naturally at the classical level, interactions between fields are even at extremely high energy levels still very localised, electrons "scatter" a lot like they're bouncing off other particles, they leave neat tracks in bubble chambers, excitations of fields are discrete even at the lowest level, ... Feynman diagrams[2] are extremely handy, even if they don't "actually" happen, but are just a term in the series expansion of an interaction Hamiltonian between two fields.

What's the use of contorting oneself to the limit to fit every observation in a single mold, a field. Sure, classical particles are nothing like what we see at the quantum level, but classical fields are absolutely nothing like the fields in quantum field theory either. Why pick one term over the other?

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermat%27s_principle
1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Broglie%E2%80%93Bohm_theory
2: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/fb/Feynman-diagr...
Indeed. See also: Operation Mockingbird

It's likely that the state agencies have learned to better avoid the exposure of these sorts of programs.

Regardless, The Intercept has more than a few stories[0], and Chomsky has shared his opinion[1]. Then there's the small matter of this[2]. And on and on; much of it is hard to verify, like Eglin Air Force base and its Reddit links.

0: https://www.google.ca/search?q=site%3Atheintercept.com+new+y...

1: http://www.salon.com/2015/05/25/noam_chomsky_the_new_york_ti...

2: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130715/11210223804/anti-...
It doesn't need to be. It is implied. Sort of how food manufacturers make favorable and technically correct claims about their food but with the implication that competitors lack the claimed positive trait. Talking about someone else's flaws is also a way of distracting from one's own.
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Has anyone tried to post in the housing wanted section?
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>It tastes nice on the day I bought it, it tastes like crap already the next day.

How do you store it?
The question is about comments/replies being downvoted, something I too noticed. Those downvoting could at least leave a comment as to why - when as in these cases it isn't obvious at all and looks like trolling.
Nowhere is it implied in this article that "America always has other countries' best interests at heart, even if the policy implementation is sometimes misguided".
Some claim that that hunter-gatherers spent most of the time for leisure and only 15-20 hours a week for foraging/hunting [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_affluent_society
That's how I buy other stuff as well.

On the other hand a rule quite frequent among my peers is when you list an add, ignore those that call in the first 8 working hours. Most of those calls are professional dealers (vehicles, properties, hardware) using bots that will only waste your time by trying to lower the price substantially in order to make a quick buck.
I was certainly not trying to do as you proposed.

I put them up there to illustrate that the views stated by Cozumel were contradictory, and to give Cozumel a chance to re-think the validity of the proposed tin foil scenario.

If Cozumel believes Pluto is really #9, then why does Cozumel not think that Ceres is a planet, making Pluto #10, which is the foretold doomsday planet X = Nibiru?

Or if Cozumel prefers the fringe views of Sitchin's twelfth planet, then why don't Makemake and the other dwarf planets count while Pluto, according to Cozumel, does?
None, abstract the functionality of your app into a cross-platform library and build a native GUI for each platform you support using that platform's native SDK.
It's both funny and sad. I just ignored the existence of the Chrome app, and am trying my best to ignore the fact that they thought it was such a great idea in the first place. To be fair, in that comment he wrote “browser” won the desktop not “Chrome”. But maybe that's probably even more farcical because “browser winning the desktop” means they should have made a regular web application, not a damn Chrome app. And the whole idea of making an app like Signal in a browser... let's say I'm just glad something like Tarsnap, for example, isn't run by Signal people.

I like Signal, and I depend on it, and wan't it to be successful, but oh boy are people running it full of misplaced hubris. A lot critique is dismissed just like in the thread you link: “we wan't to stop mass surveillance”. “But Moxie, change X makes Signal less useful/less secure for a lot of people who really need it!”, “We're glad you're an irrelevant geek, but we wan't to end mass surveillance”... Implying they're making Signal approachable to “masses”. But they aren't, partly because proper security will never (for various values of “never”) be approachable to disinterested masses, and partly because they pull some ideas on usability out of their ass.
If you get anxiety and jitters from coffee, try a bit of NALT powder afterwards. It has eliminated mine. Could be placebo but worth a try.
I am using kubernetes instead of docker swarm to orchestrate docker images and all points mentioned in this article do not apply. My cluster is small - I have <100 machines at peak, but so far it feels ready for prime time.

There are parts of docker that are relatively stable, have many other companies involved, and have been around for a while. There are also "got VC money, gotta monetise" parts that damage the reputation of stable parts.
You check your oil and coolant levels once a week? For topping off air I just use a floor bicycle bump I already have.
maybe not end, but scale down to realistic usage scenarios.
Saying users shouldn't trust the Cloud is absolutely correct. That's not what you said to start with though. You said "I don't get the problem". The problem is that people are getting, in your words, "screwed" by unilateral changes to ToS and privacy agreements because they have been duped into trusting cloud services. The vast majority of WhatsApp users have never heard of Richard Stallman, never mind read his essays on cloud computing.

This isn't just about WhatsApp. Just about every Cloud service ToS ever written contains the provision to "change the ToS anytime they want and however they want ". People have a (probably ill-founded) expectation that those changes will be fairly reasonable. By pushing things to the legal limit (and beyond) WhatsApp is poisoning the well for everybody else.

You have to appreciate that if users no longer have any trust in the cloud then half the readers of this site are going to be out of a job. You think all the people who attend your React.js conferences are working on open source projects that the users install on hardware that they control? I very much doubt it.

If you think Stallman is right then surely you should be spreading this example of his correctness to as many people as possible so that they find out about it. But the impression I get from your posts is that you'd rather people weren't talking about it at all.

Personally I hope that more Cloud services blatantly piss off their users in this way, because I want the entire idea of cloud services to be discredited. And yes that means that I'm hoping Patrick Aljord doesn't have cloud startup devs paying to attend his javascript conferences anymore.
Air breathing engines are better suited for long distance constant speed cruise than space flight, which is an acceleration mission to far higher speeds and mostly happening outside the atmosphere.

I don't think it's accurate to always mention spaceflight here.
It's a bit like saying your spreadsheet plugin that iterates rows with visual basic enabled more efficient big data. Will maybe work for those who don't know the field.

So far air breathers can produce thrust up to Mach 10, or 3 km/s, and most peter out much earlier (X-43 was Mach 7). A body stays in orbit if it goes horizontally 8 km/s, so it's a whole different ballgame.
Usually these hypersonic related flights consist of an ordinary rocket (not air breathing) boosting a tiny air breather model inlet for some kind of materials or cold flow test.
If I even drink a cup of coffee, even heavily diluted, my anxiety increases, and my neurons will start firing 10 times too fast.

I'm not addicted though, same as you. I can quit anytime. In fact, I just drink coffee if I'm with friends and they all decide to stop by a coffee shop. Never drink it regularly.
In 2030? Maybe for new car sales, but there will still be plenty of older cars on the road.
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No it doesn't, and in a scientific setting this approach would suffice. But in a social and political setting, implicature is also relevant. At the very least, there is an undeniable irony about the article.
I think you can reframe this debate pragmatically and widen its applicability significantly: At what point is "bad" code more effective than the alternatives. If you get down into a debate about "best practices" you'll have to concede that anyone writing the code the author is talking about might be using "best practices" in some explicit way, but isn't "following best practices", which are designed to avoid precisely the difficulties he outlines. On the other hand, it's true that most code out there is bad code, and that heavily architecting a system with bad code can be even more of a nightmare than more straightforward bad code. The real question is, when should scientists favor bad code? I'm a huge fan of best practices and of thoughtful and elegant coding, but I could see an argument being made that in most circumstances, scientific code is better off being bad code, as long as you keep it isolated. I'd love to see someone make that argument.
I think it's good to remember the nice things about pre-internet and try to protect them/bring them back.

But the internet has one very important job: Allow us to prevent global climate catastrophe. It would be impossible without the internet. Only by integrating all of our cultures together into one giant knot, and having armies of people coordinating together in loose federation can we implement the myriad social, architectural, and cultural changes that we need to do in order to prevent a major environmental calamity from becoming an ecosystem-leveling tragedy.

That sounds very grandiose, and perhaps I'm out of touch, but I'm not really pumping it up for rhetorical effect. That's a pretty flat representation of what I actually believe we are facing.
>> Water, ...

Look into the new science on that one. It can make carbon sense when you flood a desert to feed a hydro dam, but if you flood a forest then the carbon math isn't so great. Microhydro seems an answer, but there too you have to calculate how much forest is being deprived of water, and what that means for carbon uptake. It's probably still better than coal, but it isn't perfect.
> I won't go into too much detail but there are fundamental differences in how people in the west and people in Asia communicate information. In the west, it is the speaker's responsibility to make himself understood. In China, it is the other way around.

Do you know where I can find some details on these differences in communication style?
I'm surprised people think it's acceptable to be 2 days in the dark just because it's cheaper.
Even really low end companies like nocix (former datashack), 1&1, etc. will reply to your tickets in a few minutes.

It's good to know that this stuff happens with OVH. I'll make sure to stay far from them.
Still, I think that these frameworks are important, if not for their successes, then for their failures.

The thing that's more disturbing is that we (as a profession) can't seem to learn from our failures. There is too few structured research on best practices.
Heads up -- I think you messed up your copy/paste.
I guess "Paywalling" means click a link that says "paywall" and view the entire pdf for free.
It's a slippery slope.
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Out of curiosity, when new versions of iOS and macOS get released over the next several years, are you willing to pay for the upgrades the developers will have to inevitably release in order to maintain compatibility with the OS?

Or do you expect your initial $59 purchase in 2013 to truly last in perpetuity?
Seems like a pretty neat service. To save others some time, they don't have a free tier, you can't host it yourself, and they use Docker for builds before deployments:

http://support.deploybot.com/article/1028-plans-and-pricing
>I've seen the same listing posted multiple times per day for days on end

My landlord's property manager actually does this with the place I'm renting now. Every 3 hours the previous ad would be deleted and a new one with the exact same content would pop up in its place, obviously to stay on the front page. I thought it was a scam at first because surely that's not what normal landlords do? I did my due diligence that it wasn't a scam (which I would do anyways) but I was super, super suspicious. Turns out real landlords do that.
To expand on that, BackBlaze did a blog post on cross-platform tips: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/10-rules-for-how-to-write-cro...