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If by "mostly focuses mostly on Bodyguard" you mean spills the most ink on, agreed, but as I noted and he explicitly points out, it was the greatest strategic deception in history.

Not sure about his not giving enough attention to other theaters, besides the Pacific for the mentioned reason, but my copy of the book is packed away in preparation for a move. I don't remember him ignoring any of them, except maybe attempted actions against the Italians.
> oHw they [OSM] might've constructed their maps given the similarly noisy GPS samples

Mark One Eyeball.

OSM mappers manually convert the GPS traces to roads/features. You load the GPS trace into your editor, like a background layer. Then you draw in the road based on the GPS trace, and your common sense. But now-a-days aerial imagery is used a lot instead of GPS data.
>I have come into many conversations with intelligent people who somehow place faith in front of evidence.

Which can be a very intelligent and rational thing to do. It all depends on the end goal ("discover how the world actually works" vs "calm your soul through belief in a higher power", etc.).

People can do very stupid things (dangerous to them, to the detriment of their health, social relations, etc) in pursuit of evidence. And very smart things based on faith.

Again, it depends on the end goal.
>It just seems like it's everywhere.
That is precisely the problem, actually. It isn't so much that folks are eating pounds or kilos of sweets daily, it is that we find sugar in everything - even if we wouldn't guessed there was added sugar. Food companies do this for a myriad of reasons, usually backed with research on taste. It is really hard to avoid.

I'm not as low-sugar as some of the people here. I figure if I'm eating chocolate, I'm eating chocolate occasionally and damn the sugar. I know there is sugar in that. Occasionally I'll have some daily, but it doesn't make up much of my diet, and that is what I'm much more concerned about. My base diet being fairly healthy.

I simply don't eat much flavored yogurt except as an occasional snack. Many people, however, solve this by buying plain, unsugared yogurt and simply adding in fruit.

Red sauces and other such things - make what you can at home and freeze some of it for later use. Or start reading ingredients lists carefully. It would be helpful if nutrition labels specified the amount of sugar added (regardless of source), but until then, labels and a lessened reliance on pre-made foods.
found a bit of info: https://www.quora.com/How-does-Apple-keep-secrets-so-well
Ex post facto. It's been a "standard" long before the RFC, so there are many CSV documents which need to be read but don't confirm to the RFC spec. You should create a CSV writer that conforms, but your reader needs to support much more. Then if you save back to the RFC spec, the document might break other downstream readers which were written long ago and which don't follow the new RFC spec. It's an imperfect file format.
I think it resonates because we've all seen both methods in action, and the proposed one (at least for me) has always lead to a better outcome.

The psychologist has also most likely seen even more examples in all the literature he has read and so can add a bit more weight to the argument.

What would convince you of the hypothesis? A quantitative study?
Microsoft allow people to use the aerial imagery that's on Bing Maps to trace things into OSM. Previously Yahoo allowed their aerial imagery to be traced from.
I'm excited about the idea, but the implementation so far is more than underwhelming. While power cells are much more advanced, but I don't write off any of those. I can see the appeal of electric cars though, as the infrastructure would be much cheaper than hydrogen.
>Namely, for any religion/concept of God, you can imagine another one that wants you to do opposite things. How do you know which God's existence to assume?

In some religions, the relation with God is a tangible and personal one. God "speaks to you" so to speak.

So you just "know" -- you're not starting from evaluating random entities against each other as if they're all equal.
What a great little story. Thanks for sharing!
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>Sorry, most people are indeed not idiots, but that doesn't apply to creationists.

You'd be surprised.

You can easily find creationists with higher IQ than you, that can out-solve problems in your field faster than you.

And the same for most categories one can dismiss as "idiots", except people with verifiable cognitive impairment.
This is mostly a US affliction, but spreading. Not catholic though - about two popes ago the pope issued a paper saying evolution was god's method and that the science was revealing the glory of God's work.

The problem in parts of the US is that some religious leaders decided, quite explicitly, to use evolution to drive a wedge between modern, 'materialist', scientific thinking and their followers. I think this is because they could forsee their congregations falling as more people became better informed and drifted away from religion. So they found a way to make it "us or them" and forge a new sort of unity through opposition. Unfortunately it took hold quite well and has been spread outside the US by US influenced churches and pastors.

Edit - this is part of it - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wedge_strategy
The article is basic mathematical research and is not intended to be implemented, but rather to guide further applied research.

The deeper motivation for this article is to allow future Artificial General Intelligences to prove facts about themselves; specifically, the fact that the AGI, or a next-gen that it developers, has the same (safe) utility function that the designers originally specified.

A formal system cannot achieve this by simulating itself.

A formal system cannot in general prove that it is reliable, i.e. that if it proves statement P then P is true. http://intelligence.org/files/lob-notes-IAFF.pdf

But with this article, the hope is that a formal system can show that the statement about itself is probably true.
You must have bad luck with employers I don't recall this being an issue at my employers.

At my first job (from high school) my first instruction was "go to company library get the book on fortran and learn it".
Counterpoint: I run dd-wrt on a TPLINK el cheapo something at the office, to connect all the boxen and let me SSH into each of them (port forwarding 19 to 22 on box1, 20 to 22 on box2 etc). It Just Works, never had to reboot it in four years now. (WiFi is off though.)
It's difficult to appreciate criticism of older versions and models of things. There isn't a meaningful way Google will be able to address that criticism without updating.
Samsung's design breaks correctly written user-land code. Hence, they're 100% at fault.

Going to 128-byte cache lines was fine, but they should have made the lower-power part of the chip match (which in this case they likely couldn't because they licensed that design), or they should have made sure 128-byte lines were reported in all circumstances (which requires a hack similar to the workaround done in the kernel because again they can't make the A53 report 64 bytes).
Why would you create something so evil as a virus? That's a thing only losers and criminals do nowadays.
Also worth mentioning is the fact that, IIRC, Konqueror had equivalent functions to sshFS built in ... I remember specifying fish:// paths in the path-bar and instantly browsing remote SSH filesystems.

This was back in 2004, so I don't believe this was using FUSE...
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Protip: if you are willing to pay more for reliability, buy Ubiquiti (or other enterprise class) hardware. It's actually not that much more expensive, and you get great features like PoE, design/color ment to be invisible, and great handover between multiple APs if you have a large house.
I encountered similar restrictions while working on a native mobile app using the Google Maps API (free tier) for reverse geocoding and driving distances.

After comparing all our options, MapQuest was the clear winner (100% free). Google/Apple Maps is still used to render the map and pins, but all the business logic uses MapQuest. The transition took roughly 1 day.

Obviously, this won't help with map loads. YMMV.

EDIT: You might be eligible for a grace period until October 12 [1]

[1] https://developers.google.com/maps/pricing-and-plans/standar...
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> What I've never seen shown well in a class is how to maintain software, well, over time.

Because you need a long-living project, and such projects are (a) expensive
and (b) rare if you mean them to be thrown away. University is not predisposed
to carry those out, thus it's industry's job to teach programmers how to do
that. Universities are well-suited for teaching different things, which are
very difficult to pick up working in industry alone.
>Simply mapping familiar vocabulary from an traditional OO language into Go implies that the differences are superficial and the underlying concepts are largely the same. The truth is that a lot of the traditional vocabulary was very intentionally left out of Go.

I find that what has been "intentionally left out of Go" is not necessarily a good choice.

I also don't get the obsession with "idiomatic" programming.

Idiomatic Java/J2EE circa 1998-2008 was total crap (the programming style, not the language). Even its then adherents admit it. Same holds for many other languages/times.

Programmers should be consistent with a style, and teams should work with an agreed upon style. But some languages designers to impose their ideas upon all users of a language is wrong.
For sure. And you can actually copy/paste normally in the command line without the use of the shift key.

Apple is different from the standard because the standard sucks. With macOS you get: CLI bindings on control, GUI bindings with command, and text entry with option and shift. The Windows equivalent is just a mess, even with an extra Windows™ key that ends up being mostly useless. And don't get me started on Ubuntu.
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> To tell someone they're wrong, first tell them how they're right

Yes, sometimes, but in many cases this only plays into the hands of narcissists. Remember that narcissists listen to you when you tell them they're right, then shut down completely and/or go on the attack when you try to offer constructive criticism.

Nobody showed this behavior more dramatically than Steve Jobs, with whom I briefly tried to work in the early 1980s. A classic malignant narcissist, Steve just absorbed people's energy and his behavior never improved. Eventually I refused to try to work with him.

The tl;dr -- the title's suggestion sometimes backfires spectacularly.
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The difference between your and GPs experience probably comes down to concrete vs. wood housing. WiFi, like most radio signals, has really poor propagation through concrete.
There are also heavy smokers and drinkers who live to 100 and more.
you don't want your engine to live on a coprocessor

Well yes and no. Both IBM and Oracle have gotten impressive performance using database-specific co-processors, but these are not GPGPUs, they are dedicated hardware that sits on the storage path. Baidu are reinventing that wheel with FPGAs too.
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I hope the concept of cultural appropriation is a passing fad
Primarily because our phoneline also comes from the same ISP which has to use their shitbox. They don't give you the credentials for that, you get a pretty configured router. It's possible to root the box, steal all necessary credentials and clone the mac but that is a huge hassle and obviously not supported.
As yours is
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Aha okay I didn't get a good understanding from your initial comment.

That really resonates with me actually, when I hang out with old friends who don't share my work and the information I'm consuming. I feel they inhibit those parts of me, because my mind is trying to reconnect with whatever we have in common, which is by now a small and redundant part of my self.

Aligning your work and interests with your friends seems to be a powerful way to more happiness. It increases the amount of empathy you can have with each other, which is the fundamental way we connect.
I've had all sorts of problems with Meraki APs. They claim to hop around to find the clearest channel, but they all always chose channel 44. Manual channel selection was limited to non DFS channels, otherwise they'd switch back to channel 44. There was no insight into CPU usage, so we were suspicious that some QoS settings made everything grind to a halt, but we couldn't confirm. Switched to high end Ruckus APs and a Juniper router/firewall and it's now working properly.
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In my browser (OSX, Firefox 48), there is this horrible flash every time I switch pictures. IMO, the perceived speed is completely outweighed by this flickering and it makes the website/web app feel flaky.
> we can't rely on people to stay attentive when the car is doing 90% of the driving.

Make the autopilot ring alarm when uncertainty reaches some point and that's it. Tesla already can do it, but doesn't do it for some reason.
I think the post you reply to is saying that the fact that someone believes fervently in creation over evolution actually makes them an idiot, regardless of IQ.

This would be because it is a firm rejection of scientific evidence in favour of belief. Not all forms of faith and belief require you to reject evidence, mind, but this one most certainly does.
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And as he said (and it bears repeating): "This is important - don't be the guinea pig and don't jump onto the latest and greatest."

How to pick the right one: age ("old" but not too old) x community x documentation

For the simplest developments I used jQuery (which is a thin layer over pure JS). If you need more complexity you could go for a higher level framework (but there were not so great things like JavascriptMVC)

PHP gets a lot of bad rap but Fb is built on it

There is no perfect solution. When I see people "praising" Win32 I can just laugh (no, really, anything is better than this: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb384843.aspx) but I think the advantage of that is that there was only few alternatives so once the learning curve was gone that was it)
These days most high quality areas on OSM are traced from aerial imagery where it's available. GPS is used as one of many sources for the Map.
I almost never use any of the "shortcuts" explained. And I wonder if it would be worth learning them.
They look much more cumbersome than the alternatives, I use in my everyday work.

I have to admit, that -- at some time in the past -- I've even tried to activate vim mode. As a heavy vim user i thought it would make sense.

At the end I'm stuck with the Emacs-inspired (is it really Emacs?) shortcuts.

They seem to be the ones that make most sense in the short living, very interactive, shell command line:

- Arrows for going up/down one or two commands,

- ctrl-r for interactive searching in the history,

- ctrl-a for going back to the beginning of the row,

- ctrl-e to the end,

- del & and backscape for deleting a bunch of chars,

- in some case ctrl-w for deleting words backwards (mostly for deleting the url in the latest wget command),

- and, of course, tab completion.

When I'm in need for more complex interactions:

- I start vim and

- work with a mix of !! commands (shell that outputs the result in the current vim buffer),

- vim manipulations (vertical selections, ctrl-x-f, qq short living macros), A and I with a . repeat),

- join everything in a row and yank it and, finally,

- a :!ctrl-r" to run it.

When the interaction is even more complex, than it's time for a shell script.

Last resort being a Python script.

Now, why would I take the time to write `rm my-file{-01,-02,old}` and risk getting a typo into it, instead of relying on the tab-autocomplete?
Yep, definitely, a Mac is not for you.

There are some very nice laptops produced by other vendors, and with Linux, you'll be able to do as much programming on it than on a Mac.
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Good luck mixing vocal user interface and open-plan offices!
That would be a good move, to switch to ARM on all their devices. There are some very powerful ARM chips. If that's what they're doing, I can wait even a year or more!
You definitely should read the comments about "history-search-backward" and "history-search-forward". There are a real nice addition to your list.
I would use the real name of the language, Go.

Other than that, nice article.
It's funny, I remember from some years ago reading similar advice under the heading "How to disagree with Americans", the implication being that American speakers could not take direct disagreement, and required a little ego-massage first. And of course that we British had no such foolish pride.

I think probably it's a little more universal than that :)
> western/us-centric vision of the world

Cuba is 'Western'. Unless you are thinking in terms of first/third/developing countries. In that case, as I've suggested, Cuba was richer than Spain and Italy pre 59. Today that's not the case. Nevertheless, it is a really vague classification. I can arguably say that the French see the world at least slightly different from Americans.

'Marxism' is Western. As the Cuban poet Jose Marti said (this is my own broken translation): 'The socialist solutions, born of European ills, have nothing to cure in the Amazon.' (That is, socialism has nothing to do in the Americas).

Cubans have no goals different to what you consider 'western/us': Eat well, proper housing, transport, culture, education, and so on. And in this the Fidel revolution has completely failed. There are many indicators that suggest Cuba would have fared better without the intervention of Fidel's revolution. That's the whole point. The ruling regime is responsible for the terrible state of Cuban society and after so many years certainly illegitimate to continue in power.
Any organized religion is based on some scripture(s). e.g. Islam is mainly based on Quran and Hadiths.

Generally, discussions/debates regarding any inconsistencies or ridiculous statements found in the scriptures is prohibited by the religions.

Consider a scenario of person like Bruno/Galileo ([1], [2]) getting dragged into religious court and getting a guilty verdict from the court and are ordered to be punished.

The religious courts would want the public to know the punishment and hence they will carry out the punishment in broad public view but the religious courts would not want the public to know exactly why the punishment was given. Because, if they allow this public information to become available to the public, then they fear that the very legitimacy of their religion can be questioned and rejected by the public.

Now consider a scenario of someone wishes to publish the court proceedings of the case of Bruno or Galileo in public at that time. Such a publication, if it contains the reason why the person was found guilty, will contain the information about the discoveries that have the potential to shake the very foundations of the religion. Now we must understand that majority of people in the religious based societies (e.g. Islamic societies) are religious (i.e. not-rational and with mostly closed minds about matters concerning their religion) and thus are very sentimental about their religion, their prophets and scriptures and they cannot stand the idea that their religion can be false/wrong/evil.

Hence the religious societies (e.g. Islamic societies) will not want the public information to be made public, if they think that it has the potential to shake the very foundations of the religion.

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

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giordano_Bruno
Good riddance. These nostalgia pieces forget what flaky pieces of junk OS 8 and 9 actually were. Even Apple knew that they were stop-gaps, papering over the cracks until they could get a new system out the door.

7.5.5 was pretty solid though - it ran happily on our Mac Plus from nearly a decade earlier. However I've still got a Bondi iMac running 9.2 and every time I start it up I'm glad those days are long gone.

Remember extension conflicts? I do. Having to manually remove all the extensions and put them back one-by-one, rebooting each time, to find the two (or more) which didn't like each other was a total pain.

Have you zapped the P-RAM? Did you re-bless the system folder? Cargo cult computer maintenance.

Getting a reliable TCP IP stack working? Good luck with that.

The fear of an application crash (I'm looking at you IE 5) taking down the whole system and losing work. Cross your fingers and hope you can still save after a force quit.

The ability for users to move or delete key files in the System folder. What fun.
Every time I read about offloading work to the GPU, good old times come to my mind.

I vividly remember the Intel 8087, a math co-processor to the Intel 8086 that came out in 1980-1981. All the floating point arithmetic was offloaded to it.

It ended up disappearing as a separate chip with the Intel 80486 in the late eighties.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_8087
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It should be noted that Ubiquiti APs have no router functionality, they're just plain access points. Which is the way I like it, but might not be appropriate for many use cases.
"in order to avoid requiring specific compilers/assemblers, I use ~50 bytes of pre-compiled code so that it'll compile anywhere"

That is a rather odd conclusion. The pre-compiled code is supposed to be a worse solution than having assembler bits.
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Regulations like this are in stark opposition to free speech values. They are a band-aid that does more harm than good. The correct solution is to change mass perception that using these services for news consumption is a bad idea.