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It has everything to do with Windows, as you admit yourself here. On Linux, there is no included software suite, there's only PPD drivers. Those bloated software suites only exist on Windows because they commonly tie them to the printer drivers. As for offering a driver-only download, I don't think that's normal for consumer-grade inkjets.

Edit: I'd also like to add that the whole "bloated software suite", not just for printers but for everything else, is mainly a Windows problem because Windows has a culture of downloading bloated software suites from the manufacturer, instead of having a "distro" with all the device drivers included by default along with lots of open-source software to use those devices. The idea of downloading some big pie of software (or getting it from an included optical disc) from a hardware maker, just to use your piece of hardware, simply does not exist on Linux. And that's the way it should be: the Windows way is what's given us gigabyte+ software suites for simple tasks like using a printer.
The naming scheme is:

Alan Shepard (first American into suborbital) -> New Shepard (Blue Origin rocket to do reusable suborbital)

John Glenn (first American into orbit) -> New Glenn (Blue Origin rocket to do reusable orbits)

Neil Armstrong (first American to land on the moon) -> New Armstrong (Blue Origin rocket to do reusable lunar launches)
100% agree with you.

If one loves the facebook world, then he has to understand the facebook rules. Ignoring them is a mistake on the user side, not FB.

And it follows that when 99% percent of the billion users will have just ignored the rules, then they will soon understand what it means. So they'll scream and ask governemnt to help them. Then the government will regulate 50% of facebook activities, and well, FB rules will be weakened a bit but officially enforced. People like me will say that society has one more problem, others will say that it's progress... And I'll be sad once again.
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> The ecosystem is terrible and the community is full of self-righteous assholes who has the collective attention span of a 2 year old

> I don't think he 'stooped' to anything

Really? This is supposed to be a place for civil, mature discussion. There are plenty of valid arguments against javascript as a language and as a community, there's no need for childish comments like that.
Builders are also members of the standards bodies that create these standards. And they're the ones who pay for the standardization process by purchasing copies of the standards.

But if you re-do you own home wiring, you effectively become a "builder". And you probably aren't a member of that industry organization.

The real problem is here is that two things are being commingled that should not be. Something that is inherently "public" - the law, and something inherently private - codes developed by industry standards. The real solution is to stop doing this "incorporation by reference" altogether. But if we are going to incorporate, it makes no sense to treat this chunk of law as different from the rest.
> beheadings are at least as controversial as nudity.

Really, really astonished that in some circumstances someone compares a beheading with nudity
Nature poetry written by a neural net?
I tried arguing the dangers of concentrated fruit sweeteners not so long ago.

There was some debate about whether candy prices were too low.. But the truth is folks get much more sugar from supposedly "healthy" items in the form of fruit juice and concentrates. It is in the bread most folks eat (and sometimes whole grain bread is higher to make it more palletable), they put it in savory foods, and fruit juices and people put it in their coffee and tea. Granola bars and yogurts and a myriad of other supposedly healthy things? High sugar. It would be one thing if the sugar was simply what was contained in the fruit, but often it is above that.

It is much better to eat the piece of fruit than drink some juice - and I think if folks started drinking non-sweetened drinks and quit adding it to so much food (expecially commercially prepared food) it would help quite a bit. Personally, I lost weight after doing the adjustment. My only normal, daily beverages are black coffee or water and have been for years.

The thing is that you do somewhat miss the sugar at first, but I didn't find it any worse than missing some foods after moving countries. Over time, your tastes adjust and it isn't a bad thing.
Advice to older people is to minimise the amount of experience they put on their resumes for some positions, to avoid being labled "over qualified".

Interviews are totally broken. All you can do is try to eliminate bias (and thus comply with the law), and try to avoid hiring obvious idiots. After that anyone you get is probably good enough, especially if you have a good on-boarding process.
I think I have used weak equality once, because I needed truthy/falsy. I've always used strong equality. I always tell people that unless there is an absolute need for weak equality and you can thoroughly explain why weak equality works better than another solution, refactor for strong equality.

The all these weird quirks thing was really a naive me talking back then. JS was my second language after Java. Anonymous functions, async execution, implicit typing, weak typing - it requires a different way of thinking when you move from Java to JS and you're just starting. Most everything is explicitly defined, and everything executes in the order that is listed in Java. JS is whole different beast.
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In that case, you could read /proc/cpuinfo and set your affinity mask.
Oops, my mistake. I got confused by this table on the WebMD page below which does list 18-25% as an acceptable range for body fat percentage:

http://www.webmd.com/diet/features/body-fat-measurement#2

So my original numbers were actually correct, but instead of the CDC it's the American Council on Exercise, whatever that is. The page before has the CDC recommendations on BMI. I was surprised too that 25% is considered acceptable. I am aware of the difference between BMI and body fat percentage, and that the former is an inaccurate gauge of fitness.
The alternative is to help them develop nuclear weapons and threaten SK even more, and possibly mount an attack.

Why would you provide aid to someone who intends to use that aid to attack you?
> When he was admitted to the hospital, he was totally healthy, except for the head injury. There was no sign of any heart problems, except for some controversial leaked reports.

He did have cardiomyopathy for a few years before that, and a cardiac arrest the year before he died.

He didn't die of a heart attack, but it's an overcorrection to say that there was 'no sign of any heart problems'.
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I wasn't suggesting that feeling full is the goal. I was just trying to argue that calorie density is an important issue when it comes to obesity and overeating. Eating healthy food is, of course, important. But eating too much healthy food is not healthy ;).

If I had to choose between eating too much healthy food and eating enough unhealthy food, I would probably choose the latter. I think obesity is a bigger problem than poor nutrition.
If I understand correctly what you mean then it is a valid point, but I think the writer of that article is discussing something different.

For example, consider the art of foo-jitsu, which is mostly based around kicks and so suits tall people and is good for sport, or bar-fu, which involves shorter range open-hand striking and has some good ground fighting techniques, making it good for self-defence or for shorter people, according to the sort of classification I think you mean. Based on this description you would pick the system depending on your goal.

The focus article proposes that either of these arts may be used for any focus, depending on the attitude and goals of the teacher. So one could go to a foo-jitsu school that uses the same principles of art and base syllabus as the typical sporting classes found in the style but is oriented towards defence (its students never get involved in tournaments, for example), or a bar-fu class where the instructor has turned it into ground wrestling sport and concentrates on winning trophies. So, it is therefore possible to pick a class based on the characteristics of the system and find that the focus of the class is not quite what one wanted. The article states that there may be more than one focus but there should be one or two primary ones.

Of course, I may have misunderstood exactly what you mean; apologies if so.
That does look nice. Is that, LISP? To my eye, they look roughly equivalent, though - and a lot of what I consider the "No-BS object system" occurs after the literal is declared - adding and manipulating properties, etc.
How did you not arrive at that conclusion? I guess it's normal to complete a year long Calculus sequence less than half that? Sure he says numerous time he didn't find school engaging and struggled in some ways. I for one have heard of this before where someone with a strong aptitude struggles with conventional education. Without something special, be it aptitude or hard working nature how do you suppose he got into graduate school? Luck, again? Also, did you notice he was only an undergrad for 3 years and apparently double majored.
>Put "read three chapters of a book" on a status report and see how many levels of management show up at your desk to micromanage your time.

Can't say I've ever had a problem with that in my two decades in the industry. Learning is expected and mandatory.
> > It turns out it’s useful to have a lingua franca for the web.

> No, I don't think so. Most people do not use JavaScript since it is useful. They use it since it is the only option available on the browser.

Are you not contradicting yourself here? If people use JS only because it's what's on the browser, then it's only because people see value in ... having a lingua franca for the web.
I'm a big fan of PRs/comments on GitHub as well (although they do raise some data ownership issues). Squashed commits are interesting, but not something I've used personally in GitHub. I think squashing, especially automatically, has big tradeoffs.

It's nice to have a cohesive unit of change in a single commit, but if your mergeable features have a lot of moving parts it may be too much information in one giant blob, losing valuable history. There are certain things I like to be in individual commits, like for instance, DB migrations in Rails or Django, or Gemfile/Gemfile.lock upgrades. Having these in separate commits allows for easier conflict resolution later, and are also a nice granularity for practices like zero-downtime continuous deployment where you need to have multi-phase deploy of migrations (ie. phase 1: deploy migrations that add fields, phase 2: deploy code that requires new fields, phase 3: remove fields required by legacy code).

Maybe in a large team with a large volume of PRs then squashing by default is preferred so you can make sense of a fast-moving history, but given that it's so easy to squash selectively with `git rebase -i` that is my preferred method, at least for the team I'm on now.
The same question I have for SpaceX's goal of moving to Mars:

Who'd go?

People compare it to the colonization of America, but there are a few fundamental differences:

1. Who are the pioneers. The early settlers in America were the low class or religious fanatics (think ISIS style). Many couldn't afford their own ticket, made it to America to get a piece of land (translate: basic economic opportunity), which was unavailable in England.

Who'd go to Mars? You'd have to send the best and brightest. There'll be plenty of robotic help, but with Mission Control half an hour away (with periodic week long breaks with no mission control), they're on their own. An Oxygen leak? Fix it yourself or everyone dies.

Oh. and no StackOverflow for help.

How much will you have to offer these people. The first batch will go for the principle or fame (the first colonists on Mars FTW!!). What about the thousandth?

2. For that matter, how will you ship infrastructure there? In the 1600s, all you needed were some "surgeons", blacksmiths and you're done and ready.

Nowadays, you'd need hospitals, operating rooms, ER, experts, dentists, metallurgists, teachers, professors, colleges...

Oh, and if you're a top notch scientist, won't you want to keep up with what's going on? No scientific conferences/conventions on Mars.

3. Who keeps the loot. Seeing how Tesla's slowly moving everything to a "rental" model, how will "property" exist on Mars? If someone disobeys "God Elon", will he be thrown out into the wild? Or will he threaten to not send basic raw materials until the colony behaves?

It'll be a viable threat for quite some time
I built something like this as well!

I wonder how you solved the data storage and indexing. Does it scale to multi-month heavy usage ? Does it deduplicate multiple visits?

Cool stuff, gotta put mine somewhere. Always planned to, but never got around to it.
My car happens to have no in-tank fuel pump. In fact it has no pump per se at all. The injection pump mounted on the engine sucks fuel all the way from the tank.
Hey, if you can find some with radio or miles-distant electrical or optical signalling features, go for it.

Until then, I'm going to want at least a few crust-extracted materials to keep the Internet operational so we can even have this conversation from casually-anonymous points on the globe.
>I have a 2014 Nissan Altima.

Continuously variable transmission? They do wonders for gas mileage (and the opposite for power).

My Nissan used to stop registering the "Distance-until-empty" measure one it dropped below 40km, I assume because the accuracy isn't high enough.
I'd recommend copy+pasting the link to www.jwz.org if you want to open it...

https://www.jwz.org/blog/2010/10/every-day-i-learn-something-new-and-stupid/#comment-1048
Its the farms that are vulnerable. Hungry thousands trampling crops looking for anything to eat. Then a breakdown of hybrid seed - that's a delicate pipeline that took generations to build, and can be destroyed in a single season of neglect. Hopeless to rebuild in time to save everyone. We'd be reduced to a percentage of our previous population. Assuming widespread social failure.
Yeah, i was thinking on doing that. But Ill start with just a couple to try out the concept first
Newer Nissan Leaf (Leaves?) do not have that option. I guess this buffer is now built in?

Mine has just passed the 12k mile, I don't notice any degradation. Indicated range is usually 100+ miles, which is meaningless. Once highway driving starts, it's more like 80 miles and is pretty accurate if doing 65MPH. Higher speeds will decrease that range.

Fun anecdote: I went to a park late at night to watch the perseids meteor shower. A arrived near the park with 20 miles remaining. Which was fine, as there was a quick charger nearby.

Me and my wife decided not to waste time and just hit it on the way back. Due to unfamiliarity with the area, I was misled by the GPS and went to the other side of the park. So I had to circle back and go uphill to reach the rendezvous point, a parking lot inside said park. Estimated range showed "---", 7% state of charge.

We had about 8 miles to go to reach the charger. We added 2 more miles by taking a wrong turn in an area with no phone and GPS reception. So 10, which took two times the amount of energy I figured I had.

Since it was almost 3 am, I just drove at the slowest possible speed I could, 15 MPH. Arrived at the charger with 4% remaining(dash showed "--%", still one bar lit). I doubt I would have made it at normal speeds.

Now, this is only possible because EV battery charge is extremely accurate, compared to fuel gauges in ICE cars.
Primates are monkeys. A monkeys isn't necessarily primate.
I misremembered. I think the requirement for separate electrical service for each residence IS a MA state amendment. And then town inspector's exception was that if something was owner-occupied, the extra common-area meter socket was still required, but installing it and building out the service panel was not.
:-o Thanks!
As others have pointed out, everyone is required to comply with these laws, not just for-profit "builders". This would be like having laws regarding the allowable ways to fix your car or your washing machine, and having those laws referencing documents you have to pay for.
From the article I can't tell if the sugar industry hid or falsified data.

There are at least two ways you can look at this. Imagine if the sugar industry thinks they are getting a bad rap about heart disease, and want to get researchers to study the link and show that they aren't to blame. Conversely, maybe they knew there was a link and were paying researchers to downplay it (or worse).

I feel like this article just points out that the sugar industry funded research, but it never points to actual misinformation that resulted from it -- or did I miss it?
Yep, this is by some margin the hackiest thing I've ever done in my career. If I'd been doing it on Sun hardware, though, I would have been able to include power cycling hardware for the accelerator box.
> "receiver	implict this parameter"

The parameter is actually quite explicit (unlike some other languages).

It would probably help your write up to talk about the difference between (using your example):

func (r Rectangle) Area() float64 {

and

func Area(r Rectangle) float64 {

As well as (this is a common rookie mistake):

func (r Rectangle) SetWidth(w float64) {
r.Width = w // does nothing

and

func (r *Rectangle) SetWidth(w float64) {
r.Width = w
Can a cart be hacked to barrel into cars in the parking lot?
I don't intake much sugar and I do like the taste of orange soda. I think the difference between now and my former self is my body simply cannot process all the sugar in a can. The idea of drinking a whole can makes me feel a bit sick b/c I know by 2/3rds of the way through I'll be struggling to process it.
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I meant in general. Microsoft did force their flawed Windows on everybody anyway.
There are so many things that we already have fairly strong evidence to worry about in our foods alone: Trans fats in all of our food (finally will be banned in a couple years), BPA all over our food containers, BPA-like mystery substances in all the BPA-free food containers, BPA gets absorbed in our skin when we touch receipts, constant listeria outbreaks, constant e coli found in factory farmed beef, homogenized milk damages the fat molecules, fracking chemicals in our drinking water, artificial sweeteners and their effects on our gut bacteria, preservatives and their effect on our gut bacteria, dyes like caramel coloring, glyphosate all over our fruits and vegetables.

That's just off the top of my head.
I habitually for a long time used to wait until the needle was all the way on E. I virtually always ran it way below 1/4. I am now at 190,000 miles, and have never had the slightest problem with the fuel system.

My distance record was 798 miles. I was going for 800, but my nerve gave out after the low-fuel warning had been on for 50 miles.
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Sex in movies is usually not "sane sex ed", and that's GP's argument for not showing it.
> But if you re-do you own home wiring, you effectively become a "builder". And you probably aren't a member of that industry organization.

But what fraction of people do that? That's my point--ideologically I agree with you. But I don't think you can take what is basically a corner case in the legal regime and point to that and say it's an unreasonable tool for the elite to use the law to oppress the weak.

I don't buy your "public/private" dichotomy at all. The government should defer to the expertise of private industry when necessary. The small potential for abuse (and there is no evidence that the standards bodies here are abusing their position), does not justify imposing laws on everybody designed by government bureaucrats acting outside their area of expertise.
I can see where he is coming from. I don't avoid sugar and don't find soda particularly sweet, but I do find it to have an off-putting taste of some sort. I can down it if there is nothing else available, but it is definitely not my top choice.

Interestingly, I did love it in my childhood. I think I lost my taste for it around the time that I reached the legal drinking age. At that time I'd try some different drink choices in the circumstances where I would have previous had a soda, and then after not having it for a while it just didn't taste good to me anymore.
These storage systems are meant to be SAN devices. Meaning either Amazon EBS volume or Google volumes, on their respective clouds.

I recall reading that EBS is being [partially] implemented and tested. (Read: The documentation is full of "known bug: ..." and "please don't try that in production").
8-bit 4mhz CPU, 64k RAM:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEOS_(8-bit_operating_system)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OT3DoPty4Y
Obligatory:

"I learned it by watching YOU!"
I understood that the configurations currently in use usually only power up either the big or little cores at the same time, and that kind of migration has to wipe the caches, right? But that might be inaccurate, and you are of course right in the general case.
Chilies evolved; they haven't been designed. Recently they are being bred and hybridized for specific properties, but that is no more (or less) designing than Chihuahuas and Dalmatians.
I came into Vim pretty happy with my other tools (a very-enhanced Sublime Text 3 and JetBrains IDEs)...I wasn't trying to learn Vim, I just had to. Vim is now basically my one tool. That and tmux...and more of the stuff I was using tmux's features for I'm doing in Vim. Both tools are definitely irreplaceable for me at this point, but vim much more than the other.
One time I was craving some juice or smoothie, so at the gas station I took one of those 'Naked' brands and glanced on the label, it had some ridiculous amount of carbs and sugar in it, more than 50g. Put it right back.
> To [your body], C12H22O11 is C12H22O11.

Uh, careful. If you said "sucrose is sucrose" I would agree, but lactose and maltose also have that formula, and require different enzymes to digest.
> Tracking down things in JS is a timesuck of epic proportions.

I think you mean your codebase rather than JS. There are plenty of industrial JS codebases where this is not a problem.
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If the music pauses you don't necessarily know why and might press Play, which will then start playing from the device speakers.

This happens to me all the time when I walk too far away from a bluetooth speaker in my house. Or when I have paused playback for too long and it automatically disconnects. Albeit this is on Android.

Unless there is a giant visible indicator that you are connected to the bluetooth device, there is always going to be a level of uncertainty that is bad, imo. You just can't beat a physical plug.
> Because of the 2nd defect

It's not a defect.