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I regularly have used more than one compiler (Borland, cc, early Microsoft, and one or two other proprietary ones for developing drivers for embedded optics controllers), programmed for more than one OS (Linux, a RTOS flavor of Linux, MS, Apple, AIX), and have seen my fair share of UB issues.

What you're referring to (programs and behaviors) is not what I was referring to (language details).
Freebsd doc says that their database is maintained by their developers. Vuln page shows it takes data from nvd. I haven't looked into the details, but a rough guess would be that pkg-audit is better is it's really kept up to date. Nvd's version patterns have lots of issues in my experience and often need manual verification.
> I wouldn't be surprised if a micro-controller, if it had enough RAM, would be good enough for a ton of tasks we use desktop computers for.

I remember - way, way back - using a graphics editor app on a computer with the following specs: 3.5 MHz, 8 bit, 48 kB RAM. It was not more complex than Microsoft Paint, but it worked.

So, yeah, microcontrollers nowadays were considered computers at some point in the past.
Sadly, look what happens when someone tries to actually implement a carbon tax. The Sierra Club of all people try and sink it: http://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2016/09/will-naive-left-and-se...
Seems to me that the character, the author, and the audience find something tragic in a life measured only in calculation, and that they all think there ought to be more to life than what's apparent. 'Priceless' may be a stretch, I agree.
I've been shipping over 1000 packages per month (mostly domestic, within US to within US, but probably about 10-15% of those are from the US to other countries) for the last several years. Always via USPS. The USPS loses a lot of mail, in my opinion... At least 1% though probably closer to 2 or 3%. But even worse, their delivery times can be _extremely_ erratic. Delays/losses vary _heavily_ depending on location, especially with international mail.

So 178 items sounds like a ridiculously limited amount of shipments to consider. The Atheist post seems to imply that they only sent 1 package to Michigan. At best, on average, 178 shipments is a shade over 3 shipments per state. Hardly enough for good statistics, and definitely not enough to draw any strong correlations.

Also, it's important to note that in the comments, Atheist mentions that they did not have tracking on their packages. In my experience, more people lie or are mistaken about their package delivery than packages actually being lost. Year after year, I'm continually surprised by how many people end up finding their packages after you tell them "According to the tracking number, it's been delivered. Could you check with anyone in you live with or share a building with who may have accepted it?"

TLDR: As bad as the USPS is, 178 packages sent internationally without any tracking seems like _far_ too few to draw any correlations about wide spread religious bias in the USPS.

Edit to add: Just to be clear, I'm not arguing that atheists aren't discriminated against in the US. (I'm pretty sure we're quite a few years away from even the possibility of a POTUS being an atheist.) I _am_ arguing that the post by Atheist (the company) doesn't indicate discrimination.
Meh. Back-references and lookaround both take too much brainpower to use at an interactive shell. I've used them few times in programs that I was writing, but just to find some text in some files on my disk? Never.
If it were as simple
as you claim, and as critical, why wasn't a carbon tax passed in 2009 when Republicans could not have stopped it? Was it even attempted?
I just think the idea of reaching a tipping threshold that we aren't fully aware of the consequences, is the main concern.
Watching the talk, now at 22 minutes. So far: highly recommended.
By exploited you mean release to the public domain. Big difference.
Any chance you guys will be getting FedRAMP certification on GKE? We love GKE but we're looking at AWS because we will don't want to rule out anything in the future.
Cool Earth [1] is a highly rated [2] charity fighting climate change.

[1] https://www.coolearth.org/
[2] https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/charity/cool-earth/
The atmosphere held in by the natural magnetic field.

Please explain. I always thought it was gravity.
what temperature (approximately) is "freezing" (or less likely, overheating)?
> The thing that (currently) trips me up the most is figuring out when when I've to dereference something, and why, when I've to pass a reference to something and why, etc. Sometimes I do end up with a touch of operator soup.

This is a very common experience! One of the goals this year is to ease this painpoint.
Why stop there? Why not lisp?
Thank you for writing 'functional style' and not 'functional language'. While the latter is usually, and quite naturally, better at expressing the former, there is usually a lot to gain simply by adapting the style to the issue at hand, which not _necessarily_ implies changing languages.

What follows is not necessarily of high value, I'm simply a working programmer since 20 odd years that's bit weary and sad that the craft appears to be stuck in a rut by getting stuck between an unnecessarily theory-less reality and a nirvana of unrealistic purity. It's - maybe - a backdrop to explain why I felt a need to thank you for your choice of words with so many words.

If we consider every problem has a shape (loose analogue for the set of constraints thet uniquely identifies a problem) , then for every shape, or class of shapes a problem embodies, there exists an in some sense - ideal - language to solve that problem. Few are however the times when you only need to solve one discrete class of problem in the same system, but in case of mismatc between language and shape, it's quite common the only solution brought forth is to change languages. Unfortunately that solution is rarely feasible for a multitude of reasons. In the fallout after having to keep working with the same non-ideal language, the entire idea that there are multiple ways - styles - to express a solution is sadly often lost. This would not necessarily happen if the idea that style matters enough that when we can't change language, we could, and would still change how we express the solution within our constraintd. Be it in any language or paradigm under the sun, we need the words from them all to be able to talk about our problems, as they are either unique or already solved.
How the WebRTC Technology Is Transforming the Way Enterprise Communicate
WebRTC or Web Real-Time Communication is a technology standard that has the potential to change the way we communicate with each other through our laptops and desktops. WebRTC allows users to do real-time audio and video chatting on the browser itself, with any computer or website, without even installing one single application.

Hailed as the next biggest idea in the field of online communication the technology is already transforming the way enterprises are connecting up with their clients and associates.

According to this survey, nearly 70% of the participating companies use, will use, or want to use, this form of interaction.

This form of communication has all the potential to become one of the greatest digital strides the world of technology can take in the recent years. Envisaged nearly 5 years ago, and backed by the biggies of the Silicon Valley, WebRTC is the future, and companies cannot be more excited about the whole concept.

New and old, every single enterprise is looking to add the technology amongst their fold to serve their clients and customers in much more robust and efficient way.

But, is the technology that promising? Is it really changing and reinventing the way businesses are interacting with their customers?
https://www.tagove.com/webrtc-technology-transforming-enterprise-communicate/
I always imagined it's kind of a secret evil promotion. If someone is really pushy in their standard advertisement out-calls, someone else comes to them "psst, you wanna know where the real money is?..."
This is how the vast majority of freedom-limiting laws have been implemented in the US.

Marriage licensing, gun control, and drug prohibition immediately spring to mind. Gun control in particular is a topic I'm invested in - see JPFO's video "No Guns for Negroes": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaX3EM-fsc8
Not really sure about that. The cost of solar has come down dramatically and the technology has made huge strides in efficiency, largely because of the government subsidies. Sure, it's a financial failure for the government, but usually government subsidies are not intended to run a profit (lest the government be accused of profiteering or crowding out private investment).
> I think that's called slavery. That seems like the direct opposite of giving people agency and, if anything, the attitude that created all these problems in the first place.

People aren't given agency by other people, they're born with it. Agency can be denied a person though, especially when they break serious-enough laws. That's all I'm talking about. Now I just need to convince enough people to agree with me that scoffing the "must live in a domicile" law dips into the felony range of crimes.

I contend it's not humane to allow people to live on the street. It's in no one's interest for people in the community to live dangerously like that. Depending on the person's situation, a break from their downward spiral might set them on a path back upward. There's no guarantee the individual will be helped by incarceration, but it's needed for the health of the community.

And incarceration due to homelessness wouldn't be permanent, they didn't murder anyone by sleeping on the street. Obviously, jailing a person for homelessness doesn't fit the crime, too.

Case workers would have to decide what to do with people depending on their situation. Return them to their family? Send them to a workhouse to do their time on the farm? Put them in a home to get medical or mental care? I think this is where the social safety net needs the $$$ concentration. You think the prison industrial complex shouldn't extend to the homeless? Ok, let's write the laws that way: every dollar a person earns at a workhouse goes to them once they leave the house.
My CS 101 class basically consisted of 'What is a mouse', 'What is a desktop' definitions, so I'm not surprised. CS 102 wasn't too bad either (input-processing-output, what is a for loop). CS 103 (here come the pointers) is where the program lost a bunch of people.

And everything after that at my university was pretty tough, although not always because the material was tough, more that some of the professors were there more for research and less for teaching and it was pretty obvious (one even said it flat out in class one day).
Yes, but is the rate of growth of CO2 concentration sublinear, linear or superlinear?
Nothing is expected to get through; nothing gets through. No problem.
Timber buildings.
Changing your default search engine to Ecosia[1] can help with this too. A portion of their ad revenue (used to be 20% gross - not sure what it is now) goes toward tree planting.

[1] https://www.ecosia.org/
Wow. Seldom has an article hit so close to home.

I grew up American-poor (household income < $10k in 1980s). I've felt this almost every day of my life. From my point of view I've had to work so much harder for results that are very mediocre relative to the stereotypical HN crowd. I've never had any sense of security. Always felt like the other shoe was about to drop.

I had to work any job I could find as a kid to buy near-obsolete computers to hack on. That was probably good for me.

We tell ourselves that smart kids get scholarships, but that's a half-truth. Some do, some don't. I was valedictorian, had a 4.0 GPA, 99th percentile on every academic test, and applied for scholarships. I got a half-ride to a decent state school. I had to work 30 hrs/wk at a stressful job to make up the rest and pay for used books. A major auto accident was enough, financially and psychologically, for me to drop out. None of that was good for me, and I've occasionally regretted not being able to pursue academics further.

My parents never had any money, and never taught me anything about money beyond "don't spend any". I taught myself as much as I could about finance, but I've found that there are money traps absolutely everywhere. Corporations are very eager to take your money for nothing if you're less than extremely vigilant. Sub-optimal mobile plans, auto-renew subscriptions, lack of health insurance, bank fees, gotchas in employment contracts... such things are ultimately in your power to some degree, but it's a constant hostility against you, and if you're not battling, you're potentially losing tens of thousands, often for literally nothing in return.

I was homeless a lot as a young adult. I still don't have an especially stable living situation.

I've had a great career, and I'm a somewhat sought-after "senior" developer. That in itself is an opportunity. Where I come from, $50k/yr is called "good money", and people know how to live like princes on that. The figures tossed about in any discussion of developer comp would make my childhood friends kill themselves (or kill me).

I once managed to save $100k in cash. I used it to try to start a business, but it failed. I've tried to start companies 3 times. I'm trying to start one now, with no money and a failing laptop. Of course I have the option of getting a good job if I need to.

That's enough details. They don't matter that much. What matters to me is how it feels. To know that it's taken me 5 times as long to get to the same place. That the results I get have always been below what I know my potential is. I'll never give up. It's hard to contemplate, so now I meditate it away so it won't stop me from trying. The point is I've worked really, really hard, and now I'm 40, and the success I hope for is still in the future.
I don't see how startups would help this, but this only becomes useful at scale so if it doesn't scale it's not useful. If we had unlimited land to grow things on we would have far fewer problems to begin with, but land is rapidly being cleared of trees for farming. Since we're already decreasing the amount of land we use to grow trees, we could just stop doing that instead.
I don't understand how implementation-defined and undefined behavior are not a part of the language semantics. They're specified in the language standard, and they determine how the program code will be compiled. They're clearly part of the language.

The pretense that C is a simple language is equivocation, in my opinion.
On one hand there is a global focus is on reducing energy waste. On the other we have hundreds of thousands of people merrily wasting electricity mining bitcoin and other assorted crypto currencies. This is a bit of a dissonance.

To make matters worse crypto currencies like bitcoin appear to incentivize early adopters to act in bad faith like a pyramid scheme. That they are open to monopolization by those who have disproportionate access to cheap electricty and resources can't help build trust.

So the early adopters have every incentive to spin it and on cue they talk it up deceptively on decentralization, anonymity and control as if the protocol develops itself and is not under the control of an inner cotorie.

Aren't governments and financial systems supposed to work for us and if they aren't is the solution to make sure they do, or a flawed technology workaround that benefits early adopters and concentrates power and influence in the hands of a few? The cure seems worse than the disease.
Some folks are certainly hinting at it. http://rameznaam.com/2015/08/10/how-cheap-can-solar-get-very...
What I don't get is why private industry doesn't see this as an opportunity for economic growth. Just start manufacturing green technology free of government incentives and subsidies and we could be on our way to a new industrial revolution!
I had just assumed it was logarithmic due to my high school understanding of the greenhouse effect.

To save people googling, it appears that I was right [0], however this is not try for all greenhouse gasses. For instance, methan grows as sqrt(x), and CFCs are linear.

Admittedly, the linked expressions are empirical, so only represent an approximation for the range of values that we have observed. There are also dynamic effects (such as increased water vapor, or a runaway release of trapped methane) that are not being moddeled by estimates of thermal forcing.

[0] http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/aggi/aggi.html
This is awesome. I can use this to make quick updates to my static sites!
I think he is referring to political will beyond the scope of the US, which collectively, is a much bigger issue.

Probably a similar reason why that carbon tax you mention wasn't passed. (Why do it if others aren't, and lose competitiveness economically?)
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I agree that there are issues, but issues that can be solved if more research and energy is put into it. Nuclear waste being the primary concern. Space depot is an interesting option for sure. Nuclear became a priori taboo for some odd reason though. That's why it lacks political momentum behind it. Nuclear can and should be solution for this.
Does not make it an excuse for nuclear either.
That may be the key. Save the hops.
Actually I think it's one word: China. Companies are competing on a global scale.
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University grants are a different beast. I was addressing the direct investments made in two organizations.

The problem isn't the perception of government backed businesses being 'wrong' for profiteering (or competing with industry?). Most people would be happy if the government made successful organizations that had a real impact (NASA in the 1960s). But successful large-scale government projects are rare today. Any gov tech gains in the past couple of decades were usually a minor side-effect of other massive investments (see: wars, intelligence gathering).

Modern nation states are simply not known for being good speculative investors nor good at running projects efficiently or cost effectively. Even when it's via private industry collaboration. But they are good at being politicians (ie, creating tax policy, managing regulations, etc). So my view is that they should focus on that and let industry be good at building technology.
> one of the companies that resells grandfathered Google Apps accounts

wow, this is really a thing.

https://www.gappsdomain.com/

http://getgapps.com/
I disagree with you, OP mentions 60% reduction in the civilian insurance market and there's studies to back that up- http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2015/10/23/385...

Any large scale car accidents will be re-simulated, analysed and scoured until they are fixed, the general public will not permit them to persist. This means a complete collapse of the entire industry except for enterprise scale underwriting of the car manufacturers which they may already have for recalls.
My high school valedictorian chose MIT. He was denied, while the #8 student got accepted due to affirmative action. Choice is often an illusion.
My point is that the two programs are not so similar.

One is about bettering community projects, the other is explicitly about creating projects for Amazon to commercially exploit. I'd say it is similar to other corporate hackathons.
It doesn't seem all that hard to imagine. I'd guess the people applying might not know at first that the call center job they're applying for will be for a scam, and then when they find out, they have to decide how badly they need a paycheck.
I tried a bit of experimenting. Do any of the fonts on the website have support outside alphanumeric?
Low protein diet 'equals longevity'
The opening sentence makes it sound like scientists have discovered "semiconductors" for the first time - yet they were never mentioned in the article. I feel like I would have gained a better understanding of samarium hexaboride's unexpected properties if the author had contrasted them with a concept that is conceptually (?) similar.

> "In a deceptively drab black crystal, physicists have stumbled upon a baffling behavior, one that appears to blur the line between the properties of metals, in which electrons flow freely, and those of insulators, in which electrons are effectively stuck in place. The crystal exhibits hallmarks of both simultaneously."
42 MB for the table, which has columns for the address, title, plain-text body, and computed text vectors for 43,000 pages (web pages and office documents of average length). Then another 100 MB for the GIN index on the text-vector column.
not much. just a tool which makes a lot easier to do staff in phoenix like in rails
Manufacture of PV panels is being further subsidized in China, something that generally isn't acknowledged in the West. If the CPC wasn't as paranoid of political change borne of discontent over smoggy cities, it's hard to say where PV prices would be.

Also bear in mind that assessing the 'cost of solar' is a toy problem as long as solar can't supply baseload power requirements.
In the post-apocalyptic science fiction novel The Death of Grass (and the movie No Blade of Grass), a virus threatens all the world's grass crops. Some governments begin plotting to nuke (their own!) cities to reduce food demand.

There is a worrying analogy to global warming, where governments might consider nuclear war to reduce carbon emissions (from other countries). Though at the point global warming is really bad, it would probably be too late to make much difference.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_of_Grass
Microbial life has to get the nutrients from somewhere, so you do need fertilizer and the biochar is the fertilizer. It's not impossible to sequester carbon this way, it's just that it seems like it's going to cost significantly more than $15/person/year.
Hmmm, that's a fair point, since "which C" applies, but I think that's a deficiency in the standard and larger in scope than the point I intended.
Only for the m7, because they enable vPro there. For the m3, vPro's not available, so the management engine won't be able to talk to the network card. Alternatively, you could just plug in your own USB wifi device, because it definitely wouldn't have the components for vPro to work.