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GP's point was that their friend had to find a place to stay with one day's notice which seemed to be the limiting factor.

A mortgaged house, and short-notice, temporary housing are not in the same category. I was asking if there was some point that the person I was responding to was trying to make that I wasn't seeing.
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Let's take your static printf as a concrete example. Here's what a not so great error message looks like (ocaml's built in Printf):

utop # Printf.sprintf "Some int: %d another int: %d" 1 "2";;
Error: This expression has type string but an expression was expected of type int

Here's what a good error message looks like:

clang -Wall printf.c
printf.c:6:52: warning: format specifies type 'int' but the argument has type 'char *' [-Wformat]
printf ("Some int: %d some other int: %d\n", 1, "2");
~~ ^~~
%s

Notice how it also highlights the mismatched part in the string-based DSL.
>Western nations have not 'done worse' in modern times.

The US has bombed and invaded Afghanistan for the crimes of a handful of (mainly Saudi-backed) loonies (after first sponsoring Bin Laden in the 80s), have invaded Iraq under BS false pretexts (WMDs etc) and created huge losses, chaos, anarchy and civil war, have helped destabilize Libya with the same outcome, have targeted the Syrian regime and in the process helped ISIS grow, and so on. And that's just the open actions since 2001...
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The title here on HN is misleading. The article is not talking about all sorts of sweeteners, it is talking about one specific sweetener — aspartame — in sugar-free products.
that's exactly how it is going on now. and it doesn't work anymore - different scale.
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in the article :

"Sapphire is an excellent insulator which wels reduce leakage currents, as well as spurious currents from such things as radiation. Radiation tolerance is perhaps what SoS became known for most, but its low power performance was what HP was after in the 1970’s."
On one hand, I must admit that I didn't consider all this.

But quite franky, this post only makes me excited about USB-C and usb-c enabled monitors.

I wonder how much power can a laptop draw from a monitor though.. I currently have a ThinkPad W530 with a 170W power adapter which literally is a brick (in both shape and weight). I wonder if a monitor could power a such-power-hungry beast).
Currently, all efforts are geared towards reversing climate change. OTOH I feel that we should also be prepared for the ensuing eventuality of climate change, as it is clear that the current civilisation as we know will collapse under dramatic climate change. What can be possibly done to prepare for such an onslaught ? I don't mean something ridiculous like the movie 2012, but engineered ways to deal with the catastrophe that could possibly hit us or our kids generation in the nest 50-100 years.

Either we have to engineer processes that can withstand climate change OR
We have to engineer the human gene to withstand the oncoming onslaught, so even if current processes are gone, we'll be able to engineer new ones to deal with the existing climate.
AND
we prepare underground or space facilities to wait out the aftermath of a nuclear war
Only the argument is that the US has cause much much much greater mayhem than Castro, domestically AND globally, and yet it has the gal to take the hollier than thou stance.

Heck, US cops alone have probably killed much more people than the Cuban regime in those 50 years. And the place with 25% of the world's prisoners and 4% of the world's population is rich to call other places "police states".
If we talk about the 5 great extinctions on Earth to date, with 96% of life dying out after one of the great methane releases, i think our chances of survival in such an event is minimal. I don't think even a tiny group of humans could retain enough resources and technology to survive the millions of years that would be needed before life regenerates itself.
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Fully agree with you.
tl;dr: USB-C is awesome, because Android phones that use it are awesome. Oh, and Apple made a USB-C device, finally, too.
For games when you want fast and cross platform with limited dev resources including browser; Haxe. Works well for producing fast and flexible code for games.
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And why not? Whataboutism is only fair: it means people discuss both sides, and judge things in relation, not in isolation.

A discussion that doesn't contain a "what about" element is one-sided. Those criticizing "whataboutism" only want their own shit to be left out of the discussion.

That some would call whataboutism a bad thing just goes to show how much some pots are used to be the only ones allowed to call the kettle black.
There's more and more nuanced reasons actually:

1. Companies don't know how to do the engineering for maximum uptime, like you describe. It's way more complicated than the usual CRUD operations

2. Companies know how to but they decide not to invest this time (we often traded one hour of downtime against 2-3 man-days for preparing online schema changes with nasty and inconsistent backfilling in the early days).

And 3. Don't forget disaster recovery. I've seen some of the smartest companies go down for hours due to a DB misconfiguration, or a Rack PSU faulting with only one side of the servers connected, even with a reasonably highly available setup. Stuff like this happens - and then you better have a proper 503 Maintenance page up and running to prevent Google from delisting your site. In this case though, "maintenance" is rather an euphemism :)
the only thing they can change is the name of the "president" in the government. There is no way Americans can legally overthrow the government. Overthrowing governments by people is called revolution. This is what Castro did with his people in Cuba.
For those not in the react world, this seems to similar to react-virtualized and has worked great for me before: https://clusterize.js.org/
Alternative headline: eyeglass manufacturing still onshore.

Not discussed: where are the machines made, where are they supported from and where is the actual production expertise? When lessons are learnt about manufacturing where does that wisdom accumulate?

My opinion (just an opinion) is that these factors matter a lot more at a national level than whether people or robots end up shaping a lens.

Alternative headline 2: a small number of jobs kept onshore by robots, most walmart manufacturing still overseas.

Seems to me like walmart is supporting workers by investing in manufacturing tech to keep them competitive with offshoring. From this perspective, the article has an unwarranted negative spin.

To be fair, in a more supportive company the workers would probably be retrained rather than shed. It looks like walmart are encouraging internal placements for them but it can be hard to tell how sincere such efforts really are.
I bought a 13" MBP with the Touch Bar too, and I am also getting bad battery life, on the order of 3-5 hours depending on the workload. I've ordered a 13" without the Touch Bar in hopes that the lower wattage CPU, lack of the Touch Bar, and bigger batter will result in much more battery life.
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I don't recall sites like Google or Facebook ever being down for maintenance. Are there any articles that discuss how they manage application layer and database layer migrations?
For games? Or in general? I worked with both Qt and Xamarin (Forms ane Native) and both work well for apps as you get to know them. For games I would not use them although maybe just an OpenGL surface on either but that is not actually using them.
The days of colonialism, when Europeans showed up on foreign shores, killed the natives, and claimed the land as their own, are over.
The EU even has a Russian propaganda debunking programme.

https://twitter.com/EUvsDisinfo

https://euvsdisinfo.eu/

http://europa.us11.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=cd23226ada169...

http://europa.us11.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=cd23226ada169...

https://eeas.europa.eu/headquarters/headquarters-homepage/21...
I don't really mind 2 ports instead of 4, but I wish they put one on each side so I could charge from either side.
"However, the real take-away here is: if I had built the game natively, I don't think I would have had to worry about this kind of stuff at all."

There are a lot of limitations using JavaScript, that's true. But "using native" you will have to "worry", too. I don't like these kind of Blog posts, that only investigated one side. The gras on the other side isn't always greener.
The very nature of the internet is control. Accusing China in increasing control is like accusing the wind in blowing.
Hmmm.... probably better to see how it turns out before jumping to conclusions. :)

From initial discussion with Mike, there are two parts that would be needed for a (self hosted) setup:

a) The hosting itself (this is something I can likely help with)

b) Setup and ongoing management of Piwik. This isn't a skill set I have (nor am interested in). However I'm generally thinking the Homebrew Community is big enough to rustle up at least a few people with the right skill set for getting this done (and keeping it done :>).

Trying to get both hosting + Piwik setup/mgmt from the same set of people may be a tall order, so doing them separately is probably more achievable.

As a data point, this kind of approach - sponsored hosting/hw/similar + volunteers to look after Community infra - is used successfully in other projects. PostgreSQL is a good example.

Can't really think of any obvious reasons it wouldn't work for Homebrew too. ;)
I don't know. What is the word for "playing world cop, being full of crazy religious and racist nuts, having created KKK, being the worlds top incarceration rate, still having the death penalty, starting wars and protecting your "interests" right and left all over the globe where you have no place, getting in bed with all kind of dictators and fascist regimes --as long as they were not communist dictators they were ok--
, dropping nuclear bombs on civilians, and having the guts to point a hollier than thou finger on the rest of the world"?

Even that, I wouldn't call "evil" -- self-serving imperialistic and post-colonial would fit better. Evil is a BS biblical notion for pre-modern people. It's no way to look at history with a rational mindset, and doesn't offer any explanation of various acts, nor a historical perspective.
Not to rathole on this - but now I'm confused. When I click-drag something on macOS, I can click once, and repeatedly swipe with my index finger, lifting it from the touch pad each time to continue. This is true with every operation I can think of - selecting text, dragging windows, dragging items, etc...

In theory, a three finger-swipe is basically GUI equivalent to a click and drag - so the behaviors should be identical.

Under what scenario have you found them not to be?
Got to love a world where the word fresh has a new meaning g to me; https://www.google.co.uk/amp/civileats.com/2009/05/06/freshl...
Site doesn't work on iOS. I guess I'm fortunate that Adobe can't inflict their ... effluent ... on me.
By this version of what a hacker is, it makes it sound like Apple is saying "This is a sub-par piece of equipment but you'll make the most of it because you're a hacker who's more productive with less!"
I agree with the definition on it's own merit.
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Hi, are you claiming say a re-natal app wouldn't have those quirks? Or at least fewer of them? Any writeups/experiences you'd like to share?
I meant to take into account all results of US interventions from the end of world war 2. Its a net negative result for affected citizens due to underhanded tactics by US. And for US too. Which is why USA is no more a world leader. It would have had plausibility if it didn't constantly try to undermine other democratic countries atleast. But no, every other country is a possible enemy. Spying even the heads of states of allies only proves that attitude and pushes them to actually become an enemy when these underhanded tactics comes to light.

Interchange usa with ussr and communism with capitalism in the above para. Then read it as if you are from ussr.

What I would strongly advocate for is open governance. That would prevent waging war for profit. Perhaps those who calls for war should lead it like old times. Waging war for profit in the comfort of your home while your soldiers die like expendibles causes career politicians to take that risk. If won its profit, if lost then its just an election for them.

I wonder if law banning hipocracy is the answer. Most Politicians does not experience suffering of commons.I wouldn't have a problem with most politicians if at least half of them displayed an expertise in solving real problems rather than expertise in saving face

Here is a very good article that has many ideas I strongly agree with. It addresses many fundamental problems involved.

https://medium.com/rethinking-security/the-problem-with-nati...
Even the "professional" development environments like Visual Studio aren't quite there. I've got a site at work that can only be run locally on one machine because VS won't issue the right certificate, and won't let me disable the SSL config.
Forth is still used in places like the bootstrap of FreeBSD 11.

* https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/tree/release/11.0.1/sys/b...

Some people want to replace this with Lua.
Oh yes. The Syrian conflict is due to climate change.

NOT to the political instability in the area caused by USA military interventions, that caused the societal destruction of Iraq and Libya and the rise of ISIS;

NOT to the fact that the CIA armed and trained rebels to topple the local government;

NOT to the American obsession that "Assad must go";

NOT to the fact that Israel favours weak neighbours, in order to have an upper hand in regional economics and conflicts (see for example Golan Heights);

NOT to the fact that Saudi Arabia and Turkey would like to replace the Shiite government with a Sunni one and win a proxy war against Iran.

No, it's becauz climate change. A strange one that follows borders very closely, since Israel seems to be doing absolutely fine.
CA regulation did not stop VolksWagen to do what they did. And they did it for many years.
Polish people have the right to work in the Netherlands (or any other EU country).
I'm finding it really odd that people are praising the new keyboard. I must admit that I have only tested it in the Apple Store, but I find it terrible, the short travel feels really bad to me. Is this something that you just get used to?
For regular apps. For games there are actually a lot better and more choices.
The first rule "do not learn what you do not understand" is nonesense in the context of learning mathematics/physics/hard sciences.

If you understand a subject, then it means that you have learned it effectively.

In my experience with teaching at university, I have found that the wish of students to understand before learning is actually a great barrier to comprehend a subject.

In order to build intuition on a subject, a student should first try to apply it, play with it (without understanding it) and then understanding will come. But I have yet to witness a student which understand a subject without being able to use/apply the subject.

Take the notion of electric field. You could try to understand it before learning how to use it. Good luck. You are not a fish, so you probably have no sensors of electric field on your skin, and thus you have no prior notion to cling to.
I contend that it is virtually impossible. Or you could try to use the concept of electric field to compute forces on charged particle, or compute the electric field created by a charge, or you could build a program that represent the electric field in space. Doing this requires no understanding, just boring substitutions in the definition of the electric field. But doing that forces you to build understanding (its a vector, it changes direction with the sign of the charges, etc, etc)

Another example is understanding how to bike. You could try to understand how balancing on a bike so that it stay upright, understand how moving the handlebar right makes you turn left or, you could just try to bike, and then understand how it works out.

So my advice: don't try to understand. Do, and do again untill you have learned. Not the other way around.
African elephants are being born without tusks due to poaching
> They're the ones who can make the most out of as little equipment as possible

... like a $4k laptop?

It's not like Apple is the only company to support USB-C on laptops... in fact, as far as I can tell, every major manufacturer has it on their most recently-released laptops.

> To address this point... some might. But not all will.

How, exactly, would someone... anyone... BENEFIT from closed-box performance? Just because someone might not benefit from a laptop you can upgrade doesn't mean the converse... that they somehow benefit from having one that you can't upgrade.

(side note: I can think of ways... decreased cost, decreased size... but the laptops certainly don't cost less, and any difference in size w/ a 15" laptop is negligible)
Is this a nod in the direction that its not specifically sugar that is the problem, but the products that have either table sugar or artificial sweeteners in them?
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*barfs
How is the imprisonment of Manning not essentially for dissent? Snowden yes, is technically not imprisoned, but effective exile and hiding under threat of imprisonment or worse.
I get his point, though. At the moment I'm guiding my goddaughter through her first term at university, so I'm reading a lot, and I have to say that the average textbook can be condensed to 10% of its volume without any loss of information. It's a terrible waste of time, even if you are only scanning the texts.

Please don't get me wrong: I love reading in general.
Poorly written content farming?

Like, not even proper English?
How do D templates compare to staging in MetaOCaml? I had always thought D templates only expanded during compile time, like C++'s.
Your body also releases insulin when you eat red meat. i.e., red meat is as insulinogenic as white sugar.
It may not raise blood sugar levels as much, certainly, but it does raise insulin.
Good point, but the price has something to do with it too.
A good start would be all of http://highscalability.com
- but it more or less boils down to being able to roll back: And that rules out hard schema changes. So the proper and hard way is always a variant of: 1) Create another column, 2) Write to both columns at the same time from the database, 3) Create code to run on the new column, 4) Enable feature switch to run everything on the new column, 5) Build back code dealing with old column, 6) Remove old column.

If that looks complicated, it is - and you better only start with these things if your site earns more money per minute than you need to pay engineers and project managers to pull that off.
Which tangentially is why the USAF's E-4B airborne command posts have to land after about three days. Fuel isn't a problem but they don't have a way to replenish engine-oil in-flight.
I guess the question is rather whether MetaOCaml or the Scala-Virtualized compiler fork + the LMS framework code are practical.

I am not so sure, but I have also not looked into it too deeply. But in the end it doesn't matter as long as it is just a maturity issue. After all I guess the stream library in the submission is to be seen as a motivation for making MPS more mainstream.
a lot of effort for questionable reward

It's a small amount of effort for a thousand-fold increase in performance and not having to re-implement the same functionality in every app and in every language that connects to that DB. YMMV.
I guess Putin's hackers tricked BBC to publish that the late owner of Coronita beer factory left enormous amounts of money to the village where he was born.

This fake news meme is so boring by now. The mainstream media try to blame others for their falure to manipulate the people in a direction desired by the elites, but actually nowadays mainstream media is no better than the fake news sources.
For some reason I had assumed that optimizing streams using MSP had already been done. It seems to be a low-hanging fruit. I haven't read the paper yet, so maybe that (optimized stream library using MSP) alone is not the point at all.
Social status is determined by social status of forebears, intelligence, physical attractiveness, good health.

These are all heritable. This is not a matter of (formal) logic (so stop throwing 'fallacy' around); it's genetics.
The problem is that even just returning from the search bubble and echo chambers can create quite that impression- suddenly there is lots of new i dont like- thus it must be falsified.
I don't think there are mustache twirling landlords that buy buildings only to leave them empty and refuse to let people live in them. Frankly it's appalling that government regulation could get bad enough that a landlord's only choice to minimize his losses is to leave a building unoccupied. I really hope the parent's comment is an exaggeration or a myth. What is even worse is that people actually think it's somehow the landlord's fault.
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I agree unfortunately.

There is one web app that has this potential, Siptrackweb.

I've looked closely at the code and it clearly has potential to add attributes, or additional fields, to password nodes in its database. But right now it does not offer this feature for passwords, only for other types of nodes like devices and device categories.
> Well, we also organize the systems that organize people into hierarchies

Yes, we tend to put the most intelligent people into the best positions. Clearly what we need is more cognitive diversity because hierarchy and ranking is bad.
What about power consumption ?
Speed up your app by caching moment.js calls.
According to the article they were both stupid and power hungry and yet you make it sound like they accidentally manipulated Libor or bet against their own clients.

Should we feel pity for them or what? They could have expanded AND kept some control of what the investment bankers were doing.

Other banks managed to reduce their exposure while DB was blisfully sailing ahead, so your assertion that "so is everyone else and if you stop, then the good traders and bankers quit and go to competitors who will let them make money" is incorrect. This is mentioned in the article.

It also says right in the article that traders were amazed how poor the oversight from HQ was.
This was posted in 1999..... Still relevant but those screenshots were...old.
What you are describing is correct behavior for Ajax: an "origin" is defined by the domain/protocol/port tuple, and so http://www.example.com and https://www.example.com are the same origin.

What the parent comment is describing is a script tag which fails to load because its src is served over https instead of http.
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Programming language operators seem more analogous to words like prepositions and pronouns in natural languages than to sounds. I think the analogous concept to a NL sound in a PL is a token (ASCII or Unicode).
Computing appliances are not computers. Great for children tho.