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Max Q for the Peagus and Saturn V are actually at the exact same altitude. ~14-16km. And nearly identical pressures.

The thing is because all rockets follow the same trajectory to orbit, The gravity curve. So you hit similar speeds at similar altitudes. If you don't, you either aren't making it to orbit, or you're wasting fuel.

This is because the gravity curve is a straight line if you ask Einstein, just earth's gravity makes space-time look wibbly-wobbly.

Newton calls this the derivative of the balastic arc.

There isn't a magical trajectory to orbit that is cheaper.
A fluid intelligence decline is not necessarily age-related, see for example "The effect of age on fluid intelligence is fully mediated by physical health." 2013, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23540273 :
"Our findings imply that improving health by acting against the common age-related circulatory- and nervous system diseases and risk factors will oppose the decline in fluid intelligence with age."
Can't argue with that, but what I really said was that in contrast to the article, and Stroupstrup's rule, if I was to design a language I would put the "one way to do it" very high in my priorities.

Going with let's have "explicit syntax" now until the users get familiar with it and we will make it more terse later, is not a good idea IHMO.

But I do understand and appreciate that sometimes evolutionary changes will bring in duplication, so I am in no way attacking Rust and the specific example of the evolution of the error handling syntax.
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>> because the maintainers refuse to add any new syntax they now basically cram everything they need into the reflect package.

I think they want to try different avenues before to decide what features to add. Generators("go generate") are used a lot too but they are a pain to develop. Most of them still use templates or print statements instead of specilised packages such go/ast , go/types, go/parser etc to actually generate/print code. Usually you should use reflection to prototype and switch to generators only where the performance is really a big issue or where reflection can't help(i.e define new named types, import/use arbitrary packages/functions)
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People don't like his views so they look to his quirks as proof that he is crazy and not merely misguided. Thus they can dismiss his followers as crazy too instead of having to own up to the fact that many of their colleagues worthy of respect believe in a world view fundamentally different from them.
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So much of this would depend on the budget, and size of the project. What works great for an enterprise site... is total overkill for a small project. Likewise... it's seldom one person, or even one team, that does everything end-to-end... so like... maybe your role is only to get to UAT, and their team will take over for security screening, performance testing, hardening, launch... Do we include what dev, design, devops, marketing, sales, legal teams all care about? I'm sure that's not even a complete list of teams...

At an agency I worked for a few years back we had a sheet called "Getting to Done" -- looked something like this:

* General Web Project Overview - Google Sheets || https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1rGSHT2kZQCahDqoQkryL...

I've got a huge file on process, with sample documents... but every time I sit down to put it all together into something that can help new hires I hit a wall around who it needs to be written for. What size of company, what focus of the site, what department of the company, what role on the team...? I think the sample "technical alignment" document we used when taking over a web property was about 15 pages worth of questions... and we still had to verify all that stuff and look at the code and various metrics.

Point being this stuff is all a learning process for everyone... best practices evolve, technology evolves, standards evolve... if you manage web projects it's more about ongoing learning rather than memorization / repetition.
Lighter? I'm not so sure. Most of the reduced mass has to be added back in again for Pegasus to have aerodynamic control during stage 1 flight.

The overall benefits of the platform are questionable, at best, especially considering its absurd launch cost.
Also, lets not forget that it's not just Linux (or any one kernel or OS) that's the issue but also every popular hardware architecture can be expected to be subvertable, especially x86 it would appear.

And exploiting these types of bugs is within the capablilities of many non-nation state actors as well at this point.
The only accurate quote in the whole article: "my job involved juggling a lot of balls"

He was cupping them as well, and he clearly still is. It's easy for someone to seem smart when a team of people feed him talking points all day, and you're a huge admirer of him as the author seems to be (which is why he made the not very obvious stretch from the student's question of Bush's level of involvement to his level of intelligence).
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This may be the best thing about Arch. Their crowd-sourced documentation model covers a lot of corner cases and unique configuration that many other distributions cathedral model documentation lack. The wiki format also helps it keep up with the rolling nature of Arch. Even the Gentoo wiki links to the Arch wiki in a lot of scenarios.
I've been playing the first level for 50mins. There's so much depth there. One of my added friends has 230 coins on that first level , and so am still trying to beat him !
I'm not. I'm talking about the same people you are, I think? I'd really like some explanation of who precisely we're supposedly letting down, as this level of abstraction is getting to a level where either of us could say anything without evidence.

EDIT: There's a handful of poor cis white hetero men in my specific feminist/SJ group. Their thing is mostly being pro-unionisation in a way that falls in nicely with the more socialist tendencies of modern feminism, or they're unemployable due to mental or physical disability and struggling with the abysmal benefits system and have come to disbelieve that society as it stands is ever going to fix that, or in one case he's blind, and we support them in their efforts and fold them into our own as best as we can. I can't vouch for the makeup of other groups.
Windows in general does not respect you as its user. I refuse to use software like that. If you want to use software that respects you you'll usually have to use open source. But indeed, what makes it especially egregious is the fact that you're even paying for it.

(It will update itself whether you want to or not and reboot by itself unless you're on Enterprise, etc.)
> This kind of turn is one featured in a 2013 blog post that is known to be one of the primary causes of collisions between cars and people who bike resulting in serious injury or fatality.

Perhaps it is the primary cause of collision between bikes and cars being driven by humans. Perhaps the primary cause of collision would be different for self driving cars.

Personally, beyond convention, I don't see why one of these turns would be inherently safer than the other. Either way, you still need to look behind you, in the lane to your right, in order to safely turn.

A self driving car has the advantage of being able to see in all directions at the same time (to the extent that it's sensor array allows). I don't think it's entirely clear that the safest way for a human to drive will always be the safest way for a machine to drive.
>Windows still doesn't have a decent way to tail the logs!!!

cat -Wait foo.log
Alternatively, you build a type system that can express what developers actually need it to express and solve the problem without reflection at all. =)
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What a joke. They are kids playing with an image recognition toolbox and letting it run wild on the public.

It seems like the government is happy to wait for the first serious accident that will no doubt immediately end whatever joke of engineering company finds its technology implicated.
> >"home broadband"

> Just a refinement of the web.

What? Not remotely. It enables the web but the underlying technologies are totally different. Home broadband also enabled a lot of other things. Your statement makes me think you don't actually understand technology at all.

> Linux is based on designs from the 70s, it was old before it was first released.

Again you're failing to understand what was revolutionary here. GNU had been around for quite a while. It's Linux that was revolutionary. It's a kernel that worked well and that people could contribute to and package up with GNU to enable operating systems of very high quality.

> I hope you realise smartphones did not start with the iPhone. The smartphone has gone through a long period of iterative design improvements.

Aye carumba. What were called smartphones before the iPhone were awful. WinCE was a disaster, and Blackberries were a niche tool for a niche market. iOS and Android devices made computing usable on a mobile platform by everyone for the first time.

Of course everything builds on the past, all of these things are based on integrated chips and transistors and on and on.

But some technologies are actually revolutionary (like the ones just listed) and others are not (Kinect.) This is obvious by the impact or the lack of impact that they have.

You are not fun to talk to because you are missing very obvious things, and I think you're doing it deliberately, so I'm done with you.
Wtf? Why would spacex utilize a freelancer front end Dev / designer to develop a one off crappy custom soln for data analysis? When much more robust, performant, established solutions exist?

Also space x is not a green start up, why would they still lack the ability to visualize and analyze data?

The author obviously failed to ask himself this obvious questions.
While there are a bunch of older archs most are quite well and alive (hence supported by Debian). For example, there are a bunch of POWER8 machines in buildd, or some fairly recent SPARC machines.

Some of these machines are donated. FPGA emulation would be a huge project, both time/involvement wise and also cost-wise (FPGAs are freakin' expensive).

Software emulation gets nowhere near usable performance, even with older archs (say PowerPC970) the real, >10 year old hardware is much much faster than any emulation, which also tend to be rather limited. For example, PPC in QEMU is actually not the 970 (G5), but an G3ish thing. Conversely, the virtual machine is limited to 1.5 GB of RAM (iirc). Technically you can build stuff on that. It just takes ages. 2-10 minutes for compiling a C module. The real deal (a G5 in the cellar) on the other hand can be stuffed with RAM to 8-16 GB and will be about as fast as a slow laptop nowadays is. (Except it will make much more heat and will be louder. Well, the latter depends on the laptop, hellish noises they make...).
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Yes, the grandparent post is being unfairly downvoted. It's an entirely valid criticism of the meaninglessness of a sensational headline.
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It's never going to be 100℅ safe. But that's not necessarily needed. You just need to be safer than the human drivers currently filling our roadways.
Same here. I had a green light, the driver even passed me, the crosswalk had a green man on it and she still cut me off. She even admitted fault to me and the police officer.

The worst part was dealing with the insurance company. If this happens to you, get a lawyer and never talk to the insurance directly on the phone. Also get all the witnesses names and numbers if you can. The insurance adjuster claimed she couldn't get in touch with the cop (I couldn't either). If you're not in a car that has your own insurance backing it, they'll fuck you over.

I barely got enough money to cover my medical bills. I didn't get enough to cover all the bike damage, and had to buy used/mismatched parts to get it ridable again.
In some states, yes – regardless, they must have been manufactured before 1986. I think the cheapest that comes these days is around $6k for a shitty Mac-10. An M16, for example, starts around $20k.
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The JSON data used is located at:

[0] http://langpop.corger.nl/formatted_data

And considering how long it took to load for me, the chart might work, but take forever.
Oh yeah. It's why you see me pushing things like the GPL'd Leon3 processor (SPARC) that can be implemented on visually-inspectable nodes. Or the 8-16bitters or Forth CPU's if it really needs minimalism. Even open-source EDA tools like Qflow that could use attention from smart OSS contributors.
According to the Department of Labor, a Google engineering job qualifies as professional and therefore exempt from overtime pay.
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That's pretty much what academia told Motl.

He hasn't been a working physicist for a long time precisely because of how unnecessarily and uncharacteristically nasty he is.

Characterizing him as an example of any sort of trend in academia is both uninformed and deeply insulting.
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I am curious about transport efficiency comparisons of trains/rail versus automobiles versus buses. Public sectors can miss out on interest in investment in infrastructure as Uber/ride-sharing is seen as an acceptable substitute good for public transit. But once a private entity has autonomous vehicles and even more efficient system, cities could tax the private entities for use of their transit infrastructure, e.g. roads. Could that mean then once private companies dominate the transportation market and raises prices, that cities then have the final card to play to either allow a company to be used in their city or not? Then they can create more efficient public systems or subsidized ride-sharing? Sure, citizens may be upset if they don't have Uber/riding sharing because of public sector decisions, but Uber would be upset about not getting revenue.

I am just curious about others' thoughts about the big picture. Are cities doomed to privatized transportation and further inequality creation?
The point is to please say something _interesting_. Or unique. Or at least non-obvious.

You've no idea how many execs say things that essentially come down to, "Our product is really cool" or "Security is important." And they (or their PR people) sincerely are astonished when they are not quoted.
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> Going with let's have "explicit syntax" now until the
> users get familiar with it and we will make it more
> terse later is not a good idea IHMO.

I don't think this is a conscious decision. IMO, when you're first designing a language, you don't necessarily know what idioms are going to be most common, so you use special syntax sparingly, and force users to be explicit everywhere else. Then, once you have experience with how people use the language and can empirically observe what idioms are popular, you favor those idioms with shorthand syntax.

Getting back to the specific example in the OP, for a long time there was a discussion on whether Rust should use the question mark for some dedicated syntax (having removed the C-style ternary operator in 2012 as redundant with `if`). But people disagreed on what to use it for: some wanted to use it to designate functions that return booleans (like Ruby does); others wanted to use it to designate functions that return Option (my original stance, way back when); others wanted it as sugar for constructing and typing Options (as Swift eventually did); some wanted a C#-style coalescing operator. But after years of experience it turns out that none of the above are especially prevalent in Rust, especially once the community embraced the Result type (which matured relatively late in Rust's development) for most of what Option had originally been used for. In retrospect having a terse way to handle Results is an obvious win and I absolutely adore the new `?` operator, but it takes time to produce the evidence that such things are truly worth their weight.
In case someone reading this can fix it, there's a typo:

> App install banners make it easy for users to add your app to their home screen with a single click, and is an indication to the user that the app their adding, meets an important quality bar.

"their" should be "they're", and there shouldn't be a comma after "adding", I think.
That'd be like trying to "normalize" the presence of shirts, or automobiles. Guns have been ubiquitous in popular fiction of all kinds for decades, if not centuries, since they're such a useful device for drama or just entertaining fights. Don't forget how Dr. Watson always had his trusty pistol at hand whenever Holmes needed him.
Yes, this is one of the things that I really want to punch the SSC for. Assignment should have a useful return value: even C, so often said to do The Wrong Thing, got that right.

But for those of you who aren't scheme programmers, it gets worse: because when RnRS says that the result of something is "unspecified" many implementations take it literally. That's right: in many Schemes, `set!` returns the literal value #<unspecified>. I swear I'm not making this up. It's awful.

To quote Jonathan Gabriel of Penny Arcade: "Baby, why you always gotta make me hit you?"
Sadly once one start down that road on find oneself deep down a endless rabbit hole before one know it.
I ride my bike both ways to work and have seen this happen a couple of times in front of me, though I haven't experienced it personally.

This may be controversial, but I think bikers should be more cautious when approaching intersections where a right turn is possible from an automobile traveling at about the same speed immediately off their left shoulder.

Yes, I understand that cars are supposed to signal, and when they don't they are creating a dangerous situation. And they are supposed to merge into the bike lane before turning in order to block off cyclists from getting themselves into this exact situation. But they don't.

So cyclists should learn to look out for the signs of a possible right turn (drifting rightwards upon intersection approach is a pretty clear indicator) and be safe.

Don't approach an intersection at speed in the blind spot of an automobile that might turn right. Just slow down a little.
I can't stand this "throw up our hands" reaction to nation-state adversaries. None of these APTs have unlimited budgets; sufficient hardening and defense-in-depth will encourage the planner to use different targets to satisfy the tasker's intent.

Every security improvement helps. We can't just say "run SELinux in a VM and use Tails with JavaScript disabled or accept the Mossad completely owning your life." There has to be a realistic middle ground.
Having dedicated turn lanes isn't realistic in San Francisco. Most streets are too narrow.
> What fear is motivating me to ask other people to die, as you put it?

I interpreted that as meaning that because, especially over a long period of time, preserving your life would decrease opportunity for other's to have a life.
That's outdated and unofficial. Look at some examples with ttk.
"Getting to 90% is possible. 100% is extremely difficult requires making some hard choices about what software you are going to use."

That's what Roger Schell, one of INFOSEC's founders, used to say when pushing his GEMSOS security kernel (now at Aesec). He said you can get quite a bit there with review and hardening of these mainstream codebases. 90% maybe in best case. The last 10% might be impossible if it wasnt designed for high security and verifiability in mind from beginning with it baked into every aspect of it.
But he wasn't just smoking pot (and it's hard to imagine anyone really caring about unsubstantiated allegations of some guy smoking pot), he was running a massive drug dealing enterprise.
Rule one of turning was this: never ever cross a lane that goes straight as part of a turn. You don't turn from the left lane because you forgot to get in the right lane first. You don't turn across a bus lane. And you don't cross over a bike lane. Same principle in all cases.
I could buy an OEM pc without an OS

I don't know about "without an OS", but Dell is selling a laptop right now that comes with Ubuntu Linux out of the box: http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/xps-13-9360-laptop/pd?3x_n....

And, like others have pointed out, the Surface isn't "locked". Yes, it has SecureBoot and UEFI... just like literally every desktop motherboard shipped within the last 5 years. You can go into UEFI, turn off SecureBoot, wipe Windows and replace it with whatever you want. It may not work very well, but it's totally doable.

If they want to sell Surface because it's an awesome product, why do they need to go out of their way to lock their software on it?

Because the software is part of the product. Apple has shown us that customers do not consider hardware and software to be separate entities. They consider both to be an integrated whole.
You can get away with a higher carbon tax if you return the money to the population.

In fact, there's a fair amount of popular support for basic income. Meanwhile a leading idea for carbon pricing is a flat fee per ton with the money returned to the population, equal amount per capita, which essentially is a small basic income funded by the carbon tax.

British Columbia has a revenue-neutral carbon tax (in their case by reducing payroll taxes accordingly) and reportedly it's popular. The opposition party ran against it and lost.
dear lord. SJW much? doesn't matter what your gender is, you'll figure it out. if you mean it.
Didn't this same thing happen between Wittgenstein and Russell two decades earlier?
That's what an IOMMU does.

Without an IOMMU devices on extension buses directly address physical memory.

With an MMU the host CPU creates a virtual address space for devices and can thus limit access to the main memory (conveniently also allows passing devices to VM guests), much like virtual memory for processes/VMs.
You can drive a car without insurance in the US? That sounds crazy irresponsible...
This particular self driving car technology has been found running dark red lights [1], fundamentally ignorant of the law [hinc] and the operating company unwilling to meet even the most basic reporting standards that DMV and others require of self-driving cars [2].

Whatever advantages you ascribe to it are the product of science fiction, not the evidence in front of us.

1: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/dec/14/uber-self...

2: http://www.theverge.com/2016/12/16/13990318/uber-refusing-pe...
The reason for layering is that the lower layer code remains compatible and even, let's say, idiomatically acceptable if excessively verbose.
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The electrical analogy is more closely comparable, but I've found water is a simpler concept for most to comprehend.
Ack.

Maybe I misunderstood the article then! When I read:

For new features, people insist on LOUD explicit syntax.

For established features, people want terse notation.

I understood, keep it explicit to begin with, and make it terse when users get familiar. Probably I got it wrong.