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I imagine theyre cheaper away from the coasts. Here in Memphis, TN you can get CWO for cheaper than that, including delivery https://westerncontainersales.com/shipping-container-prices/...
You are assuming that the markets and economy even play a role in small scale agriculture.

Markets and economy play a role in nearly everything - they just aren't all the same markets, or the same effect. The mistake isn't thinking that there is a market effect, it is thinking that it is homogeneous.
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Swift, Rust, and Go are the current mainstream "new" programming languages.
You're the guy who knew more and filled in the blanks! I am super fascinated by this topic (and an outsider). Do you have any specific examples or situations that you know of this happening? The hypothetical you gave above was awesome and now I'm curious for more.
Not a single line of code in the entire paper. Without that I have little or no idea what the author is talking about.
It's funny because back home in Texas I'd drive that distance (in miles) regularly to do stuff with friends and think nothing of it.

Take a taxi from Harlem to the Botanical Gardens when there's no traffic (so never, or at 3-4am), you'll be surprised how fast you get there.

It's crazy how much longer the same distance feels when you can't just drive straight there with little to medium traffic!
How much of that is the perception of anonymous assholes vs the real thing? American passenger trains used to have open sleeper cars, but not anymore, which is kinda sad because I don't want to have to choose between coach (uncomfortable) and roomette (expensive) on the LA/Chicago route.
I just installed on a fresh install of Ubuntu, but maybe this is debian specific. It looks like I just need to add my email address to the author field, I'll try and release again today with that fix and one other! :D
> 102W is a /lot/ of power

Yeah, and OP was saying that was only the socket consumption, you've also got to add in chipset, memory, discrete GPU, hard drives, NIC, sound, etc... and power supply overhead as well.

I bet that system was pulling 400-500W total under the load he described.
I mean the water bottle filling stations I've seen and used all across the US and Europe.
Couldn't this also allow you to have Yubikey-like secure enclave SSH and SSL keys?
Beyond what gtrubetskoy mentions (those are the basics which one should always follow), fish oil[1] and tumeric[2] have powerful anti-inflammatory effects.

[1] http://umm.edu/health/medical/altmed/supplement/omega3-fatty...
[2] http://umm.edu/health/medical/altmed/herb/turmeric
It's harder because our wacky economics make it more desirable to plant a subdivision that to farm. I'm fortunate to live in an area where prime agricultural land is relatively untouched and several prosperous farms are around.
I was put on a project to implement payment processing with the UnionPay API. I had documentation in Chinese, of which I knew 15 words. I didn't insist on professional translation, but tried to make do with google translate. Failing to understand the errors I was getting, I continued just trying things and banging my head against the wall.
Java on servers. Java on Android. iOS gets the new thing: Swift on iOS.
I second the sentiments on cross platform! I use MacOS + Linux at work and Windows + Linux at home, so quality cross-platform software is great for consistency.
It's not "anti-Super Natural" per se, but he is against a separately-existing entity. Why Ulysse Carion yesterday is the same person as Ulysse Carion today is much like why France yesterday is the same country as France today. Personal identity is much like "national" identity -- it's not a very profound connection, just a high degree of correlation and continuity.
Note that on win10, you have to manually unblock the installer to allow it to run at all -- otherwise double-clicking just hangs explorer.exe.
Ah, that makes sense. Relatively easy to calculate compared to the itemization I was thinking of -- at least, I'm assuming it can be aggregated in a way that makes the calculations easy.
Do not know about the all in one. But do have the Google Mesh three pack and really like it. It is pretty cool how it moves around connections and you do not even know.

Network is faster but the app is what I really like. Now just roll over grab my tablet and see if the proper kids are at home. Also allows you see if who they said went home actually went home. How long until they figure how I know?
Empirical investigation of imitative behaviour in emergency escape of crowds
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Unless every browser in the world adopts the same list, replying with a fixed list of fonts would make users of a given browser immediately recognizable (especially for low-marketshare browsers like Tor). Seems like you'd want a system where the response to a list-of-fonts query would be semi-random and likely to overlap with the lists that are naturally produced by other browsers.
That's a fairly recentish development (40s-50s). See Who Framed Roger Rabbit? :-)
C. Like most infrastructure software - yes, even today - the codebase I work with (Gluster) is almost all C. Personally there are about a dozen languages I'd rather use, and would use if I were starting my own project, but this is the environment in which I get paid to solve interesting problems and the fact that it's in C is just part of the package.
concur on a short term keto diet. I lost basically all my excess body fat. I struggled a little more with the brain fog, buy after doing it for about a month, I was able to get back into healthier habits. I wouldn't recommend it long term unless you have a medical condition that requires it. My nephew had seizures and he switched to ketogenic diet and his epilepsy calmed from multiple episodes a day to maybe one a day.
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Haha, same. I may get to do some Java, but there's no telling.
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Achieving the same level of performance with ARM is only half the story.

Apple has to surpass the Core i series to make any sense to switch.

And then there's the whole clusterfuck that would be porting all the x86 software to ARM. When Apple switched to Intel emulation of Power PC was usable via Rosetta but AFAIK emulation of x86 with ARM is extremely slow.
This is all interesting, and warrants more actual research, but it's on a rat study that did not control for calories, so it's not super useful because we also know that:

1. Rats metabolisms are very different from primate and specifically human metabolisms

2. Even if they are the same, we already know that eating a caloric surplus contributes to inflammation, so it's difficult to disambiguate the effects of eating keto vs. the effects of eat fewer calories (which people on keto tend to do).

Nothing against keto, if it allows you to comply to eating the right amount of food that's great, but controlling for calories there isn't a ton of evidence in its efficacy over carbohydrate inclusive diets.
The gut flora does have a decisive role when it comes to appetite, I seem to recall.
Right, classes are a way to explain to the computer 'there's gonna be a bunch of objects that are all "chairs". You'll be able to treat all of them in a similar kind of way.' But you should consider that starting with classes might not be the only way to do that.

Inform7, in its beautifully literal (not to say literate) way, captures this very simply with the way it defines classes (what it calls 'kinds'):

A chair is a kind of thing. A chair can be comfy or hard.
Your favorite armchair is a comfy chair in the living room.

But to be fair, Inform7 is object-oriented because it's a language for describing worlds (interactive fictional worlds, specifically) that are made of objects, and the utility of the metaphor for building, say, a website, may not be as strong.

Other languages might use other techniques to capture 'chairness' without having to start off by describing the class of 'chair'. Maybe you define the protocols chairs support (sittability?), or you just rely on dynamic typing and write code that just assumes whatever is passed to it is a chair and can be sat upon, without the code ever needing to be able to divine an object's chairness. That's useful! you can sit on things that aren't chairs, after all. If you can only build objects from classes, though, you can get yourself into the situation where you find yourself having to find a way to compose a 'chair' instance into your 'bed' class so you can allow someone to sit on the bed without having to copy paste code.
Are you referring to the fact that in Java interfaces are basically pure virtual classes? That always felt like an implementation detail to me. For example, both Go and Rust have interfaces without inheritance.
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I see this attitude even in NYC itself. A lot of people dislike the idea of taking the bus (even though it costs the same as the subway) for some reason.
I worked at MSFT on Windows Mobile, and somewhere I still have my "Ship it" for Win Mobile 6.5. Thoughts are of course my own.

I remember when the iPhone came out. It was amazing, and really had us beat in usability, and friendliness. But all the execs and bigwigs at MSFT were really pushing for Windows Phone to be the new Blackberry.

Blackberry had some of the best business facing features, like remote wipe and access policies. This kind of top down IT control, and trying to sell more big ticket MSFT licenses (like exchange) were the focus, and not at all normal users. It was all about selling to businesses, and then have "trickle-down" where users would buy phones themselves.

This was the opposite of the Apple strategy: making something so usable that everyone can use it, and then forcing offices to accept iPhones on their network.

All these years later, it's been interesting to watch, but I'm glad I got out of the mobile space. And yes, I have an iPhone now.
If your village received one of these it seems to me the smart thing to do would be to sell it immediately and use the cash to invest in cattle, tools, better huts, and things like that.
What? No. This is surely (obviously archaeology has just begun, so nothing firm yet) a Mayan site, as it's smack in the middle of the Mayan homeland. The classic Maya were a big, elaborate urban civilization with recorded writings and easily the best understanding of mathematics among known pre-iron peoples. This has been attested by literally dozens of sites across the past century. We've even translated their written language.

The news here isn't the discovery of some new civilation, it's the discovery of a hopefully-undisturbed Mayan site. The others were "abandoned" but still largely plundered, leaving only the big stone monuments undisturbed.
This would be even more helpful if you could do X days in advance of expiration rather than day of expiration.
We still have one web-app written in perl, it's based on the mojolicious web framework to keep it somewhat maintainable, the app used to be heavily tied to mod_perl1 which has thankfully been 'modernised' to not use mod_perl1 or 2 and instead run with mojo+nginx. I expect this to continue being in service and maintained for another 1-2 years before being replaced by a python rewrite.
"spiritually corrosive to individuals and society" seems less of a fact and more of a narrow personal opinion. I personally don't consider caring for the elderly as a corrosive/demeaning job.
word soup would be a sentence that doesn't even parse. you're misusing the term in an effort to beat me down with the force of your snark. cut it out.

do I actually need to explain it to you? I will anyway, in word sandwiches, since you might prefer that instead of soup.

Re-training assembly line workers to be barristas, mall parking lot attendants, and elder-care nurses is not an acceptable outcome. There is increased demand for positions like that in our economy but that is indicative of economic dysfunction, not economic health. Some industries are declining (in terms of labor force participation) because of off-shoring and automation. Those industries are benefiting in profitability from the reduction of their labor costs but the laborers being displaced are not receiving those benefits. New industries that can offer work for displaced laborers are needed. Ideally, those industries are _generative_. That means they are primarily involved in production (of raw materials, of manufactured goods, of energy).
So the trucks will reliably deliver the $50,000 of valuable agricultural equipment but not $5000 of pasta?

I understand the idea of becoming self sufficient. It's the idea of spending $50,000 to make it happen because it suddenly became urgent that I think is not very realistic.

(of course 10 man-years of pasta is not an exciting nutritional adventure. I'd argue it's far more pragmatic than hoping you figure out how to farm in 8 weeks...)
I'd go even one step further: simply reducing intake of food period. Inflammation, short of a specific disease, is pretty rare in people who are not overweight.
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Agreed, Intel is clearly hamstringing their desktop CPUs.

Lack of eDRAM on almost all chips to me is inexcusable. They placed eDRAM on some desktop chips, and they performed fantastically. I think they are waiting to introduce that as standard in the future, as they are running out of features to introduce.

Not to mention the hamstringing of PCIe lanes. I had to switch to Xeons because the lack of PCIe lanes is ridiculous to me.
How does the file search on Win10 compare to native file search?
Does anyone think there are viable/profitable business ideas in there? If the original inventors didn't bother to build something out of it, I wonder if it's because the patents themselves are "good thought experiments" or if the inventors lacked the business wherewithal to make it happen.
Oh, it's a tech story. Food is the industry we will literally never grow out of.
The rent controlled apartments called "Rent Controlled" are just one part of the problem. As these people needed to rent their apartment starting in 1971 those 27,000 apartments are rented by retired people. Which generally don't do daily commutes but do reduce density making other peoples commutes longer.

The much larger rent controlled group aka "Rent Stabilized" includes plenty of retired people, but also many working people who are discouraged from moving due to their below market price rent and the difficulty in finding new apartments. The working fraction of that much larger group creates congestion issues from these longer commutes, while the retired people reduce effective density.

TLDR; I am making more than one argument for why each type of rent control is part of the problem.
Probably because jet engines operate smoothly at constant RPM so the sound is monotonous and gets tuned out quickly, whereas car engines operate roughly at low and wildly varying RPMs. It also depends on the car--a Toyota Yaris with a 4 speed auto (lol in 2016) would pretty awful, where as a Lexus LS600h with V8 and CVT would be very pleasant.
Few (none?) of the ancient "web-safe fonts" are permissively licensed. And nice-looking fonts that look good on all OSes and that have a large set of glyph coverage are quite expensive to make (though I'm sure Google/Microsoft/Apple could afford it).
There's a strong connection between weight gain and sleep apnea. Often its misunderstood as "Oh just go on a diet and your sleep apnea will go away!" That works in some cases but for many it doesn't. Turns out the SA caused the weight gain via unknown mechanisms. Perhaps inflammation, perhaps sugar/food cravings to make up for lost energy, fatigue, etc.
Today I tweeted about a video of Raghuram Rajan (ex-RBI governor, ex-IMF Economist)who explains this phenomenon succinctly.

https://twitter.com/gregdsouza/status/816239880032305152
https://sciencehouse.wordpress.com/2012/09/04/a-new-strategy...
Something is fishy. Make sure you both retain all physical control (you keep the source code and run the servers or heroky keys) and legal rights.

He gets to earn way to equity, he doesn't get it by default.
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I'm modernizing a VB6 app and still get to read through a bunch of it to get things done. Luckily for the moment we've managed to hold off on needing to release new bug fixes/features for the VB6 code.
It is heavily bonus centric. In theory it is unlimited, based on how much you make the firm, which is why you could theoretically make millions any given year (rare).

My friends in quant finance made more than 200k guaranteed their first years (not including performance bonus), and they did not have graduate degrees. It went up to more than half a million in a few years (including bonus).
Totally. Except its crowded. And expensive with the >10 year debt to buy an apartment. And the insane traffic on undrivable roads and the daily squeeze in the local trains. Hardly any tech scene here although tons of mediocre IT work. And yeah the corruption you face to to even set up a LLC is mindnumbing. Apart from these, its just great.

Great weather. Super supportive people. If you have the drive, you can get it done here. Relatively safer than other parts of India.
There are at least two issues with the calories in/ calories burned idea.

1) The method used to measure calories (combustion) is not a proper representation of how calories are metabolized in the human body. We don't have a fire burning inside us.

2) There are different metabolic cycles which determine whether body fat is utilized for energy or whether energy from food is stored as fat.

A good reference for this is "Why We Get Fat" by Gary Taubes.
What's wrong with nurse? It has a quite specific meaning. Changing it medical associate just makes it less precise. What's needed is for sexism to be eradicated everywhere; changing the names is not going to do that.
I'll reach out to them. I used to do some contract coding for them. They may have more books for Cali that haven't made it to the marketing site.
I have written a number of Perl scripts (both CGI and batch) to make up for shortcomings in our ERP system, and to hook up our ERP system to our PDM and financial accounting systems.

Also, I have written a couple of reporting scripts to watch over our Active Directory (look for computers that do not exist any more but still have their AD accounts, stuff like that).

Oh yeah, and a couple of Nagios plugins, too.

For these tasks, there are not many languages that can match Perl in versatility and productivity. It's not the prettiest language, but it's extremely useful.
If you want to be part of the "platform", then it's not ready yet. Valve demoed SteamVR working on Linux a couple of months ago at Steam Dev Days, but it's not released yet. Given Valve Time, it could be anywhere from weeks to a year from now.

It's possible to write your own OpenVR driver with whatever headset, but it would be quite an undertaking.

If you're just messing around on your own, OSVR is n standalone open source
initiative (which also has SteamVR support) that is largely cross-platform but I haven't played with it.

Finally, last month Khronos Group announced [1] that they're going to be developing a joint VR standard with all the big players which should also advance VR towards being more cross-platform.

tl;dr: Unless you're building just for yourself, I'd wait or bite the bullet and install Windows for the duration. (I did the latter, sigh.)

[1] https://www.khronos.org/news/press/khronos-announces-vr-stan...
Yeah, it's just me. Didn't work on wifi at work or 4G, but does at home. Maybe they're lagging behind a CA update....
Ray Cronise goes through a lot of this stuff in a podcast he did with Dr Rhonda Patrick here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNzZod_d18A
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Right, I agree, the major thing we need to be studying when it comes to diet are the psychological aspects of it. But the difference is the important part is not "you absorb more food due to your gut makeup" because that part is real, but not hugely significant.

Put simply: obesity is a food addiction. There are a ton of things that go into it, like depression, the reward system etc. We aren't likely to find the solution to obesity in small dietary tweaks, or fecal transplants.
Ask HN: RTOS Recommendations for new projects?
I'm working on some embedded programming projects at work, starting with Arduino and Arduino clones. We've reached the point of needing to switch to an RTOS, but there are dozens of projects with not much to separate many of them. Suggestions? I've looked into Zephyr, FreeRTOS, and RTEMS [1], [2], [3].

1: https://www.zephyrproject.org/
2: http://www.freertos.org/
3: https://www.rtems.org/
A 50K box isn't going to make you self sufficient, especially without a supply chain for the farming supplies. If you want to be self sufficient, you're going to end up being a farmer first, and whatever else you are later.
You might be interesting in following along with this: https://github.com/cnlohr/libsurvive

Hacker extraordinaire Charles Lohr is reverse engineering the Vive protocols and has made good headway so far. It also seems that Valve has been giving him the odd hint along the way.
Thanks for the documentation. Is is available in GitHub instead of a zip file?
Unlikely to sustain as Chinese gov will announce bitcoin as illegal.

What's ironic is that the bitcoin pumpers have sold the myth that money is being snuck out of China through Bitcoin and some of the biggest miners and exchanges are in China.

Now it has the attention of President Xi and when they come down on bitcoin, they are coming down hard, along with the prices. It's unlikely to recover after this year's drop.
It's fairly common, and it's not anything like slavery when there is effective management and the "as needed" is genuine emergent situations, not routine failures to plan predictable work within a reasonable work schedule.
We might have been able to have mobile devices that look and act like PCs, with full user control, high customizability, etc. Instead, we get locked-down devices. Android is better, but Google seems to be gradually following Apple's lead on this, and it's sad enough to me that Apple's mobile platform isn't open and customizable the way their desktop platform is.
I'm very well aware of that history, thank you. But the two guys with mustache were the ones actually going ahead with big time conquest in Europe.

Sure, Chamberlain was wrong with that peace in our time and handing Bohemia to Hitler. But obviously he had difficulty in going to war over it, as well.

And Arthur Harris would have hung as a war criminal if Britain had been on the losing side against Germany. But that's a different story. The two dictators and systems in their countries were the ones most responsible for bloodshed.