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I also see this 'Tweet unavailable' issue, with people I have not blocked. I wish Twitter would fix their shit so people wouldn't launch into insane conspiracy theories.
As a person who's looking to hire people, I'm signaling them the opposite. We use C++ with only a few maximally boring dependencies. And even in C++ we stick to C plus smart pointers, and a very occasional class where it makes sense.
just because it is this way doesn't mean we can't do better.
I listen to my doctors, I write down everything they say and then I do my own research later.

I have a relatively rare spinal condition and I've only seen 2 out of about a dozen doctors who knew what it was before they googled it and one of those gave me figures I'd already seen in a research paper I'd read and the other had less knowledge about my condition than I did.

I don't blame them since there are literally thousands of medical conditions and a lot of them fall on the long tail in terms of what they see on a day to day basis.

I'm not afraid of disagreeing with my doctors anymore though since often I know as much about my condition as they do.

It would be better if they didn't affect an air of omniscience sometimes though.

The only reason they found the condition at all was because I had an A&E (ER) Doc tell me to go back to the GP and demand an MRI on my spine, he was a good doc, he knew something wasn't right.
Your doctor's brain is not the world's best device for information retrieval.

As a former doctor, agree 100%. Still the medical profession seems to look down upon "information aid"-like technology. Beyond accurate physical examination and correctly entering the patient's history into a well-trained pattern-matching AI engine, doctors really don't need to be doing much in a first-world country. They need to be re-inserted into the workflow only if the treatment recommended by the automated/AI approach does not help.

The brutal truth is that the vast majority of doctors, even specialists, will be incapable of correctly diagnosing and treating the very uncommon, rare and extremely rare medical conditions.

"The eyes see what the mind thinks" - is absolutely applicable to 99% of doctors, who, for various reasons, would be more concerned with helping the 95% of their patients with obvious/common/easily-identifiable conditions that respond to their first or at most second line of treatment, than bother spending an inordinate amount of time, effort and energy on the remaining 5% who's death/suffering may well be considered the "cost of doing business". Bitter truth, from experience.
I agree with you that digital has expanded my ability to enjoy music. When I read the line "Spotify shows people coming back to the same tunes over and over" I was surprised. I'm probably younger than you, I only had a few CD's before I started listening to all my music on an iPod Shuffle in Jr. High but I remember being elated to buy 20 new songs on iTunes and listen to them over and over.
After making the jump to Spotify and later Apple Music I've found the desire to seek out new music grow exponentially, in fact I almost never come back to the same music, I can't help but find new songs

The other side is that sites like Soundcloud are a godsend for bedroom producers. I've found an incredible diversity of sounds from there also
> Higher tax for gasoline sold inside the city?

I'm all for taxes that attempt to follow a mathematical distribution, which makes the most sense in such a scenario. This would have to be a "federal government" thing, which on top of the pollution tax (equal everywhere) adds a congestion tax that increases as you approach dense city areas, such that it's probably not worth it to drive more to fill up the tank. But no system will be perfect so it's best to minimize complexity in my opinion.
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Interesting though.

If a women isn't a CEO or engineer, we assume women are unfairly being discriminated against. If a women isn't a low value job, we assume they aren't biologically ideal for it.
New aesthetics in web design.

With the brutalist movement something new started. People went back to code editors to create websites by hand skipping third-party, non-web-native user interface design tools prefilled with common knowledge making websites looking uniform.

The idea of design silos and brand-specific design thinking is dropped: no more bootstrap, flat design, material design, etc.

It's like back to the nineties and reinventing web design. You start from scratch, on your own, and build bottom up without external influence and or help.

It's about creativity vs. the bandwagon, about crafting your own instead of putting together from popular pieces.

http://brutalistwebsites.com
Speed, responsiveness and the ability to work offline. These things sort of work for webapps on the desktop because desktops aren't cpu and memory restricted. Phones are. As a result, webapps are just too damned slow and frustrating to use on a phone.
Why hasn't there been any innovation in the area of sleep?
And the other various diagnostic roles that require less training than an MD/DO, nurse practitioners and physicians assistants and so on.
> But by and large the problem is that the anchor price for the browser and browser extensions is $0.

Great point. This was my thought initially which is why I suggested my friend to try a donation/pay-what-you-want model [1] before even trying to charge money for it outright. This might give an indication of whether the app solves a pain point enough to make people pay for it.

[1] https://www.emailthis.me/pages/support-email-this-donation
There may be good reasons for it, but they are not obvious to an external viewer.

But isn't the real question whether that obviousness is more important than ease of comprehension and maintenance for someone who does have the required skills to work on the code?

To a child who has just learned squares and square roots and who has never encountered TeX, the expression $e^{i\theta}=\cos\theta+i\sin\theta$ is probably just line noise. To a practising mathematician, it is immediately recognisable and a useful tool. Obviously the difference is that the experienced mathematician has learned the underlying concepts and the notation to represent them. The result is that while the teenager might be learning double-angle formulae by rote for their trigonometry exam in a few years, the experienced mathematician could use their more powerful tool to derive those formulae or any variations on the theme in moments whenever they need them. Their greater skill and understanding makes them much more capable.

There are certainly reasonable arguments for making the code for some projects accessible to new developers, but doing that isn't free if it also means compromising some aspect of that code for current developers. It's a trade-off, and sometimes requiring new developers to have a certain level of skill and understanding before they can work on a project is OK.
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You think that because the administration asked executive agencies to stop all posting to social media under _official_ government accounts that that means YouTube took down a _private_ parties youtube channel run by a private party / individual company not associated with the US government?

There is literally ZERO evidence that is true.

What you are saying is like saying I saw the president's dog poop on the white house lawn and today I found poop on my lawn. Then concluding it must have been the president's dog that pooped on your lawn. It's nutty false and untrue.

You are taking two completely unrelated facts and making a wild unsupported claim which most people would call misleading if not a lie.
I appreciate the author who took the time and energy to write this, but I do find the conversational personification style annoying.
Been able to talk with a real person if I need too, I've spoken with some 'tech support' that didn't even know what a server was much less how to turn one on!
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For me Go is the goto language for usecases where Python and Java were used. Python is great for tooling, and Java was the primary language for the backend.

So now, whenever i think about tooling or backend, Go is the primary answer, because its good in both paradigms.

The other languages i use is C++, and Swift, each one with their own niches. C++ for complex machinery, that requires more control and integration with other libs, and Swift for general applications, specially the ones that are user focused.

In my case, i cant find a niche for Rust. And thats because C++ is already covering that ground for me. I can see why i would use Rust instead of C++, but in the majority of cases where i use C++, there are huge complementary source code already in C++, making the effort to code everything in Rust from scratch, a complete nonsense.

So for me the language in "limbo" right now is Rust. (and i dont think that people with big C++ codebases would rewrite in Rust, because there's little advantage, at least compared to modern C++)
Can you show examples? This is feeling like a hypothetical you're using to dismiss political speech rather than a genuine concern. I don't doubt it's happened (I can think of a couple of anecdotal examples I've seen in person, as well as plenty of times we let cops through even though we were fully against them), but I also don't think you may have a respect for just how many peaceful protests block roads or buildings in this country every single day without major incidents. As someone else pointed out in this topic: the revolution isn't televised.
That's fine, I agree with your assessment, even though you are implying that by raising a question, I have somehow lost an argument :)

You say that "those pushing for the penalty have better PR/political muscle", and you imply that they have more muscle than groups pushing for other penalties, or maybe even against penalties.

What I would like to point out is, we are assuming that the majority of citizens of Stockholm or Singapore or etc have clearly voted in favor of this execution of public policy, because if they didn't, they would just leave or rebel or something.

But in reality, I dare say that all over the globe, small elite groups of people are paid exorbitant sums of money to come up with these laws and carry them out. They then use cherry-picked statistics to justify the existence of the program (and then attack any naysayers as wanting to live in polluted dystopian hell holes like some stereotypical example of a Chinese city).

Would you agree then, that certain groups being able to penalize other people for the supposed "crime of driving" is not the most optimal and equitable way to balance negative externalities?

Perhaps it should be the burden of other people to deal with the negative externalities of something reasonable to expect in city living, like air pollution?
Maps are explicit transformations of data. For some, making the business logic explicit is simpler.
A good sci-fi adaptation of this is T"he Windup Girl" by Paolo Bacigalupi
Clever? Sure.

Elegant? Hell, no. It's an ugly hack.
No incompleteness proves that there will be statements that are true or false that cannot be proven to be true or false.

Careful there: Gödels first incompleteness theorem proves that in a consistent effectively axiomatized formal system, there will be statements that are true or false that cannot be proven to be true or false.

So let's assume there were such a thing as objective mathematical reality and that it could be formalized as The System. As far as I'm aware, all the incompleteness theorem implies is that The System's set of theorems is not recursively enumerable (ie we will never be able to 'write them down').

All we can do is craft necessarily incomplete subsystems applicable to areas of our interest. It's a bit sad that humans will never know the Whole Truth, but such is life...
Maybe worth another api entry (maybe 'frequent' or 'classic')?
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The conversion feature is in fact very convenient.

We often keep different types for what we get from the user (JSON) and what we write on the database (e.g: BSON). Having the ability to convert between them without having to re-type everything is useful for a lot of code out there.
You should see the linux app, it doesn't even have a maintainer anymore.
If net neutrality goes the way it seems this week, sharecropping might become even more of a necessity.
Certainly there are things that could be automated.

The challenge would be in creating software that can intelligently interact with a patient to surface the actual facts.

Humans are infinitely variable and read and interpret clues that we've barely identified let alone figured out how to automate reliably.

But that doesn't mean it's not possible. Machines will, one day, do this BETTER than humans can.
Yes, but can Turing machines do enough mathematics? The second order Peano Axioms are categorical and the first order axioms are not. The Incompleteness Theorem tells us that there are statements that are true in the standard model of N that are not provable by a Turing Machine.
I don't disagree about the type safety and general qualities of the language, but saying "Maybe because I like coding" is really unnecessary language egotism. There are many, many people who love coding and love doing it in Go.
> GMO technology could be a good thing, but, some people find worrisome, that global supply of food it's in the hands of a few corporations.

Ding ding ding! Monsanto isn't exactly Evil corp. and after doing some research, they don't quite deserve the terrible reputation they have. That said, I am still wary of a large multi-national corporation that seems to hire a large number of prominent US ex-politicians.

The cognitive dissonance it creates in people, especially those in LA, makes me chuckle. They'll only eat organic, gluten-free foods and use "all natural" toothpaste, cleaning products, etc. for fear of cancer. Meanwhile, on that jog during rush hour, they're breathing in possibly the worst air pollution in the US and living in this smog will definitely takes years off of your life.

>Some people, and I have not found convinced evidence of the opposite, thinks that GMO is being promoted because profit, not because humanity needs it.

Unless humanity instantaneously ends the Anthropocene era and stops spewing out greenhouse gases, wheat, corn, rice and sorghum (which account for half of the calories consumed by humanity) face a very uncertain future by the pressures of climate change.

Also, a large % of farmers practice crop monoculture, which is unsustainable. For example, edible bananas are the result of a genetic accident in nature that created the seedless fruit we enjoy today. Virtually all the bananas sold across the Western world belong to the so-called Cavendish subgroup of the species and are genetically nearly identical. These bananas are sterile and dependent on propagation via cloning, This lack of diversity makes them extremely susceptible. The vast worldwide monoculture of genetically identical plants leaves the Cavendish intensely vulnerable to disease outbreaks.

Since we are making America Great Again, it seems like the US just said fuck it, climate change is happening so that we can bring back manual labor jobs from 3rd world countries. If the worst happens and we live in a Mad MAx-esque dystopia, I'm assembling a war band to assault the global seed vault.Does anyone know what kind of fortifications it has? Norweigans?
Of course. You can easily use Twitter, Telegram, Messenger ... http://rapidpro.github.io/rapidpro/
Is NASA co-operating with JAXA on this project? They've been working on a similar project for over a decade and last I heard were doing small scale tests.
From what I read, Wal-E is meant to run on the database server and backups directly to S3 or equivalent while Barman typically runs on a separate server and can backup one or more remote Postgres servers.
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Many women are not attracted to work in fields populated 90% by males. I believe this to be a more subtle problem that you suggest; you might eliminate all sexual harassment and it would still be the case.

EDIT: not calling anyone a liar.
Thanks for the reply meredydd. That does seem like a good approach.

Actually, I spent 1.5 years building an editor in this style (see link in my original post here) while working at a grocery store :)

Unfortunately, while I can see now that I should have first been super focused on validating the concept—I instead just kind of ran with it, assuming it was going to work, and built this massive, probably over-engineered, framework for generating editors for given grammars (with my starting point being: not even knowing what a grammar was, thinking I'd have to invent some kind of 'linguistic constraint description' format ;) ).

As it stands the editing portion works well enough for a demo, but the program never reached the point where I could write code with it, so a lot of these questions are still un answered for me. I think doing the paper prototype on these edit actions would be a good pre-coding validation step.

I did check out Anvil briefly. My two second, potentially incorrect summary would be VB for web apps. Is that close? Are you guys doing anything special for working with text itself?
> If they can neither be proved true or false within the system, that means their truth or falsity can be added as axioms to the system and a contradiction will never be reached.

Assuming the original system was consistent (which you can never prove), yes.

But that doesn't help you, because the new system with these additional axioms will still, provably, contain statements that can't be proven true or false within that system (or else be inconsistent). (Turing did try some programme where you keep adding new axioms and take the transitive closure over all the axioms you'd add, but AIUI that doesn't work out either).
Imagine two survivors standing on the big walls surrounding a destroyed Troy.

A: "This can't happen again. We've instructed the entire guard to not let anyone pass through the gates if they are bringing giant, horse-shaped statues with them."

B: "Hmm. And if they bring giant, ox-shaped statues?"

A: "Nah, what are the odds someone would try that?"
Okay, please look up and tell us the second sentence of page 37 of "Typolemik" by Willberg. You've got Wikipedia, after all!
I think, to expand on your point there, you can make the general observation that there is no 'WizardNet' or usage of the internet by any wizard (as far as we know). Further still°, there is a complete lack of computer technology from any of the Wizarding World™. Was this done intentionally? Were they supposed to be shunning it? Did they need it? Were they secretly Amish?

That said, I think it would've been dramatically less pleasing for Harry to whip out his Nokia for the camera flashlight, instead of simply uttering 'lumos'.

° Please correct me if I am wrong for my HP knowledge is rather rusty indeed.
Yeah I came here to comment about that, too. It's surprising to me - I would have expected the Go team to have implemented/fixed that
I think the intuition that such infinite games make sense requires the axiom of determinacy to be well founded. The axiom of determinacy has been known to contradict the axiom of choice since the early 1960s (i.e. it is inconsistent to have both the axiom of choice and the axiom of determinacy).
Absolutely! For another example, Z3 changes what heuristics it has and which it prefers to use from version to version. What happens when you keep your compiler the same but use a newer Z3? Researchers that make these tools will flatly tell you not to do that.

It's frustrating because this stuff really works. Making it work probably doesn't have to be hard, but researchers that know both about verification and usability basically don't exist. I blame the CS community's disdain for HCI as a field.
I've been working pretty extensively with RN these days.

Almost always, the code is the same (doesn't HAVE to be though but almost always is), and even the views are the same (barring some exceptions where Android and iOS have completely different design language requiring you to customize things at the code level using platform conditionals in the same source file).
The target audience is people who don't know Elixir and Rust, have no time and not enough conceptual base to learn them in a reasonable time, and have to ship concurrent code, fast. Go is stupidly simple; this can also be an upside.

Python's concurrency story is much better in 3.5+ than in 2.x, but a lot of people use 2.x for various reasons.
> Analog mastering also has much wider dynamic range than does digital mastering.

This tends to be true in practice due to "loudness war" problems - many CDs are mastered not for accuracy but for popularity.
Check out the Berlin Brandenburg Airport project.

Total chaos. 15 years planning. More than ten years of construction. Maybe open 2018. Maybe. 7 years late. 7 billion Euro and rising.

Not the German orderly execution you would expect. Not in time, budget and quality. Lots of corruption and incompetence. It's chaos, it just looks different.
Sure, but rolling this back now, especially in this political climate, seems exceedingly unlikely.
With common core, math is mostly now word problems, which makes them as much reading comprehension as abstract mathematical problems. This is going to be especially brutal for boys, who typically trail girls in reading skills early on.

I expect in a decade the current 2-1 female-male ratio in higher education is going to reach such crisis levels that even our media will be unable to ignore it, as they do currently.
There is lots of things Europe must protect/defend itself against, like actual threats.
Amazing how can you achieve that?
I think Lyfts Envoy is similar to traefik but also has logging/statistics, Routing and grpc support. And even more: https://lyft.github.io/envoy/docs/intro/what_is_envoy.html
I found this discussion of medical reversal very interesting. Particularly, how proxies for things are often used. Treating a symptom sometimes instead of a root cause.

I think we also have that same problem in economics. People consume more when times are good, so let's get them to consume more and times will be good.

http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2016/02/adam_cifu_on_en.htm...
I really enjoy programming in golang, having recently taught quite a few people the language I am forever thankful for its simplicity.

This paired with vscode + click to see other peoples code is a great platform to get started with systems programming and tools development.

Can't thank the go developers enough.
haha but adblock got the rest of us covered
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Yeah, you're right. We're all a bunch of stupid-heads in Sacramento, good for nothing but doing CRUD in COBOL++ (aka Java) :-)
I think the in-universe explanation is that magic messes up electric devices, and they are thus not usable in areas with a lot of magical presence. It's not really answered if that could be fixed or not, generally wizards just don't have any clue about how muggle tech works.