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> The domain experts could be cops themselves, in a specialist department of a broader police force. I'm sure a lot of the basic training and equipment required is the same across agencies.

To the degree that that's true, the basic non-domain specialized training is already shared. [0] There are also, I believe, jointly-developed shard equipment standards and mutiagency equipment purchasing. Even if there weren't, you don't need to put operational authority in a central LE agency to achieve that.

What is the specific benefit to be gained by centralization?

> In any case, the current hyper-local US system for both police and other services is disastrous in practice for many groups of people

A specific argument on this point, particularly about how this is relevant to the subject-matter division of federal agencies rather than the territorial divides of city/county/state general-purpose option policing agencies would be welcome.

[0] https://www.fletc.gov/learn-about-fletc
Has "America" been selling anything? Other than a few private schools like Boston University who view "international" students as their meal tickets, everyone here is largely indifferent to their presence. Meanwhile there are e.g. Chinese government programs to maximize Chinese study in USA.
Yes, not everything needs to be done with silicon.
It's a bigger problem that can be hardly solved by online/video interpreters.

There are many immigrant/refugee communities in the US that are in dire needs of certain services. No matter how well intended the members of that communities are, they run into many a lot of problems during integration. One I've heard about from a friend (who's a teacher) is that once their children starts going to school, because of the language difficulty and even some cultural differences, they usually fall behind and are treated as "special needs" because teachers don't want to deal with them. This creates a vicious cycle.

They wanted to hire a teacher with knowledge of the community and the language, to serve as much as a liaison as to make the community more comfortable. They can't immediately hire anyone from the community because of the requirements for the job - they'd need a degree and about 2 years training. Now, he knows for a fact there's capable people in the country the community came from willing to reallocate to help with integration. But they can't hire them, even as a part of any special program; the uncertainties about the visa process, its cost, and its duration make it impossible. Everybody loses.
Purely bragging rights.
Thanks, I'll do some searching myself and see what I can find. I'm slightly afraid it's one of those things that will suddenly bother me forever once I notice it though. :)
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Looks like the dude is on a mac...
While it won't make VSCode portable would something like the Settings Sync plugin help?
Even better, Open Recent is Ctrl+R which is handy enough I might remember it.
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True, I should have put "DevOps" in quotes :-)
What if they have an computer with no games and no internet.

As to your response... Should inmates be deprived of all distractions, especially trivial ones? How often do you BuzzFeed or candy crush or Facebook?
If you have a neural mesh, the state will likely have intent to claim they have access and rights to the date in the mesh, regardless of whether it is in your body or not.

There's no way in hell I'm ever hooking a computer up to my brain in this reality.
You could try via command args:

https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/329#issuecomment-...
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I think you're right, looks like it was only fixed for Edge.

Discussion of technical challenge is here:
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20150129-00/?p=...
MOSFETs driving motors or large coils without spike protection? Good luck with that. Have a fire extinguisher handy.
You also read time and time again of a developer building a project they've put little marketing effort into banking them 5k/mo while allowing them to quit their full time job.

I think after putting a huge amount of time and effort into a project, you just kind of convince yourself that it's good enough to sell itself.
That is literally not true, at least in my case. The new precision touchpad gestures are exactly what I asked for. Also, they're fantastic!
VSCode really does improve with each release, and the monthly cycle is just about the perfect pace. This is a great example of how to run an OSS project.

I wonder how much Microsoft spends on it each month, and what value they see in it? Is it just a marketing expense? e.g. They fund VSCode in order to gain the good will of developers which they hope will turn into Azure or maybe Windows sales in the future?
> How often do you BuzzFeed or candy crush or Facebook?

I'm definitely an outlier here, sample size one. :-)
For what it's worth, unemployment is actually higher among men than women:
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That said, it's absurd to focus on individual identity groups. All who are willing to work and develop the necessary skills required by the market are deserving of employment irrespective of their demographic identity.
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Arch isn't that hard to set up - I'll agree with you there. Where it falls down, though, is when you need to install something where there isn't a package for it.

Now, of course, you could just go old-school and "manual install" whatever you want. But let's say you didn't want to do that, because you got tired of having a system full of cruft due to all these funky pieces of software scattered about the system that the package manager had no clue about - oh my!

So - you want to install the software as a package under Arch. Oh - and just to make things more fun, the software is something proprietary and closed-source. There is more than a few bits of useful Linux software out there like this - much of it niche areas where a) probably no one else in the Arch community uses, and b) it's proprietary - so you can't distribute it anyhow.

What does Arch require you to do in this situation? Well - last time I looked anyhow - and that was a couple of years ago, so maybe something has changed... It seemed to me to create an install package for a piece of software, the process (according to the docs) was to install the software "manually" and keep track of where everything goes. Then, once you have done that (and the software is running fine), you are supposed to create your package manifesto (or whatever it was called) that tells the system how to install it, then take all the parts and bundle them up (as a compressed file of some sort) with that manifesto. Oh - and then manually "uninstall" your software you installed, then use your new package to re-install your now-packaged proprietary software.

That's basically the process I read about for any kind of software package for Arch; it was a very heavy manual process. While other package management schemes do require some manual effort, none of them that I recall seemed to require as much effort as Arch's did. This wouldn't normally be an issue with most open-source software, because once you made that package, it could be distributed and used by the community. But for a proprietary software package, only you could use it - so it was a ton of extra work for little gain in the end.

Don't get me wrong - I liked Arch, and their community support and forums, wiki, etc - is pretty top-notch (I like to use that part of the ecosystem myself for help and hint purposes when I need it). I honestly think it is a great distro, but it does have some drawbacks to it (and they probably don't have good solutions, either).
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Waiting for the rollback update. ;-)
Or maybe you are part of VSCode's epic astroturfing campaign?

Sorry, not saying you are but man MS is guerilla marketing VSCode like I've never seen in an opensource developer product.
I had a similar experience. After jury selection, the trial seemed to start almost immediately and I was surprised that we were not given more background information or preparation before opening statements started. During the trial I felt like there was a lot of pressure to not ask any questions or ask for any clarifications. Even when the jury asked for a repeat of the definition of reasonable doubt, the request had to be talked about by the lawyers and the judge. Then during deliberation, we had to ask permission to view different pieces of evidence, which generally added friction to the process.
Check out the Castor C++ logic programming library - it makes extensive use of coroutines based on the principles in common with Duff's device. The Castor macros co_begin, co_end, co_yield, and co_return contain the implementation code.
I question it. In my opinion, OpenBSD is the most secure OS that is likely to be used on a home computer. As for the most secure OS devised for any commercially available computing-capable device, I'd probably pick VxWorks.

But for an RMS-level of paranoia, I might have to go with RTEMS on a FPGA acting as a J-Core (SuperH-2) CPU.
I feel like I understand what you are trying to say, but I still don't see the connection to OP's comment.
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If people actually cared about it that much, at the very least there'd be some 3rd-party program available for Windows that would improve the UI, and it'd be selling like hotcakes. I've never heard of any.

Same goes for MacOS, iOS, and Android.
As an example for the first point: Fewer-than-average professional scientists have known the desperation of poverty nor the devastation wrought by broken homes, disability, or crimes of passion. Scientists may be somewhat better prepared to find facts in a case, but may have diminished sensitivity to both the motivation for a crime and for the impact of a verdict.

An educated, reasoning, and principled jury pool should not be an exception. It should be the expectation. We should expect it of our society as a whole and our school system in particular.

Taking the time to share interesting and useful insights to people at a moment when they're interested in exchanging ideas can be very effective.
We also have a Design Tools team at Airbnb (source: I’m on it. hi.). Whilst Lottie was developed outside of our team, I think it’s representative of the kinds of projects we love.

There’s plenty of stuff we haven’t shown off yet, but I’d hope that almost everything will at least be written about, but ideally open sourced too.

My team is focused on building tooling every day. We think of our work in three buckets:
- Integrated Toolchain — next-gen design software built around our Design System[1] (and componentized systems design as a whole), with a view to making our design & eng processes radically more efficient. Mostly proactive projects born from observing the cracks across the org. We just work on it; our experience is that external design software companies have little awareness of the challenges we actually face. Facebook's design tools team is a big inspiration here - they're doing really exciting things.

- Information Systems — there’s lots of knowledge spread out across the design org & Airbnb as a whole, and we like collaborating with other teams to solve their workflow needs. This is typically more difficult to release because it’s baked into internal systems. Airshots[2] is an example of this, and we’ll be sharing another system soon.

- Experiments — as hybrid designer-engineers we tend to get pulled into different prototyping projects across the org, typically for new initiatives with exotic tech that we can’t talk about just yet.

Regarding ‘releasing’ & writing about these things — they’re important for us as a design brand, and we have the full backing (& encouragement) of our design leadership to share this stuff.

As previously noted, we have a pretty legit open source policy and it was one of the reasons I joined.

Again I want to stress that Lottie isn’t one of our projects, but I hope that helps!

[1] http://airbnb.design/building-a-visual-language/

[2] http://airbnb.design/airshots-discovering-a-workflow-for-app...
I had to move off WebStorm after the sheer amount of memory it used to chew up.

Agree - VSCode is such a good IDE, I'm constantly seeing it replace editors other devs have relied on for some time.
Am I the only one who misses an apt repository?
I think even if the field had a strong bias, even one I disagreed with, I'd still prefer it. One of the frustrating things about the US court system is how unpredictable it is. At some points in working with IP and corporate law, I've found myself just wanting to know what the rules are, so I can go ahead and follow them.

But way too often, I've had lawyers basically tell me that whether we should pursue something is basically a function of how much money we're willing to put into pursing it in court convolved with some vague probability function of how 12 random people will feel about how trustworthy our expert witness looks versus how the other guys.

I'd gladly trade a more "just" system for a more predictable one.
Sure, just like give anyone access to a library and they are much more likely to read magazines and romance novels than 19th century French literature.

That's missing the point though. The point is access and opportunity. Even if only 5% become programmers, it's a net win overall (and that's not even counting the people who might play Candy Crush but still use the computer to better themselves in other ways - learning, filing taxes, etc.).
I also don't think you can have this discussion without talking about the influence the NSA and OGA's are having on big tech companies products. If game developers really pulled their shit together and started doing AAA/AA titles on linux you would quickly see the piss taken out of the likes of M$.
I don't quite follow. You seem to be saying that Microsoft make changes just to justify the release of a new OS version. But they announced quite a while ago that they would never release a new major version. There will never be a Windows 11, you will never pay to upgrade Windows to the new version again. They adopted the macOS platform, where the OS sticks to a single version and gets an incremental annual update (macOS has been on version 10 for 16 years, with no plan to ever create "OS XI", and stopped charging for updates 4 years ago). So why would change for change's sake relate to profit at all?
Or maybe it's a good product? Occam's Razor and all that.
The article seems mostly right when it's about interfacing logic circuits with loads that require even moderate currents. FET is king in this field.

I've a little aquarium and I've noticed how fish always get scared when lights turn suddenly on or off. So I took an Arduino and wrote a timer app for it, using PWM to slowly drive the output up over 60 minutes (sunrise), keep it at max for a few hours, then drive it down slowly over 60 minutes (sunset). I used a MOS-FET to drive the power LEDs directly from the Arduino. Works fantastic, and the FET is cold at all times. A 2N3055 would have been pretty hot most of the time.

I've been playing with electronics for a few decades now, so I can't be accused of change for the sake of change. The old stuff still works, sure, but there are new toys which are better in some cases.
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> memory usage was slashed

A lot of this has to do with another unmentioned, terrifically annoying property of the JVM: pre-launch min/max heap allocation. Standard operating procedure is to go with the default, and overbump it if your needs exceed it. I can't possibly imagine how many petabytes of memory are unnecessarily assigned to JVMs throughout the world as I type, apps consuming 79MB with a 256MB/512MB heap size.
I kinda love it. It's just so gloriously economical, and it clearly defines their intended user base.
Many compilers now support a range selection extension on case labels, so you can just do:

case CMD .. CMD_END: /* whatever */ break;
What if s/he had to write a perl script to download it though?
Why have you taken this approach to monetizing this SEO optimization method, instead of other options, for example PPC arbitrage?

Why A/B testing and not a more complex statistical hypothesis testing method?
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That's not an answer to how does it perform. For example if the hamburger goes from 4ms/frame to 12ms/frame then lottie is crazy expensive, even though it's still "60fps" in the test app.

What is the actual end-to-end cost? Have you measured it at all?
It got better for Edge after anniversary update. But I would not call that "fixed", because it is not on par with ClearType.

Microsoft can go fuck himself, I am not going change my monitor/hardware everytime he wants. I would be much much happy with my Fedora/Ubuntu, or if I want good support there is always apple much superior to Microsoft.
Worth noting that Elixir and LFE apparently use different target languages (although you're correct, neither compile straight to BEAM).

Elixir compiles to Erlang, LFE compiles to Core Erlang, which is an intermediate form used by the Erlang compiler.
How about tailoring from where exceptional candidates would want to work? ;)
of course, but I wouldn't assume success typing (dialyzer) is compatible with static parametric typing, ala purescript
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This is not a valid assumption. Shredding a drive to the extent that data recovery is not possible requires knowledge that, often times, revolves around the architecture of the drive in question (see: wear leveling).

An unrelated, yet illustrative, counter example is the seemingly reasonable, yet false, assumption that RMS performs his own installs of GNU/Linux.
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Do you have any proof that it is astroturfing and not just genuine enthusiasm?

I am almost a lifelong vi user, but have been using Visual Studio Code last few months because it's Rust experience is smooth. (Though Emacs seems to do well as well.)
There's a link at the top of your linked site to an audio recording - maybe it was recently edited in
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A judge can appoint a special master for situations like this. For instance, Lawrence Lessig's role in the Microsoft antitrust trial. However, as far as I know, juries don't have the option of asking a special master's opinion, because there is a big risk juries would just defer to the special master instead of actually trying to judge the case.
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How many people work on VSCode?
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This is an off topic, but I just learned from the article that PowerShell will soon be the default in place of cmd.exe in Windows 10. I welcome this change as I found the experience of using PS was superior to that of bash/zsh in general cases.

But I hope they figured out the performance problem. As of writing, in the stable version of Windows 10, PS is perceptually slower than cmd, so I was forced to use PS only when needed. Funnily it was even slower in Windows 8, so the current affair is better than ever. But to be truly a default I think the performance of PS should at least match that of cmd.exe.
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(of course, I don't mean to undermine the argument for hesitating to jump to Arch on the grounds of maintenance. It certainly takes thinking about maintenance more often.)
Plenty of people "do just fine in their lives" without knowing how to read. This is discussing how to "be an educated citizen", a far higher bar. An educated citizen:

* can have an informed opinion about the NSA's definition of "collecting" information [0].

* when told "we need to make sure that this list of 100,000 URLs are all valid websites", doesn't respond "wow, we'll need to hire a big team".

* can reason about data-driven classification of documents (e.g. Facebook's news feed, Google search).

[0] https://www.eff.org/nsa-spying/wordgames#collect
Could you expand on this? I'm curious what you mean. My only exposure to philosophy was an intro course in college.