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Large back yards that you can play ball or throw a frisbee in are only for the upper middle class and semi-rural areas. The more typical cookie-cutter suburban neighborhood has houses that are almost as wide as the lot they sit on and back yards that are only about 20' deep with no privacy from the neighbors. You basically have to choose between having the grill and picnic table, or the garden and swing set. And you can only let your young kids play in the street if you live at the end of a cul-de-sac. I'd much rather put my kids in a neighborhood where there will be more than two or three other families with kids in close walking distance, and a neighborhood park for them to play in.
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They're basically the same (its just a measurement error as you said).

Afterall, nim generates c files.

What's interesting is the nrvo optimizations that nim generates under the hood without much effort from the developer (on non-trivial codebases).
So long as you skip over the costs if you want any kind of performance (you need to configure a "number of accesses per time period" with costs scaling alarmingly the higher you go)
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And in all the places I lived in Canada, you'll have zoning laws that disallow grocery stores in housing developments. Even crazier: zoning laws that disallow bars in housing developments which means that you must drink and drive if you want to go to the bar and drink.

Here in Japan, 25 km gets me to the middle of the nearest big city (of about 700K people) from where I live. I have to go through 4 towns on the way. I live in a town of about 20K people and I can walk to 3 different grocery stores and any number of drinking establishments. North America seems so incredibly inconvenient to me these days.
I've made up my mind about the things that I listed yes - and a bunch of other use cases where Excel is better; but I'm not saying 'Excel is better' or 'R is better'. What I'm saying is that proper applications of Excel and R are (almost) orthogonal; the number of Excel users who should 'upgrade' to R is very small, compared to the total population. R is a statistics tool, it competes with SPSS and maybe some uses of SAS. For those uses, sure use R; use R when teaching statistics. But saying R is some natural, 'better' progression of Excel is myopic and not understanding the use case of Excel.

Not a month goes by that I don't try to switch some Excel sheet I have into R; I run into the problems with Excel every day. It's not like I don't know Excel isn't great. My point is that the solution to those problems isn't R. I don't know what is, but I know it's not R.

Like, the other day I tried to do a real estate investment analysis in R. I always do that in Excel; I build the model step by step, starting with some basics, then filling in the details of the case at hand as I go. All the time, I can focus on the numbers; adding an indicator or refinement is part of the natural workflow. In R, you always have to switch between 'code mode' and 'data mode'. In Excel, you don't have this difference. Which is at the same time also its weakness, of course.

Sharing R models is a pain in the ass. Others have to get the exact packages, you have to tell them what to look at out of all the variables, ... Shiny sucks for that, it's read-only. In Excel someone makes some changes and sends you back the sheet, boom done. In R you would set up a versioning repo, data is split over multiple files, packages need to be installed, scripts for reporting, ... Fine for big projects, not for the small analysis exercises that make up the bulk of the uses of Excel.

Sure you 'can' blog in R. Last week I didn't want to walk to the shed to get my hammer, so I used a brick to pound in a nail. Doesn't make it right. String manipulation in R is a joke. A function to concatenate strings? Please. Again, R is fine for statistics, but it's not a general purpose replacement of Excel.
I can accept that there may be some good in the bureaucracy resisting Trump. But for the long term, I worry that encouraging the bureaucracy now will come back to haunt us after Trump is gone.
The price for that 160k is horrifying though, esp. if the requirement is bursty rather than continuous.
> The new law will significantly broaden the agencies’ powers to include bulk data collection.

It's not clear to me what they actually are given power to do. Are they given free rein to collect anything they can get their hands on? Anything that crosses the national border? Are they allowed to spy on for example a whole city to find the communications of a suspect?
Just building a road creates a massive obligation on future taxpayers to pay for maintenance for that road. It's even harder to get rid of a road than it is to get rid of a toll.
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Transit improves thing for all road users, even the ones who never use it.

Roads have to be in better condition to take the buses and coaches. Increased transit usage reduces numbers of vehicles on the roads, decreasing congestion and improving travel times. Pollution is decreased.

If you like driving you should heavily push for more public transit, and persuade everyone to use it, while you continue to drive your car.
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No it's an "Abstract Factory Pattern", but clearly I did not succeed in describing my use case adequately ;-).
I think it is a great idea. Ideally you could have everything the government done be public, except for maybe nuclear launch codes and specific military maneuvers.
My main point (just to make sure we are on the same page) was that whatever patterns are, we should also tell computers "look, here I use this pattern", and not rely just on humans to see it. Unfortunately, computers are idiot savants, so this very well might require those to be formally defined.

Anyway, I think we have an ontological disagreement here. I don't believe the "design patterns" which cannot be formally defined are useful, or even that they exist. I consider them to be just phantoms, which when you attempt to formally define them, you either understand them much better (to the point where you can see how they are related), or they disappear as something that was misconceived in the first place. You seem to think that there is something real.. fine.

Possibly, why I see it that way is my mathematical training. In mathematics, this battle was fought more than a century ago and the formalism camp won. That doesn't mean that intuition is completely useless.. just that people mostly keep their intuitions (and inspirations and analogies) for themselves, and when they communicate, they strive to be formal.

To your React example - it's not a pattern, it's a piece of concrete reusable code. We don't need "React pattern", but we need React. Just like mathematicians, we should communicate "patterns" via reusable code.
This is not a good idea.

There is no fair use for the copying of a whole text, and whilst the person who posts it is the one who has infringed copyright I am not so sure that you could consider yourself to not be involved.
When our granparents did this, they called it satire and had to chop down a lot of trees to like and share.
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If this became widespread, I could imagine two coils unfolding from the back of the device; maybe as part of a stand.
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I would imagine that it'd be feasible to build several rooms within the field, i.e. embed aluminum walls in the exterior of your building. Then the pole could be disguised in a pillar in the middle of the buildling somewhere.
>But for the long term, I worry that encouraging the bureaucracy now will come back to haunt us after Trump is gone.

I also worry about that. Once you put personal convenience above the rule of law and order, you pave the way for everyone to throw justice aside, paving the way to the path to tyranny.
Sure, it let's you know when the can needs emptying, but it doesn't solve the routing problem.
Disclaimer: NVIDIA employee.

First of all, if your CPU has an integrated GPU, and you don't need more monitors than it supports (usually it's 3x1080p), that will be more than enough.

> Why should I move from just VGA, that is, get just a VGA card and not even get a graphics card?

I don't quite understand what you mean by VGA card. You mean something that has a VGA adapter and framebuffer(s), but the rendering is done on the CPU?

I wasn't aware those still exist outside some niche markets. I'd guess it'd cost about as much as an entry level GPU, which will take the load off your CPU.

My advice, if you don't have any iGPU on your CPU, is to just get the lowest tier graphics card. Those are <$100 new for the latest generation. You don't need latest, and probably don't need new.

When it comes to web browsing and watching videos, any remotely recent card will work fine. You may have issues with some fancy WebGL pages (i.e. browser games) but that hardly counts as everyday browsing.

Be sure to read a review of the card before purchasing!
Yes, except you can't do the most basic things with DocumentDB and it becomes very expensive very fast. Especially if you want multiple collections.

There's a lot lacking with DocumentDB, as evident from the feedback forum, that comparing it to Mongo is like comparing an infant to an adult. The infant might be cute, but it can't do a whole lot.

https://feedback.azure.com/forums/263030-documentdb/filters/...
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For a fixed amount of effort, you'll do better with Hibernate than without. But if you're an SQL expert and a Hibernate novice you should probably stick to SQL, or else accept that you're going to have to take some time learning (just as if you were to start using e.g. Cassandra you wouldn't expect to immediately be as effective with it as you were with SQL).

And don't expect to mix SQL and Hibernate operations freely in the same code, any more than you'd expect to freely mix e.g. encoding-aware String operations and manipulation of the underlying bytes. It's possible to make good use of the fact that Hibernate is implemented in SQL, CQRS-style: use Hibernate for your "live" operations in your application, use SQL for reporting/aggregation and ad-hoc querying, playing to both their strengths. But don't try to interleave them, especially in the same transaction.
Kudos for mentioning David West! I strongly recommend his book "Object Thinking" as the book about what OOP really is, how object orientation is achieved and which languages' philosophy is OO compatible and which ain't (spoiler: C++ and Java are in the latter group). While Java is my favorite language so far, I certainly hope that some proper OO language will emerge in the near future.
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Disappointed this isn't Awesome (the window manager) for Mac. I use Spectacle, but Awesome would be welcome.
I wish they had a chapter covering how to efficiently implement graph algorithms without ending up in a struggle with the borrow checker.
That is correct, but I believe you meant 'e.g.' rather than 'i.e.': http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/ie-versus...

(If someone can spot an error I've made, this can go on forever. Wheee!) ;-)
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Wow! --this is about as pseudo-scientific as when those eejits think they've "translated" their loved one's name into Chinese through looking up the hànzì symbol for each letter on some half-witted chart in a tattoo parlour —and then spend the rest of their life walking round with "jellied badger scrotum" emblazoned proudly on their arm.

And, given the racist nature of the author's opinions, wouldn't AfriKKKa have been a more fitting choice?

Still. At least it looks like we've found the programmer responsible for creating "tefo-mohapi" now.
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That's a style choice, and one that's largely rejected by this audience because we're used to logically nested programming languages.
The nose knows people! Just smell and look, I have eaten many past due things and scooped of layers of fungi. I have never been ill from it, 34 years and counting.

Sure, be careful with chicken and turkey but yoghurt for example, come on, it's basically a bottle of bacteria already and the smell is hard to ignore when it actually goes bad.
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That's sort of fair, but only if the "stop subsidizing cars" money comes from reducing what we spend on the military, not some attempt to rebalance things by imposing a regressive tax on driving without doing anything to make driving-alternatives more viable.
The very same delight, over here as well :)
"when you roll at someone's house in a Tesla"

HAHAHAHAHA! I laughed at this
To be clear, I'm not talking about convincing everyone to pitch in $4/mth - no one would do that.

I'm talking about collecting a serious fee from established businesses who rely on Twitter for the lifeblood of their own monetization efforts.
NL (I am Dutch, not living in NL) is and has been doing very well; I am, from a distance, unsure what people are nagging about. Chances are any change will be for the worse. Luckily we are very bad at change but I do see too much of it (in the press) and none of that makes me proud...
I don't understand this metaphor but I like it anyway.
At the company where I work there is a written test of language/logic/math that applicants for jobs have to take. This has had the effect that almost nobody at this company is stupid or incompetent. They are also easy to work with - I would guess partly because social ability is correlated to intelligence.

I suspect this test is the single biggest reason for the success of the company.
They're chasing Windows xp which is a train that is waiting for them.
Of course it's not good

But if your options are, stay close to the fire or die, that's an important selective pressure
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When they say the privacy issues of Windows I see a double standard. Android is, to my mind, equally "invasive" as Windows, if not more. Except the fact that Android's source code is open, they are pretty much same regarding end user experience. Yet every time Windows 10 is brought up people say privacy.

Yeah, I understand that Windows wasn't like this, so people can get upset about the recent changes Microsoft is pushing onto. On the other hand Android has been like that from the beginning, so there might not be much expectation. But still I don't care Windows-as-a-service because nowadays pretty much every software I use is provided like that. It's just that the OS becamse not an exception.
Might the selection pressure have been fire related, without necessarily being just the use of fire?

If, for one speculative example, Neanderthals mostly used fire outdoors, while modern humans used it indoors with correspondingly thicker smoke concentrations, wouldn't that account for the difference? Or perhaps only a few Neanderthals out of any given population used it regularly (for crafting tools, say), while almost all modern humans could have used it for cooking food.
This was how the original Eastern Air shuttle service worked. They ran flights between Washington, DC, Boston, and New York, scheduled to depart every hour on the hour. No reservations, just show up and walk onto the plane and you could pay the fare (roughly $12 in early-1960s dollars) on board. And if the hourly plane filled up and more people were still waiting to board, they'd roll out another plane.

The hourly flights still exist (now run by American, which inherited the service from US Airways in the merger, which bought the service from Donald Trump's creditors after he defaulted on the loans he used to buy the service from Eastern when Eastern got into financial trouble), though of course now you have to buy a ticket before you go through security.
I second this recommendation. Car culture is hugely subsidized. It is arguably the largest social engineering project in world history, buttressed by endless amounts of regulation, zoning, and huge expenditure paid for by everyone, including non-drivers. It is certainly not a spontaneous outgrowth of the free market.

We waste enormous amounts of prime land on trivial things, such as curbside parking. Mandatory minimum parking requirements impede new construction, and are a hidden subsidy to car culture. And simple concepts to improve efficiency and fairness, like smart parking meters and congestion pricing, are ignored. People hate the concept of paying so much, even though they will ultimately end up paying for it via queuing (congestion).

It is interesting that much of what people actually hate about our economic system boils down to aspects of car culture. Atomization, sprawl, etc have many causes, but certainly car culture is one of them.
Fixed, thanks. To be clear I'm actually criticising their ability to get a point across in a language they claim to speak and have studied with at degree level.
They would do a full inspection on the car before ever setting a price and were apparently picky about what they accepted. They also offered significantly less than the consignment price if it didn't sell. So it wasn't as bad as it seems on the face of it.
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> Typically the SSD has a pool of empty blocks

So erase time (the main advantage of this new FeFET technology) does not matter much in practice?
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Curiously, I had the same experience with Chinese MSc/PhD students. My graduate-level CS discussion sections and labs skewed heavily Chinese, American, and Indian. The Indians seemed most prepared, the Americans right behind, and the Chinese were way behind. Group readings of recent research papers were an exercise in torture. Poor comprehension, near zero communication skill, and a total inability to find flaws/ask questions.

None (that I know of) made it out of the program. I have no clue how they ever got in the door, as this was a international top 100 program. I actually finished the semester by skipping the discussion section altogether, doing the readings in my own time, and going straight to the professor's office hours with my notes and questions. He understood completely. I think he actuall envied me my freedom.

On the flip side, my partner (whom I met in college) was a refugee with poor English her freshman year. Yet she graduated -- with honors -- in a shade over three years, with two degrees in the soft sciences and better written and spoken English than myself. Then she got a degree in a hard science. Then a masters.

And that's the problem with anecdotes. I could choose either to be representative of my experience, but I'd be wrong either way. Without some quantitative data, we really can't know if this is a real phenomenon or not.
I believe the parent means Facebook makes money off of this indirectly. The more salacious fake news on Facebook, the higher the user engagement rate with the news feed, and the more time spent on Facebook reading and sharing this stuff. This translates to more ad revenue for Facebook.
No no it's pinyin English :-)
I'm sure there is some truth to the article, but it paints a very different picture than the referenced paper at the buttom.

> Finally, returning to the questions posed at the start, we conclude that although there is a large and growing body of evidence linking exposure to wood/biomass smoke itself with both acute and chronic illness, there is insufficient evidence at present to support regulating it separately from its individual components, especially fine particulate matter. In addition, there is insufficient evidence at present to conclude that woodsmoke particles are significantly less or more damaging to health than general ambient fine particles.

> Nevertheless, given the importance of woodsmoke as a contributor to particle concentrations in many locations, strategies to reduce woodsmoke emissions may be an effective means of lowering particle exposures. In addition, given the weight of toxicologic evidence, additional epidemiologic studies are needed to confirm our conclusions.
I once bought some Camembert in France which, instead of having an expiration date, had a date to determine the ripeness of the cheese e.g. "Eat this cheese 30 days after this date if you like it ripe and runny".
Well, less government leads to privatization of crucial infrastructure (airports, hospitals, banks, etc). Which still siphon government money, only now that money doesn't go to public good or government employees, but to private coffers, with no need to compete (regardless of "free market" hurr durr) since it's infrastructure and can not be allowed to fail.

That government can be inefficient is an efficiency problem.

That private actors basically "steal" taxpayer money is a lobby/regulatory problem.

Government does have some blame for the former, but you can't simultaneously regulate wall street (for example) and still blame the government for being in bed with them.
The weird SQL-ish query syntax is an abomination. But using the LINQ extension methods, making use of lambdas as you say, is gold.

Most of it boils down to plain old functional map/fold/filter/zip constructs under different names.
> It'd take a staggering amount of low-rise to compensate for just one 40-story high-rise killed over the neighbors' concerns about shadow.

It isn't either or.

Imagine how much parking would be needed for everyone in a 40-story high-rise to put their car there.

And using multi-level parking garages is often prohibitively expensive because the upper levels have to be built to support the weight of the cars.
The office suite market in general has been relatively stagnant over the last couple of decades. Sure there have been some noticeable advancements such as the introduction of ribbon bars and zipped XML documents replacing undocumented binary blobs. But feature MS Office reached a plateau in the late 90s so a significant amount of work since has been about user experience instead. Often just with pointless UI tweaks in the aim of milking their proverbial cash cow.

This has made it easier for open source competitors to catch up with Microsoft.

However compare that to operating system development - or to be more specific: reverse engineering undocumented APIs that receive updates every few years - and you have yourself a whole order of magnitude more difficult job to even just reach a usable parity let alone being a competitive alternative.

As quickly as ReactOS developers can reverse engineers Windows, Microsoft will progress their flagship OS. ReactOS is chasing a moving target in a way that LibreOffice is not.

Disclaimer: I'm not dismissing the developers efforts. I just don't agree with your statement that ReactOS will snowball in the same way that many other open source developments do.