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My opinion:

It's structure is simple, but that doesn't preclude it from being confusing.

For example, where do you go to see a list of your volumes (virtual block storage, like EBS)? Well you click on the "Droplets" button which shows you a list of Droplets (instances).

Personally, I would've rathered that they rename "Image" to "Storage" and put both images and volumes under that.
You know I've been researching the very same idea. And guess what none of the math I've tried so far rules it out!

You do need a very big cable though. Think miles.

There are actually many promising technologies to get mass into space with much lower marginal cost. I think the problem is that they all have high capital costs and no one wants to take the risk on a new technology.
I view debt as the same way. Debt is a form of pressure and motivation.

I do not however like to save money, I prefer to invest it.

I will get your ebook, thanks for the info.
I thought we stood on their heads...
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I missed the "graduate" part of "graduate school" and was temporarily impressed that Japanese high school students would have to learn eigenvalues/vectors. The second question about rotations seemed right out of an AP calculus class, until I saw the differential equations.
A lot of waiters don't report because they can't afford to lose their job over the odd slow week where they're stiffed $20 and then get blacklisted at other restaurants. And no, that's not a lot of money to lose out on, but it adds up.

And yes, it's illegal to fire someone over reporting, but it happens all the time. And it takes time for a lawsuit to go through, so you've gotta find work somewhere else in the meantime. And now you have to also take time to sue your old company. When you're barely afloat, it's not worth rocking the boat because you might drown.

That's reality for a lot of people. You can't just say, "this is the law so it's not happening."
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Sort of a tangent, but I doubt more people speak and write RE over CE.
We ran into some bugs with SDL2 when implementing it to stream games to the Raspberry Pi (http://bit.ly/2nIIReG). There were issues with relative mouse and absolute mouse mode and cursor placement. Hopefully, this fix helps others. Our changes are tracked in Github (https://github.com/parsec-cloud/sdl-2.0.5)
Wouldn't a "P" shape make the most sense? That way you don't have to worry about the banking angle during touch down.
MS could start by fixing the start menu bug that does not allow you to start all of the installed software from there.

There are many more things. The reason nobody is giving examples is because those are small things, that we circumvent in seconds and move on (to face the next bug). Most people don't even remember what the problem is. I only remember about the start menu bug because it's so kafkanian.
You are right about the kernel point however there's more to it than that.

Debian is a collection of software and configuration that's distributed for convenience. That's where the term "distro" originates. The OS would be better described as GNU/Linux (the GNU user land and Linux kernel) with "Debian" being the name for that particular set of user land defaults.

Likewise Hurd is often referred to as GNU/Hurd since it too uses the GNU user land. Debian, Arch, etc will then take the Hurd / Linux and GNU sources and add their own touches to it (package management, etc) but fundamentally Ubuntu and Arch are still the same platform at their core in a way that Ubuntu and FreeBSD is not.

I didn't agree with much of what the GP raised (particularly around issues of support), but one point he was correct about was how Debian, Arch, etc aren't the maintainers of the Linux kernel nor GNU coreutils. Sure they will contribute patches but essentially what they do is redistribute GNU/Linux with their preferred packages and configuration. Hence the term "Linux distribution".

So the TL;DR version is:

If you're running Debian you do have an OS installed. The OS might be referred to as GNU/Linux to express the GNU user land and Linux kernel. Debian is the name given to the distributed collection of programs and default configurations that's based on GNU/Linux.
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Uhhh, how exactly do you think that tipping is good for the IRS? Tips are far less likely to be reported as income than wages are.

Your comment makes absolutely no sense.
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Tests can take ages to run.
It's pretty unproductive to just wait and it's hard to focus on something else in the meantime.

How do you spend this precious time?
I actually did open a ticket.

Their support suggested I post on their UserVoice ( http://do.co/uservoice ) which I did and sent them the links. They've then passed the links "along to our control panel team so that they are aware".

I work in a similar software company and I know how much time it takes from an idea coming through to support > product managers > UI > implementation > QA > rolling out to production so I just built the extension myself.
I was with you until you said "there's no reason for the average sarah...unless...homework"

I was the average Sarah, a lot of the people I went to public school with were the below than average sarah and it's the elitist math attitude that's being talked about here that turns kids off from that.

It wasn't until years later, after a career in concept art, then vfx and now programming that I realize..."hey the Fibonacci sequence isn't just some parlor trick for 'math types', it's a thing we can look at to study recursion and integrate in our code to make actual products".

Products that the average sarah uses and maybe even loves and would be supremely interested in learning about but doesn't because she's not a "math person".

I also lament the fact I didn't get into maths and see the beauty of it until years later when it was really too late to get into it at any professional level just because I was always implicitly told I was never meant to be a "math person".

Maybe I'm not, but if we could get more kids into maths, even if they're not geniuses, I think society as a whole and they themselves would greatly benefit from that.
I am well aware of managed C++ and C++/CLI. They are not the same language as native C++, in the sense that matters for WebAssembly's target audience.

C++/CX is closer, but a) also still not the same language and b) doesn't run on the CLR, so isn't an argument for replacing wasm with IL.
This release has been a long time coming and I'm happy that the day has finally arrived. There's a small patch of mine in this release (my first compiler hack ever) that optimizes comparison operations for floating point numbers. If anyone is interested in hacking on compilers, I highly recommend checking out Guile as one of the easier points of entry into the space. Andy Wingo, the author, even wrote up a blog post with plenty of project ideas to improve things: http://wingolog.org/archives/2016/02/04/guile-compiler-tasks
> Incredible how someone with the slogan 'Making America Great Again' can then get away with doing the exact opposite of that.

This type of cut is exactly what those who elected Trump intended him to advocate. I know no one who voted for him who is angry about these proposed cuts, and many who believe they don't go deep enough.
A lot of people get confused when talking about debt just because types of debt are different.

Using debt to generate income = good.
Using debt to buy stuff you can't afford = bad.

The first pays itself back while the latter does not.

When somebody like Dave Ramsey is talking about debt, he's talking about paying off credit card bills, car loans, student loans, mortgages - payments that you're making that leave you personally saddled. Increasing your cash flow by decreasing your expenses.

When somebody like the Robert Kiyosaki (Rich Dad, Poor Dad) talks about debt he's talking about it in the context that you are: using debt to create an income generating asset, leveraging the tax advantage to increase cash flow and holding the asset as more valuable because held cash would simply result in devaluation through inflation. Increasing your cash flow by generating more cash flow.

Headlines should really start trying to clarify Bad debt vs Good debt.
> Sugar still has no % DV.

Because medically, that's a complicated question.

The 25-40mg/day number that's often cited is for added sugar, not inclusive of all sugar in food. That's something that's a little trickier to evaluate for processed food[0], and it varies a lot more between people than other substances for which a recommended daily value is listed.

[0] For example, fruit juice can have no sugar added, but still contain what are likely unhealthy levels of sugar depending on the serving size
What's so mental. Why is building such a bank unfathomable??
>Pregnancy, meat eating, and fossil fuels will all one day be unthinkable.

None of the three seem inherently discussing and "unthinkable", and the first can even be described as "beautiful" or at least "What got you where you are in the first place, morons".

I can understand "fossil fuels" as a stand-in for "harming the environment", but as something "unthinkable" alone it is BS. Plus, without leveraging fossil fuels initially for the industrial revolution etc., we'd never have "financed" this sci-fi the article future describes.

If the future indeed considers us barbaric, I'd hope it is because amidst all the greed, dreadful societal norms, wars, violence, racism, etc we live in, we had the gal to think what would eventually be held against us would be "pregnancy, meat eating and fossil fuels".

In other words, I hope the future considers this article a sign of barbarism -- or else it's not a future I care about anyway.
I saw on IRC that someone built it with cygwin. That's all I know, though.
The web scraping tool of my choice still has to be WWW::Mechanize for Perl.

P.S. I wrote a WWW::Mechanize::Query ext for it so that it supports css selectors etc if anyone is interested. It's on cpan.
Yeah you're right. It's not really quantifiable in a numbers sense. I was trying to say the same thing you are that the speed of the two things is related (directly proportional is the phrase I used).
I found this to be true as well. I started off as an extremely rigid thinker, and it's my contact with people holding diverse views on and offline that have changed that. I'm still highly skeptical, occasionally bordering on pessimism, but I'm a much more flexible thinker. I don't seek to judge as much as I just try to understand perspectives.

I really doubt that could have happened, at least in any reasonable amount of time, without the internet.
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that works well on the moon because there isn't an atmosphere to speak of but on the earth trying to accellerate to 26km/hr at sea level is both very energy intensive, and the vehicle experiences intense heating due to the atmosphere. Atmospheric drag makes this idea impractical for pretty much anything.
Why do you say it will scale far beyond? Mat mul is N^3 as is eigenvalue solving.

It's actually the second highest eigenvalue. The highest eigenvalue is always 1 for stochastic matrices.
I thought that was what I was already doing paying back + interest on school loans?
>Nuclear weapons are humanity's shame.

Yet somehow all the other horrible weapons in history get a free pass? Fireboming of populated cities and watching tens of thousands of people burn? Being stabbed in the belly with bayonet and dying painfully over the next 12 hours? Bombs that take away the sight and hearing of children? Napalm, phosphorus, etc that stick to skin and burn down to the bone? .50 caliber shells that tear people apart? Mustard gas the burns through your lungs? Biological agents that can spread in a population quickly and kill off a city?

My take is that if it builds detente that stops conflicts then it must have a net good. Humanity built these things and uses them either explicitly (Japan) or as a threat (MAD). They are artifacts of human culture. They reflect our warring nature and we cant just shame them away. In a non-nuclear world we would have the same, if not, more conflicts and many more dead. Assad has killed around 500,000 civilians with his small military and just conventional arms. No nukes needed. That's more than twice the number killed by nuclear weapons use in WWII.

There's also a moral hazard here of excusing guys like Assad because "hey at least he isn't using nukes." The more we vilify nukes and excuse conventional warfare, which is just as if not more brutal, the farther we'll be from proper peace. Nothing really changes if we get rid of nukes. You're making the mistake of confusing the symptom with the problem.

Nukes should go away, but only at a time where the threat of another world war doesn't exist. What that means politically is unknown, but arguably nukes, as horrible as they are, have stopped a proper WWIII. The more I study WWII and think about how much better our conventional weapons and manufacturing ability were during the cold war compared to the 40s, I can't imagine a conventional WWIII not ending the world. Not as dramatic as nukes, but certainly the end result would be similar. I sometimes wonder if nukes are a required stage for a species like ours. Its something that stops the possibility of a catastrophic world war while we aim to developer better social and political mechanisms to end war on this level. At that point we would naturally get rid of our nukes, the same way people in very safe neighborhoods don't sleep with guns under their pillows. I think "umm kay nukes are bad" narrative is short-sighted and ignores the real possibility of a conventional WWIII ending the world.
A lot of people don't realize too warm is bad too, less restful sleep, elevated cortisol etc
This is fantastic news. Are there any other major roadblocks for GuileEmacs?
That doesn't make the OP's claim of rewriting 100 million of lines of code with Rust and that would solve the whole problem, sounds less stupider.
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> Do you know against what you had the allergic reaction?

Not sure really, could be pollen, as in the morning my window used to open at around 6am and I would start sneezing or sudden change of weather - like If I would go out in sun and drink cold water I used to get cold. Messed up one crucial exam paper because of that :( . I wish I had discovered allegra before.
It makes you wonder what other valuable films are decomposing elsewhere
That's pretty much how it works in bigger companies.
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Nothing? They were pointing out that the "unfortunately spelled" file is merely using the British way of spelling.

I'm wondering how they were misunderstood, given they even used quotations to show they were quoting the article which is the one that made the claim that it was "unfortunately spelled".
44% in Scotland and not much appetite for a rerun according to the polls.

But I suppose if you want to define it that way, you can, as long as you're consistent: by that definition virtually all of Europe is in turmoil (well, the EU). Not sure people living there would recognise the description though. Things feel quite calm really.
> but he doesn't count how many of them do not move at all. The whole diagonal of his (sample) transition matrix are actually missing values, but he treats them as zeroes

Great point. It's interesting to think about how exactly this could bias the results -- would it bias it in favor of languages that developers tend to initially not choose for their project?

I do see that as very consistent with C, C++, and Java being up there. For new projects, developers love to choose anything but those, but then they find themselves gravitating towards them when the project gets bigger and practical concerns intrude
In a sense, yes. The true "freshness" of a color is shown on the color picker as the distance from the center of the circle. This is equivalent to the chroma component of CIELUV, the color space that HSLuv is based on. The problem with that component is that the maximum chroma is different for different hues, so if you were to move the hue slider while keeping true chroma static, you would run into impossible colors (such as dark saturated yellow).

This is a fundamental trade-off. If you need true saturation, you can use CIELUV and deal with impossible colors. If you need a color space that doesn't have gaps, use HSLuv and deal with a suboptimal saturation. The strongest claim I can make about HSLuv's usefulness is that it is a better HSL.

Hope that helps.

EDIT: You gave an idea that it would be useful to show another slider on the picker called "C", showing the chroma component with gaps.
> Sure. But this has nothing to do with the scenario of an unproven stem cell therapy. There the chances are 99,99999% vs. 0.00001%.

> This is a really bad idea, and your comment ideally shows why that's the case. You're selling people the idea that they have something like a 50/50 chance. But that's a complete illusion. Even 10/90 is an illusion. The chances of a completely unproven therapy to do any good are practically zero.

The 50/50 is for sake of practicality, it's not the main point.

The point is some people would take unproven treatments if it meant they had any chance to improve their quality of life. See: The man who's having his head transplanted.

I've been in this situation before where all approved methods had failed me. I was extremely desperate to find something that would help, so I was vulnerable to con men (and they made a killing off me from "homeopathic remedies"), but when I settled down with a clear and rational head, I decided that I would be worse off if I continued living in my pathetic state.

So, I did my due diligence and interviewed every treatment that looked promising (after doing research on my disease). Even though they were all "out there" I found one I was confident in and signed up.

There was no guarantee I was going to be better, only that there'd be a $60k hole in my pocket. To make a long story short, it improved my condition to a manageable state and I'm very happy with the results.

I've never been a proponent of restriction, only proper education. If someone is properly educated on the possible harms and how to avoid them, then why shouldn't they be allowed to take a course they believe would benefit them (without hurting anyone else)?

The problem that's being discussed here, though, is that the clinic had a power imbalance (partly due to lack of proper education on the subject) and preyed against these three women. Perhaps if they were informed properly (due to regulation on full disclosure) they might have been better off.
None of the other weapons were world-killers. There is a difference in quality and quantity. Mustard gas is nasty, but it's ultimately not very effective. Napalm, phosphorus are cruel, but not generally more useful than a large explosive.

A nuke is everything. Nukes are too effective, allowing you to make a whole planet uninhabitable if you really felt like achieving that goal. Maybe we should be especially repelled by the fact that we've stockpiled the means to utterly erase our existence.
I like how you can see the both the suspension wire vaporizing and the shockwave reflection off the ground in close detail.
Safari seems to be the worst affected for me. I thought maybe it was adblockers or something, disabled all plugins, and still persists.
I wonder if this could be solved with a better caching system for dependencies shared between multiple sites. Maybe some kind of content-addressable cache?

If your users only have to download the language runtime once, the idea of using a runtime for a popular language on your site doesn't seem like such a bad idea. Popular runtimes could even be pre-cached and shipped with the browser.
People who can spot easily foreseeable problems - an essential hacker skill - know turmoil when they see it coming. The big question is the 3.3 million EU citizens in the UK; the government has repeatedly refused to guarantee their right to stay, while also making statements that they're willing to drop out of any dealmaking process with the EU.

The outcome of those policies would be that 5% of the population suddenly become illegal immigrants and their employers are legally obliged to fire them and the Home Office will start deporting them. This is going to be a mess. There may be riots.

Not to mention that all sorts of UK-EU scientific collaboration which operates on 3 or 5 year timescales has already suffered, because they can't plan beyond Brexit day.
>The Earth travels at 30 km/s around the Sun.

That's exactly what the parent comment just said.
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Got some great ideas already.

http://imgur.com/dTx9o7q
I'm a CS grad who is fairly strong with maths but never really did learn to write a proper proof. All of these questions I would have been able to "solve", but the proofs would have been very casual. What would be a valid answer it 2.3 where it basically asks you to integrate an expression of F after substituting y'=dx/dy?
Timescales are a bit off for that rule though. People are generally better off in a few years from now, unless they've been paying that extra prosperity to as monthly interest on their debt.
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It feels buggy and unfinished to me because of the inconsistent ui. For example, look at the inconsistencies of right-click context menus: http://nl.pcmweb.s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/uploads/2016/01/...
If your uptime doesn't matter and you keep good backups, I don't see why you shouldn't run it 'til it won't, and then recycle it. All my shit's more than 5 years old. Some of it is nearing 20. I guess there's an argument to me made about saving power with newer technology, but I don't want to spend the money to upgrade and I'm not sure which recycling companies recycle properly vs shipping everything out to be stripped down by children with hammers and coal fires.
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I live my life by that single insight: technology and progress do not change human nature. Behavior, sure, but not our nature. Human nature and nuclear weaponry are not compatible.
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if it is GMO, is it not reasonable to assume it is likely to have more herbicide/pesticide particles?
With respect to the start up you should do it anyway. Or do something. Many times you see multiple successful solutions to the same problems.
I was a very early adopter of java in the browser and we compared shockwave (Macromedia/Adobe Director) with java and despite java being so allegedly ahead of its time, shockwave was far better in all respects (speed, functionality, size, spinup time, user experience). And shockwave was awful (it was rendered irrelevant by Flash, which rose on its coat tails (SWF stands for "shockwave flash", although the two had nothing in common).
Similarly their new "Monitoring BETA" product/section is just a confusing name for Alerts.
So we've got the agricultural revolution about 10,000 years ago, then the industrial revolution about 200 years ago. I can't think of any other separate event of equal impact.

And you are suggesting that no only are we currently within a similar scale event (plausible, but hardly proven), and there will another two such magnitude events in the next 200 years?

Or are you noting that we, and future generations, will always think we are on the cusp of "great things" but for almost all cases will be wrong?
Note that in some places this constitutes breaking the law.