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Airbus Swears Its Pod/Car/Drone Is a Serious Idea Definitely
How about firefox? I double click to select a word and triple click to select a paragraph.
It's not always about features. Plenty of international vendors only accept PayPal transfers. It's then our discretion to not do business with those vendors but there's the rub.
It's useful to go back to the Enlightenment to gain context about the origins of that meta-level philosophy and try to articulate what's changed and why those laws of nations are no longer valid. It could be the basis of a new Enlightenment.
That's the kind of claptrap nonsense that got us here.

Government is - at best - an emergent agent with a lot of internal incentives to keep itself going. It does what the people in it want to do. It does what legislation tells it to do modulated by the people interpreting and implementing those statues.

Big Banks and certain Companies and industry advocacy groups spend a lot of money on putting people friendly to them into Government, and that introduced a bias in the collective decision-making process. It should be (and will be eventually) counteracted.

Sure, there are different ways to do something about this, the extreme is of course to abolish the Government, but if you were to think a bit about the consequences and requirements of such a change, you'll see that it's not really the best option.
If I remember right, Pt 1 is also included in this podcast before they get to the updates.
My wariness with respect to the PSR are these two features:

1) The PSR is typically defended empirically. That is, the reason for believing in the PSR is usually some form of "we observe that things happen for reasons."

2) No process is ever provided for determining whether or not a particular reason is actually sufficient.

Taken together, 2) says that we have no justification for believing that any of the reasons we observe in 1) are actually evidence for the universality of sufficient reasons posited in the PSR.
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I appreciate your reply (and replies to your reply), but I must be missing something about why this is a good idea.

Is it just that software is (badly) coded to request lots of memory it doesn't intend to use? The only sensible usecase I can think of for that is oversubscribing VMs, but even there... Doesn't this just crash a VM when there's contention for the memory that's oversubscribed?

I guess that would be okay for the VM case, but why would I want this in a normal usecase? It seems like it's just encouraging/supporting bad memory management in software.

Have I just been lucky that this has never killed a long-running job of mine when I use 90%+ of RAM to do a big job? Or shit, maybe it has and the specific error just was obscured. Ugh, I hate when the system lies by default.

How does that help me as a user?
I had this happen to me. I filed a complaint with the CFPB and within a week had my account unfrozen (i.e. still shut down but ability to transfer funds out)
I remember this website from early '00. I'm really glad it is still online and flourishing! This is literally one of the best (if not the best) website with font resources on the web.
"There is plenty of languages which compile to JavaScript if you want a different style."

I hear this a lot, but when you actually look at the list, there is not much to choose from.

- Dart - not used outside of Google.

- CoffeeScript - people are leaving this for ES6+, does not provide anything other than nicer syntax.

- TypeScript/Flow - is just javascript + types. This is bad because it doesn't solve any of JavaScript problems and good at the same time because it is easy to introduce incrementally and there are 0 problems with interaction with plain JavaScript code). This seems to be good enough for most people, as you mention.

- Elm - Second most promising ATM but not mature enough, you still need to fall back to JS for lots of the browser API. You need to buy into the Elm world 100%, simple stuff like creating an element and using JS library which will modify that element still requires hacks (my info might be out of date, last time I worked on Elm project was ~4 months ago).

- Reason - Probably the most promising because Facebook backs it, but nowhere near production ready. At least it seemed to me last time I checked - no tutorials, even installation was not straightforward and required some consultation with GitHub issues.

- the rest is in the toy/abandoned/not mature enough territory.
The real drawback of disabling memory overcommitting is not that processes can no longer allocate huge amounts of unused memory, but that processes that use more memory that the remaining availabe RAM + swap can no longer call fork (even if the forked process like most forked processes would immediately discard all the shared memory by execing some small program).
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> You also have the right to demand the deletion of your personal data

How does it work with data you're legally required to keep? E.g. for tax reasons.
IMO Gattaca makes a great case for genetic testing. An idiot with a major heart condition bluffs his way onto a space mission where he's likely to die and endanger the rest of the crew. If the testing had been a bit more thorough (say, if the doctor in charge of testing had done his job) then the mission wouldn't have been endangered.

It's strange to see everyone hold up this movie as an argument against this sort of testing.
https://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/wg1/en/ch2s2-1...

SO2 has a cooling effect usually: https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/1o34mn/why_does... but it can form dark aerosols that absorb heat (thus decreasing Earth's albedo)
> The problem is that 'functional code' means 'spagetti code' for many 'low skill' people

I don't see how that is the case. Even in the most poorly written function you have code that's working mostly on it's arguments (and maybe some global or something, since it is poorly written) and then returns a value. How is this function connected to the surrounding code? We know the answer, it's called in a single expression and given arguments. You have a single isolated call for a single run of the function.

In OOP you have to both instantiate a class and then call it's methods. By simple line count it is twice as complicated to call as a function, and it is twice as coupled to the code that calls it.

When I look into the internals of functional code I often find myself in a single isolated function and the functions tend to be on the short side. When I look into the internals of OOP code I often find myself in a large method that is part of a class in an inheritance hierarchy and the method uses a bunch of globals (err, I mean "object variables") and I have to read several other methods to understand what's happening, because the method I'm interested in depends on the state left over from other method calls.

In short, objects are a lot more powerful than functions, and thus "low skill" developers have a lot more rope to make spaghetti with.
preparation for handling life's faults is a necessary part of the programming each person should have

That's a reasonable position, but sometimes no amount of preparation can give the little guy adequate protection against a big guy seeking to exploit him. That's why we have legal systems and regulatory frameworks in the first place, and providing a deterrent against big guys taking unfair advantage to reduce the number of times it happens and some sort of remedy for the little guy in the remaining cases is generally a good thing even if it's not a perfect solution.
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I don't want to minimize your pain in any way, but I think the reason you're being downvoted is that your comment sounds like you want to imply that because mandatory testing would have spared you this pain, that it is therefore a good thing. But this does not follow. Just because mandatory testing might have led to a better outcome in one case doesn't mean that overall it's a good thing. You yourself pointed out the extreme cost of mandatory testing: if an employer knows that you are at high risk of being sick, then they have no choice but to do everything they can to replace you with an equally productive but healthy person. Not doing so would be a breach of their fiduciary duties to their investors.
The underlying message in that sentence "banks [...] which have lent $400bn" is that we cannot enforce stricter regulation on ships, because it would hurt banks that lent the money.

It is also true that banks have so little equity that they easily get insolvent. In the beginning of the nineteenth century banks were around ~30% equity. Nowadays ~1-2%.
Those outage percentages are better than 99.99% of us need or could find elsewhere. I'll take it.
And FORTRAN.
Corporations still manage to maintain the illusion of decency and customer service. Their real behavior is surprising to a) people who were lucky and have never encountered it and b) people who suffer from some corporate equivalent of Gell-Mann amnesia.

I belong to the second category. Also, it becomes harder to avoid such companies at all, for example cell phone operators in Europe universally view their "customers" as billable addresses; some find it cheaper to settle billing disputes in court (and lose a great percentage of the cases) than to maintain a "customer" service.

With mobile the solution is to go prepaid.
To help curing the common cold in a specific individual at a specific time, yes.
Also jetbrains products are java-based and can bog down low powered machines to a point of frustration.
I'm sure it will be different. Technology don't usually move upwards gradually. They jump and improve for years and jump again. So I can sense the jump is coming. But it won't be just a additional language on browsers.
Newer ships aren't necessarily much better. Mærsk's E class container ships still burn bunker fuel. The Triple E Class made improvements in efficiency and emissions, but are still burning bunker fuel at about 50% of the emissions per container than the previous class.
> Due to the rocking of the ship, it's hard to get an accurate reading of the fuel in the tanks.

Would it not be possible to install a flow rate monitor between the engine and the day tank? If so it would be possible to estimate with okay precision flue usage for any given time period.

I Apologize for the naive question, because I imagine there's a reason it isn't done already.
The immune system is scary. It's based on mutability and selection. During embryonic development, there's basically a phase where "self" gets defined. Lineages of immunocompetent cells that can target self get killed off.

But sometimes it screws up. Maybe you encounter something that triggers expansion of lineages with autoimmune potential. Or maybe there's damage that exposes previously hidden antigens to the immune system. There's undoubtedly a genetic component too.
Sure; I'm using atoms to refer to physical reality rather than abstractions people are applying to the top; atoms more in the indivisible sense, than what you think of in the physics lexicon.

I think your dichotomy is false. Human simplifications of the world are "real" in so far as they correspond with what they model (or else we'll get into a debate about what "real" means). The higher up in the abstraction stack you go, the bigger things (generally) you can model, but the details vary more. This may be more "real", or less "real", depending on what you're trying to model and how well the conceptual framework fits; e.g. you won't get far with modelling fluid as Newtonian marbles. The point being that it's not a binary proposition, the models are all approximations, and any "cause" you find is only with respect to a story people have made up about the way the world works.
A major difference is that customers can pay through PayPal from a PayPal balance whether they have a credit card or not.

People use PayPal from person to person for B/S/T forums. The PayPal user base is bigger in this community because anyone can accept payments without being a merchant, yet unlike dealing over Venmo there are still protections for the buyer.

Also, accepting payments worldwide is much more feasible. Stripe is in 25 countries [1]; PayPal is in 200 [2].

[1]: https://stripe.com/global

[2]: https://www.paypal.com/us/webapps/mpp/country-worldwide
Sounds like a lifestyle choice.
The https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_drive is one of the most frightening developments I've heard of in genetic engineering.
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Isn't the ability to live on native land based on genetic discrimination?
You do a lot of virtue signaling in your commentary and presume to speak for "the masses". It is... amusing.

I get that you have an opinion and it is fairly orthogonal to mine. Your opinion doesn't offend me or make me feel threatened, but the presumption that you speak for anyone beyond yourself is awkward.

I want to understand your side, but your presentation is pitting you against good taste... I feel like I'm talking to that guy at the gym who went off his bipolar meds.

Tone down the preaching of universal truth, perhaps?
There is tidy. I was going to say "but it's not kept up with standards", but find whilst researching this comment that it has been extended to HTML5.

https://www.w3.org/People/Raggett/tidy/

Search shows a few other options as well:
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=html+linter&t=ftas&ia=web

Unless I'm misreading your question.
> It should be (and will be eventually) counteracted.

10,000 years and still waiting
And why would they want to do that?
You can downvote on HN? Genuine question. I'm new here
I don't believe we will ever move away from JavaScript. Remember GWT? It's Google's pseudo WebAssembly built at the height of Java's popularity. It compiles your Java code into JavaScript and optimize accordingly to each browser. A few companies bet heavily on this technology, Workday is one.

No, it did not catch on.
My understanding on that point is that he needed to see which transactions were the last 5 that he needed proof of delivery for and tried to find the details of the transactions (to then obtain proof of delivery from his shipping company).
Upon trying to find these details he was unable as the paypal site wouldn't allow him to
I follow a blog/podcast called Scale Your Code (https://scaleyourcode.com/). The host interviews a lot of interesting people like DHH or Jeff Atwood. He didn't post every day, but interviews are pure gold (last one was with Nick Craver from Stack Overflow).
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Is retrofit possible?
Also, reading between the lines: he has not voluntary shut the business down. Who would do that?

This was already forced by PayPal. Lots of details missing here.
It's hard to see how theorems about infinite sets can apply directly apply to human relationships.

Maybe you'll just make a heuristic argument showing that something grows as n² or 2ⁿ? For example, the number of possible relationships among n people grows as n². The world's population of about 7490000000 individuals would support about 28050049996255000000 potential relationships between individuals, or twice that many opinions that individuals have about one another.
What is the best single board computer for my project?
I have been looking for the right iot device to make a wifi router. Ideally it would have Ethernet in, 1 Ethernet out port, use open wrt or another open source software and be as small as possible. Does anyone have suggestions, experience with this type of project?
The lede is false and misleading on its face. Excluding "carbon dioxide" from your list of "oxides" when discussing (and comparing with) automobile greenhouse gas emissions is absurd. The misleading claim is also clearly intentional, so none of the other claims can be accepted at face value. (No, shutting down 15 ships would not do more to address greenhouse oxide emissions than banning automobiles world-wide.) More than disappointing, and never should have been published.
Yes, you're not the only one to see this problem, but it's not as commonly understood as it should be.

I've long desired for a formal semantics for CSS for example (but I believe flexbox is a step in the right direction in this regard).

If we're heading into a p2p future, my opinion is we're going to have to build it on web (HTML/CSS) technology for being able to leverage browser efforts, and for cross web/postweb publishing.

And I believe the prospect for doing this, from a pure technical PoV, is quite good. While I'm not completely agreeing with everything they do, WHATWG have succeeded in spec'ing a reasonably declarative and rich document language that doesn't need JavaScript for each and everything.

OTOH, more and more CSS ad-hoc syntax, and entirely new procedural web runtimes (cough WebAssembly cough) should be resisted.
>> Companies already want to drug test employees... Which I feel shows you don't trust them.

This is more of a liability issue then anything else. If you do something while high the company has some protection from getting the "he was high while on the clock hence you responsible" book thrown at them.

>>America is the only country that ties health insurance to employment also.

It's not. Also, you're free to decline the coverage through your employer and buy your own (or not buy any).
Which used to be a viable option until Obamacare kicked in - now you either buy what's called a "short term" insurance OR buy the same coverage and pay 2-3 times more for it. Why would you do that you might ask? Because short-term policies impose tax penalties and can only last up to 6 months so you have to constantly change providers which is an ordeal...
People often joke about the EU being toothless don't they? What penalties exist, as presumably their is a grace period to this that gives companies the time to build the systems in order to respect it? I feel like most small companies will find a way to skirt (or ignore) this as such systems could likely match the complexity of their products themselves..
In this context you might mean the CDA, which provides a different set of immunities.

Edit: also note that misinformation isn't necessarily defamatory and so even if online intermediaries were liable for content, there wouldn't necessarily be a legal remedy to suppress most "misinformation". For example, there's probably no aggrieved party who can sue to stop a hoax or urban legend about nonexistent persons.
I suppose that works with RAM and CPU waste, but I notice the people building gigabyte consuming irc clients aren't paying for all their users RAM, so the cost tradeoff is rather different.
I think that is a rather common belief... "Managed" is exactly referring to automatic memory management meaning the defining feature of the category is literally GC.
It also says:

>None of these were usual symptoms of thyroiditis.

>you could have a low antibody count and still be quite sick, or a high antibody count and feel fine.

>my TSH, a pituitary hormone that is supposed to get higher when your thyroid hormones get low, never budged

Also see:

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1568997207...
Given that we can record how much fuel was put in, and how fast the motor was spinning at each point in time, why can't you model how much fuel is left in the tank? Is fuel consumption-to-motor-use very variable?
I don't know where exactly the pycharm source is, but I suspect its part of the larger IntelliJ community repository.

https://github.com/JetBrains
You might enjoy reading this paper: http://www.genetics.org/content/205/2/827
Not if you use `python -OO`, which will optimize the docstrings out.
Says the person who wants them to all come to the US.

"I agree with that [immigration is a net benefit to nearly everyone] and support more or less open borders" - yummyfajitas
It seems to me that many comments here are missing the point. To be fair, the article also seems to get it wrong. The problem with sulphur and nitrogen oxides isn't just global warming (though apparently N2O is a real problem, there). To my mind, the real problem is good old fashioned pollution as we talked about in the 80s. Acid rain, anyone?
It shouldn't be a huge stretch to imagine a customer service department having lousy or non-existent documentation. They said there was no record of the call, they checked again, then magically there was a record. Do you think it's more likely he imagined it or even lied about?
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> It's also worth noting that most programs don't tolerate malloc failure well at all, and will just crash anyway.

But at least then it's the program that doesn't handle failure that dies, not one that does!
It's been a long while since I saw that movie, but I'm fairly certain that it was way more complicated than your synopsis.
Going through something very similar. Started 6 years ago when my lips became inflamed out of nowhere. Lasted a confusing week and then was gone like it was never there. About a year later, it came back again a little bit worse and with some discharge. This pattern continued, sometimes only a few months between outbreaks, and sometimes over a year. New symptoms started coming with each outbreak. At this point I can feel it coming on and manage it with a steroid cream, but now my ears, eyes, nose, and other parts of my body have similar symptoms. The worst part is that it's incredibly painful, to the point where I have to leave work, but really doesn't look that bad, so it's hard for other people to understand what's happening.

I've been to 5 different doctors, a general internist, 2 dermatologists, an ENT, a gastroenterologist, and have gotten 5 different diagnosis. It feels pretty lonely, but I'm glad to see your story here, and that this article is shining more light on these kind of ailments.
It'll take some time, as people understandably don't like to use their brains, much less being told that they should drop their irrational cognitive patterns and that they should learn game theory.

We're still not done with this Enlightenment thing.
While you can verify that the software is in fact encrypting the data and not sending anything it should not send, you can never know who has access to the encryption keys. They are created by WhatsApp, who knows how and where they store them and who can access them.
I make invoicing software that I sell using PayPal and it lets my users add a "Pay with PayPal" button to their invoices and over the years several of my clients have called me and related stories similar to this and they all had some common traits.

They all processed quite a bit of money via PayPal and they all had issues with customer's requesting refunds which they disputed or didn't issue in a timely manner, and they all sold something which had the potential to be a bit shady. One of them sold aircraft parts to Iran, which may have had some legal restrictions that applied. Another sold guns.

Since I sell access to web based software I don't have to ship anything and the product is "delivered" instantly. I also process refunds immediately and without any question.

PayPal most certainly doesn't like getting caught up in refund issues. In my case most of the customers who've requested a refund contacted me first and I issued it promptly with a "Thanks for trying my software" note attached.

The few that have contacted PayPal first resulted in PayPal sending me a notice about the request for a refund and, again, I issued it immediately, but their notice makes it clear that is what they expect and if I recall correctly they put a time limit on that.

Take from this what you want but what I've taken from it is when a customer requests a refund issue the refund as quickly as possible and try hard to make that as easy as possible for your customers and to minimize the potential for them asking for one.
How much RAM do you have?