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Some good domain options available. .consulting, .guru, .pro, .expert. https://www.hover.com/domains/results?utf8=&q=epochalypse
Check the usernames; unless Isaferite is the same person as VLM, Isaferite didn't make the comments you're quoting.
We're working on it :-) In fact there are two projects - one is to just remove the GIL, one is to add STM-capabilities.
> I've been trying for a long time to alter the common perception that Realtors add value; they don't.

I've heard this before, but when we bought a house, our realtor added a ton of value.

She went out and found houses that we wouldn't have found; sure, most of them came from MLS, but there were a few she found just by driving by or by asking fellow agents. She even triaged a couple for us (by going to look at them without us once she had gotten a sense for what our common feedback patterns were, and only making us come along when she thought it was worthwhile).

She pointed out things we would have never noticed, like windows that had condensation around the edges, which indicated the seals were bad and that when the seals on one window were going out, it was likely they were all on their way out. She'd point out cracks that we didn't notice or water stains (acknowledging she's not an inspector, but it certainly gave us things to ask the inspector about). She noticed when parts of the yard looked worrisome in how it was eroded or angled toward the house. And she could usually estimate for us off the top of her head what things would cost to fix, replace, remodel, or update (or she had someone she could call to ask for an estimate if she didn't know).

EDIT: She also put pressure on the lender when they were delaying the mortgage approval, did all the negotiation on our part with the selling agent, followed up with the sellers to make sure they did all the fixes our inspector found and were put into our contingencies. She also figured out what to do when she reviewed the contractor receipts and found out they had lied about fixing one of the things in the contingencies on the morning of the closing to make sure the deal didn't fall through, as well as how to resolve the issue that the sellers had left a giant moving pod blocking the driveway/garage and went on vacation the day we took possession of the house.

I suppose I could imagine buying a house without her if you had the experience, but there's no way we even came close to matching her years of experience.

Of course, most of the people I talk to have said their experience was nothing like ours. But it makes me think that the problem isn't that realtors bring no value to the table, but rather that maybe there just aren't very many good realtors.
Well, "relative or friend" is different from "spouse, child, or parent".

My dog got cancer. We had to put her down. It wasn't easy. (The vet, in trying to be nice, made it worse. They sent us this sympathy card that had a dog on it that looked almost like ours. I just lost it when I saw that.)

But, you know, if you told me that someone in my household was going to get cancer and die, and I could get away with it being the dog, I'd take that in a heartbeat. It's not the same as my wife. It's not the same as one of my kids.
Yeah, I worry that between the less obvious failure mechanics and the sense that Y2K was overblown (probably, ironically, because it was effectively mitigated), the epochalypse may not be all that nice.
You gotta give it to him! The guy is dedicated to say the least.
I've always been taken seriously when raising issues with contracts.

Sometimes "taken seriously" means they scratch something out.

Sometimes "taken seriously" means they spend 3 days talking at me about why I should sign it, because everyone else has.
Well, at least for the payout period, assuming it wasn't all given in a one time payment.

Otherwise, it of course depends on what they're doing. It might be really interesting work that you get the chance to work with a lot of other very brilliant people to build something amazing.

If that's not true, then no, I'd probably go and start just writing fun open-source stuff all the time.
So... You're trusting it with all your filesystem but not your email?
This is the exact anecdote for why Intuit would want to keep tax law complicated.
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I am utterly confused. There was the iPad, then the Mini, then the Air, then the Pro.. and now I look at this, and 9.7" sounds fairly large ("normal" iPad size?) but the price is surprisingly cheap? No idea. closes window

I've got about 6 tablets and never use any of them anyway. I hate the user experience. I see no case where I'd rather have a tablet than my phone or my 6 year old Macbook Air.
What's the market value of General Relativity and the Standard Model? Where can I buy shares in them? What's the ROI this week?
... and snap!
Ironically, there's actually a chance UNIX wouldn't have been in use in 2038, or any time at all, if its designers had insisted on a costly future-proofing like using a 64-bit time type. As you've highlighted, wasting memory like that is a costly proposition, and it would've been an easy black mark when compared against a competing system that "uses less memory".

I think the developers made the right choice.
Every time I buy or sell a home, I'm very thankful that one of my friends has a realtor's license. None of that 7% BS. None of the dumb games they play. How it came about that the services of two realtors was worth $35k on a $500k home is beyond me. Especially in this day and age, where we all just look online and tell our realtors what houses we want to go to. Half the work they used to do is now done by the client.
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That's not been my experience. A lot of companies don't address needs that are farther in the future, because there are nearer term needs and a fixed budget. Also, legacy systems that haven't been patched or updated in decades aren't that uncommon.

And, even if they happen to be safe, they do tend to pay well just for an audit to confirm that.
Critical vulnerabilities in Cisco products that the CIA can exploit?

"Cisco vice president of services Mike Quinn, a former CIA operations officer, ..." [0]

"... Cisco's recent acquisition of In-Q-Tel-backed security company ThreatGRID ..." [1]

"After retiring with 30+ years of service from the Agency, I spent several years as adviser to Cisco System’s Chief Security Officer, and I found Cisco was doing great work; they’re one of the backbones of the internet." [2]

Imagine that.

[0] http://www.networkworld.com/article/2223473/data-center/cisc...

[1] http://www.networkworld.com/article/2358453/security/cisco-p...

[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2012/10/12/what-do-for...
Has anyone actually managed to get these to work on an imagenet scale?
This is part of my plan as well, thus https://2038consulting.com/ registered 6 years ago.
Surfing the Internet, reading ebooks and watching videos are all things an iPad would do much better, particularly anything that would benefit from a hiDPI screen.
"Confessions" is an odd part of the title. The article presents an interesting analysis of churn and why closing a product line with high churn makes sense - it seems like it was a good decision to close it. "Confession" seems to apply that he did something wrong in closing it, when the article suggest that it was the spot on move to do so.
Given the publicity someone is probably already planning on looking into it. Publicity is one of the major differences between crank science that is ignored and other things like the reactionless drive at NASA.

I wouldn't say that papers are ignored because they must be wrong. It's hard to make a definitive statement either way, but "revolutionary" experiments very rarely come with good rigor and examination (the neutrino experiment is one of the few counterexamples, it was excellent). Crappy papers get ignored, revolutionary or not. It's very rare that a paper is well-done, upsets normal beliefs, and isn't immediately seized on by the media and community.
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That is true. But the value added by a good realtor can produce as much value add to a transaction. I've talked to enough people who had bad realtors that I know they can literally be useless. But I've also worked with a buyer's agent who got 3% knocked off the price of the home I was buying. This is in the city of Boston, where most houses go for over asking, so I might have viewed this move as risky without my realtor's experience backing me up. And I had none of the issues people complain about online (no pushing a particular home inspector or lender, etc.) Additionally, I've done enough deals involving lawyers to know there are some incredibly crappy lawyers, despite all their training.
This is a very uncharitable interpretation.

Is it really so weird that people are more idealistic at a
distance? Or that a person's views in the real world are more nuanced than can be boiled down to a few absolute principles. Even the staunchest free market advocates support the idea of government intervening when markets fail, and there is an almost universally held belief that such a failure exists in the telecom industry.

And do you not think a person could view a market intervention to expand access to what is becoming a utility and social programs that write checks to 'unproductive members of society' to be different? I'm not saying they're right, but calling them hypocrites based on your world view and your generalization of theirs seems to be picking a fight rather than any kind of respectful discussion.
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Delivery of evidence is delivering the hard drive; changing the state of the evidence is a concretely different thing.

It amounts to interpreting the existing evidence for law enforcement.
The auction process only solves that problem if advertisers know what the adjacent content is and use that information to bid less or not bid on it. At that point, we're back to the status quo of advertisers policing content.

While you might be able to automate the process somewhat with ads that aim for direct conversions, it's still extremely difficult to automatically measure the effectiveness of brand advertising.
I'm a big fan of the Asus Flip (and will likely either upgrade to the new model or to the Samsung). It's increasingly my go-to travel machine. But I find it awkward as a tablet. I usually carry my old iPad with me even when I bring the Chromebook.
Yeah the 2008 financial meltdown saved my lumbar region. Paid 250 for a 1,600 euro chair. Very happy. On the other hand a lot of people lost everything. So that was the flipside.
Why Americans have come to worship their own ignorance
Yes you are. Do you really think no one would have noticed if the Standard Model was - as you call it - a forgery?
Sustainable as in "I can make a career of this" or "if this particular project wanes, I can always hop over to one of the many other projects."

If you pad your listings, people will assume you need to because there _aren't_ many such jobs. Moreso over time as the ratio of filled listings to active recruitment grows -- if all visitors ever see are jobs that no longer accept applications, they will not come away with a positive outlook on the field.
Very remote areas with normal people should kind of not exist.

Like on one hand I appreciate that freedom to choose where you live is great. But what happens is that when regular people (especially on the poorer end of things) live in the middle of nowhere in super low density areas, is that it becomes extremely difficult and expensive to provide infrastructure and services out there.

And unless they're rich or Paul Bunyan reincarnated, they still probably want things from the government like electricity, water, roads, schools, internet, etc. But the economic productivity is too low to actually pay for those things via taxes, and that's how you end up with voluntary fire departments declining to put out someone's house that's on fire.

We can't let people live just anywhere and guarantee basic infrastructure and services in a cost-effective way at the same time.
Yeah I don't mean to get in to a "which death is harder to overcome" pissing match, but I've lost dogs as well as close relatives and friends and the two weren't even remotely close in difficulty.

I get that it's possible in some circumstances that for some people losing their dog will be harder than losing a relative, but I think for the vast majority of people and circumstances this is not going to be the case.

The article even ends with:

>While the death of a dog is horrible, dog owners have become so accustomed to the reassuring and nonjudgmental presence of their canine companions that, more often than not, they’ll eventually get a new one.

You can replace the love a dog gives you, and most people end up doing just that. You can't replace the love your father gives you. You can't replace the love your best friend has given you since you were 8. You can't replace the 50 years of life you were planning to share together.
Well, the article points out that tax preparers are lobbying in favour of taxes being complex and hard to file.

Given a choice between a simple tax system that gave you a $100 rebate for doing nothing; and a complex tax system that gave you a $90 rebate if you brought their software or a $30 rebate if you did nothing; the tax preparer would prefer the latter system even though doing so would increase the tax their customers pay.
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Driving off the most productive, most motivated employees is what IBM has spent the last decade and more doing. It doesn't want people who can get jobs elsewhere: it wants people who are too scared to leave.
iPad is relatively cheap and quite powerful. Compared to Android tablets it has more software and usually it is better adapted to tablet factor. It is way cheaper than surface and iOS is better than windows if you want it for "couch use", e.g.: reading/browsing/casual gaming etc. Also it has more battery life.
The argument against that is that lifetime imprisonment serves the exact same goal, and gets rid of the nasty issue of killing people who are found innocent 20 years later, as it sometimes happens. If I recall correctly, the process of actually executing the death penalty is so expensive it's not even cheaper than lifetime imprisonment anyway.
That's why you don't wipe your device. You have a normal laptop with a nice FB profile and Google history to show, and when you're in, you cab download the VM image and continue work.
Also, gone ahead and fixed that, thank you
Stephen Hawking is going into SPACE
I miss numbed code, cba scrolling up to a line and doing: end, return, space space, delete, enter, mouse, space space, end.

just type 8.5: code here

(float to insert between lines)

also no nesting.

then run a processor like go-fmt that checks the format for you.

and use the directory structure for class and methods, directory is a class, and a filename is a method.
>X67L is a good laptop, the X67LX is a crappy low-cost plastic netbook. How dumb is that. //

To me that's not half as frustrating as the companies that sell a, let's say 755cx and then create a new model a few years later and call that 755cx ... how bloody annoying [like hey, this review is from 7 years before the thing was made, and it's a completely different system]. Or worse still, not have a model number to refer to. I think the worst I had was trying to find parts for a Toshiba laptop, IIRC, there were about 5 different models in 10 years with the same designation, like lets just call all our new laptops the "Laptop New" what could possibly be wrong with that.
How an IDE, a language, and a mentality cause harm
I suspect that's what happened. But the court gets into the whole issue with Fisher to address an argument that the defendant made. IMHO it was unnecessary to even go down that road.
Have you tried Valentina Studio? (https://valentina-db.com/en/) It's not SSMS but it's the best I've used for Postgres so far.
My dad still uses my iPad 1 that I gave him. Best present (for me) ever :-) My dad and computers never got along. To my way of thinking, it's pretty pokey but he uses it all the time still.
I would guess pacemakers don't run Linux. I would be surprised if they run an OS at all. I work on devices that have to survive 20 years on one non-rechargeable and non-serviceable battery, and there's at most a simple scheduler in place to control tasks. We use 32 bits for epoch time, but our epoch starts Jan 1, 2000, so we have 30 years on Linux before this becomes a problem.
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Do you get yours from eBay? Any tips or particular sellers you can recommend?
For three years, one of the departments I worked in had to suffer through massive, monthly paper report distributions. Because the petty-tyrant manager would not let us convert to electronic reporting. Because it would shrink his personal turf.

From business and legal aspects through to recent news on scientific "protectionism", no matter the "professionalism" and "objectivity" attached to the domain, they remain run by humans. With all their human traits and foibles -- which tend to come before the "objective."

One reason -- a primary one -- I see for guaranteeing people a basic quality of life, e.g. health care and an at least tolerable retirement. So that they -- maybe -- don't fear change so much. Feel, even, that they get to take part in the change, even when it is not at their own initiative and patent.
Their explanation that the speedup comes from the task changing from a catching task which requires higher brain functions to a simpler visually guided pointing task seems strange in this regard.

As you say the catching point doesn't have an ETA. To catch the ball without knowing when it hits, you would naturally move as fast as possible. If there's a trajectory or the real ball, you have more time and can react slower.
Base on the stats below seems that Mysql is still more popular than PostgreSQL.

# Name | Popularity | Avg salary global

1. Mysql | 7.44% | $56,506

2. PostgreSQL | 4.32% | $61,505

3. MongoDB | 3.2% | $64,206

4. Sql Server | 2.71% | $65,959

5. Oracle | 2.09% | $52,312

6. Redis | 1.92% | $51,728

More stats and details here https://jobsquery.it/stats/databases/group
I really think society must expend every effort to keep Ken Thompson alive until the end of the epoch.
That Travis guy spent a nice $100. Cheap money for hacker news front page!
No one is deploying 32-bit linux now, outside of tiny edge cases and mobile. Mobile devices that go in the trash every 2 years. What do you reasonably expect to be around in 2038 in 32-bit form?

Once 64-bit processors became mainstream, the 2038 problem pretty much solved itself. There's only disincentives to building a 32-bit system today let alone in 20+ years.

Unlike with Y2k where there was nothing but incentives to keep using Windows and DOS systems where the 2000 cut-over was problematic. The non-compliant stuff was being sold months before Jan 1, 2000. The 32-bit linux systems have been old hat for years now, let alone 20+ years from now.

Not to mention that those old COBOL programs were nightmares of undocumented messes and spaghetti code no one fully understood, even the guys maintaining them at the time. Modern C or C++ or Java or .NET apps certainly can be ugly, but even a second year CS student can find the date variables and make the appropriate changes. They won't be calling in $500/hr guys for this. Modern systems are simply just easier to work with than proprietary mainframes running assembly or COBOL applications that have built up decades of technical debt.
Codemill also has github integration but it's not very actively used.
Here's a version I wrote in C++ for ScalienDB about 5-6 years ago, this startup has since folded so it's dead code:

https://github.com/scalien/scaliendb/tree/master/src/Framewo...

Paxos: for replicating data

PaxosLease: for negotiating a lease, eg. leader

Quorum: pluggable "majority" rules, not that important

ReplicatedLog: use Paxos for each append, initiated by leader
You'll never find a more loyal partner than a dog.
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Why did you sign the contract in the first place?
This is missing what to me is the most important part of the algorithm: a quorum of acceptors must propagate writes to the learners. With just what's shown here, you're not tolerant to network partitions that cause a subset of the "accept" messages to be lost.

That process can of course be optimized in a number of ways that drastically cut down on the network overhead as compared to the naive MxN write pattern, but what's written here is not safe on its own.
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Nothing significant except that the storage spot for unix will fill up. Unix used to use a 32bit variable to store time in seconds since the epoch of 1970, so it will overflow in the year 2038. Most modern Unix systems have fixed the problem already, but Linux has a harder time than the others, and is still working on their fix.
What's up with that huge weekly variation?
>and Android (for example MIUI) is not worse than iOS //

I prefer stock Android but my latest phone has MIUI. It's OK, but I don't want someone else's tailoring I want my own; why can't companies offer their own settings but leave devices open for those who want to change. Yes, "support" but just have a "support and warranty will be limited by changing this setting" with a tick box and an "are you sure?" nag and let me return my device to stock. Grrr. /rant
About a month ago Trump mentioned in a speech that he would end human trafficking, but I haven't read anything more about it.
How do you think carryover losses of subchapter S corporations should be handled to make them easier?
Not in a normal sense. I know the DoD has immersive programs for training interpreters and SIGINT people to language proficiency as quickly as possible, but I don't think 550 hours is nearly enough for Mandarin. Even assuming 12 hours a day of full immersion, you're looking at fluency in 45 days. This is only feasible if you've already had a lot of exposure to the language. For example, many people outside the US are exposed to English movies, TV shows, ads, and grade school language programs growing up, which makes it easier to later learn English seriously. If you're not a Chinese American, this situation is unlikely for Mandarin.

Yes, most other writing systems, including English, use phonetic alphabets. If you learn the set of letters, you can at least sound out any word, and make a good guess at spelling something you know how to say. Chinese is a logographic writing system. There are thousands of "letters" that you have to learn individually, and there are generally only hints in the logograms about pronunciation or meaning, so you're basically memorizing how to read and write every single word individually. If you don't know how to write the character, you can't "sound it out" like you can in English. You're just stuck. This also leads to frustrations in even using dictionaries to look up word meanings.
Ask SpaceX, General Electric, and the thousands of other companies that rely heavily on science.
not sure if it was intended, but the article is discussing MSSQL not MYSQL. I think MYSQL has a popularity advantage over PGSQL because of a long tail of historical reasons, but this is just my opinion.
Y2K round 2