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> can be resolved with a trivial amount of research

If someone has to do a hundred trivial fixes then you might start to believe that there is something fundamentally broken with whatever software confronts me with a hundred trivial problems.

I'd absolutely love to get away from windows but I tried it multiple times in the past and linux just isn't close to being an alternative in the desktop market. There are so many problems and almost everytime the solution involves doing some arcane stuff in the terminal. This isn't going to win your average user over to linux.

Linux runs on all my servers, where it does an excellent job, but I can't see it replacing windows on my desktop systems, not until they fix some fundamental usability and driver issues.
There was actually game console called Vectrex that included a vector monitor. All the games were based on vector graphics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vectrex
Games that are played competitively tend to stick around for longer. Neither players nor audiences want to re-learn everything every year or two.
When I get a new computer with Windows preinstalled, the first thing I do is split the hard disk and put a nice Linux distro on. On the odd occasion I need to use Windows it's really no big deal having to navigate the ocean of bloat and whatever else. I don't even mind being tracked on these disparate occasions.
Some examples please! I guess you're a daily DM reader who fact-checks your own facts scrupulously before making wild statements. Separately, I am always surprised by the number of folk who evidently can't stand the DM but seem well-informed about its contents.
Oddly enough, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Percival is a redirect to the page about Tarsnap. I guess someone decided that was more likely to be what people were looking for than the pages about Portsnap, scrypt, PiHex, or any of the other pages which discuss my work less directly...
According to your link, the person died (and two more were injured) but the cause was a fraudster rigging their perpetual motion machine to explode to avoid it being discovered to be a scam.

Feynman's actions had no impact on what happened, at least according to the version you linked to, which is Feynman hinself's take on things.
Spotify is the only content provider i pay for gladly, due to their Family accounts and Discover Weekly.

I listen to music 5-6h a day now, all for dirt cheap (less than $2/month/person). I wish somebody would do the same for video content. Right now you have to subscribe to many different providers to get all the good content. So pirating is still more convenient and i still download rather than just pay a small, fixed amount.

Well, maybe music is just cheaper to make and easier to sell as a bundle.
> A while back when I needed to provide a "source" for a fact I simply tweeted it and then cited the tweet.

I have to call bullshit on that. Wikipedia's notability criteria specifically excludes blogs and social media as acceptable sources, with the sole exception of being posts made by the source himself (i.e., Linus Thorvald's comments on Linux posted on the lkml)
I don't disagree. My counter would be would you ever tell the story of Rock n' Roll without mentioning how damaged, disenfranchised, and rebellious the people who created or where drawn to it were? If not, shouldn't it be mentioned in one of the creators obituary how damaged they were?
Those things you mention are self destructive, the comment you were replying to was specifically mentioning damaging others, vulnerable ones in particular.
There's nothing wrong with charitable work on the part of religious groups, but the fact that they are able to get something out of the situation is a symptom of a larger problem. Food, clean clothes, and a place to sleep are fundamental human rights. When folks don't have access to these things, we have to ask ourselves where we went wrong - as voters and engaged citizens, that's on us.

In an ideal world, we would already have agreed as a society to deliver these basic services without a catch. As soon as we agree to fund non-denominational relief for people in need, they will stop feeling compelled to give up their spiritual dignity for a meal.
The internet personal finance community rallies behind The Millionaire Next Door, which talks about the habits of the people I'm describing as if they were the same rich elite that flies on private jets.

As a result, I try to call out abuse of the term millionaire whenever I see it.
There's another article on the site [1] that explains this in detail. It seems that you can drop the "watashi wa" only when the context of the statement or answer is obvious from previous parts of the conversation.

[1]: https://8020japanese.com/wa-vs-ga/#comparison
What? You mean there's a ternary operator?

I bring this up to illustrate that the metaphor isn't perfect, but it has some legs. I meant that BNF diagrams would be easier to create and understand for Japanese than for English.

You are right that there are more forms for saying 'if'.

Then again, I've seen programmers who spell 'if' 'f-o-r'.
I doubt Hitler was a sociopath. A psychopath, probably, but definitely not a manipulative empathy lacking sociopath. He was sensitive to the world, just in a perverse way...his hatred was real, not just an act of manipulation.
Have to wonder how much of this is occupant-driven vs how much is foreign speculation (like Chinese investment in the Canadian property market). That prices are getting so out-of-whack relative to local incomes in so many places suggests some sort of international aspect...
I'm a MSc in CS student at the university where the authors (whom I've met a few times) teach.

If you have any questions you think I'd know the answer to, ask away!
> I can drop the particles (including pronouns)

Sure. "piza wo taberu?" can be "piza taberu?" and that's fine, even normal.

> (including pronouns)

This is different and I think there are a few misconceptions bundled up in this assumption.

1. Particles don't exist on their own; they're permanently linked to the word that precedes them; if you've ever studied a Romance language, you can think of them as a way of declining nouns.

So "watashi wa" is the nominative, "watashi wo" is the accusative.

2. Pronoun dropping is done in the sense that the pronoun is not essential to the sentence and can be inferred from context.

For example, if you and your friend are eating and you ask "motto taberu [gonna eat more?]," nobody's going to be confused about whether the subject of that sentence is "watashi wa" or "anata wa."

It happens in English, too, but people overthink it a lot when presented with it consciously in Japanese.
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Too late to edit, but s/same other/same author/
Lol. When the Green Party gets absolute power, they are very happy to demolish old buildings & environments and replace them with minimum standard housing, and fill them with non-sustainable population, preferably from warmer climates, where such structures are not even needed.

"Gentrification" is an american issue. In Europe most governments prevent large-scale private housing projects already, and have to work hard to lure the middle-class into the "multicultural" cities of their own design.
A hundred trivial fixes? More like 3 trivial fixes max! Jesus christ, Linux isn't that complicated. You're likely to run into a similar number of problems setting up your scanner on Windows! I've run Linux on desktops and laptops for years with next to no problems.
Daily Mail hit-piece.

Retaliation for wikipedia justifiably preventing the mail being used as a cite.
I feel as if I'm looking at the future of textbooks. This is absolutely incredible.
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I think this is overstating the regularity of Japanese a bit. For example, what is the past tense of "kuru"? What is the present tense of "datta"?
I'm in the same place right now.

Did the emacs fundamentals tutorial. Installed evil. Got a little frustrated when some things didn't work exactly as expected. Also there is a weird TLS bug with the melpa and marmalade repos and the packaged emacs that debian stable offers. If I need to compile something then Neovim starts looking more attractive (I'm not aware of any package for debian stable atm but am happy to be corrected).

Now I'm just looking to try to solve my problems in vim again :)
The MSc degree will bump your salary and open doors once you have some experience under your belt. Do the grunt work for a year or two and then you'll climb the corporate ladder.
This article would have been much better with screenshots.
Also, Linux dd responds to SIGUSR1, writing progress info on stdout. Sth. to be vary of is that the same signal kills BSD dd.
Yeah it's "logical", except in casual language the rules are broken all the time. A lot of things can follow the verb.

The article doesn't mention subclauses at all, but it's where things become hairy. There's particle "ga" which is similar to "wa" except it works as a subject of subclause, except sometimes it means "but". There are dozens of ways to incorporate subclauses into main sentence, using different particles. It's very common for the entire sentence to be a subclause ([something] no/n desu).
As a MSFT employee: Provide a proof that Win10 is not sending home the data I mentioned.

Oh wait, it has been documented by third parties.

Win10 has a whitelist in the signed 64bit kernel mode network driver, so you can't stop it except by putting a hardware firewall in front of your Win10 box - good luck with your Win10 notebook.

If an app sends home metrics, it can be stopped with a software firewall. If you can't trust your operating system any more, it's a whole different ballpark.

Adware and spyware companies with their unwanted toolbars and what not got problems with the US law since 2004. Win10 is an adware and spyware per definition, see news article of this HN thread.
>Anyway, regarding Hitler, a more interesting answer (to me) is that I'm not convinced great art and the will to extinguish an entire people really exist in the same soul. We know Hitler to be a failed artist. I wonder if good art requires a sensitivity to the world that sociopaths simply do not possess.

This is somewhat different from what you were discussing, but it genuinely is interesting looking at his paintings. There is a penchant to read into them as coming from the mind of one of humanities worst, but I am intrigued by the fact that they are almost all paintings of architecture with some landscapes mixed in. Any human that is depicted is just happenstance. There is also the fact that Hitler's signature seems to be different in every painting that I have ever seen of his. Do these facts suggest the painter is a man that never identified with other people and constantly was in search of his own consistent identity? Who knows. But it is at least a worthy discussion.
Actions speak louder than words. I wouldn't hold my breath for the current EPA to do anything but roll back regulations.
No, I mean that there are at least a half a dozen different ways to express "if", and they all have specific semantic uses. It is way, way more complicated than syntax.
Thanks. Sorry for the confusion; I have a decent understanding of when pronouns can be dropped, but my question was moreso about when particles can be dropped. For instance, from the linked article, this sentence:

Tarō wa Noriko wo toshokan de mimashita.

In casual spoken Japanese, can any of these particles (wa, wo, de) be dropped?
Just a warning for anyone who doesn't know, efukt is as NSFW as NSFW can get.
Sorry if this is a super naive/dumb question, but why wouldn't I simply write a "build" script that copies files out of my dotfile repo to where they're supposed to go?
You're likely right, thanks for pointing that out.
It's too bad this article is criticised because of the place where it's published (typical logical fallacy), because Wikipedia accuracy has been going down the drain for a while. And I say that as an (inactive) Wikipedia admin.
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The order of the words and suffices is like in Turkish. One of my English teachers who has lived in Japan for a time (and she was a Turk) told us that it is very easy to learn Japanese because it follows the same word orders, and vica verse. On the other hand English is very hard becuese there is zero connection.
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I wonder why text editor preferences are so personal. I use the same editor and probably 90% of the same config as this guy and was nodding along until I saw he remapped B and E. Horrifying! Those are fundamental motions.
> fill them with non-sustainable population, preferably from warmer climates, where such structures are not even needed.

What does this mean?

>most governments prevent large-scale private housing projects already

Are you under the impression that large-scale private housing developments are gentrification? In general we should expect that large-scale increases in housing supply would lower rents and prevent gentrification.
As others have commented here, Japanese relies heavily on inference. Subjects and topics are very commonly dropped.

I shouldn't say that the language relies on inference. Rather, speakers of Japanese rely on inference. It's like chaining functions in some languages.

Car.rent().driveTo(work).park().driveTo(lunch).wash().

By the time you get to the washing in the conversation, the car is hard to find in the sentence, and the driver never does appear. But they are both there if you go looking.
This is awesome! I can imagine these kind of buyouts becoming really popular in the future. The usual process (detailed in the post) is awful and has to be disrupted.
I think it's kind of ironic that you mention how his charity isn't 100% altruistic, but then juxtapose it with "social safety nets" - by which, I assume, you mean tax-funded welfare, which is forced on people by government and has nothing altruistic about it on any level.
Paris Match was fully funded, also Dr. zhivago.
That's not​ how Wikipedia works. You are not a reliable source about yourself, be it social media, blogs, company websites.
I also became a software developer after getting a PhD in mathematics and specializing in three-dimensional topology.

One of the things I'm always struck by is how similar the process of writing code is to writing a math paper. There are similar issues of encapsulation and organization. Choosing the right abstractions and good names for things are both important. Definitions correspond to data structures; lemmas correspond to helper functions; theorems to higher-level functions; and sections to modules. You can also "refactor" a math paper in the same way you refactor code (e.g. renaming variables, choosing better names, etc).

What I've found missing in software relative to math is the creative / research part of math, since the math that comes up in software tends to be routine, easy stuff.
I like this and could use something like it, but you should use POSIX sh (/bin/sh) and not rely on Bash in the shebang as well as non-portable functionality it introduces.

This wouldn't work out of the box on FreeBSD.

I recommend this tool: https://www.shellcheck.net/
And yet, an undeniable cultural resource in this instance.
I have to call bullshit on that.

Regardless of what the wikipedia guidelines might say, it happened.
You can play old games for many years yes. But after a while it gets boring anyway.

Some of the 10-20 year old RTS games got released as HD-editions recently. But they are just the same old games. What is really needed are new games with new content. Not just lame cheap re-releases named "HD". The world needs new Triple-A RTS games, that are not clones of Star Craft 2. Star Craft 1, Age of Empires and Command and Conquer series were better games in many respect and this is what is missing today - non-causul non-F2P new RTS games with realistic scenarios like in C&C Generals and Age of Empires or Empire Earth series.
Note that the Einstein letter which kicked off the Manhattan Project wasn't sent until August 1940[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein%E2%80%93Szil%C3%A1rd_...
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This is pretty cool, I was not aware of this project, thanks for sharing.
And the TU-Graz Hyper-G system => Hyperwave, which was very popular in the early internet days. It preceded WWW and Netscape by a bit.
1) It's cumbersome, and you'll need to specially handle things like deleting files. I personally wouldn't be comfortable having a homebaked script rm stuff in my home directory.

2) By using copies instead of symlinks you'll need to run your script Everytime you make changes and be careful to edit only your clone instead of the target location.
generally, no
>It would be nice if Wikipedia let you vote on citations kind of like reddit.

I have to disagree. Facts don't depend on popularity nor are they subjected to a democratic vote. Either something is true or it isn't. Once you subject the presentation of corroborated facts to votes, you are establishing a system to manipulate what facts are presented based on how many votes you can mobilise (or fabricate) then your only accomplishment is the establishment of a system to censor away inconvenient facts that is rigged in favour of those who are able to pay the right PR company to shut down inconvenient facts.
I've played TF2 and CS:GO on Linux; although it's true many games aren't available on Linux.
Hope you don't mind me asking, but given how horrifying the hand injury sounds I thought I might inquire, what happened that broke your hand? The only thing I can think of that might result in an injury like that is maybe a severe cycling crash? Regardless hope you are doing well now!
I haven't denied the metrics. But please provide proof of it sending home non-anonymus data the kind you mentioned. Also, as I said, it should be possible to turn it off soon.
104 comments says that you're wrong. There is a many years long discussion about www vs non-www and this is a continuation of that. It served the purpose of sparking the conversation, that was its value.
Actual altruism is very rare. The level at which it exists in the United States is nowhere near sufficient to solve this country's homelessness problem. By all means, write inspiring news stories about pure generosity when it appears, but this is not one of those times. This is a man who looks at our collective unwillingness to help our most needy and sees a religious opportunity.

Some voters support safety nets out of a sense of altruism. Others do it for selfish reasons; they simply don't enjoy living next to homeless people. Still more - like myself - see housing as a fundamental human right we are not properly addressing. The motive by which people join this cause doesn't matter to me, as long as the result fulfills our citizens' basic needs and asks nothing in return from them. If a majority of the country agrees with me that poverty is a serious problem, then we'll all chip in to solve it.

I'm willing to do my bit - are you?
The copies get out of sync, if you edit ~/.vimrc instead of ~/projects/dotfiles/vimrc you will have a hard time keeping all of your systems in sync.

Replace copies with links and you are golden. Yeah, you can write a simple script to create those links for you, but Stow seems pretty full featured.
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Berlin goes through--I would say--a normal gentrification process. Before 2010 Berlin hadn't have any significant industry and just few jobs. Since then companies, jobs, everything is sky-rocketing and rents get obviously much more expensive. But Berlin is still far below London or Paris. I think we haven't even reached the level of Eastern European capitals price-wise, such as Warsaw.

But the actual problem is that the city is super slow in building skyscrapers and rather tries to avoid them 'because they aren't Berlin's DNA'. Skyscrapers offer a much higher density and now is the time to really plan for a couple of them. They are just two new small skyscrapers planned for the next 5-10 years. But it's a very tedious process: everybody is fighting with each other, the city wants guarantees that the real estate funds build and operate schools and other public facilities in those districts, the funds don't want of course. Then there is the subway operator BVG which is kind of blackmailing the funds: They say that the skyscrapers are so heavy and they need money to stabilize the subway tunnels underneath. BTW, they do this with every bigger real estate project (recently with a huge mall).

In general, the city's council has a very good feeling about how to plan and build the city, they are really good compared to other cities. Infrastructure is great and you have many small city centers while Berlin-Mitte where the government resides is the busiest and most expensive one (no surprise). They are just lacking one important skill and this is managing large scale projects. Just an example: our new airport which was planned to open 2010 hasn't been opened yet. The new airport seems to be ready but doesn't get the approvals and it seems that it will never get the approvals and has to be shut down again (news from last week). Germany's general overregulation might also play in here. The city currently operates just two small airports.

However, they really need to plan proper skyscraper districts which seamlessly integrate with the rest of the city, complement Berlin's DNA and which should have also a good mix of business, leisure and living. So you don't face dead districts at night. The Potsdamer Platz which was created 20 years ago is an ok place which pairs all of those + two tiny skyscrapers.
> The behaviour of the system still resembles a single node database, this is alluded to intermittently throughout.

The impression that I get from reading the paper is that this is only true as long as the interaction involves only a single master. Or at the very least, situations where the working set has to be sharded among multiple masters are not described in any detail.
Thanks for pointing out the typo. I'll fix that.

Yep! We are open to remotes that distant. In fact, we have an engineer working with us from Malaysia.
Yes. It is overstating Japanese regularity a very little bit.

And understating the irregularity of English an enormous amount.
On servers, an UI is just a waste of resources, and doesn't allow you to configure the server automatically (with tools such as ansible).
Can I borrow your crystal ball?
Pretty remarkable how bad the writing is in this article.
In a vibrant economy, jobs move to where there are workers. That is the reason so many factories were built out of the major cities in the first place.

Trump is right to identify insufficient aggregate demand as the cause of unemployment in the midwest and underemployment pretty much everywhere. The culprit is much more China than Mexico. If the administration can significantly reduce the trade deficit it will have very positive effects on US employment and income.
Why would the Green Party go for a no sustainable solution and destroying environments ?

Gentrification is an European issue as well. Amsterdam, Barcelona.. you can find many examples of locals getting priced out.

Kreuzberg is one of the most "multicultural" parts of Berlin and currently also one of the hippest.
But what you pay for, you can't keep. So you are back to square one. And who said you are supposed to pay scraps for good music?
Why are you surprised Hyper-V hasn't been exploited? Did it happen in the past?

And this is VMware Workstation, not ESXi; which many people on this thread seem to be confusing.