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at the time Z80 was popular ('87 ish) there were few/no tools outside of Hisoft Devpac (http://www.secarica.ro/images/zx/genp351.gif) neither was there any internet / forums etc. to learn how others were solving things - like that bit rotation example

when I found out people were moving the stack pointer register to the screen memory base address and using stack pushes (instead of mov) to move data - to save a clock cycle or two each byte move - it blew my mind - hacks like that would be common knowledge in minutes now
Yes.

TU Munich, TU Aachen and others are in no way worse than the US Universities. Degrees are respected internationally​.

Learn German, though. For master's courses you will find English classes at every University, but bachelor's not. At least not on TU Munich, as far as I know.
The amount of money being pumped into the economy by the federal reserve has done things like supercharge housing prices, because nobody can find a safe place to dump their new money, it all goes into real estate.

This jacks up the price of housing for the middle class and poor to a ridiculous degree, to the point that in many markets over 75% (!) of post tax income is being spent on housing.

I suspect this is the real reason we aren't seeing inflation from so much money being poured into the economy, all the money of the "have nots" is being sucked away by insane real estate costs, thus the prices of goods that are traditionally tracked by inflation indicators are unable to rise.

This is what is meant by the erosive power of monetary policy, in a very real way it is destroying the wealth of everybody but the 1%, because they cant do anything but pour an increasing large share of their earnings into housing costs (which continue to escalate).
> the trouble with this is that we need massive infrastucture work

Sure. :)

But there are two options. Small steps in the right direction (need a lot of work), or revolution (needs even more work).

> I think that if we were to limit all governments to city-state like beings, economical macro-structures that will be more powerful than those states would form in no time.

Ok. In some cases these structures maybe beneficient, even started on behalf of the small-scale super autonomous self-governments. If not those small-scale govts can just ban (or not give them money anymore) them; they are autonomous.

> Also, as today the term worker has so less to do with the worker of the past two centuries

True in the west. Workers here are now "priviledged workers", our economies in the west in need of cheap labor in other places. There the "worker" still exists in its classical form. Here we have a new form, but if you look closely you still see many. To me it is simple, I see capitalists (defined as never "have to" work to survive a fancy life time), and non-capitalists (used to have been referred to as "workers").

> Many utopias are possible, but at the end of the day, if it's not utopia everywhere, it's utopia nowhere.

That raises the bar very high. I look more at it as a one village/neighbourhood at the time kind of thing.

Do you know "I pencil" from Corbett? He's an agorist I believe, dunno. I'm more towards mutualism/anarchism/market-socialism; as I think private property should have limits (otherwise those ideologies are quite similar).
Couldn't this whole thread be avoided if they had said, "and you tell them not to stand by walls". Or even, "not to literally stand by walls" - both work in this case! :-)
I'm pretty disappointed by some of the comments here. Because Turks voted him in that makes Erdogan's autocratic rule OK? There is no free press, hundreds of thousands that have had any association with opposition groups have been jailed, the referendum vote has been widely discredited as fraudulent. Hitler was voted into office too, I guess that just ended up being the German's problem? Democracy doesn't die without a majority of the population allowing it to, that doesn't make it right and that doesn't excuse some of the blase attitude I see here. You know you can care about something without wanting to go to war over it.
In this subject: https://gist.github.com/stared/98599fc53959b77ac6769de07e759...
(from A Mind-Body Look at the Concept of Asperger's Syndrome by Michael Samsel, LMHC)
Would this really be considered a mental illness? You can experience gender in many ways whilst remaining in good mental health. Gender identity is not always mapped directly to biological sex. It is much, much more than something you "feel like".
The best form of "where are you from?" is "Are you from [this city we're now in]?"

If they are, and you are, hey, you're both natives! Where did you go to high school?

If they aren't, and you are, hey, what do you like about it? How long have you been here? What brought you here?

If they are, and you aren't, hey, you're a native, I moved here x years ago, do you know restaurant X? It's my favorite.

If they aren't, and you aren't, mix and match, any of the above.
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There was this time my daughter and I were having a conversation that descended into sarcasm to the point where we no longer could tell if the other was still being sarcastic.

My daugther ended it with: "I'm afraid we're caught in a sarcasm trap."

I'd be worried two sarcasm bots would end up similarly entangled.
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That's assuming the vehicle already has a screen to show the video on.
* Many of them identify with their (parents' or grandparents') conservative countryside roots.
* A community so much oriented towards Turkey consumes a lot of Turkish (the country) and Turkish (the language) media.
* Turkish country media are in Erdogan's pocket. There is not even a semblance of free press anymore in Turkey.
* Turkish language media in the EU with an editorial line not pro-Erdogan have been threatened in every possible way, either directly from Turkey or indirectly. Many have ceased to exist. The best example: Zaman in .be and .nl.
* Kurdish language media have always been under threat from the Turkish authorities.
* The Turkish government has directly ordered the network of Turkish mosques ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidency_of_Religious_Affair... ) abroad to create lists of Gülen supporters. Evidence of these practices has led to a diplomatic incident with at least Belgium.
* You may also want to read about media repression inside Turkey like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Today's_Zaman . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%BClen_movement#2013_corru... .
The original post started "He says he attributes...". The author's profile suggests they would prefer "They say they attribute...".
Higher education attainment isn't uniform and is thus unlikely to be a particularly large factor in uniformity.

https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publicatio...

(even among young people less than half the population has an associates degree or more)
This search tool of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) might help you find a suitable program: https://www.daad.de/deutschland/studienangebote/internationa...
How High for Hint? (2016)
Netherlands might be worth looking at. TU Delft has a very good reputation and links with Shell. Also Dutch is easier to learn than German, so they say, and everyone speaks English in NL anyway! Also I seem to recall hearing that they were considering switching over to teaching completely in English for some courses.
Most of these rankings do not directly measure quality of instruction (because that would be difficult), and rely on proxies instead.

E.g. https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankin... shows that 33% of the ranking are determined by reputation, which gives universities in English speaking countries an advantage by way of availability.
Wouldn't a stance be to use the argument above to support a set of (in)actions?

The argument by itself is not moot, and the writer did not explicitly support an agenda.
The 'how are you doing' you always seem to get from total strangers always baffles me when I visit that country. Whats, worse, it's not a real question, but just a protocol that demands the "I'm fine, thank you" type of answer in all cases. Neither party gets anything out of it, and instead of being some sort of prelude/preamble it's just something on it's own with no use whatsoever.
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Yeah, but I don't think that anything of value is said by people who incite racial hatred or use Nazi symbols...

Denial of crimes against humanity, though, I see as a big mistake. I know, I know, we've all beaten the Holocaust to death... But when it comes to anti-capitalist and anti-comunist thinkers there is a great deal to talk about.

For example, anti-communists will tell you that Mao commit genocide during the great leap forward. Reasonable people disagree.

I, as an anti-capitalist, will tell you, that the quality of food sold in primarily black neighborhoods in the US is much lower than elsewhere in the country, that millions of blacks die as a result, and that this is an act of genocide against blacks. Obviously, a lot of white Americans would disagrees with me, and I think it would not be a good thing if they all went to jail for doing so...
I watched this last night. His stuff is awesome. This is basically a low-fi trip hammer powered by water for smashing grain.
And Java just added to the problem.

For PR reasons, they didn't want to have "pointers" (arithmetic, etc. ew). So Java has "references".

But what happens when you call a method on a null reference? Not NullReferenceException, but NullPointerException.
He's making a joke you ape
I only ever use Paypal as a wrapper around credit card transactions for merchants I trust enough to purchase from, but not necessarily enough to handle my credit card information directly. I can't say I've ever had a problem using them that way.
At least Aachen (haven't been to the others recently) I wouldn't count as "less attractive to live in", unless your idea of attractive requires "is a large city" (and some are not that far away, and students get "free" train tickets there)
I worked for 1 year in a beauty factory in Brazil. It is a really nice place, well mantained gardens, lakes full of koi fishes...
Agreed. Not all universities will be like this bad. But I think to some degree it will happen everywhere. Complaining is something I also always suggested, but now that I've experienced real life outside school/university for some time I'm not sure about that any more. For instance, you have a lot of rights here, but I found in my own experience that you only have the rights you know you have and you know how to enforce. In another country I know less about my rights and how to enforce them.

Also you often don't know how much different people profit from the current situation as it is. For instance, if the president would directly profit from the ridiculously high rents of the foreign students all he would care about is keeping the situation quiet. A complaint may yield absolutely nothing or worse.
I found the original article that the CBC writer based this story on more interesting and entertaining. I submitted it on HN a couple days ago: http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/health/sd-me-bacter...
I read Russian, French, and English language news from as many sources as I can find to try and get a relatively good idea of what actually happens in the world, and if you want to call out bias, try nbc before you talk about rt. Rt's reporting is closer to the reality almost every time and they much less commonly bury stories unfavourable to a certain united States party specifically.
I have a Golden Ticket if you'd like it.
I've had a lot of problems with Stack whenever I'm doing non-trivial (that is, beyond just "build this executable the standard way") kinds of tasks—in particular, it tends to corrupt its package DB after a while for mysterious reasons, and you have to blow it away and rebuild, and it can be a nightmare to do certain bits of configuration where the UI is undocumented or nonexistant—but it's a pretty big step up from historical Cabal.

There's also an already-working-but-still-not-quite-finished alternative system within Cabal which is eventually gonna become the default one, and which does builds in a Nix-inspired way. I've been using that for the better part of a year now, and I like it far better than either historical Cabal or Stack: http://blog.ezyang.com/2016/05/announcing-cabal-new-build-ni...
As part of the original JSR-277 expert group I am hugely disappointed they didn't actually solve the problems that I'd like to see solved. Distribution, versioning, repository and runtime loading. Instead they solved the non-problem of access control. Really frustrating and totally useless. Read the early draft of JSR-277 to see what it should have looked like:

https://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/edr/jsr277/index....
They don't mention the warranty on the replacement battery, which is what my friend discovered isn't so great.
One of the properties of artificial intelligence is that in the rear view mirror it is always unimpressive "standard programming practice." Searle's Chinese Room [1] probably describes the problem well enough -- once people are familiar with the mechanism that solved a difficult problem for humans, the machine around the mechanism no longer seems intelligent.

In the early days of artificial intelligence, the general problem solver's unguided search of an exponential solution space was cutting edge (and GPS was non-exhaustive despite searching a combinatorial explosion of potential solutions). A decade the A* algorithm [2] that's in beginning game tutorials was cutting edge research and today, Eliza's pattern matching against natural language powers the 'bot revolution'.

I suspect that in a few years people will say "That's a convolutional neural network, not AI."

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A*_search_algorithm
Yes, i read it.

Most of the things listed there can be gotten from userspace (through cpu instructions/registers, procfs, sysfs).

Do you know which one of those things can not be gotten in userspace ? Turbo boost state ? Topology ?
True, but in some areas and under many circumstances, 17 can be considered an adult. It's not like the OP was 12 and trying to circumvent COPPA or something like that.

It seems like PayPal went bananas applying a peculiar policy. They want to be a bank, but you can be 12 and still have a bank account.

Perhaps PayPal should/could just ask the OP to get a signed permission slip from the parents to cover this. :-)
Love Nautilus, it's a shame they aren't doing well. Wonder what their subscriber count is.
> My biggest complaint is that javac is unaware of the claspath restrictions.

Do you mean that when you compile with javac you see non-exported packages?

> integration with maven was a pain

Were you using Tycho? Were you running in "manifest first" mode and were the issues related to resolving bundles?

> There are other issues with many of the tools.

Can you be more specific?
I agree, expressing non-authentic feelings is so common we even have figurative expressions to describe it, e.g. to "put on a brave face" or "grin and bear it".

On the other hand, it seems that autistics have the unpleasant pressure of doing this in almost every social interaction.
This post is slightly surlrising to me, although I don't doubt that many people feel like they need to behave that way to be accepted / loved. However, an authentic only response exposes your true feelings and opinions about something, and I feel like most of the time, you should be able to generate a decently socially respectful and well attuned response without misrepresenting yourself, even if it takes a slight bit of effort or risk feeling rejected
Wow. I live within the USA snowbelt, but studded tires are pretty uncommon outside remote undeveloped areas and mountainous areas. Studless (or unstudded, studdable) winter tires are very common in the winter. Poor or clueless people or those who don't drive much will use all-season year-round. Studded (and obviously even winter) tires are very much a regional thing, but studded tires do very much eat the roads and are regulated or banned on many roads.

We do use a lot of salt. I don't think rock salt is much of an environmental concern. It can kill plants by the roadside until it's flushed out of the soil, but the roadside is already a degraded environment for flora. Normal rock salt is a natural material.

What's worse is that some towns will use raw "frack juice" as we call it for deicing roads. This is a mixture of water, salt, and chemicals that spits out of gas wells in the hydrofracking process. Often they'll just remove some of the water to concentrate a brine and apply it to roads as well. There is unbelievably little oversight, it's done on a local level, the chemicals are considered an industry trade secret and god knows what they're spreading around in those communities that allow this to happen.
If you're shopping for a hybrid or EV, talk to the service manager and ask what the policy is. It's possible Honda may have changed it since then.
OK, I was unprepared for that level of cluelessness. Maybe take a few seconds to look it up before spreading misinformation? I mean, not to be harsh, but I don't see how it's in any way believable that the total electric plus gas range of a Volt could be as low as 30 miles.

For the record, total range for the Volt is officially 420 miles. Chop the electric range in half and it would be about 400 miles. Chop both in half (range on gas won't be nearly as badly affected in the cold) and it's still 210 miles.
A case of only so many words in the English language. Easy to fix if we distinguish hardware fast path from the software variant.

Software fast paths are worth looking into since context switches are costly to the tune of thousands of CPU cycles [0,1]. Those thousands of CPU instructions going up in smoke could've done quite a lot of useful work.

[0] http://blog.tsunanet.net/2010/11/how-long-does-it-take-to-ma...

[1] https://gist.github.com/nelsnelson/3955759
Thank you for making the startup world great!
Edit: After responding to some other comments I have to rewrite this. True, if you never heard anything about corruption in your university it may percentagewise be much better than mine. My reaction towards HU (assuming Berlin, no idea if there are other HUs out there) however is stiff, since I also know about some corruption there. It's not the same level though and a totally different department.

---- old comment

"I haven't seen foreigners getting treated any different." HU is not the smallest university. Mine was much smaller, but still I didn't know until I worked directly in that area.

I don't want to mention the name of the university.
> "if anything is mentioned in those books they fall over themselves to mention them."

As a Pandit whose education in Sanskrit was strictly on classical lines I definitely get a "Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right" feeling in Indian cultural arguments.

> I find Vedas/Upanishads to be more foundational while others might consider the much younger Gita...

By much younger you are still talking about about atleast 2000 years even by the most conservative estimates. But anyway, I wouldn't consider any of those as foundational outside of specialists such as myself. For the man in the street, insofar as any books could make that claim, it would be the Puranas, Mahabharata, and Ramayana that guide him. Even as a Brahmana most of my activities are Puranic and Tantric. Vedic maybe 25%.

> I am saying that there is nothing in the religion that sanctions it.

Now we are back to defining what "the religion" is. Obviously there are a good number of people (including myself) who think it does prohibit it.

> I think oral and written tradition are the more appropriate tool

Again the problem is whose traditions and how are they recorded/interpreted. As a counter we can point out that Muslims considered throwing the corpse of a cow into a mandir a particularly good way of desecrating it. The Sikh Gurus considered cow protection a justification for rebelling against the Mughals. The sepoys rebelled against the British because of suspicions that beef fat was greasing their bullets. How much weight to give to each example? Archaeological objects are less susceptible to ideological manipulation.
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Thats a little different. That is money, and rarely generates miracle cure stories. This is more of the medical club where doctors and nurses rapidly recieve treatments not availible to outsiders at any price. Im reminded of a heroic effort to save a single local house from a forest fire, water bombers and everything for an empty property in the woods. It was an ex-firechief's vacation/retirement home. Some special treatment cannot be bought.
What are the programming mistakes most inexperienced programmers make?
In general, getting into a german university is easy with good grades and still possible otherwise. It varies a lot between universities and subjects though.

Bachelor level is usually in german. Master level can be done in english but much is in german, too. Without knowing the german language you will have a hard time. If you know the basics in advance and take a language course here, you should be fine.

Accredited in the US? I don't really know. We have a student exchange program with the CMU and that works well. For job hunting it is probably MIT/Stanford/Harvard XOR the rest.

(I am working in the computer science department at the german university KIT, which is one of the best for computer science along with TUM, Saarland and RWTH)
I always thought that austic people had an abundance of empathy but dealing with that is very hard.
An enjoyable read that touches on a number of interesting ideas, though the central argument about the 'algorithmic mind' seemed strained to me.

My understanding of the thesis is: a kind of evil often emerges unintentionally when humans habitually act without thinking (to be more specific, he's referring to Arendt's notion of "the banality of evil"). By over-practicing 'algorithmic thinking' we develop a tendency to consider all thought to be of the problem solving kind, missing out on the more important aspects of 'the life of the mind' ("thinking, willing, and judging").

I just can't really see that over exposure to problem solving would reduce, thinking, willing, or judging... The only justification given here is through an analogy the author gives, asking whether using Google can be considered 'outsourcing' human memory. He says:

> "A moments reflection, of course, will reveal that human remembering involves considerably more than the mere retrieval of discreet bits of data."

So by only using algorithmic thinking, we are collapsing the potentially much richer range of thought to something analogous to "the mere retrieval of discreet bits of data" for memory—more specifically, it's collapsed to mere problem solving. Seems weak to me.

At the same time, I thought this part was nice, if not exactly systematically in support of the other things he was saying...

> "I am circumspectly suggesting that the habits of the algorithmic mind are not altogether unlike the habits of the bureaucratic mind. (Adam Elkus makes a similar correlation here, but I think I’m aiming at a slightly different target.) Both are characterized by an unthinking automaticity, a narrowness of focus, and a refusal of responsibility that yields the superficiality or hollowness Conrad, Eliot, and Arendt all seem to be describing, each in their own way. And this superficiality or hollowness is too easily filled with mischief and cruelty."
I'd also say the comment is being downvoted for mentioning rational, on-topic facts as "political slant".