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I think that there is difference - there is nothing natural about things like notations, axiomatic system or concrete theories. They have been developed for hundreds of years and have to be learned. Kid will not invent them intuitively (unlike colors matching). As you are learning math, you oftentimes you don't understand for long and then something clicks and suddenly you get it. Mathematicien coming to new theory oftentimes needs a lot of time to go through just one page of article.

I am not denying that talent exist, but it just makes learning harder or easier and defines plateau. Through, if you was good in geometry, then your brain works well enough in math (meaning some click on algebra did not happened but you are unlikely to be unable to think that way - thinking is not that dissimilar).
> It's a huge problem, it applies to physics textbooks too, and it doesn't have to be this way.

I've noticed this too. I've tried to learn some quantum physics for fun, and it seems to me that most textbooks have surprisingly little description of the actual physical experiments behind the physics. Maybe this is something they usually cover more in lectures?

Like, I haven't found much details about the actual physical experiments around the spin of electrons (and certainly not of other particles). Sometimes there's an abstract description of a basic experimental setup.

I read just a few days ago that Feynman would redo old experiments that other physicist weren't doing anymore because they were established science. This is a great learning experience if you have access to the equipment, but most people don't. There should be books that describe how physics was developed, experiment by experiment, with lots of details.
I don't think that the overlap between Trump voters and West Wing fans is likely to be all that large, but I take your point.

I don't agree with it, though. Trump voters by and large voted for him because they wanted done what he said he would do, and he successfully enough presented himself as the kind of socially liberal, but America-first fiscally conservative, candidate that a lot of people have wanted to see for a very long time.

Whether he'll actually do any of the things he claimed he would is a different question, of course, as is whether he - or anyone - can. But I don't think it takes an effort of hermeneutics to understand why people wanted to give him the job, when their stated reasons have been so clearly on display.
... says the Redux article.
The translation part is not that complex, you're basically just introducing an extra coordinate 'w' which is always 1, so you can write x -> x + w, which is linear, rather than x -> x + 1, which is not.

Things start to get weird when you note that this works even when w isn't 1. If you then decide that e.g. (x,y,w) and (x/w, y/w, 1) should be the same point, you can do some rather interesting things. Although, if you identify (x:y:w) with all the points on the line (lx:ly:lw) (for any l) then suddenly (x/w, y/w, 1) is just the point where this intersects the plane w=1, which isn't too hard to visualize. And if you think about it this also kind of explains why this coordinate system can be used to project a 3D scene onto a 2D surface with correct perspective.
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The hospital really needs to move the patients out immediately if the local military starts military operations from within hospital (which is basically a war crime).

Then, if the commanders force patients to stay by threat of violence to stay as human shields, that's a further war crime. The responsibility of casualties here is more with those using patients like this, than anyone else.
My aunt's nursing home equips the nurses and aides with iPads. It seems like a great use case, and I see a lot of usage.
> what he liked best about Differential Equations is that you don't have to say how you found the answer. You just state the answer and verify it satisfies the equation.

Man, that is kind of magical from a productivity prospective.* The vast majority of my time is spent explaining why the answer I give is sensible and reasonable.

*The small cost of this approach is that all insight that led to him finding the solution will die with him.
You too are missing the point. The same people who didn't upgrade from 10.04 would probably also not take advantage of the Microsofts offer to upgrade to win10 free of charge, because <reasons>.

I am so happy that win10 patches are mandatory despite all the whining. In fact, I want them to take it one step further and adopt the ChromeOS update model.
It is interesting that you and him describe essentially the same mechanism with different words. I would personally call it dumping.

In effect, Uber is selling something at a lower cost than it buys, in order to acquire the market.
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Apparently the impacted XP and 2003 machines were accessing the same disk servers as the patient record systems. Thus an infected CAT scanner controller (or whatever) was able to destroy the patient records.

That doesn't tell a story of missing money or maintenance contracts. It tells of poor or even irresponsible and incompetent deployment procedures.

You shouldn't allow your CAT scanner to write over your patient records at a server. You shouldn't even have them in the same network segment.
I was on a internal Slack call with team the other day, I ended up having to restart to Windows to do a screenshare and switch to Skype.

I ended up having to delay my working day by about 45 minutes while Windows decided to do a mandatory update without any granularity of choice on when is convenient for me. That's what is frustrating. I ended up being unproductive for a whole hour because Windows forced an update on me.

Windows definitely have to make it better as Troy suggests. The frequency is also costly.
Well, this would be so much easier if:

1) Windows update installed just security updates instead of potentially disruptive crap "features". The epitome of that, is of course forced update to Windows 10. Ads in Explorer is a close second. This would reduce the frequency of updates significantly as well, which would also help.

2) Windows update would use a sane default of not rebooting you while you are in the middle of something.

There's a setting that you can do where windows installs update in the background, with no user intervention, but IFF it doesn't require a reboot, and asks otherwise. But this setting requires Group Policy (or being part of a domain), so it's not available to non-Pro Windows customers (and it's a very esoteric option users won't know about anyway).

You can also reduce the frequency of updates with "install updates for windows only", but you can't really restrict yourself to only security updates (unless you run Windows 10 Enterprise LTSB edition, which you don't).

Actually the best thing for Windows, both usability and security wise would be to make Windows 10 Enterprise LTSB edition the version of Windows people use.
I love the way he's compared the people who tell you to turn off auto-updates with anti-vaxxers; it's quite an apt analogy.

Microsoft shares part of the blame here for pushing features that the user clearly doesn't want through updates (especially to the major OS version). Look at the recent ads in Windows file explorer for one example. A lot of the advice to turn Windows Update off is a misguided response to Microsoft's own bone-headed moves in recent years to install bullshit that the user doesn't want.

I still sort of regret installing Windows 10 to this day because of the obnoxious Cortana bar it foisted upon my start menu that I can't get rid of. And yet not installing Windows 10 would've left me less secure with an OS hitting EOL for security updates much sooner.

Microsoft definitely shares some of the blame for this precisely because they have automatically "opted in" their users to stuff they don't want during past updates. Stop the bullshit, Microsoft.
It would be easier to sell automated Windows updates if Microsoft wouldn't use them to randomly shove a whole new OS down your throat.

Oh, and if Microsoft actually had a QA department to make sure they don't brick machines.
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Agreed, I usually try to keep my eyes open to fool myself that I'm not sleepy. My face is probably limp though.

From what I've seen from recent neural nets I believe it's possible to detect the pre-sleep phase given a training set of faces prior to dozing.

Seems like that would be a hard data set to come by though.
People severely underestimate how much detail is going into science.

If you read a 1000 page textbook on experimental physics, thats just the cliffnotes. The very highest level "here are the results of 400 years of serious research". There can't be any detail.

If you want the details on the stern gerlach experiment, for example, read the research papers. They will contain all the detail necessary to reproduce the experiment.

Lectures are just like those books. They just teach a very broad overview of what has been discovered.

The books you think should exist do exist. They're just not written for casuals.
To be fair though, Palm OS' handwriting recognition Graffiti was very very efficient and convenient. I still miss it when using my iphone.
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My email address has also been part of multiple breaches. But I have changed my passwords quick enough that I am sure my email was not used to spam in this instance. The author's hypothesis would be stronger only if the breaches are fairly recent. Anything > a few months ago is likely not compromised anymore. Also, we need to know the same number for the most popular repeated pro-NN comment.

Edit: apparently the RCM breach occurred quite recently. So I guess there is some legitimacy to the hypothesis. I would still like to see the same number for the pro-NN repeated comments too.
I spent the weekend doing a clean reinstall of windows 10, because windows update had stopped working about a year ago (due to a broken windows insider build). I must admit it was really nice to be able to leave my computer on for months at a time without it restarting for updates.

Few people really mind updates. What Microsoft really needs to do is minimize the number of forced restarts required, like Linux which only really needs a reboot if you update the kernel itself (and even then, there are ways around that).
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SOL except that the arms can be rendered useless with a simple update in defenses.
I've noticed that there is a certain level of competency a person can attain in a subject where they think they have an advanced knowledge and hand out advice with a certain authority.

But in reality they are spreading dangerous misinformed information.

Windows's auto updates though can be annoying, ensures that the average computer is up to date. Like in the example of this article:

"If you had any version of Windows since Vista running the default Windows Update, you would have had the critical Microsoft Security Bulletin known as "MS17-010" pushed down to your PC and automatically installed. Without doing a thing, when WannaCry came along almost 2 months later"

The average user cares that their holiday photos, documents or credentials don't get stolen or ransomed.
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The article points out that you can set hours when Windows will update.
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This is a little misleading. The cost of the attack to businesses, governments etc is vastly greater than the laughable amount of money actually raised by the criminals.

A doctor who needs to look at an X-ray and comes up against WC is not going to pay up on her credit card. She will call the IT department to 'fix the broken computer'. But she still won't be able to look at the damn X-ray.
And the reason why people were suggesting to turn off Windows Update was precisely because of malware payloads directly from Microsoft.

"Do you want to upgrade to Windows 10? Press the hidden button to cancel, otherwise upgrade commences." This is how malware works.... But published and pushed by MS's own channels. And his jab at people who say that turning off WU is similar to anti-vaxxers is completely inane and false - we know the damage Microsoft has done to user's computers.

In reality, I'd rather they upgrade to Linux. Those machines wouldn't get bit by this, unless you run the executable with WINE. But I blame MS for being spammy and spyware-y and malware-y, which encouraged users to turn off harassing and onerous updates.
> we chose to keep it unpatched

Are you saying that the choice was made my the NSA whole failed to report it, or suggesting that Microsoft colluded in keeping a known exploit open?
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I don't understand why the iPad doesn't support a mouse - it really limits it as a word processing tool - touch while having the iPad with a keyboard is sub optimal
Technically you don't have to tip at e restaurant either (large parties excluded). Try going back there and see the service you get.

Lyft should show the total of tips every 20 trips or so they had no chance of guessing who tipped and who didn't. Or openly state that a 15% tip would be appreciated and the passenger knows that it's the ride +15%.
> Where would this be needed?

AMD uses ARM for power management inside the chip.
I had read it fully, I didn't come away understanding what it was exactly or how I go about using whatever it is though. I realise now that it's Microsofts answer to material design.
The miles aren't equal, though. Waymo's cars have an amazing array of sensors on them, including 360 degree LiDAR, which Teslas don't have.
Also, in an entity large enough, you may find that your incentives clash all the time as different parts of the organization have different views of what constitutes success; one department may put the organizational equivalent of barbed wire and minefields in your path, while another department, blissfully ignorant of said minefields, order you to charge ahead.

So, what do you do?

a) Throw up your hands in despair and do nothing, annoying whoever asked you to wade through barbed wire only to find the minefield.

b) Get down to it, step on a few mines after getting cut to shreds on the barbed wire, annoying the people who placed the mines as well as the ones who asked you to charge ahead (which are, by now, annoyed that you didn't complete the task on schedule.)

c) Try to point to the inconsistencies of The System and ask for clarification and advice. Annoy both the people who put down the mines (who fail to see why anyone wouldn't want a mine field there, it's not like they put them down for fun!) and the people who simply want you to do your job (noting that you complain that the sappers keep you from doing it well, rather than just getting down to it.)

d) Quit.
You can remove the Cortana bar.
I don't know why people complain about updates and restarting, particularly in this thread. You fill your car up with fuel regularly because it has been warning you it's nearly empty for a while much like updates remind you regularly. People seem to complain and say "it updated right when I was in the middle of X" but they've been putting it off for ages. Do you break down in the middle of the motorway when you run out of fuel too?

Windows only updates when you're doing something because you're putting everyone else at risk by not running the damn things in and you've had plenty of notice.
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I would like to keep my Windows Update on, but I just can't afford it. Data bundles are too expensive where I live. I can buy a week's worth of groceries with the amount I spend buying just 2GB data bundle. Not everyone lives in a country with cheap data bundles.
Except it could be a simple update after substantial damage has been done.
You can attach an USB Ethernet Network Card using USB On-The-Go. Then if you have a rooted OS you can run whatever you want or you can create an app instead.

You probably want an OTG cable that allows you to charge it while using the network card.
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Where are the GPIO breakouts on the 1001PX?
The main point is that Amazon's advantage is exposing divisions to external competition. Without it "internal supplier gets complacent with a captive, internal customer."

However later paragraph says:

> The key advantage that Amazon has over any other enterprise service provider – from UPS and FedEx to Rackspace – is that they are forced to use their own services. UPS is a step removed from backlash due to lost/destroyed packages, shipping delays, terrible software, and poor holiday capacity planning. Angry customers blame the retailer, and the retailer screams at UPS in turn. When Amazon is the service provider, they’re permanently dogfooding. There is nowhere for poor performance to hide.

Doesn't it contradict earlier point?
No, most people turned it off because they didn't want updates interrupting them. You are vastly overestimating who cares about "MS malware".
It would require a legislative solution to end tipping. Until that happens, most restaurants pay their servers $2.13 an hour, with the rest of their pay coming from tips. If you don't tip at a restaurant that does make you a jerk. I don't like tipping culture either, but as long as you live in one, you've just gotta play along with it. Think of tips as an added tax on the price, and go out less if necessary to keep your costs under control.
I don't feel it's quite an apt analogy, since anti-vaxxers have fully imaginary fears of adverse consequences (vaccines causing autism), while people who disable windows update do it after suffering real adverse consequences of forced updates. A good firewall would protect from WanaCrypt and everything else distributed via opening SMB ports on random IPs over the internet (correct me if I'm wrong), so you should be safe even if you've disabled Windows Update for a legitimate reason. A legitimate reason like "this Windows runs on a medical/factory/etc. device that CANNOT go offline to install updates willy-nilly".
I hope your car doesn't stop randomly against your will so it can get a refill.
Depends on how you define average. I work on a software team that's about twice as productive as any other team our size that I've previously encountered, regardless of skill. But the technical abilities of everyone on the team (with one possible exception out of ten) fall well within the fat part of the Gaussian distribution. We're all "average" technically.

But I wouldn't call anyone here "average". We excel as a team because everyone's "soft" skills are well above average. Self management, in particular. But also pride in one's work. Ability to collaborate effectively. Willingness to learn from one another. Lack of ego. Interest in solving business problems rather than "sexy" technical problems. Empathy.

We're building what's 95% a CRUD app anyway, though with some additional complexity to handle scale. Engineers with top 10% technical skills would be bored out of their skulls here. But if we hired "average" engineers without those exceptional "soft" skills we'd be accomplishing less than half as much as we do now.
Could it be for remote launching and intercepting of military satellites?
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You can use that to your advantage and detect when the TV is powered on/off, via a GPIO pin from the USB power of the TV.
What if Microsoft instead fixed the need to restart for almost every update?
It's an interesting problem.
Live updates without requiring a restart is going to be a complex task, how do you reload a library in use by a program without crashing it? Especially when Windows has a decade+ of software compatibility.

Their current solution is scheduling updates to periods when the computer is not in use. I think recently they added an option for you to define a set of hours where updates take place.

But the problem with this is that people don't treat Windows PCs like always-on devices like they treat mobile phones and tablets. So in those night hours the computer is off forcing daytime updates.
Psychologists David Dunning and Justin Kruger made a similar observation.
I've the 2012 mbp retina and the 2014 ipad air 2 and neither actually needs a replacement, they do everything they did when they came out and still support all the use cases without their outdated performances being in the way, including video editing on the mbp (gf's a vlogger)

we're also stretching out their lifespan because today's equivalent offer arguably the same or worse overall experience at a higher price point, so there's that as well.
It does if I put off getting that refill for long enough.
Most people don't get any Windows education. They use it at home for years, write on their resume, they know Windows and the Office Suite and say this is their advanced knowledge.

On the other hand, this is how I started programming when I was 15 :D

But well, I didn't write it in my resume till I finished my CS degree.
Microsoft is to be fully blamed here. They brought it on themselves, pissing off anyone with a bit of a brain by turning their OSes into suspected spyware, forcing W7/W8.x users to turn off updates, allowing funny leaked tools wreaking havoc everywhere.

Author here blames people that took prudent actions to preserve their autonomy, while MS was holding them hostage by bundling security updates with unwanted monitoring. Many of them switched to Linux/BSD and are using Windows minimally as a consequence.
If you don't refuel it, then yes, it will stop.
Not all hacks are low quality/throw away code, some even survive their products. I recently implemented email processing as separate Python processes that are remote-controlled via stdin/out; definitely a hack, but at the same time it works pretty well and allows me to keep moving while Golang's email libraries sort themselves out. Striving for perferction is fine; pretending to be perfect, not so much.

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>Who created your rules of socialism?

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

>As far as Venezuela is concerned, the current government do see themselves as socialist (the Bolivarian revolution).

As I said, just because his name is Angus and he calls himself a Scotsman, it does not make him so. The DPRK calls itself democratic, too. Are we to hold it as the exemplar democracy, and claim that democracy is such a failure?
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Not yet. Only when you run out of gas. However in a few years, are people going to get pissed off when their Tesla has enough of their shit and drives itself to a charging point because the owner is too incompetent to heed the warnings?
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This is exactly my situation. Worse, ever used a wifi network slowed to a crawl by different laptops updating windows?

I once had to turn off updates on all laptops in my workplace so we could use the internet. (They thought the network was under a virus attack)