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> Thank God the guys who write the kernel never thought about this :-)

Sorry, I tried, but can't see what you're arguing here, since the discussion was about user space, not the kernel.

> They rarely dump beta-quality code for the community to test and document

Huh, Microsoft has a loong history of updates breaking things, (even permanently) and they recently fired practically all their testers to let the users test their updates.

Mac OS 10.7 was a broken mess and the latest Sierra broke cURL.

Besides, that is the trade off of developing in the open, you get to see not only the good stuff, but all the quirks on the way there too, you must personally decide if it's a trade-of worth making.
Used to experience this all the time when making maps with custom textures for older games... Lots of people sure didn't though. Especially source ports that would apply filtering to games that didn't have any in the first place and you'd see blue or purple outlines because their original formats were obviously paletted
> that's why we have a pair of eyes and not a single eye.

This is really overstated. It really only matters for about 3 or 4 meters of distance. We do depth perception well enough at distances to drive cars.

We also do just fine at perceiving depth in video games and single lens camera.

How often do you have trouble determining the depth of something in a movie? Only about as often as the filmmakers want you to.
In the interest of keeping the chart valid, I think you could factor all of those into the time value.
No problem. You should definitely ask such questions. If you want to dive into the technicalities, see what people are already doing with SpatialOS and ask your own questions I really recommend having a look at the forums (https://forums.improbable.io).

That said, my previous response was actually targeting your example as being a use-case that falls into the 'realistic' category that we want to address with SpatialOS.

Again, I am not suggesting that you can and should pile-up 1000 players onto 10 square meters, but if you take care when defining your world's characteristics (SpatialOS's entity & components) you will be able to scale up your player density in your battle scenario to a level that significantly exceeds anything that you could achieve with any existing monolithic game server and for a fraction of the trouble as you do not really have to deal with any of the usual networking issues because SpatialOS takes care of that.
Great content. Thanks for sharing.
I had some of those. I didn't really lose "real money".
what's that to do with anything in the thread
> Ok, let's present the alternative then.

>Walmart automates its massive retail operations substantially over the next 10-15 years, using robotics and AI.

You're presenting this as an alternative, but this is happening _anyway_ as soon as practically viable.

Underpaying workers simply moves this break-even point by some years, it doesn't change anything else and is not an alternative.
Where do you see the cut-off between jobs that can be lived off of and jobs that can't be lived off of?
When will people stop with this hyperbole?

The planet; as-in this rocky, water-world orbiting Sol, will exist for BILLIONS of years.

The _life_ on this planet AS WE KNOW IT is dying, along with ourselves. That is a huge difference and one that needs to be repeated with as much clarity as possible.

Will homo-sapiens still exist in 10,000 years? maybe.
100,000 years?
doubtful.
1,000,000 years?
nope.

Will single-celled life forms, virus, prions, etc still exist?
Probably.

This entire pyramid that we have existed at the top of is brutally fragile and will not continue as it is forever. To repeat one of most favorite quotes:
"Nature is in a constant state of recovering from the previous disaster."

This is the distinction. Something as immutable as granite can't die. We can barely wrap our brains around the concept of water being able to erode such permanence. How can you expect them to believe such histrionics? But life, that is more delicate and temporary then a snowflake in the Sahara.
I guess you're looking at crappy vehicles then. Go look at some 4-cylinder Japanese cars. They're all super easy to work on and last forever. Well, the Hondas, Toyotas, and Mazdas anyway. I always steer clear of American cars; those give you all kinds of wacky crap like putting the battery inside the wheelwell so you have to remove the wheel to remove it, aside from horrible reliability and interiors that fall apart quickly.
Yes! I remember reading TKC's tutorials as a teenager and being fascinated by his life story. I wonder what he's doing these days.
I'm not entirely sure that's correct. If you try to sell something that relies on GPL software, it's considered a derivative work even if you don't distribute the GPL software with yours.
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One of the articles I read implied that ShotSpotter could send information to the computer inside the squad car. I'm not sure if that is true or not.

I'm well aware police officers aren't specifically sitting around waiting to be dispatched, but my neighborhood has a lot of idle officers that exist as a 'show of force'. I don't mean that in a derogatory way, I just mean that this officers are already dispatched to my neighborhood as a way of reducing violence. I think that responding to areas ShotTracker has flagged would be both within their capabilities in addition to being in line with their duties and priorities.
Good luck with getting rid of your steenking database, when it comes to the real world.

Like figuring out a reasonable access path between tables when you're dealing with billions of rows

Like guaranteeing consistency between your relations. While the join command sounds useful (I didn't know it and I'll look into it) it's not really a replacement for all the constraints, which a database provides to ensure that you don't fubar your data

Backup, recovery? Just hope to you really grab everything. No only the data, but also your carefully crafted queries. Sounds like a bummer to figure them out anew

Implementing ACID also sounds like quite a challenge

A database is not just a shipping container, where you cram in your data and provides a few tools to organize it. There's a lot more under the hood, which is just not supported in plain old files.
I think the "only" part is dubious, i.e. a contract could possibly exist in various other circumstances as well :)
You say "for the money" like it's a bad thing. A job is where you trade labor for money, no need to foist anything else onto it.
That may be the official story but I can tell you as a onetime Multics programmer, Multics definitely had pipes and as we all know Ken T worked on Multics before going back to Bell Labs.
Every country town in southwest western Australia has fibre optic cable to every exchange.

This means most country town houses are less than 1 km down to a few metres away from a fibre optic cable.

Every country town exchange is wired and ready with an ADSL2 connection. But Telstra Will not give this service to anyone and will actually lie about it. I found out by accident when a technician had the job of trying explain why I was first told I could have it then was told no sorry I can't so he Spilled the beans to me.

So there you have it.

All of WA's country towns could easily have optic fibre to the home, or at second best ADSL2 by doing nothing, but not even allowed ADSL1.

instead They have to have Satellite which costs the government an extra $2000 per residence or Telstra mobile style broadband.
I don't think Costco competes head to head with Wal Mart at all.

Costco has the membership fee, and they only sell in bulk, which are usually better quality and higher cost than Walmart items. If you can barely afford Wal Mart, you definitely can't afford Costco and aren't even comparing the two.

Costco also doesn't put its stores in low income areas, automatically selecting for higher income customers.
I don't buy your spin either.
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No, they don't. Look at the fuel economy numbers (and then adjust because the testing methodology has gotten more stringent two times, one just recently and one in 2008 IIRC). New cars are a little heavier, and they still get significantly better economy.
How much it costs exactly ?
Wow. Combine this with a reverse image lookup to try to match numbers with celebrities and other noteworthy people and there are a lot of opportunities for a lot of bad things.

I wonder if Trump uses Whatsapp on a personal phone?
There's another advantage to using filters in pipelines: each part of the pipeline runs in parallel!

I recently rewrote some bash code to replace

for subdir in $names
do
for parent in $(parent_of $dir)
do
[ -d $parent/$subdir ] && …
done
done

with

parents_of $dir | append_subdirs $names | is_dir | xargs …

I expected a modest speed improvement (due to not calculating the parents of a dir repeatedly), but was surprised to see it was twice as fast!
This would break if you once press unlock while out of range of the car, unless you have some way to reset the counter - in which case you start creating complex stuff to handle complex situations.
Any bank could "just" spend your money on your account

The central bank just prints money and​ thus steals 'value' from you (devaluation)

It's a matter of trust into an entity
The neurological argument is very much in its infancy, with very little in the way of true experimental evidence, yet laypeople throw it around as if it's well-established theory. Neuroscientists, however, are pretty humble and hedging about it: every paper on the subject is littered with mights, maybes, perhapses, and "more investigation is needed"s.
My last vehicle I had cash to pay for it. Manufacturer offered a $2k incentive to finance through their own financing arm. I asked, and there was no early payoff penalty. So I financed the car, and sent a check a week later, paying it off completely well before the first payment was due.
Isn't it better for everyone who's a part of Snapchat or a pre-IPO investor that they didn't allow FB to buy them for $3B? Even if Snapchat goes to a $10B valuation (which likely won't happen this year) and stays around there, that'll still be worth it for almost everyone. Since a lot of insiders will have already taken some money out before then as well.
Yeah, why pay college dropouts a livable wage? It's not Walmart's fault if they were born stupid.
I doubt it has much to do with homeowners and lawn care. If anything, it has to do with the thousands of square miles of cropland that gets sprayed for insects each year.

Then again, you get outside any of the cities and the windshield gets bug splattered as always.

Trillions upon trillions of insects versus humanity? I'd bet on the insects.
I think the first thing is to realize that this is normal. Whenever you start something that is outside of your comfort zone, you will most likely feel discomfort. So, trying to get rid of something that is normal won't really work :) However, what you can do is change the way you look at this discomfort. Ask yourself where it is coming from. Are you maybe afraid that you will fail? Once you see what causes the anxiety, you can start seeing it for what it is: just a feeling that comes and goes.
The specific person or entity has to have the copyright for the work in the first place (or the permission of that entity). In which case they're "taking" from themselves.

As for Stallman's intentions, he's talked about this exact model: https://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/selling-exceptions
Actually, it's now called Xeon Phi: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xeon_Phi
The XFS "lock up" issue is concerning -- it's been a very long time since I've seen any showstopping issues with that filesystem. Is anyone aware of what's going on there?
Tumblers are a thing. It doesn't have to be anonymous just make it impossible to trace for about a hundred years.
How about just writing safe code.

Really... Check your damn return values. set -e is a crutch of a sloppy programmer.

Ok, yes; you can do this really slick thing in one line by stringing together a bunch of commands. However, just because you can does not mean you should.

Bash makes it simply with 'if ! <command>; then <failure commands> fi'. Try not to string ten things together. Keep conditional true state in your scripts execution flow.
> the minimum wage ... which Walmart has routinely supported.

Do you have any links for further reading on this? From what I've read, they've only raised their min wage from $9 to $10 after protests by their work force. I certainly wouldn't call this support of raising the minimum wage (but perhaps they've since changed their tune?).
Yeah, Gwern is pretty explicit about the point that he's interested in what works for him, and makes his data available just in case its interesting.

I tend to assume that when he has positive results it's informative (as an existence proof at least), but negative results may not be universal.
The Civic HX would be illegal to sell now because it won't meet crash safety standards. That's the point: you can get a car now that weighs quite a bit more than that HX, performs far better in a crash, has significantly lower emissions, has much more passenger space, and still gets the same fuel economy roughly (i.e. a larger/heavier class of car is getting the same economy as an econocar that's now too small and unsafe to be sold).
Because my entire summer of mowing can be done for 5 gallons of gasoline.
They don't need to deploy it everywhere.

Even if it can only navigate between SFO and Mountain View, that's ready to deploy as a commercial venture. There will be an adoption ramp anyway. It will just follow the driving difficulty gradient.

In practical terms, it's ready now. Driving people home from the ski area in a blizzard will be the final task, but it doesn't need to be solved to put both Uber and GM out of business.
US intelligence chiefs have doubts about Kaspersky because of its Russian roots
Xubuntu is a distribution not a desktop. Distributions have all sorts of settings that affect GTK and Gecko.
The planet isn't dying. The planet is just a ball of rock running loops around the gravity well of the closest star.

We are, however, in the midst of the sixth great extinction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction . The evidence for this is pretty dang convincing, even independent of things like global climate change, and it has been going on for quite a while now, starting with the disappearance of mega-fauna from the American continent.

If you do find anyone attempting to "minimize" this fact, you might try pointing something out: each prior great extinction was accompanied by a replacement of the "dominant" species on the Earth. As the current reigning "dominant" species, this seems like something that might be very concerning to humans...
My intuition from listening on several of Stallmans talk would be that paying for exceptions are an acceptable strategy in some cases, through not ideal.

So while writing this comment I remembered the old case of QT and found this article (https://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/selling-exceptions). To quote it similar to a "inferior choice, but it's not wrong".
BMW 225xe Active Tourer (yeah it's a mouthful :-) ).
Ask the human to confirm when it is safe to proceed.
But why should theatres be protected ? .. They are just the distribution medium , not the art itself
(Just something I hacked together...)
I think it's more about ensuring that the system is structured in such a way that these things are minimized. If you don't want waste dumped in the river, ban it or tax it rather than subsidizing it. The Costco comparison is a bit apples to oranges, too. They have a substantially different customer base. There are a lot of people who can't afford that $110 membership. Lower income Americans are the ones who benefit the most from WalMart's services. Aldi is more competitive in this area, but they do it by significantly different means, and they're still focused on maintaining a very low labor cost, they just do it differently than WalMart does.

And as someone who worked at WalMart for awhile, their lack of a union (Meijer and Kroger both required I have full weekend availability as a result of their union contract -- and I needed weekends free for my job at McDonald's) and the relative ease of being able to get a job there was a huge part in my own escape from poverty.
It is similar to slowly poisoning the water supply when you destroy dozens to hundreds of local mom and pop stores with each supercenter (which leads to decreased life expectancy in the community, due to drug/alcohol abuse, suicide, etc).

Anyway, that well-documented boat sailed in the '90s, and now we have Amazon (and I think Amazon deliveries are a net good thing).

What really bugs me is that I have to subsidize low wages at walmart. If the US would just switch to guaranteed income or raise the minimum wage, walmart prices would go up something like 1%, but their employees would make at least 33% more. Then my taxes could be used for something useful, like education.
The fifth amendment applies to both criminal and civil cases, if the testimony could be used in a criminal prosecution. The judge has already referred this for criminal prosecution, so Levandowski's apprehension about self-incrimination is certainly warranted. If the files only exist on Levandowski's personal machine(s), then Uber can't comply with the court order without Levandowski incriminating himself.
Ok, sure. Even if banks can be slimy, they can't be nearly as slimy as anonymous internet folk working in unprecedented/unregulated legal areas.

All trust is not equal.
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Aren't they better off not selling for $3B? Insider stocks will be able to sell their shares soon. Snapchat is unlikely to be at a $10B or lower market cap for the next year. So people have plenty of time to take some money out.
>French cultural products are notoriously difficult to export, for a variety of reasons, one of which being language and another being they're generally of poor quality (I say this as a Frenchman)

Compared to the utter crap pop culture the US produces, where every second film is about superheroes in spandex and explosions?
Reminds me of my good lawyer friend who says high legal fees don't impact startups at all. /s

Here in the real world Sarbanes-Oxley has a huge burden on actual auditors and accountants at public companies. It's not some afterthought, the burden on companies is huge.

You can hardly talk with a controller/auditor without hearing about it.

Why would anyone make that up? It's just a record keeping and reporting burden, it's just a nuisance. Nobody gets anything out of exaggerating that nuisance.
So why twitter migrate they mobile traffic to backend Node.js with Express?
Isn't that company with enough resources for use a better backend language?
> I also don't care to hear complaints about "HTML in my JS".

Yeah that critique never held much water with me either. When JQuery and other "unobtrusive JavaScript" frameworks came out, it seemed really logical to separate the markup from the logic but, as applications aged and changed things started getting really hairy. I worked for one company that literally could not change any of their front end markup because they had tens of thousands of LOC that interacted directly with the DOM via class and ID selectors. Everything had to be done with CSS which of course led to massive CSS files with 30k lines. Working with something like that made me appreciate a more modular approach that React or Angular bring. Being able to compartmentalize your code into these logical blocks is MUCH easier to manage in the long term. One of the golden rules of programming is "write code thats easy to delete".
NHS England hit by 'cyber attack'
It may seem like "splitting hairs," but it's basic legal analysis. Learning when a contract is formed (which is the question at issue here; it's not about the substantive terms of the contract) is covered in everyone's first year of law school. And learning how contract and copyright relate is covered in the second or third year of law school, depending on when you take the course.
> I'm guessing Stallman is completely disgusted by the possibility of dual licensing.

You'd be wrong, though. He considers it a legitimate alternative to "not releasing source at all":

> I consider selling exceptions an acceptable thing for a company to do, and I will suggest it where appropriate as a way to get programs freed.

https://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/selling-exceptions
I was actually glad they did this. Union rules at their competitors are terrible for people working two jobs. Although mandatory overtime pay laws are also a huge pain to someone with a legitimate need to work more than 40 hours a week.
The Kremlin Eats GPS for Breakfast
Why retailers need web data for a solid PIM system
> 1969 Ford Mustang Mach 1—with some pretty sleek lines. "I used to have to wash my car all the time. It was always covered with insects." Lately, Martin Sorg, an entomologist here, has seen the opposite: "I drive a Land Rover, with the aerodynamics of a refrigerator"

It wouldn't surprise me at all if a modern Land Rover was more aerodynamic than a 1969 Mustang. The Land Rover wouldn't look it of course, but the 1969 Mustang had a pretty steep windshield and a front that probably did lots of crazy stuff to the air:

http://cdn.barrett-jackson.com/staging/carlist/items/Fullsiz...
> his company is broke, he’s broke, and the bot is broke because he spent all the coins, after he himself ran out of money.

(emphasis mine)

How did he think this was remotely acceptable? Jesus Christ! Don't operate custodial accounts if you don't understand the consequences. You can not just spend other people's money, no matter how broke you are...

If that's your only option, give everyone their money back and declare bankruptcy.
Has the edge detection gotten better? I tested it a couple months ago and for subjects with a sharp outline, the edges would have a weird fuzzy outline. More complex subjects seemed to work better:

https://imgur.com/a/ILM5p
Nice! By that logic it means EULA are not enforceable! I just clicked Accept, I didn't sign anything! Or a cat could've clicked that Accept button, or a toddler
BBC reports ransom ware
I will be downvoted for saying this:
Most of the subscribers were issued 5 sims per aadhar number.In that sense its really around 20 million subscribers each with around 5 sims in their name.And anybody can be sure that they aren't using all the issued sims.Also most of the subscribers have stopped using the sims after the freebies was called off.
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Instagram selling to FB is a potential mistake in hindsight. Even without FB's direct backing, IG was poised to grow like crazy. Probably could've IPOed or sold to FB or someone else for 10x or 15x 2 years later.
NHS hit by major ransomeware cyberattack
I don't know that this obviates the need to check PIPE_STATUS after the statement.

As another poster mentioned, set -e and set -o pipefail are crutches and tell me the script it sloppy.
It also doesn't save you from the bullshit that goes on in the finance office.
The federal minimum wage is only $7.25. By paying $10, they are paying 38% more than the minimum. Even at 9 they are 24% above the minimum. I expect that they would prefer a minimum wage exactly equal to what they pay as a minimum, because that would disadvantage less efficient competitors.
This seems like a pretty straight forward issue to me. If the minimum wage is too low for employees to live on in your state, then raise the minimum wage. Don't get angry with a corporation for complying with wage laws that your state set. It should be pretty unsurprising that a company is seeking to pay minimum wage for unskilled labor. Also if you don't want to offer tax incentives to a corporation then complain to your legislators. I'm pretty sure every company would jump at the opportunity to leverage tax incentives, not just Walmart.