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You raise a salient point. And FWIW, I agree with you. I certainly have noticed how siloed many groups of programmers are from one another. Not out of any malicious intent, but rather the simple, subtle pressures of it being slightly easier to work with people you share more in common with, and software work being difficult under the best of circumstances.
Given that this [1] runs easily at solid 60fps on Chrome, a pure software rasterizer written in pure JavaScript with some basic optimizations, I'm pretty sure that webasm is can do at least as well. The Beeb is not capable of anything remotely like that.

https://jsfiddle.net/Sharlin/9w26necy/52/
Wow. I think of 15C as "comfortable if I'm outside doing stuff and wearing long sleeves", but inside, it's "put the heat on (to 18C) and put on a sweater". 25C inside is what we set the air conditioning to in the summer at night so it's easier to go to sleep, but in the day, 26.5 is fine. This is in the southeastern US, and I've converted all temperatures from how I normally think of them in F.

Also, my workplace keeps inside air conditioning much cooler than I would, around 20C, which is uncomfortably cold when I'm dressed for the summer weather (ranges from 27C to 38C).
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> Especially my boss: if my boss is going to be a white dude, he had better have publicly condemned sexism in a way that feels constructive and genuine to me.

Wtf. How is this not just becoming reverse racism. Guilty until proven innocent.

It's not what you said Bill, it's what you didn't say.
Yes! bounding box display would be great too.
Critical thinking skills are not taught because they teach you how to question authority, and that means criticizing parents, teachers and the system.

Socrates already tried doing that and was accused of corrupting youth (and got him condemned to death)
HFS+ was the only file system I know of that was doing Unicode normalisation and is certainly was the only one choosing NFD which encodes characters in a way that's impossible for someone to easily type in the UI.

Short-term this will cause a lot of inconsistencies with applications using low-level APIs as the files currently existing will be NFD normalised, but any user-given path will very likely be more or less equivalent to what NFC would do.

So in the short term, this will be a mess (unless the APFS conversion on install-time also does a once-time conversion of the normal form), but in the long term, I believe this is the way to go.

And for that matter, the same should happen with regards to case-insensitivity which is even worse as ensuring case-insensitivity might actually be dependent on locale, which means that depending on the user's locale two file names might or might not be identical under case-insensitivity rules.

Unfortunately, it look like there's just too much legacy code around that plain doesn't work with a case-sensitive file-system on the mac (I'm looking at you, Adobe).

BTW: On my 10.13 Beta 1 setup with an APFS converted boot drive, unless I manually create a NFD encoded file name on the command line (which you can't do accidentally), everything is NFC both in the UI and on the command line. This also applies to files I haven't touched since the conversion to APFS.
Scientific studies do not not prove anything. They provide evidence for a hypothesis. And one study is not sufficient to draw conclusions from,especially with a sample size of 9.
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> But if they see a basement full of walnuts? They'd just close the door and move on

I mean, I think that'd at least lead to a casual question or two.
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The Road would be a good counter-example.
Both GnuPG and Signal are great projects, but GnuPG has a different use case from Signal.

You should, ideally, try to fund improvements to both projects.
I'm trying to use asm.js to port Python to JS as a shared library, which would allow us to load and run arbitrary CPython modules (compiled for JS) in the browser. I generate code using emscripten, which is also able to generate WASM (which I'm not using at the moment though).

My experience so far:

Emscripten is quite mature and compiles even very complex C/C++ code without complaining. Statically linking code works fine, while dynamically loading shared libraries is still a bit problematic it seems.

Here's the Github project btw, help is very welcome:

https://github.com/adewes/cpython-emscripten
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> Margaret Atwood furiously resists the idea that her stuff is Science Fiction because "SF is talking squids in outer space".

It was a little more nuanced than that. Her argument was that The Handmaid's Tale wasn't really science fiction because it was set in a dystopian "now". Recall there wasn't anything particularly advanced about the technology in the story and its timeline forked from ours sometime in the 1970s (the book took place in the 1980s I think). She instead preferred if the story were called "speculative fiction".

While some of that could rightly be attributed to not wanting to be shelved as science fiction, that's also not the full story. Pre-internet, Margaret Atwood's audience was primarily a literary audience. So it makes sense that she'd want this new book to be shelved in the same place her old books were shelved. Otherwise she might lose out on some of her core audience.

Atwood being a repeat offender of looting "the treasury of SF ideas" is baseless hyperbole, and your entire rant falls on a throwaway comment she made 30 years ago. She looted the "treasury of SF ideas" in the same way Delany looted Moby Dick to write Nova or Jo Walton looted Greek myth to write The Just City
An error which I still think is ridiculous: argument list too long.
How about sites with paywalls signal this, including subscription price, in a HTTP header (or whatever) to crawler bots?

Then Google users would be able to filter by "free results only" or "paid results, less than $x/month". Seems like a relevant search criterion, especially for industry-specific articles (like finance).
This is the test: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collegiate_Learning_Assessment

There are a lot of studies about what is critical thinking, how to test and teach it: eg. http://windsor.scholarsportal.info/ojs/leddy/index.php/infor...

Here's a PDF about the CLA itself:
https://web.stanford.edu/dept/SUSE/SEAL/Reports_Papers/highe...

> liberal arts ...

Yes, good insight, it'd be good to have access to the data.

> employers

I think there are very different types of employers. Some need broad rationalist critical thinkers, some need focused specialized experts, and so on.
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This is a talk from the maintainer of Jest, a JS testing library. The Jest was rebuilt into a thriving open-source community-driven project with a multi-person core team which is always improving.

I'm a huge fan. It's one of my favourite JS tools.
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I have very little knowledge about the actual license law, but what is the right way to do that?

Let's say there is an open source project published with a very permissive license that has one function you need. Putting the whole project as a dependency is an overkill and rewriting the function with your own variable names and indentation doesn't sound like an improvement.

Would adding a copyright notice somewhere in the repository be enough?
> ...
> Larry and Sergey could fix MV's intransigence very fast. We need to call on tech leadership to take a stand here. It's in their best interest.
> ...

Haven't they tried, only to have been denied by the City of Mountain View?

Google, through a subsidiary, is leasing parts of Moffett Field, federal property exempt from local zoning laws, to build housing [1].

[1] https://mv-voice.com/news/2017/05/19/google-relaunches-bay-v...
How does this compare to BTC with regards to privacy?

My thoughts: most regular users don't really care about privacy at the level that BTC promises. If people really cared that much about privacy, then social media platforms like FB wouldn't be where most people are today.

Combine what I've said above with the easy on-boarding facility that Nimiq provides and I think this solution carries the day. This might be the 'style' with which most first time cryptocurrency users (emphasis on miners) get started with cryptocurrency. With mass adoption, computing and securing the network might be easier (read cheaper) than is the case with BTC as it stands.

I really like what you've done.
Great point and a dose of reality for admins out there.
> It says that once they saw it was printed

This was a significant clue that The Intercept did not have to give up. The warrant says they looked at all people who had accessed the report, and because the document appeared to have been printed, then at those 6 who printed it.

The yellow dots might have not been a factor, but it's nevertheless the same type of carelessness which might have exposed a whistleblower otherwise.

(But yes, this whistleblower would have been discovered by other means as well).
Do people not realize almost the entire CJS is basically a jobs program for the very people whom directly influence how the laws are made that self-perpetuate their incomes?

That usually works out well, right?
Agreed. Setting up the environment with 0's seems like it should just be the sane default:

'env': {
'memoryBase': 0,
'tableBase': 0,
'memory': new WebAssembly.Memory({initial: 256}),
'table': new WebAssembly.Table({initial: 0, element: 'anyfunc'})
}

But it is really early on and if the Portable updating SDK is any indication it seems like they want to make it easy to get started.
I am in Australia and we have had contactless payments for years. Apple Pay with an iPhone was more trouble than using a card. On the other hand since I got my Apple Watch I haven't carried credit cards with me. It started out as a 1 month experiment to see if I could survive and it has never been a problem.
"bender" actually ticks two of those boxes (homosexuality and being drunk - "on a bender"), which is quite good going for one little word, really!
Here in the South, ceiling fans will let you keep your AC on 80F and still be comfortable. High ceilings help, too, but they're not as common as they used to be.
TLDR: anti-competative laws shunted growth to areas like silicon Valley which didn't have them.

Seriously, why do we even allow people not at a C level to be impacted by these laws that say you can't leave to start a competitor? Moreover, why is it legal, like in NY, for a company to say they own all your work both on and off the job? We're killing ourselves.
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Prison guards aren't regularly raking in six figures, they make on average less than police officers.

Ultimately, I think you've got it the other way around. Prisons don't build themselves, contracts are put out for their construction, their vastly overpriced buses, cells, etc.

For example, the absolutely disgusting and dehumanizing water fountain/toilet combo, ensuring that every sip you take you smell and taste feces, costs $2600 while a normal stainless steel toilet runs about $250. Also, private prisons gain the benefits of a conscripted labor force without having to worry about slavery laws.

Corps have co-opted the unions to vote in their interest. After all, they have the carrot of offering a nice, kushy corporate gig. That prison guard's pension isn't going too far.
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There is nothing cheap about this labor, they are paying companies 70k to house someone so they can pay them 20c/h.
You can lead a horse to water but you can't ...

Maybe 20 years ago taking night classes, the little liberal arts school I was at required a strange CS class theoretically oriented toward turning us into Excel technical experts in a semester. The REAL purpose of the class was to teach us how to learn how to learn, and learn how to think, about being handed an inadequately documented large technical system, then be responsible for providing support for that system after a couple months, which given my workplace experience, is a ridiculously useful and financially rewarding skillset.

Of course some kids took it as drill-n-kill memorization exercise in how to set up Excel pivot tables. That didn't help much with the somewhat theoretical final exam.

I would imagine that class has been scrapped as a teaching tool; too realistic; kids need more valuable education in their limited time, memorizing google-able algorithms for interview questions would be much more financially rewarding at least in the short term.
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13th is a Netflix documentary about this. Warning: It may be quite difficult to watch.

https://www.netflix.com/title/80091741
I am actually impressed someone managed to write game of life that drops below 60 fps at ~200 points on screen.
The hardship for publishers won't end until two things happen, in my opinion: 1) they are willing to charge a reasonable price per article (no $300/year subscription) and 2) they are able to charge per article, in a cost-effective manner (i.e. "micropayments").
Hetzner is great. I'm running a site with ~45TB monthly traffic on 3 physical servers and it costs me just over $150. I would have to pay many thousands to any cloud hosting provider and it wouldn't pay off in my case.

Sure, if high availability is critical for you business and money is not an issue, it may be worth it. YMMV.
someone port cocoa or a xib library to webassembler or even xlib.
For future reference, if you or others reading this catch a bullshit charge like you describe, it is very likely that you can have a lawyer handle everything for you and it may be cheaper than the extra travel costs and missed work days. Even if you are supposedly 'required' to appear. I'm not a lawyer so my specific advice is to call a few and explain the situation, then hire one to handle everything for you.

Even if a charge sticks, they will be better then you at pleading it down and/or negotiating reduced fines when possible.

Again, it's likely going to be cheaper then travel costs and you should have a lawyer anyway, right from the very start. It sucks to be unfairly targeted but there is an easy way out. I hire a lawyer for even the most minor traffic violations and they really can save you money once you factor all costs (insurance rates, etc...).
Do you live under a rock and aren't aware of the interview he gave the day after the firing?

From TFV:

Trump told NBC's Lester Holt: "And in fact when I decided to just do it, I said to myself, I said 'you know, this Russia thing with Trump and Russia is a made-up story, it's an excuse by the Democrats for having lost an election that they should have won'."

Directly contradicting his first explanation that the AG and Dep AG recommended it first.

There's also his bragging to the Russians: "I just fired the head of the F.B.I. He was crazy, a real nut job,” Mr. Trump said, according to the document, which was read to The New York Times by an American official. “I faced great pressure because of Russia. That’s taken off

Would you like to know more? Tune in to Comey's testimony on Thursday
Great points.

I think overall, I'd prefer to see proper government regulated standards. The EPA's energy star stuff has worked pretty well at enforcing home appliances meet certain criteria for efficiency.

There needs to be some bite behind these rules, and not just good intentions.
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The working while in prison part or the not being released early part?

I personally don't mind inmates working while in prison. What I disagree with is the inmates not being allowed to be released early because the state wants them to keep working.

I don't think having to work while in prison is going to scare any would-be offender straight. And thinking about inmates not being released early is only going to piss off everyone.
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That does not makes much sense to me. You can be SF fan while demanding that arbitrary aspect of the book is high quality - whether character, action quality, gore, logical consistency or the text itself.

Just because you personally don't care about some aspect of the book does not mean all who do are dabblers.
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It's not about whether someone is a contractor or a full time government employee. Contractors work on the government site just as much as FTE's, receive the same security training, and are indoctrinated into the same culture.

The problem is inadequate access control to classified materials. There tends to be a lot of information that people can access without a need to know, that is not rigorously tracked and locked down. This means that someone looking to steal or leak can get their hands on a lot of stuff they shouldn't without raising suspicions if they're not stupid about it.

The reason we may be seeing a number of spillage incidents with contractors is simply because there a lot of contractors working at government agencies. In IT a lot of the time contractors outnumber government people by a significant margin.
It is a difficult problem.

Google may know you are subscribed but it doesn't know what the page looks like to you. It only knows its own version of the page.

What Google sees is that many people go to WSJ because their search query matches the content of the googlebot version of the page, and then bounce back as they hit the paywall. Google may not even know about the paywall. It just sees that because many users bounce back, they must be unsatisfied, and derank accordingly.

Now, it still has a workaround. If you are logged in, it tracks your personal habits. And if it sees you are staying on WSJ, it may uprank it specifically for you. Again, it is just a matter of staying on the site or not, google doesn't really care about your subscription.
Not British so genuinely asking - to what degree? Greater than "thing that bends"?

Because there's plenty of slang that doesn't inhibit use of the word by its earlier definition. Nobody blinks when you ask for a "box". Teenagers might giggle at Dick's stores, but it hasn't hurt business.
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Critical thinking is basically a built-in bullshit detector. And if you use it on yourself it helps you to come up with good explanations [models] for things in the world, hence it helps you understand the world.
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"Now, if a half of those projects decide to spend 1-2-3 human days to go through the pain of upgrading to the next major version, how much do you think this costs the industry collectively? [...] We're talking about a mind blowing $20-40M in industry wide damages. Let me repeat this for you. This mess costed us collectively tenths of millions of dollars to sort it out."

So if a mere botched release costs the users 20 to 40 millions, how comes there's no way to move money toward the freedom software developers so they may hire testers and quality assurance people (and perhaps pay themselves so they can develop during the day, instead of tired, after work) and thus avoid botching releases?
The example given in the article is a pay-to-subscribe mailing list run on Mailchimp where you can use an API call to add the paying user to the list.
Slavery is already legal in the US under the 13th amendment if one commits a crime. It's literally the highest law of the land.
> because the people you really need to worry about

I think we disagree who to really worry about. I worry more about persistent low-level corporate surveillance more than hacker attacks because while the latter is more acute and can cause great financial harm, the former is whats going to damage my freedom and right to privacy once the government decides it wants to firehose all that data.
> The AC in Japan has two settings--one is cool and one is "dry" for dehumidify. The cool setting does not dry the air (or if so, ever so slightly). We have high humidity so 26 degrees can feel hot indoors.

I'm curious how this works. In America, we have only one setting, and it does both. The indoor air is 23 degrees or so (22 in busy offices, 25 in frugal/environmentally conscious homes...28 would be considered oppressive heat, no matter the humidity). But the evaporator coils in the air handler should be cooled to about 5 degrees in a properly functioning air conditioner. If the air is humid when it cools on these coils, it drops below the dew point, and humidity condenses out of the air to be drained out of the building. If the AC is properly sized, it keeps the air indoors comfortably dehumidified (if too large, it will cool a small amount of air by a lot, and run too infrequently to dehumidify; if too small, the air temperature will not drop enough to cause condensation).

We also have dehumidifiers, which are practically identical to air conditioners but have the condenser coils in the same machine to warm the air back up before it exits (and to simplify construction/improve efficiency). These actually add a bit of heat to the room, but do dry out the air. Typically, these are only used when a home doesn't have an air conditioner.
I don't like the over-use of the word "slavery".

Slavery was the capturing of innocent human beings and then forcing them and their progeny to do labor in perpetuity. It was utterly dehumanizing and undeserved treatment. We do a disservice to the meaning of slavery in the USA by calling everything slavery: taxation, prison work, marriage, etc.
Without having read this, I would imagine healthcare costs among a prison population would be higher by orders of magnitude.
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That's a problem with your AC unit's poor antibacterial filtration and your home's filters. Filters should be replaced every few months, if not monthly. There's also UV lamps that can be installed in AC's, or units that come with them, to sterilize the coil and air.
Humidity plays a huge role in this. In dry climates, it can be 30-40c without too much problem, you just need to hydrate a lot. If it's humid, then even 25c can be very uncomfortable.
Largely humidity.

In Denver, I could run for an hour in direct sunlight with the temperature about 30 C. In Washington, DC, that would have been suicidal.
It essentially is, by exception. The text of the Thriteenth Amendment states:

"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."
There is (was? site doesn't seem to load for me..) a "bitcoins for formal proofs" site called Proof Market https://slawekk.wordpress.com/2014/01/11/proof-market

Theorems and proofs can be given in Coq or Agda format. If they pass the language's checker, bitcoins are dispensed.