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> As far as i am aware ternaries put no restriction whatsoever on what kind of code you can put in its branches.

You just called someone out for this:

"If you're restricting what you're saying to a specific language say that bold and as the very first thing (...)"

Are you talking about a specific language now? Because some languages do put restrictions on that. Python makes a clear distinction between statements and expressions, so you don't even get the option to use a ternary in place of an if/else block.

That said, (in general) I disagree that ternaries suggest side-effect free. However, they do suggest that you care about the return value of the ternary expression. Some languages enforce this suggestion, others don't. But even for languages that don't, a ternary that silently discards its return value feels like a "cute hack" to me.
>1 is one thing, 2 represents 2 things, 3 represents 3 things and so on

I follow you thus far.

>Then I have to remember that 2 + 2 = 4, and 3 + 2 = 5

No you don't.

You have to remember that 1 + 1 = 2; 2 + 1 = 3; ...; 9 + 1 = 10; and then the rules repeat themselves, respecting columns for addition. All mathematics between 1 and 10 like 4 + 5 are already known at this point.

Roman numerals, on the other hand, give you no easily repeatable pattern to follow as the order of magnitude increases. I + I = II, III + II = V, V + V = X, X + X + X + X + X = L, LL = C, and I only got this far because of what you said. What comes next? C * 5 = x_1, x_1 * 2 = x_2, x_2 * 5 = x_3, ..., x_n * 5 = x_n+1, x_n+1 * 2 = x_n+3

The complexity is unbounded. Sure, if you constrain yourself to "getting by in the market place in Rome", that's one thing, but even then I would imagine arguments around arithmetic could go either way.
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Personally I use input[0] which is easy to customize before download. If you aren't using a terminal-based editor, I really don't see the point in monospaced fonts either. I've never had an issue distinguishing differences because of the font style.

[0] http://input.fontbureau.com/
By electronic I meant over a network - a burnt CD may have well been the media that got lost in OP's situation.

The problem is that the digital scan is isolated to his ER's network, and without a business relationship between the two parties, a CD is the only way to transmit the data.
>>As a parent, I can understand why you would want to give your children a space away from the city.

Having grown up in the city, I'm fucking glad my parents didn't live in the suburbs.

You may think you are doing your kids a favor by living in a sterile, boring suburban neighborhood, but you actually aren't.
I concur. As a teacher and mentor to students, I find that assigning the label of "genius" to anyone famous for their accomplishments can have a negative affect on young learner's goals. They often think "oh, they're just a genius, that's how they've accomplished X". I try and dispel this, giving them examples of how most "geniuses" just worked really hard on one thing, and that if they focus and work hard on the one thing they are passionate about they will find that someday they may be referred to as a "genius".
Cities are the only place that have enough potential passengers to make the high cost of building something like that worth it.
I like the variation on "the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog".
>So the founders of TI (Cecil H. Green, Eugene McDermott, and J. Erik Jonsson) started their own university with an explicit focus on STEM subjects.

Interesting. I had two German friends in high school. They used to carry TI calculators, and I think I remember them telling me that TI was founded by Germans. Is that right? (I can google the info, but thought of asking since you have some background there.) The founder names you mentioned do not seem German (based on what I know of that), except for Jonsson, which seems more Scandinavian.
Neighborhood character is what they cited when they kicked out Willy Mayes. We are talking in some cases about people who bought houses knowing construction was permitted opposing it.

Traffic goes down when we have mixed use zones vs. Euclidean zoning.
The traffic does get bad, but it's very predictable. I drive through a few school zones and if I time it poorly, it takes probably 40 minutes for me drive. When I time it well (that is, leave early or late), half that. During the summer, 15 minutes.

Everybody complains about the traffic, but it really isn't all that bad most of the time. I listen to a lot of podcasts and I enjoy my time in the car.
> In a six-fi novel I'm writing, an advanced alien civilisation uses base-12

Six-fi? Typo or genre I'm not aware of?
> Counter-intuitively, their success was pg's essays plus HN, which stuffed their funnel with high quality applicants.

Yup, but there's at least one more: YC took applicants from anywhere provided that they could get to the YC site. VCs want to fund only founders with offices the VCs can easily drive to, and that is very limiting. YC has been able to fund founders from Silicon Valley, NYC, Boston, DC, all points between, and many points outside the US. Biggie difference in size of good stuff entering the funnel.

The VCs have some rigid ways of doing business. The best of the VCs had good returns, but on average the VC returns have not been good. Some of this rigidity seems to be enforced by the LPs. But in general the rigidity has seriously hurt the VCs.
I've mentioned those machines before. They're still prototypes, nowhere near rugged enough for field use.

Agrobot: [1] Too many parts, too many places that can catch dirt, too slow. If they can solve the sensor problem, they need to do a complete mechanical redesign to make it field-ready.

Abundant Robotics: [2] Too slow, too fragile. For comparison, here's a Festo vision-guided robot picking up randomly oriented objects. Agricultural robotics needs that kind of speed.

This is going to be solved soon, but probably not by those startups.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKT351pQHfI
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mS0coCmXiYU
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aH_t_1-tl40
Amazing work, thank you!
Let's see if saltpack[1] will move to this at some point! :D

1. https://github.com/keybase/saltpack
The default "simple" console text editor "nano" should be replaced by the much more intuitive editor called "ne" (a less known gem).
> I frankly can't understand how tiny font people can function. It gives me a headache to even consider programming at anything less than 14 to 16pt and I am usually around 20pt.

What? I can't understand how such large font people can function. I mean, how large (or dense) are your screens? Is that a Macbook thing?

I'm at... something small. Hard to tell exactly, because on my laptop screen, all following fonts look pretty much the same size, while having different configured values:

- IntelliJ - Monospaced, size 12

- Emacs - (:family "Hack" :foundry "unknown" :slant normal :weight normal :height 76 :width normal)

- xterm - xterm*faceName: Hack:size=8:antialias=false

So 8 / 12pt (which one is pt?) and/or 76 somethings. People at work say I'm crazy working with such small text, but frankly, anything larger for me feels like wasting tons of vertical space, which is of short supply given the (IMO completely idiotic) market standardization on 16:9 and 16:10 displays.
No it actually is not the whole point. Security is never convenient. If you do not have an active password rotation automated for all accounts, even shared, then you should be more worried about an employee reporting you to compliance officers. #justsaying
> Not really, again 20,000 years and Australia is a big, big place. Like really big, and most of these creatures had wide ranges. I don't find the human hypothesis has enough stock to stand up under scrutiny, especially considering these extinctions happened at the end of an ice age.

north america and asia are big, but it seems very possible that (with other factors) humans helped push mammoths to extinction.

you are also assuming equal dispersion across Australia, which may not be the case, especially if climate change was cutting back their habitats - like it was with the mammoth.
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While I agree with your conclusion in the small, Who else is working on it to take up the slack?
Art is not putting up data until it brings up something "cool". It's the expression of mind. Miyazaki has a clear expression about the subject https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfxlgHBaxEU and I'm really deeply sadden that people doesn't get this before hand.

Try expressing feelings and stop using that word that has absolutely nothing to do with machine learning.

The very very very basic Idea of machine learning is at opposite with art.

These things have nothing to do together.
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Microsoft built several of these Q&A systems that are "easily achievable by any competent group of engineers". They never really took off until they got Stack Overflow Enterprise. So, I guess it isn't really that easy.

Note: I'm a former Microsoft PM and currently a Stack Overflow PM. My POV comes with bias.
In most cases I prefer the standard gnome stuff (browser is the big exception).

Web Browser: Chromium / Firefox / Epiphany
Email Client: Evolution / Mutt / Thunderbird
Terminal: gnome-terminal
File manager: nautilus
Text editor: gedit
IRC: weechat / polaris
Office Suite: google docs / libreoffice
Calendar: google calendar / gnome calendar
Video Player: Totem / mpv
Photo Viewer: Shotwell (I wish gnome-photos would work but its reliance on Tracker makes it unusable for me (what is with tracker not following symlinks?? please fix that).
Screen recording: I wish the gnome-builtin one did sound, since it doesn't I use SimpleScreenRecorder)
Web Browser: Firefox

Email Client: Thunderbird

Terminal: gnome terminal is ok

IDE: none. I'm using emacs for all the things. Which standard IDE could handle all languages well? I think this is for developers and we pick our tools. If this is a IDE for learning, I don't know if this is the right way to learn. Maybe vim.

File manager: nautilus is ok

Basic Text Editor: gedit should be ok. I never use it because I don't need a basic editor.

IRC/Messaging Client: no idea. I use my phone for messaging.

PDF Reader: evince.

Office Suite: Libreoffice from their PPA. The distro is usually way too behind. This is a general problem with many packages not in the core of the OS. Maybe it's time to give up on trying to be current and let developers package their stuff in any sensible format.

Calendar: I use the offline calendar on my phone.

Video Player: VLC, Gnome Video is just too basic.

Music Player: YouTube :-) Seriously, I use Rhythmbox and it's kinda ok, when it doesn't mess with the metadata of a full directory of files. I'm chmod 400 my mp3 to make them safe.

Photo Viewer: eog? I used shotwell and its predecessor (fspot?) and I lost all labels migrating among versions and computers. I'm not wasting my time anymore with sw that organize picture collections. If at least they had import / export to / from csv.

Screen Recording: I liked to use Green Recorder https://launchpad.net/~mhsabbagh/+archive/ubuntu/greenprojec... but how about adding a video editor too?
There's a subset of Weird Twitter people from the USA who riff on weird UK placenames and sayings every now and then. I frequently have to remind myself how odd they must sound to an outsider.

@arr and @livestock put together the "Wobbingpool Police Incident Report" on Something Awful a while back which is a nice example: http://www.somethingawful.com/news/wobbingpool-police-report...
Have a few friends who were doing the Brighton to central London commute (~2.5 hrs). They liked the beach and hippy vibe of Brighton. More friends moved there and then the company decided to open a branch office in Brighton.
Check out pw, my alternative to pass, designed because of the reason you mentioned: I don't want my password manager to leak the list of services I use.

https://github.com/gioele/pw

In pw each password database is a single file, the internal indexes are random IDs. Each line in a database is a serialized GPG file with a password and associated metadata.

The file format is git-compatible and everything can be managed with standard command line tools.
UK houses are almost all multi-floor. Less so in the US. Stairs waste a bunch of space.
I bet there would be many more geniuses with ubi
I use pass on all my devices. IOS, chromebook and cli. I freaking love it! passforios is still on testflight but so good. Only a few issues with passforios:

- It forgets my github password everytime i upgrade
- I honestly don't like the fact that I can't turn off the pin. 4 digits with unlimited retries.
- It can't merge sometimes. I think they should be more aggressive about git rebase
I've never known it to exhibit that kind of memory - and if it does, it needs to be smarter about keeping the much more frequently used calculator above the spreadsheet program.
>There's not really a way to counter this mentality by people like us because their worldview is so entirely alien to us

As you hint at up above, there are non-religious people who believe regulating sexual behavior is important for society. Do you have a way to counter that idea when it's based on a secular worldview which is not so alien to yours?
It seems like picking a lot of fruits are easily in the realm of what computer vision is capable of these days.

What would be the first steps to doing a start up in this space? Anyone interested?
Have you tried the 1password share-menu charm on iOS? No more app switching! I don't remember what if any setup I had to do to get it there.
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Why can't people live in Yonkers? Seems cheap.
This would be a good time to implement regulations and taxes on all robots to diminish all margins gained from automation.
GPG has a FIPS mode that will use FIPS 140-2 primitives.

But you'll have a finding an audit in some circumstances as it hasn't been validated. I've seen cases where they'll miss that if it's running on RHEL, but it's a risk.
yes, as i said before. there is some support for linux systems. i'm using both linux and windows as well as android. my password manager will need to support and autofill on all environments with at least firefox and chrome.

pass got linux covered (both chrome and firefox), but doesn't really work for winndows.

android is really tiresome as well, as there is no way to skip my long masterpassword in favour of a fingerprint. I know, its not easy to implement that feature securely.
What sort of application do people use to design fonts and add ligatures?
What isn't scientific?

tomsmeding's comment?

Your statement "Rust has been shown to…"?

The website you point to?

(What is "This isn't scientific" even supposed to mean?)
Wait, since when were the different length dashes considered ligatures? Same for not equals.
Also found: http://tomtunguz.com/sf-boom-over/
The whole Fira family, (and Fira Mono in particular) are amazing.
Why would the CFAA[1] apply? I don't think US law is the governing law for everything that happens on the Internet (though they'd probably love that...).

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Fraud_and_Abuse_Act
I don't know too much about the VC world but could this be seen as negative signal?

What is the purpose of combining the funds? The only thing I can think of is to obfuscate some of their losses.

Also, is the new round of funding because YC's assets are illiquid and they need a cash infusion?
Ligatures are great, but I just love the cursive italics used by Operator Mono. Haven't justified the price to myself yet, but am considering it since I haven't been able to find any other fonts that do cursive italics.
The Il1 problem is primarily a problem with sans-serif fonts. In my work SmallTalk text is set in Arial in the default image, but I've set up my development image to use Cambria instead which is really quite nice.

The inability to do vertical alignment outside of the left edge of the line is a bit annoying, but honestly I don't miss it that much. If you have enough code that you really, really need to do that, I find it's a code smell indicating that something likely needs to be broken into smaller pieces anyways.
I second this. Those books are available for free and are worth reading for everyone working with JS. You'll understand about the variety quirks/perks of the language. Best read on JS IMO.

If you wanna learn about the HTML 5 APIs, you should check out html5rocks.
I've rifled through many a programming font, bought Pragmata Pro at one point (as you can see I also like taller fonts), tried many others over the years (Monoid was my previous favorite ligatured font). Iosevka is my current favorite. My customization args are part of my dotfiles repo so I can install it exactly how I like on any new system without effort.
It wasn't doing it before, but I have a new System76 machine with a fresh GNOME install, so let's see if it works here.
This seems like an interesting idealogical argument to follow, but anybody using Emacs in the real world is going to just go ahead and install Magit. Nobody uses Emacs on the default settings anyways. Part of learning Emacs is sorting out your init file.
Yeah, that bugs me too. I'm strongly used to have 'x' in 0x vertically aligned to the bottom, not to the centre.
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Crossing a time zone doesn't make the trip take one less hour.
I've always loved Gophercon. I was at the first two events and it was focused and I think helped solidify an awesome community.
We think of these models as being ways to extend artistic expression... like guitar pedal or cameras or drum machines. Perhaps ML will give rise to something new and aesthetically interesting in this direction.
That's a lot of buzzwords you've got there. Call them contracts/programs/applications/whatever--whatever you call them, they're fundamentally broken, and not decentralized. If you write your code in their language, it's error-prone, and if you somehow manage to write it correctly, the DAO might reverse your code by hard forking. Rebranding contracts with a bunch of buzzwords doesn't fix the problem.
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I agree with you. I think everyone would be better off if we admitted that all of of were beginners and learned things gradually at some point. No one got born knowing javascript syntax. No senior knows everything now.

Simultaneously, plenty of positions are ok for beginners and it is good idea to hire people who are still learning basics for them.
"Private central planning" is a contradiction. Nothing stops people creating competing funds, investing their savings in said funds, or investing directly in companies. I.e. in the private sector there's always the threat of competition, which changes the dynamic completely.

Granted it is a problem that 3 firms are so dominant.
Throughout history, many ideas have been discovered independently at the same time. Newton/Leibniz is the most famous example.

There are so many people looking over so much of the idea landscape that this seems like the norm rather than the exception. And if it's the norm, that means for any given groundbreaking idea there are likely a few people within a few years of discovering it.

It's impossible to know for sure, but it has interesting implications if it's true. For example, publishing first is more important than being correct in every detail.
Love the idea of a wizard - but a lot of users will want as painless a setup as possible. if they can worry about configuration when they feel like it, if they feel like it, they may be happier. i.e., some way to use a one-time app for running that wizard later.
I work 9-5 with a 30 minute commute and see my kid for about 2 hours a day during the week.

If you leave at 9 I imagine you get some morning time, so maybe that's your time (and you'd get probably roughly 2 hours there?). Totally cool if that works.

I grew up with a single mom who worked 60+ hours a week and I really only spent time with her on weekends. In retrospect I wish I had parents around when I was growing up. She didn't really have a choice, and she feels the same way I do about it — we wish it was possible.

I don't want to criticize someone's life and what works for them too harshly, since this is just my personal experience, but I've been on the side of the child and the parent in a situation like this and I didn't like it on either end.
Coffee shops are also great for this.
Must be a 4K/5K thing?
We like to think that is the case, but just the presidential election itself has shown this not to be true. I'm tired of people apologizing for Trump voters by saying that they were choosing the lesser of two evils or whatever other crap they say. The election showed that almost half of Americans simply don't give a shit what their party does as long as its THEIR party, they will continue to vote for it. Such partisanship not only gave us President Trump, but is actively hindering efforts to reign in the descent into dictatorship. e.g. Republican congressmen and Senators seem unwilling to address some rather serious concerns with the Trump family because they know now that it doesn't matter. As long as they're not "liberal snowflakes", anything, anything goes.

The optimist in me looks at the other half of Americans who still have their good sense intact, and even those who chose not to vote. But as Robert Reich and Dan Rather have said repeatedly: these are dangerous times for our democracy.
I really hope Chandrasekhar realized he was a genius. Anything less would be tragic.

If I hold this hope for someone who is a genius but sadly not a household name, I should probably hope the same for people who happened to become famous as well.
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I'd rather have the superior player than the superior aesthetics, IMHO.
> The reason code hasn't been law since the time of hammurabi

It was called the CODE OF HAMMURABI but don't let that get in the way

> "code as law" is new.

It is new.. because it's decentralized.. you know, the D in DAO?

If you don't "get it" by now - don't worry about it. People are going to build cool stuff on these platforms and when you're using them in 10 years it'll click.
Was it flawed thinking, or was it correct thinking that doesn't give correct results 100% of the time because the world is complicated and nothing can give correct results 100% of the time?
I think it's more a complain than a question. At some point, I got tired as well of all the "Muse" hiring post every week or so.
Cupertino didn't let them.
I love your username, and assume it's from 'The Point'?
Crowdfunded games are more commonly released for Linux than publisher funded games, and they more often represent not the mass market, but something interesting that creators want to pursue. So for me it translates into better games on average on Linux. But as you said, it's subjective.

The market however is viable for everybody, but as I said, if everybody from the Windows gaming market will start releasing games for Linux now, it can actually hurt it, rather than improve it. Gradual growth is better, and it's already happening. Tools wise, the situation is getting much better as well, with all major engines gaining Vulkan support. Common middleware like Umbra 3D also often supports Linux these days.
It's $CURRENT_YEAR. Just let people write ≠ for ≠ already.
Some aspects of 'math' came along with arabic, but Roman Numerals work fine for their situation, at that time.

In conversation, it's just the I-M/0-1000 range for instance, learning how to notate that number is a different issue.

Notation is somewhat straight-forward: When you get to 4, the number undergoes a state change to 'subtract from the next number, dropping everything behind it, and we're in a new state so "the" number is changed to 5' so III becomes IV. Otherwise, just keep adding 1. That should work, adding to the previous rules as the state changes. Going to X leaves the V rules in place.

So it would be a XXXII-bit computer, for example.