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It doesn't mean useful, but in my opinion it definitely means powerful. Being expressive enough to describe any possible algorithm is a power. No self respecting super hero would deny that, not even TypeScript's worst enemy.

But with every power comes a weakness. Compile times can no longer just seem endless. They can actually be endless, and there is no way to prove otherwise.

What I find unconvincing about many Turing complete type systems is that pragmatically speaking they are really shitty general purpose programming languages.

If we create Turing complete type systems and suffer the consequences, why not go all the way and make it actually practical to write proper meta programs the way Lisp has done?
Eye movement is more subtle than wrist movement. In the course of a normal conversation one breaks eye contact numerous times anyway.
Is there something similar to this for ubuntu ?
Can anyone speculate about the price for one unit?
Soaking lentils (and other legumes like chickpeas) cuts cooking time by about half.
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4 gigs is a bit constrained for me - browsers these days take up a lot of memory. Processing power is also a nice to have since few things are more distracting than sluggish operations. If my tests run for 10 minutes the odds of my mind wandering elsewhere increase.
One is L-shaped (artificial and flavour enhancing) the other is natural.

http://science.jrank.org/pages/4433/Monosodium-Glutamate-MSG...
You couldn't even cite it as "in preparation"?
I want to believe that, but I'm not sure that's as commonly the case as we'd imagine. There are plenty of stories of regular people, raised in liberal western democracies, being taken in by the isis propaganda.
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Once upon a time, RAM was called "core". We should go back to that. I digress...

I'll concede it's easier to write on a whiteboard, but for other situations, it seems rather silly (and very different from the concept of an acronym or initialism).
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This is great. A slightly more feature-rich alternative is Gitiles, which is used by the Chromium and Android projects.

https://gerrit.googlesource.com/gitiles/
Every time I take my Watch off during the day and my phone starts buzzing in my pocket it annoys the hell out of me.

And Apple has done a great job improving performance and user experience even in the Series 0. The only reason I'll want a new one in the Fall is a battery that's starting to lose efficiency after two+ years of heavy use & the potential for better phone-free use with AirPods, which as someone mentioned up thread is a killer combination.
True, also there are many items in the Google Design Guidelines that don't have any code example of how to implement them in real life.
How can life-extending treatments be available for all?
There is an interesting documentary about Kaczynski and the philosophy behind him by Lutz Dammbeck called "The Net": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLqrVCi3l6E Featuring a pretty pissed David among others.
It looks like the Unabomber's fears have come true... and surprise, we're still mostly OK!
Tesla's gear kicked out a lot of power in a way that I'm not sure has really been done since. At least I haven't seen photos looking as impressive as the ones of him in his lab https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e5/Tesla_co...

https://thevelvetrocket.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/nikola-t...
Be careful, those symptoms are also for a lot of other things including depression and burnout which are far more common amongst programmers.

Do get diagnosed and get a second opinion, but it might or might not be CFS.
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I'd also like to thank the other for his attempt at raising the general awareness of transaction isolation. Even when you deal with simpler databases like SQLite, isolation is a serious topic. When serializing accesses hinders performances, dealing with the "WAL mode" that grants SQLite with single-writer-multipler-readers abilities is everything but trivial, because of the huge amount of documentation that has to be read in order to reach the desired level of isolation. I've written an SQLite library in Swift that provides by default the snapshot isolation level which grants most developers with both peace of mind, and non-blocking reads. Check out its "concurrency guide" if you're interested: https://github.com/groue/GRDB.swift/blob/master/README.md#co...
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> We decided not to open source Lumberjack. At the end of the day the whole project is just some business logics around the open source projects I mentioned on this post.

:-/
Both GFRP and CFRP have polymer matrix phases, which creates a limitation on upper temperature. And both have their own corrosion problems.
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it would be nice to be an ecological judge dredd and dish out justice to polluting scum
I totally agree with you.
Sometimes you love a song from the first listen, it bites you even if came from an artist that you don't know.
My dream is a suggestion engine that "examine" the melody, the harmony, the frequencies that make the song and finds songs that are similar based on that parameters.
Probably a signal analysis could help in finding why you like that songs.
How is defunding women's studies mysogyny? There are so many crap useless majors I would defund given the opportunity.
Blaze is actually newer than Surge and has more features than Charge 2. It's the Fitbit that most competes with Apple Watch at present.
it doesn't seem to me that he's saying trans people aren't a legitimate thing. My read is that he's saying that gender is related to sex in the sense that your gender is somewhere in a spectrum of male-female (in a similar sense to masculinity-femininity). Which every single trans person I've ever met or spoken to fits into.
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Don't care about the karma, what is the goal of defending those assholes from the NSA, there is loads of things being claimed about shit happening all over the world on HN that are pretty reasonable to discuss even without hard proof, but whenever it's something totally expected the NSA is obviously doing, there's always some patriot going "ah, but there's no proof". These bastards openly deny my right to privacy because I was born in the wrong country, I'm not forgetting that, they don't deserve a benefit of the doubt, nor have they ever shown to earn it. Where is the evidence of that?
Is there an absolute minimum score, below which employees can assume to be under consideration for termination? Or is it purely a comparative measure?
I'm glad that Google is thinking along these lines - as an amateur coder, I often find the UX of some of their products (e.g. AppEngine, YouTube API) terrible, often related to documentation not actually being comprehensive enough.

And further, if only the Pandas team would also think about this a little more - surely the most frustrating, least intuitive module I've ever had the misfortune to encounter in Python.
What you complained was exactly what I would complain about Spotify's suggestions some time ago.

But as of, 3-6 months ago those daily mixes started putting some really interesting new songs that I wouldn't find otherwise. Sometimes it seems to go back to that "safe zone" but it's been such a much better experience I have been telling all my friends to try it.

I really would like to know more about their process to improve the recommendation system.
But if you got a deadline, everything over it is bad.
this was bound to happen, go ahead, give him all your money
If you read his manifesto it goes much deeper into his thought process. There are also quite a few documentaries out there that give more insight into how he gets caught.
The linked page seems to indicate Chrome is leading because people are browsing on their Android phones. So it would seem if Mozilla should concentrate on anything it would be improving the mobile experience.
Gave this a try, and it works! No weird jump after the first scroll.

Also, for anyone using 1Password, they have a beta of a multiprocess compatible FireFox extension that seems to work fine.

Thanks!
It's astonishing, the seriousness with which the media takes a terrorist's opinions, if that terrorist has the correct politics.
i flagged this because its essentially terrorist propaganda because of what the guy did. i dont know what the guidelines are regarding such things but i don't think this belongs in a civil place like this.
This is exactly the alternative to lockify.com I was looking for a few days ago.
I guarantee the meat industry will go to incredible lengths to make this company fail.
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FWIW Siri on the Watch (even my Series 0) has gotten at least an order of magnitude better, both in what it understands and how quickly and reliably it executes commands and queries.

Still a lot of room for improvement, but not the dumpster fire it was with watchOS 1.0.
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"He was given a tremendously huge task which nobody cared to properly estimate and break into smaller tasks."

This is why the person doing the work must be involved in the estimation process, that way they have ownership of the estimate and are personally accountable for it.
Just an FYI that the SRE role (https://jobs.lever.co/particle/b27e9eae-50de-49fc-8c85-1b932...) says ANYWHERE but in the description itself it says: "Located in or willing to relocate to San Francisco or Minneapolis".
Imho the Pebble style makes the most sense to me. Focus on notifications and directions to the wrist as the core feature. Everhthing else is heavy and I should only be implemnted as low-hanging fruit.

Then watches are a fun little accessory like a Bluetooth headset but it's just not that big of a deal like the iWatch. Simple non-illuminated LCD screen and low power processor means it can run for a week and is smaller than the heavier competitors.

It's a shame Pebble folded. I hope we'll see Garmin and FitBit provide successor devices.
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Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway. --Tanenbaum
Of which mainstream American media organization am I to believe radical anarchoprimitivism is the secret agenda?
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So his ideas could radicalize us here? Is this what you think? Like ISIS propaganda?

He did math too. Do you want to ban math here also?
By your advisor? I'm surprised, because most fields have standards for citing posters, websites, and misc digital media, which are not peer reviewed.
I live in Houston. My general impression is that for a good long while, Enron was indeed sort of a hole in the resume for a lot of folks. (I never worked there nor represented them.)
Then we should go to great lengths to prevent that.
Price per TB would be the more important measure for this kind of storage equipment.

For reference and to put things in context one has to look at LTO generations. From what I see their invention would fall beyond the LTO-10 standard (unless the market forces and manufacturing change dramatically by then).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_Tape-Open#Generations
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One of the main reasons tape is still used in scientific applications is its durability and robustness when transported, the price of the cartridges is less of a factor.

In exploration geophysics extremely large amounts of data are recorded onto tapes when acquiring in the field, and then either transferred over sea/land/air in a packing case to a processing centre. I wonder if this new tech will prove just as durable as current tape tech?
>XQuartz on Mac OS X sucks

I've used it, it wasn't bad at all but it definitely clashed visually (not that electron apps don't.)

>I'm not sure if there's decent Windows support.

Cygwin with X11 is one of the first things I install on my work machine whenever I get a new job. It can't do fancy GTK stuff super well but most of the apps I use work great.
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> I really hate the "too big to fail" meme and I strongly agree with Bernie in that if you are too big to fail you are too big to exist.

That seems like the most reasonable response. And yet, since the great recession, our policy has been "make 'too big to fail' even bigger".

The problem is that the banks have become too powerful for anyone to challenge. A Teddy Roosevelt type of political leader can't exist today.
I don't think it is necessary for us to behave as though we fear ideas. Erroneous though some certainly are, I confide that we can recognize and say as much.
Unique to GRDB.swift, as far as I know, is the ability to perform database writes and then wait until snapshot isolation has been reached in another connection before releasing the writing lock. This allows to read from a known database state, while allowing other writes to be performed. The ability to read for a precisely known database state allows nice features like database observation and reactive patterns, while taking advantage from the WAL mode by not holding locks longer than necessary.
we're still mostly OK

There are a lot of people who are definitely not OK. Arguably the majority of people live in a state of at least uncertainty about their future, if not outright fear for their security and safety. This is true at both a local and a global scale.
In Tokyo you can use the watch as a train card(suica), which also works for payment in many many stores/vending machines
We do a 1-5 point based system bi-yearly, but I'm actually wondering how people respond to under performing coworkers. I feel weighed down a bit because a review is coming up and I can't imagine giving said person more than a 2, but he is also a nice guy and tries very hard while simultaneously making a mess of most things.

Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. We're typically asked to discuss negative feedback with managers beforehand and it's important to note that these reviews are not anonymous.
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>it allows the filesystem to implement some interesting features (e.g. snapshots) in a more efficient way.

Interesting features are worthless when reading and writing data is prohibitively slow. Or when there are documented cases where updating a file in random-access manner can cause its storage requirement to balloon to blocks^2.
For what it's worth, the Apple Watch is something I haven't bought yet but have intended to buy since it was announced. There might be a lot of people who have been waiting a couple generations, or who just didn't think the existing ones were compelling enough to buy them over some other thing.
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> Also true of every programming language, except for the abandoned ones. :)

You are throwing some hyperbole around here. We are discussing the shifting foundation for abstractions in Elm, and I'm pointing out that Elm is a young language that has changed its design patterns significantly in the last year or two, the language is not so mature yet, and is probably years from 1.0 stability. That's a perfectly valid point to make in any discussion about the language's design choices. Your blanket generalization about all programming languages is perhaps your way of agreeing with some developers' frustrations in Elm. It kind of reminds me of the Steve Jobs' excuse during the iPhone 4 antennagate when he slyly admitted to the problems by saying "look, all cell phones have problems."
Note that commercial tape cartridges max out at 15TB - so, less than the theoretical amount enabled by the 2010 breakthrough.

Will be a long time and quite expensive when/if these finally hit the market.

I would love to store backups on tape at home. Unfortunately harddrives are still the cheapest option in practice, and they are a bit too expensive and a bit impractical to comfortably use as offline storage (and transfer) for home use (my opinion / use case).
To the extent that this article is correct, financial services would be affected.
There doesn't appear to be anything at #2 - https://github.com/huawei-cloudfederation/redis-operator.
What could also help in this case is "collaborative filtering", [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaborative_filtering
> ...image representations of audio are horrible representations of it (other than for temporal changes).

Yes, and thus the reason why the classifier was so good at recognizing trance...it's one of the few genres that locks in at around 144bpm.
Oh snap. :D

I couldn't resist writing that so I read the article looking for something substantive to include as a sop to my conscience.

He didn't contextualize or establish the existence of the problem to my satisfaction. A naive reader would assume that he is that he is arguing against academics who feel literally entitled to plagiarize pre-print publications. I don't buy it. I suspect that the actual debate he's engaged in involves is better characterized by the following three quotes:

"…many authors are peeved, pricked, piqued, and provoked by requests from reviewers that they cite papers which are only published on the arXiv preprint"

"Any time that our work follows … ideas from other people, and when we can reasonably be expected to be aware of this, we ought to cite the related work."

"If similar work comes to our attention during a proper literature review, we ought to cite it."

To which the counter-argument would the following, in his closing passage:

"Many reviewers are abusing the system and asking for ridiculous comparison to recently-posted preprint papers…"

This acknowledgement comes too late to be given any useful answer, even though one can easily see it to be the core of a real problem; the reviewers, after all, are serving as gatekeepers to publication, and if one should not put "too much faith in … the overworked cohort of peer reviewers, roughly 30% of whom typically fail to even comprehend the basic outline of the paper," then it is probably extremely frustrating when someone insists that you cite papers that you haven't read in your bibliography as 'related literature', let alone papers you have read and dismissed as insufficiently important to refer your reader to, let alone papers that were clearly written by the reviewer's pet pony in crayon on a stable wall before being photographed and uploaded to the arXiv as uncompressed IMG files.
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"Never go to sea with two chronometers; take one or three."

- adage cited in the Mythical Man Month
This is the second time in recent days that Kaczynski's writings have been the subject of HN discussion. Rather than rehearse what I had to say then, I'll just link it: https://aaron-m.com/2017/07/09/on-kaczynski
If the Unabomber had been smart enough he would have realized that these fears are actually contemplated by others and regarded as known risks.
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That is actually the one area where Firefox is already better for me, because of extension support. Having an ad blocker on mobile devices is priceless.
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Hard to say. That type of capacity isn't even on the LTO road map yet, and IBM is one of the controlling companies there.

LTO-7 currently holds about 6TB uncompressed, and they're about $100 per cartridge. LTO-8 will double the storage, and will probably be available by the end of next year. I'd guess the cartridges will be more expensive initially, but it's hard to say what the premium will be.
I looked up M77 on Wikipedia, and this image is already there, complete with asteroid streak.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dazzling_galaxy_Messier_7...
Or just do raidz6 in ZFS and call it a day.
You don't know many people who worked for Microsoft? They would let go the bottom 10% of their staff every year.

"Best to Worst Ranking" is the most toxic and destructive environments.

Manu Cornet famous organization chart is the best example of this. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e1/%22Org_c...
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terrorism is sort of like speading your ideas by inflicting violence to make headlines. i would not want such tactics to be rewarded in any way. i believe in arguing for your ideas without the use of violence to 'market' them. I would not like to endorse a math publication written by a terrorist. but in addition, this document explicitly references the violence he inflicted on his victim.
I had the first generation (Series 0) watch, got it when it first came out. Overall, I found it useless and frustrating. The big conveniences for me, though were:

(1) Tracking exercise.

(2) Telling me where and when my next meeting was: timeliness improved dramatically.

Big downsides for me:

(1) Charging it was annoying and frustrating, and traveling with it was worse. Turned into a giant spaghetti ball of lightning, inductive and laptop, to the point where I just stopped bringing it with me. It can't be better with Type-C can it? I generally use my laptop to charge the other things I have on my so another adapter?

(2) Leaving my job for a gap year meant no meetings.

(3) I had to take my phone anyways to listen to music, so I just used RunKeeper there, so another thing that didn't have to get sweaty. Apple's headphones just aren't very good. There's no seal, they fall out, the audio quality is mediocre. A $100 pair of Shure headphones is life changing and cannot be attached to a watch.

(4) Input is awful. Siri is the only way to input text and when you use it, if it gets a word wrong, god help you if you want to try and correct it. After a few failed substitution attempts I would just get my phone out due to sheer frustration.

(5) I had to take it off to type, the feel of it digging into my laptop and propping up my wrist drove my crazy.

(6) Staring at your wrist every time it taps on you tells the person you're with I DON'T WANT TO BE HERE. "Oh, sorry, no, my watch keeps tapping my wrist" gets old, fast. The social cues you send off just suck.

I just didn't see the value. Used it for 4 months, threw it into a drawer for 6, then sold if for 33% of its value. Didn't even hold value like an Apple product. This is no iPod, it's an iPad -- a category leader, maybe, but a small category. It doesn't do anything particularly well, just a bunch of stuff, kinda poorly.
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Sure, but the issue could be configuration, drive, interface, etc. It's impossible to speculate in, but what we know is you have trouble with one machine, and it's the only one that has used XFS. It's unfortunate, but likely a coincidence, or at least unrelated to XFS at its core.

I've been using XFS for 10 years without the issues you seem to be having.