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Sadly, Fiskars is one of those declining companies that are taking part in a race to the bottom with price and quality. Being from Finland (where Fiskars is from), it's often the default go-to brand for gardening equipment and similar. I bought a shovel that bent before I got any dirt moved with it. Recently I saw them sell products with "quick change" handles, selling expensive changeable handles to a product (some gardening tool) that should either come with a handle that lasts or an easy to replace wooden handle. Planned obsolescence and after market ripoff all the way.

Their scissors are great. Axes are alright. Although the problem with both is the gray, stainless steel they're made of (I jokingly call it "Fiskarsium"). It stays sharp-ish quite well but is really difficult to sharpen to razor sharp.

Old fashioned carbon steel would be much easier to sharpen but it rusts (if not oiled) and doesn't stay sharp as long. Perhaps it's just that modern tools are expected to do a mediocre job despite years of neglect.

Maybe I'm old fashioned when I am willing to do a few minutes of maintenance in order to get a tool that works well.

Fwiw. I bought a Swedish-made Hultafors axe with hand forged carbon steel blade and a wooden handle. You need to sharpen it regularly, oil it after use and might have to change the handle after a few years but boy does it chop wood. The downside is that I've had to explain to several people why I bought a Swedish axe and not a Fiskars.
Yeah, you might be right. I re-read all his comments. Consistent enough. Probably not a bot, just a false equivalency expert. I am being overly paranoid.
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> The only onsite equipment should be networking gear with redundant uplinks.

Good luck if the "redundant uplinks" fail, e.g. due to a large-scale terroristic attack (no matter if physical or electronical), or if the cloud breaks down - even Amazon can have multi-hour outages - or if there's a virus propagating through the cloud system. For what it's worth, the NHS got hit by both a virus (Wannacry, 2017 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/05/13/nhs-cyber-attack-...) and an email-bomb DoS (2016 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-37979456).

With on-site IT you can at least make daily (or hourly) tape backups of everything and can properly store and retrieve them, good luck doing so with Amazon Glacier.

Just imagine an entire country unable to provide qualified medical assistance because a cloud provider goes down. And yes you do ALWAYS need access to a patient's background info, for example to look up if the patient is allergic to some medicine.
I'm curious as to why you have the roasters grind the beans for you. Quality of ground coffee deteriorates much faster than whole beans. It depends on the grind size, but I'm pretty sure it's hours compared to weeks. A manual grinder like the Hario Skerton only costs $40 which is about the cost of a month of coffee beans for people who drink a cup or 2 every day.
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Can it wait until tomorrow? The car rental place doesn't open until 8.
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Checksumming is free on todays CPUs, you could use your argument agains filesystem journaling as well. But for some reason you are not proposing using ext2? Why not? Why waste clock cycles on a journal when you might not need it? This truly is a non-issue but in very exceptional circumstances, and in such you don't use a general purpose filesystem anyway.

Checksumming and snapshots etc. give substantial game-changing improvements to the whole system. More than a journaling filesystem ever did. They also provide means as to vastly simplify other tasks. Roll-back last system-wide update? Done. Backup consistency? Free and vastly simplified.

I disagree, these are properties that are expected of any decent general purpose filesystem. If you fall into a niche that doesn't, fine, use one of the many alternatives. But this should be the default for all user-facing machines as well as servers.
The black CEO of Merck resigned from the council when the President failed to denounce white supremacists in Charlottesville (blatantly so, watch the entire raw video through the bill signing). The CEO of Merck was then attacked on Twitter via the @realDonaldTrump account. Later, Under Armour and Intel CEOs both resigned from the council. Both white. Neither were attacked on Twitter.

Yesterday, the President went on TV again and gave a speech denouncing the KKK and white supremacists. The sincerity of the speech was called into question due to the late timing and his delivery. Yesterday evening, the @realDonaldTrump account retweeted an Alt Right leader's tweet about unreported violence in Chicago over the weekend. The tweet was, subjectively, a racist dog whistle that essentially translates to, "Sure a white supremacist killed a woman at our alt right rally on Saturday, but look at what black people did in Chicago!"

Explain to me how this is a self-fulfilling narrative? It has nothing to do with the news media and everything to do with the President himself on TV and Twitter.
> get easy access to a Singapore travel permit

You need a permit?
The right-wing violence runs a lot further than that, all the way back to the Civil War and the people who went to war to defend their "right" to violence against black people. There is a continuous line between that and today. The Charlottesville protests were centered on a statue: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/13/us/charlottesville-rally-...
> Two Republican lawmakers in North Dakota started the trend in January when they introduced a bill that would protect motorists who hit pedestrians blocking traffic, as long as the consequences are unintentional.
Agreed. And I understand the impulse. The irony is that this is in many ways the same tendency that powers racism, sexism, stereotypes in general. This very human impulse to label and identify and place in groups of known friends and enemies even based on incomplete data and uncertainty.

I have no doubt that for many SJW's they labeled this guy a sexist and misogynist nearly instantly based just upon the subject matter.

I also have no doubt that many members of the alt-right did so as well and identified him as one of their own.

For me, the memo is incomplete data and not dispositive. But the impulse still tugs in the back of my head...
I drink a cup of coffee every day. If I go a day without it, then I'll get a minor headache around 4pm and then the next day I'll be fine. It heavily depends on the person.
> And _after_ all this work is done, I seriously doubt you'll be able to control memory usage as well as Rust does now.

Which might be totally irrelevant in most use cases, if it is within the desired application bounds.

I have replaced more C++ systems with Java and .NET solutions than the other way around.
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Wasn't noise. You called out poor design.
Same here. Except I don't notice any signs of withdrawal (and I drink multiple cups a day). There are people who drink a pot plus a day, maybe those are the ones who would really benefit.
> Then how, as an American, do you justify Ag_gag laws?

I don't, and they have been repeatedly struck down by our courts. Checks and balances between overzealous legislators and our judicial branch.
Congratulations, very well done.
I love this comment because this is how I always feel.

Programming just feels like a large game of managing expectations. It often feels like I never have time to do anything "right", so I have to make trade-offs before some impending deadline. This is a serious source of discomfort in this profession that never seems to want to go away.
You're completely right, it seems a little counterintuitive but one thing I learned early on while building a different community site (Designer News) was the way to build a wholesome community was to be invite only in the beginning. That and real first and last names.

Which means it's a poor user experience. Sorry for the trouble, I wonder if any folks have better ideas here?
In the 1980's Japan had a "fifth generation" computer project which was a huge commitment to AI. AI appeals as a project for governments and large organizations (IBM) that want to direct goals from the top down. It is difficult to do, understandable as a goal, and could in theory serve many purposes.
> This should quickly be declared illegal, if not already.

Dropping coverage like that is illegal already.

> If they ... increase premiums based on this, they are no longer an "insurance company". I don't know what we would call them.

Quite the contrary - an insurance company, by definition, is expected to price insured entities based on the expected future payouts (ie, the levels of risk). More specifically, the sum of all expected future premiums that a patient pays should be slightly more than the sum of all expected future claims for that patient.

If you're expecting it to behave otherwise, then you're looking for something that isn't insurance - insurance is, by definition, a model that relates risk and price.
Lots of comments condemning Trump's condemnation of (the Nazi collaborator) Soros funded Antifa & BLM and white supremacists. I wonder who is responsible for the curiously pseudo-liberal turn in the comments here.

Anyway, Merk, Intel, and so on exemplify all that is wrong with the fringe in politics that seeks to use violence as a means to an end. Anyone with any sense can see this for what it is, however, and no one is buying the mainstream narrative - the MSM and these corporate fascists are only painting a larger target on themselves.
The primary cause of the gap is unknown and may very well not be sexism.

And stating that does not make me sexist. If you believe it does, then you are not using reason to arrive at that conclusion. It is a logical fallacy.
> organizing the world's information and making accessible

That's a corporate business objective. It doesn't give every Google employee the right to publicly say what they want, when they want, using company systems, and when engaged in their job.
It would be pretty good business as a very healthy person to walk around with your arms full of other people's trackers.
> MoviePass could lose a lot of money subsidizing people’s movie habits. So the company also raised cash on Tuesday by selling a majority stake to Helios and Matheson Analytics Inc., a small, publicly traded data firm in New York. The companies declined to comment on terms of the financing but said MoviePass intends to hold an initial public offering by March.

Sounds super sustainable.
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So soon we'll get to pay $12 for a soda instead of $5?
Well, he was studying in the West and was travelling alone at that time.

Surely that's a bit "deviant".
This discussion is not a binary question of right vs. wrong. OP said it was "ridiculous" not to view range and charging time as a "huge downside." Perhaps if EVs were marketed toward people who drive 50-60K miles/year as OP does (estimate based on often driving more than 250 miles in a single trip), that would be a legitimate criticism. But for many typical driving profiles (US average around 15K miles/year, average trip < 50 miles), current-generation EVs work fine, and their owners are happy. EVs work for most people, but not for OP. Can't both be true at the same time?

BTW the same discussion happened in the mid-2000s with smartphones. People were apparently ridiculous for giving up week-long battery life for something that has to charge at least daily. Yet for many, the benefits outweigh the costs. Smartphone battery life isn't ridiculous. It's just a better fit for some people than for others.
Entirely possible: The paper's author has actually given lectures on game theory.
A non-academic book for working programmers is spot on.
>“People really do want to go more often,” Lowe said. “They just don’t like the transaction.”

It's true. I've been a avid movie goer since I was a young kid. It's the whole experience. I love seeing new movies on big screens, I like the familiarity of movie theaters (pick any theater anywhere and you know exactly how the process will go start to finish), and I like having a reason to leave the house and "do something" without having to make an elaborate plan.

The biggest hurdle preventing me from going multiple times per week is the cost of the ticket + concessions (its part of the experience!).

I hope this works out in the long run, I just signed up and hope the price point will stick.
I don't disagree with what you're saying in the more general case.

In this case, though, we're talking about programming games using assembly language for outdated hardware, and doing so for no real technical reason. There's little definitive in software development, but we can agree on this: avoid assembly language whenever it's not mandatory for performance/memory/platform reasons. Software written in assembly is harder to understand, harder to fix, and harder to change. This is one case where using relatively modern tools (i.e. higher level languages) is an unambiguous win.

I do agree old tech has an indisputable charm. That's not what I'm arguing against here. If you want to write retrogames using old-fashioned assembly just because you can, that's fine! It will just be harder.
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> I was a member of a Unitarian Universalist congregation, one of the most liberal American sects. The sermon more or less boiled down to, "Meh, they had it coming".

Who was the speaker of that sermon? I'd love to email them and get the real story, because that smells suspiciously like confirmation bias in your summary.
Haha, Occam failed you this time ;)
I imagine someone working out with like 6 fitness trackers attached to them.
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There aren't. For most apps, producing 32-bit-only is preferable. If you're going to produce 32-bit and 64-bit, you should make available a stub installer that downloads the right one or an installer with both in it because most users have no idea if their OS is 32-bit or 64-bit. Mainly because they don't even know what that means.
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>> Honestly, it sounds like maybe you just don't have ethics, period.

I thought that was obvious. I'm speaking about investing, the other things you added don't enter my thought process, they are irrelevant to investing.

Stand on your moral soapboxes if you must, but this is about investing. I'm profitable, and one of the keys to that is not caring about anything other than being profitable. Don't handicap yourself, the sharks you are playing against certainly don't.
The code is on github. May be suitable for educational purposes.

https://github.com/valiafetisov/draw-a-rectangle
I assumed there must be something like this, but that notation is a pain.

What's wrong with something like "set arr idx newvalue"?
The question then is:

Is the available data more useful than a coin-flip, which would be the alternative method of making a decision.

On the other hand, a coin-flip is probably the better tool. If you can't generate enough data for a statistical sample, then you're probably wasting your time creating an alternative version and setting up an A/B test.
Sounds like Cineworld's Unlimited Card, albeit cheaper.
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Aaronsen mentioned this as well, friends and colleagues warned him about this "dogwhistling" (a term I've never heard before). The concern was that because he wasn't clearly stating his position, people would assume the worst.

This was much the same criticism leveled against Donald Trump. Because he did not clear denounce the racist activities in Charlottesville, he could be interpreted as implying support.

Personally, I am not seeing the lack of things that are actually sexist in Damore's memo. His one-sided and dishonest interpretations of his sources alone make his sexism clear and it's the same kind of dishonest interpretations we see from the racists and the sexists.
The first release of PostgreSQL that had synchronous replication was released in September 2011.

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/release-9-1.html
>For blockchain, I couldn't find his Dutch handicap parking story via Google for more details so I don't know if a traditional central database would solve the same exact problem.

Maybe the "exact same problem" is the wrong thing to try to solve? It might not be a problem in the first place (by itself), just a re-formulation of the actual problem so that it's solvable by blockchain, which seems to be the author's point.
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> I think there is an analogy to the body's defenses against viruses. The body recognizes certain shapes from the outside surface of viruses and attacks anything sharing those shapes.

This is quite scary. This is probably how racism begins in the first place. Here, your defence mechanism seems to help you find bigots. But the same process probably is used by bigots to be prejudiced against others based on their "shapes". Imagine a bigot who has been tuned to view brown people as potential threats. Even if they interact with a brown person nominally, their "defense mechanism" will concoct a reality based on the "pattern matching ".

I think this is a very scary sentiment and that we should try to go beyond prejudice and this type of defense mechanism. We should debate with each other without appealing to our own prejudices.

There are many good arguments against the memo. I don't think it helps to be instantly prejudiced against it. We can address it reasonably.
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So the only crazy part of this plan is the $10 a month. Cineworld in the UK have the Unlimited card for years which is effectively the same[1], but costs £17.90 a month (~$23).

[1] https://www.cineworld.co.uk/unlimited
Yeah, I don't get it. I don't see how the Uber subsidies make sense either, but at least they have a plan on paper as to how it eventually pans out.

If these guys have such a plan, it's not mentioned in the article. Maybe the plan is to squeeze theaters after they get a foothold?
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Our team uses skype for business for our standup. We're spread all around Europe so we don't have the choice of an in-person meeting.

In my opinion they tend to take a little longer than a traditional standup but we do go more in depth when discussing issues we might be having. Usually it takes 15 minutes.
He explains why he did it, though.

> However, a few people who I like and respect accused me of “dogwhistling.” They warned, in particular, that if I wouldn’t just come out and say what I thought about the James Damore Google memo thing, then people would assume the very worst[...]
If we wrote off every great thinker who also thought or did 'bad stuff', we would be quite poor technologically and philisophically.

Think further man.
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Obama was a decent human being and Trump had to coerced into being one, yep. I was just pointing out "left wing" violence. Insofar as skinheads are "right wing".
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This model introduces disincentives to building value since they don't actually want their subscribers USING the service. They just want them paying for it and forgetting about it like a gym membership. Also at $10 a month wouldn't a subscriber have to average <0.7 movies a month to break even? Monetizing with targeted ads doesn't seem like they'll be able to make their money back. Is there something I'm missing here?
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Your comment doesn't make it justice.

The audio is totally amazing! One of the most significant silences I've heard in a long time.
Not a single page even mentions that it's invite only =/. Context for that would be a good start heh
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I graduated from the program in December and I found it incredibly rewarding. There are a lot of great classes, and I learned a ton - in particular, the machine learning and reinforcement learning courses were top notch, as we're the systems programming ones.

One thing I'd warn though is that you'll get out of the program what you put into it - so it's really up to you to choose classes that will set up your career the way that you want it.
> What's wrong with something like "set arr idx newvalue"?

Nothing. See here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15017853

It's called "writeArray".
How is this remotely profitable? Movie tickets where I live are pushing $20 a ticket as all the theaters have been re-done as up-scale theaters with padded reclining chairs and/or food service because the standard model of cheap seats packed in as tightly as possible with the smallest screen tolerable doesn't seem to be working anymore. Even the tightly run Arclight theaters are little more than lipstick on a pig at this point. Tolerable, but nothing special.

If I had to bet, I'd say that we're only going to the movies less and it will continue to be rebranded as a premium experience. The cheap seats model isn't any better than my modest living room system and about 10x less convenient. The only difference is I need to wait a couple months before the movie is available in my home. Hollywood could change that overnight is they chose to.

I'm not even going to go into how terrible the standard theater experience is. Smelly floors, beat up seats, loud people, smartphone lights, absurdly priced concessions, unhealthy concession offerings, poor bathroom facilities, paying for parking, 10-20 minutes of trailers, etc.
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Forget using free services to give away my data, I can now pay money for the honor!

I hope this shit dies a quick and painful death.
Next time I visit my parents I'll have to see if I can get their old Mac LC chugging again. Apple built them like tanks back then, I wouldn't be surprised if it still works. The Hard Drive is the biggest question mark.
How have I never seen this before!!
"Given its position as a post-8th gen architecture, Ice Lake is likely to hit sometime in 2018, perhaps 2019, depending on Intel’s rate of progress with larger chips and the 10+ process. Intel’s other market segments, such as FPGAs (Altera), Xeon Phi (MIC) and custom foundry partners, are also in the mix to get into some 10nm action."

Could we speculate it was a "forced reveal" in order to counter AMD's latest releases? This Ice Lake is definitely not coming anytime soon.
We had this in the UK about 15 years ago, I recall it was a tenner a month, Virgin cinema possibly? with some exclusions, maybe it was friday/saturday and premiere nights, you might get value for first month or two but after that there was only two films a month at best worth seeing which you'd force yourself to do, novelty faded quickly, after that it had the same value for money as a gym membership in February.
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