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The car could go autonomous 99.9% of the time but have a human take over if something weird happens. For deliveries and the like.
I'd be shocked if there are more than one or two (if any) that aren't offered the standard deal
Thanks, I forgot that by skimming the article. This makes it rather simple. A flat out lie and an unreasonable way to treat an "accident" leaves not much room for the defense.
In our industry it's a reasonable assumption we are going to live well past the age where most of us can find work.
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>When someone seriously suggests to 'reinvent the wheel' it is time to re-focus.

Goodyear released spherical wheels. It's not that stupid at all to reinvent the wheel, sometimes: https://www.sciencealert.com/watch-goodyear-unveils-the-futu...
I really wish developers stop using the JS editors and switch to platform specific editors. It's 2017 and all platforms have great native text editors, like Notepad++, GEdit, and if you need cross-platform, Sublime text.

I don't see the point I using these electron based editors which waste tons of CPU cycles, and provide nothing of value.
There's always something. Look at the OJ Simpson case. Bizzare to say the least, especially the whole Mark Furhman saga.
People shouldn't be harassed online, but they should be open to having their ideas, thoughts and beliefs challenged in a respectful way.
I highlight text as I'm reading too, clicking very fast as I do. Every time one of those share boxes pops up and because of my fast clicking I accidentally click some 'tweet highlighted text' button I almost have an aneurysm.
Neovim's UIs, yeah, plus you can (I guess) have a plugin that will open you a browser of choice in a separate tab or windowr, or pane or whatever with autoreload. This was done many times different ways before.

PS (this part was ment for a deleted comment):

I do agree that Atom's\Code's approach is friendlier of course. Still not an excuse for this kind of memory consumption, really. First and foremost this is a text editor. Making and assumption that the said text can't be more that a few Mb is stange.

I can open IDEA which is heavy Java IDE filled with so much functionality Atom can only dream of, and still - it won't eat more than 2-3Gb on a worst day.
Reminds me of this bike concept going around FB a while back.

http://www.designlaunches.com/transport/ibike_the_apple_bike...

It looks kind of cool, but a bike without spokes is a really bad idea.

Spokes give very high strength to weight ration for wheels. And having cog teeth close to the wheels is guaranteed to get clogged with crap. But it looks kind of "cool" to those who don't know any better.
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Everyone is. A company will always fire the troublemaker, because it's a PR nightmare if they don't.
All technologies used in the iPhone were proven - what Apple did right is to combine them in a much better way than the previous iterations.

With self driving cars, it's not about usability/utility, it's still about having the basic tech work.
I live on ~30% of my income, which I would consider a modest "upper entry level developer" in my country.
I don't feel like I sacrifice anything, though it is true that I'm lucky to share an already cheap apartment with my SO. (But we also only have heating in two of our rooms, and not even a sink in the bathroom - we brush our teeth in the kitchen. I guess this would already be inacceptable for many...)
I don't own a car because I can bike or walk everywhere. I only use prepaid cards for my mobile phone, no data plan, because I always found the idea of paying for mobile internet ridiculous when there is wifi all around us.
(Plus, I don't like how being online all the times makes me check my phone so often.) I don't need a new shiny phone every two years and will use my Fairphone 2 until it dies on me.
I do eat out 3-4 times a week for lunch at work, but when at home I cook 99% of the time. Sometimes I eat out with friends, go to the cinema etc. I buy clothes maybe once or twice a year but avoid expensive brands like the plague, except for things like running shoes or other "long term equipment".

When it comes to my hobbies, I don't sacrifice anything, but I naturally like to do things that are inexpensive or for free like excercising and spending time outdoors, reading, watching movies...
My most expensive hobby is probably indoor rock-climbing, which I don't do that often sadly, and the subscription to the martial arts club that I train at weekly. I just spent almost 500€ to attend PyCon this year, and nearly three times that much for my yearly holiday.

For me it's not even a concious act of saving, I just naturally live this way and don't need much. I don't like owning too many things, they feel like a burden.
The money keeps accumulating (I saved 30K€ the last two years, living as described above), and I honestly don't know what to do with it or how to use it wisely in regards of the future...
Real estate seems like a good investment, but comes with its own problems.
Little bit off topic but if you are afraid of opening large files on Mac OS, try Hex Fiend.
It will open for example a 6GB database dump in mili-seconds (no joke) and it will let you search anything in it without you waiting.

I just tested the memory usage with that 6GB dump file and it only requires 21MB to open that file.

I discovered this program while checking who is behind my favorite shell (Fish Shell) :)

http://ridiculousfish.com/
was a failure from the beginning...
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Not for me (BiH) - not that anybody cares about BiH, just wanted to pitch in :)
I like to read but I don't challenge myself all that much so I'm afraid I'll be in over my head, would you recommend checking something out to sort of "prepare" myself?

Like watching Tarkovsky straight from Michael Bay is not something I'd recommend, I'd tell them to watch some Nolan for contemporary, then Kubrick and stuff before going for Solaris. Is there an equivalent?
You're missing my point. It may not be stupid to reinvent the wheel at all. But that's not a project that you should mix with inventing a self driving car unless you conclude that spherical wheels are the only way a self driving car will ever become a reality.

Similar to how every software application project could theoretically result in a new database, a new operating system and if you really want to go all out a new CPU it is much more efficient to concentrate on your application if you actually want to see it go to market.

> Goodyear released spherical wheels.

No, they didn't, that's just some fancy CG stuff, not an actual product.

Also, it just so happens that Good Year is in the wheels-and-tires business so for them such research makes good sense, and of course it is a theory of a concept, not an actual proof of concept much less something that they are ready to roll out. It's more like serious science fiction even than actual science, it's how things maybe could work, not how they actually work.
How does this compare to other full(er) featured editors like IntelliJ? I don't remember it taking that much RAM, and it's a workhorse.
>I couldn't write a plugin for Sublime to embed a web browser.

Yes - that is true. and, with atom basically being a web browser, it is trivial for them to do it.

>I couldn't write a plugin for Sublime to display images inline by fetching their URL if found in the source

I actually think that is now possible in ST3. With the new "Phantom" plugin API it can certainly inject a subset of html (including <img/> tags) into the view.
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Sublime has minihtml, just in case:

https://www.sublimetext.com/docs/3/minihtml.html

It is a bit different from when you are using a browser trying to look like a text editor, but still.
Of course, this means a student can start in this electric trainer, and focus on learning the flying right off the bat.

When a student has that down, they can graduate up to a trainer with an ICE, and then learn all of that stuff.

Exactly like learning to drive a car in an automatic first, then once you have the actual vehicle control/traffic/etc down, you graduate up to a stick shift.
emphasize community over tech

...speechless.

client: Why is there only clear text and flashing ads on my screen?

developer: Oh, yes - we implemented the new ayo libraries!

client: This looks like shit. Give me my site back!

developer: but, you don't understand! The new libraries are great, they emphasize community over tech!

client: [......]

client: [calls her P.A.] Richard, go find me a new tech team.
Every time someone says "Why should it be so hard to.." with software it's because they've not thought about the requirements. If you break down "a live grid of thumbnails" it's actually a relatively complex app even if you're just making an MVP. Even if you're prescriptive about things like the number of links in the list, the size of thumbnails, the layout of the thumbnails, the way the user manages what links they see, the regularity of updates, you're still left with an application that needs a basic list CRUD UI, a grid of thumbnails, something to render a screenshot of the website to a thumbnail, code to handle the site being unavailable or un-rendererable, a backend to store the list data and thumbnail images, maybe something to check to see if the site has actually changed (which can be tricky if it loads content with JS). And that's before the user's ask for features like drag and drop grid reordering, update scheduling, etc.

That's not to suggest it'd take more than half a day to knock something together, but that's more down to the awesome ecosystem of software libraries than it being a simple project. To write an app from scratch in, say, C++ would be a huge project.
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From a technical perspective, I'm not quite so bothered by what data Mozilla collects about me, how often, &c. I'm happy to opt-in to Telemetry and don't mind if it's extremely "comprehensive" in what it measures.

The real issue here is with ethos and perspective. I use Firefox because the ethos of the company and its employees, and their general "take" on issues like this allows (or has allowed) me a general sense of trust in them.

Even the very existence of this discussion erodes that trust. This says to me "the people making this browser don't understand the importance of consent, and have a vastly different perspective on the value of privacy to mine".

If your developers need more data from Telemetry, get consent and collect more data. Establish trust in users in what you do with that data.
No tragic failure ever said that either.
That was the part of the sentiment of the quote - the point is that Vim is notable for 2 distinct, but unfortunately inseparable, reasons;

1. Modal editing.
2. One of the most ubiquitous, lightweight, stable and extensible editors in existence.

I just want there to be at least a semblance of a possibility to separate these 2 things.
Consequently, "You should quit your lofty goals and revert to those more practical in nature." should've been said to a lot of people who didn't accomplish anything.

That's how selection bias works.

I think the nature of this debate is such that we'll always settle on the idea that "one ideology fits all" has never worked and will never work.

A few people doing great is important for the world, and so is a lot of people doing okay-to-good. Which one is more important can be your personal POV, but it's easy to see that neither is worth discarding.
We are past the point were the problem is resources scarcity, be it products or workforce.

We are discussing about resource allocation. Money is the accepted way of influencing resource allocation.

Telling people they should not save money is effectively telling them to give up their influence on resource allocation.

The consequences of not being able influence resource allocation can be dire: If you have no leverage, you may die of sickness or outright starvation.
> Engineers need to build LEDs that more efficiently convert electrons into light, if the devices are to become the future of artificial lighting, as many expect they will.

I was under the impression that LEDs were already the present of artificial lighting...
I'd argue it's just much easier to get to $20k MRR than it used to be. A lot of companies barely have traction before YC and get it during YC, and $20k isn't that hard to get to.
I don't experience any lag with current word except for very large files. It's slightly less responsive than typing in vim, but most operations feel instant.
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Here's the doc for the curious http://docs.racket-lang.org/syntax/stxparse-intro.html

Interesting system indeed
I've noticed this same thing, but don't quite follow the logic fully.

Like, why don't they just PCP or Hire Purchase a cheaper car. They'd get whatever benefit the PCP provides, and spend less money. What about the PCP convinces them (rightly or wrongly) that they can afford those cars?

There's so many people doing it I feel I must be the one that is wrong, and there's some tax dodge or something they are taking advantage of.
the hero image with vim meanings on keyboard keys is pretty and apropos. my eyes were drawn to it and I found a typo:

[pushes up glasses]

There aren't ex commands ":ZZ" / ":ZQ", but "ZZ" and "ZQ" are normal mode commands.
The congregation in question had to sneak out the back fearing for their lives, and they're complaining that the police did not react to their appeals for protection.

So, yes, I do believe that these people would probably deserve a bit of the support that some programmer at google receives after being fired for being slightly stupid.

I wouldn't even doubt that almost everyone would declare their support if asked (Presidents excepted). It just seems as if nobody particularly cares enough about it, emotionally, to go out of their way to show their disapproval in the same way they do on other issues.

Considering the accusations against the police, such support would also help to actually determine what, if anything, went wrong, and could possibly prevent a repetition, or escalation.

If everyone just shrugs their shoulders and says "yeah, I guess that's bad. Obviously", there's no pressure to do anything that could potentially harm the careers of those involved.
It's not only about Gmail or contacts. I have literally all my photos in Google Photos. Imagine losing all of them if my account gets deactivated for some reason. I'll be downloading pretty soon.
> The cloud service didn't take a life on its own - in the very early days there was just EC2 and S3, nothing else

Just a minor point of correction: Actually SQS was first.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-blog-the-first-five-yea...
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> Software today is not as "soft" as one would've hoped, fifty years ago. It's not malleable. It's not composable. It's barely reactive.

That would seem to be the point the OP is making.
We actually do live in fear of the mobs, and in the future I foresee more anonymous / distributed content on the Internet and more services / projects facilitating the publication of such a content (https://ipfs.io/, https://datproject.org/, http://telegra.ph/).

What if Damore circulated his memo anonymously an untraceably? He would still be at Google's. Just wait until anyone gets the hint. You can't really just shut people up :)
In theory, irreversible computations have to produce heat, while reversible do not. In practice this is mostly irrelevant, because the heat involved is so minuscule that there will always be other significantly larger sources of inefficiency involved. Also it is somewhat questionable whether one could actually construct physical realization of useful logic primitive that is truly reversible.
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Zork was implemented in a dialect of LISP called "MDL" aka "MIT Design Language" aka "Muddle" [1], which ZIL was based on.

Here's the original MDL source code, that people should study in school, which reads like an epic poem about heroic adventures such as Beowulf! [2]

I'd love for some academic egghead literary critic type to deconstruct [3] the Zork MDL source code, like Chaim Gingold deconstructed SimCity for their PhD thesis. [4]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDL_(programming_language)

[2] https://github.com/itafroma/zork-mdl

[3] http://www.fudco.com/chip/deconstr.html

[4] https://pqdtopen.proquest.com/doc/1806122688.html?FMT=ABS

http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/doc/1806122688.html?FMT=AI

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DNAvqvKsuLGih8dWz9feEjea...
He's not saying it should be completely deflated, it just shouldn't be at max pressure; you can control the amount of deformation with pressure.
Being in 2 slack teams use up as much memory as the entire visual studio 2017 does on my machine.

It is electron that is the root cause here and it is the same for all electron based apps.
Can anybody identify the PDF annotation app that G. Guidall is using in this picture?

https://static01.nyt.com/images/2017/08/15/arts/00AUDIOKING2...
It's not that difficult to keep pace with inflation and beyond over the long term. I'm not going to give financial advice here but if you look there is tons of useful information out there. You will need to educate yourself though, in particular, learn the common mistakes.
Frankly, VS Code is WAY better in terms of plugin and configuration than any of the editors you mention.. from git integration, search, integrated terminal, integrated debugging with ui driven break points, etc, not even counting plugins. None of the editors you mention support those features.

It's not wasting CPU cycles, and frankly even if it is, it's better than wasting my cycles having to switch between several terminal windows, apps, and file system browsers all because you don't think I shouldn't use an electron app.
So in other words use Sublime, or Vim.
Not just that, for example GitKraken uses Electron, and consumes ~700MB RAM, compared to Smartgit that takes only 120MB on my machine.
Even though a lot of people hate it, nano is a good editor as it has been stated in the stats. Maybe nano is a screwdriver what vim is a complete toolbox, and sublime a mechanical workshop (but paying a graphical requirement, like a rental fee)... Usually you only need to tighten a screw, other times fix a hose, others repair a car ;)
Whereas we already know since the 19th century that capitalism is criminal the more it is enforced?

If your government is criminal it doesn't matter if you're living in a capitalist, socialist, communist, or pastafarian state.

I fail to see how the mixture of socialism and capitalism as it was implemented in most of Western Europe in the second half of the last century could be used as an argument for the hypothesis that "all kinds of socialism are bad".
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It's way worse than that. Less than half of respondents even have more than 10K saved. It's likely that most still won't have enough at retirement age to do so.
It's even mentioned in the article:

> Some modern CPUs have completely different branch predictors; AMD Zen (2017) and AMD Bulldozer (2011) chips appear to use perceptron based branch predictors. Perceptrons are single-layer neural nets[0].

[0]: https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~lin/papers/hpca01.pdf
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I'm not much into Hyper, but the terminal library has had a lot of performance improvements... VS Code uses the same terminal emulation library for its' integrated terminal and it saw some huge gains the past couple months.
Thank you for the insight.
I use Code and Notepad++, these analysis allow to predict which one I should use based on size as the factor.
For a long time I used to just disable CSS in Firefox (View, Page Style, No Style), which gives a readable page most of the time. I knew about Reader View, but because it only allowed low contrast gray text, and because I already had a workable solution, I dismissed it at worthless.

I recently noticed that I was using No Style so frequently that it would be worth checking for a better solution. I found it's possible to fix the low contrast text in Reader View with custom userContent.css:

@namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml);
@-moz-document url-prefix("about:reader") {
body {
background-color: #FFFFFF !important;
color: #000000 !important;
}
}

No Style is still occasionally useful to get something readable where Reader View fails, but now I use Reader View most of the time instead.
Daring Fireball in 2017?

No claps.

DF wasn't funny or interesting years ago and it hasn't changed.

"Hurr hurr #Dickbar"

Disgusting.
Executing fasls is cool, but they will start from a new empty image, and loading fasls is actually kind of slow, so if you use lots of libraries rather than write a trivial example, that may consume hundreds of milliseconds before the program actually starts. Then again, this supposes you compiled everything into a single .fasl (which ASDF makes easy). But that will be a big fasl for each program; if you want to load from libraries, then there's also the overhead of setting up and using ASDF itself, which can also be in the hundreds of milliseconds. I can imagine many ways to improve the situation, but none are cheap (e.g. implement a background daemon to serve ready executables and/or watch the source registry for modified source; or break compatibility with the entire ASDF setup, angrying the entire community).
The key problem with a conspiracy theory is that it doesn't hold against Occam's Razor. Everything points to a story by PM which doesn't hold up.

The police have, rightly so, only given somewhat sparse information through the press. PM is currently, to my knowledge, allowed to read newspapers, and there is little reason to give a suspect a chance at information. It is highly likely they have way more information than what they are divulging.

The information they do give is to de-mystify a case which is already so crazy bonkers that even a good novelist couldn't have cooked it up. It is simply too implausible.

Everything points to murder. And I don't think there will be less stuff pointing to murder over the next couple of days or weeks.
>with atom basically being a web browser, it is trivial for them to do it.

Which was the point of them making it in a web browser. Leverage that as a platform to make extensions/plugins easier to write and maintain and allow them to do more.

Atom is a more capable "IDE" than any other IDE i've ever used, and it's easier to create and manage plugins for. Yeah, there are still some rough edges and things that I hate about it (honestly the whole "hanging for 30+ seconds because you accidentally opened a compiled file" shit really needs to get dealt with somehow, every release they chip a bit off of it, but it is still annoying), but it's by far the editor i'm the most productive with (by quite a large margin).
You're not wrong however all of the studies and research out there shows the degradation is hundreds or tenths of a percentage point. In other words it's insignificant.
After using Atom on OS X and Windows for a long time, default installing it on every computer here at the company, I'm back to Notepad++ on Windows.
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Please note that salaries are horribly depressed in France - in areas like Paris, the cost of living is comparable to places like San Francisco at easily 1/3 of the salary.
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