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TL;DR: New Standard tier level is hot potato routing while existing (now called Premium) tier is cold potato routing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot-potato_and_cold-potato_rou...
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don't use twitter, problem solved
95% of any program can be done with a suitable emacs config, org-mode and some elisp. And then nobody will use it because it's emacs.
I assume wereHamster is referring to the value of the constant being changed, rather than the name.
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Weapons-grade byproducts, radiation leaks, Homer Simpson, Chernobyl, Fukushima...list goes on.

People have all sorts of deep seated fears about fission. They don't have to be accurate to be afraid.

Knowledgeable people are aware that more people have died falling off of roofs trying to install solar panels than have ever died from a nuclear power plant.

The problem is insufficient propaganda from the nuclear fission industry. The tech works fine, but people don't believe it.
There are many D programmers who use D as a fast Python.
Diners are also terrible in the quality of food, service, and amenities they provide.
Why ridiculous? I have the outcome you mention and more or less that metric. I have many methods that are one liners. As secondary benefit, it makes the code extraordinarily testable, reusable and flexible.
When you code what's the prevailing paradigm you're using?
[Podcast] Diversity in Tech W. Arlan Hamilton of Backstage Capital
Are you the guy in that same class that points out how "obvious" everything is, in an attempt to prove how much smarter you are to the professor?
How can you even know you disagree without knowing the most basic concepts? You are arguing over the likelihood of Goldbach's conjecture being true without even knowing what the natural numbers are, while relying on some chemistry studies, whose relation to the natural numbers is unclear to you. I don't know how it's possible to argue "in good faith" with someone who is completely unfamiliar with the subject and refuses to learn.

To summarize, Damore wrote some memo whose intent was to show that Google should not invest in diversity programs. Those diversity programs are intended to fight sexism; I don't know how effective they are, but neither does Damore. His "arguments" consisted not of denying sexism (the meaning of which he clearly does not know), but of quoting some papers in yet another field he's not an expert in that purport to show that there are other factors involved. Those papers and others similar to them have been largely debated in the research community, and knowing nothing about that field, I could add nothing to that argument except parrot others. But I do know what sexism is, and I know the basics of logic well enough to see that there is no relevance to those findings even if they were true (again, a heavily contested point in itself).

He was fired for making a scene that required the CEO of Google to cut short his family vacation. If he were working for me, I would have fired him for incompetence and stupidity. Incompetence, because the guy does not know how to make a logical argument, lacks critical thinking, and failed to do even cursory study of the topic he discusses. Stupidity, because he didn't realize or didn't care that expressing himself -- a complete layman, and a rather disinterested one at that -- in that particular way, would have a negative effect on his coworkers and his employer. He's one of those people whose professional contribution to a company is negative.
Really appreciate a summary like this, even when brief. I wish people would take a cue from academia and post more abstracts/tldr's.

The 80k Hours podcast does a fantastic job at this, providing a full transcript, a summary of the key points, and a time-indexed table of contents.

https://80000hours.org/2017/08/podcast-we-are-not-worried-en...
RAII in not removed by design. It is just work in progress. It will be added to -betterC when its implementation is more mature for this mode.
There's portability+density issue with renewable or even free electric. You cant run planes, trains, ships, heavy industry, heavy haulers, etc om battery. And thats where the lions share of fossil is burnt.
Supernova's have a bright future too. But a very short one.

Comma one has been canceled and the new offering is more along the lines of a kit for DIY car hackers than for serious deployment and at a guess if you would be involved in an accident while deploying one of these kits your insurance would be void.
If you have one, yes.

But I meant when you change the definition of that binding (the right-hand side of the equal sign).
From the page:
"6 000 tests completed, trusted by 6 000 companies..."

They've had no repeat customers?
A new job, and relocation can introduce enough risk for me not to increase it by buying a new property. It's just my personal approach though.
cat your_comment.txt | fold -w 80 -s | grep that | head -n 1 | sed "s/ have/'d be/" | sed 's/n/to/' | cut -d's' -f1-2
> not-so-subtle hints of "we might not have any resources to support anything that comes from us for non-systemd systems".

That honestly doesn't seem unreasonable to me. If you build a tool to make things easier to maintain, you lose much of the benefit of that if you still have to support other alternatives where you have to do everything manually. (For instance, maintaining a 100-line init script in addition to a 10-line unit file.) Asking people who care about that to do the work to maintain it seems perfectly reasonable.

> Which at some point extended to GNOME and other vital sine qua nons.

There are far more people complaining about the lack of alternatives, and far fewer people willing to actually write and maintain alternatives. It doesn't help that many of the people complaining take the attitude of "you don't really need that anyway".
Some people lived trough the dot com bubble...

And the dotcom bubble was better, because at least the stocks had liquidity and were traded on established stock markets...

Missing on bitcoin is equal on missing on the power ball for me...

Basically I don't see anything in the crypto world yet, one day maybe when the technology is mature and real shares are traded on real stock exchanges, but right now, no thanks!
https://ia.net/writer/blog/ia-writer-5-from-raw-to-cooked-to...
> tried globular wheels, fat wheels, thinner wheels, wooden wheels, and what have you to see what works better

Yes, and 'standard wheels' would have saved them time, money and other resources and would have increased the chances of bringing a self driving car to market.
If I'm writing C, it's usually a small module or algorithm that I link into another language. Since D is supposed to be in gcc now, I wonder if it's reasonable to start including D code in e.g. Perl or Ruby or Haskell libraries.

The great thing about C is once you write it, you never really have to worry about the language changing 15 years down-the-line and breaking your code. The GNU version might have a similar property, since GNU tools stay around for a long time.
Is this related to the NEO Smart Economy? http://neo.org
Great to hear! Keep up the good work Tom and friends!
"Clean, sparse, intuitive, and discoverable"? I have yet to meet a single non-broken production init script that merits a single one of those adjectives.
N+2 usually means one redundancy for normal operations (deploys, maintenance) and one for disruptions. If the disruption happens while there is an ongoing maintenance, you'll be resilient for one event only.
Major browser and specific OS. The gimmick works fine in Firefox on Windows 10.
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Bill Nye lamented in his book "Unstoppable" that while he invested in a company that created synthetic hydrocarbons from algae, the company found the margins to be too thin for typical fuels like methane or gasoline, but were highly profitable for long chain hydrocarbons used in applications such as makeup.
The smallest model, Play:1 doesn't have a line in. IMO it also the best size/design/sound/price trade-off of the entire line. :(
Must be something of the sort. It's hard to have internet when the ISP decides to turn off the main nexus, so that is my assumption but I have not asked anyone from that conflict about the logistics so true intel on it would have to wait. Radio-wave version... like a plug-and-play hub? It would be really good to have this for a) remote areas, b) emergency times, c) social reform
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We could mass produce Liquid Molten Salt Reactors or many other reactors with current technology, current manufacturing processes

Well, kinda. Many of the possible revolutionary alternatives in fission reactor design would require new industries and industrial infrastructure. These would be able to build on existing technology and infrastructure, but as we've seen with the evolution of electric cars, this is hardly a trivial matter. (Witness: The Gigafactory.) If it weren't for the pre-existing demand and infrastructure for Li-ion laptop batteries, the current crop of electric cars may never have gotten off the ground.

So for fission alternatives to get off the ground, we'd need some entity with really big pockets to "pick a winner" and invest in that infrastructure -- preferably after investing in enough R&D to validate that pick. Either that, or the new alternative needs to be an order of magnitude better than the existing ones. When you account for the infrastructure costs, are any of the new alternatives that much better?
I suspect that if viable fusion power plants become a reality today we will be burning synthesized hydrocarbon fuel for centuries to come. There is vast hydrocarbon fuel infrastructure in place already. If it costs a few cents to synthesise oil from air because you have hyper abundant fusion energy on hand then it would be silly to throw away the infrastructure we have.
Two fiber cuts in a N+2 network could overload the last remaining path, resulting in some impact on service.
Of course, and if you want something like that, you can find aircraft manufacturers using more modern engines. Want a car engine in an airplane? You can have that. Want a fuel-injected digitally-controlled turbocharged water-cooled diesel? Step right this way.

The big, old manufacturers like Cessna tend to be really conservative, though. They have something that's Good Enough and they have little incentive to make radical changes. Part of this is because a light aircraft's powertrain is safety-critical, unlike automobiles. In a car, if your engine explodes, you're stranded. In a small airplane, depending on where you are when it happens, you're probably hurt or killed. If you make a radical change to your engine, and that change results in a failure that kills a customer, it looks bad. Newer manufacturers seem more willing to push the envelope in this respect.
Funnily, the D code looks more verbose than the C code.
It costs money to provide bicycles, and bicycles are easy to steal and break. There most likely exists a funding and expense problem in poor immigrant communities that makes it unfeasible to offer bicycles, the local government does not collect enough tax and the losses from theft and damage to bicycles too high. Requiring a credit card with a sufficient amount of credit limit fixes this issue.
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I think it just depends if you are okay with what the social security benefits pay out. Currently if you retire it is $2,687 a month. This is the max though. Most may get less.

[1] https://faq.ssa.gov/link/portal/34011/34019/article/3735/wha...
unlisted private party sale; auction purchase; craigslist opportunistic purchase; etc

auto trader is typically dealer sales and paid-listing private party. the best deals won't be found there.
I have LED lighting in my bathroom, controlled by a non-IOT but remote-controllable dimmer, and it does not exhibit that behavior, so I'd say it's just a buggy dimmer.
Would you really, though?

I can definitely picture some proponents taking enjoyment from their programming language being perceived as inaccessible to the masses. Insofar as it makes them feel more elite for their knowledge of it.

But even then, the ego gratification depends on there being a wide audience of people who know "of" the language and its inaccessibility. If people don't know that you're elite, then well... are you?

Proponents of programming languages notwithstanding though, I don't believe for a moment that the creators of any programming language do not wish for it to obtain wide adoption.
San Francisco's brand of liberalism has jumped the shark. It's like they live in opposite world. It's bad enough that they believe that way to lower housing costs is to never build anything at all and to impose rent control in a market that is all too willing to convert to condos and sell. But now they are arguing that the lowest cost form of urban transportation should be stripped of its infrastructure in order to protect against gentrification. It's crazy, and they should be ashamed of their inability to critically think about anything at all.
It's been said already but deserves repeating: "Most people buy things they don't need with money they don't have to impress people they don't know".
From the data on the Wikipedia page for the Boeing 747, it looks like the empty weight is around half the maximum take-off weight. Passenger and cargo aircraft seem to usually turn around quite quickly and spend only a small amount of time on the ground. In which case around half of the energy required on take off is just to lift the airframe back to the same altitude it landed from.

Perhaps if aircraft could use some sort of funicular system so that one aircraft taking off could get a "boost" from one slowing down to land?

Or planes could land on giant inflatable runways at 30,000ft, with the passengers and cargo taking a lift down to ground level?
I like Carlin's cadence, but I really wish they would run everything through some compression. The volume range between his "speaking" voice and when he's quoting someone is HUGE and sometimes requires mucking around with the volume to keep it listenable.
I do. It's fine. I have run 40 miles per week for months at a time training for ultra marathons. Anecdotes and all. If you want to prevent injuries, lift some heavy things to make your joints and ensure you don't have any weakness in your legs or posterior chain. Run with a high cadence.

The truth is this, why runners get injured is varied and running form naturally improves if someone runs a lot and practices running drills that encourage new muscle activation patterns. Running a lot with no strength training can mean weaker muscles, so strength training is almost always prescribed as a preventative and as a fix to encourage better muscle activation patterns.

Each persons biomechanical form is different and unique to them. Tinkering with what is natural to them seems ill advised at best given what we do know about injury rates.

Running barefoot is less efficient and probably reduces injuries due to different muscle activation patterns (the leading theory about why some shoes can cause problems and others can fix them). It is thought that pronation isn't really significantly altered by shoes.

In Noakes and Daniels, my favorite two authorities on running, you will find very little focus on running form as a key aspect of being a life long runner because it is something that developers naturally. Only when specific problems occur should you really diagnose and try to fix things. Most people can run a healthy amount without changing anything and wearing any old running shoes. When specific things occur specific fixes must be deployed and "fix all" advise (even like mine, run 180spm, or, don't heel strike) is just not helpful unless it actually addresses the specific cause of the problem. More often than not someone can keep their existing running form and something else is advised (stretching, strength conditioning, running speed drills to improve foot turnover and alter muscle activation, orthotics to activate muscles differently, etc. etc.).
I thought I read an article about an online game company who was doing something similar with their users; trying to get their users on their private network as soon as possible. Does anyone else remember that article on HN?
The OP is clearly asking about how to respond to the male instigator of the situation. Your misreading of the question, as well as your assertion that the woman involved in the story is "sensitive" and that, to understand how she feels, you would need to "stop making fun from life" and "try to think [the way] the most people think" shows a complete a total ignorance and lack of empathy on your part. The OP made no mention of the woman's reaction, everything you are saying is based on your own flawed assumptions. Please rethink the situation.
I have to agree on systemctl's naming scheme is terrible inefficient. This is something I use all the time when I'm on Archlinux and while I've come to memorize systemctl's interface for the most part it's still very poorly thought out, favouring verbosity over simplicity at every level.

I've made enough aliases to make it useful and without having to type such a long name. It should definitely be a shorter name for such a critical piece of software.

One example is using user services vs system services and the various non-intuitive locations and name schemes of the various .service files.
I would argue that the readership of that blog would merit at least a discussion of his argument, which you will not even attempt. Like it or not, people know who he is and they read what he writes. If he's wrong, it's doubly important that you address his point of view, because a lot of people are reading it. Going ad hominem just gives credence to his unspoken assertion that the US military is an old-boys club clinging to their preconceived notions in the absence of an actual war to fight.

I would further argue that someone being wholly ignorant whereof they speak would make it very easy to dismantle their position. I've seen it happen pretty often on the internet.
Well they managed to block a bike share location near my house after crying about how it would gentrify the neighborhood and harm the businesses on 24th st. More important for them to have a parking spot for the Tesla out front I guess.
I think this would (or should) be called N+1.

Edit: but you're right, this might be what they mean.
That's exactly my point. Systemd had a chance to replace the arcane cruft of sysvinit with something clean and well designed, but instead they developed something almost as arcane and unusable.

It's pointless arcana to boot. There is no reason whatsoever that a green field implementation of something so straightforward needs to be so obtuse.

If the complexity of interface exceeds the complexity of the information it needs to take and provide, it's bad design. If the command or UI structure uses arcane terms when straightforward terms exist, it's bad design.
When I look at a two hundred year US inflation/deflation graph, it looks like taking us off the gold standard provided some form of damping.
Yes, a few ISAs have things like "branch.likely", but the CPU will just ignore it because it will do a better job anyways (the compiler is only as good as the test program used to guide its analysis).

GCC allows the programmer to guide "unlikely" branches too. I assume that means GCC moves that code away so it doesn't pollute the I$ and static predictors can predict them correctly.

There are some (usually small, embedded) processors that have "loop count" instructions. They are typically stateful and hard to make work in high-performance pipelines.
Reading this I just got stumped by how many stacks, layers, hardware, technologies, and knowledge incorporated into all of that those bytes needed to travel so I could read them on a laptop across the globe
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I think we just traded a bad system for a worst one. Could you imagine what would happen if Nabokov attempted to release Lolita in 2017 using a blog? Google/Facebook would ban him
before he even got chapter 2 posted and there would probably be a SJW brigade trying to dox him so they can destroy his life.

Same goes for any book that is even mildly controversial. At the end of the day all these platforms are advertising delivery mechanisms and controversy is just not advertiser-friendly.
I spent around 6 months for version 1 of my food project https://bestfoodnearme.com and another 3 months for an entire re-write of version 2. It is still a work in progress with small iterations. I would say launch with the bare features, not even password reset. Get feedback and keep iterating.

Make sure you have some form of analytics from the start so you can see what pages people are going to
So is this like the app engine price hike debacle a few years ago but with "better" messaging? So "Try Network Service Tiers Today" means "Migrate to Standard Tier today to avoid the massive price increases coming soon"?

But fundamentally they just massively underestimated costs and need to find a way to adjust pricing. With app engine it was very conveniently beta, so they used the end of beta for the price hike. For this, they're having to invent a "Premium" and a "Standard" Tier, and hey guess what, everyone has been using "Premium".

My experience so far with Google has been "Use this now, and we'll have a massive price hike later, if we keep it around at all."
i'm better on long train rides. more room, more comfortable. no battery worries. don't notice the person in front of you bouncing up and down in their seat.
Facebook now lets you take 360 photos in-app, use them as Cover Photos
Fully seconded. Directly removing smartphones is extreme. I can tame my smartphone quite stringently and it is doing exactly what I want it to do.

Any app I feel is a source of anxiety I can either cripple notifications and permissions from, or uninstall.
While the idea of showing extent of engagement is great, I can't help but notice that articles which would only have 10-12 recommends have 200-300 claps mostly bc those claps come from friends of the author trying to promote the story. It makes it incredibly difficult as a reader to objectively ascertain what is actually more recommended by people. Additionally, as a reader, I have no idea what amount of claps is appropriate (eg is 10 claps excessive for a good article or is it not enough?). The recommend model was excellent, don't fix it if it aint broke.
Much of crypto is tied to the tech sector, so i would expect that to go south. But assets like bitcoin might weather the storm better, being more purely "store of value" like gold.
Yea but by the time you make friends with the baristas you are only paying for like half your coffees though.
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Nice name :D

I never use the telecoil, but I totally know what you mean about losing connection. One thing that drives me absolutely bonkers is when an app steals my connection because it has an audio component, and even worse is when it steals the connection even after I've muted the app! (Looking at you, FB Messenger!)
OK, fair enough. Then an adversary inside Mozilla that can intercept the data. I mean, the NSA is inside Mozilla, right? It'd be foolish, in my opinion, to assume that they're not. Such a juicy target, and all.