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I am not a linguist but you are using "evolution" as having another meaning than LilleSvin. For you it is something which is positively improving as in the layman idea about Darwin's evolution theory and for LilleSvin "evolution" means exactly what it means in biology: Changes that are at a wide scale.

For example in old Norse that was used on the north and east coasts of UK in 900 CE, "time" was not pronounced like "ta-ii-me" and the English word for "ship" was pronounced "skip", the more modern pronunciation happened after the great vocalic change, an evolution of the spoken dialect. There is nothing positive or negative in the great vocalic change, but it is an evolution of the language because after some time, most people spoke it that way, not anymore like old vikings did.

(edited because I made many spelling errors)
Ok this makes sense.

It matches what some others have been saying as well. Thanks
You're right. I will point out that the 15MPH limit is generally a legal restriction as opposed to a technical one. The Juiced Bikes Cross Current S costs $1200 and can go 28mph with pedal assist. It's not inconceivable to have a new form factor that can fit another person and double (or triple the price).

$2000 is probably aspirational. What I'm asking will likely cost like $4000. The problem with that price is that you can get a very nice 50cc gas scooter for $4000 that will likely be better in most ways.
Something I don't get:

"I had worked for him before and hated it. "

" The truth is that I liked the Santa Cruz guy and wanted to make a collaboration with him work "

You meant even though your work collaboration was awful you still liked the guy enough to take a bet (and the promised from-home job) ?

What parts did you enjoy from that language btw ?
I can't imagine that would be the case in the context of at least this latest collision. On a civilian waterway. They don't appear to have been on maneuvers. And by all accounts one of the most crowded waterways you can sail through.

That does not seem like the context in which you would want to not telegraph maneuvers. Either way it's still a training and culture issue if they can't recognize the difference between the two contexts.
It's really not just the US government. I'm sure there are many other countries who demand such a feature.
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That doesn't mean you can't suitably insulate yourself from the failure and make a lot of money running the place into the ground in the meantime.

It's like a college bar that serves to underage people. It closes amid controversy, changes ownership and reopens with a different visual theme and the same business practices every few years.

You can do this with all sorts of businesses. It's more common in places where people have a lot of disposable income and you can run a bad business for a few years before people smarten up, word gets around and the place folds. Tourist areas, college towns, whichever town is seeing an influx of tech industry money or an oil boom, etc are the places where you can run a bad business the longest before folding.
I went to view totality for the first time, in Salem, and thought exactly the same thing; I ended up putting a jumper on as I felt a little chilly, even though there was a mere sliver of the photosphere visible.

It's curiously satisfying (I suppose because it's affirmative) to see one's subjective experience described objectively like this though.
I've recently bought xiomi scooter [1] from aliexpress for around $500 (incl shipping) after an extensive research on what's available on the market. For some reason they don't sell them in US and the cheapest comparable scooter in US is sold for $900+, but it's still head and shoulders above the competition, it has ABS on the front break! Also disk breaks on rear wheel! On a scooter. It also has a smartphone app which really well designed that shows you range, speed and other useful info. And it's built like a tank and not heavy at all. I am now using it for 90% of my commute. It can go up to 30 km in range and at a decent speed. I am so tired of searching for a parking spot for my car everywhere I go, so this scooter is a perfect solution for me.

[1] - https://nis-store.com/electric-scooters/xiaomi-mijia-electri...
Could somebody explain in layman terms what exactly (say, 'spy-wise') ME could enable some parties to (remotely?) do with one's pc? And what are the chances this actually is being done?
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That's discussed in this article. Technology is seen as part of the problem because it is distracting, incomplete, and has bred a culture of complacency. You see the same issue in aircraft safety. Over time flying became safer, but certain types of accidents became more common because pilots didn't know how to handle the situations.
The Japanese tuna boat incident was a mistake that could have been avoided, but at least precautions were taken, as sloppy as they were. They were doing an emergency surfacing exercise and did surface to check for ships before doing it.

The chance of randomly hitting a tiny boat when surfacing are astonishingly slim. It was a bunch of factors, but mostly bad luck. I doubt a captain could hit a boat like that on purpose of they tried, there's just too many variables.

As a surface ship ramming into a boat is entirely avoidable. Those things aren't invisible, and those destroyers have ridiculous amounts of sensor equipment, active and passive.
There is still no fix for the NPT bug: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=196409
Speak for yourself. I've got much better at spotting BS over the years and frequently do my own fact checks on claims that are dubious.
That's the single exception, any other single Creative Suite app costs $30/month.

Even at $120/year, I have serious reservations about putting my photography library in piece of subscription software. I've heard that LR6 is the last standalone licensed version, so I'll be looking into Darktable as an alternative.
I think the parent poster was referencing the Macbook Air purchased in the article, not suggesting it as a base for new Linux installation.
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He probably uses an editor made on electron like atom... That is what the cool kidz use today..
> This is still the sun's photosphere peeking through the moon's valleys, bright enough that it washes out the corona, and bright enough that you had better use eye protection.

The photosphere (diamond ring, etc) is not dangerous if you only see it for 1 or 2 seconds. It is prolonged, central-vision, fixed staring that takes more than a few seconds that is dangerous.

So when the diamond ring comes out, take one look at it. But that's it, one look. Then turn away and put your goggles on. You'll be fine as long as you don't linger beyond a couple seconds.

The problems begin when people keep staring at it fixedly beyond a handful of seconds.

> The difference between a 99.9% partial eclipse and a 100% total eclipse is not 0.1%. It is infinity.

Well put.
Back then that was certainly true. Today it's easy and free to do using ETFs that are free to trade under certain brokers. Since I'm a boring fuddie duddie, I just rebalance my ETFs and index funds in Vanguard every so often at no cost, but I believe eTrade and some other platforms have a subset of "no commission" ETFs, Interactive Brokers has very low commissions, and if you like startups in the space, Robinhood is technically free (though order fill I hear isn't nearly as good as other major platforms, to be expected).
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When time is a finite resource, and it looks like these guys are overworked and under slept, prioritization is more important, and here people are dying, literally, possibly because seamen spend time in PC classes that they could be spending sleeping or learning more immediately useful, life saving skills.

Another posted claims 5 hours of sleep. This is the military. It should be conflict prepared. Hardened. Diversity training should be an extremely low priority, if it is taught at all. I'd argue that it severely undermines the u.s. military by wasting time and crushing morale, for white men and minorities alike. I've seen the effects in the corporate world. The biggest opponent was a 30-year female in middle-upper management who was worried that people would start to presume that she only got her role via quota or diversity initiatives.

Political correctness is almost antithetical to war and therefore military.
Too bad that these AMD CPU's also contain convenient capabilities through PSP to add a hardware backdoor to a computer which one cannot detect from the OS.

@Phoronix: RISC-V-based and other open processors and computers are much more interesting. Could you test and report about compatbility of open and consumer-friendly computers with linux?
What you are referring to is called a "temporal database". Your specific example is called a "bitemporal database".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temporal_database

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitemporal_Modeling
I imagine this is actually a harder problem on the water. With ships of this size and mass and the inertia they have, in an environment where hard stops and turns are very difficult, any warning might trigger after it's too late to do anything about it.
The OneWheel is a much better alternative to electric longboards. It is crazy fun to ride, like carving on a snowboard. Works in grass, on the beach, and off road trails, and curbs are okay. Long boards are a pothole death wish... small wheels and limited turning radius. One wheels are the future. It will be great when quality Chinese knockoffs appear because they are currently $1400.

https://onewheel.com/
The downside of this is called "whipsaw".
In America, "school" is a generic term for any kind of educational institution
Genuine question: All the commercial vessels continually broadcast their position, speed and bearing, right?

Even if the military vessel does not do so, it should be able to receive all commercial vessels telemetry...

So how can it possibly crash into one?
> comprising an x86 CPU

The ME runs an Argonaut RISC Core instruction set and leverages a lot of the existing infrastructure in the system since it sits directly in the chipset and can ask the main CPU to do some things on its behalf too.
Change "Toyota" for "1982 IBM" and you'll see the mistake of thinking this is a hardware problem.
> Boosted, the company known for making the best all-electric longboards on the market

There's some serious free press. Are they indeed all that and a bag of chips, or can Verge be bought that easily, or what? No agenda here; genuinely curious.
I have a Boosted[1]. There's a lot of competition but when you look at specs, they don't really quite make it. They're either slower, or can't do hills, or take longer to charge. Build quality on Boosteds is amazing as well. Thing's build like a tank.

With my usage pattern (commute to gym and back 4 times a week), it pays for itself every 4 months.

And yes, it gets me there faster than a bike or using public transit. Even Uber is just 3 minutes faster (on a 15min trip) because of traffic.

[1] I actually have two. If anyone wants to buy my old Gen1 for half price, ping me.
That would be interesting. I wonder, for example, if underscores are better or worse than camelcase. Or if screen readers know when to say "dot" vs "period". Or if screen readers are reasonable for odd stuff like regex syntax and multi character constructs like ->.
Jeebus.
What about the verified case where Romney and the GOP establishment actually nullified election results in 2012 that might have led to a Ron Paul vs. Obama matchup?

As lefty, I'd love to have had that kind of meaningful election.
Attacks like these can be easily dwarfed by employing a nonstandard virtual keyboard which displays a randomly permutated key layout during PIN entry. Some online banking web apps did this already ten years ago as a defense against "mouseloggers". Using a good RNG is advised though.
This is Dunkirk (2007), no?
So originally they wanted to have an air cushion, inside a vacuum enclosure?
Color balance does shift a bit towards red when it's close to totality. I've picked it up visually (it's a small change), and the camera also confirms it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=af0dQLdmhxs
Comic for comic Perry Bible Fellowship is my favorite.

I also tried to find the comic to link to it, but I couldn't do it. I have a strong memory that it was that comic though, and no better guesses.
Just a shout out to safety... Be very careful when riding e-boards, people. Helmets are not recommended, they are absolutely required.

Also, you probably shouldn't buy an e-board if you don't have the fundamentals down on a longboard. You will, without a doubt, end up in a lot of pain.

Be safe!
Yes! I love BetterTouchTool's touch bar customization. It works quite well with the multi monitor setup as well.

See https://medium.com/productivity-freak/what-if-you-could-real...
ANSI SQL should be extended to standardize streaming syntax. There are certainly enough vendors that have it now... for example, sqlstream.com. It's too bad that SQL:2011 didn't get these features since it had a lot of temporal-related extensions.
Is there really a market for this? Why would you want this as opposed to a regular bike?
> I think the parent poster was referencing the Macbook Air purchased in the article, not suggesting it as a base for new Linux installation.

Right (they edited the comment after I posted, which makes it less ambiguous). That said, I wrote this mostly preemptively, because I've seen way too many people try to install Linux on the hardware that they happen to have available (usually an old Macbook of some form) and then complain that X doesn't work.

It's fine if you're just testing things out, but if you really want an apples-to-apples comparison for the top-of-the-line experience on each operating system, you have to run Linux on hardware that's actually tested with Linux in mind.
Fascinating — I had no idea the technique had a name (the Ruby source isn't very heavy on comments). I'll update the article to include it.
Especially since the article highlighted the issue, budget cuts, more than 12 years ago (under Bush), that prevented training. And also two wars that prevented hands-on training that was meant to replace it.
Edited text for clarity; there is no way I would recommend buying a macbook to install Linux ;)
During my time of service this was an oft repeated bastardization of Admiral Nimitz' quote: Common sense was an uncommon virtue.
You say 'also' but aren't elaborating sufficiently.

It's too bad modern high-performance consumer CPUs are all paired with non-free platform services (Intel ME, AMD PSP) that provide attack vectors for organized crime and governments.
Same thing happens with doctors in the US. Doctors should know that after the first 12 hours, the doctor's not as good at doctoring anymore.
Very low value article. Sigh.
Or as the article said, there were budget cuts 12 years ago (e.g. under Bush) that turned 9 months of specialized training specifically about this skill into a set of CDs. But sure, blame political correctness.
Along the same lines all these ships have sophisticated radar systems and can generally track where other vessels are regardless of whether or not they are broadcasting their positions. No one would expect such niceties during wartime.
That requires that somebody at the wheel is paying attention to the alarms.
Those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it.

And as I like to say: software is built in the image of the organization and processes that created it.

If the organization I work for doesn't openly condone it I still journal what I work on and spend time on documentation and specifications before we work on an important feature or project.

If we make a mistake or forget why a certain architectural decision was made I've found it immensely helpful to have context for those decisions. It helps make planning changes much easier.
I think the rise in delivery-only places and food trucks makes a lot of sense in that context.
Really interesting schedule. Could see something along those lines suiting me pretty well. Do many/any of you colleagues work weekends?
People who believe women can't be programmers or that it's impossible to be racist against white people also have points, and often put them crudely. Having a point is fine. Putting it crudely and then not backing up your position with anything is not fine - it's pretty much the definition of unconstructive criticism.

If quoquoquo had supported their viewpoint with something other than his own enormous contempt, perhaps studies or statistics on the extent to which people are sheep like I'd have let it be or maybe even voted it up. But they didn't.

You're really going to debate that fake news on FB and elsewhere has had a real impact shaping beliefs and attitudes?

"Real impact" is meaningless beyond meaning "an impact more than zero". It's surely had more than zero. Is it significant in scale compared to other sources of manipulation, like what ordinary newspapers routinely engage in? Does it have huge impact on individuals or trivial impact? That's absolutely debatable and worth debating.
Looking forward to seeing how the watch turns out, as well as how its features (battery life!) prod Apple to make their watch better.

I was surprised to hear that the Fitbit Coach only includes certain workouts, and charges a subscription fee for others. A one-time charge I could understand, but monthly payments seems a bit much.
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On the flipside, shortly after a discussion with my wife on how user friendly nixes had become, I attempted to convert one of my old Windows 10 boxes to Ubuntu, for the purposes of leveraging mdadm over whatever SW RAID Windows ships with.

I probably could have used Windows RAID tools, but I don't know what they are, and I'm pretty comfortable with the ease of use of mdadm.

Anyway, after downloading Ubuntu 16.04 and dding it to a thumb drive, I was off to the races. Two days later, I realized that "Failed to create a kernel channel" somehow relates to the USB settings, and I stumbled onto a stackoverflow post that had me add 'iommu=soft' to my boot parameters and finally, finally* I was installing software.

I'm not an expert, but I'm definitely not a novice, and while there might have been a short window in which Linux had hit peak compatibility, it seems that the numerous hoops I had to jump through to accommodate UEFI and USB BIOS settings may well indicate that the moment has passed. I hope it catches up again, because for non-technical people, installing an operating system is a really hard thing, and if it's non-trivial for any experienced users, it'll be monumentally hard for grandma.
>> even before US embargo'd Intel from china

> You can see how well this embargo works in every electronics mall

IIRC, the embargo was only against very specific processors used in a specific supercomputer design.
Looks like a novelty item.

That said there's someone who commutes past my house regularly on one of these: http://www.elliptigo.com/
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Do you know of a RISC-V CPU suitable for desktop use? As far as I know, no one yet produced any silicon for that market.
If you're going to switch to Linux, why would Arch Linux be your first pick? I'm sure there are even harder distributions to choose from but wouldn't Ubuntu, Fedora, or Mint be much easier to start with? I like Arch Linux and I'm currently running it on my laptop. I like to think I'm a moderately experienced user after using Linux for 9 years, but it took me around 2 weeks of evenings tinkering with Arch to get it fully set up. That just seems like a terrible choice if you're coming from a Mac.
12 CS courses, offered by the CS dept, and that everyone takes means that either A) your department was internalizing a LOT of service courses; B) left very little room for differentiation within your major; or C) provided very little time for exploration outside of your major.

Either way, that level of straight-jacketing and/or in-sourcing is atypical.

Even at top schools that number is usually below 10. E.g. CMU 6 (well 7, but really 6); Berkeley 4-6; MIT 8; Standford 6.

These are all off the high end of my 4-5 estimate, but only because they ALL in-source a course that at most places would be farmed out the math dept and therefore not counted by my criteria. And MIT also a comm course. Plus, there's the other extreme of places that only require the intro sequence and an algorithms course, leaving all else to the students.

In order to get up to 12 at any of these places you'd need to only offer one course for a lot of the "breadth" requirements, or else in-source the calculus sequence (or similar silly things).

Again, I'm counting courses offered by the CS dept, AND that everyone takes. The minimum viable "common knowledge" we can reliably assume is shared among all CS majors, as offered by the CS dept. IME 4-5 is pretty typical. Maybe 6.

Yes, we also assume some background in other fields of study from CS graduates (some calculus, reading/writing skills, etc.) But those courses are not the ones I was referring to with my 4-5 count. They were also addressed in my original comment.
Given that those are all average case n² algorithms, the article's figure is probably a good representation:

https://users.cs.duke.edu/~ola/bubble/bubble.html#fig:quadso...

Mannykannot is correct that the full coefficient is dependent on the machine and exact code. However, we can make some refinements based on the algorithms alone.

Bubble sort is n² / 2, as it processes one less element per pass. This is a pretty common pattern, so it's good to remember.

Insertion sort starts at zero elements and processes one extra element per pass. So it's also n² / 2. However, on average each pass only needs to process half the elements in order to find the correct insertion point. So it's actually n² / 4. If you use a binary search, it becomes n log n -- n passes, each perform a log n binary search. (This is usually called binary insertion sort.)

However, those numbers are in comparisons, which is typically what sort algorithms are measured by. It assumes that all memory operations are constant time. But you might also want to keep track of swaps or other memory movement. For instance, when you add the memory swaps back to the binary insertion sort, it's O(n²) again, because it still has to perform an average of n / 2 swaps on every pass -- O(n * (log n + n / 2)) = O(n²).

Choice of data structure can also make an impact. Insertion sort is not awesome on memory arrays, because it has to perform a block copy for every insert. However, on linked lists, that single-element shift happens for "free" when you perform the insert.
Why on earth was the author trying to write a PKGBUILD? 4 years of daily use at home and at work, and I've never needed to do that to get a system up and running. Where would you even get the idea that this was necessary?
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It's not even particularly clear that bubble sort halts. Unlike insertion sort, the loop variant is not trivial to write down. I suppose the best thing about it is that it is very clear that if it halts, the array is sorted.
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