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> it surprises me that someone would want to live for 1000 years when some people don't get 1

Yeah I get that. Crossing the border into Mexico is an experience. On one side of the line you have prosperity, on the other side you have soul crushing poverty. Then you go and enjoy some tacos.
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It blows my mind that it's possible for anyone to read books - plural - in a quarter. I've always been a slow reader; I can't digest information when speed-reading, and I tend to want to backtrack quite a bit to really absorb what's going on in a book. A single book would therefore take months for me, meaning that it'd have to be a really good book for me to want to commit to reading it front-to-back.
I’m not sure I agree. The Hero’s Journey is about fiction, and the role of fiction isn’t to react to it; it’s to teach us something about ourselves.
Since when have the silicon costs been the slightest bit relevant to IC pricing? It's all about volume and recouping R&D costs and other NRE.
Given the amount of people that suggest blockchains in a trusted environment it seems perfectly reasonable to reiterate that you don't need a blockchain to have distributed consensus.

I was hoping for something different given the title though.
>while the Hero’s Journey functions as an engine driving the survival of the fittest (both physically and ideologically)

I think this is a pretty questionable interpretation. The Buddhist myth of Prince Five-Weapons contradicts this, for example, as do many other myths which adhere to the "formula".
Does anyone have a good solution to deleting a Yahoo account? I've got one that is 99.9% spam mail now but I've never deleted it because If I remember correctly someone else could open up that email in my name and continue to get my emails. They also don't support automatic email forwarding if I remember correctly. It remains as the dark spot of my email accounts.
No, not joking. I have some French courses under my belt from my childhood, but I never got very fluent with it because I never had any use for it. Having an actual need to use the language would be great.
Ah, I didn't get that far due to it requesting the webcam. I'd prefer that they state it before the request, but an FAQ at the start of the project is good enough.
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"Qualcomm’s big innovation" is followed by several exaggerations and falsehoods. So, saying you mention something is meaningless when you include that amount of bias.

Read up on Token ring vs Ethernet to get some understanding of the history in this area.
I'm confused by that. Why do they drive for Uber for part of the day if Lyft pays more?
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clang implements it that way, most (all?) warnings from macro expansion are omitted. Maybe gcc does the same for some warnings, but I've only noticed it for clang.

I find clang's behavior particularly dangerous for warnings referring to removal of null pointer checks, which are undefined behavior (if (this != nullptr)...)

There should perhaps be an option to control this.
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`rawurlencode()` is what you're after.

And here is where you'd ask that question, a coding forum
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/996139/urlencode-vs-rawu...
That's not the question at all. The question is whether we should let humans hunt species to extinction.

--

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/fight-against-...

"Between 2010 and 2012, ivory hunters shot down an astonishing 100,000 elephants across Africa—more than 60 percent of central Africa’s elephant population has been lost during the ten-year period beginning in 2002—according to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences."

http://www.bagheera.com/inthewild/van_anim_elephant.htm

"Demand for ivory, combined with habitat loss from human settlement, has led to a dramatic decline in elephant populations in the last few decades. In 1930, there were between 5 and 10 million African elephants. By 1979, there were 1.3 million.

In 1989, when they were added to the international list of the most endangered species, there were about 600,000 remaining, less than one percent of their original number.

Asian elephants were never as abundant as their African cousins, and today they are even more endangered than African elephants. At the turn of the century, there were an estimated 200,000 Asian elephants. Today there are probably no more than 35,000 to 40,000 left in the wild."

--

So, we ask the question: Why save endangered species?

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150715-why-save-an-endanger...

1) We like them, 2) The biosphere provides trillions of dollars to the global economy, 3) Loss of species impacts ecological systems and puts us at risk as we depend on them for survival.
Maybe I was thinking of Steinbeck when I wrote that who knows. So good catch and thanks.

I am pro individualism as it helps people define themselves. But as you pointed out when it is turned into a zero sum game of getting ahead in an already developed system it becomes a hollow view.

At some point I has to change to we for progress to happen. Strangely it was my extremely competitive corporate executive father who told me stop using I switch to we. A simple change that allowed me to see problems collectively instead of individualistically.
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> I argue that clear use of function pointers is the heart of object-oriented programming. Given a set of operations you want to perform on data, and a set of data types you want to respond to those operations, the easiest way to put the program together is with a group of function pointers for each type. This, in a nutshell, defines class and method. The O-O languages give you more of course - prettier syntax, derived types and so on - but conceptually they provide little extra.

I think that this might be an early hint at Go's interface system and its lack of of "complete" OOP support.
From the first link:

> Employs Raft, a popular successor to Paxos.

I don't believe that is correct and that is not a good meme to promote. Successor implies the 'deprecation' of Paxos, which is certainly not the case. For the architectural sweet spot where both protocols can be used, it is fair to say Raft provides the more accessible approach, and that for those who insist on rolling their own consensus mechanism.

Paxos and Raft serve distinct architectural concerns in the shared context of providing a distributed state with formally defined consistency guarantees. And to the point, it is entirely reasonable to see a distributed system that utilizes both to address system component specific concerns.

CockroachDB, ironically (in context of your OP), in fact could benefit from a vendor lock-in were the candidate cloud provider to provide atomic clocks and GPS cards in their offerings.
I wonder if the founders were establishing copyright today if they would intentionally make government works "copyleft" instead of just public domain.
Wow they're not even trying to hide their collectivism and statism these days. All individuals must bow down before the great state!

And this statement:

>The villain, after all, must get his comeuppance.

Is completely orthogonal and erroneously attributed to the hero's journey. Has the author ever read any classic literature like the Greeks? You were supposed to feel _bad_ that the "evil guy" was evil and that he had to die. It was a tragedy. (In a Greek Tragedy? No!)

I question many of the author's projections and "read-between-the-lines" interpretations that he uses to make his argument.

There's nothing wrong with writing a story about people coming together. But his arguments for everyone else to do so, are flimsy at best.
The question is whether it's okay to shoot first at a gang of heavily armed criminals, or whether you have to attempt an arrest first.
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In other words, it will work.
Start with https://evo-lutio.livejournal.com/tag/%D0%90%D0%B4%D0%B4%D0%... and the journal in general

https://evo-lutio.livejournal.com/509588.html for the quick description of the dynamics that I am referring to
I know and that you take special care to bulk as much stuff to it for lower overhead. But then how much of % speed is left into GO ? Say GO is 2x slower, and the db is bottlenecked on cpu/ram, you're using 2x servers. While if it's bottlenecked on disk it's rocksdb which you can't make faster by using a different language.

Like even TiDB (mysql protocol, golang) uses TiKB (kv in rust,rocksdb) to make it faster.
"Many" is an argumentum ad populum (popularity fallacy). It is entirely irrelevant what "many" think or feel, it does not justify that it is a punishment. Technically and factually it simply isn't a punishment. There is no fine. If it were a punishment, there'd be a fine.

> It's seen as punishment by many because when a country tells you what you are required to pay their country, a rational person reads that and sees someone reasonably following the rule.

Quit playing innocent. We all know exactly that they're trying to avoid taxation. The constructions are well known by now, no need for a facade. It can be easily proven as well, because we can see that e.g. Apple is selling an X amount of iPhones in for example Germany, yet the amount of income tax doesn't resemble that. Not in Germany, nor in Ireland.

> To use your analogy (flawed, but we'll stick with it), imagine if there were only a dozen or so cities and the mayors kept giving these tax deals on their own city's taxes. Why would the IRS just allow this to keep happening and then only selectively go after certain offenders?

Right, so when a burglar gets caught, his defense would be: "but your honor, these other burglars are still freely running around." That's a fallacy, obviously, called tu quoque ("me too").

There's also a plausible reason why they're not going after the other companies: 1) They actually are going after other companies as well. Here's a list [1] 2) the list is big and it takes a lot of research, time, and therefore money to investigate. So they go after the big fish first 3) European companies don't follow this construction. Yes, they do follow another one, and I hope they'll get the appropriate amount of tax due from those as well. The fact those companies might be avoiding tax for now doesn't justify that other's get away with it. That'd be, as explained, tu quoque.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Irish_arrangement#Compa...
`vimtutor` is where most people should start. It's bundled with every vim installation. Vimtutor teaches the absolute basics in an interactive manner so you'll remember the lessons.
You should be able to put

(define-key evil-normal-state-map "h" 'evil-next-line)

into your dotspacemacs/user-config.
Honestly though, is it even worth learning?

I've tried learning VIM a few times and always gave up, and feel like my editors shortcuts cover most cases anyway. There's also not that many times where I feel like coding speed is required. Honestly curious how much more productive you guys feel after learning VIM.
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I agree that a reactive paradigm is key to unlocking a powerful WYSIWYG view-layer. In fact, I'd argue this has been proven with the visual design tools available for Verilog/VHDL. Hardware is as 'reactive' as it gets.

You may be interested in what my team is building: https://haiku.ai

Haiku is a UI-builder modeled after Flash, FPGA design tools, VB, Qt, even a dash of HyperCard and Unity. We've sought to 'invent' as little as possible, while adapting proven solutions to the many quirks and challenges of the Web.

If you're curious at all, I encourage you to join our beta list and shoot me an email for access: zack@haiku.ai
Unfortunately, it also has a positive connotation in certain finance circles.
Well, it's more like the "C with Classes" approach that was the precursor to C++; "group of function pointers for each type" is basically a vtable.
> IF you are in a place with at best sketchy food choices (travelling maybe?), going into a place like McDonald's and KNOWING what you're getting could be an appealing option for many.

This is more anecdotal than anything, but one of the very few times I've gotten food poisoning visiting India in my life was after eating at a McDonald's. This was in 98 or something; McDonald's in India today is pretty much indistinguishable (except for different menu choices, obviously).
Technically, Clojure can run on a number of platforms, but in practice, Android and such, JVM startup is too slow.

I do love cljs though, since it can run on mobile, node (including aws lambda), browser etc.
> I don't understand what the problem is. Qualcomm invents something, patents it, and then they have a monopoly.

Apple's assertion is that the pricing is not Fair or Reasonable, which Qualcomm agreed to as a concession to make their patents part of the cellular network standards.

> Apple's answer should be to open their own EE labs and start inventing things and getting their own patents. Instead, they complain and go to court.

Apple cannot simply invent their own cell technology and have it work with the cellular networks that actually exist.
I think the strongest arguments for vim are:

1. The main benefit of vim or any editor is not some fancy feature like macros or visual block editing. Although vim has those and they are great, they only become useful in about 20% of situations. When coding, you spend much more time reading code than writing it. That's why vim has you in Normal mode most of the time, where you can't type at all, and the whole keyboard becomes a tool for navigating. Reaching for the mouse incurs an unconscious mental cost that affects the way you read and write code. Editor ergonomics do impact your codebase.

2. Vim's ratio of power to learning difficulty is the best out there, because once you learn one word of vim's "language", you can combine it with every other word you know and it will behave how you expect.

3. I never try to convince people to switch to the actual vim editor because it requires a ton of customization just to be usable, and overall it's not that great. It's filled with cruft and weird things like a custom scripting language. The only important part is the key bindings, and you can get those in any modern editor. I use about 4 different editors and IDEs on 3 platforms on a daily basis. I never had to learn all their crappy keyboard shortcuts because they all have vim key bindings.
>Don’t expect too much, GNOME considers proper HiDPI out of scope and only supports 96dpi and 192dpi (and other integer multiples)

Argh. That's depressing. But still, Gnome with Wayland is the only DE I've seen that gracefully handles multiple monitors with different DPIs.
In that I would be curious on RocksDB vs LMDB. There was an issue about this but it didn't progress: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/issues/14#issuecomm...

For some reason(s) nobody is using LMDB on distributed dbs (only know actordb). While for single-nodes there are many cases that have switched and been better.
The thing I ask you to consider is a valid use case may exist for others outside how you use tech.

There's likely little question the vast majority of laptop users use a mouse or trackpad for their day to day.

From a power user perspective:

I'm not aware I can use those keybindings to select text in any iOS app and not just in a shell app?

I'm very well versed with keyboard shortcuts, type 100 wpm, and use vim regularly.

A mouse will always be faster for through administering GUI apps where there are settings screen with many dropdowns and checkboxes on every screen.

I log in to as many remote desktops and vms with a GUI as command line. I interchangeably work between Linux, Mac and Windows in a day.

Selexting text in any iOS app also can't be done by keyboard shortcut as far as I know. The mouse again provides the most precision, and I'm not a huge fan of it. The apple pen might be an admission of the need for precision on iPad for more use cases.

It wouldn't kill Apple to expose the mouse capability so I wouldn't have to consider a surface pro.

The iPad with a mouse would be amazing laptop for most.
Same size screen (possibly lower resolution, I'm only on 1680x1050) and while I don't have to zoom in to read it, the font is definitely on the small side.
Who's the "they" not trying to hide their collectivism and statism?
Quote from the article, please?
never mind, it seems like google is filtering my results, but bing to the rescue: http://www.morningstar.com/advisor/t/120651764/forget-wall-s...
I'd rather have a couple of false positives and then selectively disable warnings (I think one can use pragmas to disable specific warnings for specific regions of code in gcc).

At least, I would like an additional flag that really does enable all warnings, say -Wabsolutelyall or something like that.
You can't optimize anything with C++ if your database is stuck waiting for consensus with nodes 100 ms away. Close to the metal and low level languages are really poor choices here, even Go is too low level for CP databases.
Unselfish? In the article the term unselfish was used instead of altruistic. Unselfish views and concerns of course don't actually help anyone. Being concerned for something and not doing anything about it is a going to be depressive. People regularly report that the best way to feel good (and connected) is to go out and help other people, and conversely not worry too much about the things you cannot realisically effect. I would suggested the seemingly immutable course of the modern world contributes to a feeling of helplessness and increased rates of depression.
You can tell they descriminate based on who they hire and fund.

It's the country club crowd sprinkled with safe seeming outsiders that act as token representatives. It's not merit based but class (aka "culture") based.

It's a market opportunity for a fund that doesn't think of rich people as being better than poor people.

A lot more geniuses among the poor than the rich.

What's worse is they're incredibly thin skinned and lacking in introspection or humility. Typical rich people.
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They thought, "Hey, we need an ID number for this national social insurance program." Then later, someone else thought, "Hey, I need an identifier to check this person's Identity. Oh, they have a taxpayer ID number. I'll use that." And it just kind of piled on and on and on.
Let's say you only read Monday through Friday. 5000 pages in one quarter is about 75 pages a day. (If you read weekends too, 55 pages a day.)

For a period of time I was commuting 50 minutes by train in each direction. It was quite easy to maintain a pace like that.
That said, I can understand the frustration at the hypocrisy.

Perhaps the developed world could recognize the unfairness of the situation and help Chinese zoos with care standards and loans/donations of elephants from zoos that have them.
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Elephant's don't go around shooting humans....
Agreed, self-sacrifice is a common motif in the Hero's Journey, which is antithetical to survival of the fittest.
What would the blockchain bring to this? Nothing but a dependence on computers, and an inability for those without computers to use the system.
Don't worry some comment on a forum said they'd never do this, so I think we're all good!
I use vim when I ssh into a remote server and don't have a UI and editor available.
Homeless people are not an edge case.
this guide/book from inria is pretty good: http://icube-icps.unistra.fr/img_auth.php/d/db/ModernC.pdf

edit-001: this was previously discussed here as well. ref: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9018247
I think you have it backwards...

Wouldn't black market identities be worth MORE if they weren't so easy to get?

So the more we tax / regulate it, the harder it is, the more valuable they get. Win-win for everyone.
Without the hero's journey, you don't get heroes.

And we desperately, desperately need heroes.
That's the thing. We have to move away from passwords and to private keys stored on devices. All you have to do is carry your device or smart watch to identify yourself.

If you don't have it, you can still authenticate via biometrics at those places where you previously made an account. But biometrics only works in person, because remotely it is susceptible to replay attacks.
Yeah, but this core is open source, which significantly reduces the NRE costs for most integrators.
It's already set in motion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_dependent_surveillan...

It wouldn't require any extra ADS-B hardware on the planes other than sky-facing antennas.
That's because heroes aren't that important in the real world. Read a history of a modern war and try to identify anybody who acted like a fictional hero and made a difference in the outcome.

"Wars are won by the average performance of the line units" - Field Marshall Slim, British army, WWII.
I definitely like offline note taking, but I don't know if it's a deal-breaker. I agree that Evernote's collaboration is weak (which is fine, Evernote's focus is personal notes - and I think it makes sense to have a note app that is team focused).
The Hero's Journey is not about ego or self-righteousness at all. This feels like a major swing and a miss.
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I would say it's definitely worth learning, even if you don't use it for coding, simply for the reason that it's ubiquitous.

I use it constantly when configuring Linux machines, which is only an ancillary part of my job, just for the regex search to find the line I want to tweak. Since servers don't generally offer a GUI, it's the simplest way to replicate that feature.
The opinions of (future) compiler authors decides already wether your programm will work in all cases. With those warnings they indicate some of their decisions.
and Ctrl to Caps Lock :)
Some sort of lease arrangement stipulation on the vehicle with Uber for people who didn’t own / couldn’t afford a car?
I agree very much with that, same as with polluting industries etc.
> "...The question is whether we should let humans hunt species to extinction."

Why is this the question? Why is "extinction" so important? The fate of most species is extinction anyway.
> particularly security and trust-wise

Towards that end, has there been work on a TileLink IOMMU yet?
I think this is more an anecdotal case of "I'm not a security-cleared government employee, so why should I care". I see as much or more of the opposite viewpoint from what you are espousing: the GSA is forced to be accountable with giant audits and meetings and red tape until the problems are found and root causes discovered and mitigations (even token mitigations) in place. Meanwhile, Equifax was hardly punished in the stock market, the one place that supposedly gets any sort of accountability out of publicly traded private corporations these days (since they only seem to care about quarterly profits rather than employees or customers or people in general). There was a lot of anecdotal resignation among my friends that no one is or can hold Equifax accountable and we'll never leave the status quo of Equifax making millions of dollars in profits warehousing data that they have no right to own.
Is there a threshold of years when the wish to live for X years change from normal to irrationally ego driven? Or are you asserting that any wish to live is irrationally ego driven? Is there a quanlitative or kind difference, under your view, for someone wishing to live 50, 500 or 5000 years?

Or to put it in plain words and as I can't find a way to make it less confusing: why isn't your position equivalent to advocating for everyone to kill themselves (or at the least, not caring at all whether they live or die)
Both Google and Apple have ways to associate installs with referrals.
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