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A hundred years from now, when crows run all the major tobacco companies, it will be too late to do anything about this.
In the "M C" sampler near the top next to the pumpkin thing there are two of those "cool s" that were the subject of an article I remember being posted here discussing their origin. Proof that the "cool s" is at least several hundred years old rather than just a few decades that I've been seeing on articles discussing it.
Horizontal velocity and lift are at least correlated. The reason the tail of the plane does not strike the ground in a proper takeoff rotation is because the pilot make sure the aircraft has sufficient speed (and indirectly, lift) to perform the rotation maneuver. The airspeed at which the rotation can happen is calculated based on weight and loading.
Yeah, pretty much, although if we keep going in this direction we'll end up talking about drugs, slot machines, human slavery, and what really is willpower and choice. Bioethics is incredibly interesting and underrated for dinner conversation.
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I have not done a paper on this or given it nearly as much thought as OP. That being said, my 2 cents is that paying a person to do it should also be considered unethical, because it's encouraging the reduction of human abilities to something very menial.

But if there were like, an ethics ranking, then it's probably more ethical than going the crow route.
The potential for anonymous slander is too high for a real system like this to be justified. Whispers turn to rumors which turn to falsehoods. Someone interpreted as being "creepy" in texts by one woman shouldn't have his life ruined by an anonymous post on a spreadsheet.
That doesn't prevent tail strikes. The article provides many examples of how the (angled) tail of an aircraft can strike the runway during takeoff and landing.
I still remember vividly the learning process when playing a game like Stepmania (maybe it actually was Stepmania, I don't remember the name).

The first season was played very conciously and slow. After each season, I recognized that certain patterns just came out perfectly without difficulty. Sometimes I was even surprised by myself.

However, what I wanted to say is, it was enjoyable just letting the brain do its job of processing patterns and reacting to them. It was relaxing.
Yes, having one place in the most congested part of the city where all people can find their way home is very useful. Having to take BART to Milbrae before switching to Caltrain is far more annoying than getting directly on Caltrain. Same for any other transfer.
I'm confused. the first claim is Apple 2 has a fast response
The second claim is that key travel matters. Short = faster

But Apple 2 keys are not short travel keys
100 percent agree. Corporate management repeats that short term thinking is a disease so much media just parrots this without thinking that it serves powerful vested interests.
The interface is different with some different parameters. I don't know how the actual mathematics involved compares, but the sounds you'll get out of it are a little different. It's still a good option to listen to to hear what pitch correction on vocals might sound like in general.
Seems like the extreme version of this would be a simple annotation in client code to run it on the server, like the old <script runat...> in ASP,
e.g. Java pseudo code

@RunAt(Platform.SERVER)
public Observable<List<Customer>> findCustomersByName(String name) {
return // code to query DB and return a list of customers over the wire
}

// on client
public void searchByCustomer(String name) {
// findCustomersByName() and bind stream to UI
}

The idea being that the RPC is automatic here. The client code makes an async call, constructs an observable around deserialized result. The server code is pulled out by and spun up as a cloud function on demand. Of course this only makes sense if the code needs to run on the server (e.g. the results are big and need to run a lot of code, or need to run code that can't be trusted on the client).
Solid wood is actually far lighter per cubic food than most composite materials. Glue is rather dense compared to wood.
Yes, I did the Coursera Racket course and it was great.
Just imagine you are sitting on a lonely island till the end of your life, alone. What would you do? Punching characters into the editor or listening to the birds and waterfalls?

Does punching characters into the editor make more sense if you are not sitting on a lonely island alone, as long as it pays the bills? Do your friends, spouse, children, humanity like you less, if you hit the wrong characters?
I used to play Stepmania a fair amount, and one of my controllers had a noticeable amount of latency. Despite this, I was about to be about as effective as with the lesser-delay controllers.

I think part of the reason is from my experience as an organist: some instruments have a noticeable delay from the time that the key is pressed to when the sound reaches my ears, whether due to delays built into the control mechanism itself, as well as sound delay (the console is sometimes located on the opposite side of the hall from the pipes). I think this has caused my brain to be wired to accommodate these sorts of situations.
Not really: you don't type assembler for performing any of those tasks. The point is convenience, readability, etc.
I'd say this thread is a perfect microcosm of it. In JavaScript, the general attitude is "you're right, this thing you're complaining about is kinda stupid, here's this tool to make it go away" versus "no, you're wrong, Haskell is great, STFU"
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I wouldn't consider serverless to be the opposite of DevOps. I'd actually consider those concepts to be largely orthogonal.

Serverless and classic server environments are different kinds of system to manage. Classic operations vs. DevOps is about how you manage your systems, and who has responsibility for them.

In classic operations, software development and operations are separate teams with different responsibilities. DevOps combines these two functions into a single team (hence DevOps).

Serverless applications are still a system that needs to be managed; it's just less responsibility and effort than the traditional model. Consider: if newly released code contains a defect that's impacting the larger system, who has responsibility for detecting the problem and rolling it back? This concern exists with both server and serverless platforms, and DevOps vs. classic operations would have different answers.
Does anyone report to you? If they do, how would you respond if they said “I’d like to check in with you on my progress/metrics/etc... just once a year.” Sound like a good idea? It’s a terrible idea for managing people and a terrible idea for corporate governance. As high performance organizations move to daily if internal accountability it’s laughable that they complain accountability every 90 days to them owners of the company is too much.
For more on this I highly recommend Jimena Canales' "A Tenth of a Second: A History"[1]

[1]: http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/093185.html
What is the goal of a project like this?

I'm absolutely not meaning that as a pejorative. I am just curious if there's an actual goal here. Is the goal to make a faithful reproduction, historical reference, a hacking challenge, or? Is it just curiosity?

I see lots of links in the thread, many for different games. Curiosity is as valid a reason as any other, but is there some sort of end result trying to be had? The various links don't actually seem to enumerate this very well, unless I missed it.
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There is a category of products to help address that called a "portable ashtray", they can often clip on your key ring.
I think it's actually quite an apt metaphor. Yearbooks are a collection of snapshots-in-time and the kind of trite social cache signalling of shallow observations and pseudo-intellectual "deep" insights about who's going to make what of themselves that only an immature, ignorant, inexperienced kid can make. That's exactly what Facebook is: a forum for the most trite kinds of social engagement and signalling.
>>Slavery is where you have no choice but to work.

Only if you are denied choices you are entitled to, like running away, through negative reinforcement. Slavery is not simply the state of needing to work to survive. Such a definition would stigmatize all poor people in developing countries as slaves, and anyone employing them as a slaver. It would imply that the natural state of man, where he must hunt and gather to survive, as slavery. That would obviously be inconsistent with what the word means in common parlance.
Or it means they are so utterly passive and unthinking that they are just the voters entrenched management dreams about.
Aw thanks, I hope you get something useful out of it! Feel free to message me with feedback; I read all of it.
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Meh. In Roman times, France, Germany, Spain, and the British Isles were all relative backwaters (Germany not even that) that didn't have much innovation anyway, so considering those places 'darker' in 500-1000CE is somewhat misleading. Culture, money, and learning was in the central mediterranean and eastern Roman empire.
The baptised board?

Do you mean An Bord Báistí?
Has anyone starting tracking wealthy individuals' purchases of land in northern latitudes (Canadian immigration, Alaska land purchase, north European/Russian relocation)? https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/23/science/on-a-warmer-plane... suggests the Pacific northwest, could this be driving some of the land purchases in Vancouver? It mean, climate change is ridiculous obvious to everyone at this point. It was summer temperatures across the east coast of the US until a week ago, and looking at 20 year trend data, things are rapidly deteriorating.
I know for a fact that I would have far less fear (maybe even NONE) if I were the one flying the plane. One of these days I might take your advice and go for some flying lessons.

I know that the issue at its heart, is about control. In a commercial airline flight I have no control over anything, and that's the root of the fear. It's why I'm not afraid of driving, despite knowing my risks are statistically MUCH higher. At least when I get behind the wheel, I feel like I have the ability to do something about risks as they arise, even if my chances of reacting in time are extremely small, at least I can do something.

I couldn't help but think about being on that flight, for 30 minutes, knowing it was going to crash and being completely unable to do anything about it. I've always wondered what would be going through other people's minds? I would be having a crisis, and possibly would die from a heart attack before the plane even crashed.

For what it's worth, I'm a huge proponent of self driving cars BECAUSE I recognize the potential for a much safer world.
>the black hole formed some time after the gravity waves were detected

You mean some time after the gravity waves were emitted, right? Just checking my sanity here.
This is a grossly oversimplified version of the story. The Golden Gate bridge authority asserted that the additional weight of BART on a lower deck would reduce the clearance underneath the bridge sufficiently that naval vessels wouldn't be able to pass. The study supporting this was paid for by the bridge authority, who had a financial incentive to prevent BART from going ahead - nevertheless, there was a risk that Marin might never have got BART even if the population had voted for it, and would still have been on the hook for payments. This depressed support in Marin sufficiently that it might have dragged the regional vote below the 60% threshold required for the entire system to be built, and the other counties pressured Marin to drop out against their will. If San Mateo hadn't chosen to drop out earlier, there's a decent chance that Marin would have service today.
Excellent, thanks. That sums it up wonderfully.

I'm retired and we had separate teams with a liaison between the two, pretty much since our inception. A part of me thinks it's a good idea, but I'd worry about depth of knowledge in both disciplines, but I digress.
The world could actually be on fire and some people would claim that climate change doesn't exist.
Insightful post, thanks. This conflict is also documented in various "Garden of Eden" origin stories (including likely the one at the beginning of the Bible). I discuss that here: http://pdfernhout.net/reading-between-the-lines.html#A_histo...

That said, grinding up rocks to make rock dust is a fairly good way of making the Earth fertile again, so collapse is an ideological choice not a certainty: https://remineralize.org/

And nowadays we can make robots to do many dangerous or repetitive tasks instead of requiring human chattel slaves or wage slaves to do them.

The biodiversity issue is not so easily solved. We can potentially recreate biodiversity through genetic engineering and simulated evolution (even as I might prefer the natural kind) -- but no guarantees on that. The ongoing loss of the wild origins of many crops is indeed one of the greatest tragedies of modern times. And such biodiversity is so cheap to preserve relative to the abundance agriculture provides. For an illustrative xkcd on the loss of mammalian biodiversity on land: https://xkcd.com/1338/

The needless loss of cultural diversity is also tragic -- although that is a much more complex topic given various conflicts of cultures. One can see such an ongoing loss almost everywhere in the world with a TV or internet connection -- as mass media drives out much local culture and family traditions by being a "Supernormal Stimuli" crowding out everything else. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernormal_Stimuli

Frankly, my biggest concern about a potential collapse is not that is not that we don't have the know-how or technology or resources to make the world work for everyone. We clearly do, even for populations much larger than currently and even without spreading into the ocean or Antarctica or underground or outer space. Bucky Fuller pointed that out decades ago.

The biggest concern is whether nukes and bioweapons and drones (and other fruits of the same advanced technology that could provide abundance for all) get thrown around in final tantrums by a very few people upset that their ideology or personal extreme power and privileges are being challenged. Or that such weapons get unleashed by accident while they are being kept in readiness for elite tantrums over ideology and poltical power (i.e. "War is a Racket" according to Major General Smedley Butler). Unlike previous collapses, nukes and engineered plagues and killer robots make any next collapse potentially very different -- even as the same underlying technologies make so much more possible. Or as I summarize in my sig: "The biggest challenge of the 21st century is the irony of technologies of abundance in the hands of those still thinking in terms of scarcity."
I first heard it in an AI class as well. When I relate the story I usually give it as an anecdote of apocryphal origin. But I do love the story, because it brings into focus several issues: what do you actually want your classifier to learn? what does your training set actually teach? how do you know you've learned the right thing?

Many times it seems like people go into these things hoping that the machine learning part will figure out things for them and relieve themselves of the problem of thinking hard about the problem. It doesn't. It only moves your problem over a bit and increases the difficulty.

In fact this problem pops up even in pedagogy where the lessons people are taught actually train them to do the wrong thing (for example pilots responding to aircraft attitude upsets).

The parable's lesson is a simplistic one, basically: "stop and think about what you're doing". But like other simple lessons about crying wolf or stitching in-time, it bears repeating.
"Do you have an open office?" comes to mind. http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20170105-open-offices-are-d...
I would just like to mention that as of 1.5, Elixir has stepped it's game up on error messaging as well, to get as close it can get to Elm's(which truly are fantastic) without static typing.
Here in Australia we are still planning to build large coal mines to fuel the furnaces in India and China and for our own power plants. Solar and wind are hippie conspiracies to make us all unemployed and gay, so our politicians keep telling us. You poor fools are doomed!
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Key travel time is itself a form of latency, distinct from throughput because it doesn’t count the time you take to move your fingers between keys, because you can start pressing a one key while the previous key is on the way down (as long as it’s not the same key), etc. But even aside from that, if key travel time is the biggest contributor to a keyboard’s overall input latency, then that’s what it is. There’s no real way to avoid it (except maybe pressing the keys harder?), so it doesn’t make sense to exclude it just because it’s mechanical rather than electronic.
You have a choice to not work under Capitalism. What you don't have a choice to do, is to enslave someone else to meet your needs or desires by using the State as a violence proxy that handles the racket for your benefit (while the cartel that runs the State takes a big cut of the action).

Socialism: where other people have to work for your benefit because you don't want to. It is in fact Socialism that meets the perfect definition of slavery. Not only are you a slave of your neighbor's whims or wants or laziness, you're a slave of the State which holds absolute power over the means of production and all property (ie all means of keeping yourself alive, thus your existence; the State owns you, thus slavery).
This experiment would not be removing any existing food sources but adding another one. I doubt there will be enough cigarette buds for every single crow for it to become the dominant method of obtaining food for the whole species.
Thanks, we try our best with these. Past experience has shown they can be very valuable, and help everyone at the company get context on the system and how we handle failures.

Reliability testing is definitely something we're interested in as we spin up more SRE/reliability focused individuals, but also has probably the least amount of cost-benefit for us (compared to engineering effort on improving the things we know need work). Some of the failure in the system we experienced is related to issues we know about, but haven't prioritized (read; had time for) yet.

For the library, we believe the bug is related to hackney and the fact it uses the high priority setting for its pool process. For some reason (this is the part we're not entirely sure on, and still spending some time investigating) this high priority process got stuck and consumed all of the scheduler time (presumably related to the earlier API degradation), breaking the distribution port and the application in a weird way. Oddly enough the systems we run on are SMP, so in theory one rogue process should not be able to have this effect.
I’d love to see a Rust version
I don't know much about Zookeeper, having not used it personally, but I do manage a large Consul installation as part of my Ops role for for a large cloud-based SaaS provider. Not knowing anything about differences in functionality, one thing that stands out to me is platform differences. If you're in a Java shop and have all the tools and expertise for managing Java applications, then Zookeeper will fit right in. If you _aren't_ a Java shop, then that's an additional layer of complexity you will be forced to manage. So for the most part, we aren't a Java shop at my job, so Consul's native binary is very appealing because it's simple and straightforward.

Consider that the Consul binary distribution is a zip file containing a single file. Compare that to Zookeeper's tarball which contains 1538 files. That maybe isn't a fair point on which to make a comparison, but I think it's an important signal about their respective approaches. Various people might have different reactions to those numbers, so I'm not trying to pass judgment here. Just giving an idea of one way to think about differences.
I think this is genius on Facebook's part, they know that what we know today as Facebook isn't going to be popular forever, eventually something cooler will come along and enough people will switch that Facebook becomes more or less irrelevant. But if Facebook the company just keeps buying the next new thing then whenever one actually hits it big they won't be losing users, their users will just be switching from their legacy product to their newer product.

If MySpace had bought out Facebook during the early years and just let them keep doing their thing their fate might have been different. Yeah, people would have still moved to Facebook but MySpace (the company) would have still been the one to profit.

Yeah Facebook is going to have a ton of misses with this strategy, but if it helps their long term prospects it'll be worth it.
I saw "Americas" but I see BBC means America's as in the US. But anyhow the north in Canada is obviously affected too.

I recall seeing on the news an RCMP barracks in the far north had to extend its foundation stilts no concrete foundations in the north. The stilts stick into the permafrost and are cooled by refrigeration during the summer so the building doesn't sink. The stilts used to stick into the permafrost a few metres now they have to put them down 15 metres.
You would be probably well served by linking to scientific data and publications when dismissing something so blithely.
Comparing it to Scala, it has a blazing fast compiler, is a smaller language with less ways to obfuscate code while still supporting metaprogramming. Also, you get all the advantages of the BEAM and OTP.
Agree, but this is also a serious and (apparently) widespread issue which moreover sounds like a combination of technical and social measures could help to address it. So it seems like a good idea to have a discussion about it.
> It only moves your problem over a bit and increases the difficulty.

Well, that's not quite true. In robot sensing several things have recently moved from the nigh-on-impossible column to the holy-shit-that-actually-works-pretty-well column, thanks to ML.

But I agree with the rest of it.
You're being needlessly pedantic. True year to year (or even half decade to half decade) fluctuations are pretty huge; but there's plenty of people on this board 50+ and it doesn't take much warming to go from "the lake froze over every winter when I was a boy" to "the lake don't freeze no more". Ironically, the people most vocal about denying climate change are the ones in the best position to have directly observed it.
That's because if the world was on fire all at once it would be weather, rather than climate.
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reinvent it poorly as well?
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>> “If we’re improving the mental health of millions of teens, that’s a success to us.”

Amplifying attention bitching is a good deed again.
The south of the UK often has a last gasp of summer in late Sept or early Oct. So the temps aren't that unusual.

A couple of years ago I was living on the south coast.

Towards the end of a recent summer we had a no-holds-barred tropical storm. Not only did lightning put on an incredible show across a huge area, but the external air temperature and humidity were tropical.

Going outdoors was like stepping into a hot house, with torrents of warm rain.

I've never experienced anything like it in the UK before.