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Strongly disagree with the article, it seems the author is confused about the internal hardware. The actual pin connections within all USB Type-C cables are the same -- no matter if they are shipped with a product that uses Thunderbolt, Displayport, or any other standard. The only variance cable to cable (and this exists on existing micro cables as well) is on things like shielding, AWG, and ferrites which would determine signal & power integrity over the length. IE don't use a very long & skinny cable for delivering lots of power or high speed data unless the cable was bought for that specific purpose, which is something consumers do today if they aren't using professional installers.
>It is absolutely shocking to me that research into psychedelics isn't swamped with funding.

I find it more shocking that we as a society put up with it. All the pharmaceutical companies would much rather find synthetic alternatives they can patent/control. Follow the money, as always, and it makes perfect sense.
The USSR covertly mapped American and European cities
Mechanics and Story are often orthogonal. Games that focus on one often do so at the expense of the other. Rare is the game that is able to effectively use gameplay mechanics to provide additional depth to the story.
Thanks - I’m aware and read most of them. There are details in the post and in the comments in medium.
A slice of quantum foam.
I'm not sure I'd respond well to that, honestly. If I am honestly introspective, I suspect my ego would be crushed.

Ah well... It was pretty strange to read. If it works for them, I guess? It's not really my business what they do in there and I have heard of stranger things.
After dropping the "Listen, there's something I didn’t tell you." line you are going to have a very hard time framing it as anything else but shortcoming.

A much better way to say it (if you have to say it) would be to talk about traveling and casually mention it.
Off the top of my head, anything Carrol Quigley. Regarding what my professors read, I will have to inquire.

http://www.carrollquigley.net/books.htm

http://www.carrollquigley.net/book-reviews/history_freedom_w...

Oh, and Durant's "The Age of Faith" is also worth a read.
Surface gravity on a planet with 10 times the mass of Earth will not be 10g.

The increased radius alone will reduce the surface gravity by a factor of 2 at least. But Planet 9 is also likely to be much less dense than Earth. Earth is the densest object in the solar system. You can't match our iron core with materials available in the outer reaches, so the surface will be even further away from the center.

Surface gravity on Saturn is just around 1g (for a suitable definition of "surface"). Uranus is 0.9g. Neptune is 1.1g. Planet 9 is likely to be in the same ballpark if it's an ice giant.
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The USB ports on my 2013. MacBook Pro retina are like that. One side gets more power than the other. It is confusing.
Unnecessary tech yields contrived work. (i.e. job security / pay)
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Not trying to say a little bit of cheating is fine but that's total number of retracted papers right? I can't seem to find a list that shows it as a percentage out of published papers for comparison with other countries. Is there one?
Oh, in those days, computers would fry themselves --
literally -- from overheating. CPU vendors raced to break the 1 GHz barrier, but thermal throttling wasn't as mature. If I pushed my computer too hard for too long (say, with a really tough ray trace) then it would just shut off uncleanly from being too hot.

The joke was you could fry an egg on your CPU because it got so hot:

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/03/01/how_to_fry_an_egg/
http://www.phys.ncku.edu.tw/~htsu/humor/fry_egg.html
I find it hard to understand why one would do something like this, effectively sabotaging your own career and likely facing severe legal consequences..
I have the last model 17" mbp that was made (late 2011) and even though I had the foresight to order it with an SSD upgrade, it's showing it's age.

For most tasks performance is ok (I assume ssd access is much faster in newer machines though) but it's a maintenance issue now.

I've had.. 3 mainboard replacements I think (failed discrete gpu). A swollen battery. Just had to replace one of the fans, and due to its age it's now a solely DIY option. Apple won't repair it for any amount of money and their authorised repairers can't order parts.

These days I think a multi-machine setup is more practical, (and with a wife & child I work a lot more from home now than I did 5 years ago) so my next machine will likely be a 4K iMac, with the 17" relegated to "definitely need a portable" duty.
Government was born from the necessity to manage and defend grain stockpiles. Compared to hunted/foraged food, grain could be stored for long periods of time and its high energy density made it a prime target for thieves/marauders.
The effect of refusing to drive varies where you live, such as in London. However, if you can pass the driving test then that's the standard of the community. Driving doesn't require fine motor control.
Yet the system can be rigged. China's currency is artificially being kept cheap so that manufacturing stays there. Mexico and many Asian countries have terrible labor or environmental protection laws.

It seems like maintaining a free market in such a market would lead to a race to the bottom with regards to wages and quality of life. Why should we allow that to happen just to maximize profits?
I mean, you count China's rise as coinciding with the time just after they were being hostile to their neighbors. A rosy filter to be sure.
Not only that, it's possible that a USB port on a monitor is only because the monitor contains a USB hub and it doesn't accept video over USB at all.
I grew up in New York and work here and this article and the comments here just seem so alien to me. Maintaining a car just seems like taking your money and making a trash fire with it in a dumpster. Sitting in traffic every day also seems like hell on earth.

Guess I'll just have to stay in NYC...though I could probably manage in Chicago or, to a lesser extent, Boston. Or Berlin.
> I find it more shocking that we as a society put up with it.

Great point.
More like: bad culture fit, expects a standard library that handles infinite quantities and complex numbers out of the box.

Edit: how about

(Math.Pow(a+b, 2) - Math.Pow(a,2) - Math.Pow(b,2))/2
What software did they use to generate this page? My first guess was org-mode, but it doesn't look like that. Maybe markdown + pandoc?
How do you find relevant notes from the past? grep (or a fuzzy-match version) would help, or do you organize them by some system?

The organization of notes in an accessible manner is a challenge for me - perhaps I'm doing it wromg.
Ooop yep, pandoc. Don't know what the source format was yet though.

<meta name="generator" content="pandoc" />
> what makes national borders optimal?

That's where democratic influence stops, beyond which we can't control. Before globalization became a thing, workers commonly had a union, bargaining rights, and a political wing that fought for them. Now that we've entered a global economy, we can't get that leverage anymore.
China does not have solid legal founds for their claims, they do have a bunch of anecdotes though (e.g. The nationalists got a small USN boat to take them to visit them, so they think this means the USA must have approved of their claim).
I honestly did not understand what this website is about.
Standard doesn't mean acceptable.
I have noticed a change in the interview techniques portrayed in some police shows. Gibb's team in NCIS is one of those but the British TV series Scott and Bailey really comes closest to what is discussed in this Guardian article. Sometimes Soren in Law and Order comes close as well.

Any police officer who wants to try this could get started by learning some basic psychology and watching a few episodes of these TV series. And also, you need to fix your own psychological issues because these techniques work best when you are not choked up with hate or other emotions. They require empathy for the criminal and to do that, you need to have firm control of your psyche otherwise it will break you to try it.

I am reminded of one of those Sales empowerment books of the 60s and 70s written by a luxury car salesman. He said that you could not be successful unless you genuinely liked your customer, and only then could you help him to spend his money on what you are selling. Part of the book was exercises on how to turn on that "genuine like" within your own psyche.

Let's face it, it takes years of daily practice to become a skilled musician, or a skilled skateboarder or a skilled parcour athlete or... Humans can do amazing things if only they apply themselves with a few years of daily practice. Stage magic is even more so because those folks never stop practicing the most impossible actions.
> Its industry is bigger than ever, and exports of manufactured goods have grown by more than 400% since the 80s.

Why does this matter if only the top 10% are benefiting from this growth? Quality of life for the lower class is declining, not increasing.
It is possible to train people to provide misleading information under torture. What if that phone has two passwords, one which unlocks secrets and one which leads you on a wild goose chase. Which one will you get by torture?
http://ipnsig.org/

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

https://ipnpr.jpl.nasa.gov/

Work continues on interplanatary networking.
You should look at the current state of cities like a large legacy codebase written imperatively. But worse because you can't rewrite it, any change is slow and political, and you have to apply any change in code by patching the binary live.

The fundamental mistake was that cities were decomposed into an interconnected system of districts separated by purpose. This wasn't an assumption that people would think to question -- it doesn't seem opinionated, it doesn't prescribe a way to plan, and it's 'obvious'. So naturally this way of looking at cities lead people to plan cities that fit the model. So we have districts separated by use that require transportation systems to go between. I don't think it's right to shoulder the blame on the transit systems because their existence is a band-aid fix for a severed corroded. The fact that a person needs a transit system at all to satisfy their daily needs is the problem.

However, modern city planning has undergone a revolution that throws out this old model. A new model where everything is intermixed and in close proximity is the new hotness in the industry. It's sometimes called mixed use but that's a small part of what really is a larger set of changes.

Overall I wouldn't fault city planners for such a non-obvious mistake that was made a long time ago and only lived on through the industries cultural memory.
There's no terminator seeds in any active product lines.

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

Lots of commercial seed, GMO or not, is a hybrid that makes good fruit or vegetable and doesn't make great seed.
> you don't say "this person won the 0th place trophy"

I think it would make sense to say it. The reason I don't is that people around me would misunderstand me if I did. (Around some people, it works, though!)
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Hyperbolic Discounting Sounds really weak. So what if I use the arrow keys in my editor rather than learn some obscure magic to get where I want a bit quicker? Likewise, testing is always in that area that is nice to have in code that is going to last more than a few days, but adding them in up front when you are still exploring the design and solution space is just dumb (up there with premature abstraction).
I don't think that's a requirement. We don't even know for sure what the internal structure of other planets are like.
I have been coding for almost 40 years and always been big on documenting code, but the problem is that code changes and documentation doesn’t always keep up.

Given modern tools I’ve come to the conclusion that documenting overall purpose and specific edge cases is more than enough. For example, the file header should describe its purpose, and anything in the actual code that’s not obvious should be commented. No more boilerplate function or file comment header. Git tells me who wrote each line of code, I know the name of the funcs and files, and I can see the inputs/outputs for every func with my own two eyes.
I don't think there are many people arguing that bringing jobs back would be a net positive. It's obvious that the rich are making tons of money off of this situation. I think the people arguing for bringing jobs back is so that quality of life can stop decreasing for the lower class and rural areas of the country that have been massively affected by globalization.
I would also pull in:

Dark Tranquility - The Gallery

At the Gates - Slaughter of the Soul

Edge of Sanity - Crimson
Not sure why the downvote.

I never learned to drive (combination of lack of desire and circumstance) and at 38, I have a much more... shall we say realistic understanding of the responsibility someone takes on by getting behind the wheel, as compared to myself at 16 or 18.
An examination of the habits of fishes, insects, &c, will readily show that being “the fittest” is often an incredibly, tough harsh life.
A bunch of non-falsifiable claims with a colorful unrelated brain graphic. Not very useful.
> Jeremy won international fame for a mutation that caused his shell to coil left instead of right. For years, people searched for another lefty snail with which he could mate. Shortly before his death, she was found.

Since most of the snails (all?) are hermaphrodites isn't this use of "he" and "she" wrong? (or at least misleading?)

> All of the babies were born with a right-handed shell. This means the gene causing a snail’s directional twist (and body asymmetry in other animals), described last year in Current Biology, could take more than a generation for its recessive form to appear.

This doesn't make any sense. Is the left handled shell caused by a recessive gene? If this were the case, the offspring of two left handled snails should be also left handled. Is it possible that this was not caused by a genetic mutation, and it's just that a tiny amount of normal snails get the wrong orientation?
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There's still money being lost; when you buy coins, and when the developer sells them. Unless they can pay their usual expenses using cryptocurrencies, they'll need to sell, at a loss (even if possible less than CC).
Most interviewers who use torture do that because the believe that the evil criminal deserves a punishment, and the interviewer derives great satisfaction from doing the torture.

But you have to admit that criminals are not normal people. They are in fact, insane, in a specific way that our laws will not give them diminished responsibility. It is dangerous to think that the criminal is not a sadist. You have to maintain control over the criminal and over the interview. And you must maintain full control over your own psyche and emotions. Never be bored or frustrated. Have infinite patience. Map out the criminal's psyche to learn what makes them tick. Listen to your own intuitions because as you learn more about criminal psychology, your subconcious becomes a more powerful tool.
I expect every professional developer to do at least the minimum necessary level of documenting, be they solo, small team, big team, startup, corporate, etc, etc.
>“For at least 4000 years, there were settled communities but no evidence of state power”

Well that doesn't mean state power isn't necessary for large scale communities. It just shows that in the thousands of years after the dawn of agriculture communities were too small to require a state framework to exist. As community scale increased, states became necessary.
I lost 5 hours to this on Friday and made 5 octillion paperclips.
> there no reason for our product to have be a fancy SPA, it would be just as useful if it were a static site.

So common, so true, but certainly an argument you'll never win.

> the cli generates about 2/3s of our users requests

This is more interesting, I think -- is that widely known internally? Is that number growing or shrinking? Do users start on the web interface and migrate to the CLI, or do they pick one and stick with it? Do they use the CLI by hand, or do they have scripts to make the interface better?

The whiz-bang web interface may drive sales better, but improving the way the product is used will drive retention. Try to stay positive about it, and keep a wide perspective, but do make sure that what you know and what you think are known "up the chain."
I think people on the left side of the IQ bell curve shouldn't experience a declining quality of life just because they weren't genetically and/or financially blessed as a child.
Many Chinese feel like this. When the NYT was banned for exposing the wealth of...I think Wen Jiabao's family, many Chinese shrugged it off as common knowledge (all the senior leaders are corrupt, Xi didn't send his daughter to Harvard on just his official salary after all); that the NYT was just rubbing it in their face. At no point did the argument against the NYT go to false or fake data. WSJ, Bloomberg, etc...have all been banned on stories that the Chinese never tried to seriously refute. It was more about face than fact.
But he did end up there somehow in there first place. What was his interview them like, I wonder?
It's about paperclips.

Why make paperclips? Because it's your utility function.
To return to the hunter/gatherer lifestyle would probably require shrinking the population by 99%. The process of doing that would probably kill most of the rest before they adapted. (How much woodcraft do you know? Very, very few people could build a fire without matches.)

You can include me out of any such proposals.
Just because nothing is black or white, but some shade of grey, doesn't mean all the shades of grey are equivalent.

Also, isn't this just a what aboutism anyways?
Not that you are wrong for you opinion, but I feel differently. My data structures class was all programming, essentially just the professor writing code on the board for a linked list / trie / etc. after briefly describing it conceptually, and then having to implement the data structure and perhaps solve a problem with it for homework. My algorithms classes were all proof based / theoretical (the most applied problems asking you to come up with a "novel" algorithm to solve something, but still written). I felt cheated out of an actual class once I realized my data structures class could have been designed the same way. Coding the algorithms is usually the trivially boring or frustrating part to me; it's the actual design or concepts that I enjoyed.
The shift-and-add algorithm for multiplication is usually implemented as a loop that iterates for the number of bits of the operand, so e.g. for an 8-bit x 8-bit multiplication, the loop runs 8 times. (An "early out" algorithm when one of the operands becomes 0 is also common, but let's not complicate things here.) It's trivial to unroll this loop into the 8 individual shift-and-add steps.
That is thinking out of the box, something that military forces have great difficulty doing. Number 2, 4 and 5 quite publicly caused a collapse in the victory of the first Gulf War.

It is too bad that there are not more Soviet and Russian WWII movies overdubbed in English, because the NKVD and the KGB really mastered this stuff back in the 40s and 50s. Not in all departments of the organization but in enough of them to become the masters of the Cold War.
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Good point about being closer to the PM, I don't think the feedback gets to the right place in the larger organizations; will take a look, thanks!
Yuk yuk yuk. Offspring are all right. Very interesting though. 300 offspring, both parents left-y, but all offspring right-y. It seems curious that left-y is so rare and according to the article additional genetic studies are needed before the left-y cause is determined. Maybe it isn't genetic, but a rare quirk of development.

I was wondering why right-y is so prominent, but if there are physical limitations during mating between left vs right then one would naturally emerge. No mentions of alternate snail species in the article with left-y shells, but apparently left vs right shells are distinguishing features of gastropods (land and sea snails).

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

An interesting natural constraint on design. Edit: and by design I mean constraint on emergence / naturally restrained emergence, not some externally imposed design.
> Digital obviously negated needing them to work the same way

So, how do faders and knobs work nowadays?

Oh, are they perhaps still potentiometers, with the difference that you can now low-pass filter them before reading off and digitising their values, since you don't have to pass the audio signal through them?
The proximity sensor was the key that made the iPhone work. When people say some other company invented the touchscreen smart phone first, I like to ask, did it have a proximity sensor?
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15473902
Ah, I see!

So from one article and no actual evidence or information, a random Hacker News subscriber managed to determine that a story about a bad dev written by an insider on the project was actually about a poor, amazing, faultless dev who worked at the whim of Bad Management.

Because, as we all know, Management Bad, Dev Good.
The quality of this troll is 5/10 but quite amazing it has elicited so many replies.
Fourier transforms are a great example: when I started with Julia, this was the only time I missed 0-based indexing.

Now there is the awesome FFTViews.jl package which goes one better with wrap-around indexing:
https://github.com/JuliaArrays/FFTViews.jl
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OP here. Your page recently popped up on “Present /&/ Correct”: http://blog.presentandcorrect.com/ikea-dictionary

I thought giving it some visibility could help fill in some of the missing entries.
This is definitely not merely what it appears to be.
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The Nexus 5 and 7 each had upside-down micro USB ports. I was surprised the 6P didn't put USB-C in sideways or something.
To deal with this exact issue, I wrote a 'Promise Queue' for use in our codebase. The implementation of this queue is simple. It is initialized with a resolved promise. Each operation (i.e. a function that returns a promise) is enqueued by calling `.then(theFunction)` on the queue, while replacing it with the returned value from the `.then(...)` invocation. This ensures that two different operations do not interleave.

You lose some potential speed this way, but you are able to reason about the states your program will take far more easily.
Yeah, this guy probably has gotten some severe stress somehow.
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Ironically it is essentially the event loop which causes the deadlock in C#.

Depending on what framework/runtime you're in .NET will schedule the await continuation on something called a "SynchronizationContext" which has ~3 different forms but it's basically an event loop/message loop which queues up each continuation on the original thread.

The problem occurs when you use .Wait() or .Result instead of 'await'. This causes the function to spin waiting for the Task to finish, which of course it never will if it has a continuation trying to dispatch into that same event loop.

This problem doesn't really happen at all under some circumstances, such as if the async chain starts on a background thread, or in .net core where they've removed the SynchronizationContext, hence no event loop, hence no problems.
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