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Thanks for the reply and perspective.

I only helped support an arch/design firm in terms of CAD/Revit. I'm surprised I hadn't heard of this earlier but it wasn't my job to make those decisions and, as much as it was a struggle to get the executives on board with Revit, going to an 'unknown' brand like ZWCAD might have taken some teeth pulling (or maybe an entire root canal). They were also a firm willing to have bought and installed the suit for each year on certain machines.

I think it's great if there is this competitor in the market. Most of the architects experienced in CAD lamented that it was their only option and that instead of improving the product, Autodesk just continued to add different ways of doing the same thing.
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They will. But the big question is if it will get ugly for Bitcoin holders or fiat holders
I'm interested to hear why you consider any of my opinions incorrect.
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Replying to this thread as a whole. I talked to a General in the army netcom a week after that ban, specifically, I was presenting on the commercial drone market uses. At the time of the ban, the army indicated that they had several thousand DJI drones grounded by that order.
Are there any books, fictional or other-wise discussing this issue in the context of a developed country?
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I like constraint based physics, and phase-space/Lagrangian/Hamiltonian methods are very useful both for solving difficult mechanical problems, as well as, seeing connections with QM, optics, etc. However, for most freshmen, the math is simply beyond them in their first year. Unless you can delay until multivariate, partial differentitals, and at least ODE... it won't stick. On casual examination SICM looks more like a substitute for Goldstien's Classical Mechanics, but perhaps it is better. Nominally, I'd recommend that in the late 2nd or 3rd undergraduate year.

One thing that I'm quite happy with in my physics education is that the faculty went to quite some effort to make sure that the math and physics tracked each other so that you would see the theory and practice twice and intertwined.

One thing that was missing (as other's have mentioned) was numerical methods and programming techniques, which I think could also be covered in a parallel track.
Right, so what are possible explanations for interest in alternative asset classes not increasing, and why is that worrisome?
The number of hours doesn't map directly to the FSI scale because the FSI scale is training Foreign Service Officers, who have undergone a rigorous selection process, and usually already speak multiple languages.

They are also learning full time at one of the best language schools in the world.

The average person taking average classes part time wouldn't learn nearly as quickly as they do.
Fixed wing drones require missions, procurement, permissions etc. rotor drones give you plenty of airborn vantage and photography ability for next to no money and minimal risk.
Seems like this view gets told every once in a while by someone who clearly hasn't been around any 0-2 year olds.
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French has more conjugations (mostly because it has more subjunctives) than Spanish. Spanish has something like 4k irregular verbs, though most of the irregularities are... regular (there are several common forms of irregularities), so it's not that bad. On the whole I think French is significantly harder to learn than Spanish.

English, is very difficult, I think, though obviously not as difficult as, say, Finnish.

Most languages have complexity somewhere. Chinese languages have Chinese ideographs. Japanese has Kanji (Chinese characters), two syllabic alphabets, romaji (Latin character set transliteration), and things like "counters" (alternate endings for counting words depending on what sort of thing you're counting -- there are over 1,000 different counters!).

The complexity in English mostly lies in all the borrowed words and the rather loose rules around the language (like French, the rules have lots of exceptions, though in French the exceptions to the rules are almost infuriating in number), the rather not-very-phonetic prononciation, the lack of stress marks, the large variation in accents.
I meant "good", but either typo or autocorrelat got in the way.

I think that companies like taxis are cheap and while they are willing to pay, they are not willing to pay much.
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+1000.

https://environment.google

TIL this is called "Corporate Renewable Energy Procurement".
https://www.google.com/search?q=Corporate+Renewable+Energy+P...

PPA: Power Purchase Agreement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_purchase_agreement
Also, find me a 12 month old that can recognize an object after seeing it once.
Depends on what you pay for. If you pay for timely good results then you don't care about whether your employee plays golf in between to get them.

If you pay for butt-in-seat-hour then you have to track hours and butts. Either by newganled gps thingies of olden days methods of assigning a foreman to look at you.
The writing system is extremely easy compared to Chinese and Japanese. It's just an alphabet.
Reporting from Singapore. Yes, seed funding has dried up here as well.

On the other hand, the TechCrunch chart shows that the amount is still higher than, say, 5 years ago.
Other strong factors that are not mentioned:

1. Seed funding has long delays to liquidity. The glut of seed investors, money and excitement in 2012-2015 got a lot of investors interested but none of them have got returns yet so they got tapped out.

2. Accelerators like YC have built up a strong brand so seed funding is more concentrated as well.

3. You need less and less money at seed stage so expectations are higher and one would expect less funding activity.

Overall a gentle decline in seed funding from its slightly bubbly levels is a healthy sign for the ecosystem.
You refer to "Exponential Growth Cascade Failure" games. Is there a TVTropes for board game mechanics?
>I've seen very sophisticated OMSs (Order Management Systems) built completely using excel workbooks, with 1 sheet containing orders and formula's to pull realtime pricing from bloomberg, reuters, another sheet for pre-trade analysis, another for the actual trades, and a summary sheet with pivot tables and charts to show the trade progress and summary.

Wait, people are making API calls in VBA to insert into Excel spreadsheets?
> learning hebrew to be able to understand medieval or biblical literature probably is a good bit harder than learning modern hebrew.

No it's not. A non-fluent Hebrew speaker would not even be able to tell the difference between the modern and biblical. It's the same words, the same word order, the same letters, pronunciation (modern abbreviates sounds a bit, but the abbreviation is more slang than official - if you ask someone to speak slowly then the pronunciation is the same in both).

You'd have to be pretty fluent in Hebrew to even be able to identify where there are differences (mainly in knowing which words are considered archaic, and some sentence structure that is not common in modern Hebrew). But to actually know those details requires a deep knowledge of the language - a beginner speaker would never be able to tell the difference.

For all intents and purposes it's all one language. It's not like English where middle English is basically unintelligible.

There are tons of people who only ever learned the biblical Hebrew, and they can speak to people who only know modern Hebrew - they sound a bit funny, but that's about it. A beginner speaker would never notice.

> so it did not have time to accumulate weird exceptions

There's been plenty of time, but it hardly happened for a different reasons: The language is basically defined by the Torah and the Mishnah (and other bodies of work). The way it's written there is definitive. So it's difficult to create exceptions when you have so much written literature that does it in a particular way.

A notable exception is uncommon and technical words, which have definitely changed over time - but a beginner is never going to encounter those.
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The FSI rates Finnish as harder than Polish for native English speakers.
That's just the first thing I thought of (I'm not invested in it in any way and down't have any ethercoin). I just mean some sort of publicly-acceptable authentication mechanism that's simple and federated.
Is Emacs efficient with 2-finger typing?

With the handheld form factor revolution, we need text editors that use that interface as efficiently as Emacs and Vim use the full keyboard interface.
> Use the library. Don't write your own.

Things are not so simple.

Dependencies on 3rd party libs also imply maintenance costs (generally related to the integration of this lib into your build system).
They are moderate, however, they don't go away with time.

Binary search is a small algorithm, which is easy to understand, and whose correctness is easy to check.
It's not a good example of a "good" dependency on a 3rd party lib.
44 weeks is for Foreign Service Officers whose full time job for those 44 weeks is to learn Finnish at one of the best language schools in the world.
There are no governments in space yet so as long as you don't bring the goods back to earth nobody can really say anything.
Regular people don't understand hash codes, a popular cryptocurrency (which Ethereum might be in future istm) would serve that purpose without people needing to be nerds to recognize it.

People don't want to spend time knowing how all that shit works, the same way they just want to be able to recognize authentic cash notes in a physical wallet without having to know anything about specie currency or financial economics.
This is amazing, especially considering their cloud services. Powering an entire datacenter on renewable can NOT be easy.

Does Amazon have a similar initiative? Given their market share in the cloud and their widespread AZ's I imagine it'd be tricky.

edit: jk, apparently their energy needs are half that of Google and they're making headway. (https://electrek.co/2017/10/19/amazon-wind-farm/)
Do you even emacs+tramp bro?
Love it. This is exactly how I wrote compilers for a living back in the day – I always got the minimum in end-to-end demo running because it was always the best way to avoid ugly surprises.
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The safest option is to do both, and that's what's happening here (though the post is not clear on it, they're running me_cleaner with options that both erase all but the initial loader module of ME, and set the bit so it disables itself after startup instead of loading other modules)
"At the end, all verbs are."
And the feds have the million dollar bypass rig or access to third-parties that provide services, which probably supports 4-6 digits. 8-10 might be a better idea.
It's expressed somewhat awkwardly, but what's going on is that R(x) is zero if x is in range of g, and infinite otherwise. Choice of g is such that natural images are in range of g, and non-natural images aren't.
It has happened hundreds of times actually. There have been tons of ICOs. I would not underestimate it.
I'm more interested in why:

1. People selectively choose to care about whether another person or class of people can live without needing to work, and

2. People selectively advocate for contradictory universal statements about human nature depending on which humans they're talking about (in other words, applying different "universal" rules about motivation and behavior depending on whether the hypothetical person they're talking about is already wealthy or not).
Right, because it’s easy to guess someone’s name and address and polling place. And to mimick their signature, which can be easily scanned and compared with the registration form. The Registrar can invalidate a voter’s registration on that basis.

The myth of voter fraud in the US has been debunked time and time again, just Google it for yourself. Voter fraud is a big distraction from the real Election Fraud that’s going on. Like the Democrat-appointed Country Registrar in Los Angeles who neglected to inform Precinct Leaders by law they were supposed to display the write-in candidates (like Bernie Sanders) on the table where people sign in. I toured 3 different precincts in my neighborhood and got into it with each Precinct Leader and showed them the CA Election Code to convince them to properly display the write-in lists. And then I tracked down the District Election Supervisor who told me no instructions were given about write-ins and he was upset about it too.

Or like the 5 Berner’s I know personally who had their registration changed to mail-in, through no action on their part. The dirty trick there is the voter is handed a provisional ballot when they show up at their polling place.
Just a hunch based on past conversations
Now that's more than impressive, well done Google
Serpent is deprecated, there's no first or second there.

Also think you are confusing poorly made cookie cutter erc20 tokens as representative of smart contracts in general, it is most certainly all a mess, but perhaps those treating alpha software as production ready is the real problem?

Last i looked the biggest user of gas and thus what is keeping your jaded investment afloat is ENS, no token just a pure smart contact. It has been running fine for a year.

Sadly we have people investing into hairbrained marketing brochures created by unqualified people in their underwear rather than proven products, in a free world I see no solution to this other than education.

On the other side of the equation we have people like Dan Guido seeking funding to make formal verification frameworks and the commmunity barely even notices nor puts it on a pedestal like every doomed ico that comes along.
Where do you think the venture money comes from? Mostly from investment banks and faceless funds, not a bunch of rich guys.

These funds have diversified portfolio. They are paid to produce good returns, so a small part goes into "alternative investments" and such, which is potentially high-risk, high-yield.

The article does a good analysis but they forget to mention another factor: cryptocurrencies. It's clearly the biggest bubble right now, which means it'll draw the money used to gamble.
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Do you still have this code? I want to be unpopular too!
Do we really want Pence as president?

He's about as conservative as they come.
> There is no condescension in making a value judgement of yet another messaging application vs a fundamental energy source technology.

This is the root of our disconnect - I strongly disagree with your assertion that WhatsApp was merely "yet another messaging application". If it were, why aren't Slack and the rest of them being snapped up for $19 billion?

You have an extensive background in messaging tech - I have a more extensive background than most in the 3rd world. I witnessed the phenomenon that was WhatsApp firsthand. What other messenger supported feature phones (think Nokia S40 and S60)? This probably doesn't matter in your world, and probably gives you a blindspot that causes you to not see the value that is readily apparent to me.
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They probably meant nouns with der/die/das. Probably the thing I hate most in any language, it just seems so incredibly stupid for no benefit (I obviously was not a fan of learning German in primary school). Same with french, but they take it a bit further.
Is Rust available on the platforms Linux targets? The kernel community won't react fondly to tries to restrict the target support. I'd expect a justified rant with lots of insults at intellect and sanity, if need be.

Is Rust well-understood, both by the users and the toolchain developers? How many independent compilers are there for Rust? What architectures do they support?

I'm not implying that Rust isn't suitable for Linux, but it has open issues, that prevent usage right now. Rust and it's core ecosystem have a lot of churn, and still feel like a rather early work-in-progress. One example not mentioned is the Rust language server and its integration with consumers.

I cheer for Rust, and hope for solid progress.
Not sure... would be interesting if you could describe a situation in that field?
> I do think (possibly for the same reason) that it is harder to write correct C++ code than it is to write correct C code

I call BS on this.

So many mistakes in C simply cannot be made in C++ if you follow the well-established coding patterns and don't try to switch to C-style code. e.g.: You just cannot simply forget to free any resource, because you never have to do it with RAII. You cannot forget to check a status code and return early because you don't have to; the exception will propagate until someone catches it. You cannot forget to initialize a vector because it initializes itself. I could go on and on.

That said, there is a huge caveat to what I am saying above: I am comparing experienced programmers in each language with each other -- those who are basically experts and know what they're doing. I'm not debating whether it's easier to shoot yourself in the foot with C++ if you use it with insufficient experience (and part, though not all, of the reason is that you will probably write C-style code most of the time, and write neither proper C nor proper C++). I'm saying that an experienced programmer is much more likely to write correct code in C++ than C.
Have you actually bought one before? They are the most expensive in the industry. Saying all the work on stabilization is done by the US simply shows you have a lack of understanding what make a drone great. DJI has one of the best flight times. It’s image stabilisation and video quality is unmatched in the industry. Its ability to handle wind turbulence and object avoidance is second to none. Not to mention it’s software features is top notch. All these count to make it the most popular drone in the industry.

P.s I know you love to trash talk China and say America is great all the time. But I think you are stereotyping a bit here. The amount of bias in your comments is quite obvious. Make is question how you are a researcher. Learn to judge something by its merits.
>I'm guessing that for Korean it's mostly the grammar differences, honorifics

Definitely! And some other differences too. As someone living in South Korea currently, the reading/writing part is trivial, but beyond that it is a lot harder to learn (for an english speaker (although I'm danish)) than, say, French.

I definitely disagree that Korean and Spanish would be considered equally hard, and know literally no one here that would say that either.
English and German started diverging 1000 years ago, and what they have in common are a smattering of words suited to village life back then. They're really quite different now.
It doesn't only make you think there is a better balance, it also makes you think harder whether the task at hand needs this kind of complexity. If this is all hidden under abstraction, developers might not care enough.
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Wow, this looks amazing, thanks for the suggestion.
Counterpoint: I bought a System76 laptop roughly eight (?) years ago (Bonobo Pro 17 in.) and I have no plans to buy from them again.

My system was delivered with a BIOS issue that made it only boot perhaps 1 out of 30 cycles. Delivered on a Thursday night, after spending a lot of time troubleshooting, I had to wait until their support got in on Monday to get anything done. Then I had to mail it in and wait a long time to get it returned with a reflashed BIOS (I'd be lying if I said I remember exactly how long, just remember it feeling way too long).

I explained that I had bought the laptop specifically for on-site work with a client and that I needed a functioning fix or replacement ASAP. They told me they couldn't make anything happen any faster, and even told me that they had no way for me to pay out of my own pocket for faster return shipping, though IMO they should've offered to do this themselves.

I did eventually get back a mostly-working system which I still use around the house, though it's had a habit of hard-locking when the GPU is under stress the whole time I've had it. But my experience with Sys76 customer support is the biggest factor in deciding not to buy from them again.

Do bear in mind this was several years ago and that it is reported from memory. It is entirely possible they've gotten their act together and/or that I'm misremembering some details, but this was my experience as I recall it.
> Analytical work dominates in high-energy theory, quantum information, mathematical physics, cosmology theory.

Yes, but most physicists are not theorists.
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Stranger Things has made me want to try DnD but I also know zero people who play in Seattle :-/

Same problem with trying out Pandemic: Legacy. Damn social anxiety.
Cryptocurrencies are also used to directly invest in startups via ICOs. The ICO market is reportedly bigger than the venture capital market as of a couple months ago; the numbers in this article are completely consistent with a shift in early-stage fundraising from seed funds to ICOs.

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/09/initial-coin-offerings-surpa...
Idle games usually go automatic after a while, as in you can unlock things that click themselves after a while. It's a great model for gamification though!

I haven't looked into it enough to see whether it's an idle or incremental game. Incremental games usually unlock some entirely new game mechanic after a certain stage.
There are way more experimental physicists than theoretical physicists, and even theorists usually at least write Mathematica code...
> If you’re writing a kernel, you’ll almost certainly be using “-nostdlib” (or your compiler’s equivalent) so unique_ptr, etc. won’t be there.

Huh? unique_ptr has a customizable Deleter though; you should be able to provide a custom one so it doesn't call delete.

And doesn't a kernel implement a kmalloc() or something anyway? You would just write your own operator new and have it do what your kernel needs, and the rest of the standard library would just work with it.
This is really nice. I'd love to make one for native mobile some day.
The linked jacket looks pretty cool.

"Vintage Nylon Cray Super Computer Coat Medium, Cray Y-MP C90 Chippewa Falls"
People do know CEO or employee's opinions doesn't really represent company's views, right?

Because here's what happened:
"Goldman Says the Bitcoin Haters Just Don’t Get It"

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-29/goldman-s...
The problem here is that the countries doing this actually love it because it creates another unofficial barrier of entry.
You are correct about the speed, but the short response combined with the unjustifiedly overly general attack of the authors knowledge is unnecessary.
The companies still have to be willing to sell, and there's greater and greater liquidity in the market. While the ICO fad will fade, there will be new financial innovations to take the place of ICOs.