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>>> it doesn’t provide 4x the utility of a $250 phone

That is not correct. Try taking a photo of a text document with a $250 phone, the text is not readable because the camera and the software is terrible. A better phone would allow you to not have a dedicated scanner.
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There are items with inherent value, like gold. It's value is inherent because of how we use it (electronics, jewelry), but that doesn't change the fact that there is real value in gold.

Context. There are contexts where even gold has greatly reduced value. If you're on a sinking ditched airplane in rough seas, are you really going to try and stash that 1kg bar of gold bullion on your person? In that context, it arguably has quite a bit of negative value. I'd account the "getting you dead" property as conferring negative value.

In the same context, liter of salt water is worthless. In a different context, it would be worth many times what the gold would be worth.
I went to Catholic college prep high school in the 1990s. My kids, public high school (albeit: a suburban public high school) over the last 6 years. I had to write a shitload of papers. My kids have to write a shitload of papers. If anything: their education is more rigorous than was mine. If my kids get(/got) "cats" vs. "cats'" incorrect, they'll get dinged for it.

I kind of want to call bullshit on this analysis.
As I understand it, from a second-hand but reliable recounting, in the foreign market (outside Germany), the two Aldi's have mostly divided the markets on a country basis. (One or the other will be present in a country, but not both.)

The large and rich U.S. is the exception, where the Aldi name is used by one of the two (from other comments here, Aldi Nord, I guess -- oops, another comment says Sued), while the other (Aldi Sued, then -- or Nord, it seems) is present through its Trader Joe's mark and model.

By me, the nearest Aldi is a dingy looking affair with a pretty small and limited selection. I don't mean of brands, but simply of products and produce. This may be just this particular location, which is kind of out of the way.

Trader Joe's has been very slowly expanding its store base, and those I find much more useful, though they are still small and don't have the range of coverage that a supermarket has. I've seen the same employees at those stores for years -- and years. And gotten to know some of them, to varying degrees. Their staff stick.
Amusingly I had a similar experience while holding a tutorial for math 2 at my university. After an hour a student asked me what the integral symbol is, as if she has never seen it before. Now I do not find this very tragic as I would gladly recap anything and working throughout my studies I know one might not be able to get through all of the content, but good luck studying when you are missing the basics to even understand the problem at hand.
What you say is totally true, but completely irrelevant to the point I was making.

All i was saying is that it's pretty common/normal/etc for insurance (in any industry. Literal insurance or things that are insurance in practice but not literally) to offer routine exam/tests/maintenance/checks if it can prevent the worse case scenario $$$ from happening.
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For those of you, like me, who don't know exactly what an ESP8266 is or how it might be used, check out this video by EEVBlog[0]. It gives a brief background on the chip and its alternatives and shows some simple programming examples.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6NBnPfPhWE
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expr: [term ["+" | "-"] expr | term]
term: [factor ["*" | "/"] term | factor]
factor: [primary "**" factor | primary]
primary: [some digit | "(" expr ")"]
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Ah, thanks. The decibels example makes sense (an alternative would be to take the log first, and then convert it back after averaging?), and I can see how the 0-10 system can also be viewed as categorical rather than discrete.
> 4. Their meaning is precise: car just takes the first element of a list. Whereas something called first might reasonably be expected to also give you the first element of a vector, or a string.

That may be true in LISP, but it's not true in Clojure (which I assume is a fair paragon for the first/rest camp), where first works just fine on strings and vectors:

=> (first "abc")
\a
=> (first [1 2 3])
1

> 5. When you're operating on lists as trees, the names first and rest are actively misleading. The car and cdr are the left and right subtrees, not the first and rest of something.

Firstly, trees can clearly branch out more than n=2. Then, nth becomes a much cleaner term than "left" and "right" which immediately limit you to 2 cases. But, let's say we're talking about n=2 trees. Consider:

headmarc.core=> (second [1 2 3])
2

And, of course, if that still seems unreasonable:

(def left first)
(def right second)

... but maybe what you really want is a zipper, which has everything you're asking for and more: https://clojure.github.io/clojure/clojure.zip-api.html#cloju...
Thanks! This is the reference which I tried to recall.
I don't think most people think all success is 100% luck, but many people do find issue with those who consider themselves self-made without any consideration for privilege and luck.

It feels like you're setting up a strawman here of people who believe that all success is unearned. The author only said that there are those who work as hard as he does and are as smart as him and yet don't succeed. How else would you rationalize situations where you find your peers failing and you succeeding, even though you might consider yourselves equals in ability and tenacity? Or do you simply consider yourself above and beyond and attribute all your success to that?
It's as if every HR department is singing off the same old tired sheet of music: BS degree with 3-5 years of experience... There is almost zero creativity or non-group think among hiring zombies.
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Then. A Dark Room went viral.

I suspect the author's lack of subsequent success with his other games stems from his apparent lack of curiosity about exactly how his first and only lucky break took place.
The alternative to kicking racists and facists off of reddit is not, "racists and facists no longer exist." It's, "a massive swath of the population feels manipulated and ostracised," and "we further cement population divides in the country because we've prevented people from opposite sides of the issue from seeing each other." Imagine the backlash when that situation resolves.

I feel like the author is suffering from the one sided fallacy (I'm sure there's a better name for it). We had two choices, we choose one and now we're grappling with the consequences of it. But that doesn't mean that the other option doesn't have consequences just as bad or worse. This is a classic case where, as a society, we're forced to make a major decision with very little hard data. Based on what I know of history, I'm more willing to err on the side of more speech rather than less speech. We have very recent examples in the US where a desire for sanitized civil discourse led to an inappropriate application of the "Safe Spaces" concept, and repeated instances of internet lynch mobs thought policing in an effort to make sure people are only engaged in good speak.

Trump did not create racism. Trump has simply taken advantage of a problem that has been festering for a while. Banning them from the internet doesn't get rid of the problem, it only makes it fester worse. The quiet problems have now become loud and that's a good thing. With these issues in the open, it lets us address them instead of bury them. Blaming the internet for racism is like blaming camera phones for police brutality. The problem has been there all along, and now we see it in ugly detail.

The author is arguing that there should be an end to history. That there just has to be a time when racism is dead and we can stop talking about it. This is baloney. The very definition of racism changes as our culture evolves and that changing definition will always be a point of contention. Worse yet, racism is almost certainly something that is biologically ingrained in people. We are a deeply tribalistic species and we're always looking to associate ourselves with those most similar to us. The war against racism is a war against our own biology and it's a war we can win. Childhood is all about training children to appropriately manage their biological impulses, maybe someday we'll treat racism like we treat potty training; a phase that every child goes through while raising them.
What kind of info did you look for?
Yeah, something so imprecise isn't likely to work as he thinks. Proper shielding can do a lot more. If you made your house/apartment a Faraday cage and eliminated neighbors' AP's that would already solve most problems.
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She might when it comes to asset forfeiture time.
I suppose I've got just a normal third world education, but even with my poor background I considered the cats example somewhat extreme. Is this kind of thing really common?
> It's a very fundamental human (nay, multi-celled organism) instinct to try to pass on our strongest genes.

There's nothing fundamental about it, it's just what we (and our instincts) are implicitly optimized for. I very much doubt that there's a biological basis for the drive to have kids. That involves some quite elaborate concepts which would be difficult to encode in the molecular machinery produced by DNA. A biological basis to seek pleasure, and to find pleasure in sex, though, sure.
I just want to add that I’m not promoting Aldi here. It’s definitely not perfect in the bigger food economy picture. Aldi is part of the global race to the bottom in the food industry that touches many aspects of the material and social economy from farmers to consumers.

For example, I just heard someone bought a dozen eggs at an Aldi in Missouri for 44 cents. That’s crazy and disturbing. Imagine how much the farmers got on that sale. Imagine how the chickens producing those eggs live. Imagine the nutrient contents of those eggs compared to pasture raised eggs.

But the thing is that big name grocery stores selling conventional things sell the same eggs for a lot more money. If you’re going to shop conventional, it makes sense at least not to get ripped off.
Why don't you read the linked text to learn that you're wrong? There is no address register and no decrement register on the IBM 704, and no instructions CAR and CDR either.
An instruction had an address part and a decrement part. The LISP functions CAR and CDR return the the address part and decrement part of a given register and both were implemented with more than one machine instruction.
It is not a fashion statement. When was the last time you saw a phone without a case, that makes it indistinguishable from the rest?

It is just an object of desire.
Facebook and Google both have founders who have more voting rights than their ownership stake would usually allow.

But in the case of the Reddit thread, it seems like her spouses business is more like a partnership. Even with a legal partnership, she is a joint owner in the partnership by default unless some other arrangement is made.

Just to emphasize, if the purpose of the postnup is to keep her from benefiting financially from "his" success while they are married, I find that completely distasteful. But if the purpose is to protect the integrity of the partnership, I don't see a problem with that.

I don't think my wife would want to have any part of the day to day decision making of a computer related company I started and let's assume I wouldn't ask her for a postnup and ask her to sign something on the event of my death that would allow her to be bought out at a fair value or allow her to keep her equity but it be non voting.
> The ones that are meant to program would flourish under a computer with just a black and white Terminal app on their disposal.

I don't know about "meant to". I avoided writing anything but plain HTML and CSS for years because I thought I wasn't a programming type person (wasn't smart in the right way, didn't like math, hit brick walls with basic as a teenager, etc). The terminal did nothing for me and still isn't my favorite place to be, but I do really like writing little web apps that solve problems and work. Programming, like most things, is available to anybody who wants to do the work to understand it and can put in the hours to get competent.

I see the risk in Scratch turning some kids off and would never suggest just providing anybody with one option for how to learn a skill. But I don't know about this "meant to program" idea. I'm more in favor of fostering the curiosity that can fuel real learning by any means that work.
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Lead free solder in the long run damages solder tips and also is a lot more prone to the tin whiskers plague. Luckily I have a life time supply of leaded solder and hopefully will never have to touch the lead free junk.

http://www.militaryaerospace.com/articles/print/volume-16/is...

https://nepp.nasa.gov/whisker/background/
The expectation of quickly bagging your stuff is the experience at literally every German grocery, certainly all the discounters and even the proper supermarkets like Edeka and Rewe. They're a bit slower and more patient at Karstadt, I suppose.
Regarding accessibility, I was surprised to learn the aisle in my nearby (recently renovated) Aldi is wide enough for 3 carts. It was particularly busy on one of my recent visits.
By "the market", I was referring to the US Markets. We have a few hundred years of history of always recovering. Japan is the special case though. Small and landlocked, rather xenophobic with an aging population. Things that could happen in the US, but the US is just a completely different, and much larger animal.
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I haven’t eaten meat for a long time so I can’t say much about better or worse but my understanding and what buddies are saying is that it’s not as good as it used to be. Not bad but it’s not the same taste anymore.
Make sure you read Bryan Caplan's article in The Atlantic too [0].

[0]: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/01/whats-c...
There's absolutely nothing wrong with danluu.com, and thinking there is betrays a weakness in your design sense.
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>I still feel like a failure sometimes when I check my bank statement and see how much I spend on food bought elsewhere.

Out of curiosity, why don't you shop there now?
I think it depends on the age. I'm also in the Midwest, and the two older Aldi stores here that were built in the 90's are dim and cramped (they're both still open, and still that way today). They tend to look like this -> http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ZNeZx43jXsM/TyoFKEU_9hI/AAAAAAAAKg... and http://cdn.arn.com.au/media/7139552/aldi-old-man.jpg

But the newer Aldi remodeled stores are bright and roomy and nice. They tend to look like this -> https://corporate.aldi.us/fileadmin/fm-dam/Media_Pages/Store...
I appreciate the honesty in this post and I'm pretty sure we people who make games can all learn from this.

having said that, before relating to the story please take into consideration he is going solo at it. Difficulties are very different if you are working as a team: It's a lot more expensive but a collaborative approach to creation can yield better odds of success if they can look at the game from different points of view (story, graphics, programming)

I'm not in favor of either approaches to game development, but Please remember that following your guts on creative work is both a blessing and a curse, and teamwork is a totally different beast.
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Yup. I've had side projects (none of them ever turned into big money), and I know the price my wife paid for me to have them.

Off topic, but worth stating: Knowing that, I try to be supportive of stuff that she wants to take on.
Sorry for not being clear. Specific terms make more or less sense depending on the context for which a language was designed. The ML family of languages comes out of telecom where the stream abstraction expresses a primary aspect of the principle input. Production versions of Lisp developed as a substitute for machine code. Even today, Common Lisp is useful for abstracting over operations best understood in terms of places where values mutate. Functional programming ideology aside, Common Lisp provides a good tool for "close to the metal thinking". It's not as close as C. It's closer than Java on top of the JVM.

In ML, head/tail are a bit of training wheels anyway. Most interesting ML code relies on [x1::x2::x3::[y::ys]] pattern matching. Erlang (another telecom language but without ML's academic pedigree) foregos a formal head/tail and just relies on idiomatic {H|T} pattern matching. In ML head/tail make it easier to teach students the concept of car/cdr, but not much else.
When do n and 2n have the same digits?
That's what Im reading out of it. Anyone curious can look up Instruction Set Randomization Security or combos of words "security," "diversity," and "moving target." I had conceptual designs for doing it at microcode and/or RTL with a NISC-like approach.

Sorry your team didnt get picked. I wonder if any submissions came in from Draper or someone on SAFE architecture. CHERI as well. They're already proven in other designs. Chopping down the bitsize for CHERI while replacing BERI MIPS with Rocket RISC-V would seem straightforward. Throw in some optional enhancements.

Ill have to dig into this program after work to see more about requirements and submissions.
As in other reply, afaik it doesn’t taste the same as it used to. Some people might say it’s worse but I think it’s more about what people where used to.
That's a very good resource. I typed in gibberish to make sure it was what I hoped it was.
1kg of gold is 1/10th the size of a coke can and is worth around $40k.

If you want to save something in a life threatening situation, that's a fairly reasonable choice.
My writing was appalling out of high school, but it is passable today. That was only achieved after writing chapter after paper after chapter in my Ph.D. work. Writing takes practice, and is hard work and time consuming.

I worked with my high school son on a report recently. His writing and organization was also appalling, yet this is a very bright kid; I've administered a number of cognitive and IQ batteries on him. Only after showing him how to arrange his arguments cohesively and logically, did he start to see the flaws in his writing. It takes practice and instruction, and I don't think that the school system makes it a priority. I could excuse my high school, coming from an impoverished district, but I see it also in the children of my son's school in an affluent school district.
If it wasn't clear from my original comment, I agree that the action levels should not have been set that way, and it should be noted that the instruments we use are also used for many non-envionmental applications. The idea that labs would want pesticide action levels set too low is silly, we benefit from as much product moving through the system as possible; the most desirable outcome for us is always a boring non-detect. Every lab has taken calls from clients swearing on their mother's grave that they didn't use XYZ banned pesticide, even in the face of results we've verified and sent to a second or even third lab.

What we actually want are sensible rules that strike a balance between protecting the cannabis consumer and allowing the industry to grow, especially for craft producers. It's unrealistic to expect everyone to grow their own cannabis, and the honor system isn't enough. Besides, none of this affects your ability to grow cannabis at home with as much or as little pesticides as you like.
You could argue that symbols are all 'inherently meaningless' without breathing some life in them from your own needs and experiences. 'Fingerspitzengefuhl' [1] is one of my favourite words in German and I think gaining that kind of understanding is impossible if one spends all their time in letters and doing nothing of the stuff that necessitates writing them. I took the author to mean that endlessly reading without doing any living is somewhat of a dead existence. As the person they're replying to, that's what I got from it anyways.

I tend to intellectualise this way of looking at depression (and how to get out of it - how to just get out the damn house!) as related to the Symbol Grounding Problem [2], in a semi-serious, semi-metaphorical way.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fingerspitzengef%C3%BChl
[2] http://www.socphilinfo.org/node/100
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Costcos are enormous warehouses located miles out in the suburbs. Aldi is a tiny store that you can probably walk to.
I’d assume thats that’s the case as fodder (afaik) plays a big role in their diet nowadays.
Thanks for mentioning this. I don't know whether or not this is related to intelligence, but it does seem to be a fairly common pattern where someone will underestimate the value of writing something down. I did notice this a couple times in danluu's article. A couple comments:

1) There's a lot of value in writing down something about one's experiences, even if the result is "obvious" to anyone else who has gone through the experience. There are likely a lot of people who HAVEN'T gone through that experience who would benefit from reading about it.

2) I worked on a project, mostly independently, for a year or so and produced something useful. To me, it seemed fairly pedestrian: some basic data structures, some ordinary algorithms, nothing particularly novel. A mentor suggested I write a conference proposal about it. I resisted, using the "it's obvious" argument. He came back and said "You've worked on this for a year, and no one else in the industry has worked on it. By definition you're the expert. It's worth a conference talk." Indeed it was, and it launched a significant portion of my career as a conference presenter.

I think this is largely about the difficulty of thinking about what others think when one is too close to a topic. After working on something intensively for a time, one develops a familiarity and intuition of the knowledge about that area. When working with that understanding, things may seem "obvious" but that are totally non-obvious to someone who hasn't worked in the area. This is less about absolute intelligence per se than it is about expertise, and so it's a variation of Kay's aphorism "A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points."
>My local Aldi's has a dozen eggs for less than $1 and I can get 6 chicken wings for $3!

Maybe I have a local anomaly in egg prices, but I was picking those up for 37 cents/dozen all summer, then moved to a larger town (also in Iowa) and they moved up to about 60 cents/dozen.
The market value is not "mythical" and it is "objective". Everything you stated - advertising,Veblen value, and other "malleable" attributes are things that increase its value in the eyes of the target market.

Just because you may not find a value in a pair of $200 Jordan's doesn't mean that it's not the value that the market has placed on them. How the company influenced that value is irrelevant. The fact that someone spent $200 on a pair of shoes when they weren't under duress to do so, by definition means they valued those Jordan's at $200.
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