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> That is the whole basis behind bitcoin, and the entire reason for it's existence. I urge you to do a little reading on bitcoin and how it works before trying to speak about it.

I'm fully aware of how Bitcoin works. Using argument from intimidation is not a valid argumentation line.

My position was factually correct. It does not cost even remotely as much for me to buy 1 bitcoin (eg from coinbase) or accept 1 bitcoin as payment (eg as a merchant), as it does to originally mine it today. As such, the electricity cost of each bitcoin on unit of utilization, plunges over time vs the origination. That electricity cost is not going to perpetually climb such that each bitcoin represents an eventual eg trillion dollars of electricity cost, your premise is false and absurd. After each bitcoin is mined today, its electricity cost per amount of N time existing declines, it does not increase. The first action, the mining, is extremely expensive; each action thereafter, is less expensive compared to that. Further economic use of a given coin mined today involves lower cost than the initial cost of mining it. If that weren't the case, Bitcoin would collapse instantly, it would become entirely unusable over a short amount of time (and it would never be worth mining).

I notice you ignored that you entirely blew the argument premise about the physical mining world. Bitcoin could hardly be any more different from oil or coal or numerous of other things we mine from the ground, precisely because natural gas, oil, coal are not primarily used as value stores or value swapping devices, as Bitcoin is.

> You seem to be willfully ignoring the entire point of bitcoin, which is that it isn't mined as a value store, but as a service which secures transactions and allows them to be trustless.

For someone that keeps proclaiming that I'm ignorant, you're making a very wrong claim. The supposed "point" of Bitcoin is not strictly defined and has shifted in the last several years based on circumstances. There's no single central authority of Bitcoin that can define its point. If transaction fees are very low, it will be utilized differently than if its transaction fees are very high, thus its utilization shifts. There is no singular rigid "point."
John W. Young on his rookie mission. Severe official disapproval, but of course he went on to a total of six launches, two of them moonbound, two of them truly pioneering, and only relatively recently retired from NASA.

Autobiography Forever Young recommended.
Have the door closed during certain hours (slack has a dnd mode, which can be overridden if it is important) then people will learn to contact you during those times, especially if you down prioritise those who accept the system.

You are going to catch some slack, offset that by producing more/better than anyone.
I'd really like my phone to be able to prioritize notifications and only bug me for important things. Calls, SMS, notifications etc should all be hidden and prioritized. A call from my wife, or someone I know should be immediately shown. Notifications about important emails as well, not so much about the latest offer available on amazon.com. Phones make it hard to control the level of notifications and could do a better job at that.
it's pretty standard to have private whois registration nowadays, even for sites attributable to you.
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I'm of the opinion that companies should rewrite as much of their codebase as often as possible. Given the difficulty of trying to understand code written by someone else, why shouldn't production code be considered immutable?
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Saturated fat alone is not bad at all, it's actually very healthy. However combining it with carbs it's a bomb. If you don't believe me, try to find any study with negative effects of saturated fat where the diet doesn't also include >30% of calories as carbs.
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There's speculation that the 797 will be able to do this.
Yep, a lot of the science behind "fat makes you fat" came from cherry picked data.

"The Story of Fat: Why we were Wrong about Health"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5S6-v37nOtY

Anecdotally I too am moving towards LCHF/Keto and so far my health has improved drastically from primarily focusing on adding fats back in after years of carefully measured low-fat low-calorie diets did nothing for me.
Library I wrote that mimics Python's advanced string formatting in Golang.

I found that the most interesting part of this was actually testing how closely it matches Python's formatter. To do that, it goes through a cgo wrapper and cffi, then uses the Python Hypothesis[1] library to generate random examples.

[1]: https://hypothesis.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
Sad to read. The US has a big problems, but nothing like the total breakdown of order that seems to have occurred in Mexico. It's an enormous humanitarian crisis, and our response is to build a wall. No, we should legalize drugs, and undermine the economic power of the cartels. I'd love it if someone more familiar with Mexican culture could explain the nature of almost universal institutional corruption.
Thank you for the reply. I like your last sentence, that's something. I need to keep in mind.
Better is subjective. I think that's wonderful.
> Right now, It's a proof of concept; a concept which obviously is very controversial (which tells me I'm doing something right.)

This is so obviously arrogant. How could one defend reasoning that if people find certain action controversial, it's in any way right? A controversial action just means that there's something about it that causes different opinions - it might as well be very wrong.
Yes, that's the classic standard response to this question, because it makes a kind-of positive outcome.

But, really, isn't this the only kind-of positive response to this question? Is there any other response that works this way? And hence, why are interviewers asking this question in the first place? I pretty sure they know they will always get some variant of "I'm a perfectionist" as response, because that's the textbook answer to this textbook question.
What should we do about nuclear energy?
The thinking on this has completely inverted in the past 5 years. The correlation between dietary consumption of cholesterol and serum (blood level) cholesterol is limited at best. Studies which showed a linear relationship were flawed.

Put simply, it is now thought that cholesterol is a plaster over the arterial inflammation caused by sugars. It is a symptom, not a cause of plaques.
You could have exploited this using XNA, potentially, yes. But I don't think the software for running your own builds on the hardware works anymore, so the threat has passed. These attacks certainly reduce the likelihood of a similar service appearing on current-gen consoles.
Nvidia is rallying after rocking its CES keynote
You may want to remove the "t=88s". That's an excellent video I recommended many times, by the way. It has a text version with many sources linked in the description, and the rest of the channel is very good too.
A nice feature of ag is the ability to limit the search to a certain file type. E.g. to only search ruby files: ag --ruby foo.

To see a list of supported types and the matching file extensions: ag --list-file-types.

Just checked and rg does have something similar, but you need to specify the type as an argument to a flag: rg --type ruby foo.
As long as Australia is powered by coal, there's no point. The main benefit of high speed rail over air travel is that it's greener... and in Autralia, it isn't.
are all European cultures healthy? I got the impression Germany had a pretty unhealthy diet. Same with Turkey.
Here's the 10year https://personal.vanguard.com/us/funds/snapshot?FundIntExt=I...

If a person had bought into it in 2007, they would have done reasonably well...a little worse than 7% per year compounded. All that a person needed was an oracle to pick a winner. On the other hand, the ten year from 1999 to 2009 would not have looked so good and it's not providing DJI like increases in value because the DJI is Public Relations not finance (that's why it doesn't indicate when to make money as a bear).

Keep in mind that in terms of retirement, pensions looked good and in 1992 when the Vangard fund became available the artist was already sixty-two years old. There's no guarantee that today's Vanguard Fund will look as attractive in twenty, thirty or forty years when the people following conventional retirement advice have to cash in their chips. The fund performed better than average.

Finally, people lost their jobs in the downturn and often had to dip into retirement savings to keep themselves afloat. Even with a time machine, it isn't possible for many people to have timed the market perfectly by investing heavily at the 2009 trough. That's the smoke and hand waving that the conventional financial advice uses to dismiss actual individual circumstances...well that and the idea that poverty reflects a lack of virtue.
I think it's more likely that many people like the taste of avocados and avocado products.
Yes that's exactly what I mean. However I can't solve 2 problems on this kind of approach, first it's not within a range (e.g. 1 and 144) and secondly I'm not sure every number has the same probably to come out.
Makes sense. Cholesterol is a necessary component of testosterone, and cannot be synthesized without it.
> Do you think it'd ask for them to be extradited, so that they could be punished for breaking the law in their country?

First of all, you're arguing based on a hypothetical. I don't agree with your foregone conclusions, and there's little utility in debating them since your entire scenario is fictional.

Secondly, the article you linked to didn't call for extradition.

> The article above is exactly that- anti-Chinese propaganda. It draws the attention to the oppressive surveillance of its citizens by the Chinese state, which is fair and proper to do; but at the same time it ignores the 195 kg Gorilla gorilla in the room: that the US state itself is doing exactly the same.

Disagree, since it specifically highlights similarities (and differences) between Chinese and US surveillance programs. They are quite clearly not "exactly the same", even in light of the Snowden revelations.

> It is very easy to see articles like that as a deliberate attempt to show our Western democracies in a positive light, compared to the oppressive, undemocratic regimes that just so happen to also be our political and economic rivals.

The US is far from perfect, but the amount of state supervision and intrusion into private life is an order of magnitude greater in China. Whether that's positive or negative is subjective, but the fundamental fact is inarguable.
Not only that, but I was struck by the realization of how devastated he must have felt to be dying (or so he thought) after consuming 250 MICROgrams of a substance.

The part where he worried about whether his family would think he was reckless for doing this was poignant, because there was no way anyone could have expected 250 micrograms of ergot to produce any sort of observable effect.
Emphasis mine-

Excerpt: "Some might say that ag and ripgrep and any of the other tools I list on beyondgrep.com are competing projects, but I think that way of thinking is wrong. It’s only a competition if you see it as a competition. I’m not competing against anyone for anything: Clicks, dollars, popularity, etc. If someone uses ripgrep instead of ack, it doesn’t hurt me. It’s the difference between an abundance vs. scarcity view of the world. I choose abundance. I think most of us who work in open source do, too."

I never thought I would see the confluence of the "woo-woo" space abundance mindset and a blog post about an open source command-line utility. I must say I am intrigued.

If this explanatory medium doesn't substantiate the reasonability of a mindset of abundance in the minds of programmers, I don't know what ever will.
even the execution of pulling the sandwich out of your suit in the small capsule and starting to eat away at it with such a coy smile. The chicken leg jab too was too perfect, this is such a wholesome event
AIUI, "light has no reference frame" is the same as "light does not experience time" is the same as "light photon teleports from its birthplace (emission) to its death place (absorption), in its own reference frame".
Can you cite any of the research? Here is a decent overview, but I would love to learn more.

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/cholesterol/
In addition to legalizing drugs we should look to reduce drug usage itself. Nobody, period, should be doing heroin or cocaine or whatever. Legalization stops the punishment, which I am in favor of, but does not stop the underlying root cause which is the usage itself.

Why do Americans seem to have a particular problem with drugs, why doesn't, Singapore, or Japan for example? Naturally they have their own issues but why don't they have an opioid or heroin crises?
Thank you very much for explaining it. In my jurisdiction, we fill in our choices on paper ballots and insert them to a machine. I thought this single machine did its thing on its own and without additional machines. Thank you for explaining the process and the various points of suspicion in the process
https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/readme/

(it does seem to use one of these for me, seemingly via "font-family: DOS")
Scientists prove the existence of fourth spatial dimension
And here I'm sitting with my 8" Schmidt Camera and 12" Newton … the amount of engineering that goes into this is incredible. It's not just the mirror, which is of course important, but also having a mount that can precisely track at the sidereal rate with all the mirrors on it. And then, judging by the image, they'll also do Laser Adaptive Optics to correct for atmospheric seeing artifacts, which means adjusting the mirrors and/or camera at a very high rate and /very/ precisely. It basically works by painting and artificial star in the sky with a high powered laser, and by measuring the difference between where it should be and where it actually is, you can then adjust the optical train to compensate. And, then there's the issue with temperature compensation, collimation (looks like a Gregorian-type design), and of course the cameras themselves. For the cameras I'm assuming the illuminated field is quite large, so either this means a HUGE CCD, or stapling several together with all sorts of noise artifacts involved. Very exciting. Very hard.
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The blue/yellow/gray was so easy on the eyes.
I had one guy who was serious about this and I learned a lot through that: he sincerely asked this, but differently: “What are the things you are working on to be better at?”

At first, I was kinda startled and couldn’t answer really, tried to bullshit him like the answer I gave above. He called it though and said that he is disappointed by such an answer and that he’d expect everybody to work on 2-3 things. Otherwise, he concluded, there is a lack of introspection to be assumed. Fair point, I thought
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I wonder as AQ becomes more common, where it will fit into the “nature vs nurture” discussion. Seems like adaptability is more of a muscle we can flex and strengthen while IQ/EQ may be harder to develop, so “training” AQ could be an interesting approach for anyone trying to increase their opportunity set, assuming higher AQ does in fact lead to more opportunity.
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To be fair, this is true for all anarchist societies, as their stated goals are directly contrary to the goals of media conglomerates owned and managed by wealthy capitalists.
Also helping is the reassessment of "all fat" is bad. Similar to what we are seeing with eggs. They are making a dietary comeback.
Brannan's Maxim: During a gold rush, sell shovels.

https://www.flexport.com/blog/trade-merchants-rich-californi...
ASID is not an instruction. It's basically an attribute in how MMU tables are set up. Processes usually get different ASIDs from each other and all their MMU pages are tagged with it.
A surprising number of developers (especially in the web/native app dev world) are unfamiliar with state machines, especially in regard to UI development.

The idea of "when an event occurs, the state changes" might be a natural one, but there's many things about FSMs that are somewhat of a learning curve: self-transitions, sink states, Mealy vs. Moore machines (and their equivalence), non-deterministic FSMs (and converting to deterministic FSMs), optimization algorithms, path-finding algorithms, implementation (imperative, functional, regex-based, etc.)
One of the first things I noticed using FlightRadar24 and similar services is that there are a ton of 747s in US airspace used for cargo, many owned by relatively small firms.
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So long as you are not spamming and the quality is reasonable, I think it's better than ok to submit things you have written, because then you can answer questions and engage in any discussion.
Any less biased source?
> Alas, I'm pretty sure that I'm somehow guilty of wrong think here. I just wonder why.

Not wrong, just too literal maybe.

These are design ranges, with a standard payload and standard fuel loading.

If you think about it, it makes sense: airplanes don't have a fixed range. Depending on how much payload and fuel you take along (at full payload, you probably can't fill your tanks to max capacity, or you'll exceed your max takeoff weight), you can get more or less far.

The extreme case, an empty plane with full tanks, would have tremendous range but would of course make no economic sense.

So they design airplanes for what they assume to be the sweet spot: certain routes with certain characteristics (say, long distance over water, traditionally needing more than two engines).

So the A330 was designed for routes which were accessible to pre-ETOPS twin-engine planes, which apparently tended to be shorter. Conversely the A340 was designed with a focus on over-water routes, which are apparently longer.
A delicious food is worthless without culutural knowledge about how to prepare it. Thus the attribution of cause to the meme, not the fruit itself, which has existed a very long time.
The aspect ratio rather reflects the width of the keyboard and the height of it plus the touchscreen beneath. It also makes a big difference on a plain where 13" 16:9 laptop is the largest thing you can fit on the table.
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last I have checked RAM was power hungry.
I didn't consider the additional fuel, which the 340 is capable of carrying upon take-off.

Makes a lot of sense and thanks for the insight.

Reminds me of another dirty, little aviation secret:

An airline may bump you, despite the fact that the plane has empty seats. The reason, again, is take-off weight.

It's a lot more profitable to load an additional container than you. Even considering costs like compensation, hotel rooms and even a rebooking to a different airline.

The source for that is my sister, who worked ground handling for the (now defunct) Swissair.
There are plenty of cases where programming helps you explore the design space, where you have little knowledge about the APIs you are using, so you poke them a bit here and there, obtaining experience in knowing how to use them in the way that you need (because, let’s be honest, even the best frameworks have defficiencies in their documentstion, if you decide to read the docs at all). Likewise, it isn’t that weird to write some code that you know is broken so you can fix it in the debugger where live values and feedback are available. Heck, many people code from interpreters these days which are as exploratory as you can get!

Of course, we can argue about different kinds of programming have different needs. Prototyping doesn’t require documentation and so can move much faster than product development, for example. The cost of not documenting is a huge win for the prototyper, allowing them to try out and throw away designs while worrying less about sunk costs.

The design has to come from somewhere, after all. A design team with prototyping resources really values those resources.
Avacado bathrooms are a bit notorious in the UK
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My daughter has an Android tablet. For a while it was vanilla Android until I realized she was downloading an app, tapping the initial ad on the app, which lead to another app. Repeat ad nauseam until she couldn't install anything else. She isn't able to distinguish quality of apps, and was installing apps that were one giant copyright violation (My little Ponies, Mickey Mouse, and a Minion, all in the same app!).

For the life of me I can't figure out how these apps make money. They're like flotsam in the Google App store, so they're making money somehow. For all I know they turn on the microphone and send the data to a rogue organization.

This is very different to when I grew up. I had to write my games in Basic (I got them in the back of a catalog!) and I learned how to modify them. I plan on giving her free use of any of my Raspberry Pis, Arduinos, and if she shows interest in those big, expensive RGB LED matrices, I'll buy those for her. She can go nuts with those!
> What matters is added sugar anything is higher in glycemic index compared to the same thing with no added sugar.

Of course! And I agree with you as well that the diet of the general population improves vastly by eating no added sugar. However, many people interpret this as 'added sugar is worse for you than natural sugar' - and I hate this kind of misinterpretation because it makes people vulnerable for companies that brand their products as 'natural' and double the price.

To make an extreme analogy (in general comparing sugar with harddrugs is idiotic and dramatic), when a drug abuser goes from using cocaine and speed to only using speed, his health may improve, and he might claim 'I feel so much better since I started using speed exclusively!'. He might then argue that speed is OK, and cocaine is evil. See where I am going? The rule should be to have a healthy intake, not on dogma's like 'added sugar is bad, natural sugar is OK'.

A more concrete example: three slices of bread with peanut butter and vitamin pills contain 100% of your RDI, 12g of fibers, and 4.5 gram of sugar (I think American peanut butter might be sweeter, though). An apple and a banana contain 5g of fibers, and 22g of sugar. In addition, bread + peanut butter + vitamins pills is a lot cheaper than fruit.
Thanks for the nice words. Just working on a complete overhoul to actually offer a "complete" sideproject email solution, so keep a eye on it :)

New Relic has a confusing onboarding, it takes a bit to get used to it. However it is actually "free" to use, only more logs and specific features are bound to costs.

Curious to hear other options as well, hopefully someone knows something. I guess most tools offering something like this fall into server orchestration which is a lot more than i (and most likely you) are looking for.
The second is what I say about being evenly distributed.

The first is easy to solve. Get a result that's sufficiently fine-grained and in the range [0,1). Then scale up by X and round up.

You can add randomness by pushing your number through a cryptographic hash function and treating the result as a binary number in the range [0,1).
you can get those at asian super markets in most cities.

They are ok, they kind of have a more of a 'berry' taste and the 'banana' taste is much weaker.
Seriously been considering doing this for food.