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A fun problem I play with sometimes: eek out a small-but-super-powerful subset of standard shell tools (sh, awk). For example, if you could create a forth in a dozen lines of bash, then you could just recreate it whenever you needed it.

Then you could start refactoring code to it. Easier than a rewrite.

I got quite far along at building a message-driven paradigm in awk. The input is a stream of well-defined messages. As you read it, append new messages to the end of the stream. I found that the awk I was using (gnu I think) was complicated by IO buffering behaviour. Still, an interesting problem space.

Lex may offer strong opportunities too, although is not part of the posix base.
Well, yeah. I didn’t realize I was going to trigger an internet argument.

Anyway, it’s pretty late, and you make a great point that nobody wants to talk about philosophical ideas. Cheers.
Okay, so on the catastrophic-only front: what about chronic issues, like diabetes, or depression, etc? Insurance pays for the initial crisis - but ongoing treatment comes solely out-of-pocket?

Nobody can afford that. Especially with how drug prices have escalated. And in some of these chronic conditions, the end-stages become very costly.

Insurance absorbs the early costs of regular care, which PREVENTS both chronic conditions, and these costly end-stages. (This is widely-accepted science, not insurance company marketing).

So this catastrophic-only model simply is not tenable, will not work. Unless either these treatment prices come way, way, down. OR: we address the real source of the problem, which is that incomes have not come up to meet these niche costs which have inflated greatly, yet somehow avoided being measured and added to overall inflation statistics. ("hedonic adjustments", anyone?)

Trump actually campaigned on lowering drug prices. Yet for all we've sacrificed to endure a Trump presidency, they've done absolutely nothing to address this problem. And they won't. I assure you.

Therefore - the shitty-compromise solution must be: government pays. Because they're too cowardly to fix the problem any other way. Government pays until government can't. So they just borrow more. Not even "plain speaking" Trump has the balls to work these two problems. (Drug prices, and income stasis).
I understand that. It's just a bit of coincidence with naming, the area of interest and also boston.
>Did Telegram just officially say that their token will go up from $0.80 to $50? Or is Facebook allowing scammers to create fake official pages?

The latter. See https://www.financemagnates.com/cryptocurrency/news/breaking...
And? OK, that's very terrible indeed, but should it prevent working towards eradicating polio by whatever means necessary?

Meanwhile, America isn't a shining example, we just passed a tax cut for the rich at a huge cost to the health of the poor. And the government is seriously considering whether to take away health coverage for poor kids despite the cbo saying it would actually cost more money to do so.
High School is also a unique market place with very low sales. You can offer a large variety of products when one bottle from your mom’s prescription is all you need to stock a product.
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Please note that your "unfettered capitalism", divorced from morality exists here only in the context of a moralistic, outright ban on trade. So lets fight that daemon capitalism by freeing trade!

If these marijuana results show that reducing prohibition removes a revenue stream from the crime lords, then we can expect ending prohibition will hit them even harder. Perhaps enough to relly reduce lawlessness in Mexico as well as the US.

It's tautologically true that organised criminals will always do criminal work is profitable; but they gangs can be small or large, powerful or weak. It seems they are powerful in Mexico because prohibition cedes most of the US drug market to them.
> Not too long ago, I read a piece indicating that growth is held back by our strengths, not our weaknesses.

Can you share us that article?
Well said. I have seen a lot of sidegrades over the past 10 years!
The first few bitcoin transactions happened when the government rolled out bond notes correlating well with a reduction in US$ money supply. The black market was paying 90% on a bond note a few weeks later it was 55% on a bond note. Bitcoin is making it easy for these parties in this market to repatriate money. The important consideration is this is usually principle+profits and so the risk vs reward of using bitcoin is at a minimum over ‘getting the money out’. I don’t think there is any problem with this. Will this reduce the need to use the US$ on the black market ? Yes if more people owned bitcoin then they could swap it for goods on this market rather than deal with any fiat transactions. Most of these transactions would be US$10k+-US$150k. Compare buying a bitcoin to the cost of offshoring US$ which is usually about 10% on principle. If you look at the math bitcoin is a good proposition assuming you can sell it on the other side. Bitcoin is useable in Zimbabwe or any other country which has a black/grey market for repatriating money.

Edited for brevity.
Thinking about this further. If the computer answers "radio," it scores a correct answer on the EM metric, even though that answer counts as a miss for the humans, assuming that I am reading the paper correctly. That seems like a bad way to evaluate this.
Yeah, it's funny in retrospect. What the "FANGS" get away with on a daily basis today would have resulted in Microsoft being declared satan's step child back in the day, how things change.
"Let's do the same amount of work with more people" opens the government up to a certain amount of criticism.
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Do you mean the would-be push notifications? That’s the same level of quality as what they do for current events. The push notifications are in the top three reasons I pay for the Times. I can’t recommend a subscription enough.
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I think it's more of a "we could support both cases, but the ROI on supporting the power user is not worth it".
Those are the problems with rolling release on Windows, because they are forced.

On Linux you can choose to never update ever, if that's what you think is best. You are fully in control.

As for why I like rolling release:

- It's much nicer never having to update your "whole" OS. It takes a long time, and you need to do backups in case the upgrade fucks things up.

- I like having up-to-date software

- Your workflow doesn't change like you say it does. I've been using rolling release OS's for the last 3 years, and my workflow hasn't changed since I started. If there's an update to a package with breaking changes, and you don't want to deal with it, then just don't upgrade that package.
Actually, most of the rest of the world does not have any access to traditional finance at all.
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I think it is an important point that it is still using java. Java once the hero of portability is in my opionion just the hero of zero days and slow programs.

It also would not be the software to install on my grandmas pc because of the many important java updates which are needed. The automatic installation of a browser plugin i don't need and which makes it even more vulnerable.

I think if Android would not be using Java it would have died years ago.

On the other hand. Jitsi still great software. Open source and all.
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I think this was already known in the 90s. At least a plaque in the Antwerp Zoo has already been stating this since the beginning of this millenium.
It would be better if you could turn off some autocorrect features and leave others. It has a lot of facets, and autocorrect is great when it works.
While homeless, I wrote a tongue in cheek piece about me fantasizing about becoming a provider of affordable housing. I concluded no one would sing my praises for that. Instead, I would be labeled a slumlord.

You can't accomplish anything in this life without being hated for it.
I agree with all that you said except the scaling limits of ECMP. We have boxes that support 64 ECMP destination and I've seen others mention 256: https://youtu.be/ciClZdwHelU
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It's partly substantive. The 'too the moon' part was snark, but Bitcoin went from $400 to $1,000 in 2016, then from $1,000 to $14,000 in 2017, and I guess the same people driving the market who enjoyed 1,000% returns 2 years in a row will attempt to do it again this year too.

This time next year if Bitcoin hasn't imploded it will be up around $100,000.
https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...

Specifically this section:

https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2010/04/14/the-gervais-principle-...

Your development is arrested by your strengths, not your weaknesses.

Arrested-development behavior is caused by a strength-based addiction
Convincing people that it's necessary.
That doesn't change at all. In the same pace it was ignored how pro-US Russia in 90s was, largely for intertia from Cold War times which was irrelevant but also the only mode that was remembered.

This lead to Russia only getting humiliation for its forward steps, and fast forward 20 years, new "cool war" with Putin.

The problem here is also short memory. It's Orwelesque "Oceania always had war with Eurasia", ignoring that "always" is just 40 years, but also it's all two generations can remember. In XX century, suddently human memory became too short for politics.
You now have to go into Search Settings -> Verbatim. Unfortunately you’d have to do this for each search session as it doesn’t persist.
Are you saying the quote-a-single-word thing doesn't work for you?
Find's `-print0' will output results using null separation. Xargs' `-0' argument will treat input as null-separated.
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I think avoiding mouse interfaces is a valid goal. Mouse is necessary only for a few things:

- graphical programs (but Blender makes a heavy use of hotkeys)
- some games
- new interfaces. Mouse is easier to use initially. Websites fall into this category, I'd say they're even a pathological case: it's pretty common for a website to radically change its interface. It can be partially dealt with, for example Konqueror used to display link hotkeys when you press CTRL. I need to look it up.

Most of the time you don't require extra precision a mouse offers. A button press is binary, so why require precise movements, mess with icon sizes, etc ?
It takes about 4GB of memory to train a VGG network w/ batch size 8 on Tensorflow. Could I use a larger batch size at the expense of computation time w/ this module?
Both of those are for economy.
I'd assume he is rich for a software engineer anyway. As he has written multiple books and is currently working as a senior engine at google.
Try switching between languages. I work in English, my wife is Italian, my colleagues are french speaking, I am Spanish and have Catalan friends, and I live in Germany. I gave up on predictive keyboards long ago.
Drum does rebut the causal argument in the LA Times Op-Ed (which is pure ideological dogma detached from facts; the claim that “Democrats have long been free to indulge blue-state ideology while paying little or no political price” is particularly amusing, given that ignores that until recently California has (whoever held the majority, with or without also holding the governor's mansion) had an effective minority-party veto via the 2/3 requirement to pass a budget (and still has a 2/3 requirement to pass new taxes through the legislature) which has prevented anyone from being free to impose any ideology other than one of government inaction-responsiveness.

OTOH, California is not doing okay; Drum provides no reason to disregard the SPM, but even if you do, being just a bit worse than middle of the road by the federal poverty line while being 8th in per capita GDP is, by itself, an alarming number that shows that the aggregate wealth in California is a rising tide they is absolutely not lifting all boats. But to Drum it's somehow “just fine”.
Ethereum is similarly not scalable, as you know
It does say quite near the start that Jon joined SO in 2008 and further on "In the near decade since then, Jon has answered over 34,000 questions, which works out to about 10 questions per day!" So I don't think he's just doing nothing and getting rep. I'm sure there is a bias, often people have a few good questions or answers that stand out and pull in the majority of their rep, like you mentioned about being idle for circa 1.5 years. However, if you read that post it seems Jon is still actively contributing.
While technically Ethereum's ~15tx/s is an order of magnitude more than Bitcoin's 7x max, that's not really what I had in mind, they're effectively equivalent in relation to where they need to be (hundreds or thousands/sec). And as expected Ethereum's tx cost is increasing with usage too. And Vitalik to his credit is clear that Ethereum still has significant work to do on this front:

https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/15/vitalik-buterin-fenbushi-c...

>In a lengthy statement released to TechCrunch, Buterin explained that he plans to spend more time ensuring that Ethereum fulfills its potential as a platform.

"2017 really has been the year where hype in crypto, including financial hype and social hype in general has far exceeded the reality of what existing blockchain systems can offer. There is a lot of attention, and a lot of eager expectation, but as far as reality goes the practical usability of blockchains has in some cases even regressed due to rising transaction fees."

"I expect 2018, at least within the Ethereum space that I’m best able to speak about, will be the year of action. It will be the year where all of the ideas around scalability, Plasma, proof-of-stake, and privacy that we have painstakingly worked on and refined over the last four years are finally going to turn into real, live working code that you can play around in a highly mature form in some cases on testnets, and in some key cases even on the public mainnet. Everyone in the Ethereum space recognizes that the world is watching, and we are ready to deliver."
Do you have a sample of what the current ones contain?
This is pretty cool. I wonder if it could be used for power generation too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_chimney
Concurred. Pinterest is really bad. You need to create an account to do anything with it. Now I have to add -site:pinterest.com to most of my image searches.
dmenu at it's core takes a list of input (dmenu_path), fuzzy matches it, and then just fork()s off or something like that, it's tiny so it'd be trivial to alter it so it does something else with that match. You could hook it up to xdotool or something and have it send a command to alter the current X app or whatever.
Don't think they will ever even consider using this as a currency themselves, it's but a routine paper on how people have attempted to use it as a currency in my opinion. The title is simply to drive more readers to the site.

Any Cryptocurrency used by banks or finance companies will be behind locked doors without public trading and no media will be involved if they are smart.
The wierd thing is: Google created two captchas. One to digitize books and a shockingly awful one they use for their own services. Seriously the one they use for their own services is complete garbage and obnoxious to even attempt to deal with
You're imagining that people who make NLP corpora actually vet the text going into them? I dream of a world where people can be convinced to care that much. I'm not even talking about the scenario you suggest of filtering for proper word usage, I'm talking about filtering at all.

The corpora used for popular word embeddings are full of weird nonsense text (in the case of word2vec) or autogenerated awfulness like spam and the text of porn sites (in the case of fastText) or both (GloVe). And most people who implement ML don't care how their data is collected.
healthcare monopolies (hospital chains, lab chains; where nationally there is competition, but in local areas, particularly rural they are effectively a monopoly).

They charge whatever the fuck they want.

Also; equipment manufacturers and drug companies: who both abuse the shit out of our patent system. But even off-patent drugs are being priced ridiculously high now. Barriers to competition are still extremely high.

Since manufacturing capacity of IV bags was taken out in PR, there is a national shortage. This is NOW causing rationing (in effect). Prices are going up, but nobody's addressing the manufacturing problem - because: Puerto Rico.
I'm glad it's not just me that's seen Swype getting progressively worse! Either you have to really emphasize what letters you want, or you give up and type it out. I'm about finished with it.
So first it's all "Oh you're locked into IIS" and "You're locked into Windows", then "You're locked into AWS" now it's all "You're locked into your CI/CD pipeline"

It sounds like, no matter what you do, you're locked in. Using Docker? Ah you're locked into Docker. Wrote your app in PHP, on you're locked into PHP now.

I just don't understand this whole 'lock-in' mindset, it's just absurd now.
I like that quote, but to be honest, being a German myself something I hate about other Germans is that they always are very limited in their head and scared of disruptive innovation. Germans are good at incremental but not at disruptive innovation.
Japan did something to stop polio when no one else would. And now because a billionaire did more as charity Japan looks like a monster for doing what no one else would at the time.

Would it have been better if Japan had done nothing and Bill gates committed the charity now? No, people would have died. So unless you are japanese my question to you would be what has your government done for polio irradication in Nigeria? Because I bet it's less than the Japanese government.
That’s only when you actually catch it mid stream.

Once you hit space and start a new word it’s game over.

Frequently happens at the worst moment when you’re trying to mash out a complex explanation in a rushed fury.
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It is absolutely possible.

On the other hand: it's also possible that nobody would know me without the website.

Further: I've learned so much from free online resources, why not giving something back?

I know for sure that many people buy the book because they started reading online. Also: A lot of the training I do is sold because ONE participant has read the site/book and arranges a training for the department.

TL;DR: I works fine for me.
It could be under 100 ms, but that still doesn't tell you the consistency model.
Maybe, but we don't know what weaknesses and unforeseen problems will present themselves at scale.
Indentation depth is an issue for me, too. I would solve this differently: color coded post backgrounds (or similar indicators).

Parent post = red
indentation 1 = orange
yellow, blue, green, brown, grey, black, white, etc. Then colors could cycle.

I think it would make it easy at a glance to recognize which posts respond to what, after some initial getting used to. No clicking required and I think it's more intuitive.

For colorblind users you could use SVG pattern backgrounds. In fact, it could be better for everyone, because you could have more patterns than visually distinct colors.
yes, and before anyone says: "but muh R&D funding!" -- these companies generally have marketing budgets that are 2-3 times the R&D budget. (plus, most basic research is public or university funded). "but muh FDA certification costs" - - there are huge tax carve-outs for these. It's not a main driver.

And no: marketing is not necessary for these products. TV commercials and other ads to public: not necessary.
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Lining the pockets of leaders and their friends is a cost-of-doing business in democracies. Yes, an economy would do better without that, but it very much does happen in all well-developed economies.
There's a tendency to avoid the "boring" problems this way though. I find that a bit in myself and others when it comes to software dev. A lot of problems in software are of the boring kind. Establish convention and reinventing the wheel rather than applying machine learning and coming up with brilliant algorithms.

By avoiding or skipping over the boring problems i think you tend to miss a lot of the bottlenecks for actually making something valuable.
On the other hand, from my experience:

I wanted to see how Raspberry Pi assembly worked - quite a niche subject (who programs? In assembly? On a Raspberry Pi?).

Yet I found quite a few blogs going through the subject - a tutorial of sorts.

I was also looking up how to write an OS (just for fun) - another fairly niche field. Yet I found tons of tutorials in C, C++, and Rust.

I remember trying the same in the 1990s.

Nada.

You couldn't find nothing. I mean maybe you'll find a basic site with the source-dump of an OS (often without building instructions), but you want to dig into the meat (here is how you get from bootloader to x86-64 in 21 days, and why it works)? Foggetaboutit.

I definitely don't want to go back to pre-google web1.0.
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Akin to saying Blockbuster doesnt need VHS, they can diversify into media..

If they lose half their income they lose more than half their power. I have no doubt that economics is the fastest way to reduce drug trafficking.
If you look at the amount of work Serverless has to do, packaging can generate quite an amount of lock-in. It is hardly any lock-in in the simple cases of grabbing a single function and deploying it where you want.
I bet he is making more than notes when he is paying his taxes.
Can you share more information on that?
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Don't take this bad but when you're not a programmer it's hard to understand how 2k LoC are probably 50 LoC done wrong. It's a self fulfilling prophecy, since programmers spends their day finding abstraction to turn long and windy into concise, but for the rest of the world we're just lunatics.

Now I'm not as pushy as OP, but it's far from baseless bandwagon.
Also agreed. However: democratic >= mafia
Full nodes include nodes that don't store intermediate state. Storage of intermediate state is optional in Ethereum. It's not even possible in Bitcoin. An apt comparison is between Ethereum full nodes that don't store intermediate state and Bitcoin full nodes.
yes: only people who are wealthy enough to pay out of pocket for emergency medical treatment, should ever go skiing, or ride a bike, or even drive their car to work.
If this story keeps showing up in the news, but without any real information, I’d suspect that this constant simmering vagueness belies undisclosed information locked behind operational secrecy that prevents the public from understanding the media pressure and the suspicion.

This is to say, fingers are being pointed, but we only receive incomplete information. It’s sort of like seeing two neighbors bicker about trash collection and garbage cans, but they leave out glaring details about known trash can abductions by space aliens, that they’ve been summoning with multi-colored LED flash lights.
It would still be a problem, because its illegal in the US, where the market is. The U.S. having it illegal actually does a lot of damage to drug producing countries.
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