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> If people see that LibreOffice Writer is as good as MS Word, then they would migrate to it.

as good as won't be enough for migration, as it's work to migrate, learn a new interface, bear all thats different.

Without a better UI, even better functionality may not be enough to convince people. UI is the first thing one sees..
I pay ~34C/kWh, last time I tried mining for NiceHash they got robbed.
There are different dimensions of "complex":

1. How cumbersome a language is to use (as a beginner, as a confident developer, etc).

- C++ is rather easy to start, but takes ages to master and surprises even powerful users daily.

- Rust is hard to start, it states complexity of systems upfront in a tightly packed knot that should be handled all at once, but once you're past that, it's rather consistent.

- Haskell is very hard to start with, it is basically unlearning every imperative habit, but again, after that it's a powerful and mostly consistent tool (not without its warts, but drastically less than C++). There is some tolerance of complexity in the ecosystem, but it is clearly encapsulated in libraries and justified by papers and research interests.

2. How complex is the abstract core of a language.

- Haskell has had an amazingly simple, elegant and consistent core for decades; on the other hand, modern Haskell has accumulated a lot of research-y stuff (which is still optional to use), which may be nice/cumbersome depending on the situation. Run-time behavior feels woefully underspecified though, and can be flaky and hard to reason about.

- the mental model of Rust is bigger and more complex than in Haskell (traits, generics, lifetimes/onwership, the underlying C-like memory model), but it's definitely practical (if somewhat spartan) and consistent.

- C++ does not have a coherent vision at all: it is a pile of organically grown features with interesting (and sometimes useful) interactions. This pile is outright impossible to reason about formally.

The only definition in which "C++ is not more complex" is the definition of being easy to use for a beginner in the language.
I once talked to a Somali woman who insisted black women were inferior. I tried to suggest to her that most people would see her as black, and she got terribly angry that I dared suggest she was black, on the basis of some obscure historic split that would not matter to anyone trying to classify her. (And to be clear, she was very dark skinned)

Having been married to a Nigerian woman, I've also experienced plenty of racism: Whenever I went to gatherings with her where most people were black, such as weddings etc, as "the white one" I was on one hand regularly fussed over to and extent none of the other men were. While everyone was always friendly, it was extremely embarrassing to be treated that way, but parts of West Africa still has a tendency to elevate white people (e.g. I more than once was told I should take my family to Nigeria, as lots of companies would pay high salaries to get a white person in an important position), and on the other hand I more than once overhead racist comments directed at Caribbeans and African Americans - believe it or not, but there's a segment of West Africans (I don't know about elsewhere) that see Caribbeans and African Americans as inferior. Their justification being that they're descendants of "people who were to dumb to escape the slave traders".

I'm not suggesting that these views reflect Talebs views - I have no idea if he's racist or just contrarian.

Just pointing out that not being of paler European origin does not in any way preclude people from holding messed up racist views. Even about your own ethnic groups in some cases - people manage to find ways of defining themselves out of whichever group they hold negative views about.
it's games console and ultrabook season. unfortunately.
I think goal-driven is what keeps the momentum, regardless of the amount of investment and machinery available (though I have to admit a clean desk is better than a messy desk).
It's true that some will cheat the system, and that has a cost. But there is also a cost associated with people going hungry, or being made homeless, or even dying due to their circumstances.
Does anyone know a website showing good graphs about hardware price development? For example, I'd like to see how the price of a GTX 970 developed over the past year or so.
.. and your objection to that is?

I’m not following the logic of how Google’s camera comparison shopping business is unfairly more profitable just because it’s bolted onto an immensely profitable ad company.
> people who dress [...] like dickheads

How exactly does one do this? Asking for a friend...
Dear Apple, please fix notifications
you might want to at least login back in today they announce when you get refunded. I was out $800...I mean $700...I mean $500...$300 myself.
I'm not a big fan of Fortran for my particular domain, which includes lots of strings (biological sequences). Here Fortran is not as quick. See for example the k-nucleotide benchmark:

https://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/performance.ph...
> And still it has a UI like in the nineties.

Want to know what happened, when I suggested folks could join in to drag it out of the nineties? https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/3u2p7x/tired_of_the_...

Hundreds of people appeared saying "Leave it alone, it's fine!! Don't you dare mess with it!"
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1. It works on Linux.

2. It has the classic menu and tool-bars.

Bonus: The price.

Chances are, LibreOffice is more than sufficient for the layperson. Even if the feature disparity was that of GIMP and Photoshop, 99% of the professional features would be left unused by the average person.
Almost every English word that starts with an X has a "z" sound. e.g. xenon, xylophone, xiphoid. In fact, I can't think of any exceptions.

"zigh" as a pronunciation seems natural to me.
I suspect that a Libyan and Caribbean kid would be considered "black" in the western societies - just as likely to be stopped by the cops etc. face the same discrimination.
>So we shouldn't do burpees because it came from the military as a way to dodge bullets?

Was the part where it says: “Burpees aren’t good for the human body" or "It’s not good for the wrist, and the spine is not in the proper position.” missing?
Pill mills - places where nobody has anything better to do than open a pharmacy where the pills get handed out. Prescriptions are needed so doctors have to be in on the scam too. Then word gets around amongst the addict community and this place becomes the place to be to get these drugs.

The story is actually very old and the writer may be very new to it - I have known of the epidemic for only a year and clearly it goes back a long time before that. Therefore 'strange wording' might be just because the writer is learning too. Since even Trump has paid lip service to the epidemic it is not that new but maybe the scam is new to most people.

'Only a decentralised blockchain can solve the crisis and win the war on drugs' would have been a new update to the story, alas no, here we have what we already know.
The price of a new GTX 1080 Ti on Newegg is $700 above Nvidia’s list price. I didn’t realize things were so bad.
I read an article in New Scientist a year or two ago about these. They were talking about counting the acorns on the ground as a predictor as to Lyme disease in two years time. Quite an interesting article overall.

I read the physical magazine but think that https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23431195-800-lyme-dis... is the same article.
Exactly. They pay cost for ads PLUS opportunity cost of selling the ads. If you assign the opportunity cost and revenue of selling the ad to the Ads department and the revenue of the camera business to the Shopping department, it seems obvious that it’s not unfair.
I would suggest having a look at Uploadcare, https://stackshare.io/uploadcare/how-uploadcare-built-a-stac... (though I am biased as a CEO)
digital spreadsheets - without macros - are arguably the simplest form of functional programming you could teach anyone, so i wouldn't be so quick to dismiss them.
Exactly, this is the name of the game: the best lifestyle businesses with no customers, employees or investors... host it in the cloud and you will be truly location independent... personally I am checking the logs of my systems once a week to make sure everything is working as designed + 3rd party monitoring service to monitor the servers and the API responses and all is set!
Cryptocurrencies: designed to be deflationary, but in reality lead to stagflation in GPU capabilities, crowding out useful applications of GPUs for high performance computing, deep learning, virtual reality, etc. Yay.

Long-term might not be so bad, though, as it padded Nvidia and AMD's bottom line and thus might indirectly help them make better GPUs in the future.
It's all relative. "Insanely low" compared to a month ago, sure. They're still insanely high when compared to any other crytpcurrency, or Bitcoin itself before it was allowed to hit the block size cap.
Serious question: are there any ICOs that aren't scams? Or are there any ICOs that have raised money for something and have actually delivered that something? Seems like everyone from children to grandmas are doing ICOs these days and I've yet to hear about anything that _wasn't_ a scam.
Yes cp snows two nations at work unfortunately.
There are other reasons why flu vaccines don't work from year to year. For instance, this year there is evidence that vaccines made in eggs acquired mutations that limited the effectiveness of the immune response (https://www.statnews.com/2017/11/07/flu-vaccine-egg-producti...). Viruses made by other means don't seem to have this problem but are a lot more expensive and we'd need to retool the entire flu vaccine industry to solve this.
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There is a Michael Mosley BBC documentary "BBC Horizon: The Truth About Exercise" in which they find you can get most of the health benefits of aerobic exercise in about 3-10 minutes of HIIT exercise, high intensity here being going completely flat out (absolutely maximum effort!) for three 20 second burst with rest to catch your breath in between. The summary is here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEc7QFc5vIQ I cant locate the full Doc online right now.
Not common enough? It's the most oft-heard story, and the most common complaint about the health coverage system there. A single accident/illness can deplete your savings account and/or send you homeless. Heck, I personally know people were that happened, and I don't even know that many people there.

Here's how common it is:

(...) Nerdwallet estimated that 57.1 percent of U.S. personal bankruptcies are due to medical bills, making it the leading cause of the financial calamity that often precedes homelessness.

Although the tipping point is often the loss of a job, sickness or injury often precede it. Sickness and injuries make holding a job difficult, which leads to income declining and homelessness for those without a safety net. Due to the mostly employer-based health insurance coverage system in the U.S., no job means no health insurance. The combination of unemployment and poor health can then lead to financial ruin.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/01/how-hea...

I just returned from the annual conference of the National Health Care for the Homeless Council, where the link between medical bankruptcy and homelessness was made more clear than ever. (...)

Illness and medical bills were linked to at least 62.1% of all personal bankruptcies in 2007. Based on the current bankruptcy filing rate, medical bankruptcies will total 866,000 and involve 2.346 million Americans this year – about one person every 15 seconds.

Most medically bankrupt families were middle class before they suffered financial setbacks. 60.3% of them had attended college and 66.4% had owned a home; 20% of families included a military veteran or active-duty soldier.

78% of the individuals whose illness led to bankruptcy had health insurance at the onset of the bankrupting illness; 60% had private insurance.

69% of debtor families had coverage at the time of their bankruptcy filing; 60% of families had continuous coverage.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2009/6/28/747432/-
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i created https://signl.uk as a side project to help me learn and focus on one single goal for 2018 to see how far i could progress site & better my development skills , having a side project has been awesome and so far users have been engaging and this in turn has led me to implement or do things outside my comfort zone. i would love for anybody to share feedback and ways it could be improved in terms of UI/UX , features and helping keep users visiting and most importantly getting users contributing as Signls main purpose is user generated content currently the site has exceeded what i thought would and has nearly reached 500 registered users & has traffic of 150-300 per day
> Squeezing images is a huge no-no in any graphic design

Surely this is true in journalism. I find it hard to believe it's true in ad work.
From a quick glance you should probably cd into the rust/ subdirectory to build the rust code of this project.
camelcamelcamel.com tracks amazon prices if that is of use?

EG: https://camelcamelcamel.com/Gigabyte-Geforce-GDDR5-Graphic-G...
Something like CamelCamelCamel? don't know if they have an api
Of course it would. Running or cycling would also have a greater benefit in much less time. But walking doesn't really involve any effort, it's just a time commitment, which apparently people have plenty of.
Saving CSV files. In Excel you have to do a bunch of tricks to get quotes around certain fields in the exported CSV (I end up using a custom field format to force quotes, then doing a find and replace in a text editor, as Excel likes to save "Text" as """Text"""), whereas in LibreOffice Calc there's an option to 'Quote all text cells' when exporting the CSV, which is much simpler.
Camel Camel Camel[0] has good price history, but it's for Amazon products only. It's on a per product basis, so all of the individual variants will have their own graph.

[0]: https://camelcamelcamel.com/search?sq=gtx+970
> What would make more sense in my opinion would be for Google to have a partnership with a big Enterprise player (or several in fact) and promote it loudly.

They do: they have a Cisco partnership for Google Cloud.

https://cloud.google.com/cisco/
A GraphQL Primer: The Evolution of API Design (Part 2)
You lose ~1/2 of that paying for electricity.
Those are two different Gtk themes...
13 Signs of a Toxic Team Culture
Thank god I bought a 1080ti when I did.
Drawing – Boruto Uzumaki (Boruto: Naruto Next Generations)
Not all academics are pursued by the government. However, if you state an opinion against the government openly or are an expert in an important field such as constitutional law or state theory you are sure to face some consequences.

For example all my constitutional law professors at one of the most prominent law faculties in Turkey were either arrested or forced to retire. Nowadays, our professors only state that new laws contradict the whole legal system but are afraid to speak out. For example, there are horrifying changes with executive decrees to the most basic rights such as Habeas Corpus. They contradict with the constitution but no one can take these executive decrees to the supreme court, because that is not allowed. The professors jokingly state that they do not want to speak further about these subjects, because they do not want to be subjected to these very laws they'd want to criticize.
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I introduced my kids to roleplaying and they didn't really like it. Then I tried with Warhammer Quest, and it was a wild success. Being able to focus on something simple like dice and squares helped my youngest focus. Now he plays "Warhammer Quest" with his friends at school - without boards, miniatures or dice, they just roleplay as heroes and villains of the boardgame.

The problem I have now is that these games require a certain amount of preparation (backstory, maps etc) and I'm very lazy.

My wife is a bit uneasy with it. She fears they will become "losers" and "shut-ins" like we were. The "hidden shame" that the writer here briefly touches on, for some of us is a bigger and heavier complex of self-loathing. Which is stupid: the world has changed, this is the new mainstream, and we should just enjoy it while it lasts. But I do have some of these worries at the back of my mind too (in my case mostly about computers, to be honest).
I’ve been a user of this Sourcetrail product for 3 years and I rate this as one of the best product in reverse engineering a design out of an existing C++/C repository. In my case, it was Mozilla Firefox: I wrestled with extracting a stand-alone JS engine out of this at version 52 and later 58.

This is an AWESOME product, and is far better than using some import feature of some expensive UML modeler.

This guy who created this product did it as a Google employee.

Kudos!! And keep it up.
Think some of the comments don't have some context. This is a piece of news from the BBC about a BBC TV programme that is part of a wider education campaign to deal with an inactive population. This link [1] has more details about the reason that the UK population is being 'nudged' into being more active.
- 6 million adults aged 40-60 do not achieve 10 minutes of brisk activity in a month;
- population is 20% less active than in the 1960's
- the campaign is aimed at the low active (not the fit)

For more about the campaign by Public Health England [1] https://www.gov.uk/government/news/6-million-adults-do-not-d...
How this would have looked in the US.

* Relationship with girlfriend breaks up and you move in with parents.

* Parents medical bills eat up everything they have and more when they pass away their creditors swoop in to take anything that's left.

* You are kindly told you will be moved to the street so you get a job. Your part time job pays enough for you to crash on a couch or at best maybe rent a room somewhere if your lucky.

* When you get attacked you have no insurance so you now owe $5000 which you have no way to pay and a prescription for opoids.

* You apply for disability but get denied. No help is forthcoming. You quickly lose your place to live about 3 days after the rent is due. Nobody cares why you can't pay. Your address is now the street corner where you stick your pile of dirty blankets.

* Due to your financial situation and eviction you will never be able to rent anything without substantial money up front and nobody wants to hire you.

* After the initial perscription(s) of opoids wear off you now have pain AND an addiction unlikely to be satisfied legally. You turn to panhandling and use the money to buy heroin.

* You get a dose that happened to be cut with something far too strong and nobody realizes your dead until someone complains about the smell.
> I think Google translate is pretty amazing...

(Agreeing with the rest of the comment) Unfortunately, it is not. There are several start-ups naively using it for cheap translations of product descriptions and reviews (e.g. Etsy, TripAdvisor, GoogleMaps reviews). At some point they started to translate everything to the system's language(?) by default, which rarely ever works. Even worse, the translations turn out so bad that it feels as if you are looking at a page made up of badly written spam mails. Not really a good way of gaining customer trust.

As - for instance on Etsy - I had a hard time displaying the original English product descriptions after they introduced it (the ones translated to German were simply indecipherable), I really wonder whether their popularity in non-English speaking countries has seen a dip after they introduced this side-widely.

I appreciate that Hofstadter explains the difficulty of translating so rigorously, and hope people in charge who have no decent experience with second language usage (and thus think Google Translate already does a "good-enough" job) listen.
> Tell me LibreOffice isn't a MASSIVE project with thousands of man-hours invested in developing its under-the-hood features. How about finally recognizing UX design as a vital part of that effort? Or rather, its biggest flaw?

Please don't misrepresent something you have not studied. UX is absolutely recognized as vital in LibreOffice. The point is, companies invest in development commissioned by their clients. So far there has been no client wanting to spearhead massive under-the-hood improvements to the UI system (yes, this would be very relevant to further work). The work done is incremental and admittedly not advancing quickly enough.

Volunteer UX/UI designers getting involved in open source is still a new thing, so the size of the UX team has mostly just stayed constant from the OpenOffice.org days.
Why Samsung's multi-panel direct view LED display is a game changer
There are some pretty horrible abuses of economic terms in crypto, but to talk about "stagflation" in a single tiny product class might be the worst I've seen this year.
Ticks are awful. I used to be completely unconcerned by them as a kid, and have a knack for removing them without breaking, but after having a number of family members and pets affected by Lymes I am super careful.

The random tangent about deforestation and global warming seems ideological to me. Ticks aren’t being forced into contact with us, they want to be wherever they can be.

If anything my guess would there’s a problem with lack of predators, like a reduction in possums or something similar.
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Or, as my grandmother said, 'who the fuck is MR Robot and do they think I should care?
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> Ending up on the streets with nothing is a natural conclusion and what happens then is partly a test of character and partly luck. For many it's the end of the road.

I would argue that it is a test of society. We should judge ourselves on how we treat the weakest amongst us.
Thanks for the paper link! I've been digging into PAC learning so I'm taking anything I can get.

On the paper, I was hoping you could help me understand a few things:
- It seems that the main finding is that any k-CNF form, like Thomas' Boolean Regulatory Network, can be expressed by PAC learning bounds. In section 4 of the abstract [1], you mentioned that "when the dimension increases... the PAC learning algorithm can leverage available prior knowledge...". Are you referring to the time dimension adding more clauses to the k-CNF?
- I'm having trouble reconciling the PAC term "h" with "model confidence" in section 5.2. Is this allowed because the PAC learning "delta" (probability) [2] parameter is dropped for the k-CNF adaptation?
- In this concrete case, is the learning portion just the mapping the stochastic traces to outputs (i.e. lookups)? I'm missing some understanding on how such a mapping handles stochasticity.

You'll have to forgive me, as I'm still trying to understand the paper. It's incredibly interesting to me, so thanks for writing it!

[1] Abstract - http://mlsb.cc/2017/abstracts/MLSB_2017_paper_11.pdf

[2] PAC Learning - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probably_approximately_correct...
I started with 10 per day. As my strength grew, I added more per day, plus exercises to work other muscles and stretch.

Now I do 3 sets of 9 burpees after waking and before sleeping, for 54 per day.

Other exercises include planks, crunches, single-arm rows, bridges, and curls.

The routine is about 10 minutes each in the morning and evening.