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Rhetorical question: why are epicycles wrong?

An infinite sequence of epicycles could be used to accurate model any orbital path, in a similar sense to how a Taylor series can represent any function as an infinite series of polynomials. It's not wrong in the mathematical sense, but rather the philosophical: a needlessly complex theory that is hard to work with and which provides no advantages or insight over the simpler theory is declared wrong, even if it provides, or could provide the same predictions.

So it is with quantum mechanics. The standard Copenhagen interpretation of QM requires notions of observers and mysterious faster-than-light transfer of state which is really hard to reconcile with the modern scientific view of the world. The mystery surrounding it (in the religious sense) has let to disproportionally many cranks who misinterpret the theory into statements about "quantum consciousness" or other new-age nonsensical tie-ins.

However these issues arise to a lesser extent with the many-worlds interpretation, and not at all with pilot wave theory. The former is nothing more than reinterpretation of the same equations, and the latter is a different formulation that is nevertheless mathematically identical as far as it has been worked out. If we had started with many-worlds, or better yet pilot-wave, then we wouldn't have a century of people growing up with 2nd-hand tales about how the world is governed by a mystical and incomprehensible theory of matter that even physicists don't understand. Which is utter bullocks.
I think they're referring to bōten or wakiten: https://japanese.stackexchange.com/a/1737/22682
Would someone kindly explain what paradigms do HDL's like VHDL & Verilog fall into? Has anyone done the enumeration of these paradigms, including a study of the deficiencies in programming caused by discouragement of unsupported paradigms?

Any pointers would be highly appreciated. Thanks :)
>Of course, I am exaggerating.... But not a lot.

More like making it all up.
> Apple famously doesn't advertise RAM or processor clock speed on iPhones.

As long as I can remember, they've always under-specced their hardware and then jacked the prices up for the cost of "experience". And my memory goes back to the mid 80's. Same old game then as it is now.
Avocados make me feel good and taste delicious, so I eat them.
I had my gallbladder removed a few years ago. It required a major incision and I was in the hospital for five days after surgery. I had to get up and walk a lap around the hallway a few times a day. I felt it get easier every day, but those first few times were excruciating.

It was good that they made me do it—by the last day, I was starting to develop nerve pain from so much sitting, propped up in the hospital bed. Walking was torture, but so was sitting.
I must say I have found this rather entertaining.
That's many-worlds interpretation that introduces decoherence to avoid the problems of Copenhagen.
Only the 13" model, so if you want a quad-core CPU or discrete GPU you have to get a touchbar.
What does under-specced even mean? How do you provide better experience by "under-spec" a product?
Not to mention the rise of mobile readers, it's rare I see a Gwinnett or Dekalb county sheriff car without them. My local PD's newest car has hidden cameras and is always waiting along the most traffic-choked road, seemingly doing nothing... but actually waiting for hits on warrants and insurance violations. Apparently that is more lucrative than the traditional traffic enforcement for profit, as several acquaintances have had the misfortune of discovering on the way to my home.

Pro tip: Don't get busted for lack of auto insurance in Georgia, it is extremely expensive.
Or grow them. They fruit twice a year as far as I can tell and they keep for ages. I planted a hedge of them and give away supermarket bags full regularly. Most things taste better with some lime juice. They require zero care and at the current 35+ degrees Celsius, are borderline a requirement for living.
According to OP, 800 IOPS was the bottleneck and i2 compute capacity was overkill. RDS offers provisioned IOPS (aka PIOPS) - up to at least 30000 at the time (https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2014/10/09/amazon...).
How is it different from companies building products that pollute the earth, and not cleaning it up? Food companies not worried about the impact of huge life stock, or burning down forest for agriculture, or car companies not worried about air pollution created by their cars?
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GP was talking about 圏点/傍点, not dakuten.

Their point about katakana was also correct - normally a word is either written in katakana or it isn't, regardless of emphasis. Using katakana for emphasis happens but it's not common, and would get tiresome very quickly.
There exist flavors of decoherence that do not invoke MWI (those flavors may be even more problematic however)
Sorry, thanks, my phone autocorrected!
You ignored the "philosophy of science" part. Philosophy of science is how we decide which of two theories is "correct" when they offer the same experimental predictions. See also my reply to a sibling comment.
You live in california and never ate guacamole? I don't think that's even possible.
It means you provide the minimum hardware necessary to provide a quality experience now, without regard to (and in anticipation of) near-future developments that render that hardware under-powered.
Davos: Bitcoin is not a currency
> is this just showing retirement patterns?

That's certainly a part of it, but there seems to be quite a bit more going on.

For example, look at King County, Washington (Seattle's county). It has the biggest gain from Los Angeles County, CA. No way is that from people in Los Angeles deciding that Seattle is where they want to retire.

The next biggest gain for King Country is from Leon County, FL (the country of Tallahassee). That too seems unlikely to have a significant retirement component.

That's closely followed by Cook County, IL, which may actually be dismal enough climate-wise that someone might retire from there to Seattle.

Rounding out the top 5 for King County are Santa Clara and San Mateo in CA, both which seem unlikely to be due to retirement.

The biggest losses from King County are the four nearest counties that are on Puget Sound (Snohomish, Pierce, Kitsap, and Island), and the southernmost Washington county, Clark, which is on the Oregon border across from Portland. These probably aren't retirements.

I wonder how much of the Clark thing is people who have realized that if they live there they can easily shop in Portland (no sales tax) while living in Washington (no income tax)?

Looking across Puget Sound to Kitsap, we do some some signs of retirement. Of the top 5 Kitsap had losses to, there are three adjacent counties, one that is one away, and Maricopa County, AZ. That last one is probably retirement.
Games used to be made by people thinking of them as art/entertainment; people who wanted to give players the most fun they can, and expected some compensation in return for hard work. The market has matured now, and (AAA) games are made as a business. They are a proxy for your wallet, and the "art/entertainment" part is now not the core value, but an incidental flavour, a different makeup on a pig.
As @chch mentions, the parent probably meant bouten/etc. I couldn't find an English article on it, but the Japanese Wikipedia page has examples and some cool CSS styling info that's related:

https://ja.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/圏点

As for katakana, it really does depend. For common or short words, people usually don't have a problem, but if you throw a whole katakana sentence at a Japanese person they will often stumble and reading speed noticably decreases.
Look below the ticker, where it shows a table of the top 5 states or counties (depending on if you are looking at a state or a county) the current state or county gained from, and the amounts from each, and below that a similar table for losses.
Straddling the line of off topic
Hmmm...the work culture fact is undeniable, but no smart person regardless of culture would be impressed or fooled with density as a proof of hard work.... This is probably more related to the highly methodical and intensive approach to optimizing space. Reductionism and efficiency are concepts that the Japanese learn from very early ages. The extreme lack of space and the atomization cities are one of the reasons why the Japanese take density as a standard of life.
This. There's also the vegan hype train that needs to be taken into consideration.
Other organisations (isam, sparse, ...) can be laid on top of sequences. Not so much the away around.

Almost every criticism of the Unix fundamentals* puts me in awe of the original design. It is so hard to maintain simplicity.

Regarding parsing, yes. That would be nice but I believe you'd some isolation to ensure that. Re sockets -- shrug.

* (rather than say the user space / shell)
Nice. Now we just need the robot to ride with 1 hand and reload a shotgun with the other.
Non-paywall article: https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/28/intel-reportedly-notified-...
Mirror: https://archive.is/bboAK
The middle piece was kept by the court. If you lose trust in the court then all bets are off.
How would it make them any more useful? It's not like hanging out parking garages and breathing in exhaust are a favorite pastimes for Californians now (though this impression can easily be made if one considers the results of California lawmaking, I admit). People know exhaust gases are not a healthy thing, and there's no reason to hang out in parking garage anyway.
However, since being in parking garages, when parking, is unavoidable, putting useless warnings there desensitizes people to all sort of such warnings, and makes them ignore any kind - including those kinds that might have been useful (such as in a facility where actual dangerous chemicals are present) - but now, nobody would even notice those warnings anymore, just as nobody reads what's on Windows warnings, people just click 'OK', whatever it is.
I've found that cPanel can actually interfere with how Node.js runs in some cases if it's left on default settings.
Saying you should use Linux because it’s not the #1 malware target sounds like security through obscurity to me.
The environment variables are not about "sessions", they are about arbitrary process trees.
For example, during my regular usage, I launch dozens of scripts with slightly altered env vars (want to see time in Australia? override TZ). Build system uses env variables to pass settings around. Remote connections use them to override language settings.

I think the better equivalent would be things like "current user/groups/ulimits" (which are all even more restricted than strings), or inheritable command-line.
Hah yes trust me it’s hard to convince people it’s true.
couldnt read it. ran out of bandwidth?
> The other real question with MWI is why you still experience one universe and not a superposition of universes?

Because the brain is warm and messy?

And Occam does not work that way.
It’s shipped in a locked state. A factory reset reverts it to that locked state. The device is rendered inoperable through a factory reset by design.

You need a remote server to reactivate this watch. If you try to reset the watch, erase your own private information, and sell it, the person that receives it will need to engage in some problem solving to reactivate it. Or they’ll demand a refund, because they don’t know what to do, to reactivate a watch that can’t validate its own existence.
There are a lot of small shops that would love to help. The trick is finding one that won't fleece you or that is under-qualified. Happy to help you evaluate options if you like. I am a veteran in this line of work.
Why not just have three hands? And why have a shotgun when a laser is better!
Fascinating to hear so much anti-drug commenting here. Sounds a lot like the comments for stories praising DEA raids of medicinal marijuana facilities (“Americans just use too many drugs! Doctors prescribing drugs just to ease the pain of patients are enabling a gateway to addiction”)
Interesting. I'm surprised that this is successful in Japan given the proliferation of Takkyubins.
Apprenticeships seem to have been very common up until very recently. They offered an alternative path to college, which for many leads to insurmountable debt and poor job prospects. Who is the largest holder of student debt in the United States? The answer to that question explains why apprenticeships and trade schools are not promoted.
What if they buy the 16ct packs over multiple days and overdose on them?
Well, wasn't this attack all about unpatched XPs? :P.
No, it’s pretty unreasonable, and obviously a business decision.
It is. There are many doctors openly advertising being open to alternative medicine. Nowhere did I say „they must“. They can though, and often will since patients who believe in Homeopathy will often choose another doctor if theirs isn‘t „into“ it.
Flash Hero Prison Break: Secret Spy in Jail
Flash Hero Prison Break: Secret Spy in jail is another master game for all light hero lovers where you play as super light hero and escape from prison with the help of stealth survival skills. You become a flash light hero and try to escape from the police custody in the central jail. You can use your special power like speed run and beat all the prison officers by playing this action simulator
I didn't knew that Apple is doing it. iPhones are used for very long time, holding 2nd hand value the most of any other smartphone.

The same goes for Macs, people tend to use these things for many years. In fact, Apple is still selling Macbook Airs like hot cakes despite the device not being significantly updated for almost a half decade now and people are happy with that product.

The claim sounds like induced anxiety of a user who just couldn't swallow the premium paid over the same Ghz laptop or same Megapixel smartphone :)
The paper this thread links to is great for this.

Sites of interest:

* http://cat-v.org

* http://9front.org

* http://9legacy.org

* http://9p.io

We also have a Discord server I linked in another comment.
Microsoft disables Spectre mitigations as Intel’s patches cause instability
For me, the advantages are negated by the fact that it's still using Chrome's rendering engine. So, in my view, it's nothing more than a Chrome reskin.
Yes, they will. But to clarify: it’s not mandated or anything. It’s rather „good business practice“ aided by being covered by healthcare.
"We decided that physically attaching Motobot to the bike wasn’t cheating because its hands had to grip the handlebars"

Come on guys. This is just like Watson's finger or AlphaGo's precomputation. It is cheating obviously!!
I loved it. Thanks.
it's more i wish we had a culture of encouraging people to take more time off, where it was normal/expected. (actually, i think the ideal way to work for me might be something like "insane hours for 3 months, no work for 3 months". or maybe every two weeks. or something.)

i just think there's a strong expectation/cultural momentum to be working all the time, more than is healthy. you can swim against it, but you're still swimming against it.
> That's actually a pretty strong compliment. One could reverse it and ask, why in America and Europe people are easy swayed by lies in "a catchy headline or a pretty image", instead of demanding actual information about the product?

I visited Japan once. I'll take a stab at it.

In America and Europe we have plenty of space to pile up junk we don't really need. Thus we can be more careless with our consumption. I often browse Amazon and just buy random things I might need out of boredom. Sometimes those things improve my life, sometimes they just end up who knows where. And I often buy those things with nary a glance to anything other than a couple lines of user reviews.
JavaFX 9 by Example 3rd Edition
Fitness tracking app Strava gives away location of secret US army bases
Probably a used IT laptop (Thinkpad, Elitebook, etc) from eBay. OS is pretty much up to you either way (Windows and Linux like usual, with Hackintosh installs being possible on a variety of models).
GW-BASIC portable reference for Android
Facebook reveals privacy principles for first time, helps users control access
So in hindsight what is being suggested? That Tivo should have established its own content network and then add the dvr to it? That TrialPay should have created Stripe and then added the trial pay feature?

I think I'm misinterpreting this advice because it sounds to me like the chicken and the egg problem.
This part really struck me:

"Character Comfort – Logographic-based languages can contain a lot of meaning in just few characters. While these characters can look cluttered and confusing to the western eye, they actually allow Japanese speakers to become comfortable with processing a lot of information in short period of time / space (the same goes for Chinese)."

The concept that your native language can impact information processing speed/density is pretty interesting.
They do not "under-spec" their phones. They spec them to exactly what they need. Over-speccing a phone is useless and a waste of battery life. Remember: YAGNI.
This is pretty much my exact experience with social media. I grew up in a remote, working class area. Many of the people I grew up around are lower SES than I ended up being. Of course, I'm the lucky one that got out of that so my relative well being is pretty high. Who knows what it would be like if I grew up in a wealthy suburb of a major city.

That said, I do find myself drained after spending too much non creative screen time. News sites, twitter feeds, fb, insta, etc. . . . Anecdotes and all, but the screen time hypothesis jives well with my personal experience.
How Apple fumbled a five-year lead in voice control
Do me a favor and turn off your GPS after purchase so the app doesn't track the viewing time of the movie you actually went to. Abuse of the service like what you're doing may force them to add restrictions. Not cool, IMO.
Korean websites have similar aspects. However, Korean websites are slowly changing to be simpler and more visually appealing. Having experienced from Korea, I would extrapolate that Japanese (or Korean) websites are cluttered not because they believe it is better than non-clutter. It's cluttered because most people there don't have expertise in designing a simple and appealing website. In addition, Asian countries tend to be more focused on following the design of their rivals, and since early design is obviously more focused on information than beauty, people follow that. However, if you give a finished product where one is cluttered with information and the other is simple and visually appealing, I highly doubt that people will prefer the clutter.
Yes. Especially if the patient has the above-mentioned "need to take something" because just waiting it out is not a sufficiently palatable option (even if it is the only one).

But IIRC you got to pay it yourself in many cases.
My understanding is that traditional verily is declarative in the same sense that SQL is. Systems Verilog is that but also can be written as if it were C-like. Then the whole thing also has C++ templates bolted on as well.

Its a complicated and messy language.
Interestingly, for anything that is not Prime, Amazon almost never gives me right estimates for delivery. In most cases it tells me stuff will be delivered within 3 to 5 days, when they actually are delivered the next day. (I live in Japan, not even in a large city)
Not really. The migration of hundreds of terabytes of data from one storage solution to another is never a no-brainer, and it's not just because of technical concerns. RDS is a very good solution for a lot of people, but it's not the right fit for everyone.
Yep, anything but gun control!! /s
Most of the loneliest people I have encountered do not admit they are lonely.

Some very seemingly lonely people seem perfectly content my themselfs.

Like most psychological studies; I would like to see the raw data, and the intake questions.

(I used to get very lonely in my twenties, and thirties. I think loneliness might be tied to hormones. It might be where I reside, The Bay Area, but many days I would rather be alone, or have "them" far away--only communicating through electrons. I am a bit odd though.)
Actually, the latest iPhones are the fastest thing on the market.

https://www.tomsguide.com/us/iphone-8-benchmarks-fastest-pho...
Poker room on blockchain
Deploying EFF's Certbot in AWS Lambda
Any system other than open borders will deny immigrants to some degree, by definition. So no, not twenty steps.
If hacker news was builder news
Strava heat map reveals dangerous information from jogging US Soldiers
Doing a 「Dramatic Quotation」 is common in manga, similar to how US comic books put bits of text in bold.
"stops speaking to me for a whole five minutes" != "forces him to be silent"

There is no abuse in this anecdote, either way. There's some passive-aggressiveness, and some dismissal, but neither quite rises to the level of abuse.
The most fascinating spots are located near the equator, in the middle of the ocean, or the desert of North Africa.

There are many seemingly "uninhabited" places in these remote equatorial areas that light up with clear tracks or circles, in areas that are obscured by clouds, blurred or look like brown dirt.
Why would Qubes do an ICO?
Not OP but here's what I found:

Everything is a URL [0][1]

[0]https://doc.redox-os.org/book/introduction/how_redox_compare...

[1]https://doc.redox-os.org/book/design/url_scheme_resource/eve...
> no smart person regardless of culture would be impressed or fooled with density as a proof of hard work

I am far from being a person who has deeply studied Japanese culture (I just happen to live here) but my impression is that it is so ingrained in the mentality that it works at a subconscious level.
Godot Engine 3.0 Released
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16252390
I don't think James Cameron thought that far
Tutorial: How to Install AsmBB on VPS with Nginx and Systemd
First step is to relax. You will see many codebases like this in your career, its not worth getting all worked up about. Slowly migrating a codebase like this to a good one will take a bunch of work, but its a worthwhile challenge. They are lucky to have someone that cares about code quality!

I would do the job you are paid to do, fix github issues to the best of your ability. Leave the codebase in a better place then you found it. Include small refactors with your code, talk to the other devs frequently and find their pain points in the codebase and take stories which relate to those.

Its 100% not worth it getting depressed feelings for a codebase. I once worked at a startup with a codebase so poor that its hard to explain. The first month I was in a panic because I had 0 clue how to work with it. After a year the team slowly got it to an "ok" state. The truth is that the lessons I learned on that job have been the most important of my career.
Interesting. Does that mean I'm in the minority, because for me, the more a company tries to "communicate the utility or the feeling that this product will give you" instead of factual information, the more I perceive them as crappy and/or dishonest? I'm an adult, I know my needs, I can read the specs (or learn to read, or ask someone more knowledgeable) and make the purchasing decision myself.

Maybe I should move to Japan.
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