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PHUSER is a pre filled invite code which we kept. It doesn't make sense and confuses the users. Didn't think that through.

We are working on fixing the complete user flow and making it more user friendly. Will consider your feedback for sure.

Twitter moments is not much customisable but being a platform we can come up with numerous additions which will be personalised to the user.

Consider this to have all timelines of your stories at one place - sharable, discoverable and editable at any point of time.
> if you're already looking to use e.g., Emacs, you'll be better off using org-mode

I find that you should use org only if you use Emacs. Vim plugins for Org are very limited, and this is even more true for other editors.

Judging a technology only for its technical merits is unproductive. Markdown has "won", it's everywhere and everyone can learn to use it. Those are damn powerful advantages.

Using Markdown, I gain the ability to read and write on a smartphone or tablet in my phone or tablet, which for some notes is extremely convenient. Many times being able to access my notes on philosophy from my phone during a bus commute allowed me to develop and write down a thought, which would have been a pain to do with other technologies. Of course I could have done the same with other options, but this ubiquitous convenience and effortlessness is great.

What I'd love to see is a way to transition easy-to-write-everywhere to more powerful type-setting easily when needed. May be combining Markdown and Latex? Or converting Markdown to Latex before publishing?

I'm sure this exists already; I just haven't needed it enough yet :)
> I also think that the author actually has a different problem: a bad trackpad. He stated he needs to scroll a lot to view content, and a nice trackpad goes a long way with this.

Well - he has no trackpad, actually. The X60s he mentions has only a trackpoint. But even though this trackpoint is wonderful for scrolling, it's not the point - he wants to see the content, not scroll through it.

I get it, when I upgraded from X61s to to a new 12" laptop, I also didn't like the reduced screen height. But these old laptops had low resolution screen, and the extra resolution of FHD screen more than makes up for the smaller vertical physical size. And I can have two documents side-by-side.
Unfortunately, no. Your doctor is contractually bound to the insurer’s fee structure; they can’t take an extra penny off of you. You’d have to go to someone that doesn’t take your insurance at all (or just don’t tell them you have that insurance).

The side effect of all this, honestly, is that doctors stop learning how to turn off 7-minute-mode. When it comes to very serious problems, it pays to go to a practice that doesn’t accept insurance at all, because they never got into the bad habit to begin with.
.map()

.filter()

Not having to write useless type casting boilerplate like this: https://github.com/majewsky/sqlproxy/blob/f5b297e7dce14c0453...

Not having to write `if err != nil { return nil, err }` every second line. (Or, in other words, Rust's question-mark operator.)
> the most interesting application of math was figuring out orbits/positions of stars.

For me math started to click when I started writing simple games for the spectrum, I realized quite quickly that what I needed was trigonometry and once I knew the name I could go to the library and get out books.

I was implementing a text based destroyer game (similar to mtrek/jtre though I didn't know those existed) and I had to implement handling bearings from the ship to the enemy ships, handle firing guns and missiles all that stuff, I made lots of horrible simplifications (shells experienced no air resistance so flew in perfect parabola's, the surface of the sea was a perfectly flat plane, no curvature (non-euclidean geometry would have been a step too far at 10-11) etc) but fundamentally it worked and was playable as a game, you could issue orders, fire shells (and later missiles though that made the game a lot more brutal and short) with bracketing and taking into time of flight - I was a strange child.

I got the original idea from a ZX81 kids book on game programming that implemented a simple side projection game where you set the elevation and velocity of your shot and aimed for the opponents ship, it was simple (couple of pages of code) and I wanted to do something a bit more realistic - as a side benefit I ended up reading up on naval warfare in quite a lot of depth, again a strange child.
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The P50 seems very nice. Does anyone know if Linux or FreeBSD would be able to make use of all its features so that it makes sense to buy it, or is it too new?

How about macOS? I currently run macOS on one of my ThinkPads (x220 Tablet). Would macOS be as simple to install on the P50 as it was on the x220 Tablet? [0] Would macOS be able to take advantage of the P50 hardware, including the 4K display?

What’s the battery life of P50 like with Windows? How is it with the operating systems I use, listed above — Linux, FreeBSD, macOS?

[0]: http://x220.mcdonnelltech.com/
But is the venom also poisonous?
What? The doctor’s visit is the cheapest part of healthcare. Procedures cost far more, and pharm far more again. Perhaps you’re outside of the US, though I can’t think of a country where this isn’t true.
Interesting in this context is to point out how it's anchored into German law. Germany's Federal Data Protection Act states:

> Section 3a

> Data reduction and data economy

>

> Personal data are to be collected, processed and used, and processing systems are to be designed in accordance with the aim of collecting, processing and using as little personal data as possible. In particular, personal data are to be aliased or rendered anonymous as far as possible and the effort involved is reasonable in relation to the desired level of protection.

Source: https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/englisch_bdsg/englisch_bd...
They aren't really. They are mostly acting as a platform, not going through and determining what is true and false.
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I used to read a lot as a kid too, and also into my teenage and college years. But after a certain point in college my reading diminished until the current point at which I won't even open a programming book anymore.
I don't think so. That's the inevitable result of them choosing to "do something about it."
I grew up being taught ‘borrow and carry’ methods. They are really methods of ‘apply the algorithm and success’. Common Core can be a better way of getting an intuitive sense of the numbers and quantities.

Some examples are over the top, like the 32-20 in the article. But one of the common criticisms my parents and grandparents used to level at people my age (when I was a teenager) was that we couldn’t run a cash register—-we didn’t know how to make change.

Kids won’t start out adding and subtracting as quickly. The ramp-up to learning may be a little slower but they’ll come out with a more intuitive sense of numbers.

All of this is just my opinion. I studied Math and have a couple of young kids going through these methods in school now.
There are 8:3 monitors you could use, with 3840x1440 resolution.
I agree with the sentiment for libraries that provide particular computations like parsers for a particular data format.

What about libraries like Gtk, though? Should third-party apps bundle their own Gtk and interface with the system only on the X/Wayland + ATK layers?

What about glibc? Occasionally (getrandom()!) there's new glibc surface that apps really should adopt. Should apps just rely on the Linux syscall interface directly and bypass glibc?
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They did reference a source. Visa.
I mean, what's the point of drilling stupid sums if you'll hardly ever need it in your life?

"Hardly ever"? So when checking the restaurant bill, the change at the grocery shop, the tax return, a bank investment proposal, the costs of building/renovating a house, the time left for a mortgage, do you always use a calculator?
You perhaps misread what I wrote. I don’t know how to reply, since I don’t know what it is you think I said. I don’t believe it “throws economic realities out the window” to say that sometimes you need an extended interaction with an expert, and that if you want more than 7 minutes of an expert’s time, you should engage with a reimbursement model that pays for more than 7 minutes. That doesn’t ignore the economic realities of healthcare at large; it’s saying sometimes you need a premium good, and those have premium prices.
I completely agree with you in general, even in Switzerland we're not safe[0]. You just picked a really shitty example, and in europe we're in general a bit more pro government than in the US.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_files_scandal
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You do not need any of this. You can use `go run` with a source file outside the GOPATH. Put the following in a file, make it executable and execute it:

///usr/bin/env go run "$0" "$@"; exit $?
package main

import "fmt"

func main() {
fmt.Println("Hello World")
}
Does anybody know what happened with the people on Reddit trying to organize and armed group to head to Coinbase to confront the CEO?
There are degrees of everything of course. I'm not sure the "It's just business" approach of a typical high-performing football team is necessarily the best model for a lot of companies. The default approach to someone going through a rough patch for family reasons or whatever maybe shouldn't be to boot them out the door.

But, yeah, to the degree that their culture was driven by the "Past" descriptions, especially taken to extremes, I don't see anything particularly problematic about that deck.
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That's great, bit is still only a secondhand account of Stalin's opinion. I heard argued a lot that by the time lend-lease really kicked in, Stalingrad was already over and the balance tipped in the Soviet Union's favour.
It doesn't help that many of the official Debian wiki pages contradict eachother in what tools to use or how to use them. It took me a long time of plain experimentation to realize that the debian directory contents are mostly agnostic to what tools you're using to build the package itself, and then it's just figuring out which CLI build tools you can figure out how to get to run (for me it was a combination of cowbuilder + pdebuild, and cowbuilder is optional).
I'm not sure why you were downvoted. That title is pretty much the definition of clickbait.
It's like the Wave Organ in SF.
Everything else around your structural elements are going to be putting out smoke that will kill occupants regardless of whether the structure is steel or wood in situations like this. You worry about collapse for cases when the fire on a lower level traps occupants above, and the more time you can buy to control the fire or evacuate the better.
And this is one of the major points of cryptocurrency as a replacement for the current payment systems. In the end we don't want Banks, Visa, Coinbase, etc.. because they F* with our money.
Apple employees are reportedly walking into walls at the new glass office
One might say "what's the big deal to buy new Mac if you want more RAM, paying premium for bad hardware". Another might say "What's the big deal not to play OverWatch with your friends and having unusable hibernate". I might say "what's the deal with those ads I can remove within a minute", yes. It's all about compromises. I'd like to have a perfect OS, but I have to choose between available alternatives.
But what is "cultural excellence" in the general case? I'd argue that "a really fun place to go into work" and "a place where we are relentlessly focused on creating the best product" could both reflect cultural excellence while still optimizing for different outcomes.

[ADDED: I agree with your sibling comment. So long as a business can continue to operate in a manner satisfactory to the owners/management, a variety of different cultures and management styles are perhaps equally valid.]
I like data frugality from Martin Fowler's post best.

According to [1] it is called data economy.
in the official translation of the German Federal data protection act (Bundesdatenschutzgesetz, BDSG).

[1]

§ 3a Datenvermeidung und Datensparsamkeit

Section 3a Data reduction and data economy

https://dict.leo.org/forum/viewUnsolvedquery.php?idThread=56...
Which is also ironically used whenever the next "500gb of personal healthcare data" gets leaked.
If I need to be sure? Yes!
What are they supposed to do for Windows, Android, and other operating systems?
It's difficult to be sure with the public information, so I have to make a few guess ...

<guess> You probably submitted the story once and see that it was killed (automatically). Then you probably deleted it and tried to resubmit it (with a shorter and longer title) (from your account and from other account).

Probably some of the automatic spam filters can detect resubmission of deleted stories, perhaps for a short time. This is probably to prevent spammers form resubmitting stories that are flagged/killed. You are not a spammer, but automatic filters sometimes make mistakes.</guess>

In any case, to get an official reply, send an email to the mods.
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Not to say this building isn't great, but are those two internal towers in the third image made of concrete there? Is that so to make the elevator shafts (fire resistant)?
Because real houses almost never match the plans?

This seems a little paranoid. Everybody does this kind of mapping. Call Home Depot to get an estimate for flooring, and the person they send out laser measures everything and sends you floor plans back accurate to the quarter inch.
stcredzero, I enjoy vigorous debate (I'm an academic) and in the past I've benefited tremendously from engaging opposing viewpoints. That's nothing like what I got from our conversation, which is instead becoming more and more embarassing for both of us, the more it grows. My apologies but it is evident to me there can be no productive debate between us and therefore I will now stop replying to you.
TLDR: It was Schnitzler Syndrome, a rare autoimmune disease.

Clickbait titles and suspense-novel narrative structures in articles like this really annoy me for some reason. Just get to the point.
Thank you for the clarification. This should be top posted to avoid a lot of the posts that have already occurred. LaTeX is far more encompassing than Markdown will ever be.
Three books on quaternions ? One wasn't enough ?

This list reads like "here is a list of all the books i know that exist somewhat related to this topic"
“There was a distinct change in culture over the past few months. It seems like things are becoming more top-down."

I've found this is a great time to leave a company. It's the exact point where things start to get shitty.
> 2018 - 1995 = 8 + 15.

Now I too start with the addition, but my brain very much thinks in the vertical stacking of the numbers, moving right to left.
How do we get from 5 to 8? Add 3, how do we get from 9 to 1 when adding: plus 2. How do we get from 9 to 0: plus 1, which we already have from the 9 to 1 case, so we pass the 1 here to the left. 1 to 2, plus 1, again using the value passed to us.

Little surprise I prefer functional languages.
I got a second Eizo. And a third.

4:3, not 1:1. They were really expensive but I've found that I don't mind: I adore the colour and the first is almost 15 years old now.

All I do is stare at large expanses of text, mostly emacs and konsole. Why would good colour make a difference to that? I've no idea. But my expensive Eizos are somehow pleasant to look at, to read from, in a way that €200-€300 screens aren't. So my advice is: Pay for that second Eizo. You may still have it in 15 years and the price per year is okay anyway.
I so wish you are right... but historically, corporations have been just fine after regulatory hit, 99% of the time.

They have pretty strong lawyers. I fear the GDPR is already backdoored and only faintly hope this is not the case.
People keep walking directly into the glass door. What's new here?
A bunch of hardasses who don't like jokes or people who actually think the BuzzNow content on their Facebook is enjoyable.
Totally. I think that if you can build your dependency graph properly you don't need to package the standard library.

The standard library exists partly because packaging was hard, so it's easier to ship a bunch of stuff. But nowadays it could simply be "core libs" that get pulled in on use.
Neat! I wish I didn’t need browser addons for this, but maybe it’s worth checking out.
Well, it is super useful do be able to do exact arithmetic. For example, to not get scammed when you buy anything, or share a bill. I've seen American university students who don't know how to compute a percentage of a given amount - so I'm not very impressed by common core math to be honest.

That being said, it's probably a cultural thing too. I noticed that in the USA (at least in California?) it is customary to exclude the taxes from the price that is displayed on the price tag. Since the tax rate is different for different products, it's pretty hard to compute the actual price that you pay, and in practice you just take whatever you need and don't have an idea what you pay. In addition, it is not very usual to split the bill (I'm not talking about simply dividing the price by the number of people, but about actually computing the price of the stuff you ate, and not paying more than that).

When I go to the grocery store, I usually keep a sum of the price in my head while I pick products. That way I'll know if something is off at the counter.
Brilliant article. Loved the idea that new technologies must provide bridges for older technology that people may need to use.

I am one of the four people who really liked Google Wave. I wrote a plug-in for it, and when Wave was shut down I stood up an instance of Apache Wave for friends and family. Basically no one wanted to use it except to play with it for a few minutes.

I want to check out the author’s C to Rust translator that he mentioned at the end of the article.
There is no quicker way to get a 1 star review than spamming me through Amazon marketplace emails to leave a review.
While it doesn’t involve a fancy camera, you’re describing a loyalty card.

The merchant tracks your buying habits, and in return you get a variety of promotions. Square does this, FiveStars does this, Ritual does this, Clover and every other “connected” register company do this, Starbucks app does this.

The fancy camera, while interesting, is not a necessary aspect of this. Customization when the customer is physically in the store is nice, but the real money seems to be in getting that customer to the store.
Ironically I end up using my iPad Pro mostly for TV, since I already use a MacBook Pro laptop with a somewhat decent 16:10 screen aspect ratio. But iPad Pro is such a great reading screen.

Wish Apple made an iPad dedicated for video with 16:9 screen that you could place on a stand. Was hoping HomePod would have included a screen, like the Alexa, but it didn't..
> Huls hadn’t heard of Schnitzler syndrome, either. He came upon it by using the database PubMed to look for a disease that matched the patient’s symptoms. He made a list of her symptoms and abnormalities. To get the full picture, he combed through her earlier electronic medical records, now archived in an old electronic warehouse, and found that her symptoms had started maybe a decade earlier. Then he looked for a disease that fit. It took hours before articles on this strange disorder began to appear. As he read, he suspected that she had it.

Is this database open? If so, anyone in the same situation as the daughter in this article could spend the hours, rather than hoping a professional will. Not to self-diagnose, but to narrow down the list to a number of candidates the professionals are willing to look through. Sure, what takes the M.D. 6 hours might take me 40 hours, but if the alternative is 10 years of suffering for someone I love, it's easily worth doing.

On a similar note, I have combed through a bunch of research on a particular type of medication recently, and I hope the fruits of my labour will pay off. Time will tell. Either way, I have learned a lot.

Once you are dealing with somethibg that is difficult to diagnose and/or resistant to treatment (I might argue the two are the same thing on a fundamental level), a surprisingly large portion of medical care turns DIY. They never tell you this but unless you are actually made of bucks and can visit the best specialists in the world, it won't take long until you know more than the doctors you meet about the specific problem you're dealing with.
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Shouldn't you start your list at index 0? ;)
Not sure that's a title I would use... Hopefully this great leap forward doesn't kill 30-50 million people through misguided policies like the last one.
Is "relatively sluggish" the proper wording for "5 order of magnitude slower" ?

The overnight backup was relatively sluggish last night, instead of 1 minute we expect it to take a little over 2 months.
I don't really know what the point of this article is. Like is meanders a lot. It seems awfully surprised that synthetic meat products would be heavily processed, but is...I don't know, maybe it's actually trying to take a dig at vegans?
As a life long vegetarian, quorn is okay for weaning off meat but agreed it is processed and if you want to get off meat your end goal is lentil, legumes etc
Fb is big, but you could imagine 2FA involving maybe 3 pairs of eyeballs to get deployed. That, if combined with less of a sensitivity to the distinction between "profile number" and "auth-related number" , would make this bug almost certain to happen.
I thought you were proposing just forgetting about insurance and having the doctor's time paid for by magic.
Yeah I'm sure it's a "bug" that they spam you with irrelevant push notifications ("did you see X commented on Y's photo?") even when you have push notifications turned off in account settings.

I'm sure it's also a bug that the screen on the app that let you select a recent notification and say "don't show me notifications like this" also disappeared
I never got into nonlinear optics deeply. But I always thought that the nonlinear effects like frequency shifting work with the ordinary Maxwell equations, but with nonlinear material equations that have higher orders of susceptibility and permittivity in them.
Yeah, fair point - perhaps I miswrote, as 'cultural excellence' is too broad a term. For sure, a high-performing company producing a great product needs a great culture to support it.

My points are:

a) it seems that Meetup tried to optimise their culture for aspects that were not directly related to --and controversially, maybe even opposed to-- product excellence. i.e. their initial version of 'cultural excellence' was more about creating a pleasant inclusive place to work, rather than a productive or high-performing place to work.

b) further, if (as a result) your hiring decisions are more guided by prioritising people that will fit into and perpetuate that cultural vision, you're implicitly choosing to not prioritise hiring high-performers.

(As said before, it's not mutually exclusive - there may be some high-performers that do fit into your cultural vision... but on a macro scale, if you follow that particular cultural vision, the trend will be away from excellence and performance.)
We may as well do, but unless that actually happens, it's going to continue being just wishful thinking.
Schrodinger's rail gun?