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You say it's terrible to use an alternative operator but then don't really say why

Why is that bad? In Haskell, + is reserved for Num, which require some other properties that you can't guarantee for vectors. It'd be pretty bad to run afoul of that in a physics conversation.

Haskell certainly can let the + operator mean multiple things in multiple contexts.
> The ample availability of extraordinarily cheap debt in 2017 further fueled purchase activity. After all, even
a high-priced deal will usually boost per-share earnings if it is debt-financed.

There are lot of risky bets being made on back of cheap debt. I don't know how long will this sustain - Tesla, NXP, Broadcom and Qualcom to name a few - It will be interesting to see how things turn once the rates start to turn.
Is there a way around that at all without modifying the binaries ?
I was imagining some sort of CS shark in its prime with tons of experience while reading the article. PhD candidate? Hm...
I think you're missing something fundamental about wanting and it's that we are wired to always want more. I think it's useful to accept this as something universal so we can understand why others and ourselves act the way we do.

One is that it accepts the imperfect was of others instead of deriding that others are not perfect from a moral high ground. The other is that it prevents ourselves from playing the victim.

It acknowledges the common strengths in each human by also acknowledging the common weaknesses.

At each level of the "game" , whichever game you playing, there always exists a master/slave winner/loser relationship. A pseudo happiness is achieved when comparing with other games and works both ways. "I'm glad I'm not a minimal wage monkey" and "I'm glad I'm not a souless sellout."

The games can be stratified into economic divisions but in terms of striving and human drama they are quite similar. The poor person who has never tasted really expensive food gets the same pleasure from something more simple than a rich person who has numbed his palate does from the most expensive things.

Acknowledging this constant suffering by everyone is the most humane thing you can do and is the only way out of the game of dehumanization others for the purpose of humanizing the self.
Hey, i use to have the same situation 5 years ago. Sign up on all remote job sites, and not remove either. Apply for a job like a crazy, one i was doing for 5-6 interviews per day. I think in a 3-4 month you will understand what people are looking for and you will be able to take a job you like, just try no get upset after first few weeks.
For example, LA county alone has approximately twice as many people as the entire country of Norway.
Norway also has two giant sovereign funds, which they use to fund pensions. The oil fund alone is worth almost 200k per Norwegian. That's not an argument you can make for Denmark, but yes: Norway is doing great. All you need is a small homogeneous population and a trillion dollars.
What saddens me about wind is that it destroys the landscape. You used to be able to drive across Kansas on I-70 and just look at the emptiness of the Plains, now the drive is dotted with wind turbines nearly the entire way.

[Ironically, the EPA was harassing gas companies in Kansas about drilling rigs disrupting the breeding habits of the greater prairie chicken. Not sure if the same happened to the wind companies]

I'm happy to see renewables, but they are coming at a cost.
> Hiring someone across a national border adds a lot of complexity and cost to the employment process

It's not really true for the US and Canada thanks to Nafta.
A traveler can reach it all right, but only from his own point of view. From the point of view of almost everyone else in the Universe, including us on Earth, it will never ever reach it. It's like the traveler has jumped into an other universe "located" in an infinitely distant future.
Equal ownership of something that’s likely to be zero.
Mostly because each island is its own small grid. Everything is fossil fuel, no hydro, little wind, no nuclear. Cost of transporting fuel. Environmental concerns about air pollution (eg: no China style cheap coal power plants).
This is wrong way to think it.

Next 100 years for American business will be the best if China usurps America and others like India follow. Countries have their comparative advantages, and returns to scale and network effects increase the pot for everyone.
PhD = Doctor of Philosophy

This is just a normal PhD in Computer Science.
This was a major theme in the 'three body problem' book series.
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Seems like they've seeded a lot of market share to the other cloud providers, no? I used to hear of them a lot 2 or 3 years ago, but now it's mostly AWS/Azure/Google/Oracle. This isn't a comment on capability, just mindshare.
I think the argument is that those countries prove the policies work and are affordable and cost-effective. Whether or not Americans can support those policies in light of their skepticism towards government, individualism, and a particular political strategy used historically to court southern voters is a good question - but one that doesnt necessarily disprove the benefits of greater spending on social programs in the United States per se.
Being from Denmark, but living in the US now, I see the main problem with Denmark that a lot of people are complacent. While the system works now, I doubt it will be positive in the long run. We are not hungry enough, and for too many people right now it isn't worth it to work (Too little difference between working wage and welfare).

Again, this is just a few negative statements, there are lot of positive areas (Free hospitals and education comes to mind). If we could just be less complacent we would have a lot better future.
That sounds really useful. Could you share the recipe for getting that running - is it just a one-line console command?
...And? I’m not sure what your point is, other than trying very very hard to communicate your supposed amusement.
"Tesla is still producing cars completely manually."

This is blatantly false. Back in November they were doing this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xor2ubHr8Ag

The current bottlenecks are in the battery production at the Gigafactory, they screwed up and had too much faith in a contractor doing the battery pack assembly lines.
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I don't expect so, I guess I'm wondering if the mitmproxy community has any insight into what they'd do to the binaries.
I don’t think you can directly compare the two since the price of bitcoin, and thus value of the block rewards, is speculation on the future usage of bitcoin.
It’s a great example of what an editorialized online encyclopedia can be. Would love to learn about other such resources for other fields.
Chicago is the major interior city of the US, and has been for well over a hundred years. I also grew up in the DC area, and I was never under any illusion that Chicago wasn't a small city (visiting Chicago every Christmas may have helped).

Of course, if you go by CSA, DC's CSA will become larger than Chicago's in the next few years, if it hasn't already.
what if our universe is expanding because there are other bubbles of universes that pull in all directions?

what if Buddha was right in that there are thousand fold universe systems each with their own unique civilizations?

If there are blackholes older than the universe itself, what if that suggested the universe was cyclical and that we may be in some gazillion-th iteration?

what if big bang was just a universe eventually being consumed by a monstrous blackhole that collapses itself?

What about the strange UFO occurences that pentagon acknowledged, are we getting visits from aliens within our universe or from another universe? Have they figured out how to travel between multi-verse, that is if you believe in it?

No proof, no way to find these answers but it really makes me wonder, especially when particles behave strangely like being coupled regardless of distance...but how could Buddha have known that blackholes existed?

https://www.reddit.com/r/Buddhism/comments/6o8zmg/the_buddha...

Anyways, just some things to ponder and gawk about...
It's not "privileging" any thing in the sense that it does not claim one point of view is more valid than the other.

It's just that one of these point of view is ours, and from this point of view, the other point of view does not correspond to any event that will actually happen, like ever.

In other words, the "happening of events" is a relative concept. Just like simultaneity. Not only two events can happen at the same time or not depending on who is observing them, but the very happening of an event can also depend on who is observing (or not observing) it.

That "happening of events" is very close to a definition one can give to the concept of reality. So one might conclude that reality is a relative concept.
You could have more impact with a little less emphasis.

I think the point stands fine on its own. Some of the supporting ideas you take as fact are still very much up for debate and will hurt your argument.

Maybe better stated as: 'You can be Assertive, without being an Asshole, but those without a spine are not respected.'
This all sounds interesting but I have 0 clue about what the author is talking about. Can somebody explain what is being talked about, what color calibration is and all? Not a designer, but a systems programmer. I do understand rgb, hsv colors but that's it.
Your numbers are outdated. Thin film = 23%, multi-junction are 46%.

"Standard PV" is probably what's available in bulk and cheap, is around 22-25%.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/01/PVeff%28...
I think the core point to understand about the hiring process, is that it is one of the hardest, most time consuming processes that any manager has to do. Typically it means scanning tons of resumes (typically this means stacks of 100s of applicants). In the aggregate, while there are exceptions, if it “looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it is probably a duck”.

So how does this translate to searching for candidates?

Well, in general when you are scanning resumes you are looking for “proxies” for quality (remember you are devoting maybe 30 - 60 seconds to each resume initially, and even at that rate it will take you 30+ minutes to get through the resume dump you have been given that day. This doesn’t count the extra time you spend on the most promising candidates.
So, what are good proxies?
The best proxies are competing companies for your industry, where they are currently working at. It shows they both 1. Are able to do an equivalent job, and 2. They know the specifics of your industry.
Next best proxy: A similar job that they have done at any company (preferably at a company which you have heard of, and know hires good quality).
The next “goodness” proxy I use is “have they done anything I heard about, or can infer their competence from? An example is a project that I know is non trivial.
The final proxy you can use of course is a degree. Since it is known quantity of “work” that was needed to successfully complete that degree.

This is to say, if you don’t have a degree you need to “stand out” in some way. Show that you can “do” something valuable.

Remember at the end of the day the employer has to get “value” out of you. You need to provide some multiple of what you cost for it to be “worth” hiring you. Some numbers for context:
For 100k job, that usually translates to 160k all in cost for the employer (benefits, taxes, overhead, etc). Add in the risk you may not work out (if they are 90% certain, then they have to expect 177k of value just to break even).
If you are less solid of a candidate, say 50% chance of working out, then the number is 320k.

Either way, you need to give the expectation that you will give way more value then your cost given your risk profile.

So to circle back, how do you get these jobs? Find a way to demonstrate your “value” in the context of the employers needs or find ways of reducing your “risk” profile for them hiring you.

Hope this helps.
Looks like a lot of housekeeping is taking place.

I just wish they implemented a native and full code hot-reload support on the jvm, instead of relying on external tools/hacks that work sometimes.

That alone would single-handedly improve productivity by an order of magnitude.
For anyone else in my position, who thought that AC won because it was inherently more efficient for transmission, the Wikipedia page [1] has a nice overview of HVDC. There's also this PDF from Siemens[2] with some data. Interesting points: the voltage being discussed is in the hundreds of thousands of volts (800,000 for the line in the PDF), and the transmission losses are apparently 30-50% lower for HVDC.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-voltage_direct_current

2. https://www.siemens.com/press/pool/de/events/2012/energy/201...
I am completely unfamiliar with Taleb, this is a genuine question - does he have any work that is accepted as academic philosophy? Just hearing coworkers/friends/etc talk about him, I thought he just wrote books for a general audience.
What is the largest contemporary social democratic government? Sweden is about twice the size of Norway. Is there evidence that it's getting scale benefits out of that?
I believe a 100 mile range is enough for a city car or secondary car. I have an older Leaf and it’s fine for that. We’ll get a plug in hybrid soon to replace the primary car (minivan).

Even at 300 mikes range, my wife would not drive an EV, due to range anxiety. She won’t even drive my Leaf (she calls it a golf cart). This range anxiety is all psychological, and it’s the main thing hindering EV adoption.
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To be clear, the reason they make you call is to try and stop you from downgrading. The fact that there are some cases where the customer doesn't understand the impact on their data is the justification (fig leaf). You know this because if the latter risk were the same but the company couldn't stop the downgrade (e.g., the company is discontinuing the service and the customer needs to be helped on how to transfer their data to a similar competing service), the company would never offer to talk about it over the phone.
You can also jump the right if statement during runtime, but yeah, you are still modifying the program's execution rather than something on the outside. That's the whole point of TLS: both parties know their connection is secure. So I'd say "no, there is no other way, other than by finding a vulnerability in TLS".
If a recurring theme of your childhood was the saturation and ever present threat of nuclear war throughout the media you consumed, as was the case with most entertainment in the 80s, then you are a member of generation x. It does not matter what year you were born.
What do you mean by "let's face it, racially"? Are people incapable of trusting others of a different skin colour?
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Wouldn't it just depend on your definition of the area of the black hole? By your logic, I certainly agree that black holes having mass beyond their event horizon is an impossibility from an observation perspective, but how far outside the event horizon do we include in our definition of a black hole? Far enough out, we could certainly observe them gaining mass.
https://www.reddit.com/r/scala/comments/7yuppl/scp16_accessi...
Easily the worst thing you can drink on a regular basis. I use to think OJ was healthily and drank it a lot. I stopped completely at some point a year or so back and over about 6 months lost over 20 pounds of weight I could never lose, even though I play hockey 2-3 days a week and workout pretty much every day. I went from 205, my college hockey weight, to 180 now.

There is a reason they use to give you a tiny juice glass for OJ, and I'd bet even that is pretty terrible for you daily.
The author cries about being not able to boot from the USB stick and that his ColorHug2 might be broken.
The Portland metro area is well over 75k, but Portland's barely closer than Boston, and there are large areas of Maine that are more than 3.5 hours from anything. Huge parts of Aroostook don't even really have "towns" per se (which may be why they're not on the list, since it purports to list the most in-the-middle-of-nowhere towns).
Sure: here's a recent longitudinal study[0] that covers some of the previous work on correlation between diversity and social cohesion.

[0]: https://doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcv081
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Americans always tend to use homogeneity as an argument when they compare themselves with other countries, like it’s somehow a good argument not to be as good as other countries in some aspects. Like you, I doubt that this is actually relevant. Canada is nothing but diverse, in a very similar way to the US and somehow it’s never used an excuse.
Does UK have an analogue to the "eminent domain"?
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Here's a bit of a metatake on this: https://open.library.ubc.ca/cIRcle/collections/ubctheses/24/... where it's reflecting on indigenous culture while preferring to write in a prose styled after that culture
Not sure about that, but last couple of projects, I only used S3. Everything else is run on DO.

It is a lot faster to setup and easy to maintain, if you don't have a dedicated dev-ops person in the team.
$100 million/year is a reasonable "burn rate" for a multitude of startups these days...
A smaller country with low diversity results in more uniform opinions, I suppose?

But, comparing Norway to the U.S.A. would be odd. From over here, the U.S.A. can be compared to the E.U., in which case the comparison should be between American states and European countries.

Specifically for Norway, it would be like a state in the middle of the U.S.A. that never actually became part of the union, but with really good ties with everyone regardless.
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off-topic a bit: does anyone have suggestions for paths for the layperson toward being able to reason and intuit about this stuff at one level beyond pop physics claptrap?

I have heard "the theoretical minimum" suggested in the past, but I haven't heard from anyone who has actually used it to go from zero to say, general relativity, only people who think it sounds good. It also seems like a steep investment -- I just want to have a decent enough grasp to separate sense from nonsense and hold a picture in my mind.

One related thing I have wished existed was a good place to ask questions about and discuss topics like this while learning them, but it seems like in theoretical physics, everyone (including myself) has an infinite number of different stupid questions and misconceptions, to the point that we drown each other out, and answers to our questions often have little cross-applicability.

So, would love ideas for either!
Tesla offered their implementation to all car manufacturers, including access to the Supercharger network, but none took the offer.
> So how do black holes gain any mass then?

Well, from our point of view all incoming mass gets stuck very close to the event horizon. That's not too surprising considering the amount of information of a black hole is proportional to its surface area. So from a far away observer a black hole is more like a sticky sphere than an hollow ball.
Programming can be creative but it is not performance art. I'm not sure what you were expecting? Even if you found something (subjective) it may not be very functional. Completely different animal. You seemed to be missing the point of software engineering.

Funny you choose Horowitz, Monk, Starvinsky and Cage as examples. Which either never attended, rejected or had limited academic education.
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Hahaha love it. :)
It's not true that Scandinavian countries are homogeneous. 30% in Sweden are either born abroad or have at least 1 parent born abroad. Even more obviously have some non-Swedish cultural background or influence.
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The most problem I see in this fizzbuzz, is uncertainty. What are you want to see? Maybe something about slowness of division/modulo, and using counters instead? Or maybe there are some non obvious problem in the task? Wtf is going here?

Several years ago I passed russian version of SAT to become a student once more. I had not prepared for math SAT because it is school math, it cannot be difficult. At the exam I spent maybe half an hour more on the most simple tasks, because they looked a way too simple to be the tasks. I strongly suspected that I missed something, maybe misread. This fizzbuzz makes me feel the same: I have missed something, it can't be so easy! So the real task is to find some complexity and fight that complexity, not the task I got.

It is always surprises me how HR tends to spend a lot of time to find creative ways to confuse candidates, to create completely unecological conditions for candidate (ie environment that nowhere near to working environment), and then to make some implications from the result of their tests. HR seems to have their undestanding of environment and do not bother to think about how candidate understands it. If you think about it, you will see, that the former doesn't matter at all, it is the latter which does.
> Private property is another thing that "Makes America Great."

Not when its taken to this degree.
Windows 10S on ARM w/ built-in LTE? Depending on where the price levels off with these things, I think they could realistically carve a solid chunk out of the Android tablet market and the (non-education) Chromebook market
Norway's "Government Pension Fund" is NOT used to actually fund pensions. It is actually not funding anything right now, but absorbs the government's budget surplus resulting from the oil sector. As such, it's a net negative for most economic indicators currently, since Norway has chosen to defer the use of their wealth in fossil fuels.
Is this salary or Total Comp? I’ve seen new grads with equivalent total comp or more.
This is my current experience as well, open book open notes means be familiar enough with the concepts at play that when I ask you to do something fairly specific, you can reason out a series of commands/functions to get the job done.
The dollar value for cryptocurrency is because they can be owned in a meaningful sense (having private keys) and people are willing to give you money if you transfer ownership to them. There's no equivalent sense of ownership for open source software.
Triplebyte doesn't support applicants from outside the US.
Electric motorbikes are very common outside US.
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Only 'goofing off' for 0.5 out of 4 days seems pretty good.
Are you suggesting that it's not mostly accepted, sociologically, that ethnic diversity is correlated negatively with social cohesion? That was not my understanding. Do you have a citation that suggests otherwise?

[0]: https://academic.oup.com/esr/article/32/1/54/2404332
If you do any professional color work, you want a color calibrated display. This ensures that the colors you see on your screen will be the same as the ones on your designer colleague’s screen, and the same as the ones that come out of the printer’s factory, for instance.

Higher end displays are already pretty decently calibrated out of the factory, but if you want to be exact you will need to buy an external piece of hardware that will measure your display’s colors and tell you how off they might be.

The author bought a piece of color calibrating hardware that was meant to be open in design and work with Linux, as presumably he wants to support these efforts.

But he encountered a bevy of problems, ranging from packages not updated in a while to things that just plain don’t work as documented, and got frustrated.

Understandable, since on macOS or Windows with proprietary hardware, this would have been a 5 minute process. The author is sad and frustrated that the open source alternatives aren’t there.