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'Functional' exercise is often underrated (e.g. boxing, martial-arts, crossfit).

I used to be very healthy when I went to my local boxing gym regularly. Unfortunately there's not a boxing gym near where I currently live.

Interestingly, I joined the local (regular) gym for a year (cancelled my membership in January) and I'm in the worst shape I've been in for about 9 years.

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>One weakness I've observed is that since each attribute of an object can make its own DB query, you can have a situation where a single GraphQL query can create dozens, or even hundreds, of individual DB queries, creating a performance issue with a naive implementation. This is mitigated with libraries that batch requests transparently, or with clever structuring of your schema that groups similar attributes into one query.

From my experience writing a GraphQL server, I completely agree. This could really impact performance.

I looked at multiple solutions including join-monster[0] and prisma [1] and settled on Prisma which I run on docker between my graphql server and my AWS RDS database. It translates queries into SQL for you :)

[0]https://github.com/stems/join-monster
[1]https://github.com/graphcool/prisma
Reading that title I thought they decreased agricultural pesticide usage...
> They aren't free. You pay for them in high prices for good and services.

Your reasoning is extremely fallacious because you're overlooking a lot of nuance.

Yes, it is true that in aggregate part of the advertising costs get passed on to consumers. How much exactly depends on macroeconomic factors, industry dynamics, pricing power of distributors and retailers, and hundreds other variables. But you are right that in aggregate a non-zero amount of the advertising costs get passed on to consumers.

However, advertising is valuable to advertisers because it works to some degree. And it works because people are influenced by it. Now, as an individual I have no control over what other people are doing and so I have no control over how valuable advertising is and how much is being spent on it and how much is being passed on to consumers. Therefore as an individual I look around me and prices are what they are and already have in them advertising costs which will not go up by me using service. Therefore as an individual the marginal cost of me using these services is effectively zero (imagine the ratio between the value of advertising to me and the aggregate value of advertising, that's effectively zero). As an individual those services are free.

So it depends on what your definition of "free" is. A) Would prices be lower if advertising didn't exist? Yes [0]. B) Would prices be lower to me if I didn't use these services? No. The thing is that in definition A) I don't really have a choice, so it's irrelevant. I only have a choice as an individual.

[0] And even here some people will disagree with you. What I call "free market fundamentalists" will argue that No, they wouldn't, because the advertising leads to higher sales and greater operational efficiency, so that advertising costs are exactly offset by lower per-unit costs.
I just want to give Kismet a try
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Maybe have tiers of pricing and the option to only be introduced to people at the same (or lower) tier.
JAWS is Windows-only, so your solution of just targeting JAWS is not a solution at all, since Slack runs on a lot more platforms.
When is the right time to collect product feedback?
This is a conversation I have occasionally had with non tech friends. I'm sorry, you are the one being hyperbolic. It's like you haven't even noticed what's been happening the last 10 years or so.

> You get those free, truly amazing services

lol. Services that exist without an honest portrayal about what they do with the data they gather, or anything like clarity on the extent of what is possible.

Not content with that, they bend the service to better manipulate us not to provide a better service. Facebook run fun psychological experiments to see if they can manipulate their users - without calling for volunteers first or anything I recognise as ethics. How many times have FB been pulled up for being, cough, "less than honest"?

Google, especially, have built a reputation for simply gathering maximum possible data, then shuttering the product 18 months later. There is no reason a company Google's size need close Reader or Picasa or any number of others. Buy their in-home device or use G Drive? Hell no, i don't trust them to provide any availability once the data grab is complete. Sure if the company is entering leaner times you can understand canning some of their services, right now it's no more than a rounding error. So no, I'm in no rush to use any new Google offering - they don't exist long enough.

I think as it currently stands (collect data on me, lie to me, track me around the web as far as technically possible, track me off the service as far as technically possible, track me offline as far as possible, sell retargeting and other dubious tactics to ensure my life is 101% a buying consumer experience with no time off. In return I get a service that doesn't even meet the core need any more thanks to engagement algorithms bending it to meet FB and Google need not users') is a pretty terrifying deal.

Terrifying because we still think it's an honest exchange akin to swapping £1 for a bar of chocolate in a shop, just swap data for service. We still feel it's a fair exchange. Yeah, without honesty of even 10% of what is being done.

I'd actually like the sort of exchange you imply. Give me a great service in exchange for some data. Actually, yes, that seems fair so long as you use it reasonably. Hoovering up everything, with the Hoover turned up to 11, whilst implying "it's just a bit of data" is a confidence trick on the non-technical.
I bought Jaws 15 years ago before NVDA was out. Because of this it doesn't cost me $1000 to keep using it, it costs me $200 every two years to keep up to date. IT's the only software I know of that offers good 3270 emulator support using third party scripts someone wrote. While it may be possible to make NVDA behave similarly with python scripting it would take more then $200 worth of my time since I'm not a Python programmer. Since I rely on it for my job it's also comforting to know I can call up someone and get help or open a support ticket if something is broken. I have not had to do this recently, but I remember calling up when I switched from office 2003 to 2007 at work because the UI was so different I wasn't sure if I was having accessibility issues or not. Support was helpful and had me working in under 10 minutes.
I think what your describing is gate keeping.

I've noticed this phenomenon as well I refer to it as working out in the prison yard. Everyone looks super serious and can't smile cause I might get shanked.

One suggestion to add on to what the others have said is find maybe a sport like tennis, racquetball, dodge ball, kickball and join a league. You'll meet people who take things seriously and you'll meet people that are having fun, ignore and lose to the serious people and laugh/learn from the having fun types. Find a buddy that has a similar mentality to exercise and go do goofy things in or out of the gym.

Also try a trampoline park(like Get Air). I work out several times a week lift weights, cardio, etc. Nothing was more sweat inducing than taking my kids to a trampoline park for an hour, I needed days to recover from under used muscles I didn't even know I had.
> and ultimately we both selected the same photo from that day to promote.

That’s the funnest thing about this story imo. These kinds of photographers shoots hundreds or thousands of photos in half an hour. It’s wild they were both struck by one particular exposure.
Can't the driver just use Waze? I know it's for personal use only (I think), but these days everyone owns a smart phone and the company can just give them monthly data allowance and "sort everything yourself hint to make sure you're not late".
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> libc is pretty shallow. The majority are either leaf functions like strlen(), or <5 levels from a leaf/before execution disappears into a system call.)

I'd wager that the JIT in OP's picture will transform that huge call stack into something <5 levels from CPU instructions/syscalls.

What remains though, is the huge context carried around such a stack; and I'm quite excited at what the Loom project [1] could yield to tackle that.

Such huge call stacks are a good sign to me. I don't want to implement all the corner cases of all the RFC I rely on; and it is great that library implementors can organise their code well. In the end the JIT will adapt my program to the currently used corner case, and prune everything else.

[1] http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~rpressler/loom/Loom-Proposal.htm...
The nice thing is that you can reverse engineer it and sniff traffic to find out what the A/B tests are and what they do.
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Everything I have heard has been anecdotal and contradicts this. Do you happen to _have_ the source for your information? I admit I don't for mine.
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This 'article' seems pretty biased toward ignorance of the body, or even what 'fitness' is. Most gyms incentivise use of easy to maintain machines at the cost of your fitness. This is commercial chain gym culture, quite distinct from fitness culture. The author seems to be rationalizing having given up on their body, by reframing it as refusing to 'pusnish' it. Unadulterated garbage.
Thanks for this. The discussion has been fascinating. Just wanted to add that the tweak-save-check-repeat pattern is awfully tedious and probably the bigger issue.

Making changes directly on an element in a way that makes sense is the holy grail, and remains an unsolved problem in my opinion. Browsersync can help, and Webflow (et al) is trying to help, but none of the tools allow real direct manipulation.
Trance as a therapy: A hypnosis self-experiment
I don't know what come to your mind after reading that article, but mine was: Oh man! Canon 5D Mark IV is truly far better than 60D.

Shopping cart added.
For the first 10-15 seconds I kept misreading this as Grace Hopper and thought it was a programming language named after her.
> We were solving this problem with Google's knowledge graph where we had to fit movie dataset in DB. The film industry has so many roles (director, producer, actor, cinematographer, and so on), that having a table for each, with many times same person doing multiple roles, is just super fucking hard. With hundreds of such roles, each role being a table would be insane. Representing this information in graphs is a cakewalk in comparison. And this problem gets a lot worse if you then switch to the music industry, books and others (hence, the decision to be a knowledge "graph").

Have you had success with modelling temporal data in a graph? E.g. "Bob worked for WB from 1999-2006, Disney 2006-2008, then WB again. In 2013 she transitioned and is now called Anna". Thinking of a property graph engine, both relations and properties would need to be versioned.

It feels like a graph database should be a good fit, better than a RDBMS for sure, but I've pages of sketches on how to model history and come up with nothing workable. https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.08568 is the best paper I've found; but I haven't got anything working.

My interest is as an amateur archivist, as dumping a description like the above into a text field and displaying it back to people is less useful than being able to query it or show the changes over time. Especially when you want to link it with files or media for retrieval purposes.
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That would be an interesting website. In search of... not sure.
> Not dialects. Languages.

It doesn't get more specific than that. He/she means languages
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Skype protocol is proprietary and obfuscated, so I assume that you are going just to pack a browser inside an app.
>Facebook run fun psychological experiments to see if they can manipulate their users - without calling for volunteers first or anything I recognise as ethics.

I've always wondered: How is that different from A/B testing, or any other marketing experiment?
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> And at that point, you really can't complain about Cairo being slow, can you? You're not even doing vector graphics at this point, you're back in raster graphics territory.

The dichotomy between vector and raster graphics does not exist on screens built using pixels. Eventually whatever you are doing you end up with pixel data. It is incredibly common to require access to this pixel data for some reason. For example, for a long time Cairo used pre-multiplied alpha for alpha compositing which caused all sorts of grief for people who required straight alpha.

You idea of Cairo hiding the image data would have made it impossible for use for rendering transparent PNGs as they have (or had, I don't know how Cairo works these day) a pixel format Cairo doesn't support. Or for using cairo with SDL for that matter.

Your description of how raster APIs works is wrong. What they do is that they write to an image buffer which is then uploaded to the X server. But if the server has the shm extension, they just write the pixels to a shared buffer.

Wayland doesn't impose any rendering API on clients. It gives you a pixel buffer or a GL context and lets you draw whatever you want.

TL;DR pure vector graphics does not work. And the sooner you vector weenies realize that, the better. :p
True! But someone who learns to play the guitar, or a language at 8 ~ 15 years old shows skills that are very difficult to master (if not impossible) when you are older.
There's a lot of evidence of this if you talk with guitar teachers, someone who moved and start speaking a different language when adult, etc...
While I appreciate what you're trying to do, on a day to day basis it often looks like that battle has been lost.

I will consider myself reminded of the rules.
You offer your view/counterview narratives as skeptical trial balloons but I think you needn't be so skeptical.

That is, interpretation of any phenomenon--fitness, education, programming, etc.--can be done enthusiastically or critically, as an encomium or a critique. (There are other modes, but I'm focusing on these two here.) Being able to do both is central to understanding that interpretation or judgement is not an objective act of reception but a guided act of perception.

Without the skeptical mood, your narratives reveal that none of the acts of fitness, education, and programming are unalloyed goods or unmitigated problems. Rather, they are things that can be perceived differently depending on what one takes into account.

Knowing this enables us to make decisions with greater information and, hopefully, deeper wisdom, even as it complicates what from a more limited perspective may seem straightforward.

EDIT: add "more" in last sentence.
They don't. Nobody is paying $250/mo for a rent controlled apartment.

Multiply that number by at least 5.
could you build a map view?
It's not like advertising didn't exist before the internet so blaming the tech giants solely for it's impact on society seems odd. They didn't create advertising, they simply took away advertising money from other mediums.
There is a an issue in all statistics: "the seen and the unseen". It basically means "measuring benefits but not measuring costs".

Even if the statistics is accurate.

Even if denying people the right to self-determination is a positive in your ethical system.

Even if X, Y, Z are true... I still have to ask: what about the COST? Pesticides exist because they do something useful - kill off pests. They increase food production and decrease labor.

What if we've saved some lives...but also made 200,000 farmers each spend an extra five hours a week bent over in their fields, picking bugs off leaves? Or made them plant more land in order to harvest the same amount of food?
Given how sensitive the subject matter is, I think the article is going to be flagged into oblivion.Which is a pity, because a sober look at certain aspects of Israeli politics, especially regarding Palestine, is badly needed.

Note that many Israelis are openly against any military action in Palestine. The current policy solves nothing and only escalates tensions. There's no reason to be closed to a change.
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Signedness depends on your interpreter. In practice it hardly matters since there's no print function anyways, so if you want 2s complement you'll end up implementing it yourself anyways.

[+] should always overflow to 0 at some point, which is entirely doable for 8 bit, but less so for 32bit. as for choosing between [-] and [+] you'll just have to guesstimate if 0 or intmax is on average closer to your value.
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I second that. We had twins, bought two. Works great by the side of the highway.
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So sorry for the loss. I'm having a busy life as everyone else and ignoring what matters most. I now need spend more time with loved ones.
Apollo client is great in many ways. Where I'm having trouble is as my React app grows I need to update the local cache when I add or delete items. You have to tell Apollo what to do and it becomes more complex as the app grows. Almost like you're mirroring your db on the client.
As someone who has been working out for the past 30 years, I consider the gym to be a commons. What ruins it for me are people who reenact the tragedy of that commons.

There's the guy who takes three towels and hogs three machines at once and gets all shirty if you ask to use one of them while he's elsewhere. Then there's the Iron Man who leaves at least 300 pounds of weights on a barbell after he's done with his sets. And there are the wolf packs of either women or dudes that alternate on a machine for 45 minutes straight exchanging war stories about WTFEver and not letting anyone work in with them.

I approach the gym like I approach work: as something to be done as quickly and efficiently as possible. One of them benefits my body and the other benefits my wallet. But even then, I genuinely enjoy a good run outside on a beautiful trail in the early evening or morning.

And all that said, I'll take my grim ritual over the sciatica, lack of endurance, and general lack of health I had previously.
They could have annotated their last 'Isochrone' image: "how far you get within one or two hours of driving"

also they can bump the version number: if this is 0.1 then ubuntu-desktop is 0.0.1
Those are pretty much all valid points, however at first glance a drop from 57 incidents to 17 is at least statistically significant. The standard deviation can be assumed to be at most around sqrt(57) = ~7.5, so a difference of 40, which would be over 5 standard deviations, shouldn't normally happen.

You're right that relative percentages are sometimes a bit dubious (and even in this case you'd fluctuations on the order of 1/sqrt(57) = ~13 percentage points) but 57 is high enough that it actually has some meaning.
What about cern.int instead of cern.ch?
I am yet to find any official statement from Oculus on this. Am I missing something?
All of our reasoning would be much easier if free will were an illusion. Perhaps we should stop fighting it.
What driver? This is software to calculate routes in a graph, fast and free and open-source.
Is there any actual evidence for this claim though?
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Not "something resembling" it was an actual civil war

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sri_Lankan_Civil_War
I had never heard of SharkBite fittings. As a minimally-competent home handyman, I thank you for putting me on to them.

Here's a link to an informative and sensible video on SharkBite... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1E8X1VawLeE
I also went on this quest and was fairly disappointed with the results. I've used Highcharts extensively and just felt like none of the libraries came even close to having the same kind of expressiveness. Ultimately I settled on react-highcharts even though it doesn't really leverage React effectively.
Awww, no native macOS version? I was going to buy this but that discourages me a little (getting it running with Wine and Steam sounds like a PITA).
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It was announced in V8 6.1 that asm.js could be validated and compiled to WebAssembly. https://v8project.blogspot.se/2017/08/v8-release-61.html

To be fair I don't think this announcement ever spread that far and I don't think it was ever announced that the validation would be enabled in Chrome, nevertheless I see asm.js validation messages (or rather, invalidation messages when there's issues) in Chrome 64.
I love the idea. Pretty tedious without the ability to search.
> We work hard to ensure our ads aren't a pain and they're how we're able to offer this splendid site for free. For Horace's sake, could you whitelist us?

And I work pretty hard to make sure my machine doesn't get hijacked by a Belorussian botnet or a Chinese cryptominer. I guess Horace better explain to me that your ads are entirely self-hosted without any JS tracking.
There are always exceptions, but houses generally do not appreciate. Much like a car, they become outdated and wear out. With enough time and use, they even become completely uninhabitable. Each passing day sees less and less value in the home as it requires more and more cost to bring back up to pristine condition and costs start to compete with the value of a brand new home.

Of course, if you keep your home in good repair and updated to modern standards, that will help retain value. But you're effectively selling a new home at that point, and the costs you have sunk into keeping in that way extend well beyond the original value.

Land value is where you normally find the appreciation. The trouble with trailers in a trailer park is that you do not own the land, so what you bear is entirely structure depreciation.
With the cherry picked attacks on the article and author, coupled with the competitiveness of the deeper threads about it on HN (example: 270 pounds? That's nothing! Not following a regimented process? Lack of discipline! Your body's fitness is a useful proxy for positive leadership traits!), I can't help but conclude that the crowd here has validated the article quite nicely.

It's no longer just about being healthy; it's about social and virtue signalling. Even HN in't immune.
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Cool. Are they going to ban VPNs next? What about https? Even in China it's pretty easy to get around 'the great firewall'.

Then there's ipv6 which gives a site the amount of proxies equivalent to molecules on earth.

Blackists never work. Whitelists do but then you no longer have the internet.

It's adorable when baby boomer politicians try to mess with tech affairs...
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