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>PLEASE STOP BUILDING BUILD SYSTEMS.

This couls also be said about many other things as well. For example package managers and test suites. Even worse is that every language feels like they are obligated to build their own because they are obviously the best programmers on the planet (them using that language is a proof of that obviously). What results is dozens upon dozens restrictive and sub-par build systems, package mangagers and test suite that are all used by only a small group of people and are just an extra dependency for everyone else.

>It sucks when you find a smallish library and discover it uses an esoteric build system whose dependencies dwarf the library themselves (cough Yoga). The OSS community needs build system consolidation, not tacking on a 15th wheel to the cart.

Developers generally don't think of the build system as a dependency because tehy already have it installed on their own machine. Though it shoudl also be mentioned that a big portion of developers (especially those using languages that encourage to install everything with their own package manager) have a very low or no barrier for adding new dependencies.
It's not straight-up counterfeiting, since they own up to not being Chromecast, but it may not survive legal action. It's a weak defense. Google may have already started legal action. The trademark infringement is certainly there.

A lot depends on where it's made. Does Google have patents on the form factor in that country, either by treaties or by actually registering in the country? It can shut down the reselling by American companies at least.

As for food, counterfeits are unnecessary. There are already store brands which offer mostly or entirely the same food stuffs but with a derivative name (like Miracast vs. Chromecast, or Crunchy Nuts vs. Grape Nuts) and knock-off packaging.

There's also the bit where 3rd-party sellers don't exist in grocery stores.
Find a full-service laundry place and pay them to do it. I've got two kids, and the four of us go through a shit-ton of laundry. If you can afford it [1], and you're in a city or neighborhood where one is available, it saves hours every week.

[1] We pay maybe 40-50 bucks a week. We don't use a service and just drag it down the street to the local laundromat once or twice a week.
>The binary it produces is still dependency free.

But the project now depends on Python, pip and Meson.
Oh man, you removed the line about Whole Foods, bummer.
New Lego pieces: Still hard on your feet, but easier on the planet
Consider adding the fact that waf requires a binary blob in every god damn repo as a drawback to it.
Because his exam was in C, basically.

He was doing remote study with an Australian course, which required it. For the Python parts he still had to use his normal laptop, because MicroPython wasn't around then, (and I took a look at porting CPython to an AVR and immediately gave up), and he hated it.

Constant power glitches caused the laptop to misbehave.

His BW-1 (Borkwei-1), and it's tiny portable power, meant he got a lot more done.

If I was to redo it today, because it was about 6 years ago now, I'd probably make one with either MicroPython or eLua. Basically hook a keyboard and screen up to a NodeMCU or MicroPython board (maybe an ESP32), because those sort just about everything out nowadays. (MicroPython even comes with a FAT filesystem. Add a board with WiFi, and you have a very decent system.)

He tells me that every house in his village has one of the little laptops we designed now, though he has upgraded it to use an SD card, so more programs, and WiFi for when they hit town. He now calls it the BW-2.
I also think it makes no sense. It was full of fake constructed emotion moments. Manual override? You cant program your own ship? Okay. What about not putting your most experienced war general but one of the zilion androids? Or the sick guy with cancer who will volunteer because he has 2 months to live.

I mean star wars arent so much scifi but fantasy in scifi setting. Battles would surely not be fought like this. But this had so many glorious plot holes and constructed fake moments...
Dynamic stuff was in vogue when it was difficult to do. Same with rounded corners. Once stuff gets easy it goes out of fashion.
Seems smart to me:

https://www.recode.net/2017/10/12/16464132/google-target-ret...

https://www.pcworld.com/article/2975731/software-games/youtu...

https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/26/16371292/google-youtube-a...
> I could somehow shove a C preprocessor into it and make it automatically generate dependencies based on include directives.

But the C compilers already provide tools for example `gcc -MMD`
What you’re saying applies to interpreters, which execute the program opcode by opcode, and (in the case of stack machines) keep an actual stack at runtime. WebAssembly was designed to be the input for (at least mildly) optimizing JIT compilers. Since the stack is required to be at a fixed depth at each instruction, when the compiler reads the instruction, it can map each of the inputs it pops to a single earlier instruction that pushed it[1], and record a reference directly to that in its internal IR. After that it completely forgets about the stack. Later on it’ll do register allocation for the native architecture, so the generated native code makes efficient use of registers.

Or in other words, the “stack machine” is basically just a compact encoding of an AST.

(Note that the native “stack” is an entirely separate thing which does exist at runtime.)

[1] Actually, there can be multiple possible instructions from, e.g., inside the ‘if’ and ‘else’ sides of a prior if-block (which can push values that stay on the stack after the end of the block). But since both sides have to push the same number of values, this is still tractable; it turns into a phi node in SSA representation.
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The setting that Severine mentioned controls the number of content processes, which is the number of processes that Firefox uses for its tabs.

It will still have another process that controls all the UI and all those browser tab processes, a process for sandboxing extensions/plugins and then even more processes for miscellaneous things, for example I think asynchronous scrolling has another process and when doing performance improvements, they often just stuck long operations into a separate process.
EMRs and Physician Time: A Real Problem (2014) [pdf]
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Might be something in to this. My mind always feels refreshed by a good thunderstorm.
Amazon has a major issue with screening against knockoffs
and counterfeits, and the severity of the issues surrounding this grows every day. For instance, my friend bought a camera that looked similar to the Arlo, but it contained a telnet backdoor. Another would ping a strange AliCloud VPS over UDP that appeared to contain data related to network configuration without any explanation or ability to be disabled, short of router firewall rules. As knockoff vendors get more clever at disguising their devices as the one's they're trying to copy, an increasing amount of less-technical users become ever-more at risk regarding their security and privacy.
It was a simple racist joke made in good faith.

I had to do it, just to see if PC would kill it. I know that many comedians have expressed regrets over political correctness.

Isn't the problem with the question to begin with, doesn't the question ask you to stereotype? I honestly do not care if a good comedian is a Jew or not.
Related I played with washing up and putting away ingredients as I cooked. Commonly I would stir then grab 30 seconds to wash a cooking pot/throw out packaging/put away in fridge etc.

It's greatly reduced the washing pots phase which commonly includes items that seem less dishwasher friendly.

I found it easy to do for most recipies I know well.
45 year CPU evolution – one law and two equations
To the average media digestive system, a personality like Eng is like fast food on steroids. Most other celebrities go through a rather lengthy media life cycle of build-up and tear-down, but Eng was instantly destroyable and ready to be made fun of. Sadly, this kind of handling wasn't really surprising.
The title looked interesting (though it's possibly clickbait) so I opened it in a new tab. When I switched to the tab the article was covered by a 'subscribe to our newsletter' popup so I closed it.

Guess I'll never know what they're talking about.
I remember reading (don't remember where) that the current state of machine learning is a lot like the state of bridges a few thousand years ago. People basically try different approaches using intuition and sometimes if the results are good they'll tell other people about it, nowadays in the form of research papers getting published. However, the generalized equations that facilitate modern civil engineering were far from existing. Similarly, we don't yet have general equations to derive or optimize a machine learning algorithm for a given problem as input, we just choose an algorithm, choose parameters that we think make sense, go through a lot of trial and error, then let the algorithm run.

There's a lot that's still not understood about the brain. Even at the cellular level, microglia have gained attention recently for their contribution to human learning [1]. The NN algorithm was modeled after human neurons for having n inputs and 1 binary output. It's hard to say how cells that regulate the cellular environment and communicate with each other via cytokines would affect the abstraction of the brain to an algorithm or mathematical model. At least for this example, there's a book called "the other brain" about how glia, which make up ~85% of the brain, perform a myriad of operations beyond just keeping neurons together [2].

But you could also look at the brain through a genetic lens. A lot of the neurosystem is simply hardwired. The knee-jerk response is a reflex arc, which means the signal goes directly from the sensory nerve to the motor nerve (causing you to kick) before it even gets to your brain. That reflex response has been hardcoded into your DNA. How much of the rest of the brain is learned vs. predeterminantly structured?

Cognition can probably be reduced to just pattern matching with learned responses, but it's a bit like an ancient Roman looking at New York City skyscrapers and saying "these are just built using arches and a lot of nuance".

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S107474271...

[2] http://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Other-Brain/R-Doug...
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It's the same in Ireland (inexplicably, Amazon employs tons of people here). The solution is that several businesses have popped up to reship things from the UK. There's no legal reason you couldn't. One nice thing is that when I buy from Amazon I can compare all the EU Amazon sites for price and get the cheapest.
Can anyone explain Feynman path intergrals to a non-physicist? I'm guessing there's a bit more to it than defining a measure on C[0, T] and lebesgue integrating.
The elephant in the room is rather "why does Amazon not sell Chromecasts?" - The answer is rather obvious but it's an illegitimate business practice when you are in the business of selling pretty much everything else. The Amazon line of products should sell based on their merits only, not because its competitors' are not available.
Very few people actually know about Robert Pera. He's the founder of Ubiquiti Networks, and former Hardware Engineer @ Apple. Currently valued at $4Bn, he achieved his first billion within 8 years of starting his company.
No wonder Google keeps yanking access to their services.
We sell everything from A to Z, except maybe C.
You don't just need to check any single option, you also need to check every combination of options that might reasonably get used together to make sure that it's handled properly. Given the size of the kernel and its thousands of configuration options testing all viable combinations is not reasonable.
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I'm afraid this list is outdated coz it values Elizabeth Holmes at $4.3Bn. Forbes downgraded her value to zero dollars last year.
So any comment about an article that's about a particular ethnicity is going to be racist in your book?
I was reading today Amazon is going to stop carrying Nest products. It does seem odd to not carry competitors products for a store that sells everything.

Walmart has its own phone cell phone service, yet it still sells other phone brands.

I guess maybe because Amazon is getting more into hardware is maybe why they are dropping certain products. Like I wouldn't expect Apple to sell me a Dell laptop. However I view Apple more of a electronics company than a general electronics store. I view Amazon more like the online version of Walmart.
Or a single-issue, grassroots activist that knows how to organize and bring attention to the issue. If you want something bad enough, it's yours.
Its not the interviews they are hating. It's the unexpected troubles which are waiting: the new manager who will cause more troubles, the infrastructure blocking from doing actual work, the commuting troubles. Only if the current troubles do become overwhelming and no improvements are in sight and the jerks are getting power over the rationalists, the developer will move on.
There is a work ongoing to enable WASM to be used for Etherum smart contracts, replacing the custom VM/bytecode.

One could use WASM for reconfigurable on-edge computing, all the way down to microcontrollers.
What are the types of tools that can help in SSL installation?
I have purchased an SSL and have no clue how to install it. Can someone suggest some tools that can help me with free installation.
Net Async Await, the good, the bad and the deadlocks
I am creating a programming language that supports native languages, I would love to release a version in this language. If any of you here is a native Icelandic speaker pls contact me and help me create a proper translation (https://citrine-lang.org/)! I'll send you a dictionary file that contains the translation strings (from everything like IF-ELSE to CREATEHASH and so on...)
Well, they said there would be multiple attempts, so I assume they're looking for eye color, patterns in the fur and stuff like that?
Elevation Labs wrote a post about this a couple days ago: https://www.elevationlab.com/blogs/news/amazon-is-complicit-...
Disruptive innovation could set hearing aid industry on its ear
Probably not [0]. Most MS Office programs end up with the "Garbage" rating.

However, if you manage to get OneNote 2010 it should work for the most part. [1]

[0] https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=applicatio...

[1] https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iI...
Yep, Amazon has a massive warehouse in Poland, but doesn't have a Polish website at all. The best you can do is purchase stuff off Amazon.de, but not everything ships to Poland, despite being dispatched from a warehouse in Wroclaw.
The $1500 figure is indeed the correct nominal figure, but it's just a number, it's meaningless without context (prices). If you take that into account you get a sense of purchasing power that's comparable between countries, the PPP figure. That's $4500 in Ghana and it's likely what he's quoting.

That having been said, the nominal figure is typically more useful when it comes to manufactured imported goods like computers, or energy prices, as they aren't actually cheaper in developing countries (and sadly, often the opposite).

So both figures are going to be useful in getting a sense of affordability here.
What I'm calling the "Bachelor Socks Pattern".

Go out and buy multiple 6-in-one packs of the same socks (Most economical with black/blue business style socks).

Go all out and get like 8 packs @ ~$5 each. At $40 cost you replace all your socks with a single type and color and have a massive oversupply (about 3 weeks worth in the above calc, prob more than you need really).

No need to sort, just keep them in a big basket of socks, now you have endless matching socks never to be sorted again.

Put your other socks aside in a bag and recycle when your convinced it's working.

[I purchased so many after doing this for myself initially and then finding out the rest of the family were ALL cheekily wearing my socks as they all quietly found it easier to match one of my black pairs over finding exact matches for their socks from the sock basket]
Does ‘Platformisation’ Redefine the Notion of the Firm?
Jump-to-arbitrary-address / labels-as-values isn't made available to Go devs by Go-the-language, but seems required by Go-the-runtime+compiler, such as for compiling Goroutines.
Also seems closely related to the concept of stationarity in time series analysis [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stationary_process]
It's interesting that as we developed technologies like dishwashers, vacuum cleaners and washing machines we used these machines to do more work rather than save time. My dad would wear a shirt for a week when he was young, now he puts a clean one on every day.

Perhaps you can just do less, try time-boxing.
I think it isn't.

I think it's dead on.

I think it's just conflicting with your religious beliefs, so you automatically interpret it as "simplistic" and "mischaracterizing" to avoid seriously engaging with legitimate ideas that question your tribal beliefs.
In (at least) European Amazons, you can avoid looking at unshippable products by:

- searching for something

- selecting the most applicable category on the left, next to the results

- selecting Amazon.(de|fr|it|es|co.uk) on the bottom left (under Seller)

What is sold by Amazon generally gets shipped anywhere (within Europe?).

As a company, before Amazon Business, this also made sure you'd be able to shop without VAT.
It's in my opinion just a straight upgrade from KeePassX. Not a significant upgrade, but switching is probably not going to require significant effort either.
On top of that the legitimacy of some good reviews is very suspicious

But yeah I can't believe how much of a crapshow buying this kind of equipment is on Amazon

Try to buy a Firestick if you're not on their "approved country" list and you can't

Now this, I hope Amzn enjoys all the returns and bad publicity
I didn't want to comment about this, but this post was extremely hard to read.
Kumasi is the heart of what remains of the old Ashanti empire that once ruled West Africa. If you had spoken about some village in the Ashanti Region, i'd believe you outright but this is the second most important city in Ghana, and even 10 years ago wasn't this bad.

* The Electricity problem isn't a part of life and definitely doesn't affect Kumasi as much as it affected other parts in the past. The country is powered by a couple of hydroelectric dams(and even supply power to a few other west African countries). The water levels were low due to low rainful and that's why these blackout began 10 years ago but it didn't really get bad till 2012...The Ashanti are a proud people, the infrastructure situatuion is not as dire as you state it.

* Air quality? Kumasi dusty? The entire city was tarred even as of 10 years ago. I'd still like to believe you spent your time in a village in the Ashanti Region but not Kumasi itself

* Literacy? Ha you based that on your two week trip to one school?

* Poverty is subjective i believe. 10 years ago, the Ghanaian cedi was pegged evenly with the dollar, and $1 usd was more than enough to feed an entire family. Food was cheap(Still largely is) and the Ashanti Region produces a massive amount of food crops. Your understanding of poverty is flawed if you're going to base it off economic theory. Most people in Africa are able to provide for their families and don't see the need past that. A lot of people are just comfortable staying in mud huts in villages, farming and going about their daily businesses. They don't really care about foreign healthcare because there's a thriving alternative medicine industry in Ghana(herbal) and most people just generally don't care. It's more about the culture, not the ignorance

* Internet 10 years ago? C'mon I'm ashamed to admit it but Ghana was on full blast for internet fraud 10 years ago. This is where the Nigerian princes picked up their skills from. Till today, Ghana is still blocked from using paypal. There was internet all over ten years ago and very cheap. We had large communities of MMO players, especially runescape and kids just go home or to an internet cafe after school to play.

*Typing skills... I don't even get this one

I know the conditions are not as bright as i've seen while travelling the globe, but this was too much like the regular "Africa is a poster child for poverty" theme that it hurt to read it

Disclaimer: I was born and bred in Ghana, and live in several cities for several years.
I suppose it’s the romantic notion of “captain goes down with the ship”. Plus it’s probably not a common situation that you would have an empty capital ship with a kamikaze pilot — let alone pursuers that can chase it across hyperspace.
People need to stop using the word "hate" and start calling people out whenever they use it. "Hate" just means "blasphemy". Once you make this substitution, discussions like this start to make a lot more sense.

Serious question: If people want to post blasphemy, what's preventing them from doing so? [...] I honestly don’t understand why mainstream social media websites should be allowing that sort of thing.
I'd make a case for the opposite. Better the devil you know than the devil you don't know. Patent trolling is being dealt with, while we are only just beginning to grasp the consequences of F2P games. I have personally spent tens of thousands of dollars on such games.

But frankly, the real loss for me is that the games industry has transformed from a battle of the name brands, to a battle of the addiction engineering. The games aren't even fun anymore, and I don't know whether that is mostly due to the effects on my brain over time, or the games really getting worse.

Patent trolls, on the other hand, affect far fewer people, and are less likely to cause lasting psychological harm.
In today's society you won't win a debate if you call your opponent a n.....r, but if you call xir a "racist" most of the audience will believe you are representing the good and will hate the other like a Pavlovian dog.
>Amazon has a major issue with screening against knockoffs and counterfeits

Does it ever! I refuse to buy expensive electronics or equipment on Amazon after getting burned with a knockoff Bose headphones and SWISSGEAR luggage. You don't even get the benefit of cheap prices as those things were within reasonable range of their typical retail price (and with luggage the price fluctuation is always high). It's insane.
Experienced writers know that “writing is re-writing”. Maybe I’m just slower than others, but I’d like to transfer that to “thinking is re-thinking”. However, as we know since Sokrates’ example, the difficulty remains that by the time we’re done, we might be late to the party.
>The elephant in the room is rather "why does Amazon not sell Chromecasts?"

Yep. This is how you get the attention of regulators. They should ask Microsoft how fun it was to be hounded by them for a decade.
They do manage to keep the counterfeiters off their house brands, so they definitely can control counterfeits if they like. Too bad they do not care.