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I you think this is an 'IBM' only problem, you're in for a surprise. I've worked on very large projects with other very large service companies, and the experience is very much alike.

From day one the client company gets swamped by an army of vendor analysts, the prime reason for this is to establish that it is the clients fault the project will fail as they couldn't respond to requests for information fast enough. Any information you manage to supply will be scrutinized for 'discovery' of 'change requests' to pad the meters and CYA.

Meanwhile, a 'technical specialist' room chock full of developers is installed to (a) put on extra time pressure and (b) start the billing engine in top gear. When you went into that room there were literally people sitting at desks watching the vendor's equivalent of CS 101 video courses.

Also, a team of lawyers is already preparing the documents for the 'settlement' in case of the (very likely) project failure.

All status information to the project's steering committee gets 'green shifted' until the supplier is ready to shift to litigation mode and then overnight the project's near unrecoverable disaster gets revealed alongside a proposed 'rescue' plan that is priced so ridiculously it makes the 'settlement' look cheap.

In the private sector these train-wrecks are often settled with non-publish clauses as making the press would make both parties look bad. In our case the supplier dropped a small percentage on the billing. The client was left with a room (literally) full of boxes of A4 'analysis' documents and 25M€ out of pocket. (this was in the financial industry, so it was basically pocket change)

All involved, both supplier side and customer side seem to have not suffered career wise from this disaster, moving swiftly to new clients and new projects.

P.S. Am I the only one that finds the author's sweeping generalizations of nationalities a bit in bad taste?
> a $3,000 fine for a billionaire isn't unreasonable

This sounds ridiculous to me because the idea of laws, and by extension fines, is that they apply uniformly, regardless of class, gender, whatever.
Nobody is forcing you to use water from the faucet, the river is just outside town. Nobody is forcing you to use the electric grid, generator + gasoline is an option. Etc.

Even for public utility you have a choice. It's not a good choice, which is what matters.

Facebook and Google have definitely reached a state where not being part of their business (by being on Page 1 of the Results or having a Facebook Page) will actively harm your business. If either denies you service they also deny a lot of customers access to your service just like you'd get people denied service to a business when that business isn't connected to the power grid.

And if you think that isn't true I urge you to talk to a PR department of a bigger corporation or a startup. Placement on Google and Facebook is very very important.
I live in a very liberal state that has a red belt. Let me tell you, if anything, the racism in white America is vastly undersold. I am white. I've had numerous occasions where people will use racial epithets with me, a complete stranger, in a business setting. Not all people who are rural are racists, but the percentage that are openly hostile to POC or even people with different backgrounds is far higher in small communities. You don't need to go far to find people who literally are okay with murdering people over politics and skin color. I don't think this is some recent change either, it's more likely that the article got it right, the world changed and they chose not to. They aren't bad people, but that doesn't mean they get a pass on the parts of them that are bad.

I don't think urban people feel as alienated by the government. I think that they feel less likely to trust people from urban areas with outsize power telling them that they were born wrong and using those beliefs to inflict pain and harassment on already people already dealing with a lot.

Regarding gun laws unless the country up and decides to make a constitutional amendment nothing is going to happen with guns. No one is coming after them. To paraphrase a statement "Once Americans decided killing schoolchildren was acceptable the gun debate was over". The mass killings are going to continue happening. No good people with guns will show up. And we'll all have thoughts and prayers on our Facebook feeds. The gun debate has nothing to do with guns. It has to do with the rights of a hobby being more important than the rights of citizens to live. No amount of rifles or handguns will be able to overthrow a government that can literally kill you from a locked room a world away. If guns alone could stop the US military there would be no ongoing war in the middle east. Firearms are fun, I totally get it, but let's be real that we're choosing fun over human life.
What makes you say The Daily WTF isn't maintained?
published paper?
I'm from Finland where we have this kind of "relative fines". While I generally agree with the concept, it should better take into account the household's total income & wealth.

E.g. I could get a fine of 1/2 of my monthly net income for driving 140 km/h (87 mph) on highway, which would hit hard our household (three kids, low income spouse, no savings), although no real harm or risk was caused to anyone.
It is relevant when you compare models. All I asked is how accurate both models are. If Dark Matter is more accurate in predicting how galaxies move and shape then it is obviously the better model even if a simpler one also exists but it's predictions are worse.

You can't simply say "this model also predicts that" without giving on how accurate it does predict and comparing to existing models. Otherwise we'd be using flat earth models for building bridges and planning ship routes.
I think this claim has no base. I've worked with Lisp programmers and there was no special problem doing so.
I'm surprised there doesn't seem to be a mention of the ingenious Chinese windlass. This was the best article I could find on it:

https://makezine.com/projects/make-25/the-chinese-windlass/
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If you do this with two systems, the e-vote could be encrypted to the second system, but submitted to the first system. During voting hours, the first system would collect the votes and apply the latest value wins rules. Then, once voting is complete, it sends the votes (without envelope information) to the second system to tally. In order to know who voted for whom, you need collusion between the systems.
On some of Italy's highways, they calculate the speeding ticket from gate to gate:)
Meaning that if you entered the highway at 12:00 and you exited at 13:00 at a gate 120 miles ahead, you get a fine.

Sometimes, I see people who like to speed, just sit it out at a parking cafe next to their exit.
And you think nobody would report that to the police?
Those risk factors have been considered by people who are qualified to design road systems. You can't just heap additional risk on without consequences.

If I choose to drive wearing a blindfold that wouldn't necessarily mean there's any damage but it should definitely be a crime.
We know that parallel construction has, at various times and in various places, been heavily used by some law enforcement elements. We don’t need to know anything about the software used by law enforcement to know that, and to suspect that this may be happening now. Systems such as those provided by Palantir are just a more sophisticated way that tainted evidence could be used.

It seems reasonable that, given a reasonable suspicion that such evidence is used, that we should fear and want to prevent more widespread and systematic use of that illegal evidence.
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The Hoover Dam also finished under-budget and ahead of schedule.
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Then it could be a percentage of total assets - that would be equal, no? I do think fines are stupid though. Making people sit a day through a speed awareness course seems a better punishment to me.
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sorry, it is not same as `grep -iv '^c'`

the `-o` option allows to output only matching portion, the regex is meant to extract all words other than those starting with 'c' or 'C'

here's hopefully better example

$ # do something with words not surround by quotes
$ echo 'I like "mango" and "guava"' | perl -pe 's/"[^"]+"(*SKIP)(*F)|\w+/\U$&/g'
I LIKE "mango" AND "guava"
Taking pictures in the booth isn't actually prohibited. You can do it but the helpers will probably take your ballot and destroy it, then give you another one.

(An exception is when you are a government delegate voting for chancellor, in which case you pay a fine of 1000€, especially after the president has clarified this rule to new delegates repeatedly)
This article is rendering No Mans Sky on Amiga 1000 in the sense that looking on a photo of a beautiful landscape is the same as visiting it.

Ie. it just displays a slideshow of screenshots on the Amiga 1000, which might as well have been vacation photos.
> If I'm driving I pay based on my income, but if my driver is driving he pays based on his?

That's actually a very good point, as the "backseat speeder" would likely secretly reimburse the driver if the speeding was done to order. It would make intentional speeding surprisingly cheap for a small group.

(Disagree with everything else you wrote though)
I appreciate the work done at the hardware level for streaming computations of structured data. But from the high level view, it's more critical to be able to compute efficiently matrix decomposition, it helps to solve systems of linear equations and obviously discretised PDEs.
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For a shorter read I recommend The Medieval Machine by Jean Gimpel. It's a bit old now but tells an interesting story, turns out there was a lot more industrial machinery in the 13th century than we tend to think.
The laws should obviously apply equally.
Exactly for that reason, fines should not be the same for someone who earns $15/hr and $1500/hr.
A fine of $150 is 10 hours of work for one person, and 6 minutes for the other. How is that equal application of the law?
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I remember seeing full-scale versions of these in actual houses long ago.

Man technology has advanced for the better. These things are brittle, require regular maintenance, they are tiny in width (try getting a fridge up a few floors), ... This actually used to be a pluspoint: when maintenance is lacking, specific portions will deteriorate : so walking upon them there will be a circular fault, which your leg will sink into (as opposed to the whole staircase collapsing entirely). The thing is, this happened to someone I knew on a yearly basis. It can only be fixed by replacing the whole thing.

And of course, these were actually put into houses sometimes 5 floors high. Exercise !
Ever since reading "How music got free" by Stephen Witt I get a bit annoyed with the MPEG team getting credit for "creating" the mp3. They did more to kill it than to support it.
This is nothing to do with the current issue at hand. Istanbul was just as liberal and nice of a city as anywhere else, but then the last decade happened.

Maybe if as a people we stopped thinking in terms of funny plots like "they are trying to dilute the peeps" and opened our eyes to the facts before our eyes, we'd be in a better shape.
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This is a tactic used to maintain power - delay elections indefinitely. Currently it’s happening in a number of African countries.

Undermining the credibility could therefore accomplish “everything” (the intended purpose).
I've just started doing some Swift, I've been really impressed so far.
Are you storing those keys in the TPM or a smartcard? Is the machine connected to the Internet, or even to the local network? In other words ask yourself if the keys would be compromised by anyone getting root on the machine, and then:

* if yes, what are the ways that one could get root on that machine? Is it better or worse on the MBP?

* if not, are the keys stored in a place which is related to the secure processor?

And also: is there a reason why somebody could 1) know that you have keys on that machine 2) be interested in those keys 3) have the resources to conduct the attack?

In a nutshell, analyze your attack surface and model your threats.
In Australia we have a demerit point system, although technically if you have enough money you can pay to get around it.
As someone who has spent a fair amount of time playing with this, post processing audio is a big win. I use audacity and perform the following effects (the order is important):

- Noise reduction

- Compressor with "Make-up gain for 0 db after compressing turned off".

- Equalisation with a curve that starts at -6 db at 20Hz, peaks at 6 db at 150 Hz and then curves down to -30 db at 20000 Hz.

- Normalise with Remove DC offset and normalising at -0.1 db (0.0 db sometimes leads to problems for some reason).

- Amplify if you need it (usually I don't)

The logic here is: Noise reduction, to reduce hiss, key clicks, etc, etc., Compressor to squash the low and high amplitudes (turning off making up the gain also forces it to squash in a certain direction... I forget which at the moment, but it's important), Equalise as a kind of nicer low pass filter that gets rid of the noise reduction artefacts and other noises that make it through, Normalise to bring the amplitude back up that was knocked off by the compress (but in a nicer way than amplify would give you). Finally just fine tuning with amplify.

I usually re-encode in FLAC and then mix it back into my video using my video editing software (I use Kdenlive).

The difference in audio quality is unbelievable. You need to fiddle around a bit with the settings for your voice/environment, but I highly recommend giving it a try.
It should be equitably, not equally.
Holy guacamole. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Then it ends up hurting the middle class yet again.

The rich have their LLCs that purchase their houses and cars and trusts that keep the rest of their money invested. The middle class don't have the luxury and are hit with a disproportionate amount of the fine.
There are several misinterpretations here, not the least of which is confusing Medicare with Medicaid.
Definitely not the shortest read, my suggestion. Though it turns up on LibGen.

James Burke's Connections traces much of this historry, as does Vaclav Smil's Energy and Civilization.

The Singer ref should reward multiple interests, and can be dipped into at leisure.
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>all seemingly pro-russia.

Its extremely unfortunate that skepticism of government and/or media declarations are being characterized as "Pro-Russian". Exercising basic critical thinking skills and demanding evidence for accusations is something that we should all practice, in every case, but especially when serious accusations are leveled. I welcome you to re-read my post. I'm not pushing a "Pro-Russia" position. I'm pushing a "pro-intelligent person" position. I linked directly to the evidence they offered to support their assertions. I looked at the evidence they offered, did you? No evidence they presented suggested or concluded that Russians were responsible. Rather than responding intelligently by pointing to evidence that you think rebuts my assessment, you resort to questioning my motives.
The smartphone problem exists currently with paper ballots. You're not supposed to be allowed to bring a camera into the voting booth, but this is not enforced particularly well.

One approach to this problem is to make it easy to cancel a previous ballot and submit a new one, so you can get your evidence that you voted the way e.g. your employer wanted you to, but then you can cancel it and vote with your conscience.
I still like sql. It’s just so intuitive:

select this
from that
where something is true

That’s the core of everything you do.

I could write all day about what a mess it can become, and how awful debugging is. But I still enjoy it
They also have LifeStrategy 0/20/40/60/80/100 so you can balance stocks vs bonds however you want, and have diversification handled for you.
That sounds pretty reasonable to me, frankly. That’s considerably over the limit, isn’t it?
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Drunk drivers make it home safe most of the time as well.

Just because you can break a law and it usually works out, doesn't mean that what you're doing isn't a crime.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-to-end_auditable_voting_sy...
F#: the syntactic power and delicious type system of OCaml combined with the coding ease of Python, all the best of modern C#, a runtime that's essentially a first rate JVM clone, all wrapped up an packaged by one of the better dev tool suppliers...

It hits a real sweet spot for Enterprise coding, domain modeling, scientific computing, and cloud computing. It's the only way I'll touch legacy MS-ecosystem projects. The community is driven by open source and highly cross platform. It's also got type-checked scripting that makes 'plumbing languages' and utility scripts look second rate, for pragmatic day to day stuff, while maintaining complete access to the libraries and models of any of your systems.

Potent stuff for people whose technical decisions are regulated (or even just subject to Enterprise Thinking by Important People).
TBH vodafone blocks just about anything in italy. i have to click thre warnings to download binaries from bitbucket for example. Their secure browsing "service" is half a scam.
I don't think this is "obvious" at all. There are all sorts of laws that punish larger companies more than smaller companies or base the punishment on the impact to the party. Laws are made to regulate behavior and to keep order or safety - nobody said anything about the enforcement having to be equal.
Even so, rich people have a lot bigger chances to protect themselves from abuse, than poor people. And secondly, what use is a punishment that is not punishment at all for rich people?
I've got a question I didn't see answered in the article.

Is the ledger hidden until the end of the election or publicly visible throughout?

I only ask as it's a subtle technical difference that could massively influence the outcome.
And this is my unpopular complaint of programming in Rust, there is so much complexity not to do with the type system that reasoning becomes a pain.
In these cases, a request for the identity of the account associated with $IP at $timestamp would typically receive a response such as "$IP is a shared IP address used by many different accounts simultaneously. As we do not log individual sessions at layer 4, it is impossible for us to provide you with this account information."
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A lot of Medium content is posted to HN without regard to its actual value to the audience. Much of it is posted multiple times; they customize their URLs to defeat dupe checks.
Seemingly this is nothing to do with the government, as controlling through the website of the insitution where there's a form to check if a given domain is blocked [1], it tells me that there are "no blocks on this domain", i.e. protonmail.com. You can try instead wikipedia.org to see what it looks like when a domain is blocked.

[1] http://internet.btk.gov.tr/sitesorgu/
Solid recommendation! There goes my weekend
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Just wasted 3 seconds of my live reading an article about _Javascript_ APIs.
So I don’t recognize someone’s made-up term consisting of a cute misspelling; I try to be helpful and point out the correct spelling, and what do I get? Downvotes. Sigh.
I'm surprised how often people are starting to carelessly refer to Russia as "enemy". I think "adversary" is a more accurate term, on the same level as China.

The governments of both sides say they want cooperation but are are annoyed at each other's behavior and actions. However I don't think the people of either country treat the other as "enemy", like they did during the cold war. Back then each side was afraid that the other one may attack them preemptively out of ideological reasons.
What part of this is rendering? It's just file format conversion, with a oddball output format.

If they actually ran the no man sky engine on the amiga, even if it was 1 frame per hour, /that/ would actually be impressive.
Yeah, the fine is never the reason I get upset about being pulled over for speeding. It was always the points on the license and the time spent waiting for the ticket.
OP here, this thread has probably died, but I thought I'd inform you how it went.

Last night, I had my yearly meeting with my boss. I talked about all the progress I have made, my critical contributions to the project I'm in, and kind of hinted that the client would be stuck if I left the team in a short notice.

He straight away gave a number of 37K, I took it.
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I wholeheartedly agree with this! I am a pretty inexperienced self-taught frontend developer currently trying to learn Haskell and C. I went through Learn You A Haskell and have started going through Zed Shaw's Learn C The Hard Way.

On the surface, LYAH looks a lot more polished. It has nice drawings, less typos, seems like an actual book rather than a gathering of notes and thoughts turned into teaching material. But the exercises in LCTHW are amazing. They always challenge my knowledge in a way that often makes me realize that I didn't understand anything from the prior paragraph.

In LYAH I usually tried following along in GHCI to get an intuitive idea of the functions and patterns used. Yet, whenever I sit down to just build something that, while using the same features, deviates from the example code quite a lot, I often notice glaring holes in my understanding of the topics.

And so, bottom line, I want teaching material to ask hard questions which challenge my assumptions and perceived understanding. As a beginner, I can't come up with such questions on my own. Just presenting me with already assembled programs and going through them line by line just doesn't work (for me at least).
I often use `\K` instead, which also helps if it is variable length lookbehind

$ echo 'foo=5, Bar=3; x1=83, y=120' | grep -oP '\b[a-z]+=\K\d+'
5
120

further reading: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11640447/variable-length...
The voice is reasonably clear but the loud keyboard tapping is a problem. A voice microphone not attached to the keyboard would help that.
Better? Probably. More equal? I doubt it. “Sit a day through a speed awareness course” could cost people their job, and that’s more likely the lower paying the job is.
Presumably, you mean:

echo 8.8.8.8 > /etc/resolv.conf