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Yes. I usually do one or several projects to learn how a new language works. The projects I do depend on the language. I hate reading books and even moreso watching videos about a specific programming language, but thats prolly just my ADSD self.

Here's a project I'd do for Swift.

1. Write a chat server / client. (this will quickly let you see how async/threads/channels works and how good the networking libs are). You can easily go further and add a GUI to see what thats like. Add Sqlite for managing contacts/settings to see how the db layer works.

2. extract things into libraries/modules/packages i.e.whatever swift calls it, to learn how their pkg and version mgmt system works.

3. As soon as you have something working push it to a server and get it running. Add a bash script to do this automatically. The goal here is to learn how to actually release and deploy using swift.

It doesnt have to be a chat app, I usually do something thats like a problem I'm currently working on, and its best if you can actually use it to solve some real world problem. It just needs to be something that has a lot of places where you can explore parts of the language i.e. db,networking,async,etc.
It should be noted that anti-depressants also have side effects.
Consider this with BuzzFeed’s reports on the recent string of suspicious Russia-connected deaths in the U.K. (police seeming to close cases either out of fear, lack of resource or advice from the security services) and the future is looking worrying.
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Which laws did the bankers break?

The 2008 financial crisis was very complex and had many bad actors on many sides, but the majority of outright fraud was committed by small time mortgage originators (or employees of large originators) and the individual homeowners who lied to get loans.
The tail-recursive version is a good intermediate step towards the loop version - especially if you have more complex algorithms. It would however be great, if Go would do tail call optimization, making the tail-recursive version as efficient as the explicit loop.
And the secret service was originally tasked with protecting the monetary system. Organizations can expand their duties based on criteria other than their initial charter.
I usually use geany for my day to day development due to it being extremely lightweight, highly recommend it.

The only thing it annoys me though is that the indentation detection heuristic needs to be a bit better (i.e. https://github.com/geany/geany/issues/1008).
Bravo. Thank you for sharing :)
For those who have not read it: https://www.buzzfeed.com/heidiblake/from-russia-with-blood-1...
Would you mind please sharing your specs?
Back then ICMBs were accurate to several miles, necessitating large bombs. Today they are accurate to meters. Not only you could do with smaller bombs, but it's feasible to attack many more targets. The destruction potential of today's nuclear arsenal is significantly larger than it used to be, although it uses smaller bombs.
No, but if you think that is part of the 80% of the value you might want to rethink how you structure your code before writing it :-P.
> As a former chemist, call me suspicious of these findings.

I've been suspicious since they were posted, for a simple reason: so where's the lung cancers in aging housewives?
First search result for "Ubuntu Budgie" is https://ubuntubudgie.org/

They have lots of screenshots & videos.
I think he means that Stallman's ideas are pragmatic, if you look far enough into the future. Or by clairvoyant he just means "correct, in the long term". But of course, the rest of us can't see the future so we don't know if they are correct.
I wonder, what's your opinion about DIY air filters? Like a box fan plus a furnace filter. Both are not common in Europe, but you could get a different type of fan, and affordable HEPA filters from aliexpress.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2v1m-75I3_o

Both actors appearing in that clip are total muppets but it seems relevant ;-)
The body of scientific evidence supporting the hygiene hypothesis is pretty strong.
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Let me know if you want to know the details. Will write a detailed blog for it.
So far I haven't had any relevant problem regarding C++ exceptions regardless of the language level.

Besides, signals are OS specific, while C++ exceptions are compiler specific.
Nice! The minimalistic UI just encourages you to experiment and just click things around.
Related to reading children's books - It can be pretty rewarding and educational to actually speak to children.

I moved to Finland two years ago, and I've found my level of language is good enough to communicate with 3-4 year olds. After that they know more words than I do, but still we usually make ourselves understood.

The best thing I've found for my learning is time though, I'm definitely better at hearing the difference between "o" and "ö" now I've lived here for a long time, and heard them spoken. Listening to Finnish (metal!) radio has also helped me out even though most of the vocabulary is unknown to me, just having people speak at "full speed" and hearing it is useful.

Immersion, I guess, is the key.
tl;dr Carbon dioxide comes out of fizzures in the ground and asphyxiates the animal.
As far as I can make out from that article all the executives were jailed for tarp-related crimes. Since tarp post dates the crisis, it's not really accurate to cure it in response to a claim about bankers responsible for the crisis. They admit most of those jailed were low level. Certainly the one top executive using cited was tarp related. Which makes sense, since there were quite good anti fraud controls in tarp.

> It's not illegal, generally speaking, to make dumb investment decisions, and or to take a lot of risk, and lose money

You're not going to find criminals if you don't look for them. Bill black:

> All right so you have massive fraud driving this crisis, hyperinflating the bubble, an FBI warning and how many criminal referrals did the same agency do, in this crisis. Remember it did well over 10,000 in the prior crisis. Well the answer is zero. They completely shut down making criminal referrals

http://neweconomicperspectives.org/2011/09/william-black-why...
This headline is just a lie. They're as bad for "lung health" if cigarettes didn't cause lung cancer!

(Lung health is measured by lung capacity by them)
Wohha - we need to go to 0 emissions in 30 years. Even in the very best case Fusion will be producing ~20% of our energy by then (and I stress, this was achieved with Fission in some states because of bomb making; so it proves it's possible but definitely not going to happen by itself). So we need renewables and electric cars for at least 70 years. And electric cars actually seem better (faster, more reliable) than ice ones.

Also, just because you can make fertilizers and put them on crops doesn't mean that's a good idea. Water courses all over the world are poisoned with chemical fertilizers. Same for desalinization - the by products are nasty.

And fusion itself will produce radioactive waste. The linings of the reactors become ablated and radioactive and I think that one of the great benefits of Professor Whyte's scheme is that servicing the reactor becomes much easier and faster - but the removed components need to be dealt with carefully.

It's a great and exciting thing - but not a panacea; we have to work hard to deliver a liveable world for 10 billion and the 500 years after the peak.
Are you experimenting with this? E.g. doing a very short sleep of 20 minutes to reduce safety hazards or sleeping longer but only when it is dark and wake up before sunrise?
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I don't think that is controversial. It makes sense to me.

My ideas are likely more controversial, though:

I think building and maintaining credit should be transparent. No secret formulas.

I think it should be possible to build credit simply by paying your bills and rent on time, possibly adding some money saved as well. Living well within your means doesn't build credit and it should.

One should have to report people's credit to all credit agencies. This process should be simple, and ideally handled by a government clearinghouse or other agency that the credit agencies split the costs for. This does make more than one agency somewhat redundant, but I think for the American landscape it is a better option than simply using the one agency for everything.

And lastly, I think we should require companies to report timely payments if they report untimely payments. Otherwise, even those accounts going to collections cannot be reported as bad debt. This helps the previous point about being able to build good credit simply by living within your means possible, yet lets folks that have never paid a bill have zero credit.
If course the British Establishment was scandalised, the people being arrested are also part of it.

There's a long history of contempt for people outside te establishment, from simple rent seeking through to out and out fraud, hopefully the SFO starts to send a message.
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I thought that there was a non zero probability that they are "hacking" themselves, simply taking customers money and inventing excuses for it.
The short answer is that the Outer Space Treaty states that all commercial satellites are under the jurisdiction of the country in which the company exists, regardless of where they are launched. SpaceBees is a California based company, so the US government is the ones they answer to, not the country they hired to launch their stuff. Since satellites must communicate and could potentially disrupt the communications of others, the FCC gets a say in what goes on. The FCC is not the only authority in town, just the ones taking action here.

As far as satellites with covert missions or missions other than what is publicly stated, we should probably assume they already exist. The NRO is pretty sneaky and the USAF has never stated what the heck the X-37 is doing. There's a good chance that they have other satellites with publicly acknowledged missions that are doing something else behind the scenes. They are probably attempting to guard against that same behavior from others as well.

Doing optical imaging probably isn't feasible for a cubesat, it takes quite a bit of fuel to get next to another satellite and not hit it, so a cubesat can't zip up to dozens of satellites to get detailed images with a smartphone size sensor- it would run out of fuel too quickly. Instead, optical satellites will probably have their own orbit and accept that they will be far away from their targets. Large distances require a huge aperture if you want a good image, but it's not hard to imagine a satellite such as Hubble occasionally rotating to catch an image of Russian or Chinese tech. Plus, the NRO has sent up several very large payloads that we don't know what they do, so there's probably a large aperture imaging satellite snapping images we don't know about. What cubesats can do is extend long antennas that were folded up for launch. A small cubesat could be effective at RF surveillance and a constellation of cubesats and good signal processing could provide a surveillance system for other satellites that could spot various communication types and record the orbital information of the satellites doing the transmitting.
You are totally right, helmets should be mandatory for bikes too :)
Thanks, that link is fantastic, informative and entertaining at the same time.
https://os.phil-opp.com/news/2018-03-09-pure-rust/ provides a lot more context here.

I am extremely excited by this work. One of the hardest parts of hacking on a hobby OS is the environment. My own project has been hampered for nearly a year because I switched to Windows and couldn’t get the tooling working. (A combination of my lack of Windows knowledge and a lack of desire to spend random Saturdays figuring out obscure toolchain issues.) And that’s with rustc already being a cross compiler.

This now means that, with Rust, getting going on any platform Rust supports is now trivial. It’s quite exciting.
He was arrogant, but a damn, no-nonsense honest guy
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I’ve irregular sleep patterns. Often sleep four hours or less, with a sleep binge every now and then.

As long as I go to sleep when I feel tired and I can get past the post dinner stump I’m exceptionally energeting the afternoon and the whole evening, but a bit groggy in the morning.

Fair trade since evening is time for me and family while morning is mostly work.

The effect on metabolism/hunger seems crazy tho. When I get back to a regular sleep pattern I usually lose 3 to 6 kiloes just from that.
Answering questions. I was joking :-) More simply and seriously : I like Stallman and Greene point of view. I agree with them because they are idealistic. But, since the ideal they describe correspond quite well with my own, then I call that clairvoyance. I know it's not "right", but I was emphasizing the fact that when people agree with each other on political/ethical things, they often tend to think they're "right". So for me, I tend to see Stallman and Green has "clairvoyant". Of course, people who disagree with such clear cut idealism will often oppose the "lack of pragmatism" argument ('cos ideal don't work, everybody knows that !).

I agree that's a very indirect demonstration. But I wanted to 1/ share my idealism and 2/ explain that I know that's idealism.
For rates that are available to everyone, the hotel chains are generally contractually restricted from offering a lower rate than the OTA. Currently the Priceline/Expedia duopoly wields a huge amount of power which IMO is ultimately bad for the consumer.

The way that hotel chains can undercut the OTA price is via their loyalty programs. If you sign up as a member then you can very often receive a lower rate. All the major chains have been running campaigns around these loyalty rates recently and one study has suggested it may be having an impact [https://www.kalibrilabs.com/press-1/2017/10/26/new-study-fro...].

Due to our unique relationship with the hotel chains, Room Key (both our .com site and Scout) is the only hotel search engine that has access to these loyalty rates across multiple chains. This is how Scout is able to notify the user of a better rate in so many cases for the big chains. We'd love to expand to have more hotels join us and allow us access to their loyalty rates as well.

We've found through our research and user testing that OTA users fall broadly into two camps. First, those who believe, rightly or wrongly, that the OTA rate is always going to be cheaper. Second, those who use OTAs as a search engine to find the right hotel but then go and manually compare the OTA rate vs the rates available directly on the hotel's own site.

Usually the direct deal is better when you consider the entire package - lower loyalty rate + easier cancellation + points + free wifi etc. Being the customer of the hotel who has an interest in the quality of your stay vs a third party does count for something. I believe we'll start to see that count for more as time goes on.
There isn't much published, but my hypothesis is:

Very accurate weight sensors on each shelf and a knowledge of which products are on each shelf should provide pretty accurate detection of which products a customer has picked up.

Cameras above shelves recognising simple things like t-shirt color detect who picked up that product.

That's probably good enough for a v1 prototype.

I guess now they combine that with per customer profiles (downrank products I'd never normally buy), and special weighing hardware where products are near identical (eg. Spice racks could have a different weight sensor on each column).

Combine all that with a human review system behind the scenes for resolving ambiguities.

Then remember that most people won't care too much if, out of a large grocery shop of 100 items, they were charged 50c for regular carrots when they picked up organic carrots for 65c.

Finally a simple dispute and refund system for cases which aren't caught by any of the above should keep customers happy.

Remember: Retail theft and shrinkage is about 1%. If you can make your system better than 1% while keeping customers happy, Amazon Go is good to go.
And what does it mean for a few-particles isolated system to start doing multiverse? Cannot you just describe it with a wave function without any branching out? The standard interpretation of quantum mechanics doesn't have any issues with the evolution of an isolated system, it doesn't require continous wave function collapse.
Are you feeling a lot better now? What kind of TMS did you receive?
To avoid confusion:

This is _not_ the upcoming release of Ubuntu 18.04, which is named 'Bionic Beaver'.

18.04 Bionic Beaver will land in mid April.

Budgie is a flavor/edition/derivative of Ubuntu. Other examples of derivatives are Edubuntu (for education) and Ubuntu Studio (for multimedia editing).

More about different derivative here:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DerivativeTeam/Derivatives
It’s because web sites are more complicated. Put up a static HTML web site and ask see if they’re happy with it, they won’t be.
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Thank you for pointing this out. We'll look at this and see if we can enumerate the OTAs on which Scout works as you suggest.

I can assure you that the extension collects only what it needs to do in order to function.
Well, WhatsApp might be not doing this, but other messengers save history on the server. And by the way , how do you know what WhatsApp really does if it has closed source code?
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The rationale is quite simple. The body needs sunlight to produce the vitamin. Without adequate sunlight there will be a deficiency and need of a substitute. The supplements aren’t magic, its the removal of systemic health effects caused by deficiency. I rather find that the studies deal with how severe these effects are and the systemic nature makes it hard to pin point. However, I don’t even understand why this has been contested for such a long time.
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No it's not.

As long as the satellite is behaving itself, it can fly over any country and will not be subject to any laws from that country. The Outer Space Treaty was set up in part to clarify issues like this (also to keep nukes out of space). The US has no authority to restrict operations of an overhead satellite- which is good, because then they could prevent satellites orbiting in some of the most valuable inclinations. The only instances that I know of where a country did anything about an overhead satellite was China, when they blinded a satellite with a laser from the ground and when they tested an anti-satellite missile on one of their own satellites.
It's from any supermarket in Denmark. This shows the whole shelf [1], which also has an acetic acid solution, ammonia solution, and sodium/potassium hydroxide for cleaning drains. And "cleaning benzene", whatever that's for. Most of the bottles are branded "BORUP", except the phosphoric acid, which is "KALK VÆK".

I found a safety information sheet [2], which says the phosphoric acid solution contains 5-15% phosphoric acid. That's stronger than Limeaway. If I pour it on limescale deposits I can hear it fizz.

The from-a-supermarket strong toilet bowl cleaner here (probably applies to most of the EU) contains "9% w/w -- 94 g/L HCl"

[1] https://shop.rema1000.dk/husholdning/rengoring-og-kemisk-tek...

[2] http://rema1000.dk/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Kalk-V%C3%A6k-...
I don't think that's a good example. The FCC regulations should only be covering the communication issues and there significant issues, for example cell phones at high altitudes consume spectrum from a wide area of towers.

It's the FAA regulations that cover passenger issues.
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Great suggestion. We'll look into it.

We do make money from booking commissions, but our commissions are much lower than those of the OTAs and more importantly go to a company that is trusted by and founded by the hotel industry.

Room Key's raison d'être is to lower the cost of hotel distribution for the hotel industry and to be an advocate for the traveler in what is a very confusing marketplace for the average consumer. Price confidence is severely lacking hence why consumers are often searching up to 6 sites before making a booking decision.

Very few people understand how the online hotel industry works and we would like to start to cast some light on that.
This seems to fit in with the UKs ambivilence towards tax evasion.

On the one hand whenever there's another leak of all the lengths people have gone to avoid/evade taxes (e.g. panama papers) the government will pledge to "get tough".

But then when it comes to practical measures like reining in the tax havens which are used to hide the details of people's finances, they seems to throw up their hands and say "nothing we can do" despite the fact that many of these havens have strong connections to the UK and there is a level of pressure that could easily be exerted by the UK government for more transparency.

The dissembling you see from government ministers when asked to explain why these tax havens are so popular for company formation if it's not for tax evasion reason is comical.
If you believe this shit you are a dumb cunt.

Seriously read the dam "paper" it's written sooooo badly I'm not even sure what it's saying. OK yes I do know! By wording shit badly it's hard for people to disagree.

What is wrong with this world, how does this shit get through?

Is there anywhere I can go where people live in IRL not fantasy?

Like.... It's even so SJW OMG the ancients were sooooo smart so lets let this slip any science.

This is soooo bad I don't even know exactly know what they are saying?????

Where is the cave..... Ohhhh It's no longer there. WTF why???
Comrade Ulyanov remarked that "The capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them."

However, they seem unwilling to pay for the rope themselves ...
This is yet another area where high temperature superconductors revolutionizes its engineering. I can't wait for more insights to be made in this domain: the way superconductors behave is actually becoming clearer and clearer from one year to another.

Ambient temperature superconductors are the holy grail of the field, of course, but this project shows that even ~80 K superconductors can substantially reduce the size of magnets (cooling apparatus included), which can open doors to new applications.

Exciting times... Oh, and I can't wait for ITER either. While the project was never meant to be commercially viable, it should offer some great insights into commercial fusion energy.