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What about reading along with an audio book?

The only way one of my kids gets through some of the "great literature" he has to read in high school is to listen to it, which I've conceded but on the condition that he follow along in reading the book.
Another goal of particle and nuclear physics funding from the 60's through 90's was to produce a steady stream of highly qualified people to work at the defense labs (Los Alamos, Livermore, Lincoln Labs, etc). My colleagues would get prestigious fellowships to do research at these places, and eventually get sucked into the classified research area. Unfortunately, I don't think the best and brightest U.S. students are going into physics these days, so this rationale for research investment is no longer there.
Most of Microsoft contributions to open source are "how to make X work on windows or Azure" kind of projects such as linuxkit, node etc. There are a few exceptions though and it's getting better (yay) with really cool projects such as VS code and now many more.
Perfect example of the downsides. The next thing for us is deploying the token for you automatically, so that you don't need to deal with MetaMask or worry about gas price.
I was banned from Uber. I think it was after trying to cancel a pickup that failed to show up, but I can't be sure - customer support wouldn't help or tell me what happened.
Off topic - I find it humorous that arXiv list 49 authors and then ends the listed author list with:
"et al. (1 additional author not shown)"

I know a line has got to be drawn somewhere but in this case, listing the last author (Jason Yosinksi) would have taken less space than the explanation that not all the authors are shown.
This (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHcTKWiZ8sI) came out almost 3 years ago..
But it didn't work, right? He turned your attempt at preemption into a distraction from your point.

I don't know how best to handle these things, but what I might have said is something like, "<Why it's important that bus and bike lanes not be blocked.> <What you invented, the results.> <Would the city consider investing in an invention like mine, or else what are we going to do to reduce the rate at which these blockages occur?>"

FTR, I'm totally in favor of the automatic enforcement you describe! I'd also like to mostly or entirely remove free parking from the city.
No, I mean that the scale of whale oil use was very very small compared to the scale of fossil fuels. So small, in fact, that if whale oil was on the graph I've linked above, you would barely see it moving above 0 in the 19th century.

Also, whale oil was not really used as an energy source anyway, except in lamps.

So it's completely irrelevant to my original point, which is that by and large, until now, in the thermo-industrial civilization, new energy sources have not been used to replace exisiting ones. They have been used to 'grow' the economy (more machines, more people, more production).

Maybe this graph can convince you: https://ourworldindata.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/global...
We agree then. His primary goal is likely to be to hold on to power. Growth is definitely only something he wants in service of that prime directive.
> The blocking of bus and bike lanes has become a sore spot among transportation advocates who believe the city’s enforcement efforts are inadequate.

As a native, this is the crux of the issue. Traffic enforcement in NYC (specifically, Manhattan) is atrocious. So many cars run red lights, make illegal turns, block the sidewalk, stand illegally, etc. It's self-perpetuating, the more people see others get away with these infractions, the more likely they are to do it themselves.

They really have to start fining people for every single infraction, especially the minor ones, to change the horrible car culture in the city.
If you are thinking of quitting anyway, why don't you take the risk of telling management that you need them to change the way they work with you or you may look elsewhere for work?

If you make some gentle demands and explain the way you're feeling, while offering constructive suggestions, and say it all politely and nicely but with the threat of leaving if things don't improve, then the worst case scenario is they fire you. But you wanted to quit anyway so it's OK. The best case is they change and things improve and you either decide to stay or you have more time to look for another job while it's less mentally taxing.
The Google products are awesome in synchronization and collaboration between multiple users. Way better than the Microsoft Office 365.
This is analogous to saying:

"Jesus teaches us to be moral, so the inquisition is just letting the government teach us to be more moral."
A DUI is a much more serious crime. It's pretty ridiculous to have a mandatory license suspension for any quantity of marijuana possession. Regardless, what's described in this article is closer to this policy than it is to what OP described in my opinion.
An update, since I see some upvotes.

I followed @XiZhao's advise and managed to sign up without giving access to github which is very good.
If I want to have scans run automatically on github projects, I still have to grant write access. The other option is to run the tests myself, which probably is what someone in a professional setup will do anyway, so I think it is not a very serious issue, although it would be nice to be fixed.

As for my go endeavors, I haven't yet managed to analyze my go projects, but I did have better luck with javascript and scala (gradle) which was very impressive.

Great project overall and I am sure it will be a success, because I know firsthand how cumbersome can be to do this important task manually.
I don't think they were using the bikes in that episode to power some great civilization or something, just to reduce costs and more importantly to keep everyone busy.

It wasn't clear what happened in the background, but it seemed like humanity was in a prison and to keep incidents down they made them do hard labor and provided endless mindless entertainment. Probably supposed to be an allegory for 9-5 jobs. The ending suggests that the rest of the planet is alive at least. Maybe humanity was put in prison for wrecking the biosphere and they're giving the planet time to recover?
Flags affect story ranking before the [flagged] tag appears. The tag appears when the effect of the flags exceeds a certain threshold.

Since "flagged" isn't a binary state that's the only easy way to do it, but it does mean that a story's rank is sometimes affected by user flags without that being visually displayed yet. Usually it shows up after a while.
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Do you want a dystopia? Because this is how you get a dystopia.
I don't think the existence of a "github fork" shows any active approval. The default behavior for repos is to allow anyone to fork them without requesting approval.
I consider locking other humans up to be ethically bad - but I can't think of anything better than prisons.

Something being ethically bad is insufficient to rule it out. The degree of the ethical failure matters, as does the purpose of the action.

This will inevitably be read to imply I'm advocating Torture which I am not. I'm merely pointing out that binary ethical/unethical is insufficient.
They could do that no matter what. However, they're not able to have an officially backed association with the original.
The eras of growth have been the most free in the history of China. People allowed to own land, allowed employment of their choice, allowed to move, and allowed to start private enterprises. There is a one-to-one correlation between how much people are allowed to do and ... what they do.
"Inactive accounts may be renamed or removed by GitHub staff at their discretion."

https://help.github.com/articles/name-squatting-policy/

There are a few blog posts of people who got GH support to release the names of inactive accounts, though it's not clear if those accounts had any repos at all.
We ban them after due process procedures are complete - which often involves knowing your accused crime and accuser, lengthy evidence gathering, and impartial trials.

As I understand the Chinese social capital system, there is no due process, you may not even know if you've been cited for anything until the punishment comes, and violations are identified without appeal.
I don't understand why you're referring to the Chinese Communist Party as a single entity. There's multiple groups within it vying for power, each with their own agendas and visions for China's future.
This isn't a surprising result if you know what competition programming code looks like.

Everyone has their own distinctive personal library/template/boilerplate that they are pasting for every problem since includes, typedefs, defines, library helpers, IO, etc are always the same.

You can see some examples here to see what I mean: https://www.go-hero.net/jam/17/solutions
The Carter Center, among others, have published standards, criteria for observing elections.
To each their own, but I think the whole "schlepping to the store and sifting through products and maybe you overpay or get something you don't like" is a valuable part of the human experience.

That's not to say every trip is enjoyable, but I wonder what people might be missing by forgoing those trips (and automating everything they can, in general). You miss the trip there, and everything you might experience along the way, and the people at the store, and a poster for a cool concert that you might have gone to see, etc.

To me, that's not wasted time, that is living life.
> Is this really the time and place for this?

Yes, because lying about someone being a "great guy and great hacker" is bullshit, no matter if living or dead. Sorry-not-sorry that you should only be celebrated if you're worthy of it.
Not quite as cool, but I got to meet David Newell ("Mr. McFeely") at an appearance when I was a student at the University of Florida; got his autograph for my Mister-Rogers-age baby sister. Dude was every bit as gracious as he and Mister Rogers appeared to be on television. They don't hardly make 'em any more.
This is a cultural issue. I'm new to New York and was immediately surprised by how little drivers care where they leave their cars. Traffic here moves very slowly and a lot of it seems due to lanes being blocked by unattended vehicles. I wonder if this is an American attitude, like the way Americans seem to care much less about recycling trash.
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Not too far off from the rural/urban divide in America. New York City is a great place for a person with an upper middle class backgrobud to become a millionaire. Yet in the Southern Tier of upstate NY you have people who have lived for decades without electricity at home. There is straight-up Hunger Games poverty up here and it’s rarely reported on by the big newspapers downstate that would rather talk about tech and Trump.
"the free market solves all problems"

It's funny that this is happening with minimal legislative action (not that I'm okay with that)
That last line was almost a direct quote from the Black Mirror episode "Nosedive".
Wheel bearing grease, a Ninja food chopper, EZ jar opener, a vacuum, steel baoding balls, books, steamer rack, Bandai Tamashi Nations Darth Vader, air purifier, desoldering iron... these are just a few of my recent purchases this month.

Doesn’t even include movie and show rentals.
Well, it's even more true than ever now.
I also found one where you can apparently pay for a slave for a certain amount of time and they will bring you the slave ("To do whatever you want with"). Jesus.
whats the public benefit from lying about a dead guy?
"So if this mechanism makes sense to you as a way of guaranteeing that your code won't be in other people's accounts"

Nobody but you is claiming this.
I've worked in government and commercial sectors. Big procurement organizations are a pain in any situation. Government adds some wackiness because of transparency and personal liability that procurement officers are living with.

But end of the day, if the people writing technical requirements have the time and know WTF they are talking about, it works. If you hire <vendor a> to write an RFP that <vendor b-y> responds to and <vendor z> evaluates, how could the result not be a shitshow? (Btw, that happened in a Fortune 500 org!)
The good news about this social credit system is that China's self driving cars will be able to make more optimal decisions about who lives and dies when a crash is inevitable. Isn't innovation wonderful!?
Definitely. Where are you from? If you go to Tokyo you will be astonished by the unlocked bicycles, clean streets, parking, etc. Its possible. You just have to design the city so that those actions are the default. And educate people. And educate some more. And yell.
[09:00] <Someone> Hi.
[09:16] <Me> Hey, what's up.
[09:23] <Someone> I have a problem, do you have some time?
[09:24] <Me> Sure, what's it about?
[09:27] <Someone> Have you worked with X thing before? I have to do Y thing but don't know how.
[09:28] <Me> So, I just googled "how to do Y thing in X thing" and got this blog entry explaining in detail, and also this other Stack Overflow answer with a very similar problem.
[09:29] <Someone> Sec, gonna try that.
[09:35] <Someone> I got this error "someVariable is not defined". What's it mean?

sigh

[09:36] <Me> You're trying to use a variable that doesn't exist. Can you paste the code you're using?
[09:37] <Someone> (Code)
[09:37] <Me> Replace "someVariable" for "someOtherVariable" and it should work.
[09:38] <Someone> It works, thanks!

I really, really try to be nice, but there's a limit on how many situations like this I can handle before losing my sanity.
I love the comic on the right (http://xillybus.com/media/comic-300px.jpg). Never heard of this software yet. Amazing that it is part of the Linux kernel (in terms of part of the Ubuntu distribution, for instance).
Yes it does. Because it answers whether there are people in uniform that can protect you.
Here are the original NDRC documents being reported here:

http://www.ndrc.gov.cn/gzdt/201803/t20180316_879653.html for air travel

http://www.ndrc.gov.cn/gzdt/201803/t20180316_879654.html for train travel

and Chinese news summary: http://www.ce.cn/xwzx/gnsz/gdxw/201803/16/t20180316_28505546...

Use Google translate to check if this is being misreported.

In China you are "bad credit" if you refuse to pay despite a court order. In the US you could be jailed for contempt of court.
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Isn't the American credit score more like “once untrustworthy, always restricted”? Most the restrictions announced by China are removed automatically in just one year.
Yeah, good point. Maybe I should have tried to be less accusatory.
Why don't you apply the same reasoning to black people convicted of minor crimes in the USA?
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Political systems were deeply integrated with philosophical and religious streams, all braided together for at least several thousand years.

As I mentioned elsewhere, this system is not new or novel in concept. Confucian ideals see people as animals on their way to being human. The cultivation of the "superior person" requires education and much socialization. This isn't what people in America should be concerned about.

China was at several point, a dominant power. I think a lot of people forget this. It was in the middle of the Ming dynasty, for various reasons, started turning inwards -- making major extensions of the Great Wall, recalling expedition fleets ... much like America is doing today.

The West may remember China as a third-world country or a target too weak to resist colonization, but the Chinese remember when various regions such as modern-day Vietnam, Okinawa and Korea were vassal states (have you ever seen any Korean historical drama? So much resentment related to that). Chinese as a whole don't feel themselves to be culturally inferior, yet the Western views of China seem to subconsciously think of the Chinese culture that way.

This blind spot seems to miss something that China is doing right now: the Chinese are making a bid to be the next superpower, either as America's peer, or supplanting America in that role. This includes things anywhere from adding Chinese-flavored events to the Olympics; Extending funds and industrialization to Africa; building a rail net that not only ties China internally together, but also extend reach and influence across the Asian and European continents; heavy investment into technologies such as AI, quantum tunneling, in-house chip designs, life sciences, much through luring back Western-educated people with advanced degrees whose student visas have expired; developing military capabilities -- traditional force multipliers such as refurbishing an old Soviet-era aircraft carrier to increasing asymmetric capabilities such as developing drone carriers (the Chinese produced a Sun-Tzu, after all); attempts to break American influence on oil by creating a new reserve currency for trading crude. Much of this is being funded by the money being spent by American consumers. (And the Chinese had already learned the lesson of becoming insular).

The Chinese don't come across as complacent, though I often get that sense of complacency from the Western perspective.

It is this culture that is making a bid as a superpower to influence the rest of the world into doing things the "Chinese Way".
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I always preferred Colonization with its far more detailed economic mechanisms. In Civ, I never got over the feeling that my actions actually had little impact.

Similar in SimCity: build all three types of zones, then build whatever services are in demand. There is nothing creative in those games. Intersperse commercial and residential zoning to reduce traffic? Nope. Build a school blocked in by coal power plants? Sure!
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Not sure what you don't like about it. Performance of .net core is great. Asynchronous code feels easy. MVC can be quite minimal and give you a quick start on building an API. Works the same on multiple platforms- I'm developing the same project half on Linux and half on windows with no problems.

I really like C#
Backups, backups, backups, BACKUPS.

Don't rely on GitHub being your only source location. Git is a DVCS, meaning you don't have to have a single upstream. Make sure you are pushing / mirroring to a third party (GitLab, Bitbucket, personal Git Server, etc)
An interactive CLI (this) is not the really at all the same thing as a JavaScript TTY connected to a container (Cloud Shell).

(Though, Google does also have a Cloud Console that is comparable to Azure's Cloud Shell.)
Yes, the episode is called "Nosedive."

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/on-demand/2017/12/15/black-mirro...
Higher dimensional things are trivial in other languages while they are nonobvious in Rust.

For example, this week I was working on a mechanism for one request to start a future and then all further requests for that resource to await that same future.

I implemented it in less than 5 minutes in Node by just storing Promises in a map. But I'm still not sure of the ideal solution in Rust. It's definitely outside of my familiarity zone.

But what I'm finding over the months is that my routine Rust code is pretty fast now once I've run the gauntlet of experiencing the same compiler errors over and over. And when I reach for Rust instead of Node or Python, it takes longer but my executable is 3mb and it's much faster without much additional expense.

Also, it's tough to do async work in an ecosystem that isn't async-everything, something easy to take for granted in Node and Go.
True. But do we want humans doing the enforcement? How many humans would you need? What about night? What about equality of enforcement?

I touch on some of the issues https://hackernoon.com/cameras-as-traffic-cops-99a85513e1e0 I am unsure.
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If you think the financial credit system in the US is working smoothly, you might be mistaken! Post-FACTA (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_and_Accurate_Credit_Trans...) it's a lot better, but just ask the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau how much ...

https://www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/newsroom/cfpb-overs...
The big question is :

Is anyone going to sanction countries who bar people like that? Shouldn't it be human right to be viewed outside any calculated measure?
Those Stack Overflow answers are awfully contrived. In my experience answers like that are quickly down-voted and deleted by the community. That being said, if you ask how to parse HTML with regular expressions, or post some SQL with injection vulnerabilities, they'll be closed as duplicates.
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It's funny I was writing ScalaJS for a while and one idea I had was to use it for jobs where startup time really mattered and then use the ScalaJVM for everything else. So I could kind of get the best of both worlds. It turned out we were able to live with the JVM startup time without any problems for needs so I never pursued it further.

I think the big things coming down the pipe for the performance of each is: Value Types for java. A lot of what is needed can be done with sun.misc.unsafe already but it's an awkward way to have to program, I haven't kept up with it but hopefully it supports being dropped right onto memory mapped i/o for stuff like CapNProto style parsing.

On the v8 side, I think wasm could be a massive game changer and basically eat everything in concert with javascript. I wonder how it's performance is going to stack up to true native / a warmed up jvm (that has done all the fun inlining optimizations that can make it so fast).
Rogers didn't supress the racists. He answered them with his own vision. That's a big difference. He didn't go out and stop them from speaking. They could've made their own shows (and probably have, actually) that countered his position. He presented his views, he had no obligation to present "the other side", they have their own voices.
Definitely a tough question because of people's nostalgia for the older versions.

Civ 4 is the best version of "classic civ", so if you want a modern take on 1, 2, or 3, go with Civ 4.

Civ 5 was dramatically re-developed. Instead of a square grid (4 possible movement directions for a unit) they moved to a hex grid (6 directions!). And they removed unit stacking, so you don't have these army hoards on single tiles that can wipe out everything in their path. They changed a lot and I think it was for the better - a lot of quality of life improvements. It plays much better than 4 while still retaining the classic civ "just one more turn" feeling.

Civ 6 is too much. It's got too many features and too much user interface. It feels like a chore to play some times. The music is better in Civ 6 than 5, but nothing beats Civ 4's Baba Yetu.
A system like that breaks down the first time 10 people need to access the building and there are only 8 spots. Do you tell the UPS driver "Sure, you can park here to deliver the package, but it will cost you $100/minute.". It's also horrifically complex to implement.
Every bad mark expires after 7 years generally.

Many times, you can contact the company who you owe and set up a plan where they'll remove the bad mark if you pay the debt in full.
It is sad to see that humans need such a system to respect rules and others. There is also the danger that the rules to respect change over time...
The game taught me some high-level things at an early age, like cities grow near water, transit lanes are like blood vessels, and food becomes people.
They ended up requiring quite a bit more than 650 million USD to build the LHC. CERNs yearly budget is about a billion.
This is a fantastic story. Thank you for sharing.