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This is the budget that Trump threatened to veto and whined and complained about before he signed, and the one they're writing articles about the Democrats getting heaps of stuff they wanted in it. I don't think it should be taken as an indication of stuff Trump wants, and to some extent the same goes for the GOP.
> the goal is that the user sets their brightness for the environment, and not ever for individual software.

...and we've come full-circle:

"Keep high contrast, reduce brightness as desired for your environment."
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There are fraudulent / bad actors in all industries the commodities industry has an entire sector whos job it is to prove that that shipment of grain, sugar etc is actually valid.
Most of the increase is due to Democrats.
Yes, the article equivocates: They use reality to mean two different things: "What we experience based on external stimuli" and "Existence independent of our senses and experience".

They then rightfully point out that reality[0] != reality[1], but jump from there to the nonsensical "therefore reality does not exist".
You're right in guessing I'm not American, and I do appreciate you have a fairly unique situation there with the Second Amendment and the sheer number of guns already in circulation.

But, a while ago everyone outside the US thought it was only a few right-wing NRA extremists that would claim arming teachers was the solution to the school shootings problem.
But now you have a president threatening to pass it into law.

So the obvious next question is, where does it end? If fewer guns is really not the answer, then how many guns do you think you'll need to eradicate gun violence?
I think it is perfectly fair to group corporate criminals together.
Yes indeed, and maybe this is an opportunity to do something about this too...
This is how US politics work. The current president makes a proposal on how they would like for the budget to look, but it's just a proposal. The legislative branch (Congress) is actually responsible for creating the budget. They are not at all obligated to follow the proposal.

The president has to agree to the budget submitted to him by Congress, so there's usually a lot of discussions between the two parties. The caveat here is that Congress can override a presidential veto.
Can't that be taught as well? (both rules, and exceptions to rules?)
After twenty-five years doing this, the only thing I would say is that the style points you mention above are completely irrelevant and the points that refer to actually writing code mostly correct. Programmers that have been programming a long time and are skilled should know the difference between the two types of points and not confuse them as equally important as you do. Also not writing comments because the code seems obvious when you're first developing it is totally a rookie mistake. Codifying it in rules is a sign that the programmer simply doesn't understand how the human mind works over long periods of time. No code is self documenting after six months away from it. None.
> Only "brilliant" code ends up needing comments.

Often you have horrible complexity imposed on you from outside -- business rules you're implementing, etc, which are _not simple_. You can write code that encapsulates a lot of that, and even refactor it so you can see _what_ the code is doing pretty easily ... but it's often _very_ valuable to document in a code comment (docstring, JSdoc, etc) WHY it's like that.

Arguably, the comment is not to explain the code, in this case, but rather to explain the twisted bureaucratic logic you're having to implement, so maybe that still counts as "brilliant" code. ;)
From FB official statement: "When you sign up for Messenger or Facebook Lite on Android, or log into Messenger on an Android device, you are given the option to continuously upload your contacts as well as your call and text history."

Why FB needs users call and text history in first place? These privacy options are enabled by default when you install Massenger app and majority of the people are not aware of these privacy settings on their phones. And even if you alter a privacy setting on you phone then upon next update of the Massenger application it gets reset to defaults! And we all know the high frequency of app updates. It is like all of these are part of a bigger systemic issue and it smells foul play.
thank you for sharing your insider view. I'm just a casual observer, so I do feel a little guilty posting this story here but it is a firsthand source.
I still remember the feeling of confusion and depression growing up and watching people form relationships, going to parties and doing small talk while I wasn't able to figure out these things that are usually taken for granted. I think my life would have been much better if somebody had recognized this and helped me to function in social life. There are social skills that can be learned with enough practice. It won't be as intuitive as for most "normal" people but it's often possible to function well enough.
friendly conversation, sure, but there's enough people who refuse to take a hint that their romantic overture is unwanted. they might even retaliate with really aggressive, angry behavior.

this is rare, but i think it has poisoned the well in some places -- especially for women, these unusual but very frightening situations can make the whole thing have a negative expected value.
You'd have to specify the use case of interest. I don't think there's anything that uniformly dominates Go, but that's terribly interesting since there are so many dimensions of interest for a programming language that there aren't any languages in use that uniformly dominate some other language in use. (You can get uniform domination if you include unused language or esolangs, but who cares.) But there are certainly many use cases for which Go is not the best choice, not in the top 3-5, or straight-up not a viable choice.
Well, there is a permissions model for 3rd party apps. What about the system software...
released 1991... it's an almost 30 year old design. i remember first seeing the gun in the n64 game goldeneye. it looks like a close-range gun because it is (though they do make a longer-barrel version). however, it's for armored military targets. a 9mm round would be more effective against killing unarmored targets and has a longer range

it's a pretty interesting gun though, not necessarily because of the bullpup design, but because of the type of round it shoots. the 5.7 round is pretty unique - it's small but ultra high velocity and was designed to penetrate light body armor but is not very good at killing. anyway, it's unlikely someone would use one of these to shoot up a school or whatever.... they are really expensive (and the ammo is also very expensive and rare). as far as a vegas style shooting, the 5.7 round isn't long range because of its small size - it's seriously a tiny bullet. moreover, i'm pretty sure the fn five-seven (basically the complementary pistol) is illegal to carry in most places because of the armor pen - cops don't like them
Um... Robin Hood was a fictional character. The schtick is what makes the legend. Without the schtick, he's just some schmuck that got busted for trafficking illegal copies of files. Don't confuse "being thoroughly amused by" with "falling for."
I wish git log had a native columnized one-line output, it's hard to read with variable length fields. You can (and I did) use the --pretty option to format the log output, and columnize it. But that's involved (my git 'columnized log' script is ~100 lines long) and hard to share.
They bother implying that because of a political agenda.

In point of fact the "hundreds of thousands" of useful idiots will eventually come to understand the real world
- and in the meantime little will change. The millions of NRA members alone trump them, and NRA membership has just had a significant jump.

"When it's a matter of seconds, the police are only minutes away."
Scientific progress isn't in a 1:1 ratio with funding.
The debtholders entered a voluntary contract. They knew the risks. No one forces them to invest into Remington.
I'm curious why people find the diagnosis to be so important. I can't at all imagine identifying with the sentiment, "Nothing is wrong with me, I’m just autistic," as one of the women in the article says. When I go to a party with my girlfriend, I want to come off well, if only for her sake, and I would like to have some interesting conversations, and maybe (very optimistically) to meet someone I can share an interest with, since some interests can only be pursued in a very limited way by one's self. I would like to become closer to people I find interesting or admirable. I would like to be able to offer people the pleasure and comfort of a friendly greeting and conversation. These are things I find very difficult, and I can't imagine a diagnosis erasing my regret at mostly failing to do these things, or eliminating my desire to achieve just a little bit more success at them.

My therapist suggested that Aspergers might help, along with other factors we had already identified, explain a lot of my childhood experiences, so I asked her if a diagnosis would give me a new way to work on my current issues. She said no, given my current status, it wouldn't affect our approach, just our retrospective understanding. Given that, I didn't quite care enough to spend time and money meeting with a specialist who could verify her suspicions. I might do it someday just out of curiosity, but I can't imagine it giving me any sense of relief or validation. My deficiencies are my deficiencies, with or without a diagnosis. Too often someone who encounters me leaves thinking I don't like them, and I know their natural tendency will be to fill in the reason with something they don't like about themselves or something about themselves that people harbor prejudice against. I hate that, and a diagnosis won't stop it from happening. A diagnosis won't make people think of me when they're planning something. A diagnosis won't give me the right words when someone has lost a loved one. I've put in a lot of work and made substantial improvement, and unless a diagnosis can help me progress further or faster, it just doesn't mean anything to me.
Yes, it is. Everything can be improved, but I see very few complaints with Cargo, and, most importantly, not complaints that would be solved with minimal version selection. (Most complaints I see are about the lack of package namespacing.)
Shades of gray.
Minimal Version Selection

This is the piece that is very different from other dependency managers and is worth people looking at.

Instead of trying to get the latest version it's going to try to get the oldest. If you want to update to newer version of transitive (dependencies of dependencies) that your dependencies have not updated for you'll need to start tracking those yourself.

There's an issue touching on this at https://github.com/golang/go/issues/24500

Other packages managers use the opposite of minimal version selection. Many of them even have a don't make me thing command to update the whole dependency tree (e.g., `npm update`).

What do folks think of the implications of MVS, especially for transitive dependency management?
Wow I honestly had no idea. I would of bet you $100 on the spot that Microsoft had more than 50% marketshare of browser traffic and considered you a sucker for taking the bet. I had no idea Chrome had dominated so much. I wonder what Firefox did wrong that it didn't become Chrome? It was the cool browser to use years before I ever heard of Chrome.
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This article seems to claim the there is no national debt because the debt is owed to the American people.

This is wrong since it doesn't take into account other governments and entities outside of the US that hold treasury securities.
I like the idea too. Something along the lines of import "fmt#1.2.3". The problem is that you do repeat yourself: you have to sync the version across any files that use it.
This is comparing type advantage against all other Pokemon, which isn't representative of actual strength, because most other Pokemon are not viable competitively. What actually matters is type advantage against only the Pokemon with good stats and abilities.

Here's some recent usage stats of top ranking players using the strongest available Pokemon (although lightly restricted by rules designed to prevent excessively boring or luck-dependent matches):
https://www.smogon.com/stats/2018-02/gen7ubers-1760.txt

Ice and electric are very poorly represented. It would be interesting to re-run the algorithm on only the top n from this ranking.
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The economics of the game engine business are terrible. The economics of the game business in general are terrible already and when you're in the engine business you've got a big cost overhead with a revenue stream made up mostly of 0, a few small trickles, and then some big wins which turn out to be capped licence buy-outs, because your customers are in a business with poor economics. It's worse than selling to Apple. AFAICT (I have no special inside knowledge) Unity isn't making any real money (I believe even a company the size of Microsoft pays only $2M/year, though they may also pay per-title fees).

As far as I can see the only way it works is the way Unreal does it: they develop their engine for their own needs and coincidentally let others do it (cf Lumberyard). It's conceivable that a "casual consortium" a la GCC, Linux et al could build one but I don't see any signs of it.

a very steep power law, high marketing (and even licencing) costs, heavy competition... It's a $100B market but most of the profit is around the core product, not in it.
Oh c'mon! OP didn't even mention it!

There's nothing wrong with Xfce (I'm a very happy user myself), but they're distinct projects and the OP makes a good case and gives useful info about LXQt, as fits the thread.
It's a method of figuring out how a yenn, yuan, ruble, rupee, stack up against the dollar. As US dollars become cheaper, people in other countries end up buying large swathes of land in the US (and vice versa). That or bonds. It IS a real thing.
An interest in geeky things in and of itself is not diagnostic of Aspergers. What matters more is if you have trouble with interpersonal relationships, which I definitely did growing up. Things are much better nowadays, but it took a lot of hard work to get from A to B.
I like to know why you think things won't be better and for whom? How do you know it won't set a precedent in NZ? Or is the frame of context based on an American centric point of view? And that things won't be better for Kiwis?
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Particularly as a common effect of expected regulation of firearms is increased sales, as customers try to preempt new legislation. Especially true for laws which focus on sale rather than possession.

However, on the other hand, expectation of future regulation may affect expected future revenue and thus present creditability.
>The less scrolling, tab management, and other context switching I have to do to look at those "2" functions, the easier it is on my memory.

I don't disagree, but the sentiment seems to be "fit everything on the screen at all times", which seems like one of those rules that may take more time to implement than it saves in actual time.

I work on projects with upwards of 100k lines of code consistently, the very idea that anything relevant will fit on one screen is absurd, so I am always curious what kinds of projects people work on where the relevant code is literally within a half screen of each other.
I wouldn't have thought I'd ever agree with you, but I recently had exactly that kind of experience. I'd received a product, wasn't entirely happy with it, and if not for a 'are you satisfied?' email I wouldn't have gone through the 'effort' of finding a way to reach the company.

As a result, the issue was promptly resolved and both me and the company are happier.

Sending me more than one email, or automatically subscribing me to some kind of newsletter I find more problematic, though.
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Sure, we could trivially make our own star. All we'd need to do is move at least 100 Jupiters worth of mass into close proximity, and voila! Insta-star. That last part is not so trivial though...

The difficulty us mere mortals have with sustained fusion is keeping the reaction from blowing itself apart (as in dissipation, not bomb). Gravity keeps things in check for free, but since gravity is so weak compared to atomic forces, you need an awful lot of it.

Our current containment solutions using electromagnetic forces require a lot of energy to maintain and so far, more than produced from the resulting fusion reaction.
That would be a pretty good way to crash the economy, it's not a move to pull unless you are already in bad shape.

Also bear in mind a lot of that debt is held by Americans...
You don't think Python also has thrash? I'm a huge fan of pyenv as it brings in manifest+lockfile+segregated install paths. But those three things are relatively new to Python and very new to get unified.
I have never been formally diagnosed because autism is still not a thing in Eastern Europe, but the following self-assessment leads me to believe I am:

1. Constant fear of losing my belongings like keys, which leads me to check what's in my pocket every minute or two while I'm walking.

2. Overly obsessive about following a particular "ritual" for everyday stuff like washing my car or cleaning the house. Every small spot needs to be covered every time, even if it was previously clean. Otherwise I feel uneasy for completely irrational reasons.

3. Great confusion and anxiety when things in my job or everyday life cannot be done according to my carefully crafted plan.
For NIH, this is massive. NIH lost 19% funding from 2003 (when it was at $40B / year) to 2015. Small gains the last couple years combined with this massive increase almost erases that (2018 budget is $38B).

Pretty amazing
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Whose intent, I read, is to dodge Sandyhook lawsuits.

Lovely.
Their profits are down because Freedom Group made absolute shit quality firearms with QC issues out the wazoo.

Pre FG Rem guns often sell for more than new ones simply because of the manufacturing quality differences.

The pro gun community is actually responsible for the Remington issues, as they have been railing on Remington for years now, which really started around the Rem 700 recalls.
This is very similar to Kevin Hale's post "How to Design a Better Pitch Deck": https://blog.ycombinator.com/how-to-design-a-better-pitch-de...
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Feeding it with BSSIDs and RSSI, it gives you a precise response with GPS coordinates.
Here is Trump's tweet on what he thinks of the domestic spending increase.

"Got $1.6 Billion to start Wall on Southern Border, rest will be forthcoming. Most importantly, got $700 Billion to rebuild our Military, $716 Billion next year...most ever. Had to waste money on Dem giveaways in order to take care of military pay increase and new equipment." (emphasis mine)
Yeah I don’t mean it’d happen tomorrow, but if things in the world continued to get a lot crazier.
>So if the effects exists, its negligible.

The only thing being considered was "bugs in the final code", not "time and effort in maintenance."
Vivaldi literally does everything this article wants. Without addons or extensions. Also does what https://workona.com does. See: https://vivaldi.com/features/.
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Nice, thanks for letting me know - I haven't check it for ages. There is definitely a proper use possible of this, then :)
> Consensus. Have _n_ nodes perform the same work (if it’s deterministic), and only accept (and pay) if all the nodes match - or at least the nodes that were part of the majority

Soudns vulnerable to sibyl attacks.
Meaning they'll "fix" it when they're forced to, but in the meantime they'll make a nice profit off the "broken" code.
> Consensus. Have _n_ nodes perform the same work (if it’s deterministic), and only accept (and pay) if all the nodes match - or at least the nodes that were part of the majority

Sounds vulnerable to sibyl attacks.
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What? Caste and racism are different issues with a common goal (subjugation) and have considerable legs. I would vouch there is a visible resurgence in both. Narrowing to an India-US narrative, caste ideology is constantly imported into the US under the auspices of various Regional Groups. This is visible in the informal societal groups that are formed as well as some official groups that are formed. See the tail end of her interview [1] about Telugu Immigration Groups which are segmented along caste lines (and her request for membership).

I would not mind seeing an AMA from someone in a lower caste in India, someone from a lower caste in US, and someone from an upper caste in the US.

[1] https://scroll.in/video/862235/video-how-do-they-say-there-i...
We have just moved to using dep, yes, it exposed some issues in our dependency tree, but it works now and I don't think our organization will be looking to move anytime soon.
The vast, vast majority of spam that I get is from otherwise perfectly reasonable companies who don't understand the law.

To that end, my steps are:

1. Try their unsubscribe, give them a few days for it to "take effect" (which is nonsense, but, so it goes)

2. Send a polite, but direct email to `postmaster@`, and usually cc `webmaster@` - it usually goes to somebody.

3. If none of the above works, pull the full email headers and `dig` around some to find their MX provider, and file a claim with `abuse@` on the provider.

That being said, again usually it's an ignorance problem. I have a friend who helps run a company that does escape rooms, and I had only provided my email on a release form. However a few months later, I started getting marketing spam from them to that email - oops. A lot of small companies don't understand the regs around marketing emails and treat them the same as all other emails.
> The notion of an 'observer' is an artificial one, coming from the Copenhagen interpretation, which is well known to be false

I think you're overstating this a great deal. I don't think it's well-known, or even agreed on, that it's false. Can you demonstrate otherwise?

And in what sense is it "false"? If it's true to the equations, and not experimentally disproved, isn't it as valid as any other interpretation?
Under Obama the idea was floated of creating very large amounts of money to fund the federal government. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trillion_dollar_coin for details.
I don't understand - what about it is "chilling"?

The 5.7x28mm would be a terrible choice for someone wanting to kill a large number of people. It's reason for existence is a tradeoff between the number of rounds one can effectively carry, armor penetration, and terminal performance. In short, it's designed for use in compact full-auto firearms - PDWs ("Person Defense Weapons"). That class of firearm has not been readily available in the US since 1934, and the P90 has never been available.
I worked in a startup founded by DARPA people for a while and my impression was that DARPA is often used to funnel money to well connected friends. They do interesting things but it doesn't seem very efficient.