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The difference between safe dynamically typed and untyped is whether the throw will happen or not. There are degrees of safety even in dynamically typed languages.
I've seen this topic rehashed repeatedly since I started coding Java in 1999. It has always been that Java is passed by value.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9246356

and

<q> Some people will say incorrectly that objects are passed "by reference." In programming language design, the term pass by reference properly means that when an argument is passed to a function, the invoked function gets a reference to the original value, not a copy of its value. If the function modifies its parameter, the value in the calling code will be changed because the argument and parameter use the same slot in memory.... The Java programming language does not pass objects by reference; it passes object references by value. Because two copies of the same reference refer to the same actual object, changes made through one reference variable are visible through the other. There is exactly one parameter passing mode -- pass by value -- and that helps keep things simple. -- James Gosling, et al., The Java Programming Language, 4th Edition </q>
They've reused multiple stages more than once already. Considering the constraints on these devices it's already quite a proof.

Sure we'll know after more samples but .. well I said it.
It's not next, it's already being targeted. The recent Right To Be Forgotten case touches on a theme I think we'll see again - "we don't like what society does with easy access to certain information, and companies that facilitate access to that information are going to face increased scrutiny".
American Corp culture still sees a hungry young worker with good taste as “one of them”. Knowing what car to take to the track, sailing knowledge, or what Hermès scarf to buy as a gift for their partner as comforting conversation fodder that makes them more comfortable with you.
No, they were not all doping. Many top-tier cyclists show integrity and character by resisting doping under intense commercial and team pressure, only to be often beaten by dopers.

I've probably mentioned this here before, but Nicole Cooke's retirement statement [1] is worth reading. Every medal won by a doper is theft, no less.

1. https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2013/jan/14/nicole-cooke-r...
> This sounds like madness, and I wonder if anyone believes them.

The people who worship him as they would a superhero.

Everyone else just sees it as Musk doing what Musk does best; promote himself.
There is a video that shows how is environment looks like and what his screen-reader sounds like. It reads very fast. To the untrained ear it is unintelligible.
Chromecast uses a custom protocol, Google Cast, for casting any apps that don’t use DIAL (YouTube, Netflix).

It doesn’t support Miracast, and recent Android phones have removed Miracast support.
That, and I don't think there is a real consensus on the nomenclature, even in the literature. At least, I don't remember university lectures being at all clear on the issue.

FWIW, I don't use pass-by-value or pass-by-reference to refer to languages like Java, Python, Lua, etc... Instead, I use "pass-by-object-identity" (aka "call-by-sharing", "call-by-object") to refer to the semantics of those languages. It avoids the association many people have between the term "by-value" and copying behaviour.

Also part of the problem: many beginning and intermediate programmers don't understand the difference between rebinding and mutation. This leads to people interpreting the following snippet:

def foo(a, b):
a = 2
b.append(3)

x = 1
y = []
foo(x, y)
print(x, y) #1, [3]

... as meaning that ints are passed by value and lists by reference, while in fact both are passed by object identity, and it is the fact that a is rebound while b is mutated that made the difference.
Yeah, the difference in human ability between trained and untrained is always amazing. What's funny is I'm sure this blind man is more efficient than people who use mouse-driven software to work. When you use keyboard-driven software like emacs or vim it gives you the ability to develop similar speed.
of course it's Amazon or: it's on their site
I have always hated the word "prestige" or "prestigious" as it always makes me feel that the person using it wants to pick my pocket.

(I mean an advertiser or housing builder etc...I don't mean the author of this piece, or for that matter my own comment either!)
> The name shows it.. They call it unskilled.

Fun fact: This seems like a very American thing to me (that is being imported into my culture). Where I live apprenticeships (2/3/4 years work and school) are frequently required for assembly work and the like, and has usually been seen as a solid way to make a good living. In the last 10-15 years there has been a pronounced rise of arrogance against journeyman ("Gesellen" i.e. those who completed an apprenticeship) and state-certified technicians ("Techniker" i.e. those who completed an extra two years of school on top of an apprenticeship; this usually entails a bunch of other additional qualifications and certifications); parents act like their children are failures if they don't manage to study at an university and put immense pressure on them.

Rationally speaking that doesn't make any sense; Gesellen and Techniker work full-time years earlier than anyone who goes to university and often climbed the pay ladder quite a few steps in those years as well. Depending on the profession they make good money. In some professions even a lot (e.g. industrial field service can pay six figures all things considered).

University and Abitur (the highest level of secondary school) aren't for everyone, but parents act as if it were so, often with detrimental effects to their children.
Exactly. There has to be a framework that everyone has to follow. Imagine we had no laws against theft and you would get into trouble only if you overdid it by some undefined standard
Also if you have moderately long lived requests, if one server starts to get overloaded and it starts to slow down, new requests will still be sent to that server, which will make it more overloaded and slower, and jobs start to build up on that server, making it slower and slower.
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I mean, in the case of Uber, Lyft, and AirBnB a lot of their advantages came from breaking laws as well, something that can be tolerated a lot more in those industries.
Telus is a phone/ISP company, they're pretty much uninvolved other then the ability to send emails from a @gmail.com address for their customers needs. Spammers are just utilizing that for malicious purposes with spoofed headers. As for how they got your email, the spammers could very well be working from the US too, Telus is just a tool. But then again on the internet boundaries matter less and they could be halfway across the world and got your email from a random online leaked list.
> What do you think the Model 3 shows when compared to the Bolt?

An additional 72 mile range for the Model 3. And a standard compact car form factor to Chevy’s sub sub-compact. I’m sure that yields some shoulder room and other comfort benefits.
> Child advocates have also raised alarms about the ease with which smartphone-equipped children are exposed to inappropriate videos and deceptive advertising.

COPPA has unfortunate consequences. My 7 year old child watches youtube. He can't have an account, so he uses my account. Youtube thinks an > 18 year old is watching the videos, and so places ads for gambling and alcohol on the videos he watches.

There's no mechanism to tell Google that:

i) My child is under 18 and so cannot legally buy the products being advertised (and in the UK it's illegal to target alcohol to children)

ii) I campaign against alcohol and gambling adverts, and that's the only reason they think I have an interest in the product. I'm never going to buy these products.

The Youtube Kids product isn't available on my laptop, and he's not interested in many of those videos.

And the fix seems simple enough: allow a toggle for "viewer is under 18".
From the actual paper:
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For example, the absence of deformation pathways based on gliding dislocations leads to exceptional yield strength and wear resistance
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Yield strength means "how much strain a material can handle before it fractures or otherwise breaks"

In crystalline metals, a crack that forms anywhere can propagate through the lattice quickly and lead to bulk fracture (see the southwest engine failure recently). In an amorphous material, the deformation caused by a local crack can be "absorbed" by the surrounding atoms because they're able to reposition more easily.
Nah, that's Level 3.

"Level 4 ("mind off"): As level 3, but no driver attention is ever required for safety, i.e. the driver may safely go to sleep or leave the driver's seat."

Level 4 is like a Level 5, but that doesn't let you enable it for every route (e.g. you might be manually driving until the highway, then enable self-driving and go to sleep, then wake up with it parked right after the exit you chosen).
Telus is a big telecom company in Canada: landline, mobile, ISP, TV. Other big companies comparable are Roger’s and Bell. Telus has a wikipedia page.
Tesla’s existence itself was never realistic nor achievable, from the very start, a point that the author makes. Also, the goal isn’t impossible; in fact, the goal is close to their current ramp rate. Improbable is not a synonym for impossible, no matter how common that misunderstanding is.

As far as safety and health, I have seen no objective evidence that Tesla is worse than the industry standard range, although certainly they can improve. Media sensationalist coverage of anecdotes doesn’t count as objective evidence of being worse than the industry overall. Admittedly, this is a low bar.
In this case the water jet isn't cutting anything, just spinning the wheel very, very fast.
And the former is the one you want your Load Balancers to be checking. With a deep health check, even a brief database outage will cause every web server to be taken out of rotation, and then you're completely down for at least as many health check intervals as it takes for the LB to consider a host healthy again. Same goes for any other shared resource that is likely to affect all web servers if it becomes unavailable.
FWIW, I could have gotten a Dell with a nice HiDPI display, but it is a lot of work to make it a good experience on Linux. Only MacOS has a good HiDPI experience. Linux is functional, but takes effort up front.
Curious about his mental map for code/software.
Often times when I 'visualize' mapping between modules in a software, I observe a latency in visualization because in my mind I navigate through squares or blocks, literally.
Obviously he does it differently, and faster. He has an unique ability which probably most of us don't.
So a USDA style on-site meat inspector but for data?
What is up with that battery life... Lenovo X laptops with older batteries I have (i5-i7) run 15+ hours while coding and browsing. And lighter laptops I have with Ubuntu/Debian get well over 20 hours. Does this thing have a very small battery or is it too powerful? So little battery life is a shame so wondering if it is software or hardware.
Maybe you should consider actually thinking about the issue before deciding? Why don't you read the article and get back to me. Literally everyone is better off if we have a liquid market in kidneys.
it's unlikely to happen in any administration. proactive monitoring is cost prohibitive compared to reactive punishment and a legal framework for doing so. as you said, the latter is unlikely to be meaningfully strengthened.

fines and enforcement must present a significantly larger liability than profit opportunity for any real changes to ever take place. else it's just written down
as another expense of doing business as usual.
> I wouldn't be surprised to see an almost-entirely-self-driving car service in certain areas in the nearish future. As long as it's 100% safe and only requires assistance rarely, it makes sense to start building out the infrastructure sooner rather than later.

That's a huge if and it's not clear we're even close.

https://blog.piekniewski.info/2017/05/11/a-car-safety-myths-...

https://blog.piekniewski.info/2018/02/09/a-v-safety-2018-upd...
The problem is there is no way to have humane milk. It will always require impregnating cows and taking the calf’s milk.
I don't think he's talking about the BS but merely scribbling down notes on paper which very often helps when trying to figure out complicated processes.
If all you're saying is that people could theoretically be concerned about that, then sure I agree. I just think the concern is misplaced.
It didn’t when it was posted, probably a helpful moderator fixed it.
AT&T, Verizon face DOJ investigation for allegedly trying to lock eSIMs
How would you know? If code is failing tests, it doesn’t leave my laptop.
> A holocaust is happening currently, 60 billion most docile and mostly female cows and fowls are eliminated every year.

I think you mean million, not billion. And even then that number is high for estimates.

edit: I missed the part about fowl (I am dumb)
>It’s not a sport of pure skill.

Depends on what you mean by 'sport'. Only wordrecords being broken may require doping. Competing at elite levels in any sport, including cycling, requires immense talent, perseverence and skill. Not to mention winning the genetic lottery (depending on the sport).

>Tons of heart attacks and we’ve accepted it’s the price of the sport.

That sucks, but which sport is without injury? Baseball pitchers get their arms jacked up, basketball players get their knees messed up, football.. no comment, MMA no comment..
Isn't it almost always advisable to have homogenous servers in a web farm? What are some example cases there that doesn't make sense?
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I’m not sure it’s possible for facebook to fundamentally respect privacy by default. It is completetly antithetical to both their stated mission of “connecting people” and their defacto mission of making money off advertising.

In order for them to achieve either of those goals, they have to increase time spent on site and engagement, in order to maximize ad revenue. That results in them serving content the user wants to see at all costs. Besides the fact that content a user wants to see may not be the best for the user, and can simply waste time, this can also mean a massive echo chamber reaffirming peoples’ own beliefs. While it may serve to connect them with their like-minded peers, it emotionally and intellectually results in disconnecting them from the rest of society. This results in a dangerous shift in factionism and idealogical siloing.

So the negative effects of simply serving what the user wants to see at a primitive level is fundamentally tied to an advertising business model. This makes it probably impossible for facebook to positively incentivize users without fundamentally changing their own incentive structures.

You may think there’s nothing wrong if facebook is merely delivering what users want, but facebook uses manipulation to only deliver what users want in the short term for immediate gratification. It’s similar to addictive drugs and cocaine. People’s long term thinking know it’s bad for them even thhough their short term brain wants it now.

Therefore if anyone is to create a facebook killer, all they have to do is provide a social platform that has a business model that is both sustainable and not reliant on short term engagement and selling ads. Instead it should focus on ceding control of social interaction to the user, rather than it being the byoroduct of manipulative user experience. It should tie its own success to ensbling users to achieve their own long term social goals. Since it would be the antithesis of facebook, they’d have too much inertia in their ad model to effectively clone it. Any other social platform can simply be cloned by facebook.
Fertility clinics are subject to the same pressures. They need to keep their success rates up so they avoid cases with poor prognoses.
And thus man killed the Earth with a shrug.

Accepting the truth is the first part, the next step is aligning your actions to your beliefs. Took me maybe 20 years for that second step.
Being cool.

People don’t like to acknowledge this as an accomplishment. But the idea, and successful implementation, of selling an electric car that isn’t what a soy patty on gluten-free bread is to a burger was quite a revolution.
While I agree with the sentiment, I think we can be empathetic about where Musk comes from. The same arguments have been raised about making rockets, how non-states cannot make them, or how they cannot be reused. They probably even had good reasons for them. But still Musk and his team upended the status quo and showed it’s possible. His teams push the envelope forward all the time. Sure they are bound to have some failures - but hey we need people like him to understand what’s not possible(now)
We're in agreement regarding the utter seriousness of global warming, glad to hear. I do believe the main tasks are: adapting to the changes that are coming, taking care of those of us that will get displaced (which may mean moving to a green Sahara), and making sure we don't further worsen the problem. But in light of the prospecting that takes place all over (for example in Greenland and other areas made exploitable by receding glaciers) I'm rather pessimistic about the last point. Even with the fairly rapid development of alternative energy sources (solar, wind, geothermal) it does not seem that these will replace fossil or nuclear fuels any time soon, only supplement it.

As for examples of overreach, I was amiss in not citing anything in support, but the comment was already too long. I'll cite one such example here which I believe supports my point: The so called 'Climategate' affair, which, while scientists involved were exonerated from any direct wrong-doing, revealed a team of distinguished scientists "so focused on winning the public-relations war that they exaggerate their certitude — and ultimately undermine their own cause" [0]

I'll skip your questions based on the straw-man reading if you don't mind.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/01/science/01tier.html?_r=3&...
Good analogy. With gas cars it seems that the engine bay has become so crowded, all the degrees of freedom are used up by making everything fit. Electric drivetrains give an opportunity to totally rethink the topology of the car with automated assembly in mind.
It is still worthwhile to try though. Yes, many attempts fail, but they might still give some useful nuggets. And they are often cheap: a failure of established process may 10000 times more expensive than a disruption attempt (e.g. 1.5T F-35 vs 100M for cheaper drones).
Chickens? That's only 10 year/person.
I know something about mechanical engineering and doing away with needlessly tight tolerances is one of the most efficient ways to cut costs.

If the cars are designed so that there is some genuine need or benefit from general extra tight tolerancing, then the issue is way way worse than merely tolerancing out of ignorance. In that case the design work is going to result in high workload in assembly in addition of high workload in fabrication.

I sincerely hope it was just a cheap marketing stunt aimed at consumers.
I really like your take on Buddhism and I share a similar sentiment toward it. I don't think a lot of educated Buddhists in Myanmar take Nagas, sky gods, seriously at all. Uneducated (meaning they are not well-read) Buddhists probably don't even know most of these myths let alone The Four Nobel Truths, The Eight Fold Path, and the difference between Vipassana & Tha-ma-hta meditation techniques, etc. I, as an atheist, found those myths and fairy tales amusing/entertaining/awe-inspiring when I was young.

When I became old enough (like 8-9th grade), I realized they are mostly folklores. But I still believed that there is some essence/truth in Buddha's teaching like Four Nobel Truths, and so on. I tried Vipassana meditation (nowadays, it's become quite popular in the western side as mindfulness meditation--an alleged antidote to alleviate stress in life). Unfortunately, I never found myself to be able to consistently practice meditation to keep my mind in calm most of the time. I'm too lazy to put in serious effort at meditation and stick to it.

BUT I found that being aware of the fact that mindfulness is great when we are in tough situations is good enough for me. For example, when I'm having a stressful day/moment, I just try to look at myself from a third person p.o.v and realize quickly that 'this too shall pass' and no negative event in life is big enough to overcome/forget. I just need to do the best that I can for the items that are in my control to minimize the impact and move on. Plus, Buddha's teaching of lessening attachment to worldly possessions (nowadays, it's popular as 'minimalism' in the west) is quite useful. So I try to live life minimally (not to an extreme because Buddha's philosophy is to walk the middle path). That helps me qualm a lot of desires and the consequence of chasing after those desires.

Meditation or becoming a monk to seek Four Noble Truth is too 'costly' for me and I do not plan to give up my worldly possession and family to go seek for the 'Truth'/Nirvana (whatever that means; maybe there's not a set of truth for everyone and Truth could very well be different for different people). I feel okay (that is, I don't feel guilty) about reaching to this conclusion as well. If everyone were to become a monk/nun and seek for Truth via meditation, the society will grind to a halt (because somebody's gotta grow the food), right? All in all, I am happy with the way I have been managing my life's stresses in a kind of Stoic way that I mentioned above.

P.S. Please read the comment below by 'cko' about Kalama Sutta. If you already know about this, that's awesome! If not, I hope you'll find it somewhat interesting/useful. :)
DuckDuckGo, but half the time I use the "bang" keywords to specifically use another site. I like the simple page layout, that they don't track people and that it does what I ask without trying to guess what I really mean. I don't know how it compares to Google, but most of the time I find what I want in the first page of links, so it's good enough for me.

My biggest complaint is that it doesn't index many forums and mailing lists, so it can be difficult to find answers for really specific questions. It does look at StackOverflow, but there's a number of communities (Linux users, some niche language developers, etc.) that don't use StackOverflow much. In that case I'll often use "!g" to get Google results.
60 million birds? That must be consumed on Super Bowl alone.
Inaccurate. Quote:

> We are here to hold Facebook accountable no matter who’s using it, and to push it and other tech companies to do better for users.

In other words, regardless of whether something is necessary or not, if users are using it, EFF would be watching.

And I don't even think Facebook is "necessary" as assumed. Hence, I find it irrelevant to go meta and discuss my assumed understanding or consideration, or lack thereof, of others feeling.
I don't have experience with opencl or compute shader. My experience with cude told me that the language design tied closely to the hardware. And to write efficient cuda code, you have to understand the hardware architecture well. It's hard for me to imagine a generate gpu language that works on all hardwares, unless the gpu hardware is standardized like x86 or arm.
What happens when the people you are helping become dependent on you and you disappear?

The discussion isn’t helping or not helping, but determine how to best help and allocate your resources accordingly.
My mistake, I missed the part about chickens. I'll edit my comment.