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> Vim is used by a small but very loud minority. Don't listen to them - they're optimizing for the wrong thing (keeping your fingers on the home-row of the keyboard) at the expense of just about every other aspect of computing.

It would be good if you could unpack this some more and explain it in detail. If I'm wasting my time then I'd like to know why and consider whether or not I should change my practices.

The part of your statement that stands out to me is, "keeping your fingers on the home-row of the keyboard". I think this is called touch typing and I can assure you, I don't do it. I'm fast on the keyboard, but not as fast as a touch typist. I throw my fingers all over the place, actually.

Vim for me simply boils down to being a fast, simple, lightweight tool that offers years upon years of development in both the core of the product and plugins, themes, etc.

I'm not really sure how my choice of hammer can be optimising for the wrong thing if it does the same thing your hammer does and we're both productive?
https://twitter.com/whitequark/status/946886702932557824
I googled a number that called me and found a recording from your site: https://www.nomorobo.com/lookup/212-244-9781

No idea what it's saying, and I'm assuming your transcription is just creating garbage by assuming the mandarin is english?
Nice cop out - now you don't have to actually read the book, I guess? After all, it might challenge some of your pre-conceived notions ...

I will reiterate that I read the book myself because someone was trashing it so badly. And a lot of what I read there actually made sense, in spite of what the trashing claimed!

A lesson we all should have learned from "The Wizard of Oz" - when someone insists that we "Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!", it's probably a good idea to go have a chat with that man behind the curtain!
If you don't care about your electricity bill, you can buy used Xeon workstations on your favorite auction site.

A couple years ago, we picked up a HP Z800 workstation with two 12-core processors and 24GB of RAM for $400.

The main downside is that if the power supply (proprietary) or motherboard die, there's not easy fix for it other than buying another of the same model.
How you can change the world by learning Data Structures and Algorithms
Cal Day Lecture: Can a Machine Be Conscious? Towards a Conscious AI
But instead of owning it's many shortcomings and past transgressions (e.g., consuming Y is safe only to find out it causes birth defects, cancer,etc.

Science gave us CFCs then berated us for the hole in the ozone layer...
I think that should read:

"Politics in a democratically elected aristocracy ...

Let's pretend the voting system was a binding function from the collection of ballots to people in charge (which is not even the case):

The number of bits encoded per ballot per period between the elections is the bit-rate of that voter's feedback/input. The bit-rate of the output is the number of bits (entropy) in (changes in) laws. The democratic grade (the dimensionless ratio between bitrate of a voter to bitrate of law changes) is nearly 0.

Hacking the electorate is only profitable if we don't get to vote on ideas (at a high bit-rate) but on aristocrats.

<insert the aristocrats joke here>
I had a second episode of extremely high blood pressure in 2017. It's a long story, but I ended up being hospitalized in a cardiac surveillance unit. A big part of my cardiac issue was that I had allowed my overall fitness to drop quite dramatically.

So, I'm working on a fitness goal app. Essentially, I track my blood pressure/heart rate along with my diet, exercise, etc. And, I'm working on finding correlations, with my end goal being that my app will help me optimize my workouts and diet to help me achieve whatever my particular fitness goal is. In this case, my goal is blood pressure related, but soon, it will be long distance running related.

Having allowed myself to get so far out of shape when I know hypertension is a problem causes me to seriously doubt whether I'm intelligent enough to pull this off.

However, my end goal isn't to build an amazing product, rather it's that if I build it, I'll be motivated to beta test it to hell. When I was being wheeled in for my angiogram, I promised myself that if I ever need another one, they'd wheel me in in marathon shape.
And huge success in functional programming.
The problem with this article's defense of firearms for disaster preparedness is that firearms are among the least urgent disaster-preparedness items. If what people were really concerned about was disaster preparedness, the things they would obsess over would be flashlights, water storage and purification, a few weeks of food supplies, backup power sources, medical supplies, portable radios. Some preppers do spend time and energy thinking about this, it's true.

But usually what you typically have is a person who enjoys guns and is trying to think about a situation where it might possibly be useful to own an AR-15. It's a terrible self-defense weapon in an urbanized area (compared to a shotgun or handgun), and they're illegal to hunt with in lots of areas. Owning such a gun requires a major investment of money and time (for practice and training), and encourages this kind of paranoid outlook. So you have interest in guns driving interest in disaster preparedness, rather than interest in disaster preparedness driving interest in guns.
Are non politically connected Chinese citizens sitting on any money to invest?
In the Bay Area?

I don’t live there but have visited. It’s pretty vanilla suburbia. You’ll definitely miss communities of interest, but it’s not too different.
Agreed. China is an economic and societal rival though, so it makes sense to fight against 'their way' of doing things. In this specific case as well, it's pretty easy to argue that using female employees as advertisement isn't treating them equal at all.
Yeah, I’m quite experienced with lucid dreaming, but this particular hypnogogic state is something I actually try to avoid lingering around in, because it’s very uncomfortable for me.

The process of falling asleep feels like having my mind squeezed through a narrow gap, surrounded by random proto-thoughts like fragments of words and images. I wonder if that’s just my perception of the lower frontal lobe activity they describe in the article. Once I’m out on the “other side” in a dream, I feel like my mind can stretch out and relax again.
Fact-oriented Domain-Driven Design modeling tools.
Given the demographic skew from the old policies, a policy of encouraging women to focus on getting the population back to gender parity (and to employee otherwise destabilizing males) might make sense.

I doubt that this problem is the result of such an effort, though. :(
You may not want to do that. The sampling rate is very important on a scope, especially for analog signals because of Nyquist.
he's probably very smart and works hard, but is humble about his success, which most people would attribute to the former.
PS4.Octolus.net: PS4 Package (PKG) Searchable Database by Octolus
... what Google products don't require the cloud? You know that pretty much all Google services are in the cloud yes?

As a third party observer, you have gone completely off the rails here.
The proteins that organize DNA, called histones, can be chemically modified in a variety of ways. The modifications have the effect of turning on/off stretches of the DNA simply by modifying its physical structure (the way the dna is arranged and packed around the histones). There are tons more mods that can happen which have a variety of effects (for example, tune the amount that a gene is expressed). This is called epigenetics if you want to google more.

If you've heard of those studies where if your grandparents experienced a famine it makes some difference in your genetics, one hypothesis is that its caused by this.
Unfortunately that data isn't granular enough for what I need: I'm looking for the build number, which Wikipedia somehow keeps up to date.
With the dramatic increase in CWD in the US deer population, I don't know if I would be messing with deer meat anymore.

I started turning down venison at meals for good two years ago. I'm probably being overly cautious.
Ah, yes, agreed! That was my first thought as well when I went into the deep flaming pit of TeX macros. Nevertheless, I guess he didn't have much reference material back then or did he?
The general feminist perspective (which I find fairly sensible) is to avoid engaging in overt criticism of other societies and simply "signal boost" the voices within those societies pushing for increased equality. The author of this piece, Lijia Zhang, is such a voice.
The last living human link to the 19th century is gone
`tar xf` probably wouldn't take longer, but `tar xvf` might, depending on how good/bad the stdout performance is.
>The problem is that peak energy usage now occurs after sunset. So no matter how many solar panels you stack on your home, around 6-7 PM the coal, oil, and gas power plants all have to spin up to their max capacity.

Where are you getting this assumption from?

In hot climates like Arizona, peak energy usage during the summer months is in the afternoon, not the evening. When it's 115 degrees outside, that's when everyone's A/C is running at full capacity. It gets cooler in the evening and A/C usage goes down then.
Your opinion is not a "nope". It's your opinion. Others differ.

For example, stalking is illegal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalking#Laws_on_harassment_an...

as is wiretapping

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_recording_laws#Two-p...
A c99 library that implements various exotic binary based number systems and I'm calling it Hanoi
"In 2016 alone, there were 495 incidents of accidental firearm deaths."

In 2015 there were 1250000 incidents of violent crime. No need for further math. I'll keep my guns.
You misunderstood. Messaging/email should be the same application, accessing the same contact list because the odds are the people that you are communicating with using messaging are the people you communicate with using email.

It makes no sense to have to run another application to communicate with someone just because it is on a phone. Think of it as the hangout in Gmail on the web, except if Hangout actually just worked ( such as not said the message was delivered when it was not or said the message has not been delivered yet when it was ).
At least 80% of Chinese characters are picto-phonetic -- meaning that you have a radical that only gives you a vague category for the lexical item and another part that gives you a hint of how to pronounce it (or would have when the character was devised, anyway; there's substantial drift). To think about this in terms of English, imagine the word "I" were written with a stick figure and a picture of an eye (except for most the meaning is a little more obscure than this). It's only a handful that are really like pictures.
Thanks, I just downloaded it and will let you know what I think!

Note to others: I used FHFHKLLENM9A
Interesting experiment, but I think I will stick to rxvt.
Because you imply that Webpack isn't. It gives you much more that with make you still have to invent.

The newer versions of WP is surprisingly simple to set up.
> it is ok to stare into people's living rooms. It's not - irrespective of transparency or lack of curtains.

Legally, it is. You might advocate to change that law.
I've relied on this for decades for complex development tasks. Now when a manager asks me to propose some design solution, I just say flat out that I'll probably know what to do after a couple of sleeps.
Look at the computers that replaced them and then imagine how often those have been replaced since then. Of course they did get less expensive pretty quickly (and I'm sure that even though the guy who invented the linotype could sit down at that machine and use it, that doesn't mean those are the same machines from when the NYT started using linotype, which was my initial silly assumption)
It’s not a secret. The general discrepancy — of differing cultural norms — is also not unique to China.

Amazing how many people fantisize about a globalist utopia, accepting of all cultures, except the “offensive” cultures.
The AR-15 is the key word. Subsistence hunters aren’t buying expensive guns. You can get guns for that purpose for 80% less money.

AR-15s are like toy light sabers for adults.
> Imagine a codebase started off by a brilliant and strict engineer... and then followed on by a million forks-of-forks-of-forks, all done by average Joes just “scratching their own itch.”

I would be careful with that example, before you start to sound suspiciously creationist. At least, the Christians I know that deny evolution tend claim everything was created perfectly and since has only slowly degenerated over time.
For the point of view of the people this article is writing about, that's probably not a very convincing argument. While the statistics you cite are true, they don't take individual circumstances into account. How many of those accidents and thefts were caused by those gun owners being negligent fools? Probably a fair number of them. How much can proper storage, handling, and training mitigate those risks? Probably a lot.

Rather than just just comparing the upside to the downside statistically, you have to compare the upside to the downside for yourself as an individual, including the steps you can take to maximize the former and minimize the latter.
developing internal tools for a large ecommerce corporation
What data is collected?
'often' is not most. I was simply referring to a frequent pattern not the only one.
No, handguns suck for self defense. That's why the carbine was invented. Though a handgun you can conceal, so it's handy.
I've been looking for a phone like this, but can't find one. A few tweaks I'd make though:

* Email is allowed, but no push notifications

* Anything that works with Android Auto or Apple Carplay should work while the phone is connected to my car. But only apps explicitly meant for use in the car. I'd actually prefer it if all other apps don't work in the car, since it's tempting to respond to a text while driving, even when I know it's dangerous.

* $5 for 15 minutes of browser is a bit steep. $1 going to charity for every 15 minutes I use my browser will mean a good amount of money going to charity, but will still keep me thoughtful in terms of how I use my phone
On Radical Markets
You're right, but it doesn't seem that hard to teach/guide people to be precise.
Yes, the technique you’re referring to is called GAN
As your fellow developer, if perhaps at a different level of the stack, I've found that when my runtime performs in ways I didn't expect it too, the eventual solution almost always involves me questioning my own assumptions. The microcontroller didnt get statically discharged, my power rail is pulled to ground with an incorrect resistor. I didn't discover a compiler bug, I put a semicolon after my while statement, but before the curly brace.

I've also found that my ability to acknowledge this fact is linearly proportional to the time it takes to solve the bug.

My point is that the maintainers of VLC sit atop a mountain of software, used by tons of people with oodles of different use cases. The only methodology that ever allowed them to grow to their current stature has been to do whats right by the project. At some point, the large behemoths of Amazon, Google, et al, have to make compromises as well. If they hire enough support staff to have a personal relationship with every client, at the level of service you get from your local credit union, that becomes prohibitively expensive. In lieu of providing good service, they've settled for efficient service.

VLC is Kobe Beef. If Amazon wants to carry Kobe Beef, perhaps they should provide the level of service that Kobe Beef consumers demand. Lots of other folks love to advertise Kobe Beef, but balk at all of the transparency that an authentic Kobe Beef retailer has.

Amazon loves to throw its weight around, and claim its for the greater good. But to the extent they can't get what they want, they pull their top selling products from their shelves. They've even done this with books, the one of the markets they dominate to the highest degree.

But if we all demand that we be recognized as the one true expert in our fields, compromise becomes a four letter word.
Something like a rocket version of ADS-B that feeds to a central data collection point, from which nation-states that are nuclear powers (permanent UN security council members, for the most part) can receive a read-only data stream of rocket traffic.

Would require rockets with speed/altitude limit uncrippled GPS.
I'm relating the perspective some people have on science. To them, it's chaotic. Answers change constantly. "Theory" is a derogatory term to them.

The conversation here is not how any given fact is right or wrong. The conversation here is that "scientific facts" seem to change at a dizzying pace to them, without being tethered to reality. "Global warming?!? It's SNOWING right now!"

Do cell phones cause cancer? Do vaccines cause autism? Was there cold fusion in that fish tank?

Also see:

https://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2012/11/qa-samuel-ar...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half-life_of_knowledge

https://gizmodo.com/why-scientific-americans-predictions-fro...

http://www.aei.org/publication/18-spectacularly-wrong-predic...
You could skip the price models/curves, and just go with a real-time exchange. Something like NordPool (https://www.nordpoolspot.com/), which trades electricity between UK, Germany, Nordics and Baltics.

Electricity price on the market changes every hour depending on production and consumption. You can trade on it like on any futures market, or as an active participant if you had a large battery or transmission cables. Local utilities here offer "market price + 5% margin" plans to home consumers if you want to take advantage of the lows to adjust your usage.
Bill Gates' Twitter cosplaying as a mosquito
Nice that our own analysts complain about the ease of analyzing Trump's public persona because of his public statements via a public analysis of what it all means.
The advantage to opening yourself to what is loosely called 'right brained' thinking, is that you don't have to wait around for someone to publish a rigorous study in a journal about the subject you're seeking a solution for. If I waited around for science as much as some HN users imply they do, I'd be paralyzed and barely ever make progress on things that matter to me.

I believe great scientists often start in wooville before they are able to distill science out of it. “Why should not a bold thinker have guessed something that is afterwards confirmed by sober and painstaking detailed research?” -Freud
Boeing (later United Aircraft) used to operate their own airline (later United Airlines). They also bought Pratt & Whitney, Hamilton Standard, Chance Vought, National Air Transport, and Pacific Air Transport. They were vertically integrated across the airline industry by the end of the 1920s.

This all culminated in the Air Mail Act of 1934 [1] which prohibited airlines and airplane manufacturers from operating under the same corporate umbrella.

It will be interesting to see where this ends up with SpaceX integrating the consumer facing airline operation with rocket manufacturing. Something commercial airlines are not able to do.
>Not everyone would be able to because of noise

Then they should get newer appliances. Modern dishwashers are whisper-quiet, and modern front-loading washers are barely audible for most of the cycle. The energy savings on these newer appliances should more than pay for the initial costs pretty quickly.
Why does it make sense to fight? Why not peacefully coexist — China can do things their own way?
If you're not coding, you're a user. No matter how "technical" your task is.
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Theoretically, so they have skin in the game and that would prevent the endemic fraud in taxpayer funded pensions like we have. Realistically, you should be cultivating social capital by way of raising a family or networking with useful people if you really want a secure future.
I don't know a single person that doesn't have plenty of food/water stores and power generation among most other necessities for natural disasters.

Having lived in SF myself, I had all these things. In the event of a 7+ earthquake I was prepared to ride it out in my apartment if possible or escape to various points across the peninsula.

My wife and I made it a fun hiking game. We'd walk various routes and plan for the OH SHIT earthquake. I sure as hell had my handgun available too in case of an apartment break in or if something big enough hit where we had to flee on foot. The most irritating part was 10 round magazines to be legal in CA. Having 9mm was pointless so I bought a .45 to complement it.

My wife enjoys when we go shooting and we frequently review situations. In the end, it might be for nothing, but I'd rather be half ass prepared than praying for help from someone else.
Wouldn't a Quake engine based terminal emulator actually be way lighter? :P
Your 40s come much earlier than you realize. I'm not full FIRE and haven't always pursued the highest income but am at a point where previous decisions and frugality are paying off. The future is unknown.

The single best thing I did was focus on my health, that's an investment that will pay off as I age, regardless of my net worth.
I benefit just as much from parent's children (heh) as I would from yours, but less than I would from my own, because they'd entertain me.

Parent's enjoyment of those children is an appropriate benefit which both parent and parent's wife have purchased at the cost of parent's wife's career and their retirement savings.

Put another way, parent and I both receive an economic benefit, but parent receives an emotional benefit. You can argue that I should pay for the economic benefit I receive, but I do not think it appropriate that I should subsidize the price of his emotional benefit.
His AC unit and dryer may actually be DC, just internally. Modern AC compressor motors are now moving to inverter drive, so incoming alternating current gets turned into DC for the inverter, washers/driers do something similar for the motor. Heating elements are just a resistor, so could run from DC. If I were putting together a system for myself those are the things I would consider, and find ways not to duplicate power inverters throughout the system.
i guess that's the point - china out-us-ed the US and out-europed Europe.
It is hard to explain, or at least convince people of a fundamental aspect of firearms for personal protection. 1.) Mammals, humans included, are finnicky creatures with a fight/fight system at the deepest layer (physically) in our body and brain. 2.) Most people have not tested their fight/flight in a combat situation. From these two basic facts you can pretty much figure out most people who have plonked a few rounds at the range and acquired a concealed carry permit are as much a danger to themselves as to any attacker. To overcome this it requires hundreds of hours of drills and training to make the response safe to everyone but an attacker and within the framework of law in your area. It also requires ongoing training, probably every 1-3 months. If you aren't willing to do this, I don't think you should morally be packing concealed weapons in the name of self defense. This is mostly about handguns. Amusingly rifles are more practical in most prepper situations. Think home defense against other armed attackers where it isn't sudden and instant and close quarters. AR-15 is overkill, probably, but a reasonable option from a fortified position when you are dealing with multiple attackers. Unfortunately, they are also great at mowing down civilians in the hands of the mentally unbalanced. Anyway, just some musings of mine having grown up in the South and been around firearms most of my life.
The US has 30 million deer and 330 million people. If divided evenly and your exclusive food source, that would last the country about 3.5 days.