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Thanks for the link, but I find this highly unlikely to be what the article or db-engines.com claims. The data comes from vague sources that don't jibe with number of installations. The word "popular" is used in such a perverse way it renders the db-engines.com ranking and that claim in the article impossible to believe.

That ranking site claims "The DB-Engines Ranking ranks database management systems according to their popularity." but then includes concepts such as "Number of mentions of the system on websites", "General interest in the system", and "Relevance in social networks" as part of the ranking (see https://db-engines.com/en/ranking_definition for details). In fact, the one thing one would typically consider to be "popularity" -- installed base size -- is not considered at all ("The DB-Engines Ranking does not measure the number of installations of the systems, or their use within IT systems."). In fact the paragraph from which I drew that quote highlights how ridiculous this site is: to understand that paragraph's use of the word "popular" you have to use the common definition, the definition they won't use in computing their so-called "popularity" ranking. This tells me that db-engine.com's ranking is not to be taken seriously.

As SQLite's page I pointed to claims, virtually every modern operating system and many popular programs come with at least one copy of SQLite. But then again, understanding the previous sentence requires using the word "popular" in a way that most people use that word most of the time, not the perverse way db-engines.com used the word. Put differently, Oracle, db-engines.com #1 pick, doesn't run on iOS, MacOS, GNU/Linux, and some variants of Windows. That means there are a considerable number of systems that host at least one copy of SQLite and will never host Oracle.

I find it very difficult to believe that there are more running or installed instances of Oracle on the world's computers than there are SQLite. The original article is plainly wrong. MySQL is nowhere nearly as "popular" as is claimed and the backing to believe otherwise hinges on a highly dubious source.
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Usually, I use the text search, with a file filter for the various sources files of the application: that way I can find the same variable/method/class across the java, jsp and configuration files.
Except it is good for everyone. Just not in the same term lengths.

For homeowners, constraining housing supply and ballooning their property values in the immediate sense stalls the economy at multiple layers. Without housing companies cannot attract hires, no hires means limited growth, or companies stop moving to your city. in the US, since this housing epidemic is practically national in scale, it means businesses just stop trying to expand in US markets where its impossible for people to live.

It means people who could otherwise be productive are instead destitute, and in macrospect that trend produces rampant poverty and criminal enterprise to compensate for the lack of legitimate business opportunity.

For every home owner individually the idea of deflating their ludicrous property values sounds bad until they can come to terms with the fact that their collective behavior contributes to diminished or absent growth both locally and nationally. You cannot grow industry on inflated single family home prices in major cities but you can wreck an economy and the lives of millions.
Well, why? If they are using more material than necessary, or wasting time due to different soldering techniques, why do you care? What matters is that the end result performs as expected. If they are not hitting their production or profitability targets, it's their problem.
That will give the successor to your plumbing a good scare in a few decades ;).
The article mentioned that glutamate is currently produced by fermentation with molasses as the main feedstock. I found a fascinating open access article about the history of glutamate production here:

https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/article/90/3/728S/4597145

The author is an employee of Ajinomoto Co, Inc., the same company that the author of the New Yorker article visited.

Abstract:

In 1907 Kikunae Ikeda, a professor at the Tokyo Imperial University, began his research to identify the umami component in kelp. Within a year, he had succeeded in isolating, purifying, and identifying the principal component of umami and quickly obtained a production patent. In 1909 Saburosuke Suzuki, an entrepreneur, and Ikeda began the industrial production of monosodium L-glutamate (MSG). The first industrial production process was an extraction method in which vegetable proteins were treated with hydrochloric acid to disrupt peptide bonds. L-Glutamic acid hydrochloride was then isolated from this material and purified as MSG. Initial production of MSG was limited because of the technical drawbacks of this method. Better methods did not emerge until the 1950s. One of these was direct chemical synthesis, which was used from 1962 to 1973. In this procedure, acrylonitrile was the starting material, and optical resolution of DL-glutamic acid was achieved by preferential crystallization. In 1956 a direct fermentation method to produce glutamate was introduced. The advantages of the fermentation method (eg, reduction of production costs and environmental load) were large enough to cause all glutamate manufacturers to shift to fermentation. Today, total world production of MSG by fermentation is estimated to be 2 million tons/y (2 billion kg/y).
From what I've read, no level of glutamate intake in humans allows it to cross the blood-brain barrier, or, for that matter, even substantially increase the serum glutamate level.
If Seattle's high rate of homelessness is due much more to substance abuse and mental health issues and is largely unrelated to the high cost of housing locally, I would be interested in knowing what about Seattle is either causing people to be crazy or addicted or drawing inordinate numbers of such people there. If the high levels of local homelessness are an indictment of America's mental health and substance abuse issues, why isn't it equally bad elsewhere?

I'm aware there are many factors that contribute to homelessness and nowhere have I said that personal problems aren't a factor. But I fail to comprehend why there is such strong push back against the idea that lack of affordable housing is a factor at all, why every time this cones up, multiple people feel some need to say "Nuh uh, homeless people are just crazies and addicts and the cost of housing has no bearing" in essence, granted in slightly more PC language.
Someone should make a CPU that does this. Intel CET is a bit of a start, but a CALL instruction that takes a “type” operand and only calls functions of that type would be a big improvement. So would a totally separate return address stack.
Ive had to do this for about the last month now. Its not really that big of a pain and worth the trade off.
Don't think of it as a security layer, it won't serve you. Don't link to your admin interface from your homepage, that's asking for trouble, but don't expend additional effort to create obscurity thinking you're strengthening your outermost defenses. You'll waste your time while creating a false sense of security.

The problem with obscurity is that it doesn't really impose asymmetric costs on the attacker. You know how much effort you spent creating a layer of obscurity, but there is no way to know how much effort the attacker has to spend to break it. Do they find your secret URL on accident? Were they an ex-employee who simply knew? Are you just not nearly as tricky as you imagine you are? You can easily work yourself to the bone creating a "layer" which is as effective as the Maginot line.
Huh, it never would have occurred to me to see that as inappropriate. If my coworkers are sick, I want them using tissues rather than spreading their germs around.

Tissues cost what, $0.01 each anyway?
It's probably the hope that it would generating conversation about new discoveries rather than drawing out the loonies (which is all it has done).
They pay but it is included in the price I pay to them.
Ah, Model driven software engineering. Great babble that has come out of engineering schools but never produced any considerable outcomes outside of academic papers. Remember working with a client in the late 90ies that had decided to buy all Rational Rose products from IBM. It was one big version control hell.
Dating has multiple different meanings in English. Not only do I know this, but you're attempt to correct me is a re-statement of what I said in my own post: dating can refer to the process of finding someone to begin dating.

Online dating can be a long torturous experience. That is why people are saying they want to skip it and do the parts that are enjoyable. Some because it was long and people don't have time for it. Some because it can be torturous and life is too short to put up with that.
I knew they had them, just haven't seen much enthusiasm behind them. I would think a large majority of Square's offline customers also take payments online and would imagine a small minority are using Square for online. The credit card processing APIs seem to get lost in all the rest of the POS/order mgmt APIs. And they're already on an incompatible v2 which doesn't really seem all that much better, just different.
> I used to live in Brest which was also heavily bombed during WW2

Birmingham is the same. There was a WWII bomb found last year right by two major roads where they cross a railway line. Travel into the city centre was completely stuffed up for two days. I felt the controlled explosion three miles away.
Had it in the diminutive form. As in Deb instead of Deborah, pretty common in my home language.

Wish I could remember what the first step was, think it was pretty informal too, but can't be sure. Just remember feeling dumbfounded they wouldn't simply come back with another option.
I considered that also. But if you’re not going at busy times (which I understand is the case for many movie pass customers, since you can’t reserve in advance conveniently), then seating and capacity wouldn’t be as much of an issue.
The whole FT Alphaville team have become very good indeed on crypto coverage. (Trained up by Izabella Kaminska, who's been on the crypto beat for a few years.) It's the best coverage you'll find in the mainstream finance press.
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I'll shortcut it and say: the culture of the coastal cities is better, despite their diverse separate cultures.

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-11-nations-of-the-united-... is a useful lens to consider in this matter. Similar analyses from other lens with largely similar results have been applied.
Yes, I think you could definitely piece something together. And I suspect there's a starter-kit/cookiecutter somewhere that I'll look for.
Then prevent them from easily stumbling across it, but don't prevent them from accessing it in any form.
You're not including payroll, sales, or property taxes, though.
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I care. And I think it's solvable, once we raise the burden of proof.

As it stands, male sperm rates have declined by over 50% in the last 30 years, it's only a matter of time until people switch to a more cautious attitude.
Never heard of them before. From the looks of it (being as they mention saying you're on a guest list) they're acting like a promoter and using their block of tickets for subscribers. That's an interesting way to go about it (if thats what they're doing).
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I guess that's exactly why the period is so long: they force the merchant to ship before and take that risk.
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One could probably cite the immense popularity of Fifty shades of gray. It's supposed to be "BDSM themed", but actually, it's just a story about an abusive relationship build on "great sex" [0].

Most people familiar with BDSM practices/norms hate those books/movies with a passion due to how they misrepresent BDSM like it's just an abusive relationship.

The article also quotes a 2000 paper about consent by legal scholar Robin West [1], imho it's relevant to the discussion at hand as it argues that even violent and abusive marriages are often traceable back to acts of consent by the woman.

[0] https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/02/co...

[1] https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1847983
> If we listen to the drivers who say nobody but cars should ever be on the road.

It's not drivers who say this, but the Law. Ever heard of 'Jaywalking' Tickets?
> If you've given your DNA freely to the government by participating in a violent crime

Ignoring the intentionally bizarre phrasing ("if you've freely stoned yourself to death by committing adultery"), this is unrelated to the actual situation, which forces people arrested for a felony to surrender their DNA.

1) Both not restricted to "violent" crimes and not including all violent crimes, and

2) not requiring a conviction, or charges to be pressed.
you and probably 90% others (e.g. #metoo)
A more direct example - if people have to live in McSprawlsBurg and commute an hour each way every day to work in NIMBYville highways and endless leagues of single family copy pasted houses will be built to accommodate job demand in that city, and you will get ludicrous amounts of traffic.

If NIMBYville stops being awful and recognizes how high the land values are they dezone the city limits to enable substantially higher density. And then, a decade later after the demand bubble has been drained, you might finally have the workers living in the actual city they work in, commuting by train, bike, tram, walking, etc instead of with cars that, unless you go out of your way to subsidize, will be prohibitively expensive to own when the square footage land value is so high.

And everyone wins in that world. If you previously owned an upzoned house developers will buy your house for more than they would if it were just zoned for a single family dwelling because they can put a dozen+ apartments on it. Letting density happen would mean you can actually choose between a small inner city condo or apartment that dosen't cost a magnitude more than a several thousand square foot house fifty miles away because when housing demand happens in the city housing can actually be built to meet it.

It is all wrapped up in short sighted greed on the part of everyone involved. Nothing gets better because nobody wants to wait for the best outcome if they can make marginal victories by sacrificing the well being of the whole and even their own long term prospects in the immediate term.
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LOVE that idea
I ran away from Eclipse after two events.

A version they released where SubEclipse's installer was broken on a fresh install. The work around was install the previous version, install SubEclipse, then upgrade.

And then the next release after, CDT Plugin wasn't compatible with the new version.

The first case it was obvious no one tested installing SubEclipse on a fresh install. The second drove home that any language other than Java was going to be a bastard step child as far as the dev's were concerned.
eBay also had and still has a reputation for outright letting fraudsters operate easily as buyers. I would never trust eBay to sell anything there anymore.
The first two atomic bombs in production were considerably different designs from each other, and there was only one test explosion before those two, so doesn't that mean that at least one bomb was in fact tested in production?
I actually miss the 3D view. Anyone know why it was discontinued? I imagine it was simply too expensive in dev-hours to maintain compared to the benefit.
Thats why they're requiring ticket stub photos now. I imagine they also have some auditing tricks to find people using the card at non approved locations based on transaction history.
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Definitely, though being able to walk to the edge of the atmosphere could let you do things like use rail guns to get payloads up close to orbital speeds
That’s exactly why they’re there. Would you say the same if the lunch was shoplifted from a business?
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/04/secret-service-warns-of-...
In this instance (and most of the similar instances), if he needed the day off, he would have gotten it with fairly minimal notice. Without pay if he had used up his available PTO, yes, but so was the bereavement.

I agree, most companies don't offer enough PTO.
Do they let you reserve online? That might be a selling point for me. Just a shame the nearest cinemark is a bit of a trek.
I use my own site I built while I was learning Rails. http://serializer.io/

It has a mark as read feature which I really need.

I moved it to a subdomain of my personal site to save renewing the to domain for another year. Upon doing so I immediately got about 10 emails from users asking about the domain. One offered to PayPal me the cost for it and now we're back on the original domain!
I'm actually somewhat surprised it wasn't faster. I may play with this and see how fast I can get it to go.

Edit: After a number of attempts (such as using Golang's regexp library or strings.Contains()), I wasn't able to speed it up much. Interestingly, grep performs the same search in about 5ms on my machine.
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The next logical step after this is a space elevator. Because the structure is mechanically linked to the rotation of the planet below, you can achieve orbital velocity simply by climbing up to geostationary altitude and pushing off. I'm almost certain that there are physical limits that prevent such a thing from forming naturally, but I don't know how close to it something like a mountain can get without collapsing under its own weight.
Yes. It would. Here's one from "The Science of Trust" by Dr. John M. Gottman, foremost expert on this subject.

"As we interview these abused women, Neil and I were astounded by one consistent story about half of these women told us. They said that the best sex they had ever had in their lives occurred right after a violent beating they took from their husbands. The very thought of having sex with someone who had just hit you was totally out of the realm of our experience. Is that the combined result of dopamine and oxytocin."

I suggest reading the whole book. It's fantastic.
> The rapist has no right to any kind of privacy after giving his DNA away.

Umm...

The person who shared their DNA was neither a rapist or murderer but was simply related to one.
No, that’s not true either. Read the court documents. He is going to prison for pirating Windows specifically. The judge even used the word pirating. Which, he clearly did not do. He distributed a copy of what is otherwise free, from both OEMs and Microsoft themselves, and could only be reasonably valued at $0, on a disc. The government even explicitly said that the infringed item was not the disc itself, but the software on the disc. That software was not counterfeit. It was Windows, the same Windows on MSDN, but with no license.

Also, Microsoft did not have the value reduced, nor did they help him at all.
> PayPal fees are probably on the high side, fraud has been a non-issue for us.

It should he an issue for you. That is because PayPal is stopping a lot of payments with false positives. I live outside US and using PayPal is generally a pain in the ass.
>I think that depends on which specifics of their business model you are considering

That part of the model which has them bleeding money with no way to turn it around.
Automotive companies don't usually write large amounts of their own software for infotainment, vehicle controls, machine learning, factory systems engineering and the actual embedded programming for the electronics. Yes Tesla is a software company. They hire a huge amount of software engineers.

Is Apple not a software company because they make phones and give away all their software for those phones for free like Tesla does?
It is both terrifying and comical at the same time.

This made it click for me about why the most productive times I have are also the busiest ones. I thought it was due to "inertia". That is, if you don't stop rolling, it'll be easier to roll. This theory has been contradicted by the fact that it still really is quite easy to stop rolling very shortly after busy times pass.

I had noticed this effect before, but only now after reading about it I'm completely aware of it. I wonder how that came to be part of the human psychology.
As I mentioned to above poster. Here is a source from "The Science of Trust" by Dr. John M. Gottman, foremost expert on this subject.

"As we interview these abused women, Neil and I were astounded by one consistent story about half of these women told us. They said that the best sex they had ever had in their lives occurred right after a violent beating they took from their husbands. The very thought of having sex with someone who had just hit you was totally out of the realm of our experience. Is that the combined result of dopamine and oxytocin."

There is more but really I'm at a -4 for making this post, so trying to teach people uncomfortable truths is not well-rewarded around here.
These abstraction statements just aren't true.

Yes, you can architect a storage system this way. But
1) Even if you do, many, many, many high-performance systems are "on top" of a filesystem but don't actually use the filesystem for anything except perhaps as a block allocator. Consider databases.

2) Many, many object stores do not abstract on top of filesystems. Modern RADOS, the distributed object store, stores its local data in a local object store called BlueStore. BlueStore speaks directly to the block device; there's no filesystem involved.

3) Even if you did store part of your distributed object store data on top of a local filesystem, that's not necessarily an issue. HDFS does this. (HDFS, despite the "FS" in its name, is an object store as most practitioners understand them.)
> I mean just look how FAANGM create actual cities around their campus to suck you in.

Facebook. Apple. Amazon. Netflix. Google. M ???

What's the M?
Given enough time, someone who steals from coworkers will eventually steal from the company. Antisocial behavior isn't about the victims, it's about the behavior. They may say things like "I would never do that to YOU", but in the end, when it is to their advantage, they will do that to you.
It's a matter of skillset. In 2001 many who only knew a smaller language struggled; those who knew what "boring" companies needed were fine. Similarly in the next crash I think we'll see those who specialize in the hippest JS frameworks have problems; the .net and Java folks will be fine.
> On a super-Earth, with super-sized mountains or super-thick atmosphere, it might be more useful to start from an extremely high place so that you don't have as much atmosphere to deal with.

The paper tackles this. Mountains should be shorter on a super-Earth.
For some reason, I thought I was the only person who couldn't motivate themselves without this sort of structured procrastination. It's clearly more common than I thought!
>MS didn't really lose any money from this but they claimed that they did.

Users potentially have. End users were deprived of genuine restore cds.
My personal warning sign that I'm off track is whenever I feel the urge to research a new to-do list tool.
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