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So why are they not using this tech for balls/strikes? The point of this article is that during extra innings, umps are miscalling pitches. With Hawk-eye the home base ump could know near-instantly if the ball is in the zone. Then there is just the arguments of the batter swinging..
That's the point though: this isn't a new messaging service, it is a protocol standard that will be implemented by carriers, not Google. It is not thing that Google will shut down because there is nothing to shut down.

We have better alternatives (Signal, WhatsApp...) for those who care. Those who don't will continue using SMS, and for those, RCS is a good step forward.
Probably because the massive amount of regulations that have been added in the last century means starting with nothing is a massive undertaking if you aim at providing a full service bank. Startups are popping up, but usually they only do one thing. And a limited set of that one service at that.
You can receive messages on multiple devices. So it would be easy for Apple to simply add a new device without showing you.
As soon as someone quotes the Dow Jones I stop reading because I know they have nothing worthwhile to say.
Here's a link to the transcript and the audio: https://insideevs.com/tesla-q4-conference-call-entirety-vide...

The relevant portion with the stock analyst starts about 46:00 in.
I do the same. I walk quickly and as far to the side of them as I can, making a decent amount of noise. That way they can hear my location and be less alarmed.
You're right. I'm making an assumption of what Ryanair's system is based on the outrage people have at being deliberately assigned middle seats. Ryanair have admitted however that they prioritise window and aisle seats for paying passengers. My analysis took this to an extreme, which may not be the case.

And I agree, an R analysis is unnecessary but I've been telling people this conclusion for ages and they don't seem to get it!
While you are looking, Brad Cox’s other book Superdistribution: Objects as Property on the Electronic Frontier is well worth a read to get a feel for where he wanted to go.
we actually do have this problem in the UK - for example, with the police targeting black teenagers/young adults for stop-and-searches in London. It seems a lot less pervasive/severe than in the US though.
The 4th amendment to the US Constitution reads:

"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."

So, does that imply a skepticism of the state?

Yes and no.

Yes, in that if the police are interacting with you, they should have a reasonable belief about your involvement in a crime or that you have information which could reasonably aid their investigation.

No, because the reality is the vast majority of police interactions in the US are brief, professional, lawful, and friendly.
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I have coded with both, and practically, yes, they are. The only place where JS would beat Python would be a big loop with number crunching, which you would do with numpy anyway. Or pypy, which is 50 times faster than V8.

A desktop app would not see any difference. A sysadmin script neihter. Data analystics is made using numpy/scipy/pandas. Web sites bottleneck are incredibly rarely the server side scripting language, and when it is, you go rust/go.

But for our current debate, electron VS PyQT, well yes, the C++ does the heavy lifting and you get to use Python only for the stuff it is good at. Win-win.

The problem with using PyQT is making an exe or making fancy graphics is harder than in electron.

Everything else, and I do mean everything else, is easier and more performant with PyQT.
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the driving up and down the runways can be a significant factor. Ryanair think nothing of keeping their passengers on the tarmac for hours on end.
> they don't understand the budget flight business model.

Does letting you choose your seat increase their costs? If not, then I can see why people see it as a scam.
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> the UK Government is certainly constantly after WhatsApp to remove the encryption (or build a backdoor)

Australia too. :-(
> Please show me how the small increases in property value multiplies my initial investment.

You're leveraged 5x (say), so you get 5x as much growth. Just pulling numbers out of nowhere, let's imagine you buy a $200k house with 40k down; after ten years the house is worth a nominal $400k which is $300k in today's dollars. You've gained 100k on your initial 40k, whereas if you'd invested the $40k in the stock market at the same rate of return you'd only have made 20k.

You'd achieve the same thing by taking out a loan for $160k and putting it in the stock market (per the article, property and stocks grow at the same rate), but a) you can't - a bank won't lend you that much money to buy stocks, certainly not at the same low rates of interest, and b) if they did you'd be on the hook for the risk, with ordinary loans you don't have the non-recourse protection of a mortgage.

> The problem is most people don't move sideways or down... they move up, thus negating any windfall in investment prowess.

What's the connection? If you plan on buying a $600K house when you're 50 that will consume $600K, but that's true whether you rent or buy your current house.

> Renters don't always pay the taxes. There are several rentals in my neighborhood that are less than the mortgage.

It's pretty rare though, and seems like the market would generally adjust either way. Occasionally in a given market renting will be cheap enough to be worthwhile. But generally renting will be more expensive since you're competing with people who can't afford to buy.

> We could get into many ways to beat the tax system... but lets suffice to say that homeownership isn't really "beating" the tax system.

It's playing the system as intended rather than "beating" it, but the bottom line is: the government is willing to pay you $x (in tax deductions) to buy instead of renting. Tax incentives are one of the few sources of free money out there in investing: when you have the opportunity you jump at it.

> That "savings" on tax isn't savings... it is rent on top of rent... let that sink in.

What are you talking about?
I don't think the author was trying to suggest that people stop using/developing ML/AI. I think the point was that ML is not some kind of black magic panacea, and that a smart programmer is often more valuable than a 'smart' machine.
Little trick that I do when travelling as a couple: Get one randomly allocated seat, and then pay for the other one next to it (or as close by as possible).
I would take issue with this. The service with Ryanair is awful. I have never experienced rudeness from cabin crew of other airlines like I have of Ryanair.
Your example would never happen. The TOS is written referring to what it describes as, "The Services," which does not include anything other than what Eventbrite does. This clause is to prevent people from posting copywrited images as their header image and forcing liability onto Eventbrite.
Well, yes, it's not perfect yet, but then I'm pretty sure SQL Queries won't fare any better here ;). Google photos does quite a decent job for me in many cases.
I'm actually very loyal to Ryanair because I know I can book late and still get any seat I want (because most people never book their seats).

The only issue I have with RA is that some airports they use are far outside the cities they "cover", so you sometimes need an hour or more (by a train or bus) to get into the actual city.
This is overly pessimistic. Some companies do that sort of thing, but as consumers we have to look carefully and investigate companies to find one's that dont, and that we trust. Somebody already mentioned apple's e2e product, and Google doesn't stop anybody from using signal, or others. I don't think consumers will make the best choices if they think they're choosing the lesser of many evils.
> if possible not in PHP

I'm not a fan of PHP as a language, but given the community has been working with PHP for 16 years, it would be odd to switch suddenly to an entirely new language and expect support and adoption.

The codebase is an absolute nightmare though, and a ground-up rebuild would be great. I wonder though about it having a similar affect to the Wordpress codebase: people who recognise the mess stay away completely, and people who don't contribute, leaving a contributor base who isn't really equipped (or extremely willing) to do a quality, maintainable rewrite.

I suspect any rewrite attempt would be doomed to end up being an unmaintainable behemoth.

A better approach would be to focus on secure integration tools and API entry-points, to make users less entrenched and solely dependent on the MW software.
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I do mean to express dislike, as I'm one of the millions of users giving Wikipedia a false metric and sense of satisfaction. I've seen the pop-up hundreds of times, and have considered it a hindrance to my process every single time.

Something that just happens accidentally is a bug, no matter how useful it might be if it were not happening accidentally.
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they may be offsetting a cost elsewhere by doing this. If they wanted to make the same money but allow people to choose their seats they could raise ticket prices for everybody (which wouldn't be fair on those who really don't care about their seat allocation).
In Japan, mortgage rates are less than 1% right now for a 35-year loan.
Why would WebPack require to use a package like "is-odd" or "is-even"??
I wrote Bourne shell and both of you assumed bash. Horrid state of affairs in today’s IT. All hail Linux hegemony!

And AWK, if it’s not easily parsable with the language specifically designed for parsing data, something is wrong with that data.
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Except wan you gat whoa ird trance scriptions, people tagged as gorillas and recommendations "I see you bought $that, do you also want to buy $that?" There's No Silver Bullet, welcome to $any_year.
For some routes in Europe they are hard to avoid and, to be fair, some other budget airlines are not so much better that it's worth the effort.
and behind a person who reclined their seat.

Jam your knees in there. There are certain periods of long haul flights where you need to recline but the inconvenience to your fellow passenger should never be necessary on shorter ones.

Speaking as a tall guy as well, one of the things I do actually like about Ryanair is their seats don't recline.
> [undefined behavior for optimization]

Yes, I am aware that that is the excuse. It still is a terrible excuse.

> because you violated an invariant at some point of program execution.

Not true. The code in question is a callback, so my code is getting called by Apple code, and ARC dereferences a pointer it has no business de-referencing.

May I remind you that the code that crashed due to a segfault was

{
return 0;
}

Also, if you think "You have violated something, for which we will give you no diagnostic, and therefore we feel free to crash you at some random other place in the program that has nothing to do with the place where the alleged violation took place, again with no diagnostics" is reasonable...well, could I interest you in purchasing a bridge in New York? Or some Nevada oceanfront real estate?

And no, you don't need a "safer" language like Swift, you just need to not go for the crazy modifications the optimizer writers pushed into the C standard.
I know some people don't appreciate it, but I really liked the preview. I feel it lets you get the gist of ancillary topics so you can understand the main article better, without having to switch contexts completely.
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No, in a lot of circumstances the release / retain worked really well and is really understandable. It is more a point of view from folks who structured their programs in a certain way that made ARC rather unneeded. I look at it more like I know where the resources need to be or I have some very specific rules myself. It is more prevalent where you have some type of document life cycle or specific file interactions.
If you have a Wikipedia account you can set this theme as your default theme in your account preferences without having to visit the m. domain.
CEO of a building app here. Same thought. Parse > Firebase because of open source and movable quickly
Except, say, you want to stay in NYC. Rent are ridiculous and continue not only to be ridiculous but become more and more ridiculous and unless you just happened to be in a rent controlled apartment, you are at a mercy of your landlord.

You may as well do 7/1 ARM or 7 year IOM and treat it as rent.
This is not an app. :/ Why didn't you read the source?
Ryanair is a horrible airline. If you add up random costs you are confronted with during the whole process of flying with them they aren't even that much cheaper. With which I mean expensive meals/drinks, costs for suitcases, costs for checking in at the airport when you didn't have access to internet, etc. Leg space and general facilities are crappy and their handling of cancelled flights, etc is very poor. Whenever possible I don't fly with them en instead choose a more 'expensive' option.
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That's pretty much WhatsApp. They use their own weird "Fun" version of XMPP with Signal's Noise protocol.

But they don't federate. Which I think is a pretty clear example of why not having one true solution isn't a technical problem, it's a political problem. Companies don't want to make it easy to compete with their products.
If you intend to live in a home for the rest of your life then you're effectively short one home (or half a home if you're going to share). So I see buying your primary home as more like covering your short than making a positive investment in real estate.
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I didn't realise that Ryanair fly outside of Europe but I can see now that they do have a few locations such as Morocco and Israel.

But do you actually mean Ryanair or do you mean Air Europa, whom Ryanair seems to be a reseller for (transatlantic flights)?
Easyjet is much less obnoxious.
Nope, it's not "done right". It's a table layout from the nineties. But probably there's an api so noone would have to scrape a wiki page, I never needed to do that fortunately :)
No but it's a possible source of additional revenue.
You're right, I didn't get that far... but what he does is actually worse.

He assumes a 2% increase in rent (no, just no) - rents track real estate increases quite well too, the common link is the cost of the landlord's mortgage to buy the property, and an ROI of 8% on an MMF. Also no.

All of this is linked back to monetary expansion - in periods of high inflation, when you also get high returns on MMF's, your rent is equally increasing rapidly. In periods of low inflation, you don't get those kinds of return without unacceptable risk.
The step ups in API usage over the last year are rather dramatic:

https://grafana.wikimedia.org/dashboard/db/reading-web-page-...
You should visit Latin America. Everyone is judged by their skin tone. The darker you are, the more you are regarded as "the help." Parents are excited when their children are born with light skin. My in-laws are all Mexican and I can say that they are far more racist than any US citizen I've met.

I'm not even sure it's really "racism." But I do know that it's considered completely normal to think of others this way.
It's a great essay but you get to the same place from here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map%E2%80%93territory_relation
Try to fly with American or United.
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My issue with it is that it makes it difficult to compare the cost of a flight with a competitor. If i compare a BA flight with a United flight, I know that I'm going to get _roughly_ the same service. With a Ryanair vs BA comparison, I'm not actually sure what the difference is going to be, or how much it will cost me to make them equal.
Compared to the other budget providers (Easyjet, Flybe [who frankly, aren't even budget prices]), they're miles ahead. The Easyjet routes I used to fly regularly were late every single time, and a member of airport staff told me ~50% of Easyjet flights were delayed in that particular airport. While Ryanair is certainly super basic, and they take every opportunity to sell you tat, they've been far more consistent and far cheaper than the alternatives in my experience
Learned from this article that they make their Grafana dashboards public: https://grafana.wikimedia.org/dashboard/file/varnish-http-er...

The variety of metrics and the sheer volume of those is awesome to explore! (e.g. frequent peaks to 20M requests per minute)
Shell and AWK programs have fewest dependencies, are extremely light on resources’ consumption and are extremely fast. When someone’s program emits JSON because the author assumed that programs which ingest that data will also be JavaScript programs, that’s a really bad assumption. It would force the consumer of that data to replicate the environment. This goes against core UNIX principles, as discussed at length in “The art of UNIX programming” book. It’s a rookie mistake to make.
They also demand complete access to your whole contacts list.
I upvoted this despite the rewritten title, which I hope the mods will fix.
It's part of a messaging app.

>Chat will be integrated with the default messages app on Android phones.
Afaik Wizz does the same randomization logic, it's a new "feature" though :(
When it comes to making a trade off for convenience vs. cost, I usually choose cost within reason and I also got burned by the real estate meltdown. I was in no hurry to buy.

But the rent where we were staying went from $1300 to $1800 within 3 years for a 3 bedroom, 1650 square foot apartment. We were able to buy a house, a brand new build 3000 square feet 5 bed/3.5 bath for $2000/month with only 3.5% down in a neighborhood zoned to top rated schools.

As far as convenience, we pay a lawn service $140/month to cut our grass and now that the home warranty is up (paid for by the builder), we pay about $700/year for a "home warranty" when anything breaks you just call them and pay a deductible. Is The warranty a good deal financially? Probably not, but it is convenient.
There are some routes where they're the sole carrier and guess what you'll pay regular more expensive prices yet still receive the same "budget" treatment.
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I've flown with them nearly fortnightly for the past two years and never had an issue with them. I guess I don't often have much cause to interact with the staff.
Sometimes it really is a thin line.

In my country (The Netherlands) police sometimes check all cars passing a temporary checkpoint. They check if you have open fines, paid your taxes etc. When really expensive cars pass those checkpoints they verify that the owner actually has a job to afford cars like these and if the owner doesn't they can impound the car on suspicion of being paid with criminal money.

Statistics have shown that the highest "risk" group of those crime paid cars is with young foreign male drivers.

A few years ago a (black) rap artist was stopped at the side of the road by police and they basically admitted that this was racial profiling.

The artist made some fuss about it on social media, and it appeared in all news broadcasts and talk shows. People were expecting some big commotion about it; but it turns out that the majority of people actually approved of this method.

It wasn't racism at work here, it was statistics and people were fine with it. It is a thin line though, because to the people on the wrong end of the statistics it really can feel like racism. So where should police draw the line?
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Yeah the article is a little bizarre. E.g.

> This works exactly as intended! We were able to edit our program while it was running, and then re-run only the part that needed fixing. In some sense, this is an obvious result—a REPL is designed to do exactly this, allow you to create new code while inside a long-running programming environment. But the difference between Jupyter and a REPL is that Jupyter is persistent. Code which I write in a REPL disappears along with my data when the REPL exits, but Jupyter notebooks hang around. Jupyter’s structure of delimited code cells enables a programming style where each can be treated like an atomic unit, where if it completes, then its effects are persisted in memory for other code cells to process.

> More generally, we can view this as a form of programming in the debugger. Rather than separating code creation and code execution as different phases of the programming cycle, they become intertwined. Jupyter performs the many functions of a debugger—inspecting the values of variables, setting breakpoints (ends of code cells), providing rich visualization of program intermediates (e.g. graphs)—except the programmer can react to program’s execution by changing the code while it runs.

I just don't understand what's so amazing about this. This is total standard debugging. In python you can do it with with the built-in debugging module pdb:

import pdb; pdb.set_trace()

Or you can run your script with

python -m pdb script.py

Also the REPL doesn't just exit, it only exits if you allow it. E.g. if you call the script as

python script.py

it will exit, but you can also call it as e.g.

python -i script.py

or do any number of things and it will not exit.

I mean it's great that more people start debugging code, but calling this a feature of jupyter is a little ridiculous. The exact same feature exists in the python REPL and that's reflected in jupyter.
The same is true for other airlines. Anecdotal, but I've been stranded in airports/on planes far more often with other airlines than I have with ryanair.
LOL I'd rather not :D

I was speaking more in the context of other carriers competing with Ryanair on routes.
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Why in the world would I have to use JavaScript or any object oriented programming language just because the application is poorly thought out and emits JSON? I certainly have better things to do.

It doesn't matter how sensible a format is, those tools are simply not appropriate to write a parser in.

AWK is a language designed for data parsing and processing. That is what it is designed to do.

How did you solve the parsing of arbitrarily nested structures?
What’s your point?

The question at hand is whether any major company would allow consumers to send messages the company can’t harvest for data. The answer is yes. Apple does.

Are you saying they don’t? —That they actually have backdoored their E2E messaging app already?

If you are just saying that it’s not entirely impossible for them to do backdoor, I don’t see what bearing that has on the discussion.