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That's fair. I think you're right.
Microsoft SQL Server allows one to write server-side code (triggers, sprocs, functions) in any language that compiles to .Net IL. There are some serious restrictions, though, as most of the .Net Framework becomes unavailable[1]. More recent version also provide for server-side R, but our SQL Server is 2014, so I have not had the option to play with that (plus, I don't know R).

[1] I was looking into writing a stored procedure for use with the Service Broker in C#, but the fact that most of the .Net Framework is unavailable (not to speak of third-party libraries) quickly put an end to my investigation.
He does point out every good programer knows they should have one if check for all three:
"
Wrapping Up .
Many programmers will get a sense that something was off about the first example. Every programmer I’ve shown this example to knew they should merge the if-statements and factor out the prints.
"

Which corresponds to the one if part of the story:
"
if (lastCachedTime <= lastMidnight() || lastCachedTime <= lastNoon()) {
numUsers = countUsers();
numArticles = countArticles();
numWords = countWords();
lastCachedTime = Time.now();
}
"

So having the multiple ifs being bad even before a second cache refresh is added is part of the story.
> Every second teenager is carrying iPhone - are you sure? [Citation needed]

There is 70 millions of iPhone sold in last 4 years in US.
If you include other high-end phones it makes teenager/adults to carry half the year of work in Pakistan and year of work in Madagascar.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/242269/apple-iphone-in-t...

> The US has a well documented and understood education system and their unis are respected across the world.

It is highly specialized and makes most US educated people clueless outside their niche.

> Are you saying that the 2-5% are subsidising the other 95-98%?

Yes. Most non-technology work is now cost centre.
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I agree with you about cost of living. But my point was, that someone living on what I would consider to be an untenable income for London is actually able to save up for a down-payment on a house--in London! Sure, I understand the desire to have a "break from misery," but my point is that the conclusion she came to was that her lack of savings was entirely her decision. If someone living in ex-council houses (as an American, those words don't mean anything to me, so thanks for your description) has the financial ability to save up for a down payment, I think a lot of people in the U.S. do, too. Sure, it takes some self-sacrifice and discipline. I'm not saying it's easy. I'm just saying that I don't think we should be blaming the evil rich people for people's lack of savings without having a look at some personal responsibility.
Don't need to, if you follow what I said, it will come out perfectly fluffy.

Also note I have made a mixture of multiple types of rice, same way, with no issue.

Honestly I only actually learnt the Asian method about 5 years ago and was kicking myself for not researching it earlier. It's so much better and insanely reliable across different types of rice.

Edit: after it is done I tend to take the lid off, stir it and let sit for a bit to let it air out. That helps a lot.
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> it seems like it's almost a hybrid between a message queue and a database?

If Kafka supported data processing (queries or whatever) then it would be much closer to databases. Also, databases are normally aware of the structure of the data (for example, columns).

Therefore, Kafka can hardly be viewed as a DBMS because it explicitly separates two major concerns:

* data management - how to represent data (Kafka)

* data processing - how to derive/infer new data (Kafka Streams - a separate library)

Theoretically, if they could combine these two layers of functionality in one system then it would be a database.
Thanks, I've installed DMD and DMC, when I try to build the compiler I get a compilation error:

.\code.d(16): Error: module `cc` is in file 'ddmd\backend\cc.d' which cannot be read
An Iridium flare can be much brighter than any other satellite including the ISS.

The Iridium satellites are not very bright most of the time - you would be lucky to see one with the naked eye. But when they flare, they can be the brightest thing in the night sky for a few seconds.
From what I gathered on news sources, most of the (german) MEPs are extremely pissed at Zuckerberg in regards to the question answered, the format of the Q&A and the refusal to livestream a real Q&A. He brought up the question about FB's monopoly on the market, stating that there are plenty of competitor products ("we might have a monopoly on cars but there are still planes, bikes and walking!").

Zuck didn't make friends, I'm fairly certain he made enemies in Europe.
> Although comforting, the having a majority of the votes is a misleading metric in some ways

In some ways, perhaps, but not when the question is whether the actions of the person elected can, based on the election results, be taken as proof that the voters collectively have zero concern for an issue.

> the electoral college is skewed so that voters in states with lower population have more power so each vote is not equal.

True.

> This effect carries over to the Senate

No, it's a carryover from the Senate: electoral college representation is identical by state to Congressional representation in both houses combined.
What?! That is amazing!
This exactly what I need this week. Thank you!
Same here. Some years ago I switched from Thunderbird on several machines to a self-hosted TT-RSS that vastly improved my (professional) RSS feed browsing. Some minor annoyances with the scrolling when the RSS items are long but overall great experience.
Sounds more like a 3B1 (UNIX PC) to me.
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Of course there's the other way (it's easier to get forgiveness than permission): do more work than expected in less than 40 hours in the office, and see if anyone notices. One of the most productive stretches of my career was spent in this mode.
But Lucent already has a 3B2 emulator.[1] It's used to run MERT and DMERT, real-time operating systems used by central office phone switches for auxiliary functions.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-Environment_Real-Time
I was always disappointed I couldn't find more talks by Jack Diederich after watching this one. His approach was so practical compared to so much programming advice out there. I see now that he's got a few more talks linked from here.

I know how I'll be spending a few hours in the next few days. Thank you for reminding me of his talk!
There's an excellent discussion on this topic in the sample chapter, Rediscovering Simplicity[0], from Sandi Metz's book, 99 Bottles of OOP[1]. I often use it as a source for discussion with devs.

[0] https://www.sandimetz.com/99bottles/sample

[1] https://www.sandimetz.com/99bottles
Since I'm considering to switch from TTRSS to something else, may I drill a bit? (the website is a tad short)

I heavily rely on nested categories in TTRSS (Youtube -> News for news channels for example), while the website says it has categories, can they be nested?

And most importantly, does miniflux handle about 700 feeds well? It would help a lot if I could lower the update rate of some feeds that only update once a month...
EU asks Zukerberg if he has created a ”Digital Monster“
There's some irony in getting the Oath panel forcing me to consent to their tracking (in apparent violation of the GDPR) before showing me an article about Facebook's data handling problems.

By the way, if you want to read the article without agreeing to their stuff, stop the page load after the article shows up.

https://guce.oath.com/collectConsent?brandType=nonEu&.done=h...
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Yes, http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/wonders/#build-a-brain. Personally I liked Microsoft's chatbot better than Duplex based on Nova program
Unfortunately it has become very hard to buy a good sour-dough bread in Germany, even in rural areas. I resorted to baking my own which is far superior to the ones one can commonly buy.

Strangely, even small bakeries (outside super-markets) tend to make poor industrial-like bread (with some exemptions).
Feedback is always welcome (and subscribers even more ;) ), you can also send me a mail (in profile) or follow the way described in the docs to reach me (https://www.pipes.digital/docs#support).
> try two in one hand (much harder than 3). Will make 3 ball juggling easier.

What does this mean?
I'm under the impression that pulling extensions on RSS will land us in the XMPP situation, where you have servers and clients speaking different languages.

On the other hand, if you want to say that your client supports this supposed RSS-ng standard they need to support those new features because they're part of the protocol.

This is to say, I don't like protocol extensions, but that's just me :)
Their current raytracer is limited by the available compute power, so it's forced to use as few samples per pixel as possible, which results in a noisy picture.

However, there's a synergy between their on-chip ML cores and their raytracing engine: they use ML cores (which are typically useless in graphic workloads) to de-noise ray-traced images.
Saying sorry isn't enough, Mark Zuckerberg
White and black are really the same colour, or lack of colour. The moon is actually like tyre rubber. But a tyre being lit by the sun at night is still brighter than anything else.
This is kind of tangential, but I find it a sad commentary on our society when an abortion is considered a "fair unexpected expense" of a teenager. Abortion is 100% avoidable [1]. And regardless of your view on women's rights, etc. the fact is that a living human is killed in an abortion. "Don't have sex until you are okay with the possibility of getting pregnant" apparently isn't very popular, but the situation is entirely preventable. (I'm not trying to push an agenda here, just reacting.)

[1] Unless rape is involved, but that isn't the normal case. (Abortions because rape are 1%, according to http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/policy/abortion/abreasons.ht.... Disclaimer: I scanned the link for figures, I didn't try to figure out if it is pro- or anti- abortion.)
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Last year, he was one of the 18 authors to be published, while still alive, in the "Bibliothèque de la Pléiade". (More than 250 authors has been published in this collection)

It is a reference edition in France of the complete works of classic authors.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblioth%C3%A8que_de_la_Pl%C3%...
I agree with the repressive (to their own people), but I'd be curious how you determine NK or Iran is more evil than the US.
Setting aside the geopolitics and looking purely at the economics, there are several mentions in the article of the sole supplier of some vitally important widget or chemical announcing that it will be exiting the business.

WTF? That makes no sense whatsoever! A company should only exit a business if it is unprofitable. Profit is price minus cost. The cost of just continuing to produce something you are already producing should be small. The price a monopoly supplier can charge the richest and least price sensitive customer in the world for something supposedly vital should be huge. These should be among the most lucrative businesses ever invented.

So what's going on?
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A viable multiple party system is likely ideal but would need reformists in charge to bring it about.

Historically in the US, parties undergo radical change: FDR's party is very different from Wilson and even more so than Andrew Johnson; Harding's is very different than Lincoln's. We are in what is called the 6th party system if I'm not mistaken.

So practically speaking it could be that the primaries are more important than the actual elections.
Yes, Bill Clinton was a triangulating centrist who ended up with a kind of “Republican lite” message: still “business friendly” but now with less treasonous criminal conspiracy or international war crimes or outright war on labor or gross fiscal irresponsibility vs. the previous two administrations.

After his policy agenda got derailed (especially healthcare which he hoped would be one of his signature achievements) and his party was wrecked in the midterms, and then he got dragged into years of frenzied investigations into nothing, he ended up signing a lot of the legislation that the GOP-controlled legislature put on his desk over the coming few years, because he thought that would help him out politically. It didn’t really work, but we got a lot of terrible policy out of it.

I don’t think it’s fair to blame “Democrats” in general for a GOP-driven policy agenda though, just because Clinton didn’t veto every bill that came across his desk.

Also, in comparison to the administrations either before or after him (or if we compare their Supreme Court picks, ugh) Clinton looks positively dreamy.
I can see it both ways. I have heard that the original restrictions were too onerous on small banks. But on the other hand, a failing asset class will affect multiple banks. It's possible that multiple community bank failures could act like a bigger bank failing.
This is true. But you can do that at 40 too. At 20, you've got a lot more time to get back on your feet.
>> So while Facebook’s contract change for international users looks largely intended to shrink its legal liabilities under GDPR, it’s possible the change will open up another front for individuals to pursue strategic litigation in the coming months.

Most definitely. Too much at stake.
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Does this mean that it is easy now to get optimized deep learning kernels for AMD GPUs?
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Yeah, ever since Bill Clinton the democrats have been Republicans, and the Republicans have been ... something new.
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Why would that violate GDPR?
Invisible asymptotes
Having read the article, the headline seems like exaggeration. He didn't run a transport system in London. He was a station manager. And he was the COO in Sydney, not the CEO.

Still - that doesn't mean he'll do a bad job. He has worked his way up and spent his whole life working in public transport. And some fresh outside thinking might be what the MTA needs.
I did exactly the same thing. I tested quite a few services on the downfall of Google Reader and stuck with Newsblur ever since.

I cannot think of any other service that works as smoothly as Newsblur and provides me with exactly what I need; keyboard shortcuts, good mobile clients, open source, decently priced, constant improvements.
Bleargh, you're right. </blush>
How many Dem votes before a bill can be labeled bipartisan? 1? In my mind bipartisan should practically be nearly equal representation from both sides.
OK Thanks for your feedback. I will look to see if I can come up with a better logo.
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> plpgsql is somewhat gnarly, but it is well adapted for the database.

You can use python or perl to define your postgres functions.

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/static/plpython-funcs.htm...
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"The original ECD program, which lasted two years, enrolled 127 stunted children aged 9-24 months. Researchers randomly assigned these children to one of four groups: a psychosocial stimulation intervention, a nutrition intervention, both interventions, or neither intervention (the comparison group)."

That was my first thought too: the positive results could be effect of special attention and expectations (placebo effect). However comparing "both interventions" group with each single intervention group should address this.
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Ah, that's great. It can work as a Newsblur client. I'll definitely give it a try.
One important argument I always use is (I also work 30h/w):

"You get my most productive 30 hours per week. You know those hours where you somehow don't feel productive and you end up doing stuff that wasn't really worth it ? I don't work those hours."
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We are over educating people in universities with no real use and while wasting huge amount of resources. It is just a very expensive and convoluted way to filter job candidates who could do the same job without high education and with much shorter and cheaper filtering procedure, like they do in various armies around the world. The Asianification and feminisation of the education system is another resource hog which sucks funds and time out of the students with the only purpose of getting status rather than knowledge or creativity, all that while stifling other important traits like innovation ,curiosity and creativity. Knowledge is important but education as defined today is over bloated and wasteful.
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The form of the meeting gave no chance for more than fleeting cross-questioning and ensured that while sharp questions could be asked in plenty Zuckerberg was free to respond with loose generalities and was never put on the spot.
Definitely this one, and this is what a lot of people do at bigger companies BTW. I know a couple of those people myself.

They "Work from home" on Mondays and/or Fridays and do very easy work, or commit//send stuff that they managed to do beforehand to generate some easy activities.

If you are performing and producing what you should, this shouldn't matter, but here we are anyways...
CBTC is more complicated than "a wifi network and servers" unfortunately. And it's not a great business.

Firstly, no, WiFi is not going to work. WiFi runs in the junk bands like Bluetooth does. It's designed to run in unregulated spectrum, not be reliable, which is why WiFi is a synonym for "why does my internet not work today". Just think of interference from the riders phones, for example.

You also need to know the location of the trains to a much higher degree of accuracy than what WiFi would allow. The trains use transponders on the track that antennae pass over. It's closer to NFC than WiFi. When the train knows where it is, it can communicate that info to the control rooms but trains spend a lot of time inside tunnels which are not exactly famous for their excellent radio propagation properties. There's a lot of testing and planning work required to figure out where to install antennas and cable uplinks. Remember that track maintenance hours are severely constrained on any live transit system so reducing the amount of equipment to install is important.

Then you have redundancy. When your home wifi router goes on the fritz it's annoying but not that big a deal. If a part of the train monitoring network goes black, done naively that would shut down an entire line, which is catastrophic. So you want redundancy, you want spare parts inventories, you need to train staff how to do the replacements etc. Every train needs to be brought back to shop and refitted, usually using custom equipment and designs because trains are not standardised across the world.

That's just the hardware.

The software needs to be developed and tested too. Again, no standardisation in how transit systems work, so each deployment is a custom job requiring the engineers to have a good understanding of each railway with all its quirks and complexities, especially in exotic signalling and switching arrangements.

Still, in the end, $19 billion is too much. The NY premium.
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Could you enlighten on how you managed to take those to market after the rejections?
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Is /dpt/ of any value? From what I remember it used to be full of fizzbuzz, people arguing about which languages are best and which suck and tons of anime and offtopic. What added value do you see there?
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In addition to what others have stated, it’s also a question of productivity - when your team has to maintain ops, you are not doing something else. Is it your highest and best use to be tuning and maintaining Kafka? It could be, but only you and your team can really answer that.

In practice, it’s better to offload things that are not core to what your company is making money on, until you hit constraint points from scaling. As one of the comments mentioned, at PB-scale processing, even bare metal may make sense. (But not always - one of my former employers went down this path early and ended up losing all productivity in R&D because of people fighting to keep that baremetal setup alive for months on end. This really hurt future revenue growth and distracted eng. leadership from key changes in their industry.)

Like with most complex questions, the immediate answer is “it depends”.
If it is indeed your line of reasoning, I don't understand how it is supposed to work. If the quantum state doesn't influence macroscopic behavior, then it's useless. If it does, then it will collapse.
you're not allowed to say usage of an application/service is conditional on accepting data collection.
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At least the format and the fact that a lot of the time was taken up asking long-winded questions was the fault of the European Parliament and not Zuck personally. Of course the idea that you can just drag the CEO up to account for whatever grievances you have against the company and hope to get anything out of it seems a bit misguided to me. Looks like more of a PR exercise.
Zuckerberg is a very rational and collected person, so if he didn't make friends then he didn't want to make friends. It also implies the actual significance of the EU.
I understand the appeal and you're not the only person to want it: I've seen people and companies implement db schema to graphql, db schema to models, and models to db schema.

Based on personal experience, this is a bad idea though. You do not want a 1:1 correspondence between your database schema, your backend models, and your graphql schema, because the way you organise information in each layer should be different.

Database schema needs to be performant for expected queries. That means de/normalisation decisions; sometimes the same data will be stored in multiple locations.

Backend models need to express the domain, because this is where your business logic is. (There's a reason people bitch about ORMs: when you get to complex enough usecases they're not flexible enough in either direction and you need extra models wrapping THAT.)

Graphql schema is a view of your backend; sometimes several fields will be fulfilled using the same model, sometimes your model should not have a reflection in graphql schema (because you do not want to expose this data to frontend/the world), and sometimes your graphql schema will be full of deprecated fields because client apps have not been updated (see Facebook policy of never removing anything.)
FB is perfect example for monopoly abuse
I was hoping it was the band.
"don't roll your own crypto" is a frequent reminder in programming threads that most people don't understand cryptographic mathematics and we shouldn't play with toys we aren't old enough to use yet.

But apparently the same is not valid for complex fields like astrophysics, spacephysics or astronomy.