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The biggest selling point for me is that Google doesn't have their fingers all over Firefox.

As to your question, there are lots of articles comparing the new FF to Chrome..

https://fossbytes.com/firefox-quantum-vs-google-chrome-compa...

https://www.zdnet.com/article/firefox-quantum-vs-chrome-are-...
I helped build that candy machine demo! It was admittedly kind of silly, but it was fun to do.

Sadly IBM has changed a lot and I ended up in a different role not too long after, and then leaving the company entirely a year or so later.

To answer your question, though, one of the things Watson actually did was pretty powerful speech-to-text and text-to-speech engines. Out of the box they were approaching the best in the business, and with some customisation they could beat any other solution available for purchase. It was also far easier to use in a web browser than any of the competition (I'm biased here - I wrote a lot of that code - but I don't believe I'm wrong.)

I really enjoyed working with that part of Watson.
OK, here's someone with $1M. They keep it. If $25K could have saved a dozen lives, they could have saved 480 lives. Are you outraged?

Here's someone with $1M. They give away $25K in a way that saves a dozen lives. They also spend another $25K on a watch. Are you outraged? Are you more outraged than the previous example because they wasted money on the watch? (Is that better or worse than keeping the money in the bank?)

Here's someone with $1M. They give away $975K, saving 468 lives. They take the last $25K and spend it on a watch. Are you outraged because they didn't also give away the last $25K? Does the watch blind you to the good they did? Or did they have to give away all $1M to avoid your "perfect contempt"?

See, you're judging their selfishness by the one purchase, not by the whole of their economic activity. I dispute whether that is a relevant metric.
There is no upper or lower bound on the minimum length of a proof when you are free to choose the language in which it is expressed. This means that there almost certainly are things can only be communicated in one language but not another, even if the languages are equivalent in some vague limiting sense.

So as a practical matter, you have to work in a better language, because the difference between spending 30 years to learn something and 30,000 years is quite significant.
Honestly, it was not being able to target stable that prompted the switch. Then after using actix I was impressed.
US to impose limits on some Chinese visas
I've used a more generalized heat map visualization app called everydaycheck.com which I quite like
This is already done in enterprise storage systems, they just use a non-Optane persistent journal technology.

NVRAM solutions exist today that are just DRAM with a supercap and/or battery plus a flash SSD. Or PCIe cards. Or ordinary RAM plus specialized firmware that kicks in on brown out and copies RAM out to SSD.

Optane looks neat, but it's kind of expensive and has relatively low write endurance compared to ordinary DRAM (from an enterprise filesystem journal perspective).
The tech news industry aside, would anyone have insight into how prevalent paying for positive news coverage is? Better still: Is there a transparency index of news organizations ?
I recall reading the same of Stephen King. When completing the final page of a book, he writes the first page of his next novel in the same sitting.
Completely depends on the job and the interviewers.

For me personally, it is a big plus.

Aside from the obvious reasons:

* I can see candidates code quality

* I don't penalize for sloppy code, but looks for examples of solid code / architecture / technical aptitude / comments

I've had interviews where the candidate froze up and so I couldn't get enough data points, but I was able to use commits or blog posts from their open source history to augment by evaluation.

I also double-check for copy/pasta to avoid giving them credit for code that is actually just a fork of another codebase.
this is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it

Why ruin a good post with that last, grossly inappropriate line?
also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi_(film)
It's probably a good idea to ignore high-end physics results for a few years, though.

The BICEP2 fiasco is a good example why.
This has the same problem as Musk's pneumatic tubes. When it fails, people are trapped. One mistake and you have a boat full of dead people.
A section on the US national debt/spending was the only remotely right-wing thing I saw.
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https://www.seeker.com/ice-age-clues-help-explain-mysterious... is one of many.

Note that if the day slows by 5.5 ms from 24 hours, then we need an average of more than one leap second per 6 months to keep up. Per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth%27s_rotation the Earth's rotation changed by 1.7 ms in the last century, an average of 2.3 ms in last thousand, and it is being affected by a variety of causes right now.
Without question. The US for example had a higher life expectancy than New Zealand during the 1980s, then the US began to trail off and fall behind. Now it's ~2.7 years behind New Zealand. The US was also ahead of the UK as recently as 1983.

What changed? A few big things. Healthcare in the US became wildly expensive after the 1980s, following an extreme cost increase far beyond inflation, whereas before it was not far out of line vs other developed nations (eg share of GDP spent on healthcare; today it's commonly 2x the next closest nations on cost). And obesity exploded dramatically higher after the early to mid 1980s. Diets overloaded with sugar, carbs, high fructose corn syrup in everything, drive thrus as a routine, etc.

I do believe universal healthcare would have prevented that life expectancy gap from opening up between the US and the UK, Canada, New Zealand and Australia. Based on the expectancy increase path the US was on as recently as the early 1980s, it should be at 82-83 years now, rather than 78.x.
SAT scores decide where one can go for university. Credit scores decide interest rates and loan approvals.

Social credit score decides whether one can board a plane or a train, or whether your child can get into a school of their choice. Furthermore, your score is influenced by the people you associate with, and vice-versa.

One of those concepts is very different from the other, in practice.
So Mexico has better healthcare for the average person than the US? Hardly.

As mentioned elsewhere, overdoses are significantly impacting average lifespan figures.
What does the nanny do then? Can’t they lead activities like ones I’ve suggested?
Thats a pretty big assertion.

I'm almost tempted to say it is political advertising, but I'd sooner admit it is just emotional dialogue
I like the intentional syntax error approach here. That's way better than times I've done:
/* NOTE: you left off here!!! */
This is just mixing up the issues, same as saying "what if the HDD that acknowledged the write suddenly catastrophically failed"?
as an insurance broker, i can honestly say this guy got lucky (after reading the whole article)

firstly, it sucks that someone else violently broke his jaw. he should sue and press charges if possible.

secondly, he was smart to go to an in-network hospital. given the circumstances of his injury, it all should have been coded under emergency care and not specialist care. either the doctor/hospital made a mistake, or deliberately coded it wrong.

In this instance, the doctor maliciously coded it wrong. then, the doctor sent him a bill for a ton of money andddd.... then the doctor gave up on pursuing the patient????

that makes absolutely no sense. usually the doctor would sell it to collections, or just take some crappy rate from the insurance company. why work for free?

ultimately he got lucky, but everyone needs to know this golden rule:

in the US-- NEVER, EVER freak out about a health care expense bill. it is literally fake 99% of the time.

if they ever do actually sue you, the judge will just push you to settle out of court for half the amount.
First of all, thanks for a substantive reply. I wasn't sure I would get any. And yes, the case is widely considered rather clear cut — this is exactly why I'm horrified and trying to understand it better.

- bragged about it in social media

This I understand completely. Was entirely convinced by this myself and really shocked much later to recognize how easily that bragging post could be staged.

- talked about it on enencrypted radio

This is interesting. These were normal cell phone calls. Ukrainian three-letter agency routinely intercepted and published these. I think, if we mistrust the timestamps, only one of the published calls is both clearly linked to this airplane and implying that separatists thought it was them shooting [1]. This one might be interesting to listen to even if you don't understand any Russian, and it's only half a minute long. Do you think this is a real intercepted phone call, not pasted from several different ones?

- very carefully moved some gear away in one of the following nights

Probably. But what do we really know about that? The only published piece of evidence about the route is this video [2]. How do you know when it was filmed and whether it has been manipulated?

[1] https://youtu.be/V5E8kDo2n6g?t=1m49s

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4HJmev5xg0
Do you also, for example, look up the magic multiplication number in Hacker's Delight every time you want to divide by a constant?
Link to slides without having to visit kpcb.com or amazonaws.com:

http://web.archive.org/web/20180530170222/http://www.kpcb.co...
> "you can build whatever want on top of it" is a flashy way to say that "rust can't do that" in this instance.

It most definitely is not. "It" in "on top of it" refers to the language itself and the "core" subset of "std", which designed to cater for situations without any OS-level allocation at all, not the "std"s library's handling of OOM.

Given that Rust can work without allocation, it can work with custom allocation-failure handling too: as a minimal proof, start with core only (no std) and create custom Box and Vec types (this probably isn't the best path, but it shows it is possible).

> I suspect rust adoption would be much more effective if it wasn't presented as a panacea-like solution (it isnt) that the entirety of computer science has always dreamed of (it hasn't) and is ready to be used to write literally everything on earth in.

> The hubris of the rust team empowers projects like zig, which are clearly communicating what their offering can and cannot do.

The Rust team is good at clearly communicating the boundaries of Rust. Others may misinterpret that/be over-enthusiastic, but they're often called out (even by members of the Rust team) when it is noticed.
Did you forget that you have RSUs? $60K is plenty for a single person. Working for more than 1 years helps, too, if you sold your stock before it appreciated, since 4-year vest forces you to not sell for 1-3 more years.
Yeah, to this naive outsider it seems like:

- Auditing is for compliance with state regulations, so the state should do it.

- With fines as a revenue source, it should be in the state's interest to catch mistakes and fines could/should be set to fund the state auditing apparatus

- any private organization paid by the auditee is necessarily in a conflict of interest
Well 4chan has safe for work boards as well but has a lot of trouble attracting advertisers even to those.
It’s not surprising. The stereotypical American is obese and not too intelligent when it comes to dealing with that problem. See the whole “fat shaming” movement for a prime example of this.
Microsoft lays off Xbox support staff in favor of volunteers
Some quick maths. an increase of +17k Fentanyl deaths in a year. Let's say they all died at 20. Of the ~2.5million annual deaths, which average to be life expectancy (78.8 years). Life expectancy goes down to 78.4.

A net change of 0.4 years is not insignificant, but I think you're ignoring the elephant in the room (China's rapid development in the last decade).

On another vein, I'd argue overdosing on drugs is an intrinsic part to the American experience.
Before you sign up, all of the data is saved in your browser. Technically you could use it like this indefinitely, but this is mostly for demo purposes, so some of the functionality won't be available (like sharing data across devices, email reminders, public profile page). Also if I will make significant changes to my database in the future, this may cause issues. So that's not the best solution.

In the future I'm planning to create a desktop app, that might be the perfect solution if you really don't want your data to leave your computer.

Meanwhile, I can promise you that I will never share your data with anyone. I'm not using extra sophisticated encryption or anything like that (that would be an overkill for a writing app), but I'm using Atlas [1] to store your data (they're really good and competent database as a service provider), and on my end I've made sure that nobody can read what you wrote without your password.

There's no such thing as flawless security I suppose, but I'm trying to follow the best practices, so unless you're writing a short story about your social security number falling in love with your credit card pin code, or a novelization of NSA's deepest darkest secrets, I wouldn't worry too much about this =)

[1] https://www.mongodb.com/cloud/atlas
It's almost certainly not due to healthcare coverage, but rather obesity and the recent spike in overdose deaths.
Unfortunately it's still a non-starter, because so many things I need that are also Microsoft SDKs are not ported, nor are they likely to ever be.

Also, we need a GUI, of some kind.
And even those can probably be lazy-loaded, with a page fault in the IOMMU and handled as soon as the rest is done, or the rest isn't doing anything and something is thus blocking on the GPU initialisation.
Which SDKs? Also there are several cross-platform GUI frameworks for .NET core already, it's really not worth that much to have yet another one.

Blazor (.NET webassembly) + Electron is an interesting option though for the future.
Trust me - compared to working adults, you do. :)
https://www.peopleanalytics.ai/
A great deeper resource is the readings in databases collection (redbook) - http://www.redbook.io/
I don't use FB at all, IG once or twice a week, SC a few times a months when I eat out nice or do something super cool worth sharing.

I use reddit every day and sometimes night. Favorite website of all-time.
I wasn't aware of Pyro. Thanks for the reference. I might be interested in collaboration one day, however I would be a terrible collaborator right now as I can only find sporadic short slices of time to put in these sorts of projects. It's rare people show interest in my work so I'll keep you in mind if ever I stumble upon something interesting enough to be worth spending collective efforts on.
You're going to make mistakes, so build tools to help you deal with them effectively when they happen. Make deploys easy, one-step, brainless. This includes rollbacks.

Time to grow up: When something goes wrong, step 1 is not to take a deep breath and try to figure out what's wrong. Step 1 is rollback to known-good state so the site comes back up. Then you can delve into what's wrong. Nobody's interested in watching money fly out the window while you sit around scratching your chin.
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Andersen used to have two main divisions. Arthur Andersen did accounting and audit, Andersen Consulting did management consulting and professional services.

After Enron, Arthur Andersen folded. The partners of Andersen Consulting rebranded their business as Accenture.
That’s a false equivalency. The parent said that you won’t be put on a no-fly list for being morbidly obese. That’s not the same as the airline not being able to accommodate you because of your extreme body size.
C# does keep getting better, and making the delta between what it offers and what F# offers smaller, at least from what I can see. I've really wanted to get on the F# train, but I just haven't been able to get it out of the station yet.

I'm somewhat astounded that VB.Net is still a thing, however.
Tangential: Biosphere 2 had CO2 absorption issues with the concrete of the superstructure. http://biology.kenyon.edu/slonc/bio3/2000projects/carroll_d_...
Aha, so how much do you think is good contribution to proceed to apply to the job, or to contact HR?
Your Cybersecurity Career: A Training Model to Get Started
This is super helpful!
really interesting article. i imagine the financial markets being one industry a lot of people apply deep learning models to.
not fsb, memory controller is now integrated into the processor die.
> Specifically that the only manner in which lowering taxes is proven as a cause of economic growth is when economic growth is defined as growing individual bank accounts of an increasingly smaller proportion of the population?

You say it is proven, but actually the study linked to by the article you mentioned from The Atlantic does not claim that. In the summary, it says: "The evidence does not suggest necessarily a relationship between tax policy with regard to the top tax rates and the size of the economic pie, but there may be a relationship to how the economic pie is sliced." And indeed the study's data does not prove any of this, so it is correct in not making that claim.

> If you do, on what sensible grounds can you criticize the government for paying up? The government is obeying the rules of this capitalist system.

The government also decided that the system would be this particular not very capitalist system, where it pays contractors for anything at all. That is what it ought to be criticized for.

> Even if it always was required to choose the cheapest bid, one could still allege that is waste. At which point, your ideology is blaming the government for “wasting” resources when there are no other options, and—with no evidence provided—concludes the answer is to starve the government of resources to use for the public good.

There is at least one other option: not having the government choose any bid at all, cheapest or not. And there is an even better option: not having a government in the first place.

> Is there proof that raising taxes causes economic growth? No. That claim is not made.

It has been made by dnomad: "There is very convincing evidence that higher taxes and greater government spending do lead to long term economic growth."

> What is shown is that cutting taxes does not spur economic growth, as those who advocate for that idea claim.

The study does not claim that it shows this, and if it did it would be wrong as it presents no evidence that this is the case.
There's a big difference between brakes being worn to their service limit and wanting service due to runout caused by overheated pads depositing pad material on the rotor surface.

Most people (I suspect) would take a vehicle in for service when the brake pedal pulsates or the steering judders under braking. This is fairly easy to cause on heavy vehicles with undersized brakes.

We'll see what happens with the Model 3 as the numbers climb and we begin to get a real sense of just what Tesla has been selling to people.
We are exactly at this stage right now. Bootstrapped, enterprise SaaS, ready for initial sales. This post could not have been more timely for me.

I'm not sure if this is possible in your niche, but we are partnering with a consulting company which provides services in the same industry/niche. We will give them a cut from the sales to do this exact process. Many leads will come from them as well. I could not imagine doing this any other way at the moment. Eventually we will certainly hire a full time salesperson.

edit: we got really lucky that this consulting company had some biz dev people who used to do SaaS sales at a previous employer.
Unfortunately, no. U.S. life expectancy has stalled O(10 years) while others steadily improve.

2013: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/report-us-life-expectancy-lowes...
2018: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https:/...
Nobody ever got better at writing by not writing.
Real estate appraisals are mostly on the basis of what other similar houses have sold for. This is the same process that the realtor uses to determine an asking price. Not surprising they are generally pretty close. The last thing a realtor wants is for a sale to fail to close because the appraisal is too low.
That's not a bug, it's just a different behaviour. I can see the value in being able to reopen accidentally closed tabs, and if you want to get rid of that history, close the window.

Given that Chrome keeps cookies for the window lifetime, I'd say that the fact it throws away history gives a false sense of security - they may not get exact history, but they can get some data still.

If you want the behaviour you are describing, it sounds like the feature should be "private tab" not "private window".
I didn't like all the fawning JT got for being attractive and generally "presentable" upon his election. It's almost certainly because of the jealousy I feel being someone who is clearly unattractive (so the attention he got is something I can only imagine in my wildest dreams), but I think the otherwise childish jealousy was rooted in at least one valid thought:

"I wouldn't have had as easy a time getting elected, because people would be focusing heavily on my capabilities in order to figure out my potential as a future leader, rather than my appearance."

Plus, JT was mostly riding on our fond (perhaps misplaced?) memories for his dad PT, and I think people assumed that he'd be as gutsy as his father (is there a name for this fallacy?). Basically, Canadians needed a gutsy left PM, after Stephen Harper's years, but instead they got a gutless, greedy drama teacher.

Gosh I sure am bitter, but on the flip side, I get what women mean when they talk about being judged for their appearance in the work place.
2017 gets to be a little bit of a problem if you've got the Git tooling and ReSharper both going at the same time. On bigger solutions you're going to be hammering your disk swapping, so better hope you've got your code on an SSD, and that you've got exceptions in your antivirus to avoid real-time scanning those locations.
I understand that. You cannot make this work, because in the case of pure software isolation, any instruction can theoretically be used to snoop on any other instruction. That means speculation can theoretically be detectable if it speeds up anything.
True, but I'd phrase it the other way around. The traits that make you (a human) good at general problem solving are also the traits that make you a good chess player. I do suspect, though, that there are some Chess-specific traits which boost your Chess performance but don't help much with general intelligence. (Consider, for example, the fact that Bobby Fischer wasn't considered a genius outside of his chosen field.)
Isn't medicare de-facto universal?
PCM to Micron is an existing product/design that is NOR-Flash like but utilizes PC material as the storage medium.

3D XPoint is said to be able to stack the storage medium on the die and requires no access transistor -- which "PCM" has. So it is based on PC material but has some new kind of selector.

The 3D/stacking part is important for scaling/density -- even NAND-Flash has hit 2d limits and gone vertical.
The "unwrap" is referring to getting a plain T out of a Foo<T> container: all of those "unwrap" functions return a plain T.

One way to look at them is "unwrap", "or" and "or_else" are building blocks that have a common meaning across the different examples:

- unwrap: returns a plain T

- or: the left-hand side, unless it is a "failure", then use the argument value

- or_else: the left-hand side, unless it is a "failure", then use the argument function to create the value
Well, a lot of news comes from PR agencies which are paid to promote stories to news agencies for companies per http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html

Definitely worth a read.