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I don't feel liberated when I program in Elixir but the other languages I use for customers are Ruby, Python and JavaScript, which are quite liberal. It's been so long since I used Java that I can't really appreciate anymore how big the difference is. For sure I don't want to go back to those times.

IMHO "this is a string" |> String.split(" ") doesn't fully separate the data from the function. It's String.split after all and it won't work with an input of any other type.

However, at least in the case of languages with duck typing, some_object.split(" ") works with an object of type String and with any other class that implements a split method that takes a string as argument. Then the rest of the code must be able to keep handling the duck typed object.

Probably this isn't the way you are thinking about data/code separation, still it's a kind of separation.
Deterministic performance hasn't been a thing since the early 90s. I'll settle for just performance.

But sure, there are cases where you want the level of predictability of reference counting, in which case I'd rather take the performance penalty than spend time and pollute the codebase doing a lot of tricks to arrange memory as a compacting garbage collector would.
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It requires a person that loves to solve riddles. Think of a crossword aficionado escalated to the next level.
What do they put on globes if not political maps including capital cities?https://www.duraglobes.com/media/catalog/product/cache/3/ima...
I didn't express myself very clearly, I'm afraid. I didn't mean separated users as in user accounts, but that there is no visual separation between channels I join in a network and the users I open direct messages with.
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>Because of higher-than-expected temperatures at this depth and location, 180 °C (356 °F) instead of the expected 100 °C (212 °F), drilling deeper was deemed unfeasible and the drilling was stopped in 1992. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kola_Superdeep_Borehole#Drilli...
I luckily don't have to imagine it. During an electric course in school for half a year where we learned all kinds of stuff like high voltage circuitry, we also learned pneumatic logic.

Almost all electric components can be replicated in pneumatics; capacitors, resistors, transistors, diodes (including Zener diodes)... And from that you can form simple logics.

One design we had to generate was to build a pneumatic gate which would open and close by pressing four buttons (two for each side of the gate) and light up a red, yellow or green light depending on whether or not the gate is moving (of course the lights use a pressure sensor).

Of course nobody builds that because such a system would be expensive compared to a Attiny with a shift register and a few relays capable of doing the same.
That was an experiment though, this is been "chugging" along for a while now.
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Now it’s time to compare these actual measurements with all that’s written about “what would happen if all Chinese would jump at once.”
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How depressing. Is there really nothing better he could do with his life than read some crappy forums? Even if there's nothing beneficial for the company, surely there's something else he could do other than play snake - learn a foreign language perhaps.
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Do you read the economist often? If you go to the current issue, how many negative articles about the USA and UK can you count? It ain’t zero, heck, just by the counts alone it is easy to argue that the economist is softer on China than it is on the UK and USA.
But maybe there's no riddle after all... just Joyce being a dick. This is my preferred theory. The guy was a dick or just mocking the academics - nothing more, nothing less.

Edit / To clarify: I know about art and people's preferences. I am not English/Irish, am no expert in Shakespeares' works or "speak" fluent Latin, so there will be things I won't understand without some (sometimes substantial) effort on my part (reading Ulysses) - I know that.
I am also capable to enjoy unconventional styles and writing (like Naked Lunch, for example - no comparison, just an example).

With Joyce, however, I just can't shake the feeling the guy was just showing-off and making fun of the people who later try to convince others and/or themselves that they "got it".

But to each their own.
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Thank you for this insight ... could you guess or know how many of these CCP functionaries, in spite of their insecurity, pursue their duty in good faith, versus engaging in self-dealing etc.?
How does it gain cheap points when the majority are against it?
> django-typed-models https://github.com/craigds/django-typed-models

Interesting, never came across it. But I've got a Django GitHub library (not yet open source, because it's in a project I've been working with on and off) that does the same for managing GitHub's accounts. An Organization and User inherit the same properties and I downcast them based on their polymorphic type field.
Back when Russia actually did science.
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> Did they make any special geological discoveries?

[From the Wikipedia article:] To scientists, one of the more fascinating findings to emerge from this well is that no transition from granite to basalt was found at the depth of about 7 km (4.3 mi), where the velocity of seismic waves has a discontinuity. Instead the change in the seismic wave velocity is caused by a metamorphic transition in the granite rock. In addition, the rock at that depth had been thoroughly fractured and was saturated with water, which was surprising. This water, unlike surface water, must have come from deep-crust minerals and had been unable to reach the surface because of a layer of impermeable rock.

Another unexpected discovery was a large quantity of hydrogen gas. The mud that flowed out of the hole was described as "boiling" with hydrogen.

> Did they find any precious metals, etc.?

These concentrate in veins, so the single borehole would not be the best way to find out. They were probably recorded in mud logs somewhere.

> is it possible to measure the depth of the hole using a laser

Holes like this are very rarely totally straight as the geology likes to manipulate the drill string as it descends. Whilst this won't be a true deviated well (due to the research goals) I'd be very surprised if there's a vertical hole.
Democracy doesn't guarantee peaceful transfer of power. The absence of democracy does not guarantee violent transfer of power.
> is it possible to measure the depth of the hole using a laser?

Would be surprised if it's perfectly straight. Drills for oil etc can turn .
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> I wonder how you enjoy 200 pages of no punctuation or coherence (Ulysses)?

If you are referring to Molly Bloom’s monologue (the only part of Ulysses with no punctuation), there is plenty of coherence. Most of what she muses over are things that the reader knows well about, because it was already introduced earlier in the book. That whole chapter is a capstone to the plot that surveys one of the main conflicts of the book (the Blooms’ shaky marriage, Boylan’s adultery) and then neatly leads it to a conclusion.

And I find it strange that someone points to this chapter of Ulysses as an example of impenetrability, since it is much clearer and requires much less erudition than, say, the Oxen of the Sun chapter that requires a firm grounding in the entire English literary tradition. Molly Bloom’s monologue has in fact often been staged as a standalone thing precisely because it is so straightforward a text.
The borehole has now been welded shut and is surrounded by the ruins of the project. The actual borehole itself is pretty unassuming for something that goes twelve kilometers into the Earth's crust: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kola_Superdeep_Borehole#/media...
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Maybe you're not appreciating how much more mainstream the internet is now compared to the late 90s, early 2000s. Sounds obvious but that has implications.

The proportion of geeks —and I mean as an entirely positive badge of qualification— has been very much diluted by all the other people who just want to take photos of their dinner and children in exchange for likes, shares, views, fame.

There still are geeks out there. They're still creating their own forums. Hell, the forum software we used as children 20 years ago is still out there. I refuse to believe that there aren't just as many miscreants chiselling out their own place on the web, eschewing Facebook and Snapchat and all the other dross that the rest of Generation Z are using.

It's impossible to quantify and so much harder to appreciate with all the noise on the internet these days but it's still there.
5% of males are red-green colorblind. Never mix red and green. If you do 2.5% of your audience have just stopped using your product/looking at your presentation.
There's a well known urban legend about the borehole that they stopped drilling when a scientist lowered a microphone into the hole. When they played back the recording they heard terrible screams, supposedly from people trapped in hell. Nice campfire story!

Source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Well_to_Hell_hoax
Gabrielle co-wrote puberty blues, a book about 13 year old girls becoming groupies for a "surfie" gang in 1970s australia. A rather autobiographical account. How much of it she lived, and how much of it was Katy, I'm not sure. No doubt the beginning of some of her choices she talks about in this piece.
It is really hard to get promoted as an idealistic CCP functionary, so if anyone makes it to the somewhat upper stages, they will most definitely be in on whatever their peers are doing (meaning, they have enough dirt so that their peers don’t have to worry about them ratting them out, and they will put on great shows to please anyone higher than them so they can keep getting promoted). In the west, it is like finding an honest politician: they might exist, but they simply don’t win elections enough that you can really find them in higher offices you pay attention to.
The next step is to use the old structure called gap buffer, piece table or the more general zipper... And drop the pretense you are inventing something new. :)
The Complete Robot by Issac Azimov.

Well actually, I couldn't decide between "I-Robot" and "The rest of the robots", but luckily there's a compendium with them both in.
Also from the early 20th century: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Is_a_Racket
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But isn't this person the person in charge within the SEC for setting the policy? It seems unlikely his opinion will be different from the official stance.
For most of the year, the ambient air temperature here is below 20°C, so you can just ventilate, no need to warm the oceans.

There have also been some pilot projects to output the waste heat to municipal district heating systems, not sure if Google's center does that.
Unreadable, but very very listenable. These books are amazing on audio tape and fantastic to listen to when going on hikes or runs or whatever. I find there is a very pleasant atmospheric lyricism to Joyce's work that paints a very particular picture of Dublin that is quite fascinating and enjoyable.

Art sometimes is best absorbed rather than understood. Great art can reveal when pressed, but I usually only do that randomly to ensure that there is substance there, and there usually is.
> I'd be very surprised if there's a vertical hole.

Ok, is the reported depth the true depth, or the length along the hole?
Because it has to be made in a way that also works on smartphones...
This issue is likely to be bufferbloat [1] and not directly related to LTE. If you can put a properly configured router in front of the modem that may help. I haven't looked into it but it seems recent OpenWRT have the necessary support to mitigate bufferbloat.

[1] https://www.bufferbloat.net/projects/bloat/wiki/Introduction...
Something tells me Jaruzel was talking archeology instead of live specimens :).
We are not neglecting the core of the product, we just have a lot of different priorities. We are hiring almost continuously to keep the development fast and healthy.

People have already created issues for the improvements you've listed. Upvote them to show your support or create new ones if these don't satisfy your needs:

- CI manual jobs ignore dependencies: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/28396

- Start a discussion from a non-discussion comment: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/30299

Re: your last point, I've pinged someone from our CI area to see if we already have an issue for that.
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There is a difference between “garauntee” and “in general”. Concrete might not shatter during an earthquake, but it is definitely more likely to than wood or steel (which can bend). Compared to a democracy, the CCP is like concrete: hard and strong but with a catastrophic breaking point.
If you dislike people who talk condescendlingly about your "soft skills", one has no other choice.

30 years of self employment here.

Many projects.

A 15 yesr reliable freelance "job" helped.

But now that company solves the client's problem with the internet only/an automated solution, without people. Thus, 50 guys around the US, no more work, gone to pasture.
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> the rock at that depth had been thoroughly fractured and was saturated with water

This is what makes me think that drilling to great depths and utilizing the energy there for sustainable power generation should be possible.

It's just a matter of developing the right drilling technology. How hard can it be?
It is not straight. See http://rusue.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/kolskaya-sverhgl....
> especially from an outsider to the project.

That should really not be a criterion.
I'm just sitting here and staring at this sentence: "The modulated signal rides on a carrier of a given frequency, but the base band signal got no fixed frequency at all. Because of this, we have the possibility to encode the two-dimensional I/Q signal onto the one-dimensional RF signal without losing anything." I may need to sleep on it...
I should have been more clear about that. I meant a visual separation between the channels I join in a network and the users in the same network that I open DMs with.

I realize I can achieve this by hand, but I frequently join/leave channels and open new DMs and it would just be a nice to have thing for it to happen automatically.

So far it hasn't bothered me enough to actually open a feature request, so take this with a grain of salt.
On this page, about 1/3 down the way (it's in Russian) is a nice schematic of the hole that shows it's not vertical at all:

https://realt.onliner.by/2015/11/19/kola

The depth is the true depth, apparently.
I can't tell about Finnegan's Wake. I am not a native English speaker and that kind of prevents me reading it.

I've enjoyed Ulysses though. Even on the most simple level, you can, for example, read the book with a clock and a map of Dublin and follow what's happening in real time (the reading time seems to match the time described in the book).

Anyway, my point was that art is, essentially, to be enjoyed. I've enjoyed it. Great. You didn't. Good as well. What's weird though is the academics analyzing books nine-to-five, to put food on the table.
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Actually no. I remember Japan seen as great going to take over the world, but the closest I ever saw of a Japanese villain was some movie about a bad boss at a car factory.

Japan was already a strong US (and western) ally in the 1980s at any rate.
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All of the above insults are true; but it's not about Wilson being some kind of two-headed monster. As an internationalist, and an idealist, he has quite been seen as a hero as well.

So it's not about one man at all. It's about ends-vs.-means and the importance of respecting inconvenient rights.
I don’t find it surprising at all that we found traveling through a vacuum easier than traveling through solid granite.

Imagine how much mass that drillbit had to go through and now translate that into the density of interstellar medium. You could probably travel half way across the galaxy before your space ship went through as much matter as that drill.
He's a dick all right, but he marvellously teeters on the edge of genius and sometimes dipping into full blown ga-ga, and the riddle is deciphering which side is which.

It's a meme/drug. It evokes a mental buzz - in some people. Some people are drawn in by the gigantic accomplishment, the magnitude of the writing, some by the strangeness of the content itself, some by other means. (Maybe trying to understand what others see in it.) Some then get sober soon, some take decades.
Latency will go down with 5G if you pay for it. How much is the big question.

There are 3 sides to 5G:
- eMBB: massive boradband --- high throughput, mmWaves;
- URLLC: ultra reliable and low latency, for industrial applications typically;
- mMTC: massive IoT. Cheap and low power.

The network can handle all 3, but as a device or user that doesn't mean you'll get all the benefits at the same time, some choice will be required. The reduced latency always has some cost impact.

Today the LTE air latency is 4-5 ms, the rest is in the core network. 5G has some air interface changes to reduce the air contribution to 1 ms, in the context of URLLC. For basic users, it'll likely be like LTE (already pretty good). There may be some general improvement if they optimize the core latency for all, but TBC.
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>train prices (in Germany) are fluctuating based on demand as well

That's true for saving fares (Sparangebote). The train price for Flexpreis (an offer without a binding to a certain train) does not change that often.
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After the tenth email from haveibeenpwned.com, I swore to never hand over a username and password to another forum system. Even one run by "hackers" (in the positive sense). This holds especially true for phpBB.

Let me log in through an external service where I can control my credentials and factor count. Ideally a pile of established OAuth providers and an open OpenID box.
It's not "absurd" to make a moral stand based on personal principles.
You are absolutely right. But I am not a snob, I am a socially awkward nerd so it did good to me when I begun ignoring how people judged me for

1. Reading books: wtf do you do? Read books? Why??? Don't you have a life?
2. You code in your free time? Wtf is wrong with you?
3. Why don't you dance with us? It is fun, you should.

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I wrote a very similar entry not too long ago: https://petermolnar.net/internet-emotional-core/
They have different icons by default.

If that's not enough, I'm sure you could write some CSS to make the difference stand out even further. There's a custom CSS box in settings that you can put your styles in easily.
> web API driven iOS and macOS applications) simply don't lead to these huge chains of functions

I agree you don't see them collected together, as a rule, but if you follow Results<> like this in those domains you see them being used multiple times on the backend before being yeilded to the frontend for further handling, resulting in chains that are just spread out a little bit more.

Personally I've started exposing them through JSON at the API level to further extend the systems explicitness and idempotency.
I used to hold the same viewpoint - automation is nothing new - but this video by Kurtzgesagt (more specifically the statistics cited in it) convinced be is that automation actually IS different this time (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSKi8HfcxEk).

The big difference is that automation now replaces jobs at a pace that is faster than we can create them. The whole video is good but the particularly interesting stats are at the ~8:00 minute mark.
> War is a highly profitable enterprise

No, this is a relatively new phenomenon that arose after WWI, when warfare became highly industrialized and too costly to fight personally for the rich.

During WWI, the aristocracy led from the front, as was their traditional calling, and they were mowed down in droves just like the most common soldier.

For the British, an entire generation of their sons were killed at Marne, Verdun, the Somme, Ypres, and other large battles, and the effect was stark:

At the outset of the 1870's, the British aristocracy could rightly consider themselves the most fortunate people on earth: they held the lion's share of land, wealth, and power in the world's greatest empire. By the end of the 1930's they had lost not only a generation of sons in the First World War, but also much of their prosperity, prestige and political significance. [1]

This largely held true for the Austro-Hungarian elite (they were decimated and the empire was torn apart), the Germans, and every other participant in the fight.

Note that historically, European aristocrats were military elites and were descended from the knightly class. The whole reason they were a cut above the population was because they would fight and take the danger first. The realization after WWI that war was simply a number's game doomed the legitimacy of their leadership in all countries.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/750411.The_Decline_and_F...
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Neat project!

Is it just for fun, or could it be 'useful'? iOS categorically prohibits JIT, right?
Of course it can. Capitalism is not about being the best or most effective, it's about having the deepest pockets. And being the best is by far not the best way to get those pockets.
I wonder how these bacteria can /remain/ resistant against older antibiotics. If they mutate really fast, should not the resistance against, say penicillin, vanish after a few years when they are not exposed to the medicine?

So could we not "renew" some antibiotics by simply not using them for 5 to 10 years?
So, such a microbenchmark marks the baseline for how fast you could get via framebuffer.

That's like 6 ms per frame. If you spend a bit less than two thirds of the time in rendering you could still get 60 fps. But that's still just crazy slow.

The 175 fps at that resolution comes down to about 20-60 MB/s depending on display depth. Memory peak transfer rates were worst like that during the 1990's, then several hundreds of MB/s for regular speeds in the 2000's and are measured in GB/s these days.

As long as we can reduce framebuffer access to shared memory (to eliminate legacy transfer methods of pixels, if any) there's no reason we couldn't do significantly better. Basically the display controller is reading the memory and the cpu is writing it so we must share some of the bandwidth but still the speeds should be so high that there's absolutely no reason we should ever see visual jerkiness on framebuffer graphics, due to hardware.
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How stable are abandoned holes like that? I would imagine that at those temperatures and pressures, the rock would slowly flow and refill the hole after a while.