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China has to import ballpoints for ballpoint pens from Japan because they don't have the skills to manufacture them in China.

Incidentally, Japan also make incredibly high quality scissors. I am yet to find good cutting tools from China, whether it's chef knives, pocket knives, scissors, or even sidecutters and other hand tools for electrical work.

My point I'm trying to make, is that China is good at making certain things, but not others.

We can also add that there is a certain amount of elitism to say that it's not worth Westerners' time to manufacture something as lowly as scissors.
I lead the Data Science team at Oakam, a London-based fintech company founded in 2006.

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https://www.economist.com/special-report/2018/05/03/mobile-f...

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If he's using the word in a quote then it doesn't matter what he said. That this is even a topic of discussion is worrying.
Apple can also just swap out the complete part and then ship the broken one to China to be disassembled and repaired cheaply.
If that is true ("equal credit act is the only thing stopping it in the US"), then race is the strongest factor[1] for credit scoring, so I'm not sure how China does it (Chinese population is racially homogenous)?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factor_analysis
Would you consider adding a new HTML element to be describing a new protocol instead of http? w3m still speaks http but is unable to render the IMG tag (and instead substitutes that with a descriptive text, if available), while, e.g. Firefox shows an actual picture.

I mean, this proposal is to build it on top of IRC, it doesn't need to change how the IRC protocol works. We're speaking a level above that.
Of course I can do that - and I did, with znc on my vps. But it's not a solution for beginners or less-technical people.

Lack of server-side history also makes it basically impossible for new members to read into the conversation history... Adding it to the spec would make it 1000x easier to onboard new users
I'm from Europe and living in the US for the past 4 years.

I use the word "nigger" a lot, in conversation, with other whites. I use it in puns or as a joke/self-deprecating humor or quoting movies like Pulp Fiction.

I live in NY, so a lot of (smart) people are ok with it and get the context. There are however plenty of exceptions that react with horror and disbelief and such rigidity of thought that it makes me think they've been completely and utterly programmed to react in this way.

Like others said, it's just a word and its use is contextual and subjective. I refuse to limit my means of expression because a certain word is considered offensive or Démodé. Note that this is not a problem in most northern European countries I've been in (I'm from Sweden).
Malaysian CEO dies from exploding phone
I gotta say, that’s quite a check mate.

Reminds me of:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079
There go those poor people with their defective brains making bad decisions again.

Bullshit. Poor people make bad decisions because they have more opportunities to do so, and less opportunities to make good decisions. Rich people don’t have to decide a damn thing to end up on top, just do what you’re told, work hard, and go with the flow; have your quarter-life identity crisis after you get your MBA and take that VP job at GS. Poor people don’t have any easy answers, and rich people would probably do a lot worse in their situation.
Sure universal does imply everyone. However just because on paper someone recieved $10k that does necessarily translate into an expenditure or disbursement.
The paradox of choice
JavaScript: Does It Mutate?
At last. I've made my MBP repaired previously. Fortunately, it was still under warranty, and I did not paid anything. OTOH, I had the feeling that the same problem might occur in future. This program with 4 yrs coverage, is a must.
Around the World, People Have Surprisingly Modest Notions of the ‘Ideal’ Life
Unequal cofounders is a great to basis for future unequal equity for employees. "Mister Future Employee, you see that even the second person in the company has much less equity that CEO, so you should be content with your 0.00001% vesting over 50 years. Just imagine how big a payoff will be when we'll sell for ten trillion dollars."
personally i hope with all my heart that your socialist nightmare will never come to pass.
I remember getting in trouble for hacking with friends in High School. When a friend got in trouble for stealing and publishing data from our school, the state police went around scaring all of the parents and media with accusations of suspected child porn (completely made up, and never part of any actual investigation). Just uttering the words turned parents who had been closed lipped into law abiding, pre-judgemental, and supportive accolades.

In his case, there was never any plant (thank god), but honestly - I've watched this tactic used again and again to destroy reputations. If the State Police feel empowered to use it at will, it's entirely believable for me to believe the _CIA_ would go so far as to plant - especially given the extra-legal authority of impunity they are empowered by.
That, and the fact that you can self-host
I challenge you to actually find someone who is offended by how these words were being used, not offended on behalf of someone else, but themselves felt hurt by the usage.
In the US, one serious medical crisis can simultaneously make you exhausted and unable to think straight while plunging you into poverty that is nigh impossible to escape. For many Americans, the only bad life choice they made was being born here, then routine attrition took care of the rest because if you live long enough, you are pretty much guaranteed to have a serious health issue. It's just a matter of time.
> This makes me more likely to choose Mac since they are admitting it's a problem and they'll fix it out of warranty without question.

Only within 4 years after sale. If I spend more than $2000 on a laptop, I expect it to last 7 years minimum.
I want to make the switch too but the apps are simply not of the same quality. For example I use Bear on mac for notes and screenshots, and nothing nothing on Linux could paste a screen shot from clip board into a notes taking program.

There are many small things like this.... Otherwise I would love to use a carbon with Linux.
You really can't function well in society by risking large amounts of social capital on saying things that could potentially offend large groups of people (even if only when contextually mis-interpreted).

Obviously, doing this when you're in a position of power means you're risking a lot more and so you have a lot more to lose.
Cable length is an issue. A fifty feet HDMI cable at Monoprice is less than 25 USD. A similar USB 3.0 cable needs to be active and costs 100 USD. My mind boggles at the thought of a 50ft USB C cable.
No, I don't think it's the average experience.

What's your point though?
I understand where you are coming from. I lived in Bay Area, CA. Chances are I saw the best parts of the US. And yes I travelled mostly to Philadelphia, New York and New Jersey where the top knowledge work people live.

My point is US citizens are still well off than all of humanity together(Though I give it to you, certain parts of Europe are equal if not better). Rice, Lentils, Meat and Vegetables are not expensive in the US. Learning to cook today is getting a smart phone, and a having an internet connection. Running doesn't take much money to do. So you can eat healthy and live healthy. Education is bad in some places and yet way better than what you get in other countries.

Learning how to save or personal finance is basically knowing basic arithmetic.

And yes, a nation wide freeway system is great transit infrastructure. Nissan Versa is cheap. And learning anything today is the cost of internet bandwidth.

And US is still largely a very free country. Where there are tons of opportunities for anyone who wants to show up and try.

Most of what I'm writing is bootstrap level resources you need to start, And these are not hard to do with wages delivering Pizzas at dominoes.

It largely feels like Millennials in US need some reality check. If you can't succeed in a country as awesome as the US. Chances are you won't survive weeks in other countries.
That's true. With no internet and only a crappy book, my use of the ZX 80 was pretty poor compared to what I would have mentally capable of doing, if I had access to further knowledge.
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IRC protocol is actually really simple, you just have commands and parameters. AFAIK it is not unusual for IRC servers to implement extra functionalities through bots.

For example to provide authentication many servers provide a bot called NickServ. There could also be a mechanism called ProfileServ that implements these functionalities.

The beauty of IRC is that you can open telnet, connect to an IRC server and actually be able to chat by typing raw commands.

The problem with IRC is that there is no standard specification, and there are many many edge cases. Therefore in my experience most IRC clients implement a small subset of the IRC protocol.

I've been trying to write an irc client in Go for quite some time (https://github.com/terminalcommand/irc-v2). It's been a fun experience, but there is still a lot to cover.
Apple admits its MacBook Pro butterfly keyboards utterly suck
Just had my MBP 15" keyboard replaced in full under warranty, similar to what's being offered here. Pluses:

- Full top sheet replacement includes the battery (it's glued to the top sheet), so you get a new battery too if Apple decide the keyboard needs full replacement (this is at their discretion, but you could insist on it if you have multiple failing keys). It's nice to see that battery cycle counter reset to zero.

- I'd forgotten that the out-of-the-box keyboard feels great to type on (if you're comfortable with the low travel and having to bottom-out your keypresses, which mechanical keyboard purists tend to hate). And it's quiet. Before the replacement a train passenger asked me if I could please type more quietly. I'm a light touch-typist but it really did sound like bacon crackling at one point. There's nothing much I could do except move carriage or put the laptop away.

- In all other respects the MBP is the best laptop I've owned, after ~20 years of Apple/Microsoft/Dell/IBM/Lenovo hardware. I considered switching away from Apple gear but now think I'll stick it out. It's hard to find comparable trackpads, screens, software, and batteries elsewhere.

Downsides:

- The service technician said there's nothing fundamentally different about the new keyboard parts. They are flawed like the old ones.

- Also said there's nothing much I can do to prevent this. I use an external keyboard about 80% of the time and still encountered issues with keycaps working loose and keys crackling and sticking; I expect I'll see it again before AppleCare and the 4-year replacement period is up.

- They recommended selling the MBP as soon as Apple offers a new model without that defect. I suspect others will do the same if something better comes out, and resale values will likely take a hit as a result.
> Expecting journalists to have second degrees in law isn't a reasonable standard

Who said anything about a second degree?
Good luck getting people to follow someone who is not a narcissistic asshole ;-)
Sure. I agree. You as a company have to look at your bottom line above all. Nothing wrong with that.

Please also note that Neanderthal also has hundreds of operations. The set of use cases where it scratches itches might be wider and more general than you think.

The reasons I'm showcasing matrix multiplications are:

1. That's what you used in the comparison.
2. It is a good proxy for the overall performance. If matrix multiplication is poor, other operations tend to be even poorer :)

Anyway, as I said, I'll be glad to compare other operations that ND4J excells at, or that anyone think are important.

I would also like to see ND4J's comparisons with Tensorflow or Numpy, or PyTorch, or, JVM based MXNet.
> Animation by essentially "panning" inside a larger pre-rendered image is one of those tricks

Hand animated cartoons would often used that trick as well.

The anime Bubblegum Crisis used a massive cityscape painting for their panning shots.
Yes exactly, looks like a website from 1995
Norway is extremely wealthy though. Your benefits don't apply to citizens of Greece or other countries in the EU so it's not clear that it's a scalable solution.

The US is very large, comparing it to a single country in Europe makes little sense. If you compare it to the EU itself you will see why there are so many disparate systems throughout the country.
This is totally correct, but I think it's also correct to say there is a huge vendor lock-in component to serverless. People make the claim that you can engineer your application to be vendor agnostic, but even if that's the case, you're still dumping a ton of time/money into AWS-specific tooling to get your application going, and almost none of that experience is transferable. Nothing from AWS API Gateway is applicable anywhere else, for example, and that's frankly one of the most awkward of all of the AWS services I've ever used (and so the costs are even higher than if it weren't). That's not to say that there won't be some form of serverless in the future that doesn't have this enormous vendor-specific lock-in cost. But that serverless is not here now.
> I am concerned about providing a librseq that handles rseq registration for early adopters though

Sounds very reasonable.

So at this point, as far as I understand it, FB and Google carry in-house rseq kernel
and user space patches. Right? Are they on board with the mainline rseq? Will FB support
rseq in jemalloc any time soon?

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That settles it then! We have now proven that the amount of devices that fail is 100% with an uncertainty of about 100%.
> I still have no idea where to find all the merge requests where I am listed an an approver.

Click this image in the top right-hand side: https://i.imgur.com/vWOxECQ.png
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It seems to me you are more interested in the question than in the answer. You agree with me, and then spend two paragraphs justifying why you don't want to agree with me because somehow asking the wrong question still has value. It may have historical value, poetical value, emotional value, and that of course is valuable. But as to the question itself, when everyone means something else either the question is malformed or the language is useless.

And it is not so obvious what they actually mean as everyone interprets it in a different way. Some people mean still existing in this "plane", some in some other reality, some mean to be reborn, some mean to trascend, some to reincarnate, some a mix of two, or of all.

If we keep pretending the question is right when it obviously lacks meaning and all the information necessary to be able to answer it we are never gonna find out.

But again, that is what some people want, for some things to always remain a mystery, so they ask paradoxical questions.

"What was I like before I was born?"
And what do those "time quanta" represent? "Time of light traversing the radius of an electron", really? Isn't that just another measurement device based on light quanta and distance?
> It is somewhat similar to the free software vs. open source debate - one should use free software not because it is better, but because it is the right thing to do

But then sometimes the free option is also, i.e. in addition, the better choice for other reasons as well. And those cases (e.g. Postgres, Darktable, etc.) are worth pointing out, because they may serve as gateway drugs to free software, for users that may not initially care for it because they associate it with invariably bad user experience.

I have an article brewing on this, because I increasingly think it's important. When free software does not suck from an UX perspective, there is zero reason not to use it. That's a huge market.
It’s 100 dollars because it costs 100 dollars to make, including enough margin to support the business
We're sure.
A hacker figured out how to brute force iPhone passcodes
Honestly, it's still better than nothing.

Apple is obviously in the wrong here and they had to get sued before admitting the mistake, but it's no worse than other manufacturers. At the very least, once Apple admitted it, the replacement experience is usually pleasant and takes a single appointment at an Apple Store.

Compare that with other manufacturers where you have to ship the machine to some service centre abroad at your own cost and wait god knows how long before getting it back.
Strange that you mention XMPP as you can have all that (including mobile - Conversations) plus end-to-end encryption (OTR, OMEMO, PGP - take your pick), message carbon copies and a server-side message archive that synchronizes all your clients.

But hey, XMPP is passé so everyone prefers a vendor lock-in.
> In all other respects the MBP is the best laptop I've owned, after ~20 years of Apple/Microsoft/Dell/IBM/Lenovo hardware. I considered switching away from Apple gear but now think I'll stick it out. It's hard to find comparable trackpads, screens, software, and batteries elsewhere.

My experience could not be more different. I’ve had two MacBooks die in the last 3 years: one from spilled water near keyboard and the other just booted with dead pixels one morning. To make matters worse, in both cases I was quote $800+ by Apple for repair.

In contrast, I have Dell laptops with 2-3x usage going back a decade that still work just fine even after fairly rough handling and numerous spills. On couple of occasions during 2000s when I did have a Dell fail, Dell either sent a replacement or sent a technician to my house to do a full repair.
Good question, but I'm not opposed to this. I'd say the German health care system is mostly a good one, and I'm absolutely happy to pay a percentage of income. Sure, if they managed to have it running at a flat fee that doesn't disadvantage people with minimum wage jobs, I'd gladly pay less - although I think 10% is totally fair, especially when comparing it to the US system and people doing kickstarters for their cancer treatment...
About 24% under 18. Dropping them doesn't even begin to address the massive shortfall.
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The question is "are" there any blue reds. In other words, regardless of who is watching it, or if anyone at all.

The question is not "can we perceive" some reds as blue.
It already is? If I visit a single commit's page, in the Options drop-down on the top right-hand side I can click Revert, and a modal pops up asking me in which branch I want to revert that commit.
If it's only for poor people it's not UBI. It's just a less restricted form of welfare.
but I worry that they will continue increasing complexity to the point that we have another C++ on our hands

I am currently teaching a course where Rust is the main language and this is already a problem. Some recent changes have made Rust more difficult to understand. E.g. impl in argument positions have are really opaque. For example, it is quite easy to explain and understand the difference between

fn foo<T>(t: &T) where T: SomeTrait

and

fn foo(t: &SomeTrait)

because the type parameters are explicit in the static binding case. On the other hand,

fn foo(t: &impl SomeTrait)

is really opaque. I know that it is an ergonomic win and provides consistency between impl in argument and return positions, but it makes Rust more difficult to understand for new language user. Other magical/difficult to understand semantics: automatic derefs in pattern matching, deref coercion, different drop orders for structs/local variables, impl coherency rules, the distinction between copy/move types, etc.

Don't get me wrong, Rust is my all-time favorite language. But I agree that increased complexity is the most dangerous pitfall for Rust. I fear the day higher-kinded types are added and the catogory-theory fest will be added in addition to the existing complexity.
> Additionally not being able to share images as a feature? I guess everyone will do the three step upload to imgur first.

Maybe I'm missing the point here: But IRC does have a file transfer feature, so what would stop people from sharing images just the same way like plenty of "content" has been shared over IRC?
If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them. (Leviticus 20:13)

So where are we misinterpreting this one?
I was a Thinkpad user my entire life.

I bought my first Apple laptop a year ago. I no longer use a Thinkpad as my main laptop.

Your story works both ways so what's the point you're trying to make?
I use a Raspberry Pi with Raspbian for things like these. It's a really cheap one-time cost (ignoring power costs, which are fairly minor), and you can setup all sorts of things on it. If you don't need high availability, running a small system at home can often be a good solution.

The initial learning curve for running your own system is a bit higher, but I think it's well worth learning. Once you have the system up and running you start finding all sorts of uses for it. So if you need it for just one thing it might not be worth it, but as you start doing more things with it I think it really pays off.
That looks like a nice tool! Will check it out.

Have you tried anything like iopipe for helping debug lambdas?
If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them. (Leviticus 20:13)

So this genetic entropy caused people to be born gay, for which we should kill them. That sound sound like an imperfect creator.
Probably depends on the area and country. In parts of the US I suspect the average 'suburban' area doesn't have a downtown or local shops or what not, but in much of Europe and other parts of the US it often does, with 'suburb' often being taken more to mean 'smaller town just outside of a city'.
I don't know, from the write-up it does seem that their business was pretty sustainable at their usual prices. It seems to me that if they had received 90% fewer orders (not gone as viral) they would still be in business.

Anyway if I had said "$400" my point still applies but I doubt you would say that's what it costs to make, including enough margin to support the business. It's just an alternative way to view a $100 (or $400) price point.
This post is making a point about leadership more than anything, not equity. It's saying that the easiest way to have a consistent line and to operate without hesitation is to have a dominant co-founder or, at least, a dominant vision.
Ycombinator is already doing active research in this area, and a few European countries have already put it into practice in test cities.