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Yep. For hundreds of years English has had a rule that proper nouns are capitalised; it is pretentious to imagine that "myThingy is soooo cool that you can't even use the rules of English on it."

Now in some fields, like computer documentation, there's practical reason to change. It would be confusing to capitalise command-names if they are lower-case in their (case sensitive) native language. But newspapers aren't bound by that consideration, and it doesn't really apply to company names anyway.
Palm Pilot & friends (back to newton and earlier?) had the same stylus and resistive touchscreen for quite a few years before the DS, and the Palm at least sold millions of units, and they had a cellphone model a long time before the iPhone existed, so it's not like the tech was unheard of or untested or even really that alien.

The motion stuff for the wii was a lot more insane and worked out really well, there was no major market product for that stuff prior afaik, so that's a fair point.
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I must admit that I assumed it was a web version of Visual Studio until reading this thread.
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Is there a decent theory behind this? Any suggestions on a good place to get an intro to the idea?
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Do you prefer SaaS website builders or self-hosted landing pages?

SaaS gives you a simple visual content editor and a reliable hosting.
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Which option do you prefer?
You forgot "radioisotopic":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope_thermoelectric_ge...
And apart from speeding things up, it could also have a regularizing effect.
"Architecture of a Database System" by Hellerstein, Stonebraker and Hamilton [1], gives a good overview. The source code and documentation of PostgreSQL is excellent if you want to dive deeper.

[1] http://db.cs.berkeley.edu/papers/fntdb07-architecture.pdf
Yes, I think this is literally true. Messages may be encoded in the arrangement of stars, via PCM-neutrinos, etc., and humanity would be ignorant.

The history of biology is discovering species in places previously thought unlivable: impossibly salty environments, volcanic vents, etc. A natural extension is finding species in places "above" humanity.
Is it considered normal for developers to work 60 hours a week in the USA?

Because from my experiences in Australia and New Zealand, the majority of people work a 40 hour week. Everyone in my office has cleared out by 6 PM.

$50k a year for working 40 hours a week in the midwest with its lower cost of living sounds like a fine deal. Those kinds of wages are fairly normal for software developers to earn internationally in other developed countries like Australia or Germany.
The context here is the lifetime of the universe. If that is 13 billion years, 1 billion is a considerable chunk.

If I interpret you right, you state that we might be extremely lucky hitting on a valid configuration so fast. In other words, the distribution might be at average at e.g. 1000 billion years. What shape would the distribution have?
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I've never used tinder (or anything like that) myself, nor do i for random hookups. It's just going out there and meeting people and making friends.
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Actually Fermi's paradox makes total sense to me:

- Presume that even with something like travel at 1% o speed of light, the Milky Way is colonizable in a couple of million years.

- Presume that we are not special at all and there exist more technological advanced civilizations that predate us by at least a couple million years

- Presume such a large scale colonization would be easy to observe

If you accept the 3 presuppositions, the only logical conclusion is that there are no other technologically advanced species in the Milky Way or that we're the first(very unlikely).

Or you can choose to attack any of the presuppositions, but that's also very hard in my humble oppinion.
I can't cite you a study, but every time I've read about life appearance, the authors believed that the primitive forms were much simpler. Once the current more effective forms evolved, the original ones disappeared or got assimilated.
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A sense of meaninglessness and purposelessness is often behind suicide.

As Nietzsche observed, "he who has a why to live can bear almost any how."
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Elon Musk replied to this one:

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1011083630301536256?s=19
But we aren't beating kids when they get facts wrong and we aren't giving them candy when they are right. So studying how the reward signal is computed should be interesting.
Yes, dozens of seconds. This is the scenario of "human was actually doing something entirely different because the car is self driving"

This is NOT classical reaction time.
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Yeah, as a developer I do find iOS and Android compelling: there are such low barriers to entry I can (and have) released games for both.
A patent on FFT would stop anyone from using it in their products. A patent does not solely mean you can’t sell the patented thing, it means you are prohibited from commercially using the patented thing in any way.
As long as it's only individuals doing this I don't see anybody reacting on a wide scale. Also there's no feedback of listener numbers depending on volume. So there's no way to detect people "adblocking" on radio, so there's no impact on revenue.
The Patent system would be fairer if it had a graded protection system.
For example, 12 months protection for a minor insight, 15 years protection for a major breakthrough with years of documented research.
I like to break up data problems like this:

* Trivially Small

* Fits In RAM

* Fits on one server (CPU / Storage)

* Fits on one Big Hardware (Mainframe or other Specialized equipment)

* Requires Distributed Storage And/Or Processing
Just to add to the anecdotes:

My father grew up in a suburban neighborhood in Virginia that had a very tight-knit community. Kids running around, everyone knew each other, etc. My grandparents (who've since passed) when I'd see them would talk about how it didn't feel like a community anymore. There weren't really kids and families anymore, just old people.

I grew up 5 minutes away and never felt much of a sense of community in my own neighborhood. My neighbors were mostly old people and I probably wouldn't have even recognized them.

The two places I've lived where I felt a strong sense of community were the college town I went to college in, and rural Japan where I'd spend a month out of my summers as a child living with my grandparents and attending school. In the latter the school went out of their way to make sure I had friends since I was the only foreigner there (eg. I remember a teacher literally telling the kids in class to hang out with me and invite me over to play. In America that would never happen). All the kids in each neighborhood walk to school together every morning so that helps as well. So does being able to bike/walk everywhere and not being dependent on a parent to drive you.

It's definitely tougher to meet people after you graduate school. I think a lot of people close themselves off once they enter the "real world". It's a shame.
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It was not chaotic

Really? Were you anywhere near the epicenter? My youngest sister lived barely a mile from it.

Highway 17, the main link between silicon valley and the coast, was closed for two months. The Bay Bridge was closed for a month. Over 40 buildings in downtown Santa Cruz demolished. 42 dead in the Cypress Structure alone (and my oldest sister just missed being #43)... which was two counties away from the epicenter.
I automated searching for a rental property across all the major property websites in my country. In particular I was looking for properties with certain attributes (bathtub, lock up garage etc.), in a specific set of areas (GPS-based areas predefined on a Google Map based on proximity to train station, dog park, nearest shops etc. in suburbs my wife and I liked). None of the existing property websites offered anywhere near that level of search and notification customisation, so I cobbled together a Python script that scraped the websites on a daily basis and ran all the results through a filter. Anything interesting was emailed to us both so we could reply by email and have a conversation about it. My wife and I decided to be super fussy since we didn't need to bother manually searching. After about 6 months my script found a winner and we're now in an awesome place that ticks all of our boxes.

I didn't dare automate the application process... I had nightmares of 450 property managers calling me at once saying "Congratulations". :)
You might find investing into a Thermomix a good idea:

https://thermomix.com/
Right, so we should look at every person individually and never generalize over more than one person. Sounds very useful.
Well put, I definitely grew up with resentment of my parents ways, especially when all the cool kids around me were partying and having fun and they told me to go home for dinner, and I felt this really hampered my social skills which weren't given enough activation energy to blossom.
I see these articles come up quite often yet it makes no sense to switch to hugo. I also tried it because I was fed up with Ruby (not Jekyll). It turns out that the tedium of implicit hell and cryptic templates which comes with hugo makes it much worse than the occasional bumps with upgrading Jekyll. Hugo is like choosing Scala (which is a baroque abomination of implicit stuff) over Kotlin (which is a pragmatic language). I think the problem here is bias. When you are fed up with something you tend to see everything else through rose colored glasses. See hugo for what it is: a tedious, cryptic unintuitive and dumb static site engine.
Your tone sounds mildly apologetic but what you've cooked up (pun intended) is overflowing with pure hacker audacity and just mad nerdiness. You are a hero!
hashtag, as the key name 'hashtag' states :)
Oh I'm not offended, I just don't understand the concept, and as it seems that you have an at least somewhat defined understanding (or maybe as you call it 'belief'), I thought maybe you could explain. Of course I realize that there are many people who see some sort of relation between 'living creatures' and 'souls', but I rarely find someone who wants to explain in any depth (well, organized religions have large bodies of dogma that explain the details, but I tend to find them unsatisfying as at some point they rely on 'because we say so'; and apart from that, I don't think your argument comes from any mainstream religion's theology anyway).

What I mean is - why do some living creatures have 'souls' (and, I think I can conclude from your argument, should not be killed by others? Maybe only not by others with souls? Not sure if there are living beings without souls?) Like, insects - do they have souls? And micro-organisms, say, fungi?
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I would strongly recommend fuzzing for testing any software. You are likely to find interesting things quickly, if the software hasn't been fuzzed before.

I fuzzed early clang for segfaults, just for fun. I found dozens of bugs by just taking a large preprocessed C++ file, deleting a few lines, and then when finding a segfault, reducing by deleting lines and tokens until I reached a minimal example of the same error (make sure you are crashing in the same place, or you will probably find you keep rediscovering the same bug).

Reported some great fun minimal crashes, like:

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namespace

I also fuzz in my day job. There we want to fuzz valid inputs -- we have a bunch of ways of generating two inputs which should produce the same output -- generate a pair of inputs, test outputs, repeat. It has found hundreds of bugs, and almost no bugs (famous last words) have been reported in releases.
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Thanks much.
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Building a clunky device that imitates human actions is hardly 'genius'. Resourceful maybe. An electrical coffee grinder isn't a normal coffee grinder with some rotating lever attached to it. An electrical coffee grinder has small motors attached to the grinder mechanism in order to make it move. This contraption is fun to build I am sure, but not 'genius'.

Much closer to genius is the thermomix:
https://thermomix.com/
There is, it's called a TLSA record:

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6698
Not at all, it's just an average. Some books are shorter than 250 pages, other longer.
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Then the answer is: we can only rule out intelligent life as we CAN immagine it. Sure, there could exist intelligent life of sorts that we cannot comprehend, that use physics outside of the standard model; God perhaps?
Just because the version is older doesn't mean it's insecure. Distros do backport patches, esp. if you run LTS versions.
And it is full of implicit stuff, cryptic templates, and the whole thing is pretty unintuitive. You also cant write plugins for it. Jekyll has i18n support I dont know what you are talking about.
Sounds like a mason working on a sculpture. You need to identify and cut off all the superfluous parts.

Abstraction is generalization of special cases. If you only consider one case, you can't generalize from it. Only when you get two, can you work out the differences and the similarities. It's like forming the intersection of two sets: You remove all the elements that are not part of both.

I wonder how accurate this process is. If you're not careful, you might confuse experience with being narrow-minded. Thinking outside the box requires you to consider exactly what you know you don't know.
Exercising my freedom of choice is sociopathic?

Empathy is not the be all and end all. https://www.amazon.com/Against-Empathy-Case-Rational-Compass...
>it was a different time, people moved into a house, stayed there, raised a family, their kids grew up, and came back to visit their parents.... Now days? Everyone moves. A lot. Chasing jobs, dreams, hopes, and aspirations. We aren't in one place long enough to form a sense of being or community.

No, This is just factually incorrect.

https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2016/cb16-189...

>NOV. 16, 2016 —The percentage of Americans moving over a one-year period fell to an all time low in the United States to 11.2 percent in 2016, according to tables released today by the U.S. Census Bureau.... “People in the United States are still moving, just not to the same extent as they did in the past,” David Ihrke said, a survey statistician in the Journey-to-Work and Migration Statistics Branch.
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I've heard different interpretations, and we have multiple versions of the story. In the Quran, the boy is Abraham's other son, Ishmael.

I've always like the interpretations of Genesis (and other old ME epics) as folk memory. Myth as a way of telling history allegorically.

For example, people named in genesis often represent tribes, ethnicities and nationalities. Their names were literal personifications of contemporary peoples. The binding of Isaac represents a transition from human sacrifice to animal sacrifice, as a symbolic substitute continuing the same tradition.

I've even heard interpretations of the fall from eden where eden represents a hunter gatherer lifestyle in the fertile crescent, and the fall represents settled, agricultural life.
This is a lie and you all know it!

That's just like in the old days when people used to think that earth would be the center of the universe.

Prove it or go on with this theory, I don't want to hear it anymore until this mystery is solved!
>informed what I am up to. Google messaged me as well.

Your recruiter is leaking your data, same happens in the UK. If you pass 3rd stage interview in Google, suddenly you get calls from Oracle, IBM, Amazon, MS and more. I never asked them to call me, never applied there, they just "somehow now" and want to rush with interviews with you.
I'd like to know more about your script(s).

I assume a custom web scraper would have to be configured against some property listing sites.

Is it configured to work on any specific site, Would it work in any part of the world?
Let's say we absolutely found another advanced civilization, and in fact somewhat close, reachable in just 500 years. Let's assume we can build a rather large spaceship, say the size of the Empire State Building, and can fill it with enough food and fuel for the journey.

My question, what are the ethics of sending humans on such a trip? It would take 15 to 20 generations of human beings, living their entire lives confined to a prison, to complete this journey. An absolute nightmare of an existence, to be entirely disposable except to procreate in order to produce more prisoners like themselves for a few hundred more years. And when the ship did arrive, the living passengers would not be Earthlings, in the sense they would have little idea about the Earth, none would have ever been there or know anyone who had. We could provide them with every book, movie, etc that ever existed but they would still have no Earth-bound experiences. And it would likely depress them greatly, seeing and hearing things they will never experience. And finally, why would we expect anyone to ever return, to "complete" the mission? Their choice would be to make the best of life on their new planet or to once again volunteer for this bleak, suicidal journey to get back to Earth.

Some may say that future tech, or ultra-advanced VR, or cryogenics, or "downloading" brains and sending inert bodies, may make such a journey possible, but no answers sound very convincing, in my opinion.
(not OP, have regular robo mower) Animals are no problem, they get out of the way themselves. Children leaving toys out (or socks), or branches that have been blown off trees, or chestnuts - those make for some scary noises.
exactly, if they'd see what we do and were inteligent they would just leave us here to die :D
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This article is talking about suicides being up 25% from 1999 until now, not 100 years ago.

Inequality certainly plays a role in happiness, whether rational or not. Inequality in the U.S. has been on the uptrend. Sure welfare didn't exist 100 years ago, but 22 years ago welfare was reformed to put time limits and require work eligibility. Certainly not what I would consider an uptrend from then.
One advantage of large cities is that you're more likely to have a critical mass of people sharing a common interest to have a subculture or community. For instance, in my city there is a healthy film photography community that's large enough that there's still dedicated film labs and at least one camera shop that sells only film cameras.

Another thing that differs between cities is the nightlife varies a lot. The health of a city's nightlife isn't just a population thing though, but also zoning and licensing have a big factor in that.

For example, practically everything has to close at 3 AM in Sydney, which has had a massively detrimental effect on the nightlife. Meanwhile in Melbourne you can still party from Friday night to Monday evening without stopping if you really want to. There's not a lot of cities around these days that still have clubs with 24 hour licences. All the places I regularly go to here in Melbourne close at 6 AM at the earliest.
Remarkable is a Markdown viewer right? So basically you open a HTML webpage in remarkable? Is that so you can modify the source?
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> Because of course everyone carries a stock of washers

I was taught that you should always have a set in the toolbox...

> And of course you can shut down the water to the faucet at a moments notice

I was under the impression that even apartment/units have a separate water main valve to isolate the individual unit? My previous places did, although I more frequently rent houses.

> And the replacements never fail

They honestly rarely do fail when you put a fresh washer in.

> And obviously everyone has time to do such a project the moment the drips start

It honestly takes so little time to change a washer, I'm surprised that you've made such a long post about it, haha. A tap is a machine with one moving part... It's pretty straight forward and you can change a washer in like a minute.
Whilst an impressively ambitious amateur electronics project, this is clearly not productisable and won't work for a whole ton of reasons. A reduced scope project or device however might be.
> That's bullshit, sorry. Given same demographics

Wait a minute....if you're calling bullshit, why do you lead your disproof with a limiting qualifier?

Does the specific immigration the grandparent comment references arrive with the same demographics, or not?

> As for "social distrust", you are certainly correct in the symptom, but not the cause. The cause is not "uncontrolled immigration", but politicians having totally screwed up social security systems and protection laws. For example, fair and equal minimum wage laws and especially actual enforcement of these would prevent the common notion of "the migrants are taking away our jobs because they're cheaper".

Again, I would ask, is this a theory or is it a fact? I'm under the impression that social distrust rises as diversity rises (the underlying reason, and whether it is fact-based or not is irrelevant) - is this belief false?

I actually kind of don't agree with your last two points either, but those are more opinion-based so fairly pointless to argue one way or the other.
yes, peers ideally. I actually edited my post to clarify that the ideal is to be a team member of both groups, but than discarded it to keep the comment short.

My question remains whether there are more conflicts with those who have the ultimate say in high level things or with those who handle or do the implementation.
If you want to run experiments on soldiers, then run them on soldiers.

If you're trying to prove a more general point, you do have to be much more careful. After all, if you do train your subjects to be soldiers or to blindly follow orders this does not prove the general point anymore.

If you additionally filter your experimental group (as typicalsoldier training does) then the point is even less general.

So you're missing the point. Now, a study on how effective military training is at instilling blind obedience is still very useful and important.