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I've got 100s or possibly 1000s of place markers in Google Maps. I wonder if it's time that mapping apps start developing a standard for exchanging data? The GDPR mentions data portability. If I can't import my place markers (with notes and categories) it would be as bad for me as not being able to import my contact list into a new email client.
I could see buying a bunch of cheap RFID tags and putting them in the frames. Drill a little hole, put it in, fill the rest with glue or epoxy so it is difficult to remove without obvious marks. They could just be a simple number progression that can be recorded in a log, nothing too fancy.
It looks to be a major miscalculation by the European Commission and they should fix it.
The article says "A bit over 10% of all power produced in the US came from solar..." but given the table doesn't include oil, they clearly mean only 10% of all electrical power. It's only 6-7% if you include oil.

(And don't get me started on the stupidity of measuring power as GWh per 4 months)
Thanks, and yes I agree that the Tumblr people shouldn’t react so easily.
The "crime" in question is a misdemeanor.
Tizen SDK has been rebooted so many times and is renowned for its bad quality, I doubt anyone besides Samsung is developing for it.
Yes, the United States government could follow in the steps of great countries like Venezuela and north Korea.

No better way to validate it's usefulness than to ban it when you feel the pressure of competition.
If you have a thing for Lake Mead then you really need to read the Edward Abbey books Desert Solitaire and The Monkey Wrench Gang. Very beautiful part of the world and I am glad to see you have a passion for getting the maps right.
This decision was likely not made to rip-off some more moneys, but because of bad quality. If any bugfix might as well introduce two new issues, you don't deliver the fix if it isn't needed. The whole "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" saying has some of its roots in that environment, maybe even all.

This approach is wrong on many levels, but fixing the real cause is often a bit more work than "a hundred junior dev hours". In the meantime, you have to deliver to customers.
I thought chips are already largely algo designed?
When reading through the problem statement I started wondering why a distributed tracing system, like Zipkin, wouldn't work. A microservice architecture seems very similar to most reactive programming systems, and distributed tracing is just the equivalent of some really nice tooling ontop of printf.

Seems like a debugger for reactive systems should be let you attach to a running graph and extract/visualise traces.
Those references are not the authors, and keep in mind that professors usually would not be professors if they had a sufficient understanding of markets to beat them. No one cited in the article has seen a live exchange with as low of volume as Tether/USD, simply because such low volume exchanges are typically considered irrelevant. Lower volume == fewer players == higher impact of a smaller number of traders == attribution of the inefficiencies of a small group of traders to market-wide patterns == clueless articles like this one.
Definitions of poverty based on relative incomes will mean there are always people in poverty, by definition.

If we contemplate a post scarcity world, one needs to consider absolute measures like life expectancy and maybe education levels or something like that.

Not arguing that everyone has it easy in Japan, just that by these types of metrics it’s one of the closest places we have to look at if we want to think about post-scarcity.

I’d note this quote from the article: “The country has long prided itself on ensuring that none of its citizens falls between the social cracks. Japan’s orderly, slum-free neighbourhoods seem to confirm that. Street crime, even in Kotobuki, is minuscule.“
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Or left those frames in another hive, creating a chaos of crossed accusations.
Mandarin is a very direct and unsubtle language. Even between family, direct translations into English of simple requests and conversation seem very brusque on the verge of rudeness, so the threshold of expectations for politeness are at a completely different level. It's also a very status conscious culture.

So to get to the point, not you wouldn't expect that in Western business culture, partly because if the bigger customer got wind of it they would think he was being an a-hole too, while in China they'd be flattered. Source - my wife is Chinese and I've been over many times.
I couldn't agree more. Their articles are low quality and meander through their subject far too long. It's also suspect that their articles frequently hit the front page, despite having few comments.
For the First Amendment in particular there's also a concept of a "chilling effect" on speech, which can make it a bit easier to establish standing.
And don't forget: if you have an air-conditioning unit, either close the windows, or turn the unit off (and keep the windows open).

Unless you're trying to chill the universe, that is.
You can't read into it much for such a low volume exchange. It's akin to a small sample size resulting in behavior that can stray farther from the mean. This article also makes a glaring omission of using the Tether/USD index price (since Kraken is not the only exchange trading the pair), so prices can move in the market without any volume occurring on Kraken, if the traders shuffle the orderbook before arbitragers make trades.
The immense power of being the only one to have the required license in a corrupt and bureaucratic system.

This sort of situation also has a tendency to perpetuate itself over there. The guy with the license can make monopolistic profits, which means he has greater financial resources to influence the licensing authority, which means unfortunately his rivals seem to have unexpected problems getting licenses of their own.
That doesn't even describe a hash table, it describes an associative array, or map. A hash table as one way to implement that, the other main one being self-balancing binary trees.
> Therefore, if mortality stops increasing with respect to age at a certain point, but we know the body is accumulating additional wear that makes it less resilient, there must also be a corresponding decrease in mortality risk with respect to random things killing you.

Agreed. I assume older people are receiving higher levels of care, and therefore have a lower risk of dying from random things.

For example, someone age 100 has a small chance of falling and receiving a life threatening injury when they go to get a glass of water from the kitchen. Someone age 115 might have a smaller risk, because they're more likely to be in a wheelchair, and therefore will not stumble and fall. Do they need to change a light bulb? The 100 year old might try to stand on a chair and risk falling. The 115 year old will probably have full-time care, and push a button to alert someone else about the light bulb. Older people usually travel less often, so their chance of dying in a car crash starts to decrease. They're no longer diving with sharks, so shark attack deaths decrease. They're less likely to be outside in a thunderstorm, so lightning related deaths decrease.

Some of those examples are a little silly, but I think the idea is right. When you go from 100 to 115, you decrease your risk of dying from random things (usually because you're no longer doing those things), but you increase your risk of dying from age related factors. These two cancel each other out, and the chance of dying on any given year appears equal. This would mean the study is wrong, and there is a limit to longevity.
If you are willing to share silicon space with other chips, you can prototype chips on older nodes (e.g., 14nm) through services like MOSIS for "just" tens of thousands of dollars: https://www.mosis.com/products/fab-schedule
>assume tether conspiracy theory is true

>discover behavior perfectly explained by an automated arbitrage of a redeemable token

>was the assumption wrong?

>impossibru

"it could be a signal"
So you mean the tech industry ended up just joining ordinary unregulated free market capitalism?

Sounds sub-optimal, a pain point, like something ripe for disruption.
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Why does everyone think that the earth will be destroyed by the sun becoming a red giant? We've got billions of years to solve that problem.
Do you know of an interactive, easy and free software to build and simulate our own versions of the asia net and example or other custom built ones? I used to like GeNIe but it isn't free anymore.
So if this pans out, along with the supersonic passenger jet being developed by Boom, and maybe even SpaceX plans to use the BFR for super-fast long haul flights, what are the implications for the economics of conventional passenger jets? Right now they make a large fraction of their money from business class, but these new vehicles will take a fair chunk of that away. Doesn't this inevitably mean significantly higher economy class fares to keep the conventional planes viable?
This was never true.

Except that this was true. I do not remember the exact details, because this was the end of 2015 or beginning of 2016. But dumping/freezing definitely failed on some graphs constructed with Keras.

There was no obvious Keras API for this, but you could build a model with the Keras API, then use the TF API to save it.

That was easy to figure out. Read the backend implementation and you can see how you can get the graph definition, etc.
I'd definitely prefer someone who doesn't feel the need to prepare and cram for irrelevant trivia exercises.
The tweezers are for the 0802 passives and nudging the FPGA itself. It takes forever but then so does programming the pick and place for a one-off.

As for the reflow you can actually get more consistent results with the toaster oven - It just won't be able to handle the volume of actual production. Whatever you do just don't try going "semi-pro" and getting one of those IR ovens from China. Stick with the $40 walmart special. The toaster oven when heated slowly is much less likely to have hot and cold spots. Stenciling and placing parts take up a lot more time and are much more error prone.
I think you mean 'guinea pig' :)
My point is that overall context matters.

My point is also that making sweeping, moralizing statements like "doesn't make it ok" (nor the repeated forays into other enterpise software topics) isn't helpful in general, and it certainly isn't helpful in furthering understanding or intellectual curiosity on the specific topic, as it relates to Oracle and a single, generalist (arguably "full-stack") engineer performing a sustaining and development role.
Like door locks, slowing thieves down would would have some value in itself.

The beekeeper in the article had 488 hives stolen in one night. That’s 488 hives the thieves would need to check. The GPS locators don’t “wake up” until theey detect motion so it’s not as simple as scanning them for a cell signal.
World's first commercial 5G network launches in Finland and Estonia
This contract is causing outrage in the open science corner of the world. Many people think this is a conflict of interest. And many are unhappy that closed, private infrastructure is being used. In the broader context, hardly a day goes by without a story about problematic public infrastructure contracts. Organised commercial companies always have an advantage over open, transparent, community projects.

Here's my take on the collection of some of this kind of data:

https://blog.afandian.com/2018/05/five-principles-altmetrics...
How difficult would it be to do the same with Super Mario World on the SNES?
> interpret the repeated issues as design feedback. If CS reps are "always getting stuck", figure out what about the UX is causing them to get stuck. If the problems are fixable by the user, can you add messaging to the interface that points them towards a resolution when they get an error? Even better, can you design the system so those errors can't be made? (see also Elm's "make invalid UI states unrepresentable" philosophy)

This is very good advice. Treat the support requests as also being bug reports.

The fact that CS reps are not reading the answers that already exist on the FAQ also show that there a system or process failure there. Either the reps don't know about it, the FAQ does not do what the reps need, or they have decided that asking questions is the easiest way to get what they need.

Working on tech support, I found that non-technical people are very rarely actually "stupid" (as some technical people are wont to say) but humans optimise for lowest short-term effort: "ask a technical person on Slack rather than read a big bunch of stuff or try to figure it yourself" might be the most efficient solution for them, so that's why they do it. In the worst case, you might have to make your engineers less available and deliberately be a bit less helpful to the reps if you can't offer a better solution and need to protect engineer time.
Did google search every worked well for pirated content ? Always got to boobies and Viagra with Rolex's first before the latest Marvel or Autodesk software ;)
For larger teams, there‘s also Stackoverflow Enterprise and clones of it as Confluence extensions. The former is pretty pricy, but we are currently investigating whether we should get a license.
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We’ve launched a public beta for customizing sheet metal. Right now it’s only for rectangular objects. Before we create alike configurators for the other shapes we’d really appreciate your feedback.

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Doctest exhibits this idea but it only really works for small, self contained utility functions - e.g. slugify a string, round a number to 3 decimal places, etc.
With life expectancy getting longer and longer I think this is increasingly the case.
> Irony. HTTPS deployment in China is going very ... not bad.

Given Chinese govt has been controlling some CAs, China vs. HTTPS irony is.. well, less of an irony :)
What I miss with DDG is better date ranges. Filtering by date can help a lot in narrowing down what you want to get.
If people are interested in shells, three projects that you might find interesting are:

* oilshell - An ambitious project to build a shell that is compatible with bash (to completely replace it), but also better.
* xonsh - A Python shell
* elvish - A modern re-imagining of the shell with objects and pipelines
I get this a lot when I’m searching with the “last 24 hours” tag. I’ve done it a bit to see flutter/dart growth over the past few month and I’ll see a headline like “dart this and flutter that” and it’ll send me to a commercial for online gambling...

So it’s not just for pirate sites.
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What even is this project? There are no details on the DARPA page either.

Is it for PCB design, ASIC design or both? Is a constant current source also considered a “small chip” or just digital designs?

Basically every EDA tool already has the ability to group sub modules which one could distribute as open source if they chose.

Do it in kicad and put your circuit into a hierarchal symbol if you must be all open source.

I get hard IP blocks from vendors all the time for inclusion in our ASICs.

It’s not the EDA tools that are preventing “openness”.

I was just joking the other day how all the PCB designs I’m reviewing lately are just conglomerations of app note circuits and it’s really boring. So to me it seems like there’s plenty of design reuse. :)
I would find this easier working from shape first.

Did precision layout for many years. Looks promising.

It was not clear the part would arrive bent, or just cut?
The engines are likely to be more elaborate than the turbofan you find on a jet liner. To get to Mach 5 you need to accelerate through different speeds and need an engine that works and is efficient enough at each speed. A turbojet works well at lower speeds but cannot go much above Mach 3 in its traditional form. A ramjet is efficient at high mach numbers but does not work at low speeds. One solution is to reconfigure the engine at different speeds, such as a variable cycle engine. Alternatively, some designs include precooling of intake air (sabre), or even a hybrid rocket/jet engine. But all these options are more complex and expensive.
In what parallel reality are the proper owners of the copyright "scam sites"?
It is not a miscalculation, by design the European Commission is proprietary and almost always make proprietary decisions that often have to be corrected by the relative toothless European Parliament.
Has DDG become any better for programming-related searches?

Asking, because last time I tried using it for more than a handful of queries, I ended up jumping back to using Google because searching for obscure programming error messages seldom led anywhere useful.
Great ideas. We’ve even done something similar to the first point for internal engineer support teams: some permissions/responsibilities are handled/owned by specific teams, who then get a lot of requests/questions about it (ops for restating hosts, release engineering for CI/source tweaks, i18n for translation submissions, mobile for iOS/Android), so we delegate to nominated team members and deputise them with enough permissions to do routine fixes themselves, and let them know we’ll treat their questions as a priority matter (if they are clearly stuck and have read whatever docs they were shown when they were deputised).

This comes with the collary that we now expect their team to ask them questions (as a designated deputy), and the delegating team will promptly redirect questions from the deputy’s team back to them:

hey how do I <do the thing mentioned in the FAQ>?

Oh hi, I think one of your team’s <whatever> deputies is <so and so>, check with them because they definitely know.
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I wonder why Apple hasn’t adopted and expanded open street maps, it’s frankly of google quality and it’s open.
Yeah, evaporating air conditioning units are simple and cheap to buy and run as well. It doesn't work if the air is already humid, though.
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No thanks. I might just as well use Bing then since that's where DDG get its search results.
This is what the finest lobbyists at the highest level can buy you...

https://twitter.com/Protohedgehog/status/1005064249763385344
It will be interesting to analyse cancer rates post and pre 5G in these places in years to come.
I’ve read a bit about addiction recently, particularly wrt social media’s manipulation of users, but the books I’ve read are full of references to other types of addiction.

One very effective piece of advice appears to be that the addiction and your environment become intertwined. If you’re serious about giving up, then a change of location, job, friends seems to greatly increase your chances of being successful.

It’s not just “don’t hang around pubs”, but also “live in a new apartment where you don’t have that fridge with the shelf you use for alcohol, that comfy chair where you drink at night.” Etc. Your environment becomes full of cues to continue your addiction, because you’ve associated it with the drug (or video games, etc.)

I think it’s easier for some people to be addicted than others, so don’t be too hard on yourself for being in that situation, and keep trying. Get professional help. Sincerely, good luck.
The capacity of those jets will be tiny, even compared to current business class offerings. And they're likely to be more expensive so not everyone who can fly business can fly supersonic.

What will be affected is First Class (which most airlines are already scaling back) but most importantly, private jets. Esp private jet sharing services (e.g. NetJets) will suffer if they can't offer supersonic flights.
Giving personal information to stalkers may kill a few people, but at least the public would be more aware.
Does it matter? I get the impression that big journal has essentially already lost the war.

The open line of reasoning seems to align well with scientists so I don't a version where it doesn't slowly take over the world.
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As much as I'd like that to be true, I end up having to use !g in half my searches. It does okay at keyword matching, but can't infer what I'm actually looking for, falls short at finding obscure/niche topics and its pageload speeds are frustrating compared to Google.
Why isn't the ENS part of this? The best math and science students go there.
I'm trying really hard to communicate that you can use these parts pretty easily. Just get a stencil made with your PCB it's another $40. Add in a toaster oven, some solder paste and tweezers and your all set.

Once you see how easy it is to reflow a board you won't want to bother with hand soldering DIP packages anyway.
i live much like this here in the UK, a while ago i realized that the only thing i really used was my laptop so when i moved house i ditched everything, the only things i had in my flat were a bed, a wardrobe, coffee equipment and white goods (washer, dryer, fridge) and of course my trusty laptop. i havent missed any of the crap i got id of
That game is really quite cool, and certainly in the same vein as what I was thinking of doing - thanks so much for the suggestion (I've already spent too much time solving puzzles)!

I am looking at using something like the Quantum Experience for two reasons: 1) Because giving people real quantum computing results is really cool, and 2) Because it's my capstone project and the work has to have a certain threshold of technical exploration. That being said, I'm not well-versed in alternatives that could maybe just simulate quantum properties without having to go through an actual quantum computer.

I have been looking into creating a small quantum neural net (with either real or simulated qubits) to show how that differs from a neural network running on classical computing. I've been trying to work that into a game idea but I'd be lying if I said I've come up with anything compelling yet. If you got any cool game mechanics/ideas you think quantum computing resources would lend themselves to then I'm all ears!
In one where a bitter sarcasm is recognized as such.
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Yes, I'm pretty sure the cost of doing it is why they decide not to do it. Business logic and all that, more profit for Google.

Edit: And you are right, it's not really free service since you opt for your data to be mined by Google for whatever purposes. If you need privacy you'll probably want to use something else.
What in the EDA industry is preventing this?

Every CAD system I know of supports ways of group circuits into modules and libraries for multiple Instantation. And those libraries are distributable.
I may be off base here, but you may want to consider figuring out how to optimize flow of work. Analyze common questions and where they came from in order identify specific areas of training to provide to the CS rep, to determine how to restructure your engineering team to include 1st 2nd etc line support. Also think about replacing slack with a ticket based solution to support a more controlled flow of work, prioritisation etc (e.g. You may want to prioritise requests from high value client base). In way this is all a pretty old school way of figuring out how to scale an operation, improve left to right flow, and monitor metrics.
Kinda surprised Rebble.io doesn't explain this on their website. I had no idea what it was looking at the top of the page.
This is definitely a good example of how not to build a website.
Well I obviously don't think so, and all you've done is state the opposite claim.