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> It compares favorably to csh, and I fear that's about the best you can say for it.

Ha. Talk about 'damned with faint praise'.

I'm not really in the Unix admin world, but can't you just bite the bullet and use a 'real scripting language' like Python? Other than for things like configure scripts, is the universality of BASH/POSIX really non-negotiable?
If the cut is clean, i.e. amputated by a scientist or vet there are no drawbacks to the regenerated limbs, but if they get into fights with other axolotls and the limbs are "half-off" they sometimes regrow deformed.
Yes! And you have to catch it within 60 days.

I use examples from a bad embezzlement in my pitch deck. Checks are a joke.
What is most interesting about this article is the comments here considering what we've recently seen RE Google. Where are the calls from HN commenters suggesting that the engineers refuse to work on this? Where are the commenters questioning the morals and ethics of the engineers working on this? Where are the comments on here calling for the engineers working on this to quit in protest, or be deemed a collaborator?

Or does that line of thought only apply when it is everyone's favourite bogeyman Google that is contracted to replace manual work with automated systems? If its not Google, then is it A-Okay to work on military systems?

Both this and the Google project are IT systems that save manual, error-prone, and time-consuming work to enable the US military to more efficiently kill people.

I know I'll get down-voted to hell on this, but please if you're going to try and take the moral high ground at least do so consistently.
There are lots of different product cycles and lots of wisdom to gain by doing only bits of them repeatedly. Which is not to say that Carmack is wrong but that you don’t need to stay in a job you don’t like just to see a project from beginning to end.
I have been swarm attacked with organized downvotes on r/Kotlin
I meant to say Posteo.de and Mailbox.org and mistyped the latter above.
Asked a question on r/Kotlin as I was bothered by the fact that Google did not include Java samples with the Paging library documentation on the Android developers webpage in hopes that I would get a reasonable explanation of why Java code was being sidelined and in hopes of understanding if future documentation will omit Java completely.

I was bombarded with negative comments and downvotes which ensued no positive discussions and answers, even my reasonable comments were met with anger and disgust.

I want to now highlight these problems on HackerNews, so that people here are aware of the behaviour of the Kotlin community in general and why they should avoid using their language, I also want to get this message across to Google that it should not enforce any particular language on the Android community.
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AFAIK, there's no path through the tunnel that would allow one end to be brought through while keeping it above water.
> natural sunlight

Is that a US thing? Never ever seen that in Germany, sounds like "free oxygen" too me.
Seeing this in action, I think I kind of hate it. One of the basic aspects of idiomatic Python that I like the most is the fact that doing multiple things at once is discouraged. Multiple assignment (x,y = a,b) is possible but not typically done except where it conveys special intent.

This seems to be replacing

foo = check_foo()
if foo:
do_foo()

with

if (foo := check_foo()):
do_foo()

which goes against that idea.
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50 years ago that water was not contaminated and yes they did have access to water that was not contaminated. Also, I forgot to add that there was plenty of it too and now there's little.

No, it is not hidden from me. I am from the hinterland. I moved to Bangalore 7 years ago. Before that 4 years in college which was semi rural and before that it was pure hinterland. The divide/gap what we see today was not this wide 10 yrs ago, or 20.

PS. I am not pointing to any specific Govt. Just the modern times.
It also avoids similar sounding things, word where it can be hard to figure out what the first letter was & words where the first letter is mute.

There is a joke version of the alphabet that messes with all those rules. http://i.imgur.com/3CbAxSp.jpg
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I was being lazy in my post I suppose: work on this idea is well underway. Whether it proves successful or not still seems unclear:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_modular_reactor
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`do while` loops are (effectively) coming to Python. Yay!
Sure, the company is Babelscape (http://babelscape.com). For the translation tasks you can find massive parallel dataset with several language pairs at http://opus.nlpl.eu/, the other two things that you mentioned are not really in my area of expertise so nothing comes to my mind at the moment.
It is astounding! This question merits a deeper analysis but here are my thoughts:

First, Reddit (up until the recent redesign) functions as a community service. Reddit’s unprofitable nature is akin to other public service websites like Wikipedia. If you design a system simply to cover the costs of hosting fees and maintenance to provide the public with a great service, it shouldn’t be surprising to have great reach without making money. There are probably many useful website ideas that would only work unless funded by the government or donations.

Second, it provides a place for discussion, and its anonymous threaded, commenting system promotes a structured and unfiltered, often viscous view of reality that scares marketing departments.
Don't need a link, here's a quote directly from the book:

"there will still be a desperate land shortage before the
year 2000 if per capital and requirements and population growth rates remain as they are today." pg 60

It's 2018. Where's the desperate shortage? Also on HN today is talk about the new "vertical farms" that use far less resources than flat farms.
I think it's the re package's fault. It's badly designed.

re.match should return a match object no matter what, and .group() should return strings, empty string if non were matched.

We don't even need anything remotely :=
What I don't really understand is why would they complicate the cancellation process so much and frustrate the customers? I mean, if I want to cancel, I'll hang on the phone the whole day and eventually cancel it.
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This looks awful. It was an upside of Python that it had simple syntax, so that it had less cognitive overload. Without at least adding proper scoping and variable declarations to at least add functionality, having two assignment syntaxes seems worse than not having it at all.
I think you simplify a bit. Nuclear is scary because it's something invisible that can kill you. No smell, no sensation of heat or light, nothing. Oh, and it can take a long time after exposure before it kills and then it's too late to do anything about it.

This is the stuff or horror movies and the supernatural. It even comes with the same kind of charms and potions that the supernatural stories do! You take pills to protect you, and your wear a charm in a string around your neck to detect the evil. You give the charm to a temple where the learned priests pour over the results. (Not really, but you give the film to a lab for development.)

This is not like sun bathing at all - you sit in the sun for an hour, you feel the heat and the radiation, and you think, maybe I should get inside? Nah, not yet, it feels so good. Maybe I should not have another drink? Nah, it feels good. These are normal tradeoffs we do all the time between pleasure (or convenience) and risk.
Reddit offers three advantages over a traditional message board: voting, post previews, and a good search experience. All of those could be replicated elsewhere.
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And look almost quick to market ... in 50 years (as they always say).
Massive US business interests. Why should the EU parliament care about that?

There's an obvious solution for Facebook et al. Host their primary data centers in the EU and move their US user data there, instead of vice versa.
It's still cumbersome or close to impossible to move out of Protonmail along with one's emails. The IMAP support is still in beta, and has been under consideration for a few years now. The easiest way to move out of Protonmail is to abandon one's emails there and start afresh somewhere else.
Probability is far from clear. Very briefly, there are two main camps:

1. Bayesian probability is about degrees of belief. But that's always subjective and belief about what, if not probability? It's circular.

2. Frequentist probability is about, after X >> 1 runs of an experiment, an outcome with odds of Y occurs Y/X times. But it's only exact with an infinite number of runs, which never happens. And what's the odds of exactly Y x 1000 outcomes after 1000 runs? Again, that's circular.

My favourite way to think about probability is the multiverse kind:

3. Assuming there are an infinite number of fungible identical worlds, if a coin flip has 50% of heads, it means observers in exactly half the worlds see heads. However, this isn't actually probability at all - from a god's eye view it's objectively certain what happens.
Elon Musk seem to think this is an option worth exploring: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1015105500105412610
hahaha, I love this. Totally using it until I get sick of it. It's the new Microsoft GitHub theme! :P
Haha, it's just a bit of tongue-in-cheek fun really. I don't expect folks to try to con their friends over that they're football mad in reality!
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I wonder how that competes with the latest generation of Flash memory in terms of (physical) storage size and mass.

Though storage capacity is growing, it seems DNA still wins by some margin though
> multiple versions of programming languages & packages to be installed by each user without affecting the system

What language runtime do you have in mind? I haven't seen one that doesn't support this. A normal user should not be allowed to affect the system, so installing language runtimes under your home directory is normal and expected.

Most languages use an environment variable to point to the packages being used, so it should be possible to have multiple versions installed under your home. This is how the language developers work. They need to have many development versions installed for testing.

Containers are useful for a lot of things, but a much more complicated set up than just installing a couple of language runtimes. You should have no problems doing that the normal way.
Hypothetical:

Might a bad actor user something like this, combined with a homograph domain, to conceal malicious content in the URL and prevent a crawler discovering the malicious content (ignoring the fact that the homograph might be detected/redflagged on its own).

(use case might be a homograph phishing site, with a fakelogin and the target for the captured input being obfuscated into the URL)

----
Note: Homograph effectiveness depends on the browser, which you'd hope all be improving detection over time- https://dev.to/loganmeetsworld/homographs-attack--5a1p
Might seem crazy but there was a huge effort around repurposing these weapons for construction. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Plowshare
>As someone who was eating insects long before cricket protein bars became in vogue, I don't see entomophagy becoming anything more than a fad in the west, especially America.

Entirely agree. I've been reading those articles for the "rise of bug farming" for the last 30+ years.

It's like those "holographic disks" -- something that's always coming in the next 10 years.

I don't doubt some such business exist. I doubt they'll become anything substantial, both here and even over there where they traditionally eat some insects anyway.
Even most people who exercise a lot don't need it. I used to lift heavy weights 5x a week. "Heavy" in this context was 190kg squats, 140kg bench etc., which put me withing striking distance of competitive powerlifting levels for my weight class (for drug tested meets anyway).

I used protein supplements on and off, and there was really no noticeable difference in performance. For most who lift a lot it is mostly because once you get to that level, your increases have levelled off so much that if it increases your performance 1%, that's significant.

Meanwhile, when I first started, I doubled my lifts in the first month or two, and now, after a year off from lifting I'm adding ~5% a week at the moment (those increases will slow down quickly)

So if you really want to reach your very peak, you're willing to put up with a lot of things for 1% here, 0.5% there. While if you just want to stay healthy, you just need to be over a fairly trivially achievable minimum.

That said, my one reason for still paying attention to my protein intake, is that if you set a rough calorie goal, and make sure to eat a lot of protein, my experience at least is that it's a lot easier to keep my carb intake down (put another way: try eating 500kcal of lean chicken breast vs. 500kcal of chocolate and see which one keeps you from eating more the longest) - making sure my first meal of the day is protein rich makes it a lot easier for me to stick to diets and that's a much more important effect for me than whatever tiny effect I get on my lifts.
I was going to say - its application in this while loop is really nice I think:

https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/8122/files#diff-0ad86...
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Unfortunately that doesn't match 100% with the official roll call vote results.
Asking out of genuine curiosity, does it actually matter if harvesting takes 5 or 10 days? If electricity is cheaper, it might make sense for the job to take a bit longer but be cheaper? Human labour is not involved (with automated vehicles) so price should only be dependent on actual power consumption.
So:

CO2 for meat from NZ: Shipping + last mile

CO2 for locally produced meat: last mile

How is meat from NZ producing less CO2 than locally produced?
Nice tool, I wonder if trends can be used for marketing and recruitment?
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They're doing some. You can taste the difference very clearly in most cases, and people expect high protein bars etc. to taste like saw dust. I've yet to taste a single "high protein" product that does not taste awful. And I've tried a lot, to find the ones I consider sufficiently inoffensive to supplement my diet with.

The thing is they don't need to do much. Adding some whey or casein is cheap and easy enough, and they don't need to add much to supplement the protein content that's already there.
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Wouldn’t happen to have a link to that DailyWTF would you? Would love to read the discussion.
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Google doesn't like -2 * 2
Searching for "-2 * 2" or any other number between 1 and 9 in the format "-<num> * <num>" results in a long delay (~5 seconds) and empty SERP.
Not "anyone" have money. :D
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Agree. Had to read the comments here to figure out.
but at the same time, having foo exist only inside the block that actually makes use of it seems a good idea
Why? The `data:` schema is already there and is well supported across platforms. All itty bitty does is take the base64 encoded fragment part of the URL and put it in an iframe, wrapping it in the `data:` scheme. No need to register anything new.
Very long cables at normal supply voltages (240V/380V) suffer too much voltage drop over any distance (say) >150m. Remember that we're talking of multi-kilometre distances, not a mere hectare or two.

Not only that, but anyone who has used an electric lawnmower on a larger area will tell you that cables are a fucking hazard to navigation when you're trying to move a machine trailing a cable. They constantly get tangled, driven over and cut.

So anything at a reasonable voltage to run heavy machinery at a long distance from the nearest supply would need to be... I don't accurately know -- ask an electrical engineer for a definitive answer, but... something like 1.1kV. Cable that's sufficiently well insulated for moderately high voltage is /very/ expensive and deadly if the insulation gets compromised. Doesn't sound very feasible to me. Maybe someone with more EE knowledge can prove me wrong -- this is just my gut-feel conjecture. I got kicked out of the EE program at university for being bored to tears by this sort of stuff.
Their main advantage is the community, that's the hard part to replicate.
Yes. However, systemd did this part certainly right --- the service files and their dependencies are much easier to understand compared to e.g. its counterpart in upstart.
I checked.
There are many keys labelled com.apple.account.Google.oauth-token and similar, and even two "Google Authentication Tokens", but none that have a usable password.

So kudos, I guess, on the better security. But not useful when ten years+ of relying on "the cloud" suddenly gets slammed on your face!
The a guy at a call center can not act as arbitrator whether the contract says so or not (and I think we can be certain it does not)

For example:

https://www.calbar.ca.gov/Portals/0/documents/mfa/Guidelines...
What about regular expressions that match the empty string?

There might be ways the regular expression library could be designed better, but making re.match return a match when there's no match is not an improvement.
How do the divers get to the non-adjacent welds if the pipe blocks their way?

How are they supplied?

Why should we assume that the require equipment won't also suffer from water damage? Eg, "around small passages" might mean the cable scraped against the wall, causing water to leak in.

BTW, it seems the critical section is under 5 meters of water, not 6 as I thought, and is 70cm across.

And it seems one of the divers just died. If that's an indication of the mortality rate, then imagine how many might die building a tube.
Yes it most certainly does matter! A crop that's harvested even a few days too late is likely to suffer severe nutrient and quality losses.

eta: Of course this varies per crop, so let me back down just a little, but for most food crops there really is a optimal window outside of which the farmers' rather meagre profits evaporate quite fast.
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Part of the problem is indeed that people don't understand that if you work in an office you should almost certainly think of yourself as sedentary even if you spend a huge chunk of your spare time on physical activities, as most people seem to exclude those 8hours + commute when they picture who they are in terms of activity.

So people plug in their numbers in online calculators and mark themselves as "active" and get numbers out that often make no sense for their actual activity levels.
Unfortunately it's also directly at odds with Python's own EAFP [1] philosophy, which is to raise exceptions rather than return special values (StopIteration etc.). It's no longer clear to me which one the proper Python coding style is. Are we supposed to switch to returning special values instead of raising exceptions now?

[1] https://docs.quantifiedcode.com/python-anti-patterns/readabi...
Awful syntax. If then =?, not =: which already is the pascal assignment and perl binding operator.
> does it actually matter if harvesting takes 5 or 10 days?

Crops are perishable, and there's always the risk of weather conditions damaging them while they're in the field.

How much it matters will depend on the crop, but it's definitely important.
You should qualify which engineers you are refering to. From the article it's clear that the majority of the coding is "by a fast-moving cadre of Air Force engineers". They are Forces personnel, not civilians. Yes, Pivotal are involved, equally it seems if they are practicing XP, perhaps now only as Agile Coaches.

I also believe the applications this team are creating are substantively different in intent to those the Google employees were complaining about.
Same with "-2 + 2". Maybe it is loading its calculator implementation in JavaScript (including all dependencies).
But seriously, did you see Spain's ludicrous display? The problem with them is, they always try to walk it in.
This can replace that, sure, but I think it's more meant to be replacing things like:

foo = check_foo()
while foo:
do_foo()
foo = check_foo()

With

while foo := check_foo():
do_foo()

which is a case that hasn't had an elegant solution in the past. Another, if example, where you want to call a function based on the result of a check, but don't want to make that check more than once:

foo = check_foo()
if foo:
do_foo(foo)
else:
other_foo = check_other_foo()
if other_foo:
do_other_foo(other_foo)
else:
# Continue

with

if foo := check_foo():
do_foo(foo)
elif other_foo := check_other_foo()
do_other_foo(other_foo)
elif .....:

Yes, all of this has been possible and there are other ways to do it, but this expresses the problem very concisely and has less nesting at the cost of a slightly more complicated syntax. I find these rewritten examples easier to parse than the originals.

Pulling things out of comprehensions is pretty neat too.

Other than a few cases (e.g. these) I don't see this suited or intended for extremely wide usage, but no worse than any other complex idiom that people can overuse.
This is so ugly, especially the C-like parens. I wish they had gone with the pythonic as syntax:

if rawdata.count("\n", i, j) as nlines:
self.lineno = self.lineno + nlines
...
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You've managed to bypass an automated system and jump the queue, but you're still in a point where you're waiting for their next action, potentially taking a call at a bad moment and then still having to fight the customer retention scripts and getting bounced around a call centre until somebody finally helps.

If your goal is to just end your contract (as permitted), I should not have to jump through any more hoops than telling them we're done.
Agricultural machinery is likely to keep using liquid hydrocarbon fuel even when it's being banned entirely from cities. It's just too much of a technological challenge, as you say.
The food industry already intentionally feeds us insects, though most people don't know it. The red dye in many food products, for example, often originates from industrially squished insects.

https://www.wired.com/2015/09/cochineal-bug-feature/
As I said in another comment, all of the products you listed, plus their Openstack offering which you didn’t mention, add up to 22.4% of their revenue as of their last quarterly report. So using very naive math, that’s an average of 5% of total revenue per product across 5 diversified products. That’s... underwhelming. Especially since, as you say, a product like Jboss has been on the market forever...

When you look beyond marketing hype and focus on hard financial data, you can make fascinating discoveries :-)