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I don't agree with your examples. I've used a few different sat navs over the years and I've found they generally do 2 of the 3 things you suggested:

> You want to be getting over into the right hand lane soon

Granted it's not 100% accurate 100% of the time but you do often get advanced warning to change lanes - particularly on faster roads.

On my VW I have two screens on the satnav (one behind the steering wheel and one on the central entertainment system console). The entertainment system displays a map view and the other display is a turn-by-turn display. The beauty of the turn-by-turn display is it also gives a countdown (in the form of a gauge bar) until you hit a junction so if the map is a bit cluttered or there are a few junctions (or even if the junction isn't clearly visible for whatever reason), you not only get advanced warning about when you're approaching it but you can clearly see which junction it is and precisely when you'll hit it.

Sometimes I'll have that sat nav on even for routes I'm familiar with just so I get a reminder to change lanes on the busier roads and longer journeys where you might lose concentration about the route you're taking.

> You'll be making a turn up at $LANDMARK in a couple of minutes

Yeah, I've not experienced that. It would be a cool feature though.

> Or, in London, which of the 5 streets coming off the circle do you want to be taking exactly?

The sat nav in my VW explicitly gives a junction number. Eg "leave the 2nd exit". It does this both on roundabouts and on straight roads which have a cluster of exits near each other. It also has a display showing which of the multiple exits to take.

I can't emphasis enough just how good the dual-display system is. It means at any point in time you know exactly where you are and where you need to be.
So, it's Microsoft Paint.
Border is irrelevant, for what it's worth it can be whatever you want
The first time I flew in an airplane, from North Carolina to Michigan, I was amazed that I saw no portion of land that was completely undeveloped.
Fond memories of the black and white 'Liquid Paper' and the green, black and white 'Pen & ink' in the late 70's early 80's [1]. The former specialised for type writer and the latter, well, Pen and ink :-)

My mom and dad had the agency for the product in our country for a few years, building up the recognition of the brand, sales and distribution. Remember I had stickers of 'Pen & ink' on books, walls and generally all over the place . . . good memories.

In 1979 the Liquid Paper Company was sold to the Gillette Corporation, and we were told that they would manage the marketing and sales themselves. Not too surprising, Gillette had marketing and distribution of their products plenty covered . . . :-)

I was happy to learn from the NYT piece that the sale actually meant that Bette Nesmith Graham could reap the fruit of her hard work that was almost wrestled away from her. Sad to hear, though, that she died just six months later of stroke.

An inspirational women and an inspiring story!

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_Paper#/media/File:Liqui...
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Would you mind explaining what is the primary use of Hobbes?
Google force post debit card transaction, several posts explaining (e.g. https://blog.crossplainsbank.com/force-sale-transactions-to-...).

Issuer doesn't get a say but can charge back after the fact. Seems like a flaw to me.
Yes, I fully understand your point. Also, I worked in top- and middle-level management and one thing you can be sure is that the way you present things happening in the company is of utmost importance. And I don't know any reasonable manager who doesn't care about money. It's possible that the CEO in question was an exception but in most companies remodeling the already owned office to open plan was an excuse to squeeze in more people, introduce desk sharing and other disruptive inventions.

I'm curious about the future of the company you mention. I bet that when hard times come, the fountains and the rest will go away, while the open plan is going to stay.
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Collaborative Microsoft Paint sounds extremely useful (I'm assuming it's actually a bit more than that).
I just tried it out and unfortunately it didn't work for my use case. Only certain applications are currently allowed to get accelerated by the eGPU - like Photoshop. I wanted to accelerate WebGL, but it was impossible to make it work. Chrome(ium)/Firefox/Safari, nothing worked. I tried a lot and the browsers showed the eGPU as the card to be used, but it was still the Intel Iris.
When someone has any pointers what I made have done wrong, I would be super grateful, but my research was, that it just doesn't work yet.
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On the psychology replication crisis

>Overall, 36% of the replications yielded significant findings (p value below 0.05) compared to 97% of the original studies that had significant effects. The mean effect size in the replications was approximately half the magnitude of the effects reported in the original studies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis#Psychology_...

Of course if you point out that psychology research is strongly biased, the immediate response is that you must be an anti-intellectual. As if the system that produced such misleading results is a representation of all intellectual pursuits, and not just a mistake. The same way you get called an anti-intellectual for questioning the post-modern-analyses of whatever.

I'm really sick of people claiming that criticizing obviously bad science is "anti-intellectual". When you produce that many useless papers you're obviously, as a field, lacking an understanding of why science is good and useful in the first place.

I'm presuming that economics has similar problems with replication, and that you can only trust the most basic and obvious of their findings.
Read it based on the thread you posted. I feel like it's a book everyone should read and wished I had read it sooner.

Joe Rogan interviews the author here, great vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwaWilO_Pig
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This looks mindblowing. I see most popular (world-wide and region-wise) and most unique orientations
Indeed. But F# cannot actually do this, and neither can even dependently typed languages to the degree Spiral can. In Spiral types act much like values meaning you can bind them to variables and you can reflect on them without cost like with values, though if you tried something like `(type 1) + 2` you'd just get a error during the last phase of compilation. It is rather useful and without it, type inference would be impossible in Spiral.
He's probably refering to a combination of features that "nosql" databases have.

* Schema-on-read: Makes it easier to ingest large amounts of data, and then do ad-hoc exploration. The schema is only determined when reading the data, which is a bit easier for one-off data exploration, you determine how to interpret the data when actually using it. Not appropriate for production systems though. For example, a customer gives you a few TBs of data, you dump it on hadoop, and query it with spark. It would slow you down if you first have to convert it to a relational schema. Again, only good for one-off stuff.

* Most SQL databases have column limits, so if you have a very large amount of features, I'd imagine you'd run into these limits.

* Scalability. Feature engineering is very parallelizable, most normal SQL databases (excluding stuff like cassandra) aren't trivial to scale.
Definitions do have implications but, yeah.

A lot of people hear urban and think Manhattan, San Francisco, central London, etc. The reality in the US (where 80% of the population is "urban") is heavily suburban. The town where I live surrounded by 100 acres with 2 or 3 other houses is also considered urban. I'm not going to be walking to a corner grocery store or taking mass transit anywhere.
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Well, Watson & Crick (Nature 1953) is that good. It does contain an error (the actual DNA structure is slightly wrong) And Avery (JEM 1944) http://jem.rupress.org/content/79/2/137) which "proved" that DNA is the molecule of heredity, is also there.

But to be qualified to read these papers and appreciate why they are points of quality within a sea of crap? That's hard.
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I also know a SWE who bought SLK despite all rational inputs from friends and relatives. Then in 3 years he changed it into VW Passat after he married and his wife was expecting a kid. That cost him some money as he needed to sell the car relatively quickly.

If your friend cannot be stopped getting a fast car, try to convince him at least to get Tesla which is faster than SLK and can be used as family car.
You're flying over a lot of farm country on that route. Fly over large portions of the West and large areas are much more sparse (though you still see roads, etc.)
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but even that is obviously wrong because the 99.9% he claimed out of thin air.
try to pick and choose your hardware to be 110% compatible with macOS. Be a cheaper (clone) Mac, and let the users to easily hackintosh it... but with proper plausible deniability.
it's not misleading, it's a joke
My concern is that it might be possible to watch each other while keeping authority. You say it's not possible as if there was some kind of proof.
I've found looking at figures and captions to be really misleading. I find that I have to read the methods section first to convince myself that the data collection was correct before I can trust any figures.

You have to read the abstract. It's the intro and conclusion you can skip.
Making the plane infinite makes the problem easier, since you don’t need to worry about the boundary of any finite section of the plane. For example, if you choose a triangular section, you won’t be able to tile that section by squares. But it is still clear the infinite plane can be tiled by squares; just keep laying the squares edge-to-edge.
I thought it was going to be about cocain.
> ... whether it was something I (unknowingly) did or if it was a mistake.

> I realized Patreon has every right to do this.

While true. I don't suspect that I would have had this much restraint. I applaud the author for resisting what must have been the urge to make a statement against Patreon, I can't help but to think it should be stronger about who as at fault here.

> (Update: Patreon notified me that my email has been unblocked and I can start a new page from scratch. Apparently it was a mistake. Armory will continue to be funded on this page to stay safe.)

At least they are voting with their wallet and not just going back to the platform. This is an awful response by Patreon. I can't believe this don't have a way to restore backers and content. They really need to make a whole new page from scratch? What the heck?

Best practice is first you suspend, give a chance for the person to respond, then you terminate after 30 / 60 / 90 days. Full deletion immediately seems like a bad software design choice.

This reminds me of the old (?) days of Paypal freezing accounts with no recourse. I could understand if someone considered this theft. Theft of future earnings in this case (past earnings in the case of Paypal).

Am I alone in thinking companies that handle money should be held to a higher standard?
Let's take a look at the books I've read for 2018:

https://www.goodreads.com/user_challenges/10897132

As you see I mainly read scifi and fantasy; not necesarrily new releases.

From these books, here's a bunch I recommend:

- Red Rising Trilogy by Pierce Brown: It is really excellent. It may feel like an ordinary young adult novel, however, especiall after during the 2nd book (and through the duration of the 3rd one) it really hooks you up with its story and characters; it feels like a Game Of Thrones in sci-fi; totally recommended.

- Every dead thing by John Connoly: An excellent crime/serial killer story. It has some grotesque descriptions so don't read it if you don't have the stomach for such things; beyond that it's really good.

- The Expanse series by James SA Corey: I have read almost everything in this series. I like it very much; some books are better than the others however I recommend starting with Leviathan awakes (the 1st one) and if you like the characters and story continue with the others; if not don't bother.

- The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch. A great fantasy novel; very interesting story and characters. I liked it very much. The second one (red seas under red skies) was not as good as the first one though.

- The power of the Dog by Don Winslow: A great crime/mob/narcotics story about the drug war in Mexico which is based on real facts and characters. It is a little long however I read it with great insterest.

And a couple I didn't like:

- The broker by John Grisham: Probably the worst Grisham novel I've ever read. Felt more like a travel guide to Italy than a real Grisham novel. I was very dissapointed by this novel because I've like almost all other Grisham novels I've read.

- Time by Stephen Baxter: I'd head good things about this but it is just a couple of nice scientific ideas. It doesn't have any real plot and feels very boring after a little.

- Daemon by Daniel Suarez: This was a mediocre book. The writer must be a Software/Computer ENgineer and definitely knows his stuff (you can even learn a couple of things from him); this was the good part. The bad part was that the plot did not made much sense and the power of the Daemon/AI started to feel like a Deus ex Machina and became too boring to follow.

- Winter moon by Dean Koontz: A not very good horror story. I didn't like its plot at all.
> ... plug a new one into your laptop.

... plug a new one into your new laptop.
It's neither capitalized nor near a capital, so I can't object the headline. It's about pentagons.
Saw this sometime back before the Surface Go was announced, and once that announcement was made it made a lot more sense for me. I have not yet fully tried it though. I am waiting to get a Surface Pen to see just how good those things can be on a Surface Book 2. I do like the idea of digital notes that I can 'scribble' myself.
it's exhausting just reading, I'd really like to know what she was thinking in her mind..
That really depends on what goal you're trying to achieve. If your goals are efficient distribution of aid, or tracking city sustainability across countries, it probably doesn't matter to you what the local variations in the definition of "urban" are.
Bitcoin's paper was that good.

Simple.

Easy to read.

Easy to replicate (a poc in python is easy)

It is a recent key innovation (the blockchain tech).
Al-Jazari's knowledge seems to have ultimately derived from a Baghdad library, via the Banu Musa brothers.

I find the history of those libraries fascinating https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Wisdom.

Kinda OT.

Apparently he was a Yazidi Kurd; that's what the circumstantial evidence shows, and there's no other evidence AFAICT.

It says "Muslim engineer", which would be like saying Steve Jobs was a "Christian Engineer".
That's not disturbing or anything.
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You’re spot on! Good catch.

Now, while the narrative style is different in the later of these books, if you enjoy NFU, I recommend both Crime and Punishment and Demons.
I see Notes From Underground, Crime and Punishment, and Demons/The Possessed as unified by a core set of ideas.
In the first, Dostoevsky states his claims. Crime and Punishment is a case study of what would happen should an individual act upon the ideas of his (Dostoevsky’s) time, and Demons extrapolated this to societal scale.
I may not be in the majority, but I think Demons is by far his best.
We solved these kind of problems: electronic systems in space have multiple redundancies, where the result returned by most of them is picked as input to other systems. This ensures that one system's quirks are kept in check
Ink to shape and ink to table are interesting. Collaborating with people using this thing might be useful.
Your example is already doable without lambdas:

def f(x): return x * x
How do these people have such huge, clean desks? Anyone I know would have it buried in paper and junk.
Fair enough - I actually don't mind the PM side of things all that much, it's just not what flips my bits.
Learn Kotlin! It's a lot of fun. And gradle is a nice build system.
Have you checked for

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or

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or any other combination of it?
Maybe we don't have the same modern architecture ... My experience from Sweden and France:

- Windows are bigger than ever today, at least in Europe. It used to be that windows were not that big to keep warm inside, and because they were expensive to build, nowadays most buildings have super huge windows, and so do houses. They have actually grown so big that you need to find ways to STOP the natural light from the windows.

- Single glass panel? Where do you even live? Old buildings have that, in modern ones you have triple pane glasses, and central AC in big buildings is a necessity. Right now I work in a XV century building and the air is MAGNITUDES worse that what it was in a modern office we had, evne when opening the window, because the air flux is not optimized and there is no AC.

- Doors in old buildings are smaller, they have gotten much bigger due to requirements of accessibility, and you can actually open them with a button now.

- Never seen a main entrance in the back, and modern buildings don't even have parking lots because fuck cars and hurray for public transports

- Elevators are always over dimensioned and not so much a trouble, spiral stairs are still very common

- Likeliness is a real thing, but on the other hand it can be the same in old buildings as well, the thing is that usually they have changed a lot so places are different, but it will be the same with modern buildings with some time. Regarding the room numbering most places I was at had a very logical system and it was independent to the modernity of the building.

- There are much less doors than it used to be, spaces are actually too open now which is annoying for noise. I wish we had more doors in offices. On the other hand in apartments it's very nice, what were people thinking before ?I would say we have maybe half the walls there were 60 years ago, so half the doors. Who needs a freaking hall with doors to go in each room in a 70m2 appartment? Now they are finally opened.

- That has been a problem only in old buildings in my experience because they lack signs. Modern buildings always have really well indicated bathroom, sometimes unisex, with a big logo on the door, not just a random wooden door that could be a kitchen, a meeting room or the bathroom!

- Sound isolation is so much better now. It used to be bad (before 1940), it went horrible (1940-1970) and now it's finally OK.
You probably can't.

The bottom line is that he appears to be an impulsive type of person.

You could try rational, logical arguments and they probably won't work. You need to understand his motivations about who he wants to impress. "Quality of life" might refer to who he wants to impress and what he thinks the new car will reflect upon his image. You might try to make him see that this is not the best path towards that goal.

Is it really going to be a "terrible mistake" or a learning experience that he will look back upon as another adventure in folly.

As a SWE he might pay it off quickly and having scratched that itch. It might be the motivation he needs to excel down the track or a passing fad. As a good friend you probably will be there to help him pick up the pieces if it comes to that.
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You sort of need to know the [scale of] grid in question.

In a similar vein, I find the Las Vegas Strip is incredibly disorienting with respect to distance. You're used to buildings being of size approximately X and in Vegas the casinos are 10X. So you think--oh, that's just a couple of buildings away. 30 minutes later you're still walking (in the sweltering heat).
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Kotlin or Clojure would be a bit more fun to learn, still be able to benefit from running on the JVM.
I hear things like this a lot but I never hear how you could accomplish the same things as Kubernetes (or any other orchestrator) without containers. Even if there were good solutions available for this, and the only advantage of containers was an organizational advantage rather than a technical one, I think that would still be a win.
I think that goes to me as well... I dug a bit into my blog archive. My first try with Witcher 2 on Linux was just a month after its Linux release, I wrote down that the recommended fglrx driver worked worse than the free mesa driver, which in 2014 was a new experience. I was happy to see that I did not bash the developers at all, I was just a little bit disappointed, but happy about the improvements of Mesa. I also wrote that, at least at that time, only Nvidia was officially supported. I guess that explains why your experience was (is?) so much better. Also, the 970 is a very strong gpu for a game released 2014 on Linux and 2011(!) on Windows.

But I definitely played it again not too long ago (trying to get all the achievements) and I stand to the statement that performance was bad, but I did not write down when that was exactly. But didn't I make some screenshots? Yes, with Steam, and the details reveal that playthrough was in 2017! But that was also with a Radeon (but a stronger one than the first try, I upgraded in the meantime).

To be fair, I will download now and check the current FPS, but even it worked great now, the bad performance in 2017 makes clear that the vitriol expressed in the interview is wrong. They never made the game run great, at least not with AMD, and from what I read also Nvidia performance remained bad when compared to the Windows version.
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A Mercedes will mostly be more impressive than than a mere Tesla.
I heard it's super loud and the fan is running very much. Dell also seem to have very low quality.
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>In an organic layout there are central roads that go to places of interest and the smaller streets flow to the central roads

That doesn't sound organic, it sounds like basic transportation planning and street hierarchy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_hierarchy. Smaller roads flow into bigger roads which flow into main roads which flow into highways.

"By contrast, in many regular, traditional grid plans, as laid out, higher order roads (e.g. arterials) are connected by through streets of both lower order levels (e.g. local and collector.) An ordering of roads and their classification can include several levels and finer distinctions as, for example, major and minor arterials or collectors."
maybe consider cobol instead?
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If you want a low stress good paid job, where you would be able to rush home at 5pm, then yes.

If you are looking for excitement, learn $hype_of_the_year and join a startup, but be ready to learn $hype_of_the_next_year soon.
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Java is old, and it may not be fashionable, but it’s still so widely used that every other JVM language is just a drop in the bucket by comparison. It’s not particularly difficult to learn either. Seems like it would be good for your career even with all the warts the language and APIs have.