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> the rules for UB in unsafe code are going to be more complicated than C

This is one of the biggest issues I have with Rust, personally. The interaction between safe and unsafe Rust is not well defined, making it largely impossible to write 'correct' unsafe Rust that isn't broken in some weird situation, or won't ever get broken in later versions of the compiler. And since the Rust compiler has even more information then the C compiler does, it can theoretically make much crazier optimizations then it is doing right now that could break your code down the line. Like you mentioned, if it goes down that route it'll be like the strict-aliasing situation in C but times 10.
The investigation was dropped because Sweden gave up:

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/may/19/swedish-prosec...

> “In order to proceed with the case, Julian Assange would have to be formally notified of the criminal suspicions against him. We cannot expect to receive assistance from Ecuador regarding this. Therefore the investigation is discontinued.

> “If he, at a later date, makes himself available, I will be able to decide to resume the investigation immediately.”
Controlled? 4 grams of mushrooms will be anything but controlled - thats the whole point. You'll be swirling in the primordial energy of chaos and your rigid mental structures will be shred apart in an ocean of absurd humor.
Turning yourself into a tyrannical government is the most unpatriotic thing you can do.
I doubt that. I live in Kansas City and the public shock was pretty much immediate - even before it was reported who it was. There's no way that ride was staying open.

Also, the park is still operating just not that ride.
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Plenty of war practices are banned but still carried out. Torture of prisoners, chemical warfare, targeting civilians, killing enemies who have surrendered or who can't fight back. All of these get committed by major modern states - most of them even by the US in the last ten years.

Governments refrain from biological warfare because it's not effective in achieving their aims, not because it's banned.
Here's my experience. If you develop everything locally, get a decent laptop with Ubuntu or Windows 10 Pro.

Windows 10 Pro Edition comes with WSL, a Linux subsystem which is pretty decent for my deep learning implementation and small scale test. With Xming, I can do some visualization as well. There will be downsides.
If you get a laptop that just comes with Ubuntu or any Linux distro, you are good to go.

If your development is cloud based, Google is push Chrome OS into a Linux friendly direction. Chromebooks are pretty good choices, price-wise, functionality-wise and portability-wise, you name it. At the time of writing (July 20s, 2018), Pixelbook and a few more Chromebooks receive the support of Linux container. More will be supported.
My friend in college gave a similar analogy as the quote in the first paragraph.

He said psychadelics can open the door but then you go thru the door. You don’t just keep re-opening the door.
I believe that same company also noted that the rafts were leaving the track.

That aside, while it's clear the person from the park that led the project was not any kind of engineer, I find it very unlikely that the slide was designed and built without the involvement of any licensed engineers.

Everytime an article related to the Volkswagen emissions scandal is mentioned, a finger is always pointed towards the software developers and it's hinted that they broke the law and should be responsible in some way. I am surprised a similar note isn't struck in this article with regards to the engineers that worked on this project.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-vw-...
I would allow employees to work on side projects.
I think there's something a lot more interesting here than a story about people taking selfies in front of an archaic sign. That this Blockbuster survives is an example of a pattern, although the details hard to tease out, of how a local retail business can exist even in the Internet age.

Maybe a video rental store doesn't need to be part of a massive, nationwide, "big box" chain. Maybe lots of other business can exist in a radically scaled down, more personal, more local version. I'm speculating a bit, but part of me thinks there is still a lot of room for business models that exist outside of the online dominance of Amazon, or the meatspace dominance of Walmart, etc.

Micro-manufacturing is a thing, what about micro-retail? What about a combination of both? What ever happened to the idea of "mass customization"? Could a local business potentially do a better job of offering the kind of hyper-custom goods that will appeal to their local community, than a national (or international) behemoth?

I guess it's ironic to be discussing this in the context of a story about the last remaining store of what once was a national behemoth, but maybe that's the whole point. "Blockbuster the chain" may not work anymore, but maybe "Blockbuster in X" does for some X.

Makes you wonder what avenues might be viable for a Sears, or KMart, or Western Auto, etc. Or just local business that never had any connection to any national chains.

And to close the loop, it leads you to wonder how those local businesses can turn around and leverage the trappings of the Internet era to enhance their own businesses.
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How is the question illegitimate? I don't think it is controversial to say that Wikileaks was part of Russias plan to influence US politics. (Whether they were a unwilling or willing participant is immaterial at the moment). If simply establishing that as a fact makes your side of the debate "lost" and "unwinnable", maybe that means you should rethink why you fall on that side of the debate.
As a former recruiter, I found the LinkedIn user experience to be completely abysmal for any non-trivial search.
I don't think it is that unusual for grad students to research a try during PhD, decide it is not for them, and then move onto other things afterwards. This is from a physics grad school perspective though.
They want me to place 89 cookies. No way to opt-out, only 'accept all'. Abort :(

Edit: actually I did return to the article just now. Curiosity. No longer a cookie alert, though I accepted nothing yet. Either silently placed or not working properly.
>Literally (2): in effect : virtually —used in an exaggerated way to emphasize a statement or description that is not literally true or possible

As you say, this whole thread is pretty heavy. Not really in a thoughtful way, sadly. That said, I love your "literally literally". Is it meant to help the reader understand that you mean "literally" in its original form rather than its recently updated definition? :)
The answer, maybe the one you're looking for is that the schema you describe is suitable for blowing up into longform stories that could be equally well-suited to be treated in 400 words or less.

The question would be, do we care for longform as a format (as opposed to having bite-sized stories with links between them if they're part of something bigger)? Or do we care about stories that have substantial background that needs to be explained (rather than be a tangential addition to a main story)?
I get what you're saying but... the first part is obviously not what I was saying ;)
The good thing is that biological weapons kind of suck at being weapons at least. If they are too lethal while horrifying their spread is mercifully limited like ebola - if they are too weak they don't wind up noticed. They stick around and either have no collateral discrimination or are already cured or vaccinated for your own people. Even the classic 'throw plague corpses over the walls' has the twofold problem of having to expose yourself to your weapons to use them and the territory or loot to claim now being tainted.

The end impact wouldn't be good start with - less freedom of movement overall with increased tracking and quarantines, less global trade, more restrictions, and bodily autonomy would be a thing of the past as going untested at borders let alone unvaccinated would be an unacceptable threat. Your body /is/ their business as anything related to the immune system becomes a matter of national security. Said heavyhandenss would breed its own backlash as well to perpetuate conflicts as conspiracies that they are making the disease would spread regardless of truth - which is a bit of a problem now even from the people who insist AIDS was a secret project or Ebola workers being attacked by people who don't have causation and correlation straight. Think 'fake news' is bad now along with fact-immune belief? Imagine how tempting censorship would be in the face of those destabilizers combined with the Streisand effect. Then there is without the sociopathic easy solution 'shoot the sick just in case' which would certainly lead to more travesties.

The ironic kicker is that this dystopian state would have some upsides in making it in even the most vile dictator's interests to overfund public health and ensure adequate food supply as starving people have weakened immune systems and may catch something to spread around. World hunger may be ironically ended by selfishness. Instead of Military Industrial Complex the term may well be Medical-Military Industrial Complex with fringe benefits. Overall it would be horrifying and I personally consider the most horrifying part is that there would be some large actual benefits to that twisted status quo.
Why does everything have to fall into intolerance and politics? I was interested and then the article turned into crap.
I understand why it didn't take off, but I don't think it's true that Plan 9 was just a tiny incremental improvement over UNIX's architecture. Modern networking and distributed systems would be a LOT nicer today if Plan 9 had taken off in the 90s. I think the economic benefit over today's state of affairs would have been massive, not just something that appealed to computer geeks' sense of elegance.
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Allow?? What makes you think you have any say in the matter?

As far as I'm concerned, my employer doesn't own my brain 24x7x365, and they damn sure aren't paying me to be "on the clock" 24x7x365. So long as I'm not using their time, equipment, trade secrets, etc., I will work on side projects.
OPV is a weakened virus, that's why you took it orally, but the modern vaccine isn't, it's a conventional killed virus vaccine and, since it's dead, can't cause polio.

Unfortunately the modern vaccine is also much more expensive (which is a problem in poor countries) and much less effective (which is a problem in countries with endemic polio).
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totally_drug-resistant_tuber...

But over time it's going to get worse and worse.
What about helping each other out or providing light weight feedback?
True about Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning. Not so true about Assange. And it’s not just the legality. He didn’t simply release documents, he collaborated (as far as it is understood) with another country, to undermine the governments that imposed sanctions on it for the crimes it has (still does) committed.
This article reminded me of wave function being a complex-valued function! Does this have anything to do with octonion, nature's symmetries/invariants or the standard model?
Of course the real alternative would be a strong government with rule of law where the personal proclivities of the guy in charge doesn't dictate the entire character of the state. It can be easier to survive a weak leader when you're not a one-person autocracy.
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I was not sure how to best describe the 'little difficulties', my personal opinion is that he was less than a perfect gentleman, but I was not there.

I do wonder how much his 'heroic freedom fighter' demeanour tied into his bedroom ambitions. Why be a groupie wanting to bed the lead singer of the band when you could become one of Assange's baby-mamas?

He wouldn't be the first male to have greedy desires regarding the ladies, but, had he read Che Guevera's Guerrilla Warfare, and, had 'freedom fighting' been his true ambition rather than a means to further his rock star ego, then he would have kept his little head to himself.

Although Che Guevera mansplains from a different era, he wrote about how that the true revolutionary - assumed to be male - needs to stay away from women until the revolution sought for is achieved. I know everyone seeks a partner - it is human nature to do so - and that 'behind every great man is a great woman', with Assange he should have known that there were basic 'operational security' risks in doing so. It takes months to work out if that lovely lady is narcissistic and likely to play the victim card in some police cell with a 'he said/she said' situation that can't be controlled.

Had there been one incident then you could imagine that she was just an attention seeking liar, to give him the benefit of the doubt. I remember being on this page with Mr Clinton, but, when the numbers add up and a pattern is revealed you do have to wonder.
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Yes, I did read the article (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html) and it says that the investigation was closed (not that the charge was dismissed), because the prosecutors determined he had successfully run beyond their ability to prosecute them by claiming asylum for years, and they didn't see a point in keeping the case open. That's basically the opposite of justice.

> In May, 2017, Swedish prosecutors announced they were closing their investigation into the sexual assault allegations due to the futility of proceeding in light of Assange’s asylum and the time that has elapsed.

He is still wanted for what the article calls the "minor bail violation" of crossing multiple international borders to flee trial for those charges.
[1] suggests, even if it were possible for life to exist on such a planet, it may not be conducive for a civilization such as ours..

[1] https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/a19032/how-life-could...
Not ready to outright delete Linkedin, but it was the noisiest mobile app on my phone. Luckily the mobile site works decently, so it has been assigned to a firefox tab for the foreseeable future.
I disagree that you can call any situation with such limited enfranchisement a "democracy".
The article claims that Jeff Henry designed it entirely through trial-and-error methods without the involvement of any engineers. That sounds preposterous to me too, but it seems to be true.
When I was a kid, we went to TX (I'm from Germany) and everyone recommended going to New Braunfels because it's so German.

We were quite shocked to see how german it was. It seemed like a hideout for traditional german values (as in conquering Poland) - no pleasant memory.
"if you can avoid the bad parts like spam"

An engineer I once worked with used to joke that the best way to fix flash was to uninstall flash.

I wonder if this precedent holds for avoiding LinkedIn spam by just avoiding LinkedIn.

(Spoiler alert: it works marvels, YMMV)
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Genuine question: does anyone actually still use EPCDIC (outside of hobbyists maintaining retro hardware)?
The parks are still running, just not that ride. As another user has posted, public outcry was universal. Don't be so cynical.
I wonder if it would help if there were different rules for un-safe Rust and safe Rust?

Or from a more pragmatic point of view, if one could compile un-safe Rust similarly to "optimisations off" in C compilers. No aggressive optimisation, only straight forward translation. While Rust code marked safe could be compiled with the most insane optimisations, and still be ... safe.

If not, I think people concerned about such things, might opt to write the unsafe parts on C (a known quantity) and the safe parts in Rust.
Leaking secrets is not a freedom of speech issue.

I would agree with you if Snowden narrowly leaked the details of the PRISM program. I think if he did that he would have been a genuine hero. But he didn't. He downloaded as much secret information as he could, and gave them to organizations that were openly hostile to American interests.

Consider the level of detail of methods and sources in the information leaked by Snowden. I think one would have to be extremely naive to believe that Russia and China did not get their hands on the Snowden leaks very quickly(and that's the most charitable interpretation). Therefore, the leaks weakened the US's geopolitical position and improved the position of their rivals.

For a command-in-chief to reward a person who did that with a Medal of Freedom would be a truly baffling choice.
>Many/most Russians would make that bargain

At the very least I think we can say that many HAVE made that bargain. They know.
This is likely a retread of the old saying that the WordStar commands were everyone's second favorite key bindings - http://www.mischel.com/diary/2005/08/22.htm .

For that matter, I remember an episode of Magnum PI where the person who hired Magnum had talked to a few other PIs, and hired Magnum because he was always second on their lists of good PIs.
Sure, Haiku doesn't check, the Amiga systems advise people to switch off verification.
Perl more or less does that [1]:

> Perl also guarantees that the ranges A-Z, a-z, 0-9, and any subranges of these match what an English-only speaker would expect them to match on any platform.

[1]: https://perldoc.pl/perlrecharclass#Character-Ranges
Can you cite research that backs that up? I have a friend who it brought out/caused his schizophrenia. I understand it may have occurred naturally eventually because he has a family history but having it occur when he was 20 is much worse than later in life.

It’s incredibly irresponsible to say it has no negative impacts without more research being done in the area.
That seems like a strange reason to love a movie.

I liked the visuals, but I think the script was a disaster, and the movie itself was only middling.
There is a steep slide in a german water park that women aren’t allowed to ride. The reason is that if ridden with legs spread, water can forcefully enter the vagina and cause injuries. So that’s a real possibility.
What I’ve always enjoyed is that in MUD’s content is a first class citizen. Much of the effort that would be put into graphical assets was instead put into story, mechanics and balance. As a result, some MUD’s have fantastically complex political and economic systems.
Thank you. That made a lot more sense than I thought the movie did. At least in my layman's brain, it didn't make sense that you could get enough energy from a black hole and at the same time ... survive as a habitable planet, at least not one we'd recognize / could use for long.
I thought some tiny pockets of smallpox came back recently..
Any public API using `unsafe` code that can't enforce its own unsafe invariants should (and in practice does) get marked as `unsafe` itself in order to force callers to use `unsafe` when calling that function. Of course it's something that, by definition, the compiler cannot enforce on its own and hence requires social norms and social pressure to enforce, and it's therefore fortunate that the Rust community takes it very seriously.
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> I seem to recall reading that MS only started doing the activation thing in XP because the BSA threatened to throw them out.

I don't buy it. Microsoft was so huge that I don't see why they would care about the BSA. It seems more likely that product activation really has helped Microsoft make more money.
I hate that script. I like reading long articles, but I can't read articles written like that.

I much prefer the "newspaper article" script: Short summary, then detailed long story. It's similar, except that the summary doesn't end in a cliffhanger that makes you want to skip to the end of the article.
Again: the EAW was to arrest Assange for questioning.
"Rapist" is a pretty good term for it.

And yes, I think that the personality of wanting to be a famous and powerful man and is often correlated with the personality of wanting power over women at any cost. I wasn't there either, so I don't know if that's what happened here, but it certainly wouldn't be the first time those have lined up. However, I'm not sure that this is really about a "partner" - the accusers are two different women who had sex with him within weeks of each other, not someone who he was in a long-term relationship with who then went to the police.

(And yes, I do think that "rapist" is an appropriate term for Bill Clinton, too, but that doesn't seem particularly relevant.)
Somewhat alarming that the net and hoops which are presumably there as a safety mechanism to prevent leaving the track completely ended up causing fatal injury.
Thorne's teaching abilities really get ignored. He used to TA a session of first year physics at Caltech every year and he was amazing when I had him. To teach accelerating frames of he clambered onto a table, saying "Define a frame of reference centered on the tip of my nose", then tossed it gently forward as he stepped off. It was a perfectly intuitive demonstration and he got us to laugh in the process.
Microsoft was in the market for a lot longer and could command some exceptions. And maybe Jobs had a better negotiating position. After all Jobs was coming with his own phone and by all accounts the whole package was a compelling proposition.

Google on the other hand came with a proposition that kept shifting, and some uncertain partnerships with OEMs. I guess Rubin and Google just saw this as an opportunity to fast track Android's evolution and decided to keep it open. Just as Rubin always intended as per his own words.

As some apparent insider sources in Google said, open source gave carriers and OEMs confidence that Google wouldn't have absolute power over the Android ecosystem. Which is basically exactly what Google has now.

The push to accept Android actually came (ironically) from the threat of Apple. They managed to upend the traditional model and have a relationship directly with the users (customers would switch carriers for the iPhone). This didn't make AT&T happy in the long run. On the other hand the iPhone was also an AT&T exclusive. Which didn't make other carriers happy. And on the third hand other OEMs had nothing to compete with. In about 2 years both carriers and OEMs had started embracing Android because it gave them some peace of mind: they could customize phones, they could brand them, and the customer relationship would still be with the carrier.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend. And that friend happened to be Android. And it was just the openness mentioned above that probably made the difference between Android and Windows.
I like that term: Literary Brutalism.

I think it's crucially needed, as the volume of content out there worth reading is massive. Unfortunately, non-fiction authors are told to write in narrative form (narrative non-fiction) by editors because that seems to be what sells best and is most engaging.

On the other side are mathematical papers which QED and ibid their way to illegibility.
I'm not German either, although I'm a fellow EU citizen.

As someone old enough to still marginally view Germans in a WW2 context, it was their (her?) decision to allow a million war refugees to settle in Germany that really clinched it for me. That's how nations should learn from their past, statues notwithstanding.

I know the decision was not undividedly popular within Germany itself, but internationally, it made me proud, and made me feel that's what modern EU countries should aspire to: to be exemplary in the face of human suffering. That action put Germany's role in WW2 irrevocably in the past for me.