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A similar idea is used in UnicodePlots [1], a Julia terminal plotting library. This kind of tools is very useful when you are connected to some HPC cluster and want to have a quick look at the contents of data files.

Of course, the approach is quite different, as Termgraph seems a stand-alone program, while UnicodePlots is a library.

[1] https://github.com/Evizero/UnicodePlots.jl
English has the subjunctive mood as well, though it is phasing out of use. If you were to express a hypothetical, you would use "were" as the subjunctive tense. For example, the song title "If I were a rich man" rather than "If I was a rich man", or the previous sentence in this post.
I don't live in a movie, but I definitely don't want to remove anything remotely dangerous to my person (see: everything) because it has the capacity for danger.
I was never homeless but I was in such a bad place, mentally, when I was a teen and the library was my sanctuary. The 4th floor of the Harold Washington Library in downtown Chicago. :') I have so many really fond memories of that place. Finally getting peace and quiet away from home. Having a place where I could read things and study. Or just hide away from everything and myself.

It makes me sad that there are people who want to get rid of these places. And what's worse is that they'd use exactly these reasons to get rid of them--the homeless and the recluses hang out there!
The problem about Esperanto (aside from Eurocentrism) is that it has no real bulkhead to start from, unlike (to pick Esperanto-origin-era competitors) say French, English or Spanish.
I agree with that, but the distribution of where you have things makes it a bit more difficult. If I have amazon hosting my domain, email, website, and I shop there, then me getting banned because they didn't like me returning too many things will affect everything else. Having my domain at No-IP, Email at fastmail, website self hosted means that Microsoft banning an account I use won't affect any of that.
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If you've got your history enabled (which it is by default -- https://myactivity.google.com), you'll discover how much insight it actually has into your mind.

"Cat videos" and "good restaurants" is not all that people search for.
It's probably a lot less about anti-trust and a lot more about bankruptcy protection.

With the companies logically divided, Alphabet can choose devote $XYZ money to some specific initiative and have a guarantee that they're liable for AT MOST that much money. If the sub-company completely mis-manages its assets and goes belly-up, its failure doesn't impact e.g. Google or Waymo (in any deeper way than opportunity cost of the money going to the other sub-company instead of those). Bankruptcy responsibility stops at the owning company and doesn't trickle up to the assets of the company that owns that company, in general.

It's a common pattern for movie studios---Hollywood studios build out a short-lived company to own every film production to insulate themselves from liability and financial disaster.
Either he had legal possession or he didn't. That matters.

Either the components were counterfeit, and bore hastily-covered-up trademark-infringing logos, and thus shouldn't have been legally importable. Or they were genuine but stolen, and thus shouldn't have been legally importable.

No amount of narrative spin can change that.
English pronunciation is extremely hard. There are virtually no rules, you have to memorize pronunciation of each word individually. It is neither simple nor logical.
I am sorry, I did not realize I had an obligation to constantly inform you about something. I will do my best in the future.
Computers will translate in real time.

Binary is the universal language of classic computers based on electromagnetic physics.

Assuming quantum computing or some other unforeseen technology doesn’t replace other forms of computing then we will likely all be relying on binary in one way or another.
The article raises some good points, but it's worth considering that even if you take note of everything written here and everything ever written about striking the right tone of voice as a customer service agent, you may still end up sounding patronising, repetitive or dismissive. Because your communication will often be surrounded by some wider context. Consumer services aimed at less technical customers are well-known for this sort of thing - addressed them by name? Check. Sprinkled in some positive words? Check. But none of that matters if you've gotten their name wrong or are replying in exactly the same tone to every customer in a public forum. Your attempts at improving communications just end up making people frustrated.
I don't see how it makes sense to copy a strategy that loses money when someone else is already following that strategy and going broke due to all the money they're paying you.
You kinda did this, unintentionally mostly, which just resulted in every country coming up with their own incompatible encoding. Unicode tried to unify this mess again.
I agree, it is very hard to master the special cases of English. A paper might communicate ideas with perfect clarity and still be filled with subtle mistakes. After entering STEM academia, I have been exposed to more English writing by non-native speakers. It made me appreciate the difficulty of mastering English. It also made me sympathetic to some deeper criticisms of English beyond the inconsistent spelling rules. For example, the overuse of articles and the verb "to be".
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Is preemptive regulation ever a good thing? How could any government have pre-regulated, say, the internet?

If you are not for technological progress, is the corollary true, that you are for technological stagnation? Is not tech stagnation also tech attrition?
>You can't charge less than the marginal cost, it doesn't make sense!

The old joke is "Sure we have marginal losses, but we'll make up for it with volume!"
I feel like by now Google has enough dirt on anyone to personally ruin them. "Well, why did you look up 'Can you die from eating too much hair?' in 2012?"
yes, I had just realized that and added it as an edit.

I'm pretty sure you can ignore the subjunctive and still have it be correct, i.e. I don't think there is anything grammatically wrong with saying "If I was rich", at least in the sense that it wouldn't be picked up on in casual speech
> It is necessary that there should be a common global language that everyone speaks,

It's obviously not necessary as it is still far from the case that everyone speaks English, nor has it been the case historically.

It is true that lingua francas, link languages which acquire large numbers of non-native speakers are a common feature over time, spreading from obvious utility (trade etc.)
On the other hand, global imperialism has always played a role in forging a lingua franca in many ages, just like Classical Greek in the Hellenistic period and Latin in Roman Empire. (Disclaimer: I'm not judging the morality of imperialism, just stating the fact.)
I would say using Venmo is different but the idea that a social network could be built around a p2p payment service works surprisingly better than it has any right to.

https://soundcloud.com/replyall/4-follow-the-money
But you're really talking about orthography.
It's physically realizable. We could physically build such a thing as a static structure out of aerospace grade materials. (Carbon fiber or balloon tanks made out of Boron. People have done the calcs.) It's just that no one would do it, because it's not economically justifiable.

Apparently traditional skyscraper building techniques could be used to build a single structure 11 miles tall. Again, no one would do it, because it's not economically justifiable. Maybe if there was a space tower cold war?
First off, that's a false analogy.

That being said, it's 50/50. Yeah, obviously people should be allowed to make their own choices but you also have to realize that people like 'us' (20-40yo tech career westerners) live a far different life and probably employ much better personal criteria than others do. It's not inherently a false statement but it shouldn't be used to take power from people.

Long story short I agree with you but a lot of people don't fully understand the ramifications of their actions.
Would it? Is the algorithm the source of value or the massive store of data harvested over a decade and stored globally in myriad datacenters?
If they can force you to agree to mandatory arbitration to use their service (and in the US they can, according to the Supreme Court), this kind of stuff is peanuts.
You mean that Windows installation that you bought (directly or indirectly), that potentially didn't have this WGA feature on it when you bought it?
Protip: Don't connect to WiFi when first setting up Windows. If possible, use an Enterprise, Education, or Pro (in that order) version of Windows.

I didn't even know a Microsoft account was an option when I set up my desktop :)
Brains don’t solve problems by manipulating symbols. None of these layers are intended to be synonymous. Meditation is basically 4 and 1, with 2 and 3 coming and going. Driving is intended to be an example of just 1 and 2. Saying that driving is a “skill” and “we know it can be done unconsciously” suggests to me that other skills can be done unconsciously, too. A lot happens in ten minutes of driving; options are weighed and decisions made. Music composition and doing mathematics (stopping short of the actual symbols) are also habitually developed skills over years of regular practice.

Edit: I just remembered that Jonathan Blow reports programming “unconsciously” in the same manner as the driving example. Also, on a good day my consciousness is not devoted to “problem-solving” every second of the day; that would be miserable. I don’t see why conscious awareness is seen as so necessary for thought, the only explanation for me being that many people experience themselves as being their thoughts and not their awareness. It is a journey many of us are on.
Basically it works until they have a reason to defend themselves.
Hooke was fond of publishing his ideas as ciphers. Ideas in his time were often discovered simultaneously in many places at once, and so I think the purpose was not to convey the solution, but to provide a sort of proof-of-work that he had found a solution without letting anyone else take credit for it. I guess he expected the answer to be discovered somewhere else fairly soon thereafter, maybe by one of his colleagues, at which point he could unscramble the anagram and say "see, I beat you to it".
On second look, yes—a bit overzealous in this case. I've unbanned your account. But can you please follow the basic idea here? if you have a substantive point to make, make it thoughtfully; if you don't, please don't comment until you do.

If by well-received you mean upvoted, that alas isn't enough to ensure that commenters are following the rules. If it were, HN wouldn't need moderators.
Very good points. And thanks for the note about Object.getPrototypeOf(obj) and Object.setPrototypeOf(obj, newPrototype), I don't think I had ever actually looked that up!
You can't separate a technology from it's use. Technology is created to be used.

Besides I could just as easily say some knowledge is good and some knowledge is bad. If you want to say that "knowledge is definitely not bad" then I'm going to ask you your own question - can you support that statement?
This is wrong. Most education budget comes from your state or local (often in property) taxes, not from the federal gov't. According to US gov't spending, the fed spends $111B, but local and state about $1T in FY2018.
(https://www.usgovernmentspending.com/us_education_spending_2...). NYC has the largest enrollment in the country for instance and spends whopping $24K per pupil.
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Spammers have plenty of ability to A/B test these things to determine which posts trigger and which don't.

Meanwhile, normal users are left totally confused, with zero recourse and potentially a loss of important data and other significant repercussions.
There used to be: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%E2%80%93V_distinction#Englis...
These are space rockets. Reusable munitions would be much more challenging and impressive, though.
You make a good point.

I don't see why that type of sharing can't happen with open source services. Though it would require more customer consent.
What is 'English grammar'? (Hopefully you don't mean spelling.) And what are examples of such exceptions? (English doesn't strike me as having any more exceptions in morphology or syntax than any other language, and has a simpler morphology than many languages.)
Trustico is "just" a reseller, but one working with Comodo, an extremely trusted CA. Which calls a lot into question: If we can't trust Trustico (we can't), but they're able to issue Comodo certs, we really can't trust Comodo either. (Beyond the fact that really, if Comodo is still willing to work with Trustico, it's clear Comodo is also not a trustworthy entity.) And even if you or I don't trust Comodo, our web browsers do, because Google and Mozilla have decided Comodo is trustworthy.

I don't understand how anyone can suggest that web PKI isn't totally broken as long as this remains the case.

And banks don't have perfect records, but I'm not being forced to use a bank. If Google wants to use it's monopoly to force us all to use PKI, maybe it should fix PKI first.
Quick experiment you can try to check if Google is blocking competition:

1) navigate to bing.com

2) do a search

If it works, congratulations; Google isn't blocking competition. The 98% market share is probably because the market is winner-take-all, and people don't see a need to use a new competitor that's even equivalently-effective over one they are already comfortable with.
404? Was it deleted?
We still use it where I work. The long time employees love it, the newer ones are in awe that something so old/creaky still runs. We've been "investigating" a migration to Outlook/Exchange for 10 years.
One example: By preventing phone manufacturers who use Android and Google services from also selling phones with other operating systems they are killing the opportunity for another phone OS from gaining traction.

We could have missed out on the opportunity for something better than Android being developed and we'll never know. It's called dumping; flooding the market with something free to kill competition and make sure Google is in the majority of hands in Europe.
You aren’t the target customer for Windows any longer. People who don’t know any better are.

At least they were forced to offer LTSB for enterprise customers. Though I recently read they are rebranding the name.
> Watch other people. Read the old Vogue magazines

I said "you're by yourself". Forget the magazines, they are the crappiest magazines ever. The pages are sticky, they are awful.

"Sit and think". No, I feel like reading some poetry or philosophy or an interesting article, or listening to music, or playing a puzzle game. I don't want to sit there thinking about the upcoming doctor's appointment.

I'll have my still time later, when I choose, not when a doctor's waiting room circumstance dictates it.

Your problem is you never took control of your smartphone. They can be set to be just an innocent little screen with interesting words or whatever on it. My own smartphone doesn't annoy me, it does exactly what I want it to do. Zero notifications, internet data is off until I need it etc.
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Bell Labs was a monopoly (at least for a time period) and yielded countless high-impact, transformative innovations that a company with fewer resources (probably) would not have been able to develop. I think (although I could be wrong) most would agree they were a net benefit to society.
I’m not sure how that connects with what I’m asking. The other comments said that market forces would result in people demanding reparations for the damage done by pollution. But in the absence of a legal framework giving them some rights regarding pollution, those demands won’t go anywhere.
I didn't claim there would be less deregulation. However, it would be harder to misrepresent the original intent and easier to trace recurrence back to repeal.
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Collude with whom?
If your domain gets stolen then you're similarly out of luck. You now need to change your email on every website you use, which for many requires email confirmation or contacting support.
I think the moral compasses of Twitter moderators are quite fallible, but the most extreme way that they could fail would be to stop doing their job.

Society has a better moral compass, in aggregate, than the content allowed by the combination of bots and low-paid workers that moderate Twitter. I say that means that Twitter needs to catch up. You seem to be saying that means Twitter should never moderate anything, which seems like exactly the wrong direction to me.
It's not so much they are hurting anyone, since they have made it virtually impossible to compete with them.

Say you do a search for a particular location, the first thing that pops up to the the top of the page is a box with some information pulled from wikipedia and a link/image of it on google maps. Search for a band, and you see the same with links to youtube and google music. Search for online storage and you see the same thing.

While google has been audited time and time again to prove that their search engine totally allows competitors to make an impact against some of these sorts of things. Even without the box, the builder of the worlds most used search engine is certainly very good at search engine optimization for their own products.
I feel like there is something really meta about your comment.

I also feel like I have read this exact article about 3 years ago.

EDIT: Oh, of course, I remembered this article by the same writer: https://www.salon.com/2014/06/03/the_day_i_left_my_son_in_th...

In some ways, I think the 4 year old article was better.
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A second is way too short. Sometimes someone will say something and it'll be minutes before I consciously hear what they said. Auditory (and verbal) processing centers have circular buffers that can hold things for quite awhile. Visual not so much--people only imagine they can hold a picture in their mind.

But, yeah, in terms of long-term semantic and episodic memory you can't retain it unless you were conscious of it. People who claim so-called photographic memory in fact only consistently recall details that they consciously noticed. People with hyperthymesia also only remember stuff that they were consciously aware of.
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Anecdotally 30-50% of Studio Movie Grill (southern chain of dine & drink theaters) patrons are Moviepass subscribers. The food and drinks are their primary profit centers to the point that they often don't even bother with ticket monkeys. If Moviepass interrupts that stream of customers, the theater starts losing out on sellout showings nearly everybody is purchasing a meal and drinks.
If you like writing small emulators, try the Synacor challenge and/or ICFP 2006. Extremely challenging puzzles, and both start with writing a simple emulator.
I was out with friends this weekend at a local event and one of them went "Why would you let your kid out of sight with all these pedophiles running around?" - there was zero evidence there were sex offenders around us - it was a family event, but just because of the sheer prevalence of news they had heard, it's warped their perception of the world enough to be fearful of the utterly irrational.
Probably not in the sense of the standard Google plays in now being very close to natural-language awareness. You can probably garage up a Webcrawler or a Lycos relatively cheaply, but it's going to feel clunky and complicated relative to the queries Google and Bing can support.

I keep mentioning "restaurants near me" in this thread because it's absolutely killer that's possible now.
All I have are anecdotes, and I can't speak to the frequency of law enforcement getting involved, but regarding the general perception of what is 'appropriate parenting' there is a culture of micromanagement, paranoia, and shaming.
I meant, it's pretty well reinforced with capitalization or accentuation when speaking ("do NOT! do this").

You're saying in Spanish you can accentuate it like this: "do not, NOT do this"?
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Wow that would be something...

what would happen if Universal Pictures stepped in with a subscription model (or whatever Moviepass does) for their movies?
> the movement behind which further stipulates that the common second tongue should be universally second

The Esperanto movement does not strictly stipulate that. The phenomenon of denaskuloj, i.e. native Esperanto speakers (children born to parents who use Esperanto as their home language) is something that the Esperanto movement has been proud of for many decades now. Now, these native speakers might not get that much “privilege”, just some higher level of respect, but still, during my time in the Esperanto movement, I saw on various occasions grammatical disputes presented to a denaskulo in order to provide a "decisive" answer. If Esperanto scaled instead of remaining its niche pastime, it is easy to imagine first-language speakers of the language gradually being taken more seriously than second-language learners.
There is no direct evidence of his torture, nor of his lack of torture by other forms. Why did North Korea say that his brain damage was caused by botulism and a bad reaction to a sleeping pill? Otto's doctors said it was most likely cardiopulmonary arrest. His doctor's said we will never know what happened to him exactly but something nefarious seems likely given North Korea's history, and the lies about the cause of brain death. Not to mention, it's easy to envision forms of torture that might cause a cardiopulmonary event(waterboarding, drowning, suffocation, etc).

To me it's really surprising that an omission of correcting the perception that Otto was beaten on the part of the Trump administration is evidence Trump used the situation or that North Korea did not violate any of Otto's human rights.
Sure, but it's not like a software dev wouldn't send a similar email, just discussing something development-related instead of revenue-related.
There's an SMTP-STS protocol in the works to establish persistent secure relationships between MTAs, which should alleviate a lot of the STARTTLS downgrade pain. Last I checked, most of the major email providers were backing it.
As a result, it might be possible that statements such as "Education accounts for 3% of all government spending" might benefit from the wonderful opportunity to become more congruent with salient facts.
Isn’t that like saying pressure waves are the universal spoken language, so it doesn’t matter if English wins, it’s all pressure waves at the end of the day.
"Never leave home without my flip-phone and kindle" said nobody ever. Your smartphone might have the kindle app or e-reader app or something. You can put it on flight mode, and enjoy.
The number of times I've been faced with condescending comments from developers of mobile and web apps here and on reddit is pretty amazing to me. The presumption of cluelessness on the part of most developers faced with any kind of non-praise feedback is stark and amazing. I can understand why it exists -- since the degree of cluelessness out there is quite amazing -- but it's pretty much anathema to anything in good customer service.

Could you just

Sorry, but that phrase is not necessarily softer. It can also be quite harsh!
Not in the country of origin, lol

Edit: England, bitch.
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And headlights.