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Coming from someone who went from hacking out PHP projects to using Elixir, and only having three years total dev experience, switching to Elixir was tough. It probably took me a month where I felt like I was productive, and three before I started to understand processes and pattern matching and Gen Servers where I could really utilize them properly.

There’s just a lot that’s different. Now, I’m looking for a job and I mostly know Elixir, and it’s making it difficult to find stuff when all you really know is how to write code in a (good, but) relatively unused language.
What a brilliant comment! In fact, I'd even say it's over 9E+3 photons/s/mm^2/mrad^2/(0.001*Δλ)
Thank you. It’s sad the fundamental truth of your comment will be lost on so many here.
Automated celestial navigation is actually surprisingly old technology, first being pioneered in the 1950s on the snark missile. Of course at first it was extremely unreliable, with the snark flying off target so often the part of the ocean the missiles were being tested in was humorously dubbed "snark infested waters" due to all the off target missiles that sunk there. But eventually people got better and did amazing things with relatively primitive tools, and by the '60s decently successful guidance systems using the stars were common place on ICBMS.

As to technical details, here is a write up of the NAS26 astro-inertial guidance system from the '70s:

http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a090649.pdf

The navy and the air force get all the coolest toys, I tell you what.
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The ACA helped a bit but it did not affect the root cause: loss of solid well paying jobs with upward mobility.
Natural talent certainly exists. I used to be into boxing. Trained 6 times a week really hard for many years and improved a lot of from where I started. From time to time we would have some new guy come who clearly didn't know anything about boxing or fighting. But within weeks he would learn and get better than almost anyone else in the gym. He would be faster and punch harder. In the same way Mozart was able to compose music at the age of 3 or Gauss just understood math naturally some people just understand certain sports. In school we had a guy who could run around 10.5 over 100m without any training. I could never reach that no matter how much I trained.

Pro sports is full of natural talents and the top guys are the ones who also work hard in addition to their natural abilities.
yes - I walked away, signing with another one nearby
Oh I ran into some of those issues too. Getting runtime configuration variables can be a bit of a pain. But on the plus side, I added a tuple (MFA) option in a PR for a lib and Jose Valim merged it a few days later. Really helpful core team!
Whether or not the government should be granting monopolies in the form of IP and whether it's fine to violate property rights in a capitalist system, are two different questions

I can see your other viewpoints but I do not understand how your seeming desire for no laws is based in capitalism. Property rights and rule of law are basic necessities for capitalism
The US Air Force has a keen interest in SpaceX with its possibility for rapid launches of reusable rockets for this and other reasons. SpaceX is hoping for less than one day turnaround with its most recent design (block 5) of its Falcon 9 rockets[1]. This design is already flying. With enough GPS satellites in storage, they could all be replaced in a week.

[1]https://spacenews.com/spacex-targeting-24-hour-turnaround-in...
> full of holes and inconsistencies, among shoddy worldbuilding

I'm not sure that is the reason for the difference. The Odyssey has plenty of gaping holes and shoddy worldbuilding, plus some inconsistencies. For example, the plot of the very end flops IMHO (and less humbly opinionated people agree); you have to strain to give it much credit.

What I think separates it from Star Wars and most other stories ever created is its reflection of humanity. The characters and social interactions are so true and so rich - not at the superficial layer, where there are gods and magic, but at the core of anger, pride, love, compromise, fear, uncertainty, joy, power, etc. - you can look at it and deep into it forever and will never run dry.

If I can run on a bit, Dante wrote, nature takes her course from the divine mind and its art ... your art, as far as it can, follows nature as the pupil the master, so that your art is to God, as it were, a grandchild.[0] The Odyssey fulfills that, IMHO; a wonder of mortal creation.

Tangentially, Odysseus is one of the most unpleasant characters in all of literature, in deed and personality. Even on Game of Thrones he would be at the bottom of the barrel.

[0] About himself! It's in Inferno; Dante conveniently put those lines in the mouth of another character speaking to the author.

EDIT: Major edits
Elixir easier to get started than meteor? Does it has good accounts-ui package?
My plumber thinks we should spend the money on better toilets.
Indeed. It's called "Operation Mockingbird". I'm sure it's a different name by now, but all these people talking about this subject, I usually do a ctrl+f "mockingbird" and when I see nothing I know they aren't getting to the heart of the issue.

Another thing no one talks about? The massive consolidation via mergers and acquisitions in the media/journalism world. It's been show multiple times that ownership is used to influence those things, but when those ownerships become monopolies owned by fewer and fewer oligarchical uber-rich, there are less and less voices in the wilderness speaking truth.

What I do is find a truth teller and read all his or her stuff. Robert Fisk, Seymour Hersh, Glenn Greenwald, Noam Chomsky, Steve Coll, Matt Taibbi, Michael Hastings (assassinated), Gary Webb (assassinated), Jeremy Scahill, Richard Grove, and John Perkins are just a few on my list.
Civilization pretty much requires it.

You could waste endless cycles not trusting.

Even startups that I thought were absurd ideas ... I maybe wouldn't have done it because of a lack of trust... but they worked out.
CROSS CHASE by Fabrizio Caruso

It uses Fabrizio Caruso's CrossLib abstraction layer to create an 8-bit game that can be (compiled and) run on nearly any 8-bit computer. Non-8-bit architectures are also supported.
The joke while I was in Iraq was "We know he has WMD's because we have the receipts from the Iran-Iraq war when we gave them to him."... but we mostly knew what and where they were, their lifespan, etc, and that for the most part, "there was no "there" there". A few older things that had been heavily degraded were found.

I'll never forget being handed the same picture C Powell showed at the briefing and told "this is what we are looking for", given how we found out later that was bullshit.

Iraq was for other reasons. WMD was just one piece of how it was "sold".
Yep, I gained low 6 figures so far
I'm not sure what else you expected from /r/amd_stock.
So, I used to have a full-size keyboard with a built-in calculator as part of the numpad (had an LCD display above).

I would love to built an updated version.
That's a feature, not a bug. GPS is the US-based sat. nav. system. Of course they can turn it off at will.

And of course to get around that, is to put your own sat. nav. system together.
Exactly why I said 20 years! The hopeless diamond. I would still delete this if real. Even though you didn't give away anything of substance it's enough to be marked a traitor
To take that further, this is exactly in analogy with why/how some people enjoy research (or any kind of learning that stretches cognition, in general). Every time you "get" a new concept, it's like you've "leveled up" and your experience in that domain is forever altered :-)
So, the way to look at it is that you “mount” a React application at a specific part of the DOM. Anything under that point is managed by React components.

Usually, people have a single “mount point” very close to the <body> element, and a single script file whose primary purpose is to call ReactDOM.render to “mount” a React component representing their application at that point.

However, that doesn’t prevent you from having DOM outside that mount point, and it doesn’t prevent you from having code which does other things that don’t have anything to do with the React-managed part of the page. This is a great way to migrate a legacy application to React: you choose one small section of your page to replace with React, and then have the remainder of your page interact with it by 1.) choosing when to call ReactDOM.render again to ask it to update, and 2.) passing in callbacks so the React ”mini-app” can notify the rest of your application when something happens.

You can go the other way, too, although it’s a little less safe. If you have a React component which renders, say, a <div> with no children, you can get a handle to the DOM element itself and interact with it just like you would in a non-React application. The only constraint here is that you have to make sure to clean up e.g. event handlers and release references to those elements if something causes the “owner” React component to unmount. This is how people make wrapper libraries which let you use non-React-based libraries using React components. (I’ve done this in a side project where I had a huge number homogenous DOM elements to work with, and found that managing them myself was much more performant than trying to run them through React’s model.)
Yes, and that's a massive problem. They reached probably what is close to their peak capacity and need to find ways to extract more money out of their existing MAUs because those numbers are stagnant or dropping.
The critic was behaving dishonestly, therefore it was good there was a discussion with the boss.
it is happening now. If iOS Safari doesn't support something its basically no go period. other browsers even on other platforms are effected because web developers can't use the new apis given that 20% of the market has zero choice.
The Unix-Haters Handbook (1994)
> no one knows what's real anymore, who to listen to, what to believe.

It's a myth that "trusted news sources" were more truthful before the internet. It's just that the internet has exposed all the propaganda going on.

Professional historians well know that historical accounts tend to be more propaganda than factual, which is why they always look for independent corroboration. Archaeology has rewritten many accounts of things like battlefields, even modern ones.
Its into supplying its citizens with a useful currency. Micropayments of dollars is just usefully currency online. Seems like microdollars would be a natural monopoly, ideal for the US government to produce.
Think of the threat to the US GPS system. To make it stick, you need to knock out most of the GPS system,

as well as the system of the US allies (EU) and if you do that, you're in hot water with those allies.

I say, good luck with that, sir.

I think 24 missiles pointed at earth targets would have more impact than some pesky satellites.
That's what I was talking about with VM risk, though. You're right back to it. Even the most secure VM will have the hardware and firmware in its attack surface. Those are getting tons of attention right now. It will reduce the number of times you get breached with associated damage. It's not as secure as physical separation, though.
Generating Songs with Neural Networks
When I started in computing in the 80s a lot of people did programming out of intellectual curiosity and fun. People did things like easter eggs and other stupid stuff. Now it's just a career and everything is about money, money and more money. I guess that's a natural progression once something goes mainstream.
"It's trading based on non-public information."

I don't think this can be an accurate characterization.
Any time you buy or sell a stock, you should have non-public information in some sense - since the current price theoretically reflects all the public information.

Matt Levine has written some stuff from time to time about popular misunderstanding of insider trading law in the US. One point he makes is that it's outlawed in a kind of indirect way, rather than being based on a layman's idea of fairness.
AMD has been my best investment so far. I've always loved them as they've been the rebellious underdog and have brought competitively powerful CPUs into the affordable range for historically low income computer nerds such as myself multiple times.

Bitcoin/crypto would have been my next best-- if only I hadn't had my bitcoins stolen from an early mining pool... oh well.
For which part? Do you have a Facebook account? It's not exactly a secret.
Could just as easily be counter productive. Some user who's just spent a few hundred on a new Huawei installs VLC and all their other old apps. VLC tells them their choice will lead to strange behaviour. User leaves 1 star review that VLC told them their new phone was crap.

Users barely read error messages and dialogues so there's no scope for any nuance in explaining and informing.

Blocking seems the only rational approach to take. Those who can understand sideloading can likely decide if they want VLC warts and all on their Huawei.
Our minds are driven, pattern-finding engines. Much of what we 'discover' is done 'behind the scenes'. E.g. 'he woke up with the answer'.

Many musicians have related how they learned how to 'channel' ... open themselves to write-down or perform 'incoming transmissions' as it were.

Shouldn't surprise us too much. How often do we start talking about something - at length - without prior deliberation ... as if we just opened a valve?

It's as if, once the engine has 'figured out' the patterns, we just ... turn it on.
There are also much simpler workarounds. Although not as precise, early cruise missiles simply used a gyroscope.

Another option would be hacking the enemie's GPS-like system. I assume we're already hard at work on that.
It is pretty widely accepted that the global economy is dependent on America.
The #1 reason here is one of the most important. You have to be able to draw your landing ellipse in a spot that you can be confident the rover can safely land. Technological advances have shrunk the size of this ellipse considerably, check this image from JPL for comparison of past missions:

https://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/images/?ImageID=439...

Another reason is the decisions are made ... ok, perhaps only influenced by committee ... you have to satisfy at least a significant subset of the Mars research community with your site selection. See this site for public information on the process:

https://marsnext.jpl.nasa.gov/

There are a number of other hard engineering concerns, like limits on latitude based on heating (or solar power) requirements, e.g. if you go to far north or south you have to use all your available power to heat the spacecraft and won't have any left to do science. I don't remember the exact values, but I think existing technology puts you in a +/- 60 degrees from the equator. I think it was even less than that, but I don't recall exactly.
It would be nice if hospitals had to have a price list and companies were allowed to build them wherever they wanted. That would be a good start. Having at least one big western nation without socialized medicine is probably a good thing for the overall health and improvement of the medical field.
Very much this. There are very few scenarios in which I’d recommend jQuery nowadays, but I still have mad respect for the project itself, for its legacy, and for the positive impact it’s had on front-end programming.
Bringing intelligence to the edge with Cloud IoT
Suppose you have done proprietary analysis on satellite imagery to estimate sales of a company. Since you have no relationship with the company, you aren't betraying any relationship of trust. I don't think* this is insider trading, to trade on the estimates you produced. However, the information is not public and nobody else has it. So I think a layperson might well regard it as unfair and expect it to be illegal.

*This is not legal advice
I don't think neither companies ever denied that AI won't get 100% of the cases, they just say that you can't moderate billions of posts with human moderation alone, you need AI to take care of the 99%, and humans for ambiguous cases.
The API docs are available on request mostly because we are phasing out some old APIs we don't want people to use and don't have bandwidth to provide support for them.

The bridge and the import/export tool are not yet open source for similar reasons 1) They are both bandwidth intensive, so we'd like to release access to them gradually 2) Part of running a freemium service is giving paid users perks, and one of those is access to closed betas before general release.
I think it's crazy how the same narrative changes so much.

I remember the internet and social media used to be so much better than TV. TV was controlled by big corporations who wanted to brainwash everyone. 1/3 of the time was ads that only stupefied you, and the rest were shows that did the same. They would do anything for ratings-- CNN was a bastion of treachery dividing the country by presenting politics as sports for the sake of viewership. People were glad Crossfire got canceled (now all of CNN is essentially Crossfire).

But social media? What a tool for free speech and change! It was the breath of fresh air that fought away big corporations, that gave us the Arab Spring, that let anyone with something to say become famous and have a voice and an audience, for free! It provided a platform for critical thinking instead of passive consumption! This data "dance" was the 8th wonder of the world and news articles were being written about how clever Obama's campaign had been to use analytics and "research" to get the edge on the campaign.

I'm not saying any one view is right and the other wrong but something I've noticed about Americans is that they are a very scared people and are very quick at painting things black or white (: The world is not so scary, and most things lie somewhere on a grayscale.
> Unix has its own collection of myths, as well as a network of dealers pushing
them. Perhaps you’ve seen them before:
1. It’s standard.
2. It’s fast and efficient.
3. It’s the right OS for all purposes.
4. It’s small, simple, and elegant.
5. Shellscripts and pipelines are great way to structure complex
problems and systems.
6. It’s documented online.
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7. It’s documented.
8. It’s written in a high-level language.
9. X and Motif make Unix as user-friendly and simple as the
Macintosh.
10. Processes are cheap.
11. It invented:
• the hierarchical file system
• electronic mail
• networking and the Internet protocols
• remote file access
• security/passwords/file protection
• finger
• uniform treatment of I/O devices.
12. It has a productive programming environment.
13. It’s a modern operating system.
14. It’s what people are asking for.
15. The source code:
• is available
• is understandable
• you buy from your manufacturer actually matches what
you are running.
>Were there tech people screaming foul? Not really

Yes. Really.

>Sandy Parakilas, the platform operations manager at Facebook responsible for policing data breaches by third-party software developers between 2011 and 2012, told the Guardian he warned senior executives at the company that its lax approach to data protection risked a major breach.

Parakilas, whose job was to investigate data breaches by developers similar to the one later suspected of Global Science Research, which harvested tens of millions of Facebook profiles and provided the data to Cambridge Analytica, said the slew of recent disclosures had left him disappointed with his superiors for not heeding his warnings.

“It has been painful watching,” he said, “because I know that they could have prevented it.”

Parakilas said he “always assumed there was something of a black market” for Facebook data that had been passed to external developers. However, he said that when he told other executives the company should proactively “audit developers directly and see what’s going on with the data” he was discouraged from the approach.

He said one Facebook executive advised him against looking too deeply at how the data was being used, warning him: “Do you really want to see what you’ll find?”

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/20/facebook-data-c...
> I didn't say that, I said that there are different visions of a better future.

You agreed with GP who stated they would prefer Elon Musk had started a cancer research firm instead of SpaceX, and you said 'I would prefer solving Earth's problems too'.

(Personally I'd prefer cancer research wasn't conducted by 'a firm' at all, but that's aside.)

What was the 'better' in reference to a 'better future' mean?
They operate in the someone else's problem field[1] while spending other people's money[2].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somebody_else%27s_problem
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal%E2%80%93agent_proble...
I am a hiring manager at an SV tech company. I have interviewed and hired many engineers on H-1B visa. They all, in my understanding, posses the required " theoretical and practical application of a body of highly specialized knowledge in a field of human endeavor". The number of such hires definitely fill the biggest conference rooms I have seen. Also, when I attend reputable tech conferences, many speakers I meet are on H-1B.

That being my experience, I don't think the claim made by OP is true. Evidently, we have different understanding of what constitutes specialized skills. Why is a good developer not considered to posses "specialized knowledge in a field of human endeavor"?
Because that should be table-stakes for the profession.

And too many H1-Bs are just awful. I don't necessarily blame them individually, but it's a perverse suboptimal system.

If I ever run my own business, I'm going to put a 300-800% price hike on any work where I have to interface with Tata or Cognizant, or ATT Global Services, or the other kinds of consulting bodyshops that currently employ the vast majority of H1-Bs. At least for non-repeat business. Find a decent team and giving them normal rates or better would make sense, but there are others you wouldn't touch with a thirty foot pole made of rolled hundred dollar bills.

It is just not worth the headache dealing with that caliber of people, and the cultural impedance. Unless they are willing to pay through the nose.
Another:

The true cause of the Mandela Effect isn't false or inaccurate memories, it's the fact that time isn't a single, straight line. Rather, there are multiple timelines that have converged on what we all think of as the current moment.

Everyone is remembering their origin timeline correctly... it’s just that some people came from the timeline where it was The Berenstein Bears, and others where it was The Berenstain Bears.
Neat workflow. I use a conceptually similar system though it’s proprietary (DEVONthink). Drop pdfs or websites or bookmarks in the inbox and burn through them and decide if I want to archive it in the database.

I’ve enjoyed having access to the database from my laptop as well as iPhone and iPad. It’s definitely been a workflow I’ve cobbled together. This seems to be working out better though.
You don't fix industrial espionage with a trade war.
Adblocking, changing fonts system wide, specifically serif font on Android is terrible. Some app specific reasons, Nova needs it to turn off screen without locking your phone, and thing with Gravity Screen, Sd Maid for cleaning, titanium backup for backing up.
I imagine that the military is going to be much more effective without having to use workarounds. I doubt current munitions have extra weight dedicated to backup gyroscope navigation (could be wrong). Launching two dozen satellites has to be easier, faster, and cheaper than replacing the whole military's munitions stockpile with less effective weapons.
It focuses squarely on GPS and proposed American solutions to make GPS (only) more resilient, while ignoring the other three operational backups the world does have!