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> salt was not a rare resource in italy, the sea is everywhere

If I recall correctly, the book from the article mentions that the sea is an inefficient way to gather salt. The salinity is just much lower than what you can find in underground brine springs. It also goes into how Italian city-states went to war over control of saltworks, and how it hugely increased the wealth of whoever controlled it. So although it may not have been rare, I don't think it's accurate to paint it as an abundant resource, either.

Interesting about the misinformation around the etymology of "salary." Thanks for pointing out. Found an article [1] that goes into more depth about how there's no evidence for the explanation.

[1]: http://kiwihellenist.blogspot.com/2017/01/salt-and-salary.ht...
Similar to that, I had a bad habit of buying whole series at a time, before the kindle era, because you never knew once a series would grip you how fast you'd want to read it all quickly or vice versa where you might want days/months between volumes to palate cleanse. The kindle makes it so easy now at the end of a book to buy the next book in the series that I try to only buy one book at a time in a series, only buying the next when I'm ready to start it.
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Is it really?

If nobody coming to the shop feels threatened, if the server's attitude towards the customers is not racist, if nothing that the server is doing in their private life is affecting your business, should you really be bothered?

Because, it feels to me, that once we give in to our imagined fears, we are only a few steps away from becoming what we feared.
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> August 13, 1918 NY Times front page - article headline "Red leaders flee, reach Kronstadt, entire Bolshevist government escaping from Moscow". Of course history shows us that the Bolshevist government did not collapse in August 1918.

That doesn't establish anything in the original claim. First, the quote says the government left Moscow; it didn't say the government collapsed permanently. Similarly, saying De Gaulle fled France doesn't say that France's free government had collapsed permanently. It would have been false to say Mao and the Chinese Communists didn't flee to northwest China (the Long March); should the newspaper have reported that they were in Beijing? Are you saying the Bolshevik government didn't leave Moscow? Can you provide a basis for that? Second, it's just one headline and you had claimed a trend that lasted for years; one headline, even if mistaken, is not a sign of bias; nobody would say that newspapers are perfect and errors happen for many reasons. Finally, it's from a century ago; I don't see what it says about anything current; does the Russian government of 100 years ago tell us about the current organization? Does IBM of 100 years ago tell us how the current organization functions?
You are talking about a fairly elite team here. Tossing in a few average/random people via sortition would only be a humiliating waste of time. Could you imagine a few random people in an NFL game?
I think there are some that have already begun to attach electric motors to, so yes, we can even replace those as well.
Yes, that seems be correct!
Also, its different from "computer reservations system". Easy to get confused between the two terminologies.
I'm not trying to be inflammatory but I think the first issue that comes to mind is that giving stars at random kind of circumvents the meaning of stars.
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No, just no. It’s already hard enough to view source, save a video, or download a picture. Unless users have full ultimate control, this reminds me of DRM.
'Serenity now'.
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It's probably more about the hardware's instruction decoder. The RVC code has unaligned 32-bit instructions, and that greatly increases the complexity at instruction decode time. Now you have to worry about crazy stuff like an instruction that straddles two different pages.
Given the sheer amount of taxpayer dollars they absorb via tax breaks etc they should be subject to oversight. Harvard costs taxpayers billions of dollars, perhaps with good ROI given their stature but at a huge cost.
And how do you decide, given two versions of a source file, if the token was renamed or it was a new one?

This looks "trivial" for trivial cases, but I can imagine lots of difficult corner cases there. Depending on how you define what constitutes a "rename", this may even be undecidable.
It wasn't ever photo-realistic. Why bother with realism at all? This looks awesome btw http://www.quelsolaar.com/love/screen_shots.html? There was also a gory black and white and RED game that I can't find right now.
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The use of the ((()))) brackets kinda does.
It's interesting that you place the U.S. and Europe at equivalent points in a hierarchy. Perhaps it might be better to consider American history. Or perhaps North American history.

But then, organizing by geology might not make the most sense, either. Then, where does European history end and Asian history begin, or African history? Where does North American history end and Mesoamerican history begin?
This is called piggy-backing and it has several uses.

Early PCs would stack/piggy-back memory chips to increase capacity. This was possible because of how memory was addressed.

Another use is to find dead chips. If you put a working chip on top of a dead chip it will read the signals and work.

Finally, in the case of the Vampire and other accelerators for PLCC socketed chips, the accelerator hi-jacks the bus telling the original CPU to do nothing while it takes over the bus.

Electrically there is no trickery, think of each pin as plugging two cords into a power strip. Both get power even though there is one source.

This probably would not work with modern chip packaging and modern frequencies, but it was a common technique back in the day.
If it gets me into webshit weekly it'll all have been worth it.
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First lesson - it's taken Goodreads so long and so many users to actually start moving to microservices.
The PlayStation upscaling image is related to an observation I made upon playing the FF7 and FF9 re-releases on PS4: the polygonal models look pretty good! But the static backgrounds don't, and the juxtaposition is sometimes jarring. In their original form, the polygonal models looked well integrated with the static background, but not any longer.

I find it interesting how, for these games, upscaling helps only part of the graphics. I understand why, of course, but I was surprised how well the polygonal models have aged.
Less than 1%.

https://mic.com/articles/7995/caltech-s-shocking-lack-of-div...

Yet there's 0 manufactured outrage about this?? Maybe the SJWs of Silicon Valley just haven't found out yet.
I always looked forward to a future where Falcon 4.0's offspring were played on superfast PCs with incredible graphics. I was really annoyed when that genre of flight sims basically died off. The last I played was EF2000.
>> It's exactly the fragmentation of ARM that I'd like to avoid.

RISC-V has an extensible ISA so it's likely to be a mess by design. I'm huge fan of risc-v so I really feel bad saying this. It's telling that RV-IMAFDC is the base for unix systems. It was originally IMAFD = G, but now GC is the standard. Then there's the V extension which I think will be very important and it already sounds like it may be fragmented (graphics and AI may be extra beyond vectors). But then there is space in the instruction encodings explicitly for custom extensions.

These variations are important, and the ability to customize in a standard way is too. I think it's going to be an amazing decade or two in the CPU space because of risc-v but it's also going to be a lot of churn IMHO.

Once open designs catch up to the state of the art and a real base ISA solidifies I hope a RISC-6 comes along with a more optimal encoding and things become really stable for a long time. But that's just my optimism getting out of hand.
So you are saying Affirmative Action should be illegal?
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For years, I've told people that the best way to get into cardiovascular shape was to make it an unavoidable part of their life, not whatever motivation hack or special workout they seem interested in. For me, a bike commute does the trick.

Unfortunately, in the US riding a bike on the streets quickly shows you how little many people value the lives of cyclists. But the safety statistics improve almost every year, showing that the tide is turning.

Just like people choose where to live to have a good driving commute, you might need to change where you live to have a good cycling commute. This seems to disappoint many people who are basically locked in to a location that's bad for cycling (too long a commute, poor safety, etc.), but it's necessary to give cycling a fair chance.

Many people are incredulous that I buy groceries with a bike as well. This is completely possible for an individual if you have storage on your bike and go weekly. Plus, as an added bonus I don't buy much junk food because I don't have the space.
When will people understand that “We do have some very affirmative goals though that I think are important to understand. That when we talk about diversity of backgrounds and experiences, it includes different academic interests. It includes different occupations of parents. It includes socioeconomic differences. It includes different viewpoints on issues.” is a good thing. This always gets me a negative reaction, people want college admissions to be straight top scorers, job prospects to be picked as the people with the top qualifications. I don't get it and it doesn't benefit anyone.
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Which was a total coup. Everyone had expected it to be called the F-19 as 14->18 had already been used. And many still question the "F" as it is purely a light bomber, not in any way a deserving of "fighter" status. The F-111 at least started as a fighter. So F-117 really made no sense then or now.
Can I be in the bubble please :)
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You can't have an up-to-date library without pruning. I'm given to understand it's seen as an essential part of maintenace by librarians. Some time ago I recall having a discussion on this site about it -- I think somebody had posted a link to a set of guidelines for pruning.
I love the stuff!Improves caffeine absorption and is great for performance anxiety. I use it before bike racing or public speaking. The mental state I would describe as clear, calm, present and focused.
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Your point sure makes me angry, but I see the logic to it.

Positions based on merit may be the aberration!
>Processed American cheese is still in fact a cheese, and whether you like it or not

Not according to EU law. Over here, Kraft Singles could only be described as "processed slices (made using a blend of cheese, vegetable oils and milk proteins)".
I see. That makes some sense now. Thanks!
What I like about this is that this would end up all fights about how to display tables with raw text formatting... just use tabs to delimit table values...

Wait it already exists... we had the answer from a long time ago! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tab-separated_values

It even avoids the comma/semicolon issue when using CSV in excel in spanish... maybe avoids some other problems in other locales.
Yes, compare and contrast the above to my own partial list of technologies from 1977 to 1997...

“Nova 1220 BASIC, Acius 4th Dimension, Hypercard, MetroWerks CodeWarrior, Lightspeed C, Turbo Pascal, MP/M, DigiTalk Smalltalk/V, J2EE, ...”

What does any of that have to do with each other.
>Although i think this is solved by using a dual monitor setup

having to get a second monitor just to record a video easier... is a problem in and of itself.
F-14 was developed in the late 60's and reached IOC in 1973.
The installer needs administrative privileges, the same way that make install needs root to write into /usr/bin.
Aside from the fact that Columbus sailed over in 1492... This only serves to highlight the problem even more - 250 years represents what you might call "modern" America, i.e. the post-Columbian era.

Native American history is tens of thousands of years old and we learn very little at school (in Europe) aside from the stereotypes that the film industry and other cariacatures afford. I think we learned a bit about Columbus in the UK (I assume Spain does a better job)? We never learned about South America at all, save that it was something to do with why we kept looting Spanish ships. Neither did we learn about the Middle East which seems bizarre, given its role in early civilisation.

Europeans are (largely) either descendants of one of the ancient empires or were significantly affected by them through conquest. The native Americans (in both hemispheres) were on the receiving end of European conquest and had their culture decimated or plundered. There's also a lot of very visible (and impressive) Roman, Egyptian and Greek culture lying around to visit, not to mention extensive written histories of all three. While there are similar sites in the Americas, there are fewer and they're often less visible or are quite inaccessible.
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I wonder how long until Wikileaks denounce this leak as "irresponsible", or whatever?
As a child of the 80s and 90s, I sort of miss the public unveiling of secret aircraft. It seems like there hasn't been anything matching the mystery of the B-2 or F-117 in a long time.
There was a TED talk about regions with unusually high life expectancy. They identified 3 common themes amoung them:

1) Their lifestyle encouraged lots of low-key, continuous activity. You want a plate? Go get the footstool because grandma keeps her plates on a high shelf.

2) Their cultures encourage small meals and not eating more than you really need. Instilling your kids with “Finish your plate” guilt is a bad idea.

3) Their cultures encourage lots of socialization with lifelong groups of friends hanging out and doing things together daily forever.
The body of the article has some great suggestions, but the headline is clickbait. Lots of low-intensity activity is great for health of course. But if you only have 3 hours per week to exercise, spending those 3 hours at the gym doing high-intensity exercise, is far better than just taking a leisurely stroll. For people with busy lives, going to the gym provides the best ROI for your time. For an obvious illustration of this, you can see the research done on HIIT vs low-intensity exercises:

http://time.com/4893161/hiit-high-intensity-interval-trainin...
Most people understand this. The lawyer bringing the suit has chosen to do so in order to help abolish affirmative action.
Spaces are only used for alignment at the very end, so the alignment should be consistent even when tab sizes are different because the base alignment, which is done with tabs, is the only thing that changes.
This was a scenario from Tom Clancy's Red Storm Rising.
Of course, this whole yak-shaving controversy is due to the initial mistake: monospace fonts for code.

Using real typographic fonts, with proportional spacing, allows for more code per screen (using multiple statements per line in many cases).
I see lots of posts bashing melatonin.

I take 0.5mg/night one hour before bed and it helps calm my mind and get right to sleep. It also helps me with my reflux!
Most code reviews I've participated in have devolved into the senior/loudest person making sure that people know who they are and what everyone's place in the hierarchy is.

Even in reviews where the reviewee had some amazing code that was kind of groundbreaking in one area, still have to find something to gripe about because I have 20 years on this kid. This seems to be quite common in science/engineering, not just in code reviews.

I wish I could find that company where nobody gives a shit about their place in the hierarchy and everyone isn't constantly trying to gun for other people's jobs to make their linkedin profiles look more impressive. It's been a looooong time now, still searching.
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More than kinda - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_parentheses
I just hope the API has stabilized. I worked on a project a couple of years ago using serverless, and we sunk a ton of time into fixing breaking changes after updates.
Only for a tiny, tiny portion of what constitutes a coding style (indentation depth) and only if the original code used tabs for indentation and spaces everywhere else consistently otherwise everything looks like crap when you change the tab width. In my experience most tab-indented projects end up mandating a tab width in their coding style and using anything else leads to chaos. See the Linux kernel for example. Besides if you really value this flexible tab width you can no longer impose a maximum line length since it's tab-dependent.

Beyond that it's quite weird to make tab width configurable but nothing else. What if I prefer to have opening { on the same line as the function prototype? What if I prefer my identifiers to be in CamelCase? What if I prefer not having spaces around arithmetic operators? All that could be done relatively easily if code was stored as an abstract AST and formatted on demand.

Tab indentation is theoretically superior to spaces if used correctly but in practice it's probably not worth the trouble. At least as far as I'm concerned I gave up on tabs a long time ago.
Seeing my 12 year old daughter groped by a TSA agent because she "moved her hand too early" in the x ray machine really put things into perspective for me.

TSA is the department of domestic fear mongering. That's it.
AMD has come out and said that they will be skipping 10nm in favor of 7nm chip designs, and, as for what will improve, it is likely everything.

Overall performance per watt is up in addition to raw clock speed ceilings and core counts, and subsequently we will see low-power mobile devices (ie: laptops, tablets) receive impressive performance uplifts.

That said, Intel is currently floundering so we will see AMD taking a much larger slice of pies across all device profiles.
That design looks so sleek.

I'd dream of something like this embracing 5G and open source firmware so users could add native encryption and other utility as they please.

Also, "Hashtag Key"
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Europe. I get mine melatonin tablets there. Just stock up for a year. Small bottles to bring back. Never had an issue through customs.
I wrote the article. Yes, I'm trying to use affiliate links to make this passion project more sustainable in the long term, but I'm definitely not just cranking out content for the sake of sales. I'm actually quite discouraged at the moment because I can't get any traffic to the affiliate. I'm 90 days in and my account will be canceled if I don't get 3 sales by 180 days.

My general strategy is to write about books that I happen to be reading anyway. I'm finding that it's a great way to deepen my knowledge retention of the books that I read. It took me about 5 to 7 hours to synthesize the contents of the book into these main themes. If you read the book you'll find that it's organized very differently from the themes that I've identified.

So, sorry if it's coming off as garbage affiliate content just created for the sake of sales. Definitely not my intention.
>as if they are somehow a proven expert

This article isn't that, though. It's some common sense recommendations from a person consuming software. Almost anybody can write that, and if it's actionable advice, so much the better.

Shallow topics can afford to have new people come in and give their opinion. I've got to say though, I'm not reading lots of those articles. I'm reading the articles that have technical depth. Just my preference.
Related: If you’re trying to decide between two projects you want to start is there any methodical but simple way to determine which might be more useful or gain more traction?

I don’t mean methodical as in heavy or complex. Example, there’s a short book on designing good usability into a UX with some really simple and quick methods (https://www.amazon.com/Rocket-Surgery-Made-Easy-Yourself-ebo...).

Isn’t choosing which open source project to invest in a bit like market research, as is UI/UX design? Maybe that’s stethching an analogy.

The point is I always have strong intuitions and opinions about what project to invest time in, independent of interest/passion. However, it seems even one or two more methodical decisions processes could be provide useful data points to factor in.

If you feel roughly as passionate about two projects, why not try to maximize your chances all the work will go somewhere?
Do you think this might be a function of the same thing the electronic medical record (EMR) field faces?

For reference, I used to work in the EMR space for a "value-added reseller" of a certain EMR package. It wasn't great. But when you looked at the other options, they weren't great either.

Eventually I learned that medical software is a ghetto because those who care about the medical part of it don't really care about the software part of it. At least not enough to treat it as the craft it is. And those who care about the software development tend to leave because you can do better work elsewhere.

So do you think GDS products suffer because no one cares about actually developing software, but rather the end goal?
What would make it worth your time?
I don't need to download a formatter to read and edit most code. Now I basically have to.
This sounds dystopian.
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Weren't Goodreads bought by Amazon a couple of years ago? If so, they might've been pushed to do the move (to microservices, s3, etc) to comply with corporate guidelines/policy not because there wasn't a better/more efficient way to scale.
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I agree with you. Conferences these days for example, they are more focused on passing their inclusivity quotas than making sure speakers are expert in their subjects. That is disappointing.
Note that while this is one of the really good books on Common Lisp it is not new. The copyright is 2003-2005.
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Suggesting that VR Gaming is only a fad is like saying Mobile devices will not impact gaming back in 2007. Of course, people will still do traditional gaming with a mouse and keyboard and there's nothing wrong with that. But Mobile opened up a whole new arena for gaming and so will Virtual Reality and Mixed Reality.

We are entering the next wave of the Digital Revolution which will be based on presence and agency. Gaming will be profoundly transformed - as will everything else that we currently do online. Don't look at the technology where it is now - what you see in Oculus and HTC is nothing like what we will have in a decade. VR will be transformative.
Recently donated some new philosophy books to my public library (A.C. Grayling Philosophy 1 & 2) but even in mint condition, and the library having almost no philosophy section, it still went to the 'bargain / to be sold cart'. I was told that all the books are managed by a private company, and the library doesn't really control what comes or goes - the company does. So any / all donations go straight to the cart, no matter what they are.
Out of curiosity, do you ever take it on its own, or always with caffeine?
The last version of AmigaOS 3.1 for classic hardware came out in 2016.
That is pretty awesome, well done. Great idea as well and that has to be some sort of record from nothing to some revenue in a few weeks...