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>early Google efforts on the web were VERY "let's make JavaScript into Java"

That was never the case. Ever. Google was the first company to really take JavaScript seriously and launched the client-side JavaScript revolution with Maps and Gmail.

This criticism was leveled at Dart because as I argued, when Dart was launched some people (purposely) found certain parts of the syntax superficially resembled Java. It was also a time when front-end web devs haven't rediscovered the benefits of compile-time type checking (there was a time, believe it or not, when static typing was disparaged by frontend web-devs)

The irony is that Dart is a better language than JavaScript and the world would have benefitted had Dart become a browser standard (though Apple, Microsoft and Mozilla were never going to just accept a language designed by Google - so that was a pipe dream).
On an unrelated topic, I wonder if they could use drones to change bird migration patterns?

For instance, in Rome during Fall Season there are thousands of birds that fly by the city, taking nearby shelter in trees. It was awful walking down roadways, floor was slippery and poop was everywhere
>"Chalk it up to Uber and their ilk, which not only discourages people from using public transport,"

The MTA actually does a pretty good job of discouraging people from taking the subway these days, probably more so than Uber. Maybe you haven't seen the news but the subway has been in throes of a crisis for more than a few years now [1].

While I would like to see less cars on the streets, its hard to make the argument that people shouldn't use car services when the alternative is regularly failing its'riders.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/23/nyregion/nyc-subway-delay...
Have you considered contributing improvements to the documentation, or even the API? Python is an open source project.
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You seem to be dismissively implying that because scientists are experts that they have obviously considered this. Which isn't true at all. Scientists are typically much more motivated by the pursuit of knowledge than strict commercial value.
In this scenario, the savings come from time + resources spent on configuration management, system admin and troubleshooting, and server security.

Also if you have servers you are probably auto-scaling redundant instances in multiple availability zones and then getting that high CPU utilization is unlikely.
How is this different than other help desk software?
It's not just lockin. It's troubleshooting Lambda. Here's a couple of questions and answers we've recently delved into:

- How do I avoid a cold start? (Fake calls into the system to the point where AWS has to start more instances of your application)

- Why is my cold start time different between development to production? (Production is in a VPC, which has greater instance spin up times)

- Why has Lambda stopped executing on my Kinesis stream? (Oops, AWS' bad)

- How can we get more parallel Lambda processing on a Kinesis stream? (Clone the stream and attach to the cloned stream)

- What can I do to reduce the cold start costs for Java? (Specify your objects as static, since those are evaluated at JVM startup, which AWS doesn't charge you for)

- How do I do Infrastructure as code? (CloudFormation; expect an average of 4 CF objects per function. SAM makes the CF more user friendly, but it's harder to debug and encourages the creation of extra infrastructure)

- How do I increase the bandwidth allocated to my Lambda? (Increase the memory allocation)
There is a System Reference Document for 5e available here: http://dnd.wizards.com/articles/features/systems-reference-d...
Haha, absolutely; especially since you quickly make friends with the kinds of people that go to these events, with the consequence that you're no longer able to go to these events.

But who knows, maybe enough people end up in a position where they want to make new friends (I'm thinking failed marriages, lonely elderly people, etc.) that there's a steady enough flow of new members.
>New York strategically increased enforcement on six traffic violations it identified as being the most likely to kill or injure, including:

Speeding.
Failing to yield to a pedestrian.
Failing to stop on a signal.
Improper turns.
Cellphone use.
Disobeying signs.

The 1 and 3, 4 and 6 entries are almost wholly dependent on context and the 2 is sort of a tautology.

As a pedestrian (I walk ~2mi in the Boston area daily) I really have no problem with people violating the posted speed limit, running reds that were very recently yellow or taking a right on red where prohibited as long as they travel at somewhat reasonable speeds, don't flagrantly run reds, and ignore signs in a predicable manner.

Cars acting in an unpredictable manner and cars with distracted drivers (#5) are what results in them trying to occupy the same physical space as pedestrians (#2). As I see it four of the six things listed don't actually impact the danger to me any more than the inherent difference among drivers.

As a pedestrian I'd actually prefer the cops write less tickets because the blue lights distract drivers and throw a wrench into predictable traffic flow. A good chunk of drivers act like a spooked horse when the cops are out hunting and that's not good for my safety, attention paid to the cop who's pulling someone over is attention not paid to not hitting me.

If the cops want to post officers on a random street corners with point and shoot cameras and nab people for texting and driving then I can definitely get behind that. Based on my experience and observation I don't think telling them to go hog wild on everything else would be a net positive in terms of safety (that said, I'll take real cops enforcing traffic laws over automated enforcement any day).

edit:pun not intended but I'm leaving it because I like it.

edit2: Downvoted because people are too lazy to type out why I'm so wrong. Typical Reddit.

edit3: Maybe I wasn't clear enough why I'm opposed to prioritizing enforcement of traffic law. As long as traffic is consistent I can deal. When it becomes inconsistent (possibly because people fear strict traffic enforcement) you get more opportunities for pedestrians and drivers conflicting all the time and inconsistent traffic takes the attention of the drivers away from other things, like pedestrians. As a pedestrian I want nothing to do with an intersection where a cop is sitting or an intersection where there's a known cameras because driver's attention is allocated away from possible road hazards (like me) in order to more strictly adhere to the letter of the law. Most of the violations that NYC wants to prioritize pose no threat to me by themselves whereas aggressive enforcement creates more inconsistent traffic which is a danger to me. When someone slams on their brakes for a yellow the drivers who have to change what they're doing in response to that become more dangerous to me. Attention is finite. You can't handle the dev tickets when prod is burning and drivers are no different, aggressive traffic enforcement is another potential distraction to them and a danger to me.
Being detained is basically considered just a "pain in the ass" by the courts, although it ruins the lives of many.

This is one of the many ways that privilege infects our systems.
> Few people have tried Anki (a free alternative to SuperMemo). Even fewer have tried its add-ons, which is where it truly shines!

As a very long time Anki user who only very recently started using plugins, I agree with this.

I mean, I think vanilla Anki is already awesome and gives you tons, and I've used it that way for years. But yeah, there are some amazing plugins which can take things to whole other levels, especially in very visual fields.
When we are talking about one-off drone attacks, sure there are counter-measures. if we are talking about WW3 and China's capability to produce millions of autonomous, AI driven drones per day? No, there is no effective counter measure.
Ah yes! That would do it. So they have more officers (though not drastically more) and quite a bit smaller area to cover. That probably goes some way to explaining what I observed.
There are no jobs for Elixer in my market.

Python is definitely something I’m going to keep in my tool belt if for no other reason AWS, Boto3, and Python go hand in hand.
> And also locations of 2000-year-old cities predicts locations of 2000-year old roads

The article claims the correlation is the opposite of what you stated—roads were built, and then cities built up around them. From the article:

> “Roman roads were often constructed in newly conquered areas without any extensive, or at least not comparable, existing network of cities and infrastructure,” Dalgaard and his colleagues write. In many instances, the roads came first. Settlements and cities came later.
Adjusted for inflation: $20,000 in 1988 → $42,601.69 in 2018
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Thanks for the question! We're a small startup, so we can offer a more cost effective and simple solution. One of our biggest offerings is our in-app searchable widget, which provides more convenient, contextual help; users never have to leave whatever page they're on in your app to access help.
'Bistro' here just means a tiny restaurant with $9 sliders and red wine.
This is an optional runtime used to improve error reporting with the Clang sanitizer:

https://clang.llvm.org/docs/UndefinedBehaviorSanitizer.html
Learn to previsualize.

If I would teach people one thing about photography. Is learning previsualization.

This is a very interesting and exhaustive guide. It's great for analyzing photos that work and explaining why they do work.

I think photography (for beginners) should be about personal fulfillment, capturing memories and telling stories.

Along with that (as others have pointed out) just learn about the rule of thirds.

You can practice previsualization all the time and like anything else, it's something you get better the more you do it. For example, my default street photography lens is 28mm. I think shooting with long lenses is not intimate. After many years, my eyes see in 28 and I know more or less what the frame will be once I look through the camera. I've usually taken the photo in my head before I even lift the camera. Sometimes the result is better than what I imagine, sometimes is worse.
This is true. About fifty percent of federal financial assets are student loans (which terrifies me).

However on the margin it would make a huge difference. The most expensive programs require a mix of federal loans and federally subsidized loans. There are a few changes the federal government could make to not back loans data clearly show are going to be bad, and if those loans aren’t federally subsized they’re not happening. Or, perhaps, worst case scenario the interest rate becomes extreme.

There are a lot of moving pieces.
This is enterprise-only, yet the article makes it out to be otherwise. Sloppy reporting.

That said, I'm curious if doing this in the enterprise environment could be testing the waters for doing it on consumer PCs, but I think that is unlikely.
Yeah I smiled this morning when I logged on to do some damage control on this thread and saw that the author updated the title.
I have had an opportunity to see a demo by another stealth company (which may have been quietly acquired by Magic Leap since then). They used lasers to project light directly onto my retina.

It was nothing like Magic Leap, no 3d, just test 2d images - and yet, these razor-sharp, light images that I was able to see in front of the sun, were better than any computer display that I've ever seen. I don't know how would I convince anyone about the quality of the product aside from telling them to see for themselves.
That happened before on other platforms, I know about steam and its workshop in particular.
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If anyone wants to see some small, practical asyncio code in action, here's a little LMTP daemon I wrote recently:

https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/lists.sr.ht/tree/lists-srht-lmtp via https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/lists.sr.ht

Or getting deeper, another project which implements Synapse's[0] RPC protocol and encapsulates high-level RPC actions in asyncio sugar:

https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/broca/tree/broca/connection.py

Code which uses this code:

https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/broca/tree/broca/rpc.py

[0] https://synapse-bt.org
You don't need a whole pwm for a constant brightness reduction. The pulse width never has to change, which is the main feature of pwms.
I notice that mediawiki development also has a code of conduct expectation. Is this following that trend, or is the Stack Overflow code of conduct different?
That's insane
Agreed. The character limit prevented 'impose' from fitting.
The bistros set up for tourists with low quality food, often not made in-house, are doing way more damage than these other factors.
I don't mind this one: the 'stuff you commonly see and demonstrations of better ways to handle things' is a little more consutructive than what I was expecting.
Yes, it is. You need to put into your privacy policy what you log (and yes, IP addresses are personal data) and how long your retention policy is. However, it's pretty easy to argue that IP addresses in logs are required (for a reasonable time, like a week) to provide the service.

Might want to talk to a data protection officer before you go around swinging terms like FUD.
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Hear, hear!

The issue is a total lack of enforcement. One can recognize the older NYC drivers by their refusal to enter an intersection if they cannot be sure to clear it on green. It is because in the late nineties in Manhattan blocking the box was equivalent of doing 90mph in a 55 zone in front of a state trooper ( the only time one could get away with it if the said state trooper was already busy writing a ticket to someone else ) -- you would get the a $100-$500 dollar ticket and you would get points on the license. Not it barely happens even on the streets with SBS lanes and traffic cops.

Let this sink in. $300 dollar and two points on a license for not clearing the box ( including crosswalks ) in 1996. It was when a spiffy dinner for two in NYC was about $80.

If NYC were to deploy a 1000 cops to write these tickets for a month today there would be no congestion in three months as no one would want to risk thousands of dollars in tickets for the $10 they could make by trying to squeeze the cars into the yellow light -- and the ones that would risk it are sure to lose the cars and licenses quite quick.
Well put. Everything you said and a little bit of elaboration on art...

One of the best parts of photography is the speed at which you can have a conversation with your own visual system, refining it in the process.

Understanding art can be thought of as getting bored and finding something new, which is no longer boring, and repeat. Eventually you find yourself bored by almost everything, but with an intense passion for succinct relatable expression. This is often mistaken for pretension, and many do skip the process altogether; most unfortunately, even people calling themselves artists do so.

My point is all these composition rules are great; it’s invaluable stuff. But, you will get bored of them, and that is the beautiful part.
> everything going for "normal food" was very, very expensive

Almost anywhere in Paris you will find places where locals go for lunch, and they are not considered so expensive for middle-class workers. Locals are often paid Ticket Restaurant vouchers in addition to their salaries, and to retain these loyal customers these eateries keep the price of their daily set lunches fixed to the value of one voucher.
>Urea is inoffensive little white pellets.

Except it became one of the most controlled substances around out of a sudden.
been researching spaced repetition and anki/sm and other stuff... I decided to try it because my memmory is quite bad when learning new stuff.
I am also a daily weed smoker so my short-term memmory is quite bad but since positives outweigh the negative sides I don't plan on stopping. What do you guys think am I in big disadvantage?
Why desktops?

With this, you could just float individual windows around you. Quick splitting and navigating between splits in Vim is already one of the features of this editor I use the most - and if I could do that in 3d, leaving small splits all around me and moving them around, it would be an immense boost in productivity.
I agree with the point that having technology illiterate judges allows for abuse from technology companies.

The fight of tech corporations against reuse of hardware it is ecologically sustainable.

And finally, tech companies are negating the ownership of our own hardware. The software is licensed, hardware only works with certain software, so you don't own anymore what you buy. And laws are obsolete when it comes to this fact.
Nobody ever says "The US Army doesn't have funds to go to Iraq alone", somehow. Easy enough to find a trillion dollars for that.
> All of those services have limits, just because you havent experienced that scale doesnt mean others havent.

See the sentence literally immediately after the one you quoted.

People are already using those services all day every day at far greater scale than most of us can ever hope to achieve. It's meaningless to pontificate on theoretical limits when the practical ones are higher than you can reach.
That does not make you a pedestrian. That makes you a New Yorker.
Ok, so this is complicated. Tariffs are only part of the story.

First I agree that some countries will protect industries they consider to be of national interest or are just politically important, like the Canadian dairy industry. I actually think this is OK.

Second I think it is true that there is some hypocrisy here on both sides. It's fair to say US trading partners impose tariffs on US goods and ask why the US shouldn't do the same.

But the US doesn't play fair here either. Take wheat. Or agricultural products in general. In the US (and the EU) these are massively subsidized.

If you're talking about tariffs, you should also include subsidies.

But it gets worse: as an example the the US has historically blocked Australian agricultural products (including wheat) on quarantine grounds. While protecting local ecosystems is valid (eg Australia has, I believe, the only disease-free farmed salmon in the world) it's also used as a barrier to trade. It's clear the US here has historically used quarantine as an excuse to protect US farmers (ironically when Australian farmers aren't subsidized and US farmers are).

Fun fact: this little trade spat led to a deal in ~2006 that resulted in the Australian-only E3 US work visa.

The problem here is we have a complete buffoon in the White House who is the poster-child for anti-intellectualism. So, why put tariffs on Chinese tech goods? Those are primarily just assembled in China these days. China imports most of the parts from Korea, Japan and other places.

It's also clear that China plays favourites with local tech companies. It's a fair question to ask why the US should open up to Chinese tech companies when China won't reciprocate?
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Less space required. Not limited by the size of your workspace. Trivially move your workspace. Get more "screenspace" at the click of a button instead of having to spend $$$. Power efficiency.

Think about where this will be in 10-20 years, not where it is now. It will be like putting a pair of glasses on, not a huge headset. Once your workspace can exist in 3 dimensions, new paradigms will emerge for arranging a "desktop" that we can't even envisage right now.
Yet roads were probably build through towns, which were created in geographically advantageous locations.
...Why do you use 8 screens?

(And before you ask: Yes, I use one laptop screen for all my work.)
As a recent user who now has mod status (500+ reputation), I find moderators don't get any recognition really maybe my perspective is skewed. We talk about how unfriendly SO is, but moderators do keep the quality of SO in check to some degree, even at the cost of "marking it as duplicate" among other things. Its almost like stackoverflow has the same issues as subreddit moderators, perhaps they could learn a thing or two here? I've had to mod my own subreddits as well

I know recently stackoverflow has started to push fake posts under the "review queue" to gauge if you are actually moderating correctly.

I still get frustrated as a user asking a question on stackoverflow. I have had my share of questions marked as duplicates. I tried arguing and fixing the wording of it after the fact, it still is downvoted (-1) and still marked as duplicate.
The name is meaningful and standard to me.

I call it a "Light field display" - see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_field See also the reverse "Light field camera" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light-field_camera

The "dynamic" part I don't understand yet - something to do with eye tracking allowing a higher resolution than otherwise would be available?

Where's "multifocal display" from as terminology?
This the the parent comment argument. No unlimited credit, no unbounded high prices.

Alternatively cap un-bankruptable dept to a reasonable amount, say 15k/yr or something. It's pretty much how it works here in Quebec Canada and very few students end up with more than 40k CAN in un-bankruptable dept.
"just a 220 outlet" is not easy. It is a 220 outlet, but we also need large wires to each outlet.
Ah ok. I was confused by your question because while the distinction between pre-conviction "jail" and post-conviction "prison" is not always followed in English, "wrongful imprisonment" as a phrase almost always refers to wrongful conviction + imprisonment.
I use one screen, and it's too large. I don't understand why anyone would want two screens, let alone eight. I find having anything onscreen but my code and offline documentation (i.e., not in a web browser) incredibly distracting.

What in the world do you put on those other seven screens?
The federal government of the United States of America.

I feel like your question is supposed to be making a rhetorical point but it has an extremely literal answer as of a few years ago.
Memrise.com (primarily for learning the vocabulary of another language) combines spaced repetition with mnemonics. When learning a particular piece of vocabulary it will offer up an ordered list of suggested mnemonics based on their popularity in other sets. Extremely effective for its use case.
The Microsoft Pix [1] iOS app can't compose a good picture, but it does take multiple shots and uses algorithms to figure out the best image.

I think we may see more algorithmic camera apps in the future, possibly AI powered.

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftpix