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Hm, curious - why do you say wasm and XboxOne would lean toward mono? Doesn't Blazor target .NET Core? I would've assumed .NET Core w/ UWP would be first class citizens on XboxOne? Thanks in advance!

Edit: maybe I was confused about Blazor. Looks like it can work with ASP.NET Core, but the info I'm finding talks about building with mono.

I guess the more interesting question is, do you think Mono will remain important for the places you've mentioned, or will be replaced more and more by .NET Core? Especially given the UI goals with .NET Core 3 (and my own biased belief that .NET Core is the clear unabashed future of .NET).
I think this sentiment comes from the fact that React is not a complete solution, and for big projects, you will have to make several impactful decision about architecture as it relates to using React.

Angular and Vue don't encounter this as much because they are more broad, and more opinionated.
Rumor is that AMD's Navi is but a minor update next year. "Next Generation" is 2020 and beyond for AMD.

So unfortunately, NVidia can bet on a lack of competition for the near future. NVidia can always drop prices when Navi comes out (if it happens to be competitive). But it seems like they're betting that Navi won't be competitive, at least with this pricing structure.
That article could have benefited by some benchmarking to see the gain or cost of the different methods.
Owning a unicorn 2012 quad-core i7 Mac mini for use as a server.. (more horsepower than the current i7 dual-core Mac mini) ..

The Mac mini love might be a little late:

- Intel NUC is a compelling option especially the high end ones with GPU. Ubuntu is excellent on this. So is docker. And on and on.

- Mac minis were the Original NUCs in a lot of ways in terms of performance/watt. If current Mac minis hit $1200, a $2000 touch point wouldn't be out of the question.

- Still it would be interesting might be the ability to stack and connect multiple Mac mini pros to create a new Xserve...?

One can hope, I suppose.
Does it? Unless you mean the poor will have a harder time shouldering a similar tax rate, I'm not certain why poorer people would be using the roads more often than richer people. That said, there's no reason a toll system couldn't be given a progressive by setting different rates for different tax tiers or something. Rates could be associated with individual vehicles.
>Yet morons still feel the need to do so creating the same traffic jams that high speed tolling was supposed to solve...

In Chicagoland, everybody seems to have no issue ripping through toll gates at 75-80 miles per hour. I assure you we are no smarter than anywhere else.
I prefer a convention of semantically relevant variable names prefixed/suffixed by a letter indicating type.
What's not normal for other CEOs might be considered normal for Musk - it's hard to tell exactly where to start.

Aside from all the unusual things that have been happening of late with his public Twittosphere and the like [1], there might also be the question of whether his personal life is affecting his professional life [2] in addition to that NY Times interview where he reportedly admitted to writing the "Funding secured" tweet while driving to the airport, and also needing Ambien (zolpidem) to sleep.[3]

Now just to apply a skeptic's hat for a moment; assuming that there is anything false in these reports of late, one would be expecting lawsuits being launched by Musk over slander or libel. The weeks ahead are going to be interesting either way.

[1] https://www.vox.com/2018/8/16/17692700/azealia-banks-elon-mu...

[2] https://www.businessinsider.com.au/who-is-amber-heard-dating...

[3] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/16/business/elon-musk-interv...
> the field of vulnerability research has never been healthier, and there have never been more companies explicitly authorizing testing of their servers than there are now.

> in fact, there are virtually no such prosecutions

> Telling the truth about defects in technology isn't illegal.

These statements don't seem to add up. If it's legal to tell about defects, then all of EFF's work (on this case) is a waste of time and they're spreading misinformation.

If it's legal to do what they're doing then there should be zero prosecutions.

Companies wouldn't need to authorize anyone because what they are doing is legal.

Edit: added some clarification
At NVidia's level, nearly so. They ship on the order of 50 million desktop GPUs each year. Legal hours, real estate, or translators may seem expensive, but when you count the number of graphics cards that would be required to pay for them it's not even in the ballpark of 50 million.

The warranties do cost something because they add significant risk/cost against each incremental unit, I will grant you that.

Regulations like these have a disproportionate effect relative to volume. NVidia would probably have most of those things even in the absence of the regulations, a couple guys in a garage would certainly not.
Are you sure its considered a no-no? Gitlab has it integrated as part of the PR interface.
https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/merge_requests/squas...

> Do you mean linters that enforce maximum line widths? That seems increasingly rare these days.

Yes, that is what I mean, and I see it more and more because some think passing a linter test will make your code good.
The UK's agreed carbon budget is to achieve 80% reduction by 2050, and the US administration is no longer even officially interested in its own.

Those agreements are bust on their own terms never mind the idea of zero emissions. Don't over rate their importance, we should and can do much better, much quicker.
Hopefully one standard USB 3.0 and one USB-C port on the front.
What would it take to set software free?
The previous low cost entry was the MacBook Air 11", I think the base model was $899. I would like to see them start around there. Small is nice.
Love it. Would be great to see as a direct Gmail Add-On instead of a browser extension.
Imagine if there were some sort of legal apparatus to prevent company employees and 'other' agents from invading your privacy.

It should be trivial for 99% of companies to anonymize and scramble user data so that employees do not have access to it. There's no reason for it.
Common ones, I suppose! I have projects involving Java, Python, and Clojure. Of those, I would expect the first two to be covered by a generic dependency analyzer.

(It's fine if it doesn't, but it would be nice to know up front.)
After a decade of design, building a startup gave me design wisdom I never had
I think 4400 MMR places OP in at least Ancient-1 ranking which is approximately the 95th percentile. I'd call that at least semi-pro.
Product/market fit in crypto token projects
Fog of war on the map doesn't depend on where a single player's viewport is pointing...
I just wanted to give a quick note that I do not have this experience at all.

Food doesn't taste better.

I am less creative. I lose my English and my Dutch. I am more stupid and everyone else who's high seems so intelligent!

I think about pretty much nothing. I'm like a little cupcake on a couch. I am doing as much as a little cupcake on a couch as well :)

I do have less anxiety and better sex. So for me it really just is a tool to use for those two things. I mostly use it as a tool for relaxation or psychological experimentation on myself (especially my working memory behaves differently).
Rather than criminalizing a relatively harmless substance, the US should look into treating marijuana like alcohol. Carefully regulated quality for the stuff in stores; home brew is your problem and your friends' problem.

WA has this song and dance to buy legal pot and heavily regulates the entire sector with taxes on top: that should be substantially simplified, in my opinion.

Medical research should be freely doable without any more grief than other substances.

I have rather the same opinion about other, less harmful, drugs (MDMA, LSD, etc). The paranoia from the 70s and 80s hasn't done much for us - the drugs are still with us, and prohibition has produced enormous violence and organized crime. Time to practically equate these drugs with alcohol.
I have the same. Depending on your use case a USB 3 to 4k HD adapter might work for you.

The displaylink driver for Mac seemed to take a large leap ahead last year.
Bing is huge both in codesize and technologies used, but most of it is a flavor of Windows Server 2016 (soon 2019) + http.sys + C# + Razor + TypeScript for Frontend. C#/C++ for middle and lower tiers.
You can peg a currency to a commodity by guaranteeing that if someone brings in 1 unit of currency, you'll give them 1 unit of commodity. Gold, oil, another currency, bananas, a slowly-inflating basket of goods and services, whatever.

Trick is, people have to believe that you can and will make the exchange. If you have a whole fortress full of gold, for example, people will probably believe your pieces of paper that say "redeemable for 100 gold coins", and the value of the paper is about that of the coins. If I issue paper that says "redeemable for 1 acre of prime Manhattan real estate" you wouldn't (and shouldn't) believe it, because I don't have any Manhattan real estate.

So: how much should one believe that 1 "petro" is actually redeemable for 1 barrel of oil? Clearly they have some oil, but there's no clear mechanism yet for making that exchange. And long term, there's obviously trust issues.
I'd welcome 32 gb of ram
Why are you surprised a Mac Mini is too slow as a build server? It's just a low-end laptop chip in a box. I don't get the server use case.
You just read too many of them I assume.
And people upvoting them means not everyone else did ...
one in portuguese
I would guess they move from a 28W TDP part to a 45W TDP part, but remain in the mobile line. That means an H series instead of a U series. Something like the i5-8300H (4 cores, 8 threads) and the i7-8850 (6 cores, 12 threads), with up to 64 GB of RAM, and the same ridiculously fast SSD as in the macbook pro line-up. Prices will go up by a significant chunk in keeping with Tim Cook's policy to keep pushing up the average selling price, but you'll get proportionately more hardware so it will probably be a pretty reasonable deal.
There's a interesting recent paper, also cited by these folks, about errors in gene expression data. Spreadsheets (or at least Excel) are a major culprit, interpreting gene SEP15 as September 15, for example. This is dangerous when it happens in only part of the data, like some columns.

Gene name errors are widespread in the scientific literature

Genome Biology 2016 17:177

https://doi.org/10.1186/s13059-016-1044-7 (Open Access)
> I agree on the top level that a desktop computer in 2018 is actually probably more niche and pro focused than laptops, which have become the default computers for people.

Really? I wish this were the case. I even invested some serious dollar into getting a decent laptop (Carbon X1, 6th generation), but generally in my experience the smaller it is the more unreliable it is.

It gets hot, it freezes up, all sorts of annoying problems. It is really frustrating, and now at this point I prefer to do all of my serious stuff on a desktop.

For clarification, things I do include: * solidworks design, * aftereffects compositing of things made in cinema4d, * python scripting, * watching movies on vlc, * having a shitload of tabs open in chrome at any given time, * opening very large text files in Notepad++
> For client on macOS or Linux you use Mono

I’ve been using .NET Core 2.0 and now 2.1 on embedded ARM Linux. Works surprisingly well.
VIFF 2014: New Boobs shows the messy reality of breast reconstruction (2014)
Apples and oranges. Your examples refer to specific business ventures initiated in a time where steam-powered rail transport was already a century old and with a proven track record, while hyperloop is a pie-in-the-sky scheme that is both technically and economically unfeasible. It's like comparing flying cars with the DeLorean.
>it is way too expensive for regular gamers

The 80 series has always been a low-volume, high-margin halo product within Nvidia's gaming range. It's dirt cheap and high-volume compared to Quadro, but top-of-the-range for gaming. Cryptomania has revealed to Nvidia that they probably priced the 1080 too low at launch - many gamers were in fact willing to pay substantially inflated prices for The Best GPU.

If the mass market decides to wait for the RTX 1060 or 1050, that's fine with Nvidia, as they face no real competition from AMD at the moment. It's very much in Nvidia's interests to make the most of their market dominance.
I'd bet big bucks they'll be pushing eGPUs with this model. They've invested so much developer time and hardware R&D into them for Macbooks and for the form factor they're shooting for, it'll make sense to have a powerful external TB3 GPU instead of a Radeon 560X or something. It'll let them get away with a small case without extreme cooling/noise.
Well, I'm assuming we're in L4, so they don't have to pick up the controls of a car going high-speed or such. I can't imagine any company would sign up to have its employees regularly have the clients' lives in danger, it would be unsustainable legally and PR-wise.
>> It's happening slowly but surely.

Exciting to hear. .NET is truly a diamond in the rough on the Linux side, its only major problem seems to be catch-22 in the sense that few people use it there, so the ecosystem is slow to come in.
Well, you can as well call javascript code and use any node package from net core

https://dotnetthoughts.net/using-node-services-in-aspnet-cor...

That what made my decision to use dotnet core for web app
The Persistent Myth of Speed and 'Productivity'
Aren't these great recommendations for any programming language? Simplify your code, use version control, write tests, use helpful names...

What does this have to do with JavaScript?
You can easily push the 1080 Ti to its limit with 4K or 21:9 1440p (3440x1440). It's an incredible card, but it only feels overpowered at 1080p or maybe 16:9 1440p.
Uber probably views it as important that they develop the self-driving tech because otherwise (if someone else develops it, licenses it to OEMs, and then Uber uses those cars), there's no lock-in to the Uber ecosystem. Either those OEMs will partner with Uber for a fee that will capture most of the profit Uber's valuation currently expects, the OEMs simply spin up their own Uber-style vehicle on demand program (far cheaper than Uber spinning up a car company), or people who can afford their own vehicles (likely a huge chunk of Uber's pool of users currently) just use their own now-autonomous vehicle a la carte, summoning it when they need a ride.

In a pretty ironic twist, Uber et al have already started rumblings about how the third option needs to be made illegal, because there's no regulatory oversight on vehicle maintenance and safety. Having spent most of their life ignoring existing regulations, they soon may need them to survive.
I feel about the same. From the time I was 14 I was smoking pot nearly everyday until about 3 months ago when I decided to cut it out of my life completely. I really dont have an exact 'why' but I came home after work one day looked at a bowl that I had packed the previous night and decided to flush my weed down the toilet and throw all my paraphernalia and accessories (grinder, papers, wraps, bowls) down the trash chute.

I haven't missed it once honestly. Maybe I just came to a realization that I didn't enjoy it in the first place.

Edit: I'd like to add that around the same time I gave up/quit using all drugs (except a beer or two on the weekends) unless they were prescribed to me by my doctor. Even then I refused pain medication when I broke my hand because I think I have a tendency for substance abuse.
How accurate is parallax, given that stars bend light?
For the most part it really isn't "ray tracing", it's _close_ but almost everybody "cheats" because of the performance gains.

Even if some games do using ray tracing for some things, the developers would have to update their game to support the features of a currently very expensive and uncommon card. Not to mention most gamers have a GTX 1060 or less according to steam to give you an idea of what the current "mainstream" is at.
Although unit tests are important, I think it is pretty important to emphasize the importance of a static type checker like flow. It is expensive to invest in test coverage, and static type checking is a good proxy to help capture many regressions. Sure its not perfect, but we should encourage it as a "best practice".
Perhaps this is aimed at very junior developers, but it pains me that "organize your code into multiple files by functionality" is something that must be separately mentioned.
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Yea flight avionics, sort of. Aerial camera systems and the UI to control them.
But why reduce the size? Apple has tvOS for the living room now. The Mini is already tiny enough that you can comfortably carry it around in a backpack, or hide it behind your screen. I find it hard to see any gains beyond that.

If Apple keeps the current chassis, they could either make it more silent, or more powerful. Both would be fantastic for a pro machine.

Edit: I wouldn't even mind a slightly larger machine. The HP Z2 Mini G4 looks like it's going to be a great six-core workstation.
Barring any bugs, the hope is that the code generated on Windows and Linux for the same architecture will be very similar, modulo calling conventions and ABI.

Then you come down to issues like Linux networking vs. Windows networking, Disk I/O differences which are interesting but from a .NET perspective less so in my opinion.
Just to confuse things even more, there is also .Net Standard. (https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2016/09/26/introduci...).

.Net Framework (Windows only), .Net Core and Xamarin are all implementations of .Net Standard.

To add even more confusion, ASP.Net Core can run either on .Net Core or .Net Framework.
>Not everything is a social construction. The default state of life isn't being relaxed and comfortable, the default state is starvation and defending against disease, predation, and conflict.

That's not what ethnologists saw in most primitive people's they've examined...
.NET Core is superior than Mono for Server Software like ASP.NET Web Apps but Mono is more suitable for embedded environments like iOS/Android/PlayStation/Xbox,etc and is also what's used in Microsoft's new Blazor project for running C# Apps in Web Assembly (https://github.com/aspnet/Blazor).
For sixty years, and maybe more, there have been those in either the press or politics that claim America's roads and bridges are disintegrating and the end is near. Yet I have lived in multiple regions of the country, in both dense and sparse populations, and if there's any impression I've had is that there is a very sustained, robust, and aggressive effort to maintain roads and bridges. In fact, it's something that has always amazed me as a visual indication of the magnitude and strength of the economy. Is there reliable data over this period that actually shows a downward trend? If there is, it's not referenced in this article.
Tensor cores are great for inferencing; for training their support is still a bit shaky, last time I checked.
Self-driving cars can automatically check weather before starting the planned route and drive and avoid those situations.
> at best a marketing gimmick

Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is not wisdom. A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past; he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future. The future can be better than the past. According to the data it has been [1][2][3]. So optimism isn't a fluffy ideal to scoff at.

Newton's laws make it clear that approaching vacuum allows for greater speeds. An object in motion will remain in motion unless an outside force acts upon it [4]. Therefore, the greater part of truth is out of reach of cynicism.

What is more likely, that a man who heads a company that works in the space sector would think that moving through a near-vacuum was honestly more efficient [5]? Or that he would propose it merely as a marketing gimmick? And why can't it be both?

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCm9Ng0bbEQ

[2]: https://www.ted.com/talks/hans_and_ola_rosling_how_not_to_be...

[3]: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/04/bill-gates-the-world-would-b...

[4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton%27s_laws_of_motion

[5]: https://themysteriousworld.com/top-10-fastest-man-made-objec...
Scientists discover the reason people believe in conspiracy theories
Idk, there is some value in making the concept as accessible as possible. It makes the concept more believable to even the lowest common denominator. The more cognitive energy you have to spend on something, the harder it is to consume and believe.
> "All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room." - Blaise Pascal

Most human good comes from this, too...
It's easy to find out which kit works these days. All that's left after that is half an hour's reading about MultiBeast and you're off to the races. I've been running a pair of Hackies as my main workstations for the last decade. Solid as a rock on a couple of Gigabyte EX58-UD5s.
That links to the wrong Gainesville. Your looking for Gainesville, Virginia. The closest city to Gainesville is Haymarket, VA: https://www.electricitylocal.com/states/virginia/haymarket/
Around the stadium is a large mixed-use development (housing, restaurants, offices, hotel, etc.). When talking about the project, the larger development is often conflated with the stadium for ease-of-reference but the two are very separate projects. The mixed-use development has received significant tax breaks, and associated projects (such as rebuilding parks, etc.) are being paid for by the developers. Those costs would be reimbursed by Inglewood over time in the form of tax breaks, if tax revenues actually exceed a specified threshold each year...so potentially not at all.

Also, being pedantic, Inglewood is its own city.
Right, that seems to be the real "fix".

(I still can't believe Google turned on remote images by default.)
I dont understand the point of this - why is this any better than apt? Based off the top comment here this is meant to be much more user-friendly, but already installing on Ubuntu didnt work properly despite following Flatpak's own guide. And the install process for apps is then basically the same as apt. I dont get it
It's accurate to within 100 light years. See https://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/questions/par....
It's in milliseconds. I'm going to update the post and add that note, but omitting values was a business decision, sorry.
Didn't we already collectively decide that Hungarian notation is a bad idea? About 20 years ago?
Still soldiering on with my 2012 Macbook Air 11″. A bit more horsepower would be nice as would 16Gb rather than 8Gb, but I don’t want the extra weight or size (or Touchbar) of the Pro. An i5 MacBook with 16Gb memory is over £1500 and feels like only a moderate upgrade over my current laptop. Hoping that whatever Apple release is 11″ or 12″, although I’m pretty certain it won’t be.
>For clarification, things I do include: * solidworks design, * aftereffects compositing of things made in cinema4d, * python scripting, * watching movies on vlc, * having a shitload of tabs open in chrome at any given time, * opening very large text files in Notepad++

You realize that that's a workload that 99.99% of users do not share, right?
Good article. This applies to all projects-- JavaScript or not.