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This is something I need to tell people way too often, and I like the way you put it.

All the time I hear about "life-threatening" speed freaks on bicycles. No. That's not how it works. I'd gladly be hit by 250 lbs going 20 mph any day, when the alternative is being hit by 2000 lbs going 30 mph. Even disregarding that the latter is truly life threatening and the former is not, the cyclist is just as likely to get injured when hitting someone, unlike the car driver.

The only reason bicycles appear dangerous is because the city planners encourage cyclists and pedestrians to occupy the same roads, which would be ridiculous if it weren't so sad.
Relevant: what Seattle can learn from Dutch street design: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0GA901oGe4

A presentation with a ton of examples of small infrastructural touches that make it safer to cycle in the Netherlands.
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Since we have 512GB µSDs the milk bottle would go from 1.6PB to 12.8PB, all other results need to be multiplied by the 8 times increase in storage density...
Fairly cheap to pickup a USB Wifi dongle (and many of them are almost flush to the port), might be a better bet than a Broadcom internal card (thou no experience of FreeBSD with Broadcom, just a general thought).
Not everything is 24/7. Sorry bub.
> This is a very narrow definition of a fuzzer. There are a lot of types of fuzzer that do not generate source code, and are not intended to test compilers

Yeah, that's true, I completely missed out other uses for 'fuzzers', thanks for clarifying that
Nah, it's basically right. The process just ended before it was complete, apparently triggered by the collapse of the St. Francis Dam.
If you are a picky eater and choosing between starving or paying for your own meal I think it's a safe bet which you would choose.

Try and flip your example around - say you were vegan and had to travel for work to a small town without any vegan options. Would you expect that your company would ship you food to fill the gap or would you just buy some groceries yourself and figure it out?
in a 4 man team the cost of maintaining program structure is enough to grind everything else to an halt. larger teams on larger projects have an incentive to keep the structure organized because without a clear codebase the project will grind to an halt and have the manpower to delegate maintenance tasks without killing the project speed.
I presume you would only complain about the workplace behaviour of this skinhead.

If your target skinhead kept all his skinhead behaviour out of the workplace, and only displayed respect and tolerance to his colleagues, would you still organise to get him fired?
I absolutely abhor the current state of social media and its usage by young people. As a teenager myself, I have both experienced and observed the negative influences of these outlets and consider their existence unethical. Far too often have these apps condoned terrible deeds while encouraging foolish acts of vanity. As a young person, you feel compelled to participate in digital fads -- like "challenges" or "pranks" -- or risk being ostracized. Regardless of how extreme these things get, social media always manages to make them popular by appealing to a semi-educated audience -- teens.

Social media is providing young people with an accessible form of communication, but its current mainstream implementation is seriously flawed. Every image or text seems to be filtered; kids are evaluating their self worth based on how close their photos resemble other heavily edited pictures. Trying to discuss actual topics is almost impossible because flagging dissenting views has become the primary form of discourse. Virtue signaling seems to be the only way to not be branded as a menace to society. Oh, and there's the whole problem of adults abusing their authority and fame to manipulate the reactions of kids.

There needs to be regulations which prohibit apps from generating content which incites such stupidity. Sure, freedom of speech is precious but when kids interact with one another under the impression that there is limited oversight, they do dumb things. We've all been kids and we can at least attest to that.
How would a replacement for `context ` look?

Also, I don't share your sentiment. I actually find Context to be a quite nice, minimal interface. Having a ctx argument in a function makes it very clear that this function is interruptible. I certainly prefer this over introducing a bunch of new keywords to express the same.
Resigning seems hard, but it's a little bit like giving regular feedback in my opinion. First of all it's best done face to face, because you don't want to be misunderstood, and you want to give the other party a fair chance at replying.

Second, you give the compliment sandwich. You start out with thanking them for the opportunity (any job is an opportunity, no matter how shitty it was, you made money and you learned something, sadder but wiser you may be). Then you tell them you would wish to quit your job after the contractual resignation period. Don't neglect mentioning that! If you just say you want to resign, they might just accept your immediate resignation and you'll miss out on the period you might have planned on. The final compliment has to make sure you'll be able to work together through the final period, just assure them you'll keep up your efforts and help transfer your knowledge to colleagues.

I'll do it for you for $450 if your employers speak English or Dutch ;)
Recently I've started asking people around be about the Facebook usages, and pretty much everyone falls into the same pattern: Messenger / Messenger group chats. As for Facebook it self, very few people post anything, and they've all noticed that their friends are posting next to nothing. It's all people who share bargains from the local supermarket, chances to win some prize and the occasional funny video.

It's different for difference circles of people of cause, but for many Facebook have been reduced to a stream of localized advertising and nonsense.

Thing that Facebooks does seem to do well is small communities and crowd sourced local news.
> There’s no reason for this, but there’s also nothing I can do about it.

Have you considered sending a pull request?

https://github.com/Ndragomirov/twitch-now

Also, you could build it from source if you're paranoid of the author pulling a switcheroo.
Well, I believe that Dutch roads are quite ok because the speed limits are usually followed and drivers are attentive.

In other parts of Europe, road traffic is often much faster that speed limits (Central and Southern Europe) and drivers are not cooperative at all. Yeah, nothing that separated bike roads wouldn't solve.
Take a look at Tab Wrangler extension. It closes tabs you haven’t used in a while.
Those overly abstracted libraries already exist, they are just using interface {} everywhere or go generate.
Funny that your link includes WhatsApp as a social medium. I don't see it like that at all. For me it is just a free alternative to SMS. Besides, they say it is big in Latin Amercia but in my country, Holland, I would guess that by now it is present on >95% of all smartphones. (latest source I could find was from 2016, which states that 92% of all smartphones in the Netherlands have WhatsApp installed, https://tweakers.net/nieuws/109689/whatsapp-staat-op-11-komm...).

I would consider reddit, missing in the article, more of a social network than WhatsApp.
It's not dead, plenty of people read.

I just personally don't bother reading as there's just more engaging forms of media out there (for me).
Yes I agree.
This is a much better solution.
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So does C but you don't expect the same things from a language from the 70's. I don't think C or Fortran would be very popular if they were released today.
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Be aware that not having a reaction the first time(s) you take fluoroquinolones is no guarantee that it won't happen later.

I had had several exposures to levofloxacin (a very bad ear infection) and ciprofloxacin (post-surgery prophylaxis) several years apart and was fine. A few months after that latter exposure, I took one dose of levofloxacin for an apparent infection, and within less than a day I started experiencing pain in one and then the other ankle. It was very painful to walk for about a month, my ankles were creaky and sore, and there was transitory soreness in my wrists as well. The acute pain subsided after that month but it took about five months total before my ankles were completely pain-free.

Don't use these antibiotics except to treat something that will kill you otherwise.
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I am looking for exactly for this kind of implementation for my work project - having a DB using version control model.

However I need a production ready solution.

There is also:
https://github.com/attic-labs/noms
But the project does not seem mature enough.

Do you know if there is any way to achieve this with an aim for production? What would be the best way/stack to get this result with current available tools?
It's not, the overwhelming majority of cyclists in Denmark don't use helmets either.
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> One thing though is that our geography works well with biking

Right, 100%. I wonder if the cheap electric-assist bikes will make more countries / cities essentially “flat”
> I've had many very good discussions on Facebook that it would hurt to lose.

I genuinely don't mean to be snarky, but that's a surprise. I have literally zero Facebook discussions I even remember, let alone "would hurt to lose".
You could probably make a better case for social media being much worse for your own mental health than video games. Everything's about instant gratification, creating and maintaining persona for the outside world to see and then hoping for approval thereof from your peers.

The video game world is disconnected from reality, involves long story lines, planning, strategy, skills that you can learn.

Maybe I'm wrong. If I had to chose, I hope my kid gets really in to video games instead of social media.
And, unfortunately, both results are in the expected spectrum. They may even be at the same time. The list of side effects on the medications I have to take is longer than my arm written in a small font and I hope every day that I don't start to get any of them. I still take the medications, because when I don't do it my life gets bad pretty fast, but the thought always lingers "what if ..?"
I was under the impression that this forum discouraged these types of comments.
Dead? Not likely. People will always have the urge to express themselves, only that it will in various medium right now, not just paper.
>I would guess most MPs of most parties cycle to work

Can confirm. Colleague of mine met the Dutch PM (Rutte) cycling to work the other day
I think that was part of it -- the "deplorables" line really hurt her. Hillary didn't have anywhere near the political talent that Bill had, where by "political talent" I mean being able to connect with people and bring you over to their side. I was stunned when she was nominated, because I couldn't imagine her winning a national election.

I think Al Gore had similar issues vis-a-vis Bush. He was just robotic, condescending in his stump speeches and debates. He was the exact wrong person to nominate to run against Bush, just in terms of his public persona.

The TV age really changed politics, and treating people with respect and not talking down to them matters. I think this rules out a lot of people who would otherwise make capable administrators, but that's how it is. And all of these people may be great one on one, but stick them in front of a camera, and man, they are cringe-worthy.

While I'm at it, Elizabeth Warren has the same problem. She comes off as a schoolmarm, constantly talking down to people. Please don't nominate her, Democrats, don't keep doing this. It would be nice to bring two party rule back to this country, so get someone who can win -- someone in the Bill Clinton, Barack Obama mold, who is able to be passionate about something while at the same time doesn't sound like they are scolding you for having the wrong views.
That was the most annoying part of the movie for me.

The whole movie(and a book) was about using this amazing virtual world as the only escape from the shitty horrible reality. It wasn't just entertainment - people go to school there, people have friends there, for many it's the only source of happiness.

And that's what it was for the protagonist, he understands this better than anyone.

But the moment he becomes a billionaire and gets a hot girlfriend, he goes "reality is awesome guys, you should go out more!" While nothing has changed for most people. Fuck you, Wade!

It's like the dumbest cheapest way to add a "moral" to the movie, completely out of character, he'd never do something like this.
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Or tetrapter, to stick with Greek roots (though I'm personally fine with heteroradicalism!)
Being in the way is also very rare. You'd be amazed how we can cycle around you without you even feeling bothered. Ringing your bell is rare and mostly used to notify other cyclists.

The best way to be in traffic is to not stand out. Whether it is car, cyclist or pedestrian. Just don't bother other people.
At Terms of Service; Didn't Read, we were one of a whole host of privacy-focused projects that received a donation from DuckDuckGo: https://spreadprivacy.com/duckduckgo-privacy-challenge-2018

Thus, however successful DDG will be, at least it will have supported quite a few other projects in its wake.
I graduated with my PhD (in CS/SE) 18 months ago after working in the industry for a very long time before that.

Doing a PhD in ML/CS is a very good idea if you already have a solid understanding. Based on my experiences and observations the most critical success factor is the research group you join and who your supervisory team are. Joining a sub-optimal group (relative to your area of interest) makes the journey much harder and most likely it will take longer too.

My advice is that you track down (Google Scholar is good for this) papers in ML that are of interest to you. Many will be behind paywalls, but you will get an idea of what they cover from the abstracts. While doing this, record the names of the authors and their affiliations. Fairly quickly you will notice who the thought leaders are in your area of interest. Then check out their biographies on their websites. Based on that you should write a proposal for what you are interested in and email them.

If you get the opportunity to keep working (even if part-time) then many research groups will be even more interested in you joining them. Industry-academia collaborations are relatively rare, but much sought after.

You mention NLP. Whilst there have been some impressive breakthroughs, most NLP based systems are guessing using statistics and not applying any logical inferences. That is an area that I have a strong interest in but so far no takers for post-doc work in that area. If you or anybody reading this is interested, then please contact me on my profile's email address.
People have and will pay the minute they receive an official looking letter.
WhatsApp's group chat feature sees the same issues as any other social media platform; spread of disinformation, digital witch hunts, bullying, etc. How is it not a social medium?
I looked around my house and tried to remember the decisions I needed to make along the way. Some things did not apply, like seismic considerations.

Once you've built a house, you realize that every single little thing you see, and every thing you don't see because it is covered, involved a decision about technology, materials, crew, method, minor adjustments, and sometimes fixups. I mean, EVERY ONE. Each square inch. It did not get there by accident.

As for the list, the good news is that most of the knowledge and experience came from others. For most of those things, I just needed to find our enough about it to know whom to turn to, or to make a decision to NOT to do it because it involved more costs and complications (i.e. basement).
That's true up to a point. But I do think the average quality of "published" writing has gone down as the barriers to entry have - really how could it not? For every story that a gatekeeper would've rejected because they couldn't understand its brilliance within its niche, there must be tens or hundreds that said gatekeeper would've rejected simply for being bad.
For the price of a 1TB SSD I can get you a 12TB/30TB Tape, easily between 10 or 30 times as much storage.

And as a bonus, while a SSD is only guaranteed to retain data without power for a year, tapes are designed for decades of cold storage.

Additionally, you could put up to 2x4x9 (HxWxD) tapes in there, at max capacity that is about 864TB/2.16PB

The only downside is you need another 1U to read the tapes, though the rest is automatic if you have a robotic tape library.
Electric assist bicycles are basically a smaller / lightweight alternative to scooters; I don't see (but I could be wrong) how e-bikes would be more prevalent if scooters already aren't.
You should invest in thermal insulation.
When I turn off the heating for a weekend, and there is cold outside, the temperature inside only drops ~2-4°C during the whole weekend.
That's because they're talking about a "Dutch design manual". Not a law. So obviously local governments won't implement this if it is prohibitively expensive. It's just a suggestion.

'inch-thick top coat', they're talking about a top coat, not just the paint. To make sure the paint doesn't wear after a couple of months the entire top part of the cycling path is red asphalt. Though I doubt it is 2,6cm everywhere as it differs per municipality. But its definitely thicker than a coat of paint most of the time.
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> I'd be flat out surprised if books didn't have their detractors back in the day.

They most certainly did have. This reminds me about Socrates' take on books:

"for this discovery of yours will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves. The specific which you have discovered is an aid not to memory, but to reminiscence, and you give your disciples not truth, but only the semblance of truth; they will be hearers of many things and will have learned nothing; they will appear to be omniscient and will generally know nothing; they will be tiresome company, having the show of wisdom without the reality."

Source: http://www.units.miamioh.edu/technologyandhumanities/plato.h...
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Flash drives guarantee data integrity for up to a year (JEDEC), so you'd have to spin them up and read data, though I'm unsure if this is sufficient on flash.
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Another spectacularly important figure in SF was John W Campbell (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_W._Campbell), a contemporary of Hugo Gernsback. He overhauled science fiction from fantastic space opera into a modern, speculative genre. This included cultivating a number of writers that later became giants in the field - including HN favorite Isaac Asimov.

And, yes, there is a Campbell award!

He was also a seriously brilliant writer, from classics like 'Who Goes There?' and 'Cloak of Aesir', to the almost-forgotten 'All'. There was a big fuss over Andy Weir's 'The Martian', but everyone seems to have overlooked Campbell's 'The Moon is Hell!' (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moon_Is_Hell!).

Buzz Lightyear's catchphrase 'To Infinity and Beyond!' - Campbell wrote it first ('The Mightiest Machine', 1947)!
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I've always asked this question, who exactly are "They"?
Nice! Not many people can say that their university project made it into the New York Times!
Great idea!

Does it work with yen and other currencies that don't have decimals?
> (for crush/rollover strength?)

That's correct: a car's roof (or rather the pillars that hold it) has to be strong enough to not get crushed in case the car gets flipped. That's why pillars are so thick nowadays.
> Of a high profile and high quality enterprise disk, unlikely to appear in 99% of RAID setups.

> Most RAID setups in the wild consist of low quality enterprise or even desktop platters, high quality setups are rare and expensive

> they're still not very common

More extraordinary claims, requiring extraordinary evidence. Even Baraccuda Pro models (which do cost more but not prohibitively so) have the same read error rate, but I didn't choose that datasheet because it had less data, overall.

> Esp. considering that lots of consumers have

I call "red herring" on this, since consumers also aren't going to have the kinds of choices we're discussing, nor read these forums, nor the original article (which is the context for this whole discussion).

> the error rate is given in bits here, shaving of 3 or 5 OOM again

I'm not convinced of that, since the tables look identical between the drives. Maybe it's a sneaky marketing ploy, but maybe not. Ultimately, you need real world data, which you consistently haven't provided.

Absent that, it seems as though you're relying on assumptions, and my original conclusion, based on the data that has been published by the likes of Google and Backblaze, stands.

> Waste is a matter of efficiency in all domains

You seem to have re-defined waste, so I can't really speak to it.

> I don't think I ever met a sysadmin that insistent frequent failover due to failure is considered best practise.

I fear you are, again, misunderstanding. I didn't mention failure as a cause, although the term "failover" could lend itself to confusion, with the substring "fail" being in it. I used the term only in the sense of "switchover".

Perhaps I merely misunderstood you originally. You did initially state "A failover is still a failover and can reduce performance" which, even assuming you meant failover-due-to-failure, the assertion is questionable in the context of justifying node-level redundancy on top of RAID-level redundancy, if switchover (not due to failure) is engineered to be frequent (or even continuous).

> you can easily quantify risks as you have done using datasheets

I'm not agreeing or disagreeing as to its ease, but I'm asking you to go ahead and perform this, which you assert the ease of, since that seems to be the basis of your point.

(Earlier, I just made some single-disk calculations based on the spec sheet, not array risks.)

> I need to know if the array is likely to experience one (with likely being >1% or any other >X% during a rebuild or during normal operation). This question is more easily answered and doesn't require more than estimations.

Agreed. As I mentioned, coarse estimates (if based on real data) are plenty good enough. However, even a coarse estimate assigns some number to it.

Given your question above, what's the answer, for likely-being->1%, during a 300-hour rebuild? How did you arrive at that answer?
MDMA is by no means harder to manage than DMT. 100mg with some friends in the couch and 99.9% of people is going to have a blast and will look back at it as an experience that was really worth having, probably with some lasting insights.

The DMT experience is not something for everyone. Adding a MAOI makes it more dangerous physically.