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> Christianity arguably disagrees with you - see the tale of Onan

"Be fruitful and multiply" is Genesis 1:28.

Onan is, per Jermone and canonical discussions, about spilling seed unnecessarily, but is more about not raping your sister-in-law and betraying dead family than it is about having many children. Nothing in there about the sacredness of babies or anything.

Onan's brother died and by tradition Onan entered into a Levirate marriage with his dead brother's wife, Tamar, to continue the brother's line. If Onan fathered a child by Tamar the child would inherit all of the dead brother's possessions and rights; if there were no sons Onan would inherit everything. So Onan pulls out, meaning he gets to bang the widow, and still gets to keep everything -- which is pretty sleazy.

God isn't really a fan of this, and punishes him accordingly.
> Hopefully t's will get crossed and i's will get dotted before winter time kicks in this year.

I agree, it would be great if the recommendation to abolish daylight saving gets passed within the next months.

actually abolishing it should be planned at least one year into the future, it would be a nightmare otherwise. There are so many systems in place that are automatically switching between time zones, and all of them need to be deprecated.

such a change cant be done within ~2 month.
Or, without all the marketing, but too far from the original title: "Microsoft discontinues sovereign Microsoft Cloud Germany"

> With this focus, we will no longer be accepting new customers or deploying any new services from the currently available Microsoft Cloud Germany. Existing customers can continue to use the current cloud services available today, which we’ll maintain with necessary security updates.
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Illegal downloads surely had an impact in the 2000s era, but I think by now the amount of freely streamable content is by far the largest factor.
Don’t be evil ship sailed a long time ago. They’ve demonstrated over and over again that their stock price matters more than privacy of their users.

The way I see it, it’s a race to trillion dollar mark for AMZN, GOOG and MSFT now.

I have little expectations that they’ll do much to reverse their ad blasting and deep tracking trends.
Expand your network. Expand your bubble. Find real people. Ask them questions. Work out what they need. Provide it either directly or indirectly. I’m still working and learning about this approach.

My contract work is often “deliver this thing at particular milestones and get it into production by this date”. I politely reject contracts that don’t fit me. I’ve had clients call me back and adjust schedules around my availability as I’ve stipulated I’m already allocated for particular weeks.

Caveats: I’m not a startup guy yet I have started various businesses up.
I’m a minority and consider bleeding heart, big government, free market capitalist. But I can’t agree with this. Corporate America should have “affirmative outreach” and not just recruit from Ivey league schools and even partner with colleges and high schools with large minority populations and reach out to females to widen the top of the funnel.
> Are you going to tell them they have no right to their own work anymore 20 years after they had one of their most successful releases?

I work in software, as I assume many of us do. I don't assume an inherent right to gain perpetual income from my work. The vast majority of all employment operates this way.

I'm not sure how that reality doesn't undermine the idea that there exists some inherent right to prevent other people from, say, singing a song they heard (by getting a local authority to recognize you as the author of that song, and then stop others from singing that song and making money from their performances, by putting them in jail or fining them if they do, for example).

It's important to make a clear distinction between the kind of "right" copyright represents and, for example, the right to free expression.

The underpinnings of the rights are different. We assume that everyone legitimately starts off with the right to free expression.

It's not so clear that everyone starts off with some inherent legitimate right to prevent some dude two doors down from re-singing a song you came up with and sung to him.

It seems much more reasonable to view copyright as an artificial right: something we create to promote certain ends. The state is in no way obligated to provide the establishment of copyright (it's not a real "right"), so the justification for its bounds is entirely pragmatic: what benefit it has to society in general.
"Fan" implies the propulsion is in response to air being forced backwards.

These rotors create lift in a forwards direction from the wind blowing across them, a bit like having a fixed wing pointing up.
booking.com used to work fine for me, at least in places I have any idea about.
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Sure! Take a look at Mix.Task [0]. You basically name your module Mix.Tasks.X where X is whatever you want the command to be and then include "use Mix.Task" and implement the run function and you have now extended Mix. You call the task my running "mix X" and it will run the code in the run function. I created a small task that generates ORM models for Ecto (Elixir's de facto ORM library) using Mix tasks [1]. So the user types mix plsm and they can generate the code.

[0] https://hexdocs.pm/mix/Mix.Task.html
[1] https://github.com/jhartwell/Plsm
At the very least tortuous interference in a contract.
There is a smear campaign going on, but not about precisely this. The smear campaign is that since ProtonVPN is free, it must be doing something nefarious.

ProtonMail and ProtonVPN are legally separate, but they are both part of the Proton family of projects which originated from CERN.
> If you had only tried a bit harder practicing lay ups in gym class, you could be just as good as Michael Jordan

I don't think it's that - MJ obviously had a lot of things going for him other than his practice ethic (for one, not too many people are 6'6"). Most people just want to be slightly better than their peers - they want to be the best player on their rec league, and understand they're not going to the NBA.

That holds some water, since as the article notes deliberate practice has more effect at the lower levels of competition.

Or to bring it back to your golf analogy - you were never going to be even a low-level professional golfer, but with enough deliberate practice you could've probably held your own against your co-workers at a company event. That's the goal of most people engaging in deliberate practice, outside of very select environments.

Obviously that doesn't counteract your sheer anguish of practice, though, and you're right that it's quite difficult to practice if you don't have an aptitude for the task.
I rarely want text as output format, I want structured data that I can explore in a structured fashion.

As oblio said, you can come up with a standard conversion of structured data to text. The other way round you need write a parser for every textual output format, and typically people come up with fragile ad-hoc parsers that don't deal with edge cases properly.
Not quite true. It is one of the proposals but really all the article says is that lots of people are in favour, now how are we going to do it? In other words there isn't really any traction because it will depend on the detail and there won't be much agreement.
1) I believe urban areas--say, within half a mile of a subway stop--should be generally car-restricted to its residents, yes. (Exceptions of course exist but they can be managed; Boston has an MBTA car service for the disabled, as an example.) But no, cars don't belong where humans live.

2) As the sibling comments note, cars tend to park in observance of the law and don't go whizzing down the sidewalk while I am walking to work.
G1 works fine on OpenJDK 8, you just have to pass the command line parameters to enable it. It was made the defaultin OpenJDK 9.
It appears that you have conflated "hating America" with "hating the current President and his policies". Can you say more about that?
So long for constructive comments...

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

'Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.'
> If you never use the estimates to adjust what you are working on, then putting in the time to do estimates is a pure waste

yes! using plans to create context for the larger project is the critical missing piece.

Business stakeholders just want delivery dates but the team doing the work benefits when the estimates fit into an organic, flexible master plan that is changed when things are late or hard.
Based on a short trial of the API, doesn't seem like they're divining much from pages anyways – it couldn't identify Who and What I was parsing, and just seems to extract terms found in dbpedia, which are often wildly irrelevant as primary properties.

If we're talking notable people/things, you'd get more structured meaning out of searching a local Wikidata graph.
I'm pretty sure it was him in the 1970s sometime. I don't know who complained that "the men would get their morning erections while on the bus" though.

Edit: Another Queensland premier Peter Beattie claimed daylight savings would increase skin cancer rates.

https://www.theage.com.au/national/now-daylight-saving-cause...
I'm sure that this will, at no point, be used for evil.
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We actually kinda already have the first, in the form of the Dance Central games for the Kinect. You dance, the software detects which of your limbs aren't moving the right way, and it display visual feedback (highlighting the limb in red, reducing your score, etc) to show you what you're doing wrong, so you can perform the dance more correctly next time.

It's not good enough to produce professional dancers, but it has definitely improved my dancing as someone who just dances for fun.
> But how do you turn off the towers?

You vote for Jill Stein.
The fundamental tech may not be new but the details are, this is lighter and (hopefully) more effective than previous attempts.
Disclaimer: I work on Linux at Intel.

I'm biased, of course. But, I think things are much better now. We have ways of having relatively "normal" conversations about these things where a broad set of community folks are involved. It's not perfect, but it's way better than it was a year ago.

The embargo was really painful to work with, even for folks like myself who were inside Intel during the whole thing. I'm used to being able to ask folks for help and to lean on the incredible knowledge of the kernel community. For Meltdown, I was much more on my own than I was comfortable with. It wasn't fun.
In this case, it was not the hotel that screwed up.

At the time, I was living in Madison, WI, and they booked my flight out of Milwaukee. With a connection in Madison. No, I couldn't just board the flight in Madison. No, they wouldn't pay for my mileage between Madison and Milwaukee, or for airport parking. The flight out of Milwaukee was cheaper, you see.

The service you are suggesting already exists. It is called a travel agency. Some even specialize in corporate travel. My spouse used to work for one. They lost a lot of business to self-booking sites like Travelocity and Expedia. As a result, some office peons in small and medium businesses are being tasked with booking travel sometimes, and they have no skill or training in handling the idiotic hiccups that will always happen when dealing with the airlines, hotel chains, and vehicle rental chains. Larger businesses tend to have their own travel agents, or contract to a travel agency, especially if their own employees need to travel frequently. If a company cannot provide you with an acceptable travel experience as a candidate, they won't do it as an employee, either.

To contrast, the next travel-required interview booked a reasonable flight, a full-sized rental car, a paid-for hotel, and sent me a per diem check without having to submit any expense receipts. The on-site interview was about 90 minutes, without whiteboarding or coding exercises or pop quizzes or brain teasers, and then they followed up on it and extended an offer. Which I accepted.
Longitude, you presumably mean.
If it means people stop telling me I'm in UTC in the summer, this would be fantastic.

"we'll meet at four your time"

"great!"

"why weren't you there?? I googled 'current time utc!!'"

"because we're on BST, aka IST, aka UTC+1 in the summer"

But this rando website says UK/Ireland is UTC!!

Someday, somehow, we'll teach people that if you're using PST in the summer, there's a 99% chance you're wrong.
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> Western society has pretty much embedded the idea that the day is centered around 16:00 (4PM) and "night" around 03:00~04:00.

Where I'm from, 4PM is late in the day, just a few hours from bedtime, and 4AM is nearly time to wake up.
I've never tried gitbook. When I had to create a documentation site for my project I looked for something easy to use and compatible with github pages. Docsify is great in that sense but is not SEO friendly. For this reason I moved to vuepress . This is my site (https://zircleui.github.io/docs/)
Think browsers and virtualization, and the various VPN's that invariably connect "internal networks" to the outside world via computers that straddle, or alternate between, other networks.
I can't really square the idea of "everything ... is shared" with there being a top down power structure. If some pigs are "more equal than others," you don't have a socialist system, you have a Stalinist system. I hate to break it to you, but you might be a (Russian style) communist.
regarding the nr 1: the reason I'd prefer solving the rectangular version first is because I see 2 potential sources of problem: on one hand an anisotropic but still flat metric (i.e. no curvature) and on the other hand the shape or topology of spaces like sphere (which admits elliptic metrics) or double torus (hyperbolic geometry) which force curvature on the metric. That the problem arises already for a flat metric is why I think it deserves attention.

Although the problem can be seen with visual inspection, it incurs some effort to inspect. I propose the following visualization: after generating say N=1000 points, for each point select the closest neighbour, and plot its distance with respect to the origin, then ideally one would get a circular band centered on the origin. Alternatively, plot the angle for each nearest neighbour vector and ideally one should see a uniform distribution.

It's unclear which part(s) need to be generalized for the rectangular version: the equation for the phi's? some rescaling of the phi's? the update rule itself? or some function on the output of the update rule?

Another approach may be to change the concept of hyper uniformity and generalize it to "hyper convergence of [arbitrary function]" i.e. can we have fast convergence to a hat or tent function? If we take the 2-dimensional R_2 and compute the sum of the pair of pseudo-independent numbers, does it generate a tent function? still faster than random sequence? Instead of looking at the distance between adjacent points for the non-uniform tent function, we might multiply this distance by the distance to 0 or 2 (whichever is closest). I.e. points near the floor (0 or 2) should be further apart but will have a lower multiplier since its close to 0 or 2, while points near the top of the tent function (1) will have small distances between them but a higher distance fromm 0 or 2.

For a couple of moments I incorrectly conjectured that spaces have "magic geodesic steps" i.e. for a torus moving straight up or straight to the right does not create a dense point set on the unit square, while the R_2 step does. The reason I think there is no general "magic geodesic step" or at least that it is less related to geodesics as I thought is because every geodesic on the unit sphere turns back on itself.
As long as they are reliable and have non-crazy maintenance costs it should be profitable now. I imagine some time and competition could cut that install cost in half too.
All references and depicted cultural practices in movies, novels, plays, etc, become dated over time anyway. The world keeps changing.
found this video explaining it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OSrvzNW9FE
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> 90%

65 %.
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I can't praise the Dell P2415Q highly enough.

(https://amzn.to/2N7UtrC)

It's a 24" 4K monitor, so the ppi is really high.

I have one in portrait mode running at 1080 x 1920, which makes for super-sharp text that's large enough for me to read comfortably, and another in landscape mode at 2560 x 1440 for documentation, live-updating UI when I'm developing UIs, etc.

It's just an all-around fantastic monitor for your eyes.
> lawful free expression online

What's the point of using the word "lawful" here? Free expression is free expression, conforming to a law or not is subject to the country and time. I think it somehow dilutes the absolute nature in the meaning of: free expression.
Some years ago I read The Box by Marc Levinson, a history of containerized shipping. Highly recommend it. If you live in SF and have wondered about the numerous barely used piers, this book explains their history as well - and why the major container terminal ended up in Oakland instead.

One of the painful early lessons for the industry was the discovery that minimizing operational costs (particularly fuel and maintenance) trumps every other value. A pioneering containerized shipping company went bankrupt pursuing a high-speed shipping strategy that cost marginally more than low-speed competition.

Edit: Oh, there is a second edition! Updated link.

Edit: replaced unhelpful snark.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0691170819/
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better performance and millions of dollars of monthly savings in cost (in a bank) - not x86 though
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The hard to get up in the morning is the worst argument for DST ever. It's hard to get up because we are disputing the rhythm by changing the clock around. It's like saying "The Japanese time zone is terrible. Everytime I traveled there I get jet lag."
Low-level system code (particularly when you're doing things like servicing interrupts) needs to be written in assembler. The very early boot phase is even more annoying because you're starting out in one of the 16-bit modes and working your way to changing to x86-64 and virtual memory.

Outside of system code, the main use for assembly is trying to maximize performance on hot loops. Your optimized matrix-multiply routine, or media decoding kernel, could well be written in assembly. I've seen a few cases where people do things such as manual calling conventions in assembly as well.
The book reasons that learning assembly also teaches the fundamentals of computer architecture.

1.3.1 Gain a Better Understanding of Architecture Issues
1.3.1 Understanding the Tool Chain
1.3.1 Improve Algorithm Development Skills
1.3.1 Improves Understanding of Functions/Procedures
1.3.1 Gain an Understanding of I/O Buffering
1.3.1 Understand Compiler Scope
1.3.1 Introduction to Multi-processing Concepts
1.3.1 Introduction to Interrupt Processing Concepts

The book uses the 1.3.1 heading for each and I'm too lazy to change them.

Reasons to (maybe/arguably) write assembly:

1) You're bringing up a new board, your bootloader is partially written but you need some customization for the real-time OS you're using. It can be advantageous to do this in assembly
2) You're dealing with some particularly old hardware and (ab)using it for some commercial purpose

Of course, I can imagine that for each you'll have someone obstinately state there's no need to use assembly because of some gcc feature. More than one way to get things done, and most use the tools they're comfortable with.
The main point against that stance is that no creation happens in a vacuum. Every cultural product is a collective creation to a certain extent. Reduction of copyright terms is simply giving back to the society's pool of creations that is the public domain.

This doesnt create many opportunities for abuse like a monopoly of the state on the creations. Public domain is, by virtue of being freely reproducible, free.
Serious question: In other parts of the country or world, do "companies" all open at the same time? They certainly do not, anywhere I've ever lived. If that is the case, that must be an interesting lifestyle. How does anyone get anything done if there's never a non-overlapping interval of "the bank is open but my employer is closed" type of problem?

I've also lived almost all my life in a "recreational paradise" state far from the coasts where its totally normal for there to be at least one, often many, "in-season" work hours vs "out-season" work hour thru the year. Much like agonizing over average temperatures is heard but isn't an issue, its not a problem for the millions who live around here.
I wonder if they considered jemalloc? Apparently tcmalloc does suffer from fragmentation issues over time, and I believe I've seen related issues crop up on the Go issue tracker. https://www.quora.com/Is-tcmalloc-stable-enough-for-producti...

EDIT: Not sure why I'm being downvoted; if this is a contentious topic, I wasn't aware. I'm certainly not trying to make a point one way or another; I only posted this hoping someone who was more knowledgeable than me could respond.
Strings are so tiny an abstraction over plain memory that every C programmer ends up doing them their own way. And that can be a good thing. I already proposed a couple of ways to represent or muck with strings in my other comment.
I agree 100% on the first point.

On the original question: evidence seems to say yes.
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Little languages are good for little programs. Once your program grows up, a little language starts holding it back. Your program needs a language for grown-ups. The truth is all little languages are quite primitive, and this is by design. Little languages are designed for a specific narrow purpose. Beyond that narrow purpose they are much less expressive, clunky and inefficient.

Real life tasks often require more than one little language. You can start with a simple text extraction using Awk, then use Sed for text conversion, and glue it all together with Bash. But very soon it becomes hard to maintain and extend this collection of scripts and easier to replace them with one Perl or Python program, which can do all of the above and more.

So the bottom line is, use little languages then they suit your task, but know their limitations.
Not only northern Europe. Rome is as far north as NYC.
Cows aside, the referendum was mostly to abolish the switch. But it wasn't decided yet which time to fall back to although it was part of the questionnaire.

So basically you'll use the same time all year but it will probably be up to every country to decide whether or not it's summer time. Cows rejoice, they will be milked at a constant time which may or may not differ by 1h from present time.

As a human I actually care about that 1h, it's not enough that we stop switching back and forth, I would personally like more daylight in the evening.
one of the top-10 largest multinationals take the next step and pay in scrip instead of money

You could argue that that’s what stock in a non-public company is already
There is one other important difference: in democratic socialism, your vote is inalienable. In Corporate socialism votes are quite literally bought and sold as part of the standard operating procedure.