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I completely agree that they're different and I really do prize the wisdom of others because I feel like its the weakest ability score on my character sheet, but unfortunately the world is getting so complicated that obvious solutions are ill-advised.

A wise person can see that Donald Trump is a villain because they understand his character. An intelligent person can see that his policies produce outcomes that are counter to their aims.

The trouble arises when you have someone that has good character; but is misguided technically. They want to, say, help the poor so they nationalize the farms or end trade agreements.
Does the UK military not do PT? I'm sure their soldiers are just as exhausted at any given moment as ours are.
Salesforce does this. I had a co-worker that took 6 months off for the birth of his child. The distinction effectively means anyone can take the time off. In the case the dad takes time off to be with the child, he becomes the primary caregiver by definition.
.... because we’re talking about a mistake in a Russian capsule. When we talk about Challenger, then we can talk about the deficiencies in American management.
Unless Apple is lying and third party research says they aren’t, they only store location data locally on the device and have an entire framework where they anonymize location data sent back for improving their service - differential privacy.

For the really paranoid, you can completely turn off most sharing with Apple, disable iCloud backups and backup to your PC with iTunes.
Isn’t that part of the SUBSAFE protocol?
This pairs really well with the earlier, more general article:
https://stephenmann.io/post/whats-in-a-production-web-applic...

I'm a bit new to this, but I found the concept/discussion of immutable infrastructure particularly interesting:

> Immutable infrastructure allows creating identical replicas of every version of an application. This allows you to build auto-scaling mechanisms, to replicate issues occurring in a production environment without interfering with the actual production environment, to run tests against exact production infrastructure before deploying, and much more. These are invaluable techniques for any production system.
But if you want to write a sensational "100 million lines of code" then you count the code that's running the in flight entertainment system (and others) which doesn't have the same safety constraints.
I think it's just that people are safer and better fed now. There's no real need for most of us to use violence to preserve our way of life.
Bombings and shootings have existed for decades. Its an urban legend that they are a modern thing.
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In this case, does it really matter? I'd be very surprised if it's running nonstop for more than a couple days, let alone almost a year. Or is this some system that normally doesn't power down when the rest of the plane does?
> In particular, the organization was poorly designed, with QA being too close (in org chart terms) to production.

I see this with great regularity in my practice and it is really strange that this lesson has to be learned all over time and again. Latest incarnation: make developers responsible for their own QA. That's about as logical as asking the butcher to grade their own meat.
> Successful individuals could spend their day playing Project Entropia, making money and using that money to pay for rent and food. A true dream for a teenager

That's a job, not a game.

There is a strong similarity between Entropia and cryptocurrency, tho - the forums of both are full of people who haven't profited yet but are sure that if they just keep sinking in moar cash & time they'll win big.

http://entropia-universe-mmorpg.blogspot.com/2012/11/when-th...
Go has a lot of pain points but the one positive thing it has over other languages is how it handles interfaces.

The whole point is that the caller can make new interfaces to fit existing structs in other libraries.
I’ve heard this argument a lot from startup people, but it rings of envy of being late to the gold rush. The only reason to be more worried about Google/Facebook is because of the power they have, small startups are not inherently more ethical, and I’ve met enough small SV founders to know that as a group they don’t hold any kind of moral high ground.

Framing the conversation as tech company winners and losers is to totally miss the point. The real question is whether GDPR will actually help stem data abuses, and frankly I don’t see how it can’t be at least a marginal net positive.
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> "Why everything I have is broken"
It’s not like carrying all your possessions to the mastadon is easy either.
I can confirm. We are having authentication issues as well.
It's worth noting that the important part here is the "have no involvement with" part, which the geographical blocking helps establish.

A US entity operating under US law with no physical presence in a foreign jurisdiction but actively courting business with citizens in that foreign jurisdiction has to be a lot more careful. For example, if one of their foreign customers sues them in a foreign court, wins, and gets a damages award there is a decent chance in many states that the US court would recognize and enforce that judgement.
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That's fiction. That does not mean it could not be like that but it is just as believable as any other evidence free scenario sketched.
Correction to myself, 11 tankers and 21 bombs.
I sleep very well at night knowing my software is not keeping helicopters in the air, cars on the road, etc.

Honestly I'm in awe of the lot of programmers who take these kinds of tasks on. I don't know how they can relax at all relative to their work.
"Everything" isn't telling much. I'd love to, out of curiosity, browse through a codebase of an avionics system. Is anything like this publicly available?
You ask me not to assume, but yet you made a huge assumption in that he loved his job, presumptuous much?
Usually it would be far simpler and cheaper to just use the wind to spread seeds through a variety of methods. Nature tends to "try" to conserve energy (no conscious effort involved but the ones that do so usually win out at a certain point), hence the rarity of high energy mechanisms things like bombdardier beetles or even offensive horns - predatory usage needed to sustain it would be too expensive for misses but defensive usage can be budgetted for better since saving their life is worth a heavy investment compared to death which voids its energy benefit to propagation. Even suicidal maters want their energy to contribute to their offspring.

Granted there are also opportunity costs to everything - rabbits dominated Australia comically despite the widespread deadliness by investing in reproduction and evasion instead of dangerous defense mechanisms.
> There is a longstanding firmware issue that introduces packet loss for routed packets

Interesting, do you have any more about this?

Got an ER-PoE that intermittently loses packets and have never got to the bottom of why (I gave up and bought a non-Ubnt router, just haven’t got around to configuring it yet).
The current gold price is "not crazy" but like everything else it is based on supply and demand. For instance people in India use it a store of value and there are a lot of them. Maybe electronic payments will take a bite out of that, or maybe people will be mistrustful and want gold even more.

Gold is interesting not so much as a directional bet but as a hedge in a larger portfolio. See

https://www.bogleheads.org/blog/harry-brownes-permanent-port...

Harry Browne wrote a book on the Permanent Portfolio (slightly different from the one described) in the 1970s and it did pretty well. Later on he ran for president as a Libertarian.

https://www.bridgewater.com/research-library/the-all-weather...

If you look at some of the white papers that Ray Diallo wrote about "All Weather" there is very similar thinking with Browne.
Washable crayons sounds fun. I may have to give that a shot.
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That's not true. There are folks in the community who absolutely DO put pressure on open source libraries to be maximally general (or to use THEIR abstractions over others).

This fosters an environment that might already lead people to second guess themselves, because it's so big and new.
...except that both can be applied to solve the same problems.

And so they are in fact very related.

For instance with a macro you could do (made up syntax)

SortIntSlice = mymacros.MakeSorter!(int)

...then at compile time have code for sorting a slice of ints generated.

This is again similar to C++ templates (main difference is C++ will implicitly instantiate instead of explicitly).

And C++ doesn't need generocs because people use templates instead.

They really are in the same problem domain.
I really like that people out there are thinking of ways to get away from the current awful tracker internet. It must be possible to get rid of the ridiculous crap factory the ad agencies have turned the internet into.
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"either increase the 1 km radius" - I understand the problem you are facing, will try to address them.
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Jump into the NTP Pool (the water is warm)
"An unnamed source told RIA Novosti the person responsible for drilling the hole filled it with glue instead of reporting the mistake."

A mistake is one thing. Mistakes are lessons and it's good to have people who have some solid lessons in their backgrounds.

Trying to patch it with some glue without telling anyone is a character flaw and the person needs to go, so everyone else gets the lesson.
I've yet to finish this book yet, but it's definitely not just for undergrads. There is a lot of things in it that seem obvious when stated, but are either good reminders, or genuinely well stated language for a domain.

One example that stands out to me is deep vs shallow classes.
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What's funny and sad is that Vulkan may be the one in the long run that helps make macOS (and Linux) relevant longer for games.

Imagine if Apple did support Vulkan natively, all Windows games via Steam Play Beta can be run on macOS easily and with support of eGPU, it would help a lot to make them run better.

All I can realistically hope for is that Apple continues to close the gap between Metal and Vulkan, so projects like Metal on Vulkan (MoltanVK), Proton (Steam Play + dxvk + Wine) can benefit with less work to do.

It'll be interesting to see what Apple does with Metal 3 in the next few years. If they're smart (they haven't been in the last few years with Mac Pro, rMBP keyboard+touchbar, etc), they'd work with the Kronos group.
"Well, I figured....that bridge is gonna fall down in 200 years no matter what, so I went ahead and used rubber bands to hold the suspension lines in place. Only cost me $2!"

No, just no. Don't be a hilljack. Build something to spec. 32 bits is clearly not to spec.
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I thought of three concepts/designs for board games over this past weekend, and every single one them was while I was taking the dog for a long walk and didn't have the phone on me to distract me, so I just had to keep an eye on him and let my brain bounce ideas around. I also reflected on a couple of other designs and came up with some ideas to improve those.

It's not the only method I come up with ideas but it's a pretty reliable one.
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Feedbin is open source. Wouldn’t be difficult to get that running for a cheap box on DO or whatever.
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It's fair for us to assume you didn't actually read it, as much as you may plead for us to think otherwise.

This clearly isn't a simple story of 'happy man in a humble job'.

I mean, the man still buys lottery tickets for a start...
Perhaps you could assign rights to the FSF. I'm not sure if they're prepared for that kind of battle, but my gut indicates they might be in a better place than the rest.

And, they have 35 years of history showing they wouldn't sell your content under the bus.
That also works.
Purely anecdotal based on kids I see at my kids' school, but the next generation look like they will be absolutely amazing. I'd sooner blame our current biggest problems on the older generation. Our kids may spend a lot of time staring at phones, but they're far less likely to be religious fundamentalists or climate deniers. Donald Trump is a Boomer, not a millennial.
Because not everyone agrees (thankfully!) that syntax is uninteresting or irrelevant, or that Lisp is some amazing global aesthetic or ergonomic maximum.
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Even the 777 has very little in way of mechanical backup (it has a couple of spoilers and the horizontal stabilizer with mechanical linkage).

The main difference is the duplicated controls in the cockpit are mechanically interlinked, so moving one will always move both.

I believe the 787 is Boeing's first (commercial) aircraft with no mechanical backup, but there's not been much for decades.
It should be fairly easy for anyone to figure out that planes generally aren't used around-the-clock. For example, I routinely take a flight which arrives at 11pm, and I know that nothing is flying out of that airport again until the morning.
Just because you don't understand how something works or are ideologically opposed to its existence doesn't mean it's a ponzi scheme.
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> having progressed beyond C

I don't really see the issue with C APIs. IMO C is a fantastic integration point for a library which wants to have the widest reach possible. Interoperability with C is a solved problem in a wide variety of languages, so C APIs tend to be easy to integrate. Also since C is a fairly thin abstraction on top of what a computer actually does, good C APIs tend not to be opinionated about how they should be integrated.

I would consider working with C APIs to be a basic programming skill.
It's not just your electric bill; that power is being generated somehow. Until that process is clean and green and completely accounts for externalities I prefer whatever wastes less electricity.

I'd personally much rather live in a world where websites are financed up-front or not at all. It would disincentivize the low-effort creation of pointless or misleading material simply to direct time and attention to ads and miners.
It captures the spatial externalities, as opposed to the US system of minimum parking requirements and on-street parking, which sets aside valuable urban space that could be used for more housing (or stores or whatever) and wastes considerable amounts of capital (underground garages are very expensive) on making it easier to drive and not actually produce the environmental benefits of living in a city.
I've had a lot of problems in my life, but most of them never happened.
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There are newer firmwares that allow me to get WAN to LAN ~500 Mbit over 5ghz, and WAN to LAN 950 Mbit over Ethernet
We should probably leave a bit of room in case any new physics is discovered prior to the heat death of the universe.
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What a load of shit. It's no better than sampling a LSTM, just words put together that seem to make sense but ultimately mean nothing.

I thought passive AI would be supervised learning and active AI - reinforcement learning. But no, they are AI used in products respectively conversational agents. So it's all about how you send your commands, if they are by text it's passive and by voice - active. Does that make any sense?
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Interesting, thanks for the link.

Your comments don't seem to answer the question of cars having their lights on making it harder to spot motorcycles.

At night time cars will have lights on anyway, so I think it comes down to if cars having their lights on makes it harder to spot a motorcyclist in traffic.

Doesn't it also apply the other way though? Motorcyclists are more likely to spot cars with lights in their periphery? I don't know how much of a non-issue it would be given how restricted the view is from a motorcycle helmet.
Semi-automatic rifles didn't exist in 1850.

We had school lynchings, though.

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Yes, I probably wouldn't use FaaS stuff like Lambda for an API, but AppSync.
Specifically, it's proteins that set and harden with heat. Oils come off trivially in the dishwasher (unless they became polymerized through heat, a common process on pots and pans).

The other variable is the time the dishes sit dirty before the dishwasher gets turned on.
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> why doesn't this apply to parents? Becoming a parent is no more unforeseen than ageing.

I don't disagree. All of these 'benefits' are just compensation for labor in another form. When considering a salary for a position, you have to factor in all these non-cash benefits for your labor. I would prefer a simpler transaction: give me a high cash amount for hours actually worked with the flexibility to take whatever unpaid time I need, within reason.