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For those of us unfamiliar with restrict, I found this article: https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/language/restrict

"The intended use of the restrict qualifier (like the register storage class) is to promote optimization, and deleting all instances of the qualifier from all preprocessing translation units composing a conforming program does not change its meaning (i.e., observable behavior).

The compiler is free to ignore any or all aliasing implications of uses of restrict.

To avoid undefined behavior, the programmer must ensure that the aliasing assertions made by the restrict-qualified pointers are not violated. ..."
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And I disagree. When you have one of the largest, most profitable companies giving their employees application forms for public assistance, they are the ones who are wrong, and they absolutely should be singled out and shamed for it.
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> Are you sure you're not accidentally conflating UEFI with Intel Management Engine (which is indeed spyware)?

Pretty sure

> may I ask what your objection to EFI is?

> I know lots of people have issues with UEFI Secure Boot (mostly based on FUD), but secure boot is strictly optional.

I'm not the most knowledgable about this, but as far as I understand it secure boot is a hard requirement for Windows 8 hardware certification on ARM, although as you say it's optional on x86 (presumably for legacy reasons, like users expecting to have control over their machines). This is essentially the same strongarming of OEMs that contributed to killing OS/2, BeOS, etc. so the fact it's (currently) optional for certain machines doesn't quell my concern to having so much of the world reliant on Microsoft keys.

> Not to mention many UEFI firmwares lets you load your own keys: I.e. it respects your freedom.

That's not a feature I have any intention of using, and prefer to "vote with my wallet" by trying to avoid it and support alternatives.

(This is based on my existing understanding, supplemented with skims of pages like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_In... )

> As far as I know it's an open standard, and there's nothing fundamentally bad about it.

Purely anecdotally/ranting, my only real experience with EFI was trying to boot from a USB stick on someone's machine (to try and recover some of their data, if I recall). I couldn't figure out how to even get a menu or anything, so I gave up.

In contrast, it didn't take me long to feel quite at home in the Forth prompt of OpenFirmware; despite never having used Forth before.
Google is locking people out of documents
> I'm not sure we scramble fighter jets every time they do.

I thought they did, since scrambling the jets demonstrates to the Russians that the US's air defense network is tight. It also helps keep the pilots from getting lax. The Russians do the same thing with the US files near their airspace.
If solid state cells had 3x more energy per volume, they'd have slightly less energy to release than a normal li ion cell, and those aren't bombs. Flamethrowers at worst.

A bomb requires way more than just energy, it needs to have a mechanism to release quickly. Li ion has a mechanism like that, but solid state batteries don't.
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Sounds like an incredible time sink and a fire hazard, for not that much of a benefit. Sometimes it's just easier to go into a store and buy something.
I think you are missing my point here a bit. 17 year later, there have been no more terror attacks at the same scale as 9/11. in hindsight, it's easy to say that we overreacted to a single very bad event. but this isn't what people were responding to at the time. people didn't believe this sort of thing could happen at all, and the next day they had to start wondering how long until the next one and how often these events would occur.

try to imagine living in a world where huge office buildings can just come down at any time on a yearly, monthly, or weekly basis. I feel like the "rationals" underestimate just how destabilizing that would be.
As Richard Feynman says, "Some people say, How can you live without knowing? I do not know what they mean. I always live without knowing. That is easy. How you get to know is what I want to know."

I always try to weave some skepticism into my thought process, because you never know when some of your fundamental assumptions can be wrong.
The interface, the clickwheel. Lists, click, forward, back.
EDIT : to clarify, i think buying adwords/promotions is a valid skill set, i dont have and am not good at.

And as service, the provider should be able to provide a lot of added value. Knowing good keywords, distinguishing good destinations for different product types, etc.
Lots of down votes but no explanation. I'll put a counterargument. Lots of good science has been privately funded: A lot of things in the early 20th and 19th centuries, Salk Sabin and the cure for polio, Peter Mitchell and solving the chemiosmotic effect, the entire HHMI, etc.

Do we actually need a lot of science? A lot of the low hanging fruit has been picked and it seems to me like the next advances will require deep reflection and study that isn't compatible with the tenure-track-driven-by-grant-receipt / grant-receipt-driven-by-performance-on-other-grants cycle of government driven science. At the same time, if government does anything else the scientific endeavor it funds will devolve into an exercise in channeling funds to a few golden children that are selected.... How? And will be detached from any reasonable standard of good governance and accountability.

So I challenge someone to explain why the us government has a responsibility to fund science, where that authority comes from, and how acceptable standards of accountability will be established.
I agree they can afford it... But, they still "optimize".

We were already open-floor, and they modified the plan to pack us tighter. Nobody ever thought that was "cool", in any way.
I guess... I mean that assumption could be basically accurate yet still a questionable decision.

Seems like an assumption one would make who doesn't intend for their project to survive or grow. Don't they want new users, or just a continuously decreasing set of current ones?

And it would seem like working on a project with those intentions would be a waste of time for all involved.

> "it's really just ColdFusion/CFML, cfdocs.org is the best resource"

This should be the first thing I see on the website with a link to cfdocs.org
I hear people argue that someone would have invented it without Apple, but my counter-argument is that it would have still had a hardware keyboard tucked away, whoever built it wouldn't know how to market it, it would have been just one among dozens of devices at the carrier's stores, and it would have vanished after a few months of languishing there.

Apple moved the world to make it succeed. No one else would have.
Other than a big telescope great for looking at things far away?

I used to work in astrophysics. Telescope operators are expected not to look in certain places. Those were fun conversations.

My guess is they found a spy.
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> According to one Larry loyalist, Page’s privacy, besides being a personal preference, is also a carefully considered company strategy.

That's gold, given the fact that his company has set out to completely destroy the concept of privacy for the rest of the population.
I might be wrong, but don't modern TPMs have their own internal clocks to prevent exactly this?
No, my contention is that people who want to talk about immigration often get a response sidetracked with talking about Trump & co and whatever their positions are, instead of talking about immigration.

(Or worse, lumping any positions into support for whatever they're doing.)
There is a state support program for Students (starting at High school age if necessary, covering higher education and apprenticeship programs) whose parents combined income is below the threshold.

It‘s called Bafög (if I recall correctly that’s for Bundesausbildungsförderungsgesetz, Federal Apprenticeship/Study Subsidary Law)

Depending on financial background it‘s partly paid as loan / gift. With low interest and payment schedules linked to the actual income after exiting the program.
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Yes, Climate Action Is a Moral Issue
I believe most of inbox for merged into gmail.. almost looks the same
I obviously don't believe they never use SCBA, but doing physically demanding labour while breathing a toxic atmosphere is not an exercise in heroism, but in futility. Supplying bottles in such a situation is challenging for sure, but I find it hard to believe that going without was at all productive.

I hear a lot of remarks in passing from firefighters that their American peers are rather careless with their personal protection equipment, it would be interesting to hear from one of them.
Multi-touch deserves too much credit. It was inertia. You could flick the screen to scroll. It calculated your intent, and applied a duration. That momentum made all the difference in the world. No longer are you sitting there flick flick flicking your screen.
Calling the OS doesn't require native modules, it should be supported via a native cffi in node, like in Python.
Data Science Takes on Public Education
You seem to ignore Renault-Nissan. Nissan has sold over 300k Leafs globally. The Zoe sold more than all Tesla models combined in Europe.
Even simpler, just four weeks ignoring daylight saving time.
Regarding their seats, that line seems to have been going really well. EM said it hasn’t been a bottleneck and they can scale their seat production too very easily. If anything, I see that as a sign that their vertical integration is working, even with Munro & Associates going as far as staying that they were floored by the margins the model 3 was getting.
If it makes you feel better, it is completely normal to feel this way when you are 23, smart, and ambitious. You're past the cocky know-it-all teenage years, and you don't yet have the experience to back up the potential that you feel. I'd tell you to not sweat it so much, but that's like telling a teenager not to worry about the opposite sex. Nothing I say will make you not worry, so just don't let it drive you crazy.

I think that you are hitting the "working surface" (to use a mining analogy). In other words, you've been training your whole life to do meaningful creative work, and now that you are biting into the real stuff, you feel untalented and unprepared. OMG, there are all these holes in your knowledge! That's what happens when you work on cool, hard problems. Whether you believe it or not, you are at the beginning of your career. It is unrealistic to expect yourself to be incredibly accomplished at the beginning of your career. Developing those accomplishments is what all those years in the career are for. You aren't running out of time to make an impact. That is an illusion. Your knowledge will get deeper as you keep engaging with the problems.

It sounds like you work on some really cool stuff, and I really hope that you make something amazing. Whether grad school, startup, or a job is better depends on lots of variables that are particular to what you want to do. I would say first, have an idea of what you want to accomplish. Then go scout the career terrain. You may not realize it, but you have a huge advantage that you are probably not using - you are young enough to simply approach highly accomplished people in your field and just ask them for career advice. They will generally give it to you. They won't do that when you are 50. Make sure you are getting disinterested advice though, because a prof who wants to recruit does not give unbiased advice. On the other hand, maybe that's the inroad that you need. I don't know your field, so I can't give good advice on the best direction.
Why does the page play audio?
The general best practice is script-based syntax in your controllers and models, and tag-based in your views. You choose what makes the most sense and is easiest, which feels cleaner than many templating approaches where you're shoving syntax into expression tags.
Cool project! Yes it would be very intresting to standardize it
The ECHR was founded in 1953, at that time homosexuality was illegal pretty much everywhere. And if you look at UDHR (from 1948), There is article 16 that is kind of against same-sex marriage. But it's not very clearly stated; I don't think they even imagined that same-sex marriage could one day be a thing.
This seems like a stupidly conspicuous location to setup a meth lab unless you assume that not a single person visits the facility for months at a time and no one would notice large plumes of smoke rising from it.
Actually, intentionally designing a product to break after a certain time is planned obsolescence and is not accepted at all.
For a value of "now" that includes the last 10 years. And for the entire time, low end disruption has been predicted, with the list of designated disruptors occasionally changing.
They are looking for information, they should question the person who can answer those the best. They are not compelling the company to make any decisions/changes and if they were it would be through legal action anyways, not talking to a CEO.

This is pure grandstanding for the purpose of public spectacle. Good on Page for telling them where to stuff it. If congress wants to take these issues seriously they should drop the politics and show and start being serious.
Yeah, it's totally behind the scenes and abstracted away (most CFML tags and functions are wrappers around open source libraries)
But this is what every society just becomes, unless someone tries to forcibly skew it otherwise, to the detriment of economic growth, thus worsening outcomes for everyone. This isn't some 'policy' i am suggesting. This is just what the world is. See EU countries who are trying to do otherwise, only outcome is somewhat lower crime and even that is temporary because too many savage immigrants come to feed on unlimited free stuff. Their economies are hopelessly stuck.
They needed to move to "Max" instead of "Plus" because it's significantly larger than the "plus" model phones. They should have just gone with iPhone XS++. :)
Long before the hearing Google said they would send Kent Walker to answer questions. He was not allowed to attend the hearing, in order to create the stunt of an empty chair.

Bloomberg I’m disappointed.
At the risk of sounding partisan, why should I trust a breitbart dot com link?
>"Semmelweis [...] may have been responsible for the deaths of millions"

How does that not strike you as unnecessarily harsh and unwarranted? The statement reeks of viewing history through the modern lens, and the author doubles down on the next sentence suggesting that the scientific community would have somehow opened their eyes if only Semmelweis had either not been born or had been less of an asshole, or something.
I am not saying these things are pointless, just that the value is different than what you're suggesting.

Sound bytes are an important part of the democratic process. Politions need to differentiate themselves from the pack by standing on one side or the other of any given issue otherwise the general public would be voting randomly.
That video is amazing. Certainly doesn't hurt Damore's suit.

edit: To all the silent salties out there: am I wrong?
A friend of mine pointed out that all the original sodas were herbal beverages. Coca-Kola was made to deliver the beneficial properties of two tropical plants (coca leaf and kola nut [2]), root beers were flavored with various plant root extracts, Dr. Pepper has 21 natural flavors, etc. The plant extracts provided anti-oxidants, caffeine, and other medicinal substances.

"Adaptogens or adaptogenic substances are used in herbal medicine for the claimed stabilization of physiological processes and promotion of homeostasis." [1] - wikipedia goes on to discuss how the term is not considered valid today, where something is only a "medicine" if it's highly purified, entirely isolated from its natural context, and has specific physiological effects that are understood and described.

I think it important to point out that before the modern era, foods and plant-derived substances were humanity's best option for improving our body's function. I've read how civil war soldiers greatly appreciated coffee (entirely imported from tropical countries).

The Coca-Cola company has a monopoly on coca-leaf flavoring [3]. This substance is a good source of anti-oxidants. Coca-Kola allegedly has been found to have more flower extracts than Pepsi-Kola...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptogen
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kola_nut
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca#United_States

Sodas were originally consumed in small quantities - 8 to 12 ounces was typical. Now we're getting plant-free "sodas" (sugar water with artificial colors and flavors, and without plant ingredients) in 64+ ounce servings.

My poor father buys Coke-zero, not realizing that research has found that people who consume artificially sweetened beverages actually consume more calories in total. I think he's desperate for the caffeine (exhaustion), and doesn't realize the metabolism boost of caffeine is best balanced with a small amount of sugar (caffeine without sugar -> low blood sugar -> cortisol release).

I disagree that "soda pop" was originally toxic. I keep a 2-liter bottle of Coca-Kola around for a small serving (8-ounces) of coca leaf and kola nut in the mid-afternoon period, after lunch & before dinner.
Yes, but Adobe's product isn't open source or free, in case that's a requirement.
If I plant wheat and some of the plants don't produce fruit, should I stop watering all of them and demand that they each find its own water source ?

If I try breeding chickens and some of them stop laying eggs, should I abandon the whole endeavor and start buying my chickens from the local supermarket because some chicken are dicking around?

All national efforts are going to have some waste, it's inevitable and I think we can more than comfortably afford it.
Our job should not be to scrutinize every detail in order to minimize waste (of course we should be doing that as well) but rather to make sure that every wheat seed and every chicken have all they need in order to fully develop themselves to the best of their abilities.
Or even worse, a math lab - can't ever trust those zany cosmologists ....
Yes, for example UI programming. Since Rust makes none-linear data flow very inconvenient (Rc and RefCell), people often try to find data-oriented solution like ECS instead.
This article ties well to the excellent book "The Entrepreneurial State" by Mariana Mazzucato.

Apple did an excellent job of bringing together a lot of existing technology into a viable consumer product, but it is still important to note that much of that tech was powered by state-funded initiatives, instead of Silicon Valley, VC-funded projects.
I've been using Spark for quite a while now and enjoy it https://sparkmailapp.com/
Yeah, unsure about what the parent may have intended. I use it as a data IO for stuff that I want to manipulate in Python somewhat-interactively, by having an Excel sheet open on the side as I work in Python.
When someone cites the Dunning-Krueger effect, I always wonder if they are a professional psychologist.
Pretty sure they are abandoning Play Music as well. YT Music -> Youtube Music is probably going to be the future.
Cool! i didn't know about firepad, yes i used Firebase too, it was the simplier solution to build something fast
It's really not, because showing up at such a high-profile event makes it nearly impossible to return to obscurity. There are too many legitimate follow up issues that are impossible to ignore. Especially if something comes out later that is even a tiny bit in conflict with the testimony.

If this were chess, Page sacrificed a pawn for critical board control/position. It hurt, but Google is playing the long game.
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It's not a popular opinion here, but I firmly believe that healthcare should be publicly funded at all levels (research, treatment, etc) and free at the point of service. Healthcare shouldn't be rationed on the basis of one's economic output.
Why is a battery alone being compared with an "ICE drivetrain" which consists of many, individual components? Also, drivetrain and powertrain are two distinct things, I believe you meant powertrain.
I haven't had that experience (migrated multiple Adobe CF apps to Railo/Lucee; been working with the language since 1999)
I'm always amazed about the amount of hatred directed at anyone who is in the public spotlight. There is a whole Internet mob out there, and it doesn't even matter where the fame comes from. If you're prominent in any way it seems that the best option is to seclude yourself and avoid the public. At least that's what I would do, I guess it's a personal preference in the end.
I was thinking more immediate life threatening danger with 100 miles. If you leave early enough so that power outages aren't an issue, finding a place to charge shouldn't be too much of a problem, even if it's a slower charge that adds hours to your trip.

That could be a problem once electric vehicles are much more popular, but then again, fast charging stations should be more popular by then too.
It's funny that in a startup/techie forum like this, nobody's yet brought up Metcalfe's Law. The network effects of language are incredibly strong, the switching costs are high, and English is well established.

It's hard to imagine what could shift this trend, especially to Mandarin. China's population is probably not going to get dramatically larger than the current 1.4 bn, which is only 20% of the world total. Maybe some sort of civilization-destroying world cataclysm like a meteor impact, pandemic, or nuclear warfare.

If I could live long enough to see the payout, I'd be willing to bet that far future humans will speak only one language, and that language will have evolved primarily from English.
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Yeah, it turns out editors are actually pretty important to publishing. QA is important.
Take USA for example - they have facebook(if i spell it correctly) and politicians are all fine watching grandkids there; some probably dont even know what “vkontakte” is, as even POTUS doesnt speak Russian and constantly uses translators.
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I'm not familiar with the parent comment, but after seeing this talk at RustConf, I've been strongly considering this pattern as a better way of storing associated data to an entity than OO design, especially in regards to high-scale systems where portions of an Entity might be stored across different datastores.

The idea of operating on individual components of an entity is very compelling in those cases, it's not even novel. We often have done this by pulling data out of datastores in parallel array like requests. The difference with this model is that it creates an elegant interface over the data for an entity that isn't a bastardized version of OO, instead just the data and structures you need present in the context in which your working.

As a non-gamedev, I found this really compelling.
Kial ne uzi Esperanton? Why not use Esperanto?
Bah those IS dudes are total amateurs. Check out what the IRA and UVF were able to achieve: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Troubles#Chronological_lis...