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why is master/slave not inclusive? Who are we "excluding" with those terms?
What are you talking about? McDonald's has a cheeseburger on the value menu for less than $2. If you want something nicer, the single burger with fresh high quality beef at Wendy's is $5.
The factories and inns you are thinking of are quite different from the ones Tolstoy was talking about.
Not necessarily.

Ordinary matter contains about 90,000 terajoules of energy per kg. But that hardly makes everything a bomb. There needs to be a way to explosively release the energy for it to be a bomb, and for some types of energy storage there isn't such a mechanism.
I think what's maybe misleading here is that while there may be an accurate representation of a bicycle somewhere in someone's brain, that does not mean they're able to consciously access it and, e.g., recreate it through a task of complex motor coordination etc. (in order to produce a drawing, I mean).

However, if you are using an fMRI, as in the paper, all you need is the accurate representation somewhere (and you need to know where that somewhere is of course).

Another example: let's say you look at a picture of cheetah. Now you try to imagine it; what appears to you is a vague sort of resemblance but nowhere near as clear as when you were looking directly at it. But, just because the prompting for you to imagine the image didn't cause an accurate recreation in consciousness, doesn't mean it didn't occur elsewhere, perhaps at some earlier/lower-level stage of visual processing.
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We have a 2012 Manual V6 Tacoma; it was what sold me on it as its getting rare to find them. The dealer told me since Generation 2 only 5% of Tacomas (1 in 20) are manual.
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Doesn't explain why Germany, UK, France, etc. are 90%+ manual transmissions. They have traffic too.
> the madness of 'fully customizable' LOB stuff

An observation from working with LOB stuff: Often software is simply the tool companies use so that they can spend dollars to defer fixing issues with training, procedures, or management.

For example, some salespeople have an incentive to over-promise and under-charge in order to make their quotas and bonuses, which causes problems down the line for the company finances and whomever needs to fulfill those requests.

Rather than changing the compensation structure -- or asking the direct managers to do their job with oversight -- the company decides to spend bucks on software, programming the computer to tsk-tsk-tsk and wag an admonishing digital finger. Since there's no followup or moral suasion, a month later nothing has changed except that the sales team has found different "dump stats" for achieving their goals.
uniprocessor only so i guess limited to embedded systems.

does formally verified also mean bug-free?
Looks great, but VuePress is just so simple.
next step is no transmission... aka electric cars... (I'm glad Musk was not able to add a transmission to its cars...)
SaaS-ifying your docs seems risky to me. Writing documentation is a big investment and startups tend to come and go ("it's been an incredible journey").

$39/mo is much more than what it costs to self-host Confluence, which for all its flaws at least leaves you in control of your data and is super extensible.

Improve the data portability story and it'd be a lot more attractive.

Additionally the actual docs and demo site are not loading in time from Australia. The `main.{digest}.js` file is reliably giving me a 15s download time (not TTFB, oddly) (http://i.imgur.com/ay6le8H.png), which causes the entire page to be blank. I have like a 300MS RTT to the server. Get a CDN and use it effectively.
Because America is so expensive. A really good education at a state school still costs almost nothing in the long run, yet unless you are a wealthy young kid with parental support, the ability to go to school full time for 4 years is an unimaginable luxury.
Dry water also has applications for the transportation and storage of dangerous materials. It can be used as a medium for volatile compounds, as materials stored within the dry water can be reduced to powder and stabilized – reducing not only the volatility of the substance, but also its weight for transport

That reminds me of how acetylene is stored for transport --- dissolved in acetone, which is then absorbed into a porous nonflammable substance.
Pharmaceuticals is a tricky example, because the marginal cost of producing them is extremely low. Having the government control negotiate the price of, say, automobiles, might have weirder results.

> Pharmacists also have to offer a generic if it's available, regardless of what the doctor prescribes.

I believe in the US it's actually illegal for a pharmacist to recommend a generic, if the doc didn't check the right box. Maybe just decriminalizing it would have a nice impact :p
But... I can't help but wonder about how many of the graduates from the 75% of schools that take most of their applicants just end up doing something that basically required none of the education they acquired. I'd bet it's far more common then the scenarios you present.

https://www.niche.com/blog/the-most-popular-college-majors/

I'm not sure the 600,000 humanities degrees lead to that kind of hockey puck style career path.
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From the project's GitHub repo:

This does not mean that the kernel is guaranteed to have zero bugs. There can be bugs in unverified code (e.g., initialization and glue code), the specification (or things not modeled in the specification), or the verification toolchain including irpy/ and Z3.
I recently interviewed at a startup that explicitly uses both, with PG being something of an authoritative backend store that feeds into ES as the primary frontend store (since the frontend is search-heavy).

It might be possible to get it to work without PG, but I imagine it would require a huge engineering effort (akin to an entire product on its own, which, IIRC, is what CrateDB is).

(Although I believe I understand your point, I fear that your tone and ad-hominem language detracts from it).
That doesn't make sense - you would think the machines could track their cashbox balances perfectly, requiring dumping it in a bag, printing a status report/receipt/audit log, and attaching that to the bag. No counting required!
More importantly, the overall story is secondary to the intricate written interpretation, reasoning and connected themes that make the plot meaningful at all. That's integral to Tolstoy, as an author.
I'd never stop having fast food no matter how rich I was. I've been to fancy restaurants - they're largely a scam. Once had some special aged $100 steak that didn't even taste as good as a $12 steak from the grocery store cooked by myself. Fast food chains have unique flavors to them that you just can't get anywhere else that I'll always want to go back to.
> I don't think I will ever use postgres as a document-only database because I feel like it's just not how postgres is built (unless I'm missing some great feature?)

Partial jsonb indexing (\w full-text), transactional fast joins on jsonb fields, and higher Jepsen rating than most noSQL DBs is pretty killer for me.
Never mentioned AI. Simply noting that the mathematical tool used here is inspired by the brain.
Is a cup that's filled to the brim "wet"?

One could make an argument for why it might be acceptable to describe that cup as "wet", but in day-to-day parlance with normal people, it would be confounding to refer to a full cup as "wet". "Full" would be a much more salient description of the state of the cup. Describing it as "wet" would only cause people to go "huh?" and you'd have to explain your reasoning.

Save for mathematical terms like "isosceles triangle", words don't have inherent meaning. They're shortcuts for us to more conveniently refer to a swath of individual things or events that share some common characteristics.

This is easier to see with really abstract words. Imagine trying to define whether a specific action is or isn't "honorable", or "moral", or "meaningful". There are no axioms from which we can derive a universal litmus for whether an action fits under any of those categories. Different cultures have their own interpretations, and the peoples comprising those cultures would have differing interpretations, and even for the same person, their interpretations of a word may change from one moment to another.

With more physical terms like "wet", or "Scotsman", or "Ship of Theseus", it can be less obvious that words are abstractions for individual instances of things, and that abstractions fray at the edges. There never was such a thing as the Ship of Theseus; there were certain configurations of atoms that people thought of as "the ship" that bore a certain relationship with another configuration of atoms that people thought of as "Theseus", that was referred to as the "Ship of Theseus" for the sake of convenience, and most of the time, it sufficed.
3.5% is a lot of pressure on housing --which is quite inelastic in demand but also very slow to respond to increased demand.
Question: why do you drive? You could easily walk that distance in 2 hours, and driving just makes the problem worse for everyone.
I have never been unimpressed by LTE. It's reliably fast, even if it's not blowing records. I know that if I have good-full LTE signal that if my shoddy 1Gb Spectrum connection or my wireless has issues I can just disable my phones wireless and get a great stable connection. Yeah, it's not going to replace my home internet but it is incredibly better than 3g. I know if my phones on 3g it's not even worth using for anything other than phone/sms. Definitely not MMS.
> All the free content and services on the web has to be paid for somehow, and that is the way.

This is false. We had a perfectly healthy ecosystem before ads invaded the web. In most ways it was better because it was built by people who cared, rather than by companies who wanted to extract money and power from their visitors.
I think that depends on the market - here in New Zealand there are plenty options for vehicles with manual transmissions through the whole size range.

That said, we don't have many big pickup trucks like the US does - here it's much more common to see mid-duty trucks like the Isuzu Elf in that space.
This is specifically applicable to content distribution. For products with paying customers the exact opposite is true. That’s not to say every company that makes a product will be good at it, but good UX absolutely does drive profits.
Sad to see it. I love manual transmissions, they can make driving more fun.

My last car (a Subaru STi) had a nice 6 speed. I replaced it this spring, with a newer ride that came only with an automatic. Probably is the wave of the future.
That's fair, although I suspect the infrastructure is more developed in certain areas because the Naval Academy is there. The SE result is pretty typical from what I've seen. When I only had 25/5, I'd be really excited by such a thing, but 100/35 has ruined me.
Try championing any of this at any company. The thinking these days is if you aren’t using react and webpack and a god awful bloat that comes with it you’re not building a real application. There are so many new developers working at companies that only know react. They don’t know anything else and they certainly aren’t engineers. They have been taught one thing and the groupthink is so thick you can cut it with a knife.

The problem is every react codebase I’ve ever worked on in my full time and freelance work have been an absolute mess and downright painful to work in. They don’t even fulfill on the developer promises. Can anyone even point to a successful open source project using it?

I’ve literally made quite a good freelance business by targeting failed react projects and rewriting them with vanilla js.
I'd edit again, but it's too late. This question kept nagging at me. I figured this must be a studied phenomenon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_diagram_of_traffic...

This is super interesting! As kind of expected, there's a middle zone that balances out density and velocity. In the context of what we were talking about, the fourth "Basic Statement" jumps out at me: "If one of the vehicles brakes in unstable flow regime the flow will collapse."
> I started to see a huge improvement

I'd appreciate if you can expand on that a little more. How do co-workers know? How is it acknowledged?
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I live & work in Chicago, and for the past year or so I've been working on my side-hustle when I get home from work. But, getting focused at home is a real struggle and I'm looking into other options.

Does anyone else have advice? I've thought about bringing my personal laptop to work and then working on my side-hustle after work hours, but I'm worried about the legal implications. There's no way my day job has business conflicts with my side hustle, but I'm worried if there's still some potential IP that I give up by working in my office.
Ah, the old trope of trotting out Adam Smith. It may surprise you to know Smith was concerned about unfettered self-interest and the ways it would damage society. He wasn’t lauding self-interest and praising it as the perfection capitalism claims it to be.

Why not include some more of his gems?

Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.

No society can surely be flourishing and happy of which by far the greater part of the numbers are poor and miserable.

In regards to the price of commodities, the rise of wages operates as simple interest does, the rise of profit operates like compound interest.
Our merchants and masters complain much of the bad effects of high wages in raising the price and lessening the sale of goods. They say nothing concerning the bad effects of high profits. They are silent with regard to the pernicious effects of their own gains. They complain only of those of other people.
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Then colleges would have to be in the business of risk management. That would be like charging a hospital based on the recovery rate.
You seem to know a lot about batteries... do you know of anything promising to improving cell phone batteries in maybe the next year or three?
Many enterprising youth use the military as a way to pay for school, too.

I had 7 brothers and sisters growing up, not enough money for Mom and Dad to put me in school. Uncle Sam was there for me, though.
Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. -- Donald Knuth

Code meeting spec doesn't magically make the spec right.
> It's like sixty miles. It takes 90 minutes without traffic.

At an average of 40 miles per hour that's not particularly bad. The people complaining about driving in stop-and-go traffic are almost certainly in much worse traffic than that.

The example I gave of getting from one end of San Francisco to another happens pretty much every holiday weekend. Average speed? About 3 mph. The worst part is the uphill approach to the GG Bridge.

Or you can look at the other SF bridge. In traffic (which has gotten so bad you'll see it like this on pretty much any weekend afternoon) it'll easily take an hour to get from the 280/101 interchange to the Bay Bridge approach (about 7 miles).

Traffic like that is why I rarely commute by car, but also why many people simply don't want to drive a car with a manual transmission.
Really?

Do you regularly lie about your whereabouts to the authorities? Or just feel that you should have the right to do so without being found out"
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With you there. My '68 Camaro, small-block, and requisite Muncie 4-speed. Can't imagine it any other way.
My guess is the aging population.
I'm always amazed at how how classes require new $200 textbooks each semester. (Have there really been breakthroughs in every subject, requiring new books?)

To me, that's a big sign of what's wrong. Too many hands in the student's pocket.
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I don't think the "draw a bicycle" task involves complex motor coordination. It's drawing 2 circles and ~10 straight lines. Doesn't need to be photorealistic, just in the correct configuration.

For example, I cannot visualize a 13-sided polygon accurately, but I can draw one pretty easily without having any drawing skills.
Meanwhile, the NYT desperately wants people to believe the Democrats are the solution to poverty?
Captain Pedantic here, and it looks like you might have facts confused, citizen. Sitting with the clutch pedal pushed in will shorten the life of the throw out bearing, but the clutch plates (which are generally what get “eaten”) will be fine because they’re not touching anything.
Mandatory limits on working hours would suck for anyone who enjoys their job though.
My FANG corp matches on points 1 & 2. Occasionally you'll find people who request 3. However, in my experience, that is by far the exception.

After doing my fair share of interviews and sitting through a ton of debriefs, I'm pretty convinced that getting hired boils down entirely to the loop you get. Some poor bastards get the wrong people -- people who either want to prove their smartness, or simply have out dated ideas -- and that's that. Didn't use inheritance in your system design? Well you got Bob instead of Joe. Bob loves old school OOP and thinks composition is a character flaw. If you got Joe, you'd be in, but... alas.

No amount of "calibration" solves bias.
China is successful now entirely as a result of their conversion to capitalism. This is an extremely well known fact about China. China tried communism, it went absolutely terribly. They changed to capitalism, and things got good. I can't imagine an example that more perfectly agrees with my point.
There's hope for you. I know a lot of people older than you are, they've shown me that 40 is a young age for a job change.

Maybe concentrate on minimizing the 'crazy' symptoms first. Once those are manageable your chances are greatest. Then think hard about what kind of work you really want to be in.
You seem well-suited to self-employment (given the history of management, startups, etc.) so maybe that's the best road. If not, look to corporate ownership for stability while you build a better plan.

Good luck. Your letter has convinced me that you've got enough stuff on the ball to find a good spot.
Do you remember that project that mapped where words are "stored" in the brain? I don't have it right now, but it was something like that. They used a neural approach to map the word vectors in the brain.
> Question: why do you drive? You could easily walk that distance in 2 hours, and driving just makes the problem worse for everyone.

Agreed 100%. About the only time I drive within the Bay Area is if I'm going outside the SF / Oakland / Berkeley urban core. This Labor Day I was going to Marin and planned poorly (driving the day of instead of leaving earlier).

Once you get out of that urban core (or if you're traveling late at night) public transit nearly evaporates. Without traffic that would have been around a two hour bus ride. However there are no dedicated lanes for buses along 19th / Park Presidio so that would've been easily a 3-4 hour bus trip with a few untimed transfers thrown in for good measure.
My apologies then; I did not pick up on that from your comments.
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https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/wet

A fish is covered by water.
I believe it would depend on the type of capacitor. A metal foil capacitor would have no problem, but an electrolytic might. The rate for capacitors is so much larger than batteries I doubt it's actually a problem.
> for instance, would you create a table with only one JSONB column.

Sure. To make it more practical, I'd use a primary-key column too (like most document-only databases do).

We actually do use a (INTEGER PK, JSONB) table in Pg, for a variable-depth permission-model store. The permissions (per PK) are encoded into a JSON document and queried using a 'get json object at path' lookup. Turns out, the way json & jsonb operators and functions are designed in Pg, it feels exactly like a document store, just available in your SQL (which is a plus, in my book).

I think the larger theme here is your feeling that this is abusing or hacking around "the schema", but really, what is "the schema"? I've seen people use MySQL as just a store, using plain, NULLABLE VARCHAR and INT columns, and enforce a "schema" at the application layer, serializing and de-serializing their data from the VARCHAR columns. I've seen projects reinvent MVCC using an INT 'version' column in their tables.

Databases can only allow defining and enforcing a schema at the database layer, they can't force it. Some databases allow a lot of control and many ways to define a schema, some allow little, but there's no requirement that one MUST use all the ways when available. In fact, even with rich databases like Postgres, sometimes even the db-level enforceable schema is not sufficient and one has to make do with enforcing some of it at application-level, and I'm talking about just the traditional data types here.

Using JSON columns and operators and functions is — at the end of the day — using just another data type. Given Postgres is an object-relational database (it IS, after all, post-INGRES), it's only natural to use Postgres with data types like JSON (and arrays, and ranges, and GIS).
I had a mini for a year or two; one of the little ones that would just about fit inside the back of that BMW thing they call a "mini" now. I could see how it could surprise someone who's learning to drive, or isn't used to a car without power steering - the wheel is substantially harder to turn when the car isn't rolling.
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The same basic principle is still used by better digital scopes to sample periodic waveforms faster than their ADCs can support. This can get you into the TS/s regime on the high end models.

http://cdn.teledynelecroy.com/files/whitepapers/wp_ris_10220...

https://www.tek.com/document/application-note/real-time-vers...
Add Washington state to your list. There is case law here whereby if you live together or demonstrate that you are in a domestic partnership, you can be liable for spousal support, using the same guidelines as divorce. And this is without signing any documents or anything “official” to mark the partnership.

Edit: in fact, to make this even more messed up - Washington state had a domestic partnership law, then got rid of it. So now there is a giant legal grey area where the courts have basically said “we know it when we see it.”
I think there’s also a good argument that much of what’s termed Agile, especially the annoying parts, really isn’t. For example, the importance of teams choosing how to work rather than having dogma forced on them:

https://martinfowler.com/articles/agile-aus-2018.html
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PostgreSQL for all its great points has the worst hinting strategy in the world.

There's no hinting because the planner is so smart, and yet there is mandatory hinting on a legitimately useful language construct that in some cases is the only way to do something (e.g. recursive queries).

Just a very weird philosophy.
Recently I saw an item where the warranty would only be valid for the Sold by Amazon version. The first bullet in the product description was "Amazon as the seller is the ONLY authorized Fulfilled By Amazon Dealer".

I ended up buying the item in a brick-and-mortar store -- same price, instant pick-up, and easier to return in case it didn't meet my needs (plus no fear of blacklisting or whatever, which I'm not sure is a thing Amazon does, but I don't really want to find out, either).
Can you recommend a good write up on LoraWan architecture? (Curious about the need for a network service). Cheers!