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My biggest complaint about automatics too. I hate the delay.
I totally upvote and agree with your comment. Thanks a lot for working on JIT, that's invaluable. We (as a community) will never thank the PG contributors enough for their work. I'd love to contribute to the postgres project, though I couldn't make it at work at the moment unfortunately. And the cost of entry is quite expensive for what I can give in my free time. I'm very sorry about this. I know well that it's always easier to complain about things rather than fixing them. Doesn't mean there's absolutely no content in it. I hope my comment did not hurt you, it was not my intention.
My understanding is the Obama DOJ was "guided" to turn their backs on any prosecution of WS and WS execs.

The bottomline, zero effort was put into it. None. Given the magnitude that's not acceptable. I'm pretty sure DJT sent BHO a thank you card.
> No they don't. Where do you even come up with such obvious nonsense?

The numbers are right there on Wikipedia. Maybe look them up before you call it "obvious nonsense".
>> "In the past, it’s been safer to leave them there."

safer for who?
It’s probably because you’re in Portugal. I’m in the US and also see Apple AirPods as 1st result.
Magic mushrooms 'reboot' brain in depressed people – study
Unboxing and Experimenting with Microsoft's Xbox Adaptive Controller
FedEx just sent out a message last Friday:

"FedEx will renew the security certificate with Symantec for the following FedEx Web Services servers at 11 pm CDT on September 15, 2018. Please note that these certificates are valid for two years and will expire on October 4, 2020."

Heh.
You might be lucky searching for 'ai landscape'

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=ai+startup+landscape&t=ffab&iar=im...
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The power of doing one thing at the time
Various manufacturers do sell cars with adaptive cruise control in manuals, but obviously it's limited to whatever gear the car is currently in.
It's only $250k for a "Founders Series" Roadster. The base model Roadster is only (hah..."only") $200k. So far, there haven't been any features announced for the "Founders Series" other than being one of the first 1,000 Roadsters to come off the line.

Not exactly a feature I give a damn about. Hell, by the time I'm ready to buy a Roadster, there will probably be some used ones available that I will pick up.
It doesn't matter to the devs behind wix because people like me are so few, but I always close wix sites instantly.

That's because not only do they load a lot of JS but they load it serially. Each domain requests JS from a new domain and it takes 3+ interactions of noscript + reloading to get anything rendered at all. If they'd just have all the script domains requesting in the first load it'd be fine.
Its just 6 buses or so. This isn't challenging at all for government logistics. Heck, its peanuts for campaign event logistics.

I really don't see any excuse. And even if it WAS somehow challenging, tough shit, man. The state is responsible for them whether they like it or not.

Even if you had limited resources, you have to save the inmates before saving the rest. That or open the gates and let them fend for themselves. But as long as they're your prisoner, you're responsible.
But wouldn't the guards have to stay? Seems to me no matter how you feel about the sanctity of the prisoners lives you'd be hardpressed as a warden to risk your own and your mens to... be cruel I guess?
Never found paddle shifters to be in the same league as a manual transmission even in modern high performance cars. There's always that bit of lag and delay with automatic that there isn't on a manual.
Data Confirm Semiautomatic Rifles Linked to More Deaths, Injuries
you can't be serious? if their lives were in danger, I can think of dozens of ways... (not saying that they should be evacuated though...) These democrats are only democrats when it suits them...
> This is supposed to be a forum for intelligent discussion

And yet you began with a sarcastic quip, followed by comparing TARP - a program that has generally been considered a successful part of mitigating the 2008 financial crisis by all mainstream economists, to different degrees - to passing around a bag of "dog crap".

That's not what a good-faith intellectual discussion looks like, so don't expect replies to exceed the level of effort and discourse that you yourself are presenting.
Have the people who complain about javascript page load performance read about netflix.com? Netflix uses JS to render their landing page server side. No client JS necessary. How can a page load faster than raw HTML?
You've CHUGGED the kool-aid if you think the IMF doesn't really have any power. Who else bends the will of 3rd world countries better?!?
This is so silly, I am more likely to get it wrong if I type it in than paste it in.
Also keep in mind that inhumane interview processes necessarily filter out the candidates who refuse to put up with inhumane treatment.
Please post your Patreon link or a link to the link.
Outstanding work. Will the VIM plugin come out soon? But this really improves productivity already. I have setup several hot keys to shortcuts to MS Paint IDE that save me from having to use the mouse and keep my hands on the keyboard. Great time saver.
How many hours per day do you spend in stop and go traffic? I spent 20+ years driving stick in hour-long commutes (each way), and I can tell you that there is no free lunch to be found in N.
I really doubt that it’s difficult to measure proxies for user trust. Return rates, conversion rates, search funnels, customer feedback ratings, basket size, prime churn rate, etc.
How about Olympics style scoring -- a panel of interviewers rate each candidate, then the highest and lowest individual scores are removed before averaging?
Popular Twitch streamer says someone shot at his house twice in a week
I'm not aware if this is a public or private prison... but does anyone know if that would matter? Would a private prison be required to evacuate and do whatever it takes to move the prisoners safely?
Almost anything by Dan Bernstein might make a good example.
College is expensive because people still pay that price. People pay that price because they have easy access to student loans.

So if we get rid of student loans, colleges would be forced to change their pricing.

If governments still want to encourage students to go to college, then perhaps non-price based methods would help. Scholarships could move away from being a monetary amount, to being a fixed amount of semesters paid for.
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You do realize students have to pay back those loans right? I know many people including my girlfriend that only considered state schools or ones that offered significant scholarships because they didn't want to be 100s of thousands of dollars in debt.
The South Carolina Department of Corrections has 6,000 employees [0] and SC is in a known hurricane zone. "How do we evacuate in case of a hurricane?" should not be something they have to plan out at the last minute. It should be a procedure in a 3-ring binder in the deputy warden's office.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Carolina_Department_of_C...
Both my cars are stick shifts, and I prefer them for both these reasons (because it's more fun and because you always control what gear you're in). That said, the better modern automatics (at least in sports cars) have true manual modes that will also let you be in complete control of the gear. (Including not automatically up-shifting at redline when in sport/track mode, which is a near necessity on some tracks, where an unwanted upshift will lose you significant time compared to riding the limiter for a few tenths.) So when the comparison is between a good, sporty automatic and a manual, the fun factor is really the only point for the manual. (Still a good point though!)
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Hmm.. no mentions in the entire article? I think the author has something to address.

Keep in mind when you get legally married you are signing a legal contract that entitles that other person, in most states, to half of everything you earn during the marriage. They also earn an entitlement to continue that support for something like half the duration of the marriage, or more, if the marriage falls apart.

I spent 19 years married in California to a spouse to refused to work for the final 10 years of the marriage. I now have to pay $40k/year indefinitely after losing half my savings and retirement. I had to sell my home to pay her share. Now, on the flip side I have a girlfriend who is half my age and I'm finally free of my ex which is worth every penny, but starting over at 42 just sucks. The state has no concept of a spouse refusing to work. They assume that because she wasn't working it must have been my decision to force that upon her. By the way, we don't have kids. My friends who have divorced with kids? $7k+/month.

It is especially important to keep this in mind if you are a well paid earner. I know a lot of engineers making big bucks who let their spouses stay home or pursue goofy home based businesses or careers as 'artists'.
This is the kind of blather I expect from business types without hardware experience.

The issue with NB-IoT right now is chicken vs egg.

NB-IoT stuff currently is limited to expensive modules.

Why? Because the carriers aren't rolling this out yet and when it is it's expensive. So, nobody is going to make a chip for it since the volume isn't going to be there for a while (Intel, for example, just pulled out of making NB-IoT chips). So, the badly integrated systems are going to be battery hungry and expensive, which means that the carriers don't see any volume and consequently don't feel the need to work very hard rolling it out.

Once the carriers finally get NB-IoT stuff universally deployed (even if it's expensive) then the silicon vendors will go to work on integrating everything into a single chip.

Once that happens, someone will say: "Hi, T-Mobile, I have 10 million devices I would like to activate and connect. Would you like to do this or should I go talk to Verizon, AT&T, etc." and the prices will come down.

This will follow the same trajectory as cellular data vs cellular voice.
I used to land on Amazon as a defacto shopping place, until about a year ago. Now Aliexpress is the defacto for me.
There's a subtlety that people seem to be missing.

Okay: "that is a dumb policy." "Big Corp's security wicket is hilariously wrong."

Not okay: "You are a moron." "This customer service rep should go find a fast food job."

In the examples he posted, Troy seems to be staying strictly on the side of shaming the companies. Yes, he's doing it by interacting with a customer service rep, but that's their job: to represent the company. He's not attacking the CS reps directly, and I couldn't quickly find any examples from his Twitter account to the contrary.
Definitely. I drive a 6 MPS (Mazdaspeed 6 to the US), and the clutch was a nightmare stuck in Melbourne traffic back when I was commuting.
Did the prison issue their decision before or after that, though?
Sometimes they do, more often than not they aren't stopping, and somehow they seem to do better time than me on top of it.
I mostly agree with you. However,

> Even if you had limited resources, you have to save the inmates before saving the rest.

This is a real stretch. While the state needs to exercise due care, being convicted does not entitle you to rights that the regular citizenry of the state and employees do not have. In fact, constitutionally-speaking, it's the exact opposite.
For sure, Russian Communism after capitalist reforms of the 80s. There's definitely still a lot of top-down planning in China, but there also aren't people lining up for allocated food.
This is arrant nonsense, and is just short of telling everyone who drives in freeway stop and go traffic that they're just idiots who don't know how to drive.

Unless you can control the behavior of adjacent lanes there is no achievable amount of buffer space that eliminates stop and go. The best you can do is increase the glide time between stops. At times you will see, e.g., semis lining up side by side to help keep a zipper merge flowing, etc., but those cases are rare and not understood by other drivers.
My wife and I both have manuals and we sit in stop and go traffic every day. Having to shift in traffic doesn't even register with my brain that it's really anything at all. I simply don't notice.
There's nothing magical about it... With a manual, there are two free parameters: Engine speed and its coupling to the wheels. With an automatic transmission, only the engine speed can be controlled by the driver.

Computers have gotten better at managing the coupling sensibly, but they still are not perfect at predicting drivers' future intentions.
See, this is the type of thing that really shows people's true colors.

"But they're inmates! They shouldn't have committed the crime!"

They're humans. Incarcerated at your will. You have responsibility for them. They can't do anything about it.

"But criminals!"

No cruel and unusual punishment. You sentenced them to incarceration. Not death by natural disaster. If it's bad enough for an official mandate to leave, it's bad enough to figure out the logistics.

I love it when the real world suddenly faces trolley problems. Makes me feel all warm and fuzzy.

Philosophy: what happens when "that'll never happen" happens anyway.

But hey, you do you South Carolina. Just don't complain if things end up going badly, and your State ends up host to one of the most gruesome corrections system mishaps and constitutional rights violations of our Nation's history.
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Aha, every drone company has its own set of funny/sad moments as you call it! We had a few ourselves in our beginnings, when we were still making drones.

However we never had a crash when inspecting power lines! Here is a video of power line inspection using only satellite imagery as input, without giant electric arc!

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6441158...
My favourite networking hack sounds insane, but it works. When you're at an event, approach groups of two people. Whenever you see two people talking, there is a very good probability that at least one wants an excuse to end the conversation.
To be fair, engine braking is quicker deceleration than an automatic does, a modern automatic will freewheel the transmission when coasting.

One of the first things i notice when driving an automatic that scares me the most is that it doesn't stop.

Thankfully electric cars are bringing this back. And i think studies are showing its safer.
My patreon is on my HN profile, but I plan to put it in the readme of a new open source window manager I've been working on when I announce it. I figured out a way to emphasize ease of use and user experience so much more than I was able to with Mjolnir or Phoenix. It's really exciting and I think it'll make automation a lot more accessible for a lot more macOS users.
Driving a manual car isn't about efficiency. It is about driver engagement. Yes, you can row your own gears with paddle shifters, but no automatic will ever give you the same kind of engagement or connectedness with the car as a manual with three pedals will.

But yes, if there is a smoking gun for the death of the manual in America, it would be our crumbling, congested roads and absurdly long daily commutes.
I hear they prefer deadpan dry humor.
If you tell your clients to allow self signed certs, your connection is vulnerable to a MITM, which is usually what you're trying to avoid by using TLS...
Totally, I didn't have to pay for college and since you cannot write off school debt, I thought they would at least have decent interest rates since it is pretty much guaranteed unless the die. As I found out from my girlfriend who has them, they are ridiculously high. Some of her undergrad ones are at least ok at like 4-5% but almost all the ones she is getting for grad school are like 6-8%.
Yeah, there are some unique threat models where determining that an account exists would be a sensitive information disclosure. In those cases users would be more willing to endure the potentially heavy handed UX trade offs required to adequately prevent it.

It’s the idea that knowing that an account exists somehow represents a compromise in the accounts security posture that I generally reject.
> I didn't see this discussed in the article, but IMO the main driver is the availability of student loans. When the government guarantees loans, you can lend whatever you want!

And the fact that student loans aren't dischargeable via bankruptcy.
One thing I'd love to see in modern manual transmission sports cars is a lockout to prevent mechanical over-revs. It would be extremely cheap and simple to engineer—knowing the current RPM and gear ratios, it would just be a matter of a servo motor actuating a bar, physically blocking the shifter from engaging gears that would cause a mechanical overrev. If done right, the driver wouldn't even notice it was there, until they were going around a sweeping right-hander on the track, up-shifting from third to fourth, and find the car prevents them from accidentally pulling it into second instead...

Of course, most drivers don't track their cars, and it's pretty hard to mis-shift when you're not on the track if you know what you're doing. (Or even on the track, if you're careful.) But sometimes it only takes one, and given how simple it would be to implement something like this, it seems like a no-brainer for companies like Porsche, especially given we're already seeing things like auto-blip for manuals (which I'm far less keen on, fwiw, but fine with as long as it can be turned off!)
Talk to the folks in Jefferson Co. AL, facing $200 a month sewer bills after a botched upgrade.
You have to save them before the rest because you're removed their ability to save themselves.
> Unless you have a full-ride scholarship, go to pleb-tier state school. If you are studying a STEM field you'll have to learn the exact same math and science as the Harvard and Stanford grads

I went to a "pleb-tier" [1] school for undergrad and then to a top-tier university for grad school.

It's just not true. There is a huge difference in the quality of education, especially in STEM fields. And most especially in Math. "pleb-tier" schools will get through everything in Harvard's Math 55 if they're lucky. Not even exaggerating -- the first year at Harvard covers what you'll get in four years of honors track at a "pleb-tier" place.

And then there's the recruitment pipeline. Coming out of top-tier school I had multiple 300k-500k offers without even applying for any jobs. Out of pleb-tier school, I wasn't getting anything over 80k and that was with lots of networking. CS and Math are two of the rare fields where phd school has, IME, a positive expected value, as long as you're substantially trading up credentials.

IMO the optimal route is as follows (at least in STEM):

* Is your state flagship within a 1 hour drive and top-10 in your field? If so, that option is a complete no-brainer.

* 3/4+-ride to a top 10 place outside of commuting distance, or a 1/2 ride to a top 10 place within commuting distance? Again, no brainer.

* Otherwise, the calculus becomes harder. Your best bet is probably to aim for a PhD at a tippy top school (top 5 or so), but getting into tippy top phd program from a "pleb-tier" is not nearly as easy and you're making it out to be... especially in older/more saturated fields like Math.

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[1] FWIW I don't like this terminology but... whatever.
You're assuming Facebook has actually hit stages 5-7; user numbers indicate that it's plateaued in North America, with slight declines in Europe... after reaching market penetration of around 50% of *total population.
But thats the thing, its _not_ bad enough for an office mandate of evacuation. Even the recommendation was lifted today.
It seems you fully consider cars to be an appliance.

Today, manual cars aren't about efficiency. Manuals are about driver engagement and the feeling of connectedness with the car and with the road. You can think. of it as more of a luxury than a necessity, and that is still a very valid argument for manual transmissions in road cars, especially those designed to be driver's cars.
Constitutionally speaking, inmates enjoy the exact same rights as anyone else unless specifically limited; and there also exist a variety of statutory ways in which inmates are entitled to certain things the general populace are not (most notably medical care and housing, which are not generally entitlements to citizens or non-citizen residents of the country.)

I have no idea if there is a reason to believe that South Carolina should save inmates first (or last, or...) in a natural disaster.
> Adaptive cruise control is easy to achieve no matter the car, and without any technology doing it. You just do it yourself.

The whole purpose of cruise control is to not do it yourself.
It is weird, isn't it? You might almost think that I just typed out the first thing that sprang to mind, and then clicked 'reply', without even wondering whether it made any sense... well, I couldn't possibly comment.

But I do stand by what I said, no matter how much its actual value might be in line with what you paid to see it. Wozniak is massively rich because of his Apple shares, and I claim that does indeed limit his interest in bumming single bytes out of some 6502 code he wrote 40 years ago. And I do also claim it limits how concerned he might be that somebody had spotted some slack in his code.

While I'm on this theme, in fact let me guess that you are not a 6502 programmer yourself either ;) Because if you were, even if you'd never seen the nybble->hex trick before, even if you were actually seriously all like "dude, fuck, that's [etc.]" - not that this isn't a reasonable response to this trick, because it is awesome, and rather surprising - you'd still at least be very well aware that in 2018 this is a hobby that even its devotees, e.g., me, would freely consider quixotic. (And that's being very generous.) And you would therefore appreciate the humour.
>I have a pet theory that when people interview they bring this buried frustration into the room with them and use the interviewing process to play the part of the people they feel humiliated them. It's conceivable that people with latent meanness, or as this abstract calls it tendencies for "narcissism and sadism" who aren't aware enough of their biases to try to counteract them, will use these sorts of questions to make themselves feel better.

Also add another factor - Google's approach is (or at least was) in the words of Google's big HR guy: "A good rule of thumb is to hire only people who are better than you." (https://www.businessinsider.com/how-google-hires-exceptional...)
Such approach naturally brings out the worst in the people conducting the interview - their high opinion about themselves. Mix it in with the stuff you mentioned - buried frustration, latent meanness/"narcissism and sadism" - and you have the perfect "Google interview" :)
Have you seen a 16 year old try? Many failures are an adding up of a bunch of "not a big difference" differences. Why take that risk?

You would clearly stop short of taking away vision. Why not make people drive with a vehicle that doesn't have a rear window? All told, shouldn't be that big of a deal. That said, https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2018/05/02/backup-... was a headline story for a reason.
Huh! I suppose you could do SSTV decoding with a sound card eh? Hmmm, a bit of research suggests there's a 2m SSTV station in town here, although it's not clear if it's still alive. I might have to spend some time fiddling with GNURadio tonight and see what I can whip up.

I kind of want to pull out that cheap Chinese analog FPV camera too and see how disgusting the spectrum on it is. I have pretty low expectations (camera + tx + rx for $20? yeesh...)

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Which is fine, it's not unlike coperto in Italy. The waiter is still servicing two people even if they're only eating one meal.