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The first applies for sure, but if you think Naples isn't multicultural and social then you haven't spent much time here or aren't paying attention to the faces and habits of people in the city. There are people from everywhere here, and lots of them.

This city is hypersocial to the point that it exhausts visitors from places like Berlin and the states. Thousands of people gather together spontaneously any night of the week in the public spaces in the city center. You cannot walk two minutes without the chance of talking to someone.
nor is it wittier
Or 40km between swapping battery packs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charging_station#Battery_swapp...
You might have a point, but the way you phrased it sounded arrogant. People might have various reasons to avoid social networks or consider them irrelevant and might not need to "get ready for it". While potentially useful, it's not really a must.
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They are totally abysmal. If you want to live somewhere nice and work remote it isn't bad. But local wages are awful.
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If Tesla (or any other company) doesn't keep producing products, there is no more company? I realise that raising capital is necessary but my point was that both aspects of the company are "valuable" and that it is hard to say yes person X is definitely 1000x more valuable although they are working in different departments.
Talk is cheap, actions count.
That only works if there is competition between ISPs in your area, and usually there isn’t
You might be right. On the other hand, Reddit is already long in the tooth. It is easier for a new company to start fresh, than Reddit to drastically change itself (enough to banish its uglier subreddits and users). Nobody will complain that a new network is "selling out" etc. A new company won't have turmoil as its employees (well, the most libertarian ones) quit or push back against new SOP.
I don't deny that the bright future you've just described will happen (well, might happen) but putting it in a time frame of less than 20 years seems to me just wishful thinking.

If only I could see the same enthusiasm for say, improving public transit range, infrastructure and operational costs... nope, auto-cars will save us.

Take a look at Germany, they've just launched the world's first hydrogen-powered train.

As a side note:

The total economic potential is huge. Anyone able to attain near monopoly for one of the technologies [...]

Economic potential and monopolies don't mix very well, unless you're one of the shareholders of said monopoly.
Ok so we just removed the "sophisticated awareness" and now we wait for a fantasy/unknown solution. No brainer, right? To me this looks like a bad day for the open internet and a good day for walled gardens(i.e. Apple Store).
2010... There must be an engineer somewhere right now, who's trying to fix some bug in this guy's legacy code, muttering "why" each time one of these "smart" patterns comes up in the codebase.

I know from experience, that the temptation is great to be smart in your code, but after all these years my rule of thumb is: whenever you feel that you're doing something particularly clever, it's probably a bad idea.
The Reddit redesign must be the worst redesign in the history of redesigns.

It's super slow to load.

It's slow to use (Scroll is sluggish. It loads giant images and puts huge autoplaying videos in your face. Comment function now starts an ugly html wysiwyg editor).

It misses features (outgoing links in the sidebars are gone).

It takes away screen estate by having a fixed element on top of the screen that stays there when you scroll down.

It's buggy (often weird overlaps between elements happen when you resize the screen).

It's confusing. When I click on a post I get a view that shows the post in an overlay of the page I was looking at. When I reload the page I suddenly get a completely different view with only the post.

It's almost unusable on my iPad (where I have to beg for the desktop version every time I open it because the mobile version is even worse).

It seems like they are still A/B testing it. Because sometimes I get the redesign and sometimes the original design.

Funny enough, I can see how the redesign might increase user engagement. The endless scroll with content right in your face is kind of addicting. It pulls you in a state of "I hate this. And I hate myself for using it. But I can't stop. I will just scroll down one post further.". So the experience is worse but the KPIs might be better. I bet this is how booking.com became the hell that it is.

I would love to see how the numbers of those tests look like.
NTP gives you accurate time in UTC. It doesn't tell you how many hours you're offset from UTC.

Databases like tzdata do that, and they have half a dozen updates every year.
The larger the "largely pre-programmed", the less it is like improvisation, until, at some point, it isn't. As I suggested above, effective improvisation probably requires causal reasoning.
Annoying for everyone? Talk for yourself, I'd love some flexibility when it comes to job hours, and I'd love my kids to start school later in the mornings.

Jobs should accommodate to people's lives, and not the other way around.
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Thank you!

In general I prefer reading technical material (to really learn something) from a piece of paper rather than from a screen. I'll order the book :)
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This is something my IT MSP does that surprised me: if one of our clients doesn't pay their bill, we stop servicing them.

Even more surprising is that it happens pretty frequently.

Companies (small to medium) aren't some machine with automatic parts; it's just people, and sometimes people don't pay their bills.
I think the problem is that people always, without exception, hate UI/UX change, and companies know this and have learned to just ignore the objections of their users. Every single change to the Facebook UI/UX, every single change to Windows UI/UX, is met with an enormous backlash from users--"I just want it to look and work like it used to!" Then the next redesign comes around, and lo and behold, now people are attached to the current design that they previously hated, and now hate the new design. Tale as old as time.

I've never been like this. I've actually really liked virtually all of the widely panned UI redesigns over the years: iOS 7, every version of Windows, every evolution of Facebook.

However, there have been 2 redesigns that even I didn't like: the Digg redesign, and this Reddit redesign. Both are objectively bad. We know what happened because of the former. It remains to be seen what will happen due to the latter.
No it isn't.

The current system isn't working for enough people.
That is impossible. UTC also implies ... Earth and its rotation ;-)
I recommend www.css-tricks.com as a high-quality learning resource.

For structuring CSS (its cascading nature requires a lot of discipline esp. on larger projects) I recommend looking into BEM and SMACSS approaches.

If you choose to use CSS for layout, I recommend Susy grids v.2 — look up the Youtube of videos creating different responsive layouts with it. Really fantastic and a time saver. If you’re designing only for the latest browsers, look into CSS grid and flex box.

I recommend using the SCSS preprocessor — dry your code with variables and mixins, simplify complex calculations, manipulate color easily, incorporate a layout calculation framework like Susy etc.

CSS is powerful, complex and has variable compatibility across browsers. This means a lot of attention to detail and a good amount of hours solving edge cases.

Good luck!
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All those abandoned churches are just hackerspaces in waiting.
I'm not denying that someone, somewhere is working on something.

But I'd be surprised indeed, I'm not watching the whole clojure space closely, I can only say that no one hit the #leiningen irc channel or posted something on the bugtracker/proposed a PR yet.

And the client/server model.. sure, nailgun and grenchman were a bit clunky, but none of these efforts have gained widespread adoption, afaik. Most people don't just go out of their way to tweak their build tool.
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Imagine that you have a delivery service.

You pay your local delivery company $X per month and they promise that they'll deliver you 1 package a day from their local depot.

But it turns out that although you're ordering a package a day from Amazon, you're not receiving a package a day. You get your stuff, but it's delayed and backed-up somewhere.

And so as an experiment you sign up for a service that will receive a package for you, re-box it in their own packaging and then send it on to you. You then start to receive a package a day again.

At that point you start wondering, are they looking at the boxes, seeing they are from Amazon and then just deciding to leave them sitting around their warehouse for a while?

And the answer is yes, even though you're paying for the service, they also want whoever is sending the package to pay them to ensure that they get their package on time.

So while their may well be all sorts of agreements between all the different parcel companies about who will do what when, it's frustrating as an end-user that there's all these weird agreements that impact me. After all I'm paying for packages to be delivered, not 'packages that are offered by our partners'.
Fine by me, research is research.

I'm just utterly surprised by how so many people think this is a fixable problem in the near future, it's not.

How long until people realize that?

The next AI winter won't come soon enough.
I can see your point. However how much of that is because of Reddit's decisions in contrast to how the internet itself changed from geek niche to mainstream?

Over the years I feel like the entire experience got worse and I might even go so far as to put in question if it isn't a net negative for society. The flood of shallow and biased information has pretty much killed quality in every platform. The signal to noise ratio is abysmal. Hate mongering is rampant world wide fueled by social media.

I don't think society is mature enough and ready for this much level of interconnected discourse. Yet here it is. It will be a while until we adapt I believe.
Reading your story from an outsiders’ perspective, did you guys have a commercial person figure who was going to pay for the robots?

From my experience, healthcare usually comes down to figuring out who is willing to pay for it (insurer, user, govt, etc.) and less so about the tech. You are right that the tech doesn’t need to be fancy but funding model is usually the bit needed to be fixed.

A buddy of mine is successfully taking took a smart baby mat to market (so far anyway)
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Here's a question. I've been performing tasks from "technical" and "business strategy" category for years now and feel really good about my (market|operations|product) strategy chops by now. But those management soft skills -- I'm so far behind I don't think I can meaningfully catch up to move to a business ladder if I need to do middle management first. (The best way to describe it is -- I've got a Linus' syndrome. You probably read his recent apology letter.)

But I mean, I think I can manage managers, aggressive personalities who have a clearer, shallower career goal. It's easier than managing technical folks' squishier egos.

Am I doomed?
This could lead to major size reductions in new compression algorithms based on AI that can take frames that are partially filled or even sequences with completely missing frames and fill in the blanks.
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Informing the users properly is the the least they could do. Today they willingly mislead consumers.
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You are underestimating italian talent. Italy is fully of hungry minds and determined people and that applies even more in Naples where opportunities are scarce.
How many? 2% of those who don’t.

Or it could be spent on mosquito nets. I’m told those are very cost-effective.

Or it could be spent on testing African-Americans for sickle-cell anaemia as children. I’ve been told that’s so cost-effective that it’s actually a negative cost per person once your account for necessary medical treatment as adults, as it’s much cheaper to provide effective treatment for those same people as children.

Or it could be spent replacing fossil fuels with solar power and electric cars so people don’t die from air pollution oh wait hang on…

Or we can make self driving cars so that distracted drivers don’t crash and kill so many people… hang on a minute, there’s a pattern here isn’t there?
This thread in /r/dataisbeautiful seemed to indicate most people hate the new design and avoid it (old.reddit.com) - https://old.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/9e4gvn/red...
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> May have left the EU.

Article 50 is quite clear. If you invoke it, you start the timer: "The Treaties shall cease to apply to the State in question from the date of entry into force of the withdrawal agreement or, failing that, two years after the notification referred to in paragraph 2, [...]".

Although there is a possibility to extend that period "[...] unless the European Council, in agreement with the Member State concerned, unanimously decides to extend this period".

But the word crucial word is "unanimously". It's very unlikely that for example Spain would agree to that.

> No clear plan for doing this has yet been presented,

Yes. But don't underestimate the power of all-nighters. Politicians are at least as good with them as programmers are.

> and doing it without a plan looks like immediate disaster.

Yes. But Brexit is fitting for the crazy times we find ourselves in. So I don't think they will get less "interesting".
> Yes, you could probably get it done better and sooner

This is a really hard one for me when under pressure: knowing that I can do it myself correctly in about an hour, but giving to to someone else who will probably take several iterations before it's right, resulting in a week or so turnaround and probably 8 hours of work. Or worse, half a week and it never being "right" because we just don't have time.
This essay happens to be specific case about "null" but the more generalized concept is the optimal design of any public-vs-private state and how it affects the balance of code at the client site vs embedded inside the class. Unfortunately, the author's email example isn't a good case study of the principle he's trying to demonstrate.

If you expose unnecessary state, your class is acting like a "dumb data struct" and you make client code more complicated and it proliferates needless and error-prone code duplication. (I made a previous comment about this.[1])

On the hand, if you hide information that makes sense for client code to know about, you increasingly make fatter and heavier class code with extraneous class methods that's idiosyncratic to an isolated piece of client code rather than being of general utility for many clients. Arguably in this case of "missing email", it may make more sense for the client code to handle an "if (customer.email == null) SendPostalMail()".

You have to determine whether you can reasonably hide knowledge in a class such that client code (including all future client code) never needs it. E.g. if some future code needs to behave differently such as creating a different type of web login screen depending on the existence of email address, it probably doesn't make sense to fatten up Customer class with another method such as "CreateWebLogin()" to generate HTML -- all to avoid exposing the null status of email address. This would be a code smell.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11481194
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There's 2 measures of energy density. Per kg, and per liter (weight and volume).

Hydrogen scores really well on the per kg measure, and pretty bad on the per liter one.

The values are: Hydrogen 142 MJ/kg and 9.17 MJ/l.

For comparison: Fuel 46.4 MJ/kg and 34.2 MJ/l, Lithium polymer batteries 1.8 MJ/kg and 4.32 MJ/l, which is why Tesla batteries are a LOT heavier than they look.

So to answer your question: a hydrogen fuel tank (pressurized at 700 bar, also known as "you need a 10cm thick steel plate to contain this, and may God have mercy if you so much as dent it") is about 3x lighter but 3x bigger than an equivalent fuel tank, and 70 times lighter and half as big as an equivalent battery.

In case you're wondering, hydrogen in fuel is "compressed" to about 3000 bar, but in a way that's stable, not prone to sudden temperature drops and doesn't blow up if the octane number is high enough.
I just read it as a joke about how his own life ended. Not something many people want to emulate for themselves.
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I agree with those statements.

That is why we are using Atom on top of Pubsub in XMPP to built social networking features. The sub-layer is changing (Atom is embeded into Pubsub XML on top of TCP real time streams, XMPP) but in the end the content is not "transformed" but just "transported".

Atom already provides most of what ActivityPub provides regarding the description of the content (rich content, attachments, external links, comments, reply-to...).

You just need to put it on top of a layer that specifies how this content can be accessed, subscribed and delivered. In our case it's XMPP Pubsub but it can also be pure HTTP requests. Good thing is that moving from one to another is pretty easy.

This is a static page generated from Atom articles published on a XMPP Pubsub feed from TechCrunch RSS/Atom feeds https://nl.movim.eu/?node/news.movim.eu/TechCrunch, we can even generate back an Atom feed from it easily. On a similar way you can handle personal "blogs" https://nl.movim.eu/?blog/edhelas@movim.eu with likes, shares and comments :)

The XMPP Standard Fundation is working for more than 10 years now on integrating those concepts together and glueing existing standards to deliver social-features next to IM features and so on...

You don't have to create "new standards that will cover everything else" (see https://xkcd.com/927/) if you can just glue the existing ones together.
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"He invited about 20 of us" then "instead of owing 5% I ownwed 0.00086% of the mine."

Have you made explicit the share you will end up with or you just assumed that all of you would get 100% / 20 people, i.e. equal share? It sounds that your uncle worked a lot more (from the moment he looked for partners and invited them into the venture till the end of the paperwork and beginning of the operations). I concede though that your share was way too small. If the rest of the partners (18, without you and your uncle) received the same share, your uncle gave you all only a little over 0.015% which is just below any justification I can imagine.
Reddit could really do with a NNTP gateway. It's basically a centralised usenet with voties anyway.

Sure, you'd probably lose the option to vote on posts, but for the subreddits I frequent I don't really care.

It would also let users use a client of their choosing and never having to worry about ghastly site updates again.

Maybe I'll eventually get around to it, but for now old.reddit will have to do.
I am a die hard LeCroy user and fan, but recommend the rigol when asked what to buy. For most people, my criticisms of it are of no concern (I am frequently chaining instruments with GPIB and operating them remotely, and the usb stuff on the rigol doesn't fit into that and just too slow.)
>Maybe not in numbers, but the user base changes. Users who value in depth conversations may feel alienated by the changes of reddit, pushed away by such a redesign.

If the end game for reddit is making advertisers happy it probably doesn't matter much.

>Reddit moved its focus away from discussions, towards beeing an advertisement platform.

It was always an advertisement platform. It's the entire business model. They just needed to be more subtle about it when they were in the bootstraping phase not to drive people away. Now that they managed to reach the critical size where the network effects effectively means that a large portion of their user is captive they can move to monetizing more aggressively.
The executive(s) who were/are responsible for their re-design must be shown doors.
I think the digitizing oscilloscope is quite an advantage compared to the old stuff ;)
7k data point here basically means 7k people that care enough / dislike the redesign enough to be involved in the poll to begin with.

How many users each day doesn't give a hoot about the redesign? 100's of thousands?
I think this must be seen as a toy example. The Option type used this example, so it's natural that the "Tell, Don't Ask" would use the same, even though the option type is perhaps the better fit.
I feel need to address some points of the authors (I realize it's a hot take so it's meant to be biased):

> But what does this buy us? For the most part it means that every piece of content everyone writes needs to be replicated to every point in the federation mesh to be useful.

This is because ActivityPub is tied to RDF and linked data concepts. This isn't specific to ActivityPub, just a criticism of the linked data web. As we will see later, the author doesn't quite understand that linked data can be fetched only on demand and represented otherwise as only an IRI, reducing data replication to a minimum. It depends on the specific ActivityPub implementation.

> This isn’t creating a distributed network, this is creating a whole bunch of massive points of failure.

This is a pretty ungenerous characterization. It's a distributed system where robustness is not a part of the protocol. It needs to be solved elsewhere, so innovation is needed.

> Meanwhile, what does this buy you? Immediacy of updates? Okay, does it really matter how quickly you see someone’s new content, if it’s worth seeing?

I think this is another ungenerous characterization. It buys a federated set of communities and applications that can exchange linked data in real time.

> For example, user-agents and RSS providers can use the If-Modified-Since: header to only get the feed updates if the content has changed since the last fetch.

ActivityPub also has a diffing system of data in place with Update activities too.

> Oh, and ActivityPub stuff generally also means that all attachments and other content also get replicated.

This is not true and is entirely implementation specific. If Mastodon creates local caches of federated data, that's it's design choice. Other applications can always fetch-on-demand and go back to the Pull Model.

That being said, static sites are not served by ActivityPub so that portion of criticism is definitely spot on.