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> It's easy to find bg-green on buttons and just find/replace with bg-yellow.

Oh, that's because running sed over all your project files, all in a set of weak typed languages is easier than changing a definition in a single place. I totally get it.
I meant within here in the US.

I am perfectly aware of military use of drones. I was referring to the hobbiest movement's potential use of drones for 'domestic terrorism'.
Interesting that it is "worth" $15/month. Maybe they were never going to pay up. But if they were, that seems expensive when they could just use compromised PCs and devices for ... whatever they are going to do? Plus they had to buy and supply the dongle.
Is there a meta-study of Cochrane quality on this subject?
Because, you know, replication crisis.
Unfortunately the current state of Blockstream's Bitcoin project does not align at all with Satoshi's whitepaper.
>I bemoan hearing american-liberals discuss how people don't...

I think the point is that "bemoaning" that is an ideology in itself. So your own reality is "augmented" with a belief set that is, likely, not terribly representative of reality. You've simply filled in the gaps in everyday experiences with something that you can, at once, understand, and is comfortable to you.
I would not describe the defining parts of buddhism as ideological so much as philosophical and sensuous. I’m not sure a good definition of religion exists. You’re being hugey reductive.
"i continue to not understand why anybody likes python the language."

As someone who has had a lifetime of on-off relationships with attempting to become a competent programmer, (BASIC, assembler, C, Pascal, Visual Basic, C++ and others that I can no longer remember), Python is the only language that has helped me become anywhere near useful or proficient as a programmer. I've managed to build a couple of -genuinely useful- applications (one of which is being used daily in my girlfriend's school), which hasn't been the case for anything else.

I've found that Python is simple enough to learn, and hasn't really been any kind of a limitation for me - this may be because of me, not the language - OK, I appreciate that I'm not going to be writing 3D games or real-time audio apps in it, but for what I've been trying to do (solve real-world problems), it's been amazing. I even programmed a 'play sound effects when you press a MIDI controller' system which I used at a show with 20,000 people attending this summer, replacing a massively over-complex (and expensive) audio environment with about 30 lines of Python combined with two libraries I spent an afternoon learning.

That, for me, is why I like Python.
With version 0.19.0 Nim also moved away from nilable seqs and strings, so they are much safer to use. An empty string and a nil string is now the same, and a nil seq and a seq without elements is the same. Saves you from that one missing nil check that crashes your entire program.

If you want the behaviour of nilable seqs and strings you can use the options module.
"I'm not naming people because well that's not fair"

Why is it not fair?
a completely legitimate and valuable network engineering resource is run by RIPE using small devices running openwrt:

https://atlas.ripe.net/landing/probes-and-anchors/

a RIPE atlas probe is a small tp-link device that needs a LAN port on your network and USB power. It forms a vpn back to RIPE, and uses traffic outbound via the default gateway it gets via DHCP to reports metrics like uptime, latency to various destinations on the internet, what its external IP is outside your NAT, what ASN it's on, whether your ASN is having reachability issues to the "whole" internet, etc.

many medium and large sized ISPs host RIPE probes at different geographic locations in their networks.
A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks (1970) [pdf]
Smart people can act in very stupid ways.
Conflict regions and milita drone combat pilots are one of the reason quadcopter rigs have such high demand and low price. It's a device with FPV capability, multiple miles of range, and speeds in excess of 60m/s at a sprint.

Their industrial and weapon potential is not very high (they could drop one or two grenades I guess?) but their ability to gather intelligence quickly and safely in urban environments is extremely high.
I suppose so, but the higher level details of a program will often follow from the nature of the language you are coding it in. I know a lot of my code would be "architected" differently if the language I was working in had a general disdain for passing anonymous functions around, and I don't think it would end up as effective.

And finding new more effective ways to do common things, new tricks so to speak, is important in keeping the mind engaged.

The tools might not be as important as the end product, but for the person who is always using those tools, being able to improve and customize them to their liking is extremely important.

I guess the difference is a programming language is less a tool than an end product in itself, that needs to be able to be understood and modified by other people. As opposed to say, a plumbers preferred toolset, of which no trace will be left when the next person comes to do the job.
Google backtracks–a bit–on controversial Chrome sign-in feature
That's completely different really. They just stopped proxying their traffic. Daily Stormer could continue on, assuming they pay enough to handle the traffic.

Turning off your domain name is a different story. You are sunk until you can regain control of it.
If they waited a months to get in, presumably the daycare is more than popular enough to not be concerned about a single customer loss.

The daycare has the pick of the litter in this case, not the customer.
ECLSS designs for a moon base would be very, very different from the ISS, there's no "we've already figured out life support" in LEO. The ISS is frequently restocked with consumables, which is less of an option for a moon base and not an option for Mars base, requiring an entirely different top-down design.
SEC lawsuit seeks to force Musk out as Tesla CEO and board member
Just because the currently-proposed Go generics is less bloated than those of C# and Rust doesn't mean it isn't "bloated" compared to Go 1.11. And I wouldn't call the description of contracts in the discussion document from last month "minimum complexity".
Most folks think drones as in the US military's absurdly heavy and old-fashioned style, though, so it's good to point out these antics were all with light duty quadcopters, often custom built on site.
Yours is a fair opinion and I can't come up with any reason why it's wrong.

Personally I like it because it clearly separates keywords from objects (tables, columns, databases, etc).

This is very much like the tabs vs. spaces debate.
Well, the stock is definitely on sale compared to where it was when he made that statement, so maybe!
I like Les Wanyika.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxhOV1gvVTI
As a bonus you can see some great dance moves ;-)
Bitcoin Core Bug CVE-2018–17144: An Analysis
> What would be important is forbid passengers
> planes from flying lower than 500ft.

so how do you propose they land?
I guess this is what crypto people tell themselves to resolve the cognitive dissonance. I don't think this assumption applies to reality. We've observed in the historical record several instances of mining majorities unilaterally forking chains and/or even reversing transactions. The result of this has not been any revolt. Given that this is fundamentally the way the system is designed and that it has happened in the past, it seems logical to say it will happen again.
OMFG so if I can build a thing within these constraints I can fly it?

(1) Weighs less than 254 pounds empty weight, excluding floats and safety devices which are intended for deployment in a potentially catastrophic situation;

(2) Has a fuel capacity not exceeding 5 U.S. gallons;

(3) Is not capable of more than 55 knots calibrated airspeed at full power in level flight; and

(4) Has a power-off stall speed which does not exceed 24 knots calibrated airspeed.

God Bless America!
There might be confusion here. The feature is called columnstore indexes but it has 2 modes: clustered or nonclustered. In clustered mode, the table itself is converted to column-oriented data format and is not a derived dataset. Adding a nonclustered columnstore index though will create a separate copy of the table to be maintained.

A column-oriented table can also have regular b-tree indexes as well. Perhaps it's unfortunate that they used indexes as the main interface for managing these table types instead of explicit language.
Your argument is fundamentally unconvincing because you're using unsubstantiated, subjective claims that anyone can disagree with and thereby nullify.

https://m.facebook.com/JamesHBlack/posts/10156560054277932

so there is some evidence that "bad" product decisions from your perspective are actually good product decisions in the eyes of Apple's customers.

Where did I ever say that being luxury was a bad product decision? I never did. It raises margins. That's a very good thing for a company. However, it's empty and hollow as a driver of new product innovation.
Why would you say that for example the Apple Watch is "nothing new"?

Pebble.
What happened when you asked for better compensation after a year?
A few things I started early in my career that may or may not have helped me avoid finger problems but I figure certainly didn't hurt:

1. Rearrange a few select keys - Backspace goes on Capslock, Ctrl goes on Alt, Alt goes on Windows key, Windows key goes on Ctrl.

Doing this allows me to hit Ctrl with my thumb instead of my pinky with way less wrist rotation. Alt can then still be hit with my thumb with a short reach. Backspace doesn't require completely extending my whole right hand.

2. Switching to the Dvorak keyboard layout. While claims that Dvorak is faster than Qwerty are dubious, I think it's fairly clear that there is less finger movement with Dvorak. My fingers stay much more on the home row.

3. Using Vim. The above combined with remapping Escape to something not in the far upper left corner means I do very little weird hand contortions at all when coding. But, with Ctrl on Alt, any IDE requires much less wrist movement.

Yes my keyboard is completely weird and my editor incomprehensible to anyone else, but my hands are super comfy. For an 80/20 optimization, just rearranging Backspace, Ctrl, and Alt might save you the worst of wrist damage. On Windows a simple AutoHotKey script can do it.
Craftsman was bought by Stanley Black & Decker, so it now has access to distribution channels that it previously did not.
The SEC would not find this amusing.
How on earth did they get ethical approval to run this study?

"So, do you want to enter into a 50/50 lottery, where we will either try to treat you, or let you die in peace? You don't get a choice of which, by the way."

Even if I was a cancer patient with an extremely poor outlook, I would probably have some pretty strong preference in the question of whether I wanted chemo, or end-of-life care.
It's actually the other way around, humorously enough.

x86_64 is also known as AMD64, and for good reason. AMD created the core 64-bit x86 design, but, more importantly, they have patents to key pieces of the ISA required to legally implement it.

So, long story short, it is actually AMD who didn't have to share anything with Intel if they did not want to - Intel's 64-bit x86 CPUs are fundamentally AMD64-compatible CPUs.

The most interesting thing is it resulted in a bit of an interesting legal relationship between the two. Intel licenced AMD the required rights to produce x86-compatible processors. AMD, in turn, ended up licensing Intel the IP required for Intel to create x86_64 chips.

Sources:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64#Licensing

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2488/000119312509236...
Funding secured!
I would challenge the decision to UPPER CASE keywords, it looks oldschool and is unnecessary since syntax highlighting is ubiquitous. And right-justifying is something that only looks clean for the simplest of queries and wreaks havoc with editors that detect mixed tabs/spaces.
That might only work if you came up with the schema or your collation is case-insensitive.
You clearly haven't really kept up with Apple and ARM for the past 4 years have you. They're cleaning everyone's clock (pun unintended) with no signs of that abating.

Last years X is still a generation faster than the fastest Qualcomm/Samsung chip today let alone what generic designs ARM licenses to the cheaper chip companies.
That’s incorrect. What your missing is that in the config file you define a new color; say ‘rose’ and then the framework auto provides bg-rose, text-rose, border-rose, cutting duplication and bringing consistency.

I think the big shift started to happen when people started to say, let’s treat CSS like code and what would we expect of good code, and then all of these CSS Sacred Cows were then seen in a new light. The biggest of them all for me was ‘naming things are hard’, traditional CSS implies naming your classes is easy, and for a once off example it is always easy, but that approach is a lifetime commmitmnet to generating names on names just to add styles and this adds a naming things complexity burden that until recently has just been a generally unacknowleged invisible cost.
>Tesla has pulled itself back from the brink and may actually become a profitable car company

This is a very very generous assessment of the dire financial situation TSLA is in. At best they have hit their production at the expense of quality which will only temporarily offset their costs. Any sustainable mid-term profitability is a very big question mark at this point.
From the first result [1]:

>In its August 28, 2012 Complaint, the Commission alleged that, between 2005 and 2008, Wwebnet, Inc., a video software company, and Kelly made false and misleading statements and omissions to investors, including...

The accusations there are repeated and occurred over the course of several years. Musk has been accused of a single case of wrong doing. Musk's seems to be a much lesser crime. Also by still including the punishment in that search you are missing any similar accusations that received lesser or more severe punishments.

[1] - https://www.sec.gov/litigation/litreleases/2015/lr23177.htm
> That destroys the point of the whole "decentralized systems" thing.

Why?

> What is it solving that isn't some sort of political science question?

- Why can't you send money between PayPal and Venmo, even though they're products owned by the same company? It's because existing money is a system that you are permitted to use, under specific restrictions applied by government. Cryptocurrencies are open protocols. One thing they solve is getting around these restrictions. One day, all of our payment apps will be interoperable, and they will be enabled by crypto.

- You do not have to worry about your money being stolen by means like Civil Asset Forfeiture, which is literally legalized highway robbery. Crypto has similar properties to cash, while not being as susceptible to physical theft.

- Inflation is controlled by algorithm, not arbitrary policy. (Depending on your economic views, you may think this is a fault. I don't, but that's me. At the very least, it enables us to see what will happen to such a currency.)

- You can remit small amounts of money instantly at low-to-no cost. This will be huge for the developing world. (Scaling is not solved, but I also don't think that bringing it up is an interesting counterargument. Computer scientists have been scaling systems for the last 60 years. We're pretty good at it, and it's happening now with the Lightning network. There is no conceptual blocker to scaling cryptocurrency. The hard problem was digital scarcity, which has been solved, which is why crypto is now a thing at all.)

- Many people in many parts of the world do not have the ability to interact with traditional finance. They do not have the means to open bank accounts or connect to the global economy. They cannot invest, they cannot lend, earn interest, etc. If they have cash, it is in the form of money under their mattress or in their pocket. They are left out.

Many of these parts of the world leapfrogged PCs entirely, and went straight to smartphones. They will make a similar leapfrog in finance, bypassing traditional banks entirely. Before Wells Fargo opens in sudan, providing farmers with loans and a way to save, they will have it on their phones in the form of crypto wallets. This will unleash unprecedented economic velocity, helping to raise the half of the world that is left out into a higher quality of life.

- Low-to-no inflation saves common people from the hidden tax. A system designed by bankers for their own profit. The Federal Reserve is literally a feedback system that makes banks richer and average people poorer, like inflating air into a balloon and watching points on the top and bottom separate. I think, actually, that the whole balloon is rising, so it could be worse. Generally, quality of life has gotten better everywhere over time. But the people on the bottom still lack power and equality in a large part due to the distance between them and the richest increasing over time, caused by this mechanism.

There are many things that crypto solves.
So then the iPhone was nothing new either?
I think it's odd that these powerful technologies are not taken more seriously and incorporated into society more quickly. It just shows how slowly society thinks and adjusts.
What would be the incentive for living off earth for such a large number of people?

I really wish for you to be right, but with population growth slowing down, and possibility of building floating cities or terraforming Sahara, building large orbital stations or going to mars in large numbers may be economically not viable, unless we invent something radically new.
> You haven't changed the problem, or the amount of work, you are just using a different layer to implement it.

Changing the layer you're implementing on is the whole point. It's about maintainability and keeping things encapsulated.

Now when someone comes back to look at this button a year later, they're not left wondering why this usage of "Button" is colored blue, and tracking down the utility class. They will know that it's an instance of "BlueButton" and can just edit the component directly.
Why does it need that, though? What's wrong with just naming the function?
> the SEC does not have pull over privately held companies

I'm not sure this is accurate. The SEC could try to bar someone from serving as CEO or a director of any corporation. It's just never attempted that. The SEC regulates everyone who touches securities, and private companies issue securities.

This ban, however, specifically restricts itself to public companies. The issue is therefore moot.
Everyone should read the complaint and realize that everything you email and text will be found by the govt if they decide to investigate you.
My little brother started programming when he was five. You might want to rethink your sweeping generalizations about "parents here" or kids in general. It's not just rude and obnoxious, it's ignorant and plain wrong.
You neglect to mention that real bitcoin payments for the last few months have had negligible fees too.
Musk being banned from serving as an officer or director of a public company... Does anyone else see this as the beginning to the rise of a super villain?

Think about it: our insanely legislated government decides that a rich and accomplished engineer/businessman can no longer run his businesses? He would totally turn evil, buy an island, and start building his super lair!
This is how I feel about ads in general.

The only type of ad that makes sense to me at all is one that educates someone about a class of problem and that there's at least one product (X) that can be used to solve this problem.

In many cases it would make more sense to focus these efforts on making stores more effective at presenting solutions and grouping related solutions in expected areas to improve the search effectiveness of independent agents that have black box algorithms and are outside of the store's control.

Attempting to modify said black boxes by an inundation of annoyances is ethnically wrong to me. (As implied above, when it ceases being educational it's increasingly likely to cross that line, particularly if the campaign is based on gimmicks or repetition to be effective in vulnerable population segments.)
I think it's a nice idea that would lead to very little revenue for the creator. You're making it easier to get the content free than to pay for it - is that the intention?
Apple's first Apple I sold for $666.66 [1]. Teslas are Model S, Model 3, Model X, (S3X). Model E was taken so they had to go with Model 3. Possibly a Model Y coming (S3XY).

People can have fun at work still, though shorts and MBA C-level execs that want to take over the company and drive it into the ground, milking the innovations without innovating for future, will end that fun.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_I
Hard forking Bitcoin doesn't increase Bitcoin's supply.
It's generally not news for a businessperson to be doing a good job, because that's expected of them, especially in an up-economy.

intuition, intelligence, and risk-taking capacity to create the kind of innovative companies that Musk has.

Citations needed. Paypal's success was based on Thiel's technology and IP, not Musk's. SpaceX was a non-contender until Shotwell took over running things. Hyperloop hyper-hasn't gone anywhere in 5 years. Tesla has missed every deadline and milestone its ever set for itself, and has never made a profit--it's only cash-flow positive quarter was from a one-time flash sale of emissions credits.
I understand the humor, I just don't appreciate or see the value of "being funny" in a personally insulting way to a code commit.