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> This is a thing people say, but I think it's misleading. Reference counting can increase the lifetime of an object, but borrowing cannot. I've seen this really trip up beginners.

I'm not sure I follow.

The only reference-counted language I've used is (pre-ARC) Objective-C. There, it was a very common idiom to "borrow" objects - so common that it didn't even have a name. There was just objects you "retained" (that is, staked a claim on), and ones you didn't.

Maybe there's a pitfall to how the "automatic" part of automatic reference counting is typically implemented?
Looks like a false positive. Virustotal sees clean: https://www.virustotal.com/en/url/e1aefef6b413b1f232d72c7b37... (except Dr.Web, but they appear to basically flag everything)
The TN visa is good for 3 years at a time and can be renewed an unlimited number of times. It is NOT a path to Permanent Resident or Citizenship, however; you will have to get on a different visa for that (e.g. marry a local, get sponsored via non-TN work permit, etc).

Also, definitely not trivial, even as an American with a technical degree. The paperwork & process isn't hard but getting a TN sponsor is non-trivial.

Quebec also has their own immigration rules and you have to apply with them as well as with the Federal government. Not sure how TN's work in QC, but I know only Canadian PRs and Citizens can move there; if you're a temporary resident from outside of the province you need to talk to QC Immigration.

Caveat: this is based on old NAFTA rules, not sure how they work or if there are changes under the recently-signed "NAFTA 2.0."
Please keep in mind he is just an old grumpy man who is slowly losing his facilities. i.e. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-44494476
I had had some hope that with a new CEO at the helm this behavior would stop.
Some of my other favourite low-bloat/retro websites (interesting overlap with internet legends):

* Fabrice Bellard: https://bellard.org/

* DJ Bernstein: http://cr.yp.to/

* Tim Berners-Lee: https://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/

* Richard Stallman: https://stallman.org/

* Programming in the 21st century: https://prog21.dadgum.com/

* idlewords: http://www.idlewords.com/
I'm not sure about that.

At $499, the i9-9900k is almost competing against the 12-core Threadripper 2920x ($649, 12-core/24-threads, 4.4GHz clock, 60 PCIe lanes, quad-memory channels).

I think most people will find more use out of +4 cores (granted, on a NUMA platform) than higher clocks. Cores for compiling code, rendering, video editing, etc. etc.

Pretty much only gamers want +Clock speeds, and more and more games actually use all-cores these days (Doom, Battlefield, etc. etc.)

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That's the thing. The i9-9900k isn't even a "high end chip" anymore. Its at best, "highest of the mid-range" since the HEDT category (AMD Threadripper, or Intel-X) has been invented.

Once you start getting into 8-cores/16 threads, I start to worry about dual-memory channels and 16x PCIe lanes + 4GB/s DMI to the Southbridge. Its getting harder and harder to "feed the beast". A more balanced HEDT system (like Threadripper's quad-memory channels + 60PCIe lanes) just makes more sense.
On the other hand, in some way I think the Buddhist rhetoric—probably especially in the West—can tend to exaggerate in making it seem like the original sin.

Which it probably is if you're striving for the kind of nirvana that Buddhist monks strive for...

But "laypeople" shouldn't get meta-anxious about it and try to achieve a mental peace that's impossible in their life situation.

Even in Zen they have the saying "no work, no eat."

But yeah, maybe we spend 98% of our waking life in attachment, when a better ratio would be, say, 80%?

And the insidious thing about "tech" is that it's constantly available. It's almost like having a schizophrenic voice in your head that interrupts every quiet moment.

I think everyone has their own little ways of getting some daily quietude, but I do also think that with the current state of advanced distraction technologies, it's not rare for someone to spend a whole day "online."
It does not block wavelengths. It blocks light polarized in certain directions which may be of any wavelength.

Brake lights will most certainly not be polarized and so they will be dimmed by the same amount as most other objects emitting/reflecting non-polarized light.

Take in mind any glasses that reduce amount of light can be dangerous if used in poor lighting conditions (and yes, this includes those that purport to improve contrast).
I have to admit I did cringe at the sight of that. Yet I also get a strong pang of nostalgia. A relic of a much more innocent era.
Just in case you don't quite know who Larry Wall is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Wall

I wrote code for a bank using perl. I'd say 95% of their code at the time was in perl. Website called perl, back-end processing was perl scripts. Cron jobs were all perl script that needed to run to do house-keeping.
The suggestion was to prompt if stdin was a TTY and the default behavior would have been to exit with a usage error.

I think it's a fine suggestion, though in 94% of cases probably too much work to be worth it.
canvas bitmaps are only useful for rendering though.
Even if superpower status was dropped in the US' lap post-ww2, I think it's hard to argue they've worked extremely hard to maintain sole superpower status from the cold war onwards.

All the assets you say China is planning to build (military bases, economic control and political clout) have been very, very forcefully acquired by the US.
I'll take it.

I'm female. I happily have zero children at age 40. I'm able to be as open about my bisexuality and my atheism as I chose. In my life, I've had 2 fairly superficial cuts get infected - one was about 3 weeks ago, and accompanied a fall down the stairs. I also got a broken arm (elbow) out of the deal. The other was years ago, and had red streaks going up my thumb.

These infections alone could have killed me. I probably could not have chosen to marry my spouse. I probably could not have chosen to be atheist and could not have openly been attracted to women as well as men. I'd have been expected to do womanly things and not rightfully been able to do things like rent an apartment, work and expect to keep my earnings as my own, and other such things. In many places, I could not vote either.

My ex husband wound up being severely mentally ill. He would have gotten treated horribly if not experimented on. Mental hospitals can be horrible places now, yet they were houses of horrors back in the day.

It is really difficult to compare being older yet sicker to days of the past as well, since some things would have simply killed you instead of being something you live with as a chronic disease. Type 1 diabetes - the sort that affects young folks - killed more often. Type 2 could easily do so as well. Heart attack? No treatments available, though you might be lucky enough to live through it. Stroke? Same thing, and then you are at the mercy of your children and family to take care of you (sometimes it is that way now, depending on where in the world you live).

Meh. I'll take now, thank you very much.
Who would want to hurt Amazon or Apple... especially in the cloud business.
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The point about it being too much of a coincidence that the Banksy piece was sold last, seems weak to me. Banksy was likely the most popularly known artist whose work was for sale, and it makes sense to me that they would put that last. A better analysis would have looked at how much all of the pieces sold for, as a proxy for fame. If lots of piece that sold earlier than Banksy's, sold for more, then that would be pretty suspicious. I'm guessing, though, that Banksy was the biggest name for sale, and I would not expect Sotheby's to put them for sale in a random order, but rather start with the lesser known artists/pieces first.

Of course, I don't know the art auction world, and maybe it happens the other way, and you do the big names first, I don't know. But I also can't find out from reading this analysis. One thing I'm pretty sure of, is they don't just assign the order randomly.
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I'm not up on my Greek prefixes, but had the shreading completed it would become a 38-ptic, and you could fill a large sized wall with it. It wouldn't be as cool as stopped half way, but the halfway through image wouldn't be in people's minds to know what they were missing, either.
Tools for combining the interactive work in notebooks with a more predictable linear flow are starting to mature. See for instance jupytext [1]: a bi-directional converter between jupyter notebooks and python/R/julia/...
I believe jupytext was featured here on HN a few weeks back.

[1] https://github.com/mwouts/jupytext
>> I'm having a hard time seeing how you sneak something by them.

Apple orders in bulk. They aren't x-raying every server bound for their latest datacenter. I've worked with companies that do examine for every tiny imperfection. It costs thousands per-server and means significant and often random delays (defense industry). If apple, a publicly-traded company, were so rigorous they wouldn't be able to hide the costs. So we know they aren't.

I'm sure that apple does inspect systems that it deems vital to its internal systems, but servers meant for customer use are too numerous.
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The Farm in Tennessee as far as I know is a counter example. They definitely interact with the outside economy and have some specialties, but there isn't a centralized business they all contribute towards.

Another counter example (though not from the 70s) is Dancing Rabbit. It is 25 years old and doesn't have a centralized business, though people there often do cited difficulty finding work as a problem, and a leading reason to not stick around.

Also Earthhaven in NC has no central business and is 23 years old.
And they would have got away with it too, if it where not for those meddling kids.
It's a shame Perl isn't still used. Maybe not by those who have to maintain poorly written Perl admittedly.

(Edit: disappointed to see the Perl link doesn't actually work).
I launched a Kickstarter selling the best design feature of the iPhone X
Makes me less embarrassed about my own web page on neocities.
smartphones are in their smoking is cool so do it everywhere phase. the novelty will wear off. i enjoy patiently waiting in silence. if i am travelling on public transport, or sitting in waiting room, or standing in a long queue, i find my personal quiet contrasted by the various background noises relaxing and beneficial. i can remain aware of my surrounding/map, people and objects, clocks and time, scenery. i can play memorization, prediction or pattern games, revisit some old problem or simply turn my brain off and let the time pass without incident.

am i a silence addict? if i enjoyed striking up conversations with strangers everywhere i went and talked their ear off in a friendly manner, would i be a social addict? some people enjoy looking at text and images on a screen during downtime in their day, it's a habit. a potentially useful one that helps connect to a world outside of immediate physical space, should _we_ disincentivize public escapism? what about reading or drawing in public then? perhaps it's dangerous if people look at each other too much. and why don't _we_ standardize clothing so that everyone feels more equal. and do _we_ really need so many words, how about _we_ reduce it down to a few hundred useful ones and just stop teaching the others. who is we, we is us, and us is we.

if you give people freedom to do a lot of different things, they may not make good individual choices which can lead to bad collective actions. if they were individual choices they will be individually self-corrected. do you value freedom or outcomes? because you're going to need a big hammer to get all your outcome nails nice and flat. alternatively you need to build your civilization on a different moral foundation, something like social harmony or public good. you might find a strong central government, no immigration, with an insulated and culturo-ethnically homogeneous population with a tendency towards being socially and fiscally conservative, family oriented and not prone to large unfunded liabilities in domestic ponzi schemes and international military escapades; as pre-requisites to your social engineering utopian fantasies. america is about fuck you and fuck you too.
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My wife and I had a child in Canada with about as extreme a complication as you can get (transferred to Level 3 ICU for the sake of mother and baby). We calculated that it would have cost at least $200k in the US in direct costs, let alone things we couldn't quite get a price for (medication, the hourly rate of the over 20 medical professionals in the room during delivery, etc.). Would have ruined us for sure if out of pocket.
Next one will be a Julia convert.
Not many people count trucks as cars though.
Wow! Did not know about that. So many barriers to free market...
If you are in the Redux world I would maybe take a look at Reselect (https://github.com/reduxjs/reselect). As the other comment said, your problem should be solved by shouldComponentUpdate or more granular coupling of state to the component (or a combination).
And they were hoping it would be fixed, which obviously didn't happen. So to be fair You can't solely blame EU for that.
> you need to know French well to fit in

That's actually the opposite, at least in tech, you need to talk English. In both placed I worked we had to talk English because there was a few employees that didn't talk French at all.
The people who restored the clock were sued but eventually cleared of all charges.

The clock has never been used or wound up since...

http://urban-resources.net/untergunther.html
https://ugwk.org/Untergunther_Presse.html
It's pretty obvious the manufacturers will try and get away with vendor lock-in for as long as they can.

NVidia has been playing that game with Cuda from day one, leaving OpenCL as a barely supported, barely usable, and complete no-no for anyone who wants to do production work with their hardware so they can avoid this very criticism.

The manufacturers are the villain in that story, and they know it.

This makes the kind of project described in the OP all the more important, and the folks who work on it should get help form anyone who uses FPGA's commercially.
I know nothing about the art world, but would "Pest Control" be given unsupervised access to the painting prior to the auction? Especially given the artist and his reputation.
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My grad program taught SAS, to my dismay.
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Funny that he lists his personality type, and that it's INFP. I find this is one of the coding types most likely to get a) amusingly literary/language-focused and b) extremely detail-oriented about their code. INFPs are also known for their "do what I wanna" values so the chartreuse decision was amusing in this light. I haven't used Perl much, but I wonder how else it might echo these values. He seems like he's made it his own, at the very least.
Directly trapping carbon for over 50 years is pretty good, and the main CO2 release in concrete is the cement - both in heating it and the actual reaction necessary to create it. Aggregate availability isn't the issue there.

On top of that, large scale structural concrete is a fairly new technology, and while improvements to longevity have been made, many buildings will be lucky to make it to 100 years.
Declining cognitive state is very random.

Not being able to recognize oneself from a mirror and being spooked by stranger in the mirror. Shadows or even floor lamp in the corner may be scary person. The rest of life can become scary hell where you don't know what is going and where you are. Even very peaceful persons become aggressive when they are confused and scared.

Forget VR. If I get Alzheimer I want euthanasia or drugs. Maybe gradually increasing opiates that take all pain away and I eventually stop breathing at night.
I'm not an economist so maybe this is something about economics.

Stata seems to be really popular in economics. Certainly when I was getting my degree all the statistics, modelling and econometric courses at the economics department used either Excel or Stata. A few 'weird' kids used matlab, but the words "Python" or "R" where never mentioned.
According to this comment further down there already is one:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18174769
> I addressed borrowing above. Borrowing is proving lifetime subset properties and that

Right, so what I'm saying is, the description of borrowing doesn't really fit in with the reference counting aspect of the analogy, so it ends up being separate from it.

> And this is not about whether this is useful for beginners.

Right, that was my point. :)

I mean, in the end, do what you'd like. All I'm saying is that I've seen this analogy lead to tons of confusion. YMMV.
This is something that I've been hoping to see for a while. The traditional model of web apps, with a database backend but doing manual de-normalization, adding manual caching and cache invalidation, or using manually created and expensive materialized views, seems complex, fiddly, and fragile.

The database engine should be able to build the necessary cache of intermediate state from the queries used by the application; and this shows that that is in fact possible.

Source: https://github.com/mit-pdos/noria
In a hypothetical scenario where one of the members has a debilitating chronic illness that requires considerable expense, what would then happen?
Some departments in the FDA require clinical trial data to be submitted in SAS formats :-/
> A number of factors spurred states to require CONs in the health care industry. Chief among these was the concern that the construction of excess hospital capacity would cause competitors in an over-saturated field to cover the costs of a diluted patient pool by over-charging, or by convincing patients to accept hospitalization unnecessarily.

That is an incredible misunderstanding of supply-and-demand. Just, wow.
Na, I don't think Russia played into this all that much. Excessive ambition, overzealous idealism, and internal politics were much more relevant. Don't forget that when these decisions were made Russia wasn't perceived to be the threat it's seen as today, at least not by the EU of that day. E.g. poland joined in 2004, but much of the talks were in the 90s- and thus in an era when Russia was far from threatening. Putin didn't become president until 2000. So while the EU certainly wasn't looking for a buffer, it's much more plausible that the new members were less sanguine about future Russia (and how right they were), thus seeking to cement their independence from the USSR.

It's somewhat ironic, for instance, to consider that it was the UK that particularly pushed for expansion. Not only did they lobby hard internally beforehand, they were (IIRC?) only EU country to immediately grant free immigration from the new members, without any transition period - how times change!
Did he own the painting prior to the sale, or was it a private collector?
I work for SendGrid as an engineer. Let me know if I can answer any of your questions.
>With that said, maybe something like a self-hosted or password-protected Wordpress installation would fit your use-case. It'd automatically chronograph your entries. It's got broad support for all types of media (photos, video, audio, etc.) and you can find limitless plugins to capture calendar entries and other memorable events. Just make sure you've got a rock-solid backup system in-place so that you don't risk losing all of your entries.

The backup system is the problem. Once I do something like Wordpress all of the data is going to be stuck in that format in their database structure. That makes it hard to access anywhere outside of Wordpress.
"Apple's business doesn't. I think Screen Time and App Limits will likely become two of Apple's main competitive advantages going forward because of it -- there's no way Google or Facebook could offer such a product for their services in any meaningful way without destroying their core business. "

Sure Apple depends on screen addiction too. Why would somebody buy a $1000+ phone and then not use it?
> The Greek government allowed this

To understand the tax mentality of Greeks, it's worth pointing that not a single Greek government existed in modern history that didn't have multiple corruption scandals and blatant misspending/mismanagement incidents come to light. And only a small percentage of those incidents probably ever came into light. The last two generations got used to knowing that tax money vanish into a black hole, needless public sector hires, ridiculous under-the-table contracts, etc, all while the public health system was suffering to the extent that bribing the doctors to receive decent service became the norm. That practice extended everywhere: you'd bribe for your driving license or you'd likely fail even if you did everything right, you'd bribe the tax inspectors or you'd face fines even if everything was in order, etc. Not saying that this makes tax evasion a good thing but it does feed some interesting thoughts about how hard it is to change a system that keeps mishandling tax money while failing the people and how the natural urge of the people in these cases is to just avoid contributing into it however they can.
Fun fact: the majority of the Amazon.com home page is/was written in Perl (Mason). It's slowly being re-written in JVM languages, but I'd bet that some portion of the rendered HTML will come from Perl for a very long time.

I personally really like Perl. It does kinda encourage code-golfing, but that's what makes it so nice for one-off scripts.
So if people REALLY believed in global warming they would give up their relatively low impact apartments to take up industrial farming?
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I think you make a reasonable point here, but it doesn't change the facts about what reasonable attack surfaces are, made elsewhere.

For example, why place a detectable piece of hardware onto the MoBo, instead of just installing malicious firmware? The hardware piece is going to be limited in capabilities and much easier to detect. Given the level of access required for this "hack," it makes more sense to just write the bad firmware to do all the tricks. Especially since, as far as I understand, the malicious chip modifies the firmware anyway.

There are far too many reasons to be skeptical of the article, and the parties involved have motives that are very easy to trust.
> in order to develop an economy you need investment, not austerity

That's a nice theory, but considering all the stuff that came out about how dysfunctional Greece, on outside they were just bunch of liars. How can any politician justify to voters such a decision?

If you lend somebody money to improve his life, and he burns through them by doing stupid things and lying to you, and has no way to pay back, do you lend them more "in order to develop"?

Btw if I recall correctly your suggestion is what Obama did - pumping more money into economy after 2008. From what I read it was very ineffective and basically trillion(s) were mostly wasted without lasting effect