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A large number of the brutalist housing developments in the UK turned into hellholes. Robin Hood Gardens was a famous one, but most of them look grim, were grim and dark places to live, placed a shadow over the landscape and the lives of the people there.

This is not to say that some brutalist architecture can't rise above that. But the major works by the major architects behind the movement often turned out to fail miserably at their stated purposes, putting the lie to the form-as-function ethos.

This tends to be blamed on the lack of 'proper' maintenance, or the people just not grokking it properly.

What we in the UK are left with in the main is ugly grey-brown hulks that scream poverty, deprivation, violence and depression.
First of all, thank you so much for the feedback. The 25 end user plan is a specific offering for small projects (no zeros missing:)) please don’t forget that the fee covers as well the support allowance, enterprise warranties, indemnifications, etc.

In our flexible plan, we always try to find a working licensing scenario with our customers, with volume discounts, especially for bigger projects. Also, note that MAU count is not the only licensing metric that’s offered, and we are happy to simply sit down with you, discuss your project and reach an agreement.
I have been sent to the back of the queue to tick boxes on forms correctly by U.S. customs/border jobsworths and wondered why the experience has to be so patronisingly humiliating.

Once on a connecting flight so I wasn't even wanting to leave the airport. At the time I was working for a highly regarded company and going on to do some work for CBC in Toronto. I had flown in on business class and my smile, polite British English, white skin, smart clothes, clean passport and squeaky clean criminal record should have given me a free pass. I wasn't even carrying any highly unusual electronic hardware. And no I had not been a member of the 'communist party'.

As I saw it there was just a problem of 'customer service'. The mentality of border guards should be to welcome guests to the country and not treat everyone as a criminal.

As a non-U.S. person I am like a lot of people that just see the U.S. as not the place to want to go to. I know that most Americans lay on fantastic hospitality for visitors, welcoming you into their homes and looking out for you. But the hostile border guards obfuscate that.

Canada is the far more preferable destination, whether you want to be stoned all day or not matters little really, the legalisation of weed sends a signal that Canada is the much more welcoming place to go.

Tourism matters, I do wonder how much tourist trade the U.S. misses out on due to the negative perception the world has of the place.
Yup, Polymer is "big" dependency, but with things like svelte, litelement or stencil you can build web components which have little overhead.

Also polyfills are separate thing from polymer - they are reused by ALL other frameworks including vuejs for example, so I'm not sure what you meant by that comment.
Russia recently dumped the majority of its UST, widely believed to cause the treasury rate to hit 3%. Some commentators speculated the reason for this was

1) to avoid future potential sanctions

2) a trial-run to gauge how the market would react to a similar move by China.

At its peak Russia held less than $0.2T, Russia liquidated approx $50B per month for 3 months. If China dumped $75B per month for 6 months, there would be pain that would likely spread into corporate bonds.

https://money.cnn.com/2018/07/30/investing/russia-us-debt-tr...

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-10-16/russia-s-...

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Unless they are Hacker News, which are sometimes actionable and lift my spirit every morning.
Neon and corporate dystopias: why does cyberpunk refuse to move on?
> exploit permissive licenses to the max.

Why does this debate consyantly flare up again and again? No one is exploiting licenses, if you release something as open source then it’s open source, amongst other things you give up any claim to the money others might make using your software. That is your choice, any no one is exploiting you or your work by using the software within the license you granted them.

People need to stop this attempt at having “financially closed” open source. If you want you software to be propriataty and have limitations on usage just do that. Don’t release it as open source and cry fowl when other treat it like that instead of treating it like you had a proprietary license on it.
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If you're in the Vancouver area there are two noteworthy brutalist examples. One is the MacMillan Bloedel building:

https://www.google.ca/search?q=macblo+building+vancouver&oq=...

The macblo building is also CGIed into the New York City Nazi party HQ in Amazon's adaptation of The Man in the High Castle.

The other is pretty much the entire SFU campus.
Two genres of youtube content that I was not aware of before I did some babysitting for a friend, and that I've come to appreciate now:

* compilations of ambulances, police cars, and fire trucks just driving along with their blue beacons rotating and sirens blaring. It's amazing how fascinating that is to kids.

* compilations of "good kids" happily eating their broccoli, spinach, etc.

That said, I've showed these to the kids for a few minutes on occasion; I don't think I'd leave them alone with a tablet to watch what they want (=what youtube recommends them for maximum "engagement"...) for extended times.
Wasn't GI Joe basically like the storm troopers in star wars? Laser guns and nobody gets hit?

My memory of it is hazy and likely warped by pastiches like adult swim's Too Many Cooks.
I think brutalism is more generally associated with authoritarianism, including use in modern government buildings. I think free people choose to incorporate aesthetics into their buildings where bureaucrats prefer utilitarian functional designs because they don't have to live with them or attempt to justify the value of aesthetics.
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cps transformation (continuation passing style). Transform any control flow patterns (loops, calls, non-tail recursion, exceptions, coroutines) into nothing but closures and tail calls!
It is absolutely an algorithm in the sense of "a set of rules to be followed". I think you mean that it doesn't guarantee an optimal solution. That just means it's a heuristic algorithm, same as simulated annealing is a heuristic algorithm for solving optimisation problems.
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Do you need your coffee in the morning to be able to function properly? is that harmless? What about 3,4,5,10 coffees a day? At some point pretty much anything can grow in an addiction and will hurt you health: pot, vine, coffee, coke, sweets, bagels with cream cheese... nothing is harmless if you overdo it...
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Also a step into non determinism and some logic programming.
Nothing Earth shattering but the algorithm for finding anagrams: just sort by letters and compare resulting strings. It was probably the first elegant algorithm I saw before even seeing a computer.
I still have 70-ish chars long Perl oneliner I wrote nearly 20 years ago, which lists anagrams from the provided wordlist.
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Much more selective, though, and you can choose a UI without the odious auto-play, "watch next" suggestions and (EDIT to add:) ads.
> What's wrong with using Ant

XML

> or Gradle?

Apache Groovy
I can recommend the book and especially the email web course.
The FDA doesn't seem to agree completely with the shouty people [0].

[0] https://www.fda.gov/newsevents/publichealthfocus/ucm584952.h...
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Some of them require run-time JavaScript, like the popovers and select boxes. And largely the value here is in the comprehensive component API, rather than just the HTML/CSS it spits out.
I don't think anyone blindly hates it. I mean... use your eyes! It's easy to see what people hate about it. It's ugly. Simple as that. The very best examples rise to "ok that's an interesting design" but they're still undeniably ugly.

The Barbican is a very interesting design, but anyone who has actually been there would agree that it is ugly.

Contrast them with something like a modern glass skyscrapers (e.g. the walky talky). They may be rather bland and boring but I don't think many people would say they are ugly.
Popover menus and drop-downs should disappear when the user scrolls the page.

Also, custom select inputs always ignore a big percentage of the functionality that native select inputs deliver.
functionality

Functionality has multiple dimensions. Often brutalist buildings were rather functional on a micro level (e.g. central heating, indoor toilet etc) which was usually better than what they replaced. But on a macro level they were often terrible, e.g. the extreme focus on being car friendly (e.g. you had to cross an 8-lane motorway to meet your frriend in the neighbouring building).

The former has nothing to do with brutalist architecture and is now available for all styles of architecture. The latter was a crazy mistake.
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Despite a strong interest in Brutalism I couldn't make it through because of all this
>So what happens when they do just that, but the price for Android + Play Store sans Google Apps is ~$150, i.e. the same price as Microsoft Windows?

In that case other companies, say, Micrsoft could then start to offer a $100 Android version containing Edge, Bing Maps, Hotmail as services.

Exactly what this anti-trust measure try to accomplish. Now, this is not possible since Google forces you to install Chrome if you want Play Store. Which basically leverages it's monopoly on mobile OS to get more market share in the browser game.
If you look at how much a condo in Montreal's habitat 67 is selling for now, they're certainly not for the common "worker". North of $900k.
As much right as you have to read content as you wish, the publisher has to present it as she wishes.

This is a guide for people who want to make use of thousands of years of accrued typographic culture to get their message across usefully and beautifully.

- ed

Well, perhaps a thousand or so years. I'm unsure how deep into Roman times good 'type' style lettering stretches.
ETH researchers uncover security gaps in the 5G mobile communication standard
The government won't care if those companies withdraw. Our citizens will absolutely care they can no longer Gmail and Whatsapp and will vote them out at the next election. But that happens every 3 years anyway, so it won't make a difference to the politicians.
Hello Zackify, author here. That’s a great question. I haven’t used Apollo in depth (since I started building this before it’s existance.) But Apollo is an opinionated GraphQL framework that includes the data-transport layer.

Primus-GraphQL is less opinionated and just provides a GraphQL data-transport layer (client and server). Primus-GraphQL also offers a network-layer for Relay (an opinionated GraphQL client framework that works well with React).

Since it is built on top of Primus it allows flexibility with data-protocol layer - from socket.io, socksjs, websockets, or even a custom implementation.

Hope that answers your question. Let me know if you have more :-)
Viterbi algorithm used in convolutional codes

It is used in DVB-T combined with Reed-Solomon code for example.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viterbi_algorithm
FBI HQ , Boston city hall, are two good examples.
Apparently you haven't read my comment as you missed "which they are already developing." and "100% support on mobile Web" part.

Plus there are polyfills available for the meantime.

So what other browsers are many popular?
The aggressively dehumanizing aesthetic does seem to express the... brutality of the more fascistic interpretations of collectivism quite well. These buildings all seem to come from a dystopian future.
The following is strictly my opinion.

Misplaced romanticism. AFAIK historically Americans didn't park their poor people or immigrant workers into these huge brutalist apartment complexes like in Europe, or if they did it is somehow a new phenomenon.

And I can assure you it's the same in western Europe. Not a lot of people value that architectural style given what it represents: a lot of political and social failure that carries so much shame and embarrassment we are trying to remove any trace of it.
The underlying reasoning behind PCSA/HLL (that if you squint, you can use the zeros and ones from a hash as analogues to coin-flipping, and can use the probability of the rarest event seen to estimate the total number of events seen) is excellent.

Count-min-sketch is also beautifully simple.
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Unless there's some magic involved (like pulling code from strings at runtime, via reflection), you'll have a place in which all those functions show up together. A central table, a switch statement in a factory method, or something. You'll have it in either the class-based or function-based implementation.
The (fairly simple) nimber algorithm for optimal nim play which can then be applied to other games e.g. dots and boxes
I wouldn't say that nothing has changed but nothing has occurred like what anti-cannabis activists claimed would happen.

One outcome that gets mentioned is that vehicular accidents increased in Colorado following legalization but the population growth outpaced the relative growth in accidents, meaning per-capita vehicular accidents actually fell.

Some data on cannabis and accident rates: https://reason.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/evaluating-res...
Fast Fourier Transform. I remember learning about using roots of unity and thinking it was black magic.
You tell me to argue, but you yourself just assert.

I will, though.

I'll argue my point by RAA. You may recall my phrase, "spending time alone doing <x> is very different from <y>, ….". If spending time alone doing X is not very different from Y, then it follows that pairs of activities are roughly equally educational, roughly equally dangerous, roughly equally healthy, and so on, or at least roughly equal in sum of the qualities parents care about. Ie., if one activity is more educational than another, then the other must necessarily be less dangerous for the child, so as to conserve equilibrium. This is absurd. QED.

I interpret you as saying that people are better at learning to cope with dark patterns as young children than as adults. Right? Please argue.
This just isn't true in all cases.
Under "Project Non-Goals":

> Performance. If you need it, use Clojure. Joker is a naive implementation of an interpreter that evaluates unoptimized AST directly. I may be interested in doing some basic optimizations but this is definitely not a priority.

For its intended purpose, small scripts, it probably is much faster than Clojure because of start-up time of the JVM.

Title is definitely misleading. I clicked through imagining a code-code translator that produces golang code from clojure and saw the word interpreter.
Whatsapp Messenger Payments
In my opinion that would be something very cool to add to Whatsapp now that Telegram has payments integrated. But maybe Facebook has that in mind considering they have Messenger Payments.
As others have said, watching 4 hours of anything might be problematic.

However, my point is this: different things require different amounts of moderation. Candy all day is probably worse than carrots all day. In moderation, candy is great. Same as YouTube.
The reference manual seems to need some love:

https://pijul.org/manual/reference/log.html
Is it pijul log or pijul changes? Also I see a huge block of ~30 nested blockquotes below the "Usage" title that probably shouldn't be there.

https://pijul.org/manual/reference/patch.html
The subtitle "Output the compressed encoding of a patch (in binary)" seems misleading, since that only describes "pijul patch --bin"?

Why is "pijul record" not called "commit" instead? That's the equivalent, right? It seems all other commands have very familiar names, but this one is just different to be different?

https://pijul.org/manual/getting_started.html#definitions
Same for "a pristine, which is a representation of the current recorded version of the repository". What's the "normal" word for that? The definition doesn't really make sense to me.

https://pijul.org/community/
The "Getting started" section contains no information about how to get started. Why no link to https://pijul.org/manual/getting_started.html?
Personally I prefer the finer grained controls of The Atlantic, but that is still better than 99% of the rest. Though I'm not sure about the wording, it only says 'advertising cookies'.
Baidu team's paper describes neural net to match job openings, candidates
the design reflects the mentality of the designer. Brutalism is totally utilitarian and reflects the perspective of occupant as unit on a spreadsheet. It's the ultimate expression of "you are a number, not a person".
Just to follow up on my sarcastic comment about Elon Musk. I believe this would actually compromise his own companies. If all his employees were to work remotely, he could not put the them pressure on people to work unlimited hours with no interruptions.

If he would have adopted a remote work culture, tesla and space X would be a bit behind in terms of progress today. But does it mean the results would be different at the end? Are we looking at a 2-3 year delay? Is this a big deal?
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I've read a great deal of Russian literature old and modern, but I didn't much like this book. It was like an unplanned Salmon Rushdie novel, where the metaphors don't seem to add up to anything - very likely there was a lot of cultural reference in the symbology that went over my head - but still, just didn't get much pleasure from reading it.
> Sirens story as in poem has no beauty nor purity in it. Really. Sirens are not described and promises to give him knowledge, mostly about Trojan war. Nothing beautiful or pure about that.

I wasn't claiming they were. Just that that seemed to be the classical framing of them. I can see how luring in sailors with beautiful song could be transferred onto luring with physical beauty and how that could map to classical femininity, but the relation does not affect the original meaning.

> The line between "lecherous" and "beauty or purity" is mostly the one of framing - whether you are determined to see it as good or bad.

I don't think it is. Lechery is linked to sexual gratification, basically voyeurism. I'm essentially saying I don't think these paintings existed for sexual purposes. Beauty is more of an aesthetic appreciation, or can be used as a symbol for higher values (and ugliness as a symbol for moral ugliness).

> It is not like every sirens painting painter would read the poem, they heard the story as part of their education and imagined the rest.

This is why moral tales are a good framework for thinking, rather than always giving you the answer. They give us symbols with which to reason, and so much of our conversational reasoning is performed using metaphors and idioms.
Can you elaborate on how this is related to diagonalization (other than the surface resemblance)?
We've got nothing similar to Jira in place and are dealing with things without any dedicated tools

Are you not tracking issues at all? I very frequently look up years old tickets to know why something is the way it is, and I could not imagine working without it.
The best people.
I like implementing type systems

Could you expand on this? This is something I've just started reading about. I'd be interested in good resources to use to get started. At the moment I've just started reading TAPL.
'pinwheeled into the median' sounds like loosing control...

That only is likley to happen if someone hits someone else...
Looks like a useful app. I'll give it a try. Let's see how it performs on a daily basis.
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Facebook Sued by Advertisers for Hiding Ad-Metrics Error for More Than a Year
It has been reported that it was a constant struggle to get Urmson (the lead in Project Chauffeur) and Levandowski (who wanted to just launch) to work together because they had such a contradictory approach on safety. Urmson left in 2016, shortly before Chauffeur spawned into Waymo.
The job market is better than it's ever been. The jobs are better too.
Not partituclarly. Evil is planning mass genocide and executing it. Besides, why judge when we only have one side of the story? Demonising people for having thoughts or discussing actions that you personally find distasteful is tyrannical and repressive.
"Fuzzing" is the technique for finding bugs by varying the inputs of a program and looking at how this affects code paths. A simpler place to start would be http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/
This book is not for Stalin and not against Stalin.
This book is about bad people, good people and faith in fairness. And this is just a good fiction.
> Meaning clearly I’m a terrible parent SMH.

> Also I am exaggerating

> 100% addicted

> oh holy one

Perhaps you should use less hyperbole in your writings, it would certainly lead to fewer misunderstandings.
> (B) Brutalism is often associated with left-wing / communist large-scale social engineering, and the left reflexively celebrates anything done by the left. (Aside, the association of brutalism with the left is historically quite false, e.g. people like Le Corbusier didn't meet a dictator he didn't like.) So where brutalism is celebrated by somebody who's explicitly and self-consciously political, it's a Gramscian hegemonic strategy [1]. An example of such a writer is Owen Hatherley [2].

Huh, quite an interesting take. On the contrary, I associate an appreciation of brutalism with those who post staunch free-market capitalist comments.

I have many taken architectural tours in Bucaresti, Plovdiv, Sofia, Skopje, Moldova, Tbilisi, Beograd, Kiev, and Moscow. Unanimously, the tour-guides presented these buildings with disdain for their aesthetics and association with authoritarianism. All of the tour-guides were definitely left/liberal-leaning, some to the point of dreadlocks and Che Guevara hats. (Thanks for the links, by the way, I had never heard of Own Hatherly before!).
>> The logical/creative dichotomy is bullshit based on fake science.

>> In reality the left brain (dominant for most people) prefers sequential, step-by-step thinking, while the right brain prefers simultaneous and spatial thinking.

I've never seen anyone make such a direct contradiction so clearly ;-) You define left-brain thinking the same way the "bullshit" does, and then you define the right brain in a way that reflects creativity - at least to me.
Well, I mean, it's 1 week away from release...

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox/Rel...
> Apparently you haven't read my comment as you missed "which they are already developing." part.

Apparently you haven't read my first comment either, since you can't tell the difference between "a spec is implemented" and "planning to implement a spec" which you obviously count as "a spec is implemented" for you or you would have refrained from making your first comment.

And no, there is no polyfills for shadow DOM or Custom Element, that's a lie. Polymer is not a Polyfill for Web Components, it's his own framework.

As for your question, I'm talking about browsers that do not support Custom Elements right now. Edge does not.
It's an issue of perspective at this point. You can call it "The Command Pattern", as if it was something Important, while others will note that it's just passing a closure around (i.e. a trivial programming pattern at the level of "using if/else" or "throwing an exception").