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The fact that many plants were selected for hundreds of years to be more edible that their wild counterparts does not make Acacia more edible in any way.

I don't know if inhalating Acacia wood dust could produce the strange effect of not being able to hold a telephone in your hands for a while, but I'm certainly sure that is a genus that evolved to use fearsome chemicals. Georgina Gidgee mess with the Krebs cycle that provides energy to the cells.

My advise is still the same. Take this in mind if you want to manipulate it, and don't understimate its potential to harm you, even at sublethal doses. If you start experimenting strange sensations when you do some exotic wood work in your batcave at the basement, stop, quit the area and open the windows if you don't have an air extractor.

Even if you trust the provider botanical skills and think that they never would give you a similar and cheaper species of wood by accident.
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we're sorry

- Australia

(well SOME of us are)
> coding is to software development what moving pieces is to chess.

And on a more serious note: I really like this mantra, but I do not think it's true or relevant:

There are many examples of success stories of what you would call "coders": Gates and Allen's Altair Basic and Zukerberg's Facebook are the famous ones - but I would argue that many software related business are also a product of "coding" and not "software development". See also WordPress or Wikipedia as examples. "Coding" is very important.

Software development is a very wide subject. The driving force of schools is mostly economical - training developers to fill a huge demand on this huge market. The thousands of open jobs require different sets of skills - and again I will argue that a high percentage of these jobs will allow a (very) junior developer to build good products as long as he knows to "code" and he can be managed and mentored by a senior developer. Being able "to code" will be a hard requirement for these jobs. Simple examples would be web and mobile development. enterprise/huge software projects. "Coding" can get you a job.

And, as I wrote in my other comment above, "training software developers" is not the same as "developing software". There are many ways to train developers - and where to start from and how much time it takes are good questions. Assuming a year (or 3-4 years) in college is very expensive and not accessible to anyone who can and want to be a software developer, finding other/more/different approaches to enter the software industry is needed. "Coding" is an eligible trailhead for starting to learn software development.
State of the art is pthreads and mutexes. The C++ and Rust wrappers for them are roughly equivalent.

Rust has some nice features for handling ownership semantics, but they are not significantly better than those in C++.

Meanwhile, Rust still lacks a normal exception handling story. Exception handling is absolutely necessary in 2018 for building real software systems.

(And even though Rust claims that errors are nicely dichotomized into "recoverable" and "not recoverable" camps, this is simply not true in the real world. There are obvious counterexamples that don't fit into this dichotomy.)
Speaking of hardware security modules, are there any that can be easily and cheaply acquired by hobbyists?
The same way they never ask me, a disabled person, what I think.

I'm only to be trotted out for tear votes. I am to be seen, not heard. My opinion is irrelevant.
You’re talking about switching the keyboard language, which is easy to do all the time. The parent is talking about changing the language of the entire phones UI, which seems like something you’d do significantly less frequently than changing the keyboard.
Thanks for the pointers. Is LispWorks the only currently-available IDE you'd recommend?

The example you've given runs very quickly in Racket; it completes in some vanishingly small fraction of a second. Perhaps you were running it in DrRacket? If you're interested in any kind of performance in Racket, use the console REPL rather than DrRacket. The IDE instruments the code quite heavily, slowing it down rather a lot.

[ETA: For me, on a Linux machine, it takes 13ms in a terminal, and 227ms in DrRacket. I wonder why you were seeing the code run 100x slower than that? Perhaps it's a DrRacket-on-OSX thing.]

[ETA 2: There's clearly some buffering going on. Display of the text is the slowest part in DrRacket, and 227ms isn't enough time to plausibly include the text-rendering, so measuring this stuff is basically just hard. The terminal, unsurprisingly, is better at printing text quickly :-) ]
Is no one selling glasses or whatever that can crew up the cameras? I remember seeing proof on concept things a couple of years back.
I agree, it's only in the last four years that software has been professional.

Before then, it was just naked fat virgin neckbeards sitting in basements hitting a hammer against a rock.

No software of any significance has ever been written before 2014.
Julia is a great language, but I'm still waiting for someone to create a Julia fork that uses 0-based indexing.
more and more it sounds like the raw materials we need are available in the places we’d like to colonize - except energy. I’m starting to wonder whether once we have moved past fossil fuels if colonization beyond earth becomes dramatically easier.
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Swallow how though? Feel dirty when submitting a patch? I really don't understand the west's fascination with these codes and statements. Why not just do your work and avoid drama?

By standing up for/against things like CoC as opposed to actual incidents, nothing is really achieved except - I believe the term is bike shedding?

Open source exists so that everyone can contribute their talents to something that benefits everybody. If Joseph Stalin or bin Laden wrote a great patch, I'd want it. We'd all be better for it. We can fight his ideas in a different arena. It doesn't have to be the SQLite mailing list. It is not a sensible place to have these other types of ideological battles.

Here in the third world life is hard. Business ethics are non existent, workplaces are dominated by obsession with job security. If you have to make a life for yourself, you have to do your work. I find perhaps the greatest "white privilege" as it seems to be called in the west, is having the luxury of debating CoCs instead of supporting yourself and your family.
These aren’t necessarily only iPhone “issues”, they apply to other mobile devices as well. Balancing which settings are visible and which aren’t is tricky. But one thing I’m upset with and that’s the death of the manual. I shouldn’t have to rely on 3rd party life hack style videos and articles to figure out useful features. I’m not expecting (or wishing) to see 100+ page paper manuals to make a comeback, but I’m also not happy with flimsy, pretty support pages which only scratch the surface. I want to see detailed and well designed documentation with useful illustrations on how to do things.
I didn't see the part about visualizations and to my knowledge they are considered a distraction to the practice of meditation and not to be sought after. I was actually thinking the opposite for the cause of the perception of "the chamber of guf" that it results from the suppression of the default mode network and the decoherence of other organizing factors in the mind. To use the metaphor of the article, you ask the Angel to stop promoting just a few of the thoughts and instead just leave the door open so you can listen to their murmuring.
> ... is another potential protester locking themselves up in front of a fracking plant ...

Isn't fracking responsible for a massive drop in coal use though? The increased amount of natural gas available means that wholesale prices for it have dropped, which has made coal-powered energy plants increasingly less viable financially compared to natural gas power stations. And natural gas, fracking and all, is far less of an environmental problem than coal is with all its mountain-top removal strip mining and cancerous, radioactive soot.
Try writing a linked list in Rust...or implementing a graph. It's not intuitive I think?
I once had it turn out to that the post was made by my project manager 5 year ago, trying to fix the same obscure bug he'd just assigned to me, and running into the same problem I just did. He'd completely forgotten about it.
Didn't mean though I think the current situation is that bad. What you get already is a type safe way to build async programs where the runtime is separated from the logic. I remember switching from a single threaded event loop into a work-stealing threadpool by just changing one line of code. It's very explicit and nice.
Perhaps taking your frustration out on the people who don't even believe climate change is real, and not the people looking to move humanity towards the stars would be more productive at getting people to care about these issues. Not the ones who have dedicated their careers to a certain scientific pursuit.
Most of the points in this article are just wrong (e.g. font size asked for and configured during initial setup; WiFi alerts are not enabled by default).

Apart from that, I agree that iOS has too many hidden features and — first and foremost — too many interactions that you must know exist and you can’t find by just glancing at the screen (which is defined as mandatory in Apple‘s User Interface Guidelines).

So, yes, their products get worse. But, no, not like described in this article.
True, but Linus is not the leader of Git since 13ish years. He gave the reins to Junio Hamano before it became such a large and influencial project, and Linux is way larger and way more influencial now. There's way more Linus "baked in" the kernel than in Git, I would say
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Mars is the remote backup, but it's empty. Now that's a terrifying thought.
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Almost all of it can be applied to not only Android phones but also Mac, and Windows. The problem is that everyone needs a slightly different set of features to be at the front. There is no way any software maker can surface the features a user needs for everyone. At some point the user has to take responsibility and learn the tool they bought. If it was anything from a coffee machine, to a tractor, the user has to learn how to use it, and also use it all to it’s full capacity. With accessibility issues this is harder I know, and yes Apple should put text size settings in the set up process.

Also maybe phones could be more proactive in pushing the user to do stuff differently. Eg if the user keeps googling Facebook to get there it could suggest typing directly or showing a message about what bookmarks are.

But the title of this article is definitely click bait. I know I clicked on it indignantly thinking “maybe but no more than other phones”. Whereas if it had been “phones are hard to use”, then “lets look at the iPhone”, the chances I clicked on it would’ve been lower as I would’ve though “yeah you’re probably right”

It’s actually a pretty good article, that made me think about my job, just would’ve been nice to see examples from other platforms for comparison.
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Besides how unusual it is for the NYT to write about the suicide of someone non-famous, this story struck me as being very much of this modern age:

- The deceased was a software developer (his last job was senior director of development at Dell) who couldn't find work in his 50s and 60s and was living on food stamps at the time of his death. [0]

- He changed his name late in life because it was forever connected via online search results to an incident of disorderly conduct that made the news. [1]

- He bought a vial of poison from the dark web.

- His body, at the driver seat of his car, was ignored for a week in Manhattan because people assumed he was just a napping Uber driver.

- Despite his car being tracked by all the city's surveillance cameras and license plate readers -- including the geo-coordinates of his last known phone call -- the NYPD were unable to locate him.

- The NYPD initially ignored the missing person report because it was faxed instead of emailed.

[0] https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/brutal-job-search-reality-...

[1] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/geoffrey-weglarz-conn-man-threw...
Features before security. It's the exact same problem with all technology. Security doesn't sell. People don't care about security until it affects them. Follow the market, right off a cliff.

It will come full circle. The possibility is there but widespread abuse hasn't happened yet. When it does, security will be the #1 selling point.
And hopefully in the future even more so.

I was quite disappointed how WinDev managed to sink Longhorn and later WP 7.
A secret cabal of Lisp programmers took over the C++ steering committee.
Hillsong music is simple, catchy, and easy to play. If a teenager can pick up a guitar and lead their friends to sing along with easy lyrics, it'll be a hit.

A satirical take on this is How to Write a Worship Song (In 5 Minutes or Less).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhYuA0Cz8ls

Translations of Hillsong music into other languages are also popular. 約書亞樂團 Joshuaband translate some songs into Chinese, and it was a huge help for me learning Mandarin. I also know about illegal translations of a lot more songs, in Chinese, Taiwanese, and Hungarian. It's illegal because CCLI doesn't operate in those countries, so there's no way to license the song translations officially. Email me if you want to know where to get the chords/PPT/OpenSong/sheet music/MP3s.

For other languages, there's Hillsong Global Project for German, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Korean, Indonesian, French, and Chinese.
It's a title attribute on the body element. It can show up as a tooltip when you rest your cursor on the page.

<body id="APOSTOPHES-body-id" title="Claudia, you are banned from here">
No. Startups aren’t worth it if you’re not running it.

As far as newer techs go, well, how many have COBOL already outlived? It’ll outlive a lot of them yet.

HN is a great place for FOMO, but reality is often different. In my country 90% of everything is run on JAVA, C# or PHP. Front ends are typically something a little more modern like angular or react, but you won’t get a front end job if you can’t also do C#, JAVA or PHP.

If all these new techs really mattered, you wouldn’t still be working on COBOL after all. And you can always play around with them on your free time.

I mean WASM is a fun example, if it picks up, then everyone who’s spent the past decade ignoring JS won’t have missed out of anything, because they can just build their web app with WASM.

If you want to try something different, that’s another story, but don’t take a pay cut that you don’t have to because if FOMO.
Others already mentioned benefits for us currently living humans.

Long term it is also interesting from an evolutionary aspect. Humans communities on earth are less and less isolated from each other, making it near impossible to evolve in different directions. That increases the risk of getting stuck in a bad local optimum.

Gravity well's are an isolating factor. Living on mars will require a highly isolated economy producing essential goods. Once that prove of concept exist can it be reproduced everywhere else in the solar system (or beyond).

Those communities would not be subject to many of the tragedy of the commons situations we have here on earth with our shared ecosystem. No climate change. No plastic in water. No gene manipulation. Hell, you can even build a space station for only white people, if you are into that. Down the line, we'll see what works best.

Earth being that highly interconnected / -depended makes it more peaceful than ever, so war might become a problem again. Communication is still somewhat easy, so working together will likely still be beneficial.
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This, unfortunately, is slowly going away. The Home app in the new macOS, which has been ported over from iOS, is unusable if you don’t know how to two-finger-tap.
For someone stubborn that refuse to use TS, what are you missing ? Is it the IDE tools or the compiler error messages, or writing type annotations ?
I think people have been moving away from the semantic organization because trying to properly dimensionalize the web has been so fraught.
That your configuring your system to be on these update cycles is very probably why your system is on these update cycles. This should have been abundantly clear.
I tried some stacks and now am running docker+mailu image on a 5€/month VPS... simple to configure and fully operational. You might give it a try
The most interesting thing I learned from that wiki hole you just sent me down: Xerxes apparently threw irons at, whipped, branded, and had his soldiers shout at the Dardanelles. That must have been quite a show.
"This code of conduct has proven its mettle in thousands of diverse communities for over 1,500 years" LOL
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Is there any equivalent for django+mysql? I historically found more tools for online schema changes in the mysql sphere, such as gh-ost ( https://github.com/github/gh-ost )
Military use??? You understand what two way transmission means during a conflict? An enemy tunes an antiradiation missile on your frequency, and voila...

China already had military digital satellite coms working by late nineties. For them, it was of even lesser utility.
Because the sources in AWS and Apple who reported this issue to Bloomberg have access to the boards they're reporting about?

What details and evidence about these boards have these sources provided to Bloomberg? Are there any details or evidence?
I don't think you can really "justify" extraterrestrial colonization on critical, legible, practical grounds. There is no roi.

The real, immediate reasons are inspiration related. Some of that gets very practical, though it's always at least speculative. Technological spillover, for example, can be justification in itself. Earthen solidarity is maybe another, and I do actually think that the existence of a few of us elsewhere helps form the concept of "us." Both of these are "on mission" in the sense that they might be key to human survival.

Anyway... Mars colonization is a horizon goal. It's something to focus our minds. Practical activities are dictated by minor goals (eg visit Mars, generate energy locally, etc). A self sustainable mars colony that can survive earths vogon destruction is so far ahead that it's more of a symbol than anything.

We didn't have true practical reasons for going to the moon, or for the ISS either. The main reason is (imo) that space faring is a human mission, for its own sake.

No matter what though, I dont think space faring is something you could sell to your conservative money manager. It's imagination dependant (and inspiring)... a job for da Vinci, not Medici.
So, fun times: if the 1-based indexing throws you off that much, it is entirely straightforward to configure it to use 0 based indexing if you want (or any other kind of offset that you so desire)

https://docs.julialang.org/en/latest/devdocs/offset-arrays/

Having said that, I encourage you to try out the 1-based indexing, as I think you might find a lot of things become surprisingly more intuitive.
>I just always have trouble imagining the end game of that kind of thinking - even in Stalinism, people with higher abilities were selected for various more demanding tasks.

Rejecting meritocracy doesn't mean not acknowledging ability, it means not structuring power hierarchies around it.

Those most able should be chosen for tasks because those involved in the work agree collectively, without the coercion of power dynamics, that it's best to assign them that task.
Can you identify this "group with political goals driving that effort" or is it speculation bordering on conspiracy theory?
Thats the problem I guess, how to standardize something that's not standard and never will be.

Im sure that VMs have been tested and done as well, bringing their own different issues. We could add another layer of abstraction, like some type of orchestration tool, but then that needs to be supported and there will still be issues with the system underneath.

Maybe stat with something like lambda in AWS using their cloud9 instance as an IDE? It will cost a few $ but might help with the basics. However, this would only be good for very limited learning, so maybe add a small sysadmin crash course after that?

So maybe schedule it similar to this:

Basics:
10 days of coding in lambda using dynodb etc.

Systems:
2 days of devops using python to setup and control the environment

Rest of the course ....
3D Touch is great when it works. But sometimes it just doesn't. I know on my 6S, there are times where 3D Touch stops working until I restart my iPhone. It is so frustrating that it sometimes works/sometimes doesn't and if you push to hard it's another gesture altogether.
Purely in terms of code readability:

- for (int i = 0; i < sLen; i++) {
+ for (int i = 0; i < s.size(); i++) {

- int goBack = i - index + 1 - emo.size();
- sLen -= goBack;
- i -= goBack;
- index = -1;

+ i = index + emo.size();
+ index = -1;

:)
I mean, of course they didn't design Apple Maps for seafaring. It would be super useful though to get local wind speeds estimates, and directions -- and in particular predicted wave heights! Nothing to get the blood going like meter-high waves on the outer coast. Do or die kind of deal.
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Religion has always been good business.
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OK, but could you share the specifics? I'd like to understand. Emphasis on combination of safety (primary) and performance (secondary) - remember that any number of completely unrelated, untrusted, maybe buggy and potentially even malicious modules might be combined. They're being very careful about not forcing languages into one model, BTW.
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>Life creates a power dynamic which can be abused in this way.

And such dynamics should be acknowledged and opposed wherever they exist.

>Have some minimal set of rules

Except as I said, these rules are frequently ignored or applied less fairly in one way or another for those with "merit".
I'd say what is typical of the alt-right is not that they dislike 'identity politics' (the discourse as a whole, so including right and left), but rather that they actively take a stand and engage in being anti-'identity politics'.

I know tons of people who mostly just steer clear of identity politics altogether, both left and right. But it's only the alt-right people I know, along with a chunk of the left, who seem to really invest in the whole discussion.
It has started long ago with STL.
Spacelog transcripts are also very well made: http://apollo11.spacelog.org/
> It isn't easy to follow at all

You can't be serious.
At home I use the Hag Capisco, it helps but it is no panacea
I think you are romanticizing the past. 150 years ago most people were living subsistence lives, with hunger and malnutrition a constant issue.
Is their goal to keep adding more and more angle brackets until one day C++ is completely homoiconic?
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> That increases the risk of getting stuck in a bad local optimum.

This is an important concern, but I don't think it really improves on a space colony. To make it habitable the pool would be limited by size - and worse - by heavily controlled environment.
> Templeton is one of a growing number of scientists who believe that the Earth’s deep subsurface is brimming with life. By some estimates, this unexplored biosphere may contain anywhere from a tenth to one-half of all living matter on Earth.

I know the emphasis should be "some", but even then this is a lot of biomatter. How do they come to that number?
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