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>Making diversity a goal is identity politics

I think you may be being too absolutist here? This would only be true if literally every demographic thought identically about every aspect of a project or product and brought the same point of view. Then everyone would be interchangeable beyond pure technical competence. However I don't think that's always true, and when it's not that means that diversity can have some value purely in and of itself since it will bring a better reflection of global usage goals and UX considerations.

I want to emphasize that this doesn't mean it's a more important value then anything else, which might be where some of the reflexive opposition comes from. It shouldn't be a zero-sum game, where gaining diversity means necessarily losing on other important values. But neither is diversity never of any inherent positive value, it can be, and that in turn is worth some positive effort to pursue isn't it? Not merely correcting biases, but actively seeking a wider array of PoVs from intelligent people could help avoid mental boxes and unpleasant surprises when something goes out into the general world.

So maybe a better version of what you said would be "making diversity the only goal" or even "the goal above all else" or "diversity a goal but never taking into account whether any cost/benefit tradeoffs to existing culture makes for a net win" or something along those lines?
NVC is great and has improved my speaking and listening skills. However, I have to take issue with the name. Co-opting the word violence, is great marketing but dishonest.
① Yes, in a sense, this is the point of "Recursive Functions of Symbolic Expressions and Their Computation by Machine, Part I." But Lisp is a much larger and more diverse phenomenon than McCarthy's 1960 paper. For example, Common Lisp is not small and simple, although it is not as complicated as C++, and it's still part of "Lisp".

② Regardless of whether it is or is not the point of _Lisp_, it is not really the point of _SICP_, which is about different approaches to structuring programs. One of them is the Lisp approach.
We changed the URL from https://thenextweb.com/artificial-intelligence/2018/10/22/th..., which points to this and (unless I missed it?) doesn't really add anything.
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Obviously, the book value is public and not arbitrary. However, I don't see the direct reasoning behind a "value investor". By that I mean reasoning that doesn't involve guessing what other shareholders will do.
> It's a compromise.

The X200 weighed 1.34 kg, the X280 weighs 1.27 kg. What a massive weight reduction indeed. Totally worth ditching all upgrading possibilities.

Reminds me of Apple ditching the 3.5 mm jack with the pretence of making devices thinner and lighter, when neither happened.
I wonder if you could swing a candidacy like that if you aimed lower than the Presidency?

I can think of several states that might jump at a gubernatorial candidate who said "I will take no political positions. I'll fix/repeal these faulty laws, reform those finance and districting issues, then resign." And a few towns have actually done it already when their budget issues got bad enough.

Obviously it's going to draw opposition from whoever thinks the finance or districting problems are benefitting them, but some places do hit the point where process issues look like a bigger deal than political ones.
Well, Linus has been doing that for years and widely praised for it. And because kicking him out was inconceivable, people did nothing and concluded nothing could be done.
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Please assume other participants are posting in good faith, even if you disagree with what they say. When people present code or text as their own work, please accept it as their work. Please do not criticize people for wrongs that you only speculate they may have done; stick to what they actually say and actually do.
No, I think it works pretty well if practiced uni-laterally. There are two sides to NVC: speaking and listening. Even if the other side in a conversation lacks motivation or skills to talk non-violently, NVC gives you a perspective to interpret the other's message in a NVC way, thereby making the conversation much less stressful and (in my experience) steering it into a more productive and less heated direction.

[edited to add:] With "interpreting the other's message a NVC way" I refer to e.g. seeing the anger of somebody disagreeing with you as something caused by violated expectations and needs that can be talked about, without immedeately feeling the urge to defend oneself and feeling guilty about the situation.
> I actually assume farmers are very welcoming of technology

They should be, especially wrt to automation, considering farmers have been the most prolific in hiring undocumented workers while at the same time being some of the most vocal republican supporters. WAY less cognitive dissonance.
I read somewhere that fake reviews are technically illegal in the USA. Reviewers who received a steep discount or for free are supposed to disclose based on some law supposedly- because it may be promotional. Like YouTubers, Twitch streamers, or influencers.

I don't know what law this is but I'm sure if someone ever got angry enough at Amazon and hit them with a massive lawsuit to enforce the fake review problem, Amazon would probably fix it within a few months. Amazon's pretty proactive and they tend to respond best to lawsuits. I follow lawyers for Amazon sellers who sue or threaten to sue Amazon and/or Amazon sellers in the US.
Yes, you have succinctly described the status quo. My point is that "only pass regulations that serve the public good" is vague to the point of being meaningless. That's akin to saying "cancel all the wasteful government programs" as an answer to the deficit.
It's a great go-to for an API that provides relatable, recognizable data for a demo, class, or darn near anything else you build that doesn't need selling.
Don't be lazy...
Does playing games when young develop analytical skills that help you program?
My son is 6 and started playing games and is borderline obsessive about everything he likes. Should I restrict the gaming to once a week or 30 mins a day? Does playing games lead to an interest in programming and tinkering? Would like to hear from people's personal experiences.
This one starts you in long mode, at least. :)

UEFI just isn’t as well documented in a way that hobbyists can find, it seems. I know I’ve stuck to multiboot because there are so many examples and resources, and it’s one of the least interesting parts of the process, so I go with what’s simple. (Which is no longer multiboot and is now phil’s bootloader used in this tutorial.)
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TypeScript can check and autocomplete valid values of strings too, but I agree with the other points.
The Dems gerrymander just as much as the Rs do.

You're using a tiny fraction of history to discuss this, and even within that tiny fraction your numbers are incorrect as the the dems held the majority from 2007 to 2011 and only lost it in the backlash from the health care debacle.

Also the national popular vote is totally irrelevant to the house membership. It's not set up that way.
The point goes to the claim "I'm under the impression that most Macbook-wielding developers are web developers"...
I assume you realize what you're doing, but quoting the text of the CoC to people defending the CoC when they respond to a criticism of any kind and in any fashion of response is exceptionally passive-aggressive to the point of being inappropriate. You've done the same thing in response to multiple commenters on this thread. Perhaps you should try also practicing what you preach?
Well, the one person in the state would get two senators and a representative, so that's one thing to consider.
https://archive.is/aeXVP

> We found that a relapse isn't likely unless lawmakers gum up a recovery with ill-conceived stimulus policies
It's not "unrelated", it's an intertwined phenomenon, especially in practical consequences. In Redis, as one primary example I already mentioned, all database partitioning is network partitioning (and vice versa). The logical object is still a "database" even if the physical object suffering problems is the "network".

For similar reasons that you suppose they "don't use proper distributed algorithms" (which seems an overly harsh way to put it), I simply presumed the logical entity in question is still a "database", even in the case of a network partition problem. I don't think it was either Postgres or Redis in this case, but they are simple enough examples to illustrate the overall problem.

Either way, my case still seems to stand that we aren't likely to get more information about the specifics of the partition failure because likely both the logical (which "database") and physical layer specifics (which datacenters/"network") are things that are internal to GitHub that they may not be able to publicly describe much more than what they have.
It’s a little unsettling that the character they chose for the API’s splash page is Ultron.
Question, any live examples?
hells yeah! not a problem.
In Michigan we've already got family farms with a man, two sons and a single employee handling 10,000 acres. Robots driving tractors, trucks and combines would allow that to expand 5-6X. In turn that would lead to a reduction in farmers of up to 80%. This is a trend that has been running for close to a hundred years. Remember at one time a quarter of America's population were farmers and now it's under 2%.
This is the intra-individual equivalent of clickbait headlines. Alexander speculates that memetic virality mechanisms are also at play within the individual mind, but if you don't have Incest OCD or whatever, you're probably more strongly affected by, say, the dogwhistle people claiming to find "dogwhistles" showing that politicians are secretly racist or whatever in every public statement. Or, here in South America, people blaming every political event on the CIA.
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If we continue this, I'd say let's just erase the first human.

After all, human has not done much net positive thing to the Earth.
What are the priorities? Is 'collaborating' supreme goal on its own?

a) Quality
b) Feelings
c) Having as many as possible people 'collaborating'
d) Getting job done

Pick two. They are not excluding others but I wonder what the priorities are.

I pick A and D, C is welcome but not priority, B only if it doesn't clash with any of other goals.
>FB just doesn't understand the optics they create.

Sure they do; they just also know that the vast (VAST) majority of people don't understand the implications and/or don't care.
....What are the products?
Can you please stop doing this? It might have been funny the first time but a half dozen is spamming the thread.
I think the only problem with this technique is the missing minerals.
That "strategy" hasn't ever worked before - at least, it has not resulted in significant numbers of programs being cut. (Or, rather, it hasn't resulted in significant dollars worth of programs being cut.)
I'm surprised nobody yet has mentioned reason no1 people switch jobs: to get a better-than-COL raise.

So I would say companies that continuously review compensation according to market and employee evolution would be better positioned to retain developers.
I think you could probably do this now with a good enough client and mail processing rules.
I think the downvotes attest to the facetiousness of your comments.

I would fully expect references to Allah to be treated in the same way by the people who commented positively about this work.
Could mean local community farming hands will suffer from possible job loss and in turn cant make money the way they used to. If people lose those jobs where do they turn, people living in the rural communities do so out of cost or personal preference, so where do the former go if their income disappears?

I guess if you picture it more like in the movie Logan where its just a giant corporate run automated farm that displaces regular farmers who cant afford the setup that seems pretty dark and dystopic.
There's nothing morally wrong with it, but our current government systems aren't built for a few corporate entites (because there's no way this is downscalable to small family farms) essentially owning both entire states and the majority of the nation's food production. That's one merecenary army away from corporate nation-states
I don't think you need inequality per-se, you need some amount of direct reward, but some amount of social reward for economic endeavors. Starving out either side of that I think yields poorer overall results.
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I put goofy things on my terminal backgrounds and desktop. For me they don't seem to get old. I like charm in my life and my UI. As long as it doesn't compromise the utility.
What part if it is the insult?
Traditional food for the average person is very healthy. Of course, the average Cantonese person was very poor until decades ago. Most of the dishes that have made it abroad usually consists of tastier fare for a more wealthy population.

We know a wealthy Chinese woman as far back as 600BCE had high cholesterol and a heart attack. https://allthatsinteresting.com/xin-zhui-lady-dai
I think most compositing window managers do, having adopted a lot of plugins from Compiz and Beryl.
Engineer here: I used to be completely anti-tracking.

Then, I started needing analytics for my own business. Without analytics, I wouldn't be able to sell with efficiency, and therefore, I wouldn't have a business. Granted, the anti-consumerist in me thinks maybe as a society we shouldn't be so concerned with our efficiency to sell. But, we live in a capitalist world, and I don't see that changing any time soon.

The way I see it now, I'm less concerned about tracking than I am about how big some businesses are -- especially in this space.

At every start up I know, they use analytics, and no one is doing anything spooky. But, I'm sure there's plenty of spooky stuff going on at the FAANGAMUs.
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The immense productivity gains in agriculture have driven down food costs, which improves the standard of living of everyone. It also frees up those who would have worked farm jobs to do higher-valued labor in the economy.
WASM's gc story will be tough to outline, it's going through its own MVP cycle in omitting finalizers & weak references
It would be interesting feed an AI to generate new heroes names and biographies.
> It is the caller's responsibility to handle cut-off logic such as deciding between displaying "in 7 days" or "in 1 week".

That seems like it'd make the API quite significantly less convenient: it becomes unusable on its own and pretty much has to be wrapped in a helper of some sort.
I honestly have long agreed with your premise, but I have to say I can't bring myself to agree with your whole statement. I see it more often each passing year, that someone who behaves a certain way is "charitably" accused of having some disorder, or "being on the spectrum." I do not accept this.

And you can do better than "this code is fucking garbage." Even "this code is poorly done, try harder" is much better. It is more polite, and the more times I see this discussion, the more I like the idea that you should just treat your colleagues like ladies and gentlemen, or whatever.

At a given point in my TDD learnings, I thought I invented a new term for a really powerful idea – "Shame-Driven Development" – turns out I was not the first person who named this idea.

My idea of "SDD" is basically that noticing a failing test will motivate you to fix your code, so it's imperative that we set up CI early in development and shine a light on those failing tests at every opportunity. My idea is not important, if you google the term, you'll see that it really is a bigger idea than that, and all of the top links are perhaps obviously not presenting it in a positive light.

You don't want "shame-driven development." Embarrassment is only a powerful motivator for the people you haven't used it on yet. Other people will seek to avoid being embarrassed, but the person you embarrass will only be left feeling bad.
What you state about percentages is exactly what has been pushed under the guise of diversity in many cases. Meritocracy has been specifically targeted by the more recent "code of conduct" silliness going around.
And somehow I still wouldn't understand it...
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Yep, you can see swagger and swagger-ui keywords all through the source of that docs page.
> watching to the other side while someone is being persecuted (or bullied) puts you closer to the oppressor than to the oppresed.

This would then dismiss every CoC-related effort, because most enforcers do little regarding humans being persecuted in other countries...
I'm disappointed that now you need to sign up on www.repl.it rather than just spinning up a test environment, definitely cuts down on usage. I've found a workaround with www.http://repl.it/languages/python3 for example, but I'm not sure how long this will still be active given their plans to become a full-fledged IDE.
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Like the "you should be retroactively aborted" one?
Feeding everyone is, of course, a good thing.

But to have a state with no people in it implies that people would not be allowed to enter it, i.e. it would represent huge swathes of natural resources wherein some smaller group of people would be keeping the general public out by virtue of it being private property. Forcing people off of land and into cities, thus forcing them to buy food with labor, is one of the primary means by humanity has been subverted from achieving its real potential. Empirically, the rise of more efficient machines has often been deeply linked to human bondage.
Sure. Replacing single files deep down in some directory hierarchy in an archive. Compressing bigger amounts of files as efficient and fast as possible, so I want to customize a lot of parameters of the algorithm. Extracting many archives into separate or a common directory. Verifying archive integrity because something seems to be damaged. Encrypting stuff when compressing.

I like to use a good UI for that stuff when I'm on a graphical system like Windows anyway, and WinRAR is consistently better at that than 7-Zip.

I even seriously miss WinRAR when working on MacOS. Does anybody have any good suggestions for archive managers (may also be expensive ones, I don't care much if they are really good) with similar UI and functionality as WinRAR on MacOS?
I get the feeling there are two very different paths towards an understanding of category theory. Moreover, I feel these paths either don't quite converge or only converge very slowly.

The roads are:

* Through experience as a type-system in e.g. Haskell
* Through experience using this in pure mathematics

From my experience, it seems that trying to swap between the two paths at the start is reaaally confusing. You need to stick to one path until it makes sense. Then perhaps later, you can get back to the other path. The point where "it makes sense" is when you get out of the toy-examples and manage to put it to actual use. My hypothesis is that: because the first actual usage examples are so different between the two paths, switching only confuses you.

Obviously, this doesn't mean sticking to a single source. When you get stuck on one source an alternative explanation is great. It just needs to stay within the same path.
Real happy for the them, I've using them for so long, probably since they started. Amazing service.
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Is weight an issue?
I recently got the P51 for work and was really surprised at how solidly it was built.

My previous laptop was a T450 the ThinkPad reputation really surprised me because it felt a bit flimsy
It is very possible that you are not solving a real problem for the intended target audiences.

That is, the perception of your target audiences is either that they do not need the product or that it adds a layer of complexity they are not comfortable with (trust, potential source of other kind of support issues).

I suggest trying to find other audiences/use cases for this technology.

Sometimes it is the timing of the solution. If I remember well, in the pre-dotcom burst, Google was pitching Yahoo how efficient their algorithms for optimizing ad pricing with the idea of licensing technology, but at the time that optimization was a non-issue for Yahoo because they were essentially selling ads at any price they wanted.
> Better to have multiple heads working on one problem

Yea, I know.

> Will the Chinese develop one on their own in time if an outbreak actually happens?

Maybe they already have one?
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I see "assassination" as "killing a particular person as a political move" - Iraq and Libya were very long-winding paths to get a particular person killed. But I agree it is somewhat imprecise in that it was not the CIA that ordered the angry mob on Qaddafi, he wrote those circumstances himself.
"|Read| is an Android app that helps people increase their reading speed and efficiency by using their peripheral vision. It does this by employing a speed reading technique of drawing lines down the page one or two words from the margin. Instead of the traditional way of reading left to right from the furthest left letter to the furthest right letter, the reader keeps their focus between the drawn lines, and should rely on their peripheral vision to read outside of the lines. As they improve, they may move the lines further in to continue training."

Happy to talk more about it here if you have questions/comments. Thanks!
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Live? Even offline examples would be great. The description is painfully laconic and it's really hard to guess what exactly is generated. Which is a shame, because the project looks like a rather nice solution to really common problem
You can't be harassed if you don't listen.
The threading description is highly misleading, the current proposal being implemented is based on WebWorkers, they are not just native OS threads with a small overhead
Related: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/22/andreessen-horowitz-leads-4p... via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18276247
>It's funny now how some of those very neighborhoods have grown increasingly conservative in their old age by nature of gentrification and often being closer to urban centers than the exurbs that replaced them in people's minds as "suburbs".

Yeah, no. It's not that simple.

In the US the liberals tend to generally be more in favor of government management of what you do on your own property because of how the existing battle lines are drawn with regard to big government/regulation vs small government/deregulation.

The situation is flipped in SV where the slightly older and slightly less left leaning/liberal existing property owners want slightly more regulation (specifically zoning) than the slightly more liberal and slightly younger renters.

Rights of property owners isn't really a specific part of either party's platform. Desire for government micromanagement of what you do on your own property follows wealth much more closely than any ideology. A bunch of rich conservative jerks in a suburb of NYC will agree with bunch of rich liberal jerks in a suburb of SF when it comes to using regulation to prevent people from building things they don't want to look at.
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Not sure about haptic feedback yet.

For Windows, try https://github.com/imbushuo/mac-precision-touchpad/releases

I went through a lot of sketchy drivers like that one you mentioned, but this one worked the best without any helper apps to mess around with.

Its a shame its taken so long for other OSs to support such a great device.