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Indeed, I meant the emacs shell. https://www.masteringemacs.org/article/complete-guide-master... has a good overview in the section regarding the Plan 9 Smart Shell.

I ultimately just didn't find I used it much. If i am iterating, org-mode with shell sources fits a bit more natural for me.

Edit: and to be clear, I meant specifically to have the output below the command with the command still in edit mode. Was not trying to say it is the same as up.
Related: percol utility allows to narrow a process output interactively https://github.com/mooz/percol

I use it all the time to select a command from my shell history. It is a very convenient addition to zsh-autosuggestions (one of those things that you use hundreds times per day without even thinking about it).
Question: how big would the language barrier be? Not only at the workplace, but on mundane, day to day activities, for a family?

When I was considering moving to Europe, I thought of Germany, but quickly dismissed, and then came to the conclusion that the Netherlands would be a better fit. But I'm not sure how accurate that assessment was.
If you only write code which you yourself will read and maintain, then you should definitely do whatever you feel works best for you and matches your way of thinking.
Is it possible to configure namespaces so that they allow read-only access?
This backs up Nassim Taleb's idea that this a small minority forces social mores, when the perception is that we think it's the majority: https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dict...
Is it possible to do system call redirection??
Hey, thanks for checking it out. Really appreciate the feedback all around. Going to address a few specifics here –

"Sine Keys" is a monster. It's the long release time coupled with a healthy setting for max poly, and the killer in Cadmium is the per-voice overhead. I'm definitely aware of this – the CPU usage is a consequence both of the audio-rate modulation and because of VPS being difficult to antialias. Nonetheless, it's a priority and I'm working on it.

Resizable UI is also on the roadmap. The next version (1.1) will have Retina support, and that will pave the way for a fully resizable UI likely in 1.2 (Q1/Q2 next year).

There's a loose roadmap, but I haven't made it public just yet. My priority right now is getting the next version sorted out to establish a release cadence, and then after 1.1 I'll be more open about my plans.

Again, thanks for demoing it, and glad to hear you're enjoying it. Feel free to reach out anytime. :)
The phrase "everything is political" or "x is inherently political" some people use came to mind when reading your last paragraph. For them, I imagine political correctness isn't an offset, it just doesn't exist, or anyone far enough to the right is the sensitive one.
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Oh, come on, there was a given number of legal immigrants and now there are fewer because of a change in government policies, that's a restriction on legal immigration. You're arguing it's justified, but stating it didn't reduce legal immigration is simply incorrect. Because it did.

I also don't think it's disingenuous in stating it was motivated by religion when the circuit court for Hawaii declared it was and 4 members of the supreme court agreed.
At this point I can't tell if you're trolling or just completely clueless.

>So you as a user are going to take a backup of os version N, then upgrade to N+1, live on it for a long time, then both want to pay/keep the storage costs of N AND potentially months later downgrade and lose all new data to go back to N?

You realize Apple already does this, right? Backups go to your laptop if you have itunes installed and icloud by default unless you tell it jnot to.

>It sounds like a terrible user experience.

I've literally never heard anyone complain about the experience.

>If you told me it was a fresh OS with no ability to recover your old data, then maybe I could see it. But even then we’re assuming you didn’t use any cloud services that migrated your data once all devices had been upgraded, which isn’t true for either major platform. We’re also assuming that you can downgrade all firmware that’s changed successfully (which is expensive new QA).

What are you talking about? Have you actually used a modern smartphone? When I restore, everything that was in the cloud resyncs. Everything that was local is still local. if my iphone were to blow up tomorrow, and I were to do a restore, it would be no different than a downgrade.

>I’d rather just have companies really prioritize performance to begin with.

Ahh, right, so they should be designing their OS for 4 year old hardware? Or maybe they should just allow users to downgrade, which would require almost 0 effort on their part.
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Piggybacking off the fizzbuzz comment, but at my job we we don't ask hard whiteboard questions - just simple ones that prove people can code, and 75% of them can't do it. If you can't do fizzbuzz, you can't do this job. It's an effective filter.
Speaking of hardware, Apple's A-series processors have a significant lead over Qualcomm's Snapdragon, which Oculus is stuck with for their standalone Quest headset.

If they do make a VR / AR headset, that's going to translate into better performance and/or longer battery life than their competitors.
Why do you say that? It sure looks like it to me. Samsung and Apple are the giants, with a couple others like LG/Motorola/Huawei making up almost all of the rest. Googling for "smartphone oligopoly" turns up a bunch of economics and investing webpages that use smartphones as their prime example.

Is a $50,000 phone a realistic alternative to an iPhone?

The whole point of this exercise is to get a phone that is well-supported for longer. Should I really believe that an Android name from a no-name brand is going to have better long-term support? On what would I base that?

The "which is why upgrading takes so long" is a perfect example of an axis upon which consumers, via the market, have no control. If you want the latest version of Android, there's only 2 brands that offer it so far (Google and OnePlus), so you'd better agree with all of the other decisions that one of these two made.
Perhaps simply selling your (unsigned) winning ticket to _anyone_ for payment after they collect would work. After all, they're going to be a centimillionaire as soon as they cash the ticket in. If I lived in a non-anonymous state I would seriously consider taking, say, $100m and letting someone else have the balance of the jackpot in exchange for them taking all the publicity.

Would be rather tough to find a trustworthy buyer, would need strong contracts, and some means of enforcing collection since if you need to go to court you're not anonymous anymore and there's no possibility of using escrow.

Not in principle impossible since a lottery ticket is a bearer instrument.
iOS 12 has pretty big performance improvements for older phones. I noticed a big improvement on my old 5s.
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Who said anything about eliminating gendered pronouns?
”Why would I pay you $60/year to back up my files to thumb drives and friends' computers?”

Isn’t that kinda obvious? What you pay for is the ability for the developers to continue refining the application and keep adding useful features. Sounds reasonable to me at least.
That makes more sense, thanks for the clarification. The tweet saying that it was originally posted on a "wiki" and then linking to a wiki made me think that that wiki was the actual source.
There's always a trade-off. You can have cheap steel, or well paid steel workers. You can have cheap medical care, or well paid doctors.

Arguably by making postdocs underpaid, the US as a nation is getting cheap scientific advancement, in exchange for dangling the promise of eventual American citizenship (and the American dream) in front of said postdocs.
I bought a Kit Kat Chocolatory gift box large for 45 USD as a gift for our anniversary (my partner & me). The S&H was 25 USD.

It was OK, an interesting experience. Just not worth that amount of money (YMMV and the surprise effect was worth it). It contained about 5 different types of Kit Kat (maple & strawberry, green tea, butter, ..pistachio?) including 4 Sublime Bitter. The latter were, IMO, ace but I already regularly eat pure sprinkles and pure chocolate spread and I am already used to Belgian bonbons and German/Swiss chocolate. I bought it for the Japanese twist...

Strangely, a month or 2 after I received it (it was stored as a present, meanwhile) PayPal send me an e-mail that the payment wasn't claimed and I got my money back from PayPal (???). Peculiar experience.
Yes, and the result is people using old software on those old OS versions which... well, have blatant security issues. Apple shipping minimal security fixes to old OS versions has ripple effects that are really unfortunate and expecting every small app developer to support 5 major versions of the OS feature matrix isn't practical.
My position is that industry has a long and well documented history or over inflated claims and hyperbole. The FDA exists because of the danger of claims that get made. Even recently a product was recommended to treat dogs that was like 90 proof alcohol which was toxic. So yeah I have a hang-up with naturalist stores that I feel is well justified.
It would be interesting if there were a civil penalty accessible to individuals if their personal data was divulged by someone to collected it. Lets say that it was $1,000 to $10,000. And that individuals need only file a simple form with the appropriate agency naming the company, identifying themselves, and the information divulged and get paid. The amount would vary based on how detailed the information was, more detail more penalty.

So someone like Equifax would be on the hook for $1.4T in civil penalties for losing the data on 143 million customers. That would have effectively put them out of business.

If you set up such a system, then it is very easy for engineering in an organization to explain why they need to invest in the security safeguards they need, and it is very hard for product managers to argue for collecting even more detailed information. All because you have created an existential threat to the company if they screw up.
This is almost literally what I used as an inspiration for the site transaction monitoring part of https://checklyhq.com, as in a browser emulation feeding a monitoring system at regular intervals. Selenium was always a bit of hog so I jumped on Puppeteer when it came around.
Exactly. I think people have been conditioned to see "political correctness" as something bad, and have different views of what it means. You can oppose "political correctness" and have literal nazis and KKK members nodding along because they think it means "anything other than white supremacy", while at the same time you can have centrists nodding along because they think it means "using the correct gender pronoun in all settings."

I think this is a result of an intense propaganda campaign on the right that has distorted the meaning of political correctness so that it can mean anything the reader dislikes.
So you're willing to let kids starve to prove a point to someone?
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Just FYI, CO2 credits may not be removing CO2 from the atmosphere in the way you expect.

For example, since methane is a stronger greenhouse gas than CO2, one can generate CO2 credits by finding a natural methane leak and igniting it.

While yes, it needs to be done to reduce the greenhouse effect, this is just addressing one of the runaway effects. Removal and reduction technologies are needed to move our individual footprints towards zero.
Hi there, this is Shiv - I am the VP of Product at DigitalOcean. Thanks for asking about pricing. We are still working out the pricing details. I can tell you it won't be just the cost of the Droplet because this is a managed service with lots of additional features that you would not get with the current Droplet product.
At least in classic tetris and a few other games this has to do with controller polling. If I remember correctly it polls the controller at 30 or 60hz so you'd get the commands in at just before the frame redraws if you're tapping at that speed. I dunno about key repearters though.
Interesting pattern there. One set contains only hardware, the other is, save one device, only software and services.
I don't think that's true at all as I have gotten jobs while doing this despite having had my background checked.
Personally I would like to see freedom of movement in trade agreements. Goods and capital can already flow freely - letting labor do so as well would be more free and have potential to make the workforce something competed for more as well. Companies can already outsource so letting people flow with less artificial resistance (as opposed to natural like language and cultural barriers) seems both fair and efficient.

Granted I acknowledge that has potential to be messy in reality without a whole lot of work to get a framework - let alone one that would be accepted. Perhaps some sort of "social service fee" minimum for benefits in taxes paid to prevent free rider issues for instance.
It’s not runtime, it’s compile-time. That means it needs to be separately compiled for each hardware backend.
I think it also have a cross with something like theater - you know it is fake, but you watch it for fun and story and characters.
Watches and fitness trackers are doing well against them. That said, convergence is huge and I wouldn't bet against them.
> the biological signals attenuate with distance from source

The voltage signal is propagated in axons sometimes over very long distances (a meter, e.g. from the foot to the spine). It is renewed (see "Nodes of Ranvier") along the path for as long as needed, at distances that depend on how, or if, the axon is myelinated. That's why the speed is so slow (ca. 120 m/s max., often much slower) - it's actual ion movement through lots and lots of opening and closing voltage triggered channels all along the axons, compared to a purely electrical signal like in a metal wire. This means while in a wire the electrical field is from start to end, leading to electrons exiting on the far end pretty much instantaneously, in an axon am electrical field is only local, and only strong enough to trigger anything for about 1-2 millimeters at best. Then there have to be a new set of channels triggered by the electrical field further up the axon that renew the signal by letting in ions.

Attenuation is more important in dendrites and neuron bodies, spatial distance of simultaneously incoming action potentials (via connected axons from other neurons) plays a role in determining whether a threshold is reached that would trigger firing an action potential from this neuron. Since a dendritic arbor can be quite extensive and have lots of branches location - where exactly along the branches does an incoming signal attach - matters a lot.
Commenters annoyed by sensationalism, use of the term "censorship", or the lack of a substantive argument, should bear one thing in mind: It's an art installation.

A successful show needs a message, and needs press. It's very accepted within the art community for the message to be a bit blurred around the edges. Take these "cyberlibertarian progenitors", for instance. Who are they and how are they making people believe the internet is a "flat, endless digital plain"? Any sources? No? Well, it doesn't really matter, because this isn't really journalism. It could be very important to the artists – of course it would be very important to them! – but it should not be judged by journalistic standards.

Sadly, this does mean that Vice is something less than a home for journalism proper – but why would anyone ever have started to think that in the first place?
> The choice of word is interesting: encouraging immigration of skilled workers to the US has the benefit of preventing them from participating in the development of their home country.

In theory, yes. However, in practice, "participating in the development" can mean working for crappy employers, for a pittance, on some ass backward php/delphi/whatever system that has been accruing technical debt for the past decade. Not all developing countries are friendly for entrepreneurs either(bureaucracy, corruption, taxes, limited access to credit), so options may be limited.

In many cases, they wouldn't be able to contribute that much, but they may be highly skilled, and the United States works as a force multiplier.

Source: came from a third world country, had a company for a couple of years, spent another couple of years trying to officially close that company after operations had ceased.
Of course on a web site for nerds, commentators are going to claim that a massive loss of life due to what they consider to be some irrelevant factor is just a technical detail which can be ignored.
For the simple SIMD cases where the computation doesn't have any horizontal dependencies (except for a total reduction step), there's little need for any sort of intrinsic usage. (Although you may need some compiler hints to push it to autovectorize).

The real problem is that SIMD hardware sets tends to have lots of instructions that have mixing of horizontal lanes. The scope and performance of these mixing instructions varies greatly from implementation to implementation, and these kinds of instructions are hard for compilers to automatically pick up. It's the latter case that means you need the SIMD intrinsics to be exposed to use the hardware effectively.
I guess the tape is just a linked list of bits? What confuses me about lambda calculus, and a lot of math in general, I guess, as opposed to something like the turing machine, is that, how do I put this...

To actually implement Lisp or lambda calculus in real life you need "cons", right(?), and some way to increment your equivalent to an "instruction pointer". Or else you don't have any memory or information to operate on and you don't have any way to move on to the next step. If you are doing it on paper I guess the act of moving your pen to an empty space is your cons and moving your eyes across the page is like incrementing your instruction pointer... In the idea of the turing machine this is all explicitly explained but every time I try and read about lambda calculus it seems like they just expect you to know it right away. This might seem really trivial to other people but its how I tend to think.
It's more obvious with larger structures. Reinforced concrete has a finite and relatively short lifetime. 300 years sounds like a very long time, but a significant fraction of 300 year old buildings are still around, we have such a large fraction of newer structures in large part because the worlds population is vastly larger today.

At the smaller scale you see things like complex roof lines that are very hard to maintain.
> But users should be less complaining if their device keeps working basically the same way as when they bought it years ago.

But devices can never work the same as when they were purchased for two reasons.

1) Running an older OS with the originally shipped apps means that you are exposed to widely known exploits which weren't known when the device was purchased. You may counter that we could mandate security updates for older OSs for x years, but this raises all sorts of practical issues determining what bugs are serious enough for backports, and what effect fixing a security issue has on performance.

2) Third parties don't all have the resources or incentives to support older OSs, and app compatibility or usability is just as likely to drive people to upgrade as a slightly slower phone. This would be a big problem for smaller dev shops, and Apple largely solves it through its smooth but overbearing upgrade process, but even large and successful companies want to minimize the costs of supporting older OSs. MS Office apps for instance require iOS 11 and up. So your phone used to run an older version of Word ok, but 3 years after not upgrading the OS, it no longer does, or it is no longer compatible with MSs upgraded cloud services, or you restore but MS has stopped making a compatible version available on the App Store due to technical and security debt.

What sort of regulatory apparatus is going to adjudicate these issues, and wouldn't uncertainty around it place shackles on innovation?

Regardless, the relatively small fines levied are already behind the curve, and market forces have already pushed Apple to addressing the issue. iOS 12 had a large focus on speeding up older devices, and my soon-to-be 6 year old iPhone 5S seems to run nearly as well as it ever has. Lisa Jackson had a prominent spot during the last keynote declaring that Apple was focusing on increasing device longevity [1] . OS updates are the key to this.

[1] http://www.asymco.com/2018/09/13/lasts-longer/
From what I can tell, both sides are using AR goggles. They just don't show the goggles on avatars of remote peers, which aren't real video but just posed 3D models customized to (somewhat) match the corresponding user's real appearance.
> The visa goes with the person, they can work anywhere, and after the visa is up can be a US citizen with minimal hassle.

You basically described a green card (except it's nominally five years to citizenship, not six).
the problem is that lots of careers that require degrees don't have 75k ceilings
That's a great idea -- not really sure where to start with that, so we'll have to look into it!
Assuming some users choose to install, and some don't, doesn't change the fact that updates will become incredibly expensive support-wise. Exponetially expensive even.

This will mean: almost never updates at all.

Well, I have to admit: my mother will be happy about it.
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Sounds interesting; but is there any way I could change to a different user if not running as root?... also, even if yes, how do I dynamically create a non-privileged user, or find a pre-existing one?
Of course the odds of building a company to 1B are better, because of the work involved. Buying a lottery ticket takes a couple of minutes of work and $2 at most.

Building a billion dollar company takes generally 10+ years of work (and even if you're YouTube, 1.5 years) and also probably a lot of your own money, at least in opportunity cost if not actual money.
> centrists

> correct gender pronoun

I don't think your average centrist knows what that it
It's a not so uncommon omiyage to buy. Each region has their own flavors, so you are more likely to get them from co-workers than friends.

There was also the marketing ploy around 15? years ago that they did a play on Kit Kat to be きっとかつ/きっと勝つ/kitto katsu for students that wanted to feel like they would surely win a game or pass a test.
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Hi there! I lead products at DO and we've had DBaaS on our roadmap for some time now.
Getting a surprise $100M is different from managing your portfolio. Aggressive means easy to lose it all due to ignorance or fraud. Getting a dozen mulligans via installments is good insurance against losing it all.
Apple supports phones for about 5 years, I'm not sure how that is planned obsolescence. An iPhone 5S is still perfectly usable today given it has a good battery.
I built one of these with my kids (5 and 7 at the time), and painted it to look just like our house. I expected it to stand unnoticed in the corner of our driveway as people buzzed past in their SUVs.

That's not at all what happened. People come by -- kids on bicycles, parents with strollers, even elderly folks on a walk. They take and leave books. Sometimes they're people we know, and sometimes they're people we don't. It's a wonderful thing. RIP, Todd.
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only wealthier people (which in America means white and educated) have time and money to be "activists" for any cause.