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> A stranger or advice columnist may not give good advice, but they are somewhat less likely to give advice designed to encourage you to cut your own throat for their personal benefit.

Why is that? I think it's just as likely they are willing to give advice they think the majority of their audience will agree with regardless of how well it helps the person in question. In this case, the conflict is fame vs usefulness.

I think every source will have some perverse incentives, so you can't just go by whether one exists, but instead by how likely it is, what the repercussions are if they're caught, and are there cultural or personal biases that work against those perverse incentives.

Does your psychiatrist seem like someone that actually wants to help people? Do they appear to be greedy or in financial trouble? Perhaps worrying they are trying to keep you as income is unwarranted, or perhaps it should be reconsidered after progress is stalled or they don't seem to have anything useful to contribute.

Are you going to family members or friends that you believe care about you and your well-being, and/or that are upstanding people in their own right? Perhaps that should be what you focus on instead of perceived favoritism or vying for inheritance.

Sometimes good advice is hard to take, and points out flaws you would rather not address given an alternative. Discounting everyone that might actually have knowledge of the situation and other perspectives in lieu of a distant third party seems like a convenient way to discount that advice when it doesn't match expectations because "they just don't understand the situation well enough".
If the "spies" really did "steal" (i.e. copy) an engine design then it seems like a good thing for the world in general. They have helped spread useful knowledge.

Sure, it's bad for the would-be rent-seekers whose plans have been threatened. Why should anyone else care about them?

Thanks China, and keep up the good work!
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Is SAP in the business of selling solutions or technical stack/platform? From what I understand, there is a large ecosystem of private SAP consultants.
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> They are independent nations largely in name only.

I was under the impression that the "independent nations" concept implied independence from the states. Naturally as the power in the US has shifted away from the states towards the federal government the autonomy and sovereignty of the tribes has decreased.
I don't think this ruling changes much. The TMT project had permission to start construction 3 years ago. They could not even hold the ground-breaking ceremony, because protesters blocked the access road. Every time the TMT construction crews tried to drive up the mountain, protesters would stand in the road, and block the vehicles. A couple of hours later police would show up. They would stand around for 3ish more hours, and then arrest perhaps 5% of the people blocking the road. By the time that was done, it was too late for the construction crews to get to the summit and do any work, so everyone drove back down. The few people who were arrested were immediately released once they arrived in Hilo, so they'd be ready to do it all again the next day if the crews tried to return to the mountain. No significant fines were ever levied on the arrested protesters.

The only way the TMT construction will be able to proceed is if local law enforcement is willing to arrest dozens of protesters (including "aunties" - photogenic elderly Hawaiian women) every week day, and not release them immediately. There is absolutely no reason to believe that will happen.

Even if the local law enforcement officials are willing to perform mass arrests, there are lots of other pressure points that the protesters could attack. I would not be surprised to see the protesters shut down the University of Hawaii, which hosts the Institute for Astronomy that runs Maunakea Observatory, because that university has a very active Hawaiian Studies program.

I worked for an observatory on Maunakea when the the first set of TMT construction protests took place. The protesters were allowed to build an unpermitted shelter building, to make blocking the road more convenient for them. If they spend half a day piling rocks in the road, they can declare that it is a sacred shrine, and the road maintenance crews cannot simply remove it. Meanwhile, our observatory had to go through a formal review process with an outside board if we wanted to move a small weather station from one side of our building's roof to another side.
Syslog seems to be on the proposal list as well.
Shouldn't break backwards compatibility. More than anything, my guess is that it's just a result of most of Linux's modern day design having been implemented before the era of containers. Afaik, namespaces+cgroups were never meant to support complete isolation.
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Chinese writing to this day doesn't indicate the sound of the word at all. A fortiori, it doesn't indicate vowels.

The first written Semitic language, Akkadian, _does_ indicate vowels, because doing so is mandatory in the writing system Akkadian used, the cuneiform originally developed for Sumerian.

(Egyptian is closely related to the Semitic languages, but not quite closely enough that it's called Semitic. Instead both are grouped together in the larger category of "afroasiatic" languages, also including other south-Mediterranean languages.)

It may never have occurred to the Egyptians to include vowels in their writing, but omitting vowels from Phoenician can only have been a purposeful choice, as the existing systems (except Egyptian) did have them.
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>Maybe your LoS algorithm sucks with 1x1 columns and windows, so decide your game doesn't need them and you move on.

I really like this viewpoint. The awesome thing about a game (and a roguelike in particular)is that YOU generate all the data your algorithms operate on. I'd take your solution a step further. If LoS is the thing holding you back... don't put ANY walls or LoS blocking terrain in your game. What would a roguelike look like without walls? Would it be any fun to play? Maybe you'd have to make it set on the high seas or in space to justify not having walls or LoS blockers.

Typically walls are used in a game to limit the players movement, limit information, and provide meaningful choices in terms of where to go next. Keeping in line with the LoS theme, you need some sort of gameplay mechanic to fulfill those criteria without forcing you to code a sophisticated LoS algorithm. Wind, current, and fog could fulfill those criteria without having to code any LoS beyond fog of war.
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I've made the classic mistake. It was a good learning experience, but we probably could have finished the game if we just used an engine.
I've tried all kinds of monitoring solutions, and my favorite is still munin[1]. Out of the box it gives you tons of system-level metrics. It comes with contrib plugins for service-level metrics about Postgres, Nginx, and dozens of other popular tools. Then you can write your own plugins for higher-level things. A plugin only has to print a few lines of text, and you can write it in whatever language you like. I have a plugin for Phusion Passenger[2] and another for blocking Postgres queries[3]. You could even collect more application-level metrics if you wanted.

More things I love about munin:

- It is fast. It's just pre-generated static html files, so you never have to wait for a page to load.

- Simple to configure: the only tricky part is a config file with a list of all your nodes, but that is easy to generate with Chef/Puppet/Ansible/Fog/whatever.

- Information density: Tufte would love it. No commercial tool comes close here I think in terms of getting raw info onto the screen at once. This is so valuable for seeing trends or anomalies. When something is going haywire, munin often helps me find the problem in minutes.

- Lots of graphs all at once: I also like that I don't have to navigate or fiddle with zoom levels to see what I want. Navigation is almost always one click and then Ctrl-F or using the mouse wheel.

- Plenty of history: you can look back at the last year of data to see trends.

- Easy to install: just apt-get. Adding a plugin is just a symlink.

- Your data never leaves your own machines.

I think CloudWatch is fine for AWS-specific metrics, like your EBS burstable I/O budget, but for everything else I'd much rather use munin.

[1] http://munin-monitoring.org/

[2] https://github.com/pjungwir/munin_passenger

[3] https://github.com/pjungwir/munin_postgres_extras
You've misread. I wouldn't dare to and I'm not criticizing someone's personal aesthetic preferences.

I'm commenting on their projection of their desired reality onto the real reality.
For sure. Having experience with a console game interface is a plus. I do, however, recommend the lazy newb pack. Especially since it contains DwarfTherapist, a tool that facilitates seeing the status and job assignments of each dwarf. Also I recommend following a beginner guide for the first couple games... or first several... or first dozen.
OpenWRT's DNS server (dnsmasq) has DNS rebinding attack mitigations you can turn on. I'm not sure if they're on by default or not...
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True. When I lived in Maryland I often went to an Amish market and they seemed pretty tech-savvy.
Grown up in China and most popular pencils were coded in dark green made by Zhonghua.

https://img3.doubanio.com/lpic/s9122591.jpg

Yellow ones are rare there.
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An unexpected benefit of Primitive is that it helps create really cool animations (both by screen-recording the Primitive app as it renders the shapes for the image, and by working with SVG animation libraries on the web).

I played around with it a couple years ago (https://minimaxir.com/2016/12/primitive/) and it worked out surprisingly well.
I walk away if they won't compensate me. Not worth my time or the time of any engineer.

Usually the tasks are remedial like "visualize this api using x tech with y library". Things that you have 10+ github projects posted that could easily be used as a reference.

The interview process has not once proceeded when I refused a task on the basis of already having an example of the requested posted. If that isn't a sign of things to come to you, I don't know what would be.
The main reason I've been thinking about tools like that is more because the persistent structure should probably work regardless of compiler settings/flags and code updates. Directly mmaping the structures you're going to have to worry about how things are packed, and if a new compiler optimization causes things to go differently (something gets eliminated in one version and not the other).
Probably merely because it's hard to do and no one has sufficient motivation.

I can think of one good use case -- y2k style problems.

Also sometimes apps are tied to external events like legislation. It would be good to set the time forward for testing.

You can sort of do this with LD_PRELOAD but it can get hairy.

Also see @wmf's comment above.
Glance at it and then get back to working on the fun things they care about?
> The problem for Google is that the company has condoned . . .

That is a problem, but it is not the problem. The problem is developing good practices for handling harassment situations going forward. We can fret over what has been done, but we can only change the future.
You innovate. You deliver a similar solution in a simpler “good enough” way (rebar). Or solve something cumbersome (stripe), or create new markets (invision, Netflix)
Because it has been my experience. I personally was able to do 2 years of college but the student loans killed me after I wasn't able to get a high paying job. I love when they take money out of my paycheck. Most people have to work for a living, especially poor people. They cannot afford to not have an income, to just go to school... You are talking about lower middle class kids, not poor people. If you've never been poor don't assume you know anything about it.

Also a student loan is how you claim the poor can go to college. But I stated that most countries have free schooling. Being poor then immediately adding debt doesn't help yourself at all. Perhaps you should go hang out with some poor people and hear it straight from the source. Not trying to be rude or anything, as you make good points about skilled labor.
I think you can extend to most technology, they are generally poorly run enterprises. When money comes easy as is currently the case, bad leadership is not as obvious to recognize.
(Me again under a different throwaway.)

It was actually a 0% raise when I got my promotion. The $5k was from an annual merit increase beforehand. I'm not complaining too much because I like my work, and as far as I can tell my total compensation is on the far upper end for companies within commuting distance.
Here in Brazil growing up most of them were green, with the occasional cartoon character-branded pencil in the mix.
Granted it is anecdotal, but I've seen a psychiatrist. After a short time he said he didn't think there was any need for future appointments. The original reason for seeing him had been resolved. I do continue to go on a less frequent basis because it is helpful.
> By contrast, cuneiform (of Sumer origin -- a traditional rival power to ancient Egypt) did have vowels.

One caveat: As I understand things, Sumerian started out without vowels (or consonants), much like Chinese, but developed phonetic usage over time (unlike Chinese :( ). This has resulted in early texts being much harder to read than later texts.
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The big difference here is that student loan repayments are based entirely on your future earnings. It is, for all intents and purposes, a graduate tax. The majority of people will not pay off their loan before it is forgiven, and many will never pay anything at all.
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At its core, spec lets you ask "Do I have what I need to do my job?", and if you have more, spec doesn't care. Type systems answer the question "Do I have exactly the machine primitives I expected, no less and no more".

It's about inspecting and verifying minimums at runtime.
That's the power of beginnings.

A great illustration of this is alphabets. Look at the Latin Alphabet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_alphabet Most ancient words are "foreign" (heh-heh), but most letters are quite recognizable.

Also quite a few of the ancient Greek letters are still in today's English alphabet (via Latin).
You are telling me that I can hook up 4 Nvidia RTX 2080's to it? Why are they not advertising this?!?!?
Thanks for the more information! I may not have known what I thought I knew. However, some googling leaves me still unsure.

This web page suggests that the earliest known written languages were all vowel-less, including the ancient Egyptian alphabet, Proto-Canaanite, Phoenician, and South Arabian. It doesn't mention Akkadian though.

https://www.ancient.eu/alphabet/

Other googling suggests Phoenician developed from Proto-Canaanite. Even if other written languages with vowels were around at the time it developed, I don't know if that means it was a _purposeful choice_ exactly. Just based on how languages works, it seems plausible it just evolved from Proto-Canaanite by people who knew how to write Proto-Canaanite, which doesn't necessarily mean they thought "Gee, should we add in vowels like those Akkadians?" I don't know if we have any way of knowing?

But you may know more about it than me, or what I found on google.
Exit package that big? You'd be looking at the CEO and the Chairman. Fat chance. :-/
If you're into woodblock art, check out Tom Killion in Marin.

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I tried reading books on my phone, but gave it up because it drained the battery like a torpedo below the waterline.

I'd buy an e-ink reader with a form factor the size of a phone. The usual ereaders don't fit in a pocket.
I was honestly expecting a story similar to why barns are red.
By some derivation of Betteridge's Law of Headlines, the answer is "pyramid scheme".
I don't want to invalidate your experience, but, jeez, I really feel awful for anyone that has to live in a world where they're constantly wondering if their friends are trying to take advantage of them. Most situations in life aren't zero sum, what's good for them may very well be what's good for you. Even less situations are zero sum and material; one patient's business is not likely to make or break a psychiatry practice so why not give good advice (misery loves company after all, healthy outcomes probably exponentially generates new customers).

This is especially apparent when the alternative is often some faceless person(s) on the internet who may very well bring their own (unknowable to you) biases to the table.
Ok, I think you had a reasonable point that just wasn't articulated well. Somewhat separable from what that putative developer should be able to make, of course.
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I use santander, which has 1.5% interest (not amazing, but better than nothing) + 3% cashback on phone and internet bills, 2% on utilities and 1% on council tax / mortgages, which adds up to significantly more than the interest over the course of a year.
Oh geez they could have left this statement out: "When I wrote my previous article, class-D audio was fairly new, and audiophiles were still arguing about whether class-D amps could sound as good as class-AB or class-A units.

Nobody is having those arguments anymore."

Those arguments are still front and center when it comes to amplifier design, both on the manufacturer and consumer sides.
I wonder whether namespacing time would also result in those namespaces being able to have separate "clocks" (time backends? time schedulers?) that progress at different rates, or for different reasons.

Being able to put a process into a time namespace with a deterministic "clock" would obviate a large benefit of http://www.zerovm.org/.

Also, having "clock slew" be a matter of perspective—with processes that can handle leap seconds seeing them happen instantaneously; and processes that can't handle leap-seconds, seeing slewed time—would be nice. Then you could have different system facilities that care about monotonic time, vs. synced to calendar time, vs. one second per second time, all having that kind of time available to them as "the time", rather than through different APIs.
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I remember when that guy from the Emgadget podcast took a year off the internet and basically lost all relevance when he came back.
I agree with Torba's basic position on free speech. I am opposed to the recent developments along the lines of 'some speech should be banned (merely) because it offends.' OTOH, when I tried out Gab a couple years ago, very early on after it started, the fn'ing nazis were so numerous and made me so sick that I quit it very quickly.

I've given up on social media after that one try. (Unless you count HN as social media.)
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I didn't know that Andrew Torba (Gab founder) had been in YC recently. Seems he didn't feel like he fit in and maybe lacked the ability to deal with his feelings maturely.

> Torba posted an image on Twitter of comments made by a Latino Y Combinator member on Facebook, expressing fear for the safety of women and minorities, and added, “Build the Wall.”
Because it's two disciplines. The moment you have to decide wether to "generalize this" or not, you are a game designer, not a coder anymore. Completely different headspace. So, path of least resistance is to continue coding aka "I'll just generalize this."
I live in the UK and always since I can remember (27yrs) pencils have always been red or the red/yellow and black striped ones. In fact the only yellow ones I remeber seeing have always been the packs of very cheap poor quality ones.
notavirus:

- open source, used by many before
- av companies frequently get false positives
- virus companies probably use common sigs and heuristics
- the installer might probe for higher privileges without actually being malicious

isavirus:

- not much

Was clamav tried? Is ESET listed (my favourite AV)
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I keep 3 months pay as emergency cash on hand in that account.
Thanks for posting - that's a pretty big yawn part. The Haswell in my current old Macbook Pro (a wonderful laptop) beats that easily enough.
What's the alternative exactly? What would a government do besides hand it over to corporations to use?

Even if they wanted to use it purely internally, they'd have to hire a company to manufacture what they want. I suppose a country like China could use a state run company instead of a private one?
Stripe raised $245M. Netflix raised 3.1B. invision too raised significant funds. and rebar isn't about a demand side business, it's a better supply side business.
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Thank you. I think I have a good idea what it is now. It's a constraint of a field. But it goes a bit further to ensures that, for example, an author id refers to a valid entity.
Yeah, it's definitely achieved "verb" status in my social groups. Transferring between other monzo users is so incredibly quick and easy. Even people who aren't in your contacts list, with the bluetooth transfer feature. It's great.
Because one of their latest products is an AR headset.
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I used berol handwriting pens when I was 4 or 5 years old and they are still my pen of choice today.
I think it's more likely that we're just not that great at "curing" mental illness (whatever that means) than it is that the entire industry has a conflict on interest where they COULD be helping people get better faster but they don't.

I've never had a therapist bat an eye when I tell them I'm doing well and I don't need to come in for a while. My last therapist went on maternity leave and recommended me to a colleague who they thought I might enjoy working with. It's been great and I'm not going back to see my original therapist. I guess they should've sent me to a bad therapist so that I would come back and be their client again, but the person they recommended me to is great.
I'm waiting for the Canonical acquisition announcement by another big tech company. It'll be next...
No, Neuron was the inspiration, but the code was redesigned and reimplemented. Additional features have been added as well, such as defining a cell via #%% in code rather than having to select text.
Me again. Different burner. I doubt you'll read this, but hey. :)

When I was in an embedded role, I had a few years to gain expertise in our product space. Then when I switched to a prototyping role, I had an opportunity to learn all about the so-called "big data" technologies. Over the years I just kept teaching myself more stats and ML, and here I am.

To be honest, I'm trying to shift away from it. Data science seems to be past peak hype, and much of the work tends to be less challenging than more conventional software engineering.

I'm not sure I'd be able to get a data science job outside of the company. I have no academic background in it, and that seems to be a prerequisite for most places. It's a pity, because most of the credentialed data scientists I've worked with have tended to be underwhelming.
Yet BAU (with the odd extra business opportunity thrown in) will reign nonetheless. Anyone still believe Homo sapiens to be an appropriate name for our species?