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> I don’t think highly of myself as a developer but I find my coworkers extremely sloppy and it seems to me they focus more on narrow problems than the big picture.

Without knowing the full context I can't say who is right or wrong here. Sometimes sloppy code that focuses on narrow problems is the right solution! In some cases, good can be the enemy of good enough. From a business point of view, code should be just good enough to get people to throw money at you, and no better.

I'll be honest and say that writing the last paragraph left a bad taste in my mouth; it's clearly a bit of an exaggeration, but I put it down to make the point that it is obvious that there is some point at which effort spent working to make the code better is wasted effort, and carries opportunity costs that are detrimental to the goals of the project. Obviously the reverse is true as well.

Absent any other knowledge, I suspect the optimal point is somewhere between what you would like and what your colleagues would like.

For each specific gripe you have that you see happening regularly, consider: is this detrimental to the goals of the project, or is it something that is merely unpleasant for me to deal with. When doing this calculus, remember that short-term progress can be required for long-term survival (e.g. if you go bankrupt before shipping anything, it doesn't matter how good the would have been).

If the list of things that are not harmful to the projects survival but distasteful to you is particularly long, you'll probably want to find a new project to work on.

Finally a template for bringing up these concerns in some sort of team meeting (or with the team-lead if you have one, with a team of 6 you might):

1. I have a concern about [specific pattern X] I've seen in code reviews because it will impact our ability to achieve [project goal Y] due to [reason Z].

2. A solution that worked on my previous team was [solution S].

3. Do you think we could adapt [solution S] to work for this team?

The nice thing about this template is that nothing is labeled as "bad" but rather things are couched in terms of what are (hopefully) common goals. There is no implication that you are superior to others (as long as you aren't patronizing in your delivery). There is plenty of room for them to disagree. The main gate is item #1. If you and them almost always disagree at this point, then this is a bad team fit. If they agree on that point, then even if they hate your solution, you've started a conversation about how to fix the problem, which is probably more important that adopting the specific solution you had in mind.

Oh, how not to use this template (just in case it wasn't obvious):

"I have a concern that everybody except me is writing shitty code. On my previous team we solved this by actually caring about code quality, do you think we could adapt that to our current project?"

Which follows the template but misses the point completely...
Buildings too: I think most gothic cathedrals were brightly painted inside, but now we know them in bare stone.
> we are hopeless at determining who is trustworthy and who isn’t

We are not at all hopeless. We're not perfect, but we do pretty well. Just because people make mistakes sometimes doesn't at all mean that everyone is hopeless. Bad software is written, but we can produce good software. People trust the wrong person, but democracy and human rights has blossomed and spread.

Your proposals about politicians are interesting in that Trump likely wouldn't agree to facing the consequences of his actions.
You can mitigate the impact of charging time by charging during meals and breaks (which is why the preponderance of superchargers are located next to restaurants).

If your route allows, you can also take advantage of what Tesla calls "destination chargers" - Tesla chargers at hotels that are free-to-use for patrons.
I'm not fond of the economics of Golem. I suspect they will not be able to compete with centralized solutions, as they have to support all sorts of redundancy to make things trustless. They could make it more federated, but then how is that better than AWS? And why do you need a token at all?
But the Linux kernel is really the only common thing you can expect across a wide array of distributions.

* If you're a GUI app you can also speak X11 with GLX and its up to the user to have something that understands your messages.

* If you want desktop integration you use one of the many dbus protocols and it's up to the user's DE to understand your requests.

* If you distribute through Steam you may also depend on the Steam runtime, but you have to be careful to only depend on what's provided.

* If you distribute through Flatpak or Snap you can also depend on any of the provided runtimes or build your own for maybe easier maintainability. It's essentially 'bundle everything' as a service.

tl;dr depend on protocols and runtimes, not libraries.

Also, nothing is stopping you from building against Ubuntu:latest. It's more cumbersome but Linux users will typically find a way to make your stuff work on other distros.
I am running a site on Ghost, and I think it is good - setup was a breeze, and the WYSIWYG is very good. But I'll tell you what makes me not hate it: Being able to use Markdown!
If you're doing a legal ICO it has almost no benefit over traditional fundraising, and some huge regularity drawbacks (not knowing who owns the shares).
It's a reasonable laptop at an OLPC price. Come on.
If you build a computer and it fails, I doubt most people will care.

If you try to fix a car and fail, you could end someone's life.

While I'm not against these kind of projects, to equate these things is ridiculous. Where is the line drawn? Vehicles are far more dangerous than your own PC.
Curious, I ended up turning off dark mode because I found web pages were jarringly bright compared to everything else on the screen.
Will the negative results be peer reviewed?
I'm working on a food delivery service that helps count macro- and micronutrients (in Shanghai).

RDA of magnesium is ~400mg, which is reachable with ~300g of cooked salmon or halibut (~600 kcal), or 350g cooked navy beans (~250 kcal).
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Paleo Survival MMO game. All players are required to use an omnidirectional treadmill for movement control, and your nutrition for the day is determined by the resource nodes you harvest. You have to form raid parties and take down whales, mammoths, bison, razorbacks, or aurochs in order to get larger quantities of meat. If you die in the game, you are required to donate one unit of whole blood, and will suffer a crippling movement speed malus every time you log in, until you do. (So don't die more than once every two months.)

I should stop now, before someone starts thinking this might be a good idea.
Myth Busters proved you can polish a turd, but how about a brick of piss?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiJ9fy1qSFI
It's a Graphene SGX fork running docker containers so far.
You are probably thinking of Sidak correction when you state independence is needed. Bonferroni correction does not need independence. You are absolutely right about Bonferroni being a severely conservative correction though -- at least the 'first order' one that uses only the first term of the Bonferroni inequality. One can take more terms to be less conservative but those aren't as easy to apply as you need to know the joint distributions over larger and larger tuples of events.

Another more recent technique for 'exploratory' yet correct technique is to exploit differential privacy and dithering.
Another interesting one people don't notice is counting money.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g87HVlu55mQ

I saw this video and didn't think much of it until I saw my friend counting money the Asian way. He didn't know that wasn't how Americans typically did it - I guess you pick up a lot of little things like this by watching your parents.
I haven't had the same experience. Which distros have you tried? Perhaps another would be a better fit technically or community-wise. I'd recommend Manjaro for a rolling release (no major reinstall every year), a focus on user-friendliness, a friendly community, as well as being based on Arch, which means the platinum-standard Arch Wiki is available as documentation for you.
I didn't know about that, thanks for that!
> True enough. I learned two of the languages I know by reading books (after starting with magazines etc)

Interesting...how long did it take you to become proficient? And does proficiency in speech your reading ability?
On Tesla's at least they show you this number alongside the kW's. Definitely easier to communicate with most people and very impressive to see the car getting 400+ miles per hour and the mileage just rolling up while plugged in (so much so that the first time I used one I had to take a video of the screen to show my family!). Obviously that slows down as the battery gets closer to capacity, but damn impressive.
> Partly due to agricultural soil depletion of certain elements like magnesium, zinc, iodine.

Well, maybe yes or maybe no

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S088915751...
Serverless back ends aren’t compelling enough yet
>Could be legit, especially as they're not creating their own token for this purpose.

Maybe I am confusing them for another project, but I am pretty sure they do have a token model.
> What I mean is you to take any word in any language and if you wanted to write it as-is in Urdu syntax, you can do so with 100% accuracy.

Well, except for all the tonal languages, such as Chinese (Urdu has no tonal system). And the various Caucasus languages such as Ubyhk, which has over 80 phonemes (Urdu has 48).

But your point is well-taken, which is that Urdu is a phonetically-rich language.
My argument is that CSS doesn't achieve the same result; it forces one particular mode on you instead of allowing a choice.
What Arabic dialects have you heard? As a native speaker, I have never really considered Arabic to sound "harsh".

Arabic is the language of poetry, so don't let how it sounds deceive you ;)
More than half of surveyed crypto sites would take money for stories
A lot of mannerisms appear to be inherited / learned from parents. Just look about some family gathering.
The same kind of regulatory capture dynamics occurring with telecom and medicine. In the case of auto, preventing startup competition by mandating the old and needless system of dealer middlemen.
I found that black background with white text is great when you have perfect eyesight but once your eyesight starts to go and you start needing glasses white background with black text is easier to read.

it's quite odd. It could be just a personal thing though.
For my needs -- several websites -- a free solution and simple solution will be enough. Pings a few times per day would do. Even once per day might do.

What are free solutions?

One is Google Docs. What else?
As a RTS Sup Com was pretty cool, even if the scale of the maps was a little daunting. On the other hand, during the campaign missions, the maps extended as objectives were reached, which was a good way to avoid being overwhelmed right at the start.

A few other cool features: chaining move or build orders, having worker helping factories, flying unit doing crash damage on death and being able to set repeating build tasks in factories.
Whether you blame researchers or not is inconsequential. People respond to incentives with a spectrum of responses from incredibly principled to entirely unprincipled. If the unprincipled are rewarded and the principled are penalized, the principled will leave the field for something else. Moralize all you like but the incentives define the field.
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A quick google and this would disagree with you.

https://tokenmarket.net/ico-calendar/upcoming
You mean small amounts of psychedelics open you up to new perspectives on things?!?!? Shocking. Bet nobody ever figured that one out before now.
Really??? Teach me! How do you manage doing that???
The future of everything seems to be code. And yet, surprisingly few are aware of it, it seems...
And recording your IP address in the apache log?
As someone who finds it impossible to change their sleep cycle and has tried almost everything in that regard & read a very large chunk of the scientific literature on sleep, both your view and the view of the article seem naive.
Looks like Joanna left the project in good hands. She says Golem raised money but the challenge to me seems being able to verify whatever computation is being done as trustworthy/correct. Unlike in crypto transactions, it becomes hard to build a trustworthy network where computation can be verified, especially because there are so many different kinds of computations available out there
"If a lion could speak, we could not understand him."

http://existentialcomics.com/comic/245
My son's girlfriend acts and talks just like her mother. I was surprised to learn she was adopted!
A global ethics study aims to help AI solve the self-driving “trolley problem”
Researcher finds trove of political fundraising, old voter data on open internet
Don't you use websites that have a dark theme more instead. I always preferred websites that allowed me to select a dark theme and it seems to be more and more popular to do that.

Hell even you-tube does that now.
How long after switching from sleep deprivation to a normal sleep cycle did it take for things to improve? I've been sleeping 5-6 hours for 10+ years and recently moved to 8 hours of sleep a night but it's been a month and I'm not noticing any positive effects and I'm wondering if I'm just burning 2-3 hours of my life on any given day.
The English language simply can not convey Hafiz. Shahriari has made a very good effort but his personal faith (he is a Zoroastrian) colors his rendition of some of the poems.

Also as a note, as C. G. Jung warned in his introduction to the Wilhelm translation of the "I Ching", divination is not without hazardous consequences.

There is no free lunch in the universe. You are not getting "free information" here. Remember that before you decide to weaken your faculty of Choice when using divination tools.

[p.s. Hafiz is also very much coded with Sufi terminology. You can take it at face value and admire his mastery of the Persian language but the embedded messages require exegesis.]
This will definitely happen (and has already begun).

Several of the Tesla superchargers I use are at independent gas stations just opposite the gas pumps.

Once store owners see the value and demand, they'll likely support infrastructure for EV clients.
GNT is the ERC-20 token they use. Golem had an ICO last year. It would be really challenging to figure out how much power is used by a particular ERC-20 token given that mining is performed on the whole chain, not a token bybtoken basis.
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"world’s first brick made from human urine" seems a bit strong.

Maybe there are even earlier ones, but this is from 2010: https://www.treehugger.com/green-architecture/architect-grow...

Edit: Ahh, I guess the nuance is that the first effort used extracted urea versus actually using urine.
In my limited experience they aren't that convincing.
Detecting fake video needs to start with video authentication
>The fix for that would be to change science funding so a null finding doesn't hurt the researcher's career.

I get what you're saying, but the counter to that is it would be too easy for scientists to conjure up studies that they have no reason to believe is true, do an experiment, publish the null finding (that frankly, they were expecting), and ask for more money.

It's almost trivial to think up experiments that will give you a null finding.
One thing that this achieves is that it makes null findings publishable. At least in my field, I pretty much have to discard null results because no reasonable venue will publish them; it's not worth the time to write them up if they'll be rejected anyway - at best, no-improvement results can get a mention, a line in a table, or possibly a paragraph in a published paper about something that actually does make a difference.
rules are only useful when they serve their intended purpose.
They aren't hard problems at all. Even DOS handled them with ease. The problem is that the culture of application development around systems with package managers doesn't consider these use cases at all, forcing you to jump through a bunch of hacky hoops to do deal with them. Case in point: symlinking or mount-based tricks because developers hardcode paths.
technically, they do not need your creditcard details. That's transient information that is only relevant at the time of purchase, as it needs to be forwarded to a financial institution to process the payment. Immediately after forwarding, the credit card information becomes entirely irrelevant (the financial institution's clearance or rejection is the ultimate goal here, to enable a transfer of funds).

And technically (at least in terms of "if it comes to litigation") your name is equally irrelevant: there is no reason to store it, there only needs to be an agreement on which label markings the buyer specifies are to be used. While the name is common, any sequence of letters or even emoji would work just fine, as long as the recipient can recognize the shipping label as being "theirs" rather than "we don't know who this package is for".

The only truly required information is the address, without which delivery cannot be made. That information will have to be stored for a longer period of time (as delivery is almost never an in-house affair), at which point it is subject to GDPR.

(But of course, in the real world, people typically consent to their information being stored in a profile locked behind some kind of login. Sometimes, though, once a case goes to trial, the real world becomes less important than the unrealistic ideal one based on requirements imposed by law)
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Like you, I know I'm not the typical Linux user, but I took started out with Linux (Red Hat) in 1996, then got into learning Linux with Slackware. Today I have servers at home and 'in the cloud' all running Linux (mostly Debian), and home systems (old iMac 27", Macbook Air 13") running Linux only (ElementaryOS and Budgie Ubuntu) and couldn't be happier. I use i3 on the desktop and just work so much better/faster than in any other OSs. You get closer to the real power of the hardware too, amazing how much faster everything is w/o the bit OSs of macOS and Windows. At work is a diff story, depending where I am (I'm an IT contractor), but when I have a Windows laptop, I do 95% of my 'real' work on a Linux server I ssh to. I've also gotten into FreeBSD and OpenBSD on servers and they're fantastic there too, but being in a Linux desktop is where I'm happiest.

TL;DR me too ;)
Oh man, in neuro, discovery-centric science is really controversial. Not the findings themselves, but the funding. If you propose to just stain/viral-inject some tissue, electro-physiologically map some connections, etc, you'll just get back comments that say 'fishing expedition'. Maybe you can do this with NIH when you propose to contrast it with diseased tissues, but even then, it's unlikely (Well, less likely than the 'normal' low rate of proposals being funded).
You got text you quoted from right wing media. He never said the words you wrote, and if you google them, you'll find they only appear in right wing media.

I'm not arguing for or against open borders. But I'm telling you Keith Ellison isn't arguing for what you think he is.

>Legal immigrants have also have to wait in a queue and satisfy formalities.

For 99% of the population there is no queue to wait in.

>who are neither interested in following laws or awaiting their turn

Again this is a right wing talking point. For the average person in Mexico, there is no turn. There isn't even a line to get in.

>So national borders are not creating any injustice.

You're arguing with a straw man. He never said that. He said that it's too easy for corporations to move between borders because of NAFTA (not frictionless, but too easy), and too hard for employees. That imbalance is what he's saying creates the injustice, not border security.

>but you and I both know that certainly wasn't the case.

I do know that it wasnt to support a rap group (also no need for scare quotes here--rap group is an accurate description.).

I never said it was only or even partially to support the group itself. It was to show solidarity with a group of desperate poor people with an aspirational quote.

You can believe and even advocate for a future world without borders as an aspirational goal, without believing that it's possible today or likely possible ever.

Do you think Donald Trump's quote that we need to leave borders behind meant that he wants to just stop gaurding the border?
Exactly. This is going to be the simplest browser extension anyone has ever written, if someone hasn’t done so already.
Seconded. The emphasis on countries with Spanish as an "official language" is misplaced; the US famously has no "official" language (though let's not pretend this is the result of magnanimity, rather than just a peculiar quirk of legislation), and Spanish-speaking enclaves are all over the place.

If you're outside the US you might think that Spanish is relegated to the areas near the border, but no: I have driven through towns in middle-of-nowhere Pennsylvania and seen stores with signs exclusively in Spanish; I have hitchhiked through Aurora, Illinois and encountered wandering mariachi bands making their way to a quinceañera; the alley behind my apartment in Massachusetts is filled nightly with the excited Spanish exclamations of children at play.

By no means is Spanish strictly required to enjoy the US, but it will give you insight into enormous US subcultures that many won't ever appreciate.
It’s not the pension programs, it’s the administration, executives, and luxury accommodations. College should be cheap considering the number of students to professor ratio. Keep admin costs low and pass that on to students. No where seems to do that anymore though.
Learned makes a bit more sense. I would be surprised if that sort of thing is genetic.
Chromebooks sound amazing except I don't want to be locked into Google or give them more of my data...
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> But in practice, how do you distinguish between a bookshop, library, office and desk when all of those things can be referred to by "maktab"?

Bookshop: matjar/dukkan (shop/store) kutub (books)

Library: maktaba

Office: maktab

Desk: maktab

The difference between office and desk is found from context.
Moon reader + on android allows you to invert the colours and that's what I do every time when I read pdf's and the like.
My chromebook sits on the shelf, unused. None of the apps really work properly. It's been a big disappointment.

I recently dusted it off and had the apps update. They worked worse than last time.

YMMV.
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> What those devices do with that light, however, is changing at an incredible rate. This will produce features that sound ridiculous, or pseudoscience babble on stage, or drained batteries. That’s okay, too. Just as we have experimented with other parts of the camera for the last century and brought them to varying levels of perfection, we have moved onto a new, non-physical “part” which nonetheless has a very important effect on the quality and even possibility of the images we take.

I'm confused. What do “those” devices do or could do except capturing an erzatz, a frozen view of world? What is this new non-physical “part”? Cameras captures photons (from one [1] to many) and display a composite image, post-processing or no.

[1] Photon-efficient imaging with a single-photon camera: https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms12046