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I'm on board with the idea that of all the ways to implement an anti-carbon system a trading system would be the best. It creates a real market.

But calling businesses hypocrites is being unfair - there is already a hypothetical market for carbon emissions where the price is $0. The government is going to drive the price up to something high enough that it will change business behavior, by extension causing businesses losses.

They aren't doing anything unreasonable, government steps in, value disappears. They're being completely reasonable by venting and asking for some sort of compensation. Asking for that compensation in the form of a subsidy is selfish, but once the government gets involved all bets are off, so why not aim for the stars and see what they can wrangle?
Actually solving this problem is enormously difficult, it is practically unsolved, isn't it? Seems unfair to judge small projects for not solving bias issues that google and amazon can't even deal with.
But refreshes and new offers are matching the current stock value not the original
Am I alone in thinking that it should be impossible to license out mathematics?
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[Professional Musician / Hobbyist Maker]

Yes, this amp can work — experimental musicians run instruments through much weirder things — but it'll sound strange.

Whether you build an amp or not, you should definitely buy a standard guitar amp, so that he can focus on his guitar playing. A standard guitar amp (solid state or tube, to taste) will let him hear how his playing compares to other musicians (who also use standard guitar amps), helping him gain a critical ear. He'll learn what parts of the tone come from his fingers.

When he's ready to go experimental, then he can start playing with (say) ripping pickups out of guitars and wiring them up to headphones as portable EM detectors. When he gets to that phase, that's the time to start using line amplifiers like the one in this article instead of instrument amplifiers. And drilling hundreds of screws into his guitar.
The article can as well be “Why Pencils are XYZ” where XYZ depends on the country. Once a product is successfull, the original manufacturer and their competitors just continue to copy the attributes of the sucessful product until people can no longer imagine the same product with very different attributes. That is why “Why pencils are yellow” makes sense only in the US, while people living elsewhere are saying: nope, not where I live.
To answer the article: no.
This looks like a mundane bug and there are countless other undiscovered bugs like this. It doesn’t deserve this huge essay IMHO.
Missing stock grants and RSUs, which make up a majority of Big 4 total comp.
I have a distinct memory of 8th grade typing class: once a week over the whole fall semester we practiced typing on these awful AlphaSmart devices. Made almost no progress in our words-per-minute. Then, over Christmas break, we all started using AIM to message each other. Spring semester began and our teacher was flummoxed... We had all jumped up by 20-30 words per minute from where we had been on the first day back in class.
The title has been changed recently; the old one was significantly more inflammatory.
I used to be an underpaid 457 for nearly a decade until I got PR. Just because someone is an immigrant on a work visa doesn't mean they're incompetent. And organisational culture is a top down process, not a bottom up one. So blaming the workers seems misplaced when it is most likely a management issue (who probably aren't 457 holders). That would probably be more accurate.
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Certainly, it can be management of a complex disease basically. A depressive episode might be temporary or it might be longer lasting or even treatment resistant. Diabetes is a complex disease as well that is in most cases (but not all) managed.
But that is all thumb typing. Which is a very different notion then full hand typing.
Not the same topic, but we recently faced malware that got distributed via Hadoop yarn - where what looked like crypto mining code would kick in and hog cpu once the scale of spark compute hit some point. It would kick in randomly and it installed itself as a cron job. It was crazy figuring out this was happening as it wasn't something we expected with java code and from such a distribution. We got rid of yarn to eliminate it at that point.
Yes, but the two are intertwined. You often can not get a flac file from source with the same mix that was put on vinyl, just the unfortunate reality of it. This is exactly what I'm saying, people will say that vinyl "sounds better", and they aren't wrong in a lot of cases. Not because vinyl is a better medium, but because a good mix isn't available in any other medium.
I work at a girls middle school and taught a class called "technology literacy" last year to 6th graders.

I covered what I felt were basics:

* Basic communications tools (email)

* Word processing/Spreadsheets/Presentation software via g suite

* Basic command line usage including bash basics, paths, file creation and edition, sshing

* Basic HTML and "how the internet works" (also with CLI editing of html files in user directories)

* touch typing (typingclub.com)

These girls as seventh graders are coding in Python and nailing it.
All right, you led me into an interesting rabit-hole there, I saw this AI winter page, and after reading a bit , the guy( Filip Piekniewski) said: "...the only problem really worth solving in AI is the Moravec's paradox, which is exactly the opposite of what DeepMind or OpenAI are doing...". Then I dont know what the guy thinks about what is the exact meaning of the said paradox, but in my ignorance I went to check Wikipedia, and they gave me:"Moravec's paradox is the discovery...that, contrary to traditional assumptions, high-level reasoning requires very little computation, but low-level sensorimotor skills require enormous computational resources" Well, this sounded pretty obvious, if you accept "high-level reasoning" as meaning...well...lets see what Wikipedia says a few lines later, quoting Moravec himself: "As Moravec writes, "it is comparatively easy to make computers exhibit adult level performance on intelligence tests or playing checkers,...". So, I can see the same contradiction in both, in the Wikipedia's definition and in Moravecs statement, in my opinion and i think the common sense opinion,"intelligence tests" sounds very broad or very narrow, but anyway useless to make a point about the point, even more when "playing checkers" is in the same sentence, the common sense is that from playing checkers to the "high-level reasoning" used by Wikipedias definition (makes me laugh, sorry for the sincerity), there is an ocean of distance. The amount of memory required to do real "what-i-call" high-level reasoning can be huge only to store the heuristics algorithms execution codes, not to mention all the "concepts" of "things" and their possible ways of "interaction" and all the interactions and their possible subjects-"things" , and the probable mechanisms that we have no idea are in place, probably driven by the most primitive reaction-reasoning mechanisms, who in heavens knows...just my-an opinin after biting the bait : ) , in form of a light comment. Cheers.
Money quote:

"[...] Amazon's market share for its AWS has slipped to 41.5% this year, compared with more than 60% share that it held at the end of 2017. During the same period, Microsoft's Azure's share has steadily climbed to 29.4%."
You can't get a job for being "good with computers" unless it's an IT support job. Software development is much, much more.
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> Keeping in line with the LoS theme

Line of sight would be a fantastic Ludum Dare theme!
It is most definitely a racket, and their "repuation" score severely affected our reputation with existing clients.

Same deployment procedure as had been for years (we'd previously been code-signing with a GoDaddy cert) with Click-Once deployment (was a .Net Office add-in), all of a sudden we start getting dinged.

The cost to the company (a relatively small company) was significant. Had to buy a Symantec code-signing cert (~$900), had to ditch ClickOnce and invest in InstallShield (don't recall the license cost) and engineer the installer to both sign the installed libs & the installer itself. All of this because Symantec hadn't seen the new libs enough because, well, we targeted a smaller corporate audience (for argument sake, we had around a 100 clients, of which, each would only have 1 or 2 installs of this particular app).
The emphasis on art in games frequently goes way too far these days. There is frequently a very heavy investment in art assets to a degree that is pointlessly excessive or even actively undermines the quality of game play.

"Less is more"

When cartoons became a well established business and newcomers couldn't compete, some professional artist left the established studios doing things like Bugs Bunny and created Droopy The Dog which had a great deal less animation involved, yet did not fail to tell a story and amuse audiences.

Consider what information actually needs to be conveyed visually. It probably doesn't have to be anywhere near as elaborate as the art in games coming out of more established studios.
>When I wrote my previous article, class-D audio was fairly new

Not sure what this means. I had a group undergrad project in 2002 to build and characterise a class-D audio amp. The idea was well-established at the time.
Pet's vs cattle is an analogy that originated with English-speakers.

http://cloudscaling.com/blog/cloud-computing/the-history-of-...
Yeah, but in the context of this article, I'd have to cut some traces on the PCB to get there. Doesn't sound like the ideal solution to me :)
I disagree, modern textile workers probably aren't good at hand-carding wool, similarly modern software developers tend not to be good at writing hand-optimized assembly code. Sure, you _could_ do that and there are resources available to learn how to, but (except for some niche fields) there isn't a reason to do it. It isn't productive when a compiler can do a good enough (sometimes better) job quicker.
Thank you for this advice.
I think in spite of those computer classes in elementary school, 119 is still on the higher end. You'd still have a lot of kids typing sub 40-50.
Fruit files like an Apple?
> Hash it on the client? So are you not using salted hashes for your password store?

There is no reason you can't also salt on the client. Salts do not need to be secret. The substantial constraint you outlined in your comment isn't a problem.
uck. Just noticed the spelling error. Wagner -> Wacker. Was on mobile at the time of the original post, and must have autocorrected.
Honeypots take care of most basic bots.
If you need captcha, you can use Math Question like in http://random.irb.hr/signup.php
You can also add extra security with time elapsed between loading the page and form submission, if it's less than 5 seconds it's most likely a bot.
Oh god, jitter... If ever there was a more pseudoscience audio term, I haven't heard it.

I wish there was a separate term between audiophiles who just want to spend a lot of money on hocus pocus, and audiophiles who want the measurably best performance.

Then the audiophile forums would not be polluted with people who spend thousands on cables and other rubbish, when the room response/treatment and speaker selection has a million times more effect on the actual sound.
I agree that science can't be bound by the rigid structures of most applied disciplines, and that the freedom to combine technologies in novel ways is a pre-requisite to novel findings.

What I find objectionable is the inability of scientists to explicitly delegate tasks to domain specialists in their everyday work when it makes sense. I think that it's unrealistic of you to believe that engineers always work with "a fully dimensioned and toleranced drawing" before starting work on a project and that your would work "grind to a halt". Indeed, there's a reason for the qualifier rapid in the term "rapid prototyping". If you can give an engineer general specifications for what you want and then leave him/her alone, he/she should be able to produce something that mostly fits your needs while avoiding all of the pitfalls that wouldn't have occurred to you. It would also be incorrect to assume that engineering does not involve creativity and is purely bound by rigid processes- if your requirements were strange enough, something fresh would inevitably be built.

This sort of delegation of course, is actually more efficient, since you can work on other tasks in parallel with the engineer (such as writing your next grant proposal or article or gasp teaching). Most scientists also already do this implicitly by choosing to purchase instrumentation from manufacturers like Olympus, Phillips, or Siemens rather than building it themselves.

Part of the reason for why I have such strong opinions about this matter, is that I've actually witnessed scientists waste more time messing around in fields where they were clearly out of their depth. As an example, there was a thread on a listserv in my (former) field that lasted for literally months that was solely devoted to the appearance of a website. Everyone wanted to turn the website design into an academic debate, when the website's creation (which had little to do with the substance of the scholarship itself) could have been turned over to a seasoned web developer and finished in less than a week or two.
I've been reading about various paths from chemotrophic organisms to human-edible food for a long time, mostly as an offshoot of my interest in human deep space exploration. Most of the efforts I've read about start with methanotrophs, but it seems like it could be more energetically efficient to start with hydrogen. Starting with hydrogen also simplifies the hardware since you don't need a separate reactor to combine hydrogen and carbon dioxide.

The reason to look into chemotrophic pathways is because photosynthesis under artificial lighting is really inefficient, even with modern LED lights. Vertical farming is great for making premium-quality salad greens and herbs, but absurdly expensive and resource-intensive for providing all of a person's food. Food production that starts with chemotrophs and renewable hydrogen instead of phototrophs and renewable lighting has the potential to deliver much more nutrition per-dollar and per-acre, while still delivering many of the benefits touted by vertical farming (low water use, less long-distance transportation of food, using land that is otherwise unsuited for agriculture).
Do you have another way to police and enforce culture? What are you actually arguing then, since you claim the comments don't address your issue?
I should also mention that their "downtime" activity was CLI text adventures. I recommend using these to teach basic "verb object" CLI usage.
The OCB2 authenticated encryption scheme (ISO standard) has been broken
I've found cannabis helps me be more creative in general. It allows me to take a step back and look at the bigger picture, which is great in some circumstances but bad in others. For example if I want to come up with a design for a website, I usually find that smoking helps me experiment a bit more, focus less on the fine details. But once I'm implementing a design in code? Thats sober time for me.
I'm curious how endurance is handled in this case. Is there a wear level guarantee when provisioning it? I guess this is applicable to any consumable though this seems to be a pretty expensive one.
Well, you may not deserve the huge essay, sure.
Niall wanted some way to cash out on his vast knowledge about history, and decided to go after the current hype, facebook. He's not actually worried, he's just following the current public anxiety, and gets to promote his book in the process (nothing necessarily wrong with that, but it's not real fear, and it creates a fear bubble). I'm just making this up, but that's what it feels like based on listening to his interviews (and by reading his most recent book, which feels super rushed and/or like not a lot of love went into it).
that wouldn’t fall under sexual harassment law.

I’m glad my point is convincing enough to move on to the next points.
Really your back end should just treat password's hashed just like any password.

Ideally, if TLS was being MITMed somehow such as a dodgy root cert. It would shield the users plaintext password so it could not be used to login into other services. The problem is as soon there is TLS issue an attacker can modify the Js to just send the password in the clear. It really would require code that can't be modified by attacker. This means that there would have to be some sort of browser support. Otherwise it does nothing against the attack it would protect against.

The main benefit is offloading some computation workload on the clients machine. This could allow you to increase the work load required to brute force the password hashes assuming your database leaks. (aka increase iterations or memory requirements)

You last argument is security through obscurity if exposing how you hash makes it easier to brute force the passwords your password hashing sucks.
There was a sheet shared around in Seattle some time ago with salary information. Some interesting points that came out of that were that salaries for women and minority engineers were significantly lower. Also, there were clearly a lot of misreported numbers (some exorbitantly so).

There are actually multiple sheets. Here's one: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-CqO6Px-0yA2421OOtJo...
I've written my own placeholder image generator based on Delaunay triangulation inspired by this blog-post. The generator produces reasonable placeholder images at about 300 bytes. The overall effect is not as nice as the images produced by Primitive though. However, Delaunay triangulation is deterministic and relatively fast. Furthermore, the triangles can be efficiently serialized as triangle strips.

In case anyone is interested, the code is on GitHub [1].

[1] https://github.com/astoeckel/aequipedis/
computer literacy is the first step down the rabbit hole of compsci, and as we offload more and more of our cognitive, memory, and computing load onto computers, i would argue it will only become more important than knowing your sohcatoa and how to take derivatives. it will come to replace some fundamental skills that kids are forced to learn today (and most never end up using) whereas almost everyone uses a computer today but very few know how a transistor works, how a website is served, what x86/Arm is, etc.

learning the concept of variables, and learning basic language syntax is still obviously very important, but learning basic computer skills is a prerequisite for becoming interested in computers, the internet, and how digital technology works in the first place that can lead to the development of skills to land one of these jobs. focusing on math, maybe will get you there, focusing on english/history definitely will not, unless you go to an ivy league and transition into "data science". it's just the reality of the job market
Ok. I have to make a choice between driving 60 mins for 6 miles vs getting shot at Walmart :). I am joking but I knew already commute is a problem in India. Is work from home more prevalant there?
Your comparison to a 100eng company seems off.

There are L8s that lead orgs of more than 100 people they'd map to cto or ceo. Indeed given my own experiences, many L6s have L5 TL/M reports. I'd say L7 is the better mapper to vp of eng at a 100 eng company. That allows you to have 2-3 VPs under the CTO.
But files, directories and paths are just abstractions we use for convenience. There is no mechanical reasons computers should have a single inheritance structure for locating files except familiarity and files being what files are now isn't a necessity either, zip files have a whole collection of files inside of them.

I think as time goes by we'll see which of the concepts of computing we grew up with end up being core to the usage of a computer and I'd be especially excited if we went in the direction of relational linkage of assets the computer has access to.
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I think it's more of a neomania problem. New and shiny equals better.

Now "IT" is thought to be good, and lecture rooms are getting "digitalized". Where digitalization means something horrible, using tablets and slides (which will encourage shallow thinking and distraction). That's at least the trend now in some elite schools I attended more than a decade ago.

In contrast, when I went to a (pretty forward thinking) kindergarden in the late 80s, we were taught Logo. During early elementary school I vividly remember how recursion blew our minds.

From any possible point of view, the same school had a much more avant-garde education 25 years ago. Now try to convince policy makers.

Same applies to CS schools. I was lucky enough to be taught Prolog, Smalltalk and ML during freshman year. We emphasized concepts over technologies. Now it's the other way round.
With respect to this story, I have not seen any references to ken Thompson c compiler backdoor. Just because a compiler is compiled from source doesn’t mean it’s secure.

http://wiki.c2.com/?TheKenThompsonHack
Industrial espionage is older than the digital age and is not confined to hacking. It has been happening for centuries and many civilizations have undertaken efforts to take knowledge that was legally protected.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smuggling_of_silkworm_eggs_int...

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/porcelain-corporate-es...

Harris, John (1998). Industrial Espionage and Technology Transfer: Britain and France in the Eighteenth Century. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Limited. p. 680. ISBN 0-7546-0367-9.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-industrial-esp...

https://theintercept.com/2014/09/05/us-governments-plans-use...

https://www.the-american-interest.com/2014/12/10/the-new-ind...

https://searchinginhistory.blogspot.com/2015/02/francis-cabo...

https://www.pri.org/stories/2014-02-18/us-complains-other-na...

https://www.hsdl.org/?view&did=3729

The fact that we don't hear much about our own examples of stealing other civilization's secrets is just a matter of the fact that we are now ahead. If the tables were turned just like they were in the past, we'd go right back to stealing other people's tech. To say that other people shouldn't do things that we have and would do makes little sense. That isn't to say that we shouldn't protect ourselves, it's just to say that people need to stop the damn moralizing as if we were any better.
I am somewhat surprised how important fast typing seems to be for computer users, mainly developers.

It is never the typing that is my personal bottleneck. As a developer, I spend perhaps 99% of my time thinking of the problem, before actually writing the best and most concise solution. When writing reports or other academic papers, I first construct the sentences before writing them slowly while reading out loud.

I guess this is personal preference, but I think it is worth the time to type slowly, instead of letting the fingers do the thinking.
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Where is it used and what is under threat now?
Well, for a certain definition of 'human performance'... I believe that's carried over from the DQN paper and is something like 'an ordinary video game player given a few hours'. When it comes to ALE you should usually treat the 'human performance' numbers as being lower bounds.

(In this case, if an agent can beat 'human performance' by only clearing 1 of 9 total levels, one is entitled to a little skepticism about how useful 'human performance' is as a benchmark for this particular game. Focus on the improvement over other DRL agents, not that.)