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Farage got his spot by being UKIP lead and seeking to cover the range of views and be unbiased. Which, of course, can lead to its own biases. Yes, he seemed to get far too much air time, yet we have someone else in this thread saying the Beeb was clearly pro-EU.

The Arron Banks interview was indefensible, and I haven't yet heard a reasonable response there.

Since regulation was passed to Ofcom and the BBC board was created the government get to recommend only some. Not sure of exact number, but think it's a minority. Supposedly to further distance them from claims of state control.
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Moore indicated one of the motivating factors in choosing colour was to accommodate his failing eyesight[1]

I have previously attempted to program blind and reported some of my experiences[2].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ColorForth

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9284567
>Making whitespace-sensitive syntax, like in Python & Haskell, optional syntactic sugar for explicit brackets & separators.

That shouldn't matter with an IDE or plugin. If static analysis can identify the blocks -- and it has to! -- the screen reader can just read it as if it had your preferred block notation rather than noting the whitespace.
I would be cautious about generalisations like that.

Sometimes the good jobs are where you aren't. Sometimes the good jobs won't return your calls. Sometimes you have to choose between your morals and your wife, deportation, debt, or all together.
There is also a lot of pressure in Germany to end brown coal based production in the same way that nuclear was shut down. Brown coal is Germany's dirty little secret: it's the most polluting form of energy production. It also involves strip mining huge parts of landscape, which is not popular with the locals.

Either way, a result has been that the electricity prices are currently quite high here. Many people are reacting by deploying solar on their roofs. However, the pressure on electricity producers to deliver clean power is yielding results. It is likely that
Best was in quotes because it's subjective.
If the people in charge of designing a product perceive a similar product's design to be the best, then they will copy it.

Similarly, if the people paying the people in charge of designing a product perceive a similar product's design to be the best, then they will pay those people to copy it.
Yes, but they don't put their crack team on most stuff.

Have you read the Snowden leaks? The actual raw content?

It's pretty tame shit. My main takeaway was ahh, yes the world is as insecure as I thought it was not oh, these guys are using space laser technology hacks.

They've got crack teams to break into some harder gear, and they've got some crazy awesome cryptanalyses going on, but for most of it it's just what you were I would do if someone asked us to get into a bank or whatever. Most stuff is easy to hack anyway unless it's a fully patched iPhone or patched / stripped / locked down Windows server.

Plus you can see the codebases these guys have put out anyway. There was that peodophile CIA coder that had some of his personal codebase match his internal work and there are a bunch of current and former NSA / CSE guys floating around conferences.

I sat with a whole table of them and watched them fall for a simple social engineering attack one minute after being told they were going to fall for the attack.

They're not gods shimon.
”the reactors in the new Ford-class carriers generate electricity, not steam”

All nuclear reactors generate steam. That steam then drives a turbine which generates the electricity.

The difference in the Ford class is that the steam turbine is bigger, powering most of the ship’s systems via an electrical bus rather than by piping steam around the ship. This approach reduces complexity and maintenance costs.
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Just want to note that in Haskell, whitespace syntax _is_ syntactic sugar for brackets etc. I don't recall that being the case for python. Interesting tidbit, some of the big names in the Haskell community have very idiosyncratic coding styles that use the bracket look.
Everyone knows what Microsoft did to the PC market in the 1980s. Everyone knows what the Unix Arts & Crafts movement wants to do to computers today.

Open up the bootloader and computers become commodities (modulo some special cases). The makers of those commodities become hostage to whatever platform becomes most popular on those computers.

Instead of thinking in terms of "freedom," one should think of this situation in terms of power.
craziest thing to me about this whole article is this one company has 40 billion social media posts!
Countries in Europe have saturated their hydro potential, and aside for a few exceptions, it's far from giving enough storage.

Examples like Iceland and Norway are nice, but most countries can not use them. On the other hand, e.g. France and Sweden have driven their co2 emissions down without such natural advantages.
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This is so true. There is a lost art of software architecture and design.
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Wow, I stand corrected! I thought rabies was in the programme. My mistake.

About Ceuta and Melilla, there have been efforts to have pets vaccinated for free: https://elfarodeceuta.es/sanidad-vacunacion-gratuita-rabia/
But we might get the data to make statistically significant claims if we keep applying the protocol. By abandoning it, it seems we won't.

If I were there patient and my options were medicated coma that possibly has an 8% chance of healing me and possibly has no benefit, I'd prefer that to the excruciating death by rabies I'd be facing otherwise.
Both WPF and WinForms will be part of .NET Core 3.0. They've done a few demos of it already, and were able to port over existing apps without any changes to the code. This even worked when using third party controls like the ones you can get from Telerik. They just added references to the Telerik .dll's they already had, and everything just worked.

They'll still only run on Windows, but it's a nice option for teams that want to move their existing apps over to .NET Core and take advantage of the quicker update cycle and improved performance.
Exactly. Making an artistic and unique website is simply too expensive. Think of all the lost revenue. Web design has become a science of analytics crunching, conversion optimization and retention. The author seems to show total ignorance for human pattern recognition.
That line of thinking can end at victim blaming - the abducted women stayed abducted because she didn't try to run hard enough. That's putting the blame on the wrong person.

That being said, many devs CAN make the choice, but I don't think it's fair to blame those who can't. Not everywhere is booming to the same amount, and not everyone's life experience is the same to allow them freedom to move to an area that is.
I'd wager such people are in the minority.

If your company doesn't let you put up dotfiles, or blog about some neat framework trick you learned, I'd be shocked.

Folks that don't have the time/inclination to display those things frankly probably aren't going to have the time/inclination to contribute meaningfully to the community, and the accumulation of a nonparticipating majority is one of the pathologies of these sorts of forums.
Heavy metals are technically even worse in that aspect as they never degrade. Arsenic and lead will be just as toxic millennia latter.
Slightly off-topic: how do blind programmers read code? Does the screen reader recite it aloud and just say "int main left-paren void right-paren open-brace int i equals zero...", or does it use some other kind of auditory vocabulary to make it more meaningful to the listener?

I've been thinking about this alot lately because I've been wondering how I could get better at programming while driving on my daily commute.
Again. I'm not sure how else to say this...

It's about me (i.e., the buyer).

I don't think I'm alone when I say, Twitter is a fairly healthy signal. That is, having looked past Twitter activity (read: the lack there of) in the past, that signal has come back to bite me in the arse.

Perhaps you're the exception? But I, the buyer, don't care. I'm not going to risk shaming myself again. And if you abstain from Twitter - even if __you believe__ you have good reason - I don't care. It's not about you ;)

It's 2019, I don't think it's too much to expect to see:

- system status
- new product announcements
- product updates
- relevant industry shares
- trade show presence
- etc.

Basically, something / anything that shows me you're alive, you['re well, and you actually care. Again, I've ignored this (lack of) signal before and I've paid for that. Sure you can ignore Twitter but then you all the questions I have above better be addressed somewhere; in a place I care about. Because...you got it now :)...it's all about me!

For the record, I'm not a big Twitter fan either. But it's not about me.
I can attest to this: Paredit is as easy to use with eyes as it is without.
I took my wife/daughter/myself to the ER to figure out if we should get it since it is the only place that carries the vaccine near us. We ended up not getting it and still walked out with a $3000 bill.
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> I’d really appreciate [...] links to the work of similar initiatives

Take a look at Quorum, a "programming language which is designed to be accessible to individuals with disabilities and is widely used in schools for the blind".

[0] - https://quorumlanguage.com/

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X29BuzGHlBs
> Buildings have light switches and ceiling heights standardized because of building codes which mandate these things, and the fact that many components are mass produced so they're extremely cheap (like light switches) and are used everywhere.

You mean similar to included youtube videos, Facebook like buttons, Google analytics, ...

> Vehicles have things in the same places because regulations require it, it makes sense to do so (mirrors aren't much help if they're behind your head), and because drivers expect similarity.

GDPR cookie settings? Imprint? Privacy statements?

> Laptops are similar because that's really the only way to make them work. A keyboard over the monitor isn't usable: your arms would block your view. This is just silly.

It would be silly to place the menu on the bottom, as you would always need to scroll down the whole page to see what options you have.

> Websites may be built with the same components (python, PHP, web servers, HTML, CSS, etc.), but that in no way means they need to look the same. It's entirely possible to make them look very different, and you only have to go to the Wayback machine and look at how sites used to look 15+ years ago, and compare to modern ones, to see this.

Houses may be built with the same components (bricks, wood, concrete, glas, metal), but that in no way means they need to look the same. It's entirely possible to make them look very different, and you only have to go out in the world and look at all the different implementations.

Sorry ;-)
I am - the ones that aren't legal on the sidewalk. I don't see why you would get the little scooters. There didn't seem to be that much price difference.
You are looking at a very limited sample size only in the western world.

You need scale in nuclear just as with anything else. Whenever people build lots of nuclear plants the cost go down and the build becomes much faster.

You can easily go to South Korea or China and have them build you a massive capacity of nuclear in the next 10 years.

> By the same token we couldn't go entirely nuclear without dramatically over-specifying grid capacity as nuclear doesn't respond well to transient peak demand.

That is a actually not really correct if you build modern plants. Even modern Gen3+ do a OK job, and if you have lots of them, together the can actually do a pretty good job. Furthermore there is a fair amount of innovation in fuels that improve load following capacity.

If you go to GenIV they are great at following load. Not to mention that in a GenIV you already have a hot salt loop that you can use as a heat battery (uses basically the same heat storage as a solar plants do) for peaking if that what the grid needs.

Look at the design of Moltex Energy for example. The see that because of renewable the value of JIT based power delivery is gone go way up they build a GenIV nuclear plant that will be 1GW but the have a huge salt loop and 3GW of turbines in order to peak if there is no sun or wind.

That is of course an extreme case that is rather unneeded if you have an all nuclear grid.

> Centralised production works when it's a multi GW coal plant next to the colliery, or gas near the pipeline etc. As we adopt an increasing amount of renewables the grid becomes necessarily more localised as weather and climate will differ between regions and the grid is served by thousands of generation sources instead of a few dozen. Simple economics are driving that transition not whether they are 'hip' or not.

But that is the whole point. Why should you have more renewables at all? Its a total anti goal, low carbon is the goal not renewable.

If we had picked nuclear then this would be a non issue, its only an issue because of renewables in the first place.

And if you have some ideological 'anti centralisation' thing then GenIV nuclear offers lots of options. In fact one of the main research areas is nuclear for communities cut of from the grid, like military or research outpost. You can get reactors that you can put on a truck and they run for 10-20 years, after that you simply pick it up and drop another one.

However the reality is that most humans live in cities and centralization into large plants makes sense if you have the market.

> As for claiming a low energy house isn't cheap, well that makes no sense considering the size of bill reductions.

Yeah but that requires that the majority of houses in the world have to be rebuilt. And its not really worth it most of the time, at best it is worth it after like 30 years.
I use Informed Delivery (pretty handy), so when I started reading the article, I thought -- I should be safe, because I already signed up for the account at my address.

Not so! FTA: "Normally in these cases I’d urge readers to simply plant their flag by registering an account to claim their address. However, the USPS allows new account creations for anyone currently able to receive mail at your address, which means that claiming your address may involve registering an account with every adult present at your address."
You are not asking all the questions though. What about buying a device that connects to a remote service running that software underneath? GPL won't protect you from such anti-user behavior. It's perfectly fine with depriving users of their freedoms this way. So (A)GPL is not restrictive enough either.
I've been meaning to give a lightning talk about a related subject someday, called "Why Software Sucks".

Basically, software hovers along the fuzzy line between "barely works" and "doesn't work". When we start a project, it doesn't work. We add code until it barely works. Then we break it, so it doesn't work. So we add enough scaffold that it barely works and can support the new features, until we break it again, and the cycle begins anew. This is actually embedded as principle in TSTTCPW (the simplest thing that could possibly work), but attempts to waterfall our way out by careful planning are generally doomed, due to unintended consequences and such.

Eventually, the software becomes broken and no longer worth fixing (and thus gets abandoned), or it hits feature complete while (barely) working. And what happens when it's "complete"? Do we say "Thank goodness, finally I can go fix all those bugs and design flaws!"? No, never.

Instead, we drop that blecherous losing piece of crap as fast as we can and go start on the shiny new project that's been cooking in our minds, the one we couldn't work on because we were hacking our way through the wretched ball of mud that is our old code, wasting time in frustration and shame, just to get it off our plate. So we start working on the shiny new thing. And this time, the code will be good. This time, it won't suck.

Yeah, right.
No, apparently it has been fully eradicated in 1922, and only deaths due to rabies were due to bites while abroad.
We shouldn't ignore waste or accident problems of course but it's always important to compare them to the alternatives. Given the problem of ocean accidification it's hard to see how replacing fossil fuel plants with nuclear isn't a net ocean environmental win. And replacing a coal power plant in china with a nuclear a nuclear plant you know is going to have a Fukushima meltdown in 30 years is still better for people and the environment. Or 10 "clean coal" power plants in the US with 10 nuclear plants of which 1 will melt down.

Of course, it's far better for health and the environment if we can replace them with solar and batteries. But perspective on the dangers of nuclear compared to fossil fuels is important.
Yup. But if it were easy everyone would be doing it.

Just the same, if you flip it over, those who have done well 99 of 1000 times have got all / most of these right (i.e, B to B+ or better).
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That seems a pretty odd choice in both cases. Adding a number to BigInt should return a BigInt. I am also always wary of languages that allow mixing of strings and numbers. From my experience this can cause a lot of problems.
I think the point is that it's better to work on some 7 year old system hacked together without any craftsmanship with the belief that craftsmanship is nonsense and spaghetti code is a legitimate design pattern, than to work on it knowing there is a better way to design software.
It has seen success with children, small children. Their brains are plastic. I'm not sure the protocol would work for a symptomatic adult.
Maybe we should train to code without screen: just a keyboard and a headset.
> I've been wondering how I could get better at programming while driving on my daily commute.

Please don't do this. The last thing the world needs is another distracted driver.
So build a lipid membrane, insert some DNA from a bacteria in there, and it will just function? Sounds like they missed explaining how the membrane will extract and execute the instructions from the DNA... which in itself is a huge question mark.
I get to choose to make my money programming or doing something else.

I am not rich.

And yes, phones and social media networks have been weaponized against our attention and wellbeing. That's why people at the head of companies producing these systems keep them out of the hands of their children.

Edit: accidentally left out "their" in the last sentence... Definitely changes the meaning a bit :D
A look at the Transloadit Wizard
Not at all challenging, considering the average CCTV (what a fitting name for a chinese tv station) anchor's range of emotional expression is limited to a knob.

Might as well just produce a deepfake anchor with Xi's ugly ass face instantly traumatizing millions of Chinese children, who knows how many falun gong infants were sacrificed to save the poor sick Chinese elite (they actually eat the fucking placenta for supposedly viagra effect jesus fucking christ im outta here never EVER gonna catch me going to China)
Yeah, I wonder how many 'just works' codebases he/she has had to spar with. It usually ends in tears. I have a 20k line VB.Net disaster that can't be changed without side effects because of the use of global variables, basically needing a whole rethink/rewrite. At least with some beautiful code the author might have put some thought into it beyond what is directly in front of them.
As a current VW owner and owner of 3 VWs at one point I can speak to how they cut costs.

Between the 3 vehicles that I personally owned and drove we have more than half a million miles in VW cars.

As you suggest and as any long-term VW owner can attest, they cut corners everywhere.

From experience - some wire harness sections are minimum gauge for the load that they potentially carry creating a fire hazard; interior lighting may be reliable in some cars and bulbs may tend to burn out in other similar cars due to use of less expensive bulbs; plastic components do not survive many flexing cycles before breaking due to the plastic being very thin in the panels and especially in the attachment gussets; microswitches that control the door locks, door alarm and window switches tend to fail also. In addition, the headlight pods on the Beetle slide into the front fenders and should be held securely but over time the mechanism that keeps them firmly connected to the bulb socket develops enough slack that the pods can slide forward enough to break connection and kill your headlights. One or both will develop this problem and VW dealerships will gladly sell you new bulbs or new pods when the problem can be fixed by adding additional attachment under the hood so that the pod can't slide forward while the vehicle is being driven.

It may sound strange for someone who has driven their vehicles for so many miles to be complaining about stuff like this but I also own vehicles from Ford and Nissan and have never had similar problems with those vehicles. My old Bronco, '92 model, still looks new on the inside with >300k miles and my '01 Pathfinder looks brand new with 230k miles.

I currently own three Fords with a combined mileage >840k miles, two Broncos and one F150. I have owned and later sold 3 others in the last 30 years after rolling up more than 400k miles between them. I also have owned another Nissan that we sold years ago after racking up a lot of miles with no issues. And then there was the Saab, but that's probably just another Saab story.

I just wanted to give real life examples from personal experience so that people could understand I'm not a hater who has no experience with the vehicles. I'm actually someone who bought one and loved it enough to buy others and drive them for a long time.
Luckily, it's extremely rare for opossums to contract rabies, so keep snuggling those scary beasts to your heart's content.
I'm an antinatalist, so I won't be having kids any time soon (As well as being chronically single with no social skills whatsoever).
There has been more than one survivor (wikipedia is outdated) and I don't think they really regret it
by and large, btw
I read it more like a poem than a manifesto. There are elements of both, of course.
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By nature, we understand the "what' and "why' of each supercomputer component, as they have been built by us from the bottom up. We are orders of magnitude from understanding each component of the cell. When you get into the weeds, the methods used to dissect these processes are generally slow, indirectly and subject to relatively subjective interpretation and poor reproducablility (vs chemistry or physics). Don't get me wrong, I love this stuff and was drawn to a molecular biology career by curiosity around the wide grey line that separates what is living and what is a bag of molecules, but having spend many years at the bench still think that the Biology part of Synthetic Biology will be the bottleneck rather than the bioinformatics/synthetic methods, tho improvements in this stuff will greatly help.