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When Aardman began to have the big hits with Wallace and Gromit they did not have professional management structures, some consultants later and they had all of these tiers of management with the enterprise becoming more like a sausage factory. This was noted by people who worked with them creatively as contractors, making content with them and collaborating.

So they went from being one of those happy companies where everyone knows everyone and works as a team of one to one of those siloed companies with people knowing everyone on their team in their department but not having a clue as to what is going on in the next team. It kills creativity when all communications have to go up three tiers of the management tree and back down again to another department, who could be the guys in the next room.

Sometimes you wonder whether growth is really what you want with a company, why do all of those adverts on the back of the legendary Nick Park stuff? Why spread the brand out so thinly and why get the consultants and venture capital in to make the brand go big?
You could make sure you avoid those with compromised or weakened immune systems (e.g. the elderly or patients with certain illnesses)
7 is even worse than 6? That must suck, because 6 was one of the worst performers in the market.
Same here. I have a mid-2012 MBPr. The keyboard is utterly fantastic.

I'm hoping sanity kicks in by 2020 and there is a better keyboard. But I am not holding my breath, I'm sure they'll double down and have version 4 of the butterfly keyboard.
Funny enough, even that paper seems biased as well to me.

This paper probably applies best when you use the HT or tree as a DB index data-structure without constant updates for huuuge datasets, probably not as well when used as an updated associative map in your average program. I'd guess hash-tables (HT) are still faster in day-to-day programmer use but not as much as pointed out here.

Caveats:

- HTs pre-allocated: In the two experiments that show those detailed bar-charts, the hash-tables are completely pre-allocated, so no re-allocation and re-hashing on inserts.

- Charts: The workloads IV-C and IV-E get by far the most attention (3/4 page, 9 bar charts - each), these best support the paper's statements that HTs are much faster and consume less mem than ART. The mixed-use case IV-D is reported with only a single small chart, the whole write-up is just about 1/4 page combined and ART does better (comparable, but still slower than fastest HT) - arguably IV-D is probably most realistic use-case for how most people use hashmaps day-to-day.

- The keys are 64-bit ints so aren't all that long, again maybe common in a DB index but not really what you use hashmaps for mostly in the real world. So ART can't play out some of its strengths.

- The data set skews large, larger than the original paper (16M to 1,000,000,000 (1Billion) keys), and most people probably foremost look at the charts on the right with the huge numbers that make HT look best. Again, makes the results not super applicable to day-to-day hashmap use imo.

- They only look up existing keys, probably not great for either ART nor HT but could hurt their CH*Bucket performance.

Most of these caveats are explained in the test, but some are kind of buried. You can't just look at the charts and conclude hash-tables are 5x as fast as ART, always.
Who said anything about widespread surveillance?

The "government wants to listen to every Echo user" idea is paranoid fantasy.

The "government would really like to listen to these individuals, but doesn't want to go through full court proceedings" is less fanciful and not without precedent.

It's not just profit. It's the morass of backroom bargains to stave off regulation, honest desire to "do good", future contracts, and political goodwill.

There's a rich history of US technology companies enabling the government / military for all of the above reasons.
Why does there need to be a separate government issued digital currency?

Presumably all of the private accounts that people are currently using are measured in Kr already, and the banks already operate at fractional reserve so the actual paper doesn't exist. As an American, I make about one cash purchase a year, but that doesn't mean that I'm not spending US Dollars.

It seems to me that calling digital money "e-krona" will change exactly nothing but nomenclature.
Steve Schoger does a great job of designing with accessibility in mind! The future book that this chapter will be rolled into contains a whole discussion on it. If you check out the Refactoring UI screencasts, he uses an app (called Contrast, if you're curious) to make sure things meet AA minimum requirements.
Does anyone know if the new 2018 MBPs are having keyboard failures, or did their "quieter keys" update fix the issues? It's very hard to find information on whether people have experienced problems since this summer - which might be a good thing! But anything definitive?
Oh I don't know. Whenever a charging cable wears out it's quite handy to rummage in a retained product box and find a neatly packaged new one. I always find myself short of usb charger plugs too.
Having bought a bunch of IoT stuff since then - these are probably still the single worst device I've ever bought, with the possible exception of the Bluetooth bike lock that had a hardcoded backdoor unlock code.
The rounding errors for linear posit are exact numbers (excepting division), assuming higher precision. The rounding errors for LNS add/sub are not exact numbers in the representation in the general case. 2 and sqrt(2) are represented exactly, but (2 + sqrt(2)) is not.
How about a database on a server owned by the Riksbank?
Not the first time I’ve heard of Upwork fucking over freelancers and I’m sure it won’t be the last. Is there any good alternative for freelancers?
One could imagine responding to subsonic commands, though, with a microphone in contact with the throat... I can't imagine using it for programming, but could be cool for quick navigation.
I don't think it's intended for a general audience. It's intended mainly for people who have bought in to the idea of "effective altruism", and want a global-utility-maximizing career, and also at least somewhat believe AI research is important to that goal.

You should still learn some ML because it's cool and fun, though, and will give you valuable perspective.
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I opened this earlier, and it linked to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2NI6t2r_Hs&feature=youtu.be... -- I think a moderator may have 'fixed' it in a really silly way.
Huh. My iPhone X failed that way a week and a half ago.

They can't repair it until "Find My iPhone" is turned off." Do you know how much fun it was to turn it off while my phone was sporadic in what it responded to?
They do have hardware failures. I bought a new 13" and started having issues about 2 months in with repeating and dropped keys. Apple store did a straight exchange given how new it was, thankfully.
Amen. I loathe shopping for clothes. I do it as infrequently as possible and invariably I come home angry and/or depressed.

Quality is shit. If you want your favorite X to last or continue to fit correctly more than a year, laundering is a pain in the ass.
I bought the 2018 mbp on day 1, so far zero issues with the keyboard.

Not definitive by any means but its all I can offer up to go on. YMMV but thats true of all hardware.
"access to markets is the determining factor in income"

No, it's one small item of 'determining factors'.

Yes, the richest zip codes are in cities, but most impoverished areas in the USA are actually generally in cities. The former drags the average way up.

Have a look here, Postal Code map of Canada [1]

Scroll over to to Toronto:

You notice 'super rich area' uptown. Then downtown and environs and immediate burbs are poor, some very poor. Then the 'extraburbs' are wealthy, then then countryside in the middle.

If you account for cost of living - the countryside people are doing very well. It costs $120K for a nice big house in my hometown, and electricians earn $80K.

In the us - the rural areas in the US that don't have a history of slavery (like the Dakotas, even Texas) actually have high levels of income and low levels of unemployment, low levels of crime ... but as you point out, not quite the same as the 'professional class' within cities.

So the 'banker class' and 'professional class' will be in cities, and make the most money.

But many of the rest in economic zones actually don't fare very well.

[1] https://globalnews.ca/news/370804/income-by-postal-code/
It's a physical button press.
Banks, Visa, PayPal, pretty much most in-game currencies, as long as your maintain control over the data storage and deny access to malicious actors there is no reason why a traditional DB system would not work.
That discounts some pretty radical variation on the (cis) female side (and some minor variation along the same lines on the (cis) male side.) Not all women have breasts, some women have huge ones, Not all women have hips, some women have huge ones.

Right now we do male/female, tall/short, short-limb/long-limb, fat/thin. It'd be nice if shirts and pants varied in standard breast and hip measurements, too, but thus far in society the number of SKUs required hasn't worked out.
No they won't. Apple made specific choices NOT to do what the whole industry had already been doing: making repairable systems.
I think it's assumed you would still use grays and whites if you use one of those palette generators.
He was wrong from day one and predicted that the iPhone wouldn’t be successful when it was first introduced before it went on sell.
That is a purely semantic argument. It's also a contradictory one. That article says in the first sentence that they are considering adjusted hues as "shades" or "tints" of red. Using terminology beyond HSV only introduces semantic complexities to confuse the topic.
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It is quite rational for current management of Apple to monetize this goodwill, maximize share price and their bonuses because who cares about tomorrow? Or actually insider's behavior of this kind is a a leading indicator of what the future may bring.
I've had my iPhone X replaced once after the screen went mental - a bright green line randomly appeared on one side of the screen - now the replacement drops > 50% of all calls :-(

On the MacBook Pro front I've had the sticking keys issue on the left command, C, B, G and 3 keys - so took it in finally after being tortured by this for months - 1 week later and I called them to see what was going on and they said that the whole top piece needed to be replaced, but when taking out the motherboard they have snapped the thing in two.

Making these machines difficult to repair doesn't just effect end users it seems.

Still, I'm glad that Apple are still the sort of company that replace the whole machine in these situations. I'm sure there are bean counters who will be thinking making it harder to get things fixed is the solution though.
Thanks for replying Dan. The original title, specifically the inclusion of 'Remarkable' instead of giving the numbers/terms of the article, seemed like click-bait to me.

This is the relevant part of the article:

> In 1950, women were having an average of 4.7 children in their lifetime. The fertility rate all but halved to 2.4 children per woman by last year.
Or because no one else is reporting volume and it puts them at a disadvantage.
Annecdotal Hear-say, but I have spoken to a few people who grew up under the Soviets. They all had stories of their parents being very explicit about what was happening and being told exactly what they could not say in public. Then again these are people who ended up in the US so maybe they were atypical.
Kinda ironic that he starts the article by decrying fancy color palette generators that give you 5 hex codes centered around a primary color, and then ends it by choosing a base color and filling in the gaps with 5 (possibly 10) shades from light to dark. That's exactly what color palette generators do!

The mistake most people do is going hog-wild with color palette generators. The vast majority of the time, you want a monochromatic scheme with a complementary accent color. Adjacent, triad, and tetrad schemes are quite special purpose, and you use them differently. Think of Google - it's a tetrad scheme, but the base color for all Google sites is white, and all 4 colors of the logo are used as accents. You want to KISS - if you do have a multicolor palette, use the colors sparingly and pick a neutral white or grey as the primary background color.
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research is ongoing.

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Can I ask how old you are? I wonder how this affects different age generations.

I'm 37, left social media a few years back when my son was born - the thinking being that the time I spent on there would be better spent with him and my wife! I don't feel excluded by my friendship groups or like I'm missing out on anything.
I'm not sure (read: very new tbought) what this would look like in terms of a broader theory, or mixins, but I would imagine it might be helpful, just like with music, to think of colors as having a key; that at the very least there's some way to automatically define the colors __not__ in the key.

Okay. It's a raw idea :) Maybe someone else here can flesh it out?
Another factor to consider is our acuity
varies across that color gamut (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacAdam_ellipse). So we're best at distinguishing subtle differences in blues and worst at seeing variation of greens. The number of shades of blue or green you can see would be the number of MacAdam's ellipses which fit in each region - so it looks like we can see the most shades of blue but green isn't much of an outlier (depending on how you group pinks/purples etc.).
Yoga Pants are such a wonderful thing from a comfort standpoint. Women have such better lightweight comfort options that also allow function.
Seconded. I enjoy using this software.
It changes the value fluctuations. Right now the biggest problem with using crypto as your day to day money is that you cannot trust the money that you put into crypto to stay at the same value over time + transactions are slow.
Strapless, a color library I built, automates a lot of this if you use LessCSS: http://strapless.io/
And when using it on a commute?
Wear a face mask everywhere you go so you don’t infect others.
Caffeine is also a toxic nerve agent. The dose makes the poison, and for humans generally, it's much too large to be of any risk.

Not to mention its working principle is perfectly well understood.
Tab is in the Control Character block of ASCII so that alone makes it strictly more appropriate
You may be underestimating the damage to ecosystems. The Yucatan Peninsula asteroid strike threw a massive amount of small particles of rock and other junk high into the atmosphere, which burned up due to atmospheric friction falling back. It would have appeared on the ground as an amazing meteor shower, so intense the the sky would be glowing from the light of the burning particles. This was widespread enough to surround the planet.

That lasted for hours, bathing the surface in intense infrared radiation. It was on the surface like being in an oven with the broiler on. Animals and plants not underground, underwater, or well sheltered such as in caves were killed either by heating from the infrared radiation, or by not being able to cope with breathing an atmosphere that was now something like 200 C.

If we arranged for all humans to be sheltered during such an event so we don't get wiped out during the worldwide broiling, we'd have lost pretty much all of our food chain except maybe seafood.

So lets assume we also make sure to shelter plants and animals, so that when we can come out of the shelter we can start replanting and start breeding food animals.

The climate would be wonky for a long time. That's one of the things that doomed many species that were not killed during the broiling phase after the Yucatan Peninsula strike. The climate where they live changed to something they could not cope with.

Humans could deal with that better. After we get out of the shelters and want to replant food crops, we would not be constrained to just planting them where they had been before the impact. We can examine the whole world and plant our recovery crops where they have the best chance of surviving. Same with breeding recovery animals.

This would require a level of cooperation that I doubt current governments can achieve peacefully. I'd expect several wars would be involved in settling the resource allocation issues.

My guess is that far future galactic anthropologists will discover that when civilizations that have reached a technology level that allows them to see a big strike coming far enough ahead to prepare for it, but have not reached a level where they can stop it get hit, their survival chances go way up if either

(1) they have a strong planet-wide government, or

(2) they have a strong sense of being one people, without dividing themselves by race, religion, politics, or region (they may have different races, religions, and so on but treat differences in them the way we treat differences in, say, what kinds of food you like or what genres of movies you like).

Both of those help enable the kind of cooperation needed to recover.
So, the numbers you're talking about are conservative esitmates.

They only include smokers. They don't include, for example, the children of smokers, who have many much more respiratory illness than other children.

The hospital admission costs only include this list, and only include them when these are the primary diagnosis of the admission episode.

Importantly, the cost used is the payment by results cost, not the actual cost to the treating trusts or GP surgeries.

> Smoking attributable admissions are defined as spells where the primary diagnosis of the admission episode is attributable to the following ICD-10 codes:

> malignant neoplasms: lip, oral cavity, pharynx (C00 to C14), oesophagus (C15), stomach (C16), pancreas (C25), larynx (C32), trachea, lung, bronchus (C33-C34), cervix uteri (C53), kidney and renal pelvis (C64 to C66, C68), urinary bladder (C67), acute myeloid leukaemia (C92), unspecified site (C80)

> cardiovascular diseases: ischaemic heart disease (I20 to I25), other heart disease (I00 to I09, I26 to I51), cerebrovascular disease (I60 to I69), atherosclerosis (I70), aortic aneurysm (I71), other arterial disease (I72 to I78)

> respiratory diseases: pneumonia, influenza (J10 to J18), bronchitis, emphysema (J40 to J43), chronic airway obstruction (J44)

> diseases of the digestive system: stomach ulcer, duodenal ulcer (K25 to K27), Crohn’s disease (K50), periodontal disease (K05)

> other diseases: age related cataract (H25), hip fracture (S72.0 to S72.2), spontaneous abortion (O03)
No it absolutely isn't. Underground brothels are horrific, exploitative and inhumane. Prohibition leads to drug wars, do you really want a new El Chapo of Tobacco?
Wait so did they give you a new machine? Or are they continuing to fix the same one
I'm 11 sections in and haven't found an example other than a worryingly-complex media type specification..
Yes, I'm not saying the person you quoted is correct with his failure predictions. But it sure seems that Apple is caught in the innovator's dilemma.
How I learnt to write better code. +1 on doing so.
What about taking/boosting Vitamin C, echinacea and zinc supplements to minimize the duration?
How do you keep track of the people -> current location mapping in your head?
Are you going to suggest keeping a notebook for that?
And how you validate Bartlett’s test in this case?
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Companies could have a policy of letting employees work from home if they're likely to be sick.
Just a random point of feedback, but you sound more like the one carrying confirmation bias here. But really, throwing that phrase around in an internet debate is pretty meaningless rhetoric. It takes YEARS of working with someone before I feel like I understand that person's biases well enough to accuse them of such a thing.
headline is a bit overblown compared to the conclusion of the text.

> no longer a utopia

was it ever? who ever claimed it was a "utopia"?

main points:

- If cash stops working, it would leave all individuals to rely on the private sector alone to get access to money and payment methods.

* One option is to do nothing, meaning we accept that the general public no longer has access to central bank money.

* A second alternative is to issue central bank money in a digital form, as a complement to cash and the money held in bank accounts.

seems like they've been thinking about this for a while
And? So what? Are we out of bricks to build hospitals with?

More non-dead people also means more workers, more taxes revenue, more consumption, more growth.
If I didn't get included in your zero rated list of services, or put forth the effort to conform to your amp-like provider-specific rules, then I am blocked or throttled or charged more for or whatever.

If you aren’t willing to put forth the effort to be competitive, whose fault is that?
And how would you validate Bartlett’s test?
I thought if you logged into iCloud and deleted the phone from your account it was the same. Do you know if that's true?
They could say your rating is not high enough, you are now cut off completely. Or they would know all spending so it would be a bit nosey. And then people would not spend on things causing money circulation to slow, but maybe that is offset a bit by ease of swiping a card.
What an asinine slippery slope. We don't even have mandatory vaccinations.
Yes WCAG guidelines are useful. But, for me as a novice empathic but still a novice, they are not easy to use. At the very least, finding definitive examples and such often eludes me.

That aside, thanks for mentioning accessibility and #A11Y.
There's no need to expect that - things keep breaking when they are used. Repairability is becoming a topic, though spreading quite slow, but eventually it will reach the higher ups, and we'll finally get our oldschool thinkpads back. (Hope is a strong emotion.)
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I'm not sure why you think process start-up is such a heavyweight operation. Of course there's lots of optimization for start-up, it's the whole basis for Unix.

A context switch is O(10000) cycles and 10k is totally doable.

I agree that the Isolate architecture is more efficient, I just object to the straw man comparison. (And would love some real data.)
Part of the point is that if physical cash were withdrawn then you would _have_ to depend on some private (i.e. non-government) third-party for your financial transactions. (Obviously you could claim that you already are dependent on them, but there's a difference between a de facto and a de iure dependence.)
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