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I'm sorry, but no, you don't have a basis for concluding that from my responses or the thread.

In my previous comment, I just explained to you why -- even accepting that there are these disease victims you want to care for -- you still wouldn't necessarily have a justification for allocating resources toward a cure for this disease. After all, there are far worse tragedies of the commons: diseases that affect far more people, and that even European governments believe merit a higher priority.

To wave a wand and say "oh, we should throw money at this rare disease", you're saying "we should throw less money at the things that are impacting far more people". (Or, worse, you're saying we should throw unbounded money at all problems, the very charge I originally made!)

And you still haven't even explained under what criteria you would do anything differently, let alone why those criteria would be any better.

So no, you don't get to claim a moral high ground, or that "economic thinking" led to the wrong decision. Not when you can't even explain what exactly the moral error is, or why.
Without going into details, doing things where someone else you know will be devastated by your decision, and may even beg you to change your mind. Technically easier than opening a door. Emotionally like climbing a mountain. Can take a decade to get over it.
The author links to a post which indicates that while ext4 with 256b inodes might technically store mtime with nanosecond granularity - the call that ext4 to get that time is limited by the scheduler clocktick granularity, aka HZ which is 100, 250 or 300 for most people, hence reported granularities of 10ms, 4ms, 3.33ms, etc.
Same feeling here. High acidity hot coffee, at that. Plus the rubber seal was starting to degrade on mine
I focus on having what I call a heathy dose of self care.

Like - I go to sleep at the same time every day.

I watch TV - but only on the treadmill. I don't watch TV NEWS ever. It's such a waste and uninformative.

Move your phone/computer away from your bed. Put it in another room. (it slows down casual use more than you would think).

Workout 3-5 times a week. If it's a day you don't work out - stretch or walk fast for 10-15 min. Little things make a difference.

I only eat sugar on my day off. Partly to lose weight and subconsciously eat less of it - without doing some sort of "AlL or nothing". I can feel a difference - but maybe it's just in my head.

I read 1 hr everyday. I used to study many different topics, but not I work to make sure that half my reading time is spent on pure enjoyment... last enjoyment topic: Aurora Borealis

I'm sure there is more - but that should be a good start.
How did the teacher not notice the headphones and question you about it during the exams?
I think we're talking past each other. I'm responding to the comment about the heuristic where for the most part trap (somewhere) means UB.

Maybe it's UB only because implementation-specified is too onerous and it didn't seem to be worth defining a bounded "unpredictable result" behavior.
I did not read the article comments :(
That sounds unbelievably useful, is it open source?
There has been a very interesting discussion, that is not 100% equal but where you can get comments about similar problems, including some from blind programmer. I hope they may be helpful.

"Ask HN: How should a programming language accommodate disabled programmers?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18414562 (164 points | 8 days ago | 116 comments)
It seems like fiction. I run a small but specialized computer security consultancy and most customers are not interested in throwing away money at "pentests" that don't involve breaking code.

When we gain access to a customer's internal network, we do try lateral movement on the network and give recommendations for how to isolate different parts.
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> The tourist hell mostly affects European cities, which at the same time are usually denser and have a more problematic transport.
In some European cities, native people can't pay the rent to live in reasonable places because tourists will pay more.

Interesting, as a born and raised American, I find it odd that I keep seeing people praise europe about how great their public transportation and living wages are and yet you claim both suddenly fail when you get some tourists who spend money in your town?
Knew a guy who used the club with his late model Corvette back in the nineties. He went in a store and when he came out his Corvette was gone and smack dab center of the parking spot he had was the club. Almost like the thief was mocking him.
Joining my current company and saving a relationship with a key client from the brink of termination.

The previous engineer on the account had overpromised and under delivered... in a rather big way. Not only that, but he also managed to misconfigure the enterprise automation software we use and accidentally delete the customer’s entire network share, then managed to get one of those cryptolocker viruses on the share after it was restored from backups, prompting a second restore. Regardless, the customer was pissed as hell and was on the verge of firing us.

After I was hired and put on the account (which I knew going in), I spent two days taking stock of all the shitty stuff the previous engineer had built, deciding what could be salvaged and what had to be discarded. Then, for the next two months, I went over the original contracts and built (or rebuilt) the originally promised system. I would basically work for 10 hours everyday, 7 am to 5 pm, then write an extremely detailed report to the customer explaining what I had done that way, which would take another 2 hours.

For the first week they ignored my reports. Then the CFO started taking interest, first by nitpicking, then asking questions, then praising. The rest of the customer’s team slowly came on board as well, especially once I started delivering the bits that were user-facing.

Today this customer is our flagship account, and has helped us land many other large accounts. But those two months were probably the most stressful of my life, not just because of the technical challenges but also due to having to simultaneously navigate the tricky political situation.
> When I hear "they are naturally gifted" or "I'm not smart enough", I feel those are people who haven't had the same realization (i.e. experience).

They may simply not agree with the conclusion, or the end. It's pretty hard to have this discussion without crashing into the nature-nurture debate, but one could be interested in a particular result, not merely _any_ result, and they may perceive a lack of something blocking their way towards that.

Not to mention, we do not really live in a world / society that recognizes this, and social approval + hireability dramatically affects one's psyche, more so than mere rational thinking.
What a fun question :) And there are some very cool answers!

A few things that come to mind from my life, from back when I was still a kid/teenager:

- Building a three-way marble-track switch. There are many marble tracks that have these two-way switches that alternate between two tracks, like this one here: https://theworkbenchutah.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/06-marb...
I wanted to build one that would evenly distribute marbles along three tracks. Took me quite a few prototypes until I finally had a working one. And all I had to work with was paper, tape, glue etc. No wood or metal, no bearings or precision mechanics, only a kid's craft stuff.

- A LEGO technics robot leg. This is a bit hard to explain without images. I wanted to build a legged robot (something spider-like) and needed legs that could move a foot both borward and back and also up and down. As the LEGO motors where quite big and heavy I didn't want to mount them on the leg itself (e.g. at the "knee") but have them all fixed inside the body and transmit their power via gears and shaft.
The problem here was, that the up-and-down-motion had to go trough the forward-and-back-joint which meant that whenever the leg moved forwards or backwards it would also move a bit up or down, even if the up-and-down-motor didn't move at all. So I wanted to decouple these two motions. This would be trivial to do in software but I was just a kid playing with LEGOs so I wanted a mechanical solution. I managed it by using a mechanical differential to actually subtract the one motion of the other.
Unfortunately, I then realised I didn't have enough motors for a full robot...

- Years later I was learning C++ and I wanted some kind of "linked variables" (I'm sure there's an official term for this): I.e. variables that would depend on others and would update whenever one of their dependencies changed. I though this would be a cool way of writing a GUI. With a lot of operator overloading and some abuse of the type system I could actually write things like

x = a + b * 2;
y = x / b;

And 'y' would update whenever a or b (or x) was changed.

I'm not sure if they really are the hardest problems I've ever solved, but it certainly felt so at the time ;)
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In reality, low unemployment did not lead to significant wage increases at the bottom end of the spectrum, probably because of the negotiating power of the employers.

It looks like wage increases are less of a factor in automation than labor shortages. Which is why Foxconn in China is automating like crazy.
This was recently posted:
https://twitter.com/iamdylancurran/status/106344480139006771...

I already asked about this overview.
It seems like there's just a global namespace of labels. This reminds me of the situation in Javascript before symbols were introduced. I'm curious why this choice was made?
This page may also answer some of your questions: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Oxidation#Rust_Components
I wouldn't consider a career in science to be high risk. It's often easy to transfer from academic science to private engineering. Science degrees holders have respectable earnings on average.
My 1997 Civic was stolen despite having a manual transmission that sometimes is faulty. I've also had two Honda del Sols stolen, both were stick shifts. Doesn't seem to help all that much.
The article seems somewhat tabloidy.

They mention the residents being unhappy with the tunnel, but never give a reason as to why.

I was expecting some concerns about how it affects the houses (think millenium tower in SF), but the closest they come is the lady that says they are 'sandwiched in', because there is an airport nearby and there is polution in the air. No mention of how the tunnel is going to make those things worse.
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I don't think BFR is going to do any substantial re-entry burns. The reason is that it's completely impractical to slow down from orbital or interplanetary speeds with rockets, so you have to rely on your heat shield. BFR will only do very small de-orbit burns in order to bring it's trajectory into the atmosphere, just like the shuttle did.

In contrast, the Falcon 9 first stages are at suborbial speeds and don't have a heat shield, so they need to do a substantial re-entry burns to bring down their speed before they hit the atmosphere to avoid damage.
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I once wrote an app for Windows Mobile that implemented the L2CAP bluetooth protocol, and implemented the HID spec. This allowed phones to appear as bluetooth mouse/keyboards and be paired. It used the accelerometer and touchscreen to allow for cursor manipulation and had an onscreen keyboard for typing. Took me months to figure out the Bluetooth driver and to debug the HID issues, but when it worked, was pretty exciting. Just dug up an old analysis of it too https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=504730
And the year after that will be the year of the Linux desktop.
Is there a reason you can't just use a pipe and process stdin?
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I am hoping one day there is going to be an operating system, where every single tool is written in Go and everything runs in containers! Well done!
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> Tourism is not a human right and as such it's a luxury.

The right to traverse the planet as a human being is a fundamental right.

The concept you or anyone has the right through the force of arms to confine people is horrific.

Bhutan might be a nice little zoo atm, but it's happiness index is very low by world standards and it's life expectancy is also low by world standards.

The Zoo of Bhutan owned by its king might be nice for the mega rich to have to visit, but it's not so nice for its citizens.

The king might be doing better than other countries in the region, but you'd have to make the case it's is the least worst option. I'm not convinced.
If improving your own security produces a negative externality then education also produces a negative externality. You're "harming" other people by becoming more employable than them. Personal hygiene produces a negative externality because you might become more attractive than somebody. Physical fitness produces a negative externality because you might get chased by a bear and not be the slowest. Doing anything that improves your chances in competition counts, and there are very few areas of life with no competition.

IMO such a loose definition is meaningless, and the word should be reserved for cases where you are actually doing harm. In the case of improved car security it's the car thieves who are doing harm.
That still seems unnecessarily nitpicky and like it misses the point of the parallel. I'm reminded of the running joke on Californication:

"This is Santa Monica Cop. It's my innovative, original series about a hip, streetwise cop who brings his own brand of policing to a much wealthier area than he's used to."

'Oh, like ... Beverly Hills Cop, then?'

"Nah, you're not getting it! See, it's in Santa Monica!"

Yes, S3 doesn't natively allow retrieval/upload via the FTP protocol. But at the level of abstraction of "what does this service do for me, and why would I want to dig into the docs and incorporate it into my system?", the FTP analogy communicates the use case.

"This is S3. It's a way to map a bunch of keys -- which look like directories and naturally follow a kind of hierarchical structure -- to opaque blobs of data, allowing CRUD operations."

'Oh, like an FTP server, then?'

"Nah, you're not getting it! See, you talk to it with a different protocol."
If it doesn't support FB2K's input plugins, then it's just dead beef to me.
It can be harder than it sounds :)
Windows 7 was released in 2009. It's been more than a few years.
The most elusive bug I ever investigated was also one of my first, in my first job after graduation, back in the early 90s.

TL;DR; spend months investigating a problem that didn't actually exist.

I was put on an investigation into why the data acquisition interface we were developing was not working. It was designed to plug into the serial bus on a Coast Guard icebreaker. Since we couldn't develop on the ship, one of the other engineers made an hour long recording of the bus traffic, which we were able to play back in a simulated setup in our lab.

Unfortunately, the traffic on the bus was not as reliable as we expected. There were supposed to be fixed number of data channels being broadcast every second. But frequently, seemingly at random, channels would disappear and then reappear a few seconds later. This made it impossible to identify the different channels, since they were order dependent. It usually wasn't even easy to tell which channel was missing. Usually multiple channels would missing at the same time. Our data readings would get corrupted and everything would fall apart. Since the end-product was to be a real-time engine diagnostics system, this was unacceptable.

When I was hired, the company had already been working at the issue for some time. I was tasked to try to find a pattern in the drop-outs, so that they could be predicted and our interface parsing adjusted as necessary. I tried to find correlations in the intervals between drop-outs, and the length of the drop-outs. I tried to apply smoothing functions so the effect of the drop-outs would be dampened. I tried doing predictive analysis on the data channels, so that when a drop-out occurred we would at least be able to make a pretty good guess which channel was missing, and realign all the other channels. Months went by. Nothing worked.

Then, one day while I was mulling over an printout of the data recording (literally 100s of pages of nothing but columns of numbers), I noticed something odd: almost every time a drop-out occurred, a channel would transition from positive to negative, or from negative to positive. That is, before the drop-out a channel would be positive, and after the drop-out had ended, the channel would be negative. Or vice versa. But a channel would never be 0. I poured over the entire recording, and there was not a single 0 value to be found.

The data recording had been made by plugging into the serial port on the ice breaker's data bus and using some modem software to record the traffic on the bus. We quickly put together a test setup using the same modem software, and sure enough, when a 0 value was received the software would not record it. It would just bloop right over it. There was nothing at all wrong with our data acquisition interface. The problem was with the recording we were using the test it. We had a new recording made using different modem software, and the problem was gone.
Sure, I wasn't sure about the word "rant". You can substitute any other word you'd like that somehow captures "not having anything whatsoever to do with the article we're commenting on or, for that matter, the subject of that article".
You can safely include large part of Asia as well, in India automatic is still a luxury though semi-automatic models are cropping up in few entry level vehicles.
Ah yes, sorry, to be clear I wasn’t attempting to shift any blame to a network provider, just remarking that the OP might be experiencing faster load times on the same browser / OS because of network conditions. And, network conditions aren’t entirely outside of Google’s control either- the size of the payload and where it is served from have massive effects on that. I am speculating about the cause of the relatively faster data point I was responding to.

I do work for Google as a web engineer, but not on Gmail and have no insider insight on gmail speed.
here are some basic linux tools in Go:

https://github.com/u-root/u-root
> I think we can defend investigating the latter subjects as a consequence of science's inability to answer normative questions -- science can only tell us what is, not what ought to be.

Honestly I always felt thiswas a smokescreen. Science can totally explore philosophical and moral questions once axioms have been laid out. Science is illegitimate to lay down these axioms, but so are philosophy, spirituality, religion, or any other justifications.

Studying what is does not forbid to study morality, its ramifications, justifications and consequences as moral systems do exist, as human constructs. Can you deduce humanism from purely utilitarian axioms? Does it lead to similar systems? How about when one adds bounded rationality? These are scientifically answerable questions as well as questions that I would consider philosophical.

The fact that modern academic philosophy feels unbound to scientific rigor in fields when it does not have to be so is totally unjustified IMO. And I think that one can obtain much more interesting debates if we keep the tested epistemological tools of science to infer complex normative consequences from common axioms.
It's better to define "externality" as including all impacts on everyone but yourself, and accept that some amount of negative externality is inevitable. That allows you to differentiate cases like (in the article) Lojack, which produces a positive externality, from the Club which theoretically produces a negative externality.
I detect 1.23 furlongs of sarcasm.
MSN messenger would have counted. We definitely joked about the CIA reading conversations. It also seemed like my more outlandish comments would get send error's more frequently than normal but perhaps that was just me being paranoid.
I just watched a random Stream and was happy to see someone livestreaming Rails dev (I find it very hard to find).

Then I realized he was localizing files, seems odd for 24h challenge.
There's actually a quite nifty principle that makes it relatively easy to build your own multitouch table: Frustrated total internal reflection.

The idea is based on internal reflection: Whenever lights hits the boundary between two materials with different density it gets refracted. If it goes from dense to less dense and the angle is flat enough it will reflect back. This is the principle behind fibre optics. It's also the reason why the water's surface looks "silvery" (like a mirror) when you're submerged and look up at an angle (i.e. not straight up).

Now imagine you have a plane of glass and you put LEDs around the edges that shine into it from the side. The light will zig-zag trough the glass and come out at the other edge. However, if you touch the glass you inhibit that total internal reflection because your finger is alot denser than the air and so the light will "leak" out the glass where you touch it, illuminating your finger. If you look at the glass from behind you'll see a bright spot.

Use a camera to detect that spot and you basically have a touchpad. To make it a screen you can put a translucent sheet behind the glass and project an image onto it (and use infrared LEDs).

See e.g. http://wiki.nuigroup.com/FTIR for some helpful images. Just google "FTIR touch screen" or similar for build instructions and blob-detection software.
I mean, an ideal voltage source also cannot exist, and I'm sure their existence would violate several laws of physics. For example what happens when you put two ideal voltage sources in parallel? or when you connect one to a short circuit?

Despite that though we can use a combination of ideal elements to represent real, non ideal, physical devices. So in that sense I disagree with your statement that "in this framing, all of circuit theory is unphysical."
You can start a manual transmission car by rolling it and popping the clutch - something you can’t do in an automatic.
The strength of the metric system shows when you need several different scales. nano- micro- milli- kilo- mega- giga-

The number of inches in a mile is harder to get than the number of millimeters in a kilometer or grams in a ton.
I also wrote programs to run long equations on my calculator. This wasn't forbidden at the time because it was too early, I suppose. Regardless, you had to show your work to get credit anyway so they just functioned as a way to check my work instantly.

I had a lot of fun writing little programs to help out on long arduous problems though. I wish I had all my TI programs.
like this?

https://flickr.com/photos/51035661423@N01/sets/7215760031291...
Nope, just a fork and rename
The mid-late 90s Civics and Del Sols are highly sought after among Honda fans! The ones with B18 VTEC motors even more so. That's why your cars were stolen despite having a stick shift.

It's even worse for the Honda CRX.
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I just add one more script to my collection of scrap tools. This one, Search, look for profile pictures to match a give picture.

Take a look at https://github.com/victorqribeiro/scrap