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In grade school English classes there was always an emphasis on creative writing with rich imagery and a strong aesthetic sense. That is wonderful for entertainment and humourus conversation, but when taken too far makes your writing voice sound flowery, condescending or simply difficult to understand.

Technical writing teaches you to have a second voice which is simple, direct and unambiguous. It's a huge asset for business communication, documentation and SOPs.
Cortana already has an app on iOS, and Alexa has full response capability when used via Amazon Music, so it's only a matter of support. What I would like to see is specific "voice assistant" integration, where asking Siri something will bring up results from all of the voice assistants you've enabled/installed.
It also needs to get lucky every time to exist and we are dealing with probabilities so remote at this point that the WHO is working hard to deal with the causalities from Boltzmann Brain's appearing out of vacuum and promptly annihilating because they happened to be made of antimatter. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boltzmann_brain

Technically possible but we are dealing with probabilities that have lost all meaning of the word.
Expected moderation style is pretty community-dependent. In my experience it's been the other way around predominantly. Smaller communities can very much entangle moderation and the overall emotional balance among the members, especially when there's more delicate situations involved. Even in larger communities, depending on the interaction mode, moderators can be implicitly called upon as mediators, which involves a lot of trying to avoid people feeling like your response was insulting or unfair even if it was, and conversely making sure they feel like their own needs won't go unacknowledged.

In larger, topic-oriented, and/or highly generalist communities, ones that are looser and more impersonal in general, it's been more as you describe.
Well, kinda, yea. About 25 years ago we had confidential demos from a company I worked for where we made substantially heavier (compared to now) solar cells literally float in the air using self-generated ionic thrust.

Problem was, that was all the power you could get, and even then it wasn't enough to keep the cell afloat. Back then, we were using 10%-ish efficiency cells. Where I work now, we just toss 21+% monocrystalline cells which are 1/8th the mass of the originals around and don't care if they break, because as long as you can still put a bus ribbon on them all the way, they will produce full rated power, even if it looks like they were nailed with a sawed-off shotgun on the EL image.

“You want to play with 40,000 volts on an aircraft? That technology didn’t exist. Steve [Barrett] found a clever way to get that efficient conversion.”

So, the technology existed (when you do PWM with DC it mostly acts like AC so you can run it through a basic transformer) but they figured out the circuitry to make it efficient (nevermind solar efficiency now is enough to do what we want today without the basic transformer tech from almost 20 years ago.)

Still neat, but this really hints of amateurs that never checked some basic math which hinted at this possibility, and existed back in the 70s, which was before I was even born.

EDIT: added the second half after re-reading, edited again to make the PWM DC statement more clear.
It would be interesting if he could add GPS to Signal[1] boards. GPS would obviously provide lat/long, but also altitude.

[1] https://bps.space/signal/
Pretty surprising that KDE Neon would be the default distro for this. Why wouldn't they choose something lighter?
Here's a fun image. I totally fell for it the first time.

https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intellig...
Its true subways have lots of positive externalities not captured by the fares, that it would actually be better to have a deficit subway system than to not have it at all, both for economic reasons and plain welfare, but there's no need to abandon the profitability goal for that.

IT is possible to devise a tax system that will capture some of that positive externality and make the subway better. It should be intuitive that the properties that got amazing value increases due to the subway should have an increased tax burden on them. A subway-proximity tax could be enough to turn subway profitable: and to easily fund expanding it!
You know what's even more straightforward than "metacognition"? "Thinking about thinking".
Likely because that term wasn't widely known at the time that this chapter was written.
>My understanding is that passenger planes fly at high altitudes because at lower altitudes (higher pressures) they would expend most of their energy pushing air out of the way.

The way I think about it is that commercial flights spend the vast majority of the time at "cruising speed", where the engines are most efficient on a power/fuel basis. The flight already dissipates 100% of engine power output into pushing air out of the way, so what altitude does is determine what airspeed that happens at. At lower altitudes, there's more air molecules displaced per foot of travel, so the airspeed is lower.

So airplanes fly up at 30k feet because it's faster at the same power output, which also happens to be more fuel efficient, but it's not like the plane runs the engines any harder if they cruise at a lower altitude.
Fell for what?
They just announced that service a day or so ago, so it may be the only team that had a new product that could implement it this quickly.

It seems like AWS gets into a situation often where one team has a central service (such as Cloudformation, IAM, and now RAM) and users are often left waiting for all those individual teams of the other services (Beanstalk, ECS, Route53, etc) to implement their integration with those central services.

Probably a similar reason why we still can't tag every resource in AWS.
The duplicate words in all three triangles.
Not any credit, just credit on the best terms. Credit card companies are perfectly willing to lend relatively small amounts of money on their more profitable cards to people with recent bankruptcies. Yes, they have poor money management skills or other issues. But they cannot declare bankruptcy again and have had their debt obligations reduced to a reasonable level, which dramatically improves their credit risk.
Duplicated words: end of second lines and start of third
Sadly, it's a bit too late for that.
One aspect is that at least in one company where I have wroked the job descriptions, skills and qualities were quite official and used everywhere (and actually reflected reality quite well) - so for hiring purposes, you get a list of what that person needs to [be able to] do, but that list is mainly written for the existing employees doing that exact job, or switching between roles within the company (external hires were a bit <50% IIRC).

Sure, you may not know X when you're hired, and it's not a hard requirement as you may learn it as you go, but it's on the list for a reason - you will need to know and use X on the job, you'll be evaluated on X during your semi-annual review, so X matters for the hiring ad / job description as if you don't fancy the idea of learning X and doing it for half of your working day, then I'd rather prefer if you know about the need for X before you choose to apply or not.
Eye contact is a big part of it. There was a documentary about dogs recently, where they did a simple experiment by placing a piece of food inside a cage that could not be opened by anyone but a human. First they let the wolf go at it, and it just went crazy trying to find a way in, inevitably giving up to do something else. The dog on the other hand tried for a bit, and then turn around and looked directly at the human for assistance.
> The general portrayal is that they are smaller than solar system sizes. But that is an assumption that may be completely wrong.

What do you mean by this?

People think they're that size because that's the size they've been measured at. There are different ways to measure a thing, and so far they all agree on the size, with no evidence to suggest otherwise.

Are you suggesting they try and measure the size some other way?
You would have to hire hundreds before the things that hiring processes can't test for get smoothed out.
In that case, that's where most of the profits go, too.
In your link he mentions not being able to test higher frequencies but Says “Ithink that the Lifter efficiency can be greatly increased and even overcome the efficiency of a conventional helicopter with better flight characteristics.”
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I am having a hard time following your logic. The lease is a contract, and the tenant gets the use of the space in exchange for paying a certain amount on a certain schedule. What possible difference does it make why the payment was not received? If it was really lost in the mail or stolen from the landlord's mailbox (really, now...), then the tenant can prove that to the judge in eviction court. Have you ever been to eviction court? It is a learning experience. The judge is listening very carefully for the answer to the following question: "Did you pay the rent?" If he hears anything other than "I paid the rent.", he signs an eviction order. It is amazing how many words a defendant will say, on and on, and if the judge doesn't hear the magic words, he must evict the tenant. The defense is "I paid the rent". Anything else is pretty much irrelevant. Just like telling the IRS "The check was lost in the mail!" or "It must have been stolen out of your mailbox!"

Why is it morally acceptable for someone to hang out in the landlord's house without paying, even if something really bad happened to the tenant (lost job, medical bills, auto repair bills, whatever)?
2012 paper on this subject that is a little more technical on the thrust aspect:
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1202.4604.pdf
They do, so they can avoid taxes all over the world. Not only do they have an EU incorporated company, if you believe their tax filings their primary business is based in Luxembourg. This is obviously bullshit, and is done to avoid taxes, but they have structured their company in a way that makes them very much an EU company.

If they weren't an EU company they couldn't take advantage of Luxembourg's tax laws. So it follows that they have to follow all EU laws. Because they're incorporated in the EU.
The general issue with this is that neutrality is favored thermodynamically, since on average objects should tend towards being neutral. Meanwhile gravity seems to provide an easy way to explain how even a relatively chaotic system may end up becoming clumped and ordered.
That’d probably be considered tax evasion by the IRS.
Don’t know about the enterprise version, but the cloud offering loads and renders like molasses.
It's not an assumption, though.

https://briankoberlein.com/2015/06/03/sizing-things-up/

> Basically if an object is changing brightness, it can’t do that at a rate faster than the time it takes one side of the object to know what the other side is doing. That time is limited by the speed of light, so if you know the rate at which brightness varies, you know the maximum possible size of the object. Since these objects are also greatly redshifted we have to account for that as well (high redshift means time dilation), but that’s pretty easy to do. So we can take our quasar and AGN observations and calculate a maximum size for each one. Taking data for various quasars, I’ve plotted how many are at each particular size. While they vary in size, the most common size is most commonly around 5 on this graph, which equates to 100,000 AU, or about 1.5 light years across.
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Debt collector harassment can be pretty efficiently dealt with. Send them a certified letter asserting your right to only be contacted by mail. Sue them for FDCPA violations if they do anything else afterwards.
I guess you just don't care about the 40,000 people killed every year.
For years I wondered how one of my neighbors was able to get away with paying rent that was almost half of what the rest of us were paying. The neighborhood was slowly gentrifying and while the rest of us were seeing 7-10% lease increases hers was small or none at all. Apparently paying rent on time for over a decade means something.

When we bought our own place our landlord at the time was really sad to see us go and she said we were her best tenants ever. At first I thought she was being cordial but after hearing other renter stories I think she really meant it. 2 years on time and we got 100% of our deposit back.
Is it wise to have a vanity private key in this circumstance?
But Amazon is an EU company.

They're incorporated in Luxembourg in order to avoid taxes, making them subject to EU laws (after all, they are subject to Luxembourg tax laws -- that's why they structured their business that way).

You can't have your cake and eat it.
This is not true at all.

You need to live there for 2 of the past 5 years to claim your $500k capital gains exclusion.

Otherwise the normal short-term/long-term capital gains rules apply.

https://www.thebalance.com/sale-of-your-home-3193496
Potentially lower maintenance costs with no moving parts. Plus potentially cheaper to manufacture.
Checkout visidata.
The issue with electric forces is not getting the right amount of force together in one place, it's separating the positive and negative forces from each other. They don't like being separated, and so it's difficult to isolate them and then put them to work.

Importantly, if you look at any large amount of mass - at least everything we've looked at - the total electric charge is near 0.

Gravity doesn't have this cancelling out problem; while it's weak, there is no negative gravity to cancel out effects, and so large scale interaction becomes possible.

A really good breakdown of some of this is in the xkcd what if series https://what-if.xkcd.com/140/
Continuous introspection and extrospection.
or even 200000 etc. I've never used but at a glance i feel like it's just a google sheets tracker with unnecessary visual stuff?
We can design to constrain the worst parts of human nature and thereby make us better humans.
At the present I mostly dislike large companies, as their games nowadays tend to "monetize" more and choose "safe" options in game design thus making them less appealing. It's kind of like Marvel movies. Great production, but after you've seen a few of them you lose interest, unless you have some kind of special attachment to the universe or the characters.

I respect Blizzard's history and games, however I feel it is going downhill, especially after their Diablo Immortal fiasco: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmkHAlhCvWg
To those who are unaware: Blizzard has historically been a company making awesome games mainly for PC. Blizzcon is an annual conference where hardcore Blizzard fans (mostly PC gamers) come to learn what's next for them. Diablo 3 was released 6 years ago, so naturally people have been expecting the next installment. And then Blizzard says to those people that the next Diablo is a mobile-only game (co-)developed by a Chinese company. Naturally, this isn't what most of the series' fans were expecting and are excited about.
> "meta-cognition" is pretty awful vocabulary that strongly limits your audience

We actually use this as a strategy in my project. When talking to sponsors, funders, etc, we use very plain language: "We are going to X to Y all Z". In the real version, the average number of syllables is less than 1.5 and the longest word has 3 syllables.

But the claim is pretty outrageous so they also want to know the money is going to serious effort. To verify that, they want external validation, so we have to publish peer-reviewed papers. Those papers are loaded with jargon from multiple fields and we intentionally emphasize the lowest possible performance metrics so almost no one is really going to understand how insanely good the results are, and how impactful they are to the domain in question.
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but this doesn't explain why VSCode is still small (<200MB)
At the businesses where I worked, developers were hired to be productive in taking on workload. Obviously, new people had to be brought up to speed on the existing systems before they could fix problems or add features. If we first had to give them technical training for months before they could be trained to understand the existing systems, that would have taken too much time. Even the front-end user and B2B interfaces were large and complex, let alone the arcane and hideously complicated domain-specific business logic - that took years to learn and be proficient working on. If in a job interview I heard the equivalent of "I can learn your UI framework or whatever" there would not be a hire.
Maybe an unfulfillable set of requirements is the point? That way they've got a bulletproof reason to reject you, and if you do get hired it's negotiating leverage
My method is to identify them and then actively expose myself to imagery and stories that counter those biases to reduce my undesirable intuitive responses to things. You train your intuition by reinforcement with good examples and counterexamples -- like training anything, you get more intuition about how to do things by seeing good and bad examples. I'm using intuition to mean the thinking that goes on before you're narrative gets a hold of it.

Don't see why implicit biases should be any harder to combat than any other bias you see in a scientific field, and scientists all have to learn and work hard to combat them to avoid results that don't hold up to scrutiny. I assume engineers are similar, you probably have bad habits coming in or poor intuition about how things should fit together. By example and practice you train your intuition to align with reality.
Elections are supposed to be bloodless revolutions. If you can't effect change through the electoral system, then the non violent solution is to revolutionize how we vote.

Relevant videos (IMO)

First Past The Post Voting - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7tWHJfhiyo

Range Voting - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3GFG0sXIig

Single Transferable Vote - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8XOZJkozfI

Alternative Vote - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Y3jE3B8HsE

Mixed-Member Proportional Representation - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QT0I-sdoSXU

Bonus video

This video will make you angry - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rE3j_RHkqJc
Likely Luxembourg, where they are headquartered. Unfortunately (as we found in the DieselGate scandal -- where car companies directly caused thousands of deaths), Luxembourg doesn't have very strong regulatory teeth. Here's hoping they're more strict.
If the governments using these these sorts of technologies are democratic, responsive, self regulating, have an informed populace, and lack of incentive problems. This is fine, but that’s a long chain of ifs.
> Those people are just as bad IMO

>> It's the same thing.

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A recertified Chromebook that will accept a Seabios rom upgrade is another cheap linux laptop approach:
https://johnlewis.ie/custom-chromebook-firmware/rom-download...
I have a good friend from China, age 67, who has been here since 1982. Her father was doctor to Deng Xiaoping from when they were hiding in the mountains during the revolution. She had a somewhat privileged upbringing, and part of that was a girl's group of "Red Guard" students. On a regular basis, they would go out at night, find a nice house, break in, and drag the occupants out into the street for "re-education". She is still haunted by memories of her group dragging a single old woman into the street and berating her. That old woman subsequently died.
Just because you personally see Twitter as insignificant doesn't mean access to social media (particularly under your own identity, not a new/anonymous account to deal with the mobs) isn't a very important thing to a ton of people in the world.

This is a part of the problem, both sides see their actions as "not that bad". Except one person made a single tweet thoughtlessly and the others are doing it with a hero-complex because they think they are making the "world a better place".

Both are equally uninformed but in the justice system motive is everything, as it rightfully should be.
Linux kernel is very good source to dig network stack, it has L1 - L4 implementation, and there are some books about Linux network stack design online.
it is very helpful to read book and dig network stack code together.
> the money comes back to `C`

Does receiving a payment on a loan not count as income? After brief searching, and the usual IANAL disclaimer, it would seem you'd still be liable for interest on the loan as income (so some small percent of your 'donations' cancel out?). Further, you can only claim so much charitable donations per-year (but it can roll over for 5 years).

It's an interesting strategy if it works. I'd love to hear someone more educated on the topic weigh in.
Further reading from Dan Luu, who wrote about this as well. [0]

He goes into why the Apple 2e is so quick, the iOS Rendering pipeline, and general complexity of computing input.

I find it really interesting that latency is so high on a lot of devices in 2018.

0. https://danluu.com/input-lag/ (2017)
Better explanation: https://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/9wzwgw/0day_bypassi...
> You can find many articles about California, for example, where they will say someththing like “in California, in most foreclosures banks can’t go after borrowers for deficiency judgement”, but it’s misleading. California has both judicial and nonjudicial foreclosure, and judicial foreclosures allow deficiency judgments and nonjudicial foreclosure generally don’t.

This is more misleading than what it “corrects”, which is actually entirely correct for the case usually of interest (and which the articles are almost always specifically addressing), owner-occupied residential properties. Its true that California allows deficiency judgements for judicial foreclosures except as barred by the State anti-deficiency statute. But that statute prohibits all deficiency judgements for purchase-money or refinance loans for residential property with up to four units when the owner/borrower resides on the property (and, unlike most anti-deficiency statutes, covers second and subsequent mortgages for that purpose, not just first mortgages.)

https://www.weltman.com/?t=40&an=40108&format=xml&p=7735
Has there been any research on running something like this in water? For boat or sub propulsion?

Since ions already exist in water maybe you can skip the ionizing step.
The "user-hostile" section is kind of silly. Poor/lazy coding is also user-hostile. Requiring 20 megabytes of JavaScript frameworks because you're too lazy to figure out how to solve your feature requirements is user hostile.

Maybe call that other stuff "monetization"
The tax avoidance is well documented, some of it considered immoral by George Osborne(!), and there is enough in the public domain to prosecute for bribery (based on the guidance documents for the Bribery Act), so a fortiori a police investigation into bribery would be justified. Ke Xu should bring a private prosecution against them.
dodges taxes:
e.g.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/leadsom-linked-to-tax-tru...

subverts democracy:
e.g.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/jul/08/andrea-lead...

"Andrea was not aware of the size of donations made by UK companies controlled by Peter de Putron to the Conservative party,"
Her husband was also a director at the company at the time of the big donations, but Andrea told the national press she wasn't aware of the size of the donations.
These people are completely bent.
Awesome idea. Really cool. I wrote a Python script to click delete on some old Google plus publications (more than 100), see if your script works there.