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I began my career 30 years ago writing actuarial valuations in Fortran77. Glad to see the industry hasn't changed (much).
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If you became offended that someone assumed you were a man, then yes, I would recommend therapy. Politely correcting them? Of course not, that's a completely reasonable thing to do.
Consistently taking offense where none was intended warrants therapy in my book.
>What about energy efficiency?

if that isn't covered in cost, then there are externalities that need to be rolled into the cost of fuel or the like.
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Some interesting ones. Fortune cookies originating in Japan, and being seen by the Chinese as an American affectation - they're very rarely seen here in the UK so I can well believe it.
I think the argument for looking for likeability is that if everyone on the team likes one another then they probably work better together professionally. In my understanding the primary pitfall of this is that it can exclude perfectly competent developers. Not everyone needs to be friends.
You're a rare exception, then. Every single person I know who has tried to learn Dutch has expressed frustration that the Dutch, more even than many (most?) other European countries, will immediately switch to English if they notice you're not fluent.

EDIT: That said, I do agree that if you get past a certain level of fluency it might be easier. And I suppose it depends on where you live. Cities are probably harder.
> NASA’s telescopes are basically spy satellites pointed outwards.

Literally in at least one case. The NRA donated two surveillance satellites to NASA back in 2012 [1] and the plan is to fly one of them as the WFIRST telescope [2]. I don't think there is a launch date yet.

[1] https://www.space.com/16000-spy-satellites-space-telescopes-...

[2] https://spaceflightnow.com/2016/02/18/nasa-moves-forward-wit...
Benny Lewis (Fluent in 3 Months[1]) says he doesn't speak English, if people try to switch. His approach is basically go to pubs and try to speak from day 1.

On the other end there's Khatzumoto (All Japanese All The Time[0]) who spoke as late as possible, getting as much exposure as possible first (had Japanese audio on 24 hours a day for 18 months).

After 18 months of "input-first" learning, he did a phone interview with a Japanese company and was treated as a native speaker (and hired and moved to Japan).

Benny's method is about getting a "workable" level as quickly as possible (at the risk of forming bad habits in accent early on, misusing grammar & vocabulary).

Khatzumoto's method (based on linguist Stephen Krashen's Input Hypothesis) is about getting a solid model for the language, which the brain builds naturally through constant exposure, before speaking or writing a great deal.

For more on these methods check out their respective sites. As an introvert I prefer the "listen first, speak only when necessary" approach, rather than "go out and make an ass of yourself from day 1" :)

[0]: https://ajatt.com/

[1]: https://fi3m.com/

No affiliation, but I have great respect for both, and have benefited from their advice tremendously.
The interesting part to me is the reviews are half one stars.

For a lot of things I buy on amazon, being authentic or not is irrelevant, being of good quality or not is my only concern.
Of course for a lot of brands 'authenticity' and good quality go together, but that's only a signal to me, authentic products can also be crap.

Perhaps that's also why I don't buy most brand stuff on amazon, as it gives me nothing more than the official retailer's site, prices should be the same, and customer service will be on par or better.

To be clear I don't condone selling fakes, I just think it's a fool's errand to look for 'good deals' on amazon or any third party site when it comes products where brand matters over all.
Most people don't suck with vocabulary. They suck with making native sounding phrases!

They suck with the phonems!

I've absolute pitch. I can speak any language exactly how a native person would speak.

My wife knows more languages than me, yet she sounds like a foreigner based on feedback we received while traveling in multiple countries.

Most people even if they've fluency in a language will still sound like a foreigner.

Now, if you've absolute pitch you can differentiate between different pitched sound and match native speakers.

Most people can't do that!
>What would you do with this money if your intention would be to make it grow?

What is the timescale?

1-7 days: go to the casino, bet it on red

1 year: just keep it

5 years: low-risk investments

>10 years: high-risk investments (more volatile, but larger expected payout)
Not only are the machines costly at the initial purchase, the helium cryogen for keeping the magnet in its superconducting temperature regime is also expensive, and has to be topped up periodically. I hope that "high-temperature" superconductors (where liquid nitrogen is sufficient) can eventually replace the conventional superconducting wire currently used in MRIs. Helium is getting rarer all the time, but liquid nitrogen is cheaper than milk.

It's also worth noting that costs are high in part due to bureaucracy and bad laws: you can't open up a dedicated imaging center if you can't get the required "certificate of need" in your area[1]. In such places, the existing hospitals can monopolize a region and prevent imaging centers from being built. More scanners could bring down costs and allow patients to be scanned sooner.

[1] https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/7/31/17629526/m...
It's worth mentioning that the noise levels of restaurants and public spaces can also be inaccessible to those who hearing impairments and those who may be sensitive to overstimulating audio input. I can personally attest to being in busy restaurants in which my grandmother simply cannot have a full conversation with me since there's so much surrounding noise.
This is a pet hate of mine - glad to see it's not just me getting older. A restaurant round the corner from me has acoustic foam on the under-side of all the hard wood chairs and tables, and that helps a little. As soon as I find a bar that's decided to carpet its ceiling, it's going to be my new favourite hang (I understand why places don't want carpet on the floor. Apart from anything else, it's hard to keep clean)
I honestly have no idea. Last I heard, Bing is blocked in China, which I assume means that there are things that come in its search result that Chinese government doesn't like.

But Dragonfly [ostensibly] went well beyond just censoring results, in that it implemented specific tools like linking search requests with phone numbers identifying people who made those requests. That's straight-up aiding and abetting oppressing people - political opposition, for example, or even unorganized dissenters. I can't believe we are even seriously talking about whether this is okay or not.
I've known people who intentionally moved to a place where people only spoke the local language (and perhaps a few word of English) and they sent their children to a local school. It was incredible to see how effective immersion can be when there's no escape hatch. Of course usually it's difficult to pull off, considering how many locals speak English and how many non-locals tend to be around.
By building and delivering such a system they'd be condoning the actions of the Chinese government.
Sadly some of those parts are almost impossible to get.
A cast to what, though? You need to be able to write the type of that array, but you can't do that unless dimensions are compile-time constants.
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Open source developers can’t ‘just’ choose what they work on, anyway.

Oh yes they can.

However, if the developers choose to chase popularity, then it's a different game and they must recognise that the stakes will be higher then. Yet that has no relevance to open source itself.

You can very well chase popularity, satisfy rude customers to the world's end, and eventually burn out writing a closed-source shareware application, too.

I tried to convey they point that the fact that there are burned out open source developers is not an inherent trait of open source itself.

You don't need to open your source to get rude customers, endless demands, and gigantic requirements. If you choose to deal with all that then that is always your own choice and you must face the consequences. But it's the same class of problems whether you write open source or start a pizza restaurant. Some customers are just net-negative. In any business or hobby where you provide something you must learn to set limits to how high the customer's bang-for-buck must be for you to come meet in the middle.

I would tend to think there are more open source projects that are abandoned rather than with burned out developers, but I obviously don't have data on that.
I do not think you are being pedantic at all. I am trying to come up with kind words, but the line "they were merely creating scores" is absolutely ridiculous IMO.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-11-19/the-forgo...
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Bigtable is a different beast, but it's new "Key Visualizer" is impressive. Has helped us quickly find anomalies https://cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs/keyvis-overview

Wish Dynamo had something similar
It also doesn't help that pronunciation rules for French border on the bizarre (only English is worse) due to language evolution and the spelling being conservative to it's Latin roots, and there are some sounds that are flat out strange to English speakers (like the growling r). I joke that probably English speakers would have an easier time understanding African french due to the very careful pronunciation of consonants and the regularized rhythm
"""I use Linux now, but I think to be used in Enterprises or public service it lacks features as good central maintainability (where Microsoft really shines)"""

I think in a Linux only environment maintainability is pretty good. Especially for centralized software rollouts and updates (and security fixes) I prefer Linux over Windows. There's virtualization and software packaging solutions in Windows land but from my experience the things that work best are usually from third parties, cost quite a bit and don't work all that great in many edge cases.

For user management in Linuxland, Kerberos for authentication and LDAP for authorization works pretty well. But AD in Windowsland is very good.

As you said, the problems start once you enter a mixed environment (which is pretty much always the case). I'm not sure if the blame should be put on Windowsland or Linuxland in mixed environments but it's usually put on Linux.
Ah, good point. I always forget that VLA types in C99 are actually types, and so you can use them in these contexts as well.

It's a shame they killed VLAs as a mandatory language feature. They didn't make C into Fortran (which I think was the hope, between them, complex numbers, and "restrict"?), but they did make some things a great deal more pleasant to write.
> Clojurescript.... Personally, I don’t like it on a matter of principle: I don’t like things that compile to JavaScript. It doesn’t seem like anything you really need to write better code.

Maybe I don't understand what the alternative is when you want to write client side code for the browser - js?? I use Clojurescript and find clear benefits.

By way of example I often found the general setTimeout functionality to be a nightmare for scheduling delays. Most of the time it works, but periodically I find it blocks or fails (via a dependancy chain) and then have to spend time arranging code abnormally to mitigate. In clojurescipt I use core async.

(defn timeout [ms]
(let [c (async/chan)]
(js/setTimeout (fn [] (async/close! c)) ms)
c))

Never looked back. Never had a delay problem - Ever.

cljs core.async and many other features have made it so much more enjoyable to write client side code. Don't even get me started on callbacks.

> Oh, and one last thing. I feel it’s obligatory at this point for me to say, please don’t spend too much time researching Scheme dialects. Just pick Racket and start coding

I've had the opposite experience so thanks, but no thanks.
C# doesn't have an Any generic type (Foo<?> In java parlance)
Yes! It seems like somehow many bar/restaurant owners have no interest in making their spaces sonically comfortable. I've been in some that felt like they were designed for maximum reverb. The few ones with acoustic panels on the walls / ceilings are so nice in comparison. I really hope caring about the way your place sounds becomes standard.
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Just because it's marketed as a residential line doesn't mean it's common at all. Besides, that line, or even the gigabit line, is not available in a very large market.

> There are also plenty of symmetrical fiber services with hundreds of Mbps of upload from Frontier, Verizon, AT&T, and others.

Most people don't have a lot of options.

The options in my neighborhood are either 150 mbps down/5 mbps up with Comcast, or 35 mbps symmetrical with Frontier.

If you have more than two options, and one of them is gigabit, you're extremely lucky. A considerable chunk of America only has 1 option, and the extreme majority doesn't have gigabit down, let alone gigabit up.
Gardeners tend to gardens, so even for pro vs hobby that's not the distinction you want to make.

But even the intention behind the distinction is wrong, as not wanting to be a huge agricultural business doesn't mean you're not professional.

In fact, quality-wise the smaller shops can be much more professional. So, no, actually, those are farmers, of the kind with the smaller lots, that have always been there and fed humanity for millennia.

The other are just big business conglomerates who don't give a fuck about farming and just happened to be in the agriculture business -- and will do anything to drop their margins and sell crap.

I hope that they get zero consideration from those who are supposed to help farmers, and hopefully are driven out of farming.
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> For awhile when I was younger I played the game of listen to an album then look up who influenced it, rinse and repeat. Found real gems this way, [..]

I liked to play a similar game: Digging up the original songs that were the source of samples. Found real gems this way too.
Ask HN: Why aren't there more symbols on keyboards?
I can understand that !@#$%^&*... are useful in their own context. But there are hundreds, if not thousands, of other meaningful symbols, too. Yet, we don't see any key allocated to one of these symbols on PC/Mac keyboards. Why is that?
> the “people find presentations about code or libaries for which the source is not available irritating” seems to be a general statement.

Read the whole thing in context. He's apologizing for jumping the gun - for giving a talk about a library he intended to release, before it was ready. The implication is that it was probably a "hey try this library!" kind of talk, that has little value to the audience without the code, so he's saying he should have waited.

Giving talks about closed code that will never be released is separate from all that, and clearly not what he's talking about. Hence the exception, "case studies and such".
> That is a $300/mo with a 2 year minimum subscription.

Also, that $300/month is the introductory price. Lord knows what the actual price is once the initial 2 year period is over.
I went back and forth, both ways.
I started out in Python with snake_case identifiers, then moved to Javascript with camelCase, and now I mostly use Rust with snake_case for names and UpperCamelCase for types.

I don't find either style better than the other, the only time I notice anything is when I switch between style conventions (e.g. switch between JS and Rust or C++), because I need to break the habit of typing one way rather than the other.

Still, I find readability of the two styles pretty much identical at all times once you get used to both.
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s/air transportation drones/their ipo

Expect all manner of Hot New Things coming from their PR dept over the next couple quarters.
Well, China doesn't get support for European governments, (unlike e.g. the US) to put their surveillance equipment in here, they weren't caught red handed spying on our top politicians (unlike the US), and while they could very well be targeting Chinese targets or people of interest, I'm 100% certain they don't mass track everyone in Europe.
Isn't the primary noise of a helicopter the airflow? Sure the engines make some noise which you could reduce but how do you remove airflow noise and generate enough lift?
Oh my god that pepsi document.

It's real? Was someone actually paid to produce that document?

As I scrolled downwards I just kept getting more and more convinced that it's some kind of ridiculous surrealistic joke thing.
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It may have also been what your friend said — French people are quite formal compared to Canadians and Americans — I know some French and was corrected a couple of times based on how I started the conversation: “Good evening” first, then start... most Americans at least don’t talk that way
> A reason why pay software does so well is that there is hand holding within a phone call away if something goes wrong. With FOSS you might have a bug report and hope it gets fixed in the next release.

I dont want to play any kind of fanboy here, but in case of many software products unless you talking of huge corporate customer it's very unlikely to get any kind of proper fix faster than in open source software. Yeah there is few software companies that play close attention to end-users problems and rapidly provide fixes, but in most cases you have to wait month+ to see fix included in some future release.

What author in the link is talking about is that end users of FOSS aren't often financially support developers or just random people who play role of user support within community.
I think there's a spectrum of behaviors that range from legitimate news gathering to something very much like espionage.

Scenario 1:
Leaker: Hi, I'm XXX, I work for YYY and I'm witness to event ZZZ that I think must be exposed. I have classified documents to back up what I have to tell you.
Reporter: I'm going to stop you there and make sure my editor, owner, and lawyers are on board with this and determine how to proceed. Please do not communicate any classified material at this time.

Scenario 2:
Leaker: Hi, I'm unhappy with the general state of things and am willing to exfiltrate any secure data I can get my hands on.
Reporter: Great! What do you have access to? No, better, just send me a listing of everything. Here's a secure server and software that should crawl your net and get it out without raising any eyebrows. No wait, even better, I'll send you a USB dongle that will look like a keyboard to the hw event logger with everything you'll need on it.

Not saying Assange did exactly scenario #2, but I think the press can be only so much of an active participant before they incur some liability for the removal of classified information.
I should say, it's presently inferior. It has repeatedly placed behind Stockfish in recent TCEC and CCCC tournaments. I imagine it will surpass Stockfish at some point.
The ETH example you mention was a PoC. It did not generate revenue and is not a business. Don't get me wrong. I think it's great, and it might be technically very impressive, but it's not generating money. It's not a business.

Omise is interesting in that they clearly have a product and users. They were one of the first ICOs to put a valuation of the tokens at over $1B. Do you have any idea what kind of transaction volume they are handling? I've never seen any numbers.

Augur is technically interesting as well, but earlier this year Coindesk noted they have a valuation that amounts to $4.8 million per active user, which seems to me to be unsustainable.

https://www.coindesk.com/where-have-all-the-augur-users-gone
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I've been learning Chinese for about four years. I use apps, but only to drill and help me improve my reading + vocabulary outside of the in-person classes.

There's nothing like an in-person tutor. (OK, so mine is online, but it's almost the same.) My teacher knows my strong and weak points, and when I get stuck with a certain word or grammar pattern, she makes sure to test it before we move on.

That said, I only have one hour of class per day, and that's not enough to really progress. So I use the apps to jog my memory, learn new words (since everyone will stress different ones), and internalize the grammar.

Besides, a language is a very dynamic and living thing: When you speak it with natives, you'll sometimes be able to rely on sentences you've learned in class. But the real test is whether you can take their new-to-you question, and respond with a new-to-you answer. And that only comes with time and repetition with real instructors -- and with repeated practice with native speakers. And there's no better teacher than a puzzled look on a native's face, telling you that your pronunciation is totally off.

I often say, half jokingly, that my trips to China (where I go 3-5 times a year to teach Python + data science courses) are my end-of-semester exam, when we see if my Chinese has really improved. Without fail, interactions with natives help me to improve.

None of this would happen with just the apps. Yeah, they're great -- but they are far from sufficient.
>The second law of thermodynamics states that “as one goes forward in time, the net entropy (degree of disorder) of any isolated or closed system will always increase (or at least stay the same).”[1] That is a long way of saying that all things tend towards disorder. This is one of the basic laws of the universe and is something we can observe in our lives. Entropy is simply a measure of disorder. You can think of it as nature’s tax[2].

I don't understand this. Please note that I've never had any physics training so I'd love for someone with a more formal physics education to help me out here. Why is this a measure of "disorder"? In my eyes, a perfectly uniformly distributed of zero temperature mass (or maybe absolute zero, not sure) of grey energy is the perfect order?

The fact that stars are forming together and creating heat -- that -- is the disorder in my eyes. We are all disturbances in the energy of the universe. I would call a perfectly uniformly smoothed out heat-death of the universe perfect order (i.e. the opposite of chaos).

Or am I completely wrong here?
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