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> Reading them the same way as you'd read a novel doesn't seem right.

I think most technical books end up being organised like a reference manual for some reason - not necessarily as dry - but in a way that appears to facilitate some some externally driven learning activity by augmenting it.

> Do you really finish such books? What am I doing wrong?

Not personally, i'm terrible at penetrating any such book until I have a problem at hand that requires it. However I have found a few books that are technical while being enjoyable and engaging at the same time, in much the same way as a novel: "The Feynman Lectures" (Physics), "Michael Abrash's Graphics Programming Black Book", "Thinking Forth" (Programming). These books are well known, I think their popularity is in no small part due to how accessible they are without diminishing the quality of their technical content - I would like to find more books that have this quality.
>Listing the officers by name is a kind of online vigilantism that ultimately might threaten their personal safety.

As soon as:

* The blue code of silence collapses.

* Judges and politicians stop covering for cop brutality and protecting cop killers.

* Police are more than half as likely to die on the job as a trash collectors.

I'll maybe start to buy this line of reasoning.

It's an insult to the memory of every unarmed, peaceful citizen who has died at police hands to pretend that vigilantism is potentially a bigger problem than police brutality.
US gallon vs Imperial gallon? It's a ~20% difference.
I think the choice to showcase the polynomial chapter is deliberate. The topic is likely to be familiar to many, but he's using it as an example to explain why mathematicians do things they way they do. I've often expressed the same frustrations that he describes when trying to explain to programmers why mathematics can't be replaced with a rigid programming language.
It's time for a hyper-crash, say multifractal analyses of the main stock index
flopnax has some very poor design choices, and is not secure-by-default. Also, flopnax has a hard SystemD dependency, whereas rilkef is init-system agnostic. Given the militaristic arm-twisting that went into getting SystemD accepted everywhere, flopnax is obviously a poor choice.
They drive. And yes, it's as bad as it sounds. My wife can't ride a bike (balance issues) so she drives everywhere. If I don't have milk for my morning coffee I hop on the bike and it's 5 minutes or less to get to the supermarket. She wouldn't go out to just buy milk since just finding a parking spot takes 5 minutes.
Creating my first AWS Lambda using Rust
No standard library contains everything most people need, and sometimes the stdlib version is not the preferred.

Look for instance at Python. Lot of people use requests instead of urllib for HTTP client. No-one uses the HTTP server. Until 3.x no support for async IO or event loops, so we have Twisted/gevent/eventlet, mostly incompatible.

My is only that there are painpoints around dependencies event with a stdlib.
> Already game developers are the lowest paid workers in the IT industry

That is not true if you factor out all the people developing games independently on their own dime, against better financial advice. To counteract that, there just aren't enough developers working on enterprise Java architecture for no money, out of passion.

It's also only fair that people who get to work on "fun" things like games are paid less. If they don't think it's fun, they can switch industries and earn more. Nobody is doomed to be a game developer.

> I'm not arguing against any change, it just seems spiteful that Valve are sticking it to the little guys who can't go anywhere else.

The little guys can go to itch.io, which charges as low as 0% commission. They may even have more visibility on there than on Steam, given that it's a smaller pond. There's also the Humble Store, which leaves commission up to the buyer.

> This could have been a great chance to improve Steam overall, by reducing the commissions for all developers...

They did reduce commissions for everyone by 5%. The extra 5% is for those who are at risk of moving off the platform because they can create their own visibility.
It's a strange twist that the only country that punished VW/Audi group for dieselgate with sanctions that had any kind of teeth was the U.S. -- not exactly known for its environmentalist tendencies.

There VW was forced to pay for a huge EV charging infrastructure in addition to the vehicle buyback. In Canada, the gov't did basically nothing and it was only a class action lawsuit that accomplished much, and the deal we got was far less than what they got in the U.S.

Still, the money I got from dieselgate buyback paid for most of my Chevy Volt. So that's something.
Get your ham license and you too can have conversations with strangers (and a whole lot more). ~KD2CEL
In many ways this is an interesting business model - the author is largely acting as the financial backer and publisher, whereas everything from product design to manufacturing happens in China.

I wish the author tracked their time spent on this. The labor cost might be a killer overhead. Being very lean on process is probably a major factor in making it pay off.
Happy to share my thoughts on open data sources and validation steps in more detail by email if you like if you're working on this or something similar.

Not sure my observations on the Sentinel-2 data specifically are going to tell you anything you don't already know though - my original comment basically meant that identifying heterogenous and changing land use against heterogenous and changing surrounds on a regional scale is particularly hard when your spatial resolution is low enough for land areas being categorised to often only be a handful of pixels, and harder still when potential calibration metadata is older than the earliest images. We (my colleagues rather than me) solved our problem by incorporating other lower res and even radar datasets at the initial identification step and then having a manual verification stage using high res optical to evaluate the model output, but we were only identifying a few very specific rare types of land use. And again you're probably aware a model that's well fitted to one region might well needs recalibrating when used on regions with different topography and climate and typical land use patterns.
>but academic discussion should strive to be as free as possible of politics.

That's a specific ideology that says that, not a law of academics.

Tons of academics, and very respected ones, would argue that everything is politics, that academics should involve themselves in the struggles of their era, and so on (including, of course, in their academic work).

Try that line in France, for example, and see how far it goes...
A.k.a. instinct. Wouldn't the majority of people in this situation, past climbing experience or not, try to hold on to that branch with all possible strength? It's either that or possibly severe injury/death. It's possible the climbing experience makes the OP do this action in a better way than people with no such experience though.
It's the canonical example of "I was just doing my job".

It doesn't have to be appropriate as to the human toll, nor it's sane that because someone wrote an meme "internet law" in Usenet back in the day about nazi analogies people should refrain from making such arguments when they do fit, as if it's some holy period of history that people should not touch...
If you look into it you will find that you can buy many indie games directly from the developer and still get a Steam key.

If you don't want that Valve charges "too much" from indies, then you should be proactive and join other marketplaces. It's a hen-egg situation.
bans some polluting vehicles:

> The plan, known as Madrid Central, establishes a low-emissions zone that covers 472 hectares (1,166 acres). All petrol vehicles registered before 2000 and diesel ones registered before 2006 will be banned from the area, unless they are used by residents of the area or meet other exemptions.

Nevertheless a good step!
Yes, as illustrated in this video: https://youtu.be/dLBJA8SlH2w
I find that this site provides a pretty good overview of the relevant history - http://www.medievalwarfare.info/crusades.htm

>"Sending young men off to fight in a holy cause temporarily stifled the internal wars that had afflicted the West since the collapse of Roman government . That a few of the early Crusading skirmishes produced victories helped Europeans regain a sense of self-confidence, after centuries of losing on nearly every front, they temporarily turned the tables on their military and cultural superiors to the east."

>"The Church regarded crusaders as military pilgrims. They took vows and were rewarded with privileges of protection for their property at home. Any legal proceedings against them were suspended. Another major inducement was the offer of indulgences for the remission of sin. Knights were especially attracted by what were effectively Get-Out-Of-Hell-Free cards allowing them to commit any sins throughout the rest of their lives without incurring liability in this or the next world."
Well for me "evolving" from a standard thing to a monster web app that require far more resources and offer far less flexibility have a name: involution...

Of course I know that many are limited to webmails or obsolete, limiting and limited MUAs from the '90s but that's again involution.

If you have notmuch/emacs or (neo)vim *{mutt,pine} you have a far more advanced computing environment that no web up can even try to mach.

"stay behind" today's often means stay in a modern and colorful stone age instead of powerful technology.
the very basic trick of balancing the bike

Which is exactly the point the OP makes to that sentence as if we never stopped biking I think. At the least I'd say it's worded incorrectly. Sure your brain remembers the key part of how to do it, but the finer motor skills, balancing in hard situations etc don't just come back from one instance to the next and take extra practice.
Because most of the cheap production is in China / Indonesia / Vietnam. I doubt you can find many local products that you can sell with high margins, justifying all the Amazon fees and your time.
We need to widen the vagina
I am actually surprised that I managed to answer most of these questions. And I am not an IT professional. I am just a programming hobbyist who also needs automation/scripting at my job. And Python is usually the best choice.

Now, these questions are meant for senior Python developers. How do you define a senior Python developer? I would say: Experience and a deep understanding of the language is what defines a senior Python developer.

But honestly, I think labels like "Python developer" or "Java developer" are not helpful. Good programmers can work with any sane language and they know about principles that work across many languages. Like you (and others in this discussion) I agree that the interviewer should rather look for thinking and engineering skills instead of some language details that are irrelevant in nearly all software projects.

The best code is simple code. Don't try fancy stuff unless it is really needed.
That assumes they have a choice, which may not be the case.
That's a good implementation idea!
Yeah that's a good point. Until a month ago when I got an eye exam and glasses, I didn't really understand that the way a telephoto lens worked at wide apertures was very similar to the way the eye was supposed to work at _most_ distances.

(I was familiar with focusing on one thing and other things being out of focus, but with lens corrections this now works much better at 10+ meter distances, which is something I really didn't appreciate until I tried it.)
No it's the other way round; with 61 MSPS sampling rate, the theoretical maximum bandwidth is 61 MHz, so they stay below.

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If you're missing the factor two, as in "sampling frequency must be twice the maximum signal frequency", the keyword is complex sampling. With complex signals, the sampling theorem is "sampling frequency must be greater than the maximum signal frequency".

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I don't want to make anybody read about sampling. So we have a real signal - we're in the real world - and suddenly there's a complex signal? You basically fork the signal, and delay one signal path by half the clock period. You can then sample both signals at the same time, and collect the data you would get when sampling with the double frequency. Because we sample two signals, we store two samples at a time. One we call the real signal, one the imaginary -- and there we got our complex signal.
Offshoot topic. I’ve always wondered, Does programming work like riding a bike? Has anyone taken years off programming and come back to it? What was it like?
Disabling sleep would not take away the canary, it would make it more inconvenient - every instance of sleep can be replaced with some convoluted query that does a very slow calculation.
Well that may prove it was a political motivated punishment (for the US at least) not related to the environment damage. VW got fined in Europe (i.e few billions) as well but not as much as in the US.
re: Big Trak: They compare it to a Logo turtle but it was never really as interesting as that. You could program Big Trak, but only with a straight series of commands. No loops or anything interesting like that. Also the damn thing wouldn't turn very accurately, e.g. you ask for 90 degrees, you might well get 120. So good luck getting it to actually go where you want. It did look really cool though.
>Another historian, and anthropologist, Gemma Angel, who is an expert on the European tattoo, tweeted that the programme was “basically an opportunity for white male rightwing politically motivated researchers to whine on about how unpopular their abhorrent ideas are.” It was, she said, “disgusting”.

Way to prove their point about the importance of such a journal...

(Also, a university professor that's an "expert on the European tattoo" sounds like an Onion parody).
I was hoping to find this comment here. Exactly my thought as well.
I mean, a professor at the MIT, that is someone supposed to be a smart person, right?
But still so dead wrong about the obvious here. Pains me a bit to see, honestly. I wonder if this is a case where the "intuition" is influenced by the classic, you know "it can't be true, because I don't want it to be true"..
A protest can also be an expression of the view that an academic is clouding their judgement with their own politics, or simply behaving unreasonably in a manner which has nothing to do with scientific enquiry or their subject matter.

Blanket bans on protest are just as inimical to free and open discourse as blanket bans on discussing certain subject matter.
As with many "ancient" traditions, a lot of chivalric code stuff was invented by Victorians.
Have you ever seen a HN thread that stayed strictly on topic?
Europe is different from the US, we don't need cars here. I'm from Romania and I don't even have a licence. The only reason to have a car here is for work or comfort. I've travelled around the EU quite a lot and could always get around with public transport or taxis.

So no, in the context of the EU, banning cars is not a tax on the poor, it is a comfort tax at best and one which increases the comfort of every other citizen while punishing "poor" people who want cheap comfort at the expense of everyone else around them.
Yet German cities have serious problems staying within EU regulations for particulate matter, and with the health risks of suspended particulate matter becoming increasingly more evident those regulations won't go away.

Pushing non-EV vehicles out of cities isn't the only viable measure, but it is by far the easiest and quickest and has very positive side effects for quality of life in the city. And with VW getting more serious about EVs the lobbying may well reverse direction in a few years. After all once you sell an attractive EV lineup, getting every city dweller to replace their petrol car with an EV is great for your bottom line.
Well ... but then that still has nothing to do with using your own root CA, does it? I mean, why would you want to suddenly reconfigure all of your services to use a different CA? It might come up here and there that you need external access to some service hat was internal before, but that is hardly a huge problem to reconfigure?!

And also, if you have so many services running that swapping out all of the certificates is a major headache, your primary mistake probably was that that wasn't automated? When keys are compromised, you should be able to reprovision anyway.
Totally agree. I got through that first story and thought to myself “damn this is going to take way too long to get to the meat”. And like you say, these stories all have the same narrative styling so it’s not even entertaining anymore.

When and why is this a thing? And why isn’t it more compelling or dense?
It's not just lack of marketing, it's the fact that there are now far more games, but gamers have neither more money nor time to compensate.

There are too many game developers, it's as simple as that. Too many millennials don't want the regular old "grown up" jobs anymore, they want to be creatives or artists and the market just can't soak them all up.

If you think it's hard as a game developer, try living off painting or sculpture or music or literature. The vast majority never get there. Meanwhile, a game programmer at least has ordinary programming jobs to fall back on - if they can stomach it.
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Unfortunately the software support for the BladeRF 2.0 micro is not yet very mature - the official installation instructions do not work (don't install udev rules etc).

I would recommend waiting a couple of months and see how the ecosystem develops.
I'm surprised by his, too. All intelligent people I've ever met are average or below average in height.

Nobel prize winners seem to be average in height.
I don't like that very much. It's equivalent to saying "only the rich can drive in the city", another example of cities being turned into "playgrounds of the rich". Why should the gas-guzzling obnoxious Lamborghini get to drive and not my comparatively clean city car? Just say "vehicles with more emissions than x are banned" rather than pricing them out or even going by fabrication year.
Mass slavery would be a problem of a different order, and not really relevant to the economic discussion I think?
According to the current top comment fentanyl has a higher safety range LD50 is 400 times more than the therapeutic dose (whereas this ratio is 50 for heroin), but since it's many times more potent than heroin, it's a lot easier to screw up the dilution.
I tend to go with electronica, but require it to be wordless (or very, very few words). I originally picked that because I did not like it; I would be able to tune it out and it would block ambient conversations and noise. I now like a lot of what Pandora plays on that channel, and it is still very tune-outable.

I mostly just need something to prevent hearing conversations. My brain tunes right into them. My wife used to watch TV to fall asleep to. The slightest conversation going on there can wake me and then, despite how tired I may be, my brain wakes up. Fwiw, she is currently in a no-going-to-sleep-with-the-tv phase. I really appreciate it.
I think they are managing outrage, so they need to pick a subset of cars that isn't that common anymore.
The octopus is a counterpoint to this, being very intelligent but absolutely solitary.
Five Million Euros for Privacy Enhancing Technologies
He said side income + experiment. If he can do many products we are talking about different price per hour. And you can do the work in Thailand near beach.
Five Million Euros for Open Source Search+Discovery Tech
See for yourself:

https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2018/#salary

> The little guys can go to itch.io, which charges as low as 0% commission. They may even have more visibility on there than on Steam, given that it's a smaller pond. There's also the Humble Store, which leaves commission up to the buyer.

Steam has a monopoly. There is no alternative for anyone with revenue below $10 million (hence this change). Itch.io yields about 1% of the revenue of Steam.

The best you can do is sell Steam keys direct from your website, using the Humble Widget which charges 5%. However you will suffer from reduced visibility on the Steam store (since visibility is based on sales).

> They did reduce commissions for everyone by 5%.

No, only once a game reaches $10 million of total sales revenue.
Through his own trademark or just like link above?
>Why they didn't just choose Typescript or go with native javascript is beyond me.

It wouldn't be native compiled code (which this says it is), and it would have a poorer language experience plus all the baggage that comes with JS.

>No one uses Dart

You'd be surprised.
TypeScript is in absolutely no way a "more powerful language than Dart".

It's a clutch on top of JS.
Selling existing products would be the smarter way to go at the beginning. Less risk that your unique product doesn't catch on, and just focus on procurement and sale pricing (as well as learning the process and policy expectations).

I did just a bit over $1 million in sales over two years of my Amazon business and it was 99% existing major brand lines. Some I bought direct from manufacturer, some from other suppliers.
This Program Is Harder Than Harvard and Entrepreneurs Have Raised Billions
Baby showers were extremely helpful to me because experiences friends and family with babies shared items I didn’t even know about, but were useful.

Personally, I don’t like to give cash because it’s impersonal and doesn’t allow me to express creativity of something relevant to my friendship or affection. I rarely get it perfect, but a gift let’s me interact with the recipient to find out how they are doing, what they need, what I think will help best.

If I don’t know someone well enough that I can’t help with an item and would only send cash, I use that as a filter for whether to send a gift.

I also don’t like receiving cash from friends, but appreciate gifts.
> The beauty of the Volt is: you are in an EV all the time.

Not entirely true, though it certainly gives you the impression of that. When out of battery and in Gen 2 especially the combustion engine does in fact transmit power to the wheels in most hybrid driving modes. It doesn't just generate electricity, it also provides motive force.
You need to read more history if you believe knights were not thugs and warlords. And the crusaders were the top thugs in no small part due to church giving them licence to slaughter non Christians. and specifically set them selves as warlords at the expense of the states that existed in that region.

Also knights were the state.

Everything you said and implied is the polar opposite of historical fact. I'm dumbfounded. Its like meeting a flat earther.
This is Amazon shirking away “don’t be evil.”

So now they double dip and sell the customer (ads) and the product.
a strange universe of "red facts" and an equally strange, parallel universe of "blue facts."

Huh? Name one example of a "blue fact".

The article is actually interesting, but fencewalking is not the same thing as a neutral perspective.
> * Police are more than half as likely to die on the job as a trash collectors.

How is this at all relevant to whether a police officer deserves privacy? Yes, their fatality rate is around half that of a trash collector. Since when was HN anti-privacy?

You can use data like this to analyze and criticize the system, but I see no reason why the officers' identities would be helpful for any legitimate purpose, especially weighed against their privacy and the danger of such exposure in this heated political environment.