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It’s not easier to learn a language as a child; that’s a now debunked myth. Children just don’t have any other distractions , internal or external, and literally nothing else to do.

I suggest that anyone who thinks a child has an easy time learning a language should try to explain a foreign concept (which all language is, initially) to a 4 year old.
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In the UK at least, there's a good reason behind the law. Electric cars are required to make noise so that visually impaired people know a car is approaching.
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Who is the audience for this paper? It reads as if parts of the analysis were by someone technically proficient, and others are by someone without a technical background.

Eg. "We observed that when the malware created the new desktop, it didn’t create a new
instance of explorer.exe. This meant that an analyst wouldn’t be able to easily access their tools, because there wouldn’t
be a way to create processes on this desktop due to the absence of a running instance of Explorer."

Is there any malware which creates a new explorer instance on a hidden desktop? Were you hoping to call CreateDesktopExW() and then SwitchDesktop() and just click the start button and open up a screen recorder app? Yet if you wanted to do this, you could easily call CreateProcess() with the lpDesktop pointer set to the hidden desktop to start your tools there...
Even worse is television in restaurants. There is this GREAT restaurant with near me with a little side room that has a really cozy fireplace in it (VERY rare for Phoenix). The lighting for the room, however, has been destroyed by the TV. Also who on earth wants to watch ads while they are eating dinner? It's mind boggling because the place is also somewhat high end.
There is a petition about it:

https://publiccode.eu
> many people still believe that different areas of the tongues are used for different tastes (sweet, bitter,...)

We actually had that being stated as a fact in one of our elementary school books. Kind of concerning when even the writers of such books do not perform some basic research on the topics that they are trying to cover.
I think there are three potential explanations:
(1) money laundering fronts
(2) someone sold this idea to all the participants that they may get rich doing this but all the businesses are essentially failing, but the religious keep donating somehow to keep ti slightly afloat.
(3) the long tail works -- but I strongly suspect it doesn't, this is to shittily put together.
Comparing a city library with an extremely specialized institution which holds a Gutenberg bible or a Shakespeare first folio is ridiculous. These are separate institutions which only share the name library.
> Let’s imagine that we start a company by sticking 20 people in an office with an ill-defined but ambitious goal and no further leadership. We tell them we’ll pay them as long as they’re there, working. We come back two months later to find that five of them have quit, five are sleeping with each other, and the other ten have no idea how to solve the litany of problems that have arisen. The employees are certainly not much closer to the goal laid out for them. The whole enterprise just sort of falls apart.

Is that true? I mean, it sounds intuitively appealing (especially if you fancy yourself a boss-type) but has anyone actually done this experiment?

Maybe some of those 20 people are ambitious and take it upon themselves to lead the project, maybe they all form a self-organizing collective and make sensible decisions by consensus, maybe they hold a vote to elect a de facto CEO...
is this a joke? the last thing most young adults like is to be surrounded by screaming children. The louder you make libraries the less people will ever want to go there.
This was not my experience at all when trying to build Fortran code.

Which version of FFTW were they using? Undocumented. Hard binding to MKL as opposed to generic LAPACK usage? Ok, Intel fortran only then... Still missing some symbols? Oh, that's a symbol from this other esoteric library from the same group. Better see if I can download the sources for that. Etc.

There are projects without dependencies, then there are projects with dependencies in languages with sane development oriented package managers, then there are projects with dependency hell. I found fortran projects usually fell into one of the two extremes, certainly Fortran is not modern in the sense that it has no package manager which I believe most people would see as a prerequisite for a modern language.
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iAgree but englishIsAlso fasterToType byRemovingSpacesAnd capitalizingFewerWordsThan usual. iDonT knowWhy weProgrammers shouldConsiderThat aWorthwhile tradeOff
There are probably a lot more cars on the road than there ever were carriages. I'd also suspect that copious amounts of horse manure on top of the cobble stones have a dampening effect.
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I wouldn't bet on it. The sound of horseshoes on anything hard is really loud. Also: Which horrible place has eighteen-wheelers driving in living areas? Carriages were everywhere.
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My wife speaks pretty decent French, which leads to amusing scenarios in Paris where she speaks in French to a person who insists in replying in (sometimes poor) English. Often they both persevere in the opposite languages to their own, leading to a weird inversion of what you would imagine would be the most efficient communications strategy!

I would guess there might be a few motivations for people to do this though, not necessarily just rudeness. Misplaced helpfulness, wanting to save face by not switching languages back, practicing English, who knows?

(What's really funny is when they finally give up and revert to French and then address a question to me - only for me to shrug with embarrassment and tell them I don't speak French.)
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There’s a tone of acid in the more main stream psy these days...I can’t really speak about goa however
Yes fair enough. I was using the term government as it is understood in the UK.

I'm not "pettifogging" and your G/g distinction is not accurate. It is common in Britain to use small g. For example this news article which also an example of the proper usage, and clear distinction between, the terms parliament and government.

> [Phillip Hammond] said if the government loses the vote in parliament on 11 December, it would be in “uncharted political territory”. More than half of backbench Tory MPs who are not on the government payroll have committed to voting down the deal.

> Hammond said cabinet ministers would examine the reasons why MPs had voted against the deal and then try to forge consensus. “We will then have to sit down as a cabinet and a government and decide where to go on the basis of the vote, what we’ve seen in the vote and who has voted in which way because clearly we live in a democracy, parliament is sovereign,” he said." [1]

1: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/nov/28/chancellor-...
There was a german entrepreneur who did something like that. He picked a bunch of young software developers and gave them an office and budget to do what they like with it. It didn't end well, they spent the budget on gaming chairs and spent most of their time playing video games
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Because you're working on the same kind of tech that powers nuclear ICBM and other missiles.
> biological beings seems to defy the second law

Well, maybe they seem but they certainly don't. Biological beings are not closed systems.
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Ugh, they're usually not clean or friendly, the staff are also usually incompetent and slow. I have been in them a lot over the years for various reasons and my best description of weatherspoons would be a bit shit.

That they don't buy a music license is a cost saving measure.

They're ok when they first open, but after a year or two get a bit of a run down feeling.

I also walk past one of my local ones occasionally at 9:30 in the morning, there's always a few old men already drinking pints of lager in there, it's sad.
depends on the country. you re lucky you live in a good one, i live in one of the worst.
I have no idea what you are getting at, but I can say both when it comes to phones and computers, the integrated offerings from Google is better than any other Android phone and being able to get an update for iOS the day it comes out instead of waiting for the carrier and OEM are much better experiences.
but that was not my point
I sometimes dump megabytes of text to stdout/stderr as a way of monitoring or debugging long-running computations. Terminal speed matters then.
And there's no guarantee that what you would build wouldn't be horrible in the same way because it might be inherent to social media (vs inherent to ad-driven social media... I don't know but no one has the data), or possibly horrible in a completely different be way from how Facebook is horrible now.
The second law only applies to closed systems, which living things are not. While they may internally reduce entropy, when you consider them along with the environment they live in, they end up producing heat and other disorder that is far in excess to the small amount of order they have created.
I moved to Chicago a few years ago. I'm a big fan of electronic music and it therefore really surprised me that people are not aware of the rich house music heritage the city has. I'm really happy to see initiatives such as the lunch-break DJ sets on Daley Plaza during summer or the House nights at the Shedd Aquarium.

One of my business ideas is to actually organize a "House Music Heritage" walking tour in Chicago.
People that record music professionally don't buy an android phone and settle for that because of the severe restrictions on the hardware optimisation it imposes.

Likewise, people that are concerned about optimising the radio link are not likely to accept restrictions in the receiver design for instance.
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It’s fake. It’s sold by a company named “BREED”.
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The prevalence of male infant circumcision in South Korea (over 80%) for dubious health benefits is another one of those lingering misconceptions. Even the US, a former bulwark of this custom, is more progressive in the gradual decline of it.
If it isn't your medical bills, I would think about contacting their billing group and see about making smaller monthly payments. If your relative doesn't have insurance look at getting them on gov healthcare or some other option. Don't feel you have to pay it all on your own.

Considering keeping your job and hiring someone to fill in when you can't be there. Contact relatives. You might be more help to them bringing in some money to help them. Plus they probably want you to be secure and you're going to need a break from them.

It might seem like you need to support them fulltime but you need to think about your future too.

Ask your boss if you can work 30 hours per week for a while to care for a sick family member?

Good luck with everything.
The way you see eastern work culture is pretty much how Europeans see US culture.
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https://www.mturk.com/ is already a bit scary.
There's this new implementation called "gerbil"[1] which runs on top of gambit, is still very young but looks very promising.

It's opinionated in a good way (IMHO).

[1]. https://cons.io/
Well Walmart and IBM are working on one of those https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/24/walmart-is-betting-on-the-...

I was chatting to a blockchain enthusiast friend about building something along those lines myself for recording which ingredients came from where but the whole blockchain bit seems a bit tacked on to be trendy. I mean the more obvious way to record the data would be in a regular database but I guess you could write it to a chain as well so people could be sure it hadn't been altered. Dunno.

Watching the video at the end of the techcrunch article there's an IBM guy saying a problem is people record what's gone where with all sorts of incompatible systems - paper, local computers etc which makes it slow to figure which farm did it when you get food poisoning. I guess saying they have to write to data to an open blockchain rather than a Walmart database might be an easier sell?
It would finally put the cloud in the sky! Marketing will be ecstatic over all the sky based puns they'll be allowed.

Also, I guess it would solve the problem of it being expensive to put things in space by virtue of somehow having made someone else pay for vast overcapacity of sensors.
> Calling military paid murderers is definitely a partisan thing. What else do you propose? Someone has to do the dirty work to keep the citizens safe.

How exactly did US operations in Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Nicaragua etc. keep you 'safe'?
I believe the trend of changing libraries from ‘places to read’ to ‘mutli-purpose community hubs’ is a great one. I’m not sure, but I believe its happening all over Scandinavia.. and for what it’s worth I hope its also going to start happen in The Netherlands.

Right now libraries are dying. In my city, 80% of public library use is high school kids or university kids (overflow from the busy university library) studying there during peak exam times, outside of that its extremely underutilised. And for my hometown its even worse, even 15 years ago there would maybe be a handful of people there at a time, in a building that could easily fit 30-50 people.

Turning those libraries not only into a book repository but also as a place to drop your kid to play with other kids while you read, to study (think study rooms with outlets for laptops), to grab a coffee, attend a reading, etc. to me is an amazing initiative.

And there is synergy as well: you can go grab a coffee with your friend whilst your kids play, maybe browse for a new sci-fi book - and hey there is a reading which you can attend whilst your kid is preoccupied and the reading doesn’t feel dead because some other visitors and students are also attending and even if you get thirsty you can grab a tea :)

This whole wall of text might seem a little rantlike but I truly do love libraries (my mom used to take me) and seeing them reinvigorated like that is very cool.
Projects have a lifespan. They don't have to be monuments for eternity, and if they get abandoned because the maintainer gets bored/burned out, it often is because the problem it was trying to solve doesn't really make sense in the current landscape anymore. The development time wasn't "wasted" if the project served its purpose in its era.
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Thermodynamical entropy is not a physical property of a system. It’s a property of our description of the system as a macroscopic state.

Quantum (von Neumann) entropy is a related but different concept. It’s worth noting that it is constant for a closed system.

Cosmological entropy can be defined in different ways. In summary, entropy means many things and not all “entropies” behave in the same way.
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Would you pledge not to fly for a year?
Clearly this is a case of "cloud in the sky"
In those cases, I usually redirect the output to a file, so I can search through it.

Another approach is to run "screen", which has several advantages: (1) not all text needs to be written to the terminal, only the text when you actually look, (2) you can open the computation on a different computer later (e.g. perhaps at home to check if everything is ok), and (3) if you accidentally close the terminal the computation keeps running.

In both cases, my terminal emulator does not need to be fast, really.

My biggest issue with speed in the terminal comes from network latency (which is difficult to fix).
It's almost 2019 and we still can't filter out products that don't ship to my location (products I CAN'T BUY EVEN IF I WANTED TO!) from search.

I have no hope of Amazon improving.
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Alacritty supports scrolling as of version 0.2.0 https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty/releases/tag/v0.2.0
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.... or just speaking English. The reach of English is now at the point where, in my experience, most people in Europe will just switch to it even if you open the conversation with them in their own language! It's actually kind of deflating ("what was wrong with my grammar or pronounciation that immediately gave away that I'm English?") and it makes building foreign language competence through direct interaction that much harder. Of course from the other person's perspective they see an opportunity to practice their English, so they are identically motivated
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How imagine a AWS 2018 planning meeting: Shall we fix the NLB healthchecks or do something cool like with satellites and shit?

plz fix you current shit AWS instead of introducing new shit every week
Not likely, water is a good heat conductor so there will just be a area of slightly warmer water near the outlet. You might get a micro ecology with some tropical fish far from their normal grounds but nothing dramatic will happen.

It'll certainly not be worse for the environment than any normal data centre, unless it springs a leak and something toxic escapes.
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> Excepto los Argentinos. No tengo ni idea que estan diciendo por nada.

The poor Argentinians, always being treated as different…
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Interesting - that might have been something else because I don’t market this as a slack alternative, and I did not send a newsletter a few days ago either. I sent one yesterday though.

For the B2B version the content limit can be set as a compliance thing, to however many months you want, or be disabled completely.

Compliance is even better: I can run it on premises, in any server you own, or in any AWS region you want, with no dependencies, no third party contracts, and I can guarantee I will see none of your data, you hold the content encryption keys.

Business version will have its own landing page, with its own benefits, etc. For example, that version isn’t P2P. It’s also not a Slack alternative, in that it doesn’t do chat, but longer form communication. In practice that means it takes place of email groups at your company.
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In the military system, this is handled differently, right? We don’t have National Park Service Army who are uniquely prepared to handle the terrain of National Parks. Or Treasury Air Force who protect the movement of large amounts of money.

Why can’t it be federal SWAT w/ Space Proficiency instead of NASA SWAT? Having a bunch of local agencies means they’ll have widely varying levels of training, rules of engagement, and abilities. That’s how you get cops playing dress-up flashbanging babies.
I've been using Duolingo and Memrise to learn Portuguese (still far from perfectly fluent but I can read and understand the language fairly well now) and I've been working on my Russian as well. I currently have a 430day streak in Duolingo and I've finished the entire Portuguese tree (all skills to max level).

I really do thing that Duolingo on its own won't get you really far. I always see people recommend it, it seems to be the most popular language learning "app" as far as I can tell, but it's really quite mediocre. The synthetic voices they use are often very awkward and sometimes plain wrong. The intonation is all over the place and very unnatural. The translation-based approach is very simplistic and often limits what you can do. The main problem being that when you want to speak a language fluently you shouldn't translate but construct the language directly. I'm a native French speaker but as I'm writing these words I'm not translating from French, I directly "think in English" for better or worse. This is even worse for language like Russian where the syntax is completely different from English and you have to make a conscious effort to "forget" the English syntax when constructing the Russian translation, otherwise you'll end up with something awkward.

The only feature of Duolingo that keeps me going is effectively the streak counter itself. It forces me to do at least a little bit of Portuguese/Russian every day instead of slowly drifting away from my studies. You keep the contact with the language, even if it's in a very limited fashion. However when I have some free time I do some actual language learning, reading grammar lessons, reading articles online, practicing my writing skills on lang-8 or similar websites, listening to podcasts etc... Then I actually make good progress.

On the other hand I strongly recommend Memrise. It's just a flashcard application so it's really only good at teaching you vocabulary but it does it very effectively and it's got a bunch of high quality decks available (some made by Memrise themselves, with an actual human speaker pronouncing the words and expressions instead of a bad synthetic voice). Again, on its own it's not enough but for drilling vocab it's really great IMO. There's also the open source Anki but I prefer Memrise overall.
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> https://2018.bloomca.me/en

You almost got me at the notifications bit. I was about to close the tab but something told me to give it one more chance.

Brilliant.
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems to me that those drones would be bigger than what most people think of as drones.

The typical consumer drone is small, lightweight, but has a range of a few hundred meters even without payload.

The drone Uber is talking about is probably the size of a large suitcase with rotors the size of bicycle wheels; the size would allow it to have a bigger battery to carry some payload and to have a bigger range. I'm not sure if I'd like to see this type of drone flying around in swarms in my city.
Nice to see this topic up here! Check out Acid Defender, a super fun 303 web audio game I came across a few days ago:

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I thought I had posted constructive comments on this discussion.

If discussing good software practices is "flamebait" that deserves to be downvoted, which was what my "growing up" quip was about, then I am at a loss as to what to do...
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I was going to write a long comment detailing what I did on the way to Spanish fluency, but I realized that the main thing I wanted to say was this:

There's a podcast called Language Transfer which focuses on understanding other languages from scratch using English and its Latin/Germanic roots. I really can't speak highly enough of this guy. His passion for language is contagious, it's clear how much thought he has put into the lesson structure, and his method of teaching left me wishing I could have him teach me something else, like music theory.
You walk into the game with white aiming to win and black aiming to draw. If you played aiming for a draw as white, you could probably achieve it reliably against a player 200 or more ELO points ahead of you (or you could simply offer a draw at the earliest point that the rules permit - most of the time black will accept it). But if you can reliably achieve a draw as black, you're probably a better player (and certainly not a significantly worse player) than your opponent.