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All big infrastructure projects are very expensive, always miss their deadlines and go way over budget; it is the nature of the beast. I'm not saying it is ok or that it could not be managed better: it could and it should.

The thing is that the cost of such projects is an investments and a legacy for future generations to enjoy. Imagine if we had to build the BART or the highway system in this they and age. How much would it cost? How many buildings in highly concentrated areas will need to be taken down to make way? Do you even believe that BART was on budget or on time?

Would it be any cheaper to build a high speed rail system in 10 years? In 20 years? Should we throw the towel and decide that future generations will only have the option to fly to LA or should they have to build it themselves at an even bigger price tag?

I know the HSR project is going to be over budget and the ROI won't be there for my generation. But in the same way that I can commute to SF on Bart, I want future generations to have the option to travel to LA in HSR.
I'm not sure when the last time you've tried, but in the last year VSCode has come a long way towards "just working" out of the box for C++. They've specifically focused on it. If you've got some time, I'd recommend that you checkout Rong Lu's CppCon 2018 talk. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JME1i3vCRR8
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I think any issue of substance getting media attention will also generate a lot of fluff/opinion commentary on the few articles of substance. I don't think this wave of media attention on Facebook is different.
I haven't made any "big" realization, because the logic I stated earlier doesn't necessarily imply an upwards or downwards direction.

Look: the inverse is ALSO true with bitcoin. When the price rises, more miners join, raising the difficulty, raising the price of bitcoin.

And as I stated earlier: when the price falls, miners leave, dropping the difficulty, dropping the price further.

If there was an actual trade I was going to make, it'd be that BTC will remain volatile. Except everyone already knows that fact, so there really isn't anything novel I'm proposing. I'm simply noting that the momentum trade is probably stronger in the BTC world than in typical financial instruments.
The particular grid economics of Southern Australia are not reproduced everywhere else. It is all about the dynamics and regulations of the spot market, existing short term generating capacity, and the capabilities of the other market participants.

The batteries didn't "save" $40 million of electricity, they enabled one entity (Southern Australia's power operator) to trade more efficiently against the other participants, who were the losers in this battery deployment in the form of reduced profits.
The Chinese equipment isn't being rejected because it can fail. It's because Chinese companies aren't as separate from the government as in the West. And they don't trust China of course.
From some researching I’ve done on the internet, it seems like it’s a Retina issue. When I switch the resolution to default, the spinning goes away.
Thanks. We've got easy-to-fine-tune visibility and notifications settings. In most cases, the teams that use negative karma send these requests privately. I presume it's mainly for tracking things for performance reviews later. One client confirmed such use case, gathering data. Thanks so much for sharing your thoughts.
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NeXT mach was a microkernel as well based on CMU’s Mach 2.5 (in the first release) and was in the market in 1988. It was actually fantastic, even when I was running 0.7 of the OS in prerelease at LANL. Hurd started in 1990 so it wasn’t NEW new imho (originally based on Mach 3.0 although NeXT went there too). There are other ideological differences but the core mach microkernel ideology started at CMU in 1985 making microkernels an 80s technology as well.
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I will never forget the sensation of being sucked into the wavy vortex that was my parents' mid-80s waterbed.
Ada is an example of a standardized, mature language with a "natural number" (strictly positive integer) type.
It's funny how the promise of multicore CPUs was that appropriately engineered workloads could hit new heights of efficiency and overall performance but the cynical reality is that I'm glad for the most part that the partitioning between cores puts a hard limit on how much still commonplace single-threaded processes can take the piss.
Asking for a pay raise to cover the union dues is a red herring -- unions do far more than merely collect dues from their members.
Choosing between Samsara, Inc. and Blend Labs for a job offer
I am deciding between the above two companies for a full-time new-grad job. Both with similar compensation, location but Samsara started in 2015 and is now a unicorn and Blend started in 2012 and is valued at around 500mil. Both products are pretty interesting - how would you go about deciding about something like this normally?
And to imagine that this all happened less than 2 years ago!

When we look back on history, I think it will be safe to say, that humanity is at this very moment in time going through an inflection point that will make previous Industrial Revolutions appear as if they were nothing more than tiny blips in comparison, with companies like DeepMind pushing forward right at the cutting edge of this frontier.

When DeepMind was originally absorbed into Alphabet, I was somewhat skeptical at first, not understanding why they would choose to do so. But now in retrospect, I realize this was probably one of the smartest choices they could have ever made. Not only did they gain effectively unlimited access to Google's internal computing infrastructure/hardware which is de facto the best in the world for machine learning, I can't think of anyone better suited or more aligned to the goals of what DeepMind is trying to achieve than Larry or Sergey. Because if there's anyone out there that really "gets it", it's Larry and Sergey. Just look at how they turned Google into Alphabet as testament to that vision [1].

[1] Google being a source of steady income, a stepping stone, with the real future placed in their alpha bets, hence the name "Alpha-Bet".
Unfortunately most of people out of France don't understand the situation here. They get to blame some violence propaganda of twitter account with less than a hundred followers without talking about how one-sided are mainstream medias (which have much bigger reach). I'm tempted to say that this is a move to discredit Gilets Jaunes movement.
Free stuff AND coupons, why not?
Regarding your first point, the idea is that if the US economy tanked or crashed Lyft would be utterly screwed but Uber might be able to ride (haha) it out with revenue from its non-US markets. In reality, if anything that bad happened to the US the rest of the developed is most likely screwed too, but that's the concept.

As for your second point, you might be right. It's not EVERY point of market share, but it must still be a significant number that is wrested from Uber with great difficulty.
this is precisely the case: http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au/archives/git/0504/0873.html
That's true in a way, but it requires basically no non-web dev experience either. It's a different kind of "building".
To anything else lostgame has seen, I presume. That's literally what the post said.
the U.S. has become incapable of building large projects in a reasonable amount of time and budget?

Private projects come in on time and on budget, or nearly so, all the time. It's the public sector projects that are layered in graft.

The last major public project that came in near the original budget that I can recall is the San Jose Area (now SAP).
It is possible. In fact, I definitely expect to see new chemistries and anode/cathode materials appear.

The question is how much it will buy us.

Unlike other domains where theories or algorithms or medicines or whatever appear almost "out of thin air", the periodic table is limited and the mechanism of battery operation is well understood, so I think there is already a pretty good grasp on the possible materials that can be used, even in theory.

For example, Lithium is used for a reason, something like it's electron carrying capacity per unit weight. There are no other elements waiting to be discovered that are going to be better. Cathode materials are more complicated, but I don't think there is any order of magnitude improvement hidden out there.

I could certainly be wrong.
I'd give bunches of money for a 17", 4k laptop with a great keyboard AND NO numberpad.

System76's come close, except for that pesky numberpad.

I work from home, portability isn't my top priority. I wouldn't mind a heavier laptop with a very thick base sitting on my lap because I use a laptop tray which prevents the heat from burning my legs. Otherwise I'm at my desk with the laptop on a vertical holder.

I do hate numberpad because I would never use it and it moves the touchpad to left of center.
The fancy tools can check your code as you write it and highlight problems inline so you don't have to switch context in order to fix them. This saves time in any language, but static analysis with Rust is unusually powerful so tightening that feedback loop pays serious dividends (when it works).

I'm not saying emacs and vim aren't really cool technologies. But why would a person who cares about optimizing keystrokes and crafting macros dismiss a tool that optimizes debugging and refactoring? I spend a heck of a lot more time staring at code than I do typing it, and if the reverse is true for you then you're some kind of savant and/or (more likely) you're writing too much code and reading too little of it.
You've got to be joking... He's a genocidal, homophobic, racist piece of shit, borderline dictator. Read this: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jair_Bolsonaro, if you agree with anything on there, you really have to rethink your entire life
And most type systems don't actually reflect the subtyping relation inherent in the topos correspondent to their logic. As a result, there is a massive disconnect between type systems, which let us catch errors in programs without running them, and type theory, an essential and unavoidable part of doing maths.

I think that we should take "typed", "untyped", etc. away from the dynamic-language haters and force them to justify their positions without this needlessly-perjorative attitude. "Types lend themselves to strong automated reasoning, automatically eliminate large classes of errors, and simplify the job of whoever is reasoning about the programs," writes the author, ignoring that there are piles of similar features in the language design space, like highlighting, typesetting, brace-matching, whitespace, capitalization conventions, docstrings, named variables, named procedures, 2D/spatial layout, ASCII/JIS/Unicode art, and the list goes on and on and on.
I believe you are correct and the not-significantly-changing win rates vs SF8 and SF9 imply that.
If understand your scenario, you can do that with FF, if you don't force a url to be always opened in one profile. For instance you can have sites hard-linked to specific profiles (e.g. social networks) and others that are not, so they stay in the current session (e.g. paypal, which otherwise is broken by the multi account feature).
The one nice thing about specifying a password change API would be that password managers could change passwords automatically, but I can definitely see the elegance in not attaching it to this specific spec (it could be achieved with a meta tag or similar).
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Because California is more than just two coastal cities.
Ok, I finally watched the video and I don't think it was worth my time at all. It was nice that they were polite to each other but really we have understood the basics of how increased C02 causes global warming for about a century. Current detailed climate models are kind of crap, Nate Silver went into why in some detail in his book on modeling, The Signal and the Noise, which I recommend but that doesn't change the anything I said in the above post - climate models are as likely to undershoot the dangers of warming as they are to overshoot them. Christy basically seemed to be arguing that there's uncertainty so he was permitted to believe what he wanted to. That's not a rational way to approach problems, especially given how he exaggerated the nature of the uncertainty.
Not sure how they did it, but I created an online Elm Repl couple of years back http://elmrepl.cuberoot.in/, Sources: https://github.com/girishso/elm-repl-in-browser
Your plan has never been done before. It might completely fail for risks you and everyone else has never considered.

For all of rail's faults, we are certain it is possible. It's been done many times before. Maybe it can be done cheaper or more efficiently but there is no question that if we build it it will actually work.
No one is forcing you to work.
I tried to switch to firefox a few months ago, but it had no way to view websocket frames in the dev tools. This was kind of a deal breaker for me at the time as I was doing a lot of ws work. Have they remedied this?
Other than some Google sites optimized for Chrome (which reminds of sites working only in IE...), Firefox on MacOS works pretty well, better than Chrome on average.
Safari on MacOS is probably the winner, because Apple invests a lot on battery saving and performance of its sw.
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Thanks, those slides have some great info.

What exactly does it mean to proxy a syscall to the debugging host?
>> Likewise it was very embarrassing for the foreign policy establishment when their tools such as the oscar-winning White Helmets relief-workers were photographed arm-in-arm with rebel militants and shown staging videos

I looked this up and I found is this: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/is-this-proof-white-helmet...

Wikipedia has a couple of incidents listed in the 'Controversies' section on White Helmets, that do not really show them as 'tools of the foreign policy establishment'.

>> but I didn't see any of this exposed as 'misinformation.'

Well there you go then.
> government confiscated all firearms

It's relatively easy to get access to firearms in Australia, including semi-automatic pistols. [0]

The gun control laws mainly affected semi-automatic rifles and shotguns.

[0] https://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/2017/10/04/australias-gun-...
I think all of your arguments could have been made against BART 30 years ago as well. I'd be willing to bet that future generations will be glad we made the investment in HSR despite inefficiencies in it's construction.

HSR is not only supposed to support LA and SF. Air travel is great for those cities but it doesn't do much for anything in between.
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Tbh I am shoked that this is that big of a cultural difference, but i guess god to know? The right to ones private information is one of the core principles of the German Hacker community.

Do you by any chance have some material on the moral position of the US hacker community on privacy? It seemed I assumed far to many similarities.
In all honesty, most options will probably be out of reach for someone with lack of experience. For-hire work is one; a lot of smaller studios will do 70% for-hire and 30% in-house projects, but it will take years to build to that level where anyone will trust you with hundreds of not millions of dollars to create a game.

There are mobile publishers that will gladly work with you even with just a few months to a year of experience, provided you can deliver a product. However, the terms will usually be way more favorable for the publisher. What you get though is valuable experience.

"Aside from ads" - be careful not to downplay ad revenue. Many studios live on it. Of course it might be difficult to get enough players without spending a lot of money on User Acquisition, but you just gotta pump more games out.

The reason I mentioned that a game designer is not a "main role" is because they are a luxury that only the more established studios can afford. The kind of design you should be doing is the monetization kind; design your game to generate revenue. This may sound obvious but it's quite involved. There are books on Amazon about the Freemium model that you can read up on.
Tax rates were cut; tax revenue was not. The federal government is expecting $26 billion more in tax revenue than in 2017.
Interesting. With quick googling, I think these are the founders' GitHub pages?

Harj Taggar
https://github.com/kwi

Guillaume Luccisano
https://github.com/harj
Uber is nowhere near a "leader" in the space. If by leader you mean stealing tech from Google, then yes.
Could you explain how voting a criminal into power is going to prevent him from having defenseless prey?
It does not seem like common sense at all when said sites also load tracking scripts such as google analytics.
> Consistent? Ha! Change branch: git checkout my-branch. Reset file to committed version: git checkout -- my-file. Git is many things, but consistent it is not.

> well known set of problems

that's precisely the well know set of problems. You learn them once, apply on every console. If each UI decides to overcome them differently, you end up with N+1 different behaviors.

I'd rather have only one set if inconsistent commands, than 3.

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There are a couple myths here. Civil War photography achieved shutter speeds on the order of seconds, and camera technology isn't the strongest explanation for the lack of smiles.

Source: http://time.com/4568032/smile-serious-old-photos/
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Thanks for all the great explanations and insights. I really appreciate it. Cheers.
the largest difference I see is that vscode lightly highlights every match making it hard to see which cursors are selected. sublime is so clear
> It consists of a mutual self-hosting Scheme interpreter written in
~5,000 LOC of simple C and a Nyacc-based C compiler written in Scheme.

I’m trying to understand how important this part is. Is there a fundamental reason this needed to be a C compiler and Scheme interpreter that each can compile or interpret the other? Or is it just that they needed to support those two languages to bootstrap this particular software distribution?
> For instance it was very embarrassing for the mainstream media and the democratic party that leaked emails showed them in collusion and undermining Bernie Sanders, but this was not misinformation.

Except they didn’t, at all, and the people spreading this theory are spreading misinformation.
Because you have actors/lawyers planning a vast complex project with input from voters who have no clue how to build anything at this scale. if it wasn't political, then it would be feasible. But thats not the world we live in.
You can add OpenSearch engines from the "..." menu in the address bar, but it doesn't show an indicator like the search bar.

Suggestions for keyword searches will be fixed in the next release.[1]

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1496814
That answer is a bit outdated because we open-sourced one of the core pieces of our infra: Prybar https://github.com/replit/prybar

We'll be open-sourcing some more. As for how Multiplayer is implemented, we'll be doing a blogpost on it soon.
The CHSR indeed does have a Phase 1 stop in Bakersfield (among other inland cities).
Pretty much the same here. FF has always been a battery eater, and even if only one tab is open, it's the sole app in the "Apps using significant energy".
Middle management also appear less useful when there's only 4 underlings in the office.

A lot of the inertia to remote work I've seen was mainly about managerial ego/job security rather than any actual logistical challenge.
Just cosleep and have your wife breastfeed on demand in the bed. It’ll make it so you can both easily sleep through the night. It made the first year of my daughters life really low stress.
This is not a correct description of past climate changes. The glacial and interglacial periods of the last 2.5 million years have been global and swinging temperatures by 6-9°C in either direction, with periods between 40-100k years.

During the last interglacial (Eemian, ca. 129–116k years ago) sea level was 6-9 meters higher than today; Scandinavia was an island. The water temperature of the North Sea was about 2°C higher than at present; hippos lived as far North as the Rhine and the Thames. The onset of the Eemian took just a few centuries, during which global temperatures shot up >5°C.
Hard to say. The final text of the bill with the amendments that got added this week haven't been published officially yet (https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Bills_Legislat... only the first reading is available). Once it is we'll have to do a full review from legal - it's something a bunch of us are wondering internally right now. There are a lot of loopholes in the bill, so it's hard to say what things we'll be required to do, if any. The bigger impact will be on the world view of the tech scene in Australia. Needless to say this is very damaging, and there are concerns that we wont be able to handle any European data in Australia as it could be a potential violation of GDPR. Again though, that will have to wait until we finish the legal review of the bill and how it impacts us.

In talking with some other companies, some of them are looking at potentially moving any role that would have the ability to compromise encryption outside of the country. That way there'd be no way any employee could be legally forced to implement any backdoors or weakening of encryption. That's an extreme measure and is probably overkill right now as the loophole that states you don't have to do anything to weaken your security will likely be used as a challenge against building in any backdoors. We'll have to wait and see how things pan out.
This is so good! Since codeshare turns too unstable and cloud9 it's a little cumbersome to use, having this alternative is amazing.
Ah of course there were no mutli-cores back then. That makes total sense. Thanks.
> I'm asking what is the evidence that right now, piles and piles of Americans support direct democracy.

And the evidence is that they have it and choose to keep it, since its existence allows them to remove or further limit it should they wish to.
Saw "There Will Be Blood" the other day. Thought I recognized Tehachapi and looked it up. Turns out that movie was based in California and not in Texas as I assumed. Excellent movie btw.
I wonder whether there's ever been much momentum within google to add programming language modes to google docs. It must have been suggested plenty of times internally. I mean, I hope not, for the sake of smaller companies like repl.it.
No, that is the bare price. Insurance drops it more. For a recent baby, my price went from about $3500 down to about $1000 due to insurance, though we had to prepay more and we're still trying to get back some of the difference. Back when I had better insurance and lived in an expensive location, the full cost was covered by insurance.

I've never heard of it being over $5000. I can imagine that an at-home birth in San Francisco might be that bad or worse, since the midwife needs to deal with the cost of living.

The problem here is "depending on which hospital they visited". There is no need to involve a hospital (full of exotic infections) for a normal bodily function. That is why your cost is so high.
As a remote worker of 6 years whose recently spent two weeks having to commute in the city. Thank god for my 30 foot commute from bed to across the hallway into the office.

Really wish the government would start forcing employers to pay employees for their average commute times. Would really encourage allowing remote work or relocation into smaller residential areas. It's hard to fathom why being stuck in traffic isn't considered work. Certainly feels like it.