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Before learning Elixir, I used functional-like functionality in C# (LINQ) and Javascript (particularly Rambda and Bacon.js) before learning Elixir, and I found that was plenty of preparation to understand Elixir. There's no need to start off with another functional language prior to learning Elixir.

I'm currently learning Elixir and writing about it so that anyone interested in Elixir can learn with me as I learn it. The goal is to help other learn Elixir as well.

I make some comparisons to features in C# and Javascript, and the occasional reference to other languages like Python, but you don't have to know any of those in order to benefit.

If you're interested, come check it out: https://inquisitivedeveloper.com/
Your guides and tutorials are at the same level as stackoverflow for figuring out problems

How do I fix this: stackoverflow first hit

How do I do this: if DO isn’t first hit already I scroll down to yours
The "all light grays" color scheme in the "Design Project Management" pie chart is very difficult to understand.
Large scale growth and consolidation in the cannabis industry is likely, but it is not clear that will follow paths similar to other industries or involve the same players. Cannabis products and consumers are genuinely different.

On a side note it is interesting how particular personalities get involved with markets in different ways. Beer brewers are almost always highly open minded and left leaning politically while beer distributors tend strongly toward conservative politics and institutions. It will be interesting to see if similar divisions between experts and commercial professionals exert themselves.
That's not really the best of examples because the C compiler and desktop environments are not part of FreeBSD's base system, let alone developed by FreeBSD devs. In that regard Ubuntu and FreeBSD are similar.

I'd have probably gone with init daemons, ABIs and other core systems. Maybe mention how some of the base CLI tools differ (eg GNU has slightly different flags and rules for ordering them for `cp`, `find`, `ps`, etc).

FreeBSD is a bit of a gateway drug in that it's the most like GNU of all the BSDs. Had you use OpenBSD as your point of comparison then the differences would have been easier to describe. But ultimately you're always going to get some cross-pollination across all the POSIX platforms (eg GNU/Linux uses OpenBSD's OpenSSH; FreeBSD has a bunch of GNU tools; and all of the above platforms will run most DEs, Apache projects, etc). That's a good thing though - it was the point of POSIX.

I just wish there wasn't so many differences with syscalls - but that's moan about a very specific problem I'm having on a current hobby project.
> A nation state adversary could trivially miniaturize this to the size and form of an SMT resistor, and use a much more capable uC in the process.

please do elaborate on this uC that will be the size of an SMT resistor, in a 2 lead package.
USD's value is only as good as the US government demanding that its citizens pay it ~3 trillion dollars by April of next year.

I, and the rest of the world have pretty good faith that this will happen in April 2019, and pretty good faith that it will also happen in April 2020. I have pretty good faith that if it will not happen in April 2021, I'm more likely to be scavenging for bottle caps, canned beans, and ammunition[1], then I am to be be using eth.

[1] Actually, it's more likely I'd be dead, but the point would still stand.
It turns out "Infinity Redirect" when I post an image included a text "Clickjacking". Could someone else try it too?
I don't terribly mind paying taxes. But I figure following the model of capitalism, it's meant for everyone to act in their own interest & look for the lowest tax bill, and that's how you arrive at what your fair share of taxes are. For example, finding all the deductions you are legally entitled to, or choosing to buy an electric car because it reduces your tax bill. That's all behavior we want.

So I guess you could say I'm happy to pay my fair share- but not more.

Now, structuring everything such that a particular taxpayer's lowest tax bill is actually "fair", is not easy, especially with lobbyists in the equation.
There are also some hard limits on the amount of geometry and sprites in the map at one time. I used to use PRBoom which removes the limits while retaining compatibility with the original Doom
https://www.xkcd.com/774/
That's what people make it about. It's classic misdirection.

You know, the 20th century American sci-fi writer Robert A. Heinlein in his 1953 novel Assignment In Eternity wrote "man is not a rational animal; he is a rationalizing animal." And Aristotle said that man was a political animal. I deduce from that that "man is not a political animal; he is a politicizing animal."

That's why we get arguments and debates around there subjects and they become so heated. The truth of the matter is the only way it's possible to compute the answer to any given programming debate is to implement all suggestions in parallel universes and see which one doesn't cause World Was III inadvertently. You can't compute the answer, so you go off hueristics of what's a) what's popular in the wider community (fashion) b) what's popular in your local community (politics) and c) what's popular with you (art).

I need to write a full article on this viewpoint at some stage.
Alexa, read me Moby Dick while I drive home from work.
> the fact that military spending tends to disappear into defense contractor's pockets

I'd like to know where you think it goes after that, because after 14 years in the industry I saw very little of it.

> being spent on more lobbying to increase spending on the military more

The amount spent on lobbying is pretty small, relatively speaking. It also needs to come out of the company's profits, which aren't all that high since they are generally capped by contracts.
After the ausus EEE series became hip I tried a random cheap product which was supposed to be a media center / entertainment system. It was horribly slow, running android. Even more worrying was that they rubbed remote desktop stuff under my nose all the time. I was so scared to handle any remotely personal with it that I gave up on it after 2 sessions of messing with it.

If you don't care about the money, test you luck. But I would be very careful. At least considering security/privacy.
Ebay has bought a number of companies in other countries that are much more marketplace-oriented.

For example Mercado Libre. Originally from Argentina (I think) but it's all over Latin America now. They used to have auctions but at least in Mexico it's mostly a marketplace.

https://www.mercadolibre.com.mx/
"how quiet Colbert was when the camera was not running"

I have some experience campaigning. I can relate.

Being in public is exhausting. A real marathon.

Politicians, performers, athletes are super human. Talent, smarts, drive, charisma aren't even close to enough. You also need strength, endurance, cast iron stomach, amazing immune system, and a mental resilience to keep pushing forward.

I'd totally shut down the moment I went "off stage". Exhaustion. Rehearsing the next stump speech. Replaying the performance in my head. Remembering a zillion things that need doing.

Writing about this... It occurs to me that running for office is what transformed me from extrovert to introvert.
I haven't used python with inconsistent indentation recently, that's true.
And most people will tell you that holding lots of US dollars and expecting to get rich is a bad idea.

Stocks, bonds, land, housing, etc are all productive assets. Even if you hold these via a contract, that has precisely zero impact on the price of Ether and does not mean that holding Ether is a good investment.
Does that firm have any technical acumen? Or just a supermicro contract for a result?
Cash is definitely a claim on a productive asset. It is used to buy food, shelter, and pay taxes.

Perhaps you're referring to the USD no longer being redeemable for gold? Ironic considering I cannot eat gold or use it for shelter.

Any portfolio manager of stocks and bonds will tell you cash is a powerful asset because of its general state of constant value.

Stocks and mortgages are not represented by the blockchain, their legal ownership is represented by titles given to their owners by government institutions.

Your response would be more adequate if you disproved the previous comment by actually listing a fundamental of Ethereum instead of claiming vitriol.
The Unlikely New Generation of Unabomber Acolytes
According to the cube rule it would turn into a soup/salad w/ bread bowl. Tacos have 3 open sides a partially eaten burrito has one open side. Burrito -> taco requires a massive structural failure.
I just don't keep anything important on my SSD. My desktop's SSD is for Windows and games. All documents and other stuff goes on my mechanical drives and my AppData folder is backed up every night too. Everything on my laptop's SSD is either in cloud storage or in an external git repo. I'm 100% prepared for the certain eventuality of any of these SSDs going tits up unexpectedly and catastrophically.

I'm more worried about everybody else who gets an SSD and doesn't take the right precautions, because everybody sells SSDs as being so much more reliable than mechanical drives.

I worked as a PC technician for a while recently. Of the handful of catastrophic failures of mechanical drives we had, the majority of those were ones that were physically dropped, resulting in a head crash. Otherwise, we generally always managed to save data from failing drives. Any failing SSD we encountered was just dead, since there are really only two states: Fine or failed. There was nothing we could do except refer them to a data recovery company that charges thousands of Euros.
The argument is not that the US is literally paying for country X's military. It's that counties benefit from being under the US's umbrella (such as through NATO), and thus do not spend as much as they would if the US had a much smaller military. This has been a major talking point of the current president [0].

The more nuanced question is if the resulting power + influence is worth the cost for the US.

[0]: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/03/nato-spending-2017.html
First, I don't think this is usually what is meant when someone is claiming an entity is selling data. My normal interpretation would be that if a company is "selling my data" then they are selling that data to parties I have zero contact or reason to think they would have my data.

I understand what you're saying, but I think it would be less confusing to keep the idea I described above and what Plaid is doing (AFAIU) distinct.

More specifically I understand it as: If I engage with some entity/company/developer and give them the permission and secrets necessary to access my account, they can pay Plaid to make use of them on my behalf in the process of doing whatever it is I gave them that access for.

This activity is, and always has been to me, completely distinct from the activity of "selling my data", although it could result in the one I authorized to access my data through Plaid turning around and selling my data.
Just curious: does this principal apply only to scrollbars or should sites not be able to change the appearance of other controls -- like buttons, for example?
How VR is helping flyers and dental patients calm down
>A fleet of nuclear-tipped reentry vehicles in orbit would have required constant up-and-down servicing.

Nukes in orbit was long out of question by the treaties. The Star Wars was all the rage (SDI). It is those satellites and their components which were going to be huge and be nuclear powered and thus couldn't be just burned in the atmosphere.
Sure it is, where do you buy your silicon wafers?
I don't think being a Windows clone helps with adoption because you often end up with people getting wound up Linux looks familiar but behaves completely differently. Then all of Linux's differences are seen as problems (because it's not behaving as expected) rather than perfectly reasonable design decisions.

I'd rather Linux look different. I'm not saying it has to look alien nor hard to use either. But different enough that when people choose to use it, they come to it with a mindset that they can't just treat it like a Windows clone.
> By that time, the Republican narrative had taken hold: The IRS had to be “held accountable” for wasting millions on lavish conferences and persecuting conservative nonprofits for their political beliefs.

That is very dismissive of some very salient complaints about how groups were targeted. Read the Wikipedia article. This isn't moonbat pizzagate nonsense. Among keywords targeted were "open source software", "medical marijuana", and "Israel".

A Democratic senator said:

> U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill (D-MO) said, "We should not only fire the head of the IRS, which has occurred, but we've got to go down the line and find every single person who had anything to do with this and make sure that they are removed from the IRS and the word goes out that this is unacceptable."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRS_targeting_controversy
~$90k is now peanuts. Interesting.
Thanks I’ll have to brush up on my computer science theory before tackling this.
But this is why america wants. A fair legal and judicial system that looks at cases equally. Not to mention if it was this it could make Apple move factories out of china and into vietnam and other markets.
first only ssd host.
In case this is serious, 64-bit builds of Firefox have been produced officially for a while.
I had trouble too - maybe there really is a capitalist conspiracy ;) The best references I could find are [1] and [2].

As far as I can tell, the point is solidarity - if one worker strikes, all workers must strike. Any scabs who go back to work will be ostracized by the loyal strikers.

[1] https://books.google.com/books?id=KUopAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA314&lpg=...
[2] https://forum.wordreference.com/threads/one-out-all-out.9459...
BitCoin was backed by heroin. Ethereum is backed by something you can readily buy with a credit card. The value in crypto was initially 100% about black market liquidity among parties that could not trust one another. The second wave was speculation. Now, we're in the phase where the speculators took a bath, or even worse: they saw no movement at all. Now they're out, and we're back to buying drugs with crypto, and there are newer, better cryptos for this purpose.

Dollar was originally backed by gold. BitCoin was originally backed by Heroin.
In his Philosophical Investigations, Wittgenstein's response to this problem are the concepts of "language games" and "family resemblance." From https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/wittgenstein/#LangGameFam...:

> Still, just as we cannot give a final, essential definition of ‘game’, so we cannot find “what is common to all these activities and what makes them into language or parts of language” (PI 65).

> There is no reason to look, as we have done traditionally—and dogmatically—for one, essential core in which the meaning of a word is located and which is, therefore, common to all uses of that word. We should, instead, travel with the word’s uses through “a complicated network of similarities overlapping and criss-crossing” (PI 66).
I wonder if that's a false incentive. Slow but steady wins the race?
If new dollars were created at a fixed rate rather than an accelerating one, the purchasing power of dollars would tend to go up over time.
Analysis: It's tech beanie babies.
Very inefficient things tend towards worthlessness. For instance, I could open a business where u send me source code via mail and I will compile and run it for you and fax you the output... my business would effectively be worthless, unless I convince some gullible people that I’m revolutionizing the computer industry, in which case there may be some temporary positive worth to my company’s stock...
Not sure how you can disagree with a question, but I looked it up:

>"Back in 2014, the last year of the Google deal, that agreement brought in $323 million of the foundation’s $330 million in total revenue."

They had deal with Yahoo for similar money, and walked from that to go to Google again.

For financials I can find they got all but 2% of their money from Google.

Presumably for this money Google gets to call some shots like no default blocking off their ads, and, I'd imagine autoplay as default if that's important to Google.

I'd expect a supposedly open foundation like Mozilla to publish details of major decisions. You're not open without transparency.
Everything, that wiggles on a 1 dimensional vertical chart eventually goes up and down.
My roommate was watching some documentary about him and I couldn't watch it - everything about him screamed scam and conman, I found him extremely unlikable. The few clips I saw were him giving someone terrible advice and showing off how rich he was.
Who decides if something is right or wrong? Have you never heard a developer debating "is this a bug? is this a feature?"
Project Tierra (1991)
No: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1210727
My comment was on why governments don't intervene as quickly when detecting bad behavior from important nodes. This applies to the US as to the other countries. I seem to remember a quote from some Russian book I read that went along the lines of "we crucify small thieves and celebrate the big ones".

Your comment on the bailout is something I agree with. Using a non-intervention consideration to justify intervention... has nothing to do with the validity of the non-intervention consideration.

I find it a very odd tangent to use as a reply, since it sounds like a rebuttal but doesn't address the point. It does add to it, in a way, I guess.
SOP for a Mil mission. Photos could have revealed info on the payload.
OpenBSD devs actually tend to use OpenBSD on their own systems (and most of them own ThinkPads), which, weirdly, is not the case with most FreeBSD devs, who run something else on their desktop.
Hey now, CoffeeScript is real engineering ok?
Weird, I thought embedded would be much more sought after and rare.
Point taken. I too would be one of the first casualties as I try to pay for my plane ticket to Canada with Ethereum.

Hmmm... I wonder what would happen if everyone tried to pay their taxes with Ethereum?
bsd is a family of operating systems, not one. I'm going to answer based on FreeBSD, the system I have more experience with.

1) yes it does, both as source and as binaries (and the same for the base system itself)
2) not sure what you mean, but... (see next answer)
3) https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/ and the man pages. Back in 2000s, the FreeBSD handbook was the best documentation for unix based systems. I could bet a fiver this is still the case.
Yeah, the surf lakes design looks simpler and safer as there is no iron plow sweeping under the water. Also the plunger as a steam piston would adapt well to any arid environment.
> their gui to kde

Sorry, no. For as bad as Windows 10 might be interface-wise, Linux DE's are far, far worse for anybody but Linux fans.
My California tax dollars don't. And I'm not always sure what I get for them.
What should he have done? Negotiated a 60-90 day payment cycle with his supplier?
exactly!
son of a gun

I just signed in, I was so happy, just till 1hr ago when my collegue reminded me of this Australian issue: now I see this post.

great would be if they move some server in EU
> It can usually already write all over your system and perform all sorts of other attacks

Not necessarily. Properly sandboxed applications like Chromium have a seccomp filter, separate pid/user/etc namespaces and bind mounts setup to isolate themselves from the rest of the system as much as possible.

> Anyway, if a typical user's browser is compromised, they're already completely screwed

It really depends on which part of the browser is compromised. Again, Chromium has some pretty good isolation. Having one malicious website exploit a vulnerability does not necessarily mean the attacker gets access to any of the other browser data.
No one tries to analyze the fundamentals of the US Dollar? I would argue the single most powerful agency of the Federal Government of the United States spends the majority of its time doing _exactly_ that...
Sauce-like toppings (mustard/ketchup/etc) are essentially put in one end before the sausage, and as the sausage is pushed in, it spreads the sauces throughout the whole sausage.

Some others (fried onions, etc) get put in with a long spoon before the sausage.
Bad news for the 1,000mph car as Bloodhound SSC is shut down
I seem to remember a time (probably over a decade ago) where Netsol actually admitted this, tried to defend it, then eventually backed down and said that they would stop doing it. I've always used command-line whois to check for available domains since then, never had one snatched up either.
While the scene from the movie was evocative, I prefer to use the original term, parasitism.
Yup, Slater's wave is DOA because of this:

> He chortled, but he did not stop peering across the water, assessing the waves and the state of the pool during the three minutes that it was left to settle between waves.

1 wave every 3 minutes will never be economically feasible. They're currently charging $10,000 per hour, whereas BSR charges $60 per hour and you get several times as many waves per session.

American Wave Machines' system can already pump out a full set of waves every 10 seconds AND they can change the shape with the push of a button. Beginner, intermediate, advanced, left, right, air sections, barrels, they do it all.

Slater's wave will never be anything more than a toy for himself and a few of his close friends. Every surfer I know said the surf ranch competition was the most boring thing they ever watched.
I pay my taxes because I'd be in jail if I didn't. So much of what I pay goes to killing people all over the world, spreading the US hegemony, and jailing people for victimless "crimes" which I personally consider to be non-issues, that I'm disgusted each year when I tabulate my taxes.

So, you feel pride, I feel disgust. Society does have a cost, but building shared infrastructure and whatnot doesn't have to be funded via just one mechanism, one which can do whatever it feels like all over the world.
The Django -> Ubuntu tutorials are amazing. Thank you.
The USA is a symmetric federalist constitutional republican representative democracy. This is a form of democracy.

"Democracy" is a family of types of government, of which the absolute democracy many imagine in one form. A representative democracy is another.
I suggest you to use Chrome extensions. Use JavaScript to capture the buttons and create events for your specific actions. Use some async/await to create some delay between actions. I hope it helped. :D
But it totally glosses over the environmental impact and the hypocrisy of the entire thing. Surfers like Kelly Slater and Steph Gilmore are huge environmental advocates, yet the pool uses and absolutely obscene amount of electricity and water every day (the water usage is worse, using up to 300,000 gallons a day!!!) and everyone is being flown there on private jets.

I'd say any sport that has a world cup style of competition, where you are constantly flying to different locales isn't very environmentally friendly.

But I see this in skiing/snowboarding (and other outdoor sports). What is the angle that these athletes use to show their pro-environment slant? Is it all just talk/greenwashing? Or is it just that they don't feel their personal environmental impact is all that important?
I suspect all of the comms were encrypted.
Really? Given that the United States form a federal republic, and that under their Constitution most authority is retained by the states, and that the military is one of the few things not relegated to the states, it would make sense for the military to be the major federal expenditure.