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When you are into fantasy, "The Malazan books of the fallen" are the most intricate, intense, complex, insightful, aeon-spanning series I've ever read. And the author managed to finish it. After reading Malazan, the ASOFAIs story arch and character development seemed almost trival in comparison.
I envy you, that you have not read it yet and have it all still before you :).

If you are more into "novels" see this thread:
"What are some great books that are relatively unknown in the US?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17381352

My suggestions where

Robert Musil's "The Man Without Qualities" [1] is by far the most outstanding novel i have read, as it stretches the limits of what language can express past anything i tought possible. The protagonist is a mathematician whose scientific mind applies allegorical dissections over a wide range of existential themes concerning humanity and feelings. The polarity makes it for an extraordinary read.

Hermann Broch "The Death of Virgil". The novel creates out of a dying poet a rich, profound vision both of civilization and of primal concerns of all mankind.

Austrian authors where on another level in the late 30s and 40s of the 20th century.

Finally, Victor Pelevin's "Empire V: The Prince of Hamlet" [3]. You gain instruction into the vampire life and by extension the humans which vampires feed and the nature of god and existence itself, with interesting meditations on existence, theology, matter, illusion and withering attacks on fashion, advertising, politics, the Davos elite, literature and particularly the nature of money.

Finally, Karel Čapek "War with the Newts" is just great.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Without_Qualities

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_of_Virgil

[3] https://www.amazon.de/Empire-Prince-Hamlet-Victor-Pelevin/dp....
It's interesting seeing how they dealt with moving objects like the boats.

If you scan anti-clockwise until the river is hidden behind the buildings you should see two tour boats with "China Bohai Bank" on the side. One appears to be pulling in and one pull out. If you look at the passengers - it's actually the same boat. If you follow the river clockwise, you'll see two barges carrying dark material. Again, these are the same boat.

I could be mistaken, but it seems in both cases that some 'manual effort' would have been involved to make the picture look natural by placing the duplicates slightly out of position as if they were two individual boats.
just to clarify ... a member of gatwick airport security staff said that you?

>"Hey idiot, get your goddamn bags off the (expletive) belt! Hurry the hell up!"

>"God (expletive) damn you! Are you trying to make my (expletive) life hard?! Just take your bags and go, you're holding up my line!"

That all sounds so un-british I can't imagine this playing out. Which part of security were you in?

I've flown through heathrow, gatwick and other uk airports loads of times and never seen anything approaching that level of rudeness.
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Stasi thinks he's hiding his real accounts
because they assume everyone has at least some account and if you say you don't have any, they will think you don't want to provide it
How about stopping right-click hijacking and smooth-scroll hijacking too?
Nice! There is also similar project GDOM - https://github.com/syrusakbary/gdom written in Python.
>I'm pretty sure that's false. What is true is that africans exhibit a great amount of genetic diversity, i.e. two africans will typically be more genetically different than two europeans. But the genetic distance between either of those two africans and either of those two europeans will still be even greater.

I didn't say Africans and Europeans, I said black people and white people.

A black person from Africa and a black person from elsewhere are considered the same race because of their visual similarities, regardless of their background. That's the social construct.

>A thing being a social construct doesn't mean it doesn't describe an underlying reality

It can be inaccurate enough that it isn't useful, though.
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I’ve got to commend you for actively responding to feedback in an unbiased way.

Some seem not to gel with the wording you’ve used for your website, but you’ve put lots of work in and your passion and honesty show through the feedback and responses you’re providing.

Bravo.
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A list of well informed and articulated concerns about python probably wouldn't be titled "Reasons Python Sucks".
It's a Musk thing; not sure why you necessarily expect it to make any sense.
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Yeah that's exactly what's happening. But Arch is an intentionally hands on distro (eg it doesn't even ship a an installer - instead you're expected to do everything yourself via the command line).

Obviously this wouldn't be to everyone's tastes but it's good that market is catered in my opinion (but then I would say that as I'm very much a hands on person).
Mostly the initial setup and URL mapping. It could just me not having written C# for a long period, but when you normally use something like Flask og Gos build in "web framework", the mental overhead of Kestrel is honestly a bit much.
Taiwan to shut down 3G networks by year end
We gave up on ReSharper a couple of months into using it. It's an amazing tool but the performance hit on VS just isn't worth it.
These 'journalists' are the ones who make a choice to comment and report on him. If they want to report news that is known and understood by everybody to be a best case, its their own fault.

Musk is interesting in the first place because he is not a typical boring CEO. So they want to use him as clickbait, but then they get shitty if its not 'polished' like what they get sent from the PR departments of other companies.
No it's not a tree. It's more like a graph.
Some branches split and merge again later. Species are not well defined neither (or, if you prefer, there are plenty of competing definitions)
> Enough people leaving if they do not agree with Patreons views

Good call. Sounds like you agree w/ OP that an alternative to Patreon might be worthwhile.
> I didn't say Africans and Europeans, I said black people and white people.

Same thing

> A black person from Africa and a black person from elsewhere are considered the same race because of their visual similarities, regardless of their background. That's the social construct.

And also perhaps because they actually are from the same race? Do you consider all the current inhabitants of the USA to be native americans?

> It can be inaccurate enough that it isn't useful, though.

That's true, but racial categories are really accurate, especially in this age of cheap DNA testing. As for usefulness, I'd say it's pretty useful in the medical field, for instance certain drugs work in some races but not in others due to racial differences in body chemistry.
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it has problem in docker environment.
Memory usage goes over the limit and causes all the other docker instances on same machine to become unresponsive.

I usually put memory limit to the docker instance with .net core.
After doing this its been running great. stable, lightning fast!
One cold harsh truth is that Asp.net core is nowhere close to node, python or django when it comes to libaries.

It's growing but not that fast.

C# is very verbose compared to Ruby. You'll find it hard to get Rails level of productivity with Asp.net core.

Why? Because there is no sidekick, actionmailer, or asset piplining, turbolinks.

Stuff like, "has many, through" (Rails) relationship isn't supported in entity framework. If you plan to use postgres, you'll run into many issues.

You end up dealing with ugly DbContext for setting up basic models. And DbSets to enable tables for your models. All this ugly stuff is thrown in your face.

There are no tutorials on how to add Vuejs or React to your asp.net core project.

Postgres is simply treated as "not important" and you are expected to use mssql.

PostGres + Entity Framework Core is mostly a hack. You run into soo many issues that you'll be forced to leave Postgres and go for mssql.

Need image processing libaries? Good luck with that. There is simply no support.

The only thing you've going for you is, static typing and cool IDE support.

I tried asp.net core for several months and went back to Rails.

Lookup ActiveMerchant and how many payment gateways it support, there is nothing like that in Asp.net core.

Don't get me wrong everything is possible in asp.net core but you'll have to hack together your own solution, there is no standard way of doing things like there is in Rails.

There is a very good reference project: Discource if you want to see the potential of Rails.

Where can i find reference project for asp.net core? There are no good books either.

Only tutorials available teach basic stuff like middleware, rest api without authentication.

Heck all that can be done in Flask in 10 lines.
At least they have a nice big div to hit with your element blocker.
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> Sure, an individual subway car has "more capacity," but does a subway system have more capacity? For example, I rarely see BART trains come within five minutes of each other.

The BART is a particularly poor example. There are _tram_ systems (ie partially-segregated rail) which do better than once every five minutes.
There could be a problem also with legit accounts with the same name as you or, even worse, fake accounts created with your name for some reason (from bots to exgirlfriend revenge to I'll reserve this name "just-in-case"). You don't know that those accounts exist, but they can take a quick look and think that you are a lier. They do not have the time or the desire to verify that. I remember a twitter "pvaldes" account created minutes after declinate to upload a photo of my face to a popular freelancer platform. The account showed a naked guy seen from behind showing his bottom in a pool, a location similar to mine, and not much more. Maybe is still opened, I really don't care.

So, probably a better answer would be "I had seen accounts in facefook/twitter/whatever with my name but aren't mine. As you can see, are mostly inactive or is clear that I'm not the same person shown in those party photos".

A solution is not forcing yourself to pass by this cattle-treatment if the country is so unfriendly to foreigners.
How on earth is slowing down your competitor considered immoral ? I'm pretty sure I'll get downvoted / reprimanded in by HN doxa but seriously in what world should they be punished for doing this ?
They have a huge problem with overheating because of the small gap between roof and a tunnel, it also reduces potential speed of the train.
You must have had pretty modern 90s. My 90s looked like this:

https://www.forum64.de/index.php?thread/58960-giga-cad-plus-...
6 questions that should be answered above the fold of the page. These questions should be answered again in different ways throughout the page using pictures, text and video.

1. What is it?

2. What does it look like?

3. How big or small is it?

4. Can it be delivered?

5. Can I return it?

6. Can I trust it?

People consume content in very different ways. And showing, telling and demonstrating the product/service helps achieve #6.
One by one, the Chrome engineers continue to chip away at the techniques in The Annoying Site https://theannoyingsite.com (warning: open in a secondary browser).

Talk video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFZ-pwErSl4
Source code here: https://theannoyingsite.com/index.js

Well done.
It's a little different. Dressing provocatively is more like putting a picture of your keys and wallet on the outside of your car.
Yeah, if you're technical enough, then for now you can still install and run Linux. That's probably not an option for OP's parents.

You can easily imagine that in the future hardware manufacturers will remove the ability to install a 3rd party operating system. It's already essentially impossible on a locked-down Apple iOS appliance.
Visionary tunnel or over-hyped hole? Elon Musk's design unveiled in LA
Half of the items on your list have "failed to materialize".
Like this tunnel, you seem to completely discount these ideas being uneconomical.

Reusing rockets is pointless if it isn't cheaper. Building electric cars isn't hard;mass producing by them to high quality standards, cheaply is.

Every time one Musks projects comes around, his super fans talk about how nice it is he's working on the issues, blissfully unaware that smart engineers the world round are working on the same problems.
Tell that to my father who still uses decades-old software. I agree with the gp, Windows Home users need this feature the most.

Folks who don't mind Windows S would already be using android/ios.
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Privacy should not be a luxury good.
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Can you explain to a beginner why we use OOP?
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I would hate to go to a place where they tried to force me to unlock my phone and surrender my privacy.
There are various Chromebooks that you can put standard Linux on.

I've got an Acer R11 which I put GalliumOS on (definitely use 2.1 / 2.2, 3.0 has issues). If you really want ARM, there are options there, though I'm not sure about regular Linux support on those.

The R11 is small and handy, with a decent keyboard. Battery life isn't quite as good as with ChromeOS, but still sufficient.
If you exit the commit message editor so that it retuns a non-zero exit code to git then nothing is committed and nothing is staged.
One trick I use when trying to see where in $HOME a program creates files is to create a new user with an empty $HOME, run the program and then see what files were created. If it's a GUI program, give it permission to run from your regular user with xhost so you don't need to login through the desktop manager.
What things you can do to avoid painful intercourse?
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I used to get searched all the time in Seattle because I was coming in from Beijing and must have looked suspicious or something. Anyways, I was never treated poorly in the red line by immigrations and customs. Just one point of anecdata, Seattle is a sleepy place and the airline staff is usually a bit nicer.

I’ve never had to go through an extended customs search in another country, however.
Musk isn't an engineer. What is controversial about that statement? You don't call yourself a doctor because you're interested in health care.
Yes I would take this as behaving ethically at work eg not sexually harassing co-workers, not stealing from the company by abusing the expenses system, hiring hookers on the company amex which happened at one company I worked for in the UK - and so on.

To use an example from the military "officers eat last".
i think what they are talking about is to provide technical means for the xanadu features, while leaving the legal questions to others.

so i suppose that mimix will support transclusion, but it's up to the user to figure out whether transcluding a certain document is a copyright violation or not.

interestingly, iframes in html are an example of transclusion, so this is not exactly a new feature, and there are discussions on copyright about it:

https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2009/04/07/is-the-diggbar-co...

https://policyreview.info/articles/news/eu-ruling-embedding-...

(funny how that seemingly contradicts the link-tax which started this branch of the discussion. i can transclude but i have to pay for a link?)
Am I the only one who is confused by the word "copy" in the headline?
Is it meant in the meaning of "text" or am I missing the point here?
I also can't find any synonyms used in the text below which would make its meaning in this context more clear to me.
Don't want to turn this into a reddit AMA but .. would be nice to hear how you managed your transition to management. Did you read any books or blogs that helped? I was in a similar situation and have basically been emulating the style of previous managers - not sure how the team feels but I'm in a bit of a funk - feel like I'm letting myself down.
I don’t think product excellence is a function of the interview process, it’s mainly a function of what you are promoted for, and rightly or wrongly, launching new things tends to give you a better career trajectory than fixing or maintaining old stuff.
If you can figure out how to let people transport their vehicles through your tunnel without your car having to make scheduled stops, or follow a single path then you've got a business.
I could probably check all the privilege boxes you can think of and I still wouldn't travel to the US.
That's a rather well known lingo in web/marketing circles.
I assume your quotes aren't verbatim, because those are some very un-British colloquialisms. Having said that, I know that TSA agents have worked at Heathrow and Gatwick before. Maybe he/she was one of those.
The difference could be : a phone that you're not supposed to throw away after two years. Something that would be maintained over the long run. Lots of people would buy a phone that can last 5-7 years. I am one of them. My mother is one of them. My father too. Not everybody is fond enough of phones or tech to want to change often.
If it runs apps and has a good camera, it's fine.
A phone that lasts 5-7 years would also be good for the planet, and that's a bigger market share than FLOSS enthusiasts.
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Assuming you mean the US, I'm not sure the evidence leads one to conclude that this is a particularly serious issue for the general population.

It is true that for the last decade the prevalence of STDs has steadily increased. But that's from an historic low. Also, there are a few high risk groups (<25s, MSMs) that account for the vast majority of cases.

So, I'm not sure a stat like 0.5 of all adults haven't been tested is that persuasive. What is the equivalent rate for the high risk groups? If they have low testing/awareness levels then you may be onto something but I'm not sure that that's true (and it may vary considerably between regions in the US).

BTW this isn't intended to denigrate what you're doing as I have no idea what that is. If you do have an effective way to prevent STDs then that could be very valuable.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copywriting
On a related note: Does FTDI still write driver malware? They've been caught with their pants twice. There is no way in hell I'm buying their ICs again.
> I'm not speaking hypothetically, but from experience. I have a 4 year old 200gbp Android phone running Pie, took 10 minutes.

You're lying. Installing a custom third-party Android ROM is way more than a 10 minute process, your OnePlus X is barely more than 3 years old, and there's a huge difference between a random OS image you downloaded from a forum online and manufacturer-supported OS updates for a 5 year old phone.
They clearly have different use cases, I don't think it's fair to say one is necessarily better because of it.
But the best solution is just buy a library - at my first job (Hydrodynamics research) we didn't write our own FFT - we just brought one from NAG.
At the risk of wading into the iPhone vs Android battle...:

iPhone 8 vs Nexus 6 from 2014, back when Google marketed that series as reasonable Dev devices, not necessarily flagships.

326 ppi vs 493 ppi

750 x 1334 pixels vs 1440 x 2560 pixels

IPS LCD vs AMOLED

Somewhere there is a tongue in cheek meme comparing a sister phone, the Nexus 4, from 2012 against a 2016(?) iPhone and it's quite interesting how many features the Android phones had and were mildly credited for that when copied to iPhone were /world changers!!1/

Granted, Android phone manufacturers have wised up and besides things like the Nokia 6.1 you can't really get a good mid-range Android phone any more... it's mostly clustered around either the humble Moto E or the Note 9 price points.
Chrome keeps adding new QoL features and people will wonder why everybody uses Chrome.

"why would someone abuse this" shows an incredible naivete. Anything that can be abused will be abused.
Really? I've gone through a good number of British airports and I've seen similar scenes play out (typically not directed at me, though.)

British security/police seem to take their power a bit too far very often, in my experience. They have absolutely no problem with a little shouting. Of the first-world immigration officials I've had to interact with I'd rank them perhaps second worst, for general cluelessness and authoritarian behavior.

The typical British "don't say or do anything, just tut" behavior does apply often: Public displays of racism? Civil liberties being taken away? A simple tut will do. But if you're British immigration, then shouting incorrect or confusing instructions is just part of the job.

The number of times I've seen this is too high, and that's not even including the number of patronizing and wrong instructions I've gotten, either. For example, getting shouted at that I should have presented my American passport when I presented my Dutch passport (...what?)
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Mini robotics combining mechatronics, computer vision and deep or reinforcement learning at the cost of an average lunch at restaurant has really been a dream come true.
While the danger of installing solar cells is a good point, I suspect most working class neighborhoods would rather have these high-risk, well-paying jobs for a lot of young people than have a much smaller number of people running a nuclear plant at some remote location. Concentration of capital is also a risk.

I would add that the problems of nuclear are mostly self-inflicted and due to an unwillingness to admit to its own shortcomings. To give you an example, a Nuclear physics professor told my class, with a straight face, that nuclear plants were designed so well that one could expect a catastrophic failure no more than once every thousand or so years. Since the actual frequency of catastrophic failures has been more like one in every twenty years or so, his model was clearly off by orders of magnitude - but he hadn't updated it! Nuclear has probably the largest expert problem of any industry I've encountered, it's full of smart people living in a completely different world than the 'un-scientific' public they look down their noses at. If Nuclear is to fulfill its potential the people in the field need to do some painful introspection and recognize that the uncertainties in their models are actually much larger than they'd like to believe. I'd recommend any book by Taleb if you think that's an avenue worth pursueing.
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Hmm, that's ballsy. Not a good sign that they are making such risky moves, so soon in the project.

But hardware is never easy. Lets hope it works out.
Has that been determined by the courts?
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Only if you’re building something newfangled that tries to solve a need people don’t realize they have. For everything else, your audience usually knows already.
I shouldn't have done that. Though my downloads are now filled with cats which is nice :)
Wow, Firefox failed the chaos monkeyt test miserably! Felt like IE in 2001!

Don't open this site with 'reopen tabs after crash' option activated!! How can they even popup so much and how can the print dialog disable closing buttons??

Looking at the video, Chrome and Safari are in no way better off. Still, I thought popups were fixed 2008.