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If you use the right features of C++17 errors are easier to avoid than ever.

The problem is that this elegant subset of C++ is hidden inside ... the rest of C++.

I guess that's the counter example to Python's 2/3 breaking change. C++ just keeps adding new features while retaining all the old ones for backwards compatibility, even if they're awkward in context of the new language.
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Python almost became my main language, but I moved to another language when I saw it was stuck at 2.7. Another reason was the lambda's only allowing 1 line instead of the flexible closures in so many other languages. And my expectations for future improvements were very low as the core maintainer looked quite stubborn to me.
I found as I get older people get on my nerves less.

When the “here we go again” bit comes, there’s a few ways to react:

If you can’t really control the output, then predict it. I see how far ahead I can predict (including their questions and answers) and laugh when I’m right.

Predict then outcome and preempt it with a joke or even better a conclusion that was 3 steps ahead. People will think you’re a wizard.

If you don’t like the people then Troll hard. Bait them to reveal their ignorance in the most embarrassing way possible. Just for the fun of it.

I’ve found the experience that comes with getting older is an enormous source of entertainment
I think the "unusability" of the GPL is exactly what many people want when they release GPLed code.

GPLed code can be used by other researchers (good for popularity), but you can't use it for proprietery software.So if Adobe wants to use this curve, they have to license it.

If it actually works out, I don't know, but that's been the intention of some researchers that I asked why they used GPL.
No, it will rely on renewable energy in the future. US and Russia are unfortunately not really renewable.
maybe it would be fun as an interactive map of locations instead
In Sweden atleast mothers are getting older and older (thanks to technology they are able to). Why? Because having a baby early in the career is usually more damaging to their careers than later on.

There is also a thing where families have their second child within 21 months of the first child. By doing this they avoid losing a cut of the parent insurance money.

Also in Sweden; dads stay at home with their children (3 months of the parent insurance which gives you something like 80% of your wage are exclusive to dads).

Sorry for the lack of sources. :(
Which is great, but the parent post was describing autonomous navigation and disposable drones as a way for a drone operator to evade capture.
Telegram has more features that I really care about than Discord (#1: Replying to messages).

Telegram on mobile is Android native, while Discord is based on "React Native".
Telegram for desktop is based on Qt while Discord uses Electron.
I loved Brothers Karanazov. Brilliant.

In fact the Russian authors are amazing. It’s a shame I discovered them when I was in grad school and not earlier.
You can release the source code without any license. Adding a license means you want other people to "license" it from you - I.E. using your code.

The GP actually quoted the article "and solves most of the problems that held that back from wider popularity."

Which imply the author wanted people to adopt it. I'm assuming it wasn't about other academics adoptions but of hobbyists and commercial ventures.
I prefer all-cash offers.
Just reading your thesis: Very interesting stuff! Thanks for sharing it.

Thinking about "fairness" of a spline: Intuitively I'd say a curve is "most fair" as compared to other curves when it minimizes the sum of squared centrifugal forces of a body moving along the path. In other words: The faster I can drive a car along the path the fairer the path :)

Would such a definition make any sense?
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I suspect a large amount these MOB incidents are suicide. Alcohol abuse and and suicidal thought are linked. (
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2872355/ ) The lady in the article drank a lot and chose to sit on the railing of a private balcony alone.

Drunk people manage to die in shallow water with an alarming regularity. I wonder if it is even possible to save a drunk MOB in a calm sea. Stopping a cruise ship and getting a rescue boat ready to action must take a couple of minutes. Maybe a a drone could do it.
Actually the only psychological profile that wouldn't be deterred by 10 vs 5 years would be the psychopath (who is largely immune to punishment, and often regards it with complete serenity). An "average person" would make tremendous sacrifices to get 5 instead of 10. Plea bargain justice makes this clear.
How good is this library? Is this good and fast enough to see wider adoption in embedded devices or phones? Would be awesome to be able to voice-enable apps without the need for a cloud provider. How would this compare with a C++ pytorch-based approach?
Plenty of iOS apps offer multiple cloud storage solutions.

In fact, iOS's own Files app can be used to access different cloud providers (I have iCloud, Dropbox and Google drive set up).

Do you have any good references pointing to Apple limiting Keepass in that regard?
There's a difference between using GPL software, and shipping GPL software as part of your product.

I use lots of GPL software for building my product (like git), but I can't ship any as a part of it.

I presume that code for a curve is meant to be included in a product, rather than being used on its own.
Can students outside the US name Indian states or Chinese provinces? I assumed that was a general "west not thinking about the east enough" problem.
For a while I though native mobile web apps had it, but now with PWAs, WebAssembly and the return of mainframe, sorry cloud, I guess they are here to stay.
If you stand with one foot in a bucket of ice cold water and one foot in a bucket of scalding hot water, you're not comfortable on average.

The imbalance is a problem because of things like lone grandchildren inheriting the houses and wealth of four grandparents and others inheriting nothing. It's a problem because some areas have established fine education structures that cannot simply be shifted to another continent. It's a problem because the youths aren't where the jobs are, and haven't been educated by a system that's tuned to the jobs in that area. And so on.
> Electron v4.0.0 includes Chromium 69.0.3497.106

Isn't this already outdated by months?
There are two parts to this. One is (cold war) propaganda where there is a somewhat vague feeling that the USA has to a greater or lesser extent a set of shared (western) values and aligning ourselves next to them is probably in our own long term interest given the uncertainty that a world dominated by Russia and now China, or, gasp, religion (yes, I know) might bring. The second is aspirational - generations of Europeans and probably other countries too have looked to the USA (and Canada, Australia, etc.) as a way of improving their lot through emigration.

For all it's flaws, I loved my time in the USA and appreciate the people and a lot of what it stands for. Despite of all the imperial crap that comes out of Washington D.C. the USA still represents a sense of hope for a lot of people.

America still has a lot to offer the world. It's role in the world is greater than Holywood or the government. Merry Xmas.
There isn't a standard map I'd say. Wherever you go, the "home continent" is typically centered. I was (naively) surprised the first time I went to USA long time ago and saw maps that had the Americas in the middle - but thinking about it, it made sense.
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Is there any real difference between those who think the US is uniquely terrible in every way and those who think it is uniquely great in every way?
In Australia, I've seen maps with North America in the top right.
> Why is it that people seem to think using a cross-platform UI toolkit like tkinter, kivy, WxWindows, etc. is like putting their hand in a toilet?

Because it very much feels like so, especially with tkinter. And it's not only the toolkit, it's the OS integration, and installer and so on.
Because making a cross platform app with Electron is relative low effort and you get very good results.
Most of the other options are not even close.
I see. Thanks for clarifying!
"Firing solution ready. Execute?" seems like an unambiguous query. But I know nothing about this stuff. And I wonder what happens if the operator doesn't respond. I'm guessing that nothing happens. Because who wants a tank with an unconscious or dead operator shooting at everything?
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The python nightmare is purely performance due to its use of the UCS-2 or 4 encoding (wchar_t without surrogate pairs). UTF-8 was ruled out for its inability for direct indexing, but this proved wrong. 4x longer string buffers trash the cache much more than the needed CPU cycles for utf-8 decoding.

perl's problem is that they didn't make room for the original encoding, it's only latin-1 or utf-8 from everything else. so the context needs to store it, like IO, process. and for performance they silently loose the utf-8 flag for 128—255 codepoints.

but all this is still better than the libc/POSIX design failure to use ENV vars, where the encoding is global, not localized. every single string API needs to do a getenv, and its interpretation is action at a distance.
The "IQ-72" people do not have the gumption to leave their home countries in the first place.
Has "Huaweied" entered our common lexicon already?
This is not entirely accurate, except in those same countries that appear in the US's collective conscious (e.g. Russia, China). The news in my country, for example, does not have the luxury of focusing a lot on other countries -- we have enough things to deal with domestically. Although India and China do come up a lot because it is believed that we're at the center of a tug of war between those two nations.
JFT has 17K classes. I'm assuming that they used specialized experts to tell them apart (dog breeds, plant and animal species, etc.)
There's a discussion about what is protest and direct action in the environmental movement for decades.

Is the point publicity and media attention, Or is it something different? One argument against publicity is that it's all about playing the media game. It's similar to how people say you shouldn't put terrorist actions on the news as it only encourages them. If you don't play the media game you don't need to create a media spectacle and can focus on actual effects.

For example, what is a successful action in this case? How much co2 was prevented, sound and air pollution? How many people were effected. Might a media action simply stop when it made the news?
180MB of RAM is an absurdly high amount.

This application's purpose is to show text and little pictures (and occasionally process a few low-bit rate audio streams).

It is amazing that modern application developers are turning well solved problems for 90s computers into tasks modern computers can barely process.
Maybe this will make Japan warm up to the idea of more immigration.

Just kidding, of course...
>Their code will never be used by anyone.

Critical FORTRAN libraries are still the center of certain types of analysis, and they're often used by _everyone_ in the field.

The reason for that stems from two issues:

1. Making accurate simulation libraries for things like weather formation, magnetic field formation or hydraulic fracturing requires crazy in depth knowledge of the systems you are modelling, and takes years of implementing and hypothesis testing to ensure they are accurate enough for academic use.

2. Academics are not software developers, they don't get paid for the software they write, they get paid for papers. They get no reward for rewriting those crazy indepth libraries every decade in the new language de-jour.

This is a perfect example of why the python2 to python3 hard-cutoff transition was a terrible idea. "Just update your software" is something you can say to professional software developers with a straight face. You can't say it to academics, or mechatronics engineers, or real estate agents, or photographers, or _anyone else_ who has a job that benefits from a little bit of software but is mostly about delivering something other than software.

Well, you can, but they're going to ignore you.
Headline should have stopped at: Chinese battery expert charged
it would probably take too long to fly in the drone catching eagle:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5DEg2qZzkU

https://techcrunch.com/2016/02/01/watch-this-trained-eagle-t...
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I can’t speak for the OP, nor can I express how D. changed my life.

Perhaps D. is the exact opposite of a self-help book at the airport. It’s hard to read and emotionally devastating. You go into the depths of human depravity. Sin is real. Modernity is fraught with contradictions, with danger. Modernity offers mechanical band aids for what are sicknesses of our souls. For Doestoyevsky the greatest man is Christ but he is what we would consider an Idiot.

In the end you are offered catharsis. accept it and you are changed.
> WHY THE HECK did he report on himself???

I mean, he deleted the files first. It's reasonable that he thought that was sufficient; given the code I've seen from some scientists, scientist != computer expert.

The innocent explanation is that he was cleaning up company property before returning it, but I expect that will play out in court.
I don’t think I could name any provinces in China, but I’m sure many Chinese know about New York and California.
Any prize is still taxable income in the USA. That absurdity needs to be removed before this can make inroads. E.g. if you win a car but are very poor then you might reject the car as you can't afford to pay the sales tax on it. I've seen this before.
I don't believe monetary incentives are a good way to raise birth rates. In the end a child is massively expensive, and no government can afford to compensate parents completely.

Child care is partly such a monetary incentive (being subsidize and/or enabling parents to earn more), but women will still lose out greatly by giving birth. From what I know of Japanese culture, all these factors must be even worse than in the West...
They very well may. SDNY isn't going to let customers get screwed when settling with a bank.
It takes a special kind of naivete to think that a country worth placing this sort of embargo on is a country where "pressuring the government" would lead to any tangible results.

That or a special kind of callousness, because most often the only way the citizenry can effect change is through violent revolt after reaching the boiling point of poverty and/or oppression.
Hardly surprising no one in the UK knows of this when you quote from CAA Sri Lanka regulations.

https://www.caa.lk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article...
According to a well informed reddit comment on /r/dataisbeautiful the main focus was on supporting the determined and brave British rather than defeating the Germans.
As I want to protect all my passwords offline at one place but have them also available mobile, I developed Authorizer.

It is an Android password manager based on PasswdSafe with USB HID keyboard support to enter paaawords automatically on any device. Also stores TOTP/HOTP.

The idea is, to have a complete offline device (hardend android without network stack/always flight mode on, baseband overwritten, ...).

https://github.com/tejado/Authorizer
And the immigrants are indispensable in Norway, especially on the lower end of the pay scale. Wages have risen in Norway so much that Norwegians reduce their working hours on a big scale.
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As an Australian I know the names of quite a few Chinese cities but I think I know a whole lot less about the country because of the language barrier and the fact that most of the websites I use are blocked in china so I don't meet the people online much.
Also lots of immigration from former colonies
Seems it has.
> I ve noticed that most americans are not aware how important the US is for the rest of the world.

My experience has generally been the opposite: many Americans overestimate their country’s importance in the world. Just because the U.S. does or says something doesn’t mean other countries will necessarily go along with it.
It's insane that people working on a password manager thought it was a good idea to put passwords in UserDefaults. Apple expressly states in its documentation that sensitive information should be stored in Keychain; how does someone setting out to make a password manager miss that?
Just the classical?
Just the literature?

I thought that cycle was the nutshell of Russia. Then again I only know Russia through her authors. Holy S*^% they’re brilliant!
I was surprised that the Korean War barely stood out compared to most other conflicts (at least, if you're only looking for a Korean flag). There are indications of changes like Chinese involvement in late 1950, but I think it'd be hard to pick out the start date if you weren't sure of the decade. Compare that to Kosovo for example, where there's at least roughly half a year of prominence.

One other factor that stood out to me was that it seems like there are more countries popping up from the mid 70s to the 90s, then it flips back to the previous pattern of a handful of countries dominating the picture (Iraq, then China).

It's a very interesting visualization, thanks for sharing!
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> They can eat out anytime, go to any concert they desire, buy any gadget. They feel secure and safe, they work hard only due to expectation and societal pressure but a few many are self driven

To what extent is the ability to consume a substantiated good and to what extent is it an illusory good?
If the National Parks Service operated a bar on the Half Dome trail with an all-you-can-drink package, then yes, I do think people would consider them at least partially liable.
It's pretty standard for people to work abroad for a couple of decades then retire back home to their birthplace and open a pastelaria (cafe). Sadly, the market is pretty saturated and the net contribution to the economy is not that high.

From personal experience there are a number of professionals at early stages in their careers that return but quickly they realise that the opportunities are still rather limited and reverse their decision within a few years.

The situation is changing, but slowly.
> Melted down our university computer labs

How did admins manage to disinfect servers? It should have been a hell of fun for them, provided it was the first pandemic ever.
Thank you for those comments. For my own projects at home I mostly use Haskell, Python, and Java, but sometimes also Typescript, SBCL Common Lisp, Racket, Chez Scheme, and Scala.

I was imagining getting set up to build everything with Bazel after reading the article but your comments are on point and made me reconsider. I used to vender locally Ruby, Merb, Rails, and most Java libraries I used - but I stopped doing that about ten years ago.
Confusing correlation with causation again, are we?

Another interpretation of those numbers is that single mothers often start off from a worse basis and the support isn't good enough.

And with low income immigrants, mothers are more likely to stay at home, given the relative lack of earning opportunities.
all charged batteries discharge, expert or not
The Register has an article discussing why shooting down wasn't a great idea either:

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/12/20/gatwick_drone_non_s...
Yes really. I doubt that applies to all countries in Europe. The UK legal system is similar to the American one.

US criminal courts can order defendants convicted of fraud to pay restitution to their victims.
I think that has more to do with TV and Movies than news...
What if you controlled the backdoor in the baseband processor and pointed a thousand 5G phones' beamforming antennas with full power at one bird (or one person on stage at a protest)?
Why do you say that GS has a rotten reputation? They are probably the most respected bank on Wall St.

Also, I know for a fact that they really care about their reputation, and that internally, they are stressing about this.
You probably live in an area with decent cell tower coverage. If you have good reception, the signal attenuation won't be noticable.

But if you live in an area with poor reception, it is very noticable. For me, it always happened when I was in certain rooms of my house. I'd typically pick up my phone, walk out of the living room to not disturb the others, and then the connection would break up.

No other phone did that. The iPhone 4 had really crappy reception. People made fun of it, and it was absolutely justified.

I still loved the phone. The Retina Display was a breakthrough, and I still think it was the most beautiful phone ever made. But the reception was crappy.
>on 3.x that burden is pushed to the API consumer

So for most people it's better. The same goes for the guessing encoding part. Sure, you really shouldn't, but sometimes you had to and then you end up with chardet all over the place. Python 3 may do the exact same behind the scenes. The thing is that the Python core developer are much more talented than I am, so now I get to not think to much about it and just build on their work. From the "regular end-user developer" it's better.
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That's true, but you set the bar very low.

Regarding user support, Google ranks on par with an anvil.
US ignores other countries’ sovereignty. News at 11.
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couldn't they just shoot them down?
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1MDB is the most bizarre scandals I’ve ever heard. A 27-year-old convinces the Prime Minister of Malaysia to let him manage country’s sovereign wealth fund, and then he proceeds to fritter almost $2 billion away throwing multi-million dollar parties and funding the Wolf of Wall Street. How did he get away with all of it for so long?
There reputation on Main Street has been bad for a while now.
It seems to me that the prosecutor and finance minister are probably just as corrupt. They just see a pot of money and want to steal it, masquerading it as reparations.

I don’t think GS did anything wrong and I hope they tell the Malaysians to fuck off.
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I've had exactly the opposite experience. Our typical JS apps turn into giant hairballs of ad hoc data. Refactoring is basically impossible. We just did our first all-TS project and the difference in maintainability has been night and day. If I have anything to say about it we'll never do another JS project without types.

If you're having this much trouble defining the types in your app I suspect your data structures and flow might need some rethinking. There are way more large codebases written in typed languages than untyped languages so the idea that types are an obstacle to development just isn't convincing.
Dragging a net has been tried:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2016/01/21/tokyo-poli...
As long as you don’t need to connect to sites using https
Yes. E.g. libertarians