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How many rural county boards have people who actually understand any of this stuff?

Not enough, I would wager. It's something I spend a lot of time thinking about, living in one of the largest cities in the country now, with parents who live comfortably in the rural south-but have complained about the internet a couple of times.

To their credit, they'll lose connectivity for hours and not even mind, since mom will just turn on the radio and listen to the local PBS station and tend to her garden while dad goes out to his woodshop.

Others in their community probably aren't as content without connectivity, for such long periods as they are.
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Andrew Ng's course: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS4cs9xVecg&list=PLkDaE6sCZn...

He is the best introducer to the field.
The hills in the Bay Area range from 350m to 1300m, so they're not huge, but drive/hike up over them and they definitely feel mountainous. The "Valley" can best be seen from Skyline Blvd running along the peaks to the west: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bc/San_Jose...
It's hard to change people, it's easier to change code.
I tried VI mode on Fish for a while but yeah, I just turned it off and have stuck with the default Emacs mode instead. Been much happier since I did that.
Doesn't make it wrong.
Lex Luther’s major quality was his brilliance... I’m not seeing that in Larry. Don’t get me wrong, he’s smart, but not a rare genius.
So 911 keeps "The Purge" at bay? I've never heard this argument.
Use what you're best at, and if you're paid to use something, use it. If you don't like what you're using at work, take your time to find a new job opportunity. I feel like SPA's are overrated they take away performance and stability from standard HTML websites with some AJAX capabilities thrown in. When I first heard of a SPA it sounded perfect: you download all the HTML you'll ever need once, and load content to the appropriate DIVs accordingly, but now you gotta take a hike and basically do more work to show a button, or a text box, or whatever. I mean no disrespect to people who love SPA web dev, all power to you, but unless I'm paid a lot more, or I'm working on some multimedia / social media type of site, I don't see the point. Sometimes SPA's I see are done poorly which is another pet peeve.
Refactoring is not (necessarily) generalization. I am interested in how you decide you have seen enough examples to generalize (to actually doing arithmetic in this case) and what makes you trust your judgment at that point while rejecting your judgment initially.
Well i think it just depends on how 'significant' you need the phd to be. As an example of what I mean, consider the first issue of this years Annals of mathematics [1] and note that there is not a single grad student on any of the papers, first author or otherwise.

[1] http://annals.math.princeton.edu/2018/188-1
> The current car I use is worth less than the cost of its overdue timing belt change.

If your car has an interference engine, that timing belt change could get even more expensive really quick, should it fail...
I've definitely successfully played it on linux with Wine. I don't remember how exactly I configured it, but there exist blogs that make it look like it isn't difficult: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2015/01/running-star-wars-galactic-...
To install on Arch (w/yay), `yay -S fish`. (just a plug for how easy it is to install packages on Arch)
This isn't an issue with servicing their direct clients to E911 services, it's cell phone access from various carriers that went out. It's still a bad thing, but not quite the same as what it looks like you're assuming.
Seems like the government could very cheaply offer an app that is basically just a geolocated lookup for these sorts of things. The app could basically just be a spatialite database generated from a git repo, and it would only have to be updated periodically, and would never go down.
Maybe to call if there's a plane in trouble?
I made a plugin for that. It works well enough for my needs.
https://github.com/danhper/fish-fastdir
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As a long time lover of functional programming, and have not used C++ professionally since the 90s, this whole article feels sort of damning about the future of the language from a functional perspective.

The calculation of Pythagorean Triples is literally one line in Haskell (a language I have used for almost three decades), as a simple list comprehension. It also can then be consumed or used in any fashion, and is calculated lazily.

While I am not particularly adept at other "functional" languages, I would imagine similar brevity in F#, OCaml and possibly even Python (which I believe has some sort of list comprehension syntax).
That was absolutely amazing. Thanks for posting.
> Did you know that only 27000 votes being different (in the right states) in 2016 could have changed the election result?

Apparently the Democrat candidate didn't know that in 2016. They campaigned in California even had a few rallies there but forgot about Wisconsin. Some might argue the Russians hacked her agenda to divert her plane away :-)

One a serious note, it seems candidates knowing the fact, and using their resources wisely, means they would stop their effort in a state once they can be reasonably sure they'd get enough votes. So in general, I imagine it might not be that uncommon to see small differences.

Another way to put it, a small spread in one state could be a random coin flip. But a lot of random coin flips (multiple states) landing on heads, starts to look less random.
Abbreviations!!! No more aliases, abbreviations are the killer feature. See my other comment in this post for an example.

Also, inline function creation, editing and saving are also pretty killer. I make way more one-day use functions than on bash with fish.
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That's true, but it hides the reasoning because it implies a larger influence of a specific attribute than it really has. It's sort of like a story about baseball cards noting that uniforms with a lot of red do well. It's more likely to do with some popular teams or players that happen to be that color.

It's one of those things that while technically true, the dumbed down explanation leaves people with incorrect assumptions about fundamental aspects of the story.
When I was freelancing full-time, I rented some shared/temp office space. For $400 a month, I got an office with a locking door, a desk, chair, space to plug in multiple monitors, access to conference rooms, and a mailing address. The place I rented was a ten minute walk from where I lived, so I got the best of all worlds.
I would like to hear your counterarguments to https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/E..., which seems to me like a compelling argument.
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Yeah, the description says "up to 2013." I think that's likely a bit more recent than K10 but I don't know.
The article is from February but it is worth studying the headline which puts the problem on "two tiny" whatever. Looking back the market was around a top and was struggling to move higher. Not a tiny issue more a major top.

Lesson: Study headlines for wishful thinking and draw conclusions.
> I see it as being like walking into an armoury and being able to choose anything you want. Chances are, if you want to resolve a domestic dispute, you don't want a claymore. Or a Howitzer. Or an aircraft carrier, or a lump of unshielded semi-critical plutonium. But that's OK, you don't have to choose them. You can walk right past those shelves to the shelf with the megaphone and the padded vest, and just take those.

Is this an Ammu-Nation ad? :)
Haha actually did read it. But eyes must've skipped over the header.
No assumptions being made here, just stating matters of fact as to what requirements CTL has for transmitting 911 service, the E911 edit was implied to be supplemental.
Unfortunately modules don't solve the compile time problem, as demonstrated in the article, which matches my own experience. I was excited about modules until I tried them out and realized they don't help much in practice.

I hate to sound like a broken record but I've been telling everyone I know to try https://zapcc.com. If you are on Linux then it is a real solution to long compile times, especially for incremental builds.
Re: quality vs wait period trade off.

We generally call this the 'Iron Triangle' in healthcare policy/management. You basically get a pick at most two out of (1) access, (2) quality, (3) cost.

As to your general sentiment healthcare is a bit 'one size fits all' when in terms of insurance/reimbursement solutions. Note that the needs of the aforementioned triangle are weighted differently based on acuity of care. More generalized simple/low acuity care we are happy to get low cost and ready access as our best solutions (e.g. minute clinics, online/virtual care/telemedicine for getting a vaccine or pinkeye/localized infection without complication).

Meanwhile ER representing the other spectrum we instead have greater need for higher quality and access. You must get to an ER ASAP and get stabilized.

Chronic care quality solutions with long term cost-effectiveness are what are needed. Access to a specialist for longer term condition management (or episode or care like a cancer diagnosis).

Similarly more procedures are becoming outpatient, or recovery at home, or at dialysis centers, or at skilled nursing facilities ... you get the point.

I argue the problem is that the insurers have not adequately fragmented the insurance market/reimbursement model. Healthcare is changing in how it is delivered and insurers are not keeping up with it when it comes to modeling their payouts. For example why does being in-network matter for low cost care at outpatient facilities? The added 'negotiation' of being in a specific network doesn't add much value. One size fits all doesn't work with the modern spectrum of care.
It's relatively well known that any situation that produces a predictable breakdown of police response is expired by opportunistic criminals (looting during disasters is perhaps the best known manifestation.)

A publicized 911 outage would be an obvious opportunity.
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Apparently not enough. They're the most popular type of car right now.
It's called "elastic demand" and it just means that roads are useful. The Boring Company has a twofold solution (a) charge for usage, and (b) build to 30 levels or more to meet demand
There must be a disconnect here, manually entering a single quote, then pasting my URL, then adding the closing quote is precisely what I wish to avoid.

Here is a demonstration about what I'm talking about: https://i.imgur.com/d64lwaB.mp4

> "We don't attempt to detect URLs because that can go wrong, and because we don't know your intention."

That much I've gathered from seeing this issue raised with fish people in the past, and in my humble opinion it's the wrong approach. In this mentality fish is forgetting it's stated goal of being user friendly which should in some cases, mean making sane educated guesses about the user's intent. How often do users of the fish shell paste a string that starts with 'http' and contains a '?' that is meant to be a wildcard? Not very often at all, if ever; fish is now evidently planning on deprecating that ? wildcard so I think the fish devs agree!

The way I see it traditional shells aren't user friendly because they take a conservative approach, doing crap like not enabling fancy autocompletion features out of the box because "what if the user is running on a timesharing PDP-11 and can't spare the CPU cycles?" Breaking from that mental trap is bold and should be commended, but in the case of not escaping pastes I think fish has fallen into that conservative mindset again. zsh/OMZ does it by default and I've never heard of anybody getting screwed over because of it. Fish could and should do it by default too.
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In my eyes, Larry Ellison on the Tesla BoD just damaged the brand of Tesla by an order of magnitude.
The Plaza Hotel was designed a protected landmark by the city in 1969, which probably helped. (The original report by the Landmarks Preservation Commission on the reasons for protecting the Plaza can be read here: http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/0265.pdf)
For an organization focused on technology and "human rights" I don't see any info about proper implementation of end-to-end cryptography on their page. If they provide "trainings", in what?
My feeling is that at least in C++ and Haskell, what's going on is that a barebones language core is being extended with a teetering tower of mutually dependent libraries building ever deeper abstractions. Templates upon templates, or monads upon monads.

Whereas in Go, say, stuff like ranges and maps is just built in, no more abstraction than is necessary to do a generalist job with a few specialised common cases. Even the standard library is largely one-level, direct code, and only abstract at the interfaces.

So simply and literally, C++ has to compile more lines of code to do the thing.
What you're saying is true, but there is also this

> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emtLLvXrrFs

modern safety features make a big difference, even against heavier cars.
Not sure I understand. By “worth less than the cost of the cam belt change” I mean I’m expecting it to fail at which point I’ll scrap the car, because it’s not worth doing the cam belt change for 2x what the car is worth. I can just get another car with 3-4 years left until the cam belt change for that kind of money.
Here is the paper the article attempted to cite [1] (article link is 404ing right now)

[1] https://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=108...

I believe the article mentions this, but the paper only studies urban-area VKT, the paper mentions that the same effects do not apply to interstate highway system or a number of other categories.
Is Microsoft not a big name"?
I believe the current limit in California is a 1 acre parcel - that's in effect until 2023. Many counties in California still don't allow cultivation at all. If you look at the licenses that are being granted (public database), you'll see that none of the Southern California counties are even granting those 1 acre outdoor permits.

There's probably other reasons as well, but this might be part of it.
which is totally fine! the majority of software only needs that level of skill.
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I remember Turbo Pascal 5.0 and its imperceptible delays between pressing F5 and seeing the program output. I hope some day we can have this in C++, even if it takes sorcery like speculative compilation as-you-type done on a gigawatt cluster of custom chips...
Bruce was employee #4 at Oracle. He knew Ellison extremely well.
There's a "dirs" command, which lists the directory stack, and a "cdh" command, which lists your directory history.
Well, if you're asking the endpoint for an HTML representation of something, and it responds with template portions and rules for combining them based on data (React,Vue), doesn't it make sense to respond with all the date needed to actually build it right then and there?

If someone requests /users.json I return JSON. If someone requests /users.html I return a document with rules in JS for how to build the HTML based on the data (Vue) and the JSON to build it with. In both cases the JSON is the important part, the Vue stuff included in the HTML version is just a transform on that data to be applied by the client. In that respect, I think not including the desired JSON would by hacky, requiring a separate request for the actual data you requested initially.
For the case in point, Haskell is much clearer. You can do Pythagorean Triples in one line. Google it if you don't believe me.

However, in general, (in my opinion of course) the cognitive load for Haskell is low as a novice, but gets higher and higher as you go down the rabbit hole toward learning, understanding and applying all of its power - which is constantly evolving not unlike C++.
I abandoned C++ and Windows programming in 1996 to focus on hardware and firmware. So I'm rather familiar with just straight C and keeping code size down.

You have to be careful, a lot of those 8000 bytes might well be printf().
In fish you can use `history --merge` to merge the current shell's history with other instances of fish.
elixir remains my favorite language. i code in java/kotlin daily and while I love all the things that kotlin provides over java (including the functional support via arrow-kt), I still find myself writing elixir whenever I have a pet project at home.
Is there anything equivalent for Vim or other text editors like TextMate, Sublime, TextWrangler or so? Asking because I don't use Emacs but do use Viim and other apps.
Now, if it could only make the Federal government spend less...
I’m not answering any questions. Just show me a table.
What are the sources for these claims? Your own personal opinion?
Nothing happens if you keep them inside feeding their tiktok and fortnite addictions. I can't even recall the last time I broke up a hockey or streetball game driving through neighborhoods.
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It sounds like this applies to broad total market index funds too. I still feel like I don't know shit about the stock market so forgive me if that's a 101 question.

If I am an index broadly tracking the market, weighting each stock by market cap or whatever, then if it goes up, I have to buy more. If it goes down, I have to sell. Is that right? Is the that kind of rebalancing you're talking about?

It sounds like a positive feedback loop that could run away. Stock X goes down, forcing some index to sell it, forcing it further down, forcing them to sell more, etc.
Is this even a problem? People are given an opportunity to do something and then they do it. That's way better than new roads going unused, isn't it?

I like congestion charging alright, which the article advocates at the very end, but it has a habit of being regressive - it's easy for me, as a software engineer, to show up at work at 11AM, but that might not be the case for those who can less afford to pay those charges. I think it's a net positive, but it can have consequences - especially in places like the Bay Area where there is no vaguely affordable housing anywhere near where the jobs are.

Why not think about locating things people want to go to - especially their jobs - near where they live? Why do we need sprawling suburban "campuses" and a million tech busses to shuttle people from the cities to them? Throwing up huge office buildings and tech HQs in SF - but refusing to build housing the same way - is only a little tiny bit better.

Both just force people to the exurbs, creates more super commuters and more demand on the roads.
Probably never. Just use a shebang for scripts,they exist for a reason.
They should but I think it would be a great community project. I'd be interested in helping out, been working on apps for ~3 years.
I love the "DON'T TOUCH THIS" post it at 3:55
> because the ELF file format has a lot of fluff.

I wouldn't call it fluff: even assuming no debugging info (which you won't have in your avr object file) it has info needed at runtime (program start time) such as where to load what into memory, how much initial uninitialised memory to allocate when starting up, etc. It all gets used.
I think it is a trial baloon, and arises out of a perception that maybe in the future there will be large numbers of such people.
We should tax things more because they are popular?
Oh, ouch. I never knew about that one. I assume it's an effect of various "#define NULL 0" type things that got stomped by the introduction of nullptr in C++11?
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Let me know how well that works out for you here in Phoenix during the middle of July.

For some areas of the US (notably the southwest), the summer months are brutal. Air conditioning is virtually a requirement, not a luxury. Unless we mandate that all businesses install showers for employees (and we change as a society and not mind people being sweaty and smelly otherwise).

The majority of power used in a car during the summer months - beyond moving itself and passengers - comes from the AC system. These systems can sometimes exceed the BTU output of a house AC unit, mainly because they are fighting the heat input from the outside constantly, due to the lack of insulation in an automobile passenger cabin. So they have to be more powerful to offset that. Which means they need a power system to keep up, and historically that has been an IC engine. I'm not sure how an electric vehicle's AC system fares during a hot summer day, or how it effects the battery charge, but I'd expect it to be fairly heavy on that front.

Could we do as you suggest? Certainly we could; we did something similar (more or less) for hundreds of years before automotive AC was a standard item (in fact, the automobile was around a long time before AC became a readily available option). At the same time, though, certain social standards were different, plus there's the argument that cities weren't as built up or as dense (heat island effect), making them (marginally) cooler than today.

Here in Phoenix, though - it starts to become a furnace around the end of May, and continues until about the end of October. There are nights where it never falls below 100F at times; most of the time it never falls below 90F at night. There isn't an easy solution for comfortable personal transportation in such conditions, except for the automobile as we currently know it.
> “human business processes were never that complex.”

That’s a falsifiable claim. Human problems / laws are some of the most difficult to code for, IMO. Examples: legal software, economics software, etc. Usually complexity increases as you delve out of the abstract and deal with real-life processes with humans.
lol, The Purge (2018)
Agreed, resources often don't matter.

But I do often do something like:

( cd somewhere ; do_something )

just so I can avoid having to do

pushd somewhere ; do_something ; popd

(or the equivalent).
> How often do users of the fish shell paste a string that starts with 'http' and contains a '?' that is meant to be a wildcard?

Okay. Now you can do it for http. What about ftp? Or "file://"? Do we detect _all_ kinds of URLs?

And even if we do, and we don't miss some or see something as a URL that isn't, what about _other_ kinds of things? What about shellscript? E.g. if I want to just execute a bash one-liner from the internet, I can do

`bash -c '`

and paste it and it'll work out. That won't be detected as a URL, because it isn't one.

And I've seen a case of a URL with variables just yesterday (though I admit that's a coincidence):

https://docs.travis-ci.com/user/deployment/custom/ has "sftp://${SFTP_USER}:${SFTP_PASSWORD}@example.com/directory/filename". How do I paste that with the zsh thing? Do I need to go back and edit all of that?

So, instead, we have one rule: If you paste it insde single-quotes, it'll be escaped. If you paste it outside, it'll be inserted as-is (but still not executed). No matter what the contents, no matter where.
Which is also why building bigger roads, generally doesn't improve traffic issues.

Given the options available, people will generally choose the most hassle-free route. If public transit improves, more people will take it, which will improve road traffic.

If bigger roads are built, less people will take public transit, because roads can handle more cars before the traffic factor forces people to use alternatives.

This breaks down a bit outside cities where the only option is to drive (no buses, too far to bike or walk), but remote areas don't usually have traffic problems even with low capacity roads.

Edit, more info for the curious: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_demand