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I believe Tesla would be right up there with in the realm of “scientific engineering”, if not even ahead of the Wrights.
I'm nervous about the source. It has no Wikipedia entry. Its "technical publications" page <http://www.blythinstitute.org/site/sections/11> includes "Review: Knowledge and Christian Belief" <http://www.blythinstitute.org/images/data/attachments/0000/0... and "Developing an Approach to Non-Physical Cognitive Causation in a Creation Perspective" <http://www.blythinstitute.org/images/data/attachments/0000/0.... And they've published "Naturalism and Its Alternatives in Scientific Methodologies
" <http://www.blythinstitute.org/site/sections/66>, on a science which accepts supernatural forces (or rather, a science which isn't dependent purely on "naturism" aka "only natural (vs supernatural/spiritual) forces" for explanations).
If the merchant pays something, you pay something. Where do you think the merchant gets the money from?
Caring about education and caring about grades can be very very distinct.
Any evidence for that? I lived for a year in Germany and I certainly never got that impression. They’re expected to teach, not act as social workers or counsellors but that’s within the bounds of normal in the US where you’re from too, right?
We'll have to pack it very carefully in any case. Perhaps we should assume that this will happen and work with that scenery in mind. The concept of a fire resistant box is not new at a smaller scale; We can vitrify the less dangerous waste and store the crystal in steel containers. Then we could theoretically design explosion-proof containers for it with some outer sacrificial disposable layers made of a plastic clay-like matherial or so.
only if you refuse to pay the rent.
Got any good recommendations for some of these? I'd love to recommend some books to my students who actually care (and for myself, on some topics I'm unaware of)... Unfortunately many don't care, which is another problem in and of itself.
I grew up playing hockey on the school team and I would never even try playing on the street. Angry bogans would get road rage if someone got in their way and everyone I know is 10km+ away.
Go ahead and name a better self driving tech that you can buy right now. There is only 3 btw.

Tesla's Autopilot /
GM's Supercruise (only available on Cadillac CTS and certain highways) /
Comma AI's Openpilot.

You also misconstrued my point. I said best commercially available self driving. Seemingly Waymo has better tech but I can't buy or use a Waymo.
> The president cannot shut down the government.

And yet for all intents and purposes he has, because he's wielding his veto powers and congress hasn't passed a law to stay open by default.

Now imagine the dynamic where congressional salaries were being withheld also, and is it possible that it could influence the votes of ~10 or so senators Trump needs to get wall funding approved?

Maybe, maybe not, but it's not a healthy dynamic for the president to be able to exert such direct financial pressure on congresspeople.

> Congress could just pass a law saying the government stays open by default

You say 'just', but do you really see the current congress passing such a law? I don't think it is just that simple.
Started out studying to become a secondary math teacher. Saw the writing on the wall and switched my major to engineering. One of the wisest decisions I've made in my life.
Can you try [1] (using Vp9/Opus codec in HQ) on your Bluetooth and then via cable? IMHO, Bluetooth is not good enough.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZT-rdjv8wgQ
If you learn more, the improvement will be demonstrated in later grades. Grades have to be final at some point; it's more fair if that time is the same for everyone.

A better way to handle this case is to drop the student's lowest grade, or maybe even the lowest couple of grades.
Time for an open source implementation?
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I haven't used FB Messenger, but I also hate features where they show if the other person is typing a response. I intentionally disable it in Slack, so the other person simply sees a response when I'm done with it.
So why can't we have a GDPR notice only for IP coming from EU, and the notice will have a single accept all button and call it a day ?

GDPR is so much hassle right now that hurt small business more than those big Internet giants.
UGh. Reminds me of the terrible USB powered speaker bar for an HP LCD I have at work. The audio comes from the 3.5 mm jack and power from USB. All you hear is the damn switching noise from the motherboard. Any time there is significant CPU use you get this noise in the background and it's quite audible at even moderate volumes.

Not sure if it's the crap speaker bar; power and audio coming from the same chassis using two different cables or the motherboard. Could be a ground loop? Now That I think of it, I'll try to power the USB from a lab supply or beefy USB charger.
You just described LibreOffice!
Games are made to be entertainment, and like any other genre of entertainment (literature, movies, television, plays, etc.) they can encompass the entire range of emotion and experience, not just "fun."

I think it's a sign of the medium maturing - more adults are playing and demanding more complex experiences than just collision detection and pattern recognition can provide.
>I didn't get your solution below because "local_variable" is actually a global.

A global in a subshell, so the caller's globals aren't affected.

>Also, someone once said "it's easier to port a shell than a shell script".

Yeah, but it's pretty damn presumptuous to make someone install some random shell on my machine to build your code, imo. The same goes double for e.g. GNU coreutils extensions, since I have to set up some kind of separate root for you where true --version works (ditto for assuming /bin/sh is bash, or even dash so you can use 'local'). It's like encouraging people to use a fucked up version of libc where the args to strcat are reversed. Fuck that. The standard exists to define the environment. Sometimes it's within reason to have dependencies outside of that - but the shell is a good example of where the case for it is very weak.

For the record, my motivations for working on Simon's mrsh project is basically 50:50 between "I want to support POSIX-compatible shell scripts" and "I want a POSIX shell whose interactive mode isn't dogshit". Both are equally important to me.

>EDIT: Also I think there's no problem adding local variables to POSIX, since all shells implement the same way as far as I can tell. That would be the much better solution, rather than trying to convince people to use only globals.

That's all well and good. The Austin Group has public meetings, a public bug tracker, and a public mailing list. Go there and make a case for it! But be prepared for "all shells" to include more than dash, bash, ksh, and zsh.

>There are many useful / real shell scripts that are thousands of lines long, so you really need locals.

Length of shell script is not directly correleated for need for locals.
I like this quote “And many political ads—like those linked to the Russian government in 2016—may not make specific reference to the election, voting, or to a particular candidate.”
Is this sarcasm or not?
Yes and Congress can override his veto. That's how the checks and balances work.
Vitalik Buterin disagrees with you specifically on the topic of endlessly increasing impractical eth blockchain:

https://medium.com/@VitalikButerin/because-of-ethereums-expo...
Exactly I would have absolutely no problem with them if these things were obscure little open source projects like most tech experiments are. When I first read the Bitcoin paper I was skeptical but interested to see where they'd take it.

My problem is that these projects are simultaneously treated as humble little experiments and the perfect future of the global financial system, deserving of hundreds of millions of dollars of investment and endless public attention. If they would pick one or the other, I'd be fine with it. But I've dealt with years of a radical, quasi-mystical pro-crypto contingent who believe they deserve all of the upside with none of the accountability. I am 100% over it.

In short, the crypto hate is a reaction to the crypto hype. I have very little sympathy for people who profited from the hype, delivered approximately nothing of use to the rest of the world, and now have a sad that there are consequences.
> I don’t pay a fee on my credit cards, the merchant does

While that may be technically correct, it's ignorant of the fact that costs are always passed down the line in any economic relationship like you're describing.

That fraud protection costs the card issuers, which is the basis for that merchant fee, and the merchant passes the cost on in the form of higher prices. (Merchant accounts with higher fraud rates will pay higher fees!)

So from another perspective, you actually are paying the bill for those unknown percentage of frauds, which you wouldn't be as much on the hook for so directly if only everyone was responsible for their own individual security.
It is the lender’s resposibility (and the govrernment’s responsibility to regulate lenders) when said lenders can loan enough money such that that economy is wrecked if the loans are paid back. Making one bad loan is not a problem. Making millions of bad loans that endangers the economic well being of a nation is a problem.
Except he seems to give BTC a pass. I'm not familiar with this guy and just skimmed his tweetstorm, but he seems to be part of a group that thinks BTC >>>> ETH.
The seller passes the savings onto you ;)
You shouldn't be down voted. Non-nuclear EMP devices exist but due to the inverse square law (which we learned in high school physics) we know that they have short effective range. And they require a large conventional explosive to generate the pulse. So they work but are not a major threat worth worrying about.

What does actually work and have been operationally used are graphite bombs designed to short out electrical equipment. Those are much cheaper and more effective than EMP weapons.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphite_bomb
I attended a few conference/training (POPL/OPLSS) that made me want to pursue more chalenging things in computer science. Among other things my terrible grades in Comp.Sci in the early 2000s required me to do another bachelor's degree to open up masters/phd programs. In other words I was leaving the company.

Not a single developers there had bothered (such a bother /s) to learn F# and I wanted to make sure they didn't depend on me. It all worked out perfectly because the math degree turns out to be much more challenging than computer science.

Unfortunately developers overestimate the amount of work required to learn a new programming language. In particular ones on the same platform (say F# on .NET for a C# dev). It turns out that learning the libraries takes years but learning a new PL takes but a couple of days of focused efforts.
I think more testing initiatives, whether to help failing schools or in top schools are misinformed at best and cancer at worst.
They eventually would converge to east asia style meaningless competitive exams which are utterly destructive to any actual learning.
I think the right conditions have to exist for pedestrianization (don't ask me what they are -- I have an intuition about them but can't really articulate them). Lincoln Square for instance would a great candidate for pedestrianization -- lots of nice little shops in a high density location.

As for the Pedway, one of problems is like most underground walkways, navigation is difficult. There's no official map that tells you what destinations you can reach and how to reach them. You can't navigate with Google Maps, and signage is poor to non-existent. Also, most areas of the Pedway are quiet, secluded and feel unsafe. My sense is that the Pedway was designed for hyperlocalized usage (moving from one building to the next) and not as a network of passages.
Wait - so teachers in Massachusetts are not protected from lawsuits by their union or the schools? That's messed up
"The real crux of it is that teachers get put into this triangle of pressures between students, administration, and their parents which almost takes away all agency from the job. I got so tired of getting put into difficult situations that were almost always juggling acts."

I think that is also happening today with medical doctors and it is an absolute travesty; the opposite of progress.
A lot of people teach for different reasons in different environments.

I'm not sure if it's just about the whiners but also when the whiners permeate the entire institution you're working in.

The "lazy" teacher trope is a thing because the floor for teaching is so low and the ceiling can be so high while pay stays the same.

I guess I'm privileged enough(or type A enough) to want more. Sometimes I wish I could just do my job. That way, I'd be happy with being a bus driver or a cop or something(they both have really good pensions).
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Uber's technical blog posts some amazing stuff - their work on using satellite rssi data and GPS almanac info to detect multipathing in gps signals reflected from highrise buildings to more accurately determine which side of the road a phone is on is _magnificent_.

But they, like Facebook, deserve every bit of bad PR they get for being truly awful corporations.
If the price of Good N is Value of N+x where x is a markup to cover the costs you’re talking about, that cost is passed on to people who pay with any means. If I buy a TV with cash, or credit card, it costs the same. Except of course that I can get cash back on my card, but not with cash (or bitcoin).

So, credit card or not, the cost is there, even if I pay with bitcoin or ether. Except of course for the benefits of the credit card.
Hmm... what's the over-under on dropping barrels into a volcano?

You get a little radioactive steam surely...but eventually turns into radioactive dust...

As an aside, ignorant physics question, does the half-life of something decrease with heat? Like does more beta-decay mean it gets to safe levels faster?

Maybe a few years in between tectonic plates would do a planet good eh?
I think the disagreement is on other cryptocurrencies. The author of the original Twitter thread has positive views of Bitcoin, e.g. this post which he linked in the thread:

https://medium.com/@tuurdemeester/why-im-short-ethereum-and-...
Kind of dumb as an ideology. Sometimes you need N^2 and N is small anyways.
What is the shipping experience from aliexpress like?
But how does this work in the future. Weekly report cards in elementary. Daily live updates in high school. To a single final 100% determining your ap credit / college course?

Sounds like millennials have taken their need for instant gratification and the system is coddling them.
I don't think "everyone knows this", not to the degree you indicate. Yes there is a balance to be made, but I and many of my colleagues believe the opportunity for learning shouldn't stop once an assignment has been graded. We believe that such grades are in fact the diagnostic we should use to determine which students need to be helped along, given the opportunity to learn the material better.

You also say that a student who does poorly didn't put in the time. In some cases yes, but broadly it's simply not true. I've analyzed LMS data at large scales: Students who get F's don't put in much time on average. But students who get D's, on average, are putting in just as much time as the students getting A's and B's. The F students I can't do much about, with some notable exceptions, they mostly don't want to help themselves. But the rest are teachable.

For me and my like minded colleagues, it's not that we expect ourselves or others to do more work. It's that our vision of what the job's baseline work requirements entail goes beyond a rigid grading process that implicitly assumes that learning takes place in discrete bits of time, uniformly for all students.
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I've always wondered hoe much is a good tip? Is $2 a good for a 300usd a night hotel?
Not with Boston's Quincy Market. The stores face two pedestrian streets. The back sides are for cars, and they're just utilitarian alleys.
If you really want to upset an Iranian, call him an Arab. Iranians are not Arabs, and their language (and culture) is totally different, in spite of using the same alphabet. This unfortunately common mistake is up there with confusing Spaniards with Mexicans.
Technically this is the intrinsic motivation (task-oriented student) vs extrinsic motivation (goal-oriented student) divide. The thing is that everyone agrees that meaningful learning needs the former and this ideal lies at the root of every methodological innovation, but in practice everyone pushes for the latter because school has also other uglier social jobs. This is a cognitive dissonance that pervades the whole education system which should be faced at some point. Basically it should start with: "you can speak freely, what's the main purpose of school?"
Of course they will learn, eventually. Or like me, they will learn at a young age but struggle to apply the concepts in adulthood in a meaningful way, because we're all learning these lessons as we go, but we haven't learned effective antidotes yet to concentrations of power that become destructive.
You don’t. ;-) Use fish/zsh interactively, sh for simple scripts, Python for the more complex.
But then we wouldn't have single threaded wonders like node.js

It's part of our culture that the young kids dismantle the 'old people stuff' setup their new stuff to only re-invent the wheel again and again, run into the same problems that were solved decades ago to only be repeated again.

Remember how TCL was going to save us all from K&R C? Then it was perl to save us from TCL? Then Ruby? Python? javascript, Go or whatever is the flavour of the month?
Launching waste into space with a rocket is a silly idea. We don't really care if the waste gets damaged as long as it doesn't break up and make a mess. Why not build a giant railgun to launch it?
Bollards. Trees. High curbs. Feel free to drive like an idiot and send an auto shop worker's child to college.
I'm not sure if that's still the case, but a few years ago you could block the ACK so the other parties couldn't know that you read the message [1]

[1] https://easylist-downloads.adblockplus.org/message_seen_remo...
There was a game on Steam a while ago that was an FPS with a limited pool of lives for all players to share, and wine the lives ran out, the game was shuttered. I believe the same company is working on a game that gives you one life, and then the game refuses to run again (without cheating I’d guess).

The truth is that sounds a bit stressful to me, and the reality of how online PvP frequently evolves I’d be surprised if it worked out long-term. Part of the joy of games is being able to try again and again and perfect your gameplay. A game that punishes exploration and growth sounds dull, not daring.
HDMI doesn't have packets. It's largely digital VGA. It's very easy to flick individual bits, and the effect is basically the same as analog noise.

The only difference is the threshold.
They're absolute assholes during license audits and negotiations. They're one of only two companies to earn a spot on my "Never voluntarily do business with" list.
It's fair for everyone because they all have the same opportunity. And I do drop the lowest grade :)
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I do agree. I think it has to do with the fact that most motherboards have pretty terrible analog audio support. Every motherboard I've ever had has sounded meh compared to a cheap USB DAC.

It would be super interesting to compare an iPhone analog vs iPhone with a DAC.

I guess you'd have to use an old iPhone with an audio jack though :(
Wow, another "God-of-the-gaps" fallacy paper. Mixing all the things: math theory, algorithmics, evolution, genetic optimization algorithm in its simplest math model. All to make the conclusion that the authors could not understand those things all together.

On Goldbach’s conjecture: "Hypothesizing that the new axiom is true requires faith; faith in its consistency within the formal system"

And concluding:
"However, not all possible phenomes can be produced by genetic algorithm. So it is a matter of faith to believe that every existing phenome [..] could be the result of material things interacting with one another."
As an alum who has interviewed many applicants to the school, an A- va A isn’t going to be the difference in an admissions decision. I’m just saying this so your mother may have more peace of mind regarding that email.
It's not a big leap from "pay extra for extra credit assignments to improve grade" to "pay extra to improve grade".

I'm not suggesting that the vast majority of teachers would be tempted or give in to bribery. But it sets up perverse incentives and the optics are terrible. It's also unfair to students who didn't do well and whose families can't afford to pay the teacher to grade their extra credit assignments.
The canard design is most certainly not unstable. I have built model canards almost by accident, from scratch, from first principles. Nor can you simply remove the canard from a properly designed aircraft, any more than you can delete the tail from a Cessna.

Take a wing shaped piece of card or balsa and attempt to fly it by itself. You will find that it rapidly pitches up and stalls, flips over on its back, and repeats the process as it flutters it the ground. You can prevent it from doing this by taping a pole sticking to the front - a pencil, perhaps - as a counterweight to the pitch-up moment. This arrangement flies, but is very difficult to trim and has a tendency to suddenly invert as soon as the angle of attack goes negative. To stabilise it, all you have to do is put a small horizontal surface on the end of the pole. You have made a canard glider.

(If you actually try this, you will also need some vertical stabilisation.)
> It's an HDMI cable! The video signal has CRC in it and is packetized, it's either going to make it or it isn't.

I don't disagree with your main point, but this actually isn't quite true. The HDMI signal is split into 3 distinct interleaved periods: video data, data island and control. Video data is not packetized and the only possible error detection it has is from TMDS signaling, but no such error handling is required by the TMDS spec. You can absolutely get imperfect transmission of an HDMI video signal due to cable or other electrical problems. Auxiliary packets in the data island, including audio data, do have an error correction scheme (BCH + TERC4).

Feel free to check out the spec: https://glenwing.github.io/docs/HDMI-1.4b.pdf
I've always tried to tell people that ask me about crypto currencies that not only do they not have any intrinsic value, but the only positive value that they have is entropy. I explained it like this over Christmas dinner, lets say I wanted to start a new commodity, for arguments sake lets say that this new commodity is based on matches. Matches have a value, you light them and they produce a certain amount of energy. You can use them to light candles, clean out that odor from the previous occupant of the toilet, you could even combine a match with a small sterling engine to create motive power. But my commodity isn't the matches, its the energy used as the match is burnt. In my novelty commodity I only trade in matches that have been used, its proof that the match performed work in that it burned a fractional number of BTUs. This proves that the matches are sound. Furthermore, I, as a processor of used match commodities, can charge a nominal transaction fee when people trade spent matches on my Matchchain(TM) platform. Also, while this is a commodity I will call it a currency regardless of the fact that it has no debt instruments, lacks liquidity and is completely unregulated and prone to theft. Would you care to invest?

Now replace spent matches with spent compute.