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> As described above, at scale, a developer will not be able to easily edit or search the entirety of the codebase on their local machine. Thus, the idea that one can clone all of the code and simply do a grep/replace is not trivial in practice.

Yeah this is a pretty widespread and fundamental misunderstanding that leads to a lot of bad policy decisions.

If 'grepping code' is your first resort then you're hitting things with a hammer. I'm writing code that a machine is supposed to understand. If the machine can't understand how the bits interact then I have much bigger problems than where my code is stored. Probably we're dealing with a lot of toxic machismo bullshit that is hurting our ability to deliver.

If you want discipline, if you want cooperation, hell if you just want to be able to hire a bunch of new people when you land a big customer, you need some form of support for static analysis and the code navigation that it enables. Stop the propeller heads from using magic and runtime inference to wire up the parts of the system, or find a new gig. Even languages where static typing isn't a thing have documentation frameworks where you can provide hints that your IDE can understand (ex: jsdoc for Javascript).

For a large team, working without any kind of static analysis is a recipe for a rigid oligarchy. Only people who have memorized the system can reason about it. Everybody else who tries to make ambitious changes ends up breaking something. See what happens when you trust new people with new ideas? New is bad. Be safe with us.

And even if by some miracle you do make the change without blowing stuff up, you're still in the doghouse, because we have memorized the old way and you are disrupting things!

Some crazy ideas work well. Some reasonable ideas fail horribly. To grow, people need the space to tinker and an opaque codebase ruins those opportunities. Transparency is also helpful when debugging a production issue, because people can work in parallel to the people most likely to solve the problem (even the person who is usually right is way off base occasionally). I should be able to learn and possibly contribute without jamming up the rest of the team by asking inane questions.

You need pretty good but entirely achievable tooling and architecture to get that, but man when you do it's like getting over a cold and remembering what breathing feels like.
Here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10863939
Not in Manhattan. They could be 10x the size and still get filled.
> How could he have known this at that time?

Fairly trivially.

The Sun's angular size is about 0.5 degrees. If A is the angular size of the Sun then the distance to the Sun is 1/sin(A).

Using the rough figure of 1/2 a degree, that makes the Sun about 114.6 times as far as its width. You can measure it more accurately and get a better figure.

You don't need modern trigonometry to do this - part of the point of the linked post is how to do these calculations without knowing about modern trigonometry, just using distances and ratios.
Remote arbitrary code execution on Synology Diskstations and Routers
I have a student right now that has dyslexia and the ligatures help a lot. I'm glad this tool has it built-in! my student loves this already. Thanks mate!
I've had plenty of moments in my 33 years as a driver where a vehicle dropped out of the sky and into my blind spot; they just do that!

The problem is that your attention isn't riveted on the mirrors at all times.

If you have been sternly monitoring the mirrors in the previous fraction of a minute, then such a hypothesis does hold.

In road tests, you have to do everything by the book, though.

They want to see that you've developed the habit of checking. The habit will save you that time when your don't-have-to-do-it hypothesis happens to have a flaw.
Refugees do have rights, and signatory states have obligations under the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and as amended in the 1967 Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees. The U.S. is signatory to the convention and protocol. And also the 1980 Refugee Act applies in the U.S.A.
The floor is lava, if you touch it you die.

No it's not.

It is, because I say it is and that's the game we are playing.

OK, I'll play.

....

Here's this 3000 page book, it says you own me 30% of what you just made.

Really, let me read it. No, it says I owe you nothing.

Really, OK, I suppose it does.
I wasn't aware that there was any way to skip the basic stuff.
Multiple root access hacks were created for the PS4, I assume some used it to pirate. Console piracy is general has effectively always been rarer than on PC, presumably due to the higher technical barrier. Dragging a cracked .exe into a directory is a lot harder than installing some sort of Homebrew on your console.
Can I ask what your background is and how old are you?

You seem actually quite genuine and to have good faith-in-discussion, and if that is correct I really implore you to value that about yourself. They are good and rare qualities that the world needs more of.

Also, I hope you do not take offense to this, but I can't help but recommend that if you haven't already, to see a professional about potential social disorders. Your comments consistently read with a naievity of social skills. I'm sorry and I dislike to compartmentalize anyone has disordered, but I think it could possibly help. I could also be completely wrong: after all, all I know of you is a few internet comments.
I binged Hells kitchen a while back, the episodes aired in the UK were remarkably more pleasant to watch due to a lack of background music. This clip[0] demonstrates the difference between the two nicely.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFVLPcTWfBk
some of those trucks cost more then a model 3.
I.e. workers are commodities traded by capitalists.
What would you say of a hypothetical claim that was ideally translated to all languages that everyone, when asked, unforced, agreed that it was an accurate description of their subjective experience?

I'm digging underneath Wittgenstein's ideas of subjective morality a little bit. Humor me here and let me know what you think. I'm truly curious.
if consciousness were anything but what the brain does, how would you know? we don't really have a means to check for consciousness other than asking someone. that's pretty weak!

because there isn't a consciousness test, philosophers are trying to point the science in the right direction, in terms of what are legitimate possibilities or what theories may not be sufficient explanations. in other words, they are grappling with the very question you asked, ie, "show how information gets transferred back and forth...".
Work less hours. You are probably wasting them at work anyway. Most research points to about 3-4 hours of good "deep work" a day.

If you need to work more hours because your start-up is lazy about tracking productivity and "time in seat" == "more productivity" then try and build and document an empirical way to measure your productivity. There are a ton of good books out there on this subject. I recommend "Accelerate."

Go ask your grandfather if he wishes he had worked more or spent more time with family. Relationships NEED nurturing. Not making time to be together can and will kill your relationship.

Check out "Deep Work - Cal Newport" and "It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work - by Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson". You do read and do research on how to run your company and track your productivity, don't you? Or do you just fart your way through life and are consistently amazed at how the harder you work the further away the goal-post is?
>There is no rent control for single family homes anywhere in CA.

"Rent control is in effect for all San Francisco renters who reside in buildings constructed before June 1979. This means your rent can only increase by a governmentally mandated percentage each year, based on the cost of living index, and with a 30-day notice. If your landlord has improved the facilities in your building, he can petition for an additional increase, but the Rent Board must approve his request, which can't exceed 10 percent. If a landlord is negligent in his maintenance of the building or units, you can make application for a rent decrease to the Rent Board."

https://homeguides.sfgate.com/san-francisco-rent-control-inf...

Original Victorians definitely fall in the pre June 1979 category.
I think you need to stop making personal jabs.

I never said the past was perfect – that's a strawman. But it's self-evident that companies on average used to think contrary to what Freidman was proposing. That's why he was arguing for it in the first place!
That's probably not a terribly stupid idea; transporting energy as gas in a pipeline might be significantly more efficient than electricity through wires.

The oil and gas are going to be extracted as long as the global market prices make it worthwhile to do so. The only way that changes is if renewables come down in price enough to make fossil extraction uneconomical. So the more we build out, the better, even if it happens at the same time as fossil extraction.
Not sure that contradicts what I said? For example, Richard Nixon was a social conservative that ran on a backlash against socially progressive causes, but was still a left wing president. Supported industrial regulation with the EPA, instituted price controls, governed fully within the Keynesian framework of the day. He was to the left of most of the modern day Democratic party.
The press conference had lots of details. Last I checked no recording has been posted.

The old plan called for replacing all of the bench walls along the length of both tunnels. Bench walls are the short concrete casements which house the cables needed to power the train and provide communications. Replacing them was necessary because of leakage to the cables which corrodes them. It would have been a total gut removal.

The new plan is to 'rack' the cables along the walls, which will improve access and be way cheaper. It's some kind of hanging cable system. Some of the bench walls are damaged, so they will be removed or patched on an as needed basis. Otherwise they are obsolete, so the important bit is that they don't fall onto the tracks. There will be sensors to monitor for problems with the remaining benchwall.

These techniques have been used in new tunnel construction outside the US, but never to rehabilitate an existing tunnel. It seems like a much needed improvement over the old plan which will have less costs and inconvenience.
> MSNBC had a clear conflict of interest in the run-up to the Iraq war, with its parent company being a defense contractor

I'd be grateful if you could elaborate - I'm having trouble following the ownership chain, since there was a merger with Comcast I think after the Iraq War.
This post is refreshingly sane. I visit often but don’t live in SF, and I’ve had a lot of the same observations.
I don’t think this is overfitting. It’s really a form of leakage by the design; it seems that the loss function is a result of the outcome of both networks (cyclegan is really two gans connected it seems), which means the loss gets shared and backpropagated through both networks.

I think the architecture is bad. Maybe you could stop the network from embedding extra data with some sort of normalization or max pooling at the very end of the network.
The biggest problem with the python 3 rollout was the decisions that were made to arbitrarily deprecate functionality that could have easily been supported.

Just because you add a new way to do something doesn't mean you have to get rid of the old way, too.

Another big mistake that they made was not providing any tooling to automatically convert python2 to python3 code.
But there will be way less work to do with the new plan. The old plan was to totally gut the tunnel, the new one is to hang replacement cables and patch the concrete only where needed.
So the plan is to leave the unused cabling in the tunnel and plaster some new stuff further up the wall?

I hope that there is a robust plan in place to deal with the old cabling which will continue to rot and at some point will detach leading to blocked tracks or possible train damage.
Isn't the problem with browser gaming the size of game assets? Any sizable game with sound and high-res textures could easily span multiple gigabytes (AAA games now approach 100 GB in size). The browser would have to enable persistent store at that scale to make that kind of gaming feasible. The alternative is server-rendering+streaming, but this doesn't need WebAssembly.
> The best technical courses are on Udacity.

Is that universally agreed on? The Udacity courses I had looked at (full stack development, AI for self driving cars) were good and insightful, but somewhat half-baked, and not as good as edX or Coursera.
Fixing a flaw in photosynthesis could massively boost food production
I don't really see much connection with what OMG have done. Yes, they did do a little work on an Ontology Definition Metamodel, but I wouldn't take that too seriously. I don't think they understood what they were doing.

Similarly, I don't think graph databases have that much in common with RDF. Yes, both are graphs, but they're quite different, really.
Wow that is amazing that your project got 4k stars on Github!

If I were you, I would be looking at WordPress for inspiration. They have many sources of revenue:

- Hosted version (monthly fee)

- Marketplace for add-ons

- Support

It seems like you have created a community, so to create some kind of extension system would be a way of generating revenue and encouraging people to develop on your platform.
That was in their early days when they were not as desperate to resort to clickbait.

Do you use shill accusations against every person you disagree with? I almost feel sorry for your vile attitude and ignorance.
Apparently they originally only looked at techniques that had been used before in the US. Agreed that the big contractors and old bureaucracies such as the MTA could probably use a round of inspiration.
Yeah, no where close to that. Entry level is around 30-40k, after a 3-5 years you can be expecting 50-60k if you're lucky.

There are exceptions but I saw my salary double when I left the industry and from talking with other people it seemed like a pretty common pattern.

FWIW games follows the 90/10 rule(90% of revenue goes to 10% of the market) so while the 100k average may be "accurate" it doesn't paint a clear picture.
I'm sure it's a fun drive, but IMO "epic" should be saved for people through hiking or cycling the route. There are lots of helpful trip reports and route descriptions for Pamir Highway around the web, too.

Cycling would definitely be my preference. It's just a great way to see the scenery, appreciate the terrain, and interact with locals. Probably quite a bit safer, too.
$80k-$200k+ sounds about right to me.... What's unbelievable here?
In some states, yes. In Texas, I know of several people who didn't even have to take a practical driving test - just a written exam. There used to be an exemption from the practical driving test if you had a licensed parent teach their child under 18 to drive.
Which really just shows you can't just buy your way into class at the Ford or Dodge dealer. Not to mention if you require financing.
Because a manual transmission makes you engage more with the car. You must control it more actively, thus teaching drivers to focus on and observe the car and road rather than waiting for directives from sensors like blind-spot detection lights. An automatic mentally allows the driver to feel and operate more like a passenger than a pilot. Manual trans prevents this.

It's not about some pretentious "feel" like porsche-bros espouse. It's about engagement and forming good habits so drivers are more self aware and self sufficient on the road.
This is so true. I was fortunate to learn about the technique described in the article when I learned to drive in high school and have used it for the past 25 years. However, I've completely failed to ever convince anyone else that this is the right way to do it. I've mainly tried it with people I shared a car with, first my parents and later my wife. They are so insistent on wanting to see the side of the car, but can't explain why that matters. My only hope is to indoctrinate my children when they start driving.
> iPhone 7S

Not trying to be rude, but this phone doesn't exist,
The RDR2 environment is an amazing horseback camping simulator. Fishing, hunting, beautiful vistas... bliss
Apparently they will add sensors to continuously monitor the concrete for failures.
> Just because you add a new way to do something doesn't mean you have to get rid of the old way, too.

It kind of does if a central part of the stated philosophy of your language is “There should be one—and preferably only one—obvious way to do it.” [0]

And, sure, you may say backwards compatibility creates a special circumstance that is an exception, but “Special cases aren’t special enough to break the rules.” [0]

[0] PEP 20, The Zen of Python, https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0020/
Take Fallout 3/4 and New Vegas. The concepts for the games were largely the same, so was the initial tooling. The difference was the development teams. The games have a completely different feel.

Dev teams are not interchangable cogs. Different developers will have different ideas for solutions to problems, game mechanics, etc. And different artists will create a completely different assets, even if given the same themes to work with.
LHTL is important for instilling a growth mindset in students and teaching effective science-backed learning techniques. If you know the 'why' behind an effective study method, you're more likely to continue to stick with it.
Right, I think it would be more accurate to say "The machine, smart enough to choose the easier approach for solving the task". It simply found an accurate and easy way to pass the discriminator and stuck with it.
30k is entry level for competent labor jobs in Timbuktu.
There's a huge "wind belt" running north from the Texas panhandle up to Canada. At one time, T. Boone Pickens was looking into exploiting this, but he went for oil instead. There's no big electrical load in that area, so high-voltage DC lines to the West Coast, east to the Midwest, and south to the major Texas cities would be needed.

2,000 km transmission lines are now routine.[1] They've taken 2-4 years to build in Brazil and China. So this is quite feasible.

Politically, building long-haul transmission lines in the US is a huge hassle. Efforts to build a 730-mile line between Wyoming and Nevada (where it can attach to existing lines to California) have been underway since 2013, one jurisdiction and landowner at a time.[2] And this for something which is completely non-polluting. It's DC; you don't even get induced stray voltages.

[1] https://www.power-technology.com/features/featurethe-worlds-...

[2] http://www.transwestexpress.net/news/index.shtml
That would be child's play compared to the claim that they were doing plastic surgery and full head transplants even earlier. The claim was made , among others, by the current prime minister of India -- I kid ... not.
Using Droplit to Bring the Cloud to the Edge
People will meet the vehicle outside if it saves them money.
There was a television story about Chinas DSN station in Argentina. I think it was 60 Minutes, but could not find the link. The story alleged China could be spyingof world satellites with these radio dishes. The locals are of mixed opinion. They like the economic infusion from China but fearful they could get more pushy. The Chinese workers mostly keep to themselves, but there is a grocery store and new restaurants for them.

My guess is that they would need a third location for unbroken 360 degree coverage. I would gues somewhere in Africa would do it. They have lots of development projects ther.
Only thing we need now is presentation/distribution. Download this stuff one time for the machine as a standalone progressive hybrid native/web app, and run as an exe from there on. With auto updates. No browser involved. HTML5 games don't take off because of the presentation/distribution. The browser is the problem. Now that we have WebAssembly, performance is much less of a problem.
> If you blame the company for doing this then I expect that you also make 0 deductions on your personal taxes and pay as much as possible.

Yeah not the same thing.

The same thing would be for us to open a shell company in Bermuda, ask our job to pay us through there and use that bank account to pay for our local purchase.

The deductions we get are for a reason, as long as the reason apply, it's perfectly ethical to use theses deductions. Once you don't actually respect that reason, no it's not ethical to use theses deductions.

I knew some independent workers that went to restaurant and put that as a business expense to get a deduction. It was clearly not an actual business expense, we could argue that it was (well how could you have a business without eating?), but it was certainly not related to any business being done. The deduction would still pass, it would still be "legal", but it wouldn't be ethical at all.
This is the reason why all of these "mashup" languages are so pointless.

Everyone feels like X language is so great but if only we could add a feature from Y language to it. They then attempt to trivialize what is needed for that feature not realizing that the benefits of Y are due, in part, to the non-trivial amount of functionality. They almost always turn into a façade of the feature they truly want to support and they never gain traction because their usefulness just really isn't there.
At the super high end Tim Sweeney and Gabe Newell are both billionaires on the Forbes list, but they are both owners and founders of their respective companies so that's a little different than director. Jason West and Vince Zampella (directors of Call of Duty) had 36 million in owed royalties for Modern Warfare 2, the Housers who are directors of GTA and RDR get millions in royalties, etc. Anyone that has made a popular indie game (like one that people have heard of) has made millions.

Your average game industry employee is not equivalent to directors and stars in movies though. They're much closer to employees/contractors at visual effects companies or grips, none of them are getting millions even on the biggest films. At least as a mid-tier engineer on a hit AAA game you can get total compensation equal to or better than big tech pays in some cases, and as an artist you can make more than you would in film with more stability.
You might not know who needs to be called to tow, or your state might not allow for towing, while still allowing for law enforcement to ticket.
I wonder if anyone ever made a list of paid only courses worth it. Now that would be really novel.
Back in the 80's with Sierra Games and Ultima and others, I DID buy the game because someone worked on them.

Sid Meyer
Christy Marx
Richard Garriott

Well at least i did anyway. Maybe i am alone in this.
Yes, but maybe convenience has to suffer? What (for example) if a monthly shutdown happened? Is there any model of regular maintenance outage you could "countenance" instead of just saying "but that is inconvenient so it shouldn't happen"?

What if it was done one line at a time weekly?

Seriously: do you think there is no model worth exploring here?
I'll need to take the fast.ai course first so that I can upgrade my course-extraction-from-text code from regexes to deep learning. ;-)