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Have gone up is not mutually exclusive with falling house prices. It can be true that they've gone way up, but are currently falling.

I bought a house in 2014, and it's definitely way up, despite a fall in the past couple months.
Here's the 'challenge': Seattle spends $$tens of millions each year on treating the symptoms.

Mostly policing, sheltering and moving tent-emcampments around. Wasted money.

The cause (exacerbated by huge price increases) is home-less-ness. The cure is homes. Apart from showcase projects, no progress. Buy the property, build small homes, move people in.

So why doesn't it happen? Follow the money.
They weren’t infected by the rage virus
Can you expand on the white nationalism support of the Claremont Institute and the connection of Chris Rufo to it?
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Hi, I've been working as a full-stack developer for the last 4 years. Before that I got a BSc and MSc on Computer Science. My thesis involved quite a lot of statistics, which was interesting.[1] I enjoy doing back-end stuff but would also love to get back to some more mathematically-intensive software development.

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Swift Playgrounds is cool.
It's valid. The distributed consensus ultimately decides which chain will be used.
I got the Bluetooth kinesis for just this reason. It’s ergonomic. You can pair it with up to 3 devices and switch between them with a key combo.
Keep in mind that about half of our country's political leadership see the strain on major cities as a win-win-win: They don't have to allocate funds to properly deal with the problem and the urban liberals and lower class are subsequently punished. The solution is rather clear when viewed from the federal level, but the motivation is low.
Cloud9 shuttered once they got bought by AWS and now they're built into the AWS console/ecosystem. I tried it but found it pretty terrible given a couple shots at it. I found Termius + a development server (EC2 instance, much like Cloud9 sets up for you anyway) much more reliable and easy to use.
What’s missing?
Can you explain the appeal?

As a long time iPhone and iPad owner, I find iOS intolerable and it gets worse with every release.

Coding on an iPad would be like trying to prepare a 5 course dinner on a kid's Fisher Price kitchen or building an intricate model with Duplo Lego bricks. Maybe possible, but a terrible experience.

So what am I missing?
"Pythonic functional" seems like a contradiction of terms, considering python's infamous hostility (e.g. http://fold.sigusr2.net/2010/03/guido-on-functional.html) to functional programming seems like a key part of what it means to be pythonic.

That said, it looks a lot more pleasant than Python. The addition of pattern matching alone makes this seem like a very worthwhile project, a big improvement on Python.
The magazine sells guillotine posters: https://jacobinmag.com/store/product/1
If Node-red wasn't such a mess, had a better UI (less mouse/typing required, touchscreen-friendly) and a proper native runtime on ios, I'd fancy using it...
It seems like in this case you're not really coding "on" an iPad and it's really just more of a dumb terminal. Wouldn't any device with a browser be just as good in this case?
Category theory is the study of the one single syllogism, the mighty arrow.
How does this fare against parcel-bundler (https://parceljs.org/)? It does pretty much the same thing in a slightly different manner, and I'd like to know before I actually consider giving it a try.

Thanks!

[1]:
https://vfsforgit.org/ is another option here - MS-originated and Github is adopting it - https://venturebeat.com/2017/11/15/github-adopts-microsofts-...
That's a great point. Maybe for example:

* level of negative externalities due to homeless people in city X goes down by Y%

* number of short-term homeless people in city X goes down by Y%

* number of chronically homeless people in city X goes down by Y%

* number of homeless people in city X goes down by Y% of which no more than Z% may be due to decreased arrival rate or increased departure rate of homeless people

* number of homeless people in city X goes down by Y% without raising net tax burden in city X by more than Z%

* tax burden of homeless services primarily met by those who benefit financially from increased rents

* housing stock in city X increases by Y%

* median apartment rent in city X decreases by Y%

* average apartment rent in city X decreases by Y%

* apartment rent in city X keeps place with inflation

* Gini coefficient (income inequality) in city X decreases to at least Y

* unemployment rate in city X decreases to at least Y

* government refrains from conditioning benefits or services on acceptance of drug treatment

* government refrains from conditioning benefits or services on cessation of drug use

* government refrains from conditioning benefits or services on acceptance of mental health care

* government requires acceptance of drug treatment or mental health care as a condition of receiving services

* no increase in arrests for crimes often committed by homeless people

* substantial increase in arrests for crimes that significantly affect other people's property or quality of life

(this isn't even including broader-based changes to unemployment insurance, welfare, or health care systems)
On the contrary, the market is signaling that Chinese consumers are reducing their spending, choosing to save even more.

> [These sales] will help finance the deficits without running up a dangerous amount of debt in foreign currency.

That's why they're selling!

The arbitrage, really, is that sales of this nature are very technical and not well understood by consumers. They signal bear market like a yield curve inversion does. But because it's so technical, the average person's confidence isn't impacted the same way that a headline, "China is Hunting for Foreign Buyers of its Empty Apartments" would.

Even though both have similar macroeconomic effects, given enough scale.
I was curious as to why neither C# nor .NET appeared on the "Top Technologies" graph. Then I realized it apparently combines C, C++, and C# into a single bucket, given that the same tag [1] also shows jobs for all three.

[1] https://startup.jobs/c
I’ve been using this for the past few days on an iPad, and so far, it’s been great. There are plenty of syscalls that aren’t working, but it’s far more functional that I anticipated. In fact, playing with iSH on my phone for a month or so is what convinced me to get the iPad at all.

I haven’t been able to try too much coding in iSH as opposed to SSHing out to a server, but that’s one use-case that’s on their radar.
Better idea: coding on a Microsoft Go in 2019

Pros:

- hardware: the keyboard is good, no connection issues, fast NVMe if you get the 128Gb model, LTE option to be always on

- windows: WSL, stable, good experience

- linux: great support if you are using the linux-surface kernel branch (only the webcams are not working - everything else works)
Oh I know. I use it for AWS development, that's why I'm asking.
This and related thoughts lead me to wonder whether China may soon face a Greece like meltdown. They’ve established themselves as bad trade actors.
I'm not sure I follow the choice to shorten external function names out of the box. Isn't that kind of stuff better done by tooling which sees all libraries rather than separate programmers statically doing it on their code individually?
> it's the same reason that convex mirrors in America must have the text

Precisely.

S5.4.2 Each convex mirror shall have permanently and indelibly marked at the lower edge of the mirror's reflective surface, in letters not less than 4.8 mm nor more than 6.4 mm high the words “Objects in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear.”
I'm gobsmacked that you can feign amazement and then post a reply that's basically "sidewalks aren't called siderides, so bikes should stay off" with no further logic. Perhaps we should stay on the driveway?

You're phrasing your conclusions like the alternative is moronic, but it's not. There are lots of places that allow bikes on the sidewalk, and it doesn't lead to martial law.

I lived in a large but suburban city that allowed it, and it was hardly a problem, bikes would yield to pedestrians, and the only problem is bikes taking the intersections too fast.

At higher densities, I've seen bikes on sidewalks in various Asian cities, including several Japanese cities with various pedestrian densities. I think these anecdotes are a fair counter to your LA anecdote.

If we follow the logic of your post, we should also ban vehicles such as electric wheelchairs from the sidewalk.
Browsers do wrong a lot of things. Some time ago I hacked this little test:

https://datenwolf.net/rndrchk/

EDIT: If everything is done correctly, the text in the upper div will remain unreadable.

If browsers were doing gamma correct scaling, the perceived brightness of the checker pattern would not change.

Even more problematic, when zooming the interpolation and blending also don't happen gamma correct. If mere nearest neighbor interpolation were applied, this would remain hidden.

This becomes really annoying on HiDPI screens. For some reason the "px" CSS unit has been "redefined" as an "average-ish" angular distance when viewed on a 96DPI screen at an arm's length or so. And for higher resolutions px is scaled accordingly. Whoever came up with that nonsense created a lot of issues down the road. sigh

EDIT: Also Opera (before it switched to WebKit) did some really funky business at the edges, when upscaling images. Interpolation would always clamp-to-edge instead of respecting the tiling mode.
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Ad hominem isn't a good look, nor an effective argument when it comes to policy. Too often I see dismissals based on indirect associations with the Koch brothers or unsubstantiated allegations of white nationalism. I don't see how ad hominem by progressives is any better than someone dismissing research data because of "links" to think tanks funded by George Soros, etc.
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If you want a really deserted road in the lower 48 U.S, try the road from Mexican Hat, UT near Monument Valley to Torrey, UT near Bryce Canyon. When I drove that one for many hours, I saw almost nobody. It had plenty of nice scenery, but hardly anyone lives in Southeast Utah.
If anything it feels like it's becoming clear that iOS is not going to be a viable OSX replacement for most professional use cases without a huge bump up in complexity. At which point you have to wonder why bother with it at all?

Microsoft seems to have a much clearer vision here and anecdotally I know quite a few people that have been Mac users for ages that have given up on iPads and bought Surface devices because they can use them to do real work.
I use it on the job when working in AWS with no problem, but it definitely doesn't seem to have been developed with mobile strongly in mind. The experience is stark.
Interesting line re: this from last year's moviee Crazy Rich Asians:

"There is a Hokkien phrase, 'Gar gee nang.'
It means, our own kind of people. And you're not our own kind."

"Because I'm not rich? 'Cause I didn't go to a
British boarding school, or I wasn't born into a wealthy family?"

"You're a foreigner. American. And all Americans think about
is their own happiness.

"Don't you want Nick to be happy?"

"It's an illusion. We understand how to build things that last. Something you know nothing about."

Funny thing is that I feel like it is indeed rare for cultures-countries to think about building things that last. But the US is actually one of the few countries that does---whereas China can't float this level of debt at attractive rates because it is NOT long term focused. It keeps doing insane, credibility-destroying things. Yet always talks about how it is a long term actor.
I’m not sure what you mean, what about python is notoriously unfunctional?
At the very least, the "battery" includes the circuitry protecting and mediating access to the cell(s), and that's the point where it would prevent the cell(s) from overcharging.
Ah, so it sounds like we are on the same page, but just call it different things. (what you call a native runtime I call a browser with some UI differences)

Your last paragraph basically describes a browser with a special "install" flow. Mobile Chrome already has a flow like that for PWAs where it will ask you "do you want to add this to the home screen?" and it will add the icon to your app drawer on android just like any other app, allow you to "uninstall" it just like any other app, and when you launch it it launches fullscreen just like any other app.

I'd love to see this expanded to cover desktop as well. And with some additional work (like giving the option to move storage data to different drives or manage apps based on their hostname more easily), it could become a very powerful system.

If you want to learn more, take a look at the google developers page for PWAs. It seems to be what you are looking for in some ways!

https://developers.google.com/web/progressive-web-apps/
Blink (mentioned in the post) is a fantastic app. It's open source [1], or you can buy it from the App Store.

Not mentioned in the post, Blink can do port forwarding with the usual ssh tool (ssh -L 5000:localhost:5000 myhost.com). It also provides a shell-like mode of interaction with the local file system and iCloud, so you can `scp` files around between the iPad and your server.

[1]: https://github.com/blinksh/blink
I suspect some of the downvotes are coming not from disagreement, but because the first line of the parent's comment misstates the interviewee's conclusions about providing housing. I share your view that downvotes should be reserved for comments that don't encourage productive discussion and comments should be used to disagree, and misstating conclusions from an article is not productive.
The DNA break in prediction is interesting.

While potential useful longer term, for a short to medium term thing it's more likely to be a biometric info hack. (eg retina, face, fingerprints)

Those at least can lead to faked duplicates, which the other leaked info can be put into the field with as well.

Thinking about it more, with DNA info at hand for a target individual... if a state actor can manufacture sufficient credible matching DNA for a target to leave at a manufactured crime scene, that opens up some possibilities.
It’s a very lightweight device with an excellent screen, impressive battery life, and the option for built-in LTE. But yeah, in terms of functional capability to connect to a server and type stuff, other devices would work as well.

Also an excellent tablet when you’re doing non-coding stuff.
Yes, but besides other tablets, if we're talking about traditional computing replacements, that really only leaves mobile phones.
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I don't think individualized medicine will really bring much benefit in this area until we develop fast, cheap, minimally-invasive sensors to check blood levels of substances such as glucose, hormones, vitamins, etc. That way we'll be able to see in near real time how individual bodies react to different foods and exercises.

At the upper levels of pro sports they're already sort of doing this but it requires taking frequent small blood samples (not fun), specialized test equipment, and manual analysis by experts. We won't see it at the consumer level any time soon.
What you're suggesting is, in effect, that people should keep a food journal, and an activity journal, including a breakdown of food groups, and fats and sugars by weight. That, in turn, requires research for foods that don't come with nutrition labels, tabulating the results, and studying it to see the changes over time.

I suspect anyone willing to do that is probably already healthy, given the amount of effort they're willing to put in.
> each repo is free to use whatever CI & deployment tooling it needs, with absolutely no constraints based on whatever CI or deployment tool another chunk of code in some other repo uses.

Hear, hear. Let teams choose the processes and tools that work best for them. In previous release engineering positions, I resisted the many attempts to instroduce a single standard workflow for all projects. The support burden of letting a thousand flowers bloom was not great, but the benefit was that devs understood their project and were empoiwered to make changes when the business requirements changed faster than standardized tooling could.

We had a few contracts for standard behaviours, but they were low-overhead: must respond to 'make/make test', have a /status endpoint that 500'd when it was unhealthy, register a port in the service conf repo, etc.
That is not how you would do that math though. You have to multiply the percentages. (1+0.077)*(1-0.054)=1.0188 => 1.88%
I don't think I disagree with you about what role the tablet plays in my setup.

The other features of the iPad made it desirable for me, over carrying a laptop, and the remote VM solved the "how can I write code while only carrying around an iPad" problem. The fact that I'm doing it by using the iPad as a thin client for a remote VM is mostly transparent for me, given my use case.
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I wouldn't count out a company based solely on a poorly-written job description. Those are often put together by less-technical recruiters or the HR department. And yeah, maybe the team that's hiring should be more involved in the actual job posting, but the whole hiring process is such a huge PITA and time-suck that they're too happy to hand off whatever part they can.
If I remember correctly, the gameplay was similar to Dragon's Lair: Cool to watch, infuriating to play.
WebPack gives me errors when I npm run it. I need to directly run ./node_modules/.bin/webpack which leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
This has nothing to do with monorepos though. Its entirely a company policy issue. There's nothing about the monorepo that prevents you from writing a script that ran on precommit and built and deployed via docker to a test cluster.

Unless you mean your presubmit test would push to production machines, that's bad and shouldn't be allowed, but again has nothing to do with a monorepo.

A company could just as easily have draconian policy about testing and deployment and multiple repos. Maybe you could break the rules (hell you could have broken the rules in monorepo land), but again, that's just a rules issue, not an issue of the repository.
Ethereum's issuance is also linear, and has been since 2014. https://blog.ethereum.org/2014/04/10/the-issuance-model-in-e...
No. Homelessness exploded in San Francisco before legalization in California.
indexedDB can easily store gigabytes of data without issue. I've personally used it to do so before, and it will happily "cache" it for weeks at a time. There are several web apps which work entirely offline and cache all of their data using that API.

devdocs.io is one of them.

Like the parent commenter said, i'd welcome more control over the storage of that data, but it absolutely can and will cache large blobs like that.
Aha, but that's not true. We're an in environment that exerts more real and perceived selective pressures than ever before, and influenced by orders of magnitude more people than we were even a hundred years ago.

Health and fitness, physically, are indicators that (A) somebody has time to invest in their wellbeing, (B) actively invests that time (C) is more likely to survive illness, injury, etc. (D) is more likely to be successful due to social implications halo effect, yadda yadda.

I'm not going to argue that there aren't maladaptive traits related to health and beauty that pop up all over the place: physical ones like eating disorders, behavioral ones like narcissism.

But, "train regularly -- three to five times a week -- plus eat a high-protein low-processed sugar diet, like celebrities do when they're training for roles" is nowhere close to unhealthy excess. A lot of people just find it very difficult to do.
I'm playing with the Dalai Lama picture in Gimp and seeing some interesting results.

If you decompose the image into LAB, then the individual channels exhibit this scaling issue.

But the kicker here is that when you're working with these decomposed channels, they are visualized in the GUI as grayscale.

So, thus, never mind the fact that they represent color; that is irrelevant. Color seems to be a "gray herring" here.

What's fascinating is that the eyes are not fooled; optical blurring and scaling is resilient somehow.

So it really is just about the intensity mapping, underscoring how this is a gamma issue.

The data is contrived so that a linear treatment of the intensities will average out to around zero.

This reminds me of say, the wrongness of mixing logarithmically compressed audio samples just by adding them together.
> If you look at the european POPs of major eastern european and Russian ISPs

Can confirm. (Source) When I studied in Russia, my host's father happened to be a network engineer for a big ISP in Russia.
1. China is the second biggest market for Apple
2. The cellphone competition in China is hotter than other regions, and the local players manufactured cheaper and competitive phones, like Huawei, OPPO/Vivo, Xiaomi
3. The whole economy situation is not good, the consumer would be more cautious for expensive consuming.
Boring is stable and reasonable
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A lot of those fit celebrities are heavily geared. It's pretty obvious if you know what to look for. They would never pass a WADA test. It will be interesting to see how many of them end up with serious long-term health problems.
I'm surprised the author didn't mention this. Playgrounds have a great deal of flexibility and can be a great for prototyping or learning Swift.
> I'd say coding using just a touchscreen would be terrible

Text-based coding, sure. But the jury is still out for visual programming systems, of either the Scratch (syntax expressed via custom "puzzle pieces") or the LabVIEW (flow-based semantics) kind.
Developer tooling on-device, for one.