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> Even grabbing libraries from github, I was unsure if I should grab just the headers and DLLs, or import the entire tree and mashup my build scripts with theirs.

Honestly this is something that apt (et al.) make so easy on Linux distros that when you move to Mac or Windows you just have hard time believing people still in 2018 have to _deal with this shit_ (installing libraries and their headers by downloading each one separately and running an "installer" and trying to figure out where it put everything)

Like, why. It's one of the principle things keeping me away from developing on Windows for the last 10 or 15 years, the absolute lack of standards with regards to dev package management. Every time I decide I need to get something working on Windows it's an incredible pain in the ass compared to Ubuntu. Oh, now go to THIS website and download this installer and run it, now this one, now this one. And figure out for each one where it decided to put the headers. Now copy the DLLs around, etc. (Yes, there is system32 and Program Files but installers don't adhere to this by any means, and discovery via a build system is not given.) It's just barely worth it, and people only put up with it because of the huge user base. Honestly, for small projects I've found it easier to install MingW32 under Linux and cross-compile instead of working on Windows, it's that much of a pain.

At least Mac has Homebrew and Windows has a couple of good solutions now I guess (chocolatey, who came up with that name), but they are not officially supported and that is sad. I understand, they don't want to pay an army of people to package open source software full time, which effectively is what keeps Debian and Fedora going.. but they should. I would say it's one of principle reasons then end up doing something like providing an Ubuntu environment on Windows .. it's not just that people wanted a Unix-like environment, it's that they wanted _package management_.
There are a few companies making new bamboo ski poles. Panda Poles and Soul Poles are two that I see regularly on the mountain.
I see lots of 15+ year old cars around, my car is over 20 years old and still works fine. About 25% of vehicles used in the US today are at least 15 years old. The drivetrains already very often outlast the body/frame falling apart from rust, at least in places that salt the roads during winter.

https://nhts.ornl.gov/vehicles
Almost everyone who owns their home has real estate as their ‘primary store of wealth’.
The Data Self and the Social Self
Should not people have freedom of speech?
Is there a metric for demand weighted average price of energy by source?
It works almost the same for bottled oxy/fuel/shielding gas used for cutting and welding operations across the country.
The article doesn't mention how much of these assets will be backed to back to an entity in the UK, effectively making the shift of the assets a mere operational step. And working in the industry, I expect the number to be substantial.
>you will forever be an alcoholic

I believe that this is the current medical understand of alcoholism as well.
Agreed. The need for introspection will happen many times over in the course of a lifetime. Saving in anticipation for these transitional periods should be a top priority.
The firmware for the Nexus 5 wifi chip has well-known remotely-exploitable code-execution vulnerabilities [1] that were never patched. Nearly all modern devices have a full software stack inside the wifi (and other radio) chips and they all have plenty of security flaws and they're all proprietary and unaffected by the OS.

So it's not just about it not being secure going forwards. It and most other similar age handsets are insecure because a fix has never been released for the older chips.

[1] https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2017/04/over-air-expl...
Im a Scala guy that knows very little about rust so excuse the ignorance but what would the benefits be with regards to scala/rust interop?
"Money might not buy happiness, but I'll take my fucking chances."
IMO it's pretty dumb of the British. You can't join and leave just like that, everything is integrated with EU.

Now, go ahead and undo it because a few % more voted to leave at a certain point. These decisions to join/leave should be like adding a new Constitutional Amendment in USA, very hard to do, either way and require super-majorities.
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I am really of two minds about a foundation. I've seen a few different variations of this idea, and they all have a lot of downsides, as well as upsides. It's not clear to me that it would be a win.
It's like building a wooden strip canoe - by the time you're finished with the sanding, fiberglass, resin, etc. it's more of a fiberglass canoe that looks like wooden strips.
We have reliable courts which are known for their independence.

We also have alternatives to courts - called Alternative Dispute Resolution mechanisms - which operate out of London mostly, and are known to be free of political interference etc.

See http://www.lcia.org/ for an example. You'd write an ADR into a contract and use these people if you didn't want to use our courts. And our courts respect this arrangement if it is agreed upon and treated properly. It's often used between parties even where nobody involved is a British company or person.
The ridiculous hypocrisy of the "official" wikileaks organization sending out a document labeled "CONFIDENTIAL LEGAL COMMUNICATION NOT FOR PUBLICATION."
I had the iMac G4 about 10-15 years ago and I had a slew of good games for it. Nowhere near the amount available on other platforms but I was kept busy. These days when I look on Steam for instance yeah there's perhaps a larger proportion but still most games are Windows only ... The Mac never was nor will it ever be a serious gaming platform.
> Embarrassment will end the human race.

Not before we're all offended to death.
Rhetoric like this is less than effective. Some of us do game in Linux because we don't want a Windows box. So, literally is demonstrably false.

Now, statistically, I realize we don't exist. But at absolute levels, we do.
So add a small gas turbine range extender. Like the BMW i3’s range extender but use a small gas turbine instead of a scooter engine. Also make that optional. No need for a conventional ICE drivetrain.
If you have a powerful desktop computer, please open this notebook on nbviewer, scroll down all the way to the bottom and see what I mean:

https://nbviewer.jupyter.org/gist/ontouchstart/1af198f8535eb...
> Technically speaking I'm sure you're right. In practice it doesn't really matter though

I think the details matter because they're relevant to how we as a developer / customer community move forward.

If the GP is correct, then the pain felt by these particular devs might not be a sign that targeting Linux is in general a bad idea. For example, we might help future projects be successful simply by spreading awareness of techniques known to make it easier to target Linux / SteamOS.

Regarding the 0.1% of sales issue, perhaps some of that number's smallness comes from a bootstrapping problem. I.e., there's a vicious cycle of: (bad drivers) --> (game is crashy) --> (poor sales) --> (gfx card vendors not motivated to improve drivers) --> (bad drivers) --> ...

I don't think there's much an individual game dev shop can do to break that cycle, but perhaps it's still useful to understand the problem.
Adam Ruins Everything - The Sinister Reason Weed is Illegal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJlqsdezhhk
For me, it killed pleasure from watching them and I used to like them. Especially in horror, to be scared I need to sort of believe it. When I don't, then it becomes merely disgusting. Similar with fights, I don't feel thrill nor anything of the sort anymore. I used to like fights, but when all characters act like unreal idiots I end up wishing they all killed each other in the end. They never do.

It is as if genre movies completely resigned on story and writing. It is just eye candy at this point.

I don't think it used to always be like that, because I have seen some older movies lately and characters (including supporting cast) made more sense.
I went mattress shopping yesterday. The fact that there's options for financing a $2000 purchase is indicative that "just enough" is, in fact, not.
> So if you're ethnically Christian

How does that work? Russians are ethnically Christian I presume, but they are Orthodox Christians so do they get a license to rail against the Catholic church or would that be "hate speech". What about railing against Mormons? Or does that only extend to the religious sect that is traditionally associated with that ethnic group in that particular area?

I see the idea I think, but it seem it needs to be defined a bit more precisely to be useful.
The article is written as if solid-state battery designs are going to be the future. So my honest question is, is that really so? What about others, like Graphene batteries and supercapacitors [1][2]?

[1]: https://www.graphene-info.com/graphene-batteries

[2]: https://www.graphene-info.com/graphene-supercapacitors
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Very true, but once you make the decision, all those other things are multipliers. Just unfortunately, if you make the negative decision, well the negative still multiplies too.... hence the divorces and all the drama at work....

If you took away my marriage and job, I would be markedly more unhappy. I imagine if I ever have a big wad of cash sitting around, I would be a bit less happy if that disappeared too (only because keeping it around certainly would only keep me at the status quo, if not make me more happy).

What's that they say about coming into a lot of money, that it just reveals who your true self is?

And yes, some people get into crappy marriages or crappy jobs where they just get knocked down 24/7. But I've observed that negative people easily self-prophesy into negative situations far more often than positive people.

edit: added points
That is pre-C++11 and woefully out of date. To pick out the first two "defects" listed: std::auto_ptr was deprecated in C++11 and removed in C++17, and std::unordered_map was introduced in C++11.
In 2015-16, 62.9% of UK households were owner-occupied. A drop in house prices (which would be incredibly welcome for me, as a prospective purchaser!) would lead to negative equity for a significant number of voters in the south east and especially the south west - no political party wants to own that, though both major parties in the UK bear responsibility for it.
Notably, 10 years ago I could swap a butane or propane tank from one vendor with one of another vendor at any place that sold butane/propane.

The last time I tried to do that (6 months ago) they rejected it. I had to go to the original supplier, as they were no longer refilling each others branded containers. In spite of standard fittings/sizes/etc. They've become significantly less fungible, and I can no longer just go to the nearest or cheapest supplier based on my needs.

Even worse, I've just realised that I now effectively have two un-refillable tanks, as Homebase just shut down all my local branches. Which I paid deposits on when I bought them, obviously. Nice ...
This specific aphorism is given as advice by some well known MIT public speaking guy. I think people take it too literally and make an outline slide that's like "motivation, problem statement, method, experiments." So useful...
WikiLeaks has almost certainly been compromised by global intelligence agencies and is operating as a front.
Really? I've found the community of Scala really nice and welcoming, always ready to answer my stupid questions, one of the nicest communities I've had the chance to be around.
A lot of people are critical of Scala sure, mostly around tooling and the language isn't mentioned a lot in discussion forums, but I think nonetheless there is a great spirit to be found in the Scala community and great learning resources for functional programming.
Atleast that is my experience.
It doesn't look like water to me. This looks a lot more like water: http://madebyevan.com/webgl-water/
And there's Broadcomm who simply vanished after 3G
Presumably that means less jobs in the UK and more jobs in the EU to manage that wealth for one. I'm not sure what that means for future growth of the UK financial services industry.
Perhaps they're just not trying to see only the drawbacks and ignore successful non-members in Europe like Switzerland and Norway.

That's a bit of a misrepresentation, because those "successful non-members" are members of the single market, which is currently something that the UK is actively trying to leave.

Don't underestimate what's happening here – it would have been possible to execute Brexit in a relatively controlled manner, but that wasn't done, and now the UK is rapidly heading towards a pretty unpleasant outcome.
I love the concept of the Touch Bar. In practice, I never use it and it's not uncommon for freezing to occur when I'm trying to adjust the volume which really colors my perception of the whole thing.

I think the target market should be for non-professional users (who don't otherwise use external keyboards and have shortcuts memorized) which is why it's weird that it's a top of the line addition (obviously, a cost issue).
Do all the stuff that can be done in a high-level GCed language in Scala, and drop down to a low-level language where GC is in the way.
As an admin I will never ever put ssh private keys on any kind of mobile crap. I have no control on it, I can't trust it in any way.

However yes, I like photograph not only to fix for future reference something but also to document what I'm doing, and also other kind of logging, sometimes useful if something goes wrong not because of me but someone like to say it's because of me...

And for that a traditional pocket voice recorder is really good, plus eventual camera on it :-)
Which is everyone with a house, yes. The housing ladder is a huge thing here.
Sure, but my point is that you have gasoline being produced by many companies and production facilities, from many different/blended inputs (heavy oil with low gravity, NGLs, ethanol mixture, et al), and with proprietary additions.

There's no reason that batteries can't be checked that the meet spec before they are replaced in your car in the same way.
Ignoring that most publishers will recoil in horror if you suggest open sourcing their product, there's two problems your post fails to address:

1. The game industry is stuck on a "release and forget" model. Except for games designed up-front to have some recurring revenue component, few get more than a couple token patches after release. (There are lots of industry horror stories about studios that find out that they can't even compile a game anymore two years after release.)

2. Most games today rely on proprietary middleware, and the industry is steadily moving farther in that direction. Expecting anyone who wants to rebuild the game to pony up for a site license sounds like a nonstarter. In fact, even sharing information on the middleware is sometimes an NDA violation (everything related to consoles is shrouded in an absurd amount of secrecy) so the codebase might have to be scrubbed of all comments prior to release. I'm sure the games community will be thrilled.

What I think we really need is for someone to revive the Loki model where a studio dedicates itself to publishing Linux ports of existing games. At this point, I'd be willing to pay a company like that a lump up-front fee for a game that includes, say, a year of bug fixes/upgrades, and some recurring fee after that for compatibility updates.
It saddens me that he got disciplined for voicing his frustrations
I'm not convinced that more academic information will benefit anyone other than the most fastidious individuals (a minority unlikely to ever participate in recreational use). The majority of use is recreational and rarely entails the kind of detailed cost benefit analysis you imply. Reading the disclaimers on modern medicines usually leaves me feeling more confused (not helped by the fact they usually list every side-effect under the sun, often mentioning opposite effects such weight gain and weight loss together).

For the typical user, the logic is usually that marijuana enhances their mood or creativity or coping ability, and that its adverse effects are relatively benign (based on informal/anecdotal knowledge from its millennia of use as a recreational substance). Decisions are also made at the margin, meaning the user rarely considers the impact beyond the immediate costs and benefits (a strong argument for taxation).

What would be useful to the majority of users is research in to how to mitigate the harmful effects to consumption (e.g. through alternatives to smoking) and through clear standards so they know what they are getting, the strength, duration, etc.
> he was one of those people making easy SV money

Yet what I see most of the time is that organizations exploit employees' passion. The more you like your job, the less likely you will leave, so why bother paying you more?

I had a moment of epiphany when my manager said to me in a 1-to-1: "You've been very passionate and doing great. Now $competitors are in town, so we will raise your pay by $a-double-digit-number %".

I went out of the meeting and said to myself "Screw it, I have been exploited for $X years. I will start looking for my next job tomorrow".
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This is completely contrary to anything officially published by Alcoholics Anonymous. Possibly "proponents" have their own opinions but AA itself specifically states in its that it does not have a monopoly on recovery from alcoholism.

http://www.aagrapevine.org/node/34635

That's one example. It is also in the main text.
"real estate will become a little more affordable"

For many people in the UK any decrease in house prices is regarded as a very good thing indeed. (perhaps i'd be able to finally afford a property!)
I've been Linux only since 2012, which coincidentally was when RadeonSI came out and I "took the bet" on AMD drivers getting good with a 7870 purchase.

Its 100% no tux, no bux at this point. My last Windows title was Darksiders 2. Darksiders 3 came out in 2018, I was totally hype for it, but it was Windows / Xbox / PS4, so no deal there. Not like I have a shortage of dozens of other games to still get around to, my library is overflowing with titles I need to finish like Tomb Raider and Metro.

The worst part was that Nordic was apparently intent to rerelease the remasters of Darksiders on Linux but just dropped it at some point. If they did the math and said it wasn't worth the time fine by them.
>>And what's the significance of that? Suppose I had $100 in a bank in UK and I moved it to a bank in Germany. Neither country is better or worse because of that. The article doesn't bother to explain the ramifications.

Ummm...the German bank can loan or invest about $85-$90 of that. The British bank has to loan about the same amount less. When you talking trillions it ads up. Generally you want banks with a lot of deposits.
Why wouldn't you just create a statically linked binary?
> To me, Rust is nearly the same thing as steveklabnik.

He's certainly very low-latency.
> Every bank based in London for that purpose now has to open a regulated branch in an EU member

nitpicking but these are unlikely to be branches but rather subsidiaries. London banks will still be able to have branches in the EU to clear EUR payments and access the ECB but are unlikely to be able to do any regulated activity (selling financial products, taking deposits or writing mortgages) out of these branches.
I'm no expert, but I think weed definitely promotes psychotic thoughts. More so, the stronger the THC content, and the longer and frequent the use of it. In very rare cases this can trigger Psychosis, but in most people it will not.

Rather what you tend see in daily smokers is a attitude of mild delusional distrust, often leaning towards conspiracy theories, anti-authoritarianism, etc. Since many are not aware of any unreasonable thought patterns, it may be seen as a mild form of psychosis. It goes away only 1-3 days after stopping consuming it though.

But I think it's worth keeping an eye on, in this day and age, we really don't need more people following misguided errands.
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Is it false and defamatory to suggest that WikiLeaks was a tool used to affect US election?
> Now onto bound methods: you are wrong in your code example; `instance.method()` does not require `method` to be a bound method; an unbound function is just fine.

Ah, true. I looked at the code, and was blind to it :)

> Understand this: React is not normal code. React was designed in a distinctly unusual way

There's nothing unusual about React.

> (they invented an rather substantial language extension to achieve it!)

That "extension" is nothing but function calls [1] [2]

Quote: "Each JSX element is just syntactic sugar for calling React.createElement(component, props, ...children). So, anything you can do with JSX can also be done with just plain JavaScript."

> This is not JavaScript’s fault

It is entirely Javascript's fault. That is, it's the fault of its haphazard development with reckless disregard to any long-term planning.

Classes are deliberately designed to look and behave, for the most part, like classes in C++-like languages. So they hid the whole prototype chain away behind the class keyword... But it's still there, and you have to be always consciously aware of it.

As for the rest of your example, and how "you would rarely need to bind methods", well even the class fields proposal binds methods in its examples. So much for "rare" [3] And with quite a few people using WebComponents which are also class-based, well... Just a literally the first example I found: [4]

And of course class fields will behave like class fields in C++-like languages will behave. Unlike methods. Because reasons.

And of course, the "solution" to that is to throw in another half-baked solution in the form of a decorator. Which will take another several years to go through the standardization stage. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[1] https://reactjs.org/docs/jsx-in-depth.html

[2] https://reactjs.org/docs/react-without-jsx.html

[3] https://github.com/tc39/proposal-class-fields

[4] https://github.com/elmsln/lrnwebcomponents/blob/master/eleme...
I likewise run and prefer a Linux desktop and boot into Windows for the occasional gaming foray. Also, to run stuff like Fusion 360.

I have to say that even on Windows, driver stability leaves much to be desired (for Nvidia in my case).
But for many people the iPhone mini would be a better product than todays iPhone mega.
When it comes to financial legislation applying to banking, to securities trade etc., English law is largely whatever EU law says it is (it's regulated by the EU). It still remains to be seen what English law will be after Brexit.

As for rule of law in general, it's debatable whether its better in the UK than in the other Western or Northern European nations.
>Would you take the marginal risk of a battery swap (plus the costs of all those batteries in inventory throughout the country) in order to save 60 minutes on a 600 mile trip?

I honestly think I would for a trip like that. But at the same time I wouldn't want to be stuck with a potentially "sub-par" battery after that trip either. And those 2 things seem pretty at odds with one another.

Like in a perfect world I'd love to be able to have it as an option, but I'm not willing to give up "my" battery in my current (hypothetical!) car for one of unknown quality.

Perhaps a "booster" system would work then in this case? You don't swap out the actual battery in the car, but instead swap out batteries that go in your trunk or something and charge your actual battery while driving! Then you don't care about how shitty that pack is, you are only using it to "recharge" on the go!
So you don't think this system provides any unique capabilities? I'm not aware of any other way to do some of the things proposed in the paper.