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So I felt the same way about it; I'm a card-carrying nerd but most of my friends are decidedly non-geeks who still enjoy board game nights. At first, it started off with me being afraid of introducing them to the less mainstream boardgames. But one night I pitched Settlers of Catan (not exactly underground but also not Monopoly by any stretch) and surprisingly they took to it. And as we started playing more and more esoteric board games (some of them even having faux tabletop/RPG elements to them) I was continually surprised that everyone continued to enjoy them.

The most surprising thing to me, though, is that eventually they approached me about trying out D&D. It was something I'd wanted to do for a while but had never communicated it to them because I just assumed they wouldn't be interested.

Point being: You may be surprised. You have nothing to lose by suggesting it to them other than them saying "no". The 5th edition starter set even has the option of using pregenerated characters to reduce the friction. Maybe even start by showing them one of the CelibriDnD videos on YouTube; there's one with Vin Diesel and one with Terry Crews, not people who the general public usually think of as geeky.
With notable exceptions, today's political campaigns are often financed by wealthy individuals and companies. The type of politicians which receive contributions are, unsurprisingly, the type whose views best align with those individuals and companies. This funding is instrumental in lifting many of these politicians into office. When a question of political control or regulation of companies arises, it is also unsurprising that these politicians often see things from a certain perspective.
I speak 6 languages including some Japanese and I disagree with you. I also met people who learnt to speak languages by the age of 60 and they made it good enough for easy business.
Direct, but wise advice. "Deteriorating" is the correct word. Without that extra mile, you won't be surviving more than 3-5 years in this career field.
From the source:

>"Population‐based cancer incidence data in the United States have been collected by the National Cancer Institute's (NCI's) Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Program since 1973 and by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC's) National Program of Cancer Registries (NPCR) since 1995. The SEER program is the only source for historic population‐based incidence data. Long‐term (1975–2015) incidence and survival trends were based on data from the 9 oldest SEER areas (Connecticut, Hawaii, Iowa, New Mexico, Utah, and the metropolitan areas of Atlanta, Detroit, San Francisco–Oakland, and Seattle–Puget Sound), representing approximately 9% of the US population."
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.3322/caac.21551

So, looks like the headline chart[1] is only using data from the 9 original SEER regions (Connecticut, Hawaii, Iowa, New Mexico, Utah, and the metropolitan areas of Atlanta, Detroit, San Francisco–Oakland, and Seattle–Puget Sound). Also, some new data source was added in 1995, which is about when we see that peak in incidence/mortality. So we have some room for systematically biasing the data here, especially when we consider the various pitfalls of "age-adjustment".

They also say much of the mid-1990s spike in incidence for males was due to detection of asymptomatic prostate cancer:

>"Cancer incidence patterns reflect trends in behaviors associated with cancer risk and changes in medical practice, such as the use of cancer screening tests. The volatility in incidence for males reflects rapid changes in prostate cancer incidence rates, which spiked in the late 1980s and early 1990s (Fig. 3) due to a surge in the detection of asymptomatic disease as a result of widespread prostate‐specific antigen (PSA) testing among previously unscreened men"

[1] https://wol-prod-cdn.literatumonline.com/cms/attachment/4799...
c'mon lets get real, 'Self Regulating' means someone actually has to be honest of something but as long as there is profit to be made, honesty takes a back seat.
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You're probably not falling out of love with coding. You're falling out of love with having to unremember a lot of the things you've learned and replace them with new, unfamiliar things that many times, contradict what you already know.

I started out programming in RPG III on an IBM AS/400, a mini computer.
Then had to unremember a lot of that stuff and move onto fat client-server architecture and RDBMSs (visual basic, oracle).
Then had to unremember a lot of that stuff and move onto N-tier. (C#, application servers, MS-SQL)
Then had to unremember a lot of that stuff and move onto the internet stacks (HTML, CSS , XML, Javascript and so many damn frameworks i cant even count at this point)
now, unremembering a lot of that stuff so I can go serverless over at AWS.

try coding in the language/stack you are most comfortable and knowledgable in (even if it's old and out of date) and see if that doesn't rekindle the passion. If it doesn't, then its pre-sales tech support for you my friend.
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Nothing. It's doing fine. Thanks for asking.
You have to define the problem to figure this out.

Me personally, I am a fan of multiple smaller db's that are purpose fit (regardless of application architecture). e.g. user/security, payments, logging, analytics, search etc.

Doing this lets me pick the best tool for the job and also generally keeps the data to an isolated area which makes backup/recovery easier and also allows you to apply tighter security standards around them as needed.

Another factor you have to consider, distributed databases change the backup/recovery strategy drastically as does data growth and size attributes.

As for technology, I generally stick with relational DB's (postgreSQL is my go-to) unless there is a specific problem to solve that I can do better/easier/faster with another tool. As an example, I might ship data (logging or otherwise) into elasticsearch for searching. I also have no issues using any of the DB's from AWS that are based on open source databases, but I don't generally use DynamoDB as an example (not that I wouldn't just haven't seen a good argument given other options and costs etc).

I also use S3 a lot for backups and for json stores. Personally, I have always wanted to play with using ES as my query tool with all the data stored in S3 itself. Wouldn't work for everything but seems pretty damn reliable and scalable. Even the index snapshots could be stored in S3 for recovery purposes if needed.
I thought carriers required user consent to get the E911 location data? It does have some legitimate uses. This location data is used by financial companies and one of the reasons you don't need to do travel notices at some of the major banks. They'll actually ping the E911 location when they see a credit card auth in new geographic location. Check your TOS at your bank, there's probably something buried in it about consenting to pulling mobile phone location to prevent fraud.
Having a well-stocked toolbox gives me joy, because I like having the right tool available whenever I need one. There's no need to go through and evaluate every single item in there; the toolbox takes up the same amount of space whether it's full or nearly empty.

I would have said "utility" if I were writing it, but if "joy" reaches a greater number of readers, then it's probably the better choice. And you knew what she meant, anyway.
Needs a diff mode so that it can also replace vbindiff.
I am a Mechanical Engineering PhD student, with a whole lot of equation writing to do myself. And as someone who has very briefly dabbled with latex, I have found MathType to be the better solution for myself. I just cannot get myself to type out latex equation flawlessly first time, and MS Word's equation editor is an abomination. MathType has a rather large list of shortcuts requiring memorising (made more difficult by my dvorak layout), but once learnt, equation writing proceeds at an enjoyable clip. It has the secondary benefit for resulting in WYSIWYG, to match with the rest of my MS Word workflow.
Are you ashamed to live on this earth with most of Europe which waited nearly 10 years to buy into proton radiation therapy after the US adopted it? For nearly a decade there were more therapy machines in my tiny low population poor state than all of the UK.
> I'd ask whether it provides utility

I think the way to think about it is you need to change your relationship with those things that don't spark puppy-dog like joy from but you need. For example, I don't get particularly excited about all the damn weird DVI cables I have stashed in my drawer but I've realized if I toss them, I'll need them in a hurry and it really sucks having to buy new ones.
You're being a pedantic asshole, and yes apparently I did misread your quote about Microsoft, but the rest of this tl;dr post is so riddled with assumptions and insults that I no longer wish to entertain this conversation. Go work on your people skills.
What exactly are you saying? People learn language after the age of 5 all the time.
Lots of people can only afford a house in the bay area because of their RSUs. With the stock market slowing down, it seems normal to see housing cooling down. Now, add the new tax laws which impact a lot of residents of California (capped mortgage interest deduction) and interest rates going up, it only makes sense that the next phase is prices going down. And I'm certainly biased, I just bought a house in Sunnyvale 6 months ago, which seems to be around peak market.
Everyone is not exaclty like you. Where I live in europe, many people around me do more than 200km ocassionally or often. And when I go on a roadtrip, I notice plenty of cars with registration numbers not from particular country.
Oh the tiresome conspiracy theory.

Right, editors from different media publications are "coordinating." They are actively strategizing and communicating with one another in order to "destroy" one of the most powerful companies in the world.

Because there's zero possibility that given involvement of FB in everything from violence in Myanmar, Philippines and Sri Lank to fake political ads in US elections, FB's further encroachment on our lives is an actual topical interest story? Yes "quite strange."
There are many small utilities that's not available especially if you stick to LTS. (Even ripgrep isn't available on 18.04. I feel this more when these 'remake better alternatives with rust/go' movement started to occur.)

And all you can do is hopefully find a trustworthy PPA that gets timely updates or you end up downloading it yourself and get them updated manaually.

I wanted to use Linuxbrew but this seems still not too mature.
Maybe a crypto solution with tokens as fee for manipulating the application.
thank you for the response. i'm wondering how my meta-uber app would obtain my origin and destination. is Doctorow proposing that the user manually enter origin and destination into both the actual uber app and the proposed meta-uber app?
> He received almost no education, not even in the basics of reading, writing, and arithmetic, and when he first became rich he had trouble signing his own name on credit card receipts. (His memoir is “co-written” with a publicist.)

This part really stuck out to me. He was treated like a single-purpose tool.
I'm really a night owl. One of those people that just doesnt functional as well in the morning. Or at least right out of bed. 6-9 are when I get my me time before starting to wind down. If I moved my bedtime to 9PM I wouldnt have that time. In theory I would gain it in the morning which would be fine but I have other activities that require me to be up till 1AM most Friday/Saturdays.
I blame /r/dndgreentext and Critical Roll in part. Those highlights are addictively fun to read/watch. Sir Bearington level DnD is a life goal for sure.
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I suppose you'd have to ask him if he'd rather have lived a normal life (without the beatings and the stardom) or if given the choice, he'd pick the life he's lived again.

At least he got to enjoy life being rich and famous, kids in Africa become slaves or child soldiers and end up dead.
The author's a she, btw.
Maybe some of your users block Google Analytics/Mixpanel while not blocking Facebook ads. For example, because they are using the mobile app or because Facebook ads are harder to block...
China is investing a lot in Africa, good video on the topic, "How Africa is Becoming China's China": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQV_DKQkT8o
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And forced arbitration of class claims has destroyed the private accountability mechanism. Government is literally the only option.
For example building roads and infrastructure for everyone instead of building oil rigs for few?

https://qz.com/africa/1326618/china-is-building-expensive-ro...

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-18973637
Nowadays there are easier online options, to get you going without having to worry about installing LaTeX, with tools like Overleaf.
Insecurity wrapped and sold as "flexibility".
Algebraic data types are everywhere in Nim code: they are just called case objects(and they do have some differences compared to e.g. haskell, but often they are used in a similar way)

There is also https://github.com/krux02/ast-pattern-matching (optimized for usage in macros / metaprogramming)

Yes: they all use the macro system, but this is a good thin IMO: it's better to leave the core language simpler and to build such abstractions on top of it.
How well does git perform for usual text (not code)? I only use git for code and as far as I know it compare only whole lines, which is not very useful in a text where a paragraph has no line brakes and is about half a page long.

I write in Word as well and merging edits from collaborators with my in-the-meantime-updated document is really anoying and error-prone. I found https://www.simuldocs.com/, but haven't tried it yet.
There was also a time when we paid people to operate an elevator. Then we improved the technology enough to make it simple enough for everyone to do it themselves. It has many benefits, and have the user more control over what they got and when they could do things.
But people who don't trust the other app are not going to use the other app anyway. If you want to hire a co-op driver, start with the co-op app first. Hoping Uber will accidentally send you a driver who also happens to be in the co-op seems like a pointless exercise.
A lot of 5th edition adventure modules have started advocating "milestone levels" instead of XP levels. It requires a good DM to know when it's appropriate to award a level up but it's basically DM fiat leveling; XP is gone entirely and the DM decides when your party levels up typically based on the party achieving certain milestones -- find the McGuffin, defeat the boss, solve the mystery, etc. I'm running Curse of Strahd for my table right now and we're using milestone levels instead of XP and the players seem to really enjoy it.
They did completely overhaul the equation system in Office 2007 so that you edit them with unicode text instead of the proprietary OLE editor from previous versions. The document [1] describing how they use unicode characters to structure mathematical expressions is pretty interesting, even if you never touch MS Word again.

[1] https://www.unicode.org/notes/tn28/UTN28-PlainTextMath.pdf
Maybe I don't have the ambition to be a billionaire, but I can imagine in some ways it could be easier with that much money. I am not sure that you have a meaningfully different quality of life of you have $5B than if you have $70B, particularly if your children are still likely to inherit from the total pool rather than one part of the divided pool.

Seems like it would only matter if you wanted a lot of capital available to build companies or endow universities or whatever.
One view is that paying close attention to someone, praising their acumen and acting like they know the secrets to the universe, is essentially a kind of sycophantic behavior. Like most such behavior the goal isn’t emulation of behavior to emulate result, but to gain favor. Powerful, successful people like to build mythologies, and have a habit of rewarding people who flatter that myth, and punishing those who don’t. So when a lot of people stand in awe of someone who holds the purse strings to their dreams, it pays to really consider their motives.

For the average person buying a “How I Made My First Billion” book, it’s just that they’re unaware of anything, but the myth. Since the myth is being propagated by very smart and successful people, it’s that much more convincing to them. In turn the myth makes getting investment and ‘airtime’ easier, which feeds back into success. The mistake people make is thinking that Fake It Till You Make It ends at success, truthfully it only ramps up then.

Edit: This isn’t to say that the likes of Altman, Gates and others are not genuinely intelligent and capable, just that the magnitude of their success isn’t something you can reliably copy, or that beyond their core competence, they have any special insight. Yet the myth tends to extend far beyond that, and I think unjustifiably, although understandably so.
Why the interest in people's personal lives?
No, I am not trolling, read my other comment on the "hate speech". It was an opinion, do not take it too serious, if you like the language go for it.
We are headed to the world (universe) depicted in Firefly!
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Not to bellitle your achievements (honestly!), but I do not think your last paragraph can be a commonly encountered scenario.

Either way, I'll back out a bit and ask a more elementary question. Is a workflow possible wherein one writes in anything-but-latex (Word/Markdown etc) and then uses latex to typeset? Because I (and the author) agree with you that a) standardisation is a good thing and b) latex is excellent at typesetting.

What latex is weak at is me writing my paper in it, and then trying to read back whether what I wrote flows well.
That age limit is 13. However, learning new languages is the only skill that does not get significantly worse by age, and you can do till you turn 65. Sources are underway.
Well said. One important part of that for me is to resist any attempt to impose a structure on those "piles" of digital docs. For the things you mention, I'm exclusively going to access them in the future — if I ever do — via search (or perhaps in some late-night nostalgic browsing) so I don't need to organize the paper I wrote in college into a complicated folder hierarchy of College > Biology > 2nd semester. Just throw it on the pile. Embrace its pileness. If archiving a doc in this way takes any thought whatsoever, I'm going to be much less likely to do the archiving in the first place and it's going to end up causing clutter in some place where it does negatively affect me.
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Not sure if you saw my above comment, but if you did go down the LaTeX path, would you have to set up the environment yourself?

I realize people may want to customize things later, but making the initial install as painless as possible seems highly desirable - esp. for students.
Where is "here"?

Well you could also say the target market for this car is city-commuters, and yeah a very high percentage of time, most car owners don't go hundreds of kms on their trips.

It'd be like evaluating a Smart car for road trips: also not fun.

To criticize this article as well: she says around Europe but she drove in France and a little bit in Germany. That's... not... around Europe.
What is that supposed to mean? In my country cash is virtually non-existent.
"Well it sounds amicable."

I suggest they have a very expensive PR team planning the rollout of this news.
Even if that were true (it ain't), society isn't "letting him get away with it." It's processing the issue through the legal system, which unfortunately takes time.
Corporations aren’t allowed to “finance” “political campaigns.” When OpenSecrets says stuff like “Google” contributed $X million to Democrats, it’s lying. What really happens is Google employees contributed that money.
Non-AMP link: https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/09/tech/jeff-bezos-wife-divorce/...
You can install LineageOS if your phone supports it. No Google Apps unless you install them. Also no crap.
I'm assuming that too. Just an observation. Very interesting work of you nonetheless!
> ...given that two-thirds of the U.S. population aren’t going to switch to a carrier that doesn’t sell your location data.

To be fair, what are our options, exactly? If we want anything near acceptable coverage and price, that is.
Yes (to Drunken Master)! I just noticed this last weekend that it was on Netflix and re-watched it. After many years, I still really enjoy the movie.

Another one of his that I really enjoyed was Who Am I, but I haven't seen it in probably a decade.
I think all of these privacy problems can be traced back to contract law and contracts of adhesion where consumers are automatically opted into terms consumers would never wittingly opt into voluntarily.
Tbf Lyft is my major complaint. I’m less familiar with Uber.
I would still start with K & R. If you're solid with everything there, you'll be fine.
That's very cool. It's also nice that some of those customs are still alive and kickin' in some parts of the countryside.
The Cray-2 had some indicator lights on the top of each lobe. I'm not sure how helpful they were to gain an understanding of what the computer was doing. I can't tell how much work my home cluster is doing by looking at the ethernet switch LEDs.

The LCD would nicely replicate the window-as-whiteboard experience though, at the sacrifice of some readability, because the object behind the glass is so interesting.
Then you have the issue of regulatory capture. Often those in charge of the regulations are just as corrupt: selective enforcement is the name of the game.
You said to ignore the person who presented the argument that there is a bubble.
I don't know. I think if some fashion designer wanted to push that as a look they could probably make it work.

The $1000 price point is a total dealbreaker though. Expectations at that price point are that it is going to work perfectly right out of the box and solve some problems, but these are going to be at best a novelty and probably buggy for at least a couple of iterations. That price point is way too high for something that doesn't work right.
The lineup. They have 13(!) iPhone models(not configs!) in production. SJ would be furious. The first thing he did when he came back in the late 90s is to cut the line to 3 models. Economies of scale and concentration of innovation at a single point.
I got one off the kickstarter, and it's a neat little gadget. It hasn't fully replaced my main smartphone, but it's great for outdoors activities, or if I'm wearing an outfit without big pockets and don't want to carry a bag.
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