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The vote has been "ratified" because it only asked if Britain should leave the EU, and without a new referendum, it will.

If I had to model an elite failure it is this: people on both sides began to pretend a "hard" Brexit was an unthinkable catastrophe, this after an even sillier period when people talked as if Britain got to choose between soft and hard Brexits as a kind of policy choice.

In truth such things could only ever have been the outcome of a negotiation (or failure of negotiation) with the rest of the EU. The government should, from the get-go, have said "we will try to negotiate a deal, but we will also prepare for a hard exit".

This would have both prepared the country in the case of an outcome like this, and reduced the chances of it too by strengthening May's position when negotiating the terms of an exit -- thus making the final deal more acceptable to Parliament.
The culture in Japan and Germany is very different...

And the war that was fought was more even.

Did the US every win in Iraq or did most of the Iraqies refuse to fight?

Note. I not suggesting war is ever a solution to anything :)
periodic checks to make sure we arent secretly filling them full of nacho cheese or something and not waste oil

I'm not sure there's a test sensitive enough to make this distinction. ;)
I'm not sure how this is a failure of the elite. The elite want to be in the EU and we are still in the EU. That doesn't seem to be a failure to me. That seems to be a success.
The monarchs continued legitimacy and global reach is only sustained through a lack of domestic political involvement.
Usually by the time two years are up, my phone is usually not holding much of a charge and the mechanical bits are starting to fail.

I'm pretty sure iPhones are not alone in being designed to last around 18-30 months
I would imagine most regulators and/or administrative judges have better things to do than try to ding you for this.

In my experience running businesses in several states, regulators are surprisingly helpful. They don't want to punish you unless you're being a deliberate jerk. They want to help you learn to comply with the law first. They'll only go for the throat if you tell them to pound sand.
If we charge companies for polluting, it's reasonable to charge individuals for consuming carbon at an unnecessarily high rate. I'd support automatic fees enforced as drivers hit 65, 75, etc. No limit, per se, just trying to internalize the externalities.

Hard limits are strange for things that are continuous and probabilistic. If we could set an automatic fee equivalent to the cost of increased risks, pollution, etc., it'd be a function of speed. Someday we'll have the technology to communicate that back to the driver as they change speed and location from urban to rural, go through construction zones, etc.

Of course, setting an appropriate gasoline tax, paid at the pump, would reduce the value of those fees.
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Sounds like you almost just want a regular "dumb" watch.
I'm not sure how many companies really think this, not that I'm arguing the point. I do know that successful companies realize that developer ramp to productivity time is an important metric and attempt to optimize that metric.

There's a whole set of fairly basic tasks that can be done that can get a developer to the point of submitting a PR on their first day. Many, many companies screw that up.
Might have been true ages ago but I set up a few iPhone 7’s for staff last week and you could get past go without payment details attached to the iCloud account.
So true..

It's easy to say "leave the EU" as rallying call.
It's much harder to say: "tweak the EU so that this and that is a little different".

But good things come when we improve them.. it's not always a solution to move you kids to a better school, when you could just improve the school :)
I think you are assuming a lot of things. If you think Britain leaving the EU is massively -EV then failing to negotiate trade agreements with other countries in order to create a better fallback position when negotiations fail with the EU is actually +EV.
Huge fan of SetApp here. I subscribed months ago and absolutely love being able to just search, install, and get on with my work. Sure it is much cheaper to directly buy software you will use forever but that’s not why I use SetApp. I use it because it makes the hunt for apps obsolete. Any time I think I need software to do something, I have been able to find it instantly on SetApp. From PDF search to simple image editor to TablePlus, it makes me so much more relaxed about finding and installing the right app.
> So let's say someone doesn't have any experience traversing trees (why would they? you rarely have to, if ever).

Ummm... what? Basic DFS of trees with nested foreach loops is incredibly common. It is not a generic, depth blind traversal, but it most certainly is tree traversal.

> You're presenting them with a new problem and expecting them to come up with the most efficient/concise solution to that problem. The only people who get rewarded here are people that simply memorized the solution or the solution space. In effect you've validated nothing.

If somebody gives up on solving such a simple problem, why would I ever want to hire them?

> The only people who get rewarded here are people that simply memorized the solution or the solution space

Says who? You are making a bunch of assumptions about why the question is being asked.
This sounds like a docker network problem more than an issue with dbeaver.

Try binding MySQL to 0.0.0.0 (all interfaces) instead of 127.0.0.1 (loopback). That said, 127.0.0.1 should be fine provided you connect through the service name or the docker container IP), connecting via 127.0.0.1 doesn't make sense. Then again, it's docker on Mac, so I don't really know.

Fwiw, also used sequel pro on Mac, moving to Linux dbeaver was the only thing that came close.

Now I don't really mind either but dbeaver is a bit quirky overall.
The article specifically talks about how other countries correctly handle these decisions democratically. It's not the quantity of democracy under question, but how democracy is being applied by political leadership is repeatedly a signal of failure.

This nuance you're overlooking is why false dichotomies like yours and GP's are considered fallacies.
erdplus is decent, if you don't need round-tripping or anything fancy.
There's a mistake in the first chart ("Basic Chicken"). The lower-left cell should say "Dems win, Trump loses".
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I don’t imagine we’ll be out of this one as long as trump is in office.
I’ve deleted my Facebook account a few months ago after almost a decade of using it exclusively to sign up for random things. Clicking on the big blue button seemed easier than entering my e-mail and selecting a password, so I kept doing it until the privacy implications of this practice convinced me to abandon it.

However, I won’t be starting a mailing list any time soon.

Perhaps others lead vastly more interesting lives than I do, but I don’t feel any need to launch a personal mailing list about my life any more than I felt the need to share a stream of minutiae on Facebook. Moments that are genuinely dear to me - such as those relating to my family life - are none of anyone else’s business anyway.

3,000+ contacts over 20 years? My goodness, that’s a lot of people. I’m an immigrant 2x removed from his home country, from where I left too early in life to have developed relationships that could continue in the online age. I came to my current country too late to have gone to school here, so I don’t have the implied social network which usually comes with that particular experience.

99% of people I’ve interacted with happen to have been colleagues of mine at one time or another, or folks I’ve met while sitting on either side of the job interview table. While I have enjoyed some very productive work arrangements in the past, none of these people have kept in touch with me after myself or them have moved on to another company.

All this is to say: I would be astonished if anyone wanted to read about the details of my life. These aren’t useful - or indeed enjoyable - to anyone but me and my family, which is where the details shall remain.
I've seen the argument this article trots out that the referendum should've required a supermajority a lot, but it always seems more like an attempt to block something the author doesn't want than an actual principled argument.

There was no supermajority required to take the major and quite possibly irreversible step of joining the EU. Indeed, there was no referendum on it at all; the 1975 referendum was on leaving after we'd already joined, and came with the same terrifying warnings about the perils of leaving as the more recent one. The government of the time just decided to join and put it through parliament like any other law. It squeaked through the House of Commons on an incredibly tight 309-301 vote...
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> sometimes the reason that a candidate wasn't picked has nothing to do with them, and that's not really something you should share

Strongly disagree. Personally, it would be such a weight off my mind if I heard I was passed over for someone with a few more years of expertise in the target domain, or were a well-known expert, etc., or that suddenly the company is no longer able to bring on another person.

Not having to guess if it was something I said behaviorally, or if I didn’t solve a problem to their satisfaction, would remove so much frustration.

I’m a smart person–I realize that there are many other smart people out there, even smarter than me! It’s perfectly reasonable and expected that I might be competing with some of them, and it is perfectly fair and good that they win out.
When a programmer thinks not knowing BFS is okay
Well, just look at what happened when a researcher didn't know calculus: http://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/17/2/152
You can't use a free version of Google Drive if you run a business.

You'll eventually need to be able to turn off access for employees who leave, and run audits to verify that you're in compliance around data security. If you're on the free version, even if you have everyone re-create an account with their company email, you still can't administer anything and you'd be forced to ask your staff for their passwords in order to verify sharing access.
I see where you are coming from with the snarky reply. That helped a bit actually because the other projects I have released have paid for our life together. I managed to do these a few years ago while she was traveling for work and I was caring for a relative. I need to use my time as productively as possible.
Yeah that is just sophistry.

2016: Incompetent elite's create a problem.

2019: Incompetent elites make it worse.

Deeper problem is part of the neoliberal revolution was popular will was to be neutered, the political process was to be neutered. So that they couldn't interfere with the the free market or oppose the power of the rentier class.

So now you have voters, politicians, and the media that see politics and policy as a game that doesn't matter. Two generations of this and people wonder why there is no competence. Big wonder!
.. if you want to convince people of this, I suggest you review your use of 'positive' and 'negative' .. anyway, its not nearly as clear cut as you make it out there.
> When deep space exploration ramps up, it’ll be the corporations that name everything: the IBM Stellar Sphere, the Microsoft Galaxy, Planet Starbucks.

(Fight Club, 1999)
Because you don't regularly see published hype from the ones NOT in the camp of get rich, retire. You're own perception based on 'software engineers' and 'always' is wrong, and is based on the last 10 years tech startup culture mirage. Everyone wants to be a rockstar, then producer, then record label owner, but not everyone wants to play in the band everyday just cause they love it.
I didn't think about this. Thank you for mentioning it.
So I do live in Germany, where due to recent history, people are a tad more concerned with privacy than the residents of other countries. My statement was about observations in Germany: there was a doxxing/data leak of politicians data over christmas which was in the news for about a week. Today the collection #1 data leak made the headlines of mainstream media. Even if the conclusions often go in the wrong directions, privacy is discussed a lot.

You may argue that the situation in the US is completely different, but I'm not convinced. See for example the Apple billboard at CES. Would they have put that up if privacy wasn't interesting to their (potential) users?
I've used DBeaver at work on Linux to connect to Microsoft SQL servers and also to some PostgreSQL servers.

It's not perfect but it's not bad. My experience was annoying (at best) to get drivers to work; particular the tsql ones (since Microsoft didn't provide Linux drivers at the time -- I don't know if that's been rectified). Once they're working though, everything else is fairly intuitive.

It's been a couple years since I moved to a different team and no longer need to connect to databases (and can't anymore... yay security). But I've considered using DBeaver at home for personal use.
Pretty sure fossil is independently owned.
Maybe we can put an addition on our house to make it a work space or move the kids to the addition and use their bedroom as my work space. It has an insanely large window and overlooks the lake.
I want more life father/fucker.
I had this same thought when thinking about Toronto and their distinct lack of action on public transit. We keep flip flopping on whether or not to build this or build that or tear down this or that, blah blah blah.

It’s all because the city is waaaayyy too diverse and there’s literally no way to meet in the middle on this; somebody is going to lose, and anybody losing is unfathomable, so the better option is... for everybody to lose.
You equate a target (EU membership) as the criteria for failure, whereas the failure is in the approach to the problem itself, regardless of outcomes.

A decent elite would not have gambled away the future of the country just to get rid of a couple of party rivals (2016) or to keep a schizophrenic party together (2019). In both cases, machinations were set in motion in a completely careless way, with an outrageously cavalier attitude, and now the country as a whole is falling apart - regardless of whether we get back to pre-2016 state or we become Singapore-on-Thames, 20m people will forever feel angry and disenfranchised. No party intrigue is worth that price.

(It is incredibly funny and sad at the same time, that the guy who started it all was elected on a platform of fixing the "Broken Society" that Britain, in his words, had become. Good job, Dave - you really broke it for good now.)
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Except this wasn't was an "algorithm researcher" position he was applying to.

It was, you know, a programming position.
Well, he and the other two Republicans that voted against it. He got all the press as the deciding vote, but it required all 3.
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The way I describe it is conformant with the official definition of positive and negative rights: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_and_positive_rights
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Tableplus is fantastic. I've been using it for around a year now.
> and we are still in the EU

Ben, I hope you do realize your premise changes in roughly ~10 weeks, unless something extraordinary happens. Theresa is determined to leave..
I would guess close to all of them. A large percentage of people that work for the Federal Government really don't add much value and not employable outside of that setting.

Of course, I could be wrong, but I am willing to bet on it, if anyone is interested.
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I don't view it as selfish. Maybe I need to think that way for a change.

I view it as growth. Ensuring if I need to find a job I can. Putting out the next game that keeps food on the table (so to speak, we aren't in any danger of that). Plus, she goes out with friends and shopping. It's sort of her outlet. Mine happens to be the coding for making a living and ironically an outlet.

If you think of more words, write them, as you said you are having trouble with exact words.
It says that capitalism fails without anti-trust enforcement. This has been known for a long time.
I'm pretty sure that no one has a opening to research how to find the area under a simple curve.
Bigger screenshots, even one very large one, can be seen from the links on the Github page: https://github.com/dbeaver/dbeaver
An anecdote from the flip side, our three kids have had very extensive access to screens since they’ve been able to use them, none of them have bad screen habits. They all happily put them down to play with anything else that seems interesting.

Our working theory is that by not making screen time precious, we’ve made screens just another toy/tool/way to accomplish something, rather than something to be sought out for their own sake.
For me, I think the problem is that cyberpunk pretends to show a gritty, realistic glimpse of dystopian near-future. The feel of realism is part of the appeal, and it costs more when the illusion is broken.

Nobody's gonna care about bandwidth if your hero is trying to save mankind from galactic chaos by reinventing history, but let's say, if you're in a spy action thriller set in the middle of WW2, you can't just take a flight from Heathrow to Budapest: there must be at least some pseudo-plausible explanation.
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I think you need to check the prices on mint unopened nes consoles.
Note: Republican means something very different in the UK than in the US.
Thank you. Ordered. Next day.
It is difficult to imagine that as a possibility. The spacing of three mRNA nucleotides is pretty important structurally in the process of translation from mRNA to protein via the ribosome. It is difficult for me to imagine a ribosome that could operate arbitrarily between codons of two and three nucleotides, unless I am misunderstanding your comment.

A translational reading frame consists of non-overlapping codons of three nucleotides. If one nucleotide is skipped, the entire downstream message is thus garbled. So how would the translational machinery operate if each codon arbitrarily consisted of two or three nucleotides?
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>> It is like those fold out smartphones everyone wants. Just unwrap it like a scroll.

Along with "transparent" displays you see in Avengers movies, this is something nobody _actually_ wants. It looks cool as a render, but it's completely impractical, and if the product like this existed and someone bought it, they'd take it back to the store the same day and get a refund. "Design is how it works".
The launch page is literally titled "Import Screenshots: Export code." [0] According to their documentation, you have no way of importing screenshots. What a joke.

I hope OP responds to these posts because this looks like a MVP where they decided to pivot to pre-selected "curated" UI's when they realized their AI didn't work as expected with uploads.

[0] https://www.shots.ai/pages/import-screens-export-code
>90% go to prison in a plea bargain

I also think our criminal justice system is in need of some reform, but this number by itself doesn’t say anything.

What % of defendants are actually guilty? What portion of that 90% are for offenses that in better circumstances wouldn’t call for prison time?
> debuggers can make it harder to trace through the full execution of a program.

Except you often don't want a full execution, you often just want a partial execution where you suspect the problem arises. I can assure you that a good UI debugger is extremely helpful. Command line debuggers less so.
I went through community college over a decade ago, I've spent a depressing amount of time since teaching people with CompSci degrees about CompSci concepts.

I've also run internships with CompSci graduates and have to say they're basically unemployable when they graduate, they might know some theory but they can't build anything. Community College teaches you to build things, so you come out with skills relevant to the workplace and you can fill in the CompSci stuff later.
It was definitely in Arc first, and probably in other lisps before that:

https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki/blob/master/arc.arc#L1...

Edit: Yes, it's in Common Lisp too, so it goes back at least to the 1980s and probably further.

http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/f_wr_p...
I can't see that bouncing cursor without getting a stab of nostalgia for burning my first Knoppix cd-r...
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Holding the referendum was a failure of David Cameron. He tried to use the referendum to shut up a wing of his party. He should have picked a different tool, or else just ignored them.

The wording of the referendum, the non-specificity of it, was an additional failure.

Then Cameron failed in that the referendum passed. This was the opposite of shutting up that wing of his party. He should have campaigned for Remain, instead of just doing nothing. (Shooting down some of the Leave lies would have been useful, too.) The referendum passing is a failure of leadership.

Cameron, apparently tired of failing, bailed at this point, and Theresa May became Prime Minister.

May's first failure was regarding the referendum as binding, when it wasn't.

May got the best deal she could out of Europe. Parliament failed to ratify that deal. That is the success of Parliament, rather than a failure - they saw a bad idea, and they chose not to do it.

But May's failure is her determination to press on with a hard Brexit, even though that is also a bad idea. She seems totally unwilling to stand up and say, "No, this is a bad idea, and we're not going to do it" - and pay the political price for doing so. She acts as though Corbyn becoming PM would be a greater disaster than a hard Brexit.

In fairness, nobody else is willing to stand up and call a halt to this travesty, either. That's a failure of leadership.

So, yes, the 2016 vote was a maelstrom of fail. It wasn't just one event, it was a whole series of them. Events since then have also been a series of failures. The only exception was a moment of sanity by Parliament, in failing to ratify the negotiated deal.

There may be one more moment of sanity to come. If I understand correctly (and I may well not, I'm not in the UK), Parliament gets to vote on a hard Brexit, too. If they reject that, nothing remains but to revoke the invocation of Article 50. Doing so would be the opposite of a failure.
You realize TSA didn't even exist until George W. Bush in 2001. It's also not unheard of for TSA to screw up[1]. I'd also be very interested in where your data of "bimonthly hijackings" comes from.

[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/video/atlanta-tsa-offic...
I am not convinced that this was responsible behavior on the part of upguard. They discovered a breach, and apparently downloaded all the files. The report details the kinds of files and sample of the information in them.

If upguard's behavior were responsible, why would they have downloaded any more data than necessary to determine that it was sensitive stuff? They would have noticed it, reported it (without downloading) and perhaps helped fix it. I doubt very much that the OK Dept of Securities would have subsequently given them access to the files so as to do some kind of audit on sensitivity, in a non-NDA manner.

This post reads more like an ad for upguard than a responsible disclosure.