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Yes, this is what I meant. Unless we think of some magical way to verify that e2e is really happening (enter quantum voodoo or something similarly wild), the only way to verify is by actually inspecting the source code. Even this may not be enough, but it is a necessary precondition for now.
Counterexample of a non-boring "live" coding demo (OK, it is recorded and played in a faster tempo): Some of Bisqwit's videos. Some of my favorites:

OpenGL programming, simple FPS style walking scene (DOS, 256 colors, dithering, OSMesa): https://youtu.be/vkUwT9U1GzA

Creating a MicroBlaze emulator in C++11 (runs Linux!): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1e0OCwlaEZM

Tandy 1000 Soundchip revisited: ASM programming example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjuHxjdv3ZE

Creating a DCPU-16 emulator in C++11 [here Bisqwit also gives oral explanations]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvDtr3cNaLU
It's terrible. I have to completely log out when I watch videos which put me to sleep a couple times /week because I don't want my suggestions filled with dry history lectures.
Please stop labeling people "assholes". It doesn't contain any useful information. That's the same as saying "I hate that person".
Yet that same Blackberry was also nicknamed 'Crackberry' due to the seemingly addictive nature of the device which had some users glued to its screen just as much as current devices do. The conclusion to draw from this is probably that some people will get addicted to anything and everything which gives them the semblance of 'connectivity'.
Improving recommendations? All I'm seeing is a complete deterioration of youtube's recommends since the glory days of the early 2010s.

How about stop spamming me CNN, SNL, Late Night Show ( kimmel, john oliver, etc )? I've yet to accidentally click on these links/channels in all my years using youtube and yet, I still see them every day? Why?

I've pretty much given up on recommendations and just directly go to the channels I want to watch. There was a time ( early 2010s ) when youtube recommends was great and it was actually fun going down the youtube recommends rabbit hole. Now it's just corporate shilling. Just like google search and its incredible decline.

You guys aren't going to improve anything because you don't have competition.
Nah, the Supreme Court already took a quick look at this case already, and here we are again.
Me too except for one thing:

Loud motorbikes are very bad for your own hearing and disturbing everyone else's peace, but it does make you safer as cars can hear you come. Except if they are playing some loud Metal on the car stereo.
I think paid leave is just plain immoral. It is up to the parent to evaluate how much they care for their child vs foregone salaries. Paid leave is just a distortion: it makes employees and employers dance around a topic that is not in the employers business.

How can you correctly price how much the time with your kid is worth if you get gifted money for inflating it?

The worst part of this debate is that its a constant pull between two players that understand the same policy in different ways: employees think they are getting free money, but in reality the employer distributes the cost from one employee to the others. (ie. if you have a budget for 10 employees, and you make employees 10% more expensive, now you get 9 employees).

So employees ask for something thinking its in their benefit, and employers are thinking "as long as the competition gets hurt as much as we do, we don't care".

And to add insult to injury, its the richest of the richest that get the longest paid leave benefits, longest pto, etc etc, mostly to reduce tax burden.
Do sales, not marketing, to get your first customers
> Type correctness does not guarantee program correctness.

Yeah, obviously. Think about it -- when you write the code you still think about the "types", you're just not writing them down.

Typescript's virtues are completely related to developer productivity. Documenting your code with types, better autocompletion, catching silly mistakes before needing to run it in a browser, getting new people up to speed, etc.
$250k USD / £190k GBP UK-based devops contractor in a niche enterprise open-source technology. Long-term, sometimes remote, contracts.
Yep, that looks very similar, but more focused on React. It also seems to handle IDs properly, so for React development it looks like a good choice.
Well put. That also strikes me more broadly as the dynamic between youth and age, or inexperience and experience. The BEFORE phase is always ignorant by nature, but the AFTER phase is remarkably good at forgetting what it was really like.
A week-long outage is annoying. A month-long outage would be disastrous, even for those areas. There are many things you can do without power, but e.g. drugs require refrigeration, and we have people whose life depends on drugs (think insulin, for starters).

But also, urban areas would be harder hit precisely because they rely on their infrastructure more. And those areas are also the ones with more people.
I agree. Especially in sessions focused on the process of writing code, such as the original Rails demo, I find live coding to be very engaging.
> wrong group is paying it.

And its not necessarily employers. Its also employees.
The right group to pay for paid leave is a group of 1: the parent itself.
A much easier way to reduce pedestrian traffic fatalities than inventing a perfect automatic driver.
Seems well thought through, but the concept of putting a general-purpose file system on an embedded microcontroller is a common mistake.

These are single-purpose systems, you don't need to use filenames and have POSIX semantics, you typically just need to put your data into a circular buffer on FLASH.
The circular buffer (with checksummed elements) will take care of bad-block management and wear levelling for you.

I've seen this far too often, filesystems are not ideal for this class of system.
Well, there are things mothers can provide that fathers can't :)
A hard drive crash once caught me off guard at high altitude.

Admittedly less of a concern these days, but back in the era of spinning disks I thought it would be fun to take my netbook up loaded with approach plates.

Turns out yes, the read write head is supported by a thin cushion of air. As the air becomes less dense so does the cushion until - yup you guessed it - head crash.

It’s well documented now of course but I understand it also used to be a problem in Tibet and Chile.
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Exactly! Apache 2 may protect users of Swift from suits for use of Swift itself, but it does not protect everyone else from suits for use of the concept elsewhere.
Eeeeeesh. Let's continue this tradition - companies need to be shamed for pulling this crap.

Nice work, OP.
I don't think the author adequately addresses the positives of development velocity with Typescript. I find I'm able to read and write code much more quickly with Typescript than without, especially once I am beyond 50-100 loc. I doubt I _ship_ fewer bugs to production, but I certainly catch and fix my own mistakes much more quickly _as I go_, and am able to make more ambitious changes much faster when I have types on hand. Most importantly, I'm able to pick up and work effectively with other people's code without having to dip into their implementation or documentation as frequently. I honestly can't imagine doing javascript for a living any longer without access to it.
Having hard links in the file system has nothing to do with whether handles can be shared.
No. CME will only induce currents that are large enough to be noticed (much less damage anything) in very large conductors. You don't need to Faraday cage anything that you own, unless you own parts of the power grid.
Documentary – The Sinclair ZX80, ZX81, and Timex Sinclair 1000
Very funny indeed. :)
Indeed, but there's nothing distinct or original about the design elements. All sorts of products including electronics products already contained the obvious and practical elements.
exactly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCs5OvhV9S4
Is that irony coming from "chooseaname"?
The Haskell Free Library in Derby Line and Stanstead Quebec is quirky. Half in Canada and half in the US.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haskell_Free_Library_and_Opera...

Both towns are fascinating as well. Worth a visit in the summer/fall.
Yeah, my point to that guy was that getting rid of cars was ridiculous because so many people have to travel a long way for lots of things in places that sprawl.

I've also lived in GR for around 4 years. I think there is no congestion there because the city is still quite small. Downtown is a very small area and the population is tiny compared to the sprawl.
You're actually both wrong. 2 phase commit is used for all kinds of things. It doesn't always require a network to be involved.

And you were wrong because your example is not a good example of something not needing 2 phase commit, it was in fact an example of a 2 phase commit. That over-drafting you mentioned, that is deferred reconciliation.
What is the goal though? Why do we need to connect SoCal and NorCal with high-speed rail? It would make much more sense to me to connect towns in the central valley to the bay area considering many people already do this "super commute" already and I have to imagine it is miserable. Imagine being able to get from Stockton to Oakland in an hour or less by train. Seems like you could build high speed lines in every town in the central valley to the Bay, from Sacremento down to Madera or something and it would be a way better value than building a line from North to South.
I don't know where this misconception started, but you can't just run javascript through a typescript compiler. There is a huge amount of valid javascript that is not valid typescript. Try something like `const testVar = {}; testVar.asdf = "asdf";`. Node web frameworks, for example, are based entirely off this ability to monkey-patch the request object.
I'd go a step further: Nationalize the oil and transportation companies and re-tool them for High-Speed rail as reparations for the damage they willingly inflicted to this country.

They deserve it for encouraging the urban sprawl that created this mess in the first place.
I had no idea tax collecting was outsourced in 17th century France. For others interested, I found a little bit more here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferme_g%C3%A9n%C3%A9rale#Tax_f...
Before I tried Typescript I thought it was just another JS-precompiler... been there done that. I tried Coffeescript, the Closure Compiler, even LispyScript. In the end it wasn't really that much different to plain old JS, just with some syntactic sugar.

But when I actually had to use it in a project, I instantly fell in love with it. Not only does it force me to think about the proper scope and type of a function or variable, it also helps refactoring and reading undocumented code.

Yes, sometimes it can be frustrating (meh: no typings for a legacy project, build-toolchains have to handle another layer of abstraction, etc.). But this really is peanuts compared to the hoops we had go through before.

TS has been the best thing that has happened to JS-development in the last decade.
Tell me about it, I'm vegan/non-animal-product-using. It's not just the distant past that's "morally questionable" for me.

So the problem you are fixing is that I haven't "accepted that social mores fluctuate over the generations"? And am "trying to erase" Feynman from the history books? Uh no. It sounds like you copied those bland clichés all out from your high school notes. I don't disagree with any one sentence, but put together, I wonder who benefits from hearing that speech. I'm no SJW or general hater of dead white males, don't worry. Maybe it's the standard reply to them. Sorry if this all sounds condescending - what you wrote comes over as super-condescending also. It's difficult when we have no idea who we're talking to!
Thats why the civilised world does it, using taxes, or similar vehicles.

In Denmark Corporations pay a fee of about 43USD pr. quarter, pr. Employee, and then the found and the government, pay the paid leave for any employee.

There are many versions of parental leave in Denmark, but everyone has it from people working at mcdonalds to ceos.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypknY6nIDe0

Check the comments. It looks like there were plenty of people who had the same experience as me.
What I Learned in My First Two Years as a Software Engineer
We of course need procreation to continue the species, but arguably the world is already overpopulated, unsustainably so. Aside from that, there are plenty of orphans in the world that need loving parents.

Choosing to procreate, period, is selfish. And yet we don't scorn people for taking that path.
Light rail, cabs, buses et cetera
Yeah, a whole lot of us do not get it either.

I am committed to change. This system has gutted me twice now. I didn't even get sick, though at one point I basically traded a house for someone I loved.

We are long past need for reform.
Another way is to take away power from the people who own housing and give it to people who are struggling to live or move there. With state or federal power.
Research Suggests We’re Not as Irrational as We Think
Yeah it's bad. But the fact that we are talking about 'this guy' and not hundreds of people means it's not as widespread as you might think.

It's impossible to defend against, you have to trust your coworkers, or we'd be living in a police state where nothing can get done.

And yes I know of the other high profile cases at the NyTimes NewYorker etc.
I have always had the idea that there should be a law requiring any recommended item anywhere on the internet to be accompanied with a reason of why the item has been recommended. Youtube already does this with certain videos but I would much like it to be expanded completely.
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Then it works as a great signaling, its just not the match.
Translation: Foreign competition has now been driven out of business by subsidies, time to raise prices.
Ha, not as hard as I expected but still like 4-5 steps with a bunch of dark patterns (highlighting the buttons that don't downgrade, etc). The screen that's like "OK, you want to downgrade, but tell us why" gave me flashbacks to that nightmare Comcast cancellation call[0].

[0] https://soundcloud.com/ryan-block-10/comcastic-service
I can put you in touch with someone, I know some people on the team. I see your info is in your profile.
I think an important thought is why now, vs. waiting 20+ years when the need of the train could be voiced by more locals.

It could be useful for more high speed rail network to be built now while land prices are lower, vs. waiting until the users actually NEED the rail because the highways are too congested. This is similar to the situation in California where land is expensive, people genuinely need better transportation, and the project has gone way over budget.

Is there a downside to building rail before people realize they even need it/would benefit from it?
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thats simply stupid. So ppl should get children at 50, when they have acruued parental leave?

People should get parental leave when they need it..
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If you read up on how he was caught, it was pretty incredible - another journalist at Der Spiegel had to go on a personal mission, on his own time and at his own cost, to prove the guy was lying, and then nearly lost his job because the management couldn't accept it. The fact checking department had been hoodwinked for years despite some truly dubious and insane things that had appeared in his stories.

Yes, he got caught in the end. But he shouldn't have been able to publish such obvious nonsense for years on end. It's quite clear that Der Spiegel didn't catch him because he was telling them what they wanted to hear.
Why not just nationalize everything? Lol.
This is totally retarded - the video shows 4 clicks to cancelling the account - this is hard? The video seems like a cover for advertising the loom product to me
That's an argument I doubt we'll make useful progress on over the internet.

I think there is useful societal value in having parents spend time with their kids, and I think that as a society we should absorb some of the costs to cause that to happen.

I can understand believing otherwise though - it falls back to a difference in fairly fundamental opinions about how society should function (I expect).

What I hope you can agree with is that if we are going to have paid parental leave, it should be paid for by a shared pool across companies (i.e. the government).
Also difficult - deleting all the files in your account. It took me days to do it through their web UI, as the delete operation would repeatedly fail after some amount of time. Very poor feedback on what was happening, how long it would take, etc.
We did? TIL.
Letter to Myself Ten Years Ago
"Men I Trust" from Quebec. This is the song that started it for me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IZKcb3LndA
I think this could be improved by carving out some minor exceptions for applications under development or starting off, perhaps with a low user limit to prevent abuse. Their FAQ says you can avoid reviews if you only have a single user, but it doesn't seem unreasonable that you could have a team of 2 or 3 people working on something. Once you have something working you'd probably invite close friends and family as well. Although you can work around that by using G Suite accounts, it kinda sucks that you're forced to pay.

A scaling system based on number of users and other factors would probably be better. Look at the list of requirements for a security audit [0]. I'd imagine many small businesses would struggle to sort out everything listed there.

I'm not a fan of removing user choice. If someone has established trust out-of-band then they should be able to opt-in after acknowledging that they accept and understand the risks. But I guess we need big daddy Google to step in and protect us, since we're too dumb to critically asses the situation.

Something that nobody seems to be mentioning is that you need to perform these security assessments on a yearly basis. Talk about drastically raising the barrier to entry...

[0] https://support.google.com/cloud/answer/9110914#assessment-i...
> This means the line from SF to Sac/Roseville being placed directly along the 80 corridor with frequent stops for locals as well as dedicated express trains. This requires sidings at all tops in both directions to enable passing, something not currently envisioned for 90% of the stops (iirc).

This would require an additional crossing of the California Coast Ranges (crossing the Diablo Range somewhere between Oakland and Fairfield), and a new tunnel across the bay between SF and Oakland. Both would be $$$$$ megaprojects.
This looked a bit like someone being overly picky, but the the number of times Dropbox presented a deceptive ui got more and more funny. 3 different confirmation pages in a row, and a weak confirmation that you actually cancelled the subscription.

I wouldn't put is as "very hard", but they could probably drop the last confirmation page since any value you get by having these pages dramatically falls off after the first.
Not comparable. The US can’t build infrastructure at a competitive cost, but it can build products. Hence Tesla etc will succeed here while HSR will fail.
I am, too, but I would say the easiest argument to make for that case is that he eventually came around to offering them things they wanted, and a reduction of what he wanted. But, Pelosi and others simply hate him so much that they are willing to flip their position on the wall issue 180 degrees from where they were just a few years ago in order to spite him. Both sides need to be willing to compromise.
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If it's harder to leave than it is to join, then I'm not using your stuff. It's mildly condescending and very transparent and so I don't want/need to deal with it. If you believed in your product, you wouldn't do it.

I subscribed to the New York Times with a simple one-step "put in your credit card deets". One year later I was going to leave the country so tried to cancel it. After several steps of forms you get the phone number of someone to call to cancel (remember phone calls?!). They put the hard sell to stay.

My plans changed, I stayed in the country. I really loved my NYTimes subscription (I miss my crosswords) - but ain't no way I'm signing up again until they make it equally easy to leave as it is to join. I apply that to every company I deal with now.
This is the most stupid shit, I have read all day, and I've been on twitter for hours...

Please re-evaluate your life choices..
That's when you are sued in court for refusing to pay back money you owe to another person or company. Then your access to 'luxury' lifestyle is limited, flight, high speed rails, and five star hotels are included in those limitations.
Because people are choosing not to have children, or to have fewer children than they have in the past. Sure, better birth control methods make it easier to realize those choices, but... so what?

The alternative is we end up with many more unwanted children, which I hope we agree isn't a good outcome either.
Do people actually consider rail signaling software "unsexy"? It's like a router for trains instead of packets. If I was an investor I would much rather brag about my investment in freight train routing infrastructure than a tinder for IoT users app.
The EULA for mbed says "ensure that they are licensed for use only as part of Software Applications and only on microprocessors manufactured or simulated under licence from Arm" https://os.mbed.com/eula/

It is confusing though as the code mostly appears to be Apache, not sure if it is just parts that are constrained by the EULA, but it is clearly not intended to be ported to RISC-V or MIPS or whatever.
It took four clicks.
Personally I think most of the reporting on Facebook is written to drive clicks and ad revenue. It's usually exaggerating the problems.

This story is truly messed up though.
Always over until it starts again. Note that the party is over (in this case) because it is threatening smaller businesses, not because there is a lack of capacity or that the "big guys" couldn't still make money at the reduced rate. In every industry where I have been aware of this this situation coming up (voluntary reduction in production in order to shore up prices), it works for a while and then people "cheat" and ramp up their production to make a bit more money with their now dormant capacity. And then more people cheat, and the party is back on again. The Chinese are notoriously fierce in their desire to make a buck and so I give this one about a 5% chance of lasting through the end of 2019.
I don't think Facebook is accidentally misusing the term. They want to redirect sympathy from the cardholders to themselves by framing the situation as if it were just a case of "buyer's remorse", when really they've intentionally built the system to incur these mistaken charges.
Whoever this woman was, she was an engineer working at a cutting edge computer company in the 1970s. She likely suffered ridiculous prejudices to get to the point where she was. I'm inclined to believe that she did know (at least some) quantum mechanics and had to put up with people treating her as if she didn't know.

I can see how you've read the context and I think I've taken the opposite understanding. Either way, now people who didn't read the article can see both and decide for themselves!
I heard some emergency room nurses call motorcycles "donor-cycles".

In college, I sat next to a guy in class every day and one day he was absent. A couple hours later in chapel, they put his picture up on the screen and said he got hit on his motorcycle and died instantly.