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The strategy reveals itself: make a keyboard so shitty that a single breadcumb kills it. Then "upgrade" the users to something they wouldn't want if they had a proper, "old macbook pro" style keyboard.

Reminds me of an old Soviet joke. A guy comes to his doctor and starts complaining: "Doctor, it's intolerable, 10 of us live in tiny room in a communal apartment, I can't live like that anymore." The doctor suggests: "Get a pet goat and come back for a checkup in a month." So the guy comes back in a month, totally livid: "It's even worse, the goat takes up a lot of space, shits everywhere and starts baa-hing at 4AM in the morning. Everyone is suicidal." The wise doctor: "Now get rid of the goat".
Decrying everything that doesn't have a low-income subsidy as "inequity" is disingenuous and undermines your better justified claims. It's OK if poor people pay the same price as rich people for the same service and it's OK to have broad income subsidies or progressive income/wealth tax to help poor people. It's not reasonable to claim that every fee for service is "inequitable".
Similarly, there's a ton of math in the applied side of neural network research too. It's not math vs no math. It's a question of foundational "General Theory of X" math.
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Same experience here.

I am "lucky", I think, as my employer has already been through some very painful experiences (and learned nothing, apparently) - and they seem content to let me do whatever the fuck I want, as long as I sufficiently song-and-dance them. And yes, I've made some mistakes along the way. But I've also delivered results I didn't even think were going to be possible when I started. Advice I'd give to people walking this path:

1) You begin in an emergency. Everything is always an emergency. Because production is down. And you will always be wondering why your customers just don't drop you. But do take a moment to establish baseline metrics. Some way to measure how much you're getting, performance-wise, in terms of uptime, records processed, users, customer calls per day, cloud costs. Whatever you can pull out of your ass for minimal effort. Get SOMETHING as a baseline. As you go along, if you miss a deadline, nobody will question you if you can show progress in your metrics against that baseline.

2) The theoretical ideal model web apps may perform radically differently when you start monkeying with the architecture. If the original developers are gone, if the code is more than 5 years old, it may not be feasible to debug the squirrelly behavior you see when you change from a traditional proxy to say, an AWS load balancer. You can burn a shit ton of time trying to troubleshoot things like this. Slapping a band aid on top of 10 years old band aids is not always the right thing to do. But sometimes it's the best approach to delivering results that keep people convinced to fund your effort.

3) even if nobody else in your company has a fucking clue what you're doing, or understands it; document everything.
"Robots can prefab things in factories, but it will be a long time before automated robots can build or repair anything on-site with the efficiency of humans + power tools. "

Thats the point. Robots are and will be for quite some time if not forever, pretty dumb amd needs human supervision for any complex task that cannot be encapsulated.

Also .. with climate change etc. etc. ... there is so much needed work to be done.

And population gets older ... and needs much more medical therapeuts, physicians etc.

So much pollution and garbage.

So much ugly things all around.

There is an endless amount of needed work around.
And if the current economic system does not adjust for that, then there is something very wrong with that and not that robots doing shitty jobs.
Same way you sand anything, as long as the grit is harder than what your sanding it works just fine. Iron is only 4 on the Mohs Scale which is below glass, so many types of sandpaper work fine.
"...if broadband isn't a telecommunication service then what is the telecommunication service it is over?"

Exactly. The most they can argue credibly is that it's both, not that it's only an information service. And frankly, even saying it's both is an admission of a conflict of interest on the part of the telecom companies. It's a bad idea to have the "information service" and the "telecommunications service" be owned by the same people. But the companies to which Pai and the FCC are apparently playing errand-boys have been doing everything they could in recent years to blur the line. OK fine then, blur the line; in some ways it was an arbitrary distinction anyway. (All communications involves information and all information insofar as it gets transferred involves communication.) But that means you're either

1) strictly a telecom

2) a telecom while maybe being an info svc too, and therefore in a conflict of interest, which I think we should remedy by regulating you as a telecom

3) an information service
Except for the fact that when you start looking at data instead of imagining, it turns out that it's possible to provide enough supply:

https://oregoneconomicanalysis.com/2019/01/29/oregons-housin...

Housing in Portland is catching up to demand and rents are leveling off.

Seattle is seeing something similar. The bay area is not, because they fight housing tooth and nail.
I know this is the common argument, but I'm not entirely convinced. when I was a kid, the graphics were quite primitive by today's standards, but playing the games at that age felt like stepping into a vivid other world. playing as an adult, I just see a bunch of geometry with shitty lighting while I run around clicking on HP sponges.

I wouldn't say that video games are quite as stimulating as reading a good book, but I think we underestimate how much our imagination works to "fill in the gaps" to make games feel real and rewarding.
No, it is corrupt for Harvard to try to solicit donations by tipping the scale in favor of admitting the children of their alumni. "Assuming she has the grades" is exactly the problem here -- legacy admissions are not held to the same standard as everyone else and have an easier time gaining admission.

We are also not talking about "one kid," we are talking about 14 percent of their student body. Harvard does not get a new library or big donation for every one of the hundreds of legacies it admits each year. What is the cost/benefit analysis of having having such a large fraction of the incoming class held to a lower standard?
Once again, a lovely article by Chris Wellons. Fun to see him having idols :)

ps: the hammer story linked at the end is worth the minute reading http://archive.is/OV1kQ
To me, passive income is to make content based sites, streamline traffic sources, paste ads and check back twice a month to see how it goes.

So, if I have 10 sites each making $100/month "passively", that's some nice passive income on the side.
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Most benchmarks in [0] use LSTMs.

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Re the smartphone. Probably because Microsoft thought that Windows Mobile was fit for purpose. I used a XDA when the first iPhone was released. What made the iPhone change things in my opinion was a great touch enabled browser and unlimited mobile internet.
Specifically, the philosophical belief of dependent origination indicates practicing one thing here may lead to "things" happening there: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prat%C4%ABtyasamutp%C4%81da

The argument goes that "dropping out" may be linked to a causal effect of which of which we are not yet aware.

For example: https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/02/08/why-young...
That's on the actual site, isn't it? I acknowledge it's there, but the person I originally replied to claimed it was in the source, which I don't think it is.
As a kid I remember having to create my own games and toys using nature (sticks, stones, etc). Today kids get handed a toy and they play

Actually my kid gets handed a forest. He chops trees down to get sticks, which he turns into forts and weapons and vehicles and things you've never dreamed of. Then he writes code to make them do things.

Playing with physical things is great. Playing outside is great. But you guys have a very narrow view of what digital media is like these days.
There's certainly a heap of evidence of discrimination against neurodiversity, physical problems, and rebelliousness. It's certainly been talked about enough. If you're not aware of it that's only because you've chosen to ignore it.
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I don't know about where you live, but in UK many school have breakfast clubs to deal with this sort of issue.
Good grief that's a frustrating article. Which juices?!?

The link to the actual findings: https://www.consumerreports.org/food-safety/arsenic-and-lead...
I tried by hand first, but it was going too slow so I used an angle grinder with a sandpaper wheel.
I could use that same logic to refute a study showing public transportation is cost-effective as long as that study wasn't done in San Francisco. It would be an obviously incorrect argument in that case, and that is also true in your case regarding cars.

The study's numbers are far more connected to reality than your made up numbers. You are making an isolated demand for rigor.[1]

1. https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/08/14/beware-isolated-demand...
BPF is compatible with DTrace probes.

The kernel verifier does extensive bounds checks on array uses and jumps in BPF programs.
Meson itself though is just a meta build system, it's used in combination with Ninja that does the actual build. Ninja is quite fast. But they claim at least that they are working on making Meson itself fast too.
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For the parents in the audience, carpet is a major exposure path for young children. Anything stain resistant (carpet/appulstry etc) has it (most carpet). Abrasian from ordinary usage causes it to be released in the form of dust. Toddlers, due to their proximity to the ground and propensity to put their hands in their mouths, are particularly susceptible.

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I'd say yes, at least until we out grow the "UI as trees" paradigm that dominates pretty much all of modern UI development at the moment.

I can see that potentially changing if/when AR/VR takes off and we start building UIs that are 3D in nature, for instance, since the hierarchical structure of a tree no longer make any sense for objects in 3D space that have 6DOF.

A-frame might offer some early insights in this area since it's attempting to bridge the gap between the 2D document model of the web and 3D interfaces of AR/VR.
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What a coincidense, for my high school senior project in 2017 I built an operating system as well [1] (which I still work on to this day). For anyone who is put off by the difficult of building an operating system I highly recommend just going in and getting your hands dirty. osdev.org is a fantastic resource and theres plenty of reading to do on the web, and getting more intimately familair with your hardware is an incredibly gratifying and enlightening experience. Even if you never end up with something useful, the learning experience of working in such a liberated and constrained (theres no rules, but no supports! anything goes within the constraints of the hardware) environment is second to none. And once you build your operating system, you can always go back and do something new with it. Mine has become something of a zen garden where I can just play with new ideas and algorithms, without having to worrying about reaching some sort of goal.

[1] https://github.com/block8437/brackos
Haha right but it’s interesting that Charles Darwin was the grandson. It isn’t interesting that they didn’t mention it. Sorry for perpetuating meta discussion.
So the whole you can’t use soap on cast iron is incorrect. It used to be, when soap was made wit lye, but normal dish soap is not nerely strong enough to remove the coating on cast iron.

I have 5 cast iron pots and pans and use a little soap on all and have no issues with removing coating.
I enjoyed https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/03/05/magic-mountain
Low boiling point compounds, like say benzene, would just evaporate and then condense with your water into your final product. Distillers get rid of heavy things that don't boil, like metals and large contaminants like bacteria and their waste products.

A carbon filter would get rid of the organics and low-boiling point things.

So optimal water purification would first use a carbon filter, and then distill the output of that. Make sure to add minerals to the final product though. Pure water is a vicious solvent and will slowly melt your teeth away. It will also become quite acidic after sucking CO2 out of the air, so consider adding some pH balancing salts too.
" It might be a better solution where the ux designer/developer has some sort of button the website that then calls that function for a slightly better experience"

But this would be up to the websites then. They could do this now, but they aggressively push for all the permissions they can get in the hope at least some click (accidently) yes.

I do not want popups to click away all the time. I want to decide that I like notifications from site x if they offer that.
Same here - I have a bigger stainless steel skillet that always needs steel wool to get some pesky things out of it after any frying, but my cast iron cleans up much easier. Though, I make liberal use of dish soap and the scouring side of my sponge. Never had a problem with seasoning other than roommates messing it up a bit here and there.
You mean something like Brita filters?

Soft water isn't healthier (you could even argue that it's less healthy, but the difference is negligible, IMO).

But if your wife likes to drink tea, for example, having soft water is an understandable wish, because the tea tastes better when brewed with soft water.

If she's arguing fo a home-wide filter, not table-top:

She may reasonably wish for soft water, because you don't immediately see lots of water stains on the sink. And your washing machine and dishwasher live longer.

No, you certainly don't need soft water. But it's not quack science, it's actually solid science with the big question if it's worth the money to you.
Seems like it might be easier to eliminate parking, rather than ban vehicles. If there was no street parking, a lot of people would have no choice but to park outside of Manhattan. That would also still allow taxis and ride sharing to drive people from the subway to wherever they needed to go.
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Doesn’t this design for users that have multiple devices? Don’t most users have a single phone at a time?
So.....even if you add it to the price of US fuel, it's still cheaper than fuel in the UK? And British cities have just as much trouble with congestion as American cities do. I guess what I mean is that if this extra money is meant to be a deterrent to driving it's just not enough. I'm not sure what the price would need to be to be honest. I've been to Portugal recently and the price of petrol is just insane - in the order of $8-9/US gallon. And yet people sitll drive, larger cities still have loads of congestion. And Portugal is very poor by European standards.
Blockchain hype has definitely decreased over the past few months and as someone who definitely believes in cryptos future, this is a good thing. Get rid of the ICO scammers so that people can focus on building.
> that would generate passive income.

I am also a big fan of "Rich Dad, Poor Dad". Coupled with "The Richest Man in Babylon", I think these two small books told me pretty much all I wanted to know about how to get rich.

Passive income is great. However recently I learned a new term - delayed income. Delayed income, or lack thereof, is what all my side projects have been about. I start with an idea that I'm gonna sell this product to 1000 people at $30/mo, it'll generate 30k monthly for me, and I dont' have to work for anyone. Then I either "gonna sell it to 30 000 ppl for a $1" or "gonna sell it to 300ppl for a $100" or "gonna sell it to 50 per $100" cause 5k monthly isn't at all bad... I'm only gonna work like 10/20 hours a week, but wherever I want, and not reporting to anyone...
Needless to say, it's all very stupid, but my point isn't about that.

My point is that I never took into consideration the time I need to spend upfront.
Assuming you need to work, say, 3 months. You're a software engineer, who makes "Reasonably good income".
That's what? 3 months * 4 weeks * 40 hours * say 40/hour ~ $20k.

So you work for 3 months in hopes to later make more than 20 grand later. So when later you finally, if you're very lucky, start making money, it's not really all that passive, it's delayed. You just weren't paid. And most of the time, unfortunately
- nobody is interested in your project
- or you didn't finish it
- or you just don't make back the money you invested.
- or something else.

Passive income is when you buy stock and don't do literally anything. Or something similar.

Maximizing your income is a different thing, getting paid 40/hour or 100/hour is a different conversation from passive income and feels like something you might want to think about.

So yeah,

> I know this isn't as easy as it sounds. Anybody who've gone down the same road that I'm about to take? Stuff that I should watch out for? Is this too silly?

Don't work for free, especially for yourself. Every hour you spend on your project must be accounted for. You could be doing contract work and getting paid during this time, so ask yourself: is it worth it?

Starting a new project is very easy, completing it is super hard. So if you want to do this, maybe try to do a simpler project, something you can be done with sooner, which would mean risking less. Ideally of course, do something you enjoy, in which case it won't be such a drag doing it as work, because if it's successful, it's nothing more than more work.
Yes, and Google also blocks the audio challenge sometimes, so people with impaired vision or with neurological issues that affect object recognition are effectively denied access to a large portion of the web.
The C# runtime is also open source: https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr
Buck and Bazel work this way. The language is Python (with some optimizations). However, the build is fast because Python is only used to describe the build graph.
I don't get it. Why emulating MMX with slower SSE ops (due to needed translations) when the CPU can run it natively?
The internal CPU microops do it much better than the assembler code.

I don't see the benefit at all. Maybe because the kernel doesn't need to safe the MMX refs at context switches anymore. But that's kernel-only, and gcc is mostly for userland.
"The unreasonable effectiveness of ___" and "___ considered harmful" titles are copied a lot. They are not equivalent in any way.
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Regarding your conspiracy theory, it sounds like this could be a realistic worry, of a conflict of interest among those influencial in developing web standards. The "missing APIs" may be those which would provide more competition to various walled gardens.
>it seems like there'd be a labor shortage gap for those that aren't remotely qualified for a research position now.

If you are already willing to pay someone's living expenses for the rest of their life, then there's no such thing as a gap due to not being remotely qualified. No how many years it takes for them to learn how to do research, if you are willing to pay the UBI, you are willing to pay their stipend for this time.

>such positions that are less efficient on the dollar per fundamental insight scale may disappear at around the same time as our hypothetical truck driver's

I think this rests on an incorrect view of human nature. People aren't born with a list of jobs that they can fit in to, they just have aptitudes for various things. In a purely capitalistic society, the aptitudes translate into a list of jobs because profit-seeking enterprises will not pay you more to do something than the net dollars you bring in - which is itself determined by your aptitude at that specific task. However, once we're talking about the UBI, this vanishes.

There does not exist a person that is capable of exactly washing beakers and driving trucks. This only appears to be the case because there do exist people who are capable exactly of turning a profit while washing beakers or driving trucks. There is a disturbing view of human capabilities running though this thread, that some people are just truck drivers "by nature," and that like the trucks themselves they must be retired if we no longer need their services. However, this "fact" is only a result of the financial realities that are specifically overturned by the UBI.
bpftrace's potential is higher than DTrace's, but at the moment it's definitely not reached parity. For example: we cannot yet read strings bigger than about 240 bytes (any bigger won't fit on the BPF stack).
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This idea of having a "front-end" build system and a "back-end" build system is a bit of a throw-back. It is better to integrate the two for better optimization and configuration management.
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If you live in an area that has high mineral content in the water it can be somewhere between highly practical and very necessary.

"Hard" water primarily causes scale buildup, as well as changing the effectiveness of soap and other things that interact chemically with water.

In hard water areas if you like lather from your soap in the shower a water softener is necessary. If you like your white articles to not come out looking gray and dingy you need soft water. If you like long appliance life from your dishwasher, washing machine, and hot water heater, a water softener is necessary. And so on.

If you don't have very hard water it becomes less necessary. Still nice to have but a little tedious to maintain. But in very hard water areas, yeah, you want one.