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> among my social circle

You could have ended your reasoning as soon as you wrote this. It is obvious what I said is an exaggeration, but it carries out some truth. Go ask around the people in America itself, outside a city like SF/NY, what do they think about it. I'm not even American. That's not what I see/read about. A country with some big time inequality, with little to none social mobility, possibly the worst social mobility since the country was founded. But no, everybody can get into Ivy League.
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I don't get why you think this is uniquely Japanese. Do you think western Valentines Day and diamonds aren't equally the result of marketing campaigns? Diamonds as a wedding ring was not the norm in the 1800s. Engagement rings a nonsensical idea until recently. And Valentines Day does not have particular cultural or religious significance in the west. Christmas, sure. But not Valentines day.
The zero WH model with Wifi and Bluetooth is sold without such limits, includes pre-soldered headers. Price is below 15€ In Germany right now and if you order 3+ (or just order more than 29€) there is free shipping. https://www.sertronics-shop.de/en/2089/raspberry-pi-zero-wh
That might be really fun for you but for me I'd really be much more excited about being able to see colours well enough to achieve my life long aim of being a pilot. As well as avoiding 1000 tiny annoyances that come with not being colour normalative.

Maybe I'm just being sensitive but it's almost like someone was discussing a way to regrow a missing limb and you've come along to tell us you've always fancied a third hand.
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I suspect a lot of money in the China flows illegally, out of the sight of the tax man (black money, money that is off the books), so having an iPhone could be one of the ways to spend such money, as it can't be deposited in banks or other track-able outlets.

Perhaps it's a status symbol too, shows that you are well to do and financially stable.
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It is strange that after playing Doom/Quake/Heretic/Descent-games to the very end, there has not been anything much that would have kept me interested more than few minutes.
1) 700mm diameter - broken down vehicles should be shuntable, but a person could get in there reasonably easily.

2) helium blimps lift 1 gram per litre of helium, so to lift 10kg of groceries they would need a 10 cubic meter blimp or a 2.7 meter diameter sphere - seems big and difficult to control especially in winds.
In theory a good suggestion, but Israel specifically gets a lot of free passes, especially from current US govt, so I wouldn't expect any benefit or positive outcome from this, just troubles for OP.

Now if it would be an Iranian spy for example, they would hunt him/them down with the full force.
why now:

- tunnelling tech has come a long way - pipejacking means you can install hundreds of metres of pipes from a single hole without digging a trench. Horizontal direct drilling means the chinese can put a 600mm diameter pipe spanning 3kms under the yangtze river from a single access point.

- lithium batteries and vehicle routing tech means that small delivery vehicles can do their jobs at incredible speed and efficiency.
Is this only a North American thing? I've flown hundreds of times within Europe over the last few years, and every single time I've had a seat assigned at online check in, usually 24-72hrs before boarding depending on airline.

I've seen lines of standby passengers at Frankfurt, waiting at the gate just in case they get lucky at the last minute, but knowing in advance that they don't have a seat on that plane unless somebody else fails to turn up; and I'd assumed that the European carriers probably do overbook but manage it at check in time; I've never seen or heard of anyone ever getting turned away at the gate when they already had a boarding pass.
Only two that matter.
Good luck getting a legislature to sign off on an unlimited bug bounty budget though...
> the only "threading" that ruby and python support natively is the spawn-another-process-and-find-a-way-to-coordinate kind

Are Javascript workers something different?
It's worth noting that all four of your examples routinely run on GPUs.

3D graphics? Check (freebie).

Fluid dynamics? Check - supercomputers increasingly get most of their compute from GPUs.

Cryptography? Check - this is the only one that really got specialized hardware.

Machine learning? Check.

So "large quantities of special purpose hardware" wasn't even used for these. Just large quantities of general purpose parallel processors, known for historical reasons as "graphics processing units."
And that's awesome, but if you're dealing with a large legacy codebase it will take a while to annotate your code.

I love flake8. Properly tuned, it can be a great help. It saved my butt more than once.
That's what Hungarian notation is for.
This was Brie Bunge from AirBNB at JSConf Hawaii this past weekend, btw.

Great talk, should be online in a few weeks.

https://www.jsconfhi.com/schedule/ for reference.
The New York Times identified Lambert as Aharon Almog-Assouline, a former Israeli security official living in the plush Tel Aviv suburb of Ramat Hasharon.

Maybe not "spy" but ex-security official at least. Not sure how thinly that's splitting hairs though.
The Maldives counts the cost of its debts to China
That's simplistic.

People forget, or simply don't know, that Chinese are extremely patriotic and that they remember how "the foreign powers" treated them in the past.

Considering what's happening between the US and China, and about Huawei, we can't discard the possibility that Chinese consumers reacted by supporting their country.
Check out https://github.com/mietek/mit-cadr-system-software
Itss a tape dump of the CADR system. Also you could check out OpenGenera, but it's not (legally) available.

If you want modern examples, check out SBCL, the Common Lisp compiler https://github.com/sbcl/sbcl

While a Scheme and not a Lisp, you can check out Gambit Scheme. https://github.com/gambit/gambit

It's written in a functional style and compiles Scheme to C. The generated code is really fast.

As an aside, there really should be no difference in performance between a loop and a tail recursive call, assuming the compiler does TCO. So if that's your definition of "functional", then it should have the same performance as any "imperative" language.
They use this excuse to try to convert experienced Java developers who've seen the light after switching to JavaScript and who are desperate to not go back to the static typing hell hole that they came from.

I'm one of these people (2 years of Java at university).

The thing is that I know exactly why so many developers like statically typed languages. I've been there in 2006 when I switched from ActionScript 2 to ActionScript 3; I remember clearly the following 2 years of ActionScript 3 when I really thought I loved static types.

Unfortunately, I also remember the years after switching back to JavaScript and the huge productivity increase that followed. The problem was not dynamic types, it was my lack of experience.

That's why I cannot go back. I'm using TypeScript at work now and although I really love the company mission and I feel that I'm producing really great work, I don't think that I can stay there much longer because TypeScript slows me down and makes me hate coding.
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I would consider stalking closer to "harassment" than "hitting on someone".
I think he was wrong about the Apple watch market size, but I like his argument.
There was a TED talk about it. The team created a vest giving blind people a tactile feedback to their back. Another use case was to give people additional "senses" for them to be able to control some devices - drone, or maybe arms if you will. It was back in 2015, I am not sure what the progress is now. https://www.ted.com/talks/david_eagleman_can_we_create_new_s...
I usually take that time to fill the comments box with a huge list of all the ongoing bugs, all the missing features and things that have annoyed me.
Our local (rural) community foundation signed up, in case there is one near you under which you'd like to light a spark.

My kids got those books for years and it was fun and nice to come home to such a generous and quality gift. But the library, library book sales, and other local sources like garage sales or credit-swapping consignment shops are also enough alone around here to pile the books quite high. In addition, screen time is absolutely wicked these days compared to when I was a kid. Hoopla is amazing, as are the various sandbox games in which you can mine, farm, build, design, and just explore. I grew up glued to the computer so I take a pretty "whatev" approach as long as I know the screen-activity characteristics are broadly "good" or better yet "fitting for my kid's psychological needs".
Tomas Vondra goes over this in the talk. There's a rationale for that behavior: pulling out a USB stick out of the USB socket may have been what's triggered the fsync() failure. In that case, there's no way the kernel will be able to retry reliably.
I’d expect the same to happen in a recession in the western world. People do not buy luxury products in a recession and if they absolutely need to replace a device, will pick one half the price that’s good enough.

Though the business model of tech giant is new, for most, the market in which they evolve isn’t. Facebook and Google’s revenues are essentially advertising, another source of revenues that is very pro-cyclical.

Amazon is retail sales, also quite pro-cyclical.

I don’t know how a cloud business would behave in a recession. Plus the cloud is still in high growth phase, kind of like smartphones or online advertising were in 2008, making the economic context less relevant.
> You're basically just making shit up at this point.

You keep making my point. All you have is defensive, deflecting and rude comments. If you disagree with something it isn't hard to say "I disagree that x is y because z", like anyone interested in a discussion would. I will keep this in mind when interacting with the community, commissioning work or buying services related to Postgres comes across my desk.
I doubt they expect to make a profit.
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The Raspberry Pi provides documentation for their GPU architecture, so it would be possible to provide support for that within open source machine learning frameworks. It would involve quite a bit of work, though, and the RPi is not really competitive with modern hardware in performance-per-watt terms, even when using GPU compute.
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> that Chinese are extremely patriotic

Like in most countries where education is tightly controlled by the government, patriotism is a result of state propaganda.

> how "the foreign powers" treated them in the past.

The worst thing that happened to Chinese was not the way foreign powers treated them, but what came after under their own ruling party.
Just sent you an email. I believe this can work.
Totally!
Actually not 'worse' as such, but search results are more centered around earnings, rather than around providing information.
You can't blame them for that, but by shifting focus they can expect a shift in public too.
Excuse me, but isn't "undercover" redundant in "undercover spy"?.. I mean, all spies work undercover :-)
> Is LOC really a significant measurement?

It is. Number of bugs per line of code is nearly the same across languages. So the best way to reduce bugs is to reduce LoC
No airline I have ever flown with has ever made this clear to me.

Ever.

Maybe if you know what magic words to ask, and specifically ask them - but at that point, you should already know the answer.
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There has been done so much research around VOIP, and so many protocols have been developed and released from the 2000s. Still however, we are talking in Silos: Messenger, Whatsapp, Skype, Hangouts, Viber etc.

Yes, user experience might be better in terms of media/quality since video is just a button away, however, when we want to use the most fundamental feature of PSTN, which is interconnectivity, being able to call anyone globally, we are doomed.

What happened to VoIP?
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I do agree with your sentiment and I am always genuinely curious about whether an organization chart would stay the same if the whole team was fired and re-hired. If not, then how can you counteract this organizational-rot problem. Also how to understand if you yourself is the part of this problem.
Browsing from mobile: webpage requests access to mircrophone.

Why?
Not really. Hardware and machines that actually run algorithms are just an implementation detail. :)
It's not just protestants. The Catholic Church also teaches that Mormons are not Christians, because they don't have valid baptism[1]. I wouldn't be surprised if the Orthodox teach the same, but someone else will have to speak to that.

[1]https://www.catholic.com/qa/why-doesnt-the-catholic-church-a...
>and it hasn’t decreased our code-quality.

But it is.
Eating a banana entails more radiation exposure if this is something you live in fear of.

World Health Organisation:

> A large number of studies have been performed over the last two decades to assess whether mobile phones pose a potential health risk. To date, no adverse health effects have been established as being caused by mobile phone use

FDA:

> the current safety limits are set to include a 50-fold safety margin from observed effects of radiofrequency energy exposure

FCC:

> There is no scientific evidence that proves that wireless phone usage can lead to cancer or a variety of other problems

National Cancer Institute:

> Studies thus far have not shown a consistent link between cell phone use and cancers

https://www.who.int/en/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/electrom...

https://www.cancer.org/cancer/cancer-causes/radiation-exposu...

https://xkcd.com/radiation/
The current US govt? More like, any US govt.
The kicker is towards the end. Be gets saved, but the terms are usurious from the early investors' viewpoint. And there's not much the latter can do about it since their own pockets aren't deep enough. Ergo, better go straight for the deep pocketed Pro, and stay friends with your relatives as a bonus.

His point on Clarity is also spot on:

> A Pro invests as much money, as many times, for as long as required for the situation to attain Clarity. This Clarity allows only two outcomes, Dead or Liquid. When a Pro declines the invitation to invest in a follow-on round, it means they’ve reached Clarity: In the eyes of the Pro who declines to invest, the company is Dead, their initial stake is worthless. Write it off and move on, no tears, no recriminations.
I think you're generally right. One thing I can really appreciate from TypeScript, though, is that is strikes a really nice balance in compensating for point 2. If something turns out to be really hard to type, or simply too much work, the `any` type makes it really easy to opt out of typing in a specific location. Once you've settled on the API and code that works, you can introduce the typings anyway. (Although I must say: exactly for those uses where I am expecting to be refactoring soon, I find I feel much safer to experiment knowing that TypeScript will help me with that.)

Furthermore, with TypeScript's current popularity, point 3 is starting to be less and less relevant too. When I start a React project, I just run `npx create-react-app --typescript`, and I'm up and running. TypeScript support by default is getting more widespread, which can make it a no-brainer to use in personal projects as well.
Don't forget scale though. UK farms operate on a much smaller scale, and 'long distance' in the UK isn't the same as in North America.
Dreams of Elysian Fields.

None of these Arks are going to support billions.
How does a cryptocurrency gain value?
Height wise. Width is 19”

Depth varies dramatically - from maybe 1” to 1m
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Tegra is Nvidia's line of embedded SoCs. Are you talking about the Jetson boards and modules?
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I am not demanding anything, I just think that this attitude is unproductive and harms adoption and never wins. This is why Linux, which okays using firmware blobs and adapts to hardware, is the OSS champion, and Hurd is vaporware.
The Pi Zero is at £4.66 here in the UK (so $6) including 20% VAT.
iPhones have become just too expensive for people in Asia to buy. It's simple as that. If they bring down the price to $599 like it was for the original iPhone and keep the price constant every year, Apple will double or even triple their existing market share. It will still be profitable for Apple knowing that service revenue will increase when more people are using iPhones around the world.
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The RPi Zero W costs 10.35E. That's more than double the advertised price (I'm ignoring shipping here). It's not a big deal though, I doubt anyone interested in "joining the club" would pass because of the extra 5-6E but the point stands. It's impossible to find the Zero W for the advertised price in many parts of the world.

I get the limitations on manufacturing, costs, margins, etc. But they could just advertise it for 10E, sell it for 10E and actually make a profit that they can use to improve the product, drop prices later, etc. If I end up paying 10E anyway I'd prefer it if the ad didn't tout "Only $5". It's misleading no matter how much I like the company who's doing it.
> But I am also at this weird point where I am not sure if the title of "staff/principle" can be transferred to another company.

I can confirm this; about three years ago, I was in a position that was similar to this post's description of a principal engineer - doing a lot of code reviews, meetings across teams, interviewing, etc. I haven't had a similar position since; it's a very er, opportunistic one? In that you need to be in an environment where there is a need for a role like that. It's a role one needs to grow into.
This is a surprisingly high percentage. Usually studies have found about 15% reduction when moving from untyped to typed.
I think it's going to zero and am surprised it has held on for this long.
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Someone should write a library that unifies those two.

#xkcdTime?
I think it is related to don't invest what you can't afford to lose. Also, similarly to the stock market, investing in only one business is always very risky.
> Right, you’re treating the code as statically typed even when it’s not. In that case you never gain the advantage of dynamic languages.

Both the things you mention can be done in statically typed languages. The only difference is in dynamic languages you don't have to declare interfaces, subclasses, etc. I just wonder whether that really is as much of an advantage as people think.

I've spend years using both types of languages and I think I think the safety of statically typed languages is usually worth the slight amount of friction it adds.
I have the same feeling, I have to click "must include keyword..." to get better results. I thought it was because I use google.co.jp since I moved to Japan a few weeks ago, so I was guessing Google tried too hard to correlate the results with my new geographical area. It seems I'm not the only one.
People also forget that they shouldn't speak for a billion odd people. It's a big country with a lot of diversity both culturally and socioeconomically.

The facts we do know are that (a) price affects sales, (b) China has a lot of well made, value focused phones and (c) Apple has already acknowledged their iPhones are expensive.
Look you are definitely responding to keyboard warriors who have nothing but finding negativity wherever they can.

Don't worry about them. Your statement was fine- you seem annoyed by a certain class of people and its fair for you to name them in your own blog.
Talking about propaganda, you must have been subjected to massive quantities to write such a reply that provides no counter arguments and that is completely ignoring the points made, not to mention how ignorant it is.

Sad, really.
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Isn't that just ad-hoc typing?

What's the point of naming based on types, instead of just declaring types so they can be programmatically analyzed by your tools?
I actually liked "talking audibly" better... it reminded me of the movie "Naked Lunch" where Bill Lee was conversing "telepathically" about something completely different from the inane verbal chit-chat he was having with Tom Frost in the medina... http://www.criticalcommons.org/Members/adiab/clips/FF_Cronen...
Turns out people don't like one baseless accusation after another. I provided you with concrete references where review comments where made, where people agreed it was necessary. Yet you deny that happened, without refuting anything concrete.

Note that you're the one hiding behind at least the third sockpuppet account.
Perhaps it's not the only case, but Italy's M5S party has built exactly that kind of platform as a mean to differentiate from the other political groups. Somehow it workded and now they're governing the country (along with other forces).
From a democracy point of view, the result is a mixed bag but i think it's a start.
Most African countries and Russia have managed large-scale attacks on their own paper-based systems just fine. Crypto-based vote-counting systems must protect the voters not from evil outside hackers, but from electoral commissions themselves.
They have a table below that with amounts listed for different types of bugs.

I'm guessing the 150'000 means they'll stop paying for new bugs once they've reached that amount.
China is extremely homogeneous on the points I raised.

I did not claim that they were the cause of the drop but simply that these are factors that may also be at play.
The GIL still allows for parallel IO so typical applications never need async. Modern Ruby just runs one process per core much like NodeJS in clustered mode or on JRuby with no GIL.
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