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But isn’t this how science works? We discover a new way to measure something, and then we start evaluating its usefulness as a measure. When and where we find interesting relationships, report that out, and then start looking for causes. Perhaps the new ruler is broken, or perhaps we learn something we didn’t know before. Regardless, I see reports such as this one as interim findings necessary to either justify or pursue additional funding.

VC and SV entrepreneurship is pretty much the same game. That’s why you have the “Uber for X” syndrome. Sometimes it sticks, sometimes it doesn’t. We are all human search functions reporting back to the hive mind.
I don't think this will be a sustainable ecosystem. The software is even built on fast consumption now.
>The only thing I find inconvenient in Python is you can't simply put every function (including every member functions of a class - that's what I would love to do) into separate file without having to import every one of them manually.

That strikes me as an anti-pattern although you could mimic this behaviour by exposing each one at the package level. Performance is likely to be terrible if you're working on anything sufficiently large.
What a bizarre argument. You could replace "static" with "dynamic" and you would have an equivalent argument that would just as strongly (i.e., in fact, weakly) argue against dynamic typing. This logical hole is obvious enough to drive a bus through. I don't understand how the author wouldn't have noticed it.
The government doesn't have to supply my shoes for me to be able to go to the police when someone steals them.
Yes. I should have been more clear. He is not against python3 but thinks that it is less work to maintain python2 than port calibre to newer version.
There's countries where the percentage is lower, yet it's basically illegal to criticize the government.

More importantly, what does that change about the argument that arresting criminals is hardly the only thing to consider? Here's the same argument with enhanced contrast: If you threw Earth into the sun, all crimes would stop. If that's all we care about, everything else is just kicking the can down the road. But that would be a "crime" in and of itself, right? IMO the same could be said about mass surveillance, it's stripping humans of their rights to preserve their rights, burning the village to save it.

Generally I can't help but notice that it's really not the size of the crime that seems to matter, but whether it's aligned with centers of power or not. We're aiming at a world where a tyrant can't be assassinated, and the defenseless can be murdered without consequence, with a bit of playing for time and lip service to principles here and there.

> It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

-- Voltaire
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+1 for Obra Dinn

I'd also add strategy games like Civilisation VI etc.
> enormous amounts of ketchup, because it very efficiently ....

if it was efficient, why use enormous amounts?

The conditions you describe are called "food deserts" and is an oft discussed topic.

https://www.cdc.gov/features/FoodDeserts/
Call it a database if you wish. In fact it is probably sqlite running behind the scenes.
It is a relational model, a different way of organizing things compared to the hierarchical model of the filesystem. There is probably enough literature about that to fill your ebook library ;)

I suppose that the "library" model is what most people prefer since most modern media apps use that in some form or another. Or maybe it is because of Steve Jobs reality distortion field ( https://oleb.net/blog/2012/06/steve-jobs-on-the-file-system/ ). Still, I hate all these apps attempting to hide the filesystem from me.
I've put a working copy up on https://www.isthe.link/browser/ (I worked on the JavaScript that replicates the browser).

We're (the team) are waiting to hear from the Ops folk at CERN to get the server to stop 503'ing. Until then, you can try it out above.
Solid glass is transparent to microwaves, but molten glass absorbs them pretty well. So, if you can get a piece of glass hot enough, the microwaves will be able to keep it hot.
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Oh so just because we exist in a society means I can tell you what it is or isn't okay what to do with your own body in your own home when you're not hurting anyone?
Okay, whatever your favorite food is, no more of that! Do you drink coffee? Not anymore!
The source code will be available too once we get the go ahead.
Oh, man... I think you will find this pattern in any lower echelon of any kind of organized system.

I don't recall where this quote was from, but it went a little something like this, "You can either earn Enlightenment, or you can go to India and pay a Guru to enlighten you for a thousand dollars.".

In the countries that I mention, it is often the case that people 'pretend' to be Buddhists in orders to make begging rounds (receiving alms) and collect free money and food. Those that do pretend, most of the time get in trouble.

What you linked is definitely an extreme case and as far as I know situation out there is still pretty rough.
One of the few MIT classes I had the pleasure to attend in person. So good. Russ Tedrake is amazing.
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Yahoo advertising for Google on their front page is almost similar to another such rare extremely lucky break when IBM advertised for Microsoft in its all glory. Behind every billion dollar company there is an event that had one in billion chance of happening.
This question seems to assume that the cost of electricity and mining sets cryptocurrency prices, but I'm not sure why that would be the case. I think it's the other way around. Demand for Bitcoin doesn't increase when electricity gets cheaper / mining becomes more profitable. Mining becomes more profitable when demand goes up. If electricity became more expensive or mining otherwise became less profitable, demand for bitcoin does not go down; most traders and users of bitcoin probably don't even notice. The only direct effect is that some miners stop mining (and the network becomes a little more vulnerable to 51%-attacks).

Another way to think about it: if Bitcoin somehow worked without mining, that's no reason for demand or usage of Bitcoin to go down. The value of bitcoins comes from network effects and scarcity.
It is not typesave and doesn’t really support programming in the large. I think the best bet is something like Swift or Microsoft could come out with a C#/F# compatible thing.
Been wanting to try Julia out for a while, but the 1-based indexing is perennially putting me off. I can't see how I can avoid spending a large chunk of time (and endless frustration) unlearning years of 0-index muscle memory (nor I see why should I, for the sake of adapting to a single language that, at least initially, I will be just toying with).

It was probably a good marketing move on their part, a wink towards the Fortran/Matlab crowd, but it certainly damages the language's appeal for potential converts from C, C++ and Python.
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This is non-sense. Firstly stop resorting to weird hypotheticals when you can just let the current facts speak for themselves. The PRC simply has never governed Taiwan, Kinmen, etc. Secondly it wasn't the ROC that set up a rouge government, it was the PRC!

Of course the PRC will say whatever to try to make it's claims legitimate (just as the ROC did in decades past), but none of it changes the fact that they are two separate countries and have been separate for almost 70 years.

The PRC is trying to act like it's special, but it's just following the same playbook that countries have followed for thousands of years: claim some other country as their own because "reasons" and then try to make their political and military aggression somehow seem justified. But that doesn't change the fact that the PRC is just trying to take over another country when it could easily and fruitfully co-exist fruitfully with it. It's shameful and shameful that people like you would support such nonsense.

Maybe as a summary here is my message to all those trying to argue for continued aggression between the PRC and ROC: Just stop and support an official peace treaty you power-hungry maniacs. Stop trying to pretend your support for a resumption of war between the states is justified when de facto peace has existed for so long. Just stop.
Looks good and loads fine from ireland :) Might want to reduce the size of the profile picture. jules.jpg is 1.6mb
Thank you. I've imported other OXO stuff from the US before, I'll grab one to try it out.
To be honest, I don't see why would you port it to python 3. Isn't it already working? Are there any python 2 bug hampering its development?
So you put it in your kid's backpack and later the police will see that you spent your day in an elementary school. Does not seem like a very good alibi. The same is true for your neighbor, they will see that you spent your day in the parking lot of your neighbor's workplace, pretty suspicious.
I used to be a sysop and made some of my deepest friendships that way. One-to-one chatting via fullscreen realtime updated text with no other distraction has some magical quality to it that makes you talk about all manner of things in depth with another person.
EPUB can't cover this niche.

EPUB is basically just HTML in a zipfile, with all the ugly warts that HTML comes with. (Attempts to enforce "pixel-perfect" design, broken accessibility, ugly fonts forced on you, etc.)

EPUB is good for publishers, I guess, but a crappy ebook format.

FB2 is a different beast, it's an extremely minimal XML dialect that encodes only semantic information and nothing else. (Basically, tags for chapters/sections/headings/verse and that's about it. The extent of the formatting allowed is 'em' and 'b' tags.)
How much faster is everything?

If running code via Docker takes 10ms and via VirtualBox it takes 40ms that would make no difference at all, even though it is 4x slower.
I imagine it's not the primary storage for OP, but syncs from the library on Mac, which is probably has a backup strategy itself.

As commenter above noted, you probably don't need lossless audio on your portable device if you only listen through earbuds, but if you use connect it to some good speakers or high quality headphones, then why shouldn't you be able to?

As for the quality difference in general, I ripped my own CD collection at lossless quality many years ago because given the choice of the same quality or worse quality that I may or may not be able to discern, it's seemed more logical to take the former. The lost data would never have been recoverable later.
sorry about that, thanks!
From what I understand about Schizophrenia, I would expect limited potential here at best. The schizophrenic brain is structurally different: for instance the hippocampus of schizophrenic people is disorganized, and schizophrenic people have less gray matter than neurotypical people.

It's plausible that to some degree these changes could be reversed to some degree long term of they're the result of a tonic stress from the gut biome, and it's also possible that acute schizophrenic episodes could be ameliorated if it turns out they're triggered by the gut, but it's highly unlikely that replacing the gut biome of a schizophrenic person would give you a neurotypical person.

The other thing about schizophrenia is that people usually develop the disorder in their late teens or early 20s with an acute episode. If there is indeed a link to gut bacteria, and if you could identify pre-symptomatic, high-risk individuals, I would imagine this could create a very compelling vector for preventative treatment.
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You dont need iTunes to manage your iphone - it's essentially it's own device. I've never synced my phone with my laptop.
Can you explain what is racist about this? As a native Hong Konger, I'm really interested to hear your take as it's obvious we have completely different views on this.
Not really no. That would be clear. This would be like if the warrant was for everyone who checked into "the hotel or hotels within a polygon defined by these coordinates"
Same for me with Stoicism, which is very similar.
Same. I've used Apple MBP's steady since 2011. Ever since 2017 it's been a complete mess. I can't stand the new keyboard, nor do I understand their reasoning at all : feels like the decision was 100% grounded in aesthetics, as if shaving off 2mm in thickness is worth a permanently inferior user experience when actually using the machine.
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Somehow, it seems like during the Cold War (50s, 60s), there were fewer scientists and the quality of the output was higher. Not sure if that is the case, or survivorship bias. But if it is the case, what was different about the system back then?

To play the devil's advocate: scientists in industry/corporations do not come out of nowhere - they come from academia. Will the academics not move to countries where academic research is better funded? The students will follow. Corporations will set up their research labs in those countries near the universities to poach the best talent. Suddenly, your country is at a disadvantage.
This still exists, you just need to know where to look.
It’s not exactly how science is supposed to work. New measurement technology should result more from a pull than a push. That is, the scientists studying mental diseases probably want a better/more specific way to measure brain activity, because most of their mechanistic hypotheses revolve around brain function. In this case, they’ve been told that there’s a new way to measure gut microbe populations, and the cool part is the technique produces so much data from a single sample. Somethings gotta correlate!

Now I don’t actually think the gut microbiome is just an automatic p-hacker - most studies are measuring pretty standard aggregate measurements of “diversity”, not just finding one class of the billions of bacteria that happens to correlate, so I’d agree with the OP that the question is more one of causality. And since a fecal transplant from an ill mouse caused signs of illness in an otherwise healthy mouse, then there’s reason to follow up.
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> The Swift runtime is available and officially supported on Ubuntu.

Which is actually the only OS outside Apple platforms that has any kind of proper support for Swift.

> Your statement is like saying C++ is not useful outside of Windows because there is no DirectX.

C++ is usefull outside Windows, because it is an ISO standard in no means bound to Windows, with several OS vendors and OEM contributing for multiple implementations of the said standard.

> There is already a large body of open source libraries for Swift for a variety of tasks, and moreover Swift's excellent C interoperability makes it very reasonable to make serious platform-agnostic software with Swift.

Quantity does not mean usefulness.

Great interoperability with C isn't exclusive to Swift, and is also available in languages with a bigger markeshare, with implementations across several OSes.

Swift is great as replacement for Objective-C, improving the safety on Apple's platforms and making FP mainstream on those platforms, as cross platform language it still has quite a lot to improve.
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I have a Google email address I created while in primary school, it's rather silly-sounding. For the last several years I've been mostly using a second email, but my primary Google account is associated with the first one. I would like to stop using it altogether, but there's still too much data tied to it. I'm rather an extensive user of Google's services. I know that you can set up an automatic redirection of emails, you can export your passwords and bookmarks from Chrome, but what about more sophisticated data, like, for example, Google Play Music library, apps bought in the Play Store, cards and promos saved in Google Pay, notes from Google Keep, ownership of everything kept on my Google Drive, etc.?

Has anyone tried doing a whole account migration? Do you have any tips?
I understand why you are being downvoted because to label a whole countries cuisine as being bad is a massive generalisation.

But I've got to agree that my experience in New York was pretty similar. Even in a fine dinning steak house, the steak was hidden by a 'salt crust' which made it practically impossible for me to enjoy it. In an Italian the tomato sauces were so sweet they reminded me of the sauce you'd have with baked beans. Everything was just over done in one way or another.
If I'm strictly honest, I'd choose Switzerland. But there is not really any evidence that the models of countries that small can scale to any meaningful number of people; which is the same problem the Nordics have. The geography of economics doesn't really work in a linear way. At the 100M+ people America stands out.

Even if you want to make the argument that the US is coming 2nd to the EU or 3rd to someone else; it doesn't really alter the core point here. People prefer liberty; they aren't going to move to, say, China despite the fact that China is developing a more sophisticated surveillance network that will be used to fight crime.
Cacaw! I am glad the crowing reached you :). You probably did not get far if you are still on the old numbers that was in the first paragraph.

ETL can be very extensive. For example, we first built this when we had to take data from 15 different database systems that represented individuals and their pension contributions and join across these systems. It was a largish join about ~4 tables from each system so around a 60 table join.

That was "JUST ETL". The job was preparing the data for training. ETL is often times a large part of people's workflow. Looking for needle situations in a haystack. That can be JUST ETL. If you believe there is a more apt word for extracting data from a system, performing unspeakable transformations on it, then making that information available to another process then please tell me. Being of Peruvian stock myself I take great license with my language and grammar.
On the 5D, press the metering button and turn the knob.

About the rest, I've never timed it because I've never needed to do it. Lightroom does most for me, and even the card thing would be roughly a one-time thing. I don't know what a comparison between a 6" touch display on a phone and a 2" non-touch display on a camera is supposed to show, but the camera menu isn't that hard: press menu, scroll to the appropriate section, select menu item and change what you need. It's pretty much the same on phones as well.
The US and the British Empire in first half of the 20th century (until the dissolution of the empire) might be an example
You mean Swift packages that depend on macOS and iOS APIs?
Not generally easier but easier to express specific, complex concepts. Tensorflow does alright but it’s certainly not beyond improving.
This post blew my mind at the time, it was my first exposure to ML techniques.
btw

averse != adverse
Private car drivers don't have votes anyway so even if there's pushback the governments don't care.

The taxis, logistics and trucking industries do have political clout, though, and they will be the ones pushing back.
> Tesla states that it is temporarily backing footage to its network

Lol, sure.

Speaking of SW improvements, is Tesla autopilot still crashing into stationary vehicles and concrete slabs on highways and stuff? How about focusing on that rather than nearly worthless "features".
It is used by JetBrains products, a fairly small company selling developer tools, you might have heard you them.

They happen to sell an IDE for Go.
The 5D has twice the functions on the button, even, since pressing the button and scrolling one wheel does one thing, and the other another. It's very handy.

In comparison, I was trying to set bracketed exposure on my RX100 yesterday, and I still haven't managed to find the feature.
You can’t say “it is good design to have small composable building blocks” and then complain about the number of those blocks.
The reason industry wants robots instead of people is because the robots cannot organise themselves into a union (well, until some AI kicks in in a future upgrade).
You got me lost there, first you say nobody uses them, then you mention some.

Better get those numbers straight.
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Hey, cool albeit pretty simple idea.
If I may, given the kind of target you might have in mind, adding a referral program might make sense to organically grow your user base for a relatively low cost.
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This looks very nicely done, though without TTS support (please correct me if I'm wrong) I'm afraid this can't replace my current ebook workflow. Other than that though I like what I see.
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At my company, I made the executive decision to drop CSS-in-JS because none of those libraries support PostCSS, and most have their own from-stratch, half-baked CSS transformation pipeline, not 10% as powerful as the PostCSS ecosystem.

I love PostCSS, and I'll happily consider CSS-in-JS again when somebody writes a library that doesn't try to reinvent the wheel.
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That’s a pretty nice report on being a parent, quite inspiring… Thank you.
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So support came up empty on why that happened:

"I can confirm this is the correct friend link. If your readers access the story via this link, they will always be able to view it, even if they are out of their free monthly previews. There aren't really any limits on this."
No, it's because consumers believe bigger = better.

Same thing with people saying the Dutch tomatoes they find in their supermarket are watery. No, it's because your supermarket has found that they can make more by selling the bigger (and cheaper) tomatoes. They could easily buy the more tasty varieties if they wanted to.
I'd argue that the Touch Bar implementation is fully baked but utterly useless.

There's a ton of engineering and polish that went into that feature — from the way it can securely render the price of a purchase through Apple Pay to the way it communicates and transfers its frame buffer, to the UI components it can smoothly display.

It's just a pity I never actually want to use it.
Definitely. Eating patterns, sleep and many other things change. Even medications like lithium. What's lithium do to bacteria? My anxiety makes eating hard sometimes so i eat bad foods just to get calories in.
Where are those 15 efforts? I don't see any effort to take a hard look at combining the most used few hundred libraries into a collection of a few libraries.

It's hard and boring work also.
Point taken!

I agree that terminology is especially fickle in physics, and it can be very confusing. Words need to be co-opted in order to discuss the objects of a new theory, and often they are simply chosen by rough analogy. The "mass" of Newton's spacetime is not the "mass" of Einstein's relativity. The "spin" of an electron is not the same as the spin of a car's wheel.

John Stewart Bell has a nice quotation about this when discussing the use of the word "measurement" in quantum theory:

> Take for example the “strangeness”, “charm”, and “beauty” of elementary particle physics. No one is taken in by this “baby talk”. ... Would that it were so with “measurement”. But in fact the word has had such a damaging effect on the discussion, that I think it should now be banned altogether in quantum mechanics.

As for atomism more broadly, now that I think about it there are some modern theoretical physicists with ideas about the discretisation of spacetime, for example: https://arxiv.org/abs/1312.2852
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