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> As an aside, why why why do people use the international keyboard layout? There is no possible way that it is more efficient given that two of the most used keys - left shift and (right) return are reduced in size and pushed further out of reach from home position. Worse yet, their lost space is taken by less frequently used keys. I cannot fathom why that design has remained popular outside the US.

This doesn't make much sense for the UK keyboard layout, where I agree that the US layout is a bit better from a common use perspective. It makes more sense when you start looking at other variations of the international layout, though. Live in the Baltics? You're going to use the Nordic layout that has several of the most commonly-used letters with diacritical marks. The physical layout (number of keys, position of keys, etc.) are all still the same, so not only is it easier to manufacture but all a touch-typist needs to do is alter the software layout to be able to use any keyboard they happen to stumble upon.
More than one shipping cost, yes, but it should be less than twice the shipping cost. Otherwise you could just order the items separately.
That's a separate thing to sniping a recruiter once you find out the company name though. When I was hiring I don't think we'd have wanted candidates sniping our recruiters. They did a useful job and we paid them for it.
Please tell us that now you work for NASA/JPL or something related to engineering :)

That would make the sacrifice of that hoover totally forgivable!!
Of course, one thing that I hadn't realised until watching "Brexit: the Uncivil War" is that by using targetted ads in Facebook only the groups targetted get to see the ads - so the other side of the debate, the press and the general public are completely oblivious to what is actually being communicated.
That didn't seem to be the point of the paper in question though. That work seems to primarily present a usability study, even in 2014 there were better performing models for graph based QA tasks.
is it me or does the committee seem lazy? their report is basically a collage of NYtimes articles, which they quote as evidence , even when it is speculative

their facebook emails 'evidence' isn t particularly related to their conclusions either. i mean facebook has been treating its small publishers unfairly since the age of zynga, just search facebook's forum to find developers actively calling them out. it's not really related to disinformation.

i would expect a little more work based on their own secret services about the extent of russian trolling in their own referendum.most of all i would expect at least some evidence that these campaigns can change people's opinion. not liking an electoral outcome cannot be used as evidence that they were effective

that said, i do hope they ban political advertising to death, because the ones who benefit from it are the politicians who write this report themselves. however, regulating the truth? i thought george orwell was british
Checking against what you know is not confirmation bias necessarily (example, not taking flat-earth or infinity-energy videos seriously)

At the same time even the history of science is filled with self-contradictions against what is known, what is ignored and what is discovered, 100% "skepticism" leads people nowhere.
I'm so glad I don't use C hahaha. Y'all are crazy!
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Since it's too late to edit: nope, that won't work for Go maps, because it only shuffles elements already visited, so bailing out of the loop early guarantees the first N elements will be the same N elements that have been iterated over up until that point. Which breaks the randomness guarantee.

OTOH, that actually is kind of an interesting feature; there might be a few situations where that is desired behavior.
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I really like Meson, so I was surprised to stumble across this blog post. The author has a point about too many build tools and I really have never given used CMake because of the lack of clear documentation, but is better documentation all that CMake needs?
Ah my bad I just vaguely remembered having this option when I was in Vienna, I guess I must have had Uber installed at that time.
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Here in the Southeast the grocery chain Publix is pretty much the BOGO chain, as in you buy stuff that is BOGO and take care otherwise. Their prices are standard fare for a chain grocery and the standard price of the item falls in line with other chains. Now for the most part any serious saver would BOGO and then hit up Wal Mart or Aldi to finish out their savings.

One interesting note is that in general you don't have to buy two items as part of a BOGO, you can buy one at half price. Now this is not true as some manufacturers, namely Coca Cola, require the purchase to be made as described. Meaning if its buy two get one you must take all three. They even get silly with Publix in that there will be buy two get two with Coke products that, you guessed it, you have to have four of the product to get it at the price of two.
I also used to feel similarly. But in deciding to research exactly why anti-vax types feel the way they do I was a bit surprised. I still believe there is a social obligation to vaccinate, but claiming the "science is settled" on an issue like this is not entirely appropriate. This [1] is a rather monumental report from the National Academy of Sciences that took an extremely in depth look at this topic. It's from 2011 but things have not changed radically since then.

In that 866 page report the researchers analyze a great breadth of data and research on connections between vaccines and all sorts of nasty things. And one phrase you might find worth ctrl+fing is "The evidence is inadequate to accept or reject a causal relationship between". You'll find it repeated constantly throughout the report as the academy researchers come to their conclusion on the validity (or lack thereof) of a causal link between vaccines and all sorts of nasty stuff. And for many of these nasty correlations while the evidence is insufficient claim a causal link, it's also insufficient to reject it. Not exactly what you'd call settled science.

Of course this does not justify turning against vaccinations. Even if there is a causal link found between vaccines and some of these various issues, the possibility of significant numbers of people choosing to not vaccinate would be catastrophic. For instance we're right now on the cusp of completely eliminating polio, much as we did smallpox. In fact you are currently more likely to get polio from a vaccine than in the wild. And some people might use that as a reason to stop vaccinating. But if they did, that would rapidly change. The one and only thing that's bringing us to where we are is people choosing to vaccinate. So it comes down to a matter of social responsibility. Vaccines are not without risk but whatever risk there is greatly outweighed by the collective benefits.

http://nationalacademies.org/HMD/Reports/2011/Adverse-Effect...
What makes this really interesting is how living in an economy where prices are both set by the seller and non-negotiable causes consumers to equate asking price with value.

As a consequence, BOGO feels like a better deal than one item at 50% off MSRP. A 50% discount is a change in the asking price; the value of this item must have depreciated in some way for the seller to want to get rid of it (e.g., this garment is going out of season), and the price I'm paying is a fair deal that I'm happy to accept because I don't need to indulge in extravagances.

But in a BOGO deal, the asking price hasn't moved (or, as the article discusses, may actually be inflated); the fact that I paid full price means that it retains its original value, and the one they throw in is simply an enticement. In other words, I purchased an extravagance at full price, but it was a deal because I walked out with two. The amount paid is double the previous example's, but the perceived value is fourfold.

This isn't even getting into the actual value of perceived value (cf. the sticker price of wine vs. its perceived quality). Really interesting stuff.
What do you mean? There are many examples of people using LD_PRELOAD to patch the behaviour of other's binaries.
I completely agree. Most Misra software is embedded without dynamic allocation though, so you usually don't get into this situation too often.

I think an exception here makes sense
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The rules are slightly more complicated.

You are only allowed to discount items already in stock a month before the start date[0]
That's why the back of the shop is fully loaded by boxes a month before the sales period starts.

The rules seem silly because it's an open secret, all companies jack up the price and stock up just before... but you'd be hard pressed to find actual proof:

"I ordered 50k items to the supplier just 30 days before, I meant to buy only 50, fat finger mistake, so we had to discount them".

"Yes, the reference price is based on the highest price we had on record among our 500 stores. Yes, I know it was more than twice the median price, fat finger mistake but hey, who does not make mistakes, 14€99 is too similar to 5€50..."

[0]https://www.service-public.fr/professionnels-entreprises/vos...
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Thanks, this is an interesting story I wasn't aware of. Having said that, I think it only partly suggests that 'sometimes natural talent beats all the science of the world.' After all, even when he first tried high jump, it sounds like he was on a collegiate basketball team, where he'd have been going through closely monitored training. (Not as precise or dialed in as an average Olympian, but still, probably pretty solid). To me his subsequent decline in high-jump suggests one of two possibilities:

1) He was gifted at jumping, but got exceptionally unlucky with timing in that his natural abilities were at their peak when he first tried jumping and basically declined constantly thereafter.

2) High-jump training is far from optimized (at least for all athletes), and potentially has a lot to gain from adopting basketball training techniques, since clearly those worked better for Thomas.

In either case, I'm not sold that this story is representative of a general trend whereby the science of the world can only take you so far - simply because those with incredible natural talent, more often than not, also have incredible science already backing them these days. At the elite levels, my strong belief is that it takes both.
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Since I knew what LD_PRELOAD did then I was rather amused that the author had a similar epiphany over it as I did many years ago, which made it a great read -- something to relate to.

I agree that the article is emotional, but the annoyance or not is so very subjective.
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Yeah, that hack was a great insight!!
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"Just maxing it out" would work if Apple didn't charge outrageous prices for memory/storage upgrades. I would be quite willing to order any device in the maximum needed configuration for its life time and even pay a modest premium for that, but the prices Apple asks for upgrades are a multiple of market prices.
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Shipping cost can vary a lot, though. Especially in the internet age where it's easy to order things abroad. When I order from a Dutch webshop or from amazon.de, shipping is generally free, but when I order from amazon.com, it's not.

So that means the webship has to know where I live and what kind of shipping I want. Granted, Amazon probably already knows this, but when I use a new webshop, they can't know this, and I don't want to have to tell them before I can see the price of their items.
Uh, almost all the text on the page appears for me in a single-letter-wide column on the LHS of the page. (i.e. unreadable)
So this turns out to be the article about U.S right-wing "logic" and the word "guys" = white males. It's not about the actual logic and "cargo culting", instead it's about the youtube-politics videos, this title seems like some click bait to me.
> They are also massive fans of declaring that they have “facts,” that their analysis is “unbiased,” that they only use “‘reason” and “logic” and not “emotions” to make decisions.

Ha! So true. I’ve yet to meet a single individual repeatedly mention their “logic” and “unbiased analysis” without basking in utter self-satisfaction over it.
> Sometimes the box claimed "10% free!" but other sneakier boxes would claim "10% extra free!". The latter allows the marketer to quote the same nominal figure for a smaller absolute quantity.

I'm not sure they're trying to be sneaky. The difference is too small for anyone to care about:

- 10% free! (purchase price pays for 90% of the cereal)

- 10% extra free! (purchase price pays for 91% of the cereal)

(Also, it's the first option that indicates a higher unit price, not the second.)
As I mentioned in another comment this is a risk that exists for every supplier that you haven't got full control over.

As someone else further mentioned, the UK has setup an evaluation centre with Huawei where GCHQ experts check Huawei products before deployment.

Again, let's not pretend that the the US are in good faith here even if security should of course always be considered. This is an obvious FUD campaign to slow the rise of a new superpower and of a major competitor in a sensitive industry.
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That greatly depends on the things.
what do you think would be the extent of it if people read "government hides the truth about vaccines"
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Not as linear though.
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I strongly object to calling something "free" when you can't get it for free. If I'm required to purchase something to get it, it's not free. Things like "10% free" should not be allowed to be called that. It's a 10% discount. Free with the purchase of something else is also not free, as I'm still required to pay money.
> Anabolic steroids are a Class C drug in the UK so in general are illegal to possess and distribute unless prescribed.

So they are legal - only access is controlled (prescription from doctor).

Alcohol and cigarettes are legal - only access is controlled (age).

Violence is legal - only access is controlled (police).

Tortures are not legal - no one has access to do that.

Capital punishment is not legal (in some countries) - no one has access to do that.
Looking forward to seeing Huawei OS being announced, and the backlash that is going to trigger across the whole world.
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I didn’t know how to submit to an earlier thread, but I read the argument about Christopher Hitchens saying that the cure for poverty is women’s control over their reproductive system. Women’s rights in general are universally frowned upon in religion — and to defend some modern spin on Christianity’s allowance of birth control still supports those who don’t believe in it. Here is one point Hitchens made but was too poetic for some, “If you are a social Christian, you support extreme fundamentalist Christianity” Let me put it in realistic terms. You know that brother or sister who fucks up a lot, but you still love them because they’re your sibling, and you won’t confront them about it? You are supporting their destructive behavior by allowing it into your life. Cut it out.
Article has very little information on the subject. AFAIK, you will be fool to pay for $100M jet using cash, credit or check the way article seems to suggest. Most of these purchases are done by taking out a loan. Typically high networth individual can earn far more on $100M than typical loan rates. Often, such assets would be put in to some LLC or made part of their businesses where the use of the asset can be put as compensation or business expense. A real estate can even be declared as rental business where you use it may be for a month and rest of the time it’s generating losses that can be used for taxes. Interest payments, depriciation, conceived losses in this “business” goes long way for favorable tax treatment.
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You seem very angry about this.

Here's what we know:

The paper compares temperature data primarily from a single weather station 'El Verde', starting in 1978. [1]

The operators of the weather station say themselves that the data is unreliable, that papers have already drawn erroneous conclusions based on it, and that it shouldn't be used for calculating long term trends. [2]

Here's a few quotes from [2], but please read the whole thing.

"Subsequent manipulations make the EVFS record less valuable for interpreting long term trends."

"After September 1992, recorded maximum temperatures increased substantially at this station, certainly as a result of the instrumentation changes that took place in that month."

"correction ceased to be applied to these maximum temperature data in 1997, and as a result, the EVFS maximum temperature record (LUQ data set 16) showed an abrupt increase in maximum temperature in 1997."

"This partially corrected data set is the one we made accessible to people on our web site and through ClimDB until Feb 2014. At least one paper has reached erroneous conclusions about long term trends based on these data (Huey et al. 2009)."

"The differences in instrumentation have introduced differences in the data between these two periods, and treating them as a single data set misrepresents the data."

Knowing this, I think it's fair to say that any data prior to 1997 is invalid. Now take the graph in [1] and disregard 1997 backwards, and it paints an entirely different picture doesn't it?

[1] https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.files.wordpress.com/2019/01/...

[2] http://luq.lternet.edu/data/luqmetadata16
Probably by deploying another closed binary from a US supplier to "monitor" it.
This is interesting. What this says to me is that the UK is essentially saying to China "Yeah we'll play your game". They're expecting some sort of attack, but they reckon that they've got the capability (at GCHQ or wherever) to counter that, and possibly turn the tables by feeding back counterintelligence.

It could potentially be a good book in 1-200 years' time once all this is declassified.
This isn't exactly what 'settled science' means. Let me give you an example:

Let's say I'm someone that really hates vaccines. I begin spreading rumors throughout the internet that vaccines cause cancer. My evidence? Most of the people that have cancer had vaccines at one point in the past.

Now how does science disprove this? Through years of study, research and data collection over many decades. Even then, it would be hard to accept or reject a casual relationship between cancer and vaccines, because that is an almost endless set of data. All I would have to do is make up some new casual correlation between vaccines and Y as an attack vector. This is exactly how arguments against climate change are made as well. Science is never really settled, but we can reach a high level of confidence on how something works.
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A drill is a great example. I bought one about 3 years ago, and I've only needed to use it about 4 times. The most recent time was a few days ago, but I wouldn't have been able to fix something without it. I don't regret buying it, and it doesn't take up much room, but it would be great if I could have just rented it each time.
It's worth pointing out that you can get a free ADS-B receiver from sites like Flightradar24 or Flightaware.

The hardware is often proprietary, but they must allow you to re-purpouse the data received by the antenna (it's public domain).
I love reading the graphs of camelcamelcamel. It's sometimes entirely obvious that two pricing algorithms are fighting for the buy box.

You can also see when an item is reaching its long term date[0]: 180-days(or 365 on some markets now) in inventory point: sudden drop in the price. The margin can get negative because the long term fee is very hefty.

Say you sell SD cards or a similar low volume, low cost item: at a certain point in time, the storage fees will be larger than profit, selling them for 0€01 then makes sense...

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> This isn't even getting into the actual value of perceived value (cf. the sticker price of wine vs. its perceived quality). Really interesting stuff.

I fall foul of this trick quite a lot when food shopping. For example if I'm buying a box of cereals and I see one is priced at £1.80 and another is priced at £2.50 but is on sale from £3.50 I'll buy the more expensive one because I'm under the illusion that I'm getting a good saving and a better quality product. In actual fact though I've just spend quite a bit more for a marginally better, if not the same quality item.
I'd argue that sloppy reporting is not fake news, and shouldn't be censored. That story hurt Buzzfeed's credibility [even more], and increased Mueller's credibility. That is how it is supposed to work.
> "Do not use goto, setjmp or longjmp."

Error handling in C without those primitives will almost always result in horrible code. They should've made an exception here: "goto error;" should've been allowed and encouraged.
You are always welcome to feed more than one service. Even when you get a free receiver from the company, nothing stops you from repurposing the data and feeding elsewhere.
This is packed full of manipulative language. It reads like propaganda.
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