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hard to tell without knowing how much pages your $30 a month actually is. There's a wide variety in ink costs. Larger laser printers are quite cheap (the small and cheap to buy models often are surprisingly expensive to run), but nowadays there's a bunch of competitive inkjets too (among others, ones with ink tanks you refill from bottles instead of cartridges are worth a look). Good reviews should cover the cost per ISO page printed, just look for that.
paper is online now: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1027-4
For example, if you are reading the classic papers in a seminar, are you really even interested in their measurements? Well, if you are looking forward at new papers, I think the ideas come first. Remember, there's a ton of stuff to read. A buddy said he read two papers a day in grad school.
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Why not in haiku format?
That will keep them short.
They've changed the auth method. When I signed up they mailed me one of the secure letter (rip open seams with random pattern on the inside) things used for CC pins and sensitive info with a validation number I had to enter.
I think there's a good demand for this. You should do it.
The South Ferry repairs after Sandy was a great example. Pump it out, replace some escalators, redo the walls, put strengthened flood defenses for next time - 1/3 of a Billion dollars? WTF.

http://gothamist.com/2017/06/28/new_south_ferry_subway_stati...
Little bit off topic, but if anyone is on the fence about STM32, I strongly suggest trying out STM32 Black pill 3.3V version (https://wiki.stm32duino.com/images/5/52/Black_Pill_Schematic...).
It's an amazing board, Arduino-compatible, 72MHz, i/o, adc and pwm pins, uart and i2c.

You can get it cheaper and just solder the header yourself.
Even has a micro USB support.

Truly remarkable board.
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I worked at one company. The marketing team spent months changing one part of the logo from green to blue, updating it on all web sites, collateral, etc. It was barely noticeable. Results were not measured.
People are irrational. We downplay statistics when it’s convenient (like buying a lotto ticket) and overplay them when fearful (like with vaccines). Or we ignore statistics completely, like how dangerous it is simply to drive to the doctor’s office in an automobile. Unfortunately, more data is unlikely to sway folks who are already held by this dangerous meme that vaccines are bad. The answer is scientific literacy, and for such an advanced society we have a shocking lack of it.
PG&E is regulated as a utility but that didn't stop them from making short-sighted, unethical decisions which burned down a big chunk of California.
> A hippocratic oath encoded in their culture while we, white Europeans, bled people to their deaths.

But those doing the bleeding were following the hippocratic oath. They were trying to do good. The issue was stupidity (or, more charitably, lack of knowledge) rather than malice.
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One question, is how is "profit" defined? For example, if a company has surplus cash based on a given base of assets and current operating expenses, then that surplus is typically profit. However, if that surplus is used to buy new assets or pay down debt principle, I would consider that to be similar to profit because it tells me that the company would be profitable if it wasn't expanding (or, that it will be profitable once the debt is paid off, assuming all else remains the same).
Will steel production be able to scale to 1 billion cars? Or Rubber? Leather?

Maybe today's production levels don't support the wholesale replacement of every vehicle on the road over night, but there's no shortage of lithium in the world. It's just a matter of the market encouraging greater production, which will ramp up as demand for batteries increases.
40% of 'AI Startups' in Europe Don't Use AI, Claims Report
Agree it might be a dealbreaker for some. But right now there is not that much competition in the TPU for embedded space. NVidia Jetson and Intel Nervana are the only ones shipping? So if the TPU allows some company to do something not possible / much better than with Jetson, they will probably be willing to play that game.
Typically there are only 3-4 crossovers per chromosome. This means that large chunks of DNA get copied together, and as such the assortment of every base is not as simple as assuming each has an independent chance of ending up in a gamete. Rather, nearby bases are extremely likely to go into the same gamete.

This is why it's quite possible to get gametes that are similar in quantities much higher than the "expected" 50%. Instead of being 3 billion items randomly assorted, it's roughly 22 chromosomes x 4-5 chunks = 100 of so chunks of DNA, albeit split at random locations.

This simply spreads out the "normal" distribution. 50% is still the expected similarity of any two gametes, but it's not surprising for any two to be much more similar, or much less similar.
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Historically, most companies that IPO are profitable, and were going public to scale their profits with additional investment. It is mostly a Silicon Valley thing to IPO when unprofitable, and especially to IPO before a path to profitability has even been identified.
I'm ignorant on the subject, but is JSON really much better than SOAP?

I thought everyone hated SOAP.
That’s a good question. I wonder if it comes down to traffic volumes. I think US transit systems carry a lot fewer people compared to international ones, but I don’t know how they compare on a station by station basis. Is there enough traffic to “feed” retail on the mezzanine?
One issue that immediately comes to mind is that the people you're interviewing often don't want the story covered, or they want it covered in a way that promotes their angle on the issue. The "go back and present your work" part collapses there because they're going to be actively fighting against publishing, not promoting it. I'm not sure what adversarial journalism looks like under the pull model.
That's exactly our goal - teams that don't have the time to invest in devops should be able to use Dockup and not have to think much about it. Thanks for the kind words, glad you see the value here!
I personally support the view point. I also know that a company runs on business logic. The people's value and the government policy can affect the decision of a company like Google, but it would be more likely a feedback from the business logic that Google will get, to take action on this project. Let's say, Satan has a fat wallet, and we cannot prevent everyone from seduced by that wallet. Google has the desire for money as others do.
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My experience has been that no one needs a burndown chart to know how a project is going

Indeed, you use a burndown chart to know how the current sprint is going. Don't wait until the end of the sprint to know you're late, detect problems early.

I think this stuff represents very real overhead

Updating a burndown chart should be a grand total of 20sec. What takes time is the discussion you have when you're late. Yes, solving problems takes more visible time than burying them :)

In larger companies, where stuff like this is typically used as reporting up a chain

It's a terrible tool for reporting up the chain. No reason to report the details of the sprint up the chain

Identifying bottlenecks is easy

It sometimes is (usually when the situation is dire), but most of the time really not. I don't know if the burndown chart is the best tool to identify bottlenecks though, at best it shows that there is some problems that might be bottlenecks. It's just a very lightweight tool so make problems immediately visible. If you find a burndown chart to be too much overhead... I don't know what tools you'll ever use
I have been very happy with my 1 year old pair of WP glasses. There aren't any nose pads or spring hinges but I haven't noticed any negative effects from those design choices. For $110 with anti-glare coating I have no complaints.
NYC MTA brought in the former leader of London's underground and Toronto's public transit
Super-tall, super-skinny, super-expensive: the 'pencil towers' of NY super-rich
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I think what you are asking is whether there's another way to
recapitalize your business without selling 100%. The answer is a definite yes. Founders do it all the time. The difficulty, in the past, was for investors to be ok with the founders taking risk off the tables. However, that's more prevalent and acceptable now days for later-stage series to be a way to provide founders with liquidity.

Dean at CorkLabs (https://www.corklabs.com)
- We help early-stage companies develop business strategy that is acquisition and funding ready.
What prevents cheap home lithium power?

It seems easier for powerwall derivitives to become cheaper than solar because the % total cost of ownership not attributable to batteries is less. For example, it may not require a bunch of people on your roof, maybe less permit or zoning related costs, maybe less electrician labor, etc.

Why couldn't a startup with a couple of EE's design something comparable or maybe even something with ease of installation innovations using commodity battery cells? Couldn't they buy cells in small batches online at first, paying notch or two higher than wholesale until they ramp up sales? Not sure how it couldn't start as a garage business for a clever engineer undergraduate and a clever sales/marketing/distribution person.

I mean, people are already rolling their own as side projects right (without going into the practicality or safety of that, just in reference to the barriers to entry)?
I can't tell from the readme. What keybindings are available in Kakoune that aren't in Vi/Evil?
I wonder whether we can have the benefits of both.

Sounds like the bit-packed protocols save bits (that's clearly good), while the other protocols are self-documenting. Documenting is good.

Why can't we have both? Something like protocol buffers (yes, Raymond mentions them in the article) is a binary protocol that makes pretty efficient use of the bits on the wire. But they are also very well documented. And it's "documented" that is useful, not "documentation is included in every message that gets sent".

Is it possible to look at the on-wire protocol and tell that this message uses protocol buffers and which protocol specification it is using? (I'm not sure. I hope the answer is yes.) Is it possible to find the documentation for a particular protocol buffers specification once you know which one it is? (I think it is, if by no other means than a google search, although a more automated repository might be nice.) If both these things are true, then we can have bit-level efficiency AND have well-documented and extensible messages.
> Of course the optical cable won't transfer 100W of power

You sure about that? The optical cables will still have copper wires for power transfer. Only the high-speed data is carried over optical fiber. Eliminating electrical interference from the data path might even permit higher voltages, and thus thinner, more flexible wires for the same power.
In theory your local government has the local knowledge to allocate money and resources better than some hated bureaucrat in some far-away city.

In reality local government has almost zero transparency and people don't care about local government as much so it's a massive exercise in grift. Money disappears, contracts are given out to someone's friend at a jacked up price, a few officials can block a project completely, safety specs are ignored, etc. etc. etc.

If a project ordered at the state or federal level ever makes it into existence you can guarantee hundreds of hands have squeezed every dollar out of it for themselves or their friends long before a shovel ever broke ground.
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I've been using it as daily driver for a while. I switched when I realized I'm constantly tried to use Kakoune editing commands in Spacemacs...

Do you mind listing plugins you miss? That's probably depends on use-case but my impression is most of essential stuff is already available.
Zenni really needs a "very large lenses" section for sunglasses, most of them are just not large enough to block peripheral sunlight. I had one pair that I bought from them and loved, but after getting a new prescription I went to reorder them to find they had been discontinued.
IIRC, Silicon Graphics (the company) used to maintain a registry for "magic numbers" designating each file's type. Customers could contact SGI to be issued a magic number for whatever file formats they were cooking up.

I wonder if there's merit to recreating such a thing under ICANN, where the issued serial numbers are useful for file types, wire protocols, etc.

Then anyone needing to reliably interpret a packet could (1) look for the format serial number at some well-known location, and then (2) consult the well-publicized registry for whatever information has been provided regarding the format.
Oh, interesting. That was totally missing from the original article. I had assume that the twinning was because the egg had been fertilized by two sperm cells.

Rather, it seems that it's quite possible for any single-birth pregnancy to involve two sperm cells, and would result in a chimera. The fact that this one split into twins was a separate event.
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How dare you insult the author of one quasi used json format!!

I don't like the article for the same reasons. It felt long-winded and didn't ultimately offer anything of value. What's worse is that it's written from a position of authority, common for this particular author, so some people will be duped into treating it as gospel.
So life imitates art - again. Too bad the artist is a dystopian dadaist.
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I think there are a number of factors at play here:

- Many people believe their social network over authoritative sources.

- There is a general (and many times legitimate) distrust of "Big Pharma", especially in the US.

- Protecting children triggers a deep emotional instinct in parents. This provides a strong motivator for people to do research into what substances are being put in their childs bodies.

- Autism is scary for many, in part because its not currently well-understood, nor are its causes. Anti-vaxxers capitalize on this fear to present causal arguments in absence of an authoriative science-based one. People who need answers will find one, one way or another.

- Reported cases of autism are on the rise, this is a generally-accepted fact. This is most likely due to our improved understanding of what autism is of course, and not due to the rise of vaccines. We can shout "Correlation != Causation" all we want, but at the end of the day, scientific education is quite poor all over the world (especially in the US where its actively demeaned by many groups, whether for financial, ideological, or religious reasons), and a lot of people quite simply just don't think this way. We are hard-wired to find patterns in the world, and the world is complex - many people will quite simply find the wrong ones.

- Anti-vax is partially due to the success of vaccines, people of parenting age today were born into a world without polio, measles, smallpox, etc. This may lead people to believe the vaccine "didn't do anything" (which is kind of the point!). Preventative measures (vaccines) don't have the same response as reactive measures (cures), we're just not hard-wired for it emotionally.

- There exist a number of sources online that imply vaccines cause more harm than good. This is the first google result I found when searching "number of vaccines in usa", a realistic search term a concerned parent might use:

https://www.fourteenstudies.org/nowwhat.html

These present a number of studies that appear to show a link between vaccines and autism. As I sit here, I could not refute each study one-by-one, and other than the goofy styles, I could not articulate to an anti-vax parent, or even an undecided one, why these are bad science.

In fact, it doesn't even seem like an unreasonable hypothesis to me that "Big Pharma" is pushing vaccines of dubious necessity for profits - the incentive is clearly there.

So its not as illogical as it might seem - Fixing these attitudes is a difficult problem, and not one with an easy solution. We can start by improving scientific education, and improving the way that institutionalized knowledge is distributed. We need to somehow figure out how to collectively "remember" why these vaccines are necessary in the first place, well after the people affected by these diseases in the past are gone.
I've been playing around with Lazarus recently. It's a pretty nice way to knock up a GUI, and it compiles to a single executable, which is great. Which makes it kind of ironic that Lazarus itself is such a giant pain to use as a portable application. The Windows installer is packaged in such a way as to make it a pain to extract without running it, and even then I had to resort to Cameyo to make it work reasonably. Seriously, if anyone from the project is reading this, can you put some effort toward making this not such a giant pain?

I've also discovered that I'm not really a fan of Free Pascal as a language. Particularly maddening is not being able to assign an intermediate value to a variable in order to make code more clear without first declaring it at the top of the procedure.

Overall though, I really like it.
The do not mean the same thing. You can't refer to a 20 story Sheraton tower with a concierge-staffed lobby as a "motel".

A motel (portmanteau of "motor hotel") is a low-lying, often ground-level, structure oriented toward motorists, usually featuring separate exterior entrances to each suite. Visitors are usually able to park right next to their suite, for easily moving items to and from their vehicle.

The word comes from America, and seems to originally have been a proper noun serving as the name of a motor hotel chain: https://www.etymonline.com/word/motel
I was at Google when this became the standard more than a decade ago (https://www.usenix.org/sites/default/files/conference/protec...). For jobs where you had tens or hundreds of replicas, i.e. for services with lots of traffic, it made the rollout of new binaries in Borg much faster, especially if you were deploying to a cluster in Asia and your packages were built and stored in the US. Even in the US, this being before Firehose/Jupiter fabrics, network congestion had had noticeable impact.

MPM traffic was low priority, so for large enough binaries (and most of them were, because of static linking) you could easily see a Borg task spend seconds or even tens of seconds in "downloading" state if the borglet hadn't already seen and cached locally that version of the package.

It was about time this became available also for Docker and Kubernetes.
If one of my engineers brought me this "protocol" (um, protocols require state machines, where is it?), we would be having a series of long talks to figure out whether he needs to be educated or fired.

What happens if I want to run NTP on an ARM M4 microcontroller with a lithium coin cell battery? Because, you know, perhaps I actually might want my time to be accurate on devices that even outship cell phones?

Sending that message would be difficult without drift because of the huge number of bytes involved. Transmission time is far too long. I could go on and on...

If you want to see a relatively well designed protocol, go chew through the BLE (Bluetooth Low Enregy) spec. It's not perfect, but it shows you how to balance functionality vs. engineering (note the number of times you have a "length" parameter so that you can chew through your binary blobs even if you can't parse all of it).

Please quit giving ESR a platform when it's quite clear he really sucks as a programmer.
Offhand thought. Building costs in urban area's are stuck in a high cost 'peak'. Everything is expensive which makes construction expensive.

My experience renting some warehouse space in SF. One building three units. Used to be occupied by three roofing companies. And some meth heads living in the old offices. One of the roofing companies bought it, kicked out one of the other roofing companies and the methheads and rented to us.

Change of ownership and new owner kicked out another roofing company. And rented out to a pot grow. Fast forward 5 years we got kicked out along with the remaining roofers and all three units are now growing pot.

So went from three roofing companies circa 1998 to three pot grows circa 2012. My feeling is stuff like this is happening in every urban area in the US. Which means your roofer is either paying very high rents or commuting in from 2-3 hours away.

Really easy for me to see that driving costs up by 100%. That's born out by what my insurance agent says. Rebuilding costs in SF are $600-1000 sqft. Get out to Vallejo drops to $300-500 sqft.

Other thought as well is that typically you get better margin on luxury goods than basic ones. because it's easier to slip more profit into high cost goods, like granite countertops vs laminate. Prices double, your margin doubles but your expenses only go up 50%. So as long as the luxo market isn't tapped out that will be serviced at the expense of basic goods.
Re: Diminishing Returns of Static Typing: https://blog.merovius.de/2017/09/12/diminishing-returns-of-s...
So, it faithfully represents urban planning in the US then?
As long as the intrusive changes are taken upstream, I've no problem with it.
I like that there's a push now for these reconsiderings of older systems that are still in common use. Vi/vim has been around forever, and has survived all sorts of other editors emerging as competitors.

Kakoune is an interesting concept because most post-vi editors have abandoned modality, and Kakoune embraces it wholeheartedly in an attempt to capture the essence of what makes vi powerful and attractive for a certain type of user, but trying to ditch some of the historical ed/ex syntax and thought patterns that make vi weirdly inconsistent. I don't think kakoune is quite there -- I think the multi-selection gimmick is not strong enough to be worth being first-class (especially the way that search-and-replace works), too many common operations are chorded, and there's no selection "mode" -- you have to remember to keep pressing 'J' as long as you want to grow the selection; one 'j' and you're lost.

In programming languages I think we're seeing this happening also; C has remained a prominent language despite its age and the number of C-killers that have emerged over the years, and now we're seeing a resurgence of projects that are really trying to preserve something at the heart of C that has made it attractive for so long, but that even the most jaded systems programmer can see are not ideal, like the fact that types precede names in variable declarations, or the lack of a keyword for function or variable declaration that make it hard to grep, or the superfluous parens in ifs and fors that are obviated by mandatory blocks, or the default pass-through behavior in switch statements. Previous attempts, like C++ and D, have diverged too much from the simplicity of "I can imagine what the assembly code for this function will look like based on the compiler in my head", Rust has some attraction, but nim and zig and Jai and v are all emerging to nuzzle into that niche by restricting their feature set.
Those are different layers. JSON is a simpler alternative to XML. SOAP has its own complexity on top of the complexity of XML, so a "full" SOAP implementation is probably 100x more complex than, say, JSON-RPC.