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Okay, I like how backwards compatibility is preserved. I worked with mongoDB at my previous company and we ended up not being able to migrate to mongoDB 3.x. I think it was because we forked 'eve-mongoengine' and couldn't merge upstream changes, which ended up forcing us to version the entire stack through the database at the same time, which passed the threshold of feasibility.

We were absolute idiots, but I still think a data warehouse should be idiot-proof, which is why I like SQL.

I read through the documentation for ArangoDB and I would be concerned about the lack of native strict type definitions and referencing in AQL, as well as the dearth of type availability in ArangoDB in general. Is this a design decision related to not supporting data/database administration, or something to be added later to the roadmap?

It sounds like if you support write-intensive paths through the database, it would be considered an OLTP database for some OLTP workloads; do you publish TPC-C benchmarks anywhere? What about resource utilization?

Is there a particular reason to support JavaScript first? Is it because Swagger has JavaScript-first support, or a different reason?
I would hazard to say many democrats are already convinced and that the GOP has drifted so far in the intervening years that you'll never convince it that UBI is anything but a scheme to turn the U.S. into Venezuala.
Somewhat at least...
N1QL tries to be more close to SQL in terms of keywords and such, whereas the AQL approach was to pick different keywords than SQL. Apart from the difference in keywords I tend to agree.
Rudder issue that plagued the Boeing 737 throughout the 1990s
Like I said; still a niche, but growing. Though to put that in perspective, that's still higher than the number of Steam users who run Linux (0.77%).
We've encountered this a lot and when sending emails to organizations that use Google Suite or Gmail. When we explicitly don't want the messages to be grouped our team has began making the subject of the email unique to the request.

e.g instead of:

Subject:"Password Reset Notification" (or)
Subject:"Website Support Request"

we'd use:

Subject:"Your Password Reset Request - March 14th 10:19am" (and)
Subject:"Website Support Request - Jimmy Davis, Failed Login"
What's wrong with Google nowadays? They seem completely unable or unwilling to invest in anything besides search for longer than 3-4 years. Completely untrustworthy at this point. I would never buy another Google product ever again.
> People are avoiding the 737 MAX because given the current information

Again: the topic here is predicting long-term damage to consumer confidence. I understand what is happening right now.

The entire 787 fleet was grounded not more than a few years ago due to battery issue. How many people actively avoid 787s today? Long-term consumer trust depends not just the root cause of an accident, but also the perception of how it was addressed. As the GP correctly points out, the 767 (and all other planes, and security screening procedures) were redesigned to protect against the type of attack that succeeded on September 11.
If there's enough of it, yes they do.
your comment is underappreciated
Geese will do a pretty good number on a kid. 'Biting', honking, my grandmother had a few geese when we were growing up and I got attacked a few times coming in the drive, and my younger brother was absolutely terrified of them
Neither Signal nor Telegram are acceptable communication systems. Both are isolated and fully controlled by a single company, both require mobile phone numbers and unduly trust mobile carriers for user authentication (at least by default), see https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2016/04/30/russia-telegram-h....
You seem to have the gist of it.

She doesn't seem to see the irony in:

> someone who pirates the book was never going to buy it anyway, so it’s not a lost sale.

Yet her whole story is pointing out that there was a point in time when a whole bunch of people were eagerly awaiting book 3 but the only actual way they could get it was to download a pirate copy of the "e-arc". She does see how the piracy on book 3 hurt her on book 4, but doesn't seem to believe that the root problem was that the only way for legitimate fans to join an ongoing discussion about the piracy-released version of her book was to also pirate the book.

She didn't want the e-arc released for book 4 for the wrong reasons. It was not that she wanted to avoid a scenario where the only way fans could get a book they were eagerly awaiting was to pirate it, she just wanted to avoid the e-arc copy being the copy which is pirated.

I don't see how her "proof" proves anything other than the fact that piracy exists. Neil Gaiman's experience directly contradicts her belief as well.
The majority of charging in Western Europe will happen overnight and at home, combine that with 'smart chargers', which are technologically trivial, appropriate tariffs giving a discount in exchange for flexible demand overnight, and a thirty year period to make the transition (even if all new cars were electric from 2035), and I doubt the impact on the grid will be that dramatic. You will actually likely have improved utilization of existing assets, coupled with a lot of extra revenue going to power companies, away from oil companies. Motorway charging systems, which will be a small minority of total charging, will need ongoing grid upgrades, but spikes in demand can be buffered by trickle charging batteries, and dealing with increased electricity demand can scale gradually and incrementally as the transition occurs over that 30 year period. The infrastructure improvements will likely come under national infrastructure provisions which limit planning objections. I actually think the grid transition will mostly happen without people realizing.
Given that I personally have to have seen this proposal at least a dozen times myself, and I'm not even particularly "in the field", if it was as easy as people supposed, we'd be using it.

I will point out you're thinking of it incorrectly, though. The challenge with compression isn't to "reach far into pi". The challenge is to reach correctly into pi. A double can identify 2^64 places to reach into pi. It doesn't really matter how you specify those 2^64 locations, that's all it can do, by the simple argument that one double can't specify more than one location.

The location of the US Constitution in pi may be "far", but it's not the "far" we have in our fuzzy human brains where things sort of logarithmically just pile together until there's no meaningful difference to us humans between the 1,839,837,237,938,739,837,954th position of pi and the 1,839,827,237,938,739,837,954th position. But a compression algorithm off by that much is useless; indeed, even being off by one digit (in your choice of base) is going to produce garbage. So it's not just about being able to reach "far", it's about being able to reach far and precisely. It doesn't matter how you arrange the possible 2^64 locations a machine word can point to; specify it as 1,739,837,237,938,739,837,954 + the binary as a 64-bit int for all it matters. That reaches "far" into pi. But you won't find anything useful enough to pay off the 64bits you spent getting there.

(I mean, you want to reach far into Pi, I give you "Go BusyBeaver(64-bit int) digits into Pi". That's reaching in pretty darned far. But it's still useless as a compression algorithm, even with the mighty power of BusyBeaver there.)

(Amusingly, at BB(42) digits into Pi, you get "42" as the next digits, proving that 42 really is the answer. Prove me wrong!)
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Personal opinion: I suspect it's something most gamers care about even if they don't realise they do. If your controls feel disconnected from your gaming experience then you will get frustrated pretty quick.
What is the advantage over ARQ + B2/S3/etc...
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Whenever I see the ridiculous number of places to which pi has been calculated, I wonder if anyone has checked to see if there is a repeating pattern. I mean, 31 trillion places leaves a lot of possibilities for repetition of a couple of billion digits.

Or is my understanding of what constitutes an irrational number outdated? Is there another definition that precludes even looking for repetition in hopes of finding a denominator?
And so does wget if this report is correct! How can I verify this?

I’ve often wanted this information but without having to rely on external book-keeping.
>IRC isn't very easy to use for the common person.

A common person can learn. Also the audience (mostly gamers) know how to do stuff with their computers.
However, google is still a third party and I would argue this is not legal, as is using google maps or other external entities known to employ excessive tracking unless you have special data protection contracts with said entity.

But I also understand the law, that anonymous user statistics are just fine and don't need consent as long as you retain the data yourself and of course mention it in your privacy policy. Though you might still be obligated to respect "do not track" and adding an opt-out setting.
The only things blocking it on by default now are:
* Implementing interactive key verification on mobile (happening right now)
* Cross-signing, so you don't have to keep verifying devices but can transitively trust them. This is designed and we demoed an initial implementation at FOSDEM in Feb; we're doing the final implementation now.
* E2E capable search. We have a PoC solution for this already, but want to rework it - work should start on this next week.
* Providing an E2E daemon so that non-E2E-capable clients aren't locked out when we turn it on by default. This is being done in combination with the search work and should start next week.

So, it's getting close...
> needs less components,

No.

> less repair

No.

> and can actually be refuelled at home.

No.
Just train all of the cashiers and truck drivers to become mechanical engineers. It's simple! /s
Or ARQ if it’s just for backup...
On the other end, my kid has played my launch day version nearly every day and haven't had an issue yet.
As a user this is infuriating, I remember spending a good chunk of time trying to figure out how to get book on the Kindle app :/
That's not in any way a replacement for discord.
I've done this cycle 3 times now.

If anything, talk about my work on the previous startup tended to dominate my interviews. Employers seem fascinated by this out of the ordinary experience.

I've found that, if anything, this experience tends to differentiate you from the herd. Just be sure to practice talking positively about the experience even though the business itself may have failed.
> A good diesel estate might average 50mpg if driven carefully, but in towns a lot less.

Going to fuelly.com, newer Golf TDIs seem to average out at 40 mpg, with the tails trailing out by +/- 5mpg:

* http://www.fuelly.com/car/volkswagen/golf?engineconfig_id=10...

The older 1.9L engines are slightly better.
Yeah, but what about the experience?

You could already have pure vending machines serve what baristas serve you at Starbucks, Costa, whatever, you would get exactly the same product and it's close to what happens in reality. But people want a coffee shop experience, not a vending machine experience so I think moving robots will be a thing (unless people really insist on interacting with humans)
I teach data science at a masters programs (University of St Thomas graduate programs in software in the twin cities) and we have some students who are part of retraining programs. Apparently if a big company lays off a significant chunk of workforce and off-shores it, there are programs funded through corporate taxes that the laid off workers can use to go to school. The students in my anecdotal experience (2 semesters so far) are pretty good. I think there must be more than one such program because some students required a sign off from me but others didn't. It's just a few students that I know of so it's not a super large scale but it's nice to know that such programs exist at least.
It's not incredibly clear in the ticket, but the bug seems to be refering to Linux file system extended attributes.
this reminds me out using all my SCVs to defend against Zealots in early game.
As the "xdg" in the name suggests, this is a Freedesktop thing. Silly to blame Chrome for supporting the very extended attributes the premier Linux desktop project defined.
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That only means it will get less expensive to buy and operate an ICE vehicle, especially as the demand for fuel decreases and the price for it goes down as well. For those using an ICE vehicle for transportation and not as investment that is only a good thing
You’ve just explained why it’s become unreliable.
It might have been great once, but fixing it when it’s broken is a complete nightmare now.
Cleaning crew coming through to close backdoors before investigators uncover. Outage is only way to get it done.
This is true, but Tarn Adams was in fact offered a big commercial deal before and rejected it. He really values the independence of his vision.
Well except two points:

- Switch doesn't even have a browser (it does technically, but it's internally used and you need to hack the switch to be able to use the browser)

- Nintendo could easily change this if they wanted, of course, but considering their history of tight control over the platform, I don't think they'd be willing.
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The “at home” is very tricky in Europe (Western) where most (like almost all) of the people live in flats.
totally, IIRC curl does this too and it's extremely useful later on..
It's an entertaining (though certainly wrong) theory that states that ancient peoples' minds were divided into a "conscious" part that executed commands given by the other part, which it perceived as "gods speaking to it". More (and better) explanations on wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicameralism_(psychology)
There’s one outside a movie theater in SF. I use it every time. It’s fun and fast. The coffee tastes good and the UX is easy. The arm is choreographed and does cute dances.
I don't think this is an valid argument. I think that "art", as understood now, is pretty much the word for "art". A language is an evolving thing and the usage defines the meaning. Many words change their meaning and new words emerge.

> Even early modern and Renaissance art was probably seen differently to how we see it. A lot of the best statues and paintings had religious purposes, kind of like Egyptians.

Nearly everything artists in the past produced was commissioned work, the dutch old-masters are no different and I would be suprised if the appreciation for arts emerged out of nowhere, it was (as nearly everything is) a gradual process. I am a bit suprised by my lack of knowledge how art evolved as a concept, so I can't really argue much here.
This is well documented article on how to research someone's past online.
Depending on what kind of analytics you want, Fathom is quite nice too. I recently set it up on my servers (about a month ago) and its been working well.
It’s open source as well, with a public Trello board that speaks to future dev goals.
https://github.com/usefathom/fathom
Google just smashed the world record for calculating digits of pi
Yes there's work to do, but it's not insurmountable. The National Grid in the UK has already said it would support"a more ambitious target” than the UK Government has set for the end to ICE vehicles.
oh but he is.
The Republican Party had daytime ("junior varsity", as 538 put it) and nighttime debates during their crowded primaries in 15/early 16.
Should we keep this game and play who can say yes and no or would you like to elaborate?
The citation is the very first thing in the comment you responded to: The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes. Haven't read it but heard of it many times. Interesting speculation, but there you have your citation.
Love threema.
Retraining is literally the #learntocode meme.
Will it have a way to prevent sending my location to Google without having to disable Location Services?
How do you know it was deliberate?
Plenty of other comments have covered what a great position you're in, and I agree. To take full advantage of what you're seeing in this thread, it would be very helpful if you'd post where you live and where you might be willing to move to. Any info on topics you're interested in would be great, too.

And like everyone else, my team (Azure DevOps) is hiring. If you want to live in Raleigh, Seattle, or Hyderabad please send me an email :).
This is called mobbing and birds are most famously known to do it, I'm kind of surprised they don't mention the behavior by name.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobbing_(animal_behavior)
Standard frenzy behaviour for a fox. It's pointless to anthropomorphize them, as it's just natural for them to kill now with the intent of coming back to collect the bodies for later consumption.

Just like your average labrador will inhale food until it's too large to walk. Binging is a natural instinct in feast or famine capable animals.
I’ll have to check, but I’m pretty sure the Mac Cocoa version of Telegram (not the Mac Qt version) supports secret chat initiation.
The erlang gc is far better than the go gc, and it's deployed on every Cisco and juniper switch.
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Every good invention can be terrifying if it falls in the hands of bad guys (Nuclear technology for example).
It's true for AI also. I am sure bad guys must be training similar AI agents by only feeding fake news, conspiracy theories etc. and it's easy to build AI agents as there is so much Open Source material online about AI.
I find this super useful on a Mac and routinely would dump the urls with xattr. That is before I switched back to FF which runs better on older hardware .
We wuz kangz
That's the term evil neoliberal Milton Friedman used.
Pi can be proven to be an irrational number:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_that_%CF%80_is_irrationa...
Hell, if they managed to muddle along at a startup for seven years (that is, it took seven entire years before it failed) they've probably picked up enough to be super valuable in non-programming roles. SEO, UX, (perhaps especially) product owner / strategist or (maybe) project manager. With that experience I think they're Doing It Wrong if they shoot for a software dev position, unless that's just really where they wanna be. They ought to consider agencies that have people in those roles (product strategist especially) if all else fails. Some are quite good.

Bonus: interviews for those positions are probably less stupid.
OK, I've found the gross reason why the 2^16 + 2^20 arithmetic works:

"The Unicode standard permanently reserves these code point values for UTF-16 encoding of the high and low surrogates, and they will never be assigned a character, so there should be no reason to encode them. The official Unicode standard says that no UTF forms, including UTF-16, can encode these code points."

Ugh.
ArangoDB is definitely my database of choice. There is a lot to like. Ease of setup and clustering, free REST API, solid graph features with AQL, great docs. I have been promoting it in my projects. I would love to be their partner or tech evangelist for Southeast Asia. If you guys are looking, I am game for it.
I love it. It's become one of the first things I look at every morning.
When Angkor Wat was being raided by art thieves operating out of Thailand, they knocked off heads off of buddha not to be disrepsectful per se, but because they wanted to loot and sell those heads on the black market. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angkor_Wat#History
the user who logged into Facebook...

It's not good. It stopped in 2017 when they removed Facebook integration.
Unless you are a developer , while we built more abstractions and automation into our software engineering we also attempt more complex problems. I don't see dev being in lesser demand in the next 30 years
I reported this to chromium recently, but I wasn't the first, it was marked as a duplicate. I think it should be fixed in latest versions or a fix should come soon.
wget had the exact same issue and they recently disabled the attribute storage by default.

See e.g. also

* https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/01/01/1

* https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-wget/2018-12/msg00034...
> Ah so Linux is not written in C, because there are some Assembly components there I guess.

Oh do please stop exaggerating things. It's abundantly clear that I wasn't arguing the irrelevance of Java in Android. You simply said "phone OS written in Java" and I was making the point that Android wasn't exclusively written in Java, thus Go (amongst other languages) can and do still run on Android. Given the context was about whether x can run on y, it's very relevant if y was written exclusively in x, w or v.

Also I don't understand why you've taken such a personal offence to Go but this entire argument of yours has been really petty. You have your tools you like and the GP has theirs. Does the GPs tools really need "death by a thousand paper cuts" to make yours tools look more important? Clearly it doesn't because Java is proven technology. So why waste your time criticising everyone else's tools?

> What GNU components? The only GPL stuff surviving on Android is the Linux kernel.

Quick Google suggests you might be right there however that wasn't the case last time I did dev work on Android.

Even so, the NDK still exists.
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You don't.

Though I suppose a dumb phone would do, or maybe a LineageOS/MicroG-based smartphone.
3000 chickens vs a not full grown fox.

Sounds like a zombie movie type of fight.
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Yup, seen the same thing before. One fox killing all but one chicken during the night. Same conditions as you describe, but no door was open and instead the fox dug a hole under the fence.
> - persistent chat history

That's kind of misleading. "Server-side chat history" is more accurate.

IRC logs are more persistent. It's possible to go back and check them at any time. If I've read the messages, I know they've been logged, and I know they'll still be there.

Discord history, on the other hand, can be deleted from the servers at any time. Often when you go back to double check something that was written previously, it's not there any more.
There are tiny traces of truth in that video, but like 90% of it is complete nonsense.
> those users need to sit down at a computer to do actual work

Not all people sit down to do work, and even those that do have more devices than they do desktops.
There was a specific hardware / RF design issue with the first-gen left joycons that caused a weak signal and resulted in lag or bad inputs. If you have that one, get it fixed. Nintendo was (at the time) fixing them all for free. There are also youtube videos of how to do the fix yourself for a couple of bucks.
No, the reverse actually. More like the rise of objects-as-a-service, which means the objects will be more durable since they'll be shared around among people.
Can you please explain it a little bit more? I am just curious.