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> A billion dollar company has few excuses in my opinion.

There are plenty of wealthy companies with huge resources that make bad software. The size of your developer pool is not the sole key to quality.
We are not free to end our own life when you feel you had enough. There's laws for that. But yes, I'll reflect on my options whether or not I'll have that chemo when I'm in my sixties/seventies.
Maybe I misused the proper nouns, what I mean is 'non-blocking I/O'. Thanks for your reminder.
"With China no longer accepting used plastic and paper, communities are facing steep collection bills, forcing them to end their programs or burn or bury more waste."

The phrasing is telling. "China no longer accepting", "communities are facing", "forcing them".
Table plus appears to me MAC only. A shame. But I’m happy with datagrip.
Check Seaborn, it may suit your needs.

https://seaborn.pydata.org/
So say we all.

I'll nerd out all day over some BSG.
It will likely also take a generation or two until our anti-aging technology actually works and is cheap enough to have a meaningful impact on the planetwide population.
Why is no one asking the biggest question; why are people piling into cities when there are towns and smaller cities that could be developed instead and thereby lower cost of living. It’s a global phenomenon it seems, as much as it doesn’t make any sense regardless.

Please save yourself the quality of life arguments. Those are post hoc arguments that only express laziness.

What state governments should be doing is “redistributing the wealth” by heavily taxing successful cities to fund and develop less successful counties and districts and towns. When businesses stop clustering and concentrating in places like Silicon Valley and NYC then you know that taxation is at the right level to compensate for the cartel and monopolistic like behaviors and phenomenon of, e.g., Silicon Valley and SF.

In the USA that should look like heavily taxing Silicon Valley and NYC, etc and using that money to fund high speed Internet and education and companies and business centers in under developed regions like rural Alabama or Mississippi or North Dakota.
> It stems from a widely held but mistaken belief that science and technology education should take precedence over subjects like English, history and foreign languages.

As someone who lives in a foreign country, computer skills have been a lot more valuable to me than language skills. Some hotel staff here will speak multiple languages while I have managed to get employment in English fairly easily and I earn a fair bit more than what the multilingual hotel staff will earn.
Self-healing stretchable electronic skin
I often get 5-6 a day. I can't even tell you the last time I had an actual phone call come to my phone.
Youtube is another prime example of this. Just look how they've treated even their biggest content creators when it comes to copystriking and user comments (something they have no control over). Users are just a nuisance.
The 2009 statement linked above was not removed; a 2015 update of the position statement was retracted and re-published in 2016 [1][2]. The position has been formally endorsed until December 31, 2021.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27886704

[2] https://jandonline.org/article/S2212-2672(16)31192-3/fulltex...
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I doubt that they'll put you in jail after you killed yourself.
Almost all javascript usage is either running it directly or compiling to it from another language.

If you're talking about compiling from javascript to another language... that seems neither useful or desirable.
I agree on goalpost but still differ on Friedman's point. Culture shifts into thinking you need objects to the point of making you forget what you wanted in the first place. Friedman wants to marvel at the thought of his beloved market.
There's more to life than property rights. Keeping buildings empty in an area where there's high demand for buildings is harmful, and real estate is inherently subject to regulation already. Opponents of squatting do indeed complain that it's theft of some sort and should be illegal, and that's hard to deny, but at the same time it's a very cheap and pragmatic solution to a problem: one way or another, it ensures that buildings are kept in use.
Horror stories like this one crop up every now and then. The other time they locked all the G Suite accounts of an entire company just because one of the employees has made a couple of bad chargebacks for some Android apps on his private account that was supplied as a recovery email for his company account. And they didn't even provide a reason, the company had to investigate and find out on their own.
I think this line of reasoning is probably too simplistic. It's like suggesting vaccines or antiobiotics would lead to greater overpopulation, when it's not necessarily the case in reality. A couple of the major motivating factors in having children are to have someone to look after you when you're old, and leaving a legacy. With factors mitigated I think it's possible you'd find the population relatively stable.
My current phone has been falling apart for a while and I've already replaced the back 3 times and the camera. With the battery going out and the back starting to crack again under the case, I decided I'm getting sick of Android.

My next device needs to be something I can easily run Plasma on. Maybe I'll pre-order a Purism phone. I want a real open source phone, similar to running a Linux distro on my PC in the late 90s.

I'm willing to write applications to fill in the gaps for my needs to get away from the toxic Google ecosystem. I want a phone with real open source software, not some crippled Android minus the Play store.
A program that does not halt is not an algorithm. If you want to create a sorting algorithm, it has to halt, i.e. not run forever.
Android and 'no Google controlled device' sounds like sci-fi.
Then stop eating fish and meat, you can be healthy taking care of your environment and without killing any animal. Everything you are saying are still environmentally unfriendly options.
After dark - yes. Very late at night - no.
Good marketing has value. If I walk into a store I don't mind a knowledgeable sales clerk selling me something I was looking to buy anyways. I do mind the pushy tactics and bald-faced lies they serve you in practice though.
Example V-Ray to GlTF and USDZ for 3DS Max
Great question. This question itself is worth a separate thread.
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Cigarette makers are making an awful amount of money and nobody is even talking about them. They have a huge influence on media, so many indirect advertising everywhere.

Overhead on health care and even the environment that is all on taxpayers (smokers and non-smokers)
spent $1500

(By flying from Minnesota to LA and renting a boat to get salt from the sea)
There are people trading based on lunar and solar cycles, the justification being that they have subtle effects on human behavior that emerge at the scales of large groups.
I owe Arduino a lot though I never bought one (real or clone). I retired from commercial development in Java, saw these discussed, but looking at them I thought - that's just an Atmel chip on a board. Not quite true, but with a £10 programmer I got a range of DIP Atmel chips and found it was easy to program them with avr-gcc. It is a bit more complex, but not much, and very satisfying to know what everything is doing.

Ironically I do use the Arduino IDE with the esp8266 but I consider I will never fully know what those things are doing.
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The 2015 version of the paper was removed for revision. It was revised and the current revision (Dec 2016) still has the same position on vegetarian diets.

https://www.eatrightpro.org/practice/position-and-practice-p...

>POSITION STATEMENT
It is the position of the Academy of Nutrition
and Dietetics that appropriately planned
vegetarian, including vegan, diets are
healthful, nutritionally adequate, and may
provide health benefits in the prevention
and treatment of certain diseases. These
diets are appropriate for all stages of the life
cycle, including pregnancy, lactation, infancy,
childhood, adolescence, older adulthood,
and for athletes. Plant-based diets are more
environmentally sustainable than diets rich
in animal products because they use fewer
natural resources and are associated with
much less environmental damage.

And it was never actually a big deal in the first place, because they have maintained more-or-less the same position for several decades, and the removal didn't actually change their position in a significant way.

https://retractionwatch.com/2015/11/16/inaccuracies-and-omis...

>Following the release of the “Vegetarian Diets” position paper, the Academy Positions Committee received correspondence from respected experts in the area of vegetarian nutrition, including Academy members, expressing concern about what they cited as inaccuracies in the paper. Upon receipt of the memoranda, the APC sent the paper out for a secondary external blind, unbiased review. Based on the result of these reviews, as well as the received correspondence from experts in the field, the APC voted to remove the paper from the Journal with the goal to revise and publish at a future date. Until then, individuals should refer to the “Vegetarian Diets” position paper published in the July 2009 Journal (Volume 109, Issue 7, pages 1266-1282).

This is the 2009 version:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/19562864/

>It is the position of the American Dietetic Association that appropriately planned vegetarian diets, including total vegetarian or vegan diets, are healthful, nutritionally adequate, and may provide health benefits in the prevention and treatment of certain diseases. Well-planned vegetarian diets are appropriate for individuals during all stages of the life cycle, including pregnancy, lactation, infancy, childhood, and adolescence, and for athletes.

Furthermore, most similar organizations take similar positions

https://www.livekindly.co/myth-buster-vegan-diets-are-unheal...
That's why I mention them both. I'm generally fine with anything that has animals outside rather than locked up in a tiny cage, but I prefer meat grown locally in a field that's not certified over meat that's technically certified but shipped from the other side of the world.
Aren’t GANs behind things like thispersondoesnotexist.com?
> Religion should stick to what it's good at - peaceful prayer gatherings.

That's a pretty a pretty simplistic view, given history.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Role_of_Christianity_in_civili...
AFAICT both the options for shingles vaccination are just variants on the chickenpox vaccine - one being more directly just a high dose of it.

This doesn't undermine anything you say, I'm just bemused at the lag time between the chickenpox vaccine (1984) and Zostavax (2006).
Thanks for your perspective.

So the way I understood it is that every person has the potential to be like God (even if they are the Christchurch killer, Hitler and the likes), so that's why they are valuable.

I get that concept, I just don't see how we can be practical about it. For example, I think most people would probably say that mass murderers, child rapists etc don't bring any value to our society or habitat and that those people are 'beyond repair'.

I just had a problem with the statement "Every person is valuable" - first what is Eridiu's definition of valuable and also it needs to be a bit more specific or not be so absolute.
This is exactly the case.

Here in Spain it takes months, even a year to get a judge to evict a tenant that has stopped to pay rent. In the meantime, you need to keep paying for utilities or you will be fined, not the person not paying their rent. Even when you get them out, you could find a destroyed property, just for the sake of it, and you have to pay for the repair work. So just one stroke of bad luck with a tenant will make you lose years of profits.

The laws are extremely weighted in favour of the tenant: there is a minimun contract of five years, that the tenant can broke just telling the renter a month before, but the renter can't. Just a few weeks ago, the government approved a new law so if the renter is a company and not an individual, the minimum contract period is 7 years, and in this time you can only rise your price to keep with the official inflation index. So basically investors are tying themselves for seven years with these contracts. Of course they have the option to sell, but selling a property with a tenant that has the right to live there for years with a fixed price is difficult, so you'll need to sell for a lower price.

At the end all of this regulations makes the renters very careful, so they prefer to have their properties empty or wait months to find a suitable tenant. And that means that the price is higher and only people who can show they have an stable high paying job are able to rent.
LIGO gravitational wave detectors that hunt for ripples in space-time upgraded
Hi,

> I mean, linker tricks à la LD_PRELOAD, DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES are a lot less work than rewriting code. They don't even require a recompile most of the time.

Thanks. Also, simply providing static symbols during compilation should work (in most cases), as typically a static linker will only pick up the first provided and referenced (yet undefined) symbol.

Probably even a more "stable" (less conflicting) solution would be to use -Wl,--wrap=symbol and then provide __wrap_symbol() sandboxed definition. Agree, this all doable one way or another, and we might take a look at it at some point (we'll be glad to receive any input on that, preferably on the project's mailing list).
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The lack of ability for their chat to interface with others is probably a considerable measure of control over information flow, which I imagine is good for Goldman Sachs.
My view too, everyone whines about the "new generation." While it's true that living standards have increased (along with the stresses to keep it,) old people are having it much better too compared to their parents.
Karen Uhlenbeck, Uniter of Geometry and Analysis, Wins Abel Prize
Isn't sleep sort equivalent to gravity sort?
I wonder why there is no big red button that puts everything on full-manual immediately.
So, a bit like now, then?
Don't worry I worry about climate change and apparently others also factor it in when thinking about parenthood.

Bullshit job is also quite high on my list.

Right now I'm thinking of quitting as soon as I have enough money for normal living as it just feels easier to escape all of that while not escaping it.

I also have the feeling that the zeitgeist in movies and TV shows also reflect more fundamental worries like why? How? What? Live.
"I rebuilt the same application with the SMS feature removed and the Play Store Developer Console was very unclear and buggy on how to resolve the issue and get my app out of the rejected status."

Holy cow I had the same issue. Ended up having to just make a brand new one with a new name. It was a horrible experience.

A version on a beta channel had SMS permissions requested, but there was no way to get rid of it. You can never just delete a version of something, only replace it. But you couldn't 'replace' until you'd 'fixed' the problem of the SMS perms.

What they were asking for was a description of the fix, a login/password to view the fix, a video of the old and fixed versions in action and some checkboxes stating that I accepted the new SMS policy. Except... the existing versions didn't have any SMS functionality in the first place. There was no way to 'video' a fix for a problem that never existed.

But it was worse, and I forget exactly how. I could never get it to accept a new uploaded version because an existing version somewhere wasn't 'fixed'. I think this was part of it. There was a 'beta' channel version, and regular channel version, and each one wouldn't accept an update of a new version because there was still a 'broken' version on the account somewhere.

Truly a horrible experience.
Why wouldn’t encapsulation be linked more to normalization in a declarative setting? I’d argue that “implementation hiding” in a declarative setting is more about unfolding all data dependency, so that attributes are isolated from each other. Then the extra work to perform more joins to reproduce a cumulative data record seems very analogous to the extra work of getters and setters.
Did they give a plausible reason for their rejection? I am just interested if the trend for job rejection reasons is moving towards a more transparent model. In the past and present, it is extremely difficult/frustrating to get the real answers for being rejected.
f-droid isn't strictly better. It isn't really an alternative as a store for a ton of apps, as it will only accept open source apps as a matter of policy. Which is certainly their prerogative and might be good enough for some people.

But I use some apps that are non-free and are perfectly fine with those apps being non-free and want to use these apps anyway. So f-droid will never be a full replacement for me.
I've spend my career reading code. I find it particularly difficult without guidance. I would recommend using some old school technology (pen/pencil and blank paper) and draw diagrams, write down every question and observation, notes. Others may recommend using some digital tool, but be mindful how much energy you spend organising your thoughts, drawing with a digital tool. If your goal is to understand a software, then don't waste time creating beautiful documentation first.

It is also important to have a clear goal. Let's say you want to understand how webpack starts up, or how it does a specific feature. Make this question your main concern and don't wander around. Don't try to understand everything at once. Divide and conquer.

It is also useful if you can ask questions, but please spend some time coming up with a theory first why things are the way they are. Formulate a hypothesis (e.g. "this piece is necessary because it handles an edge case", or "this piece of code looks uglier than the rest, is there a reason?") and try to prove it. If you can engage with the community, the better, but please don't outsource your "thinking efforts" to other project members. You can't learn how to reason about code, if you don't reason.

The most important one: be humble. Just because you would've solved a problem differently, it doesn't mean that the code is bad. Don't spend time judging the code. You are there to learn from others, so be open to other solutions. Whether it is a good or bad example is so difficult to judge... be patient and you will realise what kind of code is easy to understand. Once you have some idea, take that knowledge to your next project. This may take weeks/months/years depending on the project size.
Hah, you made me think of this:
"what's really going to bake your noodle later on is would you still have broken it if I wouldn't have said anything".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVF4kebiks4
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And it's also possible to directly load a csv file with all the data in latex and plot if with pgf, which makes it possible to keep all the plotting options in the latex file:

\addplot table[x ={Column1}, y ={Column2}] {myData.csv};

The issue is that it can take some time for pgf to load the data and do computations on them, but you can use the external library of tikz so that it does not compute the plot again (and save it as a pdf for later uses).
GCP will no longer just shut down your projects without a human approval.
As someone who's built a few apps in flask that have gotten quite big (but still maintenable), I am curious to get your perspective on how big a difference Rails gives - I have explored ASP.net and Django as options before for projects and immediately (probably out of naivete) concluded that even for simple apps I'll have to start modding the behavior of the components sufficiently enough that it will give me a headache.

Hence I have generally stuck to using Flask and just quickly building a custom version of any component that doesn't directly cause any security issues. Thoughts? Am I wasting my time ?
To answer your question as is, no - it would be dumb to have different prices for different users for the 'same' product. If you are certain that the value you provide is X dollars, then charge X dollars only - even if they are a 2 member team or a 1000 member team.

On the other hand - if you decide to move away from the license model, you can charge according to seats, etc.
Sadly I think the Purism phone just was pushed back wasn't it?
So, engadget is yet another website that hasn't read the GDPR guidelines properly. I cannot be bothered to click through all of their nonsense to read their clickbait content.
Industrial farming is not remotely environmentally friendly. Local food production has scaling issues. It's not just meat... we're simply overpopulated.
It also supports GSSAPI out of the box, unlike java-based alternatives (at least under linux, where java doesn't support ccache other than FILE, and under macos, where java needs monkeying with java.login.config).
>are at a historical minimum of empty houses available, yet the spanish population is migrating from smaller cities to the big ones.

So doing this in Barcelona actually makes sense then?
I am a big fan of SQL Workbench/J. I have mentioned it in a few threads[0][1] on SQL tools but have also been surprised it isn't more popular.

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18934949
[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18934436
What friction? It's easier to use than the Play Store.
Because the migration to cities has been a large proportion of the increase in productivity over the last few centuries.

It is more efficient to have urbanised populations. Rural life is already over-subsidized by urban centers.
The very first sentence of the article is:

"We are aware of the report of a new security exploit called SPOILER (...)"
That's exactly the point: if one wants to be taken seriously one's predictions either have to pan out or the predictions should come with a caveat.

When the predictions do not pan out one should not expect the population to trust one's future predictions as much.
Where can I find the list of words that will trigger the FW? Does this work with Chinese characters only or do Western words can also do the job?
You don't have to be an Android hacker. You don't even need root. It's just an app you install.
"In Linux, the most popular host for Postgres, the size of the OS disk cache cannot be set by the user."

True, though you can tweak settings on when the cache writes dirty pages. Percona has a blog post specific to Postgres that covers it.
There's also some other tuning there not mentioned in the HN linked story.

https://www.percona.com/blog/2018/08/29/tune-linux-kernel-pa...
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LineageOS still use Google services for DNS and connectivity checks. I'd be non surprised if this number will be much more. Also, every third-party app can easily track you and steal data, check the news.
I'm not sure if you've been to Barcelona and smaller towns in the area but there's loads going on in Barcelona - art, galleries, industries etc and not much in the small towns. Why not let people get together where it's all happening? It might make more sense for government to fight NIMBY zoning so people could stick up a high rise and live where they feel like.