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Is computer code a foreign language? Not for me.

Having grown up with multiple "natural" languages, as well as programming "languages" since age 8 or so, I consider computer code one of my native languages. Of course, I'm only truly familiar with a few dialects for daily use, but there's an underlying way of thinking (concepts, patterns) that applies to all programming languages.

The more "natural" and programming languages I'm immersed in and use in daily life, the more I see them as dialects of a single "language" - an unwritten, unspoken language of the mind, which gives birth to the various specific implementations of syntax, grammar, words.

Film, dance, painting, sculpture, music, mathematics, geometry.. Even JavaScript. These are also dialects of the language beyond languages. They're all different ways to "speak" and "think".

I agree with the article that learning a programming language or two should not fulfill a foreign language requirement. If anything they should be included in a "native languages requirement", in addition to a couple of natural languages.
I feel like the street price for a months worth of Ketamine would be way less than $7000...
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Eh, there are human languages that cannot convey meanings that other languages can. Those languages, by your definition, are not human languages (which is silly, because they are).
I don't think that's the point of science at all to be honest. The point of scientific endeavour is to discover facts about the world. That's a really hard job, and the majority of people are not scientists, and even a trained scientist cannot verify the overwhelming majority of existing science by themselves, which means that science, like any other sufficiently large human collaboration, requires institutions, trust and authority.

The difference between scientific and religious institutions is not that the former functions without authority or trust, it's that the success of the former is measured against observable and replicable results and material progress and not based on infallible spiritual promise.

So if someone understands nothing about science at all, and worships it like a religion, at least they had the good sense of picking a religion that puts food on their table, makes their planes stay in the sky and makes them healthy again when they fall sick.
There's always a sharpie or black tape.
Ah OK makes sense. Thanks for that tip, much appreciated. I guess I never actually dropped the kindle either, although it did mysteriously stop working.
I was looking into buying one at one point when my Android phone started acting up.

Do you use maps or whatsapp on it? How is the experience?
> It's far easier and less error prone than having to change credentials and authorized_keys for generic accounts everytime someone leaves. You've also got the benefit of knowing who's logging in to each server, as I assume your auth.log is also fired off to syslog.

I can write a system (and have, multiple times) that takes public keys from people in a file named by their users, aggregates them into a single authorized_keys file, and pushes it to the admin account on all the servers in a list in 5-10 minutes. Access removal is removal of their key and running a command that uses scp to upload a new authorized_key file for all servers. Using xargs and parallel jobs, than can complete within a minute or two even for 1000+ servers, errors are easily visible, any problem in the process is easily troubleshot, and if worse comes to worse and the system isn't functioning, you can manually update the authorized_keys on a few servers that need it ASAP. No LDAP config, requires, and anyone with basic SSH understanding can diagnose and understand what's required to fix an error within a minute or two. Give me another 30-60 minutes and it would support a config file with user groups and assigning group or individual access to servers.

There are features you don't get with that, but it's dead simple and very robust. LDAP is good, but if all you need is to set up admin access to Linux/BSD servers, it also might be overkill and cause the occasional headache. There's a huge range between manually configuring every server for every change and using LDAP for account access.

> But forget nefarious purposes -- if you have a problem on a machine and you see that "admin" was logged on at the time the problem started, how do you know who "admin" was so you can work on the fix?

SSH allows environment vars to be passed along with the authorized key file. You can set your default EDITOR for example, but your push system can also append a specific variable that denotes who the actual user was that connected, and your login config can log it to a file as you connect. There are simple solutions for most things you would want in this space. Once there isn't a simple solution, then maybe the value of a centralized authorization system might show itself.
How about...putting it in a capsule?
It's like hearing that science says that fat is bad... and then eggs are bad for you... and alcohol is bad... and then another study says that a glass of wine a day is good for your heart... and salt is bad... then sugar is bad... then carbohydrates are bad... and now fat is good as long as you don't overdo carbohydrates... and eggs have good cholesterol and are really good for you... and salt is necessary to balance hydration... and sugar isn't bad as long as it's balanced with fibre.

When the studies say so many different things, all contradictory and all purporting to be good and then bad and then good again, people give up trying to understand.

Why should I believe that anything I eat today is bad when tomorrow you're just going to tell me that it's good for me again?

People are tired of listening to science that appears to ebb and flow like the tides.
Nobody's stopping you from hosting it on your own server.

Private companies can choose not to spend their resources distributing this stuff or helping people find it.
Heck, I need to bring paperwork before I drop my dog off at doggy daycare proving he's up to date on his shots, makes sense for kids as well as fur-babies.
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It is clearly not a foreign language, but it might honestly be a better substitute for most students' time. In the US, a foreign language can be a great thing to learn, but with our failing math and science teachings, perhaps shifting towards CS instead might be a good idea for helping many high school kids prepare for a STEM dominated job market.

From the article:
"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 a professor of languages and literatures, I am naturally skeptical of such a position"

Of course a professor would refer to this as a mistaken belief, but what evidence is there for it? CS has a much better chance of helping one find gainful employment and a future with many paths over high school history, english, and foreign languages.
I cured my stress and tinnitus so loud I could hardly hear and sleep with my own homemade Changa (dmt+hamalas) with one trip. Most amazing drug ever... and I did them all ;)
Esketamine is just an enantiomer. Both enantiomers are similarly active, and to me it's not 100% clear to me why Esketamine was the enantiomer chosen.
>TFW you visit "Hacker News" and find that the prevailing attitude is "Epistemic Helplessness."

:3
Just a note, unless you're also validating the Host: header (and possibly even then), Authenticated Origin Pull can be bypassed if someone does find the right server:

https://medium.com/@ss23/leveraging-cloudflares-authenticate...

(Could have been fixed in the past couple months, but I doubt it.)

Same for Access, by the way.
> However, for the average person, a dogmatic belief in the scientific method would be a huge step up over religion.

But the scientific method is based on the idea of an unchanging God / reality. Without that fundamental belief, theres no point in determining how physics behaves in an experiment, because if everything happens at the whims of anthropomorphic gods, then there is no reason to expect the same experiment will produce similar results.

Thus, I don't really see the huge step up, especially given the inhumanity science has sometimes promulgated, and for which it frankly gets a free pass.
Dependent on what you’re doing, consider using wikidata instead. Has a SPARQL interface that’s easy to query.
Because of Pareto principle. 80% of the insurance risk could be estimated with 20% of variables.

Which is more then enough because most of the insurance pricing is determined by sales and administration costs and not by price of risk itself.
As far as I know, the insurance for shipping was for loss of the cargo, not liability for injury or death.

As for the free market resulting in utopia, that's an impossible standard. What the free market does do, however, is solve problems in an efficient way thereby bringing prosperity to every country that tries it.
You can somewhat improve privacy even when using Google Analytics, although I am not sure if this allows using it without users' opt-in.

Somewhere in the settings, you have the option to anonymise users, which is achieved by deleting/not saving the last triplet of IP addresses.

There are some other options, and some functions you should avoid:

- You should set data retention to the minimum of 14 months

- Do not use the User-ID functionality (tracking across devices/browsers)

- Also avoid Remarketing and Advertising Report features.

The downside to all this is that it is mostly invisible to users that you are somewhat protective of their privacy.
> T-Mobile and Verizon have implemented it in limited forms internally, but they have no interest in making their implementations interoperate, let alone work with the other RBOCs, CLECs and their resellers (Twilio in this case).

Why would that be? I know nothing of STIR & SHAKEN, but if it's meant to reduce spam, I would think all legitimate operators would want it to work in an interoperable way.
Sorry, I wasn't trying to make that a political statement about Monsanto. They're just an easy name to pluck out of the air because they have a few known controversial studies to make a point. It wasn't supposed to suggest that Monsanto was evil or that the science wasn't legit. All I'm saying is that if ACME Co. funds a study that suggests ACME Co. are good, then the test results look pretty sketchy.

> A few month later the new evidence refute the paper, and people get the idea that scientific discovers are not reliable.

And do this a few dozen times and people stop listening to science because they know a couple of months from now, this study is going to be refuted.
If you add static types to js and create typescript you all of a sudden have something that looks a lot like c# and java ... don’t you think?
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> I don't see why, as website owner selling e.g. clothes, I shouldn't know that a person landed on my website by searching e.g. "yellow pants"

That doesn't really matter. But if you set up a content farm / honeypot, you shouldn't be able to tell that the search term that brought the person to you is "how to deal with my XXX infection"
I suspect that the main reason why it is better is UX of representing whatever you want to calculate by physical structure and tunable parameters by physical knobs.
Effortless Mastery, by Kenny Werner. The Music Lesson, by Victor Wooten. Both of these are about music, but are really about mastery.

Shop Class as Soulcraft, by Matthew B. Crawford. This is a much more philosophical/academic argument that skilled manual labor is both intellectually and morally superior to most office work - you're shaping reality, rather than shaping yourself. I happily lump the craft of software development in with physical labor here, though, as it faces the same kinds of reality-based limitations.

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind, by Shunryu Suzuki. Transcribed lectures by a well-known Zen monk. The entire book is basically about learning how to sit still. If you can't even sit still, how do you expect to do anything else well? And do you have any idea what it even means to just sit still?
So almost 40% of humanity does not have HSV-1.

Astronaut selection is already severe. You don't get selected if you have tuberculosis, diabetes, amputations, or deafness. Once selected, you won't go on the launch if you are sick with the flu.

It doesn't seem like HSV-1 needs to be a problem in space. Simply add that to the gigantic list of conditions that prevent space travel.

I highly doubt that HSV-1 is anywhere near 60% in the pool of astronaut candidates. Disease presence is correlated: if you have one, you probably have another. Since lots of other diseases would already be disqualifying, adding HSV-1 to the checklist won't strike off very many potential astronauts.
I know enough people with an iPhone that if it's needed for setup only, that'd be fine.
Yup. That's fucking insane. 4x the pitch initially reported, and the system 'resets' each time so you're at max elevator down after a couple cycles. Good luck trying to fly that.
I use Autodesk Fusion 360, which if you are a startup or business making less than a certain amount of money is free to use, and it now includes what were once extras: analysis (FEA), machining, and other features. It really is amazing.

I use FreeCAD, since I have been familiar with it for years. It was once clunkier and had less features, but now it can be used for a lot of the things I need to do.

For a quick start in making a cube, make sure you are in the correct workbench Part or Part Design in the tutorial. The only two issues I have are that it is difficult to interface with clients that use Autodesk, Solidworks, or Rhino products. I have done FEA with the Calculix backend in FreeCAD, and used Paraview to create my FEA pictures for reports. If you know Python, you can even create a cube in the console below. Check out the scripting tutorials. I am not a fan of Python, but I use it in FreeCAD and Blender3D.
This is a bit like comparing street amphetamine powder with prescription adderall. People are willing to pay for a pure product measured precisely in laboratory, not cut with other dangerous chemicals delivered as a pill.
1.2.2.b indeed provides an exception for member states but explicitly only for the purpose of "Chapter 2 of Title V of the TEU". (this is a ridiculous level of indirection...)

Do you have an understanding of "Chapter 2 of Title V of the TEU"? My reading of it is "the members are responsible for the security of the union, yada yada..." so it sounds like the typical exception that governments have, but I am am not quite certain of my interpretation.

Jeez, the EU institutions are really good at being inscrutable :(
in the Netherlands I discovered a very cheap one from the mark Kazam, allowing 2 SIM (useful since I have 2), no memory but a microSD slot. I first used it without the microSD but then I wanted to have at least an acceptable ringtone so I installed the microSD... and I discovered that the phone (can) record all the calls I made on the microSD. That came very handy about once a year, I love the concept.
I know it's a problem! But I don't think it's Apple's job to forever hold back their development for people's very particular personal problems. You bog a product down by making sure you can handle all these issues. Keep it simple and move on, I say.
The author does not. And at least in the Maryland case you're correct (haven't looked up others, but they're probably similar). However, I think the author and others on their side have a point: Why is foreign language being singled out for substitution?

I get that there's only so much time in the day, so only a finite number of courses can be meaningfully conducted before a student graduates. This was an issue when I was a student at Georgia Tech. Most engineering students received some 130+ credit hours (1 credit hour = 1 hour lecture or 3 hour lab per week) over their degree. To complete this in 4 years (8 semesters) meant an average of 16 credits/semester which was very hard (especially when dealing with prerequisites, which meant you might have a 9-12 (core) + 3-6 (elective) credit semester followed by an 18 (core) credit semester, those latter ones could be brutal). At GT, compared to other GA universities, there were no language requirements and somewhat reduced general education requirements (still true?). And many (most? don't know the stats) students took 5 years (or 10 semesters) to complete their education. But GT didn't say, "CS 1301 will be a substitute for <Language> 101", they just said, "Everyone will take CS 1301, and <Language> 101 will be an elective."

If the people proposing these changes made more courses substitute for each other, then I think their argument would have more weight. Make foreign language an option along with technology education, advanced math (those that can be held concurrent to the core math courses), and other topical electives. Make the selection akin to selecting a "major" focus at university. Instead, the schools want to include something that seems to be useful (I would agree, programming skills are useful) but have no way to fit it in to the existing time available and are forcing one department to make a sacrifice.
I would imagine it's pretty bad. The interface is pretty slow and T9 is just frustrating enough for me to just call people instead. The call quality is great though!

I use a HiBy R3 [1] with a 512gb SD card to listen to my collection of ripped FLACs on the go. It's a great device, highly recommend!

https://store.hiby.com/products/hiby-r3
> Math is a similar thing and sometimes called a universal language.

But nobody is going seriously suggest put math classes in the languages department. How much different is learning Python from learning calculus? Both use specialized syntax, grammar, and vocabulary to describe ideas. If you categorize Python as a "foreign language" then calculus (and algebra, trig, etc) probably should be as well.
Thanks for your feedback!

For those interested in the mentioned paper, see: https://www.utdallas.edu/~gupta/courses/acl/papers/datalog-p...
The article specifically cited funding cuts at the FAA.
I agree. We envision some availability for the Assigned to allow people to prompt them.

Thanks for your feedback.
A12x vs A12. 120 refresh vs 60. Pencil gen 2 vs gen 1. More RAM in pro. Quad speakers in pro.
> I know of no programming language that can convey the meaning of these sentences

Are _these_ meanings the meaning that define language?

To say that programming languages exist to convey meaning does not equate to being able to express all meanings.
Yeah, same here. Would have no Interest in writing those emails and setup a filter to send them to bin on receipt too.

I worked for a company that did cards, like thank you cards, or well done cards that you could give a colleague and these would get handed out each month to the recipients. It made me cringe. Can't believe people are so needy.
The banner of the EAA website says they have a Full 737MAX simulator [1].
From this Press Release [2], it would seem they were rolling out in Oct, 2017.

[1]: https://www.ethiopianairlines.com/EAA

[2]: https://www.cae.com/news-events/press-releases/caes-boeing-7...
Yeah, I think that was pretty key to getting them to buy into the idea: we weren't really getting rid of stuff, we were just decluttering.

We even showed them how it was the same closet where we keep stuff of ours that we weren't currently using, and joined them in the process by moving some jigsaw puzzles and board games from the game shelf and putting them away as well.
> Hence, if any authority, 'scientific' or otherwise, asserts their authority instead of providing individually verifiable evidence of its claims, then we can say they are being unscientific, regardless of title.

Indeed, the motto of the Royal Society is "Take nobody's word for it".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nullius_in_verba
It's no more a "random image" than the script itself is a random software.
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The whole EU clusterfuck is because of Berlin's policy of Austerity uber Alles, especially in the UK. Plus the stupidity of the Euro, which meant tying your currency to Germany's if you join up.

Interesting point about China, do they have a refugee crisis? I suppose being seen as an oppressive regime not scared to shoot at people has its advantages. (I'm a "refugees welcome!" kind of person, although I'm sure the society I live in barely tolerates them, and the situation will not improve.).
Apple is a monopolist? What do they exactly have a monopoly on?
Analog computers aren’t all that unusual. For example, many airplane pilots use a Jepperson Circular computer to calculate headings and other parameters.

https://www.amazon.com/Jeppesen-Circular-Computer-diameter-J...

Even Spock used it on the Enterprise.
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So it is. Thanks.
This looks really nice, but it's functionality is similar enough to Google Data Studio (also connects to data sources) but different enough (an editor instead of a dashboard) that it's going to cause confusion.
Books & projects.

I google around for recommendation on books and get books and read them and do projects. Books will go over a concept but it won't be enough for me to get it in my head so I would google around for blogs about the concept and do the examples in those blogs. Here's an example of me practicing the GenServer concept (https://github.com/mythicalprogrammer/elixir_genserver_pract...). I also find code reviewing of library very helpful in writing better code. I used to do this with Scala and Javascript.

Most of the stuff I've learned is on my free time and something I'm passionate about. Currently it's Elixir. I spent sometime reading and then did a project. Currently burnt out from the project but I learned a lot and I'll come back to it.

I know many people just jump in and do stuff. What works for me is to read a bit do project then read a little bit more. My elixir project went through 3 authentication systems btw. I started with Coherence then Guardian then Coherence and now POW. I relearn session and learn a bit more about tokens and API.
This is a valid use case for providing some level of security for sites that may not be able to host TLS certificates. The theory is that most of the threats that need protecting are on the client side rather than the server side. This isn't perfect, but at least the traffic from the client to the Cloudflare edge is secured.
> Trying to load the analytics often took minutes

Do you mean loading the UI which displays the graphs etc...?
I did too! I loved the e-ink, but battery life was surprisingly bad considering the premise. I still loved the simplicity and durability.
So does Oracle DB as well.

In the mysql world, mysqltuner has been kicking around for more than a decade now that spits out suggested configuration changes. I haven't had a need to use it in several years though https://github.com/major/MySQLTuner-perl

There was an interesting project around applying blackbox optimisation to MySQL, called OtterTune on which a paper was published a couple of years ago, https://blog.acolyer.org/2017/08/11/automatic-database-manag.... They got some good results out of it. Haven't attempted to use it myself: https://github.com/cmu-db/ottertune

There are just so many dials and switches that can be changed that can modify the performance of the database, it really has to be moving far beyond anything any one individual could possibly grok.
Do you mean you shouldn't raise your kids based on science? You shouldn't experiment to see what works with your child, or you just shouldn't do experiments on your child?