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All the comments are about the publication or the author as of the time I wrote this comment. Nothing about the article itself. Ok. I’ll bite:

Are there industries or regions where the style of labor depicted in stardew valley is rewarded? Have there ever been?

I don’t mean that people are literally collecting magical fruit. But I mean a place where a small farm can yield a good life for the typical small farmer, and where such labor is respected? I spoke recently with a cousin about his travels around the world. I asked him what country was his favorite, and he told me that rural Uruguay was, because people live a modest but healthy and happy lifestyle off the land. I thought that was a really interesting observation, since I suspect that type of lifestyle is quite rare in the first world.
What do you expect?
Boeing is so integrated with the government that it's hardly surprising that poor regulatory decisions influenced the crashes.
In fact, that's like every project. Nobody willing to assert themselves and say no. So they start integrating a bunch of unnecessary systems to compensate for flaws until you get one, big giant mess that you can't control with a deadline looming.
Ok, I edited a file in a meaningful way and tried to decipher the process (actually it become more of a normal workflow more than editing a file).

The thing is I switch all the time between vim and my terminal (it's complicated by let's say I mainly use one terminal tab for everything I'm currently writing) so using the home row I would have to switch all the time between home row and arrows when using the terminal (and other programs) (I guess I could add vim bindings to every single thing I use: web browser, terminal emulator, pry, irb, tmux, etc etc. but doesn't seem appealing to me).

The escape key isn't an issue either because I don't use the home row, so no need to remap that too.

I think this misconception comes from the manual pushing people to use the home row.

I don't claim I'm the fastest writer ever, but there are a lot of compromises I'm not willing to make (I could use vim tabs/windows, I could use Ctrl-D to switch files, I could use GVim, have the main files always open, etc.). I'm pretty sure everyone works differently and this workflow works very well for me.

What I don't like is this constant shaming of arrow vim users and people that keep saying it's only for beginners (and the manual pushing people to use the home row).
I'm talking about the US where google is also protected by the first amendment and not the bizarro world logic the EU uses to justify their protectionism (how are shopping ads different than any other search ads?!).
Face detection? It's Facebook after all
Food for thought: https://youtube.com/watch?v=4-XDxCb92X4
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Exactly, we already planned to open a chunk of equity for key hires in the upcoming years. Around 15%.
> In August 2016, at an art auction in Milan, one of the tins sold for a new world record of €275,000, including auction fees

I am both amazed and disgusted.
> you just don't hear about the failures out there. I bet there's much more failures than there are successes.

Sure there are, but a few successes can make up for a lot of failures. Ycombinator, for instance, has been doing its thing for quite a while now and appears to be doing quite well.[1]

[1]Not personally having looked into their financials
This is the principal behind 'all-on-4' dental implants. I've no idea how good they are though. I've seen a few YouTube videos but you never really know if they're paid shills nowadays.
I think the core issue here is the elephant in the room in tech that noone wants to talk about. The tech industry has put most of it's money making eggs in the ads basket. This means companies selling ads are promoting the kind of mass information spread that is sensationalist because it gets their ads the most views, and the tech community makes money off of this.

How well do ads actually work? I really don't know. Is there any objective data to measure this? There are three main companies who sell ad spaces on a real time market and it is a very interesting market that I feel like most people know little about, especially people in tech.

Regardless of how well or not well this works, it's what floats companies like Google and Facebook.

I would say the tech companies are the ones fueling this because it is the their multibillion dollar business models that rely on sensationalist news to sell ads. period. To shift the blame to politicians or to even journalists trying to compete with other sensationalist news blogs or companies who make money from selling ads, is shifting the source and the root cause of the issue, from us, the tech community.

To act like as a tech community we are severely concerned about mass information, the spread misinformation etc etc but also not address how we can fundamentally move away from a market in tech that makes money off of anything besides selling ads to people, or selling peoples information to ad companies (and god knows who else, I mean, only the big tech three know who else), is delusional and self serving, at best.

Despite this, I rarely hear anyone in the tech community willing to openly talk about these problems, much less come up with alternative business solutions.

I would love for there to be more conversation around moving away from a tech market that preys on harvesting user data and ads to solutions that solve people's problems instead of activist posturing from people in tech who talk alot about being concerned about politics etc but work for the companies that fuel this spread of misinformation.
Facebook already bans ISIS propaganda videos, so it's a small leap to assume that they'll also ban Al-Qaeda released videos as well.
One can also interpret it as that, once human learnt to use fire, cooked food made jaws and teeth less important, so people with bigger brain would reproduce more, no matter how their teeth look like.

There's also cultural difference in the aesthetics of teeth, for example, Japanese culture considers yaeba as cute.
This is still common. I recall the anecdote that there is one US state where one in four people have no teeth, due to getting them all pulled, though I can't find the data now.

My wife is a dentist. One of her classmates told the story of their parent's dental practice, where someone had taken their teenager in, discovered they needed some expensive dental work, and said "take out all the teeth, they're gonna fail eventually anyway".
Alan Kay is Turing award winner and one of the main pioneers in OOP. I don't know how he doesn't know what he talking about.
You're off by about 3 orders of magnitude.
Is the meat-free mega trend as good as we think?
80% of the content being blocked is effectively 0% of it being blocked. That’s not something to be commended. And you’re right. AI is nowhere near reliable yet companies such as FB rely on them.
I have not seen the video. I can't say I want to either. I can see how censorship would discourage others from repeating the atrocity.
Someone else was talking about how scary it was the events that took place occurred so calmly, and with such ease. I don't believe most people can face watching that without negative consequences for their own mental health.
There are many things that a good IDE can do automatically which would require a lot of configuration for Vim.

Sure, you might be willing to spend that kind of time configuring your editor, but most people just want to do their job and get on.

It's the same reason most people don't use Arch Linux or Gentoo even though they might be arguably superior–not everybody wants to spend their spare time editing config files.
Reports say it alternates each flight between them; if that's correct, in the case of one good sensor and one bad, that you wouldn't see back to back flights with anomalous behavior related to a bad sensor. Otherwise, perhaps the problem isn't with the sensor itself, but with some part of how sensor information is communicated to the interpretive computer.
Apparently now it is common to forget that Java style OOP junk was originally mid-90's C++.

STL builds up on OOP abstractions, class templates, static method dispatch, type polymorphism, abstract classes for allocators, iostreams, base classes for data structures common methods.
>particularly young CS students

>C is not the gospel

>Worshipers of Bell Labs

I think you're one or two generations late, you'd have to be a hipster to be a CS student worshiping C and Bell Labs these days. I suspect most CS students these days start around web technologies using VS Code in stock Ubuntu, not hacking C programs using Emacs running in dwm on a heavily customized Slackware.

I do agree that cat-v and the suckless folks should be taken with a massive grain of salt though.
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I easily can: modifying multiple expressions that have different length, but the same ending and are separated with some lines of code in between. In vim I either do it manually (because the movement is truly faster) or record a macro. In most "modern" text-editors I could do it with multiple cursors. Recording a macro always feels a bit more energy-consuming, than just making all the changes visually.

TBH, now that I'm mostly using an IDE with vim-plugin for work, I still prefer writing macros in such situations than using multiple cursors, because such situations are rare enough, and the power of habit is strong.
This happens to me constantly with CS problems. I work on a problem at night, go to sleep and the answer suddenly comes to me when I'm driving to work.
It's not "bad", but it's generally unnecessary. And breaks on generators.
These intentionally vague terms do have a purpose though - their inventors and early-to-mid adopters hype them up, write a book or two, sell few success stories and that's it - they can now sell their services to the startups and large enterprises alike; then others start cargo-culting and vicious cycle goes on.

This has happened with pretty much every vague thing in the tech: "OOP", "Agile" (SAFe and friends), "RESTful", "serverless", etc...
> The quality of the news is decreasing to Facebook/reddit levels

News doesn’t try to be objective anymore. Nowadays almost all tv hosts show their bias outright, even though they might invite people from the other side.

It’s sometimes like watching a daytime talk show. I just started ignoring anything news related lately on YouTube and reddit, and I can feel my negativity decreasing.
Does dynamic typing also make writing tests easier?

Maybe it's dynamic typing what makes writing (so many) tests necessary to begin with.
Nothing in this article is based on the decimal system. To give a brief overview of the math involved here:

We start with the integers that, for the purposes of this comment, I will take to be god given. However, the integers are "missing" numbers in the sense that division of integers does not always give integers. For instance, the integers have 4/2 and 6/2, but are missing 5/2.

To accommodate this, we can invent the rational numbers, which extends the integers to provide closure under division [0].

As it turns out, the rationals are still missing numbers. For instance, there is no rational number that satisfies x^2 - 2 = 0, even though rational numbers can get arbitrarily close. To solve this, we introduced the algebraic numbers, which are the closure of the rational numbers under polynomial roots [1].

As it turns out, perhaps suprisingly, the algebraic numbers are still missing sum. For instance, the limit of the (1 + 1/n)^n as n -> infinity cannot be expressed as the root of a polynomial with rational coefficients. We define "transcendental" as the set of all numbers which are not algebraic.

You could easily define a base-e numbering system, which could, in principle, be useful for... something. A major downside is that you lose the ability to express most integers in a finite amount of digits, and doing arithmatic becomes highly non-trivial. Eg, we would have 1 + 2 = 10.0100112... (assuming I didn't make any mistake). It would probably be simpler to keep working in base-10, and instead explicitly talk about the coeficients of the infinite sum k_i * e^i

[0] Excluding division by 0. We could define something like the rationals such that this is defined. Actually we have and they are called wheels, but it generally creates more headaches than it solves.

[1] Eg, it contains all the roots of polynomials with rational coefficients. Technically speaking, the definition should say that it also contains the roots of all polynomials with algebraic coeficients, but it turns out we get this for free for having all the roots of polynomials with rational coefficients.
Yes. Can't remember how much it shrank in Wh though. I had a 2016 which I ultimately sold after 6 months, then bought a 2015 of eBay. I get roughly 25-33% better battery life on the 2015 than I did with the newer model.
Can you elaborate?

Most companies I’ve seen go through YC do not have any sort of revenue stream, nor a business plan or any other baselines metrics you could evaluate on a merit basis.

The only factors I can see them evaluating on are subjective in nature, not objective merit based items.

Nothing wrong with that, YC has produced some fantastic companies but just doesn’t seem to be a meritocratic process.
to prevent people watching or reading
or thinking or smelling things we do not like

If a person ever finds himself supporting the distribution of a snuff film, that person might do some introspection and ask how he got to that point. Because that view is straight out of A Clockwork Orange.
Yes, it was up to you to change the behavior on doesNotUnderstand: methods, but the feature was available, just a matter of defaults.
I've come to the conclusion that traditional media has a fundamental conflict of interest when it comes to reporting on tech. Established media players see tech as a fundamental competitor to people's attention. Tech is also eroding these media outlets' ability to steer public opinion. When readers can find primary sources easily, then there's a lot less room for editorializing.

I regularly read NYT's technology section. It seems like most things have a negative slant towards them, especially when it pertains to Google, Facebook, YouTube, or other social media sites. Most of the positive pieces they run about tech serve to emphasize how different the subject is compared to the big bad tech giants.
That only seems odd because it's a flawed intuition pump: a "number" feels like a small, innocent, abstract and singular thing, while "data" feels large and complex and rich with potential. But a "number" can be any size. A dump of Wikipedia is a "number". All information, and hence all secrets, are "numbers". The notion of an "illegal number" is just a weird way of phrasing the idea of government-enforced secrecy.

128 bits is about the threshold where a "number" stops behaving like our intuition of a number, and starts being rare enough that you won't arrive at an "illegal" number by counting or chance, i.e. it is now a "file" for all practical purposes: https://qntm.org/number
>where such labor is respected

I think the farmer has learned to not look for respect from others, but rather to find contentment in his or her path.
And it's a damn shame. I still remember when WikiLeaks released that video from the Apache helicopter strafing down a Reuters journalist based on some grey pixel looking like a rocket launcher, then coming back for those picking up survivors, while laughing at it all.

People need stark reminders what trillions in military funding is buying them. It's exactly that. They need to see what lax gun laws enable, what warmongering is, what war is.
What I said already assumes that you delete the all instances of that content when you find out it's bad. FB already does this. Problem is, that people see content before it is taken down. And once it's taken down, bad actors stop uploading it, and slightly change it (enough to make it pass existing upload filter).
Cost is around one dollar per 35 litre bag. There are no landfills for common trash. Average is around 80 dollars per person per year. Less if you use PPP-Dollars. That is not enough to cover all cost of proper disposal, so the rest is payed by the state.

Point is, it works. There is no excuse for other countries to do the same.
Intriguing, but I think I would fall asleep in it, when reclined. It looks just too comfortable.
My guess is that such systems are complex, hard to model for safety assurances, and hard to reason about in the moment.

Yes, it will probably make the system safer, but your guarantees become a lot more fuzzy. This is not the field for fuzzy guarantees.
I have a MacBook Pro (2017, 15" top model). I came from a Thinkpad running Red Hat and FreeBSD later.

I have been for the last couple years putting a Thinkpad (P52 or X1 Carbon/Extreme or P1) I'm lusting over in my cart, but not hitting the buy button.

After owning this MacBook Pro, my first question is how replaceable are the keyboards? I want to have a spare in the case of spills, crumbs, dirt, etc and so forth. It's piece of mind at this point.

From my quick and dirty research, they aren't as replaceable as they used to be, but still able to be done by the user. The P52/72 seem to be the only easy option like the, "good old days." While the X1/P1/X series require the entire top palm rest replaced, which is costlier, but it's an option none the less.

I'm eyeing either an X1 Extreme, P52, or maybe getting something slightly more portable like the X390. I feel this is the year I'm finally going to hit that buy button and at least test the waters if I can get myself out of the Apple Ecosystem and survive without regrets using Linux, even so, it will be a fun experiment.
Not even. There was an emulator for the Wii U while the console was still seeing new releases, and no "chasing" happened. Similarly, there are at least 2 Switch emulators in development, and I haven't heard of any legal trouble from their side. Same for the 3DS, etc.
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It's not totally censored and you don't go to jail for sharing it or anything like that - it's just making it harder to get and a bit more obscure which I don't find that worrying. It took me 5 mins to find it for someone else - I didn't actually want to watch it personally.
Best of all, C++ based OS.
Interesting. I love glass blowing. Maybe I'll learn about it some day.

Borosilicate and aluminosilicate cookware is actually pretty tolerant of chipping, because pieces tend to be thoroughly annealed. Tempered soda-lime, on the other hand, is not, so it has tremendous internal stress that makes it much tougher than borosilicate, but once it does chip it's liable to shatter explosively. Like Prince Rupert's drops.

Hey, you want to see something cool? You'll appreciate this since you work with the stuff. Go to 2 min 45 sec in the video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xe-f4gokRBs. High speed video of one of these things exploding. Kinda blew my mind.
Copyright holders (not synonymous with the authors, btw) don't actually have a right to be the sole distributors of a product for all of eternity. The law says they do, but it's a dumb law, and you don't have any moral obligation to follow dumb laws.

But the authors of this emulator don't even support unauthorized downloading, as far as I know. You can easily play legally obtained games on RPCS3 by ripping them with an ordinary Blu-ray drive.
America likes to hyper-focus on individual, not collective wealth. The American dream is centered around this idea that every individual has the right to their own castle.
The things you've mentioned are likely to have significant downsides specifically in terms of weight and complexity
No its not. I want the same things you do - good city services, shorter commutes, etc. Allowing runaway building without properly developing infrastructure is long term negative for everyone involved.

Most of those you label "NIMBY" are just looking to maintain an existing community and civic service level.

The people you should be directing your ire towards is not your strawman "NIMBY" but the city planners and commercial developers who overzone and overbuild office space and under-zone housing.
Linux is only free if your time is worthless. ;)
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ok, so truly oriented OO system needs some equivalent of Ruby's method_missing() ? Is that's what you mean?
His 4th point about cancelling subscriptions is pretty solid I wish all app stores would add that prompt. Most people dont know how to cancel app subscriptions cause they are hidden magic. They likely think having the app installed ensures the app charges money.

What's scary is the prompt doesn't emphasize the amount of money to be spend enough. I think if you're going to subscribe to anything, it shouldn't be such a simple dialog, you should be forced to look through some sort of clear page that separates the micro-legal jargon and shows you the cost in big bold letters.
Microservices probably exemplify this idea. And Erlang style languages/development.

It’s just an idea. It seems to work well in some situations, given the successes owed to Erlang and dev architecture like microservices.

People have their war stories about terrible experiences too.
Do you accidentally press Ctrl+s to try and save? That tells the terminal to stop sending text (eg if a long command output was scrolling by). Try Ctrl+q to fix it next time it happens.
My observation is that masters prefer simple tools.
How does a parent have the ability to say that over some teen's body..? It's horrible to me to read that people would just say that.
I’m a freakishly lucky bastard, to date. Also, a freak.

I have a fairly gracile jaw for a guy. A bit of a chinless wonder. I have 28 teeth. Always have, since my adult teeth came through - but I do have wisdom teeth. What I don’t have are any M1 molars. They’re just not there. Seems my maternal grandfather and my sister are the same.

I’m 35, with so-so at best oral hygiene. Never had a cavity, never had a filling, never needed orthodontics - and really weirdly neither has my grandfather - he’s 86 with a complete and unaltered set of original gnashers. A bit worn down after seven decades, but all still there and working. My mother lost all of hers in a motorbike crash decades ago so there’s no telling there.

So - while I think the idea of artificial replacements is a perfectly good one, there should perhaps be some research into pheno/genotypes such as my family’s which seems to have a useful mutation for the incredible shrinking jaw. It’s this sort of thing which could be a valid use of gene editing - it doesn’t really present any advantages other than being able to eat.
They seem politically rather than scientifically motivated. They even redefined meritocracy into something where people with different capabilities as well as willingness to work hard in intellectual pursuits should have equal outcome. Essentially, the equity agenda.

Choosing someone less qualified for a job because equity is not meritocracy. Rather, there are many less capable and willing to work from that upper class that would wish to take advantage of a less meritocratic system when they can’t competent with someone better from less privileged circumstances
Except that students of poor families aren’t in good school systems and often don’t get adequate preparation for college, especially for majoring in STEM.