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Yes. And all of my statements are 100% correct except for this one.
Well, there's a lot of gross things about CMake (the syntax of its DSL is horrifying), but in my experience if you want Windows support it's a lot better than autoconf and make.
Wouldn't this all be easy to prove or disprove using random walks? Just run a thousand or so, from different starting points, and see where they all go, picking recommendations truly at random (without bias towards more extreme stuff).

If Youtube truly pulls you towards extreme videos, then you would always end up at those videos after a long run.
You can even return marijuana to a pot shop. It's hilarious.
Yes, but in either case you will change its orbital period slightly.
you could fix that with a small solar cell - I imagine the cell on a solar caclulator that works indoors would be sufficient.
It’s not that fast (comparatively): https://blog.burntsushi.net/ripgrep/
Alternatively, it could mean sexual encounters are becoming more concentrated among a smaller portion of men while people's attractions remain exactly the same. This article goes into some detail about this: https://quillette.com/2019/03/12/attraction-inequality-and-t...
It's an undiversified portfolio. Sure you could afford a house if you put all your income towards it, but would that be wise?
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The procedural vulnerability you describe stems from a philosophical dilemma around policework.

If an officer should choose between "low risk to self, high risk to civilians" and "high risk to self, low risk to civilians", which choice is appropriate?

SWATting works because American police have decided, for whatever reasons, that "low risk to self, high risk to civilians" is the appropriate path to take.

Should the police send an unarmed officer, an armed officer, or an armed SWAT team to respond to a phoned-in report of an armed hostage situation?

If they send an unarmed officer, the officer could die, but civilians won't (by the officer's hand).

If they send an armed officer, the officer could die, and civilians could too (by the officer's hand).

If they send a no-knock SWAT team, the officers won't die, but civilians probably will (by the SWAT team's hand).

And so this ties back to police militarization and a question that you will be hard-pressed to see police and police unions confronting openly: Should officers put the lives of citizens above their own lives — even if that means they occasionally die while responding to a call without a SWAT team, when it turns out to be real rather than fake?

I believe that, yes, police officers should select a "higher risk to self, lower risk to civilians" path than they do today, increasing the risk of police deaths in order to reduce the risk of civilian deaths at the hands of police officers. I make this statement even though I have former police officers as family and friends, because I'm tired of American police killing more American citizens each year than terrorists do [1]. Your view may vary. Those of police certainly do.

The core issue, where officers must either accept a higher risk of death or a higher risk of killing civilians, remains unsolved — and undiscussed — in America today.

[1]

https://www.criminallegalnews.org/news/2018/mar/16/cops-kill...

https://www.vox.com/identities/2016/8/13/17938170/us-police-...

https://www.start.umd.edu/pubs/START_AmericanTerrorismDeaths...
I would absolutely recommend playing a game called Kerbal Space Program if you have any questions on how orbital mechanics works.
I’d hate to sound dismissive, but what was “the point” of this article? Is it based on something that actually happened? Is it trying to tell me to do something? Is it just a nice story to read?
My completely uneducated guess is a behind-the-scenes patent dispute or something along those lines...
I used a SPARCbook back in 1996 for a business trip to Germany to install our search engine at t-online.de. The CFO of the company wanted to know who had this machine at all times because it was so expensive, around $20k USD.
It didn't have any usable battery life, if you tried to do any type of development, it would last about 20 minutes before it shutdown.
The many disk partitions made us get creative to fill the 1.2GB disk with data. We had to put files all over the place, and use softlinks get our software to work. This odd setup lead a sysadmin to "clean things up" one afternoon. He delete most of the OS in the process. He was really mad because he had to stay up all night to do a reinstall.

Wow, I forgot about that machine until this post.
I am not sure how I feel about this article and how seriously I want to take it. As of right now, the author is painting a bleak picture of one side only.

It reads like a petty kid overheard something vulgar over the counter and now wants to write a book about it.

If the author can redo the piece without pointing fingers and playing a victim then I would reconsider reading it again.
Absolutely not. Especially not after seeing how the EU is in total control of the Brexit process, and the U.K. can't pass any deal in Parliament.
Multicore support is imho nowhere near OCaml's top problem :-) that would probably be a toolchain that lends itself to easy reproducible package management. But we're getting there.
Can anyone extract what the impact of a JIT compiler is on these figures? The initial performance hit is eventually eroded by the runtime optimizations, so will a long-running Java program eventually close the energy performance gap on a C program?
Governments derive power from the governed. I have yet to understand an explanation that justifies the government keeping secrets from the governed.
Men should help by making this a body rights issue. Of course it's an everybody's rights issue, for various reasons private and economic, but men should take this one up for everybody, knock out the moral agenda, and make it an easy political victory. Get that government out of your pants!
Amd is a trip to watch daily. Definitely aggressively goes up or down more than others (intel)
I wouldn't mind a criticism either, just wanted to bring up startup environment issues & to factor in when deciding sole founder vs otherwise.

Edit : Tried to be succinct.
Just a note for anyone affiliated with Fulcro who reads this:

I opened the links as new tabs on iOS Chrome to check them out, and it turns out they don’t go to the anchors unless I switch to the tab in a short enough time. Not sure if Chrome or the page itself (presumably using Fulcro?) is to blame here, but it was disappointing to find 3 tabs all open to the top of the page when I switched over to read them instead of the relevant sections.
I do wonder how long you could engineer a capacitor to last, though - given you have little constraint on its physical size.
If I understand your question correctly, this seems like a case where per-feature branches are superior:

Developer A is working on feature 1 and feature 2 concurrently. Developer B is working on feature 3 most of the time, but wants to make a change for feature 1 that isn't worth merging with master until feature 1 is ready. Using the per-developer branches model, that would be annoying to deal with. Using the per-feature model, its as simple as A committing to branch-1 and branch-2, and B commiting to branch-1 and branch-3.

The main issue here is, if you are using Git why does it matter how each developer organizes their branches? Everyone can use whatever branching model they want on their own, then use whatever merging/rebasing strategy is agreed on into the main branch.

If you absolutely must use the per-developer branching model, but want to still have per-feature branches: just use feature branches coming off your personal branch, then rebase the feature branches into your personal branch as needed before merging with the master branch.
That's my point. Evolution was a long, slow, and often isolated process. When you begin to jet things from one side of the planet to the other you're doing things that are entirely atypical of evolution.

The point being, any species that developed and survived via evolution is unfit for speed and breadth of the current human + technology modern version of "evolution".
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Yes, that is in accordance with section 5.1 of the Tetris specification. https://www.colinfahey.com/tetris/tetris.html

The definition of "Standard Tetris" is an idealized model of the most important characteristics and behaviors of the first IBM-PC implementation of the Tetris game (circa 1986-1988).
The idealized model is based upon inferring the apparent intentions of the developers of the first IBM-PC implementation of the Tetris game.
For example, it seems reasonable to infer that the developers of the first IBM-PC implementation of the Tetris game intended to select the shape of each new falling piece "randomly", and that the use of the Borland C implementation of the rand() function was merely a practical approximation of the intention. The definition of "Standard Tetris" specifies that the shape of each new falling piece is to be selected "randomly". This ideal behavior cannot be achieved by any implementation, but implementations can approximate the ideal behavior.

Yes, so much research in Computer Science has been based on Tetris that someone found it worthwhile to create a specification for the game.
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Actually, you dropped a decimal point somewhere there: 5400 seconds divided by 1 million is .0054 second, times 8000 meters.sec is 43.2 meters, not quite as much of a stretch as 4 km.
Plus, you are likely to fall on the wrong side of an audit of you expense your vehicle as a freelancer. Even visiting clients is not going to be considered a deductible use, just as an employee, going to and from work is not deductible.
I second this. I've been freelancing for about 2 years as well and I don't feel lonely because I'm married.
Only the first couple pages are visible, the rest is hidden behind the "Extra Crunch" paywall.
As many other posters have noted this is a Quebec bill, and has (sadly) been a long time coming.

My personal opinion is that this is making a mountain out a molehill. And, I don’t think this is the right way to encourage integration (if anything, I suspect it’ll engender resentment, can’t prove it). I’m disappointed that the Quebec government pursued this.
That is wonderful, running over 150 years. That's perpetual in my mind (and in regard to my lifetime).

I was also wondering about thermocouples.
good post. i agree that the main problem that autoconf solves has gone away.
cmake is regularly a pain point. its own version, as well as how un-understandable and un-debuggable the cmakelist.txt files are.
sharing code on unix systems used to be painful. now the whole world is linux. until about 10 years ago, the whole world was 'gcc', but nowdays it is more likely to have a clang/gcc difference than it is to autoconf to make the right header to include.
Being able to hide complexity can easily solve this problem. A user interface can come in multiple flavors. The default interface is typically simple and suitable for 95% of people. The other 5% need things like stats for nerds, advanced options, etc. Making advanced options limited defeats the purpose of advanced options. If you have too many casual users clicking through to advanced options, it means you did a bad job separating concerns in the first place.
I, by nature of my current job, have to write JavaScript regularly. In those cases I almost always opt for TypeScript for my sanity.

So as a regular writer of TypeScript I had the exact same question as you.
I know they are just examples, but pretty much guaranteed, in the US at least, you cannot deduct your vehicle expense. And definitely not your gym membership. Probably could your cellphone though.
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> interest in pushing people to the fringes (maybe people at the extremes click more ads or something).

This theme has been explored in quite many articles on news and advertisement. It is not that extreme stories get people to click more on ads, but it keep people engaged for longer and looking at more content. More views, more engagement with the publishing site, and more ad impressions.

I recall reading that there exist an interesting link between moral outrage and dopamine highs. It basically becomes a drug which publishers see as increased user engagement.
Eventually, the speed kills everyone’s game. It literally becomes impossible to get pieces to the edge. (This is in NES Tetris.)
The big surprise for me is where Perl stands in the rankings, below Javascript in all three tests.
Is there another brand that pauses your music/audiobook when you take them out? If so I'd like to try it; AirPods don't fit my ears well (fall out when I bend forward.)

The iCloud pairing and tap-controls are nice, but I guess I could live without them.
And, it's only available in a few countries (US, Canada, UK, France, Germany and Spain). People from other countries can't pay even if they want to.

This is not how I imagined the web would end up :(
I first heard of Niantic when a friend mentioned in 2010 that they were thinking of transferring to them to become their ~3rd employee. They didn't end up doing it (went to Chrome instead). I went to the launch party for their first product (Field Trip, early 2012) and still wear the T-shirt from it.

I think what many people don't understand is how many base-hits you typically need to pull before getting a home run. Field Trip was a bust; it was mildly interesting, but ultimately more annoying (basically, it would pop up notifications on your phone detailing the history of various landmarks you were walking past). Field Trip begat the location-aware game Ingress, which was wildly popular within Google (though I never played - was wary of addictions) but largely a niche success outside. Ingress begat Pokemon Go, which is basically Ingress re-skinned with Pokemon characters and with some extra AR features. Everybody knows Pokemon Go.

That's 3 major pivots from a guy who was already an experienced founder - Intrinsic Graphics to Keyhole to a VP in Geo.

The story of many other recent hits is similar. Fortnite came out of nowhere - except it didn't, their founder has been making games since 1991 and had a string of base hits like Gears of War and Unreal Tournament. Bitcoin came out of nowhere - except it didn't, [assuming Satoshi is Hal Finney] he'd previously developed the first reusable proof-of-work system, was the second developer at PGP, and had been working on crypto his whole life. Medium's the culmination of Evan Williams's 4 startups (Blogger, Odeo, Twitter, Medium) to bring publishing to the masses.
This idea is the basis of an interesting plot point in Vernor Vinge's sci-fi novel A Fire Upon the Deep.

The book is set in a universe where long-distance, faster-than-light communication is possible, but extremely bandwidth-constrained. However, localized computational power is many orders of magnitude beyond what we have today. As a result, much of the communication on the "Known Net" is text (heavily inspired by Usenet) but you can also send an "evocation" of audio and/or video, which is extremely heavily compressed and relies on an intelligent system at the receiving end to reconstruct and extrapolate all the information that was stripped out.

The downside, of course, is that it can become difficult to tell which nuances were originally present, and which are confabulated.

Another example of the dangers of compression algorithms that are too clever for their own good: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/06/xerox_copier_flaw_m...
You have a few F-35s and F-22s relaying high quality targeting information back to F-18s, F-15s and F-16s, which the US has more of, that carry lots of long range air-to-air missile against adversarial aircraft, and more of those same planes carrying anti-radiation missiles(ARM) and other stand-off weapons for suppression of enemy air defenses (SEAD). And just for fun, you might have EA-18G and EC-130 raising the noise floor and other cool electronic warfare techniques to hide your LO and non-LO aircraft, AND further deny, deceive, and degrade the adversary's RADARs and communications.

The F-35s and F-22s can get up closer to the adversarial aircraft and air defense than non-LO (Low Observable) aircraft (B-1s, B-52s, F-18s, F-16s, and F-15s). A lot has been invested in the interfaces and data-links for F-35 and F-22 pilots to relay information to other platforms (Land, Sea, and Air) The key is to get better stand-off range and higher resolution targeting data for your non-LO aircraft to minimize risk and maximize hitting air and land targets.

My overall opinion of the F-35 is that it's not really a fighter, but more like an EA-35, because it has a very capable electronic warfare suite (AN/ASQ-239), and it has the ability to take that suite and collect data passively up close and personal with lower risk of detection, and can transmit a lot of high quality intel very quickly, while keeping great emission control (EMCON) with directional antennas and near-noise floor communications. It's also the only LO aircraft that can take-off a carrier. The capability to carry these towed decoys only adds more tricks and tools to the EW suite. I don't have a very high opinion of it's air-to-air combat performance, but it definitely has it's place as a great EW/SIGINT/COMINT platform.
It took me about a minute looking at their published detailed data to notice the problem. They should have noticed a factor-of-15ish outlier and checked why on earth it was there.
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FWIW, I've been married the whole time I've been a freelancer, and the loneliness didn't settle in until year 5 or so. Your spouse will probably not want to talk shop all the time, and those types of conversations (tech, business, etc) were what I missed the most. But maybe I'm just excessively sensitive!
I want to believe you, but you can't spell "hiring".
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Unknown of paleontologist spent several years digging up a site which records the K-T impact. Complete with whole fossils, raining debris from the meteor, the whole 9 yards. The site includes a variety of animals, including dinosaurs, who died on that day. We can even place the time of year from the plant fossils.

A well-known science journalist has been to the site and verifies that he isn't making it up.

The paleontologist's working assumption was that it was the result of a tsunami. However it appears instead to be the result of a seiche - the earthquake from the meteor sloshing water back and forth, destroying everything. So the entire site captures the last hour of the K-T zone. (Plus one random mammal that tunneled into the site some time later and died in its burrow.)

This is one of the most important paleontological sites ever found.
FYI one thing I have found that rg is much slower than GNU grep is when I have 100K exact match patterns.
I mean republicans are generally in favor of a free market and non competes literally reduce competition
The data on the chart with sexual division supports this: women are still actively having sex
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I personally use ripgrep instead.
From what I've heard, I think that they are.

I also don't think they should be.
> with known spies in it

Worse than a simple information "spy" would be having a security engineer with intimate knowledge of Apple's security leave the company to co-found a new company whose entire business model is to sell expensive hardware to law enforcement that bypasses Apple's security. Oh right, that actually happened[1].

An Apple security engineer discovered–or baked in–critical security flaws at one of the world's largest technology companies and instead of disclosing them to the company, co-opted that sensitive insider information to start his own lucrative business. I've been waiting for news of this man's reputation, career, finances, and perhaps even his freedom having been taken away; so far it seems he's gotten away with it. I don't buy the apologist explanation I've heard: "he's likely just so good at his profession that he reverse engineered entirely new vulnerabilities after leaving Apple, without necessarily having exfiltrated knowledge only obtainable from within Apple's own walls".

If this man had done this to a bank or the government, he'd be rotting in federal prison. But he "only" expropriated this information from a private corporation, so no big deal. /s

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2018/07/26/apple...
>What exactly do you want from Apple ?

Not pre announce stuff they can’t deliver.

>Also Apple never added any value to the WiFi routing space

Not true. The setup experience is on par with what you’d expect from them. No 192.168… crap.
So was signal coverage.
I’d hope that SPA choice would be based on the needs of the users, as well as considering the teams skills and cost of maintaining which is likely higher in a SPA.

Other considerations are the types of browser end users might have and if you want to enforce minimum versions. Also there is internet connection speeds and bundle sizes.
as long as they give the same tax break to individuals in that state, I'm fine with it...
Valve is building its own high-end VR headset called ‘Index’
How about another layer before passing current into the shaped coils?
1. some sort of liquid crystal layer (transistor based), where all the coils are pre-drawn, only allowing layer 2 to conduct when low current goes through layer 1
2. once the coils are formed, pass actual current through the layer 2
2 more USB ports costs an extra $500? It's strange because a $15 USB hub plugged into the USB ports works fine. It must be lack of internal space due to not including a touchbar... Wait that doesn't make sense either...
I'm glad to hear it. I did not mean to diminish your involvement; my hope was to echo back some appreciation of the challenge involved in allowing a thing to grow by releasing it. I hope your work continues to thrive.
Reversible computing should be mentioned, as it could be the holy grail of low energy use.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/hardware/the-future-of-c...
Well duh, this makes sense. But 45 minutes out of the city you lose many of the perks -- easier and healthier (more walking, less car) access to shopping, food, services, etc.

Do you have kids? I still don't understand the suburban escape when people have children. Going from a city with tons of services near you (for the kids!) to driving everywhere.
You can't use user.js that way. You can use about:config that way. In about:config, resetting to default is easier than editing.
They should also know that

git ls-files -z | xargs -0 grep -nHE <regexp>

can be almost as fast.
So instead of running

curl 'https://api.sunrise-sunset.org/json?lat=36.7201600&lng=-4.4203400&date=today'

I can deploy a bunch of code and then run

curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" --data '{ "query": "{ hello, sun(lat: 36.7201600, long: -4.4203400, date: \"today\") { sunrise, sunset } }" }' <script-url>

Can someone explain why this is useful?
The language which uses the least energy is the language no one writes programs in.
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