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Laser eye surgery does not restore your eyes' ability to dynamically change their focus distance. Age will take that away regardless.

I have heard of people getting laser surgery where each eye is adjusted differently, one for near distance and one for far. In fact, that is how my eyes worked naturally for many years: I had good close-up vision in and good distance vision in the other.

This did let me avoid noticing how my vision was changing for some years, but it meant I was only getting clear focus in one eye and blurry vision in the other. When I got my first computer glasses and I could see the displays with both eyes, it was like night and day.

I've also seen references to new procedures that use multifocal implants, so you would essentially have some kind of progressive lenses in your eyes. This sounds terrible for computer use.

I don't see how any kind of surgery could give me the usability and flexibility that I have with my progressive glasses and computer glasses. With the computer glasses, all of my displays are in perfect focus with both eyes. And the progressives are perfect for other everyday activities - driving, reading on smaller devices, etc.

I like the ability to tune my vision to these different needs. With surgery it seems I would have to pick one or the other.
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How is this different from any other ORM library?
LXD 3.12 Released with Cluster Improvements, Better CPU and GPU Reporting
Your chart shows the US national debt, not the budget deficit.

The deficit for the first four months of the current fiscal year increased 77% compared with the prior fiscal year.

Revenues fell by 2 percent to $1.1 trillion, while spending rose 9 percent to $1.4 trillion.

Source: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-05/u-s-budge...

All this during peacetime and economic expansion. What will this look like in non-ideal conditions of war or economic recession?

My point is that fiscal recklessness will increase as the Federal Reserve becomes more politicized. This will make the economic system more fragile and raise the probability of a catastrophe.

When the odds of financial catastrophe increase, the rational response is to allocate more capital to precious metals, real estate and two or three cryptocurrencies with the greatest hash power.
I'm from the UK. Scots as plural is normal. This seems to be singular i.e. The Scottish mayor -> The Scots mayor.
Imagine if Microsoft would have embraced Meego instead of killing it, and focused more on business and quality apps. If you see a large wave, you should surf it, not try to make it change direction. But sometimes you have to make the wave, way out in the ocean where it will barely be noticed, but once it hits shallow water everyone else will be caught off guard.
To my understanding, some torrent sites have methods to incentivize downloading (and seeding) torrents whose seed-count is getting low.

For example, one offers a multiplier on seed credit for low seed-count torrents, and another does the same but also prominently features a small selection of them in the front page (programmatically) to motivate users to preserve them.

The underlying issue persists, but there are some methods to address it, and perhaps more could be devised.
It seems like there is a roku app you can install on your iOS devices that let you stream to a roku player on your TV. Is this different?
No worries! Fantastic tool.
Yes, that debugger example really confused me and made me wonder why he added it. Anyone who has actually done live-debugging sessions will know that hex is perfectly pronouncible, and furthermore is a direct mapping to binary.
Every directory has entries "." and "..", which we aren't interested in. We filter them out with a helper function Dots().

bool Dots(const char* s) { return s[0] == '.' && (!s[1] || (s[1] == '.' && !s[2])); }

why would you iterate over every single file entry? both . .. entries will land at one end of sorted list anyway.
At best, stricter regulations may have resulted in a different design to comply with US regulations. The FAA is not a global organization, they don’t have oversight over any of the crashed aircraft. So, it’s tricky to place blame on US regulators for foreign crashes.
Especially if you’re going to go with Roku.
I won’t fly one unless it has 3 angle of attack sensors. Since that can’t be easily found out, I’ll avoid them.
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Agreed. The sequel, Xenoblade X arguably did this even better by having everything be one continuous map which, after painstakingly exploring it by foot, you can eventually hop in a flying mech and suddenly have immensely satisfying freedom that you deeply desired before.

Xenoblade 2 went in the completely wrong direction. Lots of linear maps, completely separated worlds, some sort of weird tidal mechanic that supposedly blocked things off sometimes but was way too obscure to notice...
The interview techniques he's describing, IMO, aren't subjective. They're objectively not useful for determining if someone is a good candidate
If he had gotten the citizen by now without having had to renounce his British citizenship, would he be forced to renounce it if/when Brexit finally happens?
Nah, what they want is to shit on Facebook, no matter what they do.
I mean, ideally you could get rid of the performance hit from syscalls as you could run the app and the barebones kernel in the same address space. You could also get rid of pages, virtual memory, and have a very fast malloc implementation. read()/write() could also be super fast. In addition, you can get rid of the scheduler (assuming no threads) and a ton of other complexity. Also the cpu cache lines would be hella consistent.

Of course, you’re throwing away a lot. But for certain applications (like HFT), the potential benefits seem very attractive.
CPR is brutal, both for the person receiving it and the person providing it. You crack the person's ribs and end up mushifying their chest if you persist in doing CPR too long.

The other thing is without an AED (a defibrillator) the success rate of CPR is quite low, one physician I know equated it to buying time for the brain, as he had never seen CPR alone bring someone back.
Because the schema is updated on the Prisma server, I do think it could be possible to have multiple Prisma server running with different schema version.

The only issue that we did encounter so far is that it doesn't know play well easily when you have more than one instance of a Prisma server behind a load balancer that your backend connect to.
>Otherwise you wouldn't know about the effects of climate change.

Well actually we don't know. We have maybe a sophisticated guess at best. Knowledge requires data, that by definition cannot be gathered from future. At least not before someone invents a time machine.

Even the best forecasts we can make about anything are very poor. Look at a simple things like construction budgets or projected congestion of particular traffic system upgrade. They are usually off by magnitude of order. And this is well documented by Kahnemann.

In regards of atmosphere, it might be that IPCC has overestimated the whole thing with a fat margin. Or it might be we are all dead no matter what we do.

>Don't reproduce.

If I don't do that, then I'm not going to give a shit about this phenomena anyhow.

>Heat with electricity from non-fossil fuels.

Where I'm from, that's impossible without the whole state going non-fossil fuel. Which again is practically impossible without nuclear.

Heating accounts probably about half of my carbon footprint. And with rough winters that's a lot. I've already minimized everything else.
There's a border between Norway and Russia, and it's much larger than I expected.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norway%E2%80%93Russia_border
They can make "dirty bomb". I know some people which had training about how to destroy hostile Western country by using their own radioactive materials.

For example, in 2014, rebels in Donetsk had attempt to create "dirty bomb" using radioactive waste from abandoned chemical plant. Fortunately, they were spotted and stopped.
Linus Tech Tips just had a video on 49" 1440p Ultrawide monitors with glowing praise, which has me considering purchasing one to try it out.

I currently have a 32" 4k and its the perfect resolution and vertical height for me, but could use more width.

Side by side monitors is out for me as I don't like having a bezel in the middle of my view, and vertical monitors are also out for me as viewing angles are terrible- and just moving your head side to side can cause brightness/color saturation to vary wildly - seems as viewing angles are designed for landscape orientation.
It's probably the same reasons a lot of long-time green card holders in the US don't apply for US citizenship. Applying for another country's citizenship can be daunting (even if it is "simple" it still involves many steps), expensive, time-consuming, and possibly have an uncertain outcome (what if it doesn't work)? For a lot of people, citizenship is either something they don't worry about at all--because what they have works for them--or something they worry about very much because what they have doesn't work and they can't get the one that does.

This gentleman likely fell into the former category and had more important, to him, things on his mind than "what does this piece of paper in my file cabinet say about where I'm allowed to live." Besides, he may have firmly believed all of the things said by the British government about how "Brexit won't change the status of settled EU citizens" and thought that applied to him and so on.

It's easy to dismiss his concerns without having lived his life and I don't think we should do that.
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> they still 'need' regions because they generally charge US customers more.

As someone paying twice the US-price for Netflix with a tenth of the catalog, I would kindly ask you to fuck off.

With Spotify and YouTube I still pay double the price, but at least I get the same catalog.

Seriously though. Almost every modern country outside the US is charged more for less.
That just means FAA wasn't the only inept organization.
Imagine if home depot went out of business and all the lumber and nails and screws and tools you purchased from them instantly stopped working.

Or if JcPenney's went out of business and all of your older outfits disappeared.

Sure, things wear out and break over time, but it should not be dependent on the store who sold you the goods.
Toyota never had an “unintended acceleration issue”—that was purely human error. A Toyota engine can’t overpower its brakes, unless there was gross negligence in the care of the brakes, i.e., they were totally inoperative. Just to make sure we’re clear on the braking thing: if you were to accelerate a Toyota sedan (any of them) to 70mph, then stomp on the brakes while holding the accelerator to the floor, the car will absolutely come to a complete halt in about the same distance as if you didn’t have your foot on the accelerator. Here’s another thing to back up my claim: how do you think burn outs work?
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Next, can I have a microwave oven that has just 2 dials?
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I know it's not the same, but using the "related" feature in Google can be very effective. example: "related:news.ycombinator.com"
That seems baffling. This it's not like facebook is sending a bunch of goons to ask for your ID "or else". How is this any different than someone coming to your door for marketing purposes? I get there's the privacy aspect because they're asking for ID, but you could always say "no" and slam the door.
When I visited amsterdam I saw little or no trash. After watching a while, I noticed they have guys with little witches brooms cleaning everywhere (it was really interesting to watch, turns out they used to use more modern ones but they don't work as well), followed by street cleaners. The little brooms made all the difference, ferreting out all the half-cloaked garbage dropped by tourists. Seems completely routine and normal and not authoritarian.
The bulk of Multics is written in PL/I.

See https://multicians.org/pl1.html for details.
Don't we all use software that crash every day? Maybe not a hundred times but more than zero.
> Three people were selected for the study: the first person received a 24” monitor, the second participant – a 25” monitor with a 21:9 aspect ratio, and the third participant – two 24” monitors. The study lasted for three weeks.

This study is seriously flawed in another way. I'm assuming that the 24" is 16:9 which has a height of 11.8" The 'larger' 25" ultrawide has a height of 9.8"--I would hate working on that for the same reason I don't like 16:9 laptops--the height of 16:10 or 3:2 are so much more useful.
Do e-books count? I hope so, they have the same capability or even better (search), and no environmental impact
Yeah totally.. You can also win the lottery, thats why i recommend people buy lottery tickets. If you don't believe me google it, lots of people do it.
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I believe the idea is 'gradual typing', where you add types as you firm up an interface.

Lots of the perl6 code I've seen types most stuff at least at interface boundaries.
This has been a tradition for decades now, but the title makes it seem like a new thing. Also, as renholder already mentions, you can only travel free by train with the book you get as a present when buying a book during the yearly "book week".
CPR done correctly can break your ribs. Those broken ribs can then puncture your lungs.

What he means is that they did everything they could medically, at the cost of broken ribs and punctured lungs. But that it was probably not the right thing to do.
> would include YouTube pre-roll ads

Youtube has started showing me two ads. The [skip ad] button has turned into [skip ads]. This means the second advertiser misses out if the first ad sucks, because there's no way to skip the first ad alone.
I recall reading Slackware's Patrick Volkerding's health problems were traced back to his sonic toothbrush. [1]

tl;dr The sonic toothbrush was aerosolizing the bacteria in his mouth which was inhaled while brushing his teeth.

[1] - https://science.slashdot.org/story/04/11/16/1846207/patrick-...
That's very much normal, especially for a manufacturing company.

(A software company has copyright. For a manufacturing company, patents serve as the primary method for exclusivity on their designs.)
I mean, I think that was a bit of a joke. It's ironic that you rail against this dude for "code that's hard to understand" in reply to a long-form prose article about understanding the code and how it got there..

We'll probably have to agree to disagree.. but that blog post doesn't really resonate for me... especially the end where it talks about keep it to your "own language." I've never had patience for identity politics especially in the case of a god-damn programming language.
You have to be fussy about the TVs. There are two main issues.

1) Input lag. A mouse 200+ms behind is frustrating to work with.

2) Color space. I forget the terms off hand, but basically if the panel has poor colour space / bit depth / whatever, fonts start looking really bad.

Maybe you lucked out or just don't notice/care about these, but that's one of the core reasons people don't use TVs.

I'm quite tempted to get a large good one though.
Isn't it singular in e.g. 'Scots law'?
tl;dw: The old record was 9.91 seconds -- or 9 seconds, according to the way the game's timer rounds down. The new record is 8.97 seconds. DOOM, like many older games, calculated forward-speed and strafe-speed separately, allowing a player to strafe diagonal run faster than the maximum official forward-speed. The key innovation was "SR50" -- a glitch that allows the player to strafe at full speed (50, instead of the normal 40) by pressing both strafe mode keys at the same time. The drawback is that it's impossible to turn while strafing like this. So basically, the speedrunner grinded enough to find the right combo of RNG in which he could strafe-run without colliding into enemies.
This is amazing! What about Python?
>All the time nuclear power fans tell us that "this time we've learned and current design are safe".

This is a strawman argument. No one is claiming that old reactors are getting safer as we come up with better designs. None of the newer designs that people are claiming are safer have had issues. Fukushima was literally constructed before Chernobyl.
guaranteed complete safety is not a goal; it;'s not economic. All the matters is that it is shown to be Safe Enough for the Value it Provides, and nobody has demonstrated it is not safe enough.
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In trying to find out how the Seabord Rise[1] was invented, I unearthed ROLI founder and CEO Roland Lamb's original thesis. This paper goes incredible, minute detail about the design of a vanguard product from idea to manufacture, including motivation, analysis of competition, prototyping, engineering, and incorporation.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jh-hzbG5FzI
As an actual Scot it's definitely standard for some things: Scots law, Scots pine. Wikipedia says:

"The use of "Scots" and "Scottish" is not altogether consistent; but in most words and phrases referring to Scotland's people one or the other is normally used: there is a certain tendency for "Scottish" to be used in more formal contexts."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotch_(adjective)

Edit: There is probably absolutely no sensible reason why it is Scots Law but the Scottish Government.
> For example, it's almost always expected that your app is going to still work offline in some capacity; and when users ARE online, it's also usually expected that they're going to get real-time notifications without having to refresh the page.

I never expect something to work while I'm offline, or do they mean the cached contents like a page would work if it were just cached HTML and CSS? As for real-time notifications, I don't know anybody who uses those, the other day someone was telling me how pissed off they were that they always get them from some news site, and they didn't mean to enable them, now they can't find where to turn them off!
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Well, imagine type-first programming, where you design your system first just by writing the types, look how it works, and only when satisfied go bother with implementation.

I'm not sure TypeScript is good enough for doing that (I don't know TypeScript that well), but it's simply much better than starting with code.
I've recently bought two different cheap ones. They're both like that. Nothing but power and time. Timer is mechanical. I much prefer this UX over more cumbersome and expensive ones.
Difference is that it doesn't cost you anything to use Steam, Epic game store, or Origin. You buy the game, you have the game. You can install 5 game stores on your computer and that's it.

For movies or TV series you need to have a subscription. That is the thing that costs money, even if you don't use it. People don't want to have 3 or 4 subscriptions, so that is why they pirate.

This is not a problem I see happening for games.
Not the OP, but you can find quite a good collection of info at https://www.multicians.org/, specially interesting is the B2 Security Evaluation (https://www.multicians.org/b2.html) with the pearl that none of the UNIX known exploits, possible due to C's lack of safety where possible to take advantage of on Multics, thanks PL/I.
How much does the range degrade when towing?
Most content industries (definitely including movies, tv, books, music, and games) vary between “dislike” and “loathing” of secondary markets, because it gets them nothing and costs them a “potential sale”, even more than piracy, because the person paying for a “used” copy has demonstrated that they’re willing to part with money for the product.

Where the right to resale still exists, the way to bet is that it exists because of major lawsuits that the industry has lost (or “lost”). Don’t worry about the shareholders, though - they’re still chipping away!

(Damn, I’m gloomy lately. Sorry.)
I get that some savvy investors may take all of the factors into account and decide to do nothing. That is not what I am seeing. They are not thinking about it at all. The entire real estate industry does not do long term planning, at least where I have lived for 47 years. Just as the article describes, it is a problem for some future entity.

You, as the hypothetical real estate investor, might care that the building you built two years ago is not the ideal place for affluent residents today. But as the entire local market is failing at long term planning, I guess there is no competitive incentive.
How does a subprocess crash look like? Not sure if I've ever seen one.
Blaming EASA/FAA/Boing etc feels good, but calling them inept becase they are not perfect is overstating things. Looking back it seems like an obviously bad call, but that’s hindsight bias.
Which is why providers all added those click through links. They write articles for ad money, and RSS readers don't get the ads.
Why create a computer when an abacus counts just as effectively :) Time, precious time! We're all born with a limited number of breaths, let's not waste them sighing while waiting for a simple task to complete. In this way faster tooling is a very real method otherwise pure-tech projects can prolong the lives of people. Fix a slow popular tool and the effect is multiplied
Realistically, I think this law only exists for two reasons:

1. To discourage dumping of the whole bin's contents on to the sidewalk - happens often enough that it's an issue in some neighborhoods.

2. To punish picking out private info from trash. Things like credit card statements, utility bills, etc. that may contain sensitive information.

I really could not care less what people do with my trash as long as they refrain from the above two points.
I have very limited knowledge of how car registration in the US works, but AFAIK some states, particularly California, have stricter emission limits. Does every car sold anywhere in the US meet them, or do manufacturers make cheaper "non-Cali" models that lack some emission controls but can't be registered in California?

Even if there is no regulatory hurdle, there's a significant practical one, which is getting the car over.
"." and ".." are filtered out before sorting. Sorting is O(N^2) in the common case (when there are fewer than 65 files in a directory), so it pays off to reduce the number of entries by 2 before we get there.
There's always ebay or Netflix disc by mail.
I agree, we need someone like Michael Barr to comb thru supposedly clean safety certified Ada codebase (in reality most likely full of C++ garbage).
Most assholes are thinly veiled in an interview. Decent people are nervous, and that’s okay - it’s usually pretty clear. Assholes are trying /hard/ not to come off as such, so when the interviewer inevitably challenges them on a piece of code or their background, they usually end up showing their true colors, at least in my experience.
> If you want to get rid of caching with the CSS method, you either need to switch to serverside rendering (which blocks you from using static hosts like Github pages) or have Javascript enabled so you can generate the CSS on the fly.

Or serve Cache-Control: no-cache?