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I've been trying out VS lately and am still on the fence. The WSL integration has some major issues and their 'intellisense' (code completion) for Java is non-functional and 15 years behind. Hopefully they will apply some product management to the effort and make things work after install.
Before that can be answered, we would need to know what you're asking.

In your context, for you, what is "AI" ?
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Hacker News: where anonymous commenters ask you to believe them over the professional financial reporter.

You've put your finger on the core of the legal dispute, what "reducing economic interest" means. The reporter did an excellent job explaining that. Now it'll be up to a court to figure it out.
I believe “Democratic Socialist” would be the correct term for their market arrangement: free market with a strong government backdrop against poverty or illness.
This is such a great punchline. It came out just as Sun and DEC were laying the foundation for modern networked systems, which along with PCs overturned mainframe hegemony.

Loved the article by the way. My first real intro to computing was the IBM/370 Principles of Operation.
Yes, please, I'd be interested by a reference
Not so absurd if a coalition of far right governments come to power in Europe. There are already Italy, Poland, Hungary. Add France/Germany/Spain/Netherlands to the mix and what we get is 100% unpredictable.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Wave

It was open sourced as Apache Wave. Yes, it was gwt.
I suppose it depends how realistic the sim is, but what about drones, conveyors, helicopters, etc?
It depends heavily on what you're doing.

There is little benefit in multiple monitors for Office work (Excel, word, etc).
Server admins have some benefits for multimonitors.. i.e keeping documentation open while you're on the server etc.

Especially if the Excel rows arent too wide

GUI development gets massive value from multiple monitors. Nothing beats having the application open and visible while you're changing the code.

It gets even more important if you're a full stack developer, which has several terminals open to keep track of logs, a browser for the webpage you're modifying and the editor for changes.
Reasons to abandon Linux for Windows:

1. It works

2. Lets you use professionally produced, widely supported, best-in-class software, with support

3. Hardware works out of the box, rather than taking a week to get it working, if supported drivers even exist

4. Updates less likely to brick your hardware

5. Your company's IT department, your ISP, etc will help you fix it

6. You don't have to tweak configuration files by hand, run a series of commands, or call up your cousin's nephew who you heard has used this thing before
And PL/1 dates from the 60's At BT in the 80's I learnt PL/1 partially be reading a 1960's IBM manual - that my dad had.
Artificial Intelligence Will Reshape the Global Order
Not to mention that we don't know if people naturally adjust to their environment over time so those "efficiency" gains disappear as users adapt to the environment (eg virtual desktops). Also no indication of operating system or task involved.
> It will be abused to no-end by trackers and script kiddies.

It is being …. This is not a new practice; the only thing new about it is that you can no longer disable it. (Even before, on Safari at least, I'm pretty sure it was opt out rather than opt in.)
Wasn't sold by the article.

Trying to suggest to Windows users that they abandon their platform for Linux is a bit silly really, clickbait at best. People are okay with Windows and wouldn't be happy on Linux unless they have gone part of the way already, e.g. struggled with development on some Virtualbox thing and need the productivity of going native on Linux.

To me the difference between consumer operating systems and Linux is exactly that - the paid for operating systems are a bit like consumer goods, you aren't expected to go under the hood. Sure you can use them for software development but they are designed for running user friendly programs where everything is made easy.

I think that there are parallels in everything from hairdressing to the automotive world. If you cut hair then the tools of the trade cost a fortune and those scissors have to be sharpened monthly or replaced if dropped. You wouldn't recommend those scissors to someone doing a craft class with their toddler.

Or in automotive. You can race any consumer grade car but if you get into it properly then the whole thing is different, no fancy dashboard, rose joints that you have to replace all the time, a roll cage instead of central door locking, the thing probably isn't even road legal. And there isn't a 'sports' of 'M' badge on the back by the time you get into it as full on lifestyle choice.

Most people don't want to do linux things any more than a non-track-day motorist wants to open up the bonnet of their lease-financed car on the motorway (on the way to the in laws).
With 6 monitors I think I'd struggle to remember what was on each screen and have my head and eyes constantly scanning around! Kind of reminds me of those people that run Windows with no less than 42 shortcuts on their desktop!
But the motor industry was not in Birmingham, the motor industry was centralised almost entirely in nearby Coventry. And the collapse of the motor industry has almost completely decimated the city.

You can make the argument that Coventrians moved to Brum following the blitz but it's rather revisionist to compare Birmingham to Detroit when the reality is that Coventry is the closest corollary.
As a workaround, I kind of like that idea!

The other option is to keep the next actions in a separate list (or app), with a link to the email. Then you face the problem of context switching between 2 apps, so yours is better.

I just with that I didn't have to open the email to see the note I'd written myself; Inbox was so clever that the reminder was right under the subject line.
For the curious: the fund's current value is at $1.05 Trillion dollars (USD).

With 5.3 million Norwegian, that equates to $198k per capita. Impressive.

Also: "Since 1998 the fund has generated an annual return of 5.5 percent".

Well done Norway, and well done Farouk al-Kasim.

What a pity that the Iraqi government didn't let him run a similar scheme for the Iraqi oil. Things would be much different today.
> But trash scavengers exist in many United States cities and, like the rampant homelessness in San Francisco, are a signpost of the extremes of American capitalism

Not like the rest of american cities without critical homelessness, that are communist.
Dlopen allows for dynamic linking of symbols e.g. based on user input or local circumstances (cpu capabilities, type of db being connected to opens a different set of libs for different versions etc.).

You could provide hints for these circumstances, or change a program to work differently to avoid the practice, but having library resolution delayed until runtime and until after the program has started is a real thing.
"fashionable moral panic"

Would you be able to share some scientific research that supports the idea that the proposed antennas are completely, without-a-doubt safe? (I assume that's what you're implying by your statment.)

Edit: ok, forget that I used the words 'completely' and 'without-a-doubt' which causes a knee-jerk reaction amongst the armchair epistomologists here. How about just evidence in general that suggests that they're safe?

edit edit: my apology if the phrase 'knee-jerk reaction amongst the armchair epistomologists' rubbed anyone the wrong way. just being snarky but perhaps wasn't helpful to the conversation.
That's my setup, 3 vertical 24" monitors. Same benefit as having the 'main' thing in the middle on a big screen. Text editor takes up the full middle display at most times, a terminal (or stack of terminals) to the left for compiling / examining debug output, and the rightmost display is for hacker news. I look at the rightmost display too often.

In all seriousness the tiling window manager I use (xmonad, but any other would probably do) is more important than the number of displays I have. But it is nice to be able to use 2 vertical displays side by side to do an eyeball diff of output at times, or to keep reference material visible on the display right by the code I'm working on.
I think this is an overly glorified twist on a very simple and very possible "great filter" : pleasure.

Sustenance of a species requires a major sex/procreative drive. If we stop having at least two children per couple, on average, our population begins to decline. If couples only have let's say 1.5 children on average, we'd start on a path to an asymptotic extinction. And it's an oddly extremely fast thing. If people just have 1.5 children that means your population is declining by 25% per generation. At the current world population, that'd be a population decline of just under 2 billion people - in a single generation. To merely sustain our species we need each and every couple to produce an average of more than 2 children on average to account for the fact that some people are infertile, others will die before maturity, etc.

It's easy to see a million and one ways a species could accidentally drive itself extinct without in any way ever intending or "consenting" to such. Mass devices of pleasure that supplant sex and procreation as primary drives, worldwide perfect birth control and a species that does not choose to procreate sufficiently, social views that result in unsustainable procreative rates, etc.

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The one thing I'd add is that I think the above is extremely unlikely because of natural selection. Evolution will simply select for those that choose not to utilize said entertainment devices, or those that choose not to utilize birth control, or those that have differing social views, etc. The problem here is dysgenics, but that's a whole heck of a lot better than a population going lights out not with a bang, or even a whimper, but a moan.
This does nothing to the fission products. And reprocessing only lets you destroy the actinides if you burn them in a fast reactor. Fast reactors have, so far, been even more expensive than thermal reactors.
One counter argument is that they probably applied a basic linear least squares fit to the data. Simple linear regression, using the L2 loss i.e. (y-f(x))^2, is extremely sensitive to large outliers (like Birmingham and Manchester). Without more medium-size cities in the 1-2M range it's hard to say for sure.

If you didn't have those data points, the story would be that the UK has much more productive cities (per size) than France. The trend line with those two cities removed is far steeper; practically vertical! And in fact if their analysis of Birmingham is correct - that it's effectively a much smaller city and should be placed further left on the graph - then it would also support a much steeper line.

This is what the plot looks like without Birmingham and Manchester: https://imgur.com/a/yhT5VoD

I suspect you'd get a similar result if you used a more robust estimator like the Huber loss: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huber_loss

What does that tell you? Probably that the population size of British cities is not a good feature to use to estimate productivity. Or that Birmingham and Manchester are outliers - they are huge cities compared to most of the rest of the UK, for a start.

That's not to say that the article is wrong. Public transport in large cities is pretty poor outside London. I don't doubt that if Birmingham had a decent mass transit system, it would be more profitable.

They also avoided the issue of Manchester, which does have a dense public transport system (similar to Liverpool), but is also punching below its weight.

Never mind that they're assuming that France is the benchmark (despite drawing a trend line on the UK), they included Edinburgh which is a capital ...
Perhaps when they start to taste like an Angus burger. But, that's my opinion, just as this article is another guy's opinion.
It's the hurricane and flood insurance that are insane
A very large ratio between two parameters and a fine-tuned balancing of forces are alternative ways of describing the same problem. The fact that you have very different intuitions depending on how the problem is framed is part of the reason these questions are so difficult and contentious.
I thought I could jump from Windows to Ubuntu on my gaming computer after Valve did all that great work on Photon. Not quite. Ubuntu couldn't connect to my bluetooth xbox controller, and would never reconnect to wifi after resume or restart.

I do prefer the speed, workflow, and several other things about the Ubuntu desktop, but as I only need to play games on that computer, it's not worth it.

My laptop has always been Ubuntu though, as Linux is the best bootloader for Emacs.
Something like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfNw5cKY6qI (Disclaimer: I didn't try it.)
Yes, you got it.
If you haven't already, look into spring-loaded or hydraulic articulating mounts for your monitors. MountIt makes cheap stuff that's pretty good for the money. Saves so much desk space and the monitor can be very easily moved out of the way for cleaning or desk work and then positioned back with minimal effort.
Unpopular opinion: Windows Phone?
Yeah, actually. Alien sapience would (almost) undoubtedly have a fascinatingly different perspective than our own, and learning about it could better inform our model of reality. So what if they're more advanced? We will have to come to terms with our collective delusion that humanity is divinely exceptional? Worst case we get wiped out, which is going to happen at some point anyway, but it is more likely that any species with the technology to survive in space long enough to make interstellar travel feasible has little use for our world or its resources and therefore little reason to be overly aggressive.

There are those who would argue that math says they should wipe us out because we might one day be a threat to them, but that's a clearly bankrupt philosophy. If that's really how things worked, then every nation, tribe, family, and individual on earth should be doing their best to wipe out every other on the same reasoning.
but can't we just allocate those downtimes to the time when we are not on the clock?
Fired IT aide to Sen. Hassan installed keyloggers to her devices
Yet in 8 years of mythical "austerity" the Tories have managed to gut every service to breaking point. Education is so broken that tertiary education has become an exercise in marketing and delivering least for the £9k a year. Schools are so starved of funding that 80% report being in crisis, as do Police, NHS, libraries, well everything really.

Local government funding is more centrally funded that at any point in UK history, and the last 8 years have brought an insane skewing of an already heavy skew in favour of London and the South East. The North-South divide is 2:1 for pounds spend by government now.

8 years to destroy every achievement of inclusion and protection since the war. 8 years to put a third of UK children into poverty and a welfare system actively designed to get people to choose to give up. The bastards even knew that whilst rolling it out.

I'm also looking to leave. I really, really don't want my retirement here any more as we abolish everything that was once worthwhile about the country and rush to public services that work as well as the US (ie not at all).

The UK has become, surprisingly quickly, a terrible place to live and work, with widespread poverty and low wages, and a job market devoted to zero hours contracts for all.
And PR1ME used pl1 as its system programming language
Worked on project in a small team, where the lead developer had a heart attack shortly after the project started. I had to step up to take on his role, though he was back in work 3 weeks later. As it was at the start of the project, it didn't suffer any real issues.
You may also need to disable CSS.

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Why is insulin so expensive?
And then you have the famous Liar’s Poker interview question:

> Investment bankers had a technique known as the stress interview. If you were invited to Lehman’s New York offices, your first interview might begin with the interviewer asking you to open the window. You were on the forty-third floor overlooking Water Street. The window was sealed shut. That was, of course, the point. The interviewer just wanted to see whether your inability to comply with his request led you to yank, pull, and sweat until finally you melted into a puddle of foiled ambition. Or, as one sad applicant was rumored to have done, threw a chair through the window.
Normalization of Deviance - we as the community of technical folks who have the engineering knowledge to tackle and highlight and help solve these issues should not follow that normalization. It's very dangerous.

We need to continue highlighting unacceptable practices to drive privacy improvements in legislation.

And we should establish ethics boards and education (ethical software engineering) amongst ourselves to stop building shady things.
Strange reply. "Linux Desktop" is a pretty common term that I didn't just conjure up.

I also specifically named two of the more popular desktop environments with two specific examples of things that are hard to configure.
Yes. Telephone companies can do this. You are correct about it.

I don't have an answer to your question so I'm just speculating over here and it's quite possible that I'm wrong

I think as soon as that happens (someone shuts off a network) someone else will set up new networks to provide the old service.

Open source technologies exist to set up base stations right now [1]

I think we're headed towards an open spectrum future. Soon most communication could take place on unliscenced networks [2]. Or more and more networks could become unliscenced.

The G networks are not the only way to communicate. It is also important to note that the G networks are now simply internet enablers.

I don't have any data on this but I'd love a comparision of telephony and data services on use today. How much data people use in calling vs using Facebook for example?

Also consider that all telephony comapnies are betting big on IOT.How many IOT devices works on a G network?

If you have a modern device all you need is WiFi.

That however does not mean that telephone companies would cease to exist. Someone still has to provide infrastructure. They just won't have to spend so much on acquiring liscence s. Which also means more competition from unliscenced providers.

Device manufacturers would be able to work on a common network technology stack.

By the way I don't have anything against 5g. I also don't quite understand health implications so I'm unqalified to talk about it. But I don't like having to buy a new device just to use a new network.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenBTS

[2]https://www.weforum.org/projects/internet-for-all
I have to disagree. Programming is certainly a craft, but it is not an art form. Programming is fundamentally a means to an end, whereas art can be an end in itself.

Programming is much closer to swordsmithing. It is possible to create a sword that is both deadly and beautiful, but the former always takes precedence over the latter. Furthermore, there are clearly-defined constraints: you cannot smith an axe and call it a sword, just as you cannot write a web scraper and call it a raytracing engine. Art does not have this limitation. In any art medium, you can imagine creating a horribly mangled artifact, like a canvas smeared with random colors, or a piece of discordant music, or a violently disorienting video game -- and yet these would still be considered art. But a program full of syntax errors is like a cracked sword without a hilt: useless. Art cannot be useless.
People say a lot of things and people are not perfect, they are susceptible to bias and manipulation. So until someone provides some peer reviewed evidence showing that there is a causal link between radio waves emitted by cellular equipment and cancer diagnosis then I'm going to call it a moral panic.

On another note, I would be open to the possibility that Satan is real and is the cause behind cancer if and only if the proper evidence is provided.
I don’t like turning my head

Same here, I dont like to "sit" in a position where my head is turned because it can hurt my neck.
We had 3 different Nexus 5X phones die via a bootloop. All bought from different vendors.

100% death rate.

And yes, I know there was a "fix" released last year. Didn't work for any of them.

Great cheap phones other than that. Really good cameras on them.
That looks pretty neat.

The table layout is ugly, though. As this is a pretty basic HTML table, you can't do much but you can certainly do better than a table with all borders.

I thought I learned about web table design in a very concise article but I couldn't find it. The best my google-fu provided is this article: https://alistapart.com/article/web-typography-tables

Some quotes:

"As a starting point, avoid any border or frame surrounding the table. This is a Victorian embellishment which is entirely unnecessary as text alignment will shape the table just fine."

"Tables should not be set to look like nets with every number enclosed. Try to do without rules altogether. They should be used only when they are absolutely necessary. Vertical rules are needed only when the space between columns is so narrow that mistakes will occur in reading without rules. Tables without vertical rules look better. Thin rules are better than thick ones."

Edit: Here is a quick design I tried: https://i.imgur.com/xgKsNvy.png

I didn't do any color striping, this would also be an improvement to distinguish the table head from the table rows but I didn't find quickly any coloring I liked.
"A job interview isn't a set of trick questions"

This reminds me of this old BBC comedy sketch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHy06FMsezI
It's not my IO, i've got 2 NVME Samsung 970 SSDs in there. In Linux it runs like a dog with its nuts on fire.

I have a calendar entry each week to dual-boot into Win 10 'cos otherwise when I need to do work in there the thing is completely pegged. Tried this yesterday - first time in 2 weeks - and the desktop became unresponsive after ~20 secs. Copying files over the network randomly failed and I couldn't press [Win] to get to the start menu.

Windows updates are a tyre fire. This isn't to mention the number of times it's automatically rebooted me on my work laptop.My wife's mother has a Win 10 laptop she logs into into probably once every 2 weeks to work on a Google Doc. Her internet is terrible, but it's unusable for her with WU trying to eat her cpu and download a couple of gig of updates.

Why shouldn't I get her a Chromebook? And why shouldn't I use Linux on mine when it's a million times better?
Am I misreading or was there only one participant per group?
Do you mean that there are other American cities without rampant homelessness, and that capitalists would wrongly accuse them of being communist? In other words, that capitalism can exist without homelessness?

Similarly (but with blame elsewhere) do you mean that the author is being naive by assuming that rampant homelessness is caused by capitalism, specifically?

Or do you mean that homelessness is a necessary evil to maintain capitalism?
Why not try KDE? I am a long-time KDE user and very happy with it. The flexible Plasma desktop might give you what you are missing from unity. There seem to be some tutorials on youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=kde+unity+like
Bright lights in the big cities: migratory birds’ exposure to artificial light