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> I've heard one could almost live on potatoes, with only some vitamin supplements, is that also a 'complete food'?

Yes. Here's an article about it, and some one actually tried it for a while [1].

[1] https://www.popsci.com/nutrition-single-food-survival
Thank you, will do.
The very general rule of thumb is anything greater than 10 MHz switching frequency. To get an accurate answer requires physical stimulation, or "build it and see if it works or not".
Abusing the Continuation Monad (2016)
Not anymore. This time he's not coming back, the meds aren't working anymore...
I would argue that GTalk is not still alive. They sneakily replaced it with Hangouts, which brought multi-way video, but was otherwise worse in every way.
> An average onshore wind turbine with a capacity of 2.5–3 MW can produce more than 6 million kWh in a year

(Source: http://www.ewea.org/wind-energy-basics/faq/)

That's an actual average of 685 kW, so 4,700 turbines for Hinkley Point. But that's still the _average_ production. If, or rather when, there's no wind during a high demand period you get a nice blackout.

Also:

> So a 2-megawatt wind turbine would require a total area of about half a square kilometer

(Source: https://sciencing.com/much-land-needed-wind-turbines-1230463...

So for those 4,700 turbines you need more than 2,350 km^2, so the whole of Dorset covered and as said, you'd still need a backup.
It was more of a realization that those people placed far too much importance on their individual "purity", and their distance from the "impure" masses than effecting any systematic change.

When you think of the entire chain of supply and logistics involved in running the modern world, you are inexorably meshed with the world of evil and the "impure". As I said, it does far more good for ethical entities to take rein of this thrashing beast than to posture purity. You might even have to be cunning, brutal, and cold to ward off those who simply don't give a damn. Especially the psychopathic and sociopathic agents.
>With pirated copies, they often are missing surround tracks, higher quality encodings, CC, and languages.

It has been a while for me, but it wasnt uncommon that it was the other way around.
I'm curious what you consider a healthy meal.

Do you have any recipes or expectations?
If the person didn't want the political views to be public, they shouldn't have tried to buy ads about them.
Don't want to sound too mean but this is not the first time IBM overpromised and underdelivered.

Anyone surprised by this?
> The price of admission makes it so

Stanford, like most first-tier US universities, is both need-blind admission and full-demonstrated-need financial aid (for US students).
You could (and are) say the same things about Fashion, since that's pretty much what the Apple Watch is: a fashion statement.
The point remains: Why would/should the people with weapons remain subservient to those without?
Same for me. Hardly watch anything nowadays. I used to watch prime in kodi when that still worked reliably in 2014(?) and stopped bothering after they put an end to this. I actually still have prime but never use it for anything but free shipping. Should I feel the urge to watch a movie at home once a year or so I just pirate it so I can play it back on kodi.
> Honest question for those who follow such a diet: how do you not feel hungry? If I don't have meat, I tend to stay hungry.

It's a matter of making sure you eat enough. I've noticed when playing around with a mostly, but not entirely, vegetarian diet that there's no magic at all if you're already in the habit of counting calories.

I've known some people for whom it's more of a problem, for a few reasons. For starters, an athletic person who likes a steady three meals a day might have some problems and need to change some habits, but a snacker who is trying to lose weight might thrive with the change.
https://www.theadvocate.com/new_orleans/news/environment/art...

$92 billion for the coast and probably another $20 billion for New Orleans? It doesn’t have to be all at once.
It's not just the registers, the use of the stack (e.g. lack of a "red zone" on Windows) as well as the data used for exception handling are different too.

The MSDN links above are quite detailed on what Windows implements. The post by Eli at https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2011/09/06/stack-frame-layout-... goes over some Windows differences towards the end.
Oh dont! I talk about how to make it from scratch cheaper.

That was supposed to be a time saver, but the idea is to have the roux.
My dad's factory in the 80s was managed by s360. I do not understand why, but 1 out of 4 companies in Italy I talk to, are still running AS400... This must be something like Maya architecture :)
Thank you; thank you; thank you.

There he really nailed the problems with JCL.

Once at the Watson lab I rode in the elevator with Brooks and nearly kissed his ring for his The Mythical Man-Month but was nice enough not to mention JCL!
If you're just talking about potential loss hydropower is not the argument you want to make here. Just the Banqiao dam failure alone has caused far more fatalities than nuclear power ever has including Chernobyl.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banqiao_Dam

Even just recently in the United States the Oroville dam came pretty close to catastrophe and required the evacuation of 188,000 people. Repairing the Oroville dam cost $1.1 billion, even back in the 70s the Teton Dam collapse cost over $300 million.

I'm all in favor of using hydroelectric power in places where we need to build a dam to control flooding but building a dam for power alone is ecologically damaging, floods tons of land, and even if you wanted to try to build more, there's not a lot of suitable locations.

As for the complexity of keeping a nuclear reactor under control, this isn't the 50s, we have reactor designs that are dramatically safer than older reactors, we aren't building them. I think you're wrong about trying to conserve energy as well. I'm not saying that we should waste it, but real conservation of energy isn't going to happen without significantly changing our current lifestyles. We don't need to do that if we just invest in sustainable clean energy in the form of nuclear power in the first place.
BeOS.
Why would you even care how they pronounce your name, unless it's an English name? If they mispronounce Jones then sure that would be a red flag for many reasons, but if it's Nguyen? Can anyone outside Vietnam actually pronounce Nguyen? It's virtually impossible to do without practice if your native language is English. Or take Chinese "Qi" or "Xi", or basically any Polish sound. If your language doesn't have nasal vowels or soft sibilants you simply won't be able to pronounce them.
Test your tests with mutation testing
I've seen that kind of thing too. What I've never seen, and what the article is focused on, is a serious correction for failures to hire. It seems like most companies would rather slowly strangle their hiring pipeline than tell people "your dealbreakers are dumb and you're no longer allowed to use them".
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When you buy drm'ed digital files you get what you pay for: nothing.

I never "buy" drm'ed material if I can't break the drm.
Completely agree, a battery with 10x capacity would be huge. Imagine having mobile devices that only need to be charged once a week or so.

There's one promising approach using fluoride that's being investigated right now. It's only a matter of time until this or something similar comes to market. http://science.sciencemag.org/content/362/6419/1144
You don’t typically get a pension unless you serve for 20 years. This guy sells literal trash to make ~$300 a week. Probably doesn’t have a fat pension, no. Also if you live in a city can you really complain about a little noise?
Are we actually happy we get to rebuy media we already own?
In my experience a clean public space tends to stay clean even without outside input, while trash leads to more trash. Apparently people feel more guilty for making a clean place dirty than for making a dirty place a bit dirtier.

Thus a good way to fix trash on the streets is to pay people to clean it up, and after a short while you can get clean streets with a very moderate level of cleaning effort.
There's another aspect to the cost of materials, which is the investment required to make the type itself. A lot of capital was locked up in a printer's store of lead type.
> It's worth noting for anyone that advocates this sort of diet that it is a luxury.

Utter nonsense. A commonly perpetuated myth. Foods like lentils have the best cost-nutrition ratios of any food. What do you think the people around the world living on $1 a day are eating?

> doubtless time-consuming. What of those who work by the hour? ...most don't want to spend 2 hours cooking regularly.

Another myth.
The author's mistake (IMHO) was not treating his TV as a dumb pixel rectangle and nothing more. Not getting a Roku-integrated TV has the same arguments for not getting any other kind of "smart" TV:

- Getting prompted in the middle of content that "the Terms of Service have been updated"

- Getting prompted to accept the ToS

- Companies deciding to inject ads into your content

- Interoperability issues

- Being able to upgrade your (cheap) set-top box without upgrading your (expensive) TV

- Smart TV apps are typically worse than the best box apps (although this doesn't really apply to Roku-equipped TVs I guess)

- Bugs in the software degrading or disabling your viewing capabilities. Worst case with a box? Buy a new one ($100).

Seriously. Don't even connect your smart TV to the Internet. Leave the Wifi unconnected. Don't plug in an Ethernet cable. Leave that to whatever box or boxes you choose.
You don't need to rewrite to add types.
> I used to spend more time in meat than almost any dish I prepare now. From overnight smokes of pulled pork or half day cooks of meats in sous vide with a finish on grill was, by far much more work.

Most people don't do this, and I certainly don't. Most people don't have the time to do it with meat either. I just roast chickens from costco or some turkey. Fish I don't do as often, because it's slow.

> I don't cast judgement

This sets you apart from many others, and I appreciate it. In an above reply, I detailed a little more how the whole plant-based thing didn't work for me, even with a sincere effort. I think not everybody does best on the same diet, and appreciate someone not trying to exalt the diet that works for them as the only one that is morally right.

> Beyond Meat / Impossible Burger type alternatives

Yuck. These are worse than the veggie option. I've tried the impossible burger once; never again. I think it was the smell that was wrong, but am not quite sure. It's the uncanny valley of meat, and I don't like it.

> Vegan for everyone by America's Test Kitchen

I appreciate the recommendation, but am not sure I would try again. I don't have any moral issues whatsoever with eating meat, and was doing it more because I had been so badgered about people who said it was better for them. I gave it a shot, and it didn't really work for me, but I'm glad to here it does for some.
Larry Wall is endorsing strong types? I'll have to watch that now. I guess you can use Perl 6 in a way that approximates it, but it's very optional.
The dark forest theory is a bit different. The parent comment's story was more in line with the idea that all advanced civilizations kill themselves off (like with AI, nuclear weapons, climate change, or GRB machines here). Dark Forest has more to do with civilizations killing each other off because any civilization they discover might surpass them technologically in the future and become a threat.
The difference is that people don't really hate exclusives on the publisher's own store unless the store is awful.

IMHO:

GFWL: awful and hated, dead now

UPlay: awful and hated

Steam: best in class and loved

GoG: second best in class and accepted

Origin: good and tolerated

Blizzard: good and tolerated

Epic: awful and hated
i recently learned you can actually have typescript annotations without [imo] polluting the syntax or requiring the TS compiler:

http://seg.phault.net/blog/2017/10/typescript-without-transp...

does anyone know if there are limitations to this style?
> I don’t have kids

I used to think all kinds of things about how we'd raise our kids before we had them, but I'm pretty satisfied with the job that we're doing overall - they're outside catching the first frogs of spring in the creek that goes by our house at this very moment.

However, sometimes when you're driving for hours to somewhere they get a little bored and want to watch a movie. And sometimes you get bored of listening to the dialog from Hotel Transylvania and want to listen to a podcast and then you discover how handy those headphones actually are.

edit: I mean, this is constructive feedback and I do appreciate it. And you should absolutely think about your parenting strategy before you have children as well. It's just that, well, sometimes your opinions on things soften as you age and gain domain experience is all...
Battlefront 2 is a bad example, as it's a MP game which can't be effectively pirated.
Personally I don't think I'll ever get a <=60Hz monitor after using one with 144Hz. (Caveat- there aren't many 4K 144Hz models the last time I checked, and they're quite expensive. I'd rather make due at 1440p, any day!)
Library of Congress?
The leverage interviewers have is that they know if the candidate can't find a job, that at some point the candidate won't be able to afford rent/mortgage, food, clothing etc. That's a desperate position for a candidate to be in and it puts employers in a position of absolute power. With that type of game it's inevitable that you will see anti-social interview techniques. It would be a sign of high character if an interviewer didn't power trip over a candidate. The changes that would alter that dynamic is either that society should find it acceptable for people to live out of a tent and ask for donations from strangers or guarantee basic needs to all its members. Both of which are socially and politically untenable because it would disrupt the power structure of those well regarded and politically connected business that benefit. So I expect zero change on this issue in perpetuity.
The emphasis on the plaques comes from the fact that Alzheimer’s is diagnosed by the presence of these plaques, while dementia is a symptom/presentation.

I guess it comes down to whether you believe that an infection disproportionately affects old people and causes dementia. It probably doesn’t, not for any good biological reason, but because it doesn’t sound like any progress has been made on the biomechanics of dementia.

Laypeople obviously don’t care about the plaques. They want the dementia to go away. You can make a mouse model that has a brain infection, and then potentially a model where that infection shows plaques, and then a molecule that gets rid of the infection. But it’s really hard to tell (in real life, not in science speak) if a mouse has dementia. That’s the limitation.

We’re so incredibly far away from drug interventions for dementia.
Anything labelled 'Watson' should be seen as marketing, not product or consulting.
I miss being able to cast things to my Fire Stick. Like a lot.
Tech marketing tends to flaut the Scotty Principle to the extreme.
Wait until you get to your 40's or 50's and your eyes lose the ability to adjust their focus distance. This will change everything.

First, you should get two pairs of glasses, progressives for general use and single vision lenses tuned to the specific distance to the monitors you use.

Since I use a ThinkPad for much of my work, my computer glasses are adjusted to a focus distance of about 20".

This means that all my monitors, in whatever configuration, also need to be about 20" from my eyes. And it means that large monitors are unusable unless they are curved, because the distance to my eyes changes too much from center to edge. I tried a 32" flat monitor at a company I was visiting a few years ago and it was hard to keep everything in focus.

My vision does correct well, so as long as I can keep the focus distance constant, small high-DPI monitors work best.

The sweet spot for me is the high-DPI monitor on my ThinkPad combined with one or two 24" 4K UHD external monitors. One external monitor is centered above the ThinkPad display in landscape orientation, the other is to the side in portrait orientation. The external monitors are also 20" from my eyes.

If I only have one external monitor, I like to have it on a mounting arm so I can use it in either of those orientations as needed.

Each monitor is positioned so the screen is centered relative to my eyes (i.e. I'm not viewing it at a slant).

By sticking with small monitors and adjusting them to all be at the same distance, I can easily see everything on all two or three of them.

Whatever you do about monitors, take care of your eyes! Don't do what I see too many people do, where they avoided getting glasses long after they should have and squint and crane their necks to try to read the text. Or even worse, they only get a pair of progressives, so when they try to read the screen they have to tilt their heads back and aim their eyes down through the close-up part of the glasses.

Getting proper prescription computer glasses - and getting the prescription renewed every couple of years in my 40's (when your vision changes most rapidly) - was one of the best things I ever did for myself.
If you have a skill that might be relevant to the company you're applying to, wouldn't it be in your best interest to emphasize that? Sure, recruiters are often quite clueless, but that's just how it is, so we have to increase our chances given the circumstances.
Not sure about Watson, but there was just this week a story about using pattern matching to improve breast cancer screening imaging. It seems the tech is decent but the problem is, it's unclear whom to sue if needed, so there's an obstacle to using it.
Sure, but only because "art" is essentially boundaryless and actively resists attempts to define it. If you stretch the definition far enough, everyone is an artist and everything is an artistic medium.
Wait what prolog?
Typescript is wonderful, especially as someone used to writing a lot of java/groovy. Typescript is like pouring cement around your javascript house of cards. It makes writing front end code painless and predictable.

It also has amazing tooling in intelli-j. Code completion, linting, package recognition, all the good stuff.
10k kilometers. Most VW engines are on a schedule of 20-30k or 2 years, though those have other, less dramatic, issues (direct injection + AGR = dirty intake valves). And while engines don't like it when you change the oil late, they're not immediately scrap metal.
I’m so bummed this service is no longer available. It was so nice to have the money withdrawn for purchases, held in a reserve and then paid. I would’ve paid a monthly fee for it! I’m also on the hunt for a substitution but nothing so far...
Good point — I missed that option. That’s at least a less expensive change than a phone, but it’s still a minimum of $400 vs the $150 of the nano. It’s vastly more expensive for those solely wanting a music player.
> If this theory, which Moir outlines in a review article published in the December issue of the journal Alzheimer's & Dementia, proves true, it could mean researchers' current strategies to combat the disease — fighting the plaques — is misguided.

But it could still mean that preventing the plaque formation would stop the dementia, right?
I see what you are saying. But it's simply not true. Seeds, nuts, fruits, vegetables, and grains come in many different varieties. And most are very affordable.

I think the bigger issues is that people don't want to look like birds while nibbling away on a bowl of pineapple rice pudding with chia seeds.

I eat cooked food once or twice a week. Buckwheat and lentils (extremely cheap!) are my preferred choice. I can get a 2lb bag of soy protein with essential amino acids for exercise diet. Ohh, tempeh, tofu, Kimchi? Yeah man... soo elitist.

If you want I can go on. I have many years of experience and live a paycheck lifestyle.
Google search results. Great way to see which results are popular, and still allow users to copy links straight from the search results.
I couldn't agree more with you on this.

I often see good, actually simple solutions get turned down due to people saying "that's too complicated for what we need", only to later hear, after a couple of months in production, that nobody wants to touch the codebase anymore since it's unapproachable and the rewrite will not happen due to high risk since it's critical production code now.
Have you tried https://losttech.software/stack.html ? It works well for me on Windows 10.
This is from 2014. The Android alarm clock now has roughly the same design.
> "Planning" for Uber involves what?

In Central Florida, this means having a safe place for people to stand and wait. That area gets frequent and often nasty thunderstorms.
you need 60Hz and 4:4:4 chroma subsampling, otherwise text can look really bad. I don't know any models in the 200 range that support this.
I guess it's easier to proselytise for the one true God than for an assortment.
People with such concerns should launch their own social media platform so they don't have to be subject to someone else's rules.
Still user-hostile, because it reduces user choice.
I don't know why people make such a big deal of types. They don't add that much time to typing the code.

I also have noticed that if you write daily using some code style (for example using types) it takes time to switch to another style, for example without types. So you are better of using types, because you are used to it and you will code faster that way anyway.
I'm going to wait for some verification for this story. Sounds too weird to be true.
Centralized retirement is such an opaque system.

Invest into a system for 30 years so the older generation can live comfortable lives off your investments. The same generation being in power, guts your retirement because of austerity.

The tension across generations is so large today, that I wonder if systems that establish intergenerational dependencies are ethical anymore.

Why should a generation that enjoyed cheap education, be able to pull the ladder from behind them once they're done?

Unpopular opinion, but I've wondered if in its pursuit of fairness, Democracy allows a people that are unaffected by a change to blissfully ruin things for those who are adversely affected by it.

IMO, social democracies aren't equipped to deal with an "I got mine" tendency rooted in looser associations with traditional social structures. (such as family, religion or local communities. Not preaching, I am an aethist)
I used to buy new computers whenever the new one was twice as fast as the old one. In the 80's that sometimes meant every year. At some point the clock speed stopped going up and more cores were added instead. I think that's about the point I stopped feeling the need to upgrade due to speed.

Now I do it more out of reliability concerns. Replacing my desktop after 5-6 years might be a waste of money, but if I'm down for a day or two that will cost me more.
US consumption of bottled water in 2017 was 42 gallons per capita (160 liters) [1].

That's behind Italy (188 liters per capita) and Germany (175 liters per capita). The EU average is 117 liters per capita [2].

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/183377/per-capita-consum...

[2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/455422/bottled-water-con...
+1 for keeping a book and guitar handy! I keep my guitar packed away but do keep an American Indian flute and a didgeridoo handy. I think music, played briefly while waiting for a machine learning experiment, large Haskell project build, etc. is much better than web browsing because it does not ruin focus.
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