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Humans have been working it out for a million years or so, it isn't that difficult.

If someone considers relationships with other people to be an "incomprehensible minefield," then the problem is with them, not the nature of human relationships.

Too many people overthink things, seeing each potential relationship as a puzzle to be solved, or searching for some general purpose sexual algorithm for which they can provide the inputs and recieve sexual or emotional fulfillment, or they expect hostility and deception and treat dating like an interrogation.

And of course some people just don't have empathy for the opposite sex and don't understand social boundaries or cues.
Don't like pedantic attitude just because some recent paradigm matches that of a while ago. Back then, you don't know dynamic types won't be too welcomed.
Are these regulation dangerous? Yes, they are. They can easily be bent to censor, to cover up nearly anything.

But are these regulation useful? Yes, they are.

When I was a teenager online - early 2000s - extreme violence was hidden behind obscure websites, not even indexed by search engines. I had friends who had "shocking videos" - think videos of actual killings - and I really tried to stay as far as I could.

In the past few years articles and publications regularly emerge that these topics and videos are now basically mainstream. After deep diving into instagram, tumblr, or twitter, to see if these claims are real, I'm going to say, they are, and this is very far from healthy.

We need some regulations; I'm only afraid they will be an overshoot, for what the chances are too high.
Besides, I'm pretty sure banning is only gonna make those community feels like they are being persecuted for being right and itching the man.

They then will proceed to find another place that is less easy to control to carry on with their message, and will have a renewed feeling of legitimacy and urgency.

What's even worse is that it may very well be used to censor even more things in the future, as people with a new toy tend to make use of it.

In the end, removing space to debate about hot topics like those will make the angry people feel like loosing even more respect (a big motivator in their initial believe), while preventing anybody else to build a sane approach to it (you need to be exposed to hate to be a functional member of an imperfect society).
The programmes in question are available online:
https://computer-literacy-project.pilots.bbcconnectedstudio....
A lot of software was never fixed for the Y2K problem. People just went from e.g. entering a date of 99 to 00 as the new millennium rolled around, and dealt with the pain of any time offset calculations being incorrect and needing to be manually fixed for a few months.

Some of it's doubtless still in use and people are entering "19" as the year today, and if it's still in use in 2099 we'll have the exact same problem all over again with the exact same software.

That may seem crazy today, but people in the 1950s would have thought you were crazy if you said B-52s were still going to be flying in 2020.

There's doubtless going to be people still running Windows 95 on some emulator in 2100 to use some legacy application that keeps chugging along. Some software we use today might be in use for thousands of years or more, unlike airframes it isn't subject to any natural decay or wear.
I'm sure you can think of lots of ways a government can coerce a company if they really want to
> “You all did everything you could, didn’t you?” he asked hopefully.

This may have been misunderstood by the author. The patient's loved one may have asked that question in a more general context, to achieve some form of closure. And the answer to this, truthfully, would have been that, yes, they did everything they could - especially in the early stages of the disease when there was still hope of minimizing the damage and/or alleviate suffering.

I understand the young doctor's judgement that the patient's loved one was partially to blame for the needless extension of the patient's suffering. It's a hard call to make, and people don't want to be the one who let a loved person go. They're afraid that they'll always be asking themselves the question whether they should really have given up on that person. That's why it's better to have the patient set the policy while they're still able to make that decision, precisely to not put relatives into that position.
The dutch national railways run a profit. There's subsidies for lowering the ticket prices iirc, but you're not gonna get that subsidy by giving away rides for free.
I have seen a lot of people mock the idea that “fake news” is a problem. I might be accidentally nut picking, but it’s no straw man.
I think VS Code is almost like a little brother of IntelliJ now but better at a few places. (Especially rendering.)
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This is another trouble with dating apps. How can you possibly make a meaningful connection with another person through an app? There's nothing but a profile pic and some generic text.

These "creepy" guys would likely be totally fine in an informal, real-world situation. They would be all right in the workplace, sports club, college study group or by coming along a group of friends, being introduced in person. They can hold conversations, but are subject to the imbalanced dating mechanics as discussed exhaustively in this thread. (This doesn't excuse some of the weaker shit that some guys seem to try though.)

Fortunately there are niches in society where regular guys are in high demand by attractive women, and observing that is fascinating. Has there just been a war and all the decent guys died? Ah no, were are just here.
Also, I think the "wifi direct" feature for sending largish data between smartphones uses an initial Bluetooth handshake (authorization+wifi setup parameters).
Morals and evolution are tightly coupled. For starters, if you consider the practical morals society lives by, many of them are about controlling reproduction. That's one of the primary purposes of our moral institutions (religion).

At a deeper level, both morality and evolution are all about encouraging survival of genes.
I wonder what people are using to write code with for those that complain vanilla JS works fine. Vanilla vim?
The computer literacy project was basically the last UK government attempt at doing industrial policy. It was a huge success, so they gave up on it and have abandoned industrial policy to market forces and financialisation.

We have gone from that to "eff business". https://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2019-02-14b.1068....
Java, C#, Python.
> Reddit was a nice idea, but it just got too big.

Funny how that wasn't a problem until the Bad Orange Man won. Surely just a coincidence.
I may have misread you, but I didn't understand how you were proposing the resources be funnelled.
A really important optimization when scanning directories is to avoid doing the stat on each object just to get its type. On Linux, the struct dirent has a d_type (not specified by POSIX and not supported by all filesystems) which forward the type of the object from the inode to the directory entry. When portable programs that use stat to get basic type information (like "is this a directory or a regular file") are converted to use d_type, the speedup is dramatic.
In the market of digital services, Europe is as good as non-existent. Maybe I can come up with one or two names in the top 20 of the most successful software enterprises.

And those are probably already dinosaurs compared to most recent developments on that market.

Europe is exceptionally bad at creating their own services. Maybe because it is just too convenient to use American ones or that there isn't really any venture capital available here. But the fact remains.

Subjectively, it seems we often also lack the openness for new ideas compared to America, especially around older generations.

Europe doesn't even know the significance of freedom right know. Not taking the right decision is often less important than owning it yourself. Americans seem to get that. Most of the time at least.
As far as I understand, the gold revenue is not really meaningful compared to advertising, it's something like a few percent of their total revenue.
golang is not that special in that regard either way then, see: Java, Python, C#, etc.
How does this user-facing map change translate to avionics though?
It feels a bit misleading to say PostGraphile is "GraphQL-as-a-Service". Typically XaaS is used when there's an external service (normally hosted elsewhere) that provides this functionality; whereas PostGraphile is 100% self-hosted, we do not even have a hosted offering. Further, PostGraphile is more of a framework for building a GraphQL API than a separate service you run - since it's pure JS (well, TypeScript) a decent portion of our users mount PostGraphile directly into their Express or Koa applications and deeply integrate it, including customising and extending it via plugins. It's much more of a library/framework than an "-as-a-service". (I'm the PostGraphile maintainer.)
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To clarify you're responding to a comment I've quoted from another user-

The issue becomes with the internet being able to silence all dissent and create re-enforcing echo chmabers. The forces at play are not stupid and they target disenfranchised, lonely, young males full of angst.

Imagine a packed hall with hundreds of people loudly cheering for someone calling for genocide of X group, this is what these hate clusters look like and if we saw it in the real world no one would say "This is an acceptable cost of free speech"

There exists speech that has no redeeming qualities and serves only to incite violence and hate. To argue as many commented here have that outlawing this would lead down a slippery slope of authoritarian government censorship is simply ridiculous. We've outlawed child pornography and that hasn't led us down any slippery slopes.
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There's (in my experience) not a very large overlap between overly promiscuous poly people and other poly people.

Not having long-term stable partners is also not mutually exclusive with being polyamorous and many poly people (again, in my experience) benefit from having multiple deep relationships with whom they can share their problems and struggles with. Load-balancing actually benefits all in this case.

A better comparison would be that children growing up in a polyamorous environment are more like a tribe of people instead of the classic family.
The vast majority of the views came from people who went looking after the media (primarily) kept telling us the video was out there?
The only downside is that the correctness of your code is relying on alignment that the compiler isn't able to infer, and for which there is deliberately no run-time check.
I think its fair to say you might've missed the opportunity to grant some poetic license.

Maybe the wider point was the more philosophical one: art binds our minds together, and therefore paintings are a kind of mind glue, figuratively ..
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Wait ... wat?
Obviously yes, but heck if only humans had never gone to Australia in the first place it would still be populated by innumerable species that simply no longer exist.

We were destroying ecosystems long before there was anything that could reasonably be called a nation state.
Does Random Forest Overfit?
I hope this idea of taking the complexity of memory management and encoding it in the language syntax is an evolutionary dead end, because that Rust code looks genuinely painful.

Otherwise I agree that a rewrite is nonsense. In these kinds of huge projects, only a gradual solution that can co-exist with the existing code base could work, if anything. An example would be tightening the safety of the existing code through static analysis of the kind offered by Frama-C.
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> This is a rather strange take considering how large and quality the cultural (music, movies, tv, games, books, art, etc) communities are in the pirating scene.

> If anything piracy is essential to the survival of culture.

The book pirating scene is poor though. Outside of YA best-sellers and the usual K. Dick and Pratchett there isn't much to pirate if you are into anything not completely maintstream.
You might consider that formal polygamy is directly linked to (a) religious authoritarianism, (b) gender inequality, (c) reduced education for women, (d) lowered economic productivity, (e) low standard of living.

When all those things travel together, it's not clear that polygamy should be viewed as the primary cause.
Good analogy.

To the article's point, there is currently a dynamic where long term/chronic prescriptions such as anti-depression drugs "win out" relative to antibiotics & vaccines, which have the same pricing issue. It's mitigated by the large out-of-patent portfolio and (especially for vaccines) the large potential volume, but the problem is there.

To some extent, this is a problem economist don't like. The pricing system shouldn't matter too much. If X has Y value and A cost, those (alongside competition, which should be driving price to A)... If the value/efficacy is identical, those are supposed to be the main determinates of price.

Non-academic pricers understand that these pricing paradigms are big determinates though, in practice. Membership vs pay-as-you-go. Software & updates vs SAAS. These change demand & pricing dynamics enormously.

A one-time pill, with measured effectiveness against depression on par with one-a-day alternatives is very unlikely to make as much money, in practice... blackboard reasoning be damned.
If you're suggesting that Donald Trump has some connection with the bans of controversial subreddits I think you're wrong, since the one big ban of fatpeoplehate, shitniggerssay and a few other controversial subreddits happened in 2015, a full year before Donald Trump's election.
People don't seem to point out but you need a decent editor to benefit from using TS. If your editor doesn't support live checking, then it probably feels like boring additional work by going back and forth between code and compilation error logs.
Well, I guess C's wrong with it :)

But as nickpsecurity likes to point out, C projects can make use of good, if labour-intensive tools for ensuring safety, so that seems like the logical choice instead of rewriting to languages which haven't proven themselves at the target time and complexity scale.
In markets that rely on rent control as a mechanism for affordable housing, you can usually exchange rent controlled units.
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Sure, that can be true. But photos can also be posed and photoshopped.

It's much more prone to manipulation than direct, spontaneous contact.
People from the First World have no idea that porn and politically sensitive content is blocked in so many countries. Youtube is heavily censored - you won't be able to watch Charlie Chaplin movies or some lectures on Greek democracy in Thailand.

Also this censoring is poorly executed by some ISPs via simple DNS hijacking. As a result your connection is slow and with terrible jitter.

As for the proverbial airport/cafe WiFi - using VPN is not about not beeing tracked - it is about blocking easy access to your laptops filesystem by attacker on the same network.

Also if you do not trust commercial VPN provider just set up your own.
We're about the same age. My primary school also had a BBC Micro on a trolley. We didn't get to use it much, I guess because our teacher wasn't interested in it.

When I was ~10, my parents spent £129.99 (a lot of money for them at the time) to buy me an Acorn Electron (a cut down version of the BBC Micro).

One thing that was frustrating for me at the time is that I had no one to answer questions. For example, I was writing some 6502 assembly to do something simple (I don't remember what) and the book (either the user guide that came in the box, or the Acorn Electron Advanced User Guide) said I had to provide some value using two's complement. I had no idea what it was or how to find an answer. So I wrote a letter (yes, with a stamp, in the mail) to a Teletext page where these things were discussed, and a few days/weeks later they actually answered my question on one of the pages.
...and you also happen to have money.
I think labelling a development methodology and macho or not engineering is disingenuous. Any methodology practiced without an engineering mindset looks like that. Agile methodologies practiced by engineers looks like good engineering.
I don't think your analysis is complete.

Most VPN's raison d'être is providing privacy. If it's publicly known that they don't then that kills their business.

An ISP is tasked with connecting prior to the internet, they don't make claims about privacy, they can reveal information about clients without necessarily putting anyone off, most of the clients for large ISPs have probably never heard of a VPN.

If a VPN wanted to they could get audits by pen-testers to warrant their ability to provide secrecy.

A VPN provider that's been around a while and claims to offer a high level of privacy probably does.

Slight aside:

>My ISP can see the domain name of the result I click, and a VPN would mask that from them. //

There was a paper a little while ago, they directly identified pages by mitm-ing HTTPS by using meta-data (page size alone IIRC). Success was something like 80%.
That's easy to say, but physical appearance is the gateway to personality based relationships. You can have the greatest personality in the world, but be unlucky in the dating world because you don't fit the physical expectations. The choice given by dating websites amplifies that too. Why would a woman settle for a friendly 165 cm guy with a good job, if a 185 cm "lumberjack" is only few swipes away (in theory, because there are many more women competing for him)?
I think you and the person you're replying to are closer in opinion about what it means to write good, professional code, then your comments are letting on.

How I take the article, and what I think most in this entire comment thread agree with, are the following principles:

[1] code quality IS important. I define 'code quality' here as how many bugs are introduced to do a given feature, how resilient this code base is to requests for additional features/changes, and how easy it is for new hires to grok it / for you to grok it after a few months have passed working on something else and you've lost familiarity.

[2] Whilst it is important, it is not the only concern. In fact, a shipping product is MORE important. That's not to say that code quality isn't important. Any project that has deplorable code quality even if it ships is in trouble.

[3] So far the most effective strategy for producing code with high quality, is experience (that's subjective; my opinion. But I bet you share it). The best way to get experience is to write lots of code. In fact, writing code of LOW code quality should help MORE: The 8th feature request that comes in that initially sounds like a job of a few hours that turns into a weeklong exercise in frustration with stapled onto the end of that process another week or two chasing bugs - and maybe you learn something about where you went wrong in your code that powered the initial shipping product. This sounds like a much better way to learn these lessons than reading a bunch of blogs and listening to a bunch of presentations theorising about what 'beautiful code' means.

[4] extremes are bad. This more or less is already concluded by #1-#3, though. However, the 'beauty' extremists tend to present, blog, and in general act like they hold all the answers, more than the cowboy extremists do. That's entirely subjective opinion, of course. It's just my experience, and yours may well be different. But _IF_ it is indeed true that you're far more likely to run into a beauty extremist than a cowboy extremist, then it stands to reason programmers who are irritated by extremists of any colour will tend to exaggerate somewhat more on the _other side_ of the beauty extremists.

In the end it's a pendulum, isn't it? A presentation or blog post that comes across as authored by a beauty extremist probably was a capable, 'well adjusted' (in the sense that they would agree that shipping code is at least as important, and experience is very important) – but decided to exaggerate a tad on the beauty side to address some perceived notion that the audience's balance was too far towards the cowboy end of the spectrum.

Enough of those kinds of presentations, and a few are bound to perceive that the pendulum has now swung too far out towards the beauty end, and start exaggerating the value of the cowboy end.
Write beautiful code, build productive and correct software, live long and prosper :V
They did try. Those alternative theories fall under an umbrella called MOND- MOdified Newtonian Dynamics. They were actually some of the first real proposals to solve the dark matter problem. Unfortunately, none of these theories panned out.

The easiest to understand evidence against MOND is shown in the bullet cluster. The bullet cluster is a pair of galaxies in the process of colliding. They also happen to be gravitationally lensing galaxies behind them. While the xray and visible light observations show that gas clouds that make up the bulk of the normal matter in the galaxies stopped when they hit each other, (like two cars in a head on collision) the gravitational lensing shows that the overwhelming majority of the mass in the galaxies simply passed straight through, the way dark matter as particles would.

So in order to accommodate the bullet cluster, MOND will need to show that empty space has some sort of momentum and memory, which is going to be much less elegant than a second hierarchy of particles which do not interact via the electromagnetic or strong nuclear forces.

There are a very large number of other observations which also disprove MOND or variations on them, the bullet cluster is just the easiest to describe in a paragraph.

It's actually very, very common for laypeople to come up with MOND as a solution for dark matter. I'm pretty sure I did when I first heard about dark matter. I don't think I've ever seen a dark matter post on HN or reddit that didn't include at least one post positing MOND, even if (especially if) they don't that the theory they came up with has a name, an acronym, and had already been thoroughly disproven by the scientific community.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modified_Newtonian_dynamics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullet_Cluster
Can you steal my idea and run with it?

I’d like to set up mail campaigns as markdown sure, but ideally as a folder structure in a git repo. Then gut push to publish. I don’t want to use a web UI at all because they are slow and sucky. And I want my campaign properly backed up.
Also: last time I looked at fts in the context of glibc, it did not support 64 bit file offset builds (-D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64).

I was looking at fts because there exists a BSD licensed implementation of nftw in terms of fts; I was researching the possibility of creating a semantically extended/enriched version of nftw, without coding it entirely from scratch. So I plonked that implementation into my program and, lo and behold, error message from glibc's fts header file about not supporting 64 bit file offsets.
Was it the L-Shaped Room, perhaps? <Dusts off memory>
Elm 0.19 actually also has a time travel debugger. Alas there is an issue with external packages.

There is a PR for that already, but it has not yet been merged: https://github.com/elm/compiler/pull/1850

At CurrySoftware we run a fork of the Elm compiler which merges this PR and has a feature to use ports and the debugger with `elm reactor`: https://github.com/CurrySoftware/compiler

And an example how to use it here: https://github.com/CurrySoftware/elm-reactor-example
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