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I’ve lived in SF, NY, DC, and Chicago — all liberal cities. SF is the only city where human shit on the sidewalk is a common occurrence. It’s absolutely the problem it’s made out to be.
There was an interesting thread about this on Twitter recently:

https://twitter.com/evolvable/status/1113031660637847552

The point, i believe, is that it's okay to think "i know that this code has quadratic complexity, and that is acceptable right now".

You might agree with that even though you consider that it's not okay to think "i don't know what the complexity of this code is" or "i don't know what complexity is".

It might even be okay to think "i don't know what the complexity of this code is, and that is acceptable right now". You should be able to imagine some cases where that would be true.
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How are they dealing with the purported 96% human rate of immunity against CRISPR?

1. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/243345v1
2. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-018-0204-6
thank you! I think I may buy this service much appreciated!
I honestly don't know if that was a police trap or not. But considering how easy it is to find drugs in NYC I wouldn't be surprised if it was legit. Like ... at least half of chess hustlers look like they're on something.

edit: to be fair -- this may be an act to lure in regular people who may think they have a chance against a tweaker. They don't. Those guys are crazy good.
> Hypothesis: it would be better to live in a world where UI is mostly user-authored, and B2C is mostly an API marketplace.

I tentatively believe in this hypothesis. That's part of the reason I moved most of my computing into Emacs - I get greater control over the UI there, and reap the benefits of deep interoperability.

I think this would be a working system. You'd have a separate market for services, and a separate market for software consuming these services. I doubt most regular people would become full-blown creators, but they would happily shop for more ergonomic tools and customize them to the limit of their needs. It's kind of similar to the "right to repair", where nobody honestly expects that everyone will be fixing their appliances themselves - the point is that those who can, would, and they would also offer their services to those who can't or don't want.

I'm not sure how to get to this world. That's kind of the question in my original post - I see fixing the browser for productive use to be a potential stepping stone involving the same or similar changes.

I have one idea I'm hesitant about: it would be nice if we could force all services on the Internet to communicate with open and documented protocols and APIs, while simultaneously banning any kind of "you can only use our official app" clauses in ToS. That is, force the decoupling between a service and client software that consumes it.
Also, it frequently manages to find a new, undesired, match just as you're about to click the the thing you actually wanted, thus repositioning the tiles and causing you to launch the wrong thing.

This is what happens when you let WebDevs work on your UI.
Obviously, I did not mean to imply that you can attach a clock on a photon. I thought this goes without saying.
> The thing you're describing (particularly "3 of the stalls occupied by people doing drugs") sounds like an egregious safety hazard. I'm a big guy, so probably not the easiest target, but I would be terrified to think that my mother or girlfriend could get jumped at in women's restroom.

I hate to break it to you, but there are people other than drug addicts who are willing to jump your mother/girlfriend in the women's restroom.
People have been doing GPU computation for a long time before the gl "compute shader" feature. There's nothing emulationy about it. The shading language (GLSL) and available data types are the same in "compute shaders" and the familiar fragment/vertex shaders.

Compute shaders are just a shader type in OpenGL (and possibly a future version of WebGL) that have some convenient properties, for example they can more easily run out of step with the rendering pipeling if you have an application wanting to mix OpenGL/webGL graphics and non-graphics compute concurrently. See eg https://www.khronos.org/opengl/wiki/Compute_Shader#Dispatch
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Always nice to hear from people who still use Twitterfall!
If Windows 10 were free, then tolerating a certain amount of this bullshit would be acceptable. But it isn't free.
If they bring an amazing editor to the iPad, they'll have my attention
> Will also never leave a good review when I'm satisfied, they are indistinguishable from fake ones anyway

A review can have a certain quality and/or amount of details, that makes it obvious that the reviewer actually owned and used the item. If I think it's worth sharing the quality (or lack of) of an item, I put effort into producing a review that it's clearly real. Reviewers also have a history.

So I think it's not correct to state that the good reviews are always undistinguishable from the fake ones. Of course, with enough effort, a fake review can be made real.
No worries, I reckoned that a misunderstanding must have occurred!

Still, I couldn't resist a vision not unlike the penultimate and electrifying golf scene with Bill Murray & the bishop in Caddyshack.
My firefox got OOM killed thanks to this.
I don't see why SpaceX will be any better than traditional telcos
Not trying to be a jerk, these are all serious questions and I am thankful for insights, because I seem to be blind to the benefits of blockchains in that regard.

How is a Blockchain better here than just a SQL database? How is it the blockchain exactly that frees you from 'the constraints of manufacturing' a physical board? How is playing chess on your platform any improvement over playing it on lichess, chess.com or chess24? Why would a developer of a game want immutable and distributed data?
This is true with TLS as well, though it also requires man-in-the-middling (MITM) the connection. MITM is usually rather easy compared to stealing a private key.
Out of curiosity: Why doesn't pacman just use HTTP's built-in compression? It could cache packages in gzipped form, but there's no reason to re-compress them over the wire.
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Plus, R's performance limitations are not that big of a deal. In my experience, the bottle neck is just a couple of lines of code that can easily be replaced by some lines of Rcpp. Much easier than switching to a whole new language and ecosystem. I was really excited when Julia was new but the cost of switching is just never going to be worth it for me personally.
I don't think being religious immunised people against conspiracy theories or esoteric beliefs as if it were only possible to have faith in one thing at a time!

They seem mostly orthogonal.
Depends on a bunch of variables of course but ballpark a few million monthly users would probably be good enough.

The falcon heavy launches are going to be ballpark somewhere around 90 million. So excluding the satellite construction that's what it costs to launch around 70-100 satellites. They need at least about 30-35 launches. So ballpark that means a it is going to take probably 3-4 billion. Of course that is excluding the production cost for the satellites and other infrastructure. Lets call it 10 billion altogether, give or take a few billion.

Not a crazy amount to spend on infrastructure in the telco world. German operators paid tens of billions just for spectrum licenses. Considering you'd be able to compete world wide with this, 10 billion is a bargain.

It's still a lot of money of course but with a few million customers paying in the order of 10-40$ per month it would earn it self back quite rapidly. Even at the low end of that price range. Arguably they could charge more.
Of course it's a societal failing. Why else would homelessness be much more prevalent in some areas than in others?
Are they focused strictly on nutrition or do they also track more exotic research - for example CRISPR? It’s hard to tell from their website.
Don't know current Amsterdam situation, but we have a shooting place in Geneva, Switzerland and it works. I mean really works. Streets are cleaner, drug crime is lower. Its not a magical solution to every single problem out there obviously.

I think many people have issue accepting that drug addicts are part of society. Criminalize them, and the whole underworld evolves but it won't affect their numbers much. Put death sentence on drug use, and there will still be healthy population of addicts.

So with your 'drawing line' approach and misleaded comparison to sex trade, you just give ammo fodder for far right-wing populist politics, polarizing society and law enforcement, increasing crime and making it more organized, while achieving very little positive impact. Something like famous US screw-up called War on drugs.
Homelessness is the tip of the housing iceberg. Right behind the homeless are those who are a paycheck, or emergency, from losing everything. Behind them are millions of paying out there earnings in high rent, forced to share apartments to live where the job pays. Fronting it all are upper-middle class people, foreign investors, and venture capital, buying up properties to rent out.

The cause is not a lack of "affordable housing", it's a lack of housing, period. What's not affordable are regulations and competing with real estate capital. What's not affordable is spending most of your income on rent, and this is hardly a choice for most people right now.

People will stare, and think, gosh this homeless situation is sad, inhumane, drugs/mental, w/e, but meanwhile, the shortage of housing and the affordability to create more is going to make it worse for everybody, especially those who are stuck in the middle with increasing rents and stagnant wages.
I agree with your points here, and I think two markets - service API market and client software market - would be a great thing to have. One of the things that makes a lot of services suck (social media platforms in particular) is the control they have on APIs they provide. To pick one example, I can sort of use the Facebook API for some of the things, after jumping through enough contractual hoops, but I can't really go and build a Facebook client that would have feature parity with the official one. Not without risking my account getting banned. I especially couldn't distribute such a client either.
First thing we can do is to call the health insurance mandate penalty a deduction.
I think the typed string is to sort of the same as typed lists. The string can be thought of as a container for the type it holds.
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I feared the same thing but Panic assured me via Twitter that Coda for iOS isn’t dead. Of course this might not mean that they are not abandoning the old app rather than bringing the new one to iOS. I remain hopeful.

https://twitter.com/panic/status/1105999898208419840
Currently, it's difficult to implement however unlike rewriting a page in AMP, signing the page is a purely mechanical operation. All that's required is to improve the tooling, it is theoretically possible to be a one-click change for any website out there. Initially adding gzip support to a web server was difficult and out the reach of many webmasters, now it's basically universal.
>Why provide free services to billionaires?

Also why I never saw the point of sites like quora. Why are all these "subject matter experts" spending countless hours writing free content for a platform that is ultimately locked in and going to either a) Be infested with ads or b) Going to charge money (like the publishers' racket in scientific publishing).
Re: genedered pluralized example in the article. How will the system deal with the fact, that in some languages (Czech, too):

($count -> Jana added {n} {apples|apple}) ($gender -> to {his|her} profile)

the $gender will affect what form the word "added" should take. You're suddenly dealing with possibilities($count)*possibilities($gender) variants of the sentence
More like "veryaccurate" am i right?
As far as I can tell Fluent has no builtin support for tagging a phonemic information to messages or arguments (it only supports plural rules and number formatting largely derived from the CLDR). You can probably specify special cases with selectors (but it will quickly go absurd, for Polish I guess that applies to 6, 7, 16, 17, 60..79, 100..199, 600..699 and so on?) or have an external function.

Context: Polish preposition "z(e)" is spelled "z" if the following word starts with s and z and alikes (problematically enough, the exact rule is not systematic) and "ze" otherwise. Korean has a similar case with postpositions "은(는)" and "이(가)" where the former is for words ending with a consonant and the latter is for words ending with a vowel, and the ko-KR localization of Firefox seems to completely ignore and/or sidestep this; the last letter is assumed (e.g. "{-brand-name}는") or a static word is inserted (e.g. "{$user} 사용자는" instead of "{$user}은(는)").
while i enjoy what i do, id rather have time to explore the world. All of my time is devoted to my job
I believe more time was spent on formatting the page HTML/CSS than research on the subject matter itself.
> Also both iOS and Android have very interesting architecture features, still not widespread on desktop OSes.

Most of those are heavily favouring security at the expense of interoperability and user control. Not exactly the direction I'd like things to see heading on the desktop. Compared to laptops and PCs, mobile devices are essentially interactive TVs.
Thanks for the details :)

I said 747 because I was thinking Boeing at the time, and that was the first of their aircraft I could think of!

I was also thinking something smaller like a Cessna might not have the same setup because they're used for very different things (the air travel equivalent of a bus vs. a car).
But you do need deep pockets.
Ran out of $, really. People telling me I was crazy, that I needed more experience.
Which is not the point, sober people have driving incidents all the time, yet I am more scared of drunk drivers.
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It’s legit and very common in many, many places throughout the world. It wasn’t a cop trap, people just do that.
I noticed that too. Particularly articles based on reddit and HN posts/comments. Maybe it's because those two are the primary social media platforms I use or maybe those are popular with media workers. The one that comes to mind recently was the last blockbluster article from The NYTimes ( I think ). It featured prominently on reddit and then a few months later, there was an article about it. Also, I noticed a lot of content from reddit in movie and tv show dialogues. I'd be watching something and a dialogue would remind me of a reddit post or comment and then I'd think, I bet the writers of the show uses reddit.
If you're writing translation code then you're (probably) doing it wrong.

If your clients are happy to only ever have a product in one language which will never have to deal with anything outside the 7bit ascii range then ignoring the complexity required to do it is (probably) fine.

As soon as you hit some requirement which violates the above if you haven't considered how this might affect you you're likely in for some horrible problems when suddenly you need to handle these things.
Note: The name of the channel that the TV series was broadcast on is "Channel 4". There is a British channel called "BBC Four", but not all British television channels are operated by the BBC.
Maybe they should have rigged temporary sprinklers for the restoration works and had plenty of firewardens. Would cost more, but better than it going up in flames.
> In fact I would say it's more secure. DNS can be spoofed pretty easily. This is a cryptographically signed package

How is it more secure? If, as you say, DNS can be spoofed easily - I can easily get a certificate issued with the required extension and make a "cryptographically signed package".
Interesting, but that's still something to be used within a web application. Here, I'm talking about fixing up the browser. I don't see how I could use Lively Kernel to e.g. force consistent advanced autocomplete UI on every text field in every tab, or to shuttle data between two tabs harbouring applications that were not explicitly designed to talk to each other.
Hm, doesn't Caddy support wildcards without DNS auth? It seems that they work around this by generating a few random subdomains and verify those.
This is part of China's multi-pronged strategy for taking over Taiwan.

One prong is coopting Taiwanese elites, in parts by allowing them to become very wealthy through China, but only if working in the background for unification. There is no way Foxconn would have been allowed to operate large factories in China, if its founder and chairman (Terry Gou) was pro independence.
Furthermore, one of the absolute richest cities in the wealthiest country on earth.

A lot of these solutions just involve pumping money through injection sites, programs, etc. I think it’s something no amount of money will fix. Something needs to be done about a culture that not only accepts this as normal, but is trying to find ways to make it acceptable and easier to do in hopes that they’ll stop.

There’s a reason other counties bus people into SF: it’s because they know people in SF will put up with it. There will be a constant flow of new people who don’t care about ruining a city.
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You are stretching the words to mean what they doesn't mean.

> it condemns the idea that one should believe unreasonable doctrines through faith alone.

And who decides what is unreasonable :)?

Because as a catholic you are required to believe in lots of self-contradictory statements with no proof. Stuff like holy trinity, virginal birth; omnipotence of god; humanity and divinity of messiah; omnipotent, omniscient and loving god creating an universe with evil in it; free will, salvation by good acts, and god's omniscience; impossibility of salvation without sacrifice of Jesus; bread that is a human body as well (in essence not in substance, but the idea of essenece itself is unreasonable and has no basis in reality).

All of that with no proof other than scripture and tradition.

I was a catholic for 22 years. I was taught by parents, and in school by priests. I took it seriously and fought with these statements for several years before abandoning them altogether.

Catholics are required to believe in whatever the pope says is true in the matters of religion. You have to believe Mary was a virgin her whole life and never died, but went straight to heaven. You can have doubts, but the correct reaction is to ignore the doubts and pry for god to give you faith.

And it haven't changed in last 150 years - some dogmas were added, but the idea that you have to believe in these things is at least 1600 years old, and probably older.
Godot's 2d engine is completely separate from 3d (unlike Unity that uses 3d engine to render 2d games). You can build export templates without 3d engine for smaller executable size. In 3.2 you will be able to disable 3d features of editor to make your workflow more streamlined.
Plenty of free sites out there that don't need registration, also VPNs.
That's exactly what I thought. It's the case with climate change as well...we are heading towards irreversible changes but people are selfish and it's hard to care for future generations at your expense.
On the contrary we are willing to risk more if there is a chance of reward in our lifetime rather than wait 100 years to understand everything about the tech before to use it.
I'm sure their products are great, but what kind of hubris and/or complete lack of historical perspective do you have to have to write this with a straight face:

"Twelve years ago we introduced Coda, the world’s first web development editor. It put the tools you needed to make a web page together in one app, and nobody had ever done that before."
I guess my biggest pet peeve with German spellcheckers and autocomplete solutions other than the nonexistent support for compound words is that most of them don't understand capitalisation rules.
Yes but it is much harder to MITM if the users are in different parts of the world.

Someone can buy a lookalike domain name using similar-looking UTF characters, send out a bunch of email spam with an URI that looks like the original, and once the user visits the webpage it instantly loads the AMP and suddently the URL is authentic. There will only be a very quick url change from the punycode url to the original that I doubt many will notice.
> Yo guys, I know this may sound crazy to you, but have you thought about imprisoning those junkies?

Why do you think this approach hasn't worked so far? Do you think if we only arrested more drug users the war on drugs would finally be over?
Was unpleasantly surprised today, configuring home stateful ipv6. Android just does not support that.

The issue is hosted at https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/36949085

The merge request was not approved[2014] https://android-review.googlesource.com/c/platform/external/...

Seems a case of open community unable to influence the project that is supposed to be open source.
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This is interesting indeed. Never heard of the show, being from the U.S. Perhaps time to bring it back?
In Europe and we took out a mortgage last year.

The rate at which the bank gets money from the central bank is negative, and your local bank adds on 1.5 to that (for a variable) rate from what i remember, so overall the rate was 0.8% I think.

So you don't get paid, but you do get subsidized.
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IIUC, May insisted the backstop would be UK-wide, but not everyone seems to agree with that claim, including at least one DUP MP who thinks (or thought) it’s NI-only.

Simultaneously, many people seem to have a problem with it being UK-wide, and would be absolutely fine with it being NI-only.

Other people have a problem with both options, and yet seem to think it’s incapable of being a problem because everyone agrees a hard border would be a problem.

I really hope I’m accidentally straw-manning that last group, it would be really bad if my perception is correct.
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Sure, people should be able to poke fun at Mohammed, freedom of speech etc etc. But why would you? Life of Brian was a movie about Christianity, made by those born into Christianity, meant to be watched by fellow Christians. Hence why it provided an opportunity for introspection and self-reflection.

A movie lampooning Mohammed, made by Christians and for the amusement of other Christians, offers no such opportunity for self-reflection or growth. It would be nothing more than 21st century blackface.
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