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My comment was basically pointing out the irony of claiming that art history people say stuff with limited data, based on your obviously limited experience of art history as a field.

> I assume that you basically have to read up some facts and then can go to any lecture you fancy and start contributing in a more or less meaningful way.

This isn't true, unless you're an undergrad at a really bad university. The really 'unproductive' fields like art history tend to have a pretty asymptotic difficulty curve, since funding is almost impossible to find. That makes later stages really, incredibly competitive, unless you're basically willing to pay through the entire process.

One thing to note about hierarchy of perceived difficulty of university courses, is that it almost always maps to how useful these courses are to industry, and almost never maps to how complex the subject actually is. Traditional Chinese literature, for instance, is horribly difficult. Computer science, on the other hand, is a subject where people actually try hard to be understood, and don't write using in bird-worm seal script. Nonetheless, if you are a computer scientist, people will assume you're smart, and if you're studying chinese literature, people will assume you're a goof.
> you don't have the right to decide how your child should be educated, a committee will decide intimate details of yours and your family's lives, where they go every day, what happens when they get there, what the curriculum is, what happens if it doesn't go well, what values should be encouraged, what narratives will be portrayed

I hate to break it to you, but both private schools and public schools are bound to a curriculum set by the district (and typically overseen by the state/province). Short of hiring private tutors for every subject, parents don't have nearly as much control over their child's education as you are suggesting. And even in the private tutor scenario, if they want their kid to go to a decent post-secondary institution, the curriculum will have to be adequately aligned with the standard admissions processes.
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> And then to intentionally denormalize where required to increase performance

Hopefully under profiler guidance, like for any other optimization. For my part, the frequency that I find that trying a denormalization helps performance has been on a downward trend for a while now. Mostly down to just straight-up duplicating data at this point. Databases really are getting very good at what they do.
But more or less than today?
> ... “dynamic types” are, at their core, there to make unit testing less tedious, and are a tool for finding bugs.

I don't think this is a good description of dynamic typing. I'd probably go with something more like, dynamic typing is a way to defer until runtime typing aspects of the program's implementation. I suppose dynamic typing does make unit testing easier, among other things, but it feels wrong to say it's "for" that. A car is for getting one or more people from point A to B. It also has a radio, but a car is not "for" listening to the radio.
A 15-year old makes model trucks.
Neither shocking nor surprising... unless white audiences have a low opinion of the intellect of Africans/Blacks.

Go to Nigeria. The place is full of construction, engineers, inventors, mechanics, etc. This video -- to a Nigerian -- would receive this response: "Big fucking deal... if the kid was really smart he'd be using motors and gears by now."
The response of a white liberal, on the other hand: "Oh how precious... I didn't know that those people even knew how to write! Someone should give him a scholarship!"
However much they can get someone to pay them! So long as they're aren't also using their cartel power to reduce the availability of medical care. Which they are.
If I was designing a society from scratch, I don't think I would create "insurance" that is expected to pay for almost every routine, non-emergency, completely predictable cost just because it's a medical cost.

The employer-provided system--which arose out of WWII-era wage controls, for those who don't know--has not only created the "have/have not" dichotomy in U.S. healthcare, it has also warped expectations about what "insurance" is supposed to cover--and broken normal pricing mechanisms.
Again, I think that unlikely. Even I have to think hard to remember who owns e.g., Reddit. And I'm the site multiple times a day.
Just because you also listed deprecation doesn't mean that you didn't also list removing features and not caring about the existing user base. You didn't clarify which was the better option so it's hard for me to parse this as anything but an endorsement of suddenly removing features and I suspect that's what other people are seeing as well. If you have any doubt about this, look at your comments. You have one comment only mentioning deprecation and that one has no downvotes but the later ones which mention removing features do. If you didn't mean to say that, I would suggest editing the comment or at least clarifying what you meant.
I lol'd at the $200 month cable bill being "almost necessary". Do you work for the cable company? Too many people cutting the cord? Every day I must almost die because I've never paid for cable. My $30 cell phone plan almost killed me yesterday.
Wet bulb temperature is different from thermometer temperature. It's a combo of temp + humidity. Once it exceeds 35C, humans can't cool off from sweating alone. Unless inside active climate control, the body shuts down in a few hours.
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Oh man, so I'd actually been thinking about the question of what happens when you actually play the game of Snake on an arbitrary graph: https://hjaltman.github.io/snake.html

Very interesting to see these results about the more basic model, where we leave out the game part and just focus on movement! I may have to contact the authors about this...
many want the trappings of success out of the gate and keep ignoring many of their bosses and superiors at work have a lot of time invested and earnings already. they also confuse what they seen TV for real life.

tell, who doesn't have people in the lower rungs of their IT group with more expensive cars or outfits than you would feel comfortable with at twice their salary? then top off the people who eat out every day who are usually part of the "only contribute to the 401k to the match" crowd.

yes there are people struggling but many who are gainfully employed struggle too because they have no discipline and worse some don't want help.

the education system needs to concentrate more of teaching children to take time in acquiring things and first get a safe financial base to work from. politicians needs to stop pandering to people's jealously and blaming it all on the rich, here's a clue the real one percent outside the odd billionaire are the politicians who write the rules and sell favors through their law making work (tax code, occupational regulations, and property zoning)
Same as any other type of programming: write code for people who can't.
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By contrast, would the US be able to stomach denying cutting-edge treatment because it’s too expensive, like the UK? https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/dec/20/drug-giants-...

That’s what makes me nervous about socialized medicine in the US. I’m absolutely in favor of universal coverage—a healthcare system that maximizes the health of the average productive person. But I worry that Americans lack the cold realism of Brits, and won’t be able to effectively control costs by denying cost-ineffective treatments.
> Calculus doesn't change whether you go to Ivy or low tier. It's the same material.

I have doubts. The DS&A classes in top schools are probably better than mine and according to people I've met at top schools they make studying for tech interviews easy. They don't need to study Leetcode problems, they just need to study for their tests.

>Also, you're competing with all the other 1% so it wouldn't be a shocker if you didn't get in.

Obviously, but it implies if you don't get into any of the top schools that you're not 1%.
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NFS deadlocks are not unique to AIX. I've seen NFS in the state where any attempt to touch it locks up the process doing it (in the state where it can't even be killed - yes, the 'D' state) and if you need something from that process, good luck - reboot is pretty much the only way out. Nowdays, I think, NFS drivers in Linux became a bit saner but before that, if you get D's on NFS, you're out of luck.
That's exactly the narrative right now.

Tonight at 9 -- there's a movement to ban gloves, which exclude everyone except those lucky enough to have 5 fingers, MITTENS ONLY
missing the sarcasm?
30 or 40k is not enough to live on comfortably in most of the us, much less the larger west cost cities. Is the goal that low? Seems way to low.

My home owner's taxes are more than half that. Probably the idea is live in a place that's less expensive (which is not stupid), but I also want to live in a place with interesting things and people and good climate and jobs and schools, leading to a 'nicer' city I think.
This wouldn't have any impact on that issue. Those accidentally-public buckets are already accessible in both the path-based and the virtualhost-based method.
It’s not so much that they delay shipping, it’s that they can deprioritize your order because you didn’t pay for shipping (through upgrading the shipping method or using prime)
I quite understand that there is a tendency to marketise decision-making in an unhelpful fashion, but I’m not entirely sure how this scheme is too much of a problem, beyond using the word “tokens”. Could you elaborate as to the specific problems of this scheme as opposed to those of general attempts to marketise?

And “quadratic voting” may have uses beyond the areas governed by the US constitution. Even within those areas, there are minorities other than property owners. Blacks, for example, do not seem to have been very successful as a minority in preventing the various things that the state does to them that are plausibly unhelpful (though the quantification thereof may well be intractable). The particular use case here, however, seems to be to make the specific institutions you describe more effective, as opposed to relying on their being pitted against each other to make things work. I think that it is more desirable to have a single institution that works well, where possible (which it generally isn’t) than multiple institutions that operate against each other in an attempt to avoid pitfalls, because one generally falls into more pitfalls in the process, even if the balance of advantage lies with the latter case.
> because there are so obvious, provable distinctions it the items you list

Really? It seems to me like you either agree or gave a kind-of-not-really example for each point.
Especially since a lot of early industrial nations basically gave no fucks about intellectual property rights enforcement but are now making developing countries play by a stricter set of rules.
The PS/2 was not successful not because of technicalities but because IBM did not want it to be cloned. Third parties decided what the PC should be (mostly continue to be, there was less differences between cloners and the original PC than with the PS/2), and IBM followed. In insight, the PS/2 could not win in this context, because IBM did not matter anymore very early on for the history of the PC, regardless of peripheral vendors. This market was never driven by peripherals anyway, especially not internal extension boards.

You can use VFIO, yes it needs an IOMMU but that basically what you ask for: hardware support - and yeah, I would like IOMMU to be generalized, also because it is dangerous to have some external ports without one, nowadays (even without thinking about efficient access from userspace). And because of that you can not delegate the core of the thing to "peripheral" anymore, basically you need IOMMU and once you have it, well what else do you need?

On the storage level, you can mmap on Optane on DDR4 without intermediate software copy I think. But that's merely an implementation detail anyway. When you think about the complexities of modern controllers and the diversity of options to implement them - and at the same time the most important latencies; well the only thing that matter is the end result, and obviously it can be better to not burn some CPU cycles in some cases (for some very specific workloads), but it is not trivial what to put in HW or SW to achieve that: RAM is already crazy slow, and the faster SSD is still even slower: so you will need to be smart in SW anyway to not be bitten by latencies. So in a sense; no! modern CPU are certainly not slow!

I also think you misrepresent the common modern interfaces availables for (even interoperable) SSDs; they are certainly not "emulat[ing] rotating disks".

I'd like that you give the following some thought to finish: 1/ HW backward compat is not a prime requirement anymore (because a/ smartphone dev model b/ even PC model has shifted enough so that it actually does not support complete backward compat anymore, mostly due to SoC integration). 2/ There is "sufficient" competition, where sufficient can be defined as effective to drive innovations because they can bring market advantages, and there are a non trivial number of competitors on the market (I'll mix a little but this is still relevant to what we are talking about: Intel, AMD, Arm, nVidia, Apple, Samsung, etc.) 3/ The designers working on those chips and systems are not stupid. What we have now is of course affected by technical history, but what we have now is already immensely different from what we had during the PS/2 era. Some of the historical impacts are possibly confined in less than a square millimeter on chips, and not only your PCI was not your ISA but your modern PCIe is also already quite different from your PCI... So the impact of peripheral vendors in the PS/2 era today for all of that: absolutely null, without a doubt.
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I have a friend whose email was hacked. His personal photos of himself, his wife and child were taken. The guardian called him and said "we need a quote from you about an article on XYZ or we'll release your personal information found in the e-mails." So in this particular case "If you value your privacy" does not apply to the Guardian. Unless you feel they have a constitutional right to blackmail people?
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What you document solidly here are definitely deceptive practices. The adding on of services and labeling them "FREE" when they will result in ongoing recurring charges is highly deceptive.
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Recovering coherent text strings from PDF is non-trivial. Paragraphs are merely implicit and hyphenation must be removed, among many other problems. Anything unusual like sub/superscripts or inline math will potentially end up as gibberish or missing.
Yet here we are. Remember when Obama fought to have healthcare prices made transparent so that we could shop for the cheapest medical treatment, and that was beaten back severely by the lobby? The compromises the ACA made to bend over backward for for-profit insurance companies were an example of how much power the lobby has. I think if we've learned anything is that we need to go all in on single payer and completely remove for-profit insurance, IMHO, because of exactly what you're saying about the free market: it doesn't work for certain things (if anything, really): military, education, healthcare all the three classic failures of the freemarket. I think this is why all the dems are embracing Healthcare for All: everyone is getting screwed by healthcare except the 1%.
Is this related to their acquisition of Lobe?
https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/13/microsoft-acquires-lobe-a-...

https://lobe.ai/

If not, it looks like they have parallel projects working on basically the same thing. I’ve been waiting for Microsoft to open Lobe to the public..
Where do you have your individual HSA? I have an employer-provided one and I'm looking for a place to move it.
someone made a submission to ICFP contest which was a self drawing post script solution
Several years ago I asked my mom why she lived so far from where she worked (Vallejo, CA to San Ramon, CA), and she claimed they were saving money on cheaper rent. Five minutes of napkin paper math later I pointed her and her partner were spending roughly $700/month commuting in gas, bridge toll, and basic wear+tear on their vehicles (based on ~$0.45/mile).

It seems like most people don't account for vehicle costs when accounting for cost of living. Why I'm not positive, though it seems to just be the general abstractness of the cost spread out over time, and the assumption in America that you're going to drive everywhere anyway so it doesn't matter.

Even worse we see this with numerous Uber/Lyft/delivery "contractors" who are putting endless miles on their personal vehicles without accounting for the inevitable cost of replacing them.
So would it be correct to say that functionally, it’s similar to DMA, but the API is different because “channels” expose a consistent interface while DMA doesn’t?
If RCS is a standard what's stopping someone from writing an app that encrypts your plaintext? Sure, it'll leak meta data, but at least the actual plaintext is encrypted.
We help the most when we elect to do so ourselves, not when we leave the options to be considered by those with more resources to spare. If they entertained any inclination of helping those outside their own closed circuits they’d never have accumulated and stockpiled such resources to begin with. I explain this further over here: https://nilskidoo.blackblogs.org/lady-windermeres-fanzine/

But if you'd prefer to restrain all preaching to the choir, to persist with fantasy, then by all means rub your mighty ban-hammer.
Strict mode sounds like an awesome idea. From time to time people release database schema linting scripts, those might help?

They can't deprecate varchar and some other ill advised field types because they are required to comply with the SQL standard.

The text thing, though, has never been a secret. Learning about it is sort of a coming of age ritual for postgres developers.
> My theory is that social media, the internet, and these manufactured communities trick our brains into feeling like we belong to actual communities -- when in reality, we do not.

I was having a discussion with my daughter about this just last night, where I made a similar point.

I was pointing out how celebrities (particularly, but not solely, movie stars) are always playing a role, even in interviews, etc. When they make a public appearance that isn't overtly as a character, the role they're playing is their "movie star" persona. Unless you are an actual friend of theirs, you don't really know what their true authentic selves are.

Social media, it seems to me, has caused everyone to do the same thing. In social media, people tend to be playing a role -- that role being what they view as the best version of themselves. But it's not their true authentic selves any more than with the celebrities.

I think this has caused a serious degradation in the social fabric. Before social media, the most common interactions you had were with friends and family, and you were mostly interacting with their authentic selves. After all, nobody really knows you until they've seen you at your worst.

Interactions in social media are not like that. You're interactive with people playing parts, and that interaction is no longer genuine human contact. It just has the window-dressing of that.

Loneliness and isolation is the logical result of that. It's a bit like replacing most of your food with "dietary fiber" that is made to look and taste like food. It will fill you up and taste good, but in the end you'll still starve to death.
This was Verisign, which acquired Network Solutions in 2000. Verisign had already spun off the registry unit from Network Solutions when this incident happened. The remaining registrar business of Network Solutions, along with the name, was sold less than a month later.

As of today, the registry unit is still part of Verisign, while Network Solutions changed hands many more times.
This is the point of high-deductable... to cast more spend on the average healthcare consumer. Also to make them price sensitive. Wellness programs are designed around making unhealthy people pay more and not trigger any of the non-discrimination issues as well. Single payer is best model proven at scale in modern countries, but it probably will take a couple decades of watching loved ones not get care before it escalates to action.
When you ask for public transit, you don't necessarily get it either.

It seems that when demand for public transit is high, politicians often put forward light, elevated, and subsurface rail boondoggle projects instead of just buying some buses and organizing routes, the incremental, somewhat temporary improvements necessary to move toward better transit connectivity.
Linus Pauling was a bona fide genius; he won a Nobel for his pioneering research in to chemical bonds, made important contributions to our understanding of crystalline structures and various proteins, helped explain the the molecular genetic cause of sickle cell anemia, etc, etc. He was a giant of science and will always be remembered as such.

But he also spent the last thirty years of his career refining and attempting to popularize a model for the structure of the nucleus (the "close-packed spheron model") that never seems to have gained much acceptance. He spent even longer advocating for megavitamin therapy, which is now generally regarded as quackery, and went to his grave pushing the idea that large doses of vitamin C can help cure cancer, despite numerous studies failing to support this.

I'm not saying that Wolfram is exactly like Pauling (although his fascination with his own work on cellular automata certainly seems to share some similarities to Pauling's fascination with the spheron cluster model). But I can't help but wonder if Pauling's reputation would be different if he had had a blog.
This depends on the game being hunted, and really only applies for certain big game hunting like deer. Fowl hunting is a social event, walking along with some friends and at a dog, same with rabbit hunting. I think in hunter-gatherer times it is very likely people hunted in a group in order to better corner an animal or shepherd it towards a trap.
Usually the opposition to density is just cloaked in environmentalism.

When it comes down to it, these are individuals who don't want outsiders moving their community, or new units driving down the explosive growth in property values they have experienced.

As usual, it is just greedy people wanting more.
There's a difference between "I dont want to listen to token conservative talkinghead A, so I won't come to his lecture" and "I don't want to listen to token conservative talkinghead A, so I think he should be banned from ever entering my college premises".
Exactly. There should not be a reason I can see that they can't incorporate it like they've done with SMS.