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Are there specs anywhere? Some of my questions:

- Range on a charge

- Max hill slope with 150lb person

- Ground clearance
Actually, it runs on cobol. But whatever, self research is always amusing.
> I am curious what Vermeer would have thought of it.

I can tell you I'd hate that somebody overpaints with nothing a part of the picture that I've spent so much energy to paint exactly with what I wanted.

I see no excuse for that.
I'd just say this: our current business has sharply better cash flow than Matasano's did (Matasano also didn't require pre-payments, but it did work primarily with larger firms, where this business works exclusively with startups), and our business would not be possible with prepayment. I only see downsides to prepayment, and my bias is to assume the need for them comes from accepting clients you should be rejecting out of hand. But I concede that this may be a quirk of my own experience.
> If a site promises to not use animated images, streaming video, streaming audio, any sort of trackers, any sort of third-party content, and if they keep the screen-real-estate ratio of ads to content relatively low, then I'll whitelist them in a heartbeat.

I just don't think this is a workable model for most users. "You want me to do extra work so I can see some (admittedly nonintrusive) ads? No way, figure out your own business." Honestly, if I started using an adblocker I'm not sure I could force myself to make that effort per website.

I really wish uBlock Origin at least had the option to enable a blacklist model—ie, no sites ever have their ads blocked by default, but as soon as a site annoys me, I can go into my adblocker and disable their ads.
"Don't be evil" is now well in the rear view mirror.
Does this have any implications for the urgency of replacing SHA-1 in git?

I recently asked a question on the pip issue tracker[1] about whether it would make sense for pip to start accepting sha-1 git refspecs when running in --require-hashes mode, on the grounds that there's more upside to encouraging use of --require-hashes than there is downside risk of sha-1 collision attacks. This surely doesn't help that argument, but I'm not sure if it hurts it either.

[1] https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/6469
This. Jupyter notebooks, Matplotlib, Numpy, Spyder...all that made Python big again as ML and AI became the new hotness recently and the killer app for Python.

Outside AI, Python is a really good scripting language for both Linux and Windows. My entire industry seems to run off of Python for process automation and analysis. It really is a lingua franca in this space.
I had cause to use a bit of Java recently, so I could wrap an existing library that did exactly the thing I wanted. I haven't used it since university—back in the 1.4 days—and I was actually pleasantly surprised. Performance was great, concurrency was easy, features like type inference and streams made the experience much more pleasant, and obviously the development tools are still first-rate.

The absence of a package manager like Bundler or Cargo was frustrating for someone coming from that environment – as was the effective requirement to use an IDE. But on the whole, the platform feels like something that totally-hip-and-edgy-clique developers like myself are too quick to discount.
And if the page served is unreadable, you immediately hit the back button and move on. :)
I think electric unicycles are superior to electric scooters in most of the ways. If you're thinking about buying an electric scooter I'd recommend you to consider a one-wheeler instead. Once you learn how to ride, which takes about a week, it's much more comfortable and mobile than a scooter. You can take your wheel with you to a mall or a cinema and be on the go whenever.
Somehow, titles like this are acceptable (I don't see anyone asking for it to be changed). At the same time, more informative titles that people find irritating (because they seem clickbaity) apparently do warrant editing.

So we're supposedly in a fragile enough emotional equilibrium that we can't cope with clickbait titles, but obscure poetic titles are OK because... maybe because this is about elitism and intellectual snobbery, not about saving the user having to click to find out what the article is about?
What is your company trying to accomplish by switching to Oracle Linux?
agree with you - added clarification to my original comment :)
> ...aaaand, Uber (meaning, the owners of Uber pre-IPO) has less ownership in the business afterwards.

How is that even a point? They had 23 funding rounds according to Crunchbase where the same thing happened everytime, with today being the 24th.

You don't have to acknowledge any of those things, this is how finance works.
this was the smartest thing put in simplest terms on this thread.
In the context of the individual it is useless to speak of average outcomes. Over the lifetime of Uber all other tech stocks have had a huge run. If you had a choice to work at Nvidia and you worked at Uber instead you left $5 million on the table.
Oracle Linux is essentially re-badged Red Hat Linux. It's fine, if you don't mind being in bed with Oracle. For me the choice between Red Hat, Oracle, or CentOS would come down to what is supported by the applications I am going to run, licensing, and licensing interactions.
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>> Most developers [from context: who want static types] turn to C++, Java, or C#

> I'd be surprised if more than half (most) developers using static typing use those languages and not others outside that set.

Really? I'd be surprised if it was less than 90%. What is the competition? Go, TypeScript, Swift, Scala, Kotlin, Rust (in rough order of my gut sense for how widely used they currently are)? These are all still very small relative to C++, Java, C#.

If you argue that C has static types, then I guess you're probably right. But it isn't really true that C has static types in the contemporary sense (which I think is perhaps better referred to as "strong" type safety).
I’ll openly admit that we don’t have everything figured out. You’re absolutely right that currently, we constrain ourselves on what we migrate to admittedly simple migrations.

I think there’s a whole set of problems to be solved in this space and frankly, I’m as surprised as anyone that given how SQL is declarative, we use procedural code to do migrations so part of my post was hoping people would tell me what tool I should be using or how this approach fails over time. So your examples are really helpful for me as I think through if it’s possible to do automatically, workaround, or get by without.

It seems to me that we just lack the ability to express these transitions mathematically that can help us do them. And of those, there’s probably only a subset which are possible to do without taking downtime.

In particular, the class of migrations that you outlines are a combination of DDL and DML changes and also have quite a bit of code complexity to do without downtime. It’s definitely a current weakness.
I'd bet that purism and /e are irrelevant in terms of numbers. How many users do those have? 100-200k users world-wide?

Fuchsia must have been started in about 2015 at the earliest, with the first code hitting the public a year later. Neither of these alternative platforms were relevant then and they aren't now.
I would argue Chinese brands have probably already overtaken non-Chinese ones at this point. Many of them just aren't really available outside of China. But if you started with a blank slate today and could buy either only Chinese or western products I think the Chinese ones would be the better deal for consumer products. And not necessarily only on price. As you said Xiaomi has a very appealing ecosystem that is hard to match.
Truth, I was at SO in Manhattan for a JS meetup a couple times and all the desktop computers were PCs with Dell monitors.Not a single Mac in sight. Have a feeling they weren't running linux either since Stack Overflow is .NET I believe.
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> It’s, uh, really not that bad.

I guess you got used to it. I also had the chance to re-discover how many ads are everywhere on the web thanks to firefox addons outage, and I was very surprised. Honestly, smartphones screen are already quite small (even more when the keyboard pops out) and with all the ads the actual useful surface of the screen gets ridiculously tiny.

I couldn't imagine that chrome on mobile doesn't have an way to block ads, and still has such a huge user base.
Qt uses pointers, meta-objects, pre-precompiler, inheritance over templates, little use of the standard library... need I say more?

It is leaps and bounds beyond other things - but those leaps and bounds are into the past.
The Mueller Report Isn’t the Only Thing That William Barr Is Hiding
Basically, the entire director level of McDonalds is immigrants and first generation Americans. The kinds of people who didn't grow up hearing "staying at McDonalds for four years is proof of lacking ambition and creativity".
What you are forgetting is that advertising is moving away because readers are. People came for the value they are no longer getting. Advertisers are just the result of that
If you demand your personal freedom in that way, why do you live in a city at all? You can't park on a street at night and blare loud music, you can't shoot pigeons on the rooftops with a rifle, you can't fly a drone over people or around other's property without permission, and those won't even kill people.
Kind of bad luck — naming anything in finance “long-term”. It attracts the attention of quite a few angry gods to smite you.

Some of us still remember what happened with LTCM — “Long-Term Capital Management” hedge fund, who was heralded back then as the pinnacle of innovation. It was back in 1998, which looks like eternity for Silicon Valley types... but some remember.

Naming a financial entity “LTSE” is inviting trouble.
Then yes-- for the same price as that new workstation you can buy a used car with 170,000 miles on it that gets terrible gas mileage and will probably require regular service at luxury part prices.
Yes. Microsoft has removed or reduced pretty much everything that made Skype great.
I used to be a Java hater (I'm much more neutral now -- I even find aspects of it pretty pleasant). To me, it was never about the technology of Java (always been pretty impressive), or even the language (a little verbose -- but so is C++ and C# and I like both of those), it was really just about the ecosystem. For whatever reason 2000s era java had soo many libraries that were just insanely over-engineered and had these absurdly deep object taxonomies and trying to figure out how to do something came down to figuring out how 5 or 6 different classes interrelated. It was such a nightmare, especially since the IDEs back then weren't as smart as they are right now. I think it's become a lot better now though, modern libraries seem to have learned a lot of those lessons, and having proper closures makes a huge difference, and things like IntelliJ are really great about making dealing with the verbosity much easier.
> Few remember that it was Java that introduced much of the world to garbage collection, memory safety (!), optimizing JIT compilation, runtime reflection, dynamic loading, high quality static analysis IDEs, etc.

Java is still continuing to lead on technology. In recent years it has introduced the world to low-latency, concurrent copying garbage collectors (C4, ZGC), partial-evaluation Futamura-projection optimizing compilers (Graal/Truffle), and low-overhead continuous deep profiling in production (JFR). I think that lots of people remember that, and care about those things, because Java is not only leading technologically but also in market share.
Lots of value props here

- Cut R&D cost

- Grow in scale

- Force people out of buying their own cars by providing rides

- Carpool at work programs

- Lyft Shared rides - which taxies could not exploit efficiently, makes it a win win for riders and drivers

- Imagining auto-driving cars in the near future, that can change economics

- Cities that were generally transit heavy, can exploit this alternative, since car usage was low to go to work

- Their partnering with Rideshare programs at work, leads to a very cheap commute on demand, which cuts into the vanpool market - with flexible timings

- Even with same prices as taxis - it's put so many people and cars to work that were sitting in the driveway. I see some form of Government subsidy here too as an option ( since good for the environment, and the economy in general)

- Markets to expand in - Commercial Freight( unused capacity transportation) - basically structuring and leveling the playing field wrt rates, policies, contracts and availability via a digital centralized experience

- Food delivery

- Many more sure I'm missing
The people commenting kill themselves. The people driving kill and injure other people.

I don't know how widely reported it was outside the UK, but Prince Philip (Queen Elizabeth's husband) is 97. In January this year, he drove his car into a car with two women and a nine month old child in it. He was OK, the women required hospital treatment (but were not seriously injured).

"Prince Philip unhurt in crash" said the BBC. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-46912691 "Prince Philip will not be prosecuted [..] We have decided that it would not be in the public interest" said the Crown Prosecution Service. ( https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/feb/14/prince-phili... ).

He voluntarily surrendered his driving license after that.
> Crosses One Line Too Far in Union Busting

With posters giving their point of view? I was expecting to read about them calling in strike breakers with baseball bats, given that headline. Surely posting literature that isn’t untruthful, offensive, abusive etc is always ok and should be protected even if you don’t agree with the argument?
Mainly I was thinking of the second mission, when former crew members vandalized the facility and Steve Bannon (yes, that Steve Bannon) was brought in by the owner to get costs under control. Strange story:

https://www.wired.com/2016/12/trumps-chief-strategist-ran-ma...

That said, I agree that the results showed potential. I’d love to see a Jeff Bezos or Elon Musk give this idea another shot.
I think I replace my blades every month or so.

For me, after learning with a shavette straight razor, the DE is easy mode for when I have no time.
Are you lying to your co-workers when you draft an E-Mail to them, read it over, and decide to delete a paragraph or write it again from scratch? If your E-Mail client automatically saves drafts that's basically the equivalent of "rebase".

I made a typo when writing this reply, and pressed backspace to correct it. Is use of the backspace key lying?

I think you're placing a value on "history" that doesn't map onto all users of "rebase", or E-Mail client drafts. A lot of advanced users use it as the equivalent of "save" in an editor, sharing all those intermediate states is more noise than value v.s. crafting a sensible patch once you figure out what you want/what change to make.
People in space age faster, something happens to bodies differently there. That needs to be resolved.
Sorry for your time, yes, you're right.
Probably a designer. Gets asked to design a banner ad and ends up trying to rebrand the entire company.

On a serious note it took me a long time to understand that some clients do only want you to execute and do not want you to provide a more holistic professional assessment at every stage.
I'm curious about the last part. Are you using Modula 2 or something?
Yeah. I’d love to see the academic paper with formalizations that help me understand the true scope of this problem. Your example is a great one that prompts many questions. Is it possible to travel directly to the commit o(1) or will the code have to calculate the diff of each commit and apply them one at a time o(n) and how much definition and dependency mapping humans need to do to have it work correctly?
I worry about npm now. The huge public registry everyone loves is run off investor's money and subsidized by npm's private registry product.

But npm has recently changed their nice-people-matter CEO to a now-print-money dude, so I suspect investors' patience has run out.

And now GitHub went directly after the one thing that npm is supposed to be making money on.
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There is no longer free Oracle support for Java 8. But Amazon's James Gosling lead Corretto is reviewing updates, and even backports: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/corretto/latest/corretto-8-ug/pa...
Sure, I was just pointing out the history of the name.

I do it every other day, sometimes in quite a hurry and with a slant-head. I occasionally nick myself but even that is infrequent. And as others have said, it’s dirt cheap. Since starting with a safety razor a few years ago, shaving is no longer a chore.
Which probably isn't an issue for retail investors. Retail investors are already unlikely to have much actual power and I would bet a majority of them never actually participate in any voting. I can't speak for everyone in that situation, but I know I would be perfectly happy to forfeit my stockholder voting rights if it meant I got some more assurances that a company was being held to some higher ethical standard.
those same workflows can be published for github if enough demand
It's a scummy move, but hardly surprising. I don't know if I'd consider it crossing a line, so much as revealing the contempt management have for workers
Not heavily forested but covered by a lake and vegetation very different from current one with many juniper trees see for instance ihttps://www.jstor.org/stable/41424512?seq=1#page_scan_tab_co...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Manly. Do you believe it have always been a very arid desert?

I have never been to death valey, and i live far enough from it to make traveling there not worth the time. But with the invention of books, images, and videos one doesn't have to be at a place to know about it.

You seem to have a very strong emotional attachment to the place, but i would argue that it only adds bias to your judgement.
I agree with a lot of what this article is saying, but here's a counterpoint: http://www.paulgraham.com/pypar.html (Although I think you'd have to call it something different from the python paradox nowadays).

I know personally I prefer working for companies that have these modern tech stacks, not because I'm a tech hipster or because I think these newer technologies are implicitly better than the old ones. Rather, I think it signals that the people there care about their profession and are interested enough to read blogs, keep up to date, etc., and those are the people I want to work with.

That's not a criticism of the people that want to work with what they know and go home and not think about tech at all. Just a personal preference.
> And the Council of Institutional Investors has argued (pdf) that LTSE’s voting mechanism could hurt shareholders by giving too much power to founders.

I mean, the most high-profile tech stocks to hit the market as of late already give all the power to founders via voting class stock, so I don't think it's a big change other than truly standardizing it.
I think the presumption underlying the LTSE is that short-term growth is at the expense of more valuable long-term growth, so it's structured to try and encourage long-term growth. If you don't hold that view, then you won't invest in those companies.
> like see that there's only one implementation of an interface and thereby devirtualize calls to that interface

Oh, the JIT devirtualizes and inlines even if there are many implementations, but only one or two at a particular callsite. This has been generalized in Graal/Truffle so you almost automatically get stuff like this (https://twitter.com/ChrisGSeaton/status/619885182104043520, https://gist.github.com/chrisseaton/4464807d93b972813e49) by doing little more than writing an interpreter.
I'm not going to tell the world how much I make. That seems foolish. I don't mind sharing it with family, friends, and coworkers, though.
Oops, you're correct that 11.7 was the first release, sorry for messing up the timeline.
Has it been concluded that the _sole_ reason bodies age faster is because of lack of real gravity? Any other possibilities?
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Which it should be noted happens in practice a lot with tech companies hitting exchanges already, so it's not a huge change from the norm.
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The difference between your Erlang example and Prolog is that Prolog "throws away" computation. The whole predicate has to match, not just the first pattern. This difference leads to very hard to predict control flow.
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This timeline is a bit aggressive for Ruby. The core of my career using Ruby was 10 years ago, and I would still call it "darling" at that point, though the rumblings were beginning. Node.js was first released almost exactly 10 years ago, and (from my perspective) over the next few years marked the first real exodus from people who had previously been all in on Ruby. I missed out on that one because I thought node.js seemed like an immature answer to a question I wasn't asking. But over the next few years, I became increasingly disillusioned with writing big software in a language without good static analysis, and was on board with the mindshare (if not actual employment) exodus toward languages like Go and Rust. So I would say it was more like 5-7 years ago that you started seeing more criticism than love for Ruby in places like this.

And yeah, as other commenters have said, Python is back due to data science / machine learning. (Though I'm hoping there will be a wave of adoption of tools like Julia and Swift for this in the near future; good static analysis will be nice for data science for all the same reasons it is nice for other kinds of software.)
An example of the poster can be found here:

https://twitter.com/EoinHiggins_/status/1126477710434414592/...

A lot of people are finding it offensive.
Feels more like a way to recreate FB's in-app 'Instant Experience' - especially given the example videos are mobile and look very similar UI.

I can see a lot of value in serving a mobile ad, and then having clicks open this overlay experience which was pre-loaded.
What the article fails to mention is that CarPlay is not an option on these, it’s a subscription! They charge you every year to keep it running. I don’t know why anyone would put up with that.
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The talk is more about the web as an application platform, and its values, coming down to OS userland. Whether that means JS or Wasm or both doesn't really matter.
I agree that's how it was intended, but how it's intended is only very loosely related to how it is received.
My Pixelbook was $600 on sale, it's why I tried it out before going for a new Mac, and I just stuck with it
The thing is, both secret and public grand juries (or similar constructs) can be and are manipulated by governments and over-zealous prosecutors specifically. Except that the manipulation uses different means.
Aren’t they exposed to higher radiation?