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Robert Macfarlane (the author of this article) has written some great books. The last one I read was The Wild Places [1] which I highly recommend.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2688775-the-wild-places
Yep, that's why I make sure to set time aside for toy problems. Creating contrived problems can sometimes scratch that itch to use a certain technology that don't really fit into what I'm doing at work.
> To me the trade of is build a wind farm in a couple of years to replace that coal fired power station, or build a nuclear power station in a couple of decades to replace it.

Then I understand the confusion. Let me explain. Wind's output isn't constant over the course of a day. Even worse, wind is not constant over the course of a year. (The same goes for solar)

So what do you do when outputs are low and demand is high? (A common occurrence) You use a fuel. Those are batteries, fossil, or nuclear. Those are the choices (hydrogen isn't there yet, nor is it actually 0 emissions since in production they use CH4 not H2O). Batteries do not have enough capacity to get us through moderate stretches of low activity, which is why we haven't gotten rid of fossil fuels. We need to be able to store energy. I don't know how many times I have to say this, but it isn't nuclear vs wind (I LOVE wind! I WANT more wind!). It is the fueled sources we are arguing about. And we can't pretend that we don't need fuel (unless we're willing to relocate massive amounts of people and entire nations).

The best batteries come nowhere near the storage capacity of the worst fossil fuels (all are dwarfed by nuclear).

This debate isn't about "best" vs "good enough" it is "not enough" vs "enough". We can't do it with just renewables alone. We need fuel. And it isn't all about the costs you see. A lot is the costs you don't see, which is why we're so desperate right now (we needed to fix climate change a decade ago, we can't wait another decade or two for batteries to catch up).

So in principle I agree with everything your saying. But the difference is that the facts just don't agree with your perception.
Hard to argue with any of the points offered in the article, but I wouldn't count Netflix out just yet. I agree it will be a long uphill battle, that may have to end with a hugely profitable Fortune 100 taking on Netflix's debt load.
- Weird sudden downward moderation of a previously highly voted comment that is mildly critical of a Chinese company.

- Response which doesn't seem to understand the post it is responding to.

- Response is in broken English.

I think I know what's going on here.
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Try doing anything vaguely graphical (games being the obvious example) and you’ll realise that a large percentage of Android devices are potatoes
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Putting disclaimer is like voluntary shooting themselves in the foot.

Most consumer wouldn't care about this anyway and the risk was overblown.
Yeah, as I thought, it's a blockchain/distributed ledger related technology. Hence why I said "regular use". I doubt large numbers of EU businesses are suddenly having to move data from their core ledger to another datastore because of this.
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I wonder if it's possible to be the less moderated alternative to a popular platform without just becoming the platform for horrible people.

To give an example, in its FOSTA-related policy updates, reddit also banned exchanges of heavily-regulated products like alcohol and firearms. There was no mandate to do so, as safe-harbor provisions are very much intact in case, for example, a reddit user sells a gallon of homebrewed beer to a 20 year old. Such changes might provide motivation for people who aren't at all horrible to move elsewhere.
Yeah, but if you download the app again today you will see a new prompt that forces you to agree to waive your right to class action and agree to arbitration over privacy policy violations. No option to cancel or opt out of course. Nice timing Bose.
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The scenario I had in mind was not debate, just information exchange. Imagine a person meeting friends in a bar, or at a dinner party. They're likely to exchange stories they read about in the news. "So this politician said $outrageous-thing!" (taken outside of context, but who cares), says the person. "Oh yeah, all X are bad, have you heard of $event-that-never-actually-happened?", replies the person B. The conversation goes on. Ultimately, little to no truth was exchanged, but people bonded together. Fiction served its social function.

IME, this is how most not-directly-impactful knowledge is used by people. I've been in countless such situations, and it's painful for people with stronger affinity to truth. Unfortunately, under the guise of "good manners", society teaches you to shut up.

We shouldn't avoid debate. We just need to ensure that people debating are there to discover the truth, and not just pick up morsels to share at dinner parties.
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> There was plenty of unpicked low-hanging fruit in Woz's own Disk II system.

Do you have more details about this? Usually when the Disk II is brought up it's praised for its simpleness and utility.
I think you've misunderstood my post. I'm saying renderless components come "for free" in React -- there's no cognitive overhead or new concepts to learn. It's something that comes very naturally as you develop React components to the point where I've been writing renderless components for years without ever really thinking about it. From reading the article linked above it feels very clumsy in Vue based on the fact that there's a whole feature (slots) which not only feels fairly magical but requires a rather meaty article to explain it's usage.

I guess what I'm saying is if you're really interested in renderless components it's probably easier to just use React.
Whether I agree or disagree with your characterization of him, what does that have to do with whether people who run online communities should be responsible for moderating them?

It isn't on topic, unless you want to say, "Since Dash is an asshole, that is proof that there exists at least one asshole on the internet, which supports part of the argument he makes."

The premise of the argument is that moderation is a moral imperative. Nothing about Mr. Dash's character supports or refutes that argument.
Out of curiosity: did you ever tried using Yalp store for downloading the apk from the store? Would it be useful for you?
I've got an important question for everyone the writer. According to their premise and most 'liberal' premises white people are inherently racist and don't want to live around 'poc' or whatever is the polite word these days. See white flight. So what makes them think the people won't just flee the suburbs again if they do this? I too think those rich people are racist and use their wealth to live away from poc while supposedly working for them but I need some clarification on this point. I'd also love to see and be amenable to the idea of the government forcing these people to practice what they preach to the rest of us. Diversity is our greatest strength after all.
I think the point is that "data" is useless until it becomes "knowledge," and that turning data into knowledge is a complicated and philosophical act. Business being business, most of the people running the show were never interested in the deeper questions of how to create knowledge. They just wanted a new arrow in the quiver. Once they realized the cost of actually doing the work, it became much less appealing.
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It is possible to engineer communication to alter the power levels between fiction and truth. Just look at Twitter, which did this in the wrong direction - there is reduced accountability and greater power in quipping something misleading or false, compared to doing so offline.

But if instead there was an engineered solution to speed up the feedback loop between theory and reality, or fiction and truth, then there would be more of a cost towards saying outlandish things.

"Truth wins in the long run" and "in the long run, we're all dead"... so you have to figure out how to make it more of a medium- or short-run. There's also that other quote, I forget, about "my irrationality exceeds your bankroll", where people can lose their shirt betting on truth if the market stays irrational long enough. That's when you need clearer truth singles sooner, so truth can win more reliably.
OTOH, the article fails to mention that Apple refuses to let you support devices after EOL, and even some of the oldest Android devices in existence can run even the newest Android, as long as you're willing to upgrade the ROM yourself.

The 2012 iPhone 5 is the newest unsupported iPhone. Would you really want to support a phone that old and have to support both a 32 bit and a 64 bit version of your app?
Isn't the line between the two indeed blurry? Maybe deep learning is machine learning, but modern statistical methods such as elastic net, SVM, and random forests are things data scientists should know about.
Git sucks on many different ways. It's also great (much better than Hg) on many other ways.

So, you'll see people fully convinced that each one is superior, and both are justified.
It matters because his calls for centralizing control of the discussion on a site through strong moderation gives him a lever to pull through social media outrage. Without all of the moderation tools he suggests in this post, he could try to shame the site owners to silence a point of view he doesn't like (which he does regularly) and they wouldn't technically be able to do anything about it. The more moderation tools he can get people to put in place, the easier it will be to lead the mobs to the front door of the moderators.
Behaviour per profile (loosely speaking, an identity) is different from behaviour per zone (a site or group of sites).
>To answer your point 2. There isn't going to be a nuclear plant to step in anyway,

To this same point, what is? We don't live in a world of magic. We can't just plop down magical battery systems that don't even exist. Those are also 10-20 years out, from being invented, let alone built. Your argument is moot unless you provide an alternative that can be built right now. If you actually have one, I'm sure every pro-nuclear person would support it. Because our alliance isn't with nuclear, it is with the Earth.
I'm glad the PC enthusiast space hasn't succumbed to the wild hysteria caused elsewhere by the side channel issues. It's tiresome to see every new variation people come up with reported as a new apocalypse all over again. Half the reason I still pay attention is to find if there's a new Linux boot switch I need to turn on to disable some new performance regression.

Even though I'm personally in the fortunate position not to have any reasonable exposure to these vulnerabilities, I wouldn't be particularly worried even if this wasn't the case. It's been well over a year since Meltdown and Spectre came out and there still hasn't been a single case of anyone successfully using these vulnerabilities to productive ends in the wild that I know of. Obviously, cloud computing vendors need to pay attention and there are legitimate business concerns that are affected by this, but insofar as personal computing goes? If people persist in the ridiculous notion that constantly running completely arbitrary code in naive sandboxes is a great idea, I imagine there will eventually be issues, but so far the issue seems to be vastly overblown in the popular media.
I guess TSMC isn't based in the US in any meaningful way.
Good for them.
the title would be improved by specifying that this is about computing performance - not, say, global economics, nutrition, or cosmology.

maybe "What are the computing performance numbers developers should know in 2019?"
> * If you've been following up with someone for a while, start off an email with "I wanted to follow up with you on this one last time". This reminds the person that you've emailed several times before (and perhaps makes them feel guilty for not replying sooner) and lets them know the ball is completely in their court. I have found this to be very useful in kick-starting leads that went stale.

It depends on in how good faith your respondent is acting. If there is no social or other pressure, "one last time" can indicate to its recipient "you just have to ignore this, and the issue will go away."
Most of the people who write these articles for review sites do not really understand CPUs in depth. They know how to run benchmark suites and talk about new features mentioned in Intel's marketing material. Most of these people are writers, not engineers. If they were experts they could make a lot more money working at tech companies instead of working for review sites.

In fact, I would bet that most professional software engineers could not correctly explain Spectre, Meltdown, and Zombieload without making at least a few mistakes.
No, science was not hype. It's not like the fashion is over and now we're gonna go back to making worse decisions based on less data.
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would be useful for game designers if worked in reverse
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Sometimes I look back to small projets I did, and it feels like time well spent, and that in turn motivates me to try new projets. How do you capitalize on your experiences?
> My guess is that data science roles will merge with business analyst roles.

Data Scientist is a buzz word for Statistician. Business Analyst is buzz word for Industrial Engineer. For example 10 years ago if you studied at my university you would witness that some Statistics students were doing second major mostly at Industrial Engineering and vice versa. They are already related for many years but average Joe has no idea.
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There is not much here to support his argument.
Isn't that the point of the article? to heavily user-police your site?
I'm definitely not denying the worth of the particular skillset, just like of good DBAs. But as with any skillset, there are diminishing returns. You can get fairly easily someone at the point where they can merge data from multiple sources, create automatic reports with graphs, make simple similarity clustering, regressions and expert systems even if in suboptimal ways and most companies don't really need more than that. They can even learn to integrate cloud/black box solutions for image/speech recognition without having any idea of how to write one from scratch.

Of course, if a company wants to truly innovate in the area it will need PhDs or people with great dedicated knowledge in ML/Statistics/Particular Domain, if it needs to scale it will need good data engineers to create the data pipeline together with DBAs and experts in each tools (like Spark/Flink), but for most companies the basic above is already a great improvement to what they had before.
> I like reducing poverty and war, because their reduction lifts the global economy and makes travel safer and more enjoyable

a tad bit self interested, no?
This might be a case where there's overlap between ad-hominem attacks and a relevant critique of the argument itself.

I interpret the comment as: "if the author can't follow his own guidance, or if the author's own compliance with this guidance is subjective, the guidance may not be given in good faith". The comment is not just saying asshole=wrong. It's saying that Anil Dash may be a hypocrite, and thus unable to propose good social policies.

The discussion (to me) seems more moral or social rather than technical. In cases of moral or social judgements, are you sure you completely reject ad-hominem points?

It seems to me that a fully Bayesian perspective requires considering ad-hominem attacks; if the source emitting the message is considered untrustworthy, should we discard that information?
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That rule might have a hard time with Japan.
I wonder what is the role of hype in the scientific progress, or progress in general. Is there evidence that it pushes it forward?
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> First, realize that simply pointing out to people how they are mistaken won't change much.

That lesson took me embarrassingly long to learn, but it's a good one.

I haven't given much thought to pattern-matching a loophole as a strategy, but your observation is key: people are willing to make exceptions, you just have to figure out how to get them to make an exception for you.

How to do that? Virtue signal. Watch other people for ideas. You won't have to watch long, people love to virtue signal and do it all the time. Validate their VS to score some quick points, swallow the small amount of bile that it brings to the back of your throat, and then pick something politically adjacent but not so directly similar as to compete/threaten. Those constraints are pretty loose, they should leave you with a wide field of possibilities to choose from. Pick the least unpalatable and you're set.
> > Appeal to authority (argument from authority, argumentum ad verecundiam) – an assertion is deemed true because of the position or authority of the person asserting it.

> You have to be careful with this one. When someone has enough credibility, sometimes you need to question yourself if you disagree.

This is true in all disciplines, and yet the fallacy exists—because there's a difference between "an assertion is deemed true because of the … person asserting it" (emphasis mine; a fallacy) versus "an assertion is given more weight because of the person asserting it" (a perfectly reasonable shortcut, as long as the assertion is still given some vetting).
Oh certainly. I just disagree with his point that ALL websites have a "moral responsibility" to police their users.

To remove illegal content and conduct? Sure, but not to prevent assholery.
Have made it compulsory on Android 7, and like Microsoft has done multiple times, specify what the hardware requirements for any device should be.

And since Android 1, have made OS updates a requirement of the Android licence contract for Google services.
Like I said, it's why this site works and others don't. I'm not aware of a better solution. Facetiously, I suppose you could take the approach of the app 'Yo': constrain the possible messages to exclude anything potentially offensive.
Is Disney likely to have much beyond what Disney directly own on it's service?
And why is that an issue?
21: largest number factored by quantum computer (including only algorithms that can scale into cryptographic levels)
Two thoughts:
1) Much of this is the bias of this community towards new and more more technical companies. At many of our work places Data Science is just part of the landscape and is now baked in. But there is a wide gap between that and legacy companies where the idea of using these techniques this way isn't new at all. In other words we've been through the initial wave of the hype curve and are now into mainstream growth of the idea.
2) Branding matters. In many companies that I get to interact with (fortune 100s) run-of-the mill analysts exist for ass-covering the non-data-based decisions of higher ups. Post-hoc decision justifying. But DS teams (currently) actually get a seat at the table and get listened to. If for nothing else that makes DS way more effective then just BI or whatever. And as long as we get things right that should turn into a virtuous cycle of being heard, being seen to contribute, and being asked to contribute more.
AnandTech is different. They cover μarch, and their writers clearly understand what they're talking about.
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Some while ago I wrote a blog post about how fantastic app note 47 was; very much "nothing like this will be built again". For its unassuming title it is a more instructive read than quite a lot of books on opamps.
It's probably no good to you, but one of the reasons I like NixOS is the simplicity of creating single file scripts including dependencies. For example, something using Pendulum and ffmpeg together would start like this:

#!/usr/bin/env nix-shell
#!nix-shell -i python -p python pythonPackages.pendulum ffmpeg

Then you just put the code after that.
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I am not worried about wiping out humanity. I am worried about wiping out enough humans thst our modern civilization crumbles and never recovers, relegating us to a single planet species forever.

We have fought against entropy to get this far using the relatively easily available resources. If we fail now those won't be available for future generations.

I want future generations to lead better lives than we do, not regress. I want them to live the optimistic sci-fi future, not the post-apocalyptic ones
>I get annoyed reading the same smarmy-sounding "Please don't post unsubstantive comments" replies from dang all the time — but it's what makes this site work, when so many others don't.

The thing is I haven't seen one of those in a long time. Now you can have entire threads where the only comments are "lol" or something like that.
If this were true, then developers would have no problem selling things like unit testing or reduction of technical debt to business folk. Sometimes it's hard to explain something to someone who isn't on your level with a specific skill.
I find “write-what-where” a little clumsy as a term. How about just calling it “POKE”, like when we were kids writing BASIC?
I was in a meeting with other developers and we were discussing pros/cons for a module that needs to be rewritten. The discussion came to the point where the team has different opinions on network overhead. That was the time actually I remember using concrete numbers/values can help you win debates/discussions easily. :)
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> find

> The unix find is a SwissArmyKnife. In PlanNine, the TreeWalking is done by du -- a unix `find . -print` is in PlanNine: `du -a|awk '{print $2}'`

Ah, a clearly much more natural replacement.

EDIT: I got downvoted, but I'm not complaining about it, but rather happy to acknowledge the error of my ways. I cut and pasted what I thought was `du -alawk '{print $2}'`, a mish-mash of 5 unexplained command-line switches, one of them duplicated. (I thought the occurrence of the name `awk` among the switches was just a coincidence.) It wasn't until I noticed the downvote that I realised that what I cut and pasted contained not an `l` switch but a pipe, and was much more simple than what I thought. So, thanks, downvoter!
Right, but Intel isn't falling behind AMD or apple in this comparison - it is falling behind TSMC.