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IntelliCode does give a better UX/feature set than what was ever in previous Visual Studio versions, however. The IntelliCode suggestions have a star icon to make it clearer why they bubbled to the top. The Visual Studio version of IntelliCode supports manually training the suggestions for C# (and soon other languages, if I recall) on personal/corporate/private projects and sharing the subsequent AI/usage models with team members. That ability to get all of a team on a similar model for usage/context-aware suggestions alone will be a big deal for some projects.

(Also, it's built on "AI" techniques like convolutional neural networks rather than pure usage statistics databases, so the performance characteristics are also much better than the past Visual Studio usage databases, especially on machines where it can hardware accelerate it, which supposedly on Windows 10 is most GPUs these days.)
Sources. There are more sources.

I have to be honest, I didn't read most of your comment, because there's literally nothing you can say to change the immutable fact that language is defined by its population, and you, as an individual, have very little say in that (and for good reason).

It's "minuscule". That's it.
Ok then. Let's just take this broad conversation about "most people" and distort it with wildly pessimistic and self-contradictory assumptions.

I can only repeat myself here. If you want to live longer, you want better health. If you don't want better health because "there's no prospect for improvement", then I don't know what to tell you. That's a contradiction.

In any case, slowing the decline due to aging doesn't mean you spend more time in a nursing home. I means you delay entering a nursing home in the first place.
7k varieties of apples and the 18 you need to know about (2013)
SuperMicro, not Huawei. A story for which I've not seen one single shred of not-flacid evidence.
>All xray backscatter imaging devices were removed by the TSA

At the airports. They still exist in prisons, in covert trucks and other mobile units owned by TSA and law enforcement, and potentially in other venues of public transportation, stadiums and arenas, etc.

X-rays are also in INCREASING use at airports, since they are in the process now of replacing the carry-on bag scanners with CT scanners. A CT scan gives a 3D image of your luggage which means you don't have to take out your laptop. Unfortunately, a CT scan also uses 10X more radiation than a regular x-ray.
Serioulsy, brush your teeth to avoid tooth decay and dental problems, as fixing those will be expensive, painful and still lead to substandard replacements.

It there is a single personal care thing I wish I listened more to my parents and common sense, that's it.

Diet and exercise are important as well but, compared to those, the amount of effort, willpower and discipline associated to keeping your teeth clean is risible.
I will push back here though. You pointed out above it isn't Zuckerberg alone who is responsible. It's a systemic effect with many involved.

I wrote my original post off the cuff. I might edit it to say that Zuckerberg, as the CEO, sets the tone, and hires the people who build the system and set the culture that either incentivizes/allows/demands these practices (dark patterns, etc.).

Individual engineers can take a stand, but without their managers, and those managers' managers backing them, it's a Sissyphean task.

The point being, Zuckerberg is ultimately responsible.
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Because they don't own the company... You say they have the most to lose, but I would say the investors who put 100s of millions of dollars into the company have more.
Who gets to pass judgement on engineers for writing code? Who decides what code is ethical? You? Why should anyone listen to you on this matter? Why not me? Why not my dog? The shareholder system of control is at least honest and transparent. Calls for moral boycotts are either ineffective or put power in the hands of the self-righteous, and I think that's far more dangerous than shareholder votes.
Wow. The criticisms I've seen about using flying-wing designs for passenger aircraft (planes that look like the B-2 bomber), are often focused on how bad the boarding process is for the movie theater seating they require. This design looks like it eliminates the seating problem pretty well. Flying wings have been known to be more efficient for a long time; logistics problems are the devil in the details.
>Who says the situation needs solving?

Of course it needs to be solved. You have finite screen real estate. Lack of physical buttons. Multi-touch gestures is a natural space for user input.
I'd much rather have scheduled meetings than unscheduled ones.

If the meetings are scheduled, I can plan my flow around them...

Much better than when I'm trying to get work done and somebody yanks me out of the zone and pulls me into some random meeting that's going to last between one and several zillion minutes. We used to call them "drive-by shootings."

There's definitely room for personal preference. For me, I have large numbers of years accumulated doing it both ways, and it's no absolutely no contest.

I'll gladly spend 15 minutes of my day on a scheduled meeting, since I know from experience that it's going to save me a bunch of "drive-by shootings."
In order to even start "bettering themselves", they would have to adopt a kind of growth mindset that involves rejecting ideas like that one is "born unattractive", and that being born unattractive merits suicide.

A side effect of that mindset is also increased attractiveness to both potential partners and other social contacts in general.
There is some lock-in, but that's because the system integration works so well (Mac, iPhone, iPad, Watch, etc.) that one is loath to switch, not because they actively lock up your data.

Contacts, Calendar, Photos, documents all allow exports to commonly understood formats (and iTunes with some caveats).

I would not currently consider alternative OSes because they'd not work as seamlessly for me, but if Apple became as bad as you envision, I'd be out in short order with basically all my data.
In an ideal world these inventions would be licenced freely, on a non-exclusive basis. In fact they are tied up in exclusive licences to gougers and patent trolls.
For shame NASA
Increasing profit per share IS in shareholder benefits, no?
The reasoning is that the lawmakers don't really give a shit about antitrust or competitiveness of industries (because there are far worse monopolies to target), just control over the internet.
Curious, how do you think a decade of journaling has made you a better writer? Most writing advice heavily features feedback, from peers, instructors, friends, editors, and so on. But journaling almost by definition prevents that. And it's not like hoisting jumpers in basketball -- you don't really know if you "made the shot" in writing, no? In the article's language, writing seems like a very wicked environment.
Williams is not just superficial charm, it is also, for example, trust. People with Williams often cannot manage the degree of skepticism needed to stay safe, children cannot wrap their minds around stranger danger, etc.

Sort of like not feeling pain, it sounds great until you realize you can get deep into horrifying situations with no idea that anything is wrong until too late.
From your link:

> Originally, this wasn't the case and the label 'Jack of all trades' carried no negative connotation, the 'master of none' part being added later.

So it went through three separate versions flip flopping in meaning.
Said much clearer than me originally. Thank you.
That is an incredible read. I knew Tiananmen was bad, but I didn’t realize it was that bad. The part about body disposal is nothing short of terrifying.
Zuckerberg learnt to avoid ever getting in that position, which he did by cutting out everyone else as soon as possible, ruthlessly. And when it came to IPO, he made sure that power structure carried through. This was widely reported before and after (books, movies etc). This is why I’m saying there is little to complain about from a shareholder perspective: everybody knew what the game was and how good he was at playing it. If you step in a cave sporting a big sign that says LIONS’ DEN, how can you then complain that it contains lions?

I’m not saying this is particularly innovative, of course. What is remarkable is his ruthlessness to apply it shamelessly and at huge scale.
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Wouldn't you be bored with a specialist position in one company? I get bored when doing the same thing for too long. That's usually around the 2 years mark.

I've done a lot of Rails then dived deep into mobile dev (native iOS & Android). I also dealt a bit with embedded and ended up as the bridge between a taiwanese team and a french one. Contractor life can be interesting :p

As you, I sometimes wish I could just stay in one role in a bigger company but I feel like I would not be able to fit in a box for long.
He had an open unpublished conversation with Apple Security and notified them of his own published app, so “if they figured out who” seems inapplicable here.
The whole idea of a social network is to connect with your friends. Young people, the most valuable demographic, overwhelmingly use iPhone in both the UK/US. Snapchat/Instagram is a successful social network just controlling this market.
That's basically Elizabeth Warren's corporate governance proposal: have employees elect 40% of the board.
In Massachusetts, convenience stores and gas stations seem to be the only things open at night. I wonder if grocery stores do better in places like upstate NY where the grocery stores are also open 24hr.
Ooh amazon, they'll just reinvent it now. This is why i quit the DB biz
So how are the dynamics of this thing in the air? Easy to maneuver? As safe?
related concept Probiotics for your mouth https://probiorahealth.com/?msclkid=3bfa04734b5c1067a58a5885...
You should not rinse directly after brushing. Toothpaste has a higher concentration of fluoride than any mouthwash, if you're going to use a rinse the recommendation is to wait 30 mins after brushing, and you should never rinse with water
Color me skeptical that an idea that has existed for over half a century still isn't feasible.

https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/65124/how-is-a-...

https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/12782/why-are-t...

A little more skepticism:

> Sadly for the Flying-V, it will probably fail like the blended wing body designs we've seen down the years. It's for the same reason, too: airplanes bank as they turn. That's not much of a problem in a conventional airliner design, where passengers are never that far from the plane's central axis. But as you move further out from that central axis the effect becomes a lot more pronounced.

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2019/06/radical-new-airliner-co...

There really is nothing new about a lifting-body design.
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They detail it in the linked cable, but it involves incinerating mutilated remains.
> Flying wings have been known to be more efficient for a long time

Source needed
Where are you seeing information about the seating in this design?
Existential climate-related security risk [pdf]
I dunno. They are on this boat by their own will.

If only there would be a way to ditch a company like this their problems could be solved. A place where you could sell your stake in the company (preferably on a global scale) and buy a stake in a company which doesn't suffer from such issues. Something like a marketplace but for stocks.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Thank you for correcting me and providing the historical context.
I'm a generalist, I hate specializing and it feels like a curse rather than a triumph. I have reasonable general understanding of a huge spectrum of topics but little skill of actually applying most of them. I feel excited about everything and pain about concentrating on a single. Every time I start doing something I feel like I hate doing it instead of learning about something else. The sense of not having enough time to learn everything almost puts me in panic. I tend to attribute this to ADHD. Small doses of desoxyn (meth) help a lot (and nothing else helps) but you can't get it legally outside the US. Every employer wants a specialist and I can't blame them.
You should use these safes to store your money. They’re safe unless people do this thing.

Does anyone do that thing?

Yeah, me.
You're right, one should obviously drive per the road (traffic + weather) conditions. I personally wouldn't dare doing 200kmph+ unless both the left lanes are almost empty; passing someone at that speed makes me nervous.
> reflects the indisputable reality of the proposal

No, it reflects your stubborn partisan viewpoint which I'm uninterested in debating.

https://www.people-press.org/2015/08/13/continued-bipartisan...

The numbers speak for themselves. Unless you have some alternative polling data to show I am not interested.
I'm curious what kind of impact a design like this would have on pilots getting checked out in the aircraft.
But facebook can shrink, and dramatically so.

The main asset that facebook has is data. I've been reading "21 Lessons for the 21st Century", and I agree with Dr. Harari's argument that we need a regulatory environment for data, and the way that the cultural/political swing is going, all it takes is one election to completely upend the value that facebook holds. I would go one step further and argue that actions that the US has taken in regards to China and Europe endanger facebook in areas where they will most want to be in the coming years.

What will Zuck need to do to survive and thrive in that? I don't know and I have a strong feeling that he doesn't either, but I'm guessing that he has some investors that do.
Curiosity; Who disputes them other than China? And with what evidence?
If you restrict the pool of applicants, the quality of the student body will go down. That's basically a law of nature.

Schools aren't accepting foreign students because they're cheaper. They actually have greater apprehension about foreign students, because their language skills might be lacking, and because the American professors judging the applications might not personally know the foreign professors writing the recommendation letters.

Science is largely done by graduate students and postdocs. Professors are busy writing grants, teaching classes, advising students and sitting on committees. Their role in science is largely managerial, and in providing overall vision. All the grunt work and detail gets done by people below them. My point is that having smart and capable students is critical.

If you go into a top STEM department in the US, you'll probably see that a large majority of students are foreigners. If you were to exclude them, you could replace them with Americans, but those Americans would, on average, have lower grades, lower test scores and less previous research experience. Their work would not be as good, and the productivity of the department would fall.

The excluded students would instead go to top universities in other countries. Those universities would begin doing better research as a result. My prediction is that within a decade, you would see Harvard, MIT, Princeton, Stanford, UC Berkeley et al. fall off the top of the rankings, replaced by the top universities in Europe, one or two universities in Canada, and perhaps a few Asian universities.
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This thing looks sick. I wonder if any savings will make its way to the customer.

> Passenger comfort is also taken into account.

That could mean just about anything, fwiw.
> Its improved aerodynamic shape and reduced weight will mean it uses 20% less fuel than the Airbus A350, today’s most advanced aircraft.

That is such a meaningless claim.
It does raise the question about if it would be possible by the kernel to implement features that so to say erect city walls in a way that processes can't access whatever it want. Ie, granting access to some of the ethernet DMA but not all of it, or something similar. Perhaps it isn't possible in theory, but perhaps it is, or could be.
Let me pose this unfair question back at you. Are you willing to pay the price for providing an alternate means of sky observation at a scale suitable for astronomy, and for cleaning up the debris that might result from expiration of, or collisions between, tens of thousands of commercial satellites?

You are implying that launching many commercial (American) satellites is the best, or even a good, solution to the problem of many people not having what you consider adequate internet. Moreover, apparently this problem is so urgent and the solution so perfect that you feel the need to chastise these scientists for even expressing concern. I don't think you are approaching this discussion in a fair manner.
Why? That's a perfectly quantifiable claim.
My issue is with the word "ultimately" - to me it is used to throw the burden of making ethical choices off the front line employee and onto a black hole somewhere up the chain of command.

Yes, the responsibility is ULTIMATELY on zuck, but for it to reach him, every single person in line has to shrug their shoulders and do the wrong thing because it's more profitable to do so.

In that sense, I agree with your push back. However, I lament that we've given tech employees this kind of morality and ethics-free environment to play in.
I wouldn't really call Roger Federer a generalist. He's the number one tennis player on the planet and specializes in tennis more than anyone under the sun. Maybe as a kid he played other sports but don't we all? I don't think this generalist concept was fully explored in this article.

That being said, I frequently worry about this concept of generalist vs specialist and which will yield a better or more impactful career. Despite the negative connotation of the word "generalist", I do believe people that have wide skillsets with some specialty are pretty valuable. But I think it depends on what you want to do and what you want to impact. For inventing a new medication, maybe a speciality is a way to achieve that. For starting a business, maybe generalist is the better toolset.

I think it's ok to be either, I just wish I could be both. :)
> our economic system typically incentivizes specialists

I don't think business rewards specialists. The business people (at the top) are generalists. They can recognize some specialization but not too deep. Whether you have only one eye or two eyes, they will not be able to tell the difference.

> you reach a point where the information and knowledge is no longer certain and then various opinions begin to branch out from experts in the field

I would argue this is the horizon of the expertise. There might be deeper expertise behind this horizon, but you cannot see it because you cannot make sense of the different opinions (without more expertise).
I skimmed through the slides and didn't see a single word allocated to the problem of the waste, pollution, and health effects generated by these services or any costs involved in managing them. Perhaps the figure of $365 billion is a convenient fiction, as is so often the case when modern young "entrepreneurs" see an opportunity to upend the underpinnings of society for profit.

Food isn't a problem we solve with megacorporations and apps and technology. Food isn't supposed to be optimized and analyzed and held to KPIs. Food is best when communities of people come together to participate and interact and nourish one another. All these services do is enslave and silo us away from each other so that the individual's essential needs for nutrition and community can become a profit stream in a corporation's ledger. They would build yet another layer in America's enormous neurosis around food. No thanks, Google.
I'd be interested in how they would manage weight distribution as well. Will the plane still fly in a situation where passengers on one side of the aircraft need to be on the other side?
Agreed, even if you could reduce fuel consumption by that much, the result should be lower fares, inducing more people to travel by air.
Is password reuse and phishing hacking now? The software wasnt vulnerable the wetware was.
I don't think there is a spec, but looking at an image of a b-2 versus the image in the article should give you an idea to start with.
Therac-25 is the standard Bachelor's Level Ethics and Software Engineering case studies in Florida at least.
In the UAV world, the longest endurance loiter time fixed wing craft are either relatively slow and with long, straight wings (the 30 hour version of the rq-9, or the global hawk), or are flying wings...
>this is a conscious and apparently quite effective effort to create a "Zuckerberg ignores his shareholders" narrative...

My point is that the prospectus "...is a conscious and apparently quite effective effort to create a 'Zuckerberg ignores his shareholders' narrative..."

It's quite literally, publicly stated company policy in this regard.
Why even use NordVPN when you can have AirVPN. Better in all ways...
Triumph is a strong word. I personally enjoy being a generalist (have been an analyst, PM, and dev), but in my experience companies frown upon it and they will try to put you in jr roles despite having experience in various areas. On the other hand, I think my propensity to want to do a lot of things is probably my brain telling me that I shouldn't be joining a company or take a role where specialization is valued more highly than not.
I partly understood it with the "first"-gen New MacBook; it was experimental, and they wanted to give it this kind of minimalist-mystique of flipping the naming convention where this forward-looking device was now simply "The MacBook". But why does it even still exist now that the other ones have adopted most of its features?
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Fake MapQuest scam issue still unaddressed by Google
I regularly deal with senior citizens who want to use MapQuest, and who are regularly inundated with malicious browser extensions trying to do so. This isn't because MapQuest is malicious, but because Google refuses to address the volume of scams perpetrated by their ad platform, and continues to make ads difficult to distinguish from real results.

I've spoken to Google employees here on HN about this issue previous years, and they have even said if reported they'd be taken down, but even when those Googlers intervened, they returned shortly only hours later, at the exact same URLs as before.

None of these scams are new. They're just too profitable to Google to be shut down.

Here's a screenshot from today: https://imgur.com/a/CxAH2Ua
Human history is very long and we know very little about most of it.

Yes. I said that. We don't know how many rapes or other crimes occurred. Because we know little about them. Because they were generally not reported nor recorded.

There's very little doubt they were happening though, yes?

Claims like the above suggest that fifty thousand years of sexual assault is finally being brought to an end by 1900s social movements.

No, that's not being suggested here. That is a strawman you just presented.
It would be really strange if a high dosage of dexedrine didn't at least get you 80-90% of desoxyn.
Results are not at all surprising, but it's really great to see it done in a formal way.
A recent study I've seen suggests that all three might have a causal role to play. Going from memory, the research suggests that amyloid plaque is part of an immune response to pathogenic infections in the brain. So herpes or P. gingivalis infections might trigger the build up of the plaque. The other causal factor is that certain forms of these plaques have prion-like properties, in that they induce a malfolding that has increased toxicity.

Wouldn't it be incredible if multiple independent lines of inquiry converged into a single unified explanatory framework?