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Gotta pick the right role. There are lots of software jobs where you can just coast. I would know, I'm in a startup, in San Francisco.
Have you tried instagram? It seems like rule numero uno for instagram influencers is relentless positivity
Microsoft Bringing Back Flight Simulator in 2020
Just wrote an article about the same topic:

https://gist.github.com/justinmeiners/f7d08f99e7e9b8b84f0183...
If we do make it over that hurdle, and the many other imminent threats our civilization faces, nuclear fuel is the only means we have (with current technology) of sustaining interstellar travel. Other fuels are too bulky and solar won't work when we get a certain distance from our star. I mean, CO2 and the lies surrounding it are probably going to kill us, and if that doesn't, nuclear war will, and if we manage to muster the level of cooperation and honesty needed to survive these issues, we still face self replicating nanite disasters, murderous omniscient AI disasters, anything you can imagine could kill us before we manage to spread our society into the stars. But if we do want to perform any meaningful operations in deep space, nuclear fuel conservation will be of the utmost importance. Surviving the wealthy few who control these resources and want to use them will be far harder than any other task of cooperation we are faced with.
Yep, wrong about that. 63M revenue for conferences, 12M for sponsorships and 5M for training.

Though I bet a lot of that 63M is conference sponsorships.

Source: https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/460...
You should be able to get a free top case/battery replacement for the ballooning battery issue. (Just FYI)
Sure they are, but distributed consciousness and individual consciousness isn't the same thing. A corporation doesn't have a body and that dichotomy is often used by individuals to dissociate themselves from things they would not be willing to do on an interpersonal level. This is a general issue with organizations.
This is what democracy should look like! (ironic isn't it?).
I don't mind the lack of function keys; I've realized to my mild surprise that the only things I tend to use them with have been bits and bobs I remapped myself with Keyboard Maestro (I used to have F13 remapped to...something or other, for instance) and the occasional terminal app that uses function keys. I do use media keys, but I've found the Touch Bar is by and large just fine for that. (I don't really have muscle memory associated with those, and controls like volume and brightness are fine use cases for a surface that can do sliders.)

In practice, my only real complaints with the Touch Bar are (1) not enough things really find ways to take advantage of it, which contributes to its "just a gimmick" feel, and (2) GIVE ME BACK A PHYSICAL ESCAPE KEY.
They have improved the repairability of the keyboard itself over time, and have recently started doing in-house repairs/replacements of the keyboards at Apple Stores to cut down wait times.
I believe he meant the action needed to trigger the rain.
You can one-hot encode categorical data like strings to build one big model. But if the data is independent, or if the tasks are orthogonal then you might be better served if you create two models.
Back when chip costs were reasonable, custom chips would always beat FPGAs and were an easy option for many applications but I think things have changed somewhat in the last few years with the decline of Moore's law. Now there are fewer and fewer companies that can afford to develop custom chips at leading technology nodes. Some estimates are it costs $100m to get a custom chip into product at 7nm. The volumes just aren't there for many applications to justify a custom chip, it doesn't make sense unless the market is huge and the algorithms are static. FPGAs work well in these cases. Have you seen Microsoft Brainwave? https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/project-bra...
By this logic, we should completely disband public transit, and also tear out the roads because stranding everybody will reduce the impact of commuting more than also offering transit.

Electric self driving vehicles are right around the corner, and will greatly reduce the environmental and parking issues that come with freeways.

If widening roads leads to more cars, that’s a sign that an inadequate transit network is holding the region’s economy back.

At this point, the bay area has comically underbuilt the road and the transit network, and is also intentionally blocking high density construction near public transit.

All three of those problems need to be fixed.
In Australia too, Apple has gotten in trouble for their "error 53" technical measure to discourage third party repairs and not repairing devices that had that error https://www.accc.gov.au/media-release/accc-takes-action-agai...

This follows an earlier infraction over refusing to repair faults after a year without AppleCare https://www.crn.com.au/news/apple-agrees-to-two-year-warrant...
After this I’m not answering any more of your questions because you are clearly not reading my responses. But to others that might stumble upon this thread:

- I already have a monitor, 3 in fact. I do not need to pay for another, specially one that is glued to the cpu.

- The gpu is not the only hardware I listed.

- I do not want to cover my desk with external boxes and adapters, each requiring their own psu, that can only be used within 2ft, forcing them to be right next to the computer negating any “benefits” of taking them out of the machine in the first place for a desktop that never moves.

- I do not want to pay for the overhead an external box will bring, in money, noise, or in mess to my desk.

An iMac is a fine machine. It is not the machine for everyone.
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It's a fast moving field. In the past 5 years we've scene enthusiasm for Caffe, luatorch, theano, tensorflow, and most recently pytorch. And tensorflow 2 of course, which totally changes the programming model. Our own library changes to keep up to date with the field.

Having said that, v1 isn't changing much now - v2 (out soon) will be where new ideas go, and only bug fixes will go to v1, so you can stick with that as long as you like.
You could also look at it another way. Consider metropolitan areas as a sort of economic watershed, where the city receives workers and money from the surrounding areas. Improving transportation throughput and latency expands a city's economic area to more people at greater distances.
I think I agree with a lot of your post, but do you really think something isn't worth learning just because other people are going to know it better? Will hyper-specialization make better developers? Or would developers be better if their education was more general?
I acknowledge that in my comment. I'm trying to say that you can do all of the traditionally "correct" things and still end up with an unacceptable amount of debt. This to me signals that the traditional wisdom in this area is not the full story and limiting our conversation to "Just stay in state and go to a public school" full stop is not a helpful method of introspection.
I think they probably felt they had to reveal it at this event for PR reasons, if nothing else; you're right in that this is clearly a machine made for A/V editors, but I can't see Apple introducing the new Mac Pro at NAB. A new Final Cut Pro, sure, but not a new Mac Pro.

I think they dropped the ball by not having two displays, though -- the $6K Pro Display XDR for the crowd who goes "OMG that's so cheap for a monitor like that," and a $1500 Pro Display (sans XDR) that's basically the 5K panel from the iMac Pro. I am hoping that either that's still coming, or at least there are people with some weight in the company looking at the reaction to the XDR display and its "optional" stand and saying, "Did we tell you so? Yes, yes, we did, Doug. We told you so."
Seems intriguing. Does github let you insert a gif animation on the Readme page? That could be helpful showing your plugin in action.
I use my F keys to trigger scripts that do things like focus browser and reload page or bring the terminal to the front.
The photon goes into the energy of the electron. Because mass and energy are the same thing the mass of the photon is converted into the energy of the electrons new state.
I don't disagree with this; I just think dropping the video feed can impact the interactivity of a meeting.
> radical new approach

> Stoicism

Uhm.
Right. Even internally they should ideally be on their own subnet.
I really am not confident that the ‘think tanks’ and the govt has even two brain cells behind this idea.

1. In 50 years, I predict that automation will erase many jobs.

2. The notion that we need to live near where we work is going to become outdated and useless.

3. This is just another way for the govt to get it’s claws deeper into the tax payers wallets.

4. High density is incompatible with affordability. Any affordable housing is subsidised housing with monies that is redistributed.

5. We need more local governance rather than tyrannical regional governance in California with Sacramento dictating everything for everyone.
I should probably post evidence; this was a live demo I did of the floating point stuff at Stanford (demo begins ~53 minutes in)

https://youtu.be/aP0Y1uAA-2Y
I have absolutely no dog in this fight at all but, in case anyone is interested, if you don't have zfs on a system you can create and maintain "rsync snapshots" by using hard links that take up zero space:

http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/

The idea is, you rsync to a snapshot directory (just like .zfs/snapshot/name_of_snapshot would be) but since you are hardlinking everything, almost all of the files take up zero space. Only files that change get their hardlinks broken and take up any space.

You can put the dir names in rotation and make them work exactly like zfs snapshots.

This is how people did snapshots before zfs.
Which is ironic since popper had a real problem with QM.
Quite a lot of shortcuts in IDEs like IntelliJ IDEA and many others depend on them.
I use a FreeNAS box at home..from IXsystems. Good stuff. I paid a bit more for ECC. Why? my families history, all this pictures are kept on the NAS (backup to backblaze) and a local dive. In the last 8 years, in Photos I have encountered maybe 11 issue where the picture was screwed. Each time I looked at the NAS copy, snapshot, etc. where I was able to recover the correct photo. The cost difference over time in a few cups of coffee. It is worth it. If you can afford the NAS I do not understand how you cannot afford the ECC.
A fruit picker is doing math all the time: calculating distance to fruit, using inverse kinematics to move limbs in order to pick a fruit and put it in a basket in a way that does not deform or damage the fruit... and the list goes on and on. There's math in everything.

The fruit picker does not have to think about that math or understand it, just like most programmers do not have to understand what happens at the low level.
I have created technical documentation several times in my career because things were so complex in the software and I needed something to contain answers to how the software works and why.

However, almost every time I move on to the next project that documentation is either forgotten (ex-manager didn't care to remember we had documentation) or deleted (this isn't code).
you are a racist though. you cant prove otherwise.
They wanted the suspect on trial for sure, but not under this law, as stated in your third source. Even Carrie Lam herself admitted this in the press meeting just now.
College is the idea of paying someone to force you to read a bunch of (mostly useless) books.

Just read books and google if you don’t know what to read

And choose a field that does not require a degree to work

This way you save your time and money and probably will end up being more successful
I just came across and patronized an honor system farm stand in Bolinas Ca yesterday.
> In Poland, every couple months I see news that our government/military is supposedly creating some sort of "cyber force".

All talk, nothing's done.
To trigger the rain you needed the whole setup: gold, vinegar, and oil. The puzzle we were stumped at had nothing to do with that.
> High density is incompatible with affordability

Could you clarify this? There are countless affordable neighborhoods that are all apartments.
PyTorch-BigGraph: a large-scale graph embedding system
I agree that people from Target Schools have an easier time getting their foot in the door, but I also believe the benefit stops shortly thereafter.
There a a few places off of summit rd. In NorCal that do the same thing.
Fast forward a few years, now with the demand of learning-based software, there is no doubt that mathematics is indeed a requirement for data-driven software.

Although you may not need to know the math to build such software, given the tools that we have available. However you would need to know the math in order to understand the limitations, pros/cons of a particular ML algorithm for a given application (at the very least).
delivering bad code when youre paid for a good product is a terrible thing to do
Hardly; it precisely describes what is occurring. Calling it a downgrade seems to me to be the absurd spin. It's clearly not a downgrade, as the feature checks weren't even implemented in the previous versions.

I understand what the headline is trying to say, but it's a total misnomer to call it a downgrade.
> However, if you are trying to do something that your packages weren't directly designed to do and writing non-trivial code, then you're going to start seeing the speed advantages of Julia.

Or you use Numba. :-)

But yeah, the speed can be pretty bad compare to native code if you can't compile everything to native with Numba. To put some concrete numbers here, the one time I had some complicated but heavily-optimized Python and C++ scicomp codebases computing exactly the same thing, I saw [1] running times like the following depending on the algorithm:

1. 10.6s with NumPy, 7.5s with NumPy + Numba, and 0.6s in direct C++ (1.4x and 12.5x respectively)

2. 68s with NumPy, 6.5s with NumPy + Numba, 0.5s in direct C++ (10x and 13x respectively)

The first algorithm was simpler and more vectorizable, while the second algorithm was more complicated and less vectorizable but with a lower time complexity. In either case, the algorithm still had to do a fair bit of work in Python, so it wasn't running native code 100% of the time (which I think is fairly realistic).

In either case, you can see the difference between C++ and Python was around 13x when using Numba... not quite as bad as 100x, but I imagine Julia probably does better.

[1] Actually, originally I saw only a 5x improvement with Python 2.7 on my older laptop, but I re-ran these on my current laptop under Python 3.7 and the difference is 13x now.
It's still teeming with life for those who bother to go out in search of it. Yellowstone is overcrowded but it astonishes me how few visitors come to, say, Bridger-Teton National Forest (other than for that Great American Eclipse, during which the traffic began to evoke Times Square) and Couer d'Alene National Forest.
That would work but would suck when you wanted to know who did what. Makes me think about: if all in a team has responsibility then no one has.
There is at least some evidence that the root cause of sugar addiction is limiting sugar consumption [1], and this definitely reflects my childhood experience. Blindly taking a position of taking sugar away from children could actually cause an increase in sugar addiction in the long-term.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00394-016-1229-6
If you're a regular old enterprise developer, the chances are you don't actually need a $5000 iMac Pro, either. The stock 6-core 3.7GHz i5 iMac 5K for $2300 (maybe with another ~$100 for 16GB extra third-party memory to bring it internally up to 24GB) is going to be more than up to the challenge of most tasks.
Any online government/medical/banking/leasing/crediting service needs my real identity. In real world there are even more services.

99% of online services doesn't need my real identity but the ones that need it definitely aren't almost zero.
70s and 80s were relatively quiet on the tech innovation front. We might be headed for a couple of decades like that.
Even with banks, what they really need to know is that you are not laundering money and you pass KYC checks. Verifiable claims would be a way to pass those checks and get a bank account without the bank needing to store any of your personal info.

We're a long ways from that sort of thinking of course. And on that note, there are still an estimated 1.1 billion people in the world lack any recognized formal identity. There's a chance for many of them to leap frog us by going straight to digital identities rather than carrying around cards.
Yeah I’m hoping they will release that display as well. I have no need for the xdr display but would happily fork over 1500 to 2k for a 5k 27 or 30 inch apple display. I’m wondering though if they are just letting lg service that market because the margins aren’t good enough? I don’t know it just seems odd that they would anoint lg to sell those monitors and then make their own.
The responses to this post illustrate perfectly why California has the infrastructure crunch it does. As it turns out, constantly making Utopian proposals and decrying anymore who disagrees doesn't actually solve any problems. But that's all anyone does in California, which is why the state can barely manage to allow the owner of an obsolete laundromat to turn it into a modest apartment building.
So, about the cost. This Mac Pro is for editing 8k raw video. Which is Hollywood stuff, shot on cameras that cost 10s of thousands of dollars, on top of 100s of thousands of dollars of lenses and budgets 10s to 100s of millions.
Sure, but nobody sees cigarette adds, and actually says "I smoke because it makes me look cool". Nobody sees beer ads and says "I drink because it makes pretty girls hang out with me". Yet many many people say "I buy the diet food because I am watching my weight".

Generally speaking, people are pretty good at rationally analyzing advertisements. The ads may still be effective, but almost nobody believes them at face value. Except for diet/low-fat/natural products. It's like people turn off their bullshit detectors for them. I just don't understand why.
They've effectively made public statements that they feel the keyboard is not shit. They also put their money where their mouth was and created a 4 year replacement program for all butterfly keyboard issues.

Its a really notorious and popularized issue, but Apple has been repairing keyboard issues on these for four years - and even though they improved the design incrementally, they haven't made any significant changes generation-to-generation. Nor have taken such obvious steps as making the keyboard replaceable independent of the top cover - with all the attached hardware and batteries - to make repairs easier and more economical.

Since its hard to imagine Apple blissfully taking a financial hit on the keyboard repairs for four years, you have to imagine there are a combination of other factors at play:

- Some early generations had issues, either due to a manufacturing defect, and Apple thought they could do some combination of replacing keyboards as issues surfaced rather than do a recall, change manufacturing to make the keyboard more robust, and improve the design with new generations. Note that the MacBook Pro with the 2nd generation butterfly keyboard was released over a year after the MacBook Retina. So Apple already should have had substantial repair data on the keyboard at that point.
- Apple's numbers on issues are lower because people are living with the issue rather than getting it repaired. I believe Apple has gotten this feedback, which is why they have started to roll out on-site repairs to Apple stores to speed up the process
- People who are living with the issue or had the issue are more vocal than people who had issues with previous generations of keyboards - an echo chamber effect
- People without issues are also talking about the keyboard negatively
- People are contributing to the negativity about the keyboard for other reasons independent of reliability - for instance, a lot of people dislike the low-travel of the keys.
As a vi user, I hate the touchbar and its escape "key". I sometimes find myself turning down the brightness instead of getting into command mode which is irritating.
This distinction isn't nearly a bright line as you think it is, the US is essentially what happens when an EU-like structure has 200+ years to evolve. In the US, States have their own constitutions, legislatures, various legal systems, and almost complete autonomy with narrow exceptions. Around 30% of them operated autonomously as their own countries at various times. Americans have almost no contact with the Federal government, only State governments, and the nature of State governments, laws, and legal systems varies quite widely across the US because they evolved independently.

As a simple illustration, the US has no national ID because the individual States have sole authority for managing the identity of their citizens. Similarly, it is why all contracts denote the State whose legal system has jurisdiction over interpretation of the contract -- there isn't a meaningful Federal jurisdiction over such things. This is also why the US Federal government can't just "pass a law" to do things, what they can actually do is severely limited by what the States feel like allowing them to do. While the States don't flex their autonomy very often these days, almost all power in the US rests with the individual States.
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This is a very distrustful, almost adversarial, position to take. If you don't trust that your employees are paying attention just because their cameras are off, then you must not think very highly of them. Regardless of whether that's true, that's how that stance comes across.

I would not enjoy working for someone who thought like that.
I do agree with you that access to cheap/convenient healthy foods is certainly lacking. This is definitely a problem I think we can and should tackle. I think giving people more choices is a great thing and I would happily support this. The "default" also makes a lot of sense here. Really at the end of the day what I'm skeptical of is trying to force people's hands into cutting sugar out of their diet.
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All of those (except bars and social networks) also need a postal address where legal and court documents can be served.
> It is fine to also try to win over girls with it (I thought it was disingenuous at the time, I was wrong).

I have some regrets over some similar things, like letting a girl's ex scare me about her, and feeling it would be wrong for me to reciprocate the feelings of a 15 year old I liked when I was 17... sad you felt that way about music, why did you think that?
Reading through most comments and I still think a few points are worth mentioning:

* btrfs has a few features that are Really Nice and missing in ZFS: ability of have a file system of mixed drives and adding and removing drives at will, with rebalancing. With ZFS growing a file system is painful and shrinking impossible(? still?). There has been work on it recently though.

* ZFS has a IMO MUCH cleaner design and concepts (pool & filesystems); mirrored by a much cleaner and clearer set of commands. Working with btrfs still feels like an unfinished hack. As human error is still a major concern, this is not a trivial issue.

I _have_ lost data to MD, had scary issues with BTRFS, but never had issues with ZFS in 8+ years. (The fact that FreeNAS is FreeBSD based which I'm less inclined to mess with also means that I mostly leave my appliance alone.)
what does this have to do with anything? censorship doesnt fix this