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To be fair, in C# a function can "opt out" of async-await with Task<T>.Wait()/.Result/.GetAwaiter().

In a way C# will use a mixture of green-ish threads/threads already, in that await-ed calls are either scheduled on a thread worker pool (via a TaskScheduler) or executed synchronously ("inline")... Which comes with it's own set of surprises and gotchas.

async Task<bool> DoSomethingElse() {
// [0] do something long-running
}
async Task DoSomething() {
var otherTask = DoSomethingElse();
// [1] do something long-running
var other = await otherTask;
if (other) {
// do yet another thing
}
}

So, when will [1] run? Before [0], concurrently on another pool thread to [0], or after [0]? The answer is: you cannot really know from the information presented. The compiler might decide that DoSomethingElse is to be called synchronously ("inline", attached child tasks), so before [1] will get a chance to run. Or it might decide to run it concurrently, but then the TaskScheduler might decide it's doing enough of concurrent work already (e.g. every thread in the pool is busy) and run [1] before [0].

This is usually nothing to be concerned about, until it is. Coming from js' world of async-await where a certain order is guaranteed, I footgunned myself in C#... my real-world DoSomethingElse() essentially was a forever-loop that would only terminate on a CancelationToken (basically a "is this canceled" flag) and the compiler decided it should be executed synchronously for me, so [1] never got a chance to run. The fix was Task.Run(DoSomethingElse) btw, thus explicitly not "inline"-ing the call.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/parallel-pr...
Yeah, just because you can do something, it doesn't mean you should invest heavily into it. Weird setup avoiding the fact that MacBooks still don't have a touchscreen. My point was that Apple now is trying to turn tablets into something useful on the desktop, i.e. like a Windows 10 device, which is dual mode.
I think that you are missing the point. GP means to say that "a month" is poorly defined as a unit of duration, specifically. Not even ISO 8601 specifies what exactly a month means in terms of duration, despite specifying a duration description format that includes months.

In some cases you can take "a month from now" to mean the same calendar day of the next month. This leaves what a month from January 31 means ambiguous, and also dependent on when the duration starts.

You can take an easier route and say that a month is 30 days. Still, the duration is ambiguous because it depends on when it takes place (i.e. an interval), because of summer/winter time adjustment. You can say that it's 720 hours, but that's still dependent on the start of the duration because of leap seconds. In the end, the only way to describe a duration unambiguously regardless of its start time is with seconds. There is no such thing as a well defined duration for any other unit of time.
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It's a problem when society keeps telling people that the only job of companies is to increase shareholder value. Recently there have been more and more people pointing out what a stupid idea it really is [0], but there are still a lot of companies focusing way too much on shareholder value to the exclusion of all other values, and there are still people repeating this harmful mantra.

Companies that only care about shareholder value run the risk of becoming parasites preying on society, looking for any way to extract value from society.

A healthy company should balance the needs of their shareholders, their employees, their customers, and society at large. Only if you balance those 4 concerns can you have a healthy, sustainable business that's a boon to society rather than a bane.

[0] Example: https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2017/07/17/making-...
>Parity with this basket of currencies will be reached via a redemption mechanism similar to other stablecoins such as Tether

So.. no reliable way to actually get your monopoly money into USD? at least they don't falsely claim to have the USD sitting in a bank, that's a start i guess.
If everything looks the same, experts' code looks just as bad as novices' code. If you omit every feature that novices can't figure out how to use, what you're left with is a weaker tool that doesn't give as much leverage as it could have. I want more powerful languages for harder problems, where getting better pays off in clarity and reliability.
FWIW, I'm very familiar with Plaid as I've worked in several FinTech startups using Plaid for various reasons. If you simply want to revoke Plaid's access all you need to do is change your bank password. Of course, all past data will live on in Plaid. If you're a EU user, you can request to have your data removed. Curious what their response might be if you're not in the EU. Hate to be cynical, but I bet they'll ignore you as is all too common for customer service these days.
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You're right I have noticed that in all the developer interviews. I was speaking more to the marketing to consumers. It still has the same value proposition and brand as it has all this time.

It might be what the market really wants, or they might lag behind.
That just shifts the question to whether Friedman was a libertarian. This is certainly not a consensual opinion in that camp.
It's not "distorted" at all!

At +1.5 C, they're predicting that "only" 350.2 million more people will be exposed to severe drought compared to the baseline period. That's exactly what Watts says.

What do you think is distorted? You're mad that he didn't mention the ±158.8 million error bars on that estimate?

I feel like I'm talking to a crazy person here -- how do you read the exact same text and see "distortion" when it literally restates the same thing the dry scientific prose says.
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Non-Euclidean Geometry and Games
Please. John Carmack did that and then he spent ages trying to teach people about the process of development. Everyone assumed that he was just a greedy bastard who didn't want to hire people so he could keep the money for himself and if he wanted to give them the game faster he'd just hire more developers.

I'm pretty sure I read a plan file from the '90s where he wrote a massive screed against this Mythical Man Month shit. And this was John Carmack, actual mythic hero. No name game developer will get super shit on.
to clarify, "advance" in "forward", not to develop or grow

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Chen Xin is selected to represent the will of the mankind (or she would've been purged quickly after showing the inabilities) so the character should be thin in this sense, which reflects the very opposite character, `Thomas Wade`.

So I understand the story as, that humanity chose to destroy itself in honor of what they value.
I cannot say just how much this resonates with me.

I've had similar experiences in the past of successful "learning binge" by making something daily, but never for a sustained period of more than a month.

Desire having considered doing it all again in public, posting my progress on GitHub maybe, I am now weirdly hesitant to even apply for this free service which enables me to do just that!

I think it's the fear of commitment.
May be soon but not today.

But congratulations on successfully rolling out the first version of this awesome tool. All the best for iterations!
I think we don't have to go to cryptocurrencies to see that these punishments are severly needed. Just look at the weekly scandals of "disruptive" new startup banks, people's financials deserve a few governmental protections and if the middlemen are shitty at their job (due to malice or mere incompetence) they deserve a little punishment here or there.

I get that this type of oversight is likely against some philosophical POV here but it's not like middlemen making money is an all-to-great and solitary goal a society should try to defend.
An important factor that often gets left out when discussing different types of government is the level of development of a country. A centrally powerful government has some perks that makes rapid industrialization possible. Where as a democracy might be good if a country is wealthy and its citizens educated. South Korea and Singapore are the only countries that went from impoverished to developed, and both were under authoritarian government when the rapid industrialization happened. You can also look at China and India, both started at comparable levels of development in the 70s but now one economy is 5 times the other
> some people are more equal than others

is what you get in naked or even non-naked capitalism.

> you need to know somebody in the party to get a good flat

The SED dictatorship has been abolished 30 years ago. We don't have much of a corruption problem.
Freedom of speech refers to the government not being able to infringe those rights. It says nothing about freedom of consequences for one’s shitty beliefs from prospective employers.
This is true of most blockchains though, if a majority of nodes are blocking an address, the coins can't be transferred. Granted, this is more likely to happen with tiny consortiums like Libra.

Do you know how would this work in Libra's case in practice? Would there need to be a super majority to block a given address? I guess the government could force the whole consortium to block an address though.

On the other hand, the government could also use anti-terrorism law to force coinbase and any legal exchanges to ban a certain bitcoin address and any movement from this address. Coinbase already banned all people sending coins to sites such as the dailystormer for example. While this was a private initiative, the government could pass a law to ban people and businesses from sending bitcoins to Iran for example. Hard to enforce I know but scary enough to be problematic (see war on drugs for example).
I laughed, but you're right, I'm sure the state of emergency measures are still there in some form, since you never know when they might be needed. I always thought such a thing would be fairly clear cut, but possibly state of emergency is the only way Brexit is going through...

Still that veneer of civility and rule of law is important, however artificial it sometimes seems. Democracy is all too fragile. I remember the nuclear war programme Threads, and the documentary at the same time - possibly Panorama - where some petty bureaucrat or councillor was positively itching for Armageddon to happen just so he could start shooting people. I think he only had a very minor place in the emergency hierarchy. It was his answer for every disagreement - shoot them - he must have mentioned it a dozen times!

See you in camp... :)
I think libertarians mostly view UBI the same way leftists view things like laws enforcing collective bargaining. Some support it as an improvement of the status quo, others oppose it because it gets us no closer to their actual goal.
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> I don't know, I've always liked the "if you have money, you can buy it" part of capitalism.

I, too, like it when a group a part of gets privileges.
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A CC308 from AliExpress is one of the cheapest options at less than $7.
Absolutely! It optimizes around the rules we place on it. That's why this idea of 'free' capitalism that is popular in some circles is terrible. We tried it and it worked worse than dictatorial communism.

What we need to do is to update the rules of Capitalism to internalize the externalities. Make carbon expensive. Make environmental destruction expensive. Make exploiting labor expensive.

Do that and you'll see extremely rapid changes for the good. Only it will never happen because the people and countries currently profiting from coal / oil will fight it with the enormous $$ they have (and they are; people like the Koch brothers are always babbling on about how the government is run by a shadow 'deep state' - that's clearly true, and they're clearly being greased by oil money).
Visa and mastercard are already banning people left and right, it is not a transfer of power though. They're working hand in hand with the government, when the US government got mad at Wikileaks during the Obama administration, visa, paypal and mastercard banned them without blinking after the government asked them to I guess.
“On Writing” is a wonderful book. If you’re Stephen King, plot and structure run through your veins. If you’re a mortal like the rest of us and “seat of the pants” isn’t working...then outline. Outlining also saves you from having to randomly kill off half your characters in the middle of the book because there’s no way to wind down all their storylines...

I’ll also add that anecdotally, my writer friends who outline go through far fewer revisions than those that don’t.

If your process works, don’t mess with it.
Any time you're showing more precision than your inputs or calculations can provide, you're lying to your users.
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I don't think Isaac Newton lived in a free society, and so did many truly ground breaking folks. I'd argue the odd of producing these figuers is more to do with the population. I'm a fan of Steve Jobs but he is not in that league.
Being built already: https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=128978...
I actually like BitSensor's website. What specifically would you say makes you choose Sqreen over Bitsensor?
Games are so high quality these days, but gamers are insufferable. I can't read any content about games any more because it's hysterical children screaming at the top of their voice about some inconsequential difference from some concept video.
Look, my point is much simpler than that. What the over-corporatized, commercialized "Pride parade" meme is doing is explicitly erasing the very real distinctions between pride and dignity/honor on the one hand, as well as shame and modesty on the other. No other social/political movement is doing that, whether involving marginalized people or not[1]; so no, one can't simply assert that "Pride is just social/political affirmation" and leave it at that; this is simply not what's going on. Is this really what we want as a society? That's quite arguable to say the least!

[1] (And since the most basic way of countering social marginalization is to build up social capital, the "pride" attitude is something that, as a matter of fact, is directly detrimental to this goal. "Pride" is bad precisely because it corrupts and destroys social capital as much as shame does!)
I spend anywhere from a few days to a few weeks working on an outline. This is while doing other things.
Nonsense. Maybe you haven’t noticed, but there’s an entire industry of “tech interview test prep” that exists solely to coach candidates to answer these ridiculous questions. Any signal you might have once detected from trivia like this has now been thoroughly gamed.

What you’re doing here is arguing a truism: any candidate who memorizes the answer to the shibboleth is better than the ones who don’t, because it makes you happier that they memorized the shibboleth.
It reminds me of nassim taleb's "lecturing birds how to fly"
$ snap info firefox

...

channels:

stable: 67.0.3-1 2019-06-18 (230) 221MB -

It is already available to use.
> Show me cars built on that new base driving on the street

Sure.

Audi e-Tron: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uHlohyKLlQ

Audi e-Tron GT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvNw15W_EK8

Porsche Taycan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrVkOQojN4Y

VW ID Neo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2Tqw9LX3QE

> and I'm fine with it

I don't think it matters if you're fine with it or not.
The problem is that the PRC is going for an authoritarian ethnostate, and I think this a reasonable system to have in the global "marketplace of ideas", but at the same time they refuse to give up non-Han territories like Xinjiang that don't fit into this equation at all.

Also, the CCP won't leave people alone who leave China for more attractive systems. They're hardly interested in a competition of systems.
Thank you for sharing this! Shared it with my wife over breakfast.
GraphQL Pagination in Rails
Headroom has nothing to do with sampling frequency (bit depth do). But it has been explained here already.

While you're absolutely right that listening to stuff at 96khz is pointless, it's worth noting that these high sampling frequencies are useful for other audio applications that are not on the consumer side (like recording, mixing, instruments sampling, and more).
I wish it were true but EA is still making bank while disrespecting customers, everybody complains yet still buy. Same with Facebook. Same with politicians.

A small group of smart people on the internet may do a lot of noise, but it just echoes in the void then it's business as usual.
Same thing in Scandinavia, but it's a cooperation between banks. Know someones phone number? Open the app "Swish" and send him money.
In the context of the calculator, you already know the start and end times, and it shows the duration in terms of days (which is unambiguous given that we know the interval when the duration takes place). I think that it's clear that the duration in terms of months, weeks and hours is there just to put it in more easily graspable terms, at the expense of precision.
You're talking about early access. Greenlight was just a community based moderation process to allow anyone to submit their game without depending on a well known publisher. A greenlit game doesn't have to be in early access. Nothing prevents someone from submitting a completed game.
The problem is that he's not wrong, and I really do see this as a massive problem, he wouldn't even be wrong if the word "Chinese" would be replaced by most Western demonyms. It's a straight-forward, honest, and well-reasoned position. It's also despotic and dystopian.

The issue I see for the future of the entire industrialized world is that this particular brand of consumerized dictatorship is based on the lessons of hundreds of years of failed regimes, and in an evolutionary effect it seems "we" have now come up with a system that is both stable and totalitarian. It's an emerging system for the whole world, and the fact that no human on the entire planet can escape it without losing access to everything they care about, only enhances its stability.

This system is precisely tuned to offer us just enough so we do not mind what's being taken away. I'm personally no exception to this: I want a high standard of life and security as well. I want the luxuries afforded by consumer electronics and high technology. Through technology and international connectivity, I have more options for meaningful social interactions than ever before. The prospect of losing access to any of that if I ever act up against the system is a powerful mechanism that keeps me in line. Not that I ever brush up against the boundaries, mind you, because the system is well designed to appeal to my need for perceived autonomy: as long as I keep my head down, I'll be left alone.

Right now, in the West, the price of reasonable dissent is not very high. Yet. But you can already feel the thousands of little mechanisms working to discourage it. When I became active in protesting against the EU copyright reform, my first attempt at being political in decades, the game was so thoroughly rigged that I'll probably refrain from attempting to change the official narrative in the foreseeable future. Had protesting been actively discouraged by the government, I'm a bit ashamed to admit, I would probably not have shown up at all.

I'm struck by our collective inability to come up with a good alternative to this system. It seems to me this system is evolving on its own, and that development is synchronous world-wide. Sure, it's appealing to the powerful, who actively push it. But that's not what's driving it. I suspect it's the collective human spirit.
Germany? Japan? Taiwan?
Weight, breakage, flexibility and space constraints for dishes are much different
Sorry, but this does not make sense in the way you intended. Your 42.1 km/s escape velocity "from earth" is the velocity you need, relative to the sun, at earth's orbital distance from the sun, to escape from the solar system [1].

As you get farther away from the center of gravity, your speed gradually slows down and reaches zero at infinity [2].

So your maximum amount of time for interstellar travel calculation is flawed and underestimates travel time by assumedly few orders of magnitude.

[1] https://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Solar+System+Esc...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_velocity
May I digress a little. Anyone familiar with micro and nano filtration ? I wonder if there's progress there (cost, technique)
It only now dawned on my why Digital Ocean's VMs[1] are called droplets...

[1] not 100% if that's what they are.
First rule, that's what I thought and I declined his offer.

You won't believe his arrogance. He replies "This wasn't an offer"

I was planning to publish on Kindle but I'm not sure how to market the book.

Do you know perchance how to market Kindle books? I read that 99% authors don't market their books.

I want to be among the 1%!
> Relatively uncritical acceptance that their country is the good guys

Were we reading the same books? With all the Cultural Revolution trauma in Three Body Problem?

That is the only one of the three I've read, but to me a huge theme was information control. The cultural revolution as the historical event, and the single-particle invasion fleet interfering with humanity's science as the futuristic event. Both analogies for each other. And the ambivalent question underlying it of "what if this is necessary for survival"?
So what would you do besides adapt during the period between now and when we have the technology to stop emissions?
I have. But I'm still researching how to market the books. I have 0 experience of marketing of a book
Actually, I'd estimate that it's for use on decorative mugs, coffee containers, and the rims of sets of glassware, stuff like that.

I don't think they'd dump that much on gold leaf or flake pigment for disposable items. It's more likely for durable, reusable kitchen items, where non-corroding gold surface lends practical utility to consumer facing goods.

Either that, or there's a trade secret in their large scale industrial processes, that demands an amount of gold plated hardware to withstand amounts of heat and corrosion to protect flavor or some other quality control measure.
The most amazing part about this is that regardless of how much more details one would want to put into it, it is probably practically infeasible to make it complete. It's a wonderful example to demonstrate the importance of the concept of abstraction in CS.
I heard about that story as well. Must be reported on byte.
unexpected downtime is unfortunately not planned to be 'out-of-hours' or over weekends. Made more complicated that if it's globally, it's almost never entirely 'out-of-hours' for everyone.
It had a fairly major resurgence after the "forsaken" expansion was released. Judging by the size and activity level of the two separate subreddits dedicated to it totaled together, quite a lot of people.
Sure, you could just stop development,
but then you're just wasting 6 months
you could be spending making the game
better.

I think if people agreed that in every case the released game was strictly better than the E3 demo, that would not be controversial.

Seems to me the problem is more when people feel the opposite is happening?