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Do you know what telemetry is an what it is used for?

The reason I ask is because if telemetry is off by default it is useless.

As long as they are trustworthy and up front about it and makes it easy to disable it this is ok with me.

A relevant question then is you find Mozilla trustworthy. I cannot give you an easy answer to that.
https://youtu.be/1ee-cHbCI0s
And this is part of what I think people don't contribute to luck. There's many forms of luck. But I wouldn't say everything is attributed to it. But at the same time it would be naive to ignore it.
This is an interesting assertion. Aside from JavaScript from the browser, which is tied to HTTP, what language can't use a TCP interface but can use an HTTP one?
Alternatively, here's an open source terminal for windows that I really enjoy:

https://github.com/Eugeny/terminus/
Lots of studies show that people who are sleep deprived are just as bad with judgement.
Wearing earplugs regularly isn't a solution, it's a sound bite and you know it. Just say you think peace doesn't actually matter.
I agree with this. The question of free will existing or not is not an important question. An interesting one, but at the same time the answer isn't really meaningful.

If we find free will exists, well we continue with the way we have been going. If we find that it doesn't, well we don't change anything because we don't have free will. (Honestly I believe there is middle ground to this question. That some people can exert more free will than others but that you can also train this behavior. But that's another discussion. If this is true, I do find this a meaningful answer though)
Balanced ventilation (not sure what the English term is) is standard these days and recovers about 90% of the energy (heats air going in using the air going out). I have one at home.

Dont know if they have one set up, but they could. But possibly the sun already warms it enough even in winter that it is not needed even with natural ventilation.
GNU MediaGoblin started as a photo-sharing system (a flickr alternative, I suppose) but has support for 3D models and a plugin system for other file types. It seems like adding support for STL and so on would be within the project's goals.
There is a reproducibility crisis in psychological research. The main reason for this is that the experimental methods they use are not robust (although they might be rigorous). A second reason for this crisis is that the things they are measuring are often hard to actually define (eg is there a definition of 'conservative views' that we can all agree on, and does any such categorization in an experiment really mirror external reality?).

In reality what happened with the first paper is the editors of the journal sent it out for review, and whoever reviewed it was happy that it met the methodological standards considered sufficient at the time. This is not the same as being happy that it was true. You might consider that 'messed up' (and you are right, it is messed up), but that was how the sausage was made in psychology research in 2008. There is no galactic council that imposes standards of evidence in a journal. They rely on the reviewers, and the reviewers are active researchers in the field.

As an aside, publication in a top journal is not a guarantee that results are water tight, and should never be considered as such. If you want to believe a result, you need to read the paper and think about it carefully. Even then, this approach is susceptible to outright fraud, which also does happen.
I still despise the Dock. I even figured out how to hack it to make it invisible so I could use DragThing instead. Over time those hacks stopped working and DragThing ceased to exist (or at least I think it did) so now I just live with the stupid Dock. Thanks Apple.
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I am surprised this doesn't happen more often.
IEX API, for example.
Younger people suffer from the Dunning Kruger effect. I had strong opinions about a wide range of things in my 20s. As I aged, I became very good at a few things and in doing so, I became less sure of my convictions on most matters. In some cases, I completely reversed my beliefs.

That's not brain damage; it's the realization that there is a near-infinite amount to know about any given subject, and that the world can be a much more deceptive and deeper place than we're taught about in school. As you become really good at a few things, you realize the same depth exists in all subject matter, and that if you are coming to strong conclusions based on cursory knowledge, you are probably also an idiot.

You might call it wisdom...
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It does look like neither are needed if you pipe a file in jq, but `jq . file.json` requires the `.` and if you're pipeing into a pager, like less, you need both `.` and `-C` to get colored output (that was the case with the alias I had pulled up). I am using 1.5 and haven't looked to see if 1.6 changes this.
No one should be a billionaire
London to the major western European cities is 1-3 hours and quite busy.
They're a spy agency, they're presumably capable of not signing their work.
I believe very much so the opposite.

The human mind is very, very malleable. Growth and change are not just possible but inevitable.
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Wolfe is terrific, and terrifically underrated. Some of his efforts I find unreadable ("The Knight", "The Wizard Knight") and some banal, but when he's good, he's really good. "There Are Doors" is my personal favourite - low key, complex and affecting. The Book of the New Sun is probably the most famous (and deservedly so) and it also bears rereading.

Just as pleasing is the fact that the Book of the New Sun is a rather cryptic callout to Jack Vance's Dying Earth, which shows great taste.
> In the case of microservices, the cost is automation overhead, deployment overhead, and runtime overhead.

Having just migrated a software to AWS, and seeing other project being re-engineered as lambdas, I can only related to this.
Making Methanol from electricity is not too hard. You can also make a kind of diesel with electricity as energy source. These processes have fairly terrible efficiency of course, compared to batteries, but are useful for applications where you absolutely need high energy density fuels.
If there's one thing I've learned over the years is that there is no correlation between being a programmer and following the scientific method or not being prone to fallacies. A lot of programmers go with their hunches when it's inappropriate.
It's a two line Makefile.
I was merely highlighting the convenience of a HTTP based RESTish API. It will be a familiar pattern instead of a custom text based protocol over tcp.
“If a journal publishes a result, they are ethically obligated to publish further work that refutes that result.”

Too general. Few in science would accept this. The claim here is the weaker one that journals are ethically obliged to accept failed replication studies - and even that is non-obvious to me. (Should Science also be obliged to accept _successful_ replications? No? So it should accept papers on the basis solely of the results? Hello, publication bias.)
Oh I see what you meant now - I've mostly seen people being super-excited about their new typesystem JATO rockets.

My own theory is that we likely underestimate how much of this might just be fashion. I don't mean this dismissively or to suggest that the mood swings over typing in the last 20-odd years have been without technical basis or impetus. Just that, you know, at some point people liked bellbottoms or Members Only jackets and later they didn't.
He served in the US armed forces. Check out his origin story
this kind of stuff belongs into #iam14andthisisdeep
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I'm sorry, I honestly didn't consider this flamewar material, and certainly wasn't trying to ignite one. As a I described in my comment, I think it is a trend. I'm not trying to suggest that everyone in a generation thinks and acts the same way.
He was also tortured by the military and given his metal skeleton and claws against his will, killed people to escape iirc, etc. He hates the people who did that to him and understandably has a chip on his shoulder a mile wide.
I see. I doubt that behavior has changed, then.

`-C` would be required when piping because most of the time (with the exception of piping into less) when stdout is not a terminal, it doesn't make sense to include terminal color escape sequences. You'd end up with those codes in your files, and grep would be looking at them for matches, for example.

`.` would be required when passing the file as an argument instead of stdin, because jq interprets the first argument as jq-code. If you don't include `.` it would interpret the filename as jq-code.
Most of these discussions I see, at least on HN, seem to understand efficiency. Yeah, a lot of fuel goes into heat and not into power for the engine. People understand that. But another thing that many people don't, is that heating isn't wasted energy. It is reclaimed for heating the cabin and deicing. Which icing is a HUGE problem on aircraft. Heating is also fairly power intensive.

But still, until we get into that efficiency range of batteries vs direct power of jet fuel, it is far from solved. But like you mention with greenhouse gasses, it does have to be solved. I have yet to see anyone here that is doubtful that electric aircraft will exist. I just see people (at least on HN) that are either bearish or bullish. But don't be hostile to people that are being bearish. We need both camps.
If they feel like calling themselves engineers, then they must know this stuff, as it is part of any proper engineering degree.

Now if they followed other path into programming, then by all means.
I've seen this play out a few times recently in NIST standards/"guidelines" or other protocols since Dual_EC_DRBG and have the opinion that there's two very opposed competing forces within not just the NSA but other agencies in general. There's plenty of publicly employed individuals who work hard to secure stuff properly, it's their entire remit. While I disagree with the pervasive surveillance state the west is creating for itself, this is not a terrible situation to have and I wish those fighting the good fight all the best.

It's for the rest of the us to work out who is who though! Cryptographers seem to be suitably aware though.
> Younger people suffer from the Dunning Kruger effect. I had strong opinions about a wide range of things in my 20s. As I aged, I became very good at a few things and in doing so, I became less sure of my convictions on most matters.

You aren't describing the Dunning-Kruger effect. Essentially, D-K can be summarized as "people's opinion of their own relative confidence tends to be drawn toward the 70th percentile, with those whose actual competence is lower being overconfident and those whose competence is higher being underconfident."

You seem to be describing the popular misconception of D-K as if it were the actual D-K effect, that is, that the least competent were not merely the most overconfident but actually the most confident -- the idea that those who think they are very competent are actual the most incompetent. Whereas in the actual D-K effect, those who have the highest opinion of their own competence are actually even farther above average than their self-image suggests.
Doesn't Captain America specifically question the authority and morality of the state, and their own Avengers initiative? Doesn't Tony Stark dismantle his father's arms company? I wouldn't say the military industrial complex is just presented as some kind of unwaveringly benevolent entity.
What about software? I can't think of a single piece of Japanese software I use as part of my everyday, core compute kit.
This is a real problem on your team and it needs to be fixed, likely from several angles.

For Bill, at a minimum he needs an honest conversation regarding his impact on the rest of the team. If he's accomplishing his work but dragging everyone else down then he's not really being a net-positive member of the team. Bill needs to understand his impact and either work more, work remotely, or pick some side projects / technical investigations to keep himself busy. If he's that good, then part of his job is teaching and setting and example for others on the team.

Second, everyone else on the team needs to know the score. I've found that it's tremendously helpful for junior devs to understand that people on the team are not treated equally. "See Bill? He turns in great work and thus gets to work remotely / leave early / etc. He's been super consistent for a long time. You don't get to do that, because you haven't proven yourself yet. I expect X, Y, and Z from you. If you start turning in super-star work like Bill over a period of time, then you get special consideration too." I've had this conversation a number of times before, and the recipients were always very receptive because now they understand the rules.
arpwatch worked pretty flawlessly when I needed something like that

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arpwatch
The recent renaissance in Chinese (and Chinese-American) Science Fiction has been incredible, and as the article mentions, much of this work is a tool of "subtle dissent". I've been surprised as to how much Mainland authors have been "getting away" with. An excellent example is Hao Jingfang's "Folding Beijing", which is a wonderful critique of contemporary (Chinese) society. Ken Liu's translation is freely available here: https://uncannymagazine.com/article/folding-beijing-2/

Translating monumental works like The Wandering Earth or even the full trilogy of the Three-Body Problem to the screen is already a tremendously challenging undertaking. Adding on top of that institutional problems within the Chinese film industry, the desire to cash in and popularize these works with spectacular but superficial treatments (e.g. "The Wandering Earth" movie), and the heightened level of censorship that movies must undergo, and I don't have much hope for film adaptations of these books.

The best Chinese/Chinese-American production I've seen of late is the "Good Hunting" episode of "Love, Death & Robots" on Netflix, based on the short story of the same name by Ken Liu. Although the story is in part anti-colonial, I seriously doubt the story would have survived intact and be as well made if it were made in the Mainland. ("Good Hunting": http://strangehorizons.com/fund_drives/2012/special-issue-hu...)
I find it useful when I don't know what the json schema is.
Then you can just do a quick gron + grep and find where the interesting parts of a large json document are.
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How could it be wrong in a 'normal sort of way', though?

The type signature is the rule of law that allows you to normally pass safe pieces of memory between two systems. If you define it badly, what exactly is supposed to catch this and tell you that it's wrong?

Is the compiler supposed to speak both languages, and be able to disassemble whatever object code it's given when linking to attempt to determine if the signature is valid?
Trust me, I am informed on that topic.

And I am all for a green Energy base.
And there are countless other options than just methan or hydrogen for storing energy around or in develepoment.

But it is still hard and expensive. Did you factor in redesigning of the energy grid? Renewables need much more flex .. the current system is designed for huge plants, giving constant energy, not many small ones fluctating.
Did you factor in, replacing all gasoline engine in cars?
Did you factor in designing and replacing airplane engines? (And with what, running then on hydrogen? maybe. Would be awesome, but the tech does not exist yet)

And even if we achieve 100 renewable ... there are still lots of industrial processes that release CO2, like concrete production, that reaching preindustrial CO2 levels is a very, very hard and therefore expensive challenge. So maybe be careful with your claims.
Or when dealing with heinous criminals. Imagining that if I were unlucky enough to be born with that DNA into that family in that location and lived those experiences I most likely would have committed the same terrible acts. So while I see value in perhaps protecting broader society from them by doing things like imprisoning them, I am less likely to dehumanize them. By random luck it was them and not me.

But if someone is just a monster who makes evil decisions, then they can simply be disposed of like trash. They aren't like me, I make good decisions.

Maybe you have abusive parents. If you can imagine that if you'd had exactly their DNA and life experiences, you too would be abusive. This is helpful in forgiving them, which is an important part of recovery. Protect yourself from future damage, but allow yourself to move on.

Of course in practical terms this means I find it useful to pretend as if I have free will but others do not.
Intellectual conservativism was destroyed from the right. Incoherent anger politics turned out to be far more effective at getting the voters.

Edit: meanwhile in Oregon the conservatives have fled to break a quorum rule and are issuing press releases with armed anti-government groups. As the Maoists discovered, who needs intellectuals when you have guns and slogans?
Here’s one example. Though it’s probably different from what you had in mind

https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0408370
> in the left-hand lane with the left edge of the freeway marked with 2-foot-high white concrete barriers, it felt like it wanted to go into them. But that might just have been the car trying to drive “properly” in the center of the lane, while I tend to hug the right side in those situations

I do this too. It is actually really good at holding the lane center, probably better than I am unless I'm really focused. But, it is more serene about the barrier than I am so sometimes I'll flinch away and end up driving again.

I was really impressed in the heavy rains we had a few weeks ago. At night in the storm I could barely make out the lanes but the car had a solid picture of not just my lane but the adjacent lanes as well. What ever filtering they are doing is impressive.
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That's a different question though. The people were asked if they considered it safe in general. They were not in a situation when they were sleep deprived (hopefully).
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Yeah, same here. When it's -10 C or less in the winter, relative humidity can drop to 15%. Because we have a standard heat-exchanger HRV. The rotating-filter ones do manage humidity, but they also tend to freeze up if indoor humidity goes too high.

So we end up using an aerosol humidifier in the winter, and AC plus a dehumidifier in the summer.
It's a nice description, but what was the wealth distribution in the 1920s in USA?
Yep. Not a promise by any understanding of the word. He’s just saying what he thinks.
> [...] but especially emulation which is already complex and going to push hardware.

Wine stands for "Wine Is Not an Emulator". It's a compatibility layer.
> Balanced ventilation (not sure what the English term is)

Heat exchanger: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_exchanger#HVAC_air_coils
Both cases are the same.

Alice sends Bob an email and Bob then shares it with an evil 3rd party spell check extension... Alice's privacy has now been breached without her consent.

Alice posts her contact info to her wall, and her friend Bob (who has read access) shares it with a third party (Cambridge Analytica). Alice's privacy has now been breached without her consent.

Cambridge analytica collected the bulk of their private data with the consent of a friend of the victim.
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All very amusing, except that it no longer works.
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Video of the lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OW-atKrg0T4
I wouldn't say :the most: demanding, but I'd enjoy hearing what you think is easy about driving some of the fastest land vehicles ever created vs the best drivers in the world, with your life (and no small amount of money) at stake?
This BBC article brought up point on the topic that I wouldn't have thought of:

How to solve the plastic packaging paradox https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-47161379

tldr: there are environment arguments _for_ plastic wrap (besides just cost). An ideal solution would keep these advantages.

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It also seems like packaging is broader than sustainable food. And that packaging can be used less or avoided by buying less processed food and more local food.
Tesla recently did an accidents/mile comparison of their own cars with Autopilot engaged vs not engaged and found a noticeable decrease in accident rates for Autopilot driving compared to manual driving.

Some of that difference could be accounted for in the types of miles customers choose to activate autopilot on vs drive manually, but it's certainly a positive sign.
>You can do the same thing in ada.

I wouldn't know how GNAT behaves in this case, but I figure it would at the least be much harder to do by mistake, as has been done with C for years.

>Instead of using the Fortran_Character type defined in Interfaces.Fortran you could just define your own that does not follow Fortran's string calling convention.

The Ada compiler is aware of what's being done when you interface with another language. You must tell it how the procedure is from a different language and you're also able to specify the representation of Ada data types to conform. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that GNAT is capable of checking on the Fortran side of things as well, for interfacing like this.

>Is that a language problem with ada? That's all the C programmers did here.

I don't believe Ada has this issue, but I'd wager it at the least makes it harder to make. In any case, I have no personal experience interfacing Ada with Fortran.

My point, however, is that this is a very common issue with C programming, where people don't know what they're doing and things break constantly. The C language is not designed for interfacing with other languages, in part because it wasn't designed much at all.
> Fiat currency inflates and is subject to the whims of government.

Cryptocurrencies have proven to be subject to the whims of the masses, shooting up in value (at least in part) because of speculation. At least fiat money backed by governments try to keep them stable (in general).
I find the explanations more clear than other such courses. The examples are simple, sets and graphs, something that programmers can easily understand.
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I'm glad that others have mentioned regression toward the mean https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regression_toward_the_mean but this article also suffers from fundamental attribution error https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_attribution_error. Society identifies brilliant people by brilliant outcomes, but this is a flawed implication: brilliant outcomes can happen to anyone, and brilliant people might never have a brilliant outcome.
Just don't trust anything published in Science or Nature until it's been replicated by independent researchers.

The same is true of all studies, but for some reason people lose their critical faculties when considering work published in the "top" journals.
There is also Groonga:

https://github.com/groonga/groonga

But this looks like it intends to be a lot simpler.