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I would highly recommend this channel Coding Train on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/user/shiffman/

The instructor Daniel Shiffman explains coding from the ground up and is easy to follow along.
The kids can use the web based editor http://editor.p5js.org/ and all you need is a browser.
This is usable from a tablet but using any laptop or desktop will provide a better experience.

Start with the playlist Coding with P5.js
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRqwX-V7Uu6Zy51Q-x9tM...

This channel starts with the basics and goes all the way to machine learning !!!
I didn't specify a government. The same holds true for most western countries. We have fairly global neoliberalism.
For what I have understood, the issue is that the bill is a loophole in which they can essentially indict a individual with dubious charges until they fullfill the threshold, and then absorb him into mainland China, at which point he's outside any legal guarantee and the real trial can begin.
It's time to talk about Algorithmic Transparency
It’s hard for a govt to stop bitcoin from being used for money laundering but when it’s a small number of mega corps validating transactions + the price stability and privacy features I’m wondering how exactly they will stop money launderers or terrorist financiers from using Libra to thwart traditional bank AML triggers?
I remember that gaming center! The Oxford Valley Mall has definitely lost some luster since the 90s, but yeah, these photos are painting a bleaker picture than reality.

I mean, half of Levittown, PA is part of the Pennsbury School District, home of "The Best Prom in America" (https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2018/04/23/be...).
Well I get that shit happens, but what is strange about these recent google incidents is actual downtime. 5 hours for google cloud, and almost 1 hour already for calendar.

I thought google can do better.
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Apparently I'm in the minority together with OP but I agree that storing dates as UTC is good advice.

What most repliers seem to have overlooked is that OP is saying that timezones should be used for presentation. Maybe it was not clear, but that also means they should be used for input conversion. But once the dates have to be used by the business logic of your system, you really want to prevent the headaches you will get when you have to deal with timezone transformations everywhere. That really adds a ton of complexity, is easy to overlook and above all an error in timezone conversion can go undetected for a long time.
To me this seems ideal - you can already get IMAP-in-Postgres through lots of mail servers, it just takes more work to set up. Whereas sqlite is a strict upgrade compared to using mbox or maildir for people using a local filesystem (not NFS) while still requiring no setup.
I think the problem with brine salinity is that it’s dumped in concentrated areas which might be teeming with sea life. If they evaporated it and dumped huge salt blocks in ocean deserts it could have less impact on marine life.
Nah, you're remembering correctly, this happened. The failure icon was hosted on S3, but S3 was down. It was a great moment.

Here's their tweet about it: https://twitter.com/awscloud/status/836656664635846656
No retailer has to accept anything. I can set up a shop in London that only accepts Scottish banknotes and not English ones. Or that only accepts Mexican Pesos or Bitcoin for that matter.

From the Royal Mint's website:

> Legal tender has a very narrow and technical meaning in the settlement of debts. [...] It does not mean that any ordinary transaction has to take place in legal tender or only within the amount denominated by the legislation. Both parties are free to agree to accept any form of payment whether legal tender or otherwise according to their wishes.
I agree with your perspective on this, as hard as it can be to admit.
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In a somewhat troubled company I worked at, and where I honestly stayed a bit too long, I once resorted to writing a prototype, in bash, and in the most idiosyncratic way possible with two goals in mind:

1) Make sure that I didn't have to handle some messy deployment when it inevitably would become rebranded to production code.

2) Make sure nobody in their right mind would try to extend the functionality and keep me responsible for fixing the inevitable wreck.

Obviously it was put into production, still is, and has not been extended with anything except the initial functionality.

I don't know if that counts as a success or a failure, but at least deployment was never an issue!
It can still be "open, borderless" though.

I can't use Venmo. Even if I would like to, I simply can't.

I can have a Libra wallet though and even if Visa, Mastercard, Paypal and Stripe decide that my market isn't big enough to sell me some Libra directly, I can still have that wallet and find others means to fill it.

That fit both the open and borderless nature of it.

I'm not saying it will be cheap, and surely filling it would require an intermediary (like in every single others cases), but at least that intermediary can be anyone that have a Libra wallet. That person could simply be someone that does wire transfer to someone that can purchase Libra, don't care, but it's now possible.

Sure having them behind make it not possible to be "neutral, censorship-resistant, and public", but at the end of the day, does it matters to me that just want to pay? Nope. Would it matter to me if I want to give money to Wikileak, sure most probably, but that's not why I want it. Like you said, that's not its purpose.
tbf, its less about being actually worried about Pakistan (we are a little) but its more about gaining public support and hence votes due to it.
Yeah, I prefer IRC too. I ended up shutting down all my IRC servers. Most folks moved to Discord/Slack and it just wasn't worth the effort to maintain them for my use case.

I only suggest murmur / mumble because they are super east to set up.
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How much time does the US spend arguing over relatively minor (in the grand scheme of things) issues like immigration, Presidential dignity, and campus political correctness?

All the while, even the DNC refuses to hold a climate change debate to figure out how candidates are approaching the biggest existential threat we face now.

Unfortunately humanity isn't good at facing long term issues that require serious sacrifice and collective action.
The Soviet design bureaus certainly had their irrationalities. They behaved like big, vertically-integrated companies, and preferred 'their' stuff over the other design bureaus' stuff.

Soviet gear was robust because robustness and repairability was priorities as a design criterion. It's not an automatic product of how they doled out work, or of their defense industry generally.
I still can't figure out exactly what design decisions you disagree with, but it sounds like you're objecting to the lack of GC or memory safety. There are some applications for which GC is not appropriate. Maybe you don't work on any of those applications. That's fine, but that's very different from saying Rust is overly complicated.
Increasing the value would cause problems. If the remote end says its MSS is 512 octets, either it doesn't have enough memory to receive larger packets, or its link MTU is small enough that larger packets will always get dropped.
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Ultimately it depends on how frictionless it is to convert it back to dollars, pounds, euros, etc. This has always been an issue for bitcoin. When I first heard about bitcoin, one bitcoin was worth less than a US dollar. I was curious so I tried to buy $50 worth, but the process was so convoluted and difficult I didn't bother. Today its much easier, but not completely so. But much of the difficulty then, and I presume now, was the distrust of banks. The key vendor on their list of supporters is PayPal (IMO). Paypal is in a position to make currency conversion painless for most users. Maybe in the future there will be enough places that accept this new currency that people can keep their money in that form but initially its all about easy conversion.
If the team puts in place a code formatter/linter tool there won't be bikeshedding for them either. If they're happy to let google format their Go code they can let google format their Java code too: https://github.com/google/google-java-format
Every mortal may be ousted from their offices; the wisest will provide a peaceful means for doing so.

As Zuckerberg has obviated any lawful means of removing him, by structuring the stock classes such that he holds the majority of votes, he should probably hire more personal security. If he's going to be someone that's completely unaccountable for his actions as head of the company from within the accepted structures, he should anticipate that someone will try to go outside those structures to get to him.

Ordinary people protect themselves from such attacks by not being untouchable jerkwads. He has already left that particular stratagem far behind.
Thanks, I hadn't time to check.
Aren't the Great Lakes somewhat higher than sea level? (At least until Niagara erodes all the up - which will be 50K years or so).

Edit: Lake Michigan is at 176m - which is quite a bit higher than the level seas would reach if all ice melts (which I think is about 90m).
There's nothing "cultural" about birth rates.
Raising children is hard, sex feels good, given the option to have sex and not have children, most people choose to have sex and not raise children.

Atheist women choose not to have children, christian women choose not to, muslim women choose not to.

Give people the option not to have children, remove the stigma and maybe they have 1-2 children, but no more.

Given how many single people there are, how tight the fertility window is for women who have careers, how tight schedules are in big cities, how expensive it is to have children today, there's nothing we can reasonably do to increase birth rates.
also for decreasing transaction cost for money transfer.
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Kind of, but with the difference that Goroutines are lighter than kernel threads, so you can run more of them.
That's a very well written post. Thanks for sharing it.
I’m concerned about climate change. I know about the flooding, glaciers and ice melting, coastal areas and islands filling up with water. I understand some of the natural ecosystem of the world would be messed up with some animals dying out as well. But I have no concept of how much of the latter will be done or how much it’ll effect things.

However as I don’t know too much, why would 4 C increase result in a lot of South Asia being uninhabitable and making most of America into hostile land. The other link said most of it would be desert land. And that Siberia and north west Antarctica would be green inhabitable. Wouldn’t part’s of Siberia and any part of Antarctica still be crazy cold and awful places to be?

I guess I’m a “dummy” because I also don’t get how global weather increase will mess and change things so much outside of what I acknowledged in my first paragraph. Though again I’m all for fixing up our behavior wrt environment and controlling climate change.
> Rust, though, suffers from being too clever, making it a language in which you can make concise, powerful solutions, but it can making grokking the code difficult, inefficient and error prone.

Outside of the borrow checker and invocations relateeld thereto, Rust is fairly simple and transparent. The borrow checker forces you to think through things which are common sources of error before you can code things, which is mostly good, but a necessary cost of that is you also have to learn a whole vocabulary, symbology, and analytic approach around it.

While that does (at least until you've climbed the borrow checker learning curve, a place I haven't gotten past myself) make it harder to grok some code and, even moreso, makes it harder to write some code, I don't find that it promotes false understanding of code as much as very clear lack of understanding of what bits of unfamiliar code are doing.

OTOH, while there are simpler approaches to subsets of the same issues, I don't know that there's anything which really offers what Rust offers at lower cognitive cost.
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Yep, the icons were hosted on S3, which was unavailable

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/03/01/aws_s3_outage/
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If you can't explain yourself then I don't want to hire you. Developers are not sitting in a dark corner not interacting with anyone; they are working with the team, they are gathering requirements from end users, etc.

If you can pass a coding test but you can't express yourself in a way that anyone can understand, then that's a no-hire. If that's a cultural bias, so be it. I don't see how it can be any other way.

Now it's been my personal experience that culture doesn't matter too much. For more than half the team, English is a second language. HR will reject candidates for language reasons even before I get to them.
Thought something was wrong with Fantastical. It was Google then.
Perfect surveillance will be a hurdle society must cross, but we can come out of it to a more honest place.

Many injustices exist because groups of people can hide behind hypocrisy; pretending to be different from those they target, while engaging in the same behavior themselves. When there is nowhere to hide, there is nowhere to shut out the reality that we're all just advanced animals doing the best we can.

Unfortunately, as u/devoply mentioned, there will be significant pain (and yes, bloodshed) in this process as the legal system's many flaws will be writ large.

In the best scenario we'll eventually use systems like this to form more realistic and flexible societies, rather than as tools to enforce rigid ideas.

The hard part will be that as these surveillance networks develop, they won't be perfect. Their creators, elites, etc. will be able to use surveillance for thee and not for me. That, IMO is the thing to watch out for. If average citizens are going to be watched, everyone must be watched.

Edit to clarify my use of "elites": I use it here to mean anyone with enough money, power or influence to shield themselves from surveillance.
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I’ve found Rust users to be very helpful, especially on Hacker News.

For example, in this thread from two weeks ago someone asks why it’s so frustrating to concatenate strings of mixed types in Rust:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20124821

And Steve Klabnik offers a friendly and ego-free reply with a simple and helpful option to do just that.

I’m sure there are other examples of flame wars, but I wouldn’t associate Rust advocates with chest puffing and egos at all.
Excel is a great proof-of-concept tool where non-programmers can prove their point.

Unfortunately proof-of-concept tools often end up being the end result because .... it works good enough.
Yeah. Some toxic/flammable gasses can be produced from landfills. But that toxic gas is not produced by plastic. So reducing the amount of plastic in the landfill isn't going to reduce the amount of toxic stuff. Similarly, the plastic in a landfill is not going to end up in underground water, or in rivers. So what's your point?
It's far more likely that the Amish will have disappeared altogether in "a few centuries" than that they will number in the "billions". There is no Amish gene.
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True. This article is pure BS. Even in US where only 18% of electric energy is renewable (plus some from nuclear energy), emissions results from EV are not so impressive.

In average country, new generation of hybrid cars from Toyota may be much more effective in terms of CO2 and other harmful emissions, compared to pure electric vehicles.

And all inconveniences of EVs, like lack of charging stations, limited range, long charging time, are basically gone.

Sure, future will be electric, but not with current mix of power generation and state of energy storage.
>More acceptable than other digital money (banks and payment processors might say no)
>More easily divisible than for example gold coins and gold bars

These are true.

>It's sound money whereas fiat is not (nobody can arbitrarily increase the supply)

You'll have to explain why the inability to increase the money supply is a benefit? Sure, money printing can be abused, but a growing money supply is also beneficial in a growing economy (output + population). Second, how do the current holders selling the currency to people without any Bitcoin not count as "increasing supply". If they don't sell, supply is zero, after all. What is the value of Bitcoin as a currency in that case? Nothing.

>Much more portable. You can send any amount to anyone in the world, as long as they have internet.

That provisio at the end is a big one, considering internet is susceptible to going down via both natural disasters and government whims.
There is also Nextcloud which provides for most self-hosting needs in a single package (calendar, tasks, file storage, notes, music, photos, device tracking, etc.)
It's how the democratic process is suppose to work, there is nothing "abnormal" about it. In the US at least, immigrants come here and eventually get to take part in the political system like everyone else. It's been happening for hundreds of years.

The only thing I could think that would make it seem abnormal to you is the demographic of the immigrants.
Up until recently I was using a 12 year old 46" Sony Bravia and upgraded to an LG OLED and I have to say, the difference in screen alone was well worth it.
Sure it is. The government is the customer, and the rates they will pay absolutely drive the rate the contracting company is willing to pay their engineers.

Defense contracting is a very different vehicle from any other. Source -- I am a DOD contract software engineer.
Thank you for confirming, and the citation!
Interresting setup you mention there, the earth-like planets d/n cycle would indeed be very irregular i imagine, depending which orbital speed it would have.
If we could indeed shame people into not doing something (focusing on actions and not people), I’d rather spend my energy on shaming people to quit Facebook en masse and shut it down. Seeing that this sounds ridiculous and unlikely to happen, I doubt any other intent of shaming would work either.
Yes, if your offshore guys are from Chennai.
Sweet, no meetings today
>Essentially it works well for network/systems level code, and anything that looks like that.

You can also see this in the testing story. Go is very focused on unit testing which makes sense when you are one cog in a giant machine. But if you're writing something standalone the friction to write end to end integration tests is what turned me off.
The NSA also didn't want to explain their reasoning for shortening the DES key size to 56 bits. It took many years for the public crypto community to discover the technique called differential cryptography, at which point it became clear that the actual theoretical maximum strength of the DES crypto system was 56 bits and the originally proposed longer key sizes didn't actually offer any true strength over 56 bit key variants. It remains important to be distrustful of all things in cryptography, but it also remains important that the one time the NSA had a huge and apparently negative impact on the strength of a crypto system, they were actually not weakening the system at all they were instead providing the public community with a significantly more accurate measure of the actual strength of the then proposed method (and given the accuracy with which differential cryptography computed 56 bits, I remain surprised they were able to provide that information, as the recommendation clearly communicated to a skilled adversary that they had developed and were leveraging this significant unpublished technique at that time).
It is extremely difficult to negotiate labor rates above a certain threshold; the government contracting officers can and will just refuse if they think you are demanding above-market rates. Sometimes you can justify some overage, but it's not easy, and it's not negotiated on a per-project basis.
Google has to process this data first to know that it's not worth it. Unless you can blind guess?
Oh man we're being played by the AWS algorithm. This is what I see (not signed in, clean browser with no cookies).

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That's a good question in the medium term. But, the US education system presents a clear misallocation of skills that can be fixed.

It won't solve the underlying issue you address, but it will improve things, and waste less societal resources in the educational process too.
I see those all the time too well knowing that for me that for me any further promotion is close to impossible.

One thing that happened a few years ago was that I was on an improvement project that supposedly saved the company millions of dollars. At the end we won an award and i received an email talking about a big party at headquarters with great entertainment and good food where people could mingle with top management and the board of directors. It described what fantastic opportunity this would be. This went on for paragraphs.

Then the last paragraph said something like “by the way to save money we will send only the project lead and your management (who had nothing to do with the project) to the event but you will also get a nice plaque instead of the $500 or so gift card that used to be normal for this type of award. “. I still don’t know how anyone could write this and not see how crazy it was.

Anyways this was a good reminder to look after myself and not be a “team player”.
Thanks, that is an answer I like to hear, just like the others (paraphrased "not often enough to make much of a difference").

Still, between the hectic on- and offloading and the acute awareness of fire hazards customary on ferries, I have a hard time imagining boatside car charging ever becoming mainstream.
Same with Notion. If you read their privacy policy, data is not stored encrypted at rest, so I wouldn't view them as privacy-friendly.
Today, I imagine it's the mildest insult they're receiving.
At a company I worked at it was bonus time. Bonuses had been a point of contention forever as the company always bugled the metrics and despite a lot of talk bonuses were hard to account for.

So anyway they announce a "Christmas Bonus":

$50....

I mean I'll take $50 but it felt like such an empty gesture. Just a few years earlier I had gotten $150 bonus while working at a pizza joint. The HR person who sent out the survey that year did not like that factoid about the pizza joint that I provided on their benefits feedback survey.
Computing and testing has come a long way since the Gemini days. We now have aircraft (particularly military fighters) that are literally uncontrollable without the computers.
Going through the interviews. You have to waste a day + study time doing it.

If you have 4 interviews in a week that is 4 days you have to burn.
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Just curious (and ignorant): How do you assess the success of water harvesting? Do you measure the water table levels periodically?
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