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> It's to make them appear to be defending themselves from a nefarious foreign plot.

That doesn't make any sense, once Iran has agreed to cooperate with the inspectors.

> The truth of the matter is that the world doesn't want a nuclear arms race in the ME

If you truly don't want that, support denuclearization of Israel.

> That may not be ideal, but it is stable and prevents new world wars.

No, it doesn't prevent new wars. How do you prove that, anyway?

> to pressure the regime to stop its malign foreign behaviour

This is pretty rich coming from the U.S., which has literally no business on the other side of the planet.

> I'd have also liked a change in the human rights situation, but that's apparently not a goal of this US administration.

If this was their concern, they would stop supporting Saudis.
I believe you're correct; I'm not aware of any other language with a left-associative ternary.

This will be deprecated as of PHP 7.4[0], and will cause a compile error in PHP 8.0.

However, instead of switching straight to right-associativity, PHP will require explicit parentheses to disambiguate nested ternaries.

[0] https://wiki.php.net/rfc/ternary_associativity
There is an interesting idea here but I'd like to see more details about how they handled the tricky bits:

"The way this works is that you don’t actually change types in Dark. Instead, you make a copy of the type, and make your changes on that new copy. This allows you to prototype with the new type and test your change easily, making cheap iterations (and new types) as you try out new ideas. Once you are confident in your new type, you replace the uses of the old type (with semi-automated tooling to handle all the changes, including changes that are way down the call-stack)."

If both types exist at once, there are going to be function calls where the old type needs to be converted to the new type, or vice-versa. What happens there?
Or got his opinion on C++ in kernels from Linux.

http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/c++/linus
Does Twitter allow the end user to disable this censorship?
> and didn't want to mention that their technology could be compatible with the existing one

Really curious for the reason behind that. If they would've mentioned it there probably would have been quite a bit less of lock-in criticism for the product. But maybe they are also banking on the devs not realizing that they aren't that locked in and have an easy option to move away.
>FP would likely be faster then the imperative version

[citation needed]

I highly doubt that even the most sophisticated JS engines would produce faster machine code from the functional spaghetti than a simple for loop.
I wonder what feature is missing from PostgreSQL. It supports TLSv1.3 and supports letting the client pick cipher.

EDIT: NVM, I forgot that ssl_min_protocol_version was added in PostgreSQL 12 which is not released yet.
because there is dirty mutation and it relies entirely on side effects to work. (this is sarcastic, that is exactly how one should go about this one example case.)

It however is a completely different thing when longer chains of filter / map need to come along and the true power of transducers is needed.

In clojure I've had to use transducers at least three times in the course of the last four years!
We find rocks from the Moon and from Mars[0] on earth, and have reason to believe that small pieces of rock travel from most inner solar system bodies to most others.

I find it totally believable that some micro organisms could survive the ride on such rocks and possibly thrive on other bodies, if the environment is suitable.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martian_meteorite
A mural painted by a communist depicting Washington and his slaves walking over indian corpses wouldn't have lasted five seconds in any place dominated by the right, and anybody publicly defending it would probably have had their house burned down.
Yet still smaller polluter than 55 countries.
> that's why some lie detectors now feature ass-clenching detention technology

This is one of the most entertaining sentences I've ever read on this website.
Pkuseg: A Toolkit for Multi-Domain Chinese Word Segmentation
Are you just leaving out the cost of building the Fab...? The whole reason it was a joint venture in the first place was to try to soften the up front investment for both companies.
That's ignoring the R&D dollars on 3D and/stacking. If you think that's also easy, why were micron and intel over a year behind Samsung? It wasn't by choice.
Send a hotplug notification that a region of memory is going to be disconnected. The kernel will stop making allocations there, and eventually it won't be in use. (This could take a while for a heavy system with long-running processes.) Then you send the hotplug physical disconnect notification. If it fails, you'll need to wait longer. If it succeeds, the host system can reclaim the memory.
How would you replace early returns? If statements?
Well, I'm not saying it isn't totally BS; but I understand the motivation to overturn every stone when talking about defense. It isn't like the US didn't surprise a country with new physics during WWII.
Teach Programming in Africa
Hi,

I'm an engineer in Mechatronics and have been working as a Software Engineer for about 5 years. Lately I have got the desire to go out and teach others and do it in countries where I could make a difference, and I am looking for Africa especially.

Do anyone of you have experience from that? Did you go through any organization, government funded projects, schools or similar?

Would like to hear your experiences!
True for iOS that it isn’t based on Linux. But iOS is based on MacOS and MacOS is real certified Unix.
> On Windows you have this issue much more often if you are trying to use an older device, in particular if it's one that came out before Vista,

I think that's a bit of a difference though. Vista came out nearly ~13 years ago, and we're talking things breaking a year or less later.

Heck, for more obscure drivers[1], it seems necessary to recompile for every kernel patch.
Perhaps that's the fault of that driver's developer for not following the correct way to build kernel drivers, or there's something unique about this particular device - I don't know.

[1] an example: https://github.com/milesp20/intel_nuc_led
Art. It gets as technical as you want it to though, so avoid attempting any realism otherwise you'll be going down similar rabbit holes as you do in tech.
Same. Is there a way to disable this? I just had a 14 hour drive, so you can imagine how many stupid things it kept alerting me to. If my wife weren't there to squelch them, I'd probably have tossed it out the window.
Acids, the manufacturing basically is controlling the etching process to get rid of unwanted parts and keep the designed metal circuits.

When you lost power, you are not sure if the chips stayed with acids for too long or too short, or coated with unwanted amount of materials, the uncertainty kills the yield rate, which can be already low since memory chips require repeated stacking nowadays.

Similar to https://i.stack.imgur.com/yTQqw.jpg
F11 is full screen unless I'm missing something? It has been better than chrome in full screen for a while now bc if the floating Omni bar
This is just false. Please learn how to do a modicum of research before putting forth these reactionary idiotic rumors.

Sam Durant wanted the sculpture to be DISMANTLED after it was heavily protested by local Dakota's for it's insensitivity.

Durant literally agreed to having it dismantled and it was buried by Dakota Elders.

"I made Scaffold as a learning space for people like me, white people who have not suffered the effects of a white supremacist society and who may not consciously know that it exists" said Durant, "white artists need to address issues of white supremacy."
I wonder if vividly picturing a cavalcade of ultraviolent mental images is enough to disrupt the test.
In-the-wild Mac malware kept busy in June–here’s a rundown
To add to this sentiment, tests also give teams confidence that is needed. It gives engineers confidence when developing new features because the test suite will break if you introduce a regression. It gives engineers confidence during deployment/CD.

While the tangible benefits of unit tests are very important, there are other intangible benefits that are equally important.
This is Hacker News taking things out of context. Some titles aren't intended to be standalone.
This board is full of dusty brained, downvotin' morons.
For me the solution is quite easy: I don't invest in companies where I don't see technical excellence happening.

The world is changing fast enough that old style management won't get investment after some time.
Similar to this line:

"In most FP compilers, your whole program either compiles or it doesn’t, making it difficult to make small scale changes. If I’m programming in Python, and I want to test out a quick hacky change in some component, I can do that immediately to discover whether the hack will even solve my problem."

Strikes me as an intriguing pragmatism. The language seems tightly coupled to an upcoming editor and possibly even http framework. Hopefully it's good enough to justify that lock in and flexible enough that cli scripts, thrift / grpc, etc remain possible
I don't mind that - I can almost always fix an Android or PC glitch myself. It's the look of disbelief when I tell them I have no idea if their iPad is supposed to do that or not, followed by, "but you're a techy person".
The lack of a magnetic field ablates away an atmosphere only on cosmic timescales, not human ones. That seems like a problem that could be solved with the benefit of thousands more years of technological development. Never say never. Just a hundred years ago many people argued it was impossible to ever leave the atmosphere of this planet (And it wasn't ... using cannon. The rocket solved that problem).
In that case, a simple line saying "we tried to contact you to no avail" would have avoided looking rude.
I’m going to go against the grain and argue that some erasure of history is a good thing. If we want people to integrate into one polity, it may well be better to focus on disparities that exist in the present instead of dwelling on what happened in the past. The British are the product of invasion and brutal repression of the Anglo Saxons by the Normans. But you don’t really see public art dedicated to that.
This is a bit off-ropic, but I'll answer anyway.

Out of curiosity, why would you associate it with atheism? Since many (most?) Christian denominations believe it's forbidden to curse in God's name, it's actually more likely to have theistic origins.

I don't think it's a signal either way as to belief or nonbelief, though. It's more likely to just be a part of their vernacular.

Finally, as an atheist I can tell you that I have no need to avoid using the word "god". What's it going to do, cause a god to pop into existence if I say the name thrice? :) That would certainly be interesting.
First time I have to really think about Exa<unit>.

Giga / Tera / Peta / Exa

6 Millions Terabytes of solid state memory.. quite a mass.
LyX uses LaTeX as its backend typesetting mechanism.

TeXmacs implements its own typesetting system.

I think this is the main differences.
Not NOSS satellite triplets?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kf5f6AKvo3U
With active terraforming you could accumulate an atmosphere much more quickly than over the course of a billion years. We're currently adding a measurable amount of carbon dioxide to the Earth's atmosphere every year, which isn't great here, but would help tremendously to terraform Mars.
It's the grammatical equivalent of stepping through all of the captures and counter-captures poised to begin at a critical piece in a chess game and trying to determine who'll come out on top.
Duplicitous and subversive nature of the project #71
So they realized late that an early step of the pipeline was off, rendering everything that has been through flawed ?
Mars has plenty of water, it's just frozen. There are plenty of terraforming plans that address this problem.
Aside from the ridiculous price tag, it would set a dangerous precedent. It's not so much about the value of the art itself, which is debatable, but rather how appropriate removing a historical testimony is.

Just because an interpretation no longer fits with today's view doesn't mean people should forget the history behind it nor the mentality surrounding it at a particular time. Erasing remnants of a past you disagree with doesn't erase the facts, but it makes people less inclined to remember or learn about a not so glorious history.

It raises questions about the exact motives at stake here.
Ahem:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_flying_saucer
Windows OS is making it easier to access nix terminal commands, but in my experience making the OS switch (mac machine but unix terminal, or cloud linux) has been game changing for me.
like Saturn, the Revolution devours its children

Or its forbears in this case.
I just don't get why you're so stuck on this one point on etiquette. To me, saying "We tried to contact you to no avail" is ruder than omitting the line.
You're right, they're not really "early returns" but for me at least they are often in similar fashion to the "early exit" pattern in the article:

def transform_data(raw_data) when length(raw_data) == 1, do: []
def transform_data(raw_data) do
# actual function code goes here
end

That said, I wouldn't want to see the above snippet in my team's codebase :)
>First, I need to say I was a multi-unit Subway franchisee for 33 years until late last year.

Thanks for for sharing your experience.

Why did you leave? What was the process for selling the stores? Did you sell to someone new or someone already a Subway franchisee?
It's activist art depicting a scene of a non-historical event. While I get what the mural is trying to say, I don't necessarily think that this is something that kids should have to see every day when they're not in the context of a history class.

Think about it; how would you feel going to work every day if your office had murals of holocaust victims being sent into gas chambers? There's as valid a lesson to be learned from such a mural, but it's unnecessarily disturbing because it's out of context.

So no, the actual motive of San Francisco officials aside, I don't think it's appropriate for a high school mural.
I find the Fuchsia Interface Description Language (FIDL) interesting as a concept. It allows components written in different languages to easily cooperate:

- Language: https://fuchsia.dev/fuchsia-src/development/languages/fidl/r...

- Wire-format: https://fuchsia.dev/fuchsia-src/development/languages/fidl/r...

I think it is an underappreciated concept in today's systems, which suffer an epidemic of monolithism, leading to GB-sized installations that do their own variation of.. nothing much.
That seems a little surprising. Certain residential areas in South Africa have gigabit fibre so I'd not expect kilobyte anything and certainly no total black holes from a respectable DC

Just annoyingly high latency and a bit of jitter and shitty pricing on local cloud stuff (though prob better now with azure)
I believe you forgot Toshiba, which could be 9 exabytes lost according to the article for this quarter, so we are talking about 15 exabytes lost.

According to your data, the total quaterly production is 41 exabytes for SSD, which would mean losing about 37% of the total SSD production this quarter.

That being said, it is the first time I read about the scale of storage production worldwide. It makes you wonder what does the humanity store in those hundreds of exabytes per year. Probably many duplicated data or unused bytes.
http://www.pickchur.com/2013/02/53-years-old-sealed-bottle-g...
IMO the left has been more extreme regarding removal of liberties for the past decade or so. Not saying the right isn’t trying to do that (see abortion), it’s just the left is much broader and those who are liberal seem to generally be blind to it or think the trades off are worth it (although it’s not really their call, that’s why it’s in the bill of rights).

That’s why so many people supported (and still support) Trump. Removal of the second amendment (guns), fourth amendment (FISA court), first amendment (all the political correctness), etc. The “right” feels persecuted and IMO justly so.

Personally, I fall on the libertarian side so I think both are pretty poor for liberty. But I have watched this scary shift and it kinda mimics the decent into Nazisim... “share my ideals or else we will erase you”.
I’ve used a laptop as a desktop for years but honestly I think having my laptop as a primary machine gave me /too much/ freedom.

Having a desktop makes me finish what I’m doing or makes me otherwise check out. I still take a laptop when I travel but now I’m just SSHing into my machine...
Another question is how painting 1,600 sq ft which is maybe half the area of the walls in a small house, costs $600,000. I'll gladly do it for a cool half million, and you can use the $100,000 saved to remove any other awkward signs of the past that might pop up in the future.
It's a great point. And the reason we have a lot of pro-slavery art is that the anti-slavery art was destroyed, or never allowed to be created in the first place. I've recently been reading The Fiery Trial, a biography of Lincoln's ideas, and mobs would happily assault and sometimes kill white abolitionists just for speaking about the notion. And Kendi's Stamped From The Beginning makes clear how eager the greater portion of American whites were to keep black people from having opinions at all.

Art has pretty much always been subjected to a pretty ruthless collaborative editing process. In San Francisco's alleys, art is continually being put up and painted over. The good pieces last longer than the random squiggles, but very few reach the level where somebody like Precita Eyes [1] will preserve it past its natural lifespan. For something to survive across generations, it has to fit the standards of multiple generations, and that's how it always has been.

Predictably, Bari Weiss isn't upset about that ongoing loss of San Francisco art. Gosh golly, why is losing this specific set of unexceptional murals important to her?

[1] http://www.precitaeyes.org/
iirc a significant block of Amazon's tech was developed in Cape Town over the last decade or so.
> so many sites don't support v1.3 yet, including HN.

That's not surprising. Distributions like Debian and Ubuntu do not have a recent enough version of OpenSSL in their stable package repository yet.
The style, nomenclature, choice of vocabulary are those of someone who has spent a lot of time with Android Java.

E.g. see this:

https://developer.android.com/training/basics/firstapp/start...

Compare it to OP's framework documentation.
I guess it makes more sense to destroy everything affected by a power loss (even if some of it could be perfectly fine, or salvageable) than risk shipping products that will fail at a higher rate. That would cost way more in lost trust and lost sales.
Actually, he sounds very good. The biggest problem in corporate environments is the amount of BS being spouted and people going along with said BS. When someone is actually honest and confronting issues, problems get fixed before they blow up. That's good for everyone.

Of course generally the reason people go along with the BS is that either they're incompetent or mediocre and BS suits them just fine, or they've given up and are just happy to be swept along and collect a paycheck.
The website refuses to scroll without javascript. WTF?
okay, it does sound like you know what you're on about...

I'm a skeptic as well, but I'm not a physicist (I am an engineer so I know the basics).

I however, cannot throw a convincing rebuttal to this.

All I know, is that a high ranking officer has requested a patent to go through for a seemingly "perpetual motion machine".

All the buzzwords for the UFO-logists are there to get them salivating about Area-51 and Bob Lazar.

But, imagine such UFO-logists are reasonable about their beliefs (hard, I know) and are open to other suggestions (they clearly are to many).

Given such UFO-logists, how would you tell them this is bullshit without getting emotionally frustrated at the ludicrousness of the article ?

edit: any papers that point me towards the possible edge of today's tech would be welcome as well
Yeah, that was my point: of course the more popular platform is going to have broader support. So the question is whether or not it’s possible to improve the less popular thing. My guess is that, with investment in time, there is nothing that prevents straightforward improvements in support in OpenBSD.

Why would OpenBSD be worthy of that expenditure of effort? Because it does some other things very well—perhaps better than Linux (Unix simplicity) and macOS (fully open). Not to mention security.

It sounds like you want a feature set that isn’t in OpenBSD. Fine, use macOS if those features are must-haves for you. Or, if OpenBSD’s feature set is compelling to you, start hacking! As I said elsewhere, I think it’s an easier path to make OpenBSD into what I want than it is to make macOS / Windows into what I want.

As for hardware support, I selected hardware that is well supported by OpenBSD, and it works great. Is there hardware I wish was better supported? You bet. But I’ve felt that way since I started using Linux and BSDs (and OS/2 and BeOS) in the 90s.
The first transatlantic cable was laid in 1858. I guess the major continents all had been connected before the end of 1800s.
Miller Interior Design – A Seattle Interior Design Company
> Do many people use TeXmacs?

Some people are using TeXmacs. But the number of the TeXmacs users are increasing.

> Now that you can export markdown and org-mode to LaTeX, TeXmacs doesn’t seem to provide much value.

This is not a difficult but a trivial task. Currently, TeXmacs documents can be converted to LaTeX. Some people use TeXmacs to write the draft of a paper and then polish it using LaTeX.

> I’ve tried using TeXmacs once and it never really worked well.

You may try it again. We have added plenty of features and fixed many bugs.
Ever since the Bush II years I've felt like the right and the left have been engaged in a competition over who can be the most irrational and insane. It's a game of reacting to reaction to reaction ... all the way down.

If we have this on the left and the "alt-right" on the right, I'm a bit afraid of what the next round will bring. How much crazier can it get? I'm sure top minds on both sides are working tirelessly on things even dumber, meaner, and crazier than anything we've seen so far.
> The notion of erasing art has an American pedigree.

Was this a poor choice of words from a hastily written article, or does the author think that erasing art is uniquely American? Changing history, destroying art, etc., have existed since time immemorial. Anyone who honestly thinks that America invented evil is delusional.
For an individual, yeah. Apple belongs to a number of standards bodies and consortia, though; when they deviate from an existing standard, they usually do do more deliberately than this letter implies.
I can draw
I'd be fine if this was being stashed somewhere or at least put to auction and painted over if no one bought it for the price of removal. They are making extra sure it gets destroyed.

FTA: Mark Sanchez, the school board’s vice president, later told me that simply concealing the murals wasn’t an option because it would “allow for the possibility of them being uncovered in the future.” Destroying them was worth it regardless of the cost, he argued at the hearing, saying, “This is reparations.”