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> Traitors should not be honored

And that's precisely why those generals were being honored; to proactively show that, despite them being on the losing side, we would not be regarding them as traitors! This kind of thing used to be seen as an important part of peacefully reabsorbing and reconciling the South with the rest of the nation. It strikes me as incredibly foolish to renege on this deal today even as cultural divides within the country are widening to the point where they might essentially split it apart all over again. (Not on racial or ethnic lines however, but, loosely speaking, on ones pitting "elite intellectualism" against the "common man's good sense". And I say this while fully acknowledging that the latter is at least as flawed as the former.)

> ...the ideals... That is, black people need to know their place.

Not so. The Civil War was indeed "about" slavery in many ways, but the "confederate private soldier, who was kept poor by the exploitation of slaves in a feudal system, and answered the call and sacrificed anyway" you mention above would be able to tell you plenty of reasons why he was going to fight the Yankees with full conviction no matter what.

Slavery and "keeping black people in their place" were important to the opportunistic elite of the South; but in the common man's view, what was being threatened to the point of wholly justifying their sacrifice was their culture and way of life. And this viewpoint is still one way that the war is understood in many parts of the South.
Imagine if Frankfurt could have Berlin’s culture

Game over
they were airgun pellets which embedded into her body as shown by the x-rays in the article
Literal core ingredient of Beyond Meat.

Welcome to the meat industry's response to the threat.

Most dietary paranoia is driven by political polarization.
There's a few lenovo machines which are faster (xeon chips) and you can stuff them with memory, and as I said, the x220 screen leaves something to be desired, but for now, the keyboard kind of wins over these factors. The big battery is pretty good; lasts all day, assuming I'm not compiling browsers.
Mill architecture?
Xor ftw!
The keywords you're looking for are generative adversarial networks. Not sure if the syllabus has it.
It's about the only thing I look for on the ingredients list.

I stopped buying anything containing palm oil a few years ago.
"Study connects"... please. Correlation is not causation.
Those slugs were from an air rifle, not a proper gun.
As much as I love Linux (I'm typing this from my IBM Thinkpad running Arch with a KDE desktop) There are far too many warts to call it "ready". Every morning, I plug into my widescreen monitor, and watch as application windows randomly decide which monitor they'll appear on. Then begins the fight with my bluetooth mouse. I enable bluetooth, then turn on the mouse. It's recognized and "connected". But it does not work. I have to disconnect and reconnect. I can't in good conscience advise my mother or wife that this is a "normal" experience, therefore, it's not "ready".

Now, does using Ubuntu cover some of these glaring warts? Perhaps. But that often opens its own set of problems. Each comes with its own set of workarounds. Where macOS and Windows excel, is their sense of "polish". Most happy path things just work, and work 99% of the time.

All that said, I'm die-hard Linux ALL THE WAY! I just couldn't say that it's ready for most purposes. For the things that I'd use a tablet for? Sure.
> So you're not actually getting yourself rid of Google or tracking, you're just using their resources without paying the asking price.

Google's asking price includes performing invasive surveillance. So when dodging Google's surveillance, it is impossible to access any content hosted at Google while living up to your standard. Which makes your argument a bit dishonest.

Now sure, there is a straightforward argument that the best way to push back against Google is to completely avoid content hosted there, which discourages others from hosting there in the first place. But you did not make this argument, I suspect because it's overly optimistic in an environment of heavy network effects.
Your Heathrow numbers are off. Latest cost is £14b, and the price includes re-routing one of the UK’s busiest roads into a tunnel, building a new terminal, and purchasing 7,000 of the UK’s most expensive homes, while not disrupting air traffic at an airport which handles take offs and landings every 45 seconds from two runways.

Given that, “for just 1 runway” feels unfair
Been through that as well :)

http://www.unbalance.co.jp/honkaku/smahjong3d/
https://www.4windsmj.com/
MST on a NUC was pretty seamless for me when I used it.
I think the root of this is a misunderstanding of neurons in general.

Modern science seems to suggest that if you put a bunch of neurons in a room then it will start questioning quantum physics

Is there an understanding at all on how and when something becomes coordinated and how?
In the wireless settings for each individual app.

Sure, open settings, scroll to the app you’re interested in, click it to access its individual settings (location, notifications, background refresh, etc), click “Wireless Data”, then select “Off”.
Interwebs is not a "collective mind". A lot of individuals participate. Each with his own ideas.

Why would it be hypocritical to go be against another user of the tool?

Are politicians hypocritical to have opposing ideas?
If you're on Android, Kemono Mahjong, by CyberDog Software, is a fantastic way to learn Riichi Mahjong.
> have you heard of Nutella?

Always wonder who's buying Nutella. Sugar and palmoil.
Riichi definitely hits a sweet spot in the game design space. Just the right amount of complexity, always something to think about in game, but still fun to play fairly casually. There are many clever little risk/reward tradeoffs built into the rules, and lots of interesting small asymmetries and feedback loops.

MahjongSoul was recently translated to English (https://mahjongsoul.game.yo-star.com/). The heavy anime-girl theming can be a bit unfortunate but it's an excellent implementation of the game and allows you to play matches against bots to learn the game.

Tenhou is the more classic and staid online implementation, and there are browser extensions for Chrome and Firefox to translate it to english. (http://tenhou.net/)
Mahjong Soul has recently been gaining popularity and has 4 player riichi mahjong with computers.
The Germans also worked on an atomic bomb during the war. Heisenberg was in charge of the Science. They had an institute in Heidelberg dedicated to it and several other sites. The calculation for the order of magnitude of required fissible material was off by 1, which might or might not have been a deliberate error. Furthermore there was no good source of uranium as far as I know discovered in Germany at the time as far as I know.
It's always sad to see someone taking down a project that is run with the best intentions. However, it may be time to move away from the entire PGP ecosystem.

Consider the post's "We've known for a decade this attack is possible. It's now here and it's devastating.".

Consider also the final section, "PGP is bad technology and it’s making a bad community", of https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2018/05/17/was-the-... (by noted cryptographer Matthew Green.)

My sympathies to the victims of this attack.

[EDIT: reworked slightly at 7m to try to be as kind as possible]
Right on. I've seen an incredible amount of misunderstanding, unusual for hackernews, in these comments.

If FOX news runs front-page mugshots non stop every time an immigrant commits a crime, that shows a massive bias and leads its readership to an incorrect worldview, but it's not "fake". If Honest Truth Online runs a story that a missing girl was murdered by an immigrant based on miniscule to no evidence, that's fake news.
For those who are not familiar with the author of this blog, he is a PowerPC enthusiast and the maintainer of TenFourFox, a Firefox port to PPC OS X. He's also currently working on a new PPC JIT for (modern) Firefox on Linux (a project for which he is looking for volunteers to assist him[1]) to bring it to speed parity with Chrome on PPC (which already has a PPC JIT).

[1] https://www.talospace.com/2019/03/pitch-into-firefox-jit.htm...
The Apple Pencil generates its own signal separate from touch. A stylus does not. Palm rejection is basically ideal with an actual pencil, but not ideal with a touch stylus.
You should try to get in to some meetings where these guys are. Its good to be known by these people, you shouldn't be scared of them, esp if you're working hard for them. Things they do:

Talk to execs to find out what direction of the company has been decided

Choose strategy, approve strategic technology choices, plan for the future

Making sure first line managers & their teams are doing what they're supposed to

Allocate money to projects, decide which ones need resources, which ones can be cut

Make a budget, decide how much money to ask for next qtr/year

Hiring policies, hiring managers, plans for hiring staff

Make sure division is following company policy, implement internal controls, auditing is happy.

Keeping in touch with other divisions and regions to swap ideas and work together.

Firefighting problems that come up with people leaving, systems not working properly, projects running late.
Yeah, but why though? It doesn’t make much sense.

If they wanted to mislead rivals into thinking we have technology we don’t (so as to waste their resources trying to develop tech down a dead-end), why not write it in a more credible way?

If they just wanted to publish “schmuck bait” as you say, I suppose I just don’t see the point of that. It could be explained as an inside joke / trolling I suppose, but for example, look at the credentials of the people here:

https://dpo.tothestarsacademy.com/

Their team includes the recently retired director of Lockheed Martin Skunkworks group. I don’t know how to dismiss that.
I don't think this is correct. Debian and its derivatives, at least, use a separate keyring for apt than the rest of the system uses. Though Debian does have a keyserver, pushes aren't automatically added to the user-facing keyring; they are manually moved over by a keyring maintainer who would presumably notice someone with a multi-megabyte key.
"I don't think Boeing would outsource anything even remotely critical to a company like HCL...So, there is no way they would have outsourced safety critical stuff to HCL."

From the article:

Boeing opened what it called a “center of excellence” with HCL in Chennai, saying the companies would partner “to create software critical for flight test.”
I know this already happens informally, so there is probably a niche there.
A 'strategy' is a high-level coordination on what types of trade-offs get made. Strategy is also remarkably delicate - if you have an organisation with 100 different people, there are somewhere like 100 different opinions on what the best trade-offs to make are. Imagine the chaos; and if you can then containing that chaos is what middle managers do.

Middle management is a fairly involved process of finding people who are doing things that aren't according to strategy and stopping them.

Most of middle managements time is monitoring that everyone is doing what they said they would do, and motivating people to do what the business needs - by hook or crook. A good manager will make the supervisors uncomfortable at the right moment on the right subject. The supervisors will then get things done that the strategy requires in conjunction with their team.

It is remarkable how quickly people will start working against each other without management. I worked on a mine site where the miners sometimes tried to dig out the access to the mine; and while that was extreme people working at cross purposes to each other is common. Someone in any large company always wants the equivalent of rewriting the software from scratch; they need to be found and stopped.
I have indeed heard of these "mobile devices" you speak of :p but for some weird HN algorithmic reason, I can't edit my comment anymore ...
Since this patent is not "secret" even tho there are ways to keep it secret and heck you don't even need to patent it if you've such technology.

What does a patent say? Basically that you can create and use it today which would be alarming for most around the world.

What if it's a bait for other intelligence agencies/spies working for foreign governments in US defense area.

And if someone tried to gather info about this tech within US defense ecosystem, they'll be caught without US government risking anything.

It does look like a bait to me, publicise that you poses a technology which makes all your enemies obsolete then wait and watch who is coming or helping them steal it from you.
Well, to be fair to the parent commenter, Nutella contains about 2/3 the calories of gasoline per unit of weight, so the confusion is understandable. :P
This has also been a hobby of mine. Regardless of anything about aliens or technology, this area says something very interesting about the way our society processes information, about how scientists and organizations deal with non-reproducible information, for example.

From watching social media over the past few years, especially the various foreign authoritarian governments, we can see an easy pattern: some bit of truth comes out, then the organization trying to suppress conversation floods the conversation with tons of half-truths, lies, conspiracy theories, and so forth. In the firehose of bullshit, the only thing the average observer can do is throw up their hands and give up.

Based on this general pattern of information and disinformation, I'm quite confident that the western mostly-free (?) countries are trying to have an honest conversation with themselves. About what, I have no idea. What I find particularly interesting are the professional, multi-sourced observations of various things happening that seem to just get eaten up by the system itself. Whether incompetence, secrecy, crackpots, or whatnot, it says something really fascinating about how groups of people deal with things they don't want to deal with.

Yes, there are crackpots and liars in the world. Yes, there are people who are honestly mistaken. There are also people who avoid controversy and just throw out the "crackpot" label instead of thinking through things. These are all easy responses. Even putting all the options together, something very interesting is going on that we're not dealing with so well.
The equivalent of a fancy UI demo rigged up over a minimally functional backend.
FWIW, when I switched from Mac to Windows, I was able to still do Rails development in Windows itself (I guess it ultimately depends on your Rails app complexity and the gems you rely on) and deploy my solutions to Linux servers. This was before WSL came out.
Didn't Microsoft agree to never ship a Unix again when they sold Xenix?
This is super cool, it would make for an amazing exhibit paired with an interactive audio/video tour. Having said that, I seriously doubt this is the largest collection in the world by any measure.
Not how we'll know, how they'll know.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20301692
Your program can focus on executing statements, or it can focus on evaluating expressions (or a mix of both), and I would agree there are pros and cons to each.

These small concrete examples are good to talk about. How would you rewrite the following:

def contains_3(xs):
"""Returns True if the given list contains a 3."""
for x in xs:
if x == 3:
return True
return False

It does use an early return, but it is not long or convoluted. You could use something like `any()`, but I would never find fault with the above function or attempt to refactor it. It is as clear and efficient as possible, and uses basic language features even beginners would be familiar with.
This is true except for Terminal C, which is indeed a mess.

I still like Tegel a lot, as it's very close to the West center of the city.
Surely the bus named after the airport will continue to run to the airport? I think it will no longer go up to Alexanderplatz, and instead end at Hauptbahnhof.
If you read NAMESPACES(7) and thought to yourself "that's a unified API", we have radically different definitions of "unified".
> Fact is, school is a horrible environment with disgusting power dynamics in every direction, which doesn't do anything to bring out the best in people.

*In the US. My own school experience in Europe could not have been more different than what you describe. When looking for a solution, we should not forget about places that have (or had) good school systems.
This is a comments section. If you want citations, read articles. It's impolite to demand someone here be held to that standard. We know from context that these are opinions, and everyone has the opportunity to provide citations if they want to, but don't demand them.
Because if there's one basic nutrition fact we all know, it's that humans aren't attracted to sugar and fat.
Let's Build a Simple Interpreter. Part 14: Nested Scopes (2017)
You can make any food sound ridiculous by reducing it to its ingredients.
Those are pretty old cards though (I've had amdgpu support for my six year old 7970 since kernel 4.9, and I think they've extended it back to a generation or two older architectures now), and you can use the open source radeon drivers with any kernel.

I think the folks using Catalyst for better 3D acceleration have probably moved on to cards supported by amdgpu by now.
The plumbus is a true multi-purpose tool though. It should always come 1st.
As a Canadian, it's crazy that anyone could think of the Democrats as far left. Our Conservative party stopped fighting against gay marriage before the Democrats did.
I'm writing this comment on a new MacBook Pro which I purchased in order to write Xamarin mobile applications (including iOS, hence the Mac). In the case of iOS apps you have to have a Mac and Xcode installed and up to date. As for the rest of the existential "why do you use that" the answer is mostly "because they are the best tools given the job requirement" and I take the jobs because they pay well and are fun.

Perhaps a better question is: why are you drawn to the area of programming that you are? For me, the idea that my apps are used on PERSONAL devices and are HELD AND TOUCHED by the end users is a powerful thing. Line of business web apps have the antiseptic separation between the screen and the user: you need a mouse to proxy your physical gestures to the computer. Mobile apps have a sense of being with you at all times as opposed to something on a desk. In a world of decreasing personal interaction, creating mobile apps seems like a very high-touch and personal way to affect people.
> doesn’t suggest any useful policy

All good points. Some blue cities do very well and some do very poorly. I have to conclude that the problems are mostly exogenous to policy.

> being “blue” leads to failure

To be clear, I was never suggesting that progressive policies lead inexorably to decline—the most successful parts of the county are blue.

> a pretty strong argument could be made

I’m more skeptical here. The policies you cite are neither necessary nor sufficient for vitality. Most pointedly, progressive values were nonexistent for most of America’s history, and yet it did quite well economically.

> literal “smoking hole in the ground” worse

But my whole point is that it was a smoking hole in the ground! I started this whole thread by responding to a claim about the inevitability of red states going “third world.” To my eye, such a thing has never happened to rural areas, but has happened to urban areas (I might add, with some frequency). Be it density or whatever—there’s something that needs to be explained.

> rural few dictate to the urban many

Agreed. I think it would be equally bad for the urban many to dictate to the rural few. Federal level policy is inappropriate for most things
Downloade Videos and Music from YouTube, Facebook, Vimeo, Dailymotiond
U.S. may outlaw messaging encryption used by WhatsApp, iMessage and others
They probably spend most of their days sending emails, you just don't see them.
I understood it differently: it will start in Alex but not go all the way to the airport. Your point makes sense though. It should start in September.
They should still them to tesla for their battery plant which also conveniently loses power and ruins megawatts hours of batteries.

So 'spicious. All of it.
You recently got promoted so your manager likes you and you are in a good spot on your team. So I wouldn't change teams.

I wouldn't talk to your manager about working on stuff you want or mention leaving to work on side projects.

Focus on your job for now, save even more and test out doing side projects on your own.

Check what documents you have regarding IP for things you work on outside of work on your own hardware. I wouldn't raise a red flag by asking this question through HR.

You might like this podcast StartUpsForTheRestOfUs.com listen to the archive.

I would start building some simple side projects that can earn some money and build up your skills and experience in that area following a stair step approach. Rob outlines it on StartUpsForTheRestOfUs.com.

Once you have a few wins under your belt you can think about leaving your FAANG job in the future to start a SaaS or other project that you feel has a high probability of success and generating quit your job money.

Good luck with your transition.
All these things are built by private companies. The funding is the part that comes from government.
Yep I'm dumb. That's what I get for writing that snippet last night with a few drinks in me.

As for comparison against switches, I find that switches are very limited in a lot of languages (looking at you C/C++). The problem with the if else chain as well is that most code formatters seem to blow it up into the fully expanded form which kills readability.
what about Apple?
The polygraph is just an interrogation prop, like a cop holding a thick file of empty papers disputing your answers during interrogation "But we have a witness statement that says you were in the building at the time". The random squiggles and wires attached to you are designed to stress you into screwing up your alibi/story and it's still effective enough they keep using it because people believe it actually works. If you try and defeat a fake prop by clenching muscles or some silly breathing techniques you've already lost because you believe it's real in the first place, much like how a voodoo curse works on those who actually believe and start to see the curse manifesting everywhere. It's job has been completed, to distract and stress you enough in hopes you begin to contradict your previous statements.

The interrogators will always have props and fake analysis, like a "chair sensor" that can detect you trying to defeat the machine, or eye movement sensor, face reading 'expert', blood patterns they claim disputes your statements, a small wand with decorative LEDs and wires they claim can read chemical traces from your clothing as they wave it around and make a concerned face looking at a switched off laptop screen afterwards, or a fake phone on the desk "We've just learned your accomplice has been arrested and is in the next room making a deal, are you sure you don't want to change your story?". The Chicago Police are famous for arresting groups of people, and taking photos of one of them signing some kind of property release waiver, then presenting the photos to the other suspects claiming they have been snitched on.

The most critical part of the interrogation with a polygraph is in the middle of the test where they switch off the machine and then continue to interrogate you "Let's just talk freely". Classic interrogation tricks (that still work), nothing more.
The FreeBSD Journal: FreeBSD for Makers
From what I understand (which is very, very little!), fundamental NT vs Linux architecture differences wrt their respective file systems prevent much more performance improvement in WSL 1.x.