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Me and the kids played for hours, but there were some parts that were far too frustrating. I often ran out of those stupid red crystals and couldn't find any on the planet. So I'd be stuck there for hours and hours just dying and looking for them. Also, the story/UI were confusing as hell, I could never remember what was going on, who I was friends with, where I was going next. Overall, a confusing and boring game.
I would say the same effect applies to programming languages too.

Learning languages with different "grammar" allows one to think about the same problem in different parallel ways. For example by being exposed to a functional language one is able to approach a particular task from a different angle even if doing OOP.

The same way people were able to reason using distance or volume when estimating time in the article.

The difficult part I suppose is figuring out which paradigm is most appropriate for the given situation.
I really like the idea of unlinking publication from evaluation. Especially in CS people cite arxiv preprints all the time since the field moves so fast. I do this in my own work as well, but most of my field does not publish preprints on arxiv. Without real infrastructure, we’re all de facto relying on google scholar to sort all these things out.

I’m starting to think that open and signed reviews would go a long way towards moving from review as a gatekeeping mechanism to a means of improving the overall quality and accessibility of the scientific discourse.

What is the project you’re involved in?
Even if you already have a PhD and tenure, many academic papers are collaborations, and so if the top relevant journals aren't open-access then you need to publish there if one of your co-authors needs a PhD, tenure, etc. Given that much research involves at least one PhD student, it's very hard to move out of the system.

(My personal policy has been to avoid submitting to closed-access venues, but accept it if my coauthors needed it. However, I don't do reviews for these venues.)
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I mean, all of the devices already support v6. The problem is providers and services not deploying it and software ignoring it's existence.
The argument, then, would be whether a being can or does experience suffering, in the emotional sense, as a result of the pain.

Is it reasonable to assume a bacteria has the same internal emotion responses to sensation?
That's great. Thanks for reading.
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Isn't the most painful instruction a conditional jump? Especially when the CPU had preloaded the following instructions and realizes it has to abruptly branch somewhere else. If there is a mechanism of pain in the CPU it should be triggered by this unpredicted waste of power and time.
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Reducing your cancer risk is more about delaying getting cancer until something else killed you.

People talk about actions gaining or losing X time from someone’s life. That should not be taken literally as it’s simply a way to interpret statistics. Much like how playing the lottery is a net loss of around 50% of the ticket price. That does not mean you always get 1$ back from a 2$ ticket.
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Interesting article!

One question, how are your backups?

We moved away from datastax for a number of reasons, one of the biggest was the lifecycle manager. For us, it silently failed to make backups, created backups that were unrecoverable, and other generally nasty stuff.

The worst part was with every update, something broke that should have been caught be QA. It felt like nobody was regularly testing their backups, or they rolled their own(which defeats the point of buying support)

Having said that, if you wanted to stream things like log data, cassandra was brilliant.

However, it collapsed like a sack of poop as soon as you wanted to do any kind of reading. In the end we replaced a 6 node r4.4xlarge 4TB cluster with a single t2.medium Postgres instance.
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OP doesn't mention a company at all. If they are doing a fun side project at uni, or a research project, it might that business needs are not be the most important aspect!
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There's NOT a single parent on earth that doesn't comfort and encourage it's kid unless he/she is some kind of a toxic psycho. Every parent think the best of their kid, either it's beauty or smartness.
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Atari and Commodore never shipped a decent BASIC with their 16-bit machines. GFA Basic for the ST was wonderful, but you had to go buy or acquire it.
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Ask HN: Is Redux Dying?
Last time I checked, React has now introduced React Hooks since 16.8, but the way in which the wind is going, Redux looks like it is no longer needed in the future for state management.

With a new React project I am starting I cannot seem to choose which one to go with.

Advice?
So I see where we disagree, then. I do really think VR enables new possibilities, some of them I can think of but most beyond my imagination.

Don’t want to further the argument, but at least we identified the point we diverge on! We’ll see.

If you haven’t been to any kind of VR meet-up or hacking group, research lab or whatever, I’d recommend taking any opportunity to do so, as it might change your mind. An example I saw recently was research therapeutic use of VR in hospitals, with incredible effect sizes. And that kind of thing is just baby steps.
Yes, thanks for mentioning. It has been on my radar as well, but as I have seen its less universal and more focused on the verification of concurrent processes - which is not the whole picture.

But I will give a shot if there is nothing else.
I've found most "conditions" in conditional breakpoints to be very limiting, especially if i want to query objects and the debugger cannot do that. Usually i start with printf and then i just modify the code with something like "if (condition) __debugbreak();" (or the langage equivalent).
You'll always be able to roll your own. What this is about is like running a live distro w/ "persistence", except from your own hard drive instead of external media. With comparable benefits and drawbacks, I assume - in fact some of the drawbacks of live distros could be avoided, since you could have an "initial setup" (adding users, hardware detection, basic config etc.) the results of which are persisted.
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that in my mind is classic example of how immutable approach saves you from the problem of reading inconsistent world. just like assembly registers, cache lines or struct field alignment, having to think about possibility to read the world inconsistently should not be "generic engineer's" job. it should be considered low level. there are more important things my brain has to be occupied with - like doing my actual job of writing business logic. it's great that borrow checker will error out, but i just don't ever want to see an error like that and that's why i love clojure and immutable persistent datastructures in general.
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> If Elsevier was really providing no value, why don’t scientists simply submit their work elsewhere? Clearly scientists and universities don’t really care about open access. If it was that important to them, they would just stop submitting content to non-open-access journals.

The problem is coordination: everyone would like to stop, there would be a huge collective benefit if everyone stopped, but the first ones who stop will be penalized, so no one wants to be among the first.

> Elsevier puts a lot of work into making their journals prestigious

This gives the impression that the journals are prestigious thanks to Elsevier. In fact, what makes the journals prestigious is the hard work of paper authors and reviewers over the last decades, none of which were paid by Elsevier.
Debian buster VM on an old CPU without RDRAND takes about 5 minutes for the kernel crng init to complete and for sshd to start accepting connections. Stracing the sshd process shows that it's indeed blocked on `getrandom()`.

In some ways, it's very much WONTFIX because something like sshd might actually need the entropy. I'm glad that systemd has proper workarounds implemented so that the machine actually boots out of the box, though.
It’s ridiculous. This sort of mutilation should be flat out illegal. It’s physical child abuse, plain and simple.
No, from the description myositis is highly unlikely. He claims his leg was paralyzed completely, not just the calve. Also rapid onset, no phase of "weakness", equally rapid recovery of function is inconsistent with significant muscle destruction. OP didn't report pain, or changes in perception and sensitivity, but I suspect the latter might have taken place.

I'd pick something neurological. Diagnostics involve a lot of poking with needles and electric stimulation, much like you would debug a circuit.

Does the muscle work when stimulated directly? Does it do something it shouldn't while not stimulated (spasmic activity). Do the nerves leading to the affected muscle conduct direct stimulation? Are relevant reflexes working?

Today you'd probably also use an MRI do rule out lesions in the brain and spinal chord. And still, after all of that you might not find anything really "wrong", which often is a good sign.

One case I witnessed had virtually no motor function behind the hips, and no control over bladder release and completely recovered within one or two weeks without significant intervention.

Unfortunately the owner didn't want to pay for an MRI, but the dog, which had a long history of coagulation problems anyway, probably experienced some kind of bleeding somewhere in the spine. Such "vascular" causes typically happen and unhappen that quickly.

One acronym is VITAMIN-D: Vascular, Inflammation, Traumatic, Anomaly, Metabolic, Infection, Neoplastic and Degenerative.
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this page might help https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/

But is raw cpu time really what matters most for you or solving a problem in away that can be scaled and maintained in away that you understand maybe more important?
> Assuming Elsevier is killed off, someone else will have to put in the work of sifting good from bad.

All of this work is performed by unpaid reviewers, not by Elsevier themselves.
This may be a narrative that found agreeable statistics as there is no mention of abortion. It seems self evident that abortions reduce the number of children born into low income, high risk environments and those with birth defects. These are all leading reasons for infant mortality and reasons that women choose to have an abortion in the first place.
> But you will, over time, run into edge cases and problems that a mature library has already solved for

It’s entirely possible that the new problems you encounter will be different than the ones the mature library was designed to address, and then you end up hacking around solutions to problems you don’t have in order to fix the ones you do.
Yes but "small focused circles" is essentially the extent of where WoT works. It doesn't scale to larger or loose communities.
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We can do a lot of "debugging". For example you can check if the muscles work on their own, which nerves are conducting and how fast...
Ah man, QBasic makes me feel nostalgic! My first experiences of programming were with ZX Spectrum and BBC Micro BASIC when I was 5 or 6 or so but that was just simple IF this PRINT that type stuff, or copying listings from books. QBasic was where I first started realising you could do some really cool things with the combination of your brain and programming!

I remember a teacher at school used to let us use the computers at lunch to play with QBasic and being very proud of working out how to draw a BMP file (in the days before we had Internet access)... and then a pupil in the year above blowing that completely away with a demo he’d written with pseudo-3D graphics and everything. He later got expelled for writing some kind of boot sector virus and installing it on the school computers. Wonder what he is up to now!
Those are the thumbnails and you may end up seeing them with a subpar connection. The site lazy-loads the images.
First , how is this neuroscience news. Second there is no mention of the obvious cause, abortions, so i won't trust this article.
I would say it is used everywhere in the UK, more so in the midlands - try the Birmingham accent.
O don't think them being "killed off." They are just no longer the top of the line.

The 17-15inch sized laptops are transitioning into the computer appliance category
I dunno, do trees feel pain? They react to stimuli. Do you feel pain when you're unconscious? People react to stimuli when they're asleep, in a coma, braindead...
Let's now wait while some "bright mind" jumps to add "Why not do both?".
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Really cool thing I remember about Turbo Pascal was that you could drop in x86 Assembly right in your Turbo Pascal code and the compiler would take care of it. If you wanted to write a function with better performance you could just use assembly.
That sounds like the way Android partitions work.
Reality is brutal and unforgiving. There's no justice or fairness. Nobody cares if you enjoy your life. Game is artificially made to abuse your instincts, to provide joy when you need it, to provide challenge when you need it.
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I'm going to be that guy and complain about the webpage's formatting.

When I opened the page, a modal dialog was covering everything asking me to sign up for some newsletter. I closed it to get to the article, and I ended up with this: https://i.imgur.com/sV9hfOA.png. The actual article makes up less than 4% of my screen. I've never seen a page this bad before. There's two different types of pop-ins from different directions I have to close before the article becomes readable. It's like playing whack-a-mole. Is anyone working on the site proud of that? Who looked at the site when it had just one of those pop-ins (and a modal) and made the decision that it needed another one? I don't want to be too ranty, I'm actually baffled.
On workstations and laptops, no, but I work in enterprise and a _lot_ of Linux appliances out in the wild could benefit from this.
Is there a linguistic name for this returning to the pronunciation or accent of your youth when drinking or around others with the same/similar accent?

I am also from Long Island, and have largely moderated my pronunciation to match a more standard pronunciation, but when I interact with natives of north Jersey, parts of NYC and Long Island, I somehow start adopting the accent a bit, unconsciously.
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Assuming people will create great works while living off a sustenance-level basic income is a bit of a stretch. And, it seems to ignore the extreme level of work, commitment, and persistence it takes to write books, publish science, etc.

The issue is not whether people should be able to profit off their own work but whether a rent-seeking gatekeeper should be able to hijack others' work and profit off it.
Oh I absolutely agree that words and metaphors can shape the way we think about things. I'm just skeptical towards theories that couple this to languages as a whole.
I was a big trackball fan for many years (mostly Logitech models). Although I admit I switched away, in part because there was at least a period when I didn't like any of the models available, but also because Apple finally did a trackpad I actively liked rather than barely tolerated.
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What people on this thread are trying to say is that things like cars and robots are created and seemingly understood by us humans. We took inanimate objects and pieced them together using principals we've learned from observation of these inanimate objects.

Insects on the other hand are what we've scientifically classified as biological things. Creatures that share some of the same biological qualities we have. Unfortunately, humans don't understand all parts of their own biology to even recognize how similar another living thing is.

What I'm saying is that if pain is a perceptual result, we have no way of saying insects cannot perceive it the same way we do. All we know is that they have brains, like most other biological creatures, and that the base assumption should be that they do have pain.

Take any other creature like a dog. Why would a dog feel pain? Their brain's may be more complex than something like an ant, but who's to say the rise in brain complexity has brought about the emergence of pain? Humans know too little about the world but a lot of people insist on taking the opinion most convenient to them. If they don't have to think about the fact that they inflict pain on insects, they can keep killing them in a variety of ways without any moral apprehension in the slightest.
tks for that :-)
Really loved my 500CM / Planar 80mm and DIY B&W at home but 3rd party developing & scanning medium-format have become so expensive that it forced me to abandon this meditative hobby. Wish someone could take a stab and find a solution to make it affordable again.
Before Silverblue, Red Hat and Fedora maintain a list of custom build scripts for all packages that apply patches and security updates.

After Silverblue, when they run in Flatpaks, they can still maintain build scripts that achieve the same thing.

The distribution itself can even maintain a common base image for all flatpaks in the official repos, retaining all of the code sharing of existing systems, but with the benefit of a more robust and modular solution when they need to make exceptions. End users will also be able to more reliably use applications that are not supported by the distribution proper.
It’s not only the form factor. They’re also obsessed with high resistance switches (going as high as 65 and even 80g activation point) which is sure way to develop RSI.

You should aim to go as low as possible but still avoiding accidental activation when resting your fingers on the keyboard. For most people, that means between 30 and 35g.

Realforce makes a bunch of them but they’re not held in high regard by the mechanical keyboard community because they don’t feel tactile enough. Let alone the fact that they dare using rubber in the keyboards.

Fortunately they seem to be busier building them from scratch and posting the results on Reddit than actually typing.
Sonofabitch! I'm sitting on about 3000kg of clothes from the last four months of our clothing donation program in one small apartment building.

Fashion? Are you people insane? Wear clothes for decorum, not decor, and to keep you warm. Fashion is just another horrendous excuse for waste by the ton.

Haven't you noticed that our planet is dying from human activity multiplied by our numbers, rapidly approaching 8 billion?

How are we writing and reading articles about fucking fashion in the midst of a fire?
I have used a kinesis for 12+ years as my main keyboard.

I'm not fully sure what you are asking -- I would guess you're referring to the fact that it's harder than usual to type with one hand and mouse with the other, because you have to reach across to the other side of the keyboard?

If that's what you're asking, I agree -- but I consider it a good thing :). I found that the kinesis helped me focus on touch-typing more and relying more on keyboard shortcuts to navigate; it's a bit of a learning curve but ultimately worth it for ergonomics and speed.
I don't understand the appeal of anorexic laptops. Sacrificing repairability, cooling, features, and connectivity. All so it can be thinner and lighter? What's the use case for that? Are there really millions of people who walk around with a laptop cradled in their arms every day? Surely these laptops spend the majority of their active time either on a desk or in a lap? Have desks become so flimsy that they can no longer support the weight of a laptop? Have people grown so weak they can no longer carry one in their bags?
I got a full HD (vertical, IPS), 2k (IPS) and a 4k (TN) screen on my desk. All have VGA.

I also have a 4k tv on my wall. It also has VGA.
From the abstract,"churches and church membership data." unless they went tabulating from church to church, this throws the results nearly out. Church membership isn't something that is updated particularly frequently, at least in my experience.
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Can you please elaborate a little bit more of how you replaced it by postgres? Because it is strange that a single box of postgres in way less powerful instance type would perform the same as your cassandra cluster.
This kind of seems that the first solution was way over engineered or was built for different requirements.
14" is the sweet spot for me. That's roughly the size of a full sized laptop keyboard (tenkeyless). They keyboard and the screen align nicely without too much wasted space. It's small enough to fit in just about any bag, and big enough to have a useful screen with a boatload of pixels.
This is the stoic mindset, worry about only things you have control over.
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I sometimes wonder whether something that looks like a spreadsheet was pretty much an inevitable invention and major category of office software.

A word processor certainly seems inevitable. And, probably, something that lets you create content to be projected.

But the spreadsheet? Certainly tabular data was very common in a business setting but I sometimes wonder if that had to lead to Visicalc, Lotus 1-2-3, and Excel.
Who's talking about blame? If you can't give the presentation, nobody cares who is to blame for it, they care that you didn't give the presentation.
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I have one of these too. I ended up not using it because I preferred my long-standing kinesis. It was quite comfortable though; my main complaint was with the switches -- I didn't like the Matias switches it ships with (I prefer Cherry Browns). I also felt that I wanted more thumb-keys, but that's obviously a preference I inherited from my longtime Kinesis usage :).

If the design appeals to you I do still recommend it despite not preferring it myself. The build quality was great. I don't have any comments in particular about the height, not something I noticed.
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"I understand that this procedure will remove healthy and functioning tissue from my son's penis, and involves similar risk as other prophylactic or cosmetic surgeries, including infection, disfigurement, and death. I understand that the procedure may be performed without anaesthesia at the doctor's discretion. I understand that the doctor has recommended my son undergo circumcision because studies have shown a reduction in the risk for serious diseases in circumcised men; or else, that I have requested a circumcision be performed in observation of a deep and abiding religious or cultural belief which I reasonably believe my son will share when he would have been of age to consent himself."

Parents should have to sign a statement like this before it's performed. It should no longer be the default, and parents should understand that they don't have to be railroaded into the decision.
I once read something on Reddit that imagined how the world would be like if ants could make audible noise in response to being touched or killed. I feel like that definitely add a new perspective to how we see insects