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The reason I don't like twitter because of all the dumb reaction gifs.
Probably to make porting easier. Keep in mind they can't use all the homebrew GPL ports, since they don't own that source code, so can't strip the GPL from them.
"The roll is made out of three layers of different plastic"

So it's basically Paper vs Plastic. What is bad about the cardboard boxes that these thing replaces?
And it’s hard to see any benefits of them collecting all this data. If I remember correctly, there was a rumor that their telemetry told them that nobody used the Start Menu, leading to the Windows 8 debacle! Have they pushed any new features lately that have been directly attributed to data collection?
I am pretty sure you can upload a video to your favorite web host and publish as much controversial content as you want.

People want YouTube's captive audience of billions and the pre-existing monetization network. But they are upset that there are arbitrary rules for accessing that audience/money. I am pretty sure that 99.9% of Youtubers wouldn't exist if there were no possibility of ever making money from their videos.

Wherever YouTube stands right now, it's still better than the situation 20 years ago where a few network executives controlled what sort of video programming would be produced. It might not be perfect, but there are plenty of people who started from nothing that are making money from their creative work; something that wouldn't have even been possible just a few years ago. So maybe it's not all bad.
CPU nomming is a worse problem IMO, as your fans spin up and battery life shrinks. Other chat clients don't use notable resources, its suprising that Slack hasn't had much pushback over its heavy resource usage thus far.
Interesting idea but it doesn't address the plastics problem. I can't stand those giant plastic bubble wrap envelopes amazon and others seem to love using. You can't easily reuse them and they cant be placed in plastics recycling (though they can be recycled with other plastic bags at supermarkets or recycling locations). At least I can find other uses for cardboard and have often recycled boxes for storage or as raw materials for a project.
Looks like a copy of the NG global hawk.
You do if you want the scam to keep going. See Corinthian Colleges, for example. (Or Trump University's recent settlement, for a more recent example.)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corinthian_Colleges
> is easily fixed in a semi-automated, supervised way.

It's not. Once you have shared, transitive dependencies, the application author consuming a package is no longer the one who authored or is in control of the dependency on that transferred package.

> A very large transitive dependency graph is a terrible thing to have.

This is a fair subjective preference. Unfortunately, it flies in the face of reality. Anyone who maintains a package manager will tell you real-world package graphs are typically quite large and deep. If users didn't want that, they wouldn't do it.

> Your package manager should scold you for it!

Users don't generally like or use tools that scold them for doing what they want to do.
Reality is complex, and having weak tools and languages just pushes complexity further down the line. It's quite evident of the extremely verbose, messy code bases that come out of using golang in even slightly complex domains.

The vast majority of the claims behind golang (e.g. "large scale development", etc.) are not only baseless, but practical review of golang code bases shows that it's actually a step backward, and those claims do not manifest.
I think de-monetizing is part of Google's profit plan. They provide content for no cost, but can still show ads and earn revenues. It's a giant scam.
They claim it's not DRM, but a way to participate in their Slayers Club promotion. That being said, Bethesda has pretty much spent any goodwill they may have had lately, so maybe you can't take them at their word.

Doesn't Switch provide its own DRM?
>B2B is a large part of their income, telemetry has probably damaged their reputation as a business vendor.

Don't their Enterprise and business editions of windows omit all the telemetry?
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Yikes; this nonsense will turn into an incomprehensible ball of hair in the implementation of anything real.

You don't know if anything will work or continue to work due to being randomly blocked or otherwise interfered with by code that either already exists or will be added tomorrow.

Basically this is just flow-based programming (FBP) in a new form.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow-based_programming

Every new generation of coders reaches a puberty characterized by uncontrollable excitement with multiple threads of control doing little things independently.
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I think the gist of his argument is not that no external objective reality exists, but that it is fundamentally impossible using his model of perception to distinguish an "external reality" from a discrete network of other conscious agents, of arbitrary complexity and number. Both would fit the mathematical definition of "W" in his formulation.
yeah, "accident"
Saying AI does funky things from time-to-time is hardly an extraordinary claim.

Meanwhile, an individual injecting bias without the hack's true purpose being obvious to co-workers would be difficult. The more subtle and circumstantial the hack, the more likely it will be broken/ignored by someone else's changes.

A hack is still possible, but I'd want evidence of intentional bias before entertaining the claim.
IQ was important to determine the effect of lead exposure on cognitive function. Without it we probably wouldn't have nearly as stringent laws banning it (eg. in paint, and gasoline), and would still be suffering from endemic lead poisoning.

It's not particularly important to know your own IQ as an individual (you probably already have an idea of your abilities) but it's very useful for that sort of public health purpose. If there are other neurotoxins floating around which we don't know about, IQ will be important to identify and justify banning them.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8162884
Not a fan of the secret ballot?
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The usefulness of the polygraph is not to detect lies, but is to be used as a enhanced interrogation tool.
Here's the summary report that explains the methodology, data analysis and results: http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/files/file/Tiger%20...
Wasting your time with these pseudo-scientists, all they want to hear is that their cold weather genes are superior.
It looks like WhatsApp is providing APIs via these companies:

https://www.facebook.com/business/partner-directory/search?p...
If you want good software you simply have to pay more. These are small teams with no prior experience trying to do something huge, it makes sense to expect to pay even 5 times more if the direction of the project is good. Hopefully future versions will be cheaper as they learn and gain experience.
In general, I have a lot of sympathy for your concern--I've used Go and other languages with generics, and the difference is noteworthy. I personally think generics is worthwhile on balance, but I respect that others don't share this opinion. I'm glad you brought it up because most conversations about generics outside of the Go community pretend as though there is no tradeoff at all. That said, what sort of generics proposal would be sufficiently powerful (or perhaps that's not what you meant by "different from interfaces"?) to alleviate your concern? And note that this proposal is quite a lot more powerful than interfaces because interfaces aren't generic over multiple types, while contracts are.
Try BFO pdf . It's paid but they are agood company. I also I love that BFO stands for "Big Faceless Organization" and the CEO answered support emails until like last year.
I've heard companies express wariness of people with PHD's. It's a stupid reason to reject someone - as are all the points he makes - but yeah, I've heard that.
"Compared to cardboard boxes, which can be easily recycled, that’s a hassle most consumers likely won’t bother with. Kent recognizes this is a problem"

Is this even true??
Saying that sending troops is an option of last resort is stating the obvious and legal reality (the Hong Kong executive can request help from the PLA by law).

While this can be interpreted as a threat, I highly doubt that the central or Hong Kong governments are considering the option.

Really, the central government does not need to do anything at the moment. Realistically these protests cannot lead anywhere and the only ones they hurt are Hong Kong people themselves and their future at a time when Hong Kong is no longer strategically important (although still important).
As with all things, just because it' possible to do it safely doesn't mean it will (chernobyl anyone?). I have a recycling plant near my house and about once a weak it smells horrible. That's just because it's strong enough to reach me on those days, living about a mile away. Those that live near it smell it every day. IT's been reported numerous times, but as always you're limited to what you can do as a mere civilian (in practical terms, not theoretical terms).

Also as the other comment stated, much of it will no doubt be shipped to burn plants that aren't upgraded with the latest and greatest tech. Even then you also have to worry about proper maintenance of the systems. Sure, you can create regulation to cover all these angles, but I highly doubt that will happen.
Is there a proper response to this other than just banging your head against a desktop until you're blissfully unconscious? I can't think of any other response that would properly articulate my response to skimming that article.
Because of ego, I'm going to plug my own (a Java parsing tool): https://github.com/norswap/autumn4

And hopefully I can some constructive criticism :)

For something not from me but still in Java, the Proguard source code is very clean: https://sourceforge.net/p/proguard/code/ci/default/tree/
> That thing is the epitome of a framework for frameworks sake.

Go on
If all else is equal, then additional dependencies are a bad thing. Otherwise the only reason to not depend on everything would be code size... And if it's a compiled language with even just a minimum of optimizations then even that wouldn't be an issue.

As with most things - it is a trade-off.
Signal can use WebSockets, as their non-FCM version (downloaded from their website) does. I've come to agree with Daniel Micay about the best way to separate apps from Google services: https://www.reddit.com/r/GrapheneOS/comments/b9j6pe/compatib...
Thats also what I got from it. It would be very wierd if IQ correlated very well below the median, and then just stoped..
Not sure you're aware of how large and remote the Amazon is. Even if the drone battery life was sustainable, you'd still need to get physical enforcement to the location.
Hey all, Jimmy Thomson here from The Narwhal. We noticed all the traffic coming from all y'all and we've been sharing this discussion on our Slack this morning.

Just wanted to say we really appreciate all the thoughtful comments — it's great to see Sarah's article generating such an interesting conversation, and we hope you keep coming back.
Thank you. I’m also that, when a company presents an unfit plane so many times for take off, there is a problem with its traditions. If a big company fails and the competitir buys it for cheap, it corrupts the competitor.

Which begs the question: If a big company fails (or some Boeing branch in a near future), even if Airbus doesn’t buy it, should it dodge job applications from the former employees of that competitor?
> IQ is the most replicated and reliable measure in all of psychometrics

This is not a high barrier to pass. Psychometrics is a field notorious for employing biased and non-existing constructs.

Just because it is well studied, doesn’t make it real. N-rays were at one point one of the most studied rays in physics. It didn’t make measurements using n-rays more reliable. If everyone is repeating the same mistake, it doesn’t erase the mistake.

You know the history of IQ and how countless studies in the past are biased in horrendous ways. It might be well replicated and "reliable", it is still wrong.
Giving an email on reddit is still technically optional, but they try to make that unclear.

During registration you can just leave the email field blank and click "Next" to skip giving one, even though there's no indication at all that it's optional.

The site also annoys you constantly now to add an email address, but you can ignore or adblock that.
A problem with fMRI is that most of the software is crap, thus rendering the analysis unreliable.

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/scicurious-brain/ignobe...
The problem there is that most "libraries" are actually frameworks.

The difference I'm drawing being, libraries just provide a mess of utility functions. Theoretically, even if your compiler won't strip the library stuff you don't need, you'd be able to take just the bits you need by copy/pasting a relatively small volume of code. And dropping the library would be a small change, that just requires finding replacements for the functions and classes you were using.

Frameworks tend to involve some Grand Unifying Abstraction that you need to inherit from, and that gets imposed on your own code. Things tend to be so tangled together at a conceptual level that it's not really possible to use them in an a la carte manner. Migrating off of a framework tends to require more-or-less a rewrite of all the code that interacts with it.

To take some Web examples: jQuery's more on the library side of things. D3 is more of a framework. React is very much a framework.
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I don't think generics necessarily need to have a complex specification. Standard ML's specification, despite parametric polymorphism and parameterised modules, is incredibly small and easy to understand.
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/12/bethesdas-attempt-to-...

https://www.pcgamer.com/fallout-76-players-finally-got-their...

Bethesda seem very 'shitty' i think is the word you're looking for
I mean that's your call my dude. Hanlon's razor, story checks out to me.

I'm fine with the "official" story.
On the iPad Mini and "iPad." The iPad Pro/Air requires Office 365:

> The suite of apps is free of charge for consumers with devices smaller than 10.1 in (26 cm), but business customers need to purchase an Office 365 subscription to take full advantage of the suite on larger screens.

You need to sign up for a Microsoft Account either way.
I think the best codebases are the ones you immediately think “Oh, that’s easy. I can reimplement that in a couple of hours.”. When it's not. It’s never easy.
What I find interesting after reading the linked wikipedia article is that the USA as a whole is not suffering from the resource curse. I wonder, just tangentially, because:

1. We are net exporters of many vital resources (food, in particular wheat and corn, is one I can think of off hand)

2. We have an abundance of natural resources and a wide variety of those natural resources to grow our economy

3. At various stages in history, we were basically the word's largest exporter of raw and manufactured goods and materials.

Yet, we aren't classified as having suffered through this.

Odd right? Or is my casual understanding just incorrect?
I'm sorry, this device profile doesn't really sell me on why I need to upgrade from my Android TracFone; it doesn't even give me confidence that it will work with the networks I need it to. This is part of the problem I've found over the years with consumer Unix-derivatives - too many "figure it out yourself" answers, not enough "just works, or we'll show you how to figure out whether it works or not first". That's the big reason why Microsoft & Apple still are the default desktop OSes, I think.
This is wrong. If you see the results report [1], it says the complete opposite. The Sundarban region recorded the least tiger population (88 tigers). The bulk of the tiger population comes from Eastern Ghats and Western Ghats regions.

[1] http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/files/file/Tiger%20...
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Just curious, do you have a source for that? I'd like to read more about it
>Like, by making paintings that nobody will care about.

That didn't work out for Hitler.
2/3 months, damn, whoever is still alive…
I can't access the study, but this news report says it doesn't examine the causes behind this. For instance, it's way cheaper to drill deeper first then going back and doing it, you generally get cleaner water, and better flow.

https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-environme...

> The study was published Monday in the journal Nature Sustainability. The authors didn’t examine causes behind the drilling of deeper wells but said factors can include declining water levels, improving pump technologies, different permit requirements for wells that tap deep aquifers and poor water quality in shallow aquifers.
Which is why I comment that it is the job of the media to properly message this to the public, instead of hopping on the bandwagon of "The name is bad!!!"

Isn't that a big part of why the media even exists? To inform the populace?
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> Unfortunately this can sometimes be coupled with a good dose of hubris ("I have a PhD and you don't!")

Is that sentiment actually common? I don’t know any other phds who would ever bother pulling that out for coding (maybe writing a research paper, even that is dubious); even in a research lab where phds are more normalized but there are still lots of people without.

I hear this stated online, but it always sounds more like some insecurity on either side going on.

We do get the shaft on hiring because we are often overqualified, meaning we might bail quickly when a better opportunity shows up. I can’t really blame smaller companies for worrying about that, especially in this day and age of $300k salaries.
More likely the US has known about the Xianglong since around the time that its development began. It has been public knowledge that they were working on it for at least 13 years now. Its capabilities would be very unlikely to surprise at this point. Globally the UAV space is well understood and mostly incremental, nobody has unleashed anything too surprising or radical in the field since the Global Hawk 20 years ago. The odds are the US military understands well what China's UAVs can and can't do, without requiring these flights to inform that particular aspect. The Navy probably appreciated getting an opportunity to track it however.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guizhou_Soar_Dragon
It should be noted that the mainland govt. doesn't need to mobilize troops. The 6000-strong combat-ready PLA Hong Kong Garrison is already in Hong Kong. The only way for them to enter is if the Hong Kong govt. gives permission or the violence/demonstrations escalates to a point where troops need to be sent in or if the garrison is provoked. Otherwise, it will likely be ignored like the 2014 Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong and no military will be sent in.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Liberation_Army_Hon...
Indeed!

Something also happens at the east coast of US. Is it a usual level of air pollution at that period?
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Could someone just automate this escalation process in the same way people were automating the fighting of traffic tickets?
Look at what I say – It is the job of the media to properly explain this to the public, instead of stoking fears that the name is inappropriate and misleading. That's the media's mission.
Was hoping they made some diy bespoke phone with diverse parts. They just built an S9 Plus :(
Texas cannot be a high tech hub until it prohibits non-compete agreements. With non-compete agreements, startups can start, but cannot grow.
The same could be said for (literally!) judging a book by its cover.
This doesn't ring true with how I've seen the terms used.

Highly scalable distributed systems are the bread and butter of backend engineering in modern tech companies. Even specialists working on storage layer tech in particular are not called "data engineers," just backend engineers, although with more systems/infrastructure focus than others.

People with the title "data engineer" at my company pretty much do ETL pipelines on Hadoop. I've done some ETL pipelines on Hadoop; seems like a tool that should be in the portfolio of any SWE. But when you give a data engineer a problem, they are sure to suggest an ETL pipeline in Hadoop; I have even seen them build RPC interfaces out of INSERT statements. Whereas a SWE is looking at a broader suite of options, and probably defaulting to backend services / OLTP databases. Hence my confusion. Maybe our use of the term is anachronistic? Or maybe they just know a bunch of HiveQL or pipeline design patterns that are too complex to fit into the heads of people who can also write services?
The Allwinner A64 platform has numerous developers working on it compared to the iMX8, which has really fleshed out fully featured hardware support over the last few years. Running most Linux distros should be a breeze on the Pinephone!
What's the big uproar about using unity for this?
You don't have to drill holes to monitor ground water. Here's an example for remote measurements:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GRACE_and_GRACE-FO#Oceanograph...
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> Liberals and conservatives oddly never disagree on the value of Pi

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Pi_Bill

> The Indiana Pi Bill is the popular name for bill #246 of the 1897 sitting of the Indiana General Assembly, one of the most notorious attempts to establish mathematical truth by legislative fiat. Despite its name, the main result claimed by the bill is a method to square the circle, rather than to establish a certain value for the mathematical constant π, the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. The bill, written by the crank Edward J. Goodwin, does imply various incorrect values of π, such as 3.2.[1] The bill never became law [...]
I see lot of frustration and alternatives provided for slack. However, I'm genuinely curious about the degree of dependence on slack for team based communication? Do people not use email anymore? We have slack at my company as well and yes it was frustrating, but we have email list. Thing just works.

P.S I don't work for slack or have any affiliation.
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Agreed. Easy to use UX is what sells tech and gets it used en masse.

Pretty tangential, but I observed that exact phenomenon recently after looking at the recent VR headsets: Oculus Rift and HTC Vive existed for at least a few years. Tried them, was pretty fun, but tangling with wires, having to have a powerful PC on hand, that 1-2min set up every time before you want to use it, it was all killing the usability for me.

Then Oculus Quest comes out earlier this year. Pretty much similar tech (a few differences, no need for PC, but can be used with one through easy sideloading), but no wires and no need for a PC connection. Every time I want to use it, I don't need to fiddle with my PC. I put the headset on, it wakes up in a few seconds at the exact spot I left it last time. I put it down, it goes to sleep in 15 seconds.

I ended up spending an hour or two almost every day for the past two months playing with it, as opposed to the previous headsets (most of which were left on the shelf a few weeks after the initial purchase). The only major advantage that Quest has over previous gen is easy and frictionless UX.

It got to the point where every single friend of mine who tried it at my place ended up purchasing their own headset the day after. And those people were some of the biggest VR skeptics, after their experiences with original Vive and Rift.