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>Of course you are allowed: you just did it here, and nobody prohibited it.

Yeah, it was a turn of phrase, didn't mean its literally banned.

You're not banned, you're just not welcome to say it, you will be treated as pariah for saying it, you will get downvoted to death, and if a discussion happens to grow around such a viewpoint, it will be in all probability marked "dead".

>What you seem to request is that nobody is criticizing your stance.

No, what I request is that people give thought to such propositions and argue with counter-arguments as opposed to facile dismissals and outrage...
> keeping the core more lightweight and extensible

I’m not sure if that’s sarcasm or not, considering the countless issues with CliqZ and Pocket
I've been saying for a while that the best PHP code you can write today is basically Java that you were writing 10 years ago.

The trade-off between Java 7 and PHP 7.x is that Java has generics, but PHP's treatment of nullable variables is better/safer.
> Build 10 times more reactors in the world, multiply per 50 years of operation and now you have 17 000 000 cube meters of high level waste.

So now you have 17 000 10x10x10m cubes to stuff somewhere. Still very little, and completely manageable. And that's assuming we'd build up old-school nuclear reactors. If you allow for using the new reactor designs, a lot of that would be reused as fuel.
Agreed. I've always considered this a bit of a myth.

Most houses only appreciate if you spend time, effort, and money to properly maintain them. On top of maintenance, in most places, you'll have to pay annual taxes.

When I go to sell my current house, I may break even - essentially living free. However, I certainly don't expect to come out ahead.
I think you mean "advance health directive", not "advanced..."
I was never curious enough to read the offers, I just bin those emails. As said, this project was never about being profitable and I am already very grateful for the donations I received.
There are Arduinos with Cortex processors. I think they have around 196kb RAM, yay!

It could be enough to perhaps implement a very rudimentary voice recognition, which could indeed be interesting for these low cost devices. And if it is just about being activated by a specific key word.

Speaking of machine learning is perhaps a bit much, but isn't it the same in other applications?
finance is the meta-game. "All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of indirection"
"Search engine providers will be allowed to bid in an auction to win a spot on the users' screens, along with Google, to become the device's default search engine on the Android home screen as well as the Chrome browser."

So Google wants to make sure they win no matter what.
The app stores are littered with these, so yes.

"Celebrities" have backed them, they come in life, fantasy, sci-fi, business, crime, sports and every other genre you can imagine.
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At Reonomy, we have been in the midst of a transition between FE technologies. Our platform was initially built with a mix of AngularJS – and over the past few months, we have made a full transition to the more developer-friendly React.

In order to make this transition feasible, we created a reactive-hooks library for rendering RxJS observables using React Hooks.
What is his programming environment like?
I wonder if this could be restarted (alas in English...). Any English-speakers who have experienced the mechanics of these kind of games? It's been so long that I received a 'postcard' that the idea almost is thrilling.
Did you move to Germany/Austria/Switzerland by any chance?

The colleague you described who has no life except work rings very familiarly with my time there.

In my experience, wherever I went, there was always a no-lifer on the team(no kids/wife/girlfriend, no sports/hobbies) who used to answer emails after midnight and push to git on a Sunday hoping to get that pat on the back from the managers. Career advancements were difficult as at your performance review he would be used as the benchmark.
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Artificially stale derivative prices are unquestionably more complex than up to date ones.
I feel like the rate is determined by the market and/or the profit model of the buyer.

So a) there are other extension authors with similar coverage who are selling out and/or b) they can't turn a reasonable profit at a higher price.
Which prevents any extension author free reign on my browser data.
Lots of noise about who Thiel is, not a blip on why he is wrong. Usually a good bet for him being right
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"Again, this claim is something I see only from self described Bayesians."

The claim is that the prior is subjective and they're bad. The Bayesians are drawing the analogy that frequenteist assumptions are just as subjective (but maybe less explicit) to the prior selection so objecting to one and not the other is... ...in need of further justification.
> a curious proposition, but why?

I think the initial part of this snippet answers the question: this is mostly an effort by someone to type up a fun idea. Said someone is most likely a theorist, who doesn't let small details like slewing speed or exposure time prevent them from writing up a fun idea.

Honestly it seems like David Kipping could be a pretty fun guy to sit down and dream up weird stuff with, witness arxiv:1903.03423,

"The Halo Drive: Fuel-Free Relativistic Propulsion of Large Masses via Recycled Boomerang Photons"

"Abstract: Gravitational slingshots around a neutron star in a compact binary have been proposed as a means of accelerating large masses to potentially relativistic speeds. Such a slingshot is attractive since fuel is not expended for the acceleration, however it does entail a spacecraft diving into close proximity of the binary, which could be hazardous. It is proposed here that such a slingshot can be performed remotely using a beam of light which follows a boomerang null geodesic. Using a moving black hole as a gravitational mirror, kinetic energy from the black hole is transferred to the beam of light as a blueshift and upon return the recycled photons not only accelerate, but also add energy to, the spacecraft. It is shown here that this gained energy can be later expended to reach a terminal velocity of approximately 133% the velocity of the black hole. A civilization could exploit black holes as galactic way points but would be difficult to detect remotely, except for an elevated binary merger rate and excess binary eccentricity"
Most tech jobs don't require a degree, even if they say they want one. I'd apply anyway if you think you can do the job.
For me the second half (or so) was what made Fight Club more than just a motivational story and a proper classic, precisely because it went off the rails.

The way I see it, the first half asked questions and explored various problems in society that many of us see and experience. It was cathartic and motivational.

But the second half was more of a warning. If we can't replace the things we reject with something 'greater', the result is ugly.

I credit Fight Club for helping me turn to various life philosophies (stoicism among them, and in particular Buddhism) rather than hedonistic abandon or angry nihilism, or something like utopian socialism, because I sure as hell didn't want things in my life to become some variation of the second half of the movie.
The other things that "beginner" tutorials such as this do is they say "lisp" when they really mean "something resembling Scheme".

I started a project some time ago to write an elisp interpreter, mostly for fun. But since elisp is much more like Common Lisp than Scheme, it has a surprising amount more syntax than a Scheme does. The parser was much more complex than I initially thought it would be.
If a market can't be cleared using a spreadsheet with 2^16 rows and 2^8 columns then the market is not efficient.

Largely because most of the trade strategies live in ancient xls files no one dares edit.
Certainly prettier than using call_user_func($foo->bar), so that's something.
Oh we had the same kind of issue moving a spring project into lambdas ...

Don't do that kids
I cannot relate to the pro-nuclear position you are describing so maybe this is a cultural/country specific thing. For me at least, being pro-nuclear is part of a position of being pro everything-that-isn't-fossil-fuel, and pro 0-fossil-energy ASAP.

On a practical level UK nuclear plants are steadily dying of old age and there are no immediate signs of maintaining the level of nuclear output let alone growing it. One of the major nuclear replacement programmes is increasingly looking like it's going to falter[0], and one of the new builds is perpetually beset with problems[1].

In recent months the UK has managed long streaks of 0 coal being burned, and the already massive level of nuclear output is part of that. As I write there is 0GW coal production, 5.6GW nuclear, 17.8GW Gas, 0.9GW wind[2].

By all means let's grow the wind output but let's grow the nuclear output at the same time.

[0] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-46836647
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinkley_Point_C_nuclear_power_...
[2] https://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/
Profiting in this way seems to be a bastardization of the purpose of the market and provides no value.
I remember the back ad for Savage Sword of Conan in the 80s and even 90s was a play by mail RPG called “Hyperborian Wars” or something. I never joined because it was super expensive at about $8/month for monthly mailings with adventures.
I have a feeling he uses Emacs:

https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/programs/color-mo...

It's magical watching experienced developers who have used Emacs for several decades, the way they fly through is amazing.

Edit: He has a page on emacs wiki too it seems.

https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/DonaldKnuth
I'll never understand why rfc's, arguably the underpinnings of internet technology, are styled to appear as TYPEWRITTEN pages in HTML. Seriously. Literal pages of typewritten text, on the web.

I mean, they take significant effort to devise these standards and write them up, presumably with modern tools, AND THEN force weird typewriter CSS upon them? It looks awful. I can't understand it.
This is not about NIPS proceedings. It's about advanced nextgen chip hardware capability, something China does not have. It would be like giving someone a rocketship when they don't know how to build and pilot a plane. Inorganic technology transfers -- phase shifts like this -- are ripe for disaster. Without internal time-tested checks and balances, gifting the gap is a recipe for chaos -- NOT a recipe for containment. How long will the chaos last? Hard to see. Does anyone have a model for that? It could lead to their undoing, and others' too. Haven't we learned that lesson yet?
I will never undestand this argument. Bothering with types? How? In most cases you will need int, double or string - how this is difficult? It is more difficult to figure out types you heve to deal with if language doesn't provide such information. If by prototyping you mean Hello World like apps then ok, but anything more complex without types becomes mess very quickly and prototyping speed have to decrease.
> Put it in a sealed container and drop it in an abandoned mine, or even a pool. Keep an armed detail protecting it from getting stolen. There, done.

Indeed.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asse_II_mine
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Yep, I have heard such stories. "Folks" were FPGA engineers and one of their primary target was to be able to cache "stuff" in SRAM as much as possible as that is the part which yields nanosecond latency.

My experience was more along the "man in the middle" setups which HFT shops used to hide their trading in the shorter term. The man in the middle got better prices at the exchange due to increased volumes and the HFT shop got a fairly good opportunity to hide it's activity for a short while.

At a later stage at some venues, the HFT shop did not even need to route their orders via MITM, the MITM simply got a firehose of HFT's execution reports to reverse build the order books !

Smoke and mirrors...(and nonsense)
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nuclear power might be impractical for a hotter earth http://en.rfi.fr/france/20190726-frances-nuclear-electricity...
How can you say that with the knowledge of our country’s history and continued acceptance of slavery. Hypocritical at best
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Is there a living will? What is their wishes, either written or verbally spoken?

In cases where we have to make hard decisions like this, I find some solace that they have made their decisions ahead of time so that we only complete their requests.

I don't envy you at all in this. The same thing happened to my dad, except the life-saving measures failed, and the doctors said there was nothing else they could do. They gave my mom an 'out', since it was not her choice.
Climate denialists are completely acceptable and don't disguise themselves, one of them is the POTUS. The last thing the oil and shale industry needs are an expansion of nuclear capacity, directly threatening their booming gas electric generator business.

The nuclear shills are owned by the nuclear industry itself, which is strongly pushing for renewed subsidies and government support for an activity that, due to irrational fear of the public, cannot currently compete. The renewable industry has it's own shills, often disguised as climate scientists, often very concerned about the carbon footprint of reactor building while conveniently forgetting the same factors for the much less dense and more material intensive renewable generators.

Basically, we cannot pretend that any political decision which affects industries worth billions of dollars be free from corporate PR and outright disinformation. There is no David vs Goliath here, everyone is shilling.
He was executed for failing to honor gods nobody believes in anymore, and for 'corrupting the youth' with his teachings which are still studied and extremely highly regarded thousands of years after his death. It was the exact case with Galileo as well and generally with all names on the list. They are not punished directly for what they say, as there tend to be no laws explicitly against such, but instead with mostly fake charge sprung as a means of silencing them or attacking them, sometimes permanently. For instance in Galileo's case he was similarly imprisoned for life under 'suspicion of heresy.'
Yes that's true - it's a backwards compatible change.

Still, static analysis is necessary when you upgrade dependencies and for your own code. For example for seeing whether adding a type to a property breaks code somewhere else. Discovering type errors at runtime is often too late.

Luckily there are good static analyzers for PHP.
WASM text variant is Lisp based, so one could build on top of it, just like many Lisp constructs happen to be macros on top of a very tiny set of primitives.
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'At its core, artificial intelligence is a military technology.'

False premise. How is it a military technology at its core as opposed to any other technology? Or every technology is a military technology at its core, in which case, so what?
I use the default terminal + fish shell (+some plugins) + fzf + tmux
I think it needs to be taken in the context of the twitter backlash against the 10x engineer tweet. The tweet was largely interpreted as "10x engineers are brilliant jerks".
People have been writing about toxic environments created by brilliant jerks for years and I think Human Interest is just trying to avoid creating an environment like that.

If that's not how you want to work, that's alright, but casting is as discrimination feels like a stretch.
Firefox has performance and general software bloat issues on all plattforms. They sacrificed their original "tailor the browser exactly to your needs" approach on the altar of keeping up with Chrome on features.
Well this is a case in point, the Conservative UK government seem to love the idea of a nuclear plant, but they also effectively banned onshore wind.

So what's their reason for liking nuclear? Doesn't seem to be climate related as they're not really that big on that. More likely kickbacks from the industry.
Is this article a bit outdated? I have noticed some projects not only switched their repositories but also programming languages i.e.:

> If you know Python, you can contribute to our web services, including Firefox Sync, or Firefox Accounts

Not quite recently (about 6-7 months ago), the syncserver got rewritten to Rust [0], while the Python codebase it's a bit stalled [1]. I guess Mozilla is going to switch to syncserver-rs soon, because they started implementation of Google Cloud Spanner and this looks like a green-light for future deployment.

> If you know Java, you can contribute to Firefox on Android, Firefox Focus for Android and Firefox for Fire TV.

There is new Firefox Preview on Android, which might disrupt the mobile browser market share soon (if it gets addons support). Some mozillian also worked on projects like Lockwise [2] or Firefox Notes [3] which are written in Kotlin, not Java.

Please, do update this article.

[0]: https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncstorage-rs/commits/m...

[1]: https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncserver/commits/maste...

[2]: https://lockwise.firefox.com/

[3]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/notes-by-fire...
England-based - I would be 100% interested in being involved with this
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this is so much better than nuclear energy, which is very high risk of even competent people making disastrous mistakes like fukushima and chernobyl.
Slowly PHP is converging to what Java has been like 15 years ago.
Maybe you need to work on your diversity story? Make sure to have a rainbow flag and pronouns in your social media profiles.
This could be dramatically faster using the rtg-math library https://github.com/cbaggers/rtg-math , but very nice work.
URL doesn't seem to work. This is the article https://www.cnet.com/news/amazon-is-going-to-kill-your-dash-...
This is IMO one of the under-celebrated benefits of Linux distros. You should be able to (e.g.) sudo apt-get build-dep firefox; apt-get source firefox; cd firefox[TAB]; debuild and have yourself a working package. Whatever dependencies it needs are all installed in a standardized way.
This seems to be a niche that nothing else fills right now. It's much larger scale than tabletop D&D. Much more freeform and literary than MMOs that do have a large scale. And asynchronous except for the monthly deadline.

Unfortunately it also feels like, to do it right would require it to charge significant fees. There would be a lot of effort required reading, collating, adjudicating and responding to each and every player even if groups doing roughly the same thing got shared replies. Probably more than an individual game-runner with a hobby could do.
> I'm saying that they should admit it when they know that fiber definitely isn't going to come any time soon at all

I can't speack for Sonic but I feel like they might not know if something is impossible to deliver in the short term, and the amount of work to give you an accurate timeframe is non-trivial, so they don't do it. To them, there's probably no difference between the "we want to do it but we don't know by when" and "we want to do it but we don't know what's stopping us", since I guess all their delays are unknown unknowns.

Sounds like you'll be waiting for microtrenching anyway, good luck
> We really need mandatory ethics courses in CS.

We need a bit more than that. People do things they've been taught are wrong all the time. They do them somewhat less often when there's a structure in place to hold them accountable.
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Well, from the 1950s we inherited a thin spread of radioisotopes contaminating the entire atmosphere: https://qz.com/1163140/us-nuclear-tests-killed-american-civi...

The problem of nuclear waste management is fundamentally one of public trust. People spent much of the 20th century going from "X is ubiquitous and perfectly safe" to "actually X has been poisoning you and the biosphere for decades". Cigarettes, leaded petrol, CFCs, pesticides, coal power, bisphenol A, and so on. People who object to the "perfectly safe" waste plans do so because they believe you are lying about the safety.

(Personally I believe it's now too late for nuclear, it simply takes too long to build individual reactors, and a big bang plan would involve building thousands of them in parallel. Not to mention that the #8 and #10 global CO2 emitting countries are fundamentalist Islamic petro-states which aren't trusted with nuclear material.)

There is also a complicated motte-and-bailey distinction between high-level waste (spent fuel itself, etc.) and low-level. High-level waste can often be reprocessed and is comparatively small volume. The low-level waste is everything that's deemed too dangerous to landfill, and there's a lot more of it. From used rubber gloves to the entire volume of decomissioned reactors.

On the history of greens against nuclear reactors, mostly dating from the weapons issue: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17774347 ; excellent rant on the public trust issue: https://blog.danieldavies.com/2006/05/nukes-and-nukemen-blai... (rather prescient about Hinkley Point C, which is still not built thirteen years later)
Another good case in point. We seem to agree that Trump is on the wrong side of this issue. Yet one of his moves was to extend support for nuclear and coal. Maybe the nuclear was there just to make the handouts to the coal industry seem less obscenely fatalistic, but some Republican state senators recently rolled back investments in basically every green power idea, including efficiency while extending support for nuclear.

Nuclear seems to have some dodgy friends.
True.

I'm also seeing that with JavaScript and TypeScript.

TS feels very C# like.

Luckily there seem to be counter movements with languages like Reason, ClojureScript and PureScript.
even better, you can surround the class and method reference in parentheses and call normally.

Example:

$c = new stdClass;
$c->test = function() { return 'hello world'; };
echo ($c->test)();
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