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They are professional trained, it takes 4 years to get a "puériculteur/puéricultrice" diploma in a university or equivalent. You have also nursery assistant that works under the supervision but even that need formal training + hand-on experience.

It varies a lot from country to country, but to assume that nobody would like to work with small children or that, as a parent, you would let your children under the care of untrained people is strange for me.
> Libertarian anti-working-class vitriol

Libertarians are not anti-working-class.
Can't see why this has hit the front page. It's not really a look at Old Oak Common so much as a long spiel about why HS2 is Gonna Be Great (tm).
Indeed, and I feel that way to contribute is to just add all your plastics to the recycle bin, hoping that even the most difficult types will reach a threshold amount that will trigger research into their recycle-ability, or at least into better separation techniques. Please show me I'm wrong if I am.
What about Intel, AMD, and other chip makers? Under the definition of tech company that you mentioned, they wouldn’t be.
Well work is done more or less to pay for the interest, that is created on top of the money, that is also created out of thin air. That is why politicians keep talking about more jobs, because people need to pay the interests on government loans. More work, more taxes.

How production has been automated for 100 years we should be working 1 day a week. No such luck. We work for 5 days and some pedo looks after our kids in the mean time.

So soon we work for 6 days a week and still get the mandatory "unforeseen" market crash every 10 years, so that what ever we can save up can be transferred to the banks&corps.

Just waiting for the big crash to come and us moving into cashless society. I bet it comes around 2021 and get rid of Dollars&Euros. You behave or you don't eat. Everybody is chipped and talking against the government is considered "domestic terrorism" like the FBI already announced.

This new electronic currency is backed by gold that they have taken from WTC, Libya, Egypt and Iraq. There is still time, so add Syria and Iran to that list.

If you still live in the "matrix" this all sounds a like wild conspiracy theory to you, but you will eventually see it. Maybe it is too late then.
The problem is that the West has looked away all the time with the shit China was doing, even back at Tiananmen Square decades ago.

The West could have made a statement back then and uphold human rights, now I fear it is too late and the only way restoring human rights and democracy is either a mass uprising in China (which is unlikely given that many young Chinese are fed propaganda, and so much of it that even Chinese living outside of China defend the Chinese government's actions) or outright war which is next to impossible to win except if China would be nuked to the ground and a full-scale global nuclear war.

The fact that many Western governments themselves are turning towards authoritarianism or outright fascism doesn't help either, and some of them are actually taking quite a bit of inspiration from the Chinese playbook, e.g. in mass video surveillance.
How NOT to treat your competent software workforce
I would expect it depends on personal experience. All ideologies have schisms, as you say.

The first thing that came to my mind was the local liberal and "materialist" (that is, Marxist) contingents fighting over definitions. (And that does involve a few parents!) But it's equally reminiscent of childhood Catholic versus Protestant conflicts. I only have more recent experience of one to privilege it over the other.
> My recollection from civics was that the college is to prevent populist candidates from winning

The college was a compromise to give a larger voting share to slave owning states that had a high overall population, despite having a relatively smaller number of possible voters.
Heroku's buildpacks make some default assumptions regarding an app's startup. For a Ruby on Rails app, for example, it would simply start the web server using `bundle exec rails s` unless you define something else in the Procfile. I'd assume there is a similar procedure for PHP apps, probably starting an nginx instance and pointing it at the app's index.php or something like that.

The way I understood it, app.json is there to customize the environment for the application to run in – providing ENV variables, required addons (think databases, memcache, etc.) and pre/post deploy scripts. A sort of configuration-as-code if you will. It is explicitely not used to define the actual processes that should be started when the app is deployed, that's what the Procfile is for, as long as you're running in an environment that supports Procfiles.

I'm not really sure what to tell you regarding vendor lock-in. Apart from the app.json the repo itself looks completely vendor-unaware, as it is simply a PHP application. It doesn't seem to make many assumptions regarding your (local) infrastructure but rather assumes you know how to get a PHP application to run on your server/computer. The presence of the app.json file is just an affordance to those who would want to try out the app without having to configure anything themselves.

On the contrary, now that I think of it. I always found Heroku to be rather non-locking, as you can just take your code and run it somewhere else. You need to provide some additional tooling around your deployments yourself in those cases, but that's true for all PaaS providers, isn't it? Heroku Addons are nice features, but usually simply services provided by third parties that are made available using automatically generated ENV variables, which you could simply copy over to wherever else your app is running.
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‘Leadership’ and ‘leader’ are also both nouns.
My 3 minutes... RATHER STRESSFUL!!!

Wow, this is insane that I cannot even see what I ma typing... I don't understand why would somebody ever create something like that? Are you actually insane or is it just a pet project? Is it even built in react or have you been fully with the vanilla javascript we all miss so much?

Oh I thought I could stop whenever I wanted but not even possible to go back in time nowl. I am forced to carry on while watching that progress bar, darkp rogresss bar, slowly progressing.

Oh, and I have Grammarly installed as a CChrome Extension...... and I can see the red underlined text so that's not a great sign quite frankly. It's a tad stressful now as I do feel I am typing without aking any mistake(s) so it's weird I see red on my screen.

Ok, well, now I am just typing for the sake of seeing the results – most likely poor. I do enjoy this, though. Quite a fun excercise. I am so confused with the spelling of exercise right now.

Ok few seconds remaining, and the ordeal will be over. YAY!!!! Cannot wait for that last second!
Utility monster is a case of lack of time constraint on optimization problem and lack of robustness.

For example, the special "Felix" case ignores the case where said guy is stuck by gamma radiation and dies. Over time, the probability of that k or a bunch of other catastrophes ruinning the solution tends to 1.

Therefore, the best solution avoids the most known catastrophes and is updated as new possibilities of those are found. (Tontine lotto, anyone?) Minimax loss optimal. Maximin (maximizing gain without increasing base loss) could be decent as well. Deciding between the two is better left to wizards.

Online stochastic optimization is mathematical black magic anyway so far.

But then, satisfying humans is much easier given all the built in biases we have. Keeping things alive long term is much harder.
Yes. If they released it publicly in 2007 they can't then go and patent it in 2008.
Reactivate the damn Lower Montauk!
Someone at HS2 PR needs to hire this man and then connect him to a subeditor
I am a Rust user myself and I think one major problem is that beeing on crates.io say nothing about the quality of code. I never published a single crate myself because in my eyes to be worth published a crate should work decently.

That beeing said, I think the whole Rust userbase would benefit from having some sort of collection of well tested crates and strictly divide between private, work in progress and production crates.
Why would vaping be hard to tax?
From an engineering perspective this does seem trivial and something that would be on a table in almost any pipeline that needs to get a speedup and allows for post processing.

But then a lot of patents seem to be frivolous.
oh, i didn't know that. that kinda sucks. well, anyway, valve will probably be changing their tune from now on
Had a good laugh at this.

Japan is firmly stuck in the 80s. The only major change is now most people here have smartphones.

Japan does some things very right, and some things horribly wrong. Not too different from most other developed countries.
I just don't feel like rust can replace C/C++, because the syntax is not simple enough. Rust has a lot of cool things, but to me syntax simplicity is more important.

Maybe I have a hard time adapting myself to rust? Maybe my brain is too much "wired" to a C style syntax. It still seems that to me, C-style syntax is just better.

I would rather prefer a C++-like language that breaks down from backward compatibility with C while keeping its simplicity, has STL containers, and is simpler to read and use.

Rust is cool, but I'm just curious if it can really be adopted for large project to justify rewriting existing code.
Yet another feature being removed that noone ever remembers using.
Everyday I love this country a little more...
For 20 hours a week, you can just work 2.5 8h shifts, not necessary 5 4h shifts.
I ship LLVM to deliver applications just fine.
> But that would cut into C-suite bonuses and dividends.

I beg to differ. I think, the mixture of work items as you describe is solely motivated on fear that employees may produce less if not under 8hours control in open plan office. The fear however may not have anything to do with the reality.
Because people voted for it as it is quite interesting?
Indeed. And I would argue that 80% of the websites out there do not need anything complicated.

Now if you have a very rich client side desktop-like application, such as:

https://www.tradingview.com/chart

https://ahrefs.com/site-explorer

or if you are Facebook, then maybe a SPA is required.

(by the way, I picked those two examples because I'm pretty sure they do not use a SPA!)
OEM batteries explode, so 3rd party batteries are bad. Nice job, CNBC
If I come back to something, it’s because I want to resume active development. Keeping a dependency pinned at an old version makes that more difficult in various ways, so I personally value forward compatibility.

Not everyone does, and that’s fine. I just want to know what a library developer’s stance on it is before I try to use their library.
I work for YouTube and I did not know this was possible -_-; Or maybe I knew and forgot.
A good summary of the main points in favour of HS2 that almost no-one in English media or politics is making.

This article, which is unfortunately now paywalled, covers a lot of the same ground: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/hs2-logistic...

HS2 is one of those projects that's unpopular across the political spectrum and unfortunately seems like it's under threat, but the arguments in this post make a lot of sense and they're just not being made more broadly.
I see the same response everywhere on TypeScript: when a project becomes big enough, it's a good way to keep it under control.

And I tend to agree: types can be annoying, but when stability and robustness come into play, TypeScript is most certainly the way to go. It enforces good behavior.

And yeah, of course it slows JavaScript down, that's entirely the point..! JS allows you to do whatever you want, but that doesn't mean it's always the right choice
> REDCODE is not just a compression algorithm. It is a compression algorithm optimized for a certain type of professional movie camera, one that they invented

Ah, no.

redcode is jpeg2000 in a tar file, with some metadata goop.

They didn't invent it, they spent a lot of time trying to obfuscate it, and were very put out when the VFX industry reverse engineered it. Whats worse, for a good few years the tools they made to support it were horrific. Red rockets were fragile FGPA boards that cost $5k, broke within months. The cameras themselves used to have terrible colour and rolling shutter.

They were not the first to make digital cinema cameras, they weren't even the best or cheapest at the time.

They _are_ trolls, a big example is "REDCINE-X PRO" which is a carbon copy of the foundry's Hero (well its ancestor.)

In short RED are almost as annoying to deal with professionally as Apple(Hint: I've done both, at the same time). RED have worse fanboys though.
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But did you watch the video (hence his arguments) to make up your mind?

Maybe the fact that he's reporting about the patent is linked to his own history with RED
It is a lossy compression codec derived/based on JPEG2000: https://peter.schlaile.de/redcode/
Original study here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S004313541...

It concludes that of the 50 studies they reviewed only 4 were of sufficient quality to draw conclusions. So, the study concluded

>>We conclude that more high quality data is needed on the occurrence of microplastics in drinking water, to better understand potential exposure and to inform human health risk assessments.

How does this translate to "microplastics not harmful"?
This tool reminds me of the advice once given to NaNoWriMo participants (National Novel-Writing Month, super fun if you've never tried it in November). If you can't think of anything to write, just repeat "Ninja. Ninja. Ninja…" over and over again until you think of something. Just be sure to get words out and keep your mind-to-fingers connection nimble when first-drafting.
Well the article asks you not to "wishcycle"—that is to put something in the recycling bin in the hopes that it will recycle.
Once i too got opportunity to work on Outsystems but i refused to do because you won't gent in-depth knowledge in language instead you just learn their product. Better to go for ReactJS.
Would it not be possible to guarantee first-class citizenship to Samoans without making Samoa a state?
I just came here to remark that it is very ironic that apple is fighting for something that actually benefits not only themselves but everyone.
Visibility as a Prerequisite for Catching Errors
We are exploring using Wasmer as a scripting/modding platform in the Amethyst game engine: https://github.com/amethyst/amethyst/pull/1892
Maybe anti-poor is a better description? Could also be that I only notice the assholes and the milder form of libertarians just don't stick out as much :)
Huh? Their comment shows up fine for me.
Nah, it doesn't work that way. It never did.

In feudal times ther were many instances of folks from higher classes abusing the folks from the lower ones. Nothing really happened, some isolated instances of retribution happened, and that was it.

Scandals/abuses worked the same way in the USSR. The very worst offenders eventually got shifted around the system. (source: https://www.libri.hu/konyv/majtenyi_gyorgy.kommunista-kiskir... alas no English translation, but there are probably similar surveys of historically documented real stories about how the men of the ruling party were somehow always more powerful than the official propaganda stated how equal everyone is)
And starting wage is lowest as it can be - minimal wage.
Patents (software or not) must non-obvious as well:

"A patent may not be obtained though the invention ... if the differences between the subject matter sought to be patented and the prior art are such that the subject matter as a whole would have been obvious at the time the invention was made to a person having ordinary skill in the art to which said subject matter pertains."

Apple is saying this one is just an obvious application of pre-existing patents.
I never said users don’t care about speed, and bloated binaries do not mean something is slower.

Also, iteration speed is something else users care about.
The role of the standard library is entangled with the role of the language as a whole. Many people use tbe python interpreter as a sort of advanced calculator. If batteries weren’t included there this whole usecase would suffer.

For a language like Rust this looks different..
Misleading titles, of course. My takeaway from that is what was repeated multiple times throughout the actual article - they don't have enough evidence to prove it either way.
But who cares what type of card do you have? Or why do you care what server/cashier thinks about your status?

If you happen to have a real premium card, then probably people around you already know your status. They don't need to look at your credit card.
Damn. I was almost going to guess that. One of my clients was still using WordPerfect for DOS in the late 90s. They didn't want to deal with the retraining cost for secretaries and paralegals.

I always did like WordPerfect much more than Word. It was fundamentally a markup-style text editor. And you could switch to raw-text mode if necessary, and actually edit the markup. Word, on the other hand, is entirely opaque.
Love Alex's archival research work. Never seen a couple of those pictures or heard that particular account of the airglow from Schreiber before. I'm glad to see it finally falling out of favor to paint Slotin as some kind of 'Canadian hero' as it was fashionable to do 15-20 years ago. He was a fool who regularly courted fate, doing things like diving to the bottom of a cooling pool of an operating reactor to repair an instrument he didn't want to wait another day to do, giving himself a nice 100R dose.
Really? That sucks, DRM-free has been their major selling point from the start. Why was the process frustrating and which game was it?
Physicists create world's smallest engine
They protest not because they don't have money, but because Beijing is essentially taking their money away by eating into their legal system, which is ultimately what makes HK competitive.
Japan is the closest (for westerners) to alien civilization, that's why it's so interesting.
INSANE!
Thanks so much, I had a SUPER hard time googling for this -- kept coming up with blogosphere articles on how to invest in Walmart...
Before reading this, I thought that non-reusable plastics should be banned, and that only reusable packaging should be allowed, should it be high quality plastics, glass, stainless steel...

Some plastic types should be banned, it would make recycling more viable...

I'm really curious how much plastic China was importing, and what they were doing with it.
What is beneficial to US might not be beneficial to anybody else (meaning >90% of the world). If I take things to the extreme, it would probably be beneficial for US security and economy to have rest of the world as slaves. Not so much for us.

Previous US governments seemed to have more moral constraints in this regard compared to current one (with great power comes great responsibility and all that). Interesting times we have. I for one root for China despite all its flaws - the world would benefit from counter-balance in power since US is less and less a good moral leader it once used to be.

Plus when we compare outward aggressiveness of these 2 states, US very clearly loses. Fearmongering about China is just empty talk when simple historical facts about unjust invasions of sovereign states are compared. You know, the actually important criteria for common folks out there. Compared to that, the debate whether its better if NSA reads my emails compared to Chinese is a bit pointless.
Actually it doesn't start with C.

China is #4 in FDI flows into Vietnam. Every factory I've been to here is South Korean.
I hate unnecessary abstractions. All this "docker functionality" is actually just based on namespaces and cgroups. I get what you're trying to say though.
I don't like the soundbite about it only shaving X minutes off the trip to Birmingham. That's practically the first stop. The thing goes all the way to Leeds. It's a disingenuous soundbite. I realise the authour here is using it as a construct to argue against but I head this soundbite a lot.
The way we've been using typescript is that when you're first implementing the API using 'any' is just fine, but it's not ready for release until all the 'any's are removed.

What I've found is that there tends to be a happy medium between making everything 'any' at the start and never using 'any' at all that roughly corresponds to how defined our implementation is. When we're designing the implementation as we go, there tends to be lots of 'any', but when we spent time defining the interfaces, there's not as much need for using 'any', because instead there's a specific type. The type itself usually doesn't remain static, but where it's used does.

So for example, when we're adding a rest endpoint, when we know the required and optional arguments/response, we can make a type and validator function and then there's not really a need for 'any' after the validation function, but if we don't know what the arguments/response will be (or the design is still at the 'make every argument optional' stage), then any sort of prototype will be littered with 'any' or '{[key: string]: any}' types.
Really?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/02/11/why-ama...

Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/amsc?ref=your_acct_asc

>>Some local authorities will collect this material as part of household recycling. Where not available, use designated store drop-off locations where plastic film is accepted

The "old" carton sleeves:

>> Cardboard envelopes are widely recyclable as part of household recycling programmes. Check with your local authority for more details.
> I don't understand this presumably American fixation with the 40 hour week.

Not just America. We have elections coming up in Saxony (a state in East Germany), so I watched a 2-hour interview with the current MP from the conservative party (the same party as Angela Merkel). When it came to the topic of UBI and automation, he adamantly refused to consider any policy that would move away from the 40-hour work week. He meant that there were so many challenges ahead of us, we couldn't afford to lose any of our precious working hours. His mantra seems to be "Work harder, not smarter".
I may have been too simplistic

1. The work is never finished. As such no matter how productive you are or not there is more to do. So when do you say "Ok go home early?"

2. My view of productive may differ from my boss - and that gets further afield as the hierarchy goes up - so let's say you were working on Google+ (insert corporate white elephant) - no matter how productive you were in the small, it was ultimately a waste.

3. Output can be measured by reading code, yes absolutely- but it can also be measured by outcome of code (ie the report now runs five tones faster)

these last two is measurement by value - and that gets hairy.

So it's not quite "pointy haired boss" is bad

So does google allow folks to go home early? it is that like the "as much holiday as you like" uncertainty ploy?
> I think there should have been no physical Apple Card

Physical card is their best ads billboard. Perhaps they will remove it after a few years when they have enough market share.
Maybe the goal was to find a way to get a lot of medical records and it didn't make much sense to continue Deepmind Health once that goal has been achieved - hence the move to Google Health.
What really matters is that they do things differently, with different successes (and failures).

"Genetic diversity" of ideas is an important part of making the world a better place.