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I like technological progress, but I would also be okay digging ditches in case our economy crashed towards a commodities-only enterprise, so I’m strange in that regards :)
For some reasons I had varied results with this (within the same region). I've had installs where the Start menu was really polluted with all kinds of games, and installs where none of them were present. All of them are usually done from the latest ISO I could download from the MS page.

All of the installs were made on OEM machines (HP, Lenovo) that already came with a Pro license or upgrade option. This was done in a home environment so no AD/enterprise options, and never logging on with MS account. So I wonder if there's the possibility that specific OEMs, models, license keys get the treatment while others do not. I'm not sure if the behavior was tied to particular machines or not since I didn't follow the scientific method while doing installations (will do in the future).
If people won't build 'houses for cars', the cars will start piling up on the streets instead. I prefer cars to at least be hidden.
JS went for a?.[b] https://github.com/tc39/proposal-optional-chaining#faq
Why was this submission flagged? I really would like to have an explanation. One may disagree with it, it may be controversial, but does this really require it to be flagged? After all, it is getting upvotes! I am not exactly new here but I have no idea what it means for a submission to be flagged or why it should be flagged vs. just not voting it up.
I wonder if this is unconstitutional: some private schools are religious.
If there's something developers like to complain about it is JavaScript and JIRA among other things...

I agree with the overall thesis but do not like the presentation. The world is run by hacks one uglier than the other. Javascript, despite its faults, had some good parts that let it grow to the size it currently is. Yet I do not know do we need more preaching about that JS is outdated and we should move on, I at least have already shifted my focus to a new more productive language (granted TS isn't that big of a jump). JS to me is legacy, and I am expecting it to be slowly phased-out as soon as better alternatives become available in the form of WASM or by compiling to JS.

But JS had a good run and contrary to a lot of folks who keep complaining about it, I appreciate what it gave us in the form of simple package-manager (npm was revolutionary at the time, and yes it has its faults). All the amazing frameworks and libraries people have put time and thought into (React, Vue etc) which may have not always been the most bug-free, but I see the proliferation of libraries as a good thing - JS ecosystem has always been constantly changing. When the barrier for creating libraries has become so low, it accelerates the adoption and propagation of fantastic new tools that constantly evolve. Sure, I would like to have also the reliability of the more mature ecosystems but what can you do?

I think I have dabbled so long in JS that it doesn't bother me that much anymore. I mean, who can keep questioning why houses look like they do or why cars drive in certain side every day? It just is what it is. I'm busy building stuff so it feels like waste of my time to keep ruminating on these things. And well, I do mainly TS now so it's not that bad.
A pile of unnecessary complexity? cough Javascript ecosystem cough

Seriously, though, I don't think you can avoid a lot of complexity if you build a product such as VS.
Worth noting that Mozilla does have a special contract with Google, they say preserver privacy.
This is a major pet peeve of mine. I use the breaker app to cut through the umm and hmmms but I wish there was a way to summarize what the speaker is saying as well, and cut away the part when they are just overiterating the obvious. (by comparing the transcribed audio to the footnotes perhaps)
>There are two hard things in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors.

- Not really sure who the original author is.
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You honestly trust some random driver at the front to make your decisions?
It will be "anonymised" I imagine, enough to give Google all they want and still let Mozilla get paid and _say_ they don't give up user data.

There's surely no way to tell what they do with the data at the other end? It's Google and their serf, Mozilla, I can't imagine it's wholesome.
I use Bit for web projects :

https://bit.dev/
Check out the build quality of Bartel Amps. Mark Bartel has been hand making every part of the amps he designed for over 20 years. He is an EE who makes product decisions based on science - not marketing

https://www.instagram.com/p/BxpP0IugJqZ/?igshid=1gns8qkaz6ou...
Have you ever used... A functional language? JavaScript has lambdas and functions, but I would hardly call it functional. Having types and immutability and pattern matching are pretty important. Being able to run multithreaded would also be very nice.
This is all fine and good, but IMHO LA metro map says it all [1]. 6 lines. What a joke. This mega city should have light or heavy rail metro pretty much everywhere. It's even better if there are parking lots in abundance. Park & Ride can be put into place more easily. So, it's obviously a political choice and I am not sure more regulation on parking will have any significant impact on this.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_Metro_Rail
>has also been largely homogenised

You say it like it's a bad thing.
There's a toggle in settings called "Allow Chrome sign in" under "Advanced", only added after massive backslash.
So lets disregard the hundreds of hours of in depth explanation and analysis of his actual opinion, and condemn him for a decision made in a handful of seconds in a context we don't fully know. Because clearly the worst thing we can find on anyone, interpreted as uncharitably as possible, is the only thing about them that matters.

I hope you hold yourself to the same standard.
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FinFET is a TSMC's invention as well as immersion lithography, and yet it is somebody else got the patent.

How is that fair? How does it "encourage progress?"
I was trying to find which programming language did it first, because I knew C# did it well before JS, although I definitely wouldn't be surprised if they weren't the first.

However, in my search I found a list of languages and how they use safe navigation operators:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safe_navigation_operator
I think the point of the piece is that LA has far too much parking available already and that the city shouldn't force developers to build more parking. Obviously no one would stop anyone from building parking if they wanted but LA does need housing and neighborhoods that don't require car accessibility.
I guess it'd be easy to emulate as well, by including some accelerometers...
He's exaggerating.

Car companies want to sell cars and therefore they want to minimize the overhead spent on regulatory compliance. It's really easy to sit here in 2019 and clutch your pearls about the evil car companies not wanting air bags in everything but the reality is that those car companies were catering to consumers (or at least a fairly accurate approximation of consumers). Consumers regarded airbags and seat-belts as minor incremental safety improvements in their day (the way we would think about something like blind spot detection today) and generally cared more about price than they did about the presence of those specific features and would gladly forgo airbags in exchange for several hundred dollars of the purchase price.

1st gen airbags also have a well deserved reputation for turning accidents you could have walked away from with bruises into a trip to the hospital so many people actively didn't want them.

Edit: Yes, I'm totally wrong and everybody in 1965 was tripping over themselves to buy a new car specifically for the seat-belts and everyone in 1985 could not get enough airbags and the car companies totally misread what consumers wanted. <eyeroll/>
Mmm, what?
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I firmly believe that autonomous taxis are 30 years away. The big benefit will be for long haul trucking. That will be here in 10 years or less. They will have special rest areas where the autonomous trucks will park. From there they will only drive on interstates for long distances. When there, they will park at similar special rest areas. Local drivers will then take over and do the more difficult driving. It could really reduce costs as these trucks can drive 24/7 and we can even have them immediately turn around with another load from another company. This could all be completely automated. These rest areas are also a great place to put in charging stations to move these all to electric. By removing most of the narrow streets, cross traffic and unexpected pedestrians, it will be a lot safer.
Not sure who Donny is, but regardless my question still remains. So how about this, what was your intention with sharing with us?
8bitdo once hat an N64 controller, but seems like it's not available anymore, maybe you find a used one somewhere.

Also there are "Controller Converter" N64->USB available on i.e. Amazon and iNNEXT has an Retro 64-Bit N64 Controller on Amazon as well.

Don't know if any of these will work for you, at least the iNNEXT is mentioned in the retropie wiki[0].

[0] https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Nintendo-64/
Yeah, supposedly some but not all of the calling-home is only added in Chrome, not in chromium. I would also be curious to see just how google vanilla Chromium is.

Of course there's ungoogled-chromium, but I had some issues building that recently.
He also uses free assets, like those from OpenGameArt, which don't follow any specific palette.
While I appreciate your sentiment and in principle agree with you, I have a hard time arguing points of people who do not argue in good faith. And it does seem like the author is trying to persuade more than he is trying to make a logical and/or correct point.
Mozilla is open? Which manager signed off on the Pocket implementation? Where are the minutes for the meetings in which that was agreed?

Mozilla make open source, they're not open like a publicly accountable body, are they?
I touched on that on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Clojure/comments/68r4lz/one_of_face...

TL;DR Haskell made more sense for us to scale with the number of requests (existing FB infra) as well as the number of engineers working on the project (type checking, etc).
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>Do you have any proof that anyone else did the same before him?

That anyone proposed resuable rockets before Musk? Use Google. You're naive if you think otherwise.

>at a fraction of the price per launch of whatever existed before.

There's no evidence that these resuable rockets are a "fraction" of the cost to re-launch. In fact, the cost is likely the reason that no one else has done it; it doesn't make economic sense, not because it's impossible.
Esperanto is only easy because you already know a European language. This gives you a major head start. I can easily add 100 french words a day to my Anki deck and review more than 300 cards without breaking a sweat. With Asian languages I have trouble adding 30 cards a day and then I need to take a break.
always everyone only looks at few examples such as these companies. who actually do make decent products. (good luck making better OS than them for example... )

but look at things like ZOOM. they make product which has no new features. it just works better and that's why people use it. it does exist. just not in the minds of people who numb themselves with clickbait.
> Finally, consider this example of chaining the subscript:

> someJson?[recipes]?[2]?[ingredients]?[pepper]

> To our eyes, that doesn’t look very good. It scans less like a method chain and more like some combination of infix operators — a little like ??. Compare it to this code:

> someJson?.[recipes]?.[2]?.[ingredients]?.[pepper]

Yep. So in the end ?[] does not look better, and the dot avoids the ambiguity with ? [] :

There you go. Dot. You could also allow `a.[x]` as a valid alternative to a[x]
I remember making a simple inlined asm function that called a little known x87 function fsincos that returns the sine and cosine of an angle. I seem to remember that it only took a few extra clock cycles to get both answers. This was really helpful when building matrices (in the mid '90s).
Says the pot to the kettle.
It really depends on the type of problem. In many cases, C was really great to use to quickly solve a problem. It is here to stay, and has a good enough base.
There's still a lot of assembly code
That's the opposite of front-running. If the brokerage or HFT was front-running, you would pay more to buy or sell than e.g. Goldman Sachs would. But payment for order flow means you pay less, because the brokerage is confident that as a retail investor you don't have an edge -- there is no risk of you buying just before the price shoots up and leaving them at a loss.
You can do that with a static site and includes.
As a conservative, I like to read Camille Paglia. I don't always agree with what she writes, but I find a lot of it well thought-out and very sensible. We could use more writers like her.
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1. Making revenue is better than fundraising,
2. It's empowering and great to deliver value to our users,
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I've been getting a lot more recently - seemingly being added from Gmail spam (either that or I'm getting directly injected calendar spam and the same as emails coming through). I don't want to turn off syncing as actual bookings being automatically added are useful.
That's a great idea! Let's try and deploy this 'left-pad' function that everyone can use...

But seriously, I know his description is a bit different, but I think NPM has shown that such a model is really difficult to maintain.
Allen Edmonds. You have to make sure to get your feet sized properly. I.e. after a not-cold day of work with a lot of standing/walking, use a Brannock device to find your #-letter combo, e.g. 10D. (This is the same advice for getting your proper ring size :))

The cork soles and the leather will slowly morph to your foot shape as you use them, so they get more comfortable as you use them. My most comfortable pair had its last manufacturing run in ~2005 (“lauderdale”).
Shouldnt some of these requests be hpkp requests to get verified public keys for ssl traffic?
Gödel's incompleteness theorem is Gödel's incompleteness theorem for philosophers. Derrida is fashionable nonsense.
Sounds like a way to translate the billing codes to normal vernacular would be really useful for them.
I can recommend the book The RISC-V Reader: An Open Architecture Atlas by David Patterson and Andrew Waterman.

http://riscvbook.com/

https://www.amazon.com/RISC-V-Reader-Open-Architecture-Atlas...

In the book the authors compare the expressiveness (and thus code density) of code implemented with the RISC-V ISA with instructions for x86, ARM and MIPS. They show that the RISC-V ISA is able to give ARM a good fight in terms of IPC, and that it beats MIPS. (Mainly due to the delay slots which can't be filled in many real world cases.)

They also show why the R5 should make implementations scale better in clock speed compared to ARM. This is the kind of stuff Patterson has been doing research on the last 3-4 decades, and it is quite interesting to see how this experience has guided the design of the RISC-V ISA.
For Option types to work well and not be an awkward footgun (like C++ std::optional), you also need sum types and pattern matching.

While Dart should gain those, that's a much more invasive language change I reckon.
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The linked article states that parking maximums are in fact a thing.
"Maybe you could do reverb with a tape delay with really tiny heads, but I don't know of any such product."

Lots of heads and carefully tuned feedback (possibly also across different heads adding phase changes) could help in that direction. It would sound interesting, though the resulting contraption would also be big, clunky and expensive.
The end goal here is that people who live in big cities give up their personal car. The journey there might involve this problem though and it depends on the city to enforce new rules.

For example, my home town Hamburg (in Germany) is a bad example of too few parking spaces being policed correctly. At some point, the drivers give up searching for a free space that's still in a walkable distance from their destination and will park illegally, which leads to one of 2 lanes being permanently blocked by resting traffic. Apparently the police doesn't care about these illegally parked cars.

There are lots of cheaper and more space-efficient alternatives for personal transport, which were mentioned in the article.

It's also possible to rent shared cars for the rare case you actually need a car (if you want to transport large furniture for example).

Speaking from my anecdotal experience, not owning a personal car works pretty well, I commute to work with an electric bike in 20 minutes (which is actually quicker than taking the train or driving a car and then look for a parking space). If I want to buy furniture and I can't transport it with my bike, I can still rent a car.

On top of not having the dreadful experience of having to search 10-20 minutes for a parking space every time, it's also a lot cheaper.
Isn't a major major point that package registries and or modules don't need review board? thus eliminating gatekeeping?
I would guess that the money laundering potential is why it isn't around now - most stores don't let you buy a gift card with another gift card for the same reason (I've implemented this restriction in an e-comm site before). I might be wrong, but that's a potentially big legal hurdle.
What can I say about this. Parking minimums are not fair.

To the effect, they oblige poorer people without cars to pay for parking space for car driving richer people.
It's so weird when you've been using a feature for years in a language (swift) and you see another language try to come up to solutions to a problem you never had..

Chaining ?[] sucks no matter what you do, and as for parser ambiguity, my guess is that if the parser doesn't know how to understand an expression, then the best thing is to have it fail and ask the programmer to add parenthesis. Because chances are it won't make any sense to a human as well.
Impressive progress. Did you wrote it all on your own or did you had ghostwriting help ?
Right, that isnt a car that never breaks down though. Teslas might not be at the required reliability to day, EVs one day might be.

Re price, an interesting point.

Do I not repair my TV because its so reliable, or because the replacement is cheap?
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The whole thread has interesting discussions. Keep in mind it's 8 years old: http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2011-May/thread...
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They know your approximate location when you conduct an offline credit card transaction, and the approximate time and location of the store where the transaction occurred.
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they could of been named after halfgods offspring of jupiter and his mistresses :D then the moons would be the kids of jupiter :D

google says this:
Jupiter
Consort Juno
Children Mars, Vulcan, Bellona, Juventas
Parents Saturn and Ops
Siblings Roman tradition: Juno, Ceres, Vesta Greco-Roman: Pluto and Neptune

pehraps they were taken already for some other celestial bodies. idk too much about that.

super cool for the dude though that his names got picked :D must be feeling like a champ :D
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Some of the earliest memories were storage loops on a bigger scale.

Mercury Delay Lines were a type of memory that relied on sound waves being cycled through tubes of mercury. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delay_line_memory#Mercury_dela...

Very interesting technology.
convincing. any petition up for signing?
I do work from an office most of the time so I can compare; it works way better since the "Im working/not working"-line is less fuzzy (I think).
Functions in a global persistent database would solve the "dependency suddenly disappearing" problem.
If you use a loyalty card, then definitely.
Simply spin up the docker container which has everything ready to run correctly...

https://hub.docker.com/r/monicahq/monicahq
If you go to the website you can mark it as spam. Then all occurrences of events from the same sender will be deleted. However there's nothing to stop spammers from sending multiple separate events from "different" senders...
It removes nothing of any importance. The terrible WinRT photo viewer can be replaced with the classic one, which is still installed along with the OS and just needs to be enabled:

https://www.tenforums.com/software-apps/8930-windows-photo-v...

I've been running three systems with all APPX junk removed since Windows 10 was first released. Not a single problem on any of them.
Is it though? :D I prefer my own coffee over bought coffee 9 times out of 10. Not to mention the money saved.
There are some limited exceptions, but generally speaking what you are saying would be in violation of Magnuson-Moss.

Unless it can be proven by the warrantor that the 3rd party labor or parts caused the fault, the use of 3rd party labor or parts does not void the warranty.
I'd argue that JavaScript was - coincidentally - a lean design. Meaning: minimal MVP, go to market early, grow with consumer demand.
Sure, this results in a less intellectually pure programming language, but instead in a rugged workhorse that remains widely accessible. Not sure that's a bad thing.
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Disclaimer: I am the author of Helpinator - a single-source technical writing tool. It is for Windows, but some of my customers successfully use it on Mac via Parallels. It has EPUB/MOBI/PDF support.

I recently added LeanPub support too, so now you can publish the same project on LeanPub too. Here's the blog post about it: https://www.helpinator.com/blog/2019/08/23/leanpub-tutorial-...

There's also a post by Davide Barranca depicting his experience on getting LeanPub book published paperback with LuLu: https://www.davidebarranca.com/2019/04/printing-leanpub-book...
Sounds like they're using graph-based rather than array-based technology.
So build a better browser with a better language and devs can adopt it. Put up or shut up. You know what's almost as old and quickly written as JS? Complaints about JS.
It is a useful differentiation.

There are a lot of digital effects out there. They digitize the input signal, do some calculations and again convert to analog for the output. A lot of reverb units are like that. Some amplifiers have digital reverb builtin.
Here you go:

https://reverb-res.cloudinary.com/image/upload/s--Or_7-p6K--...

Elk Echo Machine v3 (EM-3) from 1970
Because most of these languages started from ubiquitous nullability and had to work from there. Also these safe dereference operators are not Option.map, they act as both Option.map and Option.flatMap "for convenience". Finally they tend to be method-oriented, which creates namespacing issues & is problematic when their null isn't a dedicated singleton (à la smalltalk / ruby / python).
I've managed to automate this even further by leaving my curtains open.
I'm not complaining, but just wondering why there was zero interest in this when I submitted it yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20801761
I like the idea, good job!