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(One such corner is that — — a and --a are both valid but mean different things.)

I'm not familiar with Dart but I believe the same applies to all the C-derived syntax languages; predecrement vs subtraction of negation. If I remember correctly, the C standard even has "a+++++b" as an example (which is a syntax error, since it parses as "a++ ++ +b", but "a++ + ++b" would not be.)

As a "completely uninformed outside" opinion, how about not adding another operator, but automatically choosing based on whether the type on the left is nullable? I feel like there's already a lot of "implicit nullness" going around with this sort of language design, such that these operators are redundancy overhead --- and according to the article, the declaration of the type already tells you whether it's nullable.
Nigeria is not a major global cybercrime player
Speaking of Wine, you can actually run x86 Wine using QEMU on a Raspberry Pi and run Windows software with it. You essentially chroot into an x86 Debian environment that's running with QEMU, then install Wine in there and run it. There's a product called 'ExaGear Desktop' which makes the process pretty seamless from what I hear.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yZ5UiQyeFA
I've a series 2 Apple Watch and it surprisingly still do its job well. I don't except much from it, and it even became better with time with new watchOS releases.
Return the Corolla while you still can. This is hot garbage.
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> For Option types to work well and not be an awkward footgun (like C++ std::optional), you also need sum types and pattern matching.

It works fine if you don't have these, though there are more tradeoffs (less convenience / compile-time safety).

C++'s std::optional is footguny because it is not a type-safety feature, it's an optimisation feature (a stack allocated pointer, hence it having "a pointer interface").
Exactly. I must admit that the 39 € oven isn't "beautiful" in terms of artistic design and implementation; it is merely practical and not an eyesore. It is made cheaply, so now after 5 years of use, the paint has chipped in some places where it has been cracked by hitting it with dishes, etc. However, functionally it is just what I want.

It could be improved by making the design smoother so that it would be easier to clean the inside when my microwave meal happens to explode.

The good thing is also that it's still on the market, so if this unit breaks, I'll just buy another one. (Perhaps I should buy one to storage, just in case they stop making/selling this thing).
Apple has no problems with regularly spamming me with notifications to use iCloud, upgrade to new macOS or to use AppStore features. It's coming there too.
I use windows at work, on 3 screens.

One thing pisses me off to no end: When you drag a window and accidentally make a small "left-right-left" movement, everything on your screen is minimized to the tray. There is no button to restore this.

f*cking retarded features.
I encourage everyone unhappy with Windows 10 Start menu to give Open Shell a try: https://github.com/Open-Shell/Open-Shell-Menu

It replaces native Start menu with Win7/8 lookalike that's highly customizable and much faster. Search works better, too.
I think it would be more correct to say they are discrete in the time domain rather than digital. This is just semantic nitpicking though since digital usually implies discrete time. I never heard about continuous time digital electronics, it might be interesting to think about though it feels like an oxymoron.
Presumably because a rEaL pRoGrAmMiNg LaNgUaGe would have used different exception types to provide the same levels of distinction which still results in basically the same if/else-if/else (or try/catch/catch) structure but "more civilised".

Or because he thinks web apps don't care about whether the server couldn't be reached and whether the server rejected a request. Your guess is as good as mine.
We seem to a agree. C is also good (according to my definition) to solve problems in the area of system tooling. I tend to see programming languages as DSLs for a specific problem domain. C has become the DSL of software that lies close to the hardware, whereas JS has become the DSL of webapps.
I really like the idea of a no module system.

If you look at the /usr/bin directory of a Linux system there aren't any namespaces. There's 1,000+ binaries thrown into 1 folder, each with a distinct name and things work nicely.

Imagine if you tried to group those binaries into 1 or more folder driven namespaces. Where would things go? The amount of bike shedding would be endless and I don't think it would be a better solution in the end even if you managed to pull it off.

All of Joe's points in that post are spot on.
Things are being done, but the most effective one would be to reduce speeds and number of cars.

Since USA is big distances, 1 has strong opposition, and 2 even stronger.

They could also make the drivers license short time, like 2 years requiring a refresh exam, but that'd be a real pain in the rear.

You could mandate built in breathalyzers, but they would routinly be failing or bypassed... Though it's a good attempt.

Ultimately getting rid of reducing number of unsafe human drivers would be good.
Depends on the component. Have a favorite circular list I've used 100 times. Had a video rendering library I used for multiple embedded display devices.
> "Cars kill 40,000 people every year in the USA. Nothing is done about that number."

Nothing? Much has been done and continues to be done to make roads and cars safer. US road deaths, per population, have fallen by almost 2/3 since their peak in 1969. By miles travelled, deaths have fallen almost 80% since the 1960s.

This has largely been a result of regulation, including:

- Standardized crash testing

- Compulsory seatbelts

- Compulsory electronic traction/stability control

- Compulsory airbags

etc

Automatic Emergency Braking (AEB) is currently in the process of being adopted, and will be fitted in all new US passenger vehicles by 2022. Further significant improvements from things like lane keeping and self driving technologies can be expected in the coming years/decades.
Note that a manufacturer warranty might be distinct and separate from statutory obligations the manufacturer also has. So while the rights your consumer protection laws give you are not voided, an additional, voluntary warranty provided may well be.
using a medium like coconut coir would help especially if you want want to grow rhizomes or bulbs
There is a tidy profit for the leasing company for taking this fear over for you.
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When you formulate a thought or a sentence you compress vast amounts of data into something that's understandable in more general context. Once you've done that compression, you interpret that generalization once again as you vocalize it. This reinterpretation is powerful and may trigger some ideas that you haven't had before.

Besides, try doing math or debugging some code without any conscious thoughts.

I agree most of the time it may be a broken record and useless, especially if you repeat the same patterns over and over again, but I'm quite certain you don't know what you are going to say until you've said it (out loud or not).
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I read the review board as optional extension to the idea.

The database / infrastructure could be permissionless and you could still define curated subsets of functions in addition to that.
Non-addictive? The elderly commonly receive opioids. They are not addicted to them, only physically dependent. You can get physically dependent on almost all medications, even, say, beta-blockers or proton-pump inhibitors.

There is nothing wrong with opioids, we do not need a replacement. The issue stems from questionable products from the black market. Plus, why should we ban X or look for a replacement of Y just because there are people who consume it recklessly? This hurts everyone, and is a terrible "solution". If anything, we need harm reduction policies. I would rather not deprive people from the legal access of effective painkillers because some reckless people overdosed on them. There will always be reckless people. Always. This is not a reason to hurt innocent and non-reckless people.
Yikes! I use vector math (dot and cross products) to do all my game physics. Far fewer operations (two multiplies, and add, sometimes a divide). All the singularity issues were in one place, and meant something special each time, so could be dealt with in an orderly way. And could be all fixed-point or integer, no need for floating point at all.
Market cap has nothing to do with a company being in or out of touch with their users.
That is a work of art. The cable post and how everything is layed out and tightened down looks fantastic.

I haven't opened my Orange Tremlord. I expect it to look nice, but not nice like this. The Orange Tremlord has a very nice reverb with a real reverb tank. And is imho a very nice amp:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3mc5oZC_vM
because other drivers and pedestrians on public streets have a very strong interest in knowing how safely these cars perform and how they glitch out given that they could cause accidents at any point?
Even on the surface go the first thing I did was unlock it so I could run apps like Firefox, OpenTTD and Steam.
Yeah that makes much more sense, I knew something was off :)
SEC issues cease-and-desist orders for unregistered token presales etc.
From a remote management perspective, when your presence is felt in an office, it reminds people to do the small things that keep the ship sailing smoothly - things that are outside of the scope of the current project, so they're on another to-do list, but still need to get done.

When you're a remote manager competing for staff time to get these things done with on-site managers it gets even trickier, as people want to please the people they have to face every day, even if they see them just in passing. You need to take extra steps (more reminders) to keep secondary projects moving.
How's that different from any human driver on Saturday night?
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> you might as well just stop as soon as you notice doing that

I don't believe my mind will benefit from being passed through a buggy optimizing compiler.
> Providing methadone or medical grade heroin has been the only route that has helped keep this problem in check.

There are better heroin substitutes than methadone (which is probably more addictive than heroin).

Suboxone in particular needs to be used more in the US.
List prices aren't stock prices the gg(?)p was talking about buying luxury goods stocks, not luxury goods themselves.

Plus the 2nd hand market would be more relevant to what you're suggesting.

Edit: Spelling
exactly, The game i spent most time playing this week is entirely text based, there is only a background image, which i turned off as it was a little annoying.

im talking white text on a black background.

the gameplay was and always will be much more important than the graphics.
We have built a lightweight alternative to JIRA -
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It's under active development. Check it out and let me know your thoughts.
Why exactly is it a problem when the intent here is to actually chain infix operators.
With liability for deviating from the plans?

Having experienced a vaguely diagnosed condition that the doctor treated with intuition, I hope you don't get put in charge.
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I'm from Germany and visited LA last month. I was riding the rail because we usually use public transportation when visiting other countries. We wanted to visit the walk of fame and it was a much nicer experience than hassling through the traffic in LA. The traffic is borderline insane. The diamond lane was almost empty because apparently everyone is driving in their own car. My wife and I were under the impression that only people who can't afford a car were driving the rail, but we don't know if that's true or not. The rail (and bus) was certainly a much saner choice than the car. I've never seen such a large city with such an underused public transportation. Meanwhile, you have 5 or 6 lanes running through the city, which makes the rail stops unbearably loud.
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Could someone please add [2017] to the title?

Not sure what happened in the nearly two years since this post went public. But at least we would now, that this is not a current disclosure.
Ralf Vandebergh has some photos of it on his twitter @ralfvandebergh https://twitter.com/ralfvandebergh

He has some good ISS captures too.
> They might not produce something physical, but then neither does a musician, or a writer.

No I mean they do not literally produce anything. A musician or writer produces music or writings. An ad is like a mudpie, nobody wants it. Does ads maximize profits in capitalist economy? Yes but that requires the assumption of capitalist economy. In real terms it is pure overhead and does not achieve any social or environmental need. If you need ads to buy something you don't need it by definition.

> They're a part of the economy though, my entire point is that your link ignores non physical bits of the economy, but that is now the dominant part of the economy, so the theory is at least outdated.

No actual production is the dominant part of the real economy, but money hides it because imperialism allows super explotation where the real producers are paid virtually nothing compared to the value produced. E.g. 1000 trillion worth of value is bought at 2 trillion. You cannot at the same time acknowledge the exploitation and think that some bullshit rent-seeking is what is producing most value in economy.

> I know what GDP per capita is, that's why I used it, have you got any particular reason why I should be using absolute GDP figures?

You should not be using GDP or any monetary value at all to measure anything real. Behind it is the assumption that money is same as social or environmental value, but the relationship is often not there or inversed.
Isn't the whole point of public resources is that everyone can use them?
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And the post is from 2017 but there's been a resurgence of these spam invites within the last few days. I received 2 of them yesterday.
What an interesting and strange childhood you must have had to be writing games in Pascal before you heard about cosine. Either your schooling was great or terrible!
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After switching to Archlinux and putting Windows 10 in a Qemu VM my life got way easier. One is driven by the corporation behind it to form and change user behaviour in order to make more money, and the other is made by like-minded hackers.
The fact that it's defaulted to on and surprises users who don't even know about it is the problem.

"Minimize all other windows except this one" is a function that is rarely used and definitely not something a small movement of the mouse should trigger.
Bypassed? Unlikely. Breathalyzers are all about tamper-detection. If you know of a way of bypassing one, contact a lawyer. Somebody will pay you boatloads of money as an expert witness.
I use a macbook, an iphone and an ipad - I get notified about the the MacOS update about once a year or whenever it comes out. I've never seen the other notifications that you mentioned.
Human drivers know what to look out for in other human drivers, we don't know what to look out for in autonomous vehicles. If those vehicles perform particularly badly under some conditions that are not obvious the public would benefit from having transparent insight into how the cars function, so they can be appropriately alert.

A research experiment that exposes the public to additional risk should be performed with the maximum amount of transparency possible. It is frightening that this even needs to be spelled out.
Incidentally, the execution model and abstract machine for OCaml (more accurately Caml Light) is based on Xavier Leroy's paper "The ZINC experiment: an economical implementation of the ML language" [1] - an all time CS classic. Reading that paper and the surprisingly approachable source code for OCaml's interpreter [2] is a great way to demystify functional compilers.

[1] https://caml.inria.fr/pub/papers/xleroy-zinc.pdf

[2] https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/blob/trunk/runtime/interp.c
The problem is that you encounter edge cases on every drive, and you need to be ready to respond. The car may be able to handle 80% of the trip, but one of those edge cases will sneak up on you and the car. How long would it take you to regain situational awareness and safely maneuver the car in the event of some unexpected situation after you've been cruising in self-driving mode for an hour? Ten seconds? Five? Can you do it in one? What if the car doesn't realize it can't handle the situation at all?

Like any risk, you also need to consider the impact of getting it wrong. If an audio assistant gives you the wrong answer to the population of your hometown, no big deal. But if your car thinks everything is okay and drives you into a stationary fire truck on the shoulder of a freeway when you are travelling at 70mph, the downside of that edge case is infinitely worse.

Sure, humans can make these mistakes, too. But the fact is that your notional world where computers are able to make smarter decisions than humans about how to drive doesn't actually exist. No one has figured out how to make it work. And they won't anytime soon. They've solved all the easy parts. But it turns out there's a lot more involved in driving than all the billions of dollars poured into the problem so far can figure out.
Drug companies misrepresented the research around addiction; they aggressively sold the medication to doctors and patients; they continued these sales even when they had data showing large amounts of misuse in a region.

People seem to think there can only be one point of failure, one organisation or person to blame. The opioid crisis is complex and many things failed. You're right that doctors should not have prescribed as many opioids, but that doesn't absolve the makers or the insurance companies.
Also farming is hard, I've killed a shit load of plants when I started out, you gotta learn from those mistakes, keep at it and eventually you'll enjoy the fruits of your labour. Also if you're looking into hydrophonic growing do look into the Kratky method(non circulating) This is a video by Dr Kratky https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZZO1tYqcwk, I cannot recommend it enough, This is my go to method for growing herbs, tomatoes, eggplants and chili.
Then use cash?
You speak as if you know his business a lot better than a couple of blog posts can convey. What's the basis for your business advice?
See also: you can't be good at something that you don't think about in the shower, http://www.paulgraham.com/top.html
That wasn't the claim. The claim is they tried to squash any competition possibly making a better product. They've literally been convicted of that.
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> when my computer turned off, it does 0 requests

I wouldn't be so sure
Please stop parroting the myths created by the drug companies.
I think this idea makes a lot of sense.

I recently published a tiny library on NPM for changing the case of strings (snake_case, etc.). It felt so small and silly that I was tempted to add some other string manipulation functions, to make it a more "serious" library. But it struck me that this would just be silly. How often do you need a whole collection of string manipulation functions? Never! It would just add to the size of dist folders everywhere, with no gain whatsoever. I suspect this applies in many situations.
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If our current civilization completely collapsed, I would think most of our technology would be gone forever. It is hard to imagine another civilization figuring out how to read a hard drive.
Human drivers have their own low-hanging fruit that can be pointed at for accident reduction. Tired, impaired, distracted driving are horribly commonplace.

Its a low bar, for automated cars to be better than human drivers. Sure they'll have their 'blind spots'. That's no condemnation of the whole industry. Because what we have now is not very good at all (fallible humans, all different). And when automated drivers have an issue we discover, they can all be fixed. Try that with humans.
No - not for having a YT channel (per se) but for engaging in communications that FB considered to be a conflict of interest. And probably (as with most firings), a whole whole bunch of other stuff (besides the nominal "reason").

Nonethelsss - my heart goes out to anyone dragged into a "friendly chat with HR" under any circumstances.
This conversation is about the medium, not the message, so we'd probably have been OK without this one. I agree that a Twitter thread is a pretty inefficient and painful way of reading a conversation.
The gatekeeping can be a feature; centralising security review is definitely worthwhile.
At least for the Company I worked for - most people left on "harbor days". Be it for guided tours, beach days or other events or just plain "I am exploring on my own". Most have to be back in the late afternoon/early evening - so that the cruise-liner can depart on time.

So at least for this company most people did not incur food costs on board for lunch (non the less having paid for it with the package deal).
Wow, his wife left him too.

Might have had something to do with the 80-hour work weeks.
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You're discounting people's perception of others and themselves. Nobody wants to be "the token". It starts creating the perception that all people of that demographic exist in the workplace due to lowered barriers and thus are not as good. It's not entirely beneficial.
Might be interesting to build a mobile app similar to the beeper mentioned in the article—maybe add a notes tab for users to write down their thoughts. I could see possible benefits including increased mindfulness and ability to live in the moment.
You're spreading fud. Waymo have a lot of vehicles on the road and most of the time the human drivers run into the back of them while they're stopped. They haven't had any big incidents.
The proposed key-value function database mentioned in the article sounds like the recently launched Function Repository in the Wolfram Language...

https://resources.wolframcloud.com/FunctionRepository/
And the funny thing about that is that rhetoric on the right about the loss of national/white identity and the homogenisation of groups is also accompanied with rhetoric about people on the left having too many identities, or an obsession with different identities.

I think you're totally right though, there has definitely been a loss of racial/ethnic/linguistic identity in the world. However, additionally there's been an explosion of other identities. Take from this example the idea that there are a large group of Parisians of "tunisian origin". That just could not have existed in the ages when people rarely travelled a few miles from home. Consider also that the subjects now exist in a nationwide community of baguette bakers - very niche, probably enabled by better communications and transport in this age. Then there's all the other subcultures the subjects probably find themselves at the intersections of, that we don't see talked about in the article. But sure, identifying with your small region of France has been homogenised away.
Pray that you'll never have a severely abscessed tooth.
Depends on your definition of "terrifying."

I dont personally care that some marketer knowns I purchased toilet paper then went to the tacorita on Tuesday; I'll gladly give that information away for $4.