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I use Emacs in Debian on WSL with X410 and it’s fine, no perceptible lag.

Git is definitely slower in Windows
> The authors probably weren’t sure where they stood in the tabs versus spaces argument so both tabs and spaces were used in the controller. Sometimes, the indentation of source code was so bad that it would enrage even the most forgiving software engineers.

absolutely barbaric
I guess I'm weird compared to most consumers or investors. I applaud and enjoy when company leaders call out their products or services as crap. Because frankly, they mostly are. Most business is partially a constant lie about how good, reliable, or worthwhile they are. This is constant across the global economy. So why not embrace it? We all know you get what you pay for...
It has been well over a 100 years since the last time the president didn't get the nomination.

It's pretty much going to be Trump vs Biden.
Apparently your sense of smell has a short pathway to your brain, so an olfactory UI could be a good thing, how about a burning smell when your server's hitting max load :)
Looks great, but unless there was integration of notes with Google Keep it would mean notes taken on my Mac would only be there and not available to me on my phone.
I agree with you, but I’m still glad people are out there exploring the solution space.
It's not directly related to General Mattis, but I would recommend reading Evan Wright's book "Generation Kill".
Which recounts his time being embedded with the 1st Recon Battalion, which was under the command of Mattis (Callsign Chaos) during Operation Iraqi Freedom.

The book even goes briefly into a famous moment in the invasion of Iraq were General Mattis fires one of his commanders during a siege of a city.

https://www.wearethemighty.com/articles/that-time-mattis-fir...

HBO did a miniseries on the book too which is great.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_Kill
> Fish is a real mixed bag

Here in Brussels a few years ago, it was found that 1 in 3 kinds of fish that was served in restaurants did not match the type of fish on the menu.

150 restaurants were visited, 5 types of fish were ordered and 36 different types were served (lots of Pangasius). In 95% of cases, "red tuna" was actually white or some other kind of tuna.

Source (in Dutch) https://weekend.knack.be/lifestyle/culinair/een-op-drie-viss...
Just think of such meeting as a paid break: check your phone for emails, catch up with Facebook friends, order some things from Amazon, or just let your mind wander. This way no meeting would be "a waste of time" :)

Personally, I've been working as contractor/consultant for the last 8 years, getting paid by the hour worked, so I grew to like those pointless meetings, because they simply are easy money: they count as work, but require almost no effort on my side.
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> Structured meetings only communicate information collectively known to be important.

Meetings with rules of order aren't meant for communicating information (that's what documents are for), their purpose is to make decisions efficiently.

That's why you have an agenda (what will be discussed and decided), have a chairperson (to ensure the meeting remains on-topic and follows the rules) and keep minutes (so there is a record of what was decided).

When someone comes with new information ("derails") it's perfectly acceptable to take that into account and move a replacement motion, or push it into the next agenda, spin off a delegated group etc. Any widely-used rules of order include numerous mechanisms for dealing with new information arising during the meeting.

But the general point is that meeting is only competent to decide what is in the agenda and decisions only exist if they are in the minutes. If you don't have that ironclad rule than everyone will need to turn up for every meeting, just in case a decision they care about is made. And then turn up for every meeting ever after, because no meetings are final. And argue about what was actually decided.

Rules of order get a bad rap for the same reason as static typing and relational databases: they seem stuffy and slow. But they exist for a good reason and in the long run they are going to be more efficient than making it up as you go.
When people die from the way they let people wait, you tend to have a different vision of the whole thing than “you get what you pay for”.

When you entrust care of people you love to a company, you tend to expect more than capitalism tuned to the extreme.

And before you ask, yes, that’s exactly what happened to a family member of mine. “Wheelchair assistance” never showed up.
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It really depends on the user. I carried a zbook15 with charger which was around 6-7kg then. The laptop itself was crap, but I didn't care about the weight/thickness at all. And it could actually pull a number of heavy virtual machines without issues, which Chromebook just wouldn't be able to.

But people will have different expectations / idea of comfort.
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As others have said, this is an excerpt promoting a forthcoming book, not a declaration to run against the current president.

Also interesting to note Mattis is call sign "Chaos" who was a major offscreen character and frequently mentioned on the HBO mini series "Generation Kill".
Rules of order are a locking protocol controlling who may project sound into the air. They work pretty well.
What hardware did you use to produce such photos?
It's such a stark contrast to developing a web app which you can _freely_ publish.

The difference isn't between webapp and native, it's between publishing on Google's services and doing it elsewhere. Hosting binaries on GitHub or even your own site remains viable, and perhaps we should encourage more users to leave the walled garden this way.
How was early Machine Learning
different from statistics?

I'd argue: in two ways.

First: ML's algorithmic focus. Just about anything in modern AI/ML works because it uses compute at extreme scale. For example neural nets seem to work well only when trained with huge amounts of data. Statisticians lacked the background to make this happen.

Second: most work in statistics assumed that data was generated
by given stochastic data model. In contrast, ML has been using algorithmic models and the data given by an unknown mechanism. In most real-world situations, the mechanism is unknown.

It's not just hype. Statistics was stuck in a local optimum, and it was ML's focus on algorithms, data structures, GPUs/TPUs, big data, ... together with the jump into 'weird' data (e.g. the proverbial cat photos), that propelled ML ahead of statistics.
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Who are you to tell people they shouldn't open source their projects? Open source means exactly that, you can get the source. It doesn't say anything about how it's funded.

Just because you don't understand money or the guy above would be "embarrassed to charge $2000 for an update" doesn't mean other people should stay poor to make you feel better.
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The parts of the name seem relatively common. There's a distance runner Haile Gebrselassie [1], and a soccer player Theodor Gebre Selassie [2], and others with no obvious connection to Haile Selassie.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haile_Gebrselassie

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodor_Gebre_Selassie
Naturally the UK banks found a way to charge consumers for SEPA payments.
This gets said about 5000 feature on windows. A good OS doesn't require you to spend an hour turning off 400 toggles only to have them turn back on in an update
Sure, which would include Mattis.
Logically, "As the employee with more power and rank at the company in question", he's the one giving the most value to the company (or he wouldn't have promoted, would he?) so - in regard to any company's interest - it's best to keep him where he give most value than to move him to some other where he would give less value.

Company's interest is most often not a question a moral, but efficiency.
Instead of using the nicely standardized thing called http and web browsers.

...of which Google effectively controls the standard because they have a majority of browser usage.
> the evilness / incompetence etc. etc. is by far overestimated by the public

Yeah nice talk and all, but whenever some clusterfuck permeates to the public its such an epic fail on many levels that often shows utter incompetence... coming from people who shouldn't fail like that.

I wish secret services around the world would be those nice good guys guarding freedom, being just, highly competent etc. But reality is simply not like that. Either the folks are semi-incompetent and drowning in politics and chasing money and careers more than actual job they should do, or those highly competent are often cold-blood murderers who couldn't care less whom they kill (ie mosad guys). And I don't even go into topic of all of them desperately wanting to know every private detail of every single person on the globe, because 'security'.

I used to expect more from them. But that naivety was lost along the road long time ago.
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Ray-tracing is done in a Python notebook. Data originates from NASA public resources. I searched for the highest resolution data to make the Moon almost touchable. So it is made of 118m elevetion model and 480m surface color. There is also 59m elevation model, but this 22GB does not really fit into my laptop's GPU.

Code can run on GCP instance. Laptop/desktop is more convenient, though.

If you'd like to go straight to pictures: https://www.behance.net/gallery/84326717/Making-of-the-Moon

or tutorial:
https://medium.com/@sulej.robert/the-moon-made-twice-at-home...
Funny cause I have just started to notice that as well, BUT I am mainly a DDG user that resort to using Google search in case I cannot find something satisfactory on my preferred search engine.

Speaking about YouTube, I think it might be recommending through other videos that you might have watched/liked that are not related to either, but somehow other users have watched/liked as well. So instead of having a relation A-B, it is now a relation A-C <-> D-B, you and the other users have watched/liked C and D, therefore you might want to watch B.
The article is very brief and leaves a lot to be desired. There is a quote about how reading a book on a sunny day helps and how Solarized is a good color scheme.
There is one screenshot of the authors' setup and that's pretty much it.

>Many dark themes available today are worse for eye strain than what you’re currently using.
But the article doesn't say how to see if the dark theme you are using is actually bad.

I feel like the article is trying to suggest using light themes, but there are only like a dozen available and most of them look the same.
Plants are going extinct up to 350 times faster than the historical norm
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> what if the current genetic diversity on Earth is the result of genetic engineering by ancient aliums?

What if? Obviously they must have engineered it such that current evolution theories have the best predictive value for their achievement. A clever bunch, no doubt, but unfortunately outside of the realm of science because it can't be falsified.
Let's look at Snowden as an example. What would have happened if he had expressed a vauge, unsupported sentiment about the NSA "not being very nice," or "doing too much spying?" Nothing, probably. The larger public debate needs facts that it can verify and specifics that it can pick over.

(Also, "highly classified" and "slightly classified" are the same as far as CNN is concerned.)
Except for those applications which have a "free period" of some days then charge $10/week and uninstalling the application does not stop the subscription.
I want to believe this, and as there is no evidence one way or the other, it sounds good enough that it makes me hopeful for future products.

My question is, what did Ive do that was truly great? I honestly don't know and his name is mostly brought up with respect to designs that didn't pan out. What did he do that everyone seems to respect him as an uber-designer?

I do think, for a while at least, apple's design was eye catching and cool. But for a long long time now it's been stagnant and copycatted all over the industry. So much so, that it doesn't really stand out any more. That's all fine, but it makes me wonder what Ive has been doing for the last 5-10 years, because not much has changed.
OT: The pointless euphemism "unplanned dismounts" in the intro paragraph made me laugh out loud.
I would like to second the tv series Generation Kill. Brilliant show. Really highlights a lot of the ridiculousness of war. Not as serious nor on the same scale as Band of Brothers, but still good nonetheless.
Exactly (including the office situation) here.

Some days I would just do obligations like meetings and urgent stuff at the normal hours and leave the deep work to do when she and the baby were asleep.

This was definitely the hardest thing to balance...
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Apple's support website still lists all authorized third party repair outlets, of which there are many in most cities.

I've been recommended them before, it's not unimaginable, and no, they generally don't send it to Apple (source: a good friend who works at London Drugs, which has a fairly good Apple-authorized computer shop inside of its various locations in Canada). If the laptop itself isn't serviceable (e.g. rare things like diagnosed catastrophic mainboard failure) they will just replace it from repair stock if it's under warranty. The top case / keyboard IS serviceable by most third party outlets to my understanding.
There was a big discussion about logging yesterday. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20818106
What if Apple/Google weren't allowed to operate their personal app stores, and instead each was managed by for-profit 3rd parties?

They'd be small enough and focused enough that their only option for survival would be trust.
Yes! Free if you're working on an open source project (check out Oregon State University's Open Source Lab's POWER offerings: VMs (+/- GPUs) and Jenkins integrations). That's what I use.

If you're working on something commercial, you might check out http://integricloud.com/ -- looks like they start at start at $250/mo for a dedicated system (with 16-cores). If you check out their billing rates, it sounds like you can get a single core/thread though for about ~10-20 a month: http://integricloud.com/content/base/managevms.html?viewrate...

(I've never used integricloud but someone commented on my comment mentioning OSUOSL from a week ago)
While I genuinely believe there may be an interesting perspective here, reviewing it should be done after establishing proper context.

Which, in this case, is that the person speaking has so far mostly chosen to spend their life lethally inflicting American hegemony on populations around the world via mechanized warfare.

Not to diminish their service on the board of Theranos and General Dynamics of course.
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Is each architecture given one set of random weights?

Or is the architecture of the net tested against a bunch of random weights so that it performs well independently of the weights?
If you've an android phone, just count your apps? I did, and expected 8 of my 20 apps to use GCM. MicroG revealed it to be 11 (actually 12 due to "MicroG services core" registering with GCM as well).

I might be an outlier though.
True, it was just one or two, but that was still interesting to see.
The corollary of this is pretty awe inspiring - we find only a fraction of a percent of the fossil record that exists, and the fossil record that exists is only a fraction of a percent of everything that happened, all the species that existed, etc.

The fact that we can still derive meaningful knowledge out of that compounded fraction of fraction of a percent is amazing; and the quantity of mind blowing things that happened that we will never get to know because they weren't "recorded" is humbling.
Standard procedure for handling a complex system is "First, do no harm," not "Futz around and hope we come out on top." We know that climate change is disrupting biomes everywhere. Life will eventually adapt, but not before a significant loss of biodiversity.
BYOD it!

My company laptop is just used for Skype meetings. The real work happens on my ThinkPad.

Although now that enough people have copied my approach it has now been grudgingly approved by IT.
Will this allow WSL2 to access your entire Windows filesystem without the performance hit?

If so this is really cool.
Everyone in this thread is bashing Google for their evil-ness, but I had the exact same experience with the iOS AppStore: Apple just claimed I broke some policy without further details, but I was pretty sure this was not the case. Upon asking for clarification, they basically sent the same paragraph again. I ended up sending an "update" with some random changes on things related to said policy (without actually changing functionality) and it somehow got approved.

If you think about it, it's impossible to fully check an app for compliance. That's probably why the enforcement appears so aimless and fuzzy from the outside.
That "bias" is appropriate because of actual cost va value! "I killed five people and their families are out to kill you but your salary is 10% higher!" isn't worth it even to a sociopath from the expenses. If their gains are small and their fuckups are large not getting rid of them is itself an immense fuck up.
I understand but I don't know how. I'm just doubting that the kernel has been updated for security at all. As others have said, apparently we're dependent on Qualcomm for updates and they no longer release any.
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Okay, what if I can bribe someone that works for Google reviewing apps to terminate a competing app? Folks were bribing T mobile employees to steal phone numbers so they can empty bank/crypto accounts. Folks were bribing employees that worked for background checking services to pull data so they can perform identity theft. I imagine folks that review apps for Google are not highly paid and since they rarely reply to you. Most app developers just quietly go away when such things happen.
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I had read that quote before, but your comment made me understand it. This is exactly the reply I hoped for when I wrote my comment, thanks!
I read up on these many years ago (around the time of the original essay).. seemed like impressive work.

But are the assumptions made still applicable to newer hardware?
It's an interesting anecdote, but the words that really jump out of the sentence there are "Portland" and "Seattle". I wouldn't be surprised if the percentage of people who eat vegetarian in the PNW is 10x as high as what it is in, say, the Rust Belt.
In the Republican party of some people's wistful imagination, perhaps, but not in the actual one.

Trump is broadly unpopular with the American people as a whole, and every common demographic subset of them other "white males without a college degree".

But among Republican party members? His claims of "94%" are bullshit, naturally, but the actual results of real mainstream polling[1] put it north of 80%.

To paraphrase Marlo Stanfield: A lot of people want America to be one way. But it's the other way.

[1]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-claims-higher-...
PlotOptiX requires NVIDIA GPU. I used GTX1060/6GB on a laptop for most of the work. Tested also on a desktop RTX1070/8GB, much better fps, of course. Video is done on RTX. In Google Cloud, on V100, runs even faster, but GUI is more convenient on local machine.
> It's better to feed your child breast milk, if only because it's cheaper and there's no particular reason not to

Downsides: Only mothers can breastfeed = more work for them. Yes you can pump and refrigerate and have dad feed later with a bottle but pumps are garbage, time consuming and makes mom feel like a cow.

Moms may feel self conscious breastfeeding in public and in conservative cultures it's probably impossible.

Mastitis: painful infection. Already had this 2x in 5 months, requires antibiotics.

Our first kid was formula fed, our second breastfed. Second one is much less work for me as a dad.

Main upside to breastfeeding is that you don't need to carry around formula for two years, find a microwave, sterilize bottles etc. When traveling this is gold. Another upside is that I think breasts tend to stay in better shape aesthetically when not breastfeeding.
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>The one advance that might finally challenge the 'no silver bullet' rule is machine learning.

Definitely not. Machine learning is up there with 2012's nosql movement as one of the most overhyped silver bullets.

The improvements to programming over the last 30 years have been incremental more than anything in spite of the hype cycles of various silver bullets (OOP, functional programming, side effect free code, TDD, nosql, static types, etc.)
Absolutely escapes me why anyone would think that any birds would not have conscious control over vocalizations. Highlights what is wrong with biology ie the assumption that we are surrounded by mindless organic automatons vice living, thinking creatures.
This was thoughtful, measured, wise, well-written, and completely ineffectual.

There's no "threat of tribalism". We're living in tribalism. This piece could only be effective in another climate.

Ham-fisted, on-the-nose, bluntness is the only way to get your message across to a political audience in 2019.
This page is being rendered as DejaVu Sans Mono on my Debian Firefox. This font apparently does not have the Form Feed character [1], so I am getting a bunch of nonrendered characters, once before every * heading (but not before ).

Incidentally, my emacs font face is also the same, so I am also getting a bunch of ^L in emacs C-h n.

[1] https://unicode-table.com/en/000C/
> having to wait 3 days for a repair, even though it is done in-store is truly infuriating

Oh - but it gets worse. I had my keyboard replaced a year ago, and it took over a week. In Norway they don't stock US International keyboards, which I can accept, but they can't (or won't, hard to tell) order a replacement unit before taking it into service. So it has to stay with them while they wait a 3-5 days just to get the spare parts. Great!

I was about to walk out of the store when they told me they needed my password to run "keyboard diagnostics" and that they were unsure wether or not KEYS FALLING OFF was covered by warranty.
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