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> You don't remember the pre SO times. You couldn't find anything to fix your problems and must read the source code or pay zillions for some sh-tty support. In the pre-internet times, you just would hit a wall and have to quit.

Wow, I must have been a natural talent or something /s

But seriously, programming isn't that hard. Finding the answer on SO is just a shortcut, saving some time, but it's not like the information magically grows on SO. It came from reading the docs and having a good understanding of the subject matter.

I mean yes, SO is a blessing. Super useful. But it's not as if these things were impossible to figure out by yourself.

Now, programming in the pre Internet times ... you would borrow a book from the library that was an old software version or the wrong OS, but there might be some keywords in the book's index that you could blindly try out and type to see if they do anything with your version. Then I remember getting stuck.
Absolutely

But even with pristine MSDN documentation and lots of (pre-SO) googling some problems were just very hard (or I was just inexperienced).

I think tools also evolved and it's not surprising that "HTML" won, even QT looks like cutting a tree with a kitchen knife sometimes
They have guns already. How do you stop the wild fire with a gun? shooting it?
Right? I mostly lurk here but for some reason almost everyone is like "well you can't drive that speed on any normal road anyway". Yes, thank you. You won't typically launch yourself to the Moon either but it's nice that someone is trying to do it instead and it is okay to marvel at the engineering that is needed to do so.
Safety, intrinsic in voluminous ultra-lightweight structures particularly in heavy winds and storms, seems to be an intractable problem.

The US airship programme, based on helium, not hydrogen, still saw both the Macon and Ohio lost in high winds and/or storms. Britain's Airship One fared poorly as well, though it relied on hydrogen.

Stuff that flies through the air has intrinsic issues with mass, and lifting bodies require tremendous volumes.
1. Yes, the ease with which attackers can take over a phone number is a big security issue in general
2. You might question your wife's request but people are far less likely to question their CEO in the same way, it might be seen as insubordination
Hopefully this will be helpful: I found Sina Bahram's talk at !!Con 2016 How I Code and Use a Computer at 1,000 WPM!! inspiring and incredible. He's blind and has his computer read everything out ridiculously quickly, and apparently gets input that way much faster than sighted people can read! Amazing.

I use a computer very differently than most people, because I’m blind. When I’m surfing the web, tweeting, checking email, reading the news, and writing code, I’m doing so because a program called a screen reader is reading me what’s on the screen. I happen to listen to it read me this text at a thousand words per minute! Join me in listening to how I experience some common user interfaces. Yes, I’ll slow it down for you. I also have a challenge for everyone in the audience. Can you get through a day only using the keyboard? What about not looking at your screen?

Sina Bahram is an accessibility consultant, researcher, and entrepreneur. He is the founder of Prime Access Consulting (PAC), an accessibility firm whose clients include high-tech startups, fortune 1000 companies, and both private and nationally-funded museums.

Talk: http://youtube.com/watch?v=G1r55efei5c

Text copied from this page: http://bangbangcon.com/2016/speakers.html
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Using the "paper form" has only the drawback of being available for everyone in your environment.

If you want to keep the paper form and also have the ability to securely generate new passwords:

Buy a cheap, widely, available book (maybe two or three of the same), start at a random page and use the first letters/sentences in this book as your new password. To make it even more secure, I would suggest you add a "standard" to every password you have created ... like "SuperSecurePa##".

So for example: You have bought a book and like to add a new password ... you might start at page one, where the sentence would be:
"Once upon a time, there were two developers ..."
=> this will become your password:
"Ouat,twtdSuperSecurePa##"

Even more secure password (due to the size):
"Onceuponatime,thereweretwodevelopersSuperSecurePa##"

You can level this up by:
- Your chosen appendix has even more "secure" chars, like #*+?="§%&/() (you know what I mean)
- You prepend and append your new password with your "common" pass (here "SuperSecurePa##") ... or maybe prepend with a different common pass??
True, shipping is absolutely filthy. This was a big part of why I mentioned "less disposable crap".

Though how much is ghg and how much a matter of particulates? Seems most analysis shows the drive to the grocery store emits more carbon than shipping the fish.

Also fish is generally a disaster, but that's a separate topic. (Eating carnivores full of plastic dumping concentrated waste and disease in to the ocean is suboptimal)
But we're judging FreeBSD, not "Ubuntu, Fedora, elementary OS". Everyone knows the latter will be easy to set up
Yes, some hedge fund would probably be happy to hire these AIs.
It's dead easy to spoof caller IDs. Any kid could do it.
I just have to assume that they got a good impersonator which sounds a lot more doable than having an AI.

but the deepfake thing is a good story.
In 2010, road transport accounted for 72% of all transport sector related emissions, internation and coastal shipping accounted for about 9%.

Source: Figure 8.1, IPCC 5th Assessment Report, https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2018/02/ipcc_wg3_ar5...
But at this point we need to prioritize, and climate change is arguably becoming more important than direct exposure to personal transportation pollutants.
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The Bridgify ToS are egregious; under "Messaging Content", you grant them irrevocable rights to use your messaging content...
I started my opinion with "In my opinion", so it should be rather clear.

I would rather claim that due to epistemological reasons we cannot "understand" reality. And i think that "The problem with having "opinions" about reality is that reality doesn't care what your opinion is, at all." - is a great example of opinion (in my opinion) :)
> Without getting into a Chinese Room argument about what it means to understand something,

Yep, probably best to avoid. I still don’t think I’ve seen a convincing rebuttal.
Damn, you're right. And the only mention I see on this is announcements from Amnesty[0] and EFF[1], and his own Twitter feed[2]. Zero mentions in national news whatsoever. It seems he's now actually being charged with cybercrime due to a photo they found in his phone of opening a telnet connection to a particular IP. No login attempts, just opening a connection and taking a photo of the login banner. They're also looking into his visa status and taxes. It should be obvious that this is a political case.

[0]: https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2019/08/ecuador-gobie...
[1]: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/08/ola-bini-prosecutors-w...
[2]: https://twitter.com/olabini
> figuring out process that are repeatable and result in high velocity and code quality, but I'd imagine that this is what an organization like Google is good at!

Seems like Go is manifestation of such process. Because something like Rust is not for a repeatable process of _producing a lot of software_ by big teams with variation in experience and headcount. Rust is probably about _fewer people_ carefully designing _less_ of software, so it can be done once and stay forever.

Rust is for architecting bridges, Go is for paving streets.
And? What does a page full of data tell me? At a quick glance I can see a lot of violations made repeatedly for the same licence plate; there's no data on whether certain violations are made multiple times by the same person with different vehicles; it's not easy to tell what kinds of violations there are, how much of each, and which are easy to get tickets from unscrupulous parking attendants or which would require actual lack of action by the vehicle's driver or owner… this isn't evidence of anything.

The population of New York may be only 8.5 million, but that doesn't make 11 million infractions an indicator that the majority of those people are the sorts of people to accept parking fines as the cost of owning a vehicle.
Quote:"i don't see how anyone could get inside of it"

OS Bug, Software Bug, OS Exploit, Software Exploit ...
From what I can tell that image was pretty much in line with what everyone watching the US spy satellite program expected and wasn't hugely far off what's commercially available now. For instance, this was the first article I found when looking for information about the resolution of commercial satellite images (up to 30cm apparently), and it puts Keyhole spy satellites in the 7-10cm resolution ballpark: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/04/21/h...

The significance of that release was overblown because it helped support a narrative about Trump damaging national security that the media and people on social media liked. In reality it doesn't seem to have revealed anything about the US satellite imaging capabilities that wasn't already known.
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Poking around I found the numbers 6300 liters pr hour at ~20 knots for optimal fuel consumption and 13600 liters pr hour at 31 knots at full engines.

That breaks down to 170 liters per km optimally or 237 liters per km at full engines.
Plus DC motors are just fundamentally different from ac. AC is generally simpler and less maintenance, so it's not purely a question of scale.
Uh, regarding your second link to the sugar-free version, how can Heinz claim it's using "No artificial colours, flavors, preservatives or thickeners" when the product is sweetened with Sucralose?

Wikipedia's text about Sucralose [1] starts:

Sucralose is an artificial sweetener and sugar substitute [...]

Is "sweet" not considered a flavor, due to some marketing double-speak?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sucralose
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Wouldn't this be so dependent on the feature, product, team and company that any answer would be useless because it's too specific? Or am I missing something?
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It might. But we hope it'll get more popular than Microsoft .NET DBML
> As I said, AFAIK the right to be forgotten doesn't give you the right to delete any information. It just gives you the right to remove some information from appearing in search engines.

Sorry, probably lost in translation.

I never said you have the right to delete any information, just you private informations and any data you own and you ask the controller to delete.

I don't know if you are aware that in EU for EU citizens we have the GDPR legislation.

Let's cite the law, Article 17, GDPR legislation

> Art. 17 GDPR

> Right to erasure (‘right to be forgotten’)

> The data subject shall have the right to obtain from the controller the erasure

> of personal data concerning him or her without undue delay and the controller

> shall have the obligation to erase personal data without undue delay

https://gdpr.eu/article-17-right-to-be-forgotten/

In particular, the controller has the right to retain your personal data (including the data you posted publicly) until you consent to it, if you revoke the consent, you can ask to stop the processing (art. 18) and delete everything they have about you.

If you comment on a social network, for example, that comment identifies you, because it is linked to your username, it has metadata attached to it, it can be used to track you, it is considered personal data, you can ask for removal.

Unless there is a (very) valid reason, the controller has to comply and delete every copy of the data, including backups (and soft deleted data that's still there).
I'm sure they're capable of multiplying by 10.
If you're lucky with the card.

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2016/03/ubuntu-drops-amd-catalys...
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I think it is a dire logical error to equate capitalism, which arises naturally out of fair and mutually consensual dealing between humans, and the neverending consumer consumption drive epitomized by the global west.

They are not the same thing, and the former does not necessitate the latter. Same goes for all the other ills of our society that people misguidedly invoke under the “capitalism” umbrella, like intellectual property, patents, and regulatory capture.

Military-industrial complex-flavored capitalism is the problem. It sounds like that is part of the problem described in the article, too.
> With a team like that, Rambam says he has a near 100 percent effectiveness rate at finding people...

I'm not sure how one could measure this.

> I’m always amazed at how infrequently people use cash for this shit.

Maybe more of them do but they also get away. From the article I get the impression that these investigators just aim for the low-hanging fruit. There are enough of them to make a living.
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Have you tried brown sauce?

http://www.foodsofengland.co.uk/brownsauce.htm
The map deals with beer, vodka and wine. I'm not grouping vodka and beer, I'm setting wine apart.
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There's A Path to Programming Language Theory, which is a list of resources for learning this material -- it seems pretty comprehensive, but as you can see it involves a lot of different resources. I'm not sure that any one book could give a decent overview of the field:
https://steshaw.org/plt/
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"difference" is the word there.

If you are allowed two words, "real difference".

The way to find it is to find candidate words and try them one by one until you hear something that sounds like you've heard it a hundred times before.

> I also wonder if knowing why I can't do this is useful for NLP.

Yes. I wonder if the inability is acquired or learned or innate? Could you learn to do it? Do you have an aversion to catch phrases and well-used (hackneyed) clichés? Do you prefer to weave your own words into sentences?

I notice you use some odd prepositions in odd orders. For example in your second sentence most people would say "I have real difficulty with fill-in-the-blank tests."

You also wrote "perform at these kinds of tests," which is a place where almost all American native English speakers would use "on" rather than "at".

If I had to guess, you're much less sensitive than the average person to slight variations in word pair frequencies, and you could certainly create a test to test this hypothesis. For example you could choose any n-gram likelihood data derived from well-written English texts, and write a program to measure your ability to distinguish high- from low-frequency word pairs. This should be lower than other people in your peer group.
I was fortunate enough to have avoided disaster with another Ponzi scheme in the early days of the Internet. This particular individual had invested in a company I'd helped start which went on to be quite successful - but my hackles were raised by a few meetings such that I avoided investing with him. Which, on the one hand sucked - because it meant I was shut out of having a whirlwind success with the one company in his portfolio that was legit - the one I'd helped start.

But on the other hand, the relief I felt at not having to deal with the Feds over this guy was huge.

Since then, its been amazing to me just how much crooked behaviour goes on with tech investments. I've managed to avoid further entanglements with Ponzi-style schemes in the decade since, but I'll never forget this one guys' pure sleaziness, how it raised my alarm bells, and yet how others saw it as competence and genius.

If only I'd had the temerity to differentiate between the one good thing (which I had agency over) and all the crud, I'm quite sure I'd be worth millions more today ..
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The description of what they have accomplished sounds misleading.

They stimulated an olfactory sensory nerve. That causes a real memory of an artificial sensation. They also stimulated the VTA, causing the mouse to learn that the stimuli is bad.

The mouse will not have any memory it can "look back on" of receiving a shock. It will just have a general feeling that the scent is "bad" and to be avoided.
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Do you really believe that? Sure it takes more effort, and finding the answer on SO can really help you speed through bumps that you would otherwise have to consult the docs about. But if you believe that it is impossible to do otherwise, then you must think the people who write answers on SO are like gods, or something.

I'm just trying to point out there's a difference between SO being a super useful resource when programming, and the voices in this thread that seem to literally say "I can't program without SO" -- to which I kinda want to say, maybe then you shouldn't write code for other people.

That may sound a bit arrogant but there's a real question behind it: Is it really true that SO allows large numbers of people to write code that they would otherwise be completely unable to write or finish? I mean, are the people who say they would get hopelessly stuck without SO, just not very good at reading docs, doing research and understanding systems? Or did they just never really try, because SO is right there on page one of the results?
> Ketchup is a sauce with tomatoes in, but it generally includes vinegar, salt and quite a lot of sugar; tends to have a consistent, lump-free texture; it's applied to greasy food like fries and hamburgers; and only about one tablespoon would be used per meal.

What you've described is just called tomato sauce in my part of the world (Pacific Islands, Australia, New Zealand). So what we call tomato sauce, you call ketchup.

EDIT: I found this https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/heinz-ketchup-australi...
I use password managers for the following reasons:

- Convenience: I only have to remember one password and I get the comfort of a digital database (as opposed to, paper).

- The passwords I have on websites can have higher entropy and be longer than I could ever remember or type, making them possibly harder to decipher in case of a breach on any website.

- Password managers are all about security while many websites are not (at least not as their primary purpose). Password managers are probably better at it.

- If a (good) password manager is set up to sync passwords via a server or your machine somehow gets compromised, the password database should still be encrypted via a master password.
While everyone around me is rejoicing, I am somewhat sad that a single commercial entity managed to do in a year what the whole FOSS community could not do in twenty.

They were standing on the shoulders of giants (Wine), which is like 90% of the work, but it seems you still need to involve commercial interests to put the necessary polish to make the product really useful.
It's a very cool, back to basics approach. To me it sounds like building a solar freezer makes its own ice (not literally), so it's an ice box when there's no power. When it comes to "when all you have is a hammer" type thinking, HN tends to use high-tech, trendy approaches as its hammer. Sometimes taking a step backwards and looking to simpler solutions gives us the better approach. I read the phrase "once battery technology improves" so much on articles about solar power I've become numb to it, so I found this a refreshing read.
This is simply false.

http://www.etipbioenergy.eu/images/overview-fig-3.jpg

Worldwide, light-duty vehicles, mostly passenger transport cars and light trucks, account for 53% of transport fuel use.

Trucks are 17%.

Rail and busses are 3% and 4%.

All marine fuel use is 10%.

Aviation is another 10%.

All other uses: 3%.

For the US, use is even more strongly skewed to passenger vehicles: 59%.

http://www.yaleclimateconnections.org/wp-content/uploads/201...

Overall, transportation is a quarter of primary energy use, industrial uses are half:

https://cfnewsads.thomasnet.com/images/sites/3/2012/04/World...

Ships individually use vast amounts of fuel, but are small in overall number (there are about 60-80,000 registered cargo vessels), and achieve efficiencies up up to ton-miles per gallon of fuel, as compared with 500 ton-miles/gallon for rail, 100 for trucks, and less than 10 for cars. Moving cargo by water is the most efficient option that exists by a long shot.

Where cargo ships have bad emissions is in particulates and sulfur, based on what fuels are burnt and how. CO2 emissions, however, are quite low relative to any other transport mode.
No doubt. But who claimed otherwise? The closest I could find is that CalRoberts said thay theyd'd spend more time gardening and cooking if they had the time, which is hard to refute unless you know them personally, is not an overgeneralisation -- and even if it was, growing a few tomatoes is a far fetch from subsistence farming.

You're making a classic straw man argument.
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There's a LOT of people here saying they would literally get stuck without SO. I also think that sounds a little bit more helpless than they think they are.
You can use a local password manager like pwsafe, that way someone would have to hack into your computers first, and then break pwsafe's encryption (which is of course impossible, since it was written by Bruce Schneier).

It's more of a pain to use than web password managers, but less than a piece of paper. I'd still recommend writing down the master password, since if you lose it you're screwed.
I’d prefer anonymity over security.
I wouldn’t wire my wife $250k based solely on a phone conversation.
There is no cheating in using the structure of the answers to eliminate incorrect decoys. This is something some kids become consciously aware of by themselves. Others are taught these techniques as "process of elimination" which is certainly not cheating on a multiple choice quiz. If you've ever designed a test protocol for standardized testing of vocabulary or grammatical ability, you're very aware of all these issues.
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For all we know, this is how everyone actually solves problems all the time, the difference being that when most people are asked how they solved a problem they confabulate something after the fact. If you want to gain this skill, perhaps you could consciously practice coming up with a story for how a solution could have been found after you do it. Maybe look at a book like Polya's How to Solve It and construct a sequence of hints like those in the book ("consider special cases", "solve a simpler problem", etc.) that could conceivably lead a less intuitive person to the answer.
Lots of people think lile you, gambling todays poor behaviour on solutions that MAY come tomorrow, next week or never.

We need to change today.
But it’s very hard.
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They are exactly the same thing. Capitalism requires endless growth, which requires endless production and consumption. Those in turn require imperialism, to have a supply of desperate workers and consumers. Imperialism is not always overtly military, but it is always a threat of violence in order to assert power.

Read Lenin's "Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism", he makes it very easy to understand.