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I agree there are better ways to manage this, for example, giving more timely updates, using less corporate speak like "inconvenience" and just saying we screwed up, here is what we are doing to make it right.

Hopefully everyone learns something from this, sounds like some version control and/or quality issues that need to be addressed on the tech side of the house and on the business side some lessons in how to speak to large groups of consumers.

The video was a good idea overall, calling it an inconvenience to users was not, that in my experience just pisses people off because they feel like you are trying to skirt responsibility. Also the video could be viewed as partially contradictory, first saying his didn't work too but then saying the primary means to get that data is the local hub. I get his point from a technical side, but a consumer won't differentiate the device and app, to consumers they bought a solution and that solution failed for a period of time when the bulk of users would be using it (overnight).

IMO this is just growing pains for any business, the ones that learn, get better and succeed, the ones that don't, fail and go out of business.
Originally shared by the creator in the Processing forum:

https://discourse.processing.org/t/2001-a-space-odyssey-reto...
> When somebody points out a weakness with the status quo and tries to offer something better, though, you react with hostility.

What weakness?

> As people realize that plain-text DNS is a gaping security hole, they are going to start demanding encryption.

Then use DNS-over-TLS (DoT). It was an RFC (7858) two years before DoH (8484, 2016 vs 2018).

Why does yet another protocol have to be shoehorned into HTTP(S)?
The funny thing is that Guardian got the central idea totally wrong: "the related idea of "deliberate practice" — or pushing your skills over long hours "
No, deliberate practice is not just long hours practice. Deliberate practice is deliberately finding your weakness and practice to fix it, to improve it then move on. Merely more practice will not improve one's skill much after a certain threshold. What matters is not how long or how many times did you do a certain thing but how often did you do it correctly and what you learned from the experience.
Thus comes the second important part of effective training: a great teacher.
My favorite part of it is the moderators' note at the end:

> Moderator's Note

> This post is locked to prevent inappropriate edits to its content. The post looks exactly as it is supposed to look - there are no problems with its content. Please do not flag it for our attention.
Sounds tribalistic but ok.

Just because you can't imagine an alternative to the status quo doesn't mean it's impossible.
So what you have to trust is that the spec doesn't produce lies ? ;)

FYI. I am just having some philosophical fun with GIGO.

Ultimately, computers are just instruments which amplify human intention, it's not the computers's job to be ultimate moral arbiter of our words.

Gödel's incompleteness theorem already tells us that a system cannot prove its own correctness.
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Is this then consequence of Schrodinger equation? How fast does that happen? Would the photon from remote galaxy be significantly spread out? How can we know it is not?

Is the effect you are talking about the one described here:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_particle

in section "Spread of a wave packet"?
WolframAlpha is still around, no?
Free range is a great example of one of those that's been hollowed out to be a near useless marketing phrase in many parts of the world. EU standards set amount of outside access, and limit birds per hectare - a quick search says 3,500 per hectare. USDA restrict neither making it completely worthless. EU Organic is tighter than the EU free range definition on birds per hectare, and limits total flock size too.

Free range is marketed to imply old time farm yards with a few dozen hens happily pecking around some rural spacious idyll. The reality is depressingly different. Whether you care about organic aims at all, buying EU organic gets you the "most" free range eggs from best treated hens, that you can get at the supermarket. Which is more than a bit silly.

You won't be surprised to learn I'm in favour of much stronger regulation and definitions on food and production labelling. While we're at it, adding carbon impact to labels.
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> You can't expect intel to benchmark if a feature would be better or not on amd, that's not its role.

Why not? If I was maintainer I wouldn't accept the patch, I'd ask the authors to test on AMD as well. Intel is well funded and glibc is not their project. If they want glibc to include optimizations for their platform they can do the minimal level of effort to see if it can be enabled on AMD as well.
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I don’t know about that, Haskell has been a stable language for a while now...
If you’re going to flip over the cost of RAM at the high end then you don’t want to hear about all the expensive proprietary stuff that clearly only costs pennies to make. I’m talking the special torque wrenches to remove motherboards or other chassis stuff.

It’s like Apples new Mac Pro and display. Those prices are just dialed that way to keep them out of home offices. It’s infuriating, yes, but prevalent.
Here's some EVE Online links. Really amazing stuff.

https://www.eveonline.com/article/tranquility-tech-3

http://highscalability.com/eve-online-architecture
There was Liskell, but it seems it's dead.

https://wiki.haskell.org/Haskell_Lisp
It would consume more electricity, though let's assume by a marginal amount.

I suspect many people are uncomfortable holding a compromised device like that. The unpredictability of a toaster helping to take down Wikipedia is wild and potentially seen as a sign of chaos, especially for less technical users.

Who knows what else this crazy toaster will do next? Will it do the same thing again?
> (1) there are more sovereign nations now than ever,

Yeah, but the power of the nation state has also weakened. Try subtracting many of the EU member nations as individual sovereign countries for instance, or look to the outsized influence of multinationals.

2. The West is essentially one large empire.

> (3) there is way more infighting that on any time in the previous 40 years

Source? 40 years is a bad timescale - bring that up to a few hundred or thousand and we are at an almost all-time low.
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Regular expressions are not my favourite either, but one thing I will say is that normal code becomes difficult to read over time as features are bolted on and optimizations are added to address performance concerns.

Whereas, some form of executable DSL can serve as self-testing documentation indefinitely. DSLs can provide a separation of concerns, where the syntax is designed for readability, and the engine is designed for performance.

Modern Regexen are a dumpster fire, of course, but you asked why someone might want to, not whether this is something Everyone might want to do.
I work at a bank writing financial software —- a trade capture system, it’s basically everything that happens after the client agrees on the price.

Knowing the business and thus rules is the most important thing.

We support a global business and Asia regulations are different from Europe, products are managed differently by different traders, etc.

Knowing the business gives context to what the software is doing and why because this kind of software is written by people who didn’t understand the rules in the first place. It isn’t abstracted correctly and there is a ton of if-else branching for edge cases, variable/function/class naming that is inconsistent and often incorrect, etc.

I would also +1 a known bug list. You can spend a lot of time tracking down a “bug” that seems new because it’s an edge case that rarely appears. Each time it comes up the users think it’s new and a complain.
So you made an account 8 days ago just to defend Epstein? Go do your pr somewhere else, that pedo is exactly where he should be.
An Arduino UNO comes with 2 kB of RAM installed and retails for about 20$. If you want to get 1.5 TB of RAM by connecting them (not accounting for any overhead on each controller) you would need 800 Million Arudino UNOs which would cost you about 16 Billion Dollars.
The other poster is speaking from the large consensus among biologists whereas you are speaking from/citing...?

Should I just presume you to be correct on race unless proven wrong?
> Neil Degrasse Tyson tried to use reason. You can't use reason when it comes to things like this. Sure, on a macro level guns kill fewer people than cars do but there are smart people working hard to try to prevent deaths by cars*.

Not just cars. A result of the emotional manipulation surrounding mass shootings has resulted in attempts to ban semi-automatic rifles. But rifles are used in about the same number of homicides each year than there are deaths from people falling off ladders.
Good points. For really complex algorithms, I have a high opinion of literate programming.

For more contextual stuff, like, for example, build procedures, I am wondering whether using a Wiki would be better. It is not only easier to keep it up to date, but it also allows to cross-link topics and this in turn makes it easier to split up information into smaller, easier to find and more digestible units.

Of course, normally a Wiki must be maintained and organized, otherwise it becomes a steaming mess, but if it is a focused effort to write a dozen pages which document a specific area, this is not hard do organize reasonable.
USDA has, I think, just about the weakest definition of organic globally. I can't say I'm surprised to find some fraud in the system, given all we know of the rest of US agriculture. Clearly better enforcement is required, as is a tighter definition of the standard. Even so, it still seems to be the highest US enforced certification available, so remains the best indicator of production and animal treatment a US consumer has, for all its flaws and inadequacy.

Thankfully the EU is doing better, though that may well change markedly for the worse here in the UK after Brexit. Especially if the much mooted, and one-sided UK-US trade deal is made real, not just mythical rainbows and unicorns.
Once adjusted for inflation, it's more like 7 millions.

To be fair, you have to factor in Moore's law. I'm not great at math, but I think you'd still end up with something like half a million. $18k for 1.5TB is still a steal.
Commenting here since I can't reply downthread:

> If heroin was legal, it's does not necessarily follow that it would be much less expensive. In states that have legalized marijuana, the price is roughly the same (and often more) than black markets.

Heroin is extremely cheap to manufacture, and it's of course also not patented anymore. There's no point to discussing this, really.

> Regular jobs typically pay more than petty crime. The reason that heroin addicts resort to crime is not because their regular job doesn't pay enough, it's because they can't hold a regular job because they're addicted to heroin.

This is partly true. It's a large topic. A heroin habit will take a lot of time, since you're doing a lot of waiting around for dealers. But it depends on the job, though. These days, Americans are very close to losing everything in the time of one or two paychecks. Add a heroin habit of hundreds of dollars a day on top of that, and you need something else.

> I'm not sure that many heroin addicts (legal or otherwise) can live a regular life.

I think far more people are using heroin and keeping a regular life than you realize.
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Didn’t the Hyundai Kona launch recently in India? I’m super happy with mine here in Norway. Comes with a 8 year battery warranty here. Easily does over 500 km per charge on Norwegian roads.
You're making an assumption and also ignoring a large side affect.

First, you're assuming that legalizing heroin would result in a high quality pure product. Considering that heroin addicts are desparate for heroin, it's pretty likely that they would go to cheaper black market sources with the same quality problems we have today.

Second, legalizing heroin would dramatically normalize it, very likely resulting in many more people becoming addicted to it. Even if the danger of the drug decreased, it would almost certainly be offset by the large increase in new addicts.

In terms of saving lives, I don't see how legalizing heroin can help.
This is perfect example of a insight which leads to a rabbit hole of intertwined complexity of our concepts when you try to understand why regexp for validating regexp is actually much simpler than regexp for validating email address.
Except the EU, and even more restrictive UK organic standard restricts both amount, number of applications, and requires an audit trail of why it was applied, so no it doesn't imply huge quantities. No idea if USDA permits unlimited use...
the chans are also actively moderated, and the chans remove CP and did remove other content after events happen
You are necessarily claiming that a compiler is incapable of false negatives.

e.g incorrectly validating its own code.

Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it --Donald Knuth
The article does not include this point. Or if it does, I missed it.
OpenSSL is one of a number of projects (this is maybe more prevalent in Free Software but it's hard to tell) which takes the approach of a hoarder rather than curator, it has got better, but that's definitely how it got to where it was when Heartbleed happened.

In these projects rather than try to solve some particular problem or group of problems and use standards on the path to that solution, the project just throws together whatever happened to attract somebody's interest in a standard into a big heap of cool toys without rhyme or reason.

I think we actually could have blindly got lucky with Heartbleed, it could easily have been the case that to make this extension work you needed to add 40 lines of custom code to every program even though it would always be identical boilerplate code. After all it took them years to add a sane API for "Just check the bloody hostname in the certificate matches". But, that isn't how it worked out.

If you compare Python's "batteries included" philosophy, OpenSSL and a few other libraries take something closer to: "I just keep everything in this old cardboard box, try looking in there?". And sure enough there are batteries, although they seem to be covered in a sweet-smelling sticky substance, there is also a broken Gamecube, one cufflink with a brand logo you don't recognise, a chocolate bar dated 1986, a PS/2 to USB adaptor, a C60 cassette, two dried-out PostIt notes, one sock, a 40cm USB cable with a mini-B connector, and the spare fuses from a 2005 Ford Focus...
> There is a lot that goes into earning the organic label from regulators, and it‘s highly correlated with doing things slowly, the old-fashioned way. So the only way you can beat non-organic produce is with quality.

This sentence doesn't seem to be supported by the sentence before it, unless there's an assumption that slower and more old-fashioned methods produce higher quality products -- an assumption that seems questionable, at least.
Let me flip this on you: I care about people who are dying because they don't have healthcare, not your dumb political games on guns. Sure, you can spend a year agitating for laws that will ultimately save a few hundred of people throughout the country, meanwhile people routinely die because they aren't paid a living wage, can't afford basic medication to survive, and can't afford shelter.

If you're telling me I'm absurd to be focusing on that rather than a phenomenon that kills a few dozens of people, boy do I hope the people in charge aren't listening to you. I care about helping society, not posturing on an issue that is deemed "insane" or a "crisis."
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Great products appear to do less. Products should be composed in a way that allows them to do more while appearing to do less.
2018 VW made a profit of about 17.7 billion Euro while Tesla lost ~1 billion dollars. Comparing debt alone is a very stupid metric.
> I do agree that in the long run it might be better for ensuring that "the web" is the same no matter from where you visit, but I think it's definitely more than a simple technical change.

Tell that to the health and financial regulatory regimes that us some of have to work under to ensure people's privacy is respected. I work in health care, and we have data-at-rest and -in-motion encryption and firewalls and application-level ACLs & permissions all over the place in our internal network.

Not being able to resolve internal-only systems, which have absolutely no need/business being in external DNS, because of a change in behaviour in client software is just dumb.

People complain about the stupidity of (e.g.) power plant controls being directly connected to the Internet, or not being air gapped from the folks in Accounting, but then we seem to have developers writing software that will not work very well in these isolated/island networks.

I'm all for the general end-to-end principal (that IPv6 may help bring back) with protection being done by stateful firewalls, but there are all sorts of use cases for private, isolated networks that are behind NAT/NPT gateways that are given ULA addresses.
GMail supports SMTP an IMAP access, so they won't lack GMail. Youtube supports web access which frankly is better than the Google App because it doesn't nag you all the time. Google Maps up until recently was just another navigation app which are a dime a dozen. (For a while there it wasn't a particularly good navigation app, but they've really pick up their game recently.) I have no doubt can build replacements for them all.

But all those apps in the app store - that's a problem. Google's lead in speech recognition - that's a problem. Google pay - that's a problem, particularly as the app store is tied into it. Google's lead in image processing and cameras - that's a problem. Google's amazing ability to translate languages - that's a problem.
In SO's hall of fame of regular members being feed up of a common yet stupid question always coming back up it's up there alongside the thread about making addition with jQuery
Is it just me, or is it becoming too commonplace for an article to have a video attached to it that is vaguely related? The video attached to this article is how to upgrade the mac mini to 32GB of ram. Interesting, but just left of adjacent in terms of how it's related to this article.
Doing anything with expect is basically only coding for the happy path. It's fine for some throw away script but as soon as you need any kind of reliability it's useless.
I would ask the documentation fairy to come up with sequence diagrams for the most common flows/use cases. That used to be the winning argument whenever i have to come up with some docs. I think that sequence diagrams are the killer feature of UML -everyone gets the message.
> While that's all well and good when it's an issue you agree with, would you be willing to apply that standard in the other direction?

No.

We are not computer programs incapable of making judgements without relying on some arbitrary and sweeping generalization.

We can, in fact, distinguish between making a stand to support human rights or speak truth to power, say, and taking a stand to continue to engage with a convicted pedophile.

See also: https://mobile.twitter.com/dril/status/473265809079693312
While each node of a server farm of these can be relatively cheap by enterprise budgets, an entire cluster of these machines is not (at $200k+ that’s the budget for an FTE, after all). Which is why I’d want to check if an Optane drive could be a strong consideration to shave some costs off for a reasonable trade-off in performance. Not sure if 10+ TB of Optane is viable enough to be at least an order of magnitude larger than the RAM capacity.

Also, 1.5 TB RAM became somewhat commonplace around 2014-ish. LinkedIn had to have Dell custom build them a 1 TB RAM machine around 2009. So 10 years later for the same build to be passé is fully reasonable when a lot of the market is doing massive or very latency sensitive graph calculations that won’t accept the variances of distributed algorithms.
better for whom? for the environment in the long term or for the health of the consumer in the short term? these two criteria are probably contradictory.
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A good joke to make the same point:

How many psychologists does it take to change a lightbulb? Just one, but only if the lightbulb is willing to change.
Sort of. Shrodinger equation doesn't so much describe interaction with the slit barrier as it describes propagation through space not occupied by the slit barrier.

The only difference between passing through a slit and the measurement at the screen is the size and location of the "hole". Measurement at the screen is just a silt of the size of single atom.

If your measurement is just ensuring that photon passed through one slit not the other you no longer have interference pattern at the screen but you still get diffraction pattern. Your measurement didn't collapse a wave to single point because it wasn't precise enough.
I could not really see a conclusion. Is there any? For the list of references, I'd add http://web.mit.edu/2.75/resources/random/How%20Complex%20Sys...
> Mass shooting deaths have never exceeded 80 per year.

2017 had more than 80 deaths, with the Las Vegas (58 deaths) and Sutherland Springs (26 deaths) exceeding that total for those two events. These events are becoming more common and deadlier, as shown on this Axios chart [0].

You're right to point out that there are many causes of death that are more common, but rapidly increasing and unpredictable causes of death are typically covered more in the media, for better or for worse. It's why the 738 Max 8 was all over the news, even though car crashes are a more frequent cause of death.

[0] https://www.axios.com/deadliest-mass-shootings-common-4211ba...