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> The only difference between facebook-coin and miles is that Facebook promises to encourage dealing in their coin and airline would frown on that. Not much difference otherwise.

I mean there is the tiny difference that one of these is the biggest social network megacorporation on the planet with the power and will to heavily influence a user base larger than France and Germany combined, but otherwise, yeah.

Nobody wants Facebook to have that power, even if they hadn't screwed over their users multiple times and seem to be devoid of scruples, they haven't even existed long enough to demonstrate deserving that kind of trust.
Panic also has a tendency to create something, and then neglect it for ages, which includes their previous editor...

They just have too many products than what they can focus on...
I think everyone is scrambling to not get Netflixed.

Software is key!
Or the same as making, you know, a complex car engine these days.
As long as there is cheap production in the Middle East and elsewhere, a large decrease in the demand for gas due to electric cars or any other reason will result in lower priced gas and thus more disruption during a price spike.

Supply and demand: lower demand, lower prices.

To use a more specific economic law, the price of a commodity is the cost of the marginal unit. Right now there is so much demand that the world uses all the $10 Saudi oil it can, all the Norwegian oil, all the fracked oil, but not all of the Canadian tar sands oil. That costs about $60 per barrel to extract and transport. Thus the current price.
It's not a strange comparison, it's simply applying the parent comment's standards:

> The relationship and interdependence of the two is very complicated. [The US] is one of the largest market to which [Canada] exports their goods (and in large part, the culture) and [the USA] has used this to pressure [Canada] in the past.
On the other hand you never cut yourself with an electric razor. I used a wet razor for years but recently switched to electric because of this.
> I often re-read or consult books (or chapters) I've read on a whim. If I had to e.g. take my library on vacations to do the same thing I can trivially do on a Kindle I'd need to travel with a minivan full of books.

Isn't that a FOMO argument, though ?

As a consumer the advantage of e-books are: ease of organization and ease of buying, no page flipping sounds in bed, ease of transportation.

But what I really want ?

A real, thick book, with something like 200-400 sheets made up of magical e-ink so I can have a physical map of the book I am reading.
How big was the engineering team that did the software for the Apollo guidance computer?

Actually, I was unable to find the answer to that question.
I guess what I meant to say is: automotive tech is consolidating.

Saying it is slowing down was a mistake and I definitely stepped on many toes by doing so.
Oh those were FANTASTIC! I used to buy them, put Rockbox on them and give them as Christmas and Birthday gifts - really good audio quality, battery life and the perfect size for the price.
Sounds like my experience is more unusual then. I would love to hear from other people. Java has been front and center on my CV since I graduated from college and for the ~10 mid-size and small companies that I've interviewed at, not a single one has put me on the spot regarding my knowledge. Not that I would mind. My partner was a little thrown off, though.
Ethnic, linguistic, and cultural ties tend to have great staying power (see US-Britain, the unification of Germany and Italy, Balkan conflicts, and on and on). This is all even more true when the countries are close geographically.

Counting the power of Taiwan for China and Ukraine for Russia is likely more predictive of the future than not counting them. Lines on a map and citizenship papers are easier to redo than centuries (millenia for China/Taiwan) of culture/language.

This is NOT an endorsement of China taking over Taiwan, which I do NOT want and think would be a bad thing.
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As is this application.
It looks fun, does it work on Linux using Proton?
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> Brakes and steering remain mechanical

The Infiniti Q50 has been steer-by-wire since 2014[1], and hybrids like the Toyota Prius have been brake-by-wire since 2010.[2]

[1]: https://gizmodo.com/what-its-like-to-drive-infinitis-crazy-d...
[2]: https://www.thedrive.com/tech/25563/the-audi-e-tron-brings-g...
I didn't know libraries lent ebooks. Seems kind of strange.
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> tenuous connection via the "MUD" keyword

You know, I came here because of that keyword and I, of course, appreciate MUD-related posts, including GP's. You may have come for "Scala" or "stress-testing", causing you to perceive the connection via the "MUD" keyword as weak. From my perspective, however, the connection is as wide as heavens and earth, and stronger than what's needed for a space elevator. I spent a good part of my youth playing, writing, programming, and hacking MUDs, and now I'm glad to have learned that there are still MUDs in active development, even if I probably won't have the time to enjoy it.

In short: self-promotion isn't bad, the GP post is related to the article, and frankly there's no need for your input here - the "poor taste" comment was unwarranted and... in poor taste itself.
Reading this article got me thinking that the problem isn't TDD it self but the interpretation of it from a specific programmers perspective.
One other poster noted that TDD is great when you know what your inputs and outputs are, ergo a toy function/project but I disagree as a programmer you should know that for every function you are writing before you start writing the function since you need to settle on return type(it's true for loosely typed languages too) so I'd conclude that maybe the OP is misussing the TDD paradigm
You're trying to charge people money for this? $1999 per year for unrestricted access? You can't be serious?

https://pqina.nl/doka/#pricing
I also think its worth writing blog posts like this as a way of clarifying your own thoughts.

In life, its worth being active at the risk of being silly. “Productivity porn” is merely silly. Passively feeling a lack of agency over your own time is tragic.
Update from UN investigation panel:

https://undocs.org/en/S/2019/83

pp30,31 describe and photograph a previously unknown drone, imaginatively given codename UAV-X, which was used in attacks on UAE and KSA:

The most distinctive feature of the UAV-X is its significantly increased endurance and range. Powered by the Chinese-made DLE 170 or the German-made 3W110i B2 engine, with a top speed of between 200 km/h and 250 km/h, the unmanned aerial vehicle may have a maximum range of between 1,200 km and 1,500 km, depending on wind conditions.
It's not clear to me what it offers compared to just using Stripe.
BSON is a binary format, JSON schema is a separate mechanism which does not improve the structure of the serialized JSON data! Also, JSON does not enforce everyone to use schema!

When compared with JSON, Internet Object provides an integrated all-inclusive solution which serializes data into around 45% fewer bytes, has built-in validation support, keeps data and definition (and headers) separate. All these while keeping the format human-readable, programming language independent and simple!

We are working on the website and soon we'll release the playground with a lot more examples.

Hope this answers your query.
Why exactly? Elm 0.19 is out on August 2018, and the only thing that's expected is 0.19.1 which barely changes anything (doesn't break any api). Seems like 0.19 is quite settled at this point.
But in this analogy, VW is the mouse waiting in a dark alley for the upstart.
> At least at a minimum level, it should be possible to eat nutritious food, have homely and comfortable shelter, fresh water, warmth, clothing, medical care, everything you need to survive and thrive, just because you're human and society is not barbaric.

Where does this minimum level of comfort come from? Somebody has to do that minimal work, and on average everyone should do their share of "paid" work. (By paid I don't strictly mean exchange of currency, but producing value that everyone sees as valuable, i.e. food)
If by 'drone' you mean 'cruise missile', sure: [1]. Of course the interest in this area are so intermingled that literally anyone could lie behind this, from the Saudis themselves (who need the oil price to go up to at least $80/barrel for their budget to stay in the black) to the Iranian regime (who are actively sponsoring opposition to the Saudi regime as well as many other regimes in the region) to the myriad of islamic militant groups which sprang out of the myriad of conflicts in the area.

[1] https://www.asiatimes.com/2019/09/article/saudi-oil-facility...
Sounds like a clear breach of the Distance Selling regulations: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/5tzLGdyC8FpBvKSr1G...
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I got into programming as a kid through a desire to make music (my first program was a "song" written in pascal, playing a series beep tones at different frequencies and durations.) I got into trackers (fast, impulse, buzz) in my teens, and then synths.

These days I have a strong preference towards "hardware"* only music making -- I spend most of my waking life staring at a screen, so I find it satisfying to step away and be hands on when creating music. The brains of my studio is a Synthstrom Deluge, which is an amazingly intuitive little gizmo - it has a built in synth and drum machine, a looper, a sampler, and a MIDI sequencer allowing you to drive all other synths in the studio. I also have an Arturia Keystep, which has a great live MIDI sequencer. Another fun gadget is the Roland RC 505, which gives you 5 independent and dubbable loops - I drive one of the two fx sends from my mixer through it, letting me build loops live from any of the other synths. Aside from those I've collected a handful of synths, both FM and analog.

(* quotes because pretty much all available synths, analog included, run on software. Most come with USB ports allowing you to connect and change settings, update firmware, etc.)
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You seem to be under the assumption that the masses will find inspiration and motivation to do things you don't find disagreeable.

I'm emphatically for people having the resources to pursue whatever the heck the want (even if that's sitting around drinking beer) but I think that most of the UBI crowd is out of touch with how the people who will most benefit from UBI will use their newfound freedom. Covering poor people's housing and food expenses isn't going to magically make them want to spend their time acting upper middle class. You give people freedom and they will act how they want, not necessarily how you want. I'd still call that a win but many will not.
Does that actually work in distracting these people from the fact that China is a dangerous expansionist country?

What you say is true, but there's not much we can do about anything that happened 200 years ago. Preventing escalation into a war due to China claiming ownership of busy shipping channels, for example, is something that is probably worthwhile attempting now, rather than pointing to it with a cringe in 2219.
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Facebook can come and expect to discuss on the level of trust that a country gets when it has existed for less than 2 decades and has been treating its citizens/users like an authoritarian dictatorship surveillance state. There are a number of other parallels, and none of them put FB in a good light.

It's not going to be a very amicable discussion.
You can get a lot of the functionality of Ableton under Linux, albeit using other, modular tools.

seq24 for sequencing/block-style arranging. Reaper for recording tracks. VCVRack for synthesis, Hydrogen for drums.

In fact, its kind of amazing what tools a budding musician has available to them - for free - in the Linux ecosphere. I hope to see more articles describing these tools soon .. or maybe I should do one of my own ..
The IPCC has historically released "worst case scenarios" that line up with the worst case that all of the people in the room can agree with. Because of this, "worst case" often ends up being "likely outcome" while worst case is exponentially worse.

We've been seeing events happen more and more with quotes from scientists saying "This wasn't expected to happen for another 50 years" [according to the IPCC reports].

Additionally, the IPCC notoriously makes their predictions algorithmically based purely on existing observations and doesn't take feedback loops into account. Those feedback loops are nearly guaranteed, but since they haven't been triggered yet, the extent of the feedback is hard to predict and thus is ignored.

It's because of these things that I tend to think that the IPCC reports are milquetoast. Even though they shock the public, they're actually doing a disservice by making people think they have more time than they actually have.

Plus, even if it was correct, most people will see this headline and think that we have 80 years to fix the problem and not realize that the bulk of the melting will take place before the 80 years is up.

My non-scientific rule-of-thumb with IPCC reports is to take the time and divide it by 10 as the lower boundary and by 5 as the upper boundary. This is to take into account the "1 in a 1000 year events" that seem to occur every few years now.

I personally expect the Kush-Himalaya ice sheet melt to be complete between 8 and 16 years from now because of a drastic and "unforeseen" weather event that accelerates it one year, like a stalled heat "blob" that camps over it for a season or a season of above-freezing rain that carves up the ice and carries it as melt-water downriver.
It seems to me that we have been conditioned into accepting certain theories as facts/truths. Most of the above is non-sequitur to me: how does bombing of oil production facilities in Saudi Arabia have anything to do with the "annihilation of the Jewish state", and how does this supposed anihilation automatically follow from anything? How did we get to Iran and Israel from Saudi Arabia? And why did you say "a lost cause"?

There are so many jumps here that they would be really hard to follow for someone who hasn't been soaked in official messaging for the last years.
The answer to life, the universe, and everything
It's just a jump that can be used as a loop.
It was actually Eve, not Adam, who partakes of the fruit, though most theologians would blame Lucifer, and some may even say God intended for all of that to happen anyway
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I bet we could easily figure out where they live.
What about first Apple’s computer? It was designed by a single guy.

Edit: “Margaret Hamilton led a team of 350 people to design the software behind the Apollo 11 mission.” Source: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/07/underapp...
I believe HN using Google script / service is very wrong. Google is an Ad company.
Well, it's professional software. If you could still buy a permanent licence for Photoshop, say, it would probably be similar.
the answer is: algorithms have illusions too.

consider 2 ideal harmonic notes with a frequency ratio of 3:2, say 3kHz and 2kHz ... The brain / algorithm must doubt between interpreting the collection of frequency peaks at m * 3kHz, and n * 2kHz as either (occasionally overlapping) harmonics of 2 notes at 2kHz and 3kHz, OR it could interpret this as harmonics of a single note at 1kHz (as you say the GCD of the frequencies).

There is inherent ambiguity between interpreting as 2 notes of each a timbre, vs interpreting as 1 note with another timbre...

One could physically construct 3 bowed strings with modekilling on the 1kHz string, such that these could make perceptually identical sounds whether the 2kHz and 3kHz strings are played simultaneously vs the 1kHz string.

at that point from the sound alone one can not discern in an ABX test which is the case, neither a human brain nor any algorithm. The doubt forces to guess (deterministically or not).

The sound is a projection of properties occuring in reality, and loses information.
Africanized Bees in S and N America are anything but docile. Trying running a lawnmower near some.
Are you arguing that convenience function enabled by the digital format is more valuable than ownership of a physical good?
>Have you considered contacting a few recruiters to see what they're looking for, then taking the time to acquire and/or sharpen your skills? These days I'm guessing it's something like C#, Python, maybe Go, but I'm spitballing. Point is, you still have plenty of time to get super strong at something. It may take a year, but it'd be better to earn $75K in 2 years at a job in Minnesota than languish at a dead end gig now.

I've no interest whatsoever in programming. I tinkered enough back in the day on MUDs and in a programming vocational class in high school that I know it is absolutely not for me. Even hammering out some really simple QBASIC games from scratch was incredibly frustrating for me.

As far as recruiters in general, I tried to use one a few years ago. They got my an interview, at a company with 4 employees in the US where I was told during the interview "IF we hire you, we do not provide insurance, my wife works at Eli Lilly so I am covered under her insurance" and it was a significant pay cut to do the same thing I do now and when I told them in the interview I would not be open to an offer I never heard from the recruiter again.

From my impression recruiters mostly want programmers or people with MBAs for placing in lower-level corporate positions, at least these are the sorts I've found in Google queries but perhaps I just don't know what I should be searching for.
A crappy piano brings little joy. The high standards maintained were what made the victory piano noteworthy. The tool does matter, albeit not as much as the person using it.
Nope, steer-by-wire is already a thing.

The Infiniti Q50 has it, its steering wheel is not mechanically attached to the wheels.
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go to https://binisoft.org/ install Windows Firewall Control, set up your whitelist policy, no more spying. This can even stop W10 telemetry.
A lot of amazing ones don't, though. It's really worth digging in.
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> Taiwan is an entirely different entity politically not matter if you subscribe to the one China doctrine.

That's true in the same way as North Korea is an entirely different political entity from South Korea (for example).
When I was a kid I was climbing a tree and hit my head on a massive hornet nest. I think I set a world record in falling out of a tree. Either there were chill, or the nest was empty; I didn't stick around to find out.
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>I wasn't talking about international law.

I know, I was. I dont care much for the semantics of how warcrimes are tried to be painted as "the right thing to do".

> War is essentially an evil thing. Its consequences are not confined to the belligerent states alone, but affect the whole world. To initiate a war of aggression, therefore, is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole.

If you forgo international law in favor of might is right what you do is cultivating terrorism as the victims get radicalized and have no other way to left to respond. And thats not a new insight. Al Quaida was rather vocal about drone strikes and the atrocities in Abu-Ghuraib and Guantanamo being the best recruitment tools they could have ever asked for. And lets also not forget that the war on terror only recently cumulated into the emergence of ISIS, with the rank and file of Saddams dismantled army being there for the creation. People cant be so thick that they believe the phrase "They hate us for our Freedom". "They" hate us for invading their countries with our politicians and soldiers acting with impunity. I mean the US even sanctioned the ICC for gods sake. All those "necessary evils" breaking international law are only making the situation worse.
>Vim also starts up without any noticable delay

Only if you run it without any plugins. Unfortunately if you have a lot of third party packages, vim startup times start to get closer to emacs startup times (both of which are still better than any IDE I have used, of course). I keep a vim.norc alias in my alias file which launches vim with an empty .vimrc for this very reason.
We all have multiple roles in life we’d like to play. And limited time/attention/energy. So we look back on our time and ask “was I the person I want to be in that moment?” And hear our intuition sigh “no...”.

But we were. In that moment reading an article on your phone, you were the well-informed citizen living the life of the mind, which is something you aspire* to be. But you couldn’t simultaneously be the caring father. And the regret of that moment stings more sharply than the satisfaction of thinking about the article you read.

One theory I have for how to be more focused: narrow or combine your set of things you aspire to. This is hard. If you aspire to be both a caring father and a moderately-skilled hobby carpenter, you might find your daughter is interested neither in woodworking or in having a treehouse. And so in any given hour, you must choose.

(* assumption I’m making about you just so I can write less abstractly)
>- Boys on the other hand have other ways available to
>them to gain economic advantage
>
>I don't know about them. Sure, the 0.1% of them can be
>politicians / CEOs, but it's not "available" for people
>in general

In many of these countries there are a huge variety of jobs that are not available to women, because their ability to interact with men who are strangers is highly restricted. So most commercial, industrial and many administrative roles are not available, because they would involve often meeting 'random' men. In some of the countries, women can't even serve men in shops.

That cuts it down to basically office jobs or educational institutions where the men around you are a stable restricted group, that it's possible to gain social acceptance for, or jobs involving meeting men in highly controlled situations.

Even then, for many administrative roles in these cultures jobs are obtained through contacts and private arrangements rather than through an open jobs market. Again that's largely not available to women because these networks are almost entirely male and again lack of ability to associate freely with men closes them off.

STEM is different because it's jobs are only available to people with specific, quantifiable qualifications and skill the possession of which is an objective fact, verifiable through credentials. That's where the status comes from. Social networks and personal opinions of suitability aren't good enough for employers to fill all the roles they have open, so they have to look to a wider jobs market. They can't afford to close those roles to half or more of the available work force, so they have to make arrangements to suit women's working conditions or lose out on skilled candidates.
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