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> Most people think he was the first emperor of Rome, but that was actually Augustus.

I'm talking about what historians collectively know, not what the average person on the street happens to remember.

We clearly do know a huge amount about Caesar and the course of his life. The Wikipedia article, for example, is full of information about Caesar that is known beyond any reasonable doubt.
The researcher behind AI's biggest breakthrough has moved on from Google
> what this refers to

I'd assume it's about the dialects, which are very different from the "official" language, so much that Jerome K. Jerome had a joke in one of his books, more than century ago:

"Germany being separated so many centuries into a dozen principalities, is unfortunate in possessing a variety of dialects. Germans from Posen wishful to converse with men of Wurtemburg, have to talk as often as not in French or English; and young ladies who have received an expensive education in Westphalia surprise and disappoint their parents by being unable to understand a word said to them in Mechlenberg."

"Modern times" and technologies suppress the dialects and with each generation the portion of the local-specific dialects is being lost.
The Cure for Inequality
> Mandatory battery rental

You can buy the batteries these days:

https://www.electrive.com/2019/07/01/new-battery-old-price-u...
When-i-were-a-lad, it went SQL -> views -> stored procedures -> ProC
But the donor could have spent the Bitcoin on comic books and paid taxes.

So from a personal balance sheet the options are:
Donate $100, reduce taxes by $20. (Net expense $80, cash in pocket $0)
Cash in $100, pay taxes of $20. (Cash in pocket $80)

The donor still gets more cash by not donating. The difference is that they can get more value by donating. In the sense if they donate to a cause they can spend $100 plus the $20 they would pay in taxes for total impact of $120. If they spent it on a taxable cause then they would spend $100 get $80 in impact since they would need to use $20 on taxes.
You should try Greg Egan's books, if you like SF at all. I think a good introduction would be Schild's Ladder or Axiomatic, but my personal favorite is the Clockwork Rocket trilogy and Dichromatic.

The latter two are conceptually related. If you know about metric signatures, you'll be able to tell how. If not, well, you will.
>but he has a long list of contemporary sources that describe the same event with blatant contradictions in them.

And yet we don't conclude from this that we can't know anything about the present.

Ehrman actually defends normal historical methods against the kind of unwarranted skepticism that you were expressing.
Check out thymeleaf.org - adds HTML templating to Spring MVC. I much prefer the syntax over JSP personally. In addition, the docs are great and there are plenty of resources online (baeldung in particular).
In my personal experience, ORM’s seem to encourage queries to get scattered throughout your logic (they’re just normal code and function calls, afterall... at least, they look like it) and encourage mixing application-side logic with query logic. The former makes it incredibly hard to remove if you need to reach for raw SQL and the latter leads to bad performance due to many application-database roundtrips snd not filtering enough before sending data to the application.

Yes, both of these things can be solved through disciplined modularisation of ORM logic, but in my personal experience across multiple companies, most developers simply aren’t that disciplined and treat ORM code as any other application code, instead of treating it as the remotely executed database code that it actually is.

In my experience, writing raw SQL (through https://www.hugsql.org/ in my case), you are instead encouraged to think of them as separate and carefully consider the boundaries, which helps keep the queries and application logic modular and allows for more carefully crafted queries that minimise roundtrips and data shuffling.

Again, this has been my experience, across a number of companies. Perhaps your experience differs, in which case, I’m jealous.
The king at the time was nine years old, and facing a rival claim to the throne from a French prince. His unpopular late father had been forced into signing the Magna Carta a couple of years earlier. His regent's decision to be generous (and to actually uphold Magna Carta and not punish all the nobles who had fought against either king) was probably a smart one. It's not like royalty particularly suffered from the common man foraging in their forests.
There is plenty of services like this nowadays. I recall TrensferGO and Revolut.
There is even a service for fees comparison amongst those services, developed be hackernews fellow reader:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20819538
I can recommand this video on the subject:
Mathologer -- 500 years of NOT teaching THE CUBIC FORMULA. What is it they think you can't handle?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-KXStupwsc
NPM CEO Bryan Bogensberger exits after eight months of turmoil
They didn't just trade free speech for cash. They traded their academic integrity.

Talk to anyone who teaches at ANU/Monash/Melbourne and they'll tell you the same thing: most international Chinese students should fail by every metric there is, but there is tremendous pressure from the faculty to 'find marks' to get those students to scrape through and look the other way at their plagiarism and cheating.

It's like there are two sets of standards now. One for Chinese students, and one for everyone else.
Are you sure that's measuring the right thing? Doesn't a mature forest reach a steady state where carbon in = carbon out when dead trees rot etc?
Indeed, articles claiming miraculous technology without technical details don't belong on the front page. Flagged.
This is a lie, obviously.

But if you like this sort of LARPing Science Fiction original link here -

https://www.hypergiant.com/green/
The iPhone 11 Just Launched and Here Are 12 Hilarious Memes from the Internet
That foundation isn't really standard. At least for houses. More typical are.

Footing and stem wall construction. Basically a perimeter concrete wall with a treated lumber mud sill. Fairly common for wood framed houses. Advantage is you can get under it to repair electrical, plumbing, and heating vents. Disadvantage : You probably don't want to if you hate small spaces and spiders.

Slab foundations on grade. Probably more common in newer construction. Cheap. Disadvantage: Sadness when you realize a leaking water pipe has created a spring in the middle of the living room floor.

And there are basement foundations. Common in areas where the ground freezes. Basements are either concrete or cinder block.
As someone who is actively looking for things in this space to invest in and to determine whether it makes sense at all, I can only say that so far it doesn't look good.

There are a bunch of problems with the fundamental analysis of the problem, but even if we all magically agreed that climate change was the biggest threat to humanity then the real problem is in the solutions.

Energy is a physics not a technology problem.

And the reality is that we haven't had any major scientific breakthroughs in this space since fossil fuels and nuclear.

Almost all of modern society is depending on them and there is no new fundamental scientific discoveries to replace them anytime soon.

I have sat in on countless plastic alternative presentations only to discover that while it might work in a lab it won't scale and it's only for a fraction of the things you can use plastic for. Plastic gives us everything from as hard as diamond to as soft as spiderweb. No other materical does that.

When it comes to energy there are currently three potential solutions worth following with the ability to solve our energy needs and still be green.

Fusion, thorium and fuell cells.

If you want to solve fusion you have to at least try and taggle plasma which means tagging magnets or something similar. In other words you have to make discoveries in completely different fields than the field of fusion itself.

Fuell cells is equally far off and we don't really have a realistic model for how to create them and apply them to ex wind and solar which will be needed to make them even remotely competitive in the bigger game otherwise the realities of their capacity factor is just not going to cut it.

Thorium is the one that seams most feasible but still require a lot of progress to be anywhere close to ready.

In other words I think we will be stuck with fossil fuels for a very very long time and if these climate capitalists were really serious about this they would put the money towards fundamental science instead, the will have a slightly smaller chance of succeeding but if successful their investment will dwarf whatever they can do in the startup space.
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Some winds are generated because of the Earth's structure.

The trade winds are pretty consistent.

My favourite bit of meteorology trivia is that the wealthier areas in British cities are almost exclusively to the west - this is because the prevailing wind is from the west and so pollution producing factories have been placed in the east of the city.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_winds
Terrible GDPR page - not clear if you’re answering “yes” or “no”

Why do websites insist on the most terrible custom designs? What’s wrong with “input type=checkbox”?
That is true for any distribution. The mean (expectation) of the part after X+epsilon has to be larger than after X. There is no possible age distribution where your claim isn't true.
Well, a binary tree with unordered children.
Does this have any implication for indexing criteria?
> - They use the ROX filer, the only file manager for Linux with AppDir support and the centerpiece of the unfortunately long-defunct ROX Desktop.

I was so happy when ROX Desktop was still active and alive. It had exactly all features necessary to use a file browser, blazing fast and the UI was really intuitive. Actually it inspired me for years to maintain a ~/Apps folder, so reinstalling my system mostly just meant copying over my home folder.
The oceans and maturing forests are the best carbon sinks, and as of now it is more economical to just conserve them
Yeah, I’ve never seen any complex applications, using ORM’s, that were easy to port to another database. Hell, one company I was at switched from MySQL to MariaDB and even that took some work despite that they should be almost the dame thing. If you switch to a more substantially different database, eg, from MySQL to Postgres, then its even harder. I’m also a believer in using a databases features when it makes sense and not limiting myself to the standardised subset of SQL just in case I might want to change databases later.
I take it you never took a UML certification exam. Even the most useful UML diagram, class diagrams, has so much syntax that you can express all of C++'s weird ownership quirks plus some quirks no actual programming language has.

UML activity diagrams let you specify, in full detail, the semantics of a trivial 3-line constructor using a ridiculously large amount of arrows and boxes. You can get good at this (even though it serves no purpose whatsoever) and get "UML Certified" stamps on your forehead.

UML use case diagrams, hardly useful for anything at all, have a rule that you can put the name of the actor either above or below the actor stick figure. The name of a use case (an ellipsis), however, may only be above or inside the ellipsis, but not below. Put the name below the ellipsis and your UML is syntactically incorrect. Volumes of books were written about nonsense like this. The UML spec is many hundreds of pages. If you don't think this is overspecified and overcomplicated then I want some of what you're smoking.

I believe it is these aspects of UML that made it unpopular among the "get things done" crowd. I agree that UML class diagrams and UML state charts, when you just use the normal, useful parts of them, are super useful and currently underrated.

If the UML people had remembered they were making a communication tool and not a programming tool, then maybe so many people hadn't run away screaming.
If someone is not able to read article because Bloomberg asks for premium fees, then don't miss out to check out their HTML ;)
And then rofi for great good!
But we are not planting some trees.

I decided I will not criticize any attempt at carbon sequestration, because whatever the initiatives are, doing something is better than doing nothing, which is what we are currently busying ourselves with.
Pure botulium toxing costs $1.5 million per gram. Assuming average spatial density of proteins 1.35 g/cm^3, a shoebox would hold $20 - $30 trillion.
Your argument does not stand up. I can have a file full of ORM sql fragments the same as you file of strings. And I can compose mine together safely and more flexibly than strings.
The Economist wasn’t great either. Around 02-03 I distinctly remember them raving at the effective political strategy of the Bush administration in bangig the drums of war as a ruse to bring Saddam Hussein to the negotiating table. It was apparent to even a kid like me that war was all the White House wanted.

Every rag has its issues. The pieces are written by people and edited by more people in turn. It’s more about reading the least worst of a bad bunch. NYT and FT are in that category for me at least.
It uses formal logic formalism but it is pretty clear... what I mean is that there is little burden to interpret what every line means. It is very direct in meaning (if formal logic scares you then look at the text part, short and to the point sentences).
In house means more customized to the specific problem but with far less expertise in the general technology. I find the latter almost always outweighs the former when working at any cost center tech shop.
Terraform and Consul Updates, Multi-* Workflows, and Shared Learning
Absolutely, I have done no research on this but on his website [1] he claims:

> Strength: The fundamental principles of a yurt’s design creates a structure that is surprisingly strong. The compression and tension of the walls and roof can hold thousands of pounds of weight from the snow. The round shape allows high winds to be diverted gracefully around the structure. Unlike a normal house, a yurt doesn’t rely on rigidity to be stable. Because of its flexible nature, a yurt can better withstand natural disasters like earthquakes.

So maybe it's true and they are actually sturdier than it seems?

[1] https://doityurtself.com/is-it-for-you/ (scroll down to "The positives of yurts")
> I’ve found that reflection techniques to get the data definition are not worth it and I succumb to managing the redundancy of data definitons in two places.

Not sure if much has changed regarding the "reflection techniques" since 2014, but I think Postgres does a fine job reflecting. (Don't know much about others)

For example my favorite library Massive.js (a data mapper) depends completely on reflection. It allows its users to access tables, views, functions, extensions, and even enum types from its Javascript API, without the need for models. This completely solved the data definition redundancy problem for me.

I even made a small layer on top of it to get the constraint information too using the information_schema, and everything is working like a charm.
and trekking poles, knives and petrol bombs.
This isn’t a new problem, people were saying the same thing 20 years ago. And it isn’t accurate or fair to say it is a problem only with students of one single nationality, it’s not. It’s really the conflict of interest inherent in fee-paying international students - if you fail too many of them, they will leave and not come back and you lose out on future revenue from them - worsened by the fact that lowering English language entry requirements improves enrolment and revenue but then the students struggle academically because they can’t understand the course and struggle with writing essays/assignments/exams in English.
You'll notice it's just a common way to flex on HN.

"Oh, heh, cute that scientists need to confirm what's clearly obvious to me." Often with an anecdote about how they've always known it, and with an explanation about how it works (obviously) which you think would be unnecessary if it was such common knowledge.
This study looks interesting, thank you!
Thorium is potentially closer than fusion or fuel cells which means also closer than wind and solar.

But yeah we are still not even close to having it ready and it might take decades. So we are going to be stuck with fossil fuels for a very long time.
Do we really need a paper for something that takes 5 seconds to backtest?

https://www.portfoliovisualizer.com/backtest-asset-class-all...
TOFI: Thin Outside Fat Inside
Dapper for C# made by StackOverflow team

https://github.com/StackExchange/Dapper
That’s a good point, so that would be 9) arrest both parents, charge with misdemeanor, release on zero dollar bail. If amnesty granted then wipe arrest. If amnesty not granted, deport.

I support the idea of release on zero dollar bail for all nonviolent misdemeanors for first or maybe even second time offenders.

It seems like the penalty for this crime is max jail time six months [0] so definitely should at least be releasing people who have been detained longer than this.

Public intoxication varies by state (in Florida it’s max 90 days [1]) and it’s not a federal crime. Speeding is really not a comparable misdemeanor as to get to jail time you have to get to reckless driving or something, a crime that would definitely get you arrested if you had two kids in the backseat.

I don’t know of an appropriate misdemeanor comparison that is respectful as using petty theft or prostitution or trespassing may have similar penalties but leave a bad taste in my mouth because don’t seem appropriate comparing to a family trying to enter the US. Maybe failure to pay child support [2] would be equivalent if somehow both parents got charged with it at the same time. They would be subject to a misdemeanor and six months in jail.

[0] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1325
[1] https://www.criminaldefenselawyer.com/resources/florida-publ...
[2] https://www.hg.org/legal-articles/criminal-penalties-for-fai...
What could go wrong?
https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/helicopter-crashes-in-north...
> Chinese e-commerce sites like Taobao and AliExpress no longer sell them to customers in Hong Kong

Impressive coordination of public & private bureaucracies
Wouldn’t that be hardware accelerated on the iPad? What iOS app is doing software video encoding?
These kinds of ideas just don't seem to make sense given the scale of the problem. It's as if some people imagine you could set up a few plants of for each power station and we'd be all square. When in fact: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/life-unbounded/the-craz...
I see you already made progress there! Congratulations!
New iOS 13 Features Make It One of the Best OS
People vs. mosquitos: what to do about our biggest killer
I'd happily github it if it would fit more use cases, is it something you think others would be interested in?
Moving the Encryption Policy Conversation Forward
Northrop Grumman B-21 Raider first flight route announced
The Vim-Inspired Editor with a Linguistic Twist
> Even just getting data, manipulating it, and saving it is at least twice as difficult in maintainability and lines of code than using an ORM.

That has not been my own experience outside of the most trivial queries. Once any amount of complexity is introduced, I find that ORM-based queries often make it difficult to really see whats going on with indexes and locking, I can’t just paste a query (eg to use EXPLAIN) without finding it in a query log first and, unfortunately, in my experience its rare to find teams disciplined enough to not treat ORM code as if it were normal application code (ie don’t mix it into your application logic), so often end up with a few database/application roundtrips, doing filtering in the wrong place etc. Yes that last one isn’t technically the fault of the ORM, but when I see it again and again in real world code, I start to think that most developers don’t have the discipline to be careful with ORM code while when not using ORM’s and writing raw SQL outside of your applications code, you have no choice. Not the ORM’s fault, but still a symptom of using one that I’ve experienced in multiple teams.
The C4 model doesn't seem to mandate any particular notation, it's merely lines and boxes and you can use whatever notation you prefer.

"The C4 model doesn't prescribe any particular notation. A simple notation that works well on whiteboards, paper, sticky notes, index cards and a variety of diagraming tools is as follows."

Curious to know what makes you think it's too complex? What am I missing?
The "not clear if you’re answering “yes” or “no”" part is the entire point of the deliberately poor design. See https://www.darkpatterns.org/ for more examples
GLOBAL stocks. You linked to the Vanguard 500 index which is US only companies.
Have you tried iSH? It’s kind of like Termux
Please note that this is GLOBAL stocks.
Exactly, seasteading and 'terraforming' deserts are other short term solutions, but for any of that to get more investment we need growing population in rich parts of the world, that would need this and would have money for this. But unfortunately we do not have that.
Including the timestamp defeats the content-addressing. You want to not having to store two duplicate images if they are uploaded at different times.
I had a single parent friend who had ver kids put into foster care because ve was arrested for reckless driving.

I don’t think illegal entry is the same as reckless driving, but I think in a situation where both parents were driving a car 120mph with two kids in the back seat, the cops would try to find family to take the kids or put them in foster care.

I think in this situation, the problem is compounded because likely friends and family are less likely to come to jail for fear of being arrested due to status.

I think a worthy cause would be some sort of big foster care movement where children are kept in super nice homes while parents are arrested and detained.
I personally prefer strongly typed languages for almost everything except the most basic of scripts. In my opinion it's very little overhead and helps me keep track of what I'm working with.
The latest version of Chrome allows for "read on a write site data" on a per-site basis. Not so useful for ad-blocking extensions, but a boon to any extensions I don't really want to give full access to.
Looks neat. I wish, though, there was a way to try it out in the browser as advertised without having to sign up or login. Might be a requirement of the site hosting the demo but whoever it is, forcing login is always and forever a deal breaker for me.
Have I gone overboard in remembering that Gauss-Markov is overrated? It's nice that some assumptions guarantee BLUE, but then there is real world data and modelling. Understand where your data come from, what distributions they have, what the relationship is with your dependent variable. Testing for these assumptions might be helpful as a teaching tool, but please get to the level to be able to demonstrate that your model can fail a few of these (like heteroskedacity) and still work (or recognize you need more than a linear model).
How do you know it's random? Just because you're Chinese doesn't mean you have to side with china's govt.
The round shape sould help against wind. I agree with the lack of insulation though. The heating part could be partially remediated with radiant heat. With a heavy masonry stove instead of a simple wood stove.
Oregon is a pretty warm climate. Just eye balling the terrain, they look to be at a pretty low elevation and probably won't see more than a few weeks of below freezing weather per year. Not sure this would be practical in a more punishing climate.