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So. Nationalising companies is not communist per se. RBS and Northern Rock were nationalised in '08. Network Rail was re-nationalised in '13, though it was never properly private. What about Amtrak? I have seen no mention of "handing control to workers". Nor of Apparatchiks.

Wouldn't be the first non-communist country to limit private education either. That said, it sure doesn't seem fully thought out - but what policy is at conference? Tory party policy certainly isn't.

I seem to have lived through a very different 1970s to you. :)

Most of the problems of the 1970s, throughout the West, stemmed from the abandonment of Bretton Woods and the 73 oil crisis and its after effects. Both of which fuelled rampant inflation throughout much of the West. For Britain a very significant additional part were the policies of the Heath government through 74. Overly strong unions and poor labour relations played their part, which were increasingly problematic, but on top of the systemic issues. The Tories did far worse here than Labour.

It was Heath who fuelled the 72/73 boom that spectacularly crashed with the oil crisis and the 400% rise in oil price. Why? Because he was ideologically opposed to unemployment and it had risen markedly since he got elected. So he spent and spent until it went away. After the crash and oil crisis they had to abandon dozens of manifesto promises. Yet not that labour and price policy. Stagflation was born. That made Britain's "sick man of Europe" label inevitable - though there had been (much) lesser issues in the sixties that contributed.

It was under Tory Heath we had the miner's strike and three day week, rationed electricity, and evenings by candle light. TV shut down at 10 to save electric. Fun Tory times. That was the last three months of the oil crisis, so there were still queues and rationing at the pumps.

Labour under Wilson and Callaghan - for the rest of the 70s - was mostly attempting damage control with no money. Not surprisingly this wasn't hugely effective. Healey going to the IMF 12 or 18 months after getting elected wasn't terribly surprising either - though certainly it made life more difficult. It was Heath's unemployment reducing boom, his ridiculous income policy (and leaving Bretton Woods and that oil crisis) that fuelled the problems of the rest of the decade. Oh, and made someone replacing him as leader downright certain. It was adopting a very Heath-like incomes policy in their last year, to try an control inflation, that brought the fight with the unions and the Winter of Discontent, that ushered in Thatcher. Coldest winter for years gave a few more %% to Thatcher.

Last, Thatcher was shaping up for at best a much reduced majority. More likely hung parliament or defeat, except there was this small incident called The Falklands War. Early election, huge majority. Naff all to do with economics - we were barely out of recession and still had double digit inflation, nor policy performance, just a dictator in the South Atlantic.
> I always try and park away from the busiest areas for the same reasons but, purely from observation, it's obvious most people don't since the area closest to the store entrance is almost always utilised the most.

Walking through parking lot is not ideal. If it's outside, then you need to be dressed out for walking outside (and be prepared for rain etc. when coming back). When it's inside, it can smell of fumes and not neccesarily be very safe.
I use IE as my standard browser my chrome and firefox are set up for different usages with ton of plugins
I can confirm that they are extremely unreliable compared with other hardware. There is also no support from vendors.
Or indeed Linux x86 support :(
Kson supports 100% Json Standard (it means kson can read / write json standard format data).
also Kson support "Extended Format" optionally. (if you don't want extended format, just turn off flag)

just, the point is kson have parse/object deserialize/object serialize is faster than gson(or another lib).
> The speedup from grover's algorithm is essentially universal it's just not an exponential speedup. So for example in your non-quantum simulation task, you want to search for an input to a cellular automata that makes it spell your name after 5000 timestemps. You can use grover's algorithm to find that input with a sqrt() the number of simulation runs that a classical machine would need (and perhaps fewer, since there are likely multiple solutions).

I'd view this as using fewer simulations, rather than doing the simulations faster.

Incidentally, I happen to be the author of some software for finding CA predecessors: https://github.com/OscarCunningham/logic-life-search/. Good luck getting it to do 5000 or even sqrt(5000) generations though! It's SAT solver based, so as soon as someone does invent a quantum SAT solver it'll plug right in.

> [Which is also why many of the common incorrect descriptions of quantum computing are sad, stuff like "testing all values in paralle"-- if it worked like that description it would be magic instant computing.]

To be fair, many quantum algorithms do begin by preparing a superposition of all possible intputs and then applying the unitary corresponding to some classical function. The difficulty arises when you have to extract information from the resulting output superposition.
C-- is very different from C.

Indeed several languages compile to C; I regard that as a downside for all those languages. I'm not sure what your point is?
He is professor of psychology who taught in top universities, his scientific articles have many citations, why wouldn't he be reliable? As far as I'm concerned he is as reliable as whole field of psychology - there can be multiple competitive theories, but you can't reject his just because you happen to not like them.
Finally mentioned CPU turned out to be a core with OpenRISC architecture, but nevertheless it was quite interesting challenge. I did my part, based completely on source file, I was sure was compiled into binary (part of FreeRTOS), but, yes, possibility to execute code and observe the results allowed guy from opentechlab to achieve a lot more than I did.
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The stuff on Northern Ireland is incredibly biased and inaccurate.
> hashed, unscrambled

Anyone who says this has no technical credibility.
I can confirm I have an android TV with sideloaded zerotier (would be great with official Android TV support, BTW! Ed: Android TV has a separate app store - apps need to declare themselves compatible), a few Linux boxes - and mDNS/bonjour works fine.
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Then why do our cities have "free speech zones"?
Here the LTO-7 is only half as cheap as a HDD, ~110 USD for 6TB tape vs ~230 USD for 8TB HDD (cheaper per GB than 6TB models).

Cheapest new LTO-7 drive is over 3000 USD though, which means you'd need more than 300TB of data for a new LTO-7 tape solution to be cheaper here.
Your post manages to say nothing correct. Javascript did not invent callbacks, asynchronous programming, or event driven programming. Nodejs popularized it in the 2010s but you are claiming credit for something that has been in common use since the 70s. I have no clue how anyone can speak with such authority while clearly having not done a cursory glance at programming APIs available in the 80s and 90s.

Lighttpd was released before nginx and was wildly popular for a good while. Not to mention other servers like AOLserver in the 90s.

The use of non blocking sockets was nothing new, used heavily in C code throughout the 90s and is the basis of asynchronous processing (refer to Stevens Unix network programming). You should also read documents by John Ousterhout written in the 90s about this topic.

Now just about every major GUI library was targeted in C or Pascal and used an event driven callback model. You can refer to the Windows API, the modern Mac carbon API which was developed in the 80s at Next and the older Mac SDK. The Windows SDK allows event driven programming for UI and IO.
tcl/tk. Just about anything on top of X (ie Motif, GTK). The list will go on and on.

Do some research before making bold claims about C programmers not understanding asynchronous programming and callbacks.

Also I think the other reply is correct in asserting that your definition of async is making distinctions without differences.

Eg from 1995: https://web.stanford.edu/~ouster/cgi-bin/papers/threads.pdf
Note that event driven programming was nothing new in 1995.. it was the basis for the Windows api designed years prior after all, but this was around the time that multithreading was pushed for everything.

Heck fibers: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/procthread/fi... have existed in the Windows api since at least 95.
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And yet 1919 is the closing year of WWI, which as I recall was the first major war where women's labour could be deployed directly as a proactive and systematic part of the war effort on foreign soil. Correct me if I'm wrong, I'm no military historian.

There is a massive link between being involved in the military and having political power, even without suffrage. There are 2,500 years of history and women got the vote around the time that the repeatable firearm was perfected.
That's interesting - it seems to both be backed by and conflict with a lot of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relational_model but maybe that's wrong.

I'd still avoid the word 'relational' though - obvious many people will assume 'relational' is related to DB relations rather than tuples (assuming you're right about 'relations' meaning tuples, a lot of the wikipedia contributors are included).
If you don't agree that it's ridiculous to say Boris Johnson controls the CA for slither.io then... I guess we just have a very different definition of what it means to be ridiculous.

I can live with that.
I recently suffered three weeks of anosmia (loss of smell, taste) due to an acute sinus infection, and had some wasabi one evening. I could not taste it at all, and further, I did not get the eye watering, nose burning sensation I normally get that restricts me to a quarter teaspoon at most. If this woman had a similar issue, then yes, I can see how one could eat cups of wasabi and not notice.
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When I was a young programmer in the early nineties, an old IBM programmer told me 'Don't accept the invitation to fail.' Good advice but what if the goal posts are moved. Best then to keep positive and communicate early and often about how the changes will affect the schedule. Work together as a team and get your manager to help you and that'll go a long way rather than keeping 'obvious' things to yourself and catching management off guard when work slips.
> Wherever you need to read the ID card, you cannot use anything other than IE.

You can. In fact, you don't need a browser at all to read an ID card. You can download the CELIK application from Ministry of Internal Affairs and simply read the ID card directly:

http://ca.mup.gov.rs/download-lat.html

> For example, if you have to verify identity, you cannot use Firefox to grant access to the ID card.

When you submit tax reports, you can use Firefox or Chrome. Here, take a look at the list of supported browsers:

http://www.poreskauprava.gov.rs/sr/e-porezi/preduslovi.html

The tax submission procedure requires that you insert the ID card in the reader and enter your PIN during the process. It reads the card using some middleware software and then opens the browser with a special URL that contains your session token. The only requirement is that you set your default browser properly. In my experience, this is what most users don't know how to do, so when the middleware opens IE they think IE is required.
If anyone wants a link to the study https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/095679761774171...
At my old company (energy company), they've now installed sensors at every desk - to track whether or not someone is sitting at the desk, and their activity level.
Given that it is HCL, can H1B workers unionize? They are in that constellation of contractors that pulls a lot of people from overseas.
It’s not that easy when you use C dependencies.
What if Snowden was a deep state pawn sent to take down the NSA, or at least give other agencies total control over it? It is holding the crown jewels after all.

The rabbit hole on this one is extremely deep. Hint: What agency did Snowden work for before the NSA?
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So far this morning:

- a windows 2016 server for which we needed to dig deep in powershell so it wouldn't reset the clock every 6 hours
- a user whose local account services is totalled and he can't access his desktop any more

Personally I would like the start menu search to only look for applications but I gave up on that.

I suppose using windows only for office would help, of course.
While this is 100% correct, if the main function has returned then the process was going to end anyway (assuming there isn't additional code after the call to main). If there's a main loop, then the catch needs to be inside that loop, not outside of main.

The only difference it will make here is to suppress the default stack trace[1] and errorlevel returned to the shell. If you are writing in this kind of "scripting" style, you probably don't want to suppress errorlevels, so leaving out the catch is not only simpler, it is safer.

[1] You may get a stack trace with an Error object, but not the default one from the Node process.
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the most environmentally friendly thing you could do with that t410s is to replace the keyboard with a new one instead of replacing the laptop with a new one. This of course assumes that everything else is fine and only the keyboard is falling to bits.
Good article. I thought about this problem quite a bit. I've been on both sides of the question.

I thought I was brilliant when I came up with the solution of fixing the time frame and estimating the work that can be done in that time frame. Turns out I came up with sprints, 60 years after they were invented.

The fun solution for this would be to give 'hit dice' estimates for tasks. Assign type of dice and number of them to each eastimated.

How long will this take?

About 1d20 days.

Nobody will be happy with this, but it is the most realistic one. Cause tasks do have that variability to them.

The wises thing said here is:
"the reality is that if you can make a probabilistically accurate estimate, then it's likely that the task should have been automated by some other means already. "

Is there an answer to this problem? Maybe abandon long term estimates entirely. Having really short term estimates, with frequent updates.
This is a poor reading of MacKinnon; in this case, there's no need for anyone to read into the statement when you can read what else she's written. She's one of the most heavily cited feminists of all time in academic literature.
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I'm not sure we really have ruling classes these days but I think 2/3 of graduates and about 4/5 of MPs were remainers so I could see those running things being reluctant to leave.
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Some of my colleagues would 3x their estimates and come in ahead of the schedule, looking like heros.
So it seems that IT has actually had an effect on productivity, contrary to previous research. It was just hard to see because it raised industry concentration by enabling more efficient firms to serve a larger share of the market. Given that this process is very far from over we should expect this to happen in even more industries. If a market segment has crap or no software a firm with functional or great software can do things their competitors just can’t, or do the same things, cheaper, which either shows up on greater profits or lower prices. See Flexport for how this applies to the massive logistics industry. I’m sure there are many other examples.

> The rise in national industry concentration in the US between 1977 and 2013 is driven by a new industrial revolution in three broad non-traded sectors: services, retail, and wholesale. Sectors where national concentra- tion is rising have increased their share of employment, and the expansion is entirely driven by the number of local markets served by firms. Firm employment per market has either increased slightly at the MSA level, or decreased substantially at the county or establishment levels. In industries with increasing concentration, the expansion into more markets is more pronounced for the top 10% firms, but is present for the bottom 90% as well. These trends have not been accompanied by economy-wide concentration. Top U.S. firms are increasingly specialized in sectors with rising industry concentration, but their aggregate employment share has remained roughly stable. We argue that these facts are consistent with the availability of a new set of fixed-cost technologies that enable adopters to produce at lower marginal costs in all markets. We present a simple model of firm size and market entry to describe the menu of new technologies and trace its implications.
No worries, MS is actively trying to get rid of it (by hiding some folders, by mangling some shortcuts, by putting libraries and stupid things like that first so that you rarely actually have access to the tree).
It certainly made me stop and reread the statement.
Note that of course the JVM's top-tier JIT compilers (C2, Graal EE) have already done this autovectorisation for many years - this is just the first time code has been contributed for the open source version of Graal, because previously it was an Enterprise-only feature in that compiler.

For example open source code in C2 https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/blob/497cb3f4f4ae7f86c1731396....

> Now since they are able to loop unroll it by analysing AST

There's no AST analysis going on here - it operates at the graph level.

> it must also be possible to forward instructions to GPU/GPGPU in the future with little more effort

Hah. People have been trying general GPU offload for a decade and haven't really got anywhere yet. The blocking issue is finding work that is coarse-grained enough to make the context-switch worth it.
I've noticed this as well. If I park in the middle of the parking lot with no cars anywhere near me, very often I come back to find another car parked right next to mine.

My theory as to why this happens is that a parked car is a clearer indicator of how to park properly. If I try to park properly using the painted lines (which are often not very visible and go out of sight when you start entering your parking spot) I might miss the mark. However, a parked car that's more visible is a better indicator of whether I've parked correctly.
TL;DR I tried to do object oriented programming in a language that wasn't designed for object oriented programming and found it was difficult. Wrong tool for the job.
Reporters with integrity report facts and don't print lies. If reality has a bias, they follow it. Criticism from demagogues is a badge of honor.
This is so terrible. There is an enterprise market for mature electronic locking systems, as they are used in virtually any modern office building. And then there is the (affordable) consumer market, and most stuff even looks crappy.

I really would invest 500€ for a small (3 outdoor locks) system, but there is virtually no product which I can trust in.
Growing up in the inner city, I knew many people who took pride in their ability to manipulate the system, work as little as possible, and collect as much as possible. I don't think the fears of abuse are overblown at all.

I think this is why the working class tends to vote against social programs while the wealthy support social programs - working class people actually know "non-working" class people who live off the system.
That is a problem of the backup software, not of the tapes. I have a custom program that generates an index with all the files on all my tapes and which updates the index after any tape write. I can determine in a second the location of any file, so I know immediately which tape cartridge must be loaded to retrieve anything.

The file index is actually a relational database table with a lot of metadata about the files, including: position in the tape collection as tape number + file number, name, path name, modification time, length, content hash (to identify duplicates) and a set of keywords and tags, to be able to search for a file even when the name is not known, or to be able to retrieve sets of files.

The files written on the tape are grouped in compressed archive files, but the database with metadata is about the files inside of those archive files.

Obviously, the file index itself is also backed up regularly.
Sure, Kson is an extension of JSON. Every JSON file is a valid Kson file. The opposite is not true.
I've had the same feeling many times with both Firefox and Chrome in the past.

I think in the end that's something that you have to test out for yourself periodically, as it seems to be great differences of which is the best performer across OSs and devices. As a rule of thumb I try to do a short evaluation of each of them every ~5 releases.
Where is the asterisk?

applies only in EU*

* Also applies in Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, and Switzerland.
True enough. What is your favorite image viewer? The built-in in Win10 is basically unusable because it keeps trying to open files it doesn't understand (raw photos) and tells me to install a plugin (which probably doesn't exist).

I mostly use Linux Mint Cinnamon and the window and workspace management just feels more consistent and snappy.

Also Windows apps have a very annoying habit of showing windows for background tasks (file sync? software updates?) which I don't want to care about -- all they really accomplish is that sometimes the service gets stopped altogether just to forget about it.
Do they mean horseradish dressed up as wasabi (horseradish + mustard + coloring) or do they indeed mean real wasabi?
arXiv link: https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.03369
Universities did. You should see the internal mailing lists, all aglow with misdirection.
IrfanView is nice, in that it can open nearly everything.
When he fails the performance review with a bad vote. Probably he doesn't work at an high level or he has some relationship problem that makes difficult for him to work in a good team.
I think the reporting, for now, is on the Media Lab, but the issues are Institute-wide.
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Can we get a straight answer why these files are being changed in the first place?
Well it’s clear that the watch is providing less value. If you’re already old, the value of “saving” your life isn’t that much, your probably gonna die soon anyways.