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Forget the candidates, what about our current president. He seems plenty happy spending away. Billions in Agriculture subsides to prop up his trade war, just as a start.
He had been collecting the documents for months even before the incident that he says prompted him to blow the whistle. He knew that detailed lists of Chinese targets were not needed to blow the whistle on phone metadata collection, but he grabbed those lists anyway and immediately showed them to the SCMP.
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My brother just came to visit me on Norwegians NY->Dublin route. He said when he got on the flight they made an announcement that it was their last flight for that route ever. They have already cancelled their Providence->Dublin route as well so I'm a bit bummed I won't be able to fly back to the states cheaply in the near term.
> Since the early 2000s, functional programming has become more and more popular

This is because pre-2000's, OO was particularly well-suited to desktop software and dominated that space, which also happened to be a space which occupied a large fraction of total development.

OTOH, tasks of data transformation, which after the 2000's became in more demand as software moved more and more from the desktop to the server, is particularly well-suited to FP (due to being on the other side of the expression problem).

The shift from desktops to servers has real consequences on language design.

Microsoft even admitted this as one of the reasons they're trying to bolt on FP features to C#.
I dare say the reason many people are hesitant to adopt Functional programming is that:

A) They aren't, they're probably already programming in a functional programming style. Just not in a purely FP language (Which I would never adopt to begin with)

B) A lot of FP articles come off as the musings of zealots obsessed with monads, which often barely make any sense to, well, anyone. The less sense it makes at first glance, almost guarantees people will want to avoid it. Yes, maybe I can understand it. But I'm (hopefully) not the only maintainer of the codebase, and trying to communicate some FP concepts back & how to use them really, really isn't easy.
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For one reason or another, I've developed a sort of office-eating-phobia. There was a period where, in order to feel OK and not pass out at my desk, I packed a tupperware container with Greek yogurt and almond butter. I think it tastes amazing, kind of like cheesecake, and with the high-fat/high-protein content, keeps me satisfied for 4 hours, so I don't have to think about lunch til 2-3pm, and even then I could just go for another snack. But I couldn't STAND what people would say to me or what they'd ask about my food. I felt very uncomfortable having to "explain" what I'm eating, it's something I need to work on.

I avoided the office kitchen at all costs to prevent this sort of small-talk. My routine would be retrieving my food from the fridge as fast as humanly possible, eating at my desk, and then spending my actual lunch break reading a book someplace. Ask me anything, just leave my food alone.

The worst was when I'd reheat some meat-and-veggie entree I made the night before, and people would say "wow, smells good!" What the hell am I supposed to say to this? "Yup..." I think I have office-trauma-induced-asperger's now....
No, this article is not the wikipedia article: it is a in-depth report that summarizes, among other things, recent open source analysis of previously classified data.

It leaves no real space for reasonable doubt as to the nature of event.
Seems a bit extreme, just make a conscious effort to not use your phone as much. That way you can still use your phone to deal with the myriad potential issues that can come up when travelling e.g. issues with your bank, stranded in the countryside, someone trying to kidnap you etc.
The gist of it is that they've been able to simulate a very small number of random quantum gates faster than a classical-compute simulation of the same thing. It's not useful for anything, and it's at the level of things that D-Wave was doing for processor calibration over a decade ago.

Claiming this as "supremacy" is premature.
Isn't this basically what an Entity Component system is?
My phone crapped out during my first day at Oktoberferst in Germany. I figured it was the perfect excuse to "live in the real world" for the experience. I certainly did live in the real world. I also spent hours trying to find my travel buddies when we were inevitably separated.
>The algorithm developed by Lee and his group uses tools in pattern recognition to recognise how chemical groups in molecules react, by training the model on millions of reactions published in patents.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias
Canceling a talk doesn't equate to changing a view.
This is my experience as well, although I can't speak for F#. Functional programming languages work, until you hit a performance wall and need to dig a bit lower in the stack. It is when things get ugly that they start to look like fancy calculators.

Besides ATS (which is not very practical), only Common Lisp seems to accommodate to that (and maybe just because Lisp is old and had to deal with performance issues for decades), but it still lacks a state of the art GC.
> to me the term "value" only makes sense in a mutable context - if the variable can't be mutated, it is it's own value

I'm so confused by this haha.

A value is a term in a language's grammar that cannot be further reduced by the semantics of that language.

In some OO languages, objects may be values but functions or types may not. (Though this has been changing lately as more OO languages are getting on board with higher-order functions, for example.)

In most FP languages, functions and types are also values. In the lambda calculus, two out of the three possible terms are values. In the pi calculus, types become values (and, therefore, values become types).

This is where I was going with my previous comment: FP languages tend to have a wider variety of "values" than the OO languages, which instead just have lots of extra core forms in the language that don't directly translate to the values of the language's semantics.
Epstein's sources of funding are a real mystery, and the path of that money and the financial structures leaves strong indications of illegal activity starting with being a conduit for money-laundering. The whole point of laundering money is to make the gains of everything from child sex trafficking to state corruption look like plain ordinary respectable earned income when it is not even close to that.
Snowden very clearly did not understand the PRISM slides due to technical illiteracy, and the NY Times and subsequent reporters got the story right.
I know one of the first things i'd do if i had the code would be to improve the practically abandoned MDIClient.

The second would be to bring classic theme back :-P
Interesting parent is so downvoted - the whole dating / facebook thing has been an issue for a while. Users didn't like cross-pollination between Facebook and dating and not all sites (AM comes to mind) even maintained facebooks LOW LOW standards.

Good to see AM lecturing though as a source for these articles.
Has ever happened and does this also cover newspapers?
Yeah. The POS system I worked on used a small local web server for the browser to control the drawer and such, but it's a more complex setup than getting the webapp itself to do that.

If one is okay with a web POS, Electron itself seems like a good fit.
Ah ah, the first link is yet another interesting "it makes sense" post from Raymond Chen.

The second link is saddening and I know iMessage is a problem in some areas of the world. Here, people expect that most people don't have an iPhone… and the problematic messengers are of course Facebook and WhatsApp. At least, here, it seems that most people understand that you don't want to use them. But you are still locked out of group discussions. You rely on people who like you to keep you posted because they want you to be at whatever event is being discussed there, and you are that one person who is not in the group chat.
You are perfectly right, in that this is a real thing.

Lunches are not just food intake, and being there or not will have an effect on your work life.

I personally feel it’s something that should be more explicited. It goes well along shared bathroom breaks, cigarette breaks, after hours drinking, golf on week-ends.

We all draw the line somewhere different on wether we are willing to do it or not, but it should at least be made clearer this is part of work and not some fun ride. We make it clear with our family or partners, it should be clear on the company side as well.

Note: eating with friends that happen to work at the same place is yet another matter, that’s not what I am pointing at
>you can host more than one site or database per server

I'm fully aware of this but never do it because I'm pretty much incompetent as a sysadmin. I don't want to be in a position where I can break an existing project while trying to configure something new I don't understand yet. Nor do I want to run security updates for a blog I setup 5 years ago.

I'm not 100% thrilled with going serverless because it makes debugging awful, but it has saved me money and it makes most things easier. If I went back to shared hosting, I'd just be paying for the privilege of getting to shoot myself in the foot.
On the other hand, top marginal tax rates are a fraction of what they were at their peak last century. We could double tax revenue at the drop of a hat, paying down our debt and ameliorating toxic wealth inequality simultaneously.
I've thought a lot about climate change and it's consequences. If we trigger runaway warming through feedback loops involved permafrost and ocean (hydrates) methane - things are going to get really, really bad. This happened when ~5C degree warming from millions of years of the Siberian traps eruptions caused methane hydrates to be released into the atmosphere, triggering another ~5C warming and the greatest mass extinction on Earth, the End-Permian Extinction, also known as "the Great Dying" where 96% of marine species went extinct, and 70% of terrestrial species. Clearly if that happens, we're really in trouble. I don't know how likely that is, or what the trigger point would be. The climate today is not the same as it was 250M years ago.

On the other side of the coin, the Earth is uncomfortably cool these last few million years. We have these repeated periods of glaciation. Having Europe, Russia, Canada, and the northern US ground to dust beneath kilometers of ice would be a bit of tragedy too on a similar scale. That it's further away in the future doesn't make it less of a problem - if we're too aggressive solving climate change we could imagine a future where we have to deliberately pump methane into the atmosphere to stave off an ice age. For better or worse we seem to be at no risk of this through our ineptitude in responding to climate change.

For people worried about coral reefs dying, it happened less than 10K year ago at the end of the last ice age. Sea level rose 400ft and drowned the world's coral reefs. They bounced back, as you can see today. They will also bounce back from climate change - it will just suck in the meanwhile. There are undoubtedly things we can and will do to make it suck less, like developing heat resistant corals, planting reefs further north/south, etc.

For people worried about coastal cities being submerged, relax, you'll be dead by then. Long term, we should be moving our investment to more sustainable areas. But infrastructure doesn't last forever anyway, so I think a lot of that may occur naturally as people just stop developing new infrastructure in low-lying areas. There's no question it will cost us though.

If you're really worried about climate change for your descendants, get Canadian citizenship. That's one of the few countries likely to benefit from climate change.

So to sum up, climate change is not all bad, just mostly bad, until or unless it runs away on us, and then the doomsayers may be right for a change.
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Because most people with strong opinions aren't experienced enough to justify them from direct experience. Instead we have religions, tribal affiliations, camps.
I would say maybe vacation without a phone. If you are sitting on a lounge chair by a pool, I think it might be nice to force yourself to get a bit bored.

But don't travel without a phone. A smart phone, more than any other thing let's you travel further off the beaten path and have interactions with people you don't share a language or any other understanding with.

I've traveled extensively on motorcycle and there have been so many times where I'll be in the middle of a mountain in the middle of no where and the thought has popped into my head "this would be crazy if not suicidal if I didn't have the combination of maps, translate and some basic search".

Even 20 years ago, you would have needed survival and language training to do things that anybody can do today because of a smart phone.
> They're just saying you should add a statement like that

With absolutely no evidence that it's required.
Rather, President George W. Bush used the existence of the surplus as a reason to enact two tax cuts. Those tax cuts, their extension (mostly) by Obama, the Trump tax cuts, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and sizable increases in the defense budget are the major contributors to the budget deficit and hence the accumulation of debt since 2001.
Yeah. The trick is, can you write not-spaghetti in it?
I'm not going to make any elaborations on my comment now. Please feel free to edit yours or post another to answer anything I raised. Your original reply containing some generic sales brochures isn't what I expected from someone representing aws stepping into this discussion.
Generally agreed?

By whom? Money managers? But of course!

Guess what - if you think index funds are not optimal, deploy your own optimal strategy then profit bigly.
> If the lie is obvious many people will look away out of greed.

Some will, sure. But what's obvious to you is not necessarily obvious to others. As I said, we are all susceptible to this. I guarantee there are lies you and I will fall for that are obvious to others. Greed is not necessarily a factor.

> in reality people are willingly dumb, which rather abets the criminal, no?

I don't think more than a tiny percentage of people are willingly dumb.

> I'm afraid we must agree to disagree.

Fair enough!
A massive tax cut and a few wars also had to do with the deficit during the Bush Jr. years.
Could you elaborate ? How did you figure out ? Just with the missing amount, or was there a line about this debit in your bank statements ?
> Also when you use other companies' trademarks, you should have a notice of who the trademark owner is

No, you shouldn't. There's no evidence it's required.
What do you mean by "modern"? Expensive and poorly understood?
...it may be a very sensible business choice to not fix it if it ain't broke.

Back in the day, POS/ERP systems were custom-made. So they are likely to be extremely well-tailored to the way a given corporate actually does business.

Replicating that in a more modern setting nowadays might either involve buying into SAP's racket and still paying huge sums of money for customization to get what you need, or building a new completely custom-made piece of software. -- There is an attitude in business that I find very lamentable but that is nevertheless a reality in that, nowadays, a business would never in a million years choose the latter course of action (i.e. a non-tech business like a chain of furniture stores would, nowadays, be extremely unlikely to pay for developers' time to build an ERP for furniture retail for their exclusive use).

But back then, that was the only thing you could do, and people did do it, because the gains in efficiency that could be reaped were just so big in relative terms (if your old system was pen-and-paper, it's a huge leap forward). Those low-hanging fruit are gone now.

The thing is: Those investments that were made back in the late 80s / early 90s continue to pay dividends to this day in the form of money that you don't have to pay to SAP. And this is a considerable amount of money if it means having to go out and hire consultants with staggering hourly rates each time SAP ceases support for the version of their product you're on, with data having to be migrated, customizations having to be re-invented, etc etc (The consultants, BTW, have to turn around and give a good deal of money back to SAP for certifications etc).

I think it's exactly what I would do if I was CIO in a corporate like that with a custom-made ERP system from the 80s. My most-preferred option would be to pay for some software developers' time to build a new one. But the likely outcome would be that I couldn't get a mandate to do that. So my second choice would be sticking with the system we have, and try to make it last for as long as it can possibly last. Only when that is no longer an option would I ever consider buying a modern ERP off the rack.
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The internet was definitely a mistake.
> Ballmer is an opportunist, pure and simple.

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it."

Ballmer is not a Devil. Open source was costing him billions in lost Windows revenue from Google, Amazon and many other companies. Right now, with hindsight bias, we feel that the path to capitalizing on open source was OBVIOUS - it wasn't. Cloud computing wasn't a thing when Ballmer was in power - an existential crisis for the Microsoft.

The new guy Nadella is no Saint or Altruist. Right now, it's obvious business sense to embrace open source - particularly because of Azure unlike 20 years ago.

People talk about Saint Nadella and forget that Nadella's just taking the glory for Money makers that were started & financed by Ballmer - Xbox, Azure, Office 365, Hololens, Surface Pro, Windows 10...

Google which built its business on open source, embraced open source much early with Chrome & Android. However, they are doing a tactical retreat - butchering those two money makers and making key parts of them proprietary.

If Jobs were still running the show at Apple when he built NextStep, he wouldn't have embraced Unix. At that time, only broke people did open source but now big companies can go broke trying to build everything by themselves.

Just follow the money and most people are easy to understand. Google won't stop spying on people because of money. And Apple will join the fray once the financial guys can prove that they'll make more money selling customer's data.
Your “thoughts” are applying his solution to the wrong problem. “Start small and stay small” I’m not sure what that even means. Are you saying every service has to grow to some size or required amount of compute? LOL

The 100ms extra time is nothing. I mean - are you trying to solve at Google or Amazon scale?

I run simple Lambdas that read from some SNS topics, apply some transforms and add metadata to the message, and route it somewhere else. I get bursts of traffic at specific peak times. That’s the use case and it works well. The annoying part is Cloud Formation templates but that’s another topic.
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I mean the same thing happened to Orwell. He was a democratic socialist who literally went to war with the fascists in Spain but people think Animal Farm is meant to be a rebuke of communism generally (and not Stalinism specifically).
I think they had problems due to 737-max being grounded.
An essay I wrote about 'packing as a meditation', and how it's turning into a ritual and protocol with the rigours of regular travel.
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If you mean with similar on-chain guarantees, do you have a source? Haven't seen anything like it.
I don't think he's suggesting sock puppets as much as employees using their personal accounts, which I don't think is the same.
But then you have to deal with their 8th grade writing skills.
Oh no, no curators! Whatever will we do..?!
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The Onavo thing alone sounds utterly insane to me. I often think criticisms of Facebook and similar companies are overblown, personally, but Facebook really should have, at the least, faced as many repercussions as Volkswagen did for their deceit, if the facts are correct.

>One area of focus for the FTC is Onavo, an Israeli mobile-analytics startup that Facebook purchased in 2013. Onavo offered a free mobile app that described itself as a way to “keep you and your data safe” by creating a virtual private network. To do this, the company redirected internet traffic on Onavo to Facebook’s servers, which allowed it to log every action in a central database.

>That enabled Facebook to quietly track what users did on their phones, including which apps they used and for how long, the Journal reported in 2017. Onavo data was frequently cited in internal research and strategy decks

>At one point, Facebook—through Onavo—was able to see Snap data as specific as the number of messages a user sent or how much time those users spent in specific Snapchat features, the former employees said. Facebook couldn’t see the content of the messages or images. The visibility into Snap usage lessened considerably after Snap encrypted its app traffic.

>A Facebook spokeswoman said the app was similar to other industry market research tools.

Facebook literally published MitM (technically "MitMo") malware disguised as a VPN security app so it could intercept all unencrypted network traffic and record user actions, in part so they could spy on competing apps (and also, presumably, to spy on everything you do to serve you more ads and sell your behavioral data). This is exactly what spyware-distributing criminal organizations with front companies do, as documented by threat intelligence firms.

If this actually is similar to any other industry "market research tools", as they claim, the entire industry is fucked. If you bought a home security camera and later found out it was secretly sending back everything it saw and heard so they could sell the video and audio to advertising firms, causing the banner ads you come across to be tailored to your observed food, TV, and sexual preferences, the uproar would undoubtedly put them out of business. But Facebook can just quietly shut things down once there's negative press, and move on like it never happened. Snap is 100% in the right for compiling all of this info on "Voldemort".
Succumbed to the political biases/fake news of this country. Too bad as Chef did not have to say anything or do anything. Where was the outrage under previous admins? hypocrisy x10

I for one, do not support Chef and will never use their product as Ansible is better anyways.
Thanks for digging out the links on Doreen, pocketed both.

But am I reading GP wrong that it wasn't constructionist education proper that failed, but a "let's do things with laptops" being retconned onto constructivism?