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Tooling

To extract source code from latex requires a 170 line C program. It runs in less than a microsecond. A simple Makefile stanza looks like

all:

pdflatex file.tex

tangle file.tex >file.c

gcc -o file file.c

and, by magic, my PDF ivewer updates with the latest file changes, source and/or code. And, by magic, I have a running program.

And all I had to do was type 'make'
Feel free to ping me on twitter (@hediet_dev) if you got stuck with typescript on your next project!
The thing is that the faux-beef burgers are good, but different. I don't see them as being a beef replacement as much as another choice of food available. Many fast food restaurants offer other options beyond beef, like chicken, pork, and fish burgers. People also love those options, but beef remains a viable industry regardless. The faux-meat industry has a lot of potential to be viable, but it is not clear why that it is at the cost of another industry. There is room for both.
QTKit was deprecated, and support for objective-C garbage collection, once praised as the future, was removed altogether.
Trouble is maybe 10% don't have a sense of humour / don't get it and they downvote more than the others up it.
The pressures at play here have more to do with cronyism and politics than capitalism.

They can charge what they want because: no competition.

There is no competition because the regulators have decreed that the lack of competition constitutes competition in their view.
The Gentleperson's Guide to Forum Spies (2012)
For what it’s worth, cable companies are the rare exception in American consumerism in that there is very little competition. I wouldn’t regard this as emblematic.

EDIT: I’d really like to know why folks are downvoting this.
Sometimes they sound like smart words used to deflect people from the issue that some products and services shouldn't be on the market if they waste so much of their inputs. There needs to be extra pressure applied to reduction of waste all across the supply chain.
Switzerland is one of the best planned country in world
Literate revision management

Ummm, seriously? You don't put a changelog in a literate program. That's what git is for.

Just like your driving instructor doesn't teach you about cars by reading the mechanics comments... changed right front brake. changed the oil.

You're making a "category error".
Yeah, looks like a high probability of electronics in the hat.
Full disclosure: I'm a sql & emacs geek so that may warp my views on interfaces. I suspect there are a lot of features that are used by no more than 5-10% of users, but we'd scream bloody murder if they were taken away. No two of my heavy Calibre user friends use exactly the same set of features and we're always swapping tricks. Calibre does a decent job for so many use cases that I'm not sure there's any way to have a completely coherent UI that covers them all. That doesn't mean it's not krufty and occasionally frustrating, but I've no exaggeration never seen an alternative that did even 20% of what I wanted.

Calibre can seem pretty overgrown and I used for years without missing features like search-based virtual libraries, but now an ebook management app that doesn't let me slice and dice with that kind of power. For me it's a mix of how easy it is switching between tabbed views like new last 30 days, unread (custom tag automatically added on import), various reading lists from the Reading List plugin, author sets I tend to read together, missing metadata, etc. and the composability of virtual libraries.

When you combine virtual libraries with the slightly misleadingly named FanFicFare plugin's metadata it's a lot easier to keep track of both original[1] & fan fictions from dozens of sites (out of several hundred supported) and separate it out from regular books. Similarly the Reading List & Import List plugins are great for pulling in info from outside calibre, but they need a lot of the features that people generally ignore to do their jobs.

On the flip side most people don't seem to use multiple real libraries and they are great for topic-specific book collections or when I really don't want to see a book again, but don't want to just delete it.

Even simple things like being able to arbitrarily color column text based on filters I ignored until I realized lets me set the titles of all books missing a description red. It makes cleaning up my library easier, but nothing else I've tried has a similar features.

[1] https://github.com/JimmXinu/FanFicFare/wiki/SupportedSites
It's the only thing that makes reading fiction from spacebattles.com not soul-destroyingly annoying.
A car going at 1mph can kill you. Hit and runs, speeding... that's something else entirely.
> Installing one of the few big & trusted third party stores should not require me to go through the same warnings as getting an APK from some random third party page.

Honestly I think there should be a distinction between normal permissions and permissions required to install other APKs.

AND I think it should be more cumbersome to install an APK that wants permission to install other APKs.
The other point, that the article fails to mention, is that oftentimes these providers have local monopolistic markets where the opportunity for consumers to choose a competitive provider are nonexistent.

That allows them to increase fees 600%. I would dump Comcast in a heartbeat if I had an alternative. Their service is unstable and inconsistent in my area and we are forced to pay very high rates.
I suspect that fb is dialing back their ambitions with libra, to something that is more like a regular money transfer service. PayPal and other partners would naturally be less interested in that; it’s just more competition.
Now, there are separate issues here - the limit of banking for "bad actors" (terrorists, hate speech, democracy activists...).

That is mostly happening through the proper channels, that is the police and the judicial system do the policing and the legislative system makes the rules.

That in itself isn't a safeguard against abuse - but the other aspect is the privatization of utilities, and self-moderation that these companies do.

In between is the credit rating system, which allows for pretty arbitrarily denying banking services to individuals.

Still, if you are paid in a regulated currency, you still have an option to use cash. An access to legal tender.

With something like Libra, a private corporation, with a horrible track record wrt complaints/customer service can vanish your money because a friend shared a picture on your "wall", or some other entirely arbitrary thing that leads to account suspension.

You don't have to go out of your way to purchase fertilizer, diesel and nails - you could do a million different completely innocent things and still be locked out of your money - with no real recourse - including a viable legal recourse.
It's important, in my view, to not only study but to sincerely experiment and eventually embody the teachings. I also read the Upanishads and the Dhammapada often to get the full message of Vedanta and living in accordance with Dharma.

I also study Greek and Egyptian wisdom, it's amazing how much overlap there is when you put all of them side by side.

I've spent a good deal of my 20's exploring the American National Parks and Native American plant medicines, the end result brought me closer to Dharma too.

This will be a lifelong study and metanoia is an ongoing process as I transform lead (anger, lust, greed, pride, vanity, sloth, etc) into gold (peace, love, creativity, humility, earnestness, etc).

Working for the welfare of all by creating economic value for them that is rooted in empathy is, in my opinion, the wisest way forward for capitalism.
Check out the movies - The Manchurian Candidate and The Game.
Because McDonald's can hide profits in other items.

The $0.99 burger is a loss leader to get you to buy the $1.00 soft drink. Soft drinks are have incredibly high margins.
When I lived in Santa Monica it was pretty frustrating they used my taxes to subsidize homes for cars and not people.
What to do about CVE numbers
I really would like an alternative to Shenzhen for cheap manufacturing. Does anyone here have experience with factories located elsewhere?
> Imagine being unable to buy food because an algorithm determined that “you violated our community standards” and there’s no way to contact them. One or two stories like that will kill Libra stone dead.

This is basically what happens in real life too. There are people that cannot buy food because "they violated community standards". This Libra thing is totally aligned with the world!
Main use case I have is to side load a tethering app because the carriers have monopolized that functionality into one solution with a rediculous fee in the app stores. Cannot stop me from side loading though on Android.
Apple may initially have intended Carbon as temporary, but has changed their stance when they started adding new APIs that never existed in MacOS 9 - HIView/HIWindow was intended to unify Carbon and Cocoa, there was even a 64 buy version of Carbon that shipped in Mac OS betas, and when Retina-Display Hardware shipped, Carbon received new APIs to deal with that.

Likewise, Cocoa in 10.0 was buggy and incomplete. It took until about 10.4, 10.5 for Cocoa to reach feature parity with Carbon and many Cocoa applications were using Carbon for certain features (in facts, last time I checked, Cocoa menus were implemented in Carbon).
Very enjoyable short read. Almost as soon as Oppenheimer Trinity test was a success, Leslie Groves drove him out, revoked his security clearance, called him a communist and he suffered greatly as a result. Oppenheimer lost many of his friends and his career. Because he was portrayed as a communist he found it difficult to get a job or even get invited to conferences. A very sad end for such a great man. One can only gaze in awe at his career, his accomplishments. He even made an important contribution to General Relativity with Harvard graduate student Ryan Snyder that a collapsing star would indeed form a black hole according to GR. Whatever else could be said of him, He certainly fulfilled his Dharma.
Wendy’s, Carl Jrs, Burger King, local places that sell quality burgers.

Remember people only choose McDonalds because of the consistent quality, for whatever definition of “quality” you want to ascribe to them, and low cost.
Can still be tracked in the same way other zero knowledge proof cryptos can be.
It always interests me how we discount the ideas of “tinfoil” people because they are “tinfoil” people.

If we take some radical examples, Snowden proved what we all assumed was possible- if you had said what he proved then people would have assumed you were a tinfoil hatter.

And how many times was Stallman proved correct? Even I considered him too much, but he’s also often right.
The number of digits of the possible interactions between the atoms is still proportional to the number of atoms.
I have Comcast in 2 states and the bills are very simple they charge me X amount for both, the same rate I agreed to when the plan started, and 0 extra fees.

Here's where things get complicated. The city I used to live in charged AT&T a municipal telecom tax of $1.25 when I moved the fee went away and I've since changed to Comcast. If I look at my cellphone bill I see a $0.11 tax for the state, and $0.06 for the county.

Remember you can tax at the federal/state/county/city level in the US. I used to work at a restaurant in the city limits that had a small percentage tax on alcohol, if you walk across the street its no longer in the city limits thus no excise tax.

I don't envy the programmer who has to make all this happen.
So, eliminate on street parking.
MIT Probabilistic Computing Project Reading List
> Ted Kaczynski, a domestic terrorist known as the Unabomber, was said to be a subject of a voluntary psychological study alleged by some sources to have been a part of MKUltra.[95][96][97] As a sophomore at Harvard, Kaczynski participated in a study described by author Alton Chase as a "purposely brutalizing psychological experiment", led by Harvard psychologist Henry Murray.[98][99] In total, Kaczynski spent 200 hours as part of the study.[100]
Modern features in programming languages

I love the thought that we're "modern". But we still use the pile-of-sand (POS) style of organization, putting semantics is directory names (e.g. src, inc, lib, and the always empty "doc" directory).

And then we REALLY communicate all the semantics you needs with filenames... like parser.c SINTECX.ml or DONR.xlp

Books have built-in semantics. You know chapters, sections, paragraphs, table of contents, index, table of equations, figures, images, etc. And now PDFs can hyperlink both internally and externally.

Organize your code the way you organize your thoughts.
The descriptions of what went down there are almost too much to read, this is some straight up dr. Mengele shit.

Most interestingly:

The researchers involved in Unit 731 were secretly given immunity by the U.S. in exchange for the data they gathered through human experimentation... More reading at [0]

While further down the linked article is written:

There was consensus among U.S researchers in the postwar period that the human experimentation data gained was of little value to the development of American biological weapons and medicine. Postwar reports have generally regarded the data as "crude and ineffective", with one expert even deeming it "amateurish".

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_cover-up_of_Japanes...
Between this and the MKUltra post also on the front page today, I have to wonder if OP spent their Friday night watching Adam Curtis documentaries.
This is pretty much only true for cable companies. For the most part, we have lots and lots of competition, and things are generally more affordable here than in Europe (and salaries are quite a lot higher as well, even factoring in the social services that Europeans enjoy).
Trump is fighting Huawei for control of the global computer-chip industry
Customer Acquisition Fund -- Google will spend its money to solve your problems using Google infrastructure if you spend the money on the Google infrastructure so you become a customer.
Living in the Bay Area and knowing how far workers have to commute for that job - because they’ve been priced out of the area - is something I’m willing to pay to the extent that money is going to the workers.
What’s wrong with oils though? And if canola is bad why can’t they switch it out for olive oil?
I would argue that the DNA paper by W&C was an ironclad unimpeachable argument-ending fact. The nice thing is that you could take their structure, run it forward through the scattering algorithm, and see that the simulated data looked identical to the measured data. Further, the simple prediction the paper made (that duplex DNA could form a template for DNA replication) turned out to be so audaciously true...

(I could quibble and say the W&C structure is technically wrong, because it was done in non-physiological conditions, and subsequent studies did find very minor structural details for B-DNA when done correctly...)
We’ll know more if Soviet stuff shows up or not.
Test-Driven Development

"Literate programming has never provided a convincing story about how it would co-exist with today’s test-centric priorities."

What nonsense. You can inline tests as well as code (which I do) and you can have an appendix (or multiple) that contains whole categories of tests. In fact, test cases are excellent for explaining how a function is expected to be called and show cases where it will fail.
> would you rather have your money be regulated by your local government and the governments of those you wish to trade with, or would you rather have your money be regulated by Facebook?

This is a false dichotomy: blockchain tech makes it clear that a third possibility is emerging - one which relies on no central authority at all, be it state or corporate.
The US love hidden fees. After being charged an “Urban” and “Resort” fee that was not advertised I learned that there seems to be neither regulation nor interest in requiring a customer to be presented with the final price on advertisements. It’s bizarre.
Virtual Reality Exercise Ratings – VR Institute of Health and Exercise
Not to challenge your assertion but I really am interested in any additional info you can point me to on this. Thanks.
Was this person put on trial for those crimes?
Speed of change

What? You can add spiffy new features to your code so quickly that you can't even explain that they are there, let alone how to use them?
The trillion dollars says you can behave like that on a large platform (iOS), but not much of that trillion dollars comes from the Mac, a comparatively small platform, does it?
And "The Men Who Stare at Goats": https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1234548/
Robot helps doctors perform heart surgery remotely
Well, in a lot of places, they still keep us as customers, it's just that we become cable internet customers instead of cable television customers.

I wish there were better alternatives in the area, as I pay a lot more than I'd like to each month just for mostly reliable internet. I can't use satellite because I need it to be up even during storms, as I work from home.
Still used today at Guantanamo bay.
They were great for audiobooks though[1], because they have a physical place marker that doesn't reset when it's removed from the player (unlike CDs), they have fairly high capacity, it's easy to rewind or fast forward, they're easy to jam into the car radio without looking while driving (unlike CDs), and they can kick around a car without getting scratched (unlike CDs).

Audio quality isn't super, but it's fine for spoken word.

Oh, and unrelated to audiobooks, making self-recordings is dead easy. I have a copy of a cassette from the late 1960s of my 10-year old uncle singing a hymn before he died the following year, and I have the same of my brother from the early 2000s before he died this year. I treasure these recordings, which probably wouldn't exist if recording wasn't as simple as popping a blank cassette in and hitting the record button—unlike, say, burning a CD. So while I don't use cassettes anymore (they've all been digitized), I still think it's a great format.

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1 - Which might be why they continued to be used for audiobooks until the early- or mid-2000s.
Likely because these types of anecdotal accounts get no press coverage.
Install this "Redirector" add-on for your respective browser.

Then create a new redirect:

EDIT: Sorry, I got the include and redirect reversed. You need to redirect censored domain to uncensored domain.

Include Pattern:

*.wikipedia.org/*

Redirect to: $1.0wikipedia.org/$2

Pattern type: wildcard

Example URL is just for testing. Use any 0wikipedia URL.

I use this too, but for distraction avoidance. Any addictive website is redirected to my todo page :)

[1]: https://einaregilsson.com/redirector/
Then go define your software developer purchasing power parity index.

Such economic measures are complex, and if you want to see a single number for a country, that number should be representative for everything and everyone
Location: Berlin, Germany

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During my time i gathered exprience in several tools and methodologies like Scrum, Kanban, Google design sprint, story mapping workshops, Product field etc.

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Should I learn [insert language]?
Good design and type safety in Yahtzee
As I said, one atom per digit is not really natural. Just two atoms could encode an infinite number of numbers, by measuring their distance. Well except quantum physics might get in the way, not allowing us to measure with arbitrary precision. But that would be another argument.

Another argument would perhaps be the energy required to do the computation. Maybe that relates more directly to the number of atoms in the universe, via Einstein's equation?
Safari on iPadOS as well.
Hygieia is a devops dashboard aggregator
Agility

When you check in a piece of code, it should NOT pass code review without at least a paragraph or two about why this code exists and what it is intended to do.

It makes no sense to drag 6 people into a code review without them knowing this information. So write it down.

Magically, one could extract all of those paragraphs and their code into a literate program.

You want quality? THIS is how you get quality.
I suspect the $0.99 burger still isn't a loss leader.
A credit to https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=salawat for mentioning this in a thread.

Resource here features the following lovely topics:

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That Wikipedia article is a train wreck in shock journalism.

As documented as the material is, the current state is basically just a pile of descriptions of attrocities committed. With many duplicated.

Compare to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust

I'd guess because no one wants to spend their time reading primary sources about something so terrible, and straightening it out.
Can Sentiment Analysis Reveal Structure in a Plotless Novel?
I hope it helps. Any comments are appreciated.
It is debatable, has been debated by the courts and settled: you have a right to freely travel, but there is no right to use any particular mode of transportation without government regulation.

This is why sovcits who are “traveling in commerce” without license and insurance always lose their “legal” arguments. Because the issue is settled - there is no constitutional right to drive a car.
Your card isn't your account, just an avenue to getting at the money in your account, so it's not quite the same. I can go into a bank branch, or log into online banking and still access my money. I can also go into a branch or phone my bank and get my card unblocked.

In all cases where my bank has blocked my card, they've been contactable (24/7), though to be honest, they've always contacted me in less than a minute after my card has been blocked, so I've never had to do this. I'm in the UK for reference, as I know experience will vary from bank to bank and place to place, as you've already identified.

In the case of Libra, you have no recourse if Facebook decide to block your account. You just have to hope that someday your case will be reviewed. Paypal seem to be just as bad, so it's not only Facebook who would have this problem, but I also avoid Paypal for that same reason.
The Church committee hearing documented a lot of this stuff so it is proven in that sense. Another question is whether these techniques actually work in the sense that you can hypnotise someone to commit a murder using lsd or something. Probably not is my guess.
Next week: PayPal announces Pal, the cryptocurrency for friends.
Netflix and Chill: Crimes Against Humanity
(Quoting:) > Isn't that exactly what technology enables?

'Ways of living with no additional 'customer-effort' ?'

Yeah, I see now what you're getting at.

^^
It shouldn't be surprising, because the Graham's Number is all about applying those indirections recursively into more indirections.
Does it offer any user visible improvements or is it only a compiler internal improvement?
This seems like a nice embezzlement scheme to me. It’s just going to be a way for bankers and con artists to steal money from the government.