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> think the idea rests on the notion that the stars all obey the same physical laws and are made of the same types of atoms, but that the timing of the motion of atoms in distant stars is not synchronized with our own.

yes, we get that. The idea that this somehow causes "you won't see it" ... well it's an idea.

An idea found in new-age mysticism.

It's not science of any kind.
https://xkcd.com/723/
Can post-Brexit London remain the hub for European startups?
lol, username. I loved you at one point and had to give you up.
but that the timing of the motion of atoms in distant stars is not synchronized with our own

What is this "synchronised timing" of which you speak? Atoms in distant stars move in some way that is fundamentally different to movement of atoms in nearby stars, but that movement isn't different in space, but in time? This makes no sense.

On the face of it "synchronised in time" means "contemporary". If the argument is that I can only experience the present, and that I can't interact with the past or the future (although light emitted in the past that reaches me in the present is of course on the table), that seems true but not really very relevant.
At times my friend it helps to drop the script and actually read what is said.
Maybe it works in your english codebase, but I'd be very hesitant about rolling it out everywhere. For example, Perl 6 supports unicode in identifiers so it's perfectly valid to write your code in Japanese. Another increasingly common example I've seen in python is the use of emoji in command line tools.
Yep. Two phones hacked already, could be a us-based three letter or could be something else. Can find the hacking only because of transperancy into some components of the network, but certainly that does not include my phone...

Just another ant on the ant hill, the only difference is that I was able to identify that I had compromised security (with the phone)...

I want to go all the way down the rabbit hole & can hardly wait for the lebrim 5.

“Those that would give up a little liberty for security deserve neither liberty, nor security”- my attitude is those who were spying on me can go screw themselves!
Nice clickbait. Full title of the article:

> Daily blue-light exposure shortens lifespan and causes brain neurodegeneration in Drosophila

Drosophila are fruit flies. File under "interesting, but likely not applicable to mammals".

EDIT: From front page to flagged in 32 minutes. That's impressive.
The World’s Longest Direct Flight Takes Off–Clocking in at Nearly 20 Hours
If you are a human and not a fly here is what concerns you "... humans are exposed to more blue-enriched LED illumination for most of the day, or even at night due to shift work and light pollution in large cities.6 However, long-term consequences of increased daily blue-light exposure across the human lifespan are not known." saved you a clickbait.
But that stagnation has nothing to do with anything RMS's behavior
The outcry over deaths on Amazon's warehouse floor
> “highly-secure solid state digital storage solution”

So not just any thumb drive, an expensive thumb drive.
> I think of that as a statistical technique, not an ML one

Many ML techniques are statistical techniques, not ML. If we go down this road.
It more or less has in mammals... though it's kind of swung the other way. Sunlight is required to produce Vitamin D, which it turns out is pretty darn important.

The catch is that most people don't get enough sunlight exposure to produce enough vitamin D.
But the topic is safe uptime for a computer connected to the internet. I have no doubt a mainframe has a chance to reach 30+ years of lifetime but I also have no doubt it'd also be done for if attacked.
As I understand it, we don't know how Bach tuned his keyboard instruments. We know he cared about tuning and tuned his own instruments, but apparently there are reasons to believe that he didn't use equal temperament.

Bradley Lehman has a bizarre theory, which you could look up if you're interested. I am not qualified to have an opinion on whether it's a good theory.
That's literally what I do to myself though.

I'm limited to empty calories because of money and digestion/insulin-spiking reasons. Because the latter is hard, I went keto again since yesterday, and literally starve my body into accepting ketogenesis and glucogenesis as the primary energy pathways for the brain cells.

The hard part is a near total shunning of (metabolically useful) carbohydrates. This is however rewarded by a near total lack of importance regarding meal timing. Aminoacids and electrolytes are the only macronutrients I have to balance needs with intake on a timescale of less than a week. After that there are vitamins, and calories in the shape of triglycerides only need to balance enough to prevent structural fat from being fed to brain and muscles and to prevent irreversible tissue stretching from gaining weight too fast (and practically also to ensure jeans etc. fit properly).
I figure that so few people read commit messages that in most part of time this is kind of useless. Specially in an early stage of a project. Things will change as faster as I can type a message such as this.

Code is simple. Humans overthink.
I would prefer a commit message such as: "Fix invalid byte sequence in US-ASCII when running bundle exec rspec." than a dev that keep stucked trying to write a cool message and never fix the issue.
Contributor here - Cortex supports Tensorflow saved models in addition to ONNX. PyTorch support is on the roadmap. Do you have specific frameworks in mind that you would like Cortex to support?
The only issue I have with that is there may be other engines which are not electric but could still provide the same benefits.
I hate lootboxes but I'm on the fence about making regulations around random prizes.

Are Happy Meals gambling? Crackerjacks? Baseball cards?

You receive 1 out of n items, most undesirable but a few rare things that kids want.

In hindsight, I liked the way Everquest 1 did their loot. The jackpot almost always included something highly desirable to someone that had not farmed the encounter. Especially in contrast to some games that give all shit except you have a 0.02% chance of getting the good stuff.
Does anybody who is familiar with the BSDs know how those OSes solve this kind of problem? (I don't know enough to say if this even could be a problem with their architecture, just curious).
Here’s another that kills me every time, I want to compose where I know types are mismatched and I am okay with a runtime fault downstrean.

This is hugely powerful to move very fast in, eg, REPL-driven development environment where you build and verify pieces of code incrementally.

Not being able to do this is a enormous productivity killer, relative to say a dynamic/Clojure.
While humerous this comment is way to verbose. We prefer the following template >

Issue: What is the problem we are attempting to fix

Cause: What is the root cause of the issue, since with bug
reports this is usually much different then the random musings of the reporter

Fix: How does the commit address the cause.

Each of these should be 1-3 brief lines
I don't mean the religion, I mean the ultraconservative political ideology and its hold on society.
How guilty do I feel? It depends on the day you ask me.

If you ask me when I am feeling like a pessimist, then I don't feel great about it. My attitude is that we're 7 billion all living under one bedsheet and guilting the people who pass gas. Eventually we will all suffocate. Living as though humanity needs palliative care is disturbing. It might be the most realistic, but I can't process it every day.

If you ask me when I am feeling like an optimist, then morbidly, I feel that we have embraced driving over a cliff, but that while we are airborne, we might design wings, test them, and learn to fly before plummeting to our deaths.

If you ask me when I am feeling like a cynic, then someone is going to bioengineer a population reducer, and 1% of us will inherit the earth before 2100. That would also solve the problem, but I won't get to be around to enjoy it.

Here's the rub, none of these require me to do anything differently. Now tell me how I can add a fourth option that I can genuinely believe has some reasonable metric for improving our chances. I'm having such a hard time finding it, and I think that people like me, left to compound their depressed thoughts, invariably turn into the enemy on this global effort. Anyone, please?
Yes. As is convention, commit messages should be a one line header, then and empty line an a body (if necessary).

The whole thing should be width limited to 80 or 100 characters.

And the subject line should complete the sentence "If this commit is applied, it will...". It should start with a capital letter, then move to lowercase, and necessarily will start with a verb.
We wrote a bit about how we build a TS monorepo with Bazel on our company's blog [1] if that can be helpful

[1] https://dataform.co/blog/typescript-monorepo-with-bazel/
Probabilistic Model-Agnostic Meta-Learning
>Dairy actually has hormones called caso-morphines that bind to the same brain receptors as I believe heroine (of course not as potent).
So it's addictive in nature

So is the following plant-based foods

Gluten exorphin (from gluten found in cereals wheat, rye, barley)
Gliadorphin/gluteomorphin (from gluten found in cereals wheat, rye, barley)
Soymorphin-5 (from soybean)
Rubiscolin (from spinach)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opioid_peptide#Opioid_food_pep...
Those who believe in the big bang say that there was an inflationary epoch during which particles traveled faster than light - just like the Standard Model virtual particles within collider experiments which temporarily violate conservation of energy. Then, all of a sudden, for no discernible reason, we are supposed to believe that the laws of physics suddenly changed and everything that happened since must travel at less than the speed of light. Wild story. I saw Andre Linde tell it in a SLAC conference room when I was just a child. I've since been amazed by how much sand castle empire building resulted from this lark. Some of those who founded the theory have since abandoned it.
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/physicist-s...
The man who stood by it won the 2019 Nobel Prize (James Peebles). Loyalty to the group pays off.
This really just depends on your team/company/culture.

Lengthy commit messages are not really required if you have associated tickets in a bug-tracking or project-management system. More often than not, you'll just be duplicating info.
Somewhat terrifying to imagine what the military is going to do with coordinated drone swarms. Like a smart cluster bomb with no wasted explosions. I suppose, though, less unexploded munitions laying around afterwards.
Hey bro, go pick on someone else's calories, getting calories from cake is the same as avocados. It's all cals in cals our right?
Yeah, I was coming to say it can be done right, and that's your point too. If you spend the time to put what a thing does, why it does it, and how it does it, with meaningful hyperlinks to related things, then the auto-collected docs can be really slick.

Maybe "auto-collected" is a better term for this than "auto-generated". I agree that auto-generated docs almost by definition don't add much. But if you go in and write narrative and have it get nicely collected into a slick hyperlinked webpage by things like doxygen and Sphinx, then that's great.
Straightforward? :D
Being proud of not having patched a network device for 15 years is a great way to get in contact with security and HR at my company. I can't imagine thinking it's a great thing to go and brag about on the internet lol, different worlds.
I've seen go code fail to compile because a closing } was on the next line and there wasn't a trailing comma. I'd fully expect a formatter to handle that kind of minutiae for me.
Smartphones help people do more. Why would anyone buy one to do less is not that clear to me.
Why are they using us-ascii instead of UTF-8?
I bet you're using Python and Perl indirectly, because lots of Ubuntu's tools are written in those languages.
> I always thought that the Windows API help, especially those around Win3.1/95 had one of the better approaches for an API/library

You might be right but I don't remember being impressed with Microsoft's documentation. Half the time if was missing APIs for common useful tasks (there was a big community around demoing undocumented APIs -- granted some were genuinely only intended for internal use but there were some APIs that really should have been documented but weren't) and some of the example code Microsoft did publish was next to useless.

There was one occasion when I was teaching myself DDE (anyone else remember that?) and the example looked a bit weird because the example application would launch and call itself. "ok," I thought, "I'm obviously missing some logic when reading through. Maybe I should just run it to test it's behaviour." Five minutes later I was forced to reboot after my suspicions were confirmed -- their official DDE example was literally just a fork bomb. Well done Microsoft /s

However I did learn a valuable lesson that day: never trust example code.
> It is coming for sure, I have not forgoten about it, I just have a private life to take care of, you know?

I was thinking you'd look at it before writing your next 25 comments, but it seems I was wrong. So I'll just wait, it's fine.

> The 21st century React Native for Windows is written on top of COM/C++

From a skim I could find exactly zero mentions of COM/C++ stuff in there. Sure, this RN might sit on a pile of stuff that has COM buried underneath. That doesn't mean that COM is a necessity to do this React stuff, and not even that it's a good design from a developer's perspective.

You give zero ideas what's a good idea about COM. Just buzzwords and links to stuff and more stuff, with no relation obvious to me.

If you actually have to go through the whole COM boilerplate and the abominations to build a project with COM, just to connect to a service, because some people thought it wasn't necessary to provide a simple API (connect()/disconnect()/read_next_event()) then the whole thing isn't so funny anymore.
I blame processed foods and all the additional additives and ingredients. Foods have dozens of ingredients now. Simpler foods are better for people. Count ingredients AND calories. Plastic packaging, nonstick chemicals, and antibiotics are also to blame. Plastic and nonstick chemicals change your hormones. Antibiotics kill gut bacteria and make your digestive system absorb more energy. But of course, all of these things are making the few rich at the expense and health of the many. I think sugar and sedentary lifestyles also contribute, but to a lesser extent, and are jut easy scapegoats.

There was an article by The Atlantic that covered this a few years ago. I linked it in a previous comment somewhere, but can’t find it at the moment. Basically, there was a study that controlled for exercise and calories intake and showed even adjusting for that, people weigh 10% more than in the 1980s and 20% more than the 1950s. So exercise and calories aren’t the entire cause.
A Nazi Version of DDT Was Forgotten. Could It Help Fight Malaria?
True, the environment change was a big one.

But otherwise many codebases do move up Lua versions (outside of LuaJit), it's not a Python 3 "wait 10 years", Perl 6 "Wait 20 years" situation/
Can you link to the project?
If you are truly doing an apples to apples comparison here, I suspect you’re using a struct subset of your dynamic language. Otherwise I can’t see how the addition of a rule-based static-check pass filter gets you faster.

What are the two static & dynamic languages you’re comparing by the way?
Just off the top of my head, test cases would be a valid reason to have non-ASCII in your codebase.
Looking at the great circles Honolulu is probably fine, however there may be other issues than the location.
> What is this "synchronised timing" of which you speak?

I think this text should help you understand:

https://www.amazon.com/Spiritual-Vibrations-H-P-Blavatsky/dp...

H. P. Blavatsky, 1926
Rules for Developing Safety-Critical Code (2006) [pdf]
> undo the damage from the CO2 that was emitted in the first place.

CO2 is fungible: one CO2 molecule is the same as another. And global warming is a global problem, not a local one so yes, removing one from location A at the same time as creating one at location B is very similar in effects to just not creating it in the first place.

Air travel is one of the few exceptions: altitude has a large effect in the damage caused by a CO2 molecule.

And of course it's not just CO2 that's being reduced when you limit CO2: most of the other pollutants emitted by combustion have very local effects.

> > why aren’t offsets just baked into the price of all air travel?

> Sounds like a carbon tax to me, which I am completely in favour of.

If the carbon tax is below the cost of sequestration a carbon tax is not fully effective: it's still cheaper to pollute than to sequester or offset. A carbon tax above $100 per tonne or so will have the effect you desire: everybody will either reduce or will pay to offset/sequester rather than pay the tax. And if nobody pays, there are no proceeds.
I've read what you've said, it's nonsensical walls of text. You obviously have an axe to grind but don't have the ability to present a compelling argument about it.
It's all about how you define "Agile."

I work in safety critical software, my biggest problem with agile (and other popular development methodologies) has always been that there is too much equivocation and other semantic games by their advocates to turn into something useful to me.

When we have a development tool vendor on site they often ask if we're "waterfall or agile?" I hate this question because the real answer is "neither, but sorta both, and can we just move on because it's not going to fit into your simplistic model of the world?"
I completely agree, and have been banging this drum for years :)
> You foster a team environment when you find ways for every one to care for/after every other one, in the perspective of the group (because the group cares for each part of itself, and each part cares about the group).

Basically this only exists if all the profits the group makes are shared equally between members. (if not all profits are shared, like being employed by an organization that takes a cut, the group will care enough to leave and form their own organization)
> Why is documentation standard so low?

Even in companies where good documentation would raise revenue in a way that the sales team notices[1], someone still needs to write it and someone still needs to make the business case for writing it.

Engineers could, but many don't. If you're passionate about good documentation, but don't think you can deliver, it would be foolish to unless someone else is doing the writing.

I'm a bit of an extreme case, but Many engineers feel so incredibly uncomfortable with writing prose that they avoid it. Why? The standard of writing education for STEM-minded people is low. Why? Writing education in high school is focused on literary analysis essays rather than on learning to describe facts and systems with vibrant clarity.

[1] https://getputpost.co/overhauling-api-docs-with-gocardless-9...
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Anecdote: At age 14, my school had poster which listed the professions one could use mathematics in. Someone pitched us on how much need there was for people who could program. Shop classes and science classes had assignments which were miniature versions of problems we could see in the real world. Nobody did this for literary analysis. I didn't know how to ask "why are we doing this?" other than as a snotty teenager saying "Hey english teacher! Justify why your life's work has meaning." In reality, I wanted to say "I'm having trouble getting oriented around this subject. I'm having trouble understanding what it means to make progress or make something good. Can you help me?"

I searched for writing advice devoured works like Politics and the English Language and Strunk and White. But they just helped me get better at editing, not at putting thoughts onto a blank page.

Anecdote: At age 17, I told my English Literature teacher that I wanted to write really good physics tutorials. She looked confused at me and said "Why? Thats so boring." At age 17, I didn't have the self-confidence to persist to find a different teacher who would be interested in that.

Anecdote: At age 20, in an engineering university, I knew that I struggled with getting the first draft of an essay done. I went to the writing center at my school. But I never built a good workflow with them for how to get the first-draft-writing process. I didn't know how to learn to write without an anxiety so strong that I felt compelled to dig my nails into my skin. I didn't know how to ask professors or TAs for help. I accepted that writing was just staring at the paper until my eyes bled. I wasn't going to learn to write. I endured my required writing classes. hoped that once I graduated, I might be able to work in a way to

Anecdote: At age 29, I had to quit a visa-sponsoring software engineering job and very quickly find a new one, because of my failures with writing first drafts interacted with a business process for immigration-law compliance.

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I've now found two coaches and plan to spend this Saturday working on a first draft of a blog post and trying some of their strategies. Wish me luck.
That was a prion disease. They were actively being stupid to try to save a quid and are still being punished in the markets for it.

It is like putting crocodiles in hotel rooms up an elevator or a foot high stack of stairs - too steep for them to climb on their own. If crocodiles eat people then it is clearly the fault of the people who put crocodiles in the hotel rooms in the first place because they couldn't get there on their own as they are aquatic ground clingers.
> few people read commit messages

That very much varies. In a project where 90% of commits are “fix”, “foo”, “commit”, etc. then yes. Nobody will ever read that (or do pretty much anything else useful with a VCS).

On the other hand, when every commit message is on the level, the yes, people do read them. Actually, first step when investigating any problem or trying to understand some code is to look at the commit log.

See e.g. Linux kernel or some of the Google-related open source projects (chromium, webrtc, etc.) for examples of good, long-form commit messages.
Python developers: you can now make teaching tutorials in Jupyter notebooks and have them get automatically executed during the documentation build process and converted into theme-matching HTML by Sphinx with an extension [1]. I fired it up the other day and it's really glorious for tutorials. They're guaranteed to be up to date when you build the docs. Before that, I had a unit test that ran the tutorial with comments all over both the doc and the test that said YOU HAVE TO UPDATE THE OTHER IN SYNC!

[1] https://nbsphinx.readthedocs.io/
Noticed that too, all the animations seem to be heavyweight.
On long flights, I wish they would give me a job to do while on the plane, helping the stewards pick up trash, cleaning the toilets ... anything, just so I could move like a normal human being is supposed to.

There should be a program where they can train people you as a cabin steward 'aide' or something.

(I know I know it would be impossible because of: regulations, safety, security, reasons ...)