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> I just don't see myself using it. Will anyone, and if so for what purpose?

probably everyone if/when ubuntu decides to make this the default, which they probably will, because `sudo apt install coolpoints`
Rural areas are getting 4g. 3g is common, and 2g is even being turned off in some places. 5g will start coming to rural areas soon as some of the options make it more suited to rural areas than 4g. In 10 years we will probably be talking about 6g...
You can TRY to do whatever you want but there is no guarantee you will be successful at it. In many cases, your living situation will actively prevent you from even trying. Not everyone is in a situation to thrive. Some people are fortunate to have been born into, or be given a life full of opportunity, but for many that is not the case.
Indeed. Never thought about whittling out one. Looks like a neat little project when we go camping next summer.
I'm not a native English speaker, can you explain?

I mean, I can see how it would be a problem if you were to mispronounce the 'g' as a 't', but a g and t differ enough that I can't imagine that happening.

Or is there another mispronunciation that I'm missing here?
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> IMO: Energy will never be "too cheap to meter," because someone will always come up with a way to consume lots of cheap energy.

Jevons paradox:

> Economists have observed that consumers tend to travel more when their cars are more fuel efficient, causing a 'rebound' in the demand for fuel.[10] An increase in the efficiency with which a resource (e.g. fuel) is used, causes a decrease in the cost of using that resource when measured in terms of what it can achieve (e.g. travel). Generally speaking, a decrease in the cost (or price) of a good or service will increase the quantity demanded (the law of demand). With a lower cost for travel, consumers will travel more, increasing the demand for fuel. This increase in demand is known as the rebound effect, and it may or may not be large enough to offset the original drop in fuel use from the increased efficiency. The Jevons paradox occurs when the rebound effect is greater than 100%, exceeding the original efficiency gains.[5]

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
I’d do it as it has a lot of neat features. But I’d make sure that laptop had a “large“ (16g or more) amount of ram and a couple cores to spare.
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Seems like they often forget about the 1H
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Incognito gets you around this. I know it's beside the point. However incognito is the laziest of bypasses to a subscription-wall which tells me Medium aren't really behind it as a strategy anyway.
PDFs are already an open format and the software that you are looking for would take 5 billion dollars of research money to produce. Every PDF is formatted differently.
> At some point in the past 30 years thought could have been given to the idea that applications are separate from the platform they run on, but UNIX just doesn't think that way. Everything must be part of the same gigantic Goldberg-esq state so everything can catch fire and burn down at once as soon as there's a conflict of any kind.

this only happens if one isnt aren't managing applications coherently (e.g binary only packages managed haphazardly, like most linux binary packagers)

on systems where there is a clear base+add-ons distinction (e.g. source based ports), these things happen much less often - all packages are built from a coherent source tree, and read only root is often feasable because packages only install reference files into their respective '/usr/share' area and don't muck with the 'real system' in /etc - the latter being an administrative action (e.g. package installation is a separate action from service configuration / execution)
If you were trying WinForms, the designer does not yet work for .NET Core apps. The WPF designer is supposed to work with .NET Core, but there was a bug in it in the first VS release that might have been the cause of your issue[0].

I also had problems doing anything other than toy WPF projects. IMO the .NET Core support for the GUI frameworks is not ready for prime time. Building GUI apps in .NET Framework is still a great experience though.

[0] https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/content/problem/...
Can you post something to back up your claims from a well respected climate scientist?

Benny Peiser (b. 1957) is a UK social anthropologist and AGW denier listed among the Heartland Institute "Global warming experts" despite having no evident expertise in climate science or policy.
https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Benny_Peiser
Of all the reasons to avoid so called social media this is probably the worst. How about the fact that the average person creates unoriginal and bad content or the fact that 99.9% of it is chad and staceys highschool dating simulator for adults? How about the fact that you've read 1984 and you wouldn't let someone limit you to grunting in 280 characters. Oh, and the real kicker -- its become a cringy subculture centered around mob mentality, bad behavior, and shouting down all the other voices as much as possible. Christ! Literally all of it is tightly controlled by corporations/government that invest billions in brain research. Give me a break.
Not if you restrict the dataset to the undesirable domain names, it would be orders of magnitude smaller.
Sadly no...
The actual saying is that everything that an elderly distinguishes scientist has an opinion about is probably possible.

It's a complicated way if saying almost everything is possible so don't believe old dogs who have given up on optimism.
https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/arthur_c_clarke_100793
Ah I see. Perhaps you should check out https://bitcoin.org/en/faq#what-is-bitcoin some of your points are addressed there.
I received an email earlier this week from Meetup. It was an email from the CEO asserting Meetups commitment to the community. Now this. The timing is certainly a commitment alright.

I’d love to build the replacement for this site.
A technique I’ve heard used but never tried is to run a single pass of bubble sort first. If you swap any elements, run quicksort.
I think "non-profits" means something more specific than "community-driven" - if i look at what is included locally, it's stuff with a clear charity/social focus:

https://www.meetup.com/topics/nonprofit/gb/17/london/
AutoSender looks nice, but I'd be wary about data collection. Their privacy policy (https://www.freeramble.com/doc/FreeRamble_Privacy_Policy.htm...) states it's anonymized but days like these I'm not convinced...
With .NET Core 3, you can deploy them standalone, and performance is much improved. So you might have a happy middle ground available now.

And when I say performance is improved, there are two fronts to that. First, the compiler/jit are just better now, core library functions are sped up a ton, so just running ported old .NET Framework code will be a lot faster. But also, C# has added new features in recent years that give you further control over memory usage/layout, and now even SIMD Intrinsics, so the performance ceiling is much higher if you want to optimize your own code.
The Pentagon regularly puts out papers on what they are thinking/doing.
As far as buying lunch my weakness is Japanese curry. There's something addictive about it I just can't pinpoint.

Otherwise a loaf of bread, a block of cheese and fresh ground black pepper and I'm done for the whole week. I'll mix it up occasionally with tomato.

My kids love their avo and will often make their own eggs and avocado on toast for breakfast.
This update brings a lot of improvements. Probably not yet the year of the Linux Desktop, but we are getting where. Thanks to all the devs for their amazing work.
In addition, there is nothing in the article to support the point it's trying to make. Not a single number to compare against. It says "new thing X is bad", while it should be saying "New thing X is worse than old thing Y and here is how that was measured". Otherwise how should I know if a similar article could have been written about how "old thing Y is bad". Surely, humans making decisions about welfare is also error prone and much more resource intensive, and the job of a journalist would be to make the comparison.

I'm interested in facts, not opinions completely lacking in (and separated from) facts.
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Wrenches? Clearly those are bottle openers.

https://miro.medium.com/max/6516/1*yF6s3HG4AY4WAQruLPSmag.jp...
As someone new to the 5G world I'm hearing a lot about health concerns. Can someone please explain to me the actual health concerns? My GF has been talking about it for a while now, but when I looked up health related studies of 5G on google scholar - I didn't get any meaningful hits. Is it a tin foil thing or are there really some concerns?
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I noticed that when I wrote a visulization. Plain quicksort on equal values is by far the slowest.

http://greggman.github.io/doodles/sort.html
(From that article, thanks)

> port the compiler to an early 640MB Windows machine.

Probably meaning a 640 kB MS-DOS machine - the first C++ 'cfront' tapes were going out by 1986, if memory serves.
I go back and forth on the value of a "devil's advocate". I hope someone else will chime in to help me out if I don't explain this eloquently.

This is a case where I believe the topic won't be properly discussed unless someone is willing to take a hard stance on the negative side. Someone has to point out all the potential failings of the system that so many people are pouring their lives into building. Even if that person ends up taking a much harder stance than they actually believe in, and becoming a little too disconnected from reality.

The situations being described in the article are horrifying, and sound an awful lot like what you might expect from software bugs in their early stages. That wouldn't be a problem if there was an appropriate human force behind the systems going online, but we've all seen stakeholders push systems into production before they're ready without adequate support.

You're probably on the right track to call it a "badly designed government process", but I'd wager the human element is what softened the blow from that bureaucracy. It shifts the burden of proof from the case worker to the support seeker. It changes the conversation from "You think you deserve benefits? Let's look over your evidence" to "You've already been rejected, why should we support you?". When you're talking about people surviving, that's a significant difference.
Here's the Github project: https://github.com/freeCodeCamp/chapter

The description is "A self-hosted event management tool for nonprofits"

Maybe they're just being coy currently, and planning to make it a network after all, but the thing that made Meetup work was the network. You setup a meetup.com group, and random people find you by stumbling upon it on meetup.com . We run Larp games in Philly, and every couple months random players find us on meetup, show up to try it, and stay, and that was worth the meetup.com cost for us. If there's going to be a replacement for meetup, it has to also replace the network part of it, since that was much of the point for most groups. If I just wanted a self-hosted platform to track events, I have a wordpress plugin for that already.
Wow! Incels have made their way to Hacker News! But please, tell me more "Dr Detroit". You have your audience, now tell us where the mean girls touched you.
If you are bouncing the photos (like in a solar sail, aka a mirror attached to the back of the starship) then the minimal power is 150MW/N.

If you are generating the photons (like in a photon rocket, aka laser attached to the back of the starship) then the minimal power is 300MW/N (and you need a generator).

I didn't notice before the 165MW/N in the slides, but their device is not bouncing the photons, so the theoretical minimum is 300MW/N, so it is impossible to use only 165MW/N. So they must have an error (numerical or conceptual) in the calculation.

In the slide, the energy is used to accelerate the particles, and then the energy is recovered when the particles return. So the article claim more efficiency, but let's ignore that part.

I think the main problem is that the particles will emit a lot of energy in the sharp turn at the top, something like the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclotron_radiation This radiation is what really push the device. In the sharp turn at the bottom the particles are going more slowly, so the radiation and push is smaller.

I don't understand why the calculation using a mix of classical and relativistic formulas give almost the correct result. The error is only in x2 (in the impossible direction), a x2 is not so off. I guess the main problem is assuming that the particles will have the same speed during all the turn???
In the 1980s, electronics that said "Made in Japan" were well-regarded (still are today), but in the 1950s it was the opposite: they were seen as cheap. This was actually a joke in the movie Back to the Future.

See also Japanese cars from the 1970s versus the 1990s to today.
At Olo, which is primarily a C# shop, people have been excited to learn F#, and able to pick it up on an as needed basis. We are pretty large and it has been fine. It helps quite a bit that it is a different language but part of the same ecosystem. It is quite a bit easier to manage than it would be adding say, Go, or Rust or something into the company, with entirely new tooling and libraries. for instance a visual studio solution can contain C# and F# projects, and they can refer to each other.
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It is also vague what "processing" means in this context. Just about everything you do is processing already, so there really shouldn't be a "reason" it is faster to "process" an unsorted or a sorted array. Now if we're given a hint at what the processing is, then we might be able to get further.
Startups and continually "trying to improve the world" are where my mental health was severely impacted. That can be toxic ...
Hopefully a there's a clear separation between parsing the text files and a small section that allows or disallows.
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This seems wildly inflated.

> Reading 200 books a year isn’t hard at all.

I don't spend much time on social media, and I read maybe 30 to 50 books a year. My wife, a huge reader, will read around 90 this year. Maybe if we gave up our creative, athletic, or social pursuits we could get those numbers up to 200, but what's the point?

> Typical non-fiction books have ~50,000 words

I recently finished writing a book, and it was around 125,000 words. In the end, it felt short when I held it in my hands. I doubt highly the 50,000 number.

> The main reason this happens is a failure to execute.

The main reason people don't read 200 books a year, really, is because there's not much value in reading that many. If you're reading for enjoyment, slow down and enjoy it. If you're reading to learn something, slow down and internalize it. If you're reading to show off, just read the Wikipedia summaries because no one really cares that you've read a ton of books.
> IQ tests designed to be usable for everyone tend to start getting really unreliable above 135 or so.

Afaik, that's not a “designed to be usable by everyone” thing; there's test-retest consistency gets progressively lower beyond that point on IQ tests, period.

> There also just aren't enough high IQ people to really effectively study the accuracy of these tests above those levels.

If that was true, we wouldn't have reliable information that accuracy breaks down in that area, which we do.

We can study the accuracy in that range, we just haven't found a way to fix it.
C++ made a number of... unfortunate decisions early in its development, which resulted in a much worse language than it could have been. (Hindsight is 20/20, of course.)

I totally agree that C++ of 21st century is way better than C++ from 1998, and is becoming better. The problem is that maintaining backwards compatibility requires to keep a number of footguns in place, and some of them are cornerstones of the language :(

I have high hopes for Rust becoming the more sane competitor in the space traditionally occupied by C++. Its authors seem to understand the problem domain from a very practical standpoint, and are proficient in C++, to begin with. They also strive to apply reasonable design principles, and some actual math hopefully will keep the core of the language from logical pitfalls.

Another example of hitting a sweet spot is Go. I dislike many Go's language decisions. (Some are definitely great, though, e.g. the whole OOP approach lifted from Oberon.) But its authors definitely understand both the problem domain, and the target audience.

This is what I mean by talking about success despite the flaws. C++ has both flaws and merits, and merits outweighed the flaws. But the flaws are still painful.
> This isn't technology, it's politicians and bureaucrats deciding policies.

The underlying argument of critics of algorithms that make decisions, in government and in private companies, is that this technological apparatus becomes a justification in itself: if a mistake is made, blame the algorithm; if the algorithm says so, it must be right — we can't make exceptions.

Over time, people and institutions begin to shape their own actions so they don't fall afoul of the criteria that can be reverse-engineered out of a black box decision-making system.

Regarding "this isn't technology", this doesn't invalidate the criticisms: part of the argument is that, indeed, what gets called "technology" often shouldn't be simply described as technical tools and processes. They're often the opinions and goals of individuals (politicians, bureaucrats, and other wielders of power) transformed into code, data and other technical artifacts; sometimes this transformation merely hides the underlying sources of these opinions and goals.
you can just make a public static class FUNCTIONS and then use a static use at the top of each file, then pretend.
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Life is short, so we should focus on what's important, not on distractions. Look at Google where they got so obsessed with eating gourmet meals all day and fighting about perceived drops in qualt that they have 100K people just churning 15 year old products (while a few create new meaningful things).
The result here is from a survey of Mensa members. I'm skeptical Mensa members are representative of the high IQ population as a whole.
It's a tin foil hat thing. It's just wireless frequencies -- which may have some minor impact but it wouldn't be any different to 4G or 3G really and you can see that tech came and hasn't caused any major health issues.
Just to be clear, I wasn't saying Redux has such a problem with it's docs, just that GPs suggestion that it did was different than identifying a problem with the complexity of the software.
> Have you considered maybe software engineering isn't the right career for you? Perhaps you would find more meaning in another profession.

I have started to think about that. The thing is, I genuinely do love working on fun side projects and coding. Just when it's something interesting or affects people or a cause.
> from one seed? So a disease could wipe it all out.

It depends what you mean by 'wipe it all out'

There are plenty of pistachio varieties, grown all over the planet, so the disease would need to spread far and wide -- but this is what many country's border controls are specifically designed to stop.

There's about 30 named fruiting pistachio varieties (compare ~3,000 apple, or ~500 edible banana) so we're at some greater risk, but if you were to ask a random sample of consumers to identify the different pistachio varieties by sight/taste I expect you'd find most would struggle.
The full context is in the question: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11227809/why-is-processi...
I wouldn't put zfs anywhere except a server or non root volume, the resource usage is high and if I had to guess it would have an impact on battery life.

Unleas you're into either file systems or installers as a hobby, let others be the early adopters.
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>Anything a GPL library touches in a bundled executable taints the entire code, forcing it all to be open source.

How is it that I can tell that you are a layman idiot, and also a white?

Ask yourself: is my code that links to a GPL library a non-separable work. And is my code that links to a GPL library derived from that library?

No and No.

Sure: you may be sued.
But the copyright holder of the GPL'd library will not likely win.

These are simple concepts. Are you white programmers dumb idiots?

Note: Copyright holders of GPL'd software don't even sue blatant violators such as GRSecurity and Brad Spengler ( https://perens.com/2017/06/28/warning-grsecurity-potential-c... ) who create violating non-separable directly derivative works, adding no-redistribution-or-else additional restrictions to the work in blatant violation of section 6 of the license (GPLv2).
As one who still has a few programs in the 'archive department' that I wrote in Assembler decades ago, I'd have to agree with this sentiment.

That said, there is nothing better than Assembly if one wants or needs to interface with the hardware at the same level as those electrical/design engineers who actually designed the hardware. That's to say, with Assembler you cannot get any closer to the hardware (unless one's exceptional and can read binary directly).

For a hardware engineer/designer, Assembler can be very useful in certain circumstances where say, certain operands may be causing trouble but which are only visible in an Assembly/Disassembly listing; that is, a higher-level language, by necessity, will obfuscate the troublesome instructions(s). Such instances usually occur in the prototype laboratory and involve all sorts of other tech such as logic analyzers, etc.

Unless you're one of those involved in design at the hardware level (i.e.: one of those who needs to know really detailed engineering stuff at OSI levels 1 and 2 and perhaps even 3) then forget it. Even then—with some special exceptions such as speed sensitive routines, etc.—these days, many projects are just too big to do in Assembler even for hardware engineers. Moreover, with large projects done in Assembler, it's dead easy for one to get lost or be overwhelmed by so much data—thus errors can become commonplace.
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Here's a direct example of what happened after Aadhar came in to play:

https://www.livemint.com/Money/aJ6VPyH94gNVwm8alEs87L/11-lak...

So there were roughly 1.1m duplicate tax numbers, and were
cut off from writing tax savings of roughly $4000+ a year.

Like I said, it's not a question of what it is, but how it's used that matters.

When people (inside and outside government) treat social security schemes and tax payer money as profiteering schemes, bad things will happen.