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You can still find a lot of people confronting hard subjects through humor, it is just that lately these things are better received if you are a part of the group you are making fun of. I know lgbt comedians who are great at confronting the hard subjects of being lgbt for example.

I feel like the "demise of comedy" is overstated. Every time I see a comedian complaining about that, his netflix special is just a few clicks away.
Could you maybe provide a practical example of such a "heavy to process" 404? I'm having difficulty to image how a "Not Found" could (or ever should) involve heavy processing. AFAIK, a 404 should be only given for a non-existing resource (e.g. file). That should be straightforward enough. Granted, I've seen some horrible semantic resource pointers/paths in URI's over the years, some of which requiring processing, and some of them generating 404s. However, such contortions are mostly just a testament to horribly bad design. If the request involves processing on the server side (higher up than the web server or cache itself), resulting in a conclusion that a resource is unavailable, should that not return a 5xx response?
Author here. It's all about employability indeed and it's sad many other commenters don't seem to grasp that.

DevOps/SRE jobs are full on discriminating for kubernetes experience, not docker, and preferably on their exact stack AWS ECS, EKS, GKE, etc... it can get real tough as a job seeker if you're not on it.
> As for NATO, it’s better for the big countries if they can hold Russia back in the Baltics and let them be the collateral damage. Sounds win-win to me.

Indeed.

Before the eastern expansion I had noticed years ago how portions of Niedersachsen bordering East Germany had been designed as a huge tank trap (dams could be blown up to flood the plains), and the bridges and some other civilian infrastructure was dual use as well (e.g. signed/scaled for tank passage). Likewise I discovered in late 1989 that a lot of the non-local roads between villages in the DDR weren't really passable by passenger cars but would still have bridges able to support heavy armour.

It seemed like a deliberate policy of both NATO and the Warsaw Pact that if there was to be yet another large war in Europe it should start in Germany for a change.
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https://www.sbir.gov/solicitation-listing/open

This is a list of the current solicitations available. You can navigate around to the different departments. They have a calendar of announcements and due dates.

If you click on the DoD SBIR[0] it brings up the available topics. Each period has different areas of interest. You create a little proposal and then they announce "Phase 1" awards. They usually have different terms, but I think it's typical to get up to 100k for 4 months. After your demo you can apply for Phase 2 which is more money over a longer term, after that you can move to Phase 3, commercialization, etc.

The problem is that you have to work on it "full time" or at least the principal investigator has to work full time. The other problem is that they give you the topics of interest. There are so many over all of the departments. The biggest are definitely HHS and DoD. There are a lot of ML/AI, IT, sensors, etc.

Unfortunately, the current cycle mostly ends tomorrow for DoD.

[0]https://www.sbir.gov/node/1620805
Perfect. Also, set project start boundaries to ensure realistic goals and expectations. Under promise and possibly over deliver - all too often data and information discovery reveals unforeseen problems and opportunities
>It's sad. Most companies these days (to include HP) are hire and fire shops. All of them deny it.

This is a good thing for people who want to work at those companies but are not yet employed there. Companies that can fire people easily are more willing to take a chance on someone without a perfect pedigree than those who insist on only hiring those that they are certain they want to work there forever.
Eh, at least the 2 local pizzerias that I order from can both locate my account from a phone number, so if I call & say I've ordered before they just need to confirm the address. One of them does have online-ordering; and while the page is decent I still find it faster to call.

Haven't ordered from Pizza-Hut online, but ordering online from Dominos was absolute hell. There is no way to view your total without clicking through to checkout, and prices aren't listed. So the only way to find out what a specialty pizza costs is to add it to the cart, dismiss all the upsell popups about adding dessert and a soda, then view the cart.

Plus, even on a desktop computer with a decent connection it loads so much crap. The page ends up being heavier than Youtube, and I fail to see why I need to load as much resources to order a pizza vs. watch streaming video. Not worth it, especially as their pizza is neither particularly good or particularly cheap.
I agree on the naming. I wasn't actually referring to IRV, I meant ranked choice in general as I assumed the OP did (I may well have been wrong on that). I assumed as much because all ranked choice systems are "confusing" compared to plurality systems.

I'm not sure what you're suggesting by dropping the elimination step. Without the elimination step it is just first past the post. First past the post does not produce better outcomes.

I do agree that IRV isn't great though. Although you can do better in single seat constituencies, it's probably more viable to move to multi-seat constituencies.
https://github.com/expangine/expangine-vue#preview looks like Scratch (https://scratch.mit.edu/)
it is slowly losing purchasing power. That's called inflation and nobody denies it or is surprised by it.

In fact what people are generally surprised about is how little inflation is has occurred in the USA compared to how much money has been pumped into the system via QE.
Thanks Josh. Our account has been unfrozen, and I've been given some assurance that it'll not happen again for us. Cheers.
I once worked at an American company with an Irish branch. Some software I was working on had to display dates. I tried to get them to standardize on ISO-8601 so that I could use the same format both places. I wasn't successful, the best I could do was get them to compromise on this monstrosity: 2019-Oct-22. At least there was no confusion about which was the month and which was the day.
> BUT, the proposed system is specifically Instant Run-Off Voting (IRV), which does not make a centrist third-party candidate likely to win

Perhaps not the third party candidate, but what about a same-party candidate that garners votes? Perhaps for example, lots of democrats would have selected Bernie as their number one choice last time around, then Hillary, then Trump. Perhaps Bernie would have had a better chance in that situation.

Then again, I'm not sure this suggested system in NYC would even allow you to select someone who is not the nominee of a party without a write-in.
Does your current price of PV include storage?

Also the PV cells made mainly from China are currently manufactured using coal power plant. But what would be the price of photovoltaics if only renewable energies were used? My guess is it will be much higher.
I don't see much difference between "collective ownership" and "private ownership by everyone".
I've been using node with typescript and it's amazing.

VERY productive. The key thing is you can do a large refactoring without breaking anything.

The biggest challenge I have right now is actually the tooling. Intellij tends to break sometimes.

I'm using lerna for a monorepo with sub-modules and it's buggy with regular npm.

For example 'npm audit' doesn't work.

I might have to migrate to yarn...
First Past the Post isn't actually an ordinal system. "Ordinal" is simply a synonym of "ranked choice". Arrow's impossibility theorem isn't relevant to FPTP, but that doesn't make it a satisfactory system.
I'm not at all a fan of G-S and the Arrow Theorem, since they make widely unrealistic assumptions about voting (e.g. Arrow's IIA is nonsense - intensity matters!).

G-S and Arrow damaged tremendously any attempt to look at electoral systems rationally by imposing a mathematical description which is simply irrelevant to actual concerns.

In your given example, the particular unrealistic assumption is the way it looks at voting. Voting is not an extended opinion poll. It is use of political power where each voter is given an equal amount. Therefore, there's no need to reduce "tactical voting" to a minimum (the useful requirements are far laxer than that).

The voters in your example did not "fail" or "cheat" by voting for a candidate they liked less. They compromised, and therefore got a better result for them. Arguably a voting system that pushes people into consensus and majority is actually desirable and not a flaw.

Aside, I do prefer Borda or Approval over IRV, but the better reasoning is just they are far simpler overall while preserving the actually important advantages.
The solution for having minority representation is to use some sort of proportional representation with a multiple-winner system. But, in elections that can only have one winner (i.e. for president, governor, mayor, etc...) there's no way around the risk that a majority of people have bad opinions. That's not a problem with the voting system, but with the electorate.
India's official language is English. I recall a journalist asking an Indian official isn't that a sign of British oppression? The official replied that India is home to many native languages, and to avoid favoritism a foreign language was chosen, and since the bureaucracy was already familiar with English that was the logical choice.
It's readily verified. I even pasted the original code, bro. Or you can login to a unixv7 system here, in browser: https://unix50.org/ Takes 30 seconds..

Disabling XQ
boot
Boot
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IS SUBJECT TO RESTRICTIONS STATED IN YOUR CONTRACT WITH
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Is this like when the Japanese created Mechagodzilla to defeat Godzilla? Are the Democrats' best hope for 2020 Mechatrump?!
Yeah. Earth will be the best place for us for a long time.
The story mentions a detox program involving running and saunas - does anyone know more about it? How is it supposed to work? Why would running help sweat out toxins afterwards?
>I'm reluctant to believe that Haskell magically protects you from that

i can only show you the door you have to walk through it.

>What if my run-of-the-mill gang can rewrite the project three times over before your wizards have congregated to sing their first incantation?

The 3rd rewrite of your nodejs app still has technical debt. It still has flaws and still is buggy. Every time you redo it, you repeat the same mistakes over and over and over again never knowing how to make things better. You are doomed to participate on an endless cycle of rewrites as people of every generation reinvent the wheel with a new framework and new mistakes never converging on a better solution.

It's a myth that Haskell is slower. The speed I would say is the same because Haskell you would require significantly less testing and validation.

>Even if that was true, unless you're writing Haskell in a vacuum, you're going to have to interface with various other horrible pieces of technology that will throw a wrench into your beautiful pure design.

You do that anyway. At least keep one section of your stack safe and nice. Haskell.

>Dealing with the ugly bits while maintaining composure is what makes the difference between a really good engineer and somebody who just wants to program. That quality is invaluable, but you're likely not going to develop it by programming in a language that you enjoy.

Haskell is about safety and good design. If these two things are not critical to your program, then you shouldn't go the way of Haskell. If it is, Haskell is one of the best technologies to meet that requirement while not costing too much in performance / speed of development.

If Haskell has a critical flaw it's the learning curve. But that's a one time deal. Once you get past the curve you're good. Also don't call us wizards. We're not... Haskell isn't that hard. Anyone can learn it, this isn't like quantum physics. Becoming an expert database SQL ninja admin on postgresql is probably just as hard as becoming one on haskell. haskell like sql is just a bit challenging because it's expression based as opposed to imperative like python.
> Has TONS AND TONS of proper official information with tutorials.

I'm not too familiar with the e-residence in Estonia but I'm not surprised that a country of 1.3M people that fairly recently escaped from underneath the iron curtain doesn't have the resources of the big EU countries who have had centuries of financial power.
I'll say starting a business in the US was 100x easier than the EU countries I've stayed in.
This is sort of like saying it would be a step backward to drop humanoid robots into an office and let them take over tasks. A large part of the problem is that right now, a lot of the interfaces for performing work are optimized for humans, so automation that uses those interfaces is drop-in
100,000 out of work while Ottawa porks eastern elite businesses, slapped in the face regarding shipping Alberta oil east, while the east actually imports Saudi blood-crude...

Albertans think everyone's super-classy, though! So, I'm sure it'll be no problem. Wait, while we're talking, let us write Ottawa that transfer cheque...

Nobody thinks its a great idea; westerners have traditionally been staunchly patriotic. But at some point, you leave the party where everyone hates you and laughs at you...
What would be the solution then?
I'm not picking on them, I just am appalled that the ordinary word "fleece" has been completely redefined by marketers to refer to an inferior product. They should have made up a new word for their new product.

I mentioned Patagonia simply because they were already under discussion. There are plenty of other offenders.
I migrated to yarn workspaces and it made things very simple. It definitely handles dependencies better.
Thankfully lots of smart people have written papers about how that's incorrect. They just use generic terms like "A,B,C"
Effectively they'll all miss each other. There is so much empty space in between stars that even when two galaxies collide the stars will interact gravitationally, but likely none will physically collide.

Think of two clouds of gas colliding. The clouds as a whole collide, yes, but there's no molecular fusion happening. The molecules themselves don't collide.

"Pass through each other" is not the clearest wording.
Hah, I just started that show last week and I an loving it so far! Any other recommendations?
This is pretty standard, even in human (non-automated) translation.

One example is technical/service documentation for a heavy machinery company I worked for. The tech writers were based in Germany, but O&M Manuals were required in Japanese for sale in Japan. Those docs were translated using English as a "pivot language". Usually dictated by pricing (fewer German+Japanese translators = much higher cost).
Can't wait to get OS X 10.5.8 running on it!
Sounds like a good system to make sure tiny minorities don't end up in power.
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You’re downvoted for some reason but you’re correct. Public school is about the power of the state over individuals. Data collection in the form of attendance is the business model. Schools get paid only to the extent they have data on the kids. No data means no public schools. What’s the saying, if something is free then you’re the product. True for Facebook and true for public education.
Cool! I've been curious about Firefox's progress over the last few years, but this is what pushed me to download a modern version. Good work, Firefox team!
That's exactly what we do, with a nice interface business people can use, email me at rafal@evolution.ai if you want a demo.
Bloody awful things. I’ve built a few simple analogue PID loops and simple analogue computers over the years and it’s an art and a half. I think the biggest pain I had was before the availability of reasonably stable log converters was trying to use matched transistor pairs to perform log operations. Took three days to work out where an error was creeping in and it was from the thermal offset voltage of the buffer opamp input. The circuit was drifting due to my desk lamp warming it up. The IC was out of spec on drift too! :(

I did succeed in producing a four quadrant multiplier in the end but required some unholy things to be done.

That and noise and the cost of precision make it almost useless compared to a digital computer now. The rise of direct sampling SDRs confirms this. Crazy dynamic range, excellent noise floor and hardly any analogue up front.
There isn't really any difference between what you said and what OP said, you don't have to be forced out to take the hint your job is a dead end.
> but being in LEO instead of GEO simplifies things greatly

It may simplify some things, but it also introduces lots of complications like managing satellite handovers, telemetry tracking for thousands of satellites, accident avoidance in space, etc.
> seldom ever retract an iota as far as I've seen.

Have you looked?

The New York Times issues corrections almost every day: https://www.nytimes.com/section/corrections

Literally two seconds of googling.
What's the main difference between this and event sourcing?
It’s my understanding that StartPage is a proxy for Google Search, and DDG is both a proxy for Bing, Yahoo, and other places, with some “instant answers” thrown in, like JS minifiers, color pickers, and other tools.

I’d like to see DDG do some of its own indexing or perhaps indicate where results come from. Is this Bing? Is this Yahoo? Is there a percentage weight from both engines? This analysis would be cool.
Amazon Joins Java Community Process (JCP)
Given Uber have suppressed investigations into crimes committed by their drivers, point 4 seems overly optimistic.

The fact that Uber hasn't yet broken laws in the UK doesn't make using them more defensible. Would you accept a babysitter that only abused children when on holiday in Thailand?

Undermining unionisation and actively promoting the casualisation of labour in the way they have are to be discouraged whether legal or not.
To save you the clicks: Node 13 doesn't support top-level await.

Node includes V8 7.8, released Sep 27. https://v8.dev/blog/v8-release-78

Top-level await merged into V8 on Sep 24, but didn't make it in time for the 7.8 release. https://chromium.googlesource.com/v8/v8.git/+/0ceee9ad28c21b...
Does the quantum tunneling have a lower limit on node size?

This is being developed it seems to keep a 1um fab competitive, but does it also apply to smaller nodes?
>Offering reasonable alternatives is impossible?

The way it is now (with the sprawl that we currently have), yes, due to physics. You can't change physics. There just isn't any way to make a bus a viable transit alternative in a sprawling suburban area; everything is just too far apart.

>Why can't we begin to restructure our society to be more like, in your example; Germany, so that it is possible?

Well I wasn't really talking about long-term, I was talking more short-term, with the assumption that the sprawl we have will remain or be extended. I simply don't see any attempts in this country to increase density, except perhaps the "urban growth boundary" around Portland.

Sure, I'd love to see this country decide it wants to be more like Germany or Japan and stop all new sprawl, and instead require higher density development near city cores, so that public transit is more feasible, and also provide more funding for transit construction (since that usually drives density: people frequently want to live close to the subway stations). But there's a lot of fanciful things that I'd like to have; that doesn't mean very many people agree with me, and I don't see much agreement with me on this issue in America today, at least not from the voters.
Is this what you are thinking of? "Bizen also does not suffer from CMOS’ electrostatic discharge (ESD) susceptibility and latch-up problems."
This system has been used in Australia longer than I have been alive so it should not be difficult for New Yorkers, and should be an improvement.

Another improvement would be multi-candidate districts (which would also be constitutional for federal elections except, of course, {vice,}president. In that case use not only the first but first n preferences.
Starship food delivery robot traps wheelchair user in the street
I have been looking into the viability of putting auth and basic user data in Worker + KV. For auth I'm currently using firebase/google auth and I'm wondering if there's a strategy to authenticate with firebase that wouldn't require a auth request to firebase on every request but instead allow sessions and possibly caching session info in KV. Have any thoughts?
Rethinking Encryption
What on earth possessed them to commission new subtitles? I can understand replacing "Fly Me to The Moon" in the ending - clearly licensing cost - but the new subtitles radically changed the meaning of some scenes, and not in a way that seems to match the original intent of the writers.
I honestly have no idea haha. I speculate big machines dealing with legacy data or code not expecting big endian have an escape hatch that doesn't involve a complete rewrite.
Why was he surprised that it works? -1 is a perfectly normal integer and -= is a perfectly valid operator.
Compatibility layers can kill your product, especially if it doesn’t yet have marketshare.

Developers will not invest in your APIs unless there is demand for it from millions of users (preferably users with money in their pockets), and possibly not even then (see OS/2 with its Windows compatibility layer)
The timezone fix is pretty nice. It's one of those issues that seeps into the institutional knowledge of a project and people tell you to "just fix it in your code". I suspect stackoverflow questions on node runtime timezone changes will plummet :)
Women should be able to compete against other women to the exclusion of males. Simple as that.
It's great for plants and animals when you want to know its official name and not the dozens of names many dozens of countries use.
Automating manufacturing supply chains. I am sure it is possible to build a profitable business in this space extremely quickly. If I wasn't already committed, I'd do it myself.
Michael Richards really tarnished his legacy post-Seinfeld, but his physical comedy on that show was also top-notch.
I realise you jest slightly, due to the very overdone cicadas... but I had to jump in to add; Serial Experiments Lain is seriously a 10/10 anime. I'd strongly recommend it to anyone.
so.... elon musk?
Why was system wc implemented in a slower way than a naive C version?
Mathematically, logically, etc these type of ballots and voting systems make sense.

They will also prove disastrous in terms of voter confidence in the electoral system.