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I've dealt a lot with email along the way, trying to use it as an async transport layer for higher level messaging etc.

At one point I had wrappers around Python's IMAP/SMTP implementations that I excuted from Go, since at least Python had 20 years to make theirs work properly.

Any other implementation I tried failed somewhere along the way, especially as soon as you start moving messages around in folders or anything else beyond simply fetching messages.

SMTP is simpler from my experience, but then so is the work it performs.

I even played around with the idea of cooking my own to get out of this loop, but reading the specifications soon killed that idea. It would take a life time, probably be deprecated by the time, and still wouldn't work properly.

The new JSON-stuff honestly doesn't look much better from what I've seen. It seems to still be doing IMAP, only using JSON instead, which wasn't the problem. I'm not holding my breath about it becoming standard enough to depend on.

It's a mess, so much that I'm thinking it would probably be better to start over entirely.
> There is simply too much unpredictability on roads, he said, for a self-driving car to manage.

What does an autonomous vehicle need to do in response to a highly unpredicted case on the road? Stop.

Can an AI offer a confidence score as to how well it understands a situation? Yes, that's how they work.

Can an autonomous vehicle brake to a stop in response to an unrecognised situation? Based on the above, yes.

I mean, I wonder how hard Woz has been trying to create an autonomous vehicle prior to announcing that he's given up. Or is he just trying to tear down those that are actually turning this into a reality?
Tbf AI hype and failure like this has been around for long enough for even young people to confidently make that assertion.
My good friend is an engineer whose job has been to work on transmission line construction projects for several utilities including our local one. He just finished testifying at a court case because the utility was being sued by a group of homeowners for running the lines above ground rather than burying them.

His testimony was based around the fact that on average the cost to bury lines is roughly 10x more expensive than running them above ground, and he has had this experience across multiple different projects.

So when people say "it's expensive" they are literally referring to a factor of 10x cost increase. Maybe it's worth it in some cases compared to the costs of power outages and fires, but understand that we're not talking about a "slight increase" here, and that the people making these decisions are generally highly trained and experienced subject matter experts who are already doing cost/benefit analyses to take the best course of action that they can.
We pay sales tax. What's so special about VAT vs. sales tax?

Unless you are arguing for a federal sales tax, which OK sure federal tax is great, except it doesn't pay for local services. Also, now you also have to argue about the regressive nature of sales tax in general.
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Mass transit would be more workable if we simply built more and our autonomous vehicles could drop us at the station then return home.
“Unwell”? Being concerned about our commander in chief makes me a patriot, not “unwell”.

Your pivot to “fake statistics” is telling.
I see how hiring policemen and firefighters is not a positive, but don't see how it's a negative.

In other words, a state-provided service is not always perfectly on-time, but if I want to hire some private service with super-fast response time for my twenty million dollar beach-front property, why not? How does me hiring a private fireman _harm_ someone else? If anything, might it not reduce the load on public infrastructure?
How do you actually enforce law in space?
Have you been able to compare that with latest Firefox's native tracker blocker?

So far to me that's been pretty good to the point I stopped using Privacy Badger (which I agree is pretty good too!).
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Wealthy neighborhoods with private security (aka private police) are definitely a thing.
The soviet union did hard exit.
I am looking into https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tax_rates and i dont see the numbers you mentioned.
Keep Calm and Brexit On.
Right, thought so. Thanks.
One is embedded so you do not easily identify just how much all those free services cost you.

embedded taxes benefit the tax man and the easiest to make regressive thereby clawing back much of the money spent on services
GP is talking about message sequence numbers, not UIDs. Message sequence numbers are literally from 1 to N, and should you delete (expunge) a message, the sequence number of everything subsequent is decremented by 1 to keep 1 to N.

It is pretty much impossible to write a modern mail client relying on message sequence numbers, since there are too many ways the bookkeeping go wrong; so everyone uses UIDs (or UUIDs) nowadays wherever possible.
There's plenty of sushi that doesn't involve fish or meat. Sashimi is raw fish. Sushi is more about rice.
You mean, like transferring the proteins that cause brazil nut allergy into soy? Fortunately, they caught that before it was rolled out.
Why does your app need a great promo and explainer video?
Hah.

In reality though, enforcement on individuals will, for the foreseeable future, be done through waiting for them to come back down. Enforcement on countries and companies will continue to be done with threat of nuclear strike.
There’s a big difference between burying distribution lines and transmission lines. It’s transmission lines that have caused the most destructive fires in California and those are indeed too expensive to bury.
I've been skeptical for a while now, perhaps overly so, about the prospects for "real" autonomous driving, i.e outside of Californian highways.

I wonder when the public / the press is going to start question the story about full self driving coming "soon".

AFAIK Musk is still saying that the autonomous Tesla ride sharing service is planned for mid 2020, and that full self driving will be at least beta tested by end of this year.

But if these promises are not delivered on, someone ought to start questioning how fully autonomous cars really are progressing.
My trusted close relative used to do classified work on "Buran", the Soviet Union's answer to the United States Space Shuttle program.

According to him, the USSR military developed Buran to match what they saw as the space warfare capabilities that USA gained with the Shuttle. Unlike the ICBMs, the shuttles decoupled the event of the payload launch from event of the payload delivery, i.e. bombing. The early shuttle missions demonstrated the ability to "dive" to an orbit from which they could deliver a nuke directly to Red Square and then return back to the low Earth orbit. Shuttles could also perform attack missions against targets in the Earth's orbit, approaching and destroying USSR's satellites as a prelude to a nuclear war.

Buran was designed to perform both of these missions. Unlike the shuttles, Buran could perform them while 100% unmanned. Until this X-37B flight, US did not have a public demonstration of a technology matching what USSR had with Buran in the late 1980s. Given the "hot peace" nature of the contemporary relationship between US and Russia, it is not surprising that US would want to demonstrate that it went above and beyond what USSR accomplished in space warfare. X-37B does that.

If you are wondering about the 2-year mission for X-37B: when Buran launched in 1980s US immediately started speculating that the "unmanned" capability of Buran was just another lie by USSR. Can't say the same about about X-37B considering that it was in orbit for twice the time of the longest manned mission.
Part of the concept of sovereignty is that you can just ignore agreements and no one can enforce them.
As fanf2 said, MSNs != UIDs. Also, I didn't mean to imply that MSNs are an insurmountable limitation for performance, they just complicate things a lot.

I'm not familiar with Dovecot's code or very good at reading C, but I think part of how they handle it is here:
https://github.com/dovecot/core/blob/81b5b188c478ec36bea8bda...

Basically, building a mail index for UID<->MSN translation that can serialize to disk, which would explain how it doesn't necessarily need absurd amounts of RAM and can select fast, probably at heavy cost when EXPUNGeing old messages. I'm sure there were worse implementations that did just maintain it all in RAM way back in the day, and still some that do (like the one I ran into).
If you need to rely on the customer vehicles themselves for any part of the train's operation (wheels touching the ground, coupling, electrical connections...), it's going to be extremely difficult. Railways have strict requirements for inspections, etc. of customer cars—one malfunctioning car can be catastrophic (if a coupler malfunctions and lets go, for instance).

If you're not relying on the customer vehicles for any part of the operation, you're basically describing existing auto-rail operations. They're not extremely common, probably because they're a terrible waste of space compared to traditional passenger rail cars.

Our goal is to move people and goods around—not extra vehicles.
Here are some mechanisms by which that could be true without any sort of biologically-inherited learning being involved.

1. "Holocaust offspring" may have been told by their parents about their experiences, and that could sensitize them in various ways (e.g. more inclination to envisage very bad worst cases; vivid examples of terrible things available to their imaginations; some sort of unconscious fear of losing their parents; feelings of guilt at being upset about something less bad than what their parents went through).

2. "Holocaust offspring" are, necessarily, offspring of people who survived the Holocaust. Those people might be different genetically from the population at large, in all sorts of ways. Maybe some of them happen to correlate with greater susceptibility to PTSD.

3. "Holocaust offspring" might have a greater tendency to put themselves into the sort of situations that produce PTSD. (Either for #1-like reasons -- e.g., their parents' example makes them feel a greater obligation to put themselves into danger if they think it may save others -- or for #2-like reasons -- e.g., maybe people who survived the Holocaust tend to be braver or show more initiative or something like that.)

And a couple of other reasons to be cautious about interpreting these findings.

4. "largely selected from a convenience sample of people seeking treatment for Holocaust-related problems". That seems like an extremely fruitful source of selection bias.

5. PTSD is a thing that has to be diagnosed. The people making the diagnosis know their patients' history, or ought to. It's possible that a psychologist may be more inclined to diagnose PTSD if they know that their patient is the child of a Holocaust survivor.
I'm on Windows 10. When I'm using it in Linux, it's via SSH through Mobaxterm, which is a fantastic and free Windows shell manager.
I'm not against sales tax; there are many benefits to it.

However

A 10% sales tax is a 10% tax on poor people's disposable income since they have almost no savings. How do we square that regressive circle?
It's a free market, if the government makes a better offer, they'll go work for the government instead of privately.
Allocation is always cheap, also with manual memory management. It's reclaiming/freeing memory which is the tricky part ;)

Best approach is still to minimize dynamic allocation as much as possible. One can often get surprisingly far with an entirely static memory layout that's defined upfront at application start.
If it gets out of the way and stops, fine. If it just says “screw it, halting right here”, it’s going to quickly find itself the subject of public outrage and be banned until resolved I’d think. (I think figuring out a possibly creative way to "get out of the way" might be approximately as hard as the rest of the self-driving challenge.)

Imagine every hundredth car during rush hour detour just stopping for no human driver valid reason.

Imagine areas where you’ve driven where you can’t even keep a voice call connected, let alone the data rates needed for remote piloting assistance.

Imagine Boston’s Big Dig and these not-quite-autonomous cars facing an unknown situation en masse inside a tunnel under water...

I’m 2/3rds of Woz’s age and don’t expect level 5 in my or my kids’ lifetime. Level 5 is a very high hurdle.
One of the videos you cite says "we wouldn’t be able to be in the single market, we wouldn’t be able to be in the Customs Union".

Given that the latest proposed Withdrawal Agreement would leave Northern Ireland in the single market and Customs Union, it appears you're actually reinforcing the point that no one knew what they were actually voting for.
The biggest issue is trust. I maintain my own cars: I trust myself, but do you trust me? I don't trust some of the professional mechanics that work on cars. In the current scheme we are told to maintain a large enough following distance that this question don't matter: no matter what happens in front of you, you can still react in time to recover. (You will not that the vast majority of drivers do not maintain this following distance) In a raid train situation all cars must be maintained to high enough standards for the most risk adverse person.

In trains we already have standards, and have developed schemes to ensure that cars are maintained to standards.

Note that trust above needs to account for the terrorist trying to kill people. It is debatable what systems works.
The private security in wealthy neighborhoods is little different that the security and protected entrances of the condos from the big city.
I'm afraid asking for a citation for a forward looking speculative statement doesn't come across very well.
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I agree that Waymo will have lots of challenges reaching world-scale (cost, training, etc.), but what they've achieved is undeniable. It seems like it would work extremely well for anyone living in that area.
It's not perfect. But it is better than all the alternatives we currently have.

Intelligence does not imply perfection.
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Identifying people is easy, the much harder part is finding the right path to take as result. In a dense european street you’ll have pedestrians, cyclists, and so on all around you.

Imagine driving slowly through a large gathering of people, slowly having them move around your car, etc. Such situations will necessarily become major issues.

Especially if you imagine a snowy dense downtown street, with pedestrians crossing everywhere and snow all around you making the LIDAR useless.
> When alphago was losing in the fourth match against Lee Sedol it would play 'stupid' moves. These were, for instance, trivial threads that any somewhat accomplished amateur go player would recognize in an instant and answer correctly.

I think this behavior is less 'stupid' than it appears. When human beings play Go, the points matter even to the loser, and everyone goes home when it is over. There is life outside of Go. To Alpha Go, Go is it's entire universe. Part of the way it was trained was competing against other instances of itself, a sort of Thunderdome where the loser doesn't get to continue existing, and doesn't contribute to future generations. To Alpha Go, defeat is death. The behavior we observe when losing is nigh-certain has a human equivalent, we call it desperation. Alpha Go is trying moves that can only possibly work if the opponent makes a catastrophic blunder, which is incredibly unlikely, but it's the only shot it has.
One more important aspect: cost. In my country mass transit is bizarrely more expensive than private.
I m seeing this as a general trend in investment: they seem to have doubled down on certain moonshots such as robot cars, space travel, quantum computing, virtual reality , lab grown meat to the detriment of more reachable tech such as CRISPR or tele-work or even fusion
Lower-resolution nodes are still very useful for analog parts - transistors, regulators, op-amps and so on.
VAT is somewhat different in mechanics from sales tax, because it is collected along different points in the value chain. More important, VAT in Europe typically ranges from 20-25%, and has a broader tax base. In a typical European country, consumption taxes make up almost 30% of revenue, versus 17% in the US.
(In)effectiveness of rice needs to be proven on it's own merits
Ya, Canada used to have a VAT like tax, and then got rid of it in the 90s.

My question was honest though. Is there something special (good) about VAT vs. sales tax that I'm missing? Because the OP implied we don't pay sales tax in the US, which is (generally) not true.
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Eventually it does.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_description
Douglas County, Washington is a tinderbox much like NorCal. About 95% of the county's land is an arid drygrass plateau with high winds. They undergrounded 100% of the electrical distribution there. Must have cost a fortune, but they did it.

Oh yeah, and they're a Public Utility District. Wholly owned by the people whose houses will burn down if they don't do this. And state law limits them to growing no larger than a single county, so if the ship sinks they sink with it.

Are you listening, California? Nah, didn't think so.
Cool idea! where did you get the data for the 1M matches?
If I, working there, found that FB was painful to work with, I'd go somewhere else, as simple as that. I won't spend two days wrestling with FB to see if my ad it's ok or not.

I may not care for political advertising, since my client is not looking to "make a profit" like a traditional customer. But I definitely do for an eCommerce brand for example.

Most agencies use FB because it's easy to work with and it's cheapish with a little expertise. If that dissapeares then nobody is goung to pour money on it.
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A reasonable theory, given that weapon strikes from orbit are extremely subtle and stealthy, and matches have not been invented yet.
Did you watch the hearing? Very few people said anything that wasnt a 1) scripted grandstand that didnt even have a question 2) had already been covered in another hearing or 3) was a misunderstanding of the business and its technology. Some of them did have good points sprinkled in. But to call what they did a "good job" is an extreme overstatement.
Another suggestion for a non-clickbaity title:

Insurance Companies do Preventative Maintenance on High-Value Assets

But yes, this feels like ... class-baiting or something. This headline is everywhere, made to rile up folk for.... what?
Those are rates, not revenue. The OECD has profiles that show how much of each country’s tax revenue comes from different sources. For example Sweden: https://www.oecd.org/tax/revenue-statistics-sweden.pdf
Indeed this is really one of the best solutions. Light rail, buses, etc. taking people to and from businesses, restaurants, shopping, etc. and have autonomous vehicles traveling from residential areas to and from stations.

Unfortunately, when most people talk about autonomous vehicles they want personal autonomous vehicles. I really don't see the point of this if I'm not actually going to be driving. The fun of a vehicle is driving it, not riding in it. If it is autonomous, I don't want to own it and pay the upkeep.
I wouldn't defend Facebook for anything. But when you see reps like AOC hurl questions at him, and not even care if he answers them, it really highlights how these events only serve to create headlines or steer a narrative. You'd think they want information out of him if they wanted to accomplish something.
If you’re going to do autocorrelation, why not just do it on the audio signal? Why go through all the trouble of doing a FFT on the input signal and extracting notes first?

Just to give more details—you can do autocorrelation using the FFT. Autocorrelation is done by calculating the convolution of a signal with a reversed copy of itself. Convolution in the time domain is multiplication in the frequency domain. So you take the FFT, do a pointwise multiplication, and then reverse FFT. The loop points will be spikes in the result.

There are some additional factors you will likely want to consider, like windowing, but this is a much more straightforward way to do things.

(As an aside, I would probably put the G in the third measure on the left hand.)
The EU and the ECM (what was voted for back in 1975) are two different beasts.

Maastricht and Lisbon treaty would of been key changes in that transition that many countries had votes (and also revotes) upon. The UK, did not alas and it is pretty obvious that it should of.

Ironically, the children of 1975 era had no say in their future until 2016 and you can see how they voted. Also those that who in 1975 voted to join the ECM, turned out to be twice as likely to vote to leave the EU in 2016.

But the whole aspect of thresholds is one that does need some thought and equally turnout. Maybe voting should be compulsory? Maybe threshold standards need to be defined.
After all, does the EU really want to have members who are not that commited to the goals?

Democracy is a fickle matter depending upon how you measure it.
This takes me back to my days creating Amiga modules, desperately trying to find places in the samples that I could set the loop points so they wouldn't click annoyingly.

I didn't have access to Fourier transformations back then, I would just keep setting the loop points in likely looking places and hope no-one would notice the pop.
>But in recent years, it’s been scaled back to the local UPS Store locations.

Alot of it is due to UPS Stores. They are franchised. Many owners got extremely upset, betrayed and were threatening to quit because UPS was making them pay all the fees for franchising and proceed to start screwing them over by involving others for basically free.
Doesn't CA have the highest state taxes in the country?
That seems pretty obvious because anyone who succeeds on the first try just got lucky.

Reality is very complex and it takes years of failure to understand the full complexity of anything. Sometimes you just try something and it just happens to work the first time; this doesn't mean that you know what you're doing.

If you succeed too early, it can give you false confidence about your abilities and this makes you unwilling to accept advice from 'unsuccessful' people who have a very thorough understanding of what's going on.

People who've endured constant failure throughout their careers and who never gave up are often way more talented than successful people who've only experienced a few failures.

Failure is relentless. It's the default outcome for essentially every action, no matter how well it was planned beforehand. There is almost always something completely unexpected which pops out of nowhere and ruins everything.

Small things which pop out of nowhere to ruin everything are extremely common. When you have a lot of capital, you don't even notice those, but if don't have capital and you've failed many times before, you learn to operate at a different level; the essence of your strategy is not about looking at numbers and making broad, obvious projections, instead, your strategy is centered around anticipating and mitigating all possible small unexpected things that can go wrong.
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Blame the poor who vote for these politicians, they control the elections and thereby the country, in theory. Why non-rich people insist on voting Republican (the party that caters to the wealthy) is a mystery to me.

Lobbying is a form of weak power by comparison.
Requesting extensions will eventually become part of the UK's ceremonial tradition, like dragging the Speaker.