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> If the programming language is as natural as the human language,

In my experience, it isn't. Computers are much more pedantic and less forgiving than other people. Computers won't understand "what you meant to say".

Additionally people often have trouble communicating effectively with other people in their natural language. So a DSL being in that language doesn't necessarily guarantee the user's success in using that DSL correctly.
"But using the phrase “biological gender” isn't using them in the old way: the way in which they were synonymous is in reference to a idea which conflated sex, gender identity, and socially ascribed gender."

You just contradicted yourself. If the term 'gender' conflates several ideas, and adding the term 'biological' distinguishes them, then the previous poster hasn't changed the meaning of the word 'gender'. He's incorporated the new understanding but adapted the older language. Either way, the mere fact that nearly every person reading this understood his meaning shows that his expression was adequate to express his meaning.
Sadly, I did not enjoy _Lila_ nearly as much as ZATAOMM. It seemed to be less organized or something.
If I can see the next section of stopped cars, I will slowly accelerate and time it so that by the time I reach them, I don't have to stop and can continue driving at a somewhat constant rate.

I'm not sure speeding up as fast as you can helps because usually there is another jam around the corner.
I don't know if this is still done in grade schools or not, but long ago when I was in grade school, teachers would pass out strips of paper for reading - and as a bookmark. The idea that the student would hold it under the sentence in the paragraph they were reading so that they didn't get lost or lose their place.

I had been reading since before I started school; it was something I picked up early and that my parents encouraged in me greatly. So by the time I was in school and we were doing these reading exercises (which were mostly utterly boring to me at the time, because my favorite thing to read at home were my various science encyclopedia sets), I had no need for such a placeholder. Reading was natural to me, and I knew where I was in a paragraph, etc.

Of course, this upset the teachers, until they finally figured out that yes, I could read, and not only that, I could read well above my grade level (that said, my comprehension wasn't as great, unless it was geared toward topics of science).

I always figured that people who highlight text as they read on a screen do so for similar reasons; not that it's a stupid thing or anything - sometimes with long lines, small fonts, bad color/contrast choices, etc in text on a screen, you do need some kind of a marker to help you along...
I had to do this once myself. I was surprised by how hot the bike pump was by the end. It was on the threshold between warm and hot. It wouldn't burn you on contact, but you wouldn't want to grip it hard for more than a couple of seconds either.
When you quote the words, do you find what you're looking for?

In my experience, the times google seems to have totally missed the point of what I'm looking for, it's usually the times that the answer I'm looking for isn't anywhere on the web. Things like "datasheet JK45690DFS" or "Types of asphalt available for local delivery today".

I wish Google had some way to understand your query and the results well enough to just be able to say "The answer isn't available on the internet".
>The only way right now to ensure repairability is to legalize how phones should be assembled and basic architecture. The same way eu did with the charging port - although they didn't went after apple for some reason.

> On the other hand moving to system on a chip makes sense the way semiconductor have developed.

That's kind of the problem, right? Consumers demand higher performance, higher performance requires higher integration, and higher integration means less repairability.
> In one example Google discussed at a briefing with journalists yesterday, its search algorithm was able to parse the meaning of the following phrase: “Can you get medicine for someone pharmacy?”

Does that phrase have meaning?
> but we need Google to stop this "my way or you don't exist" attitude

I think that's exactly opposite. We need more competition, not forcing a private company to behave in some way that "we" (and who is "we"?) find acceptable.

It's time to break them up.
I'll also point out the whole deal was bought & sold by the state government as well. It wasn't just the local government. Governor Walker and the state representatives had an interest in getting the Foxconn deal through to show they were "creating jobs" for the state.
Granted from a political and economic standpoint imposing consumer carbon taxes is stupid and inane.
Just get a offline video recording device, and record yourself on loop if you want to have the feeling of being watched. Then just repeat what you did before and after the session for accountability.

This concept is creepy af, and its hilarious to have to pay for it.
Is there anything else remaining where he didn't want to take "leading position" in?
Is it the same for the janitor who sweeps the floors? You can't run a modern Facebook without basic sanitation, and on the back of these salaries people intend to raise children. Likewise, would you say the same thing to an accountant working in receivables?

"Do you find deep meaning in your work for random business? Why don't you do something truly meaningful with your life?"
The Tacoma is the NA equivalent of the Hilux, and they are close enough in form factor to be considered equivalent for the purposes of this comparison.
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I imagine an ant's drag coefficient is fairly high... and combined with the relative strength of the exoskeleton, they may as well be a powered armor trooper equivalent.
> At any time in the past five years, Google could have leveraged Android’s 80-plus-percent market share and told carriers that it was launching a default messaging service that works like iMessage, falling back to SMS only when necessary.

One of the reasons I threw away my iPhone was because I detest iMessage. I'm not sure why the author thinks that was the way to go.
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Sorry, didn't mean to be critical. Just trying to be funny. Many folks nowadays (my sister included) won't ever resort to voice calls; she won't even answer them.
As far as government programs go, now THIS is a good idea!
They WERE throaways for the first 10 years of smartphones. Every iPhone or Android release brought so many new improvements that last year's phone looked ancient.

Nowadays, we've finally hit diminishing returns and a 2 year old iPhone X is still about the same as an iPhone 11 Pro. It's become more like buying laptops. Therefore, we really need a way to repair these things.
Nature's implementation of packet deconfliction?
Freeways tend to clear out at 3 AM. So I would presume that it started that morning. Perhaps with a minor fender bender an hour earlier.

That said, I try to clear those up when I see them.
Furthermore, Apple's entire business plan goes out the door if this does indeed take place.
Later down the thread it shows that OVH Hosting's reputation is probably the reason why it's marked as spam.

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^ pretty nifty look at how your neighbors screw you sometimes
How much money does a gas station actually make on fuel, anyway? I would guess most gas stations make more money on junk food than they do on gas itself.
Khan wasn’t an idiot, he was ruthless. That’s a very different thing.

Likewise, the Holocaust is an interesting topic to study - how exactly did the Nazis murder millions while maintaining at least formal deniability? Would the same even be possible today, with our communications technology? My immediate reaction is “no”, but then I remember that there were people escaping from occupied territory with first-hand accounts of the atrocities being committed, and it was still far from common knowledge.

I don’t believe for a moment that every German who claimed ignorance of the extermination camps was doing so earnestly, but every American I’ve spoken with that lived through WW2 said that there wasn’t really any mention of the camps until Western Allies started liberating them. Even when the Soviets started encountering them, the media treated them as rumor.

I strongly suspect that today, the same thing could happen and that people who reported on it and tried to investigate/document it would be seen as part of the “conspiracy fringe” in one form or another. Indeed, it may be happening, in China, with the Uighurs and other groups. The fact that I don’t really know how much weight to give reports from there gives me pause, and I consider myself fairly well-informed. Certainly better informed than the average “man on the street”, if only because politics is an interest of mine.
Yep, more people should be starting from spreadsheets and figuring out how to make them more capable of correctness and maintainability, instead of starting from programming concepts and figuring out how to make them more accessible. Most people who work in businesses already know how to program, they just do it in formulas in spreadsheet cells.
> which not only completely ignores mistreatment of ethnic, religious and sexual minorities - from imprisonment

but the US statistics on imprisonment of minorities is no better.

> For example the frequent adulteration of food (including baby food) with poisons

all major countries have scares and recalls due to contamination

> The panopticon surveillance

really? After all the details come out in the last 5 years, surveillance cannot be thrown at the Chinese alone. UK leads CCTV per population (or some metric). NSA data slurping revelations...

> and the inevitable lack of reforms to public health and safety.

why do you think the Chinese do not make improvements to public health and safety? Of course they do.

> Increasing nationalism, police observation and 'patriotic' violent attacks on foreigners

errr are you blind to the rise of this in the US since Trump and UK since brexit?

> Violence against medical professionals when patients feel

Bombing abortion clinics comes to mind

> The rise of an unelected dictator forming a cult of personality and the subsequent reinvigoration of anti-foreign, nativist han Chinese sentiment, and the increased suppression of minorities and dissent that has resulted.

Change unelected to "unelected by the majority" in higly disputed elections countrywide with many cases of fraud and vote tampering and I can think of another country this applies to

Anyway, why does the above mean there is no "American Dream" in China, when most the accusations you make can be levelled (in some form) to the US as well
A motivating example for this is someone who drives the 80 miles from Austin TX to San Antonio to spend the day with friends.

With only a 150mi range EV, a 15-20 min fast charge would be enough to comfortably do the return trip that same day without range anxiety.

Existing gas stations (or parking lots) could serve that use case, which is fairly common in the US, where mid distance trips are almost completely car based.

Today, they could charge the same or lower price/mile-of-range as gasoline and make a large margin, since electricity is less than half the price of gasoline per mile (at retail prices, there's an even bigger difference with wholesale prices).
We have the same issue. Online surveys being sent as invites to 100s of 1000s of people per day and although we are good at spotting SPAMMERs setting up free accounts, obviously people will always receive an invite they might consider SPAM and we get derated. Persnally, we find Yahoo is the worst for blocking.

It would be good to have a central registry of mail forwarders so that SPAM is not detected against registered IPs and then issues can be followed up directly with anyone who abuses the system. Do you really want to greylist Amazon SES because one of its users sends out spam?
That's totally false. There's lots of valuing one person over another based on what they said and felt. Then rejecting that user due to failing signal's byzantine bug reporting system
I wish all the energy being thrown at "repair" laws would instead go into better warranty laws, which I think is the real underlying issue of which "repairability" is only a symptom. An easy to repair device still leaves the consumer paying money, and often ridiculously early (within a year or two even for top end gear). When people spend $500-1k for a smartphone say, I think there is the general expectation it'll work for at least a good 4-5 years under normal usage, and that most people do in fact experience that. But a percentage don't, and then have to take on the entire cost, or else everyone has to overpay heavily through "extended warranties" which are big profit centers that have no clear pricing, are hidden from the sticker price, and create perverse incentives.

So basically it's a classic externality problem. Instead the law should simply make sure that "how long a device lasts" matches reasonable expectation. There are many ways to do this, such as saying everything is 6 months minimum for the first $50 and then another month per $15-20 up to a maximum of 5 years, and mandating repair/replace will happen within 2 weeks. The specifics could be hashed out, but the goal should be to makes sure that for the price consumers see advertised they are promised it will than work for a knowable reasonable lifespan for zero extra cost. "Extended/enhanced warranties" should only exist for special commercial/professional use cases, like extreme support periods, specific fast SLA, or advanced RMAs. By law though all standard use should be covered.

Then manufacturers can figure out the right mix of strategies to meet those goals. Repairability might be part of that, because they could satisfy their obligations more cheaply. But it's not the only way or the necessarily right way in all cases, like sometimes additional QA or better design upfront (reducing failure rate even if each individual failure or more expensive) would be more important. Or just having large enough margins to eat the cost if they can add enough value in other ways. It's a bad idea to have government mandate the method, what government should do is mandate the goal and the goal should be that products last, at zero additional cost. That way everything can be compared with no digging.
Electricity can replace most energy needs. Whatever is left should be minimal (~5% total oil consumption, air travel, chemical processing, steel coking, etc). Coal and nuclear are already not cost competitive, if natural gas can't compete with batteries, it too will be left as a stranded asset. Natural gas is a perfect fit now for renewables, it throttles very fast and ramps every night for the steep duck curve in California. Batteries are even faster. Hundreds of GWs of annual battery production coming online across the world.
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/jul/05/meet-the-numt...
Any time management uses the phrase 'other duties and responsibilities,' and anytime management is suddenly willing to implement an idea they previously fought against.

A few days after switching roles and organizations within the company from regular system admin work to my first real development job, my old boss realized they were completely unprepared to continue without me. Due to the overall importance of my former customer to the company as a whole I was horse traded among senior management back to my old organization and role on a part time basis under the 'other duties and responsibilities' clause of my employment contract.

Prior to switching roles I made the case that the company should back-fill my position due to overall workload, the likelihood for burnout among my old teammates, impact to customer, etc (the original intention was to drop the role via attrition). I knew that something was up when my old manager was all excited to tell me that the company took my suggestions seriously.

As for how I dealt with it - unfortunately I bent over and took it. I have a myriad of reasons as to why, but the most salient is I feel I need the development experience and don't think I'd be able to find job elsewhere just yet. This has definitely accelerated my overall plans to leave the company entirely, but in the meantime I'm trying to milk all the experience I can from my new role and am preparing to quit at the earliest possible moment.

The silver lining out of this is that my partner, family, and friends have all been incredibly supportive. Additionally the team lead on my new team understands the situation I'm in and is trying very hard to present me opportunities to grow and expand my skill set even though I intend to leave the company in the future.
Yes, but it doesn't answer why these things had to change and why it is better now.
I found this more readable and understandable than the Haskell post, although I can't quite say why. It might simply be the repetition.

I'm really interested in Futhark, though I haven't found a project where it would be make sense to use it. But I feel like it has the same potential to make GPU programming not feel overwhelming the same way Elm did with frontend work for me.
Have you calculated how much compute time running a single regular expression over all content on the internet would cost?

$$$$$$'s I'd bet... One big tech company used to let employees do it on an internal internet mirror... It wasn't cheap.
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I wonder about this. By all accounts construction of homes in China is so haphazard buildings frequently become uninhabitable, and occasionally literally collapse within a few years. Clearly China has a lot of money and has exhibited the capacity for some large scale construction projects. But to what extent it is merely attempting to outrun a construction bubble, and ensnare developing world countries in debt; versus building a sustainable economic model, is questionable.

At the bottom end, manufacturing is moving out of China to countries like Vietnam. While high tech manufacturing is still China's forte, this is largely confined to special economic zones like Shenzien, and reliant on lack of enforcement of patent and copyright, as well as government subsidies for import and exports of components and manufactured goods. We're all familiar with the impossibly cheap components and electronic devices available through services like Ali.

I'm not sure any of this is sustainable - whether in an environmental sense, or economically. There is much that is illusory about the Chinese economy, and the recent clamp down of state control may well be an effort for the CCP to maintain control during the inevitable economic collapse they see coming.
I know, right? The crazy thing is, the Great Artesian Basin.

The problem with water in Australia, is the politics. Australians have one of the most heinous political systems around, yet seem adequately comfortable with their lot.

I mean, its the nation that sat by and watched the Great Barrier Reef die. Care of the land has not been a priority in Australia for about 200 years...

(Not trolling, Aussies! She'll be right mates!)
There are no dangerous weapons; there are only dangerous men.
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> The 50s are quite often described as the time that America had achieved the 'American Dream'.

white middle class America maybe, but certainly not "America"
I'll take your disgarded phones. I'm sure I can find a market.
Speaking of Klingon and natural language influencing programming language semantics, I believe var'aq[0] is said to be structured the way it is to better follow the Klingon grammar. It also supports both English and Klingon keywords, which I think is an important compromise.

We already know that powerful programming languages can be built with non-ASCII characters in mind -- see APL, for example.

However, we also know that the difficulties of typing these languages without special keyboard support have led to a variety of more English in ASCII language successors such as J/K/L.

[0] https://esolangs.org/wiki/Var%27aq
> What does it mean "to program"?

Whatever definition you end up with, it must have equal representation of data and code.

Current GUIs are have the same problems as the 50's analog computers that required somebody inside them plugging cables all day long.
I just do not understand this mentality. We live in a primarily homogeneous society. There will be friction there. It comes across as overly sensitive.
I find some luck quoting individual words.
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Consumer EV charging is basically a cooker circuit.

When you go to serious Amperage and High/Medium Voltages its a completely different ball game.
> 2. Please provide any evidence that I made claims that the greehouse effect doesn't exist.

Okay, so it does exist - that's great! We're ~1.3C above the pre-industrial average today.

Which part of this 1.3C came from the greenhouse effect, which part of it comes from a collection of odd one-off factors, and which part of it came from the magical IPCC-ignored radiation spectrum that has nothing to do with the greenhouse effect?

Please, provide numbers. Not hand-waving - but numbers.

Also, since it does exist - how much warming would the greenhouse effect be expected to contribute when we hit 500 ppm carbon? 650 ppm?
>You can play games with early steam engines burning lignite or peat and it won't matter terribly much at the time or in the long run, but it seems there's only one way, using metal catalysts, to "invent" your first organic chemistry hydrogenation process, for example. You can make steel in a low tech medieval blacksmiths shop, but transistors have tighter constraints.

But, what if these aliens are say chromium or silicone based life from a planet with a chlorine or fluorine based atmosphere. I imagine the dependency chain would look totally different for a species like that. The chemical reactions we rely on for many of our sciences on earth would not work at all in an evironment like that. Combustion based technology would likely not be at the forefront of such a species.

I think a lot of anthropomorphization goes on when it comes to aliens. Just on earth we've got billions of different forms of life, all of which is specifically adapted for earth's conditions. Change any of those conditions even a little and life on earth would look totally different, as it has for most of earth's history.

I see no reason why any kind of aliens, interstellar travellers or not, would need to resemble us or any of the technological dependency chains we've created. It assumes everywhere else works mostly the same as it has here for the short window as humans have existed and that the chains of technological dependencies humans have created based on the resources available on earth are a universal technological progression all intelligent life must goes through, which just seems arrogant and all knowing to me.
It's a lot of local councils making judgements individually on an case by case basis. The rules can vary quite a lot depending on the individuals involved.

It's also important to remember that most Amish didn't choose that lifestyle, they were born into it. And while it is possible to leave at any time, it is pretty difficult to adjust to a radically different lifestyle with little support on the outside. So instead you see stuff like air powered blenders where people work loopholes so they can lead a more comfortable life while not having to go to extremes.

This is the major difference between the Amish and for example Monks. In the latter case they chose that lifestyle and find it fulfilling in itself. They weren't forced into it.
Swedish police given green light to use spyware
I love the Latin one, looks like a magical incantation :)
Not electric SUVs.