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That's possibly my biggest grief with Edgmium. Chromium's (SDL-based?) text renderer is terrible on Windows compared to DirectWrite (the Window 8+ text rendering engine that replaced the crumbling GDI+ in the Windows OS interface and UWP apps but not ancient Win32 tech debt).

(I suppose it's also my biggest hope for Edgmium if they can somehow magic together a switch to DirectWrite on Windows, maybe that'd better the font rendering across Electron apps too.)
Sure, it might be criminal fraud, but a lawsuit like this is civil. And in a civil lawsuit, you generally have to show actual damages. People that lost on the Bitcoin bubble burst caused in part by tether may have a stronger case though.
I thought I'd be onboard from the first paragraph but then you took a hard turn into gamification.

That seems like entirely too much overhead for a topic that already doesn't have enough time to teach the fundamentals properly. Not to mention that, at some point, you hit a wall of severe diminishing returns on promoting interest through gamification without enormous payoffs. People will either be engaged with the material or they won't. Your class/their grade is simply not high enough stakes for someone not interested in the material to slog through with that extra effort.

What would happen is a couple folks who would have already been motivated will suggest their answer and the rest of the room will follow one of them.

I like the 'pick and choose'-additive model you mentioned. It builds in extra credit along the way, too. 12 weekly assignments worth 5 pts apiece (say 1 question, 1 pt, they can be longer questions), 3 exams worth 20 points each.

Of course, that is merely making explicit a fairly normal system where you just don't know the assignment counts or weights beforehand.

But you could adjust it so that, instead of 12 homeworks, you can do a handful of projects that require deeper understanding. For people uninterested, just getting their credit, they can slog through the simple homework. For those motivated to learn the material more deeply, they can do the harder, deeper work (that hopefully takes less overall time - no need to punish them).
Is it better to have companies pay taxes that can go toward programs like this OR have them "give" money to help form/direct programs like the example here?

I guess they could do both, but what should the standard be?
>The GPL forces people to look away, to keep shopping for solutions or to write their own. The GPLed solution which could have made their life easier is on the wrong side of an event horizon which prevents them from taking advantage and causes a problem (many problems!) to be solved more than once, because they don't wish to go there and stay there.

That "event horizon" you're talking about is one that stops people from taking code that already exists, building on it to solve more problems, and... not letting anyone else use it.

I, too, believe that no problem should need to be solved more than once. The GPL is in part a tool to help ensure that.
That's not what anyone says.

The hard part is exchanging USDT (or bitcoin) for actual money since banks don't want to touch crypto with a 10-mile pole.
The ethics of the 4 day work week. It’s not just about the hours
Making of "artificial opinions" is a big part of PR trade now, in use by commercial companies, NGOs, and politicians, of course. If it's paid with tax money that's a scandal, for sure. But otherwise think of any entity which wants (for whatever reason) to influence public opinion - you may be sure they do that sort of stuff with practically 100% certainty. Some prefer to use volunteers for this work, seeing it as a more ethical approach, but it still involves creation of orchestrated accounts, and posting in accordance with guides, and schedules. It's probably worth accepting that unknown voices on the net are unlikely to be trusted sources of information.
Then the high school exams just become the de facto college entry exams. It still adds all kind of wealth privilege gates to who gets free tuition at the best schools.
Ouch! The ole Alma mater ain't what she used to be.
Same type of buildings are littered across Portland and sitting with in vacancy.
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It's probably closer to 100%. People quit bosses, not jobs.
Microsoft tried a 4-day workweek in Japan. Productivity jumped 40%
I believe it's called the "wait calculation".
2019 manifestos are not yet available. So I guess you are thinking of the Labour policies in the 2017 election. Which policy was only possible after Brexit? The IFS (Institute for Fiscal Studies who fact check all public finance here) were critical of both 2017 manifestos, but were far more directly critical of the Tory one as being damaging to the UK economy.

It is a very long time since the Tory party could be considered a safe pair of hands economically.
Was there discussion about the downsides of open sourcing the implementation? With an open source implementation, it becomes easier to test transformations that will change the hash without changing the image in ways a human can’t notice?
It sounds like they found a good way to end it, so they decided to do that instead of just stringing it along.

https://www.slashfilm.com/why-silicon-valley-is-ending/
Which major religion other than Islam forbids it?
Thanks for the feedback. Interesting, do you require multiple calls to get them across the line? I guess I presumed if you could put it on the company credit card, we'd go from 4-6 calls down to 1 call or 0 calls.
It started getting pretty formulaic, and some of the characters changed in ways that made no sense, Richard being the main one. Early on, he wasn't OK with paid users padding the usage metrics for Pied Piper and completely ruined Bachman's fundraising, but then like 2 seasons later he's totally OK installing software on everyone's phones at a tech conference? Totally inconsistent character development.

TJ Miller leaving was another huge setback for them, he really was the perfect foil for all of the characters around him.
Sure SMF wasn't universally liked with its introduction. Just like Apples Launchd. However the big difference is that for those 2 the resistance was mostly attributable to people not liking change. And that kind of resistance fades over time. Since its basically still the same thing only somewhat different.

However the problem most people have with systemd is the massive (growing) scope. So because it keeps growing and changing the "resistance" people have towards it gets refueled all the time.
I can't see how you think there's absolutely no connection here. The Chinese government has demonstrated very clearly it will coerce their citizens' compliance - they're not going to be immune to this just by not being activists.

If you have something they want - or are able to do something they want - it's quite obvious they will use your family as leverage.
It's not just a question of ego and power. It's fundamentally based in the ideological belief that the ends justify the means--though that belief is very useful for laundering motivations of ego and power into self-perceived righteousness.

These people didn't necessarily want to alleviate immediate material suffering in the here and now. They wanted to Achieve Communism, which would supposedly alleviate material suffering forever. If that meant tens of millions had to be sacrificed on that altar, so be it.
Once GitHub has financial data associated with accounts they could easily setup a bounty-for-PR system. I bet it’s already in the works.
The UI could be better, but it is a great tool, I am sharing it with friends and family, how does it work? Is it a known algorithm?
And? Mac and Linus systems have the same issues, yet my laptop is a mac and most of my docker hosts are linux.
> I'm on my third panel and they all develop white spots from the cover not being protective enough.

Is that what it's from!? My T450s screen is full of those spots...
"Reasonable" is relative. Tuition at U.S. "public" universities is still around $10k per year, even if you're in-state:

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/24/tuition-at-public-universiti...
AFAIK, a company called Staber builds washers and dryers with nods to repairability.
Sorry to hear that. I graduated the same year as you but had an incredibly positive experience, and one I look on more and more fondly over time. Having said that, I immediately recognize that IT IS NOT for everybody. There are a few peculiarities about the school that can really make it or break it for you, even beyond simply the matter of fit. To me the house system was the epicenter of my social life, and I know full well that had I simply been assigned to a different random group of people my experience could have been significantly different and possible way worse.
Yes, that surprised me too. But do you have any idea how your phone's alarm can ring when the battery is dead? Does it have a second battery?
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There's also this: https://pypi.org/project/pandasql/
Really? Please don't prick the clickbait bubble? That is the /exact/ emotion that makes us be exploited by this clickbait. And it /is/ clickbait. Bringing it back to reality is what most of us need and actually want. Being taken advantage of becuase you would literally clutch the tip of a sword as somoene drowning is just really horrible. You clutch the sword and they let it go as you've served your purpose and they couldn't stop you drowning anyway. It's vile.
> Even the amortization schedule is weighted to benefit the banks.

Can you explain this or say what the alternative amortization schedule might be? In a normal mortgage, the initial payments are more interest because you're paying interest on more principal.
Companies like Toyota and VW roll out a new chassis once or twice a decade and you see some amount of shared powertrain parts everywhere from economy level to high-end performance and luxury models. They're really good at building common skeletons where every part of a car is pieced together like interchangeable legos. The research cost is high but the investment is inevitably returned with the scale and time available to these entities.
They do that too. Apple is doubling the size of their Cork office in Ireland I think. They are also significantly expanding in Austin and other locations with sane cost of living.
A email or a meeting? A Slack message or go to their desk?
I paid $500 and put a hitch on my Model S. I can tow more with a trailer than I could've put in my Toyota pickup truck bed (in 10 years of ownership, I never once towed anything more than 1000 lbs with my pickup). Not saying your use case is wrong (I get the appeal having owned a truck for so long), only that folks should consider that a pickup truck is not the only path to easy cargo logistics.
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The problem is that some people are going to make the argument that it's about what the tool was designed to do. At which point they're on the idiotic knife ban bandwagon.
Oh, I am not saying we shouldn't launch, it is just an interesting conundrum.

I think if you do launch then you have a clear target to improve on.

And the next one does not have to go to the same destination.
Was this a problem even earlier or is this new due to all the new immigration they had since 2015?

Serious question, as an immigrant myself interested in how large scale immigration effect adopting societies.
You allow it in your home so that you do not offend your family member that gave it to you.
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Yes, they were against it for that reason. Microsoft was meh. Google and Apple were for it. So, my point stands I think.

Having only one (very good and stable) implementation for something isn’t a good enough reason to lose such great functionality IMO.
its usually about who has the most financial stamina in the face of legal manuevers.
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That is a real Internet of Shit story. Fuck it, put a chip in it.
what if instead of actually "going back" (which we can't anyways) we just re-apply this notion going forward?
Don't you have radio clocks? A single transmitter has a range up to 2000km. Perhaps more depending on the frequency. There are also GPS solutions, although those are more error prone.
Do you have a reference on this?

Google's Ngram Viewer has ... nil results for "master of science in commerce".

There is a "master of commerce" degree, though that's both contemporary and specific to Commonwealth countries, generally:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_of_Commerce

Hrm ... OK, so Dartmouth offered an MS Commerce in 1900, though it appears that:

1. Wharton had pioneered the concept in 19 years earlier in 18881.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/23702737

2. Harvard introduced an MBA, apparently under that name, in 1908.

doi://10.1016/j.emj.2014.03.006

Seems it's more accurate to say that there was an offered programme as "MS Commerce", but that the degree was never widespread, nor was usage long-lived.
I think at the core it's a Ruby problem. Ruby is the programming language ecosystem I've never been successful in using Windows native builds of it. Ruby on Windows has long been a nightmare of kludges and it really seems to show how few Ruby developers must use Windows as a daily driver given how poor the support has always been for it.

(I say this as someone that used NodeJS when Windows native builds of it were an unsupported community project around the time of the IoJS fork and no one was sure Windows support would survive, much less be officially adopted. That was still a better situation than any time I've tryed to bootstrap a Ruby environment on Windows.)

Ruby is my primary and sometimes sole usage of WSL.
> I have the most awesome alarm clock.

It's cruel to describe such a thing without providing a link or at least a brand name/model number.
VW has 113 billion euros of debt.
It's a reference to the "land of the free" dig. The U.S. already spends similar amounts of public money on higher education as Germany, etc. (As a %-age of GDP). We don't have free universities, however, because our universities spend vastly more money. That has benefits for students. In my own experience, going to an expensive private law school was a much nicer experience than going to a rigorous, but more spartan, public engineering school for undergrad. There was much more academic support, hand-holding, mental health services, beautiful facilities, etc. Even American community colleges are really nice. (My mother in law works at a community college in rural Oregon. It's got a fantastic, brand-new fitness facility with sweeping views, etc.)

We can debate about whether that's a good use of money, or what spending priorities should be. Maybe the right thing to do is cut costs, preserving an equivalent education experience while cutting frills. Or, maybe Americans are so rich it's reasonable for us to splurge on all of that stuff. But Americans aren't irrational. It's not like Americans are just sitting here refusing to adopt an approach that would get them the same college experience for vastly less money.
“We just sat down this season and started writing and just felt it out and just decided we had a really good way to go out this season,” Judge said. “So that was that” (https://www.slashfilm.com/why-silicon-valley-is-ending/)

And then he has some movie ideas: https://www.indiewire.com/2019/03/silicon-valley-ending-mike...
Ok, nothing man-made of the spacecraft type...
> I will also point out that the European model is not free, universal college degrees for all - access is restricted behind rigorous entrance exams

WHAT ?? Not. at. all.

I'm french and university is almost FREE (never more than 1000 euros a year and mostly around 300) for anyone with the A-level, at any age. Yeah of course there are exams like for any diploma in the entire world but there are not "super rigorous" especially at uni. There's only a "hard" exam in medecine, and normal "exams" every year (like in every program in the world) that are basically a joke for anyone qualified in these disciplines. If you want you can enroll in elite tracks, which are very hard, but they are almost free too (i paid 0 for the education, 200 a year for housing + around 60 euro per month of food).

Granted you have amphitheater with hundreds of people, but if you are motivated you'll get the education.

The most expensive school in frances are the high end economic school and some engineering school (not the best ones actually) and it's under 10k a year.

You have no idea of how much you get screwed in the US
> Good luck with that. You just made college out of reach for everyone that isn't already wealthy, exacerbating inequality and further entrenching class boundaries.

You could apply that argument to anything. "Good luck with that, now people can't afford mansions, Good luck with that now people can't afford private jets".

Should everybody be able to afford mansions or private jets? No.

College should either be free, thus directly paid for by the government, or not everybody should go to college, you can't have it both ways, or that's how you'll get your big next financial crisis. The government should not back private loans, period.

Cost of education has skyrocketed BECAUSE banks started to loan crazy amounts of money to every students. This is free money for the banks.
In fact is it possible most of the energy it got is not from human but from inter planet force? Hence we need someone to keep on calculating when is the best time to send another one. Not that we have sent any ...
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> have the state directly fund universities and don't charge tuition to students

That's how you end up with "Education" being the first cost element of the French budget (about 72 billions EUR per year) despite pretty poor academic results (that can be easily observed in the ever-decreasing level of the national exams). When government manages everything in one field, that field becomes mismanaged (trains: SNCF always in the red, the post office: ever increasing costs for users year after year, etc...)
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I totally get that. Shopping at Whole Foods is not part of my plan either. My point is narrowly tailored, in that the OP said that there is a new apartment building being built with no matching resources to support it. That's not true because having a Whole Foods directly underneath an apartment building charging $4K rents does seem like a match.

I live in the Outer Sunset, and it is not by any stretch of the imagination a food desert. There's many grocery options with easy parking or by train, just not in walking distance.
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From her elder sister. Or “of”. It is just awesome.
That seems surprisingly low.
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I hate low DNS TTLs. They are a stupid way to do load balancing.

However they wouldn't be quite as bad if web pages didn't load useless crap from 60 different domains.
In the European Union the most inefficient devices are simply banned. (In some cases, I don't keep up-to-date with consumer appliances.)

For tumble driers, scroll to the annex of https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A...

"From 1 November 2015:

— for condenser household tumble driers the energy efficiency index (EEI) shall be less than 76,

— for condenser household tumble driers, the weighted condensation efficiency shall be not lower than 70 %."

(And then a definition of what that means.)
The vast majority of jobs/careers/professions do not require sitting in a classroom for 4 years to learn enough to do them. Even less require sitting in an extremely expensive classroom for 4 years.

At the same time learning has never been more accessible. I can study Python, mechanical engineering, calculus, aviation ground school, etc all without leaving the house if I wanted. So how does a commodity like education, which is basically free for the people who want to learn, increase in price?
If you add room and board UCLA is $65,000 for out-of-state students: http://www.admission.ucla.edu/Prospect/budget.htm Compare that to $74,000 for Stanford. Suddenly Stanford looks not so bad! https://financialaid.stanford.edu/undergrad/budget/index.htm...
Because neither a phone or watch alarm can wake me gently with light[1].

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Yeah but did they use Agile methods and have good team velocity as they burned down the backlog? If not, how can we really be sure the project was a success?
It comes from the federal indictment of the Russian troll farm called the Internet Research Agency in February 2016, in which the IRA would “use any opportunity to criticize Hillary and the rest (except Sanders and Trump—we support them.)”

This has been confirmed with research by independent media analysts like Johnathan Albright.

There's a good summary here: https://slate.com/technology/2018/02/what-we-know-about-the-...
It's been some time since my Bible studies but isn't there something in the Old Testament against loans / lending money with interest?
The other half doesn't want it to somehow get back to their old manager, that they left to escape them!
Living in California, although not in the Bay area, I don't know that the public expectation was to have Apple or other tech companies do this.

I'm happy for it, but would be happier still to see Apple paying taxes to fund similar programs rather than privatizing something that I agree should be done through the government.
Ireland has a leaving certificate - 6 subjects graded and points awarded, those points are used as a gatekeeper for universities. UK has A-levels, 3 AP level subjects which gate University access.
It also depends on how the question is asked. I've left jobs where I respected my manager...but not someone higher up the chain. At least once the manager left almost immediately after I did, for the same reasons.
California will squander this money on literaly nothing like they already do - what a waste.
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My original comment was about NL. What is your point?
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We also need to consider modernizing our "trade" skill list.

Based on the success of bootcamps etc.... I do wonder if software engineering would be better as a trade skill rather than university
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