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As someone who has been working in the _same_ python codebase for near a decade (off and on, it is an ancillary internal service with ~150k lines of code that does not get enough love), I speak from experience when I say that any service being maintained needs to have static typing. `def foo(bar)` - what _is_ bar?! What can I do with it? I either get to dig up and up the stack or pull out a debugger. Additionally, in python, you can iterate over a string or a list, so now you have to protect against both being passed in. Even this simple thing has caused many-o-bug in my experience. Half the tests are type validations.
Drone hinders firefighting efforts as Maria fire doubles in size overnight
Over $50M US Spent on Facebook Ads by US Presidential Candidates
This is true for strategic strike (a bomber has the space for crew rest) and an absolute godsend for the Navy (CVW have lacked real organic tank options since the retirement of the S-3- note that CVW ASW is another mission where drones could be dramatic improvements) but I don't think that this will enable something as dramatic as a pull-out of Al Udeid. No one is going to want to be in a F-22 or F-35 for a combat flight from Diego Garcia to Mosul, and US strategic strike components are so limited that I can't see them bearing the full burden of something like OIR.
Feel free to report your org to your merchant processor if necessary if you're not meeting compliance requirements and think you can get away with it without compromising yourself.
They are very obviously competing with each other. Every industry has conferences that all the big players go to, it doesn't mean they're illegally cooperating.
What would be a reasonable way to let Mozilla know that I strongly disagree with this decision (and, really, the majority of calls they have made surrounding extension security lately)? Who was responsible for making this decision on their end? I am very close to the point where I can no longer recommend Firefox to anyone (after sticking with them through some of the darkest years in terms of product quality), because they are becoming a worse enemy of the open internet than Google but harder to hold accountable for it.
Commenters here seem to be missing his real thesis: we buy these objects because humans believe there are "deeper" properties than just its sensory or signaling value.

One study Bloom performed: people were asked to value a dress shirt in a plastic wrapping that had merely been owned -- never touched -- by a celebrity. The self-assessed value on the mint condition shirt was higher than a regular mint condition shirt -- merely being owned on paper by a celebrity gave it more value. I think about this experiment probably once a month.

If you enjoyed Professor Bloom's writing, check out his research on babies' sense of morality: https://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/09/magazine/09babies-t.html
The whole reason we started tracking HTTPS vs HTTP was because of LetsEncrypt. Love that they broke the need to pay ridiculously overpriced fees to generate certs.
To get better at something, deliberate practice with swift reinforcement often proves a successful tactic.

Are you trying to improve by just taking notes and hoping you somehow get better, or are you deliberately practicing and assessing your own performance, and repeating note-taking practices to deliberately improve?
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That's good. One structural issue with the internet down, many more to go. There is essentially no guarantee that cloud providers don't snoop through memory and steal your keys and sift through your data, for instance. There are just some big companies that we implicitly trust. Whenever the endpoint for encryption /decryption is under the control of a 3rd party, any guarantee of data safety isn't real. We have devices that constantly go out looking for new code to run, with proprietary blobs in firmware, which means they're 3rd party controllable. Control of the internet is in the hands of organizations that can't be held accountable for abuse of power over individuals.

I guess I'm just saying I don't have faith that a system (I'm talking about the intersection of technology, government, and business here) which puts so little power in the hands of individuals will do an adequate job of serving their interests in the long term.
My last job kept hiring more PMs and no techs. It was horrible. I kept having to tell the customers "Sorry we can't get the projects done, we have 5 project managers and only 2 techs."
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Couple ideas:

* work out. I like free weights and bike riding or running for cardio. I recommend the local YMCA as these tend to be more community driven and less profit motivated pickup centers

* cook. this has several benefits. it can be challenging and relaxing while providing necessary sustenance at a price point cheaper than going out. can also be a social thing.

* take a class / learn something. it can be work related, semi work related or something else. I like the free educational videos on the webs. lately I've been getting back into math which is semi work related but in the past I have taken language classes at the local community college.

* outdoor activities or team sports. Did you have a favorite thing to do outside as a child or teen? Maybe you could take it up again or try something new. basketball, soccer (football if you are not in USA), surfing, geocaching, ultimate frisbee, bicycling, golf?

* amateur radio. getting a license is easy if you are at all technical and it opens up some doors for mucking with WIFI or LORA, SDR, and more. hams are an aging group but they are friendly, knowledgeable and desperately want their hobby to survive.

* maker projects. there are many projects already documented on the web or you can build your own. kind of amazing what one person can do with a raspberry pi, some basic electronic parts, and a bit of code.

* volunteer. so many organizations need skilled people. can you mentor people on computer skills or something else?
I believe Jython offers the same level of protection against shooting yourself in the foot as CPython, yet it allows allows for parallel execution by relying on finer grained locking. The concurrency issues with threads are still present in CPython with the GIL as the interpreter may switch threads between any instruction.
I chose using vim + tmux instead of using the vim-specific tiling. The main benefit for me is that all tiles are using same mechanism, as opposed to tmux for shells and vim for code
Having cut my professional teeth on php, perl, ruby, and python, I find no reduced speed working in Go. In fact, I think it is faster to develop in Go. The only time this is not the case is very simple run-once scripts where I don't need tests, and even then I'm not convinced that python is faster.
That doesn't matter at all.

The US controls its domestic market - just as China controls their domestic market - and when it comes to going back and reviewing the TikTok / Musical.ly combination it can dictate terms across the app stores which are all US controlled.

The US can say: we're going to ban your combined entity from all global app stores by forcing Google and Apple to comply with our position on that merged entity (TikTok + Musical.ly).

Google and Apple resist? Say hello to national security based sanctions. They will immediately comply, no more questions asked.

The US can instantly, globally kill TikTok, for all intents and purposes. TikTok would disappear from most global app store availability within a week, from Canada to Australia. It would probably only exist in China.

It's unfair? Tell Qualcomm - NXP that. That was blocked solely out of spite by China. This is an economic conflict with China. When China lets US Internet companies have proper, full access to their market maybe the US will relent and start playing 'fair.'
If you have your DMARC set up right, anyone else who tries to send email using your domain as the "from" address will trigger a DMARC violation. It may be that having your address on a public mailing list triggers spammers to try using your domain.
My Little Optimization: The Compiler Is Magic (2018)
So for my personal projects, I use lets encrypt. As far as I know (and I could be wrong now, haven't checked in a while) - their certs are only good for 3 months. Which is simple enough to get around - run a script on your box that updates the cert every 90 days automatically.

At work, we use a paid certificate that is good for a longer period of time (normally a year). So that's one benefit to paying, I suppose.

As far as encryption technologies and security, the traffic encrypted by a lets encrypt cert is just as secure as the traffic secured by a paid-for CA signed cert.
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Indeed, C and C++ have always been two different languages. Hence the "not unlike".

I still occasionally see people trying to compile or link C++ with 'gcc'. Does that work? Maybe or even most of the time, but doing that is a sin.
We've banned this account for using HN primarily for ideological battle. Doing that destroys the intellectual curiosity the site exists for, so we ban accounts that do that, regardless of what they're battling for or against.

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Again, the whole point of neonicotinoids is that they're less toxic to mammals than their predecessors (primarily organophosphates) and can be used in smaller amounts. The pollination industry does not appear to be collapsing despite the widespread, longstanding use of neonicotinoids. Who exactly is being poisoned?
Totally different perspective from mine, but certainly valid. If you're familiar with spoon theory, the spoons you spend just working are spoons you need in order to look for a new job.
I grow a lot of crops that require pollination, vegetables for market, and I have several small fruit orchards. After European bee colony collapse in my area the european honey bees disappeared. Within one season they were replaced with native pollinators, including literally dozens of species of bees I'd never seen before (because the alien european bees were starving them out), as well as a panoply of wasp species which I hadn't realized were major pollinators. Some of the wasps that moved in have done things like eliminate the Japanese Beetles that were ruining my grape and berry crops. Losing the european honey bees was the best thing ever to happen to me. And these other bees don't seem to get mixed up in the problems with the neonicotinoids. I use neonicotinoids myself for my dogs and cats and for termite control and they are the least toxic solutions for both of these uses. I do not support the use of neonicotinoids as applied directly to flowering crops or lawns with clover etc and consider such use to be highly misguided if not fairly insane.

Loss of European honey bees means expensive honey. It doesn't mean a loss of pollinators despite various misguided claims to the contrary that have been promoted for years, some making completely hysterical and unfounded claims of global starvation and the end of humanity. To the contrary in my experience the result is greater pollination and yields following the loss of the alien bee species.
> We are constantly improving our languages because improving a language is a great productivity win.

I think that ignores the time invested in the upgrade churn and making sure all the little pieces stay compatible.

Home OS releases have moved to yearly release cycles and it drives me nuts. AirPods Pro, released in the last few days, requires macOS Catalina 10.15.1 for full compatibility. A lot of software hasn't been updated (and likely will never be updated). I don't mean to single out this one thing, there are countless other examples.

Businesses I've worked at have kind of ignored these cycles. CentOS seems to have 1-2 dot releases a year and most places I've been jump to the new one every 3 years or so (major releases even longer).

I don't have recent experience with Python because my industry is still stuck on 2.x. The transitions between 2.3, 4, 5, 6, 7 were fairly smooth, but at that pace of new versions and code changes it was pretty common to straddle 3 versions and stumble on bugs fixed long ago in major versions we weren't able to adopt yet.

It sometimes feels like we can never make progress in higher level tools because we're trying to keep up with lower level tools.
At the moment there is definitely a majority of people sitting in the Senate who would put their signature under an "everything is fine". My hope is that this changes, but the chances are limited, if at all existent, so: yes, by all accounts I currently have to assume the powers in charge consider everything to be fine.
Linus also wrote a successful Scuba dive logging and planning tool called Subsurface (https://subsurface-divelog.org/) that has a cross platform desktop edition and mobile editions. Like git, he started it as a way to scratch his own itch, and now it's mostly supported by the community.

It has support for most dive computers and does full technical dive planning with mixed gasses.
Fitbit maintains #2 market share in fitness watches and has always been a non-premium quality, mid-to-low end entry wearable.
Developers are end users too.
Some people refer to this as the "upper limit problem" or "upper limit theory"

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/your-personal-renais...
TAP Formatters for RSpec-3
The imbalances induced by the electoral college are orders of magnitude smaller than those of the functional constituency system.

Thank being said, I think the electoral college should go, too.
Verizon used to tell people that until this year.
Or "why lock your car doors when stealing and hotwiring is a crime"? Sure, people have convertibles and jeeps with no doors, but they also won't leave anything valuable out in the open.
For use on a VPS with an external IP, I've had success with this https://github.com/Nyr/openvpn-install

For use to connect to home network drives, I've used ZeroTier https://www.zerotier.com/. I've never had an external IP for home internet, so I always ran in headaches trying to do a home VPN to channel my internet traffic while I'm out and about (and that's why I use a VPN on a VPS for that).
IMO this is ok. Ebay has long been a better platform for these kinds of transactions.
It's been at over 90% for more than a month, from what I can tell
No, in the Bay Area :/
Impaired your ability temporarily/while you were taking it, or permanently/after you stopped?
Not sure how large the contributions of Norman Borlaug are but the work of Fritz Haber (also was unfortunately also responsible for weaponizing chemistry) and Carl Bosch enabled mass-production of artifical (nitrogen) fertilizer.

About 50% of the world population depend on crops produced with artificial fertilizers. They enabled billions of people to live at all. In my opinion they are setting the bar quite high.
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Good, because hyperloop was more of a fantasy than good engineering.

Wait - it's still a giant vacuum tunnel? Well, there's the fantasy
This is the interface you're presented with, but it's actually a "cheap copy" underneath. So if you write "svn cp https://svn.myserver.com/trunk https://svn.myserver.com/branches/foo" that takes about 1-2 seconds in my experience (no matter how many files, how long the history, or how many binary files you have, etc.).
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Making hackers sign NDAs...not something I expected to read in a real headline.
Is there a reason you don’t want to use an HD video recorded for the duration of the flight on a programmed path and extract the frames you need from that?
I do not deny any of the claims you have made about concentration camps, human rights abuses, corporate interests etc.

But I would really like to understand why there is a double standard in the minds of "my fellow Westerners".

Boeing, Raytheon, Booz Allen Hamilton, Halliburton, Lockheed, and the whole Washington aparatus in general have been (in)directly responsible for the deaths of millions of innocent people in the Middle East, yet I am still happy to use Instagram and Whatsapp and Youtube.

Similarly I will use TikTok concurrently while understanding that the Chinese government has locked 1 million Uighurs in a concentration camp. Surely, not every Chinese citizen voted for this idea. So we shouldn't make assumptions about what "Chinese people" are like
People need to be more skeptical about governments (both murican and chinese) and have more faith in fellow human beings. Why is it that US government gets it panties wet at the thought of Tiktok having influence in USA but somehow is proud of he fact that Google or Facebook are global companies ? What is that Tiktok would do to american that Google or Facebook won't do to Indians ?

Google and Facebook not being in China is not necessarily a bad thing. Both the companies are massively popular in India but make no profits off Indians yet. On other than their popularity has made Indians value these companies a lot as employers and every third Google/Facebook engineer in Mountain View is an Indian person. Google or Facebooks adventures in India (and China) if at all are nothing but a huge subsidy being delivered to these upcoming markets at the expense of American consumers.

Say China opens up its markets for Google and Facebook like tomorrow would you be fine with that ? Both Google and Facebook are then going to borrow money from american to build massive data center networks in China spending billions of dollars which may or may not be recovered in near future.

Xenophobia and divergence from free market principles in USA have made other countries better potential successors to Silicon Valley. In near future we will see more and more companies coming up from China. What USA has done with Tiktok is essentially a child like tantrum to scare other investors and chinese companies but very likely US government will end up with an egg on its face.
Back then Intel was stuck with a classic CISC architecture that did not scale well.

What transmeta did was to keep the x86 instruction set (CISC) but internally convert them to a simpler RISC-ish instruction set and run it in a much simpler and power effective RISC core.

Intel copied this idea which allowed P4 (maybe already PIII?) to make a giant performance leap. Nowadays all high performance CISC CPUs from AMD and Intel do this.