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Linking COBOL and Fortran against C is actually one of the easier things to do. So with these multi-million line systems, often new features are written in C++, minor minor minor bugfixes in the original language, and general maintenance is a toss-up if it's a re-write in C++ or just fix it in the old language. Depends on how fast they need it.

I did some Pre66 Fortran work for a bank, and that was basically the idea. They were in the process of converting internal assumptions of the program from a very particular older mainframe type to a mix of Z/OS and Solaris, and the Fortran/COBOL into something they could continue working with.

Some of the code was very specifically marked as "not for C++", because modern Fortran (2003 at the time) was better for some specific number-based things. But that code becomes a library rather than part of the original monolithic structure. And modern Fortran is actually quite a nice low-level language to play with.

It was actually easier than expected - when the original program was written, and for about the next twenty years following, the entire program and changes were very well specified in multi-thousand page specifications. The newer code was harder to keep track of, rather than the oldest, because at the oldest those documents were 99% accurate, even if you never trusted them to be because of the intervening time.
the problem is, I don’t think the users can actually cash out. Those “amp”s are pure digital at this point. Maybe some thought that in the future they could cash out, but unless I’m missing something, there’s no actual liquid money being given to the users
What if the networks aren't deleting the content but just not distributing it to you? For example, Facebook determines what shows up on my newsfeed. If my friend posts something, and Facebook guesses that I won't be interested in it, it won't show on my newsfeed (I think) or it will be buried in the less important section. It may still exist on my friend's wall because he posted it, but I don't see it unless I actively go to his wall.

So even if the networks don't delete the content, they are already determining what we should and shouldnt see, no?
Barstool took their niche as the edgy sports-adjacent content mill, and does it better. Not least because Portnoy is still willing to give the finger to the leagues and ESPN.

Bill Simmons' grand Grantland experiment showed, for a brief shining moment, what the best possible version of this kind of thing was, but he lost his cover in Bristol, and the plug got pulled.
"don't have skin in the game" -- can you explain what you mean by saying that journalists don't have skin in the game of journalism?

Your first paragraph says that content-based websites are easy even for poor people; your second says it's hard and that you have to work for free for months. I'm confused. How are poor people supposed to work for free for a few months and then have enough to pay themselves reasonable salaries with health care/insurance and retirement and PTO?
Even in 2007 when the iPhone was introduced, Jobs said he wanted Apple to have 1% of the phone market and sell $10 million. That means the phone market was already at 1 billion per year. Now it’s at 4+ billion per year. Getting in the phone market was obvious even back then.

Almost by definition, there won’t be a larger market than one that already has 80%* market penetration among adults worldwide.
`hg commit -i` is a much more direct way to accomplish this. (Or `hg commit file1.txt file2.txt` if your changes break down at a file level.)
Money doesn't make you invincible to everything.

But when it comes to "I need to visit this country for business", money easily solves that.

> Regardless nobody should have such personal details revealed as news without their own doing, no matter how rich or famous they are.

Yeah, sure. Though I'd say that the existence of billionaires is a significantly larger problem...
You're forgetting China, which is #1 in my list.

Also, North Korea has had a relationship with Pakistan, where the Pakis shared nuclear know-how and NK shared missile know-how. So, it could be NK-Pak combine.
A Western Sydney Gang Got Hold of Military-Grade Rocket Launchers
Its not clear all the actions they've taken to limit themselves to human input. Some players feel that the EPM (effective actions per minute) of AlphaStar is enormously higher then a human's during a battle. This is likened to a more advanced aimbot where it teaches human's nothing and has an unfair advantage. Alternatively, alpha go has advanced the state of human go playing without feeling like it cheats.

AlphaStar is impressive but I don't think AI has quite dominated the game of starcraft as convincingly as it has go.
I'm not opposed to free college if 1) you're studying something with a proven ROI, and/or 2) you have a good academic history, and/or 3) you can't otherwise afford it.

I think the idea that someone can get straight C's in highschool and get $50k a year to study art in college is not a good use of my tax dollars.

I also don't think it's a good idea to give someone like me a free college education. I make $400k a year. I can pay for it my fucking self if I want to. The idea someone else should pay for it seems absurd.

Further, some of the most expensive schools are some of the worst schools. I don't think we should be paying an unlimited amount of money for the same education. If the University of Pittsburgh can deliver results much better than USC (I'm not saying it can, this is a hypothetical) -- I don't think you should be able to get $70k a year to go to USC when you can study the same thing with better results at Pittsburgh for $20k.

All that being said, I think it's a phenomenal use of my tax dollars to train someone to be a doctor or an engineer or a lawyer (etc), who's demonstrated an interest in medicine (or something relevant) and has done well in high school -- especially if that person wouldn't otherwise be able to afford going to medical school (or law school or whatever). Especially if the tuition at that school isn't excessive, and people who graduate from it actually go on to get jobs as doctors and not baristas at Starbucks.

There's a lot of other things to consider as well -- is it just tuition we're covering? In Europe, most of the universities dorms and cafeterias aren't exactly 5-star hotels. Stanford's dorms can cost $2.5k per month for a swanky broom closet. I'm not sure it makes sense to pay for that. But I also think it's important to pay for room & board, because some people might really not be able to afford it, or will probably do worse in school if they have to work a full-time job to pay for room & board. I don't think it's a good investment to pay to put people in school and then set them up for failure.

Additionally, I think students should have SOME Skin in the Game. If college is 100% free, I'm not sure that creates the best incentives for the students. Maybe the government should pay for 80% and give you a low-interest loan for the other 20%. And maybe the max you can get is the minimum tuition of schools in the top 5% in your field of study. And maybe you get a stipend for room & board that is reasonable. That, I think would prevent a lot of potential abuses.
No one is attacking the Chinese people for their culture and unique views. Genocide and ethnic cleansing is being attacked by the Notepad++ devs and anyone in favor of the atrocities against the Uighur should be publicly ostracized and ridiculed.
And I forgot to link to the covenant the Article 1 comes from: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Covenant_on_Ci...

Signed by Spain in 1976, and that the Spanish constitution (10.2) accepts.
For flowcharts, check out code2flow.com. (I'm unaffiliated — just a fan!)
It appears this is not a bug in the Twitter app but macOS 10.15.1.

https://twitter.com/nolanobrien/status/1189623346033381376?s...
Minecraft? Does he mean Minesweeper? Minecraft Is very alive and very well.
Why not, if I can get the basics of Lisp running, and those other things are written in Lisp? Isn't the hash table implementation written in Lisp?

Or are you saying that I wouldn't automatically have the source for those things? If so, then... yeah, I was kind of assuming that I would have it. If the licenses don't work that way, or if the source simply wasn't available, then my devious plan would not work.
HTML is bloat :)
Their goal wasn't to piss off Chinese people, their goal was to bring to light atrocities being committed by the Chinese government against the Uighurs. No one is attacking the Chinese people.
I, too, still have solutions in use as LOB apps based on Access. I have looked at other tools, being an officionado of Python, I started there. Got sidelined/sidetracked by Django, came back around to plain Python 3. Then I have to pick a GUI, currently playing with QT4, then get the DB connection working, hopefully against MySQL/MariaDB so I can have the solution multi-platformed... And so on.

I already have my annual revenue needs met by a service business, this is now all a side-hustle thing, but it has been a slog.

I do appreciate QT's visual Designer app, it makes creating forms more like Access/VB.
The very first sentence in the press release is "Apple today announced financial results for its fiscal 2019 fourth quarter ended September 28, 2019."
I'm not 100% convinced. I think it's hard to get really smart people to work on problems that aren't interesting. Asking a team to make food preservation 10% better won't invite the creativity and determination that asking them to preserve food to Mars would.

I think, when you take humans into account, you're better off setting interesting and challenging goals, with many useful byproducts.
Thiel isn't LBTQ. He's G. And he doesn't have children and didn't get married until long after legalization in the US, and didn't get married in the US anyway.
Like the author, I too had made an account on Raddle. After lurking for a while, I came upon a post about the Proud Boy March in Portland, and I made one single comment with a slightly cynical tone. Within a period of five minutes I was banned from the site.
This is a fascinating discussion that I think gets to the heart of the matter, but is still missing the key point: can you ever own something with software?

I up voted the sibling comment (diminoten) even though it was a bit aggressive. Leetcrew say s/he doesn't trust the controls programmed "crudely" by others. But the sibling logically points out that leetcrew's actions could be just as crude from the others' point of view.

I think leetcrew's principles are misdirected here. With software, you can't really own the device. Look at the librem5 debacle: you can't control the radios because the FCC doesn't license unlocked radios. If you had a ham license you could buy and operate any radio the way you want (within the rules). What's really missing is disclosure. DJI should be clearly documenting their software controls and all geographic restrictions so you know exactly what capabilities you are paying for.
Since you mention DOT (the GraphViz format, right?) have you tried viz-js?

http://viz-js.com/
I wonder about this point. The universal declaration of human rights even mentions this in article 19, but few countries seem to actually uphold that value.
You think any of those are “winning” compared to AWS or MS with Azure? Everyone you mentioned is lumped together as “other” in most pie charts.

Despite all of the wide eyed idealists architects, at a certain scale you are always locked into your infrastructure choices. No your CTO is not going to migrate from your six figure Oracle installation because you use the repository pattern to abstract your database access. There are far too many risks and too many chances for regressions with little pay off to migrate from a working infrastructure.
She also asked if it’d be OK to advertise the wrong date for Election Day in a predominantly black zip code for example which I can totally see as a possibility.
Univision bought most of the remains of Gawker, merged it with their own site Fusion (later renamed Splinter, now defunct) and the Onion/AV Club, and sold it to the current owners of G/O at a massive loss.

In this media environment, with profitability seemingly tied to the whims of Facebook's recommendation algorithm and major sites like Mic and ThinkProgress dropping left and right, I don't know if anyone can survive without a deep-pocketed owner who can fund years of losses.
I've always been off-put by the fact that the hyper-focus on getting women into higher paying jobs isn't paired with a cultural push to not see traditionally women-dominated occupations (nurses, teachers, caretakers) as lesser ones, a big reason IMO that men self-select away from them

Obviously economic power is tied closely with overall respect, power, and influence, but it seems to me that more work (heh) should be done challenging the assumed correlation of economic value and human value. Instead we see an accelerating of capitalism's implicit devaluing of all value that isn't financial, by unconsciously further denigrating the (again, imo) important but lower-paid jobs traditionally occupied by women.
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I think that is a weak counter-example. The applications of rocketry and satellites were obvious by the end of WW2. In 1945 Arthur C. Clarke had already published an article explaining how useful it would be to have communication satellites in geostationary orbit, and it didn't take much imagination to suppose that a big enough rocket could put them there.
I felt similarly wrt office hours. I never understood what I was supposed to do with office hours, and felt like an idiot when I tried used them.

My slightly younger cousins went to fancy private schools growing up, and were sort of trained how to work the system. They are still in communication with multiple professors 20 years later.
All this talk about representing UI elements in either JSON, XML and / or code but what it’s state? How the hell is neatly encapsulated next to the UI in XML and JSON. Dynamic URLs? Dynamic Ids, dynamic image urls?
A few weeks ago I went to see Haystack Rock off the Oregon coast and I just stood there in the tide looking at this giant rock sticking out the water, absorbing the salt water, brisk air and sounds of crashing waves. It was magical. Everyone else around me was only looking at their camera, I'm not sure what they absorbed.
That money can be used to make other money for shareholders, either product development, buying into other industries, financial investments, etc. Holding on to that cash isn't doing anything for them.
The point is that this is a policy that is hard to enforce because it is ambiguous. The system worked as intended if you think that the point was to make only the most well-financed and technically savvy advertisers able to receive a benefit.

Laws don't have anything to do with this thread?
Interesting. I feel like Sator is cooler though because it actually has a meaning (other than "Arepo") and is grammatically valid. It also seems to have some deeper philosophical connections with early ideas of time cycles.
This strikes me as a bit of a straw man -- "AWS has operational skill. Open source companies with managed service offerings of their software probably do not." The operational skills that AWS has are primarily at the infrastructure layer. If my experience with their managed software services and the tons of complaints in their support forums are any indication, their operational excellence drops off dramatically at the software layer. I don't fault AWS for trying to move up the value chain, but bashing on open source companies as "not a viable business model" distracts from the real question of who can delivery a better managed software offering on top of AWS's (or GCP's or Azure's) managed hardware platform.
The SQL text editor in Access is so frustrating! As soon as you switch the tab you're looking at, it will change your carefully-formatted query into a condensed unreadable mess.
I'm pretty happy with https://www.lessannoyingcrm.com/ and have been a customer for several years—they seem to be making a Pinboard-esque "be small and don't die" play, and functionality and support have both been great for $10/month.

I'm not affiliated aside from being a happy customer. And there's plenty of room for more CRMs so I wish OP the best of luck with Micro!
Is there any metric besides A1C for "type 2 diabetes"? A few years ago, I went to a doctor and my A1C was 8 something (among other issues...). I ate low-carb a couple months, and the doctor was impressed my A1C went down to 5.1 or whatever. I sorta wonder if it's a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law thing..
> One thing about the first amendment is that it doesn't have conditions.

It does. You cannot shout "fire" to incite a panic for malicious purposes. We already determine that those lies are not protected by the First Amendment.

> the phrase "shouting fire in a crowded theater" has since come to be known as synonymous with an action that the speaker believes goes beyond the rights guaranteed by free speech, reckless or malicious speech, or an action whose outcomes are obvious.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shouting_fire_in_a_crowded_the...
“X supports the Green New Deal” is indeed highly subjective for some values of X. But that doesn’t include most Republicans, who have been consistently against the whole thing from start to finish.
> - User interfaces are very prone to have big files, because there tend to be a lot of different components. I don't get how XML will add more bloat, other than having the <> tags for defining elements.

I disagree that this is an inherent property of user interfaces. In fact I think it's a bit weird that we focus so much on abstractions and when it comes to the code we write (DRY principle, etc), but then when it comes to XML we wave our hands in the air and declare "well that's just the way it has to be".

> - XAML lets you define custom controls. I'm not familiar with Android XML, but in any case it's not an issue of the language but of the framework.

Custom controls allow you to reuse entire widgets, but what about code reuse?

> - Again, a fault of the framework. Visual Studio, for example, checks your XAML for errors, both when writing and when compiling.

No, ultimately it's the fault of the fact that you're trying to shoehorn a bunch of stuff into XML attributes (as strings) that weren't strings to begin with. As I said below, ever make a typo in a binding?

> - I don't think namespaces are confusing (most programming languages have some concept of namespaces), but I agree that one could have more facilities to avoid specifying namespaces everywhere.

This is admittedly worse on Android where almost everything needs to be prefixed with android:, except stuff that comes from the support library, plus these other handfuls of exceptions (which is definitely a framework problem), but even stuff like x:Name vs Name is unnecessarily confusing in WPF.

> - Yes, but most of the time you shouldn't access the user interface from the application code, as coupling them tends to create ugly code that is prone to mistakes and failures. For me, this is an actual advantage of XML for UI, it makes it more difficult to create an interface out of spaghetti code.

That sounds good in theory. In practice, you end up with a lot of code-like constructs in your user interface. Every XAML file I've ever seen is full of bindings, converters and converter parameters, triggers, etc. You might insist this is not code because it lives in an XML file but it sure looks a lot like code to me, just shoehorned into a document language format.

In other words, while we strive hard to avoid spaghetti code, it seem like we don't apply the same principles to avoid spaghetti XML.

> - Well, one is declarative and the other one imperative. As long as you want to have both types, it doesn't matter what language you use.

False dichotomy, IMO. You can build a declarative UI in your code without resorting to XML.

> For me, there's not that much of a difference between SwiftUI/Jetpack Compose and equivalent XML code. UI definitions are going to be messy no matter what.

Have you actually worked with either of these frameworks?
How about ... freedom of speech?

Quit trying to micro manage everyone.

Accept payment to publish messages on a competitive platform - and let readers, being mostly competent adults, figure content out themselves.
https://reddit.com/r/BoneAppleTea
What's the difference between blogs and hobbyist sites though?

A defined purpose? monitization?

I suppose it would be a hard fight to get google to specifically favour non-adsensed sites.
Note it's survivors, not still sick patients, having their blood taken
Automation + human classifiers + user reporting. The stuff automation gets wrong or isn't confident about goes into the training set and the system improves.

Even if they lose money by manually reviewing a small ad that was flagged as possibly political, it doesn't mean it costs more to review 1/100 low-volume ads. They're also paying to classify useful data to train their model.
"Best" bank may be no bank at all
They will argue endlessly on twitter & HN equivalents and maybe resolve an argument or two.
Yeah, sure, but she's writing about the foundations of physics. I'm in biophysics in part because I want to have an impact in < 1 kiloyears.
You have a git workflow that works for you, which is great. But you can't really compare unless you use the appropriate hg features to accomplish the same things. You're talking about a bunch of use cases, so I'd have to throw a bunch of commands at you. But basically, I do all of that, every day, with hg commands and I really dislike the added mental overhead of the staging area every time I use git. (Not that I'd try to use git without it; common usage is built around it.)

In short, for similar scenarios I'd do `hg commit -i` to select a couple pieces I was sure I wanted in the commit, then `hg diff` to see remaining pieces or `hg diff -c .` to see my commit so far, then `hg amend -i` to select additional fragments or files. To undo some of that, I'd use `hg uncommit`. Same effect, fewer concepts -- your stage/index/cache is just materialized as a plain everyday commit that you can decide is done at any time.

I'm not going to argue that suddenly every vcs task becomes trivial with hg. Far from it. And these discussions often get bogged down when people argue from the standpoint "I only need X so everything else is unneeded complexity" or "you need all of this stuff because you might need to collaborate with multiple remote people editing the same files who need to back out some of your changes while they're working and have everything magically put back together at the end, oh and we need full control over what the final history looks like too." These VCS systems have to deal with a wide range of complexity, and reductive takes like "you really only need these 3 commands; why is it so hard??" don't illuminate anything. (Note that I'm not addressing this at your comment, which was not at all doing that.)
The process is to employ/pay human moderators, similar to Facebook [1]. They also pay for some content creation [2].

[1] https://help.quora.com/hc/en-us/articles/360001069906-How-do...

[2] https://help.quora.com/hc/en-us/articles/360000673263-Partne...
> I wonder if oily rags are more dangerous than both.

Maybe if your vehicle uses Linseed oil...