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>Sears shut down the mail order operation in 1993. I don’t think Lambert had anything to do with that.

Are you sure about that? The Sears mailorder pickup location near here just closed down within the last 5 years. The town I used to live in had a Sears mail order pickup location that was still open at least 10 years ago.
You can just hold your phone up to the QR code scanner yourself. You don't need to hand them your phone.
Pretty sure in overage situations the water runs over the dam and nothing is stored in Niagara but I may be mistaken.
Of course, name me one thing artificial that is universally accessible? Why should we fear that? How is it different from hating the rich?
you're gross.
>raising the retirement age without notice

Notice was given - https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...

What would be a fair notice period or formula is probably the area of debate.
>Also, capital gains is a flat (regressive) tax, and social security taxes (also flat) top out at an income of $132,900. If those were placed under progressive income tax brackets with no cap, I think many of these problems would go away.

This I think is an excellent point. So many wealthy people make far, far more than the SS cap; forcing them to pay more into the system would certainly shore it up a lot. And capital gains should be taxed no less than regular income, if not more since it's passive.
> One potential issue with having this on your phone is that you are unlocking your phone and handing it to the police

FWIW Android has a (somewhat hidden) "pin app" function that prevents users from switching to a different app without entering the lock code.
Indeed, to your point:

https://www.nytimes.com/1989/10/10/science/groups-protest-us...
Because there is no need to. The radioactive material wasn't a problem before it was dug out of the soil. It's not a problem if it returns to where it came from. The problem is that most government try to find an idiotic central storage location instead of simply distributing the spent fuel over many locations.
I think it’s fantastic that Elm works well for you; it’s a wonderful language and there’s no doubt that it is much simpler than Haskell. I agree with you that, in many cases, the technique you’re describing is sufficient, and it requires much less sophisticated machinery than some of the fancier Haskell techniques.

That said, I do think what you’re describing is different from what is described in the blog post. Opaque/abstract types reduce the trusted code significantly, which is fantastic, but the example provided in the blog post is actually even better than that: because NonEmpty is correct by construction, the amount of trusted code goes down to zero. A lot of the tools Haskell provides, like GADTs and type families, can be used to capture more invariants in a correct-by-construction way, rather than relying on abstraction boundaries. There are advantages and disadvantages to both.

I certainly don’t have any ill will toward anyone who finds the complexity of Haskell not worth the extra benefits, so to be quite clear, I’m not trying to sell you on Haskell instead of Elm! I do think being aware of the distinction is still useful, though.
This is surprising to hear. Here's some back of the napkin math that seems to contradict the assertion that there's not enough sunlight to power humanity:
https://ag.tennessee.edu/solar/Pages/What%20Is%20Solar%20Ene...

They claim texas recieves >300x the amount of power consumed in the form of sunlight.

Another source claims that the Sun delivers enough power in a single hour to power the earth for a year: https://www.businessinsider.com/this-is-the-potential-of-sol...

I can respect the fact that we cannot capture 100% of that power, but even a fraction should power the earth, no?
Oops, looks like you're right. Wikipedia says "The nuclear-free zone Act does not prohibit nuclear power plants, nuclear research facilities, the use of radioactive isotopes, or other land-based nuclear activities."
When the company buys the house you live in is that an employee benefit? Really, is just playing fool pretending getting everything in your life paid is "just a benefit" and not a profit, that getting everything in your life sorted out is exactly what profiteers do with profit anyways.
Who cares? That's irrelevant. You stated, quite clearly, that there is only "one choice". You're wrong about that, as I pointed out: there's multiple choices. I never said any of them were free.
So asking people not to use phrases that reference their penis or urine (like pissing in the wind) is forcing people to be robotic?
It doesn't matter what New Zealand does. There is not enough industrial production for their emissions rate and their climate is at the mercy of whatever happens in China.

I always like to refer to this chart [0] - but I also recall that nature only cares about absolute numbers.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_di...
Or...you could just replace the doors/gates, which is far cheaper, easier, and generally years faster.

The cost of replacing all of the doors in a single transit system would be equal to the cost of one or two trains worth of new cars. (They're very expensive.)
Just trying to point out that your advise is not universal. I have moved to UK, but if my parents were ill and in need of care, that would have been impossible.
The most interesting part of the whole write up is that it sheds light on how dependent of the base stations these constellations are. I used to think that, other than sending orbital corrections and the occasional fixes, the constellation would run itself. Apparently this is not the case.

So a localized outage can in fact affect the entire planet. This has also implications in disaster scenarios.

Not sure how applicable this is for GPS.
Which is why you don't throw errors but return a result type such as Rust's Result, Haskell's Either, or C++'s upcoming std::expected :)

On the other hand, non-atomically asking for permission first in any concurrent (or re-entrant!) context is not just an antipattern but simply wrong and always a possible race condition. It is impossible to write a routine that tries to open a file and is statically guaranteed to succeed.
It's awful to see this happening, but I think the bigger question is, what can brick-and-mortar stores, with all that overhead, do to compete with a presence like Amazon?

Sure, Kmart/Sears might have gone online as well ... which would leave behind the advantages of physical scrutiny of purchases without the added shipping charges. I find it really hard to leave behind that approach to shopping. (I haven't seen any pros-and-cons for the environmental costs ... but I've noticed that nearly everything Amazon delivers arrives inside a throw-away box delivered by non-green vehicles.)

The idea of buying something online without being able to truly inspect/compare quality is a really big loss. (Trust the reviews? Not so much.)
That is taking such a utilitarian approach to the extreme. It goes into the reason why people have kids - and it shouldn’t be (although regrettably, it is sometimes) I’m having kids because he/she will be better than everyone else.
There is no such thing as a particle of carbon.
> I think craftsman still has a lifetime warranty

No, although some 3rd party stores will still honor it.

> cobalt

Kobalt, yeah. They're possibly better, but probably not. I own a few things from them that have been perfectly functional, no complaints, but not high-quality.

I have very few modern craftsman tools--most of my hand tools are vintage--but I've found them to be comparable. I wouldn't be surprised if they all come from the same factory somewhere.
Unions? The United Auto Workers is totally supported by the left and yet they make gas guzzling cars and trucks for a living.
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cool story bro, wanna share?
Easy game : Tax the foundation. Everybody knows these foundations are a way to avoid tax and keep wealth intact.
> That’s where the freedom to and from intersect.

Cool. Fine. Then you should have just said that, and you shouldn't have said the previous stuff about not wanting to prevent people from making decisions about what money that they voluntarily choose to use.

Can't have it both ways.
401k is specific to the US. It refers to a section of US tax code.

This article is about a British company. 401ks do not exist in the UK, and you get a lot of benefits and tax allowances from pensions that you get out of no other investment vehicle over here.
Just read the article and it seems fine to me. No idea what OP is going on about.
The FOSS Contributor Fund: Forming a Community of Adopters
Target is kinda crushing it.
Well, whether it’s “awful” as far as your taste is an opinion you have every right to have, but looking at their successes in the box office, it’s clearly valuable. That’s all that matters.
It's a painting. I am sure they managed to both look at it and take recordings of it. No need to worry or be embarrassed about other people enjoying something in a slightly different way than you intend to.
They could do what the UK does with the crown jewels and literally install a conveyor belt system that makes it nearly impossible to stand there for long periods of time.

Another option is to charge a dynamic fee to see the painting based on crowd size.
Deconstructing a Sexploitation Attack
Why the left should worry more about AI
This is exactly where I think that Waymo wouldn't get into that situation. A Waymo vehicle would let the car in as its cameras will actually react to the turn signal. Technically, a line of cars could stop a Waymo vehicle in its tracks just by getting next to it and turning their blinkers on. The car would try to yield and zipper merge but will almost always defer to letting cars in if they get too close. Again, it's super annoying as a human but I think I prefer how conservative they are when it comes to safety.
Kindergarten nannies generally don't have the talent for teaching people how to not be jerks - they just put the jerks in timeout. Some eventually grow out of it. Some eventually get medication and/or therapy that addresses the issue. Some eventually respond to a lack of environmental stressors when they move out of their parents' house. And some simply stay that way.

If you've hired someone in the latter category, yes, delivering business value requires you to deal with it. Firing them is an option, if that's really net positive for business value; sometimes it isn't. Seeing if you have the knack for teaching them is another, and likely highly profitable if you can do it. Handing down rigid rules is yet another option - not great, but quick and usually effective.
>Your statement could be viewed as taking a conservative approach to that automation is in itself a shortcut.

Can you expand on that? I'm not sure I follow what you're saying here.
Serves them right, give in to the unions and give huge wages and benefits for 30 years and this is where you end up - broke. The unions do not care, they just tighten the screws.
> just screams "I think this is shit but I'm not gonna tell you more directly because we have a policy not to do that".

Maybe, but there is a huge difference between "I think this code is shit" and "I think you are shit".
>what can brick-and-mortar stores, with all that overhead, do to compete with a presence like Amazon?

Vet their suppliers!

I can walk into any Walmart, Target, Home Depot, etc, etc in the United States, buy a light-bulb (just an example of a product they all carry) and be assured that it is going to do the job it is sold as being able to do for a reasonable amount of time and if not I can bring it back for an exchange or refund.
There Are Parasitic Wasps, and Then There’s the Crypt-Keeper
I am really not trying to be a troll. Genuinely don't understand this concept of safe strings.

How could a software even look at text content and determine safeness? There are cases where string input might be limited to just letters or numbers but often it's not. As soon as punctuation or unicode (non English users) is on the table, text is basically anything and there are no general defense from that.

Parsing and static types could have restrictions on string length, min or max value for numbers, how many items in an array, but it cannot make text safe generally-speaking by any meaning of safe. It has no awareness of how the content will be used.
After Google's Fitbit deal, EU says worrying when firms targeted for their data
Can't recommend doing something like this, especially without medical supervision.

But if you must, pay attention to that part about electrolytes.

And read this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refeeding_syndrome
I think mechanical engineers mostly use 3-D CAD systems by now — SolidWorks, Autodesk Fusion 360, or something, not AutoCAD. EEs don't use AutoCAD; they use EDA systems ranging from schematic capture and PCB layout (like KiCAD) to HDL synthesis systems, and they use SPICE, and they write a lot of C++. AutoCAD is useless for any of those things. I don't know what bridge builders and airframe designers use nowadays, but given the importance of 3D in those realms and your batting average on the things I do know about, I'm guessing they don't use AutoCAD either. I'm interested to hear what the truth is, though.
no, macros are
Those are some interesting facts. I've generally been on the side that nuclear is not safe because I don't trust governments to build things safely if nuclear ever became mainstream. I'd expect multiple bidders to show up, some corrupt under the table deal happens, politicians takes a massive cut for themselves, project runs under budget, over time, and the infrastructure built gets dumped onto an area close to areas with higher rates of poverty, and what's built constantly has leaks or contamination of the environment around it due to structural errors.

That said, my confirmation bias never led me to consider how the situation could play out similarly for any other form of energy. So thanks for articulating those facts so clearly.
We had a substantial minority of our chargers at work develop the issue. It’s not a black-and-white state so you might just know people who became more deliberate about attaching it over time.
That's fair; on a second reading it's not as chock full as my first glance, but I still definitely feel it's there.

Some choice quotes in addition to DCloud's CEO:

作为国内Git产品...本地技术力量雄厚

一起努力，越来越好，为中国技术人群更多更贴心的服务

而它更吸引人的，是开放的姿态和优质的本土化基因。告诉世界：我们在自豪地使用Gitee! (I suppose this really hinges on who you think they're talking about when they refer to the world)
It's disgusting. Its what comes from 30+ years of reaganomics. People thru their governments should be able to create health and education programs, not hope some billionaire will be kind enough to save them.
Fast Handovers with a Robot Character [video]
And Kohls and Best Buy as well.

Best Buy is the one that surprises me the most. I would have bet real money 10 years ago that they'd be gone by now. Instead they've doubled their market cap and earnings continue to grow.
Best Buy too. I will buy Best Buy every time over Amazon. I know I'm getting legitimate product at the same price (price match). I would have said the opposite a few years ago.
The ‘agricultural productivity’ comes at a very high price. We have chemical Ag now and we turn fossil fuels into calories rather than sunlight+water into calories via photosynthesis.

The loss of biodiversity, habitat and the acidification of our oceans is going to bankrupt the future of the generations indiscriminately spawned.
I have a lot of old hand-me downs from my father, his old craftsman stuff is still great. My brother got most of his Snap-on stuff (he uses it daily in his business, he needs the good stuff) and that stuff is fantastic -- some of it's had 20 or 30 years of heavy use. Though you pay the price for it (more than I'm willing to pay to turn a bolt on my lawnmower a few times a year :-) )
> Or just use a preemptive scheduler (such as a regular OS scheduler).

Well... I can't help but whenever I see the await stuff it reminds me of times where I had to do cooperative multitasking and was longing for OS and/or CPU support for something which is non-invasive to my algorithms. But then I'm not sure whether I'm the grumpy old man or it is just history repeating.
Oh don't get me started on how councils and Fletcher are manipulating entire NZ's real estate market.
What makes you sure?
Why would you criticise his extrapolation without offering a well-justified alternative?
Party City Hits Record Low as Helium Woes Sink Results, Outlook
Retailers that used to bring in $55billion per year take a long time to die.
To get good precision you need to remove the effect of electrons in the ionosphere. These basically change the index of refraction and therefore the propagation speed of the radio waves. The delayed signal makes your receiver think it is further away from the satellite than it actually is. One way to estimate this delay (instead of relying e.g. on the correction signal of a differential-GPS base station close to you) is to receive signals from the satellites at two different frequencies. The time delay is proportional to f^-2. Knowing the frequencies and the delay between the two signals allows you to estimate the electron content and and correct both signal to the undelayed "infinite frequency" arrival time.
Smaller populations are healthier and more prosperous because resources aren’t strained. This is why there is more interest in migration from high populace countries to those that are sparsely populated. Because of more access to shared resources.
No, its conclusion is that fibers with certain properties in C/C++ are slower -- and particularly hard to implement correctly -- than stackless coroutines in C/C++. That's because of the particular characteristics of those languages. In fact, you'll note that the only negative thing he says about Go is that it incurs an overhead when interacting with non-Go code.
This is one of the reasons for the ridiculously high perimeter security around Schriever AFB in Colorado, which runs the GPS network, and a number of other critical DoD satellite programs. It's guarded as thoroughly as the Pantex plant in Texas.
Hey, you know where it's appropriate to be a character and make ranty comments? Stand up comedy! Maybe you should use your love of ranty comments and characters to change careers.
The Slowness of Literature and the Shadow of Knowledge
I like that book too! I wish I had read it before shipping that first MVP.

My notes: https://mtlynch.io/book-reports/start-small-stay-small/
I'd never go out of my way to have a look at it alone. Leonardo is far more interesting on the whole than this singular portrait of an obscurity. Make Mona one item in a gallery of Leonardo's amazing fertility, then I'd probably give it a glance.
Yes, being able to make trivial value types is quite valuable. Despite being a rather different language, this is something Go gets right as well.
In the mid-90's if Sears had simply put their full catalog on the internet, with some basic search functionality, and a cart, you could then call and do a phone order, they'd have been ahead of everyone at that time. At that time Sears owned the phone ordering space.
In the end, a relatively few simple steps would have let them hold and build their position. After Prodigy effectively failed, they figured the internet was another fad and wouldn't take off.

In the end, they failed on their leading advantages, and failed to execute time and again. Then they brought in some of the most unscrupulous management I've ever even heard of in terms of larger corporations.
Sure, but I think that is itself the cultural thing. I'll take your word for it that some people experience this, but the idea that anyone would fear being fired for missing fiddly details of a document like this is completely foreign to me. I've never seen a code review checklist that people followed even 75% of.
That's not actually what a honeypot (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeypot_(computing)) is.
Sure but it feels like only half the story. Yes new law could favor existing position holder but the more democratic the institution the less likely this is to happen (for obvious self interest motivations). There are some kinds of legislation that almost seem directly targeted at the current position holder, like legal requirements for Interop. Would you be in favor of those kinds of laws?
Idris:

data EndsWith : Type where
EndsWithPeriod : (s: String) -> { auto prf : ("." `Strings.isSuffixOf` s = True) } -> EndsWith

s : EndsWith
s = EndsWithPeriod "."

-- Value of type False = True cannot be found
-- s2 : EndsWith
-- s2 = EndsWithPeriod ""

The noun one might be possible -- I'm honestly less familiar with what a proper noun is offhand. (E: prefix=>suffix)
Wait a Minute. How Can They Afford That When I Can’t?
The real surprise is that you can outsource a bunch of software engineering and then you find that the guys who killed people with their bugs were the domestic software engineers.
That strikes me as bad usage of ML algorithms for quite a few reasons. People who say this kind of thing usually are not ML practitioners and want to drink some Kool Aid that they can save money & avoid hiring them with techniques like this.

How are you benchmarking the in-DB models against variations that can improve them? If they are basic regression models, how are you solving nuanced problems relating to coefficient estimates that cannot be solved with plug and chug libraries (such as from the article “Let’s Put the Garbage Can Regressions and Garbage Can Probits Where They Belong” by Achen)?

I’d venture to guess you’re assuming one particular type of model just works, and either are unaware it is failing, or are unaware of wasted money left on the table by not improving or understanding it.

This is extremely common especially with simpler use cases. For example, you might think A/B testing is easily solved as an abstract problem and you just need a framework. What could be hard? I’d argue that A/B testing is a great example of something nobody should be buying from a vendor or getting from unexamined library output, and it’s extremely easy to be losing a bunch of money on junk tests and not even understand your tests are junk.

It only becomes much more true with OLS & logistic regression, decision trees, SVMs. You need customized systems operated by people who actually know statistics. Embedding this inside a DB where you cannot seriously develop software to customize the models & analysis just doesn’t work. The cost of serializing the data elsewhere is not the salient one.
Brick and mortar will be fine. Retail is over saturated because of cheap debt costs, so shitty companies can live longer than they would in a normal cycle.

Smart stores are figuring it out. Target, Walmart, Aldi, high end brands, etc. Target is delivering the local delivery experience that Amazon has spent billions of dollars on, and they delivered 1.0 in a few months. Amazon can’t figure out how to send me unexpired crackers.

Amazon is a finance play that is already showing cracks. They need to use 3rd parties to keep inventory off the books. As a result, they are struggling with fulfillment of trivial items like books and have massive capital costs subsidized by AWS. Microsoft is already discounting for market share, and you’ll see Google do the same.
First rule of the CoC: You do not talk about the CoC.
Some pensions (mine at least) have periodic cost of living adjustments (COLAs) that hypothetically takes care of that.
I would consider using this, but I'd likely only use it for 1 camera, as such $5 a month is untenable. You should consider a lower tier payment option.
AI and Compute: 3.4-Month Doubling Time Since 2012
"i cant make friends if i cant make dumb jokes about minorities and women"
From your first link about Napoleon’s father:

> Carlo Buonaparte died on 24 February 1785, and, due to his frivolous spending, left his surviving wife and eight children penniless.
Ahh I see! So they're referring to signals of different frequencies? Makes sense, thanks :)