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Religion is just paleolithic thinking, a primitive mental and emotional representation of authority. The chieftain of the tribe, and later the state, is the mediating and ordering force in human society. But since a chieftain or a king is just a man, the simplest way to justify his superior position is to imagine supernatural beings above him... The fact that some smart people lived at a time when science and technology weren't well developed, and hence fell for this mental trap, doesn't mean that we should resort to caveman thinking now.
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I don't think location matters that much tbh. I have friends (and coworkers) working remotely in the $180k - $250k ranges. They work for bay area tech companies, but they live on the east coast and midwest USA.
I see a middle ground here...

Stream CCTV footage from every platform to a control room. Have operators observe the arrival of every train, and have a big red emergency stop button for when people fall on the tracks.

In a big network, with say 300 stations with a train every 4 minutes in each direction on average, that works out to ~40 operators required to watch those cameras for 10 seconds during each train arrival.

Not-so-advanced image processing could be used to show only the train arrivals at the busiest platforms or where there was most recent movement on the track, bringing you down to 1 or 2 operators.

Thats a lot cheaper than both platform edge doors, and drivers in every train.
That only works on a one-way street, not a small two-lane street like where I grew up. It's not as general advice as you think.
Not much doc at the github. Can you provide a quick overview?
The join macro is also implemented “in user space”.
I've always deliberately avoided the Eiffel Tower myself. The Louvre is very much worth visiting even if it's largely frozen in time and the most exquisite works are sort of overwhelmed by the vast numbers of technically excellent but IMO often not terribly interesting paintings. (How many Renaissance Madonna and Childs can you look at in a day?) TBH, a more curated Louvre would be a more interesting museum.

That said, if I'm having to choose, I'm probably going to the Musee d'Orsay rather than the Louvre.
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Then the only reasonable conclusion is that the Rust community has different tastes compared to the mainstream programming community. To put it euphemistically.

The Swift team probably also agonized over syntax decisions and they came up with something very different which has won over many people and attracted little criticism.
Is there any resources you could point to learn more about how to use this async programming with?
I'd say the real value of the 'application-like' capabilities of Postgres is for analytics and offline tasks where there may not even be an application to 'eat'. This article is a great example, anyone can get this working on their laptop easily and just feed new data into the structure they have created and trust that it will just work.

Now, if this is powering some actual business logic then that's can cause problems since now your application is tightly coupled to a specific implementation in a specific database technology that may or may not be testable, versioned, or observable. But if you're a data hacker trying to answer questions, produce a report, or tease out features for a ML model having a such a robust easy to manage tool in your toolbelt is super useful.

Application Postgres and Analytics Postgres are really different animals, it's pretty cool that one piece of software can do both so well and be so many different things to different people, but yeah I agree you can into real trouble if you use the wrong part of the tool for the job.
I reference a third-party library to show that you have full control of this stuff in user-space. Implementing Promise.all or Promise.map in userspace is trivial.

I'm not complaining about things without taking the time to understand how the language works, I'm giving examples of things that don't seem possible based off of my understanding of how the language works...in hopes that someone will either clarify or accept that this is a shortcoming.
You wrote that I cannot translate it to any other language. I translated it to Russian, Russian is another language so it is what you wrote. Translating "проезжая часть" as "street" and then complaining that nobody knows what "street" means does not have the same ring to it, sure.

>Well, yes! These aren't actions that warrant labeling a person in Russian. That tells you something indeed.

I am now really curious. What does it tell? That speeding and tailgating are also invented by the auto-industry?

>However, as verbs, the do have direct translations: превышать (to speed), висеть на хвосте (to tailgate).

So? Jaywalking also has a direct translation as a verb "нарушать (правила перехода)".

>I mean, it's all right there, with references. Again, what specifically are you arguing? That Wikipedia is wrong?

I am arguing that jaywalking as a punishable offense exists outside the US, that's all. It's right there, in Wikipedia. Even in UK it's forbidden on "motorways" according to Wikipedia.
While picking a stack is certainly something important when looking for a webdev job, it isn't the most important for you as an overall developer. Don't go into it from the perspective of "Which stack should I learn?", but rather "What are the programming skills I can learn that I can apply across multiple stacks?".

If the skills you pick up are too focused on one stack, it makes it much harder to transition to a new one when that stack inevitably falls out of vogue. Study up on paradigms, not frameworks; e.g. OOP, Functional Programming, MVC, good coding style (code readability and maintainability are EXCEEDINGLY important), etc...

Once you have a solid platform to stand on, you will find that you can transition these concepts from framework to framework, and only have to focus on the syntax changes and a little bit of under the hood stuff.
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It is a good idea to tempter expectations.

1) this is an MVP, some features like you mentioned are not yet implemented

2) the echosystem was preparing for this release but it will likely have a bit of churn until things settle down now that the feature is in stable

3) there was a lot of diagnostics work to make the feature minimally understandable when something is incorrect, but it will be a source of frustration because it's not as polished as other constructs that have had the benefit of several releases and us seeing how they were misused to have targeted errors. Some things are already tackled in the new beta, but I foresee a lot of work ahead of us.
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Is this a 100% proprietary authentication protocol? I'd say something snarky, but I'm still bitter about Mozilla Persona.
You are confusing what Apple says here - “Apple isn’t interested in studying your personal data” - with some other concern that isn’t related to that.

(It’s fine to discuss your concern, but it’s not the same concern.)
> don't you remember micropayments?

No? I don't think I've ever seen a working pay-per-single-article system, rather than a subscription. The amounts involved are too small, doing a payment for anything less than about a dollar isn't viable.
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Definitely the opinion of an outsider because all of these are non-problems. Other commenters have mentioned re: the anti-social / streaming / pets point but I wanted to touch on the outside visibility one.

Let me start by saying that I was a big VR skeptic until the Oculus Quest. I too thought that the outside visibility thing would be a base advantage that AR would just have over VR forever-but- surprisingly- the passthrough camera view [0] is more than good enough for several of the interactions/views you'd want to see outside of the device. You can see others, their reactions, and interact, all while having the device on your head. Soon the passthrough will also be triggerable at a moments notice too.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbh5vZaW_Dc
That's assuming that a sufficiently detailed inventory to allow appraisal is reasonably possible; and then that the government will pay the costs associated with valuing all the assets.

And then don't asset owners end up paying a surtax on their emotional attachment to their property? i.e. the only way I can hold onto something I would never want to sell is by paying a "wealth tax" that is decoupled from its market value.
I agree. Third party ad companies bidding on behalf of advertisers for the best inventory have incentives more aligned with advertisers IMO (as opposed to Google and FB who tend to side with publishers since they control inventory). The main caveat is that it comes at a privacy cost (broadcasting cookie information on ad exchanges).
People are still intelligent creatures after all. It doesn't surprise me that eventually over hundreds or thousands of years people managed to have some critical thoughts.
I'm not sure if shorter work weeks will ever appear or work but ever since I have had kids I feel guilty working 40+ hours a week. I see my kids when getting ready in the morning and driving them to creche and then the reverse in the evening. About two hours contact time per day but not quality time. Weekends are spent on jobs and chores and some quality time but not enough. A five hour day would allow for so much more contact.
What if there aren't any terrible leaders per se, just that none of the leaders feel 'right'? What if the leaders that replace them in the next election cycle also lack voter confidence?
Not much I can say other than “an executor designed specifically for embedded.” I don’t do embedded dev myself, so it’s more of a curiosity thing for me than something that I can give you a lengthy explanation of.
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We have baked-in anti spam moderation to the community. In regards to climate deniers coming on and brigading the community, I felt that it would be better to let moderators & the community treat those on a case by case basis with counter arguments and voting as necessary

What do you think? I'm open to suggestion but I feel like suppressing free speech goes against the ideals of the community
This does not sound nice at all. What on Earth correctness has to do with avoiding C++?
Same here with a 1950X. I use a Noctua NH-U12S and it usually operates around 45-50C with a few VMs and a IDE running. Mine is crammed into an old SUN Ultra 24 case with a few mm's to spare.
You are right. At one point it was Java's territory for this stuff. But now we have 10x more inefficient systems than Java.
If that's the argument it comes down to for electoral governments, I'd say that's quite sad.
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Honestly, Carmack is a brilliant engineer and knows a lot about technology, but that isn't enough to make great games or applications. Yes, it's not Doom VR, but I think just replicating TV in VR is not a good enough value prop to warrant the economic, ergonomic, and context-switching costs of VR.

VR requires applications that can't be done on flat-screens, just as movies require content that can't be done in books and radio requires content that can't be done on MP3 downloads and TV requires content that can't be done in a movie theater.

For example, apps like Tilt Brush can't be done on a flat-screen. Yes, you can create 3D content on a flat-screen, but Tilt Brush is not just a 3D content generation tool. It's more of a 3D painting tool, a creative release rather than a productivity tool, and it's a social network of content from other people that you can explore. On a flat-screen, it just wouldn't have the same usability or impact.

There is a VR Digital Audio Workstation-like app called SoundStage that--while doesn't have the usability of Tilt Brush--does signal some interesting concepts for a potential Tilt-Brush-like DAW.

I originally didn't think Google Earth in VR was a good use of VR, but since starting to work in the language training industry, it has been a surprising source of content for us to improve language training for adults. As an app on its own, I'm not sure it makes a whole lot of sense past a basic demo, but the content and form factor are very useful if one can apply a purpose to it other than just exploration. (Though the exploration can be fun for a short time, too).

I think the use of action-oriented VR titles for exercise cannot be understated. It's pretty much the only form of exercise I have any patience for, anymore (between children, job, volunteer work, side projects, high-cost-of-living in the DC metro area, and a sports injury or two). Obesity is an epidemic. Mass adoption of VR could fix that.

As an addendum to that previous point, I also really enjoy VR meditation apps.

VR could (and in some offices, is) revolutionize teleconferencing. I've had meetings in AltSpace VR that, even 5 years ago, felt better than using Skype for remote meetings.

Right now, we have a very high cliff to get to be able to create content for VR. I think it's a very similar issue to when GUI operating systems first started to come out. If all you knew were CLIs, it was very hard to see the utility of the GUI. And when people first started adopting them, they frequently had to dump out to the CLI to do things. Less than 20 years later, the CLI was relegated to niche use. I don't think the vast majority of people could have anticipated the shear number of apps we use, the mass of files we manage, the ubiquity of computing in our lives, in the mid 1980s. But all of those systems that make that possible weren't a part of those first GUIs.
PWAs still feel very janky in real life. They’re slow, you can’t do any complex animations, weird bugs always show up, etc. Most importantly, they still feel like websites, which isn’t a good thing.

Reimplementing something of the complexity of Snapchat as a PWA would be impossible: seamless camera usage, real-time AR filters, smooth animations, swipe gestures, usable built-in maps, video without buffering, and it’s fast for their target audience (recent iPhone users).
So Valve and Occulus both basically just gave developers an SDK and said have at it. There were some pointers, easily ignored and there was no QA like you might have with Nintendo that would tighten up some of these issues across all VR apps. Then you have the endless variety of computer specs and a bunch of different VR hardware. It's so easy for a bad app, bad hardware, bad configuration, bad advice to upset the apple cart and cause a bad experience where it could be one of any of the issues you mentioned and others you didn't like bad tracking or just bad programming. With all that it's no doubt that their are a lot of people who 'tried VR' and gave up.
It's might be worth looking for an insurance agent rather than a particular insurance company. Particularly if you are in an area like Silicon Valley where there are insurance agents familiar with the types of policies you're looking for.

Having an agent gives you a point of contact when you need a binder listing a client company as a named insured. Which is typical for General Liability. The agent can also provide documentation for Worker's Comp coverage too.

Finally, an agent helps find alternatives when there are changes at renewal time...every year. The agent is a person with whom you can have a business relationship. Business insurance quickly becomes non-fungible once you get beyond General Liability.
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Thank you, so what is the syntax that is used in order to execute without awaiting? Do you create a thread for each?
Postgres has a extension called cube (https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.6/cube.html) that can be used for up to 150 dimensions (which is a compile-time limit, you can have more if you compile Postgres yourself).

It's a pretty cool extension that does distance between points, intersections between n-dimensional cubes (hence the name), different distance metrics etc.

It'd be perfect for storing and searching through large amounts of n-dimensional embeddings, I'm guessing it's used for that already.
Amazing idea! Please post about this on Collective.Energy, I think you could inspire similar projects all over
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Reading the comment brought this passage from the article to my mind:

"I became uncomfortably aware that New Agers do not build hospitals or feed alcoholics – they buy self-actualisation at the cash register."
I hear you because I thought the same way until recently. I have worked with eventually consistent replication since long before the CRDT papers and thought initially it was just some academic mumbo jumbo layered over intuition. However, based on my journey through the field I'd encourage you to try again to grokk the academic side of the work because it's really the key insight and (for me) it's very much not intuitive. In fact that's the tripping hazard in all this: the simple examples are intuitive which leads to a sense that everything is similarly intuitive. Not so, for me at least.

I'm neither Mathematician nor Computer Scientist (I'm an Electrical Engineer), but I have learned not to fear formal notation and advanced abstract concepts. They're really not that hard to understand once the terminology is decoded.
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It looks like a single-sign on (SSO) Identity Provider that's backed by just your email address.

It's not the worst idea, especially for low risk stuff. I'm not sure I'd use it for ecommerce though.
Didn't know Formspree had integrations like that. Very cool to be able to use Stripe in a serverless way.
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You naughty person.
> The difference of course is that when the US intelligence agencies get US workers to spy at US companies they do so for the US government

From a security point of view, that's a distinction without a difference.
From what I understand, TVs were very usable and popular in the 1950s
I know its unfair and maybe even disparaging, especially my suggestion they would seed their own thing with bots...but the reality is the social network/SV startup well has been poisoned and so it would be my (our) own fault not to approach these things with a ton of skepticism.

>Today, a new social app is launching. Called Friended...Friended has raised a $500K seed round from investors...

That is what it is all about.
I'm also not a fan of them, but I am even less a fan of the HTML spec for forms not supporting all methods.
> If you do not resist an imposition of will, you consent.

> Discontinue consumption of substances offered to you by someone who has previously intoxicated you without your consent.

So you agree there wasn't consent the first time. Sounds like refuting yourself to me.
These days there's usually a back bracket which helps distribute the weight of the cooler over a large part of the board as opposed to earlier coolers which would only mount to a few screw holes. Extra large aftermarket coolers usually come with extra large mounting brackets. I wouldn't be too worried about any name brand cooler causing damage to the board. Follow the directions from the kit and it will probably be fine.
Then you should have time to optimize your environment. Making documentation better. Or cleaning out technical Dept, making things more performant or more reliable.
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It can be, but it in fact not. And if it is, at what price?

Don't misunderstand me, I want a low-carbon aviation, I'm all for it. But even if you cut the emissions by a factor 2 of each newer aircrafts, what's the point? The numbers of flights is expected to double in less than 20 years. Global emissions won't reduce at all.

https://www.iata.org/pressroom/pr/Pages/2018-10-24-02.aspx

IMHO, we need more regulations (e.g. ban domestics flights if high-speed trains are a viable alternative) rather than technological solutions.
While listening to an NPR radio interview on astrology, I got increasingly impatient with the nonsense, and it just occurred to me that astrology is nothing but quasi-random assertions acted upon by confirmation bias.

Nicely confirmed by this key passage in the article: "Some repeat customers claimed I’d made very specific predictions, of a kind I never made. It dawned on me that my readings were a co-creation – I would weave a story and, later, the customer’s memory would add new elements. "

This whole practice has endured for millenia, is built on the foundation of one of the most common of human mental error conditions.

Makes me wonder about the likelihood of other massive fundamental erroneous practices we haven't yet learned to question.
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I'm really not a morning person, and my lunch breaks are stretching long enough as it is.. that really leaves after work as the only passable time.
They're ahead of schedule but The U.S. Leads All Countries In Reducing Carbon Emissions

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Rust and JS have very very different execution models. You can absolutely control how many futures are allowed to make progress at the same time fully in userspace. If you're joining N futures, and want to only allow M futures to make progress at a time, make an adapter that only calls the poll function of M futures at a time, until those futures call ready.

Rust gives you all the flexibility you need here. It might not be trivial yet because all the adapters might not be written yet, but that's purely a maturity problem.

The `join` macro does nothing magical. Go check out its implementation, and it will make it obvious how to implement a concurrency argument.
Also had a look at electrical heating options again recently. Everywhere I've lived that burns fossil fuels to generate heat has been plagued by costly maintenance. At my current place, not unique to these issues, I've now spent an average of £175 a year on repairs (£1230 total over 7 years). In contrast, I lived for 10 years in a place with electrical heating and never had to do any maintenance whatsoever. Certainly gas is cheaper to run in terms of the price per unit of energy consumed, but if you factor in the maintenance and the hassle factor of taking time off to be in for the repair people, then I'm not convinced there's such a big difference. If you ask a boiler repair person about switching to electricity though, they'll say they strongly recommend against it, but part of me wonders if that's because they have a vested interest in keeping people using the high maintenance options. I used to joke that the only reliable thing about my boiler was the revenue stream it generated for the repair people.

Underfloor electrical heating is apparently a lot more efficient than radiators, e.g. because you only need to run them at a much lower temperature. If you combine with things like ground source heat pumps and solar panels, the electric heating proposition looks a lot more appealing.

That said, the conclusion I came to is that for an old place that doesn't otherwise need major work, it just isn't worth the expense of making the switch. It might be that if I were to move somewhere that needed a complete refurbishment anyway, then I would. Even then, with most homes, at least in cities like London, being flats rather than houses, then things like solar panels and heat pumps become much more difficult if not impossible to arrange.
The tremendous majority of property crime, especially cyber, is opportunistic.
Declaring emergencies is easy. Wake me when they've implemented carbon taxes and tarrifs.