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Most I could see it do is to allow voice actors change their voice, using it by itself is not feasible because DL doesn't know where to put emphasis, where to speed up and slow down, it doesn't sound emotional. I don't know who would like to have their book read by monotone voice. Maybe it could voice dictionaries and encyclopedias.
As a skills exercise, I'd recommend pure-functional programming with immutable data structures (clojure, elixir, etc). Getting to a point where you "own" recursion and non-mutation will pay dividends in any language.
>> The point of the thought experiment is just a very likely but very positive act.

(You mean very _un_likely eh?)

The reason I'm objecting specifically to the seventh dimension stuff is that it's just something fanciful that someone came up with, so it's obviously fake and I don't have to believe it even a little bit.

The probability of someone just handing out money (if I read you correctly this time) is very low, but not zero, yes. But I'm contesting the claim that I'm never allowed to assign 0 probability to anything, because then I'm at risk of losing out. Sometimes, you don't risk being wrong by disbelieving something.

Anyway I'm getting more and more confused by this conversation. I don't think it's getting anywhere. Thanks for your patience- you have the floor.
I don't understand this comment. So something is difficult to fix; how does this make the components any less recyclable, less free of harmful toxins?

Apple has a fairly comprehensive recycling system, to strip their own systems apart and reclaim reusable components. Are you suggesting when people take their MacBooks to get replaced that Apple are just throwing them in a landfill or something?
Oh yep. I listened to a full cast reading of The Man of Legends by Kenneth Johnson a couple of months ago and the narration was pretty good on the most part. There was a section that was told from the point of view of a young Hispanic girl and I couldn't understand much of it all. Really annoying.
The lost art of paste up – or how magazines were made in an analogue age
> only the milder scenarios were made visible to the general public.

The public has been given all kind of predictions, some were quite extreme ( “Children just aren’t going to know what snow is”) and have failed to materialize.
(Disclaimer: yWorks employee and developer here)

We do have a more modern web-based graph editor: https://www.yworks.com/yed-live/ It may lack features you need, as the idea was a less cluttered and more modern UI, not to bring over everything and the kitchen sink.

As far as yEd Desktop goes, Java becomes an increasingly unattractive platform for desktop development, with Swing showing varying degrees of brokenness on different platforms and Java releases. The new hotness right now seems to be to either get working printing or working High-DPI support, but not both in the same Java release.

It's due for a minor UI overhaul, though, and this may come in the future. We probably cannot and won't completely restructure yEd's UI (such things also serve well to piss off long-time users).
i don't get it. what does one thing have to do with the other?
i assume no-one's going to throw their macbook in the trashcan anytime soon, so i don't see the connection between the ability to repair the device and how bad that device is for the environment.
I've been using https://taskfile.dev/ lately.

It's sane and simple. Written in go.
This isn't surprising. If you don't much care about other people, then politics just won't seem worth it. Even if your side wins completely, your personal gains will be pretty small. And conflict isn't fun. Just read the flurry of articles that will be coming out this week about politics and Thanksgiving dinner. The easy, comfortable position is "why can't we all just get along?" And that's the one you'll take if you're only concerned about your own welfare, and not that of the millions of other people who are affected by political decisions.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/19/iceland-holds-...

https://climate.nasa.gov/climate_resources/4/graphic-dramati...

Children aren't going to know what snow is. Permafrost is now melting. The perma means 'permanent'.

The only question is whether it'll be your grandchildren or their children.
Totally. What business are you in?
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> Based on what you're saying, it's immoral to send the shooter to prison or punish him in any way since he had no control over his actions and therefore was not guilty of assault or murder.

No, it's not; determinism applies to the punisher as much as the punished, so if the fact of determinism negates any moral culpability for the act being punished, then it likewise does so for the punishment.
Has anybody tested Sourcetrail on Sourcetrail?
hope they release a notarised version of the app for it to work on macOS Catalina
(yWorks employee and developer (though not on yEd) here.)

Thanks for the kind words. One note: yEd does have grid snapping (look for the grid-like icon in the toolbar or View > Grid). Personally, though, I rarely need the grid, as the normal snapping features work rather well for quickly making things line up or the same size. Also, automatic layout takes care of many alignment needs :-)

There's also Tools > Snap to Grid for a one-time grid snapping operation of everything (or a selection). Didn't even know that one existed until now.
That doesn't look like it needs person segmentation.
That's already possible to some extent by comining staged builds and the experimental buildkit engine which can run independent steps concurrently.
Only a tiny percentage of laptops are ever upgraded. If making the device upgradable and accessible adds the same percentage in materials then it's pretty much a wash.

Also Apple devices on average have much longer service lives than devices from most other manufacturers. On average they stay usable longer, and even when they are replaced they're more likely to be handed on and keep in use even without upgradability. This is why they retain more of their second hand value. That factor alone is dramatically more significant from a whole lifecycle impact point of view.
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> some climate change experts predict that the Scottish ski industry will cease to exist within 20 years.

Five years to go... Is that a mild prediction?

Last year was bad, but a few seasons in this decade have seen lots of snow (and of course global warming was also blamed for that).

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2004/feb/14/climatechange.sco...
No worries. I was definitely viewing your comment through the lens of the "privileged dismissal" example I gave in my comment. We cool brah :)
Any chance of a Python3.8 support?
That value is accurate. Ocasionally there are some jobs that pay $2 for 10 minutes but they are the exception. Most jobs pay from 5 to 10 cents for 5 minutes (when done properly). Unless you live in a country with extremely low living costs, mturk is completely worthless as a job.
How do Lua and Go differ from returning a tuple in Python?
In the UK we have the "Switch Guarantee"[1]. It was setup when there was stickiness in current accounts (English term for checking accounts). Now when you sign up for a current account you can opt-in to this service and they do payment redirection. So if someone tries to transfer your old account money, it'll get forwarded onto your new bank. That's on top of them organising the migration of payments.

1. https://www.currentaccountswitch.co.uk/Pages/Home.aspx
Maybe, because you don't own your cash, your cash is a credit that society acknowledges to you, so hiding it from which makes it valuable is nuts.

Can you eat your cash? Can you fly using your cash? Can you build a phone with cash? No, you can't do anything with cash without a public exchange that might be accountable.

Unfortunately, people did buy the idea that ”Markets can work without accountability”, and that's what you do when laundering money in a fiscal paradise. Hopefully, crypto can drive us out of that craziness of money as a good.
aufs sort of could do that at the file layer. The issue is you run into a bunch of incompatibilities with how applications can expect it to work. As soon as you want to start looking at striping and EC then you really need to just go with something like ZFS or btrfs.
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I'm from France and I'm using an online bank. Almost none of these apply to me - yes the pin code and the card come by mail but I can transfer arbitrary amounts online, I have a free gold card, there are basically no fees at all: the account is free, the card is free, transfers are free, I don't think this account cost me anything at all. I had to open the account with a significant amount to get the gold card but you can open it with a much lower amount or by receiving your salary there, and the only difference is that you get a regular card instead.

The only downside is that you don't have a physical branch you can go into but you can do basically anything online without ever interacting with anyone, or at worst you can always call them. Those are real banks btw, not pseudo-bank fintech companies.
There's a difference between scientific predictions and popular-press predictions. Your example (“Children just aren’t going to know what snow is”) is not a scientific one, but one spread by popular press with no scientific research to back it up.

The difference is important, because inaccurate reporting by the popular press undermines science.
shapes, ideas or thoughts are not protected by Copyright, only work.
> If you're trying to store cash anonymously from the government, there's not really a legal avenue for that.

That is a succinct summary of the initial complaint.

We're moving from a world where a buyer and vendor agreeing means something will happen to a world where buyer, vendor, bank and government all have to agree before something will happen. This is not a world that will cope well with change.

There are big incentives for governments to get involved in every transaction (by definition, they don't agree with anything that they get involved with and block). But we get back to the classic problem that they are only bureaucratic humans and make a lot of mistakes. Also issues of regulatory capture.

Although I'll throw in I'm interested in how much of an impact enforcing tax law has on the small and big pictures. One of China's competitive advantages is they claim a low tax rate as % of GDP, and most of the tax evasion I've seen personally is small businesses recycling money into the local economy. Changes to such dynamics will have far-reaching consequences.
> Person segmentation

Consider the defense applications!
Tbh that doesn't sound like a particularly troublesome task. Super-set the language with some new accents, symbols, and new punctuation markers and then off you go.
Whoa downvotes... which agency is trying to silence me? Haha. FREEDOM [OF SPEECH AND HUMAN RIGHTS]!!! Just remember: Whistleblowers are heros.
Please cite the scientific articles (not newspapers) making such claims. I don't think there is any credible report of these allegations.
> I don't understand this comment. So something is difficult to fix; how does this make the components any less recyclable, less free of harmful toxins?

The next best thing to recycling (from an environmental standpoint) is being able to repair and continue usage. However Apple's hardware becomes more and more unfix-able (actually impossible, because parts are basically tailored to a single device, thus there can't be secondary parts, and Apple doesn't provide them at all). Go down the rabbit hole yourself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTpHa70DDX0
For very low values of "ease use", in my opinion. Spaces in filenames are a bad idea; non-breaking spaces would be an anti-pattern or an attack, in my opinion.

How do you portably type a non-breaking space, if you don't have tab-completion?
Maybe someday we will see (or hear) Siri's voice star in one of those Disney flicks.
Where did you get the information about this model being more accurate than other models in the same price range?
Hate to break it to you, but injecting human emotion into speech is more than just putting intonation and punctuation in the right place.
# python, fn() returns tuple

(college, student, type_ofcollege) = fn()

# php, fn() returns array

list(college, student, type_ofcollege) = fn()

# go, fn() returns multiple values

college, student, type_ofcollege := fn()

# lua, fn() returns multiple values

college, student, type_ofcollege = fn()
Very true, and its important to note that even the IPCC is nowhere near claiming the world is collapsing in 12, 30, 50 or 80 years.
> What if I just want a place to anonymously store my legally gained cash?

Anonymously storing it makes it illegal. With Europe's negative interest rates, they're currently in the process of making personal storage illegal for large amounts (you're supposed to store it in a bank to pay negative interest).
>The public has been given all kind of predictions, some were quite extreme ( “Children just aren’t going to know what snow is”) and have failed to materialize.

What? I remember when I was back in school it used to snow all the time. Nowadays we barely have a winter.
Live too live in a debt based society!
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Interest is profitable. You take cash, you make interest. It's just a step away from the oldest game in the book—loan sharking.
Far from ruining novels, it's quite pleasant. After you've become accustomed to it, it becomes a very low-fatigue way to read for extended periods of time. I find books read by TTS are just as immersive as reading print. In fact the experience of TTS and reading print seem closer to me than print vs audiobooks.

I guess what I'm saying is don't underestimate neuroplasticity. I wager you could even achieve casual fluency with morse code if you listened to it long enough. I'm under the impression that some telegraph operators did.
If the only tax in a jurisdiction is an income tax and you choose to make your money through capital gains, you don't pay tax.

If the only tax in a jurisdiction is a land tax and you don't own land, you don't pay tax. This will either be because you ideologically are opposed to paying taxes and you're willing to pay more in foregone profits/opportunity cost, or because there's better more profitable investments elsewhere in the marketplace, in which case land values will grow more slowly till an equilibrium is reached.

But since most transacations are tied to land somehow (because the good was imported at the port, transported by trucks that are stored in a truckyard, and sold to you by a person who lives in a house using mobile phones that connect to transmitter towers) so you won't be engaging in some kind of pure untaxed marketplace.

It'll probably create a stockmarket bubble though. Best to tax shares as well as land.
Insider here. Apple pulls in map data from all kinds of sources. Some of these sources exist in alternate timelines. Apple maps will be a lot more useful when the apple timegate finally launches in 2038.
There's a bus-like edge router under Layout > Edge Routing > Orthogonal / Bus-style. This may require some tweaking of the settings for your particular drawing. https://i.imgur.com/YV3NFAQ.png
Try adding initial /build-tmpfs then copying or mounting /lib{n} ... then making new /specific-build-tmps with subdirectories or readonly for mounts /lib{n}. This way writes are discarded after a build (you destroy /specific-build on completion). If you can't easily split files between disparate sources, use a COW filesystem only for /specific/build/tmpfs. Likely to exhibit substantially different performance characteristics, with easily limited memory requirements. Did a lot of this with ZFS in the past, worked very well.
For those who are not in a hurry to upgrade

There is always something new just around the corner.
I hope we all realise that `playing with the cat and talking with my old parents` is where life exists and not in cubes. Thanks for the reminder, you are awesome!
Is it possible to register a .com domain in a non US registry
Hi,

Is there any chance to register a .com domain without having all your personal data plastered across internet/whois ??

GoDaddy and Noip basically will ignore GPDR. As I presume every single US registry will do.Alternatively they will extort you money for doing it.

Any possibilities at this side of the pond ??

Thanks

JC
Repairing a device by replacing a small part (preferably only the broken component) uses far less resources than recycling.

For most other laptops, repair or replacement of common components doesn't depend so much on the manufacturer. The skill and equipment required to do the repair is significantly reduced. All else being equal, this makes it more likely that the laptop will be repaired rather than discarded.
Maybe they meant the 16" laptop which has 1mm of travel.
Not true anymore for modern NC headphones. They will suppress speech significantly when active.
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Protocols aren't copyrighted regardless of whether code APIs are for the same reason algorithms are not copyrighted even though programs are. Any argument you make that if APIs are copyrighted then so are protocols would also lead you to conclude that since programs are copyrighted, then so are algorithms. The latter is untrue, and so is the former.

For example, you said above that a program implementing a protocol becomes its fixed expression, and so every implementation of the protocol would violate that program's copyright. Well, that same argument can be applied to incorrectly conclude that algorithms are copyrighted as well. Same goes for an argument about certain fixed strings. I've explained directly why those arguments don't work, but if you don't understand the explanation, perhaps seeing that your argument would also apply for algorithms make you realize you've made a bad turn somewhere. To claim that this case affects protocols you'll need an argument that cannot be used to claim algorithms are copyrighted, too. If it can be -- it's a wrong argument.
The question then is why Dr David Viner, a senior research scientist at the climatic research unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia, was saying such things to newspapers twenty years ago.
They probably both copypasted the same code from StackOverflow. /s
lol. That is exactly the direction headed for my children by comparison with my own childhood. When I grew up snow was an expected part of winter. It was rare to have a year without a snowfall of any kind.

The rarity for my kids was to have snow at all. Now in their twenties they have experienced an order of magnitude fewer snowfalls throughout their lives than I did to reach similar age. They have never experienced a snowfall that was even a level I'd have simply called normal and expected as a child, let alone the couple of memorable heavy snows.

Sure they have experienced snow, but of the most feeble kind... That's without invoking the record winters of 63 or 78 (79? I forget which).
Related: In Denmark (where I live), we have an officially designated "NemKonto" (translates to "EasyAccount"), which is where most employers, public institutions, etc. put paychecks, payouts, etc. automatically. So if you change banks, you can simply designate the new account your official NemKonto, and the money will automatically be routed there - no need to contact anyone.

This, in addition to how easy our PBS (DK version of ACH) is to use means switching banks is something that can be done easily. I know of people who will regularly contact 5-10 banks with their current mortgage details and ask for a better deal, and then go back to their current bank and tell them "match this offer or I'm switching".

We also have a simple interest on overdraft (usually 8-15% annually on any amount over draft), though excessive overdraft will get your account locked. But beyond that, no fees for hitting negative $0.05. Is there any US bank that offer a similar fee structure? I imagine people would migrate in droves if that was already the case.
After Apple care expires, many repairs are so expensive that you have to consider the MB totalled, that means, you are throwing away a device that should be repairable. A keyboard exchange should cost between $100 and $200, not in excess of $600.
> and of course global warming was also blamed for that

"Global warming" has been a poor choice of name because people lacking sufficient educational background expect there to literally be uniform warming. And then you get the 'we had an early cold snap, so much for global warming!' crowd.

What global warming actually means is that additional energy is being added to the weather system, which will amplify both low and high temperature maxima as well as causing more frequent high-severity weather anomalies like hurricanes. But on average, the global mean temperature trend will continue to go up and eventually those local minima will cease to exist.

Maybe this will help understand: https://climate.nasa.gov/climate_resources/139/graphic-globa...
> No middleman

except for a handful of giant server farms in china
When working with containers also consider hardware abstractions like virtual machines. Startup time can be optimez from minutes down to milliseconds. And also consider statically linked binaries if all you want is to solve the dll hell.
This is true, but increasing RAM or disk capacity over time could extend that even more. Maybe not so much visible right now with those machines that are sold today and look awesome, but I have a few examples of 2006/2009 MBPs that had hard drives being replaced with SSDs, and extended their lifetime many more years! In my today's 5-year-old MBP, I would enjoy doubling the RAM for example.
Please explain how exactly is that a scam?

My shipping address is not a secret information.
Yeah, non-s versions are better in that regard, because t490s has RAM soldered (and t480s had one chip soldered + one upgrade-able module), I have it and no way to upgrade that.
I really hope EU will pass a law that will forbid soldering RAM and SSD to the mainboard, because it starts getting ridiculous and increases garbage.
Interesting - didn't know most other languages had it as paradise.
I've recently started working in DevOps and I am amazed by the lack of foresight. If it was me, I'd dump everything the article describes (CUE as well, which the article advertises), and use Python everywhere.

Really, we do you need all these languages, Ansible, YAML and the lot? we don't, a good scripting language like Python would have been more than enough to manage CI/CD.
For Python, a tuple is not necessary when returning multiple values, you can use the same syntax as lua.

Edit: I stand corrected, indeed, Python returns a tuple.
A great many people care about crimes committed by the corporations. But, unlike Rupert Murdoch, we have no ability to influence the prosecutors.
What is the idea or purpose of TL;DR and TL;DW by the way? Both basically mean summary, so it is not that there is a new meaning that we needed to express somehow. It still catched on.

So what is its purpose? Should it give the author and audience a sense of belonging to the online world? Dissociating from people not belonging to the online world yet ("Neuland", anyone?). Just using it for teh lulz? Making things sound informal or less serious?

My experience is that I perceive articles preceded with 'Summary' instead of 'tl;dr' as much more no-bs-ty.

Edit: "Neuland" is referring to Ms. Merkel's "The internet is uncharted territory" comment by the way.