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Not all of us, I just wanted an escape key. I’m happy now.
Makes a mockery of the amateur radio “miles per watt” awards :)
I blame Twitter. It’s radicalized a whole generation of people.

People are extremely tribal as it is. Of course only a subset of people are prone to this extremist and highly emotional/vindictive group think. But we’re seeing what this means on a large scale as the hysterical 1% of the population in each region bands together nationally and starts recruiting other with a unified FUD campaign. People see a tweet with 50k retweet’s and assumes it’s a popular, established, and credible opinion.

I still have hope for the vast majority of people but I think society and our culture needs to become more resilient and less overly receptive to the loudest voices in the room.

The bad is far too low to what is called “controversial” today. Society simply yet hasn’t adapted to national scale outrage machines IMO. We’re starting to see people start questioning what the right way to handle them and manage the never ending radical activism campaigns.
I can't help and wonder though, as much as I think it would be madness for APIs to be copyrighted, including a language's standard library. Would I just have more job opportunities as a dev if it was? Since much more work would be needed to provide alternative solutions to all these?
> As recently as October 2018, Target’s trade-in website claimed, “Used car seats shouldn’t be sold or given away, since they expire every six years and regulations change constantly.”

This hints to at least one good reason: so defective designs or models don't linger too long. Similarly, manufacturers have an interest, a priori, in discouraging a second-hand market to limit their exposure if and when any defects are found, especially if they lead to injuries. Of course, the most important reason is almost certainly because planned obsolescence leads to more sales.

> Instead of destroying 500,000 used seats over the years, Target could have safely marketed them to emerging markets. They would’ve sold, and many children would be safer because their parents had access to a secondhand market.

Hahahaha. That would never happen. The optics would be horrible, both domestically and internationally. Such a good deed could never go unpunished.

I think drug companies do dump pharmaceuticals near their expiration date into cheaper markets. But the drugs aren't actually expired, and they're certainly not used. Interestingly, AFAIU the expiration date for many drugs is also largely pulled out of thin air; they often retain their potency for many years after the supposed expiration date. OTOH, proving efficacy can be more difficult and risky.
The problem with ads (there are many problems, but in this context this one is the most relevant) is that it's inherently incompatible with productivity. Ads waste your time and try to influence you or make you buy things instead of doing whatever you initially planned to do. This means ad-supported tools try to maximise ad viewing time ("engagement" as they call it), so it's in their best interest to make the tool less efficient so you spend more time on it.

I want my operating system and other critical tools to work for me by saving me time, not against me by wasting my time so I get the opportunity to see more ads.

Imagine if you were a plumber, would you use a wrench that has a built-in screen and makes you watch a 30-second ad before it actually allows you to unscrew a pipe? And then periodically beeps while in your toolbox so that you have to take it out and stay "engaged"? No - any sane person would say "this is crap" and throw it in the garbage. Why should it be any different for IT tools?

The GDPR has yet to do anything regarding tracking because it's not being enforced at all - Google and Facebook's entire business models are based on violating the GDPR and yet they are still around. The regulation has some good ideas including around consent and dark patterns (tracking must be opt-in, should not be misleading, etc) but it has yet to be enforced despite there being millions of sites blatantly violating it.

> Apple products are expensive and will only become more so if everyone tries to buy it.

That would be the market at work. Maybe when the prices rise even more Microsoft will realise just how much money they're leaving on the table and go back to making good software?
Both. Attention changes the source. Action interacts with the source, modifying it. But the environment will need to respond back. This is reminiscent of reinforcement training but is more traditional NN except where the input is dynamic and evolving with every batch not only in response to the agent but in response to differential equations or cellukar automata / some type of environment evolution. AGI should be able to change the environment in which it inhabits. Attention in some respects is a start - it is essentially equivalent to telling reality to move the page and watching it happen. Until we have attention AND data modification, we will keep getting the specialized NN we are used to.
“Apple has lit the torch”, I mean that Apple is leading the way forward for privacy centric products and services. Whether one chooses to trust Apple and buy their products, that’s debatable. But, it is evident, and clear that Apple’s press, their marketing, keynotes, technology and their products in last 3 years have a central theme - Privacy.
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1. Yes obviously

2. They are lying through their teeth about the accounts being reinstated (many have not been), as well about the SMS thing, given that the video shows actual screenshots of people being denied having their accounts reinstated, so obviously that SMS thing doesn't work at all as they claim it should.
Copyright does not only cover artistic works. APIs are a form of contracts and contracts are copyrightable.
I did, for 7 or 8 years. It was good for my writing skills (and fun) but it was a little like talking into a vacuum.
> It's just that clearly, governments+people can grow a LOT bigger (in absolute number of people) than a corporation, before it generally goes bad.

I don't think it's so easy to separate the two. A corporation is not a real thing, it's a legal fiction created by a government. If a corporation acts badly, it's really the government that allowed it to act badly.

The complications occur when a corporation obtains enough power to be able to influence the government, and thus the ability to influence the rules by which it abides, like a recursive program which is able to alter the mechanics which created it.

At this point, the difference between government and corporations start to blur. It's entirely possible for a corporation to be initially created by a democracy at the will of the people, but over time, as its size and power grows, is able hold the government captive, and control its own rules.

Sadly, this is not just a hypothetical thought experiment.
I know somehow who had an inkjet that he used maybe twice a year. It just worked for years, he never even had to replace the ink I think. But when we didn't use it, he closed all the lids and put it back into the shelf :D

So now I try something similar but not that strict. Also I like about inkjet that it can print photos etc.
The case is about APIs, not the whole work. By their very nature, all APIs are both:

1. Single sentence.

2. Usually obvious. In fact, just about every API definition in the above linked String method list is blatantly obvious, and many of the APIs look similar to ones in various other completely incompatible languages.

So even if you argue the copyrighted work is comprised of the whole set of APIs, it may be patent-able as an invention, but it does not seem reasonable to suggest it be protected by copyright.
> imo there are better/more interesting game options out there, like Eve or Ultima Online

I'm unfamiliar with UO, but with Eve, sadly, much of the most innovative and interesting parts of the game are done outside the client.
> You will see for Windows 10 Pro for Workstations productivity and enterprise focused applications in place of consumer applications and games.

This means there will still be spam in the start menu, just a different kind of it? Wow.
> but as it's got big, it's also morphed into a typical big corporation with typical corporate politics.

The level of self-censorship my friends from Goog exercise and how carefully they choose their words on everyday topics is unlike anything I've seen from people working at any other big corps. They've also become more flexible on moral stances that once used to be clear cut lines for them.

Google is a borderline cult. It has fallen far below the bar that most people would set for 'best workplace'. This is just something that Goog employees don't become aware of until they leave the bubble.
I’ve had a Brother HL-1030 since I believe around ~2000, still works great.
I wouldn't be too sure about the statement that innovation happens faster under centralization (especially government). Rather I'd guess you get certain types of innovations.
You’re right that I’ve not backed some of the claims with objective financial analysis. I searched for annual reports, then went off to finishing the post, in the interest of time. I thought that it would take a long time to read the reports to find out the revenue broken down into various business segments instead of “Microsoft Search Network” bucket.

Furthermore, whether ad business is a 1/20th of Microsoft’s revenue, is by itself not an indicator. It’s still a 7 billion dollar business. That’s larger than a lot of successful companies. Apple’s services business has grown rapidly from 0% to the second largest source of revenue.

Microsoft, Adobe, etc are all aggressively trying to penetrate the ad market. Microsoft has failed to capitalize on IE/Edge or Bing, as much as it tried. Now, they’re hostile to privacy and have permeated their ad strategy to operating system level.

I don’t agree with you about Siri and Cortana. I was trying to say that Apple is leading the path, “lit the torch”, to become a privacy centric business. And they’re openly advertising their products with Privacy motifs. That’s what I see. It wasn’t about Cortana or Siri.

I’m glad I was able to entertain!

Edit: If you’d like a thorough analysis, I strongly suggest subscribing to Stratechery blog.
I suppose traditional archaeology also involves groundbreaking. :)
The Economic Impacts of the Advanced Encryption Standard (2018) [pdf]
https://www.tesla.com/sites/default/files/tesla-model-s.pdf
> APIs are functional, not artistic. They belong in the domain of patent law, not copyright.

I think you're mixing up different types of intellectual property:

- Trademarks are intended to identify a source. Trademarks cannot be functional, they have to be descriptive.

- Copyright must express a creative idea. That idea can be artistic, or functional. Computer code and APIs can be copyrighted (as they most often are), but they can also be patented.

- Patents cover inventions with some utility. One can definitely patent a piece of art if it provides some utility.

It's not uncommon for companies to throw all three at whatever they are cooking up.
2. is actually a damning criticism of economics. There is nothing in economic theory that makes a calculation of broader costs vs benefits possible.

It simply doesn't exist, so it's not considered.

So economic theory is blatantly biased towards the accumulation of profit for shareholders, and blatantly biased against a realistic assessment of the social costs of those profits.

Simple example: AirBnB. Some people - mostly property owners - make money.

Other groups - people who need to rent property at a reasonable price - lose money.

You won't find the latter represented on the balance sheet. What looks like a potentially profitable operation actually turns out to have a huge social cost. Effectively it's moving money from a relatively unprivileged group to a relatively privileged group.

This is not a hypothetical example - it's a real problem in the area I'm living in, where the supply of long-term rental property has almost disappeared because owners can make more money from short-term tourist rentals.

Economics relies exclusively on these kinds of effects. There is no concept of "social profit" which is a guaranteed positive benefit for as many affected parties as possible.

And without that, economic theory becomes a vicious feedback loop that prioritises the redistribution of money over genuine value creation.
Matplotlib is one of the most user-unfriendly libraries I've had the displeasure to use. The most effective thing to do is to not use it at all.

If you can get away with it use pandas' plot, seaborn, altair, etc.
Halos are frequent especially in the months after surgery. They tend to reduce with time. They are usually not noticed in everyday life but rather by night, while driving for example (dilated pupils). They also depend on the type of treatment (optical zone, amount of correction) that you perform, and for the quality/generation of the laser platform... Information is essential.

Chronic pain is usually related to dry eyes. Those patients should not be operated at all. Bad patient selection can result in terrible results.

Loss of visual acuity after refractive surgery is more than exceptionnal. It is usually manageable with hard contact lenses.

The special thing about refractive surgery is the contrast between its apparent easiness (non specialist eye surgeon will often refer to it as an "easy surgery, no technical difficulties") and the rapidity with which hard to treat complications can occur if everything does not go as planned. Little things (water drop on the cornea during the treatment, centration error, mismanagement of flap cut incidents...) can lead to disasters that you sometimes cannot repair.
> emailing me PDFs that only Acroread can open

Please post any examples of those to the evince project as a bug report.
I’ll have to take a look at CUE; it might be worth using.

But I have to ask: isn’t there something simpler which can handle taking a declarative specification and adding imperative behaviour to it? I’m writing — as anyone who knows me might suspect — of S-expressions & Lisp.

They have an advantage over CUE in that one might well choose to write one’s entire program in Lisp & S-expressions. It doesn’t look like CUE is intended to be the whole-program language.

I remember that Tcl used to be commonly used for config-files-which-need-a-bit-of-scripting, but while it is an awesome language (really!) one probably doesn’t want to write an entire program with it, but rather use it to stitch functions written in C together.
These are basically OS reinstalls, there is a script capable of doing the same in live system
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Yes it is bad. Most of it relies on tools provided by advertising & stalking companies like Google Analytics, so they have an incentive to also use the data for themselves, and correlate it with other data they collect about you when you use their services directly. This also means these companies (even if not involved in advertising directly) have an insane potential in tracking users across all apps that happen to use their services, making them a very juicy target, including for state actors.

> AB-tests, UX-tests

I don't want to be a lab rat. If you are testing things then please make it clear and let me see both options and I will happily give feedback.

> finding bugs

What if the software crashes while processing confidential data and part of that data is contained in the core dump that you just sent off because you don't respect your users enough to ask them?
Stripe is supported in many more countries. In europe for exaple nobody ever heard of Square on the other hand people wait with open hand for Stripe to come to their country.
Can anyone recommend readings on von Neumann that highlight his non-mathematical achievements? Obviously he was primarily a physicist and mathematician, but for a non-mathematician, the long list of academic publications is hard to interpret and appreciate. For example, more in the vein of these:
- Reportedly, von Neumann possessed an eidetic memory, and so was able to recall complete novels and pages of the phone directory on command. This enabled him to accumulate an almost encyclopedic knowledge of what ever he read, such as the history of the Peloponnesian Wars, the Trial Joan of Arc and Byzantine history (Leonard, 2010). A Princeton professor of the latter topic once stated that by the time he was in his thirties, Johnny had greater expertise in Byzantine history than he did (Blair, 1957).

- ...conversing in Ancient Greek at age six...

- On his deathbed, he reportedly entertained his brother by reciting the first few lines of each page from Goethe’s Faust, word-for-word, by heart (Blair, 1957).
Thanks, it looks really helpful. I made an AUR package here: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/scholarref-git/
For average people with money - macOS. If they don't have money they need to become better than average with computers and learn Linux, or they will be preyed upon like cattle because of the lax US customer protections.
Relief and retirement.
Sorry if this is slightly off topic but a great time to revisit this great primer on Unicode [0] by Joel Spolsky.

[0] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2003/10/08/the-absolute-minim...
Here is a practical tutorial on the theory and design of systems which integrate many sensors into a single coherent collage: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSekr_gm4hWLvFtJX0WUu...

You will need a strong grasp of category theory and topology in order to tackle this subject, though. The article serves as a good introduction, although it itself requires a mathematical background.
There are ways of making money ethically, and failing that, legislation is there to keep things in check. This is why (in most of the developed world, at least) you don't see people in the street fighting & robbing each other all the time.
Appreciate other companies solving the same problem
Commercial aviation is super-safe. General aviation is pretty dangerous. The statistics don't make much sense without those broken apart.
I read this about Edison.

Also he read very fast, the librarians though he did not like the books that's why he was returning all of them every next week.

Also what usually geniuses can do is process information a lot. Read and write many papers. Eg Terrence Tao. His blog is always going strong, the polymath projects, plus regular teaching, plus his own (other) research.

Alexander Grothendieck, wrote books full of brand new ideas about very abstract math. Amazing insights. Ability to work with unfamiliar cutting-edge things while keeping focus, while communicating them to others.
> It means that you can't make jokes, designs or decisions based on your non-work related opinions, how can that possibly not hurt your creativity?

I can't imagine my being an R or a D having any connection with engineering creativity.

> it could mean that instead of using your own judgement when hiring people you remember that race and gender is political so you override your gut-feelings and go by the book to avoid problems in the future

I give an evaluation of their ability to do the job, and let the HR dept. fret about the company's social equity agenda.

I don't choose my friends based on if their politics/religion align with mine, either.
Well that just means you capable of having good ideas. Just keep at it and I'm sure you'll do something great.
Another option is to use plotnine, which is intended to be a ggplot2 clone. It uses matplotlib under the hood, so if something isn't right you can tweak it. That was the main drawback I found with Altair: your declarative code is almost literally dumped to a json file and then rendered by a process external to Python, so good luck tweaking your plot.

https://github.com/has2k1/plotnine
> Please explain how a “market” is anything other than steady state if all externalities are accounted for?

I took micro-economics in highschool, and when discussing how trade is overall beneficial, they trotted out the old example of two countries, each producing bicycles and bananas.

The purpose of the exercise is to show that if each country focuses on one item and specializes on it, everyone benefits.

I always found that example to be deeply disturbing. If given a choice, who would actually prefer to live the banana country rather than the bicycle country? Even in highschool this silly example demonstrated the absurdity of classical economics.
Considering most daily (commuting, grocery shopping) trips are either very short or slow due to traffic, I fail to see how this fact is interesting at all.
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They could offer other ways to manage memory manually instead of just escape analysis, like GC enabled systems languages, but that is not the nature of Go's design.
Lucky you.
I completely agree. The best reason i think to trust apple is because of their revenue model which almost entirely come from selling hardware. Now with their recent increase in revenue from services, i’m a bit worried that it could change in the future.
Everyone I know at $big_research_lab uses it and hates it. But what are the alternatives really? Altair plots are larger than you dataset, plotnine has totally unusable docs and insane behaviour in some places (look up what plotnine's gg.ylims does; I'd bet it's caused more than one peer-reviewed error.), and further seems to have basic operations like drawing a vline scale in slowness with the size of your data. Plotly is commercial, raw d3 is inconvenient from python. The situation is deeply unfortunate.
We're in the same boat, loving cqrs and Events ( domain/Integration) right now.

Really underestimated it "it's the same as DDD, but just split up" was my previous opinion
The thing the author is looking for is called semistructured data, as in SGML/XML. Where data can live in containers/files users can relate to, can be rendered to make sense to a user (y'know like in a browser), can evolve with requirements, and can still be extracted with formal precision. And it's quite heavily used in legal as well since about the 1980s.
What we should do is learn that many GC enabled languages also offer other means to manage resources, and increase adoption of such features, instead of throwing the baby with baby water, just because a couple of them use GC for everything.
there are 2 NUC, I saw it at the most expensive one
Deaths per KM is 60x lower when flying rather than driving a car. Even for short haul flights, flying is considerably less deadly than driving the same distance.
While I'm glad these efforts exist, it's wrong to have to fight my operating system in this way. In my experience, it's a losing battle. Microsoft seem intent on having full control of your system, and they are in a position to take that control as and when they like.

The occasional nods towards the technical crowd, for example WSL & VSCode are distracting us from the very large elephant in the room.
bokeh (https://github.com/bokeh/bokeh) and seaborn (http://seaborn.pydata.org) are popular
Oh, seaborn is tightly coupled to matplotlib, so I don't really distinguish the two in my complaining, but you should definitely be using seaborn.
Can I use this with aiohttp?
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on windows home it's not possible to opt out of telemetry. only to send less.
Exactly, I’m not sure why people are writing code to solve this. Just needs a systematic approach.
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