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> Any bureaucracy: Present as if you are collecting a paper trail. Prominent indicia of this include notebooks, organized files, and repeatedly asking for specific names, dates, and citations for authority “for my notes.”

This is my wife. A survivor of over three decades in the corporate world.
From what I understand, the code of conduct is supposed to limit the participation in the community around the software. Issue tracking, support groups etc. If you don't adhere to it, you're free to fork and make your own github repo, discourse, IRC channels or whatever.
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EU has fined Google €8.2B so far. Google might not have gotten the hint yet, but it's not for lack of trying.
Most people don’t care that Goldman Sach is behind the financing of .org takeover.
Impressive and ridiculously tacky at the same time.

It's like flying inside of an ad that gets glued to your eyeballs for the duration of a flight. It's appropriate for ferrying gamers to a WoT event somewhere, but for regular flights this is completely unacceptable.
I'm not really picking sides here, but the roaming gangs are really visible compared to regular Eastern European immigrants. There's just this watershed moment when the Romanian borders opened where all of a sudden you started noticing them, while the influx of for example Poles was much more gradual and consisted of mostly people that came with the idea at least to work.
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Took 30 years and in that time the internet was born. Key is to keep creating conditions where they compete with each other. Nobody wins overnight if the game has good rules.
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Would you write code with syntax errors and blame the compiler for not understand how smart you are, or would you just learn the language and write correct code? Your frustration shows lack of understanding and appreciation for mathematics, when in reality maths and computer science are two sides of the same coin. If you can be good at one, you can be good at the other :)
Dark energy might not exist after all
Very curious - what kind of people use OSH and how many actually use Oil in OSH?

I am hesitant to spend the time ramping up on something like this because, as much as possible, I try to write my shell scripts so that they can run without any additional packages in an Alpine docker container.

Is this resistance that you have encountered before?
Are you aware that this project is inherently political? (not just because of the founder's odious and divisive beliefs, but because the project is modeled after them).

Does this not break the guidelines?
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Chip-and-PIN really sucks for consumers, but many US institutions are able to do it if you ask.
Hacker news is a social network too. I think it's unfair to demonize young people's memes, it's just different. I've learnt a lot from young people's take on things than some old bitter oldfag.
As in eternal, having an infite energy source (or zero energy consuming) and completely exact and fault proof.
Berlin is in the east of Germany. I live in Berlin, and have considered cycling to Poland and back as a day trip.

One of my German coworkers remarks often that wages for any given job in former-DDR-areas are much lower than the same jobs in pre-reunification-Bundesrepublik-Deutschland-areas.
Find the accounting department at work and make as many friends as possible.

These people see the "numbers" (and that is the heart of any business). They can get your checks expedited (reimbursement or for vendors). They can tell you when a lay off is coming, or when the company blew out the numbers. Most of them keep booze at their desks. All of this will come at the price of coffee and doughnuts/pastries/baglels at the end of the fiscal year, or during an audit.
Systems programming languages with GC (any form of automatic memory management), also provide features for doing manually memory management, explicitly releasing resources, allocating on the stack or the global memory segment.

Depending on what one is trying to do, those constructs can still be allowed on safe code, or require explicit unsafe modules (or code blocks).

Examples, D, Nim, Swift, Mesa/Cedar, Modula-2+, Modula-3, Sing#, System C# (aka M#), .NET (version and language dependent).
Kragen, those bacteria multiply, which I assume the nanobots do not? Then we would have a real problem ...
There's only one problem[0] that could bite someone used to the way elisp code is written: when the reader sees e.g. FOO:BAR, or FOO::BAZQUUX, the package FOO must already exist (and AFAIK have BAR exported), otherwise you'll get a reader error. You can't work around it with regular macros, because the error is at read-time, way before macroexpansion-time or compile-time.

This shows up whenever you need to set up some functions using a package before the code defining that package is loaded. This might be a rare use case in general, but it's something that shows up frequently enough when configuring Emacs. The only workaround for CL that I know is programmatic lookup of the symbol via FIND-SYMBOL, or just keeping the problematic code as string and running it through (EVAL (READ-FROM-STRING ...)) when it's safe for reader to parse it. Since Elisp doesn't have a package system, the problem doesn't exist there; at worst you'll get a warning from the byte compiler/interpreter that it doesn't (yet) know what variable or function a symbol represents.

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[0] - Or at least what I believe to be a problem; I'm half-hoping there's a trivial solution that I'm missing.
Pay these guys. Be sure to have your Dutch translation on. It's on nearly every piece of meat in the major stores in the Netherlands.

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Very graceful disagreeing, thank you! I appreciate it. I have a book called Talking Philosophy that says that when a philosopher at Oxford wishes to express disagreement they say "Quite. But at the same time...", and that one in Sydney says "Bullshit!" p.s. I'm in Sydney :-)
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> Unit files. ... you create a new file, which replaces the old one on close.

Classic MacOS-9 had the PBExchangeFiles call which did this perfectly. Before call:

dirEntryA -> fileContentsA
dirEntryB -> fileContentsB

after call

dirEntryA -> fileContentsB
dirEntryB -> fileContentsA

This meant that the user kept all meta info for files, e.g. tags, window position, custom icons, etc.

So when saving a new document you wrote it to a new hidden temp file, and when everything was written, you called PBExchangeFiles to swap the contents of the old and new files. After this you deleted your temp file which now contained the old document content.

http://mirror.informatimago.com/next/developer.apple.com/doc...
lots of grey here
Reddit and Facebook are relatively well indexed on DuckDuckGo. Do yourself a favor and change your default search engine (just use !g when you need it).
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I think we're interpreting the link you provided differently. The way I read it, the author is taking the analogy between the Fourier Uncertainty and the Heisenburg Uncertainty and extending it to a similar analogy between the Nyquist Theorem and Brillouin Zones.
What did the fish say when he posted bail?

"I'm off the hook!"

sorry, it's almost 4 am and I had to drop a fish joke in here.
The one example with regards to doctors has worked for me in the past. I am sure the doctor didn't get the impression that I was a doctor also (I'm not), but when in my initial meeting with a new doctor the fact that I knew the non-brand names of OTC medications and mentioned only asking for antibiotics after having a fever that wouldn't break for more than 48 hours she basically said "oh you know what you're talking about, if you ever need antibiotics just call me and I will call in a prescription for you." I'm not a medical professional, I'm just technical and value precision and knowledge, and doctors seem to appreciate that. It helps if they can relax and not worry about overwhelming the patient by suddenly dropping chemical names or the real names for disorders, diseases, etc. If you show that you're actually interested in that stuff and not an 'alternative medicine' type that they have to pick and choose their words with like tip-toeing through a minefield, they can relax and do their job.
Another article from the same author on how to be a Dangerous Professional: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2017/09/09/identity-theft-credit-r...

(HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15206926)
> Also I can't prove it, but I think a major source of pain in garbage collection is mutability, which is exacerbated by our fascination with object-oriented programming. I'd like to see a solid comparison of garbage collection overhead between functional and imperative languages.

I can only speak for Haskell's GC, but it's pretty conventional. You might think that GC is simpler for Haskell without mutability but you'd be wrong, because (1) Haskell actually gives you plenty of safe and unsafe ways to have mutability, safe ways such as the ST monad (not to be confused with the State monad), (2) laziness effectively is mutation: evaluating a value is effectively overwriting the closure to compute the value with the value itself. The lazy list is a pretty common sight in most Haskell code. So basically Haskell has a pretty conventional stop-the-world, generational GC not unlike imperative languages.
Nice. Did you update the reported results also? I think they will change quite a bit
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I am with you on that, for a while I thought that either GNOME or KDE would win the desktop wars, providing on GNU/Linux the same desktop development experience of Macs, Amigas, BeOS, Windows, OS/2 with their respective component libraries.

Instead the GNU/Linux wars replaced the UNIX wars, and while GNOME and KDE do strive to provide that experience, everyone is using Electron apps instead.

The closest to that MacOS development experience turned out to be Android, where the actual kernel being used is irrelevant to user space.
Ah, then I'm right behind. But it's not that more Math knowledge wouldn't help at all, just that the cost to benefit ratio seems not worth it.

I never needed actual Math in my career so far.
Dutch universities have funding outside of ESA or Europe. A lot of it is determined at the national level. there have been more academic collaborations recently between the two countries. The article doesn't mention ESA so i think it's just a chinese mission accepting a contribution from radbout and others.
I can't help but groan a little at the fact that this entire voyage of dongles and hardware and head-scratching is based on the ridiculous axiom that letting your smart TV access the net would be "insane".

Guess what, the smart TV will stream 4k, and the app allows you to display the current bitrate and resolution to verify it (complaint in the article).

When you're done consuming online stuff on your TV, why not just cut the power? Or hook it up via ethernet to a port you can easily disable? Or both?

Sure, these types of articles can be interesting but this comes off as navel gazing and unnecessary complexity of what the actual issue is.
I was going to say something similar.

I've fasted for up to 5 days before, and I felt just fine - especially on days 4 and 5, I actually feel like I have more mental clarity and drive than usual.
Could this be related to the same phenomenon as EMDR (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_movement_desensitization_a...)?
The answer to the question is unfortunately yes. What I dreamt in 2010 is coming true, just in a much different way.
I actually dreamed that Assange was executed by lethal injection. It's still happening all be it much slower.
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I am pretty sure he left the project for this reason: people judging your political alliance instead of your output.
Lol, most people think it goes in the opposite direction.
The issue here is that while GC does take some time to perform, it's easy to make the assumption that removing the GC will reclaim the performance lost by the GC. This is a fallacy.

We can compare memory strategies like so:

Garbage Collection:

- Allocations: Very fast (often a single instruction)

- Ownership transfer: Free

- Pointer release: Zero

- Post-free: Garbage collection phase (this is where the time is spent)

Reference Counting:

- Allocations (similar to malloc(), requires a binary search at least)

- Ownership transfer: At least one instruction for single-threaded. Multi-threading: Requires a lock.

- Pointer release: Slow. Locking issues, memory housekeeping.

- Post-free: Zero. Good for realtime.

The first point might require some clarification. When you have a compacting garbage collector, the free memory is usually in a single block. This means that allocations merely require a single pointer to be updated. If the pointer hits the end of the free block, you trigger a GC. You don't even have to check for the end of the free block if the subsequent memory page is marked no-access.

One can spend a lot of time measuring the performance impact of all these different steps, and I am not going to try to prove that GC is always faster than refcounting, but at least it should be clear that it's not a simple matter of assuming that having no GC means that you will have no memory management overhead.
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Wikipedia has an unfortunate habit of labelling anything as "far right" that is described as such by left wing or gullible journalists in left of centre mainstream publications.

Mencius Moldbug may be far right, but he may alternatively just be a thinker not afraid to challenge liberal received wisdom.

It's ok to disagree and fervently oppose but it's unfortunate when we descend into soundbite mud-slinging in service of that opposition.
Probably this proves the point of the article. I'm Italian and the accent of the lady labelled as French/Italian sounds somewhat German to me: no Italian would stop between syllables like that. On the other side I can imagine why that could sound Italian to English speakers. Italian has very few vowel sounds compared to English and for us is hard to learn all the intermediate vowels, for example between a and e. The lady seems to have lost them too. I wonder if she can learn them back.
> I assume they didn’t because if they did they’d be a lousy and dangerous exhibit

This is an absurd assumption. Slaves can be convinced to do anything, based on threat of force to them or their families. Even returning to the Congo might be threat enough, considering how they were treated there[1]. And of course, the few they couldn't be convinced (maybe they didn't have a five-year old daughter whose hands and feet could be cut off as punishment), could simply be replaced.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atrocities_in_the_Congo_Free...
The thing with FidoNet though, after they created the hierarchical zone:net/node.point system, is that the higher up in the hierarchy you were, the higher your phonebills would be, and the more responsibility you had in the form of delivering the mail of your downstream nodes. Everyone was "indebted" to the people above them in the hierarchy, creating an almost feudal system.

But at the same time, you had to be technically competent to be a higher-up, to be a coordinator of some sort. And if you weren't, everyone below you would simply move to a different upstream node, or demote you from your position. So it was a weird meritocratic sort of feudal system.
It's the same in the UK. My phone bill is normally £12 a month - recently it was maybe £1 more. I checked what had happened - I'd accidentally sent a single mms to someone by including a link to google maps in a text message which got expanded into an image.

There's a reason WhatsApp is basically the only messaging people do here - carrier based messaging is an exploitative money trap.
> “But I’m not a shareholder!” A surprising amount of Americans are shareholders in large financial institutions. Do you have an IRA? Does it invest in e.g. mutual funds? If you own a mutual fund or index fund, you are highly likely to beneficially own fractional shares of US financial institutions. Someone who owns 0.01 shares is a shareholder; welcome to the magic of capitalism.

I like this guy. He has great insight, this is very well put :D
Doesn't explain anything about design really. Several screenshot of the finished design and how to use a version control to roll back.
Self nitpicking: It's the Earth-Moon L2, not the Sun-Earth L2. Even more info https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrangian_point
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The senate is for the states. If we changed it, some states will have less say. It's also a problem since for example in the west the vast majority of the land is federally owned.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_lands#/media/File:Map_...

How do you think Nevada would react if nuclear testing was being conducted again. How do think Montana or Idaho would react if the federal government gave logging rights to companies outside of local communities. If you reduce the states power and say over federal polices that effect them the most why even have states. Why even have tiered levels governance.

Local governments exist for a reason. Federal laws and polices can effect certain areas more or exclusively. Ignoring those people who reside in that area because the majority outside the area wish to do something is just tyranny by the majority. Therefore areas which people reside also need to voice their concerns. What we currently have is a blend.

The senate and house have to agree on things to get bills passed. The house is already based off population. Having the two houses ensures that states and peoples concerns are voiced through their representatives. States with a larger population already get more say in the house. The senate ensures that each states government is represented equally.

It's also sad that less people vote in state and local elections than federal ones since local government a lot times is much more important.
I'm very skeptical that any doctors think you are a doctor because you know Acetaminophen and Tylenol are the same thing (the example from the tweets) in general.

I know doctors and they are typically very used to people 'knowing' random bits from their googling before they came in, and would rarely act like the patient has an actionable expertise even if they do.

In this example I suspect the doctor would've ended up giving you the option to just call in for antibiotics at some point, regardless of your knowledge of the names of OTC medications.
What if i restricted voting to people who scored perfect in those history tests and are above 140 iq?
As a treadhead (but one who doesn't play WoT): that's awesome! Especially the tank blueprints. WoT also funds videos on some of my favorite military history YT channels.
They extract an insignificant about of energy sorry
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I mean, I guess it's just hard to understand for people who have never lived under such a system. In Poland it's relatively common for people to say that life used to be "better" under communism, even though yes, what you could buy was limited, where you could travel was limited and sometimes yes, you would be assigned to a post somewhere and had to move there whether you wanted to or not(freshly graduated teachers would usually be assigned to a school in the country that needed teachers, with little personal choice). All of that sounds horrendous from the perspective of western countries today(or well, in fact, Poland in 2019 too), but not everything is just black and white - there were good things about it too. Excellent quality of education. Of healthcare. Public transport that was cheap or free to use, and regular. Massive investment in infrastructure. New things which were built were usually built with citizens in mind first, not profit.

Like, it's really hard to explain because you'd never see the benefit of that over personal freedom, but I get why older generations are nostalgic over it. I wouldn't go back to it but it wasn't all bad.
> >Not all knowledge is in logical definitions.

> It is.

> What's wrong with over intellectualization?

Ah, well there you go, now I see where you come from. (Not just from those lines, but from the whole post, which the lines illustrate.)

I don't agree that we lack understanding that you write of, but I can see how you would think that if you though that logic is the pinnacle of intellect.

But logic is just one part of understanding, there are other ways the knowledge can be collected, transmitted and applied. If you aim to only use logic, you end up with overintellectualizing everything, and in that case yes, it is very hard to say that you truly understand anything.

> You can't currently do either of these things. You require an algorithm to code it up for you. Therefore you don't really understand it.

This is, for all practical intends and purposes, a pointless distinction. If we have created the algorithm, it means we have created the thing itself and it means we do undertand it on some level. What you talk about is some "perfect 100%" understanding, which does not really exist, it is a trick of a mind that cannot use any other facilities than pure logic, and wants the world to fit into those categories that can be perfectly described with rigid categories of the logical apparatus. The world doesn't really fit though, but such a mind will ignore that and will end up having to overintellectualize everything, it doesn't know where to stop.

Humans are fully capable of operating in the world without fully (100%) understanding it, because they have other facilities than pure logical understanding. It doesn't mean that they operate things that they don't understand randomly, or just making choices for no reason. It means they have other intuitive methods of operating which can produce results without having a rigid logical model.
It's not that hard. There are several computer-checked proofs of it.

It's hard to explain, because the idea of encoding statements about a system in terms of the system itself is weird if you haven't seen it before.
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Next time you're in Minsk, go to chaikhana. It's the only nice place to eat IMO.

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It seems wrong though - I am not an American, but if you e.g. own shares in an ETF (or mutual fund), you just own shares in the ETF while they own the shares in the underlying assets.

I am not even sure if there's a legal definition of shareholder, but assuming that there is, I suspect this doesn't cut it and you are simply a stakeholder instead. Feel free to link to relevant materials, if that's not the case.
If you comment about those issues, it would be nice you knew something about it.

Ukraine is very liberalized economy, perhaps more than in the west - and yes, the results are less than stellar, for a complex number of reasons.

About Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia the economic results seem OK, but the social one is close to tragedy: in 3 Baltic countries emigration has been terrible, and the lost a large part of their population, threatening the social fabric. https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/social-issues-migration-health...

Your comment is pure ideology.
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A common hack in customer service is to make the customer feel like they're getting special treatment, are more knowledgeable than most other customers, and so on :)
I don't care much how the content looks either, but I found the details of the OP's setup very interesting, more so than I would have an actual movie review.
> and smart pointers never seemed to really catch on outside of Objective-C and Swift:

Smart pointers are a central feature of C++ even before they were added to the C++ standard in 2011.
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