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It’s worthwhile comparing the criticism to other works such as James Joyce’s Ulyssess. Take this quote from a review in the NYT:

Few intuitive, sensitive visionaries may understand and comprehend "Ulysses," James Joyce's new and mammoth volume, without going through a course of training or instruction, but the average intelligent reader will glean little or nothing from it- even from careful perusal, one might properly say study, of it- save bewilderment and a sense of disgust. It should be companioned with a key and a glossary like the Berlitz books. Then the attentive and diligent reader would eventually get some comprehension of Mr. Joyce's message.

http://www.openculture.com/2013/10/the-very-first-reviews-of...
Ditto. The parent comment to yours ignores that a huge part of CA's homeless problem is that they aren't CA's homeless. They're the homeless problems of more than a dozen other states too selfish to take care of their own homeless.

CA doesn't do a great job of dealing with the homeless, but we'd have enough shelter beds for all of our own homeless if people from other states weren't taking those spots.
This is the area where Apple now sucks, hard.

Go back 5-10 years ago the the Macbook Air (not the original form ~2008 but the second one from 2010-2011) was an awesome piece of hardware. I mean it still had soldered RAM (I think?) and lacked upgradeability but it was cheap and good.

Apple's current leadership didn't like this so we end up with useless features like the Touch Bar, which exist for one reason and one reason only: to drive up the ASP (average selling price) of Macbooks.

The same thing has happened to iPhones. The last iPhone I bought was the 6S 4 years ago and I think it was $649? Expensive but not ridiculously so. Like paying that every 3 years wasn't terrible.

But now? The 11 Pro is >$1000. WTF?

And these things keep getting worse as they add features no one wants or needs to drive up the ASP (eg Force Touch).

Oh and current iPhones use FaceID which is terrible. The false negative rate is really high and having no home button actually sucks. For example, you used to get to the home screen by pressing it. Now you need to swipe up. But which direction you have to swipe up from depends on the orientation of the app you're using. That may not be obvious. It sucks.

But I don't want to pay $1000+ for a phone with a battery that noticeably degrades in 2-3 years. To hell with that.

I'd be tempted to buy the iPhone 8 (the last one with Touch ID) but for a now 2 year old model the price is unjustifiably high as they want to drive you to buy the 11 or at least the XR.
True nothing like snowcrash has yet to be created to any of our knowledges. Of course... if it was... how would we be able to respond to this thread! But this is whole other rabbit hole to go down that in light of some recents posts on the front page today doesn’t seem too fun.
Yeah the original title mentions "coastal waters" which is clearly the correct term, not sure why you're getting downvoted.
Didn’t they also have the right family connections to people in certain offices?
Seems like there'd be no need for such an app since the plane is grounded.
I live in DC so this might not be comparable, but our bus drivers are too focused on driving to worry about fare collection. How do you keep someone off a bus who refuses to pay the fare, and stay on schedule? There's really no way to make someone cough up $2 on a bus like there is on the Metrorail.
But all of this stuff simply can't end up in Java, because of backwards compatibility. For example, kotlin object references are non null by default. That is not something Java can easily bolt on. I think there should be many such features.
Diversification is for people who have no idea what they're investing in. Portfolio theory is spray/pray with no information which is what VCs do with unestablished startups, hoping for the wins to beat the losses. If you want to be that passive then just buy an ETF or all the large-cap blue-chip dividend stocks instead to keep it simple.

Investment funds with a real thesis and research don't do this. Concentrated positions and proper risk management is active investing and generates much greater profits. If you know a sector and company is doing well, diversifying will only reduce your returns.
Keep in mind that your typical RV refrigerator capable of running on AC or propane, and possibly DC, will run much less efficiently on electric power than a standard electric refrigerator. That might make them less-than-ideal for a solar + battery configuration. In an RV context one typically uses the electric mode only when connected to "shore power", where the lower efficiency is less of an issue.

Propane-based refrigerators use an absorption cycle which depends on heat produced by burning the propane; in electric mode they just substitute resistive heating. A pure electric refrigerator would use a compressor-driven heat pump, which is considerably more efficient.
Could you summarize the different direction that you see things moving?
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WX-7:

"purpose is to advance stellarator technology, though this experimental reactor will not produce electricity, it is used to evaluate the main components of a future fusion power plant"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendelstein_7-X

To compare, even ITER, international nuclear fusion research and engineering megaproject, initiated in 1988 (!) will also not produce any electrical energy:

"ITER will not capture the energy it produces as electricity, but—as first of all fusion experiments in history to produce net energy gain—it will prepare the way for the machine that can."

https://www.iter.org/proj/inafewlines

The net energy "gained" in ITER experiment, if it achieves that much, will be just "vented to the atmosphere." The other experiments don't even expect to have any gain.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITER

The smallest possible promise is, of course, that the money received "enables the Company to formally launch the program" as in the "news" here:

https://generalfusion.com/2019/12/general-fusion-closes-65m-...
A Cloud has excellent courses especially for AWS but (at the time) they lacked any lab environments. This deal seems like it will help plug that gap.
+1 to everything in parent comment. This is seriously insane. Esp the part about the batteries.

This is what I imagine a startup should do - develop groundbreaking core technology that nobody else would dream of doing. The actual product is just a minor side effect of all this technology.

When was the last time someone made a new product that was possible only because they developed new manufacturing technologies?
Lies of omission by the press doesn't get the attention it deserves. You can't trust journalists to report on bad behavior in their own industry.
There have been quantitative calculations for antibiotics taught for years in ag departments, and known among industry practitioners. Farming is a highly quantitative industry, and any agent of growth promotion is tracked carefully along with feed energy & cost inputs. Today you may have to go back to older documents to see talk about it in a more open manner though.

Here's a more industrial type of analysis paper (2003)

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-agricultu...
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I think another aspect of it is the pressure to appear competent. No one wants to tell their boss that they don't have an f*ing clue what they're doing so they internalize the anxiety.

In reality I think a lot of people feel this way a lot of the time and it's not shared for some GameTheory-y coordination problem reasons
Java's Optionals can be `Some | None | null` right? They're just reference types still.
Fair, I am in Europe, and at the stop, the bus will stop to accept the fares, one by one, there are NFC cards which make a particular noise if you want to fast pass - bad noise if you don't have the money on the card, nice noise if you do.

But I will be the first to admit our public transport would not be the most punctual!

- EDIT: And if someone wont pay, and it delays the driver leaving, the other people on the bus start shouting at the person who wont pay! Or in certain times, pay for them :)
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So when is this Project Loom set to arrive?
Obviously, as the ships from China have been spewing their emissions directly into the oceans, it's natural for acidity to rise.

Ever wonder where the smoke stacks are? They're underwater, the exhaust goes directly into the sea.

Smart, eh?
There is a reason why Economists aren't billionaires! :-)
Because that's an unreasonable stance to take, social welfare shouldn't be shouldered only by those people who care.

As a society we have homeless people and as a society we need to provide options for them.
As an Apple fan and a programming language nerd, I have basically no interest in ever using the language. I spend a lot of time in C++, Haskell, Rust, and Kubernetes, but Swift just feels pointlessly complicated to me. (C++ I think is also pointlessly complicated, but the rest at least have a point ;-)
Thank you for giving this detailed reply.

The evidence for CBT for things like psychosis is mixed. The English NICE say that CBT should be offered to everyone who has psychosis, and to most people at risk of developing psychosis. https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/cg178/chapter/1-Recommendat...

Other people think the NICE committee is biased (and I think they're probably right) https://twitter.com/Keith_Laws/status/1205833799826890752?s=...

Sometimes people point to the English IAPT scheme (which offers mainly CBT) as evidence of lack of effectiveness of CBT for depression. They say that it only works for about 60% of the people who try it.

I think this is a misunderstanding of the data, which can be found here: https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/sta...

IAPT has 4 tiers. The higher tiers are delivered face to face, one to one, with an experienced therapist, and you get up to 16 weeks of therapy. The lower tiers might be group work, or telephone based, or maybe even delivered over computer. If you have a therapist they may be less experienced. And you get 5 weeks of therapy. But the results of all these tiers are mashed together.
I wrote a blog post making a similar point with Clojure as an example: https://vvvvalvalval.github.io/posts/2018-01-06-so-yeah-abou...

The core ideas are timeless really, but the examples might be a bit more relatable today.

I'm reproducing the ToC here:

1. Does syntax matter?
2. The ingredients of Clojure's syntax
2.1 Data literals
2.2 Macros
3. Consequences
3.1 Verbosity is a solved problem
3.2 Separation of concerns: code layout ⊥ program structure
3.2.1 Example: the Builder Pattern
3.3 Code = Data = Data Viz
3.4 Tooling as libraries
3.5 An 'all-tracks' language: embedding paradigms
3.5.1 Example: Web UIs
3.6 Saner language stewardship
4. Summary
Note, I didn't say "your own DC", I said managed hosting. As in, leasing a physical 2U server from a DC provider (just not a cloud DC provider), that you "temporarily own" (sort of like you "temporarily own" a condo you're leasing), but where the DC staff still has BMC access to the box, and will handle hardware going bad, etc., so you never have to drive out to the DC.

You know, the primary offering of DC providers like Softlayer, Hetzner, etc.

With a managed service, "utilities" (salaries, electricity) are factored into the lease. And bandwidth, as it turns out, is cheap-enough that many DCs will give it to you unmetered, since you can't use enough through the limited links they give you to dent their uplink.
What’s the counter point to this?
I've found it affects how sharp lines look for me on Quest. I like to find a vertical line somewhere and dial in until it looks decently sharp.
Its good for americans britons and australians. For everyone else its just bad. Regardles? Forced medication? No thanks
It is the case that the algorithm seems to favor long videos, so it's kind of unavoidable.
Bodies of water like lakes yes. Stormy seas would refer to the state of the sea (i.e. wavy, amount of unrest). An ocean is always an ocean and California is only connected to one of those. Coastal waters is clearly the correct term as they didn't do measurements across the whole Pacific (didn't read the source articles linked though), only around the coastline of California.

So either "California coast" or rather "California coastal waters", since the article is talking about the watery part of the coast, not the "landy" part.
Spot on. We'll be iterating.
> and it had some unexpected consequences.

Perhaps instead of waving our finger at free buses we should look for the root problem(s) that leave too many ppl with too few choices. Eliminating the no fare might have kept the marginalized off the buses, but it didn't address the problem. There still there. Somewhere.
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I once qualified for assistance with job hunting based on my handicap. Thankfully, I was offered a corporate job making better than minimum wage about the time I completed the lengthy intake process or they would have had me permanently underemployed and destitute instead merely trapped in poverty for a decade or more.

Please note that I spoke of opportunity, not jobs nor jobs training programs. Lots of job training programs et al actively limit opportunity. They don't want their participants to get too uppity or ambitious.
What’s about using laser for cutting hairs ? Not everyone’s heads surface is even e.g. I have a type of pimple in my head . And to use blades is more risky. There are laser treatment for hair removal. I think same can be used for cutting the hairs with the help of few other tools. Also, it will be more accurate, quicker, easier and safe to map the length of hair and then cut it via using laser.
Does anyone know why IBM initially decided to throw some weight behind Swift?
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The battery is a big part of that (IMHO). Even laptops, which obviously have batteries, tend to get used on a charger a lot. Mine are almost always on a charger.

Batteries degrade and on a device that is used 95%+ on battery power this is noticeable after 2-3 years such that there's no real point in making the hardware last longer than that.

You can argue the battery should be replaceable but that adds to the size and cost (to have the packaging and interconnects) and who is going to keep making them? I really wish there were standards for lithium batteries like we have for AA and AAA batteries. I'm not sure it's that simple though since there are bunch of parameters like peak power delivery, power storage and so son. But I'm no battery expert.

Anyway, newness of the form factor is also an issue. Back in the 90s, PCs used to be similarly short-lived. Microsoft's whole business model was built around people re-buying Windows licenses even 2-4 years.

I think this will improve as the market matures but we're still in the pioneering days in some ways.
Yeah wouldn't surprise me if people learned to code in SL and then moved on to real world projects, since learning one language is always similar to others. If you could do LSL, you could probably handle Javascript.

Hmm interesting on comparison to Facebook. Never thought of comparing it more to IRC chat rooms, but I feel like if you looked at the stats maybe it's better to put your effort into a iPhone or Facebook app if you want a bunch of users. I know there's also some stat that a large amount of the userbase just chats with friends instead of exploring the world. But also some content creators are able to make a full time living too.

http://www.gridsurvey.com/ According to that 41,905 people are online right now. But I guess my point is it seem more niche than mainstream, but still impressive and profitable.
This doesn't establish any precedent - it's not a law or regulation, just an expression of the opinion of an association of farmers. In the equipment market, they're effectively a consumers' rights organization (except B2B? analogies to the consumer electronics market are inaccurate). Equivalent maybe to large corporate purchasers or a Chamber of Commerce endorsing R2R.

(And also, as the article notes, the national Farm Bureau that the Nebraska group belongs to has already endorsed R2R!)
No only indirectly via those choices but also by removing any and all “play” (inefficiency) from systems. Some automation is good and brings steadiness (removes errors), but other efficiencies basically remove jobs.

Do we need HFT trading? Did we need traders in the pit? In any case, this resulted in the elimination of good jobs.

We could “automate” much of sports and just have fantasy leagues, why not?

Automating transportation, same thing. It will eliminate meaningful jobs. We are all contributing to this acceleration.

So we’re destroying jobs in many ways. From preferring auto checkouts to buying from amazon to putting services “in the cloud”.
The creator of Swift (and LLVM), Chris Lattner now works for Google. There’s already an experimental version of Tensorflow[1] for Swift. I personally believe that Swift will really shine in differentiable programming and thus machine learning. A little over a decade ago, most of the machine learning community was using either Matlab (and it’s open source clone Octave) or R.

It took a long time for the machine learning eco-system around Python to develop. I believe that’s the case with Swift as well.

[1]: https://www.tensorflow.org/swift/
I'm curious what you think the margin is for this endeavor. Is it like the food wholesale business which retains a 2% net margin after all expenses? Or is it like Google with net margins of 18% or thereabouts?

Costs consist of writing and updating the malware itself, maintaining C&C servers and hiring mules to cash out the proceeds with an 8% commission.

Maybe there are kickbacks to government authorities, though I understand kickbacks are often payments in kind, by sharing exploits with intelligence agencies.
Thanks for the feedback, I kinda agree, at any rate it's on the backlog for internal discussion at our next product meeting.
I am convinced that most of the outsourcing from the developed world to the less developed world is done to arbitrage regulations in how workers are treated, how they are paid, or how toxic byproducts are handled.
I've seen and used farm equipment and machine tools (lathes, mills, etc.) from the 40's and 50's that are still in good serviceable condition.

I think it's been a long time since farmers cultivated their own seed though, even before roundup-resistant and GM crops were commonplace. It's a very different science and skill to growing crops.
Swift is no more complicated than Haskell or Rust.
I'm not seeing how these dots are hard to connect, since "for ones own shipping" in Amazon's case seems equivalent to "for most consumer shipping".
Technically getting $50 in a Christmas card is a market distortion. What matters is the scale of it. With technology and economic optimization (eg offshoring), we expect the cost of production to continually drop. Yet the Fed has seen fit to declare that the exact opposite should generally occur to consumer prices.

How this plays out is obvious if you draw a diagram of the feedback loop that is the CPI. Prices of manufactured goods do go slowly down. To keep the overall average rising other components have to go up, and the natural ones are where consumers have access to newly-created money (debt). Easy credit then prices straightforward cash out of the market, pushing us all to sign up for more overfinancialized monthly payments instead of simply saving for a rainy day.
>Let me recommend you read Michael Lewis’s book The Fifth Risk, or at least listen to one of these interviews about it:

I'm not sure I need to read a biased polemic about how big government is good and the Trump admin is bad.

>The US civil service is full of highly competent experts without whom we would all be exposed to grave risks every day.

I've worked for government agencies, and this is certainly not how I would describe the workers there. I'd say this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21805768 would more closely represent my typical experience with civil servants.. rampant incompetence.
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That confusion seems like something that should be fixed, if only to not delay emergency services should you ever need any.
Apple really ought to invest more in server side Swift directly themselves. I feel like it has a lot of potential, and what the community has done with limited resources is impressive, but it's not really going to be able to gain substantial traction without a lot more weight behind it imo
That just proves you haven't understood IPv6 yet. ULA addresses make it much easier, e.g. fd00::1 or fd00:2 (though this is bad practice, should be fdxy:zvwx:xyzw, xyvwz being random).
Those who can afford the legal costs should pursue such litigation if they think it's worth doing so. Organizations addressing homelessness are among the least able to afford such litigation. As someone who has donated to solve this problem, knowing that money is going to be wasted on litigation makes me less likely to support organizations who are going to waste it.

When I donated money last year to address this issue, I donated to an organization in Texas, despite living in San Francisco, because I knew the money was going to be wasted on the problem in San Francisco. When people making 6-figures right out of college have difficulty finding stable living arrangements in a place, it's futile to try and keep people in that same place that don't have nearly the same capacity to support themselves in an extraordinarily expensive market. For many homeless people, keeping them in SF is tantamount to keeping them homeless in perpetuity because almost none of them have a chance of escaping homelessness in that environment.
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This is where uber progressive US cities, in particular the West Coast, differ from Europe.

You can get away with almost anything that isn't assault. Smoke pot and drink on the street -- no problem. Urinate anywhere you like. Pitch a tent on a sidewalk and stay for weeks. Shoot up in parks and just throw your needles on the ground. Even things like shoplifting are not prosecuted.

I love German transit because it is so quiet and peaceful. Meanwhile in the US, I've seen people bring stereos onto transit and play them at full blast. I've seen people pee on subway platforms in full view of everyone. I've seen people fight on busses. I don't even know how crazy you'd have to act to actually get arrested, because it never seems to happen.
Ask if you can sit in (stand in?) on the daily standups (if they have those) for each team before you pick.
Oracle Cloud offer free VMs too https://blog.ryanharper.co.uk/free-vms-on-oracle-cloud/
All of those timeframes were Amazon's promises that they decided to make as a result of many meetings and many people being involved in the decision. Who else should be blamed?

I feel the elephant in the room is the question of whether Amazon should be allowed to vertically integrate shipping.
Swift on the server is very new and has very small market share. At one time there were 3+ Swift frameworks competing for mindspace against piles of well established frameworks in other languages. That one framework is falling out of the mix isn't a big surprise.