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> being as idiomatic

yea kotlin prbly is a better choice if you mainly want to use java's libraries and write idiomatic java.

Clojure is not 'better java' like kotlin, its a completely different paradigm.
Funny how abbreviating words by removing vowels - very common in newspaper ads where you pay by the letter - is now considered "incoherent" and must be some kind of sinister obfuscation.
e-Books, to be exact. Some of us strongly prefer to work with paper books. Borrowing those for free from a library is not always an option, so one ends up buying them at whatever price point and the physical state they are available in. Other considerations: it is still often true that you get what you pay for; also, you spend so much time and effort seriously working through a math book that whatever money you paid for it looks like something that does not matter at all.
They are right. H1B is a temporary visa that you can get with a company sponsor pretty easily. You get a H1B for 3 years, and you can renew it once for another 3. Within those 6 years, if the company wants to retain you and get you a green card, they need to prove that "they looked, but couldn't find an eligible American" to replace you. Hence these ads with overly specialized position descriptions.
Svelte also doesn't support anything like rollbar/sentry. Some exceptions won't trigger the error handler in sapper, so your app just freezes.
My first thought: "What a gold mine for hackers"
I agree with this approach for software devs in any business. One of the cool things one of my employers (a manufacturing company) did was send me out for a day to a plant and have me see how everything worked. It made some of the websites I was building for our plant workers much easier when I already had a good idea of what they needed it for.
> This is a very AC-centric mindset

This is probably a very US-based mindset. Parent mentioned British weather - Over here it's almost unheard of to have AC at home, most homes just don't get warm enough for it to be worth the cost vs shading, regular fans, other management techniques.

FWIW I've found that my electronics tend to get overly warm also when sitting outside in nice weather.
I like how the concept image of the new A7 highway prominently also shows bike lanes with a couple of bikers :)
I don't make this assumption. I simply think OPs argument that research should be open because tax payers have funded it is weak, for the reason I stated, i.e. it implies that non-tax payers should not have access, or conversely, implies that taxpayers in each country should get to decide how this research is distributed, possibly restricting access to non-nationals.

> The presumption you're making is that a country would never spend money for the public good, where that is defined to include the entire human race, rather than just nationals.

I think in general this is the case? Obviously governments budget for foreign aid, and also contribute to collective efforts e.g. climate change or (relevant to this discussion) EU funds such as Horizon 2020. But I don't think any governments do/should consider "the public" as meaning "the entire human race".
I reread the book every 5 or 6 years. I think it's excellent and there's not much that's similar.
Interesting take, but there is no indication that the new Rust-based stack will be « less expensive » to maintain than the current one. I am curious to see the next posts in the series. I would also like to know if they considered other alternatives; they mention Elm, what about TypeScript. The issues they mention seem to also have to do with the specific choice of frameworks or tools: React, Webpack, etc. Not so much with JavaScript itself?
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I would be slightly worried about walking around with a notebook containing the physical attributes of lots of young children. But then again I'm a single 39 year old man.
I too thought this an original application of the term but Merriam Webster and Wikipedia both list it, although neither cites reference material.

The only examples I could find in the wild were parts of legal definitions (chiefly "motor-driven cycles") and entity names ("Cycle World Magazine", "Pete's Cycles", etc). There are also a few instances of "cycle racing" refering to the human-powered version, yet I get the feeling this is a use that's most popular with journalists who are not familiar with the culture or lingo of bicycle enthusiasts. The use of noun-cycle does not seem more prevalent in other locales like GB (motor bike or moto being more prevalent across the pond).

In short I would conclude that cycle as a noun has a couple very narrow use cases in modern English, and the Smithsonian needs better editing.
>Science works, but it appears most people are in no position to figure out how to respond appropriately to scientific findings.

>I don’t know what the solution is, but the pattern is tragic.

There is ( very unfortunately) no solution, for the vast majority of people ( tragedy of the masses if you will). But a tiny minority who are more intellectually gifted can team up and pool their resources ( intellectual or otherwise ) to better their health by equipping themselves with useful information ( i.e what is not junk science ) and perhaps even training themselves medically if needed.

My personal peeve with this tiny minority is that they are often too individualistic ( by virtue of being independent thinkers) to team up.

Side note - the article was behind a paywall, hence could not read it, but genetic tests aside, my understanding is that in mainstream medicine this pattern of over/mis-diagnosis often happens leading to mis/over-treatment, where often the treatment is worse than the supposed disease.
> Saw a video on YouTube of the President saying something bad? No idea if it's real anymore.

I've lived through enough presidencies to assure you that it never mattered if it was real or not. Supporters ignored or excused it, opposition treated it like the end of the world. Sane people stopped paying attention long ago to keep their sanity.
I've done the Friesland->Noord Holland direction once against a force 5 wind and I distinctly remember wishing for that bus to come into existence so there you have it :)

(This was 30 years ago or so).

I cycled around the lake inside 24 hours, it was quite the trip.
I just use falsifiability as a necessary condition, not a sufficient condition.
Your article cited was written in September and doesn't take into account the latest trade agreement developments with China. It is unlikely that the household cost will be anywhere near that value.
The Coast Guard is part of the Department of Homeland Security. Before that it was part of the Department of Transportation and before that, the Commerce Department. (It was originally established to collect custom duties.)

It's only part of the "military hierarchy" in times of war, such as World War I and World Way II, when it falls under the Navy.
For the free lifetime licenses it was bad, but you could still kinda maybe see a valid point in it. This now makes me not even trust the company in even actually doing a good job at what their app claims to do.

I think in just gonna go full scumbag too, download their app and then give a one star rating after a while.
Repeated tasks, low structure but high effort:

- Finding files that are relevant to my work

- Meetings / stand ups

- Creating status reports and communicating progress with work

I often find that tasks I do repeatedly is often not automatable due to high contextual information that is required to do so
Not at all. The bit about how when you strip a bolt it becomes your whole project and how you then need to pause and think through all the options before you before proceeding I am sure saved countless hours and dollars to a lot of people. The bit about really understanding how the thing works before attempting to repair it is great. And the part about the grill assembly manual makes a lot of sense and is very real world applicable. It’s true that this book won’t teach you how to rebuild a carburetor or adjust valve clearances, but it will give you a good outlook on performing those tasks.
The fast construction projects killed lots of workers.
Thanks for the link, a simple mobile app is more in line with what I'd be looking for for this use.
Yikes, this kind of stuff is going to make black-hat SEO even worse.
I know my comment doesn’t add much value to the conversation, but I’d be remiss if I didn’t say thank you for taking the time to respond here and below with such interesting history.
On the other hand, Star Wars is mostly free of time travel plots while they're quite common in Star Trek. Time travel, while theoretically possible, is mostly used to introduce elements of fantasy into science fiction.
> it is still often true that you get what you pay for

Hasn't been my experience at all - in fact I haven't noticed a relationship between quality and price of textbooks in either direction.

> you spend so much time and effort seriously working through a math book that whatever money you paid for it looks like something that does not matter at all.

You'll spend the time if the book is good. That's an advantage of free books - you can discard the bad ones without wasting money.
Classic government accounting problem. People look free to managers, so more stuff gets brought in-house than it should.
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The results there are using Ember 3.11, not Octane, so I'd also say those results are out of date :-p I will try to get the benchmarked Ember codebase updated over the winter holidays. I've always love looking at these microbenchmarks.

At large app scale Ember apps perform very well, and I would happily pit the performance of a full-complexity Ember app against any other framework. At the end of the day the goal of the Ember project is not to be the fastest, especially at microbenchmarks, but to have competitive performance with an API that any level of developer can be successful with. To have a fast Ember app there aren't any special tricks or APIs to learn, it is simply fast out of the box with performance that scales.

Thanks for the reminder about this benchmarking project!
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Since you are someone who seems to have been in on this in the heyday, I'll share my story with you (I think it is, in a way, telling).

In short: I was a Hypercard kid. It's strange to look back on it this way, but the early/mid 90s seems like a completely different kind of computing. It was in that period where I first started seriously using computers, writing my first stacks probably at about 9 or 10 years old. I was inspired by all of the compelling stackware and, as you might guess, Myst, which was a pretty big deal at the time.

Back then I saw Hypercard as "serious" for the following reasons:
- You made "programs" that looked like the rest of the system (OS), and hence were the "real thing";
- You could make games in it yourself, but so could professionals, so it had to be "serious"
- It was not just for doing one thing, but most possible things

What happened as the years went on was that the outside world continuously told me that Hypercard was, in fact, not the real thing; it was not "real programming." Materially this became even more clear as the software was left to die on the vine by Apple. One of the reasons I did not pursue CS in college (and I'm very happy I didn't) is because I didn't like all this C++ stuff that the other kids claimed was "real programming" -- if that was the real thing, I didn't want any part of it ("how in the world do you make a button with that?").

Only in recent years have I started to read up on PARC, Alan Kay, and some of the genesis of the ideas about personal computing systems. I've realized that my younger, initial instinct was probably correct: Hypercard was more like "real computing" than anything else I've encountered. It's a shame that what I expected to happen back then didn't come to pass -- that the whole future Mac OS, as presented to the user, would be a kind of Hypercard (inspectable, adjustable, open to limitless tinkering and creation, and able to be learned by interactive live examples).

I hadn't heard of SK8 until this exchange. It is very heartening to see that the grown-ups were thinking along the same lines. On the other hand, it's easy to become crestfallen at the state of computing today by comparison.
Except it does not seem to work. All I get at the end of the procedure is: "Your download request has been completed, but no data of this type is available in your account.".
Not much, it’s a library of assets for a marketing department, but it’s certainly not a hello world.
This is incredible! The minimum impact I see is much improved chatbots and conversational UIs. Text generation libraries in the future might be like super powered printf formatting where the number placeholders are actually pplm discriminators used to force GPT-2 to add a position for text. Then the rest of the sentence prefills %s placeholders using a combination of other pplm discriminators.

e.g.
printf("%[budget]s %f", 654) where the stribg placeholder is generated using the bag of words discriminator of "budget" related sentences that also contain a single float placeholder (which is then replaced with your custom value).
https://thoughtcatalog.com/jeremy-london/2018/09/oldest-webs...
Sorry for the slow response:

http://josephreuben.com/mind-the-gap-soundtrack
Same in Europe. Brussels city in the 1900s moved 20.000 families to build a single street (now the main pedestrian area). Mussolini paved over dozens of ancient Roman sites to build a big street through the city centre. Paris went through an entire planned effort to reshape the whole city, which created all the famous avenues you know today and at the same time created all the social problems (poor 'banlieue' areas around the city) we still know and love today.
U-net is great and there are plenty of different versions of it for a variety of problems that have yet to be discovered!
I was referring to the glimmer results, not the ember ones.
This a true, but the advantage is probably more than offset by the relative cost of JS vs Rust developers. You can also add Flow types.

A single threaded environment does not yield the usual advantages of the Rust borrow checker.
This book is about motorcycles in the same way that Blue Highways is about vans.
Lol Diet Howard Hughes!
Does code review and keeping up with code reviews count? I find that I can review PRs from multiple teams in a day and keeping up with them all of them is a lot of effort

If there was a bot that kept up with my work and just summarised all the progress since my reviews ... that would really be super useful and I’d likely do more reviews
Those that died while building the great wall of China were literally used as filler material for the wall.
Meetings / stand ups

We have recently automated stand ups, so the what I did yesterday/what I will do today/blockers are all pulled from Jira so now we only discuss major sprint goals and how to unblock any blockers...this reduces the meeting to just the important stuff
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> I think a lot of people have forgotten what things were like in the early 90's.

Thank you for posting this.

“Those who do not know history's mistakes are doomed to repeat them.”
That would be missing the point of Go. It’s not as though the Go team is incapable of introducing genetics they just took a hard line on not putting anything into the language that wasn’t absolutely needed. This built a simpler language and because of that a stronger community, which is why Go has all but entirely eaten scalas lunch
Gannett has done that to an extent. You’ll see the same layout and styling across a lot of local sites as well as usatoday dot com.
Yes, placing a newspaper ad is a requirement. I think the primary criticisms are the incomprehensible ad and the selection of newspapers itself.

This is normally called Malicious Compliance - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malicious_compliance - where someone meets the requirements, not the intent. Maybe both the intent and the requirements should be spelled out more specifically but the players involved - large tech companies and legislators - don't have an interest in that.
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And if we don't get consensus we'll pay the consequences for decades or centuries to come. E.g. mining operations in many places polluted the local waterways and underground water sources. Fracking today is another good example - if you ask the locals no way it will happen.
Used to write scala, what a mess looking back on it now. Everyone I know that was writing it is now writing Go/Kotlin/Elixer
The price of textbooks is also wrong. If people could make a living from writing textbooks in 1970 that would be the equivalent of $30 today I don't see what's changed that they need to charge $300 for them.
Yeah, I guess they are a soulless company.

This kind of thing would happen when there's at least someone who still cares.
Not yet. I am hoping to work on this over the holiday.
The short lived tv series SeaQuest DSV suffered terribly from the need to have believable science but at the same time the need for fantasy to make the story interesting. After the first few episodes, they mainly failed and started finding excuses to shoehorn outer space into plots. I loved the idea of the show but the execution makes me wonder if the problem was with limited talent or if hard sci-fi is just very difficult, especially for the visual format.
What’s your app? What have you tried?
There are so many forks of LuaJIT going on (raptorjit, luavela, moonjit, openresty's luajit 2, shine, ... The bad thing is that each one tries to fix a different issue: compatibility with new versions of the language, eliminate the 2 Gb limit, make more maintainable code, add extensions for web handling,...

And then, some of them introduce new problems such as limiting the number of available platforms.
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There's a control location drop-down above each of the two throttles, which implies they can be split.
I'd love to see a list of what you consider your favorite works or authors in the mundane SF genre or that you might consider good examples of "diamond hard non-agitprop" SF.

I've really enjoyed (and reread) your novels and I'm a longtime fan of the works of Kim Stanley Robinson. Even though James A. Corey only sort of qualifies as "mundane SF" given the super alien tech, I really enjoyed the parts of his books where stellar orbits, transit times and such are treated as important parts of the plot.
There are two types of mystery stories. In one, the focus is just on the people, the story, the setting, etc., and the reader is just along for the ride.

There is a second type, which is technically a subset of this set, where the author gives the reader enough information to participate in the investigation, and gives them enough information to technically finger who the perpetrator is and exactly why before the characters in the story do. (To date myself a bit, this is Encyclopedia Brown-type stories.) They have all the features of the previous type of story, but also have this feature. However, since a well-written story is on the Pareto optimality frontier of the combination of story, plot, character, etc., to add this to the story usually requires some room to be made somewhere else.

Hard vs. soft science fiction is a very similar relationship, I think.

In addition, I'd at least pick a nit that while a story is welcome to "explore the relationship between humanity and technology" as much as it likes, it is seriously weakened when the technology itself is soft and ill-defined. Such stories are limited to exploring the author's personal opinions, if not outright neuroses. While there's nothing intrinsically wrong with that, it's not anything special either; many genres have that. Where hard science fiction becomes interesting is when taking the tech and science seriously produces results that surprise even the author, and aren't just a reflection of the personal attitudes of the author. This is a high bar, rarely met, but it's one soft science fiction can't even try for.
A while back i was happily writing clojure, but after a while its dynamic typing got problematic and that's when I learned scala. I really liked it, I think functional but statically typed is the way to go.

Although I still think that it is a lot of fun to write clojure, it's a breeze with its focus on stateless, functional code.

I tried to get into writing a GraphQL API in scala once, and the library made excessive use of the implicit parameters. That was too much for me, there was always something missing and it wasn't immediately apparent where things are taken from or why something doesn't work in one place but does in another.
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This argument is a bit... tired. There are genuine advantages to different technologies and we should explore them. Every article about rewrites (not only Rust) is met with this sort of comment and it is counter productive. If someone is claiming a technology is better in some way and you disagree, explain why they are mistaken.
> the relative cost of JS vs Rust developers

I.e. pay peanuts, get code monkeys?

> A single threaded environment does not yield the usual advantages of the Rust borrow checker.

This is quite wrong - reference invalidation and async code that's being scheduled within a single thread are two common examples where it matters a lot.
OP here.

Yes, Apple is certainly saving a bundle on classified ads in the free community paper with circulation of 6,000.

These ads are just to go through the motions to get someone a visa.

They don’t actually want anyone to reply to the ad. That’s why they have mailing addresses in the ad instead of email addresses or URLs.
It does look like they implemented carddav earlier this year!
> it allows someone to take up a project if the original author dies.

Sure, in theory. In practice I’ve yet to hear of a worthwhile monograph in mathematics written that way.

> The best way to get free access to a for-cost text is to use your library.

Not all libraries stock for-cost texts of advanced mathematics. Not all people, including gifted high schoolers, live anywhere close to a library. These are especially true in poorer countries. When people make remarks like yours underprivileged demographics always seem to be forgotten.

Anyway, readers can do with the Internet as they like, and sorry if you’re offended.
Million dollar idea: The Christmas cracker
Anyone ITT who read his second book? I think it’s better.
Yup being easy to understand without lacking functionality is definitely superior to supporting every insane programming concept. It builds stronger communities and better software
I think you’re right. It’s for green cards and E visas.
What’s your yearly income?
A minor issue is that most furniture made of "wood" is a thin veneer on particle board, which can't survive rain. The water gets between the gaps in the veneer, and the particle board swells up.

I'd think in many climates, a screen porch would be a viable option.
> People are still totally willing to be part of something like that; people are as haphazard and risky as they ever were. The government won't let them because it doesn't trust people to assess the risks properly (there is evidence that the government is right; people are very bad at assessing risk).

The government doesn't let people partake in hazardous work? Which government is that? For example, the U.S. government will not stop you from working in mines, electronics industry, construction, or in automotive production. Corners cut when it comes to safety to save on cost still happens everywhere.
To those who have watched the 1988 Anime Sci-fi film Akira, it is set in 2019 aka the future and what they got wrong amuses me greatly
I'll know an ML model works when it sides with me.
Can the same thing not happen to real apprenticeships?