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Be careful speaking negatively about functional programming... there's an almost cult like following obsession that's almost anti-establishment, bordem with imperative paradigms, or more in pursuit of leaving a mark/legacy.

I've used functional and imperative programming for varied tasks throughout my career. Sometimes, functional programming approaches are fantastic and intuitive for tasks, other times, they're counterintuitive and become cumbersome depending on what you're doing.

While academically, functional programming can be interesting in many respects, for most development needs it can hamper development progress more than assist (humans have lots of tendencies and history that gives imperative approaches an edge).

For humans, computers exist to help us perform tasks we can't very well or quickly and do so consistently. As long as you can do that, people in general don't care about what underlying theoretical computational abstractions you choose--lets not lose sight of that fact. Only those in computing will really care.

Functional programming isn't new per se, there's just a trend of rediscovery and advancement going on. There's something to be said about supporting the underdog. Whether imperative paradigms will always dominate as the higher level abstraction of choice is questionable since the software field is still, relatively speaking, new. It likely isn't going to change much in any near future, however.
What I find kinda interesting about this is the HUD apparently being able to "lock on" or track or whatever the object.

Are these HUD things around the object just visual bounding boxes around something with high contrast, or are the HUDs doing sensor fusion with IR and radar and other things? Not just for UFOs but I've seen similar things from gun cam footage in Iraq etc and wondered how it works.
I wonder if it would be feasible to make a fleet of race cars that have self driving technology that has each car communicating with the others and monitoring the human drivers, with the car letting the human drive but able to step in if the human tries to do something that would cause a crash?

I bet you could make some pretty good money with such a fleet running open races that members of the public can pay to drive in.

The self driving system could keep track of the number and severity of its safety interventions which could be used to give time penalties at the end of the race [1], so that the winner is determined by the skills of the humans.

Besides racing, you could also do car chases that recreate scenarios from action movies. Add in something to simulate guns, and you could do scenarios where a car with a driver and a couple armed passengers is trying to escape a couple pursuing cars, each with a driver and armed passenger.

[1] Or maybe actually do the time penalties during the race. If the self driving system has to take over from you, it could slow you down for a bit before returning control to you.
There was a temperature in recent times (hundreds of millions of years) where humans would not have survived, anywhere on Earth? Yet giant dinosaurs with the wrong ratio of mass to surface area did?

Really, when? How much hotter was it in the past?

I’m not saying we shouldn’t fix the issue. I’m saying the argument that the average temperature will be unlivable is bad. It’s like saying bullets kill people because of the lead content, not the process of getting injected. The process of climate change will impact us most, not the impact of the temperature on our biology.
Apple TV has quietly become a robust digital signage solution
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This is kind of a strange analysis. Sort of infamously, Dan Bernstein, who is sort of a pioneer in these privilege-separated defensive designs, foreswore them in a retrospective paper about qmail. Really, though, I'm not sure I'm clear on the distinction you're drawing between attack surface reduction and privilege separation, since both techniques are essentially about reducing the impact of bugs without eliminating the bugs themselves.

You might more coherently reduce security to "mitigation" and "prevention", but then that doesn't make much of an argument about the topic at hand.
That would explain why their most annoying aspect — asking me to rate the every single time I book a room, sometimes more than once in a single transaction — has never gone away.
Hastala Vista to exit the program!
1. Involve yourself in pro-environmental politics, vote for pro-environmental leaders and policies. Most personal environmental decisions are dwarfed by the poor decisions made by large, corporations.

2. Consume less.

3. When you must consume, buy used (much of the carbon footprint of many products comes from producing the item).

4. Buy more local goods (much of the carbon footprint of many products comes from transporting them long distances).

5. Travel less, and more carbon-efficiently. Live closer to where you work. Walk > bike > public transit > cars.

6. Stop arguing that climate change doesn't exist.

7. Spend a few minutes researching the answers to your own questions before going on the internet and arguing that environmentalists don't have any answers. There's a wealth of information out there, and lots of people who are trying very hard to educate people, who would be happy to educate you if you asked questions in good faith, or typed your questions into a search engine.
Albert Hofmann's archives shed light on the dawn of the psychedelic era (2018)
You can do what you can to reduce your own carbon footprint and you can join organizations like the Citizen's Climate Lobby (https://citizensclimatelobby.org/) to convince politicians to finally start acting. These people here (https://www.drawdown.org/) put together a list of actions, some of which require you to change your behavior, some which you can influence by getting involved in local politics, and some which require global action.
Unfortunately, sleazebags with no ethics (eg "whatever parts suckers from $$$") outperform ethical people when viewed through the (say) MBA lens.

Thus the proliferation of places lying about everything they can get away with, until they're caught / stamped on.
That's not what I mean. I thought I wouldn't need to explain, but as far as everyone knows Kodak is no longer a major player in photography[1]. I wanted to imply that they had a lot of institutional momentum tied up in film, and if they had taken the approach you stated - which you exaggerated as "3 page manual era where every project seems like a kinda reboot of the knowledge when the prior engineers left" - they could have pivoted to the new market (i.e. digital cameras) easily. They were very committed to film, as everyone knows. (I thought this would go without saying.)

So handbooks like this can be seen as a "Kodak moment" of formalizing institutional knowledge. In new markets (which may be the future) there isn't going to be institutional knowledge yet.

Something similar might be the case with extremely serious car manufacturers with many decades of first-rate knowledge in building combustion engine cars.

[1] "January 19, 2012: Kodak filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The company's stock was delisted from NYSE and moved to OTC exchange. ... Once the digital camera business is phased out, Kodak said its consumer business will focus on printing. It will seek a company to license its EasyShare digital camera brand."
+1 on this

The most fluent conversation I’ve ever had in German while still learning it happened when I got drunk with an Austrian friend of mine.
We did do a bunch of refactoring a couple of years ago to draw boundaries within our monolith. We almost certainly wouldn't have made this choice had we not done that work. We're also doing work in Python to smooth the way for this change. For example, we're migrating our remaining REST endpoints to GraphQL in Python before making the move to Go.

Regarding the pickles: we are essentially doing what you're suggesting. We're going to migrate them to JSON. This is one of those things that is going to be a pain to do and we'd have to do it whether we're switching to Python 3 or Go.

Also, I'll note that the Python 2 EOL is only half real. There's so much Python 2 out there that, while the PSF is no longer supporting it, there will be people supporting it as needed.

I do agree with you about Python 3 being much cleaner. But we have to do significant rewriting of our devserver, a lot of our data access code, and some other libraries that I don't remember offhand. Again, it's quite specific to our codebase. People with a "normal" Django app are unlikely to have such issues.
I was part of a software project for BHS several years ago. We were taking the cad models for a entire plant and rendering them in the web with info/marketing media for each module.
The speed that they could sort material at different stages was incredible. I don't remember seeing a single "robotic arm" picking anything. It was all air and mechanical sorting. Very cool stuff.
They should have videos of most their modules on their site for the curious.
Can anyone point me to a free website mapping tool for a complex 1000 page site?
Thanks for the correction! I didn't do my research.
I've had to walk through these files, and it definitely is complicated; I am not confident at all that the complexity is justified by the feature set.

It should be possible to do better than ELF, and I do hope it will happen eventually.
These military jets use what are effectively stabilized infrared telescopes, capable of tracking flying objects many miles away — long before human biological vision has any hope of seeing them.

This is crucial because modern aerial warfare involves missile armaments effective at these distances, so much of it is a game of who can find and acquire a target lock on their enemy first.

These phenomena are interesting because (1) multiple sensor systems from multiple platforms/locations consistently tracked the object in ways that corroborate each other, and (2) other pilots have actually flown close enough to report visual contact.
Without digging into the topic in depth, ten will get you twenty it is primarily a question of diet rather than technique. Maybe less food waste. The lessons from the diet will be ones you probably already know (eat less meat, especially beef), and not all good. The reasons for less food waste aren't particularly useful, unless you want to adopt the hyperlocal production implicit in subsistence farming.
They also looked at vitamin B, iron, and multivitamins.
Because nerds are not a real class deserving protection, any more than amorphous arbitrary groups such as “SJWs” or “bros”. These are (pop) cultural designations based on folk definitions without any real basis in reality.

Furthermore, being scolded in Buzzfeed News now and then does not constitute bullying and is not actual persecution. The closest thing to actual violence against “nerds” (wrt the actual subject of TFA) were rocks thrown at tech company shuttle buses a few years ago in the Bay Area, which doesn’t seem to happen anymore. And those actions can be framed as relating to real issues such as tension between different economic classes and how localities change with economic development.

It’s ludicrous to claim that there’s such a thing as a “nerd class” and hold Bill Gates as an exemplar of one, when his time at Microsoft can be likewise framed as nerd exploitation- see everything about Microsoft’s monopolistic actions in the ‘90s impacting other “nerds”.

Unlike classes based upon religion, race, nationality, gender, or socioeconomic status, “nerds” are a tribe that don’t actually exist beyond the schoolyard. At least, it’s far more fuzzy, even compared to other identities such as “hacker”, the latter which is at least tied to specific technical professions and activities that exist in the real world.

Finally, if people are going to codify nerd identity, then we’re going to end up relitigating the tiresome “nerd culture is being appropriated” pop culture battles over comic book and sci-fi/fantasy movies and video games becoming mainstream, and that’s a very tedious can of worms.
We have to treat the causes of homelessness. And I don’t think the cause is “not enough software.”
Magnets -- not EM fields but actual magnets -- sort of follow an inverse cubed law.

Anyway, Principia Mathematica's big conclusion was that an inverse squared force will result in elliptical orbits.
He explained that.

> No. I was more concentrated on looking at the FLIR. It was inside of 20 miles. You’re not going to see it with your own eyes until probably 10 miles, and then you’re not going to be able to visually track it until you’re probably inside of five miles, which is where Dave Fravor said he saw it.

These are trained military pilots. Our eyes can’t see an object like that twenty miles out. If the system has a lock and it tells you it’s that far away, you don’t waste time and lose focus by trying to see for yourself something you already know you won’t be able to make out with the naked eye.

Additionally, it’s not as if no one saw it with their naked eye. Fravor’s word is as as good as his, and he says saw it. The value here is in the fact that this pilot is telling you he was watching the machines confirm what his colleague had seen. I take man + machine as a harder proof than two men, and not much less than 2 men + machine.

Edit: also seen by the squadron commanding officer:

> And it was also seen, via eyeballs, by both my commanding officer, Dave Fravor, and the Marine Corps Hornet squadron commanding officer who was out there as well.

So, yeah. Two men + machine, rather than three men + machine.

What I find more interesting is that NORAD didn’t debrief him, which means they either knew who was behind it or were already tracking it separately and knew what they needed to know (both very possible). Or perhaps since everything he saw and all his maneuvers were better documented in the real-time system logs dump and FLIR capture than he would be able to reliably recall, there was literally nothing he could add.
Uber Ordered to Cease Colombian Ride-Hailing Operations
Assuming "works perfectly on XP even without hardware OpenGL" means you have a software renderer as backup, can you explain more about how you get performance out of one on modern OSes (where DOS techniques of direct framebuffer access don't apply)?
I'm not sure what western TV dramas have to do with the Chinese government putting people in tiger chairs and forcing confessions out of them over posts on the internet.

Fictional TV shows are hardly comparable to video in the OP.
It would be interesting to have something like a non-binding direct democracy where people vote on very low level issues. This way, the true "will of the people" could actually be known, rather the the current situation where the government and media pretends that it's known.
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The problem with movies (and TV), I find, is that it is fewer words per minute than a book. Though availability of English language television seems to be a great aid for ESL learners, so it's not wasted time at all.

Conversation practice with a native speaker is probably the ideal, but audiobooks are cheap and available. You can get around the disadvantage of not having a native trying to make themselves understood to you, by using an audiobook that you know well in translation. So I find that knowing the book well in my native language (or another language I know) is the most important initial requirement. Beyond that, it should be in simple language, though not boring. Maybe middle school or high school reading level.

On the first listen of chapter one, I find, I don't pick up more than the characters' names. After one or two dozen listens of chapter one, and I can follow the plot along pretty well (if it's a book I know), and can pick up words from context, and can start listening to the whole book.

Audio versions of the Bible are available in every language, and can be used as a first/last resort, depending on interest. If you can't find an audiobook Bible from the normal web apps, the Jehovah's Witnesses have audio versions in an insane number of languages (translated from their sometimes peculiar English version though). I like Tolkien, which is at about the right level, has audiobooks in many languages, and is familiar to me.

Grammar comes in very slowly using this method, and can use some augmentation using traditional methods. Pronunciation and comprehension, however, are supercharged.
I like the idea, though I personally prefer to have all the control.

Payroll will get mighty annoyed with me when I want to change the amount going into a savings account every couple of weeks.
Tesco withdraws Christmas cards from sale after forced labour claims
Eh, I’ll take that over literally dying.
Apple's products are getting harder to use, ignore principles of design (2015)
What are the improvements? Who is providing them and how?
For radiation, yes.

But for force laws, having a massless carrier is critical for an inverse-square law. With massive carriers (like the carriers of the weak force, W+Z bosons) the range of the force scales like 1/M; the force law is more like exp(-Mr)/r ---> 1/r as M-->0. The diminishing of the force with exp(-Mr) means flux isn't conserved. (note I worked in units where hbar = 1 = c, so that the W's mass ~= 80 GeV/c^2 corresponds to 1/M << 1 fm)
Someone should tweet this at Arnold (but not sure he’ll understand)
I can't for the life of me believe that's the actual name of this game. Looking forward to the sequel, Black Tar Heroin!
That's a short-distance effect, though, not a long-distance one.
Do you want to manage a company, or do you simply want financial freedom?

If it’s the latter there are easier ways. Real estate and index fund investing. Google FIRE.
the readme has some examples:
https://github.com/jackmott/evolution

Not really enough to show off the full range of possibilities but it is a start. The program is still a WIP I'll release it eventually.
That’s a organizational pattern common in outsourcing scenarios. There’s a small cadre of people who know what they are talking about to some degree, who build whatever and define an operational process.

Then the operators do whatever they do, and usually aren’t empowered to do anything that changes the process.
I love stories like these. Are there any more from engineers of the time? Perhaps, are any more of his stories published anywhere?
Often overlooked in such representations is just how much larger and more massive the sun is relative to the planets.

Uranus is "only" about 20 times further from the sun than the earth, which according to the inverse square law means the suns gravity (and light) is 1/400th of what the earth experiences.

But the sun is about 330000 times more massive than the earth, while Uranus is "only" 14 times more massive.
(Hopefully this comes off as even handed. There are policies championed by the left and right that I don’t like).

No, what happens is that the federal government ends up subsidizing more conservative states in ways that benefit them - farm subsidies, “disability payments” for people who could work, but can’t do manual labor and would need job training, make-work military bases and other military spending that the military themselves are trying to get rid of but can’t because the civilian government doesn’t want to lose the jobs, etc.

Would states that are more welcoming of LGBTQ (who have higher income and education), have state provided health care (meaning a company could set up shop without paying for health care), taxpayer funded college/vocational education - attracting businesses and educated families, etc be more attractive than states that don’t?

On the other hand, what would happen in states that wanted to pull companies out of California (like Texas) that made it easier to build houses? More recently, if you are an independent trucker, the last place you want to live is California. The new law that passed has made it almost impossible for people who want to stay freelance/contract to do so. (http://www.dailynews.com/truckers-file-suit-challenge-states...)

Can you imagine a country where each state had to compete more vigorously for people?
I think op is only partially right.

There seems to be indirect connection trough insulin and insulin like growth factors. They can play important role in oncogenesis.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3614012/
CAGR is a widely used finance term applicable to literally any company. Doesn't mean anything here
He's an OK reader and a bit over grade level, but not to the degree of math. Same for attention span and social skills.

I have two other boys that are much more well-rounded (further ahead in reading, better socially, but a bit less ahead in math).

I agree the decline of reading is a bummer. I read Tolkien pretty young, too, and even moved on to Homer. It's hard to even picture my kids doing this.

On the other hand, there's more high quality literature written explicitly for kids these days (a lot of what was read / is revered as good children's lit of the past is drivel).
I tried it in a german mid-sized-to-large city (Dortmund) and the result wasn't too great. Google Maps is superior, both in data and (maybe only slightly) in UX.
0.7 hip-to-waist ratio. For example, if the hips are 36 inches, the waist is 25.2 inches.
> I would say, first, that our lives are already plenty long enough to "die on our own terms"

I wouldn’t agree. Plenty of people - I’d argue most - would not want to die at 75 years if they were still in their mental and physical prime.

And after a few hundred years, I imagine some people would like to close their own story. Point being - we shouldn’t lose everything unless we consent to losing everything.
systemd-nspawn is mentioned as a Docker alternative for running an OS... but what about LXD/LXC?
> Aliens would be cool ...

Wouldn't that depend on capabilities and intentions?
I am not sure what the current state of fintech is but it is fairly obvious to observe that there is a ton of cost in the industry that probably doesn't need to exist anymore (and btw, we aren't even in the first innings of this).

This has happened before: for example, insurance used to be sold in-person, then over the phone, now online. And that is innovation. Selling it in-person was very expensive.

But it is also true that none of the companies mentioned in the OP have really innovated anything. The innovation was finding a new way to justify massive volume growth that would later turn out to be unprofitable. This happens every cycle.

The distribution method wasn't really novel either afaik. Maybe having an app makes your product a bit cheaper but it isn't really going to be a massive difference to selling over the phone. In particular, with high-interest loans analysing credit quality is probably going to be more important. But idk (I have looked at these businesses and it isn't something I would ever get involved with: high-interest, P2P, all scams).
Costs of iOS/Android Shared Development, at Dropbox and Slack
A kid spends 8 hours in school, rest of the time on their phone or with friends. How much time does a kid spend with their father each day?.

I am not saying school is a substitute, I am saying not many fathers can afford to spend much time with their kids, so we need to solve this issue.
Strange. Executed properly, it would be heaven for me. Executed improperly, I’d find it better than what we call “life” today.
In some cases it can be true, it's hard to tell which are true and which aren't. I don't think those alerts are bad if they're true (the opposite actually: they're super helpful then). I've had some bookings be gone within hours because I waited too long.
“Don't Fuck with the cats”must watch (It's not what you think it is)
I initially thought it's some compilation of cat videos where people mess with cats and it takes revenge. But, boy, was I wrong. It's completely different! I highly encourage you to check it out! Especially useful for the tech community and people who care about privacy in general.

https://www.netflix.com/title/81031373