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Tanks are so named because during WWI, the British decided to conceal their true purpose by calling them 'water carriers.' 'W.C.' was deemed an inappropriate initialism though, so the name was changed to 'tank' as in "a tank of water."
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> than the truth of the matter, which is there are certain technical issues that are difficult to overcome with darker skin tones.

Can you point to any references supporting this claim?
I'm in a weird position of taking both ritalin and celexa. It makes me both anxious and focused.
OK, you're one of just 900 people talking to your intermediary. And your representative has 900 intermediaries talking to him.

How does that improve your representative's ability to hear your opinions?
Sure, but who uses the PWA version over the native app?
You've never heard of people plagiarizing others' entire sites before?

This is exactly the sort of thing you say when you're trying to make data public but keep someone else from slapping a different header on your data and pretending they did all the work.
An article about the technicallities of cameras and facial recognition on darker skin tones would generate a lot less clicks than "Computers are racist!"
The looping of shitty thoughts is the exact thing I have to fight against in a psychedelic state. It's weird how things like this seem to work out. Giving speed to a person with attention issues, yet to a normal person it makes their thoughts run rampant.
No doubt, but without the "crazy stuff" there isn't enough of a reason for people to commit to building communities like this. That crazy stuff makes introverted, socially anxious me shoot off a text to some random neighbor 20 years older than myself every couple weeks to make sure he's doing alright and see if he needs anything, and invite my other neighbor over to dinner, whom I probably never would have said hello to otherwise.
An important point is being missed here and in all discussions (and the world-wide hysteria, really) having to do with "let's <insert any proposal here> to <battle|save the earth from|counter|reverse|delay|avoid|reduce> climate change".

What's the point?

We can't do a thing about it.

This is academically simple to derive through analysis of 800,000 years of ice core sample data. Actually, all you need to do is look at the graph. When you do, measure and calculate the average time it took for CO2 to come down by 100 ppm.

That number is somewhere around 50,000 years. In other words, 500 CENTURIES for a CO2 drop of 100 ppm.

How is this related to my initial claim?

Simple: This was the historical rate of atmospheric CO2 concentration reduction WITHOUT HUMANITY ON THE PLANET.

Anyone --ANYONE-- claiming that we are going to do <X> to <battle|save the earth from|counter|reverse|delay|avoid|reduce> climate change had to answer a very simple question:

How is <X> better than NO HUMANITY ON THE PLANET?

If <X> isn't better than no humanity on the planet the rate of change CANNOT BE BETTER than ~50,000 year for a 100 ppm drop.

The sooner we start discussing this based on real science the sooner we might be able to decide how to handle reality rather than allowing ignorant politicians and activist from driving the narrative. We are wasting valuable time with nonsense.
3 links to 3 docs all with the same title, so requires typing to save them. W3C "standards".. cough.
If you are wanting to pick up Vue, choose node.js and start with the basic tutorial on setting up your project and project organization. Then do a tutorial on state management in Vue. At that point you should just get started on a project and stop doing tutorials until you run into something you don't understand. To get moving I like to pick a piece of functionality. In this case, login could be a good place to start. Whether you want to use third party auth or roll your own, it is a good place to start. Get login and state management working because once you have that running you can start implementing other functionality pretty fast.

The key is to pick a piece of functionality that does two things, one: simple but once completed is a component you'll need for your project, two: at the end of implementing that functionality there is something that works which you can build off. That's why I suggest doing those two tutorials and then starting with login and state management, it will help you move forward. Don't get ahead of yourself, pick small components of functionality and just start knocking them out. Don't think about the millions of options.

On your tech stack, pick whatever is most common for your stack, don't try to be complex when all you need is to get started. For example, node.js, postgresql or mongodb, Vue. That will give you the widest set of tutorials and help online and in the end it is extremely capable platform for nearly anything you want to build. And all of those are marketable skills.

edit: fixed a word
A fair amount of apps use cert pinning, not sure on the percentages. It’s easy to circumvent if you have a jailbroken device. I haven’t done this in a few years but there used to be something called SSLKillSwitch for jailbroken iOS which would hook the HTTP request method to remove the cert pinning.
The rude user perspective. Don’t be so presumptuous as to think your rude virtual exhalation of breath could represent all users.
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Exophase is the best programmer I’ve ever met. Also, he’s the one that accomplished the port from DOS to Windows (IIRC, having nothing but the decompiled binaries to work from) back in the early 2000’s, and is probably the reason there’s still a community today. I could see MZX having died out otherwise.
There's also the cost that you are likely to just spin your wheels retreading old ground. Examples to the contrary are notable, but notable because they are rare.
Dot for later, wife sleeping so I can't watch video at this hour
This is super well documented; see:

* This coverage about the industry in Veles: https://money.cnn.com/interactive/media/the-macedonia-story/

* Similar coverage from Wired: https://www.wired.com/2017/02/veles-macedonia-fake-news/

* NBC's version: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/fake-news-how-partying-ma...

* A re-told version of the story in 2019 from the BBC: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190528-i-was-a-macedoni...
>I think if we ever see an alien, he will either fly to us in a completely enormous nuclear rocket which we will spot years before his arrival and deceleration .

We have a tough time detecting asteroids until they've already flown by, I have a hard time believing we would spot a ship years in advance
As an American, I wish we would just combine Thanksgiving and Christmas and take a week off. The mere month between major holidays is weird. And, culturally, Christmas is a bigger deal, but Thanksgiving has the guaranteed long weekend, so it’s the one you can count on traveling for.
"According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the number of jobs in restaurants and bars in the Seattle area has grown from 134,000 to 158,000 since 2015"

"Ultimately, workers already employed either saw their take-home pay go up or stay roughly the same while working fewer hours."

https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/the-highlight/2019/7/13/206...
Maybe optimism is profitable on an individual basis. But at the collective level, I am not sure it is such a good idea. Anyway, not being optimistic does not mean you must be pessimistic : We just have to be realistic. That mean, accepting the world for what it is, and not what we want it to be.
You're describing what economists and systems theorists call "path dependency". It is common that someone has questioned the assumptions, but that the cost to overcome the path dependency is higher than the gained efficiency or capability.

Meaning: the rareness of disruption is to be expected, because most disruptions fail in stifling silence.
bingo. another disinfo campaign. intelligent aliens are just another made up bullshit story to distract people from other more important storeis and justify huge ass budget increases that go on for multiple decades.

there are more than enough idiots and suckers to persuade. this is the problem with democrazy. it's just one method for securing good leadership and it often can be systemically hacked. one way is to dumb down the population and feeed them nonsense. it works.
I own all of these games except patchwork, and they are always the games I lean towards when playing board games with people who have only ever experienced games like Monopoly or Risk. They all provide gentle introductions to newer style game mechanics which the more complicated games tend to have in some form.

The only game I'd add to their list Azul. It is beginner friendly, but has come out more and more often when we play board games. It's just so easy to setup and get into and it provides enough strategic depth to keep the game play interesting without it bogging down with minutia which, while sometimes enjoyable, leads to more mental fatigue. This game just flows round after round.
Answer: atypical cystic fibrosis.

Although I guess if you like medical mysteries you might enjoy the article otherwise skip it. Especially since, even as medical mysteries go, it's not really a very good one.
That looks a whole lot like Elm's Custom/Union/Sum types, except the compiler helps by making `STATE.isValid` redundant (which the programmer might forget to call).
I wouldn't say it's getting "little attention," rather it's relatively new (for a language) and not backed by a major player who can instantly give it a huge spotlight / platform.

For being a 5-year old indie language out of South America, I think it's doing quite well, and projects like this are good evidence of why.

Ruby is an outstandingly productive language. Copying the expressive syntax and ergonomics of Ruby into a fast, statically typed, compiled language with excellent C bindings is a very compelling idea.
And the windows are carefully positioned as to put her at the focus of the screenshot. And the project is named after a succubus? The overt objectification is unnecessary and unprofessional.
How does one measure stress and its effects? It often sounds like a vague catch all, that can't really be measured scientifically.
UISwitches can be dragged by design. Prior to iOS 7, when dragged they followed the position of your finger directly, like physical switches. Post-iOS 7, they only animate after your finger has moved past a threshold, but the toggle graphic expands when held to indicate that it is still draggable.
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It's possible that some (many?) programmers enjoy a Ruby-like syntax?
I have the same feeling as yours. I wish Crystal web server could be customisable, and lack of gRPC, HTTP/2 (only separate repo) and QUIC going to take more time to implement.
A good and concise (albeit old) SE book is "Fundamentals of Software Engineering by Ghezzi, Jazayeri and Mandrioli".

For more background; "Software Fundamentals: Collected papers by David L. Parnas" is a great resource.

For a tour of the CS aspects; see "Specifying Software: A Hands-On Introduction by R.D.Tennent"
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As someone who frequently dabbled in but rarely contributed to the MZX scene, I can concur. There were a lot of formative experiences in it, even though the nature of the tools, unlike ZZT which has always been very productive for a certain kind of gameplay, often drove creators away from completion and into demoscene-esque hacking to break the limits and make their games more like "real" games. I was most engaged with it in its first years before going open-source, 1995-98 or so. The development since then has made it even more of a curiosity, with so many ways to customize your project in a way that will vastly expand its potential scope.

But it was a friendly environment to start in, and didn't try to push you towards professionalizing as tends to be the case with modern game engines - there were plenty of MZX games that I enjoyed and completed in test mode after getting softlocked by some bug and going out to the editor to fix it. There's a lesson in that, for sure - far different from the climate of Steam review comments.
My worry in solving an existing problem in a novel way is that the incumbents can catch up faster than you can scale.

If I were to take on Netflix/Disney/Twitch with some new kind of video entertainment product, they'd have deep pockets to fund a competing offering.

The lever of equity might work to attract better talent, but only if you succeed. There's a lot of risk.

Scaling rapidly also means giving up control as you seek capital. It'd be hard to organically grow and go unnoticed.
"It's a great myth that creative geniuses consistently produce great work. Whereas consistency may be the key to expertise, the secret to creative greatness appears to be doing things differently—even when that means failing"

Genius is genetic. Some people just seem to "stumble" upon ideas and methods, but its not random. Why there seems to be such pervasive efforts to prove anything other than the obvious is a mystery to me.

EDIT:

wikpedia page on it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashkenazi_Jewish_intelligence
No need for a physical keyboard -- if you have Hacker's Keyboard installed it comes with a Ctrl key, and Ctrl-Z works as expected.
About three years ago I read someone on here recommend the book, “Learned Optimism”. They said it was life changing.

I read it, did the work, and it is life changing. People with a pessimistic outlook are much less happy than people with an optimistic outlook. The book teaches you how each type thinks (for example, optimists think everything good that happens to them is personal and permanent and every bad thing that happens is impersonal and temporary. Pessimists are the opposite). The book then teaches you essentially a cognitive behavioral therapy technique to retrain your brain to think more like an optimist. It’s work but so worth it especially if you ever experience anxiety.
I highly recommend the book "I Will Teach You To Be Rich" by Ramit Sethi. It's an easy read and is a pretty fool-proof way to set up your finances. Any moderately successful person would probably give you the same advice, but the book lays it out in easy-to-read terms.

The gist of it is to automate everything as much as you can! Auto-pay, auto-deposit, etc.
For other people like me who aren't super familiar with the Linux kernel, BPF is a packet filtering API which evolved into a kind of kernel scripting language: http://www.brendangregg.com/bpf-performance-tools-book.html#...

(Posting since it took me some digging to find out).
Just want to chime in that there is nothing wrong with spending your time alone during the holidays. I have family but I’d rather travel during this time for leisure. What’s so bad about being alone? I prefer it honestly. It allows me to contemplate on the past year and reflect on myself. With family all you will get is petty family politics, gossip, bringing up things that happened years ago, etc.
Thank you for mentioning the ManyPixels gallery! We set it up as we wanted to provide different style of illustrations. It is also a great marketing tool for our main business.
Most performance problems are measured as some function of the hardware resources (CPU usage, throughput, disk iops, network latency, ...). How do you find out what application or what part of your application is causing problems or consuming resources? eBPF helps with observability from the kernel up through the application to connect what your machine is doing (disk throughput too slow, maybe?) with what your applications are doing (frequency of reads/writes, object sizes, prefetching, buffer cache usage?).

For some use-cases, the fact that you can insert probes and eBPF code to a running program is a huge win. This is more obvious to kernel developers who can't always recompile a kernel, deploy it, and recreate a particular state to debug a problem. Application developers may think they can just change the code and add printf to get better observability, or maybe use gdb? eBPF has its advantages.
I was really into ZZT for several years. I played and made several games.

I liked MegaZeux for it's technical improvements over ZZT (sound, music, graphics), but I didn't like the programming language. It felt inconsistent and unfinished. Also, there were few great MegaZeux games at the time.

If anyone is curious, Alexis Janson is the original author of MegaZeux https://mtg.gamepedia.com/Alexis_Janson . She also made some of the best ZZT games.
Optimism is more compelling as an ethic than a philosophy.

Even if pessimism more accurately represents reality, adopting optimism leads to statistically improved outcomes.

So lie to yourself! Or do whatever it takes to fool yourself into adopting an optimistic mindset. Pessimism is for losers.

[inb4 zealous optimists claiming that optimism is actually more realistic.]
Okay, port your existing Ruby code to a compiled language, giving it multiple times the speed? Maybe three is a slight business opportunity here.

Also, give your developers a more productive language that can go where Ruby can't (like OS development), which is 90% instantly recognizable — may also be worth something?
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Not OP, but there is a history of writing game controller drivers for linux:

https://github.com/chrippa/ds4drv

https://xboxdrv.gitlab.io/

https://github.com/kozec/sc-controller

I recently bought myself a dualshock4 for use with Kodi and RetroArch. No driver was needed, even for bluetooth!

Edit: formatting
But are people who live to 85 or more likely to have been optimistic?
> C bindings, strongly-typed, a great concurrency model, very fast

My point is that all this is normal, and all the languages I list have offered it for longer than Crystal.
That might make a good first open source release actually, if it implements a good chunk of the game protocol you might be able to use it to get a rough idea for the types of ideas people would want to run with, and it would also allow people to hit the ground running actually implementing ideas against the engine quickly.

A separate test server would be a very good companion idea.
Ugh, statistics. Wouldn't you rather hear a few compelling personal stories, hand-picked by the good folks at the Wall Street Journal?
I'd say there's even a third option, the causality runs back AND forth (both good thoughts can lead to good outcomes as well as bad outcomes can lead to bad thoughts and vice a versa)

Even in this third option there exist an infinite number of sub options on a gradient (where each direction carries more or less weight).

Of course, any meaningful conversation can only happen after definitions (like what is pessimistic) are agreed upon. I for one don't agree with the definition of pessimism as defined by the study.
Open source is meant to be a corporate-friendly synonym for "free software".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source#Origins

This basically means that if it's not free, it's not open source either.
What is an economical reactor model available to be built today? Practically every commercial reactor built seems to be a multi-billion dollar project that takes years to complete, with cost overruns common.
I saw a thing about the Voyager 1 probe, and how they communicate with it using two satelite dishes - one pointed at Voyager, and one pointed in the direction of but very slightly off of Voyager. Since both have the same background noise but only one dish has the transmissions from Voyager in it, you essentially subtract the non-Voyager dish's input from the other one and are left with the clean (or at least a lot cleaner) signal from Voyager.

Perhaps something similar could be done to reduce noise, using an empty patch of ground nearby the target.
This here is the real danger. Many people choose to reinvent the wheel and end up finding out that their approach was actually horribly flawed compared to what already existed, or they turned out not to have the resources to see it through. It takes a brilliant person with a lot of luck to make this work in an advantageous way.

Two great examples come to mind right away, both from Elon Musk. SpaceX was founded on first principles and now he's been able to undercut competitors by an order of magnitude. Conversely, his attempt approaching car manufacturing from first principles in the gigafactory has proven to be a complete disaster.
Do this every year for the next twenty and see if you feel the same way.

In the case of elders, they often lack any tangible social contact. Let alone with that of their own families.

A small subset of people will be fine living life completely aloof, but we're social animals -- this would drive the majority of us crazy.
Why are people so concerned about Amazon but not about Google?
> make the best out of this amazing opportunity you have every year to heal and make amends with those that should be close to you

If you'd ever had to deal with a truly toxic person you'd know that this is terrible advice. Some people cannot be saved and the only way to save yourself is to strictly control (or even entirely sever) your contact with them.

This goes double for family members, and quadruple for parents.
The FSF did not originate the meaning of "free software". They insist upon it, but before 1998 when "open source" was coined, "free software" was just what everyone called it. Even OpenBSD, who staunchly disagrees on a lot of things with the FSF, has been calling itself "free software" since 1996.
You're killing it!

Great choices, fantastic execution.

You're going to go far. Keep it up!
I have been wanting to start a blog since I joined college. It's been more than a decade now. I want to keep it simple. I finally changed my website to html, css only. No js, no plugins, none of those cool static site generators. None of those fancy effects. Simple text and it looks pretty clean and simple on mobile too. And it's fast! Finally after years of playing with my website (my landing page) after having tried dozens methods and tools I am happy with it.

I think that's how I will write my blog posts too. Whenever I want to write a post (that won't be frequent) I'll just add a html page in my /blog dir on github pages and link it on /blog.html with date/title and all. I am sure there are tons of such blogs out there. And then I will request OP to donate to Internet Archive :)
But also things that aren't radiation or high energy physics. Inverse square laws are ubiquitous in hydrodynamics, heat flow, electrostatics. Good ole fashioned 19th century physics. And I think that's its most natural arena.
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Christmas does not belong to Christians, is not a specifically Christian holiday, and essentially never has been.

The date, trees, wreaths, Santa, gift giving, and caroling are all 'pagan' traditions.

Everyone I know, almost none of whom are Christian, celebrates at this time of year in a completely secular way.
Why not change the training data to reflect an equal amount of the population? Officially the US has six “races” according to the Census Bureau. So, another option is to make each race ~16% of the training data.

Some might object to the decreased accuracy this gives whites — but if we’re going to have any hope of preventing existing systemic inequalities from being encoded in AI systems, we’ll have to socially engineer the data sets.
This depends strongly on your friendship group. We've adopted half a dozen of our close friends as honorary aunties and uncles for our kids.
Is it really so hard to port Ruby code to any of the languages I mentioned? Even with Crystal you will still have to make changes to your code, is having to use a slightly different syntax such a big difference? If you've got Ruby code and you haven't already ported it, how badly do you need the speed?