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Currently using Restbed (https://github.com/Corvusoft/restbed) as the server core, wxWidgets as a server side gui, with Boost, Curl, SQLite and Standard Lib. It's not that complex, beyond using lambdas in a few places. It has extremely high performance, and can run on an Intel Compute Stick, but I tend to use an Intel Nuc at minimum, with clients typically using whatever they have, gaining over redundancy and an ability to pair down. The memory management in a C++ application is just another resource one manages with whatever level of algorithm support you feel comfortable. There are ref-counting systems and complete garbage collectors available one can integrate into their business logic, unlike in a high level language that "transparently" manages memory outside application control.
Have you ever thought about how much processing a typical 3D video game performs every frame? What if that caliber of optimized algorithm logic were handling a rich media, non-3D game server hosted business application? It would have pretty amazing performance and scale very economically. That's what I do. Before doing this, I wrote 3D video games and their production environments.
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McDonalds in my country, Australia, has superb coffee. They have fresh-from-whole bean espresso machines in every store -- Often as part of a McCafe with a dedicated barista.

It is seriously as good as coffee from nearly any anywhere else, and consistently so.

https://mcdonalds.com.au/menu/mccafe
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It’s tough to see how a court would rule. Existing privacy law cares a lot about whether what you’re doing is some kind of trespass. In this case, it would be trespass on chattel. I wouldn’t have guessed that a court would accept this reasoning for property in a public space, but that’s happened this year in Taylor v. Saginaw, the tire chalking case. The stingray is eventually going to go to SCOTUS and I’m not sure how they’ll rule. Modern conservatives don’t like trespass, but they do like law enforcement.
> Apple and Google have complete control over the mobile market

Apple does on the iOS market, Google doesn't on the Android market. Sure, they have most of the market, but there are decent alternatives like f-droid. Maybe if we can get enough people using alternative markets on Android we can think of pressuring Apple to allow third party apps, but until then it would be useless imo. Why aren't more people using f-droid?
I don't agree with it, but:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_doctrine
later means never :)
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Intriguing. Very surprised I've never heard about this before, and refreshingly different from most other tools in this field. I look forward to trying it out.
Thanks. I'd love to hear your thoughts. My email is in my profile.
It's so much worse than that.

China has combined this with (a) 500MP camera which can clearly identify anyone in a stadium full of people and (b) forcing all citizens to present biometric information when signing up for a phone plan.
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You sure as hell should have the right to shoot someone who's armed and trying to get into your house, though.
And could potentially leak into foreign politics.
> 4. I think academia suffers from this as well. Mathematicians and physicists always go on talking about "simplicity" and "beauty" as if their job is to deduce the simplicity of the universe.

There is a lot of value in building concise and easy-to-understand explanations of extremely complex phenomenon. Be careful not to throw out Occam's razor with the bathwater.

I tend to agree that the pure mathematics and theoretical physics communities get obsessive. The hero-worship of theory builders in those sciences compounds matters. However, pure math and theoretic physics are the worst offenders by far in the natural science. Theorists in both fields are typically a small minority even within their own departments. The other natural sciences and the engineering disciplines are much less infected.

Some of the over-obsession with beauty in mathematics has its roots in the Church's heavy patronage of mathematics and natural philosophy, as well as religion's overall grip on nearly every intellectual mind prior to the 20th century.
Spoken like an individual contributor far enough down the ladder to not have to worry about the bill.
I can't imagine any circumstances where paying on a phone wouldn't work in a restaurant here (in Australia). It would be a complete disaster for the restaurant since probably 80% of people are paying on their phone.

The backup here is the "cash via phone" thing. I can use my phone to get cash out of ATM, which is not NFC based (it's an in-app thing with my banking app).
It's not, though? For most tasks not solved by standard library, Lua is going to fall somewhere between JS and Ruby.
Are you sure about this? There are only a few ways to state the year and place of birth, perhaps, but once you get beyond that, there are what might as well be infinitely many possible biographies of Washington. That being said, if all your new bio has to offer is a re-organization of the same well-established historical facts, it probably doesn't need to be written.
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Yeah you’re spot on that starting with something and moving out from there is the best way to not shit myself down.

> In Google Sheets, use command-shift-colon to do a timestamp

Okay not for nothing but I use sheets constantly for work, and as soon as I’m back on a desktop I am stupidly excited to try this out
It is common in asian cultures (I'm from India), where kids take care of parents and even extended families like uncles etc as they grow old. Though this pattern is shrinking in cities, most of them do keep aside money for their parents during their old age. In old times, whatever people earn is not for them to keep. The money from all the bread winners will be pooled by elders and will be shared by everyone for running of the joint family. This too is becoming uncommon but atleast people keep aside money (or some equivalent) so that it can be used for expenses of aged parents ...
Google doesn't have complete control. A significant number of Android devices ship without their store, and anyway, you can install apks with a checkbox in settings. Worst case, you ship to play store without this feature and mention in the support faq that you have to install the apk from a website download to have it.

Apple has slowly started to make things like that closer to being possible, but there are a lot more hoops, so it might be reasonable for a very niche app, buy anything you want thousands of people to use really needs to go through the app store.
Yeah, the Python code reminded me of AVISynth too! Here's some code for reference: http://avisynth.nl/index.php/Script_examples
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Yeah, I meant to be a little tongue in cheek because there are a lot of similarities but I should have been more obvious about it.

However, I think the real difference with most of these is that they're not (as far as I know) state-controlled in the U.S. even if they end up with the same result in some cases. It may seem small because the outcome may be the same but I think it's a very important distinction - I don't love the Equifax and Experian and whoever gives me a credit score but the government should be an impartial adjudicator if there's a conflict between myself and these people about the score - what makes me nervous is when the government has no culpability and not only sets the rules but also enforces them with no recourse. Not to say I don't think that this happens in the U.S., it does all the time, but it's a whole different level compared to China or non-Democratic societies.
Most anything you do, in general, will fork off into many branches. Some being required dependencies and many others being tangential improvements or generalizations.

You can either note them in some way as they emerge, or ignore them and keep your code tidy of such notes.
TODO, FIXME and XXX are built into tools already. Sure you can make new stuff up but it makes it harder to find later.
Thank you. We care a lot about the physical form of our books. I appreciate quality and I'm pleased to see that you do, too.

I'm thinking of ways to make our books even a bit nicer. Not sure yet what that will mean but I'm still thinking on it.
I thought a lot of the pay changes with lawyers was due to tort reform and caps on punitive damages, but I am basing that purely on vague memory.

To be fair, first year lawyers at top firms do earn comparable pay to programmers at good companies, maybe not as much as a full compensation package with equity, I’m not sure. But those lawyers who consistently rank at the top of their class and among their peers and stick it out and eventually make partner - they will make much more money than the average software engineer. See this link for some details on what top Texas firms are paying associates [0]. Partners at the big firms make a lot more than 190-300k - probably 2-3x.

The catch is that with law or investment banking you need to be at the top of your class and pedigree matters if you want to get the best jobs. With software engineering these days, a degree is becoming less and less important.

I think at the end of the day the person who enjoys being a lawyer is a very different type than the person who enjoys being a software engineer / coder, and I’d be surprised if there’s much overlap between the two. I’m sure some people can be good at both, and certainly most good developers have the brains to get through law school and pass a test, but the work is so drastically different many people just won’t be happy in the job, and, like what possibly happened to your girlfriend, they move on.

[0] https://www.bizjournals.com/houston/news/2018/06/25/major-te...
I can't say I agree with most of these points, but

> Certainty is strength

> [and survivorship bias]

This I have definitely seen and experienced. Back when I thought I knew everything some people followed me and copied what I did. I unwittingly became a leader simply by being arrogant. Now that I have a little wisdom that's all out the window.

Confidence is magnetic even if its foundations are nonsense. I think the mechanism is similar to clickbait but maybe less intentional.
Linking games to Steam provides the library aspect and social features I believe, but I wouldn't argue it has all of the upsides of a Steam purchase. For example, I would buy Ubisoft releases way back when on Steam instead of Uplay because I could have it manage installing/uninstalling the games (even if I could've purchased it at a cheaper price via Uplay. Ghost Recon Wildlands comes to mind).

For library management, GOG 2 (Alpha) is the best solution I've personally seen (have the various storefronts installed, import the connector for GOG 2, all the games from that storefront are imported into GOG 2, can install/play/etc. on a whim).
The newly released Xiaomi Mi Watch may be worth investigating, as it runs customized Android (MIUI): https://xiaomi-mi.com/mitu-watches/xiaomi-mi-watch-black/

Xiamoi also makes the aforementioned Amazfit series watches
I’m grateful for Christine. I had the pleasure of working with them before, and one of the things I appreciate is their openness around idea sharing. Talking about tarot or other woo-woo stuff, even philosophically, is hard in tech circles and posts like this continue to make inroads in dulling the negativity.
Sure, and then you end up with linux.
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So I am sitting in my living room at 12:25 in the middle of the night in Brooklyn right now. If I look up from my phone and I see someone standing unexpectedly in my kitchen, I should give them the benefit of the doubt and not assume I am in mortal danger?

I mean, what would you think?
I think I agree with a lot of this but I don’t think pixel art is going to die. Arbitrarily low fidelity artwork is a thing that started out as a niche thing mostly popular in indie game titles and gradually spread to a wider audience. I don’t think this was an accident.

The problem with embracing limitations on modern machines is that there increasingly aren’t many to embrace. Sure, modern AAA games will gladly grow to use all available resources, but if you are being relatively efficient you really have to work to monopolize a modern computer.

I think there is beauty in embracing limitations and there is increasingly not very many of them on modern computers... but I still love chiptunes and pixel art, and I think there’s a sizable population of people who do, even if they maybe do not understand why they do. I suspect that the number of people who appreciate these arts are growing rather than shrinking and what we’re really seeing is growing pains of the aesthetic going very mainstream.
Tragedy is avoidable, while calamity isn't.

There's a difference between saying someone is responsible and the victim is responsible.

The Cargo Cult decries the principle of legitimate responsibility, and consistently attempts to deny the guilt of the true architects of tragedy in numerous ways - victim-blaming being a very popular one.

In this example, a significant number of Americans would rather an adult woman die in childbirth than terminate a dangerous pregnancy.

If adult women - who may well be married and have a family - actually do die because legal abortion is unavailable, those Americans become responsible for avoidable deaths.

But the magic of the Cult's moral inversion means they continue to consider their position a wholly good one.

"Good intentions suffice."

This is not the same as - for example - a climate denialist buying beachfront property in Southern Florida and then being amazed when it floods in a storm and becomes impossible to sell.

"Consequences are things that happen to others."

These look opposed, but the MO is the same in both examples. Legitimate responsibility is denied, and replaced by a simplistic self-affirming moralising certainty which is actively hostile to mature empirical rationality and empathy.
For me, it’s tarot is almost just like oblique strategies.
As far as I can tell, you are correct. They manage their own metal servers/racks inside a colocated data center. Sorry if this caused confusion.
She's been running it for about 12 years, basically not long after the kids started at school.
Growth has been organic, probably around 20% year on year at a guess.

For a long time new clients were mostly Google Ads/Remarketing, word-of-mouth and customer referrals and a few ongoing relationships with sales executives in traditional media like TV, radio, etc. Over time organic SEO has come into it as her ranking improved.

There's been minimal networking which is always a concern if online stops working. There's just not the time to be out at business chambers, BNIs, etc, look after kids and get work done. It's also a long term commitment.
Thank you for explaining it in better terms than I could. I was just trying to point out that developers are also super susceptible to this kind of thinking.
I'm having a similar experience with Golang, 90% of job postings are senior level, everybody wants 3+ years experience in the field, etc.
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It seems that you believe that positive law (meaning: law that you "think" is right and want to impose on others) is perfectly reasonable.

Both of our biases should not affect if the argument is valid. If I can find counter examples to that argument that simply then there is something wrong with the argument.

we're in the authoritarian/totalitarian land we live with today.

Ignoring the pejorative judgement ("authoritarian/totalitarian"), yes indeed we are in the land we live in today.

I'm not interested in an ethics system for some world that lives as a thought experiment.
Coupling it to the code that it affects is nice. If the commit never makes it into master a TODO doesn't either. If the function it's in gets rewritten, the TODO goes away. etc.
My reader app is on my main screen and games are three levels deep, so that reading is quicker than any other activity.
Works great!
Sonos has never EOL'ed or feature handicapped a speaker yet. It doesn't seem like something they're keen to do.
Hm nice, thanks. Yeah I have also heard that displays intended for big advertising installations are a good option, but those often have low refresh rate or long image persistence (or whatever the term is), so they're not very suitable for movies and gaming.
That's a great question, and I hope you find some relevant solutions.

I would discourage you from using the "pied piper" metaphor to describe this. In the original legend from Germany, the pied piper uses his magic powers to steal the children of the town, and they never come back!

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

It's easy to imagine Internet censors loving this metaphor for uncensored Internet access: the thing that controls young people's minds and steals them away from the society.

So you may want to use a different legend as your metaphor for describing what you're looking for.
Most countries' universities are not "world class". They are good but the top US universities are like tech unicorns, entirely in their own class when it comes to innovation/rankings, network, and opportunities.
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...which is happily used by millions (billions if you include android) getting their work (and play) done in the meantime.
Sounds a bit like rubber-duck debugging: you solve problems by explaining them outside of your head and hope that can get you to think about them in new ways.
Amazing tool! Thanks for pointing that out. Nice how it combines pixels and geometric shapes together in one tool, and supports mixing and combining all kinds of grids and pixels, even random Voronoi cells! It's on sale for only 8 EUR on Steam so I'll give it a try, since it looks so fun. The right-click pie menus was worth the price of admission!

At the opposite end of the abstraction spectrum from "Pixel Art" is Bert Monroy's amazing hyper-resolution photo-realistic art. He combines Illustrator together with Photoshop, ping-ponging back and forth between both tools. He's taught many classes and produced lots of videos showing how he works and teaching the tools he uses.

Times Square – On display at the Make Software Change the World Exhibit at the Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA:

This is the largest image I have ever created, pushing the boundaries of the software and hardware as far as they can go. It was unveiled at the Photo Plus Expo in New York on October 28, 2010 as a work in progress. A 25 foot light box was constructed to display the piece that has been printed on a new material being introduced by Epson.

• The image size is 60 inches by 300 inches.

• The flattened file weighs in at 6.52 Gigabytes.

• It took four years to create.

• The painting is comprised of almost fifteen thousand individual Photoshop and Illustrator files.

• Taking a cumulative total of all the files, the overall image contains over 700,000 layers.

http://www.bertmonroy.com/timessquare/timessquare.html

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Photoshop Hall of Famer Bert Monroy talks about creating his largest piece to date “Times Square.” At 6.52 gigapixels, “Times Square” contains over 750,000 layers and depicts dozens of digital imaging artists and pioneers, as well as Monroy’s family and friends. This clip is from a full-length interview, conducted for CHM's upcoming exhibition, “Make Software: Change the World!,” opening January 28, 2017. Don’t miss your chance to see “Times Square” on display in “Make Software.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JVgBWCPlFQ

Amsterdam Mist (2014):

My Amsterdam Mist is the culmination of twenty-two months of work. Every element in the image was meticulously created pixel-by-pixel using Adobe® Photoshop® and Adobe® Illustrator®. It is the first piece to be inspired by the shot rather than the scene itself.

http://www.bertmonroy.com/amsterdammist/amsterdammist.html
She's where I heard about them :) Forgot to credit her by name.
> “This is noise on the power grid. Power integrity will cause more degradation of chip performance. That is not only for the advanced nodes, but we have seen that more and more on the legacy nodes — 28nm and 40nm are having the same problem.”

Reminds me of audiophiles getting their own utility poles installed to prevent this [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18779434
> The indie game industry exists almost solely because of digital distribution, and resale would cripple them.

Only if the game is not worth keeping.
There is an example of a community like this in Turkey:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nesin_Mathematics_Village
I definitely not trying to say that. I’m trying to say that when someone like me (general public) is looking at art _for entertainment_ my wants are different than when I’m looking at something as art.

If I’m enjoying something as art, that puts me into a different category, but when purchasing a game for fun, or music as background noise, or a decorative painting I am in a totally different mindset than when I am engaging with those same things with a mind towards their artistic qualities.

The intentionality of the viewer matters, and the author, IMO, fails to recognize that a lot of people, myself included, often come to games with the intentionality of playing a game, not necessarily judging its artistic qualities. We sometimes do, but I think it would be bad faith to argue that we all are always appreciating every “artistic quality” of a work all the time - I know I’ve enjoyed a bad game, movie, show, or song more than once.
I really like a lot of the ideas in D, but I feel like the language suffered from having too many ideas/features.
No doubt there are people who do it for cynical reasons. But at least some people do it sincerely thinking it’s the right choice. It’d be more interesting to talk about them, and how they came to make the wrong decision for what they thought were the right reasona.
No offense but this is simply not true. Our print sales go up every year.
I'm not sure that banana chart from wikipedia is up-to-date:

https://www.radiologyinfo.org/en/info.cfm?pg=safety-xray
https://www.health.harvard.edu/cancer/radiation-risk-from-me...

Most sources seem to put it at 0.1 mSv for a chest x-ray.

The FAA link for a Tokyo to LA 9 hour flight would be about 0.0206 mSv, or approximately 2 chest x-rays for the total flight.

However the FAA research you linked would put a New York to Seattle flight at a total of 0.112 mSv, whereas this CDC link says a trans-continental flight is only at the order of mangnitude of 0.035 mSv...

https://hps.org/publicinformation/ate/faqs/commercialflights... - summarizes more sources that contradict the raw FAA numbers.

This FAA calculator also seems to give numbers that agree with the lower radiation levels: http://jag.cami.jccbi.gov/cariresults.asp
Yeah, I’m slightly familiar with that. Flying is a bit unusual since training is so much more expensive than other professions, and requires a lot of hours, so I guess you can consider the first few years like a medical residency. A low-paid training job.

http://www.aacadetacademy.com/CadetAcademy/career_progressio...

AA has an interesting program here, but I still think the best route for aspiring pilots, if you can get a pilot spot, is probably Air Force Academy. It’s very hard to get a pilot spot, though, and I don’t think it’s ever guaranteed unless you do the Army Street to Seat flight program, which does not require a college degree, but they mainly fly helicopters (maybe only?).

I often wish I had been a pilot... currently reading “Viper Pilot” by Dan Hampton which is a hell of a book.
Nitpicking a bit, but a format that is still used ~90% of the time is not obsolete. Not optimal (anymore) is what you meant, I think.