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I've worked in some big companies with call centres, etc. Often management is under pressure to achieve specific numbers for things. The pressure can be quite intense (i.e., either hit those numbers or we will replace you with someone else). They often convince themselves that the reasons they don't hit their numbers is because somebody is abusing their friendly demeanor. Sometimes that idea is also pushed onto them in their performance reviews.

The main thing to realise is that often in these teams they hire just about anybody. They'll can pick up huge numbers of people a month with the idea that it's easier to let someone "prove themselves" and fire all the people who "don't perform" (statistics is usually not a strong point on these teams). People who survive for a long time are promoted into line management. Then it's the slippery pole all the way up (with everyone stomping on each other's face to get a leg up). There often isn't any respect given to other people. They are panning for gold, essentially. You are either gold or you are dirt.

IT departments are usually quite civilised in comparison. This is mainly because of the difficulty of doing our jobs and the difficulty of finding replacements. You see much better treatment in all such departments, but often IT is the best of the lot.
> I can find dozens of workers ready to say that plane was 'designed by clowns who in turn are supervised by monkeys'.

But are they saying it as a form of venting, or in the context of bringing up serious concerns? And do they say this consistently, refusing to accept the validity of the design?
> For each top-level domain, our system picked a random nameserver published for each of the top-level domains and queried a random domain name that we picked for it. We then grouped the results by region and logged the data every 10 seconds.

Am I misunderstanding what they're doing or is this completely misleading? If they're only testing one randomly chosen nameserver, the results are much less likely to be a good indication of the speed of an average request for that TLD. Why not average across all of them?

Also, as they kind of suggest near the end, caching is probably good enough that this is very rarely a problem anyone needs to worry about.
Basically, it's more difficult/tedious to do. Facebook lowered the cost opportunity of this for the vast majority of people (you and others excluded, obviously).
Twitter is heavily used in biotech for news and discussions, surprisingly. It's where nearly all of it breaks.
I have high blood pressure, and this is a step at the right direction. Current home devices to measure blood pressure are not really convenient, so I tend to only measure my blood pressure at home.

However, this is not what I want. I want a device that measure my blood pressure continuously (not necessarily all the time, let's say each 15 minutes). Why? Because I want to know how my behavior impacts my blood pressure. For example, does eating salty foods really increases my blood pressure, and for how much time.

Anyway, I still want this device since it seems so much better than what is currently available.
Well, the last major revision to the Single Unix Specification was released in 2008. Ever since then, Linux has basically become the defacto POSIX standard. So while glibc may not rule the roost, most POSIX OSes bend to the will of the GNU userland and the Linux monoculture in many ways. It's not really like the old days with Sun, IBM, DEC and even Microsoft with Xenix. POSIX is being washed away a little more every day.
Found the exact opposite, although I was living in a carpeted flat when I bought mine. Vacuuming turned from something I'd have to put aside an afternoon for to something that just sorts itself out.

Probably my fave tech purchase this decade.
If not, they should have.
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across architectures: you're right, as of now it's x86_64 only

across operating systems: it works on linux and freebsd as-is (thanks bakul), and with a few changes on windows+libc (thanks ktye) - https://github.com/ktye/i/tree/master/_/ngn though i personally never use windows
Would `whois` be any better to prevent leakage of domains you intend to register?
Again I'm not really part of that ecosystem, but it sounded to me like .net core/standard involved doing exactly what Ididntdothis was arguing against - moving functionality out of the language standard library and into separate libraries with their own independent versioning.
For most people actual deaths are more immediately apparent than estimated deaths. By driving a car, riding a bus, or taking a plane any regular person also contributes to some of those estimated deaths. But this is very different from causing direct deaths by knowingly disabling a safety feature on a car, plane, or bus for example.
It could be, but I believe this has been the case in the UK since well before tuition fees were introduced. In the past, I think it was mostly a non-issue there were far fewer students, so university libraries generally had enough copies of books to go around.
See here https://cuervopropertyadvisory.wordpress.com/2014/01/24/is-t...

This also match my personal experience (my girlfriend is from there). The other side of the coin is that they are on average much happier and social than other cultures.
This is in line with schools of thought that see happiness as inversely proportional to perfectionism.
I think it was relatively unknown outside of former USSR (having been created by a team in, of all places, Moldova).

It was insanely good.
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20 or 30 years ago, Scientific American published (in the paper magazine) a firefly circuit you could build to see this coupled oscillation happen with physical hardware. I always wanted to build a couple of hundred or so and plaster a room with them, but that's always been ETOOMUCHEFFORT.

It's probably worth an update.
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This is one of those things you simply don't expect to test when you're benchmarking performance. I've been trying to cut away chunks of 20-50ms on a side project I've been working on hosted on a .io domain, and I'm seriously considering switching because of this. Great article for sure. I also wonder at what point the trade off is between a vanity domain vs a more performant domain. For a CDN this makes perfect sense, but would it be better to launch with a less-notable url vs a more performant one?
The most recent versions of the .NET Framework (including 4.8, the final version) are supported for as long as the OS they are installed on is supported.

I think that because of that longevity, you're going to see lots of the main libraries etc. supporting .NET Framework for years to come.
At my university, reviewing is explicitly mentioned to be on your own time: we cannot write any hours for it.
Some level of cryptography (hash functions and signatures), some distributed computing (consensus algorithms, P2P networking), some tech/economics (game theory, mechanism design).

If you start with Ethereum, the js ecosystem around it is by far the most advanced in the blockchain space and you can hit the ground running pretty fast building dApps while you learn more about the protocols that make them interesting.
Not really topology, it's more like group theory, and representations.

Ordinary convnets are a way of building in translational symmetry, which is the group R^2 (in the plane). The work being described extends this to larger symmetry groups, such as rotations of a molecule in 3D (which is SO(3)).

For either of these, you can work in Fourier space instead of real space, where convolutions become products. For ordinary convnets means ordinary FFT, but nobody does that as translating to neighbouring pixels is simple enough. Rotations aren't so simple, and so working in Fourier space can be an efficient way to do things. And the connection to physics is really just that the representation theory of SO(3) is a bread-and-butter exercise there, the basis of atomic theory.
I use Nix for declarative management of my user account using home-manager. I think you might be missing something.
At that level more than half of a manager’s day is spent covering their asses. Also they are so removed from any sort of smoking gun it’s very difficult to even successfully charge them on anything.
"64-bit spyware"

Telemetry?
At most UK universities, membership of the student union is automatic as part of joining the university (there's no fee associated with being part of the union, so there's no real reason not to join), and the university funds and coordinates with the student union to provide several university services, especially anything to do with social life or student well-being.

It does depend a bit on the university though. I've heard that some have a more oppositional relationship. And there are still issues with some students not feeling represented by the union. They are usually democratic institutions though, with every student getting a vote if they want it, which helps alleviate the worst of those issues.
Would love to hear if the same applies to SEO and/or spam filters.

I have a .works domain, which looks nice, but it was a huge mistake and wish I had gone for a .com:

- people often mispell it to .work, or just generally get confused

- one customer actually couldn't receive my emails because some layer in their email stack was blocking this domain

- .work exists, and somebody else owns [name].work, which is a potential security risk...
It can indeed be done for free, and in fact there are some totally free journals that are indexed (actually I am using "indexed" as shorthand for clarity/simplicity, because it's a bit more complex than that: it needs to be indexed on a certain database -proprietary, by the way- and ranked with a high enough impact factor - a crude metric based on citations per paper). The problem is that they are still a minority, and often if you are working on subject X, it turns out that no indexed journal on that subject is free. Or maybe there is one, but your paper gets rejected from it so you then need to resubmit to a non-free one.

And why do publishers like Elsevier hold most of the indexed journals? Pure inertia. We keep sending papers there because we need to for reasons like the ones explained above, then our papers get citations, so those journals keep their impact factor high. And it is extremely difficult for new entrants to break into the rankings, because sending a paper to a new journal that is not indexed yet has a huge opportunity cost (months of work that you aren't going to get recognition out of for tenure, promotion, grants, etc.) so unless they start with really great momentum (support from a powerful scientific society, an open letter by big shots in the field, etc.) they never get the needed papers and citations to climb the rankings. So it's not that publishers do a better job so their journals have higher impact factors, it's that they have a captive market.
My $HOME is a git repo for my dotfiles, with a .gitignore containing just "*". Simple, zero abstractions, no need for additional management.
How does Haiku compare to Beos?
So i installed on windows 10 - can run it from the directory via broot but not br nor anything added to PATH. I am doing something wrong here?
I humbly suggest this is not a good use of your time.
You could say a similar thing about Japanese text if you don’t read Japanese - “copyright isn’t relevant, who would ever want to copy this gibberish?”.

As people in this and similar threads mention - it is easier to read; in fact, it is easier to read than even the preprocessed output, if you are familiar with the style and concepts.
Ponylang does as well. I always wonder about why we can't have multiple heaps. The primary argument against GCs is the stop the world pause. Unrelated high throughput code can interfere with latency critical code and therefore you have to write the whole program as if it were latency critical.
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I am aware. Even going back in history, I find most are surprised to know even Abraham Lincoln really went after journalists and the press.

Anyways, I don't know why I was downvoted. Hopefully not because people disagree with that hope.
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Last time I checked (a few years ago I must say), a 10^15 URE was only for enteprise-grade drives and not for consumer-level, where most drives have a 10^14 URE. Which means your build is almost guaranteed to fail on a large-ish raid setup.
So yeah, RAID is still feasible with multi-TB disks if you have the money to buy disks with the appropriate reliability. For the common folk, raid is effectively dead with today's disk sizes.
I'd like to know what they say internally about other Boeing planes.
Now I had read somewhere that Apple would have purchased BeOS but JLG was pushing for too much money. JLG fucked up the deal basically. I dont have a source... was years ago I read it.

Had JLG not fucked up the deal, they would have picked up BeOS and not NeXT.
I'm currently running a AMD card because I thought the drivers were better. I was mistaken, I still have screen tearing that I can't fix.

No doubt someone more knowledgeable about Linux could fix this issue, but I never had any issues with my nVidia blobs. That's not to say nVidia don't have their own issues.
> It is plain to any developer

False.

I am a developer. It is readable to me.

> I think in this case it falls on you to explain why you think it isn't

Why code isn't unreadable?

What a silly question!

You simply don't know how to read it.

If you do not know Java, you might say all Java code is unreadable. Why would you expect any other language to be different?
The voice of sadness is censored as sick. What if it’s sane?
Google Keep is pretty awesome for notes. Has a good search, supports tagging, can pin, manually order notes, create calendar reminders from them, attach images, colors. Supports plain text notes and checklists. Also, there's not only a web app but desktop and phone ones too.
> Sci-Hub ... an out and out copyright pirate

Arrr! Shiver me timbers.

> papers harvested (illegally)

illegaly? Maybe, in some world states; but not in others.

Also, the illegality is temporary. Think of Marijuana in the US (and many other places). A significant fraction of the population uses it. It took them a good number of decades, but they're gradually legalizing it. With scientific publications - Sci-Hub and Lib-gen are are making copyright law unenforceable for scientific material; and I'm pretty certain this will erode that part of copyright law to decriminalization and legalization eventually.

> in China Sci-Hub is banned

(Jaw drops.) This is really surprising! I wonder why it's banned there.
Interesting that that really seems to mean that you can't mention those countries in transaction messages. It seems insanely silly, but since it's US regulation I'm not at all surprised.
Awesome work! Thanks for making it free on Kaggle!
Where in Europe?
There's been a couple new providers in the last years, with Iliad I pay about 7 euros for 50GB/month on my phone.
Google's Privacy Oath
I’ve heard anecdotally that getting .xyz email delivered is much harder than .com, some servers just blanket reject. I expect this will change as the domains become more popular.
I've got a hybrid system.

Academic papers, standards documents, white papers etc... get downloaded as PDF and renamed according to a (human-readable) standard scheme that I use (year, title, [author(s)], [paper-type]), and stored in a 'meaningful' filesystem hierarchy. Podcasts and some videos are also stored in the same hierarchy.

Documentation for the software libraries and APIs that I use is downloaded from readthedocs (where possible) and stored in a parallel system that takes account of versioning. (So I can concurrently store differently versioned copies of the documentation for a single library).

I have a simple python script that iterates through my directory hierarchy and produces a sqlite database and a couple of xlsx files with a row-per document (one spreadsheet for reporting document-management metadata and another that allows me to assign labels and write precis notes). The script also extracts the content of the PDFs as plain-text and feeds some NLP tools that I'm playing with.

I use the spreadsheets to keep notes on the files, and the act of manually renaming and sorting the PDFs into the 'right' place in the hierarchy helps me to understand what's in them and remember what I've got. (I'm constantly reorganising the hierarchy as my understanding develops and evolves. My python script keeps everything -- notes and documents and other metadata - in sync).

So far this has scaled OK to around 26,000 PDFs.
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Although I may see what the BunnyCDN is trying to get at, personally I've gotten under 10ms with .com (even w/o caching).

I find this a bit hard to believe without more people justifying or backing this work up.

So yeah, don't worry about your TLD. .io is perfectly fine and companies and people internationally use it.
create-react-app includes a lot of stuff you don't need. As a data point, the ejected webpack config is 600+ lines with around 5 helper scripts. My own webpack configs are generally closer to 100 lines with no supporting files needed.
Is there a single commercial source with the same or more coverage as sci-hub for $600/yr or less?

I’ve got a half dozen subs in a kind of Venn diagram and still am missing things. I’m in a position to pay for convenience, but while paying, am constantly annoyed it’s worse for the user. Same story in film/tv.
This is how I use Sublime Text cause I dont have to actually save new files it saves them for me. It loads instantly so its perfect. I paste in code snippets and what have you.

I dont use ST3 for proper dev as much cause I use JetBrains IDEs more.

I still would prefer something better for my more permanent notes.
It would be better if it showed how much each of the top 100 packages consumed when installed alone (along with their dependencies), as well as how much weight they single-handedly contribute to the 100-package-install total size (i.e. dependencies pulled by only them and no other package in the top 100).

Is the average weight high? Or are there a couple behemoths?
I find this a bit hard to believe. Who's servers were you running this test on? Which regions exactly?

Is there any other sources that back up this claim?

Also interesting that .in (even though indian tld) is faster...
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I think this is what you really want to ask: “This style of programming is totally foreign to me. Clearly this is intentional — I am curious as to why you chose it. Can you explain?” :-)

Understanding why someone else makes a difference choice can be illuminating. Given that the author of the original k has written at least 5 or 6 versions of the language interpreter from scratch every time in this style, he must be doing something right. Right?
I don't think you can draw any conclusions at all from this.
They appear to have measured how far it is from their CDN pops to the anycast instances of the TLDs.

Edit: I see what they did. They picked a random nameserver for each TLD. This means that those using only anycast servers win as they always hit the same POP. .org uses only some anycast instances.
Another fascinating social bird although not a parrot and one of only a few social birds of prey is the Harris hawk, my father had one when I was a kid and it was the most intelligent animal outside of humans that I have ever interacted with.
I didn’t tolerate it before I started using APL and K. And now my C, while not entirely ArthurWhitnious, is closer to this kind of code.

When I first saw examples of how terse K and APL code gets, my thought was “obviously, the language was designed to solve this specific example or it wouldn’t be this terse”. But after the 100th or so significantly different example, one can’t NOT admit that the problems are simple, and common practices are just incredibly bloated..... which leads some (me for example) to adopt a much terser style.
Damn the India cctld is the second fastest cctld out there - almost at par with .us . Not sure where the tests were ran - probably in EU/US, so this is actually really good.

It pretty much outperforms .com/.net/.org

#MakeInIndia
I've just last week used btrfs shrink to upgrade to newer Fedora after making a minimal backup. Very useful on for my purposes... I don't plan to look at ZFS until it's in mainline kernel. Having any Linux install media usable as rescue disk is very handy.
Hi, would I get to work with Kisak? He's my favorite!
> Why are these intermediaries still around?

Because publishing a decent journal - even online but certainly in the real world - involves a whole lot of work: Administrative, some technical, some networking, some advertizing, maintaining relations within the relevant fields etc. That's all when we ignore the peer review itself which requires domain expertise.
Thanks. Quite amazing to watch this.
Not true. Several actually went to jail, including the former boss of Audi, Rupert Stadler. However, their trials are yet to come, so no final decision on jail time yet.
> The code is unreadable

False. I can read it just fine. Ergo, it is readable.

You cannot read it, and that is a different problem.

> I wonder why

Because there are benefits you do not understand.

It is very strange to me that you assume someone who does something doesn't get anything out of it simply because you don't get anything out of it.
Not true, not yet.
For this I use Notable[0] with its data directory located in a GitLab repo. A combination of Markdown and Git with Notable's impressive UI. You can also use any cloud drive, Cryptomator vault, etc. for the storage backend.

Notable's categories (tags) for me include things like manpage snippets, code snippets, workspaces/scratchpads, thoughts, etc.

Of note, a lot of the things in my head that I need to jot down on my mobile, even at length, are usually stored in Simplenote[1] then transferred to Notable if they're important enough, via Simplenote's desktop app.

[0] https://notable.md
[1] https://simplenote.com
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It's too much for me, I couldn't be productive when using few services to store notes. Too much distractions.

For my personal needs I use https://github.com/vimwiki/vimwiki for notes, ideas, todos, articles etc. I used Buku for few years, but then I realised that I'm not using any bookmarks at all, so moved to native Safari Bookmarks. :)

At the end I'm using GIT to have complete archive of each change. :)
I always find it funny when I see some British recruiters' posts in my LinkedIn network regarding "awesome Deep Learning opportunities" who require a PhD from a top school, publications at top journals/conferences and offer 65k GBP. Or some "super hot" Deep Learning startups seeking engineers for $3500-5500/month before taxes. For some, having Stanford Deep Learning on resume means one would satisfy minimal requirements for fixing bugs in their crappy robotics system (and they are nothing like Tesla).
If you're working remotely, how did you find your job?