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> It doesn't surprise me at all. That number would have been zero without emulation like wine/Proton though.

No it wouldn't - there would still be people who like playing games and use Linux even if they couldn't play those games under Linux. Proton doesn't add anything to that.
Well, one might expect the exercised powers of the US government to end at the US border...
Wow, sexist and racist.
Mutually assured destruction?
> when you can't toss a printf debug or log statement into a function without changing function signatures all the way up

But you absolutely _can_ do this in Haskell.

Sure, it's considered very unsafe and shouldn't be used in production, but for printf debugging it's fine.

Admittedly, production-ready logging requires type signature modification, but if you subscribe to Haskell's idea that side-effects should be reflected in type signatures, then I don't see that as excessive.
Does it work with Wordpress?
There is a huge difference between the TV bundle and car as a bundle - the marginal cost of serving one customer for the TV bundle is near zero, for the car bundle it is not. When someone buys a TV bundle just for news it does not cost anything more to offer him also sports, but offering a SUV for the price of a cheap car to drive to work would cost the seller a lot.

The car as a bundle is maybe interesting thing to think about - but it is an order of magnitude less important than when thinking about bundling zero marginal cost goods.
Moneygathering is highly rational for essentially anyone but especially for the banker whose entire social sphere is structured around his skills as a moneygatherer.

Active men are active because they know and enjoy activity. The thrill of the pursuit and all that.
I am saying that for many or perhaps even almost all measures of progress we want to apply, i.e. the specific definition doesn't matter, that progress was either enabled by or directly required more energy being available.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_ship
We also need more awareness of when to use async vs sync, and what tools are what.

Some people treat email and chat like sync communication, getting annoyed if there isn't a response within a short time. Ever have someone walk up or use chat to ask "did you get my email (that I just sent 5 minutes ago)?"

Async is great for initiating conversations or going back and forth a couple times. Go much more than that, and sync often (though not always) becomes easier and faster.

An example of an ideal flow to me:

Person A (12:34): hey, I'm trying to implement this new API call, but the parameters we came up with kind of conflict making it more complex than we thought

Person B (12:52): Hmm, maybe there's a way we can simplify those. Have time within the next hour to meet/conf/video chat on it?

A (12:55): just about to grab lunch, how about 1:30?

B (12:56): ok

A (1:26): alright, back, ready anytime

B (1:29): (initiates video chat)

(At end of call): ok, let's run this past rest the of the team and give us a day or so to think about it, and see if anyone has objections or we think of other implications. I'll send an email summarizing.
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Social media and public pronouncements, probably.

This sort of misandrist heterophobia isn't entirely new. I encountered an organisation with the same "no straight white men" policy and the way they did it was by insisting you present evidence of your sexual orientation from Facebook or similar. Really.
Weird that this is just targeting Europe and North America when they have offices in all major financial centers around the world.

All Asian board in Asia? Fine.

All African board in Africa? Fine.

All European board in Europe? No! That's unacceptable for some reason.
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That's not really the point. The point is, they would be measuring the weight of the electrons, in other words, the implementation-specific medium used to store the information. Not the information itself.

I can see this discussion go very far into metaphysical. :)
I could see a problem with a law that required all businesses to display a certain level of diversity. However, this is different. Corporations are creations of the state, and have no right to exist apart from what the state chooses to give them. Therefore their existence can be made contingent on any priority the state determines (any such priority that wouldn't violate someone else's rights, that is).

Corporations have run roughshod over our laws and society for too long. If this sort of law can improve their behavior, I'm all for it.
I'm curious what the UK could provide the US that would be much benefit for the US..

Tea ?

The NHS might be on the table in the form of medicinal licencing within the UK or something, but I'm not sure what you mean..
> The truth is that the Haskell compiler will never be able to automatically translate idiomatic Haskell code into something that’s competitive with C in the common case.

Is this something you have experience with, or are you just theorizing? I know there are pitfalls to Haskell development, but to assert that "the common case" has uncompetitive performance seems wrong to me.

My problem with this kind of assertions is that often -- not saying it's your case, that's why I'm asking -- they come from people who imagine how it must be (or read it in a blog), often coming from a place of never really having tried to solve something with the language, and this sadly percolates into popular wisdom ("Haskell is not good for this or that"). Something similar happened to Java's allegedly "poor" performance, way past the point Java software sometimes outperformed C in many areas.
Reminds me of Micheal Stevens's (from Vsauce) TEDx talk titled "How Much Does a Video Weigh?". https://youtu.be/yzQDFKY2uEI
So you can detect it after all?
Perhaps. But I contend that they are ineffective.
There's already precedent for revoking diplomatic immunity for one's own diplomats. It's fairly rare, but very doable.
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Probably because repeat sales in this market are non-existent? At some point you hit a plateau in demand.
A true commitment to diversity would see them putting poor people on the board. A rich person of a different color, gender or sexual orientation is still a rich person. I don’t see this making any kind of material impact on company behavior.
There are a number of female Europeans, as well as non-white Europeans, who may object to your definition that they are not Europeans.
Nationalized or public index, would be something I would get behind. And then other people an companies could build search around it.
Success story are borderline stupid. Some companies are using haskell for non trivial needs, they just dont talk much about it.
I think it’s a bit more complicated than that. I think the issue is whether those rights apply to non-citizens outside the border.

I think it’s generally well established that rights travel abroad with citizens. However, it’s less clear if they apply abroad (or even to U.S. territories) to non-citizens. E.g. United States v. Verdugo-Urquidez claims it does not apply to non-citizens who do not have a voluntary association with the U.S.

Edit: I'll try to be more clear. The rights of U.S. citizens extend beyond the border when dealing with the U.S. government. I was not implying other governments must recognize U.S. Constitutional rights when dealing with U.S. citizens.
It depends on the industry. In retail, for instance, a customer acquisition cost of more than 10% their expected lifetime value is unsustainably expensive. Is suspect retail having only 5-8% profit margin is part of that though.
Too bad they’re not doing more in other cities.

My wife ( mainland Chinese ) said the hospital in Chongqing told here there were 24 confirmed cases there. She’s sick now and possibly has the Wuhan virus ( though her chest scans are clear ).

Unfortunately the doctors are overworked right now due to the holidays and she can’t see anyone for the next couple days. Hopefully she doesn’t have the virus, but she’s taking precautions.

I think the virus is spreading more than the news is letting on.
While true, if the constitution is not fulfilled in the eyes of the citizens, it can just flush all those legal governmental proceedings down the toilet, including the whole body of government. Some even argue it to be their duty.

That is the basis of every democracy. Consent of the governed and all that.
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Most quality of life improvements do take energy, and yes, quality of life is subjective, it is conceivable to imagine a mind that takes joy in their child dieing of a preventable disease, some vertebrates eat their young, but overwhelmingly, humans like to see their child get old enough to play and talk as well as laugh and cry.

Things like reliable and easy access to clean water, refrigeration for medicine and food, shelter against the weather, clothing, cleaning mechanisms for the above, all of these are non-equilibrium phenomena and so take energy.

So we either need more sources of power or fewer people. I'm glad that birth rates are falling, but lots of people don't have those basic technological tools, so energy technology will need to be rolled out or our definition of empathy will need to change to allow for lots of people to suffer.
I compare the value I get from them to the $$$ I sometimes send them, and I am content.
I think /u/ReptileMan is talking more about situations like border crossings, where the Border Patrol claims some rights don't apply because you haven't been granted entry yet, even though you're technically on US soil.

There are also questions about scenarios like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anwar_al-Awlaki, where a US citizen was executed by the US without trial while overseas.
TFA is about corporate boards.
This is something I've always found confusing about the entire situation - Assange is an Australian citizen who did something in Iceland, yet the USA is applying its laws to him. Granted he obtained US intelligence from a US citizen, but how is this his problem? I find it hard to understand how this is possible.
I support UBI and social welfare program reform, but the two are separate things. The programs are there for when people need help. The UBI is there to minimize the number of people who need help.

All the solutions I see for UBI are short term. What I posted on Twitter was the idea of addressing it in the long term:

For each of the 3919528 babies born in the USA in 2019 ((11.979 babies born per 1000 people, in 2019; 327.2 million population), deposit $100k in a lower risk growth mutual fund. , at a cost of $391 billion. Do this for 50 years. When the first cohort of babies turns 50 they should have around $1m available for retirement. So will each year's cohort after them for the next 50 years. Much of that money will be passed on to a new generation, or go back to the government if they die without issue (and that money goes into a mutual fund whose interest goes to help pay for subsequent cohorts).

Yes, it won't touch the problem for 50 years (hence the need for social program reform now too), and it requires both political parties to agree to not dismantle it (like Soc Security was tampered with). But if so, the problem is solved after 50 years, for at least 50 years and hopefully longer.
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A lot of native mail clients don’t work well with GMail labels or “archive” feature. Labels are represented in IMAP as individual folders, so emails get duplicated multiple times locally if they have multiple labels. Also, Filters and other settings can’t be managed through IMAP.

I used to use Apple Mail with IMAP, but nowadays I split the difference and use Mailplane to access my Gmail on desktop (essentially an application that shows the web app in a window), and the Gmail native apps on iPhone/iPad.
So sick of this garbage. White people are not the bane of society, far from it.

Clown world.

I grew up pretty damn poor. Anyone that looked at me as a kid would have said I had no future at all. I picked myself up and worked hard, sacrificed good times, and cut as many financial corners as I could for too many years. It's been a fucking grind. Regardless of my skin color, it was no cake walk, I felt very little "privilege" as the accusation goes. It was just work, endless work. Especially bad was coming behind the Boomer generation that absolutely hated my guts just for being young. You might say mentors were few and far between and every time I reached out, I got my hand slapped. I was looked at (and still am looked at) as a labor commodity and little else.

Also, it is truly hilarous to me that Goldman Sachs, the bank that the US Govt. BAILED OUT during the financial crisis, a bank largely run mostly by people of a certain ethnicity, has any moral standing whatsoever. These fools should be out of business for what they did, not laying down this crap!

Also BlackRock--what a POS company that is! They came in to a well regarded local firm and absolutely gutted it. Want to know why? PENSIONS. They had to get rid of anyone with a pension, so they did all kinds of miserable fuckery to pull that off.
For one I find search to be slow in desktop clients.
And yet the company is paying for all those pointless clicks. Hopefully they’ll consider “misleading ads” as a possible reason for a low conversion rate.
Why avoid early returns?
If something doesn't match a condition to process anything in the function, then it's cognitively better to return early and say that case should be left out before possibly doing anything weird in it.
How did you arrive at that number? Quite a lot of ways one could count that.

Anyway I have never claimed statically typed languages are irrelevant or not useful. My criticism is of advance statically typed languages.

I am quite okay with stuff like Go, C and maybe Ada and Swift. I am highly critical of C++. Far too complex language.

With Haskell my criticism is different. It seems like an elegant language you can learn a lot from. However I criticize the prevalent belief that Haskell is some sort of programming Nirvana. That somehow it is the ultimate language. I think Haskell is grossly overrated. It is too complex at a theoretical level for the average programmer.

When we also learn the implementation is complex.... well then I am not sure there is much hope for that language. Sure keep it in academia. People learn lots of useful stuff from it. But don't kid yourself into thinking world dominance is right around the corner.
You forgot the mass-energy equivalence. Photon has no rest mass, but it's energy is equivalent to some mass.

Photon's stress–energy tensor causes similar effect on gravitational field as tiny amount of mass equivalent to the energy of a photon.
You can get literally the same "simplicity" as a "dynamically typed" language through structural row-polymorphic types with type inference, i.e. static duck typing. Not to mention that the concepts of static and dynamic typing are orthogonal and there are languages that have both or neither.
You have no clue what you're talking about.
My undergrad was a super nerdy school grinding largely solo in the CS lab. Later I did an MBA program to take me completely out of my comfort zone.

I gravitated to those who were chill, and perplexed anyone who tried to play the Status Game by losing on purpose. If it was the chess equivalent, I fall into Fool's Mate on move 2.

Unfortunately, there ARE times when it helps to be able to quickly convey to new acquaintances that you are legitimate and worthwhile for further collaboration. But most of the time, best to turn it off.
Sweden does not offer habeus corpus to detainees who are under investigation but have not been charged. This is the category in which they placed Assange.

https://wikileaks.org/Sweden-Tells-the-UN-that.html

The Swedish desire to maneuver Assange into a black hole is self-evident in its refusal to interview Assange by telephone. Once that was done they would have had to charge him and present their evidence to the public under Swedish law.
I'm a little sour on the whole "benefits customers" half of the equation. If I love history and have zero use for sports, I don't benefit by paying $2 more. So it can benefit some customers, but it's not universal.

With a car, they couldn't charge much for just Bluetooth or heated seats, and not enough people would pay for bigger wheels on their own. But then they bundle them and no on wants to pass on the first two so they accept the higher cost of the third, and the seller nets more overall profit. Still don't really see it as a benefit for most buyers though.
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What's missing is a $/kwh quote. It's important because renewables are the cheapest option on the market right now and nowhere near done dropping further in price.

If the last ten years are any indication, an order of magnitude further drop in prices before the end of the decade is not unreasonable considering mass production of batteries, solar, and wind is still ramping up and considering the enormous amount of R&D currently being spent on reducing cost and increasing efficiencies further.

In the UK it's going to be hard to compete with wind (Scotland exports more of that than its total energy consumption already) and people installing solar panels on their roof and putting batteries in their house and cars (which can power a house for several days).
I work in HFT and now use Julia for all my research, and a couple of my colleagues now do too. Personally I'd rather retire and farm goats than go back to having to write Python professionally: there's just soo much that can go wrong that doesn't happen in a typed language, so much unnecessary stuff you have to keep in your head when coding. It also seems incredibly counterproductive to use a language that's 100x slower than necessary just because it's the only language some people know; the difference in research speed between having to wait one second for a result and ten minutes is massive.

Of course, HFT is a somewhat different usecase than pure ML, as we work with data in a format that's rarely seen elsewhere (high-frequency orderbook tick data). Python's probably less painful for working with data for which somebody else has already written a C/C++ library with a nice API, as then you don't need to write your own C/C++ library and interface with it. My choice is either: write Python, and the research will take 100x longer, write Python and C++, and the development will take 2-4 times longer, or write Julia, and get similar performance to C++ with even faster development time than Python.
I run Windows at $WORK too, and it runs fine (there were minor issues which would probably have been worse on Linux). Also much of my work is with the MS stack, which is pretty fine too.

It's just I have little use for it at home, so I run and upgrade it rarely. It turns out upgrading from the nearly oldest Windows 10 build to the latest (at the time) crashed the upgrade process on my setup. This is hardly a regular process - I am sure 99% of people upgrade more regularly, and do not skip as many builds.

It's a cycle too, I guess. The less I use Windows the more upgrades the system accurres which makes me dread turning it on more....
They said that diplomatic immunity was no longer relevant. Which was a way to tell us that it did not matter anymore because she was in the US and the US would not extradite her.

> But having returned to the USA there is no longer any immunity. An extradition could proceed.

They are claiming that for political reasons. That way it is up to the US to refuse extradition, which they obviously and predictably have, and be the 'bad guys'.

The reality is that both governments knew full well from the start that nothing would happen to her the instant she left the UK. The reality is not popular with British public opinion so they are posturing.
When doing my own writing, I try to remember a quotation from Kenneth Hudson's The Jargon of the Professions:

> The best minds in any profession are never guilty of jargon, expect when they are very tired. Pedestrian minds are drawn towards it automatically and to the most frightening extent. Jargon, one could suggest, is the natural weapon of highly paid people with very little of any value to say. It is a sad and ironical comment on our society that many people feel released from the pressure to use jargon only when they have reached the top of their profession, by which time it may be too late to change one's habits. , however one might wish to. Ambitious people, still busy climbing the ladder, may well consider it professional dangerous to use straightforward language. One therefore has the paradox that only the person who has finally arrived, with [their] reputation secure, can afford to be simple and jargon-free. Lesser mortals appear to need their jargon, as a membership-badge of their profession. They do not have the confidence to face the world without it.

Do I escape the tendency towards jargon? No, not by a long shot, but pieces like this are a good reminder as to why it is worth the effort to keep trying.
Facial recognition for Black people has been in play for decades. Generally if you’re Black you fit the description. Cameras actually are a huge net positive for this group.
It reads like a Markov chain autocomplete. Let's see what my phone produces if prompted with the first bit:

Thanks to developers’ trust in our core infrastructure and their recommendations, we are looking for ways to improve the quality of our products by providing a service to our clients with the highest level of service for the remainder of the year.
Then just buy all generic store brand.
The author added a few misc. info but the article is more of a report on a report...many of the sentences were like

"Building machinery, including 35 diggers and 10 bulldozers, arrived at the site on Thursday night, with the aim to get the new facility ready by Monday, the paper added."

“The construction of this project is to solve the shortage of existing medical resources,” the report said.

“It created a miracle in the history of medical science,” the paper added.
The paper is open access: https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.5123794
I use a mix of Chromecast Audio, Chromecast video, and Google Home devices of varying vintage. The Chromecasts are the audio source to a TV and a handful of stereos in different rooms, some with really old gear. The Google things can be grouped across types.

They used to be unreliable, but before I could get annoyed enough to get Sonos gear, Google seems to have fixed the problems. I have whole house audio with relatively little at risk of being EOL'ed, and individually pretty cheap to upgrade if eventually needed.

The key thing is: Audio is not a moving target. My Klipsch speakers are over 40 years old. They are connected to a McIntosh receiver I found literally on the scrap metal pile at the town dump.

This seems to be a more resilient approach than either going 1970's analog with wiring in the walls, or buying a suite of proprietary speakers with audio distribution built in. The expensive bits have an indefinite lifespan. Sonos decided to combine that with microprocessors, NICs and software that, they discover, has to have the lifespan of a PBX or airplane control panel, not a mobile phone.
My content blocker wouldn’t let me see this site... did I miss anything important?
Right but I'm also weary of the kind of second-guessing about the future and the nature of 'progress' that leads to a kind of epistemological paralysis. Taking an approach of 'it's all very complicated, who knows what the future holds, let's not try to plan for it' is also wrong.
Yes, there is. But RLS is much worse than the CLion Rust plugin, in my experience.
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