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> Why is nobody asking the question: why do you need alcohol/drugs/whatever in order to live another day and not jump off a building or something? How can we fix that? Is it fixable? How did it come to this? And so on..

Maybe I live in a different social circle than you do, but mental health seems to be a pretty big topic these days.

>From "War on drugs", to "heh, fuck it, legalize everything and hope for the best"...

Legalizing pot and mushrooms is a far cry from what you said. The points being made here are A) drugs exist on a spectrum from dangerous to benign and B) abuse lies on a spectrum from dangerous to benign and C) mushrooms are towards the benign end.

That's not to say legalize the whole spectrum or throw in the towel on mental health. Not sure where you're getting that.
New data, based on "all confirmed cases of 2019-nCoV in Wuhan Jinyintan Hospital from Jan 1 to Jan 20, 2020": 11% "died of multiple organ failure" and 23% are in intensive care unit https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
According to them they can support 2x the objects with acceptable perf on the server compared to the client.

It appears you intuition is wrong in this case.
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it does make sense. 1/0 = undefined aka null. The thing with haskell is that the concept of null is typed as part of a sum type meaning it will be handled with no runtime errors.
I don't think Adobe ever open-sourced the Flash codebase, right?

The attempts at building something compatible like shumway have all been rather unsuccessful.

Even if the code was available, porting it to WASM would probably be a pretty big task.

It would be great to retain access to the huge amount of flash content out there though.
>It just means that Google and FB are criminal enterprises.

I keep hearing this level of rhetoric. Every time I do I wonder what would happen if Google/FB just shut off their services in (some) EU countries. I think that this would significantly disrupt the lives of Europeans.
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Thermals too, keeps your phone from getting hot?
Programmers are, by and large, quite bad at not breaking encapsulation when they're dealing with a monolith. Not their fault, really, but when management comes to you and says, hey, can't you get it done in just a day, we really need this, and you know you could if you just hacked through that particular isolation barrier just this once, and yeah it will create bad bugs if things change in a particular way in the future, but you'll leave a comment so it will be fine and this way you can go home and have an ipa and finish re-runs of that show you like so you break the rules just this once. And that only happens a few more times, and then slowly bit by bit things become intertwined and rigid, and then five years down the road when half the people have left and the team has grown and other teams use the project and are trying to commit code to it you have to go to management, hat in hand, sorry, we need to rewrite it from scratch to keep adding features, new and exciting and unexpected things happen when we change things in the current project.

Independent services that create a coherent whole enforce isolation barriers. I don't believe in microservices. These things don't need to be micro. They can be just normal-sized services. I don't even particularly care internal to those barriers how bad things get. There are programmers that write shit I think is hot garbage and will cause all kinds of bugs as time goes on. But if they are confined to their space space, and they're solving their problem and are happy and making management happy then w/e. That piece of the whole will collapse and die eventually, but it won't take everything with it. It's just a piece, and it provided value for a while, so probably worth it from a business sense.

But when you have a monolith? And Developer Dave and Programmer Pete tell Big Boss Bob that they could sure get that feature out quick if only it weren't for those pesky rules preventing them from putting in a few mutexes in that one module so they can just read some data directly from it, and boy wouldn't it that be swell? Well Big Boss Bob says we need to get this feature SHIPPED BOYES so buckle up and put in those mutexes, and now the fucking thread goes into a deadlock state every so often but it's really intermittent so you spend hours debugging the damn things and late nights because yeah features gotta ship but shit gotta work, and you trace it back to Developer Dave and Programmer Pete and their change but what do you do? Big Boss Bob said do it that way and what? You gonna whine to Director Dan about it? Is that gonna get you back your late night spend figuring out what was going on? Nah.

Make systems that are just small that when people break them completely it doesn't mean the end of the world to throw it out and start over.
Most new skills require you to get past the stage where you feel that no matter how hard you try you won't be able to learn. There's confusion, self dought and anxiety in addition to having to continue day after day. A very strong advantage of learning in a classroom is that even if you feel lost there's someone to help.

I don't have any magic advice but when I want to learn a new task I set a goal, allocate an amount of time for it each day and when I feel like quitting I self talk and say that I will do whatever for the next 15 mins and do that until I finish my allocated time for the task with the hope that I can get past the initial anxiety and sell dought.

Another tip is to set goals. So set daily goals and longer-term goals.

I hope this helps.
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What's that saying about motivated fools?...I'm sure there's plenty of those in the justice system.
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But "expecting to remain" is highly problematic these days, given the US' current leadership.
I guess I thought my 'vague statistics' were obvious and undeniable. If not, let's get concrete. Consider Union Carbide. They were responsible for the worst industrial disaster in history, with around 20,000 dead. They then went on to neither compensate the victims (including 40,000 permanent disabled) nor clean up the site.

This was widely publicized. According to your theory, such an extreme 'bad' act would have led to disaster for the company. In reality, it didn't even lead to rebranding. They were bought by Dow Chemicals - but that was because they had massive debts. I think they cannot have been related to the Bhopal disaster, since their compensation paid was very small.

One salient fact here is that moral hazard is not contagious. Many products are for other businesses, who aren't likely to pay a premium for ethical considerations. Another fact here is that even in the most famous and awful cases of bad companies, you're relying on the company's own branding to tell informed customers to stay away. Which is obviously extremely fragile - the company can rebrand, even if the customers are reliably informed (how many people on the street know about Bhopal? Is it present when they buy shrink wrap? Is it even possible to know that your shrink wrap was made using ethylene from union carbide?

All seems a bit absurd to me. Even before you get into the inherent asymetries of the idea (is Bill Gate's ethical opinion worth more than a billion poor people? As an ethical consumer, it is.)
> Sounds like IBM's strategy is going all in on buzzwords.

It has been for some time, which is sad because their flagship hardware still stands the test of time--I'm writing this on an old 10+ year old thinkpad.

When I worked there it was just that, buzzword laden marketing to entice their legacy customers try a tech which they could onboard on to their cloud product(s). It was disheartening as their Food Safety program had so much early-stage penetration from Multi-nationals that it could have done amazing things.

Sadly, it was entirely predictable but the thinkpad fan boy in me thought it could have prevailed.
Based on "all confirmed cases of 2019-nCoV in Wuhan Jinyintan Hospital from Jan 1 to Jan 20, 2020": 11% "died of multiple organ failure" and 23% are in intensive care unit https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
No thanks. I can't help being intelligent, but I can help setting foot into ivory towers.

> He would have liked to continue talking about his mother. He did not suppose, from what he could remember of her, that she had been an unusual woman, still less an intelligent one; and yet she had possessed a kind of nobility, a kind of purity, simply because the standards that she obeyed were private ones. Her feelings were her own, and could not be altered from outside. It would not have occurred to her that an action which is ineffectual thereby becomes meaningless. If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love. When the last of the chocolate was gone, his mother had clasped the child in her arms. It was no use, it changed nothing, it did not produce more chocolate, it did not avert the child's death or her own; but it seemed natural to her to do it. The refugee woman in the boat had also covered the little boy with her arm, which was no more use against the bullets than a sheet of paper. The terrible thing that the Party had done was to persuade you that mere impulses, mere feelings, were of no account, while at the same time robbing you of all power over the material world. When once you were in the grip of the Party, what you felt or did not feel, what you did or refrained from doing, made literally no difference. Whatever happened you vanished, and neither you nor your actions were ever heard of again. You were lifted clean out of the stream of history. And yet to the people of only two generations ago this would not have seemed all-important, because they were not attempting to alter history. They were governed by private loyalties which they did not question. What mattered were individual relationships, and a completely helpless gesture, an embrace, a tear, a word spoken to a dying man, could have value in itself. The proles, it suddenly occurred to him, had remained in this condition. They were not loyal to a party or a country or an idea, they were loyal to one another. For the first time in his life he did not despise the proles or think of them merely as an inert force which would one day spring to life and regenerate the world. The proles had stayed human. They had not become hardened inside. They had held on to the primitive emotions which he himself had to re-learn by conscious effort. And in thinking this he remembered, without apparent relevance, how a few weeks ago he had seen a severed hand lying on the pavement and had kicked it into the gutter as though it had been a cabbage-stalk.

-- George Orwell, "Nineteen-Eightyfour"
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How the hell does this useless blog post get so many upvotes?
It's pretty much useless (Ask around and overloaded subs? Really??). Even the page it advertises is useless.
You should research Turkey, the main European servicing hub for F35 engines, and also a buyer of SAMs from Russia.

The world is more complicated now than the (relatively) simple alliances of the Cold War.
That’s actually fascinating to me.
I always thought it was funny seeing articles of unlikely-to-succeed VC funded startups and random corporate comms

https://www.fastcompany.com/company/wework

https://www.fastcompany.com/3057415/adam-neumanns-16-billion...
I downloaded it last month. There are a lot of addictive puzzle games that have the potential of being huge on mobile if someone remakes it for android/ios.
Those are just different (versions of) interfaces for interacting with the same data source, ie no not several databases... But I'm no expert
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It seems to me they are suggesting adding more powerful processors to edge devices such as routers if this turns out to be a useful technique.
There was one interesting number though. The Japanese had been evacuating 200 people from Wuhan and found 3 cases. Assume that a plane of evacuees like that is somewhat random sampling. And that evacuees have similar or better hygiene. This puts infection rate at 1% of the population. Official population of Wuhan is 11 million, it is possible that it is larger. This puts the number to 100k cases.
Check the Downloads Page and download the Infinity version, which allows you to download games as you play them rather than the whole lot at once.
Are you saying users should give up freedom privacy( even though apple is willing to give up in china ). User choice is still better then corporate handouts.
> Why do we travel? Among other things so we meet people who don't think they know us once and for all; so we may again experience what is possible in this life.

-- Max Frisch

> Warum reisen wir? Auch dies, damit wir Menschen begegnen, die nicht meinen, daß sie uns kennen ein für allemal; damit wir noch einmal erfahren, was uns in diesem Leben möglich sei.
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It seems that this virus spreading too easy, so it's not possible to contain it, not now anyway. The best we can do is to slow it down and develop treatment as soon as possible to reduce number of lethal cases. But it'll infect the whole world anyway and poor countries with bad medicine system will struggle a lot.
If you have that ventilator, can you still die? How? Can the "respiratory distress" get worse without limit?
> There are well worn guidelines for how to structure the contracts and other rules of engagement to prevent or mitigate this sort of overreaction.

Could you point me to them? Who sets them? Is there some kind of industry body?
>Also, it seems like some old Usenet stuff has disappeared from Google Groups. There's stuff that I archived years ago that's no longer findable.

>Anyone else noticed that?

Yeah, like everyone who even casually uses usenet realized that Google Groups search has been broken for some years now, somewhere in one of the G+ refactors it broke like 60% of the search and nobody at Google seems to care.

Google Groups at this point mostly exists as a frontend for clueless people to stumble on and bump decade old threads that active subscribers often can't even pull. It's honestly worse than the spam problem used to be.
On the other side of this, surely your freedom is already at risk if the courthouse has poor security?
I think you missed the central point of this paper. It's true that there is an offsetting factor of building energy use vs. VMT, but the reality remains that denser environments, with jobs near residents, emit less per capita -- as that graph you linked to shows.

What's surprising is that at the other end of the spectrum, in rural (not sub-urban) areas, other factors (forests, etc.) combine to cause lower per-capita emissions than suburbs (and in some cases, negative per-capita emissions because of sequestration).

Basically, from a carbon-emissions perspective, post-war suburbs are unsurprisingly worst, rural areas get some help from sequestration in forests (this fact being the contribution of the paper), and dense urban environments are the least-emitting.
Listmonk was posted here some time ago, I have yet to try it out, but if you are not scared by alpha-quality code, it could be a good free performance-driven alternative to this: https://github.com/knadh/listmonk
I agree "The Pregnant Scientist Who Raced Against Death to Transform Physics" was way too extreme and in need of changing, but I still think totally neutering it is burying the lede.
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This is exactly the problem! People aren't happy unless the housing being built is low income housing. Building materials aren't made out of class concious magic, a premium apartment might be higher quality but the same kinds of contractors can often be used. We can't spite the rich here, we need a solution that leverages the market. Build so much housing for the wealthy that the demand will be insufficient to sustain the supply and then let the builders move on to the middle before finally the lower class housing types. People want to see homeless and poor people being provided for, I get it. But people also want efficient spending and that means supplying the top first to incentivize the builders to move down chain.
Hook Microstrategy up to your lake then. If they just want inbound analytics and conversions then IT were probably recommending a data lake out of their own want to make it, rather than the actual need.
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This is based on the assumption that the purpose of microservices is to split up code. And that isn't a good reason to use microservcies, because it is possible to modularize code and still combine in into a monolith. But for me the purpose of microservices is to isolate different pieces of functionality in order to increase stability. Microservices allow you to scale the resources available to each service independently and allocate the appropriate resource for each service, deploy changes to individual services at a time, rather than changing the entire application at once, have different SLAs for different services, and if done right can gracefully handle failure modes in one service without taking down the whole application.
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> Is it really more complicated than "apply a function to every object in a list"?

Not more complicated, but yes more general. Perhaps "apply a function to every object in a data structure," even when that data structure can be kind of a abstract.
> Also..why should everyone feel like owning a home is a right? You can always rent.

Or, if you want to buy, buy a condo!
why not just switch from military spending to other tech spending?

What sort of tech spending? I mean military spending paid for development of the internet, jet engines, satellite communications, radar, a million other real actual things that people use everyday. Modern day Silly Valley piggybacks on all this stuff and uses it to show us ads...
Type punning through unions is not defined behaviour in the C++ standard, but is a common compiler extension.
The promise of fixed-price contracts is that the contractor is incentivized to get really creative and cut costs in order to maximize profits, like SpaceX has done. SpaceX is charging NASA about $220M per launch of the Falcon 9 -- the same rocket they price on their website for $62M -- and they get to keep the rocket and capsule for reuse too. Now at a marginal cost that's a minimum of 72% profit, and probably much higher. Now if SpaceX botched their demo flight and had to do another, would NASA be willing to pay the cost? No, and they shouldn't: the risk of cutting into their margins is what incentives them to keep on schedule, on budget, and minimize risk.

Yet Boeing has shown consistently that they are only able to operate in the old business model where "profits" disappear into "overhead" and contracts earn only a small margin of profit. Then as something unforeseen happens, as has happened multiple times, they threaten to pull out and force a renegotiation.

This defeats the entire spirit of the fixed-price contract, and costs the taxpayer. IMHO NASA contract officers should call the bluff, and give the contract to Sierra Nevada if Boeing does back out.
The people of this town have never seen a star before?

Sadly, this is very believable to me . . . not that they haven't seen a star or a planet, but that they don't really know what they are looking at. People don't seem to look up very often nor do they seem to spend much effort understanding what they are seeing. This past week, we had people claiming that the International Space Station was next to the moon (the children are doing a section on space at school). I am sure I could easily find a couple of dozen people in town who will swear to have seen it. It was Venus.

A large percentage of UFO reports are planets. Another large proportion are regular aircraft (I've seen all the "classic" UFOs, they are all airliners under different conditions). Military flares are another sort of light that tends to hang around in the sky.

There are people who are surprised that you can sometimes see the moon in the daytime . . . I could go on.
There's no need to think about a government cover up, and I feel like it's a way to phrase the argument such that it appears one either believes in strange drones or a government cover up. You can argue against the "large-scale cover up" and pretend like you are arguing against the existence of the drones, but in reality, you are not. Incidentally, the government has many times tested technologies that it did not acknowledge to the public or to the press.

In reality, the government team investigating said they couldn't find any evidence of illegal drones. You don't have to invoke a conspiracy to explain this - they didn't find any evidence. As I've written before, what evidence would we expect them to find? Drones flying through the air tend not to leave tracks.

Much of what you write here is incorrect. For example, you say that the government investigation found no evidence of strange groups of drones. That's wrong, in the week of January 6 to January 13 the team investigated 23 sightings and listed 4 of them as "confirmed by law enforcement but unable to identify." [1]

You write that the eye witnesses reports aren't independent because they were influenced by earlier reporting. The story was first reported by The Denver Post and in that story there were multiple reports from different people. [2] Subsequent reports may, or may not, be influenced by the initial story, but the multiple reports in the initial are independent.

You say that there is no imagery or photographs of the flight operations. This isn't true. Here's a photo of one of the drones they are investigating [3] and there are news stories referring to the collection of videos and photos though I didn't find them with a Google search. [4]

Regarding your implication that I'm being credulous - I hardly think so. I wouldn't rule out the possibility that many people simultaneously imagined a drone fleet flying over them, but I need better evidence than "a government team investigating weeks later didn't see the drones that weren't there any more". A good video would be more compelling, but it doesn't surprise me that it's difficult to take a good video at night with a phone.

1 - https://www.colorado.gov/pacific/publicsafety/news/updates-i...

2 - https://www.denverpost.com/2019/12/23/drones-mystery-colorad...

3 - https://www.canoncitydailyrecord.com/2020/01/09/colorado-hom...

4 - https://www.denverpost.com/2019/12/31/drone-video-yuma-count...
The opcode’s were documented, and tools like Haxe do compile to swf. There is a lot of information available about the scripting part, but indeed it would be a great task. However I can’t wait to compile some C++ code using FlasCC [1] and run that in a wasm player.

[1] https://labs.adobe.com/technologies/alchemy/
I did something similar too. For my last move, I wrote a detailed list of which item was in which box. My original plan was to add a QR code to each box, so I could quickly see what's inside.

But once I was done, I realized that I had it backwards. Therefore I wrote a PHP page to grep the list, and figure out in which box a specific item was.
Maybe but it's also very hard to predict what will happen in general I think.
It's still early days for JAX, but there's neural tangents https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.02803 and reformer https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.04451 from iclr.
I totally agree. I find it very frustrating when upon watching a film, people attempt to place it into a box. A film does not have to be "about" a particular thing. It does not need a singular interpretation. One can watch a film and simply celebrate the interstitial, the ambiguous, the perplexing.