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> For example, in music, there are great teams of artists, like Lennon/McCartney.

Read this made me think of John Carmack and Michael Abrash, working on the Quake engine. Both are programming artists, but in different ways. When they came together, working on Quake, I'm sure we can all agree that the result was magic.

Not sure where I first read about their work on Quake, but The Graphics Programming Black Book[1] contains some details in the forewords from both. There's also more details in various sections.

[1]: http://www.jagregory.com/abrash-black-book/
I'll tell you what -- they may say Market Street is car-free, but drive a car on it and no one will stop you. SFPD is so understaffed (and frankly uninterested) to properly police the streets of SF that you can pretty much do anything and unless you stab someone, you're not going to get a ticket for pretty much anything. We have tons of "bus-only" lanes, or bike lanes, and the rules are broken every other car with no penalties. Apparently, just like in tech, we think that some rules, paint stripes, and people's intentions won't require any significant human administrative monitoring or intervention.

Compare it to NYC where you commonly see beat cops walking the street and patrolling every other block. And more importantly, giving out tickets with an apparent belief that people should get penalized for committing minor offenses. SF Police is just not present or interested in doing this, or resourced to do so. They can't even stop people from breaking into cars, and you think they're going to be ticketing people for driving in a partial pedestrian zone?

I chalk it up to incompetent city government (which frankly right now, is actually hostile to proper policing -- with a DA who has openly said such, and a public who mistakenly thinks this is good to assuage their guilt), a lack of strong police culture, and the incredible cost of hiring people in California, that keep us from having the right amount of police. Honestly, this cost (driven by housing by the way) leads to our crime rate also.
Kinda feels like a dark pattern in order to get Dropbox to be your "filesystem".

Can't lie, I've been a dropbox user since nearly the very beginning, and a paid user for longer than I can remember, and it does kinda fill this purpose for me. Application and platform specific things live outside of my Dropbox directory, but everything personal, work, and school related document wise lives in it, as well as a mostly unsynced folder that holds the backlog archive of my entire digital life, to the tune of ~400gb.
for iOS you can have a work around. The users using the web based app in safari, then whenever a notification needs to be sent, twilio api will send a SMS message to alert the user. Of course it will only send an sms message if the user allows it and enters the mobile number.
Related movie recommendation: The Pentagon Wars (1998). The one where "Toby" from "West Wing" (Richard Schiff) is put in charge of product managing the Bradley Fighting Vehicle that eventually tries to address every single need from every part of the army.
I've found views views wildly useful for defining a single definition of a complex heirarchy defined by business rules. Especially for reporting in 'pre-packaged' software with a fixed table structure. Often in these generic CRM or ERP systems it's surprisingly hard to actually get at the root cardinally-1 data and it's 1-n categories.

My strategy for these systems is to first create a view that captures the complete business' desired cardinality (which may be surprisingly complicated), and all the reporting views and stored procedures start with that view as the first table to join off of. Ideally you can implement it with left joins in such a way that allows you to use it everywhere you need any part of the heirarchy and the SQL engine will trim the parts that you don't use in each particular query that uses it.

With this you get the abstraction / reusability that enhances productivity and you get more reliable & reproducible results everywhere. It's much more likely that cross checking to separate reports works when everything is starting with the same cardinality.
Plenty of people go to SF by choice. Very obviously that's the case. Why try to assert otherwise? Just mindless trolling?
Great discussion - https://codeburst.io/software-estimation-in-the-fractal-dime...
Being able to make or modify the tools is not part of their profession, but it is in our case.

Honestly though, I think you're confusing the issue. At least for me and I imagine some others, the problem is not so much with paying but with being able to completely own the tools by having their source. It gives a guarantee that with enough effort we'll always be able to bend the tool to our will. The fact that open source is typically free is just because it's generally hard to prevent skilled computer users from pirating software which source they have complete control over. So, it being free as in beer is just a side effect of the really valuable fact that it's free as in freedom.
If motorists weren’t murdering people every month, maybe we could wait. But this is a crisis too many people have turned a blind eye to.

Stop the motorist murder spree.
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Will they be putting Lenovo bloatware on Ubuntu too?

There are more than 200,000 google search results for "remove Lenovo bloatware", for their laptops that ship with Windows
The positives is that official support means linux/whatever distribution the vendor has chosen is nearly guaranteed to work on the host and pushes for component manufacturers to support Linux if they want to end up in Lenovo workstations. Both are issues which at one point made Linux a difficult option in the past, particularly with vendor built PCs.

If you've ever trusted a vendor install from any manufacturer you've made a bad decision. Lenovo is just the one that got caught doing something silly.
VS Code in Python for me is very poor at refactoring/renaming. Very slow, mostly can't find all the instances of a symbol, etc etc.

Every once in awhile I want to reach for VS Code as more lightweight alternative to PyCharm, but PyCharm just blows it out of the water in almost every category except resource usage.
But not feces or used needle free! Progress!
I am OP and quite the driver myself. However, I never drive in the inner city (~ 5km radius from city hall) in my town because:

a) it's annoying due to overloaded traffic

b) it's annoying due to parking

c) my job provides me with year-long public transport ticket and taking a car and paying for all certain and possible costs is economically disadvantageous

d) public transport is amazing, taxis work and ride sharing and car sharing exist on top of it for cases when public transport shuts down (during major incidents usually, e.g. finding yet another WW2 bomb at some construction site)

Just cut it down to business/public traffic and reinvigorate inner city life with more sensible things. It actually already happens from now and then for festivities and other events and people start using ALL of the space that cars uselessly take up.
Based on how long this project has existed, I suspect they chose owncloud before nextcloud was forked and changing it hasn't happened/some people don't want to change their already working installations.
> Doesn't seem right to me to put coffee in the same group with mind-altering substances.

Not sure how to say this more bluntly, but this is nothing but your own ignorance talking. Literally look at the first sentce of the Wikipedia page for caffeine: it's a psychoactive drug. Complaining about people not adhering to your bizarre redefinition of an extremely well-defined term is very odd.

> Funny how you characterize hallucinations as "open minded"

There's that confident ignorance again... It seems obvious that GP is describing an effect of mushrooms other than hallucinations, not describing hallucinations themselves as open-mindedness. This complaint is about as nonsensical as someone describing that they unwind with a couple drinks and you saying "how do nausea and bloating relax you?"
Good question, I was wondering exactly the same
While true, I wonder what fraction of those automobiles are used to get into the areas below Central Park on a regular basis. I've always had a romantic idea of making all the surface streets below 96th street between 2nd Ave and 10th Ave bus/taxi only, perhaps with special zones for residents to own cars, and repurposing large swaths as pedestrian/greenspace... But it's an unlikely dream.
I know it's supposedly shameful, but I really like Eclipse as a Python IDE. I am pretty good with vim but still prefer Eclipse when I'm navigating huge projects across dozens of separate projects and submodules. I know about ctrl-p and NERDTree but ctrl-shift-r in eclipse is just better for me. I also find the pydev debugger to be awesome. I launch it from unit tests to find all my problems.
This town is nearby to Cahokia [1], which was most likely the largest human settlement in North America until the late 1700s. It declined and was abandoned (in the 1300s or earlier) and there is ample evidence that flooding was a major cause of the decline.

That general area has magnificent geographic advantage - the Mississippi River just barely downriver from the confluence of both the Missouri and Illinois Rivers. But it floods. It has always flooded, and it always will flood. The French founded St. Louis on the other side of the river, on a bluff, so it would be protected from flooding.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cahokia
Clearly you didn’t grow up rural.
This article was written by yet another kid a few years out of college who doesn't know the history, the tooling and thinks he and his teammates are providing a solution to an existing problem. What he doesn't realize is that SQL reusability and data modeling have been solved 20 years ago.
NYC or Manhattan? It is very difficult to park in Manhattan
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I happen to know that 100% of vehicular deaths in San Francisco happen in the city, so your numbers are pretty suspect.
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I'd like to add to this list: The related work section closes with "Our PoUW facilitates better AI through decentralisation, enhanced security and the right incentives.".

Decentralisation: Their own paper states in 7.2 that "distributed solution will never be as efficient as running the whole training on a local machine". What incentive for buying into this would I have here then? I occasionally use cloud training if what I'm doing exceeds the capability I have locally. As a client I don't particularly care about the internal infrastructure of whoever I pay to do that (with small exceptions like the next point).

Enhanced security: Security that's only required because of me using a blockchain solution? 7.3 starts out with "We assume that the majority of participants is honest.". That's an assumption I can make today with the cloud providers I pay for my training time, without any blockchain overhead. Nothing in that section seems to be related to real world security concerns, e.g. trusting random mining worker nodes with my - potentially proprietary - training data and intermittent results. 3.4, the outline of a task definition, also specifies that I basically provide the full model and really convenient formats to steal all of that away from me. I think the major risk factor of using the idea outlined in the paper doesn't have anything to do with a revolution of cryptocurrencies, but one of the corporate espionage in the ML world it would enable.

Right incentives: For me, as a client, a theoretical 30% savings doesn't outweigh the above (and all the ancillary considerations like infrastructure, ...). If any of their economical analysis is off, they just generate more people going back to bitcoin mining on the other side of the equation. Not sure what the right incentive is supposed to be here. This might be a good system to proove useful work but somehow I don't see the text convincing the reader that the system itself is useful, maybe I missed it.
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It would be cool to make a file that would be globally ignored with all syncing services so it couldn't be uploaded. Though I do not think this is possible.
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I disagree with that "life is suffering, so lets do whatever we want".

Also I have no pain (luckily) in my life. I've never had other than when family members died. And I enjoy every day without doing drugs, alcohol or something like that.

In my opinion (and I am aware this is harsh) most of the problems people claim they have are pure nonsense and incredibly trivial. They want to blow them out of proportion so they can add some meaning to their life. It's like trying to deal with boredom in the most destructive way imaginable.

In my mind, the only non-trivial problems are generally health issues (death of a loved one etc.)

What kind of pain do you have that you need mind-altering substances?

We are at the height of our civilizations, we have billions of things to do and billions of hobbies to choose from and research, and explore and.. I don't know what else. We live better than ever, and better than kings used to live.

I can't understand how someone that is healthy, has money to live life somewhat comfortably needs to do these drugs to survive.
> Sure you can animate, that is what WebGL and SVG allow for.

Yeah, sure. Try animating an element without breaking layout. Trying animating an element that gets destroyed (oh, it's impossible, there are no events for when element gets removed). Try smooth animation while changing layout. And so on and so on.

Yeah, sure. If you constrain your entire animation to just the one box of a single SVG/Canvas/WebGL, then you can pretend that everything is fine. In reality when you try to animate anything, you're really constrained to animations that don't force re-flow. So, about 3 of them. And you have to be really careful (transposing an element's position will leave gaps).

Meanwhile both desktop and mobile have hundreds of animations big and small that are either impossible or extremely hard to do in a consistent manner on the web.
Checked it out at lunch yesterday and the roadway seemed noticeably emptier to me. Yes, still buses and street cars but felt much less hectic. As a bikeshare user I’ll be more excited to use Market to get around downtown.
OP is talking about full Visual Studio, not VS Code.
Not exactly, you need more information than just the WiFi password in order to decrypt the traffic: https://superuser.com/questions/156869/can-other-people-on-a...
Awesome how they recreated the south NJ smell in middle America
It's a shame you decided to kowtow to the Chinese publishers to dumb down your games artistic style to even have a chance of getting it published.

I do understand 100% why you did it however I personally don't agree with it.
Sorry, what I meant was more is that something they are expecting to do regularly or is it a backup if other weapons systems aren't available?
As someone who works for the DoD, I a sadly agree with you
Rentals are almost 40% or the market so it will have a real effect. Of course this requires more changes to our systems. But given the terrible status of current US social structure, anything you do worth doing will likely fail without a number of changes to support it.

There is nothing that makes 700 sq ft something you can't own and can only rent. That's a condo.

People will still buy and sell depending on their life goals and situations. If you move, you will be more likely to sell rather than hold your old house for a rental. Refis will still exist, along with the pressures they create for some people to sell, etc.
Mistake or not, the net fact remains: as experts and themselves users of nuke power the French are winding it down. We (I'm French) recently closed a plant (Fessenheim).

Many big construction projects are indeed over budget and behind schedule, however I'm not sure that 4x budget and 3x time (at least, because it is not yet completed) for a project which design is only a minor enhancement of an ubiquitous design is the norm in France.
Interesting find! I have had a quick skim. Couple of quick points:

a) it was published yesterday, which means there is insufficient time to have a good critical appraisal.

b) looking at the confidence intervals, although there is significance in men, there is not one in men, and the confidence interval is quite wide

c) all cause mortality is similar in both groups despite screening

d) the follow up is only 10 years after first CT. the effect of radiation from these multiple CTs is unlikely to have reached maximum effect in damage to tissues/new neoplasms. This may also explain the increased non lung cancer mortality.

e) no mention is made of morbidity (although I might have missed it) which is a huge importance.

Overall, it’s unsurprising that in a group screened regularly for lung cancer that lung cancer incidence increases but mortality drops. The problem is the other effects of screening which this paper doesn’t seem to focus on.
I don’t think this actually shows screening is particularly worth it especially given it’s caveats.
It's absolutely about making money. Most movies are made primarily to make money. And the way to make money is to make it entertaining. Is it less entertaining if it's more realistic? In this particular example the answer seems to be, "yes."
Yeah great, i also suggest, as a French, that you come and enjoy our great public transport and the kind of people in it, especially at night.
Oh and also try walking under 35°C dressed as an executive
Finnish is an absolutely atrocious language to learn for most people (unless you are already familiar with learning a language with a completely different root, and even then). That part will be hard.

I can't comment on the practicality of surviving with only English (or even Swedish, which most of them speak due to historical factors that I will politely gloss over), because I haven't tried.
> For example, in music, there are great teams of artists, like Lennon/McCartney.

I think there are similarly great teams in software that have multiple hits (Pike, Thompson, and Ritchie being one that comes to mind).
If you are hashing k unique elements, N=2lg(k) is a good rule of thumb for sizing your hash functions. A Birthday Attack [1] analysis provides the exact collision probabilities for arbitrary (k, N).

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_attack
Wouldn't it waste even less energy to not use a PoW scheme at all though? Just set up a webpage that connects people with tasks to people with hardware.

On another note, digging in closer, the proposed training scheme (Section 4.3) sounds like it would be incredibly inefficient for any large neural models - you're computing your own updates via gradient descent, but also getting compressed updates from peers on the network, and then broadcasting your own updates out. For reference, at work I might be training a model with, say, 30M parameters, and I get about 4.5 training iterations per second on a GTX 1080. What would that drop to with peer broadcasting added in?

They mention only sending weight updates that under/over-flow a certain value, is that enough to avoid, e.g., a 5x drop in training speed? Given that training time is already a big bottleneck for ML work, this seems critical. Section 7.2 seems to address this, referencing Supplementary Materials (Appendix F). The numbers there don't look great - with the optimizations they mention, for GPU timing in Figure F.3 it looks like local training ops account for about 21ms, and the protocol overhead is something like 100ms. I also don't see an apples-to-apples comparison of "here's how long this example takes to train locally vs. with this protocol", which isn't a good sign.
Since you don't live in a city why did you feel the need to reply? It has nothing to do with you and your six cars.

I love cars as well, it doesn't mean they should dominate areas where other alternatives make more sense in all aspects but subjective preference.
>Possible explanation: there aren't any other firms founded by as great mathematicians as the founders of the Renaissance.

I'm skeptical. There are a lot of smart mathematicians, and given that the incentive is billions in profit, there is no way you can maintain that kind of competitive advantage over decades. Again, we're not talking about a company stumbling on a massively profitable, but undiscovered space. In that case, yes, as a first-mover you'll make billions. But you can't maintain that for decades as others will move in.

The other item that makes it kind of crazy is that nobody actually knows how they are doing it in, even in theory. Take the example of Google's search monopoly. They were one of the first to create a specific kind of search product that led them to billions in profit. Two decades later, they still maintain that competitive lead and the product is still highly profitable, but nobody is confused as to how they actually do it even if only Google knows the nitty-gritty details of the infrastructure or algorithms that back this product up. The Medallion Fund might as well be magic since nobody can explain the mechanism by which they maintain their outlier status.
Ground loops can end up with a surprising amount of current. They're also very good at emitting hum into other nearby devices.
Damn, Republicans are NOT gonna be pleased.
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This is a pretty cool setup! I have been tinkering in the self-hosting world for awhile now and I would say my biggest piece of advice is to learn Docker. (Not trying to shill for Docker here or start a Docker vs. Ansible flame war.) In my personal experience, Docker images (and docker-compose orchestrations) are more pervasive than Ansible playbooks and when it comes to self-hosting for personal use, hosting all my services in Docker has made it much easier to deploy/maintain them. (Not speaking to business use cases since in that situation you should really have a deep familiarity with your tech stack and be able to roll-your-own Ansible playbook/Dockerfiles.)

Also, there are so many great FLOSS alternatives to Google Apps. This repo contains some, but here are some of my favorites:

* Drive/Calendar/Photos/Keep:

- https://nextcloud.com/ (I prefer this over OwnCloud)

* Docs/Sheets/Slides

- https://www.onlyoffice.com/

* Mail

- https://mailu.io/ (basically a Docker-based deployment of Postfix/Dovecot/etc)

* Hangouts

- Server - https://matrix.org/

- Client - https://about.riot.im/

- (I prefer Matrix.org over Jabber/XMPP)

* G+/Twitter

- https://joinmastodon.org/
I think you meant Superfish, glassfish is a Java EE Server (that I wish to never have to touch again)
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I am perhaps misusing the terms, it's not on purpose. I just think that based on common sense and things I see every single day around me, mixing coffee and heavy drugs in one group just makes no sense. Regardless of their clinical definitions or whatever.

Just based on the effects they produce, makes no sense.

Curious, aren't all effects they produce a hallucination of some kind? E.g. not living in objective reality?

It seems like this topic hit a nerve with you, so I will guess you are a user of these. If I am wrong, just ignore the questions.

What are these profound effects that you got from using them? Why did you need it in the first place?
They are also culpable.

It might take them longer to find similar employment elsewhere, though, so I'd suggest that their increased earning power is offset by the potential for longer periods of unemployment.
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