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Interestingly, the one time I introduced someone to Go without really "realizing" it (during a coding interview, got to pick the language I used), his first comment was actually that he liked how explict the error return was. (strconv.Atoi, to be specific). That pretty much sums it all up to me: `if err != nil` seems like annoying boilerplate, but then when you see stuff that's not just doing `return err` inside that conditional, you realize that it can actually be a benefit.
I'm confused by "18992.1 (B)." So if you fall on hard times (e.g. unemployment) and UBI would be most beneficial you now have to pick between UBI and health insurance? That doesn't make basic sense to me, and undermines the whole "universal" part.

Plus managing those exclusions would likely cost more than it would save (imagine all the additional management overhead of cross-checking programs and or having people certify they aren't on them/policing fraud).

Actually I find the under-18 restriction kind of questionable too, since this could be a great system for supporting poor families. The real reason this cannot just happen outright is that it "competes" with too many other benefits that it could just outright replace instead.

The biggest problem with scrapping health insurance for UBI is that health insurance is astronomically expensive. I can see the argument for giving families with kids $1K/per kid, and just scrapping the food program to name one example.
What sort of publicity stunt leads to your almost certain death? What was he publicising, because it wasn't himself
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Take a walk through Vancouver a little bit after sunset in spring / summer and you'll see less than half the apartments with their lights off.

I understand the couple's house was too small, but hopefully they generated some profit from whatever land they were on.
Traits can be bred into dogs within four generations.

(Yes, I am aware…)
While it does remove edge cases, the code also becomes more opaque. At least to me, functional style programming seems much harder to read and then reason about.
Actually, PayPal recently added proper TOTP 2FA.
#meToo
The Talon beta ships with wav2letter and a really good many-accent English model that can handle both arbitrary commands and free form English. All of my trained models and some information is posted here: https://talonvoice.com/research/
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>Team members don't need to be "heard," or need sympathy from managers, they need confidence that their leadership understands the environment they work in, takes responsibility for decisions, and gives them direction based shared competence.

This is 100% the worst advice. It's a sign that you are a bad leader.

There are two components of leadership. Managing up and managing down. In order to gain a leadership position all you need to know is how to manage up well.

Because there is little need to know how to manage down in order to gain a leadership position you see a lot of incompetent leaders everywhere.

The quote above is 100% a sign of someone who does not know how to manage down. Yes you need to take responsibility. This is called managing up.

But Team members do need to be heard this is the most critical aspect of leadership and managing down.
It's likely L3 cache to core ratio: both 64 and 48 core parts have the same 256MB L3.
> He intelligently refutes their nonsense but he never asks them to change their mind or leave the Klan. He simply waits until they want to do it on their own accord.

This also happens to be the playbook you are encouraged to follow if you are trying to rescue someone from a cult or domestic violence situation.

Arguing gets you nowhere; they will defend their abusers. The best you can do is innocuously show them that the reality they've been brainwashed into internalizing does not work the way they were told. They will either come to their senses--on "their" own terms--or will prove to be a lost cause.
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There’s lots of detail in the language spec:

https://ballerina.io/spec/lang/2019R3/

I also wrote a blog explaining what we are trying to achieve:

https://blog.jclark.com/2019/09/ballerina-programming-langua...
Well, you can streamline & integrate an entire office's financial, scientific, engineering, marketing, sales, recordkeeping, paperwork, HR, and internal communication and it can be done with the utmost security & reliability when there is no wireless and no connection to the web whatsoever.
US Rep. Tulsi Gabbard has also indicated she'll be putting a UBI legislation on the US Congress house floor in the coming weeks.

Edit: making it clear it's federal level not state level legislation.
That makes sense. I wonder why they don't migrate at least some of those people to UBI, though. I think that would be what you would want to test.
This bill is false advertising. The U in UBI means universal. Those rules above are the opposite of that.
Well...we see things differently. I won't go into it. I've made a commitment to behave circumspectly in my online interactions. Take note that I link to my complete background in my HN handle. I am deliberately putting myself in the position of being held accountable for what I post. I can't please everybody, and, in today's culture, everyone seems to be looking to pounce on everyone else. Rather sad. I can't fix the culture, but I can just make sure that I don't become infected by it, and contribute to it.

If I have to become the culture in order to participate in it, then I will just take my toys and play in my own sandbox. I won't compromise my personal ethos, just because everyone else is.

As a manager, I took my Responsibilities very seriously. I worked for an extremely frugal and conservative corporation, and had to fight like a badger to get headcount. Making sure that the person that filled that headcount was top-notch was critically important, and I spent a great deal of time evaluating résumés and interviewing candidates. I would have killed for information like what you can get from a well-stocked SO story. Each candidate was a potential "family member." I kept them for decades. Japan wouldn't even recognize their existence until they'd been there for over a year.

Have you ever seen a designer get ready for an interview? I was trained as an artist (way back when), and know the drill.

They bring a large (usually black) case with them. It contains samples of their work; often including things like sketches and layout exercises. They go over the contents of this case with the interviewer; often telling stories about how they addressed some kind of issue, or the creative process that went into the work. I guess they may bring a laptop with them, these days.

No design manager in their right mind would ever think of ignoring the portfolio, and, instead, throw a matchbook on the table, and ask the designer to "Draw Spunky."
A president can appoint a politically connected friend or choose one from the diplomatic corp. But in any case they are all political appointments selected by the president.

Now, for sensitive countries you want a specialist. Like your probably not sending golfing buddies to broker Israel/Palestine peace agreements. But they'll probably do alright being the Ambassador to Belgium or Canada. Those embassies are practically on rails.
> think we need a political/organizational solution to the privacy problem

I agree, and I'd add that that's because there isn't much money in privacy at the moment, and there's a lot of money in violating privacy. And, that's probably because there's too many people who don't understand privacy in technology, or don't consider it a priority. I think that regulation can't come soon enough. Anyone who helps privacy and tech politics move faster is a hero.
Also, it’s funded by a regressive tax. Also, my reading says everyone’s rent (edit: and child care!) is going up 10%, but hopefully, I’m wrong:

> It is the intent of the Legislature to fund the CalUBI Program with a value-added tax of 10 percent on goods and services, except medicine, medical supplies and equipment, educational materials, including textbooks, tuition or fees for education, food, groceries, and clothing.
Your tests? You should despise tests if you want to be consistent with the attitude described in your first post.

In the mean time I will just keep using my strongly typed language and, of course, also automated tests. Thank you very much.
If Medicare 4 All is adopted then that would free up a lot of folks from that predicament.
Yes. I don’t subscribe to the idea that bugs don’t belong on the backlog with everything else.
You can separate into two different backlogs (bugs and features) but you still need to pick from both.

If you don’t keep them on a backlog then people will start arguing whether something is a bug or in fact a feature request/missing functionality. That is a waste of time.

If you get a bug report for a bug that will take a week to fix you need to “assign story points” to it (in the sense that if you commit to fixing it you will at least know you have a week less available for something else!). Fixing the bug becomes a prioritization between the bug and adding features. So the bug is measured in the same units as features and prioritized against features. And fixing the bug adds value too - if you have feature X not working and you make it work, that is value. If you fix X instead of implement new feature Y you deliver value with feature X instead of feature Y. Does that value not count because it was “implemented before”? If you fix bugs for a month and ship a new version with only bug fixes then that is zero new features yes. Your velocity can be counted in terms of “new features” and be zero. Or “rate of fixing bugs” and be high (it’s still a good measurement for knowing whether you have enough resources to hit a goal such as a yearly release - which might be planned with 50%
bug fixes and 50% new features!).
> By chaord, I mean any self-organizing, self governing, adaptive, nonlinear, complex organism, organization, community or system

What a strange word to avoid using anarchism.
I wonder if laws like minimum house sizes are fit for purpose now that we have less space, millennials have less ability to buy houses, property prices are higher as percentages of wages, and safety in homes has come a very long way.
Are you not allowed to live in a camping trailer or RV on your own land in that town? Studio apartments are around 400-500 sqft so I'm not really sure why all homes must be larger than 800 sqft in that town. At least with a tiny house on a plot of land, you have much more potential usable space (wraparound porch, patio, garage, etc) than you would with a 400sqft apartment.
"don't store my data" but also "store the data I want you to store for the features I cherry picked" probably doesn't work under gdpr.
Perhaps the authors of the bill are unaware that the U in UBI means Universal.

If your unemployment benefits are less that UBI, you should get the difference in UBI, similarly excluding Medicaid recipients seems well, plain stupid.
Are you testing your code inside or outside of Docker?

How do you do exploratory programming in languages/environments that don't give you a remote REPL? (For instance, how do you do it in C?)
Not true at all. Where you get this from?
I am very confused about the math of this, unless California has a surplus of taxes coming in.

Without even taking into account the existing tax rate in California, wouldn't this need an average of 10k of spending per person a month getting this to work out?

Then again there are enough restrictions on this (seemingly largely the ones that would actually benefit the most from this) that it actually works out...
Are you referring to the "Sarno method for psychosomatic symptomps" (e.g. https://www.morrisonhealth.com/sarno-method-psychosomatic-sy...)?

This is the first I've heard of such a therapy, it sounds fascinating.
Can they not do basic math? There are around 30 mil adults in California. Even if provision 18992.1 (b) is 5 mil people, that's still 25 mil people. That's 25 mil * $12,000 = $300 bil a year. The ENTIRE California state budget for 2020 is only $220 bil.

They would have to more than double the tax revenue for a state with already very high taxes.

Now, assuming the most generous interpretation of their 10% VAT proposal... which means a 10% VAT on things like rent, transportation, etc. CA has around 11.5mil households with apx $40k/household of spending, which yields $460bil @ 10% => $46bil in additional tax revenue.

This won't work. It's just meaningless hot hair.
Great! Can they mail my check to my home in New York?
>You don't know the result until you do the experiment.

Same reason you don't jump off a building to test gravity. There are better ways to test than irreparably derailing an economy by +not closing the inequality gap and +causing spikes of inflation any time you dish out money, proportional to how much you dish out
If you have a Rust enum with Color{Red,Green,Blue), if for some reason you update to Color{Red,Green,Blue,Yellow}, the rustc compiler will force you to manage the new Yellow case wherever you want to "match" a pattern on Color, so overall you have less chance to forget to manage the new case everywhere. This kind of error is not managed by a C or C++ compiler (as far as I know).

But from my understanding, this is not directly related to the borrow checker, which tracks who owns a reference and is allowed to modify it or not.

(That being said if you had a "default" case earlier, the compiler won't complain)
The borrow checker takes care of a lot of the things that many functional patterns are supposed to prevent, such as referencing values in two locations.
That's not typically how it works. Historical pandemics have only infected about 30% of the population.
You're misinterpreting it.
Aside from severe competency issues I would agree. But I don't think classical "leader" properties are important. I agree that a manager may need a certain distance, but that depends on the team. Engineering is a creative process and too much structure kills innovation.

A manager should be the slightly less annoying customer that ensures customer perspectives are not neglected and work is prioritized in a matter that ensures project viability and success. And can clearly tell what he needs. Granted, that is quite rare in the industry. Especially those that can organize and take responsibility.
Good news, there's a project that ported NES Screen Tool to cross-platform Qt, called "NESTool":

https://github.com/jpwhiting/nestool

I made Mac and Windows builds, but I'm not sure yet how best to pre-compile a Linux version that works across distributions - any advice would be appreciated. I assume users can install Qt on their own, so I don't need to do static linking, but I'm not sure what needs to happen beyond that.

I'm in the process of updating the parts of the book that are already there to use it instead of NES Screen Tool. Looking at a few replacements for FamiTracker as well, so no one will need to use WINE to do NES development.
Current sales tax is ~7.5%. Sales + VAT will be 17.5%, right?
You're on it. you can't change someone's mind, only present information that contradicts their world view, and then it is up to them to process that change, or reject it. Introducing doubt.

An example from a blog on jewelry how to counteract astrological nonsense is to point out supposedly different stones like emerald and beryl, are actually the same mineral, just with impurities like chromium present.

By presenting neutral factual information in that fashion, you can ask how or why the chromium affects the spiritual flow of the thing or whatever. It remains up to the person if they are persuaded or not.
But it's extra staggering considering the consequences which I'm sure is what OP meant :)
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People have regularly stockpiled multi-year food supplies going back thousands of years. It's just a matter of whether or not there's a political will to do so.

That said, obviously, thanks to refrigeration and freezing, we have the capability of storing a much broader range of foods in a healthier way for longer periods of time, assuming that whatever disaster we face doesn't cause the electrical supply to become transient.

I am extremely skeptical that we'd deal with a similar event any better. We've optimized too much for efficiency and just-in-time delivery.
I guess it is useful if you are teaching kindergarteners. For high schoolers we write

for(i=0;i<N;++i){
for(j=0;j<N;++j){
force = G*mass1[i]*mass2[j]/radius(i,j)^2
// do something with the force
}
}
What does non-discrimination and political correctness have to do with the white Americans that were evacuated from Wuhan lmao? And the ones that returned from China in general? Or for that matter, American citizens in general?

Also, the U.S. has banned flights to/from certain countries during certain times.
Ubi ... it’s right there in the name: universal.

A ubi test that isn’t universal seems potentially counterproductive to me.
The thing is CA has a system where legislation can be passed by popular vote. This has it's up and down sides, but anything can pass in CA with enough public support.
I love these simple solutions that may take years to discover but are shamefully obvious after said discovery.

For the longest time, I'm talking near a decade, after working for a few hours, I'd get this unbearable neck and shoulder pain. Even after the workday it would last long until the night. I am not ashamed to say that I would be almost in tears some days. Not because of the level of pain, but because it was constant and I was frustrated.

Finally, almost as if by accident, I simply pushed my chair back a bit and extended my arms while typing. The pain went away almost immediately. I had been working with my shoulders hunched up the whole time, causing all manner of muscle tension and fatigue.

All I had to do was extend my arms and let my shoulders drop.
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There are really good mics at background rejection, if you’re worried about external voices filtering in.

1. Cheapest is probably a USB dynamic mic of some kind.

2. Next is a Stenomask at around $250

3. A lot of folks swear by the DPA d:fine cardioid, which is $800-1300 including an interface. There’s also cardioid shirt worn lavalier I’m interested in trying sometime, which is the same interface but the mic is $150 cheaper ($650 -> $500)

If you’re worried about other people hearing you, your options include an isolated area, playing noise (white noise or music?), or using a StenoMask, which blocks sound in both directions.

Remember in the US your employer is required under the ADA to provide “reasonable accommodations” for disability, which may include a private working space, pair programming, or letting you work from home more often.
>I'm sure the NSA has implants in the EU systems but they're not dumb enough to just hand them out on USB drives that can be traced back to them.

Why not? The US was found to be spying on Merkel and nothing seemed to come from that.
This is what I was thinking. The only stories I ever see about HackerOne are how horrible they are. As a non-sec dev, I only ever get the feeling that bounty hunting for profitability is the same as trying to sell something on eBay. You're eventually going to get scammed and you have to eat the loss.
I am not sure on which part you are reacting. For instance from the article:

> The first thing I settled on was to have one publicly announced engineering lead per project. I did this to make ownership clear

It seems to be very close to what you are advocating, short of the leader being a manager.

If it's the leader not being a manager that you see as misguided, I'd raise two points:

- you need people to progressively get experience in leadership before becoming dedicated leaders. I am a proponent of people growing into a role before getting labelled with it. Taking ownership of a single specific project seems to be a good way to achieve this.

- a single manager overseeing a multitude of projects is good only if the projects don't matter or the manager doesn't do much on each of them. Otherwise a person focused on the subject will yield better results in my experience (and if the manager doesn't do much, they shouldn't take responsibility or ownership)
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One of the stated benefits of UBI is that it has the potential to replace other forms of welfare more efficiently. Instead of people getting separate benefits for food, housing, unemployment, etc, they get the one benefit: UBI. This removes the problem of "I don't work hard enough to be poor in America", where the people going through the worst situations have to spend the most time going through forms and bureaucracies.

Instead, you just get UBI. In good times and in bad, so there's no weird income caps and disincentives to work. People don't have to deal with welfare cliffs (https://www.learnliberty.org/blog/the-welfare-cliff-and-why-...) and/or multiple welfare off-ramps simultaneously anymore.

Having UBI and still keeping means-tested welfare removes one of the best benefits of UBI. Most serious UBI proposals do what this one does: Either keep your current benefits or go on a UBI, whatever works best for you.
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But several of the listed problems don't exist in many of the listed languages or close relatives (I wouldn't really call JavaScript C-family either, as, except maybe C-style for-loops, it has nothing that distinguishes C from other Algol-syntax languages, and other than Algol-style syntax it's more a blend of ideas from Lisp and Self than anything related to C), so those flaws cannot be necessary for familiarity to users of those languages (Java, C#, and several of JS’s statically-typed derivatives that are designed to be familiar to JS programmers, like TypeScript, have generics, so “missing generics” doesn't make sense as a familiarity compromise for users of those languages.)
Howdy Walter! I'm Paul R. Potts. You were very generous with your time answering my endless questions about how NewtonScript worked under the hood back in the day, and I still remember that. It got me into Scheme, Dylan, Common Lisp, and basically widened my world view a lot, and led to me doing several different projects in the nineties with embedded interpreters (Kawa under Java, etc.) These days I am a senior embedded developer. You described Landon Dyer as a "very careful programmer" for the way he wrote the flash card drivers, and I still remember that, and try to apply that to drivers for SPI, EEPROM devices, DACs, and ADCs.

Anyway not really a question... just glad to hear you are still around and kicking and thanks for the inspiration!
The post is from 2014. I wonder what progress was made since.
C# has value types and many things are value types but certain things are not. Core library interfaces are implemented as with Object enumerator types for example. This causes IList.GetEnumerator() to return a boxed type.
Its smart enough to use the value type when it knows it can though, such as List.GetEnumerator().

Lambdas have some allocations. I like LINQ but it can have some allocation as well.

These are all tiny allocations but in a game you'd like to strive for 0 allocations.
"You can't reason people out of positions that they didn't reason themselves into."
What I would expect is some snooping by the baseband - I’m curious, could you expand further on your techniques or findings?
Right, supposedly Denmark has no cases for example. I find that hard to believe, it seems more likely to me, given the average Danes dislike of going to the Doctor , and the average Doctor response of "you have some sort of virus come back in a couple weeks if it doesn't get better" that it is here, there are probably a few hundred walking around with it, and the first one to go to the hospital just hasn't happened yet.