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No snark intended, but 3 hours per day is a tremendous expenditure of your time... is that really preferable to working close to where you live or living close to where you work?

Other than a brief period where I was commuting between Florida and DC I've never lived more than a 15 minute drive from my office (or worked from home)... I can't imagine sinking 3 hours a day into a commute. There are plenty of decisions in my life that I'd make differently in a redo, but the commute distance decisions are not among them.
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Compare the costs of physically building and maintaining roads vs having a sensor equipped vechile drive past them. That’s orders of magnitude cheaper and thus no real impediment. Assuming it’s both needed and people are willing to pay for self driving cars.

4.1 million miles of road in the US vs 263.6 million registered vehicles. Assuming it costs 10$ / mile you could make every road in the US every day for about 60$ / year per car. And that’s with insane cost estimates anything reasonable is going to end up being cheap.
If more wealthy people used public transportation, the percentage of shady people on public transportation would go down.
This is a cut-and-paste patchwork of stock right-wing talking points - written by someone who is part of what he calls the clerisy, and who conveniently ignores the fact that the people who "hand down policy" are not university professors and academics, but a huge network of privately funded PR companies, social influencers, think tanks, and carefully on-message media outlets.

In short, it's a propaganda piece for that operation - designed to set up fake anti-intellectual resentment against a group with very little political influence.

The reality is that far from setting climate policy, social policy, or economic policy, left-wing academics and scientists have to fight tooth and nail to create any policy push back at all against the distorting influence of this organised and toxic lie machine.

Corporate and political power is under no serious threat from this academic "clerisy". Suggesting they're somehow complicit with the interests of oppressive oligarchs, especially about climate change, is so far from the truth it's practically crank talk, and is also - conveniently - a stock variation on the old trope that climate scientists are only in it for the money, while brave and noble fossil fuel corporations are there to help protect innocent citizens from their corrupting influence.
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Pythagoras was a child prodigy who traveled the world with the desire to meet all the wisest in each land. He then assembled the knowledge into what he called "philosophy". Integrating empirical science and communal spirituality, he taught that the "cosmos" is made of math.

Source: Iamblichus, "Life of Pythagoras"
Yeah, /r/NSFW used to be as bad as 4chan but now its just specifically geared towards men.
Edit: replace "it" to be /r/NSFW
>Way more people die from car crashes than most ways to die; there's a moral imperative to take away control from humans in that regard.

How many self driving cars are on the road vs. non autonomous cars on the road?

As a software developer, we are taught to look at the root cause. In your case you are saying the human is the root cause but that is too shallow.

The root cause, is why a human was in that situation in the first place - stress, crazy work hours, car maintenance etc.
Oh this makes more sense. Playing each company against each other I guess.
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Infected persons are easy to cover up with inadequate testing as we've seen in the US but deaths are much harder to hide as we've seen in China and Iran. There's neither in India currently so I'd say there is no sustained local outbreak in India yet.
it's hard to call the sine qua non of a language a bad design decision. if it were, the language would be dead. haskell survives because it's a lazy purely functional language with some industry support. bad design decisions have to be something apart from that.
You can write useful C programs without ever using bitwise manipulation. It's quite hard in Haskell without monads since the standard I/O library is a monad. You are limited only to evaluating values with REPL unless you use a monad. And, because the I/O is a monad, you cannot just say "use this function to read input and this other function to print output" so you need to explain the whole monad situation early into the language study.
I agree that this can be a reasonable requirement for a completely new feature or a large change in behaviour.
However, I'd say that enforcing this for all commits is a safe way to ensure that no one spends any effort on improving readability and robustness of existing code. It's one thing to quickly fix a typo or add a null check in code and send it for a quick review. A whole other thing to create a ticket, add a clear explanation on why this is needed, add a test for a weird edge case that shouldn't really occur and possibly make an documentation update for the edge case.

I'm more inclined than most of my team to do cleanup commits, but even I sometimes avoid them just for the extra cost of the regular review process.

I think a better approach is to have a culture that encourages making context dependent judgement calls, which is also what I try to do.

If it's something trivial like fixing a typo, I ask that this is made clear in the title, so investigators of an issue know that this CL is unlikely to be relevant.

If it's a minor change in behaviour, I ask for a commit message, and/or a comment in code, with a motivation of why it's needed.

If it's a bigger change in behaviour I want an issue linked to it, to make tracking easier in case there's followups needed or there's some regression due to this.

All this is of course based, not on some platonic ideal of what makes for good documentation, but rather on real experience of tracking down issues and adding features.

I know how annoying it can be to track down the commit of some functionality that looks really odd, only to find an empty message without even a reference to the issue that was being solved. But I also don't have this problem with commits that are clearly labeled "Fixed typo in X", those I can simply ignore.
Having a bunch of people and things to move around is a good reason for a vehicle, because you're using it. Being a single occupant in a midsized something filling up roads is what folks are generally concerned with first.

Congestion is a big issue and until cars are 0 emissions, putting more on the road will bring more pollution. It will also mean building more roads, which further increases our environmental impact.

Best to both improve that through regulation and industry response, and actively work on expanding multi-modal mass transit options. The goal should still be fewer cars overall along with fantastically desirable other transport options -- we should (in a good way) want you to be disappointed when you have to get in your car instead of taking the mass transit options.
People on life-threatening situations shouldn't be relying on unreliable information.

> semi-informed guess

That is the last thing you should be doing in a life-threatening situation.
"Altogether the Delta Works cost nearly 5 billion Euros." http://www.deltawerken.com/The-Delta-Works/1524.html

"The South Holland coast region is home to approximately 4 million people who live below normal sea level" https://www.ice.org.uk/what-is-civil-engineering/what-do-civ...

Roughly 1300 Euros per person protected. How much would it cost to move those people? And what is the total value of the real estate where they live/work/farm?

So yes, "Building sea walls is a trivial cost compared to moving (and giving up the real estate to the sea)."
Manfred Clynes had great ideas about the essential structure of emotions, called Sentics. Had a big influence on Rosalind Picard at MIT (Affective Computing)
Especially if the virus just started building up in the country you'd move the production to.
I worked on a project in the early 1990s where we used the utterly wonderful HyperNeWS for most things - we used to play tricks on each other by doing silly things like logging into someone else's NeWS server using psh and setting the rotation in the transforms for a terminal window to be slightly off as people were using them - eventually people would notice of course but things would just work.

Another neat trick that HyperNeWS supported was drawing a shape in its graphical editor and then pasting that shape as the shape of a window...
There are similarities in the rendering model but the big thing of uploading code is no there.

But of course we now have GPU shading languages..
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> How many applications created in the last five years use Win32 for anything but creating a top-level window (usually via Chromium/Electron)?

I think that you're in a bubble for that one. Many business domain-specific applications are still directly written against Win32 even today. UWP didn't manage to catch up for now either.

Electron usage is mostly only in startup-y apps and some IDEs.
Wouldnt a full self driving solution solve its own problems? I.e self driving cars can perform the task of constantly updating its urban map?
Why was this title used when the numbers showed that Europeans are typically even lower than Africans? If this is true then Covid-19 is unlikely to be a problem outside of Asia, most likely it has already spread far and wide and we aren't noticing since we expect similar rate of problematic cases as in China.
The person who posted this article has two children with a genetic disorder that makes them extremely vulnerable to respiratory infections. In one of his comments, he indicated he is considering fleeing to a summer house for six months.

It's a big enough commitment that he no doubt doesn't want to jump the gun and do so with zero justification. But erring on the side of caution is absolutely the correct thing to do if you are responsible for two people at potentially very high risk (of death) due to the current situation concerning covid19.
Cars driving themselves means less people die on the roads. The self-driving features that are in existing fleets of cars are demonstrating this.

That's the humanist point that is being missed, and running "this is all a scam" videos when Hotz isn't even saying that seems disingenuous.

As the self-driving tech industry gets better at checking off the edge cases, I truly hope people stay open to evolving how we see transportation and the benefits it'll bring.
Thanks, didn't mean it as an insult (if it is https://www.thefreedictionary.com/afghanis )
We had a lot of pain upgrading to .NET core 3.0 and 3.1, there were some subtle breaking changes (like dotnet build doing a restore whereas it didn't before, causing nasty runtime issues with platform dependent dependencies like SqlClient). If you haven't done the upgrade yet, plan plenty of time for it, and smoke test the heck out of it before you go live.

Also ensure you're on the latest (1.1.1) version of SqlClient if you use SQL Server.
I just spent a few minutes reading up on this.

The real crux of this article is that they pulled out genetic variants associated with expression levels of ACE2 (from gtex, which should be solid enough). These variants are more prevalent in east asian populations.

There's a paper they reference too saying that there's a subset of cells that express ACE2 in the lungs, which doesn't really support expression levels being changed, but could point to the cell system that could be used to investigate this.

Nothing really solid yet about dose dependence of ACE2 on SARS-CoV-2 susceptibility. Interesting though!
What is it with Americans and their loathing of one another? What is the problem with sitting next to a stranger? Maybe it's time for a spoonful of concrete.
That was quite an entertaining video. He mostly argues the level 4/5 driver free taxi type stuff is a scam because it won't work in the near term. He's a launching an open source android phone based driver assist system that tracks the drivers eyes to check they are paying attention to the road also.
I think somehow against all odds you were the only one to get the arguments, which is not for or against, any sides that shouldn't be.

I'm more interested in the argument itself, than not stepping on toes. As you see yourself, the slightest negative can be slightly turned into boogeymen or elite anyway.

So for free-thinking, bottom-up authority should be very interesting for modern forms of software development. People removed from dev and testing seem to forget or not know of the subtle intricacies involved, thus the best leaders are themselves involved in some of the gritty work, even just for temporary relief. What we see today is adding more and more layers of people who just are ignorant, playing political games and not contributing to end results. Then they wonder why the peons can't "scale" to their "Agile processes"!

So for those interested in the arguments themselves, I'll leave it open (you can of course find contradictory examples as well). It's a bit funny though frustrating at times, because when you've been on "all" sides, you cease to see the little fences people put around themselves and their pet pens..
No, it has to do with the fact that public transit is synchronous and personal transit is asynchronous. For me to travel via public transit, I have to follow their schedule, their routes, possibly hop between 5 different buses to get to my destination (work) and then somehow take 3 other buses and a train to pick up my kid, another couple of hops to pick up groceries, then drop my kid off at ball practice, then pick them back up again after running a few other errands. Doing this in a suburban or even moderately dense urban environment via public transit is a giant pain in the ass, if it's even possible at all. There's slippage in time for every stop a bus needs to make and every route change that needs to occur and for every minute spent waiting on a bus or train to arrive. This is why we built up around the automobile in America. It's not that it's pointless and it's not that we hate other people. It's efficient.
Thanks, I’ll have a look!
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> I can imagine a world where PostScript would be used for building user interfaces

NeXT did that in 1988: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Display_PostScript
I don't disagree with the overall point, but I'm not sure a non-developer would have a need to understand the specifics of how a task is automated. In theory, the automation is built off a defined process already which should be readily available to non-developers already.

In practice... Well, the initial question was about good practices so perhaps we shouldn't lift the lid on bitter experience.
That seems really short lived! The upgrade sounds like it's going to be a bit of a headache too.
He jokes around but the current product is largely what he promised the first time with the some of the safety flaws fixed - it doesn't replace the mirror, it tracks the drivers eyes to check they are looking unlike say Tesla.
Using the current AMD inflated price, you could get an Intel Gold 5218R 20 for $1273. Even with the official pricing of 7302 closer to $900, you are paying only ~$370 for Intel's 4 More Cores and higher Turbos. Not to mention you still get overall higher IPC on Intel's part.

And once you factor in the price of the whole system with ECC RAM, SSD, Network Adaptor etc ( Which you get discount from Intel's part ). The whole package cost isn't so much in flavour of AMD.

So I dont see what is the real killer here. Intel ( And arguably AMD ) are still selling as many as they could make. The EPYC 2 was announced Mid 2019, and it has been 6+ months since it was launched, and yet Intel is still making record Datacenter revenue. With EPYC making minimal gains on a already dismally small base number. I.e Even If they had 100% increase in shipment from a Base Market Share of 1%, it would still only represent 2% of the market.

With the launch of a competitive Notebook APU, where Notebook represent 70% of today's PC market shipment, the assumption of more EPYC Orders with four HyperScaler, launch of two new console, Ray Tracing GPU, new GPGPU, AMD is forecasting 30% YoY revenue growth. Different people may have different perspective on this number. But I really dont see any "Real Killer" here.

And that is speaking as someone who really wants to see AMD to grow a lot more, but the Data suggest otherwise.
Instead of using straw-men, assumptions about where/who argument is from or downmodding, other strategies would be more constructive.
30 years of undocumented legacy code, we had to reverse engineer the binary ouput to interact with it.

Also all cloud additional services run trougth a zip that it produces at the end of the day with a full snapshot of the restaurant that day.
From 5 to 30 MB a zip, a day, for 500K restaurant.
We were moving TERABYTES over SMB
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This is not an Open-source portfolio template (but I guess you could use it for that), it's my portfolio of work in open-source. It's all my own projects, not contributions to other things.

I'm putting it out here with the understanding it will probably attract some snark and hate (that's fine, to be expected here) but with the intent of someone seeing it and going "I wanna hire that guy/fund that guy/sponsor that guy." Veeery unlikely, but there's always a possibility.

Also waiting for the "Who is/wants to be hired" post for March. Where is that? Is that still done here?
The issue with written instructions is that people hide it in nested folders, deep outlines, and walls of text. This creates a death spiral, why write when no-one reads. I've been experimenting with different solutions to visible internal documentation and are about to release the culmination of my efforts in a product called Triqla. http://triqla.com
The root cause, is why a human was in that situation in the first place - stress, crazy work hours, car maintenance etc.

All three of these are solved with self-driving cars. The human is the least-manageable part of the equation. Take out the human, stress doesn't matter. Them drinking doesn't matter. Them having crazy work hours or whatever excuse they'll use doesn't matter. With proper self-driving cars, them being conscious eventually doesn't matter.

This is one of the few problems that can actually be solved with a mostly-technical (including law as tech, because law is programming) solution: take away control of vehicles from humans.

The root cause is that humans are not good at handling motor vehicles going at high speeds repetitively on average. There are too many factors to cover. It's 40,000 people dead and millions injured in the United States every year over something that can be mitigated.
The return on energy investment for oil dropped from 20:1 to 12:1 in 15 years.

What you're arguing for is normalization of deviance.
over a long enough time frame, it seems his view is standard. nowadays, there's not really a haskell standard other than ghc. there's other haskells than ghc (e.g. ghcjs) but they're all forks of ghc. research is achieved by enabling extra features

(i guess eta isn't tracking ghc, but i think that's because of unviability rather than a specific intention to fork the language.)
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If you think Phillipines or Indonesia worked, I think you're wrong. Both have systemic corruption, massive structural issues and lingering left wing and Islamic rebellion. Indonesia killed millions in their counter communist reaction. Greece I grant you, "worked" within the limits you aren't a left wing Greek. The US wound up having to play in Greece and Turkey simultaneously, nobody is happy in the middle east really.
"World police". I used to buy that, but the more I've learnt the more it seems it was just "corrupt this country for our own ends", covert control seemingly to support megalomania.

USA has certainly done a good job of pretending to be the good guy, whilst simultaneously arming bad guys and killing to support Capitalist and tyrannical goals.
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Small focused modules dont need much maintenance or braking changes, so you basically only have to download them once, and treat them as if they where your own code.
Ok lets ban digitally approaching people because of their looks...

If you make it accessible to everyone then you make sure you've got solid audit trail tech. Definitely notify face owner they've been looked up and by whom. A bit like LinkedId profile visitors work already.
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Algorithm fib1 („Dynamic Programming without Memoization“) is just ordinary recursion and not dynamic programming.
So, just solve stress and crazy working hours. Ha
I wrote about related subjects here:

https://zwischenzugs.com/2017/04/04/things-i-learned-managin...

Specifically here, the importance of:

- allocating budget to the maintenance of knowledge

- rotating the responsibility for maintenance around the group

- co-locating the knowledge store with the day-to-day tooling, even if that doesn't conform to document management ideals
Who DOESN'T want to be hired?
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progress != buy lots of stuff
It depends.

I find that the lack of massive volume of communication that is face-to-face can be beneficial, but often it needs to be more structured. Without this structure, non-FtF communication is just FtF without the nuances.
How many times do you see the police release some CCTV and the image quality is terrible (always case of a still frame) - this could and should be game changing on many fronts. Though a upscaled Babylon 5 sure has my interest peaked more than anything else.
And that’s with even a highly skewed population age group.
Flutter is the best thing that happened to the UI development in the last decade or even two.

Before Flutter, if I needed to build a simple app (couple of screens and network requests), there were no real option except of outsource it to the mobile app development studio. After discovering Flutter I've built and published my first app in 3 days while watching initial Flutter tutorials.

Since then, making mobile apps for my projects has become such a pleasant experience, that I'm now trying Flutter Web as a substitute to the madness of JS/HTML/CSS ecosystem, and I'm quite impressed with a result. It's still in Beta, but the development experience is so much smoother.

At the same time, a lot people still don't know what Flutter even is, so having it in your arsenal is a huge competitive advantage at the moment.
I don't see any limitations... try uploading!
Cortex-A9 does not have hardware division. Cortex-A7 and Cortex-A15 onwards do.
Such lack of 'consistency' may be judged pertinent when it comes to evaluate the messenger (I bet that nearly all of us may not benefit from it!), however it isn't when it comes to evaluate his assertion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque
Migration causes a genetic bottleneck that (sort of) resets the counter.
Hackers News doesn't need GA. A product that relies on data to make decisions does. People here are delusional, sorry. I don't care I get downvoted, but that's the reality.

I'm totally against ad tracking where a company can identify what I do on multiple websites and link my browsing behavior. But I have no problem to let a company track my clicks and what I do on their website if it's used to improve their product and ultimately to benefit from it.