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You do realize that there are more Perl programmers and more Perl code written today then there was back in '99 when Python 1.5.2 was released.

Sure the percentage has gone down, but the count has gone up.
Surely anyone I disagree with should be in jail.
Only if there's a real demand for it.
How was this for the best when they had to lay off "usually off market" talent?
And gas station owners know they can still hose idiots like me who drive cars that require 93 octane. Still paying $3.10 in suburban Chicago.
Mandatory Agent Smith speech follows.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrBdYmStZJ4
I have been an OmniGraffle user from the very beginning (~2000). I love OmniGraffle. But I've seen Sketch come (and go) and there have been no significant updates for OmniGraffle for a very very long time. Omni only added to their iOS offerings and totally forgot about desktop. I understand that mobile "is the future" but, there is a significant need for desktop design applications. And although I still use OmniGraffle I would no longer buy updates.
It's also what made the company: they were originally developers of software targeting NeXT machines/OS. Their products are a better fit in the role of 'big fish in a small pond' of the NeXT and then Mac worlds. Also, the Windows world has never valued the kind of craftsmanship Omni puts into their products... it's much more of a corporate market where managers and purchasing departments decide which products win.
The problem isn't just SEO, it's that Google itself aggressively rewrites queries to produce more results (which I suspect they want to do to show more "relevant" ads).

On the most extreme end of this, I've seen four-word queries produce results, in which three of the words were stricken out. More often, it's just one word, but it's usually exactly the one that makes the difference between a very specific query, and a very generic one.

Worse yet is that they try to do synonym substitution, but their algorithm has a ridiculously low bar for that. Like, you might be searching for "FreeBSD", and it will substitute that for "Linux", or even "Ubuntu". Or search for a specific firearm model, and it finds "gun".

Quoting keywords suppresses all of that, but synonyms are actually useful - if it did them accurately...
What happens if an object impacts a touchscreen and it breaks? I have my screens break (even behind a screen protector) and has failed to respond to touch. Imagine you are flying a plane and the touchscreen breaks due to impact. All your inputs are centralized behind that one touchscreen and you can no longer operate it. Wouldn't it be then better if there were multiple points of failure? You are decentralizing the impact a failure can have. Sometimes having multiple points of failure is a good thing. That way a failure in one component won't affect the other components.
Does it use an API or it scrapes the Amazon website? If it's the latter how do you avoid being blocked?
Please don't post unsubstantive comments here. Denunciatory rhetoric isn't substantive and worse, tends to be repetitive.

Thoughtful critique that adds information (like userbinator's GP comment) is of course welcome.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Costco have been criticized for having their corporate employees work from home until way later than most tech companies in the Seattle area.
For example: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/briannasacks/costco-cor...
Food isn't just about calories. Fresh fruits and veggies are desirable for good health. Even a small garden producing a small amount of tasty, fresh produce forms a good complement to shelf-stable rice, dried beans, etc.
Is It April Fools Day?
Don’t fret, it was $5.09 here a couple years ago. And we don’t even have the high fuel taxes :/
Incorrectly states anything above 8 weeks isn't normal. 8 weeks is the min for Cal WARN. When i got laid off during the great recession, i received 11 weeks paid. 8 weeks for WARN and one week for every year employed. Then another one month of pay to give up my rights to sue the employer.
Oh, is it just Google? I thought it was ... everything.
I know nothing about how oil gets out of the ground. Why is it expensive to stop production at a well site?

In my mind you just turn the pump off that's sucking the oil out of the hole.
Virus found to infect homebrew Atari Lynx cartridges containing EEPROMs
Number 10 has had Video Conferencing since 1998 (I set it up with college and received first call from there), was H320 via ISDN2 affair and had dedicated black box encryption unit GCHQ supplied and dealt with.
DOH (Department of Health) also had dedicated VC rooms as did all the regional officers and MCU bridging for multi point conferencing was outsourced when needed. All main DOH sites could do upto 384 with bonded ISDN line (UK ISDN was 64k per channel and seperate D channel, no bit stealing going on here).

That without a doubt all changed many times and somewhat supprised they are using Zoom, and would of thought at least would of contracted to run their own private server connected via VPN. Very supprised and when American politicians all loved their blackberry's, they had their own dedicated servers they controlled access to, supplied by RIM.

But the DOH and all the other government departments are entities unto themselves, and I'm not that up on anything the last couple of decades, but suspect that there isn't any common solution to enable what they need to do for remote working in isolation. I'm sure much will change after this. Also fairly sure GCHQ probably bashing their heads on the table.

But I can see how they got to where they are, knowing aspects of government workings and departmental fencing, still - does kinda make you go WTF still.
No, you wouldn't have a manufactured shortage, because any one of the several entities with a strategic reserve could defect from the others and sell its product when the price increases. Not to mention that investment in production activity would sharply increase if spot price were to rally significantly.

On a consumer level, it would just delay the inevitable price decline of oil, heating fuel, diesel, gasoline, resid, and jet fuel, and that delay would be harmful to alternative energy investment and electric car sales. Not to mention it would benefit China, a place where industrial activity has already been rebooted.

The economy isn't down because oil prices are down. It's quite the opposite; the oil market is reflecting the economic reality. Prices were declining even prior to the OPEC+ meeting. If it were not for the market already softening, nobody would have been discussing additional production curbs at all. We had a mild winter, so heating fuel demand was low. Industrial production was interrupted, so that hurt demand for residual fuels that give energy to factories and power generation plants, as well as the ships that carry goods across oceans. Diesel was affected for the same reason. Jet fuel demand is down due to the complete standstill of the travel industry. Even bitumen and carbon black should see decreased demand because when people stop commuting and traveling, there is less need to resurface roads and replace tires. Plus, if you're not driving your car, you're not buying much gasoline.

Those are massive, natural reasons why demand is down for gasoline, middle distillates, and heavy residues. You can't bring that demand back by simply pumping a few-hundred-million barrels of oil into the ground for storage.

The way to induce a manufactured shortage would be by imposing import restrictions or tariffs.
With the charities I've donated to afaik providing at least your name and email is the default - you'd have to go out of your way to be anonymous. So it doesn't really tell you much.
$2.49 in Fountain Valley CA (that's Orange county); a very good price right now out here.
This will have a bad side effect on teeths since the straw saves them from a lot of the soda.

At least according to my dentist you should always drink sodas with straw.
Calfiornia Forms New Health Corps
Interesting story about Norway's oil industry:
The Iraqi who saved Norway from oil
https://www.ft.com/content/99680a04-92a0-11de-b63b-00144feab...
> If the server is compromised, the attacker could replace the public key and TLS would not barf at it.

Equivalently, how do you know the public key that came with your iPhone wasn't compromised? It could have been if it was imaged in the factory from a compromised Apple server. It also could have been if Apple's signing server was compromised and used to sign an OS update your device installed, or their development servers that store the next version of the OS to be released. What makes you think that is any less likely than the Signal Foundation having their servers compromised?

If the place you get the public key from is compromised then the public key is compromised. TLS can't save you from that, but what can? (Actually, some kind of web of trust might. If signal.org started telling you its package signing certificate is different from what all your friends say it said last week, that would be an obvious red flag.)
On the other hand I find a lot of people seem to see signalling where there is none, or use "they're just virtue signalling" as a way to dismiss peoples legitimate concerns. Make sure you think about whether you're actually seeing signalling, or if it's just someone with a different worldview and different priorities than you.

There's also going to be a lot of bias in what is visible to you here - you're only going to see the people who loudly boast on Instagram about say donating to charity or using eco friendly cups or whatever - because of course the people that just do it quietly because they care and don't boast aren't going to be noticeable.

Maybe there's 10 people who aren't signalling for every one you see, but you have no way of knowing because they're not signalling.
The very first sentence of the communications act of 1934 says the FCC exists to regulate communication by wire, congress need not pass a law granting it[1]. And what wording could the new law possibly use that is more explicit than the existing "for the purpose of regulating interstate and foreign commerce in communication by wire"

It's inexplicable that the same party that claims the act establishing the FCC is more limited than the wording states while the federal arbitration act is continuously expanded to cover cases that neither the authors nor previous courts ever tolerated.

[1]https://transition.fcc.gov/Reports/1934new.pdf
If you just use `sum < x` or `sum < y` rather than both, C compilers do reliably perform that optimization. (You don't need both; `sum < x` and `sum < y` are always both false or both true.)
The author here doesn't Get It and prefers the original manga. He thinks the movie should have been a straight translation and is unhappy about it. He likes the idea the recent live-action movie may do to the anime what the anime did the manga. It's a pointless diatribe motivated by pettiness.
Thanks for sharing, have you written about any other experiences?
Is there any efficient way to invest in oil?

While a prolonged lock down is definitely a possibility, it's also quite possible that the market will recover which should bring the price per barrel closer to normal range.

Edit: Really surprised by being downvoted for asking a question
I've used Grand Perspective for this: http://grandperspectiv.sourceforge.net/
Indeed, but in fact there is UB:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11962457/why-is-using-an...
If it's flying extremely high wouldn't they be hidden behind the body?
Not really. In the Windows world Visio pretty much owns the market. Sure, the retail price of Visio is higher but it's also typically built into corporate pricing schedules for Microsoft software (i.e. discounted and on the pre-approved vendor list)... good luck competing with that. For anyone price-sensitive there's open source / freeware / web-based stuff. This doesn't leave much room for another desktop product.
Most JSON parses are small. Does this have bigger spin-up overhead? Also the memory handling requirements of working with GC'd JS data are very particular, this sounds like it has its own way with memory.
You can still run them from wherever they are. The problem is that users do that once, exit, and then later forget where the app was.
It will be defended to the death. The cult is strong, if waneing.
it's more like referring to the specific animal that represents the release of Ubuntu you want to talk about.

Not that many people would understand 'I think Eoan Ermine 19.10 broke SSH'.

Plenty of people understand 'I think Ubuntu 19.10 broke SSH', or 'I think maxOS 10.15.4 broke SSH'.
Rust is actually great for cli applications regardless of performance benefits because of its good ergonomics and package management once you get over the hump of learning it.
So, a brain?

Easy there, Dr. Frankenstein.
I hope you don’t believe you can’t infect people after 2 weeks. If so, you’re contributing to the pandemic and the spread of the virus through disinformation. If a patient ever develops symptoms it could be 2 weeks or longer. If they don’t develop symptoms after the incubation period then they are still infectious.
It looks like according to the notebook recepies that it's actually working at the sentence level (despite your claim). The way you train these is to mark a sentence as "1" or "0" based on if it's selected.

Oh well, the world waits longer for a word-level (willing to skip around in sentences) and grammatically correct extractive summarizer. You got my hopes up though.

https://github.com/microsoft/nlp-recipes/blob/master/example...

My (failed) attempt to build what I was actually looking for:

https://github.com/Hellisotherpeople/CX_DB8
Inflation target for most CB..
I dunno. My boss is an incredibly tech savvy developer and he loves Zoom and thinks it's fantastic so I don't really see it going anywhere for a while.
> By that I mean I'm wondering if all of our moving around normally may be like nano events that cumulatively ease pressure on fault lines?

Probably not.

It's a pretty widely held opinion that the earthquakes from fracking - generally 2-4 on the Richter scale - didn't do anything to ease pressure on fault lines. People moving around is much lower energy than that.
I used to love Omni Graffle. But after spending a bit of time reading about their current product lineup, I can’t stop wondering why they didn’t transition to web apps years ago.

Notion, Figma and Whimsical are eating their lunch. They have a far less robust feature base, but they’re fast, built for teams, simple to use and the pricing scales well.

On the other hand, Omni is almost entirely native apps, bloated feature sets and pricing that spent make sense in a team environment.

I’d love to see them rethink a few core apps with a fresh coat of paint and a better pricing scheme, developing web first. It’s definitely not too late.
Young people would be isolated from their families if sick, and they'd be brought food without contact from staff. Having people cook for themselves is very dubious, so any place that would serve for isolation must also have a kitchen and staff. Staff, boarding, and food -- where would these places be across different cities?

Singapore and other nations are doing the same for foreign travelers and citizens.

Where are you getting this information that this strategy would turn hotels into untrained elderly care facilities?
More dense energy-wise than batteries can get. Its required for this concept to be a reality.
That’s a good idea. I’ll do that
How does client side filtering work for unknown or private numbers? I tend not to pick these up anyway.
Without getting too far off topic: I sincerely wish we had higher taxes on fuel in the rest of Canada (and commensurate increase in relief for lower income folks whom it would disproportionately affect). Everyone complains about the price of gas, but no one cares to change their behaviour and purchasing habits in response. I drive the smallest, most fuel efficient hatchback I could buy 8 years ago, and intend to buy an electric car whenever I move on from this one. I do it for environmental reasons, but the economics don't hurt, either! I've saved 4000+ liters of gas compared to the SUVs/MUVs that most people buy these days.
It's not 4/1 where I'm sitting, and this paper looks somewhat legit on first skim.

Anyway, here's a story: My college roommate was a force of nature. So one weekend night I'm feeling a big cold coming on and I want to stay in and rest.

He was having none of that, so he goes to the kitchen and gets a spoon and a bottle of vodka and proceeds to snort a spoonful up both nostrils. It was horrifying. Then he gives the spoon to me.

I don't know how exactly, but he convinced me to do the same. It wasn't pleasant, but within a few hours and along with a few gin and tonics, there was no runny nose, no sore throat or headache.

I've done this several times over the years and when it works, it works well. Am I recommending this? Hell no, don't do it!
My 30 year old Land Rover has one of my favourite user interfaces.

For example, the cooling system. It's a big lever on the dash connected directly to a big flap on front of the car. You pull down the lever and it opens the flap, and air gets rammed in through the vent. The only moving part is the lever.

Everything is just so tactile. The cooling system, the gear stick, the transfer box, the switches. The user interface goes CLUNK and you can feel the thing on the other end doing the thing you made it do.
it began as a screening tool for the candidate pipelines of on-demand platforms looking for qualified workers, with the goal of better matching and placing workers with platforms (increasing conversion rates, in the parlance). wonolo[0] is an example of such a business that's still operating.

the wider ambition wes to create a liquid hourly labor marketplace that would bring near real-time bidding for chunks of hourly work (like "we'll pay you $100 for the next 3 hours of your time"). hourly work (not just gig-work, but whole swaths of the service economy) is notoriously opaque, which gives all the leverage to employers, and workers don't have the time or wherewithal to effectively comparison shop to maximize their earnings.

over time, complementary services (training/certification, social networking, insurance, financing, etc.) could also have been added to increase the usefulness of the platform.

[0] https://www.wonolo.com/
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> If you witnessed your company wrongfully reject women candidates from the hiring process then by all means your company was biased against women.

This is a part of it. There is also an unconscious bias against women in hiring. There's plenty of overt sexism, but unconscious biases are significant too. That whole "gut feel"-based hire is remarkably sexist and racist. As are resume callbacks in favoring male and anglophile names. As are mentoring and promotional opportunities should one sucessfully land the job. As is unaddressed sexual harassment on the job.

Re-read my point regarding statistical biases. The existence of a 20/80 ratio is maintained by biased hiring and attrition. You seem to believe 20% out of 50% is the "correct" ratio because the current ratio is 20%. And now you're trying to claim the sexist bias in tech is equivalent to pink-collar professions which men traditionally avoid. And on we go again with your wonderfully sexist circular logic and reductionist equivalencies.

The fact that you allegedly had never witnessed neither sexism nor racism on the job (while expressing plainly racist and sexist attitudes) tells me that you've been by and large minimizing the problems in your workplace and pretending they don't actually exist. You are very much a part of the problem here.
But why only do it once a year?
That's not bad!

HTML is one case where I think significant whitespace is a really obvious win.
Templates can inherently not be understood. It's duck typing 3 degrees of freedom with 3 unknowns. You need concepts which adds 1 known into the equation, (the final missing degree of freedom is the dreaded ctrl-click-into-an-interface-instead-of-the-concrete-class which is hard to avoid). Tell me one IDE that will give any meaningful information about buzz in the example below:

template<typename T>
void foo(T bar) { bar.buzz(); }

Other than that, finding foo<T> is usually easy, i've had good experience with qtcreator or clangd, you just have to be very very sure that your include paths are correct, qtcreator is good in that it uses CMakeLists as project-files so all this is done automaticaly.
Teams specifically is the spiritual successor to Skype for Business / Lync / Office Communicator - its main benefit is integrating with Outlook, Exchange, OneNote, and SharePoint. If it's not deployed with that in mind, that's a lot of wasted effort, IMO.
Trillions in coronavirus spending could explode deficits to World War II levels
Seems odd... To be honest I'm from Belgium and like how layoffs are handled in my country. There is a rulebook with actual legislation behind it. I like that because it is easy to know for both parties what the expectations are. Mostly you know exactly your severance pay as there are fixed rules for that in your contract. If there are mass layoffs it will trigger other rules.

Can't understand the American Freedom thing. So the freedon to chose to be an asshole employer is actually an option there :D
Is obfuscation a type of authorisation? If you knowingly exploited a vulnerability to access a non-standard URL then it's pretty obvious you shouldn't have been there. This isn't you navigating to a websites home page, the information I've found reads the following for CVE-2008-6541:

>Access Complexity Medium (The access conditions are somewhat specialized. Some preconditions must be satistified to exploit)
If you have neurons then you also need glia and neurotransmitters and ways to regulate them and keep them alive... and suddenly you need the entire organism.
The u.s. strategic reserve is stored in salt mines.
I much appreciate your comment. This is all very interesting and very weird (or even quite scary), at the same time.
Ha! This reminds me of Navy and it’s destroyer doing the same thing.

“The US Navy will replace its touchscreen controls with mechanical ones on its destroyers”
https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/11/20800111/us-navy-uss-john...
It was a wonderful chaser to https://xkcd.com/2287/ , which I encountered minutes before.

Humans are good.
JD is distilled in TN, but there are other fine KY bourbons that will do just fine. And Cocaine Mitch better promote his states distilleries along with all the other fine business located down there in KY.
Pernosco is beauty, in the dark.
That Twitter thread has a link to a more detailed analysis that was done all the way back in 2016:

https://macpkghallofshame.tumblr.com/post/138612887932/indis...
Yes, people get new cars rather frequently. 50% of new cars by 2030 easily.

With the upcoming generation, driving an ICE car will be a social stigma, and electric a status symbol.
exactly. having different workspaces mapped onto the cube was actually a practical effect.

the same with wobbly windows. they'd only wobble when moved, which makes the effect practical, as it doesn't get in the way.

i hoped this vim cube would do that too. map different buffers onto the faces, and rotate the cube as you switch buffers, but otherwise stay out of the way to actually let me work
This is exactly what the relief bill is aiming to accomplish: to bridge otherwise healthy businesses to the other side of the crisis without having to dismantle their teams now and painstakingly rebuild them afterwards. Hopefully many companies like yours can make this plan work out in reality.