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What is native? On Android the native Java UI kit is slow and not native.
You need a lot of fancy work to get fast c UI libs working on the 1000 different android devices. Goodluck with that. Browsers are probably the most optimized virtual UI machines out there. Sure not native, but I would argue that an integrated webview with proper css3 is much better optimized that using the android component framework or native draw operations. On ios things are slightly different, but also there the standard UI toolkit is a freaking nightmare. Creating general purpose UIs in a language like css feels so much better than most if not all UI toolkits out there.
Let's Encrypt the house – how I use LE for my internal homelab setup
Assessing the reliability of a clothing-based forensic identification
Yeah, this should be a separate tool. There's some issues with multiple access I bet that's solvable.
Yet WHO still did better than all countries.

The open data on the internet in January was explicit. I'm not sure any country acted on the real obvious stuff to do in January.

I also think few countries are acting on the real obvious stuff today.

Some things are complicated that will take years to know if they worked (For instance travel bans) but there are still things that should be done today that simply are not.

Like random testing of the population in different test sites around the world to understand how it spreads.

Like a global effort to sort the data coming out in a open way, not just dumping large amounts of research papers on a site.
A buddy of mine built his house and office out of shipping containers. Really cool project, I wish I had some pictures of it. I love seeing stuff like this repurposed.
Yeah well at least you can go out to run. Here in Spain we're completely imprisoned :( It's a nightmare and really detrimental to our health (especially mental).

I'm actually trying to work 24/7 as much as possible because it keeps the anxiety at bay a bit.. But there's 4 days off from tomorrow which is going to be the hardest yet. And the government just announced they want to extend it until at least the 10th of May.
The results of lockdown in Spain and Italy are not in this post and they provide crucial information. The lockdown in Spain has reduced in two weeks the daily infection rate from 42% to 4%, so there is hope for the future. But the problem is that the economy can't cope with the lockdown so we have a big problem. Also since the R0 can be reduced so much with political decisions, the emphasis should be on the political and economical ground.
Let me recommend you an udacity course instead. This is hands down the best course I've ever taken in my life:

AI for Trading https://www.udacity.com/course/ai-for-trading--nd880

Includes an introduction to finance/markets, and goes into strategies, multi-factor models, and deep learning. Great projects too!
Minecraft with the OpenComputers[1] mod might fit your requirements. It adds computers and robots into Minecraft that are programmable with Lua.

[1]: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/opencomputers
Although in conventional languages with control flow, we're more used to how they're done, both branching and looping can be done straightforwardly in dataflow without introducing any non-dataflow constructs - just graphs with vertices connected by edges.

Branching: http://www.fmjlang.co.uk/fmj/tutorials/Conditional.html

Looping: http://www.fmjlang.co.uk/fmj/tutorials/Iteration.html

Emit and collect:
http://www.fmjlang.co.uk/fmj/tutorials/Macros.html

These show the basic idea. There are many other examples throughout the tutorials (http://www.fmjlang.co.uk/fmj/tutorials/TOC.html).

BTW, in case anyone's wondering why there have been no recent updates to the pages on my visual dataflow language, it's because the many improvements I've been making, particularly big changes to the type system, have required a lot more work than I expected. I haven't abandoned work on it, but it will still be some time before it's ready for release.
> the federal government is just that: a federation (of states).

Sure: initially, the US was initially imagined much closer to the current European Union. That was a long time ago: a lot has changed.

> Saying California is a nation-state is perfectly legal and a reasonable position to have.

Not since the civil war it isn't.
Hi dang,
Let me preface this by thanking you for the effort you've put into building this unique and invaluable community.

I'm sorry to occasionally make your life difficult, as you mention this isn't the first time I've been disciplined.

I recognize the pressures that lead you to censor certain accounts - however given the amount of soft power that you wield, I would kindly ask you to keep in mind that consistently and primarily suppressing only one set of views, which are potentially held by 25-50% of the population, breeds extremism.

The fact that these rational views are effectively banned from every major platform only forces the polarization that we are witnessing in our society.
What learning tools/ strategies do you use alongside Anki?
I find that Anki flashcards can only take me so far in learning computer programming. For me, Anki helps with retention, but not necessarily in connecting the dots. What other learning tools or strategies do you use alongside Anki?
This is really awesome -- was interesting to see FFmpeg being used fully client-side.

I had previously used this ffmpeg WASM port (https://github.com/Kagami/ffmpeg.js) and hadn't seen the one you're using before (https://github.com/ffmpegjs/ffmpeg.js). Any thoughts on their pros & cons?

Also, I'm the maintainer of the awesome-ffmpeg list - mind if I add this to there?
If the liquidity isn't there, the Fed will create money out of nothing and inject liquidity until it is there.
There is a strong correlation between IQ and calorie intake, especially for children (as the brain develops), even today. We might be able to live off bugs and plants in our present state, but could we have evolved to that state by relying solely on those sources?

This all is a bit arbitrary, anyway, because you'd need to draw a clear line in hominid evolution where humans became sufficiently different from other animals before you can say that we "beat them all". Is that before or after behaviorally modern humans evolved, for example?
> What happens if liquidity still isn't there?

Do you mean, what if the economy never recovers?

Then the Fed’s actions will soften the blow. They will have decoupled the spectre of deflation from the underlying destruction. It certainly won’t have caused more harm than would have otherwise occurred.

That said, no democracy survives 30%+ unemployment for long.
>Maybe I'm that guy, but I think that the whole EM->cell or DNA interaction is a load of bunk until you get into extreme power at very short range.

I think so, too, and this is what the science currently appears to show. But my point is really much more of a general one: there are always unknown unknowns out there. It's not totally implausible that it could one day be discovered that there's some strange mechanism of action that we had no idea was present, like some sort of subtle cell machinery disruption for a specific kind of cell from certain frequencies and amplitudes which otherwise wouldn't cause any damage through sheer aggregate photon exposure, or something like that.

To reiterate, I think that that's unlikely. But I'm saying just as a general principle, it's hard to assess the potential harm of something purely based on your own subjective feeling about it, because if it actually is affecting you, you often really may not have any way of being cognizant of that fact. It's actually more likely that that would be the case the more likely that it's believed to be safe, because dramatic effects would increase the odds of the effect showing up in studies. There's a huge buffer between where you may still feel totally fine and functional over years and where you start to actually notice some harmful effects. Many people with low-level chronic exposure to some harmful thing may remain in that buffer zone forever.

For example, the water I drink has fluoride in it, and from everything I've read I don't believe the low levels that are in the water have a negative impact on health. But if somehow the scientific consensus eventually turns out to be wrong and there actually were some subtle impact to cognition that accrued over decades, would I be aware of this just by analyzing my own behavior and functionality over the years? Probably not. I don't think fluoridated water is harmful, but I also acknowledge it's quite possible I wouldn't be able to know if it's harmful or not just by introspection alone.
OpenStreetMap is a prominent user of Mapnik, but it's not an OpenStreetMap project. It was started way back in time for the sake of starting it:

https://mapnik.org/news/update

When it got so far along, OSM started using it in the demo rendering system that backs the 'standard' tiles on openstreetmap.org. Those tiles often get called "mapnik", because Mapnik is a big chunk of the rendering system, but they are really OpenStreetMap-Carto, a map style maintained for OSM.
The numbers behind Disney+'s arrival in Europe
Governor Newsom refers to California as a "nation state" about once a week, in case the author was wondering. He's used that language quite often.

I'm totally ok with it, so long as the Federal government remains impotent and balks at California's efforts to manage itself, while simultaneously being run by the party of "states rights." Purely in spite of the lack of leadership and outright derision for our needs as a state, regardless of being home to over a tenth of the population and being our breadbasket and technological power house.

I know not all Californians agree on everything, but I think we can all come together and recognize that we do have to look out for our state as if it was an independent nation these days. Because the Feds aren't going to help us when we need it, just tax us and tell us we can't have proportional representation.
I have been using elm at work (in prod) for about three years, my team and I have rewritten a hard to maintain 50kloc+ angular application to elm. The rewrite started with elm 0.18 and was finished with 0.19.

We started using elm extensively about a year before 0.19 was released and it was very clear to us from the start that even though it's possible to use native modules, it's a feature that should not be used and will not be supported in the future.

The experience we have had with elm and it's community have been nothing but great.

If we had stumbled upon a blog post/ thread like this when figuring out how to proceed, I'm not sure we would have given elm enough thought and tested it out properly.
This makes me really sad as well.
If I just want to find the nearest point in a small country using the <-> operator, do I need any extension at all?
Wackiness aside, there is some evidence that some wireless technologies can and do present real dangers (e.g., a Scandanavian study a few years back that showed pelvic blade bone density was as much as 30% less on the side men carried their GSM phones on their belts.)

5G is also a horribly imprecise term - it can include anything from 600 MHz UHF to 40 GHz mm wave, and widely varying modulation and power control schemes. The lower bands are probably not a problem, as we've been using some of them for quite a while, though not on our persons. The mm-wave and THz stuff really is a huge unknown.

One problem is that these technologies don't ever get seriously tested for biological effects: They just get deployed due to industry/govt/carrier/market pressure, and by the time we have enough data to even know therer might be a danger (viz, the GSM study above), we're already experimenting on the population as test subjects for the next generation of risk. At least as much as the frequency, the modulation method seems to matter, too, with the very sharp-edged full-power square waves of TSM/GSM type signals probably being considerably worse than the noise-like CDMA, for instance. (IMO, there is probably no current (4G/5G) LTE technology that is nearly as safe as CDMA.) More recent research does seem to show that there are RF health effects that are NOT related to heating, but heating is the only thing any of the gov't/industry "RF safety" regs cover.

This really is one of those areas where an honest person is forced to recognize that we have no idea what we don't know. RF and biology is a barely studied field, yet we know that many (most? all?) living things do have biophoton systems that we don't understand, and have largely ignored. 5G could be heinously dangerous, or relatively benign. So the answer to your question is no, there isn't (much) solid evidence yet that 5G is dangerous, and we won't really know for many years. But neither is there any actual evidence that it is safe and harmless...
>Basically im trying to get at does this non psychologist have valid insight or is this just a knee jerk disagreement+quarantine comment?

Neither. I am only reacting to your writing style, which reminds me very much of some schizophrenic people I have known. If I had to describe it, I would say it is characterized by disjointedly jumping around a theme, often using sentence fragments instead of complete sentences. It makes sense to you, but it is difficult for others (well, me) to follow. Again I don't mean this as an attack at all, just as an encouragement to reach out.

I don't have a lot to say about the actual content of your comment, except to say that it sounds awfully pessimistic and that life can surprise us with history's twists and turns. I'm sure things felt similarly hopeless in the early 20th century with the robber barons, or during the plague that immediately preceded the enlightenment. Chin up!
All empirical evidence from history points to the fact that people in civilized countries have essentially always been able to rebuild their economies after even catastrophic economic failures... Often better than it was before.

Look at Germany today; it's an economic powerhouse. You wouldn't believe that this is the same country that it was after WW2 - Germany did not succeed in spite of the post-WW2 economic crisis, it succeeded because of it. Also, it's not the first time Germany recovered in this way either, just look at post-WW1 economic crisis. Germany went from being penniless to become an economic and military superpower in a very short time. It had accumulated so much surplus wealth that its military could almost afford to wipe out the entire planet in WW2.

Financial crashes are an excellent way to clear out inefficiencies and allow the markets to reform themselves and allow meritocracy to regain significance.
“Pumping up assets” is aka income inequality, since people who own assets derive part of their income from the increasing value of the asset over time. This also makes it harder to go from a worker to an owner.

Yes, pension funds and 401ks own a lot of these assets — but people who have pensions and 401ks are doing better than many many other people in the country.
Because it makes literally no sense for 50 states to compete and outbid each other for a scarce set of resources when you already have an umbrella organization, the Federal government, that could coordinate the purchases and the allocation as not every state is hitting the peak at the same time. But it's seemingly every state for themselves instead. A complete failure and lack of leadership and shirking of responsibility from the Federal government, directly contributing to a loss of American lives.
This page seems to have a fair few links to legit scientific studies on the dangers of 5G and related technologies.

https://ehtrust.org/science/cell-towers-and-cell-antennae/co...

I don't think it's a simple matter of: non-ionizing radiotion=safe.
> But I do feel the same about both of the platforms movement towards "instant apps" that could have been equally solved by making web apps work better on respective platforms, instead of trying to solve the same problem again.

The web ecosystem has been trying to solve this for almost a decade now and has made relatively little progress. There's no reason to believe Apple could suddenly solve it in a few months if they just cared a little harder.

Web components & shadow dom are approaching 10 years old and still have issues with framework & browser support. asm.js is 7 years old, yet the ideas birthed from it are still struggling. Effective parallelism is still largely nonexistent. RAM & CPU/GPU efficiency remain a bad joke, made worse by the entire world now running on battery power.

A huge number of people are working on making web apps more viable, including people at Apple. It's not from a lack of trying at this point. The foundations are just all terrible & wrong for being an app platform. That's never what it was built or designed to be, and retrofitting that without breaking compatibility is really really difficult. If it turns out the incremental delivery benefits of the web can be retrofitted to an existing app platform more easily than the web can be retrofitted to be an app platform then... well, why not? The cross-platform-ish nature of the web was (and is) a great dream, but why can't that dream be realized by SwiftUI instead? Or Flutter? Or whatever? Why must it be web alone that gets to be that thing?
We have this instant app feature in our roadmap for more than 2 years. Every time we start with it, we run into the endless list of difficulties to get it to work. Max size, different modules, shares resources etc. It's hell on earth for most devs. That's why you see almost no apps having it. The idea is nice from a Google perspective. I would rather just add a link to each app in the playstore which goes to the app website. Up to the developer to create a web version of it. But of course this gives zero control to goole
I'm already contemplating the point of life and the company scaling down our jobs is also not helping. The economy is a huge problem. And the lockdown is literally killing me mentally.

I'd rather take a 1% chance of dying from the virus than a 25% chance of killing myself if this lasts a few months more. And I'm only 1 month in now.
Yes. A startup where I worked built an internet appliance that had a socketed chip modem. One failed mysteriously, pulling it out and testing it, it worked, plugging it in, it failed. Looking closely at the area below the socket a tin whisker was pointed straight up from one of the socket pins. Almost impossible to see unless you looked at it at just the right angle.
I'm not against collaboration or communication. On the contrary I think it's critical to well functioning and productive teams.

I just think stand ups as I've experienced over 10 teams and 5 organizations haven't been especially useful. They have been a status update mostly for the pm and a little for the tech lead.

What is an example of helpful information you guys are sharing in your stand ups?
I was in FIRST from 3rd grade (there was no JFLL when I started) through 12th grade. I got my first job through a connection I gained in the program and it definitely helped kick me years ahead in being prepared for real world projects. Was a good barrel of fun as well. I'd highly recommend any parents check it out, it has a lot even for those not technically inclined (business and marketing skills are big parts of being a successful team in the later years as well as a lot of charity work through all of it).
I haven’t taken it, but what made it so great. Do you/can you apply what you’ve learnt?
If we can build enough masks and enough hyperbolic chambers for wave 2 sure but there isn’t much effort. Vents are mostly useless and most people on vents either die immediately or have poor long term outcomes.
Thanks Avalaxy. That's exactly what we're doing now (pulling data out of Salesforce using SOQL). The issue is that we're starting to do it so frequently that we're bumping up against Salesforce's API call limits.
This has been an open problem in materials science for like 70+ years — https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=tin+whisker

There’s been plenty of work, but It’s a hard one to elucidate physical mechanisms for because they are super rare in terms of the number of potential initiation sites... You have to get lucky if you want to observe the material state before the whisker formed

It’s become more of a practical problem since the restrictions on leaded solders, since lead-free solder alloys seem more prone to whisker formation...
ComputerCraft works well too, and there are a lot of interesting extensions.
You say that as if the problem of not knowing much about the world had been solved. And I say that as someone under 35.
Well look how the countries with decent healthcare are fairing, like Germany. Not many deaths per infected people. And the nordic countries.

Look how Spain, Italy and France are fucking up after spending year after year cutting funding to healthcare ever since the 2007 recession.

So yes it is their failure too. Maybe not totally as nobody could have prepared for this, but governments have been seeing healthcare as an 'indivual's problem' rather than a 'community problem' for far too long.
Well, shit yus, because Bob has a dominant option to go and get Alice to have a drink if he has an answer or not. If Bob gets the answer Alice will be impressed. If he doesn't Alice like him anyway - so what's the odds? It's undecided what happens next.
More likely this Tandem, the fault tolerant computer company, from the 80's: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tandem_Computers
I generally agree with the piece, especially writing as discovery. And I certainly identify with the opening being hard--in fact, there's a good argument for putting something there so that you can get on with writing the rest of the piece. I've sometimes probably spent a decent portion of my total writing time figuring out a hook/analogy/etc. for the rest of the piece.

The thing that's missing is that you also need another pair of eyes at least for anything beyond a personal blog post where it's somewhat OK to have mistakes. Obviously you can't get at least a copy editor for anything but you basically can't publish even a short book, report, or something like that without someone else doing a careful read.
It should also be noted that the main reason why humans didn't evolve into that kind of hunters is because that niche was already firmly occupied in the environment in which we believe that evolution took place (African savannah). On the other hand, consistently hunting successfully during the hottest part of the day was not something any big predator could do, so filling that niche allowed humans to reduce competition for prey. And, of course, the prey itself had theretofore evolved to deal with the other kinds of predators.
I was pleasantly surprised when I started my first R&D job after university. It's just like a FIRST team but everything is bigger including the robots.

I don't think anything else in school has prepared me for the real world more than my FIRST team. If I could tell my younger self one thing, it would be to join the team in my freshman year instead of senior year.
IT was norpan and spookeylukey talking about patching the compiler together, and rtfeldman jumping in with references to PAST discussions of design goals with spookeylukey.
Hadn't seen some of the links in that post - definitely some good solid info there...
What is being communicated that's saving the dev teams weeks of time?
If we can't trust our perceptions, then there is no mountain of evidence to say the mind is playing a trick on us regarding consciousness. That's because the scientific evidence is empirical, which is knowledge based on perception. Dennett's argument risks undermining the foundation for scientific knowledge.
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