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> Most of them are not classified as banks and run without banking licenses and governmental oversight. They are more convenient and cheaper but definitely a little riskier as well.

This is really misleading. (Disclosure: I work for a remittance provider.)

It's true that non-bank money service businesses do not operate as banks, but it's totally false that they "run without... governmental oversight" or are "a little riskier."

The level of government oversight of non-bank MSB's is extreme by the standards of anything but banking. For example in the US, you have to apply to each state government individually for a license to send transfers from that state. It takes years and is extremely onerous. Many of our applications ran into the hundreds of pages of paperwork and were followed by weeks of on-site examinations plus an intensity of financial auditing usually reserved for companies nearing IPO.

(In Europe the situation is better because MSB regulation happens at the EU level. This regulatory difference is a big part of why Europe has a much larger share of great fintech startups compared to other sectors.)

On risk, most regulators require money transmitters to insure their liabilities to customers so that, if they ever collapse, the insurer will be able to make their customers whole. In our case, we never have liabilities to customers (because we pay out instantly) but we still have to buy this insurance... kind of a belt-and-suspenders approach.
Yeah, macros might be cool... I've gotten by with mostly using the regex options in string replace, etc... snippets have helped a little, but don't use them much, sometimes they annoy me when they pop in.
What Happens When Tesla Powerwalls Die?
This hits the nail on its head.

In the end it is all about making something that people will use because it provides what they need in a broad sense covering security, usability, video quality and a lot of other things.
> Many of them already reached their planned life time

That's a misunderstanding of how nuclear plants are built. They don't have a "planned life time"; they have a "safe window" of 10 years, and it is reexamined every 10 years. The age of a reactor doesn't have an incidence on whether it should be stopped or not, only this decennial visit can say if it is safe to continue or not, and if it isn't, what needs to be done to make it safe again. The organ in charge of that (ASN, Agence de Sûreté Nationale) is an independent entity and has the know-how to do their work diligently. If they say it's safe, it's safe.

> At the same time, France has ideal conditions for renewables. A very sunny south, lots of wind on the west and north coasts. Add to that a big supply of water power, this should cover most storage needs

For every kW of installed intermittent energy you need a kW of gas to still have electricity when the intermittent doesn't run. Propping up intermittent is propping up gas and that's the sadness of it.

Also, pretty much all developed countries in the world are at capacity in terms of hydro. We can't build more dams at large scales, unless there's a magic way of creating mountains.
What about them? I have no fundamental problem with them. The only reason I would sign an NDA is, when I am doing paid work.
systemd.

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But that also means that these advertisements won't find any good developers. These super-low rates are clearly trying to scrape the bottom of the barrel.

The best bet is that these ads are aiming at developers from poorer countries where rates are much lower.
Actually, nuclear power indeed _is_ a significant source of greenhouse gases. Please take into account:

a) construction and teardown of the power plant (massive amounts)

b) uranium mining

c) responsible contaminating radioactive waste (in mountains, etc)

I didn't research for numbers now, but I think one can find them.
It might not be cheap, but is it a good value for you? How many hours of your time would it have to save before it paid for itself?
Killer features are directory view, integrated terminal, regexp for find/replace...

Lately, I'd add the remote ssh and wsl extensions have been insanely useful, but starting code from inside wsl has gotten sluggish since the last vs code update.
Inability to export to CMYK seems like a huge drawback for the printing industry. RGB colours cannot be represented correctly in print. Being able to work in and export to CMYK is pretty much necessary for any kind of professional printing work.
I noticed that you don't use tweepy (https://github.com/twintproject/twint#requirements). Can you highlight the difference?
To simplify it, it's been:

1. Talk to people and sound like you know what you're talking about. In my (admittedly limited) experience, it's been "be opinionated, and be able to back up the opinions when challenged".

2. They mention opportunity for equity. You mention you only work for money. Sometimes they take you up on it.

3. Do a great job. They brag about you. This gets you more clients. But don't count on that. Ask for referrals.

4. Increase your rate as your utilization goes up.
No, you can. Any control flow program can be converted into a matrix multiplication. Obviously, the matrix size is exponential to the number of if conditions - but that is a pre-requisite for homomorphic encryption anyway, otherwise you would be able to tell which branch was taken.
I recently went on vacation. I wanted to really switch off and couldn't bring myself to read non-fiction that engaged my brain.

I hadn't read fiction in more than ten years. The first day by the pool I'd read a page then found my mind wandering. By the end of the first day I had a headache, as if my brain was under strain from stretching an old, unused muscle.

The rest of the vacation I couldn't stop reading. Took the Kindle everywhere, tried to steal any moments away from family to get to the next chapter. Funny how the brain works like that.

The post script is of course I returned from vacation and haven't had the same reading rhythm. Turns out new (old) habits are hard.
If you have a name you can charge exorbitant rates for anything, and large companies will pay it. IAmTimCorey is somewhat of a YouTube celebrity with millions of views on pretty basic (but extremely well-made, all-around excellent) videos. His advertised consulting rate is $300/hr. To your second point, Oracle bills its consultants at $400/hr or more, and they're probably making $200-250k.
I'm partial to kee-frame[0], which is the controller model from keechma implemented in re-frame. It's a tiny library but quite a nice starting place.

[0]https://github.com/ingesolvoll/kee-frame
>take part in an unwinnable cat and mouse chase with cheaters?

It may be unwinnable, but it is "mitigateable". It is much better to have your game ruined once a week by a cheater instead of 5 times a day. It can be a perfectly reasonable trade off if the game is important to you.
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Are loops general control flow? Can they do branching?

I don't think so, but not sure.
The literal sequence "&*E" is actually equivalent to E even when E is a null pointer. The spec explicitly points this out.
This doesn't work for everyone but for me, it's been two things:

(1) change of environment -- coffee shop, library, etc. Same principle as WFH separation between work/home -- your brain is wired to environment, often more than you think.

(2) going non-digital -- Rhodia premium paper & TWSBI Eco fountain pen for scribbling little notes (that I never expect to review again -- it's just for building muscle memory. It's ok to take notes that get thrown away!). Electronics are put away.

Also what really helps? Going in with a goal in mind, and a reason for engaging with the material. Not all books are meant to be read and finished.

Economist Tyler Cowen--an omnivorous high-volume reader--has a 50 page rule (if I remember correctly). Stick it out for the first 50 pages, and if you don't feel the book is interesting enough to continue, stop. Just stop. Be comfortable being a book non-completist.

(Caveat: mostly applies to non-fiction.)
I totally agree! Most recipe sites don't focus on what I want: recipes. I'm a pretty good home cook and I've been trying to get better at timing. Getting all elements of a big dinner party ready at the same time is tricky. This website is terrific. I wish this approach were applied to more complex multi-dish meals.
There's also a thread on /r/pcgaming about the anti-cheat causing performance issues in other games, even though Riot says it only runs when Valorant is running.
I must be tired — the first instance of kook-edge writing (scare quotes, "allegedly", etc) makes me just stop reading. Those 5G towers are "harmless", d'you hear, unixsheikh?
Our goal is not to eliminate all risk, only to reduce the risk significantly enough to lower the transmission rate of the virus below the threshold where it threatens to overwhelm healthcare capacity. Running with reasonable physical distance appears to be an extremely low risk activity.

The situation is different for high-risk groups or those who have to be in close contact with high risk individuals. They do want to try and get close to zero risk, but that's not most people.
> Also, cheating really is so bad that most people will accept it anyways.

I feel this is the part people miss. It's true that it's a cat and mouse game and these end up still being worked around, but cheating has crippled games before.

Search any popular game + "cheaters" and find thousands of posts complaining about these people.

Even if you explain this stuff to people, and admit it's still not foolproof, they will embrace it.

I think we see this mistake a lot in the tech bubble. People assume if only people knew their data was being used they'd be outraged, except if you give them a choice between that and paying for stuff they'll always take giving away their data.

People just don't care that much about the digital "realm". Their online presence, their "digital rights", to them it's all ethereal and a lot of the few who are even aware of this stuff assume the fight is lost anyways, further whittling down the number of people who care.
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Oh dear. I don't think Airbnb's '2018' post was 'last year' neither does a native developer shop using RN in a brownfield project render the whole ecosystem 'dead'. But then again Betteridge's law of headlines is very wonderful for posts like this.

All of the technical points the author (yes the OP) uses have been available in Flutter and even Xamarin which I don't find the case for RN convincing at all. They are all looking the same except for the language used. Which is why from there, it now depends on the developer language you are most familiar with. C# - Xamarin, JS/TS - RN, Neither? Use Flutter with Dart.

I don't even like React Native, but at least its better than some other alternatives depending on your circumstance (cross-platform, MVPs, greenfield projects, etc) but still no better than a native app if you know the iOS or Android ecosystem in depth.
What is the point of the article? To insert absolutist "truths" about a whole range of issues while disallowing anyone to disagree lest he is a pedant?

Calling out outrageous statements is not pedantry.
>kernel drivers are a necessary evil.

No they're not. Not for cheating in a video game. The reason why cheat makers have advanced to shady rootkit level exploits is because game publishers started doing it first. Stopping cheating in your games is not more important than the security of my computer period. I don't care. Find better ways to manage your game or i'll play something else. I have no interest in your anti-cheat spyware being on my computer.
How many theranos employees died by suicide? There were up to 800 at peak, so one suicide might be within the normal base rate.
Display and control Android devices connected on USB or TCP/IP
Oh fantastic- thanks for these. I see # 6 a lot too, especially generalizing what somebody says (eg: universal health care) into a much larger category (eg: universal socialism) that includes a lot of negative components (eg: deadbeats, corrupt governments, unremovable presidents/generals).
oh weird. Seems like https://launch.blendle.com/ is their starting page for the US market?

As far as I remember you can read everything from partner publications, but need to go there through their site or app.
The fastest way to create a new model is to write it down
Yeah, I was imagining they had used image enhancement to see thermal signatures of the astronauts from exterior terrestrial photographs during the radio blackout.
China closed and outlawed wet markets after the 2003 SARS outbreak. They opened them back up shortly after the outbreak was over. Humans on a whole have a short memory for things like this and in a generation (20 yrs from now) the majority will barely remember
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Working only remotely? afaik face-to-face interaction is highly valued in Bay Area.
I made the app open source as one customer emailed me asking for the code, hoping to make some changes. When first releasing the app (v1.0.0) I was worried about making it open source (perhaps someone would steal it) but after almost a year 'on the market' it seemed safer. I don't know how common it is for that fear to materialize in reality, but at least in my case it seems like no one made an identical copy (or even a similar copy for that matter) and started distributing it (my other fear was someone creates a virus-ridden copy).

Making the app open source improved it significantly: the customer who asked for is initially contributed some excellent code making screenshot extraction better (and faster). Others have added bugfixes or features. I'm really glad I did it. I also gave a talk touching on the open source question at AngularNYC in February (still waiting for the recording to be put up on YouTube).

PS -- my app is Charityware - I wrote a blog post about that too: https://medium.com/@whyboris/charityware-doing-good-with-pro...
I find that odd. I think that most people can't afford the prices asked to keep their data.
What shifted my career was actually an almost opposite revelation. I'm a self-taught programmer who never went to college, and bounced around in entry level sort of "IT jobs" like support for close to a decade -- and I assumed that "real" software engineers and sysadmins were geniuses who did understand everything their systems were doing on a deep level and just typed out perfect code off the top of their head.

Then I went to a large tech company, and got some attention for hacking away at a few bash scripts to automate things, got promoted to a sys admin job, and realized that hardly anyone understood systems, or anything at all on a deep level, and that everyone was just hacking away like I was.

What I've eventually realized is that while, yes, everything in a complex system in principle can be understood, that human beings have limited bandwidth and memory and that it will absolutely paralyze you if you wait until you understand something thoroughly before diving into do work on it. I jumped into AWS without understanding it, Chef without understanding it, Jenkins without understanding it, and Kubernetes without understanding of it, and every time I did that, my salary went up by 20-50%, to the point where i'm making something like 3-4 times now than what I was making 5 years ago.

There are two reasons to spend the time to learn something on the job:

1) You need to learn it to do the task that you're working on right now. Whether it's troubleshooting a problem or trying to install a new system. If you're trying to get a kubernetes cluster running, you absolutely do not need to know all the details of how docker containers work. While it's interesting, and it will probably be necessarily to learn it eventually, it would be a waste of time to do that before just getting started deploying kubernetes.

2) Satisfying your own personal curiosity -- sometimes things are just inherently interesting to you, and it's usually worth chasing those things down, I've found. It may not be immediately applicable, but usually I'll figure out how to apply it somewhere.
As a Dutch freelancer, my marginal tax rate is a bit over 50%, but I think I've got way too many tax breaks and deductibles compared to regular employees. I'm not going to complain if they decide to cat some of those back a bit (thoug I'm sure other freelancers will).
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I agree with criticism of governments in these instances but in order to be more thoughtful we should be critical of _how_ the governments ended up in this state. In other words: I do not think that the government (as a concept) is the issue here. I think that the current (and decades past) American government is the issue. They are 100% corrupt and culpable but it is not inherent to every government.

Note: I am NOT saying you are ignoring what I've said above. I have just seen many people make poor generalizations about government because of their experience with the American government's inability to prioritize citizens over the networth of the elite.
Nearly everything in Tcl can be inspected at runtime: the source code for procedures (and their arguments), classes that have been defined, methods, etc. Tcl can be made to appear as if it was "image" based rather than file based. This project taps into that.
Yes, hoarder here. Started with scanning old family photos, progressed from there.
Was psyched to find youtube-dl after I had discovered many of the YouTube videos I had playlisted years ago, are now missing.
Perhaps not very interesting things to most: research footage testing some aspect of the X-20 Dynasoar space plane, etc. Many things gone missing I don't even know what they were since YouTube doesn't indicate what the missing video was.
So, yeah, hoard it is. "Japanology"? Got all I could find. "How It's Made?" Yep. Live footage of the band "The Embarrassment" sleeps on my drives as well....
Maybe I should explain, I think I misused "random" here. What I benefit from is rhythmic, repetitive patterns. Whether they are visual or audio they seem to really help. For instance, I listen to the same song on repeat for half the day. I guess I meant pick a random visualization that is soothing? Hope that makes sense.
Every reviewer of their performances says, "They're killing it!"
I know people who insist on using FreeBSD, or worse OpenBSD, and they often have issues with their work systems.

This is unacceptable to me. My work system must work.

So I don't care about your theoretical list because I know for a fact that Linux is better for me in practice.
If you just started game developement, and your intended game is simple, I would just use plain javascript, html elements for UI, audio and canvas and consider everything else overkill.
ChromeDevTools are a very powerful IDE nowdays, but simple enough, that you can just use the debugger, without setting anything up.

Very simple, but so you learn the basic concepts, without getting side tracked in millions and millions of different libaries and tools.

And if you do things right, your game will then run anywhere, where a modern browser works.
Or they have worked on full-fledged IDE's like VS 6, which starts up quickly and is super responsive even on period hardware.
I think the answer to this would be enough to determine if it's a base for the vector space of operations.
I don't believe that Valve installs a kernel driver for CS:GO or its other titles. They turned anti-cheat into a pretty sophisticated deep learning solution called VACNET.
"They just want to win the argument" is a good summary of what I understood from the article. There are people I regularly encounter who have to inject their opposition or correction to anything anyone else does or says, which feels like they are attempting to prove their superiority or correctness (but instead proving their failure to recognize the context of the original statement).
Couching their point in the style "What about X?" instead of making a counter statement would be a more useful communication method IMO. (Edited to fix grammar)
Nominal sub typing is hard from trivial and calling it unsafe is non-sensical. Structural subtyping yields poor error messages and does not support encapsulation very well, especially if you also want separate compilation.
You'd be right, if CDC's Covid-19 response isn't a repeat of their initial incompetence during Ebola, SARS, etc. https://thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2020/04/11/the-covid-pand...

"To be fair, what’s on display here is a broader institutional malady. The US version of the WHO, the CDC, took a similar stance with another controversial topic—quarantines for health care workers returning from treating patients with Ebola. Four states—New York, New Jersey, Florida, and Illinois—instituted policies to quarantine anyone who had contact with someone infected with the Ebola virus while in west Africa, including medical personnel who cared for patients. No less than the Obama administration, backed by the CDC, attempted to squash these policies, arguing that this would serve as a disincentive for US health workers to travel to Africa to combat the disease at a time this help was sorely needed."
thanks for the link will take a look. like i said i don't have that much experience.
title="Before you say anything, no, I know not to leave my computer sitting out logged in to all my accounts. I have it set up so after a few minutes of inactivity it automatically switches to my brother's."
Isn't it more due to radiophobia than to the actual danger of radiation? Here's a really good lecture about the dangers of radiation and why it's not as bad as people think it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOvHxX5wMa8.
Tweepy is for API access, this is a scraper.
It is possible to work with git from an iPad. I've set up a similar workflow (not for mdBook but for gitbook) a long time ago. I used Working Copy and Textastic.
Every single failed project that I ever worked on.

I've built a lot of useful software but there have been years where I've worked on projects that nobody ever used or will use. Half the time the cause is the dysfunctional organization that I'm working for, that doesn't understand their responsibility or won't listen to good advice.

The other portion of the time it's a side project that I never finished.