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Everything you write I see the other way around.

I've been using IDEs for nearly 30 years, from QBasic in DOS, Turbo Pascal, Visual Basic, Delphi, Visual Studio, Eclipse, RubyMine, IntelliJ... and every time my career shifts a bit, I ended up learning a new IDE with new keystrokes and new idioms.

Changing IDE every 3 to 5 years gets old after a while. You learn not to learn too much of the IDE, because a lot of stuff beyond the basics of text editing won't come with you to the next IDE.

Emacs changes that. You can stay with Emacs for a whole career, because it's so malleable and extensible it can adapt to new trends, languages, etc. When you say "stuck in the past", I say "stuff I did 20 years ago still works".

You say fresh blood and concepts are spreading their influence: I don't see that as new, that's always been the case.

YMMV. I use IntelliJ for editing Java these days, but it's the only IDE I tolerate [1], and I still switch to Emacs for complex text editing. I live in gentle hope that growing language server support will reduce the need to tolerate IDEs.

[1] IntelliJ is far inferior to Eclipse for incremental compiles and running tests, but Eclipse has a horrific UI, weird modal system, and a parallel project management universe in workspaces. Neither have editors as good as Emacs.
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Yes! Lighthouse positioning system from Valve for indoor positioning it's so interesting, swarm compatible, easier to setup, cheaper and higher precision!

UWB is our present solution, its already easily in the 10cm accuracy in LOS scenario, it also enables complex indoor space with different connected rooms you want to cover, and you could cover easily 30m between each beacons.

We are discussing the option to integrate the optical flow directly into the ArduBee base. If you have suggestions, your contribution is highly appreciated.
Looks good -- you pay as you go. However, their publishers are unknowns, no big names. Nothing I'd be interested in.
Can't live without my one day delivery for sure, amazon workers will just have to deal with the virus, right?
Wait- Argentina was a dictatorship for many years and the police were thugs enforcing the will of the ruling elite. To extrapolate from their behavior that all police everywhere are just waiting to put the boot in at every opportunity seems myopic at best.
Same as doing accounting, teaching, doctoring etc.
Yet people still do it. Because some people have families, mortgages and can't just flip table and do entry level job in completely different industry.

Not every programmer is 10x programmer who has side projects that they work on after work and dreams in c++.
Same with any other profession. I'll bet there are skydiving instructors who don't care much about it anymore but still do it for monetary reasons.
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Ooof, I hope you're wrong about this, and that people would enjoy more having sporadic periods of freedom rather than months straight of lockdown, but I can't say that for sure. You may be right.
Emacs is malleable enough that someone implemented a whole screen reader in it.

The basic idea is that you have a library that lets you stick your own code at the beginning/end/around existing functions. So, someone did that for functions responsible for moving to the next/previous line/word/character, and they had a basic screen reader in place. In about 30 minutes.

Now, it's far more advanced, and, because of the malleability, you can "hack" information out of someone else's code if they don't provide it to you directly, which comes in very handy for such things.

As an aside, NVDA, the main screen reader for Windows at this point, is very malleable too. It's written in Python, so extensions can modify anything they wish. Amazing things have been built for it, including a whole remote access package, team-viewer style.
To be blunt: because they're not good enough. Even ArduPilot which is probably the best mission-flying software in the open source space, or DJI who are still ahead in the commercial space, will often need manual intervention to complete a mission.

You absolutely _can_ build an ArduPilot drone that takes commands and tries to fly a mission end-to-end without intervention, but without a real-time TX link of some form, you are in hot water when it fails.
what about minecraft? seems way more successful and malleable
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I relate so much to this!
No, I haven't been working in the last ten years. For seven years I have been mostly traveling and drifting, mostly in SE Asia. Long story.

You need way, way less money then you think you do but the expectations adjustment process on the mental level is very slow. But of course it is good to have some savings.
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Wait, was your dad a P-51 pilot, or a B-17 navigator? Quite different roles. I know the AAC moved people around at whim, but this seems unusual.
The best way to keep the workers safe, is to send them home

Now people complain that they are sending them home

Amazon is just todays "big evil corporation" and nothing they do will be "correct"
Yeah, as a regular El Reg reader I wouldn't consider it an attack, more playful ribbing.
> A Yahoo pipes! clone really needs some open source love. Too bad the maintainer is more interested in making it a one man SaaS.

I guess that's fair.

I want(ed) to run Pipes as an SaaS because I think that model would be highly advantageous to me, and that would be very advantageous for Pipes. But that with the predecessors history as background this approach is a critical concern is something I do understand. I will now try to have my cake and eat it too: https://github.com/pipes-digital/pipes contains a new FOSS version that is meant to exist in parallel with pipes.digital, as long as that model works out. So worst case now is this FOSS approach fails, and then only the SaaS would die, not the software.
That is a thing. Google "articulated tug barge".
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> those cases would not only be an order of magnitude higher

An order of magnitude is a week of the natural virus spread. How long has been the lockdown there? Two weeks would mean imply in a two orders of magnitude difference.
I'm French. In french "gouvernement" (french word for "government") only refers to the executive branch, and our justice system is strongly attached to its independence from the two other branches. So it seems strange to me to conflate all three branches together.

Interestingly, in the French wikipedia page for "gouvernement" [1], there is this paragraph :

Différence avec le terme anglais

En anglais, le mot « government » s'applique non seulement au gouvernement au sens où on l'entend en français, mais aussi aux collectivités territoriales et aux administrations publiques, aussi bien centrales que locales. Le concept le plus proche en français est donc celui de collectivité publique, qui englobe les institutions politiques qui incarnent directement les pouvoirs législatif, exécutif et judiciaire, ainsi que l'ensemble des administrations qui leur sont rattachées.

Which can be loosely translated as :

Difference with the english term

In English, the word "government" includes not only the executive governement like in French, but also all local and global public administrations. The closest concept in french is therefore "collectivité publique" which encompasses institutions for all Legislative, Executive, Judiciary powers, as well as all administrations under their authorities.

I learnt something new today.

[1] https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gouvernement
I have an instagram account with beach pictures in it but that's about it. https://www.instagram.com/2marinsdeaudouce/
The air freight market isn't doing so well either: https://www.aircargonews.net/data/worldacd-march-a-month-lik...
Why is "silicon valley" only websites n smartphone apps?
> Additionally the malleable system has a price, which for most is bigger than it's benefits.

And yet here we are, talking in a web browser, the most malleable modern environment of all. We’re not running some forum-only app, like we used to have.
I've had a similar thing happen. I got the cheap tier for myself. (first.last@gmail). About the same time, I had a work email (first.last@example).

For some reason, they listed my cheap tier license under the work email. I still have no idea how this happened except for maybe laziness by some Atlassian support person.
Why not typedef struct {uint8_t *data, dataend} ?

Makes it easier to take subranges out of it
You are not wrong and I knew better but I was build for first time and bought all at same time. Now it's a mix of HGST, WD, Toshiba. Some are 34000h, with no issues. The WD is slower when data scrubbing but I don't trust WD for many years and that one was because other vendors were out of that size. I don't really know who to trust in that space any more so it's Toshiba for me on any new replacements.
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What is really an "external package" in emacs?

There should be nothing stopping someone just copying and pasting an entire elisp source text from a website into scratch, evaluate the buffer on the spot, and have the exact same functionality as installing the package would.

I'm not saying that retrieving an external package isn't easier, but due to emacs' nature there isn't really sort of delineation based on how the elisp got into the emacs.
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mouse + keyboard

Sometimes I work on the bed or couch.
They were ordered to stop delivering golf clubs and in response are threatening not to deliver personal protective equipment.
This is an important direction.

For now, training reinforcement learning agents mean that you need to simulate an environment, for example a car simulation, or a robotic simulation, or a video game.

The simulation can be quite slow. In the worst case, your environment may actually not be a simulation, but a real-world experiment - in which case each interaction is even slower.

For now, this is something RL researchers have to deal with. If we could get "offline" reinforcement learning to work, ie learning from pre-recorded experiences only, this would bring a considerable boost to the field, as you could just run your simulation for a few millions/billions frame then do your research on that.

Huge boost in turnover time and computation cost.

Another aspect is reproducibility. Reinforcement learning is notoriously hard to benchmark properly (see eg https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.06560). One of the reason is the stochasticity of the environment: you can often perform the same action in an environment and end up with different results. And agents learn from what they see, so a slight difference due to stochasticity in the beginning can have a huge impact later!

So here again learning "offline" helps a lot - since they level the playing field for different methods.
Bit long, but arguably an oath creates and represents value.

Simply, it separates you from the in-group vs. out-group, and confers identity, conditional upon its integrity. We don't really have them in modern society outside of fraternities, a few gated professions, security clearances, and whatever policing is. Oddly, oaths of public office barely count as nobody expects office holders to live up to them when the heat is on, and they do not confer membership.

Then again, given who still takes them, we could say that modern society runs on a foundation of oaths, but what's changed is prosecution and investigation techniques are such that there isn't much of an enforcement mechanism for breaking them. If unenforceable oaths underwrite our institutions, what does it mean for them?
It's not just those four, rando startups have started to do it as well.

It's the third time in my career that I see a company making the developer head count jump from 10 to 100 only to ask all the newbies to rewrite the software from scratch in the most disorganized manner possible.

I'm becoming allergic of rewrites, but I'm pretty sure that I'll land into another one if I switch companies again.
I don't think the rumored bad English-speaking capacities of the French are coming from the protection of the French language, but rather from an inadequate teaching methods and funding.
The lack of "scroll-preserve-buffer-position" has been a very minor pet peeve for me for multiple years, and for some reason this very simple solution just never occurred to me.

I can't believe I didn't think of this. I'm already using marks to keep track of position when I scroll, it's just all manual right now.

I'll likely mess around with some hooks in my config this weekend and see if this is actually feasible, or if it comes with caveats I'm not seeing right now. I guess it would need to account for multiple windows open into the same buffer too.
sure, only if you stick to bare-bones org-mode. if you start using any of the "power-features" unique to org-mode you're stuck. If you restrict yourself to markdown-compatibilty, why not just write in markdown?
I think you are correct. Georgia's heat map approach to graphically displaying infections based upon per capita case rates really highlights this, IMO: https://dph.georgia.gov/covid-19-daily-status-report
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While that's true, and I have been spending a bit more, I got most of my stockpiling out of the way early, and I've not been buying books, electronics, digital media, video games, home improvement supplies, or clothing. I'm 100% focused on just surviving the next few weeks, and my credit card statement reflects that.
You might be right, but it's not an either or situation.

Some sales reps that told doctors Oxy was NOT or LESS addictive and knew that was untrue so they did lie.

Ironically the exact same thing happened a century earlier with Bayer and Heroin, history does indeed repeat itself.

The thieves that burgled drugs from pharma are also responsible obviously.

As far as the fast down votes, chances are everyone knows someone who has been hurt from the opiod crisis. It is a very painful subject for people. Playing the devils advocate is going to get a swift response that just the way it is.

My personal experience with the opiod crisis is typical, I had a friend who got hurt, started taking oxy, got hooked, his doctor cut him off, he spent a ton of money buying pills off the street, when the cost got too high he switched to heroin, when he decided to get help he went to a doctor for methadone, they did a blood test, because of the fentinyl he tested positive for abusing methadone and was refused. Three months later he was gone.

I feel the entire system failed him, ofcourse he was not without blame, everyone played a part in his death, including me for giving him money.
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> Almost all laws and legal orders have some ambiguity to them.

That doesn't make this a desired trait that should be willfully accepted. Force them to make them not ambiguous, otherwise they will remain as such. Ambiguous laws and punishments are one of the largest sources of judicial inequality in every nation.

Authority does not need to be respected if it does not respect those who authorized it.
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You're missing the point, which is that if you think the situation is bad now, just wait how bad it'll be in two weeks if we don't act even more stringently now. Letting up on the restrictions now would be exactly the wrong thing to do when the healthcare system is already bursting at the seams; it'd make things much much worse in the weeks to come.

The very earliest that it makes sense to even start considering reducing the restrictions is once the healthcare system is back to operating at under its maximum capacity. And you have to ease things back slowly, ready to clamp back down if necessary if the healthcare system seems ready to be overwhelmed again.
Discussion from initial launch: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17587992

I wrote Video Hub App: open source charityware [1] software "like YouTube for videos on your computer".

I sell a complied version of it for $3.50 and donate $3.50 for every purchase to Against Malaria Foundation [2] Yesterday 1,500th copy was sold resulting in $5,250 (total) given to a cost-effective charity [3]

[1] https://medium.com/@whyboris/charityware-doing-good-with-pro...

[2] https://videohubapp.com/

[3] https://www.AgainstMalaria.com/VideoHubApp
Sometimes I wonder just what it is exactly that keeps society held together when you consider just how many numbnuts are out there.
I fail to see how going to the normal location when looking for an item can be called "stupidity".
The air cargo market is down quite a bit: https://www.aircargonews.net/data/worldacd-march-a-month-lik...

The surge in "cargo only" is flooding supply into a waning demand market.
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That's interesting feedback, I'll pass it along to the product team, although this is an angle they've probably thought about more than I have. The way we use it isn't really as an accountability metric, more of an estimate that can change dynamically when new problems arise so we can roughly plan out when a feature is going to be released. Granted we don't have a boss who would beat us over the head with that. Thank you for the feedback though I'll make sure to pass it along.
The "whole purpose" of lockdowns are to reduce the transmission rate to a manageable level. Not to zero. Broad but imperfect compliance has proven to be more than sufficient to achieve this. Many nations are now loosening restrictions because the transmission rate has been pushed so low that there is room to increase it without overwhelming healthcare capacity.
Thanks! Not buying, just want to be able to check prices for if/when volatility drops again.
In this case she deserves to get ignored for even asking in the first place because she knew you were working overtime all month and she doesn't even have a job! She just sits on her ass all day complaining about how things could have been better if you would just do more free work on the Atom editor for her after you get home and take out the garbage.

When you said "yes", you were just trying to be nice. It's not like you lied - you will take it out... next week.

She should probably just take the garbage out herself if she doesn't like the schedule you do it on. It's not like a few extra garbage bags sitting outside until next week is a big deal. If she has time to complain, she has time to do it herself.

I honestly have no respect for this stupid b____ and I'd advise you to divorce her ASAP.
It sounds like you're raising an interesting point, but it's not exactly clear what your logic is. Mind clarifying?
I can't make sense of your command lines (why are you passing grep to grep??), but you're comparing pure-Windows against pure-WSL? I was comparing the two of those against \\wsl$ which is the slow one...
The existing human coronaviruses aren't the most well-researched things around, but as I understand it there's evidence infection with them might actually be pretty dangerous to at-risk people. They just can't cause a pandemic because too many people are immune.
as far as i can tell the most egregious industry is the insurance (specifically property related). every single company claims to be doing AI and it's all complete bullshit. the term has no meaning anymore.
FreeIPA has it's own set of problems. One being basically unrunnable in containers because of weird systemd stuff
Yes, please blog post this. I'm curious to see how you inject the right bundle hack name (js side) into the django template (Python side).

> non-standard manifest plugin

I hear you, and this feels weird to me too, but then again node-land needs to talk to Django-land somehow so writing a .json file doesn't seem all that bad way to do it ;)
>I feel like whatever errors Amazon have made with regard to protecting its employees have largely been realized in France by now

I guess I'm going to have to believe the people actually intimately involved in this, like the courts, instead of an armchair analyst on hacker news.
No, it's not. I'm not saying that people losing their relatives are somehow more impacted than those who die. I'm simply saying that you can't say that categories of people more likely to survive an infection aren't impacted.
Yes, entering Oceanic you basically tell them: "Request track Delta, Flight level 350, Able 370, second choice track Charly"

Translation: I want this route, the best altitude for me is 35,000 ft and at my current weight the maximum I can climb to is 37,000 ft. That optimum altitude is calculated by the flight management system.
So I did mangle my numbers somewhat, thanks for checking. As of April 5th they'd done 1.3 million tests, found 95k cases, and had 1.4k deaths [1]. Presumably there are at least some people tested multiple times; so those 1.3 million tests don't represent 1.3 million people.

The only way to get the "die with the best medical care" number below 0.1% is if you have a million untested people who are sick.

If I was a proper statistician, with those numbers I could probably come up with models or estimates of how many possibly untested people there might be in Germany. My instinct is that number can't be millions, because at least some of those millions would be sick enough to go to the hospital, and then all of their connections would be tested and be found out.

But even then, what we really need is the "would have died without medical care" number, which is what the number would look like if we did a "fast burn" and let everyone get sick at once. For that number to be less than 1% (which would still be pretty dire), we need closer to 2 million unknown cases. I just don't see how 2 million positive cases can hide from the kind of testing Germany is doing. The same goes for Korea.

[1] https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/situati...
Yes, they're called log-structured file systems. Been around for decades, lots of research.
Wow, thanks for that info. I didn't realize toasttab had that issue. I will keep an eye out as people submit businesses via my form.

Also, great work building your database -- very impressive!
does WD still make new HGST products? How can you tell which drives are from which team, or have they been blended together?
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Maybe the court didn't think stopping non-essential goods was a way to reduce the risk. Maybe they thought that essential goods are worth the risk, but non-essential goods aren't. That seems like it might be closer to the business of the French legal system.

Essential businesses are open, and nonessential businesses are closed for safety reasons, and if a business is partially essential and not safe enough then...
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Is there an up to errata to track what has changed in to 30(?) years?

This was quite easy to follow and worked up from basics. Don't really see such well written documentation these days.
And that's on average. Some probably dropped a lot more and are heading towards bankruptcy.

Busybody-politicians have been telling people to not buy (hoard) stuff and warning retailers that "profiteering" won't be tolerated. Well, a few weeks down the road the stores are gone and everyone and their uncle is shopping at amazon.com. Maybe that was the idea to begin with. Bezos must be laughing his ass off reading those headlines.
I agree... they closed access to waterways here because they were seeing some boats too close together. That makes a lot of sense if you don't think about it, and clearly should not have happened.
"scarce donor organs are not allocated based on ability to pay, but in other ways"

That only is true if we ignore the organ black markets that many millionaires/billionaires have access to.