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What happens when you actually fall inside a black hole and what is the singularity.

I never really understood what happened really when the guy fell inside it in Interstellar and how come he started seeing all those photos. I just accepted it as Hollywood bs.

I know my question is based on a movie but would still like to know what will someone witness (assuming of course they somehow live)
I feel like most people don't care enough to want movies hampered like this.
It's definitely steep, but if you are doing serious work in the shell on iOS, it's worth it IMHO. I was traveling by motorcycle for 6 months and did all my dev work on an iPad using emacs over mosh on Blink, and it was a great experience.
You get what he means though? Chances of people getting their phone wiped by accident is far higher than the extremely niche case of building some complex UI for an emergency wipe.
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It's misleading to suggest they won't fix an identified bug, as opposed to declining a feature request.
> Disparaging entire mediums makes little sense

I think it makes a lot of sense when the medium is purpose designed and highly optimized to maximize additive shallow interaction.

Sorry, I've had too many meetings and dinners disrupted by too many different people who couldn't stay off the phone to keep pretending it isn't a problem. ... and had far too many informative long form works ignored by their target audience (members of which also just spent our last meeting glued to facebook scroll).
Blogs died the day Google killed Google Reader.

OK, they're still out there, but they rely on Twitter and sites like Hacker News to drive traffic. The RSS-driven native blog ecosystem is nothing like what it was in the Reader days.
Quantum Physics. Still can’t wrap my mind around multiverse being a simpler explanation then the future holds data we won’t have in the now.
Sadly many blogs are often content mill level boilerplate followed by 1-2 sentences of real content. I think people begin to associate blogging at unknown domains as suspicious, given the wide variability in actual content per word on the page.

A series of tweets won’t have this problem, people aren’t trying to game SEO. They’re gaming social media which has a different set of incentives for good/bad
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This just goes to show that the police and security services will stop at nothing to increase surveillance of the general population.

It beggars belief that the police see COVID-19 as an opportunity in such an overt manner - but you can bet the security services see it as an opportunity in a much more circumspect manner.
Singularity in AI?
If you hold power + volume up on an iPhone for a couple seconds it disables biometric unlock. It flushes the unlock keys and only your pin will unlock the phone.

In other words power + volume up means the key to unlock your phone is in your head, not at the end of your finger or your face.

Apple does not have a panic wipe pin.

Personally I think a wipe pin is reasonable, just be VERY sure you don't type the wrong pin in by mistake.

Also, I wonder... would it even work? How long would it take to wipe 64gb or 128gb of flash? securely?
This is actually a huge + for any extensible chat client. We send alerts from various monitoring solutions and use emoji to quickly identify the environment and app. Makes it very easy to understand exactly what is going on.
So why not outsource important stuff? Freelancers and dev houses have the needed expertise. They'd be head over heels since it's a large bank and would probably pay well. Many big organizations can surely afford hiring people with the know-how even at $100/hr if it boosts productivity and gets things done.
I would recommend the substitution s/randomness/uncertainty/ since it seems to be the more useful concept. With the equivalence between the two ways of thinking becomes more clear. The uncertainty you have before learning the value of a bit, is equal to the information you gain when learning it's value.

Let's use an analogy of a remote observation post and with a soldier sending hourly reports:

0 ≝ we're not being attacked
1 ≝ we're being attacked!

Instead of thinking of a particular message x, you have to think of the distribution of messages this soldier sends, which we can model as a random variable X. For example in peaceful times, the message will be 0 99.99% of the time, while in war times could be 50-50 in case of active conflict.

The entropy, denoted H(X), measures how uncertain the central command post have about the message before they will receive, or equivalently, the information they gain after receiving the message. The peace time messages contain virtually no information (very low entropy), while wartime 50-50-probability messages contain H(X)=1 bit each.

Another useful way to think about information is to say "how easy would be to guess the message" instead of receiving it? In peacetime you could just assume the message is 0 and you'll be right 99.99% of the time. In wartime, it would be much harder to guess---hence the intuitive notion that wartime messages contain information.
In some ways I completely agree, but if you ever have to start sending larger volumes of stuff (especially parcels, especially international parcels, and especially international parcels to areas outside north America and the EU) then getting things to consistently arrive where they should in a reasonable time frame takes a lot of effort.
> You wrote "writing and maintaining simple CRUD apps, and to be honest I hate it. Its mind numbingly boring and I certainly dont want to spend my life doing that".

> This has nothing to do with hitting the ceiling of your capabilities.

He also wrote "I fail to understand, fail to recognize patterns, am too slow to understand simple concepts and never retain anything. Occasionally understand the individual concepts of something but then her completely lost when they're all combined in some applied method."
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The media's behaviour in all this has been a disgrace.

WHO should have known better and their lack of media awareness is a problem.

But we need to hold the media accountable. I in someways hope they never recover, they seem too broken.

This is also seen in world leaders from all countries saying something and the media putting it in headlines as a true statement. As thought the leader of X knows the expected death toll with accuracy?

This was also seen in the media not asking the most basic questions in January or February. They are supposed to be our 4th Estate

[edit] Honestly, Fox reported this current WHO snafu best just quickly looking at the 3 headlines from CNN, BBC, Fox -

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/04/25/us/who-immunity-antibodie...
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-52425825
https://www.foxnews.com/health/coronavirus-immunity-not-assu...
This is sweet. If you're interested, I'd be happy to help out with your todo to integrate with a local database. Getting the rate-limiting and retries right can be a little tricky but it's been on my list to add Gmail support to AspenDB https://github.com/aspen-cloud/aspen-cli.
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I would never buy anything from this sort of site especially if done by the Québec government. They should try to fix their Senior Home Covid-19 situation due to lack of healthcare workers because of their absurd healthcare system rules unlike rest of Canada. The premier of Quebec CAQ govt. is populist and wants to throw some raw meat to his voter base. The next one will be immigrant bashing.
Yes I had an address that had a duplicate.

I think the other address was supposed to have an East before the street name, but when they left that off I got (some of?) their mail.

Should have figured out my +4 and tried that.
I ctrl-F'd the comments for "LibTerm" because this looked identical and I was wondering what the differences were. I guess there aren't many.
It never showed up for me. I followed the instructions. I'm on a samsung galaxy note 9. Any way I can send you debug logs?
This was covered on PBS Space Time in an early episode on GR and talked about later as well.
Maybe when you stop to think, the balance of explanations tips over one way
It seems odd because of the moral hazard. Basically, the court is saying, "Treat your employees as you will, just make sure they're not French.".

Is this really any less of a problem if French deliveries are packed by abused Belgian peons?
The assumption is the acceleration and the gravitation are in the same direction and the same magnitude. The point is that given these two, it's impossible to distinguish the two.

If you think it's sneaky to "implicitly" assume they're in the same direction, I would point out that this is no different from assuming they have the same magnitude. It would be kinda dumb to say "well this 1m/s^2 acceleration can't possibly be equivalent to gravity because gravity is 9.8m/s^2, so the statement is obviously wrong and they're trying to trick me!!"... same thing for direction.
Problem is, we have no physics yet that explains what happens "inside" the event horizon.
Doesn’t that all still make it dark and/or dry humor? Everyone has different levels of what they consider acceptable.
If you mean libel, it's only a crime if what you claim is false. In the US, anyway. From what I understand, in some countries in Europe it only has to be an attempt to defame someone, whether it's true or not.
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Well the flip side is that being a programmer can get you access to a lot of interesting fields, especially fields which don't have an abundance of technically savvy people. These also tend to be fields that have strong humanitarian impact, or utility. I like solving people's problems and I can do that through code.

Lots of people work as software consultants. It's really no different from physical trades - you know your tools, people come to you with problems, you solve them.

I do think a big factor is choosing what you work on though. It's a lot less fun if your projects are dictated to you, unless you happen to really enjoy your field.
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I don't know. It sounds like that could be an attempt to lower the education level of the populace.
My summary of this blog post: plenty of random input data can reveal code bugs. The kind of bugs that would take probably a lot of time of think of and write unit tests for, in advance.
> angular momentum is only conserved if you take spin into account as well.

Do you know an example of a process that moves angular momentum from one kind of spin to the other?
I think this is actually a good explanation of the lift force, but lots of other factors come in to play for wing shape. Two other big factors are drag forces, which are dependent on the surface area, air density and the velocity of the craft, and so there's a complicated optimisation problem there, and turbulence, which depends a lot on the wing tilt, and the the shape of the wing.
The original Deus Ex is all that, too, only with tech from 1999. Highly recommended.
A Microsoft employee (Eric Gunnerson?) wrote that every feature starts with minus 100 points. I can't link that claim because Microsoft periodically decides it's now a hip exciting new company and throws away things that made it relevant. In 1995 it didn't surprise me that Microsoft didn't "get" the Web, but in 2020 it does seem kinda crazy that they still don't get it.

What Eric meant is, implementing features isn't a coin toss decision. The effort of adding even the very simplest feature, and then testing it, and documenting it, and supporting it, is enormous, so all of that weighs against any potential feature from the outset. If your feature should go on the list that's because it scores "plus 100 points" against those considerations.
> In the limit of d -> 0, the energy released -> infinity.

I believe the poster's general premise to be false. While renormalization may be useful in resolving infinities in general, I don't think it's necessary for this one.

You can't commute the dp*dx of a Hamiltonian to be zero in a quantized world, so if gravity has quantum properties, you don't need to worry about what happens when d -> 0. There is no "0" distance.
Summary: Germany is moving away from a centralized approach (PEPP-PT = Pan-European Privacy-Preserving Proximity Tracing) to a decentralized one (like DP-3T = Decentralised Privacy-Preserving Proximity Tracing).

A nice comic version of DP-3T, by Nicky Case, is available here: https://ncase.me/contact-tracing/

(But is the Apple-Google protocol identical to DP-3T, or does the headline mention “Apple-Google approach” just for simplicity? I heard there are some minor differences…)
I think you've misunderstood what "worry" means to a Stoic. If you don't understand something or you cannot Co trol it completely or you don't know if you can control it, then concentrating on that isn't worry. It's only worry if and when it is totally beyond your control.

Also, I'd be interested to hear how many stoics committed suicide because they ran out of things to control!? I can think of only one person, and his suicide was forced and the only way to save his family I belive?
Speaking as a mental health specialist:

No that is not. We treat disease. Pretending we can fine-tune personality traits is quackery, and no respectable mental health specialist would lay claim to that.

But don’t worry - quacks abound, and they even take your insurance.
"Embrace, extend, extinguish".
> Only, there's no evidence that folks who recover from COVID are immune.

Yup. But the usual assumption, experience, history, situation, whatever of viruses is that recovery means immunity at least for some significant time, say, a year or so.

Also, I stated

> So, if want to accept the usual situation for viruses,

I didn't explicitly repeat this qualification just before your quote but went for fewer words.
Certainly smart enough to do the vast majority of work in professional software dev which is basically CRUD, and smart enough to realize that it is easy and boring. I'd go back to school anyway and see of there's not some research in any other field you might be interested in.
You could try to read a github project and look up syntax when you get stuck. But for languages, I just like to suck it up and go through the text version of the basic tutorial extremely fast. Or watch boiled down video tutorials at 2x. Take simple notes to remember syntax differences. It will be boring but over in 2 hours. That’s not much time.

Then you can find new interesting features that weren’t present or similar in languages you used before and take a bit more time to broaden your understanding why they were chosen, and how this creates new constraints, opportunities, or room for errors.

For platforms like node.js the architecture is highly variable and sometimes finding and walking through an example close to your eventual project will be most useful.

Cheers!
Having grown up in the United Arab Emirates in the 90s, I've personally seen the growth of NMC / UAE Exchange along with other firms (GEMS Education Group, the Lulu Group, Danube etc.) that are giant corporate entities. This story arc isn't going to be the last of what we see from firms that saw such growth. One of the biggest hurdles with such firms listing in public stock markets internationally is the lack of corporate accountability / governance in their home markets. As much as I'd hate to say it, building and growing companies in tax havens such as Dubai helps them only to develop corporate cultures to brush off problems under the rug that come to bite them later. Because they don't have to pay taxes, there isn't a government entity they need to be held accountable to. One of the few reasons where having an income / corporate tax system might just help public shareholders. As always, this is all anecdotal.
No, they are not really spinning. However the spin quantum property does make the particle deflect as if it were spinning when it moves through a magnetic field, thus the name.

It is techinically a two-component spinor, which is why the direction of the spin 'moves' if you measure it along different x,y,z axes. It is also quantized unlike a normal vector: All fermions have quantized half-integer spin magnitudes and all bosons have integer magnitudes.

Magnetic fields can be used to change the spin.

When particles interact, opposing spins tend to pair up in each electron orbital which cancels the magnetic field. This is why permanent magnets must have unpaired electron orbitals.
I was talking about paper chemistry for dark room printing from positive film. There’s still plenty of e6 kits available.
Seeing these screenshots reminded me of all that bloom-abuse, which feels like a hallmark of the xbox 360 era. Seeing these shots was a good reminder that it could be tastefully used.
Zoning is important, but let’s also remember that single-family housing isn’t really a speculative investment vehicle in Japan like it is here.

You can either have private equity buying up foreclosed homes and house flipping tv shows or housing being used as housing that most people can afford. America chooses the former, Japan, the latter.
I graduate this May with a CS degree, that about mirrors my experiences. The vast majority of competent and even semi-competent students have no problems getting good paying internships, and jobs out of college. I appreciate that unpaid internships are a really bad situation in some fields, but fortunately CS is pretty lucrative right now.
I think that what you did is fine.

It is usually best to write a short blog post about the product and post it as a link and add a comment explaining that you are the author. It is not necessary, we would have guessed that you are probably the author, but it's a nice detail.

Reading all the thread again, for someone like me that didn't know about the "Miracle Fruit", the name of the company "Miracle Nutrition" sounds like snake oil sold by an informercial at 3am. (I think I just ignored it the first time I read the post.) If you make a web page or blog, you should explain the origin of the name and some references to the use of the fruit.
Choosing an ineffective tool, or not knowing being familiar with its effective use says more about the crafter than the tool.
It's magic. But here's a fun interactive explanation: http://www.jezzamon.com/fourier/
"Oh no", he said, "there is no system. They know through experience and gut-feeling."

Let me guess, this person is under 30. Not to be that old angry, ageist person, but that combination of ignorance, arrogance and complete dismissal of the entire history of humans beforehand is pretty annoying at this point.

Before software people managed pretty well!
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No they kept saying that the center of it is called singularity IIRC.
That was the original concept that led Ian Murdock and John Hartman to found Progeny. The idea was that overnight, while no one was working at their desks, companies could reboot their Windows boxes into a SSI network of Linux nodes to run parallel compute tasks.

Roughly, anyway, I got the sales pitch 20 years ago so my memories are fuzzy. I wasn’t remotely sold on it but was so anxious to work for a Linux R&D company in Indianapolis of all places that I accepted the job anyway.

Sadly we didn’t get far on the concept before the dot-com crash. Absent more venture capital we pivoted to focus on something we could sell, Progeny Linux, and tried to turn that into a managed platform for companies who wanted to run Linux on their appliances.
I'm from South Dakota.

So far, they've had 10 deaths. The total projected number of deaths through August 3rd is 93.

New York is projected to suffer 23,232 deaths for the same time period.

https://covid19.healthdata.org/united-states-of-america/sout...
Some propose that but in practice that requirement isn't sane. Carmakers can't stop their cars from being used to run people down and the [[ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_bit Evil Bit]] was a joke. Many downright reject the "permission first/absolutr safety" standard as harmful and impossible.
Great point!! A perfect example is AirBnB - look at the number of open-source projects that came from there.

https://airbnb.io/projects/

I myself have used two of these projects heavily (Airflow, SuperSet) and am thankful to the teams for building such great products.

But did this make any business sense for AirBnB to spend on these? In this post COVID world, very unlikely this would continue.
Your premise is moot. The economic support isn't there, whether or not people "should" face this decision, they are.

'thomasmcgalvin' stated that all non-essential workers are either taking COVID-19 seriously, or are hoaxers. He dismisses what is probably the majority of people -- normal working people who understand there is a risk, but who still want to work in order to avoid a personal economic disaster.
- Drop out of cs for an action script game developer role

- another game dev role - remote

- move to London for as3 role, got into to mobile with objective c, still games

- another game business got into c++, c# and java - that’s 8 years mark

- consulting at bank with java

- co-founded startup as cto - python & node
It doesn't help that Dorsey is terrified of making the smallest changes to the platform. I guess he's too busy meditating with Himalayan salts or something. He works 80 hours a week at his companies (or did), but increasing the Tweet size took a decade.

Check out Hatching Twitter. It presents the entire foundation, with Dorsey and Ev Williams as well meaning but flawed leaders that were more than happy to stab each other in the back when it helped them. That Medium turned out as it did, and that Twitter has changed little in the last 15 years isn't surprising. They were accidents of history and they're now stuck trying to please their existing power users and Wall Street, regardless of if that's what we really need as societies.

It goes without saying, but our families and friends are literally dying because these platforms are so bad at handling disinformation. The question is if they are even capable and if not, why?

We're either going to see the net balkanize (as it has in some places) or lose the freedom and hope that it used to entail or both. It is an existential threat, which is why these guys should be criticized all day until they show some real responsibility.

Here's an article that was on HN by the same author that sounds similarly skeptical about Dorsey:

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/04/in-the-coronavirus-e...

Several former board members and high-level executives at Twitter (who have since become apostates of Dorsey), for example, have pointed out to me how even his morning ritual is full of holes and is not too dissimilar to Holmes’s and Neumann’s rituals. As for the 45 total minutes Dorsey allegedly spends in his 220-degree sauna at night (which he breaks up into three separate stints), two World Sauna Championship competitors (yes, that’s a thing) collapsed after spending six minutes in a sauna only 10 degrees warmer than Dorsey’s (which is already hotter than boiling water). After being dragged out, the competitors were treated for severe burns, and one of the men died. Then there is Dorsey’s assertion that he is running both publicly traded companies while he works from home two days a week.
side note: take a look at this guy's other blog posts, they're all very good
Paper airplanes fly, and they have flat wings!

It turns out that flat wings work just fine, but the airfoil shape we see on airplanes is more efficient:

http://warp.povusers.org/grrr/airfoilmyth.html
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