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Indeed. APIs do not just appear from the void, someone has to write them for anyone to have an API to glue together.

Somewhere at the bottom, fundamental code is always present.
Does it really matter? It sounds like a philosophical question without any real meaning to me. I can overtake the turtle even though he moves. I can tell that I should not trust this particular man from this point on. It's very easy to lose reputation and very hard to build it.
"Chose"? Most of them live a hand to mouth existence: if they can't work, they don't eat.
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> Before trying to make allocation faster, try to eliminate them first

Not sure if memory pools still count as allocation, but they should be faster, and are easily done in C++. Boost.Pool for instance.
this example uses k3s - which is the k8s distribution by the Rancher guys. Really cool distro - simple UX. Runs equally good on a raspberry pi or the cloud
> People don't have to spend thousands of dollars and four years of their life to paint or sculpt or whatever - it may not be proficient and lifelike but it'll still be art.

I don't think it's important to the overall argument of your comment, but this is incredibly reductive. If one has little appreciation for a particular form of art maybe this is true, but if, for example, all orchestras or other classical music ensembles were comprised of less proficient musicians I'd sooner stop listening to classical music altogether.

> Your world wouldn't be all that much more drab if we stopped forcing engineers to learn "culture".

I'm not sure if it was your intention, but quoting the word culture comes off as disparaging, but given the tone of your comment it certainly seems so.

I think I would've agreed with you if you'd simply said "engineers shouldn't be forced to take humanities in higher education; doing so is largely ineffective, at least in terms of imparting cultural appreciation and other related soft skills." Instead, I can't help but read it and think that it's single-minded and tone-deaf.
That's a great summary. Thanks for answering the question for me!
Such experience is fairly common in Poland, where we don't have PL Amazon at all (we can however, order from Amazon.de).
Often we can get much better prices in Polish shops. Moreover, PL shoppers use shopping comparison tools. Our top marketplace (Allegro) introduced a much cheaper version of prime two years ago and it works great. The whole e-commerce is much more decentralized, there is more competition and Amazon is not planning to enter this market at all - it would have a hard time competing.
That alone isn't a good counterargument, since x-rays and gamma rays are also electromagnetic radiation.
What's the more-secure alternative?
I remember when the ability to use Twitter via SMS was touted as a way to help people communicate around firewalls and internet outages or restrictive data plans. I'm not sure if there was ever a strong case for that, but the idealist in me feels that this is a loss for some of the least connected.
Both pages crawl to a halt in chrome on a 2017MBP using a 4k external display.
Germany is, I think, fairly exceptional in this case.

Living in Ireland, Irish stores can be very hit and miss. Amazon UK is often faster, very often cheaper, has cheaper shipping (even though it's coming from UK), has cheaper returns (returns through the post in Ireland are extortionate)

I'd honestly say in some ways its gotten worst over the years, probably from competition from UK retailers. If you are buying in big quantities, it's best to go with a big company, and they aren't in Ireland. If you are ordering small quantities, that's not enough to keep a company afloat.

It's so bad, when it comes to Electronics, Pet supplies or similar, it's often best to do exactly what you do, and order from Germany and deal with the language barrier and lack of credit card support.

Brexit will be interesting, but I see Amazon had announced in the last few days it's opening distribution centers in Ireland, so i guess it's inevitable that things are going that way.
I don't know the NJ specifics, but if they are like anywhere else on the world, mortgages weren't cancelled, just the time not paid added to the end of the term. Sure if you have 20 years left, 20 years + 4 months isn't a big change, but you still have to pay the amount owned. For landlords is the same, except it is in a shorter time period (but then again, not a lot of people rent the same place for 20+ years)
did you tried it ?
That most allocations happen on the stack doesn't change the fact that most malloc implementations are still heavily optimized for the fast path. As far as I can tell the glibc implementation at least has a fast path for small allocations.
Maybe the answer is trivially "the sort of person who can afford to buy $1k+ headphones", but this comment makes me immediately think "what sort of person buys $1K headphones and then buys a phone they can't use the headphones with?".

More seriously, why don't you get a better phone? (Or carry around an audio player?)
The disability-adjusted life year cost remains another huge uncertain tail risk that is rarely accounted for.
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Rather than drink less quantity (I don't wanna drink a quarter cup of coffee!), the easiest way I've found is to gradually titrate the coffee with decaf. That way you're not disrupting the ritual while you break the chemical addiction. The same method (gradually turning down the dose, while still indulging the ritual) has seen excellent results for nicotine addiction by using a vape.
You can use Ansible to provision servers, it works, but if you do that a lot it's better to use Terraform. With Ansible you are a bit at a lower level and you need to manage the state of your system yourself. It's fine for 4 permanent VMs but not for more complicated infrastructures.
> Python is a good language because it's readable and writeable.

https://github.com/satwikkansal/wtfpython
Just thought I’d mention it as your seemed to have forgotten to, in fact you claimed the ferrets were patients.
Not only is American coffee gross

Your tone is like somebody saying "Australian food sucks" because they had a bad meal at Outback once.

There are great sourcers and roasters here. If you couldn't find any, that's on you.
I'm not sure why you think that scarcity is such a good thing that it needs to be created artificially.
I've thought about it and I don't think hardware design can map to software.

Hardware is all about individual blackbox components. Take some bits on the left, give some bits on the right. Chain an infinite amount of components. It's "easy" to layout and analyze as a linear flow.

Software is not a linear flow with defined states. How to represent a syscall or an IO? The minimal state of an application is its entire memory.
> giving their brain a break by getting plenty of sleep and R&R is just not feasible.

That sounds like some nasty health problems in the making. Over caffeinated, over stimulated and far too little sleep. It’s a recipe for disaster. I’ve seen first hand how it affected my health and I’m still dealing with consequences, although am a lot better now (stress was also a factor) and I’ve seen how drastically coffee addiction can affect people as I’ve had family members who were (past tense luckily) so addicted they were unable to function without multiple very strong cups a day. It was horrible. Be careful people, use stimulants in moderation and be careful not to become completely dependent!

For short periods when you’re super busy, sure, no problem! But every day long term? You’ll damage yourself.
Mate I think you are overcomplicating this something fierce.

It runs in the background. It logs all encounters by either advertising its presence (Peripheral mode) or scanning for devices (Central Mode). They alternate between these states. When two devices encounters it's logged on both sides. That device is blacklisted for a few cycles to avoid constantly logging it.

The 15 minutes 1.5m conditions are applied on the reporting side after it is uploaded.

No conscious effort. Kinda like how your email client pings you when you receive an email. When was the last time you had to consciously think for an email to come into your mailbox?
Note that in the reports mentioned, the ‘patients’ are mice and ferrets.
I get this a lot if i’n using a VPN or an ad blocker like pi-hole.
Look, i know i've posted my point about headphone jacks a thousand times before, but my opponents are still wrong so i will keep posting it until they learn!
I think it would be _easier_, not harder, to overhear conversations if acoustics were better. Turn off the background music, use materials that keep piercing cutlery noises to a minimum, that sort of thing.
A sharp knife slices more easily through a tomato because it has higher friction
I don’t get it, it’s a phone, with a camera. The camera just needs to be good enough, and for most people it’s been good enough for years.

Most phone reviews these days focuses waaay to much on the camera, because the reviewers are often people who are also into photography or shooting videos.

For myself, I care solely on privacy and price, so I only have one option, if I need a new smartphone. I still think the iPhone SE need to come down in price, but it the only choice, there are no competitors
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Colleges are not going to let many people take gap years. So it'll be a choice between attending the school you want or reapplying next year (when it'll probably be even harder to get in).

Usually most people who want gap years are allowed to do so, but usually there aren't many people who want to do gap years (at least in the US).
It's a copycat product, plain and simple. I guess they thought there was no point pretending otherwise.
terraform manages infrastructure (e.g. creating VM).
ansible manages configuration (e.g. installing tools on fresh VM)
Unfortunately I have to agree with this view. I'm in the UK and I've ordered from many vendors, including food from brick and mortar shops which offer the option to purchase online.

Although in the majority of cases things went well, the two things that really set Amazon apart is (A) the fact that it acts like an arbiter in favour of the buyer (which I argue it should be the standard anyway) and (B) it doesn't haggle or makes it difficult to return faulty or products I'm unhappy with for whatever reason. Again, though I didn't need to return many products for the most part, when I did need to do that a number of sellers made it cumbersome for me to do so.

For a more recent example, I've ordered food from Morrisons online (a UK supermaker chain) and one of the products was not in there. There was no easy way to get it fixed somehow (like a partial refund or something), which reminded me once again why I buy on Amazon even though I'd very much prefer not to.
Funny no one has cited Randals What-If yet: https://what-if.xkcd.com/23/ (third question on the list)

Back of the envelop calculations would have break even after about 100 years...
The client logs all encounters regardless of time or proximity. It just has to be in range.
The 15 minute 1.5m conditions are done on the reporting side when a case is positive and data is uploaded.
Fancy words to use to boggle people's minds
The best demo I've found, also 256 bytes, is Pyrit by Řrřola (Jan Kadlec, a Czech developer). It's frankly incredible, something I wouldn't have believed was possible:

https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=78045

I ported it to a boot sector so you can run it with a single (rather long!) Linux command line in qemu:

https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2019/12/08/pyrit-by-rrrola-incred...

The source code for Pyrit is worth reading too (see first link). It's very clever and quite readable.
Ironically, if you're right about the order of events, I agree with you about the parallel being pretty good, but disagree with you about the implications of the argument. They should have waited until it was possible to include some form of writable media support on the iMac to remove the floppy drive.

(This wouldn't have taken very long, however, unlike the headphone jack, which is likely to remain the superior audio connector for consumers longer than the iPhone remains a product.)
"Obsidian (volcanic glass) scalpels have been considered as an alternative to steel scalpels due to the narrowness of the cutting edge. When incisions made with each type of scalpel are viewed microscopically, one made with a steel scalpel will reveal tearing of individual cells, yet obsidian cuts between individual cells."

That's pretty incredible.
On the contrary, it is impossible to avoid them because you have no way of knowing if hashtag is "claimed". The only way for this to work would be for Twitter, Instagram and others to warn you about these special terms when you try to use it.
Scooters dropped at random places are a massive problem for blind people and people with mobility disabilities.
> How is Sweden in any better position to minimise total (lifetime) C19 deaths? Or all-cause deaths this year?

One strategy is ensuring you have some protection from immunity in the population (e.g. 20%) when the first wave is over, so that together with other measures (testing, contact tracing, quarantines) you have a chance to control the virus until a vaccine is found in say 18 months, while also allowing the economy to function. That is to say: flatten the curve but not too much. You want some percentage of immunity too.

The effects on deaths from the economy will take years to manifest. What quality of cancer care can be offered in a country in 5 or 10 years can definitely depend on how this situation is managed now.
It's very similar to how it works in Emacs
Terraform is very good when it comes to declaring topologies: “there should be N items of this type, in this network, with these characteristics”. It remembers state; as you add or remove stuff to your topology, it will take care of doing all the necessary work to go from topology A to topology B, and detect any inconsistency.

I don’t know Ansible much, but I believe it’s more of a procedure-oriented system, where you declare the steps necessary to reach A, then again to go from A to B. This can be an issue if any item is actually not in the state you expected.
Safari doesn't support WebP.
Like it does currently?
To be fair, one can manage infrastructure with Ansible too.
I have fond memories of "Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch". Our primary-school bus driver had a tape that taught you how to pronounce it step-by-step. To this day the only part I can actually pronounce is the "llantysiliogogogoch" at the end.
"(Coffeehouses are) nurseries of sedition and rebellion." -- Charles II
Here's my personal opinion. I'm mildly interested in HFT, in the same way I'm mildly interested in building a Chess engine, or a Poker AI, or trying to optimize a video codec.

Most of these things, AFAIK, require deep low-level skills in C/C++/ASM and would have enough potential to satisfy the tinkerer in my head.

However:

* If I had time to hone my C/C++/ASM skills, I'd rather join the Demoscene, which would equally satisfy my creative self, and generate a tangible artifact that is entertaining to watch and listen to.
With HFT, the effect is ephemeral.

* I personally believe that AI/ML can't be applied to stock markets. No AI predicted the current pandemic, and in order to have it make complex decisions based on complex trading patterns, you'd have to constantly train/feed it with current (geo)-political, environmental and societal factoids that are interwoven and opaque that your job consequentially becomes being the Content Manager of your Ultra AI (assuming the AI is perfect and doesn't need tweaking).
The complete opposite is true when you're working in a world with fixed constraits, like a chess game, or Startcraft: You know most of the variables and their mechanics, and how the world's constraints work enough that you can actually model an AI navigating it, and the amount of knowledge it has to be fed is constant.

* I've read somewhere that HFT, as a market niche, has a relatively tiny market volume, which doesn't make it that attractive. If I were to spend my time on something, wouldn't I chose something that has a bigger market?

* From an idealistic viewpoint, while I see nothing "wrong" or immoral with stock trading or HFT, I don't see any value either. When I was 19, when you feel you've got infinite amounts of time on this planet, I probably would have considered getting into HFT, but with each year I'm getting older, I ask myself: Does what I do have the potential to make people's lives easier? Does it make people smile? What does it do that I'll be proud of when retelling my life's battles? If it doesn't, is this really the thing I want to be spending time on right now?
From this perspective, for me, working on HFT falls into the same category as working for any AdTech corp.
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It's a matter of time, CHADeMO will slowly die in Europe and USA. Everyone's using CCS nowadays excepts the Japanese brands that didn't get the memo.
I’ll disagree. Twitter’s default experience leans towards politics but with some effort you can curate your twitter experience to focus only on topics you care about. My feed is pretty much only about tech, programming, creators and people building products. I have learned way more from people who are sharing their knowledge on twitter than any other platform. People working with companies creating all sorts of products or value are overwhelmingly active on twitter.

You’ll have to do at least two things -

1. Train the algorithm to drop politics from your feed by actively liking content on other topics.

2. Use Lists to curate timelines on a particular topic.

After this learn to use search and mute filters well. There’s a lot to gain from twitter if you follow and interact with the right people.
I feel you don't understand how React function components work. From a purely functional standpoint everything a function should have access to must be passed in as an argument. Any state that exists is always external to the function. Therefore hooks like useState can't exist because it creates state within a function. This is not only weird from a purely functional perspective it's also incredibly weird from a regular OOP perspective because that state should have been declared inside a class or struct. Therefore it is neither pure FP nor pure OOP. It's a random mix of both but it fools beginners into thinking that because it is not OOP it surely must be functional programming.

The reality is that a component in React is still a class with internal state. React hooks are merely using a reference to "this" behind the scenes to store state but hooks are the only way to access that state. Therefore React hooks are basically a small DSL that adds features like dynamic scoping which is why lots of people think that this isn't regular Javascript anymore.
> ...we are currently only approving apps that reference COVID-19 or related terms in their store listing if the app is published, commissioned, or authorized by an official government entity or public health organization, and the app does not contain any monetization mechanisms such as ads, in-app products, or in-app donations. This includes references in places such as the app title, description, release notes, or screenshots.
Using the same CPU as more expensive phones eases the supply chain and end-user support, plain and simple. Now they don't have to support different CPUs for different phones and make iOS backwards compatible.
A better question from everyone outside the US: what the flying f is with the huuuuuge (accounting for estimated no. of infected and other factors) number of deaths in the USA??!!?!

I mean, the US is (a) a developed country with modern health-care, (b) there is no common 'old parents living in same home with some of the adult children' situation you have in Italy + Eastern Europe, (c) there are no norms of common physical contact like 'kissing on meeting' (see France, Italy, northern Romania etc.), (d) the population is generally very dispersed (compare US density with areas of Western Europe or China) and (e) there is prevalent use of personal cars instead of public transport (as opposed to Western Europe and China, again), which should further diminish transmission.

US stats look worrying for everyone on Earth, it almost looks like a wild difference in viral strains or some other important but unknown factor.
Oh well.

It is possible to go ~anonymously from cryptocurrency to "paid by credit card in US dollars". Basically you barter cryptocurrency for a credit card payment. You can do it with someone you trust. Or you can negotiate online. But then you may get a stolen card account, which might be embarrassing.

I wonder if they accept gift cards.
No, Lisp was developed from 1958 onwards as a list processing language for the IBM 704.

http://jmc.stanford.edu/articles/lisp/lisp.pdf

Page 7:

> The implementation of LISP began in Fall 1958. The original idea was to produce a compiler, but this was considered a major undertaking, and we needed some experimenting in order to get good conventions for subroutine linking, stack handling and erasure. Therefore, we started by hand-compiling various functions into assembly language and writing subroutines to provide a LISP ”environment”.
tmux has been around for as long as I've been using a CLI daily and both tmux and screen have the same overhead for installing from a package manager. I'm not using tmux over screen: I'm just using tmux.
Why is this even a thing?

<rant>

Because the electric utilities don't understand, and can't/won't adapt to, the electrification of transportation.

BEVs from skateboard- to class 8 truck- size are

a) an unimaginably vast opportunity for electricity distributors. They're going to get ALL THE GAS STATION BUSINESS in the next generation.

b) a time-shiftable load. For the BEV energy business to be viable at scale the time-shifting technology is mandatory. They need smart ways to spread out the electric load. If every good doobie battery car owner says, "I'll tell mine to charge at midnight" guess what happens when they all start drawing 8kW at midnight? The peaking generators have to kick on and the power gets really expensive. And "frequency control ancillary services?" They get costly with sudden large loads.

Tesla's already figured out a localized approach to the load-control: I now tell my car what time I need it rather than when to start charging, and it picks the time to start charging. But for load-balancing work at scale is going to require, basically, real-time capacity auctioning.

In Norway, the electric utilities use the FM radio text channel (the one that announces songs on fancy radios) to announce current electricity rates, and their meters pick it up and use it. That's a start.

If the electricity distributors won't build this smart grid, I guess third-party companies have to step into the breach. It's a lot of hands in the cookie jar.

</rant>
If that's your comparison, the lockdown has been an outstanding failure because the virus is still spreading widely and pending to go exponential any day the lockdown is slightly relaxed. Heart surgery that can't prevent the heart attack.
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> and lack of credit card support.

German (physical) shops and restaurants hold a very special disregard for card payment but online it's rarely an issue. Either CC or PayPal (which I also try to avoid) will be provided.
That a substance could have such a hold on you that you have basically decided that you will never stop using it is... kinda scary. I mean, I get it and I’m certainly not going to tell you to stop, but it’s still kinda scary.
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That is what Disney hopes to achieve with this whole thing, yes.
How was it possible to discover it, though?