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> Notice how of the above list everyone except Linux and Android have solid back compat stories.

Out of curiosity, what exactly were your struggles with Linux/Android backwards compatibility? Considering how many apps I run still on my phone still use Gingerbread-era UIs, and how Linux executables from as far back as the mid-90's are supposed to be able to run on even the absolute latest kernel (Linus Torvalds having publicly chewed people out on the LKML for breaking said backwards-compatibility), it's surprising that these would somehow be classified as not having solid backwards compatibility.

The main thing that comes to mind with non-Android Linux is library versions, since those do occasionally break backwards compatibility, but this shouldn't matter too much if you're compiling static executables, or using some isolated runtime like the one Steam (IIRC) provides.

As a point of comparison here, World of Goo's Linux version came out in 2009, and it still works on my system (Slackware64-current) which - while not at the absolute most bleeding edge - is still using library and driver and kernel versions substantially more recent than most "LTS" distro releases.
There's thousand such threats to humanity that need to be prevented even right now. The real problem is determining which threat is real and prioritising.
Think of it like you are a celebrity. You recieve thousands of threats daily, most of these are just threats which will never realise. The problem is identifying which ones will and acting on those to prevent them.
Use of time-sensitive models to predict final auction prices
Yeah. But that's not really the core concept. That's an add on. The core concept still competes with "anybody can make a version of that doner at home" so if you want everyone to rethink the value of the experience up to $15 a pita, it's just going to drive more people to eat out less.

I appreciate that there's more to a restaurant than the literal food on the plate. But I think it's what oversold that ambience drives such a premium.
Guys, this is a natural disaster. The blame game about causality is fucking stupid. Mitigation and response is all that matters because it’s all that’s actually under our (humanity’s) control.
I've heard many good things about that book, which is why I bought it several months ago. From the bits I have read, I like it. But I have not yet finished it, partly because it is not pamphlet sized. It is over 300 pages. But I look forward to the chapter on Filters.
Here's his actual reply: https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2004-July/04614...
I wish this was included in the post. Among the first things I do when I read these articles were to search for author credentials, and I couldn't find one in that article.
One major problem with surfaces is calculating which side is facing out. This is actually much harder than it sounds. CSG doesn't have this problem because it knows inside vs outside.
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I find something like this totally plausible and yet it is completely wrong.

>>> def check_parity(x, expect_odd):
... odds = [ 1, 3, 5 ]
... if x in odds == expect_odd :
... print("ok")
... else:
... print("error")
...
>>> check_parity(5, True)
error

Crazy!
You're comparing a fixed medium, movies, with a dynamic medium, games. I'm not sure VR will be a long term success, but it will have no relation to 3D TVs failure.
Railgrade looks very cool, look forward to checking it out.
Years ago, I stumbled upon a Visual C++ 6.0 bug (if memory serves me right), just by playing around trying to understand C/C++ decls. It would crash on a stray:

*c;

at the beginning of a translation unit.

Didn't K&R have a tiny, tiny C declarations parser (printing out 'human readable' equivalents) example in their book? I think the caveat was that it needs to assume it's dealing with a declaration...
There is a saying. If it tastes good, you don't want to know what's in it :)
It would have radioactive particles stick to it, if that’s what you’re asking.
A few things here:

- In NA, if you’re “just a kitchen” you’re essentially fast food/takeaway - and putting myself directly into competition with McDonalds+etc doesn’t sound like an awesome proposition to me. (Obviously this will vary by culture and local competition)

- Signage, fancy tables and dishes are way cheaper than you’d expect at commercial scales, especially once you amortize them over their estimated lifespans. And on the flip side, it allows you to charge significantly more for the fancier experience.

- I don’t think the “simple and cheap” restaurant actually works that well economically. My litmus test here is when an area gets gentrified, often these hole-in-the-wall places are first to go.

- Most restaurants are lifestyle businesses, so normal business logic breaks down a little. In many cases, the owners want the prestige of running a nice place.
Start at Wuhan. Draw a big circle around it; 2 Chinas large. Anyone in that circle with the ability to develop general antivirals and vaccines were the ones who could be assigned a notional responsibility. I picked on India because I'd heard it produces a lot of medicine and they have enough smart people to accomplish anything. As I stare at Google maps, Japan and Korea probably have the capability as well.

If Europe and the US can have ready-to-go antivirals for every possible disease ever then they are encouraged to do that; but realistically for a virus from an Asian reserve it is reasonable to expect the antivirals will be researched and produced in Asia. Can't be ready for everything; and the US should probably be focusing on possible pandemics from Africa where the locals don't have the sort of technical mastery found in Asia.
Probes travel to mars faster. They have lower mass to fuel ratios.

A manned flight with water shielding for radiation. Rotating crew quarters to generate artificial gravity. And other amenities necessary to support human life, will have far higher mass than a probe. It translates to travel time taking longer due to fuel consumption and storage being more limited.
We said we wouldn't pay it, and negotiated a price nicely below MSRP. They caved very quickly - not sure why they even bothered trying.
Food stands and simple stuff like that are illegal in many cities or require burdensome permits/regulation.
What's sad is that once upon a time (back when macOS was called OS X, and when iMacs used PowerPC CPUs) the mouse acceleration was great, and the cursor buttery smooth, at least so I thought.
I believe you need to have some sort of privilege to switch to a plant based diet. It's not cheap, especially in america where fast food is so accessible, cheap, and satisfying. Fresh produce is expensive and calories per dollar doesnt make any sense. Sure beans and grain sounds great, but in practice gets boring very quickly.

I agree with you that switching to a plant based diet is better for the environment and would prevent 99% of these diseases, but most people simply dont have the resources to do so, and the cultural dependence on meat will be near impossible to change.
I suppose if you already have a grudge against the US you can pick and choose which facts you focus on to try to piece together a narrative that blames the US for this... But of course that narrative is extremely flimsy.

Assigning blame to any one country for a pandemic which is affecting literally the entire world is petty and disingenuous.

All countries on Earth could have done more to prevent this.
My theory is that the 64-bit only migration was done to weed out old apps and APIs that won't be ported to ARM and won't work in emulation. Killing 32-bit removed stuff like classic QuickTime and the whole Carbon API.
CA unemployment insurance needs fixing, before the next recession hits (2018)
> I'm not sure, where you live

This discussion is about American auto dealerships.
Margin. McDonald's average profit margin for the past five years has been 23%.

Sometimes they increase margin on price. But more often, they do it on labor and cost of goods. McDonalds takes no-skill workers, applies its systems, and spits out 5 billion cheeseburgers at five nines consistency. And then it buys in quantities that move world markets, unlike your locavore restaurant.

Five Guys will have lower margins, but still be 4-10x the margin of a one-off restaurant. Same for Cheesecake Factories, and all the Darden-owned restaurants.
Quart: A Python ASGI web microframework
Though tax is on charged separately in Canada, so probably closer to 8 EUR. I’ll admit, in Canada, assuming you’re in a busy part of town, I’ve gotten used to the idea that a fulfilling meal out costs $15-25. The only way I’ve been able to reduce prices further than that is to use a service like MealPal or stack discounts from credit cards and app cash back to get another 10-12% off or so. Not to say there aren’t cheaper places to eat at, but I’d have to drive a bit of a distance to get there. Land/rent really is too damn high everywhere “walkable”... The cheapest places in town are always the ones that have been there “forever” or have the smallest, sketchiest locations, but still have lineups around the block, or they’re simply fast food with coupons.
That's more a factor of having a large install base than actively courting or targeting "gamers"
Well I had to do our corporate team site and got so frustrated with SharePoint that I coded a script in python to generate the html from rst files. It was a couple of days of work. It runs behind nginx and automatically updated on GitHub commit of new content. Bootstrap is very well documented and you can use rst directives for “widgets”. I am in the process of moving to markdown + yaml now to make writing content even easier.
> We are 100% committed to keeping our tools free for users

> Website: "All our users can send unlimited free letters"

But then in your landing page screenshot:

> To celebrate Ameelio's launch, you have unlimited letters! As our community grows, you'll have access to 4 free letters a month.

So which one is it? To say it's a "free communication platform" with "unlimited free letters" but then to limit it to 4 letters/mo as your "community grows" is disingenuous.
My absolute favorite example of what's possible with awk is this[0] calculator from Ward Cunningham about splitting expenses on a ski trip. It's a really beautiful little piece of code well-adapted to this problem.

[0] - https://c2.com/doc/expense/
Cult! Ha!
That's disappointing - I've never used a Mac but the first thing I do on new Windows PCs is turn off "enhance pointer precision" (mouse acceleration) in control panel. It's awful for anything where you have to aim, I can't imagine gaming on a system with mouse acceleration that can't be disabled.
I think Microsoft and Adobe are probably the easiest ones for them to get on board for launch (or 6 months after launch), since both of them have their core code ported to ARM already.
Most neighborhood restaurants aren't really selling the experience. To be honest, I only go because taste is good, and I don't want to invite people over.
Developing protection medicine against all potential bad pandemic viri in animals, it even just the ones we know of which at just a small party is only possible in theory.

In practice even a union of all first world countries can't afford it as far as I know.

There is also the problem about constant mutations.

E.g. after the SARS-Cov outbreak medicine against it was development. But it couldn't be used efficiently against SARS-Cov-2 . Through it likely did reduce the amount of time so need until we get a vaccine.

So putting money into developing vaccines for all kind of latent viruses makes sense for gaining knowledge. But it's not cable is preventing pandemies.
I've been part of the Apple cult for a while now. I've even started to bulk at the price / benefit ratio ever since 2017.
The article's title is misleading, and it misrepresents the content and conclusions of some of its sources.

The 28 million ballots in question aren't "missing"; they're ballots that were mailed to voters and weren't used.

In some cases the voters in question likely didn't bother voting (common in local elections) or simply forgot (I've done this when I accidentally stacked other mail on top of a ballot and then didn't find it again until too late). In other cases, voters may have moved and failed to update their voter registration. This situation isn't unusual or alarming, and the opportunities for fraud aren't nearly as plentiful as the article tries to imply.

The article cites a 2008 report by the CalTech/MIT Voting Technology Project as recommending that states abolish absentee voting due to fraud concerns, but that report contains only a single paragraph proposing a theoretical _potential_ for fraud due to "unsecured" mail channels. It provides no evidence that this is common or has even occurred, and in fact devotes significantly more space to discussing the inconvenience of mail-in punch-card ballots with Styrofoam backings — something I had never heard of despite having voted by mail for almost two decades.

The article also cites a 2008 Reed College study, which again raises theoretical concerns about fraud but offers no substantive evidence that it's an issue, and in fact states that "A report commissioned by the federal Election Assistance Commission, authored by Tova Wang and Jed Seberov, concluded, on the basis of interviews with experts in the area, that there was little evidence of voter fraud."
Imagine an imaginary conversation for the reason behind choosing a distribution name.

1 - Can we name our distro Void.

2 - Why?

1 - Since it devoids of systemd
I think their point is that most McDonald's franchisees in the U.S. don't need to be concerned about sudden, drastic rent increases because they aren't beholden to a third-party commercial landlord - McDonald's is their landlord, and thus is unlikely to boot them out just to lease the space at a higher rate to e.g. Burger King.
Just hypothesizing, but there might be a difference between the accumulation of materials in the lungs vs gastrointestinal system.
I came here to say more or less the same thing... but for people who aren't native english speakers: a "few hundred" means $300, perhaps $350. Apple doesnt sell anything this cheap, and if you're comparing used Apple hardware to new PC hardware, thats a bit unfair.
One downside of the 'ident: Type' approach is the extra colon character.

The major downside of the 'Type ident' approach, is that if 'Type' is optional, then the parser can't be sure if its parsing the 'Type' or the 'ident' when encountering the first token. In practice this isn't too hard to solve however, it can be handled with some backtracking.

In my language, Winter, I have chosen the 'Type ident', approach, mostly due to similarity with C, C++ and Java. I do sometimes wonder if I made the right choice however. Maybe it could be an option? :)
"I'd point out that the job of spy agencies is to lie and manipulate the public."

The spy agencies have a number of jobs. The obvious one is to spy (not just on foreign powers, but on everybody, as we now know without a doubt). Lying to and manipulating the public is another big job. And they have other more heinous jobs (torture, assassinations, etc). To do their jobs requires constant obfuscation. So why on earth does anyone ever give any credence to anything a spook says?
There is! I read this on a gopher mirror of the Hacker News, so I thought I'd better come on over to the web version to respond...

In fact, several regular gopherites have commented on this thread.

Funny that this came up on the Hacker News on the weekend that the server is going down. Probably a good thing, since it only has 128MB of RAM.
Wow.

(a) I don't know Python as well as I thought I did.
(b) I suddenly never want to use it again.

All these edge cases! All these behaviors, which I'm sure were added with the noble intention of increasing developer convenience, but which I'm equally sure have cost a larger amount of developer sanity!
tbf even Apple realizes the problem, which is probably why they worked to make iOS and MacOS more cross compatible with each other development wise
You can game taxes.

I learnt about two ways, but I am sure there are many more. First you can manage the losses of selected businesses of yours such that you break the tax progression and second if you own the property you rent to yourself (this means to your company) such that the deduction of rent leads to a higher reduction of taxes than the increase by the rent income.
Here’s the Japanese news post by the Sumida Aquarium, which includes the Email addresses to FaceTime the eels:

https://www.sumida-aquarium.com/news/details/2236/

A shame that The Guardian’s article did not include a backlink to it.
> It also doesn’t really hurt anyone

Well it does. Extra characters in the HTTP spec end up getting sent trillions of times per year over the Internet costing real money in bandwidth in aggregate.
Given that consumption isn't the only way that disease spreads from animals to humans, you're missing the step two of "exterminate all non-human animals".
Would you seriously leave an interview process if the company develops differently than what you are accustomed to?? can't you, say, adapt?
Apple actually has a gaming platform called Apple Arcade and gaming is a separate and prominent category in the App Store. They do "game of the day" and editorials all the time, there's a platform called Game Center that can be used as an account between devices and a place to keep scores.

Their graphics performance on iPhones has been top of the line for many years now, they always boost about the graphics performance of their devices they have game demos and game introductions incorporated into their product announcements and finally they introduced game controllers support in the latest OS.

I don't know what else they need to do to target gamers. RGB LEDs maybe?
Of course it is possible.

Labs in the USA and elsewhere have had problems. Not hard to believe it happened in China too.

Interesting fact - so called "gain-of-function" studies were banned in the US in 2014 and then the ban lifted in 2017.

October 2014 - https://www.the-scientist.com/the-nutshell/moratorium-on-gai...

February 2018 - Ban ends. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3...
I have tried Beat Saber. I rented an Oculus Quest for a couple of weeks over Christmas. Several things, Beat Saber included, were really impressive at first, but the thrill quickly wore off. The kids quickly went back to playing their PS4 and Switch games, and never even mentioned the Quest after it was gone.

My basic take is that the technology is really impressive; I agree with proponents that the Quest finally nails it technically. However, I don't think it's enough better than other options to make it worth the significant drawbacks. Something being immersive is ultimately a function of the player experience, not the hardware. And as is demonstrated to me whenever I try to get the kids to turn off almost any game, non-VR hardware is definitely immersive.

If anything, facehugger VR seems less immersive, because the stuff is way less comfortable than other gaming hardware. The kid who loved rhythm games would play Beat Saber less than non-VR games because of neck discomfort and face irritation. Battery life was also lower than the Switch, and of course infinitely lower than the Playstation. Which also cut into immersion.

I did really appreciate the new 6-axis controllers; they were very cool, and gave a great sense of spatial freedom. But unfortunately, that freedom is a lie; my sense of immersion quickly ended every time I hit a virtual boundary. To successfully play Superhot, I found I had to continuously maintain two spatial frames of reference: VR and reality. So it ultimately felt less immersive to me than a console game, where I could just plop down on the couch and forget my body entirely.
Avatar did not wow me in 3d. Beat Saber and the current VR games like Alyx and Pistol Whip made me a believer in VR.
What I don't understand is that restaurants seem very well differentiated to me. I have a significant preference for the food of some restaurants over others, and I'm not remotely a foodie.

The medium post seems to be arguing for charging $12 for the example Doner instead of $11. It could just be that I'm relatively price-insensitive, but if I'm choosing between meals at two different restaurants where one costs $11 and the other $12, the decision is being made by which meal I'd prefer eating, not by the $1 difference.

If we're talking a 2x in price, then sure, that can sway my decision. But the article is not talking about such big differences.
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A landlord’s goal is to capture 100% of their tenants profits? That’s quite a misinformed statement. Their goal is to create sustainable, long term income on their investments. Taking everything they can from their tenants would not foster sustainability. I’m also really curious about your last sentence. Can you elaborate?
I'd pay $13-15 for the doner in the article for sure. (NYC)
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I am very skeptical. This state-machine approach seems much more like an implementation than a specification. Having a reference implementation could certainly be a good thing, but this doesn't even look like something one could run and test against.

The declarative form of Comment, above, is wonderfully concise and clear when compared to these several lines of imperative, update-this/goto-there style alternative. You can see in your head what it should match without mentally simulating these specific instructions against some imagined parser state.

There certainly can be a host of terrible issues with BNF-style grammars. When they're just used as a notation to write down a bunch of rules, with no regard to actually implementing these rules, the result can be a sprawling and terribly ambiguous mess. For instance, this[1] is an abject disaster, chock full of ambiguity and senseless distinctions.

But if one is prepared to take the effort to really write a machine-readable grammar like this[2], the result is a straightforward, high-level, concise spec that can be compiled into an implementation to boot. What's not to like?

[1] http://sven.xtreme-eda.com/
[2] https://docs.python.org/3/reference/grammar.html
To be honest the 4 letter cap comment is just in case we run out of funding and is subject to change depending on the situation. This isn't some free trial exploit. Nothing we do is disingenuous. We are 100% committed to keeping our tools free for users. I know the world is filled with businessmen trying to take your money, but that's not us. But thank you very much for pointing this out. We need to make sure we're more clear in the future.
Aarogya Setu app must for private sector workers
You could build a hackintosh instead. Pain to get software set up just right but when it is it works great.
You can also just rent. I rented one here: https://www.lensrentals.com/rent/oculus-quest-all-in-one-vr-...

For a try-before-you-by thing, I'd recommend doing 2 weeks. For the first few days, it was, "OMG, the future!" Then for a few days it was, "Not overwhelming, but still cool!" By the end of the 2 weeks, though, we were happy enough to return it.
I hope that, as a result of this, those in power realize that we need to invest more in biotech. It seems to me that government pour too much money into things like deep learning research (which will serve to eliminate jobs and enable a surveillance state), and not enough in research that could save lives and eliminate illnesses.

We really should have the capability to develop and mass-manufacture antivirals much faster, ideally in the span of a few weeks. We understand the basic physics involved, we can do protein folding and I assume we can simulate how well synthetic molecules bind to proteins. Why don't we have this technological capability? It seems it really should be within the realm of what we're capable of achieving.
Adobe has a pretty poor track record with updating their software to keep up with Apple API changes.