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You have to hand it to Microsoft: It may be the only large software company that doesn't seem susceptible to not-invented-here syndrome.

It's true that Microsoft historically has been an intensely competitive company, often trying to undermine competing technologies, e.g., with "embrace and extend" strategies.

But whenever a competing technology -- whether a language, or a framework, or an application -- gains adoption with developers or users, Microsoft to its credit will follow along, sooner or later, and do the work necessary for making it a first-class citizen on Windows.

(For those who don't know, Rust is originally a Mozilla project.)
It depends on the country and sometimes the institution and program. Here is a price list from a Swedish university with the approx. USD amounts being between $10,000 to $30,000 depending on the program:

https://www.slu.se/en/education/application-and-admission/tu...
Are they? They've had a cumulative $18 billion invested in the company and have lost a total cumulative $7 billion.
The government will give out a loan to students for basically any reason, as long as their family doesn't make too much money. Think about the insanity of that kind of investment practice. No "business plan", no estimates of ROI, no collateral, little to no grade submissions. It's a bad way to invest.

If a student is going to get a loan, what I think the government and banks should do is require them to file a proposal explaining how they plan to recoup the cost of their education using real, hard market data. If you want to become a archaeological historian, you need to research what sorts archaeology jobs are in your neighborhood and what they will make.
Mass production of Starship is essential to their strategy. The way in which you build a one-off rocket is totally different from how you build an assembly line of rockets. This is more true of rockets than any other industry. I'm talking about what materials are used, how they are shaped, etc. Look at all the "weird" stuff SpaceX is doing with Starship (stainless steel tanks, the types of welds they're doing, etc.) and you wouldn't want to be doing it that way unless you were manufacturing a rocket assembly line.

So it seems smart to say, "why don't they just build and test one, then figure out how to manufacture it at scale?" But to do that would be even harder because you'd have to redesign everything from scratch the second time around, while maintaining component compatibility... much smarter to design for manufacturing from the get-go and treat the test articles as expendable.

BTW, ULA is doing something similar with Vulcan & Centaur V. The design of the rocket itself is deeply related to the assembly line they are producing.
I went to Vanderbilt and graduated in 2013. Their financial aid covered everything up to what FAFSA said my parents could afford- the EFC (expected family contribution) value. Tuition+room/board at the time was $56k, and EFC was $8k, so Vanderbilt covered the full 48k difference with no loans.

Vanderbilt has a very large endowment, and there is a lot of money earmarked for financial aid. I received $30k+ in scholarships that I never personally applied for, and I was able to graduate without loans.

On the flip side, if the EFC is very high and your family cannot afford it, you will have to get loans from another source.
I would read that blog post in a heartbeat.
My experience aligns much more with yours than the GP; it sounds like they have a much better provider than most. In my experience, ISPs use the cheapest hardware they can get and still blame the customer or give them the run around when there is an issue. Buying my own high quality modem+router has definitely saved time over the handful of times I was using a rented one.
You're unfortunately disproving your own point.

> Specifically, having a population lacking in critical reading skills makes everyone more susceptible to propaganda, and less able to critique and assess flawed arguments in writing.

Do I need to point out all the flaws in this sentence or can you critically read your own writing?

> If you want to know why, for example, our political “debates” are shallow circuses of misdirection and name calling, look at the state of the humanities.

Would you agree that the majority of politicians are lawyers, or at the very least non-STEM majors? What you're claiming then, is that humanities majors create and participate in "shallow circuses of misdirection and name calling"

Was that the point you were hoping to make?
An AR demo works right inside the browser without any plugins
I don't have any advice, but I just want to write that I'd be proud to work with you. It takes a great deal of bravery to do what you think is right and fight for abused animals. You clearly show a strong moral fortitude.
So how does bittorrent work, then?
We have robots instead of slaves now. We, as a society, can afford to provide a liberal arts education to everyone. In fact, we already do, for grades 1-12. I think the main issue is that that education fails people who could progress through it faster (and those who need more time in certain areas).
Saga Pattern.

https://blog.couchbase.com/saga-pattern-implement-business-t...

https://microservices.io/patterns/data/saga.html

https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2018/10/01/patterns-for-d...

https://www.enterpriseintegrationpatterns.com/patterns/conve...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compensating_transaction
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> Unlike existing systems where the sender and receiver must have fee-extracting bank infrastructure in place, payment blockchains require no bank account, thereby opening up financial services to the two billion-plus unbanked worldwide.

Unlike existing systems where you have recourse to recover your payments if anything goes wrong, blockchains leave you hanging and at risk of fraud and even simple coding mistakes, thereby opening up financial services to the modern-day robber barons of the world -- and less efficiently than ever.

Thus solving payments, once and for all. ONCE AND FOR ALL.

Less tongue in cheek, here I was naively hoping we'd gotten over all this. Twelve years of attempts to advance this technology with absolutely no break-out successes, but hundreds of high-profile seemingly obvious failures.

Alas, sounds like we're winding up for round 2.
Management doesn't care. Management doesn't read this or really even understand what a microservice is. They only know their VP told them to use them and they are the current hot stuff.
The point of a venture fund is not to advance science.
This is cool!
However, is there a way to control an operation using more than 1 input?

Like, can I say negate index 1 insofar as both index 2 and index 3 are on?

I tried adding two identity things and an x thing, and selecting the 3 of them, but the "c" button wasn't enabled when I did that.

Uh, that is still unitary, right?

Ok, yeah, it still permutes the 8 pure states, and permutation matrices are orthogonal, and therefore unitary, matrices.

edit: Oh, I see, in the https://quantumjavascript.app/Q-Gate.html page it says that that gate (apparently called the "toffoli gate" or the CCNOT gate) is "coming soon".

So, it will be added, but hasn't been quite yet.
That's officially part of the plan, because otherwise it would be politically impossible -- but if those things get delayed, which seems likely, NASA could "temporarily" use some other, saner way of getting astronauts to lunar orbit. I suspect that's the real plan.
Well, we happen to have a world-ending event on deck right now, I assume at least some orgs might be interested in something free with a similar feature set to Jira... (of course, if it wasn't also sadistically hard to use and configure that'd be a plus).
Considering that humanities majors tend to believe in socialism does not burnish their critical reading skills and resistance to propaganda.

The reality of the history of socialism is one of failure.

And yes, I do understand that everyone thinks that those who disagree with them are ill-informed and susceptible to propaganda, and those who prefer socialism will think that of me :-)
I agree with what you are saying, except that we shouldn't say students are unequipped to evaluate the "bet" merely for being young and inexperienced. If we wanted to, we could train students to be much better at evaluating such a bet.
Why would you want to port Phoenix? As long as the underlying VM follow the spec, Phoenix should be oblivious of on which it is running.
Note the entire sentence:

ScaleGrid’s Dedicated Hosting service with 2 Replicas + Arbiter for MongoDB® database on DigitalOcean saves you on average 122% on your monthly AWS hosting costs, and 140% on your monthly Azure hosting costs.

This is sentence is about AWS vs Azure vs DigitalOcean hosting costs at ScaleGrid. Earlier in the article you can compare instance costs across the cloud providers by RAM.
Depends on how long term your bet against him is.
> You gave up after 3 weeks dude? You will never succeed at founding a startup with that attitude.

Well, I've also done it the other way where I spent three years at a startup and couldn't find traction. I'm just trying to hit the other extreme as well, and so hopefully land somewhere in the sweet spot in the middle.

> you failed because your product didn't provide enough value to customers.

Hmm, this is another great way of putting it -- value translates into pricing pretty directly, so if you can't charge enough there's probably not enough value. I think that's another way of saying the same thing.
JBoss Narayana provides a useful implementation of the Saga Pattern that makes it fairly easy to plug that pattern into microservices interactions.
Agreed, The "data" being used to generate real human music is the human condition ... so anything trained on a featurized low dimensional representation of that will ultimately be derivative.

Image and sound are ultimately related to feeling ... and it is those feelings that give us humanity -- not the ability to think and manipulate symbols (though that was not apparent to me until this current AI revolution)
I bet it'll be ready but par for the course is to lose 2 out of the first 10 launches on a new system. I'd guess that Blue will be flying insurable commsats at that point but not irreplaceable payloads.
Calico – Like Cat, but for Colors
That seems a bit unfair. The community is getting a pretty square deal with k8s, few people need to manage cells with more than 5000 machines, and those that do can probably afford to write their own schedulers that meet their scalability and performance needs. Google can't just throw Borg over the wall because it's pretty hairy, relies on other parts of Google that also aren't public, and because of the general belief that "the community" is not ready to deal with a large, high-performance C++ program of the type that Google tends to write, which is partly condescension but also pretty much true.
They’d have to invent a syntax for infix function calls akin to Haskell’s backticks which other people would complain about.

(I’m happy we don’t have to write queries in yaml, only half joking.)
> I am much happier to sit at my desk and figure it out by writing code, then produce a design doc once I have a solid prototype working. It feels more honest and real

Can relate, every single time I did the opposite, I ended up rewriting anyway because I wasn't following the design doc.
It’s not just insurers maximizing profits. My patient volume is down 50% but the hospital who rents me my office is not giving any break on the rent. Neither is my malpractice insurance nor any other vendor.
Depends where you are, more specifically the condition of the lines. I used to live in Boston's suburbia and had Comcast/Xfinity as the only provider. Lines were old and very far away from their CO, so .. many issues. I opted for renting they $5 then $7 then $10 then $12/month cable modem so when I call for tech support they would not blame the problem on CPE.

Now I am in NYC and Spectum/TWC works great in my building (orders of magnitudes better than Comcast), I have the free cable modem but I opted out of the $5/month wi-fi and got myself a $55 ASUS AC1900 router (refurbished) and it worked just great!
If you look at the video signal on a waveform and zoom in on the front porch area of the signal, you can see the color burst. It looks like a group of 9 (i think) spikes. The first spike is supposed to go up, but it was possible to have the color burst "flipped" so that the first spike went down. (Maybe I have it backwards, been a looong time.) If that happened during a broadcast, the FCC would issue fines. There was a very expensive piece of video equipment that was meant for doing video effects during post production (3DO maybe?). If you had a flipped burst, you could pass your signal through it without using any of the effects, and it would get corrected. For a time, the post house I worked at said they made more money using it for that purpose than what it was designed to do. That was all before my time though. Supposedly, some poor engineer would have to watch all incoming video tapes with the waveform zoomed in to the color burst just to watch for these flips. If it occurred, they would reject the tape.
Classifying all deaths as corona is simply a lie
Nobody makes fun of Coca-Cola for having 80k employees. "What do they have so many employees for? All they do are come up with combinations of sugar, water, and packaging. They don't even do the bottling!"
In fact there were third-party bindings already which I worked on: https://github.com/contextfree/winrt-rust

the new first-party ones look to be more complete and polished but this is mainly due to time and skill limitations on my part. :)
At least long enough to be indexed on Google.
How closely is it coupled with Github / Github issues? Would it work as a replacement for something like Zenhub, which is mostly just a facade over Github's own interface? Can you still add replies to issues directly in Github or do you have to do it in Tara?

I would love to replace Zenhub, but almost every other tool would require us moving some key functionality out of Github. We still want to keep all of our issues, estimates, labels, and planning in Github's native issues, while also having some advanced planning and sprint features.
Really not even society can socialize anyone properly - they teach all sorts of insane lessons unwittingly, acting on long accepted pretenses completely separate from nominal goals, let alone effectiveness. And you're the crazy one if you point out what they are doing is utterly nonsensical because "that is just the way things are".
Outbound fees also protect their computing business. They make it harder to take part of workloads to cheap providers such as Hetzner or OVH.
It's been a reality on Windows for over 20 years, though. COM has made it possible to write applications on Windows and integrate with pretty much anything in it in any language with COM bindings.

Glad to see Rust is now one more such language.
Never really understood whether WinRT binds me to store apps, sandboxes, appx and so on.

Can I develop a single windows app with this that runs on Windows 10 desktop as a win32 app does (such as a plugin to another application where I can’t can’t decide the deployment model)?
To be fair, you could do this with plain C, then with COM, etc.
Psychology and the social sciences have another explanation: Politics is mostly about how people feel and has little to do with how or what people think.
Ok - a fair point. "Voltage squared" fits better, indeed. It's a simplification that comes from P = V * V / R.
It's a nice feature for other people to have. For me at home personally there is zero benefit, it's a zero net side-effect at best. Definitely not something I could/ should pay for.

Basically, it's a feature Comcast offers which is paid for by the ignorance of a percentage of their customers.
I think it is not that complicated. In any case, there should be risk management involved. If you have a parent with enough money, make them co-sign.

If you come from a not so wealthy background, then you only get a loan for a program that has a higher earnings potential than what you put in. I mean come on, Williams College, the supposedly best liberal arts school in the country has a "median" graduating salary of 58k, and this number does not include the possibility that you could graduate with a major no one wants to hire. 1 year of cost of just tuition and room and boarding is 74k. This does not include other costs like health insurance, books, and other equipment, extra living costs. You add this up, you can easily run up the bill to 400k. You seriously think a person should be able to get this loan to graduate in "Arabic Studies"? I mean I am sorry that people come from a poor background (me included), but taking out that 400k loan without any checks and balances seems irresponsible.
It brings up the old joke about being a philosophy major:
"Two things to do with a Phd in Philosophy: 1. Teach. 2. Pose the question: ‘But do you know why you want fries with that?’"

College is an investment that costs hundreds of thousands of dollars. When you invest that much money, you should expect a ROI. If you can't even put roof over your head or eat with that investment, then it is really hard to say it was a good idea.
And do you think that in Sweden of all places, minorities don't have a voice?

I don't know if you intended it that way, but the above feels like you're trying to put words in my mouth to that effect. No, I don't think I said that minorities are voiceless in Sweden.

They have more of a voice, because they don't have a two party system.

Right. Again, as Matt Easton says, "Context!" If the US were to go fully democratic, with our two parties, no electoral college, and everything done proportionally, things in the US would suck for constituencies smaller than 50%. Particularly with discourse being what it is in 2020.

However, if you know of a way to do away with the US two party system, I'm all ears.

Also, when I read your comment above, I tend to read it in my head as sounding angry and patronizing. Hopefully, you didn't mean it the way of, "What, you ignorant fool, do you not know...etc...?"
It has become ideological politics at this point. It doesn't matter if it makes any sense any more.
No other country works this way, yet they have college. So this argument doesn’t pass the smell test.
Even if the mask is 10% effective that's still better than nothing.
The word you're looking for is "quadratically."
admittedly i don't have first-hand experience in this, but my understanding from friends & family here in CA is that limiting time at a state university to 2 years (and sometimes less) is entirely possible, with some planning.

the confounding factor for young adults, i suppose, is that it's hard to be certain enough about future interests amid all the possibilities not yet forgone to stay the course without (understandable) alteration (i changed course a few times in college myself).
AI21 Labs Asks: How Much Does It Cost to Train NLP Models?
Blue Origin's timelines have been even more inspirational than Musk's. Like.. Blue Origin hasn't even reached orbit yet.

But to Blue Origin's credit, they're less shy about working with others. They're developing the engine for ULA's new rocket (presumably their own competition!), and I doubt they'd have major qualms about launching Blue Moon on a ULA or even SpaceX rocket, once congress is finally able to admit that SLS isn't happening.
I've heard some horror stories about escrow. Bad wiring instructions in/out (intercepted emails), bogus escrow companies.

Glad to hear these crypto folks have figured it out.
Way to go, MOCKsie, mock their inability to stay humans as hard as you can!
Actual college student.

UCSD has a food bank on campus. Here's the math as to why:

Recommended daily dining dollar spend: $19

Breakfast: $3.95, "Bobcat Sandwich"
Lunch: $5.25, Hamburger
Dinner: $6.95, "Wok Entree"

This adds up to $16.15. That hamburger isn't very filling (between Whopper and Whopper Jr.), especially if you still operate on a teenaged metabolism. Add a fries to it, or do what I did and get a $2 salad from the salad bar. At 39¢ to the ounce, it's a cheaper option to maximize nutrition. Sometimes they have leftover salmon, flaked.

Okay, that's the expensive meal plan. You get five days of those, not seven. This is on the maximum dining dollar plan of $3800. You do not get a discount. One dollar in is one dollar spend.

But you can't afford the full plan. The other option – and you have to pick one, they're mandatory for on campus residents – is "worth" two meals a day, five days. You need to stretch it out.

It's not enough. If you don't do the accounting and budget beforehand, you will run out. If you don't supplement with ramen, you will run out. If you want a snack every now and then, you will run out.

Also, you don't have a kitchen in the residential halls. I hope you have a friend in an apartment or with access to the rare communal kitchens [1], since you otherwise can't cook, and must eat.

Oh, and as of winter quarter 2019, they started using scales to measure everything, down to the last noodle.

Panda Express doesn't do that, by the way. You get filling meals at only a slight premium, though I can't remember the price off the top of my head. The real value option is Subway, which costs $6.99 for the footlong of the day, including tax, and each is good for 1.5-2 meals with more or less balanced nutrition. If you somehow have a stove, a pre-packaged two-pack of Tikka Masala from Costco runs at around $3.50/meal, plus rice, and takes less time than the cross-campus dining hall roundtrip.

Fortunately, for 2019-2020, they increased the maximum package to 5100, which helps those who have financial aid. This doesn't reduce the daily cost, however.

People universally get the lowest dining plan allowed by HDH. It's just cheaper to go to the vendors, even with the invisible on-campus price hike.

[1]: The price of access to a communal res hall kitchen is fire alarms at 3 AM during finals week.
Well, I think part of the solution is to require schools to provide an option for payments to be a fixed percentage of wages after graduation for a set number of years. Everyone's interests are then aligned, and the school now has to bear some of the risks, and also gains some potential upside if their students regularly command high wages. It's obviously not that simple, but schools like Purdue (Back a Boiler) have working systems in place.