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eq may expose implementation (it's even called "implementation equality"), but it's very useful.

Implementation equality lets you use an object as a key in a lookup mechanism which adds external associations with an object (which could be de facto properties of that object, or links to other objects). You cannot do that with an equality that deems similar objects to be equal.

eq does not mean "in the same box". In many implementations, it means "same bit pattern". Two unboxed integer objects (fixnums) are eq if they are the same integer (bit pattern). However the ANSI Common Lisp standard doesn't require small integers to be eq to themselves. eql is used for testing for "same number, and eq equality for everything else", which means that 95% of the time you want eql if you think you want eq. The 5% you're sure you're only comparing symbols, or else objects such as structures or CLOS objects for their identity.
Considering they got it working so quickly, I think they made the right choice.
> playlists

https://buymusic.club/ sources bandcamp for user generated playlists. Also, youre able to follow fans and labels do actively message and talk to fans. Its very minor but I think its a sufficient level of interaction.
I assumed they used the words "real time" in a patient monitoring sense to mean Doctors being able to monitor patient data without having to go between rooms themselves or wait for reports.

Kind of how you'd say you have a dashboard for your business to see metrics in real time (as opposed to some kind of daily report).

I think that usage of real time is very common outside of a pure engineering sense, so you're being a bit of a stickler by being annoyed at this specific instance ;)
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But each block is used by multiple different files. Owning a block of a forbidden URL does not prove that you're committing a crime. Owning all blocks of that URL is an strong indication but still not a proof to justify raiding.
Just don't do this kind of tracing at all then.

>Yeah, one govt tried that, people didn't like it and people won.

After 21 months. Almost two years. From your own link:

>For much of the Emergency, most of Gandhi's political opponents were imprisoned and the press was censored. Several other human rights violations were reported from the time, including a forced mass-sterilization campaign spearheaded by Sanjay Gandhi, the Prime Minister's son.
Don't use it if you don't need it. The developers made it very clear that systemd-homed is only meant for single-user laptops.
Also, are you supposed to answer on a relative basis, or absolute? If I was running the intervied and was asked that question in response, I would consider it a Good Sign.
I'm not sure what's the news here are (H_2 + O_2 instead of H_2 + air?) but if you want to see experimental continuous detonation thrusters in action, just search for videos on Youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=continuous+deto...

I posted this elsewhere in the comments already but to save your time looking for it, here it is again: a video of ignition and transition to continuous, circular moving detonation in such a thruster: https://youtu.be/ERTei7D8LJs?t=28
That would have taken care of the message parsing, but the team would still need to do the concurrency work, get it debugged, and working. Also Java is not nearly as easy to deploy on-prem as Go.
I agree with you, and I hope you're right. The never ending growth and consumerism just for the sake of making the numbers go up isn't sustainable.
For me as a user it seems to be: loading google analytics, loading fonts that seem to be improperly cached, loading chat windows, assistance widgets and spies, and dynamically adding things after page load that cause reflows.
It certainly sounds like you have a pre-existing grudge, so I suppose this supports what I'm saying.

Why didn't the EU pour more resources into treatments and vaccines? I think I'm going to blame them.

See how that works?
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A question: even if the source is open source, what prevents the vendor than sends it to the fab to insert back doors. Is there a way to verify that it is indeed the source in github that was used?
"Virus researchers say there is virtually no chance that the new coronavirus was released as result of a laboratory accident in China or anywhere else. The assessment, made by more than half-a-dozen scientists familiar with lab accidents and how research on coronaviruses is conducted, casts doubt on recent claims that a mistake may have unleashed the coronavirus on the world."

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/04/23/8417296...

By "more than half a dozen" they mean "10 leading scientists who collect samples of viruses from animals in the wild, study virus genomes and understand how lab accidents can happen."
Sounds similar to the jet version, pulse detonation engines (PDE) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulse_detonation_engine
Interesting that both of those problems could be summed up as "fighting the last war".

WW2 was about outproducing and out-delivering competitors - the U.S. won largely because its collective industrial might built weapons that the Axis powers couldn't match. And it was directed largely through top-down control: FDR and the War Department had broad control over large swaths of the American economy, high-ranking generals and admirals directed huge military operations, and the public trusted their authorities enough to play their part.

I wonder how much of the structure of modern-day nation-states stems from WW2, and how much is misaligned to current technology and problems. Military technology has a way of dictating political organization, and military technology is pretty different now than in 1945.
>what is a literal character and what is a control character?

I read a tip back in the Perl 5 book, that you can just escape any character if you don't remember if it has a special meaning. (You'll still get the literal character even if it didn't need escaping.)

So I basically do that a lot. Never had any issue with control characters.
The fact that the expression has an evaluation strategy that does not correspond to either parenthesization is not "complicated".

Rather, there is a more fitting adjective, for which a friendly euphemism can be found: "pythonic".
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> The implication was that the vast majority of criticism is methodically wrong.

My point was in a completely different direction. My statement is that the tribe I care about has very low standards for what constitute valid criticism. Together with my personal emotional reaction of this being sad and disheartening because I always assume my tribe was better than that.

Matters of majority/minority are inconsequential for this point, (they can be relevant to other points) my point is that those criticism that are fruit of blatant lies are not discarded, as if people did not care that they are false.
hmm. when reading, /dev/null behaves like an empty file but /dev/zero gives you endless amounts of NUL bytes ('\0') ; iirc and the /dev/random and /dev/urandom gives you endless amounts of random bytes, but there is a subtle difference between those random sources.
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They also interviewed Peter Daszak, the president of the EcoHealth Alliance researching the origins of pandemics, who points out that nearly 3% of the population in China's rural farming regions near wild animals already had antibodies to coronaviruses similar to SARS. "We're finding 1 to 7 million people exposed to these viruses every year in Southeast Asia; that's the pathway. It's just so obvious to all of us working in the field..."
soft real-time

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_computing#Criteria_f...
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Welcome to the real world; where the bullshit is made up, your credentials don't matter, because at the end of the day it all comes down to trust.

Unfortunately for these researchers, they are finding that just removing content or flagging it as misinformation only gets you trust from a small slice of the overall pie. You have to ask; "Why do these people trust this stuff even after we've debunked/deleted it?" It isn't because the Wayback Machine exists and serves it; it's because of the central inequitable divide that exists in our society. Think about it. You have two fundamental groups of internet users right now. Those that have enough influence to get things removed from the Net at large, and those who don't have a chance in hell at achieving the same. Do you really think that those for whom the Net exists as an incorruptible store of truth, under constant attack by those with a vested interest in shaping the narrative, will ever accept anything remotely resembling strategic takedowns of information or overt attempts to shape the narrative? No. They won't. The info will get out there and find other spread points. Until you get people on a more equitable footing where common experience is more or less the same; fault lines in landscape of trust will be utilized to cleave apart any sense of consensus. Look at the degree of political polarization at work in most countries at the moment. This is not a unique phenomena. It reoccurs at every level of human life. In schools, families, churches, neighborhoods, towns, cities, etc.

I'm pointing this out, because I believe a lot of people may have an instinctual draw to the idea that "Well, we'll just make the Wayback Machine do something about it!" That is a terrible idea in any way shape or form. It isn't that misinformation exists or is recorded somewhere that is the issue in keeping these memes alive. It is that given fundamental differences in the social landscape of trust, people will entertain different things as plausible. In order to "get everyone on the same page" you basically have to resort to redefining "everyone" to "everyone who will agree with me, and finds credibility in the same ways I do". That redefinition at it's core has led to more atrocity than anything else on the planet. Maybe I'm just getting paranoid lately; but this article set off quite a few alarm bells in the back of my head than I'm comfortable with. I'm seeing rather pootentious connections being made that are making me rather nervous.

Stay safe out there everyone. We're all in it together. Now is not the time to exploit for the sake of streamlining the process of sentiment engineering; or to make anyone else feel marginalized or alienated; even if deep down we feel like they are being buffoons.
> It's specific to company cultures, not Americans in general.

I mean as someone who's worked in a corp that has one foot in the US and one foot in Japan, I see where OP is coming from.

Japan's business culture is no-frills "get it done" which rewards performance + optimization all the way down to the factory worker/janitors. In the US we have a culture of middle-management bloat where performance is usually transitive up the chain in some weird hierarchy; ie: my accomplishments are actually my manager's. This is all done with the "teamwork" mechanic - I didn't accomplish something... the team did.

What this leaves is a whole buncha people who know their failures will blow back on them 10X vs. any successes, giving the company an excuse to withhold incentives (raises, bonuses, etc). You're incentivized to cover stuff up because you know it's going to come up in your reviews, and with your accomplishments being diluted into the "team" it ends up being a major point of contention.

This is all anecdata but... I really understand/see where OP is coming from with his comparison as someone with a similar situation!!
You hear about athletes having their blood monitored to balance recovery, but it seems every instance of this turned out to be about doping.
"All of the evidence points to this not being a laboratory accident," says Jonna Mazet, a professor of epidemiology at the University of California, Davis and director of a global project to watch for emerging viruses called PREDICT. Rather, the experts interviewed by NPR all believe that the virus was transmitted between animals and humans in nature, as has happened in previous outbreaks — from Ebola to the Marburg virus — and with other known coronaviruses such as SARS and MERS.
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That commenter is so in love with Eric Schmidt it's distracting -- isn't making "obervations" about what one cannot observe in the first place fun?
Soft Skills Engineering.

It's about non-technical skills in software engineering, but the hosts are constantly laughing and making humorous insights into general western work culture.
Well, the position advertised is embedded programming in C/C++. Very much hardware-oriented. It's an area I'd love to get into but my career has evolved to be mostly automation-related Python coding. I don't routinely write enough C to claim expertise any more. Positions like this (especially at big well-known companies like Apple) also require a lot of domain experience, which can be difficult to get without pushing reset on your career and starting at the bottom again.
They may have mentioned game so someone did not think they created a rocket propelled grenade.
> Perhaps you could start with good business and sales books by people with the tax-returns to prove they know what they’re talking about.

Classic survivorship bias
Sure, but this is also exactly why latin was used for as long as it was - It was a language that the educated elites from many different and diverse countries used as a command ground.

I'm not saying that math shouldn't be using symbols, I'm saying it's near intentionally hostile to those first picking up the subject. If the goal of math education is to provide the groundwork of understanding to the general populace... Cater to the general populace. The vast majority of those folks are not going to be discussing complex math across several languages.

They're going to be using it for accounting, taxes, construction, cooking, etc. They don't need to memorize an entire language to do that effectively, and we shouldn't be wasting their time in school trying to make them.

Those that choose to specialize are welcome to. In my opinion that doesn't justify the use of specialized language in basic education settings.
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You're probably an outlier. Most people are lazy (in particular, unlikely to embark on research projects), and accustomed to newspapers not citing sources (no hyperlinks in the dead-tree version, after all). They probably have data showing the rate at which people leave the site via external links.
A good time to ask I suppose: Is Devuan stable and does it carry security updates and package repositories equivalent to normal Debian? If so I'll probably switch myself.
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You guys are a tough crowd. The salesman at the Tesla dealership did literally the same for me as the guy at the Subaru dealer. And the Tesla guy got a commission for the sale, too (just like normal, a very small one, new cars don't have a lot of margin).
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I don't think the evidence you've posted supports that there were massive bot campaigns. The popular thesis, which the evidence you've presented is consistent with, is

- the pro-net-neutrality side organized virtual letter-writing campaigns, getting lots of actual human people to send in pre-written messages they agree with but did not author

- the anti-net-neutrality side, unable to find large numbers of actual human people who agreed, used bots to pretend to be lots of people

and therefore, to the underlying question of what policy do more actual human people support, we should disregard many more of the received anti-net-neutrality comments.
https://youtu.be/WvBpuJ0fa98 Here is some low res footage of one in action
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Quite possible, as that is a common practice.
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it comes from greek ὀλιγαρχία [0]: from ὀλίγος (olígos), meaning 'few', and ἄρχω (arkho), meaning 'to rule or to command')[1]

[0] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E1%BD%80%CE%BB%CE%B9%CE%B3%C...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oligarchy
During the aughts, my small cadre opposed "vote by mail" (100% postal ballots, limited in person voting) because we believed it'd disenfranchise the poor, minorities, and students.

Anecdotally, because we had trouble accessing the relevant data, we reasoned those populations are more mobile, with inferior mail service, so postal balloting faces more challenges.

Until very recently, it seemed as though our predictions were proving true.

However, in my jurisdiction, since 2016, both voter registration and participation has increased, seemingly durably. I dare not hope, for fear of jinxing it, these trends continue.

Fast forward to today. I'm very worried about 2020. For so many reasons.

I've always supported postal balloting such that it enfranchises people who would otherwise be disenfranchised. (Postal balloting was invented for people serving in the military and otherwise wouldn't be able to vote.)

So during this pandemic I don't see any other choice than to permit postal balloting for any and all (on demand, no justification necessary).

But knowing firsthand the challenges my jurisdiction had with a gradual well funded switch over, it's going to be a nationwide fubar. Especially in non-urban counties without the institutional knowledge.

Now, more than ever, we need to pour resources into election administration. And managing expectations. For example, final results are going to take A LOT longer, so people (especially media) should be prepared to wait.
> I hate that Chromium’s snap takes more than 10 seconds to load on cold boot on a freaking SSD, whereas .deb and Flatpak apps load in 1-2 seconds.

Can someone verify this? As someone who will eventually upgrade to 20.04, this is concerning.
Our hospital actually records the patient monitor data of ICU patients and analyzes them for scientific purposes. And I agree, there is a tremendous amount of information in it, although bleeding is detected otherwise faster (blood gas analysis e.g.)
How am I supposed to make sense of the conflicts-of-interest here? Obviously, this sort of scientific research has merit. Obviously, it isn't 100% free of risk. I haven't heard any claims of certainty around the origin of the current virus. How do we figure out the line between acknowledging that a hypothesis has inadequate evidence versus asserting it to be wrong because we don't like the ramifications or we don't like the overconfidence of people asserting too-quickly that it is true?
While I sympathize with such unequal pay demands, I don't sympathize with Oracle's grift which lets them even have 4K employees.
What are these hidden API's typically?

Do any confer extra permissions or rights an app shouldn't have?
I agree that this is soft real-time but think that the usage is pretty clear in the web world. I'm not sure it's a bad thing that is taken on a different meaning in a different context.

I view real-time as "the clients reflect the true state of the world without taking action." So if something changed the state of the world, all clients paying attention to that should also be updated.
It seems like bloom filters of geohashes, salted with a secret key, would work for this. Has it already been proposed and shot down?
Well, you an also look at expert predictions and many other things. Generally the market performs better then those.

So on avg, if you disagree with the market you are likely wrong.
Move fast and break things... I don’t know how well this applies to the military, I don’t think it’s a good idea!
I just retried viewing this page after rebooting into Windows and it looks completely different. The text is a lot smaller than on Linux. So Windows handles HiDPI a lot differently, it seems. But my own website looks exactly the same on Linux and Windows. I'm using a "reset.css" --- maybe that's what's at play here.

In any case, our impressions being different only prove my point about standardized styling of webpages.
> is there a non-public outreach reason for not just showing pre-recorded videos of people?

The OP delights and your question made me think about how some among the unwashed masses of Internet users will send video to the eels that may harm and/or frighten them.
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Wow that sounds like 10's of thousands of opportunities to meet, network, whatever, squandered. I always choose a quiet conversational place for lunch, and always with somebody. If not somebody on my project right now, then a contact I haven't visited with in a while.

There is powerful stuff in sharing lunch. Especially if you pay.
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