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I just noticed that a sibling comment has a link to Rainer Joswig's archive of the Dylan book (Dylan, an Object Oriented Dynamic Language, the book I referred to above).

Here's the link again for reference in context:

http://lispm.de/docs/prefix-dylan/book.annotated/

I should have known Rainer would have it.

Even better: he's also archived the design notes:

http://lispm.de/docs/prefix-dylan/design-notes/
Oh right, 'this joke's even sicker'. Thanks, it's been a long day.
You could do that in pretty much the same way, i.e. you create a visual regex. The one difference is that regexes simply match characters, no matter the structure of the code, whereas in a visual language you'd make a distinction between structure and content.
I agree. While this is well done, it seems to be copying human programming techniques rather than allowing the AI to create code that it thinks is optimal. I think there is the potential to evolve efficient and secure code that is free from the constraints we impose on it due to the way our minds work. Such code may not be intelligible to us but could very well be much better than what we could write.
> buffer bloat (wait for buffer to fill before talking on the network)

That's not buffer bloat (but might nevertheless be something that happens on DOCSIS modems, although I haven't heard of buffering several packets before contending for an upstream send grant).

Buffer bloat, while also rampant especially in shitty CPE like most DOCSIS modem/router combinations, would only occur when your upstream is saturated.

Supposedly though, on DOCSIS, the upstream access contention algorithm used can sometimes add the latency you describe, adding latency even for single packets.
"HN caliber" is determined by the community voting on posts which determines what posts make it to the front page.
Visual novels are definitely a thing.
I'm starting to think leaking the code for an old console could be a pretty cost-effective way to get an emulator.

I'm pretty sure I've heard of companies using open source emulators for backwards compatibility with old consoles/selling 'classic games' before.
Without context people might get the wrong end of the stick. There are legitimate reasons to use nmap on your own equipment, sure.

A port scanner running on a webpage without the users knowlege is never legitimate.

So the question is what legitimate reason is there for a port scanner running in a web browser with the users knowledge?
It's explained by reading beyond the title
Obviously inferior to brainfuck, which uses just two characters.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainfuck
“Future versions of the language may relax this restriction by adding support for additional colors not representable in RGB, such as ultraviolet, infrared, and plaid.”

Seems legit.
*Accomplish anything good.
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You mention Siri as an example of Apple taking credit. Siri was on the App Store before Apple bought it and they kept the name.

But honestly, who cares but geeks about what the general population thinks about who invented it?
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But that is just life isn't it ? Whatever choice available there will be trade off, there will be pros and cons.
I find it strange that the writer presents Wikipedia as a well defined entity: it is possible for anyone (including the writer) to amend a Wikipedia article. This may even be done anonymously.

The writer goes on to describe various issues about various articles, which could be brought up directly in the discussion sections of these articles, as well as possible solutions for these issues.

However, the first few lines point out something really interesting: Wikipedia doesn't seem to look for facts, but rather to describe point of views. If you are familiar with stackoverflow, the main policy there is to only provide factual information. Any opinion-based question or answer are at the least frowned upon, and usually rejected (though it may also depends on a sub-topic local behaviour). However, I believe that this policy wasn't devised from the beginning, but rather refined over time, considering that the entries at the dawn of the site were much less restricted on that ground. Wikipedia seems to be much more open to opinions, in a "neutral" way, which they explain by giving each opinion as much coverage has it is popular (and thus accepted). So, does it mean that if the "flat Earth" theory (which is given as an example in the Wikipedia page) was much more popular, it would be prevalent in the article about Earth?

So mainstream ideas will be described in much more details than so-called alternate views. For me, this seems somewhat counter-intuitive. I would want to have an encyclopedia which compiles facts, rather than opinions. Am I missing something?
I remember as a kid that there was a thing called Visual C++ which sounds like what you're describing. It let me draw a GUI and connect functions to button actions or entry field contents.

Now I just use emacs and gcc because I write embedded code mostly but I'm trying to understand why your idea is different? Being open source?
It takes too much room. And you run out of symbols for detailed meaning. Try writing the Gettysburg Address in emoticons.

It's essentially returning to ideograms like ancient Chinese or Egyptian writing. Not a good idea.
I never understood why Unicode has bold versions of characters, that's the function of the font, not the character set.
The software I use, uses between 2 and 4 cores. I’d say 70% of the time it’s 1 core. Thus these new processors with 5.3 GHz on a single core should work well. I also have another application that can use 8, with diminishing returns past 2.

I thought I’d have to settle for the non-ECC i9-10900K, and risk memory errors for long simulations.

The Xeons have always been slow on clock speed, and high on cores. My ideal setup is a gamer PC with ECC, and this W-1290P seems to fit that.

I can’t use AMD as those Intel math libraries are 30% slower on AMD (equivalent clock and cores).
Many of the community mods have excellent gunplay. I really recommend playing them. The 2005 graphics are offset by the very high framerate we can achieve on modern hardware. Also mods like forgotten hope have fixed many of the original game 's bugs.
Normalization and legitimization of opinions as facts when facts don’t suit those opinions. Lots of little cogs in the machine that made that change. But it’s easier to hold an opinion that is factually wrong nowadays.

Now that it’s normal for 30% of the world believing whatever they want and finding their tribe to support them, it’s hard to convince everyone that facts are even valuable, let alone more valuable than those incorrect opinions.
Except that Linux usage on Azure has surpassed that of Windows a long time ago...
Code already has all the information. It's enough for syntax highlighters, compilers, static analyzers, navigation, refactoring, etc.
Isn't the point that "western medicine" is a set of things that have been shown to work based on the outcome of controlled tests - double blind tests and so on. As a result of these tests we say that, in general, statistically, "medicine" cures the condition more than doing nothing does (or, more precisely, more than the placebo effect).

If we put something through that process and find that outcome, we classify it as medicine. My understanding is that tests of some Traditional Chinese Medicine (which I assume is what we're talking about here when we say "eastern medicine") aren't able to replicate successful outcomes and so we therefore don't classify those things as medicine in the west.

That's not to say they don't help trigger the placebo and so on, just that we haven't proven it through double blind studies and so on - which is my understanding of what OP means by "empirical".
In my case, I was moderately depressed for many years. It took being severely depressed for me to do something about it. My suggestion is don’t wait for that. If you think you may be depressed, you’re probably depressed. Make it a priority to address that.

Life is difficult. We don’t need to be happy, but we need to be able to be content with what we have and where we are.

I feel like directing our compassion and our focus outwards to others helps put our own troubles into perspective. But, we also need to care for ourselves.
In case you hadn't noticed, this was a joke commit. The code in question was never actually a real part of Babel.
Exactly. Pharma companies being large multinationals are very risk averse and very lawyer run. People also underestimate the value of everything except inventing the drug. Everything else costs a lot of money to do and a lot of expertise to do well.
This API is reminiscent of the VA Fileman API for which X is used over and over again. Fileman also uses Y though.

http://www.hardhats.org/fileman/pm/cl_dic.htm
8, not two: <>+-.,[]
EDIT: The comment I'm replying to was edited after my comment and the "Reasonable precautions for the vast majority of people don’t seem like enough if you’re 70+." added.
Is the Space Shuttle really a great example? Two of the five exploded killing people and it ended up being more expensive and less efficient than the non reusable Russian equivalent.

https://gizmodo.com/the-space-shuttle-was-a-beautiful-but-te...
What if a Microsoft developer gets her/his hands on the leaked NT 3.5 code and secretly starts working on setting Windows 10 straight...
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One could even argue that a lot of startups are VC backed R&D. Only VC does not care for the scientific, not-directly monetizable outcomes.
Well I really meant that someone is trying to make this sick joke reality, but I like this explanation.
gave me a chuckle
This isn’t necessary for depression. I was severely depressed, and I never seriously considered taking my own life. I did sometimes feel like it would be OK if I ceased to exist.
I am aware of this, I am referring to the video, where Sam Altman (CEO of OpenAI) is presenting the demo and saying "we have built", while Kevin Scott (CTO of MSFT) is saying that it's the first time he has seen that. So this is clearly marketed as OpenAI's work, not just saying that the model is based on their work.
There is something like this already and it is quite good. It is used for deobfuscating javascript [0][1].

[0] https://www.sri.inf.ethz.ch/research/plml
[1] http://jsnice.org/
> Decentralization with multiple competing tools and standards is good as it provides redundancy and opportunities for specialization

Strange argument. This is one of those competing, decentralised standards you are asking for. It’s not clear that fragmentation is better for chat services, even if like you say commercial interests lead to that. Would the web be better if information was spread across 10 competing incompatible versions of http/dns/html/web browser?
Yeah by default gdb sucks a bit for assembly, fortunately it's easily scriptable so I have a file with a bunch of functions to make it behave a bit more reasonably.
No, I mean feedreader. A Feedreader is a service which collects and parses rss-files, then makes them accessable in an interface for the user. Similar to a mailclient, but for rss.

This package seems to do the first part, collecting and parsing, but lacks the interface. So what is the point of it?

And if this is maintaining it's own config for sources, can I even add my own sources? Or is this just an elaborated OPML-file with attatched business-logic?
I've been using US MVNO's for years and buy lightly used smart phones. When you look at a 10 year time span, it is much cheaper than essentially leasing your phone and upgrading every 2 years.

Customer service is different with all the MVNO's we've used. They don't have sophisticated billing systems or the hated phone trees. Ting had the best customer service but also didn't have great coverage and when you go over data for your plan it was a little expensive.

Our current provider (Visible on Verizon network) doesn't even have a phone number to call, just text or social media for support. If you get 4 people together you can have "unlimited" data for $25/mo in US. On previous MVNO our usage never approached the level where "unlimited" became slower.
In my experience, cloud VMs are often a more consistent benchmarking platform than your personal machine.

A desktop environment and consumer-grade hardware add a lot of noise.

Ideally you'd always benchmark on completely idle dedicated servers, but those are rarely available.
Because your arm moves when you aren't walking, and sometimes moves in an unpredictable manner when walking. So they have a lot of extra noise to filter out, some do this better than others, but at the end of the day there is still a lot of error.
Most of them are because they have different meanings in maths, so this makes it easier to represent maths using Unicodemath [1] or MathML.

[1] https://www.unicode.org/notes/tn28/UTN28-PlainTextMath-v3.1...., https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/archive/blogs/murrays/unico...

Edit: [2] Similar for Latex https://www.ctan.org/pkg/unicode-math?lang=en
Little chance of that. They still haven't even fixed the start menu search.

I open up the start menu, type 'vlc', and get no matches. I close the menu, reopen it, and try again. This time, it finds VLC no problem.

They've had almost 5 years to fix this.
Good laugh, Thanks!
I get it, but my point is that unless it can cope with packages that aren't in the ecosystem, it will just add another variant rather than solving the problem, as per https://xkcd.com/927/

It reminds me a lot of http://www.vestasys.org/
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Microsoft already has a pretty sophisticated Xbox emulator, deployed to both Xbox360 and XboxOne.
Why did you choose to ship the list of RSS feeds as an SQL database? This makes it hard to keep it up to date and submit pull requests with additional sources. Would it not be better to keep that info in a json file or a dict / list in a python module?
Eastern medicine that works would also be labeled as just medicine. Acupuncture is growing in use and legitimacy as it is studied and implemented for chronic pain sufferers.

Studies of Aromatherapy have found nothing statistically significant though, so that’d be down as “alternative medicine”. In the same way as “alternative facts” are not facts. “Alternative medicine” is not medicine. The nice thing about alternative medicine is that there’s a pretty clear and simple path to getting an alternative medicine to become actual medicine if it works. Have it studied and tested using the rigor of the scientific method.
> The workplace has to be established, distractions (much less than what is in the office, but still) have to be managed. Social needs have to be satisfied sy some other means.

> Still, work from anywhere

And this is the contradiction I find hard to manage. Not saying it's impossible, more in the "not sure how to do it"

Good equipment is important. A nice desk is important.

If you're hopping over AirBnbs, it's hard to carry all your stuff with you and have a good desktop experience wherever you go.

Working outside (from a balcony) is usually not great. Screens are not great on sunlight, then there's rain, wind, etc. And concentration suffers a bit

It looks a bit complicated at first glance.
A handful of reasons all sorta collided.

First, we had some issues with certain sites not working at all if we added them and since our link forwarder was doing it automatically, it made life difficult. We came up with a way to turn them off on an adhoc basis but it was annoying.

Second, I didn't feel they were really moving the needle in any useful way. I don't think people are looking at their stats every day like they used to.

Third, it just felt like more litter/junk for tracking purposes. While there's no privacy aspect to it, I just felt like going a little cleaner in this regard. But.. I can't say they won't ever come back :-)
>Unlike startups which are constantly in survival mode so basic research with long term benefits is like the last thing they would spend money on.

Sure startups are in survival mode, but they are trying to survive while getting someone else to pay for testing an idea. Aren't startups like VC funded research in a way?
With a target like Snowden who is under constant surveillance and lives at the whim of his host country, he could expect that any off the shelf hardware he bought would be immediately compromised. His hosts would just make up some bullshit reason to part him from the device for several minutes and do an evil maid attack. Or from afar his hosts or another country's actors could exploit undisclosed vulnerabilities in his device's wifi or bluetooth layer that they have in their toolkit.
In high school when I used f for file variable everybody looked at me like I just invented the wheel. Everybody else was using weird long names.
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You say that verifiable facts don't count for much and then as an example point to a model? A model isn't a fact.

That someone made assumptions and drew conclusions might be a fact. But the assumptions might or might not be facts, and the conclusions certainly aren't facts. As a general rule, if it's in the future, it's not a fact.
Your git repo contains the dist folder even though its in .gitignore, might be good to remove that. No need to checking generated artifacts.
Even just the abstract shows pretty clearly that this is a sound and useful scientific inquiry into the hows and the whys that also shows a difference in the effect response of exercise on cognitive function - between an ADHD group vs. the control group. This is good stuff.
Every large ad company has a bunch (or a lot) of PhDs that publish papers and generally try to out innovate their competitors. There's research on human behavior, economics (auction theory, etc.), optimization theory, machine learning, etc. For example, modern ad systems are the largest auction houses in human history by orders of magnitude.
We have a redirect so we can measure traffic in aggregate (we don't track who clicks what) to refine our content over time. But.. I don't believe we get set as the referrer the way we do it (30x redirects). I believe this is why Twitter's t.co redirector DOES use a true "dummy page" as then they get the referral. It's something that might be worth trying though..
I have always assumed this related to achieving a differentiated character set for Math and science formulas.
I use frida https://frida.re/ along with android-x86 VM. Worked well for every app I tried so far
1. Yes.

2. Not really.

3. They are weekly.

I just don't have much to say most times, so it's a quick "everything good?", "yep", "cool".
> On every distro uninstalling packages never really reverts the system to its previous state, always leaves some junk behind.

Not at all. Apt has been able to remove everything for the last 20 years.
https://cncnet.org/ certainly still has players
Just like bias by choosing which stories to cover, you can choose which facts to confirm and debunk. Snopes used to be where I went to debunk urban legends. It seems they’ve taken a more political bent now. Their fact verification is still true, but it does seem like they fact check with an agenda now.
It's funny you say it resolves the problem because if you read the bug report from the author opened since 2017 https://github.com/go-sql-driver/mysql/issues/657

It's repeatedly pointed out by one maintainer that his server and application are misconfigured and should be fixed. Yet the author doesn't consider it and goes on a project to redo the connection pool (the library can certainly benefit from better error detection but he would be better off fixing the root cause of connections dropping).

Ergo the issue is not fixed. If you look at the chart provided, it's still erroring every few minutes, instead of every minute. It's an improvement but a far cry from zero. https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/42793/57318792-6e3...
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Sorry, but the GP's statement was declined in the present. In the present, and for the past 30/40 years, the CCP has done a great job for the people of China. So much so the US are freaking out because they're afraid of losing their leadership.
sobering...
I actually also have a HiLux pickup(just a US badged Toyota Pickup) as well!
I cannot speak for Volth, but I am far more pressed for time than money, and largely paid to work on open source as it is, so it's not like that would be dramatically more fun than what I normally do or something.

Also I think in the short term this needs a burst of effort rather than trickle of paid maintenance costs: we're firmly in capex not opex territory.
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Did you realize that there are also bats in Austin, Texas? They live under the bridge there.

Unless these bats are perfectly clean and disease free, after millions of years of evolution. And somehow, only the bats in China, can carry a novel coronavirus?

I’m just pointing out that bats exist worldwide. And they can infect other farm animals. This is not a unique situation to only China.
Have you checked out the official container system in NixOS?
Not if a part of the variable is used

I just had this problem in a GUI. There was an edit view, correctly created and initialized with a default value. Then the user could enter a value, but whatever the user entered would be ignored.
Yeah I feel you, but think about it from the other perspective. We use PostgreSQL but may not have the expertise or budget (since man hours = cost) to contribute to the project. Open Source is and can only thrive by the amazing volunteers that contribute to them, it can never been an obligation; specially for appearances sake.
Read the Innovator’s Dilemma. It’s all about asymmetric competition and how to compete against a monopoly. All of the FAANGMs got to be that way by toppling a previous market leader.
It's because the design techniques that allow a core to run more instructions per clock -- wider execution units, shorter pipelines, etc. -- also tend to reduce the maximum achievable clock speed.
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The labview "linter" is of course weirder but I think this is basically one.

https://zone.ni.com/reference/en-XX/help/371361R-01/lvvianal...

PS. Please don't take this as an endorsement of labview. It has its place in non-CS fields when there's high turnover so it's really bad if only the group's current programmer understands it. Talking academia here, I probably wouldn't use it in a more stable environment.
I think that violates the “only X, but in different fonts” dictum. Those are technically different glyphs and therefore very distinct names. A font would be the same character tagged in different ways, those are absolutely different characters. Aside from the visual similarity, a computer would never be confused into think they’re even remotely similar (kind of how to us 1000000001 and 10000000001 look almost indistinguishably similar, but are almost impossible for a computer to confuse).
I'm pretty sure the first two links refer to something very different than the third:

The first two are about a way to encode maths using unicode, as in conventions and special characters allowing e.g. to write fractions, aligned equations, etc.
So, this would essentially furnish an alternative to the "math" subset of latex (think mathjax or katex) or mathml.

The third is a package for latex, and allows to use unicode symbols (greek letters, math symbols, etc.) in your math environments + something related to the use of unicode in the output (requiring compatible fonts); it seems the second part is the main one but I'm not sure what that means exactly.
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