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Square cube law says no it doesn't scale well I am afraid. The weight of the skin scales on surface area and the lift scales on volume of the displaced air.

You can tweak for thicknesses and pressures some - but hydrogen is also corrosive in addition to being flammable and explosive.
The LaTeX font schemes were more about providing a parameterized access to font families. TeX 3.0 provided access to 8-bit input and output.

I was involved in a typesetting project in the 90s where I wrote a preprocessor which took 16-bit input (encoded using SJIS—Unicode was not yet widely adopted enough to be practical) and turned that into a stream of TeX code which handled font selection and character coding. It also handled allowing breaks between Kanji/Kana characters at allowable points (e.g., between two Kanji/Kana but not between Kanji/Kana and, say, a period).

There were some specialized extensions of TeX that were designed for CJK typesetting. With the rise of Unicode, this functionality became available in XeTeX.
`asm!` never made it out of the nightly builds, so nothing that's being changed has been released.
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Cool, thanks for the info!

I wonder about the underlying instance's OS, though... in the past, for home servers, I've set up cron jobs to get OS updates and reboot, but that seems wrong for a web server I'd like to be always up.

Maybe create a new instance, update the OS, install the app, switchover? Is there automation for this kind of thing?
That doesn't seem like a reasonable test.

I dunno about interface responsiveness, but things I actually want to DO -- server virtualization, Lightroom, etc. -- sure do seem faster on my new rMBP than they did on my 5 year old model.
again, get a lawyer.

But out of interest:

* are your "agreements" a legal contract, or verbal? Are you an employee or a contractor?

* what are the terms wrt duration? was it 20% royalties while you continued as a developer, 20% for the lifetime of the product? Do you have any say in e.g. pricing/offers, which would affect sales/sale price, and hence your %

* you say they "included payment for development work" but that "however then I have needed to pay these pay with reductions in royalties" - if it comes out of your royalties, how does it include payment for dev work? i.e. how does this differ from "not included payment for development work"; Do you mean he gave you an upfront loan to cover living/dev cost, but there is no additional payment for these on top of royalties?

* is your salary 2x avarage salary (in your home), or 2x salary for that job type or industry?
I'm both very excited someone is taking a shot at trying something new on kernel side. But i can't help wonder about what would a future look like where 90% of hardware run on a Google-owned operating system.
One thing this op-ed is not mentioning and that is becoming a stronger motivator for many countries to find an alternative global currency is the abusive use of economic sanctions that started with the Obama administration, and almost spiraled out of control under Trump.

If any bank wants to transact with dollars inside or outside the US, it needs to either open "an account" with the federal reserve, or work with a bank which has one as an intermediary. If a company ignores sanctions put in place by the US against another country, industry, company or people, their bank is liable, and can have its license to transact with dollars suspended, essentially cutting it off from the global economy.

Back when the US believed in multilateralism and concentration with its allies, sanctions were perceived more positively that they are today in the America first and alone era.
You could buy them the "Unix For Dummies" or "Python For Dummies" books. I liked those as a kid because they didn't feel intimidating. The title is just to make them seem less intimidating.
These are very true and so difficult to adhere to when I’m emotionally connected to an issue. Thank you!
You could do something like this:

`https://htt.ps/accounts.google.com/`
Try Manjaro Linux on your laptop. Last laptop I installed it on, everything just worked.

And it's based on Arch, so you'll be able to take advantage of the excellent Arch software repo and wiki (if necessary).
Very nice.

Now just need a small wrapper around ptrace to inject the library and call mish_prepare(0), so can just dynamically add it as needed to running programs.
Keep in mind, too, that path dependence plays a huge role here. Linux took off when the alternatives were Windows NT, Novell Netware, or commercial Unixes running on underpowered RISC hardware.
Yes and no. I’m someone who took krashen to heart and learned almost exclusively though reading. What I’ve found is that it’s possible to understand everything as long as it’s written or spoken very slowly and clearly but this is a different thing to understanding the spoken language at a normal speaking pace. It’s too fast and at that speed often sound alone is not clear enough to distinguish words. For example if you took a recording and cropped the audio just before and after each word I think there will be many words you will not recognize out of context.

I think the way that we are able to process speech at that speed is that we essentially guess what words are coming next, which is really only possible if you’re able to construct the sentence yourself. If you stop a sentence at a random point a native speaker will be able to predict the kind of words that will come next, if not the exact words. Another bit of evidence for this theory is that if someone says something very unexpected and out of context we often won’t understand what they’ve said.

Now it’s possible that you could achieve this ability only through input and not through production but I believe that it will be much less efficient.
Truest comment here. I’m co-founder at tesults.com and the biggest reason we discovered for dropping off the product is because upon integrating they realize their test automation is in such a bad state there’s no need for the service :-) It’s a shame because regression is commonplace. I wrote about why I think it’s done badly on the blog (https://www.tesults.com/blog?id=why-automated-test-projects-...)

I’ve worked at companies with 100k workers down to 10 people companies and the employee is generally a cog everywhere unfortunately but you learn different things. I started out in big companies and learned nothing about the business side of things whatsoever in those years. I did learn solid technical skills and practices though. I think smaller companies are the way to go if you intend to do your own thing one day. Bigger is better earlier in the career to learn technical skills or later on if you need a comfortable/well paying job when raising kids for stability.
The important thing in this case is that the previous syntax was never actually stabilized, and was only available in nightly releases of the compiler.

So technically it does break some code, but only code which was deliberately opting into unstable features with the knowledge that it may break in the future.
asm! has been an unstable feature for years, which means a) it's available only in nightly builds, and b) there is no guarantee that it will remain backwards-compatible.

Actually, with regards to asm!, it's been known for a long time that it was unlikely to be stabilized as-is (being originally a very thin wrapper around LLVM's inline asm functionality). Probably nearly everyone who's been relying on inline asm to make their code work has already been following the effort to replace asm! with a better version.
The 'CableCard' system where I lived was pretty big during the TiVO era before cable companies started providing their own DVR systems.

You had to get 2 cards one for each tuner card in the TiVO and they would constantly fail and had endless issues. I was a Cablevision (a New York cable company) technician at the time.
And through all the that, crisis of all sorts (debt, migrants, political, ...) the euro has not lost a single member, it has not jumped wildly in value from week to week, and it has not started including whatever country it could, keeping to its slow and controlled accession process.

Even the far right in France and Italy has stopped putting "drop the Euro" into their manifesto, something that was one of their top 3 bullet points since its creationg and up to merely 5 years ago. Even they don't believe in its end anymore.
Lots of people are arguing really valid points.
I recently switched to a Big Co after 4 start-ups - so I get /it/.
I'm just wondering what part is due to inefficiency creeping in VS due to the size of an organisation.

Point being: what about SpaceX, Tesla or Stripe ?

Are they also slow ? with politics and no transparency & co ?
for me it was seamlessly and I needed to jump a few minor versions.
They're really not incompatible -- iPadOS is really just a reskinned macOS. Under the hood they're essentially the same thing.

There won't be any phasing out of macOS -- it really wouldn't make any sense at all. They'd alienate all their devs.
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Every couple years they'll define an edition of a language (e.g. rust 2015, rust 2018), the idea being that if you choose to stick to one of them, the latest rust will still compile your code as long as you tell it what version you're targetting.
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Do human drivers have instant car-to-car communication? No. So why should a self-driving car have it?
Self-driving cars will never happen if the fundamental assumption is that every single vehicle on the road is able to actively communicate like that.
I did this recently as I moved apartments, I think you were given incorrect info. You can easily open multiple policies under the 1 account (e.g. your move out date is June 1 and your move in date is May 15).
I think this is a dicey area for discussion. Political discussions have always, and particularly so today, essentially consisted of ripping off bits of dogma and throwing at each other. While my family and I are generally on the same page, I avoid political discussions with them as well.

I am often inclined to flag political threads here if they get egregiously bad. It very often gets to be the opposite of interesting.
FreePascal compiles for more platforms than I'd expect, even the Gameboy. Might interest you? I know Ada and Pascal are sort of relatives.
It seems such a waste to spend all the effort to write a whole new OS and all these drivers with the same old buffer overflow bugs we've been fighting since the dawn of time. It doesn't have to be this way anymore!
Coinbase built and maintains their own platform that's working for them.

Coinbase provided an analysis worth studying. The major takeaway for me: asking people to manage their own Kubernetes cluster is like asking people to manage their own hypervisors when they just want VMs.
I would never pay anyone to spy on me 24 hours a day.
Not only that, but Apple if they wanted to could strengthen the memory model of their custom chips, meaning the barriers wouldn't be necessary during emulation.
IIRC, MF 2.0 at least boosted 128 to 256. At the time, the only character sets which went beyond 256 characters were CJK character sets which had uniform character dimensions for all characters so the limitation was not a problem.
Thanks for the feedback. I wanted to capture the same idea as the original tool I listed in the README. In the future I hope to add functionality to tail a log file in real time and do live updates of the stats. This is where the idea of top comes from.
Agreed, but I'll quote Reid Hoffman's definition of trust as "consistency over time" as an indication that it will take decades to build that trust.
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> bioinformatics, systems biology, computational biology

Of those bioinformatics is more specific (usually genomics data); the other two are overlapping and pretty non-specific terms.

For example I started a Sys Bio PhD and ended up in a Comp Bio research group. A friend started the same way but ended up in control theory/microbiology.

The title and even the department are somewhat arbitrary and more to do with the organisation at the university than anything else (e.g. I was in CS but my friend was Engineering I think).

If you can find a good interdisciplinary course they will be familiar with people moving around depending on their interests.
Somewhat related. For those who are new to SDRs, you can easily view airplane altitude, heading, speed, and other stats of passing aircraft with a cheap SDR. Aircraft transmit this using ADS-B and it's totally open and unencrypted.

FlightAware (among other services) work by aggregating data from users around the world. You can even get a free premium subscription to their service by contributing. Easiest way is to use a Raspberry Pi, install their software (much easier now than back in 2013!), and you're good to go!
I think that's in reference to losing the type information for their own development of that code. I'm almost certain they don't mean they will stop shipping type definitions for the public APIs.
What 'many other' countries?

Every country has unmarked cop cars in use alongside high visibility marked cars. Every country has armed officers in addition to unarmed officers.

Given the US has liberal gun laws, how would that even work? It's shortsighted & reactionary unless you want people who are already in dangerous situations to be lambs led to the slaughter because you'd like to think you live in a unicorn reality.
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Personally, I am not sure. The lawyer can give great advice but will also likely to pressure author into accompanying, not talking to the owner on this or that, implicit assumptions and risks, etc. etc. That's just seems to be the nature of the beast.
In practice, building Dockerfiles is unreliable and can produce errors because they inherit all of the deficiencies of aptitude, python packaging, javascript packaging, et al.

In practice, building nix dependencies is reliable and reproducible because of the militant isolation of build environments, hash integrity checks on _all_ inputs, explicit dependencies, and the long tail of bug fixes related to non-determinism in unix tooling.

This is my personal experience, not abstract.
It is one of my favorite stimuli in psychometrics and the philosophy of science. I already sent it to quite a few people, as a long-read remark on the applicability of models.

Of course, as long as you read it at the meta-level, comparing with other tools (scientific, pseudo-scientific), for example: Four Temperaments, MBTI, Big Five, Western Zodiac, Chinese Zodiac, etc.

While many predictions are bogus (e.g. month of birth and relationship comparability, vide https://www.gwern.net/docs/psychology/okcupid/howyourraceaff...) they capture various traits of character people consider important.

The difference between science and pseudo-science is much more smooth than most scientists would like to admit. While MBTI is not up to academics standards, it is highly correlated with Big Five, trait by trait (still, AFAIR there is reason to use it in the place of Big Five). Plus, there is too much Jungian interpretation for MBTI, which is not up to current scientific standards. Still, I defended MBTI (in a dating context, e.g. as a self-identification) more times than I care to admit (for some insights, this https://www.16personalities.com/ is decent).

There is also a corollary that psychology is still in its infancy, much like biology before the discovery of bacteria, viri, or DNA.

...

In mathematics, there is a concept of a basis - more or less, directions, or orientation. We can express the same thing is a few different ways. Some bases are better (unit length, dimensions are orthogonal (uncorrelated)), but otherwise there is a lot of room here.

In this case, Colors of Mana are one basis. Just because it is an impromptu psychological explanation, does not mean it does not work. Yet:

- Some explanations or interpolations may not be valid.

- It is likely that we can find a more refined way.

All in all, I would love to make people2vec, where we embed various psychological trains as vectors, as see which other parameters (scientific or not) we can reproduce. All in all, even IQ can be considered a personality trait (as it is correlated with other traits of personality, it is not a separate entity) http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/beautiful-minds/2014/04/...
This is useful. I tend to look for a universal rule I can abide by but reality requires alternative solutions. My hope is to find solutions that benefit collective society while not creating new inequities in the process. I believe conflicting realities need to be held in tension rather than allowing them to cancel each other out.
If anyone's lurking and wants to self-educate, this video is a good (and entertaining!) starting point: https://youtu.be/SEMB1Ky2n1E
I hope so too but I’m skeptical. In my opinion, Rust still needs ergonomic multi-dimensional index expressions and standardized multi-dimension array traits. I’d love to see (or join) a scientific working group to help with this.
> syntax was highly unlikely to ever graduate from nightly to stable Rust, despite being one of the most requested features.

I think it's safe to infer from this line that there was not yet a guarantee of stability in the interface, and that breaking backwards compatibility was therefore fine.

>We renamed the existing asm! to llvm_asm!

They also kept the existing functionality under a different name to ease transition. Current users will need only update the macro name and then transition to the better syntax at their own pace.
I would love to see an interactive map of Zircon, similar to the one of the (older) Linux kernel - https://makelinux.github.io/kernel/map/
"Instead, the style guide suggests those systems should be labeled as "partially" automated or as an advanced driving assistant." - It could be something like a driver assistant system, but semi-autonomous would mislead people, imo.
Yeah, there's something weird with the 16in integrated GPU. Hard to tell if it's the OS, the driver, or the hardware. I've run into performance regressions in the JetBrains Rider IDE that make typing absolutely miserable. I suspect they are related to the slow iGPU.
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Getting authentication and federation "right" is tough, and I wouldn't recommend implementing it yourself.

I would consider looking into Keycloak, which is an opensource platform similar to Okta/Auth0 that you can self host:

https://www.keycloak.org/
C++....microkernel....reminds me of Symbian. :-)
Would that really ever happen? Microsoft - a company so dominant it got an antitrust lawsuit - hasn't even been able to get 90% of the market share. No operating system since the very early days of computing has.

Not only that, but other older operating systems are always going to have an advantage here anyway: they'll have support, ecosystems, documentation, and people with years of experience with them.

Google isn't even a monopoly in search for heaven's sake! Only 87% of people use Google Search. If they can't get a monopoly there - and you really can't get a monopoly in almost any industry without government help - what makes you think they can get a near-monopoly in operating systems?
What segment do you envision preferring keyboards with keys that randomly fail?

I've had 3 Macs with these keyboards (should have been two, but one died completely and had to be replaced), all of them had this issue to varying degrees. This was not uncommon for the other Mac users at my workplace.

Even if fiasco is an overstatement, the initial denial of the issue I think is the major source of it becoming a media issue.
I wouldn't call gaming relevant in the macOS sphere at all, really. Certainly in the mobile sphere it is, but there's not really any crossover to desktop OS X.

There are games that run on OS X , but even for me as a relatively hardcore OS X type, I go sit down at my Windows 10 desktop machine when I want to game.
I wonder how things would have stacked with OpenJ9 - AdoptOpenJDK project makes OpenJ9 builds available for Java 8/11/13/14 - so it should be trivial to include it in the benchmarks.

We have been experimenting with it in light of the Oracle licensing situation and it does provide interesting set of options - AOT, various GCs (metronome, gencon, balanced) along with many other differentiators to OpenJDK like JITServer which offloads JIT compilation to remote nodes.

https://www.eclipse.org/openj9/docs/gc/

It doesn't get as much coverage when it should - it's production hardened - IBM has used it and still uses it for all their products - and it's fully open source.
I don't understand. So in 2016, Typescript was around for 4 years so it only had 4 years left, yet here we are.
Anybody that knows about the RFC and other implementations in C compilers, why are always "string literal parameters" (quoted strings) used?

Wouldn't be nice to have a way to embed other languages without the need for those quotes everywhere?

I guess it is meant to avoid complicating the syntax/grammar reusing the existing macro one?
And here's me thinking it was just because shared hosting providers didn't have to deal with insane and onerous licensing costs and vm isolation problems
Sounds interesting! I'm a bit confused about how can you profile the system's performance automatically? If I understand correct, the profiling process needs a client to mock real requests in production environment, and the client of serving Deep Learning models are various from one to another.