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You're making an argument from absurdity, and you're wrong.

Stanford and Harvard don't need accreditation because they are among the premiere universities on the planet. Stanford is regionally accredited by the way, I'm not sure why you keep arguing they're not (your confusion is probably that they dropped their ABET accreditation in CS which is not required for CS although some universities do maintain it). Actually, now that I went back and looked it up, even Harvard is accredited, as is every other ranked university I looked up -- Carnegie Mellon is accredited, Georgia Tech is accredited, MIT is accredited.

The two things are entirely independent, you're correct -- but you're making an argument that isn't supportable in comparing the premiere universities on the planet who could, if they wanted, theoretically, eschew the concept of accreditation because they don't need to prove anything about their curriculum with a college that has nothing -- no accreditation, no reputation, nothing at all.
> If someone can access my email, they can probably reset my password and get the 2fa codes, no?

No? 2FA exists precisely to prevent that sort of attack model.
How do you measure data quality?
How do you know the test count increased? In Utah the rate of new cases has increased but the testing rate has slightly decreased.
The analogy doesn't apply because "primates" doesn't have a colloquial definition that excludes humans. "fish" or "reptiles" would be better examples. "Humans didn't evolve from reptiles; they are reptiles". I don't find it pertinent that the colloquial definition wouldn't exist without scientific study.
Nonsense. That's the 'great man' theory. Its clear from history that when the time has come, the business appears. There were many online retail operations when Bezos came on the scene. If Amazon hadn't happened, then another company would have.

Heck, Amazon isn't even Amazon any more. Its a two- or three-removed reinvention of what Amazon started out to be.
I lived 1 block from there, by Lindas until a year ago. What kind of interactions with homeless people did you have to say it is absolutely terrible?

I occasionally saw a homeless person, but that was about the worst of it. And I was out on the town a lot. Oh my car got broken into once as well. Once in 11 years.
I used to use konqueror years and years ago set to ask me about cookies from all sites. It got so tedious. These days I'm much happier with firefox/privacy badger selectively blocking stuff behind the scenes for me.

Though I do wish it weren't necessary.
Browser gaming is certainly going to evolve more and more. With Stadia and so many other browser-based games show great examples of what can be achieved.
A number of states ended up enacting laws to solve this exact problem. Lawmakers had to force the big state universities to accept transfer credits from community and regional colleges.
That Postgres query library could be the most broadly useful part of the whole stack. Also looks like a big job! Best of luck!
This! Especially f'in dropbox.. swear to god everytime you try to click on a file it does some type of request to try to "help" you.

Which is fine, but it gets slow as hell. I have a brand new very fast machine and all the sudden explorer was getting so terrible. I downloaded something to disable the dropbox shell extensions and back to very nice performance.
I've never had issues with legibility in dark mode but then I apparently have very large pupils (to the point where when I got contact lenses the optician warned me about lens flares / halos) so maybe I don't get some of the benefits of day mode.
Traders can choose between highly regulated US exchanges (Gemini) and lightly or unregulated offshore (Binance) and all manner in-between. The market shows demand for all of them.
I like to point out that a Boring Co. tunnel boring machine will fit inside a Starship. 14 feet vs 30 feet.

Coincidence?
Because this entire subthread is about some claims that people are misinformed about CHAZ, including:

> People on the internet are convinced it's protected by armed guards
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I always thought the cloud gamming is really just a way to move gammers to "subscriptions" instead of one time purchases, in the end milking more money and taking more control from them just like Adobe did with their creative products.
We need to stop saying “faster” with regards to async. The point of async was always either fitting more requests per compute resource, and/or making systems more latency consistent under load.

“Faster” is misleading because the speed improvements that you get with async is very dependent on load. At low levels there is going to typically be negligible or no speed gains, but at higher levels the benefit will be incredibly obvious.

The one caveat to this is cases where async allows you to run two requests in parallel, rather than sequentially. I would argue that this is less about async than it is about concurrency, and how async work can make some concurrent work loads more ergonomic to program.
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Is HDFS tiering a thing? Are people using it (in Azure/SQL Server) to mount their data stores? ADLS? S3?
A counter question: why do you care? Do you believe someone waited all those years to not buy it and play for free in browser with massive lag? Is this an attempt to enforce bullshit corporate-centric policies that are copyright laws simply for the sake of enforcing them?
People aren't just scared of the idea of armed police, they're afraid of police departments who have a history of getting away with murder. John Brown Gun Club and Redneck Revolt don't have that history.

There were also rumours of proud boys and other far-right groups attacking CHAZ. It's understandable that people would be more comfortable with vocally anti-fascist gun clubs defending them than the police, who often treat the far-right as friends.
35 years of development, and it still will crash my shell the moment I right click in a slow network folder! At least MS in their infinite wisdom fixed the problem by simply restarting the shell again once it crashes! Genius!
If we are talking cable, I believe it. I haven’t had cable for the last couple of decades, I would venture that not many liberals, who tend to be younger, have cable. If you were going to start a cable channel now, who would you pander to: the audience that doesn’t have that much cable (liberals) or the audience that does (conservatives).
Thanks! We use MomentJS Timezone to localize to your machine. We'll add something to make that more clear.
Covid-19 is a respiratory illness. It has other systemic effects though.
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And of the billionaires I’ve met none would be willing to risk losing a comma no matter how big the potential payoff. In that respect Elon is definitely the 1% of the 1%.
That's not how I understood it. I think OP's first paragraph is better read with some quote marks:

> I often see many people show immediate solidarity with Amazon as soon as the ideas of anti-trust or monopoly are brought up. "If the government is allowed to break up a large corporation then where does it stop? Will they come after my small business next?"
Oh. I guess they are living underground.
Do they really hand out severance when you're voluntarily leaving? Typically that's for layoffs or "soft" firings.
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Cash App Send Limit
How much can you really send?
The nice thing about Rust is you often don’t have to declare the type of a variable since the compiler will just infer it for you. This is especially nice in an IDE like CLion which will show you the inferred type for each variable. As for the syntax for a type declaration, `variable: Type` is more natural and readable for me than `type variable`. The first one naturally reads as `variable is a Type` while the second reads like Yoda speak (`A Type, variable is`)

Since I am not familiar with Scalia, I am not sure why the types after the name would end up being more verbose, as far as I can tell the only difference is the : between the variable and its type. Would you mind expanding on that?

Personally although Rust definitely does not have the elegance of Haskell or Python, I definitely would not call it ugly. There aren’t that many symbols and once you actually spend the time to learn the language the semantics for each syntax element are pretty easy to remember. I also have looked at D, but the lack of algebraic data types makes it a non-starter for me.
The only big music festival I've been to is Sasquatch (twice). I certainly did not see people with assault rifles there. Which festivals are you talking about?
I've heard a lot of conservative voices calling for this too. The only problem is that the US is far from Sweden--no universal health care, no guaranteed sick leave, and no real safety net for workers. It would seem that if the US wanted to take the "hands-off" model, it would need to first implement these things.
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“The most plausible explanation is not mass murder, but an anatomy school run by Benjamin Franklin’s young friend and protege, William Hewson”
I think over the past few decades, there's been a movement towards increasingly aggressive use of some police weapons. Using tear gas to disperse a crowd is also needlessly aggressive. When I was a kid, Dutch police used water for that. And only when it was an actual riot. I've seen videos of police tasering someone who wasn't the least bit violent, but simply uncooperative. That's not what tasers are for. But if someone is violent, they get shot immediately, rather than tasered.

Police have all these weapons, and they want to use them, instead of first trying more constructive, peaceful methods.
The problem with the modern economy is that companies can become “too successful” using underhanded and ethically questionable practices. They influence the government to pass laws that can strengthen their hold or eliminate competition entirely. They hide behind a wall of government when it is convenient and act like angels when the people want the government to break them up.

I don’t know what the answer is, but rewarding corruption and discouraging success are not feasible in the long term. Both arguments above seem legitimate.
No, I do not see that anywhere on the page. I do see '"YOU HAVE HIJACKED THIS"
Black community activists clash with Seattle anarchists over BLM message, seized district' and other stuff like 'Washington restaurant apologizes after police officer finds derogatory acronym on receipt' and 'Seattle mayor, police chief deny making call to abandon police precinct.' It's mostly sane news.

I wonder if it shows different things to folks without ad blockers, JavaScript blocking &c.?

Agreed, though: 'Clueless in Seattle' has no place on a news site.
> Specifically, I took the people who promote the Gimp at their word when they said it was, in every respect, a viable libre replacement for Photoshop.

You know what, this is where I completely agree with you. I'm very much against the idea of promoting GIMP as a Photoshop replacement because it will always lead to frustration. It cannot be otherwise. The software was never designed for that.

There are unavoidable similarities, some tools are specifically designed like Photoshop's ones simply because the way it's done in Photoshop makes sense for GIMP as well. But that is pretty much it.

> Those claims of quality are still made on Gimp's behalf, maybe you know. RMS has been known to repeat them in public.

I never heard RMS saying any such thing. But then again, how would I know? I don't follow him, I can't stand the guy.

> But as soon as someone happens to criticize some specific aspect of Gimp's functionality - in this case, its ongoing inability to render text at a level of quality comparable with Photoshop and with its commercial competitors more generally - suddenly "everybody knows" that that specific part of the Gimp isn't ready for prime time, never has been, and anyone would have to be a complete muppet to imagine it was intended for serious use.

I'm afraid you are conflating things here. So lemme unload a little.

Like every other software (incl. Photoshop), GIMP has loose ends, bad design decisions, etc. As a team member, I don't mind admitting it. Noone in the team minds publicly admitting it. There's no point arguing against obvious things.

So... Can you do serious work with GIMP? Yes, we've seen use cases of complex work. Commercial-grade work, shitload of layers etc.

Do you need workarounds? Depends on the project and the kind of manipulations involved.

Are there things impossible to do as compared to Photoshop? Yes, of course. All the 3D stuff, vector layers, smart objects are among the first things I can think of.

Are things getting better? Yes. Just two days ago I was talking to our guy who does a lot of work on performance. He has a test project file from a user. A real project, 500+ layers, over 1GB large. GIMP used to just crash on it. Now? No crashes, pretty much usable.

Would you be pleased if you tried again? I don't know, that is not up to me to decide.
Please share the URL to your shop :)
The police left because they were told to leave not because they wanted to leave.
I was giving examples of far left people not being a fringe, not saying that the specific flavor of leftism at play there is authoritarian. Although it can be construed as authoritarian if you look at the actions of the so-called anarchists there. IDs required to get in/out, checkpoints where armed hooligans demand to know where you are going and why, forceful seizure of private property...not really anarchy.
I don’t even work in software and find this all too familiar. Too many small companies are like this.
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Serious question: What's to stop Seattle Police or state authorities from removing people from CHAZ? I wouldn't be surprised if there are city, state and federal officials drawing up probable cause to shut it down.
An Apple keyboard is a funny example to open with. Weren't we just recently celebrating the end of Apple's ill-advised MacBook keyboard experiment?
Given this, would you say your goal with Dexplot is to be a better Seaborn (and replace it given its dev state), basically the same usage cases but with improvements as you describe?

Thanks for the effort. Looks like a great project.
Plagiarism as a means to acquire a university degree devalues the worth of all other degrees...
That's a big topic. The shortest way I can summarize it though:

Immutable data, heap isolated by concurrent process and lack of shared state, combined with supervision trees made possible because of extremely low overhead concurrency, and preemptive scheduling to prevent any one process from taking over the CPU...create that operational consistency.

It's a combination of factors that have gone into the language design that make it all possible though. Very big and interesting topic.

But it does create a significant capacity increase. Here's a simple example with websockets.

https://dockyard.com/blog/2016/08/09/phoenix-channels-vs-rai...
But there are non-corrupt unions in other countries?

Even some in the US as some commentators have suggested (Screen Actors Guild being one)
Who says there is something wrong with this?
Legally? Nothing.

Practically? There's a whole bevy of reasons why this isn't done in practice but the bottom line is it's not in the bank's best interest:

- The bank is likely mortgaging other properties in the area. They don't want the value of the housing going down.

- The bank doesn't want to slow down real estate sales with people waiting on "deals" on foreclosures. They'd just as soon be issuing new mortgages which results in more money coming in the door.

- The bank doesn't want to get a bad reputation. Look at the issues Wells Fargo is having. It's easy to lose your reputation, it's hard to get it back.

In general what happens is the property goes to auction. Because the buyer has to either pay cash or secure their own financing and be able to take quick possession of the property the house will typically sell for 17%-20% below market value.

In this example since you're $150K into a $200K mortgage let's say the house's market value is $300K. It would sell at auction for $240K. The bank will have $35K in expenses and fees and so will cut a check for $210K-$50K = $155K to the homeowner.

In general it's in your best interest to sell the house yourself before the bank forecloses. Let's look at this example again. You sell the house for $300K. Say you have $24K in closing costs, plus there's the $50K you owe the bank. You'll net $226K. That's $71K more in your pocket than letting the bank foreclose.
Also started drilling to put in piles for the super-heavy launch pad this week.
Ah memories!
Humanity would also be way more efficient if we all lived in identical houses, wore identical clothes, ate identical meals, and worked identical jobs. Look at all the redundant work we do with different industries, restaurants, clothing, architecture, families, and identities!

Unfortunately, I don't think the bugfix is scheduled to land until Singularity 1.0.0 RC 1.
This is just a fundamental misunderstanding of what concurrency is. I do not see why it requires a benchmark.

Concurrency is many things at once. That's it.

Async frameworks end up with better concurrency properties because you're not paying the memory and context switching overhead of an entire 'thread' for each thing that you are trying to do at the same time. Instead you are paying the (normally cheaper) overhead of what is essentially a co-routine call.

The disadvantage being that you have to manage these context switches yourself, and that they tend to happen more frequently (to maintain the illusion that we are doing many things all at the same time on a single cpu). There is no way that an async framework would ever have better straight line performance than a synchronous one, simply because of all of these extra context switches, and that's fine because that's not what it is for.

Imagine I want to have 10,000 requests held open at the same time. Your flask server with 16 workers is going to have a tough time as you don't have enough workers to service that many threads, requests won't get serviced and things will start to time out. Because an async framework multiplexes those workers so that can each individually handle multiple requests at once. Multiplexing in this way costs you something performance wise.

If you were to crank up the concurrency beyond 100 at once (the default in the posted scripts), you would start getting different results.
Stadia is a different kind of browser based gaming. It's a stream of inputs and outputs.
Read about some microbiology. Bacteria and fungi are all about drastically changing their environments to suit themselves while at the same time making the area toxic to their competitors.

Penicillium is a famous example of a fungus that makes toxins to destroy bacteria. On the other hand, the bacterial cultures in sourdough produce lactic acids which make the environment hostile to other, slower-growing things.

Then on a macro scale, look at beavers. They undertake massive ecological engineering for their own sake. They can wipe out countless other small animals and ground-nesting birds with the floods they cause.

It’s another kind of human exceptionalism to think we’re unique in altering the environment to suit ourselves at the expense of other species. We’re not. Perhaps the more distinguishing feature is that some of us actually care about it.
THIS!

when i was in my early 20's and unaware of how the world worked i had a job as a contract IT guy at a very well known Power company. People would call me up with their problems and i would fix them. After a few months, somone took me aside and explained to me that they are really bad, as they are "using" me to avoid having to deal with other unions to do this work. I was simply unaware that "plugging in a network cable" was a union job and i just did it as it was easy enought.

The sad thing is it was union employees attempting to avoid other union employees...
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I don’t understand the benchmark. Different libs have different worker counts. Is the actual throughput test doing any async work? Like calling a db or a REST call before it serves a response?

How is this an apples to apples benchmark ?
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Plus the artist for the Little Mermaid had it so it would fit in with being able to draw things but not visualise them.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/shortcuts/2019/apr/...
> nonsense, writing a design document and a list of the possible competing implementations take time but order of magnitude less than writing and maintaining it.

But writing a design document may not be enough to determine if it's a good idea. Sometimes you need to try something to find out.
Unions would be much more attractive if US were an open shop country. Instead, we’re closed shop, which means that, once a union is in place, you can’t choose to join a different union. This routinely leads to situations where corrupt unions abuse their own members.

For an example of how this works in practice, look at the UAW’s conduct with UC’s grad students.

Years ago, they negotiated salary caps for grad students, and then negotiated contracts that severely cut health care benefits for women over their own members’ objections. Getting anything done involves baroque red tape, so even complaining about this sort of thing would take dozens of people multiple months (and almost certainly wouldn’t cause the union bosses to take action).

Recently, they ratified contracts when the rank and file protested at union meetings, and some UC campuses voted against the contract.

This led to illegal “wildcat” strikes where the students walked out because they couldn’t pay rent. The university then fired them.

This was only possible because of closed shops. If people want to switch unions, they should be allowed to.
You measured the dryness/redness of your/your partner's eyes after trying dark and light mode? Or is it just that occasionally you or your partner get dry/red eyes and the most memorable association was using light mode beforehand (and it's memorable because you don't like the aesthetics of it)?

I don't think this is "rocket science" but that doesn't mean it is handwavingly obvious either
"the more performance sensitive Python code you can replace the better you will do. This is Python performance tactic with a long history"
The other thing about async is that, in some scenarios, it can make shared resource use clearer - i.e. in a program I've written, the design is such that one type on one thread (a producer) owns the data and passes it to consumers directly, rather than trying to deal with lock-free algorithms and mutexes for sharing the data and suchlike. A multi-threaded ring buffer is much less clearly correct than a single-threaded one.
To my knowledge, eye muscles may get sort-of ‘cramps’ where they get ‘stuck’ in the same flex configuration as they were, if you focus on the same nearby distance for hours and hours. Purportedly, it's even classified as a distinct kind of myopia (the only one that's fixable with exercise), but dunno how legit that is. What I know for certain, though, is that regular exercises that move the eyes and the focus relieve the strain a lot. Rotate the eyes, move side to side, move the focus back and forth, that sort of thing. Also focus on stuff outside the window more often.

As for contact lenses, afaik they're trash with computers because they make the eye dryer in addition to what you already get due to blinking more rarely. At least that's how it was back in the day, when I didn't last more than a month or so with contacts at computers.
The SPD was probably watching foxnews, reported what they were hearing on fox, which FoxNews then took as evidence that their reporting was accurate. There is a reason they call it an “echo chamber.”