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> illegal as in: if you attempt it, the government will arrest you and send the kids to an orphanage

If you repeatedly attempt it I presume?
I highly doubt that they'd send your kids to an orphanage after the first offense.

> public schools here outright suck, teach lots of bullshit

Bullshit such as what? (if I might ask)

IMO, although homeschooling is great for some kids, the cons of legalizing it far outweigh the pros.
One of the most important aspects of schools is to let kids interact with other kids from different (social, economic, religious, etc.) backgrounds.
Homeschooling should be banned for the same reason that religious schools should be banned, i.e., to avoid abuse, indoctrination, and segregation of kids from different (social, economic, religious, etc.) backgrounds.

If we want to allow brighter kids to learn faster then the focus should be on improving schools, not on abandoning them.
> There's a few brands out there still, but there is a noticable stigma in the professional community around equipment that isn't Canon

Weird. How do arrive at that conclusion?
Typically pros pick Nikon or Canon FF DSLRs. It's very common at least among photojournalists & wedding photographers.

Now mirrorless is the hot stuff. Sony/Fuji/Olympus started earlier, and after a few year, Nikon & Canon decided to join to camp.

If you are into high end studio/gallery work, you'll use medium format equipments like Hasselblad/Phase One/Fuji/Pentax.

An don't forget Leica. At least still historically relevant because their of of the pioneers of 35mm photography. Fine film cameras, but not really sure about their digital ones.

I still pick Nikon as my primary system, simply because the lens compatibility: old lens from the 60's/70's work fine on their FF bodies (those pre-AI lenses need to be modified first, though, unless you shoot with a DF). Can't say the same thing with Canon, which historically have different lens mounts (FL, FD, EOS).
Could you describe what you think the spiritual and mental costs are?

I love life (I've been fortunate to live in health and relative privilege) and would very much prefer an additional 150 years before eternal nothingness, assuming sound mind and body. It's not clear to me what spiritual downsides I would experience.
Baltimore is a basket case, so no surprise there. LA is probably too big for a single company. Normally when these tenders fail it is because the terms need to be tweaked. Probably want you really want is simply to allow individual suburbs to set up their own little broadband networks, and have the city just run some central hub. But big city beauracrats are never keen on giving up control.
I don't think its quite accurate to say Canon sensors hold anyone back. Canon photographers continue to win awards, continue to create world-class images, etc, etc. Canon gear is very well represented in the professional photography community. They wouldn't be using the gear if they couldn't get their work done. There are several gear "measurebators" online arguing about base ISO DR and +6EV exposure recovery, who produce nothing with their cameras. We can safely ignore them :)

Sony sinks tons of money in their tech because other companies use them as a factory, so that makes total business sense (and along with samsung and a few others, they do have cutting edge imaging tech). Canon is different in that its much more vertically integrated so it rarely makes sense to drop millions of dollars on sensor fab upgrades unless they're going to make the money back. They have dozens of filed patents on all the technology that the competition is using, so I don't think they're lacking on the IP front.
How would wirecard learn who is actually shorting them?
Start at part 1.

No, he doesn't give you an answer, but you might just find it interesting enough to no longer have the qusstion.
It's all moving to mirrorless and in this space no one can beat Sony when it comes to lens selection, autofocus and price. Nikon, Sigma, Panasonic and Cannon have switched to new mounts for their mirrorless lines so obviously there isn't allot of native lenses yet.
Former Sony Exec Calls for Shorter Video Games That Are Cheaper to Make
How sweet! I, too am sure, they obeyed the spirit and letter of the law.

Even when the opportunity cost of doing so was in the billions...
Learn the dos and don'ts of card design
This sort of leaves out the reality that decomposing bodies are a critical part of the ecosystem, and that eliminating death in humans would have huge ecological consequences beyond just the nutrients of decomposing bodies. If/when you have reasonable solutions for overpopulation, massive resource consumption by advanced societies, and pollution, then we can talk about longevity.
Any serious CDN is doing that with anycast, not with geodns which has tons of drawbacks.
ah, didn't know that. appreciate the response
Thanks for your detailed answer. I got my answer right where you said 'if you think the reddit redesign is really good'.

Which it's not.
@tantalor is technically correct; meridians and parallels intersect at right angles, even with respect to the (idealized) surface of the earth. Proof sketch: if the angles involved in a crossing were not all 90°, then either the crossing would not be symmetric about the meridian (it is), or one or both lines must have a sharp "kink" (i.e., have a non-smooth first derivative) at the intersection (neither does).

However, parallels, while smooth, are not straight, they "curl" toward the nearest pole (i.e., non-zero second derivative, relative to the earth's surface). This accounts for the non-"rectangular" shape of quadrangles and can be replicated on a 2D plane.
I’m not a pilot, but I think there’s a “too low” warning
Not that I'm aware of no. While the end product is released open-source, the development cycle itself is very much closed-source and there are very valid concerns about MySQL being owned by Oracle. MariaDB is a fully open-source alternative though I'd argue MySQL8 has surpassed MariaDB in terms of quality and features.
Yes, thank you for clarifying your sweeping statements so we could have a conversation :)

> I do think there are at least two other possible solutions than getting rid of police unions entirely

There is no other solution, it's the corrupt union leaders protecting these cops.

The cop that killed Floyd had 17 complaints, his union protected him from being fired.
The unions essentially killed Floyd.

There aren't cartel wars going on in the UK, but there is terrorism so I'm not sure whether or not UK should or does have swat/armed police.

It's not feasible to take guns away from cops here, there are too many criminals with guns, all major cartels are in Houston for example. MS-13 operates in at least 30 states.

I understand everyone wants to feel like they need to argue about this, but no one is saying these specific cops that do harm shouldn't be punished.

No group, including the police, are the problem, individual humans (including union leaders and specific politicians) are the problem.

tldr: get rid of the police unions and replace the local Democratic leadership in the cities that these events happen in to solve the issue.
In software circles, this is called "security by obscurity" and is frowned upon. And if it's a bad idea with software, I'd argue it's also a bad idea with nuclear weapons.
Speculation, but I suspect that Microsoft explicitly put both user data and programs in paths with long filenames and spaces to help force software to support those things. That always seemed like a good thing to me, it's ridiculous that we still have software that breaks on paths with spaces.
That I doubt very much. They're there because they're motivated by different things. I wouldn't last at Amazon, from what I have read. But some people thrive with different motivations. The most satisfied Amazon engineers I've spoken to spoke with pride about the pace and intensity of development. Goes for Apple, too. Those people would not be happy at Google. Things move slow there, and most people have little control over tech stack or many design choices at all, TBH. I hear that's better at Amazon.

The era of Hawaii offsites at Google is long over.
> By destroying less efficient social structures it promotes long term progress and reduces inefficient practices like slavery.

Sorry, what? Slavery was never "inefficient." The problem is that humans have rights and holding slaves deprives them of those rights. To the contrary, slavery was, is, terribly efficient for the slaveholder.
It is a state owned company. Pay scales are fixed, and everyone gets a fixed-known pension for life after retirement. So, getting your colleagues fired is not beneficial to you economically [1].

However, an accountability process that looks into the doing of pilots will get both valid license and invalid license holders in trouble, because I assure you, lots of valid license holders are also doing lots of other illegal things. So, its better as a group to resist all attempts at accountability and reform.

[1] Also, you will be surprised how unambitious most people are. Religion being premier in everyone's life means that they care far more about what happens after they die, rather than trying to improve the life and society they have now. Yes, the irony of having fake licenses being not exactly good for their afterlife is lost on them.
> I can’t believe we collectively accept children being exposed to the violence and other problems that are pervasive there! It’s not surprising so many people become criminals now.

But on the flip-side, would you want to go your entire life without facing any conflicts?

FWIW, I was bullied in middle school, and pretty much had to fight my way through. As in fist fighting. As an adult, I don't tolerate any bullshit - and have no problems saying so , if I'm ever in a situation. I'm not sure I'd be the same person, if I hadn't gone through the things I did (not saying that bullying or fighting is good, just that it molded me into a person with extremely low tolerance for BS and a$$holes)
The only three choices are: 18 months, 3 months, nothing. So I choose nothing. How about 2 weeks, Google? I'd enable if you promise to delete after 2 weeks. It's all you need for ad serving anyway.
This is the reason I use the surface pro. I carry around 60% keyboard with so I have a great keyboard experience whereever I go.
Have you considered the 9-18 for traveling?

I have an equivalent lens for my Nikon J5 (so I'm in no rush to pick up the 9-18 - or I should say -was- in no rush prior to the Oly announcement), and it's the lens I use the most during the day when traveling. When I travel, I usually bring my J5 with the wide zoom and my GM5 with a pancakey lens (switching cameras is easier than lenses, imo) plus a lightweight long zoom.
The thing is, I've seen quite a few of those death graphs for 2020. Covid isn't the 1919 flu, but it's beaten all other causes of death for 2020 so far, with the whole world trying to stop it. Something that could kill 1-2% of the world's population in 6 months is a calamity!
> Canon makes their own sensors, which are good in absolute but not relative terms, which appears to hold them back in performance

It's a little early to state this. Once the R5 and R6 come out we'll have a better idea of their capabilities as those are slated to have their new tech (8K video etc etc).
Crispr Gene Editing in Human Embryos Wreaks Chromosome Mayhem
Maybe I am too stupid but I failed to see any evidence to support the title of this article.

The article reports data that 40% women work part time while only 13% men do the same. How does the pandemic crisis relate to this being the cause of pandemic crisis affecting men and women differently?

Full-time parenting is an additional responsibility in this crisis for the parents. The article mentions that the couples share this responsibility so as to cope with the work besides parenting. How does it relate to having a negative effect on feminism?
If you want an eye-opening, follow https://www.reddit.com/r/HomeschoolRecovery/ for a bit. I've seen some really terrible examples of homeschooling that left people stunted and overwhelmed by the world. The best I've seen is from parents that spent an immense amount of time working with their kids and who went out of their way to expose their kids to ideas that the parents didn't necessarily agree with.

The worst outcome I've seen has been my sister, who is in her thirties and rarely leaves my father's house.
the cli interface doesn't change ;)
>I grew up homeschooled in NZ with a hilariously small amount of context for what the real world was like.

kind of a blunt take here but yeah, homeschooling will do that because its limited to what your parents know. Public schools work to immerse kids in a diverse environment with many people from many different walks of life. they work to build soft skills like empathy, listening, and conflict resolution. she says she taught herself "calculus and probability and statistics, and French literature and history" betraying her heritage. The wealthy are notorious francophiles (Fussell, Paul, "Class: A Guide Through the American Status System")

Homeschooling may have played a part in her success, but money likely played an even more prominent role in getting a twelve year old into UCSF and MIT from half a world away. The average homeschooled kid is much more likely to miss social cues, stumble through a difficult interaction with feckless ineptitude, or even parrot their parents own myopic stereotypes or falsehoods. Schools may teach "bullshit" to some, but they also arm kids with critical thinking skills. the conflicting role of educator, caregiver, and lawgiver projected by homeschool parents virtually guarantees kids will never rise to challenge the education theyre given. Theyll learn only what theyre told.
Come off it, she had access to a research lab at age 12! Even she said it's extraordinary.

> I really felt like I got a cheat code to life early on. It was like being Ben Franklin’s daughter or something... When I first met Cynthia Kenyon... I was 12. She very kindly offered for me to just work in her lab as a normal intern,
If you don’t need autofocus, mirrorless and adaptors for old glass are a killer and cost-effective combo. I bought an a7ii and PK and M42 adaptors, and I couldn’t be happier. The body is full-frame, and the flange distance is so small, you can probably adapt any mount to it, with the possible exception of some of the old rangefinder mounts.

I picked up a 50 mm f/4 Macro Takumar for under $100 on eBay. I already had a couple nice Takumars and SMC-M primes that I can keep using. It’s awesome.

Granted, I’m shooting furniture under continuous light. It’s not a super demanding application. If I were a pro photographer, I’d probably be shooting the same kit as everyone else for the same reasons.
If you don't believe progress can be made, then don't worry about others who strive to make it. Worst case they're wrong. Best case, you're wrong and the whole world moves upward.

Otherwise it's just crab bucket mentality.
Why not go all Sony ? You can share the lenses between your apsc and your full frame.
Four Eyes?
If you vote for politicians that invest in missiles, it's rather hypocritical to criticize people who develop the same missiles. If you happen to be a pacifist it's reasonable to be against all such technology, but the fact that clearly most people aren't makes it odd to single it out as non-grey area. (Unless it's about how it's clearly white-area as it's in service of democratically decided policy.)
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Playstation announces bug bounty program
M43 for those that don't know is "micro 4/3" is a format of interchangeable lens for cameras across multiple manufacturers (although pretty much just Panasonic and Olympus). Nikon canon and sony have their own lines of lenses. Its better than a point and shoot, but not as good as a full size SLR (single lens reflex) camera.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro_Four_Thirds_system

I have an olympus micro 43 camera. I really like it. Though when the top button broke, They wouldn't send my local camera fix it shop the part, and it ended up costing more money to fix than it should have. I like it for traveling as its good but light and while not a subtle as a phone camera, its not a serious looking as a "real" camera.
I think this is odd because a lot of the major ISPs seemed to have outsourced the actual physical and electronic construction work to third parties. It's a different thing setting up the accounts and operation, but the building part seems accessible.
D4RL: Building Better Benchmarks for Offline Reinforcement Learning
A draft RFC was published today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23644068
1. Typical stuff that they try to simplify science and thus teach stuff wrong, like the classical each area of tongue has a specific taste receptor thing.

2. Government heavily interfere with what is taught in classrooms regarding some subjects, most notoriously the government is quite heavy handed in anti-monarchy rethoric, I was actually shocked when I was in my 25s and started to find out a lot of stuff I learned as a kid were not just misrepresentations or wrong interpretation of things, but outright lies and propaganda, one interesting example: schooling here blame a lot of slavery on monarchy and nobility in general, meanwhile the monarchs actually wrote anti-slavery essays, and even made a deal with England at the time authorizing them to attack slaver ships, at some point the government even made it clearer, told England to treat all slavers as pirates, and gave them permission to even attack docked slaver ships freely. Also schools here teach government was "absolutist", but it wasn't, only reason monarch was letting england screw with ships, is because whenever he tried to make a law ending slavery, with nobility support, the liberals would vote AGAINST it (and mostly out of stupidity too, farms that stopped using slaves had bigger profits, maintaining the slaves was more expensive than paying the tiny wages they were paying to the immigrants).

3. Schooling here has a sort of mandatory political bias, not just as in... most teachers being left leaning (something kinda normal in most of western world), but as in the government explicity dictating that certain subjects need to base their theories on Antonio Gramsci, there is some infamous youtube videos where right-wing teachers argue against that with public officials, in one of the videos a teacher outright ask an official what about the parents rights to not have the kid be forced to learn that, and the official replies that the state knows best, that if they don't want their kids to be indoctrinated, they have to pull the kids from school, and face the consequences.

4. Schools here also teach a lot of useless stuff, with teachers insisting you will use all of it... but I guess this applies to most of the world.
If someone has been artificially kept alive beyond their natural lifespan, and you had the power to reverse the effect such that they instantly died, would that be ethical?

Attempting to preserve the status quo of aging and death is the same thing in a more roundabout way.
The licenses for codecs sometimes cut into the thin margins on budget phones. A large amount of people outside of the US and EU are stuck on low-end phones, and I'm pretty sure many of the government subsidized phones in the US are in the same boat.
There's no money in wired broadband. Investors have been trying to get Verizon to divest itself of FiOS pretty much since the beginning. It's probably profitable at this point, but barely. (Verizon's entire wireline division has a 5% or less profit margin.)

Chatanooga Tennessee charges about $60/month for 300 mbps fiber. It is probably financially sustainable, but: 1) Tennessee is a low-cost, right-to-work state; 2) the capital costs of the fiber network were shared with the electric "smart grid" so some of the capital costs are being recouped from electric ratepayers. You couldn't make the same thing work in New York, San Francisco, etc. at the $60 price point. But at a much higher price point than that, you're talking about something quite expensive for what's supposed to be a public utility. Wired broadband, unlike water or electricity, is an optional service for most people. (1 in 6 high-income households only have cellular service.) If it costs you closer to $100 to have the same service in an expensive northern city, many people will opt out, and that will cause the per-household costs to skyrocket. It's a really tough mathematical equation to work out.
I don't think unit tests are even the only form of testing prescribed by TDD, although it might've been what Mr. Beck had in mind back then. It's test driven development: invalidate implementations that don't implement your specification!

Unit tests are, unfortunately, not sufficient at expressing complex invariant properties and assumptions.

So try property based tests.

You can't even have Continuous Integration without integration tests and you shouldn't be practicing Continuous Delivery without an effective testing strategy. How else can you ship dozens of delta changes to production on a heavily trafficked site without taking down the service?

Not sure what to test? System hard to describe? Try formal methods. Tools like TLA+ or Alloy are great at helping us understand systems with global or temporal properties and complex behaviors.

GUIs? There are nascent projects to add property testing to the browser [0]. There are tools to model GUIs [1]. There are books to use property based testing on GUI-driven applications. It can be done [2]. It requires effort from a test driven development team.

I've seen QA Teams ruin businesses. When they act as gate keepers to the production environment releases slow to a crawl, issues run unchecked for weeks as high-level e2e test results are inefficiently communicated and the source of the problem is rarely obvious or known. Developers then have to dedicate time to helping testers investigate poorly understood test failures which requires more developers to pick up the slack. More features requires more testers. And the cycle slows down releases to the point that your horizon for even a basic new feature is a couple months at best.

[0] https://webcheck.tools/
[1] https://sketch.systems/
[2] https://leanpub.com/property-based-testing-in-a-screencast-e...
Kinda explains why Nvidia was probably the best when it came to Android updates from my experience. They made the SOC themselves and had access to the drivers
Homeschooling also generally has cost of lost potential income for the one doing it.
The problem with that instruction is that to do 4 at a time you would have to multiply by 1, 10, 100 and 1000 respectively. The last multiplier does not fit in a byte.
This is probably going to change when the R5 comes out in July. If the rumors and specs are accurate it's going to be a beast of a camera.
White carrots are still around but they are kind of 'less' carrots and are used to feed the pigs.