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>We can now return to the concept of the In-Group Contrarian (hereafter IGC). Anyone who has observed social media platforms, especially Twitter, will know the type. This is the person who, precisely when mimetic snowballing is in progress, attempts to apply the brakes. What’s important is that this figure is not simply an outsider to the group, in which case they could probably be ignored, but instead claims to share the group’s goals, beliefs, etc and merely objects to some aspect of this manifestation of them. The appearance of this figure is as predictable as the mimetic snowballing itself.

This account casts assent and dissent as quasi-deterministic duals of each other. It is overdetermined as a result.
Weird to read these days. The generation that had fought the Japanese in the Pacific in WWII was still mostly around, and Japan was taking markets that America was growing lax on. All I can say is my great-grandfather would be horribly disappointed in my anime addiction.
I don't think that's terribly useful. Regardless of how much processing power you can extract from the CPU, there is the parallel question of CPU lifetime.

You can see in the video how hot the CPU runs. If I remember correctly, a 20°C temperature increase halves the lifetime of electronics. "Normal" laptops tend to stick around 60°C-70°C. Apple apparently decided that halving or even quartering the CPU lifetime compared to that is fine.

That said, most MBA CPUs probably spend their CPU lifetime closer to idle. It'd be interesting to get temperature numbers for that. Still, it's worse than it could - and IMHO should - be.
When I was a junior, I had similar problems. I can think of ideas, even solve problems and fix bug but when it comes to building something bigger, I was afraid. My problem the entire time was if soemthing goes horribly wrong. What if the data we are collecting is not stored? What if the code I am pushing is not properly documented? For me it was the fear of making mistake.

In case of simple bug fixes and minor feature addition, my supervisor would be checking everything so I didn't have to worry. For builidng something bigger, no one would be checking everything line by line. I was own my own and afraid to push my code. My team helped me overcome that fear by showing it's okat to make mistakes and nothing happens if you do that. Make mistake, test code, fix bug... it is an iterative process and nothing to worry.
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At launch the boss fights were much worse. They updated it to provide alternative solutions to most or all of them, at some point.
> No doubt people will arrive shortly to knee-jerk against sugary drink taxes;

This was tried in chicago and rolled back because poorer ppl had "knee-jerk against sugary drink taxes". It targeted drinks that poor drank and left out things like chai tea latte.
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definitely on your side. If I recall correctly, they posted flyers around Palo Alto, and that's how they get their first users to show up on their site.
Tungsten. A popular XKCD What-If? topic:

- Boating [1]

- Countertops [2]

[1]: https://what-if.xkcd.com/50/

[2]: https://what-if.xkcd.com/89/
I graduated an engineering program at a pretty decent school a few years ago.

My school was quite explicit about the idea that they were trying for an occupational approach to education. We were there to become engineers, if there was any hint of the qualifier “well-rounded”, it was mostly lip service: compelled writing courses (albeit with great professors), a ridiculously superficial ethics course, and a credit system that strongly discouraged taking courses from non-engineering colleges (some of our sister colleges in the university offered world class liberal arts courses, peers, and professors).

In my writing courses, there was a popular sentiment (unintelligible to me) to rebel against doing any work for the class. A student said, in class, “I’m studying to be an X Engineer, I shouldn’t be here.” I managed to take a few humanities courses outside of the engineering college, to count towards these requirements, and (along with random books at the library) they easily provided the most mind-expanding material I encountered in college.

I totally agree with you, that certificate-oriented degrees have a tendency to drop the important lessons of exercising the “muscle of thought”. In my opinion it’s a big loss: my life today would certainly not be as rich without those lessons, earned outside “my field”. But, we have to reckon with the reality that many students not interested in these “extra” features, for better or for worse. There’s a real demand for rote education, even if its cash value is lesser, which we suspect it to be.
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Thanks for the corrections and showing me how to run the numbers on Twitch correctly - I was just looking at the figures on the past broadcasts page which presumably mean offline views.

I will still hold on to my curmudgeonly grumpiness about this trend but clearly it's valid and real.
People actually travel to Asia for their cheap and delicious food. Rice takes a little more effort, but so does exercise. Recipes are free.
> Coca-cola seems to be a notable exception that didn't change their formula.

Coca Cola is an interesting one in that the Coca Cola Zero Sugar introduction seemed to have been mostly about introducing a replacement for Coke Zero that had labeling making it easier to confuse with regular Coke, with the design dominated by the "regular" red and just some black added (in Europe; in some other markets the design is more distinct from regular Coke)

> blackcurrant cordial

Interestingly, blackcurrant is almost exclusively a European thing (99%+ of production).
They’re insane. At the time they started using the phrase “world beating”, we were already “behind” other countries in containment, PPE, infection rate, death rate.
https://www.filfre.net/ is a great example of such an examination - starting with the classic text-adventure games, and gradually getting more and more current.

The table of contents is impressive, the writing is wonderful, and you can download a series of ebook collections containing the individual blog posts.
People were talking about the platform limitations right at the beginning, it was foolhardy to go forward with it.

The only reason I can think they were pressing ahead was to collect all the extra data that this approach would have yielded (if it was actually going to work - which it wasn't).
> I'm going to say that finding out who you are sometimes doesn't happen until you HAVE to find out. Maybe that has less to do with the freedom to explore as it is ... what you do when you don't have that freedom and you're busy with other things.

When I said that, I was thinking of marriage more than anything else. To go to the extreme end of the spectrum, there's a reason most high school romances don't work out over the long term (although of course there are exceptions), you're just too young and changing too much.
In my experience Bluetooth appears to draw as much power as the headphone driver, so with wireless headphones one is actually using three times the energy which is precious in a battery-operated mobile device.

I got wireless only when I'm doing manual work like chores. In every other instance it's just not worth it.
For anecdotal support, let's walk over to Starbucks.

The drinks aren't cheap and people pile on the sweet options. You even have the option of no sweetener (which few people take advantage of).

I can see if,

Sweetened drink = $8.00
Unsweetened = $4.00

And take away the sweetener packets.

Yes, that would likely have an effect.
That’s funny, Deus Ex is probably the oldest game I re-played that I actually finished again (with mods) as it felt far less clunky than even some games only 10 years old.
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Fast forward a year...

New Answerer: As of v12,5 this is now supported first class like: [....].

Comments:

- this should really be the accepted answer

- OP can you make this the accepted answer?

- accepted answer is out of date, this should be used now

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I’m in Chicago and would love that service!
What does x-th percentile mean when you have only one number (the upvote count)?
They also pulled other shitties, like offering deliveries from restaurants, which never agreed to this in the first place.

It's one of those companies, which give tech a bad name.
Man you gotta provide some context for stuff like this. Posting random links is a bad idea -- could be a virus link, or a rick-role, or just a poorly cited source.

Luckly, it's a decent article and pertinent to the discussion, so you'll get an upvote... but for the people reading the thread:

> REGULATING DATA AS PROPERTY: A NEW CONSTRUCT FOR MOVING FORWARD

> JEFFREY RITTER AND ANNA MAYER
I think SO has more-or-less solved the problem of providing a high quality crowdsourced information resource focused on software development. They deserve credit for that.

There's serious issues, however, with people being made to feel like crap for daring to post a question/comment that does measure-up to arbitrarily persnickety expectations from other users and often moderators who take their interpretation of what they think are "the rules" to absurd levels of pedantry (which they would call "being objective"). For whatever reason certain personality types are attracted to this kind of behavior and thus dominate the moderation tasks on SO.

Saying "THANK YOU" to someone is NORMAL human behavior. It doesn't need an over-engineered system. It doesn't need anything extra at all. Comments are PERFECTLY FINE for stuff like that. SO could, perhaps, cull comments by automatically deleting them after a year or so. That would solve the problem of too much cruft, but no, that would take away the joy that the off-topic-police take in offending people who are communicating like human beings.
> anything close to the original Deus Ex.

Note that the original Deus Ex led to the pretty poor Deus Ex 2: Invisible War, that nobody talks about today. Deus Ex was more of an exception that anything else.
Maybe because of home-office they cannot lean to the side and ask their peers, so they rely more on SO instead for basic questions.
Isn't it PCRE that we started to call it regex?
I still occasionally play Total Annihilation (97) and, somewhat more amusingly, Populous II (91) via an Amiga emulator.
I have found that academics often find their dependence on students embarrassing, and the idea of earning befuddling.

The university is a kind of "eternal adolescence" which promised to provide dysfunctional high-IQs without the trappings of such obligations.

With the marketization of education, academics find themselves obligated to their students (how undignified!) and for the first time needing to justify their worth (how are they meant to do that?!).

These are, of course, things that everyone else has been doing for the past two centuries -- now, finally, The University is getting a shock to its system.

I was a person who, for the longest time, associated such pseduo-Nobel attitudes with "being educated". Now, I think the whole place is infatalizing and infantalized.

It is a very bad place for one's ideological health: it inculcates a kind of outrage that any one should be obligated to do anything; a stort of pathological Utopianism artificially sustained by state funding.

I think it's a large part of where extreme student activism comes from: a kind of rage that the circumstances of our life are constrained at all. Shouldn't there just be infinite money and infinite time? Shouldn't the whole world just be a campus?
Are you going to really claim that the millions of iPads and iPhones out there aren’t the real world?

Comparing to esoteric highly specialized workloads is not apple’s game.
Or just use a bunch of Hall thrusters, and not lob fissile material into Earth's atmosphere.
That's because neither does build even a top tier mobile ARM chip. Each of their best offerings is about half as fast as Apple's A12X/Z
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True. But when you hear cops talk about non cops, they will call non cops civilians.
I've certainly come across a lot of questions (that I've also wanted to know the answer to!) that have incorrectly been closed as a duplicate of something else that's not really the same. But I suspect there's a lot of selection bias going on: by the very fact I'm searching for that specific unusual case, I'm going to come across this type of question that looks like a duplicate to the untrained eye. On the other hand, people doing the reviewing also see a raging torrent of actual duplicates, and maybe many of those claim their situation is slightly different when really it isn't, causing the reviewers to get jaded.
The problem is that the 13" MBP is over twice as fast in many benchmarks, but people think "if they had just put a better fan/heatsink on the air" they would be the same speed.

I wonder how much faster the 13" Pro would be if they did a similar setup.
In that second video, he jumps to Jock's apartment. That one took me years to discover. Same for the collapsed tunnel accessible via the HK canals.. wow, that one is so well hidden.
this requires Isp in the high 10-100k, likely sub-1M range (think particle accelerators) instead of sub-1k (think very high temperature nuclear gas heaters).
You would have to stand right next to a 1kw microwave transmitter to notice any heating effects. That wouldn't help you locate it at any distance.
Nothing, and you really should, but companies don't because they want to make all modern shiny stuff without putting the effort in to make something that does progressive enhancement properly. That's why contracts for police websites go to companies whose websites look like crap.
now I understand the discussion is deep, but it started here

> Whatever the profit margin was for Intel on the CPU, they can give it to me instead.

nice try tho, I especially liked the passive aggressive

> you fail to notice it.
Stop messing with people, and this won't happen. I don't feel bad for the police.
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> So it may well be more expeditious to start over. There are many other models, and if nothing else, whatever success those models have will provide more capacity. That may also draw away students and force them to lower prices.

The prices are high because Universities nowadays are run (more or less) as enterprises. Starting over without changing that, won't lower the prices. It will just increase the profit margins.

The article author seems to be under the impression that professors have a strong say on how the universities are run. They don't. And my feeling is they will have an even less significant role if we start over.
The answer is in the very title of the article; it works.

This is "whataboutism" at it's finest; taxing soda results in health gains so we should do it. Maybe we should also tax those other things but no health gains have been show (at least in this article).
Racist corporations don’t have “coercive” power - including local police with military grade weapons to shoot unarmed people in the back and choke then for nine minutes.

The government already tried to file charges against an activist for “inciting riots” by speaking out in public. Yet and still the President can say the same thing on a public platform and be protected because corporations fear the government.

There was a story just recently where a Facebook user posted Trump’s words verbatim and the poster was banned for inciting riots.

We also have the case of Tim Cook basically kissing the President’s golden ring and standing beside him for photo op while the President was lying about what Apple was actually doing with regards to manufacturing in the US.
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One of the most exciting aspects of the renewed interest in space these days is that we have once again the chance of start building things in space quite soon (unless the world economy collapses 100% finally and war is waged). Once we can get to space cheaply people will start experimenting with all forms of propulsion up there because fuck-the-government and that is not easy to do on Earth or even just launch from down here.
Not to mention just how amazing the theme music is as well.

I actually still play Thief 2, and am about to play Deus Ex again
We won't become like the services mentioned above because we have no intent of fulfilling deliveries. I think there may be an opportunity in building software for local restaurants that would make ordering as convenient as it is (for the consumer) with the DoorDashes of the world. However, people willing to change their ordering habits for better prices and to help local restaurants is still a hypothesis that needs to be proven...

Can you share some of the niches you frequent? I'm really looking to connect with people who are passionate about this problem.

Thank you!
I also couldn't find 38 °C on this map (german):

https://kachelmannwetter.com/de/messwerte/nordasien/temperat...
Wikipedia is a social community too, as soon as you do more than reading articles. And has well-documented issues in that regard, which limit its quality and who contributes to it. That's not the dichotomy you think it is.
An NGO offers substantially more protection than a direct government store.

Whether that is enough protection is a fair debate.
From the tweet you linked:
Even the cops know random damage attributed to #antifa are really "white racially motivated violent extremists...posing as Antifa members."

It is a distinction without a difference.
I got meta parser error for the torrent. Did anyone else had issues?
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> This ranges from heroin addicts somehow always finding the daily $$$ to fund their dose, to people mildly grumbling about the price of cigarettes yet buying them anyway.

You should disavow yourself of this notion. Taxation on cigarettes is highly effective at reducing the rate of tobacco consumption [1]. Increasing prices of heroin is less so, because heroin is extremely addictive and therefore price inelastic. This is a very thoroughly studied area in economics, typically referred to as a Pigouvian or "sin" tax [2].

Sugar is not going to be anywhere near as price inelastic as heroin so it is likely that there will be a strong decrease in sugar consumption if such a tax was introduced. The issue at hand is whether this is _fair_. Sugar consumption is only a problem if there is misuse, not if it is consumed per se. This is fundamentally different to tobacco consumption (every ciggy you smoke is bad for you + others + healthcare system).

[1]: https://www.tobaccoinaustralia.org.au/chapter-13-taxation/13...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigovian_tax
Even if it is a Q&A site where most users are read-only, it's still very bad to be sending the signal to the lurkers that if you ever ask a question, there's a high chance you're gonna get shat upon.
What I think of when I think of Deus Ex was back then it was receiving accolades and a year or two after it came out I decided to give it a try. I saw they had a really inexpensive version out that was called Deus Ex: Special Limited Edition, for probably $10 or so. After playing it a bit I realized it literally was a “limited edition” in that it was just a demo disc. I couldn’t believe the publisher would rip people off by issuing such a version under the guise of it being a special edition.
What does table based HTML have to do with functional and web-accessible websites? Especially in the age of mobile which represents ~50% of traffic .
> Except, apparently, for the topic of this article.

Well, Deno devs did try to use TypeScript, and just ran into some challenges, and decided to throw the baby out with the bath water. I've seen this a lot in my 30yrs exp.: some developer/team runs into problems, gets frustrated, gives up, and decides the best decision is to remove some important piece rather than solve the actual problems.

The reason Deno is giving up TypeScript is representative of failure, and not an indication them wanting JS instead of TS. What they want is TS.

The rest of your reply is just stating some minor imperfections that are a billion miles from invalidating TS. And yeah, there's a place for JavaScript still, for small-scale tinkering, or perhaps even prototypes with only a few hundred lines of code. Any large scale project in JavaScript (not TS) is simply unfathomable to any modern developer worth his salt.
>newer developers that are generally more appreciative?

For me it's more like: newer developers that doesn't seem to like reading.
Why do you think not?

And why not Java developers?

They seem pretty polar opposite in terms of culture, but all still turn up using a Macintosh.
Almost all permanent research staff at universities are professors. Maybe the confusion is because some countries don't use that title?

Regardless, I'd say the definition of a "successful researcher" is usually someone who has become a professor.

Whilst there are many great postdocs, very few (any?) of the good ones become professors.
A good theoretical understanding will never replace a compiler that yells at you for making a mistake in that theoretical understanding. Learn teh theory instead.
> Really, these are not practical solutions for practical problems. That doesn't mean you shouldn't try to make something like this, but they'll just be toys for fun, not real solutions to real problems and if you expect them to be anything like that you'd be disappointed.

I agree. I like the idea, but there's no way it would get traction without solving a concrete (rather than aesthetic) problem.

It is possible though: the more expressive/powerful a system is, the less we can know/guarantee/figure-out about it. Adding features does have downsides. For example, people are starting to pay attention to pure functional programming, since the restrictions it requires (e.g. immutability, referential transparency, confluent evaluation, etc.) provide lots of nice solutions for things like concurrent, distributed systems.

The classic example on the Web is search: if sites didn't work with dumb, lightweight user agents (search bots), it could have a real commercial impact. These days the big search engines use browser-derived bots, which has changed the dynamics a little; but the core point remains the same. If people find concrete problems or opportunities faced by Web sites, which would be useful to solve automatically, but where the complexities of the current Web prevent that, then perhaps people could be convinced to use a restricted subset of the Web.
I want someone to build a better linkedin. A database where I can search "people I know that speak French." Or "people I know that know something about digital marketing". Or "people I know that know how to cook well."
Everytime I have gone to linkedin to try and find someone that has a particular skill, it has failed me. This is probably challenging to do well because linkedin is already trying to do this, and because of privacy issues.
I came here expecting an in depth view of Apple's Software Engineering practices... I am disappointed.
What risk would that be ?
Project Orion is outdated anyway, we have technology like laser detonation and computer coordination such that you can detonate tiny fuel pellets continuously rather than bouncing off of entire bombs with a looney tune pogo stick arrangement.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Daedalus
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