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> Right now you have the two political parties and virtually all the S&P 500 corporations, all the universities, and most of the media (including social media) actively supporting BLM and being against "systemic racism".

Saying Black Lives Matter is not even the bare minimum. It is very easy for corporations and politicians to pay lip service to grievances without materially addressing them. In fact, that is usually what they do. There's a reason why the protesters are demanding to defund the police and a reason why the political machine is doing everything but negotiate on those terms. The protesters want concrete, radical reorganization of the police system so they have staked a bold position. Corporations want to protect their PR image and avoid losing profits. Politicians want anything but touching the police apparatus.

Just look at Joe Biden. His response to the protests was a proposal to increase police funding for "community policing" initiatives.

> but where is that "systematic racism" actually coming from, then?

Idk where you've been if you haven't seen the extensive documentation that the police are a big part of systemic racism. But it goes beyond them. It's also companies not investing in black neighborhoods, it's politicians pandering to Black voters in election years and then ignoring them for the rest. It's automated computer systems having bias baked into them [0]. It's a whole lot of stuff and I can't even know where you should begin.

[0] https://twitter.com/Chicken3gg/status/1274314622447820801
I was going through this project over the weekend. And while I can't recall where exactly in the docs I read this, I am quite sure the author mentioned that there are various python projects but they are quite slow. Other implementations such as leela chess zero have a lot of C++ and are difficult to follow.

In fact, one of the things we want to do is maximize the performance of the Julia implementation. We hope to co-develop the compiler and ML stack to address these issues as they come up.
Probably mentioned elsewhere, but Masters of Doom is a great book that reads a bit better (for me personally) than an interview like this article.
> eradicate racism is to allow racists and anti-racists to have open Lincoln-Douglas style debates on college campuses: allow racists to explain their ideas

Allow people to point at one of the nonwhite people in the audience and say, "I don't think this person belongs in the country, who's with me?"

Because that's what it is: for one side, it's a debate with no stakes, but for the other it's their exclusion from the university and all the things that are subject to gatekeeping by getting a degree. Potentially for being allowed to live in peace, or live in the country at all.

Letting that kind of speech be platformed is just a more subtle way of hanging a "whites only" sign on your university.
You don't need to play the first. There are some references to it in SS2 but it's not a big deal.
Likely a missing font asset, I had comic sans code for a minute on GitHub one day. Apparently my fallback for mono was set to comic sans... and that is why I noticed. Probably missing in the CDN for a few minutes during propagation
I’ve never owned a HiDPI screen but I know each of the displays in X11 have an affine transform that you can tweak with the xrandr command. There’s also .Xdefaults of course but you’re probably going to have to put a lot of stuff in there by comparison.
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That could have been the case if the app had been rejected. It was approved, and Apple says it was a mistake that it was approved. And that point, they can't know that bug fix updates would be rejected.
Obviously no language can prevent race conditions. Race conditions are usually a flaw of protocol or api design. The whole point of 'fearless concurrency' is that you won't crash because of shared state.
If I’m doing my math right, the 25kg AEPS engine would need to produce 245N to even hover without any payload. So it’s theoretical max is about 0.9% of what’s needed to even lift itself.
Caddy user here... definitely interesting to me.
Do we have any concrete figures on an entire rocket designed to use this engine? Like, mass fraction, etc.? Because if you look at the engine in isolation it seems good, but that's ignoring all the shielding you'll need and the huge fuel tanks because your propellant density is so low.
I watched my brother try this disaster himself. It is in many cases not what you learnt at school that matters, but the diploma that proves you can learn from instruction.

If you can not learn the basics at school, then how is an employer going to be sure that you can learn when he hires you. Without a diploma all my brother could get was low paying jobs.

There are successful people who start young and work themselves up in business, but they are VERY self-motivating. It takes a lot of effort and work to advance on yourself and most people do not have the drive to do it by themselves.

Be very careful about this decision before you commit to it.
That's more of a personal thing. It's far easier to me to study a technical book on something I know is useful compared to cramming for exams, doing nonsensical assignments, forcing myself through a specific pace that fits a semester, dealing with professors that never seem to be having a good day, wasting time commuting to the faculty (assuming you don't live in campus), etc. I can do that for money, but having to pay and be less efficient at learning than just googling stuff is what drove me to drop out.
Fed’s Balance Sheet Contracts for the First Time Since February
This isn't that surprising. Healthcare economists have known for a very long time that medical spending, on the margin, has precious little impact on actual health outcomes.[1]

Basically there's a "core" set of medicine that constitutes basic care and is essential to health. But even during deep budget cuts or quarantine, very few people are avoiding vaccines, not setting broken legs, and letting appendices explode.

In contrast an enormous amount of healthcare is very expensive and of dubious effectiveness at best. For example it's not uncommon for courses of certain chemotherapy to cost $400,000 and have no statistical effectiveness.[2] Overall nearly half of medical procedures are unsupported by evidence[3]. Even procedures we take for granted, like routine mammograms[4], have no actual impact at reducing mortality at the population level.

This is what economists call "on the margin". These are the treatments that get cut first during rationing.

[1] https://www.cato-unbound.org/2007/09/10/robin-hanson/cut-med...
[2] https://freakonomics.com/2013/10/22/the-unsustainable-econom...
[3] https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2017/12/28/16823266/medical...
[4] https://theconversation.com/routine-mammograms-do-not-save-l...
I often do this too, but I'm starting to feel what might be the pains of a stomach ulcer.

Has this bothered your stomach? I'm worried about what all that coffee is doing on my empty stomach.
lets face it, html, css and javascript all suck.
i wish we had alterntives for http://textita.com
Considering DHH’s choice of words on Twitter, I’d be inclined to believe the same too.
Crime has dropped by around half over the last 40-50 years so why are there so many people in prison now? I mean it's mind bogging. Plus with how fucked up the prison system is in the US.
that's the culture war playing out, with bad agents all around. somebody posts a tweet linking outlaw motorcycle gangs to riots, gets flagged, i post a rebuttal in the same thread, also get flagged. it's a site full of narcissist "oh no, somebody has a different opinion from mine!"
Yeah, at best, passing tells you nothing one way or another, while failing should never be taken as guilt-- at most, reason to dig a little deeper.
I keep having this argument with family who keep trying to get my grandmother to move to a smart-phone or tablet.

It's the whole mental model of mapping down all the various functionality that makes this impossible for her.

Just some of the issues that we encountered:

- Holding this small thin device means touching at least part of the glass front. This registers as a touch, and/or activates some kind of other unintended functionality when shifting grips.

- Inconsistent UI - things appear and disappear depending on context. 'Pull down from the top/bottom/etc' just makes no sense.

- Inconsistent response times - a variety of applications require polling some server on the internet, which means waiting for dodgy wifi on crummy DSL to then connect to a server that's the best part of 16,000KM away (Sydney to US-East coast). Too many app developers test only against a server that's either on their machine, or on some close-by staging environment and never bother to see how their app responds (or doesn't) on anything less than an ideal connection.

- Single tap vs long tap vs double tap... They all do different things, and because not every application responds at a consistent rate, she gets frustrated and presses it again, harder (not knowing if it just failed to register the previous touch). Worse, because some apps now 'play' the second tap once the new screen has finished rendering ... well we've now clicked in some other random part of the application.

- Often things are delivered as webpages (or partly so) - and again, with content being loaded asynchronously, the page jumps around, often for quite a while.

- Two fingers pressing against the screen / palm rejection... she'll be tapping with the pointer finger, but the knuckles of another finger, or the palm or wrist will touch the screen... causing all sorts of bizzare behavior. Leads to frustration, leads to tapping repeatedly, see above.

Then there's the issue that every 12-18 months, the UI changes, functionality moves, changes, etc.

At least with some devices, you have a home button that's easily locatable, but then that seems to be dying in favour of soft buttons everywhere too, which means that it's yet another thing that you just have to know it's there, and when it's not.

All these smart devices that only have a touch-screen are a major usability problem.
You're absolutely right on journalists working with intelligence agencies on appropriate redactions on the like, I don't want to ignore that. Happened with Reality as well. Despite that, there is always risk. I'm not trying to downplay the legitimacy of all leaks ever, just stating that as a fact. These dumps are huge, and considering that the agencies in question already didn't want to redact them (and chose to just classify them instead) it's hard to believe that journalists would do that same job better than them. Journalists when they don't get meetings precisely on their terms go into hero mode and try to redact themselves only. Snowden is a great example of this, so I'm not sure why you bring it up.

Mistakes happen all the time, and that doesn't even get into poor redaction methods that can be reversed, ESPECIALLY since the groups being targeted are most likely able to put pieces together that journalists can't. The mysterious nine character name might be a total mystery to the interns at NYT, but if you're an insurgent with the context of the rest of the report and (most likely) a few good names to guess with it's far from real mystery.

To reiterate, the lives in question are likely still classified, and revealing even their deaths can come at significant cost. Telling terrorists that they have the right guy presents about zero benefit to anyone but them, so there's no reason it'd be public information.

Furthermore, lives are a pretty low bar. I don't think it should be controversial to say that the US government, for instance, should be a few steps ahead of violent extremists. Debating the specifics of how and what measures are appropriate is another very important and necessary conversation, but saying that redacted leaks are totally fine is like giving just the suits of your cards to your opponent. Nothing like this is harmless, that's just myopic.
Also, apparently coffee drinkers want coffee more than they actually like it:

https://digest.bps.org.uk/2020/06/22/heavy-coffee-drinkers-w...

Research method seems sketchy to my engineering mind.
The standards for propulsion are lower than that for electric power; you don't really need a continuous nuclear explosion flung out the back to be net-positive electrically, you just need it to happen.
Tintin was amazing. I kept a copy on a zip disk so I could use it in the computer labs at college.
> Our industry has been so stable for so long that we’ve conflated our model with our mission.

This had already become apparent to me long before online education took off. Back when I called up the local university to ask if I could enroll in a few classes, a la carte, in order to flesh out my knowledge of some subjects that my alma mater's program didn't cover. They informed me that those classes were considered advanced, and therefore were only offered to students enrolled in the college's degree program.

In other words, the only way they would let me take those one or two classes would be as part of a package deal for earning a second bachelor's degree, majoring in the same area of study as the one I already had.

The only way I can make sense of a policy like that is if you think of the fundamental model of higher education as being essentially unchanged from what it was in the medieval period: A sort of atomic package that's a rite of passage that gains you access to a certain stratum of society as much as it is an education. Under that model, no, maybe it didn't make sense to take just one class, any more than it makes sense to walk into a jeweler's and ask them to chisel a chunk off of a diamond ring and sell it to you. But, nowadays, that way of thinking about education is deeply anachronistic.

And classist, too. Failing to meet the needs of people who can't afford to just drop everything and become a full-time student with anything more helpful than, "Well, maybe you can dig a 500m deep financial hole, jump into it, and we'll meet you at the bottom," is simply a travesty.
> I think my/my children's generation are entitled to the modest amount of comfort our efforts have delivered

Voilà, the problem in a nutshell. Your comfort level is neither modest by comparison to your father's and grandfather's - I dare say that it's downright extravagant compared to a coal miner - and most importantly, neither are you entitled to it, the universe owes you nothing.
I’ve heard the first one is a totally different game and that System Shock 2 stands alone.
Most of my work outside of the day job is developed on x86 and deployed on ARM.

Unless you're talking about native code (and even then, I've written in the past about ways this can be managed more easily), then no, it really doesn't matter.

If you're developing in NodeJS, Ruby, .NET, Python, Java or virtually any other interpreted or JIT-ed language, you were never building for an architecture, you were building for a runtime, and the architecture is as irrelevant to you as it ever was.
Developers can already do this. They can just use HTML. Plain old HTML. They don't have to use JavaScript. They don't have to use CSS. They can just use plain boring HTML. That they can do this now makes me ask the question: what problem are we solving? If people aren't using the existing solution enough, and the existing solution solves the "issues" of CSS and JavaScript being used, then what is the problem?
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> Yeah, this is probably controversial but I think the police should basically be the bullet sponges for the rest of society.

Don't forget police are the FORCE in law enforcement. Want Universal Healthcare, social programs, speed limits, voting rights, etc.?

There has to be force to enforce those laws. Otherwise, toothless laws mean nothing.
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next day trip.
In Italy that's called fatta la legge, trovato l'inganno - as soon as the law is created, the loophole is found.

Apple should just do the decent thing.
Lisps capture something fundamental about computation more cleanly than other languages. In Alan Kay's words,

"Yes, that was the big revelation to me when I was in graduate school—when I finally understood that the half page of code on the bottom of page 13 of the Lisp 1.5 manual was Lisp in itself. These were “Maxwell’s Equations of Software!” - lifted from [0]

[0] http://www.righto.com/2008/07/maxwells-equations-of-software...
> You're trying really hard to not understand what he was clearly saying.

I am clearly reading from the material provided. Perhaps we have a difference in reading comprehension.

> was clearly intended

It is defined or it isn’t. I don’t like subjectively inventing definitions to fit a poorly framed argument.
Since the whole issue boiled down to "providing some functionality to users who saw the app in the App Store and downloaded" and completely moved on from the initial IAP discussion, I believe a good compromise for all parties would be to allow developers to submit such applications but simply unlist them, making them only discoverable via search or deep links.
And they use H2 for reaction mass. Which means incredibly massive tanks because H2 is so much less dense and requires a lot of insulation to stay liquid.
350f sounds too low to me. First crack (beginning of a very light roast) is around 200c/392f. Most coffee is roasted quite a bit darker than that - e.g. 220c and above

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffee_roasting
Are there data descriptors somewhere or a sample of what’s in these files?
I’m clearly not saying that.

What I’m saying is that in order to make these claims you’d need to be able to show that it’s more than just a normal rate of error.

If you just take a few reports (or indeed even a few hundred) and ignore the size of the sample, then the conclusion is likely to be flawed.

Do you actually know what the rate of ‘capricious’ rejections is? I have seen a few 10s of cases reported, and many of them aren’t actually capricious, although a few clearly are.

My guess is that the chances of a capricious rejection of an App Store submission is less than 1 in 1,000,000.

I’d say that is neither unjust, nor capricious, and simply a reflection of scale.
As someone who rarely goes to the doctor (unless it's very serious) and when he does, does extensive "internet research" of his symptoms beforehand to come in knowledgable, I agree that for me, GPs gatekeeping medicine is unnecessary.

BUUUUT, I have a family friend who is basically a hypochondriac. She goes to the doctor ridiculously frequently, and is always trying to convince them (and everyone else who will listen) that she has all these undiagnosed medical conditions that she needs constant treatment for. Usually she's just sent home, where she does more and more "internet research" to find even more things that must be wrong with her. And it's not substance addiction: She's not going in there seeking abusable medication. She just wants validation that she has all these terrible conditions that she's dreamt up, and someone to finally tell her she's right. So, I guess at the end of the day we do need the gatekeepers, as anachronistic as they seem.
In my experience, slack has a poor signal to noise ratio. Important information gets lost as people post gifs, memes, or banter in the same channel.

Search has gotten better, but it's still not great.

Some people expect you to respond immediately, defeating the purpose of asynchronous communication for non important / non blocking matters.

The format (like IRC) encourages multiple fragmented sentences instead of one long, cohesive message.

Slack isn't that bad by itself; it's mostly how people use it compared to say, email.
I don't like lisp, not code in lisp; not even a line.. and I have read TONS of lisp stuff.

Why?

The #1 reason: The lisp people have a lot of cool things to teach.

One of the most obvious examples:

https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy/

So, you can learn enough of Lisp or APL or oCalm or Haskell to tag along with somebody smart on the field (that use certain lang, maybe for very good reasons, maybe is just what he like) and understand stuff.

Most of the real gems are kind of easy to learn with the most basic understanding of a language.

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A lot of times, is THAT kind of people that have the better insights of why certain lang matter.

Continue with the example of Rich Hickey:

https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3386321

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You can translate a lot of ideas from a lang to other, as the most basic and simply benefits.

Is just the case that certain langs fit the minds/goals/niches better, so is there where to look for better answers...
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Oh. Kinda makes sense, but bad restriction in this case.
Lots of classic stories on gamasutra. But I agree, more documentation of historical work is needed.

There are some great reads out there about gamedev and gaming history, though:

- Blood, Sweat and Pixels by Jason Schreier

- Masters of Doom by David Kushner

- The Ultimate History of Video Games by Steven L. Kent was required reading for me in college

- Game Over by David Sheff

- Dungeon Hacks by David Craddock
Yes, and it's this kind of thing that the commercial model of the university and the competitive model work against. When students see it as "I give you money and you give me the piece of paper which lets me into the elite", none of this happens.
But you cannot trust patients, and as a doctor you have to do the due diligence; if the patient's health changes (e.g. weight, blood pressure, adjustment to the medication) they may need to adjust the dosage. That 5% can save lives. Prescription medication should not be fucked with.
"By definition, racism is something only individuals can do and so racist laws are the product of racist people."

Are hackers criminals? You may think that hackers == people who like to tinker. Alas. Society coopted the term.

Please don't get stuck on formal definitions. I doubt that pedantry over "racist", "systemic racism" will much help public discourse, the current debate. As evidenced by the push back you've received here.

Maybe whenever you hear "racism", you can realtime translate to "prejudice and bias, often times racially motivated, or even just adjacent."

"...you could begin to suspect racist motives even if the majority of employees, supporters, and those involved are not necessarily racist..."

Go on.

FWIW, my favorite take on this is James Mickens, CS prof at Harvard, entertainingly makes this point in a way that even geeks can understand. https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity18/presentat...
I really like thye kind of articles that the NHS does on this https://www.nhs.uk/news/food-and-diet/drinking-3-4-cups-coff...
Not the OP, but the way the rocket equation works is that for the same ratio of gross to net mass if you double the exhaust velocity, you double the delta-v. So, it's exactly linear. It's actually a little sublinear, as you add the delta -v to the original v (which is the speed of the planet Earth plus the orbital speed of the vehicle in the LEO that starts the trip to Mars). So, if you double the delta-v, you don't actually double the deep space velocity.

Where the rocket equation helps is in the net to gross mass ratio. Starship is expected to have a 9% ratio. If you multiply the ISP by 2.2, you would increase the ratio to 34% (as someone else in this thread mentioned). The Starship proposed net mass is 120 tons, that could go to 450 tons. For comparison the largest (cargo) airplane in the world, the Antonov AN-225 has a maximum takeoff weight of 640T, but 300 of that is fuel.
Standard teacher education says that each student has a learning style that is most effective for them. https://www.learning-styles-online.com/overview/

A person who learns well from books in a solitary setting is at a huge advantage compared to someone who needs a social-kinesthetic style.
Ideally, state funding paid for by taxes on the more wealthy cities.