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> Alternatively you could just chop the Because, and it would flow fine.

Hmmm, I guess I agree. I am going to try that a lot. In sentence structure I often get the issue of "$Claim, because $justification." This leads to really long sentences that I feel should be split. And again, I want to preserve the link between the two parts. Doing $Claim. $Justification. Feels like I am making an unsubstantiated claim followed by another unrelated claim.

In the programming language I would see this sort of as:

int a = foo(b);

int foo(b){
return 1 + b
}

(Ignoring a forward declaration of foo in some header).

I guess this is similar to my earlier point. Where I want to split the un-related parts but still want to capture the strong relation between the two.

An alternative might be something like.

"We know that $justification. Hence, it follows that $claim."

You've given me food for thought. Thanks!
It appears to be part of their offering, but as an implementation detail, not a standalone service: https://tailscale.com/kb/1011/log-mesh-traffic
US has lost its high moral standing in the world in the same way that Google lost its standing with the technologists on HN. But those on the inside tend to be oblivious to these facts.
Having never really had a needed to do this I'm a little confused -- isn't this just a matter of putting the tty into cbreak or raw mode and then just reading keys from stdin? Like keycodes are annoying but "special keys have this weird text representation, here's a table" doesn't seem like a huge gap to cross.
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I get the point you are trying to make, but the pedant in me wanted to point out that Europe does have a GPS alternative up and running (Galileo) so that they aren't dependent on US satellites.
Slavery just evolved and got clever at hiding the fact by calling itself Capitalism & Democracy.
> but this seems like it might be a losing option for all but the biggest media companies (like Disney)

Only because our system allowed purchase of Fox. And content/distribution conglomeration. A mistake.
You must not have inherited many ugly codebases.

I would love to write tests for the codebase I currently work in but it just doesn't make sense. Everything works for the most part (not really but the business people are happy) so they is no way we can convince the hire ups that writing tests is beneficial.
Congress chooses which experts it listens to. Too often it chooses those "experts" based on notoriety and the conclusion they hope to reach.

Now they are "shocked" to find out they people they've been accepting money from were leading them astray -- not that they knew where that money was ever coming from.
Are you referring to the fact that the Sackler family is all Jewish? Please cool it with the anti-semitism.
Not against pirating in the least bit but you can’t say you have to pirate to get the best 4K it’s just easier and cheaper. Disregarding the not available in my region argument. The Blu-Ray is still available for purchase in most regions.

The people in the article were not ripping streaming services they were ripping unreleased DVDs and Blu-Rays.
Apparently they're targeting mach 2.2, faster than a concorde at mach 2.

Makes sense, there's no point going slightly supersonic since you gain only a little speed over high subsonic for a lot of extra trouble.

I guess this is a competitor for a Citation X+ which can reach mach 0.93
Where's the demand for such a tool? If you have the experience and understanding to build a good back-end with a no-code tool, then you're already at a point where working with code isn't a problem for you.
Why does it say (1951) in the title? The article says "Last Updated October 2013" and talks about songs that were published in the seventies.
Polling does not support your view. Support for BLM has risen more during this summer than in the previous several years combined.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/06/10/upshot/black-...
Lately I've been more interested in CPU announcements and haven't been following GPUs pretty much at all (been super tired of all the hype around Ampere, that's been going on for months now).

Considering that, it means Intel is coming in to the dGPU market with a not stellar device, which has historically had driver issues and underdelivered in practice... Even more pressure to prove their worth then.
For a bit isn't the issue. It is when your primary residence changes.

Each country has different rules around how this happens and the legal definition of a primary residence.

For most cases this is automatically triggered when you haven't spent 6 months out of the year at what you're claiming to be your primary residence.
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Cousteau falsely claimed to have been a member of the Résistance when he was in fact protected by the occupying German army. His first film received a positive critique in his brother's newspaper Je suis partout in 1943, which launched his entire career. He later said the film only came out in 1946.

The part about his personal life is to further substantiate the "liar" part. It's not just that he had a "mistress"; he had another family and hid it from his wife, whom he didn't divorce because he needed her money. She died of sorrow when she eventually found out. I think it tells something about his character.

I'm getting downvoted heavily for all these comments, but I persist in thinking we should be more careful about the "heroes" we choose. This man is no hero. He's horrible.
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Really? Is Google going to hire somebody with one of these certificates as quickly as someone with the degree from Stanford, CMU, etc.?
>If you can exploit millions to make billions then you can settle in the event of criminal persecution, hire a pr firm to take care of public optics, and donate generously to parties in power to ensure that the pesky prosecutor/attorney-general is sufficiently motivated not to attempt to make an example out of you.

In this case it doesn't look like they even bothered hiring a PR firm (or they're doing a piss poor job), and they seem to be getting off "fine".
> Sleeping cold has very high risks.

When I was very young, I took a survival course. We were taught our highest priority was to produce shelter[1], insulated from the ground, the night sky, and prevailing winds. Only after that came things like water supply, etc.

[1] biWak: besonders im Winter arschkalt.

(one wonders if the angle bars on the heating grates serve any engineering purpose?)
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>> Wow, that's a whole lot of work put into this, and I don't understand why... What do these scene members have to gain?

That's what I was wondering. Do they monetize the activity with ad revenue? Other than that I cant think of any motivation other than some kind of status seeking.
Yeah, these computers can be spec with 32gb of HBM also.
Because medical boards are staffed with doctors who let other doctors off the hook. Doctors are held to account about as well as police (in the US), i.e. not at all.
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While historically interesting I don't think there is one ounce of useful wisdom in the Spartan education system that we can use to day. We can learn from their propaganda though - still known as the greatest warriors ever, even though they don't really have much to show for it.
I remember those. If anything I think they turned people on to piracy, not off, because the general sentiment upon seeing it was "...but I would totally download/duplicate one!"
Sorry, I meant that they should have learned about drug safety in medical school, not that they should have learned about this specific drug.
RedHat is actively working on Stratis too (which I'm excited for): https://stratis-storage.github.io/
How is that better? In what world is police officers dosing large groups of protestors acceptable?

Give it enough years, and people will talk about the brave protestors of 2020. But like all "brave protests" of the past, today they should be supported, and are not.
Would you also tell hospitals not to lock themselves into their EMR/EHR? Would you tell Enterprises to get rid of their entire dependence on Microsoft and go Linux only?
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He blew up coral reefs with dynamite!! By this measure, the Monkey Christ affair "opened the eyes of multiple generations" on the importance of religious paintings.
> I think often the worst thing is existing culture. So things like: "It is not manly/cool to wear a seatbelt." Would a Hollywood action hero wear a seatbelt? Certainly not!

In one TV show called "Forever" (spoilers, btw.) there's a nice scene where one of the characters is driving a car at gunpoint and gets out of the situation by driving into a wall and releasing the bad guys seatbelt right before impact.

There's nothing inherently uncool about seatbelts; it's just a matter of how it's presented. "Heroes don't need seatbelts to drive a car" makes as much sense as "Heroes don't need guns for a gunfight".

This proves that the rules of coolness can sometimes be shifted away from valuing recklessness. The same effect might be possible for other areas as well.
Canada is a very safe place but we require law enforcement officers to carry guns.

There is a lot more respect for police, less mob violence, petty fighting and doesn't require a large camera network.

Guns provide more respect.
If they could do say 1500km at 100km/h, that would offer a great many overnight destinations - get on board, dinner on board, retire to bed, wake up, breakfast over the alps, disembark right into the resort. Certainly beats flying.
Right? There's only so many Phantoms out there.
The answer is the Black community isn't a monolith and has have swaths that support more police and others that support less. No conspiracy or cherry-picking.

And if you study a lot of opinion polling you'll notice, across all racial demographics, there tends to be a generational rift forming between the young and the old. Older generations likely remember the crime wave that took hold in the 80s and early 90s and its subsequent decline. And the younger generation lives under a larger, more aggressive police presence that was instituted since then.
Given spartan relative military dominance in that era, it did produce skilled soldiers. But it's quite possible that the skills required to function well in a shield wall are compatible with being broken and dysfunctional otherwise. That's a common modern trope, e.g., with Vietnam vets.
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> Frustration among the people they perceive to be trying to screw them over is the key part you're missing.

Right, but the original conversation was in respect to giving people the tools and information they need to make good decisions.

At this point those tools and that information has been out there for a long time.

So if they perceive that people are trying to screw them over, then we've just come full circle and proved the point - Treating them like adults and giving them pros and cons so they can make a rational decision has not worked.
This is six years old. What is the value in rehashing the same arguments again in 2020?
> Do you think more highly of the oil countries that have bought a football club?

No, but I don’t see how that deters them from misbehaving. How many billionaire oil or pharma magnates just wish they had a little more respectability? You think they care at all what people think about them? If they did, they wouldn’t have done what made them their blood money in the first place.

The Sacklers enabled the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people, and yet which did they choose to protect: their money or their reputation?
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> you should delete tests for everything that isn't a required external behavior

Wait, I'm terribly confused here.

Aren't a huge part of tests to prevent regression?

In attempting to fix a bug, that could cause another "internal" test to fail and expose a flaw in your bugfix that you wouldn't have caught otherwise. And it's not uncommon for your flawed bugfix to not cause an "external" test to fail, because it's related to the codepath there was never a good enough external test for in the first place -- hence why the bug existed.

I can't imagine why you would ever delete tests prematurely. I mean, running internal tests is cheap. I see zero benefit for real cost.

And not only that, when devs don't document the internal operation of a module sufficiently, keeping the tests around serves as at least a kind of minimal reference of how things work internally, to help with a future dev trying to figure it out.

If you're refactoring an implementation, then obviously at that point you'll delete the tests that no longer apply, and replace them with new ones to test your refactored code. But why would you delete tests prematurely? What's the benefit?
Thanks for getting back to me. I wasn't expecting a response. As you've mentioned below it is now off which is great. It was just a very jarring, personally I feel its best to allow users to make their own opinions of the experience, I don't find the dark mode experience that bad at all. The text is white and the background is black. Good enough for me!
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Hey Everyone,

It feels strange to say this, but yes, I have just published a book
Available here: https://gumroad.com/l/ghrtr

It is called Buddha to Bezos.

Why the name? Glad you (hopefully) asked :-)

-----------------------

I have been studying the diff between successful and failed softwares for years now.
There are many answers, and it is very easy to draw incorrect conclusions.

> We ran out of money
> We were outcompeted
> My cofounder left

And so on...

All of these are right, but they are likely symptoms, not the disease.

At some point I started to closely follow other founders.
They were the origin. Their products, instead, were first order effects.

As I studied their blogs, interviews etc. a few clear patterns emerged.
In hindsight, the patterns were obvious.

(a) The greatest makers were First Principle thinkers all round.
(b) They were ultra-cognizant of people's emotions (some of them might not care though)

Similar patterns emerge when we look at greatest innovators, thinkers throughout history.
Some great (The Buddha) and some terrible (Columbus).

-----------------------

Buddha to Bezos is a
- comprehensive study of greatest innovators throughout history.
- handbook on how to develop the same skills (First Principles, Empathy)
- collection of great stories (you'd enjoy reading it)
- set of examples on how some innovators applied them.

Take a look here: https://gumroad.com/l/ghrtr

Cheers
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We already have an ISS of the Sea. Many believe this 'International Swimming Station' is the real ISS.

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutral_Buoyancy_Laboratory
I don't mean all the officers. If you "disarmed" 50% of the officers, you'd expect officer shootings to drop by 40% (random estimate), but I doubt people would alter their behavior knowing that there's still 50% chance they can get shot.
Because being dogmatic is exactly what causes people to start ignoring this sort of methodology. Pragmatism really does have to win out sometimes. Maybe you're in a hurry because the bug is causing active downtime. Some bugs really are "obvious" once they've failed and you're looking at the code. Maybe development of a proper test involves some test infrastructure work that's a larger undertaking than you have the opportunity for at the moment. Maybe you have a solid manual/QA testing system behind you, allowing you at least temporary assurance that your fix is valid.

No team does everything perfectly all the time, and that's fine. The real question is what gets done about it afterward: is the technical debt that you've incurred paid down in a reasonable time frame?
There is a thing called sarcasm you may want to look into.
I think there are rules against payment but as we all know, there are ways around rules when it concerns money. Looks like there is a correlation between doctors being buttered up, and them prescribing opiods.

https://lowninstitute.org/industry-payments-to-doctors-opioi...
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How can you not listen to the whole song, that's the point, it's awesome xD
> I think Julia has shown us that strong typing is not really needed for scientific computing.

I think you meant static typing, in opposition to dynamic. Julia is strongly typed like OCaml.
If the system was honest, everyone would be taught at least the basics about law, medicine and finance, but you dont, you get taught enough to be a slave.
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I can't be mad at them, they're friendly and personable and they at least pretend to want to help, but it's obvious that they're unable to do anything useful.

I wonder if companies are relying on your empathy. They want you to realize this and just close tickets before they're resolved. Like the service desk's primary directive is to get customers off their employer's backs. If they happen to fix an issue along the way, that's a nice bonus.

For example, I've had to call Amazon 4 times recently over the same issue. I've been lied to each time that they fixed it. I was promised evidence that I was never given. I really don't know what to do about this...
I've been reading "Large Scale C++" by Lakos. There are two kinds of code Lakos writes about:

1. Application code -- Fast changing, poorly specified code. You need to have a rapid development cycle, "discovering" what the customer wants. Your #1 job is pleasing the customer, as quickly, and as reliably, as possible.

2. Library code -- Slow changing, highly specified code. You have a long, conservative development cycle. Your #1 job is supporting application programmers.

TDD probably works for #2, less so for #1. Furthermore, we all dream of being library developers (that our code and specifications are stable, and that our code can last decades). Alas, most of us are Application developers, and the lifespan of our code isn't really that long.

Recognizing the lifespan of your code, as well as the innate goals of your team (quick and dirty application style, or slow and careful library style) is important.

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Mixing up the styles causes issues. If you write library-style code for an application, the specification will change under your feet and everything needs to be rewritten to the new whims of your new customers.

If you write application-style code for a library, you yourself won't be "stable enough" to support your peers, and no one will want to use your library.
Supposedly Concorde used more fuel taxiing from the stand to line up on the runway than a 737 flying London-Paris, but the fuel consumption PPM was comparable with a 747 once the plane was at super cruise. The problem is an building an engine that is efficient throughout the entire flight envelope. Engine efficiency improvements have come from gradually increasing the bypass ratio while solving some tricky problems with the tips of the blades approaching supersonic speeds, but, as I understand it, you can't use high bypass engines at supersonic speeds, so it will be interesting to see what technological advancements Rolls Royce have made over the original Olympus engines that powered the Concorde.
It has certainly been insanely busy in areas where people rarely eat out even pre-pandemic. Places busier than they have ever been in their history.
To be fair, the terms in literature are all over the place. image space and spectral space is what I read most often (not necessarily in English). I personally would prefer just source and target space, especially since we have imaging as an application.

I think the explanation was quite good, but I implemented a DCT once as a student (with shitty code and slow as hell, don't roll your own matrix multiplication). The Wikipedia article was bad at the time, but it has really good info now.

The topic can take a while to get it. I think looking at the base functions helps a lot. Every image is basically an overlap of these base functions which are each parameterized through an amplitude and phase. I transformed some images with basic shapes with Matlab until it really clicked.
Didn’t say it wasn’t.
Would be interesting to see some analysis from a public relations point of view why that was the case.

From a technical standpoint, both Cassini and Galileo did Earth gravity assists. The argument was that an error in navigation could cause them to hit Earth on such a flyby. While RTGs were designed to remain contained on launch failure they wouldn't survive such a high-speed reentry. Another (much less realistic) fear I heard was that the plutonium in their RTGs could ignite fusion in the cores of Jupiter or Saturn when the probes were dumped into their atmospheres.

Neither of these two concerns apply to Mars rovers.
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I never understand why doctors are not blamed for prescribing these

Because doctors are human beings and in particular they’re people who are motivated by the desire to alleviate suffering. When faced with patients who repeatedly return to their office, complaining of severe pain, what can they do?

There are no miracle painkillers. We have anti-inflammatories for minor aches and pains. We have opioids for severe, temporary pain (such as recovery from surgery and end-of-life care). We do not have a painkiller suitable for chronic pain.

Purdue pharma offered doctors a way out. The institutional structure of healthcare, into which doctors and pharma companies fit, permits diffusion of responsibility [1]. Doctors escape blame because the determination of the safety and efficacy of medication is outside their area of responsibility.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffusion_of_responsibility
The lawyer look/mannerisms get you out of the "might be lower class" bucket, which is where the fear and hostility comes from.

So should Ving Rhames had “the lawyer look” in his own home? Would that have stopped five cops from coming to his house? If the Black guy sitting in his own home who got shot by the cop because she thought she was entering her house not have been shot if had gone to sleep in a suit not been killed?

Do you also tell your female relatives if they dress appropriately they won’t be raped?
Yeah, the security on physical newspaper vending machines is laughably easy to defeat as well. Just smash the glass on the front with a rock and you can take as many papers as you want, for free. Or for a less destructive route you can use a special tubular lock pick.
Who is the market for supersonic travel not already served by military aircraft that can go supersonic and space vehicles that go suborbital? I’m not saying such a market doesn’t exist, but show me these folks with their wallet open for this civil speed.
How did you manage to connect that to antisemitism?
In my last job we had 100% coverage, but if something was trivial we'd annotate so the code coverage tool would ignore it. It meant every decision not to cover something was documented, and visible to the code reviewer
the pharmacutical companies have developed many ways of rewarding doctors for being compliant, such as by being paid 'consultants' presenting at conferences in exotic locations. For everyday practitioners, social primping (wining, dining, rounds of golf in prestigious locations and/or company) works as well as for just about everyone.