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But a few decades ago, cities like DC and Philly were much more diverse and interesting than they are now, at the cost of diminished safety and tidiness, of course.

Back in the 1980s, DC especially used to sport a warren of one-off ma and pa hole-in-the-wall shops packed into low rent enclaves found all round the city. But a couple decades back those neighborhoods were bought up by ambitious well-heeled developers and turned into chic malls of boutique shoppes that attract only yuppies. Now only homogeneous gentrification survives.
Yeah, that's right- I just called it the wrong thing.
When LEOs manage to get a conviction, they now have irrefutable proof (a conviction in a court of law) that they were right in the first place to make sure that scumbag was convicted. It’s a self-perpetuating cycle of increasing prejudice.
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I agree until you say Unity will proxy Unreal. I intentionally looked for investment options for Unity in order to possibly _short_ Unreal based on the recent Epic v. Apple news.
Hard-coded file paths for input data. File paths hard-coded to use somebody's Google Drive so that it only runs if you know their password. Passwords hard-coded to get around the above problem.

In-code selection statements like `if( True ) {...}`, where you have no idea what is being selected or why.

Code that only runs in the particular workspace image that contains some function that was hacked out to make things work during a debugging session 5 years ago.

Distributed projects where one person wrote the preprocessor, another wrote the simulation software, and a third wrote the analysis scripts, and they all share undocumented assumptions worked out between the three researchers over the course of two years.

Depending on implementation-defined behavior (like zeroing out of data structures).

Function and variable names, like `doit()` and `hold`, which make it hard to understand the intention.

Files that contain thousands of lines of imperative instructions with documentation like "Per researcher X" every 100 lines or so.

Code that runs fine for 6 hours, then stops because some command-line input had the wrong value.

I've seen all of these over the years. Even as a domain expert who has spoken directly with authors and project leads, this kind of stuff makes it very hard to tease out what the code actually does, and how the code corresponds to the papers written about the results.
Animations are effective, and I say that as someone who really hate slow ones.

If you start paying more attention to the apps you use, especially ones made by bigger companies, and you'll notice how effective some of them can be.
I think you must be right about that.

For example, while I'm sure I would also enjoy such a smoothie every morning, the probably quite high oxalate content would almost certainly bring about a quick recurrence of the kidney stones which removing all added salt from my diet has relieved. So I won't do that!

Regarding vegetables, have you considered salads? The genre offers far more variety than I think many suspect, and I don't know a more pleasant or more effective way of eating a vegetable-first diet than to get really good at salad.
It seems like Epic is going to trounce Unity when they go public. They've got a more powerful engine, megahit game, and distribution platform.
The closest to code-signing on the web is subresource integrity, a feature that adds an integrity hash to script and style tags.[0] There was a directive in content-security-policy that allowed you to require them for everything on a page, but that looks like it's been depreciated.[1]

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Security/Subres...

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Co...
Hello fellow accelerator physicist!

Yes I understand how seeding PRNGs work and I personally do that for my own code for debugging purposes. My point was that not using a fixed seed doesn't invalidate their result. It's just a cheap shot and, to me, demonstrates that the lockdownskeptics author doesn't have a real understanding of the methods being used.

Also, to be clear, I support open science and have some of my own open-source projects out in the wild (which is not the norm in my own field yet). I'm not arguing against releasing code, I'm arguing against OP arguing against this particular piece of code.
Clever way to make it configurable, and a good way to differentiate it from the cheap aliexpress versions! And nice to see the development from your earlier versions.
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Checksums so I don't backup corrupted data and never notice.

Instant, unlimited, zero-weight snapshots. You'd be surprised how often you use snapshots when you have them. A couple weeks ago I screwed up a save point in a game. Instead of just living with my mistake, I rolled my Steam directory back an hour.

Transparent compression.
I haven't looked through all of them, but I came across this website recently. https://learnxinyminutes.com/

I think it's more geared towards people who have experience in one language and want to get a quick crash course in another. Most useful for people who learn by example.
Thats what I assumed as well, and anecdotally I personally researched if Unity was publicly traded after the Epic v. Apple news so I could buy some shares.
> expect the military to donate the most money, due to the huge number of soldiers lives saved through intercepting Nazi communications

Defence spending is really complicated. In the UK, annual defence spending typically pays for the cost of equipping and maintaining the armed services, but the costs of actually going on operations are usually from a separate budget. Ops (wars) are essentially a form of unpredictable expense, requested by politicians, not the generals. If the UK defence budget donated to causes like this, there would be less to spend on people, stuff, training, etc.

By way of example, the Imperial War Museum [0] is funded by government grants, charitable donations, and revenue generation through commercial activity such as retailing, licensing, and publishing

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_War_Museum

[Edit - clarity]
Well yeah... and the distro is literally called Ubuntu.
Aside from the article the main header collage is fantastic.
> but it just goes to show things still work this way in some parts of the US.

That’s how it works on the East and west coast in my experience. You have to make the right “donations” to the right “campaigns” or police associations, etc etc.
Why do these articles always reach the front page? Does hackernews hate Uber that badly? Or perhaps its profitable for news articles to always rag on them? Why is it profitable? Does everyone want to see them fail?

They're no worse than your run of the mill tech company, so I suspect something odd is going on. I dislike corporations in general and want to see them play fair, but Uber changed the way I live life, and I'm constantly worried bureaucrats and angry business/tech nerds are going to regress us back to the taxi stone ages. We're just one law away from having to go back to hailing a cab with our thumbs and trusting their internal GPS.
A word of caution: this belief may be true, but it’s radioactive. Potential partners can smell it from a mile away. They may not be consciously aware of it, but they’ll smell it. The personality component of attractiveness for men has a lot to do with already feeling fulfilled in your solo activities. No one wants to feel like you are looking to make them a load-bearing structure in your psyche. Some are okay with being used for sex under the right circumstances, but vanishingly few will consent to be used for meaning.

At least, I think this is why I’m single.
Plastic SCM is pretty great at handling Unity projects of all shapes and sizes.
Always deplatform your tips.
> If you cannot the release the code because the code is too ugly or untested or has bugs, how do you expect anyone with the right expertise to assess your findings?

Yes, that should be this way.

Also all cases where some company research team goes to a scientific conference and presents a nifty solution for problem X without telling how it was purportedly done, it should be absolutely required to publish code and data for this.

*And that's also something which is broken about software patents - patents are about open knowledge, software which uses such patents is not open - this combination should not be allowed at all).
> Monte-Carlo can and should be deterministic and repeatable

I guess it can be made so, but not necessarily easy / fast (if it's parallel, and sensitive to floating point rounding). And sounds like the kind of engineering effort GP is saying isn't worth it. Re-running exactly the same monte-carlo chain does tell you something, but is perhaps the wrong level to be checking. Re-running from a different seed, and getting results that are within error, might be much more useful.
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1. If the reinfection is totally asymptomatic, including not having quiet heart damage or walking pnumonia, then everything is fine.
2. I'll have an appointment every few months to get a booster.
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I've found nerds can be extremely literal about analogies when the two things being compared don't line up in every respect. Kinda misses the point of analogies.
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I wonder how much the locals thought the same thing when the Dutch East India company setup shop.

What goes around, comes around.
Very detailed rules are laid out for quarantining lepers, menstruating women, men who experienced nocturnal emissions, etc. Start with Leviticus 13, it's not hard reading (depending on how archaic the translation is).

Not exactly about a number of days, but Deuteronomy 23:12 instructs those going to battle to carry a shovel so they could bury their excrement and not leave it exposed in the camp, lest God abandon the camp and not defend them from their enemies. (After all, God is holy and poop is not).

I highly recommend reading the original literature and not a secondary source. The way the text weaves reasonable ideas with superstition, threats of abandonment and punishment with messages of hope is a fascinating window into the way people thought in another time and place.
Author here. I'm sorry you feel that way. If you'd rather it be licensed ISC/MIT/BSD/etc. then please encourage your favorite member of FAANG or some other huge company to acquire Actually Portable Executable and then make it freely available under those terms, for the sake of benevolence and commitment to serving public interest. I come included.
I made this for myself since all the notes apps were overly complex and didn’t support the important things I wanted - e.g, treating URLs as first class citizens, custom reminders, or easy sharing.

I’ve heard from others that they have similar needs too, and complexity and overhead of note taking apps is one reason they don’t use them much.
On a related note, I don't understand the point of tips on UberEats.

(a) I thought the whole point of these apps was to simplify things for the user. I just want to know how much
I pay in total, upfront, as I'm selecting food. Include taxes and delivery fees in a big fat "this is what you will pay" display on the screen and I'll be a 10X happier user. Delivery apps were a great opportunity to axe the complexities of tipping culture and they screwed it up IMO.

(b) They ask you for tips before they even dispatch your food, which makes zero sense to me. Tips are supposed to be "extra" based on the quality of service, so how are you supposed to blindly give 10% or 15% without even having received service? (I always put 0% when ordering and up it to 10-15% on delivery OR give cash tips, which is how things have always worked before the age of apps, but it's cumbersome to do that.)
Not true. I have unlimited data in Germany for 40€/month and my fair use is 999GB.
I like this idea. But, what I see happening with this structure is businesses growing up to the cut off and not taking any further measures to grow. For some businesses that will be just fine. Not everybody wants to grow a multi-million dollar business. For those that do want to grow this becomes something like the welfare cliff.
My apologies, my mention of exaggerations and paucity of facts was a bit off the cuff, I didn't do a good job of explaining myself.

I was replying to your remark that "It’s unarguably the worst public health crisis in 100 years". Which just isn't true. It's exaggerations like this I was referring to.

The flu in 1918, 1957, and 1968 were worse. If not for vaccinations the flu is a more scary disease than coronavirus - it mutates yearly, has just as much if not a worse fatality rate than covid, and causes long-term damage as often or more so. Malaria is far worse, I just heard that 3000 children die of that every day. Then there's HIV, diabetes, heart disease, etc.

Through this pandemic headlines seem to always feature worst case scenarios, numbers without context, etc. This is a statistically complex subject, a moving target, and our brains are not wired for dispassionate risk assessment.
It's subscription/billing management, and it doesn't really do payment processing itself, but rather you might configure Zuora with something like Stripe/PayPal/etc.

Gitlab had an outage today related to Zuora going down. My guess is the backends directly call to these APIs and they don't have any form of caching or storing the info from these APIs elsewhere.
That's more of a story of Microsoft acquiring and destroying a brand. They took the consumer software and rebranded their enterprise communications suite under it, then rebranded that and now no one "skypes" anyone anymore.

Microsoft originally had a product suite called Lync which had chat and calling. It was pretty good. Then MS rebranded it as "Skype for Business." It was the same infrastructure and program with a facelift to use Skype's styling. That did not work out well, and was rebranded as Microsoft teams.

I'd suspect the whole point of acquiring Skype was to move it to enterprise, which it only did cosmetically and turned out to be a failure. MS Teams is alive and well though.
At no point did I indicate I don't value blue collar workers such as plumbers or construction workers, quite the opposite. At most I said the police were low paid blue collar workers - and in general I do believe most blue collar workers are underpaid. For what it's worth, I do also value our police forces, even with their flaws. But a blue collar profession has a different set of knowledge handling than a white collar one - it's not that one is better or worse, but they are intrinsically different ways of knowing.

> Please keep in mind that this is not true worldwide

You're correct and my comment is US centric. What I find interesting is that some US cities have seemingly moved farther from a more educated police force, removing requirements around having college degrees and reducing trainings.
> Doesn't it concern you that it would be possible for critics to look at your scientific software and find mistakes (some of which the OP mentioned are not "minor") so easily?

A non-native English speaker may make grammatical mistakes when communicating their research in English—it does not in any way invalidate their results or hint that there is anything amiss. It is simply what happens when you are a non-native speaker.

Some (many?) code critiques by people unfamiliar with the field of study the research will be about superficial mistakes that do not invalidate the results. They are the code equivalents of grammatical mistakes. That's what the OP is talking about.
OK so the thesis of this piece is that you shouldn't give blanket advice about what dosage of vitamins to take. But if you Google it, you would immediately see that taking over 4,000 IU of vitamin D per day for extended periods can be toxic. So in this case the woman would have actually benefited from taking the blanket advice rather than taking the 'personalized' advice from her doctor; had she been taking only 1,000 IU per day, I doubt she would have had this issue.
So how do you get police to behave that way?
I'm trying to think of what other products/projects I'm aware of using optical coupling for configuration - the Bloomberg B-Unit used/uses a similar screen-flash strategy for authentication, and some first-person drone cameras can leverage adding/removing the lenscap to navigate the menus, but this configuration mechanism isn't as popular as I'd expect it to be given how clever and straightforward it is. This is a really cool project!
The HDMI Exploit Channel.
Card games use a lot of high res art. They take a surprising amount of textures.
This is a bit of a silly thread, but I'm curious if that's the case.

Assuming that the issue is that the blades are hard for birds to see, not "impossible", then having them black on the windward side may solve the problem.

For a given wind speed `x` and bird flight speed `y`, the relative speed when approaching the blades from the windward side would be `x + y`. The relative speed when approaching from the leeward side would be `x - y`, giving the bird additional time to react.

... on the other hand, at `x + y` the bird's body would pass through the blade plane is less time than at `x - y`, potentially reducing the likelihood of a strike.

Now I'm curious if there are data showing where birds have been found dead are wind turbines. Intuitively, I would expect there to be more dead birds on one side than the other.
"It's not worth it for multiple providers to wire up an apartment or neighbourhood"

That's not how it is in Russia. In a city not far from Moscow we have 2-4 providers in an apartment building (FTTx). Just checked my bill -- $5 for 60 Mbit/s and $7 for IPTV with ~80 channels included. Hurray to free market :)
Stockholm Syndrome is on my mind frequently with this engine. I’m hoping their promise of 2021 being a stability and productivity focus will come true.

It’s hugely frustrating to see how poorly planned their roadmap is. I have access to core support and their private slack, and you’d be surprised how short notice some of their decisions have been.
And it seems that the people from Imperial College have done that with their epidemiological simulation. What critics claim is that their code produces non-deterministic results when given deterministic input and random seeds, i.e. that their code is seriously broken. Which would be a serious issue if true.
This reminds me of google keep.
http://quickenloans.github.io/Behaviors.js/

Once I got past certain mental blocks, it became fairly obvious that you can structure all your GUI scripts to be configured and to interact with one another via DOM.

The next insight was to use CSS selectors for targeting.

Then using consistent name prefixes and separating behaviors into self-contained libraries.

The stuff above was proof-of-concept. The possibilities behind this approach are mostly unexplored.
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iota/const type enums are covered in another section: https://github.com/betty200744/ultimate-go/blob/master/Langu...

The code in the section labeled Enums looks like it is straight out of the Protobuf compiler. grpc is referenced later on, so that structure pattern may be related.
Yeah. They managed to come up with an interesting innovation. Non-human readable YAML...
Not directly but the reason why you pay such a high water usage rate is because it's indirectly metering sewage usage. That's why you can arrange for bulk water delivery via fire hydrants for a cheaper usage rate for e.g. filling up a pool.
1) entrances - prosaically, like a mud room. Ea-nasir's porters would've hung out here and kept riff raff out while announcing and carrying stuff in and out for desired guests. I don't know what old babylon was like for civil policing, but two entrances on different streets can be very useful in areas of unrest. In more peaceable environments, they can be decorated differently, so tradesmen, house servants/employees etc. use the back door while business partners, priests and politicians use the front.

2) a courtyard - compare roman architecture. Useful for light when one doesn't have electricity. In other cultures was used for rain water capture/storage. As 5 and 6 don't seem to have been stalls for household animals, they probably would've been running around here too.

3) stairs - I would bet residential was on the upper levels. (compare Bathsheba bathing)

4) lavatory - Ea-nasir was better equipped than the NCC-1701 Enterprise.

5) conference room? flunkies meet in the courtyard. Big deals with big shots get inked (clayed?) in room 5. (might it have had fancy beer and wine vessels at disposal?)

6) warehouse? when you've got a lot of copper ingots, best to store it as far away from the high traffic areas of the household as possible. And you're certainly not going to sleep out of earshot of the entrances to your copper store. (why was Boaz sleeping on the threshing-room floor in the book of Ruth? Because that's where his grain was.)
There are some efforts in this vein within academia, but they are very weak in the United States. The U.S. Research Software Engineer Association (https://us-rse.org/) represents one such attempt at increasing awareness about the need for dedicated software engineers in scientific research and advocates for a formal recognition that software engineers are essential to the scientific process.

In terms of tangible results, Princeton at least has created a dedicated team of software engineers as part of their research computing unit (https://researchcomputing.princeton.edu/software-engineering).

Realistically though even if the necessity of research software engineering were acknowledged at the institutional level at the bulk of universities, there would still be the problem of universities paying way below market rate for software engineering talent...

To some degree, universities alone cannot effect the change needed to establish a professional class of software engineers that collaborate with researchers. Funding agencies such as the NIH and NSF are also responsible, and need to lead in this regard.
I'm not a fan either.

Creators rely on them to drive traffic though and that's part of what makes YouTube sticky for producers.

The creators remain incentivized to use YouTube as a platform because they can leverage the recommendation algorithms to drive traffic to their content.

While this remains true YouTube is here to stay.

People will go to where the content is. The content will go to the platform that makes it easiest for them to build an audience.
Fascist and Nazis were also socialists. Hitler's political party had "Socialist" in it's name. It's funny that nowadays we call Nazis "far right" where in fact they should be called "far left".
How can you call it completely inaccessible when presumably most of the seating is on the first floor?
Got it. Yeah, this is one of those instances where the paradox of choice can kill you.

Just a thought: if I were interested in adopting a tool like that, my chances of successfully sticking with it would go up 100x if there was a set of "default recommended practices" to follow when saving a new note, to cut down on the decision I would need to make.

Then over time, as I got more familiar with the tool, I could always tweak those default recommendations to fit into my own style

And who better to offer those default practices than the tool's creator? :)
Honestly, that's a good point. As an engineer I can definitely get a little too focused on the engineering side of things.

The MongoDB example is fascinating to me. I'd love to know why they're doing so well.
And they just bought the developer.

I worry about all the good synergy I was getting from Unity stuff using Github as a default is going to dry up if there's a non-open, non-public VCS as the default. I love trawling Github for interesting Unity projects.