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There is another human advantage to Fahrenheit: the degrees are more precise. One degree Fahrenheit is a noticeable but small difference. One degree Celsius is 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit, a much bigger difference. You're practically forced to use half degrees, which works but is ugly.

If the SI people could have broken with the idea that everything must be a strict power of 10, they could have used 200 degrees instead of 100 and had much more human-friendly units.
Sorry, somehow my brain had thought impl and trait went hand in hand, I see that's incorrect.

My question is just - do people really accept this tradeoff? The Rust advice in the article seems to create a maintenance burden compared to the Julia version. Every time you want to extend the system you have to go back and crack open old code. Is the performance difference really that great? Is this really the default approach for Rust programmers? Not snarking about Rust at all, I'm fascinated, but the open-closed principle would be front of mind for me when deciding on these sorts of abstractions (both as a language designer and just a developer).
Highly relevant. Google will monetize fully automated mistakes and you're saying it's OK because the victims can manually clean up the mess later?
I'd wager that it's more of a Political Union (hence Brexit, to a degree?) and is still too young to have meddled much in an overall coherent military strategy. Time will tell.
There's tons of layoffs because businesses are doing really badly. Current cashflow may not support another developer. Future cashflow doesn't look that great in any B2C market, either, and the B2B markets will start to look slim pickings not too far after that.
What happened to "Think Different™"?
Robert Moses designed public amenities to be inaccessible to public transit specifically to exclude poor residents from reaching them. He went as far as designing some bridges to be impassable to buses, so that only those who could afford a personal automobile could reach the amenities on the other side of said bridge.
It would be fun to try to sue Apple for misleading their customers (devs are customers, they pay yearly) and try to force them (and Google) to change the wording to correctly use rules.

That's if you have a lot of throwaway money and you don't like charity.
Correct, as most people are non technical, they will leave their cookies alone and they can be identified. Those who wipe their cookies stand out as a subset of internet users, then other metadata can be used to further fingerprint the user using things like the time it takes to log into a website, do they use a search engine to access their webmail or do they use a bookmark on their toolbar or a bookmark in the main browser list of bookmarks. When keystrokes are sent back in realtime, like when people log into Amazon and other websites, your typing pattern can be used to identify you, as can your machine settings, like display size, fonts, addons etc etc.
In a different domain, internet connected tv boxes and smart tv's can be used to identify the user from the InfraRed signals from the remote control, ie how long the user holds down a button, the speed they react to switching channels, fast forwarding, rewinding, changing channel, channels being watched (interests).
The bottom line is, all this technology, not just web browsers, can be used to record meta data and then work out who is using it. When combined at the state level, the security services can work out if someone is/was really at home or has left their home without their mobile and then gone to commit some activity that might be criminal. When combined with biological sciences, you can work out even more about an individual, when they are sleep deprived, stressed etc.

Thats why its truthful to say Science stole your privacy.
You could have supported your point better by offering an alternative taxonomy of possible dramatic situations. Maybe you could invent one?

Either way, the author of the website I have linked concisely sums it up as:

> Georges Polti says that all stories boil down to just 36 dramatic situations and takeoffs of those situations. Somebody else out there added #37. If you're stuck for a situation, try this.

That’s it. The number is arbitrary to a degree. It’s a tool for writing.

It is obvious how situations listed can be segregated more coarsely (just “rivalry” instead of one for equals and non-equals) or finely (see subplots on that resource). Being less specific (fewer categories) ensures relevance over longer period of time and/but leaves more to writer’s interpretation. Looking at successful stories from another angle, one can likely identify a different set of dramatic situations.

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Unlike positional arguments? ...
This would potentially destroy any hands free benefit a virtual assistant would have, back in the day of the secretary (the roll these talking Pringles tubes are trying to emulate) the bossman CEO or whatever would press a button on the office intercom to talk with his secretary. I think virtual assistants would benefit from a simple push-to-talk style input so they don't misinterpret a pause as a stop.
It is not just Hyper-V VM with some UI integrations. While it uses actual Linux kernel, it does not use actual init system as a just a VM would. It runs Microsoft's /init, which does not handle service management. Not even SysV ones via /etc/init.d.

So if you need service managment, you won't find it under WSL2.
TL;DR : Thank God for the Metric system!
How does Apple determine if an update is a bug fix or a new submission?
Never blame the user for the problems of the system. Lisp fans know the syntax is a huge problem. It has been for decades. Their solution is to blame the user. This approach is absolutely doomed.

Clojure actually fixes quite a few of the syntax problems with previous lips, but doesn't go nearly far enough so they still have the same problem.
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The supreme court of Apple's review process will still be the press and bad publicity, I see.
This is for roundworms. Is a different problem.
You said the "humanities", but the examples of research you'd like were from the "social sciences". The humanities deals with fields like comparative literature, poetry, history, Russian language studies, etc. I am personally quite happy my tax dollars do not fund a lot of that, though I know not everyone feels this way.

Psychology and sociology are the fields that study the human happiness or social dynamics issues you referenced, and both funded by the NSF[0], so is it just that you wish they had more funding?

[0] https://www.nsf.gov/about/research_areas.jsp
Tell this to my candidates:)

I have interviewed couple candidates that were offended by the fact that I am asking hard questions that I know answers to.

This resulted in remarks like "I have never seen this question on the Internet" or "So what is the answer to this question anyway?" or "If I knew questions would be this hard I would not bother to come".

Somebody explain to people that it doesn't matter how hard the questions are but how the candidates compare. I am fully prepared that the candidates study questions that are available on the Internet, I want to see how they deal with something that requires a bit more than couple hours of effort and rote memorization.
Par for the course with Apple. Apps in macOS never crash, they merely exhibit unexpected behaviours.
Not having RAID 5 and 6 is not ideal, yes. Then again, I will hasard than most potential users, including home NAS users, have at most two HDD.

Btrfs also has some advantages for personal use when you compare it to ZFS: it supports combining disks of different sizes and is easier to grow.
Water canons would work too, but only for fixed positions. Shotguns are pretty light, and can do double duty against more common threats simply by swapping out the ammunition from birdshot to buckshot.
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Nothing stops you from using decimal in Imperial :)
My favorite joke on this is "The answer is deep learning, now whats the problem?"
Relationships are just like new technologies. Sick of all all the hassle you have to deal with regarding <existing technology>? Use a new, shiny technology!

Five years later...

Sick of all the hassle you have to deal with regarding <formerly new technology>...?

The lesson here is ultimately all technologies suck, but you have to find the variety of suck you're willing to live with.
Q: What do you call this spiritual office group, then?

A: The Aristocrats!

I think the aristocrats are generally low comedy trump.
Remember the people watch, as far as I remember apps where not allowed to state that they are compatible with it in the app store.
I would also recommend Charles Stross' Accelerando for an interesting take on the post-singularity universe where "others" can be in control of the simulated worlds. Sorry for the limited details, but I do not want to spoil the ending for others.
Ask HN: From IntelliJ (Jetbrains) to VSCode, has anyone done it?
Hi all,

I'd say the title is pretty self explanatory. For the last few years I have been trying to switch to VSCode. However, I keep on returning to my beloved PyCharm. Did anyone successfully switch from a Jetbrains IDE to VSCode?

I'd love to use an open source editor that I can easily write plug-ins for... but I can't seem to get the same level of productivity with it.
Space is a medium of variable density that impacts the speed of light and everything else. That is clear with regard to solar winds and termination shock.

The curvature of space is directly related to time travel. Strange how you completely ignored that much larger portion of my comment to punch a straw man.

> is the same as a vacuum if spacetime curvature is the same.

If that were true particle physics wouldn’t need dark matter/energy to balance conditions that are irregular upon observable matter alone.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causality_(physics)

Causality, at least in physics, is an abstract notion and not an empirical notion. In causality effects occur in the same order as their respective causes which is substantive for logical consider, but is not necessarily measurably accurate or expected.
No, this is not a typical line of Smalltalk. That would be considered a very sloppy array indeed. I think it's just there to demonstrate the different literal notations in the language.

Smalltalk is actually quite readable in practice, though the keyword syntax seems to throw off experienced programmers from other languages. It's worth noting that the language was originally tested on children, so it was also designed to be easy to read and learn.

The equivalent of your C code above could be something like:

MyObject doSomethingWith: anArgument
eg: unexpectedly closing with no message.
Why does it bother you that raid5/6 is there? Just do not use it, the end result for you and most people is the same as if it was removed. For those few who want to play with it, it is still there. Best of both worlds.
That's true but there is already at least one case of Apple saying yes, so this doesn't seem to be a fake initiative to deflect criticism while not changing anything: https://twitter.com/chronic/status/1299777657744142336
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Apple is an expert in doublespeak.
I am at least saying something similar to what you're saying. The inherent advantage is familiarity. You may not consider that inherent. That's okay too :)

Please excuse my WIP CSS, but I wrote a longer bit about this over at https://steveklabnik.com/writing/the-language-strangeness-bu... . I think that, for languages that intend to be adopted broadly, you have to choose carefully where you diverge from existing practice. Sometimes, you have to change, after all, that's how progress even happens in the first place! And sometimes, you're forced to change, because you don't truly have an analogous situation.
I had the same issue once and was convinced that I must have pointed the reviewer account to the wrong server. I spent 2 days debugging before I finally asked the reviewer to check their network connection, I was approved the next day. They did send a nice response admitting the issue was on their end, lesson learned.
Read the OP link.
Interesting, I didn’t know all it took was a 22.85% marketshare to become a monopoly.

I wonder if Sony will let me put a picture of an Xbox One on my PS4 game.
That happened 3 years after our app launched, a reviewer decided we were violating a guidelines and held up all our App releases until the WWDC when they announced changes to the guidelines that would permit what we were doing. We still had to an an executive involved for them to re-review the app and approve our backlog of bug fixes.
That is a great explanation. I remember you, or somebody else here on HN, provided a similar explanation when this general topic came up within the last year or so... and I thought the same thing then -- finally this makes some sense to me. But then I'd lost the post and recently couldn't find it when a colleague could have benefited from it. Thank you.
An interviewer once gave me a problem about scraping some information out of a log file. I wrote a short shell pipeline. The interviewer asked for a more complicated analysis. I wrote a longer pipeline. The interviewer added more requirements, with aggregation, state, etc in order to push me to write an actual program. I wrote an even longer pipeline.

By this point we had both realised that this was a battle of wits: could he come up with a problem that i couldn't solve with a pipeline?

At the end of the interview, i had a pipeline that took up most of a piece of A4 paper to write out. I had won the battle, and was offered the job.

Of course, i would not advise you to actually write a pipeline like that in production, but it's a fun exercise.

Anyway, the moral of this story is that if the interviewer wants you to solve a problem a certain way, and you can solve it in a simpler way, then a good interviewer will mark you up, not down. Perhaps at Google they didn't; they don't really seem like a company that has it together.
you are making basic factual errors about the actual science and medicine of COVID, using a throwaway account. Why?
Think different from others... as long as you think the same as us.
Customer protections in most countries do not apply to business deals.
> It's like a mathematician saying that really big equations, the kind that span several pages stop following the rules of algebra.

Incidentally, Greg Egan wrote 2 short stories on basically that premise: Luminous and Dark Integers.
I would say it's pretty unrelated.

There have been a slew of high-profile App Store "altercations" over the past weeks/months, and Apple is an ongoing concern with it's own roadmaps and release schedules; who already announced policy changes were coming WWDC2020.

If this announcement was a month ago ppl might think it was Hey.com related, for example.
The congresspeople who investigated them for a year and a half also think they are abusive.

> the investigation has confirmed that Apple, Google, Amazon, and Facebook are all abusing their market power to the detriment of consumers

https://www.macrumors.com/2020/08/26/antitrust-investigation...
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This website you’re reading now has “guidelines”, yet no-one is accusing hn of creating a harsher world (at least not in the word they use instead of rules).
Oh they do thing different, in a abusive controlling egocentric way.

(At least sometimes, sometimes they do good. Through always in a way which is especially profitable in one way or another for then.)
New girlfriend could change her name if she is really devoted
Sure, but ECUs existed before OBD-II. Obviously even OBD existed prior. Those standards are about communication and control.
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That only works for big players like Epic.
As a single developer doesn't get this kind of attention.
There are better free alternatives too.

[1] https://krita.org/en/

and

[2] https://www.photopea.com/

to name but two.

The Gimp is dire software and needs taking out and shooting. It's one of those awful apps that people who know nothing about digital design always trot out whenever others bemoan the lack of Photoshop on Linux. A recommendation that does more harm than good, as anyone who's used Photoshop and gives The Gimp a spin will end up thinking "If that's the best Linux has to offer, Linux must be rubbish!"
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Characters are not a problem at all. They can be learned in a week or two. For me, Spanish is much easier to learn - I can read it without a problem, even if I don't know Spanish at all. I can take text of an unknown song in Spanish and then start to sing it immediately. In contrast, I struggle to pronounce English words even today, after 32 years of learning English as programmer. English poetry can damage my brain.
Mortars also have the nasty habit of drawing counter-battery fire, which occasionally leaves you short of a mortar and mortar crew. Drones are much lower risk to the operator, which is exactly why the US uses them too.
I have a feeling these suggestions will basically be a black hole, much like all feedback mechanisms Apple provides.

I would like to be proved wrong though.
First thing I thought of when I read the title was sentdex's nnfs.io (neural networks from scratch.) I don't have time to look at this in full right now, are there any major differences between the these? From my quick glance over this looks like it's heavy on the math notation and when it gets to the code it's already getting to complex (for someone who doesn't know python) to read.
Linux is a kernel. SteamOS is an operating system.

You could argue that SteamOS is a modified Ubuntu(?) and not a clean sheet gaming OS but I’m not sure that distinction really matters. SteamOS is a purpose built OS.
This looks very promising FW and looks like you have spent good time in determining the gaps in the ecosystem for similar FW. Good one to try and report back.
Maybe in some technical way this is correct, but when I'm pushing a string onto a vector of strings, I'm not thinking about conceptually adding a dimension to my vector in string space.

And how would you compute the cross product of <"foo", "bar", "baz"> and <"apple", "orange", "banana"> exactly?
Haskell Language Server (https://github.com/haskell/haskell-language-server) offers a pretty good IDE experience.

It also mitigates the parameter naming problem. With a type hole, the language server will infer the type. But in the case of two parameters having the same type, you have to consult the definition or doc.
I was talking about the rational objectives of the US as a state, if we agree that the US is a captured state by criminals with unknown strategic objectives or contrary to the US as a country, then, all bets are off.

1. The US was in no danger of remaining without oil, the price of oil skyrocketed after the US invasion, and the "access" was certainly not worth trillions of dollars that the war cost, not to US as a whole.

2. The US already had a military presence in Saudi Arabia, and without the vicious circle of violence it itself caused, the US had no reason to maintain a permanent military presence in Irak.

Just see the recent Soleimani debacle -- the US is one such debacle away from being kicked out of Irak after blowing those trillions, killing hundreds of thousands of civilians, helping spawn Daesh, causing economic devastation in Irak and the region.
Why is this arrogant? If they are asking about the Touch Bar, it's most likely because the developer mentioned adding some feature to the Touch Bar in the release notes and it is not apparent what that feature is. You can't advertise something that doesn't exist.
China once had a large emphasis on humanities, the Imperial Exams used to be primarily tests and essays on classical books, philosophy, and poetry. Science, engineering, and math were not important. It did not turn out well for them.
Well firstly, your sheep are walking to town.

Secondly, the answer is: a wagon-full. Sheep are not particularly more dense than grain. You are not going to be able to cram a higher mass of sheep in a wagon than you can cram grain; the exact number you could transport in a particular wagon will be determined more by geometry than mass.

This does tend towards a common mass-unit for anything that is shipped by mass; in archaic American/English units this is typically the hundredweight and ton, depending on whether you are shipping a little or a lot.

A more likely example would be shipping grain or coke one way and shipping iron stock back; you might transport 15 hundredweight each way, although more likely you'd be light one way or the other.
Related hypothetical: if a hydroelectricity dam failed when hit by an earthquake stronger than the one it was designed for, how much of a pass would we give Hydroelectricity?
Hi!

Yup, I did the switch from Webstorm to VS Code 2 years ago. I missed automated refactoring features, which are so great in IntelliJ.

But it's getting better, thanks to TS. Also, I was able to implement some automated refactorings as an extension.

Not sure about Python though, but I'd check for the existing extensions, see how it goes. The good news is that you could also develop your own plugins, in JS or in Python (with a server communicating to VS Code editor using the Language Server Protocol).
A dozen or so scientists trialing a vaccine on themselves is of zero concern. And you can't take this one-off self-trialing and apply the same level of scrutiny to a government actor acting on millions of people.
Wait, there are actual people reviewing every app update on the app store? Doesn't that require crazy amounts of manpower? Are they code reviewing or testing the app or what?
numberphile did a video of this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9_l8QASobI with Jayadev Athreya one of the main people involved
There are "non-scientists" who are doing this too, though they aren't highlighted by the article.

Zayner: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-25/one-bioha....

Justin Atkin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjDH6bXF4ow&t=67m47s
Correct, "per difetto" means flooring a number.
> unexpected

"off-nominal"
It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue
We once got rejected and they sent a screenshot back of an error. The screenshot wasn't even our app.
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I second this. F# is quite IDE friendly, and auto completion works great. Additionally much of the .NET tooling (with the exception of C# specific refactoring tools) are CIL / bytecode level and independent of CLR language. This is one of the reasons having a polyglot solution of C# and F# projects is possible and with (mostly) seamless interop - all the same bytecode in the end.