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Ex houstonian here, university of houston and everything.

Decently fun city, interesting history, cool people.

The road and traffic situation is nightmarish. I slowly came to this realization in college when I went abroad a couple of times. I found out that didn't have to be How Things Are.

The university of houston has a problem where students aren't attending classes because parking isn't available. Stories of trying to find a parking space for 40 minutes abound. There's lines of cars offering an air conditioned ride to parking spaces outside of classrooms, in return for their parking spot.

If you miss an exit near the i45/i10 merge, you've added 20 minutes to your drive, minimum, as the next local exit will be a good five miles away, and then after that the next on ramp for your give freeway could well be on the other side of downtown.

For some reason they built a light rail that criss crosses main street. For a great form of entertainment, search youtube for "Houston light rail accident." They're rarely really bad, more just stupid looking, some giant pick-up truck failing to see the train and getting booped.

There's no zoning (kinda) so the industrial zones are mixed right in with residential, budding up against UH. So about 1/10 of the time I bicycled to school, I would be blocked by a mile long train that decided to simply park and block every road crossing I could take to the university. I made a habit of throwing my bike between the nonmoving cars and clambering over until my dad sent me a video of someone getting cut in half doing that.

Growing up in the suburbs you'd have balls of steel to bicycle to a friend's house. Pickup trucks make a sport of fucking with bicyclists. Better to just wait for your parents to get home from work so they can drive you.

Lord forbid you have a friend in the woodlands or something. Thought it was obnoxious to visit your friends in San Jose when you live in the bay area? The woodlands is like a trip to Sacramento, but only because of traffic and a 610 loop as wide as a continent.

Public transit, lol. That's for poor people. I remember hosting a luncheon for our engineers (was a recruiter) and this old fart was talking about his 50 minute one way commute. It was a point of pride for these o&g engineers for some reason to measure their commutes. Then this engineer we brought in from mexico was like "oh, I live in that same neighborhood, why not take the bus? It gets on the HOV and gets me here in 30m." Old fart was flabbergasted. He didn't even know there was a bus. I don't blame him, they pick up at these huge ride share parking lots and it's not easy to figure out their schedule, or even how to pay.

Anyway Houston traffic sucks and my conspiracy theory is it's because Shell and Chevron have downtown offices and the CEOs sit at the top of the tower where they can see a clogged i45, i10, 610, and 59, and cackle maniacally at the hordes of people trying to justify their 1 hour one way commutes to eachother and the choking fog of smog clouding around the city.
So a city of 30k people requires less infrastructure than a city of 6M people? Where are the examples of major metropolitan areas without big freeway intersections?
It'd be ironic if your comment was generated by GPT-3. But forget GPT-3. In 10 years, looking back at AI history, the year 2020 will probably be viewed as the point separating pre GPT-4 and post GPT-4 epochs. GPT-4 is the model I expect to make things interesting again, not just in NLP, but in AI.
Individual devs seem to have their own patreon accounts but their income is still around few monthly Photoshop subscriptions.
"legal barriers aside" is insane, legal barriers aside I'm off to rob a bank. There's only really two or three things that could possibly make banks different: the law, de facto capital requirements to enter the market and hidden knowledge, and you can normally buy hidden knowledge so the thing distinguishing banks from anyone else is either the law or money, and it's mostly the law.
Silicon Valley is going crazy for Clubhouse an app with 1500 users worth $100m
And yet not only is Houston quite rich (on average anyway), but it consistently ranks #2 for happiness among major metro areas in Harris Happiness polls. http://www.city-data.com/blog/646-satisfaction-life-happines...
Exactly what I came here to write about:

Python 3.8.2 (default, Jul 16 2020, 14:00:26)
>>> " ".join(["a", "b"])
'a b'

vs Ruby

2.6.5 :001 > ["a", "b"].join(" ")
=> "a b"

I don't know which one is more natural but I prefer the Ruby version because it's consistent with

"a b".split(" ")

which works in both languages. One less think to remember.
Kowloon Walled City was 50k population in a surface area of only 6.4 acres (2.6 hectare).
I watched this recently[1] and the whole relativity thing made me think that its kinda like how in games often physics is processed as local clusters (for parallelism) and it made me think that reality appears to be simulated in this local clusters too. Relativity exists because that way each local cluster is independent and can be simulated in parallel, sharded across the servers! :)

Hell, why not take it a step further and say that the simulation is relative to an observer (which can be an inanimate thing, of course) as an optimisation because why bother simulating what isn’t seen or interacted with by an observer?

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHRqibyNMpw
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I am far from shitting on GIMP. But truth to be told, it's not very pleasant user experience. And I feel like there are several fairly affordable and significantly better commercial alternatives to Photoshop.
Exactly, for this they'd need to run an ad blocker and a script blocker, such as uBlock Origin and NoScript.
If these things are good ideas, why not just shut down DFP and just serve up static media creatives on existing sites?
You're not tied to a particular OS, even, so yes.
The freedom of speech is provided for by both the UN human rights declaration, and an amendment to the constitution - yet there are still some forms of speech which are illegal.

Individual rights can (and IMO should) be abridged when it impedes on the greater good.
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> I've never been to Europe, I would really love to go some day, but I can only imagine the feeling of actually seeing these really old places/structures in person.

European cities are also relatively young. If you want to see old cities, you should visit the Middle East or China.
I really appreciate the effort of designing the syntax to match common IDE expectations. However, I think it shouldn't be too difficult to add intellisense for Haskell-like syntax to IDEs as well. Especially with all the types available!

The only unconventional thing is that the function might be put in-front of the value and some parentheses need to be added, instead of just putting it after the cursor like with method syntax. I assume you get used to that rather quickly.
This whole thing is completely insane. Banana republic worthy.
Don't know what the US is like, but here in the UK my company could afford to buy property but rents instead because you can deduct all of your rent against profits, whereas if you buy a commercial property the write downs are terrible and spread over too far a horizon.
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> It's easier to carry beer and milk in those sizes and they're about the right amount for use.

The US pint is 16 ounces, vs the Imperial pint of 20 ounces. That's because no one really wants that much American beer.
The US?

They do it, but they have a lot of qualms about it.
It's also considered with the GPS :)

http://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/~pogge/Ast162/Unit5/gps....
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> it proved its unreliability too many times over the years, and working on it feels like throwing good money after bad.

Btrfs has been working fine for years and is used largely at Facebook. RAID 5 and RAID 6 are still unstable (and marked as such) but the rest just works.
It also includes elements from Permutation City, where multiple "you" may choose what to do in that scenario. Some stay, others wander around the universe in space pods, etc. Everything is narrated with such a natural approach that I found myself not questioning the validity of the science.
Just so you aren't in for a shock, "millennia" is including all sorts of neolithic stuff in the ground that could probably well be said of places in the US too. In terms of street layout, little is per-roman, and in terms of buildings, little is > 1000 years old.

The most common thing would be more 17th 18th 19th century buildings (in increasing frequency), and if you go to parts of Massachusetts (and maybe Virginia) you can get at least some 18th and 19th century stuff. Go to Havana, San Juan, Salvador (in Brazil) or other old colonial capitals and get more old buildings in sturdier materials than in Massechusetts.

Don't get me wrong, there are more old building in Europe, but colonial US is quite old, and there's more continuity than you might think. The real issue is that the US replaced more old stuff, being in growth mode, which was alright until cars came along and now most thing we build are absolutely terrible.
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No, I would say that most languages sit above Go - i.e., most languages are higher-level and have lower performance (in the general case) than Go.
Great to see the motivation spelled out clearly, but something seems strange. If you read the Quora answer, it just rants about how functional programming is obsessed with big words and esoteric concepts that are hard to grok, and that this constitutes poor UX. But Keli’s interpretation seems to be that the moment-to-moment experience in the IDE is poor, and that that’s what the language wants to address with more explicit syntax and intellisense support. These seem like two very different problems under the umbrella term “UX”.
I'll rephrase, Your Honor:

Even in English, "accessor" is a word that was rarely, if ever, used, before it was picked up in the programming languages jargon. So much that it has not made its way into some dictionaries, like Cambridge and Merriam-Webster.
And? Can't aspire to a better future where we don't sit in traffic for hours to get across the city, choking our skies with car smog and carbon dioxide that'll ruin the environment for future generations? Our design philosophy around cities are the biggest mistake made of 20th century American politics, and I'll die on that hill.
But that is only partially correct -- the italian priest who refused a ventilator in order for a younger guy to get it, yeah, he fits the bill 100%.

The scientist who self administers that vaccine... in order to what exactly, I'm not sure, but it is hinted in the article -- to survive the pandemic -- yeah, those are completely different things, apples to oranges.
I disagree with all points in the article - the user experience with existing FP languages is superior, and the IDE integration for strongly typed languages is generally very impressive.

Syntactic window dressing isn’t what makes or breaks a language.
The commercial property aspect of Prop 13 is actually up for a vote in Prop 15, to repeal these tax breaks for commercial property over $3M. It’s interesting to see people come out of the woodwork railing against it for all sorts of reasons from how the money is distributed to claiming it will cost the state hundreds of thousands of jobs. Would be nice to see this archaic tax relic go away. It’s like the state has granted feudal land rights to certain property owners.
I've almost misread it as "Keil", which brought bad recollections of their IDE C/C++ IDE.
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yeah well that is basically my point. We can all keep paying Adobe or someone else or make sure GIMP has at least one person working on it full time and have legitimate chance of not needing Photoshop in the future.
No. Scots has borrowed from French, but it doesn't have the same spellings as English borrowings from French. Plus, various sources indicate that the better word is likely to be "kitchen".
If you actually read the article we already outspend them on R&D. We spent 2.8% of GDP vs their 2.2% of GDP. They failed to meet their target of 2.5% of GDP despite steadily increasing.
That still doesn't explain why I'm conscious, something that I have direct, first-hand experience of.

> Consciousness isn't magic, because chinese room in conscious

That doesn't explain anything.

Does that explain to the person experiencing consciousness why they are? No it doesn't.

It just says "something else is conscious so you are too". Which is not an explanation, it's circular.

Is it relevant if the Chinese room is conscious as well? Not really.

I am curious, though. Do you consider a system (such as a Chinese room) to be conscious if it's only implicit, by writing down the rules it should run, without actually performing any of the rules? What if it's so implicit that we don't even write down anything, we just refer to it by name, and assume we would create the rules if we needed to as the first steps in execution? Is it conscious when nothing happens at all, but it could happen? If yes, does that mean every possible thing that could occur is conscious even if it doesn't occur? Every physical possibility is conscious? The whole world of abstract mathematics is conscious? If the answer to any of those is no, where do you draw the line between conscious things (Chinese room) and not-conscious things?
We're locked into days and years, but months, weeks, hours and minutes are arbitrary, no?

Maybe we can't rationalize it all, but what's to stop us from dividing a day into 10 hours with 100 minutes each? Fuck seconds.
On the warning popup there's a button to 'Manage'. I clicked that and selected do not allow sites to use motion sensors and the warning is now gone.
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Product Board includes this but you'll probably want buy in from whoever maintains your roadmap.
197k per capita in siena vs 83k per capita in houston, pathetic
Interesting to note that decimal fractions (e.g. 0.3) are awkward to represent with floats in computers, whereas fractions based on 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, etc. that are often used in the non-metric system are a very natural fit for the float representation.
Yeah, and the handling of the Greece situation a few years ago proved that politics abound over justice or sanity in all arenas.

It'll be interesting to see how it develops, they're clearly more of a governing body than the UN, but also seem to have steered clear of anything close to a security issue.
I’ve also read that it was the byproduct of post war migration of whites who wanted access to the city but were afraid of the concentration of black people who resided in the city interior.

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While I don't think this direct comparison is valid (at least let's also have the per capita numbers, which I believe is around 60% higher in Houston if Google snippets are to be believed) one could argue that a portion of that GDP is enabled by road infrastructure such as this interchange.
What really strikes me is just how many ordinary buildings are older than our country. The monuments and palaces are one thing, but it's very common to eat in a restaurant or pub that dates to the 17th century. Not as a tourist trap or destination, but just as a perfectly ordinary building that has been retrofitted (sometimes awkwardly) with bathrooms and lights and such.

I've been in 500 year old cottages that weren't anything special. It's just that they were made out of stone, and so it just doesn't fall down. (Lots did fall down, but they did so centuries ago, and the ones that made it this far will do continue to.) People live there, and it's just their house. They've often put up modern interior walls so that they can have insulation and hide the wires that power their TVs -- connected to satellite dishes outside.

I've even seen a few castles with satellite dishes. Small castles dot the landscape and can be had cheap (because they require expensive maintenance). People just live in them, too.

There's a joke that in the US they think a hundred years is a long time, and in Europe they think a hundred miles is a long way. It really rings true. If the crisis ever subsides, I do recommend it.
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Today or in principle?
Or regular upstream https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/jfltexx/

Not sure how /e/ is supposed to be more private yet less open?

I'm using my i9506 (ks01lte) as a daily driver, though I think I'll switch to a i9505 because it has official lineageos support, which means probably less weird SD card bugs.
I always get messed up when I try to think about the experience of the fast moving entity.

Imagine a photon that is emitted by the sun and travels through space bouncing off the moon and onto my retina. In my frame I can trace the path of that photon and see a sequence (sun->moon->eye). For the photon, all of that happened simultaneously, right? It would have no experience of having traveled from the sun to my eye because it was in both places at once. Is that right?
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>but almost no one advocates for metric time

In physics it is not rare to see seconds used, with scientific notation, for measuring periods much longer than an hour. But for practical purposes it is very nice to have units which are easily divided into thirds and quarters, which is possible in base-60 but not base-10. This is equally true for angles, which also tolerate eighths (45 deg) and ninths (40) of a circle.

The impractical division of liters to 1000 milliliters has after all given us a couple of incompatible reifications of metric measuring cups and ugly numbers in recipes. 960 = 64 * 5 * 3 might have been nice if we were willing to tolerate a "metric quart" which differs from the liter (alternatively, a "baker's milliliter"), and recovers the teaspoon, tablespoon, ounce, cup, and pint in round numbers.
This is one reason for the pasporta servo - essentially a free airbnb for esperantists who were travelling. As a young person I thought it was incredibly compelling that there was a language which would make me part of a subculture where anyone will host you while travelling.

Nowadays there's couchsurfing.com, which simply has a larger subculture, and as such the pasporta servo is not that useful any more. But it was a clever way to address that challenge!
It seems to me that it would have to. If your society punishes/limits/eliminates divergent behavior and thought, you are throttling your innovation lever.

I think that rising D&I budgets are a recognition of this truth.

It seems like common sense to me, but I'd be interested to know if it has been studied/measured...
the amount / fraction of money spent on R&D by militaries, especially by the US, would make me think this isn't an issue. most people don't think about the long term impact of their work
Nothing stops you for using fractions with metric.
Likewise. I attended his seminar last year at the recommendation of a colleague and it was a day well spent. I assume he probably won't be doing such large courses this year, which is a shame. I'd recommend his course to anyone who gets a chance to attend whenever he starts them up again.
> They were examples, and not absolutes.

Well, to be fair, you did use the word "always" which makes things sound... absolute.

> always be popular with users that are highly technical, but not necessarily from a comp-sci background
He might be referring to this:
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1606.07772v2.pdf

There's a link to it from the actual article.
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America is the richest country on earth. It's such a kneejerk reaction of our countrymen to defend our insane way of life by bringing up GDP numbers instead of stuff like life expectancy, quality of life, access to equitable transportation. America being rich is known fact already.

Edit: From your own happiness survey link -
"The U.S. GNI per capita income is actually higher than in most of the countries ahead of the U.S. in the global ranking of happiness. There are about 130 countries that showed up as less happy than the U.S. in 2013. Despite our outstanding technological and economic progress over the past half-century, we are without significant achievements in life satisfaction and the subjective happiness of our population. In contrast, uncertainties and anxieties are high, social and economic inequalities have widened considerably and social trust is in decline. There is an impression that the U.S. has not been very effective at turning its great business capacities, human resources, productivity and natural wealth to the best aim: increased happiness."

Don't give a damn about GDP.
I'm pretty sure nothing really should bother me, but it does. It makes me rage and hate Wikipedia mods with passion. Much of the "established knowledge" is bullshit quotes from the bullshit books that don't itself have any source references, yet obvious observations that require only basic calculations or are easily verifiable otherwise often "require citation". There are thousands of articles on some silly stuff like Harry Potter book characters & fantasy items, yet immensely notable music bands known to pretty much everyone listening to some "not too mainstream" genre are being deleted because they "lack notability". (A disclaimer: especially offensive cases of this kind of event weren't articles written by me, but, on the contrary, stuff I tried to learn about looking for it on Wikipedia, so it sure was notable enough to a user of Wikipedia, not only to an author of that article.)

I am not against all these "Star Wars timeline" articles, by the way (although, I wish fantasy worlds with big enough fandom would have their own "sub-wiki", just so they have their own "namespace" referenced from the "general" wikipedia, so that some magical beast wouldn't be squatting on the name that is actually shared with some creature from the actual folklore, several geographic objects and a dozen of music bands). It just makes me angry how some people are eager to "keep wikipedia tidy and organized" by deleting actually important real-world stuff (often justified by "storing data is expensive"), while they obsess over listing all possible Pokemons on wikipedia or some shit like that.

Now, this is only remotely related with the topic, which I agree is a serious and complicated issue, since we don't want to mix up random people fantasies with actually verified and established facts we could refer to. But the overall spirit of the issue I believe is the same, since in this particular case the subject seems to be explored by the author well enough, and people that protect wikipedia by keeping this kind of "original research" away may be right in some sense, but still are a problem I wish could be resolved somehow. (I don't know how, though.)
Elixir is very good about function positions, too, by being consistent in it's stdlib, and by pinning structs to modules. Almost all library writers adhere to the convention.
Why not to use batteries? Of different kinds.
If the term doesn't exist in Italian and you're translating it for the first time, it can't be wrong (by definition). I had never seen the Greek translation of "by default" in Greek, but now it's just one more computer term.
I find it much quicker at times to email myself individual photos from my phone when I need them, as opposed to plugging the phone in and going through the directories.