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> Having worked in the animated film industry for a while, there's so much that does get changed in both pre production and production that people don't hear about.

I wonder what some of the biggest changes to happen in production are?

One of the biggest I've read about is How to Train Your Dragon.

The book series is aimed at kids around 10 years old. The main characters, such as Hiccup, are around that age. The vikings are not at war with the dragons, and many vikings have dragons as pets, mounts, and hunting aids. Toothless is in the books, but he is not a Night Fury--those do not exist in the book universe. He's just a common garden dragon (their model became the Terrible Terrors in the movies), named Toothless because he lost his teeth.

The big issue in the first book is a rite of passage where kids have to train a dragon or be exiled. Toothless offends another dragon during this, a big fight breaks out, this is seen as a failure of training, and Hiccup and the other kids also undergoing the rite are going to be exiled.

They were 3 years into production of a very faithful following of the book, with large parts animated and most of the dialog recorded, when they realized they were going to end up with a "drop off" movie.

Kids around 10 would love it...but their parents or their older siblings who had taken the kids to the theater would not be interested. They would just drop the kids off at a mall theater and go hang out at the food court or shop or something until time to pick the kids up.

Making a drop off movie is fine if you don't spend a lot of money on it. HTTYD was a $160+ million movie, though, and no way can a drop off movie come anywhere near making that back, let alone profit.

So one year before it was supposed to be released, they put "The Croods" on hold and moved Chris Sanders from that to take over as director of HTTYD, with the task of coming up with a completely new story...and they didn't move back the release date.

Sanders brought in Dean DeBlois, who had been his writing/directing partner on "Lilo & Stitch" when they were both at Disney, to be co-writer/co-director.

They made the kids 15 instead of 10, created the viking/dragon war, added Astrid and Ruffnut, created Night Furies and upgraded Toothless to one. They needed a lot of new models, new settings, and mostly new dialog.
In a statically-typed language, this is an entirely reasonable thing to want, but also, existing languages like JSON and TOML don't give you that either:

- There's no way to say that you want an integer; you get a floating-point value.

- See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24676484 , you can't reliably accept integers over 2^53 without taking them as strings.

- Someone can always specify something of the actual wrong type. (Imagine changing YAML "version: 1.9.1" to "version: 1.10". You can't just stringify 1.10, you'll get "1.1"!)

So, in a practical data format, the schema for your document needs to say something like "This is a number, which must be an integer between 0 and 2^16" or "This is a string, make sure to quote it" or whatever, and a generic statically-typed JSON- or YAML-parsing library isn't going to handle that for you. And telling your users "the input format is JSON" doesn't answer that question: you must make it explicit to users.

Fortunately, you can handle it just fine in a statically-typed language in one of two ways. One is to accept an object from your parser that consists of variant types and pass it through your own function that validates it against a schema, and then either returns a more-restrictively-typed object or throws an error. Such a function could easily do string conversion too if given NestedText input, as I mentioned. The other is to pass some information into your parser saying, don't act like a generic JSON/YAML parser, instead interpret these particular fields in this particular way and accept only things with this structure. If you're doing that, you can easily tell the parser to use this particular string-to-integer function on the strings in NestedText and then return an appropriately-typed object containing an integer to you.
Really interesting, thanks for posting this. Edited to add: interesting for the cross-platform and independence aspects.
Well it's one to one, it's a single pane of this stuff to a single pane of traditional glass. Nothing says you can only use a single pane of this new material.

Someone mentioned that this isn't weatherproof, but it could still be used for the inside plies of a triple glazed window for instance.
> High density downtown cores fund themselves just fine.

How? I live in city of chicago and roads here are just terrible, there are potholes everywhere. Chicago Suburbs are a superior in terms of roads, sidewalks ect. Not sure if you are saying that people in city are "just fine" with poor infrastuture ?
He couldn't expose one without the other could he?
International spying on your allies, including corporate espionage against countries like Germany. That angered your allies much more than it endangered them. Whistleblowers like Snowden are the mechanism that keeps that spying from happening in the first place.

Edit -- And yes, this harmed America by undermining the trust that those countries had in it. But to be clear, it wasn't Snowden's disclosure that broke that trust, it was the spying. It's hubris to think that if not for Snowden it would never have been discovered, and the longer it went on, the more harm that would have been done between America and its allies when it eventually got found out. So by revealing it early, Snowden really minimized the damage, rather than causing it.
Yeah, but to be fair, windows tend to be used in roles where they last a very long time.
you're missing the cause for the effect, multigenerational wealth is the source of inequality. Most generally in the fact the 'west' has been pillaging 'the rest' for 400 odd years.
And disney ruined the star wars franchise like nothing else. The sequels are such a punch in the face of fans of the franchise.
Text of the Hippocratic Oath

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocratic_Oath

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TL;DR:

Respect and look after my mentors.

Teach my art for free to those following this oath; but not to others.

Do the best job I can according to my ability and judgement.

Always work in an ethical way; do no evil.

Respect privacy.
Frameworks from a growth leader who helped Samsara scale from Series A–Series F
Why now, and why these specific 5 restaurants?

It definitely feels like a pretext for something else going on, who knows what -- whether it's a police racket or something shady going on in the restaurants they're sending a warning about.

This is what these obscure, rarely-enforced laws seem to exist for in the first place.

If the police were really interested in enforcement over this, they'd send a letter to every restaurant, bar, and cafe owner in the country that they have 3 months to comply and it will become part of regular inspections.

Targeting 5 individual restaurants (through arrests) is definitely not about simply enforcing this regulation.

Note: I'm NOT defending this as a legitimate law enforcement tactic. Just describing what seems to be happening.
But it's not really 15€/month. You still have to pick a solution that is actually compliant and then learn to use and manage it. Making a website is free, if you know how.

Chances are that you'll buy this software as the bar owner. You are promised that everything is compliant. Years later it turns out that the software itself collected and sold PII and you're liable for the damage or that the software simply wasn't compliant after all.

Picking out cheap and subplot software that needs to adhere to nebulous requirements is not easy for a layman.
Exactly, why bet on your child's future. Maybe whatever the trend is around then costs equivalent amount of money that you need to pay for college now.

Also, as far as other professions which require licenses are concerned, you'll always have to go through some institution to do that job, lawyers, civil engineers, doctors, etc.
> The default state of humanity is tribal warfare, not some beautiful Eden-esque utopia. "Colonialism" wasn't the cause, this is just humanity.

Colonialism isn't the cause, but colonialism, powered by weapons and transportation technology and the concept of manifest destiny, massively increased the scope and scale of human exploitation of other humans.
I see your point and, yes, I do agree. Someone who is pathologically “all about the code” — unless the domain was something really niche like PLT — would definitely one to avoid. Thanks :)
Why wouldn't you? It's a number. It's also sorted (up to about one second of inconsistency between Twitter worker processes on different machines), and you want to sort them by numeric sort, not by lexicographic sort as you would with strings.

I mean, there's a pretty clear argument here: Twitter themselves used to return these numbers as numbers in the API until they realized they were about to hit this problem. https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/twitter-ids
Try walking out of the Manhattan store without their goon insisting on a receipt check after you've been forced to operate the register yourself.
The worst is yet to come for the Greenland ice sheet
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Just tested on my home network and it picked a new random MAC.
Running a Unix-like OS on a home-built CPU with a home-built C compiler
What do Lighthouse Scores look like across the web?
I don't see the parent comment as defending it, merely describing it.
Upon the capture of Jerusalem in the first crusade, they did not discriminate between Muslim and Jew:

“But now that our men had possession of the walls and towers, wonderful sights were to be seen. Some of our men (and this was more merciful) cut off the heads of their enemies; others shot them with arrows, so that they fell from the towers; others tortured them longer by casting them into the flames. Piles of heads, hands, and feet were to be seen in the streets of the city. It was necessary to pick one's way over the bodies of men and horses. But these were small matters compared to what happened at the Temple of Solomon, a place where religious services are ordinarily chanted. What happened there? If I tell the truth, it will exceed your powers of belief. So let it suffice to say this much, at least, that in the Temple and porch of Solomon, men rode in blood up to their knees and bridle reins.”
Most material waste from a home renovation is tossed into the local dump. It is rare anything is salvaged.
Three bipartisan legislations were introduced yesterday related to this.

https://mobile.twitter.com/_nalexander/status/13124054429251...
I found it hilarious how much Factorio and Satisfactory tired me out in the same way that programming does.

I love them, but the difficulty curve that they give the player just strikes too many similarities with my day job. I feel like i want to play a Satisfactory-lite. Something that gives me the fun of programming without the complexity. Help me build an abomination of complexity that i don't have to maintain. Refactoring shouldn't exist in this hypothetical game, maintenance should never be a concern - just forward movement and the joy of unburdened chaos.
The Game Design Initiative Lectures: Cornell University
2020 US federal budget $3.863T

2020 US defense spending $0.636B or 16%.

That’s the lion’s share?
Racer snakes eat baby iguanas. Galapagos hawks eat full grown adults.
I don't think the authors of this web page properly understand ferrites. Their methodology is flawed.

According to their experiment, the best attenuation you can get out of any ferrite is a useless value in the single digit decibel range, which can be as poor as 0.5.

That's almost like saying these things don't work.

How ferrites work is that they are actually resistive at high frequencies (in addition to boosting the inductive reacatance of the conductor). How much attenuation that translates to depends on the circuit.

We wouldn't say that a simple resistor, as such, has a certain decibel loss of voltage; it makes no sense. A resistor can exhibit no loss of voltage, if the current flowing through it is negligible.

Ferrite beads work and how they work is that the target of the unwanted noise (the destination where we don't want it to go) has, at the given frequency, a relatively low impedance relative to the impedance of the bead.

E.g. suppose the noise faces a 10 ohm input impedance into the device where we don't want it to go, and the ferrite manages to create a 1000 ohm source impedance. Then we have a 100:1 voltage divider, which is a 40 dB reduction.

In my personal experience, the clearest directly perceptible example I've seen of their effectiveness was when I had serious noise on an LCD monitor due to a long serial line running under it between an embedded board and host. I had a clamp-on ferrite bead lying around and put it on the serial line. The display's obvious visual disturbances completely disappeared.
Freezing temperatures, salt, snow plow usage, heavy vehicles and more road usage, and inability to fix properly due to heavy road usage would explain that.
Few people play the villain in their own story. More likely they thought they were helping people with chronic pain and justified it by thinking that “more good than harm comes of it”.

Plenty of people on this site are employed in work with large negative externalities with similar justifications. We just haven’t had the 20 years to see the outcomes yet.
Failures and inefficiency is just as common in private companies. It's just not as visible usually.
Honestly with remote work I don't find it all that important, we've tried at various stages in the last few months to set aside time to virtually chat - but it just feels like enforced fun and whats worse is that group video/audio calls always end up with 2 colleagues being able to chat at once.

We have however done a few remote team building challenges, which I was prepared to hate - but actually they've been really enjoyable and have certainly lead to some better friendships being formed ! If you office or workplace offers them out then I would highly recommend them, even if it seems like your personal idea of hell !
x = foo()

bar(x.a: x.b:)

Functions can return data. So say, a=5, then to get the value of 5 out, all you have to do is call the function a.

Edit: I'm assuming foo() here returns an object with members "a" and "b". An example of such a function-object would be:

foo = [] { ret( [a=5, b=10] ) }
Property lists came very close, but still suffer from a number of issues:

- The binary format is not efficiently packed. For example, Concise Encoding uses 200 of the 256 codes to directly encode integers (-100 to 100) since they are the most common data values in the wild (along with short strings, which also have their own special encoding).

- There's no array type (as in contiguous objects of the same type and size)

- Dates are in seconds, not Gregorian fields, and have no time zones.

- Binary data in the text format is base64 encoded, ensuring that it's 100% unreadable in its raw form.

- Container types are prepended with a length field, making progressive construction impossible.

Infra looks interesting, but it strays from editable text into a kind of hybrid format that requires a specialized editor to read and write. This would only work if such editors became ubiquitous, which is unlikely. I ran down this path for awhile as well, but finally decided against it.
Ask HN: Is telling my employer I have ADHD and PTSD a bad idea?
28, living in the UK and got diagnosed with ADHD & PTSD a month ago. Is there any reason I should or should not disclose this to my employer?

I've been considering telling them to see if I can structure my work/day differently to make things easier, but am wondering if I'm being naive and if it would be something I would later regret.

Would appreciate any advice or guidance.
Then “OOP” is an entirely meaningless definition. Where exactly are the objects in Haskell?
Ruling institutions collude with the powerful and the uber wealthy. The way this happens in through layers of indirection: ex-DOJ prosecutors as partners at big law firms, revolving door, etc.

The rule of law is for everyone else.
Per google, $10K/yr is one median income per 2.8 houses. The concept of having one person for every three houses doing nothing but infrastructure maintenance is laughable.

The problem with wide spread innumeracy is random numbers can be printed for propaganda or other purposes and the vast majority of people will simply accept them. Combined with sophistry techniques such as anecdote proves the general rule, etc.
I'm all for someone else trying to police the world... I've had enough of one country having too much influence worldwide...
I had already dropped out of high school, and went back. Graduated and went into the workforce. Did stuff like working at a gas station and bouncing. Figured I was too smart to do retail for the rest of my life.

Then I went to college. 6 years later, graduated as a liberal arts degree with three majors during the Great Recession. Couldn't find a job, so started bouncing around doing marginally better-than-retail jobs.

Talked to a friend who was working at Amazon as an automation engineer. Asked him where he went to school. Turns out he didn't go to college, but taught himself Linux. Asked him the best way to learn Linux, and he pointed me to a website...

Taught myself Linux, got CompTIA Linux+ alongside AWS's Solutions Architect associate. 2 years later was hired by AWS.
Canada is seriously declining. Have you seen grocery store prices lately?

Most of the housing in smaller cities is getting very old, built to very poor standards. Requiring constant maintenance. The owners often still stuck in 25 year mortgages, fixing houses that will fall apart in less time than that.

Many of Schools haven't been updated in decades, despite having asbestos insulation.

I visited a former Eastern Block country this past summer. New roads, infrastructure and buildings everywhere. Built to a much higher standard too.
Much better food in Restaurants too.
Thinking of moving back to Europe.

Considering the 300 billion deficit this year alone, declining credit ratting, higher taxes. The money for infrastructure will be hard to come by in the next decade.
The article discusses this in some detail. Some of the districts with high profits are “downtown” areas as you say. Some are “poor” or “bad” neighborhoods, contrary to your (and I suspect most people’s) intuition.

The article’s main thesis is that these poor areas have the best ROI for development.
I thought the main point of the article was that cities spend $X in infrastructure to get $Y in short term profit with $Z in long term costs.

Sum($Z) >> Sum($Y) with $X paid for my subsidies.
There's actually a lot of work going into making better error messages right now. In 1.6 we're getting better highlighting of them in the REPL to emphasize the parts of the stacktrace that we think are actually relevant to the problem, and there's some discussion about mechanisms to mark functions as 'internal' so that they don't appear in stacktraces unless toggled to do so.
What you say has some merit, of course. Does 5-7 years for a station renovation pass any kind of rough sniff test, though?
In the early 2000's I was a teenager, I was fascinated with computers, mainly because my father worked in IT at the time, but I was stuck in the building and tinkering with computer hardware phase. One day my father gave me a copy of "Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Dummies" which included a Liveboot CD. He told me that if I learned Linux I would always have a well paying job. Man was he right. Looking back, that was a turning point in my life. That knowledge opened up so many doors and gave me such a leg up at a young age.
The passion economy and the future of finance
One hundred billion operations. The machine didn't have ECC memory, so a bit flip is a possible explanation. I should have checked if it was reproducible with ECC.

I still think a logic bug or compiler bug was at fault though.
That's completely false.

At worst you would owe a penalty.

Due to the complexity of the tax code, there is a very high bar for criminality.
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I've read several traditional variations of the Rapunzel story, and they don't -- in general -- make much sense. (A pregnant woman will refuse to eat anything except Salad from lettuce that grows in a witch's garden; sends husband to steal lettuce. Witch catches him, takes newborn instead. Then there's other stuff about the prince that makes no sense).

The Disney version, though quite far, keeps enough main elements to be recognizably related to the original story; and the storyline makes a lot more sense.

I made sure my children are aware that it's disneyfication of the original story, but I don't blame them for not caring much.

The Little Mermaid, by comparison, is much closer to the (sad, dark) original -- with a notable exception of the end being a happy one. In this case, my children do care about the two very different endings, and like both.
This does not explain long established cities such as Baltimore. They have driven all the high earners out through a combination of high taxes and lack of services. The high earners pay most of the taxes, so now they're just stuck.

From what I can tell, cities have very poor cost control, and regularly pay platinum prices for lead. And they end up not even getting lead.
Algorithm discovers how six molecules could evolve into life’s building blocks
Just sharing the password is common practice also in Italy, and I would guess in most of Europe.
If you only "never stop chasing them" when they reveal legal activities, that mechanism still works fine, and still provides an important check against the government attempting to do illegal activities in secret, including rogue government agencies doing things that they aren't allowed to do by other branches of government.

What if the CIA were wiretapping the president, or the supreme court? Well, that would be illegal wouldn't it? Wouldn't you want a whistleblower to feel like they could safely expose it?

By and large, it's the government that decides what's legal and what's not. Even the Constitution can be amended with enough support. So exposing illegal government activities means you're exposing that a part of the government was doing something that it wasn't empowered to do, by the government. There are multiple branches of government for a reason. When the government is doing something illegal, it means an office of the government has either made a serious legal error, or gone rogue and disregarded its legal responsibilities.

That's a serious problem right?
Well obviously you can't prove the outcome of making a change in a complex physical system with many biological components. We can barely model a protein.
If you want a society that doesn't run on corruption then it's incompatible.
You can spread a thin layer, maybe one centimeter thick almost fresh from the horse. Though I prefer them dried for maybe up to a few days, because less mess. Worked excellently so far.