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I think you're significantly underestimating the amount of money that would need to be raised and overestimating the amount of people who would put their money where their mouth was and fund multiple seasons of these shows. Serenity, the Firefly movie, was sort of this, and it cost a lot for a two hour movie ($39M per Wikipedia) and didn't do a ton of extra revenue over that budget ($40.4M).

If there's something structurally preventing it, it's that the big studios and especially the "streaming as a loss leader" stuff players Amazon and Apple TV are making so many big-budget/high-production-value shows that audience expectations and standards are very high.
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Netflix original series have 8 to 10 episodes. Series with more are just on syndication on Netflix.
But the main problem is Netflix kills shows after one or two seasons, leaving you with a cliffhanger.
This. I’ve just solved exactly those problems by cleaning out the hole.
Twin Peaks is (or, was) exactly this: "A 2 season show that was canned on a cliffhanger". The third season went in to production 25 years after the cliffhanger ending. The show was very much still worth watching even before season 3 became reality. A cliffhanger ending is still a kind of resolution and is not inherently bad.

There are 2-season shows with no ending or clearly rushed endings that are still worth watching: check out Party Down.

Does any kind of sloppy ending make an entire show worthless or is there some cutoff screen-time that makes it acceptable?
Consider Game of Thrones. Are seasons 1-3 still worth watching even though 4-6 are mediocre and 7-8 are dumpster fires?
Is this very similar to cyberark, but without the logging and recording of usage?
As a side effect can a network of these be used to tame floods / tsunamis ?

I mean you could make them into a matrix, and use them as phasors .. much huygens corp. (let's use another kind of high grade historical figures)
Simulation of collision from 2009, i think you're pretty spot on

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiHY5dR5Jsg
It’s very difficult to break into government contracting and nearly impossible to get into defense contracting as a new company, especially after the tidal wave of mergers among defense firms in the 90s.

Seems TFA is right on the money with the way new contracting is done: the pentagon likes a thing made by the private sector and they want their own military version of it, or they piggyback on corporate infrastructure with military hardware (as was referenced with spaceX).

But these days it would be very difficult for any new company to break into military contracting.
Just run it on Chromium/Chrome. Most features work — and the ones that don’t iirc are limited to a few meeting and telephone features.

It’s a good idea to do anyway, as it is a pig on memory and power use.
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Damn, just spent a fiver on Soundiiz, which is quite nice in all honesty.

It did the trick! https://soundiiz.com/
German built cars are notorious for shitty quality, I own one. They suck.
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There is no single place in the world that will be best for everybody. I have friends in South America who would never move to Europe or US. It's not that South America is better in some absolute way, but it is great at the things they value (including proximity to family).

I personally would never, ever leave the US for France (or pretty much anywhere in Europe). For all the problems we have in the US, it's still one of the best places in the world for the things I value.

The author is clearly left-leaning, so it's not entirely surprising he would prefer Europe. US liberals tend to want to implement many things that already exist in Europe (free X, free Y, subsidized Z, more vacations etc).
"Lost your job during COVID? You could be eligible for a complientary copy"

Do I get a complientary copy for proofreading your copy? Like a sort of bug bounty if you like :D
Yes, of course. Given that they are going to die regardless, using the elderly for experimentation seems reasonable. We could be as humane and considerate and provide anaesthesia and care as much as possible, but it's a false kindness to let the dying die because trying to save them is risky and uncomfortable.

With twenty years of massive effort like this, and hard risk taking, would we have improvements against aging? Would the human-years saved be massively greater than the human-years we lost in experimentation? I think both answers are likely "Yes".
Sunken ships and pier pilings are generally a haven for underwater animals; this is a key principle behind the creation of artificial reefs.
Do they? https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2019-tesla-model-3-survey...
That sounds like writing code
R&M has subplots but episodes are basically self-contained, so it tallies with your stated preferences really.
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It just seems like the entire industry is desperate for us to give a shit about 5G. I don't, sorry. To me this is similar to the 4K and 8K HDR TV craze. I don't plan on ever owning an 80" TV. At 30-40" 1080p looks great to me. I don't see giving a shit about this either. Most of the time I am near decent wifi. When I am not, I can always wait to download something huge (and really don't have a need to download something huge on my phone).

Now if they could just work on the audio quality and latency over regular wire-line networks, that I would be interested in. LTE to LTE calls already sound great, so I think there are some upgrades to the wired side of things that are required (which the likes of Verizon never want to do because it is more expensive/a lower margin business than wireless so they neglect it and regulators don't hold their feet to the fire).
The second decade of synthetic biology: 2010–2020
Sorry to hear that this year has been that bad for you.

I don't think your math works though. First off we were talking about individual life choices, living small in a big city and paying to rent services/tools as you need them rather than living on a larger property, owning most of the tools/services you need. This isn't a one time cost, its not spend twice as much in 2019 for a normal 2020, its spend twice as much _every year_ in case a 2020 happens.

As for the covid impact, the US GDP was $21T in 2019, there's no way the economic impact in the US is 75% of last years GDP. That's like a civilization collapse level of recession. Lots of business seem to be doing fine, lot's of people are back to work.
AIUI the unlocking is usually requested at the customs checkpoint, which is after you've retrieved your checked luggage, and if you say no, you don't get to just "walk away" -- you risk finding yourself detained in legal limbo with no recourse.
What about copyright?
Standing in line for hours to vote weeks before election day when all evidence indicates that lines will be significantly shorter in the weeks ahead does sound crazy to me. I provided the most rational explanation I've received in my original comment above.

I live in a high income area with a relatively high functioning local government run almost exclusively by liberal democrats, so I strongly question any claims that attempted voter suppression is the reason for the long lines in my area that have existed every day since early voting started.
As the author: I could not agree more. I wish we had a system that's not as dependent on resumes as the current one is. I actually dedicated the last chapter (that I'll probably make public) on advice on how to make the process better, if and when you'll be a hiring manager.

Anyone who feels the pain on how broken the system is: please, try to not forget this. And when you'll have the opportunity, try to improve it.

I see solutions along not immediately rejecting when the resume is not a "fit", but carrying on looking for signals.

As of today - in 2020 - the best way to not have to rely on a resume is to have a referral. The first part of the book stresses this a lot. A trusted referral "I know this person" will probably make a resume redundant, at least for smaller places.
I am not sure why this is worth mentioning. If you look at the whole US defense industry, it is big. There is a lot of money to be made there with products and services, so I would expect some companies to provide for that market.

Also, why just defense? We have continued to support companies with patchy record in basic human rights with our money. For example, the story of human rights violations in Apple's contract manufacturers factories is not new, we have been hearing them for a long time. [1] Did something happen to their revenue and profit growth because of it? No.

Why would companies not keep doing these things when we have shown in the past that at best what most people do is create some noise on social media.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jun/18/foxconn-l...
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I assume it takes 20-25 minutes to cast a ballot.

I once timed voters, data gathering in the debate between paper ballots vs touchscreens. From signing the poll book to dropping ballot in the box. Avg 21 minutes, for both paper and electronic (no significant difference). For a moderately sized general election ballot (~40 issues and races).

Election administrators absolutely know these timings, how to properly do capacity planning. Whether they admit it or not.

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In my jurisdiction, dropping off a ballot is trivial. It's just a box. Drive or walk up. Open safety door. Drop the ballot.

I read that Texas requires proper identification to drop off ballots. And prohibits 3rd party help, eg wife cannot deliver husband's ballot. (I can't imagine any scenario where that extraneous step is merited.) So factor in the actual time & motion data per jursidiction. Because as we know, every jurisdiction insists on doing their own thing, independent of all other considerations.
Having written code in the early microcomputer BASICs, I'm reasonably familiar with the context but I think it's a bit overblown. Sure, BASIC was limited in the syntactic sugar that was available to manage program complexity but, then again, the microcomputers of the era were so limited that complexity wasn't really possible without dropping to machine language anyway. And machine language definitely didn't have any of the syntactic sugar of ALGOL 60 or other high-level languagess.
the pinboard-addition device must be protected, not unused! :D
I understand the intent, and agree, but Tutanota's blog posts are really low quality. I'm sure there are much better and more in-depth articles we could be reading about this.
This isn't a US thing, it's about cities with cosmopolitan tradition. Italians are the complete opposite of this culture.
Have you owned a Mercedes or BMW?

EDIT: Have owned both (SLK350 and M5, respectively). Would not buy again. Currently own only Teslas (S, X, Y).
> they stress that the newfound compound will never find its way into lossless power lines or frictionless high-speed trains
It's crazy how widely spread this misunderstanding is.

You can normally find the ATS for a job application by taking a quick peak at the source. Most companies are using a handful of ATSs and if you check their offerings, they don't include automated rejections.
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The longer this pandemic lasts, the more I come to the conclusion that no-one actually knows what's going on.

It's long been apparent that governments are thrashing round, making it up as they go along and flip-flopping from one policy to another. But now, increasingly it seems like the medical community is pretty much doing the same.

Over the past few weeks, I've started to see conflicting advice and polar opposite opinions attributed to 'spokespersons' from organisations like the WHO where, at the beginning of the pandemic, I got the impression that such bodies were pretty much speaking with one voice.
Wow! I had no idea that Microsoft made a Lisp?! MuLISP [0]

I think there are two issues with the implementation of macros, and I am not really qualified, but this the internet so here goes.

1. Getting access to the quoted parse tree

2. Writing code to either generate, modify, etc, that parse tree.

So folks already do (2) by spraying code into a buffer and exec or evaling it.

They do some of (1) by reading the textual src, the bytecode or the parse tree. Mentioned elsewhere in the thread are MacroPy and HyLang.

All of that said, I think a language with better semantics about deferred evaluation or a pre-eval step (maybe it doesn't need need full macro macros), who knows.

One thing that I found really powerful in Zig [2] and Dlang are the facilities around CTFE (compile time function evaluation) [1] and how they obviate solve many of the same problems.

Minor nit, I think the PEP could have done a better job showing now HOW it could be used, but what EXISTING programs could be made simpler or achieve things not possible with the current system.

I do think that some sort of lightweight code generation step could both reduce the lines of code, make things simpler for the outer layers of the stack and make things more performant. Obviously, they can go the other way, but limiting the upside because of possible downsides isn't something we should do with code. Python already has an infinite number of ways to have unmaintainable, inscrutable code, you should see my list comprehensions and my itertools code! :) What is another one if it captures more of the original essence of Python?

[0] http://www.edm2.com/index.php/MuLISP

> In addition to an interpreter and compiler the system includes an editor with a WordStar-like command set

Wait what? I am getting flash-forwards of a ColorForth like environment for Lisp using DOS graphics. This is like some retro-futuristic timeline where Microsoft went down the Lisp+Xenix path!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compile_time_function_executio...

[2] Which also mentions Terra, which I think should be required in any discussion around macros https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13761571

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compile_time_function_executio...
Yeah but they still have defects. There is no such thing as a defect-free material, it's thermodynamically unstable. Under stress, the defects (voids, dislocations etc.) lead to crack propagation and the diamond is kaput.
I often feel shows that have a clean arc ending around season 4 or 5 are just about perfect length. I generally dislike 7-10 episode seasons though, I feel they're way to short.

And yeah, the biggest issue is that Netflix is giving shows only one season, and usually a cliffhanger. It also kills off a lot of shows before they have a chance to get good: Star Trek is notorious for getting good around season 3 of any given series. A lot of iconic television wouldn't have ever existed if it was cut off because of the quality of their first season.
I think VR shows promise as a way to make cardio exercise fun among other things. It's also one of the only cutting edge areas of gaming design where everyone else is just upping resolutions and frame rate.
A plausible counterpoint is that renaming can also remove a lot of the social stigma, leading to more people getting treatment. As an example, I believe many prefer using the term "post-traumatic stress/PTS" now because it removes the "disorder" stigma. I.e., it better communicates that it's a natural reaction to such stress and nothing to be ashamed of

[1]https://www.therecoveryvillage.com/mental-health/ptsd/relate...
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Spin studio that followed rules triggers a Covid-19 outbreak with 61 cases
Why not? Seriously. I feel like there are a thousand things in life that annoy me -- like sitting at a red traffic light when its clear I can go w/o any danger to anyone.

It just seems like its low cost. And maybe of some value that I don't understand since I don't really study terrorist methods.
I would think the margin comes from their cut of software sales. Seems to work well for Apple.
Because that's what people like sometimes. I don't want every show I watch to be this cerebral reinvention of theater, sometimes I just want to sit back and enjoy some comfort-food eye-candy. The Mandalorian fit this perfectly for me.
Careful what you wish for.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2hIUY6hEmk
Why is it even called serverless? Of course it will end up running on a Linux-powered server...
I like it! I would pay $5/month per "deployment" for this:

- 1-click deployment

- Easy editing of the template

Basically what I'm looking for is a very simple and less expensive version of leadpages.net that still looks good.

The number of templates isn't as important to me so I don't think I would become a premium user for this.
That might already be the reason why the Oculus is not available in Germany and Belgium https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24375652
Amazing work! The creator is now followed by Mr. Doob on Twitter, the creator of Three.js. That's a great accolade!
I don't. Please elaborate.
Any position of power will attract unethical people on power trips. Politicians, police officers, tech managers, religious leaders and even school workers to some extent. Not everybody is like that, but there's always a significant percentage. It's part of life and you can't really avoid it.

I know this is absolutely not great advice, but: have you tried to just stop caring?

I think a lot of the problems get way worse when we care and want the company to succeed and try to do everything in our power to move things forward. When you stop caring and just think "I'm going to do my work and accept that water is wet, and if the company/teams sinks it's not really my problem, I tried" things suddenly become more bearable.

Have you ever experienced that feeling where you give your two-weeks (or two months depending on where you live) notice and then suddenly working there and finishing your assignments is cool and fun, simply because you don't really care about what happens to that specific company/team in the long term anymore?
In the Bay Area you can get, in the same weekend, excellent Vietnamese, excellent Peruvian, and excellent patisserie.

The ingredients are sourced locally for the most part, and the imports are about as good as they can get, and substitutions are sober.
Yes! I've hired a copyeditor, used Grammarly and had a few hundred beta readers who all pointed out issues, including spelling. But I could use more help - there's usually things lingering around.

Ping me at hello@thetechresume.com referencing to this comment and I'll hook you up with a copy.
Yeah, at least the CIA claimed that "enhanced interrogation techniques" was yielding actionable intelligence.

I remember a story from years ago that some lab was working on a lens for a satellite for the NSA with a resolution that would be able to discern different coins on the ground from space. They were complaining that, after all their work, the job was cancelled, and they weren't going to get paid. What it meant, of course, was that they had found a better alternative.

The fact that the NSA isn't even bothering to lie about this is telling. The linked article says they won't even be trying to get Congress to let them continue the process, and this is even more telling. But what it's telling me ISN'T that it does not work, and it's certainly not because they suddenly grew a conscience about the Constitution. It's just that they don't need this particular vector to get the sigint they're looking for now.
His rant-y EWDs seem to be the only ones people know. But his others go into much more detail about what he thinks and why. And while he didn't (to the best of my knowledge) directly create any language, he did implement an Algol 60 compiler and was involved in language design efforts throughout his life.

He helped create the ideas of Structured Programming, which most of us now take for granted, since pretty much every language in popular use these days are based on these ideas.
Get a real OS!
https://www.autogespot.com/tracking-your-car-say-goodbye-to-...!
I am curious about your opposition to the Green New Deal plan. Could you explain why you think it is ridiculous ? I am a Canadian Liberal .... I may not agree with you but I am looking to understand your position.
why? even if you are extremely confident in your ability to thwart terrorists, wouldn't it be better to discourage them to the point where they don't even try?
> It represents something about the greatest tail risk that our society faces.

through what mechanism? How is the time connected to this and what procedure can I undertake to devise the number other than poll the people who set it for what they think it should be? And why should I substitute this for the definition of safety?
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I think this is the point; what we call search today is likely to be dominated by Google, but what we call search tomorrow could be dominated by a newcomer. For instance, map-based search is already a huge step above traditional Google searches for real-world locations and there's no reason to think there won't be more significant shifts in the future as well.
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It is not a prison. Everyone is free to go and never return. These kids are not there to learn a lesson. They are there to become champions.
> "power generation, high-energy physics research, analog and digital circuitry, sensors, and communications"

Could you provide some reference to these things that are almost there but wait for temp room semiconductors? Sorry, as written this sounds like a vacuous buzzword drop from MIC contractor.
We write them from scratch..

We have a single html page graph template and the data, then just adjust the specs.
I don't understand this German "efficiency" and "productivity" myth. As an Eastern European (Ukraine) that worked and lived in Italy, Germany, Netherlands and the UK, by far Italy and Germany had the most bureaucratic processes I have ever seen, UK being the most straightforward and Netherlands as a runner-up.
Could be that Netflix is strategically cancelling several shows in a single wave.

In the same way that a company will do a single large lay-off all at once rather than several demoralizing smaller ones.
Chewing hard stuff will make your jaw muscles stronger, but the reason you most likely have bruxism is due to a habit of chewing and its an automated reflex. Do you chew gum?
I use Gumroad to fulfill orders, and they do not have an "e-books" category. They add VAT to everything, then transfer it to HMRC who don't complain. I'll work with them if we can change it later on.

This is my workaround for you not to have to pay VAT: I lower the price by the amount, so the full amount will stay the same for you (even though VAT is added).

It's not a generic discount: I add it to all EU countries with higher VAT rates. Many of these countries have (e)books without VAT, but Gumroad still adds the VAT.
The devs working on this are generally not the devs who are decrying the harmful effects. In reality, when you work on such projects you tend to isolate yourself from criticism.
Not sure, to be honest, I'm just going by what Apple lists: https://www.apple.com/iphone/compare/?device1=iphoneSE
That is an interesting idea, however one caveat I see is that the same warming that is killing the corals also changes the ocean currents and heat distribution in ways we can't fully predict yet. I can see this making the site choice difficult.
Yes, I have been watching Star Trek DS9. I'm noticing how the show started off in traditional Trek format, with 100% individual episodes that were geared for syndication. A few seasons in, you start to get the big story arcs, like the Dominion War... and that's when things really start to get good. BUT, it was cool every once in a while to have a side story that wasn't part of the arc. It gave a lot of variety and depth to the show. It kind of makes you feel like there's really a whole Trek universe. That not everybody was involved in the war, and that people still were trying to live their lives despite the war.
Probably because British actors don't want to commit to a 5 year contract.