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Python is great for small programs that barely need any tests because you can tell it is correct by reading the code or running it until you get the right answer.
when I have to maintain a large python program I agree, it is too easy to miss some error condition that doesn't work at all (anymore)
People simply prefer the SUVs. They ride higher, people like that elevated feeling. They also give the added space, which is a selling point. They are undeniably trendy, and gas is super cheap, 2.20 per gallon here, so not high at all historically.
I think you should be careful of our heritage of narcissism here. Historically, ethical protections are extended to anybody sufficiently like the speaker's in-group, and denied outside it. You're making an identical argument here. There are always lines to be drawn, and they're almost always the ones convenient for the speaker.
I don't care if the car is propelled by organic ethical cow methane.
I will never buy a new car, even with subsidies. It's just a bad investment overall.

To make matters worse, there is no incentive to buy a certified used EV (at least for Europe).

For the cynical amongst us, this is the best time to buy a luxury used Diesel car e.g. (Audi A6, BMW 5 series etc.)
That would only count toward one person one club not a widespread pattern.
People are paying for negative externalities of burning fossil fuel by paying taxes on gas.
There are open issues for these feature requests:

- Crossing over arrows: https://github.com/varkor/quiver/issues/19

- Two-headed arrows: https://github.com/varkor/quiver/issues/37

I hope to get to them before too long. Thanks for the suggestions!
When someone says "ex googler" usually during the beginning of a call,I immediately multi-task, let them finish with their chest pounding and move on from them, trying to avoid them going forward. If you can't convince people with the technical merits of your plan, I guess you just try and name drop (company drop). Some people buy it, most don't and they sit in some enterprise architect role with maybe a few internal fans. If you want to waste tons of money, scale your company for billions of users when you have 2000, hell don't even scale just say you can and claim success before you even do it, it works there are tons of these guys and gals ripping apart companies for their perfect "designs" that worked at google.

(i never worked at google but did interview, argued with the interviewer and hung up, he thought computers worked differently than they do in reality and just spoke with this heir of authority, without having a spec of it )
> Both github and gitlab have it

If you want to search code sitting on your local hard disk try this tool (built on top of Lucene):

https://github.com/Rajeev-K/eureka

I made it when I was frustrated by existing tools such as sourcegraph and opengrok.
There seems to be plenty of software issues found:

The MCAS software was modified to read from both angle of attack sensors and to be less aggressive in pushing the nose of the plane down. The software that controlled the indicator light that illuminated when the two angle of attack sensors disagreed was also fixed.

While reviewing the software systems, a number of other software issues were found.

The wiring bundle issue was also found during these reviews.

https://www.barrons.com/articles/these-6-issues-are-preventi...

https://simpleflying.com/boeing-737-max-software-update-3/
While that's true for me as well, I still think the 3rd time was too dangerous. It'd have been safe enough with a trip sitter.
I meant for all their 'investments' in smart people, where is their technology, also where are those people now that they can actually leave the country?

I am aware Russia is still around and needs to be dealt with...

I grew up in a communist country and have a deep dislike for Russia to put it mildly
There was a fun segment on this in an old Top Gear. A race to see how far you can get on a single tank of gas.

Clarkson thought the challenge was dumb and picked a big comfy car with a massive engine. He might not win but at least he’s gonna enjoy himself.

Ended up winning. The massively overpowered engine was chilling at highway speeds so much it barely used any gas.

Another fun comparison was when they took a Prius and a M5. When the M5 was chilling at a slightly fun speed, the Prius was struggling so hard that it had double the fuel consumption of the M5.

Cruising speed matters.
They are Americans now, but they weren't when they decided to come to the US, and were it not for some disaster they likely would have stayed or left in much lower numbers.
Ah, great story though :)
Being a new father, I disagree. It's pretty clear most of the time what's happening with the kids: something happens they don't like, they cry. Something happens they do like, they laugh and smile. Pretty simple. Yes, as infants sometimes they cry without an apparent cause (although it always seemed to turn out to be a bubble of gas!), and certainly toddlers seem to melt at the slightest provocation. But the process is hardly random, in ourselves or in others.

Of course, it gets trickier as you get older, accumulate experiences. Now the same event can carry a unique meaning for every unique individual that experiences it, and that meaning is sometimes very difficult to infer by simple observation.
Not so much increasing performance, but what's required for that, e.g. the extra weight of the battery and motors to provide ~10km of electric-only range on the McLaren P1.
In those instances, nobody is licensing the statistics themselves, they are licensing access to the statistics databases that those organizations have compile and maintain. At least that's my understanding.
Yep, and in that case I recommend GetName.com, NameApp.com, or NameHQ.com more than a .app TLD.
It's the message you should really take away from meta-programming in LISP is that code is a message that can be read different ways.

That's limited though by practical considerations such as the Turing and Gödel results, how your algorithms scale with problem size, etc.

There is room for a revolution in parsing tools, but it seems almost every attempt falls short. (PEG in Python is the latest, maybe they will expose a general purpose interface to it someday, but by then certain performance concerns will be so baked in that features that expand use-cases for parsing such as automatic unparsing and round-tripping won't materialize)

We are still coding to 1970's style 'callback hell' interfaces from yacc when we should be able to write one grammar and get not just the parser but also a set of semantic structures, for instance if you were parsing Java in Java you'd have objects to represent expressions, operators, etc.
Faster you go the more fuel you burn per mile above around 50-60mph depending on the car

The faster you accelerate the more you’re going to braking to slow back down again (unless you’re accelerating onto open roads)

Performance cars are more likely to be driven by people who don’t care about the environment and drive as such.

Tires wear out faster

...
How are fully one quarter of new, NEW, sales diesel in EU? In the US, diesel is rather uncommon, whereas with BEV, it's mostly tesla and the leaf, I haven't seen many BEVs from other makers.
To avoid repeating the readers I would change to: “If you make an effort to omit unnecessary words, your sentences will be easy for readers to understand without slowing them down. It also reduces the chance that they will get bored and quit.”
Yeah, and as I already mentioned the drawbacks of opioids are clearly known. I don’t understand what you’re arguing against here?
The owner of the domain is responsible to make sure they are in control of the zone where they've decided to point the name servers. Failure to do so means that anyone able to create zones on these name servers can do so.

On Amazon you can request a delegation set, which means a combination of four name servers. Do that enough times and I'm sure you'll have all the possible variations that could exist. For every Amazon account you can request 100 delegation sets, but it's easy to scale this out over multiple accounts. I'm also willing to bet you can easily get that limit raised to thousands of delegation sets by just telling support you're going to use the account for hosting tons of zones. I don't know the specifics of how CloudFlare does it, but I assume you're more than welcome to do the same, programatically.

There's no hill to die on. I don't work for a provider, and how is that even relevant? Seems like a weird straw man argument or something.

The potential risks of this is blown way out of proportions. You're still in control over the domain, just not the zone. Do stupid things, win stupid prices? In this case, letting someone else control your zone because you failed to understand how DNS works.
I tend to agree with your second paragraph, but this is a blog post and is clearly speculative; it's not an econ paper.

To your first paragraph: AFAICT this is a blog by the Progressive Policy Institute, which is a centrist Democratic think tank. I think they were just "blaming the regulatory state" in the sort of formal sense that they were saying there was lost productivity due to regulatory missteps; they weren't making an ideological screed about harmful regulation.
I have never had a look at their website, so thanks for posting that. Buffet's recommendations for GEICO and Borsheim's [0] are funny and not something I would have expected from him...

[0] https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/message.html
> Blue was not supposed to be used on warning signs, and it faded, especially outdoors.

This line gives a glimpse into how much various seemingly arbitrary aspects of our world are actually the way they are for good reason, and how much cultural knowledge is behind it all.

Naturally, when reading this line I searched for "UV fades blue" for more info, came up with someone asking why blue fades less[0].

The depth of knowledge embedded in our culture is amazing, and the Internet is here to reveal so much of it if you look around.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/oibm9/why_is_bl...
If it’s just a way to gain the ability to consume even more energy per launch from a stop light, it’s bad. And when most ICE setups (including hybrids that use electric to boost ICE peak output) talk about increasing performance, it’s about acceleration, not efficiency.
That’s not paying for putting any of the CO2 emitted back into the ground. Maybe it’s paying for roads, or directed to a general fund, but it ain’t covering the cost of climate change caused by the emissions.
I'm not going to personally install this and I'd pay publishers for their content. What I won't do is sign up for an expensive yearly subscription that is generally made difficult to cancel just so I can read a handful of articles a year.

Newspapers really need to offer a payment option that allows me to purchase access to a given amount of individual articles or purchase access to the entire site for a given published date just as if I'd paid for a printed copy and that access needs to be permanent.
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>I presume the main reason for the controversy is the prevailing dogma "Drugs are evil".

Eh, I think this is too dismissive of some pretty deep ethical and philosophical considerations. Effectively they are giving drugs that alter ones perception of reality and then judging their effectiveness on the patients perspective. But since they alter their perception of reality it's tough to rely on patient reports.

Anecdotally speaking, there's a lot of people in this world that think drugs make their lives better when an objective observer would pretty strongly disagree. That raises a lot of difficult questions. Most notably, do we give someone a drug that will make their life worse but also make them think their life is better.
I mostly used it for its preview capabilities and as a text editor, for which it worked pretty well, building my own templates by hand. If you actually knew HTML, CSS and a smattering of JS, it was a great tool for organizing the small bits and pieces of a web site. If you didn’t, things could get ugly pretty fast.
Can you point to a particular clause or section that indicates this wouldn't be a compelling usage (e.g. performance management of employees) of personal data?

You along with all of the other commenters have just responded with the generic assertion of "European privacy rights aka GDPR, duh." But then you don't actually support your assertion whatsoever.

GDPR is not a blanket prohibition on collecting data.
The general trend means more charging stations, more acceptance, a soon to come second hand market for EVs, more investment in batteries, etc...

Overall good, even if hybrids are terrible.
How would it be physically possible for BEV to be terrible for the local air like diesel? I could see lies being peddled, and yes there is a bit of tire and brake dust of course, but that doesn't warm the atmosphere. Overall, diesel just seems much dirtier than Bev.
you're assuming the egg is after the chicken. There's a lot to argue for in stating that orgs should create tools to increase the volition of their devs.
I'm not sure I buy the premise. The point of the original article was that you shouldn't dig a hole for yourself to get out of later. Compiler writers usually go out of their way, digging extra deep holes, to accept a broad range of invalid input. Not because they like complexity---though, as a group they.. I digress---but because it lets them give more valuable user feedback.
In fact most ISPs offered free web hosting and an email account, with optional domain naming, as part of their deal.

Geocities and Tripod were prominent but they were a long way from being the only option.

And the hosting usually allowed CGI and PHP and often included shopping carts and other ready-made services. So it was ridiculously easy and cheap to set up a small business if you wanted to - or just create some basic pages if you didn't.
Diesels sometimes command a 30-40% price difference to petrol engines in Germany thanks to the bans and the stigma - perfect if you're living in Eastern Europe and willing to import.
I think I can give you my perspective here, since I am part of Monica's community.

I started blogging late this summer and quickly found how hard it is to write and be read.

As an engineer I of course started researching how to increase my readership and I ended up down the infinite sewer hole of content marketing and "how to game search engines" aka SEO.

(If you want to understand why the web looks like this and why we are rather searching ddg with !searchr for answers... learning a bit of SEO will be the epiphany you need)

The amount of _crap_ you have to navigate to get some actionable information is insane.

I was lucky to stumble into Monica's Blogging for Devs free newsletter course and it was just the perfect actionable information I was looking for. No need to waste more time scavenging the web for some free answers.

The community is, in my opinion, the natural evolution. A place where I can learn effectively. So far, I've enjoyed it and I think it's worth the money.
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So, a rebranding of IoT. Makes sense to me.
Even from the shotgun seat I saw several absolutely suicidal deer who were invisible till the very last moment.

"Area" may mean 50x50 km of mostly wooded and sparsely inhibited territory. It is unrealistic to expect the locals to drive 40 kph all the time there.
Any of you guys recording gaps and drift in their infrastructure?
You are not alone ;)
Sharing a link to this article about infrastructure drift for those interested
Happy to discuss the topic
> Performance cars are more likely to be driven by people who don’t care about the environment and drive as such.

I think the success of Tesla says otherwise. There are lots of us who enjoy performance cars who care about emissions. Even someone who drives an Audi v8 car is doing less damage than the single person cruising in a huge truck/suv.
In Romania, we have a gov-funded program[1] that subsidizes up to ~9300€ off the price (but not more than 50% of its price) of a new electric/hybrid car, when you trade in an old car. Some conditions apply.

[1] https://www.afm.ro/vehicule_electrice.php
I wouldn’t take environmental advice from top gear. I seriously doubt the accuracy of this
#emacs on Freenode is full of those people, including the author of the talk in the article. Friendly fellow. It's really one of the best IRC channels left.
Loved this:
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> blaming the regulatory state for failing to impose mask restrictions, which in the US at least, was a result of the current administration going out of their way to dismantle the apparatus setup to handle pandemics

It's interesting that the CDC's initial statements that masks don't work and are counterproductive (later reported to be deliberately misleading) seem to be fading from memory so fast that it's not even a conceivable criticism, which leaves us with "well, they didn't impose mask restrictions".
> A car driver is absolutely responsible for their choice of vehicle, their choice to drive any particular journey, their choice to exceed the speed limit, text, phone, chat, and everything else.

Just their choices not to drive defensively (the portion I italicized in your statement). The car you choose may be based on specific requirements for life. And the journey you take may be all the same. Would you fault someone for not being able to afford a newer car? I picked a car that exceeds the latest pedestrian safety regulations; would you still grief me just because it's an SUV?

100% of the fault comes from how a person chooses to drive and keep their car safe (lighting, brakes, capabilities that allow them to drive defensively). I wouldn't rob someone of their choice of car because I don't know what circumstance necessitated it; it would be selfish of me to tell someone they can't drive a pickup when all of their work revolves around it.
Because we don’t need to increase performance, if we think if performance as horse powers and speed. Cars are fast enough, even too fast for private vehicles.

Living in Germany it is quite ridiculous that we don’t have speed limits on certain parts of the Autobahn, nobody needs to drive 200 km/h. You won’t get faster from A to B, it’s dangerous, it’s stressful, you need more energy. If you want to race, go on a race track. I assume it even costs us more to maintain roads so that you are able to drive more than 140 km/h.
Probably for the best, since it will come from your pocket.

Diesel was getting phased out anyway, you can see that in the chart by the bump in gasoline vehicles.
I honestly don't think I could sleep at night, having bought a new car, knowing how much its depreciating just sat there. An acquaintance bought his dream audi TT a few years ago, and after a couple of years of ownership we calculated that every time he drove it to the shop to get lunch it cost him $35 in depreciation on top of whatever he bought.
MS: "Insights are intended to help organisations..."

I think the problem is with the unintended consequences or uses. Whether MS intended it or no, it seems to be in use for dystopian micromanagement. (Though frankly... can anyone really believe MS's look of innocence on this?)

The old rubric applies: Tell me how you measure me and I'll tell you how I behave." Measure me by keystrokes and I'll gladly flail away at the keyboard for as long as it takes to produce an impressive number before deleting the garbage. Job done.

Does anyone take this sort of "productivity" surveillance with even a single grain of seriousness/credibility?
It’s relative- the high performance Tesla’s are worse for the environment than the low performance ones.

EVs are a different category to ICE cars so comparing across them is strange
And thereby blocking the view of 'regular' cars.

And small children.
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I'm surprised I haven't heard anything about rust in this area. It seems like it could do well what hft people want without the problems of c++. Though I don't know rust, so I'm not sure how well you can force the correct optimizations.
> It really doesn't work for my use case; admittedly my model is probably older.

That might be one of the older 'smart keyboards' which didn't really work unless you were on a flat table, and the keys weren't brilliant

The new magic keyboard is much more self-supporting like a laptop - the only thing that makes it unsuitable sometimes is that it's quite top heavy, despite the base itself being pretty heavy to act as a counterweight.

The design of the new iPad has a "floating" arm just to try and move the centre of gravity forward from the base, as a traditional laptop hinge won't really work with the weight on top.
so right, but it won't make you any money or get you any linkedin/twitter fans if you speak the truth. We have AI being tossed around like it isn't just database queries most of the time.
Diesels are much more economical than petrol. Whether it is cost efficient depends on yearly mileage and how good a deal you get, but it’s a fact. My diesel E Class with 4 wheel drive burns considerably less fuel than my previous petrol Golf, while having better performance, more mass and greatly increased size. I would buy an electric, but they are just too damn expensive right now.
I agree with most of your assessment. However I am myself an immigrant and, warts and all, I still think that comparatively the US is still a great place to live and I am grateful for the opportunity I was given to settle here.

If you do not mind me asking, where did you move to? How much better are things there? And what other countries do you think are in better shape than the US?
The UI should be the last thing thats slow, relatively speaking. Database could be slow, network could have some issues, the backend code could be inefficient and so on. But if the UI is objectively slow, discounting above things, then that should be addressed asap. Because if that continues to be the issue, it doesn't matter how much quick the backend/database is - user just won't see the performance behind the scenes.
I'm not American and dont really care about conspiracies and whatnot, however I dont see it very far fetched to have a group of people worshiping X deity. Theres a very open Satanic religion: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_Satan . As an atheist this is nothing exotic or worthy of conspiracies... just another religion.
I don't buy new cars either. The initial drop of in value is just insane. You can buy a really nice used car with electric windows(!) for the same price as new low end crap cars like Dacia. I never understood who buys those new if they already are looking for something cheap.
Absolutely. But there are different writing styles for different purposes. Technical writing should be different than creative writing or you might lose some of the audience. But I read some great creative and technical writing that explains concepts through metaphors are imagery and do enjoy it.
Kudos on this. Amazing how you were able to find it :)

Anyway yes, the more i see this written down the less i like it
That's a bit false feeling you are buying - 2.4 tonne SUV vs 2.1-tonne big wagon if we compare within the same brand and similar sizes (BMW X7 vs 5 series). That's insignificant difference in head-on crash. Crumple zones are +-same so again not a win. If your argument is tiny car vs the biggest then its not about SUV anymore.

SUV has much higher rolling danger in case of crash so better stretch your necks before driving...
I think because of this bug Counter-Strike also had the same long-jump/bunny-hopping strafing thing, so HNS was born. CS 1.6 HNS is by far the game I had most fun with.