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> No. JavaScript was a web language for web developers to be able to automate forms, etc, client-side. AFAIK, originally it was never intended to run on the JVM server-side like Groovy does.

Sure, but that's not an argument against JavaScript having potentially been a planned part of the JVM ecosystem (or, at least, a language playing a role in the JVM ecosystem, without itself being hosted on the JVM, instead maybe interacting with the JVM through some kind of IPC or FFI bridge.)

Remember, Sun used to be trying to squeeze the JVM into web browsers as well, in the form of Java applets. But we never saw any real ability to script against these applets. "Java applet 'engines' under JavaScript control", could have been the portable equivalent to "ActiveX components under JavaScript control."

You know how modern games involve 1. a self-contained game engine written in C++ or C#, plus 2. the game itself being mostly Lua scripting? If Sun had pushed harder, we could have seen something like that in 1995, with web browsers running JavaScript-scripted games calling into Java game engines; long before we got equivalent HTML5 APIs like Canvas.

Probably, if the world had gone down that path, we would have seen JavaScript gradually moving "into" the JVM; and the JVM gradually coming to take the position that the JavaScript engine takes in modern web browsers.
That's interesting because I think the exact opposite.

For dynamically typed languages I think it's more valuable to have end-to-end tests to make sure that the whole pipeline works correctly. I want to validate that all the call sites for function F are passing an int, as intended, as opposed to a string.

For statically typed languages, I already know that all call sites for F are passing an int. So I want to unit test all small parts of the pipeline, in isolation, to make sure I easily spot which part doesn't follow its contract. If a function F uses a function G for something, I'm gonna unit test F and make sure it does behave correctly for all possible returns from G, and that's it.
This reminds me of children being intensively tutored by parents in some parental domain of exceptional expertise. They both illustrate developmental/educational environments having impacts dramatic. Any similar illustrations come to mind?

Looking ahead to edtech that is personalized collaborative remote mobile XR with human-AI hybrid NPCs, etc... there's a question of what should we be aiming for? What constitutes success? Is there potential for low-hanging "OMG!" fruit? If 80% of US high-school graduates were to achieve the science understanding of current Harvard entering freshman, would that be a stunning success, or an abject failure? Or both? Having a collection of "here's an illustration of really good outcomes" might help broaden vision and expectation.
Does this mean java .class falls in the middle of scripts and native executables? Is this analogy correct? For example, I think of native executable as Microsoft Word where you can doubleclick and launch it. Whereas with .class you have to run it on top of a jvm.
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There's no way murderedbyAOC isn't run by her staff. It only costs about $50 to buy enough upvotes to get on the frontpage of reddit (less once people start subscribing and upvoting organically), that's probably some of the cheapest advertising-per-eyeball you can get.
> overexaggerating the difference between the two variants is not helpful for Chinese learners

I wholeheartedly agree. In the grand scheme of learning Chinese, this is a relatively minor consideration. It wasn't my intention to play it up (and in fact I don't think I did), it's just how the discussion progressed from the original comment.
Right. The challenging thing about protein folding is that we've been able to probe protein folding in numerous ways but none of them actually give a direct picture of what the process of folding looks like. That is, the specific physical configuration trajectories/envelope followed by an ensemble of folding proteins.
Well, down here in the real world, a 100% statistical chance is as good as it gets. Why would you try any other strategy with historical success < 100%, or more likely, unknown?
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I mean, we run a medium sized(100+ employees) second hand clothes business in Poland, with few stores bigger than most local supermarkets. Covid hit us hard, but I wouldn't say that "no one wants used clothes anymore". Quite the contrary - in recessions, like the one we're about to enter, second hand clothes are usually booming.
> The fact that the collective powers of Novartis, Pfizer, etc, with their hundreds of thousands (~million?) of employees

Deepmind have at least a few thousand employees, I'm willing to go out on a limb and say that the industry doesn't have "hundreds of thousands" of people working on protein folding alone.
Crappy is your subjective opinion. Others, including review sites, gave it above average views.
1366x768 15" laptop screens are very much still alive, you will find them in a large fraction of sub-$500 laptops.
As someone living in NYC I can attest that the local/express lines are great. But I'd kill for 95% reliability! The on-time performance in NYC is somewhere around 80% and likely to get worse with the huge budget issues NYC will have post-COVID.
This is good for adults, but kids grow out of stuff - we use the local no-buy groups to trade, or just donate/trade/receive with friends/family.

Amused by family pics where I recognize a garment that's older than my oldest kid being worn by the new toddler.
Is Stimulus 2.0 the NEW MAGIC DHH was referring to? I was expecting something much bigger.
I'm not sure I really think of function coloring as a "problem" ...

facebook is experimenting with auto differentiation for Kotlin and looks like it's adding a new "differentiable" function color -- https://ai.facebook.com/blog/paving-the-way-for-software-20-...

It looks very easy to reason about and use to me ... and i personally find async a similarly useful marker ... It's about being able to push constraints from caller arbitrarily far down the callee stack -- which is really not something that types support at all but provides for a very high confidence variety of constraint -- and high confidence constraints seem to me like they convey a ton of information.

I've been wondering actually whether "function colors" might actually just be a good way to create a whole variety of strong statically enforceable constraints for functions. It seems like they lead to very good and simple programmer mental models ...

Are there languages that offer "user definable" function colors? I can think of a lot of application domains that would be much better served by these kinds of constraints than oo or other type-centric approaches ... it would be ridiculously useful to be able to mark a function with the "MyDomainBusinessLogic" color and get assurances that such a method can only call other functions annotated with that color ... would provide an easy way to iterate on app specific abstractions provide compiler assistance for the communication of layering intent -- rather than a bunch of poorly specified words in documents that try to communicate layering intent to other developers -- in language that is either sufficiently precise as to be incomprehensible -- or sufficiently vague as to be subject to (mis)interpretation ...
What I find the most interesting is Mediatek, who largely gets ignored among the major players. Their affordable SoC's powered the Lenovo Duet into being one of the most compelling affordable Chromebook Tablets of the year. They've also mentioned plans to put more powerful chips into chromebooks in 2021.

ARM powered chromebooks run Android apps far better than their x86 cousins plus still include linux support (crostini) which has a growing set of ARM applications every year.

I'm pretty excited for where the future of efficient computing is going. Between my M1 Mac Mini and overclocked Pi4 8GB I've managed to sell off and move on from x86 machines for personal use. Interesting times indeed.
Yes. Vintage clothing (and even more current but high quality clothing) does well in thrift stores. But most of the clothes people are junking is low quality and doesn't actually stand up well enough to being reused OR it's got some sort of gimmick or pattern that falls out of fashion too quickly rather than seeming timeless. Some of it might be cool again in 20 or 30 years, but probably not and that's longer than the cycle time for people to dispose of clothes besides.

But the article isn't really about that. The article is about how making stuff new nowadays is so cheap that there is barely any cost savings over making stuff out of recycled material. This is partly because our standards for new stuff have slipped to where good quality fabrics and material are no longer valued. But it's also because a lot of the costs of making stuff new are so externalized that nobody's paying them. Also, people are so accustomed to the cheap stuff that most people wouldn't even know how to differentiate between good quality and bad. They've outsourced that discrimination to brands but the brands have wised up and there isn't as much of a relationship between the brand equity/prestige of a luxury brand and quality as there used to be.
DeepMind's first entry into the competition was two years ago.
Usually clothes don't get shipped to developing countries to be used as clothes. They get shredded and used as a source of cotton and other fibres after sorting, e.g. to create stuffing, insulation or paper.

Donated stuff is treated the same way, and just the proceeds used as a donation to help the third world. Read the fine print on the used-clothes-bin.
Wood is abundant (in America and many other new-world countries) and well-suited for building dwellings. You build with what's cheap and robust. Even in the 21st Century, economics rules.
Yes, 'peak organic html' was about 2005.

But this I'm afraid is a little bit of mythology from those who were there at the time, and have/had a certain view of what the 'web ought to be'.

In the 'big big picture' - the web blew up between 1995-2005 in the modern world, and then blew up on a much bigger scale with mobile afterwards.

US is only 5% of world population. Europe not quite 10%.

Our view of 'what the web ought to view' I think has some legit elements, but I'm not sure if they're representative of what real material value is.

The world is big.

Just the mere presence of the web - in all it's incarnations - is a very powerful thing.

It's still roiling and people are still coming online and it's powerful.

I actually don't think Amazon retail (i.e. sans AWS) is an important artifact in the big picture.
As a counterpoint, almost every single news story about China, Taiwan or Hong Kong is flooded by users from r/sino and accounts with suspicious histories all using whataboutisms, ad-hominem attacks or just plain old disinformation to change the narrative into a China friendly one. As others have said, the astroturfing is not even subtle.
> Then there's the (highly lucrative) server market.

Apple has flirted with the server market on several occasions. I could see a well priced Apple server with an M series CPU doing quite well if Apple did it right. That said, Apple has never really shined here and it's not really their strong point.

I'm sure MacStadium would love if Apple launched a blade server platform where you could just slot Mac mini logic boards in.
I think that if you look closely inside yourself you'll find the answer.

Hints:

how many presidents any country has?

And who put them there?

Do they send CVs and get selected after a black board interview where they have to invert a binary tree?
While this is true, the Pfizer vaccine was created by essentially reverse engineering the SARS-COV-2 virus and copying a small section of mRNA from it in order to stimulate the body into creating antibodies. Unlike older methods of creating vaccines this has a much lower risk of side effects because only a harmless portion of the virus's genetic code that allows it to infect people is being injected, rather than deactivated virus cells. Pretty interesting stuff:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2020/11/10/what-you-n...

Apparently the Moderna vaccine is also based on the mRNA tech: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/moderna-covid-19-vaccine

There are a number of vaccines based on the older methods of creating a vaccine, including the J&J vaccine, but most are not as far along in the trial process.
The new interface is good for the pornography subreddits.
This post is from 2018, when AlphaFold won the CASP competition, but nobody was claiming that it "solved" the problem, as you are now hearing in response to AlphaFold's performance at the 2020 competition.
> Relatedly, the 80 column "rule" is as stupid in code as it would be in prose. Use your aesthetic sense.

Horizontal scrolling is almost always a bad experience for the user. But 80 is way too restrictive. I'd say no more than half a standard monitor wide is the character limit. What's a standard monitor depends on what's used by the devs writing the code of course.

> Source code should liberally use Unicode symbols.

Give it a few years. But make sure there's a good normalization (there are several ways to print the same glyph on the screen that are different bytes in memory)
> Even on sunny days with cloudless skies, the air carries a voltage of around 100 volts for every meter above the ground.

Wait, what !?
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Url changed from https://stackoverflow.blog/2020/11/27/this-computer-science-..., which points to this.
The problem with "outdoor" dining was all the tents restaurants were setting up in fall/winter. And it's exactly as you imagine it, no airflow or sun exposure with the vinyl / canvas / plastic walls and roofs.
There's some excellent content here. Unfortunately it is hidden behind an excessively wordy document. You should consider bringing in a ruthless editor to cut this down to about a quarter of it's current length.
No, so they can provide leadership that's informed and helpful.
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Spaces for indentation work perfectly fine without fixed-width fonts. If you indent code with leading spaces, things will "line up" with any font.

By the way, what's the misunderstand with lining things up?
It isn't just snow, it's windblown snow which reduces visibility to nothing. How often does that happen in Oslo? Ever?
Thats a weird advice, most accomplished sportsmen have had coaches less accomplished then them. All top tennis pros, Federer, Nadal and Djokovic have had coaches less accomplished then them. Most football coaches are less accomplished then their star players. I am pretty sure this is true for most fields, not just sports.
Nim has plotting, dataframe, matrix libs and even a fully featured machine learning library, I don't see the reason why it can't be used, especially by scientists.

https://github.com/Vindaar/ggplotnim
https://github.com/unicredit/neo
https://github.com/mratsim/Arraymancer
https://docs.youneedabudget.com/article/611-manage-payees#ca...

It seems like, at least the first mentioned use case in Actual's documentation, is covered by YNAB already.
SvelteKit will not require TS. You'll be able to do with or without.
Right, so it's not exactly pertinent to whether the most recent work "solved" (for whatever definition of solved) protein folding.
It’s a .Net library so it works (or should work) with F#.

What sometimes leads to problems is F#’s record and discriminated union types.

Not sure how they are handled by EF Core.

Going back to plain SQL is just great. You know exactly what SQL gets executed. No Magic.

With DustyTables it’s also not too much boilerplate.
This is interesting. This looks big. Too big to judge from a short summary.
Can you back this up with some references? and some explanatory readings?

Ideally, and since the audience is at a varying levels, a number of complementary sources, along with a few words, would be best.

Not sure if what you talk about is related to quantum decoherence, so I'll take that as an example.

* Some formal peer-reviewed scientific paper? (Probably too dry for 99,99% of people including me, but I'll try to at least read the abstract, introduction and conclusion.)
* Some Wikipedia article, like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_decoherence ?
* Some blog or "popular" science magazine?
* Some video, like from PBS Space Time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlOwJWJWPUs or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSnq5Hs3_wI
* Some different video, like Sabine's https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igsuIuI_HAQ or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Be3HlA_9968
* Some simpler video like, I don't know, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsxJmHS0cc8 if it even make sense?

I hope there are some that explain your actual, precise point, precisely. Thanks in advance.
What's the equipment for a zero-visibility blizzard?
It's not: https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1334916143010680833
All Mersenne prime exponents below 100m tested at least once
This is really the point of the linked article. People are going to be unreasonable. They're going to take out their feelings on the people trying to help because so much of this situation is totally beyond their control.
The article reads more like "brace yourselves, morons are coming".

And I understand where this is coming from. But having had absolutely terrible experience with doctors first hand, I just don't like how people's concerns are dismissed. Take an ibuprofen, you'll be fine.

And I get it, they have to deal with a lot of people, all with their own opinions, many of which are indeed wrong.

But that results in a rather sizeable minority of people who aren't getting the care they need. And worse, they can't just go and do something about it on their own, even if they take full responsibility, everything is tightly controlled.

Billions of people will receive the vaccine. I am quite sure there will be real side effects in a sizeable number of people (I hope I'm wrong, really). And I have no doubt that in many parts of the world, they'll be dismissed, ridiculed and laughed at.

These otherwise normal people are marginalized and then join the more radical movements as they try to make sense of everything.

I've been saying we need public funded PSA's against conspiracy theories, and not just dry science talk. Address all the points the conspiracists make, it may not change the minds of the hardcore believers, but it will help the "moderates" not fall deeper into the hole.
I have never ever heard anyone call them that in the UK, they're either brackets or parenthesis to anyone I've ever spoken to - from scientists, to builders, my grandparents all said brackets (Including the one is almost illiterate)

I'm sure someone must use it but it's not at all common
Stimulus is paired with Turbolinks, which doesn't play well with almost anything in the JS ecosystem.
And instead in the US case it becomes a good thing for companies not to bother about employee well being and for them to be bad at allocating the employee time. Organizations end up much less efficient because, after milking their workers too much, they leave and the high turnover means higher onboarding costs.

Ultimately there's also a moral aspect of whether the employer owns the whole life of the employee or they are on a more balanced relationship. Anybody who's had to endure micromanagement knows that you get far more engaged and efficient work in the latter situation.
It can be if they give you something to start with.

One company gave out sample code and asked me to optimize it so it ran under 5 seconds. The exercise was in parallelizing or caching/reusing what you could per the requirements.

it was great because:

- problem statement clearly defined

- skeleton code provided

- about 2 hours to complete

- solved an actual, real-world problem
Your self-righteous messaging certainly fills the room.
If you have a family, it's more like $2500/month for healthcare.
But surely the 7nm part has been around long enough, they should have been designing and validating it months before the part even existed...
Are they fire-retardant as well?
No. I think that's the new turbolinks.
My argument is more like this:

Most people have a natural bias towards billionaires. To remove the particulars of the essay, to look at it with fresh eyes.

Yes, indeed it changes things, and no one change will map completely. Do this a few times though and a clearer sight comes through
I doubt much of the market cares particularly much about price/perf. But the $700 impact does seem like an impressive value that can do a wide range of things not normally considered for this price point. Things like editing 4k video.
You're right, I should have pointed that out. I edited my original post to clarify. Thank you.
Funny thing. When you said this I wondered if it would be a good way to stop using Reddit. Then I remembered like generations ago I tried to stop using some website by making it hard to visit. Blocked it in the hosts file and everything.

One day I stopped what I was doing and looked at what it was. I was on the website I'd blocked. The way I'd done it was I'd forwarded the Xserver from a dedicated server I was running elsewhere and was browsing on a remote Konqueror or Epiphany or some shit.

It taught me something interesting about my Akrasia - the problem isn't a lack of focus on a specific task. It was a task choice problem and a long-term incentive awareness problem. I wasn't even aware I'd done all of these things to access the site I'd blocked. I'd auto-piloted through them. Fascinating.
Ok, we've replaced the baity title with a representative phrase from the article body.
This is a great resource, thanks for the effort.

I strongly disagree with the “ Don’t bother with man pages” advice. It’s extremely annoying when tools don’t provide a manpage. The overhead of opening up a browser to reference command is cumbersome and highly annoying.

There are tools such as pandoc that make generating manpages from various source formats very easy.

Perhaps it is just my grouchy old man syndrome…
please put 2018 into the title
All in all another unfounded, Rust evangelist "rust can fix your clogged toilet" article. Aren't you tired of these?
The alternative would be bracketed, I suppose, so it is common.
> soldiers

In my country they have 28 days of paid holidays every year

Ant it's still one of the few jobs left where they can retire after 15 years, 6 months, one day of work

> Police

In my country they have 28 days of paid holidays, 35 hours a week contract

In my country there are 1/10 of the homicides per 100 thousands people of the US
There's nothing inherent to Web apps that's forcing the hand of developers to send user data to a server outside the user's control (i.e. opting not to give the choice of sending it to a server the user does control). Keeping user data on servers that the Web app developer controls is a decision that developers make because control over user data is usually an adversarial conflict, and when given to power to do developers go for the choice that works out to their advantage.