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For perspective on a veterinary surgeon's work and world, James Herriot wrote eight books , starting with, "If Only They Could Talk" in 1970. [0]

To learn what its like to start a non-profit/NGO working to help homeless people, prostitutes and addicts in the streets of Glasgow, Scotland, read "From Whitewashed Stairs to Heaven." The book tells the story of Maureen McKenna, cofounder of Open Door Trust Glasgow.[1]

Wendell Berry's written much about farming (among other things).

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Herriot

[1] https://www.christianfocus.com/products/855/from-whitewashed...
She had been doing that job for awhile. IMO the reason this particular paper got the treatment it did is subtle but simple, based on the following observations:

* Many jurisdictions impose strict controls on the use of racially biased methods (eg: redline laws like the fair housing act in the US).

* Different advertising companies have access to different targeting methods (eg facebook has your social graph, apple have your app use, google have your search history).

* Language models are a key technology for google to maintain advertising relevance & thus keep adwords competitive

"Models trained on modern language reflect societal biases" may seem like an obvious fact, but once google says it publicly they no longer have a basis to deny it in court.
Microsoft is much more capable of meeting any compliance demands around cloud data storage than a company like Slack is. Microsoft builds clouds for militaries.
thanks for the additional thoughts.
D has crazy good and easy C interoperability.

There is a near 1-1 mapping of types. C interop was a major design goal.

Dstep, which uses llvm/clang as a library, can translate headers for you. dpp I believe automagically at compile time translates C++/C headers.
In more seriousness, I have a puppy about 18 months old. We walk 2-3 miles a day minimum, in the worst weather. She's a terror, wants to eat everything in sight. She's a lot to manage. I didn't walk nearly this much daily without places to be before (though had no problem walking plenty when I did have places to be). I wouldn't trade it for anything. Even with the complications of raising a naughty deranged wolf variant.
There's Lisp In Small Pieces by Christian Queinnec (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Lisp-Small-Pieces-Christian-Queinne...), and if you want to look into CLOS in depth, there's The Art of the Metaobject Protocol by Kiczales, des Rivieres, and Bobrow (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Art-Metaobject-Protocol-MIT-Press/d...). There's also a good older text, Anatomy of Lisp by John Allen (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Anatomy-LISP-McGraw-Hill-computer-s...).
Two explanations, both in the article near the end.

The first is the standard:

> In a Quora thread that asked the question “Why did Digital Equipment Corporation fail?” it was interesting to see so many previous DEC employees and members of the MIT community speak up about what they noted during their tenure there. Almost unanimously, they supported the theory—also commonly held by experts—that the failure of the company ultimately fell to the leaders who were unable to foresee what was coming in personal computing and were not able to take decisive or quick enough action in time to save the company.

The second is the Innovator's Dilemma:

> “Digital Equipment Corp. had microprocessor technology, but its business model could not profitably sell a computer for less than $50,000. The technology trapped in a high-cost business model had no impact on the world, and in fact, the world ultimately killed Digital. But IBM Corp., with the very same processors at its disposal, set up a different business model in Florida that could make money at a $2,000 price point and 20% gross margins—and changed the world.”

The latter seems to fit better with the evidence. The timeline in the article makes it clear that DEC saw where things were headed and tried moving in those directions.

But there's a big difference between little experiments and betting the company on an auto-cannibalization strategy. DEC didn't have the guts to go there.
Agreed. They are the compile-time interfaces to templates' compile-time classes (so to speak, though obviously templates aren't limited to classes). I've been wanting them for so long; naturally error messages are better, but documentation will be better integrated/generated too. Just being able to understand what's expected of a templated type in a compile-time verified way is invaluable. I've taken to writing the concepts I'm using in comments (in the concept syntax) and can't wait to start uncommenting them.
My example was the relational model of data, which is literally a mathematical model of data storage.

Other ones I can think of off the top of my head:

- the DOM (an applied tree which is a graph)

- everything to do with programming language construction (compilers and interpreters use graph theory extensively)

- testing (permutations and combinations)

- static analysis (including eslint)

- abstracting logic with functions

Can you think of anything that isn’t directly derived from some math concept?
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Quesrions for people familiar with the industry: my understanding is that UDP is optimal for fast-pased games, you don't have to wait for re-sends of old packets, etc.

However, it seems you can't just flick a switch and get encrypted connection like you can with TLS.

So what do people normally use? Does everyone do a custom AES-packet or something?
> The second one is that it makes illegal activities easier, and at a larger scale. It's quite common right now for companies to be coerced pay millions of dollars to anonymous criminals, all enabled with cryptocurrencies.

For the vast majority of businesses/individuals, it is governments and banking cartels the ones stealing your money (via inflation and fractional reserve respectively) without recourse. Switching to a world in which, instead of all of us, but only a few, are stolen money, is a bit better.

> The most prominent negative effect is the huge energy waste, which doesn't help when we are trying to cut on our carbon footprint

Debunked. Sources:

* https://newmoneyreview.com/index.php/2020/09/03/big-oil-goes...

* https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2017-12-07/bitcoi...

* https://blog.bitcoin.org.hk/bitcoin-mining-and-energy-consum...

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T0OUIW89II

* https://cointelegraph.com/news/study-over-74-of-bitcoin-mini...

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5JQfZdJLjY

* https://youtu.be/nPt51vxTUFM?t=1025
I don't see the distinction. To me, it's just "how do I know this isn't a watering hole attack for developers?"
I'm an Albertus Magnus guy myself. He understood the act of being in a personal relation with God better than Aquinas did.
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Isn't there a plan to remove them in the next C standard?
Gerrit used prolog to determine when to merge patches if i recall. I had to learn prolog in university once upon a time, but gerrit is the only time i have ever encountered prolog in the wild, and it only uses it i one small spot.
The symptoms mentioned in these cases are “fleeting and transient.” That is very much not the case here. People are suffering from long term, serious, physically verifiable injury.
I won't be donating, since I don't believe that what needs to change in software development is as simple as a choice of programming language--I'm sure you've heard that one before. Best of luck with your endeavors regardless!
I think having a good introduction before reading the big books suggested here is a good idea. For an introductory book, Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy is pretty good. It's short, and covers the important topics and how philosophers thought about them. You can then move on to reading the classics.
THANK YOU. Showing the usage documentation when the user has explicitly asked for it /is not an error/.
And what percentage do the publishers extract? I’m betting the Author doesn’t see 30%.
This is helpful, thank you. I will bring this up with my colleagues.
I don't understand the point though; if someone has the source data, what good is the anonymized data to them? What value is added by requiring more stringent safeguards on data that can't be anonymized this way?
You're missing my point. Pick coding up something that for you would be an egregious waste of your time on this earth.
Hmm, that’s tough. Designate some workout breaks with your wife. Immediately before meals is ideal.

Then put the luggage on the bed to free up space and otherwise arrange the environment to maximize things. If you get in the way of each other, you can take turns in the bathroom to free space.

Then try some HIIT and bodyweight exercises in rapid succession:

* Jumping jacks

* Jumping squats

* Push ups

* crabwalk

* army crawl

* Lifting and carrying each other. Can be an assisted life if you can’t do a full one.

* shoulder raises. Some books or other objects can be good here

* Bicep curls with any available objects. Even 5 lb is better than nothing

* Planks, side planks

* Dips on a chair

* running in place

All of these are simple, none of them risk injury, and all can be done in an extremely tiny space.

Depending on reps and exertion you can do them 1-3x a day. Alternate exercises if needed

You can also pace back and forth in the tiny strip you create with luggage on the bed. Lack of walking may actually be the hardest part of your space compared to exercise. Doesn’t sound like much fun pacing that small a strip. Like 3-4 steps?

Good luck! There’s plenty more bodyweight exercises out there, the ones above are just those I’ve done regularly. You can tire your muscles and get your heart racing in 5-7 min with those.

If I misjudged the space, you can do most of those exercises semi effectively on the bed with luggage on the floor. Just don’t push as hard.

It should be doable though. I actually do most of those daily in my spare room, around the corner of a bed. Eg for squats I face the corner of the bed. For pushups my legs go along the bed lengthwise, my arms fan out on the other side of the corner.
California banned new combustion vehicle sales after 2035, 2030 for the UK. Other jurisdictions are between now and 2050. The transition to EV powertrains will be mandatory to continue selling automobiles in the future (versus buying compliance credits from those building and selling EVs).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase-out_of_fossil_fuel_vehic...
if I remember correctly Jan and Brian collectively left over $1B on the table rather than stay at facebook for another 1-2 years.
> Consensus reality based on division of labor and a web of trust in our authorities, combined with peer review and criticism, is the only way for society to function.

Is this also an objective fact?

Pascal's wager is similar to the climate change risk/reward function. And yet atheists still exist. If the risk magnitude is tied to the assumptions of a belief system, these arguments do not convince non-believers, just reaffirm what is already believed.

It's easy to talk dispassionately about "lower GDP growth" and "some people who have been harmed" when these are things that happen to other people. When they happen close to you, it is hard maintain trust in institutions that actively harms you. It's not just Trumpists. For example, vaccine support is low among urban black communities who typically have poor experiences with the medical system. Have these people have been gaslit too? Or are their voices valid?

If you want to start a conversation that can actually change someone's mind, you have to start with empathy for other positions. You cannot simply dismiss other beliefs as lies spread by the devil and/or Kochs. If, however, you are starting out from the position of "my way is the only way," then there is no dialogue possible, only repression of heterodoxy. It may be catharthic to tell someone all the ways in which they are wrong, but it doesn't win friends. It is historically not a winning strategy.
Sleeping well at night, “a satisfied mind”...they may be less visible, but they are the opposite of empty.

Ask any old person whether they would prefer a pile of gold or a good night sleep, a fat bank account with vultures circling overhead or a comfortable feeling that they did good.

The latter can’t buy the former (although the former often happens anyways...life is funny). The former can never buy the latter and most oldsters I know grow to think the latter is the only thing that ever really mattered.
> Digital Equipment Corporation, or DEC, who began paving the way for everyone starting in 1957.

I would love to know the funding model for the next 25 years. Altavista was their latest, but it looks like they got burned on their Rainbow 100 in 1982. Took 8 years to report their first loss, and 10 years for a founder retirement. Looks like Vax was their bread and butter for a couple decades.

I love this stuff. If I smell this even close. DEC was basically funded to develop most of modern computing infrastructure, when their was none. They never really came out with icons like a PC. They just crafted the way things get structured for decades....with the funding of....?
"tkdu" for a graphical, treemap version. The nice thing about tkdu is that you can pipe the output of du into it, allowing you to visualise a disk on another machine remotely.
:wave:

But I’m also part of the R crew so :shrug:
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Defining signed overflow requires sticking more instructions for every integer addition, since the platform is not guaranteed to actually overflow when you want it to so the program will have to detect this and force the overflow to happen. Major slowdowns.

Lots of loop stuff also depends on non-overflowing signed integers. If integers can shrink on addition then you cannot safely do a lot of unrolling or fancier stuff based on affine loop transformations.
Some games encrypt them, but while I would normally never say this - there's nothing really to protect over the udp packets if it's just game state. And you want to keep the latency as low as possible for those packets.

You want to do everything else over tcp and encrypted.
As a counter-anecdata, I’ve gone three jobs using only Teams - in one case they had explicitly rejected Slack on the basis of price. My daughter also uses Teams for school.
Anyone else sad that money and business took over IT? I feel like most of the commenters here would love to go back to a time where computers were fun to experiment with and we’re just bound to “lab work and play”
I'm surprised tracking MACs would be that reliable. Most phones and phone OSes > 2017 have had MAC randomization built in. Retail wifi points used to track MACs in order to profile foot traffic, but this technique hasn't been effective since 2017.

https://blog.elevensoftware.com/how-mac-address-randomizatio...
I have no idea what Brown's policy is but a lot of 4 year universities have requirements that out of town first year students live in the dormitory rather than renting an apartment. It you were already living in town then you are normally exempt. It sounds like Brown is a lot stricter than that though?
Some more observations about this:

- Most Americans & Canadians are completely unaware of the fruit. Some Brazilians are unaware of the nut. I met at least a couple Brazilians (in Sao Paulo and another region that don't have cashew trees) who've eaten the fruit but have never had cashew nuts and didn't even know about the nut!

- All this tasty fruit exists above the nut, but--as far as I can tell--no effort is make to export the fruit. It might the problem of creating a market for a new product, or maybe the fruit doesn't travel well. Cashew juice is widely available in Brazil, but I wonder if most of the fruit goes to waste?

- Cashew nuts and ironically Brazil nuts are quite pricey in Brazil (at least in Sao Paulo). My thinking is that cashews are perceived as a rich person's snack in Brazil and priced accordingly. This leads to the circular problem that ordinary Brazilians don't eat many cashew nuts because it's expensive, so the domestic market for them stays small and for the affluent.
The Common Lisp Revival 2020 Fundraiser is mostly oriented towards people who understand the value of Common Lisp. Thank you.
Russian “advisers” to work near F-35s; S-400 to have proximity to US aircraft
HDR specifies a brightness. Apple is playing HDR videos at the proper brightness when the rest of the OS might be turned down.

https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/08/03/what-hdr-hdr10-an...

That plus P3 gamut means a video playing on a display is closer to what a filmmaker intended.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DCI-P3

What's cool is: 1) 4-year old Macs have become HDR laptops and 2) the implementation is subtle- you get full brightness in the HDR video without having the rest of the UI blast to full brightness.
He's disabled the right-click -> copy option. A flaw in thinking, IMO. The "Absolute Enable Right Click and Copy" extension, restores the functionality.
Input + rendering latency. https://danluu.com/input-lag/

This is the reason I switched away from Android to begin with. (I've tried it again since then and it's not as bad as it used to be, but just navigating around on Android still feels to me like a slog through mud.)
> researchers reported that men who can do 40 pushups

That's a very small amount of people then.
> Question by someone who is ignorant but interested in functional programming: what is the closest equivalent to these functions in Python?

The equivalent to the function of the first is python’s lambda syntax, there's no simple syntax providing the same function as the pipe.
And there it is.

We don’t know whether a non-local interpretation will lead to different, correct predictions.

One of the persistent hurdles is that gravity refuses to be folded into QM (or really, QCD).

Do you absolutely know whether hidden variable couldn’t be the missing factor?

Also—because I see you didn’t catch this—it’s possible Bell’s proof is incorrect because it assumes classical logic applies in QM.

In any case we’re done.
So switching from int to datetime will somehow migrate existing data from one form to another?
Apropros of nothing, I had a conversation with a taxi driver in Boston circa 2014, he said he drove Ken Olsen (CEO of DEC) to the airport a few times. In his words, "he was very intelligent, but not very smart."

In a much earlier encounter we had a couple of DEC engineers visit our small-to-medium-ish company in Canada to try to sell us on their technology. They basically defined the word supercilious, and we went with a different vendor.
If a dataset removes all information except for, say, a user's fingerprints, meaning the only information stored in the anonymous dataset is an image of a fingerprint. The nature of fingerprints prevents them from meeting this requirement, as stated, which effectively eliminates any research that can be done with the data. Given that the only way the dataset could be linked to the original user is if an attacker already had access to the source data, how is this regulation benefiting anyone?
BinData (https://github.com/dmendel/bindata) is a Ruby gem for this, basically using a DSL in Ruby to declaratively define binary data formats that can be both read and written.
> conservatism — an insufficient ability to change our common views and beliefs with the new data, new evidence

I've been able to counter this somewhat by adopting a default assumption that my understanding is incomplete. That's an easier self-sell than being wrong.
> I should not have to choose between giving Google a free for all access to my location data or having no location functionality on my device.

Location indoors is made possible by sending a list of visible WiFi AP MAC addresses and relative signal strengths to a web service. WiFi MAC addresses are globally unique serial numbers, and Google/Apple maintain huge MAC-to-location databases. Enabling location doesn't just turn on GPS, it sends your location to Apple/Google constantly to retrieve the lat/lon from visible WiFi triangulation.

The only way to keep your mobile location halfway private (your carrier still gets it, and leaks it to your national military) is to keep all location services disabled on the device. Otherwise, simply enabling location access at all gives Google and Apple the aforementioned "free for all access".

I agree that it shouldn't be this way, but it is today.
Despite the failure, I'm guessing somewhat better than if they had hired you to make a clone?
> In case you are not in favor of the modifications, you can delete your WhatsApp account through the configuration.

Right. I wish I could delete my WhatsApp account even before any modifications, but I still am occasionally added to message-groups for various club activities I very much care about. Fuck you.
Opposite of my choice of which I also have no question.
99% of the time. Apple works.
There are no choices! I don't have to think about it.

- reasons why my wife loves her iPhone.

It's about trade-offs. I love Android and making it mine. My wife cannot care less. The rest of my family cannot care less (7 people total), and blamed me when their SMS/MMS stopped working.

Sure Android is superior, maybe long-term it will win. For now: Apple knows their audience and hope to keep them happy. At the end of the day: is good enough
Quartz has been GPU accelerated since 2002 my dude
A friend does work at a state university for an early intervention program for at risk students in their opportunity program.

If you are buying snacks or sodas at 3am, don’t utilize your card keys over the weekend or do some other things, you’ll get flagged as a risk and your advisor get notified.
"I prefer the syntax of CL over Scheme"

Can you elaborate on what it is about CL syntax that you prefer over Scheme, and why?
If you youtube "quiet cardio" you'll find a bunch of cardio exercises that you can do with no equipment, no jumping and not a lot of room. These exercises are great for apartment and hotel dwellers.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=quiet+cardio

I've tried them out myself and they sure get the ticker pumping. I managed to save myself from having to buy an exercise bike (which I know I'll never touch after COVID).

As for muscle mass loss, I wonder if you could increase the amount of protein in your daily diet (eggs, white meat, etc.)?
Re: Money transfer - it's not clear why money going to criminal organization is better than the government. Also, since most people actually have negligible savings, it's not clear that inflation actually "steals" money from the people.

Re: Energy use - A single Bitcoin transaction is around $8 today. If you assume an efficient market, where the cost to compute Bitcoin is roughly equivalent to the energy cost, that's a crazy 80kWh in US energy cost for a single transaction (and probably more, since Bitcoin mining is done where energy cost is lower). The claim that a fraction of that comes from renewable is silly, this renewable energy could go to other means.
That was drawn by Manu Cornet at Google. Here's his comic book about Google culture which includes that corp structure strip: https://www.amazon.com/Goomics-Googles-corporate-revealed-in...
I honestly can't agree at all.

The primary works often just blatantly "state" things as if they were opinions. Then it's up to generates of scholars afterwards to argue about what the actual process of logical argument was.

Historical philosophy books aren't mathematical proofs. They don't necessary demonstrate process at all, it's not philosophy being "done" but just stated. Very often, it's precisely the summary works that situate the thinkers in a context that illuminates the process that led to their conclusions.

Also I don't know what you mean about "developing a personal philosophy"... I'm talking about academic philosophy here.