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>Is having parameters at all "The Parameter Pattern"?

Yes

> Should we call passing a boolean flag "The Flag Pattern"?

The fact that we call it a flag, in itself a metaphor, shows that this is exactly what is happening already. We just omit the "pattern" as it is not necessary for understanding.

Pattern just means "something that occurs repeatingly". Some things do so obviously, others a bit less obviously.

My experience teaching comp. sci. is that when faced with problems that call for design patterns, ~40% of 20/22 y.o. students are able to come up with the "classical" design pattern implementations on their own in a couple hours without prior exposure to them. For the rest, well, we have the books.
My younger son was a big fan of Ryan's channel. The family seems to be quite good at what they do. Ryan himself is telegenic, has a boundless reservoir of enthusiasm, and his parents seem reasonably careful at not excessively exploiting him (not having him do too many videos, and responsibly managing his money).

As for the consumerism: Yeah, it's absolutely blatant, but so is much of the media content for children in general. Ryan videos are a good teachable moment to discuss this (What do you think happens with all the toys the next day? etc.)
He wrote "second hand, refurbished" so it's not entirely clear that it was Apple refurbished.
DRY -> AHA

("Avoid Hasty Abstractions")
off-topic :Do we know what happened a day after that when Gmail returned "this email doesn't exist" ?
This might work for you, if you turn the sound off: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UxSI45eeAts
True, but outside of the kernel the official SDK languages are C++, Go and Dart.
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I decided I don't need more RAM than 8 GB, because nobody from the first reviewers managed to give the RAM a hard time. It seemed to me it's a different beast altogether and it doesn't make sense to just compare numbers and say that more is better. Apple allows you to buy a computer with more than 8 GB RAM, but I think it's just a trap how to satisfy and charge those who don't believe the reviews and just want more RAM whatever it takes.
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I think the reason I would always buy more RAM is not because it needs it today, but because it may need it in 2 or 3 years, as app inevitably eat into the performance gains with bloat.
What laptop are you on that struggles to play Youtube on Chrome?
Imagine you’re so wealthy that you would rather leave behind a $340,000 painting than miss your flight
It's designed around two ideas:

1. A page is tet + images. Complex layouts are very late invention for HTML

2. The whole layout can be done in a single pass.

This was crucial for the 90-s era browsers because you wanted to be fast on rather underpowered machines. I think double-pass was permitted/mentioned in standards only around 2000/2001 with relation to tables (I forget what it was exactly). Centering an element vertically may require several passes (do the rest of the layout, layout the component, layout the component centrally, possibly reflow the rest of the document, etc.), and it was a big no-no
Next Era’s Bet on Renewable Energy Was a Winner All Along
How do you handle moderation when you're just walking about in public?
> In the USA

Hold up.. This not only varies by state, but by county and city. Some places have this built in to special assessments on property taxes, some contract with a trash company that collects fees directly, and some are a bit of a free for all with multiple trash companies providing pickup and or/dumpster service (this is more common in rural areas).

I had a place up in the mountains where we had to buy special $6 trash bags and haul it to a central dumpster ourselves, and there are those in large cities who have to deal with mob-run collection companies who bribe local politicians for monopoly rights.

TLDR; To generalize "In the USA" for something like this is impossible.
Agreed. Nothing is more important to most than the future (kids). The past seems to be a whatever. We don't learn from the past at all. Sadly.
Its not income as in the way your salary is
Why did John Backus' function-level programming paradigm [ ] never catch on?
Why did John Backus' function-level programming paradigm (distinct from functional programming), demonstrated in the language FP, never catch on? Unlike most programming paradigms, there do not appear to be any modern languages that support it. Is it because Backus FP is considered variable-free?
A lot of the vaccine vials that had 5 doses actually have 6 or 7. The hanukkah story is about a candle that had enough oil to burn one night, but it lasted 8. This happened right on hanukkah, too.
I wouldn't say New Vegas was the only good one, I thought FO 3 and 4 were fun in their own way. But New Vegas was the only great one, and a benchmark when it comes to 3D CRPGs.
The only way for those loop holes not to be would be if the government were entirely staffed from top to bottom by poor people, including (or perhaps especially) everyone who is elected.

Speaking of which, you'd first have to ban all election spending. Campaigning would be done by marching in the street with a bristol board sign colored with crayons, taped to a softwood plank.
I don't know enough about material science / manufacturing engineering. Obviously, the specific item being talked about here matters. If this was a purely aesthetic item that is trendy the QC matters a lot less. I would assume companies don't want to rush a new line and then be sending out masks with defects - send that to a few hospitals and your business will be done.
Very cool. Your blog is very interesting to read.
You said two weeks but how many hours was it in total?
>following the best conferences

There are conferences for hash tables?
Of all the categories of people described at the bottom, none of them really fit what I did, which was copy and paste it into a word processor to make it easier to read.
Nothing struggles. But the Intel 2020 Air is noticeably slower than the refurbished 2012 Linux Mint (and 2015 Windows) that I own.

Disclaimer: I bought the Mac for building apps only.
Silicon is going to be the most significant moat there is. You'll either have companies which master it and can adapt it to their stacks (mobile, laptops, servers) - or companies lagging behind feeding on the leftovers and racing to the bottom. This is the final frontier, in a way.
I cannot buy M1 and a motherboard and install Linux on it.
Seems to be the same as "Nate the Snake": https://natethesnake.com/ ?
Is there a world where Intel basically admits defeat and tries to become a major ARM player? If not Intel, some other company? It feels a bit weird that many different companies are designing their own bespoke chips. I can see how the biggest companies may have this expertise. But for everyone else, shouldn't there be someone they can purchase these Apple-like chips from? Maybe that company already exists?

Or maybe there's something about full integration that makes a custom-designed chip just so much better than a more general purpose chip?
Please be careful: if you really do have celiac‘s, then gluten has a short-term effect on your body (let’s call those „bathroom-related“), and yeah, maybe under certain circumstances you don’t experience these, which is certainly nice.

But mind you: it also has a long-term effect, one that you will realize only much later, if you don’t keep your diet absolutely strict! And I’m pretty sure some biking won’t prevent these effects! It’s slowly killing your guts - please read up on it.
“ I also decided I want 512 GB drive, as I'm used to that size and I didn't want to downgrade” my 512gb MBA gets ~2800/2700 MBs read/write versus the standard benchmarks of ~2000. I’ve been curious for benchmarks of the higher capacities but haven’t found any. Seems capacity still increases performance like it did earlier generations with ssds.
So I should not fix a leak in my roof because Steve’s house down the street is flooded and I should be happy that my bedroom is still dry?

So, succinctly:

1) Ultimately, what happens in another country is that country’s problem. Sometimes we ought to intervene, but the bar needs to be very high. Intervention most of the time leads to outcomes ranging from bad to catastrophic.

2) I am entitled to participate in how my country is run, and I owe to future generations to help improve it as much as I reasonably can.

I’ll let you piece 1 and 2 together.
How are you measuring the memory usage of each?
And there is certainly a checkbox "I have read and agree to the terms [...]" that I would not select unless I'm 100% sure that I will keep the game.

How can you be so sure you will keep an unreleased game that you would agree to give up a basic right?
There is lots of place for politics in science, universities have internal politics also.

Ganja is the second largest city in Azerbaijan, why is it such a political statement?
Time reversed optical waves by arbitrary vector spatiotemporal field generation
Most Atom tablets I've ever seen were very bad implementations from noname brands, I haven't seen a halo product. And the OS choice was worse, either a full Windows, or an x86 Android, neither of which is the best choice for such a device. And that's on top of any weakness the CPU itself may have.
Well yeah, that was me. ;-)

Perception is why. Especially for certain clients. Let’s pretend that I work for the French department of the interior and some time early next year I go to install SolarWinds. You think the boss is gonna OK that, knowing it’ll be in the paper the next day? No chance.

They’re screwed for a while, only hope they have is staying afloat long enough for our short memories to forget this.
This mentality is exactly why Apple charges such a high tax on RAM upgrades.

The vast majority of people upgrading their RAM are doing so simply because they see a bigger number and not because they need it.
Bad idea to get 8GB instead of 16GB ram. It's +$200 for doubling your capacity for years to come.

Anyone have an opinion on Mac Mini vs Air? the raw benchmarks seem to favor the M1 mac mini: https://twitter.com/theshawwn/status/1331923535053299712

It takes 25m05s to compile webkit on a macbook air, but 19m32s on a Mac Mini. That's not-insignificant. And the Mini is several hundred cheaper than the Air too.

Mobility seems like an issue, but an external keyboard + tiny monitor seems to solve that. Though using a backpack + monitor + keyboard + mac mini + uninterruptible power supply is ... well ... maybe not too practical. It's hard to decide.
Unary Numeral System
""Declarative" means you can use it without knowing what it's doing. All too often, it means you can't tell what it's doing, either."

Yeah....
I liked this guy's explanation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=1313&v=wb_0FB7XiqA

My main questions after watching: how long do the spike proteins attach to our cell membranes? Do they get cleaned up eventually?

Also, will it lead to damage to the cell in anyway?
Tracking Covid-19 Vaccines Around the World
Why destroy the computers? Just destroy the power grid. Get a few million smart meters to disconnect from the grid simultaneously and watch the sparks fly. Destroy a sizeable quantity of transformers and it will be months or years before power is restored.

I think this is more "movie plot", though. "Smart Grid" security has gotten tons better than it was at the start. A lot of very security conscious and smart people have been working on it.
I just didn't read a single word and went straight to the bottom to see if this some sort of social experiment. Was not disappointed
Thought: There should be an official Google status dashboard for "free" (paid for via personal ad targeting metadata) services like Search, Gmail, Drive, etc. With postmortems, too. Probably won't happen unless it's mandated by law, though.
Electronic amoeba solves travelling salesman problem
Thats not a healthy bias to do research based on given that the kind of research we are talking about comes down to interpretation of data.

I dont care if people are woke its up to them, i do care if they have an activist agenda.
I’d say that’s solidly on-topic, and was more damaging to my business than the previous outtage.
That's the first thing I thought of when I saw it. The Viet Cong are lucky this kind of thing didn't exist in 1968.
Google tells Australian Government it is considering withdrawing “completely”
In America it’s illegal to speak of overthrowing the government, or rising up to defend rights by force. There’s really nothing you can do. The elections are over, the citizens and what they think doesn’t matter anymore. There is absolutely nothing any one of you can do, short of a Revolution, that will change anything over the next 2-4 years.
I find that crazy. I bought a computer with 16gb of ram in 2011 and by 2015 I was hitting OOM left and right.

I bought a mac mini with 32 GB in 2018 and I managed to OOM it a few times and oh boy was it ugly - already regret not taking the 64gb option at the time.
No, what you're literally doing is trading a risk on one person's life for a risk on another person's life (who has money). A person is vaccinated either way. All else being equal, rationality says you should choose the path lined with money.
Here is the incident report for the Gmail problem:

https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/www.google.com/en...

It is linked from the Google Workspace status page here:

https://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en-GB&v=issue&sid=1&iid...
> Spotify, Slack, Discord, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, all the annoying bloated websites, which I used to hate so much for the past months, now run like if they were the most optimized websites on the internet.

This is just going to encourage bloat and inefficiency, isn't it? Note: this has nothing to do with specifically Apple Silicon but just any computing improvements in general.
I can't think of any instances where they have charged a foreign national over consumer level harassment before.

Would this apply to Chinese mods kicking people off forums?

https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/counterintelligence/xinjiang-jin

Nationality Chinese

Xinjiang Jin is wanted for his alleged role in an unlawful conspiracy to commit interstate harassment and an unlawful conspiracy to transfer means of identification when he allegedly engaged in unlawful activity to terminate and/or make accessible information about the communication accounts of persons in the United States at the behest of the Chinese government’s intelligence and security services in the United States and China between January of 2019 and November of 2020. A federal arrest warrant was issued for Jin on November 19, 2020, in the United States District Court, Eastern District of New York, Brooklyn, New York, after Jin was charged with conspiracy to commit interstate harassment and unlawful conspiracy to transfer means of identification.
TLDR: the team forgot to update the resource quota requirements for a critical component of Google’s authentication system while transitioning between quota systems.
Isn't Haskell (GHC in particular) extremely slow to compile? In fact, I think GHC is the slowest compiler I used.
Search for "CNN video" in the videos tab. You get plenty of results from cnn.com.
Apparently big companies also can't vet or properly compartmentalize third-party software either.

It's an untenable problem for organizations of any size. There aren't enough man hours to reverse engineer and vet all the third-party software that any sized organization uses. There's no community will to force vendors to do better either.

We need something like an Underwriters Labs for software. It probably will take the insurance industry coming down hard for things to change.
Either you understood these or you didn't, what I like about them is that I don't reinvent the wheel every day. Small differences here and there, but the structure is the same, and years later, I see it and I remember how it all works, real quick.
If all computers in the datacenter were mining bitcoin, the attacker wouldn't be able to use them for anything else.
This kind of helps illustrate your point. It’s from the linked review titled “forget the performance the battery life will blow you away”

https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/m1-dock.gi...
I don't think this should be taken into consideration, murder-for-hire charges were dropped. And this whole situation was created by federal agents misconduct.
Given the fact Google is growing its data centre count in Australia, one assumes they mean to withdraw news from search results. But it is interestingly ambiguous.
Highlighting the SpaceX data points would definitely help with readability. But origin at zero is a good thing; charts with Y axes offset from 0 are generally worse than worthless - they're actively misleading (and often purposefully so).
Not everything is going to cater to your needs. I was curious how homebrew works so this was interesting to me. Looks like I'm going to hold off for a bit.

The title of the article/link could be a bit more descriptive though.
Numbers in the title are wrong.

BEFORE WEIGHT: 90,5 kg (199.5 lbs)
AFTER WEIGHT: 71,0 kg (156.5 lbs)

43 lbs = 19.5 kg
> Mathematically, an algebra generated by ganja.js is ...

You're generating code that relates to a certain algebra, likely for providing API for doing calculations based on that algebra (so an algebra library). Why would you call that 'algebra generated by ganja.js'?

Generators [0], generating sets/functions [1][2], have precise definitions within mathematics, and they have zero relation to code generation. So they have zero relation to what ganja.js is doing (i.e., generating code). No offense, but you should know better.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generator_(category_theory)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generator_(mathematics)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generating_function
Take out some subscriptions. Free news is basically news entertainment. If you want high quality long form articles, pay for them.
The most interesting part about an M1 architecture is an absence of any fan. But, still, from a back-end developer point of view, the one has to wait at least 3-6 months for the software to embrace an M1 chip.
On the other hand I'm 20 hours in with a 3080 and all graphics maxed out. The only bugs I've seen are a couple floating guns and one of the fixers had a weird bug where their cell phone on the table was moving with their hand movements.
The obvious answer is the one I assume you deliberately glossed over… Marijuana is still highly "political" in many, many places.
You probably want to talk to the ham radio AMSAT organization who've been doing stuff like that since the 60s.

I've been a ham a long time and its interesting to see the progress. Back when I was a gen-x kid amsat was about 20 years old and had just barely broken two digits of launched satellites and there were never more than a couple in orbit at a time. Now a days there's two digits of ham radio satellites launched per year...

The satnogs project is pretty interesting to see what goes into the ground station for a small satellite. Maybe start there.

AFAIK other than some obscure situations involving the ISS and some APRS satellites, there has never been any AMSAT multi-satellite networking, but at the current incredible rate of expansion I'd expect to see hobbyists having something like that by 2030 or so.
I'm surprised I haven't seen more developers go for the 'Paradox DLC' model of putting large new features in IAP with a single ongoing base app.
Generally I think advice from people who are far outliers in success is probably useless for normal to above average folks.
It's like asking Lebron James how to succeed at basketball. Well first you need to be born a genetic freak with inhuman hand eye coordination and grow up to be 6'9" tall.
I don’t think this is a good idea, and it would be disaster out for the Union if people start dying. I hope there are smarter people out there who will break the strike line.
As sending mass to space becomes cheaper I wonder if shielding will become more popular... Maybe there is some oil-like material that could serve bath as a cooling bath and as a radiation shield?
thats one hell of a post mortem.
Agreed I’ve been 16gb+ for a decade now. He seems to have under-specced on ram and HD.
GoodNameAbstractionFactory to the rescue!
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We need more writing where people are the best they can be. Imagine the good Shakespeare could have done by making his characters the best role models. People imitate, and Shakespeare has incredible reach.

As I get older, I have little patience for flawed characters, and love it when I see someone act good all the time in fiction.

Edit: Tintin, for example, is one of my favorite fictional characters of all time. He is smart, athletic, capable, dependable, and, most importantly, always acts in good faith.
The M1 macs are the fastest web browsing machines you can buy, by a huge margin. If that's your use case, there's no question what machine to get. The closest you can come with mobile x86 is to get the top-of-the-line 11th Gen Core i7, and the M1 beats that thing by almost 100% in browser benchmarks.
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There is a racing condition, the middle-class (30-45) generational overlap is out of other options, or at the upper end is confirmed in being out of other options ...then BS'sing and begging. Our society has become parasitic, include universal income to complement former "welfare", weeding out the jobs that are valueless to society, the phenomenon is then bottom to top. Any twists on this scenario are dubious and implausible.
The Phase 1 study might just mean it didn’t immediately harm the people that got it.

They might be followed closely for a long time; but it may only be a handful of people too.
Interesting that the blame here seems to sit with Apple. Aren’t we asking why Google, who owns the browser, can’t make YouTube, a video player, that they own, work in that browser on 2020 hardware?

YouTube is a turd. I do everything I can to avoid using it. How they’ve screwed up a video player that badly boggles the mind.
I risked it on an 8gb mini and quite frankly i can’t bend it even if I try.

Only thing it’ll probably die on is running VMs which I’m not going to do any more. They can live in DigitalOcean.

One liner review: this is the only computer I’ve ever had which can keep up with me.
I'm very skeptical the censorship is working. Censorship has created a whole class of "intellectual" that is using alternative platforms (e.g Joe Rogan and Dave Rubin) to espouse their points of view.

Those podcasters have enormous platforms and the censorship on the left makes it look like these people are providing a sort of intellectual forbidden fruit. People like the Weinstein brothers commonly point to cases of how the media and tech shut down real news and science and then use that to try to advance their own politics.
> Given the little chance Intel or anyone else is going to keep up with this new level of performance, I believe this new laptop could be with me perhaps even longer, unless everyone else in the world buys it and developers start to create 10x bloated apps compared to today.

That's naive and wrong. The M1 seems to be an excellent processor with good performance. It's not worlds better than a Ryzen 5 5600X or its mobile variant.

> I decided I don't need more RAM than 8 GB, because nobody from the first reviewers managed to give the RAM a hard time. It seemed to me it's a different beast altogether and it doesn't make sense to just compare numbers and say that more is better.

The processor is not a magical thing that changes how much memory is needed for workloads. When the first reviewers did not look at your workload it's meaningless that they did not complain.

Your memory requirements completely depend on your workload. It's quite possible you do not use more than 8GB, but I had IDEs and GIMP use more than that. And it's of course (it's Apple) not upgradeable, 8GB will not be enough if your usage changes, and then that laptop will just be expensive garbage for you.