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Unfortunately they never reached out. But, wherever you are, I hope you're having a Merry Christmas, daodedickinson. Everyone should!

Don't worry too much about stuff. Things will get better. (Prozac also helped me.)
my point is that i think there should be a soft limit on how long a single line of code should be because i feel like it becomes too hard to read if they get too long. that is an emotion as you said and it might be kinda arbitrary but i don't think there is something fundamentally wrong with it.
I feel the "reaction" is over blown. Especially when I see what some people complain about.

There's tons of legitimate criticism, pretty much pertaining to bugs but damn... I remember Skyrim being just as "buggy" but I don't recall the reaction being nearly as bad.

I'm bias though as I've played on PC and had a phenomenal experience. Last gen players should 100% get a refund. Beyond that though, I just don't see it. There's some other viable critisim but when I weigh that against what the game is I just don't get it. Its objectively the most detailed city in a first person action/RPG. It objectively has the most detailed quests:quantity. I can excuse the bugs... again though, talking from a PC experience with 0 real bugs. I can see how it would be annoying with bugs but I've played GTA and Skyrim, I can survive them lol
There was also this star trek episode..the original..where a group of women steal spock’s brain and installs him as a computer on a planet where men and women cannot get along. He becomes the ‘controller’ and Bones had to rescue Spock and put his brain back. Fun times.
L-systems can be used to describe fractals but they aren’t fractals. They are formal languages.
That might be consequence if GDPR: they need legal proof of the legitimacy of the request and of its thorough execution.

Just as you can’t really “unsee”, you can’t fully delete data once you’re exposed to it. Something documenting its previous existence will always remain
You mean million that died, had a positive PCR test at some time. There are still less people dying in 2020 than in 2018 in most countries even though population gets older and therefore more people are dying every year on average anyway.
It's like geometric construction games, except you can't use a compass. You can draw lines between points, project lines through points, and "average" both lines and points. The dragging motions aren't completely intuitive...
If smoke is the problem you can eat or vaporize it for example.
Iverson bracket notation is named after him: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iverson_bracket
"But medicine has a long history of people being rather convinced of theories that made an awful lot of sense and killed an awful lot of people."

That works for both sides, both the true believers and the skeptics. Both sides are absolutely convinced that they are right and the other side's belief will kill people. At least one side is wrong. Both have their reasons, both appeal to history, both appeal to science. It is a confusing time to live.
Reconsider Using WebSpeech API
Lombok fixes most of the getter/setter issues. It is also supported in IntelliJ
FB uses BlueJeans as per my knowledge.
The negation of bad isn't "good". It's "not bad".
Agree with all of that except the last paragraph - streaming album/LP's suck, and I've had spotify and apple accounts for years. As an alternative, I'd kindly recommend (to anyone) finding a few independent radio stations in genres you like or are new to. I feel that a good DJ and/or announcer is a godsend in an environment where the music alternatives feel endless and the social environment is complex. I just don't think that 'AI' or any SQL implemented 'playlist generator' will match a good DJ set with commentary.
When I was a postdoc at Stanford i simply stopped showing up at the department after 9 months. The chairman later told me that i was the first one in the entire history of the department to have done that. By the way there was absolutely no pressure; they kept paying me and in fact by mistake they raised my salary to $10,000 a month. Then they called me from the payroll office to ask if I would voluntarily return it and I said yes. I did get very depressed though and I became acquainted with all night cashiers in the Menlo Park Safeway that was then open 24 hours.
I've travelled with valuable (to me, not in commercial terms) art in inconvenient packaging and nearly forgotten it on the baggage scanner. Airport stress is real and Düsseldorf is particularly bad (permanently understaffed for its volume, leading to long delays at checkin and insecurity control if anyone calls in sick).
> If we're making comparisons to the traditional music industry, the streaming services might not be the labels -- they could be the recording formats.

The streaming services are more like a hybrid of radio stations and music retail stores; they are where people go to listen to and/or buy recordings.
This does seem very interesting, at first glance. One thought:

> These “scoped life-time” reference counts are used by the C++ shared_ptr⟨T⟩(calling the destructor at the end of the scope), Rust’s Rc⟨T⟩(using the Drop trait), and Nim (using a finally block to call destroy)

So Rust's non-lexical lifetimes doesn't remedy this? Meaning the actual drop of xs needing to occur at the end of the example in the beginning of section 2.2, as opposed to right after the map. I would have thought that ys borrows nothing from xs, and the drop can be inserted right after map? Perhaps it's too early in the morning for thinking for me.
Amazon paid 250 million dollars for the rights to Tolkien's Silmarillion.

This proposed scheme will simply lock away most of IP (especially IP with any cultural significance) in the vaults of a few conglomerates.
V language now uses autofree Rust-like memory management
V avoids doing unnecessary allocations in the first place by using value types, string buffers, promoting a simple abstraction-free code style.

Most objects (~90-100%) are freed by V's autofree engine: the compiler inserts necessary free calls automatically during compilation. Remaining small percentage of objects is freed via reference counting.

The developer doesn't need to change anything in their code. "It just works", like in Python, Go, or Java, except there's no heavy GC tracing everything or expensive RC for each object.

taken from vlang.io
Developing economies are by definition irrelevant.
Something is definitely off with the voice acting in Vs' (male) voice, I can't quite put a finger on it, but most of the responses just don't match with the conversation that's going on.
> but Moderna has more experience with mRNA vaccines

Let's keep things in perspective, please. This EUA is for Moderna's first product with any approval whatsover from the FDA. The lipid coating is a way for encasing the mrna vaccine in a kind of plastic for entering the cell.
> My company had a massive, over-engineered monolith that we broke down into more sensible microservices, and the architecture is now much cleaner and easier to maintain, scale,

5 years from now you will go from a massive, over-engineered micro service architecture. To a well designed modular monolith that is much cleaner and easier to maintain, scale, etc.
Ah yes, you're right, I hadn't seen it from that angle.
> Simpler code base from not having to worry about concurrency and multi-threading

Microservice advocates are so naive it's painful. It is only simpler if you completely ignore the downsides of microservices. Taking a "monolith" application and turning it into a distributed application rarely makes it simpler. Now you have to deal with network failures, serialising and deserialising data for what was previously just a method call, API versioning all over the place, kubernetes/terraform/etc configs from hell, concurrency and race conditions still persist but now they're spread across services instead of between threads. You want data consistency and transactions? Forget about it!
While I get and share your point, the downside is: when you miss the yellow strip, you're basically screwed. Being tech savvy, I remember many times this pattern caught me off-guard. How do you think non tech-savvy (who account to the majority of users I guess) will react to this?
> a person that does not exist.

They'll run it through face recognition and find the original person that provided their face data and arrest them.

Plot twist, a criminal will flood the market with masks of their own face to get plausible deniability for the actual crime.
That all seems rather trivial by spinning up, then deleting a disposable VM without network access.
With my Valve Index, when the headset or controllers go near the boundaries of the play space (approx. 1.5ft from the edge for a 9x9ft area), SteamVR will overlay a bright cyan wireframe of what the cameras see on top of the game. For me, this works incredibly well and I've yet to hit my controllers on anything (well, except for clapping the controllers together).

I'd be curious to know if others disable this feature intentionally or if this method of warning the user isn't as effective with everyone (I am very easily distracted by anything popping up). I could see it being annoying for a smaller play space.

(Also, does Oculus/non-SteamVR have an equivalent? I assume it must)
No there's a difference. :) I made a point AND proved my point by showing a contradiction in human logic.

While I agree that the length of my argument made you not actually read it at all and miss the entire point, proving a point with illustrative examples does necessitate such verbosity.

What you're doing is stating a point without proving it and claiming that my own argument is self defeating with no explanation.

Why don't you try proving your point and also countering my proof while being concise at the same time? Because right now you just stated a point with nothing. You're stating in a single sentence the world is flat after I Proved it's round. Ok... So what? prove it.
Heh, contextually you sure can. ;)
Thing is boeing made incredibly bad decisions that should have been avoided given current rules and procedures.

That was only done due to concern for profits and not due to any engineering flaws. (MCAS existing in the first place, it didnt have reliable sensors, pilots were not instructed on it)

How would you react if a loved one died due to boeing or any company greed?

Cynic in me is hoping this is only allowed to fly in the US until it proves safe and boeing execs and employees are forced on every damn flight.
I definitely want the fat middle class, but it's a pretty complex reason that probably doesn't shake out in a free market. For one, we can make software more accessible to broader society.

You are right that many types of software produce orders of magnitude more money than was put in. But if you were to look at the broader workforce and industry, you'll find that much software is just a small part of a much bigger machine that has almost nothing to do with software. That's where I would rather see more software developers.

As it stands, VC pours billions into startups that make 0 money until they can flip the investment dollars on the public market. They stand somewhat isolated from the rest of the economy. That's why wages can get so high. Not because the software itself sold billions of dollars worth of service or value.

There's probably lots of software that doesn't get written but would be hugely beneficial to the numerous facets of society, because small businesses can't afford a software engineer when competing with SV wages.

That's me looking at things from afar, I am not in SV, and my experience is on the ground floor of software companies that are producing work for industries that aren't software. It's a totally different market, and I would rather see more software in this space than making another overvalued software doodad valued entirely for it's potential as an advertising platform.
> denigration of GRRM

This literally isn't happening.
When streamers are streaming, they are working. If you want to listen to your favorite music, you can do that in your own private time. In a business context, other rules apply.

> why are you going to sacrifice that money to license the music when you're small and starting out

Does this also apply to utility bills?

Just use non-copyrighted music. If that isn't enough, you need to pay or just live with it.
Are mRNA vaccines safer than traditional ones? In the long run, which one will have less side effects? As far as I know, Both US and Europe are only going with mRNA vaccines for COVID. Is it intentional or just because there is no traditional vaccine that completed Phase III trials?
I’ve mentored about 25 postdocs. I’ve found that some are just lazy and not interested in having any kind of career. I think that’s about 25%. Then there’s about 69% percent with too little talent or drive. 5% make it. And 1% is too genius to ever succeed.
How would artists be compensated if all art was public domain?
The problem is that all those words make it harder to find the meaning. Well-chosen naming exposes it.
sniff sniff I love the smell of petrol. Hmmm
I completely agree with your poignant "getting to know an album" statement, but I fundamentally disagree with your general point of your issues with streaming; I think it's a boon to have such a wide selection of music at your fingertips. An asymptotically infinite, for practical purposes, amount of music.

That being said, I really appreciate your perspective, and everything you said about physical media, the radio, torrent services, and ultimately limitations to music selection, is all absolutely true and completely resonates, even if I prefer the modern "more music than you could care about" availability.

It somewhat saddens me that anyone under the age of 25 (this is arbitrary, maybe a few years younger) never experienced the sensation of really getting to know every song of an album by an artist who's album you purchased, _even the songs you didn't like_. This really can't be emphasized enough. The younger generation has no concept of listening to a song you "don't like" 50 times, simply because you listened to the album you purchased 100 times.

It's like actually getting to know a friend extremely well that you've spent countless days with, vs. an acquaintance whom you always have a blast with but only meet at parties once every couple months.
I don't think that's it, either. I think it's that the word "ganja", in United States parlance, is sort of puerile and gets uttered ironically more than it does unironically. I think that most of us not caring about weed anymore is what makes the oblique reference to it kind of passe and eye-rolly.
This[1] can probably give you some insight into the applications side of things.

1 => https://blog.ycombinator.com/joan-lasenby-on-applications-of...
Those LNPs have historically caused adverse reactions, per their 2018 SEC filing, hopefully their upgraded versions are improved and do not cause those reactions; I am hopeful.that they have, because of the reported results of their current clinical trials, but it is a data point:

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1682852/000119312518...

"Most of our investigational medicines are formulated and administered in an LNP which may lead to systemic side effects related to the components of the LNP which may not have ever been tested in humans. While we have continued to optimize our LNPs, there can be no assurance that our LNPs will not have undesired effects. Our LNPs could contribute, in whole or in part, to one or more of the following: immune reactions, infusion reactions, complement reactions, opsonation reactions, antibody reactions including IgA, IgM, IgE or IgG or some combination thereof, or reactions to the PEG from some lipids or PEG otherwise associated with the LNP. Certain aspects of our investigational medicines may induce immune reactions from either the mRNA or the lipid as well as adverse reactions within liver pathways or degradation of the mRNA or the LNP, any of which could lead to significant adverse events in one or more of our clinical trials. Many of these types of side effects have been seen for legacy LNPs. There may be resulting uncertainty as to the underlying cause of any such adverse event, which would make it difficult to accurately predict side effects in future clinical trials and would result in significant delays in our programs"
* Progress within a generation is not mandatory for progress across generations. We progress as a species across generations. You don't need to find people changing opinions within your circle. Our sample set is far, far bigger.

* Data/Evidence itself is a living thing. It changes, new data comes in, old data is discarded, or scientific consensus on the "interpretation" changes and evolves like an organism. Whether you like it or not, entities who interpret and report the data operate on and are influenced by political, social, financial and many other factors. Sometimes they believe they are "doing the right thing" while changing the interpretation. To give you some examples:

* For more than 40 years, there was super strong evidence and scientific consensus that neutering dogs early reduces cancer risk. Now, it has already come to light that this consensus was largely driven by moral dilemma to prevent the stray litters epidemic. Last 5 years, the opposite scientific consensus is building up: Neutering dogs early increases cancer and health risk [1]

* The complete international goof up on wearing masks, where everyone including WHO and CDC unanimously publicised consensus that masks do not help wearers — was driven by unquantified fears of masks running out of supply for frontline workers, and not by data. There were many ways they could have tackled that fear, e.g. by recommending governments to split retail and emergency stocks. But no, they decided to tackle it by changing the consensus instead, huge confusion and endless debates followed (like how do masks work for workers but does not work for regular people), lives were lost. Now that interpretation consensus has taken a U turn, except it's not new data, data was already scientifically present in the SARS and various other past epidemics. Just new consensus.

In many cases, you see that data was politicised not by politicians, but by the scientific community itself — because they are still learning how to cope with moral, social and practical dilemmas when interpreting data, and they do not have accountability for their interpretations. Their interpretations are just recommendations and the final decision making falls on authorities who are only held accountable.

Within one generation, you can have one huge mess up with the data or consensus, and have the whole species die off. It could have very well happened already, had COVID not been less fatal to younger population. It's too early to root for within generation progress, but we definitely do progress as a species. That's how it's intended to work.

1: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6070019/
> You could have made similar arguments after every air crash that was caused by a design flaw.

I'm not really convinced this is true. For instance, in the classic case of de Havilland Comets brought down by square windows, I think it was an honest mistake that happened because pressurized cabins were new-ish tech. They worked to understand the problem and fixed the design. Nobody was trying to cut corners AFAIK (no pun intended).

I guess we could make another category where an iffy design is made to fail by corner-cutting on the part of the airlines, as in the MD-80 pitch trim jackscrew issues.

The MAX is a case of the actual aircraft manufacturer explicitly compromising the design of a safety feature because they knew it would help them sell more planes (due to avoiding training/recertification requirements). IIRC, the investigation revealed a consistent pattern of negligence and outright malfeasance on Boeing's part to this effect. I wouldn't say this kind of thing has never happened before, but off the top of my head I have to assume it's pretty rare.
> it was astounding how the surgeons were literally unable to see any mode of treatment which didn't involve surgery.

Current medical practice is the definition of "when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail", so no surprise here. This a result of hyperspecialization which most of the time is good (capable hands) but sometimes not so good (rigid mind).
That's also the thing with premature. I would agree with you that premature is before you know what's slow. But if you have a CI Profiling run showing a few hotspots it's not premature anymore. Still people quote this adage.

Further there are things you should know are usually performance issues, that I would expect you to avoid entirely, except with good reason. Using O(N²) or worse algorithms on big collections when there are much faster alternatives in the standard library of your language for example. I don't think these good habits are premature optimization.
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stainless_steel_soap:
"The aim of the stainless steel soap is to then bind to the sulfur molecules, thus removing them and the associated smell from the hands. However, scientific evidence of the efficacy of these soaps appears lacking."
Not sure what the point was you were going to make, but the mRNA technology is a big step in the direction of being able to address medical problems like writing a software. For a long time, pharmaceuticals were create in a trial and error process. It took science a long time to be able to reliably predict the outcome of chemical reactions, if we are talking about complex organic chemistry. I was working a very little bit on that in the mid-90ies. One very naive program I implemented was trying to predict the toxidity of a random chemical by its formula. We have come far from that. But with the mRNA technology, they could design their vaccine on a computer, also the production of the mRNA is highly automatized, so no experimenting in how to create it.

Developing the mRNA technology was of course decades of research, but now it is ready to be used. It also helped, that the SARS-virus was very well researched, so like with software, it the vaccine wasn't created "from scratch". It used the knowledge already present about these viruses. This means, while you might not get a vaccine against a random virus in two days (no HIV vaccine available yet), adjusting the vaccine for slight variations of the SARS-cov-2 virus, should be a very quick process.
Soundcloud solves discovery for me. Every week I look through their search for words i filter on and sample all the songs (40-100 songs, maybe takes 1-2 hours at most) and download them if I like them (some weeks none, some weeks more than others), follow the artist if I like more than a couple (and what they are liking and re-posting), and occasionally pay the artist directly for files even if I already downloaded it.

I stream from my computer to my phone when I'm at home over the local network in the browser and thru a cheap vpn from my computer when I'm not (and/or just copy a random sample to my phone when I don't wanna pay for the bandwidth) if I know long enough a head of time.

Deff wont show up in billboards stats… nor have to deal with the misalignment of incentives when listening to music on the soundcloud trying to push a song from their algos an artist/agency paid them to do (or ads).