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> If jaywalking was legal, the sacrifice is that we'd have to drive slower to watch for pedestrians

I'm not too well-versed on the various American speed limits. But I can tell you the Danish ones. Here there's no concept of "jaywalking". There's simply "crossing the street", and that's functionally never illegal.

We drive 50 kph in cities, towns, and villages. That's 31 mph. On wider roads that speed is 60 kph, or 37 mph. Those are still legal to cross as you please as a pedestrian.

Our normal country roads are driven at 80 kph, or 50 mph. These have a single lane in each direction and shared with pedestrians, bicycles, scooters, and every other road-going transportation method.

The next levels of road speeds (90 kph [55 mph], 110 kph [68 mph], and 130 kph [80 mph]) are only found on roads that don't connect directly to anything used by pedestrians. Specifically, on two-lane expressways and motorways. These can only be used by cars and motorcycles.

As I said initially, I'm not too well versed in US speed limits, but it's my understanding that these speeds at least match, if not are higher, than those. In other words, there is no inherent need to slow cars down in the US to make "jaywalking" legal.
There are. Pedestrians don't care and will literately walk into open traffic. I've seen the same thing in every major city.
> well composed with enough, but too many, functions.

In my experience, code with too many functions is more difficult to grok than spaghetti code. It's like trying to read a book with each sentence reference a different page. So, I try to code like I would write, in digestible chunks.

> As I get older my code gets a little more verbose

I've seen too many of my previous projects die right when I moved on. Now I tend to write code as if it were written by a beginner: verbose and boring, with no magic.
accompanying Spotify playlist:

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As opposed to Reddit where every subreddit aside from those dedicated to alt-right topics has a left-leaning tinge. Every platform has biases. It's just that Reddit chose to ban a specific group, so it's logical that group alone would dominate alternatives.
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I’m fully aware of what a resident is, which is why I assumed that nearly all of them are young. Mostly they are under 30 because they just finished medical school.
>A part of the problem is just the notion that everyone should even be going to two or four year university.

That would require structural reforms to fix the economy or to provide an alternative education path that is tied to economic productivity. In other words it is not going to happen.
But how does one navigate quickly to another Dewey number? I see only next/prior number arrows.

When I use the search box, or when I select Browse > Subjects and click a subject, I am suddenly in a different UI. For example if I choose Browse > Subjects > Chemistry I am looking at a single "shelf" of chem books, and the Chemistry Dewey number and its sub-numbers are no longer to be seen.
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You have an observational slice of about 4000 years at the most generous, 400 years more leniently (telescope invention was ~1600s), 40 years for modern tools (OAO-2 in the late 1960s).

You might as well be looking at a single frame of a movie and telling me you know the whole plotline because it happens to have the same pixels on screen for the whole shebang.
I used to do that in grade school to win coin flips. Flip the coin, catch it, feel for heads or tails, and depending on what you want present it by either simply opening your fist, or revealing it by flipping it onto the back of your other palm.
No, that's not true at the state level.

I've actually handled CAF cases before. Have you?
Are we going to panic over another flu?

If you don't want to catch it, wear an n95 masks.

Don't punish the healthy weight population for the unhealthy minority who apparently cannot isolate or wear n95 masks.
But in any other context you'll likely not know what it is. Even with the title, I have very very little idea of what it means. Video calls with one other person? Multiple? Are they recorded? Define "3D". There needs to be at least some high level explanation on the page (or a link to one).
People working from home should obviously not be higher priority than residents.

Unless they are people who could be seeing patients if they got vaccinated.
I think there are monads that are reasonably intuitive - Promises, Option types, etc (I know promises are ~technically~ not monads). It's mainly the practice of incorporating state into a stateless language and all the weirdness that entails that's the problem, in my view (so, specifically the IO monad)
Thank you! It is mindblowing to see the scientific comunity fixating over theories that are more likely to be wrong than right.
The Cray vector processors had a set of 8 64-element x 64-bit 'vector' (V) registers, as well as 8 64-bit 'scalar' (S) and 8 24-bit 'address' (A) registers - so it would sort of be similar to 4096-bit wide SIMD. When you did an operation like a vector add, you could do "V0 V1+V2", and it would automatically do 64 consecutive adds, and it would be done in 64 + a few cycles (since the hardware was still only doing 1 add per cycle). As someone else mentioned, it also supported "Vector chaining", so if your next instruction was "V2=V0*V3", it could take the result from the adder and pipe it into the multiplier so now your addition and multiplication are nearly fully overlapped (and you're cruising along at 160 MFLOPS in 1976!). I think it might have supported 3 chains, so you could very briefly peak at 240 MFLOPS, but you couldn't sustain it because of the startup latencies involved.

As a 'practical' example, I was able to write an N-body simulator of Jupiter and 63 of its moons (using the vector registers) orbiting one another in only 127 total instructions!
> Wouldn't it be less suspicious to hire a crack addict and have him shoot him?

Absolutely. This was in fact how a couple of other opposition figures, such as Anna Politkovskaya and Boris Nemtsov, were eliminated. This whole cloak-and-dagger pantomime involving chemical weapons is hard to explain, unless what they wanted was a seemingly natural death that was not traceable directly to Kremlin.
I think what would be interesting, is if a rice cooker not only performed the cooking part well that we all expect, but also percolated the rice to reduce the amount of arsenic in it.

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-05-uk-rice-breaches-limi...
The point is that you said the issue was unresolved when that’s clearly not the case.
Yes, Apple can and does design chips. But as you can imagine - "Designing chips" can mean anything.

With respect to CMOS chips you can go from from calling up Sony and ordering one off the menu with your custom requirements, to designing the NAND/pixel interconnects, microlenses, downstream dual-gain architectures, to working on the bonding chemistry, masked pixels, CFAs etc, etc. However, all this stuff is patented up the wazoo, and companies like Sony, Samsung, Aptina, OmniVision etc do not simply hand-over world-class tech like this.

Apple is very good at supply chain logistics, overall packaging and design, UX, Software, etc. However, I don't see them challenging the established players on core technology.
Would you mind sharing what could have been done to prevent the last minute PAYE shock? Was this something that could have been avoided, or an inevitably that you should have been made aware of sooner?

Also, as you mention a $USD, did you receive UK EMI options?

Thanks for sharing!
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I’m not disagreeing with you, just pointing out that the issue has been resolved whereas OP stated it was not.
Maybe people only listen to decision makers who make a fuckton of money, and maybe the effect has grown over time (like the Placebo effect).

In that case even if all CEOs are equivalent getting hired is a lottery ticket
My favorite version of this is A Fire Upon the Deep, by Vernor Vinge.
They can tell just by the first byte of the IP address. CGNAT addresses start with 100.
You’ve traded parasites here for viruses. What about bacteria?
matrix.org / element. Seems to be more prevalent in larger rooms (#nixos GET /sync requests take 30s and time out)
Self delusion does not excuse someone from a crime. Founders do not get a get-out-of-jail-free-card for being amateur psychopaths.
Tell HN: Amazon Reviews
I recently shared some negative review on a disappointing electronics product I bought on Amazon

Instead of displaying the review, Amazon secretly blocked my account from reviewing it!

Without notice, my review was ignored and hidden, and access denied.

In short: Don't trust Amazon reviews at all. And keep all packaging if you ordered something during these holidays, since you may wish to return it.
When Keurig does it, it's widely panned. When $favoriteCompany does it, it's hailed as innovation and welcomed with open arms and open pockets.

We shouldn't accept it anywhere. We need strong laws to prevent anyone from doing this.
Well i guess Tesla means a lot of things nowadays:

- Most advanced Technology in a Car at this moment both battery-wise or SW.
- People are starting cults around Tesla, specially geeks and nerds. Similar to Apple :)
- Tesla means today EV.

Everybody identifies Tesla with the most advanced EV.

You are right, they were probably not the first ones, but the ones easily identifiable as the EV and Car Technology. This is what they have as advantage compared to other EVs.
Cue Mel Gibson as William Wallace.
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GOPATH is hated because it's poorly thought-out. It's poorly thought-out because Go is designed by Google, who uses Bazel for dependency management. GOPATH is only there because you can't expect everyone to adopt Bazel in order to adopt Go, so some half-assed solution gets designed to get the language out the door.

In simpler terms, the people who designed the language don't use GOPATH at all. That's why it's terrible.
If Steve Jobs was still alive, I would agree with you.

Steve Jobs = Elon Musk in a different market.

Without someone in control who can make major decisions quickly, capital will not be enough for Apple.
I'm from Indonesia and I can't ever access voat with error 1020.
And funded by investors seeking to capture the economic gains made from it. That students are resorting to having to take out loans to fund their hobby shows it is only that.
While it would make sense to have recovery routines in some nonvolatile memory to handle a system corruption use case, I'm not sure it if would be necessary for a system restart. IIRC, core-based systems had nonvolatile RAM, and I think at least some of them would continue to execute the same memory image after reset. I think the point of the GP was that one of these DRAM based recorders is basically nonvolatile for all intents in purposes in this application.
> The quality of service I received is one of the best I have ever received. When I called to find out more about the New Model M not only was the help I received exemplarity, but once I placed my order, even though it had the custom configuration of macOS support added was shipped within 24 hours of placing the order and the item received is fantastic in every possible way.

That's sales support. Technical support is not so great. I bought a Model M from Unicomp about two years ago. Within about a year, one key became flaky, not registering sometimes. This increased to maybe 10-20% misses. I contacted support and the only help they could provide was to ship the keyboard back at MY expense. For THEIR defective product. That seemed pretty outrageous given that the shipping cost is a significant fraction of the purchase price.

A decent company would send me a replacement immediately, requiring me to return the faulty item, paying shipping both ways. As much as I like their keyboards, I cannot recommend buying from Unicomp because of their poor support.
An ISP that recently bought IPs formerly used in Pakistan and Hungary (or is in one country and bought the other block), and IP location data hasn't updated yet.
> driver must not enforce its priority... pedestrian can cross anywhere but has priority only on a zebra crossing

If drivers have priority ("right of way" in USA) but cannot enforce it, then they don't really have it, do they?

It's easier to just say pedestrians always have right of way.
I don’t think this joke quite got the credit it deserves.
1.3 Billion stars? What percent of our galaxy is that? Does the coverage go to the other side?

This must be an incredible map.
All the studies mentioned seem to focus on total crimes and not crimes per trip. I wonder if the (lack of) effect they observe is because of increased lighting leading to increased trips which leads to more crimes just because there are more people, cancelling out or negating any increased safety per trip.
This is exactly the kind of implicit coupling that makes software unmaintainable in the long run. You _are not passing the project root_, you are passing the value of a variable which currently should be set to the project root. The constraints on this value are not that it must be the project root, they are other constraints that are satisfied by the project root right now.
There were corners of it that were decent in terms of content and tone. Particularly v/justgrowit which was about gardening. But yeah, for every polite person in some isolated corner there were 50 screaming about politics on the front page.

But that wasn't the problem with Voat. The problem with Voat was the terrible code making the site non-functional.

You literally couldn't submit a URL which had a tilda in it. A tilda, ~, like at the start of every college account website URL everywhere. And it wasn't just tilda, it was a whole set of characters. And the devs, never, ever fixed it despite months then years of occasional notifications.
Its actually quite easy to toss a coin into the air so that it's rotating while not perpendicular to the ground, but not flipping over. It will land with the same orientation it was tossed into the air with. However, to an observer, it looks like it's flipping.
"Search the web using Google"
https://i.imgur.com/9XDWpVk.png

or an even earlier version of Google, "Search Stanford" "Search the Web"
https://i.imgur.com/EKiQnJX.png

They both provide more information than Pop does.
We don't live in a fair world. Those who have power rule over those who do not. Nobody wants a fair world, anyway. We love the thrill over overcoming the odds.
The mirror being between the sensor and lens means that there is a dead zone where there can be no lens, which severely restricts lens designs.

For example, for many years fast normal lenses on SLRs were 58mm “Biotar” not 50mm because a a new kind of focusing (retro focus) had to be adapted to work with a mirror in the way.
My zojirushi is my favourite device I’ve bought this decade. I squeezed it into carry on at SIN.

Next: my 10kg plastic asvel rice dispenser. “Indispensable”.
You get over it in the first week and it really isn't as bad as you'd think.
About 1%.
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Whilst the content on voat kept me from using it, I clicked this link and couldn't help noticing how quickly it loaded. How much content was on the screen. How many comments I could read before hitting "load more", which simply loaded more rather than sending me to a different page.

For a site with funding issues and limited Devs, voats usability should be a huge embarassment to the Reddit it based itself on.
Actually, most equipment in a modern BMW is keyed to that particular vehicle and cannot be replaced without a visit to the dealer. Everything from the seats, to the radio, to the headlights are all on a CAN bus and have to be coded to that specific car before they will work.
I am a bit confused with the navigation - it looks like a breadcrumb, but it's doesn't function like one... and the then main -> doesn't load anything... nor does report ->
"That depends a lot on how you count."

No, I don't think that it does. The bottom 50% generally do not have savings and investments - they invest their wealth in tangibles: Housing, food, belongings.

It is not meaningful to look at investments or savings as a measure of wealth when most people near the bottom do not and have never had those things. It's necessary to look at what does signify wealth in this class: Consumption and physical belongings.

For example, when we look at the average square footage of a home for the bottom 50% we see dramatic increases over the last century -- because wealth in the bottom 50% has had a dramatic increase.
If we look at operating systems in a Thomas Hobbes Leviathan kind of way, then Microsoft, through its monopoly on spying on your computer and dominating your system, is imbued with a vested interest in preventing anyone else from doing the same since Microsoft wants to conserve that power for itself. So in effect you get one big bad guy rather than thousands of them. Well, at least that's how it should work.

You're wrong to compare these hacking tools to arms dealing. That's a terrible analogy because international arms dealers and their customers aren't going around interfering with the daily home and office life of ordinary Americans. Microsoft talks a lot about NSO Group, which makes tools that sound like highly targeted arms dealing. But let's not forget there's 10x as many smaller companies from that same country, which sell the tools for surveillance and hacking of ordinary people and businesses.

Just the other day I was reading about one called Komedia which sells Layered Service Providers that are used for things like building pre-installed lenovo laptop software that decrypts your https and routes it through some service which injected ads and broke nodejs. It's in my opinion criminality on a scale 100x worse than anything Aaron Swartz ever did (RIP) and for some reason "businesses" that do things like that are becoming increasingly normalized.
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And OpenAI. So far.
The strategy in the UK (and much of the world) ignores epidemeology and tries to negotiate with the virus. OK, you say people will die, I'd prefer if they vote for me, how about if we meet in the middle and only a few of them die, but the rest vote for me?

This was probably made worse by politicians because it's their natural instinct, but you'll see regular people trying to bargain like this too. "OK I know it's unsafe to do X, but I really wanted to, and so was extra careful to use hand sanitiser today".

The virus doesn't understand your proposed bargain, it's just (very complicated) chemistry, it is no more able to agree to a "deal" where you can spend Xmas opening presents with the extended family without getting COVID-19 so long as you promise not to stay overnight than a falling rock is able to spare your life because you prayed to Jesus.

One small piece of good news is that to a limited extent, and for some privileged people, technology made it possible to ignore these bad policies and enjoy much of the safety offered by sane policies despite living somewhere that had chosen to ignore them.

Anyway, the idea (which I'm not agreeing with) isn't that Boris knew the old plan (Xmas week doesn't need rules) wouldn't work, and concocted this story to cover for the fact that he'd need to U-turn rather than just never issuing the obviously bad policy, nor that this new strain is the only reason it's out of control and the old policy wouldn't work. Instead the idea is Boris was disappointed to hear that scientists (who've said all along that couldn't work) are right and it's going to drown the NHS in patients, likely resulting in staggering death tolls around New Year - and once he understood that he wanted an excuse to U-turn for which a new strain provides a convenient excuse.

Boris always looks like a fool. It's a big part of how he got elected. British people think he's a charming buffoon. Under current plans he has several years for them to forget he killed their parents or grandparents before they get the chance to kick him out directly, although it's the nature of Tory party politics that Boris isn't likely to survive that long.
'observe due measure; moderation is best in all things'
-- Greek poet Hesiod (c. 700 bc)
Yea, I didn’t mean fork-bomb specifically, just “fuck ups” generally, or “critical sections” of operations as a human :)
Perfect price discrimination. Colleges at the top are a near monopoly - Harvard is a good substitute for Yale, but very few people can be in position to buy either.

One level down, the colleges price it using yield management strategies that would make airlines blush.

Apart from reforming federal student loans, ensuring that at least 75% of students pay the same price would stop some of the crazy pricing strategies
'Functional Style' is better articulated as 'bits of code with clear functionality and no dependencies. Hopefully without leaky abstractions. Or sometimes what we refer to as a 'Library'.

The decoupling provides greater resiliency to change and thus doesn't add geometrically to the complexity of the code base, rather just linearly.
+1, I love Tydlig! Have used it as my main calculator for years
That credits thing doesn't seem to add up. A quick google shows that 7% of Tesla's 2019 revenue was selling credits. While sure, that's of the same order as the profit, you can't make an argument that "all" of the profit was credits for basic fungibility reasons. "All" of the profit could be any 7% chunk of revenue.

And 7% is like half a year of profits growth in this cases for a company that is still growing rapidly and finding efficiencies.

It's spin, again. And I genuinely don't understand why so much of it continues to be deployed against this company when it keeps proving it wrong.
So what happens when your operating system steps forward and one day the tools stop working?

Should we commit the host O/S as well?
Nothing can be both affordable and a good investment. (If it is a good investment, then its value relative to other things increases. If the value relative to other things goes up, then it ceases to be affordable.) Housing programs were a short-term boost to the wealth of the people that could access house lending (see redlining and the impact on Black wealth) but ultimately encouraging private ownership _as primary savings vehicle_ is a failed economic policy, and as things are often the case, the only thing worse than this policy is possibly the repercussions of unwinding it.
In the latest episode of This Week in Virology[1] five virologists discuss this issue.

Some points they made:

"It's a variant. It's not a strain. A strain is a virus with a new biological property. There have been no new properties ascribed to this isolate other than sequence differences, which is not enough to make a strain.. nor have we seen any other new strains of SARS-CoV-2 that anybody's demonstrated to be biologically different. None. It hasn't happened yet. I'm not saying it couldn't but it hasn't."

"Nobody's done any experiments to determine the effects of these changes on any property of the virus. Yet when a journalist calls up a scientist and say "What do you think?" and the scientist says "These could have an effect on virulence or transmission or antibody neutralization," somehow that gets translated in to "It's making the virus more virulent" and that's what's circulated and a dozen people this week said to me "What do you think about these mutations in the UK that make the virus more virulent, more transmissible, more resistant to neutralization by antibodies?" None of that has been shown, folks! It's speculation. There's no paper on any of this."

[1] - Starting at about 54 minutes in to episode 696: https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-696/
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