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“Superior” is meaningless out of context. There are domains where visual programming prevails, like shader design in computer graphics. Visual programming is a spectrum: on one end you’re trading the raw power of textual languages for a visual abstraction, and on the other end you just have GUI apps. UI design and prototyping programs like Sketch are arguably visual programming environments, and you’d have a hard time convincing me that working in text would be more efficient.
Parser written in PHP is 5.6x faster than the same C++ program in a similar test
Sure.

But I bet the people working on those don’t say their employer unexpectedly “roped me into a production support on-call”.

If a role isn’t advertised as having responsibility outside regular office hours, bait and switching people into regularly working outside 9-5 type hours should not be allowed. And “not allowed” with serious enough financial teeth that companies right up to FAANG size would care, or at least that employees leaving/fired from bait and switching employment hours would end up feeling satisfied with their payouts.

If you need uptime guarantees, hire people letting them know up front so they can choose to accept or reject that work. You don’t (or at least shouldn’t) get to drop that responsibility on people who never signed up for it in the first place.
Correct, it's aligning played musical notes to a bar (measure) on a computer screen.

Then almost always, a clone tool is used to repeat that one bar identically dozens of times.

So you lose most of the organic nature of music in a mechanical fashion.
The Linux kernel is developed in that way. git itself is another example.
lol at the comments
Sorry for late answer.

The best way to deal with devaluation is just, spend the money instantly, is not really that hard, people barely get Venezuelan Bolivars (minimum wage is 3$ month equivalent) and like 90% of all transactions are already done in USD

So people really don't hold venezuelan bolivars for more than 1 day, savings in bolivars doesnt exist at all in this country.

In case you actually need to just save the money, you just trade it (it takes barely no time) for USD and hold the usd either in cash or in some usa bank (most people have access to them) or paypal.

So, the unofficial "forex" market is always there..

BTW this might sound funny but with only 450million USD you can buy the entire M2 in venezuela. So yeah, hyperinflation might be solved really easy whenever we actually get a new goverment
Calling it lack of support is probably a bit misleading, in reality they are actively undermining the competitive scene by things like shutting down tournaments/streams, preventing outside orgs (eg evo, mlg) from picking up smash, etc. Some of the other commenters gave links which have more details on this.

Given the recent events in context of the past 2 decades of nintendo's behaviour, the smash scene would love for nintendo to not be involved at all. There is no entitlement whatsoever for nintendo's support (unless "support" literally just means allowing us to run events with no help of any kind from nintendo other than not shutting it down, in which case it really doesn't strike me as too unreasonable).
I see managed languages adopting linear and affine types for certain types of high performance workflows.

Already visible in Swift, Haskell, Chapel, ParaSail, D.

Likewise I see Microsoft and Google, will keep their lifetimes efforts going until it offers a good enough experience, even if not perfect, in spite of their ramping up use of Rust.

A good example of this is the Azure Sphere, which inspite of the security marketing story the team tells everywhere with the 7 levels and such, it uses a C based SDK.
The advertiser knows which affiliate generated the sale. That is how affiliates get paid.

The advertiser has no idea what techniques the affiliate used to generate that sale. That's the whole problem.
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Kurzweil since 1982 is easy to understand.

His predictions are part of his personal eschatology. He is man in religious quest for personal salvation.

All his past predictions and timeframes are conveniently set so that there is change for him to live forever. He is nutrition and immortality nut (Fantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough to Live Forever and Transcend: Nine Steps to Living Well Forever). He is now 72 years old. If he lives to old age with all his life extension pills and rapture of the nerds happens in 25 years he could just make it.
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“More than I ever intend to do in my entire career. I’ll just see myself out, sorry you wasted my time here.”
Those are far from pathetic, in fact some of the most real and valid reasons. Mental health is so important.

But holy crap did I feel exactly this when working at bigtech. 1-2hr commute plus long days and short weekends it can all blur together so quickly. Winter especially was the worst when it was dark out long before I left the office.

On the sleeping note - have you been tested for sleep apnea before? I'm young, slim and healthy but felt exactly that way (sleep 12+ hrs on nicest bed I could find, humidifier and air purifier and all, but still not feel rested & needing to go to my car during work to take a nap..). Low and behold I tested positive for sleep apnea, and I've heard CPAPs can be night and day for many with it.
I can see how the graphics could be a turn off. I have found it to be a fantastic game. Item interaction is really fun. loads of combos.
> In research, the impact isn't as tangible and probably won't be known for years.

This still describes a lot of software engineering.
You have to understand a person's motivations to understand that person. Kurzweil doesn't want to die. He wants to live forever, in some form. Once you understand that, you'll understand why he's so bullish on AI, gene therapy, lifespan extension, etc.
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A half-hour to learn Rust
Jan 27, 2020 · 51 minute read · rust

maybe the site's reading time estimator is broken? sarcasm intended.

But seriously, it is good to have people writing things like this.
I'm not good with CSS but perhaps uBlock Origin could have some rule that could do this?
> "Computerized health monitors built into watches, jewelry, and clothing which diagnose both acute and chronic health conditions are widely used. In addition to diagnosis, these monitors provide a range of remedial recommendations and interventions."

> MOSTLY RIGHT

I'll quibble with this one and call it mostly wrong. Yes, a very narrow and specific set of possible cardiac abnormalities can be detected (with significant error rates) by the Apple Watch's optical (PPG) and electric (ECG) heart rate sensors. Other vendors have functionally equivalent capabilities.

But medically speaking, smartwatches are probably decades away from independently diagnosing anything, let along recommending an intervention (i.e. a drug or surgery). Kurzweil's terms have specific meanings in medicine and current technology is nowhere close to that.

What exists today (or, in 2019) is a very narrow use case and far from the broad and general scenario Kurzweil envisioned. And there is no realistic roadmap to achieve any more than incremental development in this area - PPG and ECG were "low-hanging fruit" in some sense, and medically actionable wearable sensors for pretty much any other medical signal present orders of magnitude larger engineering challenges that few people are even seriously working on. Hence, "mostly wrong."
i now know exactly how to show off on college application resumés...think MIT uses Chrome? finally something to make up for my GPA.
>is there any other competitive ARM desktop processor?

Depends. There are ARM Server Processor, there are also ARM High Performance CPU-Core Design ready to be fabbed. So the question here isn't if there is one, it is who has the right incentive to fab one.
You and the post I'm responding to are saying slightly different things. They say "this seems to be geared towards beginners who are not intending to understand the underlying primitives"

I disagree with the premise. When you use a tool, you don't need to understand the internals, but depending on documentation, error messages, and the surrounding community you can learn what's going on under the hood as you need to.

When I use a library I don't plan one way or the other to become a deep expert or stay a beginner. I develop the knowledge I need to solve my problems. The tool is useful at all points in my own progression - from being a good place to learn about and practice using concurrency to being a codebase I can browse to learn more about how the primitives work.

You're saying "concurrency is harder than other abstractions, so in order to use it correctly you actually need to understand what's going on"

I also disagree with that premise. There are lots of hard things in programming. Concurrency is one of them, but so is memory management. There are footguns all over. It's possible to misuse most abstractions, and the reasoning could often be chalked up to "not understanding underlying primitives"

I think this is all besides the point. If you run into problems when using your tool, you will have to learn how to fix or debug them. If in the case of serializing your whole application: either your application didn't need to be parallelized or you will debug why it's not scaling like it should be.

That step, the debugging what's wrong... it's going to make you learn a little bit more about what's going on under-the-hood. I think all of us agree about that.

So what are you and the original post I was responding to saying? I think the first post was saying something like "you should learn concurrency primitives; if you know concurrency primitives, then this library is overly pedantic."

I don't really know what you're saying.

I'm saying: use whatever entry point you want to solve your problems. It seems very likely to me that the abstractions provided here will make sense to some people (eg maybe they've learned idiomatic go concurrency or used kotlin coroutines), but they might be brand new to others. If the examples are sufficient for you to get concurrent code working, then that is really great! I'm not sure why people insist that we learn things one way or in some specific order. I don't see their research indicating that bottom up is better for retention (or something else), they are simply positing without fact that their way is best. I disagree.
I downloaded and have curated historical sports data from various sources and figured out the 'simplest' parameters which work.. which at the moment is just the defaults. Model training is not much to be honest. I have a fairly fast processor so it takes about 10 minutes to run every iteration.
It has evolved from predicting just one dimension/feature but now, it predicts all of the variables it can train on (all training features)
Earlier, I used to manually input every predictor and then run the algorithim but now, I have figured out the copy-paste method which essentially cuts the pre-processing from around 2 hours to 10 minutes now. It gets a bit hectic giver the current nature of sports happening every day and increasing frequency of cycles. That part can be optimised via web scraping but not a priority at the moment but is a priority nevertheless.
Outputs are generated into a spreadsheet at the moment but would publish them onto an online platform later once I figure out the 'monetizing' and user-prompted running of the algorithim part.
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I had a friend that was a fracking engineer and made big bucks working on drilling sites. Constant travel, awful hours, "culture" of working all the time.

He took a big paycut to start working for the state government but he has good benefits, good retirement, and normal hours that you can actually raise a family with. And while all of his peers have scattered the nation looking for jobs when natural gas prices crashed, he's still sitting pretty with his same steady job.

So there is a lot more than just salary to working for the government.
Most malware is likely more popular than the majority of apps this affects.

- Malware can be signed
- Popularity != trustworthiness
- Software "trustworthiness" shouldn't be depended on. Strong sandboxing avoids malware
The ideas behind LLVM were first researched by IBM during their RISC research on the implementation of PL.8 language, and later by Amsterdam Compiler Toolkit.

C++ as database and AST representation was used by Lucid on Energize C++ and IBM Visual Age for C++ version 4. Both products died, because they were too resource hungry for the hardware of the day.

Need I say more?
People will be mortgaging their homes to buy one

As long as they didn't watch the entire movie!
The exact diet matters a metric shitton, because Jobs' hubris cost him his life, if instead he had realized he did not, in fact, know everything, he might still be alive.

Pancreatic cancer eats sugar for-fucking-breakfast. [1] He was eating nothing but fruit, and even though fructose release is regulated in its binding with fiber, its still sugar.

If Jobs had eaten nothing but bacon, steak, and eggs, we might still have him around. I forgot what folder my bookmarks are in, but there's scant - but compelling - evidence to support that a sugarless diet high in protein and fat quite literally starves pancreatic cancer.

[1] https://jeccr.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13046-019-....
windows no, azure yes.
- Play less video games and use that time to read more

- Exercise

- Less takeout since I love cooking that is what I should do instead of being lazy :D
What techniques do SpaceX use to control their reusable rocket, and if they are classical (as opposed to ML), why wasn't it done before?
I find if I write down 5 tasks and cross them off one by one, I will gravitate to the short easy ones first for instant gratification.

Completing larger tasks gives a much deeper satisfaction yet despite a long time trying to teach my body/brain this, it still craves the easy path instant gratification.

So one thing I do is split up the big task into lots of small tasks so I can cross more off and get the gratification hits. This helps my brain prioritise those over other small tasks.
While I totally agreewith you.. unfortunately I don't think this is as clear cut as drunk driving.

Drunk driving is universally agreed to be a terrible thing to do... Most people even if they have done it, would acknowledge that it was a bad, wreck-less, often youth driven decision.

With COVID the spectrum of agreement on how dangerous it is, is so much more vague. Clearly some people do not believe they're doing anything wrong by attending a maskless party. They may recognize that others think its wrong, but themselves truly believe that we are wrong and this is all dumb.

That's what's so fucked up about this situation. I really don't feel like I could guilt my friends even if I wanted to. Despite really believing they are making the "wrong" decision, I also recognize that they don't share that opinion, and that they are part of a fairly large group that shares their viewpoint. It's not as cut and dry as I wish it was and that's what's so stressful about it.
> I mean, you have your kid get cancer, then tell me if you wouldn't take a "blood on the hands" job like...working at Facebook??

That's worlds apart from what you wrote above. You said you would work for the devil himself. We weren’t talking about Facebook. Also, being overburdened with crippling medical bills for your dying child would obviously complicate the moral calculus.

> The breathtaking presumptuousness and pompous assumption that my life viewpoint is holding me back is...amusing, honestly.

Fair point... But I didn't have much to go off of. Look at what you wrote. It doesn't come across well.
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Yes, it is also specially sad that the first almost memory safe systems language ESPOL, later replaced by NEWP still in use to this day in Unysis ClearPath MCP, dates back to 1961 and here we are trying to fix C, created 10 years later.
Your condescension really places your comment beyond any hope of redemption, but in a different context I might have explained to you what the word 'interrogable' meant with relative kindness, which of course is not going to happen, now. If HN had a block button I would use it.
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I keep using a lot of text messages: I have many people with different type of chat apps, or no chat apps at all (old gen), so the only way to reach everybody is doing that instead of juggling with different services.

I don't use whatsapp, and don't have an iPhone, so no imessage. Most people don't use Telegram or Signal which I do. Not to mention a lot of geeks have their favorite way of being contacted (slack, wire, etc).

And of course all that will have change in a few years. Before you had to have facebook. When in Asia, it was lime or something else.

As soon as you have a lot diversity in your life, text messages are the only thing that works all the time, plus they are free in my country.

In fact, iMessage is basically sending text messages without the user knowing they do if the other hand is not an Apple device.

In the end, I suspect text messages will still be here in 10 years, and all people around me asking to subscribe to yet another chat service will have change 3 times (and lose their contact list in the process).
Thanks. Will look out for it.
Actually it is how most of the projects I have been have decided to use it.

Most enterprise shops don't see any value in doing otherwise.
Seconding this! It's one of the very few tech books I've read cover to cover more than once. I similarly find myself revisiting individual pieces of it often.

It completely changed the way I thought about the role of type systems -- and I don't even mean in terms of monads, functors, or any other higher level category theoretic stuff. I mean just the day-to-day business coding idea of representing more of your domain directly in the type system.

I now find that pencil and paper is the best programming tool. It's massively easier to iterate on types and arrows between them than it is to pluck away against and refactor actual implementations.
I’m not a bitcoin maxi. I love Ethereum and I am an industry professional. I’m just correcting lies to keep information accurate.
Don't even bother reading anything biology related from here. 1/100 commenters have anything more than a high school biology background, and chances are the article at hand is 5 paragraphs of boilerplate overstatement anyway.
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WE do not want to know what's headed our way for 2021. /s
Ho-lee shiiiit. I wondered what happened to AA... now I know.
There’s nothing wrong with choosing a job that you know are going to expect all-nighters, probably un compensated all-nighters - but make sure you choose it knowingly instead of pretending it’s an office hours job. It’d be a rare job in video game production that didn’t involve crunch time, and if you want to work in those roles you can, so long as you accept/embrace that. If you’re the sort of person for whom 2-3 months a year of crunch time is going to destroy your relationships/family/mental health, you should probably choose a different industry. There are lots of 9-5 ish coding jobs that involve zero or minimal outside-office-hours work. Don’t fool yourself I to pretending your “dream job” is one of those if there are obvious (or even subtle) red flags that it’s not.
The botique wheel industry taking advantage of an excuse to cheapen their product? I'm absolutely shocked.
Regarding your comments in this thread (the worst of them are currently "dead") and in case you decide to keep posting on HN, you should take a look at the guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

The guidelines seem very reasonable and beneficial for the discussions, here are some excerpts:

> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.

> Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

> When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

BTW, I don't claim to follow the guidelines perfectly all the time, the reason I'm writing this comment is basically because I would have preferred if you managed to get your point across better.
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I strongly believe the key to learning new complex skills is to just enjoy the journey and recognize that you're going to be a beginner for years.
I didn't expect this to be as 'Horrifying' as it was. Has anyone written a script yet to identify whether or not a given PDF contains executable script?
If we give in to every demand of the Chinese government, things continue as they are. Those 1.4 billion people, hopefully, would demand the products being offered and policies would be (slowly) forced to change.
I was all set to expect my childhood to enter public domain during my adulthood. Fucking DMCA.
... until you find they finished first by cutting corners and delivering something that is only capable of passing the scant unit tests.

Then the "zero knowledge" psychopathic management style doesn't seem so smart.
The timing thing probably has to do with when people get off work or aren't prepping meals.
No problem! Hope you enjoy :)
Wouldn’t this also be bad as take-out then? How is the delivery even possible if they aren’t already allowing for the poor experience through take-out? If it’s meant to be served at the table then it should be table only and then it’s fine right? There’s plenty of restaurants that do this, so it’s unclear how the delivery is causing this issue. But I may just be misunderstanding.
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People believed that asbestos was salamander fur dating back to Aristotle and Pliney the Elder.

https://www.wired.com/2014/08/fantastically-wrong-homicidal-...

I first learned about this doing background reading of _Fahrenheit 451_ where the firemen's logo is the burning salamander as well as their fire truck being called a salamander.

http://self.gutenberg.org/eBooks/WPLBN0100000519-Fahrenheit-...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legendary_salamander_in_popula...

There's also a popular cooking appliance used in commercial kitchens which is basically a stand-alone broiler that's referred to as a salamander,