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Switzerland has one of the largest immigrant populations in the world per capita: 29.9% according to the link below.

Very few countries are ahead of this. Even Australia is only 30%, and Canada (which has often led the world in immigration statistics) is 21.3%.

Perhaps you can provide some evidence for your statement.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and_d...
First of all, we call it "Symbolics.jl", not "Symbolics" (same with all julia packages) so that lifts the ambiguity already ambiguity, but even still almost every word imaginable has been used in multiple, conflicting contexts. It's fine.
That banning is only a point against liberty if your definition of liberty is very American (religion above welfare of people) for most people maintaining the culture that gives that liberty is as important as liberty so changing that culture would obviously destroy the possibility of that liberty
I really do not understand why people simply close this eyes when this bans go against Catholics and christians but freak out as soon as separation of church and state touches any non Christian
In a city the air can be worse or better depending on the season. I too had dry cough in winter in a city where smog would form during winter because the wind did not blow during that time of the year. When I moved to another city the dry-cough disappeared even though it was winter, in this city the wind was not stagnant in the winter, presumably carrying away polluted air form automobiles.
That's an interesting observation.

It definitely has merit. I've run into this exact same thing in type-system heavy languages like Haskell/Scala/Rust, where I spend more time juggling abstractions than implementing features.

But there is an additional dimension: abstractions often make the first implementation much more cumbersome. But most code is maintained and read much more than it is written, and abstractions can make extending and maintaining a code base much easier.

It's also good to remember that the existence of certain language abstractions doesn't mean you have to use them.

You have to find the right tradeoff.
Our society is humming along in part because of the 25% foreign residents, and the hundreds of thousands who cross the border daily to work in our economy.

There are certainly some xenophobic people in Switzerland, and the SVP is certainly a party that uses xenophobic rhetoric to get attention, but our economy is the opposite of xenophobic.
Someone just asked almost this question in the Nim Forum [1] (coincidentally, unless that was you!). So, you may want to follow that conversation. (EDIT: It may be more global than you are used to in Zig (or than you need/want), but might also be "good enough", depending.)

[1] https://forum.nim-lang.org/t/7588
This kind of offering is only a very small step above a straight up ponzi scheme. We are at the top of the bubble and no one knows what to do with their dollars that are rapidly losing value. Order your shitty fast food and get a discount on your shitty stock.
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Homebrew's binary host, bintray, is shutting down
Exactly. Sometimes fun wins!
No, they are clearly not, and that's a very strong accusation to wantonly throw around. It's a 7.5 billion dollar IPO, this represents less than one percent of that.
I have read this too a long time ago, and it always struck me as true. That's why I stopped wanting to invest in new IPOs. You're not "getting in on the ground floor" with them, they're usually for sale a few months after the IPO. Look at SNOW and ABNB for recent examples or GPRO for one from a while ago.
Surely they have clickbait in other languages?
What if the complication keeps them moving in the direction you want? That may make your dollars have additional impact rather than less.
And they keep getting awarded contracts despite their continued poor delivery. I really don't understand how their terrible track record never seems to impact their ability to win more business. I can only assume corruption, but I have no evidence of this.
I think it is possible to express all recursion as tail-call recursion, but only by passing continuations as arguments, which might lose the advantage of a tail-call recursion. Any computation you have left in the current frame you could put into a continuation. However, that continuation then grows, so you need more memory for it, instead of multiple stack frames, so the advantage ist lost.
Funny definition of “quick”. They started this project in 2006 and have not been raising any money except back then, as one of the FIRST ICOs (before Ethereum existed, they used Mastercoin).

And frankly, raising money with a token is far better than raising money selling equity. When you sell equity to a guy like Peter Thiel who thinks that “competition is for losers” and “you should build a monopoly”, you build exactly that. You kill off wirehog and lock everyone into your platform, instead of making an open source reference implementation of a protocol like Email (smtp) or the Web (http). All because you have to generate profits perpetually, as that is what equity investors expect.

With a token, you raise money from future participants in the network and you don’t need to have a profit motive causing you to build a monopoly. Show me open source projects that were funded by seed equity funding.

The socialist in me wants to see more funding of projects by developers, infrastructure providers and others being paid in tokens, rather than equity in a monopoly that will extract rents and be afraid to give out the code to anybody — or even become interoperable!
Reminds me of the Cloud2Butt extension that would....well, replace every instance of the word cloud with the word butt.
I had first period gym in the 90s, and they made us run outside in the freezing cold to warm up every day. Killed my interest in running for decades.
He might be referring to a few laws/initiatives that passed in the last few years/decades - e.g., the initiative that forbids minarets (even though there were almost none to begin with; it was essentially a political stunt). Or the 'burka ban', which just got a slight majority today.

Also, the biggest party (SVP) often uses very controversial advertisement, which I can easily imagine to be interpreted as xenophobic by foreigners (I'm Swiss myself).

Glad to hear your positive experience in Switzerland - especially now with the passing of the 'Burka ban', seeing Switzerland as xenophobic isn't something that would surprise me too much.
Zero-interest deferrable loans are an amazing idea. I suppose you'd have to be a substantial investor in order to get the non-profit to accept such a deal.
> The SVP is a very strong party in Switzerland. It is not a stretch to call it xenophobic.
It is for anyone outside of Twitter and I say this as an immigrant but the extent to which people use the word “xenophobic” is ridiculous.
What happens when a council member leaves office unexpectedly, i.e. dies or resigns? Does it kick an election for everyone or just that one seat?
Is there a submission queue? I submitted my project Stock Inspector but it didn't show up immediately.
Tbh, I often regard a "bad" (aka out of fashion) webpage like this as a positive indicator when it comes to physical products. It can be an indicator of a company where product matters more than marketing.

Lots of caveats, of course. E.g. this does not hold in b2b products or anywhere with strong lock-in. Also, it tends to be a better signal when it comes to mature products.
You're correct, "ironically" was uncalled for.
You make a good point that the standard library could make better use of this pattern to show it off, but the language was designed with this sort of thing as an affordance and there even is a (rough) example in the docs: https://ziglang.org/documentation/master/#Tagged-union

You wouldn't have to rewrite the world, but the language is young and maybe more effort could go into making using this pattern more idiomatic and encourage library writers to do it more often.
When temperatures drop quickly I find that I need to do a few nose-only breathing workouts (low intensity, HR between 60-70% of max) in order to acclimate like this.
We have to assume someone employed at Mozilla created this extension. This means they worked on this instead of something worthwhile. No wonder Firefox is losing marketshare.
Great point. I just had a look in my C128 and they are just regular branded Zilog Z80s. I sure there's a story there too...
Remember arguing about this with my Dad when I was (no shit) 7 years old, laying out thermal printed paper columns on waxed boards for a newspaper. He had worked with lead columns and said the physical realities of handling LinoType slugs had shrunk column sizes and made the "common wisdom" change in his earlier years, and that it hadn't come back from that.

Older newspapers often had two columns on a smaller page; and line lengths in the 20 word range, iirc.
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The sister comment called it a “get rich quick scheme” due to selling tokens once. Which is it?
Gasoline also costs a lot more than water.
> a usecase can exist outside of the law

So, let me get this straight: you have an NFT that represents the deed for a vehicle, but the law does not recognize the NFT as the deed for the vehicle... if you don't see any problems with that, boy do I have a bridge to sell you.
Norms vary per academic discipline and niche. My requirements are pretty much the standard for my field if you want a job doing research at FAIR, DeepMind, Adobe Research, Google Research, OpenAI, etc. Without meeting those goals students will not be able to get research oriented jobs at top places.

In the US, PhD students in Computer Science and similar fields usually require 5-7 years to finish. They typically do not have MS degrees, unlike in Europe, where the expected graduation time is 3-4 years and they must have MS degrees.

You would be surprised how often there is a lot of low-hanging fruit. I'm good at asking "easy" questions that nobody knows the answer to, so a student just has to put in the work to get the answer. Many advisors don't give as much initial hand holding as I do.

So far my PhD students have taken 3-6 years to finish. Those that have graduated so far have finished with 3 papers (3 years), 9 papers (3 years), and 12 papers (5.5 years). The senior ones still in my lab (year 4 or 5) are on track to have around 3 first author papers in top-venues and about 9 papers total each. Their first author papers are in CVPR, ICCV, ACL, ECCV, BMVC, NAACL, ICLR, AAAI, etc.
I’d be interested in pointers to Soviet equivalents of the James Bond books or films.
I like that one too. I'm sure Ivan would be pleased to hear your feedback, he spends a very long time putting them together.
It's true for Expected Utility Theory and anything that has been based on top of it.
Real coders use Velcro ;)

[EDIT] actually, the Memotech units shipped with a piece of velcro to eliminate wobble. I think that Memotech kit had a great aesthetic.

https://www.nightfallcrew.com/27/09/2013/memotech-memopack-1...
How did you make the translation part of it?
Vendors with years of time to build can't even track Cannabis properly. Human are much harder than trees to keep track of.
word of mouth or challenges like Cicada 3301 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicada_3301
I don’t think the eID gives the government control over its people... if anything I feel it’s the opposite - one gains the freedom to manage their identity service directly and save some time because it just works across all government/bank/insurance services.
Strange how the meaning of "political correctness" has shifted, since it was coined to cover the deployment of "political officers" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_commissar ) enforcing adherence to communism within the Soviet military and wider society. All of these films were made under a strict political censorship system.

(Russian cinema is legitimately great, though; why not watch the traditional pre-launch Soyuz quarantine film, "White Sun of Desert"; https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066565/ It's rather like a more cynical, more Russian "Dollars Trilogy" film)
Startups won't do shit to save the economy. 1 in 100 startups will work, the rest will die in less than 2 years. These aren't tools to restart the economy, they're tools for the wealthy to make blanket investments and end up making $$$ on the next apple or tesla. On top of that: 1990 Mountain View culture is a far cry from 2021 Italy, a "startup" in the modern neoliberal sense, especially in Europe, has absolutely nothing to do with what it used to be

The entire system lives of credits and debts in the hope of "digitization" saving us all, when the current ai/big data/automation/crypto bubble bursts it's going to be a shitshow and hopefully a wake up call
I'd like to learn more about using ipfilter filters on bare metal machines to mitigate ddos attacks. Do you have any recommendations?
Airbus is much more common.
Their ability to win business is based on their expertise at writing responses to RFPs in a successful way, not in their ability to deliver. Also, they do have a few successful projects, to some standard of success, which they point to in the RFP responses as a "successful" track record. Often the ability to point to an almost perfectly analogous project and writing the responses in the "correct" way is all it takes.
Why, do you think it is a human right for men to force women to wear burqas? There are plenty of articles of lately how SF doesn't allow building high rises, which prevents migration and yet nobody calls them xenophobic.
Yeah, and they keep asking for donations as if Wikipedia was in constant danger of being wiped out. Pretty screwed up.
Oh totally: I'm not using them and much prefer my modern setup and its 3840x1600 monitor ; )

I just found these old machines of mine in a garage during the first Covid lockdown and decided to try them out and found out they were still working (still had an old CRT TV laying around).
In my circles, professional has a very clear definition: 80% of your revenue comes from your profession.
I used to proctor an on-site laptop coding test where part of the solution involved traversing a large digraph. Maybe 50% of candidates could do it on their own without a bug in 45 minutes. 15% of candidates knocked it out by the halfway mark. Not that this is the best use of recursion--both implementations still need to track visited nodes.
If you think that's bad, look at the UK. They had a government-ID system with an ID card, and then they scrapped it. Now people run around using driver's licenses and municipal bills (I guess) to open bank accounts and other things. Utterly backwards.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_Documents_Act_2010

I've been formulating my thinking around it and I'm starting to think that this is some sort of new-age "luddism" at play, coupled with some odd distrust of government for this particular problem, as if government is trustable elsewhere.
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Yes, and in fact avoiding abuses like this are part of the digital education offered in school. People are also pretty careful about asking for permission before publishing a person's photo.

Swiss discretion is not only a marketing tactic, it is also a good habit many people keep.
I'm an American and Switzerland is one of the few countries I really admire for those reasons. I'd love to live there some day if they'd have me.
> The second best explanation is that patterns are often a sign of shortcomings in the language

Agree. Came across a blogpost that describes this very well by using Clojure as an example: http://mishadoff.com/blog/clojure-design-patterns/
Right, in practice this would result in either the nonprofit giving you a board seat, them refusing your money, or increased overhead either via some kind of insurance policy that they pay into that would cover you recalling the loan, or them just refusing to spend your money until the deferment period expires. But those last two probably result in you recalling your donation because the premiums on that insurance would be ridiculous, so they wouldn't be effectively using your donation.
Nathan Myhrvold (of Microsoft fame) tried to build a laser to kill mosquitoes, ~11-12 years ago. He even gave a TED talk about it [0].

It seems that the project eventually failed to achieve anything of sufficient value. [1]

[0]: https://www.ted.com/talks/nathan_myhrvold_could_this_laser_z...

[1]: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/07/laser-shooting-mosqu...
> You've described a situation where technologies are being deployed inappropriately by an organization ill-equipped to handle the ongoing effort required.

I took the archetypal "non-technical companies" you gave as an example earlier. If I understood your meaning correctly in the vast majority of those cases undervaluing "programming expertise" is probably the best thing to do. And by "undervaluing" I mean they such companies should not consider this as a skill they should rely on to build their IT around.

It's not that the skill is not useful in itself, just that it doesn't serve that type of company well, and valuing it suggests the companies are considering heading in waters that they're unlikely to successfully navigate.

Most of those companies will do things inappropriately because they are ill-equipped to handle this. For all intents and purposes "programming expertise" in such a company is like driving drunk. Sure you can get home safe anyway but that's not a reason to be proud of. Or you can crash but the real issue isn't that you couldn't cut it while driving drunk. You shouldn't be doing it to begin with.
Wow, that's some heavy news!
Checking if a password matches seems a lot easier than 1)generate a code 2) send an email with the code 3) have an endpoint the verifies the code 4) find the websocket connection associated with the code 5) send a websocket frame with the access token for the use to authenticate future requests
Oops, after a cursory search, it would seem there's no easy way to disable runtime bounds checking. While runtime crashes aren't ideal, I do stand corrected, sorry.

Still, I think my point about safety being a cursor instead of a switch remains.
"...the United States took these paranormal possibilities seriously."

Common belief that this happened is a result of a very successful propaganda exercise by an ongoing US psychological warfare program.

To be clear, the program does not and never did try to use ESP for spying. Instead, they convinced Americans that they had.

This is explored in Jon Ronson's terrifying "Men Who Stare at Goats". The same program probably drummed up support for the disastrous Iraq invasion and created the prisoner torture protocols. It is probably now running the UFO/Tictacs hoax, possibly as a readiness exercise.

We don't know what other operations against the public have run or are running now. Iraq was not a disaster for everyone: it transferred $5T from the public to waiting pockets. Secrecy generates corruption.
I think the book "Fundamentals of Software Architecture, an Engineering Approach" (Oreilly) is much closer to what most engineers need today than the GoF book. It covers topics such as layers, pipelines, microkernels, events, microservices, components, and how to put it all together into a coherent design.

GoF was great for it's time and context, but the world has moved on and even mid-level engineers need to be aware of software architecture and how to put it all together.
Has it crossed your mind thay maybe it's you who doesn't understand the topic?

EUT doesn't say what the U is. It only says that one can be found if the agent's preferences are rational (for some definition of rationality).

Can you point to an example where EE provides a solution that cannot be represented by some utility function?
I see the stock market as an interesting non-linearity that can decouple the value of a company from its monetary performance. Then there is the idea of technology and transformation which can happen in a short amount of time and be bigger than you expect. The market, like the Universe continues to expand and I guess smaller ones go through collapse from time to time but unlike physics we don't have universal forces defining trajectories.
One easy way to resolve all of these problems is to build an escape hatch in the contract so that in the case of theft, loss, or other special circumstance you can invoke arbitration and mint a new token if needed.

It’s important to understand that these tokens aren’t going to replace the existing legal system (much though the anarchist/libertarian wing of the crypto community might wish it). They just enable certain transactions to occur with lower overhead and time delay. This is about improving friction in the happy path, not providing new solutions for every conflict case.

Personally I don’t think there is a reason to put your primary residence one the blockchain (you don’t trade it that often). But it’s interesting for places where you might want to trade assets at higher frequency (eg micro loans, supply chain finance, etc) and maybe there is a real-estate trust angle too.
I thought this was for indoors, outdoors mosquito is food for other animals.
Also gotta be a sick 747 flying upside down.
It could very well be law enforcement doing this, just to encite a war between different groups. Didn't they do this with drug gangs in Colombia?
Our country rolled out two certification based systems (Carta Nazionale Servizi which then got rolled into the Carta di Identità Elettronica), plus a federation based system built around SAML (Sistema Pubblico di Identità Digitale) where you can access to most italian bureoucracy.

And we're talking about Italy, not some first rated technological paradise.
Asked out of genuine inquiry and curiosity not to bait (I know it can be difficult to tell online): The referendum was simply to add the words "The building of minarets is prohibited" to the constitution. This only affects someone who would wish to build one (so Muslims) and in my mind says that your type are less welcome here. Why would Christians be negatively affected by this?

I would take the view that banning the form of your religious buildings (and implicitly, to your comment, being hostile to Muslims who in your response you seem to equate with a culture that destroys the possibility of liberty) seems more of a betrayal of the principle of liberty and freedom for all than allowing different people to pray and associate as they wish, providing they follow basic tenants of human law (not harming people etc).
My grandfather, who worked in electronics and ham radios, bought one of these. He didn't care for programming and gave it to me. "Here's the computer, the manuals, the wires and a black-and-white TV. You might like this. I didn't."

I grew up in a modest-income household and didn't get a lot of good guidance from my parents. My dad literally told me that I should not learn to work with computers because they would "think for me".

I learned it despite my father. I consider his hand-me-down gift as one of the most significant gifts in my life, as building computer software has been my career for over 25 years.
They say the M1 may use a validation buffer instead of a re order buffer. This makes it somewhat clear if you know what a re order buffer is.

Processors basically do this: read instructions, execute them out of order to fully use cpu resources, put the instructions back in order along with their results, and then write results to memory. This way the “final state” follows the order of instructions.

The “put back in order” step is handled by the re order buffer. It is basically an online sort algorithm.

Fully sorting instructions after execution is simple and correct, but in extreme cases may be suboptimal; perhaps it doesn’t matter if the final state is exactly in order or just close to that. I believe the article is saying the M1 may just validate states as they are written rather than fully reordering.
Lamprey, a related fish, is a delicacy in many places in Europe.