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The Cosmopolitan Libc memcpy() implementation is still binary compatible with the System V Application Binary Interface (x86_64 Processor Supplement). It gains the performance by restricting itself to a subset of the ABI, which the optional memcpy() macro is able to take advantage of. For example, the macro trick isn't even defined in strict ANSI mode.
How about let people make their own choices and make it possible for them to do that by educating and informing them? We could just trust people?
It's signed an agreement relating to a bit of the 1982 version: https://www.un.org/Depts/los/reference_files/UNCLOS%20Status...

And it signed the first one in 1958.
The free market can remain irrational longer than a person can survive without an economic safety net.
Have you been using ssh at all? How's that experience? That's my main use case.

How about video/audio calls? does Wi-Fi calling work well?
In the Dedekind axiomatization of Natural Numbers, there are

no standard models :-)
Native compilation will need to be manually enabled on init.el or is already enabled by default?
the big subtext is : "that's fun, it must be stopped".
> But I'd argue that most 'computer nerds' have pretty deeply seated perfectionism flaws.

My goal here absolutely was not to turn this sub-thread into a ping-pong of "but managers bad at X" and "but but but programmers bad at Y".

I am very aware of the nuance you introduced and I've been guilty of being a tech perfectionist much more times that I'd be comfortable with sharing. But finally I learned.

(Granted, many haven't and maybe never will. In this regard you do have a solid point.)

> So sometimes as technical people we fetishize the perfect solution to some problem in the Enterprise, when actually doing that solution would be horrible for the Enterprise due to the costs.

Absolutely. Not denying it. It's just that what gets me is the reaction to some of the engineers' flaws is to go to the other extreme.

Which is just as bad state of things. Both extremes are unproductive.
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To me, alcohol tastes like what I imagine turpentine tastes like (based on turpentine's scent).

It makes me less fun at parties, but I can only imagine how much trouble I've avoided because of this.
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According to 400 Devs, what are the best sites for learning code?
Seems like there would be a benefit to having a manager that is actually further from the problem itself. Less precious about details and more focused on universal principles.

What ex-engineer managers had was respect for the craft itself. You can respect the work of the team without doing it in the past.
Addiction does not require enjoyment, and while ADH2*2 (the particular gene associated with the “Asian flush”) does reduce the risk of alcoholism, it doesn’t seem to be a guarantee against it, at all.
This brings up a fascinating point that spins off into another, entirely complex discussion: does Mozilla pay enough for a great (not good) CEO?
How do you guys do analytics on Chrome extension?
Implementing GTM for event tracking and GO for A/B testing is a a piece of cake on a web app. However, it's another story with web extensions, "especially" with A/B testing. Yet, such tools are key to making data driven decisions. Has anyone found a way or "hack" to implement such tools? if it can't be done with GA, were you able to do it with another tool? (amplitude, optimize, mixpanel...)
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I think there's 2 arguments here. One is, as you pointed out, binge drinking is bad for you. I think most people would agree.

The second argument, primarily in the second half of the article, is that creating the conditions to easily permit binge drinking is just a severe a problem.

>> It’s possible to consume alcohol in a safe manner... But at some margin, you are contributing to the idea that it’s normal to drink it. And we need to break down that norm.

In other words, every drink you order in public has a >1 R0 to make one of your buddies also order a drink. Conversely, every drink you don't get has <1 R0.

I'm sure we've all been in those situations at a bar where we say "I'll get (another) one if you get (another) one".

That's why he vouches for abstinence. Not for health, but to discourage a binge drinking culture that's quite pervasive, in the UK especially.
Its kind of interesting to see which substances people wont give up vs what is seen as a 'menace to society'. Plotted on a graph I suspect we would see Alcohol and Opiates closer together than many other drugs. On the other hand, drinking alcohol is human tradition dating back thousands of years- how do you unwind this? Do we really want to regulate alcohol more strictly? The last time the US tried that it backfired as bad or worse as the war on drugs.
Yeah, OP is definitely an early engineer, or not very intelligent. Enterprise software takes longer because there's multiple stakeholders and it's better to take a week to build it properly than it is to hack it and fix bugs for the next 3 months.

The decisions you take to build software has to include the expected scale. If you're pushing something to 10 users, you'll take different decisions than if you push it to 20M users. This is done at the planning phase, and senior engineers are aware of this. I'm not going to spend 2 weeks optimizing the shit out of a system that'll be used by 10 people.
The Wikipedia articles about credit scores mention the Chinese social score that is criticized a lot. I think a lot of arguments against the social score are valid against the credit score.
Yes this is how I do the compression of the multiplication table in my head as well. I'm great on the perfect squares, 2, 4, 9, 10 - there are big holes in the rest, and I just add or subtract from values I do know.

Fortunately I don't need to use my fingers.
Yep, I figured it was stuff like this. It’s unfortunate, but until it is sorted out, I (and seemingly everyone else) will be sticking with PSD.
what are the implications for civil liberties, if the state targets terrorists? It's probably not great. But it's probably better than having more Oklahoma City bombings or capitol building attempted insurrections.

Could 'these issues be resolved targeting political violence generally, instead of making partisan pleas and accusations'? No -- in factual reality world, there is an ideology which is responsible for the problem, and so it seems sensible to focus on that ideology. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/22/white-supremac...

"are these partisan blame games contributing to the climate of toxic political divisiveness"? I'll tell you what's contributing to the climate of toxic political divisiveness -- overwhelmingly, the right wing, its conspiracy theorists, and their enablers; see, for example, qanon/8chan, the count of trump's lies while in office. These are radical outliers. Let's worry about that before we start worrying about the impact of us complaining about that.
You don't think a similar thing could be written about Communist Russia from 1918 to 1920, say? Do you think that didn't happen? Or do you think they and the Nazis were the same side?

They were extremists - I'm with you there - but more than one side has had extremists.
Maybe GDPR could force Adobe to sell a portable, non-subscription version of its product if they refuse to publish and maintain a specification.
Ah. So, if a Windows application runs in ring 0, it can put malware in a place such that it can then interact with the Linux install?

Is there _any_ way to bypass this, apart from separate machines? I didn't know this was possible.
Right, but I think the point is that, while this method works best for you, there are also higher risks associated with it. And while you might be ok with just two drinks, others in your position might need three or four drinks to make them stop freaking out at a party. And still others might not need that many, but having a couple drinks might lead to more, as inhibitions are lowered and judgment is weakened.
Very cool. I’m working on an interactive fiction engine in my spare time, and it’s interesting to see how someone else chose to manage the complexity that exponential branching starts to cause. Their concept of knots makes a lot of sense for a video game with narrative “hubs”. Definitely like the text based approach, the flow graphs that other engines use look like they get really messy really fast.
I could never quite put my finger on it - but some of the best programmers I’ve worked with illustrated this. They seemed equally open to simplifying systems as towards extending them. Not “time for this week’s rewrite” kind, but they weren’t afraid of “losing” all or part of what had already been built.
If you have not done so already buy a copy of Cracking The Coding Interview and take a few weeks off applying anywhere to work your way through it. Most modern interviews are tests of how recently you have read this one book. Good luck!
What is truly shocking is just how bizzare this US policy is. They just pick a country at random one day and go there to do a "FONO" and just generally rub in the fact that no country can afford to cut relation with them. They have done this to pretty much every country by now, China, Russia, Pakistan, Taiwan, Indonesia, India, S.Korea etc.

Compare this to China's foreign policy. Their public image got damaged in 2019 because of coronavirus. But in terms of international relationships they have made the most progress in the last three years. Not even offical US sanctions have been able to stop them (with Russia, Iran and Turkey).
I'm in the same boat. 8*7 is naturally 8 squared (64) minus 8. :D
There is a guarantee of a job at the end of the contract, I think you're arguing semantics.
Obesity is very bad example. You don't wake up in the morning and decide to be obese this day and you don't wake up next morning and voila you are thin.

The campaigns against obesity don't make people thin, because half the time they don't even promote stuff that makes people thin. Half the time they promote diets that makes situation worse in the long term.

Campaigns against smoking did worked in the past. Drug use is down. Teenage v pregnancies are down. All stuff that involved campaigns.
It needs to be a regulated nonprofit independent entity. Trusting an ads corp your medical data is as good as asking a bunch of junkies to look after your home while you're away on vacation.
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Build a decentralized version. If it was built on blockchain you could: 1) save the original agreement in IPFS; 2) encode the payment terms into a smart contract; 3) record all payments on the blockchain as proof of payment. This could all be abstracted from user.
Surely the drop in credit score is attributed to opening a load of accounts in a short space of time - it's something that people generally do when they're desperate for credit so is used as an indicator.
Each minute that you read per day, equals about 1 book per year. So if you read 20 minutes per day, you will read around 20 books per year.

A bookstand such as https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00MVBDIPU/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b... is helpful to hold the book on the table where you eat. This way whenever you sit down, the book is open and ready to go.

Books are simply a media format like a podcast or a movie. The only difference is that, they are pure language, and it requires a bit more from you to read, than it does to listen or watch. Reading is a bit more "active." However the pure language, and the active reading, makes them really dense and effective for communicating ideas. The "ideas per minute" is very high for books.

If you are a software developer, you're already a writer in some sense. Books therefore I see as very familiar for developers.
When you work with international applicants, it's not worth it (and not possible) to do their visa work for 30 days contracts. Most people won't relocate on the basis of 30 days contracts.

So this process doesn't really scale to companies competing for talent globally.
Non-obvious? It was invented shortly after it was discovered one could send a click down a wire.

Prisoners in solitary have reinvented and used tap codes ever since they became literate.
This is a good explanation about join order optimization: https://www.sqlite.org/queryplanner-ng.html

No database can find perfect join order when you have more than about 8 to 10 tables in the join.
A lot of cheats involve reading in memory game state to see through walls, which your screen grabber won't be able to do.
Sadly yes. I really want to... stand still for a bit and learn things properly, you know?
And why parties are fun :)
This is amazing. I just installed it (it's a free app with donations at the end) and is exactly the kind of format that I think will help me succeed at taking more control of my alcohol intake. It actually reminds me of the Ten Percent app which is also excellent if your looking for meditation help. I cringe when I say multimedia is what things need but I really think hearing people talk about what you're trying to accomplish is super helpful in staying motivated.
smoking really only became fashionable post-ww1. Alcohol consumption may have motivated early agriculture.

It's unlikely that something as ingrained as alcohol will be made unfashionable except on multi-generational time scales.

That being said, the current trend of alcohol in every aspect of life might become pase, as more individuals seek to avoid drunkeness/temptation outside of a bar.
Because Linux and windows bootloaders routinely screw with each other. I am NEVER losing another weekend to that crap again. Dedicated windows gaming PC is the correct way to deal with this.
Or maybe just let be? What's up with this militant righteous, virtuous drive to force ideals upon others. Humans have been getting drunk on fermented crops since the dawn of time. But now, thanks to social media, people can comfortably invent some imaginary moral high ground from their homes, proclaiming the lifestyle of millions of fellow people unacceptable.

Maybe expand the mind a bit, visit a strict Arab country or something. They don't drink much there. Has nothing to do with health though. It might help get a picture what kind of society they are advocating for.
What features are you looking for? If anything, I feel like they’re bloating Photoshop with features.

Last year they added the Object Selection Tool which I’ve found incredibly useful and innovative. However this year they are adding a ton of fluff, such as a FaceApp clone that creates (imo horrible) ML edit renders on their servers.
Youngsters... turns out i had the same problem.

Prolly designed for kids with perfect eye sight.
they do when you sign up in a geographic location as a "available to ship now" beta customer, after putting in your address, it brings up a view of a satellite/google maps view of your area and asks you to zoom in and click on the map on the precise location where the terminal will be installed.
As has been repeated many times before, it's hard to protect people from themselves while at the same time allowing them to be independent and free.

Many things people put into their bodies hurt them in the long run and sometimes the more the faster. Should we prevent them from doing it? In the US, we mostly say no.

It seems to me that most Americans are ok with that.
Content aware fill is very recent and really cool.
I hope they can change that, we all need more upload these days working at home
Actually the score already crashed at that point.

It was around 620 by the time I got around to opening new cards.

I think the crash was mainly due to the length of my average active credit history going from 10 years to 0 years, as I really did only use Chase credit cards.
These are not delivered along with the notification-- they're provided (client-side) by the application that the notification was sent for. So, while a notification could display dynamic content here depending on the content of the notification (for example, this is the same mechanism as used by Mail on iOS for mail previews) and the preview code should take the untrusted nature of the content into account if it does, it doesn't have to and it's not any different than running the application itself in terms of security issues.
Having everything be const references is in a sense optimal, but is so prone to misuse that I wouldn't want it in the standard library.

One option is to pass everything by value. Move semantics does the rest. Like:

template<typename T>
T clamp(T v, T lo, T hi) {
if(v < lo) v = std::move(lo);
if(v > hi) v = std::move(hi);
return std::move(v);
}

For fundamental types, this is the same or better than before (including __int128_t and such). For bigint types with heap allocation, i.e., GMP wrappers and such, moving is fairly inexpensive (but for constant lo, hi, they need to be created/copied each time...). For fixed-width bigint types, moving is no different from copying and the cost is higher. In any case, the 99-percentile usage of these functions is with fundamental types, where pass-by-value is clearly the better choice.

Alternatively, you could have

template<typename T>
T& clamp(T& v, T const& lo, T const& hi) {
if(v < lo) v = lo;
if(v > hi) v = hi;
return v;
}

This forces the returned reference to be an l-value, and so returning dangling temporaries becomes more difficult. There's the added cost for the assignments, though.
I always feel like I can pick the answers that indicate the competitive, Type-A, entrepreneurial types of people that the hiring company is looking for. But I'm told the tests are actually rigged to detect that. So who knows? I've only had one job where something like that was part of the screening process.
Yeah, even if someone made a physical robot that did everything, they'd notice when it did stuff like playing for 1,000 hours without ever taking a break or talking to anyone.
I don't think I'd be too thrilled, as a team member, with having zero input into the folks I'd be working with.
Ink is great, and very extendable. I used it as the scripting engine for a machine-learning-powered chat bot.
>Work as a contractor because the company forgot I said I’d be moving and didn’t want to file the paperwork in two states. At the time, I did not know the school or state of my wife’s residency.

That seems extremely reasonable to me.

Last time I was looking, there was a lot of bullshit, but I just ignored it. There are (and always will be) a lot of stupid, difficult people out there. Life will always be miserable if you feel obliged to do what they ask.

That said, one that really pissed me off was asking me to record a self-interview.

I'm fine doing some quick screens that might help weed out spam resumes. But to blatantly say "our time is more valuable than yours" is pretty ludicrous given the state of the labor market.
You don't, not always. They are just examples of the kind of stuff you find out when you talk candidly with people. The kind of stuff no one puts on their resumes, but when you ask philosophical and hypothetical questions unrelated to the job you tend to find them.

Not all of them are bad, and some of them can be fixed, but it's naive to think the only relevant discussions are related to skills.
Is having 5 cards at one bank something a lot of people do?

I have less (consumer financial) accounts than that spread across multiple institutions, never mind credit cards.
Who said that
From Madagascar here, and it sucks.

- There are other problems to solve before getting there (Food, housing, education and so on ...). Take banking for example, where only around 30% of adults have bank accounts.

- Hardware price is way too high for a poor population. And if you have access to hardware it probably is some random cheap slow Chinese computer/phone if you're not top 1%.

- Networks/Internet are ok in big towns, it improves fast compared to everything else though, IF you can pay. 55 bucks for 100 Mbps up/down, that's 1 month minimum wage on paper (majority still earn less).
Noticed the same in Firefox+iOS. Clearing the cookies/cache fixed the problem. I presume Wired tries to limit readers to a few free articles per period.
Credit score is by far the most dystopian thing for somebody outside the US.
Going against the .edu discounts is... strange?

That's how you build your userbase 5-10 years into the future. That should be a no-brainer.

What's harder to price in a discount with SaaS is how to deal with smaller companies. Startups with almost no money but that could grow into lucrative customers down the line.
Maybe it's just me but there's something deeply disturbing about the idea of Google also hoarding medical data...

If you have ever googled a symptom, they know, and unlike HIPAA there is no regulation on what they do with that data.
> I didn't think it mattered much to, well, see someone like you doing something.

This is probably a pivotal learning for some people who are accustomed to seeing people like them doing things!
I've always worked on remote teams, so I don't see this as a problem (YMMV if you're onsite).
You only have a finite amount of time and resources, the way in which you choose to spend them can have enormous influence on the resulting impact. Given this, you have to prioritize. If you are not prioritizing, then somebody or something is doing it for you.

I don't think these monkeys are "not worth discussing" - but I don't think they merit more than a cursory evaluation. The same is true for say, people that are killed by falling coconuts.

There are, in all likelihood, cost-effective causes that you can donate to, in terms of your dollars, skills and capcity to give a damn. I'd suggest these monkeys shouldn't make the list.
I have no evidence, just observation. With regard to obesity, it's a relatively newer problem compared to smoking and I haven't seen nearly as much public facing campaigning to fix it. For example, I don't think I've ever seen a PSA about eating less, whereas I've seen literally hundreds about cigarettes since I was a child.

Admittedly, most anti-obesity campaigns also seem to be neutered by lobbying. "Stop drinking soda" becomes politicized and turned into "move" by lobbyists. Taking a 30 minute walk is great advice for overall health, but will do absolutely 0 to address obesity.

I guess overall, there's no guarantee of success here, but I tend to view the shift in public sentiment about tobacco as a direct result of public health efforts. Which leads me to believe it's at least possible for other issues (obesity, alcohol). But certainly it is difficult and with unknown risk of failure.
You can get a modem with 32 down and 8 up channels. 8 up channels can support over 200 Mbps. But Comcast will still limit you to 5-10 Mbps.

Then there's DOCSIS 3.1, which actually supports up to 1 Gbit/s up, but Comcast still only gives you 35 Mbps on their gigabit plan.

IMO it just comes down to Comcast and other cable providers being cheap and not investing in their infrastructure to provide better upload speeds, even though the tech itself is capable of it.
I like your second version. My own style, still evolving, is to write more lines and align further left

select
a.foo
, b.bar
, g.zed
from alpha a
inner join beta b on
b.alpha_id = a.id
and b.thing = a.another
left join gamma g on
g.beta_id = b.id
where
a.val > 1
and b.col < 2
order by
a.foo
Maybe get a locally-priced alternative?