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I haven't seen that theory tested. I can't find any tests or studies anywhere of replicated Roman concrete. And no tests of genuine Roman concrete, either. We don't know how it actually performs. So to make a comparison to modern concrete is specious.

Modern concretes can do a whole lot of stuff Roman concrete can't, because there are so many formulations of it. But if you want to stick a building literally in the ocean and have it never ever disappear, nobody has shown that we can actually do it today.

There's a whole lot of theory and talk by experts, about how we don't need to make it, but if we wanted to, boy would it be easy, but don't worry, modern concrete is just so amazing, you should just use that, for modern use cases, and oh by the way, it would be too expensive to make, even though we haven't actually made it or tried to bring the price down.

There's a world of practical experience needed to claim for a fact that modern concrete is legitimately better, much less that we can actually make it and that it would hold up as we expect. I'm still waiting for concrete evidence.
It’s time for Elon Musk to start telling the truth about autonomous driving
Agree. This is a golden age for makers — at least electronics, software makers — perhaps others.

Professional looking PCB's, inexpensive components direct from China ... all within the hobbyists reach.
This is really great. Even if the colours might be off from actual reality, it brings it to life nonetheless.
Encryption and the road map to protecting customer data
Dienbienphu was in 1954, just for starters.
I really wanted to use Conan, but the deal-breaker for me was discovering that Conan can only create one CMake target for a package, and that it must be called 'packagename::packagename'. Conan's packages could never work like native installs of the dependencies I wanted to use.
This is some propaganda for sure. ho chi mihn was a political prisoner and figurehead of the CCP state, similar to kim il-sung.

The vietmanese state has been an extension of the CCP since the 70s. This isn't up for debate, it's objective fact.
I don't think it was just the colorizing that was the problem. He was changing their expressions into smiles!
>I actually think b&w photos are too deceptive.

This makes my eyes roll like I'm a professional golfer. I love B&W, and even without using B&W film, I will still turn certain color images I take into B&W. There are lots of artistic reasons, but most of the time it just feels right. Sometimes, it's just an aesthetic reason of matching the decor of where the print is going to hang.

>I mean too many people literally picture the world at the time to be black and white.

So what? There are also people that believe the world is flat. There are plenty of museums full of paintings from well before photography was invented that clearly show color. Anyone that believes that the world was in B&W before color film just need to be walked away from as there's nothing but frustration there.
Could the author of the article have just grabbed some random tool to do the touch-ups not realizing it was adding smiles? I recall some tools [1] that used to do that and perhaps a tool used to colorize photos would have added in such a feature?

[1] https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2017/1/27/14412814/faceapp-neu...
Unless you’re at t0. It doesn’t have to have a before.
"First world country" does not correlate well with housing quality. UK has some of the worst housing in Europe, with 35% in need of repair. Many Ex Soviet states like Czech Repulbic are doing better.

UK also has a history of major failured in construction practices and inspection, where chunks of a new apartment block suddenly collapse like in Ronan Point, or a recently renovated tower block goes up in flames and half of residents die despite them warning about issues for years.

I wish living in first world country guaranteed sensible things are happening, but it doesn't

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/damian-carrington-bl...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronan_Point
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grenfell_Tower_fire
Not really? It makes sense to ask what happens in the first minute of The Matrix film, but it doesn’t really make sense to ask what happened one minute before that. That particular domain (a specific film) has a pretty clear “beginning time” and apparently this model of the Universe does as well.
The uranium that built the first atomic bombs is said to have come from a Congolese mine.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200803-the-forgotten-mi...
I never said it was. I'm saying that adding carbon nonoparticles will only make matters much worse.
One persons generalist is another person's specialist.

You could be a web developer, you could be a framework developer, you could be a EMCAscript developer, you could be a javascript developer, you could be a webasm developer..

If you like money, find a niche and "specialise" but to be honest you'll ultimately gravitate towards your interests even in that "specialist" field.

Just work on shit you find interesting, the money will follow.
My recollection of how the conflict was presented was "We need to go to Afghanistan to defeat Al-Qaeda" 20 years later we're still fighting that same war, which is how many people look at the situation and say that the US hasn't achieved it's goals (i.e., has been defeated)

I suppose one could say that the US hasn't lost yet, but it's pretty tough to say that the US has won.

Honestly, at this point it feels like any discussion of the US staying in Afghanistan seems like it should devolve into a discussion of the halting problem. (/s, but only slightly)
I wish scientists and reporters made it more clear that science, the process, can never know when it is right about something.

The Scientific Process can only ever know when it's wrong.

A scientist can gain confidence about their theory's correctness, but they can never be assured of it. A single discovery could completely overturn all of the understanding that appeared so rock solid the day before.

I'm just saying that the headline should reflect this.
You have to specialize in order to progress up the development latter (if you want to go the IC track). You wont get past Senior or even regular Software Developer if you don't specialize is something...unless you work at a place that rewards time-spent versus work product.

The correct answer is both obviously but you will need to, at some point, specialize in something.
Yeah Syria is interesting

The problem with all these conflicts is winning is so poorly defined or multi-goal.

What's winning in Syria? Getting rid of assad and then leaving? We could probably do that in a week or less and utterly demolish the country if we wanted. The consequences of 'winning' that war under that definition would probably be pretty horrible.

But that doesn't seem to be the goal right now?

There's the wider goal of not wanting to poke the Russia bear too much while simultaneously not letting Russia run too wild (arguably they are..).

Though Afghanistan is pretty simple imho. there aren't nearly as many global power stakes... The taliban explicitly does not want Democracy so if that is 'winning' it's doomed to a loss by default.
I guess I’m suggesting why fix yourself to iTerm etc when you could just redesign the entire experience from scratch? You’d have way more freedom to fundamentally change CLI I/O, navigation, contextualization, UI, media support, etc.
> I had never seen a war movie produced outside of Hollywood. Or a director with primarily french influences producing a war movie.

Not sure if the stipulation is a war movie about Vietnam, or just plain a war movie. But certainly here's a list of some non-U.S. 20th century war movies, very vivid, biased towards France:

The Battle of Algiers (French, Gillo Pontecorvo, 1966)

Come and See (Russian, Elem Klimov, 1985)

Ivan's Childhood (Russian, Andrei Tarkovsky, 1962)

Beau Travail (French, Claire Denis, 1999) -- OK, soldiers but not war

Army of Shadows (French, Jean-Pierre Melville, 1969)

A Man Escaped (French, Robert Bresson, 1956) -- POW, not front lines

Little Dieter Needs To Fly (British/French/German?, Werner Herzog, 1997) -- actually relates to the war in Vietnam
> Dienbienphu was in 1954, just for starters.

Yes, that's the reason the French were out in 1954.
Seems like a perverse incentive for murder.

Also, a living person could just assign rights to another entity/person to carry them on after death. So it’s not that simple.
With 30 year fixed rate mortgages at 3%, I'd say the present value of a building that lasts 100 years is 23% more than the present value of a building that lasts 50 years. It's certainly worth it to spend more for a longer lasting building.
B&W photos don't have a lack of color; they've just restricted the color to certain values. A colorized photo might or might not get the colors correct, but the B&W photo definitely doesn't.
There's already an attempt at doing this on PC [0] led by Brian Fargo of Interplay / inXile fame. I can't speak to how effective it is or how many people use it but it seems to be still operative after a year on public beta.

One key issue I see is that it's still quite centralised - you have to resell through their store and can't just exchange a game license for crypto at an arbitrary price. No surprise though that this is a necessary step on the way to getting publishers on board.

[0] https://store.robotcache.com/
Iraq wasn't a misadventure.

The ultimate goal of removing Saddam and destroying the Iraqi army (4th largest) were important strategic goals because oil, although the reasons given to the American people were at best superficial. Saudi Arabia and other countries paid for part of the US military effort, around $40 billion.

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/saudi-arabia-pays-us-500m...

Afghanistan is a strange story and isn't well-understood by Americans. Its location is important, as well as its natural resources. Ideally Russia, Pakistan and the US would have come up with a plan to occupy it since the Taliban is certainly a threat to Pakistan, as well as the Russian border.

(Pakistan is reluctant to fight the Taliban because of Islamic ideology swaying lower ranks in the Pakistani army. But Russia and the US worked at cross-purposes. In some ways Afghanistan and Palestine are similar - nobody wants them or to be responsible for them.)
My product is very similar to something like canva where you can create easy designs. It is meant for people without much design skills but need to make something quick for their job or business. I noticed that the customer is using my product to create marketing contents related to resumes.
Totally agree. The narrative about China is mostly political tomfoolery, as the party that faced the war, was in power for decades after the war, giving it a tremendous opportunity to re-write history. They conveniently blamed some scapegoats and shut down the discussion, more or less.

Nehru was more interested in appeasement than long term strategic thinking, when it comes to international affairs. I think it stems from the deep seated inferiority complex that the British left in the elite and intellectuals of the country. Most of the leadership during the initial decade of Indian independence were heavily influenced by the British and looked up to them for guidance.
You sound like a crazy person.

I suggest you step away from the keyboard for a day or so before posting in public forums.

(Yes everybody knows the Biden administration is in the process of destroying the value of the US dollar, but that hasn't been realized yet, and it's what Dems voted for.)
I would assume what she got is worth approximately 30 pieces of silver.
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The concept that there is such a thing as objectively better or worse music is not, I think, a totally new idea.
I've worked at Microsoft and Google as well as interviewed at Amazon and Facebook. The interviews are very broad and cover a wide range of topics regardless of what you get hired for. When I interviewed at Google I actually didn't even know what specific division I'd be working for until they gave me an offer (I did know at MS but the interviews were still very general).

The overwhelming impression I have about FAANG interviews is that they don't really care about specialty in specific technologies. Unless you're going for a research position, they care about a solid understanding of the fundamentals, data structures, algorithms, good system design and architecture etc...
I ran into something along these lines just the other day. I have a private extension that replaces some embedded videos with a custom player. Last week, the server API I'd been pulling video metadata from went down. I found another API endpoint and modified the extension to use it, but the new URL had CSP enabled and threw CORS errors when used in-browser. Unlike Chrome, this browser's extensions can't modify security headers, so I wrote a little shim utility to perform the request on a local server and pointed the extension at that instead.
It's really strange how companies are so quick to advertise human rights violations while demonitizing any content that is even slightly sexual or not brand friendly. There are arguments for both sides but companies aren't even internally consistent.
Gets a bit crazy with an n-key rollover keyboard, hitting 31 notes simultaneously! But what happened to the F♯ that I expected on the = key, between [’s F and ]’s G?

(Also since I’m writing something already, you’re serving your site on both HTTP and HTTPS and only some URLs are doing the appropriate 301 HTTP → HTTPS redirect, presumably because it’s being done at the Wordpress/PHP level, so any direct file references handled directly by Apache don’t get done. You should make it do all URLs, and ideally add an HSTS header.)
Two comments:

First, "One month web dev, next month apps, the next month microcontrollers, next automation" that is _incredibly_ generalist. You'd probably be better off specializing at least a little more than that. If you only were doing two of those, you'd still probably count as a generalist :)

Second: I don't think there's one right or wrong answer to this question, but a generalist is in some sense a safer option. If you specialize, take care to specialize in something that will be around in 10+ years. Now would not be a good time to specialize in coffeescript or coldfusion for example, but specializing in Rust seems very safe. Specializing in julia, zig, or dart would be on the slightly riskier side.
Does this also apply to their SRE teams?
It was the same people on the north vietnamese side all throughout this entire multi-decade period, from the early 1940s till the mid-70s. They fought a rotating cast of western-backed fig leaf local rulers. I'm not sure what else I can tell you, here.
This is a useful tool indeed, what's interesting part of it is that it can also generate up to 70% real numbers with it's algorithms, tested and trusted!
I’ve implemented some graph traversing algos in Julia and 100x faster than Python. Really in the same ballpark of C++, but much simpler code.
There can be a point in time where you can't go further back - all directions point to the future - in the same way that there's a point on Earth where you can't go further North - all directions point South.
> I actually think b&w photos are too deceptive...Recall that look is just an artificial limit imposed by immature chemical technology.

That limit materially constrained the information that could be captured, but it didn't invent false information. It was a dimensionality reduction from color to simple brightness intensity. Sure, the information captured was through that lens/filter, but there wasn't some AI inventing/guessing at what it was seeing. The photons directly exposed the chemicals in the film. They are not equivalent at all, and your reduction based upon the fact that humans add an additional interpretive perspective to each is a stretch.

I say all of this while being fine with colorized photos, but they should be accompanied by the original photo and the disclaimer that they were colorized. I think colorized photos can add a lot of immersion and trigger emotion, but so does generative, interpretive art.

We shouldn't treat Monet's water lilies as an accurate portrayal of his flower garden at his home in Giverny. Colorized photos, while not as extreme as impressionist paintings, are still a generated piece of art. Perhaps they are more akin to portraits, which have been historically shown bias towards an unflattering view of the subject -- as when they are unflattering, they tend to not to survive[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sutherland%27s_Portrait_of_Win...
Oops, I misremembered. For looping a wavetable, you'd want to use AudioBufferSourceNode [1].

If it's a static waveform, you could also do a Fast Fourier Transform and hard-code the resulting table into your program as a Periodic Wave. Apparently, this is how the prefined waveforms of OscillatorNode work. [2]

Generally speaking, you need to read about all the different kinds of nodes that WebAudio gives you and wire them together, sort of like you would with a modular synthesizer. For experimenting with audio synthesis, I'd recommend trying out Rack [3] to figure out what kinds of sounds you want to make, then coding it in JavaScript if you can find equivalent nodes. (Rack is going to have much more capable modules, though.)

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/AudioBuffer...
[2] https://webaudio.github.io/web-audio-api/#oscillator-coeffic...
[3] https://vcvrack.com/
This doesn’t make sense to me. Having concern for the environment and being conscious of your consumption isn’t some kind of mentally debilitating guilt that should keep you from functioning normally on a day-to-day basis. What’s the worst that environmental consciousness could do to you? Make you buy an electric over a gas-powered vehicle when electric vehicles finally become widely available? Avoid buying oily junk food and sugary drinks in non-recyclable plastic packaging? Properly segregate your waste? These aren’t “tiring” and “horrifying” things.

We all should be apologetic of our choices that are environmentally harmful and actively avoid as much of those choices as we can, because that collective individual disregard for nature is precisely what creates the “market demand” whom “people with actual power” would claim to be simply fulfilling. You’re passing all the blame on one side of the equation when, really, everyone across the board has a part to play here.
All I’ve been getting is 503 for a while.
Northwestern University President: Beliefs Aren't Facts
What do you think of something like Veefriends where there is a real world value attached to it (tickets to a conference)?
Mainframes still power far more (and more critical) infrastructure than you would expect.
I think we need to recognize the limits of this concept. To reach for an analogy, both Dr. Seuss and Tolstoy wrote well but I'd much rather inherit source code that reads like 10 pages of the former over 10 pages of the latter. You could be a genuine code-naming artist but at the end of the day all I want to do is render the damn HTML.
The fog of war is an incredible documentary. I'd suggest it to anyone who is willing to watch it.
The Roman scholar Pliny the Elder described underwater concrete structures that become "a single stone mass, impregnable to the waves and every day stronger."

https://www.nature.com/news/seawater-is-the-secret-to-long-l...

Sounds like they knew.
I would not classify Gulf war II as a "war". It was a blatant incursion, which even Saddam knew would not last, hence the focus on looting the victim, rather than planning for an occupation.

Saddam bet that if no ones does anything concrete, he can get away with it, else, he can return back.

I would call than an "occupation" rather than a "war".

Edit : I retract my comment. I meant Gulf War I, the occupation of Kuwait.
> generalists get things done no matter what the circumstances are

If the goal is to ship something without shipping it correctly (technically sound), sure you can "get it done" in the absolute sense.

But you'll potentially end up creating a house of cards or untenable tech debt due to poor architectural decisions due to lack of depth with the underlying technology.
> We could probably do that in a week or less

Eh - I'm not sure. Getting aircraft overhead would be difficult east of the euphrates when they have lots of anti-aircraft guns and they are also supported heavily by Russia.

The only Western power currently conducting airstrikes east of the euphrates is Israel and they have had planes shot down by Syria & Russia.

The US has a preponderance of military power, but I do think people are quick to assume that this means the US could easily topple lots of foreign nations. For some, that is definitely true, for others, like Iran, I think that is a misplaced confidence.
I doubt you'll get one on the right. I don't know who you think is "fed up", considering Trump got 10 million more votes the second time around, so the Republican party's populism is far from over. It's very likely you will see more Neocons defecting to get book deals though.
I agree. The process of programming involves a lot of "head hitting the wall." Having a goal helps you stay motivated when running into such tedious issues.
Budgets are strained precisely because they are saddle with 50 year old structures in need of maintenance. Only a small % of the budget goes to new construction.

Saving a little on the upfront cost only to pay a lot more for maintenance is a false economy. Stainless steel rebar does not double the cost of construction, and neither does high quality concrete.

We need to stop buying subscribtion to "bridge as a service"
Ha! Never heard of “ ∏ shaped”, but I think that’s the best way. Two areas opens up more opportunities both in your org/company and elsewhere.
It neat, and works amazingly well. I don't love it though, but I like the look of black and white photos (I was shooting black and white in the 90s when I worked at a college paper). Not having the color in there focuses your attention differently and in my case I would use the camera slightly differently.

But they've alway wanted colors in photographs. Going as far as actually hand coloring them. This is kinda like that but automated.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand-colouring_of_photographs

I wish there was a little symbol you could put in the corner to indicate "colorized" or "altered" for composite photos done with photoshop.
That's pretty incredible given equipment was heavier and unrefined compared to today's hiking and camping gear. Funny to see so much blue in their gear.

It's a nice story of a seminal experience for participants and the passage of time.
The government was toppled, a provisional government was installed by the US, and then replaced by a government that was, at the time, US-aligned with democratic elections.

I think it was a bad war and a mistake, but I don't think we "lost."
It was always credible. The title should read, "How the neoliberal corporatists decided their propaganda machines should change their position on the issue"?
In the article it said they were focused on formulas. so the title might be a little misleading.
The big bang is not a complete cosmological model and does not necessarily preclude things happening before it.
Glenn Greenwald and Russell Brand: Did Media Censor Joe/Hunter Biden Report?
Forgive me for the imprecise language—the bases for the educated guesses are the information I was referring to. Humans are not as good at seeing that a certain shade of gray is more likely to be light yellow than light blue, for example. You’re completely right that datasets trained on regions and historical information would produce more accurate results on black-and-white photos identified to the model as being from similar places and times.
You can also pay for Google One to get human support.