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I like British accent for its aesthetics, but from pragmatic point of view it's not even a contest (from the perspective of a non-native speaker), I agree.

It's not just the r's (in fact, some British accents are rhotic - around their South West, if I'm not mistaken?), there are all these glottal stops and whatnot.

But, from my observations at least, there are also big discrepancies related to social class. When I moved to the UK, I had no problem whatsoever talking to, say, a local librarian - but a plumber would be nearly impossible to understand for me, in the first months at least. I didn't really experience it in the US, certainly not to such an extent.
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We do know for sure that it started in Wuhan. The viral phylogeny is extremely clear. We have hundreds of thousands of viral sequences that describe a tree that is rooted in Wuhan around October 2019. That's incontrovertible. No evidence has arisen to contradict this despite an extensive search by thousands of scientists.
An app so killer they're willing to rewrite a part of it. Nice problem to have!
In 3 months SF might collectively decide that magic eight balls are racist.
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This is an interesting conversation, thank you. You are considering what I say and replying to it rationally, that's refreshing, as it's rarer and rarer on HN for this kind of hot subjects.

My point of view is that a change of the status quo is an outlandish impossibility.

It would mean a really nasty, bloody conflict, and it is not even sure that anything good would result for the winner in total.

This is based on this assumption that I only considered either 1/ they keep disputing the status quo (but not changing it) or 2/ they accept it and build on it.

Maybe it is not very clear for the Senkakus example, as Japan is only "loosely" controlling it.

But it's much more obvious for the Northern Territories, the islands North of Japan that are controlled by Russia: Russia has bases, even cities on it, and is plentifully in control.
How does fuzzing compare to something like Quickcheck? Are they basically equivalent?
The windows clients cannot delete the ZFS snapshots that are presented as shadow copies.
We are at a very interesting junction. Cryptocurrency was created to solve a very real problem. Our current monetary system is badly broken and there's really nothing stopping a repeat of 2008. Layers upon layers of legislation only serve to further complicate and mystify the world of finance leading to more and more wasted resources trying to keep this thing going.

But cryptocurrency in its current form has failed to deliver. It's the closest thing we have to trustless digital money, but it's still quite far. But should we give up on it entirely?

If cryptocurrency gets banned now then that's it. No chance for improvements to be made. We're stuck with either bank money or government money for the foreseeable future. It will be just like the war on drugs which halted all medical research into drugs which are probably very useful. I don't think that would be a good thing. It would just give more power to banks.
Mirrors my own uni years, plenty of physics and mathematics (bool logic, analysis & calculus) on the first year, though I also had classes on digital circuit design and the internal hardware design of a standard Turing computer.

I remember really enjoying designing the circuits, then writing machine code for them and seeing it all work at such a low level.
The rational thing was to agree the lab leak was a perfectly decent theory from the beginning.

Saying you have ‘no evidence’ of something is not a reason to discard a hypothesis. On the contrary, it is a reason to figure out how to get more data, a reason to figure out how to falsify the hypothesis.

It’s a common logical fallacy to conflate absence of evidence with evidence of absence.
I haven't read the book, but definitely talked to at least two people who read it and felt that they have fallen victims to some of the methods described in the book.
What does that even mean? There's nothing clearer or more explicit about either. Maybe you mean that it closer matches the orthography?

> than act like the letter doesn't exist (rhotic vs non-rhotic).

Every language changes. Nobody is acting like "the letter doesn't exist", just occasionally that phoneme has changed or dropped in their dialect. Even in non-rhotic accents, an r in the orthography can indicate a change in vowel quality.

> I think it's another factor why American English is more popular than British English (besides the huge economic factor, the US economy being 5x the UK one),

I think the greater population, and the fact that the Hollywood content has embedded itself globally, has resulted in more exposure to American content (of which there is more of). Any dialect will sound clearer to you if you're exposed to it more often than others.
> The article gives βλαύτη as an example of a word whose definition was updated in order to remove offensive language.

Ackcherly, it says "Antiquated and offensive language also gets a makeover." This may be just the antiquated bit, not the offensive one.
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Haven't had these issues with the one plus 3t, so one plus it is for me
This is also how the Tcl/Tk pack layout works.
> There were tons of articles and threads on it everywhere including HN, no one was being silenced, give me a break

On hackernews the most you would get is downvotes. On Facebook or youtube? Things were deleted and banned.
Literally every post about CPUs on HN does...
It does hopefully prevent any of your customers from ever asking for it.
Flame graphs completely blew my mind, but most people I talk to about them just don't seem to get it.

I'm a generalist, but I've been thinking lately if performance engineering is something I should be specialising in. I'd love to hear any advice from those in the field.
>On the other hand, developer productivity in notebook environments is so high that iterating your way to correct code may be faster than trying to plan it all out in the beginning.

In science, what kills you isn't the mistake you see and correct. It's the mistake you don't see, that then gets published.
Great for vendors of FPGAs.
Great for vendors of video cards.
Great for coal fired power stations.
Extortion.
Drug transactions.
Money laundering.
Greater fool farming.

I think the last one is the biggest success.
I guess it's good that they realized that, but I don't really understand why this time it took half a year. We'll see if the newspapers follow it.
Mostly the ease of definition (a good part), but also there is no calculate-demands / distribute-size loop, only the distribution part. If a medium gets too small, it clips content.
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this is a rather reddit-like comment. I feel like your reply is a tad harsh though
Second paragraph:

> The late scholar John Chadwick first came up with the idea to update HG Liddell and Robert Scott’s 1889 dictionary, the Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon, in 1997. An abridged version of a lexicon published in 1843, the Liddell and Scott had never been revised, and is packed with antiquated terms and modestly Victorian translations of the more colourful ancient Greek words. Despite this, it remains the most commonly used reference work for students in English schools and universities.
Fair worth is probably less since robots can do much of the eorl.
Seems it was written by pretty much the proper authorities.
Seeing that there is a need for type checking in Clojure. Has anyone used https://github.com/typedclojure/typedclojure in production?
Perhaps using deep learning methods for bayesian neural networks (*) is very recent. Belief Networks in Modern AI chapter 19, section 6.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s42256-020-0218-x
Amazon treats employees like soulless robots. This already starts when you apply there (as a SWE) and instead of talking to people you get an automated coding test.
Many people would call your refusal to hear their opinion on Israel/Palestine or any other issue “problematic,” or contributing to an “unsafe” environment. You can say you’re against racism at work but do you think you can push back against the next BLM workshop with “this isn’t appropriate for work?” Doubtful.
Though I have found generators in JS often come with an overhead compared to a well-written for loop. (Some languages like rust or Julia will inline all the closures for you and remove all the overhead).

Still a great way to avoid intermediate allocations, though.
As for how you were treated - I don't think the low-key introduction can be fully blamed. The VIP should have known that smart people exist in various places around the world, and sooner or later one does bump into them. When you meet someone knowing absolutely nothing about them (and an introduction doesn't count), and then they start talking intelligently about a topic, then you have one data point (that they have talked intelligently), and you should draw an appropriate conclusion from that. It sounds like the VIP had serious preconception issues.
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Professional painting and decorating services in North York are good to choose because such services reduce the workload and ensure proficiency in the work. Interior house painting in North York can also look more prominent if you choose some globes with defined beams.
They are very reddit/facebook-esque, but yours isn’t hugely better, and neither is mine
It’s not an unbiased removal — the text of the memo specifically targets the screechiest voices. If you want to put BlackLivesMatter in your Slack status I think you’ll find few complaints but if you present a list of demands starting with “The Company must take a public position in support of reparations” then they’re saying you will be shown the door.
In the US at least, given our culture of individualism/“freedom” we would never be able to replicate Taiwan. Isolation/Quarantine seem to have dubious political and legal support. Mask wearing is also seen negatively.
Same experience for me. I am from the Venice area in Italy, which is famous for a very strong and somehow funny accent and dialect. However, my family is from central Italy. This resulted in me being considered having a Southern, definitely not local accent in Venice and me being considered Venetian by everyone else in Italy. Probably the truth is in the middle.
I started to use the system a few months back and it is exactly the thing that I feel like I had been looking for, for years. It allows me to read very actively and retain the knowledge for a long time and even write my own pieces based on what I have read in different books and so on. Also it not only allows me to reflect on what I read in a real and productive way but it also acts like my own personal wiki. But setting it up and figuring out how to incorporate it into ones life takes some time and thought but for me it's time very well spent.

As a side note it is important to not use the system as just a dump of ideas and loose notes. Those are good as a starting point but I would recommend that you go through your loose notes and ideas twice every week. This is so that you can either make them permanent notes or just throw them away.

One last thing is that I have found that the combination of this + anki makes it really easy for me to commit stuff to memory and really speeds up my learning process by a huge margin. I wish I had discovered this way of reading and learning when I was in uni xD
I may be an extremist in some ways, but i have sworn myself (a long time ago where i was nearly homeless) that i will never work for amazon or other modern wage-slave-holders ... even if this means i have to go full on hobo.
You would be correct if there was something that could be done internationally, but nobody was able to do anything for the repression of Hong-Kong protests (and in this case it was a very voluntary thing, not a lab mistake).

China has bazillions of elite scientists (heck, they even consider that Harvard is low-ball compared to the entrance level of their top-notch national universities), so if anything, I would advocate to get them to cooperate in the global fight against the virus (medications, vaccines, mechanisms of illness, variants, etc).
> We usually don’t compress the data on disk; decompression would make loading and file access slower.

_You_ mightn't but the last three AAA games I worked on do/did. PS5 expectes compressed files, and does HW decompression (ahem, mostly) on the fly.
I can attest these folks are first class.
JOVIAL was the main language for USAF projects before Ada. One of the absurd things about JOVIAL is that even after so many years, the compiler is still restricted technology.
Hi! Does it work in all browsers? Thanks.
I am involved in a quite heavy web-based data processing and visualization application (browser regularly consumes 8GB RAM and more for a single tab).

I have to say that you really can see that browsers are not made for this kind of workload, even if Javascript itself might be fast enough, down to very stupid little things (e.g. accidentially pointing your mouse in the debug window to a variable holding a large array risks to freeze the entire browser).
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I think everybody's clear this isn't WWII style evasive maneuvers with ships trying to evade torpedoes or bombers.

I guess what you're arguing for is that if friendly satellites or whatever reconnaissance assets detect a ballistic or hypersonic missile launch, the targeted ship (or realistically, all friendly ships in the area that could potentially be targets?) can change course, and in the 10 mins(?) it takes the missile to arrive the ship can be in quite another location than that estimated at missile launch time.

I would guess such missile systems would incorporate mid course guidance updates, but then again such comms could potentially be jammed.
It's done by burning oil to turn it into crypto.
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There is a good LWN article that gives a useful overview of the current proposal as well as briefly hits on some of the history:

https://lwn.net/Articles/829242/
How many times you had three of your colleagues sent to the hospital for a flu they caught at the office?
I am working on a project[0] to enable loan-free education and help increase income of teaching and non-teaching staff of education institutions.

The project is based on blockchain(though it is federated) technology. In fact multiple blockchain platforms are used to achieve the overall goal. Blockchain for identity, payments, distributed verifiable but ownerless database etc.

Looking for co-developers for the project. My email is in my HN profile.

[0] Details of what the project will look like is outlined here: https://loan-free-ed.neocities.org
You don't get to rewrite history after the facts and invent another smearing label to wave off the reality.

Social medias implemented CCP-style censorship on their platform on anything related to the lab leak theory for more than a year.

Posts and comments were systematically deleted, users accounts were suspended.

At some point you couldn't even share a link in a private message as it was blocked.

You are the one reaching absurd levels of delusion here.
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Trees of "dumb" rectangles don't seem very suitable for responsive or adaptive layouts in which the hierarchical structure is built before deciding rectangle sizes.
For a retained mode GUI traditional container widgets and layout managers negotiating sizes with child widgets seem a more general technique; for an immediate mode GUI there is no obvious advantage over explicit and more general size computations at the same abstraction level.
If you're running Google Lighthouse manually, you might want to check out a tool I'm building - https://OnlineOrNot.com - it automatically monitors your page speed (as well as uptime, and soon Puppeteer checks). It uses Google Lighthouse v8.0.0 as of this yesterday.

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That's still arbitrary (designed by humans) because you decided to count each proton as 1. We could also count every proton as 2 and it would be just as arbitrary.
Clearly Google was kind enough to identify the adtracking as a type of privacy-hostile malware. Now, if only they could extend the courtesy to the horror show that is Google Analytics.
Somehow this is now a negative stance, but what other incentive is there to not just spend 0$ on security? Write crap software and get hacked, blame law enforcement for not getting the criminals.
While the woke ones were "triggered" (as they are by most things these days), I'm sure a good portion of employees are relieved to just have a normal workplace again.
Is the "D" prefix in things like DTrace a Sun standard/convention?

What does it mean, for example in the JVM arguments start with "D" as well.

Any history to this?
ZFS on Ubuntu requires root to destroy snapshots, I don't know about ZFS on root, but I would guess the same.
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I develop and maintain a 60k line Clojure+ClojureScript codebase by myself, so I can definitely confirm that Clojure does allow for smaller teams to maintain larger codebases :-)

I also fully agree with this:

> Detecting an error when creating a record is much better than when using it later on, as during creation you have the context needed to debug the problem.

I made it a rule to perform integrity checks as early as possible: when creating, accepting or transforming data. I use spec (but schema would work just as well here), and have lots of pre/post conditions in my code.

I tend to settle on "simpler" solutions. I use mount, rather than component, because it uses the namespace hierarchy and requires less code and management. I use very few macros, and try to use simpler tools rather than more complex ones.

I noticed that these days roughly 30-40% of the code I write deals with integrity checks, anomalies and anomaly handling.
er, who has shown any evidence at all that covid-19 was "engineered"? this whole discussion is about the unproven possibility that it leaked from a lab.
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> Except maybe the views, why would you want to live there?

I agree. And yet cost of renting / owning in Dumbo is higher than Manhattan and other places.
QuickCheck gives you a mechanism for a form of unit testing where you build valid values as test cases and test that your code maintains specific expected properties.

Fuzzing is similar but typically involves starting from a known-good input then randomising it at the byte level (irrespective of validity). This project allows for property testing-like unit tests, but tools like american fuzzy lop focus on detecting whole application crashes.
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SOCKS5-Proxifier-DLL for anti-censorship tunnel solutions (https://github.com/nefarius/socksifier)

And many more :) , currently working on a bot for a Discord Community with dotnet core and RavenDB.
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Will there be android support?
I would recommend getting comfortable using the built-in screen readers on your own devices (VoiceOver, Narrator, etc). Lots of people use those same tools. You'll probably just want to mute the screen reader and use the developer option to display what's being announced on screen as text.

Get comfortable navigating web pages using the various functionalities available (the ability to scan only headlines, for example).

I also open the accessibility tab in the web inspector in Chrome or Firefox to see the accessibility tree, which is like a simplified version of the DOM tree that gets exposed to assistive technologies.
AWS all time low? What planet are you getting your insights from? Because down here on earth they are making billions of dollar. AWS is an absolute juggernaut.

AWS and we as users get an insanely well made product. I just delivered an analytics solution built with AWS components and its frigging great to work with. Maybe with one exception; IAM.
> you don't usually visit a hospital for seasonal flu

there's numerous posts in previous discussions saying that in China people do, because they don't typically have a GP and so go to the hospital for any acute ailment.
Nobody in the world except the US right called it that, and it is indeed uncommon to name viruses after its place of origin.
That sounds like an argument for requiring some experience in the industry before the PM role? But at least the PMP does require prior experience.
What amazes me is the BBC are still going to Daszak as an authority on whether it was a lab leak or not.
When the speaker is creaking like a frog, speaking in that weird vocal fry register. It's very american way of speaking.
The most simple way to test accessibility is to only use a keyboard. Use tab ir shift-tab to switch between elements. Tab only browses through links and form elements. Use enter to follow links or buttons.

Simple things like 'outline' on focused or activated elements are easy things to pick up. Elements that are changed by JavaScript should not only change on a mouseclick or touch, but also on pressing Enter or ESC.
Yes, but I'd bet that the Bavarian accent in particular is considered by foreigners as "heavy German". Bavarian culture (Oktoberfest) is considered "typical German".
This is a global pandemic that came out of China. In the worst possible case, Fauci hid the fact that an org he's involved in donated a minuscule portion of its budget to the lab from where the virus leaked due to incompetence.

It's not like he took the vial home for lulz and dropped it on the subway. His role in the origin of this thing is so small it's irrelevant.

The only thing that's up for discussion is that he may not have been 100% correct during one of his many public statements, hardly something that can be held against him considering the shitcreek the whole world is in.

Personally I'd give the guy some credit for everything he's done right, I mean he's been at it since 1968.

What is there to gain by nailing him to the cross, or pointing out his income and book deals?
Thanks for the reply. This helps me a lot.
I'll try to negotiate these terms.
That you, Daszak?
There is no requirement for integer arithmetic in WebGL 1; all numbers are essentially floats, even if the attribute is not float.

Integer support is GLSL ES 3.0 (the shader language) i.e. WebGL2.
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1) I'm assuming GP missed a negation, "not", before that.

2) Obviously if you can find workers for your compensation level that's some market definition of worth.

But I would also argue that ones society is broken if there are people who stay at a job where they have to resort to peeing in bottles because (ostensibly) they don't feel that taking 3 minutes to go to the bathroom is possible.