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In the past decade wild hogs have grown to be a major problem in Polish cities. Plowing through lawns, tipping over trash bins. The animals themselves are not an immediate danger to humans (they really do not care about you), but they destroy gardens and can cause car accidents.

All these 5 or so mandatory segregation bins do not fit into the enclosure, so in my case one of them is on the driveway, which hogs tip over almost every night. Not sure how to deal with them without making trash collectors' lives harder.

It's so ironic I haven't seen one hog (or marks of their existence) back on vacations in countryside.
The point is that it supports IMAP and POP3.
Sorry, but Accelerando is horrible. I recommend Singularity Sky, the weird one, not watered down for the mainstream. The characters are flat, but the weirdness on route, is captured much better.
The real connoisseurs of trash are the Bin Chickens:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4dYWhkSbTU
Maybe it's because I'm often looking at business-oriented laptops as a consumer, but I usually find the RAM and storage to be on the low side compared to the CPU specs.

I don't need a top-of-the-line i7 CPU (the improvement when going from e.g. an i5 usually isn't enough to really matter), and the premium you pay isn't negligible. On the other hand, the lower-end models that don't splurge on an i7 and come with a mid-range CPU such as an i5 instead still often have only 8 GB of RAM. That's definitely not future-proof or even present-proof for a laptop that otherwise has mid-range specs in terms of performance.

It seems ridiculous that you have to either pay for a top-of-the-line model or be stuck with sub-par RAM for the entire lifetime of the device.

Corporations will of course happily buy the higher-end model for their developers, so this probably isn't a problem in an actual corporate environment.
The point about the information being publicly available on the internet is that it's public information. Not that your average Joe in NK can access it. The regime most certainly does have internet access though, so pretending like this guy gave some top secret info worth locking him up for 20 years of his life for is ridiculous. Nevermind that in 2019 we were in active peace talks with North Korea and even Trump was seen walking across the border without secret service protection to speak with Kim Jong Un that year.
you format as part of the commit, not as a separate commit.
Vernor Vinge is so good, shame he dropped it in Rainbows End.
My point is that many restrictions are removed for fully-vaccinated people, i.e. the exposure of these people will increase, i.e. the chance of getting the infection, even if it doesn't take you to the hospital, greatly increases. Even if it's a small percentage, this means many people will get lasting damage. To me, vaccination status should not mean you can take your face mask off - first, you can still get stick, and, second, you can still bridge two sick people even better as you're less likely to show symptoms when you still carry the virus and exhale it without the mask.
Sorry but no it is selfish - that is the definition of selfish. 'It won't benefit me; it will benefit the whole of society but I don't give a shit about them so I'm not going to' is the most selfish viewpoint you can have.

I could understand if there was a significant risk of negative consequences to the individual but there aren't.
Yup, I used to have 1Gbps in Auckland with fiber right up into the house, moved to central London and I could get...a 10Mbps plan...that only delivered 4. Fortunately out in the suburbs now I can get up to 330.

There are a lot more people in the UK though, housing is much denser and people are very resistant to change; it's easier to rip up the ground in NZ bc our country has only existed for 150 years, in the UK it's a lot harder with all sorts of caveats/consents.

Same as covid: Jacinda did an excellent job, but at the same time as a realistic kiwi, it's very true that NZ has a very small, spread out population and the benefit of being small and extremely southerly, international travel just isn't as prevalent there as say, Europe.
What kind of premium do you ask vs a reasonably priced brand like Acer?
`{mozilla: 42}` is enough because the goal is not to prevent NaN (arising from converting `(42).org` to a number).
Or very limited upside, potatoes yield is already high enough to remove a lot of nutrients from the soil.
The limiting factor may not be plant yield at all but access to nutrients or water.
A friendly introduction to linear algebra for ML
RIFF is not without issues either - all size fields are 32-bit, so handling RIFF files larger than 4GB is ambiguous, if not undefined. The header contains a size field that should indicate the total size of the RIFF container, and in theory this cannot exceed 4GB, just like each individual RIFF chunk cannot exceed 4GB. There are some specifications that try to solve this issue but they are not very widespread (e.g. RF64), and probably have their own issues as well.
This is very well made, your other projects as well!
Not only what @setr answered but consider also that by having a consistent ruling you can actually design or alter the order of triggers just by naming them according to a specific scheme.

It just makes easier to understand what happens when triggers are invoked, without having to actually force specific cases by direct experimentation.

I did not even know that the standard prescribed a FIFO order, looks like a pretty bad idea to me, actually.
I love MariaDB/MySQL. I had only like 2 crashes and 1 broken migration over the decade of it in production. It very powerful if you design tables and indices right. Postgres may be great too but I started with MySQL and I don't want to work with more DBs in parallel as there are quite a lot of differences for some queries. And I don't have capacity to write all queries in two forms. :D ORM is universal but doesn't always do queries optimally. And fulltext works completely differently between the two, for example.
There is a few points that make it worrying but certainly not guaranteed.

MAD policy appears to be effectively over, or at least there is no longer any mention publicly, perhaps it is just assumed. While it can appear crazy, hence the name, it was a rather ingenious way to solve the problem, albeit we know now we have come dangerously close at times, at least we knew the risks and the lines that had to be crossed.

The next point and somewhat related is the change in nature of nuclear weapons. The variable ability of tactical nukes to change their explosive size, has resulted in a modern range of weapons that aren't as destructive as their elder brethren. It may seem like a good idea but the issue is it also opens the possibility of their more active use. A state may consider it acceptable. This could result in the reverting to an older policy of nuclear weapons. The MacArthur plans to use them in active combat, it becomes too easy to dial the Nuke down, target a military base and say "sure it's ok it's a legitimate military target".

That to me is the danger in the modern world. Attitudes, at least Western are still as a weapon of last resort but I can't predict the future and say that will always be the case or that other nations will share the same sentiment.
They're far from being the first or only ones in doing that. There are many other examples such as JAR, ODF, APK, etc...
So far, the "reservoir of selfish unvaccinated individuals" that the virus has mutated in is people who literally could not get vaccinated because there weren't enough vaccines available. The most important variants so far have showed up in the UK before any vaccines were approved, South Africa during their vaccine clinical trials (rendering the vaccine they were planning on using effectively useless), and India which is just too big to vaccinate quickly at current production levels.
In my opinion, Windows ME was worse. I decided to use Windows 2000 and then XP. 2000 was very stable compared to what we were used to with the 95/98 series.
I find this attitude a bit sad :( I think there's at least one place we agree which is that it's annoying when people do shiny yet perfunctory things as basically a gimmick or trick to convey the impression of depth that just isn't there.

But... I think someone with 3 years of experience deeply engaging with the question of OOP is a great thing to do. You're not wrong that they can't possibly know, but that's not relevant I think. Trying to own the domain and think critically about the sacred cows and reinvent the useful parts is exactly what a good autodidact has to do. And doing it in public view, available for critique and ridicule, I think puts skin in the game and shows character.

There's something to be said for certainty and epistemic humility, but also I think basically everyone who ever invented a truly new thing or learned something nontrivial on their own had to bring enough audacity to the table to get over the line.

Maybe it's a personality difference and you're making the right choice for the type of personality you want your org to have.
When I last investigated it a few months ago TensorFlow's TPU support was much more mature than PyTorch's. To get PyTorch to work on TPUs I had to download some nightly builds and ask for help on Github since the tutorials weren't up to date. It also ran much slower than TensorFlow on Google Colab's TPUs. There are also some features in TensorFlow 2.0 I could not find any counterparts for in PyTorch, such as recurrent dropout for LSTM layers.
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What's the motivation for age being mentioned at all?
It‘s not the same thing but I feel like you may get a kick out of the Ming Mecca [0]. It‘s a hardware patchable video game creation system. It‘s a really inspiring concept to me and I hope to play with one someday.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ming_Mecca
North Korea is building nuclear weapons in order to threaten the United States and its allies with them. Tens of thousands of American soldiers are stationed in South Korea in order to defend it from North Korean aggression. The war between the US and North Korea—which began 70 years ago when the current dictator’s grandfather invaded the South and declared war on the United States—is technically not over, and the possibility that active hostilities may resume at any time still exists.

Sanctions are one of the few tools that the US has to exert leverage against the North Korean regime, and Virgil Griffith is alleged to have travelled to North Korea specifically to help North Korea in violating those sanctions. What he is alleged to have done has been illegal for 70 years.

This is not just about one guy giving a talk.
No one suggested replacing the soil wholesale. I described additional things which might be incorporated into existing fertilizers in the future. I believe many of them already include organic matter of various sorts.

For the record, I believe you drastically underestimate our current practices and capabilities. We've been performing nitrogen fixation on an industrial scale since the early 1900s.
I'm not familiar with the internal stucture of Oracle, just tired of the imo unfair bashing of them (at least compared to all other companies).

But I guess they must have had at least sane management that tried to keep the existing mindshare of acquired projects (as far as I know many people went from Sun to Oracle directly for example), as well as finding new talent. And also, the acquisitions made sense and were done at a comparatively good price so I guess they are good lawnmowers with long-term plans (but terrible PR)?
Indeed any metric that can be influenced will end up being gamed.

Voting would likely require being logged in which is not so good for the more privacy orientated search engines.

Could flip the idea on its head and look at ways to verify the owner of a site/page (again, with privacy issues associated), and use that as a quality metric.
In SA they've retained some of their elegance, so I was really surprised to find out they have such a bad name in the bigger cities! They are really elegant in flight.
We said a similar proliferation sentence once on communication technology and biology - and here we are. Everybody can build and wield information-technology weapons and very soon everyone will be able to craft his/her own bio-weapon in a sink.

Exponential tech and social peace of a basically unaltered species do not go well together. Atomic capabilities are basically just one of the thousands of facets of this problem.

Imagine air-borne-electric taxis being prevalent in a future city. A 9/11 event might just look like a hack into traffic control and rerouting a thousand flying batteries to smash into buildings.
With great power, comes great incapability for responsibility.
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I should also say that nuclear weapons in dictatorships (more so than oligarchies like Soviet Union) is dangerous. Hopefully there will be those that can prevent its usage but dictatorships are fragile things. A dictator may consider their removal an existential threat.
What about all the places where there aren't giraffes?
In 2019 we were in active peace talks with North Korea and our own president even stepped foot in the country to collaborate on peace. It didn't pan out the way we hoped but it was worth a shot.
Why do you think smallpox wasn't eliminated by vaccines?

mRNA vaccine is not particularly more dangerous than any other type

I don't understand how that is consistent with the data from the various vaccine surveillance systems which show clearly that it's drastically more dangerous. It's also inconsistent with anecdotes that I've been hearing from people around me, of whom a disturbingly large number say that the vaccines made them very sick (i.e. they describe symptoms similar to that of COVID itself).
Not disingenuous at all, MS-DOS CLI was good enough for most pipeline use cases, and if you really wanted a more UNIX like experience you could always buy 4DOS, the Dropbox of MS-DOS shell utilities.

Back in the MS-DOS days, you couldn't use zip across floppies unless you bought the commercial Pkzip version, the shareware one did not offer it.

Whereas ARJ offered all what pkzip was capable of, for free, and every high school kid with PC at home got it on their floppies collection.
RAM energy efficiency is not important because very small fraction of the energy consumed by other components.

It only somewhat matters for power consumption in sleep mode when the RAM is the only component being powered, but at least on Windows that’s solvable with a fast SSD and hibernation.
That's a possible charitable interpretation, sure. Still, it's weird, the only reason you should want to link your github account is to showcase some of your work. If there's nothing of your work there, not even any gists, what's going on? I don't care if you have a ton of forks so long as there's also something of your own I can look at.
This may be also the trick used by the fantasy console PICO-8[0] which games run by png-based cartridges[1].

[0]: https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php

[1]: https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?cat=7&carts_tab=1#sub=2&mode...
Implenting ICMP in Rust
I'm talking about the costs for launching a rocket of similar size. And note that for Falcon 9, the difference in price for new rockets VS reused boosters is 62M -> 50M, not an almost hundred fold decrease.
Not actually as hard as you'd think; almost every new product in the Salesforce suite was once a separate company and they managed to integrate it just fine.

When the startup I was working for was acquired, we first integrated with Salesforce's SSO which was very easy, and kept having our clients use it as a separate product.

Then, we rebranded the UI to look and feel like Salesforce, and changed the product name to fit.

Only after all that did we start looking into moving to their url and fully integrating into the product suite.
Hmm, maybe because they can't select for taste? If it was possible to get sample of tomatoes or other vegetables before buying, maybe things would change?
> I have a feeling this is gonna be the big issue for some people.

Some users will moan, maybe less than 0.001% will consider moving to a different OS, and things will just continue as it stands. MS knows they have a captive audience with Windows, so they don't have to care what the users want.

In areas where MS does not have a captive audience they are much more competitive and provide much better value.
Time for a certain Church to declare growing potatoes a murder.
Having been delighted with a 13" e-ink display with roughly comparable display resolution, I've got to say "dayuuuuum" on the display specs. Aspect ratio, resolution, DPI, and nits all look excellent.

(E-Ink differs notably in characteristics, but simply on density, 200+ DPI is amazing to look at.)

The rest of the specs and design intent also look impressive. Very nicely done.
Intermingling signatures or authentication and data layout is such a common failure and people do it over and over again, even in relatively new projects like Android. I wonder why the initial design took off? This is something were I would expect any crypto engineer to refuse to sign the design off, because it is going to break; it's not even a question. If you do anything other than Sign(Blob) and later Verify(Signature, Blob) && Parse(Blob) you're going to do it wrong.
Code running on a microcontroller with very limited RAM, operating on data structures that don't naturally plug into generic algorithm implementations. For example, finding the end of a several GB long append-only log file stored on the raw blocks of an SD card.
somewhat related articles about Meridian 59, one of the earliest graphical MMOs as we know them -- it's now open source apparently

https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/the-last...

https://www.vice.com/en/article/qvvj45/how-the-worlds-oldest...
> Why would a company rather have a guy that can solve binary search in five seconds, than one that has showed continuous progress with several finished projects over the years?

They probably only interview people that have showed continuous progress with several finished projects over the years and hire only those that are good and can code instead of pulling leftpad from npm (a snarky response but so is yours, as if it's either good at whiteboard interviews but uncreative imp or bad at interviews but great and accomplished)
Google already has great spam control and bot detection for serving ads though. They dont care about privacy (except in so far as it hurts the brand).
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> But why? Are you making schema changes that frequently?

Because it makes the migrations much more robust and way easier to develop & test.

If something goes wrong in a migration script, everything is rolled back. You edit the part that caused the error and simply run the whole script again.

And despite of thorough testing, there is always the possibility that it fails when applied in production. You want that migration to be completely successful or not at all.

Think e.g. splitting a table into two (which also includes DML) or moving columns around while creating new foreign keys.

You might not need to put the whole migration into a single transaction, but at least combine some steps into one - but this is only possible if the DDL statements are transactional.
> People aren't learning excel because Universities are part of some Microsoft conspiracy. They are learning it themselves, or from each other.

At least in germany children are often forced to learn excel in school because the official curriculum includes "office software" which is an euphemism for "microsoft product training". This has certainly not developed from necessity. Even someone who thinks school should only be a preperation for the job market would agree that employees who are able to help themselves are better than ones who know how to use a specific version of Excel.
Same in Denmark: https://www.dr.dk/cgi-bin/fttx1.exe/100
Becoming infected also doesn't completely protect you from becoming infected again, 1% of patients who had severe covid get infected again in just 3.5 months. [0]

So even if vaccines don't prevent the transmission or protect from infection worse than being severely infected then you might treat them just as a way of making you survive your first infection so that first infection can protect you better from further infections. If we didn't have or use vaccines we'd eventually end up in the same place with nearly all people eventually contracting covid at least once, just with a little more damage.

Research on covid is not done. We need therapies for acute covid. We need a way to treat and prevent long covid.

[0] https://www.pharmacytimes.com/view/study-covid-19-reinfectio...
All vaccines are imperfect. The mRNA vaccines are relatively effective.

The strains that are spreading were first detected well before widespread vaccination.

Widespread vaccination can increase the relative fitness of an existing strain of course, if it more or less eradicates less infectious strains.
Our company is based in India. Let me know if your brother is interesting in internship. We are a digital consulting firm.
In my experience none really cares about your side projects during interviews. I have plenty of side projects, given plenty of talks, I list some of those in my resume along with my github link, yet from 40 interviews I had in the past 5 years I think ~3 mentioned something about my talks and side projects. And definitely didn't give me any advantage over the other interviewers.

But I am fine with that, I do my side projects & talks because I enjoy it and not to increase my chances when applying to a new job. Although there is nothing wrong to do a side project to increase your chances to get a better job.
Not only cockatoos, ravens are also quite social.

Around the German area where I live, they team up in "bird gangs" and if the fellow humans were too lazy to properly close the garbage, they will open it, either alone or via team work.

It is not uncommon to eventually find garbage bags scattered around, which they took out while searching for food, thanks to those lazy animals species that failed to properly close the garbage container.
I've personally come across this dilemma when hiring people. My own take is that's none of my goddamn business and if the person is the most qualified for the job then it's theirs for the taking.
Firebird supports it as well
The unvaccinated population is not uniformly distributed though. The vaccines is not rated for the age younger than 12 yet, and it will still take a while to roll it out in the younger age groups. Also, I wouldn't be surprised if most vaccine refusers are part of groups who collectively refuse to vaccinate. We know from measles outbreaks that this is often the case. Finally, most vaccines achieve their maximum effect only if both doses are given. If only one is given, all bets are off.

> Also, COVID tests don't actually detect COVID or even SARS-CoV-2, they detect RNA debris from destroyed SARS-CoV-2. Thus it's expected that if someone's body fights off the virus immediately if they're exposed to it, they will still test positive.

Slightly untrue. The particles gathered from infected and spreading persons are fully functional, by definition. To distinguish these cares from immune people, one would have to determine the percentage of viable virus particles. Hard to tell whether that's even feasible at scale. It's not too bad though. At worst this causes a higher than expected false-positive rate.
8.0.16 to be precise
I feel like I'm pretty good at these things, but I'd 100% have an off-by-one error in my first attempt at binary search. I can get it right quickly if I'm able to test the code, or very slowly if I have to work through several test cases by hand on the whiteboard.

There's a lot of room in between "couldn't implement it" and "can do it in 5 seconds" and "wrote a buggy version of it".